Authors Note:

This story is more popular that I thought it would be, and we're only on chapter four! I am so happy. Thank you to all who subscribe to this story, add it to your alerts, review, and such. It keeps me motivated! I really didn't think this story would be that popular….

Warning! This Chapter is what I consider to be a filler chapter...you know like a filler episode in an anime...still I promise you it is entertaining. But I thought I'd throw in a heads up.

Not knowing what else to do while feeling lost, confused and almost jaded, Takumi locked himself in his room. Or at least he tried to. His oddly placed room was always his safe haven. The first floor of their home was turned into the restaurant. The second was where they lived and his mom's room was there, but between the roof and the second room were a flight of stairs made up of maybe six steps that lead to a space the construction works seemed to forget to do something with. This was Takumi's room for the last three years. It was almost as big as the master bedroom (his mom's room) and as of last year there was a bathroom located in it as well as a small fridge under the computer desk.

Fluorescent lights lit up Takumi's room. Though there were two parallel lines of four running across the ceiling they weren't very bright. They kind of just let off a dim bluish glow. Shippo sighed softly taking his time to maneuver around the boy's room. It wasn't messy just clustered. Takumi's bed was on the opposite wall of were they entered, but there was a giant office desk planted in the middle of the room with three computer monitors on it. Two of the three seemed to be functioning while the other was taken apart. A large bookshelf took up the wall to the left of the desk, and on the adjacent wall was yet another bookshelf. Then of course the boy still had books on the ground stacked at least two feet into the air. His dresser just seemed to be thrown into the room and the TV was planted on the floor on the right of the desk. Two filing cabinets were wedged between the wall and the end of Takumi's bed and at the top of the bed was nothing. That was because if there was it would block the door to the roof, which is where Takumi went with Rin following after him.

Shippo blinked, noticing that during the time it took to take in Takumi's room said teen and Rin had already moved through and left him behind. Sighing the kitsune shook his head. He didn't really know how to approach Takumi as himself. Tail swinging lazily as he browsed Takumi's bookshelves, Shippo thought of that first time in the library at school when he first spoke to Takumi as Jae-Sook. "What an odd collection of books." Shippo chuckled.

Pride and Prejudice, The Art of War, War and Peace, MacBeth, Hamlet, A Collection of Edgar Allen Poe…. "He likes English literature." Shippo said with a smirk. "And philosophy so it seems" He added wanting now more than ever for them to be close brothers so he could steal some of his books.

Moving from the literature, Shippo being the curious kitsune he always has been he took it upon himself to take a glance at the contents of his younger brother's filing cabinet. His interest sparked when he found the bottom two drawers were locked. Inserting one clawed finger into the keyhole of the bottom drawer first he easily popped the lock. What sort of kitsune would he be if he couldn't undo such a simple method of prevention?

"This kid here…" He scoffed, rolling his eyes as the two bottles of alcohol. There was a half bottle of vodka and a full bottle of bourbon to be precise. Kagome must have no reason to distrust her son, which had to be the only reason Takumi could get away with drinking in her house at such a young age. "Lucky him, Sesshomaru made a damn mess of my room every week searching for stuff to punish me for."

Shippo was going to be a cool brother though, and as long as Takumi let him join in he would rat him out. Closing and fixing the lock back on the draw Shippo moved to the one above it. It was filled with neatly organized unlabeled cassettes. Shippo raised an orange brow and closed the drawer back. He didn't have anything to play the tapes with anyway, but he could only wonder why he would bother to lock up such useless stuff. Shaking his head he moved to the desk, sitting down on the chair as he moved through those drawers to. It was wrong, it was an invasion of privacy but he needed something, just anything that he could use to help form a bond with his brother. He couldn't use what he knew as Jae-Sook…it was bring up to many question as how he knew what he did. It was probably to soon to tell the boy that he'd been stalking him the last couple of years under the guise of his soccer captain. And truthfully Shippo did not want to lose that small bond he had with Takumi. Should the teen not accept him as he was than he'd have to watch him afar as the human Jae-Sook. Shippo sighed. Their mom and dad really didn't do a good job of confronting one another…let alone introducing him.

