(I do NOT own any of these characters. Except perhaps Chitose. I created her, she's my baby...and Shiruka, she's mine too. But all of the copywrited "Inuyasha" characters are property of Rumiko Takahashi and company.)

[Sesshoumaru] Again, with the formality....

[Me] Oh, shut up...I like being polite. It makes me cute!

[Inuyasha] Feh.

[Me] What was that?

[Inuyasha] I was just thinking now who would think a chick like you was cute...GAK!

[Me] Take that back!!! Take it back or I'll dunk you in ink!!! You won't be able to see straight for weeks!

[Inuyasha] Feh! I'm not afraid of you...

[Me] *holds up a bottle of ink* It'll overwhelm your senses!!! HAHAHA!

[Inuyasha] *shrink* damn you, Taka-chan!

[Me] Take it back and I might spare your life...*bares her teeth*

[Sesshoumaru] Why do you do these things little brother?

[Inuyasha] I didn't mean to! Whoa! Hey!

[Me] *is chomping down hard on Inuyasha's ear* Tack ick back!!!

[Sesshoumaru] *sigh* of all the childish...*slowly separates them*

[Inuyasha] You damn ear-chomping bitch!!!

[Me] Say it again! I dare you dogboy!!!

(~^-^~ Until next time ~^-^~)

Ch.2

~Realization~

Sesshoumaru walked through the door of the apartment in silence. Inu Taisho sat just where he'd left him, in that same chair, in that same position. Nothing had changed at all, except the fact that the man now had seven empty liquor cans around the base of the chair instead of six. Sighing Sesshoumaru closed the door behind him and layed his keys down on the counter before heading down the hall. A low grunt caused him to turn and look at his father as he spoke.

"Where's the brat?" his fathers words weren't as slurred as usual but he still had that drunk air around him, as well as the scent of booze.

"What do you mean?" Sesshoumaru spoke carefully. Inu Taisho looked at him now, his red-rimmed eyes giving him a glare.

"Where the hell is he?" his voice was a low growl. It caused Sesshoumaru's ear to twitch as he became slightly nervous. When Sesshoumaru didn't answer Inu Taisho rose and towered over his son by an inch or so. "Where the hell is the runt?!" he growled in repatition, louder this time. Sesshoumaru blinked and turned toward the hall.

"At school, where else would he be?" his words made his father sink back into his chair in silence. stopping at the door of his room he looked back at the once great dog lord. "I'm going out tonight, father." he said it coldly, running his hand down the marred up doorframe. The gouges where his fathers claws had met the wood as he'd broken the bottle over Sesshoumaru's head. That was the night Sesshoumaru's own mother had left, before Inuyasha's mother had come into their lives, before Inuyasha had been born. That was back when he had wanted to be happy. Inu Taisho was not watching him, he was too busy with whatever it was that he was doing to notice Sesshoumaru at all.

Lifting his hand he ran it along the side of his head until his fingers ran over that old scar in his skull. The six-inch long gash that had almost killed even Sesshoumaru, that had forced his mother to leave him there, bleeding and screaming on the floor. He could remember that incident. It was before Kouga Ookami had moved in down the hall, before he'd met Kagura, before he'd even learned to bare his fangs. He'd been barely six then. still a whelp in a thousand more ways than one. Shoving the memories back into the far corner of his mind he entered his own room and closed the door behind him. Collapsing on his bed he closed his eyes tiredly. Inuyasha had said so many things today. So many things to re-open those burried wounds, those half-healed scars. He thought he was alone in that torture, thinking he could handle this burden on his own. Sussheoumaru also, though, was holding up this pillar of pain. He was sharing the very burden Inuyasha thought was bestowed cruelly on him alone. He didn't know what happened when he couldn't see, when he wasn't there to watch. Behind the closed doors of this very house, in the silence Sesshoumaru had made for himself. There was still something that pulsed evilly into the young demons senses and grabbed hold of him. This was his cage; his cage with no bars. This was the torture chamber that he had lived in all his life. And his father, Inu Taisho, was his executioner. His torturer. Ready to kill him and yet he didn't.

