Disclaimer I don't own Inuyasha nor any songs I use, I don't make profit from either.
Author's note: The guitar song he plays is 'Last man standing' by Eddie van der Meer, please leave a review. Now read and enjoy!.
"So you're getting a younger sibling, that isn't such a big deal.", Peter comforted Inuyasha.
"I just don't know to feel", Inuyasha said in a depressed voice.
Peter contemplated this for a moment before saying, "Why don't you write a song on your guitar for it, It might help you figure some things out."
Inuyasha then looked at Peter like he was stupid, overtime they have gotten really close.
So close that Peter would sometimes act like the boy's father by giving advice, and Inuyasha would look at Peter as a role model.
"Sure your still in training with the guitar, but your a quick learner. What I mean is, most boy's your age would had barely scratch the surface of their true potential while you can already place quite a few songs by heart. Sure you lack experience, but that's the fun part. If you write a song with your guitar, it will probably give you the experience you need."
"Write a song", Inuyasha repeated as Peter got up and said, "Breaks over".
Later that day Inuyasha got home and payed his step mother his earnings as usual, soon he was in his room thinking about what Peter said.
Peter had taught him how to read notes too, so maybe he could try to write the notes.
Inuyasha's dog ears winced as he heard Eileen hollered in fake motherly tone, "Inuyasha come say goodbye to your brother."
'No!', Inuyasha thought. His brother can't be leaving him today, after everything that happened to him Inuyasha had lost track of time.
He doesn't want to be left alone with that beast, he doesn't want his brother to leave.
Inuyasha then darted from his room to see Sesshomaru with his suitcase.
The boy yelled, "No, don't leave!", as he jumped down the railing into his brother's arms.
He cried in a sobing manner as Sesshomaru said, "Inuyasha, what in the world?"
He kept crying as he failed to notice the other two watching him.
Sesshomaru patted the boy on the head in a comforting manner and said, "Don't worry, I'll be back to visit before you even know it.", before he gently put the young Inu hanyou on the floor and left out the door.
Then his dad came forward and hugged the boy in a comforting tone as tashio failed to notice his wife glaring at his son.
Inuyasha gulped and pushed his dad away before he ran up into his room, once he was there he plopped down on his bed and locked his door.
That's when he finally decided to take Peter's advice and grabbed two sheets of paper from his desk and started to write.
It has been six months since Sesshomaru left and Eileen was heavily pregnant, not long ago the expecting family found out she was having a sweet baby girl.
In preparation for the baby, Eileen, wanted to use Inuyasha's room since it was right across from theirs.
"But I don't want to give up my room! Where am I supposed to live!?", Inuyasha screamed at his father.
"Shush, your mother is sleeping in the other room", Taisho said before insisting, "Please, for your little sister."
Inuyasha then growled, "And your just gonna let that, thing, choose where I'm going to sleep!?"
Tashio argued back, "That, thing, is your mother and your gonna treat her with respect.", before he walked away to care for his wife.
Great, Inuyasha could only pray that she would chose something bigger and closer to the house than that shed. His father probably thinks she's going to choose Sesshomaru's old room, yeah right!
Just in case either his step mother or father found his guitar and is still in work guitar song, he grabbed it and carefully moved it to the shed. Why did he hide it from his parents? Simple if his step mother found out she would beat him into tomorrow and trash the guitar and if his father found out he was actually working instead of going to school he would both be grounded for life and beaten.
Not wanting to take the ladder he hid it in the shed, which no one in his family ever seems to go into.
He sighed, if only it was better like the times before with his real mother.
He then went up to his room and laid down on his bed for what will most likely be the last time.
The next day when he came back from work with his guitar hidden away from Eileen's sight, his step mother greeted him at the front door and said cruelty, "Did you really think you'd be staying anywhere near the house?"
Welp, time to find out where he'll be living.
He bowed his head silently as she started to walk into the woods with him following behind her.
It was about a good fifteen minutes before they finally arrived at a old abandoned warehouse.
Eileen smiled, "Isn't it just great? I got permission from the old land owners when I said I wanted to give my step son a place he could live on his own with, that way he could have some privacy."
'I highly doubt that was the real reason, Eileen probably wanted me away from the house for her own gain.', Inuyasha thought bitterly.
"And now the warehouse is all yours, so you can do whatever you want to it. Here's the land contract, make sure you don't lose it.", She finished as she laughed heading back to the house.
Once she left Inuyasha decided to get a good look at the warehouse.
