AN: In this story, I made Sesshoumaru younger than I've usually heard of him as being (like 700-900 years old!). In this, he's about a hundred years older than InuYasha, and since I'm portraying InuYasha as being two hundred at the time of Naraku, then Sesshoumaru would only be three hundred-ish then, but about an hundred for much of this story.

Sesshoumaru swept down the halls of the castle like a punishing storm from heaven, his eyes sending servants scurrying out of his way.

The great Inu lord of the West glanced up when his son entered the room.

"Sesshoumaru! Welcome home…it has been some time since we've seen you."

Sesshoumaru merely stood still, his fists clenching and unclenching, his jaw tight and his golden eyes burning.

"How dare you?"

The older Inu rose from his desk and moved to stand before Sesshoumaru.

"How dare I what? What have I done to bring such anger to your eyes?"

"Can you possibly be so foolish as to not understand? How could you do something so shameful? I care not if you wish to have a human whore in your bed…but to wed her, while your true mate still lives…and worse, to impregnate her…how could you bring such humiliation upon our family?"

"Sesshoumaru, don't talk nonsense. Your mother is my mate in the Inu sense. I was free to take a wife separately, many demons do. And besides…can't you understand? I love Izayoi."

"Love and marriage are human concepts, designed only to keep track of whose child is whose, not that it often works. You have fallen into a pit of stupidity. Do as you please, but do not expect me to acknowledge your bastard pup as my sibling. I will not darken your door again until your have passed on and the time has come to claim my inheritance. When that time comes, I will kill the half-breed. Farewell, Father."

"Sesshoumaru, don't be this way. My child will be your half sibling. It is your duty to care for him or her. I have done nothing wrong in loving a human. The only one I've wronged is myself, for the sorrow that will be mine when her brief, mortal life ends."

"Somewhere along the line, you've exchanged wisdom for sentimentality. If you come to your senses and set the woman aside, I will return. Otherwise, my previous word still stands. I will kill hanyou one day."

He left without another word, ignoring the tears in his father's eyes.