All warnings and disclaimers still apply.

I have to say that I always think that I'm missing a warning or two.

Revised fall 2013

Two weeks.

It had taken Sesshomaru two full weeks but he was finally in England to deal with the Grunnings' mess personally.

Inuyasha's heat had ended up only lasting a single week, instead of the maximum three it could have run. When Inuyasha started to rebuff Sesshomaru's attempts to mate with him at the beginning of the second week, and begun to lose his ever so enticing scent, Sesshomaru had become justifiably suspicious and immediately sent for a healer. The healer had confirmed Sesshomaru's thoughts and both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were over the moon with excitement brought about by the confirmation of Inuyasha being successfully pupped. The healer had also notified the both of them that it was an exceptionally strong positive result which indicated that Inuyasha was more than likely to be carrying multiple pups. They were told that the healer would be able to tell how many once it was closer to the delivery date.

The remainder of the second week was spent ensuring that the two of them, since Inuyasha had been refusing point blank to be separated from his Alpha, wouldn't be needed for any reason and that all information could be forwarded to, and dealt with by, one of Sesshomaru's many well-qualified assistants. Sesshomaru wouldn't normally have dealt with such a matter of missing funds, but the fact that it had gone undetected for so long and the person responsible had managed to abscond with such a large amount over the many years made it a priority for him. The length of time and amount of money stolen also had given him the determination to want the personal satisfaction of seeing the one responsible served whole to the proper authorities.

From the briefings Sesshomaru had sat through, he had come to the conclusion that as much as he wished to indulge in some personal reparations on this person's body for daring to steal from this Sesshomaru, the best, most satisfying punishment would be to ensure the man's public humiliation. Apparently the man prided himself on being completely "normal" and lorded his success and his family over the entire neighborhood they resided in.

Which is how Sesshomaru now found himself standing outside number 4 Privet Drive, wearing one of Shippo's comprehensive illusion earings which made him appear to be a model-handsome, mid-twenty-something human male with short, stylish black hair to go with his Asian features. Inuyasha, who had chosen to accompany him to the house rather than wait back in the hotel suite, was wearing a similar earing as he waited near the curb. Both males were rather smug about the stir that they, along with the constables accompanying them, were causing. It was apparent to the group, by the numerous twitching curtains and the many males of the neighborhood all deciding that today was the perfect day to trim hedges via old-fashioned hedge clippers, that the Dursley family was going to be talked about for weeks, if not months, around the neighborhood. Sesshomaru didn't go as far as Inuyasha and his rather wide smirk, but he did have an air of immense satisfaction that was easily noticed by those that knew him best. It wasn't as satisfying to Sesshomaru as personally shredding the odious thief with his bare claws, but one did have to move with the times and given the difficulty in ensuring the complete and total lack of all evidence at a crime scene, Sesshomaru had decided long ago to save the effort for those that did much worse than merely thieve from him.

It was while the pair of dog demons were watching the police constables dealing with the horse-faced woman that opened the door at the harsh knocking that something completely unexpected happened. A whiff of the most delectable, ambrosia-like scent drifted out of the opened, if rather blocked door, and wafted it's way to the two mates. Sesshomaru could feel the shock spreading throughout his body as he exerted his iron control over his expression and body language while he unobtrusively re-scented the air again, unlike Inuyasha who was gaping like the idiotic horse-faced female in the doorway. Placing a surreptitious hand on Inuyasha's arm and giving him a slight squeeze, Sesshomaru was able to break his Beta out of his stunned thoughts, at which point Inuyasha joined Sesshomaru in gently inhaling and scenting the delicate, enticing aroma.

Both males were highly cognizant of the enticing scent now wafting throughout the air that was proclaiming the building before them to be the abode of an extremely powerful Beta who was ripe for the claiming. It was all either of them could do to not follow what their instincts were trying to tell them to do and rush into the house to claim such a powerful mate for the both of them. The two of them had, from time to time, talked over bringing in a secondary Beta to their mating, and had come to the conclusion over the many centuries that it was a pleasing idea to have one more bed mate as well as having a buffer between Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. They had been mated for long enough now that their personalities rarely clashed as they did in the early decades of their mateship, but every once and a while they would still butt heads over the oddest of occasions. After much discussion, they had decided that bringing in a lesser Beta would solve the occasional friction that sprung up between the mates, but only, the two of them agreed completely on this, if the second Beta was powerful enough to be able to stand up to the both of them. Now, standing before this cookie cutter house in the middle of this standard sub-division of suburban utopia, the two of them were met by the intoxicating scent of a fertile, unclaimed Beta of extreme power.

