InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Drama of an Online World ❯ Chapter 19
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By: NovaDemoness 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.11.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 288 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.11.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 288 | Status: Completed
I'm very proud of myself for writing the last chapter. I had originally planned to skip right to the quest Sesshomaru and Kagome will be doing together, but then I started writing the chapter and I didn't want to do that quite yet. And I'm quite happy I decided to make them just a tad sexually frustrated. ::grins evily::
I loved the reviews I got for it, though... ::laughs:: I got called all kinds of awesome names! It was so frickin' awesome! I got called mean and evil incarnate and... ::sighs:: I feel so frickin' special! ::dances around hardcore merrily::
Oh... And Aisu-Hime, I am incredibly sorry for making you question the spelling of eighteen. I've always had trouble with that word 'cause it looks like it should be spelled some other way or something. I think I'm just messed though.
Also, I've had lots of people ask about when they're actually going to meet. It won't be for quite a while, I think. I want them to go through absolute Hell, on and offline. And even after that, they're going to go through Hell just trying to get together. So... You're forewarned.
Chapter Nineteen is up and running... AWAY! -.0'
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After Sesshomaru had left her apartment, he'd stood outside her door to collect himself. He hadn't wanted to leave, rather, he'd wanted to stay and make good on his desires to pleasure her, and himself in the process. Twice in one night he could have had her... Twice! He was beginning to feel as if Fate were toying with him, keeping him from a very desirable woman.
But he left, knowing if he didn't arrive shortly at Kagura's new apartment, Rin would be subject to hearing all kinds of disgusting things. And that was not what he wanted for his daughter. She was far too innocent to be traumatized by the grunting and groaning of her mother and soon-to-be step-father. He shuddered at the thought.
He unlocked his car and drove to the apartment in record time. Of course, record time wouldn't really count because he hadn't been driving from his own apartment. That really didn't factor in, all he cared about was getting his daughter away from her mother. Driving there, he'd also decided to speak with Kagura about custody of their daughter. Perhaps not when he arrived... But sometime soon.
He didn't want Rin growing up in a loveless environment. 'Or rather,' he corrected himself, 'an environment with too much love.' He was incredibly worried about Rin's life there, with that disgusting man and his cheating bitch. He didn't want his daughter witnessing such vile acts of so-called love. And he knew Kagura didn't truly care about their daughter, she'd never wanted children.
But, he decided, if Kagura could not be persuaded to give him custody of Rin, he would threaten her. And if she could not be threatened, he would make good on those threats and have the police take Naraku in for smuggling drugs into the country and the murder of at least three people.
'Evidence is a tricksy thing,' he thought, incredibly pleased with himself.
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He'd pulled up to the apartment and parked his car, stepping out into the night air. He walked to the other side of the car and made his way up the stairs, two at a time, opening the door when he'd reached the top. Sesshomaru stood inside, his finger pushing the button for suite 307.
"Hello?" his daughter's voice came over the intercom.
"Are you ready, Rin?" he asked, impatient to be out of the building.
"Uh-huh, I'll be downstairs in a minute daddy!"
True to her word, Rin was downstairs and unlocking the front door in less than sixty seconds. She'd probably been waiting by the door for him with her little red back-pack on and had run down the hall and down the stairs to see him. When the door was open, she launched herself on him and wrapped her tiny arms around his waist. He smiled, looking down at her, his fingers running through her silky black hair.
She looked up at him and smiled a great big gap-toothed Rin smile, proud of the tooth she'd lost. "See daddy? It finally fell out!"
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He held his daughter's hand, walking up the stairs to the elevators of his apartment building. He allowed Rin to push the up button, and they waited patiently for the familiar 'ding' sound, where the doors opened for them. Stepping inside, he pushed the sixth floor button that would start the short ride up to his apartment.
"How was the party, daddy?" she asked, looking up at him, still smiling her sweet smile.
"I didn't go," he replied.
That caused her to frown and cock her head. "But you said it was important... How come you didn't go?"
He shrugged, smiling down at his curious little girl. "Kaye didn't want to go. A friend of hers showed up very angry with her, and she decided she'd like to do something else instead."
"How was something else?"
If it were any other, he might have been annoyed with the questions, but she was so adorable with her big brown eyes and the need to know expression on her face. "Something else was wonderful, honey."
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Sesshomaru had allowed his daughter to remain awake a while longer at her insistance that she really wasn't tired, and he'd had no problem with allowing her to do so. But with that last quick check of the clock, he'd decided it was a little late for an eight-year-old to be awake. 2:09 in the morning was more than late enough.
"Come, Rin, off to bed now," he said as he used the remote to flick the television off.
