Disclaimers: I do not own Inuyasha. I think it's stupid we have to put these things up. I think the site should just put it up itself...

Warnings: hmm...I can't think of any

Author's Note: Please review! I know the beginning is a little sloppy, but it gets better I promise. Oh and sometimes the kids word things differently; hopefully you guys can figure it out. If not, you guys can always tell me!


Rambling Life – Chapter 1: The Alteration


The young green-eyed woman was in a tree hiding so as not to be seen. She wore a light green kimono with white flowers, but the color was already so light it was hard to see. She had pinned her hair in a bun with a fake white flower in place. Her obi was a leaf green color, while the outlines of the kimono were the same color. She had a heavy amount of green powder above her eyes (eye shadow) and her sandals were black.

She stared at the group fighting, and chuckled slightly as she thought of some dirty thoughts. She perked her head up as the strikingly handsome demon said some few smart remarks. She wasn't close enough to hear as she did not have heightened senses, but she just enjoyed the sight.

"Hmm... I wonder," she thought aloud as other thoughts went through her head.

The demon in the red kimono held an overly sized sword and charged at the other one, which for some reason looked a lot like the other one. Both were tall and had long, pretty, silvery hair.

The young woman squealed in delight as she thought of how to torment them.

He would do well. He could do it, right? I could ask him, but he'd refuse. So I'd better just go ahead and do it.

She stared at the demon, and squealed once more thinking of how fun it would be to torment a demon. Especially if they were both enemies.

She pulled out some powder, and begun a chant.


"Sesshomaru! I will slice you to pieces!" Inuyasha shouted.

"That is hardly in your grasp, dear brother," Sesshomaru said calmly.

Sesshomaru easily dodged his brother's futile attempts to injure him. Finally, he drew his Tokijin and said, "Inuyasha, I still do not understand why you stride around so."

"WHAT! Aargh! How can you be so ignorant!" Inuyasha said.

Kagome intervened, "Maybe the lady was wrong. I mean why would Sesshomaru do that anyways?"

Sesshomaru was now getting quite annoyed, "What did I supposedly do!"

"The sweet lady was kind enough to tell us that someone was helping Naraku, and was doing some business in the village. And when she described the person... well the conclusion was you," said Miroku.

"There is no reason to help that bastard, just as there is any reason for being here," snorted Sesshomaru.

"Well thanks for the welcome!" cried Inuyasha. "But I'll just kill you for the heck of it!" He once again made a futile attempt to injure his brother with the Tetsusaiga, but failed to no avail.


Just as she was done with the chant, some mist started to form around the group, but for some odd reason, no one noticed. They were too involved in the fight.

They'll notice soon enough. Hahahaha...

The taller demon leapt out of the way, and on top of a small structure leading the smaller red-dressed to follow. Fortunately, for the woman, the red-dressed demon was caught in the mist, and couldn't get out. She watched as the taller demon on the structure watched curiously.


"Sesshomaru! What in the seven hells is this!" shouted Inuyasha.

No answer.

"Sesshomaru! I know you can hear me! What the hell did you do!"

No answer.

"Miroku! Sango! Shippo! KAGOME!"

No answer.

Once again he tried, but this time his voice squeaked, and he fainted.


A smirk played across Sesshomaru's face as he watched the mist. It appeared to be trapped, and wouldn't move any further.

It appears we have visitor.

He thought as he knew the ones in Inuyasha's group couldn't and wouldn't have done this, especially if they were going to be trapped inside it themselves. So it must be someone else!


The mist cleared as the woman in the trees watched the taller demon carefully.

Damn. The youkai moved out of the way! It didn't work on him. This is going to be harder than expected.

She then turned to the others who were indeed trapped inside her mist. As the mist cleared, she saw tiny toddlers, and laughed.

At least it worked on them! Let's see what the youkai will do.


Sesshomaru strained to look through the clearing mist, and as it cleared even more, he couldn't see any of the people that were undoubtedly there before. But he could definitely smell them. Oh yes.

Sesshomaru's eyes widened as he saw what he could not believe.

If this is true then...

He approached them, and leaned over to look at a drowsy Inuyasha who was a little less than two feet tall. Even the clothes had gotten smaller to fit just right and snug around the little Inuyasha.

Sesshomaru looked at the others, who were too, the same size as Inuyasha, and their clothes were small enough to fit them. Even Shippo had gotten smaller, but just by a little.

