Pink Blush and Blue Ribbons
It was the first day of school for Kagome. She was starting elementary school or Shogakkou. Kagome had loved kindergarten and now that she was six she was going to a big school with many other children. In the morning she dressed in the standard yellow uniform. Her mother put a blue ribbon in her hair that complimented her eyes. Trusting her enough, the little girl was allowed to walk to school with the other children.
Sesshomaru watched in his usual hiding place, behind the God Tree. He decided to follow her to make sure she got to her school safely. How much education had grown since he was young. They didn't have "schools" and the only way anyone learned anything was from their parents. However since he had been the son of the Lord of the West he had learned many languages, geography, and many other subjects like poetry and battle tactics from history. Now in this era everyone went to school even peasants like Kagome's family. They had paid a lot for her to go to kindergarten.
He followed the happy child decked out in her yellow uniform and Sesshomaru smirked as he thought about her junior high school uniform and how it had barely covered those long legs. She had always looked beautiful in it though.
Sesshomaru watched her as she started walking backwards to talk to a fellow student and the happiness and chilly morning air made her cheeks become stained with a bright dusty pink. O he had yearned to see that blush of happiness again for 500 years. She would be just the same for him in another nine years. He could wait that long.