Set up: This story takes place in Kagomes time. Inuyasha and her have grown up and how have children together..This first chapter is about there oldest one.

Disclaimer: I do not(i want to, but i don't) own Inuyasha.


"Mr. Higurashi? Mr. Higurashi!" Professor Yakota's voice rang throughout the classroom. "Hats are prohibited within this classroom, that includes bandannas, remove it." Shikugo Higurashi looked up from the scrap piece of paper he had been doodling on. Shikugo was a young man of 19 years, he had gold/yellow eyes and shoulder length silver hair, the top of his head covered with a black bandanna. "Take it off, Mr. Higurashi." Professor Yakota repeated firmly.

Shikugo looked down at the paper again solemnly "No." He began to doodle once more, Professor Yakota moved over to the black board and slammed his meter stick against it. Shikugo glanced up again "I really can't remove my bandanna."

"And why not?" Yakota retorted sternly. He wouldn't let his young man get the better of him, that bandanna would come off.

Shikugo sighed deeply, "Birth defect." He sighed again, birth defect, birth defect, birth defect, it was what he'd been saying since he could talk. He removed a note from his pocket and placed it on his desk. Yokota moved swiftly to the desk and picked up the note, after reading it for a few seconds he tossed it back down at Shikugo's desk.

"Fine Mr. Higurashi." He walked moodily back to his desk and continued the lesson like nothing had happened, but was obviously upset that he'd been beaten by this young person. Shikugo continued with his doodling, drawing his body and a dogs head, he stared at it and ripped the paper up aggressively.

Soon enough the bell rang, Shikugo got up and walked out the door without a second glance at anyone, tossing handfuls of ripped and crumpled papers into the trash as he exited the room. He went to his locker and got his black baseball cap, he only wore the bandanna in classes, he had a bandanna and hat at all other times, the professors should consider themselves lucky he even did that for them, but no, they simply passed him and his bandanna evil looks. It wasn't his fault he was born with messed up ears! He wore the baseball cap to the front, so it covered his eyes when he looked at people taller then him.

He walked along the hall, watching his feet as he stepped, not noticing where he was going, simply following the flow, he always had to follow the flow. The problem with not looking up was you bumped into things, or people, and lucky Shikugo, he waked right into the principal, Mr. Katuros. "What is that on your head?" He eyed the black hat.

"Its a hat." Shikugo hissed back.

"Obviously..but you must be aware that there are no hats allowed in school, I'll have to confiscate it." He reached over to grab at the hat, but Shikugo moved back just enough, Mr. Katuros only touched the brim of the hat, he didn't take it off, close one.

"I'm not going to take my hat off, I can't." He said sort of dully, tiered of explaining this to every single person wh asked why he wore a hat indoors, or at school.

"You can't, why not Mr..." He let himself stop, indicating that he wanted Shikugo's name.

"Higurashi." Shikugo told him, again with a dulled voice. "I can't remove my hat because-" He looked down at his feet, the brim of the hat blocking out Mr. Katuros's face from view, and Shikugo's eyes from Mr. Katuros's view. "I have a birth defect." He said in such a quiet voice he doubted it was even loud enough to hear.

"What was that? Speak up Mr. Higurashi."

Shikugo placed his hands into his pockets and clenched them, His eyes looking at the ground still, a loud bell rang and there was a pick up in pase, then there were slamming doors and he and Mr. Katuros were alone. "Birth defect." He spoke a little louder, he shut his eyes then opened them, he was tired of these stupid ears, they got him into trouble, they made him feel so different.

Mr. Katuros looked at him oddly for a second "Do you have any proof of that? If I let you wear a hat with no proof then the entire school would be wearing hats all the time." Shikugo took the note form his pocket and handed it to Mr. Katuros. He read it for a few seconds then nodded and handed it back to Shikugo, who grabbed it roughly and shoved it into his pocket, keeping it in his palm as he clenched and unclenched his fist, his eyes still on the ground. "Well go on then, your missing class Mr. Higurashi."

Shikugo turned and left without another word, he had history next, but instead he headed to the boys washroom. He whipped the door open in anger and looked around, no one else was in there, he was alone. He walked into the stall, ignoring all the swear words and sayings on the door as he shut it and locked it behind him. He sat on the toilet and buried his face in his hands. After a minute of just sitting there with no real reason he ripped his hat and bandanna off. Concealed under the bandanna(and no longer concealed once he removed it) were two ears, but not normal ears, white dog ears that stuck up. They would have been cute if not for a few small details. Along the line where his skull and the ears joined was cut and crusted with blood, as though it'd been stretched far enough to rip the skin and start bleeding. Along with the dried blood there was also a gash missing from one ear. Shikugo had attempted to cut his dog ears off with scissors last year, the chunk was still missing.

He reached up slowly and took a hold of his ears, simply holding them between his thumb and other fingers for a while before he knew what he should do. He figured that he'd be normal if he could get rid of these ears, he might lose his hearing, but that was way more common then having dog body parts. He gripped them tightly and then pulled with all the force he had, shutting his eyes quickly as the base of his eyes began to water from the pain of having his ears being pulled on, embarrassment of not being normal, of having dog ears, hate of his ears, hate of how they made him feel so different from everyone, hate of being who he was.

He cried out in a small whimper and released his hold on his ears. Tears were now streaming down his face, he kicked at the stall door, snapping the lock and sending it flying open. He quickly grabbed the open door and slammed it shut, afraid someone would walk in. In the few seconds the door was open he saw himself in the mirror, shaggy greyish hair like an old mans, small stubs where facial hair had begun to grow and been cut, reddening eyes with drops falling from them, and perched atop his head, small white dog ears, the base red from newly shed blood, a little bit of the hair around his ears also catching the blood and turning red.

He held the door shut with one hand and lent on the wall of the stall, breathing heavily. He wiped his eyes off with his palm and grabbed some toilet paper. He pushed the toilet paper around the edges of his ears to help stop the blood and then stayed like that for a while. After a few more tense moments he removed the paper, the blood had dried onto it and it stung as he ripped it off. He winced a little then tossed the bloodied toilet paper into the toilet.

He put the bandanna back on and tied it in the back, then put the cap on over it. Once he felt around the edges to make sure the top of his head was covered he walked out of the stall. Shikugo went over to the mirror and looked in it, his eyes still showed signs of tears so he grabbed paper towels and rubbed them over his face until they were dry and back to normal. Once he was sure he was fine he turned away from the mirror putting his butt to it then jumping up to sit on the counter. He didn't want to go back to class, it was too late, he didn't even know how long it'd been since he came in the bathroom, how late he'd be, he didn't feel like staying in here or wandering the halls. He jumped off the counter and walked out the bathroom doors, down the hall and then out the main doors, into the streets, he'd skip the rest of the day, no one would notice the dog-boy was missing. No one would care.