Yeah I'm back so soon, I cant help it, this was the only story I had the scenes already laid out—unlike my other stories. I already know I'm bad at keeping up with myself, hence, before I started this story I made sure most of it was planned out.

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EvilAngelofHeavenandHell: Lmaoo, you're making me blush haha. Well that's a positive reaction & one that makes me laugh. Aw, I'm glad to hear that! Love all the feedback! This stuff is exactly what drags my ass back to the fanfic world lol. I really appreciate all the encouragement (that nose bleed though XD…) Thanks for the review!

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Chapter 4:

"Honey! I brought back some ice cream, come and get some." Izayoi called from the kitchen. Inuyasha immediately jumped from the couch backwards and met her in the kitchen.

"What flavors?" Apparently, that was the hanyo's number one concern.

"Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and mint." The younger gave her a questioning look before she started explaining. "You can have chocolate, strawberry for myself, mint for your father and I went with vanilla for Sesshomaru-kun, since…it was a safe option. I should've asked him what flavor he liked before going out."

'And I doubt he would've answered.' Inu thought, partly glad his mother didn't bother asking.

"I know, why don't you go call him?" His mom suggested delightfully.

The hanyo wanted to choke. "Me? Why me?"

"Oh come on, sweetie, don't tell me you're not trying to get along with him—he's your brother now." Izayoi looked disappointed. "Please don't make this hard and do look out for him. He's never known anyone other than his dad and you know how rough he can be."

Inuyasha sighed. "Fiiine. I'll go call him." He began dragging his feet up the stairs to the elder's door. After knocking a few times, he waited for a response. "Sesshomaru? Hey, you in there?" He knocked again. 'Maybe, he stepped out?'

"Everything alright Inuyasha-kun?" A maid smiled at him while passing by the hall with a clothes' basket.

"Huh? Oh, I was tryna call Sessomaru, but I think he's not in his room."

"Hm, no, I think he should be in."

"Well you can try, but I doubt it. Mom just wanted him to come down and get some ice cream." The teen told and turned on his heels, locking his hands behind his head nonchalantly.

He heard the maid knock on the door once and usher his name. "Sesshomaru-sama."

Inuyasha couldn't believe his ears when he processed the sound of a door unlocking and opening. Gasping, he instantly swerved around and saw the demon poke his head and answer the maid.

"Is something the matter?" Sesshomaru inquired.

"It believes the young mistress would like you to have some ice cream." The maid answered.

"Right. I'm not interested. Would you pass that on?" Without waiting for a reply, he shut the door again.

"Will do."

Inuyasha stood there with fumes escaping his ears. 'Unbelievable!' He automatically walked up to the door and kicked it hard with his foot. "Bastard!" And with that he stomped the rest of the way down.

"And?" Izayoi waited.

"I'm eating his share too!" The younger angrily stated.

Inuyasha rubbed his eyes groggily as he stepped towards the second floor bathroom. He immediately noticed Sesshomaru approaching the same way, but probably not aiming towards the bathroom. Inu was still partially sedated but looked up in acknowledgment.

"He—" He barely had time to utter the word before the silverette casually passed him by. The teen growled and stopped him abruptly by the arm. "Hey! Hold it! What's the matter with you?! Why've you been giving me the cold shoulder so much? Huh?! What did I ever do to you?"

The elder let out a hard long sigh and attempted to break free but the other held on to him tighter than that.

"I get you're probably used to spendin' your time alone but do you hafta act so antisocial about it? If you didn't realize already: we're brothers now—you could at least make it work for mom and dad." The hanyo continued.

Sesshomaru frowned and finally turned around to face him. "Mom and dad? Just who are you calling dad? My dad you mean? Right, if it wasn't for your insouciant mother, my father would yet be focused on his work alone. And ruthlessly be running his company the way he should. Now he seems to be wasting too much time enjoying himself rather than looking for ways to do business."

"Hah? What do you mean? He's a successful man and he's doing just fine—everyone has to chill sometimes, you can't just straight work all the time!"

The silverrete nodded. "Yes, exactly, with that kind of mentality it's no wonder you're only in high school."

"You…I hate the way you talk."

"I suppose it's mutual then." Sesshomaru decided to conclude it at that. Inuyasha was still furious but the elder was already out of his grip and walking away.

"…so, you're mad at us because we took your dad away from you." The hanyo intentionally tried to rile him up, and it must have worked to an extent because the other halted in his steps.

