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Brothers

Chapter 6

            The smell of the new spring grass was a fresh fragrance he had never stopped to
appreciate before and he discovered it was something he quite enjoyed. That and the scent of the
newly blooming roses in the garden mixed with the warm aroma of dirt and moss. It seemed the
world was suddenly full of wonders he never knew existed and it would take him years to
discover them all. That was if Inuyasha stayed long enough to teach him the patience of doing
nothing more than laying in the shade of a tree and listening to the sounds the world made around
him.

            How long had they been doing just that today? Sesshoumaru wasn’t sure. He had lost all
track of time once the hanyou finally got him to lay down under the sakura tree and put his head
in his lap. Gentle fingers massaged his scalp and combed through the satiny strands of his long
silver hair and he growled in rich contentment.

            “Close your eyes, Sesshou.” Inu coaxed as he stroked the silky mass of his brother’s hair.
“You need to learn how to relax and just let go, you know. You’re way too tensed up all the
time.”

            “I have much to worry about, Inu. Being the Lord of The Western Lands is a great
responsibility. It does not leave very much time for relaxing.”

            “I understand that, but you have to learn to take a little time for yourself or your going to
end up a sour, nervous old man like Jekin.”

            “Now there’s an unpleasant thought.”

            “See, that alone should give you enough incentive to want to learn how to relax.” Inu let
a low chuckle slip from his lips as he watched his brother smile. “I thought you’d like that.” He
said leaning over to rub his nose along Sesshoumaru’s forehead.

            “You are very amusing, little brother.”

            “Glad you think so.” Amusement twinkled in the golden depths of Inuyasha’s eyes as he
gazed lovingly into his brother’s beautiful face. “At least I can make you smile.”

            “Hai, you can do that, Saiai.” The Inu Youkai agreed with half a grin as he reached up to
cup a smooth cheek. “And so much more. Perhaps there is something to be said for this relaxing
thing of yours after all, ne?” Sesshoumaru wrapped a long strand of his brothers silver-white hair
around his fingers and slowly began to pull the smiling face closer to him. “I can see many
benefits from it already.”

            “Can you, Anaki?” Inu said in a husky voice as he let his lips brush a seductive caress
over his brothers waiting mouth. “What benefits can you see? Tell me.”

            “It keeps you in kissing distance, my delicious little hanyou. That is the most valuable
benefit I see at the moment...the rest will come to me in a moment. For now, this one is enough.
Now stop talking and give me your mouth. I have a need to taste you.”

            “Sesshou...” The name was almost a prayer as Inuyasha leaned all the way down and
molded his mouth into the hungry contours of his brothers kiss. Their teeth scraped together and
both growled at the rough contact.

            “Open your mouth wider, little brother.” Sesshoumaru wove his hands into the mane of
hair on either side of Inuyasha’s head holding that exquisite face prisoner as he plundered the
sweet, moist haven with his tongue. “Kami, you taste like heaven to me, Inu. Give me your
tongue.” He commanded and when Inu pushed that wet muscle between his lips, the great Youkai
moaned and pulled it deep inside his own mouth and sucked on it heavily. “You are sweeter than
honey and mothers milk, Saiai, and I could stay like this with you forever...just tasting you.”

            “Sesshou...can I...?” Inu pushed himself up and nuzzled his brothers cheek while a
trembling breath fanned through the hair next to his ear. “I–I want...”

            “Nani, little one? What do you want?” Sesshoumaru pulled back and looked up into the
flushed face above him. Desire flared in the eyes gazing down at him and he tenderly caressed
those trembling lips with his thumb. “Tell me what you want, saiai.”

            “I...can I taste you, Anaki?”

            Sesshoumaru watched those smoldering eyes drag themselves away from his face and burn
a pathway of fire down his body toward his hardening crotch and then back up again. “You want
to...taste me?” He asked in a shaky voice and watched the hanyou lick his lips and nod. Unable
to stop the shiver of desire that wracked through his body, the great Youkai met that heated look
and slowly nodded his assent and then waited his breathing growing shallower by the moment.

