Chapter 1: Our Beloved Family.

"MOM! We're off!" Izaoi shouted, her long black hair fluttering the the coming breeze. It was another school day Izaoi and Kyoko weren't looking forward to. Izaoi had turned 18 an few days back on Tuesday, her hair was nearly to her knees now, her violet eyes shown with happiness where ever she was. Izaoi was the identical twin of her mother, with a little of her biological father, Naraku; who was serving 30years to life in jail for his crimes, one including kidnapping and abusing Izaoi when she was little. Izaoi smiled at the picture of her great-grandfather, who passed to the next life over 4 years ago. "Good bye Great Granddad." Izaoi whispered as she turned and left the house without her sister.

"Izaoi! Wait!" Kyoko cried as she dashed down the stairs to the front door. Her lip stuck out as she pouted. Kyoko had a baby face, not round in a sense but reminded people of a baby. Her eyes were a blueish gray like her mother's, her hair an off shade of midnight violet. Kyoko's hair was long like her sisters, but only about to her butt. Today her hair was in a braid, the start and ends of her braid in black bows. "Mom! Izaoi left me again!" Kyoko cried as she stuck her head into the living room where Kagome and Inuyasha sat cuddling each other. Kyoko made a face and said, "So gross, can you two stop playing the 'Newly Weds'?" Kyoko rolled her eyes when her mother giggled.

"Just wait until you meet your special someone." Kagome replied as Inuyasha hugged her tighter to his chest. Kagome giggled again and Kyoko gagged.

"Oh please, but Mom, Izaoi left without me again!" Kyoko complained as Inuyasha's soft gaze landed on his daughter.

"You should get up sooner, then she wouldn't leave you." Inuyasha said as Kyoko stuck her tongue out at her father and went to put her shoes on. Mumbling to herself Kyoko opened the door to see her sister standing before her. "I thought you left." Kyoko said sourly.

"I know you did, come on Kaguya, Rin, Tatsuki, Yuki, and Yosuke are waiting for us." Izaoi said naming off her cousins. Everyone but Rin and Izaoi were the same age, 15, their birthdays within weeks of each other. Rin and Kaguya were Sesshomaru and Kagura's children, with a little boy on the way and a little boy about 9. Tatsuki and Yuki were Sango and Miroku's eldest kids, twin children, but looked nothing alike, the twins have two younger brothers and a younger sister, the boys 10 and 9 the little girl about 6. Yosuke though belonged to Kikyo and Koga, the two had a rocky relationship, but they were perfect for each other. Yosuke was their eldest son of three boys, the other two were 11 and 5 being the youngest. Izaoi smirked at her sister as Kyoko shut the door and slung her bag over her shoulder.

"Yosuke kinda creeps me out ever so often." Kyoko said, not meaning it as she fell into step with Izaoi. The two girls were almost the same height, weight, and build, Izaoi being more matured than her younger sister Kyoko.

"I know that's what you say, but we both know you two like each other. I mean Kikyo isn't really even related to us." Izaoi said trying to sooth over her sister's feelings.

Kyoko sighed as she looked down at the ground, she knew her father didn't really care much for Yosuke and his father, she never really got why. Koga was always so kind and caring to them, especially on birthdays, giving great gifts and loving cards. He even would take everyone to school on the really cold days in his car, and he love his wife, and their mother. Kyoko stopped when a hand fell on her shoulder. "Mornin' Yosuke." Kyoko said knowing who it was.

"Morning, Kyoko." Yosuke said as other shouts of ''Good morning" filled the air. Izaoi laughed at Kyoko and Yosuke.

"Yosuke, go bother someone else, she's in a sour mood. She thought I left her at home to walk alone." Izaoi said, her violet eyes glowing with joy at her sister's face. Kyoko glared at her before turning to Yuki, her Aunt Sango's younger twin.

"Kyoko, you know Izaoi wouldn't leave you to be alone." Yuki said watching her brother snake his way to them.

"Yeah, besides, if she did I'd keep you company." Tatsuki said as he hung his arm over her shoulder like a scarf. Kyoko laughed as she looked at her Uncle Miroku's younger twin hitting on her playfully. Yuki rolled her eyes as she shook her head.

"Just like Dad. Mom was right to worry about you. Look like Dad act like Dad." Yuki said as she pushe her brother's arm off Kyoko's shoulders. Yuki was about as tall as Izaoi and Rin, she was mature and kind nature like her mother in every way, same for Tatsuki, only like his father, perverted, a little off in the head, but very cautious when danger is around, very flirtatious around females. Kyoko smiled at the two as they began to argue again about the usual things, girls, him being a pervert, her being to stuck up, anything and everything under the sky.

Izaoi shook her head, letting her long black hair flow free in the wind, she always loved the feeling. Looking to Rin they burst into laughter. "You to huh?" Izaoi asked as the unspoken bond between family and friends pulsed strong. They nodded.

"So Izaoi, how's your Uncle Souta been doing? What's he, like 25 now?" Rin asked as she held hands with Kaguya like always. Izaoi and Kyoko looked at each other.

