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Family Connections	By : Saranwyn Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 4204 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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InuYasha smelled his brother come home from school before the door even opened. His whole face lit up as he ran to greet the older boy, flinging himself at his legs. The nineteen-year-old scowled down at his baby brother, who was now attached to his right leg.
"Welcome home!" InuYasha piped up.
"Get off of me," came the low growl. It was basically the same every day. The five-year-old's lip quivered and his eyes widened impossibly.
"B-bu-but…" he sniffled.
"Cry, and I will give you something to really cry about," Sesshoumaru snarled, reached down to pry the little being off of him. InuYasha, however, took this as an invitation to fling his arms around his older brother's neck, planting a huge kiss on his cheek. "Get off of me before I skin you alive!" Sesshoumaru snapped, letting his concealing spell drop.
"Sesshoumaru!" Izayoi gasped. "How dare you speak that way to your brother?!"
"Tell him to get off of me, and I won't have to," the demon replied, finally getting loose of the little nuisance and putting the span of the room between them in about half a second.
"He's just glad to see you," the human sighed.
"Well, he can show it by leaving me alone."
"Don't be so heartless!"
"Raise that…thing with a little discipline and respect."
"He's your brother! Don't talk about him like that! How can you say these things?!"
"Easy. That abomination shouldn't even be alive. He should learn his place and just leave me alone. Want some more? You are the reason Father is dead! You might have well as stabbed him in the back! It's pathetic creatures like you that seduce their way into the hearts of truly noble beings only to destroy them! The world would be better off if you and your spawn were dead."
"Sesshoumaru! Go to your room this instant! That is no way to speak to family!"
"You're not my family. And that creature is getting exactly what he deserves." He sneered elegantly and headed up the stairs to his room, which had been his destination all along, anyways. He felt the connection between he and his brother as Izayoi put the beads around his neck, and he heard them leave a moment later.
InuYasha, for his part, was sniffling and wiping away tears, even as his mother picked him up, put the beads around his neck, and carried him to the car. He hated it when they fought, which was almost constantly. He loved them both so much, but they couldn't seem to get along. From the necklace, he could feel Sesshoumaru's pain, his anguish, his frustration. Did I do that to him? he thought sadly. He'd never meant to upset his brother, it was just that every time he did anything nice, the demon never seemed to like it.
"Don't listen to a word he says," his mother was telling him as she buckled him into his car seat. "He's just a bitter, heartless…ugh…I can't stand him."
"He's not…" InuYasha whispered.
"What?" Izayoi asked.
"He's…he's just…he's hurting…so much…" The woman sighed, massaging her temples.
"Just because he has some problems doesn't mean he can treat others just any way he wants," she explained patiently. The half demon nodded, though he didn't really understand.
"Where are we going?"
"Just out for a bit. We're going to let your half brother cool his head for a bit." InuYasha didn't say anything, but he didn't think Sesshoumaru needed to be alone. Whenever he was upset, it helped to have someone come hug him. So wasn't that what Sesshoumaru needed, too? He pouted as they drove away. This was a fairly common occurrence though, so he knew better than to complain.
Sesshoumaru sighed as he worked on his homework. They'd been gone for three hours now, and it was starting to get dark. InuYasha had perked up after a while and was now quite content. He shoved the irritating little pup to the back of his mind, refusing to concentrate on the emotions flowing through the bond. After a while, he began to wonder when they were coming home. Not that he wanted them to, but his protective instincts were slightly irritated by the fact that he didn't know where his pack member was. He concentrated on InuYasha's feelings, just to check up on him, and a bolt of fear ran through him. The pup was terrified and distressed. Sesshoumaru leapt to his feet as the emotional bond sent a wave of fear so powerful it almost made him dizzy. Throwing up a hasty concealment spell, he ran off, his nose searching for any scent of his brother.
He checked the park first, but the scent was about an hour stale, so he followed it down the street. His pulse was hammering in his own ears, and he couldn't get it to slow down. Every instinct in his body was telling him that his pack needed him that very instant, and he, the alpha was failing miserably. He skidded around a corner and ran out into the street, ignoring the police and cars and crowd. He barely even noticed the car accident. All the saw was his baby brother sitting in an ambulance, a blanket wrapped around him.
"InuYasha!" he gasped, covering the distance between them at an inhuman speed. A policeman tried to tell him to stay away, but Sesshoumaru just ignored him. The five year old – sobbing – looked up and saw him.
