Disclaimer- I don't own Inuyasha (wish I did Sesshomaru) but I do own my own created characters. (Sorry to anyone who's thought of these new names and used it in their own stories…Thankx Kuramasgal for helping me with the plots when I got stuck lol)

(Flamers accepted gracefully)

(Time passes as it says Ex. It has been 2 weeks since…(then switches view) 5 yrs has passed. It means that it's now 5 yrs and 2 weeks since the start of the story. If no time is mentioned then it's around the same time.)

Now Read ON!

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To Warm Your Heart

The daffodils were blowing lazily in the wind. Whispering the promise of many fair days. Two young women lied in the shade of the old maple red. It provided a place of serenity and tranquility where they could talk without being interrupted.

"Lady Kagome…LADY KAGOME! Please hurry my wife has been poisoned in the fields. She is terribly ill a-a-and the poison is spreading, we need your help!"

Kagome sighed and rose from lying on her back to a sitting position on the soft grass. She turned her head from Sango, the demon exterminator, to the middle-aged village man.

"I'm coming…make sure your wife is in a comfortable position and put a cold cloth on her forehead to help keep her cool."

"Yes priestess." The village man bowed and hurried to his wife with a worried expression on his face. The whole village had come to rely on the strange young miko and her friends for protection ever since they defeated Naraku. It wasn't strange to see the hanyou Inuyasha and the fox demon Shippo playing with the village children every odd day. When someone wanted help they called Sango or Miroku…whichever they could get to first. When it came to healing their first choice was the young and beautiful Kagome and then the old priestess Kaede.

'This was the most danger we've experienced in weeks. The days drag on so very slowly. The only other excitement is the day of Sango's birth that is in few months.' Kagome thought as she absently stood up and brushed off her blue jean shorts and picked grass off her yellow tank top. 'It was obvious that Miroku and Sango would someday end up together. I always knew they would. Without his deadly wind tunnel, the hantai monk Miroku was no longer a pervert. Since his desire for the continuation of his legacy went away he's been concentrating on Sango. He promised her no more womanizing which led to her pregnancy.'

"Um Kagome, don't you have get going? That village woman is in trouble"

"Gomen ne", Kagome said softly while blushing, "I was just thinking. I'll get going to Kaede's right away." The beautiful miko turned on her heels and walked off in the direction of Kaede's hut for medical supplies. Sango sat up and chuckled at the retreating back of her dear friend and sister. She watched until she could no longer see her over the hill and went to find Miroku.

"My lord? Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin, the small and frail human who was now 10 years old stared at him with curious and questioning eyes that begged to be answered. She had been picking flowers for him in the Western Land's garden since he had left her alone hours earlier. Now that he was done with his work she ran to him with the beautiful and velvety roses she had clumped together and wrapped her thin arms around his waist and buried her face in his stomach. When she didn't receive an immediate hug in return she looked at him to find he was deep in thought.

"Lord Sesshomaru?" She said it even softer and quieter this time but Sesshomaru heard her anyway. His expression softened and he patted Rin on the head. He gently took the flowers and said, "For me?" Rin gave a delighted nod and ran to pick more flowers leaving the solemn taiyoukai alone with his thoughts.

FLASHBACK

"My lord, forgive me for the intrusion but the Lady of the East has sent you a very important letter marked urgent." Sesshomaru outstretched his hand and the guard dropped a tangerine smelling envelop into it. He stood there silently until Sesshomaru willed him away. The guard glanced at his lord's perfectly elegant form over the desk one last time before leaving out the perfectly carved maple wood door and down the stairs away from his private study.

Dear Lord Sesshomaru,

It has come to our attention that you still rule alone in that palace of yours. How long has it been since the great Inutaisho died? He left you the whole Western Lands to your lonesome expecting you to be a great leader and politician ruling with a beautiful mate at your side. That has yet to happen. Although your lands are apparently in control and so are your people. I advice you to take a mate or we shall step in. Your father was a dear friend of mines and I hate to see his expectancies to go unnoticed as if he never expected them so my dear Sesshomaru I, Kaitari, Lady of the Eastern Lands has decided that you shall wed my youngest daughter, Anisha, who has just turned 110. She shall be the perfect mate for the 120- year old taiyoukai. This will unite our kingdoms making us the largest kingdom and you and the beautiful Anisha will rule side by side. I will give you two years time to find your own mate. In the meantime I'm sending Anisha over to live there for the time in between your wedding. She will become accustomed to your world and palace. Place her in your most honored guesthouse, preferably by your very room.

The Lady of the Easter Lands,

Kaitari

"Ikaturo come in here now." Ikaturo the guard silently came into the room dreading what his lord would say. "Tell Heitaru to take this speech to Kaitari, the Lady of the Eastern Lands, with no questions asked and no excuses made. Tell to her that I wouldn't mind her daughter living here but she shall not have a room close to mine but shall have one in my most honored guestrooms. "Yes my lord" Ikaturo meekly took the letter from his lord's hand, bowed, and then rushed to Heitaru to deliver the message.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Ahhh…LORD SESSHOMARU!" Rin was shouting at the top of her lungs, startling the taiyoukai out of his thoughts. He withdrew Tokijin with a swift shhingg and turned in the direction of Rin. She was running in circles with her hands over her messy black hair pulled into a short ponytail on the side.

"Lord Sesshomaru! It's raining!" He allowed a small smile and a soft chuckle to escape his cold hard expression before snatching up Rin and taking her to the entrance to the Eastern wing.

"Go change your clothes Rin. You humans are more likely to catch a cold in wet clothing"

"Yes my lord!" chirped a delighted Rin and she spun around and ran into the room directly across from the taiyoukai's room with her hands outstretched pretending she was an airplane. He smiled at her retreating form.

"My lord" said a guard and he bowed low. "Speak Ikaturo". "Yes…well…Lady Anisha is here. Apparently they sent her a little after they sent the original letter my lord. Where shall I prepare her room?" The taiyoukai let out a short sigh mixed with a groan and told Ikaturo to place her in the room at the farthest end of the Eastern wing. He walked up the stairs to his private study silently cursing Lady Kaitari to the very depths of Hell.