Hikaru: Well, this is just a small story for the holidays (it should be about like three chapters max…). I was bored and wanted to something to pass the time. Well, anyway… enjoy!

"Mommy! Daddy! Wake up! Wake up!" Karei cried out, bouncing on the bed.

"Mommy! Daddy! Mommy! Daddy!..."

"She's your daughter…." Sayuri muttered under the sheets, her pillow over her head.

"Before seven, she's your daughter…" Sesshomaru muttered back, falling back asleep, only to get woken up again, when his seven year old bounced into his stomach.

"Guys! Did you forget? It Christmas!" Karei said happily.

Sayuri finally got out from her burrow. Karei's eyes went big and she ran out of the room screaming.

"What wrong with Rei-chan?" Sayuri asked sleepily.

Sesshomaru couldn't help but chuckle.

"Did you take a look at your hair lately?"

Sayuri turned her head to the left, where the mirror at her dress table reflected back short black hair ratted together.

"I told you it was too soon to replace the pillows…" Sayuri grumbled.

"RRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!" Karei screamed, running into her older sister's room.

Rin lifted her head lazily and took a glance at her alarm clock.

6:42 am…

It was too early.

"What now?" Rin asked, burrowing deeper into her down blanket.

"The Grinch kidnapped mommy!" Karei said, hopping onto the bed.

That must mean Mom has bed head again…

"Karei… I don't think the Grinch stole mom…"

"Yes he did! I saw him! He's gonna steal Christmas!"

Rin rolled her eyes.

She blamed Nobu and Kai for reading the darn story to Karei.

"Look… I'll go with you and prove that Mom's not the Grinch…" Rin said, getting up, putting on a robe, and headed out

"It's the Grinch!" Karei argued, chasing after Rin.

"Was he green?" Rin asked, reaching out to knock on the door of the master bedroom

"No… He was just like in the book!"

Oh that's right… he was black and white in those old pictures… Rin thought to herself.

She decided to ask Ryusei later to help her dig around for the old cartoon version of the book so Karei could tell what's what.

"Rin- chhhaaanannn!!! Dooonnn'tttt ggggooooo!!!!"

"What is going on now?" Rysei muttered, after waking up from the noise in the hallway, behind the closed door of his old bedroom.

"Your little sister's at it again…" Lili muttered back from the left side of the bed.

"Besides…" she continued, after looking at the clock again. "It's Christmas. Of course Rei- chan's gonna wake up the whole house early…"

"Want to go out for breakfast today?"

"Sure…"

After that, the two fell back asleep.

"Mom… Dad… we have a problem…" Rin called into the room, opening the door a little.

"Don't Rin- chan!" Karei cried, tugging on Rin's sleeve. "The Grinch will get you!"

"Oh no… not that…" Sayuri said, coming out of the bathroom, hair finally brushed out.

Karei peeked out from behind Rin.

"Mommy! You're back!" Karei said, taking off into the room and tackled her mother.

"I was gone?" Sayuri asked aloud, looking at Rin.

"She thought you got kidnapped by the Grinch after she spotted you with bed head…" Rin explained.

"I told you it was a bad idea to have your folks tell her that story…" Sesshomaru said from the bed, buried under the blankets.

Sayuri picked up a pillow and threw it at him.

"Oh! You get up too!" Sayuri said.

"Daddy's really lazy, isn't he?" Karei asked, climbing back onto the bed.

Sayuri sighed, as she tossed her hair behind her.

"Come on Rei- chan…" Sayuri said. "You can have daddy's steak when we're having breakfast …"

"Kay!"

Karei bounced off the bed, but not before her father got up and toss her over his shoulder.

""You wouldn't dare…." Sesshomaru said, glaring at his mate.

Sayuri smirked.

"Learn from me child…" Sayuri said to Rin. "The only way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Ima learnin', Ima learnin'…" Rin said, following Sayuri out of the room.

"Daddy, you want me to go get mommy's present now?" Karei asked from her spot on Sesshomaru's shoulder.

"Just wait a bit Karei…"

"HEEELLLOOOO!?" a familiar voice called into the house.

"We're in the kitchen…" Sayuri called back.

"Karei!" Akane shouted, zooming through the house.

"Hey! Slow down, pup…" Inuyasha called out behind her, carrying an armful of boxes.

"She gets it from you…" Kagome muttered, holding their son, Tohaku in the crook of her arm.

"You guys are here early…" Sayuri said, trying to get the food items ready for breakfast.

"Well, Akane was getting a little too excited…" Kagome said.

Sayuri groaned. Kagome knew that the kind of groan Sayuri was using was when she wanted to talk about something important.

"What is it now, Sae?" Kagome asked.

