Chapter 1
Sesshomaru breathed in, deeply, and thought about how much he loved how Inuyasha smelled. He exhaled slowly, pulling Inuyasha closer to his body, smiling just a little when Inuyasha squirmed slightly in response before settling down.
It was unique, and it smelled of mixed spices and wood, and it made Sesshomaru feel calm and relaxed. It was the first thing he smelled in the morning, like today, and he loved it.
He honestly couldn't even remember what it felt like to wake up without it anymore, or what it felt like to sleep in a bed that was so cold without him. He couldn't remember what it felt like to feel they way he did now- safe, and not alone- but he knew that it was new experience, and that he didn't want it to leave.
It had been three months since Inuyasha was divorced from his ex-wife, and Sesshomaru felt he could finally be absolutely that what he was feeling was love. It was calm, but strong and steady. And he was just starting to think, despite the fact that Inuyasha already told him so, everyday, that he loved him back. It was a scary thing to accept, given that not many people felt that way about him, and him about others even less, but he liked it. More than liked it.
Right on schedule, just as the sun rose and filled the room with it's dim morning light, Inuyasha tussled about until he finally opened his eyes, blinking rapidly until he eye's adjusted to the room. Sesshomaru thought it was extremely cute.
He stretched against the front of himself, and turned until he was facing him and reaching forward wrapping an arm around his shoulder and pulling him closer. He nuzzled his face into his chest, and Sesshomaru's heart beat a little faster.
"I don't want to get up," Inuyasha muttered into collarbone. Sesshomaru sighed and rested rolling his eyes, because Inuyasha did this pretty much every morning.
"You'll have to if you want to keep your job."
"Not if I'm fucking the boss, which I am by the way, I don't know if you noticed or not."
"Yeah, well," He pulled away from Inuyasha, ignoring the groan it elicited from him, and leaned up on an elbow. He kissed him once on the forehead before saying, "I heard from a reliable source that that is irrelevant, and if you don't get your ass to work today that your boss will give all of the work he was going to give to your fellow employee Miroku, and just give it to you instead."
Inuyasha groaned, and glared when he spotted the small smirk Sesshomaru was sporting. "You're a terrible person."
"So I've been told." He climbed off the bed, stretching his back and heading for the door. "I'll get breakfast ready, so get dressed."
"Geez, so bossy." But he sat up anyway. He shook his head and turned back to the door, but Inuyasha called out to him and he stopped, looking back at him expectantly.
"Wear that shirt to work today, okay?" Inuyasha asked. Sesshomaru might have thought, normally, that he said it just to try to annoy him, but Inuyasha had that devious look in his eye, the one he got sometimes when he took him to bed.
He looked down at himself, specifically at the half-sleeved, white cotton shirt he was wearing. "I can't wear this to work, it's unprofessional."
"Well, I heard that, from a reliable source, that it's irrelevant what you wear." He smirked, and added, "If it was up to me, you wouldn't wear anything at all, but you know rules and stuff."
Sesshomaru sucked in sharply, and although his expression remained the same, he couldn't hide the onslaught of red spreading across his cheeks. He shook his head and spun on his heel and left, his cheeks burning even brighter when he heard Inuyasha burst into laughter behind him.
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"So, what you're telling me is, you're dating your brother?"
"Yes."
"Who is also your boss?"
"Yes, that's what I'm saying."
Miroku leaned back in his chair and whistled low, taking a moment let that all seep in. "Wow. I mean- I guess I should have guessed it, what with all this sexual tension surrounding the two of you these past months, but I just thought- just, wow."
"Yeah, I know." Inuyasha was still stupefied by it all, even with all this time to get used to it, he couldn't totally wrap his head around it. It wasn't so much that he was dating his brother per say, but he was dating Sesshomaru. Notorious ice-king and Championship holder for "Making-Inuyasha's-Childhood-Suck-Ass". That Sesshomaru.
The guy who used to shove him out of his way, and acted like he didn't exist for a large majority of his childhood, and then when their dad forced him to give him a job became sort of... Volatile. Granted, it's not like he openly yelled abuse at him. No, he did in a much more passive aggressive way like, assigning him a fuck-ton of paperwork and then criticizing everything he did.
Given all that, he'd thought Sesshomaru actually incapable of being anything short of an asshole, but it turned out that underneath that diamond strong exterior he built around himself, he actually had a soul. And it wasn't even black!
Actually, when he thought about it, Sesshomaru surpassed all his expectations. He'd thought that, despite the fact that they were going steady, he'd have to fight Sesshomaru for snuggles and shit. But one their first night together celebrating Inuyasha moving in with him, Sesshomaru wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled him close. He pressed his cheek against the top of his head, between his ears, and every now and then he'd give him light kisses wherever he could- his ears, his temple, his jaw, the corner of his eyebrow.
It was so sweet he almost cried- but not like, "cry" cried but like, molten tears of pure mannish manliness. Yeaaaah, that kind of crying.
Even when they were out and about in public, when Sesshomaru would keep from holding him too intimately, he spot to him softly, and his eye's were warm, and every time he looked at him so nicely he felt like he could be happy forever.
Inuyasha snapped out of his daydreaming when Miroku cleared his throat to get his attention. "So, is it good?"
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes, completely confused. "Was what good?"
"The sex, of course."
Inuyasha spluttered, feeling his cheeks burn when he says, "That isn't your business!"
"Oh come on," Miroku laughs, shoving his shoulder jokingly. "You can tell me. I may not be gay but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy a juicy tale of lust."
"Dude stop." Inuyasha complained, slamming his forehead against his desk and staying there. Maybe if he ignored him long enough, he'd just disappear Unfortunately, all it did was convince him he needed to try harder.