"Still a stupid, scared child. Aren't you, boy?" Sesshoumaru lifted his head and looked at the door. Light was streaming into his dark cave from outside in the hall. Inu Taisho stood, loomingly, in the doorway. He couldn't see the mans face but he could feel the cruel look he was being given. He sat half-way up and Inu Taisho walked forward, much as Sesshoumaru walked. He was stalking his prey. And the prey was Sesshoumaru himself. He was tall and lean, his long hair hung down in a messy fashion, his cloths were loose. He closed the door behind him and Sesshoumaru could see the cynical smile on his fathers face. Sesshoumaru didn't bother to sit up as Inu Taisho leaned on the bed, positioning his knee beside him. He was still supported by one leg but that too lifted to rest on Sesshoumaru's shoulder, pinning him down. It really wasn't needed, Sesshoumaru had learned a long time ago not to fight against him. After all, he would be trapped in this house for an eternity. why cause himself any more pain than was nessecary? Bringing his head up, as always, he let Inu Taisho force his mouth down on his own. He let the tongue enter his mouth and sucked on it gently as it felt it's way around. As if it were becoming reaquainted with a good, old friend. Hands felt their way down his sides, reaching his ass and grabbing roughly. The fingers stroked for a second then reached up and into Sesshoumaru's jeans. "Your ass is mine, boy." Inu Taisho growled greedilly. His hands were cold as they reached down and cradled his backside. Bringing his head down, Inu Taisho bit at the buttons holding the waistline on his hips. He gnawed on them for a few minutes until both snapped off and he could get the zipper down with his tongue. Sesshoumaru lay still through this. He shivered, though, when his jeans were pulled down enough to bare his member and ass. Inu Taisho grinned like a mad man as he watched his eldest son tremble beneath him. He crushed his mouth down on Sesshoumaru's, hard again. Sesshoumaru hardly had time to breath when he pulled away, because he was kissing him again. Hard and cruelly as the mans hands gently touched his manhood. After a moment Inu Taisho sat up and un buttoned his own pants. Sesshoumaru internally cringed as he heard them hit the floor and felt Inu Taisho crawl back ontop of him. The hands were back, stroking his member ever so gently. The way he did it was ironic to Sesshoumaru. Nothing about the man was gentle, yet the way he touched his own sons body, it was as gently as if he were holding him as a newborn.

He could feel his fathers erection touching him, just below the bellybutton; he could feel the pre-cum dripping onto his lower stomach as the mans already large member swelled. Sesshoumaru sat up just a bit to look down at it. It was huge, bigger than usual when he was forced like this. His eyes widened slightly and he looked up when he heard his father's low laugh.

"What's wrong, Sesshoumaru? Don't think I'll fit you?" Sesshoumaru layed back as far as he could when Inu Taisho leaned forward, licking his earlobe before he whispered. "I'll just have to push really hard, that's all..." Sesshoumaru's eyes widened still further and he felt his father position his cock to the side and slide down between his thighs. His hip gave a nasty crack as Inu Taisho forced his legs further apart and he prepared to enter him. He bit down on Sesshoumaru's lower belly, leaving marks all along his stomach as he repated this a multiple of times. His own member touched Sesshoumaru's entrance slightly as he did this. Sesshoumaru wasn't paying attention to this, however. His eyes were closed, he too had preparations to do. Preparations to block the pain from ensnaring his senses.

The pain gripped him too quickly as he was shoved into roughly. His back arched in response and he gave a short cry but bit his lip fast. He wouldn't cry out! He wouldn't! He could feel his fathers dick pull out slightly then pound in again, harder, rougher. Jagged pain seared up his spine and he screwed his eyes shut trying to force it out again. His heart was pounding and throbbing in tune with his lower body. He could feel it weakening as it worked it's already weak form. For a second he was just a child again. Just a little boy sitting on the floor, cradling his injured head. He was still that little boy he'd always been, he hadn't grown any stronger against him. He was still scared, still sad, still weak and defenseless. He was still his little self, watching his mother run away as he bawled loudly on the carpet. Used, abused, sick, injured...he was still a scared child wondering what he had done to deserve all this. The sound of the front door opening brought him back, back into his body, back into his reality. His eyes shot open as he felt his father pull out completely and watched as he stood, pulling his cloths on again. Sesshoumaru sat up slowly. He was used to this kind of damage, he knew how to manage with it. However painful it may be, he would move, he would go on. He'd pulled his pants back on and rebuttoned the bottom buttons of his shirt ( His father had pulled it open when he had sat on him on the bed.) as Inu Taisho opened the door to the bedroom. Sesshumaru stood up slowly and followed his father out. Or rather, just to the doorway. Inuyasha was walking down the hall, toward him, when he leaned on the doorframe. Inuyasha eyed him but entered his own room after a few minutes.

