A while back, I had an Inuyasha fanfic about Sesshoumaru falling in love and raising a family and stuff. My computer got a problem though after a while and I couldn't get to the topic any more. Now it's fixed and I will continue my story. First I will post my story up until the latest update.
Enjoy.

Gou...An InuYasha fanfiction
by LadyKikyo3

Prolouge
"This feels so good, right Sango?" Kagome said happily as she and Sango relaxed in a hot spring.
"We never get to relax like this, and with every Sacred Jewel Shard gone this is a stress free world now!" she said again. Sango put a sad face on, hearing Kagome's words.
"Not really..." she said sadly.
"Maybe I shouldn't have said that" Kagome thought to herself. She knew Sango was upset, sure Naraku was dead, but she had no idea where her younger brother Kohaku was and was very worried.
~~~NEXT DAY~~~
"Splendid m'lord you're back on your feet!" Jaken said to Sesshoumaru happily. Sesshoumaru did not reply. He only spoke to himself
"...I suppose he's right...with all the weight on my shoulders lately, I suppose I should keep going, though I don't always have a destination.
Kagura...she died recently...She would always come aroung when I least expected it...It got a little bothersome after a while. But I remember...one of the last times I saw her, she was recently injured by Naraku. She then left, and when I heard she was going to die, I hunted her down to wait, I would then save her with Tensaiga.
...But it didn't work...
All I did was let a tear drop from my eye.
Did I love her?
NO! She abducted Rin...How could someone be fogiven for scaring a child, a girl especially.l
Killing Naraku was a surprisingly tiring task too...But what to do with myself now, I'm not sure." His thoughts were interrupted by Rin.
"Ah! Look!" she yelled, running over to a pond.
"Look at all the fish Lord Sesshoumaru and Master Jaken!" She pointed to two perticular fish,
"Look at the one!" she began,"It's only a baby! And I bet that one is it's daddy!" She said happily.
"Father...such a weird word for me..." Sesshoumaru thought to himself...
"My father is dead, the brazen dog died, for a mortal woman, and the night he died, was the same night his half-demon son Inuyasha was born. If my father hadn't of left my mother, he wold still be alive! There would be no Inuyasha, and I would still have two arms nonetheless...I shall avenge my father's stupidity..and kill Inuyasha!"
"Jaken!" Sesshoumaru yelled. Jaken jumped up from being startled
"Y-yes?" he said as Sesshoumaru dashed off. He could already tell he had babysitting duty.
"Bye Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin yelled happily, while waving.
"So..." she began.
"CAN I GET A FISH MASTER JAKEN?" She asked shaking him.
"Yes, yes but stop that!" She put him down and kneeled over the edge of the pond, using the Staff of Skulls as a spear.
"I wanna big one!" the hungry Rin said. Jaken peered into the water and spotted a fish for her.
"Ah...there we go..." he said. He jabbed the bottom of his staff into the water.
"W-why you, stop moving!" he said angrily. He knelt farther foward and fell in.
~~~~~~Later....uh...somewhere else.....~~~~~~~
Inuyasha staggered along, clutching his hand to his other arm tightly.
"Ugh...it still hurts...damn it..." He told himself angrily. All his friends walked behind him, out of his way.
"Look Inuyasha's back on his feet!" Said Shippou from atop Miroku's shoulder. The young monk sighed
"Knowing him, that probably doesn't mean anything." he replied to the fox. Inuyasha stopped. His face turned frantic.
"This scent...please don't let it be..." And before he knew it there was his older brother, Sesshoumaru.
"Damn...just what I needed..." Inuyasha said sarcasticly, still clutching his shoulder. Sesshoumaru glared at him
"You killed father..." he said angrily
Inuyasha's frantic face returned. Sesshomaru looked away.
"I remember that night perfectly..." He said
~~~~DUN DUN DUN FLASHBACK~~~~~~
"Father, do you really insist on going?" asked a younger Sesshomaru.
"Are you going to stop me Sesshoumaru?"
"No I won't try to stop you, however, I wish for your Souunga and Tetsusaiga, to be passed down to me."
"And if I refuse, will you kill me, your own father?" he replied. Sesshoumaru was silent.
"Do you desire power so much?" his father began "Just why is it that you seek power, my son?"
"The path I walk is the way of supreme conquest, and it is power that will reveal the way for me." said Sesshoumaru
"Tell me Sesshoumaru, have you someone to protect?" his father asked.
"Protect?" Sesshoumaru grew quiet for a moment."The answer is no, I Sesshoumaru have no need of such."
~~~Flashback is over!~~~~~
"Father then left, to save his newborn son, and died." Sesshomaru finished.
"Wow..."Kagome thougt to herself.
"Do you realize now, that it is your fault Inuyasha?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Shut your mouth..." Inuyasha growled. Sesshomaru drew his Toukiijin and Inuyasha drew the Steel-Cleaving Tetsusaiga. Sesshoumaru dashed at his little brother.
"This time you really WILL die!" Sesshomaru said. Inuyasha replied with a "shut up"
"Don't please!" Kagome yelled in fear. But was pulled back by Miroku.
Sesshoumaru paused where he was,
"Wait, what is the point of running?" he though to himself. He thrusted out the Tokiijin, and the pressure of the blade knocked Inuyasha down, giving him some scars. He dropped Tetsusaiga.
"This is it...DAMN IT!" Inuyasha told himself.
"Good bye..."Sesshoumaru said bringing the Tokiijin down.
"INUYASHA NO!! SESSHOUMARU STOP IT!" Kagome screamed. But she wasn't fast enough. Inuyasha was gone. She could see his blood on the tip of Sesshoumaru's Tokiijin.
"H-he's dead..."Kagome told herself, bursting into tears."NO!" she screamed. She lookwed furiously up at Sesshoumaru.
"You..."she growled as she wathed Sesshoumaru slip his blade through his belt.
"YOU!" She screamed again, and fired an arrow. Sesshomaru caught it with ease, and threw it back
"He engulfed it with his poison!" Kagome told herself, still crying. Miroku ran as fast as his legs could carry him
"LADY KAGOME! NO! " he hollered as he was too late and Kagome dissapeared in poison, leaving only ashes behind. Sesshoumaru looked at Miroku and the others.
"Unless you would like to be next, I suggest you stay back. Farewell now." He said and took off. Miroku, Sango and Shippou were all full of despair, they took Inuyasha's body, and Kagome's ashes and buried them, and all through the night they preyed together, For Inuyasha and Kagome to find peace in the afterlife.
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"Lord Sesshomaru, what happened?" Jaken yelled as he saw his master emerge.
"Wait...I can already tell....the blood on the Tokiijin...Inuyasha is dead!" .He realized.
"Yes..."said Sesshoumaru, then he walked off. His loyal servant and young human friend following him.
"Naraku and Inuyasha are dead...I don't care about the Tetsusaiga anymore...I have nothing else to work or even look foward to..."Sesshoumaru thought to himself...Then he thought of Kagura.
"Yes...I know what I think I want to do with myself now...I shall try out this 'love' thing, but first I must fall in love in order to to do this..."

Chapter 1
Sesshoumaru lied up against a tree, deep in thought.
"How am I supposed to fall in love anyway?" he thought to himself.
"Surely it can't be something you just do....No matter how strong you are..." he sighed. Suddenly Jaken came running up to him.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, Rin is hungry, yet there is nothing around here she can eat!" Sesshoumaru did not reply, and stood up.
"Let's go then." he told Jaken. By that night, they had found a small forest with plenty of edible berries for Rin. But she grew sleepy as they got to the outskirts of the wood. Sesshoumaru sat down against a bush and Rin lied up against him. Jaken sitting a few inches away. He dozed off pretty quickly. Sesshoumaru had no intention of sleeping, though it took a good while for Rin to fall asleep. Back in the forest, a young woman struggled to make her way through all the trees and bushes and such. Not only that, there were all sorts of strange noises that time of night. She had short brown hair, sky blue eyes and a light green yukata, except with short and torn up sleeves. Her name was Yuma. She rubbed her shoulders as if she were cold.
"Jeepers..." she began "I regret going this way..." Then suddenly her eyes widened. She heard a pleasent voice...and the voice of a little girl. She followed them to find Sesshoumaru, along with his companions. She listened to him speak a little more, then sighed.
"Wow..."she said to herself quietly. Rin junmped up at an instant.
"What was that?" she said frantically. Sesshoumaru stood up and took a step in front of his young friend. Jaken woke up as well but said nothing. Yuma gasped and dashed off into the wood.
"Crap! What did I get myself into now??!" She told herself worridly. But she was so lost in thought and worry and crashed into a tree.
."Oh....oh ow..." she said, clenching a hand to her forehead. Suddenly a hand reached out to her. A horrified look swept over her face. What was she gonna do? Should she grab it? Hit it away?
"I'm trying to help you up." said the owner of the hand. She looked up away from the hand to find Sesshoumaru. She felt like a fool, but at an instant she grabbed his hand and he pulled her up.

Chapter 2
"I go by Sesshoumaru." he told her. She was quiet.
"If you're scared to talk to me, that's fine." he said. He then noticed the small drop of blood on her forehead. He licked it clean. Yuma gasped. He didn't mean anything by it, he was just trying to be helpful.
"I'm sorry..." he told her. She gave a small smile at him.
"Don't be. My name is Yuma." She said sweetly.
"Where did you come from.?" Sesshoumaru asked her. She took a step back.
"...I don't really know..." she began. " I was born and raised in a village where the women were treated quite harshly, We were always being pushed around and taken advantage of. I, along with a few other girls had gone to gather some medicnal herbs, when we came back the entire vilage had burned to the ground. Everyone and everything, was dead." Sesshoumaru interrupted her.
"Did you give your family proper burials?" he asked her.
"No..." she started."Out of all the villagers, my family were some of the worst people to me, especially my brother, who earned the right to take control of women by age 12!"
"What about the other girls? Did you ever try to make escape plans or anything?"
"No, all the other girls were to concerned about their own problems and were harsh to the others. So after I found out what had happened to my village, I just set off on my own, healing many bruises and scars I had gotten a few days before.
'You...have healing powers?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Yes, I was always forbidden to use them. I would usaully have to sneak it. Are you in need of healing?" she asked him. Sesshoumaru looked at his empty left sleeve. Yuma shut her eyes, and within a few seconds Sesshoumaru's left arm was back on his limb like nothing had ever happened to it in the first place.
"Wow..." he said quietly. He thanked before she continued her story.

Chapter 3
"I thought I was going to be alright after I set off on my own, but it seems like things only got worse for me. I was constantly being kidnapped, raped, and treated as a slave and those sorts of things. Groups of horrible men would do those things, then send me off while leaving some serious injuries as a warning if I told anybody. Only about a year ago did the torture stop, and I guess I'm ok now.
"I'm sorry..." replied Sesshoumaru. Yuma smiled, and thanked him.
"Let's go." he told her.
"huh...?" she asked.
"Do you want to be tortured the rest of your life?" he looked back at her.
"Just because nothing like that has happened to you in a while, doesn't mean it's all over. If you stay by yourself you'll eventually be killed. So I am saying now, you can stay with me." he told her. Yuma smiled. She was a very happy young women. For the first time in her life, she felt accepted. She ran and caught up with him and they left the wood together. She was very suprised that the strange, yet kind man she just met was actually a demon. But she trusted him, and Sesshoumaru, knowing though that she was human, trusted her as well.

Chapter 4
"Master Jaken, Lord Sesshoumaru hasn't come back yet!" Rin squealed quietly
"Keep your voice down!" he scolded. Moments later Sesshoumaru emerged, Yuma behind him.
"L...Lord Sesshoumaru, what happened?" Jaken asked. Sesshoumaru hesitated to answer. Just then Jaken and Yuma eyed eachother. Yuma's eyes widened and she stumbled over to him. She picked him up and pulled him into a tight embrace.
"You are so cute!" she said happily. Jaken was feeling two different emotions at this time: embarrasment and only slight anger. He had never really felt appreciated his whole life, but he was tired and wasn't expecting that. She set him down. She looked at Rin.
"You're very cute yourself!" she told her. Rin laughed. She told Sesshoumaru that she was fond of his comrades, he thanked her then looked down at Jaken.
"I have decided to return to the west." he told him. Jaken was suprised.
"But, why?" he said dumbfounded.
"We have two humans with us now. And I am no longer persuing anyone so we need places for them to live normally." He then began to walk off, Yuma and Rin following right behind.
"Hey, hurry up!" Rin and Yuma said together.

