Ok so I've finally updated this story. The thing is you know how I told you this was suppose to be a one shot and right now I'm trying my hardest to keep extending it. I don't want it to end just yet.

The thing is in my notes after Kaede told them her answer it was basically suppose to go straight to the ending scene but I'm not going to do that even though I'm trying to get this story out of the way so I can concentrate more on Chained: In More Ways Than One.

Which is going to be a long fan fiction. At lest for me. I have it basically all planed out on paper up to a certain point but then I have the rest of it in my head. I'll write it down someday.

... Any way what I'm asking is for you guys to give me some ideas. If you have something that you think would be funny if it happened leave a comment. It could be anything that could get my mind flying with creative ideas. I usually do most of my writing process in the moment between wakefulness and asleep. That's how some things turn out so weird.

Please help me and don't let this story die.


The Red String of Connection

Playing Dead

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The next morning wasn't as chaotic as the other because the hut was so small Rin and Shippo had to sleep between the attached pair for there to be room in the hut for everyone to be comfortable.

Sesshoumaru volunteered to sleep outside but Kagome wouldn't have any of it because of the thread she would have to go with him. Especially since it had started to rain outside.

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Kagome was awoken from her comfortable sleep by a loud snoring noise.

She groggily looked around to only find the noise coming from Inuyasha who had chosen to take his usual sleeping pose of sitting up while hugging Tetsaiga. She could imagine Inuyasha being like Golem from The Lord of the Rings going "my precious… my precious." Did he even have the capability to sleep laying down?

Kagome noticed it was still really early as it was still dark and everybody would be asleep for a while yet. She tried to ignore the loud noise which didn't seem to be affecting anybody else for some reason but it was grating on her nerves.

It wasn't long before she snapped. 'I can't take it any more!' Kagome went to get up to slap Inuyasha awake to make him join her in the torture of being conscious but found she was pinned to the demon lords side by not only the red thread but also by a heavy weight on her lower body.

She looked down in confusion to see that Sesshoumaru's arm had stretched over the gap of the children in their sleep to rest on her waist. Kagome blushed as she thought about last morning. 'Oh well I guess we've been in worse positions then this before.'

It was so early Kagome's brain wasn't fully functional yet so if Sesshoumaru's arm wasn't there she probably would've woken the whole village when she was slammed back into her sleeping companions by the thread.

Kagome's attention was soon focused on Sesshoumaru's face as she couldn't fall back to sleep with all that racket going on. Even though they'd slept together the other night she never actually saw him in the act. She'd fallen asleep before him and they'd both woken up at the exact same time because of Inuyasha's screeching.

Some how the demon lord managed to look peaceful and almost dare she say innocent. He also looked a lot younger to her without the scowl across his face. Kagome knew he wasn't actually young considering he was a couple centuries old but you couldn't tell just by looking at him. It was a grand illusion.

Kagome freaked about getting caught starring when Sesshoumaru started to stir after Inuyasha let off a high pitched snore that probably only dogs could hear.

She immediately whispered the 'sit' command not wanting to wake the others causing Inuyasha to just fall over onto his face with his but in the air and the snoring to stop.

'Why didn't I think of that before.' Kagome berated herself as she snuggled up to Shippo and sighed in contentment as she easily drifted back to sleep in the quite and safety of Sesshoumaru's arm.

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Kaede was the first to wake early as she had to perform her duties as the village miko but managed to make enough noise when leaving to disturb Sango who was sleeping closest to the door into wakefulness.

The demon slayer tried to fall back to sleep once the elder Miko had left but it was impossible. She was already too far gone and had an uncomfortable feeling. 'Dam, I have to pee.'

She threw back her covers and sighed in annoyance. As she got up to leave when she caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye and only one thought came to mind; which was 'aww'.

Deep in sleep Kagome's head had come to rest on Sesshoumaru's shoulder while they both laid on their sides each holding their child.

Sango never really realized how much Sesshoumaru and Kagome had in common. You wouldn't think a time traveling miko and a blood thirsty demon lord would have anything but they do. Somehow they both managed to find and adopt a child of a different species and gender.

Dare she say that they even looked like a weird mixed up family.

Sango was not a very girly person but even she couldn't resist the image in front of her and felt like she had to share it with someone. As she only had two choices at the moment it was a no brainer.

She quietly crawled over to the sleeping monk and lightly smacked his shoulder to wake him. "Wha…" Sango shushed Miroku when he was going to yell at her and covered his mouth with one hand not wanting to disturb the sleeping couple and ruin the image while she pointed with the other to get him to look.

Miroku's eye's softened with his mouth still covered when he got an idea.

Sango was confused when Miroku pushed her hand away only to crawl over to Kagome's big yellow backpack and start to dig around as quietly as he could. It all made sense to her though when Miroku held up Kagome's magic picture taking device in triumph.

The image could live on forever even if they had to force her to develop the film when the Miko went back to the future. Kagome'd regret the day she ever taught them how to use her camera but apparently she didn't do a very good job.

They both jumped when the flash went off freaking that it would wake them when the light flashed across their eyes but luckily because of the angle Miroku was holding the camera at it only managed to catch the two children.

'Dam those two are heavy sleepers.' Sango thought. She wanted to let them sleep in for a change.

Sango quickly signaled with her hands for Shippo and Rin to get up quickly and quietly as to not wake the adults. She passed them off to Miroku to guide the sleepy two out when she forgot something.

