To say Satoru is pissed would be an understatement.

He is furious.

"Get up!" He barks out at InuYasha, who wipes the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand. "Sorry excuse for a demon."

InuYasha glares, but his ears droop. "It was an accident…I didn't know."

"She's missing half of her soul! You think I want an apology?" Satoru advances. Fuck this. Fuck him. And fuck his sorry ass apology.

"Enough," Father commands. "Both of you." He strolls forward and stands between them on the training grounds.

"What are you even doing here?" Satoru mutters. Doesn't his dad have other things to do, like running Mom around on her errands? That's all he does these days.

"Putting a stop to this foolishness." Father crosses his arms. Satoru squints. Are those marks on his chest? Did he get into a fight? Father normally wears his tops more open, except for today.

"Butt outta it," InuYasha grumbles, stumbling to his feet. "It's complicated, alright."

"The hell it is! You think I care about some dead bitch?"

"HEY!" Father pins him with a glare. "Watch your mouth. I don't care how angry you are."

"This dog boy," Satoru spats out. "Is fine with his zombie girlfriend walking around with half of Kagome's soul, and you're okay with that?"

"No. I never said it was okay, but beating InuYasha isn't going to solve anything, and Kagome will be upset when she hears what you've done."

"She'll get over it."

Father sighs and drags a hand down his face. "And how do you propose you get the rest of her soul back if you can't go down the well?"

Satoru flinches. That's a sore spot and father knows it. That stupid well only lets Kagome and InuYasha pass through.

"Keh, Kagome's fine wit' it. She said so."

"InuYasha, stop talking," Father sighs. "Your mother would be upset to hear you two fighting and no, she would not get over it."

InuYasha flushes. His cheeks are stained pink.

Satoru scowls. Of course, Mom took InuYasha in. She has a thing for strays. They don't need any more family members.

Ito rushes over with a medical kit in hand. InuYasha rolls his eyes and shrugs her away.

"He stinks," Satoru declares.

InuYasha lifts his arm and smells. "I don't stink."

"You smell like dog."

"I am a dog!"

"A mongrel."

InuYasha growls, barring his teeth. "Yeah, and dogs are carnivorous."

"ENOUGH!" Father booms, grabbing InuYasha by the ear.

Satoru smirks.

Father drags InuYasha towards him and grabs his ear, too.

"Oi! Satoru and InuYasha complain. They look at one another and snarl.

"You're both feral children," Father complains. "Ito Fetch one of the drivers and tell him to ready the car."

"We goin' to the shrine?" InuYasha asks. "I can run there faster than some stupid car."

"No, you two are doing a mission. Together."

"Hell no. I don't need his help taking out a curse."

"If it ain't got a shard, I don't care about it."

"Funny," Father drawls, "I don't recall asking either of you your opinion."

"You can't be serious!" Satoru tries to jerk free, but his father grips his ear tighter. "I don't need to learn how to work with him. InuYasha isn't a sorcerer."

Father ignores him and drags them out of the training grounds, past some guards and servants, and down to where the car is. One thing Satoru will say about Ito is she knows how to hustle and she takes her job seriously. It would be nice if she stopped taking orders from the old man since she's supposed to be his attendant.

Ito bows and then stops in front of Satoru. He rubs his ear and huffs. Why is he being dragged into this? Seriously? A mission together? What good will that do? What if he accidentally shoots off a red and InuYasha gets caught in the crosshairs? Satoru covers his mouth with his hand, hiding the smirk.

Doesn't sound like a bad idea. InuYasha allowed some witch to get close enough to Kagome and take her soul. And this isn't even the first time that he let something happen to Kagome after he promised to protect her.

"Satoru-sama," Ito whispers. "I have procured an archery teacher for Kagome."

Satoru cuts his eyes towards her and nods. Good. That's what he's talking about. Efficient. He climbs into the backseat and spreads out his legs. InuYasha growls and spreads his legs out too.

"Don't make me bind you two together," Father warns from the front seat. "Knock it off."

Bind?

Satoru gags. "InuYasha isn't a sorcerer. Don't know if he can even do anything to curses."

"Good thing you'll be there to watch your brother's back then."

"HE'S NOT MY BROTHER!" Satoru and InuYasha shout. They glance at one another and scowl.

Satoru lies his head on the window and stares out. He has nothing more to say. This is the worst. Now he and InuYasha are speaking at the same time. What's next? Brotherly bonding? Disgusting.

"You guys are…back?" Kagome stops right in front of the Goshinboku and her mouth drops.

"Keh," InuYasha says. "Let's get goin'. Tired of being in this time. It stinks."

"You're smelling yourself," Satoru deadpans, wincing slightly. His muscles ache. That mission should have been classified as a special grade one. Whoever scoped out the area and assigned the grade should be fired or forced to do one themselves because what the hell. His Father is strong, but even he would have had difficulty with that mission.

Not that he's going to praise InuYasha for his help, because he's not.

Kagome rolls her eyes. "I'm not going back today. I have a test in the morning. But why do you two look so beat up?" She crosses her arms. The pink sweater looks nice on her, naturally. He had Ito buy it for her.

"Mission," Satoru says, "It wasn't classified correctly. But it's fine. We handled it."

"Yeah, that fucker was annoying." InuYasha mirrors Kagome and crosses his arms. "Kept multiplying and shit."

"Good job sniffing him out, though," Satoru says with a yawn. "It was far more intelligent than some of the other curses."

