InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Lifetime Loving You Part 1; Seasons in Owari ❯ Recalling the Past ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8; Recalling the Past

(Inu-yasha POV)

Now, Myoga, the grandfather flea demon that stayed at my mother's side as she raised me, has been at my side since I can remember. He almost everything about how I came to be, except the time when my father discovered I was about to come into this world. He would soon become my greatest advisor to the problem that lay ahead.

I came to my time once more and without delay, I sniffed out the chicken flea who would never go within a feet of danger. I came to the old God Tree and looked up at the branches as I began to remove my kimono and finish dressing properly. "Myo? Hey, Myoga, where are you? I can smell you!"

A looked around for a moment before cringing as a slight prick in my chest. A moment later I looked down to find the little pest taking his fill, and a second later he made contact with my palm. "Looks like you haven't had your breakfast yet."

The flea popped back into his normal three dimensional form and rubbed his head with one of his four tiny arms. "My lord, you've returned from your stay in the mortal girl's time, I see. It is morning, and you said you'd be back this afternoon. Why so early, Lord Inu-yasha?"

I bowed my head and leaned against the tree as the flea jumped up and down in my palm. I dropped him on the ground carelessly and began to climb the tree to sit on a large, low, limb. The old flea jumped to my level and landed on my knee as he took a seat. "Something is troubling you. Has something gone wrong between you and Lady Kagome?"

I tucked my arms in my sleeves and looked at Myoga. "Can you recall the day my father first knew of my existence?"

The tiny flea scratched his head. "You call upon the day your father first knew your mother was with a child, am I correct?"

I narrowed my brow. "Yes?"

The old flea crossed his arms and closed his large eyes to think. "Aye, I do remember such a day! The scent of demon and your mother's scent was the first sign. Yet the demon scent lacked in power, and your father knew well that you were within your mother's womb."

I crossed my arms and leaned forward. "Do you remember any of it?"

The tiny flea thought for a moment. "I remember what your father said to me the day he discovered your existence;

(Flashback) *** (Myoga's POV for the flashbacks only)

Your father came to me one day in the forest of Osaka and I was called upon a great secret.

"Myoga, listen to my word and follow. You are entrusted to keep a secret among us demon folk."

"My Lord? Lord Inu-taisho, what secret do you hide?"

He bowed his head for a moment and then looked to the Northeast. "Within the walls of Kyoto, Princess Mika is with a child."

I gasped from surprise and jumped to your father's shoulder. "Mika has fallen for a human mate?"

"No!" he snapped, "Mika has chosen to marry no other man. I am her husband, bound in her people's wedlock and my kind's as well. I have kept this secret for many months now. Now our love has produced an offspring. A male of both kinds or in other words...a half-breed."

I turned to your father surprised. "You told me you had gone to Princess Mika merely for guidance in discovering why she aid you after your tribe's males were killed and your mate, Sashimi. The only ones who live now are the females and your son, Sesshoumaru."

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I narrowed my brow and turned to the side. "The Great Dragon Demon, Ryuukotsusei! The one who killed my father and the bastard I killed with Tetsusaiga to make the sword lighter and regain its power."

Myoga nodded. "You could have killed him before if you had assisted him and your brother a long time ago."

I closed my eyes. "You and I both know I was far too young at the time. Mother was alive then."

Myoga bowed his head before me sadly. "Aye, but do not forget who it was who killed your mother."

I sneered at the flea. "This has nothing to do with what we're talking about anyway."

Myoga jumped and nodded. I thought for a moment before leaning against the tree once more. "You mentioned that my father knew my sex before I was born."

"Yes, it is a trait all demon fathers have."

I looked at the flea. "Just fathers?"

He nodded. "It is a power demon males have that can tell them the sex of their child and they alone know what their mate holds. However, any demon can smell a female in her pregnancy, and determine the bloodline. Your father knew you were his son."

I lowered my head and closed my eyes. Myoga noticed the sad look on my face and waited for me to respond. "Myo...Kagome is pregnant with a half- breed child. Her scent has a hint of demon blood within her, and the scent is similar to mine."

Myoga's eyes widened. "Lord Inu-yasha, you are a father?"

I glared at the flea. "I can't tell the sex. It is the child of another demon, and if I'm not mistaken, the night I found her beaten was the night she was to conceive."

The flea tapped his chin and looked to me. "This has happened without Kagome's knowledge then."

I jumped and leaned forward. "What do you mean?"

"Lady Kagome has no memory if you recall of ever being forced. Her senses must have been closed off, locked away by a spell."

I sat back and thrust my hand into my bangs. "She was...rapped?"

The flea closed his eyes and sighed heavily as he got to his feet. "The scent is similar to yours you say?"

I looked down at the ground below. "The demonic scent was similar, only weaker because of human blood. The child will be a half demon, but the father, Myoga?"

The flea looked up at the tree and thought. "Do you recall the names of any man she might have mentioned after her attack?"

I gasped and looked up at him, panic filling my eyes. "She said three words; spell, Naraku, and Sesshoumaru."

I flea sat down once again. "Your foe has entered the dark magic of demons. If my assumption is correct, Lord Inu-yasha, then the child may have two fathers...one of the body, and one of the soul."

I narrowed my brow and looked at the flea. "What are you talking about, old flea?"

Myoga looked at me and jumped on to my nose. "Naraku must have cast a spell over your brother. The child's physical body will belong to your brother for he is the child's father. Yet, the soul will be either human, or demonic."

I sat back on the tree as my eyes widened in fear. "Sesshoumaru, impregnated Kagome?"

