InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Western lands tale ❯ Chapter 9

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*&*Chapter 9*&*

 

Will Rin be Jaken's saving grace?

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Something was wrong, Rin could sense it and it was driving her crazy. Her mating mark was acting up, and not in a pleasurable way like Kagome explained to her once. But the emotion that it was feeding her was more along the lines of caged fury and it was making her head hurt and her stomach nauseated. Oh please, she prayed, let it not be morning sickness, it's been going great so far. But no dice, the minute she opened her eyes the room tilted and acid laced saliva crawled up her throat.

 

She practically didn't make it to the chamber pot behind the privacy screen. Kagome did warn her at some point that the first week of morning sickness was the worst. Did she HAVE to be right on this?! Between bouts of dry heaving coughs and crying she didn't sense him come up behind her. She almost jumped out of her skin when she felt his long, calloused, warm, strong fingers brush her hair out of her face with one hand and the other he massage the back of her neck. Rin could have wept at the tenderness of the simple acts.

 

When he was sure that her stomach had stopped emptying itself he took her in his arms and brought her back to bed. Once he got her settled he went to the bath chamber and got a moist cloth and a cup of water and a bowl. When he came back he made her rinse and spit and then passed the cloth over her sweaty face. He was greatly tempted to call his brother's mate so she could exam Rin but his pride got a hold of him first.

 

“Are you all right Rin?” He asked putting the cloth aside and joined his mate, spooning her from behind.

 

“Yeah, said Rin sighing, it's just a pregnancy side effect, it'll pass… in a few months,” Rin said, grumbling the end of it miserably.

 

“Hmmm,” was all Sesshomaru had to say about the matter. He knew of the problem she was to be going through, he heard accounts from his brother about Kagome's pregnancies. He just hoped that Rin's mood swings, like his brother called them weren't as violent as Kagome's have been and still are.

 

“Why are you angry?” Rin asked, her voice a balm on his ragging emotions.

 

Tucking a lock of her ebony hair behind her delicate ear, he replied. “What do you remember from before awakening love?”

 

Scrunching her nose in concentration, Rin wasn't sure what he was asking her. “I'm not sure…wait...oh no,” she whimpered when everything came back to her. She couldn't believe that Jaken hated her so much. For a moment she felt like she had trespassed on some invisible line.

 

“Master Jaken,” she said softly as tears burned the back of her eyelids. “How could he think that anyone could or would replace him as your vassal?”

 

“Rin, what do you want this Sesshomaru to do about this?”

 

“I don't know,” she sighed burrowing herself further into her mate's arms. “I don't want you to hurt him though. He's just scared, terrified is the best term. He thought that all of it was a lie. For the fact that he didn't smell my changed scent or the scent permitting our bedchamber door might either be because he just doesn't have a normal youkai sense of smell or his conscience was blinding his other senses to avoid the truth. I just want everything to be normal and happy again. We're having our first pup in eight months, we should be celebrating not killing ignorant toad youkai,” Rin said turning around to face her beloved mate and nuzzle his nose with hers making herself giggle and him smile.

 

“You are a true mystery, sweets,” he said covering his mating mark on the junction of her neck and shoulder with licks making her moan and giggle at the same time. “If not for your feelings towards the matter, this Sesshomaru would have disposed of the problem quickly.”

 

“And I'm sure that a lot of people would have loved that. But, to me, Jaken is, in a way, a… part of you. I was fond of him and his incorruptible belief in you, and of course he was very fun to tease and get agitated. But now that I know that his emotions towards me are now of great hatred I will steer clear of him as I am sure that he will do the same with me and our pups.”

 

“If that is what you wish Rin, than it will be done accordingly,” he said tucking her head against his chest when he saw that her eyes were more closed then opened and she gave a jaw popping yawn. “Sleep now koi, you and the pup you are carrying need all the energy you can get,” he whispered against the crown of her head, kissing it before closing his eyes and indulging himself in the simple pleasure of hold his mate while hearing hers and the pups' heartbeat. Yes, I can hear them distinctly now, there are more then one growing in her womb, he thought smiling as he drifted off in his own plans for the future, one of them involving an evil grin, tokigen and that rotten, idiot, puny toad.

 

 

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In his large appointed chambers Jaken was pacing the perimeter. His mind was a large fiery ball of confusion that was thick in his throat and didn't seem to leave. He was furious that he didn't see the whore's plan from the beginning; it was too late now the witch cast her spell and he knew of no way to undo it. Besides his Lord had placed the mating mark on her and a separation would only mean certain death for both mates.

 

No, he had to leave the minute that he could because he knew that he was now a dead toad, the Lady would never let him live and stay in the same lands as her knowing that he knew that she had bewitched the great Inu taiyoukai. That was her only weakness, the minute that the word went out the other taiyoukai would question her and put Lord Sesshomaru's leadership in question and then on day dethrone him making them live as paupers and Lord Inuyasha would also be dethroned, and the world would find it's pureblood balance once again.

