Beautifully written. But I'm a sucker for happy endings and damn it, this is gonna have a happy ending! Sesshoumaru's gonna kill them off, return half dead but alive, and he's gonna recover and live and see his pups grow! Because they all deserve to be happy and while he may be following in his father's footsteps, he isn't his father. Gah, that's me being an optimist. Loved it though, nicely done. -hasu86