When I woke up, I wasted no time going to Sesshomaru's study. When I opened the door, I was glad to see that Sesshomaru was getting up. I went over to him and took him by the arm. I started toward the door, but was eventually led by Sesshomaru.
We walked past the gates and into the town. As we walked, we caught the attention of many of the townspeople. Sesshomaru must be a wonderful leader. The people were ecstatic to see Sesshomaru, and some were glad that I was with him. They offered jewelry, food, things got really ridiculous at some points. There was once that some guys offered to carry me, and when they started moving toward me to do it, without my consent, Sesshomaru almost cut all of their hands off. I stopped him and saved the workers from losing their arms, but Sesshomaru still gave them the evil eye.
Thank goodness Sesshomaru was there. I might have been trampled on accident because of all the commotion, but it was great. I loved being able to see all the people that Sesshomaru works so hard for. I refused any and all jewelry. I knew they needed it much more than I did. I thanked them, and accepted very little. Even at that, it didn't go straight to me. I still enjoyed being able to at least speak to some of the townspeople. I was even able to hold a little baby. It was such an adorable baby, growing its canines and soft curly red hair. It was a little girl. Thankfully, when I had the baby in my arms, the crowd gave me some space.
"What is her name?" I asked the mother.
"Her name is Hikari."
"Oh, that's such a beautiful name. It fits her wonderfully. I cannot wait to have my own. I hope it will be as adorable as yours."
"I thank you, My Lady." The mother said as I handed back her baby.
From there, Sesshomaru led me past the people and toward the several vendors. I didn't want much, and was just glancing around, trying to get a look at all the stuff that caught my eye. However, whenever Sesshomaru saw me glancing at something, he bought it without hesitation. I could do nothing but give a nervous laugh as I watched Sesshomaru. His presence dared someone to try and cheat him. I guess I was okay with his spending on me because it helps the vendors out in the end. After eating a small snack, I found that I had somehow managed to get separated from Sesshomaru. I looked around for him before feeling a small tug at my kimono. I looked down and saw that a little child was holding my kimono. I crouched down to his level and rubbed his hair.
"What can I do for you?" I asked.
He held out his hand, and offered me a small bag. I contemplated taking it, but decided that there was no harm in seeing what was in it. Curiosity killed the cat, not the dog. I opened the bag and found that it was half way filled with some type of candy. I knew I was supposed to return it, but my sweet tooth told me to do otherwise. I gave in to my unexplainable love of sweets, accepted the candy, and thanked the kid before trying to give him something in return. Instead of waiting on me, he turned around and ran back to his friends. After standing back up, I watched the children as they turned and waved at me. I waved back before putting the small purse into my kimono and continuing on my way. I continued to search for Sesshomaru, but got distracted by a vendor. He was selling sweet buns! How could anyone resist?
I bought one, but before I could have a bite, it was taken out of my hands. When I looked up from my hands to see who had taken my food, I was saddened to see that it was Sesshomaru. He glared at me, silently scolding me for allowing myself to be separated from him, even though he's partially at fault as well. If he really wanted me to stay near him at all times, he would have tied me to him with a rope. Yes, it would look weird, and I would have hated it, but it would get the job done.
When I tried to get the sweet bun back, Sesshomaru moved it right out of my reach. I gave up on trying to save it from the evil clutches of the one who did not buy it. After waiting for Sesshomaru to let his guard down he finally did after a minute and I attacked. I brought his arm to my height, and before he could question it, I took a bite out of the sweet bun and gave a smile of victory. Mission accomplished!
At least I thought I won. I wasn't expecting my plan to backfire, I mean, how could it? Well, Sesshomaru ate the rest of it… IN MY FACE! Yeah, just popped that sucker into his mouth and chowed down. I wanted to cry, I really did. That was the best sweet bun I had ever tasted! Before I could buy another one, he took my hand and led me away. My eyes must have spelled out my despair. As I was taken away, the sweet buns salesman gave me a look of sympathy before bowing his head and clapping his hands together.
I hadn't had anything sweet since like... a couple of months ago, making my separation from the vendor that much more grievous. I guess I'll have to settle with the candy. I should probably run it by Sesshomaru, but he'll just take it away, just like the sweet bun. I'll never let him do that to me again.
After stopping for some "presents" (more spoiling) we returned to the manor. I was glad that I had Sesshomaru to myself for almost the entire afternoon. It was also great being able to actually go out and see some of the townspeople too, I'd love to do it more often, but of course that can't happen. Sesshomaru went back to his work, and I decided to see how Rin was doing since I hadn't talked to her at all today.
I opened the door to her room after knocking lightly. Rin sat on her bed with her arms folded and with a pouting face.
"Hey Rin, how are you?" I asked.
"I'm mad at you!" She told me.
"Mad at me? What did I do this time?"
"You left with Sesshomaru-sama, but without me!"
"Oh, I'm sorry Rin. I thought of taking you with us, but you had lessons this afternoon."
"I could have skipped!"
"Skipping your lessons is not good. When you do, your lesson plans are shifted back, and it takes more time to understand stuff."
"But I wanted to go too!"
"Well, you can't always get what you want, now can you?" I asked her.
She was silent as I gave her a hug.
"Why don't we do something together now?"
"I don't want to go outside anymore..."
"Then we can stay right here. There are plenty of thing we can do."
"Like what?"
I didn't actually think we could do as much as we did. It was ludicrous . We didn't "use our imagination," no it was 100% legit. We started off braiding hair, then we read a little before building things using whatever we could find in the room. Then we expanded to the hallways, and eventually ended up sneaking around, "borrowing" what we thought would look nice on the miniature castle we were building. We got pretty far, managing to make a castle wall out of bed sheets, a moat of pillows, and halls lined with vases, but then Sesshomaru stumbled across the room. I guess he thought it was too quiet. He took all of the stuff back and made Rin go to bed. I went back to my room after wishing Rin a good night.
After being escorted to my room by Mr. Stick-in-the-mud, he continued on his weekly patrol. I sat down on my bed with a sigh. It was the soft clanking of the candy that reminded me that I had it. I took it out of my kimono. I managed to carry his thing around with me the entire day without getting caught with it, to my surprise. I opened the little pouch and examined its content once again before taking out one of the several pale yellow balls that filled the pouch. They looked like Lemon Heads. I really wanted to eat one, but Sesshomaru wouldn't have told me not to accept gifts that haven't gone through him for a reason. Then again, he is just a stick-in-the-mud sometimes. The fact that I'm taking this much time on contemplating whether to eat it or not tells me that I probably shouldn't.
My ears twitched as I heard footsteps coming toward my door. In a frantic hurry, I put the ball back into the pouch and hid it under my pillow. I finished doing so just as the room door opened.
"My Lady, would you like to eat dinner?" a maid asked me.
"Oh, no. I'm fine."
"Are you sure, My Lady?"
"I am pretty sure. Thank you."
The maid left me alone after that. I was able to take a deep breath. I pray I didn't look like a deer staring at the headlights of a car. I thought it was Sesshomaru coming in, and it had scared the bajeebies out of me.
"Thank goodness." I sighed aloud.
"Is there something wrong?"
I jumped further onto the bed when I heard Sesshomaru's voice.
