***InuYasha isn't mine***

~Worry~

He glared so intently.

His small mouth pursed ever so slightly as he clutched the rock.

"Come to me." Toga said again, wanting to pull his hair in frustration. This child of his was so defiant!

"He does what he wants, but only when he wants." His mother stated plainly as she sat not far away.

Toga snorted "How could one so young be so sure of himself like that?"

She shrugged as though it did not matter "What cause does he have not to be?"

A valid question. Toga sighed, Sesshomaru had, since he was able, done what he wanted and neither of them stopped him.

He was only as tall as Toga's calf and had yet to walk, or say a word for that matter. Toga was almost positive that the boy could talk just didn't care too. Like it was not worth the effort.

A full fifty years in this world and he was already causing Toga to worry. "You said he walked for you yesterday." he accused.

She smiled wickedly "He did."

Glaring, Toga turned to the pup. "Why do you not walk to me?"

If he was so intelligent that he could be arrogant and sure, he was intelligent enough to understand a question. "I know that you can." he conceded.

The little InuYokai sniffed, smelling for what, he had no idea.

She laughed.

He glared.

And Sesshomaru took a step toward him.

Toga smiled, crouching low arms out as the little pup toddled toward him on slightly unsteady legs.

Catching him under the arms, lifting his small son high, "Was that so difficult?"

Sesshomaru's glare returned full force.

"Obviously, it was not." Toga laughed in the face of such a fierce young thing. "I know you are strong, young one," he said setting the child down again to play.

They watched as he sat, looking intently at the small lives that crawled through the earth, living in safety under the rock that supported him.

"The boy confuses me."

She smiled "He wanted you to to acknowledge his ability." she said.

Toga wrinkled his brow, "I never said he was lacking?" Unsure what she was getting at.

She sighed watching her offspring with intense eyes "He disliked being underestimated."

"Hmm…" He turned this idea over in his mind. What problems await one like him? Toga, while knowing his own power also knew his weaknesses.

Toga wondered, suddenly, if Sesshomaru would ever have the meekness of spirit to acknowledge his own?

**End**