Disclaimer: Inuyasha etc. not mine. Phooey.

A/N: This is going to be one of the shortest chapters I've ever written, just so you know. The idea suggested in a review made me laugh so hard I just had to put it into the story. It's so perfect!

Laughingstockstables: More chapters, coming up... when I get enough ideas XP

Moonmagicks: . Cool!

Mrs. Sesshomaru: Yeah, it figures he'd be a lot different as a kid than as an adult.

sakura-sama: lol XD Here 'tis... congrats and thanks for the idea! ;)

Rin giggled.

"Sesshoumaru-sama was really like that?" she asked, tittering. Sesshoumaru made no reply. The inevitable question came. "Tell Rin another?"

"No," Sesshoumaru said flatly. "That was the last one. Go to sleep."

Rin looked like she might cry. "Please, Lord Sesshoumaru?"

The full-blood youkai growled in his throat. "Rin… fine. One more."

The day was a quiet one. It was late autumn and the leaves were almost all off the trees, carpeting the ground with red and gold. Sesshoumaru was reading, as usual, in the branches of one of the taller trees. Inuyasha was up with him, reading as well, for a change. The silence was absolute, until Inuyasha shifted slightly.

"Maru?"

"What now?"

"Where do babies come from?"

Sesshoumaru stared at his younger brother, a bit of a blush beginning to color his face. "What?" he asked, praying he had heard wrong.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Where do babies come from?"

Oh, dear.

"Um… well…" Sesshoumaru stammered, caught completely off guard for the very first time in his life. He could do it the easy way, and make himself look like an idiot when Inuyasha told someone else, or the hard way and be embarrassed to death. How would his father face such a question? How would anyone possibly face such a question? He decided to give him some clues and let him figure the rest out on his own.

"Well… see, there's a boy flower, and there's a girl flower," he began. Inuyasha was hanging on his every word now. "And so a bee is on Boy Flower. Boy Flower dust gets on the bee. So the bee flies to Girl Flower. Dust touches Girl Flower's Seed. Seed falls, and soon… Baby Flower grows!"

"Oh, I see," Inuyasha said. Then he thought for a moment. "No, I don't see," he decided. "Flowers? I asked about babies!"

"See, woman is like a Girl Flower. Man is like the bee, and like the Boy Flower."

"I still don't get it."

"Erm… Girl Flower and Boy Flower love each other. Girl Flower's the mother, Boy Flower's the father. Man and Woman love each other. Man and Woman get married. And then one night…"

"Yes?" Inuyasha pressed. Sesshoumaru blushed.

"See… um… well… er…"

Inuyasha's face lit. "Stork! Stork Demon comes to bring a baby! Aww, Maru, Mother told me about the Stork Demon!" He pondered. "Wait… Boy Flower, Girl Flower, Seed, Baby's small, Man, Woman, Bee, love… It isn't the Stork Demon at all!"

Sesshoumaru breathed a sigh of relief as Inuyasha made a face.

"I get it now!" the young hanyou cried. "That's… that's… gross!" He laughed. "Thanks, Maru! Wow, no wonder Mother and Father never told me!"

"Don't tell them where you learned it," Sesshoumaru begged. Inuyasha hugged him and they nearly fell out of the tree.

"Don't worry. You're the best Sesshoumaru I ever had!"

Sesshoumaru extracted himself gingerly and opened up his book. "This Sesshoumaru wants to read his book," he said.

"Me too," Inuyasha agreed emphatically. Sesshoumaru blew an errand strand of hair away from his nose. Now his little half-brother would be hyper all day. Wonderful.

GWAHAHAHA! I love putting Maru on the spot like that! Review with ideas if you can, because I'm running out!