May 2008
Title:How It Could Have Been; ch 54, Xing-fu
Author:petalears
Universe:AU
Rating:PG
Summary:Trouble between boys
Quote:"It is truth, but truth is not always appearance." - Sleepy Hollow
Xing-fu
Finally back into school routine again, Inuyasha had asked if he could do catch up work in the afternoons while the other pupils were on their free time. Unfortunately for him as he thought, The Tiger vetoed the idea, knowing that the pup needed playtime as much as the other youngsters. But he compromised and said he would give the pup extra tuition after the evening meal, for one hour only, when the rest had gone to their rooms before bed. This would not disturb any of the others then, and his room servant could easily work around him as she got the pup his supper of a drink and the sweet cakes he was allowed.
Xing-fu wondered about the extra lessons and why Inuyasha was bothering with them, everyone knew that he was catching up, but they didn’t see why he was doing so. Kouga especially had said to Inuyasha that it was a waste of time as the hanyou would easily catch up with the rest over the course of the year or so. Inuyasha had merely said that he liked school and his lessons so it was no hardship, to which answer Kouga scoffed, but his younger friend just smiled, knowing that the wolf didn’t like his lessons even if he was quite a quick study.
In that he had the advantage over Inuyasha, the pup sometimes struggled for a while with new concepts, but he got there in the end. Kouga just laughed at him good naturedly and said it was just as well it was that way round, that Inuyasha liked lessons while Kouga hated them. Xing-fu didn’t understand, he didn’t like Inuyasha very much, the pup had got him and Kouga into deeper trouble by his interference and the panda wasn’t convinced that he was as innocent as he seemed. In fact Inuyasha was an anomaly to Xing-fu and the more he thought about it, the more deeply he started to despise the hanyou.
Xing-fu was quite intelligent, but had to work for his learning much as Inuyasha did, but he wouldn’t have worked as hard. He also had a sly cleverness that was not attractive and he started to wonder how he could pay the younger boy back; he didn’t care how long it took and eventually he hit on a clever plan that would keep him out of trouble and would be fitting for the overly ingenuous Inu pup. It was obvious that Inuyasha was not a hard nut; the boy was open and friendly and smiled too much for him to be tough, so the panda would go for the psychological approach.
Not that that was how Xing-fu worded it to himself, he was still only a young cub after all, slightly younger than Kouga, but he did know something about hanyou personally. However he kept his head down and worked hard in school and was personable. Truthfully he was fun to be with for all the others, and didn’t interfere with Inuyasha, in fact he hardly acknowledged him at all, and only included him in play when all of the others were. Xing-fu spent most of his time with Kouga which suited Inuyasha, as it took the pressure of him; Kouga could still be slightly overbearing, even though well intentioned.
The school year passed by and it was time for the children to go home accompanied by the various adults chosen for the responsibility. All of the youths were going home for the long summer holiday, and both Kouga’s brother-in-law and Xing-fu’s father had come for them personally and were now speaking with Inu no Taishou in his study, while the boys carried on whatever they were doing outside. Xing-fu noticed Inuyasha waiting patiently, he was playing with a red ball, bouncing it against the wall and every now and then he looked up and around as though looking out for someone. This was Xing-fu’s chance at last.
"I wonder who he’s waiting for...some human I suppose who won’t show their face here amongst the youkai." Xing -fu said conversationally. Kouga looked over at the younger boy.
"He is waiting for his brother I expect."
"Oh, it’s his brother who he wants to show off to about all his extra lessons. I suppose the Western Lord will tell his brother how good Inuyasha is."
"I don’t think Inuyasha has to impress anyone, Xing." Kouga replied.
"Are you kidding? He’s a hanyou...I’ll bet no one just puts up with him...why do you think he has to spend his holidays here and not his home?"
"You don’t know what you’re talking about Xing and if I were you I would shut up; he’ll hear you." Kouga glanced at Inuyasha who he was sure had overheard Xing-fu.
"I do know what I am saying actually Kouga; we had a hanyou once at home."
"Wha’d’ya mean, you had a hanyou?"
"What I said. My father doesn’t stay with us long, and he goes off a lot. Usually it’s just Mama and me at home. One day this human came into the forest where we live and asked to see Mama. She had a hanyou cub with her, funny looking thing with animal ears on his head, one black and one white; it was about nine years old and wandered everywhere. The human said that father was its Sire and he’d told her to come and live with us in the forest. Mama was furious, but she had to do as father said or she’d have been punished.
