Updating early, again! I want to get this story finished before my last day of school, so R&R! You know the old saying, "Be seen and not heard"? Well in this chapter, Inuyasha is heard and not seen. I do not own Inuyasha but if I did, Rin would be older and Inuyasha would be an even bigger idiot:)

Chapter 10: Resemblance

The morning after the incident with Sesshomaru being "dead", Rin decided to look around the castle and Jaken was ordered to guide her, so she wouldn't get lost. He tried to argue back, but that effort earned him a couple of lumps and bruises on his head. Things started to get a little strange once Rin saw the family portraits. In each portrait, there were the dog-demons and their children. But the last portrait, there were two demons and one was of course, Sesshomaru. And the other one, she guessed was his father. Rin stared at the portrait in front of her; she could see a lot resemblance between them.

But then Rin remembered what Inuyasha looked like and the thing that she found odd was that he didn't look very much like their father, Inutaisho. Sure, there were some similarities, but not enough for Inuyasha to be his son. Actually, she saw more resemblance between Sesshomaru and Inuyasha than with their father. "Rin, you can't waste all of your time looking at this one portrait!" Jaken yelled at her, as though he were being impatient.

"Master Jaken, why do Lord Sesshomaru and Inuyasha look so much alike?" Jaken stared at the little girl in front of him. He only thought it to be a ridiculous question.

"They are brothers! Of course they would look alike!" Rin made a face that was angry but still cute. "Inuyasha looks more like Lord Sesshomaru than their father. Say Master Jaken, can Inuyasha be Lord Sesshomaru's son?" Jaken's beak fell wide open, for he never expected to hear that. Lord Sesshomaru… Inuyasha… father and son! If Lord Sesshomaru heard this, he would be extremely angry with Rin and take it out on me! "You stupid girl! Inuyasha can't be his son, for that would mean he mated with a human and Lord Sesshomaru hates humans!"

Rin looked at him confusingly. Lord Sesshomaru doesn't hate me and I'm human. But something he said caused her to ask another question. "Master Jaken, what does "mated" mean?"

"Right now, it would be difficult to explain. Jaken will tell you when you are older." Sesshomaru said, appearing out of nowhere. Jaken was very much afraid for his life because he did not know how long Sesshomaru had been there and if he heard everything. "Lord Sesshomaru," Jaken started, although he was very afraid at the moment. "How much of our conversation did you hear, exactly?" Sesshomaru turned his gaze from the little girl to the imp next to him. He narrowed his eyes, which turned into a horrifying glare of demise for Jaken. Jaken backed away and apologized for asking him in the first place. Sesshomaru ignored Jaken's idiotic apology and kept walking. Inuyasha looks more like me than our father? First it was my fang near his body, and then Izayoi told me to find the truth, and now resemblance between us. What is going on? Is it possible that Inuyasha is really my son?

He shrugged it off and was now trying to forget that foolish thought. Though, once a thought enters your mind, it becomes stuck there until you prove it wrong. Sesshomaru did not care what was in his mind at that minute for as long as he did not contribute to the thought, it would probably be buried deep within his mind. But this was difficult, even for him. He turned and started walking into the study. Maybe work could get all of these moronic ideas out of his mind for good. When he saw how crowed the desk was with old scrolls, he decided to throw them all away. But when he destroyed all those old documents, there was a letter lying in the middle of the desk. Sesshomaru stared at it, then reached out his hand and picked it up. It was unopened and it held no name on it. Should I throw this away or read it? He pondered this for a little bit before he left the study and walked towards the direction of his room.

Too bad while he was walking there, Jaken appeared in front of him. "Milord, what's that letter in your hands?" Being the snoop that he is, Jaken had to ask. Sesshomaru was not in the mood for answering Jaken's dumb questions and he had already threatened him earlier, so how was he supposed to get rid of him?

"Do not ask me Jaken. I would prefer it if you would leave me be. Go do something else otherwise, I will have to kill you." Sesshomaru smirked when he said those words. If he smile at Jaken and threatened him, then he would have peace and quiet for some time at least. Jaken made a screeching sound for he knew he was in serious trouble if he did not leave his lord alone. So he ran the opposite way, and didn't turn around once. Sesshomaru knew Rin was outside and Jaken was somewhere else, he could read this letter in peace. When he finally entered his room, he grabbed a chair and wondered who wrote it. He could tell it was very old, but the seal had not been broken. His father couldn't have written it for he always went personally instead of writing letters. And he knew he never wrote, so it had to be sent here. He wasn't going to waste his time thinking about. Hell, the only way to know who wrote it was to open and so, he did. His eyes widened in surprise as he saw the name of the person who wrote it.

Izayoi…

Preview for Chapter 11: The Final Clue

Sesshomaru pushed aside the letter he had just read; he couldn't believe that everything Izayoi had told him was true. "It all makes sense now. My fang in Inuyasha's body, the high resemblance between us, and this letter was the final clue. Izayoi had told me to find out the truth and I have. I can no longer deny it this fact. Inuyasha really is… my son."

WHOA! Looks like our beloved Sesshy-samaisabout toundergo a serious dicovery. So sorry this chapter short, but I had writer's block. Surely you guys can understand that, right? Anyway, the next chapter will also be short and I'm writing another story. Except unlike this one, it's a ONESHOT. So just please review!