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InuSess 2022 24 Jun

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June 24

Prompt: New Moon

By Gayle Nightingale

Inuyasha dashed frantically through the forest, a red flash to the ordinary animals living there. He was on a personal mission, and he was running out of time! The inuhanyou panted, thirsty and tired, he wouldn’t give up just yet. He had to find it. It could mean the world to him.

Miroku had mentioned an old monk’s tale the last time they stayed up all night for his new moon time. The story had been about a witch and how she had captured the magic of the new moon. Inuyasha had listened intently. He had no idea that the moon had magic. He needed to know how to capture it. Perhaps it could protect him on the nights he turned human, or better yet, maybe it could protect his pack or even help them defeat Naraku.

He had questioned the monk about the tale and where it had come from. Miroku only remembered that his old mentor’s mentor had told the tale. Perhaps there were some scrolls in the old temple? But then Miroku laughed and pointed out it was just a tale they told him when he was young.

But Miroku’s warning was too late. Inuyasha had already decided he would chase this tale down, find the witch and get the magic. The next morning, he took off by himself. He told the others that he had personal business to take care of. Kagome didn’t argue. She had tests. Miroku was unconscious at Sango’s feet, a handprint on his face.

The hanyou continued running. He was exhausted. He had been running for 27 days. He had covered most of the land searching for a witch. A couple of times he thought he found one, but it wasn’t the right one.

The last witch he met sent him to the West. “Its close to a palace,” the old crone cackled and then she disappeared.

The hanyou shook his mane of hair, frustrated but also relieved to have a direction to go.

Inuyasha’s senses were dimming. It was close to the new moon. He searched himself for more power to go on and tapped it. A burst of sped and suddenly he was in a flower meadow.

Rin looked up from her flowery playground.

“Look A-Un! It’s Lord Inuyasha!”

The hanyou looked startled.

A-Un nodded, uninterested in the hanyou’s presence.

Jaken rushed to Rin’s side. He had been napping nearby.

“You filthy hanyou! How dare you invade this area!”

Rin put her small child hands on her hips and scolded him, “That’s not nice! Lord Inuyasha is my Lord’s brother.”

Turning to Inuyasha, she smiled. “Welcome Lord Inuyasha. My Lord Sesshomaru is not here but you are welcome to wait for him.”

Inuyasha’s heart was racing. How did he get near Sesshomaru’s group without smelling his brother! His heart was beating so hard and so loud he couldn’t breathe. His vision started narrowing into a tunnel. The edges were black. Why couldn’t he see? He could hear his heart pounding in his ears. He could hear a muffled child’s voice calling to him. Suddenly the sky was the only thing he could see. A small hand patted his face and then his world went black.

A bit later, Inuyasha awoke.

He was lying in a bed with a soft pink canopy. He was surrounded by stuffed animals of all sorts. A large stuffed fluffy white dog rested on his chest, its eyes large and round and its mouth smiling.

Inuyasha jumped out of bed staring in pure fright at the stuffed animal.

Rin turned from her coloring book and stood.

“You’re awake! Yay! You’re awake!”

Inuyasha looked at the little girl.

“Where am I?” Inuyasha looked about him trying to get some clue as to his location.

“Rin, Master Jaken, and A-Un brought you home. You’re in my room. You’ve been sleeping,” Rin paused as she tried to figure out how long Inuyasha had been asleep. “You’ve been asleep as long as it took me to draw these two pictures.”

Inuyasha looked at the two pictures Rin was holding. One was of her playing in the flowers and the other was of Lord Sesshomaru tenderly carrying Inuyasha in a bridal carry. Both were colored in completely.

Inuyasha’ mouth dropped open.

“Did Sesshomaru carry me here?” Inuyasha’s heart started racing.

Rin looked at him and then to the picture.

“No,” she said, “I just pictured it. A-Un used his heads to put you on his back.”

“Oh,” Inuyasha sighed, relief in his voice.

“Um, Lord Inuyasha?” Rin started.

