A/N: Hey everyone! sorry its been so long! I've had a lot of homework and projects and JROTC competitions to get ready for, and I've been studying for our inspection coming up in April. To top it all of, I've had the worst case of writers block ever. but last night. my mom's fiance was making me depressed so I went up to my room and suddenly had the urge to finish this chapter! So I guess it was a good I was sad. Well, with out further ado, here's the next segment of Coming of Age.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of it's characters. I do, however, own this plot and any OC's that are added to this story.

'No wonder she seemed so different from any other human. She's not a human' he thought to himself, 'I suppose I'm not going soft after all'. He couldn't keep from staring at Kuro's peaceful form. 'She's so beautiful. No human's, youkai's, or hanyou's beauty could ever compare to her's. '

A stray strand of hair had found its way onto Kuro's face, Sesshomaru was about to wipe it off when….. "Lord Sesshomaru, Lord Sesshomaru, is she up yet?" a super hyper Rin asked jumping up and down, possibly the result of sugar.

"She was up a few minutes ago, but she went back to sleep. By the way, her name is Kuro" he answered as Rin jumped onto the bed Kuro was resting on and examined her closely.

"Why does she look different Lord Sesshomaru?" she asked trying with all her might to sit still but couldn't help bouncing on the bed.

"Because she is not just a human, she is a hanyou," retorted he as he made a mental note to himself to kill Jaken later for allowing her to have so much sugar, " now will you stop bouncing on the bed and talking so loud? You'll wake her up!"

"Sorry, Sorry" Rin whispered.

"Don't worry, I'm awake, you don't have to whisper" Kuro said, surprising the both of them.

"See what you did Rin, your bouncing and loud voice woke her up" Sesshomaru scolded the young girl.

"Rin is sorry she woke you up Kuro."

"That's ok. It wasn't how you bounced or how you talked. I can sleep through almost anything. But I felt the excitement you radiated and I just couldn't stay asleep!"

"Oh, ok then." Rin said looking relieved.

"How are you feeling?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Much, much better, thanks for asking" Kuro replied.

"Lord Sesshomaru, can Rin and Kuro go to the gardens?" Rin inquired.

"I don't know, I think Kuro needs to rest a bit more before she can go out."

"Oh come on Sesshomaru, I'm perfectly healed" Kuro begged.

"Are you sure you're up to it?"

"Of course!"

"Fine then I suppose you can go."

"Yay!" Rin and Kuro said in perfect unison.

A few minutes later Rin and Kuro were headed out the door to Kuro's room. "Bye" they said to Sesshomaru.

"Goodbye, dinner is in two hours, don't be late" he told them while turning around and heading somewhere in the opposite direction of where the girls were going.

"Kay," they said and they raced to the gardens.

Kuro let Rin win, she was a little preoccupied with absorbing the look of the house around her. It was an old- fashioned house, decorated with ancient furniture and paintings and all that good kind of stuff, (you know what I mean). She didn't mind the ancient décor, quite the opposite, she really liked it. I made her feel like she was in her father's old house, before the renovations, of course.

She stopped at one painting in particular. It showed a pile of demons, and a young woman not much older than herself at the top. They all seemed to be reaching for something that was too high for any of them to reach. Kuro looked closer and she saw that it was a small pink jewel. The jewel had an odd pink glow around, she recognized it, it was the glow that appeared when you purified something. Looking at it a little longer, she saw that the flesh of the demons that were touching the light was burning. She seemed drawn to the painting for some reason. She realized that Rin had left her and she had no idea how to get to the gardens so she decided to forget about the painting for now and find her way there. She turned and walked away, never noticing that the young woman in the painting looked exactly like her, ears, tail and all.

Kuro didn't really know where she was going, she was trying to follow the girl's, Rin's, scent, but it was all over the house and she found herself going in circles. She was about to give up and go back to her room when she turned a corner and, "There you are Kuro, I thought you got lost for a second." Rin said.

"Well I kinda did, but I found my way." She responded.

They were in front of two gihugic doors. They were made of dark wood and had vines with roses tracing around the edges, and in the middle of the doors was one large rose. 'I wonder where these could lead. The kitchen perhaps? ' Kuro thought sarcastically.

They walked through the humongous doors and stepped into the most beautiful garden Kuro had ever seen. 'Wow' she thought as she looked around. There were fountains every couple feet, tall, healthy trees, all the types of flowers you could ever imagine, and in the distance, she could see a pretty stream with an amazing waterfall. It was liked she had just stepped into an enchanted forest.

"Do you like it?" Rin asked.

"Yes, it is very beautiful,"

"This is Rin's very favorite place in the whole castle."

"I can see why"

"Kuro, would you like to help Rin pick flowers for Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Sure, why not"

Rin ran off and picked and when she came back, she had a silver rose with blue tips in her hands. "Wow Rin that's a beautiful flower!" Kuro exclaimed.

"Do you really think so? Then Rin is going to go back over there and pick some more."

"Ok, I'll just go over here and pick some of these then."

Kuro started looking around the garden for the perfect flower. Then she found it. Her favorite flower in the whole wide world. Sandalwood. She was very excited, sandalwood flowers did not grow around where she lived. Kuro loved them so much because they were simple and not to extravagant complicated, and because they smelled so good. She smiled to herself and started picking a bouquet to put in her room. "Kuro, what flowers are those?" Rin asked from behind her.

"These Rin, are called sandalwood. They are positively my favorite flower. Here smell them." Kuro answered putting the flowers right below Rin's nose.

"Wow, these smell really good!" Rin exclaimed.

"I know don't they?"

"Kuro, will you come play in the stream with me?"

"Ok, sure"

Sandalwood is totally the best flower ever! But yea, there ya go, was it good, bad, somewhere inbetween? Please tell me! I've got about half of the next chapter written so it should be here by the weekend. But hey, no promises. Next chapter I will be adding a few more OC's k? Don't forget to Read and Review! Buh Bies:)