A/N: This is another retrospective of mine. Inuyasha is only three days old here, and Sesshomaru is 12. A lot of people here know how I use to write, so this time I'm not saying anything about my… my… you guys know what Misao means!
Nope, Misao-CG don't own Inuyasha. Got it? So don't sue Misao-CG!
"Little brother."
And there he was, sleeping like a baby.
Well, he was a baby, but the point here is that he was sleeping for once, not crying, like he has being doing since his birth, only three days earlier.
He looked SOOO cute and peaceful sleeping! like this, having a half little brother couldn't be so bad after all.
White hair, followed by a crescent moon and a pair of bright golden eyes appeared in the edge of the cradle. Those eyes stared at the sleeping newborn baby with curiosity. After a few minutes, the rest of that face appeared. Sesshomaru rested his chin and his hands in the edges of the cradle careful of not making noises that might awaken the baby sleeping on it.
Not that he cared: if he was worried about something, which were his own ears.
After all, this baby got a nice pair of healthy lungs and everybody in the castle knew that already, specially the new mother, AND because of that, his ears needed… well, a rest: they were buzzing because of the whelp's cries.
He smiled. Yes, he still smiled at 12: He wasn't the cold-blooded murder we all know now. So, he smiled at his sleeping half baby brother, and he reaches for his little fingers in an attempt to caress them…
A baby noise was enough to take his hand back. He frowned and grunted. He looked around: Izayoi-san was lying on the futon nearby and she was having a well-deserved rest. The baby was giving her a lot of problems. His dad had told him that his own mother went through the same kind of troubles when he was newborn, because, just like Izayoi-san, she was a novice mother at the time too, and, according to his dad's words, every single novice mother had problems with her first baby, human or youkai. That human lying on the futon wasn't the exception to that rule.
His attention came back to his little baby half-brother, his back was shown to him, but he could tell some of his characteristics. He noted his tiny baby dog-like ears, flattened to his little baby skull: they were white, just like his baby hair and baby fur. He was dressed in a red kimono and as he slept, and he was sucking his baby thump. His baby face was round and pinkish on his baby cheeks and baby nose, his baby eyes were shut, and only a single tiny line told where they were. He doesn't have claws yet, and he had no marks on his face. The only reminder of his youkai heritage was the dog-like ears on his head and his white hair… at least, as far as he could tell at that time.
He was a Hanyou, and his name was Inuyasha.
He caressed his brother's cheeks with delicacy. Mischievously he started to tickle his ears, which twitched annoyed. The baby opened an eye in discomfort, yawned widely and resumed his baby sleep.
Giggling, Sesshomaru tickled his ears again, this time, with the tip of his tail. Once again, baby dog-like ears twitched. A baby sound of discomfort was heard.
A mischief grin appeared in Sesshomaru's face and he kept the tickling, unaware of the shadow that appeared beside him. He started to tickle the baby's nose and cheek. The baby, in his dreams, brushed his clumsy baby hand over his baby face and opened both eyes widely. Sesshomaru stopped. The baby yawned again and closed his eyes, fortunely.
Another grin appeared on Sesshomaru's face as he resumed the tickling.
"Is good to see that you are getting along with your brother!." Said a voice beside him. Sesshomaru stopped. "Keep this in mind: if you wake him up, you are going to be the one to put him to sleep again."
"How long…?."
"Shh! Keep your voice down!." Said his father, winking an eye. "Since you started the tickling in the nose." He added.
"How come… I didn't notice you?."
"Because you were too concentrated in your :ahem: 'game', my son."
"Mmm. Sorry, otouchan." Sesshomaru said, bowing his head.
"Hmpf. When you were your brother's age, I did the same tickling thing with your ears… your beloved mother caught me and you burst into tears."
"And what did she do?"
"Hmpf." Grunted the taiyoukai crossing his arms. "She hit me with a BIG vase for pestering her newborn pup!"
"Wow! She did that?"
"It was dark and she was tired: what she saw was a shadow crawling onto his newborn cradle, not me. She was very apprehensive toward you!." Said the taiyoukai caressing baby Inu-Yasha's fingers. "Son, never pester a sleeping baby with an apprehensive mother around!" He said, pointing to the sleeping Izayoi.
A disgusted baby grunt was heard. Sesshomaru stared at his dad, sweat dropping at his current actions.
"And why are you tickling my brother's ears, then?"
"Eh… don't tell Izayoi!" Said the lord, crossing his arms, and closing his eyes.
Both youkai stared at the sleeping baby, and after a while of staring, father and son grinned mischievously and started to tickle the sleeping baby almost by inertia. Obviously, baby Inu-Yasha gets pissed with this, so he opened his eyes, and shut them, but this time, he opened his mouth to use those healthy pair of lungs which had been provided by his parents in his conception.
"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!."
The baby's father pick him from the cradle almost frantic, he gathered him to his chest and do his best to comfort the crying child, as Sesshomaru tried to gets his attention, in order to calm him better.
Izayoi appeared suddenly above them, with her fist high and several veins popped clearly in her forehead. The woman was mad, that was for sure, and the current cry of baby Inuyasha wasn't helping at all. Izayoi sat in front of her husband, and glared daggers to him and to Sesshomaru. Both youkais smiled at her in concern like guilty puppies and another vein popped in her forehead. She reached her hands in order to gather baby Inuyasha in her arms. The lord gave her the baby, and the woman started to soothe him as she received him. She glared at them again.
"Out!" She growled.
Outside...
The shoji door 'slammed' as father and son left the room, letting the mother and the crying baby inside. Sesshomaru gulped and look up to his father, who didn't look pleased.
"At least she didn't hit us with a vase!." He said after a minute.
"You are grounded!."
"What!. Why!."
"For pestering your little brother." Said the Taiyoukai, walking away.
The End.
By
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