Title: Demon in Flight
Author: Demitria Miriam
Rating: R to NC17
Pairing: Sess x Inu
Disclaimer: Rumiko Takahashi owns all original characters of Inuyasha. I'm only playing with them by writing, and make no money off of, this piece of fiction.
Note(s): Seeing as how this is AU, Inuyasha is indeed a full demon, birthed by a demon mother. Sesshomaru and he are still half-brothers, though. Oh, and Inuyasha has his single, jagged purple markings on his cheeks and yes, he still has his ears. I'm making it so that's perfectly normal for full youkai to have.

Summary: Inuyasha and his brother were led astray by their father when they were but children, learning to hate rather than love. Now, 200 years later, both young Lords of their own land will find out the truth behind their father's misleadings and hell will rise.

Chapter One

The great and terrible inu youkai lord known as the Inu no Taishou had ruled over all four domains in Feudal Japan for the past six centuries. His lands, bordered but still belonging to him, consisted of the North, East, South and Western territories.

When his eldest son, Sesshomaru, had come into his majority, he had given the young demon the Lands of the West, effectively handing over all treaties, alliances, land ownership and the obligation of protection to the one that would, more than likely, one day succeed him in his position as the Inu no Taishou. While the West was calm and peaceful, a place where he knew Sesshomaru would take good care to conserve, its counterpart, the East, was anything but.

For his youngest son, the Lands of the East were to be given once the boy reached his time of maturity in a hundred years' time. This area was relatively the most dangerous part of the Inu no Taishou's lands overall. Though it was to be given with good intent; his youngest always seemed to get bored easily and when he was, which was quite often, he tended to get into a lot of trouble. So naturally his father took it upon himself to help balance and fuse the boy's fidgety habits and his sense of duty.

Though if the Inu no Taishou were to be completely honest with himself he had a more pressing reason as to why his sons were to be put on opposite ends of the Continent. The fact of the matter was that, as children they had always been close... not close as brothers but something else, something that was completely and wholly forbidden in the laws of the Household, in the clan itself. He had caught the scent of pubescent arousal more times than he cared to admit, let alone remember, when they had been and or were within the vicinity of each other's presences. Often he had caught the musky after-smell of whatever it was they had done together in the confines of private hot springs within the castle or in either of their rooms.

It became a problem when other lesser lords visited and commented on the closeness of his sons. They never directly said what they thought was going on, what they could more than likely figure out themselves by the scents wafting around the palace, but it was in their tone of voice and the way they leered at him in disdain. When that happened, the Inu no Taishou knew that it had come to the point where he had to give his ignorance up and sacrifice his lands, not only for his clan's reputation but for the safety of his sons.

Because had they ever been caught, their lives would, by law, have to be ended by his hand.

And that was something he simply could not do, no matter how much shame they brought to the Household with whatever it was that was happening between them. If anything he would strip them of their honor and banish them from the Continent. But to kill his own flesh and blood...? No, he would not be able to carry out such a punishment.

So when his eldest son, Sesshomaru, had moved from the North Land's castle, Inuyasha, his youngest, had insisted on going with as well, "To keep oniisan company," he had said at the time. The Inu no Taishou had scoffed at that and put that request to death the moment it left Inuyasha's lips.

With that Sesshomaru had left and Inuyasha had thrown a fit, effectively destroying the entire east wing of the castle with his birthright, the Sword of Earth, the Tetsusaiga. He had also tested and exceeded his father's dangerously impending temper which resulted in rigid training from sun up to sun down.

However, the only thing that seemed to calm his angry son was when he'd receive a scroll from his brother, detailing his new life in the Western kingdom. Every day Sesshomaru wrote and everyday Inuyasha would read and respond to them with equal vigor and length of page. This proved to sate Inuyasha's wild irritability with the fact that his elder brother was gone, something the Inu no Taishou was grateful for.

The letters continued for years, and all was peaceful in the Household.

That is, until his father had found the numerous scrolls and read the content within.

It was, needless to say, sickening, hardly cordial nor dignified content, and, most assuredly, not merely between 'brothers'.

Within scroll upon scroll promised acts of intimacy, confessions of yearning, descriptive desires for physical contact were written out for the world to see,... if you happened to be digging through Prince Inuyasha's secret hiding place under the floor boards which no one knew about unless one were to sneak in when he was in the dojo training, hundreds of feet away, did lots of snooping and prodding for that one spot that all younglings made a nest out of for their special treasures, that is.

Infuriated, embarrassed and thoroughly appalled, the Inu no Taishou did the one thing he could think of that would lend him at least some leeway to deny and avoid the inevitable his sons would face should they ever act on their forbidden desires with one another.

And that was to drive an impenetrable wedge between the brothers.

Letters came for Inuyasha but were intercepted, read and then burned by the Inu no Taishou. A month of this persisted where Sesshomaru would write but receive no response, for Inuyasha knew not of the scrolls that came once, if not thrice, daily for him. The young prince was told that his brother was very busy with land matters and, at the moment, courting a young demoness within his newly established Household.

After that declaration from his father, the west wing of the castle was destroyed. This time, however, the Inu no Taishou dished out no punishment.

The time came when arrangements were made for Inuyasha's time of maturity, where, not only would the great Lord of the Continent invite important peoples from all over the Four Lands but also find a suitable mate for his youngest son. A fact that he made sure Sesshomaru knew of as well. It was not, however, conferred to his eldest by tongue, but by Inuyasha's responding letters. Letters which, unbeknownst to Sesshomaru, were not truly from his younger sibling, but someone of similar hand and word.

Infuriated by this decision that had been made without his knowledge, Sesshomaru wrote back to him, to Inuyasha, and stated that if anyone were to touch him, mark him in any way he would personally disembowel, decapitate, as well as draw and quarter their hides, then revive them and do it again and again with the power of his birthright, the Sword of Heaven, Tenseiga, until he tired of that game. This was followed, of course, by descriptive acts of perverse intimacy and sinful desires of flesh coveted that was not his own.

This scroll, regardless, was kept for future reference. For the Inu no Taishou knew... a time would come when his mighty sons would discover the truth behind his lies. And by the gods, Hell would truly be set forth then.

Chapter end.