"Inuyasha?" His ears flickered at the sound of his name, and he looked towards hid doorway, seeing his brother standing in the way. "Inuyasha," Sesshomaru walks into his room quickly, and comes up next to Inuyasha, his shoulder rubbing against Inuyasha's. Inuyasha raises an eyebrow at Sesshomaru. What could he possibly want?
"Uh, yeah?" Inuyasha says, going back to folding his clothes and putting them in his duffel bag. Sesshomaru shifts in his spot. "Well? Out with it already."
"Inuyasha have you seen my flat iron?" Sesshomaru says in a hushed tone, looking away from Inuyasha. He glances over at his younger brother, seeing the bewildered expression on his face. "I'm serious, little brother. Have you seen it?"
Inuyasha chortles in his spot, and Sesshomaru growls at him, and quickly grabs him by the neck and lifts Inuyasha up slightly, letting his feet dangle in the air. "You took it! Give it back, little brother." Inuyasha grunts, struggling to breathe as his hands wrap around the wrist of his older brother. "Return my belongings to me, Inuyasha."
"Fuck off Sesshomaru! I don't fucking have it!" Inuyasha says, his voice being choked out by his brother's power. He reaches out toward him, scratching Sesshomaru on the biceps. This causes Sesshomaru to wince slightly and his strength falters, allowing Inuyasha to return to the ground. He takes this opportunity to take Sesshomaru by the arm and flip him, so he was now lying on the ground. "Must I remind you who the President of this fraternity is, brother?!" Sesshomaru blinked are Inuyasha and huffed, rolling out from under Inuyasha's gaze.
"Fine." He says, as he walks out of his little brother's room, "I suppose I will see you at home then, Inuyasha?" Inuyasha gulps and nods his head. "Very well. See you tomorrow." With that, he leaves Inuyasha alone in his room. Sighing, Inuyasha goes back to folding his clothes and packing things away for the long weekend. He stopped when his pile of clothes diminished down to a single white t-shirt. It still held the floral scent of Kagome, who to him, smelled of Honeycomb and roses. He smiled as he put it on, and walked out of his room toward Miroku's room. He heard giggling coming out of his room and pushed open the door slightly, only to find Miroku in bed with a girl. His eyes darted to the floor, where he saw a sweatshirt bearing the sorority letters of Alpha Rho Gama. He rolled his eyes at his friend.
"Really Miroku?" Inuyasha says, clearing his throat as he leans against the doorway. The girl who was in bed with Miroku gives a yelp of surprise, and quickly gathers her things, muttering a hushed 'sorry' on her way pass Inuyasha. Sighing, Inuyasha walks into Miroku's room.
"Hey! Wait up...er," Miroku scratches his head, "damn...what was her name again? Oh well." Noticing the sour mood Inuyasha was in. Miroku sits up in his bed, making sure to keep his private area covered with the sheets until he could make his way toward the floor and pick up his underwear to put on. Once on, his attention turns toward Inuyasha, who lay on his bed, staring up at his ceiling. "Uh, what's up with you?" Inuyasha glances at him, and then looks away. "You look like a kicked little puppy." Miroku goes, and lays down next to Inuyasha in his bed and stares up at his ceiling with him. "What are we looking at?" He whispers, glancing between the ceiling and Inuyasha.
"Miroku..." Inuyasha says, folding his hands over his belly.
"Y-yes?" Miroku answers, suspicious.
"What the fuck was that girl doing in your room?"
"Well, you see Inuyasha I told her that i would read her palm in exchange for, um pleasantries." Inuyasha turns his head to look at Miroku, who smiled nervously at his friend. "So...-"
"Uh-huh, and I suppose these pleasantries involved what exactly?" Inuyasha asks, his eyebrow twitching with annoyance.
