InuyashaForever1989: And we're back!!!! Ok, so it's just me. I'm so lonely here *cries*

Inu: Oh stop that, you're not alone.

Kag: Yeah we're all back with you.

IF: Yays!!!

Sess: What are you all doing? We have a story to get on with.

IF: Oh, right. Well, I promised it to you and you all asked for it (and some are getting quite impatient for it) and so I bring you the sequel to 'Dragon Rider' also known as 'A New Age for Dragons.' It's one year later and things should be going smoothly for our new happy couple. Should be. Then Daichi comes back and Kagome and friends have a whole new problem to deal with.

Inu: This sounds like it's going to be a pain. I think I'll just sit this story out.

IF: Oh no you don't. You have a bigger part in the story this time.

Inu: Damn it!

Sess: Stop complaining you halfwit.

Kag: Sesshy don't be so mean to him

Sess: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Inu: Whipped.

Sess: *really mad*

IF: OK! Let's get this show on the road before my main characters kill each other shall we?

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of its characters

Chapter 1: Not how it's supposed to be

A long scorch mark smoldered in the middle of the clearing that was used for practice.

"Mamoru, what is wrong with you?!" Kagome yelled at the now rather large dragon. He had never gotten as big as Akako but he had gotten a lot bigger than Kouga's dragon Kuuya. (A/N: Pronounced (KOO yah) and it means Expanding sky)

Right now Kagome was completely fed up. At first Mamoru had been over protective of her when it came to Sesshomaru but over the past year he had gotten progressively worse.

Just now Mamoru had almost torched Sesshomaru for just kissing her. Kagome had hoped that Mamoru would have gotten used to him by now, but he hadn't and Kagome was starting to worry. Mamoru didn't act this way around anyone else not even Kouga who still hit on her from time to time just to watch Sesshomaru's blood boil, and only when Ayame wasn't around of course.

Also, he just loved Inuyasha. Kagome didn't understand it. Inuyasha was obnoxious and rude. Don't get her wrong he was an ok guy and a good friend when he wanted to be and he was really good to Kikyo but he was a real pain most of the time. For some reason though, Mamoru had really taken to the hanyou and Akihiro had been something of an older brother/teacher to him, but she still didn't understand the aggression toward Sesshomaru

At this time Sesshomaru had crossed the scorched earth to Kagome and wrapped his arms around her and growled at the silver dragon. Mamoru growled back.

Kagome felt near tears. This was happening more often lately and things would end up like this. These two end up starring each other down and almost ready to jump at each other if Kagome wasn't in between them. Kagome suspected this was why Sesshomaru would always hold onto her during these times. To keep them from fighting. Sure there were other reasons too but Kagome thought this was the main one.

Well, whatever was wrong with Mamoru, he would have to get over it seeing as she was getting married soon. A few days after the battle with Naraku Sesshomaru, well, he hadn't exactly proposed to her in so many words but he had given her an engagement ring that had belonged to his mother as a sort of promise ring until they had gotten to know each other better and were ready to make a real commitment.

A month ago Sesshomaru had asked her if she would accept the ring again only this time as a proposal of marriage. Kagome had been thrilled at the time but after that was when the real trouble started. The whole past year had been pretty bad with Mamoru trying to get in between them or getting her attention on anything but Sesshomaru but now it was even worse. Mamoru had started becoming even more protective and even possessive about her and violent toward Sesshomaru.

Kagome thought that maybe Mamoru felt like he was losing her and tried to explain to him on several occasions that her getting married wouldn't change anything between them but he just wouldn't hear it. Anytime she would bring up Sesshomaru or the wedding the silver dragon would throw a hissy fit.

"Both of you! Both of you just stop!" Kagome screamed as she ran out of the large clearing in tears. Sesshomaru glared one more time at the young dragon before going after Kagome. Mamoru took off into the air after her as well. Mamoru just managed to glimpse Kagome though the trees before she was snatched up in a white blur.