**

Inuyasha shoved the house key into the front door and prayed it would work. His key had a tendancy of not liking him. It loved to break while it was still in the lock and not only did he have to replace the lock, he had to pay to have two extra keys made for the new lock. It only happened to him, though. Sesshoumaru never seemed to have any trouble with the door. Though once Inuyasha had found him sitting outside in the stairwell and when he asked him about it he just said that his key had gotten lost. That had been the one time, out of 15 different lock changes, that Sesshoumaru actually installed it. Something about how his brother had looked that night had said that he hadn't lost his key. He'd been curled up on the floor, like he'd actually planned on sleeping there all night. He had had a lot of trouble getting up too. In fact, the man had needed help from both Inuyasha and the wall to stand just half-way. He seemed stiff then, too, but inuyasha hadn't mentioned that to him at all. He figured it was because of the time he'd spent curled against the wall. Just a half-hour could make you stiffer than a board.

His key obediantly turned the lock and Inuyasha could push the door open. It was quiet at first when he stepped into the living room but Inu Taisho coming down the hall broke the silence quickly. Not even giving Inuyasha a glance the demon lord sank into his usual chair, as if he were just returning from the toilet. Inuyasha watched him for a second then headed for his room, next to Sesshoumaru's in the hallway. It wasn't only the fact that his father hadn't even looked at him that occurred to him as strange, Sesshoumaru himself was strange also. He was standing in his doorway, one hand on the frame, watching Inuyasha in silence. He seemed to be watching him in great relief. Inuyasha stared at his brother in confused silence for a few minutes then opened the door to his own room and stepped inside. Everything was as he had left it. Even the half-written suicide note was still typed on the computer screen. Sighing he deleted it. It was no use of him anyhow. He sat down on the edge of his bed and untied his hair. Leaning forward he closed his eyes and layed his head on his arms.

The sound of the door opening caused his head to raise quckly. Sesshoumaru stood in his doorway looking about to get sick. He was leaning on the doorframe, one arm around his stomach. He was leaning forward slightly. It made him look like some poor, injurred animal. He took a slow, unsteady step into the room and reached out for him. This got Inuyasha up, grabbing hold of his brothers arm. Letting him lean heavilly on him he lead him to the bed. Sesshoumaru was hardly concious as he was layed down. Inuyasha stared at him in shock. What was wrong? Would he be alright? He gave a wary look at the door as if deciding whether or not to risk getting the phone from the kitchen, through the living room where their father resided.

"He isn't here...he went...to the bar..." Sesshoumaru even sounded hurt. The news unlocked Inuyasha's legs and he was in a dead run for the kitchen. Grabbing the phone he dialed 911. When a lady answered, he seemed to scare her with his hysterics. She hung up when he wouldn't calm down. Not bothering to call again he ran back to the bedroom to look in on Sesshoumaru. His older brother lay unconcious on the bed now. Turning right around he bolted out the door, down the hall, up three flights of stairs and pounded on Kagura Hikagami's door. She answered looking downright annoyed but it faded when she saw Inuyasha's face.

"What's wrong, kid? You look terrified!" She said it gently. Inuyasha grabbed her arm and dragged her to the stairs not bothering to explain. She was only in her bath robe, her hair wet as she had probably just gotten out of the shower. She didn't protest as she might've usually. They reached the bottom of the last staircase and Inuyasha was running faster than ever. He hadn't bothered to close the front door and they bolted through it easilly. Inuyasha lead Kagura down the hall too his room. She stared then ran in. Her voice was loud as she rocked Sesshoumaru roughly. "Sess?! Sess, wake up! Sess, It's me, Kagura!!!" His eyes rolled open half-way and he looked up at her before closing them again. He had a small smile on his face as he spoke.

"It's alright, Kags, I'm not dead..." Inuyasha could see blood on Sesshoumaru's cloths and on the bed covers. He stared at him and wonderred what had happened. What could have done this to someone like Sesshoumaru? He turned again and ran for the kitchen. Once again he dialed 911. A different woman answered this time and he managed to croak.

"I-I need help...it's my brother! I don't know what's happened...he's bleeding...he won't stay concious...please!" The woman on the other end was silent for a second then she spoke gently.

"Okay, hun, speak slowly...What's wrong?" Inuyasha could feel the tears rolling down his cheeks.

"I don't know...I don't know what's wrong!" He was crying now. A gentle hand took the phone from him and Kagura spoke carefully into the reciever as Inuyasha ran back to his room. He sat roughly on the edge of the bed and stared down at his older brother in tearful silence.

**

Sesshoumaru's eyes opened and he looked up into his little brothers face. He was crying. Reaching up he touched his palm to the younger boys cheek. Inuyasha was staring at him in fear. Sesshoumaru would've laughed had he the strength.

