A/N: I know another chapter right? I got really bored today so I decided to write another chapter and post it before I went to sleep considering its five minutes to midnight and I'm tired.

This chapter features more Ari/Sessh interaction plus adorable Rinness plus Christmas because Ari arrived in Japan in October so I estimate her being in the Feudal era about 2 months. I'm so good to you guys.

Disclaimer: I do not own a thing, literally I think I have like 90 pounds to my name.

Ari wondered where the time had gone ever since Inuyasha's transformation time had flown by and it was now rapidly approaching Christmas. Kagome had told Inuyasha the complete unabridged secret to his transformation and after being melancholy for a few days Inuyasha had left without telling anyone. He had gone to Totosai to see how he could make Tessaiga lighter and ended up facing some weird dragon youkai called Ryūkotsusei, he finally managed to defeat to youkai with a new technique called the backlash wave and Tessaiga was light again. Ari had continued her training with the sword of Gryffindor until Sango had declared that she could teach her no more and they just practiced together. When they went back to the village Kagome would train with her miko power and with her archery skills it seems she had taken what Ari said about her lack of skills to heart.

Kagome had been possessed by tainted jewel Shards and under the control of Tsubaki an evil miko only to have Ari save her and kill Tsubaki with the sword of Gryffindor. It's safe to say that after that encounter there had been a lot of tears and heartfelt apologies Kagome had told Ari the reason why she was so snappy, it turns out whilst Ari was with Sesshoumaru, Kagome had seen Inuyasha together with Kikyou and had to make to very hard decision of staying with Inuyasha whilst knowing that she would remain second best. Therefore her emotions had been taken on a very turbulent ride causing her to blow up at Ari needing to vent her anger and frustration but now they were back to being friends again and to add to happy mood they got more jewel shards. They had had to deal with Muso who held the heart of Onigumo and after being unsuccessful in trying to kill him the group ended up watching him get reabsorbed back into Naraku.

It seemed that Naraku had become even stronger and was able to create barriers and seeking a way to destroy the barrier had led the group to the bat youkai. After seeing the hanyou Shiori and realising that he would have to kill her to achieve his goal Inuyasha had decided to find another way to destroy Naraku's barrier. Ari however had come up with the idea to take the power from the blood stone used by the different generations of bat youkai and by smashing it with the Tessaiga the sword absorbed its power. This new power turned the Tessaiga red and although Inuyasha had yet to test it out the group was confident that it would work.

They were currently taking a two day break for the holidays and Kagome and Ari had gone back through the well. Ari wished to purchase presents for her friends in the feudal era, even if they did not celebrate Christmas. Kagome and Ari greeted everyone in the house after their arrival; Ari made use of the bathtub and soaked in the vanilla scented water. Ari spent the rest of day sleeping in an actual bed in the spare room taking advantage of the small luxuries in life while she could. The next day she was down t stairs eating breakfast with bright eyes eager to explore the streets of Tokyo.

"Are you ready to go?" Kagome asked, watching as Ari who was practically bouncing at the door nodded excitedly. "Alrighty then let's go."

They visited many shops which and Ari had bought a present for each of her friends, these presents weren't exactly cheap and the majority of them were bought in the odd wizarding shops. Ari had noticed Kagome's envious glance as bought these presents causing her to sigh knowing her friend had yet to get of the jealousy she had for Ari. As they were leaving the last shop Ari's eye was caught by something white and fluffy after realising what it was she quickly bought it knowing exactly who she would give it to. When they arrived back at the Higurashi Shrine they had their dinner and Ari wrapped her presents.

The next day saw Kagome and Ari jumping down the well again upon reaching the other side both girls hauled their bags over the top of the well and were greeted by the rest of the inutaichi. Ari made them sit down and gifted each of them with their presents separately. To Miroku she gave him a bottle of self replenishing ink and brushes to write his sutras, he accepted them graciously with a hug in which he tried to cop a feel and was hit over the head with Sango's boomerang. To Sango she gave a pair of daggers which had magical runes on them so they would never need sharpening, Sango had hugged the girl in response. To Shippou she gave a small box of pranks from the Japan branch of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes and made him promise that if she showed him how to use them that he wasn't allowed to use them on her.

To Inuyasha she gave a pendant which held the Japanese symbol for strength, the pendant had protection charms on it and when asked why a pendant that had strength written on it also had protection charms Ari had merely replied that true strengths means relying on those you trust to watch your back and protect you when necessary he took it from her with no word of thanks but the soft look in his eyes told her it was very much appreciated. To Kagome she also gave a pendant which held the Japanese symbol for Spirit and she told Kagome that there were enchantments on it to enhance her spiritual power. Kagome had thanked her profusely and cried as she put it around her neck and clasped it within her hand tightly.