"He's a video games expert like Kohaku, they run their own company in Kyoto. Kyoko and I get to test out their new games. It's so cool!" Izaoi said as she began to think of all the video games they got for free from their uncles. Yuki and Tatsuki voiced their agreements before going back into their argument.

"And Uncle Souta is pushing 30 this year." Kyoko said as Rin made a face.

"He's old." Kaguya said as Rin nodded.

"Well, think of it this way, your dad was what 22 when you were born, right Rin?" Kyoko asked as Rin nodded. "Now you're turning 18 this year right?" Rin nodded again."So 22 plus 18 equals," Kyoko lead off as Rin and Kaguya gasped.

"He's pushing 40!" Rin and Kaguya shouted as they made a face. "Eww... and mom and dad act like newly weds. How gross." Kaguya said as Rin nodded their faces twisted in horror at their parents actions at home. Kyoko and Izaoi laughed at them. Yosuke walked in front of the foursome and turned around to walk backwards.

"Yosuke, you're gonna trip over something, that or bump into someone." Izaoi said with an annoyed tone. Yosuke shrugged with a casual look.

"No, I'm to skilled." Yosuke said as everyone went silent for a moment, glanced at each other, then burst into side splitting laughter at Yosuke. He turned his nose to the air and 'humph'ed at them, sending them into even more laughter. Izaoi held on to Kyoko, she didn't want to fall to the floor laughing.

"Yosuke, you are your father's son." A deep, rough voice said as Yosuke bumped into a tall, solid figure. Everyone's eyes went to the man as he stared down his nose at Yosuke. "Good Morning."

"Morning Daddy!" Kaguya and Rin said with bright smiles. Sesshomaru beamed down at them with love in his eyes, he was proud of his daughters. Yosuke scurried away from Sesshomaru and bowed.

"S-sorry Uncle Sesshomaru." Yosuke said his eyes on the ground. Sesshomaru laughed as he patted Yosuke's head.

"Just watch where you're walking." Sesshomaru said passing by him to his daughters. "Have a good day at school my baby girls." Sesshomaru said in a loving tone just for his baby girls. Kaguya and Rin nodded and hugged their father.

"Have a good day at work Daddy, see you to night." The two girl said together as they waved to their father as he walked down the street to his office. Kaguya and Rin looked at Yosuke with mocking eyes, Yosuke turned his head and started to fast walk away from them. Everyone laughed and followed after shouting words of apology.

When they all arrived at school, Yosuke finally began to simmer down, going back to his regular attitude as Mr. Bad-ass. Kyoko rolled her eyes as she watched his mood change. She loved to mess with him, but he loved to mess with other people even more. Izaoi smirked as she and Rin made the same comment.

"Keep trying buddy." The two said as Yosuke stopped dead in his steps. Izaoi held her smirk when Yosuke turned to glare at her and Rin. "Woo.. so scary! Rin help me! Yosuke's glaring at me!" Izaoi said as she slapped her hands against her face and pretended to shake and act scared. Rin smiled and played alone, trowing her body in front of Izaoi's.

"I'll save you, Yosuke's no match for me!" Rin said in a deep fake, manly voice. Izaoi and Rin busted up laughing with Yosuke hung his head, there was no beating them, they were the best at this game.

"Fine, you win." Yosuke said as he fell into step with the group. They were all nearly in the same grade, Rin and Izaoi in the 12th grade and everyone else in 11th. With only academics as a good outlet for the five 15 year old to try and out do each other, they became especially smart, to the point where they skipped a few grades, landing them in the 11th grade, the principal of the school was overjoyed to have such smart students that were lively and some-what tamed. Rin and Izaoi didn't really like the idea, but it kept everyone together, and that, they were okay with.

"At lunch, the roof okay?" Izaoi asked as everyone nodded and scattered to the wind, even though they had the same class homeroom, they all had friends they like to talk with before school, Rin and Izaoi stayed together as they walked up the stairs the the third floor. Kyoko, Yuki, and Kaguya all went to their class homeroom to talk to their homeroom teacher, Ms. Hallows, the American teacher. Yosuke and Tatsuki went to find their friends in the court yard, everyone had a routine that they stuck to. Perfect in a sense for them.

Rin grabbed Izaoi hand as she spotted new students. Izaoi rolled her eyes when she saw the look in Rin's eyes; It was time to play 'spy the hot one'. Izaoi jerked her hand away and pushed her bag back up her shoulder, Rin had knocked it from it's spot with her jerk of the hand. Rin gave Izaoi her puppy dog eyes, forcing Izaoi to soften and play the game with her. "Come on, you're on the welcoming committee anyways, what's the harm?" Rin asked as she tugged lightly on Izaoi's shirt sleeve.

"Fine, but you do know that Kyoko and I will be the ones to show them around, you and the others can't come with; not unless you ask permission from the principal." Izaoi said as she tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. Rin rolled her eyes and went back to scanning the new students.

"Oh! Look! There, in the middle of the group, the one with the long braided hair, he's cute." Rin said as she nudged Izaoi in the side with her elbow. Izaoi rolled her eyes and walked into their class homeroom. "Izaoi! Wait! Hey Izaoi!" Rin shouted as she grabbed onto Izaoi's bag and got pulled into the class room.