"Don't come up with meaningless conclusions on your own." His elder brother stated coldly, turning around one last time.

Inu stood there in defeat. 'Why are you like this? Why are you like this…when I actually don't hate you as much as I should…' He lowered his gaze slightly with a hurt expression washing over his face—long enough for the other to catch it. However, the teen snapped himself out it and rotated his body away also. "Screw you." He spat heartlessly before sliding down the staircase rail and went straight out the back door, forgetting all about the bathroom. Sesshomaru only stared after him, that unexpected expression haunting him a tad bit longer.

At Dinner

"Hm? That's odd where's Inuyasha-kun? He's normally never late for food." InuTaisho asked the question on everyone's (except Sesshomaru's) mind.

"The butlers haven't seen him either. I'm sure he's just lost track of time with his friends." Izayoi answered.

After ten minutes into dinner, the hanyo walked into the dining room and took a seat.

"Inuyasha-kun? Where were you? We were forced to begin dinner without you." Their father announced.

"Hey." The teen said very flatly and out of character. "Sorry I'm late."

"Is everything okay?" His mother asked worrisomely.

"Sure." He barely looked at her and began adding the food to his plate, at the same time refusing to look at Sesshomaru at all. A part of him felt like the other was gazing his way though.

'The silent treatment, whatever.' The silverette went back to eating, not noticing InuTaisho observing both of them.

"Are you heading out to work now?" Sesshomaru asked, while InuTaisho was pulling his coat on.

"Yes, do you have classes today?"

"Hn, I'll be leaving shortly as well."

There was a moment of silence before his dad spoke. "Are you getting along with your brother?"

The silverrete averted his eyes. "We hardly have time to talk."

"Well, you should, considering we'll be living together. Plus, I want him to be just as successful as you one day, so your guidance will go a long way for him."

"Yeah whatever."

"I mean it." Inutaisho emphasized before leaving the house.

"Che."

After some time, Sesshomaru paced back and forth between the living room and his room, getting all his materials together to head out for university.

"Ah, Sesshomaru-kun, I'm glad I caught you before you left." Izayoi walked into the living room with a bento. "I made this bento for you, I was hoping you'd take it with you incase you got hungry. I know how hard you work, and I think this is the least I can do for you." She smiled.

"I don't need it."

"I asked the butlers what you normally prefer to eat, so tried to add all your favorites."

"I already stated that I don't want it. Now if you'll excuse me—"

"Sesshomaru-kun, do you hate me?" The silverette sighed. 'Like mother like son' 'Isn't that obvious?' he felt like saying. "I know you're against this, considering your age and all and you probably don't even need me, but do know that I see you just as much as a son and hope that you'll see me as a mother too."

"Are you serious? Why must you all pester me so much?" He abruptly swung himself, without anticipating his shoulder bag slamming into the bento in her hands and onto the floor, its contents exploding in the wrapping. "Tsk. That wasn't my intention." The silverette automatically apologized but didn't pick it up. Izayoi flashed a pained expression once but shook her head.

"It's alright. I see that you don't want it…"

"Excuse me." The demon left after that.

"Hey mom, check it out. You wanna see some pictures I took of the bridge by the river? They came out great." Inuyasha hopped onto the sofa next to where his mother was sitting, later that day and propped out his phone.

"Oh, is that so? Of course, show me."

"I took them with Miroku, Sango and Kagome." He began swiping across the screen, showing them one at a time until a loud slam of the front door startled them. InuTaisho stomped into the house and stood at the foot of the wide staircase that split ways at the second floor.

"Huh, dad—welcome back—"

"Sesshomaru!" The loud urgent call rose both mother and son unto their feet as they stared at the demon.

"Honey are you okay?" Izayoi attempted to ask but received no response.

"Sesshomaru! Do you not hear me calling you?!" Izayoi and Inuyasha looked at each other once in bewilderment. 'What on earth happened?'

[Flashback:]

InuTaisho was riding in the passenger seat of his car and soon dialed one of the butlers at home. "Hey, how's it going? Anything special happen today while I was out?

"No sir, nothing of that sort."

"Then how's the mistress? Anything I need to know about?"

"…well, about that…" their butler was hesitant to indict Sesshomaru but was mandated to report, which he did.

[End flashback.]