She got up off the couch, just a little slowly. "Okay daddy." She walked to her room, and he followed. Her bedroom door opened, and she went inside, making her way straight to her bed and crawling under the covers. "Will you tell me a story, daddy? Mommy never does."
He frowned, then. 'How could anyone resist such a child?'
"Of course, honey. What kind of a story?" he asked as he sat down beside her on her bed.
She thought a moment before giving her answer. "One with faeries and butterflies and a handsome prince."
"Alright Rin," he said, brushing her smooth black hair back from her face. "Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a little faerie girl named Akiou... Every morning, Akiou and all the other faeries would dance on the flowers of their world to wake the sun and call it forth for its daily journey through the clouds.
"One day, not long after the sundance - as they called it - a messenger came to Akiou, terribly frightened and out of breath. He couldn't even stop to catch his breath, his message was so important. He said in between his deep gasping breaths, 'My lady... Orroki has gone missing!'
"This was indeed a very important message. See, Lady Orroki was the princess of all the pretty faeries, and if someone had taken her, the faeries might never be able to pull the sun from its slumber again!"
As tired as she was, Rin gasped. "But then everything would die! The flowers and the trees and all the aminals!"
He smiled at her speech, her worry, even if it was just a make-believe story. "I know, honey, that's why as soon as she heard this, Akiou went looking for the princess. She didn't know where the princess could be, but she searched high and low, in the forests and in the oceans and in the mountains." He paused for a moment, searching his daughter's room for inspiration for his story.
"It had been many days since Akiou started her search, and without the princess to help wake the sun, the flowers and trees began to wither away. The petals falling to the ground and the leaves becoming dry and dark. The creatures of their world were becoming frantic without the sunlight to guide them, and some of the animals began to hide in the dying forests. Akiou knew that if she didn't find the princess soon, the world they knew would wither and die as well, so she continued her search."
His little girl whimpered, a little distressed at the idea of the flowers wilting and the sun sleeping for eternity. "Did Akiou find her, daddy?"
He lifted a finger to his lips, and whispered, "Shh, honey. You'll find out soon." After she'd quieted a little, he continued with his story. "One day, Akiou, who was searching the forest one more time, saw a light in the distance, and followed it. She came across a beautiful castle, all lit up with torches. And where there were once roses climbing like vines up the castle walls, there were wilted and dying flowers.
"Akiou had never seen the palace before, but she was a very curious faerie, and since she'd never searched the castle before she decided she'd look for the princess there. She cast a simple glamour spell on herself to hide her wings and markings, and she went inside. She searched many rooms of the castle, when a hand on her shoulder startled her so much that the spell she'd cast disappeared."
"Who was it, daddy?" Rin asked excitedly.
"He was the lonely prince, Kiioru."
"Why was he lonely?"
"Because when he was a little boy, an evil witch cast a spell on him and stole his wings," he explained. "Without wings, he was never able to find his mother and father. He was very shocked to see Akiou in his castle, and he asked, 'Who are you? What are you doing here?' Akiou was just as surprised to see him, too. She was even more surprised that he didn't have wings.
"'I'm looking for princess Orroki,' she said. 'She's gone missing and without her we can't wake the sun!'
"Prince Kiioru looked very ashamed. He didn't know he'd taken the princess of the faeries, and he didn't know that he'd been the cause of the sun hiding. He just wanted someone to talk to. He didn't want to be alone anymore, but he knew the pretty faerie had come to take the princess away. 'Orroki is here...' he whispered, very sadly.
"Akiou was upset to see the man looking so sad, and she asked, 'What's wrong?'
"The prince began walking in the direction of the princess' chambers, where he'd placed her after he'd brought her to his castle. 'When you take the princess back... I will be lonely, once more. No other lives here, I am alone.' Since Akiou was so curious, she asked him why he was so lonely, and the prince told her about the evil witch who'd stolen his wings when he was a boy."
Rin was lying back on her bed, her hands folded on her chest, looking up at him as she listened to his story. "What did Akiou do, daddy?" He could tell she was having a hard time keeping her eyes open, and he knew she wanted to hear the rest of the story.
"When she heard his story, she felt very sorry for the lonely prince. 'Maybe princess Orroki can give you wings!' she said, knowing that the princess was a very kind faerie. The prince looked very excited, and he took Akiou's hand and brought her to the princess' room. Once there, Akiou bowed to the princess and asked about prince Kiioru's wings.
"The princess was very dismayed, and she said, 'I'm very sorry Akiou, Kiioru... But I cannot give you back your wings. Only the witch who stole them can give them back.'"
Sesshomaru stopped when his daughter yawned, deciding he'd stop the story there. "Alright, Rin, I think it's time for bed now. I'll finish the story another night, okay?"
