Guidelines 2019

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Guidelines 2019

It's that time of year again and that means it's time to start signing up for the Dokuga Holiday Exchange! Side note for those that have participated in the past, I will be trying to gather up as many banners as I can, from as far back as I can so you guys can have access to them again. I will post them here for you to save once I do

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Happy Holidays Oki!

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Title: How Sesshomaru saved Christmas
Author: Slayersgurl35
Recipient: Oki

Kagome sat in her warm little hut with Rin and Shippou. The fire crackled softly and she smiled at the children in her care. They were making a garland for their very first feudal Christmas tree. Everyone was so excited. The whole village had gotten in on it. The whole village was decorated, and the villagers were planning on having a village-wide celebration on Christmas day.

Kagome loved Christmas and she wanted to share that with everyone. When the hut was being built, last spring. She had even made Inuyasha transplant a good-sized black pine outside the hut just for this purpose. She had envisioned years of memories. Her family decorating the tree, first with Rin and Shippou then later adding her own children. Once that other spot was held by Inuyasha but not anymore.

They sat around a warm fire in the center of the room talking and giggling. Kagome smiled. She relished this peaceful bonding with her adopted children. She cut shapes out of mandarin orange peels with a pair of scissors.

The kids stuffed their faces with oranges and drank tea. They pushed needles with a heavy string attached through the shapes to make long ropes to decorate their tree. She used some of her dwindling supply of popcorn to add to the garland as well. The children adored watching her make it. It popped and sputtered in the oil as she shook the pan over the fire. They watched as the kernels turn into fluffy white masses of hot steamy popcorn.

She had made Inuyasha keep all of the hard white fat from each deer kill he had made all fall. She had rendered it and added seeds and nuts and dried berries to it to make "ornaments" that the birds could eat. They had made them the night before using dozens of Christmas cookie cutters Kagome had brought back with her from the future.

Christmas had always been a really big part of her family's traditions. Despite them being a temple family, they had always celebrated the western version of Christmas. Complete with a tree, Christmas cookies, and gingerbread houses the whole nine yards. Christmas was a big deal. And Kagome loved it.

She refused to not give her kids that, no matter how hard it was to convince Inuyasha to help her move the damn tree. She had dug it up. He only had to drag it to the new location. She had dug the hole, he just had to hold it steady while she packed the new dirt around it. Really it hadn't taken even an ounce of his strength to help her, but he had whined about it the entire time. But, she was going to have a good Christmas with the kids. No matter what Inuyasha thought of the idea.

Sesshomaru had started dropping Rin off for longer periods of time. She had stayed most of the summer with her, and now the entire winter. It made her smile thinking about how it was very similar to joint custody in her time. She and Sesshomaru shared their little girl, and life was as good as it could be.

Shippou had been gone for most of the summer, off at kitsune school. The only real quality time she got with both of them was wintertime. Wintertime, when they sat around the hearth and did crafts, told stories, and loved each other. She adored the wintertime.

They spent weeks together with Sango, Miroku, and their kids making decorations for the tree. About a week away from Christmas they lit a big bonfire, made lots of hot tea, and decorated the tree. Sango Miroku and their children had helped for the first few hours, but they had much smaller children. They went home before it was complete.

Kagome had the kids so bundled up in crocheted hats, mittens, and layers of jackets that they could barely move. She had only a heavy shawl draped over her shoulders.

Inuyasha was not there. He didn't think Christmas was important, and it didn't matter to him that Kagome did.

They had finished decorating and moved on to a snowball fight when Sesshomaru showed up for one of his rare winter visits. The children were distracted by their battle. They ran around the front yard tossing snow at each other as they giggled maniacally.