"I'm not dying, Inu...I'll be alright. I'll come home again." Inuyasha didn't move as a paramedic team came in, filing around him. Sesshoumaru took Iniyasha's hand now and shoved a scrap of paper into it. Call, my mother...please call her?" Inuyasha held his hand tightly as the uniformed personel lifted Sesshoumaru onto a stretcher. He finaly let go when Kagura put her hand on his shoulder. Sesshoumaru didn't tear his eyes off of them until the people carried him out of the room. His entire body was numb now, he couldn't feel anything. Darkness nagged at the edges of his vision. He knew he wasn't dying...he knew, yet he didn't want to fall asleep. He didn't want to-

**

"Kouga! Kouga, come here!" Ayame called from the front door. Kouga stood up from his desk and walked slowly toward her.

"Being nosy doesn't help-" He froze as he saw the lights of a medical truck. That got new words out of his mouth. "What happened?" Ayame shrugged worriedly.

"A group of paramedics just brought the eldest Taisho boy down. He looked awful. You don't think something happened up there? With the younger one?" Kouga stared at his wife for a few minutes then walked around her. He stepped out into the hall just as Inuyasha ran towards the front doors. He was crying, looking scared and tired. A young woman, one of the tenants on the third floor, was behind him. She was crying too but in a more refined way. Not in a pure, terrified, wild fashion like the young hanyou boy.

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha, he'll be alright!" Kouga stepped in front of the boy as the woman shouted this. She grabbed hold of him, pulling him close to her. He turned to shove away but the woman held tightly and soon they dropped to the apartment building floor. Ayame stepped around Kouga this time and sat on the floor.

"How does he know? How does he know he'll be alright?! I want him to come back...he has to come back!" Inuyasha bawled. The woman petted his hair.

"He knows, Inu...He's Sesshoumaru after all." Ayame touched Inuyasha's cheek.

"What happened, honey? What's wrong with your brother?" Inuyasha shook his head and Kouga knealt too.

"I-I don't know...He-he just came in bleeding and-and I didn't know what to do..." Kouga stared at the hanyou. He seemed genuinely scared. He got up again, trembling like an animal in a cage.. "I-I have to go! Kagura-" She looked at him giving him a nod. She stood up slowly and he took her wrist in his hand, running with her again. Kouga watched them in silence.

"He's very close to his brother, isn't he?" he said quietly. Ayame nodded and looked at him gently.

"He's like you, Kouga. He reminds me of you when I met you." Kouga almost laughed. He'd never been like him, had he? He hadn't grown up to be disobediant or stupid, like he was. How could he be like him? What was Ayame seeing in that boy that he couldn't?

**

"Hello?" A womans voice came over the phone in Inuyasha's phone.

"Are-are you Mrs. Shiruka Taisho?" Silence fell over the phone as the words left Inuyasha's mouth. It was nearly a minute before the woman spoke again.

"I was, who is this?" Her voice was cold now, nothing like the light, airy voice that had answered.

"I-I'm Inuyasha Taisho...I-I'm calling because of my brother, Sesshoumaru?" He could hear the woman choke slightly.

"Y-yes, what about him?" still that cold voice but he could hear a sign of worry in it. Tears were choking him now but he spoke through them, however shakilly.

"He's in the local hospital...I was told to call his mother. He wanted to see his mother..." The woman spoke immediately, she sounded worried, nothing like before.

"I-I am his mother...Can I meet you somewhere, and you can take me to see him?" Inuyasha nodded as if the woman were in front of him.

"Yes, um, I'll meet you at the South Tokyo Kohaku Bay hospital. Is that alright?" the click of the reciever and the drone of the dial tone answered his question fast. Hanging up the payphone he started at a run back down the street.

**

Shiruka hung up the phone in shock. Sesshoumaru-he was in the hospital? She was up in seconds and hurrying through the house at a speed faster than her usualy walk.

"Chitose. Chitose, wake up, dear." She walked into a childs bedroom. A little girl lay half-asleep in the bed. She was rubbing her eyes as her mother turned on the lamp. Her short, white hair hung smoothly around her neck and her large amber eyes blinked as Shiruka untucked her. "Chitose, we have to go...we have to go see someone." Shiruka pulled her daughters nightgown over her head and pulled on the jumper she had worn earlier that day. After she'd finished and had helped her into her jacket, she picked Chitose up and carried her out. The little girl hung onto her mother, slowly falling asleep again on her shoulder. Chitose was asleep again when she put her in the carseat. Sighing Shiruka buckled herself in also and backed the car down the driveway. Her heart was pounding as she drove. She was in a daze all the way to the hospital. She only snapped out of it when she stepped through the doors into the lobby. A boy, maybe 18, sat in a chair across the lobby. His hair, tied back in a ponytail, was pearl white. His gold eyes were scared and tired as he stared at the floor. Dog ears sat n his head, proving he was a halfbreed. Chitose held onto her mothers hand tightly, clutching a toy rabbit in her other arm. Shiruka took a jagged breath then started walking. "Come along, Chitose." She said gently. The boy lifted his head as she aproached him.