"Too smart," InuYasha agrees. "Thought they were all mindless. The ones I've seen in my time are nothing more than insects."

"What? So, you have seen some?" Satoru turns to InuYasha. That means InuYasha's time is a part of this world. But if that's the case, where the hell are these demons, then? He'll never admit it out loud, but InuYasha isn't weak. A full-fledged demon must be even stronger.

"Only a few over the century. There were a lot of them in the estate and some villages have some roaming around, but no one seems to notice em."

"Estate? Wait, are you from a clan?"

InuYasha flushes. "Mom got kicked out for sleeping with a demon. Father was some great dog demon or whatever. A general."

Satoru scratches his cheek. "Then why are you so uncouth?"

"Oi!" InuYasha lunges at him and because Satoru still has some fight in him, he keeps infinity off and goes after InuYasha, too.

"Are you two serious right now?" Kagome asks. "Unbelievable."

"Wait!" Satoru punches InuYasha and the cheek right as InuYasha lands a punch on him. "Where are you going?"

"Away from you two. You two fight like siblings, and I don't want that rubbing off on Sota."

"Keh. He started it."

"You threw the first punch," Satoru jabs. "Anyway, where's Mom? I'm hungry." He stretches his arms. Nothing beats Mom's cooking. The cooks at the estate need to take lessons from her.

Kagome squints at them. "She grabbed her purse and left as soon as you guys got here."

She did?

InuYasha sniffs the air. "Old man ain't here either. Guess they went somewhere together."

"They're always together," Satoru huffs.

"Well…Gramps is making dinner tonight."

InuYasha and Satoru both gag. "We're good." They look at one another and sigh. This is getting old. InuYasha needs to go back to his time. They are clearly spending too much time together these days. And he is so over it.

"What's wrong with Gramp's cooking?"

"What isn't wrong with his cooking?" Satoru pulls out his phone. "We can just have Ito come by and make something."

"Absolutely not. Leave that poor woman alone. She needs a break from you."

"First of all," Satoru says, rolling his eyes. "I'm a joy."

InuYasha snorts.

"Second, Ito doesn't want me to die of food poisoning, so she would be more than happy to come out here and cook for all of us."

"Your stomach is that weak? Keh."

Satoru blinks slowly at InuYasha. "Says the dude that can't handle certain smells without passing out."

"I'm a dog!"

"Yeah, and dogs sleep outside."

Kagome sighs. "I'll just leave you two to it."

Satoru snaps his attention to Kagome's retreating form. He jogs to catch up to her with InuYasha not far behind him. "Wait, what if I cook instead? It can't be that hard."

InuYasha laughs.

Kagome trips and almost falls over, but he catches her around the waist.

"You cook?"

"It can't be that hard." He pouts.

InuYasha continues to crackle in the background. Satoru glares at him over his shoulder. Will he knock it off? He can cook. It's not that hard to throw some stuff on the stove.

"This I gotta see. You? Fancy boy, cooking?" InuYasha doubles over and pretends to wipe a tear from his eyes.

"Like you can do any better. You can't even use a remote properly."

"Oi!" InuYasha pushes a sleeve back and shakes a fist. "I bet I can do better than whatever crap you conjure up."

"You challenging me?"

Kagome sighs again. "You two fight like cats and dogs." She walks away again, shrugging Satoru's hold off.

InuYasha smirks. "Yeah, and dogs eat cats."

Satoru clucks his tongue. "How about I knock all your teeth out?" They butt heads, snarling at one another.

"Oh, Mom won't like it if you guys get blood on the shrine grounds," Kagome calls.

They jump back from one another, cross their arms, and huff. Whatever. InuYasha isn't worth the effort, anyway.

A/N: Happy Saturday! Suguru's chapter will be next :)

Kagome's grade will for sure be a lot better this time around and Syouma has pulled some strings to keep her out of trouble with the school, so Gramps doesn't get to make up nearly as many diseases as he did in canon lol. Next update will be Wish I Could. Not sure what date that will be coming out.

So this question was more general: "What's going on with your reviewers It's not normal and scary, both for you and for your devoted reviewer. Don't let yourself be peer pressured into writing like this." - I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Everyone's been awesome and you guys have me cracking up in the reviews. I do appreciate the concern and I want to stress that I'm not being peer pressured into anything. Writing the fanfics is fun for me. It feels like an escape. And if I'm being really honest, me writing the fanfics is me procrastinating lol.

Stay safe! Make sure you are watching/reading/etc things that fill your well. Drink plenty of water and gets lots of rest. Below is a snippet of some original stuff I have procrastinated on lol:

"Here," he holds out his hand.

I gag. "Is that a heart? Are you insane?"

He tilts his head to the left. "You need to eat. Do you not want it? It's from a dark mage."

"I don't care how hungry I am. I am not eating a heart. Or any thing raw."

He shrugs and bites into it.

Oh I'm going to be sick.

"They're looking for you," he says in between bites.

"What? Who?"

"The undead of course. They have orders. But why you?"

"Your humor sucks."

"How strange, every female I have entertained has complimented me on my humor."

What is my life right now? "Perhaps they didn't want to insult your dick then?" Objectively, he's attractive. So it can't be his looks. Though his personality is kinda sucky.

His brows pinch together. "Cocks." Roharu turns away and licks the blood off his hand.

Cocks? As in plural?

"Why would the undead want you?"

I blow out a breath. "I've never seen an undead. The closest I've gotten to the dead is a tombstone."