Art Felt Drawings

**A dark Cave**

Kagome stirred with a weight on her chest and something in her face rubbing idly back and forth. “Don’t do that.. Anymore, or I’ll..” Too late, she sneezed. She jolted awake when she realized something on her face and chest. Springing to an upright position she watched a bundled of fur tumble off of her with an undignified lumpy appeal to it. What the..?

Shimofuri looked at the lady with a look that could make any person cry. Did she just reject this Shimofuri? His green eyes slowly started to pool with liquid and he bunched up in a tight, little ball and started to wail. She doesn’t like me? The poor monkey cub couldn’t think beyond the tight pain in his chest as he stared at the lady. Why does everyone hate him? Silent sobs racked his body, he just couldn’t take the rejection, no matter how small.

So lost in his own small world that the young monkey didn’t realize that he was being carried back to the pallet by the one creature to cause him all his grief. Kagome felt so sad that she caused the little baby demon to cry that she picked him up and rocked him back and forth.

Still nothing.

She started to hum.

Nope. It wasn’t gonna be easy with this one, she looked up at the ceiling of the cave and sighed, huh? Unfortunate for out heroine, thoughts of family flooded her mind as she watched the huge monkey tears streak down his face and plummet to his fuzzy legs. His tail curled around her arm like an anchor, praying that she wouldn’t let him go. Than a long, long ago memory came to the young miko’s mind and her own tears mingled with the little monkey.

She cleared her throat and thought about Roberta Flacks song as her mother use to sing that song to her brother was young and when he had colic. She started to hum the beginning and the monkey looked at her with tear tracks on his pink tinted cheeks. Kagome started towards the front of the cave and looked around. Nothing. The monkey demon looked at her with an expectant look as if to say, ‘Well you started it, you better finish now.’

“Ok Chibi Kuro, I’ll sing only for you this one song. No one else knows it. Not even my son. So promise me that you will tell no one, k?” Kagome want him to calm down. She didn’t even know why she called him Chibi black, but she the fact that she had no idea what his name was kinda loomed its head. The onna nearly laughed with the face he was giving her. With that face it was obvious that he couldn’t speak and kind hearted miko realized that. She took a deep breathe and address the monkey demon. “All right, I’ll take that as a yes.”

The tiny couple walked back inside the cave, but little did the know of the extra set of eye balls watching their movements. Carcass in hand, a dead wild pig who was too cocky for his own good; Sesshomaru landed like he jumped trees all his life, not making a sound as he touched the earth beneath his booted feet he walked with caution to the cave entrance. His curious nature was getting the better of him, this day. He stayed outside and listened with gentle breathing so as to not startle Shimofuri, thus alerting the miko of his place.

As the miko started to hum once more he felt his body reacting to this song in such a manor he was glad no one would see him. Just like the tail incident, he mused to himself. His beast growled incompitent at his other half. If the beast was in control he would have already told the miko that he had interest in her, at least she would come to understand their odd behavior towards her person.

“The first time ever I saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes...” Kagome felt his aura even though she knew he was close. She silently made a pray that he would come in and listen. Her aura started to come out in waves beckoning him to come, wish for him to be near as she sang this song from her family memories. Slightly movement let her know that he was at the entrance to the cave and wasn’t about to venture more.

She continued on, “And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave To the dark, and the endless skies, my love To the dark, and endless skies. And the first time ever I kissed your mouth..” Sesshomaru made a silent gasp at the words as they left her mouth. Is she truly think about this Sesshomaru while she sings? Standing with all of his natural grace he made his way deeper into the cave and was taken by surprise.

There she was, sitting on the pallet with Shimofuri, rocking him and singing, just for him. Lightly, Sesshomaru realized, that his hackles started to rise. Jealousy, he wondered holding his breathe. Try to calming down, he noticed her eyes carefully turn to meet his and they locked. He felt a tiny vibration form in his chest as her eyes stayed with his. She carried on with all the wonderful majesty that was to be in her at this moment as she thought about love and family. “I felt the earth move in my hand Like a trembling heart Of a captive bird that was there at my command, my love That was there at my command, my love..”