            A hot pool of hunger began to boil in Inuyasha’s groin and as it spread outward along his
thighs and up through his chest, he let a slow, greedy smile curve his lips. It was three days since
he had made love with this extraordinary creature and the rising lust filling his senses told him that
this was going to a very satisfying interlude between them. He’d felt lust and desire for Kagome
before, but never anything that compared to the feelings his glorious brother aroused in him and
he savored every moment; every second they were together was a gift. So with deliberate care he
leaned down and tenderly traced the tip of his tongue around the shell of Sesshoumaru’s ear.
“You will enjoy this, Anaki. I promise you will.”

            “Inu-yasha...”

            “Shhh, close your eyes, Sesshou. Close your eyes and relax.” Gently Inuyasha brushed his
hands around the proud face cupping it, and caressing the high cheekbones with his thumbs. “Let
me take care of you, Anaki...trust me.”

            “I...I do.” Sesshoumaru felt another shiver slide through him and he turned his face into
one of those warm palms pressing a passionate kiss into its center. “More than you realize, little
brother. Maybe more than even I realize.”

            “I’m glad, Sesshou.” Inu leaned over and pressed his forehead against the brilliant blue
moon on Sesshoumaru’s and held him for a long, intense moment letting his feelings of love and
desire flood out through his hands and skin. “Aishiteru, Saiai-Anaki. I would die without you.”

            “Netsuai-Saiai Inuyasha,” Sesshoumaru tenderly leaned up and pressed a soft kiss into his
brothers mouth. “You are my zenrei, little one. Though I am nigenai...I cannot live without you
either.”

            “You are not unworthy, Anaki. You are my reini ku. I will love you forever.”

            “You–you’re body and soul, Inu? Am I truly so much to you?”

            “Hai, Saiai. You are everything. I never want to be without you again.”

            “Then you never will. I have promised you this before, Inuyasha, but I give you this oath
with my whole heart and soul. I will never let you go, my beloved. If that wretched girl ever
wants you back, she must come and prove herself to me before I will ever let you leave.”

            “Anaki...” Inuyasha’s voice choked in his throat as he buried his face in Sesshoumaru’s
throat. “I–I...”

            “She is the fool, little brother. If she cannot see what an exquisite wonder you are, then
she doesn’t deserve to have you...not unless she can prove she is worthy of your love. It is not
you who have committed the sin, Inuyasha. You have not soiled your soul by loving me...iie, she
has tainted hers by not loving you for who you are despite your feelings for me.” Gently
Sesshoumaru reached up and wrapped his arm around his trembling brother hugging him closer.
“You have taught me that all love is precious, Inuyasha. Even this unnatural bond we share now
is still precious and because of it, I have grown more selfish than I was before I knew what love
was. You see, it has finally come to me in recent days that I am not willing to give you up any
more than you were willing to give me up. So, if your wretched human girl comes looking for
you, she has much to prove to me before I will ever entrust you to her arms again...perhaps even
then I will not. As I said, I have grown frightfully selfish. I may never deign to give you up...or
even share you with her again.”

            “Dear Kami, Sesshoumaru...do you love me so much?”

            “Hai, Saiai...I love you so much.”

            Golden eyes met and locked and the brothers stared into each others face for a long
moment and then Inu was gently laying Sesshoumaru’s head in the grass so he could untie the belt
of his gi and hakama. Hard corded flesh trembled as the hanyou’s hands slid sensuously over the
Youkai’s chest and abdomen while pealing the layers of clothing away. Shuddering gasps of
breath accentuated each movement and the large, smoldering eyes closed at last, the beautiful face
relaxing into a look of exquisite repose.

