InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Another Opens... ❯ The Hitosarai ( Chapter 7 )
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By: Namiyo11 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.27.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 201 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.27.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 201 | Status: Completed
Chapter 7 -The Hitosarai
Recap: Treason is planned, questions are asked, and trouble comes. What happens now? Read on!
No, I don’t own Inuyasha! Come on now.
Blood. Everywhere. The ruined hall...the bodies...the blood. Kagome whimpered in her sleep as she tossed and turned. After ordering her bath scrubbed and repaired and dealing with the mess of having thrown Kokuzoku‘s son and heir through a wall...she‘d finally gone to bed.
The nightmares were back. The ones of winter. She opened her eyes, ears flat and trembling in her quarters. One hand went to the other side of her sleeping mat as she clutched her covers...empty now, thanks to her Inuyasha’s baka-ness...and she rose and pulled a robe on. Even if he did snore, and claimed she was a blanket thief, and thought she’d been wrong to do what she had to do last winter...she missed him beside her. She needed him.
Kagome rose. Deciding, she soon frowned at herself in the mirror. This was a stupid idea. It didn’t fit, the darned thing was too short, too tight across the hips and shoulders, and she looked like an idiot when she‘d glanced in the highly polished metal mirror. But maybe...she was sitting on the floor putting on her socks and brushing her hair when she distinctly heard a seam pop. Darn it. Kagome was a dab hand at being general assistant and keeper to stubborn Inu Lords, youkai fighting and applied mayhem now, but this-wasn’t something she had any practice at. When she ought to have learned it she’d been busy.
Scooping up her bow from it’s rack out of habit, she turned to leave, to go to him and beg him to take her back.
***
Rather proud of himself, grim, Kouga slipped past the guards on the wall. A careful move to keep low, and he was dropping into the Keep. His scent was concealed by rolling in certain herbs, but he was not happy. But he had to scout, get her back...and then he could safely move against Sesshomaru with his woman by his side and not as a hostage or bargaining chip. But-where?
Slipping smoothly through the gardens, he followed the scent trails, looking...but he couldn’t identify Kagome’s specific, well-remembered scent, something he attributed to the herbs he’d rolled in. They were nearly overpowering his own nose. The wolf did, however, catch vague whiffs of the scents of three people-who should not be in this place. The monk, the tajiya...and the mutt. She was here then. Kagome wouldn’t leave them, no matter what the brat said. He followed the trails to a low building, careful to avoid going too near where he smelled Sesshomaru.
***
Inuyasha was lying on the mat in the guest apartment across the courtyard. He’d stayed up all night, unable to sleep alone, especially here...and winced at the fact that he could sprawl across the soft bedding as he liked. Kagome, his own mate and love, ought to be here snuggled up with him and comforting him in this place...even if she did steal the covers in her sleep. And falsely accused him of snoring. And hid things from him. And used the damned beads, not to mention going off slaughtering with his fucking half-brother. He needed her. A strong smell of sour herbs crossed his nose, and he made a face.
It didn’t help that his sensitive ears had picked up the sounds of enthusiastic mating earlier from Sango and Miroku’s rooms. That was something else he now missed terribly. It was also making it rather hard to sleep from thinking about it.
***
A soft hiss from her porch door, open to catch any breeze that might cool the room. She turned, and gasped. Kouga bounded into the room, shutting the door quickly as he passed it. She hadn’t smelled him! How-he smelled like plants...Sango had spoken of herbs that disguised scent. Sneaky. Too sneaky.
“K-kagome?” he managed, reaching to take her chin and tilt her face up. Her face, her clothes...her ears!
“It’s me, Kouga,” she confirmed, looking up into his eyes, trying to decide how best to handle this.
“How? You-you’re...youkai??” A nod.
“Well, hanyou, actually. It‘s a long story,” she admitted. Kouga was astonished. She was as lovely as before, no, more now, powerful...he took her bowless hand in his, staring in wonder at her claws.
“Magnificent. Amazing. Our children will be three quarters,” he breathed, making her blink in bewilderment.
“Uh...Our-what??” Kagome asked, pulling her hand away.
“Kagome, I missed you so much. I’ve come for you, to take you safely home with me,” he actually blushed a bit, and decided to take the plunge. He took her in his arms, daring to at last. There was a gasp. He beamed at her, and-kissed her soundly.
“MPHH!” she shoved him back, and gaped.
“Uh...” he looked embarrassed, and she stared at him.
“What are you doing?” she asked sharply, keeping her voice down.
