Disclaimer: NO I do not own Inuyasha. That awesome privilege belongs to Romiko Takahashi. Thank you!

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Chapter 15: Disowned

"Sir, the Takahashi boy has gone missing." GD said respectfully.

From his desk, Satan AKA the student's beloved headmaster, played with a pen, a smirk on his face.

"Oh, has he now? That's really too bad. You know what to do." Satan waved him off.

"That's not all, sir." GD continued. He lifted up Inuyasha's file. "According to this, Takahashi's father is a very influential judge. If he goes to him-"

"Don't worry about it." Satan said looking at his large window, the curtains were drawn leaving the room in darkness with the only light coming from a weak lamp on the headmaster's desk. "Takahashi's father, in his great wisdom, disowned his youngest son. Even if Inuyasha does go to him, his honor will not listen."

"But, sir-"

"Besides," Satan put the pen down and smiled at GD, "he'll come back. We have something very important to him that I don't think he'll want left behind."

"Sir?" GD looked confused. And he would. The students didn't matter to him so he never bothered to find out about them. However Satan enjoyed using their insecurities and weaknesses and to do that you needed to know your students.

Satan smiled down at Kagome's mugshot and smiled wider, a cruel smile that held no joy, "Oh, yes. He'll be back."


Inuyasha stood outside the courthouse, leaning against the wall, his hands in his pockets while the gentle breeze ruffled his long, silver hair. He was waiting, watching as lawyers and judges and politicians and policemen and all other assorted men and women came and went. Most were talking on their cell phones, others had their noses buried in files, and some were typing on handhelds while talking on phones with files under their arms. Either way, they ignored the jean-clad young man who waited in the shadows of the setting sun.

The photos were burning holes in Inuyasha's back pocket. He had to get in contact with some old friends for the money needed to buy the clothes but he didn't think his father would be happy to see him in his Hell uniform.

Not that his father would be happy to see him anyway.

Their last fight before Inuyasha had been taken away still haunted Inuyasha's memories.

Flashback

"How could you do this, Inuyasha?" his father demanded. "What were you thinking?"

Inuyasha sighed and resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

He was sitting inside his cell waiting for the bus that was to take him to Hinazuka. He'd never heard of it before but he figured that it wasn't going to be any different that any other juvie he had been to. He was sitting on his cot, on leg bent with his arm resting on top of it.

His parents had gotten permission to visit him before he left and that was only because his dad, the great Inutaisho, was such a respected judge. Inuyasha heard everyone whispering when they thought he couldn't hear. How could the son of a judge gone so wrong? How could such an honest and upstanding citizen have raised such a hellion? He was getting damn tired of being called 'the judge's son' or 'Inutaisho's youngest'. How his brother could stand it was beyond him.

Inuyasha had already said his good-bye to his tearful mother but he had actually stood at the bars for her, patted her shoulder through them and told her it was okay. He had never considered himself a mama's boy but he did love and adore his mother and would literally die for her.

It was him and his father that had friction between them.

His father had gone in, smoke practically coming from his nostrils, and had laid into his son as soon as his tiny, beautiful mother was out of earshot.

"Assaulting a police officer? Assault with a deadly weapon?"

"You forgot arson." Inuyasha pointed out.

"Don't sass me, young man!" Inutaisho growled as Inuyasha knew he would. "I have never been so ashamed in my entire life! The press is going nuts! 'Judges son attacks officer of the law'! That's what they're saying."

"To be fair, he attacked me first." Inuyasha said.

"He was trying to arrest you! For assault!"

"Again, you forgot arson." Inuyasha smirked.

His father got, if it was possible, angrier. "Are you proud of this?"

"Actually, yeah." Inuyasha nodded. "I didn't think the building would go up that fast. Pretty damn good job if I say so myself."

Inutiasho's face got redder and he took a deep breath like he was about to give Inuyasha one of his lectures.

Then, to Inuyasha's shock, he stopped.

Then he sort of...deflated. The air lef this lungs in a rush and his shoulders slumped and age lines appeared on his face and Inuyasha was reminded just how old his father was.

"I can't do it. I can't do it anymore."

"What? Yell at me? You've been doing well the last decade or so." Inuyasha said trying to goad his father. He didn't react the way Inuaysha hoped.

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry."

Inuyasha froze and blinked then looked around, pretty sure he had fallen into another dimension. "What? I don't...What? You're sorry? For what?"

"I don't know how but I failed you." his voice was quiet and hoarse from yelling. "I did something wrong in raising you. I don't know what but I obviously did something different with you than I did with Sesshomaru."

"Perfect Sesshomaru." Inuyasha rolled his eyes. How his brother was happy doing exactly what his father wanted was a mystery to Inuyasha. Following in his footsteps like a good little 'judge's son' and going into law school.

Inutaisho appeared not to have heard him. "I can't do it anymore. I'm done. From this moment on you're on your own, Inuyasha."

"What?" Inuyasha said sitting up. "What do you mean 'on your own'?"

"I'm going to legally emancipate you." Inutaisho said his face firm with resolve. "You'll be able to make your own decisions and I'm not going to have another thing to do with your life."

"Wait a minute. Emancipate?" Inuyasha knew that word. It mean that Inuyasha no longer had to follow his parents rules, almost like he had turned 18 early. "Why does it sound like you're disowning me?"

"Because I am." Inutaisho said. "Please write to your mother from Hinazuka. This will be hard enough on her and you know how much she loves you."

"You can't just disown me!" Inuyasha cried leaping to his feet.

"I already have." Inutaisho said and left the jail without a second look at his youngest son.

Normal

Inuyasha sighed. He didn't like the idea of going to his father for help after that but he had no choice. Besides, it had been a year since then. Maybe his dad had re-thought his decision to have nothing to do with Inuyasha.

But he doubted it.