Mama made the human work for a living and the stupid cub followed her everywhere, they slept in the shed. Papa explained when he came to visit that his honour had required him to provide shelter, but he never went out to the shack to see the abomination and its mother while he was with us." It was obvious to Kouga that Xing-fu was repeating words he’d heard at home and he wanted the cub to stop talking, but the panda was in full swing and sounding bitter.
"Thankfully the creature’s mother died after a few years and then the cub had no one to care for it, so it used to wander off into the forest; it couldn’t work very well or feed itself, so Mama put out scraps for it in the hut. Eventually father said Mama could poison it, as everyone who mattered had now forgotten the hanyou and human, since he’d taken it from the village it had lived in before. So Mama put something in its food and a couple of days later we found it was dead in the shed. We burned the shed down and built a brand new one. Mama said that at least something good had come from having to put up with the hanyou."
Xing-fu had said more than he’d meant as he spoke the truth about his family dealings with a hanyou, but it had the desired, if not painful effect; he found he was sitting on the ground with a very angry Inuyasha standing over him with his fists clenched after landing his punch. Inuyasha’s chest was heaving with the effort to keep control and to not just jump on Xing-fu and Kouga came instantly to separate them, by holding onto the smaller boy’s arms.
"You is a horrible person Xing; you and your Mama is to do that to anybody. Didn’t you think the little boy would care that you felt like that about him and his mother? Your Mama killed someone, your Mama is a...a...a murdererer."
"You take that back hanyou, the cub was an animal, and Mama could do what she liked. Mama is pure youkai, not some half thing like the cub."
"I is not an animal and I is hanyou, Xing." Inuyasha fumed and shrugged Kouga off. The wolf went to get someone to help. Xing took advantage of the fact only Inuyasha would hear him.
"Are you...I didn’t know...but it doesn’t make a difference? I’m surprised that you even got a name; our hanyou didn’t have one ‘cos no one wanted him. I bet no one really wants you either do they?" This time Xing-fu was prepared for the angry shriek from Inuyasha and the pummelling that came from the boy’s fists, but Inuyasha couldn’t hurt the panda and in any case he was pulled off by an angry Inu no Taishou.
"You will apologise this instant for your disgraceful behaviour, Inuyasha." The General demanded of his son, but Inuyasha was unrepentant and refused point blank, which earned him a firm swatting for being disobedient. The pup was not subdued however, even though Xing-fu, his father, Kouga and his brother-in-law and worst of all Sesshoumaru, witnessed his punishment. Inuyasha squirmed trying to get down, but to no avail, he was held tight in his father’s inexorable grip. Xing-fu’s father moved to his son and held up his hand;
"What led to this brawl Xing-fu? Have you provoked Inuyasha?"
"I’m sorry Papa, but I suppose I must have done; Inuyasha didn’t like some of the things I said and he...then he...he...insulted my mother." Xing-fu sniffed tearfully and was the epitome of a dutiful and respectful son, unlike the growling puppy in his father’s arms. Inuyasha was furious; he could tell that Xing-fu was setting him up and his growling got louder. Inu no Taishou asked Kouga what had happened and the wolf was torn between his two friends. He had no idea that Xing-fu was anything but unwise in his words at the time, and while he could sympathise with Inuyasha, he couldn’t say anything that would justify the hanyou’s behaviour.
"Xing-fu didn’t realise Inuyasha was hanyou and made a mistake in telling us about a hanyou he knew; Inuyasha took it personally."
"Is this how you understood it, Xing-fu?" Asked Inu no Taishou.
"Yes, otherwise I should never have mentioned..." Xing-fu said his eyes wide as if shocked.
"You are to be commended in not retaliating and fighting my son, you have my gratitude." Inu no Taishou said to the young panda who knew he had scored a great deal in finding out that Inuyasha was the unknown Prince at school.
"Oh, it wouldn’t have been right to fight him Sir; he is younger and smaller than me and Mama taught me that hitting back doesn’t solve the problem it just adds to it, and then it makes things worse for everyone. It works too doesn’t it; I mean if I had hit him back, I would have got a spanking too?" Xing-fu smiled self deprecatingly at his father and Inu no Taishou, making sure he caught Inuyasha’s eye too.
"Well, I am glad you remembered your lessons so well that you could recall them when necessary. I hope you shame my son into remembering some of his own." The General was still angry with Inuyasha, but the older Panda came to him and said no hard feelings, Xing-fu had probably angered the pup with some ill conceived words, there was a harsh history behind the story. Inu no Taishou heard the Panda with understanding, not everyone by far, accepted hanyou. By now Xing-fu was in his element and he got up to stare up at Inuyasha.
