Chapter 7: Into Deeper Waters

Back At the Higurashi Shrine, Kagome who is supposed to be doing her homework can't stop thinking about the history between her family and Inuyasha's. 'I want to know more about him, but I had no idea I'd a lot of information about his family right here in this shrine. Shouldn't he have this stuff, not me?' Kagome thought as she resumes her focus on her daily homework. Not only that, but Inuyasha's father was missing since the day he was born. How could someone's father would just leave his family and never leaving a single message to let him or her know where he was going and why?

Inuyasha knows which way back home from the Higurashi Shrine. He still can't believe that place has hold tremendous secrets about his family's history. Normally each shrine of any family would just its own family history. What he doesn't get is why that shrine would hold many secrets about his own. And the only way to get more information other than there would be Sesshomaru.

Knowing about his half-older brother is always on business trips and such that he hardly spends anytime with him. Talking about a so-called close knit family. He sighs in anger, but he doesn't want anyone to know about him personally. Upon turning the corner where his apartment is, Inuyasha sees a car parked on the side of the street. He takes a closer look at the vehicle. Even though he's in his human disguise, he can still smell a familiar scent from it. Right away he can tell it's his brother's scent that's evaporating from the inside. He turns his sight to the apartment, and can tell that Sesshomaru managed to get into his place. 'I guess this is my lucky day.' He thought sarcastically.

Making it to the 5th floor where he lives, he gets his key out and unlocks the door so he can get in. When he opens the door, Sesshomaru's scent gets stronger by each space. "Sesshomaru, I know you're in here." Inuyasha shouts as he puts his school bag down. After taking off the to revert to his hanyou form, Inuyasha heads toward the kitchen. Inside the kitchen was medium size with a fridge, along with a stove with a microwave above it. And there's the bar side table for eating. He passes through the kitchen and then into the den. When he enters the den, it's filled with a sectional couch, a 48 inch flat screen tv. It's quaint but it's better than nothing.

One of the spots of the sectional couch is a man who is more exquisite than Inuyasha. His appearance is slightly different from Inuyasha. His hair is longer to the knees, the ears are elf like, instead of the doggy ears that Inuyasha has. His facial appearance is expressionless. His eyes are also gold, but much more colder. The only difference is that there are magenta straight strips that are spread on his face, two on each side. The other feature is that crescent moon on the middle of his forehead, even though his bangs cover most of it.

Inuyasha glares at his brother. "I assume you want to talk about family business?" Sesshomaru grins like it was some kind of a joke. Inuyasha keeps his glare expression on and makes his way to one of the recliners on the other side of the room. "More like our family history." Inuyasha corrects the man's assumption. Sesshomaru changes his expression to a serious one. "I'm listening." He exclaims as leans back a crosses his leg, like he was in a business meeting.

Inuyasha does the same things and begins, "Sesshomaru do you know anything about the Higurashi Family?" he asks him. Sesshomaru doesn't budge his face. "I have, and you wanna know why they hold part of our family's history?" He asks him back. "I do." Inuyasha nods to answer him. "The reason why they have our family history is because our ancestors' have too much powers that other demons want to take it all." Inuyasha manages to slightly widen his eyes. "And why did our ancestors become part of it?" Sesshomaru intertwines his clawed fingers, "It's because their ancestor Midoriko was powerful enough to seal the archives so that no one would know where they are. If they did they'd take advantage of our family's knowledge and try to take over this country." Sesshomaru explains to him. "And because of her, she made sure that we blended in within these surroundings. That's why our ancestors trusted Midoriko to do this."

Inuyasha looks down to his own clawed hands. "Even your mother tried to made sure that the Higurashi Family kept that promise." Sesshomaru adds in the missing detail. Inuyasha quickly looks back to his brother. "My mother?" He asks in disbelief. Sesshomaru nods, "Did your mother ever told you that she was a priestess and a distant cousin of Midoriko, that's why she didn't want you to inherit the spiritual powers of the priest, so the best solution when she met father was to make sure you only inherited the demon and human blood so that there was no spiritual powers." Sesshomaru explains the reason.

After taking all the information that Inuyasha wanted to know looks down in shame. How could his own mother keep such a secret from him? All he knows that demons and priestesses don't get along so it'd be obvious if he did inherited both, he'd have a war within him to decide to take which side from within. Seeing that Inuyasha is holding his head while resting his elbows on his knees, Sesshomaru stood, "Inuyasha, I didn't want you to know about this either but ever since you went to the Higurashi Shrine, you might as well have to deal with the consequences that our father and your mother put you through." He solemnly said to his brother as he heads out to the door. After opening it he turns around to face him one last time. "Inuyasha with all do with respect, you might as well have to deal with this manner on your own. I just wish this didn't happen to you when you were born. But we cannot change what we have become." He said finally and leaves the apartment.