By the Gods... what had happened!

Sesshomaru started to walk away leaving the toddlers on the ground, uncaring. But hesitated when he gave them a second glance.

Well... it's not my responsibility. But they are just there, lying around. What if Naraku comes?

"Lord Sesshomaru!" A small voice shouted, and as soon as he heard it, he saw the owner of it too.

"Rin..." he said as he walked up to her.

"My lord! There you are. I've been looking all over!" she said as she stretched her arms.

He smiled faintly, and glanced at the toddlers behind him. She noticed this and said, "What happened?"

"My brother and his friends have turned younger from a certain spell, and I am eager to find out from whom?"

"Oh. Then what's that fancy paper on the ground?"

"What fancy pa-" he said as he turned around to see a dark orange paper held down by a pebble. He took a step forward, as he leaned to pick it up.

"Oooooo... What does it say?" Rin said as she went on her tip toes to try to read it, but failing forgetting that he was much taller than her.

Sesshomaru read it out loud as Rin stared intently.

My fair demon,

If you want your 'friends' back to normal you would want to consider a request that I will make of you very soon in the future. Don't fret. I will get a hold of you soon.

Midori

Rin gasped, "It's a threat!"

"Apparently not a very good one. This Midori must be an amateur, and the way she writes is so naïve. No one would fall for something like this." He threw the letter on the ground as he added, "I don't care for them anyways."

Sesshomaru began to walk away, and Rin stared at the children in the clearing. "Aren't you going to take care of them?"

Sesshomaru stopped walking and turned back to face Rin. "No."

But Rin kept pressing him with efforts he couldn't ignore. "Oh come on. They're just kids. Besides he's your brother!"

"They're not my responsibility..."

"But you should take care of them. Besides they're only little kids. How much damage can they do?"

"Rin, are you considering that I should allow people that I hate into my fortress just because they are young ones now?"

"Yes."

At this, Sesshomaru turned to see a young determined Rin.

Well...

"I am only doing this for you..." he said carefully.

Rin jumped for joy as she shouted, "YAY!"

Rin ran to the clearing, and picked up the little Shippo, and cradled him in her arms laughing slightly when Shippo woke up and poked her nose.

Disturbing... How can she have so much care for someone she doesn't even know?

"Lord Sesshomaru! Help me-"

"Rin, I draw the line at carrying them."

"But how am I to carry them all?"

Sesshomaru looked down on Rin, and said, "Drag them..." He began to walk off.

"Lord Sesshomaru!"

"Wake them up and make them walk!" he said in a harsh tone. Rin was going to have to take care of them herself. He was not going to take care of them, and he had no intention of even touching them. But reluctant as he was, he knew he had to take care of Rin, and since she wanted to take care of the young ones, that meant, indirectly, he would be taking care of them. He growled as he realized this, and stopped to make sure Rin was in sight.

Rin had thought of a smart idea... She had woken up all the kids who were now staring up at her wide-eyed, except Shippo who was in her arms as he was too young to walk and could only crawl.

"Ok," she said carefully, "We are going to play a game!"

"A game?" asked an innocent Inuyasha.

"Yes, but-" began Rin.

All the children cheered.

"OK! Essplain da rules!" said an excited kid Miroku.

"Ok... uhm, you guys all have to follow me, and if you don't, you lose," Rin stated.

The kids wrinkled their foreheads, but in the end gave in, and followed her. They didn't want to lose.

Then Rin began to break into a run when she saw Sesshomaru disappear behind the trees. She didn't want to lose him! She ran towards him with a giggling Shippo in her arms, and four toddlers running behind.

On the way, she picked up the letter that Sesshomaru had thrown away, thinking it could be more use to him later. Once she saw Sesshomaru, she slowed-down her pace, a relief to the panting children.

"Lord Sesshomaru..." Rin began panting.

Sesshomaru eyed her.

"Where are we going?"

"To the palace... where else?"

"Will you give them a room?"

Sesshomaru didn't reply, and Rin sighed as she knew this would take some getting used to.

Then a voice perked up, "Niisan?"

Both Rin and Sesshomaru stopped dead in their tracks.

"S-Sesshomaru-sama?" Rin said shakily.

Sesshomaru turned to face the little Inuyasha who was pouting, and the sad look in his eyes was irresistible to anyone but Sesshomaru. He glared at the little boy and in a cold harsh tone he sneered, "What..."

