It had been about a week since the impromptu shopping trip that had ended with his younger brother Inu being chased down the isles of the clothing store, screaming like a little girl. And his father Touga, being temporarily banished from his home by his eldest son.

He was currently outside hiding in some bushes, hoping to ambush another pizza delivery boy while he waited for the spell that Sesshomaru had placed on his home to finally vanish allowing him to come back indoors.

In the meanwhile Sesshomaru had fallen into a sort of...routine with Kagome.

Every morning since the shopping trip, he got up early, fixed himself and Kagome a nice breakfast. Then went about feeding Inu his 'dog food' in a closet downstairs since he was as 'grounded' as their father currently was. After that, he took everything he had labored over upstairs and quietly awoke Kagome who then climbed out of bed and joined him for the meal before settling down for the day to work on something.

Sometimes she worked on some made up lessons from school to keep herself sharp enough not to fall behind once she finally went back. And sometimes she worked on some of her crafts while Sesshomaru sat quietly and watched how careful and graceful each and every one of her movements were.

And then once she was finished with a set amount of items, she would ask if he could take pictures of them for her and download them onto her personal computer.

Happy to do as she bid, he meticulously worked on his given tasks so as to make her happy. And then once he was done, he stood back and watched as she got on her computer and began diligently working on a web site where she posted the pics and even prices for them.

Catching on quickly to what she was doing, he felt his lips quirk a little bit in surprised amazement even as he asked, "What are you doing?"

Kagome stopped typing for a moment and tilted her head back to look up at him before replying, "I'm starting a jewelry and accessories business. I know that Touga gave me an allowance for whatever I needed, but honestly I doubt that I'll use it much. So I've been searching different sites online and found a few that I'd really like. I've got a set budget of three hundred dollars monthly, and I plan to use it to gather materials to work with, put some stuff together, and post on this site here." She tapped her computer screen gently with her tiny little fingernail to indicate the site that she was currently on.

"Hn. Do you ever plan to branch out? Maybe into other things?"

"Only if I do well with what I have so far. In the past week I've made almost thirty items. Some jewelry. Some hair pieces made out of semi precious stones and such. And despite how it may seem on the site, my prices are reasonable. I'm hoping to move some of my stuff by the end of the week so that I can start on some more."

"And if you do not do well?"

She shrugged. Not really knowing what to say to him aside from, "I'll just have to keep trying until something happens."

"Hn." Sesshomaru said as he then asked if he could see her computer for a minute and let her hand it to him and then moved to sit on her bed while he took a few moments to check out her stuff. However having already seen her make all of it during the week- he knew what everything looked like, and how well everything was pieced together by her tiny hands.

Everything that she made was excellent, high quality material.

Not only that but each piece was made with such care... How could anyone who saw her online store not appreciate the beauty of such items? Pausing half way down the page, he spotted the hair carved mother of pearl floral hair comb with the jade green leaves, and the crystal and seed pearl accents and the faceted pink tourmaline stones set in the middle of each of the flowers.

Checking the price of the item, he smiled a little bit and decided that he would purchase it for Kagome as a gift. And once his father's exile from the house was over with, perhaps he could get him to check out his new daughter's online shop and they could go out and celebrate her first sale with a nice expensive dinner.

Maybe something with shrimp, mussels, oysters, clams, crab and lobster... Yes, that sounded good.

Handing the computer back to Kagome so that she could finish posting her latest works and such, he gently patted her on the head and then decided that it was time to leave her be for now. He had his own job to work on for a bit.

Collecting the dirty dishes from their breakfast, he quietly left her bedroom and closed the door behind him and then headed downstairs to put the dishes in the sink to soak for a few hours before he needed to wash them so that they could be used again later and then he went back upstairs to his bedroom.

Once inside, he was quick to shut the door (actually managing to do so without slamming the door) and then went over to his desk and fired up his own personal laptop computer and signed himself in so that he could do his job and purchase the hair comb that Kagome had made- not in that exact order because he felt that purchasing the hair comb was far more important at the moment.

Once he was on the same site that Kagome's shop was on, he made a soft purring sound and began typing in the search bar so quickly that it was a wonder that his keyboard didn't catch fire. It took him about fifteen minutes to find her shop out of the thousands of others on the same site.

But it took him less than five to find the hair comb and purchase it once he found her shop. And then once he was done, he closed the window and sat back in his seat so that he could do something else productive. Like checking on the family business.