Disclaimer: I don't own the inu cast but I have sessy on a stand!
Inuyasha sat with his friends in Kaede's hut. Kagome and all the rest were sleeping but Inuyasha wasn't. He couldn't. What Sesshoumaru did was just too much for him to push aside. He would have been pacing but didn't want to wake up anyone and then get sat because Kagome woke up angry.
Finally, Inuyasha saw no choice but to confront his elder brother to find out why exactly he helped. Unlike his friends, Inuyasha wouldn't accept that Rin thing so easily. Of course it didn't take him long to locate the dog demon since he had stopped for the night to let Rin sleep.
Sesshoumaru smelt Inuyasha coming long before Inuyasha even knew Sesshoumaru was here. Confused as to why his younger brother would try to attack him when he had aided his companions in finding him, the demon lord stood up to greet full on the half demon that now stood not ten feet from him.
"Alright Sesshoumaru, spill, why did you help my friends? And I won't take that Rin crap like they did," Inuyasha folded his arms across his chest just to further to prove his point. Sesshoumaru mentally sighed and thought for a moment on what Inuyasha was saying.
"Follow me little brother, I would rather they not wake up to your presence," he turned and started to walk to a more secluded area. Not once did he look to see if Inuyasha was following; but the younger sibling was and only stopped when Sesshoumaru came to a stop. "I aided your companions for the simple reason that I realized something important about my feelings, or lack there of, towards you," the elder demon stopped and looked up at the moon as though it was what gave him the strength to bear the inner most thoughts of his mind.
"Go on," Inuyasha quietly pushed his brother into continuing what he was saying.
Sesshoumaru took a breath and then continued, "it was never you that was the source of my…." He paused for a second to think of the right word, "distain towards you," once more he paused thinking of a way to put to words his epiphany, "I treated the way I did because I could not take my anger out on the real source." He became silent after that. It did not take Inuyasha long to figure out whom the real source was and the fact his brother wasn't going to say it.
"So you helped them because they helped you realize that?" Inuyasha was only more so confused than before. He had always figured his brother as a complete person who knew who and what they were about. The half demon never would have guessed that Sesshoumaru was still figuring things out along the way like everyone else.
"There are events in my past I can not come to terms with. Do not think that I run from them though little brother," he looked at Inuyasha once from the corner of his eye and then back up at the moon, "there is one event particularly that troubles me when it crosses my mind. He may have only played a small part in the ending of it but I can never forgive him for it. He took from me the part of me that would have been capable of coming to terms with it all."
Inuyasha was silent as it slowly hit him, "you couldn't take it out on him because he was stronger than you. So you took it out on someone who would be able to withstand your temper and fight back." He felt suddenly terrible for how he had hated his elder brother. "I always thought you hated me so I hated you right back. It never occurred to me that it was him and not me," he muttered under his breath. Sesshoumaru gave a slight nod but said nothing to consol his younger brother who could feel the overwhelming sadness Sesshoumaru must have felt at the time.
"We can not be companions the way many other brothers are," Sesshoumaru commented suddenly. Inuyasha nodded, he knew they couldn't, their past encounters would not allow it. "But we do not need to be enemies any longer," the dog lord continued.
This made Inuyasha look up at him, "we don't?"
"No, there is no point," he answered and glanced over at the confused half breed.
"So we can't have a brotherly bond but we can't be enemies either? You may wanna run that one by me again," the look of pure confusion on his face made Sesshoumaru smirk for a moment.
"We can not share the bond other brothers have but we can call each other brother without the hatred both of us have always had," Sesshoumaru walked a bit a ways before stopping.
Inuyasha smiled, "yea, I guess we can," he couldn't help but grin, he had a brother just not in same sense others did, "we are family."
Sesshoumaru turned to fully face Inuyasha and there was a ghost of a smile on his lips as he nodded, "yes, we are family." After that, Inuyasha returned to the hut and Sesshoumaru returned to his usual spot under a random tree while Rin and Jaken slept on AuOun's side, oblivious to what had just happened.
Inuyasha sat with his back against the wall and looked at everyone sleeping. Yea, he thought, we're family.
I did it! I completed it? It's been how long?