Father Knows Best

Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Inuyasha. They are the rightful possessions of Takahashi-sama.

Authors Note: To any that read this PLEASE Review. I like to know what my readers think and what they possibly dislike. I will accept constructive critism, NO flames. Please enjoy chapter 3.

Please note Rins' vocabulary is not like that of the period.

Just a Note: I will say this now. A "NOD" of the head means YES. A "SHAKE" of the head means NO.

This is dedicated to my sister: Jesslyn Clanton.

Kagome sighed heavily as she helped Rin out of the well in her era. She had to sit Inuyasha about a thousand times to get him to shut-up his ranting when they got to the village of Edo.

(Flashback- 30 minutes earlier)

The Inu-tachi had arrived at the village with its' extra companions. Kagome was trying her best to keep calm as Inuyasha complained about Sesshomaru. When they had arrived in the middle of the village Kagome had had enough.
The villagers had began to come to greet her but stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the look of irritance on her face. Then they heard her shouting.

"SIIIIIIIT! SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" She shouted.

They had never seen her this mad. Truth be told Kagome was sure that she had never been this mad and that she had never ever put that much force behind her "SIT" commands. She strode over to the crater to see Inuyasha unconcious. She "hmphed" as she left him lying there to go to Kaedes'.

"I bet you enjoyed that didn't you?" she asked Sesshomaru.

"Yes I did." he nodded.

They reached the elder mikos' hut and entered after she knocked.

"Kaede I need your help." Kagome stated.

"I see. Who is ye new friend?" she asked.

"This, Oh Sesshomaru and yes it is really him. Something happened and he can't change back." she explained.

"That I can't help ye with. It is unfamiliar to me." Kaede said.

"I thought so. I need to bring him to my time to protect him from Inuyasha. I require three sets of beads, for Sesshomaru, Shippo, and Rin." she said.

"Hai, I can help ye." the old priestess said rising.

"Thank You." she said.

Kaede had helped her to make the necklaces for them and helped her connect herself to them. After thanking her Kagome left the hut to look for her companions.

She found them still looking in the crater that Inuyasha was climbing out of. He was fixing to shout at her.

"Don't say one word. If I hear another person yell I am gonna....." she began.

"Rin there you are you pesky girl." Jaken shouted.

Kagome growled low and threateningly under her breath. Sesshomaru was impressed by her growl in his language it said "I am going to murder you." That coupled with the glare she sent Jaken, Sesshomaru thought that she might actually kill the imp.

"Jaken-sama. I am sorry Sesshomaru-sama, Ah-Un, and I left you but it was an emergency. Something bad happened to Sesshomaru-sama." Rin explained

"What happened? You should have consulted with me first. Where is Sesshomaru-sama?" he squawked.

"He is right here and he has been turned into a puppy." she said showing him Sesshomaru.

Jaken then proceeded to chastise her for being human and thinking that Sesshomaru-sama would ever be weak enough to be turned into a puppy. But before he could finish Kagome had reeled on him sharing with him that what Rin says is true and then she hit him with several colorful death threats if he spoke again.

He spoke again anyways but he had a logical reason for disobeying her order.

"What will happen to his lands." he asked.

Kagome thought then it clicked.

"Inuyasha is his brother and since Sesshomaru is incapacitated at the present he is to take on the responsibilities until Sesshomaru can return. You will be the brains Jaken and Inuyasha will be the brawn. Miroku and Sango will help you. I am entrusting you four not to let Sesshomarus' lands fall. If you do something that will be harmful to the mission, I will bury you. Am I clear?" she commanded.

The last part of the sentence was directed at Inuyasha. She had asked Sesshomaru if what she had done was the right way and he had nodded.

"Now to the well, and the future, I wonder how they will handle what they are going to see. Maybe I better warn them about a few things they are going to see so they don't freak out." She thought.

"Okay everybody listen, when we get to my home things are going to be very different. You are going to see tall buildings, lots of modern technology, you can't leave the shrine grounds unless with me or my family, oh and Sesshomaru I have a cat he is very old and very fat please don't kill him." Kagome explained.

As they approached the well with the inu-tachi, Jaken, and Ah-Un right She explained a few things about the noise, smell, and the environment of her era. Kagome placed the beads on Rin, Shippo, and Sesshomarus' necks and said a word to lock them in until she took them off.

For Rin she said "smile" and the beads glowed a pretty pink, Shippo's was "stop". When she turned to place the beads on Sesshomaru Rin stopped her.

"Please Kagome-chan don't make it degrading like Inuyasha's is. Sesshomaru-sama doesn't need to be embarassed." Rin told her.

"Kami, I love that little girl. She knew what I was thinking before I even said it." thought Sesshomaru.

