Peaceful?

He followed them, but he wasn't in a rush. After all, if Rin was taking Kagome somewhere, he had nothing to worry about. Rin knew her way around the palace and never got lost, anymore. Yet he followed their scents down the halls. After a few moments, Sesshomaru realized where they were going. Rin was taking Kagome to his private garden. It had been his mother's special garden.
In that garden, there was a special magic. Whenever he went into the garden, no matter how tense or frustrated he was, he could calm down. So he wasn't surprised that Rin would take her to the garden. It was apparent Kagome had gone through a lot, even to innocent and naive Rin.
When he reached the garden, he couldn't see the two of them, but Rin's scent was all over the place, and it was a fresh scent. So he knew they were there somewhere. He sent his power out as a breeze through the garden. As the branches of the weeping willow moved, he heard the soft notes of a song being hummed.
As he watched the two females he was surprised at how well they matched each other. Sitting against the tree was Kagome, dressed in a black kimono with silver embroidery in the shape of a cherry blossom covered branch, her obi a bright gold with a red cord. Her red hair was loose and swirled gently around her on the breeze.
Rin was on her lap in a simple golden child's kimono. Her black hair was also loose, but it blended into Kagome's kimono. The child was asleep, and was being cradled by the older female in the same way a child would be cradled by their mother.
They were safe, and Sesshomaru was satisfied he wouldn't have to worry about them getting in trouble. Now that he wasn't focused on finding Rin and his guest, he was aware of another presence and power that might be a match to himself. Sesshomaru stopped the breeze created by his power and silently observed and studied the power.
A moment later, it was obvious whose power it was. It was a conflicting power, and of two distinct energies. One miko, the other yokai. Kagome's beast had accepted and took Rin as her own child. And now that Rin was asleep in her lap, her power was unhidden so as to give a warning of sorts. Kagome wasn't going to let any sort of harm befall Rin.
If Sesshomaru hadn't been a yokai of strong power himself, he might have been worried and somewhat cautious of whomever the power belonged to. Rather, the only thing Sesshomaru felt was slight amazement. The miko part of the power and aura was strong. It wasn't diminished in the slightest by the yokai power. If anything both reacted to the other and increased in strength.
As Sesshomaru left, he made no effort to hide that he left, yet he didn't announce it either. As he exited the garden, he nearly got ran over by Jaken and Kouga. Neither of the two had noticed that he was approaching, but thankfully Sesshomaru knew they were coming and avoided the collision.
Kouga and Jaken, however, quickly collided with the door leading to the garden. Though Kouga recovered quickly, Jaken was seeing stars for a while.
"This Sesshomaru recommends that if either of you do visit the garden, that you don't have loud voices. Don't bother Rin and her guest." Sesshomaru told both of them as he left them standing there staring after him. He had work to do, and since Rin wouldn't be bored and wanting to do something with him, he figured it was the perfect time to do it.
Kouga and Jaken just stood there for a moment looking at each other before they opened the door to the garden. They both immediately felt the powerful aura and power, but only Kouga recognized what it was and from whom. Jaken, on the other hand, after always being around Sesshomaru, just thought it was his then ignored it.
So as expected, Jaken ran into the garden full blast, being extremely loud and obnoxious. He looked around, his tiny head snapping from side to side, and his giant yellow eyes scanning the garden with amazing intent and precision.
After just a couple minutes of intent searching, and babbling, Jaken spotted Rin's golden kimono among the branches of the willow. He rushed forward, spewing nonsense about how the 'neko' had no right to spirit away his 'Lord Seshomaru's' charge.
Kagome watched as Jaken pulled open the willow branches and approached them so fast he looked like he was teleporting. Then his nonsense, and chatter reached her ears, and her neutral expression changed to a hostile expression.
Jaken just stepped on a land mine that would blow him away.


AN: Well, guess what I found out? I'm grounded from my computer for a week! I can type up these chapters at school though, so this is ready to be posted the day I'm ungrounded. Enjoy. ^_^ Two days later: I just realized that you'll be getting that message after I'm ungrounded... I'm crazy.