"Merry Christmas everyone." Ari declared happily running around and hugging everyone. She reached into her bag and pulled out a Santa hat putting it on her head she began to happily dance around and sing Christmas songs. Christmas was her favourite holiday after all it was when she received her father's invisibility cloak, she watched as everyone played with their presents glad everyone had liked them.

"Ari, who does this present belong to?" She heard Shippou ask he had been rummaging around in her bag for more Santa hats and found the remaining present.

"Ooh, I had forgotten about that," Ari said skipping over to Shippou and taking the present from him she also bent down and took out her firebolt from her trunk. "I need to go and hand this to a very adorable little girl."

Ari grinned and swung her leg over her broom and kicked off from the ground, she hovered in the air a moment whilst she cast a point me spell and turning in the direction the wand pointed to she took off fast. Reaching her destination a little while later she touched down on the ground and saw that she was by a small stream.

"Hello!" She called excitedly in English as she sat down whilst the Daiyoukai sitting against a tree raised an eyebrow in response to the language change.

"Lady Ari," Called an excitable voice from the water. "Rin hasn't seen you in such a long time and Rin wondered if you had forgotten her."

"As if I could ever forget someone as cute as you." Ari stated as Rin moved out of the water to sit by Ari.

"Why do you have a funny hat on your head?" Rin asked curiously.

"Well you see in my ti... village... which is very far away from here we have this tradition around this time year," Ari almost cursed at her slip and hoped she managed to catch herself before Sesshoumaru noticed. "It's called Christmas and each year we decorate Christmas trees with stuff and sing Christmas songs."

"It sounds like so much fun." Rin grinned.

"It is and do you want to know what the best part is?" Ari asked bouncing in her seat with excitement.

"What?"

"Everyone gives each other gifts without expecting anything at all in return." Ari declared.

"Wow like when Lord Sesshoumaru gave Rin this new kimono?" Rin said as equally excited.

"Yes!" Ari said as she pulled the present for Rin out from behind her back where she had hidden it. "And of course I figured my bestest friend in the whole wide world needed a super awesome gift."

"But its just paper." Rin said clearly confused as to why she had just been given paper even if it was squishy.

"No silly you tear the paper away and the present is inside that way it remains a surprise." Ari said helping the girl unwrap the present.

Rin stared at the present with wonder filled eyes before throwing herself at Ari in a hug thanking her over and over. The gift she had given Rin was a stuffed toy and dog to be more precise. It was white and had soft fluffy fur all over its body, what had made her buy it though was the eyes, they were exactly the same shade as Sesshoumaru's own eyes. Rin got up from her place beside Ari and ran over to the Daiyoukai.

"Look Lord Sesshoumaru Rin got a soft, squishy puppy. It even has the same eyes as you." She said and Ari watched closely as Sesshoumaru's eye twitched in annoyance, she burst out laughing in response. It was the reaction she had been looking for 'ha' she thought happily 'teaches you to make fun of my name Lord Jackass'.

"It's very nice Rin."Sesshoumaru said his voice tightly controlled as tried not to glare.

"I think I'm going to name him Lord Fluffy." Rin said happily skipping away to show Jaken.

"Lord Fluffy!" Ari exclaimed laughing hysterically. "That's just...I can't even... Genius...So much better than...So telling Inuyasha... Ha...Lord Fluffy...Ha!"

"Bitch!" Sesshoumaru hissed angrily in her direction but Ari was far too happy to even care as she skipped over to the Daiyoukai.

"So Lord Fluffy, I mean Lord Jackass no wait I mean Lord Sesshoumaru damn you have so many names it's getting hard to keep track," She said enjoying the twitch in his eye. "Like I said to Rin Christmas is the season of giving so I'm going to allow you to ask me your usual question and show you another clue myself as to what I am."

"This Sesshoumaru wishes to know what that thing you fly on is." Sesshoumaru said looking over at her broomstick. Ari grinned as she retrieved it so he could look at it properly. "This is a broomstick it's what people like me use fly around on. Mostly we just use them to play a game called quidditch, it's such a fun game but you asked about the broom not the game. That particular model you have in your hand is a firebolt and the fastest broom in the world. I don't really know how it works or how the makers get it to fly but I know it can only be made by people like me."