"I’m sorry if I upset you Inuyasha and I don’t hold a grudge because you hit me." He looked smilingly up at the hanyou, who for the first time was not fooled; Inuyasha could see the gleam and the smirk clearly, even if everyone else including Kouga thought the panda cub was generous and mature.
"Well, it is time for us to depart Inu no Taishou; I’m sure that everything will be forgotten when the boys return to school and thank you for including Xing-fu in your education programme."
"We too must depart and take our leave My Lord. Come Prince Kouga." The Wolf Regent said, as he ushered his youngling ahead of him and bowed to the Western Lord. Inu no Taishou bowed back and soon was left alone with his sons. Sesshoumaru had remained silently by his side while he was dealing with Inuyasha and followed equally silently when their father walked stiffly back to his study, the small hanyou still hanging off his arm. Once there he stood Inuyasha in front of him and said sternly;
"You will explain your behaviour now Inuyasha."
"He was rude to me and he did know I am a hanyou, he was all lying with things he said, and making me crosser and crosser. His mama killed a hanyou and his dad knew too; and it was his own son, Xing’s own brother." Inuyasha was full of horrified indignation and his father sighed; Inuyasha had to learn the truth but it didn’t excuse his behaviour.
"That is not your concern Inuyasha, you already know that hanyou are not accepted by everyone and there is nothing to be done about the boy now."
"You knew about the boy...you knew before Xing came to school?"
"I did; I hoped that your example might stop such a thing happening again. There is more to education than book learning. We are not though, speaking of Xing-fu or his father’s business, but yours. I was ashamed of you Inuyasha; I ordered you to apologise and you refused, this is something I as Alpha, will not accept from my pups. You will fetch my slipper now."
"No, you already smacked me..."
"You kept fighting, growling and still have not apologised; not to me, nor to a guest of this house and you are still not doing as you have been told. You are old enough to know when to back down Inuyasha; I will not be disobeyed in public without very good reason. You did not have good reason whatever you think; brawling like a street urchin is not the way to be and whatever rights you might have had, you tried to solve in the wrong way. Now go." Inu no Taishou now prepared for a verbal fight with Sesshoumaru, but his eldest too had learned not to go against a parental decree. Inuyasha returned and sulked when he handed the slipper to his father; then he yelled loudly as it was applied, but he walked out without a word or backward glance, passed both his father and brother.
Inuyasha felt betrayed, he had a vivid picture in his mind of the poor human mother with her hanyou panda cub, working hard, living in a shed with no one to care for them, until she died, then leaving her young cub to the fate of poisoning. Neither had mattered to anybody, and Inuyasha personally understood being viewed as nothing more than an animal; he remembered Makoto’s mother’s attitude and words to him very well. He sat in his room and stewed, getting angrier at the injustice of being born different...or hanyou. He would have sat through dinner too, but he was not going to be permitted to do that. The Lady entered without knocking and sat on the futon next to Inuyasha and waited patiently until the boy looked at her.
"It is dinner time Inuyasha, you are required to attend."
"I’m not hungry Auntie."
"So do you plan on putting the world to rights by sitting here sulking, or by learning from this experience?"
"What do you mean? Everyone hates hanyou, how can Papa let him be in my class?"
"How dare you say that, do I hate you, does your father or Sesshoumaru, what about your mother and siblings? How dare you say such unjust things to me...you are not thinking straight Inuyasha, and I expect your father mentioned that he hoped by being in a class with you, others might learn tolerance. You let him down today and you let yourself down; oh I don’t mean by your reaction to Xing-fu, but by forgetting your obedience to your Alpha. I think he deserves an apology from you for your rudeness to him in public and when you left the study.
"And before you think I am being unfair, think about what I and the others have said. You know we love you and always have. There are many unfortunates who live tragic lives and it is not restricted to the rare hanyou; human and youkai can find life intolerable through no fault of their own. Perhaps one day you can cause a change in attitude for some, perhaps not, but you must learn to go about it the right way." She looked down on the now subdued hanyou, and softened her face as she heard his whispered ‘sorry’.
When they reached the dining hall, Inuyasha went and bowed his head in front of his father and formally apologised for his rudeness and then Inu no Taishou picked him up and held him tight when Inuyasha finally broke into tears. It was never going to be an easy road to travel for his little pup, but Inuyasha was strongly made; he would always come through.
