"Who goes there"Sesshomaru looked up and then got on his hands and knees and looked around the forest from behind the tree. Thinking that it was one of the men from the castle he got up and prepared to run still looking at the forest beyond his hiding place.

"Who be ye?" Sesshomaru stood there unable to move as he realized the voice was coming from behind him. He squeezed his eyes closed expecting a pair of arms to come up from behind him. But nothing. He opened an eye then both and shakily turned his head to look behind him.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he fell on his back. A horrified looks on his face his lip trembling. "A… a demon! The face of an elderly man appeared upon the tree.

"And what exactly would ye call yourself?" A moment passed pure silence "Huh you wouldn't happen to be Sesshomaru, the son of the great dog demon touga-sama?" Sesshomaru paused for a moment as he found enough courage to move he slowly got to his side.

But as soon as he saw the tree branches moving toward him he picked himself up and Ran a short distance before he tripped on the tree's roots just as he fell forward he was cached by a giant root that wrapped it's self around the screeching boy.

"Fatttttthhhheeerrr!" He screamed. He soon had his feet back on the ground standing in front of the tree.

"Now…" Sesshomaru started to turn around to run again but to his surprise the roots and branches formed what would look like a dome before his very eyes. He ran to the wall of roots and started banging his small fists along the wall demanding release but soon gave up being that there was no affect from his efforts and began to cry.

"There will be none of that. Now answer my question."Sesshomaru paused for a moment searching his mind." Now now… come on don't keep an old man waiting."

"He is m… touga is my father." He corrected his self remembering how his father was supposed to be titled.

"I see… well I would have guessed from your features. Your father's eyes and your mother's crescent moon. But had I not known better I would have thought you a mere child and not the heir to the throne being that your filthy and soaked to the bone might I add."Sesshomaru looked down at himself his cotton kimono was so wet and muddy it weighed a ton on his shoulders.

" You may call me bokuseno."

"Bokuseno?"

"Yes?"

"Are you the bokuseno that my father often speaks of?"

"I should think so. Speaking of your father… Where is he?"Sesshomaru turned his gaze to the ground hearing this.

"Hmm… With that being your only response I can assume you went off on your own?"Sesshomaru looked up to protest but only nodded.