The warehouse wasn't too worn down, it still could use some fixin up.
Inuyasha smirked, it's kinda like a big old guitar. Rusted but with proper care it can become brand new, then once your done fixing it you can personalize it which is the best part.
With a new attitude, Inuyasha, went to inspect it closer.
The roof was still intact and so were the walls, all those needed were fresh paint perhaps even some wallpaper. He also noticed that some of the windows were broken, that might be a little harder. The front and back door were also busted, maybe he could make new ones.
All in all the warehouse was a decent size with a garage, Inuyasha smiled excitingly. He actually felt thankful to eileen, because not only was he a good distance away from her but he can now practice his guitar without being caught.
Things were starting to finally look up for the little hanyou.
He then walked inside the warehouse to inspect it closer. Nice, It has a basement and a loft!
There was also a lot of broken glass and other things, this might take a while.
Well, there's no time to waste. Inuyasha then carefully collected loose glass and other loose material up from the floor and Placed them into a pile, maybe there was a way he could recycle some of it.
It was real late when Inuyasha finally managed to clear the floor, but only the first section of the large floor. Man, he could really use some help.
At least on the bright side he won't be sleeping on glass, man it was cold!
Inuyasha shivered, right this place doesn't have air conditioner.
Knowing he won't be able to sleep in the cold without anything warm, Inuyasha decided to look around some more.
He noticed the door to the basement and decided to swallow his fear so he could go see if there was something he could use to keep the cold out down there.
When he got down there he left the door open so he see his way down the stairs, he soon found a flashlight at the bottom of the stairs that still had a usable flashlight.
He turned on the flashlight as he looked around the basement, It's condition was a lot nicer than upstairs.
It didn't have any glass anywhere, so he didn't have to worry about he looked around he was able to conclude it was some sort of storage room, it had quite a few tarps, twenty paint buckets, a tool kit, Some duct tape, and some old clothes.
Inuyasha smiled and immetally grabbed the tarps and duct tape as he heard rain coming down hard, he found them just in time.
He went up stairs and duct taped tarps to the windows with holes in it to keep the rain out before going back down stairs to see if there was anything to cover the busted doors with.
The boy found some old shower curtains and thought, 'this should work.'
He went back upstairs as he went to the doors, but the doors were so rotted that as soon as he touch them they fell down from their door frames.
After some thought, he went back downstairs and grabbed the tool kit then he came back up and removed the bolts and screws holding the door together.
He then moved what was left of the doors outside against a random tree for later, he soon used the bolts and screws to hang the shower curtains.
Inuyasha yawned as he went downstairs to find a coat or something, he managed to find a huge trench coat that he could use as a blanket. He then went upstairs and found a spot that he cleared as he turned off the flashlight to sleep in.
Inuyasha then went into a deep sleep in his new home, dreaming of how he'll fix this place up.
Inuyasha slowly woke up to rays of light that sneaked their way past the shower curtain, he yawned sitting up.
How long had he been asleep? Inuyasha looked at his watch, then in a blurry motion he darted out the door and to the main house.
"Here!", he yelled as he busted through the door and went to the kitchen.
"Oh, it you.", Eileen said sarcastically then added, "I thought the wild life would have killed you, judging by how late you are."
Great, his dad already left for work.
He then said, "How did you manage to convince dad to let me stay away from the house, anyways."
His father may be very ignorant but he is still his father. After all his dad said that he knew he at least switched rooms, and he doubt his father didn't question her.
Eileen answered in a bored tone, "I told him that you may need some space away from us because of the way you tend to treat your father, Also that it would be healthy for you to have a bigger space of your own."
Inuyasha then raised a eyebrow, "Did he even see the place? Especially the inside?"
Eileen laughed, "Of course not, he was too busy with work to have time to see it."
Inuyasha then took a deep breath, he was going to say that she is probably gonna get caught when his father comes to check up on him. But decided to stay silent about it, he rather liked the idea of staying there and keeping his head.
After that he headed out to work and grabbed his guitar on the way, he should be able to make it in time if he'd hurry.
When he got to the park he greeted Peter as they got started for the day.
It felt like an eternity to inuyasha till finally it was their lunch break.
Peter noticed Inuyasha's odd behavior and asked, "What's the matter, kid?"
Trusting the adult completely, the boy told his story except the part about the abusive mother.
Peter nodded in thought, "I see", then he added, "Welp, that's nothing we can't handle. How about I come over and help you clean and fix the thing up after the job. I've got nothing else to do, besides I could use some action."
