"It's nothing bad, is it?" Shippou asked later, a look of slight concern on his face.
Kagome ruffled his hair as she walked by, in the middle of restocking her paints. "Of course not."
He was still skeptical, but she saw his shoulders relax. "Good. I like being here," he said, as if her unhappiness would be cause enough to leave. "Sesshoumaru-sama lets me sleep with him when you're busy."
Kagome handed him a paintbrush, letting him test out the new batch. If he'd been human, she might've worried about attachment issues, especially with the loss of his parents, but youkai had a different set of rules when it came to found family.
How long had Shippou considered Sesshoumaru pack?