Up in the tree house, the children played games and sang songs, all happy and innocent. Sesshoumaru was getting fed up with this whole scene and wished he could slaughter them all. But Rin was having a good time, so he refrained from doing so. But Just barely. He had already lost interest in watching his brother suffer from possible brain damage. It wasn't amusing after two hours of hearing singing children. He was going to go crazy.

Jaken was not running around like an idiot at least. No, the poor toad was balled up in the far corner sulking over his destroyed work of art. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes. How pathetic. And Jaken was his servant? What a wimp.

"It's arts and crafts time!" announced Barney.

"YAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!"

"Man," said InuYasha standing next to Kagome. "They really love that overgrown lizard, don't they?"

"It looks that way."

The children had crowded around a long table on which sat tissue paper, pipe cleaners, construction paper, popsicle sticks, q-tips, beads, tape, glue, crayons, markers and little sparkly things. Rin sat down between two girls and looked at the items in curiosity.

"What are we supposed to do with these?" she asked.

"You make things," said the girl on her left. "See?" she picked up a large piece of tissue paper and began forming it into something. "Look," she said. "It's a flower."

"Wow," said Rin, her eyes wide.

"And look." The girl picked up a green pipe cleaner and stuck it through the bottom of the flower. Then she cut out two leaf shapes and taped them to the sides of the pipe cleaner. "See?"

"Oh wow! I want to make one!" So she set to work on making her own flower.

"Look at this, Rin," said the girl to her right. She had taken a piece of construction paper and began to fold it into many different sections. When it 

was finished, the girl held up a paper swan. "It's called Origami. It's a Chinese art."

"Cool!" said Rin. She had just finished her flower when she picked up a sheet of white paper and began to fold it. When it was finished, she attached the flower where its mouth would be. "There! All finished." She jumped up and ran over to Sesshoumaru holding out her project. "This is for you, Lord Sesshoumaru!" she said, her heart in her eyes.

Sesshoumaru looked down at the paper dog with the flower in its mouth. Deep down, he appreciated the gesture and wanted to hug the little girl. But he'd never do such a thing. He wasn't his brother after all. He turned his back to her and glared at nothing in particular.

"Ridiculous."

"Hey InuYasha?" said Kagome.

"Yeah?"

"Don't you think it's sort of sad?"

"What's that?"

"Well…Rin looks up to Sesshoumaru. He's her hero. But every time she tries to do something nice for him, he throws it back in her face."

"So?"

"It's mean!"

"What do you expect? It's Sesshoumaru."

"But still, he could at least act grateful, for her sake."

"Snack time everyone!" called Barney.

"Yay! I'm hungry!"

"Me too!"

"What's for snack?! What's for snack?!"

"Well, what did you all bring?" asked the purple dinosaur. They all looked around at one another questioningly.



"We don't have anything," replied one of the boys.

"Aw," said Kagome, her eyes sad (I'm really hamming this up). "The poor things. They're going to starve." Then she remembered something. "Oh wait!" she said getting into her back pack. "I've got these." She held up the potato chips and the children cheered. InuYasha was horror-stricken. "Everyone come get some!" Soon the children were upon her and she began to hand out bowls of chips to each of them.

"Kagome?! What are you doing?!" exclaimed InuYasha hyper-ventilating. "That's the last of our food!! Don't give it to THEM!!"

"Geeze, InuYasha, you're so selfish," said Kagome.

"But those are OURS!!" he sobbed sinking to the floor.

"Oh get a grip."

Now InuYasha was sitting in the corner with Jaken, one hand clutching his knees as he rocked back and forth, his left thumb in his mouth. Those were his chips…And now they were gone…

sobs