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Profiles and Payback

Hi, I'm the ever handsome and dashing Ronin, here to help all you lovely ladies and gentlemen who've expressed some problems keeping my family straight. The first part of this chapter will be me giving you an over view of the main characters that at least are mentioned in several chapters. Anyone you want to know more about or would like to know who they are just let the author know in your review and we'll get ya that info later on. Anyway since I believe in starting with the very best I'll start with introducing my siblings to you, I figure you already know my parents by now and everything.

Rin is the first cause of course she's the oldest. You guys all know her from a kid so I figure I'll just give you an idea of her as an adult. She's married to a water demon named Triton, has two truly adorable little girls and lives in the ocean with them but comes to visit often. She's quite an accomplished sorceress too and is an advisor to the head honchos in the undersea world. Her husband is a royal guard as well and is second cousins of the truly babelicious Keely (Kohaku's wife) and the hottie Andrea.

Kohaku, my big bro is next. He's a lot like our father only a little more affectionate and he actually has a noticeable sense of humor to go along with his blunt and often cutting tongue. He's also married to a water demon named Keely and they don't have any children yet. They live at our family home and Keely spends a lot of time in a small pond made especially for her since she needs to soak up water and a lot of it to survive on land. Kohaku is obviously next in line for Lord of the West and he basically assists our father in taking care and watching over our lands.

Next is me of course, the best of the bunch if I do say so myself. I'm a pretty easy going guy all in all with a permanent case of itchy feet. I don't like to stay anywhere for too long but I always come home for plenty of visits, otherwise mom starts to freak and then father lets me have it for worrying her. I'm not married either and as for job..well I don't really have one but in this era and as the son of a lord I guess I really don't need one, now do I?

After me comes my brainiac brother Kiyoshi. Now here's a guy who could seriously go for weeks without saying anything and no one would think it was weird. He's usually got his face in a book and he hardly talks unless spoken to. He's not married yet but he will be once Nomi nabs him so really he's as good as caught anyway. He's what you'd call a historian in that he likes to go around collecting stories and the histories of people, he even writes it down and everything. He's also a sort of lord over this land we took from Lord Terrian after Mom toasted the guy. He doesn't live there yet but he's building a place there for him and Nomi to live in soon.

Dare rounds off the brothers and he's the one that's most like me. He's a pretty easy going guy too and he's a real ladies man and that's putting it mildly. He's a real mama's boy too. He's not really much for fighting either but give him a reason and he's usually game if it's called for. He also is the only one of my siblings who lives in Aunt Kagome's world. He's a sculptor over there and he works primarily with wood and sometimes metal. He's really good and we're all really proud of him. Oh and he's not married either.

Next is my darling sister Sora who's so much like dad sometimes it can be scary. The only real differences are that she's female, talks more and she isn't as scary as he can get. At least she hasn't managed to pull it off yet. Sora isn't married yet and she isn't going to be any time soon if I can help it. I'd like to see any guy even try anything funny. Once I was through with the punk there wouldn't be anything left of him but a few stray drops of blood. They'd never find the body.

The last of my siblings is Nomi and she's not even exactly what you'd call a sister, more like a sister in law in training since she was an infant. My brother Kiyoshi has been her "guardian" since she was a baby and he was just a kid and adopted her after her mother, the wind user Kagura was killed by wolf demons. She's considered part of our family and she calls my parents Mom and Dad but she's never, ever referred to Kiyoshi as her brother. No, she's pretty much set her sights on being his mate since she could understand the concept and I'm pretty sure she'll pull it off sooner or later.

Moving on from my family it's time to take a look at my cousins, the kids belonging to my Uncle Inu yasha and my Aunt Kagome. They have five kids including Shippou and here's some background info on them too.

First up is Shippou who you all know from when he was a kid. He's a wanderer like me, he kinda goes around helping people and seeing the world. Lately he's been doing a lot of that for some reason. Anyways he's not married or anything and he's a fairly strong fighter, bit cocky and arrogant but then most of the guys in our family are. He's also got a bit of a short fuse, especially lately but I haven't quite figured out what's bugging him yet.

After Shippou is Hotaru and she's quite the interesting cousin, let me tell you. A doctor who went all the way to Harvard she's a tough little fighter who always apologizes after she kicks your ass. Her husband's name is Link and he's a bird demon who lives with her in the Slayers Village, she's their doctor and she takes pretty good care of all of us with Link acting as her assistant. They have two children as well, a boy and a girl with the most adorable little wings they look like little angels in more ways then one.

