Here it is!

Inuyasha woke very comfortably. However, his hands were tangled in something soft and he could feel a soft heat blowing against his ears pleasantly. When he peaked his eyes open he saw a bare chest. He blinked as he took in the scent. "Sesshomaru?" He questioned aloud, wondering why he was in bed with the man.

"Hanh?" The youki mumbled, nuzzling into him and pulling him closer. Inuyasha's eyes widened when he felt the warm sensation of Sesshomaru's tongue darting out and licking his forehead. The sleeping Sesshomaru wondered what had his younger sibling so riled up, he had nothing to fear, Sesshomaru would protect him.

"Let go of me." Inuyasha growled as he struggled to free himself. When he was away from the youki who remained in his bed he assessed himself for any harm before the reality that was the previous evening hit him hard. Crouching down he rested his head on his knees and whined. "He knows…"

"Who?" Was the sleep addled word from Sesshomaru.

Inuyasha took a deep breath, "…the reason I didn't want you to know…" Inuyasha's stomach growled loudly as he realized he was starving.

"Let's go eat breakfast."

Inuyasha sighed and nodded. Hey, what happened yesterday? He asked his youki, unsure of Sesshomaru being in bed with him while knowing his feelings. He couldn't remember anything past embarrassingly vomiting on his father. Mean. Wouldn't mate with me. I want him.Inuyasha's eyes widened as he was lead to the dining room in his rooms. Why would you want to mate him!? He's our brother! He asked incredulously.

While Inuyasha was arguing his youki, Sesshomaru was waiting for their father to rejoin them. The castle was quiet after the explosion his father had had over learning something. He was still unsure himself as to what was going on as no one had come to Inuyasha's rooms to inform him. There were guards everywhere and his only duty was to stay by the hanyou's side.

"Hey Sesshomaru." Inuyasha called from his place at the table.

"What is it?"

"Don't ever sleep in the same bed as me again." Inuyasha stated, causing his youkai to throw a fit. "Listen here thing! I don't give a fuck what you want! It was my body first!" He argued with his youkai aloud before covering his mouth and blushing, now realizing why you'd want to talk to it in your head and not aloud.

Sesshomaru nearly rolled his eyes, "I did not have a choice, your youkai required comfort from an alpha of your blood. It was hysterical and terrified." He did smirk however, knowing Inuyasha's youkai wanted him.

"Whatever." Inuyasha huffed. He wondered why Sesshomaru was sticking with him, he wasn't upset about it because of how last night freaked him out. He assumed Sesshomaru was relatively powerful with the way people looked like they were going to piss themselves when he looked in their direction. "I want to leave." He stated after a moment before standing.

"Where are you going?"

"On a walk…" He wanted to take his mind off of the awful turn of events.

"I will take you to the town then." Sesshomaru stated before making eye contact with a few guards letting them know they were to follow.

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The fresh air really did wonders for his mood. He felt leagues better and even had a bit of a skip to his step. He was dressed in royal colors, with the crest of the royal family on his clothing. The townspeople bowed very low to them which made him feel very awkward. The shops were very cute and like something out of an old novel. There were craftspeople of all types and many food vendors. Sesshomaru watched his behavior curiously. The man was exceptionally adorable with the way he flitted around. He guards had no idea of what to make of the younger man either.

While they were walking a ball came at Inuyasha at high speed and the gasps of children could be heard when he merely bounced it off his chest and began juggling with his feet. "Here you go!" He said kicking the ball back towards them.

A cute little rabbit youkai bowed, "Thank you prince-sama!"

Inuyasha smiled back and watched the kids continue to play. He began looking around more closely. "Oh wait…right…I forgot…"

"What is it Inuyasha?"

"Hanyou. I forgot that they're killed here." Inuyasha shrugged.

Sesshomaru pursed his lips at the sad look on the man's face, "There is currently a hanyou infant living in the outskirts of town with its mother."

"Really!? Can I meet them?" Inuyasha asked with an excited look. The guards looked as nervous as Sesshomaru felt.

"Inuyasha…do not be surprised by what you might see." Sesshomaru warned.

"Yeah yeah." Inuyasha waved him off as they walked.

