Written for the LJ-community 30 shards.
Character(s): Souta
Summary: Bits and pieces of a forgotten character's struggle to accept his sister's life and death.
Shard: #9 - Sunset
Title: Not Really Ordinary
Author: Ziggimaguagua
Word count: 100
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InuYasha comes for a visit one night and that's not unusual. Except Kagome says he's there to relax, for once, and he doesn't relax at all and Souta thinks that's strange until sunset when InuYasha's suddenly not a demon anymore.
Souta doesn't like that because his inu no nii-chan is a hero, and if he's just an ordinary nii-chan, how can he be as cool as a real hanyou?
He gawks, InuYasha snorts and glares and acts like he always does and it is ok, then.
Because human or no, his nii-chan is still anything but ordinary.
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Japanese lesson for the day (brought on by the fact that I'm too lazy to make the word count fit in English, too.):
InuYasha literally means "super dog" (or something like that) and "inu no nii-chan" is basically a cute, childish way of saying "older brother (who's a dog)". (inu - dog, nii-chan - older brother, no - ...)
(Though if InuYasha was an even remotely realistic manga Souta would probably be calling him "onii-san", which is the appropriate (and much more respectful) way of addressing young men older than yourself.)
A hanyou is a half demon (han - half, you - short for youkai - demon).