I'm back kiddies! I've been racking my brain for a sequel for More Than Friends, but I couldn't really think of much to advance that particular plot. So, instead, I decided to write up a fic about what would have happened if Kagome had gotten trapped in the Feudal Era instead of going back to her own time. Sort of an AU for my own fanfic, Enjoy. This first chapter technically has some spoilers, but if you're reading this you've most likely seen the first few episodes so don't worry about it.

Sesshoumaru

Mate.

The moment the human's scent reached him from the shoulder of the ogre, Sesshoumaru felt his beast slamming against its cage.

Silence. You've gone mad if you truly believe that a human female could ever be my mate.

Silence pup, she's more than she appears, claim her.

The whelp leapt for the unmother, and Sesshoumaru pushed away his Beasts claims. Jaken's scheme was beneath him, but as long as he reached his goals, the means held no consequence to him.

"Jaken."

"Yes, me lord?" The little Imp turned to face the Daiyokai.

"Once we're through, I want him dead."

Claim the girl!

Silence.

"Y-y-yes, me lord!"

Inu Yasha growled softly. "It is you," he muttered. "Sesshoumaru!"

"Indeed, I've quite missed you as well, little brother," Sesshoumaru mocked the half demon, knowing he'd rile easily and make a mistake that would cost him his life.

Kagome moved closer to the seething half demon. "He called you his brother! Does that mean he's…"

Claim our mate, you sniveling pup!

Sesshoumaru focused a little more on the creature his beast was whining about. There wasn't an ounce of worth to her by his eyes.

"A mortal, how interesting," he said aloud, allowing a small slip in his control, as he mulled over the absurdity of the idea.

She moved closer to the whelp, angering his beast, but lifted her chin and looking him in the eye without fear.

"Yeah, what of it," she snapped.

He was tempted to growl at the blatant display of disrespect. How dare she look him in the eye and challenge him like an equal? He mentally shook himself and focused on the matter at hand, keeping his composure intact.

"Most would be ashamed, but with you little brother, the girl quite suits you."

Do not insult our mate by lumping her in with the Half-breed.

She is not my mate. A human is beneath my status, and I shall reject her accordingly.

The chains pulled the unmother's head up, and Sesshoumaru refocused on the task at hand, riling up the whelp.

"These human creatures, I should think you've had enough of them. Or is it a taste from Father?"

The half breed became predictably angry. Clenching his fists like an impotent child. "That's not all, is it? You couldn't have come all this way just to tell be that!"

"Be not a fool, I've no such time to waste. The tomb of our father, where must I seek it?"

"Our father's tomb? Why ask me?!"

Ignorant as ever.

"Seeing, yet never seen. Protected, yet never know to its protector. No other clues are known."

"I got no idea what you're talking about!" The whelp pointed up at him with a snarl. "Besides even if I did there's no way I'd tell you!"

"I see, then you leave me no choice but to let your mother's suffering convince you."

You're making a terrible first impression.

I told you once, I will not repeat myself again. I do no care to impress a creature no better than an insect.

Sesshoumaru whipped the ogre with his poison, in a mixture of frustration and to urge the creature to harm the unmother.

The girl gasped and looked to the Hanyou. "Inu Yasha!"

He felt a twinge within his chest as she called the whelp's name. This was unacceptable. He would not accept a human as his mate, and he would not tolerate his body reacting to such a creature. He would kill the damned thing first.

The entire sordid affair continued on. The moment the portal was open to the other world, he quickly leapt through, glad to leave the blasted wench behind.

As he stood before Tetsusgaia, the whelp and female's scent reach him long before they came into view. When he placed his hand upon the hilt of the blade, it zapped him, adding to the general sense of frustration that the day continued to produce.

When they arrived, the boy wasn't even interested in their father's sword. He disrespected their father over and over, and it was beginning to wear on his patience.

The whelp attempted to attack, and the Daiyokai couldn't help but taunt him.

"Now, was that aimed at me?"

The boy had gotten faster since the last he'd seen him, but he was still pathetically slow.

"You fight as though you're still a child." He continued to taunt the whelp, taking out a bit of his frustration with the day on the boy.

"Inu Yasha! Get the dumb sword!"

Again, his heart constricted upon hearing the female call out to the half breed. Had his control been any less, he might've ignored the whelp just to kill her.

"Sesshoumaru couldn't pull it out, right? If you can't hit him in the body, hit him in the ego! Hurt his pride," she continued to yell at the boy.

Insolent wench.

Mate has no reason to respect you, you've already made an ass of yourself.

The boy failed to remove the sword, providing a small amount of self-satisfaction for the Daiyokai. With nothing better to do, he focused on ending the whelp. If he managed nothing else, he would at least take out a few birds with a single stone.

Jaken got into a spat with the human woman, and Sesshoumaru found his attention pulled to the female against his will.

"You stinking Toad!"

"You stinking Human!"

"This human's gunna kick your…"

"I don't think so!"

The woman cried out as the imp knocked her back, and his entire being nearly broke away from attacking the whelp as his instincts moved to protect her.