"Oh, okay how about "stay" and all that will happen is you will stop where you are at. Is that okay Sesshomaru-sama". asked Kagome.

Sesshomaru thought about this and nodded his head. It was definately better than "SIT". Kagome said her good-byes, gave her hugs, and re-established her threats to the ones they were leaving behind, and jumped in the well with her small group.

(Flashback Over)

Kagome gave Sesshomaru over to Rin as she helped Shippo out of the well. When he was out of the well, she took Sesshomaru out of Rins' arms and opened the door.

The smell hit Sesshomaru and Shippo. Sesshomaru whined and crawled up to Kagomes' hair and buried his nose in it. He looked over to Shippo to see he had done the same to Rin. He didn't like that, she was his little girl.

"Do not get any ideas, fox. I may be a puppy but I am still lethal." he growled.

"I'm not. She is only my best friend. Besides Kagome has a little brother exactly our age." Shippo said chuckling.

"What is so funny Shippo?" Rin asked.

"What Sesshomaru growled." he said.

"What did he say?" Kagome asked.

"He commented on the foul stench. How it was killing his nose." he lied.

Shippo knew that Sesshomaru wouldn't thank him but he lied anyways.

When they arrived inside Kagome took off her shoes and set Sesshomaru on the floor.

"Mom, I'm home." she called.

"Kagome dear glad you are back. Who are your guests?" her mother asked.

"They are Shippo, Rin, and the puppy is Sesshomaru." she introduced them.

"Kagome you know we can't have a dog." she said.

Rin gasped in horror and Sesshomaru whined. Was the mother not going to let him stay?

"Mom he has to stay. The puppy is actually Inuyashas' brother and Inuyasha is trying to kill him. He was trapped as a puppy and he can't change back. I brought him here to protect him and try to break this curse." Kagome explained.

Her mother looked at her with knowing eyes this was the Sesshomaru that her daughter talked about in her sleep. The man her daughter loved was cursed to be a puppy and she was going to be the heroine and save him. she raised her daughter well to be a kind and caring woman with so much love to give.

"Alright Kagome. But you have to do something with Buyo and lay down the rules to your guests and your brother." she said.

"Yes ma'm" Kagome said.

"Kagome I need to give you this first." her mother handed her a check.

When Kagome looked at the check she fainted. Upon the check was the amount of several hundred million yen.

She had brought back all kinds of coins and artifacts from the past and had her mother take them to a museum. The museum curator had the collection appriased and called all his benefactors as well as other museums across the globe.

He gave Mrs. Higurashi a call and had her bring back the collection. She had showed them all the peices and they wished to buy them all. They wrote her the check and she took it home to await Kagome.

"Momma! What did she see?" Shippo asked.

"That was to be expected. I just gave her geat news. She is now wealthy." Mrs. Higurashi said.

"Oh that's it." Rin said.

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. Rin had grown accustomed to being wealthy by being his ward. Even she didn't react this way when she found out how wealthy he was and that she was going to be apart of that wealth.

"Sota, come here." Mrs. Higurashi called upstairs.

A couple of minutes later a fourteen year old boy appeared in the kitchen and saw his mother knelt over his sister.

"What happened?" he asked.

"She saw the check." she explained.

"Right. So she passed out?" he said.

"Just help me move her." she said.

"I'll help. He can open her door." Shippo said.

Shippo and Mrs. Higurashi lifted Kagome and took upstairs and laid her on her bed. Rin had stayed down stairs with Sesshomaru to wait to be called upstairs. Sota came back to the kitchen.

"You can go in there now. Who are you anyways?" he asked.

"I am Rin and this is Sesshomaru-sama." she said.

Sota looked down at Sesshomaru.

"Where did he come from?" he asked.

"Kagome-chan brought Shippo, Sesshomaru-sama, and I back with her." she said.

"You are from the past, cool. Can I hold him?" he said.

"Umm. That may be not such a good idea. Sesshomaru-sama has only let Kagome-chan and myself hold him while he has been stuck this way." she said.

"Stuck this way? You mean he is not a dog?" he asked.

"Oh no, he is a dog. A demon dog and he does not always look like this." she said.

"Awesome. I wish Inuyasha was here to see this." he said.

"No you don't. He wants to kill Sesshomaru-sama." she said angrily.

"Why?" he asked.

"Sesshomaru-sama is Inuyashas' older brother. He doesn't like Sesshomaru-sama and wanted to do him harm when we went to your sister for help." she said.

"Man he needs to let go whatever happened between them. I could never hate Kagome so much that I would want her dead." he said.

"Rin you can come up." Shippo called.

"It was nice talking to you." Rin said scooping up Sesshomaru and heading upstairs.

"Likewise." he said.

