My car... Some tea bags... A T.V... A half eaten box of pocky that's full of sugar ants. Maybe I should throw that away. Ok, I just inventoried all my personal possessions, Inuyasha is not among them.

After dinner Sesshomaru announce that he and his pack should be moving along and they would depart from the village in the morning.

"Can't we stay just a little longer?" Rin asked giving him those puppy eyes of hers.

"No Rin," He replied, not looking at her. "We will not impose any longer."

"We have enjoyed being your hosts." Taro told the inu youkai. "But if you feel you must leave then I hope you will come and visit us again. I know Kimi has greatly enjoyed the presence of another woman in the house."

Sesshomaru looked at Taro and nodded. Then he looked straight at Rin. "If I do not have difficulty leaving in the morning I might consider your offer to visit again." Rin immediately quit her pouting, not wanting to jeopardize the opportunity to spend more time with this family.

After several minutes Kenji stood and left the house, sitting by himself right outside the door. A few minutes later Rin joined him. Sesshomaru could hear the two talking so he let them be for now. As long as he could always tell where they were he'd not worry to much. It was when they quit speaking that he decided to take a short walk. When he stepped out he saw Rin leaning against Kenji, who had his arm around her shoulders. She sat straight up and Kenji dropped him arm.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at Kenji in warning then walked away into the night. Once he knew he was concealed he turned to watch them. He saw Rin once again lean against the boy. Kenji seemed to hesitate, then he placed his arm around her again.

When he had seen them he of course figured the boy had made the move to hold Rin. But she had definately initiated that contact. His sweet, innocent child had been the one to press herself to the boy. She was just a girl. And yet he knew that was how a woman in love would act. He turned and walked away. He needed some time to think.

When he returned he noticed the house was completely dark. He knew everyone had retired to bed. But then he saw Kenji leave the house with a lantern. He followed the boy silently to cemetery. Kenji bowed to the grave Sesshomaru knew to be his mother's. Then he just stood there silently. Sesshomaru approached wondering how long it would take for Kenji to detect his presence.

Turns out it didn't take long at all for the young boy to realize the youkai lord was there. But then the boy had been trained as a warrior. He was a little more alert to his surroundings than most humans. The boy turned to look at him.

"Sesshomaru-sama? What are you doing here?"

"One could ask you the same thing. Shouldn't you be asleep?"

"Yeah. I tried. Some times I just have trouble falling asleep."

"So you come to speak to your mother's grave." Sesshomaru let his gaze drift to the grave marker.

"Yeah, most of the time. Sometimes I talk to my sisters instead." Kenji replied Walking over to two smaller grave markers. The smaller of the two was slightly older.

"All in all there were five of us. But some of the families only acknowledge father as having four children."

"Because you are in truth his nephew?"

"He raised me as his son. Every one in town knows that. But my youngest sister, Ayame, never breathed so some people refuse to acknowledge that she ever lived. I know better. Mother let me feel the baby kick a few times. But her cord got wrapped around her neck at birth."

Kenji knelt in front of the other grave marker and brushed a fallen leaf from it. "Rei died the same time mother did. They both got sick."

"Many of these markers seem to be fairly new." Sesshomaru observed looking around.

"Yeah. It was only two years ago. It was a bad time. Nearly everyone got sick. We were lucky, some people lost their entire families." The boy trailed off, lost in his own sad thoughts as they stood staring at the stone markers.

"You said earlier that you wish for us to spend time together." He reminded the boy to break the silence. Kenji snapped back to reality and turned to respond only to see that Sesshomaru was already walking away. He quickly moved to catch up with the demon.

"The first thing I need to know is what are your intentions?"

"Intentions sir?"

"For my daughter."

"Oh, I never really thought about that before. I just really like spending time with her sir. She is really a great woman."

"She is a girl. And she is a good girl. I would kill any man who dared to dishonor her." Sesshomaru replied. He stopped to look the boy in the eye to make a point.

"I would never dishonor her sir." The boy replied meeting his gaze. They continued to talk for the next hour or so until Sesshomaru recommended Kenji try to sleep again. This time the boy succeeded. Sesshomaru fond that he felt a little more respect for the boy now.

The next day they said their good byes right after breakfast. After Rin said goodbye to Taro, Makoto, and Kimi Sesshomaru also said farewell. Then realized Rin was not right behind him. He could hear her around the side of the house saying good bye to Kenji. He went to tell her it was time to go.

He saw them locked in an embrace. Rin had her eyes closed and her head leaning against Kenji's chest. Kenji also had his eyes closed and was leaning his cheek against the top of her head telling her how much he was going to miss talking to her. Before he could say anything to alert them to his presence Rin lifted her head and kissed Kenji.

"Rin!" The youkai called. Both teens jumped and pulled away from one another. He could see in her eyes her pleading for him not to hurt them boy. But he had seen what happened. It was not the boy who had kissed her but the other way around. And to his great shock he wasn't even sure how angry he should be with her.

"It's time to go." He simply stated turning to walk away and hearing her follow obediently. As they were leaving Rin paused a couple of times to look back and wave to her friends then had walk faster to catch up while Jaken scolded her for dawdling.

Near sundown Sesshomaru told Jaken to take Ah 'Un and scout ahead for a decent camp site as he slowed his pace to walk beside Rin. Jaken bowed and pulled on the beasts reigns. Ah 'Un nuzzled Rin's cheeks as it passed then began to move faster so that the little imp was dragged a few yards before losing his grip and having to run after them. The beast made a sound that Sesshomaru often thought sounded almost like a laugh.

"Rin, I have seen how you have been behaving over the past few days." Sesshomaru told the girl once Jaken was out of ear shot.

"Kenji didn't do anything! And we weren't doing anything bad! Honest! It was only a kiss!" The girl stated hastily.

Sesshomaru held up his hand for silence and turned to her. "Rin, you are almost a woman. I am aware of this. But you are still very young and more naive than you realize. A single kiss can lead to much more. You need to be careful what your actions tell young men. Some men will respond to your actions and ignore your words... Even if you say no they might..." He found himself unable to say more. He took a deep breath. "Just be careful how you act."

"Kenji would never do that."

Sesshomaru merely nodded and started walking again. Then he felt a tiny hand close around his own. "You know Daddy, I'll always love you more than any one else. Even more than Kenji. But I can love you both at the same time."

Sesshomaru stopped short so that Rin almost walked past him and stared at the girl. His mind was trying to process what she'd said when she noticed and stopped to look at him inquistively. How on Earth had she figured out what he was so afraid of when he himself hadn't even realized it. After a moment he nodded and continued walking. Rin continued to walk quickly enough to hold his hand.