Takumi stumbled over to the daiyoukai, wedging himself in between him and his mom. Though an unnatural fear shook the boy's body he looked into the man's eyes. As Sesshomaru's red eyes stared him down the daiyoukai seemed to gain a bit more control realizing who he was baring his fangs at. 'His son, he could not harm his son, nor his mate. His pack.' As dangerous and wild as Sesshomaru could be during the rare times he lost control, he would always be instinct driven. And it was his instincts that recognized pack and blood. Always.

Kagome on the other hand dropped her guard as soon as she sensed her son's building yoki. She did not want to provoke him with her miko abilities causing him to lash out at those around him, nor did she wish to harm him with her powers as a result. "Takumi." She said softly, grabbing hold of his shoulders and trying to move the teen behind her only to find that she couldn't budge him. He was physically stronger than her, and stood his ground in front of the man he didn't know. "Takumi, its okay son." She cooed softly, wrapping her arms around his waist and holding him to her chest protectively.

"What the hell kind of monster is this?" Takumi snarled. Able to finally take Sesshomaru's appearance in after the man calmed and stepped back. He would have just thought Sesshomaru was some weirdo drag queen but that power he felt, pressing down on his whole body… it was both terrifying yet familiar…and somewhat welcome.

"Watch your tongue boy." Sesshomaru barked, once again moving forward invading the mother and son's personal space. He pried Kagome's hands off of Takumi and lightly shoved her in Shippo's direction knowing the kitsune would keep her out of his way for the moment.

Takumi felt his heart drop as Sesshomaru towered over him. It wasn't even that Takumi was super short, but more like Sesshomaru was just extra tall. "Do you know who I am?"

"What?" Takumi breathed, so caught up with just looking at the man and fearful of what he might do.

"Do not make me repeat myself."

Takumi shook his head quickly. "No…am I supposed to."

Sesshomaru turned to Kagome, "You have never mentioned me?"

Kagome looked away. "Why would I? He probably thinks your dead…. why would I hurt him with unnecessary details? I never thought you would come back for us."

Sesshomaru nodded, he wasn't happy with her answer but he could not blame her. And after his childish outburst he didn't feel he had any right to criticize her. The inu daiyoukai turned his gaze back to Takumi. The young boy's features were so soft and clean. He could tell the boy lived a good life free of hardships and worry. "Kagome. You raised him well. Please allow me to help to continue to raise him in such a way."

Shippo rolled his eyes, "That's what ya should' a said in the first damn place." He muttered leaning his head on Kagome's shoulder as he held her in place. The kitsune breathed in her scent and sighed. He wanted his real reunion with his long lost mother to be real soon. Actually he wanted everything to be real soon. He'd waited so many years to just have a happy family life. He didn't want to mate yet…not before he knew what true family and pack was.

Kagome didn't fight Shippo. She leaned into him instead. What was she supposed to do? Sesshomaru was here, Takumi had already seen him and to much was said for it to be taken back now. She found comfort in Shippo. Sesshomaru, though she wouldn't voice it now, seemed to have raised Shippo wonderfully as he son. It gave her some hope that she might be able to trust Sesshomaru enough to have him help Takumi but nothing more than that. She promised herself and she promised Takumi that. Her eyes watched her little boy with worry. She had so much to tell him. She felt horrible.

Takumi felt a shift, almost lie a pull in his mother's direction. He glanced over her, catching her eyes filled with worry and something he could only describe as regret. He turned back to Sesshomaru who was silent. It was pissing Takumi off. Everything was making him angry, he didn't like not knowing what everyone else seemed to know….

"Who the fuck are you?" The teen finally snapped.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at him, the boy had such a mouth. "I am your father." Sesshomaru lifted his finger to Kagome, Rin, … and Shippo. "That is your older brother. Your mother is my mate. Rin is my ward."

