Too Much Time On Their Hands

Tsukiya was now a toddler and the terrible twos were upon the two mates. Sesshoumaru was thrilled, but Inuyasha was about to tear his hair out.

Their son would have made Inuyasha’s hair turn white with some of the things his Father was teaching the boy. Sesshoumaru had Tsukiya already practicing his light whip and the boy was not old enough to control it yet so a few things in the house got destroyed. They talked about getting a puppy for their son, but with the destructive force of a two year old, one pup was enough for them to handle for now.

Tsukiya was a fast learner. He was already housebroken as a pup that could change shape and potty trained so there were no accidents as he ran about the house some days with his pull ups on.

Inuyasha would freak out if Tsukiya received even a small scratch on his skin even if it healed right away he feared infection so he would carry a first aid kit with Neosporin with him everywhere along with lots of those funny cartoon bandaids with Looney Tunes on them since Tsukiya loved that and it made the owie go away in Tsukiya’s little mind.

Both men were very protective of their little son they called their little sunshine or moon star. His shining happy eyes, long silver mane of hair and wild ways made him so much like Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru though was able to keep calm in the house somehow with two wild things to contend with on a daily basis not to mention their wolf roommates.

“Daddy!”

Tsukiya yelled and giggled as the little silver haired boy ran to greet Sesshoumaru at the door. Sesshoumaru picked up his son with a kiss and hug. His baby boy was growing so fast and coming home from work after a long day Sesshoumaru looked forward to seeing that tiny face every day that was so happy to see him.

Today Tsukiya had giant pink cookie frosting on his face from eating his giant cookie and pink slobber crumbs on his hands. Sesshoumaru walked over to the kitchen getting a soft cloth to clean off his son's face and hands before his business suit became part of his son's cookie art.

It looked as though Inuyasha and Tsukiya had been baking cookies since there were decorated cookies on plates all over the kitchen counter in some interesting designs. Tsukiya's chubby little fingers he knew had not only iced them, but probably added his special puppy slobber flavor with tons of tiny sprinkles.

“How is my little moon star today? Have you been behaving for your Mother?”

Sesshoumaru sat and listened as Tsukiya told him all the wonderful things he had done while his Daddy was at work. After getting out of his Father’s arms he poked a cookie that wasn’t just right to him then spread the frosting dumping more sprinkles on them dumping half the sprinkles on the floor before carefully setting the sprinkles bottle up on the counter ignoring the fact that it fell over. There were more important things like pushing the sprinkles into the cookies so they wouldn’t come out.

“There…….stay in…….”

Tsukiya stated firmly with his tongue sticking out of his little mouth a bit in this great concentration that every cookie was right. It was as though he had accomplished a great task and for a two year old it was a very important thing to have everything the way he wanted it to be. Then the little pup rushed to the refrigerator to pull the magnet off the picture he drew special for Inuyasha.

“We baked cookies for you Daddy and look what I drew for Mommy.”

Sesshoumaru looked at the picture as Tsukiya had several drawings filling up the refrigerator making it a collage of finger paintings, crayon scribbles, and colored pencil art. They had a few markers, but that ended up being a disaster since there were no washable markers at the stores yet so it took a bit of scrubbing to get the beautiful artwork off the walls. Tsukiya wasn’t too happy about that either, but crayons always ended up working well in that case. He was a very artistic two year old.

“This is very beautiful. Your Mommy must love this drawing very much to let you magnet it to our fridge.”

Inuyasha came out of the room smiling at his mate. He was doing better, but hated to leave Tsukiya with anyone. Sesshoumaru did not want his mate to work, but Inuyasha was too antsy to stay home all day. The nanny they hired was terrific, but Inuyasha still insisted on working only part time since he could not stay away from Tsukiya too long.

Their little moon star had grown up as fast as Inuyasha had and Inuyasha wondered if that had to do with the fact his human blood was still somehow affecting him as well as their son.

“You are quite the artist Tsukiya and it looks like you two have been very busy today.”

Tsukiya ran to Inuyasha as he picked up his boy. They had too much fun as a family now that Tsukiya was becoming so curious about so many different things. Everything was interesting and he was full of questions. Sesshoumaru was very patient and listened as Tsukiya would ask him many things. Sesshoumaru was indeed an exceptional and patient Father who always had time for his family. Inuyasha was eternally grateful for this because he was losing his patience trying hard to take after Sesshoumaru even though he wanted to tear his hair out some days with the things that Tsukiya would do to their house thinking it was terrific to draw pictures on top of everything and had put cookies into the beta video machine twice.

