InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Siu ❯ Combing ( Chapter 13 )

For: Reiku Toukijin

Characters: Sesshoumaru + Sessmom

Word count: 305

 

Combing

 

I.

Sesshoumaru sits quietly on his bed as his mother combs his hair. He doesn't squirm, not even when she abandons the comb and starts stroking his hair with her claws. To his mind, there's no need to act like a child, even if she's treating him like one.

 

“My sweet little boy,” his mother murmurs. “My sweet…”

 

His mother falls asleep beside him with an arm curled around his waist and another touching his hair. In the morning, he is alone and finds himself free to act as adult as he likes, because the one person who treats him otherwise is gone. It's a nice feeling for a while, until he's been alone for many months and realizes that his mother is unable to comb his hair ever again.

 

II.

She loves running her claws through her son's white hair, and tonight, she keeps smoothing out the strands even after she's unraveled the knots.

 

Eventually, when she can not comb anymore, they sleep, and she holds her son close to her, burying her face in his hair. She smiles when he doesn't try to squirm out of her arms like he'd done many times before. For now, he's letting her act like a mother, and him like a son.

 

She wants to whisper into his ear how happy she is because of this, but instead, she listens as he falls asleep.

 

When Sesshoumaru is completely unconscious, she unwraps her arms from him and quietly exits the room. She ignores her husband, who doesn't deserve her attention even if he did come out to see her off. Amazingly enough, his pregnant mistress comes too, clutching her husband's hand but still watching steadily.

 

She has nothing to say to them, and she's said all she can think of to her son already, so she leaves without a word.