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"Speaking"Sesshoumaru ThinkingInu Yasha Thinking

Ch. 14- Control

I suppose I really should check in on him. This castle is ancient and he is a klutz, I would hate for him to damage one of the many artifacts of our family's expansive history. There is his scent.

Sesshoumaru started following Inu Yasha's scent. Although he was not in a rush, he did know a much better route to that library than Inu Yasha did.

I wonder if it will startle him… This could be amusing after all.

Inu Yasha was staring stupidly at a portrait of a much, much younger Sesshoumaru chewing and snarling on his father's fur while his father bit and tugged his ear.

I can't believe they were ever that close. The way he acts now I thought things were always tense between them, but just look at him! And Sesshoumaru doesn't even come here often because I don't smell him anywhere in this room… Hang on, what's that? I do! I smell his scent, it's coming from the painting! Nowhere else in the room but the painting itself, that's crazy!

Inu Yasha leaned closer and closer, until his nose was a mere inch away from the paint- and then the portrait moved.

What the hell!

Inu Yasha jumped backwards, just barely avoiding getting his nose smacked as the portrait swung forward- or rather, the door that was cleverly camoflauged to look like the rest of the wall swung forward, swinging the portrait forward with it.

"Aha! So that's why the portrait smelled like you!"

"Were you sniffing a portrait, Little Brother?" Sesshoumaru asked mockingly.

"Shut up! New question! When did you and the old man stop playing like that?"

"When he left."

"He- what?"

"You heard me."

"He left? Just like that? So what happened to you and your mom?"

"He didn't abandon us, Inu Yasha, he went to war. Or rather, he went to 'wars'."

"Oh. So, he was gone a lot then."

"You figured that out on your own, did you?"

"Hey, don't vent your frustration on me just cause no body hugged you as a pup!"

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed slightly.

Watch it, pup!

"Not that it is any of your business, but I was hugged, I just wasn't coddled like you were, thankfully."

"So your old man wasn't there for you when you needed him, big deal, he wasn't there for me at all!"

I do NOT need him!

" Inu Yasha, 'need' implies that I could not do without him. But I did, for long periods of time. I did not 'need' him, not ever." And with that he walked passed Inu Yasha and started heading for the door.

"Right, Sesshoumaru, you didn't need him, which is why to this day you still obsess over him and anything that had to do with him, even a sword you can barely hold."

Breathe. Just breathe and walk away.

"Inu Yasha, back off."

"No, damn it, I'm sick of this old routine, you're the biggest mental case I've ever seen and all because you bottle up everything, and I have to-"

Do not lose control. Do not lose control. Do not lose control.

"Inu Yasha, I'm warning you. Step down."

"No, damn it, I- Oh." Damn. Maybe I was pushing a bit too hard…

… End Chapter…

A/N: Hm… not the best chapter so far, I admit. Hopefully the next chapter will be better. Also it's short! Oh my goodness I was just about to edit something at the top and I realized it's like 2 word document pages long!