Written: 6/19/05
Word Count: 100, 100, 100, 100
Rating: K / K+ for Kou's mouth
Notes: More non-challenge drabbles written for Father's Day. The order is Dokugakuji, Yaone, Kougaiji, Lirin.
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I was twelve when Dad died.
He died defending Gojyo. That's something I've never told him. I don't know what he'd do. He blames himself so much for Mom already...
Taboo children in a demon village aren't welcome. Hell, my little brother isn't welcome much of anywhere.
Dad was a good man. He loved his sons unconditionally, full demon or taboo child.
We were his boys.
The last thing he told me was to protect my brother. I tried, Dad, I really did.
I think he's proud of his sons.
I know I'm proud of the man Gojyo has become.
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The last time I saw my father, he was crying.
We had been captured by Hyakugan Maoh, who wanted my father's medicine stock...
And me.
Thank the gods for Lord Kougaiji.
It was rumored, after Maoh's castle fell at the hands of Cho Gonou, that my father had escaped before, that he was still alive somewhere.
I don't know if he is or isn't. I have hope, but I'm also rational enough to know that he would have found me after all these years.
I'm not exactaly keeping a low profile.
Thanks, Dad, and I love you.
Where ever you are.
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My father is a bastard.
I hate him with every fiber of my being.
He single-handedly created the hatred that humans and demons have for one another.
Demons are more like humans, really. Left to ourselves, we rarely kill or steal, much less eat humans.
I hate him so much. I don't know if there's any way to ever undo the damage he caused.
I am grateful I am his son, though. For one simple reason.
It's better to have someone who will at least try to fix the world than to have someone else following in his footsteps.
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Daddy was asleep long before I was born.
Kougaiji calls him all sorts of nasty names when I ask. My bitch of a mother doesn't even answer me when I ask what's for dinner, much less questions about my father.
Yaone once told me that Dokugakuji was more of a father to me than Daddy was to Kougaiji.
I like Daddy-Dokugakuji. He lets me get away with a lot.
Sometimes, I catch Kougaiji staring at our father with a strange look on his face. It scares me.
Then he hugs me and tells me he loves me and I know everything's okay again.
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