Mamoru let out a screech and burned some of the trees beneath him but he couldn't find Kagome or Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru had grabbed Kagome and moved as fast as he could. When he was sure he was a safe distance from Mamoru so that the dragon wouldn't find them he stopped and sat down at the foot of a tree with Kagome in his lap.

"This isn't how it's supposed to be, we should be happy all of us," Kagome said and continued crying into his chest and clutching at his shirt. She hiccupped as she tried to speak again, "W-what am I g-going to do with h-him?"

Sesshomaru didn't know what to say. For once in his life he didn't have an answer. He didn't know why Mamoru had been acting the way he had.

"Perhaps, Akako can talk some sense into him," Sesshomaru suggested.

"But if he won't listen to me --"

"At least she can talk to him with out worrying about being hurt, maybe she can push enough to get through to him," he cut Kagome off. "It's at least worth a try. I can't ask you to choose between us."

He was right. Kagome couldn't choose between them. Mamoru was connected to her on a deep level and Sesshomaru; Sesshomaru had become an irreplaceable person in her life. "I guess . . . it can't hurt." Kagome finally gave in. After all, maybe Akako could talk some sense into Mamoru.

There was a sudden gust of wind as Mamoru started to descend from the sky. "Will you be ok?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Yeah, Mamoru won't hurt me," Kagome said confidently, although she wasn't sure she wanted to see the silver dragon at the moment. "You go talk to Akako, I'll deal with Mamoru."

Sesshomaru took one more moment to kiss his beloved and he was off just as a very pissed Mamoru landed near the tree they had been talking by.

'Where did he go?' Mamoru asked, very angry.

"How dare you!" Kagome burst out and this caught Mamoru's attention. "After that stunt you pulled you think you can be angry?! I'm the one who should be angry, Sesshomaru should be angry, not you!"

Mamoru cringed back from Kagome's yelling. It was an odd sight: a rather large silver dragon backing away from a small girl. 'Kagome, I just . . ..'

"Just what? What is so wrong with Sesshomaru that you have to act this way?" Kagome said a little calmer, trying to not let her temper get the best of her.

'He's . . . he's just . . . I don't know, I just don't like him. We don't need him.' Mamoru tried to explain.

"Mamoru," Kagome started and walked up to the dragon and hugged him around his muzzle. "You know I love you, right?" she asked and felt him nod his head slightly. "Well, because of that I need you but I love Sesshomaru too and I need him with me as well."

Mamoru didn't like that last part one bit and reared up his head dropping Kagome to the ground. Mamoru looked mad and turned around and burned a line of trees opposite from where Kagome sat. 'Why, why do you need him? Why does anyone else--' Mamoru stopped and just looked up at the sky for a minute. 'It's my job to protect you, my purpose in life. I can still remember my mom telling me that and I won't let anyone else take that from me.' With that said Mamoru took off and just left Kagome in the middle of the forest.

Kagome covered her face with her hands. She didn't know what to do anymore. Why couldn't Mamoru understand that Sesshomaru wasn't replacing him? Kagome just hoped that Akako could talk some sense into him.

'Akako, I need to speak with you,' Sesshomaru called out to the large red dragon as he came back to the clearing. She landed just in front of him as he came through the tree line.

'What's wrong?' She asked. Sesshomaru sounded worried about something and there wasn't much that worried Sesshomaru.

'It's Mamoru," Sesshomaru said curtly.

'I see. I take it the young dragon still isn't taking the engagement to well. It's natural really. They haven't been bonded as long as we have. I'm sure Mamoru still feels insecure about his position with Kagome. At this stage he just wants Kagome to himself and doesn't even consider sharing her as a possibility. Like a child whose mother is getting married.'

'Were you ever like that?' Sesshomaru asked now suddenly curious.

'Perhaps, a little,' the red dragon answered vaguely. Sesshomaru thought for a second.

'Not long after you hatched for me my father tried to arrange a marriage for me, but the girls would never arrive at the castle. You wouldn't have had anything to do with that now would you?'

'Um, so, what about Mamoru and Kagome?' Akako deflected, trying to change the subject.

