Mother Knows Best

Couldn't happen you say? Perhaps. Then again, I'm the writer of this fiction and if I say Inuyasha gives Kaede a deep, long kiss, then he's going to. If I say Kagome decides to never go back to school, she's not. Don't like don't read.

Mother Knows Best by Hrtofdrkns

Dedicated to my kick-ass beta, sirhcnotlih aka Gilgrissom.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

It was early in the morning and Inuyasha lay on the living room couch in Kagome's house. Kagome had been suprised when Inuyasha didn't argue with her going to school and agreed to wait for her. Though he would never admit it, he did enjoy staying in her house. It was nice to just relax once in a while.

"Inuyasha?" Mrs. Hiragashi called him. Getting up, he walked toward the voice to see her getting ready to go out. "Souta's not feeling very well. I'm going to get him some cold medicine and a few other things at the store. Do you think you could watch him for a while?"

"Sure." Inuyasha nodded. He always tried to be polite and helpful too her. He suspected it might have something to do with the fact that the woman reminded him of his own mother. Besides, it was only a human boy, not a certain hyperactive kitsune. He could handle this easily.

"Thank you. Souta's up in his room and Grandpa's at the shrine, so just fix yourself something if you get hungry. I'll be back as soon as I can."

After she left Inuyasha went back to the couch. No youkai, no shard hunting, no sits. Just peace and quiet.

"Inuyasha!" A young voice exclaimed loudly. The hanyou in question nearly fell off the couch as Souta Hiragashi ran down the stairs in his pajamas.

"You don't look sick to me." Inuyasha grunted, a bit irritated, as he got back on the couch. The boy jumped up onto the couch with his idol.

"I'm faking sick so I don't have to go to school. I wanted to stay here with you."

"Oh. Well don't let your mom find out."

Souta started to bounce up and down on the couch cushion, his sugary cereal going into effect.

"Can I see your sword?" He asked, pointing at Tetsuiga.

"What? No. It's mine. Besides, if you hurt yourself with it your mom will blame me." Inuyasha replied. The young boy ignored him, still trying to get the sword.

"Aw come on! Just let me see your sword." Souta whined, trying to grab Tetsuiga.

"For the last time, settle down." Inuyasha said, getting irritated. Souta managed to slide the sword out of it's sheath and ran off with it, followed by an angry hanyou.

"Wow cool! How do you make it big?"

"Souta, I'm warning you. Just give it back now and I'll forget the whole thing." Inuyasha offered, still chasing after him.

"No. I don't want to." The bratty boy told him. He looked over his shoulder and, to his horror, saw that Inuyasha was right on top of him.

"That's it! I warned you!" Inuyasha grabbed his sword and Souta's wrist, dragging him back towards the couch. He knew that he couldn't just bop Souta on the head like Shippou. No, he had a different plan.

"What are you going to do?" The boy asked, a slight quiver in his voice.

"What do you think? I'm going to spank you. You need to be taught a lesson." Inuyasha told him coldly.

Souta eeped a bit. He hated getting spanked. Inuyasha pulled him to the couch and sat down. He paused a bit to try and remember how his mother would spank him. Little Inuyasha was rarely naughty and usually did what his mother told him. But sometimes he would forget the rules and Izayoi would have to remind him with her hairbrush. He always went over her lap willingly, eager to get it over with and be forgiven.

"Does your mother have a hairbrush?"

"No." Souta lied, knowing that just a hand spanking from Inuyasha would probably hurt a lot. He struggled as Inuyasha pulled down his pants and underware, but was no match for the hanyou's strength. After placing the kicking boy over his lap Inuyasha raised his hand high and SMACK!

Souta yelped loudly. That hurt a whole lot more then his mom's spanks, and mom's spanks hurt.

SMACK! "Owww!" SMACK! "Inuyasha please stop!" SMACK! "I'm" SMACK! "sorry!" SMACK!

"Not as" SMACK! "sorry as" SMACK! "you're" SMACK! "going to" SMACK! "be when I" SMACK! "get through with" SMACK! "you!" SMACK!