Even the Atari couldn’t handle much more of the rough two year old who once threw the controller angry because he lost then started bawling because it didn’t work anymore. The Atari system was taken away for good since even Inuyasha cursed the new one then broke it hiding it in the closet hoping Sesshoumaru wouldn’t see it. Sesshoumaru said if they couldn’t take care of their things they could not have them anymore. Later they of course got new systems and computers for the holidays. Sesshoumaru couldn’t help spoiling his little family and loved making them happy.

Slowly technology was growing so they had their huge Zenith TV and their radar range. They didn’t really need the Radar Range because they had a cook with a well maintained kitchen any chief would adore so there was really no point to it other than for Sesshoumaru to tear it apart then put it back together again over and over again. Sesshoumaru was really getting to be a technical geek and started going to school to learn more about what was going to come out next only to start inventing all sorts of gadgets he brought home for them to try out as well as for Tsukiya to tear apart to see if they were child proof. Nothing survived their two year old so he was very helpful since Sesshoumaru knew someday he would build something that his son couldn’t break. It might take a while, but nothing could hurt his son since he was a demon even if Inuyasha thought Sesshoumaru was an ass using them for his test subjects. Inuyasha couldn’t complain too much though since there were some great things he ended up keeping that worked great like his reading light and after the radar range was back in order he could eat his ramen noodles cooking them faster than ever. Their cook didn’t like that, but Inuyasha didn’t care. He wasn’t going to give up his ramen noodles for anyone.

They had plans tonight to go out to see a movie and Tsukiya was so excited. They were to go see the new Star Wars movie premier since it had just come to Japan on May 21, 1980 and Tsukiya loved Chewbacca. The dragons had been removed from Tsukiya’s room and now there was this big Star Wars theme going on in there with Yoda all over saying the ‘the force is strong in you’. Tsukiya like his Father had this obsession with funny looking green creatures.

“So are you excited about going to see Chewbacca in The Empire Strikes back ……he is so hairy and you can’t understand him at all Tsukiya. He should be a dog and then he would be cooler.”

Tsukiya laughed really hard at his Mommy Inuyasha who made a funny face when he talked about the movie they were going to see.

“Chewbacca is funny and R2D2.”

Inuyasha smiled wide as he set his son down looking at Sesshoumaru who looked tired. His mate was smiling at their son, but Sesshoumaru lately seemed drained. Watching his son with Inuyasha the demon Lord was concerned. Tsukiya was growing so fast. It seemed like he was living a human’s lifespan. It was not fair. Demon children were supposed to stay young for much longer.

It was not that Sesshoumaru did not adore his son it was just that he did not want to lose this precious age so damn fast. Sesshoumaru in all honesty hoped that his precious boy would slow in his aging process. Sesshoumaru had Tsukiya seen by Dr. Hojo and Ayame who had told him that it was Inuyasha’s hanyou blood that coursed through their son. There was not much of it, but enough that for a while his aging process would be that of a normal human. It would slow later in his life.

Sesshoumaru had been heartbroken. He did not want that. Inuyasha was a full demon, but when Tsukiya was conceived he was a hanyou. Tsukiya is not a hanyou, but he was having some of the same side effects of such a birth. He was as far as the medical results fully demon, but the growth pattern was that of a hanyou.

Inuyasha changed his appearance with spells to fit in since he kept his dog ears, but Sesshoumaru was furious that he cut his hair short even if it did look good on him for a while. Kagome said lots of females do that after having children and apparently males who were pregnant did the same thing. It would grow back. It was just that he loved wrapping his fingers into those long silver locks.

Sesshoumaru’s hair was very long almost to his ankles. He had the front of his hair cut in the usual style, but the rest flowed behind him. Sesshoumaru could not imagine ever cutting his hair. It was a family trademark. Inuyasha’s hair looked good short when it first was cut, but as he was growing it out again it looked kind of silly right now. It was down just past his shoulders and layered. When he pretended to be human outside in the world it was black where Tsukiya and Sesshoumaru kept their hair the silver color they were born with. Just the markings were not showing.

