A Crescent Moon by be_a_good_boy_Sess

Problems and Solutions

Three days of skiing with an annoying little brother and an arrogant hanyou had taken its toll on Kagome. She'd had enough. She was NOT going to ski with that troublesome duo again. But she'd promised Inuyasha's mother and her own that she would watch-pardon, BABYSIT- Soata and Inuyasha while they went shopping. Kagome was pacing the confines of her hotel room in her bathrobe. She'd come to the conclusion that the hotel room was ten paces across, from the door to the far wall.

'One, two, three ...I can't outdistance Soata and leave him behind on the slopes: he is too young...four, five, six ...and Inuyasha can't find his way back to the hotel unless you hold his hand...seven, eight, nine ...Blood and bloody ashes! What to do? Ten, one, two... That's it!! Sango told me that she would be skiing on the same mountain tomorrow. I'll just ask her to take Inuyasha and Soata with her. She owes me that much at least. '

With that thought in mind she grabs her towel off the bed, leaves and locks the room behind her and heads down to the pool. Absorbed in her own thoughts she doesn't notice the figure in the shadows watching her.

*****

The last thing he wanted to do was spend a week with his bothersome family, more importantly his half brother. However he had promised his mother that he would come and when he made a promise he kept it, even if it meant putting up with his brother. He opened the hotel room door and entered.

"Hi. I'm here." 'Five, four, three--'

"What took you so long, you baka?"

'I have not even been here five minutes and already I regret it. Why oh, why did Kami have to give me a brother like him? What I have I ever done to you?'

"Is that how you treat your brother?" Sesshoumaru growled, "I should teach you the proper way to greet me, you insolent whelp!" Sesshoumaru takes a step toward Inuyasha to do just that. His mother's voice on the other hand stopped him in his tracks.

"Sesshoumaru! Lay off! You know he wasn't raised as you were. He doesn't know the proper form of address. And I'm afraid it's my fault." His mother enters the room from the kitchen and bows low, "forgive me, my Lord."

Sesshoumaru cringed. He hated it when his mother called him "my Lord". However, it was his own fault that she did.

"Maybe you should teach him then!" growled Sesshoumaru.

He knew he was being colder that he normally was but he was stiff from the long train ride and annoyed with the way they had treated him and on top of it he was yelled at by both Inuyasha and his mother!

"I'm going for a swim!" He says over his shoulder as he slams the door behind him.