Disclaimer: I do not own Shessomaru or the other characters... but Tabitha is an origional character... even if that is my name...

You swallow and ask "Where's Jaken?" He looks from the sunset to you, "He's not here, I read your blood note ,and told him to wash Rins bed so you could sleep in it tonight, instead of with her, unless you would prefer that?"

"No that's ok. But if she would lie to, I will. She can't be aloud to become cold or she'll get sicker." He nods then leans his head down and gently kisses yours. (eww hair! lol) you look up at him, as he is still holding you quite close to himself and he stares back at you.

You slip your hand out from his and put your hand up around his neck. You slide your other hand under his hair and stroke it with your fingers. It slides through silkily and you put your hand on the back of his head. His hands get tense, you can feel it, he's nervous, but only a tiny little bit. You pull his face closer to yours and he closes his eyes as your lips touch. You let one of your hands slip down his back and you keep your other hand on the back of his head.

You can feel his muscles flare, like the passion in his lips. He pushes his body against you and holds your body against his, so close. He slips his tongue into your mouth and runs it along the roof of your mouth. He pulls you up towards his face, and you pull up onto your tip toes. He runs his hands down your sides and puts one on the back of your head, then other wraps around your waist and holds you close to him.

He kisses you for a long time. The sun begins to drop lower and you realize that you need to feed Rin, or she'll get really, really ill and possible die! You pull away from Shessomaru and say, "I have to go feed Rin! She's all alone, and she needs properly nourishment!" It dons on him, "You're right!" he exclaims, "But she can wait 5 more minutes, can't she?" He says quietly and pulls you into him again. "We have to get back." You say quietly as his eyes hypnotize you. He leans down and kisses you softly. His lips lightly caress yours so tenderly. He slowly lets you go, and you look at him for what seems an eternity.

You turn away from him and step onto a red cloud that instantly appears under your feet. You sit on the cloud and zip away, as fast as light. (Not really just super fast) You're back at the house in like 2 seconds, really.

You hop off of your cloud and step into the kitchen. You see a chicken, already skinned waiting for you. Shessomaru must have gotten that before he came to see me. You cut the legs off the chicken and cut out the breasts. You place them in the wok, and fry them up.

looking out side you notice a garden on the other side of the kitchen, which you hadn't noticed. You go and take a few leaves from a lettuce and pick a few radishes. You rip up the lettuce after washing it, and then you cut up the radishes, while you let the chicken cook. Then you went and grabbed a large tomato. You cut that up and tossed it in the salad.

You pick up the chicken and place in on a plate. Which is actually clean this time! Nice. You cut the chicken into tiny pieces, so that they'll be easy to swallow if necessary.

You sit down next to Rin and tilt her head up; she opens her eyes and looks at you. She smiles weekly, then looks past you, "Shessomaru!" she says excitedly. Even though it took such strength, and she closed her eyes again. You sit her up and lean her against you.

You glance behind you and see Shessomaru standing in the door way, as you had assumed he was. He crouched down beside you and looked at Rin over your shoulder. She opens her eyes and you say, "You have to eat again Rin, I know you're really tired, but if you don't eat, you'll get more sick, ok?" Rin nods weekly and opens her mouth as you put a piece of chicken in her mouth.

She smiles and chews it slowly, quietly. You feed her a little bit at a time and she sighs when you are done. Shessomaru is now sitting cross-legged at the foot of her bed. You lay her back down and tuck her back in. She smiles at you and looks at Shessomaru, "Good night Shessy!" she says in her exhausted little voice.

You sit back and watch her drift into sleep for a few minutes. You stand up and Shessomaru gets up and stands behind you. He takes the dishes from you and looks in your eyes. Then he turned and walked to the kitchen. You look after him as he glides gracefully away, with his hair floating lightly behind him.

You sit back down beside Rin and yawn. You're getting tired, and the sun is setting, it's just beginning to touch the earth and the sky is a pleasant red-purple colour. You get up again, (oh, the effort) and step out onto the grass. It's a little wet and cool on your feet, since you're not wearing any shoes.

You go back into your room and take one of the quilts lying in a big stack at the foot of Rins bed. You spread it out over the grass and sit down. You're sitting with your legs crossed and your hands neatly folded. You got used to this, since your grand mother would make you sit like that and lecture you for hours. You weren't aloud to move from that spot, you had to sit in the exact same position, without squirming, or falling asleep, or talking.

You close your eyes and hum a little tune. Then you start to sing to your self... You just sing under your breath as it gets darker. You tie your hair back and go silent. You empty your mind and just exist. You feel... out of yourself. You can see the events of the day from some where else. You think about all that is, and what you hope will happen, and what you fear may happen in the future.

You think about your grand mother, and your father, who raised you till you were 6 years old, then left you with your grand mother. You let these thoughts drift away from your mind, and sit in your existence. I guess you might consider it meditating, but you're not praying to any heathen gods or anything, just breathing deep and calming down.

You feel the wind pick up a bit and your hair flutters behind you. You sigh and open your eyes. The sun is setting still, a blood red sky fans out before you."Rain in the night and morning." you say to yourself. "Yes." answers Shessomaru behind you. It startles you to hear someone else. His eyes are steely, and cold.

"You left this on the mountain." he says and tosses you the coat of your kimono. "Oh, uh thanks." He turns away, "Don't lose it." he commands harshly. You nod as he walks swiftly away. that was harsh you get up off the ground and fold the blanket. You look around for Rins old room, and find that Jaken was just finishing setting up the bed. "It's so nice to see you back again." you say happily, (obviously sarcastically but he didn't get that) He looks up at you questioningly. He sets the pillow down and leaves, still looking at you in distrust.