“I’ll tell you everything soon, but we have to get out of here! I need you to come with me, you can explain what’s happened to you when we get clear of the hounds. I can’t smell a thing with these herbs all over me.”
“What about Ayami!?” Kagome managed, and the wolf growled, even as he glanced around worriedly.
“She’s my enemy-and yours. Please tell me you haven’t believed those damned lies!” he hissed desperately, there was so much to hear, so much he didn‘t understand, but he had to get her clear of this place first.
Lady Kagome of the Inu considered...and nodded. It was an opportunity she wasn’t allowing to pass by. It might be the only way to save someone she considered her friend-if not beloved. To stop things before it went too far.
“I’ll come with you. Let me pack. Ginta and Hakkaku...they need you? I heard one was hurt, is it bad?”
“Yes! Come on.” She quickly grabbed her things, putting her troll robes into her pack with her kit, and soon he slung it over his shoulder. When she picked up a bow and no quiver, she smiled at his look.
“You’ll see. Later. We’ll talk later,” she promised. Kouga would see the Hamayami...one way or another.
Kagome followed him, helping him sneak out by the simple expedient of dropping a discrete signal to the guards that he missed. As they left, she was devoutly hoping her instinct was right, and she was allowing herself to be abducted by an innocent man. One of the guards who was on nightwatch, though, served Lord Kokuzoku. When one of the premier pack left the Keep, passing the word that she was not to be followed and no alert raised even with the wolf, he gave signals of his own as they ran into the night.
She just hoped Sesshomaru wouldn’t yell too much...much less Inuyasha.
***
Later. The packbond suddenly resounded, a packmate in danger...Inuyasha surged out of bed, and dashed for the door! He looked and realized where the trouble was. The guards on Sesshomaru’s chambers outside-they were upright-but dead.
“SESSHOMARU!” he launched himself inside his brother’s rooms as the sounds of muffled conflict could be heard. “Dumb bastard, too proud to yell for help,” Inuyasha scowled as he saw would be assassins. Inu ones, who’d gone to kill the Lord in his sleep. But Sesshomaru had awakened, and was diving for his swords on their rack...in the dark and confusion, he realized their scents had been disguised! The damned plant stench!
“Filthy cowards!” Inuyasha slashed with Tetsusaiga, getting one while he interposed himself between Sesshomaru, who was bleeding from a thrown dagger, and danger. Automatically, he did what a packsecond should, and protected his pack leader’s back.
Sesshomaru held Toujikin now...and the two of them scowled at their opponents.
“Traitors,” Sesshomaru took out another, saw the hanyou baka actually go to protect him. “I do not require assistance!” he snarled, engaging another opponent.
“This is hardly the time!” Inuyasha killed one trying to sneak up on him, cutting the Inu nearly in half.
They could hear a crash and splintering wood...the sounds of feet running...guards screaming at each other as they dashed to their Lord’s aid, faster than the hanyou realized...and...
“Hiraikotsu!”
A thin child’s scream.
“Rin,” Sesshomaru said, and unhesitatingly dove for the door, taking out another almost absently. Inuyasha finished the last one and followed him.
But-she was gone.
“RIN!” Sango yelled, horrified as the monk and tajiya followed over the bodies of their own would-be assassins. The chamber that was the little girl’s, a cheerful, pretty, toy filled room with flowers everywhere, was all but untouched. The governess set to watch over her in her sleep was dead. Rin’s bed was empty, save for a knife plunged into the mat. The note that was attached...was a declaration. Kokuzoku.
“They took her. This was a diversion,” Sesshomaru noted, ignoring his injured side as he stalked into Kagome’s apartments.
“What happened?” Sango asked, shocked.
“Treason and kidnapping,” Inuyasha answered grimly. The scents were disguised, but-Inu. It had to be Inu who chose to start this. No other youkai could’ve known the Keep layout of approached so stealthily as far as he could tell.
Jaken burst into the courtyard, horror all over his small face.
“Who would dare! How dare they do this, my Lord, let me-”
“Where is Kagome?” his Lord interrupted, emerging with eyes blazing red in rage.
***
“Sesshomaru!” Kagome gasped and stopped, spinning to face the Keep again as Kouga scowled.
“He’s-” a glare, a check, “not here. Kagome, what-” he peered at her, and suddenly grabbed her shirt-actually...her pendant.
Blood drained from his face. Packbonded! Packbonded to Sesshomaru-and her pack was endangered. He knew it, who could miss the signs? But why did she come with him then!? ‘Because she loves you.’ Kouga answered himself.