Inuyasha jumped back in fear as the other children cowered in fear behind Rin.

"I-I jus wanted to t-tell y-you th-that..." stuttered Inuyasha.

"What did you want to tell me!" Sesshomaru gritted his teeth in annoyance.

"I-I'm h-h-hungry..."sniffed Inuyasha who was starting to cry.

"Don't you dare do that!" said Sesshomaru, and at that Inuyasha immediately stopped. Sesshomaru turned to Rin who nodded at him signaling that she was hungry as well. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow and turned around closing his eyes, and letting the anger leak out. "Wait till we get to the palace." And at that he began his fast pace with the children following behind.

And the rest of the walk was in silence as the children stared at the pissed off demon.


Sesshomaru sat in his office, but wasn't doing any work, because the slightly annoying children were chasing each other around the fortress. After they had been given some food, they had become rolling balls of energy. Shippo was the only one who was half-sane as he sat on Sesshomaru's desk making odd noises.

"Aa aah," Shippo said making absolutely no sense.

Sesshomaru turned to him and said, "Yes..."

Shippo started waved his arms around hysterically and said, "Oi blah!"

Sesshomaru nodded as he turned to his untouched work. He rang for a servant, and when she came he told her to get him some tea, and something for Shippo. When she came back, she handed him his tea and a small bowl of berries. Sesshomaru almost choked when he saw the berries, but as he thought he concluded that she probably didn't even know what to give to Shippo and waved her away.

He took a sip of his tea as Shippo once again began his senseless talk aimlessly.

"Ack! Ie no plah beta ge nah! Cha ick ta..." he said sadly.

He then took the letter that Rin handed him and stared at it for a long time. This bothered Shippo and he peered over almost falling over. "Oe?" Shippo poked the paper and with his finger, gently pushed it down.

Sesshomaru sighed as he placed the paper in a drawer, and poked Shippo's stomach for the heck of it.

At that, Rin came in and said, "Milord, the children have eaten, as you know, and now are asleep."

Sesshomaru looked up and said, "Good. Now maybe you should go bathe before you retire."

"But what about Sh-"

Sesshomaru stared at her. "Go. Bathe. Now."

"Yes Sesshomaru-sama." She turned away and exited.

Shippo had already begun eating the berries, and while Sesshomaru turned his attention to his work and tea, Shippo was busily stuffing the berries in his mouth.

After a servant had come in to take away the dishes, Sesshomaru had cleared his desk, and picked up the little demon. He walked towards a hall that Rin had retired too, and a hall that Rin had chosen herself that contained the doors leading to each of the little children's rooms. He approached the end of the hall, and entered through the last door which had a smaller bed in the middle of the room against the wall. During the childrens' playtime, Sesshomaru had instructed the servants to prepare the rooms. He lay the drowsy demon in the bed, and checked that he others were asleep. Then he went of to bathe himself, and then retired to his own bed. As he lay down on his bed, he thought how dreary this day was.

I can't believe I accepted this! What have I done! This is going to be hell...

As he stared at the ceiling, he thought of everything that has come passed, and soon enough had slowly drifted to sleep.


Author's Note:

I am making Sesshy refer to Rin as "Rin" instead of "Rin-chan" just because I don't want to write –chan all the time. Rin is going to refer to the Inuyasha-gumi with –chan, I think, and maybe when she's annoyed, I'll have her refer to them with just their names. Sesshy won't refer to the Inuyasha-gumi with any –chan, but just their names. And the Inuyasha-gumi are going to refer to Sesshy with –sama or in Inuyasha's case "niisan." But lastly, I was debating if the children should refer to Rin with –chan or –san. Even though Rin is a child, she is still older than them, so... just out of respect I'm going to go with –san. Ha-ha. Anyways, just for your information...

I hope you like the story! I know it'll get better when Sesshomaru battles out some obstacles and he gets closer to the children, but it'll be hard, especially since I made him so Sesshy-like, but I didn't want an OOC Sesshy.

Yes, I know! Sesshy drinking tea! And then there were those berries! Well I just got the idea tea, because I once saw a picture of him drinking some so... yeah. And berries because that was the last thing I ate!

Ha-ha. Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Kagome, and Shippo all have their own rooms.

Midori: a Japanese name for a girl representing the color green or greenery; uh in my story, she's a witch... in dire need