Warning: This has spoilers for after the fight with Ryuukotsusei. (episode 54 of the anime)
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha. I also have… *looks at contents of his pocket* a ball of lint, a paperclip, and a penny that has to be at least 50 years old. Sue me if you want.
Thanks to all my reviewers! Joyeux Noel and Bonne Annee! (I have no idea if ff.net will accept the accent marks
And yes this chapter is the New Moon. And you should know what that means if you read the previous chapters. Also, I officially changed the second genre of this to humor. And there will be more fluffy daffiness and shit but don't expect a declaration of undying love anytime soon (Suya). Sorry if the last chapter seemed rushed. Because it was.
Jezunya: Sorry, I forgot to put an ending note. I guess. I don't even really remember when I typed that chapter that well.
As I stated earlier, this has spoilers for after episode 54. In my fic I'm assuming Sess doesn't know about the Bakuryuuha. He hasn't seen it, no one's told him, so I figure he doesn't know about it. After all, only Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Myouga, and a few dead youkai have seen it, so bleh. Whatever.
Note on the kaze-dokueki inu clan thingy. They never mention any clan name or something other than inu, but as for an explanation of why the half-brothers are so different, I'm thinking like this. Inuyasha is half human. His father is an inu youkai. He uses wind attacks basically (kaze). So Inuyasha's father was a full kaze-inu. Now, Sesshoumaru. He's used the whip thingy and his poison claws/breath when he's in dog form. So I used the/a word for venom, which is dokueki. (I mean 'a' word meaning venom because there are several, some of them meaning snake or scorpion venom. Dogs aren't snakes or scorpions so I used the non snake/scorpion venom word) Since he can use the whip, which I'm saying is like wind shit or something because I'm the all powerful author, means he would have to get the poison stuff from his mom's side of the family. Or it skips a generation or something, but I'm saying he gets it from his moms side. So, we all know Inuyasha's father fell in love with Inuyasha's mother, but we don't really know if he was in love with Sesshoumaru's mother. I'm guessing it was an arranged marriage/mating. Probably to end a war or something between 2 inu clans, and they needed to produce an heir to seal the deal. So there you have Sesshoumaru, who's mother was a dokueki-inu, who was married to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's father, a kaze-inu, which effectively merged the two clans. Kaze-Dokueki. I put kaze first because males are generally dominant. If you don't like it… er… whatever. Give me a bad review. Also if you think there's a fault in my theory lying in with the elemental cat guys, then you don't know how cats mate. A single female can get knocked up by several different fathers, producing several half-siblings in a single litter. The weaker die, leaving the offspring of the strongest one or two fathers to live, ensuring the survival of the fittest. If there's anything else wrong, let me know, but I'm still not changing my mind about the wind-venom dog clan thingy.
By the way, to answer everyone's questions. Aki-chan: Rin's an airhead. Hehehe. I might change it. Rebel-withoutaclue: Er when I had Inuyasha say 'why cant you just die without me' and all that crap, I mean go to hell. Or whatever she's going to be doing when she finally accepts the fact that INUYASHA WILL NOT GO WITH KIKYO. Keh. Stupid wench. Shiko(anon): Not really a chapter, but throughout a lot of the later chapters I'm seeing Hojo _still_ trying to win Kagome like a dumbass. Kagome isn't going to let Inuyasha kill him, but she will let Inuyasha compete with him. A little competition is healthy right? Like why they won't let Microsoft get a monopoly. Tsukinoko: Thanks. And I got 92. It was... weird. I can't get the image of Inuyasha and Kagome waving their arms and saying 'Banzai'. Tipi: I feel like an idiot. I'm going to remove that part of the authors note. Lol.
Now on with the show.
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The Day of the New Moon.
I wonder what time my birthday was? He sighed. There was nothing to do. At all. And he hated being bored. "Oi, Kaede-baba. Anything I can do while I wait for my bastard of a brother?" he asked politely.
"Inuyasha, you can help dig the graves for those youkai you killed earlier."
