A/N: This one is for Lord Yau. Hope it'll cheer you up
Happy Valentine's Day for all of you out there, taken or single!

Morning

It was a lazy day in Naraku's current palace. The weather was cold, low clouds covering the sky and sending waves of cold rain down to the ground. The last of the plants were weltering in the air rich in miasma.

Kagura sat in the main room, watching the tea kettle intently. She knew that - according to the popular saying - the watched pot boiled slower, but she still was doing that. Focusing on anything else right now was beyond her brain abilities. She had pent the whole night out, making sure that Sesshomaru's sword wasn't rusty. Then, on her way home, she had ran into Kouga and had toyed with him for a while (who knew he could get so flustered if he got some extra breeze flipping his skirt up?) before growing bored and resuming her retreat to the hideout. She had reached home just before the daybreak.

Now she was wishing for a fresh tea and a long soothing soak. She could get it, if it was one of those days when Naraku woke after midday.

She bit her lip when she heard some footsteps in the hallway, but breathed a sigh of relief when the newcomer turned to be not the dark hanyou, but Kanna. The girl looked even paler than usual, with gray bags under her eyes. The incarnation of void looked at the tea kettle and something akin to hope appeared in her big eyes.

"It's almost ready." Kagura smiled. "Hard night?"

"Yes," Kanna gave a tiny nod and walked to the cup shelf to get her favorite cup adorned with flowers and butterflies.

"What did you do?" Kagura asked. The girl shrugged.

"Watching Inuyasha."

"For the whole night?"

"Mhm..." Kanna's chin almost touched her chest as she assumed the sitting position that allowed her to doze off without fear of falling into the fire in front of her.

"What was he doing that it kept you up all the night?" Kagura asked curiously.

"Sleeping." Kanna murmured and when she saw Kagura's shocked expression she added. "His ears were twitching."

"Hey, girls!" Byakuya waltzed into the room with a wide smile, rosy cheeks and lively gait. "How are my two lovely sisters today, after such a calm night?"

"Go to hell," Kagura muttered half-heatedly, because the water finally started to boil and the youngest incarnation sprang forward to pour their tea first before making his own drink.

"And they were swiveling," Kanna added in the silence that fell while the other two were taking first sips of their tea.

A/N: Don't binge watch things, kids.