A/N: I love you all so much. Thanks for the reviews. I still have some things I have to work on, but I'm sure you guys will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. I loved writing the last chapter. My ideas just kept flowing. Sorry for any misspellings though. I can't really control where my fingers go when I'm tryping really fast. Anyone willing to put up with my craziness is welcome to become my beta. just message me and tell me how it works. Believe it or not I'm still quite new to this site. Anyways, enough with my useless rambling. On with the thing that made you click on this story. Love you all, read and review.

-Kit

Shippo turned his head to look up at his mother.

"What is it kaa-san?"

He asked as he sat up.

"How would you feel about becoming part of my family for real?"

Kagome asked and Shippo couldn't help but smile widely at his mother and jumping on her and hugging her.

"I'd love to kaa-san! You have no idea how happy I'd be."

He said into her chest as she held him close. Kagome sat up and pulled Shippo into her lap.

"But how is that going to happen kaa-san?"

Shippo asked after a while.

"My otou-san and kaa-san said there was a ceremony that would allow me to get my demonic attributes before taking my place as the ruler of the Eastern lands and I asked if it would let you become part of our family. Would you be willing to do that?"

Kagome asked and Shippo nodded.

"I'd love to kaa-san."

"Kaa-san, can I be part of your family too?"

Rin asked coming over to them. Kagome smiled and pulled her into her lap as well.

"Rin sweetie you know I'd love it if you joined my family as well, but you still have to think about Lord Sesshomaru. What would he think if when he came to get you you had the markings of the East and were part of my family."

Kagome said and Rin looked at the ground.

"I'm sorry Rin, but the last thing I want to do is have Lord Sesshomaru mad at me. Do you want me to get in trouble with him?"

Kagome asked and Shippo looked between his mother and his sister.

"No."

Rin said sadly.

"I promise Rin, you can still call me your kaa-san. I wouldn't treat you any differently. You should know that."

Kagome said and Rin suddenly smiled and hugged her. Shippo smiled at the two infront of him.

"So when can we do the ceremony kaa-san?"

"As soon as I tell my otou-san and kaa-san."

Kagome said and Shippo smiled.

"Come on you two. We have two days before the ball, and Shippo you still don't know how to dance."

Kagome said and Shippo blushed as he and Rin got off his mother's lap. Shippo watched as his mother went to the door and called for a servant. She asked for her to go tell her parents she wished to do the ceremony and said to come get her and Shippo when they were ready.

"Alright. Rin, I'm sure Lord Sesshomaru taught you how to dance."

Kagome said and Rin nodded.

"Good, then you'll be Shippo's partner."

Kagome said and Shippo looked up at her.

"But kaa-san, who will be your partner?"

He asked and Kagome thought a moment before see General Tai passing by in the hallway. She disappeared and came back into the room with him on her arm.

"Tai will be my partner."

Kagome said with a smile and all three looked at her in shock.

Sai stopped at the gates of the Eastern lands and stared at the boar demon that wouldn't let her through.

"Look, the Lord and Lady of the East sent word for guests to arrive for the upcoming ball. I'm just a litle bit early."

Sai said and the boar demon glared at her before relenting and letting her through. She growled at him in passing before heading for the throne room of the Eastern palace. The one good thing about the Eastern palace was that it was set out like the Western palace, just like how the Southern palace was set out like the Northern palace. Sai knocked on the door and waited for permission to enter before opening the door and walking up to the Lord and Lady.

She bowed low and waited for them to tell her she could rise.

"Sai, to what do we owe the pleasure of seeing you?"

Theron asked and Sai smiled at him.

"You sent word about a ball coming up did you not?"

Sai asked as she stood up straight.

"Hai we did, for two days time."

Cyan said and Sai smiled sheepishly.

"May I be frank?"

Sai asked and they both nodded.

"I came to check on something. It would seem that my cousin has lost his ward. You remember Rin, the little girl he brought back from the dead. I heard that your daughter has two children with her. A kitsune, and a young girl."

