Hey guys! Sorry about the wait. I had a lot of problems with trying to decide the direction of what I wanted to do. This story is technically a "parental" story, but it will still have a master and slave relationship. It will just have the caring feel.

I know I had a debate the last time of what rating I was going to make this story. I know that this chapter and the first chapter are not rated M worthy, by a long shot, I was just debating for the future what I wanted to include. The M rating will probably not come about until the fourth chapter, but I am changing the rating now anyway.

I hope that you enjoy the update! Thank you everyone who reviewed!

Chapter Two:

Am I too broken to fix?

Sesshomaru walked into one of the many guest rooms within the castle. This one, however it was closest to the Princes quarters. The room was a hallway away from Sesshomaru's room. Inu no Taisho was still in shock from everything that had happened. He was also confused why Sesshomaru had picked a room so close to his very own.

Sesshomaru gently placed the hanyou on the bed before summoning a servant to go and get Yasahiro, the demon doctor of the castle. He was a small man that was kind and knowledgeable. He also had a kind aura that most likely would not startle the hanyou any further which was a good thing. Sesshomaru placed a blanket over the shivering hanyou that was still unconscious. He noticed that the sheets around the poor child were beginning to be covered in blood.

Sesshomaru was also littered with the hanyous blood, though he didn't seem to mind. He gave one last look at the hanyou before he decided to go back to his own chambers to change and to get rid of the blood. He mainly needed time to think. This all was moving just on instinct for him. An instinct that he did not know was there. It was strange for him to actually have some sort of care for anything.

He ignored his father and walked past him. Inu no Taisho figured that his son needed the alone time so he said nothing. As Sesshomaru left, Inu no Taisho made his way over to the bed and sat down beside the hanyou.

"I have no idea why my son has latched himself to you, and frankly I don't care." He sighed as he lightly brushed the hanyou's bangs out of his closed eyes. "In one short hour you have managed to get into Sesshomaru's world of his. You have infiltrated it and you don't even know you have. He has never showed care for anything in his entire life. You are the first thing he has shown a little compassion for."

Inu no Taisho continued to observe the hanyou. "You must have suffered greatly to have a collar like that. You are so young as well. I hope that we can in fact help you, young one."

The hanyou was still lost to the world as Yasahiro walked into the room. "My Lord, I have been summoned here."

"Yes Yasahiro, please examine and care of our troubled guest." Inu no Taisho got off the bed and debated again whether or not he should go after Sesshomaru. He then thought against it and moved to an armchair on the other side of the room. Sesshomaru needed time to think things out for himself. If Inu no Taisho were to push anything further with Sesshomaru, Sesshomaru would most likely distance himself from the hanyou to avoid the new protectiveness he had of it.

"A hanyou?" Yasahiro questioned, but moved closer to the bed and set his doctor's bag down. "I wonder what you have been through my sweet child."

Sesshomaru entered his chambers and beckoned to the servant outside the door to prepare the bath for him. He walked into his room only to be greeted by the person he wanted to see the least, Jaken.

"MY LORD!" Jaken screamed as he ran into the room screaming. He then looked at Sesshomaru's bloody clothes and launched himself onto his leg. "MY LORD ARE YOU INJURED! NO! MY LORD!" Jaken continued to scream and continued to grab Sesshomaru's leg.

Sesshomaru's aura darkened. "Get. Off." Jaken whimpered and promptly let go of the young Lord before he was killed.

"B-but My Lord, are you inured?" Jaken cautiously asked. Jaken was Sesshomaru's servant. A position that Sesshomaru never wanted the imp to fill, yet his father had thought it necessary. He found the imp insufferable.

"No. Now leave my chambers." Sesshomaru pushed past the imp and into the bath that connected his room. There was a large pool that mimicked a hot spring. There was a small water fall and plants. It was a peaceful place. There were servants waiting to help him strip and to bathe him. They shed his clothing gracefully and he slipped into the warm water.

What am I supposed to do with a blind and crippled hanyou? Not only that, he is just a child as well. One of the servant girls began to wash his long hair. Sesshomaru sighed and tilted his head back and allowed himself to relax a bit.

There is no doubt in my mind that Naraku used the child for his crude sexual acts. Yet, the child is not completely broken. There is still some resilience in his damaged eyes. Then there is also the collar.

The addition of the collar added a whole new set of problems. There were not many that knew how to work with the slave collars that were banned by his father hundreds of years ago.

Naraku had to have had help with the black magic. His thoughts were interrupted as the servant girl began to rinse out his hair with the warm water.

