[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: salomewilde CLAIMING KIN offers a pre-canon, AU arc describing the relationship between a young adult Sesshoumaru and his bastard hanyou brother (18+ in youkai years, but he appears childlike in the fic). In this world, Sesshoumaru’s father is alive and the unquestioned Lord of the Western Lands. He is grooming his firstborn Sesshoumaru for future leadership and has done so since he was a child (through lessons, punishments, and repeated mounting - they're dogs, after all). He gives the Inuyasha (a generic name for all of his bastard children, meaning, as it does, merely “dog demon”) to Sesshoumaru as a test, a lesson, and an opportunity for growth. The child chosen (an only child produced with one of the Lord’s many human and youkai concubines) is the one who has inherited the strongest genetics, yet he is still a bastard and hanyou and has faced the predictable misuse of his older half-siblings and is necessarily thus sexually precocious. The pup’s mother has named him “Kin” (meaning gold, for his eyes and preciousness to her). The story begins with Sesshoumaru's first encounter with Kin, and shows their developing bond.
WARNINGS: Shouta, Yaoi, angst, all sorts of kinks, and WAFF. If you don't like these sorts of things, please do not read.