“I have to go back!” she was restrained-and damn if she wasn’t a lot stronger! Struggling in his grip, she trembled as she felt the pull of her bond...stop. Hanging in his arms, she shivered. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha weren’t dead, whatever it was had stopped. They had killed it, most likely.
“Your...pack leader is Sesshomaru, isn’t it?” he asked, and she nodded. Damn. But that meant...she brought more to him and the Tribe than merely her own grace and gifts.
“He...took out whatever it was. But something alerted me, Kouga! I have to go back!”
“Not yet. Kagome, listen to me! Come with me to Ginta. Then I’ll bring you back here after you and I have a talk. Please, Kagome? I don’t want a war here, will your Lord?” he asked her urgently. She hesitated, but finally nodded. Kouga was right. She allowed him to lead her onward, but kept glancing back over her shoulder.
***
“Kill me, I beg you, my Lord,” the now former guard captain trembled at Sesshomaru’s feet. So. Kokuzoku, and his pack and risen against him! Dared to attempt to kill him, stole his child...and his fool packmate elects to go running off, leaving him only the baka.
“Where the hell is Kagome?” Inuyasha looked outraged, scowling at the armored Inu cringing on the ground. He was dead, and the hanyou knew it. He’d kill himself for his failure in his charge-if Sesshomaru or himself didn’t give him that honor. Didn’t give him a clean death.
But Sesshomaru knew what had happened from the guard.
“She permitted Kouga to abduct her. Rin is not with her,” he answered. Jaken had bandaged him...he was leaving to get Rin back soon. Then, he would deal with the rebels. Inventively.
“WHAT!?”
“She long planned to attend to him personally, little brother,” Sesshomaru answered impatiently. He settled his blades, and Inuyasha realized he planned to go alone. That Kagome had deliberately gone with Kouga-not knowing how things stood. Just like her, the crazed wench!
“I’m coming with you to get them back!” he barked, and Sesshomaru paused, eyes hard.
“I do not require you.”
“Fuck that! If I let you go into battle alone...she’ll kill me,” Inuyasha scowled. The Lord, after a moment-nodded. He was right, he supposed. His packsecond should accompany him.
Inuyasha knew Kagome would never forgive him if he didn’t cover his brother’s back in her absence. At least, that was what he told himself. For Kagome. He was his brother’s packsecond now, though. He was of the Inutaisho-as she was. It was what they did. Even if that meant he couldn’t go after her right away.
But the Inu guardsman...he realized Sesshomaru was watching him with impatience. He would allow the hanyou to decide this. It would tell him much. As packsecond he was the one who had to decide here.
For a moment he hesitated, but drew Tetsusaiga. The Inu looked relieved, and positioned his head for the stroke on the ground in the courtyard. It was quick. A head rested on the ground now...and he sheathed it as Miroku murmured a prayer. Sango nodded to herself. It was the right thing to do, expunging the shame to the captain’s family and pack. Inuyasha felt no pleasure in it, and understood-Kagome would have done it as well, at least, the Kagome of now. The one time he’d offered to slay someone like this, that Lord who’d been possessed by a toad-she’d stopped him.
But this wasn’t then, it wasn’t the same.
In the end, they split up. Sango and Miroku went after Kagome and the two Inu...would go east. After Rin, to Kokuzoku’s lands. Yotogi and Atae were left to see to the Keep as regents in Sesshomaru’s absence.
“I wish you fortune, old friend, and good hunting,” he told his Lord, bowing. Sesshomaru just nodded.
“Do come back in one piece from this foolishness. You should not go alone like this. You ought to raise the Packs and crush him and anyone else who aids him,” Atae told them sharply as Jaken stood dejected beside her, ordered to remain behind. To wait for Kagome.
“Unnecessary.”
“Pride ful pup,” Lady Atae caught Inuyasha’s upset expression. “You did the right thing. Go now,” she told him bluntly.
The hanyou just nodded, and followed Sesshomaru out of the gates.
Author’s Notes-And so it begins! Kouga has no clue! Clues are over there-and he’s on the other side of the road, without one. No, no clue for Kouga. Also they’ve separated, and anyone who’s ever watched a horror movie ought to know that’s the last thing you do, right?
Ahhhh. Good things! As to the captain, well, suicide or execution was long an aspect of Japanese culture. Especially in cases like this. The Toad reference is the episode ‘The Toad who would be prince’. The Hitosarai? It means ‘The Kidnapping’. It seemed too much of a giveaway to use English. Thanks for reading!-Namiyo
Recap: Treason is planned, questions are asked, and trouble comes. What happens now? Read on!