Author:petalears
Universe:AU
Rating:PG
Summary:Trouble between boys
Quote:"It is truth, but truth is not always appearance." - Sleepy Hollow
Xing-fu
Finally back into school routine again, Inuyasha had asked if he could do catch up work in the afternoons while the other pupils were on their free time. Unfortunately for him as he thought, The Tiger vetoed the idea, knowing that the pup needed playtime as much as the other youngsters. But he compromised and said he would give the pup extra tuition after the evening meal, for one hour only, when the rest had gone to their rooms before bed. This would not disturb any of the others then, and his room servant could easily work around him as she got the pup his supper of a drink and the sweet cakes he was allowed.
Xing-fu wondered about the extra lessons and why Inuyasha was bothering with them, everyone knew that he was catching up, but they didn’t see why he was doing so. Kouga especially had said to Inuyasha that it was a waste of time as the hanyou would easily catch up with the rest over the course of the year or so. Inuyasha had merely said that he liked school and his lessons so it was no hardship, to which answer Kouga scoffed, but his younger friend just smiled, knowing that the wolf didn’t like his lessons even if he was quite a quick study.
In that he had the advantage over Inuyasha, the pup sometimes struggled for a while with new concepts, but he got there in the end. Kouga just laughed at him good naturedly and said it was just as well it was that way round, that Inuyasha liked lessons while Kouga hated them. Xing-fu didn’t understand, he didn’t like Inuyasha very much, the pup had got him and Kouga into deeper trouble by his interference and the panda wasn’t convinced that he was as innocent as he seemed. In fact Inuyasha was an anomaly to Xing-fu and the more he thought about it, the more deeply he started to despise the hanyou.
Xing-fu was quite intelligent, but had to work for his learning much as Inuyasha did, but he wouldn’t have worked as hard. He also had a sly cleverness that was not attractive and he started to wonder how he could pay the younger boy back; he didn’t care how long it took and eventually he hit on a clever plan that would keep him out of trouble and would be fitting for the overly ingenuous Inu pup. It was obvious that Inuyasha was not a hard nut; the boy was open and friendly and smiled too much for him to be tough, so the panda would go for the psychological approach.
Not that that was how Xing-fu worded it to himself, he was still only a young cub after all, slightly younger than Kouga, but he did know something about hanyou personally. However he kept his head down and worked hard in school and was personable. Truthfully he was fun to be with for all the others, and didn’t interfere with Inuyasha, in fact he hardly acknowledged him at all, and only included him in play when all of the others were. Xing-fu spent most of his time with Kouga which suited Inuyasha, as it took the pressure of him; Kouga could still be slightly overbearing, even though well intentioned.
The school year passed by and it was time for the children to go home accompanied by the various adults chosen for the responsibility. All of the youths were going home for the long summer holiday, and both Kouga’s brother-in-law and Xing-fu’s father had come for them personally and were now speaking with Inu no Taishou in his study, while the boys carried on whatever they were doing outside. Xing-fu noticed Inuyasha waiting patiently, he was playing with a red ball, bouncing it against the wall and every now and then he looked up and around as though looking out for someone. This was Xing-fu’s chance at last.
"I wonder who he’s waiting for...some human I suppose who won’t show their face here amongst the youkai." Xing -fu said conversationally. Kouga looked over at the younger boy.
"He is waiting for his brother I expect."
"Oh, it’s his brother who he wants to show off to about all his extra lessons. I suppose the Western Lord will tell his brother how good Inuyasha is."
"I don’t think Inuyasha has to impress anyone, Xing." Kouga replied.
"Are you kidding? He’s a hanyou...I’ll bet no one just puts up with him...why do you think he has to spend his holidays here and not his home?"
"You don’t know what you’re talking about Xing and if I were you I would shut up; he’ll hear you." Kouga glanced at Inuyasha who he was sure had overheard Xing-fu.
"I do know what I am saying actually Kouga; we had a hanyou once at home."
"Wha’d’ya mean, you had a hanyou?"
"What I said. My father doesn’t stay with us long, and he goes off a lot. Usually it’s just Mama and me at home. One day this human came into the forest where we live and asked to see Mama. She had a hanyou cub with her, funny looking thing with animal ears on his head, one black and one white; it was about nine years old and wandered everywhere. The human said that father was its Sire and he’d told her to come and live with us in the forest. Mama was furious, but she had to do as father said or she’d have been punished.