Explaining such things as hiding their markings to a toddler had been hard, but then Tsukiya was not happy that they could not just be themselves. Sesshoumaru felt the same way. Still they managed to make things work out for them all.

“Tsukiya, can you go with your nanny Amami for a few minutes before we leave sweet pea?”

Inuyasha stated as he set his boy down and Tsukiya rushed to his nanny. He loved nanny Amami who spoiled him rotten and took him to the park. Tsukiya loved the park with all the trees and the sandbox where he could get as dirty as he wanted to. He usually came home with sand in his hair, his mouth, his ears, and every other place it decided to go. Tsukiya loved to build and dig in the sandbox.

“Sesshoumaru, can we talk for a moment?”

Inuyasha stated as Sesshoumaru was in the bedroom changing into some nice jeans and a t shirt. Sesshoumaru had officially been corrupted by the men in his house to dress down especially since Tsukiya would make a terrible mess of his suits if he wore them all the time.

“Sure. What is going on Inuyasha?”

Sesshoumaru stated sitting on the edge of the bed tying his tennis shoes on. He wondered if he did something wrong. Usually when Inuyasha wanted to talk he was doing something wrong. Sesshoumaru had tried hard now for years to make up for so much crap he did in his life to his mate.

The day that he became a submissive to Inuyasha after that horrible fight was the day that the demon Lord had indeed become broken. Inuyasha destroyed him and he could not seem to get back to the cold hard ass demon he used to be. Now he was compliant and did not want to upset his family. Sesshoumaru was indeed terrified if he did anything wrong they would leave him and that was something he could not deal with. His little family meant the world to him and Sesshoumaru felt like he would die without them.

“Are you doing ok? I am really worried about you. You seem so unhappy and tired all the time. I know you want to make us happy, but you have to make yourself happy too.”

Inuyasha stated softly taking Sesshoumaru’s hand. Sesshoumaru was too embarrassed to talk about how he was feeling. If he stated what he wanted to Inuyasha might get the wrong idea. It was best just not to say anything at all.

“No I am happy. Really, I am.”

Sesshoumaru stated with this smile, but it was fake very small smile that did not ever reach his eyes and Inuyasha knew it. That soft smile that lit his eyes up was when he was holding Tsukiya. That was when there was a true happy look, but also a very sad expression. Inuyasha knew that ever since that night he tormented his brother things changed for them both. It was almost too much of a change and Inuyasha felt like he was going insane.

“You know you are a lousy liar. I can see it in your eyes. I think maybe we should think about talking to someone and get some help.”

Sesshoumaru’s heart raced. Was Inuyasha going to leave him? What did he do wrong that they needed help for? He had been good and had not yelled at them. Sesshoumaru had been providing for them and trying to be the best husband. Sesshoumaru read books and tried to make sure he was doing everything perfectly. So what was he doing that was so very wrong?

“I will do better. I don’t think we need help. I will change.”

Sesshoumaru stated firmly getting ready to get up and Inuyasha burst into tears.

“I have broken you. I turned you into something you are not meant to be. It isn’t you who needs to change. You have changed too much. You are not being yourself and have not been for years. I don’t know what happened to my temperamental moody demon mate. I did not mind fighting with you Sesshoumaru and sometimes I even looked forward to it. Even in our games that we play when we go on vacation or here when Tsukiya is with his Aunt Kagome’s you are so damn careful with me. It isn’t like it used to be. I am not going to leave you. We are not going to leave you Sesshoumaru.”

Inuyasha stated softly as Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha.