Shippo would have liked to think that Takumi was just so upset about Sesshomaru and Kagome to be excited to have an older brother…but he knew Takumi probably hated that just as much as everything else. Shippo would really need to have a one on one with Sesshomaru about his people skills. Despite everything else he still hadn't changed in that aspect. It was acceptable for hundreds of years though, so Shippo was fine with dealing with it. However in recent years, respect for those with age, power, and well more power have dwindled. Shippo doubted Takumi would respond to a 'holier than thou' dad. Plus Shippo also doubted Kagome would allow him to be so cut throat.

Once the draw was open Shippo found that it was more cassette tapes. There was less in this draw than the other and this one held an old fashioned tape recorder in it. Before taking the recorder out of the drawer, Shippo listened to make sure neither Takumi or Rin were coming back before popping a random take into the recorder and pressing play. As Shippo listened his eyes widened and he went back to the other drawer intent on listening to each and every recording.

Rin followed Takumi out onto the roof, shutting the door softly behind her. She watched the young boy walk to the edge of the roof and just stare down to the street below.

"If you just stare like that…I'll begin to think that you're going to do something crazy." Rin called. Takumi looked back at her with his mask of indifference and sighed. He stepped a bit away from the edge and just slipped his hands in his pocket. "You know about this? About me? … Feh, and here I thought you were just a strange girl that fell into my life…but maybe this is still fate…or destiny. Not that I believe in any of those mind you."

"You don't believe in fate or destiny?" Rin asked curiously.

"No, not really." Takumi yawned, "Or at least I don't like the concept of it. I don't have any big plans while living in this world. I don't want a destiny or fate."

"Well, aren't we destined for one another?" Rin asked with a smirk.

Takumi scoffed, "That's a different concept of destiny. True love… I can believe that."

"You don't sound a lot like your mom. You're so pessimistic."

"You know my mom?" Takumi slowly walked closer to her till he was standing a few centimeters apart from her. Unfortunately for his pride he had to look up to her since he was about a head shorter. "I'm not pessimistic, I'm just realistic." He countered, moving upwards a bit trying to kiss her once.

Rin wouldn't have that though, pressing her fingers to his forehead and pushing him back down and away from her. "And that's way I don't like realists, but know I don't know your mom. I just hear a lot about her is all. Shouldn't you be more…emotional right now? You just found out your mom is mated to a youkai lord, she's the legendary miko of the shikon no tama, you have a kitsune youkai older brother, and you are the heir to the Western throne… I don't expect you to burst out crying but you could be a little more emotionally involved you know."

Takumi growled when she pushed hip a few steps away. It was a noise that was coming out more and more. "I am emotionally involved… I'm involved in every aspect of this situation. But everyone already knows I'm upset, so there isn't much of a point in throwing a tantrum. As much as I would want to say my opinion, when I look at that man I know that nothing I say will matter. And something inside of me…. It just makes me feel like it would be the biggest sin to speak back to him. When I came into the house, I was even afraid to look into his eyes."

Rin looked down at the boy as he became lost in his thoughts. She laughed softly, he didn't notice it though, and brought her fingers to run through his hair. "Well I do know you shouldn't fear him. He will not hurt you. And you do have an opinion, everything in your life will rest in your opinion even if at first you are unsure it will matter."

"How can you take this so lightly? I still don't even know what you have to do with this. There are still so many gaps in this story."

'They will fill in as time goes by. This is a story were even I am not sure how everything really ended up this way, Prince Takumi."

"Ugh, please don't." Takumi sighed, "I am anything but a prince. I don't even understand how that man is my father."

"Well you better suck it up and go downstairs than right?"

Shippo only got through two tapes before he hear Rin and Takumi getting ready to come inside. With speed only a youkai could possess Shippo had everything locked up and back into place, with him standing by the book shelf with War and Peace in his hands "You've got an interesting room here." Shippo greeted with a smile.

Takumi looked at him from head to toe. "What are you supposed to be." He mumbled. Shippo chuckled weakly and replied, "I am a kitsune youkai."

