A/N; I'm sorry I'm so so sorry! I've been having a lot of trouble with my hand and with school starting in two weeks for me and a week for my brother we're both running around trying to figure out how to live the last days of summer. And I've been having a lot of trouble with my low blood pressure; I've fainted from it at least three or four times in this week alone.

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Chapter 6:

"Why am I staying at Rin's house after school today?" the innocent voice of the small girl at the doorway was a surprise, fully—correctly—dressed and bathed for school the adorable silver hairs stood on end. Her sparkling blue eyes filled with confusion and wonder. Her father lifted the brush, motioning a finger towards himself; the child obediently sat in front of him giving him access to her growing silver strands.

"Daddy told you already, he has a lot of work to catch up on and if I don't get it done I'll just have to stay all night for days and days." He brushed her hair careful of her large ears. Taking a softer brush he went through the soft baby like hairs on her ears, "Besides don't you like Rin-Chan?"

"I like Rin! But Sesshy don't like me, and he don't like my mommy, I think…"

"Don't worry; if he says anything mean to you just tell Rin-chan, she'll make sure he regrets it."

She turned back when he put the brush down, her silver eye brows arched in question "What does 'regret' mean?"

"Like… 'to be sorry for', or 'to be disappointed' something like that." He shrugged putting down both hair brushes, choosing to leave their hair loose for the day as he walked out the door.

"I get it! Like… Inu regret's eating the last cup of Ramen yesterday." She looked at him with an annoyed expression. She even managed to give him a good growl.

He looked back "Hey I thought we settled this yesterday! I'm sorry ok!" he laughed running out of the room having his daughter chase him around in her blue skirt/jumper and white blouse like shirt. He pulled on his socks as he jumped from the second floor to the first floor; the girl though small followed his jump landing on her fathers back with a big laugh.

"Whoa, nice jump kiddo" he looked at his daughter surprised that she'd followed his habit and proud that she had not been harmed, "come on let's get you to school."

"Okay class, I know we're still excited about the recent addition to our class." The young children turned and looked at the smiling Shiru sitting next to Shippo, his large bagger like tail wagging happily. "But we have another new student. Would you like to intro—" she stepped to the side, showing off a black haired little boy. His eyes were sharp and purple, his young body strong looking, and obviously he was some sort of demon. His ears were pointed and furry at the top of his head like those of Shiru, behind him a black tail stood proudly.

"Introduce myself? Ya, sure why not. My name is Kyou, the U is silent so it's pronounced Kyo, I was born in America so I speak English and my new adoptive parents sent me here to your school. I'm a purebred black dog demon. Now, where do I sit Rin lady?" his sharp eyes seemed bored with the young children. Though he was just slightly taller than the tall Hakudoshi he seemed much more adult like with such a strange strong way of speaking.

"Uh… right there, next to Shiru-Chan. Raise your hand sweetie." She held her hand up, her peachy white skin the exact opposite of his tan red like color. He sat next to the girl; his navy blue overalls contained a hole for his tail, and a neat white polo shirt. Looking at him up and down, they wore the exact same thing just slightly different due to gender.

"Hello, my name's Shiru."

"Ah, the kid in the papers, Inuyasha Takashi's kid. Shouldn't you be in some special rich kid's school?" his tail whipped at Shippo's tail with a smirk, "Eh bagger boy? You seem to be fond of the silver hairs."

"Leave Shiru alone, she's the star student here unlike you new kid."

"Be nice Shippo-Chan." She pushed at the little boys face, his jealousy an unknown emotion to the girl. "He doesn't mean it."

"Not a problem." He smirked again, rubbing his tail up against the girl's hand.

"Time for indoor play everyone! Go put on your smocks and play nice." The teacher spoke while the students began heading for the long blue shirt like smocks.

"Come, on Shiru." The small fox boy took the girls hand attempting to get her away from the dog demon and his alluring purple eyes. "Let's get away from this idiot."

She smiled and gave a wave to the boy behind her as she was dragged away from Shippo. He smirked again, running quickly he gripped Shiru's hand switching it with a simple unheard snap.

