Father and Son
Chapter 1
-Little Prince to Young Lord-
She was gone, and she was never coming back.
He sat alone in his room and waited, and waited, but his father never came. A dejected sigh left his lips as he sat up in bed, and pulled back the blue satin sheets. He walked silently to the door, opening it and looking down the hall. Once he knew the coast was clear he stepped out and walked to the end of the long hall and into another, stopping when he came to the library doors. He took a deep breath and opened one door just enough to look through. He saw his father instantly, he had been sitting in the same spot for hours, ever since she told him of her choice.
He jumped slightly when he felt a soft hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw his mothers old hand maid, Yumi. She smiled softly at him and brushed some lose hair back behind his ear, then walked into the library with his father. Standing back from the door a bit, he could see as she walked up to his father and spoke softly. He couldn't hear her, but what ever she said upset his father, he was growling at her as he stood up slowly. She took a step back but spoke in a louder voice.
"And how are you going to take care of him when you cant even take care of your self!? He is still just a child." Her voice was demanding and scolding, and he could tell it got through to his father when he tensed and stopped growling. He took a few hurried steps back when his father turned and walked briskly to the door and out, walking down the hall to his room. He watched his fathers back as he went, he didn't even see him, and if he did then he didn't seen to care that he was out of bed. His father was having a very hard time with this, everyone could tell, but everyone acted like it wasn't happening, it bothered him. His father was Lord of the Western Lands, the strongest Taiyoukai in all of Japan. He wasn't afraid of anything, he was quick to kill any threats to his lands or his family, he was a strict but demanding ruler, but he knew when to be a father and when to be a lord. He never knew his father had a weakness, but he saw it now. His father was a slave to his emotions.
He decided then that he would never let his emotions rule him as his father was in right now. A lord needed to be strong for his people in hard times, and now was one of those times. The loss the western people have suffered now, hits the western family the hardest, its strength cut in half, but the lord should still be strong. He knew his father would not be able to be the lord the people needed, so he would be strong in his fathers place. He would take care of the western people until his father was strong again. It would be hard and he would have to ignore his own emotional pain, but he would do it for his father, he would make his father proud of him.
He turned back to the library doors as Yumi came back out and looked at him. She smiled and held her hand out to him. He looked at it for a moment before reaching up and taking hold of it. She smiled at him again and walked him back through the halls to his room. They reached it quickly and she opened the door for him and walked in behind him.
He jumped into his bed for the second time that night and slipped under the sheets and watched as Yumi pulled the drapes over his window closed and walked over to tuck him in.
"What did you say to father to make him so angry?" His voice was soft and light but had the perfect boyish charm to it. He spoke quietly so his father wouldn't hear even at the other end of the hall. She let out a small and quiet laugh and pulled the sheets up to rest just below his shoulders and smoothed them down as she sat on the edge of the bed.
"I merely told him that while he locked him self in there and brooded, that he was over looking the wonderful son who was still here and who needed need him right now, and I called him a insufferable child. And I take it you heard the other part."
"Oh, father would not have liked that very much..." He looked down at the blue clothe that covered him in thought. "Father can't rule the lands like this. The people need him but he can't give them the hope they need while he is upset about mother..so I will do it for him, like he has been teaching me. I will care for the lands until father is strong again." He looked up at her with a strong countenance, and a determined light in his eyes. "You will inform everyone that starting tomorrow, I am the Young Lord, not Little Prince."
Yumi looked a little surprised but soon smiled happily and stood. She made sure he was tucked in good, and leaned down, placing a soft kiss in his brow.
"I'm sure you will make you father proud as The Young Lord of the West, but for now, it is past your bed time." She walked out the door and turned back to him just before she closed it. "Goodnight, Sesshomaru-Sama."