Akina: Guess who has taken over Tsuki's laptop? mischievous grin

Tsuki: MY BABY! pounds on door

Akina: I locked her out. But we did decide to write this funky fic.

Tsuki: You locked me out of my own room? Why?!

Akina: shrugs You're always locking me in closets. It works.

Tsuki: MY BABY! breaks down door Gimmie!

Akina: sit down.

Tsuki: glares Okay...

Akina: I'm typing. You can play idea taco for the day!

Tsuki: growls

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Sesshoumaru walked down the long narrow hallway towards the door that led to his father's office. The office no one but his father was allowed to enter.

Sesshoumaru was more nervous now than he had been the day he set fire to his idiot brother ("I was testing that new fire rat fur coat of his. Really.").

"He just said he needed to talk to me," the teenager told him self, trying to get control of his nerves. "Just talk. I didn't do anything wrong. It's just a father-son heart-to-heart type thing. Yeah, that's it." Then he thought a little longer about it. "Why would we need a heart to heart? Why?!"

He was so busy trying to figure out the purpose of this "talk" that he ran face first into his father's office door. Rubbing his now red nose, he cursed under his breath. The door swung open, cutting him off in mid rant.

"Where did you hear those?" his father growled. Sesshoumaru paled.

"Ummm....I....made them....up?"

His father stared intently at him for a moment before stepping aside and allowing the young youkai into the office. "Sit," he commanded.

Sess sat down and stared at his father some more.

The room was silent for longer than he would have liked. His father was looking at something on his desk, not paying any attention to him. Sess would have sworn his father had forgotten he as still sitting there.

Then his father snapped his head up, intense amber eyes meeting similar miniature ones.

"Sesshoumaru, I have called you here to discuss a very important matter."

Sess perked, sitting straighter in his chair. This would be important. He could tell.

"I have to leave soon to make my rounds along the borders. Keep those worthless humans in line." He chuckled. Sess stared. "Anyway, while I am gone, you will be held with a large responsibility."

Sess leaned forward.

"A responsibility so large, I felt only you could handle it. The heir to the great Inu-empire."

Sess leaned forward a bit more, holding his fists in front of his chest and grinning at his father.

"In fact, I know that the so of the Inu-lord can handle this better than any other yokai within a thousand miles."

Sess began to bob in his seat.

"And this responsibility would be—"

Sess leaned forward so far he was at the edge of his seat.

"—watching Inuyasha."

Sesshoumaru held his pose for a second, the name ringing in his mind. Inuyasha Inuyasha Inuyasha Inuyasha...His grin faltered slightly and he fell out of his chair.

The Great Lord of the Western Lands leaned forward in his own chair. I wonder if he does this often, he wondered, reaching down and hauling Sess upright again.

"Well, pup? Can you handle this?"

"...uh...yes. Yes, I can." Sess held his head high and looked up at his father with as much pride as his disappointed eyes could hold. He didn't want to let down his father during this one moment when he'd get to prove that he can do more than keep the little toddler children in the nearby human village in line ("It's a very important job," his father would say. "Someone's got to do it.").

"Good," the man said with a look that could almost be called a smile. "I'm leaving early tomorrow, but your job starts today. I'll be too busy with a few more meetings with my associates to watch your brother also." With a nod and a light push, he sent Sess back on his way to the door. "Make me proud, son."

Sess turned and gave one last look towards his father, before entering the hall and shutting the door behind him.

As soon as Sess turned back around, there was a little red blob standing before him, holding it's hands in a similar fashion that Sess had been, and smiling a wide toothy grin.

"This...is...GREAT!" Inuyasha squealed, wrapping his short arms around Sess's leg, since he only came up to about the middle of his older brother's thigh. "We're going to have so much fun, Sessy!"

Sesshoumaru sighed. This was going to be a living nightmare.

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Tsuki: pulls foot away from mother, who is screaming nonsense about towels and laundry crazy taco, I must write author notes!

Akina: snicker snicker

Tsuki: continues to kill off mother yes, well, this is our new story. We're still working on the kindergarden one, we think it'll be pretty slow to update though.

Akina: whispers 'specially since Tsuki is a procrastonator and has ten thousand chores to do.

Tsuki: glares I so heard you. mother calls argh! The towels call...