It took a long time before they came upon the humble home. The guards knocked and an emerald eyed woman answered the door with a frightful look on her face. "Please." She bowed, "I just want to live with my baby in peace…don't hurt her…"

Inuyasha was confused, "What?" He questioned…"I just wanted to meet your daughter, I'm hanyou too."

The woman's eyes widened to an impossible size, "You…are?" She whispered.

"Yeah! My mom is human. Can I…meet her? I've never seen another hanyou." The demoness came closer only to be stopped by guards. "Hey chill out." Inuyasha moved past them and let the youki caress his face.

"How old are you?" She asked with a quivering voice.

"193 as youki, 19 as a human." Inuyasha smiled. He assumed that his existence was giving the woman a lot of peace of mind. She inhaled his scent deeply and smiled for the first time in a very long time.

"Her name is Emiko." She smiled before looking at all the guards. "She will not do well with so many hostile youki present…I do not want hostile entities around her…it upsets her." Sesshomaru wanted to roll his eyes. Everything upsets a child crazed with youki.

"That's fine, they can stay here." Inuyasha chirped happily as he was invited in and closed the door behind himself, stunning the guards and Sesshomaru.

"Inuyasha, you cannot just-!"

"Wow you are so cute! Aren't you little lady! Look at those eyes! She's beautiful." Was heard from inside. "You're my little emerald eyed cutie aren't you. Uwaaa~!"

Sesshomaru could hear the child's laughter through the door and his eyes widened before he could stop them. The child was not crazed? "Knock again."

The woman came to the door again, "My brother is to be in my company at all times. The guards will wait here but I must join him."

She looked a little nervous but bowed and let him in. Sesshomaru followed Inuyasha's scent through the humble home and into a bedroom. "Sesshomaru, look at how cute she is!" Sesshomaru approached slowly, he'd never seen a hanyou that wasn't mad. Except there was Inuyasha, but he was from the other world, didn't that make him different? Sesshomaru looked at the infant in the young man's arms and nearly gasped. The tiny humanoid child was smiling happily looking up at Inuyasha with her toothless grin. Sesshomaru looked at her eyes which held no hint of youki them.

"How is this possible…youki blood and human blood do not mix well." Sesshomaru whispered.

Inuyasha paused, taking a lock of his hair from the child before she tried to eat it. "You know…I've been thinking about that a lot and I realized something." Sesshomaru looked at the hanyou questioningly. "You all thought I was different because I'm half from the other world…but I think maybe the babies youkai feel like they're in danger. You all hate hanyou right? Babies are really sensitive to the emotions of those around them…so if you want to kill the baby and the youkai senses that..." Inuyasha trailed off.

"It'll try to protect itself…" Sesshomaru finished looking at the small child and thinking of all the children that had been culled out of fear and animosity. He wanted to clutch at his chest where it tightened. He was not made of ice as most assumed, it was merely a façade for the rulers of other lands but these were his people, in his family's lands and they'd been culled like diseased animals. The same thing that he'd been so willing to do to Inuyasha when he first appeared. The young girls excited squealing pulled him from his thoughts.

"Aww, I hope my kids are as cute as you sweetie." Inuyasha smiled happily. He assumed many people knew this but he wanted a very large family. The little girl began to fuss and he handed her to her mother.

"It's time for her to eat and have a nap." She smiled down at her daughter. When she looked up at the two she gasped.

Sesshomaru had bowed to her, "I apologize for my and my father's lack of action regarding your case. We did not believe it possible for a hanyou child to be born and live normally as my brother has. We will be protecting the lives of hanyou children hence forth. Thank you for inviting us into your home." When he straightened and left the woman was still sitting awestruck while her daughter suckled.

"I'll visit again later! Thank you! Goodbye!" Inuyasha said happily as they went on their way. The walk back to the castle was quiet but the air around Inuyasha seemed a lot lighter. Sesshomaru was coming to realize there was a lot he regretted in this life since learning that Inuyasha was his brother.

They walked side by side, and he watched as Inuyasha's curious eyes took in the natural landscape. "Enjoying the scenery?" He asked as the young man's eyes continued to dart around and observe.

"Yeah…you see where I live. There isn't a lot of nature around. I love this a lot actually." Inuyasha responded, still looking around at all the wild growth.

"Is that world completely covered in that way?" Sesshomaru asked quietly.