 

Yes, he will leave this place and disappear, let her live in her treacherous happiness. When peace will rein on the land then and only then will he strike.

 

As his maniacal plan became clearer in his mind he put together a small pouch with a few of his belonging and grabbed his two headed staff and sneaked out through the castle gates in the dead of night. Being as small as he was he didn't think he would have been detected by the guards; and he wasn't. But someone did see him that night; two yellow eyes glowed in the dark of night from a railing of a balcony.

 

She heard everything the toad said and of course being Jaken he formulated his plans out loud. She wasn't very scared for her friends at the moment but if they stayed in ignorance it could mean a huge whole in their social standings.

 

She found it sad that someone would delude themselves to the point where they thought everyone was against them. Humanoids are so confusing, and I thought youkai where more intelligent then the human variety, but no. Once they are tainted with the wrong kind of jealousy then the cat is out of the bag and there is no way of putting it back in. However I find the human species fascinating, knowing that they do not live for long and they are very fragile creatures they still live their lives to the fullest and damn the consequences.

 

Miroku would be a perfect example to that statement. Even if he got smacked by every female he groped he never stopped. Even, after Sango wacked him with her boomerang the first time! He just came back for more, talk about persistence. You have to admire him though he did get what he wanted; Sango married him and barred his children. But kami the man was a glutten for punishment HA! Life on the road was never boring with him around. Now that I think about it, so was Inuyasha and Kagome, of course Shippo didn't help any.

 

But still there were moment where Inuyasha would reveal his emotions and then become embarrassed and explode. Those were times that I found particularly funny.

 

Now I only wish I could communicate my thoughts to Shippo and ask him to transform into his pink balloon so I can play around sometimes. I'm starting to feel old and I need something young to do.

 

Well I think it's safe to go back into my keeper's bedchambers now and grab a few hours of sleep. I have a feeling that we're not going to be getting a lot of it pretty soon with Kagome almost due.

 

 

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When Sesshomaru woke up the next morning, going through the motions of Rin's morning sickness and once she was back asleep he thought over everything Rin told him the day before about what she wanted to be done to his worthless vassal. Well he had to disagree with everything she said, his mate had a good heart and it was in the right place. But still Sesshomaru had in some way seen this coming. So, first thing as soon as he got up he was getting rid of the toad. He even kind of liked the idea of not being pestered by the thing ever again. But at the moment the only real thing that he cared about was the feel of his tiny lifemate in his arms.

 

To him Rin was a fragile little thing that needed to be wrapped in heavy silks and put into a safe place, but that wasn't going to happen since he knew his lifemate's strength of mind. He was the one that trained her after all.

 

“Sesshomaru, would you stop thinking about unpleasant things?” Rin asked her voice a sexy purr from her still sleepy state.

 

“I'm sorry koi, is it upsetting the pups?” Sesshomaru asked rubbing a hand soothingly across his mate's small baby bump.

 

“Yes, unfortunately it is,” she said cuddling closer, “wait, did you say pups!!!” She said now wide awake.

 

“Yes, you are carrying three pups,” he said grinning at her out of major ego boosting and joy.

 

“Hey, baka! Inuyasha said as he came in with Kagome. A little more gloating and your ego won't fit through the doors.”

 

“Very funny you insufferable whelp,” said Sesshomaru getting up picking Rin up along the way so Kagome and Inuyasha could pull up the covers so he could put Rin back on them. It was better that way for Kagome to examine Rin.

 

“How are you doing today Rin?

 

“Worse,” Rin mumbled.

 

“How so?” Kagome asked checking Rin's vitals to make sure everything was in order.

 

“Morning sickness started,” Rin mumbled again this time pouting.

 

“Oh really?” Kagome asked her expressions going from sympathetic to laughing. “Well now, didn't I say that you were going to experience them like the rest of us mere mortals?” Kagome said raising a questioning eyebrow at her ward like she did when Rin was younger and had her temper tantrums.

 

“Yes, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.”

 

“Oh, so true, I never like them, but they're worth it in the end you know,” said Kagome as she examined the little baby bump even taking out her stethoscope to make sure that everything was in it's place and to see that a heart beat had been established, especially since the baby was going to be a three quarter youkai. But what shocked her most was that she was hearing more then one heart beat!

 

“Rin sweetie, you're going to have triplets,” Kagome said beaming at her ward.

 

“Yeah, I know, Sesshomaru told me this morning,” Rin said beaming back placing her hands on the bump.

 

“Lord Sesshomaru!” One of the guards said barging into the opened door.

 

“Yes,” said Sesshomaru getting up from his perch at the end of the bed.

 

“Master Jaken has fled before we could detain him, do you want us to go after him Milord?”

 

“No, let him go,” said Sesshomaru with finality and the guard bowed and left.

 

“Are you sure you don't want him back here so we can torture him?” Inuyasha asked grinning maliciously earning him an elbow in the ribs by his pregnant mate.

 

“Inuyasha, I'm hungry will you go get me strawberries with peanut butter?” Kagome asked returning to her examination.