Next is Wufei who's a priest if you can believe it. He took over his mother's family shrine when Aunt Kagome's grandfather passed away. He works there and he also runs a small shop that sells herbal remedies and that sort of thing that does a pretty good business. He's a pretty laid back, quiet sort of guy while his wife is a lot like my mom actually only a bit meaner. His wife's name is Chelsea and she's from America, Hotaru introduced them when Wufei came to visit Hotaru while she was at school there. Chelsea is a professional dancer and choreographer, she's really good and needless to say I never mind watching her and her fellow dancers at work. Hubba Hubba. They also have a boy and a girl and the two can already dance better then I can. Then again I never claimed to be all that graceful on the dance floor. At least I'm better then my dad though. I can't even imagine him tapping his foot to a beat, much less moving to it.

One of course can't forget Mika, I doubt anyone who's ever met her has forgotten her. She's not someone you forget. Pretty much a clone of my uncle she's hot tempered, loud and always jumping before looking ahead first. She's a cop in Aunt Kagome's world and you can't begin to imagine how much more dangerous she is with a gun in her hand. Actually I'd rather not think about it for my piece of mind.

Last but not least is of course Kyou, my idiot cousin who I swear would lose his absentminded head if it weren't attached to his neck. He's a real smart aleck too that really never shuts up and I think he loves to hear himself speak way too much. He's a really good drawer though and he's a good guy all in all, especially when Andrea's around to keep him under control.

Okays, there's just a few more people I figure I should cover and then I'm pretty much done with the profiling...I think.

Aunt Mina is my Aunt Kagome's step sister. In other words Mina's dad married Kagome's mother. Aunt Mina is married to Kouga, a wolf demon and they have five children together, four boys and one girl. It's important to know that Aunt Mina is a vampire and that she isn't a demon which a lot of people mistaken her for. She's pretty much your standard femme fatale with the exception that she'll slice you into bits if you piss her off. As a result a lot of people are scared of her.

Really the only one of her children you need to remember is Hermione which is her only daughter and a lot like Kouga, complete with over self confidence, quick temper and a tad arrogant. She's also smoking but don't tell her two older brothers you think so or you're in for a lot of pain, possibly leading to your immediate exit from this world.

Of other note worthiness would be Aiden who is my little bro Dare's somewhat geeky best friend and the son of the ever lecherous monk Uncle Miroku and a demon slayer. Aiden has four sisters, all of whom dote on him to the extreme to try and make up for the fact that his mother tramatized him as a child when she went overboard trying to insure her son didn't follow in his father's perverted footsteps. As a result Aiden is pretty terrified of most girls, the poor kid and usually can't even look them in the eye. He likes to write and makes a living doing magazine articles and stuff in Aunt Kagome's Aura. Really the only other thing about him worth mentioning is that he has a thing for Hermione but don't tell her that, she won't believe you.

Ren, the even bigger idiot then all my family put together, is a wolf demon who's goal in life is to die by Mika's hand. Okay, actually it's to beat her but anyone with half a brain knows he'll never do it and one of these days she's just gonna get sick of him and do him in. He's an okay kid I suppose, when he's not trying to be like his dad. When he's not he's still a hot headed, arrogant, stubborn mule but at least he's not anti human the way his father Manta is. For your information, if you haven't figured it out already, we all hate Manta very, very much.

Well that pretty much sums it up, I think everyone else has been explained well enough but if you want more information then like I said, let the author know. Anyways that's all for now but if you want to hear from me again just say the word and I'll be at your service. Now on with continuing the chapter as my father faces my way scary and evil grandmother. Thank God none of take after her. She almost makes Mika seem normal and feminine. Yikes.

"Awww he's so cute." Kagome whispered, having to admit that her brother in law had been a truly adorable child. Very feminine looking too. Right now that face was looking very adult while he held the gaze of a woman who was looking at Sesshoumaru with what looked to her to be pure hatred. Which didn't make sense since there was no way they weren't related.

"So that's what the witchy bitchy look alike." Kyou said with a considering look. "He really does look like her, doesn't he?"

"Is that..your mother?" Sango asked, looking up at Sesshoumaru. He wasn't looking at her though. He was staring at the screen with his hands in tight fists. She didn't understand why until the room erupted with the voice of the woman, slicing through anything else anyone might have said with her venomous, hate filled words.

Standing there as his mother ranted, her ever sharp tongue doing its best to tear him to shreds verbally. Once upon a time she'd have succeeded but not now. Even as she called him filth, disgusting names and blamed him for everything that had ever gone wrong in her life he simply stood there, watching her through golden eyes that revealed nothing. Seeing his fear and pain would only excite her more.

"What's the matter, you stupid, pathetic disgrace?" His mother finally sneered when he didn't say anything. That wasn't unusual but the fact that he wasn't cringing was. "Or has living among humans made you even dimmer then you were before?"

