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Chapter 2: Friends

The next time she met him she was kneeling on the floor in the kitchen of his sibling's house and talking to her son. He thought she looked comical but at the same time a warm maternal air came from her. His daughter, Rin, who had been hiding behind his leg, peeked out slowly and watched the woman.

"Shippo, you weren't supposed to take that candy."

"But Uncle Yasha said I could!" The four-year old protested.

"That does not mean you can take this many." Kagome showed her hand, in which five or six little peppermint candies lay about. "You only take one okay?"

Shippo nodded and seeing him dejected, Kagome pulled her son into a hug muttering an 'I love you' into his hair. She slowly stood up and upon seeing Sesshomaru smiled.

"Hello." She greeted noticing the little girl hiding behind him. "How was your Christmas?"

"Wonderful." He answered looking at her son. "And yours went by well I assume?"

"Yes, it was quite good." Kagome looked at her son, who was obviously very curious as to who the stranger was that his mom was talking to. "Shippo, this is-" she hesitated before continuing, "this is Uncle Sesshomaru- he's Uncle Yasha's brother. Sesshomaru- this is my son Shippo."

The taller and much older of the the two males smiled as Shippo tried to say his name. He walked up to Kagome, being mindful of the child now attached to his leg, and corrected Shippo as he tried to say his name.

"Uncle Sess will be fine Shippo." Kagome smiled, and her son beamed before curiously looking at the taller male's legs.

"What's that?" He asked. Sesshomaru understood that he was talking about Rin and gently pried his daughter away from him, kneeling next to her so she would feel comforted by his presence.

"Rin, say hi to Shippo and Aunty Kagome." Rin smiled briefly still wanting to be in the presence of her papa. When Shippo took a peppermint candy from Kagome's hand and handed it to Rin, her shyness seemed to slowly dissipate.

"What do we say Rin?" Her father asked as she accepted the treat. Rin beamed at Shippo, before uttering a well appreciated thank you. She then asked him if he wanted to play and with his eager nod the two left for the living room with Kagome's 'Be careful you two.' Heard behind them.

"She seems like a wonderful child." Kagome commented as they saw the two disappear.

"She is. And your son seems to be quite the friendly one." Kagome let out a tiny giggle.

"He is very energetic," she amended, "but that can be a problem sometimes. Are you going to spend the night at Inuyasha's house?"

"Yes. And you are making your way home I assume." The way that they were carrying the conversation almost made it feel as though they were already good friends Sesshomaru noticed. He rather liked it and planned to keep it that way.

"I am." She walked out of the kitchen and spotted the children. Apparently Shippo was trying to save Rin from the evil king Inuyasha. Kikyo stood by the side of the breakfast bar trying hard to control her laughs. When she spotted Kagome, she walked to her grinning.

"Aren't they priceless?" Kagome grabbed her camera, conveniently located on the side table and snapped a picture.

When Shippo saved Rin, he walked to Kagome, Rin's hands clasped in his, and beamed at his mother.

"I saved her mommy!"

"I saw. Good job Shippo!" Kagome bent down and gave her son a hug. "I'm so glad you're safe, I don't know what I would have done if the evil king hurt you!" She looked at Inuyasha and winked, letting him know that she held no bad feelings toward him. However, her statement seemed to be taken literally by Rin.

"Don't worry! Daddy would have saved us!" Everyone turned to look at Sesshomaru whose eyes widened.

"Of course," he leveled Inuyasha with a stare, "the evil king isn't really that big of an opponent for me." Inuyasha smirked.

"Want to see?"

"Later." Sesshomaru stated moving to sit on the couch next to his brother. Rin joined her father and Kagome sat across from them, with Shippo nestled in her lap.

"Well, then, what should we do now?" came Kikyo's voice as she settled in next to her cousin.


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