"Ah-ha! Pleasure you might ask my dear friend! You see," Miroku gets up, leaning on his elbow in order to support his body weight. Inuyasha follows suit. "I used this thing called a con-"
"Nevermind...I get it." Inuyasha grumbles. He wasn't particularly interested in hearing about his friend's sexual endeavors. It was more than enough to hear the screams and moans that come out of his room every night, and the flustered faces of the women in the morning. "Miroku, we need to talk."
Fuck! Miroku thought. "Uh okay? Did I do something wrong?" It wasn't like Inuyasha to seek out to talk to Miroku, genuinely. Inuyasha shakes his head and Miroku breathes a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank goodness..." he whispers under his breathe. "Should I close my door?"
"Yes." Inuyasha says, picking at a loose string in Miroku's bed sheets. "Remember the party?" Miroku narrowed his eyes at Inuyasha as he closed his door softly, locking it behind him. He didn't like where this was going, much less the look of worry in Inuyasha's eyes. "I'm worried."
Now, that, is what really worried Miroku. One of the admirable, and perhaps also worrisome, things about Inuyasha was that most of his true emotions could be contained and remain unseen. This proved to be handy when he ascended to President of Delta Psi, taking his brother's position as leader. "I see...go on."
"Well, I asked Kagome if she was alright today, after our Astrophysics class." Inuyasha says, making patterns on Miroku's bedsheets. "She kind of got really mad? Annoyed? I don't know, she was really upset and threw her bookbag at me." Miroku winced, "yeah...she didn't take it really well, and told me to mind my own business."
"That's harsh." Miroku says coldly, sighing as he ran a hand through his hair. "So... she rejected going to the police."
"Yeah, didn't give me a valid reason either. Do you think she's mad at me?" Inuyasha asks, sighing. Miroku shrugs his shoulders. "What do you mean? You're no help!" Inuyasha huffs, pushing himself off of Miroku's bed and walking out of the room. He stops in his tracks as Hojo is chased down the hallway by Sesshomaru, who was using his poison whip in order to try to catch up with Hojo. "Sesshomaru! Stop trying to kill the humans!" Inuyasha yells after them, though he knows it fell on deaf ears. Irritated, he starts down the stairs. He was getting quite hungry, and he figured a snack might help lift his sour mood. Lazily, he walks down the steps of the mansion that housed his fraternity, and goes into the kitchen, where he found Shippo and Koga having what seemed to be an intense debate over which cereal made the best breakfast.
"Hey, mutt!" Koga says, waving his hand to get Inuyasha's attention, "tell the little brat that Frosted Flakes is superior to fruity pebbles." He turns, growling at Shippo. Shippo butts his head with Koga. "You wanna fight over this?"
"Come at me! I'm not scared of you!" Shippo retorts, his hands balled up in fists. Inuyasha raises an eyebrow.
"Can I go with neither?" Inuyasha asks, he grabs both men by their heads and pushes them apart to make his way to the refrigerator. Koga and Shippo look at him, as he reaches for a yogurt, and grabs a spoon. They watch as he hoists himself up onto the counter, his feet swinging as he started to eat his yogurt. Inuyasha looks up at his friends, now slightly annoyed. "Can I fucking help you? Do you guys need anything?" Koga and Shippo shake their heads and walk away.
"What's with him?" Shippo mutters, as he and Koga walk out into the backyard.
"No clue kid." Koga mutters back, shrugging his shoulders. "Then again, it's Inuyasha, he always has a problem with something."
"Mhm." Shippo says, nodding his head.
Inuyasha found himself staring at the tile floor of the kitchen, his eyebrows furrowed together as he found himself deep in thought. No matter how much he tried, his mind always wandered toward Kagome and the incident. He couldn't get her big, doe eyes out of head. Or the silky smoothness of her black hair. He reached for his phone in his pocket, and stared at her contact information, debating whether or not he should text her. "If I text her..." Inuyasha trails off, his clawed finger hoovering over the message option. But then his mind wandered toward Kikyou, and he found himself full of guilt, and he felt dirty. "I feel like I've cheated..." He muttered, staring down at his phone. He sighs, and throws his phone onto the marble countertop.