“Not a lord, kid. Inuyasha, okay?” he smiled gently at her.

She nodded and continued. “Inuyasha? Are you hungry? I have a sandwich and an apple.”

As soon as she said “hungry?” Inuyasha’s mouth watered.

“Yeh, kid. I could eat.”

“Not a kid. Rin, okay?” Rin mirrored Inuyasha’s smile.

“Rin,” Inuyasha nodded and chuckled, “I would really like the sandwich and an apple. And a glass of water too, if you don’t mind.”

Rin stepped to the side and pointed to the small table she was using to draw. “Have a seat. Eat. Talk to me. Sometimes I get lonely.”

Inuyasha made his way to the table after looking at the smiling stuffed dog. He still had it in his hand. He put it back on the bed and stared at it.

“Rin, where’d you get this?”

“Father gave it to me. Father said it was his when he was a child. His nanny had made it to look like his father. Since his father is your father, I thought it might be nice for you. Did you like it?” Rin stared expectantly.

“I never met my father,” Inuyasha spoke truthfully without even thinking about who he was talking to. He looked at the stuffed dog again closer. “Is that what my father looked like?”

Rin shrugged. “I don’t know. I never met him.”

“Oh, of course not,” Inuyasha blushed. “I must be really hungry.”

He rushed to the table and sat down in front of the sandwich.

Rin turned and sat down too. “Help yourself. I ate mine earlier. The water glass is clean, and the pitcher is right there,” she pointed to a side table under a mirror.

Inuyasha had already inhaled half the sandwich. He got up to get some water. He poured a glass and then looked up into the mirror before picking up the container.

A human Inuyasha looked back at him.

Two large eyes grew larger.

He had turned human in his brother’s house! What a catastrophe! Instead of allowing his panic to own him, he began some deep breathing exercises. Once he was a little calmer, he grabbed the water and downed the entire glass in one gulp.

Rin laughed. “You must have been really thirsty!” Her giggles filled the air.

Inuyasha listened to the chime like laughter. It calmed him. He refilled the glass and returned to the table and his food. Picking up the sandwich, he asked the small child some casual questions. He focused on eating slower.

Rin answered and then continued chatting on and on for the remainder of Inuyasha’s meal. She told him of the flowers she liked and the animals she knew. She told him that she named A-Un because he didn’t have a name and she thought it was rude not to call him by name since he was such a nice animal.

Inuyasha nodded. He commented that he didn’t have any bite marks on him or his clothes, so he figured the dragon was being super careful with him.

Rin nodded. She was careful not to look in Inuyasha’s eyes. “A-Un is a good dragon. I love him.”

Inuyasha made a noise of agreement and bit into his apple.

“Tonight’s a special night,” Rin stated, looking at Inuyasha to see his response.

Still chewing the apple, Inuyasha nodded. He would keep silent and see what the little girl thought.

“My momma’s momma told her that the night of the new moon had a special magic.”

Inuyasha’s eyes opened wide.

Rin took another piece of paper and drew a moon. “Momma said that the time the moon disappears is the time to set your mind on what you want and to figure out how you are going to get there. Life brings a lot of bad things, like the bandits, and the wolves, but then you get to try again and get a new start. Like when Lord Sesshomaru used the sword on me and gave me a new start.”

Rin drew a series of circles in a circle that was a child’s version of the phases of the moon.

“This is tonight. The start of a new bunch of moon magic. As the days pass, the moon gets bigger in the sky and the magic fills. You can feel it. Momma says to use that magic to help you get direction and strength to accomplish your goal. The moon’s light will help. Then on the full moon, when the light is brightest, we can see clearly and reach for our goal.”

Rin paused as she colored the moons on her paper. She put down the coloring tools down and put her chin in her hand. She continued her thoughts.

“But sometimes we don’t get what it is we need yet and so we must let go to the things that don’t work, or don’t help get to our goals.” She paused as she filled in the remaining moons with color. The room was quiet as she concentrated on coloring.