The two stood back as Shippo walked away holding a very real feeling—very doll like—hallucination. The boy stood next too her, his tail wagging against her paw again, a simple smirk on his face. "Do you wanna go play on the swings?"

"I'll push you if you want." The two walked over to the smocks pulling on the blue clothes and walked outside, passing a very confused Shippo and sitting on the swings. He pushed the smaller girl as she laughed swinging higher than she could by herself.

"Hey, Shiru-Chan can you wait here until all the kids leave and my work is done?" the young woman scratched the girls ears, few children were left, class was long over and after school was only for the older kids.

"Okay!" the little silver haired child held up her red crayon smiling, her toothy white fang showing in her mouth.

"Play nice now, and tell the teacher if your parents come." She said this now to all the other students making sure they all clearly understood and followed the instructions.

"Yes, Miss Rin!" the young students responded, some nodding, others shrugging without a care.

Shiru jumped as she felt the familiar feeling of Kyou's tail against her hand, it had a spiked sense to it and the fur was rougher in a nice way against her soft skin. "You seem to like doing that a lot."

"Doing what?"

"Rubbing your tail against my hand and skin, you do it all the time." She giggled as he sat next to her.

"Does it bother you?" she took the black crayon from the colorful box.

"Nop, its lot's spikier than Inu's hair, and my hair." She continued coloring in the drawing, coloring the water around the boat a strange purple color. He shrugged at it though, who was he to question how she colored? "When are your mommy and daddy coming?"

"Ah, who cares? They're just adoptive parents, so who cares." He sighed leaning on his hand, his elbow on the dark-blue plastic table.

"Don you?"

"Naw." With his black crayon he colored the drawing of the penguin, trading crayons with the girl, black for red. By the time they were done every other student was gone. "You act lot's like a human Shiru-Chan. Do you even know how to use your claws?" he poked at the girl with his sharp claws, not poking through her skin but causing her to jolt "well your not bleeding, you should be able to use your claws."

"I don't know how too."

"Then you gotta learn from a demon, like me!" he put an arm around the girls shoulder, nodding his head surely. His ears bounced as he did so. Rin came into the room, the boy removed is arm from her niece's shoulder, her soft face smiling as she looked at their work.

"Wow, well done you two. I like your abstract coloring Shiru."

"Abstract?" her ears twitched as she heard the word, "What does that mean?"

"It means when you see something normal in a strange but understandable way." Kyou explained the word, she smiled in awe. One of her favorite things, words, and Kyou knew them real well. It made her shrug away the fact that she had not been doing an abstract drawing.

"Yep just that, Ah, Kyou-Chan Higarashi-San is here to pick you up."

"Joy…" he jumped off the chair, passing the short haired woman, Shiru followed him her white hair flowing behind her. He took off the white slippers supplied by the school and pulled on his own heavy blue shoes. "Hey there Kyou did you have a nice time at school?"

"Ya I guess, what's for dinner Souta?"

"Can you try and call me dad?"

"Sure, adoptive father." He spoke the word in English and the man sighed, Shiru watched as he waved, "Bye knowledgeable silver girl." He gave her simple smile as he walked out the door, she smiled back.

"Bye Kyou-kun." Though she did not understand his English—or English in general—she knew it had something to do with her name translated.

"Do you like him Shiru-Chan?"

"Ya, Kyou-kun's nice and he has funny eyes."

"Nice you say…" the woman shrugged "Well it's time to head home, anything in particular you want for dinner?"

"Pork dumplings?" she looked up at the human, her blue eyes shinning—brightly and lightly as ever—and her large silver ears wiggled in response.

She smiled at the girl, kissing the child's puffy cheek "sure, I'll see what I can do."

"Ah… Rin, I'm home is dinner ready ye—…" A tall silver haired demon entered his large mansion like home; his golden eyes fixated on the small silver and pink ball in the middle of his living room sofa "Why is my brother's brat on the couch?"