“I don’t know how to act Inuyasha. I don’t know who I am anymore. I used to murder people and not care. I was cold and I did not give a damn about anyone’s feelings. Now we have a son. We are a family and I can’t be that monster anymore. I don’t like who I was to you. I don’t like who I am now though either and I don’t know how to change that.'
"I am not sure what to do to make things better for us and I feel like I am failing in my duty as a demon to Tsukiya. I do feel lost, but it isn't your fault. It is something I have to deal with and I don't want to push you away. I did not wish to talk about this only because I don't want you to see me as unable to care for us. I can't be weak, but I feel weak. I feel I am doing something very wrong and I don't know how to fix it.'
"Father would know what to do, but I was not there for him when he needed me. I walked away when I should have helped him save you and your Mother. Then maybe he would still be alive for us now and he could guide me in the right direction.'
"I was there before he died and I wanted to fight him. I wanted to kill him for the swords, but in the end that was not what I really wanted. I wanted all this power and all it did was make me almost lose everyone I care about. I had to change Inuyasha. I did not ever tell Father I loved him before he died and I have to live with that. I have to live every day with the regret that our Father will not ever hold his Grandson. Right now I guess I really miss him and need him.'
"I need to understand many things that I do not and I don't know how to do this. Mother is dead; Father is dead, Myoga, Totosai, and all the ancients who would guide me in my life. Those that had the answers to the many questions I have are no longer here. Miroku is a decent advisor, but even he cannot help me in what he does not understand. He is too young a demon. Even Akiyoshi Hojo who is older than I am cannot answer my questions since we are too close in age. There is nothing you in this and it is not your fault. I do love you for your concern and I appreciate that you do notice these things. I just can't do anything about them right now so I am asking you to please be patient with me.’
“You made me see a lot of things I had been Inuyasha and indeed I have thought about the kind of person I want to be. I can’t be that here though. We can’t show what we see of each other right now around these people. I don’t like hiding my demon nature, but I can’t be accepted in this world as I am.'
"I know how you felt now. I know how our son is going to feel. We are two males raising our baby, two male half brothers who are mated and as such we are even more ostracized by people. Humans, hanyous, and even some demons see our relationship as wrong. They believe that we corrupt our own precious son and I want to kill them for their thoughts. In the past I could do so without a second thought, but now I cannot without worrying about the things people might say to the both of you. I hate this world for its cruelty.’
“Things have changed so much in this time and I don’t know if I like this modern world at all. I love our life. I just don’t like hiding it all the damn time. I miss the forests, the trees, and living a simple life of wandering. I wanted to take our son to explore such things. If I would not have been such a damn fool all those years ago we might have had this back then.’
“We have our little moon star go to school at a demon school, but he isn’t like those children. Demon children grow much slower and now I see what you suffered in our son. I now truly see how hard things are for you and I try not to lose complete control of my temper when I see our baby crying because some kid teased him at preschool.’
“Children are cruel so I want to make him stronger, but at the same time I don't want to destroy his innocence. I am having a difficult time finding a happy medium for his life. If I do as I did with you then Tsukiya would hate me. He would not see me as a Father, but as a monster. I live for that little face and to hear him running to me calling Daddy. I love that. I don't want to destroy it ever.’
“You would have run to me in that same sense if I had not been such a fucking bastard to you. I regret that every day since you showed me what I had become. You opened my eyes and now they cannot ever close again to what I see.’
“I see my own cruelty in the prejudice that others have towards us and I curse myself for it. I see how I spent all those years discriminated against you for something you could not help being. You had things so difficult. Tsukiya does too, but he doesn’t know it yet. He is too little to understand the prejudices of this world and of the cold fact that he won’t be accepted by his own kind with his growth rate. This is something he can't help and I feel broken by it. I don't hate the fact he has the hanyou growth rate because of you. I hate it because of how others see it.'
"Tsukiya will be like you and age until he cannot anymore. Then like us he will be eternal youth for the rest of his life hiding among the humans with the rest of our kind. It feels wrong to me. I don’t feel free and yet we should feel this way. We should all be able to be free to just live our lives how we see fit and live them in peace. I just want us to live happy long lives without so much pain.”

Inuyasha smiled now understanding the frustration wiping away his tears and Sesshoumaru's. He too felt very similar and it made sense on why Sesshoumaru had been so damn melancholy for so long. Sesshoumaru was a deep thinker and rarely talked much. Even now this was a lot for Sesshoumaru to say. Every time he opened up like this it seemed to wear him out more and more. Sesshoumaru seemed to fall asleep taking naps on the couch after work some days just from this mental strain that stressed him out beyond what most people could handle. He had so much on his shoulders and Inuyasha wished there was a way he could help.