Then a thought came across Sesshomaru's mind that shook him. Why do I care about this hanyou? Why do I have this feeling to lock him away so nothing more can harm him? I do not know him. This is ludicrous. I can't explain these feelings.

Sesshomaru strode into the guest room, dressed in a clean set of robes. Inu no Taisho was still seated on the far side of the room in one of the two arm chairs. Sesshomaru walked over and sat down in one as well.

Yasahiro was still working on the hanyou. There was a large amount of blood on the sheets surrounding the hanyou. There were bloody towels and a lot of containers with medications and salves. Sesshomaru thought it best not to interrupt the doctor while he was still working on the fragile patient.

It was a good ten minutes before the doctor sighed and beckoned the servants to change the bedding under the hanyou so that he would rest in a clean bed. Sesshomaru noticed that there weren't many places on the hanyou that weren't covered in bandages. There were even bandages wrapped around the boy's head to shield his eyes.

With the hanyou finally placed in the clean bed, it looked as if the sheets and the bed were swallowing the tiny hanyou. The bed really showed how small and vulnerable the hanyou truly was. Sesshomaru suppressed a small feeling of rage at the thought of someone hurting a child so small in such a volatile way.

The doctor then walked over to the two Lords and pulled up his stool, ready to give his report.

"You are not going to like what I have to say, My Lords." Yasahiro said as he sighed and sat onto his stool.

"Rest assured Yasahiro, I do believe that you have done what you could for the young hanyou. Just please report all of what you have found." Inu no Taisho assured. Both he and his son were already prepared for the worst considering the collar.

"Well, where to begin? Starting from severity. I am sure that the both of you have noticed the collar that the hanyou has on him. I do not have much experience with the deeper workings with the collar, but I have basic knowledge. It is a collar that reacts to the aura of the master. The one wearing the collar receives electric shocks if the master shows emotions that revolve around anger or sadness. I think that there are rewarding sensations that are given to the collar for feelings of content. I think that it also reacts to comforting auras, but I have not seen any master use that on a servant. It goes against why the collar was put on in the first place." Yasahiro let out a large sigh. "The collar can also be used as a way to carry out direct orders. For example if the master mentions that they order them to do something the slave cannot resist. I feel that there are a lot of things that the hanyou was ordered to do."

"I am under the impression that his previous master had used the hanyou as a sex slave." Sesshomaru said through gritted teeth. Inu no Taisho's grew upset as well but kept his emotions to himself. He needed to let Sesshomaru take control of this or the boy would lose interest in the hanyou. It wasn't about the hanyou's life for Taisho so much, it was more for the transformation of his son that he hoped the hanyou would incite.

"Unfortunately there is too much evidence for sexual abuse. There is evidence to a large amount of rectal tearing that shows that this has been going on for years. There are bite marks littering the hanyou's body and there were hand shaped bruises around the hanyous hips and wrists. His teeth were also extracted from his mouth. Due to the scarring from his gums this has happened quite a bit. In most sex servants, their teeth are extracted so that they can pleasure their masters more during oral sex. This also eliminates the possibility of biting. Teeth do not take much to grow back, even for half demons, but it still may be a good week or two before they start to come back in." Yasahiro was hesitant to admit this to the young Lord, but this was his job.

Sesshomaru growled. "Continue with all that you have found."

Yasahiro nodded and cleared his throat nervously. "The boy is severely dehydrated and malnourished. His right hip had also been dislocated. He has a fractured arm and four broken fingers. The word "worthless" has been branded onto the hanyou's stomach, I guess to mark him. There were countless lacerations and bruises. There are at least ten ribs that needed to be broken again due to the fact that they had not healed correctly when they were broken the first time. His ear was physically cut in half. I have stitched it up. I believe that it will heal nicely though. The blade must have been sharp because the cut was straight. The hanyou's feet are also a major problem. The thorns that were in his feet were from a plant that is irritating for demons. It is not a strong irritant but it slows down the healing process in his feet a bit more. It also made the area around the holes in his feet inflamed and infected. In order to heal his feet, you would need to cut around the hole of his wound every couple of days to try to get the majority of the irritating toxins out. It will take a couple of months, even with what little healing powers he has to fix his feet. His eyes are a different story. His pupils were carved out of his eyes. I managed to clean them out. They were severely infected and they were covered in painful scar tissue. By getting rid of the scar tissue it will help some, but no amount of healing will give him his sight back. Since his pupils were completely taken out rather than damaged, the boy's eyes will not be able to heal themselves. He will be blind for the rest of his life. The infection has also caused a rather grave fever."