Sai said and saw the look of understanding dawn in their eyes.

"You've seen Rin before, did you not realize it was her?"

Sai asked as she walked up to her old friends.

"We never thought that it could be her."

Theron said.

"So she is here?"

Sai asked and Cyan nodded.

"Can I see her?"

Sai asked and just as Cyan was about to answer her a servant came in and bowed low.

"I'm sorry for the intrusion m'lord, m'lady, but Lady Kagome said that she and her son are willing to do the ceremony and say to tell them when you are ready to begin."

The servant said and Sai looked from the light blue shoulder length servant back to her friends.

"Ceremony?"

Sai asked curious.

"Hai, Kagome is going to go through the Blood Ceremony."

Theron explained as he sent the servant away.

"Cyan would you mind setting up while I go get our daughter?"

Theron asked and Cyan nodded.

"Not at all. Sai, would you like to go with my mate to meet our daughter? You'll be able to see Rin, they share a room."

Cyan said and Sai nodded. She tossed Cyan the gift she'd brought before following Theron out of the throne room and down the hallway of the Eastern wing. They stopped infront of a door. Theron opened the door and stopped.

"What is it?"

Sai asked as she came to stand beside her friend. What she saw surprised her. Inside was her little cousin's ward dancing with a kitsune. And a woman with midnight black hair to her midback in a beautiful kimono dancing with one of the generals to the Eastern army. The general was the first to notice they had an audience and he immediately stopped dancing and snapped to attention. The black haired woman didn't seem to notice she simply switched partners to the kitsune while Rin sat down on the bed. She noticed Sai stood in the doorway and shot across the room and hugged her legs. She looked like she was about to scream with happiness until Sai shushed her. She nodded and both looked back to the two still dancing in the room.

Kagome let Shippo twirl her to the music, glad that his last growth spurt allowed him to be able to do that easily. He and Rin both now came up to her chest. When Shippo lowered Kagome into a dip she felt him stiffen and looked up to see what was the matter. That's when she noticed they had an audience. She blushed red and stood back up straight with her son's help.

"H-Hi."

Kagome said with a small smile.

"That was quite a display, though you would have been better off with a partner of your height."

Theron said and Kagome felt Shippo's aura change to one of shame.

"I think Shippo did wonderfully. He didn't miss a single step, I'm very proud of him. And Rin, you are an excellent dancer."

Kagome said with a motherly smile to the both of them.

"Thanks kaa-san."

Both said in unison and Kagome smiled.

"Kaa-san?"

A demoness standing with Rin's arms around her legs asked. Kagome looked at her and was amazed at her beauty. She had long, flowing silver hair down to her mid back. She was wearing what looked to be a fighting kimono, yet it could also be a evening kimono with it's simple but elegant patterns. Her eyes were a beautiful golden amber that reminded Kagome of a certain taiyoukai she knew. She had two magenta stripes on her face, but the thing that made Kagome realize she was from the West was the purple crescent moon on her forehead.

"Hai, Kagome said I could call her my kaa-san."

Rin said and Kagome smiled.

"Hi, I'm Kagome."

Kagome said walking up to the demoness and bowing to her.

"I'm Sai, I'm Sesshomaru's cousin. It's a pleasure to meet you, Lady Kagome."

Sai said and Kagome blushed.

"Please, just call me Kagome. I really don't like people calling me Lady."

Kagome said and Sai nodded.

"Kagome, we are ready for you and Shippo. We'll hold the ceremony in the throne room. Tai, you're coming too."

Theron said as he turned and headed back down the hall.

"Hai m'lord!"

General Tai yelled before following after Theron. Kagome burst into a fit of laughter and Sai joined in.

"Come on Shippo."

Kagome said finally getting over her laughing fit. He ran to her side and they walked down the hall with Sai and Rin following. Rin and Shippo ran ahead, leaving Sai and Kagome to walk side by side.