            Sesshoumaru was in ecstasy and a long, low moan of pleasure slid from his parted lips as
he felt the fabric of his hakama being pulled away from the engorged heat of his cock. Feather
soft touches quickly followed as his lovers hands delicately lifted the throbbing appendage and
began to stroke the thick vein on the under side. Desire shuddered through him and his legs went
into spasm jerking uncontrollably as another heavy moan slithered free of his throat. His neck
arched and his hands fisted when the feathery strokes rose along his shaft to circle the sensitive
head bringing out several thick drops of pre-cum as the skin tightened. A deep, satisfied growl
drifted down to his ears but before he could really register what that meant, Sesshoumaru found
his cock enveloped to the base inside of his brothers hot, wet mouth.

            “Inu!” He jerked up into a near sitting position as his cock throbbed painfully, pulling on
his aching sac. “Kami-sama, Saiai...what are you doing to me?” The hanyou’s only answer was
to take the strong muscle of his tongue and begin twirling it seductively around the steel-hard
shaft. Sesshoumaru could do nothing but collapse beneath the devastating onslaught to his
senses. A string of hoarse moans and whines tearing their way out of his chest. His world was
fading out of focus and there was nothing in it except his cock and his brothers mouth.

            “Do I please you, Anaki?” Inuyasha licked the length of his brother’s erection pulling the
head into his mouth and sucking it tenderly. “Do I make you feel loved and cared for?”

            “H-Hai, Saiai. You do all those things and much more.”

            “What else do I do, Sesshou? Tell me...what else do I make you feel?” Snaking a hand
between his brother’s trembling thighs, Inu gently cupped the sensitive sac in his palm and began
to delicately finger the smooth testicles inside. He moaned as a violent shudder wracked through
Sesshoumaru’s body and impulsively bent down to suck one of those luscious balls into the
warmth of his mouth.

            “Dear God, Inu!” Sesshoumaru sat straight up his breath a ragged growl in his throat.
His eyes were burning like molten gold and his fangs were bared in a vicious snarl. One hand
reached down and curled into the satiny mass of his brothers hair and then, as he held that
tantalizing mouth in place, he arched his head back and howled. The next moment he was
dragging his beautiful hanyou up his chest where he could ravage the delicious mouth that had so
unselfishly pleasured him to this point of wild ecstasy. “You make me tremble, little brother...like
no one has before.”

            “I want to make you scream...”

            “You have done that as well, my Koishii-Aman Now, I am thinking, it is my turn to make
you scream.” In one swift almost violent movement, Sesshoumaru reversed their positions and
pulled Inuyasha beneath him. “Hai, little hanyou. I have a need to hear you scream.”

            “Sessh-ou?” Inu barely uttered the Youkai’s name before his lips were devoured in a kiss
whose hunger left him trembling and breathless.

            Precious moments passed as Sesshoumaru worried over the beauty of his brother’s mouth
and then he was letting his lips wander across the warm flesh of his throat, his upper chest, and
finally his stomach. Removing the firerat was accomplished quickly and he let his hands take the
place of his lips as he returned to the temptation of Inuyasha’s kiss. His hands slipped beneath the
trim waist and with one pull, he lifted the hanyou into a sitting position.

            Inuyasha stared up into his brother’s exquisite face. From his new position his eyes were
level with Sesshoumaru’s collarbone and the Youaki was kneeling suggestively between his
thighs. The raw feeling of erotic lust that crackled between them was astonishing and both did
nothing but watch the other.

            “You are more beautiful to me than any thing I have ever known, Inu.” Tender hands
stroked the hanyou’s face. “I love you so fiercely it frightens me.”

“I am afraid too, Sesshou. Afraid you will somehow leave me or pull away from me again.”

“Never, little brother.” Gentle lips caressed the trembling mouth. “I could never push you away
from me. I...I need you too much.”

“What will you do with me when you take a mate, Anaki?”

            “We will face that problem when it comes to us, Saiai. Do not trouble yourself with it
now. It is irrelevant to us. Just let me love you as we are now and everything will find its way in
time.”

            “Then love me, Sesshou. Love me until the sukara blossoms fall.”

