Hey guys! Sorry for the delay in updates. I've been super busy with school and work. I had half of this chapter written, and then I got stuck, so that didn't help anything. I had fun with this one, some humor some happy stuff, and more humor! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing it!

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I buried my face into Inuyasha's chest and sobbed harder. I inhaled his musky scent, unmasked by cologne. It was the same as I remembered it. He rubbed my back softly, holding me close to him and situating me so that I was sitting in his lap.

"Shh. Kagome it's ok," he cooed comfortingly. He pulled me as close to him as he could. I felt his lips brush the top of my head. Through my sobs, I sighed. Finally, for the first time in five years, I was home.

After a while the joy and relief that had flooded through me when he transformed slowly vanished, being replaced by my anger and hurt. Everything that I had felt for the last five years came bubbling to the surface.

I pulled myself out of Inuyasha's embrace and slid back to my seat. I sat up and glared at him, angry tears flowing down my face. He stared at me, and then his face revealed his fear. Fear that I only ever saw when I was extremely pissed off at him. And I was beyond extremely pissed off at the moment.

"Kagome…" he said, voice shaking. He scooted away from me quickly. I caught him glance forward and felt the limo speed up slightly.

"What the hell Inuyasha!" I screamed at him. He winced and tried to scoot away even more, but was stopped by the door. "Have you been in this era all this time!"

"Yeah…um, well, that's a funny story, actually. You see, after the well closed, I waited for you, and you never came back. But I knew that if I could live to your era then I could see you again, so me and Sesshomaru came up with this charm that-"

"I don't give a flying crap about how you're alive!" I yelled. His eyes widened and he watched me warily. "Why didn't you ever come and find me!"

"Kagome, I couldn't risk the me from the past smelling me," he said. He was visibly shaking now. Good, he should've been afraid.

"That's not what I meant and you know it!" I cried, shoving my finger into his chest. "Why have you never once come and tried to find me in the past five years! Or better yet, why didn't you come the week, no, the DAY that the well closed!"

"Kagome, I couldn't! I didn't know the exact date that the well closed!"

"Like hell you didn't!" I screeched, my hands balled into fists at my sides.

The limo pulled to a stop and I only knew it because Inuyasha flung the door open and practically fell out of the car. I immediately crawled out after him. I slammed the door behind me. Inuyasha began backing away from me, his hands raised in surrender.

"Kagome, please! Just calm down and-"

"NO!" I shouted. "I will NOT calm down!" I stomped closer to him, my anger building inside of me.

"Come on, just let me explain and-"

"SIT BOY!" I yelled out of instinct. Inuyasha yelped and his face hit the concrete below him. "Sit boy, sit boy, sit boy! Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit boy!" I kept screaming his least favorite word over and over again for at least five minutes. I would have gone on longer if a clawed hand hadn't slapped itself over my mouth and a strong arm wrapped itself around my waist to pull me into a sturdy body in order to restrain me. I struggled against the person, determined to beat Inuyasha within an inch of his life.

"I warned you that you should have waited to reveal yourself until you had her back here and we were all here to help keep her from doing what she just did," a cold, monotone voice said from behind me.

Inuyasha struggled to lift his head to glare at the person behind me. "I still would've been sat," he growled out.

"Sit boy!" I spat out. Really, it came out as a muffled grunt due to the hand that was still covering my mouth. Still, Inuyasha was kissing the ground again and I was satisfied. I quit struggling and relaxed in the person's grip. Slowly, they released me and uncovered my mouth. I stepped forward slightly and turned my back on Inuyasha's twitching form to look at the person behind me.

His silver hair cascaded down to the small of his back. His golden eyes stared down at me, his expression never changing. I could see his marks on his face clearly. Even without Bakusaiga and Tenseiga strapped to his waist, his fluffy thing, mokomoko I think is what he called it, around his shoulder, and his traditional kimono, I still recognized him immediately.

"Sesshomaru!" I cried. I shocked all of us by launching myself forward and hugging the taiyoukai. It took me a moment to realize what I had done. I started to pull away and run to Inuyasha so that he wouldn't kill me, but his arms wrapped around me and returned the embrace before I could even move.

"Miko," he said simply before releasing me. I stepped back, shocked. Since when did Sesshomaru a. not want to kill me, b. not want to see Inuyasha dead, whether the deed be done by his hand or not, and c. hug a HUMAN? I shook it off, stranger things had happened, I think.

I glanced to the right to see the limo driver, half shaking, staring at the three of us with a shocked expression. I hadn't noticed him before due to my rage at Inuyasha, which was now gone as quickly has it had come. I watched as his green eyes darted from Inuyasha to me to Sesshomaru and back to me. I also noticed that he wasn't very tall either.

"You ok?" I asked him.

He quickly gathered himself and scoffed. "Humph, I'm perfectly fine! I don't need some stupid human worrying about me!"