"Oi! Do I look like some slave that you can just tell to dig a hole?"
"Inuyasha, you asked if there was something you could do."
"Fine. I'll go dig a damn hole."
"Make them big enough for all those youkai!" she yelled after him. "He's in a foul mood today." she noted.
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Sighing from his place in Kaede's hut, he wondered about the situation. Damn holes. Stupid odd shaped youkai. Goddamn bastard of a brother… he continued that way for a while in the confines of his head.
"Inuyasha. The night has now fallen. Do you feel any different?" asked the old woman.
"No. Just a few seconds older." he said. He sighed and continued to wait. Unfortunately for a few nearby trees patience was not a weapon in the hanyou's arsenal.
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"Jaken, move faster." commanded the Lord of the West.
"H-hai Sesshoumaru-sama!" sputtered the clearly nervous toad demon. He was nervous for two reasons. One is that Sesshoumaru _always_ made him nervous. The second was Sesshoumaru's incredibly violent brother.
"Are we there yet?" asked Rin. Little did she know that in a few hundred years those four words would invoke many a nightmare in the dreams of parents…
"No." stated Sesshoumaru coldly. He was beginning to get annoyed. She kept asking the same question every few minutes. "I'll tell you when we get there." he said as warmly as he could.
A few minutes later…
"Are we there yet?" asked Rin again.
"No. I told you I would tell you when we had reached our destination, did I not?" asked Sesshoumaru, this time as coldly as possible.
Rin slumped in shame. She hated it when Sesshoumaru talked to her that way. "Gomen nasai Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin won't do it again."
Sesshoumaru felt a little bad, but not enough to comfort the human girl. But the fact that he was guilty, even such a tiny seed of that emotion as this… His heart of ice was slowly melting under the torch of Rin's company.
In the distance, Sesshoumaru spotted the outlines of a village by the forest the human's had named after his brother.
"We will be there shortly, Rin."
"Hai!"
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(AN: I could end the chapter here and make you all suffer my wrath… but I won't. Never say I am not a kind tyrant.)
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Inuyasha's ears twitched slightly. He was beginning to feel it. His brother's youki. It was coming much slower than he'd expected. Actually, now that he considered it, it made sense. Can't expect the Demon Lord of the West to run just for his half-breed brother's birthday, can you?. "Keh." He waited.
Half an hour later, he decided he should be preparing for his brother's arrival. Sesshoumaru, I am going to kick your ass. he told himself.
Another half an hour later, Sesshoumaru was only a few hundred feet from Kaede's hut, so Inuyasha decided to meet him.
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"Inuyasha." stated Sesshoumaru, as if he should be proud to even have his existence acknowledged. It made Inuyasha furious, which was why Sesshoumaru did it.
"Shut up Sesshoumaru." said Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru hated being told to shut up, which was why Inuyasha did it.
They simply stared at each other for a few moments.
"Rin." he said. The human girl had been hiding behind Ah-Un before. She stepped out smartly.
"Hai!" she responded.
"Go inside that hut." he commanded.
Truth be told, Inuyasha was surprised. He'd thought his brother would have eaten the little girl by now or something. "I thought you would have eaten that girl by now, brother." Sesshoumaru _really_ hated it when Inuyasha made a mention of their common blood.
"_Half_ brother." he corrected, his teeth grinding together. "Fetch me something to eat." he said in the most derisive tone he could muster.
"No." was Inuyasha's unfazed reply.
"I can see I have no business here then. Rin." he called for the girl. She hadn't actually gone inside. She wanted to watch Sesshoumaru fight.
"Hai!" she responded, jumping from her hiding place behind the wall of the hut.
"Come."
"Uh…" FUCK SESSHOUMARU! he screamed mentally, while trying to appear as calm as possible. FUCK KAGOME!! WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME DO THIS??? he mentally asked himself, or possibly asking the Kagome in his head. She isn't making you do anything. responded the infuriatingly calm voice that Inuyasha was beginning to think was his conscience. That was ridiculous though, he'd locked it in a tiny room in his head long ago, right after his mother had died. SHUUUUUUUUT THEEEEEEE FUCCCK UPPPPPPP!! He screamed as loud as he could, unconsciously growling. Unbeknownst to him, Sesshoumaru had gotten a few hundred feet from him while he was waging mental war with himself.
