Disclaimer: I do not own any recognizable characters from InuYasha but any OC's that show up later are mine.

'Thinking'

"Talking"

This one shot is for Avid30 who gave me the idea of Sesshomaru playing a prank on InuYasha for Halloween.

Avid30- Sorry it took so long but I haven't been able to get on my email or my account for awhile and today was the first time I saw your review and the alert in my email.

Sesshomaru will be about 15 and InuYasha will be about 6, this one is also going to have InuTaisho in here too.

I know the age difference here is different than the other two one shots but for the purpose of this one shot it needs to be.

*~I'm just a wonderful line break~*

"'Maru! Maruuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" InuYasha yelled while looking for his brother in the abandoned part of the castle.

"Mwahahahahaha!"

"S-s-s-sesshomaru? I-i-i-is th-th-th-that y-y-y-you?" InuYasha stuttered, jumping.

Suddenly there were glowing red and silver eyes looking straight at InuYasha before disappearing just as fast. Then InuYasha heard random growls, bangs, screeches and howls from alternating directions. Little Inu starts turning around in a circle and after he turns around three times a being with red/silver eyes, glowing gold skin and black fangs jumps out.

"! DAAAADDDDDYYYYYY! HELP!" screams InuYasha as he sprints back to the inhabited part of the castle and running smack into someone.

Thump! "Ouch! What?"

"DADDY!" InuYasha sobs.

"What's wrong baby? Why are you so upset?" InuTaisho questions his youngest while at the same time trying to sooth him.

"There was a big -sob- monster that tried to eat me! It had silver and red eyes, black fangs and gold skin! -sob-"

"What are you talking about? There's nothing like that in the castle."

"Yes there is! Yes there is!"

"Ok, Ok. Now where did you see this 'monster'?" asks InuTaisho.

"I saw it in the …whine…bad part of the castle…" replies InuYasha.

"InuYasha! You know very well that you're not allowed in that part of the castle. What were you doing there?" demands InuTaisho.

Scared InuYasha answers quietly, "Looking for 'Maru 'cause he said I'd be able to play with him if I found in there."

"Sesshomaru told you to go in there? -sigh- InuYasha what you saw wasn't a monster it was …"

"YES IT WAS! IT TRIED TO EAT ME!"

"InuYasha! How many times have I told you, you do not interrupt others? Now as I was saying you didn't see a monster. What you saw was your, very much in trouble, older brother dressed up to scare you." InuTaisho explained.

"Why would he do that? It's mean." InuYasha said.

"That is what I plan to find out little one. And I do believe it's past your bedtime so let's go get you into bed then I'll deal with your brother. Alright?"

"Okay -yawn- daddy." Says InuYasha as he lays his head down on his father's shoulder since he's tired from all the running and crying he's done in the last few hours.

^^^^^With Sesshomaru the same time InuYasha is yelling for their father^^^^^

'Shoot shoot shoot shoot SHOOT! Dad is going to KILL me for scaring the brat that bad! I gotta get all this and me cleaned up before dad gets done with InuYasha, hide everything I can, and get back to my room and claim innocence. Yeah that should work.'

And so commenced Sesshomaru's mad dash to get rid of all the evidence of his prank.

^^^^^Back to InuTaisho after putting InuYasha to bed while he's walking to confront Sesshomaru^^^^^

'Of all the pranks Sesshomaru has played on InuYasha this one has to be the cruelest. I just have no idea how to handle Sesshomaru anymore he doesn't listen when I just scold him. I wish one or both of my mates were here with me to help me deal with this.'

*~I'm just a wonderful line break~*

"Boo!"

"Sh~Crap! Hi dad…"

" Sesshomaru how many times have I told you, you are not allowed to scare your little brother! InuYasha was positively terrified after this last prank-and I use that term lightly-you pulled! What you did to him was beyond cruel and it was wholly unnecessary! If you don't want to play with InuYasha tell him so nicely, DON'T get it in your head to prank him to get him away from you! I think being grounded to this castle for a month with no friends over, no shifting forms, doing extra chores, an early bedtime and writing "I will not scare my brother" 50 times a day will be enough of a punishment. Don't you?" InuTaisho scolded his son.

"DAD!"

"You're right that's not enough is it?" asked InuTaisho with his arms crossed and one eyebrow raised.

"No sir. That's enough. Sorry sir." Replied a chastened Sesshomaru.

"That's what I thought. Now go get ready for bed and in the morning you will apologize to your brother."

"Yes sir."

*~I'm just a wonderful line break~*

That's the end of this episode of InuYasha's childhood. If anyone thinks Sesshomaru's punishment is too harsh please refer to InuTaisho's thoughts that this is not the first prank and InuTaisho was/is at the end of his rope. ;)

Anonymous- I will try to get your suggestion written and posted in hopefully about 2 weeks. Thanks you for the idea!