Watching while the majority of the constables forced their way into the house passed the woman as she screeched and verbally assaulted the one constable who had remained at the door and who was apparently arresting the horse-like female for obstruction, Sesshomaru shared a quick look with Inuyasha and got a decisive nod of the head in return. It seemed that they were both in full agreement then. As soon as the constables left, the two of them were going to track down the owner of the maddening scent and claim him.

Drawn from his thoughts that were beginning to swirl around the possible up-coming claiming by a harsh bellowing, Sesshomaru allowed his lips the slightest curve of satisfaction as he watched the PCs drag what appeared to be a whale out of the house and across the yard, before man-handling the bellicose male into the nearest official vehicle. Sauntering over to the car the grossly obese male had been forced into, Sesshomaru made sure to pitch his voice loudly enough to carry to the neighbors over the male's loud ranting about his rights and that this was all ''that bloody freak's fault" because he, Vernon Dursley, was innocent of anything and everything, as he was a normal, upstanding member of society.

"Vernon Dursley. I can promise you that what is currently occurring is absolutely correct and proper, if not rather late in occurence, and it will be proven so in court to the satisfaction of all but yourself."

"Who the ruddy hell are you?!" Vernon bristled at the tall Asian male looming over him as he sat in the back of the constable's car. "Some hack lawyer looking to make a name for himself by dragging innocent, law-abiding, normal folks' names thought the mud, no doubt. Well, I won't stand for it! I'm sure whatever the freak told you won't hold water!"

Sesshomaru's lipped curled in disgust as he watched the spittle fly from the man's lips during his tirade.

"Oh, I can indeed assure you that the legality of the charges you are facing are in proper order. As for this "freak" you keep referencing, I'm afraid I have not the slightest idea of what or who it is that you speak of. I am not some "hack" lawyer as you phrase it, I am the one pressing several serious charges against you with extensive, non-refutable evidence. If you had listened to the officers you would have found that you are being arrested and charged for the embezzlement of over one million pounds from Grunnings over the course of the almost twenty years of your former employment."

Vernon Dursley paled before catching onto the wording of the last sentence.

"Wait! What do you mean, former employment? I still work there and once the evidence you have is proven to be invented by some crackpot you have working for you I'll be back at my job while I have my lawyer suing you for false bloody arrest!"

"Oh the numbers and facts are quite real. My accountants found them after much struggle and back tracking. Once they were brought to my attention, I verified them. And it is indeed, most definitely, a former job that you had in my company, Mr. Dursley. You're fired."

Sesshomaru watched in great satisfaction as the whale, and the horse sitting on the far side of him, gaped in shocked before the door was shut and the car pulled out. While he still enjoyed the thrill that came with battle, Sesshomaru had had to come to terms with the fact that the centuries brought a new form of combat with them. And while it was not nearly as bloody, it could still be just as satisfying.

"Well then," Sesshomaru began as he looked over the departing cars and neighbors that had darted into the houses, no doubt hoping to dissect every sliver of news that had come their way. "I think it might be best if we were to enter the abode before us and...convince...the one within that we are everything he needs and wants. Assuming, of course, that he has the looks to back up the obvious fertility and power. What say you, my mate?"

Inuyasha flashed a grin towards his Alpha before sprinting inside the house.

"I'll take that as a yes then?" Sesshomaru queried to the empty air before he flashed after his mate.

Well, here's another chapter gone. Hopefully some of the questions my reader's might have are getting cleared up. I will admit, again, that this wasn't the most plot laden story I've written.

Thanks to my reviewers:

xxdarkxxalicexx: the answers to a lot of your questions will be dealt with in the upcoming chapters, except for the twins. I'm thinking that they might be their own oneshot.

momocolady

sousie

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Nuriko Kurosaki: absolutely agree that Fudge and the Dursleys need to go. hehehe

livetotell

Shadow Eclipse

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GeorgieGirl999

Lady Ashlynne

clobojojo: I've noticed the three-way thing myself. What can I say, but wow, is there ever a plethora of yummyness in the anime world.

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