Where Kagome is not-so-secretly a badass, and also very nice and emotional.

Thank you One2Handcuff and Guest reviewer for noticing and informing of my mistake. It's been a while since I watched anything Inuyasha related so I forgot! Sorry about that!

Kagome sighed in relief when she finally got the message she had been waiting for. Koga booked his flight back to Europe where his clan had recently relocated to.

Hidden in the echelons of human society, lived demons, priests and priestess. While most still lived side by side, a lot of priests were brought up with the mentality that demons were bad. It wasn't true. People were people no matter what their species. It was as likely to come across an evil demon as an evil human or priest. People just had this thought process where they believed only the pure could be priestesses.

Now, here she was, in modern society, where this kind of thought process still hadn't died out. But to make sure that the world didn't fall into the chaos of ancient times, The Four Great Demon Lords, the Council of Priests and the International Human Association, all of which were hidden from normal people, created a law.

'No one must publicize their species.'

There were many more, but that was the first Law ever created by the joint agreement of all three species that dominated Earth to this day. Demons, by the simple virtue of being able to outlast the existence of humans or priestesses, became one of the most powerful people around. While there were more priest and priestesses around, it would be neigh impossible for one to kill a demon.

Kagome was not like one of those priests. She came from a long line of priests, and she was the next Priestess of the Shikon no Tama. The last Priestess, at the end of her life, had gained tremendous knowledge of her own ability. With her dying breath she bound the Shikon to her very soul. No demon, human or priest would ever be able to separate it from her soul.

Kagome Higurashi was born a century later with all the power of the Shikon no Tama. She was single-handedly the most powerful priestess to ever exist, aside from the first creator of the Shikon, the story which was lost in the sands of time. They did tell a story about a priestess stuck in eternal battle with countless demons inside the Shikon, but Kagome could tell with a hundred percent certainty that it wasn't true.

The Shikon did not have any form of conflict within it. She had never dared to draw on its power aside from that one time. She shuddered, remember the terrible memory that never left her.

Her father had been all for making Kagome into a weapon, but her grandfather, had decided to let Kagome discover herself first. She had studied her energy like any other priest, and while she did receive additional training, it was never as harsh as it could have been.

Her grandfather was the reason she was still alive. Now, she worked beside Koga, one of the Demon Lords. She had actually been engaged to him as one of the tricks used by the Council of Priests, but she had genuinely liked Koga despite his harsh attitude. He would have been faithful to her, she was sure, no matter what his heart desired. But she couldn't bare to stand between Koga and Ayame, who had become a sort of rival from the beginning.

In hindsight, it probably had a lot to do with her engagement with Koga. She suppressed a smile and kept her phone back down. Now, to actually manage Koga's company while he was away having fun...

She sighed.

There was a hesitant knock on the door. She buzzed the door open, letting the sound proofing fall away.

"Come in," she called out. Her face a visage of professionalism. The door opened from the other side to show a shy Hojo. He always asked her out every lunch-time without fail. It had been humorous the first few times Koga became territorial but now she had become so used to Hojo that she didn't even hesitate in turning him down anymore.

"Kagome, do you want to eat lunch together?" She didn't even bother with a polite smile, closing the file she had been looking at and keeping it at the side for a quick review later, before the board meeting.

"No thank you." She had learnt giving him excuses tended to work against her because he somehow always seemed to have an answer for everything.

"Oh...okay. I'll just have it on my own then..." His voice trailed of pitifully. Kagome didn't look up.

"Yeah, you do that." He hesitated at the door.

"Close the door when you leave." She said unrepentant. Hojo closed the door. Loud coarse laughter burst out from behind her. She rolled her eyes.

"Inuyasha..." A warning in her tone. He jumped from the open window to her couch. His silver hair fluttering dramatically in the air. His ears looked human but she knew there were a pair of dog ears hidden from plain sight. It was utterly adorable. There were so many times when he came over to mope at her and she would scratch his head and he would melt like pudding.

"Heh. You've become even more rude than you were before!" She suppressed her smile at him.

"Like you're one to talk! Who keeps jumping through a window in the thirtieth floor? Just use the elevator like everyone else."

"Feh wench." Her eye twitched.

"I-NU-YA-SHA!" She threatened, her eyes falling on the necklace of beads around his neck. Inuyasha, recognizing the threat moved away from from her.

"Okay, okay, sorry! Chill woman." She sniffed haughtily.

Inuyasha and her went way back. When she was still young studying as an apprentice priestess, she had stumbled across Inuyasha stuck in a cursed sleep, his brother too cold towards him to give him the time of day and lift the curse. She had just been powerful enough to lift the curse without realizing it, making the Council angry at her for taking away their bargaining chip against the strongest Demon Lord. In return, she had been made to put the cursed beads without realizing what it truly was on him.