"Interesting," Sesshoumaru said after he'd thought on what she had told him. "What do you intend to show this Sesshoumaru."

Ari grinned as she called Rin over to her; she took the puppy from her and placed it on the ground, taking out her wand she cast an animation spell on the stuffed toy. Rin gasped as toy suddenly sprung to life barking and running around like a real dog leaving Rin chasing after it laughing.

"It will do whatever Rin tells it to do." Ari told Sesshoumaru who seemed somewhat shocked as he watched his ward chase after the little puppy.

"You made it come to life." He stated with what Ari thought was a little bit of awe.

"Not exactly it's just animated. What I did to it will wear off eventually especially because I won't be around for it to feed off what it is I have." Ari said shrugging. "When I see her I'll redo it of course but it's not a permanent thing."

"Hn." Ari twitched, that sound was officially becoming number one on her most hated sounds list. Shrugging she got up and played with Rin figuring she didn't have to go back to the others for a while. Rin went back to playing in the water when Lord Fluffy puppy decided it wanted to sleep, Ari decided to stay out of the water and let Jaken play with the energetic girl. Ari noticed Sesshoumaru had risen from his spot and walked away down the river path shrugging she caught up to him and walked with him glaring as he ignored her. He stopped when Rin was no longer in sight and watched the water; Ari gasped slightly when she saw it start to freeze over, she knew it was cold but it wasn't that cold in fact despite it being winter it was relatively warm. Ari twisted her wrist slightly and her wand dropped into her waiting hand knowing that whatever was coming probably wasn't friendly.

"If it isn't Toran." Sesshoumaru said calmly.

"Who now?" Ari asked.

"It's been a long time Sesshoumaru." The figure on the ice said. The demon had long light blue hair with darker blue eyes, she also had a cat like grace to her and Ari wondered if she was some sort of cat demon

"Oh I'm guessing you mean her." Ari said only to be ignored by both demons.

"I thought you were dead." Sesshoumaru calmly drawled.

"That's a nice way to greet someone." Toran replied.

"I've found Sesshoumaru isn't very nice really." Ari cut in once again getting ignored.

"I'm here to settle things once and for all." Toran said with a chuckle.

"We settled things a long time ago, but if you insist you won't be as lucky as you were fifty years ago." Sesshoumaru replied.

"Ooh hello frozen fish how are you today?" Ari said looking at the frozen fish in the lake. "Oh you're doing well ahh but you're a bit cold are you well I'm not surprised being frozen and all."

"You're still as boorish as ever I see." Toran said with amusement lacing her voice. "But I agree with you that things will be different from last time. Our master is waiting for you."

"Master?" Sesshoumaru questioned.

"Yeah the one who leads the panther tribe." Toran replied pointing at Sesshoumaru. "I realise your dear father is dead but our master is going to be ressurected with the power of the Shikon jewel shards so we can exact our revenge on all your kind."

"Shikon jewel shards? Where did you get those?" Ari asked as Toran finally glanced at her.

"I try not to make it a habit to speak to humans but I will indulge you. As we speak my sisters are kidnapping the Shikon miko."

"You mean Kagome? If you dare lay a hand on her and hurt her in any way I'll make Sesshoumaru look like a God damned fluffy bunny." Ari snarled her magic swirling around her in response.

"A mere mortal would not be able to harm someone as superior as me." Toran replied haughtily. Ari was very tempted to put her arrogant ass back into place but Sesshoumaru stopped her from moving her hand as his own clamped down on her wrist.

"I will personally see to it that you will never get to exact your revenge." Sesshoumaru said as he gazed at Ari, he moved to grab his sword.

"Come now don't be so hasty, we won't battle it out here. Come to our castle." Toran said as she started to disappear behind an ice wall she had created. "Then you can bring all the reinforcements you require."

"Lord Sesshoumaru look how many fish Jaken and I caught." Rin shouted as she ran towards him Lord Fluffy following behind her.

"Jaken," Sesshoumaru said as Jaken approached holding onto Ah-Un's reins. "The panther demon tribe is back."

"What are they doing back?" Jaken squawked terrified.

"Rin, you will stay here with Ah-Un until I return." Sesshoumaru ordered.

"Yes sir, Rin won't move from this spot." Rin declared. Sesshoumaru turned and walked away and Ari followed with him. No way was she going to sit back and let Kagome be put in danger like that without doing anything about it.

"Don't forget to come back and get us," Rin shouted to Sesshoumaru's retreating back. "We'll be waiting for you."

A/N: So what did you think? I like this chapter I really do.

Goodnight all and please review :)