They stood just outside the door while Kagome still slept.

His mother just stared at him, glaring, judging, deciding.

"What would you have me do?" She asked, and while her tone seemed as it always did, he could tell she was not pleased.

"Advise,"

His mother opened the door, walked inside, and looked at the girl curled up and sick. "What do you see in her," She had asked the same of his father when he took a human.

Sesshomaru's eyes glided ever so slowly to his mother. Was she really wanting an answer to that?

"I asked your father the same," She admitted. "He was weak, I did not understand, and I still do not understand,"

"Yet you did nothing,"

She glared at her son. "What I didn't do took strength and resolve," She snapped. Of course, if she had killed the woman, Inuyasha would not be here, and none of this probably would have happened; at least, that's what he was telling himself.

She looked back at the girl. "I will not repeat,"

So, she didnt want an answer,

"What power did she have over you that you not only laid with her but impregnated her,"

"That was a complication,"

She looked at him again."Sesshomaru-

"She drank the moon tea meant for another,"

She turned fully to him and stepped closer, getting into his personal bubble, and narrowed her eyes. "Do not think to outsmart me pup, regardless of the tea you released into her, leaving a chance regardless of heat, and you are not that dumb,"

What he wanted her to say was that he wasn't that weak, but clearly, she thought he was.

Sesshomaru looked down at the small woman, what did he see in her? What made him touch her, what made him break control when no other had?

"She challenges me at every turn,"

His mother crossed her arms,

"Perhaps curiosity, the need for her to submit at least once in her life,"

"curiosity killed the cat Sesshomaru,"

Or in this case, impregnated the Miko.

His mother walked to the side of the bed and looked down. "A lot of power in that body," She whispered,

"Hn,"

She lifted a hand and brushed Kagome's hair away from her face. She was pretty, not like a demon woman, but pretty enough.

Kagome's eyes fluttered open and looked up. She should have been scared, but she was confused more than anything.

His mother stared "Very well, I will stay and aid,"

She accepted his confession? That was almost too easy and suddenly made him a little uneasy.

Her mind was turning, she wanted to see what it was that got to her son. How could this girl challenge him?

Her mate had been weak, sweet words, loving affection, and a little beauty were all it took for him, at least with their son it was something more, though she still did not understand it and she wanted to understand it.

She had more to work with at least, this girl reeked of holy power never mind the raw power of the jewel that she so controlled.

She would aid her son if only to see it. She refused to watch her mate and his human, banishing herself to the palace of the moon. How could another human take something of hers? How could he be so weak? How could he follow in his father's steps when he hated his father's path so much?

She would find out.