Title: Real Monsters
Author: landofthekwt
Prompt: Monster
Genre: Parable (The Good Samaritan)
Word Count:450
Pairing: Sesshoumaru/Inuyasha as brother non yaoi
Universe: Canon
Warning: None Forthright Halloween Challenge
Summary: Sesshoumaru saves his brother when others leave him to die
The humans had left him for dead. He was tossed into the ditch water drained from the rice fields. He was one of twilight people. The beasts that killed in the night. Even though he was only a child there was no mercy for him. He was the manifestation of evil. The monster with fangs and claws. The damning mark of the beast upon him that was unmistakable was his ears. Those marked him as unclean animal unfit to be with humans. And so the mob had beaten him to within an inch of his life and left him for dead.
The first person to pass by was a miko. As a person of purity it was her duty to kill beasts of this ilk. She thought for a moment to shoot an arrow at him, but since he appeared to be dead she decided not to waste her time as she passed by.
The second person to pass by was a monk. This man was skilled in his knowledge of the Buddha had learned many mantra over the years which could banish evil such as the one lying by the side of the road. Hesitating for a moment, he reached for a sutra to seal the evil one who lay by the roadside. But since the monster appeared to be nearly dead he resumed his travel chanting as he went dispel the evil aura that emanated from the beast.
When it was nearly dusk a lone traveler happened upon the boy. He was startled as he recognized the child as his half brother. Distasteful memories clouded his vision. A union between his father and a human which had led to his death and destroyed his kingdom. Here was the product of that union which had wrecked all of his hopes and all of his dreams. Yet he could not simply let him die. He could smell what the human monsters had done to his brother. It was his right to kill his brother. No one else should ever be allowed to treat him in this manner.
And so he took his brother to next village where there was a healer. The healer was given money to take care of his brother. She was warned that he would back and if he learned that his brother had died she would die also. In addition, she was told that she should never tell the who it was that had saved him.
And so the boy was saved not by the people who claimed to close to the divine, but by the brother who hated him and wished him dead.. One must ask who were the real monsters here.