Yasahiro stopped to see if there were any questions about what he was saying. Sesshomaru was still as angry as ever and was trying to hold back from openly growling and smashing everything in the room. "Does the hanyou not have any power to heal himself?" Sesshomaru asked.

"It appears that the collar may be suppressing the majority of the boy's demon power. The only traces of demon I see in the boy are his ears, claws, I am guessing he has fangs, and there is a slight healing power. It is far better healing ability than that present humans but still low for a common hanyou. Without the collar, he probably has ten times that power."

"The hanyou could not talk when I first found him. Is his voice damaged?" Sesshomaru asked. It was bad enough that the hanyou was blind, but he had no idea what to do if the hanyou could not talk on top of that.

"It appears that the hanyou has not used his voice for a very long time. My guess is that his master had stopped him from talking quite some time ago. There is no damage, but there is a possibility that he will need to be taught how talk again. Though there is no guarantee that the process would be a quick one. He will need constant supervision. He will no doubt be traumatized by the entire event. I am unsure how deeply rooted his submission is. Judging by the countless injuries and his age, it will be a quite difficult road for him. He would have nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks. Because of these attacks he may revert back a couple years in childhood. He might show signs of bedwetting. His feet alone means that he needs to be carried around to avoid trauma to his feet. Without his vision it may be hard for him to get out of his traumatic episodes because he will not be able to see what is around him. I truthfully don't think that he can be of any use."

"What are you trying to say?" Sesshomaru growled. Inu no Taisho was having a hard time staying quiet. He knew what the doctor was trying to imply.

"He will not be able to serve the castle any. It will be impossible to train him as a fighter or anything else. He needs coddling, and I cannot think of a single occupation that the boy would be good for besides for pleasure." Yasahiro flinched as he felt Sesshomaru's aura spike at the comment.

At the sudden spike of aura the sounds of whimpers were heard from the bed. The hanyou had not woken up but was terrified of the sudden spike in murderous aura. Sesshomaru quickly hid his murderous youki and exhaled.

"How dare you think that I would allow something as that to happen!" Sesshomaru's face showed his rage.

"The biggest problem that we face now is the collar, right Yasahiro?" Inu no Taisho interrupted. He wanted to change the topic and fast before Sesshomaru lost it and killed the old doctor.

"Yes. It seems that there is a failsafe that was put in place with the collar. It appears that it is starting to leak a poison into his system. My guess is that if the Master is a certain distance away from his slave the slave will slowly be poisoned. I am assuming there is only some time before the Master will start to increase the process or find a different way to kill the young slave." Yasahiro admitted.

Sesshomaru got up from his chair and walked over to the bedside of the hanyou. There were purple veins that were sprouting underneath the hanyou's skin and it seemed to be coming from the skintight collar. His breathing was labored under the heavy weight of the pained fever. His tiny hands were grasping the sheets in his fists in pain.

What am I supposed to do? Do I really want to bother with this child? What can I possibly gain from it?

Inu no Taisho could sense that Sesshomaru was deep in thought and at war with himself over what to do with the young hanyou. Maybe he needed to coax the decision a little more. He knew that the hanyou would never be able to be a slave, but maybe Sesshomaru could find a use for him. It didn't matter what his son did with the damaged child. He just needed to make sure that his son would actually take responsibility and grow up a little bit.

"Well, it appears it would be better if we just let the poor thing die." Inu no Taisho sighed half-heartedly in his chair. Sesshomaru stiffened a little but did not say anything.

Inu no Taisho smirked a little bit. His son was in fact growing attached to the poor damaged thing. He wanted to get Sesshomaru to blow up so that he could be given some sort of sign that his son actually cared for something. What happened next surprised him.

"Can the ownership of the collar be transferred, Yasahiro?" Sesshomaru asked quietly. There was no rage or malice in his voice. Just a stoic seriousness in his answer.

"I believe that there may be a way to change ownership of the collar. As you probably guessed, there is no way to get rid of the collar without killing the hanyou. You would need to find his master or someone in his court that has helped with the creation of the collar." Yasahiro was still shocked that the Young Lord was even placing himself in the same room as a hanyou. He looked to Inu no Taisho with a questioning look, but received one in return.

"We need to find one of Naraku's servants and get them here to give some information." Sesshomaru sighed. His eyes never leaving the boy.

"Naraku!" Yasahiro exclaimed in total shock. "That half-wit did this?!" At the raising voice, the hanyou began to stir a little in irritation to the loud noise. Sesshomaru frowned and turned to Yasahiro. "Oh excuse me Young Lord, but I feel as if we may have some luck after all."