            “I will, and for much longer than that.” He lowered Inuyasha back down to the ground
and slid the palms of his hands down the sides of his body until he reached the undersides of his
thighs. “Exquisite,” he murmured as he licked a pebble hard nipple and then drew it into his
mouth. “Kirei-Saiai...I want you so much.”

            “Take me, Anaki,” Inuyasha trembled violently as Sesshoumaru lifted his knees and
draped his legs over the breadth of his shoulders. “I want to feel you inside of me again...Kami, I
want that.”

            “I want it too, Saiai, with all my heart.” He leaned back on his haunches and gazed
downward at the vulnerable position this put his lover in. Thighs widespread, stiff cock bouncing
against his flat stomach, and his beautiful, tantalizing ass beckoning to be pierced. “You are mine,
Inuyasha. More than any woman I have ever touched. No mate I can take will ever compare to
what I feel when I hold you...and none will ever replace what you have become to me. I love
you.”

            Inuyasha whimpered and reached up to grab a handful of his brothers hair in each hand
pulling him down toward his chest, his knees bending and coming close to his ears as the Youkai
leaned over him. “Kiss me, Anaki.” He said raggedly. “Kiss me and make us the same soul
again.”

            “Inu...” Sesshoumaru groaned the name and bent into the hanyou seizing his mouth in a
searing kiss that brought hungry growls from deep withing both their chests, and then he was
pushing his cock against the willing softness of Inu’s ass urging it to slip through. The sphincter
resisted him for the briefest moment and then it relaxed and opened wide letting him pass through
making the brothers one flesh again. “Saiai...” he whispered gathering the hanyou’s hips up in his
hands. Burying his cock to the base inside the warmth of his brother’s body brought
Sesshoumaru a rush of pleasure that had him on his knees again, arching his back and neck as he
strained to find a deeper connection. “You...are...mine!”

            “Sessh-shou!” Inuyasha arched his hips further up from the ground, his feet crossing
behind his brothers neck pulling him into an even better position for deeper penetration. “Oh
God...!” He grabbed Sesshoumaru’s wrists in his hands and clamped the muscles of his butt tight
around the invading cock he could feel inside his body. “M-make me...s-scream...”

            Sesshoumaru’s eyes were glazed with hunger and the fury of desire pounding through his
veins was reaching a dangerous level. Once more he could feel the spirit of his Youkai flexing
and howling beneath the surface of his flesh and with it the muscles along his back and shoulders
rippled threatening to morph. If Inuyasha were a Youkai bitch it would different. She would
morph and change with him and they would mate in their alternate shapes, snapping, snarling, and
biting one another as the heat of passion carried them to the burning climax of spilling his seed
deep within her. But he was not a Youkai bitch; he was not even a full-blooded Youkai.
Inuyasha had never known the glories and fears of the change, nor would he. Suddenly,
Sesshoumaru was angry. Angry with his father for denying this beautiful creature the right to be
what he should have been and for denying him the right of having a brother he could race the
winds with. It was no longer the issue of Inu being a half-breed, it was the life their father had
denied him by making him a half-breed.

            “I love you, Saiai,” he whispered into Inu’s ear as he pulled his Youkai back. “I love you
more than any life I could have had. You are my life.”

            “Anaki...”

            Together they thrust their bodies into a violent rhythm that sent them careening into a
golden world of passion and sensation. Their souls rose and melded becoming one as they drifted
through and into one another in a way only Youkai could share. Climaxes came swift and hard as
Sesshoumaru found his release inside the one creature he had come to love more than his own
life, and Inuyasha’s followed shortly as his beloved knelt over his exhausted body and took his
throbbing cock into his mouth. Gentle pressure and talented tongue strokes brought the heaving
hanyou to the end of his journey, and then they lay together, spent and drained beneath the sukara
tree.

            “Is this how you relax, little brother?”

            “Well, it’s not exactly what I was talking about earlier, but it will do. Hai, it will do.”

