Chapter 3: Sleeping Peacefully

"Kagome, are you done with the dishes yet?" Ayame called to Kagome, who had just put the last dish away. "Come train with us, for crying out loud!" She called again.

"Okay, I'm coming. Geez, Ayame keep your shirt on! Hey Sango you about done?"

"Ya, I'll be out in a couple minuets!" Sango replied from the other room. Kagome ran upstairs and grabbed her bow and arrows and sword from her room, then ran out into the back yard. She got outside just in time to see Ayame throw Rin down onto her back.

"Rin, you okay?" Ayame asked while pulling her up.

"Yes, I can't believe I fell for that same trick again." She grumbled, brushing the dirt off of herself. "Hey Kagy, it's about time!" Kagome grinned when she heard Rin use her pet name. Rin was the only one she allowed to call her that.

"Hey guys, so who should I beat first?" Kagome asked while walking into the dojo dressing rooms. She grabbed her blue fighting kimono and put it on. It had long pants that were loose enough to move around in.

"Hey Kags, how about you fight against me, one on one, hand to hand?" Sango called while leaning her giant boomerang against the dojo. She had just gotten done with her chores and came out to dress into her fighting kimono. It was green with silver slacks that were as loose as Kagome's. "That way we can both warm up, because unlike you guys, we actually did our homework and our chores," she offered while shooting a glare toward her siblings. Neither of them looked hurt, just smug.

"Just because you guys are goodie-goodies and do you homework immediately, doesn't mean we have to." Ayame said while sticking her tongue out at her.

"Whatever you say Ayame," Kagome replied with a laugh. "Okay Sango, lets get our training over with tonight, okay?" Sango smirked

"You got it, Kagome." Kagome just smiled and went into a fighting stance.

"READY...GO!" Rin called for the fight to begin.

Sango launched forward, Kagome sidestepped and blocked her kick. Sango spun around and dropped, kicking Kagome's legs out from beneath her. Kagome flipped up and leveled a kick to her side. Sango coughed and launched forward again and punched Kagome in the left side of her face. She recovered and grabbed Sango's still outstretched arm, throwing her to the ground and pining her.

"Okay, alright you win, I give." Sango coughed. Kagome got off of her and pulled her up.

"Damn Kags, you have a perfect spinning side kick." Sango said, while rubbing her side.

"Yeah and you have a mean right hook." She replied while massaging the left side of her face.

"Okay, Water and Ham sandwiches, come get it!" Mia called from inside the house.

"Yay! Food!" Ayame called and ran into the house. Everyone laughed and followed her into the house.

"Hey Kagy, can you help me with the dishes? I know you already did them today but there are a lot of dishes to clean up tonight, thanks to Ayame and her incessant eating." Rin asked shyly, while looking toward Kagome.

"Sure I will Rin." Kagome replied while rubbing the back of her neck.

"Thank you Kagome, you're the best." Rin said while giving her a big hug.

"Your Welcome, now lets eat, I'm starving!" Kagome called, and everyone dug into the sandwiches and chips, before running into the living room.

All of the women looked at each other and called "MOVIE!"

"Okay, who is in the mood for what?" Mia called out to her daughters.

"Hmmm… Girls should we all answer that question?" Ayame yelled, looking at her sisters.

"ROMANCE!" All of them cried at the same time.

"Okay, I vote for 'Ever After'" Mia offered

"I can go for that, it's cute." Rin cued

"Sure, fine with me," Ayame consented

"I guess we're outnumbered Kags." Sango complained

"Okay, we'll suffer through it." Kagome gave in, knowing she didn't have a chance to out argue her mother and two of her sisters.

"Remind me how you guys dragged me into this, again?" Sesshoumaru asked while moving toward the window of the Higurashi house.

"So we could get a sneak peek of the girls fighting techniques," Inuyasha offered.

"Because we want to know how much better they have gotten," Koga supplied

"And we want to know who is competing in what," Shippo was the last to give a reason.

"SHHH!" Miroku shushed them as they got to the window of the house. They all looked in and gasped at what they saw. The credits of some sort of movie were rolling by on the screen, but that's not what caught the boy's attention. All of the girls of the house were spread out on the different chairs.