"Come ooooon," He moaned, shaking his shoulder. "Pleeeeeeease, I won't tell him you told me, promise."
"Tell who and what?"
Inuyasha snapped his eyes up the same moment Miroku reeled back and, unconvincingly, pretended like he hadn't said anything in the first place and was just really involved into his work.
Sesshomaru somehow sneaked up behind them, his arms crossed and staring down at the two of them suspiciously. His lips pressed together, and Inuyasha thought he was debating in his head whether or not he really wanted to know. Eventually he shook his head, making up his mind and turning over to Inuyasha, asking, "Are you ready to go?"
Inuyasha squinted up at him, about to ask what the hell he was talking about when it hit him. Today was the Mediation hearing. He groaned and dropped his back onto the desk. This time he was going to stay there, cause everything was just bullshit and he didn't want to deal with any of that mess.
There was a hand on his fore-arm, and sighing, he decided to break the promise he made no more than half a second before, and looked up to his brother.
Sesshomaru simply nodded at him, his way of saying "you'll be fine" and somehow that helped. He wasn't jumping at the idea of going to court, but the fact that Sesshomaru would be there with him, supporting him, made it easier to go through with.
He rested his own hand on Sesshomaru's laying on top of his arm, and gave it a gentle squeeze to tell him he was alright. Assured, Sesshomaru stood up straight again, and that was when Inuyasha noticed the shirt he was wearing.
Grinning without a conscious thought, he asked slowly, "Is that the shirt I asked you to wear this morning?"
Pulling him up by the hand and leading out of the building, Sesshomaru didn't even look down at himself before he answered, "Possibly."
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Normally he was the epitome of patience, but waiting outside the courtroom where Inuyasha and Kagome were disputing the issue of child custody was putting Sesshomaru's patience to the test.
Glancing at his watch he knew they should be out in just fifteen minutes, and he knew he could definitely wait that long given that he'd been sitting there in the same spot for almost three hours, but he really, really, really just wanted to just Inuyasha to be done in there so they could leave. Why couldn't Kagome just work with him on an agreement.
Since Inuyasha moved in with him, Inuyasha had called Kagome seventeen times in three months to ask what she wanted to do regarding custody of their kids, and she'd responded to only five. From what he gathered, the first one was a disaster, resulting a heated argument over the phone, and the following two was Inuyasha trying to convince her to settle on an agreement and Kagome flat out refusing. She wanted full custody and was adamant about it, and while Inuyasha didn't want sole custody he made it clear he wasn't going to just let Kagome seize control over the lives of their children and shove him out of the picture. So here Sesshomaru was, outside the Mediation Hearing where nothing was going to get mediated, waiting for Inuyasha to come out.
Because of the whole situation, Inuyasha had been antsy and one edge all month, snapping at his friends at work and being somewhat distant around him. He tried to help and though he could make him feel a little better sometimes, there hadn't been anything he could do to drag him out of the hole of emotions hes jumped down. And probably this Hearing was going to make it that much worse.
The door's finally opened, and he stood to greet Inuyasha when he came out looking slightly more haggard than when he went in. He pulled him forward in a hug and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I guess I could be worse." Inuyasha pulled back just a little, enough to were he could see his face but still have his arms wrapped around his waist. "Turns out Kagome hired a lawyer."
A lawyer? that seems like overkill."What? Why? She doesn't need one."
"Well, try telling that to her." He brought on of Sesshomaru's arms away from his waist and laced his fingers with his, and lead him away from the courtroom, because if he had to stay another minute in that place he was going to vomit.
It was when they were outside that Sesshomaru saw him, leaning against a silver Camaro and tapping away on a blackberry. He looked up from the phone and spotted him, freezing Sesshomaru in his tracks like a deer in headlight. That single look made his blood run cold, and when he lips split into a slow, sinister grin it made his heart race. It'd been a long time since he'd felt this way, and before he could figure out what he was feeling Inuyasha said, "That's Kagome's lawyer, right over there."
Inuyasha was pointing forward, and he followed it right to where he stood. "His name's Naraku, and hes a fucking douche-bag who uses way to much moose."
Naraku gave a little wave their direction, to which Inuyasha responded to by sticking his tongue out at him before turning his attention back to Sesshomaru.
It must have been obvious how he was feeling, because when Inuyasha looked at him he was a hundred percent concern when he asked, "Dude, are you alright? You look like you just saw a ghost."
A ghost? He wished. He really wished.
The longer he stayed silent the more confused Inuyasha became, looking between him and Kagome's lawyer. "Do you... know that guy?"
Yes. "No," He bite out, far to quick to make him seem anything less than suspicious. He immediate regretted it when Inuyasha flinched back in surprise, looking further confused by his sudden heated response. He sighed and fought the urge to kiss him on his forehead- his way of apologizing- in front of Naraku. "Let's just get home okay."
He could tell Inuyasha wanted answers, but he chose not to argue and followed him to the car, for which he was grateful. All the way, he could feel those red eyes digging into his back, and even when they'd climbed into the chair and left the parking lot and Naraku behind, he couldn't shake the feeling that they could still see him.
He wished he could stop shaking.
A/N: I was actually going to try to get a couple chapters of this done before I uploaded it but I didn't and i'm going to regret it. Ohhh am i going to regret it.
In any case, I hope you guys like it~ It's probably not the best bit of writing I've ever written, as I've been in a writing block for couple months now and I've been trying to get back in the groove, so I hope you forgive me U_U
As a side-note, I have not forgotten about my other fictions~! Those are the ones I've had the hardest time with so it's been super difficult to try to write them, but I WILL update them... ~eventually~ (I'm sorry)