Sesshomaru arched his eyebrow in question, but was then sidetracked as a little hand reached out and grabbed his sleeve. Yasahiro gasped at the audacity of the hanyou. Everyone knew that Sesshomaru was not one to be touched. The grab was not powerful, but it was enough to grab Sesshomaru's attention. His eyebrows shot up as he looked to the trembling hanyou.

"It is I, Lord Sesshomaru, hanyou. Rest now. You will not go back to that monster." Sesshomaru barely breathed out so that the other two in the room could not hear what exactly was being said. The hanyou smiled lightly, nodded subtly, and let go of the Lord as tears began to stream out from underneath the bandage that was covering his eyes.

The other two had no idea what had transpired between the two and both were very confused on why the young hanyou was so relieved at whatever Sesshomaru had mumbled. "What is the luck, Yasahiro?" Sesshomaru asked looking over his shoulder and startling the doctor.

"W-well, there are rumors of a monk that was cursed by Naraku. Some are reporting that the monk went against Naraku and he was punished by have a dark wind tunnel placed in the palm of his hand that will eventually engulf him and kill him." Yasahiro looked over to Inu no Taisho for confirmation.

"It is true Sesshomaru. On the last trip the sixth battalion took to the northeast, some of our men were lost to the monk and his hand. He was protecting a human village in the mountains by Shigakura. He is still there if I am not mistaken. I am unsure how much he knows, but he is the best person that we could possibly get for this situation." Inu no Taisho got up from his seat and made his way to the doorway. He knew his son was planning on going off right away. "Time is a factor son, his name is Miroku. Be careful and do not harm him."

Sesshomaru stayed quiet and continued to look at the hanyou once more before striding to the window, materializing into a ball of light and flying off to find the young monk.

Yasahiro looked to the hanyou still amazed that the kid had managed to find what others thought had not existed, Sesshomaru's compassion.

What was normally a week's journey on foot was only a two hour flight for Sesshomaru. When he landed in the human village, the humans were shocked. Never had they seen such an elegant and powerful demon. Villagers shrieked and all were running far from where the young Lord landed.

Finally he saw one human wearing purple and blue robes approaching him.

"You are not an ordinary demon. What business could you have in a village such as this?" The human asked.

Sesshomaru look him over. He noticed that this must be the human that he was supposed to ask for assistance.

"I am Sesshomaru. The Dog Demon Prince of the Western Lands. I seek a human by the name of 'Miroku' for a favor." Sesshomaru spoke with no emotion in his voice.

The human frowned. "What business do you want with me?" Sesshomaru was right.

"Where you once owned by a demon named Naraku?" Sesshomaru asked.

Miroku was beginning to get riled up. "Why should I tell you?!"

The aura around them was starting to darken. Surely Miroku was not even considered a threat to Sesshomaru.

"Never in my life would I ever have imagined to ask a human for assistance. I have recently rescued a hanyou from Naraku-" Sesshomaru was cut off by a sharp gasp from Miroku.

"A HANYOU?!" His eyes were terrified. "Is he young? Does he have white ears?" Miroku was talking fast.

"You know this hanyou?" Sesshomaru still did not give off any indication of surprise.

"Is he safe?!" Miroku was breathing fast, obviously worrying about the hanyou.

"That is why I am here. Are you aware of the collar that placed on the child?" Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed, demanding an answer.

Miroku nodded. "Yes, my father was the one that was forced to place it on the hanyou. Is that what this is about?"

Sesshomaru nodded. "I would like for you to come back to the castle with me. I can assure your protection within the castle. I am aware that the collar cannot be removed so I would like you to transfer the ownership of the collar. Also, I know that you are not stupid. If I managed to find you, there is no doubt that Naraku will send someone after you. He is without a doubt also thinking that you will be able to help the hanyou."

Miroku tried to weigh his options in his head. He stumbled across a disturbing idea and his eyes narrowed. "You will not use him for pleasure, right?"

Miroku regretted that question when Sesshomaru's aura turned murderous. "How dare you." The voice was cold and calculating.

"WAIT! I'M SORRY! I WAS JUST MAKING SURE!" Miroku screamed in fear of his life being ended on the spot. The aura began to shrink back dully. "I will go with you. I don't trust you, but I owe it to the hanyou. I couldn't save him then, so I want to save him now."

Sesshomaru held out his hand and summoned a cloud beneath his feet before grabbing the monk, much to both of their displeasure, and taking off into the sky.

So this time I promise, there will not be much of a wait for the next chapter. The reason why I had a lot of problems with the updating before was because I was trying to figure out the structure of the story. I thank all those that left reviews beforehand and I ask that you please write more! I love reading them and they really do encourage me to keep on writing. Also check out my bio for my other stories!

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