Mia their mother was on the loveseat, completely relaxed and asleep. She had on silk pajamas that had flowers all over them. Her hair was hanging off the side of the couch, and she looked like she had a smile on her face.

Rin, the youngest was in the banana chair, curled up in a ball. Her blue fleece pajamas had small animals all over them, her hair was a little messy from laying down so long, and she too looked like she was smiling as well.

Ayame was lying on the floor, her head cradled in her hands. Tangles were all in her hair, and one of the elastics was coming out. She looked happy, but sometimes grimaced and mumbled something in her sleep. She had a small wolf on her shorts and a fox on her shirt.

Sango was leaning against the couch that her mother was laying on. One arm on the couch was supporting her head. Her ponytail holder was halfway out. Her face was angry and she looked like she wanted to rip someone's head off. She was wearing a plain shirt with short shorts.

These were all pretty pictures, but the one that caught Sesshoumaru's attention the most was Kagome. She was lying in what he could only guess was her fathers' recliner; she had one arm laying over her stomach and one under her head. Her hair was spread out over the arm of the chair and hanging off of the side. Her tank top was a light purple and looked very comfortable, with a white dog on the front. The shorts had a white dog staring at the moon. Best of all, she looked really content.

They had obviously been watching a movie when they had all gone to sleep. Kagome's scent, mingled with others wafted to him, putting him in a trance like state while staring at Kagome.

All of the Takashi boys' were transfixed on the site before them. All of the women that they were supposed to hate were catching their attention.

All of the boys snapped out of their trances when they saw Kagome stir. They all watched as she got up, gazing around at her sleeping family before she rose to go to a closet. She pulled out five blankets and set them on her chair. She picked them up one at a time and covered each member of her family. She put Sango in a more comfortable position and then put the blanket on her. After covering them all with the blankets she walked over to the T.V. and shut it off. Then turned to the stereo, put in a CD, and turned it on. Then she walked back over to her chair to lay back down. They all breathed a sigh of relief at not being caught.

Suddenly Kagome's eyes opened again, a slight frown on her face, as she gazed around the living room, her eyes reaching the window they were hiding at. They all went stiff. Sesshoumaru gasped as she looked directly into his eyes and smiled, before lying back down, and drifting back to sleep.

"Okay, who votes that we get out of here?" Miroku asked standing up.

"I'm with you, let's go you guys." Koga replied also standing up. Sesshoumaru took one more glance at the sleeping girl before walking away with his brothers.

"Hey you guy's, why didn't Kagome throw a fit when she saw us? She had to of seen us, not to mention sense us," Inuyasha stated, while looking at Sesshoumaru.

"I don't know Inuyasha, I really don't know." Sesshoumaru replied, glancing back at the house before it fell out of sight.

A/N: It's me, the taller of the two writers, Seritha.

Alright this chap is short but it's a filler so ne wyz. I have to say she's improving! Just wait, tomorrow we get to have some real interaction between sesshoumaru and Kagome! Eventually I am sure we will get to the tournament. (Ya, if she gets writing!) I don't really have any witty remarks, sadly enough but I hope you are all enjoying our horribly bad writting!

Well then, I have to say that my writing is by far the best, (Hey, gimme a break, plus Seritha, ever heard of being, oh, I don't know, HUMBLE!) but alas sesshy here is making me proud! -pats head- she's coming along quite nicely don't you all think. Like we said, every other chapter is us, with only some minor critiques from the other.

I'm signing off, I have no remarks left.

Seritha

A/N: My turn, well from now on just call me sesshy cause thats what she tends to call me. By the way, if any one is interested, I have a story that is in progress. Just look up my name, and you'll find it. My name is sesshys-flame-of-faith for those of you that forgot. Hope you all liked this chapter, I did my best and even threw in a little fluff (I'll moderate her 'fluff' i promise).

Ignore that comment, bout her writing being the best. I think she has a little ego problem. (Ha! My readers know I have no self esteem) I think I did okay, especially since I am still really new at writing. I hated writing at first, so considering the fact that I like it now, is good enough for me.(It's good enough for me too) So there Seritha! She is a good writer though. I'll give her that, even though it will add to her ego problem. (She is just jealous of my mad writing skills winks)

Well nothing is left to say, so TTYL everyone.

Sfof, with nothing else to complain about, is signing off