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Sess grumbled as he grabbed the first article of clothing he saw off the floor. The firework had left his face an odd shade of grey and his tail half-singed, much like the squirrels that have been run over a few times and enjoy sitting on windowsills.

He realized that things would be worse if he lost his brother, so he followed in the general direction that he had left. Inuyasha would most likely be eating whatever he had come across in the kitchen anyway, so this left Sess with about five minutes to think of something to occupy the little hanyou that wouldn't need to occupy himself.

Settling on gathering his village friends and letting them run rampant in the yard, Sess walked into the kitchen to discover Inuyasha cooking.

This was a sight to behold, the mini hanyou all decked out in a flowered apron with his hair piled in a womanly bun on the top of his head. He was flipping eggs in a pan with utmost concentration, his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth. When Sess entered the room, he turned and flashed his brother a large toothy grin.

"What are you wearing?" Sess asked curiously.

"It's what my okasan wears," Inuyasha replied brightly. "She says that it's bad to let stuff get on your clothes,"

"You'll make a lovely housewife when you're older, Inuyasha," Sess said before he could stop himself.

Inuyasha tilted his head and stared at Sess for a moment before realizing that his eggs were burning. He yelped and tried to peel them off the pan, discovering that they were sticking. Instead of grabbing a spatula like most normal cooks, he stuck his hand on the hot pan and tried to pick up the frying egg.

"OW!"

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes as his brother clutched the wrist of the burnt hand and hopped on one foot, apron falling off as he hadn't tied it properly.

"Baka, you don't touch things when they're that hot," Sess told Inuyasha.

He was startled to see the hanyou start wailing, as he had never wailed in such a manner himself and couldn't think of what could have possibly caused the horrific noise. Staring blankly at the bawling hanyou, he shrugged and picked up the pan, finishing the egg.

"My mommy always kisses my boo-boos," Inuyasha sniffled, staring at his brother as he finished what had been started. "That makes them feel better,"

"That's insane. It could only hurt that burn worse. Don't touch it!' he exclaimed when he saw Inuyasha move to poke the red and blistered pads of his fingers.

"OW!"

Sess sighed as the little hanyou began to cry again, picking him up around the waist and carrying him outside to the near-by well close to the village. He scopped a bucket of water and shoved his brother's burnt hand into the water.

Inuyasha winced, but his crying decreased to mere sniffles.

"Feel better?" Sess asked him. Inuyasha nodded. "That's what happens when you don't listen. You have to do as I tell you, okay? Stop being independent,"

"Okay," Inuyasha agreed, his face scrunched up in thought. "Sess?" he asked quietly, looking around for some odd reason.

"Yeah?" Sess asked, also looking around, totally bewildered.

"What's 'Independent'?" Inuyasha asked under his breath.

"It's when you make your own decisions. From now on, ask me first,"

"Okay!" Inuyasha agreed, bobbing his head up and down enthuesiatically. "Look! There's Kagome!" he exclaimed, seeing the young girl wander into town.

"One of your friends?" Sesshoumaru asked curiously.

Inuyasha turned a deep shade of pink. "Yeah," he said with a silly grin on his face. "Kagome's really nice,"

"Puppy love?" Sess asked, bemused.

"Yeah," Inuyasha said in the same tone of voice he had used earlier.

Sess tried not to laugh at the sappy expression on his little brother's usually determined face. "You can have some friends over, Inuyasha."

"Really?" the hanyou breathed, eyes wide. "KAGOME! HEY, KAGOME!"

She froze like a deer in headlights and turned towards the sound of his voice. "...Inuyasha? Is that your brother?"

"Yeah! Wanna come play? Have you seen Miroku?"

Sess was stuck with a sudden flashback.

Left to his own devices again, Miroku knew three things. One, he was angry with the strange demon for trying to kill him. Two, he was holding a sword twice his height and the demon wasn't paying attention to him. Three, he could smell the cheesecake on the youkai and he knew that his stomach couldn't continue without it.

With a squeaky battle cry, he flew from the ground at Sesshoumaru, weilding the Tensigah and his mini-monk stick.

So surprised was Sesshoumaru that he was beaten to the ground again before he could even realize what was happening.

"I wiiiiinnnnnn!" Miroku creened. "Gimmie the cheesecake!"

"No! Not the cheesecake! Anything—but—the—cheesecake!" Sesshoumaru gasped, pratically in tears.

Miroku grinned triumphantly when Sesshoumaru handed him the sacred cheesey-goodness. Unwrapping it, he stuck his face into the triangle-shaped piece of heaven.

(Tsuki: yes, we so totally flashed back to another story.

Akina: it's called shameless self-promotion, because we love reviews.

Tsuki: go read Conversations Concerning That! But don't forget to review for this spiffy story too! Just...well, review!)

Sesshoumaru twitched. Pervert-child...he thought menecingly as Miroku exited a hut nearby.

"Somebody call me?" Miroku asked, a large grin on his face.

Sess twitched again, bombarded with memories of cheesecake smearing torture. He began to backpedal as the child advanced, grabbing his brother and his brother's girlfriend by their collars and taking them with him.

"Sessy, what's wrong? Miroku is my best friend in the world!" Inuyasha exclaimed, struggling to stop being dragged back. "Why do you look so scared?"

"Child of evil..." Sess breathed, watching Miroku advance in a cloud of flowers with a large grin on his face, totally unaware of the going-ons around him.

That was when pervert-child tripped and fell into the well. The three that had previously been retreating were dragged forward when Inuyasha and Kagome both rushed to see if their friend was okay.

"Miroku! Miroku!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "Can you hear me? Are you dead?"

"...Where am I? Who am I?!" Miroku's voice floated up from the bottom of the well.

Sess dropped to his knees, arms reached to the heavans. "Thank you kindest lord for this gift you have given me in my hour of need..."

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Tsuki: yes, I adore this chapter! huggles chapter

Akina: ...weird. Well, off for lunch!

Tsuki: we'll probly write more later anyway! Because we're sleepy and we love you guys! So REVIEW! REVIEW, READING MONKIES!

Akina: don't call them monkies, they'll be offended.

Tsuki...deep breath REVIEW YOU PURPLE LIZARDS! YES I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE! HIDING! BIDING YOUR TIME UNTIL YOU CAN COME FOR ME! WELL NOW I DEFEAT YOU! I TRIUMPH OVER YOUR FALLEN EMPIRE! I—

Akina: shut up for god's sake, you make no sense you crazy girl. rolls eyes now let's have ramen and act civilized.

Tsuki: rocks back and forth in corner the lizards...the lizards...