Sesshoumaru turned around. "Kisama, you dare growl at me?" he asked.
"Fine! I'll get you something to eat. On one condition." he stated. Inuyasha was starting to sweat slightly. This was not going how he had wanted it to go.
Sesshoumaru smiled a small, cold smile to himself. "What is it?" he asked, knowing he had the upper hand.
"You don't try and steal the Tetsusaiga." he said.
"I have no intention of trying to take the fang from you this visit, hanyou." he said. His reasons were almost funny. Now that he had the Toukijin, and only one arm, he couldn't really use both at the same time. The Toukijin was (in his opinion) as strong as the Tetsusaiga, and then there was the bothersome problem of him not being able to grab it without being burned… Besides. His brother actually needed it to keep from becoming an insane killing machine. This way, his mongrel brother could actually bring a small bit of honor to the Kaze-Dokueki-inu clan. He could point to him and say, 'See how even my mongrel half-brother is strong enough to not become insane from the power of my father's blood.' Were he to _actually_ go on an insane killing spree, it would bring dishonor to his clan. Honor meant everything to the human samurai's, and even more to the ruling caste of youkai. Actually killing Inuyasha would bring him no honor, so he had all but given up pursuing the fang. However, if he found out about the Bakuryuuha, that would probably change… "Now, fetch me something to eat, mongrel." he said venomously.
"Keep your obi on Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha sneered.
"Keep it up and I'll steal the fang." Sesshoumaru warned.
"Right." He added an extra spring to his step.
"Hmph. Never let it be said I am not a merciful Sesshoumaru." he stated with all the arrogance he could put into those few words.
Inuyasha dashed off into the forest to look for something to eat. "Right…" he muttered while rolling his eyes.
"I heard that you bastard…" muttered Sesshoumaru as he stepped into Kaede's hut.
"Myouga-jiji." he stated.
"!! Sesshoumaru-sama!" exclaimed a frightened flea.
"I did not know you were hanging around my idiot of a brother." he said coolly.
"Err." small talk didn't come easy when it was a Demon Lord you were trying to make small talk with.
"Rin, come in." he said, annoyed that Rin hadn't done so yet.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama!" said the small human girl.
"What were you doing?" he asked.
"Watching for Inuyasha-san." she said.
Sesshoumaru was annoyed his human was saying his half-brother's name. Better than her calling him my brother. he thought. "You do not need to do so. I can sense his presence." he added.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama."
Silence.
"Myouga. What does the half-breed expect of me?" he asked coldly.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, you should not address your family as such." stated Myouga in an odd moment of bravery. Not to mention a stupid moment of bravery.
"Who do you think you are, flea?! Daring to speak to this Sesshoumaru in such a disrespectful manner?" rebuked Sesshoumaru in a fury, only to find…. Myouga was already gone. This of course pissed him off more. Kaede chose this moment to enter.
"Youkai!" she exclaimed. Her old age must have been sneaking up on her for her not to notice such a powerful youki! She quickly brought up her bow and fired.
Sesshoumaru of course merely caught it and snapped it like the twig it was. "Human, you dare attack this Sesshoumaru? You should be groveling on your knees in my presence!" he stated imperiously.
Silence.
"You must be Inuyasha's brother." stated Kaede calmly.
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Heh. I thought I would end it on that note. More of Sesshoumaru and Kaede arguing next chapter on… End of Adolescence! Also next episode.. Er… chapter, Kagome finds out Inuyasha was stalking her! Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha fight! Sango and Miroku are still doing practically nothing in the story! We find out where the hell Jaken went! So join us again… er.. Tomorrow for the next chapter of END OF ADOLESCENCE!
Right. Review. I love reading reviews. Poor Sess. Everyone's dissin.