"A-A-Anikiiiiii!" he wailed, reaching for him. Ignoring everything he'd ever claimed to believe about his own relationship with the boy, Sesshoumaru swept him into his arms, a sigh of relief washing over him to discover he was unharmed. For a long, long while, all InuYasha would do was sob, and Sesshoumaru just held him and kissed his head and steadily calmed his own pounding heart. Then, he turned to one of the policemen standing awkwardly to the side.
"What happened?" he demanded.
"Apparently the boy ran out into the street. His mother followed, and while he came away unscathed…she…um…well, her body is on its way to the morgue now," he explained. "My condolences."
"But InuYasha was unharmed?"
"The child? He's fine."
"I'm his older half-brother, Sesshoumaru, by the way." The policeman nodded as the demon produced his driver's license.
"Nineteen. You do realize this means you're the child's legal guardian, now?"
"I understand that." He glanced sideways at the boy in his arms. Part of him wished he could be more sorrowful over Izayoi's death, for InuYasha's sake, but he really couldn't. That despicable woman had finally gotten what she deserved. He only regretted that it couldn't have been at his claws.
After a long, grueling talk with the police about parental duties and the like – during which it was revealed the police would be keeping an eye on them for a while, Sesshoumaru was allowed to take his brother home. By that time, InuYasha was fast asleep in his arms. He carried the boy up into his room and laid him down before crawling into bed next to him. He wrapped his arms around his brother and closed his eyes, exhaling deeply. Just me and this creature, he thought. What a mess this is. What am I supposed to do with this pitiful boy? I should just kill him now and put him out of his misery. The one person that could ever love him is dead. InuYasha wriggled closer to him, nuzzling his cheek. Stupid half-breed. Don't act like this with me. Don't you know I hate you?
InuYasha woke up to find himself in his brother's arms. At first, he was elated, contentedly cuddling further into Sesshoumaru's arms. The boy was shocked when Sesshoumaru didn't complain or argue, instead holding him closer. He became aware that the demon was gently stroking his ears. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, frowning.
"Where's momma?" he asked innocently. Suddenly, he gasped. "Wait! Momma, the car-!"
"InuYasha." The boy fell silent. "Your mother is dead." For a long time, InuYasha just stared at him in silence. Then, the half demon seemed to realize what he'd said. He drew back, his ears flattening back against his head.
"Wh-what? No…no, she can't be…!" he cried. Sesshoumaru sat up fully.
"She was not immortal, InuYasha. She was hit by a car, and she died," he deadpanned. Tears welled up in the younger brother's eyes.
"No!"
"Don't be stubborn. Humans die. It is a fact of life."
"B-but…!" Now the boy began to cry. "W-w-was it m-my fault?" The demon scowled, cuffing his idiot brother over the head.
"Don't be stupid. How could it be your fault?"
"B-b-because it's my fault she ran into the street!"
"Nonsense."
"R-really?"
"The woman made her own choices. You are not to blame. That much is for sure." Suddenly, Sesshoumaru found himself with an armful of InuYasha as the young half-demon sobbed into his chest.
"If Momma's gone…! I…I…!" he trailed off, wailing too hard to finish. Sesshoumaru sighed and embraced the boy, again.
"So annoying," he muttered. "Quit crying already – you're getting my shirt wet." InuYasha paid him no heed and continued to sob. "Just…ugh…stop." His younger brother just clung to him tighter. The older demon sighed and tried a different approach. "Hey…shhhhhh…hush, now," he whispered, stroking the other's ears. "Shhhhh…it's going to be okay."
"Don't leave me!" InuYasha begged. "Please stay with me!"
"…I will. I'm not going anywhere," Sesshoumaru found himself promising. "I'm not going anywhere, so just calm down, okay?" After a long, long while, the half-demon managed to stop crying. The second he did, he found himself being pushed away from his older brother, who was standing and moving across the room in the blink of an eye.
"W-where are you going?"
"To make funeral preparations. It's my duty to at least get her in the ground." Maybe I could just have her cremated and skip the whole ceremony.
"But you're coming back?" Sesshoumaru hesitated in the door, closing his eyes against the pitiful, hopeful tone of his brother's plea. He turned to face him.
"Yes, InuYasha. I'm not going to leave you alone." The demon turned away. Not yet, at least.
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