Kagome looked down at the little demon his tear longs since died down; but her own tears started to form from the sweet memories of her mom rocking her little brother. Just like this, thought the small female, mama would rock him and sing this song for us on a rainy, sad day. She place her Chibi down on the soft pallet and kept up the song. Wiping her tears with a free hand she felt his tail wrap around her wrist. Pulling a blanket around him the miko tucked him tight and rubbed his face with the back of her hand, giving him his own smile.

“And the first time ever I lay with you, I felt your heart so close to mi-i-ne And i know the joy would fill the earth And last till the end of time, my love And it would last till the end of time, my love..” Sesshomaru’s heart started to tighten at the motherly display, imagining his mother tend to him when he was sad, he rushed out of the cave looked at his kill and sat down to tend it. As he quartered the pig and sliced the good piece from the organs, which he ate, her voice carried to his prone body and a stabbing ache formed fresh on his chest.

“The first time ever I sa-a-w your face, Your face, Your fa-a-ce, Your face...” With the last words sang Shimofuri smiled a sleepy smile to this Kagome person and curled into the blankets that smelled like the nice person in front of him. He wondered though where was master? He should have been back a long time ago, looking up at the Kagome lady with questioning eyes and groans trying to get her attention.

The miko gazed down at the animated monkey and smiled. In her own way, she did understand him, and in another she was taking a shot in the dark. “He’s just outside, ok sweetie. Do you want me to get him?” The look in his tired eyes made her want to laugh. They could barely stay open, but he nodded with the last of his energy and drifted off to a better time when he remember the good and the best.

The hovering onna smiled down at his sleeping form and slowly rose from the soft pallet towards the entrance wondering when ‘he’ would come back in. She had things to tell him so he will understand the situation better. Finally, not being a patient person, she decided to take matters into her own very capable hands and walked to the smell of a pine cones and cedar wood. Sitting down across from her silent ‘bringer of food’, she cleared her throat so he would listen. “You know if you wait till they are embers we can smoke the meat, it takes a bit longer but its such a great taste.”

Right away the demon noticed she stalling on something, what he kinda had a good idea. “Yes, it does. I think it will be a good idea for tonight. Shimouri will like a difference in tastes and textures. As of late, he has been eating the rations that I have left him. For he is far to young to hunt yet.”

A near sigh left the lord as he remember the monkey trying to catch a rabbit in the woods. The monkey explained in his body language that he can get his own foods and rations, that he could defend himself, since he got this far in his short life than he can keeping going it alone. Several minutes later a low howl echoed off the trees to the Lord of the West’s sensitive ears as he approached the young cub thorny berry bush.

His torso and legs were stuck inside and with every time he tried to move around he got cut and scraped. Head and tail were the only things sticking out. He looked like a bush with a head and tail. As the lord appeared he grunted and growled loud for the monkey to realize that yes, he fucked up, and yes he was going to have to beg for his help. It took Shimofuri two days and one night before he realized how sore and stuck in the stupid, stupid bush he was in. He could barely move his arms and legs from the caked blood. Fatigue was approaching him far to fast than what he wanted.

Finally, after fighting with his inner beast and pride he relaxed his back along with his tail and reeked of calm for Sesshomaru’s figure to return to the thorny berry bush. When he saw the shadow over his head which hung low in submittence and shame. Than as he waited to be retrieved he felt his body being lifted only to be crushed against a something warm and rumbly. Tension leaving his body as he felt warmth flood his person. Acceptance, no matter the size or shape of it was grateful to the small cub as he sagged and passed out from lack of nutrients, from Sesshomaru was a big deal in his young life.

“So his name is Shimofuri? You have no imagination, huh?” Kagome prodded the taiyoukai in the left shoulder with her elbow as she made a stab at his lack of fantasy and flighty thoughts.

