The feeble rays of dawn came filtering through the windows, alighting the couple n an ethereal glow. For the night Sesshoumaru had dropped his guard, allowing him to fall into a deep slumber, happily with Kagome. Kagome had a troublesome night, drifting in and out of sleep. For awhile now her dreams had been haunted, hardly finding peace anywhere. She yawned, opening her eyes lazily. She lifted her head slightly to look at Sesshoumaru.

His gentle sleeping face greeted her, causing her to smile. 'He's so peaceful when he sleeps..It's almost like he's enjoying his dreams.' She settled her head back on the soft pillow, a light sleep coming over her.

Creak…

The door to the enormous chamber opened, revealing two small heads. "Heehee, they're sleeping!" whispered Rin, looking down at Shippou.

Shippou smiled, "Yeah… Let's go sneak up on them!" he squealed quietly, moving out from behind the door.

Giggling, the two made their way to the foot of the bed, covering their mouths with their hands to stifle their laughter. Staring at the sleeping couple, the two exchanged mischievious looks as they silently made plans. "1…2….3!"

The two cannon balled down onto the bed, landing on Sesshoumaru and Kagome squarely. "WAKE UP!"

"Oof!" Kagome said, jumping up slightly from the impact. She sat up, hugging Shippou lightly. "Shippou…Rin! What're you guys doing up this early?"

Sesshoumaru pushed Rin gently off of his body, towards Kagome. He gave a slight frown at her outrageous behavior , "Rin, what are you doing."

Giggling Rin smiled and held out her hand, towards Sesshoumaru. "Shippou and Rin are bored! We want Kagome okaa-san to play with us. I would like Lord Sesshoumaru-sama to come play with us too!"

Sesshoumaru looked down at the innocent human, "Rin, you know I'm far too busy to play for now. I need to go to my study and then to the meeting."

Rin frowned slightly, "I know Lord Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin was just wanting to play."

Sesshoumaru acted as if he didn't hear and grabbed the covers off his torso, grabbing his top as he moved passed the bed. "I'll be busy for today, I expect that you won't give Kagome any trouble?"

Rin nodded fervently, wanting to please her lord as best as she could. "Have fun Lord Sesshoumaru-Sama!"

Sesshoumaru gazed into Kagome's eyes for a split second before departing into the restroom, getting clean for the day ahead. Demons had a very acute sense of smell, and it was too his advantage to not smell foul… as some other demon lords were known for.

Shippou stuck his tongue out at the closed doors, earning a giggle from Rin and Kagome. "Sesshoumaru is mean!"

Kagome gave a wan smile, placing her hand on Shippou and Rin's heads lovingly. "Don't worry about mean old Sesshoumaru, we have eachother, don't we?"

The children nodded, smiling brightly at Kagome. Although their smiles told of energy abound, their eyes told a different story. "Hey Shippou… Rin, why don't we go back to sleep. We'll have time to play later, and I think all of us are just a liiitle bit tired."

Shippou quickly agreed, snuggling under the covers to hug Kagome's side. Kagome opened the blanket for Rin, patting the empty space to her left. "Come on Rin, let's go back to sleep."

Rin shook her head, blinking back her sleepyness. "But Rin doesn't want to.. Rin doesn't want to sleep."

Kagome smiled, "Come on Rin, you know you want to go back to sleep. We can play later, I promise."

Rin frowned, "Okay…if Kagome okaa-san promises to play with us!"

"I promise." Kagome pulled Rin to her body, warming the little one. Within minutes, all 3 had fallen asleep.

15 minutes later

Sesshoumaru emerged from the bathroom, his wet hair clinging to his top. He looked down at the sleeping trio, wondering how she ever convinced Rin to fall asleep. It was always a challenge to get that little one to sleep, or even get her in the bed. Shrugging it off, he moved toward the vanity, dropping his dirty uniform lightly on the back of the chair.

As his clothes hit the chair, the light noise of silk against wood woke Kagome up. "Mm…Sesshoumaru?"

"Yes?" He turned his majestic head towards her direction. "Did I wake you?"

"Sort of.." she admitted, closing one eye sleepily. "When will you be done with the meeting?"

"Before sundown, " he answered, making his way toward the door. He paused infront of it, feeling Kagome's gaze boring into his back. After a seconds deliberation, he ran quickly to the bed, bending over to place a chaste kiss on her lips. Cupping her cheek in his hand, he looked into her eyes, telling her what he couldn't say with words.

"Sess.." she placed her hand over his, pressing her cheek into the warmth.

He allowed a small smile to play across his lips before withdrawing his hand slowly, his eyes never leaving hers. Finally when no contact was being made, he ran out of the door, only a bright white flash to Kagome's eyes.

"Sesshoumaru.."

Inu Yasha Trio

"Inu Yasha, are you sure of this?" Miroku said, sipping his miso soup.

"I'm positive, you monk! I know what I'm doing, if I didn't how would we have gotten this far?" retorted Inu Yasha, baring his fangs at him.

"Calm yourself." Replied Miroku, closing his eyes. "It wouldn't help us any if you kept biting our heads."

Sango sighed, 'Inu Yasha has never been calm ever since the day Kagome came back. He just became more irritable every day. He really does miss her..'

Kirara mewed, rubbing her head against Sango's cheek, as if knowing what she was thinking.

Sango smiled, "I know Kirara… I know Kirara.."

Sesshoumaru's study

Sesshoumaru sat at his desk, deep in thought. Things have only been getting worse, and he couldn't do anything about it. 'Who're these people..what do they want..'

He tapped the desk with his claws, one steady beat after another. The time for the meeting was drawing near, and Sesshoumaru wasn't in the mood for some trivial problems that the lords were to bring up. Due to the fact that many of the messengers sent to their lands, and the fact that they haven't been back to them in a long time, there was literally no new news to be told. Nothing new to be discussed.

All in all, everything had been said, and there was no solution in sight.

Sesshoumaru sighed as a knock pulled him out of his thoughts. "Enter."

"Lord Sesshoumaru, there has been another attack." Atsuke bowed, his gaze low to the ground.

"Who?" He looked up at the back or Atsuke's head, his gaze sharpening.

"She's finally been found." Atsuke replied, raising up to meet his gaze. "Kitty, my lord, has been attacked."

ENDE!

Ehh. I'm not so sure on how this is going, every time I sit down with my chapter that I wrote, I tend to write something totally different. It's soo weird. I really have no idea what the heck I'm doing. Oh well. R&R please, I really need your feedback, it's early in the story and I have to know what you're looking for. Rawrawrawrawr. Later days chicas/chicos. TenshiKorosu Out.