“You know Sesshoumaru no matter what others think of us we are allowed to be that we wish to be. We don’t need a jewel for that. If you want to just be as demons then let us just be these things. You own companies brother, you are still the King of Demons. We can find a place to make our lives work for us rather than against us. If you want to change things and not hide then I will stand by you. I support you and you need to stop that damn idiotic thought that I will leave you. I won’t do that ever. You are my mate. I love you always and forever as promised. I promised you that and I won’t break that vow. No matter what you decide to do Sesshoumaru I will stand by you.'
"You need to feel free so we will find a place we can do that. We have more money than we ever needed. None of us will ever need for anything. We only have jobs because otherwise we would go crazy with boredom. So when we get done taking Tsukiya to see Star Wars with his favorite robots, we will discuss all of these things you wish to talk about ok? I think our son would be thrilled if we were from outer space, but I think he will be just as happy to know what we really are and be able to do so without worrying so much about what other people think don’t you think so?”

Sesshoumaru pulled Inuyasha into his arms getting a passionate kiss. Inuyasha had helped him very much, but it still did not solve all the problems. It was a good start.

"Mommy and Daddy come on!"

Tsukiya escaped his nanny and was tugging on his parents with his R2D2 stuffed doll in his arm. Sesshoumaru smiled down at his impatient son. They both got up as Sesshoumaru pulled his son into his arms.

"Let's go see your silly space movie pup."

Sesshoumaru stated softly as he carried his son in one arm while holding Inuyasha's hand. Tonight was going to be a good night although he was not thrilled about the whole deal with pizza for dinner tonight. Stupid wolves and his Mother had Tsukiya addicted to the stuff. Sesshoumaru allowed this only as a treat so Tsukiya learned that pizza night was very special. It was a once a month treat.

Strapping his baby into the child seat in the back of the car making sure everything was hooked properly everyone got inside the white 1980 Range Rover. It was the four door special edition Monteverdi Design with all of the options including plush white leather seats since he had everything specially designed to his specifications including the adult belts in the back just in case the doctors were wrong and Tsukiya’s growth spurts did not slow down.

Sesshoumaru walked around the vehicle always inspecting for any tampering. Being the King of Demons he had security guards soon set up around his luxurious home since they took the apartment and turned it into a mansion. It did not take much to do since they had not been renting. Sesshoumaru had owned the property and the land around it. In fact he owned most of Japan through stocks, bonds, and donations. Sesshoumaru bought out all the land and even though the ‘human government’ thought they owned it he had in fact put a few human pawns in place who worked for him so that he did not have to deal with the humans on any level except to agree or disagree with any new laws.

Getting into the vehicle he drove his family off to their adventure for the evening, but his mind was still busy trying to figure out how to make things work so they could indeed still be full demons without having Tsukiya lose his friends at school. Tsukiya needed to have friends unlike him as a child. Sesshoumaru did not have friends. He was a very lonely child and was only allowed to associate with royalty. Most of his 'friends' were terrified of him. It was hard growing up with people always fearing you.

Sesshoumaru placed the radio on the classical channel. He loved to hear the sweet sounds of violins and the pure sounds that would sooth the soul. Inuyasha at first had rolled his eyes hating things like this until after Sesshoumaru took him to the symphony and to plays where such music became a theme for the drama going on at the theater. Then Inuyasha also saw how such music helped to relax Tsukiya. The pup enjoyed the fine music as much as his Father since everything that was modern seemed so loud.

Inuyasha listened to the soft playing of flutes and the sound of a harpsichord in the background. It was like stepping back into the past again. This was what it was like in the courts of the Palace. Sesshoumaru had to miss those times some days.

It had been a long time since they had been to the old palace that still existed. No one knew about it, but Sesshoumaru did have his Palace. It was his inheritance from his Mother and Father. He just did not have the heart to go back there yet. Too many memories and he was trying to forget some of that old life. It seemed though that was worse than accepting who he was. It was time to go back there. Inuyasha would talk to him later about it after the evening was done.

Tsukiya before they left had been watching the video of Bambi on the beta and playing with his R2D2 doll talking to it like it would talk back to him. A child's imagination was such a wonderful thing and Inuyasha smiled as he listened to his son babble on about how they were going to the movies and telling his doll that he was not to cry because Bambi's Mother died. It was just a movie and so there was no need to be sad. Inuyasha watched as Tsukiya stroked his dolls head as if to comfort it. It was wonderful and Sesshoumaru smiled as he drove onwards. He felt very content with his life at this moment and his concerns could wait for later. Sesshoumaru felt the strain on his family when he was so melancholy in his thoughts and so far away in them. Tonight was not the night to keep doing this. It was time to just enjoy being home with his family.

