InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ An Unlikely Sort of Love ❯ Ch. 9--Concequinces and Nice Hair ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Kitsune got dressed while Sesshoumaru's back was towards her. She just finished tying her belt. " Alright, I'm dressed." she said. He turned around and looked at her. He didn't say anything he just walked over to the fire and sat down.

Kitsune sat down close by and watched the fire. She didn't really know what to say. She really didn't know if she should say anything at all. After what happened, anything else seemed akward.

" Kitsune." His voice said quietly. Kitsune looked up.

"yes?" she answered.

" I am sorry." he apologized. " What are you going to do, if you get pregnant?" he asked. Kitsune stared at him. He just waited patiently for her to respond.

" You want me to get rid of it, if I am." she said. " Why?" she asked.

" Because you wouldn't want some burden to carry around. Another thing, is I'm a Yokai, you are a half demon. That child will be half Inu, part human and part fox. I want a pure blood line for my offspring." he explained. Kitsune frowned.

" I do not believe in getting rid of children. Yes I know how, but I refused to." she said lifting her chin difiantly. " If I do get with child...I will keep it. Even if that means I raise it alone. I don't have a problem with doing it, if you refuse to be in its life."

" You'd keep it?" he asked somewhat surprised. " It'd be hard for you to raise the child alone, yet you'd take care of it anyway?"

She nodded. " You wont have to worry. I wont come after you for help. If you want a "pure blood line."" she sneered. " Then I'll leave you alone."

" You are foolish!" he said. " You can't do this alone!"

" Then don't run away." she said. " It'd be your child...even if it was part fox and part dog."

" You want me to play father figure to a child that might not even exsist?"He asked her.

" I'm asking you to, if there is a child." she said. " You're the one who was blinded by lust and mated with me. This would be the consequince of that. You need to take responsibility."

He looked away. He knew she was right. He needed to be unlike his father, and take care of his own responsibility. " alright." he said. " If you happen to gain a child from our mating...I"ll be responsible and help take care of it."

" Thats all I ask. Just pray that I don't get pregnant. Then you wont have to worry about taking care of me. After Naraku is dead, and I'll be taking care of Rin, you wont be around alot. That will sort of be defeating the purpose of you have to stick around because of me..."

" I said I'll take care of you!" he said. " I'm not going to be like my father. He got my mother pregnant, then pretty much left her by herself. I knew him more when I was older, but hardly when I was growing up. " he sighed. " I'll be there. Don't worry."

Kitsune just nodded. " We'll see what happens." she said. " Right now all I care about is killing Naraku." She told him. " Once that happens, I wouldn't mind settling down."

The rest of the night was quiet. She didn't know what else to say. She was tired after their mating and she just wanted to sleep. She layed down and went to sleep.

He stood and watched the sun rise. Today they would venture into the mountains and hopefully find where Naraku was. When it was light enough, he looked over on the other side of the fire pit, in which the fire had died down, and watched Kitsune.

He didn't sleep, that was nothing new. He sat there thinking and silently praying to whomever that would listen, that Kitsune wouldn't get with child from their mating, and he vowed he would never do something like that again, just because of the season.

He chuckled to himself bitterly ' that would never happen.' He said to himself. ' Mating seasons reek havoc on the minds and senses of Yokai..there would be no way I could of controlled myself. This time or any other time afterwords.' He sighed. Well instead of vowing never to do it again, he said he'd try to be a better person.

Sesshoumaru knew that he came across cold and unfeeling. That was his way of keeping control of everything, land and fighting wise. He could control his land by being hard hearted, and making people fear him. And by having no expression he could fool his opponant. They'd never see his attacks comming. Kitsune did nothing wrong to really deserve the fact that he acted the way he did. Sure he was Daiyokai and she was half-breed, but the reason he hated his half brother was for other reasons.

He wanted to get going so he stood and crouched and nudged Kitsune on the shoulder. " Kitsune." he called. " Its morning, wake up" he said.

Kitsune blinked her eyes open and she looked up at him. " Oh, alright." she said and sat up. She yawned and stood. " I'll be right back." she said as she walked into the brush and relieved herself and found some water in a stream to wash her face and take a drink. She came back a moment later to where Sesshoumaru stood. " alright lets go." she said.

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Sesshoumaru and Kitsune walked up into the mountains. The path was level for a while but then they started walking at an incline. Soon the incline was steep and they had to pick their way along the way slowly.

Couple of hours later, the were able to walk on a leveled path. Kitsune walked behind Sesshoumaru, like she always did. She watched him from behind. How his hair swayed as he walked. It was long and straight. She rememebered being brushed by that hair when he mated with her the night before. It was as soft as it looked. Her fingers itched to touch it again. She came up behind him closer and combed her fingers through it.

Sesshoumaru looked behind him. "What are you doing?" he asked as he watched her.

" I'm sorry....I just had to touch it....it felt soft when it brushed my..er body last night, I wanted to feel it again. Its so silky." she kept touching it. She then snatched her hands back and put them behind her back. " I'm sorry." she said again and looked away.

He shook his head and chuckled. " You're not the only one who likes my hair." he said. " I'm used to it."

" I should be serious. We're after Naraku, I can't be fondling your hair, its not appropriate." she said and walked on ahead of him.