A/N: It was a while since I posted a Barks chapter, so here you have one!

The Club. Origins

Souta sighed and looked around the yard. It was empty, majority of the kids already gone. He and his two best friends Yukio and Kan were still in the school building, hoping that if they stayed a while longer their worst nightmares would go home.

Their worst nightmares were a bunch of older boys, who found it entertaining to pick on smaller boys. Souta bit his bottom lip. A part of him wanted to tell his family and the teachers about those meanies, but he felt afraid. The bullies haven't done anything worse than calling them names, pushing them and stuff like this. Souta felt that his family would overreact and his teachers ignore him and his friends.

"The coast seems clear," said Kan after a minute.

"Let's go," Souta nodded and all three of them went out. They were halfway to the gate when a bunch of bigger boys approached them and encircled the trio, so they couldn't run away. When Kan tried to run past two of them they just pushed him at his friends. A few of the boys had baseball bats and brandished them with wide smiles. Souta realized that today would be different, it wouldn't end with a few names and a push to the ground.

"Well, well, well," grinned Kenji, the leader of the group. "What do we have here?"

"Nerds?" asked one of his friends, smirking at the boys staring in fear at them. Souta looked around, but there was no one who could help them, the yard was empty.

"Yeah, nerds," Kenji nodded and rested his fists on his hips. "So, nerds, now you have to pay to cross the yard."

"No money - no seeing mommy," chuckled someone behind Souta's back.

"So pay or I'll make you my personal punch bags." the leader stated. Yukio gasped - he already got hit by the group leader a few days ago and still was walking a bit stiffly.

Souta looked around at the bigger and stronger boys. He bit his bottom lip in a manner similar to his older sister. He thought that she probably felt this way - trapped and helpless - every time a youkai attacked her. But she had Inuyasha to protect her, help her fight. He and his friends had no such luck.

Still, he really wished his hero was there to show the bad guys that there was justice in the world.

"We don't have money," Souta flinched when he heard Kan's voice. "So just leave us alone. If you try to bully us more I'm going to tell..."

"What about this - we'll let you go today for free and tomorrow you pay us?" Kenji cut in. "And I wouldn't say a word if I were you, unless you want to have an accident."

Souta knew well what he was referring to, the gang would do nasty things to their prey. It would be better to play along until they had a way out of this without getting in more troubles. He opened his mouth when the older boy added. "We'll let you go for free this time. That is after we make sure you don't forget to bring them tomorrow."

Souta's eyes widened when he realized they were going to get in trouble anyway. How was he going to explain bruises and torn uniform to his mom? The older boys moved closer and Kan immediately stood in a fighting stance while Yukio looked around in panic. Souta gripped his bag tighter, deciding to use it as a weapon and a shield at the same time.

"Move aside, runt," someone pushed Kenji out of their way, breaking the circle around Souta and his friends. Souta saw a familiar - even if vastly outdated - red kimono. It's owner looked at the Higurashi boy with mild annoyance. "You're late, kid."

"Inuyasha!" Souta exclaimed, thanking the heavens that they brought his hero to save him. Inuyasha had a black bandana covering his ears and his hands were in his sleeves, but he was still looking exotic with his white hair and bright eyes. Souta's friends looked at the hanyou in surprise, they had heard a little about Souta's idol, but this was the first time they saw him. Some of the boys around them shifted a step away in the presence of an older boy, some hid their weapons behind their backs when Inuyasha glared at the whole gathering.

"Hey, freak, what-!" Kenji jumped to stand in front of the hanyou, glaring at him. Inuyasha ignored him, still looking at Souta.

"Your sister wants you to see something before we go, so move," he said as if there were no other people.

"Inuyasha..." Souta breathed out. "Th-they..."

"They want us to pay for going through the yard, those bullies," Kan explained, Yukio nodded eagerly, holding his bag tightly to his chest.

"Yeah," Souta nodded. Inuyasha took a long, suffering sigh. "They were going to beat us up," he elaborated. He was sure the hanyou wouldn't overreact or ignore this - it was for sure he wouldn't stand idly while there were bad guys in a desperate need of learning a lesson. In Souta's opinion Inuyasha was the most fit person in the entire world to dish such a lesson out. After all he was a good hero, fighting bad guys daily, saving meek people, who couldn't fight for themselves.

"You need twenty assholes to beat up three kids?" Inuyasha finally looked at the leader of the group, who grabbed a baseball bat from one of his friends and swung it at Inuyasha. Yukio cried out in fear. but Souta just smiled. In a flash of red Inuyasha's hand moved and the bat suddenly fell to pieces under Kenji's feet. Then the hanyou moved again, almost too fast for the boys to see, and kicked the leader of the group. Souta saw Kenji fall to the ground a short distance away, curled in a ball of painful groaning. He knew Inuyasha went easy on him, after all Kenji did survived the kick. The circle around Souta and his friends widened and shifted when the older boys tried to distance themselves from the red-clad boy and not look like total cowards.

"Inuyasha's my sister's boyfriend," Souta said with the same smile still on his face. "He's killed stronger guys than you all."

"Oi, Souta, don't scare the kids," the hanyou said when he saw awe in the eyes of Kan and Yukio, and fear in eyes of the rest of the boys. "Now stop stalling, we have places to go."

Souta stepped above the shattered bat, Yukio and Kan in tow. Inuyasha led them out of the yard like mother duck little ducklings trailing after.

"Oi!" the hanyou looked back at the still standing boys - two of them were helping Kenji up, but the rest was just looking after the leaving four. "Next time I won't go easy on ya."

Souta gave the bullies a wide grin.

"You come close to us and you're dead meat," he said and felt Inuyasha's hand on his shoulder.

"Next time I'm here I'm teaching you how to kick asses, kid. I already have one Higurashi to protect," the hanyou said much quieter.

"Really? You'll teach me?" Souta exclaimed happily and ran after the hanyou.

"Will you teach us too?" Kan asked, coming up on Inuyasha's other side as the hanyou was walking down the street

"Yes, please, Souta's sister's boyfriend!" Souta giggled when he heard determination in Yukio's voice. "Please?"

Inuyasha groaned inwardly, but gave a stiff nod. He didn't know that this afternoon he inspired three future-born boys to create a fan club, which name was Inu Fight Club.

He learned the truth the next time he went to the future to see three boys in red tshirts and pants waiting under the Sacred Tree to learn from the Big Dog Brother.

A/N: I know it sucks, but I enjoyed writing this. If you are interested there may be a sequel in some future...
I always liked the relationship Souta and Inu had - the boy practically worshipping the hanyou who was totally unsure what to do with the boy's amazement. It was totally against what Inu knew - I mean the whole Higurashi family was standing against everything Inuyasha knew - they accepted him, liked him and it was the total opposite of the humans' attitude towards him.