Mama made the human work for a living and the stupid cub followed her everywhere, they slept in the shed. Papa explained when he came to visit that his honour had required him to provide shelter, but he never went out to the shack to see the abomination and its mother while he was with us." It was obvious to Kouga that Xing-fu was repeating words he’d heard at home and he wanted the cub to stop talking, but the panda was in full swing and sounding bitter.
"Thankfully the creature’s mother died after a few years and then the cub had no one to care for it, so it used to wander off into the forest; it couldn’t work very well or feed itself, so Mama put out scraps for it in the hut. Eventually father said Mama could poison it, as everyone who mattered had now forgotten the hanyou and human, since he’d taken it from the village it had lived in before. So Mama put something in its food and a couple of days later we found it was dead in the shed. We burned the shed down and built a brand new one. Mama said that at least something good had come from having to put up with the hanyou."
Xing-fu had said more than he’d meant as he spoke the truth about his family dealings with a hanyou, but it had the desired, if not painful effect; he found he was sitting on the ground with a very angry Inuyasha standing over him with his fists clenched after landing his punch. Inuyasha’s chest was heaving with the effort to keep control and to not just jump on Xing-fu and Kouga came instantly to separate them, by holding onto the smaller boy’s arms.
"You is a horrible person Xing; you and your Mama is to do that to anybody. Didn’t you think the little boy would care that you felt like that about him and his mother? Your Mama killed someone, your Mama is a...a...a murdererer."
"You take that back hanyou, the cub was an animal, and Mama could do what she liked. Mama is pure youkai, not some half thing like the cub."
"I is not an animal and I is hanyou, Xing." Inuyasha fumed and shrugged Kouga off. The wolf went to get someone to help. Xing took advantage of the fact only Inuyasha would hear him.
"Are you...I didn’t know...but it doesn’t make a difference? I’m surprised that you even got a name; our hanyou didn’t have one ‘cos no one wanted him. I bet no one really wants you either do they?" This time Xing-fu was prepared for the angry shriek from Inuyasha and the pummelling that came from the boy’s fists, but Inuyasha couldn’t hurt the panda and in any case he was pulled off by an angry Inu no Taishou.
"You will apologise this instant for your disgraceful behaviour, Inuyasha." The General demanded of his son, but Inuyasha was unrepentant and refused point blank, which earned him a firm swatting for being disobedient. The pup was not subdued however, even though Xing-fu, his father, Kouga and his brother-in-law and worst of all Sesshoumaru, witnessed his punishment. Inuyasha squirmed trying to get down, but to no avail, he was held tight in his father’s inexorable grip. Xing-fu’s father moved to his son and held up his hand;
"What led to this brawl Xing-fu? Have you provoked Inuyasha?"
"I’m sorry Papa, but I suppose I must have done; Inuyasha didn’t like some of the things I said and he...then he...he...insulted my mother." Xing-fu sniffed tearfully and was the epitome of a dutiful and respectful son, unlike the growling puppy in his father’s arms. Inuyasha was furious; he could tell that Xing-fu was setting him up and his growling got louder. Inu no Taishou asked Kouga what had happened and the wolf was torn between his two friends. He had no idea that Xing-fu was anything but unwise in his words at the time, and while he could sympathise with Inuyasha, he couldn’t say anything that would justify the hanyou’s behaviour.
"Xing-fu didn’t realise Inuyasha was hanyou and made a mistake in telling us about a hanyou he knew; Inuyasha took it personally."
"Is this how you understood it, Xing-fu?" Asked Inu no Taishou.
"Yes, otherwise I should never have mentioned..." Xing-fu said his eyes wide as if shocked.
"You are to be commended in not retaliating and fighting my son, you have my gratitude." Inu no Taishou said to the young panda who knew he had scored a great deal in finding out that Inuyasha was the unknown Prince at school.
"Oh, it wouldn’t have been right to fight him Sir; he is younger and smaller than me and Mama taught me that hitting back doesn’t solve the problem it just adds to it, and then it makes things worse for everyone. It works too doesn’t it; I mean if I had hit him back, I would have got a spanking too?" Xing-fu smiled self deprecatingly at his father and Inu no Taishou, making sure he caught Inuyasha’s eye too.
"Well, I am glad you remembered your lessons so well that you could recall them when necessary. I hope you shame my son into remembering some of his own." The General was still angry with Inuyasha, but the older Panda came to him and said no hard feelings, Xing-fu had probably angered the pup with some ill conceived words, there was a harsh history behind the story. Inu no Taishou heard the Panda with understanding, not everyone by far, accepted hanyou. By now Xing-fu was in his element and he got up to stare up at Inuyasha.