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha. I also have… *looks at contents of his pocket* a ball of lint, a paperclip, and a penny that has to be at least 50 years old. Sue me if you want.
Thanks to all my reviewers! Joyeux Noel and Bonne Annee! (I have no idea if ff.net will accept the accent marks
And yes this chapter is the New Moon. And you should know what that means if you read the previous chapters. Also, I officially changed the second genre of this to humor. And there will be more fluffy daffiness and shit but don't expect a declaration of undying love anytime soon (Suya). Sorry if the last chapter seemed rushed. Because it was.
Jezunya: Sorry, I forgot to put an ending note. I guess. I don't even really remember when I typed that chapter that well.
As I stated earlier, this has spoilers for after episode 54. In my fic I'm assuming Sess doesn't know about the Bakuryuuha. He hasn't seen it, no one's told him, so I figure he doesn't know about it. After all, only Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Myouga, and a few dead youkai have seen it, so bleh. Whatever.
Note on the kaze-dokueki inu clan thingy. They never mention any clan name or something other than inu, but as for an explanation of why the half-brothers are so different, I'm thinking like this. Inuyasha is half human. His father is an inu youkai. He uses wind attacks basically (kaze). So Inuyasha's father was a full kaze-inu. Now, Sesshoumaru. He's used the whip thingy and his poison claws/breath when he's in dog form. So I used the/a word for venom, which is dokueki. (I mean 'a' word meaning venom because there are several, some of them meaning snake or scorpion venom. Dogs aren't snakes or scorpions so I used the non snake/scorpion venom word) Since he can use the whip, which I'm saying is like wind shit or something because I'm the all powerful author, means he would have to get the poison stuff from his mom's side of the family. Or it skips a generation or something, but I'm saying he gets it from his moms side. So, we all know Inuyasha's father fell in love with Inuyasha's mother, but we don't really know if he was in love with Sesshoumaru's mother. I'm guessing it was an arranged marriage/mating. Probably to end a war or something between 2 inu clans, and they needed to produce an heir to seal the deal. So there you have Sesshoumaru, who's mother was a dokueki-inu, who was married to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's father, a kaze-inu, which effectively merged the two clans. Kaze-Dokueki. I put kaze first because males are generally dominant. If you don't like it… er… whatever. Give me a bad review. Also if you think there's a fault in my theory lying in with the elemental cat guys, then you don't know how cats mate. A single female can get knocked up by several different fathers, producing several half-siblings in a single litter. The weaker die, leaving the offspring of the strongest one or two fathers to live, ensuring the survival of the fittest. If there's anything else wrong, let me know, but I'm still not changing my mind about the wind-venom dog clan thingy.
By the way, to answer everyone's questions. Aki-chan: Rin's an airhead. Hehehe. I might change it. Rebel-withoutaclue: Er when I had Inuyasha say 'why cant you just die without me' and all that crap, I mean go to hell. Or whatever she's going to be doing when she finally accepts the fact that INUYASHA WILL NOT GO WITH KIKYO. Keh. Stupid wench. Shiko(anon): Not really a chapter, but throughout a lot of the later chapters I'm seeing Hojo _still_ trying to win Kagome like a dumbass. Kagome isn't going to let Inuyasha kill him, but she will let Inuyasha compete with him. A little competition is healthy right? Like why they won't let Microsoft get a monopoly. Tsukinoko: Thanks. And I got 92. It was... weird. I can't get the image of Inuyasha and Kagome waving their arms and saying 'Banzai'. Tipi: I feel like an idiot. I'm going to remove that part of the authors note. Lol.
Now on with the show.
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The Day of the New Moon.
I wonder what time my birthday was? He sighed. There was nothing to do. At all. And he hated being bored. "Oi, Kaede-baba. Anything I can do while I wait for my bastard of a brother?" he asked politely.
"Inuyasha, you can help dig the graves for those youkai you killed earlier."
"Oi! Do I look like some slave that you can just tell to dig a hole?"