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he asked astonished, "Really?"
Peter answered, "Yeah, why not. Now let's go over your chords before we have to go back to work."
Later that day when they finished work, Peter had Inuyasha show him where his warehouse is.
When They finally arrived it was about three in the afternoon, they had finished early that day.
Peter then commented, "Wowie, that sure is a work of art."
The older man thought for a moment before saying, "We've earn enough money for the next two days, so we can use the next two days to do this. We can probalay finish faster if we do all nighters, mind if I sleep over?"
Inuyasha nodded excitedly as the man said, "Then let's get to work!"
It was a little while later when they heard a truck, Inuyasha looked at Peter in confusion as the other smiled.
Then Peter stood up and said, "looks like backup is here".
Still very confused Inuyasha followed the older man outside as he introduced a woman, "This is Mary, she is my wife. She brought some supplies with her, and she'll be helping us."
Suddenly Inuyasha erupted into laughter as Peter asked, "What's so funny?", confused.
Inuyasha managed to say, "You having a wife." in between his laughing.
Peter blushed as Mary started to laugh too then he pretend that it never happened as he said, "Let's get to work!"
Both Inuyasha and Mary then burst into laughter after he did that.
It took a long time, but they finally managed to clean and fix up the warehouse. Peter put up a latter for the loft, while Mary decided to make a fire pole for Inuyasha so he didn't have to climb back down.
They had all painted the walls a bright red, and while Inuyasha had to go to the main house for dinner Peter and Mary built a extra room for when Inuyasha practice his guitar and possibly other future instruments. They even put up a minifigure stage for the little hanyou, Because of how fast they did it Inuyasha learned that the two adults were hanyou too. They just looked more human than demon, they laughed when Inuyasha's eyes went wide at this little fact.
There was not only that extra room, but one wall that separates two areas. Peter and Mary explained that the one with the old sink could be used as a kitchen area, and the other could be used as a living area.
While cleaning they had also found a old bathroom that was still mostly in tacked. The bathroom was a bit rusted, but they could fix that. It's bath was shaped like a huge old wooden basket, while it was made out of wood that was carved smoothly on the inside.
There was a faucet just beside the bath, after some investigation they learned that there was a underground water storage that was connected to pipes that lead through the warehouse.
The underground water storage was really old and it would required Inuyasha to go out and get water to fill it with. Luckily they found a old well on the edge of the property, which they had to fix.
The also found out that the house had once ran solar power energy, so they got some old panels and hooked them up on the rooftop.
Yes, it had a rooftop. Apparently what Inuyasha thought of as a attic turned out to be a hidden passageway to the rooftop.
It took a lot of work but they were able to fix the entire water system and house up.
It was habitable, but empty.
Inuyasha would have to decorate the warehouse with furniture as time went on, but that made it just that more special.
Peter and Mary had left late at night once they had finally finished, and Mary had agreed to come help out with the duo's street performance when she was off her own work on Mondays and wednesdays.
Inuyasha then went into the extra room and thought, 'I know, I'll call it my music room.'
Then he went to his guitar and opened up his new song book Peter had found while exploring the warehouse on break.
Inuyasha took a deep breath before thinking, 'Alright, it's time to give this a try', as he grabbed the guitar and tuned it before he began.
As he played he thought about his anger at his step mother then the sadness he held for his ignorant father. He played his anger and confusion at them both, his step mother would treat him cruelty then his father would be too ignorant to noticed. In fact, because he was so ignorant he failed to notice the greed behind that beautiful face. If only his father would listen to his small pleas and take noticed, then they decided to have a baby.
But he couldn't blame his future sibling for it. It was never her fault, and he'd be mad at himself if he ever let his step mother touch her like she touched him. He vowed silently in his song that he would protect his sister, but who would protect him.
He thought flowed through song as happy memories of Peter and Mary came to surface. How Peter took him in as his student and taught him how to handle,fix, and play a guitar. And then while mary and Inuyasha had only known each other each other for a few days compare to Him and Peter, they shared laughs like they known each other forever. Mary reminded him of his real mother, and Peter made him think of a father figure. So he knows he can trust them if anything serious ever happens, and he's pretty sure that they'd take him in as their own son in a heartbeat if he ever needed them.
But if that happened who would protect his sister from her mother? He knows that if he told the truth about his step mother they would freak and take him away from his family in a only if they found out he decided, he made a silent vow through his song to protect his little sister at all cost. No matter what, even if they hated each other he'd risk his life for her.