Inuyasha steadly spanked Souta's rear until the boy was continually crying out. The hanyou knew from his own experiance that it was almost time to end it. He paused to rub the reddened skin some before continuing.

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Mrs. Hiragashi cursed herself as she walked towards the front door of her home. Halfway to the store she realized she had forgotten her purse. She made a mental note to actually use the hook next to the door she was supposed to hang the thing on. Opening the front door, she heard someone screaming. She rushed in to find Inuyasha spanking Souta.

"What is going on?!"

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Inuyasha and Souta waited in Mrs. Hiragashi's room, sitting on the bed. After both had told their side of the story they had been sent upstairs. Souta obeyed because she was his mother. Inuyasha, however, wasn't sure why he did. He looked to his side and saw that Mrs. Hiragashi did have a hairbrush after all.

"So you lied to me." He looked angrily at Souta. Inuyasha hated being decieved.

Souta turned to him. Inuyasha saw that he was crying.

"I'm sorry. I...I was scared." The hanyou started to feel that same guilt he felt when Kagome cried.

"Hey, don't cry. It's okay. It's not that big of a deal." He rubbed the boy's back a bit, trying to comfort him. "I guess I was a little harsh..."

Mrs. Hiragashi opened the door and strode into her room. She eyed both of then sternly, then turned to Souta.

"Faking sick to get out of school. I'm very disappointed in you. I know you know better then that." She scolded. "And acted so poorly that Inuyasha had to spank you. Well you're going to get one from me too, for faking sick."

Inuyasha expected Souta to struggle and kick like he did with him. Instead he meekly nodded. Souta really looked sorry for what he had done and not just because he was about to be punished for it. His mother sat on the bed and he laid over her lap cooperativly. She pulled his pants and underware down to his knees and rubbed his still-red backside. Inuyasha moved to get up.

"No. You stay here. I'll deal with you after this." The hanyou nodded and quickly sat back down.

"Now Souta, why are you being punished?" she asked him, slowly rubbing his bottom.

"I faked sick to get out of school and took Inuyasha's sword."

"Is there something you want to ask me?" She continued.

"Will you please...spank me?"

"Yes I will spank you Souta. Since you're nine you'll be getting eighteen." She raised her hand and brought it down hard.

Once again Souta yelped in pain as tears gathered in his eyes. Mrs. Hiragashi raised her hand and brought it down on a different spot, getting another cry.

After fifteen spanks the boy's rear was nearly as red as Inuyasha's fire-rat clothes. His mother wasn't holding back at all dispite his previous spanking. The last three were delivered in quick succession and very hard.

After exactly eighteen spanks, Mrs. Hiragashi stopped. She picked her son up and held him close, letting him cry it out into her chest and telling him how much she loved him. Inuyasha watched as Souta was rocked slowly until he stopped crying, then was laid face down on the bed. At first the hanyou thought the punishment wasn't over, but was proven wrong when Mrs. Hiragashi grabbed a bottle of lotion on the nightstand. Squeezing out a glob, she gently rubbed it into her son's red bottom, making him moan into the bed sheets.

"Now Souta, are you going to be giving Inuyasha a hard time or skipping school again?" She asked him, applying more lotion.

"No mom. I'll be good." He said. His mother smiled and helped him stand, pulling his pants up. After another hug he was sent to his room.

"As for you," She turned to Inuyasha. "I think you deserve a spanking too. You had no right to do that to my son." She had a strong air of maternal authority about her that left no room for debate. Inuyasha hadn't been spanked since his mother died. But the more he considered it, the more he liked the idea. It would hurt a lot more then a sit, but it wouldn't obliterate his pride like they did. And unlike with Kagome, who could still be mad days after a sit, with her mother he knew that afterwards all would be forgiven. He slowly nodded.

"I assume you've done this before?"

