Following his footsteps ( Inuyasha fanfiction)

The First meet

Five years have now pass....

"Milord? Where are you going?"asked one of the guards at the palace's gate watching his lord scan the forest with those golden eyes of his "Do you have to ask? I'm going for a walk".

Sesshomaru rested quietly on the edge of a forest when a familiar scent brushed past him. At first, Sesshomaru had trouble placing it. It had been five years, after all. But before long the image of an infant with silver hair and ridiculous canine ears floated to the surface of his mind. He growled. The damn hanyo brother of his. So the brat lived after all. With everything that he had to take care of, the child had fallen to the furthest depth of his mind, thoughts of him becoming nothing more than rare distraction at most, yet here he was, no more than a few yards away.

As Sesshomaru climbed to his feet, the leaves of the bushes at the very edge of the forest rustled and seconds later, a snow-white head topped with a pair of dog ears popped out. Sesshomaru guessed that he was at most two feet tall but the guess could have been off as the boy was hunched over, nearly crawling on all fours, his nose low to the ground as if he was sniffing something out. Sesshomaru found it amusing that his little brother didn't bother to look up and use his eyes, relying solely on his sense of smell to find the oddity, that was most likely Sesshomaru himself. Of course, he though with a measure of dry humor. Good dog.

When he was less than a foot away, the boy finally looked up at him, and Sesshomaru saw that no matter how much he'd grown in the past five years, at least his eyes hadn't changed. Inuyasha sniffed again, as if to make sure that his was really the scent that caught his interest, then peered at the tall demon.

"You smell funny," the boy said with bold familiarity as if he'd known the person in front of him all his short life.

"I could say the same of you," and in a flash, Inuyasha was hoisted into the air by the scarf of his red robe. Sesshomaru held him at eye level with one hand, studying his brother. Inuyasha struggled for a short while, quickly realizing that it was useless, but instead of getting scared, he shot his brother an angry glare.

"Put me down!" he demanded and even went as far as to try and scratch at his brother with his growing claws, but Sesshomaru acted as if he hadn't heard him.

"What have you been doing?" Sesshomaru scoffed indignantly, noting the child's grimy appearance and less than appealing smell. "Rolling in the dirt? Did you get lost in the woods?"

"Did not!" Inuyasha objected.

"Well, then what are you doing in this forest?" Sesshomaru prompted. "The village is on the other side."

"I... I was looking for my ball, if you must know," the child stuck out his tongue indignantly. "It's white, and about... this big," he held his hands half a foot apart.

"Indeed," Sesshomaru sounded like he didn't quite believe him. Another hand reached out to tug at Inuyasha's ears, but this time the boy batted him away with a degree of success, even managing to scratch Sesshomaru's and in the process. The demon pulled, showing as much emotion as if he had been stung by a mosquito.

Inuyasha made a low growl that surprised Sesshomaru.
"You're either very brave or very foolish to growl to a demon lord that way, pup".

"I bet my father could have taken you out in a heartbeat. He was a great demon lord, too."

Sesshomaru's golden eyes widened slightly in surprise on their own accord. He hadn't expected Inuyasha to know anything about their father, though of course with the boy's looks, an explanation bust have been in order at some point. Still, the mention of his father from the mouth of the hanyo that Sesshomaru held partially responsible for his death, came as simply another reminder of what the boy really was: a mistake that should have never happened.