I decided to rewrite a bit of what I had to appease you guys for a bit. Seems I wont be getting the laptop for christmas. I hate walmart.

It was early in the morning and the sun had just begun to rise. They began the trek back to camp a little more leisurely than they had come. They were content enough just to walk in companionable silence admiring the scene about them in luscious envy. On their way so far there had not been one attack to steal the shards that lay safely tucked between the folds of the neck of her kimono.

A while ago she had begun to put it on a necklace so it did not cause problems in fighting.

She watched from her place next to Sesshomaru's side how every so often his ear would twitch favorably in a new direction listening for a shift in the wind or a sound out of place.

To take his mind of attack she decided on a whim to inquire more about him before she had met him.

"Sessho…erm, Lord Sesshomaru."

The only indication he offered to her of his attention was a shift in her general direction. "May I ask you a few questions. That is if you don't mind, you don't have to even answer them if you don't want to….." She faded away into silence opting to look at a meadowlark singing a tune, as it scoured the ground for an early breakfast.

"If it pleases you to do so."

She looked up at his relaxed features. She hadn't realized just how much tension he must feel while on the prowl for danger. "Thank you milord."

She hadn't even thought of the possibility of him saying yes to her question. She just wanted to help him relax a bit more.

He waited for her to make up her mind which question she wanted to ask him first. It was not often that he felt like talking, lest even more so about himself, and so he was going to take full advantage of it as well.

"What was it like growing up as a demon?"

He had expected her to inquire about his relationship to Inuyasha that this question caught him off guard and he was little prepared to answer it as such.

She watched him as he stewed over the question. She had noticed him look taken aback when she had asked it. He probably thought her to ask a different question of sorts.

She came from her reverie when he began to speak. "It was bearable."

"How so?"

She waited yet again for him to come up with an adequate answer. "I was lonely."

Lonely? A lord as he, even as a child must have had friends. " Did you not have many…..friends?"

"Allies."

"Er allies."

"Yes, but I was never close to them as I was my mother."

She waited for him to break down in uncontrollable sobs, how ever uncharacteristically it might have seemed, but it would have been more than anything for his cool demeanor. "If you don't mind my asking, what was she like."

She waited this time for him to lash out and strike her possibly tell her it was none of her damn business as Inuyasha had done in those past few times she had asked about his past. So when he began to supply an answer she listened real close and made sure to hang onto every word.

"Beautiful. She was the most beautiful demon I had ever seen. She was and inch taller than my father. I remember her telling me a story once of how they had fought over it and didn't talk to each other for a week. My mother out of creed and my father out of pride. As I think of it now I see how truly foolish it was. She was laying me down to sleep. My father stood poised at the doorway listening to her warm voice flutter over the winds as she spoke. Just as her, it was beautiful also." She watched him as he spoke. She was picturing his mother in her mind's eye.

"I knew he was there and I suppose so did she. One always can sense their mate from even greater distances than the nose can reach. She had long silver hair and golden eyes a shade lighter than my own. Always the one to make peace. Eventually she let go of her discretion and went to my father in submission. That is one of the fondest memories I have of her. As she told me this story my father had come to stand behind her and offered her his hand to hold while she told me this. I had thought them to be without fault and I idolized them in every aspect. How wrong I was.

"It was almost a week after that I came upon them fighting about something. I was careful to hide my scent and my person. As I listened I heard more than I should.

"I will not do it."

"You will and you will honor me. You are my mate and as the male what I say goes."

"Despicable. How dare you treat me as so? Why don't you go ask one of your concubines to bear you another heir? Why god only knows how many illegitimate children you have anyway."

"I remember their words to each other. So hateful, full of malignity. He slapped her. She lay sprawled across the ground. I watched as he raped her. Took her with such ferocity that even I could not imagine. It was not my mother who killed herself. My father had begun her death ever so slowly. I realized after that what kind of world I lived in. I was changed forever that day and I promised myself to hold onto my mother for as long as I could. Time was short. She killed herself a few days later."

"I am sorry." She spoke for the first time. His story was entrancing and she found herself picturing it all in her mind.

"Why are you sorry?"

"I don't know that is just the thing people say when something bad happens."

He accepted her answer and she decided not to ask any more questions. When she thought that there was going to be no more talking, she jumped at his voice. "Do you not have anymore questions?"

She shook her head. "Then I will ask you some of my own."

She looked oddly up at him. What could he possibly care to know about her. Her life was no more as interesting as a rock that is in a lake. Forever eroding until it wasted away into nothingness. She watched as he thought of his first question. "Growing up human what was it like?"

"Boring." She replied nonchalantly. "Nothing ever happened. My parents were always busy with work and my father died when I was little. I walked through my days as if through someone else's eyes. I always felt as though something was missing. I only begun to feel completed when my travels to here began. When I met the people here, I felt like I had come back from a very long vacation. It was soothing."

She waited for him to ask more questions.

In truth he had no idea what had possessed him to inquire about her life as a human. He decided upon his next question. "Do you still hate Inuyasha?"

She was caught off guard. "I..I.." She stuttered. Did she hate Inuyasha, not as much as she had before. "Not so much anymore. I guess I am content with his decision. I now know it would never have worked between us as long as he still held feelings for Kikyo." She paused. "It feels good to say. I am finally letting go of Inuyasha."

He nodded to her approvingly and didn't question her anymore of the way back to Inuyasha's Forest.

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I must have let loose in my weakness. He almost got through to her. I will have to make my pact stronger. I can still feel his unwillingness towards me and his longing for the girl. I will have to degrade him mentally to keep control of him. The more he will think upon this information the weaker he will become. I will plant the relationship of the lord and Kagome in his head. That should do it.

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I know it isn't alot but I hope you guys liked it. I know a lot didn't happen but I liked it. Oh and you can review.

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