                                                            OooooOooooO

            “Inuyasha? I have something important I want to discuss with you.” Sesshoumaru
motioned to the hanyou who was busy playing some sort of a game with Rin. “Can you come
with me for a few moments? Rin? Go find Jekin, he will play with you until I’m finished talking
with your Uncle.”

            “Oh, phooey.” Rin pouted and stamped her small foot on the marble floor. “Jekin is no
fun to play with. He always wants to win.”

            “Rin,” Sesshoumaru cast her a warning look. “It is only for a little while. Now please do
not be difficult. What I need to discuss with your Uncle is very important.”

            “Everything is ‘very important’ to you, Sesshoumaru-sama...that’s what you always say.”

            “Rin-chan,” Inuyasha smothered a smile and the beginnings of a laugh behind his hand
while trying to muster a scowl. “You know you aren’t supposed to talk back to Sesshoumaru-sama. It’s not polite.”

            “I didn’t know I was supposed to be polite to ‘him’. I thought that was just for company
and stuff.”

            “Keh, it is for company and stuff, but you have to be polite and respectful to your
guardian more than anyone else. He’s the most important.”

            “Oh, I didn’t know that. I thought he was just ‘Sesshoumaru-sama, you know...just
‘him’.” She shrugged and offered a small apologetic smile that had her Uncle swallowing his
tongue in a effort not to laugh. “I’ll try to do better, Uncle Inu. I mean, if I have to be polite to
Sesshoumaru-sama then I guess I better do it or I’m gonna get in trouble, huh?”

            “Most definitely, Rin-chan. Now go find Jekin and you and I will play again later, hai?”

            “Hai.” She stood up, bowed, and ran off through the room and down the hallway calling
for Jekin as she went.

            “She will be the death of me, you realize this, ne?”

            “Keh, Sesshou. She’s just a little girl. Besides, her opinion of polite and respect is far
above that of most children. Most kids in her position wouldn’t give you a second thought much
less worry about whether or not they needed to be polite. She’s a good girl and she loves you.”

            “Hai, I suppose I should be grateful that she isn’t more like you were when you were that
age.”

            “Hai...I was a demon terror.”

            “Indeed, you were that.” Laughter trickled through the Inu Youkai’s voice as he spoke
and his brother turned to face him in surprise.

            “Hey, you didn’t have to agree with me so fast, you know.”

            “And why not? It was a true statement?” Sesshoumaru turned to leave the room
motioning for Inuyasha to follow him. “Come, there is something I want to talk to you about.”

            “Oh yeah, I sorta forgot about that.” He leaned over and picked his sword up off the floor
and tucked it safely in his belt. “What’s this all about, Sesshou?” He asked as he hurried to catch
up with the Youkai.

            “Just something I’ve been thinking about for the last couple of days and I’ve finally
decided to see what you think about it.” They entered a large room filled with book shelves and
plush furniture. There was a big mahogany wood desk setting off to one corner next to a wide
window that overlooked one of the many gardens surrounding the palace. It was here that
Sesshoumaru went. “Please, get one of the chairs and come sit with me.”

            “Alright,” Inu grabbed an ornately carved chair with filigree styled arms and legs. The
back and seat were cushioned with pads of stuffed blue velvet. “What do you want to talk
about?” He asked as he put the chair down in front of the desk and sat in it. “You’re really
starting to make me nervous.”

            “Gomen, Inu. That was not my intention. Please don’t be nervous. It is nothing bad I
assure you.”

            “If you say so, then why all the formality?”

            “Formality?” Sesshoumaru looked confused as he took the seat behind his desk. “I was
not aware I was being formal. I just wanted to talk to you in private out of the range of small
ears...if you understand?”

            “You mean you didn’t want Rin-chan eves-dropping?”

            “Something like that.” He nodded and reached down to pick something up off the floor.
“There are certain things that are best kept out of her life. That way there is less to explain until it
becomes necessary to explain it at all.” He smiled and winked making his brother gape in
surprise. “I discovered that makes my life much simpler, and I assure you it is something you
would do well to learn yourself. It saves time and headaches...and arguments.”

