Alison sat on a rock, outlooking the ocean, late at night seeing as she couldn't sleep, she was strumming her guitar, she was far enough way that the music wouldn't bother anyone in the house, she just couldn't sleep right now, after a day of swimming, board games, great meals made with love by her mother and father. She just couldn't figure out why she was still wide awake. She had a lantern with her just to see the pages and the strings of the guitar.

"You couldn't sleep either?" Hermione questions as she came up to the teenage demoness.

"No, its so different here, there is so much quiet." Alison replies "Even at the Estate there is always several people awake."

Hermione nods, "If you want to be alone, I'll go find something else to do."

"Its alright, you can stay, if you like. I won't bite." Alison laughed. "Sorry, about the way, I've been acting, its hard on a demon of any gender to be away from their mates, I am mated, my band mate Topaz is a wolf and she is the one, who I chose as my mate."

"Oh..." Hermione gasped, "is that why, Lady Maria runs and hugs and nuzzles Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Basically, also its a common instinct in dog demons to sniff their mates to see if they strayed." Alison answers, she put away her guitar and closed her notebook. "How much did you get to learn in your first year of Shippo's class?"

Hermione recited everything she learned from that class.

Alison nods through several points. "I think Shippo is waiting until later in your schooling to go into adult behavior of demons...you heard that the council is trying to push Yasha into choosing one of their choices, right?"

Hermione nods not really understanding.

"Every demon of mature age has an inner self, our true selves as it were, this body is just another form we take, in Japanese the term is DaiYokai, which means Great Demon, my grandfather, Grandmother, Father, Mother, even Yasha, myself and Keiko are DaiYokai, because we are strong enough to have two different forms, our true selves, which is a giant dog, and a humanoid form, we can converse with 'lesser' species as it were, however, with many demons, our inner selves choose our mates, I didn't much care for males, until Topaz revealed that she wasn't straight either and she set her sight on me, she knew I was hers, but wasn't able to do anything until I figured out myself." Alison explains.

"Why are you telling me this?" Hermione questions, trying to put the pieces together.

"If I am reading my twin correctly, he may have already chosen his mate and doesn't know it yet." Alison replies

"Me?" Hermione yelped

Alison nods "The process is simple enough, he will start doing little random acts of kindness, like hunting, or gifts, so if you get first editions of books...accept or reject but I never heard of a demon getting rejected." she tilted her head "Come to think about it, Ayame chased after Koga for a year until he finally relented and married her...but I don't know much of that story."

"Could we changed the subject." Hermione questions uneasy about the current one. She didn't want to think about Yasha being interested in her.

The girls talked about random subjects, until the morning light starting to shine across the ocean, Alison finally yawned, "I guess, we better get some sleep or at least a nap."

Alison left a note on her door, telling her parents or anyone, that she and Hermione were sleeping because of staying up.

Harry woke up and rushed to the door and noticed the note and left to find Yasha cooking breakfast.

"Hermione and Ali are sleeping, they stayed up all night." Harry informed as Yasha was making pancakes with eggs and bacon.

Yasha didn't say anything but he did look slightly disappointed. "Alright, I guess, we can have a brothers day, since the girls are sleeping. Unless you want to spend another day with mom and dad?"

"Brothers' day sounds fun. So what do you want to do after breakfast?" Harry questions sitting down on the stool next to the bar.

"Explore the island, maybe find some fruit trees?" Yasha asks, "Find secret places, that sort of thing."

"Sounds fun." Harry agreed "We haven't spend that much time together since you became Heir and I started school at Hogwarts."

"Yeah." Yasha agrees

"What is this, Yasha cooking?" Sesshomaru questions

"Yes, the time spent in Home Economics class is paying off." Yasha deadpanned before grinning. "Gees, Can't a guy do something nice for his family?"

Sesshomaru chuckled at his son, before he to sat down.

Maria and Keiko came out next, Maria eyed the breakfast before looking at Yasha.

"Good grief, I cook for once in my life and you're acting like I'm a plague carrier." Yasha states, as he grabbed a plate heaped it full of food and went out to the porch to eat breakfast in peace.