Twentieth-five: First Happy Meal

In the late afternoon of the winter, a demon lord looked at a human girl builds a snowman with the two heads in the clearing near the leafless. He heard the laughing voices from them and glances at the three for a while before he heard a knocking sound from the door. A male demon slid open a door to see his lord wore a black and gold fine silk sat on a window edge and held a fine paper scroll in his clawed hand.

"What does he said, Kobomune?"

"He said he will return you the shard in this spring if his daughter gets better."

"Hn and how is him?"

"Who's that, my lord?"

"Shihobu's ex-lover"

"He is cleaver but we can get rid of him already but the mirror cannot be break."

"Where is it now?"

"Here it is, my lord" A man handed him a holy mirror and stepped back to his place.

The demon lord gazed at the mirror and glanced back at the woman played in the snowfield with the dragon. 'Maybe she can break it.'

A young demon lord walked toward the girl and the dragon from behind to see them build a new snowman but it is lying on the ground and has a long tail like a fish.

"What is it?"

"Hi, Kaito" She does not turn to him but busy with her new snowman. "Do you know a mermaid?"

"Yes"

"Here is my little mermaid but she is not Ariel."

"Why does she have wings like a butterfly?"

"I think it is more interesting than a normal mermaid that doesn't have a pair of wings and she is beautiful."

"I see and who is he?" A young lord turned to a snow rabbit near Ah-Un.

"Don't you know him, Kaito?" She waited for his answer but there nothing left his red lips. "He is a rabbit from Alice."

"Aha"

"Only this?"

"Hn. By the way, father wants to see you in his study room in this evening."

"Do you know why he wants to see me?"

"There is about the jewel shard."

"Does he find the shard?"

"He will tell you." Then the young demon lord wrapped his warm pelt around the woman and sat down to cup snow and put snow bunny near her rabbit before walked away.

"Why his bunny is cuter than mine." She crossed her arms and turned to the brothers but they shook their heads.

The sunset is going to leave the sky at the dusk horizon, a long brown hair girl sat at a dark wooden table opposite a silver moon hair guy in a room. He put a small wooden box on a desk to wait for her open it.

"I got it from his chest."

"And it is in this box over five hundred years."

"Hn" He stares at her creamy hand lifts an incomplete jewel form the box. "I return it to you, miko."

"Hn?" She looked at her lover. "Thank you, Sesshoumaru."

"Are you hungry yet?"

"A little"

"Ibu, bring her food here."

"Yes, my lord"

A female soft voice received his command and left the door to the kitchen to tell a demon cook cooked the human food and returned at her lord study room in a few minutes.

A young lord slid open a rice paper door saw his human mother eats her dinner in his father study room while the great demon lord stamped his royal seal on a letter. The western heir sat at a desk and put a thin book on his desk.

"Here is your book"

"Eh?" A young woman gazed at a book. "That's mine"

"I fined it in that room."

"Have you read it?"

"Hn"

"And do you like it?" But the young lord does not answer her. "I give you, Kaito because I know you like it and Rin might read this story before you got bed, right?"

A dog demon nodded his silvery moon head and put Alice in a bookcase near the two thick books.

"Why my books are here?" She stared at the two beside the scrolls at the bookcase.

The great lord inserted a letter in an envelope and put it on his desk. "I found them his in my mother's room on the last autumn. I sure that there is nobody has the strange books from the human world like you and your scented is on them even though they are nonsense but good."

The girl turned to him. "Yes, they are nonsense to you but not to me."

The young lord wanted to leave the place but he cannot. So he sat in silent and listen to his parents dispute to each other with their nonsense topic.

"Kaito"

"What?" A pair of chopsticks held a piece of meat is bringing at his mouth.

"Say R" The perplexed lord opened his mouth and she feed him with a delicious meat.

"Is it taste good?" She looked at the nodding head of her beloved pup.

'Why her mood is changing rapidly?'

'Because she is a human and she is our strange mother.'

'Maybe you are right, beast.'

'Say R, Kaito'

A young dog demon lord saw a raw meat is bringing at his mouth and he cannot help but let her feed him as she want.

'I really like when she feed us like when we were young. I know you cannot remember but I can recall that time.'

'But I recall only her melody.'

"Mother"

"Hn?" She looked at her beast pup in Kaito while her heart dances with joy with his first word. "Kaito's beast?"

"Can you sing us that song again?"

"But the councils don't allow me sing that song again."

"No matter and we want to hear it again." The beast opened his mouth to eat the food from her chopsticks.

"Don't worry, miko" The demon lord turned around to her. "Kaito's room has a barrier and I confirm you that your lullaby won't escape the area not alike your room."

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The beast held her soft hand and leaded her to the private area in the fourth floor but they passed his room to another room.

"Kaito" She called her pup. "You passed your room."

"No, we will sleep in another room." They reached to an elegant paper door at the deep private area and slid open to se the western lord sat on his thick futon.

"What are you doing here?" His pup still held her hand and walked toward the mattress then he sat down and lay on the warm futon with his mother.

"First tell me the bed time story, Alice in wonderland."

"Well, I have another story."

"What is it, mother?"

"The adventures of Tom Sawyer"

The western lord covered his heir and the woman with a soft and warm blanket before lay next to him like when he was a baby but this time the girl felt asleep before him.

"You are a self-willed pup, Kaito."

Next morning, the councils charged him with her song lulled the demons are in the area even if they do not allow her sings that lullaby over five years since she arrive the demon land.

'What can I do, Shihobu?' He sighed lightly while pats his sleeping pup's head on his lap in the afternoon after the woman told him the bed time story of Tom Sawyer.