Modern Love

(A/N: The idea for this story came to me four months ago, and despite the title, it has nothing to do with the David Bowie song Modern Love. Though I am a Bowie fan, I didn’t use the song as inspiration.)


InuYasha wrapped his arms around his brother, and held him tight. He deepened the kiss, and was rewarded greatly. He felt a tender hand slip into his boxers and stroke his hardening manhood. Sesshoumaru broke the kiss.

“We shouldn’t do this, but I have no objections if you don’t”

InuYasha looked at his older half brother with a look of shock. He leaned in and started to nip and suck at his neck. Sesshoumaru turned his head to give better access, then began to undress the younger half demon. As soon as both were undressed, Sesshoumaru wasted no time in preparing InuYasha.

With that task out of the way, he swiftly buried himself in the warm body. InuYasha’s sharp cry was muffled by the elder demon’s neck. Instinct took over, and Sesshoumaru sought out each of InuYasha’s hot spots within. He hit the one that gave the younger one greatest pleasure and was rewarded with demanding cries.

“Sessh... please.. HARDER!” InuYasha now had his hands gripping the sheets, his back arched upwards. “No!”

InuYasha’s eyes squeezed shut as he released early. Sesshoumaru paused for a few moments, feeling the spasms that nearly took him over the edge. InuYasha panted, tears streaming down his face again.

“Shhhh, it’s okay.” Sesshoumaru reached down and brushed them away. “Just relax”

Feeling the spasms around him subside, he began again, but was as unable to hang on as InuYasha was. Leaning in for a kiss, he released inside the half asleep InuYasha.

* End Flashback*

Sesshoumaru sighed and looked at a clock that sat on the bathroom vanity. He wasn’t supposed to be at work for another three hours. He walked into the kitchen and picked up the phone. Dialing a number quickly, he turned away from the base. After a few rings, a voice picked up.

“Sapphire Electronics, Stephanie speaking.” His secretary answered the phone.

“Stephanie, I’m not coming in today. I’ve had a small crisis at home arise, and I need to stay here.” Sesshoumaru winced at how lame his excuse sounded.

“I see. My sister said you ex got tossed out by his girlfriend Monday. Did he come back home?”

Sesshoumaru nearly dropped the phone. He’d almost forgot that his brother and Stephanie’s sister worked at the same hospital. Brooke had just had a baby, whose pictures graced Stephanie’s desk.

“Yeah, he came in last night. I want to stay with him today,..”

“Well, the Gamma meetings been pushed back till next month due to other issues. I was just getting ready to call you. Your calender is clear till Friday. Do you want me to just hold all appointments that may come up till next week?”

“I’ll call Tuesday and let you know.”

“Fine. Take care of him, Sesshoumaru.”

Sesshoumaru hung up the phone. He walked back to his bedroom and slipped out of the robe. He crawled back into bed, and pulled InuYasha closer. The sleeping hanyou snuggled close and drifted into a deeper sleep.

Sesshoumaru woke to a cold bed, empty bed. He rolled out of the bed and grabbed his robe. He put it on and walked out of the room. He got as far as the living room, before he realized that InuYasha was asleep on the couch. The tv was on a low volume, and a half eaten tv dinner sat on the table.

Irritation shot through his veins. He stalked into the kitchen and angrily jabbed a button on the coffee maker. The clock showed it was only a few minutes past noon, the bright sunlight peeked through the closed blinds. He opened a cabinet and took out a coffee cup. Slamming the door, he set the coffee cup down with enough force to shatter it.

“SHIT!” Sesshoumaru picked a few slivers of glass from his hand.

“What the hell!” InuYasha’s peeked from over the back of the couch. “Who pissed in your coffee?”

“You! Why didn’t you call me Monday. I’d have been more than happy to let you stay.” Rage made Sesshoumaru’s hands shake. “Brooke has that baby, that was wrong of you to..”

“No, it would have been wrong for me to come here. You told me months ago to try not to call in the middle of the night. I get off work at midnight. I stayed with Brooke till my work week was over. Yesterday, I tried to talk to Kagome when I got off work.”

“You said you argued”

“We did. She was fucking some guy she knew from school. She’d been seeing him since she was going to Feudal times. I-I...” InuYasha faltered at the look of unbridled rage in Sesshoumaru’s eyes.

“You knew she had the baby, yet you stayed, making yourself sick of sleep deprivation, then you call me on the eve of a major meeting I have at work. You are lucky it was postponed.”

“How was I to know. I can leave.” InuYasha turned to walk out of the kitchen.

Sesshoumaru’s hand shot out to stop him. InuYasha whirled around to stare his brother in the eye. He was about to jerk out of the grasp, then a hand slapped him across the face. InuYasha fell backwards, his eyes wide at the shock.

“HOW DARE YOU! DO YOU EVENCAREABOUTME?” Seshoumaru’s eyes glittered with tears.

“WHAT?” InuYasha shouted.

“Do...you...even...care...about...me?” Sesshoumaru’s face had turned white. He knelt next to his brother, caressing the cheek he just slapped.

“Sesshoumaru...I never stopped loving you. I wanted to try to make things work with Kagome, I thought you understood.”

Sesshoumaru’s shoulders shook with sobs, his face buried into InuYasha’s shoulders. This was the first time in over four hundred years he’d struck the younger man. He was angry over nothing.

“You thought she loved you. I didn’t want to stand in the way.”

“Sesshoumaru, why are you so angry?”

“I know I shouldn’t be. I woke and you weren’t by my side.”

InuYasha laughed. The sound bubbled up and passed his lips. It was as welcome as a cool spring on a hot day.

“I woke up hungry and made myself something to eat. I went back to lay down with you, but you... there was no room for me. I didn’t want to wake you....”

Sesshoumaru suddenly felt stupid. His hand had healed, but dried blood was still caked on it. A grim reminder of how he let his anger get out of control.

“There were ways you could have woke me, and not angered me. To see you sleeping on the couch, like some lowly...”

“That couch is comfortable. I laid down for just a few moments and dozed off I guess. That was around 11. You got up and started storming around like some pissed off bitch.. Let me doctor that hand. There’s still a piece of glass in it.”

“It’s healed...” Sesshoumaru ran his fingers over a spot of dried blood, and felt a something sharp cut his finger. “Fine.”


InuYasha gently washed the wounded hand, then reaching for a first-aide kit, he gently pulled on the sliver of glass. It refused to move. Sighing, he wrapped the hand in gauze.

“We’ll have to get dressed. You need medical treatment for that hand....”