Sesshomaru let it slide he had more important matters to deal with. 'Well, since you seem to know so much about what he's going through I was hoping you would talk some sense into him.'

'I can try. I can't guarantee anything but if it's becoming that much of a problem I will try,' Akako replied.

'Thank you,' Sesshomaru said as he touched his hand to the dragon's bent down head.

'Well, I want to see you happy. Especially after all those girls I sent running home in tears,' Akako said, mumbling the last part.

'I see,' was all Sesshomaru said as he jumped up to the dragons back so they could head back to the caves.

It was late. Kagome was standing at the mouth of the cave watching the skies. Mamoru still hadn't come back yet. She didn't know where else he could have gone. 'Mamoru!' she called out again in her mind. She knew he could hear her, it didn't matter how far away he was. 'Mamoru, you get yourself here now!'

'No!' he finally answered. 'I'm not coming back until you admit we don't need him and you call off this stupid engagement thing!'

Kagome was so mad and losing her patients very quickly. 'If you don't come back now you will not see Inuyasha or Akihiro for a very, very long time.'

Mamoru was silent for a time and sorted in his mind that Kagome's threat was not an idle one. 'Fine, fine, I'm coming geez.'

Kagome sighed. She didn't know what she was gonna do with him. Suddenly she saw a dark shape in the night sky. 'You weren't even that far away,' Kagome pointed out. Mamoru didn't respond and he didn't even look at Kagome as he walked past her and into the large set of caves. 'Goodnight,' Kagome whispered sadly as the dragon disappeared into the darkness.

Kagome prayed that Akako could talk some sense into him as she turned to go. She looked at the Western Palace and decided to go see Sesshomaru before she went home.

Mamoru made his way inside the cave. 'Goodnight,' he heard Kagome say sadly and he wanted to say something back, but he was just too stubborn to do it. He took a deep breath and released it. Why didn't she understand?

He told himself to stop thinking about it for tonight and continued on his way to his cave. Just as he stood in front of it he stopped, something pulling at his senses.

'I need to speak with you,' he heard Akako beckon him. He looked deeper into the cave where her cave was. Mamoru didn't have a problem with Akako she was nice enough most of the time. It was just her rider he didn't approve of.

He made his way to her cave and as he walked in he noticed how much bigger it was than his own. She was a larger dragon, but still. 'Hello,' Mamoru greeted as he bowed his head to her.

'Hello,' she said curtly. This was not going to be a pleasant conversation and she wanted it over with. 'Do you know why I asked to speak with you?' she asked.

Mamoru was silent for a moment but then looked up at her. 'I have a feeling I do.'

Akako sighed, here goes nothing. 'I understand you've been giving Kagome and Sesshomaru quite a bit of trouble lately, more than usual.'

'I, I suppose I have,' Mamoru stuttered as he looked down towards the floor.

'Do you want to talk about it?' she asked, not wanting to assume anything and upset him.

'Not really,' he said and actually turned to leave.

A red blur flashed in his side vision and before he knew it Akako was laying herself down in front of the entrance and leaving Mamoru with no way out. 'Let me rephrase that,' Akako said a little too sweetly for his taste, 'you are going to tell me what's going on with you.' The statement was punctuated with a flick of her tail as it hit the rock floor.

Mamoru knew he wasn't going to get Akako to move so he sighed in resignation and gave in. 'I just don't like it,' he stated simply.

Akako rolled her eyes. 'Obviously, but why?' the red dragon pushed.

Mamoru's eyes darted around the cavern as if looking for anyway out. His eyes landed back on Akako who still had herself blocking the entrance and his only exit. 'Why are you doing this?'

'You're avoiding the question.'

'He asked you didn't he?! You're doing this because of him!' Mamoru began to get angry at the thought of Sesshomaru.

'Yes, I am, but I'm also doing this for her. She doesn't know what to do or say anymore so I have been asked to help,' Akako explained and effectively curbing the silver dragon's anger for the moment.

'I just--I just don't get why she needs him!'

'Is that all?' Akako asked.