"You have though." Inuyasha's ears twitch as he looks up, and his golden eyes grow wide. It was his brother. Sesshomaru walks calmly toward Inuyasha, folding his arms over his chest. "Kagome slept over, right?" Sesshomaru asks, although he knew the answer. He watched Inuyasha take her by the hand and leader her to his room that night. He heard the giggles coming from his room. The hushed voices. His brother reeked of Kagome's scent afterword.
"Yes but...Sesshomaru it wasn't like that. We didn't have sex." Inuyasha says, gulping. He looks down at his yogurt, swirling his spoon in it. Sesshomaru sighs and takes the yogurt out of Inuyasha's hands, and begins to eat it. "Hey!"
"Shut it little brother." Sesshomaru says, "Kikyou has emotions too, Inuyasha. I've seen a connection blossom between you and Kagome out of nowhere. That's nice and all, but Kikyou...you must think of Kikyou." Sesshomaru advised, looking at his little brother. "I ended my relationship with Kagura because of a similar situation." Sesshomaru admits, cleaning his throat. Inuyasha narrows his eyes at him, laying his hands on his red sweatpants.
"I thought you ended it because Kagura was controlling and miserable." Inuyasha says, and Sesshomaru nods his head, pointing at him with his spoon.
"Excellent memory. Yes, that is all true. But I had also fallen for someone else." Sesshomaru says. "I couldn't live with myself knowing I was living a lie with a woman I no longer cared for, romantically speaking. So, I ended it." Sesshomaru throws the empty jar in the trashcan. "Perhaps you should think of doing the same thing little brother."
"Wait- huh?" Inuyasha says, jumping off the counter and following his brother out to the backyard, where Koga and Shippo were swimming in the pool. "Who did you fall for?" Inuyasha asks, smiling at Sesshomaru. "I thought you didn't fall for people easily."
"Yes, I thought the same."
"So?" Inuyasha grabs Sesshomaru's wrist. "Bro, who did you fall for man?"
"You'll be surprised." Sesshomaru said simply, tugging his wrist of out Inuyasha's grasp. Inuyasha laughs, and wraps his arms around Sesshomaru's torso. Koga and Shippo look over at the brothers, laughing.
"Dude! Don't throw Sesshomaru in the water!" Shippo says, trying his hardest to swim out of the way. "Please! I don't like it when he's mad it's scary!"
Koga glares at Shippo and scratches his head, "See, this is how I know you aren't a full-fledged demon. Who the fuck would be scared of Sesshomaru being in the pool with them." He looks back toward Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru who was trying his best to wiggle out of his grasp. "Throw 'em in, mutt!"
"C'mon bro," Inuyasha begs, through labored breaths. "Who is it? Huh? I wanna know. If you don't tell me I'm gonna throw you in the water."
"Little brother," Sesshomaru says, trying to pull Inuyasha's arms apart. He felt his body lift up in the air, and his eyes widened as he became desperate. "Inuyasha I command you to stop this instant!" Sesshomaru growls, baring his teeth at Inuyasha. He looked down and saw that his feet were now over the water. "Inuyasha! I'm warning you!" Sesshomaru yells.
"Nah man, tell me who the girl is!" Inuyasha says. Koga laughs.
"Wait. This is all over a girl? Oh man, that just makes it better. Throw him in!" Koga says, splashing water onto Sesshomaru's feet. He watches as his toes curl and Sesshomaru's usual stoic expression turns desperate, as he strains to get out of Inuyasha's grasp. "C'mon Sesshomaru, just tell us who it is!" Koga says.
"Yeah bro, just tell us." Inuyasha teases, as he pretends to drop Sesshomaru in the water. Sesshomaru yelps, which causes Shippo to giggle from the other side of the pool.