No, I don’t own Inuyasha! Come on now.
Blood. Everywhere. The ruined hall...the bodies...the blood. Kagome whimpered in her sleep as she tossed and turned. After ordering her bath scrubbed and repaired and dealing with the mess of having thrown Kokuzoku‘s son and heir through a wall...she‘d finally gone to bed.
The nightmares were back. The ones of winter. She opened her eyes, ears flat and trembling in her quarters. One hand went to the other side of her sleeping mat as she clutched her covers...empty now, thanks to her Inuyasha’s baka-ness...and she rose and pulled a robe on. Even if he did snore, and claimed she was a blanket thief, and thought she’d been wrong to do what she had to do last winter...she missed him beside her. She needed him.
Kagome rose. Deciding, she soon frowned at herself in the mirror. This was a stupid idea. It didn’t fit, the darned thing was too short, too tight across the hips and shoulders, and she looked like an idiot when she‘d glanced in the highly polished metal mirror. But maybe...she was sitting on the floor putting on her socks and brushing her hair when she distinctly heard a seam pop. Darn it. Kagome was a dab hand at being general assistant and keeper to stubborn Inu Lords, youkai fighting and applied mayhem now, but this-wasn’t something she had any practice at. When she ought to have learned it she’d been busy.
Scooping up her bow from it’s rack out of habit, she turned to leave, to go to him and beg him to take her back.
***
Rather proud of himself, grim, Kouga slipped past the guards on the wall. A careful move to keep low, and he was dropping into the Keep. His scent was concealed by rolling in certain herbs, but he was not happy. But he had to scout, get her back...and then he could safely move against Sesshomaru with his woman by his side and not as a hostage or bargaining chip. But-where?
Slipping smoothly through the gardens, he followed the scent trails, looking...but he couldn’t identify Kagome’s specific, well-remembered scent, something he attributed to the herbs he’d rolled in. They were nearly overpowering his own nose. The wolf did, however, catch vague whiffs of the scents of three people-who should not be in this place. The monk, the tajiya...and the mutt. She was here then. Kagome wouldn’t leave them, no matter what the brat said. He followed the trails to a low building, careful to avoid going too near where he smelled Sesshomaru.
***
Inuyasha was lying on the mat in the guest apartment across the courtyard. He’d stayed up all night, unable to sleep alone, especially here...and winced at the fact that he could sprawl across the soft bedding as he liked. Kagome, his own mate and love, ought to be here snuggled up with him and comforting him in this place...even if she did steal the covers in her sleep. And falsely accused him of snoring. And hid things from him. And used the damned beads, not to mention going off slaughtering with his fucking half-brother. He needed her. A strong smell of sour herbs crossed his nose, and he made a face.
It didn’t help that his sensitive ears had picked up the sounds of enthusiastic mating earlier from Sango and Miroku’s rooms. That was something else he now missed terribly. It was also making it rather hard to sleep from thinking about it.
***
A soft hiss from her porch door, open to catch any breeze that might cool the room. She turned, and gasped. Kouga bounded into the room, shutting the door quickly as he passed it. She hadn’t smelled him! How-he smelled like plants...Sango had spoken of herbs that disguised scent. Sneaky. Too sneaky.
“K-kagome?” he managed, reaching to take her chin and tilt her face up. Her face, her clothes...her ears!
“It’s me, Kouga,” she confirmed, looking up into his eyes, trying to decide how best to handle this.
“How? You-you’re...youkai??” A nod.
“Well, hanyou, actually. It‘s a long story,” she admitted. Kouga was astonished. She was as lovely as before, no, more now, powerful...he took her bowless hand in his, staring in wonder at her claws.
“Magnificent. Amazing. Our children will be three quarters,” he breathed, making her blink in bewilderment.
“Uh...Our-what??” Kagome asked, pulling her hand away.
“Kagome, I missed you so much. I’ve come for you, to take you safely home with me,” he actually blushed a bit, and decided to take the plunge. He took her in his arms, daring to at last. There was a gasp. He beamed at her, and-kissed her soundly.
“MPHH!” she shoved him back, and gaped.
“Uh...” he looked embarrassed, and she stared at him.
“What are you doing?” she asked sharply, keeping her voice down.