Before anyone else could take command over the beads, she had angrily commanded him to 'sit' which resulted in her overwriting the control mechanism. Inuyasha always pissed her off, even when he knew what would happen if he did. That was how she had actually met his brother.

He was a total asshole to Inuyasha, but he had been so startled by her response to Inuyasha that he actually huffed out a small laugh, surprising absolutely everyone around them, except Kagome, who was grinning at him like an idiot thinking 'maybe he wasn't so bad'. Sorry, her mistake.

Sesshomaru was cold as ice, the opposite to his half-brother. But, the few times he appeared in front of people, just his aura scared the crap out of people, even with how restrained he was. He had absolute control over his domain, his body and power. He was never amused, and only appeared when he was needed and not a moment before. His father had also cheated on his mother with a human woman and conceived Inuyasha.

Everyone had a blanket agreement that Sesshomaru hated humans because of that. She had believed that until she met him too. He didn't seem to hate her, even as he looked down at her. He might not have hated Inuyasha's mother either. The one he had hated was probably his father, who was already dead.

Inuyasha had laughed at her when she had told him, then realizing she was serious, he hadn't met her for a few months, disappearing off the map. She had been in a frenzy, almost ready to ask Sesshomaru's help in locating him. When he came back with a couple of bruises, a broken arm and an ancient heirloom and told her that she was right, she had almost broken his other arm in response.

Stress made her violent, okay?

But Inuyasha had been happier than she had ever seen him before, so she called the whole thing as 'all is well that ends well'. And maybe, she noticed the way Inuyasha and Sesshomaru appeared in public together more often, the way their words to each other were no longer as acidic as it had been but well, who was she to inform the Council something they couldn't use their eyes to notice?

"I heard Koga proposed to Ayame." Inuyasha said casually. Kagome stiffened. So that was why Inuyasha came over.

"Yeah, I told him to go do it already." She replied just as casually, busing herself with re-arranging her desk. Inuyasha came over in front of her.

"Are you really okay with that? He was just engaged to you!" Kagome smiled at him.

"And I called it off." She rolled her eyes, gathering a couple of stuff and throwing it all in the bin.

"Everyone knows it was because you finally realized Koga was mooning over someone else." He just threw it out there like it was a well known fact. She clenched her hand, her head bowed, suddenly angry.

"Oh, did they?" She looked up at Inuyasha, her jaw clenched, "then why, pray tell, did no one tell me that I was about to end up married to someone who loved someone else and WASTE MY LIFE?" Inuyasha stared at her wide eyed, back peddling.

"I- I thought the Council told you." Kagome sneered at Inuyasha.

"Your words are contradictory! I get it. Humans and priestesses have much shorter lives than demons. But that doesn't mean its worthless! I thought you of all people understood that!" She shouted at him, helpless fury surging through her. Then she sighed, realizing that she had stood up, sat back down. She put her face in her hand.

"Just go. I don't really care if Koga ends up mating Ayame." She tried to discretely wipe her tears, and then looked up. Inuyasha would probably-

He pulled her into a tight hug, and she relaxed almost immediately.

This was why she kept this goof around. She really could never stay mad at him. She wrapped her arms around him, squeezing back. They probably spent more time hugging than any platonic friends did, but she absolutely loved it when he hugged her. She didn't even need a dog, she just needed Inuyasha. Her hand sneaked up towards his real ears and Inuyasha caught them before she could start scratching him.

She gave him a teary look and a pout in addition, hoping to melt him. He visibly wavered and just when he was about to give in, someone knocked on her door. She sighed.

She gave his ears a sad look, wishing them well until next time she could get her hands on it. Wiping her tears and straightening her clothes, she looked almost as perfect as she had been.

Kagome sat in her chair and buzzed the person in.

"Ma'am, the meeting will start in 5 minutes." She nodded at him and he took it as the dismissal it was, sending 'sneaking' glances at Inuyasha who appeared from no where.

Inuyasha self-consciously rubbed his own hands over his ears. Kagome smothered a smile. He always looked so young to her whenever he did that.

"Okay, shoo. Go away, puppy." Inuyasha snarled at her.

"I ain't no pup, wench." He retaliated but went back to her window. She coughed pointedly.

"Everyone will know pretty soon you were here. Might as well go back the regular way."

He huffed at her. She lifted a brow.

He left by the door.

She went to the meeting to tell everyone that she owned their asses until Koga came back.

They left the meeting five minutes after her, shivering in fear.

There was a reason, a Koga had chosen her to take care of his territory, after all.