A/N: This one is about Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. What was their childhood like? Read and find out. In this story, the Inu no Taisho is still alive, Inuyasha's mom is dead, and Sesshomaru and Inuyasha live in the Western lands with their father. Sorry if Sesshomaru is OOC, but who really knows how he was when he was younger?

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any related characters. I only use them mercilessly for my amusement.

:-: Inuyasha and Sesshomaru :-:

It was a beautiful day in Feudal Japan. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and Sesshomaru was trying to kill Inuyasha. Again. Sesshomaru hated his little brother, not only because he was a hanyou, but because he was forever trying his best to get Sesshomaru to crack. Being the young refined demon lord he was, Sesshomaru knew better than to try to do away with his little brother while their father, the Inu no Taisho, was around. Unfortunately for Inuyasha, the great Dog General was off settling an uprising on one of the borders.

Sesshomaru had tried many times to kill his brother, sometimes for the simple reason that Inuyasha had looked at him the wrong way. This time however, the little hanyou had committed a serious crime: he had tried to give Sesshomaru's mokomoko a haircut. Not many things could make Sesshomaru truly angry, but what Inuyasha had attempted to do was definitely on top of the list.

"Sesshomaru, I didn't mean to! I thought it was an animal that had attached to you and was trying to kill you!" Inuyasha said as he swung by one ankle. Sesshomaru had his foot gripped firmly in one hand, ready to drop the irritating hanyou off the castle's ramparts.

"You fool. Many times have you seen this on me, and yet you decide to act against it now?" Sesshomaru demanded, his hand tightening around Inuyasha's ankle, cutting off the circulation.

"Well, it never occurred to me what it was until today," he said carefully, trying to think of a way to keep Sesshomaru from dropping him. He may have been half demon, but even a full-blooded one probably wouldn't survive a fall from so great a height.

"Inuyasha, my patience with you is running very thin. You would do well to be silent until I can think of what to do with you."

Inuyasha paled. This couldn't be good. Normally, whenever Inuyasha did something to annoy his brother, their father would step in and break it up before Sesshomaru could disembowel him.

"I'm sorry, Sesshomaru, I won't do it again," Inuyasha pleaded, looking as pitiful as he could while hanging upside down two hundred feet above the ground.

"Little brother, please do not treat me like I was born yesterday. If I do not punish you for your wrongdoing, you will never learn," he said. He had to do something soon, his arm was getting tired.

"Please Sesshomaru, I have learned, please don't drop me!" he said, swinging his arms around, trying his best to grab onto the stone wall, but Sesshomaru had him held too far out.

"Rest assured, I will do much worse than drop you if you continue this tirade against me," Sesshomaru said, raising one eyebrow.

"But I won't! I'll stop!" Inuyasha said again.

"Inuyasha, I will get it through your thick skull eventually to stop bothering me," Sesshomaru said, a slight growl in his voice.

"Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, where are you?" a deep voice rang through the corridors.

Sesshomaru winced and looked back towards the door. "Uh, up here," he called. He pulled Inuyasha back and put him down before the Inu no Taisho could find him dangling his brother over the side of the castle.

Inuyasha sighed in relief and looked back at his brother.

Sesshomaru glared back. "I will be rid of you one day, little brother. Mark my words."

Inuyasha grinned back. "One day, you will understand the evilness of that thing on your shoulder."

"Inuyasha, I hate you. . . ."

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Miyuki: Okay, I know it was a little uneventful, but I thought the concept was funny.