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Title: The Many Roles Of Inuyasha Higurashi
Prompt: Soldier
Summary: Inuyasha has been a lot of things to a lot of people, but he never thought he'd become this.
Word Count: 389
Inuyasha was a lot of things. He was born an heir; the first born son of Daiki and Rei Higurashi. He was their pride and joy, a spoiled child who basked in the love and support of his family. He was five years old when he became the man of the house; a tragic accident claimed Daiki and his aging mother's lives. Inuyasha was small, but he understood his father and grandmother were never coming home. He also understood his mother was hurting and his grandfather was old, and they needed him to be strong for them. Seven months later, he became a big brother. Inuyasha had never seen anyone so small and defenseless before. His mother had cried because Souta would never know their father, and Inuyasha vowed he would always protect his baby brother. He may not have a father, but Souta would have the best big brother he could be. Inuyasha was ten years old when the reality of just how much his family was struggling set in, and he started doing odd jobs and favors for neighbors and friends. He was thirteen when he started working part time around the shrine, answering questions and selling cheap knickknacks to tourists after school, between martial arts and sword fighting lessons.
A protector, a provider, a brother and a son and a student; he had taken all of his roles very seriously. Inuyasha was fifteen when he fell down the well and he became something new. He wasn't sure when it happened, if it happened all at once or slowly, but it had happened. He'd been too caught up in his other roles to notice at first, too busy protecting and providing for the others, as he always had for his family and friends, and always would. Inuyasha was sitting by the fire, staring at the sword he'd used to cleave the head off a demon just hours before, and listening to Kagome frantically trying to wash away the scent of human blood when it dawned on him. He realized what the world had made of the loyal shrine boy, the soft hearted hanyou, the slayer who just wanted her family back and the monk who just wanted the chance to start one, and even the little orphaned fox kit.
Inuyasha was fifteen when he became a soldier.
Sometimes you forget how young characters are. Sometimes they forget it too.
This series of drabbles is kind of an experiment for me, might blossom into a full blown fic in the distant future. Review, please?