"What are you two yappering about?" another watch guard shouted. The two men straitened their poster and bowed their heads.

"We have been hearing odd sounds below sire"

"Of what sorts?" the two men glanced at each other. "Well?" He was beginning to lose his patience

"Well we can't quite place it but it sounds that of an animal trying to come through the ote mon, maybe a Raccoon dog a kitsune or a wolf."

"A WHAT!" He yelled, echoing thro out the air

"Yes sire" They nodded looking rather uncomfortable. The captain shakes his head.

"Do you not know what sorts of our kind can take a form that of an animal, a Raccoon dog a wolf or a kitsune?"

"Yes."

"And I can just assume you two have yet to look in to in?" "Hmm?"

"We have yet to but…" They were cut off by the captain's voice.

"Enough I have had heard enough of your excuses for your endless stupidity!" " Our enemies could have done so to sneak in to our territory undetected. And with all this endless rain he could do so with out revealing his own sent. Lets say it was our enemy and he just slipped up allowing us the chance to attack before harm was to come to us and you two Ignorant fools let it go unchecked, because you thought it was as little as a fox, raccoon dog or a wolf what then?"

He supported him self along the ishigaki and slid down so that he was on his knees. To be quite honest he was very proud of him self. He sat there for a moment to catch his breath in which he lost in the excitement of the moment. He wasn't all too sure what he should do, now that that was done and over with." Well our land isn't as big as I used to think, so I should just fallow the path from the castle gate and see where it takes me.

Flashback

The corners of his lips pulled upward into a tight smile at the site he was seeing "What are you doing mai segare?" Sesshomaru's ear twitched and he turned his head slightly to see his fathers smiling face.

"Nothing." He said panicked. He knew he wasn't supposed to be in here. He hurriedly tried rolling up the huge scroll.

"Really? I have reason to think other wise." He crouched down and stared at his son then changed his gaze to what his son was doing. Just as he did sesshomaru threw his small arms over the paper trying to cover it. Touga let out an amused laugh. He picked Sesshomaru's small wrist up off the scroll and he used his left hand to hold the paper scroll down. Sesshomaru staring all the while like a deer caught in the headlights. He suddenly jerked his hand free and hid his hands in his kimono sleeves.

"Now do you care to tell me what you're doing?"

"Just curious." Sesshomaru was beginning to feel guilty within his father's huge golden gaze.

"About what?"

"The maps of the castle grounds." He looked down

"You do know there are…" He was cut off by his son's voice

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"Being here."

"Well I'm not all too happy that you came here despite my wishes. But truly that rule only exists because I didn't want you playing around all the wepons."As he said that Sesshomaru turned while still sitting. And he looked around, seeing exactly what his father meant, there where weapons all over the place, in the wooden boxes there were arrows, resting ageist the walls there were swords in shelves there were even things he didn't know of.

"You see?" "Now as I was saying"Touga arose, rolled up the scroll and began looking around the scroll rack. Once he found the one he wanted he pulled it out and replaced it with the one he and his son had. He then went back to his seat and began unrolling it. "We have much better maps. Much has changed since then. " He held the left corner with his left hand and pointed to the left side of the map. "Hold it here!" Sesshomaru did as he was told and held it down. Touga started looking at an spsific area, as did his son.

"Father what's that there for?" Touga looked up from what he was doing to see what his son was talking about.

"Hmm?" Oh that red line separates everyone's domain from another." With that taken care of he went back to his work

"Oh.Who's that then?"

"Who's who?"

"Hyou… Hyoune…" Sesshomaru was having some trouble reading his father's writing. But touga knew what he was trying to say so with out even looking up

"Hyounekozoku no Oyakata-sama" Sesshomaru stared in wonder at his father.

"Uh..hu" Sesshomaru said as he nodded. "So who's that?"

" A cat demon. Ok here we go, see this small part. That's ours."

" But its so small." How could his father even notice it?

"All in good time my son, all in good time"