"Inuyasha, you asked if there was something you could do."
"Fine. I'll go dig a damn hole."
"Make them big enough for all those youkai!" she yelled after him. "He's in a foul mood today." she noted.
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Sighing from his place in Kaede's hut, he wondered about the situation. Damn holes. Stupid odd shaped youkai. Goddamn bastard of a brother… he continued that way for a while in the confines of his head.
"Inuyasha. The night has now fallen. Do you feel any different?" asked the old woman.
"No. Just a few seconds older." he said. He sighed and continued to wait. Unfortunately for a few nearby trees patience was not a weapon in the hanyou's arsenal.
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"Jaken, move faster." commanded the Lord of the West.
"H-hai Sesshoumaru-sama!" sputtered the clearly nervous toad demon. He was nervous for two reasons. One is that Sesshoumaru _always_ made him nervous. The second was Sesshoumaru's incredibly violent brother.
"Are we there yet?" asked Rin. Little did she know that in a few hundred years those four words would invoke many a nightmare in the dreams of parents…
"No." stated Sesshoumaru coldly. He was beginning to get annoyed. She kept asking the same question every few minutes. "I'll tell you when we get there." he said as warmly as he could.
A few minutes later…
"Are we there yet?" asked Rin again.
"No. I told you I would tell you when we had reached our destination, did I not?" asked Sesshoumaru, this time as coldly as possible.
Rin slumped in shame. She hated it when Sesshoumaru talked to her that way. "Gomen nasai Sesshoumaru-sama, Rin won't do it again."
Sesshoumaru felt a little bad, but not enough to comfort the human girl. But the fact that he was guilty, even such a tiny seed of that emotion as this… His heart of ice was slowly melting under the torch of Rin's company.
In the distance, Sesshoumaru spotted the outlines of a village by the forest the human's had named after his brother.
"We will be there shortly, Rin."
"Hai!"
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(AN: I could end the chapter here and make you all suffer my wrath… but I won't. Never say I am not a kind tyrant.)
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Inuyasha's ears twitched slightly. He was beginning to feel it. His brother's youki. It was coming much slower than he'd expected. Actually, now that he considered it, it made sense. Can't expect the Demon Lord of the West to run just for his half-breed brother's birthday, can you?. "Keh." He waited.
Half an hour later, he decided he should be preparing for his brother's arrival. Sesshoumaru, I am going to kick your ass. he told himself.
Another half an hour later, Sesshoumaru was only a few hundred feet from Kaede's hut, so Inuyasha decided to meet him.
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"Inuyasha." stated Sesshoumaru, as if he should be proud to even have his existence acknowledged. It made Inuyasha furious, which was why Sesshoumaru did it.
"Shut up Sesshoumaru." said Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru hated being told to shut up, which was why Inuyasha did it.
They simply stared at each other for a few moments.
"Rin." he said. The human girl had been hiding behind Ah-Un before. She stepped out smartly.
"Hai!" she responded.
"Go inside that hut." he commanded.
Truth be told, Inuyasha was surprised. He'd thought his brother would have eaten the little girl by now or something. "I thought you would have eaten that girl by now, brother." Sesshoumaru _really_ hated it when Inuyasha made a mention of their common blood.
"_Half_ brother." he corrected, his teeth grinding together. "Fetch me something to eat." he said in the most derisive tone he could muster.
"No." was Inuyasha's unfazed reply.
"I can see I have no business here then. Rin." he called for the girl. She hadn't actually gone inside. She wanted to watch Sesshoumaru fight.
"Hai!" she responded, jumping from her hiding place behind the wall of the hut.
"Come."
"Uh…" FUCK SESSHOUMARU! he screamed mentally, while trying to appear as calm as possible. FUCK KAGOME!! WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME DO THIS??? he mentally asked himself, or possibly asking the Kagome in his head. She isn't making you do anything. responded the infuriatingly calm voice that Inuyasha was beginning to think was his conscience. That was ridiculous though, he'd locked it in a tiny room in his head long ago, right after his mother had died. SHUUUUUUUUT THEEEEEEE FUCCCK UPPPPPPP!! He screamed as loud as he could, unconsciously growling. Unbeknownst to him, Sesshoumaru had gotten a few hundred feet from him while he was waging mental war with himself.