"My husband's being a jerk…" Sayuri muttered.

"What now?"

"We've been married for seven years now… and he didn't even say 'Happy Anniversary'…"

"Well what do you expect when you get married on Christmas?"

"I guess so…"

Tohaku's recently blown up spit bubble pulled the women out of their thoughts.

"Oh, my gosh! He's so cute!" Sayuri said, taking hold of her nephew.

"Daddy! Why Can't I Look Yet!?" Karei's voice rang throughout the house.

"Oh dear…" Sayuri mumbled, handing Tohaku back to Kagome, as she took off to play peacemaker.

"You have to wait for your mother…" Sesshomaru said.

"But it's just the stocking..." Karei said, pointing at the sky blue stocking with her name written in sparkling ink.

"Oh for goodness sake…" Sayuri said, taking the stocking down.

"It's alright if it's just the stocking…" Sayuri said to Sesshomaru.

While she was at it, she also took down Akane's purple stocking as well.

"Thank you, Aunt Yuri…" Akane said, waiting patiently for her aunt to hand it to her.

Karei and Akane looked at each other excitedly, as they were about to dig into the stockings.

"Hold on you two…" Sayuri said.

Both girls stopped in their tracks.

"We're missing someone…"

"Merry Christmas!!!" a hyperactive dark skinned little girl said, zooming into the room, dog ears pinned back as her silvery hair blew behind her.

"Michiko- chan!" Akane and Karei said happily.

"I knew it…" Sayuri said cheerfully, as she took down the third small stocking, this one green.

"Hey, look who we found on the doorstep…" Ryusei said sarcastically, as he and Lili strolled into the living room, coffee cups in hands.

"Geez, did you two just get up?" Michiko's mother, Akiya, asked, while her mate, Soichiro followed in after her. She looked over at the sleepiness the two displayed.

"After Rei over there cause a racket this morning, we couldn't get back to sleep…" Ryusei said.

"Aw… you guys are gonna start now?" Lili asked, plopping a seat on the couch.

"Can we start now?" the three little girls asked.

"Hold on Chiko…" Akiya said, waving a clawed finger at her daughter.

This is going to be a long day…Sayuri thought to herself.

"Ok… now that everyone's settled…."

Karei, Akane, and Michiko readied themselves.

"On your marks…"

"Sae do you have to do that?" Inuyasha asked, already worn out from the 3am wake up call from Akane.

"Get set…"

"Go!" the girls cried out, already breaking in.

"Oh man… I wanted to say that…" Sayuri said, sighing.

She noticed her cup of coffee was getting empty, so she went back into the kitchen.

When she reached for the coffee pot, she noticed an envelope with her name on it.

"That's strange…" Sayuri said aloud to herself, as she opened it up.

In order to get your gift for this year, keep trying to find the clues as the day goes by. In the meantime, try looking in the left hand drawer…
Sayuri cocked an eyebrow in confusion as she did as the note said. Inside was a small wrapped package.

Curious, she opened it to reveal a small velvet box. When she opened the box, there was an opened heart shaped locket with a family picture inside.

Sayuri smiled. It was obviously set up, but what in the hell did the note mean by keep a look out for more clues?

Sayuri shrugged it off, placed the necklace on, and went back into the living room.

"Yay! A Sailor Moon Movie!" Karei said excitedly, over the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon DVD box set, from Akiya and Soichiro.

"Oh no… not again…" Sesshomaru muttered to himself, flashbacks of the girls' Halloween party came back, when they were convinced that they were the sailor senshi and they kept beating Kagome and himself over the head with their toys because they thought they were the villains from the show.

Someone kissed him on the spot where the bump from Michiko came from that day.

"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Sayuri asked sweetly, after she kissed him and settled in once again in her spot on his lap.

"You like you're locket?"

Sayuri wanted to smack him on the back of the head, but then remembered the note.

"Yes… I do…"

"Looks good on you…"

Sayuri leaned closer to his ear.

"I'm on to you…" she whispered.

"I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about…"

"Mommy! Look what Aunt Kagome and Uncle Inuyasha got me!" Karei said, showing off the Grinch DVD, along with a new copy of the classic book.

"See now Karei. The Grinch is green…" Rin said from her pile of presents.

"Why is he green though?" Karei asked.

"Isn't green one of the Christmas colors?" Michiko asked

"Well he could be green because of all the garbage he lives with…" Akane piped up.

Being the oldest of the three, she had the idea that she was always right.

"But what about the Christmas Trees and wreaths and stuff!?" Michiko argues.

"Yea Kane!" Karei said. "Maybe Christmas is trying to tell him something!"

All the adults shook their heads over the little girls' argument over why the Grinch was green.