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You strip down under the covers, after putting one of the sheets over the door way. better then nothing you think and lay down. You toss and you turn but you can't seem to get comfortable. well this just sucks. You get up and walk a few times around the room. You decide you might as well put your insomnia to good use and get dressed in one of the ensembles you packed.

It was a simple one, just a t-shirt and shorts. You walk quietly around the house on the board walk. You reach the kitchen and boil a pot of water. You sit is the kitchen and look around for some soap. You found a rough old fashioned bar of soap and put it in your pocket. You keep searching and find a sponge, a rough one, obviously an actual sea sponge. the water boils and you poor it back into the bucket and put some cold water in so you can put your hand in without getting burned. You carefully carry the bucket of water back to your room and fold up your bed and place it outside your door.

You sit down on the floor and pull the soap out of your pocket. You pull the sponge out of the water and ring it out a bit. You rub a little of the soap on the sponge and start to scrub the floor. You Scrub every where, it takes you forever to get even a small corner of the room clean.

You work until sun up then you stand up and look back I can't believe I had to change the water 7 times, what a dirty place, But its clean now! The room practically sparkled. You dump the buckets contents on to the lawn one more time and take the bucket back to the kitchen. You put the soap bar back and then remember that you left the sponge in your room.

You walk back and set up your bed again before you pick up the sponge. You change into the clean kimono that was left there before. Mmm, now I'm tired you think and yawn. You slowly walk back to the kitchen and place the sponge where you had found it. You leave the kitchen and go to lie down in your clean room.

You turn the corner to walk down the board walk and you bump into something. You look up into the icy eyes of Shessomaru. "What are you doing at this time of the morning?" he demands. You regain your head and snap back, "What's it to you?" oops, you hadn't thought before you spoke. He shrugged "I don't care, as long as you're not trying to leave." "Oh..." you respond, and hang your head, sorry about your rash response.

He lifts your head to his, with two fingers under your chin, and says, "I know you've been up all night, I forgive you for snipping at me." he said with an understanding voice. Your eyes start to water up a bit but you blink it back. well no point in sleeping now "um..." you stammer, "so, would you like something to eat?" you ask. "You know human food doesn't sustain me." he answers.

You were just so used to eating human food, even though it did nothing for you, that you had offered it without thinking about it. "oh ya, but I've found that it can be very pleasant to taste, even if it's not gonna do anything for you." you say. "All the same, no thank you." he nods.

you nod back and sigh. mmm, awkward silence, how very nice you think sarcastically. Shessomaru was looking at the sun rising then he turns to you, "Is there anything I can get you though? Any thing at all?" he asks. You nearly choked, but you managed not to. "what?" you said. "Is there any thing you need?" he asked again. "I want to make your time here comfortable and I want to see you happy, so I want to know what I can do for you."

He looks at you with pleading eyes and it kind of weirds you out. I should be used to this sort of softness by now shouldn't I? "um... I'm actually pretty happy here, I just had trouble sleeping last night, but that'll go away as I get used to this place."

He didn't seem to accept this answer. He grabbed your shoulders and looked straight at you, "You're perfectly happy here?" He pulled you to him and held you close. "Are you sure, I'll do anything for you." You close your eyes and wrap your arms around him. "I'm happy just being here with you." He holds you tighter and whispers, "But is it really enough?"

You push your self away a little bit and put your hand on his face. "How can you ask that? How could I need anything more than you?" He places his hand over yours on his face and closes his eyes. You look at him, and curiously lean a little closer. I wonder what he's thinking right now... why has he been like this?

A smile had grown on his face, just a small, pleasant grin. He opens his eyes and looks back at you. You feel your face getting hot, so you look at his armour instead of his face. He doesn't really mind and he takes your hand from his face a laces his fingers through yours.

He looks at the horizon, "If you do plan on going back to your time for a while, please tell me... I'd like to go with you." he says and squeezes your hand. You look at him. he's so serious and concerned, so devoted. He doesn't look at you, but its ok, you don't mind, you're just happy with what has happened so far.

My life has changed so much. A few days ago I was only focused on school, and just getting through a social life. I felt alone, because no one could ever get to know me, I couldn't let them. I was a demon among humans, and if they found out... But now I'm not alone any more, and I'm just so much surer of everything inside me. So much has happened You sigh and look at the woods as well.

"Well I can't miss that much school, you know. I can stay here for one more day I think, but I'll have to go back to school on Tuesday. (for those who didn't catch it today is Sunday, tomorrow is Monday and the day after that you go back to school) I know I'm supposed to be in school before that, but it's just one day, so it's not really a big deal."

He smiled a bit at that. It's not really so much that he smiled, but more that his aura lightened. He usually has such an angry, silent, heavy aura, and it's even worse around his brother. But when he's with you, or something pleases him, you can feel everything about him lighten a bit. "Good" he whispered and squeezed your hand again before he turned around and walked back to his room.

Why does he do that? I know that he's got to lie low with this most of the time, but when he does get the chance to be affectionate he's extreme! he's almost panicky, like he's desperately clinging to keep me, afraid that I'll leave him...like every one else always has.

You walk back to your room and put the sheet back up over your door and get ready for bed. You yawn and snuggle down under the covers. what will happen when I go back though, he can't really leave Rin... oh wait Jaken can take care of her, but how will I explain him to people. "oh you mean the guy that's living at my house with me? well, he's my lover from another time era, oh ya, and he's a demon who hates humans." That would go over really good, I'm sure of it. You roll onto your side and close your eyes. his clothing to, I guess I'll have to purchase some nice stuff for him, before I can let him go anywhere, if I can get him to stay home for that long that is. you continue to think of problems and "what ifs" as you slowly drift into sleep.