She just nodded, her eyes closed, and she smiled when she felt her father's lips on her forehead. "G'night daddy."
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Okay, so I had a little bit of a difficult time writing that chapter. I'd want to write, and then I'd go off, and then I'd... I donno. And I'm really sorry it's so short. I think it is, anyways. It was supposed to be longer, but I wanted to show Sesshomaru interracting with Rin more than anything in this one. So the quest will be in the next few chapters. (I haven't thought of one yet, or rather what they'll be doing, someone wanna help with that?)
By the way, any names I use besides those of the InuYasha cast, are made up. Original characters, if you will. Akiou is pronounced Ah-kee-you. Orroki is pronounced O-row-kee. Kiioru is pronounced Kee-oh-rue. I'd also like to say, that I really enjoyed writing that little story Sesshomaru made up. Maybe I'll turn it into a one-shot and switch around the characters a little. Hmm...
Side Note: I LOVE alternate scenes... =D Ahh, the freedom and the randomness.
I loved the reviews I got for it, though... ::laughs:: I got called all kinds of awesome names! It was so frickin' awesome! I got called mean and evil incarnate and... ::sighs:: I feel so frickin' special! ::dances around hardcore merrily::
Oh... And Aisu-Hime, I am incredibly sorry for making you question the spelling of eighteen. I've always had trouble with that word 'cause it looks like it should be spelled some other way or something. I think I'm just messed though.
Also, I've had lots of people ask about when they're actually going to meet. It won't be for quite a while, I think. I want them to go through absolute Hell, on and offline. And even after that, they're going to go through Hell just trying to get together. So... You're forewarned.
Chapter Nineteen is up and running... AWAY! -.0'
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After Sesshomaru had left her apartment, he'd stood outside her door to collect himself. He hadn't wanted to leave, rather, he'd wanted to stay and make good on his desires to pleasure her, and himself in the process. Twice in one night he could have had her... Twice! He was beginning to feel as if Fate were toying with him, keeping him from a very desirable woman.
But he left, knowing if he didn't arrive shortly at Kagura's new apartment, Rin would be subject to hearing all kinds of disgusting things. And that was not what he wanted for his daughter. She was far too innocent to be traumatized by the grunting and groaning of her mother and soon-to-be step-father. He shuddered at the thought.
He unlocked his car and drove to the apartment in record time. Of course, record time wouldn't really count because he hadn't been driving from his own apartment. That really didn't factor in, all he cared about was getting his daughter away from her mother. Driving there, he'd also decided to speak with Kagura about custody of their daughter. Perhaps not when he arrived... But sometime soon.
He didn't want Rin growing up in a loveless environment. 'Or rather,' he corrected himself, 'an environment with too much love.' He was incredibly worried about Rin's life there, with that disgusting man and his cheating bitch. He didn't want his daughter witnessing such vile acts of so-called love. And he knew Kagura didn't truly care about their daughter, she'd never wanted children.
But, he decided, if Kagura could not be persuaded to give him custody of Rin, he would threaten her. And if she could not be threatened, he would make good on those threats and have the police take Naraku in for smuggling drugs into the country and the murder of at least three people.
'Evidence is a tricksy thing,' he thought, incredibly pleased with himself.
****************
He'd pulled up to the apartment and parked his car, stepping out into the night air. He walked to the other side of the car and made his way up the stairs, two at a time, opening the door when he'd reached the top. Sesshomaru stood inside, his finger pushing the button for suite 307.
"Hello?" his daughter's voice came over the intercom.
"Are you ready, Rin?" he asked, impatient to be out of the building.
"Uh-huh, I'll be downstairs in a minute daddy!"
True to her word, Rin was downstairs and unlocking the front door in less than sixty seconds. She'd probably been waiting by the door for him with her little red back-pack on and had run down the hall and down the stairs to see him. When the door was open, she launched herself on him and wrapped her tiny arms around his waist. He smiled, looking down at her, his fingers running through her silky black hair.
She looked up at him and smiled a great big gap-toothed Rin smile, proud of the tooth she'd lost. "See daddy? It finally fell out!"
****************
He held his daughter's hand, walking up the stairs to the elevators of his apartment building. He allowed Rin to push the up button, and they waited patiently for the familiar 'ding' sound, where the doors opened for them. Stepping inside, he pushed the sixth floor button that would start the short ride up to his apartment.
"How was the party, daddy?" she asked, looking up at him, still smiling her sweet smile.
"I didn't go," he replied.
That caused her to frown and cock her head. "But you said it was important... How come you didn't go?"
