Itachi – So…Can I apologize?

Naraku – We don't need your sorry's! Your evil!

Itachi – Coming from a formally evil character that makes me feel a little bad…

Kouga – This baka's just been really busy with stuff. The usual.

Chapter 35

My Midget Little Brother

/A\

"Just look at you," Takemaru almost laughed as he starred at the display around him, "Here you are, Sesshomaru, about to meet the same fate that your father should have on that very same day." Flames engulfed the tarnished building as a bloody Inuyasha took in the danger at hand, he found he couldn't speak…something…was keeping him from breathing easily, "Groveling over that mess of a child, when you should be more concerned with your own survival…" Inuyasha couldn't move, the faint yells of his friend Kouga hit him as he tried to keep open his eyes, "Oh how the mighty have fallen…"

The small, immobile hanyou felt tears touch his face, mighty tears of his older demon brother – then tasted blood.

As he became more aware, a surge of fearsome pain ran through his small frame, he felt himself cradled in his brothers arms, he heard Kouga wailing, and finally, the Red Man, "He's half dead as is, Sesshomaru, half-demon or not, with an injury like that, it's as if my jobs been done."

"Inuyasha! Don't close your eyes!" The voice of Sesshomaru made its way to Inuyasha. It was foggy, and barely audible, "I'm going to help you, Inuyasha…everything's okay, everything's okay…" The spiked pole sticking out from his younger brother's abdomen did little to ease the elders worry. Inuyasha's breathing was becoming shallower by the second, and the elder brother was slowly losing his peace of mind.

"I…" Shallow intakes of breath were in between each word the hanyou struggled to say, "I's…gonna b-be…fine-" A fit of dry coughs as he reverted to annoying his brother with 'baby-speech', "See…-Sessh-o…maru I's…" His breathing slowed as he found it harder and harder to meet Sesshomnaru's blurry gaze, "Gonn..a be fin..e…casue you's my…yous..my brot…her," Inuyasha soon found it too hard to even speak, his large glassy eyes hiding so much more that he wanted to say.

With great strength did he raise a small hand to touch his brother's face, before a finger could make it to Sesshomaru's cheeks, the small hand went still, limp and fell. In silent shock did Sesshomaru stare at Inuyasha's wide, lifeless, smiling face. Gently, did the elder smooth out the younger ones hair, clawing through the mass of white tangles with ease.

Inuyasha…"If you cry…then mommy will be sad..!"

He recalled Inuyasha's words, but couldn't help but feel weak. Helplessness washed over the elder in waves.

And slowly, was Soounga raised to the air once more, Takemaru was ready to unleash the final dragon twister, one that would easily kill Sesshomaru, "You'll meet up with that sniveling brat soon enough, Sessh-!" Soounga was suddenly knocked out of his hands, and before him stood a father. Red eyes, brows drawn together with fury, "Sesshomaru, take this," A sheathed sword skidded to Sesshomaru's feet, deathly pale golden eyes starred on at the face of his younger brother, "Use Tensiga, and bring him back…hurry, before his soul leaves this world."

Quickly, did Sesshomaru turn to take the sword.

Hearing the name, Tensiga, did Takemaru, grab Soounga, running at full-speed only to be thwarted by Touga and his Tetsugia, "I won't…" The Red-Man's eyes looked to be insane, "I won't let you bring that hindrance back to life!"

My Midget Little Brother

Itachi – Hey everyone, I'm editing the chapters so, updates for all my stories are very, very slow. Sorry for the inconvenience!