His young wife answered in a sing song voice, prancing into the room in her dragging jeans, white shirt, and light blue apron "Inu-Kun said he had to stay and work some extra hours so we're taking care of Shiru for today" standing on her toes she managed to kiss his cheek, he didn't like it when she kissed his lips in public or without asking, "you don't mind right hun?" she twirled away before he could answer.

"Yes, actually I do mind." He whispered noticing the child's ears twitching at the sound low. With an irritated growl he sat in the lazy boy near the girl, she'd taken his favorite spot in the couch. Pulling at the black lace of his leather shoes he managed to pull off one of them carelessly it fell to the floor below, the girl sat up quickly at the sound of his shoe meeting with the wooden floor.

"Ah, so you've finally woken hanyou," the girl turned to look at her uncle her eyes large and pupils small, her hands were between her legs and she seemed to be twitching strangely, "what's wrong with you girl? Speak up, if there's something you want I can't read your mind."

"I… I've gotta go…" her teeth chattered strangely as she wiggled.

"Go? Where?" he tilted his head to one side as he spoke confused by the child's strange behavior.

"Toilet!" his eyes widened, lifting the child by the pits he ran to the nearest bathroom, opening the door with one hand he left the girl in the bathroom.

"I swear young hanyou's are more annoying than the older ones." He groaned as he walked away from the door, passing the kitchen.

"I heard that Sesshy!" the human spoke up as she cut the vegetables.

"…" He paused and remained silent, cursing in his mind.

"That too!" he gave up on his groveling and washed his hands, attempting to remove the smell of young hanyou. Running through his mind rather than hatred was the strange soft feeling of hanyou child skin, not in the loving way he liked his mate's, skin but rather in the soft skin of a child that remained for only several years of their life. And the scent of a hanyou relative, it was far different from his brothers more gruff demonic skin; but rather the soft strawberry like smell of a child.

Dinner was set for two, Sesshomaru choosing to eat alone in his office, "why don't uncle Sessh like me?" the child asked this to the woman stuffing her face with white rice; she paused. Putting down her chopsticks she munched over her food, thinking, how to explain this to a child…

"Sesshy's a cold person naturally; he doesn't like anything or anyone until he has a good experience with them." She stuffed a peace of meat into her mouth before continuing, "Ya'know Sesshy didn't like me when we first met."

"Ah? Why?" sitting in a tall chair the child managed to eat her food while speaking to the woman. Her ears twitched back at the sound of a door opening, it was a very slight sound that she did not connect with but Sesshomaru was listening hidden by the bars of the stairway, and quite intent on hearing every word.

"Well when I first met Sesshy your mommy and I were best friends, she was dating your daddy and she wanted to go to the big summer fair but since Inu-Kun was in trouble and couldn't drive Sesshy drove us all to the fair."

"Daddy got in trouble lots right?"

"Yep, it was always something funny but don't copy your daddy. He's a little lot dumb." The two giggled, "well anyway, the car broke down to Sesshy had to stay with us until the taxi's were around and your parents ditched us towards the end of the fair."

"What does 'Ditched' mean?" the girl paused the story, asking for the definition of a certain word.

"Ditched means when your left alone or abandoned, but a ditch is both that and a hole in the ground you fall into or those things they use to put around castles."

"Moats." The child gave her the word, smiling at her knowledge.

"Ya, so then since Kyo-Chan had all our money for the taxi Sesshy had to walk me home. He was a real jerk at first." The man snorted, "but then I noticed how sweet he was, Sesshy doesn't like to admit it but he's a real softy. He says mean things and ignores people but he does these little tinny things that make a great difference even though he doesn't really need to."

They paused to finish of the last of their food, Shiru held a finger to her chin pointing out the little thing he had done for her "He carried me to the bathroom, I was gonna start running but he took me instead."

"Ya little things like that, he walked me all the way home even though he was wearing heavy leather shoes and it was really hot and when my sandal broke he fixed it with his hair which was really cool!" the giddy childish woman was smiling brightly as she took the plates to the kitchen. "So ya, you just gotta give him time. Sesshy's the sweetest boy I've ever had the pleasure of meeting."