Sesshomaru went over and bonked the man over the head with his fist. "You will respect our guest, Jaken. Go and inform the others that she has arrived," he commanded. The imp with his human appearance huffed and strode inside.

"Well, he hasn't changed much," I commented.

"Keh, you haven't been around him for the past 500 years," Inuyasha remarked. I turned and watched him stand and brush off of his clothes. "Personally he's even more annoying now."

"Hn," Sesshomaru said, or more like grunted. He strode off and then paused. "Come. The others are waiting." Then he resumed walking.

"Keh. Come on, we better go before he gets testy," Inuyasha said. He grabbed my hand and pulled me forward. I finally managed to tear my eyes away from his face to actually look at the house. My jaw dropped and I stopped dead in my tracks. Inuyasha felt me stop and looked at me. "You ok?"

"You… he…you two live here!" I gaped at the structure before me. To call it a house would have been an injustice. It was huge! The building was at least three or four stories tall, not to mention that its width could have put the shrine to shame. Apparently, what we were standing in was a large courtyard/driveway thing. In front of us was a large set of stairs that led up to a large, Victorian style wrap around porch and there was a set of French double doors leading into the house.

Inuyasha shrugged. "Yeah. This is what happens when you live for over half a millennium, longer in Sesshomaru's case, and are the sons of a feudal demon lord. You get a pretty nice life. Plus, we have room for everyone when we need it."

"Everyone?" I was confused. What did that mean?

He sighed and pulled me forward again. "You'll see," he said, dragging me up the stairs and into the mansion. He pulled me up a spiral staircase once we were inside and then down a long hallway. We reached another set of doors, which Inuyasha pushed open. He dragged me into an overly large living room. The chatter that had been going on inside the room stopped the moment we entered.

I glanced around the room. Sesshomaru was sitting in an armchair, a young, dark haired woman sitting against his legs. Jaken was standing in a corner, sulking and back in his imp form. Sitting on a love seat was a man with bright blue eyes and long dark hair that was pulled back in a high ponytail, revealing his elven ears. Kouga smirked at me and waved. Sitting next to him was a woman with red hair pulled back into pigtails with green eyes, his arm around her shoulders. I recognized her as Ayame, the wolf demon who was chasing after Kouga in the feudal era. Ayame smiled and I smiled back. I saw the wolf twins, Ginta and Hakkaku sitting on a couch, along with a gangly teenager who was staring at me with wide, green eyes and a girl with long dark hair with blue eyes.

The moment my eyes found the teenage boy, I couldn't tear my gaze away. His bright red hair was down, straightened, and hung down to his chin. His face was the one of an adult, no traces of boyhood left. He stood and I could tell that he was almost as tall as Inuyasha.

"Sh…Shippo?" My voice quavered. Was it really him? Had my little kit grown up on me?

"Mother?" he asked, his voice shaking as much as mine.

"Shippo!" I cried and launched myself at my son. I wrapped my arms around him, or his waist really; he was at least a head taller than me.

"Mother!" Shippo pulled me to his chest and hugged me. He buried his face in my hair and I felt him shake slightly. "I've missed you so much!"

"I missed you too." I stepped back and looked up at his face. Smiling, I reached up to wipe a lone tear from his cheek. He blushed at my gesture, but I could see his joy in his eyes.

As I stepped back to look at him, the girl who had been sitting next to him came and wrapped her arm around his waist. I saw the small smile appear on his face as he draped his arm around her shoulders. I raised an eyebrow at him. When had my little Shippo gotten a girlfriend?

He cocked his head to the side at my staring before he jumped with realization. "Oh! Mom, do you remember Souten?" He gestured at the girl next to him, who waved at me.

"You mean the little thunder demon girl who challenged you to a duel and scared you silly? How could I forget?" Everyone laughed except Shippo, who turned three shades of red. He growled slightly, though it wasn't menacing.

Inuyasha went over and bonked him on the head. "Don't growl at your mother!" he scolded.

Shippo rubbed the back of his head. "I was only playing! Damn, that hurt!"

"Shippo!" I yelled. He looked at me and hung his head.

"Sorry," he muttered. He glanced at me from under his bangs with big, puppy dog eyes.

I sighed. "You're ok. I just never expected my little boy to use such language. I wonder where you picked it up from." I glared at Inuyasha. He just smirked sheepishly at me. I shook my head and sighed again before turning back to Shippo and Souten. "It's good to see you again Souten."

She nodded and smiled. "Same to you, Kagome."

Crack! I winced as the noise of a slap filled the air. I saw Shippo sigh and shake his head. Souten rolled her eyes, Kouga facepalmed, and I heard Inuyasha say, "Baka. He'll never learn."

"Now is not the time or the place for that, you lech!" a familiar voice screeched to my right. I swallowed hard and dared to glance over towards the voice. My eyes widened at the sight of Houshi nursing his right cheek while staring at a very pissed off Akira.

"What the heck?" I managed to ask before promptly falling back into Inuyasha's chest and passing out.

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