Chapter 5
"So, the west...is it yours?" Yuma asked.
"Yes. I inherited it from my father." Sesshoumaru replied. Yuma nodded as a way of saying she understood, then scooped the tired Rin and Jaken into her arms so they could sleep. Sesshoumaru began to think to himself once more, about his wanting to fall in love. He looked at Yuma. He then thought, "Maybe I can make Yuma mine..." he began. He then shut his eyes tightly and opened them again "Sure, she is rather attractive, but she is human!" he told himself. He looked at her again. She was blinking rapidly to stay awake.
"We can stop here." Sesshoumaru said. Yuma widened her eyes
"N..No! I can keep going!"
"Were not in any hurry, and a blind person could tell that you are undead exhausted." he replied. Yuma sat down immeidiatly, Jaken and Rin still sound asleep in her arms. Sesshoumaru sat down a few inches away, but did not feel the need to sleep. He waited until Yuma was unconcious, then went down to the nearby river.
Rin and Jaken awoke around the same time, while Yuma continued her snooze. Sesshoumaru has already returned and tossed some fish for Rin. Sesshoumaru also entrusted Rin with Yuma's share until she woke up. It was early noon, and she still didn't awake.
"Man...she must've been sleepy!" Rin said curiously. Jaken laughed and lifted his staff into the air,
"I'll wake her up!" he yelled. Sesshoumaru stopped him.
"O-of course, I was only kidding!" he told his master. Yuma woke moments after though.
"Wow...it must be late in the day.." she told herself quietly. She then saw Sesshoumaru Jaken and Rin pondering.
"Oh my gosh!' she yelled, "I'm so sorry to keep you waiting." she said with a worried face
"Finally!" Rin stated, yet with a happy tone. Jaken had nothing to say. Sesshoumaru walked over and grabbed Yuma's hand.
"It's ok, I understand." He said caringly and pulled her up. He let go of her and walked away. Yuma blushed and gave a few heavy breaths.
"What's this weird feeling I just got when he touched me?" she asked herself.
By dusk, they had reached Sesshoumaru's territory.

Chapter 6
"There should be houses around here." Said Sesshoumaru, and he searched, his friends behind him. He found them in no time. Sesshoumaru assigned a house for Rin, Jaken and Yuma to share, and got his own little bachelor pad. Rin and Jaken went to bed after settling and Yuma was busy slaving over a hot stove. She wanted to thank Sesshoumaru and thought the simplest way would be cooking something. Sesshoumaru sat down in his house by himself.
"This is weird..." he began quietly. "Yuma is a human, and yet, I have this slight feeling that I am beginning to act like father...he and Inuyasha are fond of humans...And I think, that I am slowly growing attracted to that woman..." Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Sesshoumaru demolished the door with his light whip.
"W...Wow..." Yuma laughed. "Sorry if I scared you or anything." she said and dropped a bowel on the table.
'Ok Lord Sesshoumaru..."she began "I want you to try some of this!" She poured some stew into a smaller bowel and gave it to him. He told her he was not too fond of it. She loved his honest answer.
"You don't need to worry about feeding me..." Sesshoumaru began "But thank you." Yuma smiled, and took her things and wished Sesshoumaru a peaceful evening. But he stopped her just before she went through the door
"How would you like to spend the day with Rin tommorrow? I will spend my day with Jaken. We can return here at dusk." he asked her. Yuma told him that she would be delighted and then went to bed, eagerly awaiting the next day. Sesshoumaru wanted to get these thoughts clear and thought the best way would be to speak with another male, even if it was Jaken.

Chapter 7
Yuma awoke early the next morning. She went outside and greeted the day. Jaken came out next and sat down next to her.
"Hi" he said. Yuma smiled and replied with a Hi of her own. They had quite a pleasent conversation until Rin and Sesshoumaru came outside as well, and so began Sesshoumaru and Jaken's day and Rin and Yuma's 'girls day out'. Sesshoumaru and Jaken took a stroll through a creek in a boat and Yuma relaxed in a vast meadow as Rin made necklaces and bracelets of flowers she picked.
"Lord Sesshoumaru..." Jaken began in the soothing silentness of the creek
"What do you think of Yuma?" he asked. Sesshoumaru looked away.
"She is the reason I arranged all this..." he started. "I wanted to talk to you man-to-man about it. I think I am slowly falling in love with her..."
"Huh..." Jaken replied
"Does that make me weak?" his master asked
"If you ask me," Jaken began, "I think actually admitting that you like her is pretty strong itself, my lord. Other demons would've probably just killed her on the spot. So I think personally, that Yuma has made you even stronger then you were already before."
"Thank you for saying so," Sesshoumaru sighed.
Rin laughed as she placed a flower necklace over Yuma's neck.
"Thank you Rin, it is very lovely" Yuma said kindly.
"Thank you Yuma." Rin began, "Hey, um, Jaken wanted me to ask you something...What do you think of Lord Sesshoumaru?" Yuma immediatly jerked her head away from the young girl's sight, blushing deeply.
"Wow..." she thought "He is such an attractive young man, but that's not important...He has made me feel cared for when no one else in my entire life had.He is very kind and affectionate for a demon. I think, with Lord Sesshoumaru, I can live a nice life... this is amazing but..." she stopped thinking and said these words aloud.
"I guess....you could say....I'm in deep love with Lord Sesshoumaru!" she continued to blush and began to cry. Rin put her arm over Yuma's shoulder.
"Don't cry Yuma, love is a good thing! And if you ask me, I think you and Lord Sesshoumaru look great together!" Yuma pulled Rin into a tight hug.
"Oh Rin...thank you so much..." she wiped her eyes. "I'm not crying because I'm upset, it's just, I've never felt this way, and to just now feel it at age 19, it's sort of overwhelming. I'm very happy though."

Chapter 8
At dusk, Sesshoumaru and Jaken returned first, the girls coming soon after. Jaken went in his house, while Sesshoumaru went and sat by a tree. When he smelled Yuma, he called her over. She went and sat next to him on her knees.
"How was your day?' he asked.
"It was....wonderful..." she replied happily. Sesshoumaru looked at her.
"My day with Jaken was quite soothing, I was able to get many thoughts through my head." he began. "At one point, Jaken asked me how I felt about you..." Sesshoumaru paused, feeling quite nervous, Yuma began to breathe heavily in her anxiety as well.
"My entire life, people have seen me has either, a vicious beast, or just some mighty king and do nothing but kiss my feet. The amount of respect I get is sometimes very obnoxious...But, when I'm with you, I feel even more calm then usual, and you are a fun person to be around. I also trust you, nonetheless." he grew quiet for a moment. "I feel cared about, and when I followed you into the forest and helped you up, you did not fear me or try to attack me...I really admire that. With you...I feel, like a living thing..." Yuma blushed and turned her head away.

Chapter 9
"I love you Yuma." Sesshoumaru gasped. Yuma could tell these words were hard for even him to get out. Yuma turned back to him and began to sob happily into his shoulder
"Oh Lord Sesshoumaru!" she lifted her head up "You know already, that all my life I have been tormented and treated like dirt. I have never felt cared about, until I met you...I love you, Lord Sesshoumaru." with that she continued to cry.
"I have more I would like to ask of you." said Sesshoumaru.
"Yes...anything..." Yuma replied.
"Can I marry you? And, can you bear my children?" he asked.
Yuma gasped.
"He really does want to live his life with me..." she thought to herself.
"yes! I'll do it!" Yuma shouted. Sesshoumaru could then feel his shoulder become damp with her tears. Her tears of love.

Chapter 10
Yuma went out alone the next morning to gather flowers as a decoration for her and Sesshoumaru's wedding ceremony, which was going to be private, though Rin and Jaken were invited. She had a hard time finding plants that met her expectations, but she was so very happy, it felt like nothing could ever upset her again. Though, as she was wandering aimlessly around, she stumbled into a village, but it seemed that no one lived there. There were tons of graves with weapons on top of them, each marked with respectful and loving words.
"Demon Slayers?" she asked herself. She looked around a little more and read one grave. It read: Here lies Inuyasha, a violent half-demon, who was soft inside. Murdered by his elder brother the Demon Sesshoumaru. Yuma gasped.
'Wow..." she began. Sesshoumaru killed his brother, yet I wonder why. She paused for a long while then sat down next to the grave. She shut her eyes. A few moments later, she heard coughing down beneath the dirt.
"Ugh...Wh-what the hell is this?" yelled a voice.
"Oh my gosh!" Yuma began, "Hold on mister, I'll be right back to get you out!" she then rushed and grabbed a shovel and dug the person out. He wore a red kimono, and had scruffy and very dirty white hair. But atop his head were two strange looking ears.
"Um, are you this Inuyasha?" she asked him
"Damn right! Now where the hell am I? what's going on?" he looked around, until he realized he was in Sango's village.

Chapter 11
Inuyasha grew kinder towards Yuma after he realized what she had just done for him.
"What's a human girl like you doing in a place like this anyway?" the hanyou asked.
"I was...uh, just picking flowers..." she replied.
"I'll tell ya this much, you're not gonna find any in a place like this" and he laughed a little. "Why would you need flowers anyway?"
"For uh...a wedding..." she stammered.
"You're kinda pretty." Inuyasha snorted "Who's the dude?"
Yuma grew worried. She didn't know whether to tell him or lie.
"S...s..." she began.
"Huh." Inuyasha began "As big and scary as I look, I'm harmless. Who are you marrying, huh?"
"Y-your brother..." Yuma muttered. Inuyasha's eyes widened.
Sesshoumaru...that bastard...he thought to himself.
"Did you ressurect me?" he finally asked.
"Yes...I may be human but I've got healing powers."
"I'll help you get your flowers." Inuyasha told her.
Inuyasha took Yuma to a meadow with many sorts of daisies and other elegant flowers. Her wicker basket was soon full.
"Thank you." Yuma smiled at her new friend
"Hey, um, Our wedding is going to be tommorrow. You can come if you want. In fact, I want you to come!" said Yuma. Inuyasha blushed. Then simply grunted.
"Don't disappoint me! Yuma yelled as she walked off.
"wow...." Inuyasha said and plopped himself down on the flowery ground. He picked a flower, and began to tear off the petals and rip them apart. He put on in his mouth, but spit it out at the distastefulness.
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The next morning everything was prepared for Sesshoumaru and Yuma's marriage. They each wore their normal clothes, yet each of their necks were garbed in flower necklaces made by Rin. This wasn't a normal wedding. No vows, rings, Sesshoumaru and Yuma simply gave eachother something of great value. Sesshoumaru placed a beautiful and shining shell in his bride's hand, it had a chain around it so she could wear it around her neck. Yuma told Sesshoumaru she couldn't give him her gift until later, seeing as it was not ready. As soon as Yuma thanked her husband for his gift, Sesshoumaru's face grew concerned.
"I smell...a half-demon..." he said quietly.

Chapter 12
Sure enough, Inuyasha was hiding up in a tree branch watching his brother get married. With no second thoughts, Sesshoumaru used his whip too cut down the branch of the tree.
"Watch out Inu-!" Yuma immeidiatly clamped her hands over her mouth. Would Sesshoumaru hate her for ressurecting his brother, whom he obviously hated? Would he kill her? Inuyasha jumped too the ground.
"Inu...yasha..." Sesshoumaru said angrily. "I killed you, what is going on?"
"That new wife of yours brought me back! Ask her too help Kagome to!"
"Who's Kagome?" Yuma asked herself. Sesshoumaru looked at Yuma. He decided to let Inuyasha live. It wasn't her fault after all, she didn't know her power would actually work on Inuyasha... a person who as dead...
"Go on Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru ordered
"You're not gonna engage me in a battle?" Inuyasha snorted "And what about Kagome?!"
"Inuyasha, since you were just brought back from the dead why don't you take this oppertunity to start over fresh. Forget the Kagome women and go find that other priestess if anything. That's what I would do if I was in your skin." said Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha thought of Kikyou...without any more words, he quickly hugged Yuma and ran off.
"Sesshoumaru, I'm so sorry..." Yuma said quietly.
"Why?" he asked.
"I...I resurrected your brother, and you obviously don't like him very much..." she said.
"As long as he leaves us alone, I am fine." Sesshoumaru replied then hugged Yuma tightly. "You don't have to worry about anything." with that Yuma sighed in relief. How could she ever think Sesshoumaru would hurt her? Ridiculous.
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Chapter 13
That night in a forest, Inuyasha used his nose and eventually tracked down Kikyou lying down near a tree.
"Why have you been searching for me?" she asked him.
"Kagome...is...." those were the only words he could use to answer her question.
"Dead." Kikyou finished. She looked at him with a small smile.
"Sorry..."she said. Inuyasha pulled Kikyou up and hugged her.
"I don't care if you are dead. I still love you Kikyou." Inuyasha said and tightened his embrace.
"Inuyasha..." sighed Kikyou
Back in the western lands, Yuma sat Sesshoumaru down at a table. They lived together now.
"Ok Sesshoumaru..." Yuma began, pouring a greenish liquid into a glass. "This is my present to you. This is a mixture I made with my health powers. It gives eternal life to the drinker. Not only that, but they stop aging as well. Meaning, if you drink this right now, you will stay a young man forever. They only way you can die is if you are killed or murdered. Will you drink it?" she asked. Sesshoumaru paused and gave a small nod. Yuma passed the glass down to him and poured some for herself. They each took it right down.
"Sorry if it doesn't taste good..." stated Yuma. Sesshoumaru thanked her. Then they went to bed.