Wither head tilted to one side the girl responded confused as to why she called her old uncle a boy "But he's a man, 'cause he's older than you right?"

"Ya but his antics are at the mentality of a boy. You know what antics and mentality mean right?" she turned back noticing the turf of silver and eyes of gold behind the black bars of the stairs.

"Yep, you mean Sesshy looks like a man but he acts like a boy." The child answered expertly with a sure nod.

"Exactly." The woman nodded winking ever so slightly at the boy like man behind the stairs. Her exact opposite, inside and out.

"You really need to stop telling that story." The silver haired man appeared behind his mate, a glare on his face directed at the back of her brown haired head.

"And you need to stop peeking at me when I'm telling that story." She giggled kissing his cheek to his surprise and putting in his arms a little sleeping bundle of silver and pink, "can you take care of her while I take a bath?"

"Taking care of a child is not what this Sesshomaru is meant to do, especially no hanyou child."

"I don't get why you married me if you didn't want children. I told you once that I wanted to have a big family one with at least five children Hanyou or not."

"So I told you work at a preschool or something."

"It's a kindergarten and so what? You wouldn't want your brothers children to take over the family business because at the moment if you and your brother die the only person who would take over is this little girl." She pointed at the child in his arms as she skipped off to the bathroom.

"She seems smart enough, unlike that dumb—" he was interrupted quickly by the young human, "Don't curse."

He thought out his words before continuing "…Dumb butt I call a brother."

"Fine, but I might just start looking at adoption." She giggled as she entered the bath, a so-called—when Rin was in it at least—a-no-man's-territory.

"Wha…" his pointed elf like ears shifted down ever so slightly, his eyes drooping as well in a modest amount of annoyance, "I don't want someone else's rejected kid…" still carrying his sleeping niece he walked to his office putting the girl down on the soft dark red couch to let her sleep. He noticed her shivering lifting the white blanket on the arm rest he draped it over the little half demon all the way to her chin.

She smiled and snuggled deeper into the couch and blanket, her body in the shape of a ball. His silver furred tail wiggled in a silly wag, gripping the base he attempted to cease the strange movement that he only received when he was happy. "Shadup…" he growled at the silver tail, but he gave up on the lost cause deciding instead to get some work done. Sitting behind the desk he looked through stacks of papers and files.

Attempting to concentrate on work was difficult, he listened to the outside, Rin was still in the shower. Assuming he had at least ten minutes he walked back to the child, taking the blanket off her he studied her small body. She seemed far too human to be a hanyou; he assumed that her body grew at the rate of a human but her brain to that of a demon or a smart hanyou; he waited around sniffing the girl getting a sense of her body. Besides the hair and ears she was no Takashi; but he couldn't help but think she was an acceptable heir, her small fingers had claws rather than nails just barely strong enough to be dangerous.

"Such a little thing cannot grow enough to be normal sized thing" she shivered again so he put the blanket back over her, his hand brushing against her hair for a moment. He went back to touch it, the soft thin strands of silver, it was much softer in comparison to his own hair or his brothers it wasn't thick like Rin's hair it had it's own special feel.

"I knew it;" the woman smiled like a cat "You're really interested in hanyou children."

"Well it's not like my brother gives a good example of a hanyou and I was not interested I was just putting a blanket over the brat so she would not freeze. This Sesshomaru has no reason to be interest in a half breed mutt."

"Whatever you say Sesshy, well I'm gonna leave her here with you." She waved as she left the room, heading off and away.

"Wait… take the damn thing with you…" he glared as he whispered to his brown haired mate.

"Wha thing…?" the silver haired child sat up, her blue eyes half lidded.

"Nothing, anyways go play with Rin-Chan."

"But I wanna stay here with you uncle Sessh." She whined loudly, her lips pouting as she starred at the man.

"Why? I have work to do. I don't have time take care of a little kid like you."