            “Anaki,” Inuyasha exclaimed with a big grin as laughter bubbled over his lips. “I had no
idea you were so devious.”

            “Iie, hanyou...not devious, subtle. There is a difference.”

            “Gomen, Lord Dog. My apologies. I didn’t know you were so...subtle.”

            “More than you know, little brother. It’s a necessary quality if one wishes to govern...or
deal with children.”

            “Or women.”

            “Hai, exactly. As I said, you would do well to learn the technique.”

            “Indeed. I can see where it would help avoid many arguments.”

            “I thought you might.” Sesshoumaru lifted a large leather bound book up and dropped it
on top of his desk. It was nearly as thick as his hand was wide and it made a loud ‘thud’ as it hit
the hard mahogany. “Whew!” He grunted and then dusted his hands off. “Bloody heavy, that.”

            “What the hell is that thing? It looks like you could kill somebody with that.”

            “You could...if you know what you’re doing.”

            “Huh?” Inu scooted forward in his chair and looked at the big book. “I was just kidding,
Sesshou. I mean, it’s a big fucking book and you could probably bust somebody in the head with
it if you wanted, but...why would you want to?” He grinned, and scratched his head. “What is it
anyway? It looks old.”

            “It is old.” Sesshoumaru replied as he blew a layer of dust off the top cover. “And as to
what it is, it’s a spell book.”

            “A spell book? You mean it’s a magic book?”

            “Hai, it’s a magic book, Inu. That is what most spell books are, baka. And they are big
because Master Magicians use them to pound sense into the heads of their deshi’s...baka-deshi’s.”

            “Very funny, Lord Dog, ha ha.” Inu stuck his tongue out at his brother. “Okay, fine. So
you have a magic book. Next question...why do you have a magic book?”

            “So I can practice magic, I should think.”

            “You are going to be an asshole about this no matter what I say, aren’t you?” To
Inuyasha’s surprise his brother burst into laughter. “Hey, what’s so funny?”

            “You are, Saiai. Gomen nasai, Inuyasha, beloved, but it has been a long time since I really
felt like laughing and for whatever reasons, you bring that out in me.”

            “Fine, you’re forgiven you sarcastic dog, now just tell me what the hell is going on before
I pounce on you and beat it out of you.”

            “As if you could.”

            “Don’t tempt me.”

            “You are almost as bad as a woman, you know this, don’t you?”

            “SESSHOU!”

            “Ka, calm down.” Another string of chuckles trickled from the Youkai’s lips before he
finally gave in. “I have a book of spells because for quite a few years I have dabbled in the
Magician’s Arts, but that is not the reason I wanted to talk to you.”

            “What is the reason?”

            “I wanted to ask you a question. It is something I want you to think about–you don’t
need to answer me right now. In fact, I would prefer if you didn’t. I want you to really think
about it before you answer then we will discuss it further...if that is what you want.”

            “Alright.” Inuyasha say back in his chair and eyed his brother warily. “Am I going to like
this?”

            “I don’t know to tell you the truth. I know it is something you have wished for in the
past, but I do not know your feelings on the matter anymore.”

            “Okay,” He sat and looked at his claws for several quiet moments before meeting
Sesshoumaru’s gaze. “Ask me.”

            “Do you still want to be a full Inu Youkai?”

            “Wh-what?!”

            “I’m sure you heard me, Inuyasha.” Sesshoumaru leaned back in his chair and considered
his brother’s pale, stunned features. “It may be within my power to give that to you...if you still
desire it.”

            “H-how?”

            “Magic.” He indicated the heavy book and tapped the cover with one long claw. “There
are many powerful spells inside this old book, and there may be something inside that can bring
out your full blood and Youkai spirit.”

            “Wh-why would you want to do that?” Inu felt suddenly confused. Did Sesshoumaru not
love him the way he was anymore? What was wrong that he wanted to change him into a full
Youkai? Had he done something wrong?