Chapter 14
Out in a vast and beautiful field the next morning, the young monk Miroku was taking a walk, with Sango, Shippou and Kirara. They missed Inuyasha and Kagome greatly, but were done mourning.
"It's such a nice day!" Shippou said happily as a soothing and gentle breeze swifted through his red hair.
"Ah yes, it is isn't it?" Miroku replied. But then something caught his eye. Not a something, a someone...

Chapter 15
He saw Yuma about 200 feet away or so.
"But not as beautiful as that..." Miroku said quietly, and began to walk over to her.
"Hold on Jaken! I just want to see if there's any neat plants out there! Yuma called as she stepped onto the plain. But Miroku stepped right in front of her.
"Good morning..." he said with a smile.
"Um...good morning Lord Monk..." Yuma replied. Miroku took her hands, while Shippou toppled off his shoulder.
"My dear lady, your beauty makes this field look like a wasteland..." he began. "Now...would you consider bearing me about, 10 or 20 babies or so?" Yuma jerked her hands away, with a slightly angry look on her face. He then reached behind and gave her rear a squeeze and he sighed. Yuma replied with a punch in the face.
"You pervert! How dare you! I'm married!"
"Sango! Miroku's at it again!" Shippou yelled.
"I should've figured as much..." Sango told herself quietly and ran over there. Miroku's face grew frantic
"Shippou stop!" he squealed, blood coming from his nose. But when he looked back at Yuma, he saw Sesshoumaru behind him. His eyes widened even more.
"Yuma. What's going on?" Sesshoumaru asked his wife.
"Um...T-this monk...he was...asking me for children..." She informed him. Miroku began to back off
"You....you're the sleazy monk that traveled with Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru began. "You'd better leave this young woman alone, you got that?" he ordered. Miroku sighed. He turned around and there was Sango, very angry too. She grabbed his sleeve and kicked him in the shin. She then let him go to watch him fall.
Sesshoumaru picked up Yuma and began to walk away. Sesshoumaru had his back to them. But he informed them of Inuyasha's ressurection, then they began a search to find their friend.

Chapter 16
Sesshoumaru carried Yuma through the wood that led into the field and they began to head home.
"You know..." Yuma began. "That perverted monk asked me to bear 20 children for him. Imagine that!" she laughed. She looked up at Sesshoumaru with a smile.
"I would give you that many if you wanted, though." she then looked away. "I am actually quite fond of children..." she said. "I'm really eager for some of my own..." Sesshoumaru looked at her. They smiled at eachother.
"That was one of the reasons I gave Rin her life back." he began. "I think children are actually quite interesting, especially when they are young."


Chapter 17
A few weeks passed, spring eventually turned to summer...
Yuma woke up one morning. But she had a hard time bending foreward all the way. She looked down to find that her stomach had enlarged. She gasped happily and began to shake Sesshoumaru. It didn't take much to wake him up.
"I'm pregnant!" Yuma squealed. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened. The hugged each other. When they finished Yuma's face grew slightly serious.
"Sesshoumaru..." Yuma began "You realize, this baby will be a half-demon..." she said
"What of it?" he asked.
"Oh...um, nothing!" she asked. She had expected him to be angry, but he didn't seem to care, and she was right!
"The demon blood that will flow within our children will be very pure. The human blood is very good as well."
"I'm so happy Sesshoumaru..." Yuma sighed. "I wonder if we will have a boy or a girl. Do you have any preferences? I don't." Sesshoumaru shook his head in reply. They walked outside and greeted the day. Rin and Jaken were already outside. Yuma announced what was going to happen and her friends congratulated her.
"I can't wait until the baby comes!" Rin said constantly throughout Yuma's pregnancy. Yuma would smile and say that nobody could wait. Yuma was about 8 months pregnant by then. Jaken and Rin had already built a crib, and made small toys for the new family member.

Chapter 18
Yuma would smile and say that nobody could wait. Yuma was about 8 months pregnany by then. Jaken and Rin had already built a crib, and made small toys for the new family member. Soon the day came when she was to give birth...No one had any sort of doctoring skills, but Sesshoumaru had told Jaken and Rin to go and find the priestess Kikyou to see if she could help.
"I shall come right away..." Kikyou replied when Rin requested her assistance. Inuyasha came along to, maybe he would be able to meet his new niece or nephew if he was allowed near it. He was sure Yuma would more then likely let him spend time with the baby. Yuma screamed in pain, and all Sesshoumaru could do was hold her hand and tell her everything was going to be alright.
"E...easy for you to say..." she moaned angrily. Kikyou came through the door and began to deliver the child. Yuma was probably in labor for about an hour and a half. When her baby was born, she immediatly fell asleep. Sesshoumaru thanked Kikyou. He expected her to leave but Kikyou insisted on staying so she could help with the child until Yuma recooped. Sesshoumaru requested some alone time with his new kid. He held it in his arms and sat down in the corner, his wife still sound asleep on the bed.
"You are indeed, a half-demon..." he began when he removed some of the blanket and found ears like Inuyasha's. "Now let us find out your sex...." he then lifted it completly find out the gender of his child. He was satisfied with it.

Chapter 19
"A female..." he said quietly. The baby was sound asleep. Yuma was still snoozing as well, and since she could not yet breastfeed her new daughter, Kikyou had given the girl some filling water from a spring.
"You need a name, don't you?" said Sesshoumaru. "I think Yuma and I should decide together.he began to think of some...but he wanted Yuma to share her thoughts to. After about a day and a half and Yuma finally came to.
"Ugh..." she grunted "What's going on?" she asked quietly. She looked around.
"Lord Sesshoumaru?" she called out. She lied back down.
"What happened?" she said. She began to shut her eyes. They immediatly flew open in an instant though.
"Hold on a sec, I just gave birth to a baby? Damn!" she stuttered quickly. She ran outside. At first she saw nobody. Nobody but Kikyou lying down on the grass.
"Um...hello...." she called. Inuyasha had explained to her before how Kikyou had died and been resurrected by the witch Urasue. Yuma was a little afraid of her, but she decied to make a second impression, she would try to make friends with Lady Kikyou. She staggered over to the tree, she was still sore, tired and hungry but she was too excited to eat or rest.
"My Lady..." Yuma began. Kikyou simply looked up at her. "Um, thank you for delivering my baby..." she said.
"It was my pleasure. Children have always been a great interest of mine. I always wanted some of my own..." she sighed. "Your baby is happy and healthy. Though Sesshoumaru has been waiting for you to wake up. He went for a walk with the child not too long ago. I don't know when he'll be back. Everyone else is here though."
"Thank you Lady Kikyou." Yuma smiled. Kikyou was actually a very kind woman, despite her cold yet beautiful face. She then went back by the houses and sat on a log.
"I hope Lord Sesshoumaru hurries back..." she began. "I really want to see my baby." she sighed and began to kick her feet in boredem. She watched her feet sway back and forth. The next time she looked up, Inuyasha was right there in front of her.
"Oh, Inuyasha-kun!" she smiled.
"Hey..." Inuyasha said and smiled back. "How long have you been awake?" he asked. Yuma shrugged.
"I dunno, a few minutes maybe?" she replied.
"Sesshoumaru was getting worried, I could tell." Inuyasha began. "I bet you haven't even met your baby yet huh?" he then sat down next to her. She rested her head on his shoulder. She meant nothing of it, yet Inuyasha was one of her really good friends, and he was so warm. She stayed with him, until he could smell Sesshoumaru then he ran off. Yuma met her husband in the house.
"Let me see our baby!" Yuma was squealing. Sesshoumaru cocked an eyebrow and smiled and put there child in her arms.
"A girl!" Yuma said happily.
"Our first priority is to name her." Sesshoumaru began. The couple stared at eachother, thoughts of names rushing through their heads.
"I like Ai...it means love." Yuma said, breaking the silence.
"Ai...It's pretty...a nice name for a girl." Sesshoumaru agreed. He then removed the Tensaiiga from his belt.

Chapter 20
He lied it by his daughter's bed.
"I have no more uses for that blade." he began. "I think Ai will need it at some points in her life though. As her father I entrust it to her."
He then yanked a fang from his mouth.
"Lord Sesshoumaru...." Yuma gasped. It is great for you to pass down your father's fang to our daughter, but why did you tear a fang from your mouth? You're bleeding, too!"
"I shall forge a wonderful new blade from my own fang. My father did it, so why can't I?" he said. He licked his mouth clean then cleaned his fang with a cloth.
"I shall give my fang to Inuyasha tommorrow so he can take it to Totosai to get it forger." He turned and it looked Yuma, holding Ai, who had just fallen asleep.
"The thing is, can you give Inuyasha my fang? The fool would be nothing be disrespectful if I asked him to do something." Yuma smiled and nodded at her husbands request. She took Sesshoumaru's fang. She studied it. It was a pretty large fang. Still a little dirty from the blood. She put in her pocket. She brought Ai to her crib and placed her in. She picked up the Tensaiiga and leaned it against the wall.
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Yuma was up before Sesshoumaru and Ai the next morning. She was eager to give Inuyasha the fang so it could be forged into a magnificent sword. Luckily, Inuyasha was already up, sort of entertaining himself by leapig through trees.
"Hi Inuyasha-kun!" she waved at him from down on the ground. He jumped down at an instant. He hugged her in a friendly way then asked her what she needed from him.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, last night, passed down the Tensaiiga to Ai, your new niece. But then, also, he yanked out probably the largest fang in his mouth. He asked me to give it to you so you could take it to the swordsmith Totosai." She held out her hand holding his fang and Inuyasha snatched it away.
"I'll do it for ya!" he said and loked at his brother's fang.
"It's pretty big...wow..." he then slipped it in his pocket. He then eyed the shell around Yuma's neck.
"Where did you get that shell? It's nice..." he asked.
"OH! Lord Sesshoumaru gave it to me. It was his wedding present to me." she lifted it and looked at it.
"What's inside?" Inuyasha said curiously.
"Inside?" Yuma began "Huh. I've never even thought of opening it... Thanks for the tip, Inuyasha-kun!" They waved farewell to eachother and Inuyasha took off in a flash. Yuma opened the shell when she felt she was alone. When she opened it, there was a pleasent scent that filled the air near it. It was sort of sweet...like honey maybe.
"Wow...that's amazing!" she told herself, then put it back. When she stepped inside her house, Ai was already awake and Sesshoumaru was holding her.
"Oh...good morning my family." she smiled and walked over.
"I gave your fang to Inuyasha already. Sesshoumaru thanked her.
"But whenever you are up so early, please leave a note or something before you leave. I was worried." he said. Yuma apologized, then took Ai into her arms.
"I can finally get a good look at you now..." she began. Yuma hed sewed a little yukata, and a little kimono with some matching pants during her pregnancy, just so her baby had clothes no matter if it was a male or female. The yukata little Ai had on was purple, with green koi fish on it it. Like her uncle and father, Ai had lone silverish hair, dog ears like her uncles, which Yuma was planning on piercing, and beautifulblue eyes. Probably one of the only physical traits from her human mother. Yuma had also heard, that half-demon children grew quite quickly, but when they reached a certain age it slowed down a little,so it wouldn't be long before Ai was no longer a baby, but a small child.

Chapter 21
Inuyasha didn't come back until the next morning, lugging a large blade up to the Sesshoumaru family's house. Yuma had already swung the door open before Inuyasha had a chance to politely knock.
"Is that it?" She said with a big smile. She saw it had a little ribbon tied around it and a little notecard that read: "To the Great Dog Demon's new granddaughter, From Totosai"
"It sure is heavy...damn..." Inuyasha wheezed.
"Oh! Yes! Sorry Inuyasha-kun!" Yuma said with a guilty blush. She took it in her hands out just plunked it onto the floor, it was indeed a heavy blade.
"Thank you Inuyasha-kun" Yuma replied. Then Inuyasha was off.
"Is this my fang?" Yuma turned and saw Sesshoumaru examining the new weapon.
He lifted it.
"I must say, this is a rather impressive sword. Yet after all, I only want the best for little Ai, nothing else. I am going to go and test this sword out now. I will see you later." With that Sesshoumaru took the blade and went a few miles away to test it's abilities. He learned it was basically a mixture of the Tetsusaiga and his Toukiijin. The master of the fang could use the backlash wave and the Kaze no Kizu, but also could slice up an enemy from a distance due to the blade's pressure and use the Soryuha. Sesshoumaru was quite fond of his daughter's sword, a little jealous to he asn't afraid to admit. He couldn't wait for her to get older so he could have friendly battles with her. Now he needed to name it...after a while of thinking, he decided it would simply be called Kenatsu, since his daughter would need a lot of pressure to use her blade properly. It had a scabbard, it was a large sword, and like the Tetsusaiga, it grew in size, but you didn't need to be protecting a human and it did not have a
barrier against full blooded demon's such as Ai's father. Sesshoumaru lied the sword next to Tensaiiga when he got home, and was certain his first born daughter would be a swordswoman. He was, again, very eager for her to grow up and get to know his daughter.