"I take care of myself mostly; I can take a bath by myself, I can eat by myself, I can use the toilet by myself, I can put on my clothes by myself, I can draw by myself, I can tie on my own shoes, I can write and read by myself, and more stuffs." She pointed out the many things she could do, which was much more than the average child her age could do; "and I wanna stay here with you, you're a demon so I need to learn how to be more like a demon. Kyou-Kun says I act like a human too much and that's 'cause I lived with mommy and mommy's human so you need to teach me how to be a demon!"

"You cannot be taught to be a demon, you are born knowing how." His tail waved and curved behind the desk, she pouted sighing sadly, "I'm sure though I can teach you something, come sit on that chair there" he pointed at the tall seat in front of him. She jumped off the couch pulling her body up and onto the chair, he walked around the girl checking out the obvious traits of a demon.

"Can you here me?" he whispered in a low voice, far too low for any human ear to pick up.

"Loud and clear."

"That's a good start, don't flinch." He pressed a claw to her exposed shoulder, she stayed still as possible and did not bleed or feel the poison on her skin, when nothing happened he nodded, "strong skin is also a good sign."

"Yay!"

"How does this feel?" he pinched at her ear softly and she yipped loudly, "a flinch is prefect, and how about this?" he began rubbing at her ear she purred and growled loudly much like any dog demon would when simulated on the ear lobe, "perfect as well. Do you have tail?"

Rubbing at her ears she answered, "I don't think so, how can you tell?"

"Well you're still young, at this age you should have a bump or hair growing from where your tail will be in a couple of years."

"Mamma said I had a bit of hair on the top of my bottom, and there's always been a bump there." She pointed this out to her uncle with a scratch of her temple.

"Have your father check it or something; he probably remembers when my tail began growing out."

"Why don't Inu have a tail?" she asked this holding her left foot with her right hand as he inspected her left hands claws. Raking the claws against his skin and fingers he noticed the strong material that normal nails did not have, she could even manage to break through his skin.

"Sometimes a tail skips a generation; I know many hanyou's with no tail, and demons with no tail." She sat for a moment then grabbed Sesshomaru's tail to his surprised. His face paled and to a degree his skin heated up, "what are you doing with my tail?"

"My friend Kyo-Kun has a tail too but he's a black dog demon and I neva got to touch your tail uncle Sessh." Her small fingers ran through his fur feeling the roughness of it in her hands, she was gentle as she ran her hands through it making sure not to pull at the strands, she smiled enjoying the nice texture of it.

"That's because I don't let anyone touch my tail except for myself and Rin. It's… it's very sensitive."

"What does sensitive mean?"

"It means, uh, it feels things very easily like when you touch your ears you don't want to press to hard on them. You've got to be gentle with things that are sensitive and make sure not to touch them the wrong way. Or something like that." He was murmuring as he spoke; his ears low with relaxation, his face pale in embarrassment, his skin rising with goose-bumps from the sensation. "Ah, your father should be here any minute, why don't you go play with Rin and wait for him?"

"Rin's right you're really really nice uncle Sessh, you should be nicer to people and everyone'll like you lots more than the meaner you" she hugged at his leg managing to snuggle into his knees, "I like you a whole lot Fluffy!"

He paled and looked down at her sparkling blue eyes, his sharp golden eyes starred her down confused "Fluffy?"

"Thanks a million, Rin-Chan." The man bowed slightly holding his young daughter in one arm her arms around his neck and face in the crook of his neck.

"No trouble at all, she was a perfect little hanyou. Right Sesshy?" his young wife smiled tugging at his white sleeve, he shrugged letting out a grunt. "If you ever need us to take care of her just ask."

"Sure, bye then Rin. See ya Sesshy" he smirked saying his brothers nick name, 'if only someone would make a funnier name for the jerk' he couldn't help but think this in his head, turning away his child's half asleep face was looking towards her uncle.

"Bye Fluffy." They all looked at the girl, Sesshomaru paling, Rin ready to laugh, Inuyasha smirking like a devil.

"Fluffy?"

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