Title: The Least
Author: Nicluv1787
Rating: K
Prompt: Wild
Character: Child Inuyasha & Sesshomaru
Word count: 250
Summary: Inuyasha is all alone.
Fear, hunger, hiding, they were his constant companions in the days following his mother's lost battle with her sickness.
She'd begged the headman, -where they'd grudgingly taken her and Inuyasha in- to take care of him, they'd lied, they'd gave her false promises to soothe her in her dying moments. Then the moment she'd breathed her last they'd chased him out like a wild beast. Calling him dangerous, an abomination, not fit to live. They'd told him he was lucky to escape with his life.
Already in his short life, he learned to distrust, to hate. His mother was dead, his father too. He was alone in the world. A starving filthy child, his hair a matted mess, dirt smudged on his face.
He'd found an overhang, to shelter him through the night. The nights were the worst, the sounds of the unseen, the creeping darkness. Inuyasha held himself tightly, squeezing his eyes shut, trying to will the fear away.
A lone figure watched the filthy child, huddled from the cold in only a thin Hakama. How could this pathetic half-breed be the offspring of his noble father? How could his father have stooped so low to mate with a human? Sesshomaru could not understand. But still tonight he'd killed nearly five Youkai, for the child's sake. He may not show himself, but he wouldn't let the child get killed, it was the least he could do in his father's stead, and that was all he was willing to do.