"Brother, that girl, the one with the side ponytail, she was talking about you." The tallest one out of the group of new students said to his brother.

"I know Kyokotsu, I know. But the girl with her, she caught my eye first." The new student with the long braid said as he rubbed his chin with his hand as he held the image of Izaoi in his mind.

"Brother Bankotsu, what are you thinking?" Another student asked, his head covered with a bandanna, his eyes were stern as he watched Bankotsu with a steady gaze. Bankotsu smiled as he wrapped his arm around the only female in the group.

"Jakotsu, do you think you can get information on that girl?" Bankotsu asked as Jakotsu made a sour face.

"Really brother? She's so plain." Jakotsu said as she fiddled with the pin in her hair. The dark lipstick she wore was fading from her lips as she took a drink from her water bottle. Bankotsu smiled as he hung close to Jakotsu.

"She interests me." Bankotsu said as he looked towards the classroom Izaoi and Rin disappeared into.

"Izaoi, there you are!" A student with pigtails cried as she walked from besides the new students. Kyoko looked up from her group to the student with pigtails.

"Who me?" Kyoko asked as she smirked. "Hold on." Kyoko said walking passed the girl and poked her head into her sister's class room and and shouted, "Izaoi, another girl's mistake me for you." Another shout came from the class room and Izaoi came out with Kyoko. "Here's Izaoi, I'm Kyoko." Izaoi looked at the girl with an irritated gaze.

"Yes?" Izaoi asked.

"Uh, the p-principal wanted me to tell you and Kyoko to show the new students around?" her voice was high at the end, making the statement a question. Izaoi sighed with a hot breath and looked to Kyoko.

"Let's go, Kyoko, better get this over with." Her temper was simmering down but the girl in pigtails was scared of Izaoi's wrath. Kyoko nodded and grabbed her sister's hand.

"Calm down, just a tad before we meet the new students." Kyoko said as she felt her sister's anger sweep from her body in a woosh of air. Kyoko and Izaoi nodded to one another, then to Rin and the others. "On the roof top." Kyoko said as they nodded and filed into the classrooms with the tarty bell.

"Kyoko, you're lucky I love you so much, or else you'd be dead." Izaoi said as she glared at Kyoko once more then turned and stared at Bankotsu, she saw his eyes watching her. Nudging Kyoko, Izaoi asked, "Is it me or, it that guy staring at me?" Izaoi asked, her eyes pinned to his.

"He's staring at ya, not bad looking either, Dad won't approve, but he loves you best." Kyoko said as she stretched her arms above her head raising her dress shirt almost to the middle of her rib cage. The male students all began to blush as they stared at her perfect porcelain white skin. Izaoi threw her head back and made a ghastly noise.

"Kyoko, you are a pain in my ass; put your arms down! What 'cha gonna do, flash the new students and everyone else?" Izaoi asked as Kyoko turned red and quickly dropped her arms, she never really knew that her shirt did that.

"Sorry, no ever told me my shirt does that." Kyoko said as the stain of red stayed on her cheeks. Izaoi laughed as she stopped in front of Bankotsu and his group.

She could feel her father in her as she stared back at the new student with long hair. "You starin' at something? 'Cuz it's annoying the hell outta me." Izaoi said as Bankotsu smiled at her.

"Just thinking' you're the cutest damn thing here." Bankotsu said taking Izaoi back by his words. Her face glowed red as she looked away, she felt as if her face was gonna burn off.

"Damn, you don't waste anytime huh? Who are you guys anyway?" Kyoko asked as she kept her sister's hand. Bankotsu smiled at Kyoko and nudged at his brothers.

"We're known as the Band Of Seven, I'm Bankotsu. This is my sister Jakotsu, my brothers Renkotsu, Kyokotsu, Ginkotsu, Mukotsu, and Suikotsu." Bankotsu introduced motioning to each brother and his sister.

"Yer all brothers and sister?" Izaoi asked astonished.

"We're all adopted, except Jakotsu and me, we're twins." Bankotsu said as Jakotsu rested her arm on Bankotsu's shoulder. She was sizing the two girls up. Kyoko rolled her eyes.

"Okay, well, I'm gonna take a safe bet and say you're the new students we gotta take around school then." Kyoko said as Bankotsu nodded.

"Okay, then, lets go, what year is everyone?" Izaoi asked as they held out their hands, most of the 'Band' were second years, 11th graders, Bankotsu, Jakotsu, and Renkotsu were third years, 12th graders. Izaoi motioned for the three third years to come with her while the rest went with Kyoko. Before parting for half the day Izaoi took Kyoko aside and said, "Any trouble call for me or the principal, I don't trust these guys, anyone with a gang name's gotta be bad luck. Be careful, okay?"

"Yeah, I know, but you're lucky, you get the hot ones." Kyoko said as she looked at Renkotsu and Bankotsu. Izaoi rolled her eyes and smacked Kyoko over the head.

"Just stay focus and do a good job. I'll see you at lunch." Izaoi said they went to the groups and began the tour of the high school.