I woke up to the sun rising above us. I was lying on my back, looking straight up at the sky. I turned my head to the left, Shippo was still sleeping peacefully. He was snoring slightly and curled up near the top, although the top of his head was barely visible and all I saw was his red hair. I crawled out of my sleeping bag, thankful that it was summer and I wasn't assaulted by cold air, and walked over to my bag. I pulled out my clothes and put them on. I decided to leave my hair down to day and tied a velvet white ribbon around my wrist.

Shippo was still asleep when I walked over to him. I grabbed the clothes he had thrown about him and hung them over my left arm as I reached down and shook him. He groaned before sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

"Shippo, go ahead and put on your clothes. We should get to work on the house, we don't know if it's going to rain soon and we need to map out the area around us." I smiled as he nodded, still sleepy, and grabbed his clothes. I turned my back and started making my breakfast, I had put our fridge of sorts close enough to our camp so that it was included in our house. I pulled out eggs and two pieces of bread. I shuffled to my bag and pulled out a pan, two plates, and two glasses. I smiled at Shippo as I turned around. He was sitting by the fire and was already looking more awake.

"Dear, would you mind filling our cups with water from the stream?"

"Of course not, I'll be right back." I handed him the cups and he jumped over the house wall. I cracked the eggs on the side of the pan and put them in the pan. I put the eggshells on the ground beside, I didn't need them. I held the bread in my lap and held the pan over the fire.

"Hmm, I'll have to make some sort of stand over the fire to hold things." I quietly mused to myself. My arm was starting to get tired when Shippo jumped back over the wall, cups full of cool water. "Aa, perfect timing Shippo, would you mind stirring the eggs so that we can start eating." he nodded and quickly walked over to my bag, retrieving two forks. He walked back and stirred the eggs for a few moments before they were deemed ready to eat. I pulled the pan back and handed the bread to Shippo at the same time.

I put half the eggs on one plate and half on the other. I stood and put the pan to cool near the fridge and bag. I alked back to the fire just as Shippo was pulling back to perfect pieces of toast from the fire. I sat and handed a plate to him and grabbed my piece of toast. We ate in silence.

The sun was nearly directly overhead when we were finished.

"Hehe, looks like we slept in, eh mama?" We both laughed. I grabbed his plate and took it over to the pan, still giving off slight chuckles. "So, ready to finish the house?" I nodded and he grabbed me around the waist and jumped over the wall. We immediately walked over to the pile of lumber when we realized something--only one of us could get up there to work.

"Damn, do you think you can work alone Shippo? I can work on the door and windows."

"Sure, guess we should of thought of this, neh?"

"Yeah, oh, how many windows do you want, and where?" I pulled out a sharpie from my sleeves-I had thought to grab it before we jumped out-and handed it to him.

"Well, we know where the door is, right here." He outlined the door. "We should probably have another one on each side of the house, the one facing the cliff should be bigger so that we have a nice view." he went to the forest side and outlined a nice sized window in the middle of the wall. He went to the other side and outlined a window that took up have the wall-it was half as long and half as wide-it was also centered. "I think we should also have two small windows beside the door, one on each side. What do you think?" I nodded yes, that it was a perfect idea. He quickly outlined the two windows and came back to my side.

"Should we put out the fire, or are you going to make a smoke hole as you work?"

"I'm going to make one as I work, I don't want to waste supplies." I nodded and walked to the nearly finished house. Shippo grabbed some lumber and jumped up. I closed my eyes and shaped my powers into a foot long pure miko energy knife. I carefully started cutting out the door, following the outline Shippo had made-Shippo's hammering and burst of demon energy calmed me and helped me concentrate as I worked.

This pattern continued for the next few hours. Finally, as my powers were starting to quiver from exertion, I made the finally cut on the forest window. I walked out the open door and collapsed on the ground. A second later Shippo collapsed beside me. But he hadn't used his powers as much as me, and even though he was young and tired easier, I had used more energy him and was therefore more tired. We sat for an hour, simply basking in the hot sun. we never said a word and we never moved. The only sound was from the occasional rustle of leaves from small breezes and our breathing. I closed my eyes and let the warmth lull me to sleep.