'What do you mean is that all?! Isn't it enough?! Enough that he's going to be the one to protect her instead of me so that she won't need me anymore? Enough that the one thing I was born for I won't be able to protect anymore?' Mamoru calmed and slowly became sad as he went on.

Akako sighed, 'You know none of that's true.' Mamoru focused back on her. 'She'll always need you,' Akako soothed although she was sure Kagome had said it before and it hadn't shaken him. The larger dragon sat up and put her head to Mamoru's. 'Sesshomaru is no replacement for the kind of bond Kagome has with you it's just a new one.'

Mamoru pulled away and shook his head. 'No, no you just don't get it!'

'Oh really? It's my rider getting married to you know,' Akako stated calmly, 'and I'm so happy for him.' Mamoru looked Akako in the eye and waited for her to continue. 'There was a time I would have chased Kagome off and I'm not proud to admit that there are many that I have. If you continue to do this you will regret it in time. You'll regret that you made her lose a chance at being happy.'

'But if I lose her--'

'You're not losing her,' Akako interrupted. 'You're scared and that's what you want to believe, but it's not true and deep down you know it's not. You don't see me freaking out about losing Sesshomaru. That's because no one can take him from me because of the bond we share. You have that same bond with Kagome.'

'I'm not gonna win this argument, am I?' Mamoru asked.

'No, and do you know why?'

'Because I'm wrong,' the silver dragon answered correctly. Akako nodded her head and Mamoru fell down to the floor and tried to make himself look small, which is kind of hard for a dragon of his size to do but then again next to Akako he seemed to succeed. 'I still don't like it,' Mamoru whined.

'Tell you what,' Akako said drawing the attention of the smaller dragon. 'You don't have to like it just now. For now I just want you to accept it and stop taking it out on our two love birds ok? Eventually maybe in a couple years or so, you'll see that you did the right thing and you'll be just as happy for them. I guarantee it.'

Mamoru lifted his head from the stone floor to look at the red dragon in amazement. Everything she had said was true and even though he had heard a lot of it before it just sunk in better when she said it. I guess she really does understand, Mamoru thought to himself. 'Ok, I'll try and I'll work really hard on the being happy for them thing,' he gave in finally.

Akako almost couldn't believe it was that easy. 'You're not just agreeing with me so you can get out of here are you?'

'To be honest, I hadn't thought of that.'

'Fine, but if you don't shape up, we will have this talk again even if I have to come hunt you down to do it.'

'R-really?' Mamoru stuttered. Would Akako really go that far?

'Of course. Hey, if it makes you feel better spend time with my little brother over there when Kagome and Sesshomaru want some time alone,' Akako suggested nodding her massive head in the direction of Akihiro's cavern just next to hers.

'Or maybe with you?' he asked rather quietly.

Akako raised an imaginary eyebrow. Mamoru never spent much time around her. He was always hanging over her little brother (strange seeing as he's bigger that her) asking him to teach the silver dragon this or that. 'I suppose, if you want to. I'm afraid I'm not much of a teacher like Akihiro is though.'

'That's ok, I don't mind,' Mamoru said as he rushed passed Akako who had moved from the entrance. 'Later.'

'Later?' Akako said. She hadn't meant it as a question but she was a bit confused about how Mamoru was acting.

Just outside the caves the wind stirred as a dragon landed in the field between the mouth of the cave and the palace. Well, here I am, I just hope I can convince them.

InuyashaForever1989: Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since Dragon Rider (like over a year) but I'm back! I hope a lot of my old fans enjoy this new series and I hope to get a lot of new ones too.

Inu: what was that?

IF: that was me addressing the readers?

Inu: No I mean the whole 3 pages with just the dragons

Kag: You obviously don't understand anything Inuyasha

Inu: what's that supposed to mean?

IF: since the last series centered on mostly Sesshomaru and Kagome (and Kouga was in there quite a bit too) I thought I would make this one more involved with the other characters although the main pair and focus will still be on Sesshomaru and Kagome

Inu: well that's stupid

Kag: don't upset the writer

Inu: whatever

IF: anyway I've wasted enough of your time here. You know the drill, comments please ^_^