After All This Time

Ch.14 My Older Brothers

Inuyasha sighed putting down the papers.

"How long will it take for you to come out and greet me?"

The night became silent. Not a single thing could be heard. The man jumped off the roof and onto the grass. His silver-ish white hair blowing away by the firm wind, the slight glow from his hair as the light hit it made his presence obtrusive. His facial expression remaining as solemn and sharp as always.

In front of Inuyasha stood his older brother, a most irritating man, Sesshomaru.

Inuyasha thought that he looked no different from before. It gave him odd pain looking at his brother. 'He's the same.'

"It seems my little brother has been busy playing pretend."

Before, everything that Sesshomaru said would have angered him because of how straightforward he was, but now Inuyasha could hear the tiny bits of emotion he put into his words. The underlying, message, and meaning, how the demon was more expressive then he thought.

"Yes." Inuyasha agreed. "It's been a few years Sesshomaru."

"..."

Sesshomaru looked down at Inuyasha. He has seen his change from a distance but now that he could see him closely, all he could think is how truly different he is. He was observant, clever, still a bit slow, but he's always trying to think a few steps ahead. His attitude, his posture, his speech, in those few seconds he observed. Sesshomaru noticed every component that made up the half-demon. Anything and everything was leading him to conclusions that he has grown.

"You've changed. You look more human."

"I can't exactly live here if I looked like a demon. And you seem to have changed yourself." Inuyasha leaned back. "For one thing your talking to me, nicely."

It wasn't that Sesshomaru was speaking "nicely", it was that he wasn't spouting insults at him in every sentence. 

"Would it be better if I cut your limbs off as a reunion gift?" He offered.

'Ah, there it is.' Inuyasha was peculiarly pleased at his threat. Again nostalgia affected how merciful he was to proud familiars of his past. He waved off his comment. As much as this interaction was oddly nice he wondered why Sesshomaru is here. What does he want?

"Is there a reason for why you're here?"

"Those companions of yours keep pestering me, to the point that Rin asked me to find you too."

The demon watched Inuyasha think and talk.

Calm, grace, meticulous, none of which would have been words to describe him.

Every action, every glance of his was so out of place. 'How peculiar.' 

Inuyasha hummed, nodding his head slightly. "I see."

The half-demon could understand his brother coming all this way for Rin but there was just one thing that didn't add up. Inuyasha knew that this isn't the first time Sesshomaru has been here. There were 3 times he's been here over the years. This is just the first time the two officially met, but why would Sesshomaru lie about such a thing?

"Would you like to meet Moroha?"

Sesshomaru was surprised. His facial expression didn't change much except his eyes widening slightly. That was enough to tell.

Inuyasha saw no need to prevent Sesshomaru from seeing his daughter. Even though he didn't like his brother that much he wouldn't stop him from having a relationship with his niece.

"I have seen her before. There's no need to meet again." He closed his eyes when speaking as if he was telling the truth.

Does he always close his eyes like this when he lied?