Chapter 22
As Inuyasha wandered aimlessly in search of Kikyou, he smelled another familiar scent, and it wasn't long before he was reunited with Miroku and Sango, Shippou and Kirara
"How the hell are you alive Inuyasha?" Sango asked
"Some woman called Yuma ressurected me. She recently got married to Sesshoumaru." Miroku gasped
"Oh...ha ha ha..." he said guiltly. Inuyasha scowled at the monk
"I'm gonna geuss that you've already met her..." he growled
"Miroku sure has..." Shippou coughed.
"You're lucky to be alive damn monk," Inuyasha began. "Sesshoumaru could have killed you, I can already tell he's gonna be extremely protective of her." Miroku sighed as his reply.
"Flirting is just a habit of mine..." he laughed, and reached for Sango. But she stopped him before he could feel anything.
"Besides that, I have been searching for one who would like to be my apprentice and learn to be a monk. No one so far though..." he sighed again. They later took off as a group again. Inuyasha decided he would go see Kikyou off and on.

Chapter 23
Like everyone had assumed, Ai was growing very fast. She was already about 6 in human years. Yuma was amazed, though Sesshoumaru wasn't wildly impressed. Ai's current interests were playing, laughing, learning from her father, and admiring her swords, though her mother said she had to wait until she was 13 too use them.
"Father..." she began one morning. She was sitting under a tree on her father's lap.
"Mom says I can't use the swords you gave me until I am older...why is that? I want to use them now!"
"It is for your own safety." Sesshoumaru began. "If you were to wield a blade now, you would more then likely get hurt." Ai's ears tweaked in response.

ChApter 24
"What is your Toukiijin sword like, father?" Ai asked a few moments after.
"It is similar to your Kenatsu blade. Only it lacks a few techniques that yours boasts."
"I can't wait to use my sword. I wanna be like you father, No offence to mother, but I don't want to be a typical girl who grows up to be a wife and mother...I wanna be a strong warrior like you!" Sesshoumaru gave one stroke to his daughter's hair.
"You are a princess, so I am suprised by your words. But I am very proud as well. I wanted my first child to walk in my footsteps, whether I had a son or a daughter. But without a doubt I will make you the best warrior in the world" he told her.
Ai rested her head on her father's warm chest. He did not wear his armor anymore. He left it back at the house incase he ever needed it though.
"Mother probably wants us to come back by now." Sesshoumaru said, getting up. He picked Ai up and walked her back, she had already fallen asleep. Sesshoumaru wanted to go into a coma or something like that until Yuma allowed Ai to use her blades...He really wanted to make her into a good fighter so she could protect herself, and not stumble into situations Yuma once had. Sesshoumaru wanted 3 unique children. How they differed from eachother was for them to figure on their own, once they were born of course. Sesshoumaru wanted to at least begin training Ai the way of the sword before he had another child.

Chapter 25
Like her uncle, Ai had other abilities as well. She had Inuyasha's "Iron Reaver" and since her claws were going to be pretty long when they were done growing, she should be able to tear an opponent up pretty easily if need be. She also had poisonous claws like her father and could form a whip from her fingers like her father as well. Summer eventually froze over into the fall and winter came. Ai was already 15. Sesshoumaru and Yuma were still young, and soon became Ai's first day of training. She got a good hold of the Backlash Wave quickly, sending back many of her father's Soryuha's. When it came time for her to practice the Wind Scar, she found it pretty simple, and Sesshoumaru found himself panting a lot from running out of the way when she launched her attack, remembering the nasty pain he was in after Inuyasha hit him with that technique. It was the Toukiijin powers that were getting her. The distant slicing due to her pressure to the blade was very simple with her strong arms, it was the Soryuha that was getting her. Sesshoumaru felt she was excellent at the other techniques, and that she could stop training for the day. Ai was a very unique young lady. Her wonderful father had been her number one role model her whole life, she had been quite a cheery little girl at first, but after a while she started acting like him. Quiet...sophisticated...she thought her father was very cool for acting this way, always so mysterious. She had moved away from her parents' house and into her own. Her mother had told her how she was going to have a new sister or brother soon, and she was eager for that. Yuma enjoyed her daughter's specialness, yet she secretly wished she was a little more feminine. She wanted Ai to get married and live a happy life. Other then acting like her father, she also had another part of her that was alot like Inuyasha. Stubborn, she got smart with people at times, but she was an overall very kind, gentle and sensitive young lady. She just admired her father more then anything, and as long as she had him she felt she needed nothing else. Ai's appearence consister of long silver hair, whe she kept tied back with a red ribbon and of course dog-like ears, which were pierced with little golden beads. Her kimono was red, with a small blue crecent on the top right corner, to symbalize the deep, deep respect and love she felt towards her father. She did not wear a skirt like other women her age would, she actually wore a pair of her father's old pants, similar to her current ones but a little shorter. The black sandals she wore and her ankles were visible at the most. She had a belt that was the same as Sesshoumaru's, only it was purple, and the Tensaiga and Kenatsu were always snugged in it at her side. Sometimes when she trained, she got to wear her father's armor. She loved getting his scent on her. She had a good relationship with Rin and Jaken, like her mother Ai was quite fond of Jaken, and she wasn't afraid to admit that he was probably the best friend she had. She liked helping Rin sew little outfits, one of the only womanish things she did. She spent a lot of time with her uncle Inuyasha. They loved to tease eachother and bicker to one another. As with her mother, Ai respected her. She helped out if her mother ever needed it and talked her days out with her. Though if she was ever uncomfortable or worried about something, she would always discuss with you guessed it, her father.

Chapter 26
Sesshoumaru told Ai one morning to go out by herself for the day, to see if she could handle any enemies or if she needed to be trained more. But incase anything happened, Sesshomaru sent Jaken with his beloved daughter.
Ai wandered in a wood, Jaken a few feet behind her, wielding his staff incase he had to protect her. Ai rubbed her shoulders quickly as she trudged through snow, she didn't have much protection from the freezing cold other then a emerald green blanket made by her mother, draped over her shoulders.
"Damnit..." she growled. "Silly father...I don't need more training! Why'd he have to send me out here in the cold?" she said. She shuddered from the temprature and her ears were twitching as well.
"Aren't you cold, Jaken-kun?" she asked turning her head.
"I'm fine princess, Now let' focus on finding yourself a battle." he replied.
"Y'know..." Ai began again. "You don't need to adress me as 'princess' or 'princess Ai'. My name is Ai, I want it to be left as that." she then removed the blanket and put it over Jaken.
"Pri- I mean, Ai, you don't need to give me this, I'm ok." he told her
"Then why is there frost hanging off your staff, ears, shall I continue?" The princess replied. Jaken sighed and thanked her for her grateful deed. They walked on for a little while longer until some noise made Ai jump in anxiety. She grasped the sheath of the Kenatsu, incase she was about to be in combat.
"Jaken-kun...what was that?" she asked.
"It doesn't matter, you'll be able to kill it no matter what...you're Lord Sesshoumaru's daughter!"
"Thank you for saying so..." Ai stood still for a moment that jumped out of the wood, leaving Jaken inside.
"Oh...crap..." she gasped, her eyes widened. Standing before her was an enomous praymantis demon... She wanted to run for her life, run home...but then what? She would dissapoint her father greatly...
"How dare I think of fleeing! I will fight! Or else I cannot consider myself worthy to wield the Kenatsu, or Tensaiiga..." She clasped Kenatsu and brought it out.
'I'll take you on mantis!" she growled. The large front legs were smashing the ground all around her. She was basically just jumping out of the way, and was beginning to feel uneasy about the whole thing. But soon she used her ability to jump very high to go up to the Mantis's head and try to slash it's had to bits, but she failed nd found her body from her hips down in the bug's jaws. She screamed, she screamed of anger and fear.
"T..th..the Kenatsu...so, damn, HEAVY!" she mutter between grunts of pain. The Mantis began to jerk and toss it's head, causing Ai to scream more. She did her best to hold on to her heavy sword and with another jerk, the mantis made Ai drop the blade and it was tossed out of sight.
"I was hoping for human flesh..." The insect said.
"But you are just a meager Hanyou" it said and tossed the young woman to the ground. She was pretty bloody, her hair had come down from it's ponytail, and her pants and ankles were bloody. She was fighting for air...while the Mantis began walking towards her. Ai was still panting violently...a rush of worry inside her...what is she could not find her father's fang? What if she died?"
She gasped loudly and moaned angrily as she was taken into the jaws of the monstorous insect one more, and was again tossed down with great force. After a moment, she got up to her knees. Bloody, scared, Princess Ai. She had no energy, weapons...
"What am I going to do?" she said worriedly to herself. Suddenly, it felt like she really had died or had fallen asleep, she defnitly wasn't herself.
"PRINCESS AI!" she could hear Jaken screaming. When he was right in front of her, he realized, that her eyes were glowing red, her fangs and claws grew in size...
"R...run away...Jaken..." Ai stammered...She had no idea what was going on with her. She was transforming. The demon blood inside of her was about to be awakened.

Chpater 27
Ai growled a little bit, and stood up. She had officially lost herself. Jaken took a few steps back away from her.
"What's wrong Mantis-san..." she said angrily "Are you afraid to attack me again?" she taunted.
"As if...I'll have you into pieces in an instant!" The beast replied and brought it's front legs down trying to destroy her. She sliced one off with her razor-like claws.
"Wench..." It growled as the limb tore off it's body. Ai leaped up and sliced it's head off, proud to see it's blood everywhere. Now she was covered in the Praymantis's blood and her own. She was still on her killing spree though, and used her nose to find something to destroy. When Ai was out of sight, Jaken leaped back out and went to go and find her blade. Unfortunatly he eventually ran into the princess. She stood still fr a minute
"N...n, now princess Ai," Jaken began. "You need to try to calm down...I'll fnd your swrod for you, then we'll take you home..." He could tell thought after a moment that she was listening as she was walking towards him growling.
"Damn..." he shivered. The snow was pinkish were Ai walked, and he was worried she would try to bathe herself in his blood as well. She then began to run at him. Jaken thrusted his staff out in front of him, though on accident fire spewed out and engulfed her. She screamed and Jaken began choking in fear. If she died...Sesshoumaru would be most displeased...worse than that... He gasped as Ai simply fell to the ground. She was unconcious.
"Poor thing..." he said, and walked over to her. He took the blanket Yuma made and but it over her, grabbed her arms and dragged her as best he could. Her little fit was over. He decided first things first, he would take her home, then maybe he and Sesshoumaru could go look for Kenatsu, or something of the sort. The princess quite heavy too pull, if you were Jaken's size that is. He was hoping he would find her blade on the way back, but he thought his chances were slim. Even if he found it, there was no way he would be able to carry both it and Ai. It was dusk, when Jaken had no more energy and dropped to his knees. Though not soon after Ai awoke. She was breathing heavily. He ran to her side, or crawled, becaue of his exhaustion.
"Princess..." he began
"Jaken-kun..." she began. "I feel so sick...what happened?" she asked. She sat up on her rear and shook her head to get the snow out of her hair.
"...You killed that Mantis..." Jaken replied.
"I...I..did...didn't I?" she said. She then looked down. "I sort of lost myself...I don't remember anything that happened the last few hours."
"It's ok, we need to get you home though!" Jaken yelled and linked his arms with hers again.
"Stop...I'll walk the rest of the way." she said, and slowly got to her feet.
Back in the western area, Sesshoumaru was growing quite concerned. He leaned against the front of his house in deep thought.
"If I'm as good a teacher I thought I was, Ai should have returned by now..."
Yuma opened the door.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, come in! You'll freeze! That furry stuff won't even help you in this weather."
"No..." he began. He stood up. He went inside to quickly get a blanket.
"I still think you need more, hold on..." Yuma said opening a small closet. It grew very windy and the door was forced shut. Sesshoumaru gasped loudly and his eyes widened.
"That smell....I know that blood... And there's a lot of it...Ai..." he told himself worriedly, sudden;y Ai burst through the door, breathing heavier then before.
"F...father..." was all she could get out and she collapsed to the floor.

