Sesshomaru POV:

During dinner, he stayed silent. He watched the girl out of the corner of his eye; she was a most peculiar one. Most humans, her servant included, were careful around them and tried to stay away and avoid contact with them. They had a sixth sense whenever youkai came around. Kagome was hardly wary of her brother, though. This would be interesting. It reminded him of Kikyo when he was a baby. She never once hesitated to kiss him or pick him up and play with him.

While everyone was sitting in the living room finishing up dessert, his father brought him out into the kitchen momentarily.

"They had a video camera set up in their room when we snooped through their things."

"They saw me sniff through their things?"

"Yes, but I don't think they paid too much mind to it. I want you to go outside of Kagome's room tonight, by the balcony exit, and have her come out and talk to you. Apologize for not introducing yourself, and all of that. Make sure you hold her hand. Say that your shy and shit. You know the routine."

"Do I have to?"

"Yes, I want her in the family, you know that. I don't care if you or Inuyasha wind up with her."

Sesshomaru nodded, and they went back out with everyone.

……

When he went out to the balcony behind their room, he heard the T.V. going off. He hated it when humans played the wretched box. It was annoying.

He waited for a moment, and knocked.

After some rummaging around, Kagome opened the door. "Yes?"

Sesshomaru looked down at the girl's outfit momentarily. It was much more modest than what the others had worn to bed. He gave a fake chuckle, and said, "I wanted to talk to you… Not here though."

Her face went redder, and she shut the door in his face.

Kagome came back out after a few minutes in jeans, a tee shirt, and small white shoes.

"Ready."

He grabbed her hand, gently as his father had taught him to do so many years ago, and led her out to the back of their property where there was a beautiful cast iron bench set up in the middle of a flower patch.

"Kagome… I am sorry I never introduced myself, I am very shy," He repeated the lines his father had given him as a teenager. She was falling for it. "Sesshomaru Takahashi, Mafia Lord."

She giggled at him, and said, "Its okay. Go on."

"I just get nervous around people," He rubbed circles into her hand, and took it into his lap. He looked down at it. He took a slight breath, and looked into her face. He let her look at his eyes for a few moments, and looked back down.

"I understand. Sango used to be the same way, it was ridiculous."

"She is Korean?" Sesshomaru already knew from his father's explanation, but he knew this part of the routine was to get the girl to do some talking.

"Yeah, she was in North Korea until her family fled when she was a kid. They wound up on some of our property in China, and we took their family in. She is my best friend, now that she can speak Japanese."

He chuckled at her light joke, and said, "Did you happen to notice a little girl, in a maid's outfit?"

"Yes, I saw her briefly when Inuyasha was giving me his tour."
"Ah, yes, another pity… I could really give you some good history behind our family's antiques and kimono. That's another day, though. Anyways, she and Miroku are brother and sister, they were in a very poverty-stricken city in south Japan. We took them in when they came begging for work. I am not a big fan of Miroku, but Rin has to be one of my best confidants."

"Really? I see, you like eight year old girls."

He laughed, and said, "No, God no, I prefer girls my own age, thank you very much."

"I know."

"I will let you get back to your movie, but I just wanted to introduce myself."

He stood up, and offered his large hand to her. She took it, and he escorted her all the way back to her balcony in silence.

Before he let her go, he used his father's trade mark line, "Good night Kagome, sweet dreams."

"You too, Sesshomaru."

After she opened the door, he turned and left.

…

"Well, tell me how it went!"

His father was practically dancing around like Rin was when Sesshomaru gave her his first present to her.

"She fell totally head over heels for me, like all of the others."

"Wonderful! What did you get her to talk about?"

"Her servant."

"And you told her about Rin?"

"Yes."

"And she let you hold her hand?"

"Yes."

"And you took her back to your mother's garden, correct?"

"Yes, she loved it all."

"Good, lets go spar with Inuyasha. Go and get the swords out of the storage."

"The fakes? The humans would hear if we used the real ones."