"No…but it's definitely not anything like this. Humans have had a very large impact on the wildlife in that world." Inuyasha replied.

"I see." Sesshomaru nodded. They walked in silence for quite a while before Sesshomaru spoke up once more, "Inuyasha."

"Yeah?" This time, Inuyasha looked at the youki with curious golden eyes.

Sesshomaru's breath caught in his throat as his eyes roamed the man, "I…" He paused, refusing to allow fear or pride get in the way. He was wrong and he knew it and would own up to it like a man. "I'm apologize for bringing you here. It was not my intention to trap you." He looked away and walked a bit faster leaving the stunned hanyou behind. "I will make sure you are able to return home." He continued as Inuyasha caught up.

"Y-yeah…okay." Inuyasha didn't know what had gotten into the youki but the apology seemed very sincere and he could forgive him for now. "Hey…why are the ancestral lands all boarded off? I ended up trapped there when I was a kid you know." He was trying to alleviate the awkward tension that had befallen them.

Sesshomaru seemed to think for a moment before answering, "Those lands have always been boarded off. We use that area for birthing. Children cannot pass the barrier without an adult to prevent them from being kidnapped. I'm sorry we didn't know you were there." Sesshomaru's apology came quicker than the last. Inuyasha was reeling because he got the feeling the man didn't do that often. "There hasn't been a birth since my own, and that is why it's become so overgrown and the beasts have no other predators than us." Inuyasha nodded his understanding and they continued on their way.

When they finally arrive back in town it looked very different. The sun was going to set in a bit and the town was lit up. It was beautiful, especially since there would be no moon tonight. Inuyasha wanted to explore more but Sesshomaru insisted that they returned home before they gave their father a reason to worry. Sesshomaru led Inuyasha to his rooms and found his father standing in the hanyou's unused study. His father was just standing there, face unnervingly blank. "Inuyasha." The powerful lord stated calmly. "I would like to protect you." The lord stood in front of the short hanyou, hands clasped onto his shoulders as the strength in his eyes softened. Inuyasha scowled, he felt a little strange and the tense atmosphere wasn't helping. He understood why he panicked but in his head he couldn't make sense of it. He'd never panicked like that before. Maybe his youki was still as young as they say he looks here. Inuyasha felt something in him lurch a bit. He brought his hand to his stomach.

"I…I'm sorry…I can't...I don't..um…" A tingling feeling, the one where one of your body parts falls a sleep began to spread throughout his body as his youkai tried to fight whatever it was desperately. His vision swam a moment before a nerve wrecking pain shot through his body and he screamed and curled in on himself.

"Inuyasha!" Touga shouted catching his younger son as he nearly fell. "What?" The lord and his heir watched in fascination as Inuyasha's white hair became an inky black, his puppy ears receded and became standard at the sides of his head. His claws became blunt nails, he even lost a inch or two of his height. Touga sniffed his son and couldn't smell nor feel his son's youki. The lord's own youkai was panicking in the cage Touga kept it in. It felt as though his pup had disappeared into thin air and the lord did not like it at all.

Sesshomaru couldn't believe what he was seeing. Inuyasha was truly his human. He reached a hand out and fingered dark tresses. While he enjoyed Inuyasha's human appearance, why it was showing up now of all times baffled him. Inuyasha blinked his eyes opened painfully, "That hurt…a lot…" Touga set Inuyasha down in his comfortable armchair.

"What in the world has happened." Touga whispered quietly.

Inuyasha took noticed of his dulled senses and began observing his own body, even checking in his pants. "I'm human again? I don't understand this…"

Touga sighed, calming his youkai. "Neither do I. It would be best if you remained within your rooms while I find a healer knowledgeable on hanyou. Is that agreeable." Inuyasha nodded but Touga couldn't take his eyes off the boy. In his hanyou form, Inuyasha resembled him to a staggering degree. He had now doubt that as he grew he would come to resemble his father more and more. However, looking at his son in his currently form was shocking. He looked so much like Izaiyoi it hurt. Large brown eyes, and long perfectly black hair. His skin held less of a tan than in his hanyou form and he even had her facial features. He looked to his eldest son who remained awestruck. "Like father like son I suppose." The lord thought as he pulled away and set off to find a healer.