Chapter 28
"Oh..." he said worriedly. What could have happened to his precious daughter?
"OH AI!" Yuma screamed and ran to her. She turned her over on to her back.
"Lord Sesshoumaru she's covered in blood..."
"It's not just hers..." Sesshoumaru began. He could feel tears of fear starting to come from his golden eyes. "She must've ran into something..." He picked up his little girl and lied her on the bed. She had her own house now, but he wasn't going to move more then he needed to. Yuma emptied the closet of blankets so she could cover Ai with them after she was cleaned up.
"Oh Sesshoumaru..." she said, beginning to cry. "What should we do?"
"L..leave her alone...she needs rest. When she wakes up we'll take care of her."

Chapter 29
4 days later Ai's blue eyes flicker open. She was still achey, and she was hungry.
"Father..." she sighed. Sesshoumaru had been sitting in the corner waiting for her. He stood up and walked too her.
"I'm sorry, I put you in such danger..." he said quietly. Ai smiled.
"Don't be, dearest father. I'm going to be ok. I'm having a really hard time remembering
a good amount of yesterday though.
"You transformed..." replied Sesshoumaru, now on his knees by her bed.
"You lost your Kenatsu blade, and right when you were about to die, your demon blood awakened to protect you."
"Oh....I did lose it!" she began. "I remember a little bit now, I was out in the woods with Jaken-kun, and I found a huge pray-mantis demon! I tried to battle it, but it took me up in it's jaws, and then it began to jerk it's head and it slipped from my grasp. I'm so sorry father..."
"Don't be" Sesshoumaru began."As soon as you've made a full recovery, we can go out and look for it. As of now, You are covered in blood stains and burns and dirt."
"Yes, I will go and bathe father." Ai finished for him. She grabbed one of the clean blankets and headed out the door.
"Take Jaken with you." said Sesshoumaru. Ai froze.
"F...father...I'll be fine, I'll just be taking a bath in the nearby spring! Jaken-kun doesn't need to come!" she stammered.
"You need protection just incase," her father began "He won't see anything, I promise." Ai sighed and grabbed Jaken and they headed out.

Chapter 30
"You'd better cover your eyes the whole time!" Ai ordered when they got their. Jaken ran behind a tree as Ai removed her bloody clothes and slipped in.
"This feels so good on my aching body..." she sighed.
"Hurry up!" Jaken yelled
"Hey! Knock it off I just got in!" she hollered back at him. She enjoyed herself for quite a while, when she remembered that her favorite clothes were drenched in blood. She snuck out quietly to get them, hoping she wasn't spotted by a certain little toad. As she reached for her garbs, she heard.
"P...princess Ai, are you done now?" Jaken turned his head form behind the tree. Ai screamed at the top of her lungs and clutched her clothes over the front of her body. She then grabbed a nearby stone and tossed it at him.
"HOW VERY RUDE TO SPY ON A YOUNG WOMAN JAKEN!" she yelled, and jumped back in the spring.
"I was curious!" he yelled back.
"CURIOUS??!! ABOUT WHAT? MY PRIVATE PARTS? YOU PERVERT!" she screamed and threw to more rocks at him
"I was wondering if you were done with your little bath yet! Seeing as you've been taking so damn long!"
"WELL SORRY! I WOULDN'T BE HERE SO LONG IF I DIDN'T HAVE ALL THESE BURNS! FATHER SAYS I PROBABLY GOT THEM FROM YOUR STUPID UGLY STAFF!"
"I WAS HELPING YOU!"
Ai pouted and turned away from him. Just for that little argument, she decided she would stay even longer! She washed her clothes then lied them on the nearby groun to dry, she didn't want to risk being seen naked again. She then washed her long silverish hair.
"Ick..." she said when she was finally done with her bath. he water was a pinkish color instead of chrystal-clear. She would have to wait a few days to use that spring again, seeing as that's probably how long it would take for it too clear up. When she had her clothes on and was ready too go, she found that Jaken had fallen asleep. She decided she would just leave him and she went to her parents' house. Her dear father Sesshoumaru was not their, only Yuma.
"Oh, I'm so glad you're better." Yuma said with a smile. "How was your bath?" with that, handed her daughter some tea.
"It was nice, thank you mother." Ai responded and sipped some of the tea. She then looked around the house.
"Where is father?"" she said curiously.
"OH! He went looking for Kenatsu."
"All by himself?"
"Yes."
"I thought father would be furious at me for losing it, he was not though..." Yuma came and sat at the table with her.
"Your father is a very mysterious man." she began. "He can seem very cold and mean, but he is very tender and sweet towards those he loves. He loves you very much, Ai."
"...He loves you too mother." Ai replied. Yuma gave a small nod.
"You must love him more then anyone else in the world." Yuma started. "All your life you've wanted to do everything he did. You've caught on to his skill, personality...the only bit of me that's in your appearence is your eyes."
"Yes, father says I have your beautiful eyes."
"Tell him thanks for me, will ya?" Yuma asked. Ai smiled.
"I haven't seen Uncle Inuyasha around in awhile." she said to her mother.
"Well, he does tend too dissapear off and on."
"Wanna know something Inuyasha told me?" Ai said, her eyes widening. Yuma's eyes widened as well.
"Inuyasha is in love with you mother!" Ai told her. Yuma giggled.
"It was sort of obvious from the start." she replied.
"Inuyasha is a very very good friend..." sighed Ai
"Yes, he is." Yuma said happily."I'm sure he'll show up again soon."
Ai was quiet for a few moments then she looked back up at her mother.
"You and father seem like you both have been in extremely good moods lately..." she said. Yuma sighed happily.
"It's because I might be pregnant again soon..." she shut her eyes and leaned back in the chair.
"That's so great mother!" Ai shouted. "Do you have any gender preferences?"
"No..." Yuma said, opening her eyes. "Your wonderful father and I had the same discussion when I was pregnant with you. Yet I've already had one girl, I would like to try a boy."
"Father says he wants three children. He wants them to all be unique from eachother." replied Ai.
"Your a very unique young woman Ai." said Yuma. Ai stood up, then headed for the door.
"I'm gonna go try and find father. I can use my sharp nose, Inuyasha taught me how to use it to the fullest." with that she was out the door.
"BE CAREFUL!" Yuma hollered.

Chapter 31
Ai wandered aimlessly, sniffing for her magnificent father. It didn' take long for her too pick up his scent, she then began to run, instead of walk. About an hour later, she found Sesshoumaru.
"Father!" she said happily.
"Ai...I'm glad you're ok." he replied.
"Mother said you were looking for Kenatsu, and I came to help!" she smiled. He thanked his dear daughter. And they walked together.
"Mother says she is probably pregnant again..." Ai said, trying to start a conversation.
"Yes..." he said. "I hope she is." he said quietly."
"You like children, don't you father?" she asked. Her father gave a small smile and replied with a simple "yes"
"I could tell...you seemed kinda sad when Rin said she was going to get married to that Kohaku boy once he was located."
"What about you?" Sesshoumaru asked quietly.
"Huh?!" Ai jerked her head up towards her father. Her ears tweaked curiously. They often did that when she wanted to know something.
"Do you want to get married someday?" he asked.
"I....don't really know...." she replied. The age difference between her and Rin was kinda big, Rin was currently 24, but Ai never knew any men...None except for her father and Inuyasha. With that the two were quiet for awhile. Using their noses, they soon found the Kenatsu.
"Oh father!" she yelled and grabbed it by the sheath. "Can I clean it when we get home?"
"If you wish." They began to voyage home.
"You dropped your sword...I am guessing it was because of the weight, am I right?" he asked Ai later. She nodded

Chapter 32
Sesshoumaru was worried about his daughter's blade. If it continued to be too heavy
for her, she would never have a succesful battle, at least without transforming.
"Yuma..." he said one night, the house gently lit by a fire in the center of the room. She turned and smiled at her husband, letting him know she was listening.
"Can you give Ai's blade too Inuyasha tommorrow?" he asked. "Tell him to take it to Totosai and see what could be done about it's weight. Ai will ger herself killed is it isn't fixed." Yuma nodded and went back to straightening up. Sesshoumaru grabbed a blanket and headed towards the door.
"Um, where are you going?" Yuma said curiosly.
"Out..." he replied. "I'll be back later." and he left. Yuma went to bed after her husband left. Sesshoumaru walked by himself down to the spring, now filled with pure clean water once more. He removed his garbs and slipped himself in.
"Damn..." he thought to himself. "When was the last time I indulged myself like this?" He sighed. He could smell a little of his daughter's blood in the air. He didn't like it. If Yuma was pregnant, he was sort of hoping for his next child to be a little more laid-back. Part of Sesshoumaru was quite happy though, he was able to get so many thoughts through his head by relaxing in this hot spring. He decided he would do it more often. He thought of what he had said to Ai the previous week. When he asked her if she was planning on marriage, he felt a little bad, and was wondering if it made her uncomfortable. He decided he apologize to her the next time they met up. Ai spent a lot of time with Inuyasha since he had returned to the area recently. Sesshoumaru watched strands of his hair float in the water, twirling one and moaning as he did so. It was night...there was a gentle breeze, his body was soaking in warm water...everything was going good for him. He was married, had a wonderful child with another one likely on the way, he wasn't very busy anymore, he wasn't as cold or grumpy as before, He was probably never going to die, he and Yuma would live together as young adults forever. Oh how his life had changed, and oh how he loved it.

Chapter 33
Sesshoumaru returned later than expected yet it didn't bother anybody. The next morning Yuma went out early with Kenatsu and sat on a log in the breezy morning, waiting for Inuyasha and Ai to return. Inuyasha came back in about an hour, yet he explained to Yuma how Ai wanted to stay behind and gather plants she could use to bring her house to life. Inuyasha sat down next to Yuma and sighed.
"I heard what happened with Ai and the mantis..." he began. "I'm sorry."
"Thank you Inuyasha-kun." replied Yuma. "That's what I wanted to ask you about." Inuyasha's eyes widened as he laid them on Sesshoumaru's fang.
"Please don't tell me I have to lug that damn sword somewhere again..." he whimpered. He put on his best sad face and leaned it towards Yuma. She placed her hand on his face.
"Inuyasha..." she sighed. "It's just a simple favor...please take it to Totosai and see what he can do about the weight" Inuyasha grunted and nodded as Yuma removed her soft hand. He stared at her for awhile then opened his mouth again.
"Is that all...?" he asked. Yuma looked at him with big eyes.
"What do you mean 'is that all'?" she said. "I'm kinda suprised you're thinking things like THAT about ME just because I placed my hand on your cheek for like, not even one minute!" Inuyasha blushed and leaned back a little, she could tel she was rigt about what she had confronted him about.
"Sorry Inuyasha, but my heart belongs to Lord Sesshoumaru..." she told him.

