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“You stole something of mine. I have come to take it back.”

“I didn’t steal anything!” Kagome retorted.

“The child you removed from the woods belongs to me,” he persisted.

Her eyes narrowed. “The child you abandoned, you mean? I don’t think so, buddy. Rin’s staying with me.”

“Rin?”

“That’s her name,” Kagome informed him. “I’m going to find her family and reunite them.”

“Her family is dead. The wolves of the East slaughtered her entire village,” Sesshomaru told her tersely.

She gasped, staggering backward a step. Kouga’s wolves were the reason Rin was alone. They had destroyed her town, stolen her home from her. Kagome fought hard to swallow her tears. She refused to cry in front of Sesshomaru.

“I revived her with Tenseiga so her life belongs to me,” he stated resolutely.

“What? What could you possibly want with her?” Kagome asked, her sadness giving way to rage. Who was he to claim a life? Rin wasn’t property. She was an innocent child.

“What could you?” Sesshomaru countered.

“I told you. I am going to find her family.”

“Her family is dead, miko.”

“Then I’ll find a family to take her in. I’m not handing Rin over to you,” Kagome snarled.

“I will take her in,” Sesshomaru proposed.

“No way! You don’t know the first thing about raising a baby, especially a human one.”

He frowned. Kagome waited for him to unleash his poisonous claws or change into his true form. Sesshomaru could tear through her in a single bite. Yet, he did neither.

Approaching her, Sesshomaru said, “You will teach me.”

Kagome’s eyes widened in surprise. “Huh?”