            “Why? Because I want to give you something important, Inu. I want to give you
something in return for all of the things you have brought to me since you came back. But
mostly,” he paused and looked at the book. “Mostly I want to give you something that our father
denied you.”

            “Denied me? What are you talking about, Sesshou? Father didn’t deny me anything.”

            “But he did, Inuyasha. He denied you the right to be what you were meant to be, a
TaiYoukai. You should have the right to stretch your Youkai spirits legs and run with the wind
as he did...as I have. WE should be able to run together, little brother. I want to chase the wind
with you.”

            “Then...then it’s not because you think I’m...” Inu dropped his eyes and stared at a spot
of the front of Sesshoumaru’s desk unable to finish his thought because of the lump filling his
throat. Instead he raised his hand and tried to hide the quiver that sifted over his lower lip.

            “Because I think you are what?” Sesshoumaru was confused. This was not the reaction
he expected. Anger, perhaps bewilderment or even outrage, but not this strange quiet. Quickly
he stood and rounded his desk and knelt next to his brother’s chair. “What are you thinking, little
brother?” He asked trying to see past the hand that covered the hanyou’s face. “What have you
let your mind conclude my motive for this offer is, Inuyasha? Obviously it is nothing good or you
would not be this way.” Tenderly he wiped the hair off his brother’s forehead and tucked it
behind one of his soft dog ears. “Talk to me, Inu...what are you thinking? Tell me.”

            “I–I can’t, Sesshou.” He choked closing his eyes.

            “Hai, you can.” Sesshoumaru stood up and grabbed a handful of the firerat robe his
brother wore. Hauling him to his feet in one smooth motion, he pulled the stiff hanyou close to
his chest and pressed his face against the curve of his shoulder. “Tell me, Inuyasha. Tell me
before you condemn me.”

            “I–do you...oh Anaki...do you wish me to change because...because you...because you no
longer love me the way I am?”

            The words tore into Sesshoumaru’s heart and he whimpered at the amount of pain they
caused. “Kami-sama, Saiai...is that what you think?”

            “H-hai...I–I don’t know...I...is it...do you...Anaki?” Inu began to cry like a little boy his
arms finding their way around his brother’s waist to hold on tight.

            “Iie! Iie! Dearest God, Inuyasha! Iie, that is not what I think! It will never be what I
think! NEVER!”

            “A-anaki!”

            “I have only wished for you to have the same feelings I have...to know the power, to feel
the hunger and the passion of the Youkai. It should have been yours to savor the same as me...I
understand something of love now so I can imagine how our father must have felt about you and
your mother, but...you still should have had the opportunity to know what it feels like to be a
whole Youkai. You should have been born to chase the wind, Inuyasha. Can you understand
what I am saying to you, little brother?”

            “I...I think so...” He burrowed closer to the warm throat and nuzzled the pounding pulse
point.

            “I have nearly lost control of my Youkai twice while we have been together...there is a
fear within me that one day I will not be able to stop myself from changing and then I do not
know what will happen.” His arms tightened almost painfully around the trembling man he held.
“If I killed you...even by accident, I would never be able to live with myself. It would kill me to
know what I’d done...It would kill me, Inu. That is what has brought me to the decision to offer
to make you whole Youkai. I–I am afraid of losing you to my own demon.”

            “But, I am not afraid of you, Anaki.”

            “You have said that before, little brother...and I have told you before you should be. It is
not a game we are playing, Inuyasha. In the midst of lovers passions I don’t think you could
defend yourself against me...if you were a full Youkai...”

            “I would change with you, ne?”

            “Hai...I believe it would be so.” Sesshoumaru was trembling himself. “We would be
equals in every sense and you would be safe. Please, Saiai...at least think about it.” He buried his
face in the softness of his brother’s hair and began to stroke the long, satiny mass.

            “H-hai...I will think about it, Sesshou. I will think about it.”

TBC