Chapter 34
"Yeah yeah I know..." he said, lied back on Yuma's favorite log, his head facing her. She looked down and tugged one of his ears gently.
"hey..." he said quietly and turned the opposite direction so now his legs were facing her.
"Hey Yuma..." he said after.
"what? Inuyasha-kun?" she asked.
"How 'bout you bare me a few kids or so..." with that Yuma picked up his legs and threw them to the ground causing them to fall, along with his upper body to. Yuma sighed.
"Ow...what the hell?" he asked shaking his head. He got back on the log but sat on his bottom. He scooted himself closer to Yuma.
"S...sorry..." she said.
"Nah...it's alright...I shoudn't have said something like that..." he sighed. Yet Yuma could hear the but of sorrow in his breath. She looked away, sadness fillled her eyes.
She felt bad for her friend. she couldn't think of anyway to help him. Though almost instantly her face brightened.
"Say Inuyasha..." she began. "Remember when you came to my wedding and you said something about a girl named Kagome...Who is she?" Inuyasha looked up at her. "She is the reincarnation of Kikyou...from the future..." was all he got out.
"Oh...because I-" suddenly Inuyasha's arm was in front of her.
"That smell..." he growled. He peered off into the distance.
"Aw damnit!" he groaned as he could see Miroku approaching.
"Ah, I finally found you Inuyasha." he said when he approached. But forgot his hanyou friend as he saw what was behind him. Yuma's eyes grew large as they met the monk's blue ones. Miroku shoved Inuyasha and took Yuma's hands
"It's you!" he began. "You're that gorgeous girl I met in the field! Are you ready to bare my children now?" and he placed a hand on her chest. Inuyasha came to the rescue just in time.
'HEY BACK OFF MIROKU!" He hollered seperating them. Yuma fell to the ground, feeling violated.
"YUMA IS MARRIED! SHE DOESN'T NEED JERKS LIKE YOU TOUCHIN' 'ER AND STUFF!" Inuyasha shouted. Miroku fought back.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW HE DOESN'T WANNA TRY SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT?" he yelled.
"YOU IDIOT! Does that look like a woman who wants anything from you?" Miroku stared at Yuma, sitting still as if frozen.
"Yep...she definitly needs me..." Miroku then began to walk back towards her but Inuyasha grabbed him and threw him to the ground, yet Miroku brought the Inuyasha down with them and they started a fist fight. Suddenly, Yuma saw her husband before her.
"Oh Lord Sesshoumaru!" she she said with relief and clung to his leg.
"Why is Inuyasha here?" he asked.
"That monk came back! And he violated me by touching me and stuff!" she wailed. She let go of Sesshoumaru as he walked to his little brother and the perverted monk in their squabble. Inuyasha had stopped slugging Miroku when he whiffed Sesshoumaru and stood up at an instant.
"What's going on?" his older brother said angrily.
"Yuma was just gonna give me your fang so I could take it to Totosai, then Miroku came and began flirting with her, and right now I'm taking care of him!" Inuyasha replied frantically. Sesshoumaru turned to his precious mate.
"Does he speak the truth?" Yuma smiled.
"Yes!" she began. "Inuyasha-kun would never tell a lie." Much to her suprise, Sesshoumaru thanked Inuyasha for helping her.
"The next time I hear of that monk hurting my Yuma, he will die." He then helped Yuma up and they walked away. Yuma quickly looked back.
"Bye Inuyasha-kun!" she waved. Sesshoumaru stopped.
"By the way, where is my daughter?" he asked. Inuyasha's eyes widened.
"She said she would come back later. But if ya want I can go look for her myself." Inuyasha then left, Miroku limping behind him. That night, Sesshoumaru and Yuma were enjoying a relaxing evening, until someone kncked on the door. Yuma got up, gently lifting Sesshoumaru's head off her thighs before doing so. He sat up and waited too see who was visiting. To Yuma's horror, it was Miroku.
"S....S..." she began to mutter her husbands name, but she was slightly relieved when Yuma saw a woman behind the monk holding a small yellow cat with two tails.
"Good evening," the young woman said kindly. "My name is Sango. I'm sure you've met Miroku here though..." she said glaring at him. Miroku had a guilty looking expression on his face.
"Now what was it you wanted to tell this nice lady Miroku?" Sango said curiously.
"I...I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable..." he began
"And...?"
"It'll never ever happen again...I-I promise..."
"What else Miroku?"
"And...I want to be your friend." he said with a small smile.
Yuma listened to all this. Should she trust the monk? Yet again, that woman was pretty good at restraining him, she decided she would accept it.
"I'll be your friend Miroku." Yuma smiled. "And you too, Ms. Sango." and she shook the demon slayers hand. Sango smiled and then they said their farewells.
Yuma went and sat by Sesshoumaru.
"I wonder where Ai is..." she sighed. Sesshoumaru did not reply.
"I'm sure Inuyasha will find her, ok?" with that they continued their soothing evening.
"HEY AI YOU AROUND HERE?" Inuyasha was screaming through the wood, also using his nose.
"I can smell her...yet her scent is so faint." But only after a few steps he tripped and landed on his face and growled angrily. He heard someone cough, the person he tripped over. He rubbed his eyes.
"Yuma?" he said wearily. "W-why are you out here, you shouldn't be ina place like this so late at night, I'll bet you anything Sesshoumaru doesn't want you going off too far, especially so late!"
"It's cause I'm not Yuma!" no, it was not Yuma, it was Ai.
"AI!" Inuyasha gasped. "What happened to you your-" he stopped and looked at his niece. Her dog ears were gone, her claws, were mearly fingernails...
"Your human..." he said.
"Is that it?" she said. "No wonder I feel so weird..." she then got a frantic look on her face. "How long will I-"
"'til morning..." Inuyasha said instantly. "I go through the same thing every once in a while too...but enough of this, I need to take you home!"

Chapter 35
Later that evening another knock came on the door. Sesshoumaru and Yuma were both exhausted, they had traded positons a few moments back, Yuma was now lyinig on Sesshoumaru's thighs as he was doing to her before. Unfortunatly for the couple, Yuma was not pregnant like they had hoped, but they would wait awhile before trying again. Yuma got up and opened the door. Before her was Inuyasha and her human looking daughter.
"Ai...what happened?" Yuma asked worriedly.
"For every hanyou..." Inuyasha began "There is a night where their youkai powers fade away and they become human. It is only at night." he looked up at the sky
"Tonight, there is a full moon in the sky. So every full moon, this is the fate that shall befall her."
"I understand..." Yuma nodded. "Thank you Inuyasha-kun, for bringing my daughter home."
"Hey don't worry about it..." he replied then took off. Ai stepped in shutting the door behind her.
"Are you alright sweetie?" Yuma asked
"Y...yeah I'm fine." she grunted. "I just feel weak...that's all..."
"It only happens every new moon, so you shouldn't be too bothered by it. Remember that your mother is human and she's been fine her whole life, despite the hell she's been through." Sesshoumaru added.
"It's late..." Yuma began. "Go home and get some sleep, when you wake up your demon powers will be back." Ai nodded and left. When she awoke the next morning, she sat up and ran her hands over her head, luckily for her her dog ears were there and her claws were back, the horrible night was over. She lied back down.
"Just think..." she moaned "That's gonna happen to me every full moon...damn..." Someone banged on her door then, she opened it to find her father.
"F..." she stammered.
"Inuyasha took your Kenatsu to get it fixed." he said.
"That's why it's not here..." she replied looking down.
"I don't want you going into any sort of battle until you get it back." he then turned to leave. Ai stared at him curiously
"By the way..." Sesshoumaru began. "I'm sorry if the question I asked you a few days back made you uncomfortable..."
"It didn't..." Ai told him, not really understanding what on earth he meant. Every word he had ever said to her sounded so noble and strong to her ears.
"Is mother...going to have another child?" Sesshoumaru sighed
"No...she isn't pregnant." his daughter apologized and then he took off. Ai stepped outside. When she was barely out the door, she saw her mother sitting on her favorite log, and Inuyasha was there too. They looked like they were discussing something important, before she decided to interfere, Yuma and Inuyasha got up and took off somewhere, where that was, Ai wasn't sure.

Chapter 36
Ai decided she would leave her mother and uncle alone for now, and possibly catch up to them later. Ever since her encounter with the mantis, her parents had been very protective of her, yet even before her first transformation and all they still acted that way. She dropped by her dear father's house and asked him if she could voyage the area by herself for today. It was a long while before he responded.
"Fine..." Sesshoumaru began. "Don't you dare get into any scraps though. I have my nose on you. I'll know if you disobey..." he looked away "What am I saying..." he began, with a sadder sounding tone..."Your my daughter...of course you would'nt do something like that. I trust you." he told her.
"Arigattou...father." Ai smiled, and left. She was so excited! She got to explore all by herself, and Jaken didn't have to tag along to babysit either. After maybe two hours, she got bored. She had no idea where exactly she wanted to go. And all she saw where pretty grasslands, tiny villages and things like that. Stuff she had already seen a million times with her father. Though a little while later, she actually found something that caught her eye. There long patches of dirt on a field, a small hut. Other then seeing plants or food on the fields, there were herbs. But then something else caught her eye, she saw an older woman, and next to her was a very large orangish creature with huge blue eyes and a dirty and slightly torn up outfit. Obviously from working.
"E...excuse me..." Ai said, a little afraid. What if that thing tried to attack her? Father and mother would be quite worried. The older woman stood up as Ai took a few steps foward.
"Who goes there?" she asked, then told Ai to come closer. The old lady began to observe her, while Ai sniffed. This woman was obviously a human, but the large creature next to her, had a fascinating scent...she could sense a little human, and demon in him. He was a hanyou like her!
"Those ears...." the woman said "Are you related to Inuyasha?" she asked.
"Inuyasha?" Ai replied, her ears tweeked curiously. "Yes!" she replied "Inuyasha is my uncle, I am the first born daughter of his older brother Lord Sesshoumaru."
"Well lookie here Jinenji it's Inuyasha's niece!" the woman called to the large-eyed creature. Jinenji and Ai stared at eachother.
"Hello...Jinenji." Ai greeted kindly. Jinenji gave a small wave.
"My son's just a little shy..." said the old woman.
"Your son?'' asked Ai. "Then he is a hanyou! Like me!" she walked to Jinenji and sat on her knees next to him.
"Where did you get all those scars Jinenji-kun?'' Ai said curiously, once more her ears twitched.
"We had a problem with the human villagers a while back, that was how we met Inuyasha."Jinenji's mother answered.
"And Kagome..." Jinenji added.
"Ah yes...Kagome..."
Ai scooted a little closer to her new friend. Suprisingly enough, Jinenji's wounds were gone in an instant.
"I have my mother's healing powers..." Ai gasped quietly. Jinenji examined himself, and thanked her.
"Do you guys need any help around here?" Ai asked, still shocked with herself. They both shook their heads.
"I'm gonna go then," Ai started, getting up to her feet. "I'll come back another time alright?" she smiled at Jinenji then left.
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"You sure it's this one?" Yuma asked Inuyasha, standing before a grave.
"Yes!" Inuyasha snorted
"Ok..." with that she got on her knees. But before anything else Inuyasha stopped her.
"Shouldn't we dig her up first?"
"Well...it would be very dissrespectful to dig Kagome's body up and have my attempt at ressurection not work. So like I did with you, I will make sure she is alive before we dig her up. Then Yuma began her shot at bringing Lady Kagome back from the grave. Healing wounds were easy, but to ressurect somebody, Yuma needed to contact the gods and ask them to give whoever she's resurrecting their life back, if the gods find the dead one's soul to be pure enough, and if they have a pretty good karma, their lives will be returned to them. If the opposite occurs, the person will most likely get their lives back. Sometimes if the being is to be brought back to life, it can happen instantly, and sometimes it can take a few days. This was the current case with Kagome. Yuma told Inuyasha all this and he understood.
"But with all you've told me about this Kagome, she is obviously a very good person. We will come to check everyday if she's back. It really shouldn't take more than 4 days.
"I really want to see her again...I'm excited." Inuyasha replied, blushing slightly
"Me too. I want too meet her."
"Kagome was always so bright, lighting up any dark situation. She was always open to friends...she had many. She'll more than likely be yours too." said Inuyasha. Yuma stood up, she thought she and Inuyasha were going to leave, but he knocked her over so she was lying on her back, lied on her and placed his lips over hers.
Yuma was feeling a mix of emotions right then. Anger, suprise, and sadness. She was mad because a man other than Sesshoumaru was kissing her,, she was suprised because it had all happened so fast, she felt sadness though, for Inuyasha. He had opened himself to her, telling her his past, which was a living hell, both of the woman he loved were dead, and here she was, but already married, to his brother nontheless. Inuyasha stayed on her, a few moments after her thoughts, than sat the both of them up and hugged her...held her close to his heart.
"I'm sorry..." Inuyasha stammered. Yuma could feel herself cry a little as her head was against his shoulder in his embrace.
"I....love you....s-so much...." he told her. Yuma loved Inuyasha too, but not the way she loved Sesshoumaru. Before Inuyasha let go of her, he thanked her. For being his best friend, and doing so much for him. He then took his arms off her. She stood up, while Inuyasha stayed down.
"Inuyasha-kun...." with that he gazed up at her
"That face"...he thought to himself "...that beautiful face of hers...Sesshoumaru can burn in hell for taking Yuma...I hope he does!"
"It is alright." Yuma told him with a smile and began to head home, stroking his head as she passed him. Before Yuma went home that night, she slipped off her garbs and jumped in the hot spring to try to get Inuyasha's scent off of her, so Sesshoumaru wouldn't get upset about anything. After dunking herself underwater a few times and washing her mouth through, she simply soaked herself for awhile. She thought about how she wasn't pregnant, it wasn't too bothersome too her. She remembered the pain of labor and shuddered. Just then she saw something amongst the trees. Was she being watched? She grew a little scared, she thought about putting her clother back on and jolting home. But soon she recognized who was peeping at her naked body...And the mix of emotions came back
"INUYASHA-KUN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" she screamed. Inuyasha then screamed and ran off.
"I'LL SEE YOU TOMMORROW YOU PERV!" She yelled, throwing a rock in his direction. She was not angry with him, she could not blame for his actions. It would be cruel. Though she was hoping that when Lady Kagome came back, Inuyasha wouldn't be so flirtatious with her.
When Yuma stepped into her house, she was praying that Inuyasha's scent was off of her, she knew Sesshoumaru wouldn't be angry with her, but he might go and attack Inuyasha, which she did not want. Sesshoumaru perked up instantly, after sort of picking at the floor sharpening his forefinger claw. He began walking towards her.
"It is so faint..." he told himself. "But I think Inuyasha's scent is on her...I'm pretty sure. I also smell dirt and water on Yuma..." He kissed her. Yuma once more, felt a rush of emotions. Other than total enjoyment at what her husband was doin to her, she felt she was going to have a panic attack as she kissed him back. His eyes flashed open. Of course he kissed his wife regularly because he loved he dearly, but this kiss he just finished was also a sort of test.
"What did he do to you?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"What??!" Yuma asked.
Sesshoumaru paused.
"Inuyasha did...um...j-just don't hurt him okay? Please!" Sesshoumaru sighed and smiled. Yuma hugged him as a thanks, then told him:
"If Inuyasha does anything else like he did today, I'll tell you right away. Then you can go and do whatever you wish to him." Yuma placed her head back on Sesshoumaru's chest.
"Did you and Ai have a good time today?"
"She went out on her own today. When she came back she smelled strongly of herbs. It was kinda intriguing actually. But then she said she was staying at the herb place tonight."
"Did the herbal scent smell bad?"
"....Kinda....she'll probably wash it off tomorrow."
"Sesshoumaru...are you mad because I'm not pregnant again?" Yuma asked.
"Nah..." he replied. "It's not a big deal."
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Later that night, Sesshoumaru had smelled something in the distance, and he went off in the darkness too find out what it was, For the scent was concerning to him. It turned out to be a demonic sort of cat. Sesshoumaru was not used to things being as much bigger then him then this thing was. At least maybe twenty times bigger then him. He pulled out his Toukiijin and made a strike, yet nothing happened.
"What is wrong with you?" he said to it angrily examining the blade. Unfortunatly the two maybe three seconds he wasn't paying attention, he was swatted hard by the demons hard and sharp paw and flew a few feet back. He wasn't hurt horribly, a few scratches to his face and he saw a little blood soak through the sleeves of his kimono.But instead of getting back up and risking getting hit again, he sat still for a moment. But then his eyes flashed a bloody red, and he slowly revealed his true form for the first time in a long while.
Back at the house, Yuma woke up. When she noticed Sesshoumaru wasn't there she stepped outside.
"S...Sesshoumaru?" it had gotten cold outside. When she heard booms and such in the distance, she foolishly wandered closer to it.
"Goodness...." Yuma gasped. "Demons...they're fighting." As she saw a large cat like demon, and a beautiful yet enormous white dog. As the dog was tossed back a little, Yuma noticed the markings on it's face.
"L....L-Lord Sesshoumaru?!" she said.
"That must be his true form...wow..." she began. "He's still beautiful...even like that." But more blows from the battle sent a few tree branches and rocks Yuma's way, luckily she wasn't hit but she decided she needed to hide until Sesshoumaru had finished his battle. Soon after she his behind a boulder, the cat demon spoke.
"I smell human flesh around here..." it growled. With it's size it could easily see the house Sesshoumaru and Yuma lived in. Though she wasn't in there at the moment, her scent still clunged to it.
"No! Yuma is sleeping in there!" Sesshoumaru thought to himself worriedly. The demon crushed the house, but too it's suprise and Sesshoumaru's relief, the human he smelled was not there.
"There IS fresh human blood around here, it's probably closer than I think..." said the demon. But before anything could be done about it, Yuma was spotted. Her eyes were bigger than ever, and the boulder she hid behind was grabbed, tossed towards Sesshoumaru, and Yuma was taken up in it's jaws, the exact same way Ai was. Yuma felt nothing but horror as the cat's fangs sunk into her hips. As soon as the tiniest trickle of blood escaped her, Sesshoumaru learned what had happened, and for possibly the first time in his life, felt scared.