"I’m sorry if I upset you Inuyasha and I don’t hold a grudge because you hit me." He looked smilingly up at the hanyou, who for the first time was not fooled; Inuyasha could see the gleam and the smirk clearly, even if everyone else including Kouga thought the panda cub was generous and mature.
"Well, it is time for us to depart Inu no Taishou; I’m sure that everything will be forgotten when the boys return to school and thank you for including Xing-fu in your education programme."
"We too must depart and take our leave My Lord. Come Prince Kouga." The Wolf Regent said, as he ushered his youngling ahead of him and bowed to the Western Lord. Inu no Taishou bowed back and soon was left alone with his sons. Sesshoumaru had remained silently by his side while he was dealing with Inuyasha and followed equally silently when their father walked stiffly back to his study, the small hanyou still hanging off his arm. Once there he stood Inuyasha in front of him and said sternly;
"You will explain your behaviour now Inuyasha."
"He was rude to me and he did know I am a hanyou, he was all lying with things he said, and making me crosser and crosser. His mama killed a hanyou and his dad knew too; and it was his own son, Xing’s own brother." Inuyasha was full of horrified indignation and his father sighed; Inuyasha had to learn the truth but it didn’t excuse his behaviour.
"That is not your concern Inuyasha, you already know that hanyou are not accepted by everyone and there is nothing to be done about the boy now."
"You knew about the boy...you knew before Xing came to school?"
"I did; I hoped that your example might stop such a thing happening again. There is more to education than book learning. We are not though, speaking of Xing-fu or his father’s business, but yours. I was ashamed of you Inuyasha; I ordered you to apologise and you refused, this is something I as Alpha, will not accept from my pups. You will fetch my slipper now."
"No, you already smacked me..."
"You kept fighting, growling and still have not apologised; not to me, nor to a guest of this house and you are still not doing as you have been told. You are old enough to know when to back down Inuyasha; I will not be disobeyed in public without very good reason. You did not have good reason whatever you think; brawling like a street urchin is not the way to be and whatever rights you might have had, you tried to solve in the wrong way. Now go." Inu no Taishou now prepared for a verbal fight with Sesshoumaru, but his eldest too had learned not to go against a parental decree. Inuyasha returned and sulked when he handed the slipper to his father; then he yelled loudly as it was applied, but he walked out without a word or backward glance, passed both his father and brother.
Inuyasha felt betrayed, he had a vivid picture in his mind of the poor human mother with her hanyou panda cub, working hard, living in a shed with no one to care for them, until she died, then leaving her young cub to the fate of poisoning. Neither had mattered to anybody, and Inuyasha personally understood being viewed as nothing more than an animal; he remembered Makoto’s mother’s attitude and words to him very well. He sat in his room and stewed, getting angrier at the injustice of being born different...or hanyou. He would have sat through dinner too, but he was not going to be permitted to do that. The Lady entered without knocking and sat on the futon next to Inuyasha and waited patiently until the boy looked at her.
"It is dinner time Inuyasha, you are required to attend."
"I’m not hungry Auntie."
"So do you plan on putting the world to rights by sitting here sulking, or by learning from this experience?"
"What do you mean? Everyone hates hanyou, how can Papa let him be in my class?"
"How dare you say that, do I hate you, does your father or Sesshoumaru, what about your mother and siblings? How dare you say such unjust things to me...you are not thinking straight Inuyasha, and I expect your father mentioned that he hoped by being in a class with you, others might learn tolerance. You let him down today and you let yourself down; oh I don’t mean by your reaction to Xing-fu, but by forgetting your obedience to your Alpha. I think he deserves an apology from you for your rudeness to him in public and when you left the study.
"And before you think I am being unfair, think about what I and the others have said. You know we love you and always have. There are many unfortunates who live tragic lives and it is not restricted to the rare hanyou; human and youkai can find life intolerable through no fault of their own. Perhaps one day you can cause a change in attitude for some, perhaps not, but you must learn to go about it the right way." She looked down on the now subdued hanyou, and softened her face as she heard his whispered ‘sorry’.
When they reached the dining hall, Inuyasha went and bowed his head in front of his father and formally apologised for his rudeness and then Inu no Taishou picked him up and held him tight when Inuyasha finally broke into tears. It was never going to be an easy road to travel for his little pup, but Inuyasha was strongly made; he would always come through.