I woke up an hour later, completely refreshed and looked about as I sat up. Shippo was no where in sight, I was going to panic until I heard Shippo on the other side of the house. He was putting up pieces of wood, vertically, in the large cliff window. It took me a moment, but I realized he was doing it so that when we made the windows we wouldn't have to make the pieces nearly as long. The other windows were small enough to make from one piece.

"I'll go gather some sand to mold."

"Oh, I have started making a pile of it, by the cliff there is a little bank underwater, it collects sand. There's still a lot over there and it's really pure sand." I nodded and walked over to the indicated area, carrying a long, flat piece of lumber under my arm. I laid it down beside the pile of sand and examined it. It was the piece we had cut out for the forest window. I grabbed a handful of sand and started piling it up. Once I had got a decent sized pile I started spreading it out evenly. Whenever I ran out I would get more sand from the pile. I had finally finished making a half inch layer of sand that completely covered the piece of wood when Shippo joined me.

He was carrying the other pieces of lumber cut from the house, including the giant one which he had cut into the correct sizes to put in the remodeled window. He set the pieces down and started making a half inch layer of sand on all of those pieces. I held out my hands above my finished layer of sand and formed a square of my miko powers around it. I got it holding the sand tightly, still in the right shape, but it didn't have the wood holding it anymore. Shippo turned to me as I started heating my miko powers as hot as they could go and shot some of his fox fire around the nearly finished window. When I sat the window back down it was clear with no waves, perfect. I smiled and helped Shippo with the rest.

We stood by the first window-the forest window-and tried to figure out a way to mount the window. The finished windows were sitting by our feet and we had absolutely no idea how to put them in. every once in a while we would glance at each other, hoping the other had an idea. Finally, it seemed to come at me like a speeding train. I gave a little yell in happiness as I voiced my idea.

"Why don't we just make the wood flexible, stuff the window in, and then harden the wood around it!!" Shippo smiled and we did just that. The cliff window was the easiest since the middle pieces of wood could easily be removed. When the wood was hardened, it was incredibly strong. Once I made the charms and put my miko energy in them we would have even more protection, we planned on protecting our home strongly.

We walked over to our last cut out, the door. We checked it all over to make sure it was strong and would keep the cold out. When we were positive that there was nothing wrong with it I ran back into the house and grabbed some nails, two door hinges, and a simple clear glass door knob. I went back outside and he held the door in place as I nailed in the hinges. I ran inside as he let go of the door and it we swung it back in forth, it was perfect. Since we had already cut out the door knob hole it was simple to put it in. I walked back out, closing the door behind me, and walked with Shippo a little ways away from the front of the house. We turned at the same time. It was perfect. The sun was setting was setting off to the side and we could see the sun through the windows and the doorknob shone as array of colors, like a prism. We smiled and hugged each other.

"What should we do with the extra lumber mama?" I looked over to said extras and thought for a moment before answering him.

"Well, we could always make a book shelf. And floors. Geez, you cut a lot down didn't you?" He blushed lightly at my playful teasing and gave a sheepish smile. My own smile widened in return. "But for now lets have dinner and go to bed in our new house, our new home." He smiled and nearly skipped to the house. I chuckled, right on his heels.

"You know," I said as we got inside and had the food cooking. "the outside of the house is already done, a full five days ahead of what I thought it would take us. We don't have to immediately work on finishing the floor, we can do one section at a time. The bookshelf will be easy. We can start training to become stronger tomorrow. What do you say?" He smiled lightly and nodded. "Well then, eat up."

A/N: Ok, here it is, chapter three. I hope you like it!! I'm not gonna update until I have two more reviews. And incase you're wondering, the story is going to have more action from here on out and we'll start meeting people the next chapter. So yeah, it won't be as slow and have excruciatingly long details of what they are doing.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha or its characters.