"Youkai? As in the Japanese legend stuff?" Takumi asked dumbfounded but he couldn't really deny the existence since Shippo's tail was defiantly moving. The kitsune smirked and in a blink of an eye he was standing in front of Takumi.

"You better believe it, after all you are one too. Well, actually, we think you're a hanyou but you defiantly have your father's blood."

"You mean that man." Takumi scowled, "He's a youkai?"

Shippo nodded, "One of the strongest and rarest breeds of youkai and he's royal so we call him a daiyoukai."

"What breed is he?"

"An Inu Daiyoukai."

Then suddenly something clicked, "Uncle…Inuyasha." Without even realizing it tears sprang to the teens eyes at the thought of his late uncle. "Those ears, they were like your tail…they were real."

To think he so blindly brushed off that detail for so many years. The fact that his late uncle took this secret to his grave, and lied to him all the years he was around. Everyone was in on it.

"Hey, hey. There isn't anything to cry about Takumi." Shippo said, using his own hand to wipe away the teens tears. When Takumi didn't struggle or push him away he went as far as to run his fingers through his hair and kiss his forehead. This Takumi was not pleased about, and yet again Shippo was punished with one painful swipe. Twice now, Takumi and lashed out at him with his claws. This time though Shippo felt Takumi meant to do it.

"Shippo are you okay?" Rin asked frantically, her small hands reaching up to inspect Shippo's face. The two brother glared at each other. But Shippo's glare was colder and more angry. The fact that this wasn't an accident really pissed him off. "Damn it Takumi, if you think I'm going to let you get away with doing as you want your are mistaken." Shippo brushed past Rin, stalking up to the younger boy. When Takumi tried to hit him again, finding that to be his only defense as he slowly loss control of his self, Shippo grabbed him by his wrist. "Takumi!" He yelled.

The teen's eyes turned golden and than blood red. His hair starting from the roots, turned color into ghostly silver. Jagged magenta strips started to present themselves on his cheeks, the color wasn't very strong though because he was young. Shippo watched with wide eyes as these changed happened. He didn't feel threatened, but the changes were so sudden. He had to say Takumi was very cute in his little half state. Hanyou's were different when it came to their human and youkai forms. You had some like Inuyasha who were just born into one form, but then you had ones like Takumi who had to have at least two forms a human and youkai. It came from the fact that even though Kagome was human, she was a very powerful priestess and somewhere along the line her miko powers and Takumi's yoki came to an agreement and infused together.

There had been a lot of research over the years and Shippo could come up with his own theory biased off of it. "It seems like you're a bit young…at least in youkai years to have a true youkai form. Inuysha had a youkai form and then just small changed biased about how much of his inner yoki was realsed at one time. But perhaps you may not go to that human form again. After all, you may have just looked like that because your powers were being suppressed." Shippo said thoughtfully as he threw the boy across the room into his bookshelf. "Oh come now, even if you are young…its not like I can predict everything about you hanyou, but I know you can take more than that." He said mockingly throwing up the f-you finger as Takumi scrambled to get up.

Rin sighed and rested on the teen's bed. "I guess its better they were each other out. Must have a lot of pent up stress."

Sesshomaru sat by the dinner table and Kagome stood by the stove quietly making lunch. "That wasn't the best first impressions you know." Kagome spoke, breaking the silence.

Sesshomaru nodded, "True, but it dose not really matter. Impressions don't matter I am his father, and it was better for him to see me for what I am one time."

"A brute?"

"A youkai."

"A youkai brute? Really Sesshomaru I don't care if you show up as you really are or whatever. But I don't think the both of us hissing and snarling at each other was the best way to ease the fact that his whole life isn't as it seems onto him."

"We wouldn't need to ease if you had been upfront with him…or better yet had not left in the first place." Sesshomaru countered. "Anyhow I mean what I said. I wish for you to allow me to help you continue raising our son. Come back to Japan with me and live as the rightful Lady of the West."