Pulling into the parking lot at Tsukiya and Inuyasha's favorite pizza restaurant Tsukiya was practically clawing to get out of his seat. He wanted to get into the restaurant where the demon waiters and waitresses they knew by name would be waiting for them. Tsukiya was their favorite guest and they were just as bad at spoiling the little pup as his parents since they got the best seat in the place as far as Tsukiya was concerned.

Anywhere where the two year old could see what the people were doing around him made him happy so the pup would pick the table as usual. That was why they had to leave very early since it took Tsukiya at least a good ten minutes to find the table he wanted having to test each one to make sure it was just right.

"Daddy, Daddy look over there it is a butterfly! A big yellow one!"

Tsukiya pointed at the large swallowtail butterfly that floated past and then lost interest in it as a dragonfly flew past.

"Daddy it was a dragon bug! They don't breath fire though so don't worry. I can protect you from it."

Inuyasha shrugged as Sesshoumaru gave him that look that meant he was being a smart ass. Sesshoumaru knew that was a dig on him for loving dragons so much. He killed one for its arm, but the fact was other than the one who killed his Father, Sesshoumaru loved them. The vicious creatures were also loyal and strong.

"Thank you Tsukiya, but I think I can handle a dragonfly. It is a dragonfly and they are very special. Do not ever kill one my son.’
“Dragons are not all fire breathing monsters. I had a dragon, a two headed dragon a long time ago and he was a very good beast. Ah-Un was one of my very best friends and I could always count on him to protect my family. He died protecting my family and so this is why I love dragons so much."

Sesshoumaru stated softly as bringing up Ah-Un always made him think of Rin and her silly ways of making the small pack he traveled with a family. Ah-Un loved Rin and she talked to him as though talking to any of them. Tsukiya would have been the same way in this and it did make Sesshoumaru wish for those times before dragons were completely destroyed by human knights who did not understand the creatures. That had also made Sesshoumaru quite bitter against humans. They always seemed to desire to destroy things they did not understand. Sesshoumaru kept a dragon egg at his castle, but it would not ever hatch. It was a reminder of what had once been.

"Your Father is right Tsukiya. Ah-Un was an amazing two headed dragon and the only vegetarian dragon known to exist."

Inuyasha stated with a smirk and that did get Sesshoumaru out of his sad thoughts. It was funny and Inuyasha was always teasing him about his vegetarian two headed burden beast. It was the only dragon that was coerced by Rin to eat grass and graze like cattle.

Rin made them all do so many odd things including Sesshoumaru who would not have eaten cooked meat in his life or mushrooms. His little Rin however would be so eager to please him and she made him happy so it was hard to say no. He took her flowers and even let her decorate him a few times. No one knew, but Jaken would have such a fit. Eventually the toad was decorated too and they just accepted it as the way of things.

"Ah-Un was indeed a weird two headed dragon, but he was also very strong. He would blow lightning fire at any foe who would dare to hurt our pack. He flew us many places and had been very kind to children."

Tsukiya was not sure about any of this.

"You and Daddy have seen real dragons? Do you have pictures?"

Sesshoumaru smiled at his son as he put him down holding his tiny hand walking towards the pizza restaurant.

"I have paintings of us together. I will take you my son to my ancestor’s home someday and there you can see them. I will even let you touch a real dragon egg."

Tsukiya's eyes went wide as he contemplated this. He was happy, but right now all he could think about was the movie and pizza. Being a toddler meant his little mind was always distracted by things and so he was always focused on himself most of the time. The rest of the world revolved around him as far as he was concerned.

"Ok.....I want pizza. My tummy is growling."

Inuyasha laughed.

"Yes I can hear it and it scares me. I hope it doesn't come out to bite me."

Tsukiya giggled at his silly Mommy who was pretending to be scared.

"My tummy can't come out it is in me silly Mommy."

The three went into the restaurant as the evening commenced as planned. It was to be a night of getting pizza faced as Inuyasha and Kouga called it then vegging at the movies.

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The family was moving into their ancestor's home so they were moving back into the castle. Everything had been decided and the wolves could keep the mansion. Sesshoumaru felt it was best this way since that way they did not have the problems they had been facing living in the modern world. It was not that they could wander about the world in their demon state, but at least they had more freedom to wander about at the castle and the thing was kept safe by a rather large barrier. They could run through the forests and be a little freer with their lives then now.

