A/N: This one starts out kinda like they're journal entries... I'm having trouble working the story in the direction I want it to go lol
Jaken nearly had a heart attack when he realized that he had been left here to watch "a half breed brat child and his not-demon mother". I gave him a swift kicking and told him to go make himself useful and get the milk if he didn't want to be around my child or me.
Things didn't look like they were going to be easy…
The days progressed slowly as I tried to find things to keep me busy. Kaemon was steadily growing larger, he crawled everywhere now and soon he would be up right and walking…
I wonder what his first word will be…
It's lonely here… The days slowly bleed into each other as I try to keep a smile plastered to my face. Rin loves to play with Kaemon who is going to be walking on his own any day now. He looked so much like his father sometimes it broke my heart to look at him, but I hold myself together because he was all I have while his father was away.
…Sesshoumaru…
Kaemon loves to talk. His favorite words are "Momma", "Win", and "fwower!!" All three are what he seems to like the most, Rin, flowers, and me.
He runs around like crazy, I worry that he will hurt himself on the more thorn-laden flowers. I cut them back as much as I could but he always seemed to like their colors better than the others.
Kaemon looks like the age of a one-year-old human child… he's only a few months old…
He doesn't know he has a father…
Something's coming… I've felt the presence of something foreboding heading towards our secluded little home for days now…
I jump at every noise that sounds remotely unfamiliar. I hardly let Rin and Kaemon out into the front of our home unless I was there to watch them; I had stopped trusting Jaken to watch over my two children.
I hardly slept at night anymore for fear that our attacker was waiting for us to be at our weakest…
The earthquake is what woke me up. The earth shuddering, stilling, and then shuddering again… Almost like…
"Someone's coming…" I murmured as I slid myself free from between my son and Rin. "Jaken." I hissed as I carefully snuck out of the room.
"You heard it too Milady…?" He answered from the spot he had taken up by the door.
I gaped at him for a moment, I never thought I'd hear that escape his beak-y little mouth. "Something large is coming this way… I've felt its presence for some time now…"
"So that's why you were so on edge for the past month…"
I slid my sword from my sheath and gazed down at the cold steel. "Is there a way for Rin to get Kaemon and herself out of here…? Did Sesshoumaru and InuYasha fill in the hole in the back of the garden…?"
"Nay… Rin and Kaemon can escape through there if no one knows there's a way in through…"
"We'll have to pray they don't…" I turned to look at the small toad demon that had, for months, been the bane of my existence. "Wake them up and take them out of here…"
"But Milady…"
"No Jaken… this isn't the time to argue with me… Protect Rin and Kaemon with your life or I will end it myself…"
I left Jaken and headed into one of the other rooms in the large expanse of our home; I needed to find any wards for protection I had left…
"Nothing…" I moaned as I sat on the floor. "I have nothing left…" I knew I didn't have time to make anymore either.
"Momma…?"
I spun around, ran over to Rin who was holding my son and knelt down. "Hi baby…" I murmured softly as I touched his nose. "You can go back to sleep now…" I looked at Rin and bit my lip. "I want you to follow Jaken… Don't look back and don't stop… When you're out of sight of our home you take Kaage and you go back to my village, Kaage knows the way. You stay there until I come for you. Do you understand…?"
Rin nodded weakly.
"Good." I leaned forward and kissed her forehead then Kaemon's. "Jaken will protect you… I'll come for you soon I promise." I scooted them out the back door and into the garden then turned my attention to Jaken. "Take this…" I pulled off a thin silver chain, a feather encased in amber hung from the end of it. "Show it to the villagers of my home, they'll know who it belongs to." I stopped and stared at him. "Don't you dare let anything happen to either of them."
"of course." He answered and shuffled out after the children.
I stood there in the doorway watching them until the night swallowed them up and the earth shaking started to get harder. I closed the door and turned around to face the opponent.
"Mother…" I whispered. "Please protect me and mine…"
…Sesshoumaru… Why aren't you here…?
There was no hiding this time; I didn't even try to cover what I looked like. They knew what they were looking for, they had been told to kill the people in this palace, no matter what they looked like… No… Now was the time to wait… Wait and hope…
When the walls began to bend and splinter I knew they were close. I sat down on my knees, laid my sword across my lap, clasped my hands together over, bent my head, closed my eyes and prayed. I prayed and prayed and prayed as the walls swayed and creaked. I prayed for strength, for knowledge, for protection. I prayed for someone to watch over my children as they ran, in secret, away from the home. I prayed that I was strong enough to defeat the enemy that was closing in on my home and if not, that Sesshoumaru would know where the children went if I could not tell him. I prayed for the knowledge of my abilities since I hardly knew anything about them.
But most of all… I prayed for courage…