Sesshoumaru turned around. "Kisama, you dare growl at me?" he asked.
"Fine! I'll get you something to eat. On one condition." he stated. Inuyasha was starting to sweat slightly. This was not going how he had wanted it to go.
Sesshoumaru smiled a small, cold smile to himself. "What is it?" he asked, knowing he had the upper hand.
"You don't try and steal the Tetsusaiga." he said.
"I have no intention of trying to take the fang from you this visit, hanyou." he said. His reasons were almost funny. Now that he had the Toukijin, and only one arm, he couldn't really use both at the same time. The Toukijin was (in his opinion) as strong as the Tetsusaiga, and then there was the bothersome problem of him not being able to grab it without being burned… Besides. His brother actually needed it to keep from becoming an insane killing machine. This way, his mongrel brother could actually bring a small bit of honor to the Kaze-Dokueki-inu clan. He could point to him and say, 'See how even my mongrel half-brother is strong enough to not become insane from the power of my father's blood.' Were he to _actually_ go on an insane killing spree, it would bring dishonor to his clan. Honor meant everything to the human samurai's, and even more to the ruling caste of youkai. Actually killing Inuyasha would bring him no honor, so he had all but given up pursuing the fang. However, if he found out about the Bakuryuuha, that would probably change… "Now, fetch me something to eat, mongrel." he said venomously.
"Keep your obi on Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha sneered.
"Keep it up and I'll steal the fang." Sesshoumaru warned.
"Right." He added an extra spring to his step.
"Hmph. Never let it be said I am not a merciful Sesshoumaru." he stated with all the arrogance he could put into those few words.
Inuyasha dashed off into the forest to look for something to eat. "Right…" he muttered while rolling his eyes.
"I heard that you bastard…" muttered Sesshoumaru as he stepped into Kaede's hut.
"Myouga-jiji." he stated.
"!! Sesshoumaru-sama!" exclaimed a frightened flea.
"I did not know you were hanging around my idiot of a brother." he said coolly.
"Err." small talk didn't come easy when it was a Demon Lord you were trying to make small talk with.
"Rin, come in." he said, annoyed that Rin hadn't done so yet.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama!" said the small human girl.
"What were you doing?" he asked.
"Watching for Inuyasha-san." she said.
Sesshoumaru was annoyed his human was saying his half-brother's name. Better than her calling him my brother. he thought. "You do not need to do so. I can sense his presence." he added.
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama."
Silence.
"Myouga. What does the half-breed expect of me?" he asked coldly.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, you should not address your family as such." stated Myouga in an odd moment of bravery. Not to mention a stupid moment of bravery.
"Who do you think you are, flea?! Daring to speak to this Sesshoumaru in such a disrespectful manner?" rebuked Sesshoumaru in a fury, only to find…. Myouga was already gone. This of course pissed him off more. Kaede chose this moment to enter.
"Youkai!" she exclaimed. Her old age must have been sneaking up on her for her not to notice such a powerful youki! She quickly brought up her bow and fired.
Sesshoumaru of course merely caught it and snapped it like the twig it was. "Human, you dare attack this Sesshoumaru? You should be groveling on your knees in my presence!" he stated imperiously.
Silence.
"You must be Inuyasha's brother." stated Kaede calmly.
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Heh. I thought I would end it on that note. More of Sesshoumaru and Kaede arguing next chapter on… End of Adolescence! Also next episode.. Er… chapter, Kagome finds out Inuyasha was stalking her! Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha fight! Sango and Miroku are still doing practically nothing in the story! We find out where the hell Jaken went! So join us again… er.. Tomorrow for the next chapter of END OF ADOLESCENCE!
Right. Review. I love reading reviews. Poor Sess. Everyone's dissin.