Sesshoumaru knew that the packers would take care of everything and Kouga was there to supervise things. It was time for a long overdue family vacation. So setting up a private plane Inuyasha and Tsukiya insisted they go to San Francisco California, then to Disneyland, and maybe hop around the states a bit since they had not been to America in a long time. Inuyasha only wanted to go to San Francisco for one thing. Sourdough pizza and sourdough bread at Boudins since they were supposedly the best place for really good pizza according to Kouga. Sesshoumaru really started to hate pizza after a while, but would suffer for his little family.

Tsukiya wandered around the seats in the plane searching for the right one. He finally found one by the window. The five year old boy was still very much a toddler, but he finally slowed down his growth rate remaining a five year old demon toddler although mentally Tsukiya was more mature than any human five year old child. Tsukiya’s demon blood taking over to slow his growth down to a proper demon rate made Sesshoumaru very happy.

The times had changed since their last outing. It was the twentieth century and the current year was 2011. It was the middle of summer and everything was fresh from the spring as the flowers bloomed in Japan. It made Sesshoumaru wonder what it was like in the states this time of year.

The years flew by like a whirlwind and technology was growing as rapidly as the people around them. For the little family time was nothing since they were eternal youth once they hit 500 years old and then completely matured after 1000 years living into the millions in one form or another. Unlike vampires they did not require blood to live nor food at all if they so chose. Demons were built differently than any other creature on earth. However, for humans the world changed quickly and they were constantly busy going nowhere fast as far as the demon Lord was concerned finding them even more annoying than usual which was why he was moving back home to the ancestral castle.

Sesshoumaru chose to drive his Alpine White BMW X5 Sports Activity Vehicle to the Airport with Tsukiya strapped in back with a new toddler seat for safety. Sesshoumaru was all about the safety of his family. It still was unusual though since they had a driver for the Silver Rolls Royce back at home and normally he didn’t like to drive because of the traffic that always pissed him off. Today wasn’t any different, but he still wanted to drive.

"Daddy are we really going to fly in this plane in the sky?"

Tsukiya asked Sesshoumaru as he buckled in next to his son. Inuyasha sat across from them as the flight attendant brought them all drinks. Inuyasha hated flying so he took some motion sickness pills and hoped the sleeping pill that Akiyoshi gave him would work. The turbulence really made him freak out and the altitude hurt his ears.

"Yes we are really going to touch the sky in this plane. You will get to see the clouds up close and everything will look very small from up here my little moon star."

Sesshoumaru said taking his son's hand as he looked at Inuyasha who was miserable and terrified. Inuyahsa didn’t mind jumping from heights as long as he had ground under his feet or trees. There was nothing like that on a plane. Only a whole bunch of ocean he did not want to end up in the middle of. He really hated flying, but there was no other way to get to America and he wanted to go and Sesshoumaru did not want to stick out like a sore thumb flying across the sky with all the satellites plus technology that might pick him up now that the military had ways of tracking almost everything.

"Did you take your sleeping pill dear?"

Sesshoumaru asked Inuyasha who was 1ooking a little more relaxed with the motion sickness pills. Inuyasha pulled out the sleeping pill as the plane started moving and drank it down. The panic in his eyes rose as the plane moved into position and he could feel that familiar sensation of the jet speeding up. It turned his stomach.

"Now I did, I hope I can just sleep through this whole thing."

Inuyasha felt his eyes become heavy and Tsukiya just giggled wildly as the plane went faster up into the air.

"We are going up up up Daddy! Mommy we are going into the sky! Look Mommy! Look!"

Inuyasha smiled trying to be excited, but soon he was out cold. Sesshoumaru smiled at his son trying to distract him so Inuyasha could sleep.

"Did you bring your coloring and activity books with you Tsukiya?"

Tsukiya ignored his Daddy’s question as he watched out the window until he was bored. Then he finally answered his Father. Sesshoumaru got out the backpack but did not remove anything until the sign was off for them to move about the cabin.