Rin looked up at Inuyasha. “I didn’t always understand what Momma meant. Maybe I am too young to understand, but I do feel the magic of the moon. Don’t you, Inuyasha?”

Inuyasha had been quietly listening to the wisdom of Rin’s mother. He understood perfectly. There were things he could let go of, like old resentments, or just running off without a plan. Maybe that’s the magic he needed. Letting go of bitterness, plan a little more, a little more focus… He could feel the power of the moon. He could try and use these thoughts.

Sesshomaru had been peeking through the crack in the door.

Whispering he said, “It’s called Cosmic Reset, little brother. And it’s the first of many Inu lessons I have for you. Perhaps one day, you will let go of the resentment you have for me. Or then again, maybe I need to make the first move and ask your forgiveness…., I’ll have to think about that tonight. Time for a cosmic reset.” Sesshomaru turned and walked down the hallway to his office. He would be busy tonight watching over his two humans so he would have plenty of time to think.

When the light dawned the following morning, Inuyasha surreptitiously slipped out of the castle and dashed back to his friends.

When Rin woke, she noticed Inuyasha was gone. She walked down the hall yawning and seeking out Sesshomaru. When she found him she offered him the drawing she had made the night before.

“Here’s the picture you wanted my Lord. I told Lord Inuyasha that A-Un carried him. Why did you want me to lie?”

Sesshomaru took the colored paper and admired it.

Avoiding her question he redirected her attention with a compliment, “Good work Rin. Time for you to eat breakfast. Off with you now.”

Rin smiled happily and left her lord’s side.

Sesshomaru sat back down and fingered the photo.

Speaking to himself he whispered, “Inuyasha, did you really think A-Un could carry you with his heads?” Sesshomaru chuckled.

Some ways from the palace, Inuyasha stopped and quirked his head. Turning to look back at the castle, he mumbled, “A-Un couldn’t pick me up with his heads. Sesshomaru had to have carried me, right?” He walked a bit, kicking twigs and rocks. Did his brother carry him so tenderly like in Rin’s picture?

A bug buzzed about his ears, and they twitched. The bug was persistent. Finally, Inuyasha, tired of shooing it, took off running again.

“Silly,” he muttered to himself. He decided to think about it later. Later turned out to be sooner. Over the next 15 days he thought of his brother more than usual.

It was the night of the full moon that Sesshomaru sought out Inuyasha.

“Little brother,” Sesshomaru called out.

“Sesshomaru,” Inuyasha replied, body position guarded and ready to run or fight.

Sesshomaru noticed the positioning. He contemplated just leaving, but then reflected on his new moon thoughts. He would have to make the first move.

“I have had some time to think about many things.”

Sesshomaru couldn’t figure out how to continue his thoughts out loud.

Inuyasha noticed.

The hanyou spoke. “I’ve been thinking about you quite a bit over the last 15 days. My resentment toward you is dragging me down. I’m ready to let it go. I forgive you, Sesshomaru.”

Sesshomaru’s eyebrows rose. Inuyasha learned cosmic reset quickly.

“I’m sorry,” the great dog demon spoke clearly. “I’m sorry.”

The two sons of Toga stared at each other. The full moon beamed down on them. They glowed and sparkled as the magic filled them.

A cocky smile a lit the hanyou��s face.

“Time to exterminate a spider, Sesshomaru?”

Sesshomaru had already reached out and was pulling Inuyasha to his side.

“Hold on tight,” he murmured as he orbed the two of them off to fight Naraku.

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mrfeenysmustache · 2 years

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Mother Moon 🌙

Chapter 6

A.N.: Inuyasha grows a little more between each chapter. In this one, he’s roughly three and half by human standards, which is why he talks so well. Also, I never meant for this to go nearly a year between updates!!!!! My deepest apologies 🥹🥹

Summary: He was left on her doorstep, orphaned on the night of his birth, and something inside her compelled her to keep him. There would be gossip; there would be slander; there would be violence and attempts on her life and on his. But the Lady of the Moon had decided: he was hers. Adoption AU