"I'm coming. I don't understand the sudden rush…" The silverette casually stepped down the stairs. Frankly, he barely made it to the last of the staircase and took a step forward before he was slapped across the face by his father. Both Inuyasha and Izayoi gasped in shock. Sesshomaru himself held a look of complete astonishment as he straightened his face again to look at his father.

"You've ashamed yourself in my eyes. Apologize to your mother at once."

The silverette knotted his eyebrows at that proposition. Furthermore, calling this human his mother…

"Uh, dear, it was nothing, please don't be mad at him." Izayoi reasoned.

"Silence, he's not a child. He had no reason to act like that."

Izayoi wanted to say more but InuTaisho directed himself to the teen again. "Sesshomaru, are you defying me?"

Inuyasha truly felt like his idiot brother would get punched again, and couldn't help but jump in, running towards them and standing in front of his older brother. Gripping InuTaisho's fist that was in mid-air, he urged. "D-dad! Um, maybe you should cool down a bit…I'll talk to this guy—so you should discuss it…uh—with mom first!" He wasn't exactly sure on what to say but somehow it worked and InuTaisho had backed off. 'it's now or never.' He resolved and to Sesshomaru's surprise he took the elder's wrist and dragged him upstairs to his own room. The silverette silently sat against the bed on the floor, while Inu fished for his first aid kit. The demon wasn't insanely injured or anything, just a few bleeding scratches from his father's long nails but pretending to bandage him was better than sitting around, or so the hanyo thought. 'Wait, why was he helping him again?'

Speaking of atmosphere, the air around them was so intense—to the point where Inuyasha was obligated to say something before one of them suffocated. "I get hurt all the time, isn't it great that I readily have a first aid kit available in my room?" He tried to make a joke as he placed the plastic box between them on the floor, but the demon wasn't laughing.

"I don't need some half-breed's pity."

The younger just forced himself to maintain a smile. 'I wanna smack this guy too now.' He ignored the comment and took out a cotton gauze and a small alcohol bottle. "I ain't pitying you, genius. Believe me, you probably deserved it—whatever you did."

"Heh."

The teen blinked. 'Was that a laugh or did he actually agree with me?'

"I must have fallen really low if you're going to take care of me." The elder remarked.

"I can do it ten times better than you can, I bet, especially when it comes to wounds." He dipped the cotton with a bit of alcohol and brought it to close to the area around Sesshomaru's mouth. He was a bit amazed that the other didn't push him back yet. As he grazed the other's cheek, the demon never shifted or flinched but just continued to stare into his soul expressionlessly. 'Huh, did I not pour any? How come he's not reacting?'

"Why are you pouring more on to it? It's only a small cut." Sesshomaru deadpanned when Inu put more alcohol on the cotton.

"Huh? Oh, I think I didn't get any the first time."

"Are you that clueless? You clearly did."

"Che! Then how come you didn't react?"

The demon only stared at the teen for a full minute. "Why would that amount of pain make me flinch?"

"Wha…?" 'Okay…I underestimated this guy. Maybe I'm not the only one who's used to injuries. Scary.' "Nevermind." He shook his head and reached out for a thin rectangular bandage, but his hand was stopped short by long cold fingers.

"I don't need that on my face, this should heal in no time."

"Eh? What's wrong with it, I have them on all the time."

"Yes you."

"What are you tryna say?"

"Exactly what you're thinking."

"I'm not thinking of anything!" 'Well this wasn't so bad, like it was some—very very small— improvement in their relationship? It was obviously different than their usual bickering.'

The hanyo realized that Sesshomaru was still holding on to his hand, he felt every single sliding movement the slender fingers made along his skin before finally detaching. "So, what did you do this time?"

The silverette wasn't planning on answering at first but the latter part of the question puzzled him. "This time? Anyhow, I don't think you would want to know."

"Try me—I know you're a jerk anyway."

"… I don't have time for this." The demon stood up from the floor.

"What do you have time for?" The teen let out in frustration.

"Excelling." The elder smirked as he left out the door.

"That's all he cares about." 'Cocky bastard.' "I bet he has no friends."

To Be Continued…

Ahahahaha Sesshomaru and I could totally be besties. Sorry, I meant: look, they're ALMOST getting along! XD. Ah, you can see I'm enjoying ridiculing them like this. Okay, that's something, so far. Is it just me or is the story progressing too quickly? Oh well.