"Honey, you almost ready?" Yame called through the bathroom door, which was currently closed.

"I've been ready. I'm just not done waiting on you," Sesshou-Maru huffed, sitting on the edge of the bed, waiting for his mate to finish doing her hair. He checked his watch and noticed that an hour had already passed.

"Yame dear, please hurry. You've been in there for over an hour. Please come out, or at least open the door," he asked, his eyes pleading the door to just open at his will.

"There, I got it! All done!" she exclaimed, and opened the door to show off her work with a big smile on her face. Sesshou-Maru couldn't take his eyes off her.

"Well, say something," she said, and struck a pose for him.

"Um… You look… absolutely stunning," was all he could manage to say. He had seen her in some beautiful dresses and kimonos before, but she wasn't wearing anything classified as work appropriate this time.

She was wearing a small, emerald colored shirt that tied around her neck and just below her breasts, with a teal skirt that had slits up to the waist. Her bronze hair was let loose, filled with curls and hanging to her waist as well. She also wore silken garments on her arms. They were simple enough, just like sleeves, except that they were held on with what looked like chokers and covered most of her hands. Lastly, she had on black diamond dangling earrings with pure emerald surrounding the diamonds.

Needless to say, she was stunning. However, all Sesshou-Maru really noticed, was the light that shine in her misty blue eyes that filled his heart to the brim with warmth.

"You look equally stunning yourself," she said, and ran her down the part of his chest that showing through his open silk shirt. She looked down and noticed he was ready for anything, by the look of a bulge through his leather pants.

"Hmm…." was his only response.

"Sesshou-Maru?"

"Yes my love?"

"Why don't we take Inu-Yasha with us?"

Sesshou-Maru nearly stumbled backwards from the impact of her question.

"Say what?"

"I said..." she said with slight frustration.

"I know what you said. My question is, why would you want him to come. All we'd have time to do was make sure he didn't hurt himself," Sesshou-Maru protested, his eyes begging her to reconsider. In truth, he had always lost in decisions like these to her, ever since he had first met her. And this time, he knew he wasn't going to break his loosing streak.

"Oh come now Sesshou-Maru! You know as well as I do that he needs to get out of this house and do something! It's not healthy for him to stay in his room all day, and you know that," she said, giving him the look he came to know as his defeat.

"Fine, I'll go get him," he said, and started towards the door with an over exaggerated slouch.

"Now don't play coy with me, 'cause I'm not going to give it any mind. Besides, you need to spend a little time with your brother."

"But tonight is for me and you!"

"I know, but who ever said he wouldn't find someone he likes while he's there?" she asked, a cool smile crossing her face.

Sesshou-Maru partially grimaced and headed towards Inu-Yasha's room.

Inu-Yasha was sitting on his bed, his thoughts becoming more severe by the second.

'Hmnnn…why did she have to fix that? Yame should know by now that I don't like anything from before that day! It makes me want to vomit!'

His face became contorted with pain of past memories and his thoughts turned to even darker ones.

'Why should I have to put up with this shit? I shouldn't be feeling this; my demon side should have blocked it out a long time ago, kept it out of reach of my consciousness. But it didn't, and now I have to deal with all this pain and this hurt and …' his mind wandered and he looked towards his nightstand, the place he kept his one escape. As Inu-Yasha continued to stare, he reached to open the draw, to take out his escape and use it once more.

Sesshou-Maru walked towards Inu-Yasha's door, and stopped just in front of it. His thoughts wondered for just a second, of what he should say.

'Hmmm… I have no idea how to convince him to go, or even consider to. Now, what would make him want to go? Great, now I have to rely on my own past to make up a good excuse for me invite my little brother to go out with my wife and I on our anniversary. This is the worst yet…' He thought, and hung his head in silent, mental defeat. Then an idea came to him.

'That's it, I'll just use that naturally one-time-around-convincing charm as Yame puts it. That will surely convince him!'

With a wicked looking grin on his face, Sesshou-maru reached and opened Inu-Yasha's door.

Inu-Yasha had his hand on the knob of the drawer; his grip was light, mostly because he was already physically weak as it was. As he slowly opened the drawer, his hand slipped, just as the door opened to show a rare sight.

Sesshou-Maru was standing there, light shining around him while his face held a cenacle grin that spread from ear to ear. Inu-Yasha's face was quite different; it was one of confusion, rather than that of the other male's. (If you can't quite understand what to picture here, then just think about how they show angels with that weird glow around them, and put Sess in their place with that almost evil looking grin of his that shows he's accomplished something!) Inu-Yasha simply moved his hand away from the drawer and sat back, staring at his brother as he walked up and stood in front of him. Inu-Yasha raised an eyebrow at his brother's odd behavior and decided he couldn't stand it any more, because it was giving him a nervous twitch!

"What!" he shouted, getting rather edgy from Sesshou-Maru's still grinning face that seemed to be looming closer and closer to his own.

As soon as he shouted, Sesshou-Maru's grin widened even, and he went up to his brother, intent on making his invitation as short as possible.

"You, Inu-Yasha, are coming with me and my wife on our anniversary to thoroughly enjoy, now aren't you?" He said, his face right in front of his brother's, making the hanyou almost cringe from the site before him. He quickly shook his head yes, knowing he could only agree to make his brother stop his one-time-around-convincing charm, as Yame so kindly put it.

With that Sesshou-Maru immediately put his cold façade back in place and turned to walk out of his brother's room. He stopped in the doorway, without turning around simply told him to wear something female friendly, yet still him. With that, he walked out and towards his own room.

As he entered, his wife gave him a look that clearly told him that she was ready to go. Grabbing his arm, she drug him out and towards the front door, then turned to look at him.

"So?"

"He's coming…" Sesshou-Maru said, though still with a rather defeated tone.

As he said this, they heard the sound of shuffling feet and listened as said feet sounded like they were being dragged the steps.

Yame looked at her husband with a look that clearly said 'this will do him good'. Sesshou-Maru silently agreed, although he wished they could take him out at a different time.

As Inu-Yasha came into view, Sesshou-Maru's eyes widened, and Yame eyes narrowed.

He was wearing a hole filled sweatshirt and sweatpants that he could barely keep from falling off of his skinny form.

Before Yame could say a thing, Sesshou-Maru had walked over to Inu-Yasha, picked him up bridal style and walked upstairs with him. She listened as she heard a good bit of cussing, a load crash and then silence as Sesshou-Maru came back down the stairs, again carrying his brother.

She smiled as he set him down and walked over to her.

"Much better," she said. Sesshou-Maru only grunted in response.

Somehow, Sesshou-Maru had found some of his old clothes from the very back of his closet onto Inu-Yasha. He was wearing a red silk shirt, and front lined slacks.

'I have to admit, you do have a way clothes.'

'I was only trying to hide the fact that he is skinnier than a twig,' Sesshou-Maru told her through their minds and he immediately felt a sharp pain in his side. He turned his head towards her and then nearly gave himself whiplash turning it forward again. She was glaring at him, the one thing that ever got through to him. She could stare down a mountain and never blink, and make the mountain crumble into nothingness.

'Sorry…'

With that, she led them out the door towards the car. Sesshou-Maru drove with is wife beside him, and Inu-Yasha sat behind him, glaring daggers into his back the entire way.

HAPPY? I'm sorry I hadn't updated in so long, but you should know how writers-block works… It's a total B-I-T-C-H! BITCH! Anywho, I'll try to update again soon, but I will warn you… I may get stuck again because of school. And I have a reasonable excuse! I go to College Prep School! It is very difficult and I have the hardest class this year, ENGLISH…. How I loath thee……. JA!