Chapter 37
Yuma screamed and was thrown at another boulder down on the ground bleeding and unconcious. Sesshoumaru could not take it anymore. He let his fury get the best of him and leap on the cat as it's back was turned and severed it's head with his claws. He went back to his spellbound human form and stabbed the dead cat's eye many times and threw the Toukiijin down.
"Yuma!" and ran too her. Despite his own wounds, bloody arms, a bloody cheek and his hip was sore, there was probably going to be a bruise there. He eyes were wet, and his heart was thumping violently but he did not care. He got on his knees and rested Yuma on his thighs.
"Oh...Yuma..." she was pretty bloody. Her hips, forehead, wrists. That had to feel horrible on a human. Sesshoumaru held her closer.
"The demon...hurt you..." he moaned. "I'm so sorry...I do not think..." he shuddered sorrowfully. "My love for you can be described...in any way, shape, or form. I should have been protecting you the whole time. I am so sorry, Yuma...I love you." he gagged after he said that. He was sure his sorrow would make him vomit, especially if she had died. But the gag of his woke Yuma up. Seeing her eyes open was a heavenly sight for Sesshoumaru at the moment.
Yuma whimpered and was shaking a little.
"S....sesshoumaru..." she choked.
"You're alive..." Sesshoumaru gasped. He tightened his embrace on Yuma.
"S....Sesshoumaru..." Yuma continued quietly. "It...all hurts." she squinted in pain but opened her eyes again fast.
"I love you Yuma." Sesshoumaru said in her ear, and he took her home, which was now officially the house next door to their old desecrated one.Sesshoumaru quickly moved their bed into their new house, then lied Yuma on it gently. She was still concious
"Are you going to be ok?" Sesshoumaru asked her.
"Y...yes." she smiled. "Thank you."
Sesshoumaru got a few buckets and rags. He filled the buckets with hot water from his family's favorite spring and removed his wife's clothes and tried tending her wounds. He didn;t know what pressing warm wet wrags on her would do, but it had to be healthier then just leaving them. When she was completly done bleeding and he cleaned her up, he made sure she was comfortable then sat on the floor and dozed off.

Chapter 38 (CONTAINS MILD YAOI)
The next morning at the Demon Slayer's village, Inuyasha was there standing before Kagome's grave, yet of course Yuma was not there.
"I guess it's just me..." he said sitting down resting his head on his elbow. A few moments later, he could here a familiar voice down below. Kagome was back among the living.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha said excitedly.
"I...Inuyasha is that you? What's going on?" she asked.
"Just shut it I'll get you out in a minute.!" And Inuyasha ran and grabbed a shovel.
Back in the west, Sesshoumaru watched his wife sleep on. He was wondering how long it would be before she was back to normal, until he heard voices outside.
"Just wait Kagome there's someone you need to meet!" said Inuyasha
"OK OK! Just stop yelling sheesh." she replied. Inuyasha stopped in his tracks.
"That smell..." he said worriedly..."It's blood...human blood...Yuma's blood!" he then grabbed Kagome's arm and burst through Sesshoumaru and Yuma's door.
"OH YUMA!" Inuyasha hollered and ran too her side. Yuma just barely got her eyes open.
"Oh..." she smiled. "Inuyasha-kun..."
"Are you alright? Did Sesshoumaru do this too?" Yuma's face grew angry. Kagome walked up to her, asking if she was alright as well.
"H-honestly Inuyasha, I cannot believe you would ask me something like that. Sesshoumaru never do a thing to harm me. Even something as simple as poking, not that being poked hurts, but even something minor like that, he would never do that to me. He is my husband and I trust him more than anyone else in the world...even myself."
"Husband?" Kagome asked herself quietly. She removed her big yellow backpack from her shoulders.
"D...do you need help miss?" she asked. Yuma stared at her.
"Inuyasha...who is this?"
"It's Kagome..." he replied. Then he turned and saw Sesshoumaru behind him. Inuyasha worked up the energy to talk to him.
"What...happened to Yuma?"
"She got attacked last night. She will be ok, I have tended to her wounds." Kagome stood up bravely.
"T...the wounds need to be completly covered..." she began. "I have the things I need to do that. May I?"
Sesshoumaru paused.
"Lady Kagome..." Yuma said happily and sat up, holding her hand out to shake. "Inuyasha has told me so much about you." Kagome smiled and shook Yuma's hand.
"Kagome this is Yuma..." Inuyasha began. She married Sesshoumaru a while back, she is very kind and brought you and me back to life." Kagome thanked her and removed her first-aid kit from her bag.
"These will help your wounds." she said unwrapping a bandage "Though Sesshoumaru has surely done a good job" Kagome finished. When she had finished applying a band-aid to Yuma's arm, Sesshoumaru asked for her to please let him do the rest. Kagome looked up at him.
"S...sure..." she said, dumbfounded. "You just peel this off, then these two here and apply the soft part to thw wound" she then left her first aid on the floor and left with Inuyasha.
"Sesshoumaru, these things are sticky..." Yuma frowned.
"I'm sorry...it's for the best though."
"Where do you think Ai is?" Yuma asked as Sesshoumaru continued too bandaged her up.
"She'll likely come home tonight. But she's a young lady, she'll be fine.
"You're right." and she slowly dozed off after the last bandage was applied.
The next morning, Sesshoumaru went outside to find Ai returning.
"Oh father!" she said happily, "I made a new friend whil I was gone! His name is Jinenji-kun. He has an herbal farm and I got to help out for a few days. They even paid me! And I sorta have a job now, I can go there and work anytime I want if we need money.
"That's nice...we don't need money though...We have everything we want here."
"I know father..." Ai sighed happily. "Which is why I want you to have my pay" she said handing Sesshoumaru a 2 pound bag of coins.
"Thank you Ai...but you keep it. You earned it yourself, so keep it if you ever need it." Ai listened to her mother and kept the payment safe.
"I smell mother's blood on you...and you have bled a little too recently, what happened?" Ai asked worriedly.
"Just a demon battle, that's all. I'm ok, and your mother will be better by your birthday party tomorrow.
"B...birthday?" Ai gasped. She had forgotten that she would be turning 16 tomorrow.
"Your mother and I will have a little party for you tomorrow night."
"I can't wait father!" she said and rested on Sesshoumaru's shoulder.
The next night, Yuma felt good enough to get out of bed and move, and Sesshoumaru, Yuma and Ai were all together for her birthday.
"Mother..." Ai said curiously, what's that white stuff you and father are drinking?"
"It is sake..."Yuma began, sipping some. "You are to young to drink it though. And if you have to much you can get a sickness that causes you to act crazy for a while."
"Drunk, right?" Yuma stared at her daughter wide eyed, wondering how she knew that, but she dropped it for now
"What if father gets drunk mother? He's had a lot of that stuff..." Ai said later.
"Yes, he's had quite a few glasses, but don't worry about it open your gifts." Ai had to small packages in front of her, she opened the one from her father first. There were two things inside, a beautiful shell necklace like Yuma's, and an old kimono of his. (The one he had at the beginning of movie 3!)
"Oh father...thank you!!" Ai hugged her fahter then sat back down to open her gift from her mother. She pulled out a magnificent yukata with koi and bubbles all over it.
"Wow..." Ai said quietly.
"You wear that when you get married someday alright?" Yuma ordered. Ai smiled. She had had a wonderful birthday. She went to her house to go to bed and Yuma did the same. Sesshoumaru said he would join her after he finished his last serving of sake. But when he did finish it, he simply told Yuma he was going for a walk.
"He's gotta be drunk..." Yuma said quietly after he left.
Surely, Sesshoumaru had intoxicated himself at his daughter's party. He lost his self control completly...
"Inuyasha..." he said quietly and began to sniff out his brother. About a mile away, Inuyasha was wandering around in the middle of the night alone. Kagome had gone back to her world n the future and he was a very impatient man.
"Kagome better hurry up if she knows what's good for her..." he grumbled as he kicked some rocks. But then he looked up and saw his brother Sesshoumaru standing before him. He clenched the top of his Tetsusaiga incase he was about to be engaged in a battle. But he whiffed the air...
"What the...I smell booze on him...is he drunk?" he asked himself. But before he could do anything else Sesshoumaru had him against the nearest tree.
"HEY!" he growled...but then all of a sudden his brother's lips were kissing his.
All Inuyasha could do was scream "WHAT THE HELL???!!!" he tried pushing Sesshoumaru away but his older brother had frozen him, and about two minutes later Sesshoumaru finally got off of him and he fell asleep at the roots of the tree. Inuyasha spent a minute spatting all over the ground and shuddering...he even considered licking the ground a few times to pass what had just happened to him. He spit one more time and ran off, determined to get as far away from his brother as he could. Sesshoumaru's eyes opened slowly at dawn. Unfortunatly if you have a younger sibling you despise then get drunk for the first time and wake up smelling them all over you and realized you were kissing them throughout the night, you would get pretty frustrated like Sesshoumaru had.
"Damn..." he said angrily getting up. He felt sick to his stomach about getting drunk and everything else that happened. He decided he would take a bath to get the half breed scent off of him then give Yuma a deep kiss when he got home to clean himself up. As he bathed in the spring near home, he was thankful he only kissed his brother, and it didn't get out of hand. He also swore he would never take another sip of sake in his life. He got out the moment he couldn't smell Inuyasha on him anymore, then gave Yuma the kiss he planned on giving her ever since he woke up.

