This chapter is dedicated to Amin Vanima Mellonea. I'm sorry I couldn't get it out your birthday. I got the message way late because I haven't checked my mail in ages. Happy Birthday! I hope you had a Happy one. And I thank all my reviewers. This is definitely my most popular story so far. Thanks for all the support but do keep the reviews coming!

For the second time in his life( the first being when Kuroune died) Youko Kurama was shocked. It was so unexpected that he had to keep himself from actually laughing out loud hysterically. Instead he settled for staring, almost dumbly, at the two youkai children.

" Kagome's going to get mad at you," Shippo whined, for the first time using her given name. He pointed a finger at the young ruler. " And then she'll get mad at me. No more pocky for a week!" The little kitsune seemed widely distraught over that, Kurama mused, as if it were the sweetest thing he'd ever tasted.

Koenma frowned, tuning out everything the young kit had said. " How did you get through the barrier? Actually, how did you get through without anyone in Rekai knowing?" Koenma unconsciously moved forward, peering down at him. Dachu stopped laughing and the room went silent, waiting for Shippo's answer.

Shippo's eyes in turn narrowed in a confused frown. His hand went up to scratch his copper hair as he said, " What barrier? Do you mean the we-." He suddenly stopped whatever he was saying to look at the child-like ruler with a smile. " So, how's the weather doing up here lately? Seems quite nice…"

Despite his best efforts, Koenma fell into the line of topic the kitsune was leading him into. " It's actually very humid up here. I was thinking of getting that hair gel that-."

Yusuke interrupted him with a bang of his fist on the wooden desk. " What the hell are you doing toddler?"

Kurama spoke, the first since the children's revealing. " He's using kitsune charm. Kitsune's use it to persuade someone or seduce a lover."

Yusuke raised his eyebrows. " And the kids doing what exactly?"

" Changing the subject," Shippo snapped.

" My father told me of that once," Dachu said, a small tremor in his voice . " That kitsune charm thing. He used it on my mother and that's how they made me. He never told me how to use it, though." He frowned. " And by the way my mother reacted when she found out, I don't think I want to know how to use it. She told me to never trust my father."

Kurama frowned with a shake of his head. " I don't think that's right, Dachu. Kitsune's can't use it on other kitsune's. Only on other breeds of youkai and humans."

Dachu nodded enthusiastically. " But that's just it. My mother was human. That's why she got mad at my father."

Kurama's and Shippo's eyes widened at the same time, the formers only marginally. Shippo immediately scrambled up the couch where Dachu was sitting. He looked at Dachu in the eye before accusing, " You never told me or Kagome that you were a hanyou."

Dachu's eyebrows furrowed. " You never asked."

Shippo sighed and his tone softened. " That's okay, Dachu. I'm just surprised Kagome didn't know. I figure, at least, Kaoru knows and just won't tell her. But don't worry, Kagome won't mind. Inuyasha's a hanyou too and though he's a big jerk Kagome says he's a friendly big jerk and that he's her best friend."

Kurama interrupted their discussion and asked them a question that had been laying heavily in his mind. " I take it Kagome's not your real mother?" He sighed and refrained from pinching the bridge of his nose in agitation. He agreed to watch over two little human kids and this was what he got.

Shippo grinned up at the silver kitsune. " Nope! She took me in because I stole something from her and she ended saving me from these two youkai brothers that killed my father and used his pelt for a belt." He said this quite calmly. " Dachu was saved from this bear youkai. Inuyasha doesn't know about him yet but I doubt he'll be happy. Kagome will straighten him out, though." He said this to Dachu whose nervousness was being made apparent.

Kurama closed his eyes for a brief moment as he held his sigh in.

…Your slipping, fox…

Hiei's amused chuckle irritated him and he gave the forbidden child a blank stare. He didn't like it when he laughed but only because it rarely happened. So when he laughed at him, that just seemed to make it worse. And he wasn't slipping. He just missed a few important facts that not even Hiei had figured out.

Koenma had had enough of what was going on and looked at the two kitsune children again. " How did you breech the barrier?," he asked again, this time in mild irritation. No one ever listened to him…and it was his office. He wrinkled his nose as his irritation heightened.