"So, you're Sesshomaru's cousin?"

Kagome asked trying to be civil. She was only mad at Sesshomaru, not his cousin.

"Hai."

'As short with answers as her cousin.'

Kagome thought with a sigh.

"How did you manage to get Rin to call you kaa-san?"

Sai asked and Kagome smiled.

"It was a slip of the tongue on her part. Since then she's been calling me that ever since. I don't really mind, I know she misses her parents so I see no harm in it. I treat her like a daughter so she might as well see me as a mother."

Kagome said with a smile.

"I've got to hand it to you. Sessh has had several speach impairment teachers try and get her to talk properly, but all have failed. And yet you seem to have cured her third person problem in as little as four weeks."

Sai said with a smile and Kagome smiled back.

"You'll notice that Rin's changed a little, but she's still her happy-go-lucky self."

Kagome said and Sai nodded as they walked into the throne room. Sai sat with Rin and Tai along the wall, while Kagome and Shippo sat infront of Theron and Cyan.

"Kagome, Shippo are you two sure you want to do this?"

Cyan asked in a soft, but serious tone. Kagome looked down at Shippo who nodded and she turned back to her mother and nodded as well.

"Alright then, Theron, start the ceremony."

Cyan said and her mate nodded. He pulled a dagger from within his kimono and cut a line going from the veins in his wrist to the middle of his palm.

"Let me see your hands."

He said and Shippo looked up at his mother with a questioning look in his emerald eyes. Kagome nodded as she placed her hand in her fathers and her son did the same. Theron made a similar cut across Kagome's and Shippo's palm. Then he passed the dagger off to his mate. She made a cut across her palm as well then put the dagger down.

"We will now cross our bloodlines and your bond with us will strengthen Kagome."

Cyan said as she pressed her wrist to her daughters, then Theron repeated this action.

"As we cross our bloodlines with yours Shippo you will become part of our family even though you are not one of us by blood, this will make it so you are."

Theron explained as he pulled his wrist back. Kagome and Shippo looked down at their wrists and the wounds were already healing over. At first Kagome didn't feel any different, but then she felt something warm spread throughout her body until her whole body felt like it was tingling. And as she looked down at her wrist she saw dark green markings show up on her skin. She gasped and held out her other arm to see an identical mark surroundering her left wrist. She stood up and raced over to the mirror in the corner of the room and practically jumped for joy when she saw the dark green stripes across her cheeks and the dark green star on her forehead.

She turned back around and almost squealed with joy when she saw Shippo had a dark green star on his forehead as well as two dark green strips across his cheeks. Kagome turned to look at her parents and smiled at them before tackling them to the ground with a hug.

"!"

Kagome said as she sat up, pulling her mom and dad with her.

"No problem dear."

Cyan said and Kagome just smiled as she stood up. She couldn't help but stare at her wrists where her new markings sat. She was finally officially part of the East.

"Alright, we have a busy day ahead of us tomorrow. Get some rest."

Theron said and everyone nodded before leaving. Kagome, Shippo, and Rin headed back to their room, but stopped when Rin turned to Sai.

"Lady Sai, is Lord Sesshomaru coming tomorrow?"

Rin asked and Sai smiled down at her.

"He is Rin, but he won't be here until the evening."

"Okay. I'll wait to see m'lord."

Rin said with a smile before running up to Kagome and taking her hand. Kagome bid Sai goodnight before leading the children back to the room to get some rest.

'Tomorrow is the night of the ball. I wonder if Sesshomaru will really be there.'

Kagome thought as she crawled beneath the sheets of her bed.

'All were invited so he should be.'

Kagome's beast said and Kagome nodded before closing her eyes.

A/N: Don't hate me because I ended it short after the ceremony. It took a lot out of Cyan and Theron to preform the ceremony. Sorry it wasn't as flashy as the ceremony Rin underwent in Starting Anew, but I couldn't think of anything else.