Unacceptable. He need to kill the human before his body could betray him further.

"Kago…"

He slammed into the whelp before he could put a name to the creature his Beast had the audacity to claim.

"It that all you've got!"

"Not even close," the girl yelled back.

The boy leapt at him, like the idiot he was, and Sesshoumaru simply lifted his hand to impale the boy on his claws. He slammed the boy into the ground, intending to kill him and then the girl.

"Inu Yasha!" He flinched internally, hesitating just long enough to hear something scraping. "What? Oops."

He froze and glanced over his shoulder to see the female holding Tetsusgaia. How had some weak human managed to do something that a demon had been incapable of? Perhaps she wasn't as human as she appeared?

Her eyes met his, and he felt the deep inner pull for her instantly.

"It just came out!" She stared at him wide eyed. She needed to die, now, before this ridiculous reaction became any more of a problem.

"Sorry," she said softly before looking away to focus on the sword.

He was beside her in an instant, feeling a twinge of hurt as the girl cried out in fear.

You made your bed pup, deal with it.

She couldn't be human. A human couldn't have pulled the sword free, and yet she had done it. A human couldn't be his mate, and yet his body and beast had already accepted her.

"What are you, and how did you draw the sword?" He glanced from the weapon to her eyes, fighting to keep himself under control. From this close, her scent soothed his nerves in ways that made him instantly loath her existence. He would not fall into the same depravity as his father.

"Sesshoumaru leave her alone, she's not involved in this," the whelp tried to gain his attention.

"Inu Yasha!" Being completely passed over by her as little more than a fly, was nearly his undoing.

Do not disrespect this Sesshoumaru! Pay attention when I deign to speak to you, you wretched creature!

So much for not wanting her attention, huh?

Suddenly the girl held up the word in his direction. "One step closer and I'll cut you!"

The damn creature was challenging him now!

He turned back to look at the whelp, wanting to justify killing the human woman. "For some reason, I was unable to draw Tetsusgaia. Fortunately, you were unable to draw it either. It's obvious that she must die."

You will not kill her!

He brushed off the growling on his demon side, sure that this was the answer to the sudden issues that the creature was causing.

"You're right, it is weird that she could do when we couldn't but she's still just a human, girl," the whelp tried to reason with him. "Kagome!"

Kagome. The word whispered through his mind in a way that nearly made him lose his carefully placed control.

"Give him the sword! There's no choice," the boy called to her.

"No way! Why does he automatically get to keep it! If he couldn't pull it out then that means he's not supposed to have it! He'll have to come and take it!"

He was tempted to growl. How dare this human challenge him? How dare she treat him as though he were inferior to her? He huffed as the half breed continued to argue with her, gaining her attention.

"Inu Yasha, your patience with this creature is astonishing to me." He flicked his hair out of his face and narrowed his eyes on the boy. "You protect her. Indulge her. Even seem to love her." His heart twisted painfully at the very thought of his brother claiming the female. Why should he care if the boy wanted her? He intended to kill them both, so it didn't matter. He stepped closer to the whelp as he contemplated it.

"Certainly such feelings of mercy of yours are not something I inherited from our great and terrible father…" he wondered aloud before he caught himself. "It must have been that mother of yours," he quickly covered his slip up. "That human mother, who caused our father to meet his end in this ignoble place."

He focused fully on the whelp. "Her blood affects you as well. Is it that which so endears you to them," he taunted.

"When it comes to humans, I of course, bare no such weakness."

Don't you dare.

He turned on his heel, completely done with his beast's whining, and released his poison in the girl's direction.

With her dying breath, she called for his brother, and Sesshoumaru was shocked at the level of grief that swept through him. His beast howling in utter despair.

"So fragile, don't you agree little brother?" He turned his attention fully on the whelp and attacked ferociously, taking out the feelings of grief on the boy even as his entire being ached with it.

The moment she crawled out of the poisonous sludge left by his attack, he froze. Grief was replace by relief and he wanted to snarl at the ridiculousness of it all.

"Hey, you! You tried to kill me didn't you!"

Told you she was more than she appears.

His focus was completely monopolized by the girl from that moment on. She was an enigma that he needed to figure out, though he refused to accept her as a mate. He watched as the woman came into her abilities. He watched as the Miko slowly became the most well-known being in feudal Japan.

Kagome had become a hero with the defeat of Naraku. She had reached a level of notoriety that she had technically become his equal, and she could no longer travel to her own time.

His instincts screamed to claim her. His beast had badgered and taunted him every step of the way. His soul ached every time he saw her with Inu Yasha. Though he had finally been forced to admit that she was worthy of him, he refused to even attempt to claim the human woman.

If you'd claimed her before, you wouldn't be so terrified of her rejection now, pup.

I fear nothing!

He sighed as he tried to pull his focus back to the task at hand. He'd been avoiding her ever since the final battle. He hadn't seen the Miko in months, but Rin seemed to have reached her heat and he needed a human female to teach her the ways of humans. The Miko was the only female he trusted with his ward.

He hated to admit it, but part of him was excited that he would see her.