“No, that was what his family named him. They have no imagination, as to the fact that they are dead would probably be the reason.” The daiyoukai looked back down at his kill rather than the embarrassed flamed cheeks of his cave guest, remembering when he gets tinted cheeks that he hates eyes on his person- well demon in this case. “ Apparently, his pack does a ceremony when a young one is born the elders are to teach it in the ways of their kind. All the elders go into some sort of trance, and their souls leave their body and intertwine with his. The few things Shimofuri got were his name and basic primitive tongue, talking with body language. Than as he was to learn how to speak from his late grandfathers grandfather, a wandering oni came crashing into the ceremony. The monkey clan was caught off guard and the elders in the trance were crushed by is massive size.”

He paused to gather himself as he remember the little boy monkey covered in blood of his tribe as they tried to protect the last of their clan with their lives. Sesshomaru watched all that occurred when he touched the monkey to check for a pulse a flash of light covered his body as he watched what had unfolded. He watched Shimofuri’s mother and father shove him away and tell him that they loved him. Mother and father fought bravely against the oni, but they were over powered and they were not use to fighting with out a clan, so they had holes in their defense and offense.

The oni was a nasty looking, feral wild boar with body armor that was cracked and covered in dull spikes that were the color of blue and a dingy aged white. Boar in question carried a sword that he had as of yet to unsheathe, since he was here only for a meal and rather enjoyed devouring his prey rather than hacking it. His face was covered in drool and blood. Eyes the color of ashes after an old dead fire, lifeless eyes that stared at and beyond you only seeing you as sustenance and easy prey. His mouth was secreting a horrible smell, rotten teeth covered almost all his gum line, bones and clothes were shown through the holes in said teeth. Coarse, rough hairs covered his skin and face. Truly, a horrible menace to face when being surprised.

He watched as he father was speared through by a massive tusk through the stomach and chest, than pushed into a tree were he slumped down. Lifeless. The little baby tried to get there in time, as he watched his mother look at him and get her head ripped off her neck by the boar oni horrible teeth. Something beyond his green eyes made him snap as he watched her fall to the ground. Lifeless.

A horrible howl was roared by the baby as he jumped on the oni. Powers from his elders coarse through his veins as he got his sweet, sweet revenge for his mothers now headless corpse. He ripped the back and sides of the oni till he saw ribs. Only to further his excitement as he shoved his small hands passed bones and lungs, he grabbed the oni’s heart and squeezed till it exploded in his paw. He looked up and licked his hands, passing out from being a funnel of spiritual powers for his clans wrath.

That was how Sesshomaru found him, though he had a light fog hovering over his body. To which the demon lord had no idea what it was.

“So, he won’t be able to talk like you and Inuyasha?” The miko’s heart broke a little for the little monkey youkai as she could only hope he would one day be happy, some how.

“If he wants to, I have been trying to teach him, but he is still just a babe. His attention is too..” He paused trying to think of a good way to explain it to the woman before him.

“Preoccupied and impatient?” Kagome chimed in. She knew, after all she did have Shippou and he was pretty hard to handle, even though he was fifty years old. She found out that he loved being a kid, too much in her opinion.

“Yes, he is male after all. Though, I am more calm than them.” He meant that for the monkey and fox kit. As the dog demon watched the fire dyeing flames turn to embers he dug a hole for the pig to roast. Once he set the pig meat inside he grabbed the ember and placed them in and covered with dirt. He had a slight smirk as he watched the miko expression change from shocked to smug as he took her suggestion to the evening meal.

A light rustle of a fabric indicated that their star of the night had awakened, and Sesshomaru only speared the smirk across his face as he growled low for the monkey to start the mock ‘hunt’. All at once he felt the monkey pounce.

As Kagome watched the two wrestle around she was shocked at the fact that the Demon Lord of the West was so cool with this public display, she was waiting for the monkey to get beat. But was further surprised when she watched, actually watched as Sesshomaru let the monkey get the better hand at him. Than the monkey cub saunter over to her an plopped down and waited.

“He wants you to rub his back. He won and has rights to be groomed first. Though before the evening meal I don’t understand why. Normally, he waits till after.” The taiyoukai tilted his head to the side as he looked at the black and white monkey trying to find his hidden agenda, but unfortunate to him, saw none.