When Rin and Sesshomaru entered the room his nose smelled cat. It was in the room. Where he didn't know but it was there. Rin sat down on the floor next to Kagomes' bed with Sesshomaru in her lap. When she sat down there was a growling sound, Rin looked at Sesshomaru and realized he was not growling.

"What's growling?" she asked.

Sesshomaru jumped out of her arms and onto Kagomes' bed. He sat down beside her and looked off the side of the bed. As he peered over he saw a fat, calico cat emerge from under the bed. He didn't like cats, not one bit. He promised that he wouldn't kill Kagomes' cat but he didn't promise to hurt, scare, and/or maime the feline if he came at him first.

Sesshomaru lept over Kagome to be on her other side, closer to the wall. He laid down beside her, hoping the cat would just go away. But alas, no, the cat jumped on the bed. Sesshomaru sat up and looked at the cat. Said cat began growling and hissing; telling him that this was his house and that he was not welcome.

Cats and dogs understand each other. They have to, for they are great enemies and need to know each others language to be able to insult the other or tell the opposer to leave their territory or face consequences.

Sesshomaru growled at the cat.

"The girl brought me here. She is keeping me for the time being and you have to get over it."

The cat hissed again and swiped at him. Sesshomaru growled louder and barked.

"No Sesshomaru-sama." Rin said as he lept at the cat.

"Don't kill the cat." Shippo said.

Kagomes' flew open and she jumped up at the noise around her. She saw a tangle of calico and white fur rolling around on her floor.

"Sesshomaru you promised not to kill Buyo." she yelled grabbing him.

Buyo ran from the room and down the stairs.

"You promised not to kill Buyo." she said.

He growled at her. She looked to Shippo to translate.

"He said you did tell him not to kill Buyo. But you never said anything about hurting, scaring, and/or maiming Buyo. Besides Buyo attacked him first." Shippo said.

"Sesshomaru I don't want you to do anything to my cat. Now did he hurt you.?" she said.

He shook his head and whined. She was still mad and it bothered him. She looked down at him as he whined then conceded and picked him up.

"She needs to know about inu-demons" he yipped at Shippo.

"He says you need to know about inu-demons." Shippo told her.

"What do I need to know?" she asked.

"This with Buyo will only continue. He is the dominate animal here and when you brought me here; he sees me as an intruder. He will fight with me until one of submits. I will say this now I will not let some cat run over me and rule me." Sesshomaru growled.

Shippo translated what he had growled at him to Kagome. He also explained that Sesshomaru is the alpha male and he will not allow anything or anyone dominate him. If they should try it is instinct to put the offender it there place which is beneath him.

"Is there anything I can do. I can't have these occurances continue. I can't let you harm my cat. I know it is instincts but what can I do about Buyo, can't you atleast talk or something?" she asked.

Sesshomaru looked at her like she lost her mind. Cats and dogs talking, negotiating, settling their differences. That was unheard of but he would try. He needed Kagomes' help and he wanted to stay with her. If he made her mad she would surely give him to Inuyasha.

He nodded his head and growled, "I'll try it. I can't say the same for Buyo. If he attacks me again I will not hold back."

Shippo translated to her and Kagome nodded her head and left the room in search of Buyo. She returned with Buyo after a few minutes and promptly set the fat cat on the bed and shut her door.

Kagome saw Sesshomaru sitting at her head board all calm and Buyo was hissing and growling at him. Sesshomaru just stared at him and the longer he did the louder Buyos' growls became.

"What is he doing?" Rin whispered.

"Sesshomaru is making it known to Buyo that he doesn't scare him." he said.

"Oh." she said.

"This is pointless. I am not and I will not submit to you. You will submit to me. I may look like a puppy to you but you can feel and smell that there is something about me that is not about your normal dog. Am I right?" Sesshomaru growled at Buyo.

Buyo stopped hissing and stared at Sesshomaru. There was something out of the norm about him and it scared him and made him worry for his family. He made his feelings known then.

"I am not here to harm your family. I am here temporarily to recieve their help, nothing more. But while I am here I will not let you run over me. I am the alpha and I will not bow down to anyone." Sesshomaru said.

Buyo could feel something that made this dog formidible and he didn't know what it was. He knew that he didn't have a chance in hell at stopping him if he intended to hurt his family but he could feel that he was telling him the truth. It was hard for him but he would not stand in his way.

Buyo gave him an affirmative meow and in return Sesshomaru gave him a small bark. They had settled that he was alpha and that he will be as long as he was there.

Shippo relayed to the other two what had just occurred and they breathed a sigh of relief that there would not be anymore fighting between the two of them.

"Now that is settled we have some shopping to do." Kagome said scooping up Sesshomaru.

Authors Note: Wow! First he has to deal with a cat. I split this into two chapters when I seen how long it was going to be. Forgive me.