His son had confided in him about wanting to mate the boy a week or so ago, he had yet to give him his opinion on the matter. To Touga, Inuyasha was too ignorant of the world to be mated by anyone, and he wouldn't want his child to be unhappy. He and Sesshomaru got along to a point, and Sesshomaru had shown unimaginable strength with the scent of Inuyasha's powerful first heat. Touga had expected him to mate the boy the night of the ceremony with the hanyou's youkai in control. The lord could say without a doubt that he was extremely proud of his eldest son. There are very few youkai in the world that can resist the call of a powerful youkai's first heat, Inuyasha being a hanyou was no exception to the rule.

In Inuyasha's rooms, the hanyou now human was currently observing himself in the mirror. Taking in his features that he hadn't known he'd been missing until they were gone. He liked the way he looked as a hanyou but his human features were his standard. He'd never realized his human side was so effeminate before. Definitely no where near as effeminate as Sesshomaru but pretty close. "Hey, if someone dressed us up like girls I'm sure no one would know the difference." Sesshomaru only narrowed his eyes at the hanyou's strange thoughts.

"You are strange." Sesshomaru stated after a moment. "Something leaves you terrified and vomiting like a pup, and then you mysteriously turn into a human in this world in which you are trapped. Do you not feel any peril within your own situation. Does this reality not set in? What is wrong with you?" Sesshomaru hadn't meant to say so much but the hanyou had always been a baffling entity to him, even in the other world he just didn't understand the strange man most of the time.

The strong scent of salt assaulted his sensitive nose. When he looked at Inuyasha, the man's eyes were flooded as tears poured endlessly. He hiccupped and sniffled, eventually ending up on his knees on the ground as he cried. The man in question didn't understand why he couldn't hold the tears back, something in him just snapped. He felt very weak and powerless. "What can I do?" He asked through his sobbing, "There's nothing I can do to change it…nothing I can do…." Inuyasha cried. Sesshomaru was standing stock still watching him. "I don't know enough to be able to help myself, don't you get it? I'm not stupid! There's nothing I can do to save myself even if I wanted to…I don't…I don't understand magic…I don't understand….I couldn't save myself then…how can I save myself now…I…I hate this you know….I don't want to think about it….why'd you have to remind me. " Inuyasha continued to cry as he tried to get a handle on the emotions he hadn't realized were building up.

Sesshomaru sighed, happy to know that the hanyou wasn't delusional, merely trying to ignore the problems and power forward. However, physically, Inuyasha was only a teenager in this world. He'd learned the hard way in his youth that if he tried to suppress all of his emotions it would only harm him later. Sesshomaru sat on the ground in front of the human Inuyasha before pulling him into his lap. "Inuyasha, it will be okay. You need not shoulder these problems alone. Your family is here as well. Father and I will keep you safe." He rubbed the sobbing human's back until he quieted, resting his head on the lords shoulder. Sesshomaru realized that he did not have the unpleasant scent that the humans of his own world carried. His scent was like a softer version of his hanyou's, it was intriguing. He felt Inuyasha's breathing even, he looked down to see the human still awake.

"If I'm so strange, why do you like me so much?" Inuyasha asked softly after a while.

Sesshomaru debated answering. He knew his feelings made the hanyou uncomfortable but he could not sense any discomfort from the human currently. "Because you are different. I find it captivating." Inuyasha looked up at him with large chocolate eyes. This is what Sesshomaru wanted, those eyes looking at him and only him. He took in more of the human's delicious scent. Leaning down, he kissed the human's soft unexpecting mouth. Inuyasha's eyes only widened fractionally, his brother was kissing him. It was weird, but in that moment he was feeling extremely vulnerable and he couldn't help but bask in the comfort the kissing provided. Sesshomaru broke the kissed and brought Inuyasha to his bed, he could sense discomfort and a bit of panic start to seep into the human's scent so he backed away a bit. "Go to sleep Inuyasha, I'll watch over you until father returns." Inuyasha bit his lip and nodded. He'd been worried that the youki would want to do more. Wasn't it weird to him that they were brothers? What would the Inu no Taisho say?

Sesshomaru paid attention as Inuyasha scent went from discomfort and panic, to discomfort and calm, before falling on confusion. He wished for a moment that he was able to read minds as he was curious about what was happening in his little brother's head.