Chapter 39
Within another few weeks, Autumn began to take over the area as all the trees changed their colors and stipped of their leaves. Ai had gotten Kenatsu back, and she had a few tasks to overcome to reduce it's weight, but Sesshoumaru felt she neede more training before she fought the required battles. Yuma had awakened a few mornings before to finally find herself pregnant again, though she had realized that being pregnant with a hanyou went by faster then being pregnant with a human. And it was only a few days before she was to give birth to her next baby. Her family was very excited, especially Ai, because she no longer be the 'baby' in her family. No longer would she be the owner of the neck everyone was breathing down. Yuma had told Ai about babies just about a day before she was to go into labor so incase Yuma passed out again after giving birth, Ai could be there too help.
Everyone was up early the next morning, and ready since Yuma could begin having her baby anytime. She lied in bed in wait until noon, and she then went into labor. She did not need Lady Kikyou's assistance having her adolescent daughter. Ai was a little worried she would mess up, but after a little while, Yuma had given birth to another, healthy baby. Though she had fallen asleep right after again and Ai and Sesshoumaru met the new family member.
"What father, is the child a girl or a boy?!" Ai said happily, almost squealing. Sesshoumaru removed the blanket the child had been sleeping in since it was born.
"Well Ai..." he said quietly. "You've got yourself a little brother." Sesshoumaru said smiling.
"Oh! How exciting!" Ai screamed. "I can't wait until he's bigger!"
"It won't be long... not long at all..." Sesshoumaru replied.
"What's his name gonna be?"
"...I'm not sure yet. I've got a few ideas. But like we did with you, I'm going to see what your mother thinks. What do you think?"
"You guys should call him Ichiro, it means first son, and he is your first son!"
"Possibly..." he said with a smile. They sat in silence then, but a few moments later Yuma awoke, obviously much quicker then after she'd had Ai.
"Oh...Sesshoumaru, Ai...Let me see my baby please." she sighed.
"Oh...a little boy eh?" she said happily. She looked at Sesshoumaru.
"Has he been named yet?" she asked
"Without his mother's suggestions? Of course not." replied Sesshoumaru."Ai suggested Ichiro, since it means first son."
"It is a nice name. Yet let us try to think of some others." Yuma finished. Everyone went into deep thought, except the new baby of course. Yuma opened her eyes about a minute later.
"Ok...I have a few ideas. I like: Akio, Akihiro, Kioshi, Kyo, and Michio." she said gazing at Sesshoumaru.
"I don't have as many ideas. I like Ryo and Satoru."
"Hmmm...." replied Yuma..."The best names out of our suggestions are Kyo and Satoru. I like those the most"
"Same here..." Sesshoumaru sighed.
"AH I know!" Ai said suddenly. She reached into her pocket and pulled a golden coin."
"We will flip a coin..." she began. "If we get heads, the name will be Satoru, if tails, it is Kyo." Ai tossed the coin into the air and it landed with a spin. When it stopped, Ai picked it up to see the result.

Chapter 40
"Congratulations mother and father, your new baby's name is Satoru." Ai said happily.
"Ah, what a nice name." Yuma said gleefully.
"Father, you said you wanted your three children to be unique from eachother. How do you hope for Satoru to differ from me?"
"I do not prefer anything. Except he cannot be my little warrior, you have already taken that position. This child can do whatever he wants though...just like you."
Ai smiled. She loved her father. She had heard of fathers who would treat their daughters pretty badly, and push their sons so far into things they didn't want to do. But her father, the great Lord Sesshoumaru, let her do whatever she pleased, whatever she desired to live her life to the fullest. And she knew he would treat Satoru and her next sibling to come the same way. A few weeks later Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku and Sango had come around to visit Inuyasha's new nephew.
"Satoru huh?" Inuyasha began, staring at him in Yuma's arms while she sat on her favorite log , Sesshoumaru on her left and Ai on her right.
"Awww! He's so cute!" Kagome said happily. "I wish I couldn've seen Ai when she was little, though she's still pretty cute now."
"Hey..." Ai blushed gently. She had become really good friends with Kagome, much with Inuyasha, and Jinenji...and Miroku whom she loved picking on.
Satoru began to struggle and Yuma put him down. To everyone's suprise, he journied over to Miroku. Miroku was suprised as well. He got on his knees.
"H...hello." he said to the child with a smile. When the young monk had gotten on his knees, he had set his staff down. Satoru grabbed it curiously.
"Hey now..." Miroku said lovingly. "You shouldn't touch that..." but as he bent over some sutras fell out of his front pocket.
"Augh...not again..."he said scrambling for them. Satoru grabbed one that had not yet been retrieved by Miroku and hid it from his sight in his kimono, which was green with a small image of a rooster at the bottom. Yuma granted Miroku permission to caress Satoru. He took him in his arms gently.
"He looks more like you than Ai does..." Miroku began. "Whereas Ai shows a closer resemblance to Sesshoumaru..." He poked at one of Satoru's brown dog ears.
"Yep. I can see a lot of him in you..." Kagome added. "Yet he has the same markings on him that Sesshoumaru does...that little moon and everything."
"My mother had that mark..." Sesshoumaru said quietly, noy lying his head on his wife's lap.
"That's kinda nice how it had been passed down so far..." Yuma said happily. "Sesshoumaru has it, Ai has it, Satoru has it..." she had been tracing her finger around Sesshoumaru's moon while she said it.
"Can we quit talking about markings considering I don't have any?" Inuyasha growled.
"Sure ya do Inuyasha..." replied Sango "You have the little bruise on your forehead from your last sit." Kagome walked over and lifted Inuyasha's bangs with her hand revealing a little red bump.
"Jeez..." she laughed. "Good thing you were a few feet away from that one boulder Miroku had been sitting on or it would be bigger." she giggled.

Chapter 41
When Satoru had gotten older, one morning Sesshoumaru wanted to try spending a day speaking with him, trying to get to know him a little bit.
"No!" Satoru shouted when his father requested this.
Sesshoumaru sighed.
"Please..." Yuma begged. "Go spend some time with daddy!"
"NO!" Satoru replied. Sesshoumaru turned to leave.
"I...I'm sorry I don't know wh-" Yuma began
"It's nothing..." Sesshoumaru interrupted her. And he stepped outside.
"This isn't the first time he's refused to spend time with me..." Sesshoumaru told himself. "Yet...maybe talking with him isn't the way I can learn about him, like I was able to with Ai." He shut his eyes, but they flew open again instantly.
"That monk..." he muttered quietly, thinking of Miroku. "He sure seemed interested in him..." His face grew a little disgusted "I hope my son doesn't become a womanizing fool like him...oh damn..."
"What's this?" he heard Yuma's voice from outside. He went in curiously. Yuma was holding what appeared to be a scrap of paper with funny markings on it.
"Look...this slipped out of Satoru's kimono..." she stared at it, her eyes filled with question.
"It's the monk's..." Sesshoumaru replied.
"You mean Miroku?" she asked. Her husband nodded.
"I wonder why, and how long he's been keeping this..."
"Give it to him." said Sesshoumaru
"But...what if it's dangerou-"
"Please...I just want to see what he does with it." Yuma gazed at Sesshoumaru with a worried look on her, but she handed it to Satoru anyway. Satoru snatched it out of his mother's hand...stared at it...then stuck it in his mouth
"OH...NO SWEETIE!" Yuma screamed and snatched it back. Sesshoumaru took it from her, and decided he would keep it until Satoru was older. He then went outside and greeted his first child waiting for him, struggling to hold her Kenatsu.
"I'm ready too go father..." she said with a tired smile. Sesshoumaru gave a small smile backand stole her blade so he could carry it for her.
"Do you have your list?" he said, lugging Kenatsu over his shoulder. Ai was running to catch up with him.
"Yes!" she said pulling out a scrap of paper with Totosai's handwriting on it. "In order to reduce the weight of my blade, it is normal that I will need to surpass something you have done..."
"Oh yeah?" he asked. "Well...I have something simple you can do..."
"What father?" Ai said curiosly, her ears of course twitching.

Chapter 42
"Why don't you fight me?" he asked with a smile. Ai froze. All she could think was,"Oh hell no!" She looked up at her father.
"I..." she squeaked quietly.
"What's wrong?" Sesshoumaru said finally.
"I...can't do that...I would lose..." Sesshoumaru stopped. He forgot about that...what if he forgot to be careful and hurt her? What if she won? Would she hurt him badly?
"Maybe you would win..." he said later.
"But if I did...I don't want to know that I hurt you..." she sighed.
"I don't want to hurt you either..." Sesshoumaru began. "But I'll take the risk if you will." he stuck out his hand. Ai hesitated but shook her father's hand confidently.
Being alone by herself, Yuma was growing a little bored and decided she would go for a walk. While out, she saw a girl with medium length black hair and a very strange outfit lying on a hill.

Chapter 43
“Um…hello…” Yuma called out shyly. Despite her appearance, she actually was a pretty bashful young lady. The girl on the hill was none other than Kagome. Though she was friends with her, Kagome was the reincarnation of Lady Kikyou. And Yuma admitted it to herself that she was a little uneasy around Kikyou, being a member of the living dead and all… Kagome sat up and smiled.
“Oh, good morning.” She greeted. “You’re, Yuma right? Sorry, It can take awhile for me to learn names…”
“Oh…I can be that way sometimes to.” Yuma said sitting next to the young priestess. They were both quiet for awhile, enjoying the tranquil weather and soothing breeze.
“What’s…Inuyasha up to? Yuma said after a while.
“ I don’t really know…sometimes he just disappears…he stares off into space a lot lately…”
Yuma looked at Kagome with a smile.
“Do you like him?” she asked. Kagome’s eyes widened and she blushed deeply.
“Ha. You do.” Yuma said playfully. Kagome scratched her head.
“Yeah…It took a while…but I grew too love him deeply…”
“He’s very kind isn’t he?” said Yuma.
“Umm…I guess…” she said. “I’m guessing he told you, about how he kinda two-times between me and my past-life Kikyou…” she finished.
“No…not really…” Yuma said curiously, yet she also felt that maybe the situation wasn’t any of her business.
“Yeah…that’s how it is…Yet I know I cannot break the bond between Inuyasha and Kikyou…so all I can do is stay by his side…”
“Wow…” Yuma sighed.
“So…What about Sesshoumaru?” Kagome asked. Yuma perked up.
“What about him?” she replied.
“I’m not trying to be offensive or anything…” Kagome began. “He just doesn’t seem like someone who would settle down the way he has with you, you know?”
"W...why would you say that?" Yuma said, a little angry
"You know of the Shikon Jewel right?" Kagome asked.
"Yes, I heard a few rumors in the past and Inuyasha explained some things about it to me."
"Well...After I shattered the jewel, It was pretty much up to Inuyasha and I to find them, I needed to be there to sense any shards, and Inuyasha took care of most of the youkai bearing the shards. At many times during our quest, Sesshoumaru would come around, usaully to try and swipe Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga, things like that. Sesshoumaru was pretty violent with Inuyasha, but after a while, I felt that he had changed a little bit. After that day Inuyasha mastered the Kaze no Kizu and hit Sesshoumaru, he met Rin. I'm guessing that she sort of melted his icy heart you know?"
Yuma had been looking away while Lady Kagome said all this with a furious look on her face. How dare she say anything negative at all about her beloved husband.
"Maybe he was just sick of being misunderstood..." she growled. Kagome sighed and put her hand on Yuma's shoulder.
"Sorry...Yuma-chan..." she began. "I suppose the things that go on between you and Sesshoumaru are none of my business. I'm telling you straight foward right now though that the things he did to Inuyasha and stuff are true and really did happen. But, I guess, that was then, this is now. He seems like a very kind man I suppose"
"Damn right..." Yuma growled again. After awhile she got up and left. She believed Kagome when she had said things Sesshoumaru had done in the past, but she didn't care! Maybe Inuyasha and all the others deserved it! She sighed and decided she would try not to think about it any more. Like Kagome said, That was then, this is now. Yet Yuma knew that Sesshoumaru had been kind his whole life, just not towards his enemies. And that was how he saw Inuyasha and Kagome at the time. And he probably still did. But Sesshoumaru was Yuma's husband, and she would love him forever no matter what.

That's all of it for now. I update often, so come back soon to see what happens next!

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