" Your aura feels weird."

Everyone turned toward the speaker, surprised to find that it was Kuwabara. Everyone had simply forgotten he was there since he hardly spoke since Kurama's arrival. He was now looking at Dachu with an expression of both confusion and apprehension. " It's, like, in two different places at once."

Yusuke snorted. " That's not possible."

Kuwabara took it as an insult to his intelligence and turned to glare at his friend. " Yes, it is. I know what I'm saying, Urameshi. One half of it is one side and the other half on the other side." He cocked his head at the trembling boy. " One's blue the others, I don't know, greenish-gray. It's really weird." His eyes showed his confusion.

" I didn't do anything!"

The sudden shout from the boy in question startled the occupants in the room. He pressed himself firmly into the couch behind him and his trembling grew. Shippo turned to glare at Kuwabara in anger before he turned to comfort his adoptive brother. Why did he always have to be surrounded by idiots?

Koenma practically growled low in his throat. Was know one listening to him? " This is my third and final time asking. How did you get through the barrier?"

Shippo glared at the ruler. " We didn't go through any barrier. I told you that already. What barrier are you talking about anyway ?" He rubbed his temples as a headache began to form. The silence that had followed his question unnerved him and he decide he didn't care. He just wanted sleep. Maybe it was a bad idea to come to the present if this was all you got for your troubles.

" The barrier between worlds." Koenma's voice was serious and Shippo looked up at him.

" Between what worlds?" This question was also followed by silence. " Do you mean the past and the present.. I didn't know other youkai could pass."

Yusuke finally grumbled out, " What are you talking about, kid?" Shippo shot him a disgruntled look at the new nickname that the toushin seemed to have given him. " Were talking about the barriers between the two worlds. The Ningenkai and The Makai. Your in Rekai now. The Spirit World."

Shippo's nose wrinkled. " I have no idea what your talking about." His eyes suddenly brightened. " Kagome might, though. She knows everything."

Koenma nodded, the serious expression still on his face. " I think that would be best. Do you know where she is now?"

Shippo gave them a fox-like smirk. One that Kurama immediately recognized. He sighed in resignation, succumbing to his fate. " I know where she is," the kitsune child said slowly, " but I doubt you'll be able to get to her."

I hate waiting…it bores me.

And Kurama had thought he would get off scotch-free. Who knew what the kitsune was thinking up in his head.

Kagome had long ago learned to tune out Inuyasha's ranting. It was something that everyone learned to do when they became acquainted with the hanyou. She had even seen Sesshoumaru space out a few times…

" …tell anyone where you were going and then…"

Kagome continued to ignore him.

The bunny-cat thing, she knew, would be waiting obediently by the well, waiting for her return. She still didn't know how to get rid of it since it seemed to cling to her like men's eyes on woman's breast. As soon as she had come to the well it had waited obediently at the lip and the last thing she saw before she was swept in by the well's magic were its big eyes staring at her.

"…don't seem to care. Are you even listening to me, Kagome?"

She replied truthfully. " No," she sighed. She needed to get back to the boys. She wasn't sure if she should completely trust the fox that guarded them. " Anyway, Inuyasha. I have Shippo. And I just came back to tell you that and that I found another shard." She held up the tiny sliver between her thumb and index finger. "I'm going back home now." The same hand that held a Shikon shard now raised to stop Inuyasha's protest. " I have to go, Inuyasha. Shippo and Dachu need me. And Kurama would surely worry."

" Inuyasha growled. " Who the hell are Dachu and Kurama?"

Kagome rolled her eyes as his jealousy surfaced." There none of your business. Now I have to go Inuyasha. Bye." With a wave she turned and walked back to the well. Inuyasha frowned, about to argue further but the glare she threw over her shoulder stopped him.

Damn, woman.

Yea, I'm done. I know you guys have been waiting forever for this but I've made a new rule. You'll get at least two chapters each weekend from two of my stories. It may not seem like it but I have two accounts on here because my sisters helping me with the other one. It's called RubyScarlett and I made the story called. Roots In My Soul. Check it out and tell me how it is. Ja Ne!