As soon as the pilot allowed them to move around Tsukiya grabbed his drawing things and they set out the folding table so he could draw. Sesshoumaru got up and stretched. Then walked over to the flight attendant and asked for a whiskey sour on the rocks. They had a driver to take them into town and then they would be walking for most of the trip. Sesshoumaru needed to get out and stretch his legs.

Sitting back down he knew this was going to be a long flight. It had been too long since he had flown anywhere and this always reminded him of how he would travel across the sky in the old days.

After a while Tsukiya put his drawing things away as lunch was served. It was not anything fancy since Tsukiya just wanted a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich which he swiftly had taken apart as usual. There was going to be jam and peanut butter all over his son's clothing since napkins according to Tsukiya were optional when he had a perfectly good t shirt to mangle and shorts. They brought plenty of changes of clothing since everything at meal time with Tsukiya had been more of his food ending up on his body then in his mouth.

"Oops."

Tsukiya stated as his juice spilled onto his sandwich making it a soggy mess. The flight attendant seemed used to this quickly helping clear the mess to bring the pup new items as Tsukiya smiled at her.

"Daddy she is a very nice lady. Thank you nice lady."

Tsukiya said with a grin. He was missing his two front teeth with new baby teeth growing in so his 'TH' sounds did not come out quite right. Still it was so cute that the flight attendant gave him a pin to wear from the airlines and a new coloring book. Sesshoumaru thanked her and watched his mate. Inuyasha in his slumber looked so damn beautiful. He wanted to take his love into his arms and tell him this.

The plane started to descend many hours later as the pilot let them know and Tsukiya at that point was also asleep. He wore himself out wandering around the cabin asking his Daddy and the flight attendant what all the things were. They had lots of time so it was not a problem and the flight attendant was being rather patient with the five year old. Sesshoumaru would put in a good word for her.

The whole flight had been smooth with no turbulence. It was a rather long flight though for all of them and even Sesshoumaru had nodded off a few times.

"Bye bye nice lady!"

Tsukiya waved sleepily as they got off the plane with the pilots and the flight attendant waving goodbye to them. Inuyasha just nodded grunting. Sesshoumaru smiled politely and nodded as well.

Their luggage was at baggage claim so they gathered it and met their driver out in the front of the Airport after getting past all the dang security. It seemed like they always had more security then passengers and it took forever to get out of there.

Climbing into the limousine the three of them were to be taken to the Hilton Hotel and had their suite reserved for three days. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were no longer working. There was no point to it and they were going to start up a new business. Part of this vacation was to see if there were some decent prospects here in the states, but they did not wish to let little Tsukiya know that. They were still going to make this trip surround their son and the small trips to gain the documents needed to start something here could be done in between everything else.

Exchanging currency had also not been much of an issue. They were both surprised though about the large amounts of demons they smelled here. None of them seemed to know they were demons at all. These busy bustling people were in a rush just like in Japan to get nowhere fast. It was amusing and to see demons do it too was even funnier.

"After we get to the hotel Inuyasha we should look up the hours for that Aquarium on Pier 39. That would be something for Tsukiya to see since he has not ever seen a real shark."

Tsukiya smiled big then frowned. He loved the kids Discovery Channel and the nature shows. He now started having a big thing for astronomy and ocean life. His room was a mixture of planets, stars, and sea creatures.

"They won't come out to get me and eat me will they?"

Sesshoumaru laughed as did Inuyasha.

"No they are in a big tank full of water Tsukiya so we can look at them up close. You will love it."

Inuyasha stated smiling. He really was happy they were here. Inuyasha could not wait to sink his fangs into that sourdough pizza after Kouga brought some back with him to share. It was like tasting paradise to Inuyasha and it was the second best thing to ramen. Sesshoumaru did not understand Inuyasha's obsession with ramen noodles, but did not want to argue about it since Inuyasha not being pregnant was a grown man. He could eat them, but he was not to get Tsukiya into that bad habit with all that sodium that was in those things. Inuyasha frowned when he said that, but Inuyasha would not push the issue. He did not eat as many as he used to and was happy with mainly sticking to the diet that Sesshoumaru set up for them.


Sesshoumaru had prepaid for the room and the busboy brought their things inside the luxurious suite. It was very nice and would do very well for all of them. Tsukiya would have his very own room with video games and other things brought in special for him to keep him busy. Sesshoumaru hoped for a little bit of time to romance his mate, but knew it would not be until much later that evening.