“I’ll tell you everything soon, but we have to get out of here! I need you to come with me, you can explain what’s happened to you when we get clear of the hounds. I can’t smell a thing with these herbs all over me.”
“What about Ayami!?” Kagome managed, and the wolf growled, even as he glanced around worriedly.
“She’s my enemy-and yours. Please tell me you haven’t believed those damned lies!” he hissed desperately, there was so much to hear, so much he didn‘t understand, but he had to get her clear of this place first.
Lady Kagome of the Inu considered...and nodded. It was an opportunity she wasn’t allowing to pass by. It might be the only way to save someone she considered her friend-if not beloved. To stop things before it went too far.
“I’ll come with you. Let me pack. Ginta and Hakkaku...they need you? I heard one was hurt, is it bad?”
“Yes! Come on.” She quickly grabbed her things, putting her troll robes into her pack with her kit, and soon he slung it over his shoulder. When she picked up a bow and no quiver, she smiled at his look.
“You’ll see. Later. We’ll talk later,” she promised. Kouga would see the Hamayami...one way or another.
Kagome followed him, helping him sneak out by the simple expedient of dropping a discrete signal to the guards that he missed. As they left, she was devoutly hoping her instinct was right, and she was allowing herself to be abducted by an innocent man. One of the guards who was on nightwatch, though, served Lord Kokuzoku. When one of the premier pack left the Keep, passing the word that she was not to be followed and no alert raised even with the wolf, he gave signals of his own as they ran into the night.
She just hoped Sesshomaru wouldn’t yell too much...much less Inuyasha.
***
Later. The packbond suddenly resounded, a packmate in danger...Inuyasha surged out of bed, and dashed for the door! He looked and realized where the trouble was. The guards on Sesshomaru’s chambers outside-they were upright-but dead.
“SESSHOMARU!” he launched himself inside his brother’s rooms as the sounds of muffled conflict could be heard. “Dumb bastard, too proud to yell for help,” Inuyasha scowled as he saw would be assassins. Inu ones, who’d gone to kill the Lord in his sleep. But Sesshomaru had awakened, and was diving for his swords on their rack...in the dark and confusion, he realized their scents had been disguised! The damned plant stench!
“Filthy cowards!” Inuyasha slashed with Tetsusaiga, getting one while he interposed himself between Sesshomaru, who was bleeding from a thrown dagger, and danger. Automatically, he did what a packsecond should, and protected his pack leader’s back.
Sesshomaru held Toujikin now...and the two of them scowled at their opponents.
“Traitors,” Sesshomaru took out another, saw the hanyou baka actually go to protect him. “I do not require assistance!” he snarled, engaging another opponent.
“This is hardly the time!” Inuyasha killed one trying to sneak up on him, cutting the Inu nearly in half.
They could hear a crash and splintering wood...the sounds of feet running...guards screaming at each other as they dashed to their Lord’s aid, faster than the hanyou realized...and...
“Hiraikotsu!”
A thin child’s scream.
“Rin,” Sesshomaru said, and unhesitatingly dove for the door, taking out another almost absently. Inuyasha finished the last one and followed him.
But-she was gone.
“RIN!” Sango yelled, horrified as the monk and tajiya followed over the bodies of their own would-be assassins. The chamber that was the little girl’s, a cheerful, pretty, toy filled room with flowers everywhere, was all but untouched. The governess set to watch over her in her sleep was dead. Rin’s bed was empty, save for a knife plunged into the mat. The note that was attached...was a declaration. Kokuzoku.
“They took her. This was a diversion,” Sesshomaru noted, ignoring his injured side as he stalked into Kagome’s apartments.
“What happened?” Sango asked, shocked.
“Treason and kidnapping,” Inuyasha answered grimly. The scents were disguised, but-Inu. It had to be Inu who chose to start this. No other youkai could’ve known the Keep layout of approached so stealthily as far as he could tell.
Jaken burst into the courtyard, horror all over his small face.
“Who would dare! How dare they do this, my Lord, let me-”
“Where is Kagome?” his Lord interrupted, emerging with eyes blazing red in rage.
***
“Sesshomaru!” Kagome gasped and stopped, spinning to face the Keep again as Kouga scowled.
“He’s-” a glare, a check, “not here. Kagome, what-” he peered at her, and suddenly grabbed her shirt-actually...her pendant.
Blood drained from his face. Packbonded! Packbonded to Sesshomaru-and her pack was endangered. He knew it, who could miss the signs? But why did she come with him then!? ‘Because she loves you.’ Kouga answered himself.