"You can say whatever you want, it's not like I haven't heard what you're saying a million times before." Sesshoumaru said calmly, refusing to give her the satisfaction of a response. She was dead, this was simply an image produced to hurt him, to stop him in his plans to go to the past and save his daughter. Unfortunately for the powers behind all this he'd long ago been able to bury the pain and hurt his mother had caused through her cruelty and hatred for him. "Now get out of my way. I need to get out of here and you're in the way."

"What did you just say to me?" Was his mother's response, her eyes going wide with fury as she rushed forward, backhanding the boy Sesshoumaru across the face, blood seeping from wounds where her rings cut into his face. "Disrespectful brat! Pathetic, weakling! You aren't fit to walk in my shadow! You aren't fit to breath the same air as I, you tainted human pet!"

"I would rather be a human child's castrated pet then your son but that choice was never mine." Sesshoumaru returned, not bothering to brush away the blood sliding down his cheek. He was far too used to violence from his mother to even flinch at the injury she'd inflicted. "Now look here, Mother. I'm tired of being blamed for everything that's gone wrong in your life. You were a selfish, self centered icicle and those are the lesser of your faults. You might not have deserved to have your mate leave you for a human but you had no right to take it out on me, your child. Now get out of my way, my daughter needs me. Unlike you, I know what it means to be a parent and I won't let you sidetrack me from getting her back."

Vaguely aware of the sound of someone crying Sesshoumaru turned his eyes from the screen to look down at Rin who had a death grip on his pant leg, tears rolling down her cheek. "What is it, Rin?" He asked, ignoring his mother who'd gone into another tangent on the screen, lashing out at him with his younger self avoiding these ones.

"She..she was so mean to you!" Rin sobbed, burying her face against his leg, her tears soaking through the fabric.

Surprised Sesshoumaru patted her head awkwardly. "This is just..her on a bad day." He tried, lying through his teeth. It had been rare for his mother to be able to go more then an hour in his presence without lashing out at him either verbally or physically. Or both for that matter.

"So this isn't how she normally treats you?" Turning to answer Sango Sesshoumaru's eyes went wide, actually showing shock at the fact that there were tears running down the slayer's face as well, more building up at her eyes that had yet to fall. Was she...was she crying for him?

"She wasn't an easy woman." Sesshoumaru said stiffly, too floored by the idea that she'd cry for him to form a better answer or ice over the fact that this was his mother in spades.

"How could any mother talk to her child like this?" Kagome demanded, her hand in Inu yasha's.

"She found it quite easy." Sesshoumaru said simply, turning his eyes back to the screen in time to see his mother once again charge towards him, her clawed hands posed to strike. But she never got a chance to because just as she'd reached his young self a familiar face appeared between the two.

"Oh no you don't." A fully grown Sango said coldly as she grabbed both wrists, holding Sesshoumaru's mother back, the muscles in her arms straining from the strain of holding back a full blooded demon with blood lust in her eyes. "You're done hurting him, bitch." Head butting the woman back Sango let her go then kicked forward with both feet hitting the demoness solidly in the face, sending the woman flying to land hard on the floor of the fading hallway.

Growling low in her throat Sesshoumaru's mother was not out for the count yet but she was soon as she'd never done battle with anyone other then the abuse she'd dealt out to her son who'd never raised a hand towards her, regardless of how badly the beating. Sango on the other hand was a skilled demon slayer with love and a hell of a lot of stored up hatred to call upon. Not even having to draw weapons Sango was the one spilling blood with Sesshoumaru's mother only getting in a few lucky swipes. Finally in desperation Sesshoumaru's mother grabbed a hold of Sango, wrapping her arms around the slayer's waist as she attempted to crush Sango in her grasp. Seeing this, Sesshoumaru, who'd been silently watching from the sidelines got into action, racing to get behind his mother then taking a running leap latched onto her back and reaching around dug his own claws into his mother's face. Screaming in pain Sesshoumaru's mother let go, intending to throw her son off only to get her daughter in law's elbow hard in the gut before Sango grabbed the demoness's hair and yanking the bitch's head down brought her knee hard into the face Sesshoumaru had just let go as he slid off his mother's back. The demoness's eyes rolling back in her head she collapsed in a heap on the floor. Not moving.

Spitting out blood Sango wiped it away then walking over to Sesshoumaru who was staring at his bloody claws got down on one knee in front of him. Gently lifting a hand she brushed it softly against his bleeding cheek. "Your time is almost up. Lets get you out of here."

"What took you so long, Woman?" Was he wanted to know as he wiped the blood on his claws onto his robes.

"Bite your tongue." Was his answer as she mock scolded at him before moving to stand up straight once more. Holding out her hand she smiled when he reached out and took her hand in his. "Now lets get the hell out of here. You've got a daughter to rescue."