Much later afterwards. The snow died and then a storm began with hail thunder and lightning. He awoke with a frightening look on his face just as lightning flashed then following the roaring thunder. Sesshomaru clutched his bedding closer to him. Lightning took but another hit apon earth sending the small child under the covers tightly curled up into a ball.
He stayed like that just listening for when he thought it was safe to come on out. But that time never came, instead the sound of the hard hail and rain pounding against the Wagami walls reached his ears "I don't remember falling to sleep." He thought to himself trying to recall every thing. "Mother!" he thought aloud, that one word was all he needed to bring every thing back to him.
He rushed out of bed. And dashed to the shoji sliding it back in one movement, he ran like there was no tomorrow. He turned the corners; somewhat sliding he came to a halt there were 3 more halls in front of him. His father had done so many things like this, having every thing look alike in order to confuse invading enemies. He then remembered the way.
His father once taught him how to know where he was going He even made it into a little game to make it easier for him to under stand. "My room is south I went north, south north East" His fathers words ringed in his head he took the middle hall east. He came to the shoji that lead into his father's and mother's chamber he pushed it back and walked in quietly afraid since he wasn't expose to be in there. He found his way to their huge futon.
Empty, it was empty. He ran to the futon they weren't there. Devastated he fell on his knees his fists balled up at his sides. It was no news that his father wasn't there he usually was gone for days to months with out a word. But his mother? Never! She was always here. He stormed out tears rolling down his cheeks.
He wiped his face up with his kimono sleeve. He was now at the front of the castle near the gate the rain continued but he didn't care he was going to find his mother if it was the last thing he did. He had devised a plan on how to get pass the guards it wasn't going to be easy but he was going to at least try and no one was going to ruin this for him.
He used the shadows as a cloak he moved slowly knowing that if he ran he would only be grabbing every ones attention even through the dark, that and he'd be making noise. He crept to the ote mon stopping whenever the guards on top of the castle started moving positions . Now the ote mon was practically safe enough for him to get a good view of the other side. He was very patient, a thing his father had taught him well.
He watched as one of the guards moved turning his back towards the main gate. Sesshomaru took this opportunity to dash over to the gate the bars were wood going upward. Sesshomaru tried to fit in between but he was just barely too big to fit though.
He bent down and started digging under the gate with his smallbare hands and caws going at a fast pace, since there was only a six inched gap under the gate The child did this for quite a while until one of the guards started hearinghim. Sesshomaru heard them talking amongst them selves about whether or not they should take a look in to the matter. They couldn't smell him. "It must have been the rain, it must have washed out my sent completely." He never thought about this before." I'm going make it! Mother will be so proud of me." He was finally done. He crawled under the gate and ran along the out side of the castle.
