A/N: Another chapter, which will include little!Sesshoumaru. I hope you enjoy it!

GENERAL INFO

WARNING: This will contain OCs: Sesshoumaru's "mother", Lixue, and the Moon Goddess, Ilandere. The rest of the characters are canon, as far as I know. I expect this will be Naraku x Sesshoumaru. However, this is as much of a mystery to you as it is to me.

PAIRINGSs: OC (Lixue) x InuTaishou (not permanent), InuTaisho x Izayoi, Sesshoumaru x Naraku

CHAPTER INFO

CHAPTER WARNING: Mild insanity and verbal abuse

CHAPTER PAIRINGS: OC (Lixue) x InuTaishou (mild)

DISCLAIMER: INUYASHA IS OWNED BY RUMIKO TAKAHASHI AND VIZ MEDIA. THE SONG "Hijo de la Luna" IS OWNED BY ARIOLA AND THE BAND MECANO. ALL UNRECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS/MYELF (Mai Darling Dearheart).

Hijo de la Luna

Chapter One: Broken Promises

The marriage was happy on both sides. The two were joined at the hip since the day they were mated, and it was rare to see the two apart.

Their child's conception was on their wedding night.

Both were overjoyed, and the promise was completely forgotten. Lixue and Touga were both pleased to produce an heir so quickly, and were already deciding names.

Lixue assumed that, since the conception was so fast, it had to be a girl. Boy were to precious to be made so quickly.

Lixue produced several female names from her own country. Among such arose the InuTaishou's favorite- Xue Fang. It had a similar meaning to Lixue, both names having to do with snow, and so it was decided.

The young girl was to be name Xue Fang.

Nine months passed by quickly, and the baby was born. To both the parents surprise, it was a boy. A beautiful baby boy.

He looked like both his parents. He had the silvery hair like his mother, along with the magenta stripes on his cheeks and wrists, but had his father brilliant golden eyes. However, there was something he had that neither of them did.

A crescent moon adorned his forehead, and Lixue knew exactly why. She quickly made up an excuse, "It is a recessive trait in my line. I did not receive it, but our child has. It is a symbol worn with honor in my family." Touga seemed to understand, much to Lixue's relief.

She was not going to give up this child. The moon goddess would just have to find another baby, but not hers. She loved her husband, and the child, too much.

They went through another process of picking and choosing names, and ended up with Sesshoumaru. It didn't matter what his name was, Lixue adored her baby. She insisted that she be the one to care for him. She was even hesitant to let her husband hold her precious child.

The moon goddess, however, was not pleased. How could that ungrateful little wench do this? She gave her a powerful husband, didn't she?

Well, well, Ilandere would show her. Oh, yes, she would. Once she was through with her, that scrawny little mutt would wish she was dead.

Who knows, if all went well, maybe she would be.

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Ilandere was, however, merciful to the bitch. She allowed the woman seven years of happiness with her son. In that time, Lixue was sure that the promise had been lost, and she had lured another lovesick woman into her trap.

She didn't realize how wrong she was. Ilandere was determined to get the child whom she considered to be her son.

Lixue began to have nightmares. She would toss and turn until her husband awoke her. She never remembered her dreams, just knew that they terrified her, and both she and Touga lost precious hours of rest due to them.

Then one night, she remembered.

She screamed in her sleep, and as always, she was awoken by her husband. Still she was caught in her dream.

"The child is cursed! Keep him away from me—he plans to kill me!" she screeched, digging her claws painfully into her husband's shoulders, and drawing blood.

"Lixue!" He shook her a little, and the hands loosened, "What are you talking about?"

She looked around the room, her eyes glazed over, "I… I guess… it was just a dream, thank the heavens." She sighed, leaving her husband in mystery.

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Those dreams occurred more and more, and it would take up to an hour of explaining that it was only a dream, and there were no children coming to hurt her.

She was never convinced.

Lixue began distancing herself from her beloved son, and flinching whenever he addressed. She would always answer him with short, terse sentences. He would then leave, feeling dejected.

Sesshoumaru decided to ask his father why his mother was suddenly acting so coldly towards him, "Father…" he began quietly, "Does mother love me?"

Touga seemed genuinely shocked by the question. He had been too sleep-deprived and distracted to notice his wife's changed behavior to their child, "Of course she does, my son. Why would you ask such a strange question?"

"I'm sorry to bother you father." Sesshoumaru turned and walked away, feeling just as dejected before.

Touga frowned and decided to confront his wife, "Lixue," his wife jumped when she heard her name, and turned, "Is there a reason Sesshoumaru just asked me if you love him?"

Lixue, embarrassed of her true resoning, replied, "I scolded him. I told him that playing in the mud is beneath him."

Touga nodded, and it made sense then, "Ah, I see. I'm sorry to have acted so terse with you, my love."

Lixue smiled at the term of endearment, "You have a right to know. There is no reason to apologize."

They shared a short kiss as the InuTaishou returned to his study. However, Lixue had remained all the while alert that her cursed child was standing nearby, listening to their conversation.

Her sanity was wavering.

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The dreams progressed rapidly until entire nights of sleep would be lost, and the dreams would leak into the daytime. She became obviously careless of her son, who was now thirteen.

Thirteen was the unlucky age.

"You cursed child! Can you do nothing but haunt me all day long?" Lixue hissed at her son, who stared coldly back. His childish innocence was long gone. He had just wanted to go for a nighttime stroll in the garden, and the scent of his mother was lost in the scent of all the fragrant blooms.

"Mother, you are acting irrational. How was this Sesshoumaru to know you were in the garden?" he asked, his icy golden eyes glaring at his mother's wide, haunted blue.

His mother snarled her response, "Leave me be, or I shall destroy you myself!" she gave a look to the crescent moon on his forehead, "I should have given you to that moon woman who marked you. You horrid, horrid child!"

Sesshoumaru had come to the point where he just rolled his eyes at his mother's incessant rants. It wasn't to say that it didn't affect him… it had especially effected him when he was younger. However, they were just so common place.

His father did nothing to stop it. Did that man even notice the pain his only son was going through?

If he did, he was doing nothing to help him. Sesshoumaru had grown a small hatred for his father as well as his mother.

He went to bed, musing over this. He could see the waned crescent moon from his window.

He found comfort in it, somehow. Maybe it was because his mother despised the moon so much. He seemed to love what his mother hated, maybe only to be rebellious.

He could hear his mother's screams from the garden, and sighed. He rolled away from the window, the moon's light on his back like an embrace.

He sighed again, this time contentedly, and closed his eyes. He was almost lost in sleep when he heard light footsteps approaching his room coupled with heavy, crazed breathing.

He recognized the light pants as his mother, and he groaned and opened his eyes. She was just passing his room, but her presence agitated him greatly.

The footsteps stopped outside his door, and he could hear her begin to slide it open and step into his room.

Just before he quickly closed his eyes to feign sleep, he caught the sight of something reflecting the light in his mother's hand.

TBC…

A/N: I swear, the yaoi-liciousness is coming up soon! Please review, and a big thank you to my first two reviewers, Pineapple55 and Zetholass! –hands out cookies-