She gave Inuyasha a contemplative look as she came to stand beside him. 'How'd he come to sleep on his face?' Sango knew that if the half-demon woke to the image of Sesshoumaru and Kagome he wouldn't feel the same way about it as her and Miroku did so she dragged the Inuyasha still asleep out behind her by the feet.

Not wanting a repeat of yesterday morning.

But all the sneaking around and trying to be quite was for nothing when Sango managed to hit Inuyasha's head on the door frame when she was trying to move the flap out of the way.

*Whack*

Sango froze dreading that Inuyasha would wake up and see but all he did was let of a grunt. 'Thank the gods for his hard head.' She thought as she dragged the hanyou away as quickly as she could.

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The hit may not have woken the hanyou but it did the Miko.

Kagome found it weird when she woke to find everyone gone. Well not everyone.

It was already light outside so she decided it was time they got up. She couldn't go anywhere without the demon lord as it seemed the spell still hadn't worn off yet even though Kaede said it was only suppose to last a day.

"Sesshoumaru." Kagome said his name as she shook his shoulder but received no response so she just shook him harder. She forgot he was as heavy a sleeper as she was so she tried to think of the things that always got through to people no matter what.

"I'm making ramen." Kagome received no response and mumbled to herself. "No that's Inuyasha. How about… I have pocky." No response again. "Right that's Shippo… Miroku's hitting on the village women…dam that's Sango."

Sesshoumaru enjoyed listening to the Miko trying to wake him up by saying weird things, even though he was already awake; but she didn't know that. He decided to just lay there and see what happened.

The Miko continued to mumble to herself and it was getting harder for Sesshoumaru not to give away that he was already conscious. "I'm taking off my shirt… no that's Miroku… Sango's bending over… Dam that's Miroku again. That pervert."

He even smirked for a second but quickly fixed his expression back. Sesshoumaru thought of something that would be funny. Who said he had no sense of humor. He went limp and slowed his breathing and heart beat.

"Why can't I get this right. Now think of things that would wake up Sesshoumaru…" Kagome had to ask herself what the demon lords weakness was as he didn't have many.

Then she got it. "Rins fallen down a well… wow that kinda had a little bit of me thrown in there." He still didn't stir which made her a little worried. Rin always worked.

In the most dramatic voice Kagome could manage she yelled. "There's a demon attacking!"

She could hear the villagers outside start to scramble as the walls to the hut weren't that thick then Kaede come yelling. "There's no demon! Go back to what ye were doing."

There was still no response. Now she was really worried. That is something that would've woken about anybody but then she noticed that Sesshoumaru's chest had stopped moving.

'Is he dead?' Kagome thought as she grabbed the demon lords hand to see if he had a pulse but she could feel nothing. She thought that maybe she just wasn't doing it right and moved to the pulse point on his neck but still felt nothing.

In her panic she put her head to the demon lords chest. "Oh my gods he's dead!" She heard no sound of a heart beating but then she could feel his chest move up and down almost like he was straining not to laugh.

Kagome looked up at the demon lord's face in confusion only to see that his eyes were open and he had a slightly less evil smirk on his face than his usual one. "I was awake you know." Sesshoumaru stated.

"Since when?" Kagome asked still in shocked confusion with her head to his chest.

"Since the demon slayer hit my half brothers head on the door frame." Sesshoumaru said as his grin widened to his usual evil one.

After the shock had worn off of Kagome but not the confusion she remembered something. "Wait, what the hell! You're alive, but you have no heart beat." She yelled sitting up in surprise.

Once he was released Sesshoumaru followed the Miko in sitting up and explained. "That is a trick I learned in training for battle. It is to be used if you are injured on the battle field to appear dead to your enemies until help comes. I can't believe you feel for it."

Kagome froze and gave a cold glare. "You mean you did that on purpose?"

Sesshoumaru nodded. "I thought it would be funny to see your reaction."

"You bastard that wasn't funny. What twisted sense of humor do you have?" Kagome tacked on as she smacked Sesshoumaru's shoulder even though she knew no matter how hard she hit the demon lord it would have no effect in hurting him but she knew he'd get the message of how she felt even without her colorful wording.

He helped the disgruntled Miko up and turned to leave to go outside to find where the others had run off to.

Sesshoumaru was happy that his plan was a success but was confused when the Miko started to laugh out of no where behind him. One second she was worried about his untimely death and the next she was cackling away like a mad women.

*Ahahahah*

When the Miko didn't stop after a little while he just had to ask. He was a very curious demon and that factor could be accounted for most things that he did. "Just what is so funny?" He lifted one eyebrow in a questionable way.

Kagome had to try and catch her breath before answering because she was laughing so hard her face had started to hurt and her eyes to water. "Ha ha! It's just that I realized you're a dog demon playing dead!" She stopped to grab her stomach and wipe away her tears trying not to start laughing again but ended up laughing louder and harder. It just sounded even funnier when she said it out loud.

*Buhahahah!*

Sesshoumaru's other eyebrow also raised as he didn't get it. He didn't know that in the future it was a trick that humans taught their pet dogs.

He decided it best to just ignore the Miko for now and ask at a time she was in a more sane frame of mind.

When the Kagome started to try and teach him a command the demon lord just walked away hoping to find intelligent company dragging the crazed Miko behind him. "You know what? Roll over… come on be a good doggy and roll over!"

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