"Yes Ma'am. My mother spanked my rear when I was bad, before she died." He grabbed her hairbrush and handed it to her. "She used her hairbrush." He wanted this to be just like one his mother would've given. They never left him with any lingering guilt. Just a sore, red bottom. And afterwards he knew that he was forgiven for his misdeeds.

Mrs. Hiragashi smiled at him. Mixing her own technique with Inuyasha's mother's would make it feel more personal between them. Inuyasha undid his sash and blushed out of modesty. Seeing his obvious discomfort at disrobing in front of her, Mrs. Hiragashi spoke again.

"Lay over my lap. I'll take care of that."

He got onto the bed and rested himself over her lap, laying his head in his arms. The older woman then reached her hand under the waist of his hakama. She felt Inuyasha tense as she slowly pulled it down to his knees, leaving his rear and thighs exposed.

"Now Inuyasha, why are you being punished?" she asked him, slowly rubbing his bottom in an attempt to relax him.

"I spanked Souta when I had no right to. I should have let you handle his punishment." The hanyou meekly replied. Somehow it didn't seem demeaning to submit to her, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Is there something you want to ask me?" She continued.

He gulped a bit, his mouth feeling very dry. "Will you please...spank me?"

Mrs. Hiragashi smiled a bit in spite of herself. Things were proceeding nicely. "Yes I will spank you Inuyasha. I will spank your bottom with my hairbrush." She suddenly realized that she had no idea how much to give, not knowing how old he was.

"Inuyasha, how old are you?"

"I'm not sure, almost seventy I think."

"I'll just stop when I feel you've been punished enough."

SMACK! The first swat landed on his right cheek with a loud impact. This was immediatly followed by a blow to the opposite cheek. To break through his superhuman endurance she put all of her strength into each strike.

SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!

Inuyasha was silent at first. Pain didn't usually bother him, but the repeated strikes to such a tender area had a cumulative effect. Eventually it became too much and he started to quietly whimper.

SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!

Tears began to slowly make their way down his cheeks, but he was still mostly silent.

SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!

Mrs. Hiragashi started to bring the hairbrush down right on his sit spot. Inuyasha yelped and finally started crying in earnest, pleading with her to stop but keeping his hands out front like a good boy.

SMACK!SMACK! "Owww! I'm sorry!" SMACK! "Please!" SMACK!SMACK! "It hurts!" SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK! "Yeooowww!" SMACK!

Mrs.Hiragashi paused, but the break was more so she could catch her breath then for Inuyasha. She rubbed his red backside very gently as the hanyou sobbed into his folded arms. He knew it wasn't over until she told him he could get up.

"Are you ready to finish?" She asked, massaging his glowing butt.

"No. No more." He whimpered. But he knew that it was out of his hands.

"I'm not done yet. I'm not stopping until I feel you've learned your lesson." With that she raised the hairbrush and hit his upper thighs with it. He howled with pain as she struck the same spot three more times before moving back to his rear.

SMACK! "AAHHHH!"

SMACK! "Please!"

SMACK! "I'm sorry!"

SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!

"YEEEOOOOWWWW!"

Mrs. Hiragashi set the hairbrush down and pulled Inuyasha up. He sobbed into her chest as she rubbed his back and rocked him slowly, telling him that it was okay and all had been forgiven. And he truly felt forgiven and punished. He had paid for what he had done and could start again.

"Inuyasha, look at me." She told him, lifting up his chin so his face met her's. "You can call me mother. As far as I'm concerned I now have three children. You're a part of my family now and you'll always have a home here."

Inuyasha cried even harder into his new mother's breasts. For the first time since his mother's death he belonged somewhere. He didn't have to be lonely anymore. He had a family who loved him and accepted him for what he was.

After Inuyasha was finished crying Mrs. Hiragashi laid him back on the bed and rubbed some lotion onto his burning bottom, drawing groans and sighs from him. Then she pulled his hakama back up and kissed her new son's forehead.

"Kagome doesn't need to know about this, alright?" She asked. Inuyasha nodded in reply. "I'm going to take Souta to school now. You just rest here until I get back."

"I love you, Mom."

"I love you too Son."

The End