"Not entirely true! It was against his will. Like Kagome, he should have no memory of it either. And knowing any demon, if one doesn't know ones mate, than one can not claim to be father of ones child. Sesshoumaru will reject the child once Kagome has been discovered."

I gasped for air and narrowed my brow. "You're sure it's not Naraku?"

"He was the puppet master, Lord Inu-yasha! He used your brother and Kagome to create a living being, and no ordinary one mind you. One that he may one day have control over if not raised to understand the difference between good and evil, between hate...and love."

I felt something grow in the pit of my stomach. There was a catch. "Wait! If Sesshoumaru is the father than he can tell if the child is his, but then shouldn't he also take up responsibility for it?"

Myoga stared as me for a moment and sighed heavily before jumping back and looking down sadly at my knee. "Lord Inu-yasha, you know your brother. Scent will not matter to him. He has no knowledge of the child's creation and not to mention the fact the child will be a half-breed after his own blood."

I looked at the flea and closed my eyes. "Sesshoumaru will reject it, won't he?"

I knew the answer, and Myoga didn't answer me. I knew it was true. I didn't need his word to confirm it.

"It is out of nature, and your brother's honor. He will never admit to a child that he did not create with his knowledge. It is the way nature works, and how most pups die shortly after birth. If the father does not care for the child or if the mother has no support in raising the child...it will die."

I opened my eyes slowly and looked at the flea. "Kagome won't be able to support a half demon child on her own, and I doubt if Naraku has anything to do with it that he will let the child die. If Kagome rejects the pup then Naraku will surely make his attempts to raise it."

I paused and looked out beyond the try to gather my thoughts. "He will try to raise Kagome's pup to work for him. He'll teach it to hate."

Myoga nodded as he took a seat. "It is a path only Naraku would hope the child Kagome is about to bear, but it is also entirely controlled by a theory. Naraku may have other means, but this seems the most logical."

I turned to the side and thought for a moment. "It makes sense, and yet at the same time makes no sense at all."

The old flea looked at me. "My Lord?"

I turned back to looked at the flea and dropped my free leg off the branch to let it dangle over the edge. "Naraku has gathered most of the jewel and taken it into hiding. Also, Naraku has the power to make copies of himself, children of his own matter."

The flea leaned in to listen as I narrowed my brow and tried to think it all through. "Myoga, if Naraku can produce children of his own, then why did he use my brother and Kagome to create a child? It doesn't make sense. If he has the power to create life from his own essence, then why does he need Sesshoumaru and Kagome to create a child?"

"An excellent question!" a voice said, and both of us jumped. Myoga quickly went into hiding and hid himself in my silver mane as I grabbed hold of Tetsusaiga.

The sky turned dark and I jumped down from my perch and crouched down at the base of the God Tree. I let my eyes wander and I knew who was near once I heard the sound of a voice cackling in the distance. "Naraku!"

A moment later, the voice came to me again. "Inu-yasha, you are far clever than I thought, for such a fool. Do you not forget what I told you in your visions during the night Kagome was injured?"

I looked around and waited before standing up and tensing my guard. "You said the child will be the end of me."

"Precisely! The child Kagome bares will be a greatly accepted new family member in my house. A child with the power of your father, and Kagome's spiritual power, will increase my bloods power immensely. Not to mention the fact the child will never know love. Sesshoumaru will reject her child, indeed, and it will fall into darkness once it discovers that its father holds remorse for his own blood and flesh, and rejects it."

I spun around and searched for Naraku's face will no such luck. I stayed on my guard. "Kagome won't raise it alone. I'll see to that. You know I will do everything in my power to keep Kagome out of danger. I'll do the same for her offspring."

Suddenly, he began to laugh once more. "You are indeed a fool. The child will not know love in its truest form. It will have no father to care for it, and will be raised in love. The evil will grow in her heart far more easily without the aid of love to protect it. It will be raised to know that it has been rejected, and through that, it will feel no trust, without trust there is no love, and without love...it will only feel hate."

I shook my head. "No!"

"What, foolish dog? Do you think you can spare Kagome's child from this future? You can do nothing to save her offspring. You cannot love Kagome enough to even protect her...when Kikyo still holds your heart and memory. You cannot give yourself fully to her in order to raise the child properly in love, for even you cannot decide which woman you love and care for more. Kikyo's life means more to you than the life Kagome carries now."

I spun around once more. "No! You can't do this! You can't do this to Kagome! I won't let you win."

Naraku's voice cackled again and I continued to search for his ugly face. "Fool! This is something you have no power over. You will never be able to save the child from its future. My plans for Kagome's child are far greater than you will ever imagine. Your heart will never find a way to decide whether you love Kikyo or Kagome more, and for such a fool you will never find the courage to love something that is made of your brother's flesh and blood. Your natures as a demon to neither love, nor protect something that is not yours; but, the child is mine. It is my creation! I am the child's creator and father of her soul. That is why when the time comes, it will seek me out."

His voice started to dissipate and I fell to my knees with anger as I fisted the earth. "You bastard! I'll find a way! I still have time."

His voice slowly became an echo and the sky began to clear. "Yet, now your days are numbered, Inu-yasha. It will be amusing to see you try to love a woman that you cannot find the courage to give your full heart to. Not to mention, loving a child that is your brother's."

The sky began to clear and I looked up to the sky as the darkness disappeared with the voice's final words. "Or, should I say, a child that is mine?" and with that, the darkness disappeared in an evil echoing laugh before pounded the ground with my fists.

"Kagome!" I looked at the green grass and then held my breath as I threw my head up into the sunlight and howled, "Naraku!"