A/N: So soon, I am back. I got ideas! Thanks a bundle, reviewers!
AnimeFreakSlayer: This one's for you! .
Moonmagicks: Next time possibly. Definitely within the next couple of chapters!
Jessie Sama's BFF: Glad you like it so much!
Sakura Sama: Hmm… maybe… If I do it it would probably be after the other people's ideas because yours was last chapter!
Guardiangirl624: Thankees and I don't know. It's probably because it's really innocent for the inquirer and really embarrassing for the inquiree (is that actually a word?).
I decided to try just going to the childhood part rather than going Back to the Future and just repeating everything I've done before. Let's face it, no matter how many times Maru or Inuyasha says "this is the last one," there'll always be more.
Inuyasha yawned and stretched. He had been asleep all day, after a late-night hunt with his father and his brother. Now the sun had vanished under the horizon, and stars were blossoming. There was no moon tonight, so the tiny pinpricks were brilliant. Today also happened to be, in human years, his one-hundredth birthday.
Remembering this, he bounded up from where he had been curled on the bed, giggling.
"I wonder what Maru got me!" he said to himself. He hopped over to his door and reached for the handle. Suddenly he froze. He backed up and peered into the mirror he had just passed. What he saw made him step back. His hair was black!
What's happening to me? he thought, frowning at the raven locks, then noticed something even more alarming. His ears were gone! He reached up to feel around and his fingers brushed two normal, un-furred ears at the sides of his head. They weren't even pointed, like Maru's. And his eyes! They were no longer gold and slit-pupiled. Now they were stormy-grey. Inuyasha proceeded to examine himself and discovered that his claws and fangs were gone as well. He pinched himself, praying that he was going to wake up. But he didn't.
Inuyasha tore out of his room as fast as he could, which was considerably slower than usual. He raced outside to his brother's normal reading tree.
"Maru!" he cried, reaching the base and looking plaintively up at the young demon sitting casually in the branches, reading by the light of a jar of fireflies. "I think something's wrong with me!"
Sesshoumaru looked down and slammed his book shut.
"Oh, you're finally up… Oh dear," he muttered, jumping down. "Inuyasha? That's you, right?"
"Of course it's me," Inuyasha answered, tears burning in his eyes. "What's going on? Why am I so different now?"
Sesshoumaru sighed.
"Nothing's wrong with you," he said at last. "You're just… a little different than everyone else."
"Different?" Inuyasha asked, genuinely confused. "Different how? I've never seen this happen to you, or anyone else!"
"Well," Sesshoumaru said slowly, choosing his words carefully, "You're what we call a hanyou. That means that you're only half demon."
"Half demon? How am I a hanyou and you're not? Why aren't we both half demon?"
"It has to do with Father," Sesshoumaru explained. "You see, my mother and your mother are different. But our father is the same."
"So we're not really brothers?" Inuyasha said.
Sesshoumaru looked hurt. "Of course we're brothers," he said. "Let me finish. See, my mother was a demon. Since Mother and Father were both demons, I'm a demon too. But your mother was a human. So you are half-demon, half-human."
Inuyasha wrinkled his nose, which looked like Sesshoumaru's now, instead of the odd shape it had had before. "I'm half human? Eew."
"It's not your fault."
"You're saying it's natural for this to happen? But why hasn't it even happened before?" Inuyasha asked.
"I suspect it couldn't happen until you were old enough," Sesshoumaru guessed. "But don't worry, it only happens for this one night every month, on the new moon."
Inuyasha stood in silence, processing the new information.
"Maru?"
"Yes?"
"Because I'm part human, will everyone make fun of me?"
Sesshoumaru scowled and his eyes flickered blood-red for an instant. "They'd better not," he growled. "Or they'll have me to deal with."
"Maru?"
"What?"
"What are stars?" Inuyasha asked, pointing up into the sky. Sesshoumaru shrugged.
"No one really knows," he said. "Most people think they're the spirits of loved ones who have passed away, still watching over us from way up there."
"Really?" Inuyasha said incredulously, craning his neck to see above him. "So they're always watching?"
"To see what they cannot share," Sesshoumaru confirmed.
They stood in silence for a while, just peering through the bare branches at the glimmering stars. Finally Inuyasha voiced a question that had been bothering him.
"Even though I'm part human, do you still love me?"
Sesshoumaru swept him into a rib-cracking hug. "You're still my baby brother, hanyou or no. How could I not?"
Awwwww… why can't they stay like this forever, eh? Main characters are so cute when they're little kids… then they grow up. Happens to all, except maybe the Kokiri and Peter Pan.