Kagome sighed and shook her head. "You really don't change do you Sesshomaru I do not want to go back to that life and I don't want to be with you. All I want is for you to help Takumi. He can't and won't be able to control his yoki. I can't teach him what you can as an Inu daiyoukai and his father. The last thing I want is for him or others to get her because of what happened to us. Please don't think I am not kicking you out now because I am giving you another chance."

Kagome had turned back around to continue cooking as she spoke. She decided to make the steak she had been saving for Takumi's birthday. It was still a month away and with so many youkai in the house she knew the best way to fill them was with the meat. Takumi ate a lot of vegetables though so she made it into curry. Standing on her tip toes to reach the bowls, she was both thankful and annoyed when Sesshomaru reached over her and got them for her. "Thank you." She said softly.

Sesshomaru did not move. He stood over her from behind, her back against his chest as he took the ladle and portioned the curry into the bowls. "Sesshomaru, you don't need to…" Kagome started, trying to move from him but only able to shift enough so she was facing him. Her eyes met his chest and slowly moved up to meet his gaze.

"Mate…" He spoke. "You are mine. Even from before we mated, you were meant to be mine and will always be mine. If it weren't so I would not have taken you."

It felt nice. The attraction was always there between them. There were times when Kagome did long for him, for his touch and after all those years it felt good to have him close. But his actions always pushed her away, even when they should have no longer surprised her. "Sesshomaru…please." She whispered, looking away. She wouldn't fall into that again. Even if Sesshomaru was capable of loving her, he had not changed and he proved that in less than five minutes of him being here.

Sesshomaru slid one slender finger under her chin and tiled her head back up to look at him. "Mate, I will win you back." His other hand held her wrist and held it up for them both to see. "If you truly did not desire me anymore…it would have faded, wouldn't it?"

After staring at his mate and her beauty for a few more moments the daiyoukai moved away giving her space. "Takumi is changing." He spoke softly, a tone of voice Kagome rarely heard and faster than she could blink the male was gone, she could only assume he went upstairs.

She could finally breath again once Sesshomaru was gone. She ran her fingers along the little moon on her wrist and sighed. She didn't want to love Sesshomaru. Loving Sesshomaru was like poisoning herself last time.

Shippo hand Takumi in an arm bar when Sesshomaru reached them. The older brother seemed amused by the younger brother's weak snarls and flailing. Sesshomaru looked to Rin who was bored with the situation and if anything felt a little bad for Takumi. "Big brother felt disrespected." Rin answered simply.

Sesshomaru nodded, "I see. Shippo that's enough. Talk it through with him later when he is in a better state and don't taunt him when he is like this."

Shippo sighed and let the teen go but not before punching his arm hard. It would surely leave a bruise. When Takumi went to lunge for their kitsune, Sesshomaru caught him in mid air. "No." He spoke sternly.

Takumi growled and snarled, snapping his little fangs and the daiyoukai. Sesshomaru shook his head and barked back at him, the loud and dominates noise making the teen flinch. Seeing that the boy took the command well and was now just pouting Sesshomaru decided to lay down the law. "Listen pup. I am your father, your alpha and pack leader. You will listen to what I say. Shippo and Rin both have a higher rank than you and you will respect them as your older siblings, understood."

When Takumi didn't respond, Sesshomaru gave him a rough shake earning a small yelp from him. "Takumi I know you can still talk, you had no problems cursing at me earlier." Shippo yawned getting the teen in more trouble.

"You will open your mouth and speak when I am talking to you…" Sesshomaru growled, having thought the boy's vocals were limited to mere dog sounds because of his change, when really he was just being a smart ass.

"Understood?" Sesshomaru growled again.

"Bark, mother fucking bark." Takumi sneered.

End Note:

I know it is technically Monday but hey its only 12:45 so I'm still counting it as Sunday. Sorry if this chapter didn't live up to expectations. But I make a list when it comes to planning things out…I decided it wasn't time for a lot of stuff to come out yet. I guess in a sense this is more of a filler till I am finished with the original chapter that I wanted to post for chapter four. However I hope you all still review and give me feedback…maybe about some stuff you want to see happen.