Stay at Home Puppy

Confronting the United Past

The past month had been hard on everyone that resided at the Western Palace, but it was harder for no one more than it was for Inuyasha. He felt as though it was his fault that the pups died and he had avoided Sesshoumaru believing that his aniki would be angry with him over his failure even though he was sure that the DaiYoukai would never show it. Inuyasha went into hiding for a week with those thoughts before he had built enough courage to face not only his mate again, but Rin and Shippou as well. He felt as though he had failed them, too. They were so looking forward to their little siblings and Inuyasha had failed at his job to provide them their wish, he had dashed their hopes. He only hoped that all of them would give him a second chance to try again and he would succeed the next time. He would do everything in his power to make sure of it.

Sesshoumaru knew something was still wrong with Inuyasha, but he couldn't figure out what it was. Sure the hanyou was playing with Rin and Shippou, laughing, and working his usual duties as the mate to the Lord of the Western Lands, but his eyes were dead. There was none of the life that usually filled the beautiful golden orbs that were so like his own, but different. Sesshoumaru didn't like it, not one bit, but there was little he could do about it at the moment as he was still having to deal with his father and his father's mate whom was due within the next month, just two weeks before Inuyasha himself was due to birth their pups. Every time that thought crossed Sesshoumaru's mind, it angered him. He knew that it was not his father's intention to cause Inuyasha to miscarry so late into his term, but he did not feel very rational at the moment as it was his father's fault that Inuyasha such a shock which anyone would have had. The regal demon sighed and went to check up on his mate who was napping in the next room.

Sesshoumaru's chest gave a painful twitch as he saw Inuyasha tossing and turning in distress as he weathered whatever nightmare he was having. Inuyasha's whimpers made him feel helpless and useless to his mate. Sesshoumaru did the only thing he could do, he went and lay with his mate, wrapping Inuyasha withing the security of his arms. Inuyasha continued to restless before he began to talk and murmur in his sleep.

"Don't leave me Sesshoumaru!" was the quiet plea. Sesshoumaru was shocked as he had had no idea that Inuyasha felt that way. He would never leave his mate and he felt guilty that Inuyasha felt that way after the loss of their pups. He did not blame the pup, but Inu Taisho and Sesshoumaru decided once his mate woke up that he and Inuyasha were going to face their not-dead-father.


Inu Taisho was feeling guilty about the loss of his grandchildren. Even though he hadn't known about Inuyasha's pregnancy until he had arrived at the palace and seen it for himself, he also knew that he should have never tried to run away from his problems and leaving them to deal with the aftermath. It also appears that his reappearance caused even more problems for his children than leaving did and he didn't know how to fix it. The former lord was still torn, however, as he had a heavily pregnant mate and knew that any confrontation with Sesshoumaru over his otouto would come to blows and Inuyasha had already proved that stress of any kind was too much to be so far along in a pregnancy. He also knew that if he didn't head Sesshoumaru off, that a violent confrontation is exactly what was going to happen.

Inu Taisho had not expected to be ambushed by both of his sons and backed into a corner while he was contemplating. Inuyasha, who he had not seen since he was an infant, looked weary and defeated. By the tales he had heard, Inuyasha was a strong spirit and held quite a bit of fire, this is not what he wanted to envision of such a strong warrior. Sesshoumaru was looking tired as well and Taisho, from what he remembered of his eldest's childhood, had never expected to see such a blatant show of, to use Sesshoumaru's term, weakness. He really couldn't have picked a worse time to have come back unannounced.

Inuyasha couldn't look at his father long because of the anger and the betrayal that bloomed in his chest at the thought of what the former Lord of the Western Lands had done. It made him want to be sick that his father had chose a faked death over caring for him. At least when the older inu was dead, Inuyasha was able to dream and pretend that had his father been alive, he would love him, play with him, teach him, and all the things that a parent did for a child. However, when the great inu returned, he had dashed all of Inuyasha's dreams and wishes in one felt swoop. The shock had been so sudden and so much that Inuyasha had to shut down and he was glad that he had made it to his and Sesshoumaru's suites before he did so.

Inu Taisho attempted to speak, trying to get out what he needed to say before his sons closed him out to the point of not listening, if they hadn't done so already. Before he could finish his first sentence though, Inuyasha's fist connected firmly with his father's jaw before he turned and walked away, his tears leaving small crystalline drops upon the floor like a trail. Sesshoumaru looked a bit smug, but he also knew that for the moment, it was between him and his father to work things out. Inu Taisho was surprised. He had never expected his SON to hit him. It made him begin to doubt that he could ever build and rebuild his relationship with his sons.

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