**

Inuyasha lifted his head to see a tall woman standing before him, holding the hand of a small child. The womans hair was long and a pale violet, her eyes a darker shade of the same. She looked like Sesshoumaru in alot of ways. He had her narrow eyes, her same porcelain features, her noble aura. She wore a pair of black dress pants and a longsleeved white shirt with an indigo and blue pattern printed on it. Earings that had a leaf print hung, long, from her ears. The little girl that held her hand stared at him silently. She was half-hiding behind the womans legs. She looked no older than five or six. The womans voice was soft.

"Are you Inuyasha Taisho?" She stared at him calmly. The little girl looked up at her mother then back to him in a slightly confused way. Inuyasha stood and nodded.

"Yeah...are-are you her?" he asked, his voice shaking just a bit. The woman nodded.

"I am...and this is my daughter, Chitose...Is he awake?" Inuyasha nodded slightly. Turning he headed down the hall, toward the urgent care. He could feel the other two following him. Reaching the door he pushed it open. Sesshoumaru was laying on the hospital bed, looking out the window. He turned as the door opened and Inuyasha led them in.

"Did Kagura go home?" Inuyasha asked as he stood by the door. Sesshoumaru nodded and he left him alone with them.

**

Sesshoumaru watched the door close and tried to sit up. His back hurt terribly, but he attempted anyway. His mother watched him silently until his low back shocked painfully and he cried out. She stood up and helped him now. She had her hands on his hips while he lifted himself up by the bars. Once he was sitting up a little she sat on the edge of the crisp, white-sheeted bed. Chitose used a nearby chair that Kagura had pulled over as a footstool and climbed up into the bed as well. Sesshoumaru watched her then looked out the window silently.

"Sesshoumaru...why-what happened?" Shiruka bagan. He didn't answer her and she stood up again. He only looked at her when he felt her pulling him to lean on her. When she hugged him. He couldn't open his mouth, though. He couldn't bear to tell her why he was in this bed. He felt hands in his hair and knew she was looking for that old scar. "Sesshoumaru, that boy, Inuyasha-" Sesshoumaru shook his head. Chitose stared at them. Her voice was little, high, and childish.

"Nii-chan...you're gunna be okay, right? You'll still come play with me, won't you?" Sesshoumaru couldn't help but smile at hs little sister.

"Don't worry, Chii. I'm okay...just stuck here for a little while, that's all..." Chitose looked down at her rabbit and held it out to him.

"Here. You can have Fuu-kun while you're here. They'll let you keep her, won't they? You can have her?" Sesshoumaru smiled and rubbed Chitose's cheek with his palm.

"Of course I can..." She gave him a smile and looked at her mother. "Can I go to the lunchroom?". Shirkua sighed and nodded. Giving them both a smile, Chitose walked out the door, leaving Fuu-kun for Sesshoumaru on the bed. Sesshoumaru watched her go as if he were in a trance.

"Oh, Sesshoumaru...What did he do?" his mothers voice made him turn. Sesshoumaru shook his head.

"I't doesn't matter anymore, anyway..." his words startled her but she didn't reply before the door opened again and Inuyasha walked in. He had a large bruise forming on his cheek as he led in Inu Taisho.

~End Chapter 2~

(Hope you guys like it so far, I've put alot of thought into this series. It took me a long time to come up with the storyline and the characters I created. As you all know, in the actual series of "Inuyasha" we don't know anything about Sesshoumaru's mother. I also created them a younger sister. She ages slower than they do. Don't know why, I'll touch on that later in the story. It was alot of fun deciding what Sesshoumaru's mother looked and acted like. I love how her personality turned out. She's actually alot like a Character I created for my own Manga career. It took me the longest to come up with Sesshoumaru's mothers name, and the names of Inuyasha's classmates. Some of you might have noticed I used names similar to some in another anime "PeaceMaker". If you like my work you should look at my writing for that anime too! Well, until next time peeps ~^-^~.)