InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beautiful: An Adventure in Parenthood ❯ On the Road ( Chapter 5 )

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Sesshomaru curled his mokomoko around the tiny sleeping puppy and rose to his feet, assisting his mate in doing so as well. With mokomoko wrapped around the pup not only was his scent masked to any other youkai, but it left his sire with two free hands to defend against attack.

 

Sniffing the air carefully, he made his way in front of Rin, his hand on the hilt of his sword and his knuckles white from gripping so hard. Every nerve was on edge, much like before he entered in to a serious battle, despite the fact that there was no threat he could perceive.

 

Carefully he made his way to the door and pushed the bamboo covering aside, stepping in to the open air and narrowing his eyes as they adjusted to the sunlight. It was just before mid-morning; a perfect time to travel.

 

With Rin nipping at his heels he made his way to the hut of the taijiya and the monk, where he knew his brother and his pack had been staying since the day he'd forcibly evicted them from their own hut.

 

The hanyou apparently smelled his arrival, as he came to the door and stepped outside. He noticed his brother was, for once, not carrying tetsusaiga, and wondered if this was done on purpose, to appear less threatening.

 

Perhaps he is not as stupid as he appears…

 

“You leavin'?” Inuyasha asked in his gruff non-chalant tone, refusing to acknowledge annoyance at his brother taking over his hut for three days.

 

“This Sesshomaru must relocate to the western shiro. You are free to return to your,” Sesshomaru sneered, “domicile.”

 

Inuyasha would have normally made some sort of derisive remark at his brother's attitude, but he let it go, for now. Sesshomaru's aura was extremely threatening right now, and if he were an animal defending his offspring in battle, Inuyasha knew the entire village would be decimated and turned to rubble before Sesshomaru was finished with him. “Keh. Whatever. Do I at least get to see if my nephew got my ears before you go?”

 

Kagome had said nothing about the pup being born as youkai to her husband. She didn't have an explination, and it had seemed to her as if it would be simply one more thing that Inuyasha found unfair about his lot in life. There was no reason why his brother should be able to escape the natural consequences of having a human mate, and his child those of being a hanyou, when Inuyasha did not. No doubt it would have upset him and she'd have heard about little else for the entire three days they were staying with Sango and Miroku.

 

Sesshomaru smirked and proudly uncurled mokomoko from around his koinu son, displaying the pup proudly as testament to his own superior strength of blood to that of the Inu no Taisho.

 

Sesshomaru turned his nose up and huffed haughtily, “The pup of this Sesshomaru was born in pureblooded youkai form, no doubt my superior strength did not allow my blood to be diluted by Rin's inferior human blood.”

 

“Hey!” He felt a punch in the back of his arm, from the small woman standing behind him, “You weren't too concerned with how `inferior' my blood was when we made that puppy!”

 

Sesshomaru forced himself to breathe. He would not assert his dominance over a mate so much weaker than himself, who had only days ago birthed him male offspring. He would not… He would not… He would not…

 

Sesshomaru lost the battle with himself and growled lowly, attempting to remind his bitch of her place.

 

Rin rolled her eyes and shook her head. Who does he think he's dealing with, here?

 

“Sesshomaru-sama” she said saracastically, “Rin' inferior stomach is very hungry and we have a long journey and we have to find Ah-un and Jaken and Rin's inferior nose can't just sniff them out, I really don't want to travel when it's dark because I'm worried some demon may find me and I'm too inferior to fight back and we're going to have to stop more now and my inferior feet hurt and…” Rin rambled on purposely complaining about every little thing she could to annoy him and get back at him for insulting her.

 

Rin was still a fifteen year old human teenager, and Sesshomaru was still the only person she had to `rebel' against… Their relationship had always been a bit… odd, due to the fact that he'd looked after her when she was a child and visited her frequently during the five years she'd spent with Kaede-obaa-sama and while she didn't ever see him as a father he was somewhat of an authority figure… even if he was her mate, he was still her lord… At that made it all the more satisfying to defy and annoy him.

 

There was also the special pride that came with knowing only she could ever get away with such behavior. She was special, in that way. Rin knew he'd never do anything to hurt her, and occasionally she enjoyed flaunting that fact to him and Jaken, purposely doing things that would get any other killed, and re-assuring herself that she was special to him by reveling in the fact he let her get away with such things… mostly.

 

A few times there had been… spankings… But those were hardly meant to punish…

 

Rin smirked to herself remembering fondly those particular instances, and noticing his narrowed eyes and the rapid fall of his chest and slight slump of his shoulders, indicating that although she hadn't heard it, he'd let out a sigh of annoyance.

I really do adore him… He's so cute when he's annoyed! Rin thought to herself.

 

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Sesshomaru let out a silent sigh through his nose. He really was good for sticking his foot in his mouth on the rare occasions he deigned to speak, and he had no doubt that he would be paying dearly for the next few hours.

 

Perhaps it wouldn't have been such a bad thing if she'd ever learned to fear me at least a little…

 

No. Rin did not fear him… And she knew she had no reason to, so she could take the liberty of annoying him, when any other creature would have perished at the first `and' in her rambling sentence.

 

“Rin.” He tried to warn, hoping it would work, knowing it wouldn't.

 

When he saw her roll her eyes and walk away giggling softly to herself, he decided it would be best to choose his battles wisely, at least until her mood stabilized a bit more… This was no time to dig a deeper hole, and Sesshomaru was no fool. Attempting to punish her would only be punishing himself in the long run.

 

He used his speed against her and caught up easily, not realizing his own ridiculousness in chasing after her like a husband in the dog house.

 

Inuyasha laughed openly once he watched the figures disappear over the distant hill. “Man is he whipped.” He chuckled to himself.

 

Just then he heard Kagome from inside the hut, and his ears went down and he winced comically at how loud she was being, “Inuyasha! Inuyasha! Have you gone hunting for dinner yet? I told you to leave forever ago! The kids are hungry, and I have to go back and clean the hut now that Rin and Sesshomaru are gone… I swear if you don't get out there and get something for us to eat you're going to be eating dirt!”

 

“Fine wench, I'm goin', I'm goin'”, Inuyasha took off to hunt, muttering about “Damn wenches think they can tell us what to do!” the whole time, while still doing exactly as his mate demanded.