Kagome thought that it was cute and started to rub. Every now and then she would find a small something or other and would pick it out. Not wanting to know what it is, but Shimofuri wanted to see and sniff what it was before she would throw it into the makeshift smoke pit. When he was done he leaned against her. “So, your name is Shimofuri? I’m sorry I called you Chubby Kuro. I won’t anymore, ok?”

Shimofuri looked at the miko with his head cocked to the extreme, than shocked master and mistress by shaking his head in the negative.

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**Deep in the Feudal Forest**

“Can we stop now? My paws are killing me. When are we gonna get there? I’m hungry.” Shippou took it upon himself to honorary Whiney pants in the group. He could not help it though. He missed his mama so much that he just didn’t know how to act. The worst part was that as soon as he met up with his mama someone’s probably gonna rat on him, truth is he would too.

“Shippou-chan! Come sit up here with me and Ah-Un, you can even eat up here too. We will be there by night fall as soon as Lady Sarah says its ok to fly again. Right Lady Sarah?” Rin didn’t want to get Shippou in to trouble with Lady Sarah so she became the helper she always was when it came to Shippou and his odd mood swings. Lord Sesshomaru never acted like this, than again, Shippou was not a lord or for that matter as old as her lord too. She wondered about him and Kagome okasan. Where did that come from? Rin’s cheeks were heating slightly at her mental on Lady Kagome being her Mama.

“Aye, child. As soon as this eenfirnal meests clears and I feel some sort of co-ol breeze than we we-ll trau-vel.” She kept up the brisk pace in the front of the group as the leader, and the rest were clumped in the end. “Fox child, donna worry so a-bout yer mater. She is in caa-pable hands.” The wood nymph turned around and started to walk backwards, and winked at the group. “I su-poose we ca-n take a few minutes break though.”

The children as a unit jumped off the dragon and ran to the nearest flower patch. They proceeded to play their games. Ah-Un went to graze right next to the flowers, plus the flowers were sweet this time of year. Un always had a sweet tooth for flowers much to Ah displeasure. Ah liked to look like a sleek, slim dragon. Though with a brother like that, things weren’t looking at what she wanted. Ah snorted a puff of smoke out of her nose, as her brother went straight to the middle and waited for Rin and Shippou to gather him the tastiest flowers in the field.

Sarah wanted to laugh of the antics of the two head dragon with two totally different personalities and ideals. Good things in danger they work as one and always keep their charge safe, mused the wood nymph on the inside. She got some buttercup flowers and approach the dragon, Un? It had to be, he was already drooling at the first offering of food. The wood nymph smiled a tender smile to him and have him the tastiest flowers of the patch. Ah only looked more disgusted with her other half and at the woman only to give her a glare that would have frozen her in place if she could only do that to the woman.

Rin causally walked over to her two headed companion and offered the female half her favorite floral concoction, pine cones and weeds all wrapped in a oak leaf. Ah looked so excited that she waved her head from side to side, trying to hurry the little ward over she hummed her extremely slow charge to hurry up!

"Taime to le-ve!" Sarah yelled for the children after a half an hour of doozing next to the dragon, who would have guess he was was that comfy?

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Now honestly, who has not thought about ah and un as brother and sister? i wanted to drabble in it for a second.. i think a grabbed the mark.

THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS PEOPLE!! they really mean alot. more than water and oreo's.. even the winter cookies.. yes people that much.. HOLY SQUEEE!!! (yes again) the hits are just climbing, i never thought it woulda picked up like this. SHEESH! Please if u can drop me a review on ur way to the next story, i would be much obligued

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soo i wanted my little monkey friend to have some background and it really just came to me in a dream, well series of dreams really. i write them down in my livejournal from time to time. and i was looking through and kinda got some ideas about it. if u have any songs u want in, it still stands, lemme know. i grab a little bit of this and that really. I'm not picky, can u tell?

Oh yes, i get all my lyircs from lyricsfreak . com so there ya go! artisits than songs. the end!

one more time!!! please review, for they are like butterflies in my tummy and i wanna vomit!

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higan