"Okay! It's Rin!" Sesshomaru yells, just as Inuyasha dropped him. Koga and Inuyasha suddenly lose their playful expressions. Shippo freezes in his place. Sesshomaru resurfaces from the water, gasping for air as he pulls his hair away from his face. He turns around and grabs onto Inuyasha's ankle and pulls him into the water.
Inuyasha, too shocked to run from Sesshomaru's hands, lets his brother pull him into the water, and then resurfaces just as Sesshomaru, gasping for air and moving his hair out of his face.
The four men float in the pool, staring at each other, as Sesshomaru scrambles to make his way back to the ledge and hoists himself up to sit on it. He wrings the water out of his hair. "I knew you guys would react like this." Sesshomaru says.
"No, I think we're just trying to figure out how you and Rin...how? Wha-? You guys didn't even meet until this year." Inuyasha says, turning in the water to look at his brother.
"Um, I watched her from afar all last year. We were in the same marketing and international affairs classes so I would sit all the way in the back." Sesshomaru confesses. The men surrounding him give him a weirded-out look. "What?"
"Sesshomaru...you stalked Rin?" Koga asks, swimming closer to Sesshomaru. Inuyasha shakes his head to break out of his thoughts and swims over to a ledge, pushing his body out of the water. "That's not cool bro." Koga says, laughing nervously. "So, wait- you broke up with Kagura last year, the super model Kagura, you know like best friends with Rihanna, uber rich Kagura, to try to get with Rin? Kagome's adorable little friend? A nobody?" Koga snorts in disbelief. "Wow...and here I was thinking you hated humans." Out of the corner of his eye he sees Inuyasha fish out his phone from his pocket and dry it on a nearby towel. "Hey! What are you doing mutt?!"
"Yes, I know." Sesshomaru says, as he stands up. He takes off his shirt to reveal a fit, and built physique and throws the shirt to one side. He narrowed his eyes at Shippo and Koga. "If you tell anyone...I will personally murder you and feed you to sharks. Got it?" Shippo and Koga gulp, nodding their heads in understanding. His gaze moves toward Inuyasha, who was typing on his phone. "Brother?"
"One sec, I'm inviting the sorority over for a pool party." Inuyasha says. The sun was beginning to set, and the lights in the pool automatically turned on, as did the lamps in the grass on either side of the pool and surrounding the pool house at the very back of the yard. Koga, Shippo and Sesshomaru share glances. "Okay, done." Inuyasha says, beginning to walk inside.
"Well, I suppose that means we have to go get alcohol?" Sesshomaru says, looking over at Koga and Shippo as they made their way out of the water.
"Yeah, I'll go." Koga says as he jogged inside the house. Shippo followed quickly after him, leaving Sesshomaru alone in the yard. Shaking his head, he made his way toward the pool house. He faintly remembered leaving a change of close in the bathroom in the pool house the week they moved into the house. He pushed open the door and fished out his phone from his pocket. He dries it off on the couch cushion as he made his way toward the bathroom, his hair leaving a trail of water behind him. His phone buzzed in his hand, as the name 'Rin' flashed across the screen. He held the phone up to his face and it unlocked, revealing the conversation thread between the two.
RIN: Hello! Kagome tells me Inuyasha is throwing a pool party?
Sesshomaru sighs and chuckles, as he closed the bathroom door behind him. He typed out a response.
Unfortunately, yes, will you be in attendance?
RIN: Absolutely! We'll be over in a little bit!
Sesshomaru looked up from the phone and stared at himself in the mirror. His cheeks had turned red, and the sudden color in his face frightened him. A smile threatened to creep onto his lips but he fought it down. "No." He says quietly to himself as he turns to turn on the shower. He rummages through the cabinet under the sink until he finds his swimming trunks and a loose-fitting shirt of his.
"This Sesshomaru does not get flustered over women. Especially human women."
A/N: Hey guys! This is chapter 15, it's kind of a filler (although it also kind of isn't because we learn something about Sesshomaru.). Anyways! Please remember to follow, review and favorite. Thanks guys!