“I have to go back!” she was restrained-and damn if she wasn’t a lot stronger! Struggling in his grip, she trembled as she felt the pull of her bond...stop. Hanging in his arms, she shivered. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha weren’t dead, whatever it was had stopped. They had killed it, most likely.
“Your...pack leader is Sesshomaru, isn’t it?” he asked, and she nodded. Damn. But that meant...she brought more to him and the Tribe than merely her own grace and gifts.
“He...took out whatever it was. But something alerted me, Kouga! I have to go back!”
“Not yet. Kagome, listen to me! Come with me to Ginta. Then I’ll bring you back here after you and I have a talk. Please, Kagome? I don’t want a war here, will your Lord?” he asked her urgently. She hesitated, but finally nodded. Kouga was right. She allowed him to lead her onward, but kept glancing back over her shoulder.
***
“Kill me, I beg you, my Lord,” the now former guard captain trembled at Sesshomaru’s feet. So. Kokuzoku, and his pack and risen against him! Dared to attempt to kill him, stole his child...and his fool packmate elects to go running off, leaving him only the baka.
“Where the hell is Kagome?” Inuyasha looked outraged, scowling at the armored Inu cringing on the ground. He was dead, and the hanyou knew it. He’d kill himself for his failure in his charge-if Sesshomaru or himself didn’t give him that honor. Didn’t give him a clean death.
But Sesshomaru knew what had happened from the guard.
“She permitted Kouga to abduct her. Rin is not with her,” he answered. Jaken had bandaged him...he was leaving to get Rin back soon. Then, he would deal with the rebels. Inventively.
“WHAT!?”
“She long planned to attend to him personally, little brother,” Sesshomaru answered impatiently. He settled his blades, and Inuyasha realized he planned to go alone. That Kagome had deliberately gone with Kouga-not knowing how things stood. Just like her, the crazed wench!
“I’m coming with you to get them back!” he barked, and Sesshomaru paused, eyes hard.
“I do not require you.”
“Fuck that! If I let you go into battle alone...she’ll kill me,” Inuyasha scowled. The Lord, after a moment-nodded. He was right, he supposed. His packsecond should accompany him.
Inuyasha knew Kagome would never forgive him if he didn’t cover his brother’s back in her absence. At least, that was what he told himself. For Kagome. He was his brother’s packsecond now, though. He was of the Inutaisho-as she was. It was what they did. Even if that meant he couldn’t go after her right away.
But the Inu guardsman...he realized Sesshomaru was watching him with impatience. He would allow the hanyou to decide this. It would tell him much. As packsecond he was the one who had to decide here.
For a moment he hesitated, but drew Tetsusaiga. The Inu looked relieved, and positioned his head for the stroke on the ground in the courtyard. It was quick. A head rested on the ground now...and he sheathed it as Miroku murmured a prayer. Sango nodded to herself. It was the right thing to do, expunging the shame to the captain’s family and pack. Inuyasha felt no pleasure in it, and understood-Kagome would have done it as well, at least, the Kagome of now. The one time he’d offered to slay someone like this, that Lord who’d been possessed by a toad-she’d stopped him.
But this wasn’t then, it wasn’t the same.
In the end, they split up. Sango and Miroku went after Kagome and the two Inu...would go east. After Rin, to Kokuzoku’s lands. Yotogi and Atae were left to see to the Keep as regents in Sesshomaru’s absence.
“I wish you fortune, old friend, and good hunting,” he told his Lord, bowing. Sesshomaru just nodded.
“Do come back in one piece from this foolishness. You should not go alone like this. You ought to raise the Packs and crush him and anyone else who aids him,” Atae told them sharply as Jaken stood dejected beside her, ordered to remain behind. To wait for Kagome.
“Unnecessary.”
“Pride ful pup,” Lady Atae caught Inuyasha’s upset expression. “You did the right thing. Go now,” she told him bluntly.
The hanyou just nodded, and followed Sesshomaru out of the gates.
Author’s Notes-And so it begins! Kouga has no clue! Clues are over there-and he’s on the other side of the road, without one. No, no clue for Kouga. Also they’ve separated, and anyone who’s ever watched a horror movie ought to know that’s the last thing you do, right?
Ahhhh. Good things! As to the captain, well, suicide or execution was long an aspect of Japanese culture. Especially in cases like this. The Toad reference is the episode ‘The Toad who would be prince’. The Hitosarai? It means ‘The Kidnapping’. It seemed too much of a giveaway to use English. Thanks for reading!-Namiyo