 

“Sure thing,” said Inuyasha dashing out of the room before she demanded something worse.

 

“Oh and Inuyasha bring me some whipped cream too,” Kagome called out not worried that her mate didn't hear her.

 

“What's peanut better?” Rin asked intrigued.

 

“Oh it's the best thing in the world,” said Kagome dreamily. “It's peanuts that get crushed until they get unto a paste and then you add sugar and other things. I'm not sure for the rest but I do know that I love to drizzle on some honey when I spread peanut butter on some fresh bread… yum,” said Kagome going off into fantasy land.

 

“That sounds good, but I'm not a big fan of peanuts.”

 

“Oh sweetie, if there's one thing that you'll learn about your pregnancy is that you don't control your food cravings, the babies do. If they want peanut butter, they'll get peanut butter, if they want spicy food, you'll tear up your whole kitchen to have some. But good thing that when I tested you for food allergies you didn't have any allergies to nuts but to be on the safe side I don't want you eating nuts until your fourth month, at the time we'll try a little bit each day to see if the babies will develop allergies to nuts.”

 

“Ok, but will it hurt the babies if I don't give it what they want?”

 

“Unless you're not eating period, then no, you'll not be hurting the babies. Since you're eating for four people now you'll find yourself eating more frequently, you're going to have to eat between meals. Not a lot but snacks here and there. But not all sweets, fruits and veggies are the key so are meat or meat alternatives. How do you feel right now, are you hungry?” Kagome said sitting down in a chair that one of the servants brought in.

 

“No I feel fine, tired but fine.”

 

“When was the last time you've eaten?”

 

“Yesterday, I think, after the morning sickness this morning I've fallen strait back to sleep.”

 

“Hmm, Sesshomaru can you order her up some salty dried biscuits, water, a glass of milk, cheese, assorted fruits please?”

 

Without a word Sesshomaru went to the door and signalled Hina, to the door and gave her Kagome's request and with a low bow Hina went strait for the kitchen crossing paths with Inuyasha that was carrying a tray that contained something that wasn't very pleasant to the nose.

 

“Here you go Kagome,” said Inuyasha putting the tray of food before her. When Rin got closer and could really smell the peanut butter she barely had the time to get behind the screen that she got violently ill.

 

“Inuyasha? Kagome asked anxiously.

 

“I've got it,” Inuyasha said taking the tray out the door as fast as he could.

 

Once Rin couldn't smell the peanut butter anymore her stomach settled and Sesshomaru was able to get her back to bed.

 

“Well, Kagome said laughing softly without mirth. I guess we got our answer for the peanuts, the babies are allergic. Because this can't be caused by morning sickness because you've already had it this morning and by what you've told me already is there's nothing in your stomach that could have caused it. But I still want you to eat what I've asked Sesshomaru to bring up for you. Now if you will excuse me I have food waiting for me and this little one doesn't know yet how to exercise patience,” Kagome said waddling out of the room fallowing her nose to where Inuyasha had gone off too with her snack.

 

“Here you go my Lady Rin, just what the doctor ordered, I made sure that none of that smelly stuff, Lord Inuyasha had taken out of the kitchen, is in this,” said Hina winking at Rin making the young woman giggle.

 

“Thank you Hina, this smell delicious,” Rin said honestly as she found herself ravenous, as she started by eating the fruits.

 

“Well, of course it is, Hina said with a smile, only the best for my Lady Rin.”

 

“I beg you Hina, what is your mate preparing for us this evening?” Rin asked with stars in her eyes as she continued to devour her platter.

 

“Oh well, I suppose I can tell you just this once,” said Hina walking over to the side of the bed so she could whisper to Rin's ear. “We are having your favourite tonight, Oden.”

 

“Really? Oh my, just hearing the name of the dish makes my stomach grumble with appetite. Do you think you could bring me more fruits Hina?”

 

“Why if course Milady, it would be my pleasure to do so. Especially if that means I am also pleasing the future heirs,” Hina said as she left.

 

“Sesshomaru, when will you know the sexes of the babies?” Rin asked snuggling up to him when sat on the bed beside her.

 

“In three more months I should be able to detect it, as for human pups, youkai pups are the same way, their sexes develop on the fourth month of pregnancy,” he said passing a hand through her ebony hair lazily.

 

“Don't you have duties to attend to?” Rin asked raising her eyebrow at her mate.

 

“That I have koi but my main duty is to my mate.”

 

“Well then, your mate wishes to rest, so her daunting mate can go do his Lordship duties, as in a certain counsel meeting that has to be finished so that Lord Ketsu may return to his own lands,” said Rin yawning.

 

“As you wish my mate,” said Sesshomaru giving her a lingering kiss before she fell asleep with a smile and a hand on her tummy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(A/N: Hey everyone, I know I haven't updated in a really long time but don't worry I'm still alive and I'm still working on this story and I won't let it down until it's done, =D, so tell me what you think of this chapter? And of course ideas for future chapters are always appreciated ;P)