He shrugged, smiling down at his curious little girl. "Kaye didn't want to go. A friend of hers showed up very angry with her, and she decided she'd like to do something else instead."
"How was something else?"
If it were any other, he might have been annoyed with the questions, but she was so adorable with her big brown eyes and the need to know expression on her face. "Something else was wonderful, honey."
****************
Sesshomaru had allowed his daughter to remain awake a while longer at her insistance that she really wasn't tired, and he'd had no problem with allowing her to do so. But with that last quick check of the clock, he'd decided it was a little late for an eight-year-old to be awake. 2:09 in the morning was more than late enough.
"Come, Rin, off to bed now," he said as he used the remote to flick the television off.
She got up off the couch, just a little slowly. "Okay daddy." She walked to her room, and he followed. Her bedroom door opened, and she went inside, making her way straight to her bed and crawling under the covers. "Will you tell me a story, daddy? Mommy never does."
He frowned, then. 'How could anyone resist such a child?'
"Of course, honey. What kind of a story?" he asked as he sat down beside her on her bed.
She thought a moment before giving her answer. "One with faeries and butterflies and a handsome prince."
"Alright Rin," he said, brushing her smooth black hair back from her face. "Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a little faerie girl named Akiou... Every morning, Akiou and all the other faeries would dance on the flowers of their world to wake the sun and call it forth for its daily journey through the clouds.
"One day, not long after the sundance - as they called it - a messenger came to Akiou, terribly frightened and out of breath. He couldn't even stop to catch his breath, his message was so important. He said in between his deep gasping breaths, 'My lady... Orroki has gone missing!'
"This was indeed a very important message. See, Lady Orroki was the princess of all the pretty faeries, and if someone had taken her, the faeries might never be able to pull the sun from its slumber again!"
As tired as she was, Rin gasped. "But then everything would die! The flowers and the trees and all the aminals!"
He smiled at her speech, her worry, even if it was just a make-believe story. "I know, honey, that's why as soon as she heard this, Akiou went looking for the princess. She didn't know where the princess could be, but she searched high and low, in the forests and in the oceans and in the mountains." He paused for a moment, searching his daughter's room for inspiration for his story.
"It had been many days since Akiou started her search, and without the princess to help wake the sun, the flowers and trees began to wither away. The petals falling to the ground and the leaves becoming dry and dark. The creatures of their world were becoming frantic without the sunlight to guide them, and some of the animals began to hide in the dying forests. Akiou knew that if she didn't find the princess soon, the world they knew would wither and die as well, so she continued her search."
His little girl whimpered, a little distressed at the idea of the flowers wilting and the sun sleeping for eternity. "Did Akiou find her, daddy?"
He lifted a finger to his lips, and whispered, "Shh, honey. You'll find out soon." After she'd quieted a little, he continued with his story. "One day, Akiou, who was searching the forest one more time, saw a light in the distance, and followed it. She came across a beautiful castle, all lit up with torches. And where there were once roses climbing like vines up the castle walls, there were wilted and dying flowers.
"Akiou had never seen the palace before, but she was a very curious faerie, and since she'd never searched the castle before she decided she'd look for the princess there. She cast a simple glamour spell on herself to hide her wings and markings, and she went inside. She searched many rooms of the castle, when a hand on her shoulder startled her so much that the spell she'd cast disappeared."
"Who was it, daddy?" Rin asked excitedly.
"He was the lonely prince, Kiioru."
"Why was he lonely?"
"Because when he was a little boy, an evil witch cast a spell on him and stole his wings," he explained. "Without wings, he was never able to find his mother and father. He was very shocked to see Akiou in his castle, and he asked, 'Who are you? What are you doing here?' Akiou was just as surprised to see him, too. She was even more surprised that he didn't have wings.
"'I'm looking for princess Orroki,' she said. 'She's gone missing and without her we can't wake the sun!'
"Prince Kiioru looked very ashamed. He didn't know he'd taken the princess of the faeries, and he didn't know that he'd been the cause of the sun hiding. He just wanted someone to talk to. He didn't want to be alone anymore, but he knew the pretty faerie had come to take the princess away. 'Orroki is here...' he whispered, very sadly.
"Akiou was upset to see the man looking so sad, and she asked, 'What's wrong?'
"The prince began walking in the direction of the princess' chambers, where he'd placed her after he'd brought her to his castle. 'When you take the princess back... I will be lonely, once more. No other lives here, I am alone.' Since Akiou was so curious, she asked him why he was so lonely, and the prince told her about the evil witch who'd stolen his wings when he was a boy."
Rin was lying back on her bed, her hands folded on her chest, looking up at him as she listened to his story. "What did Akiou do, daddy?" He could tell she was having a hard time keeping her eyes open, and he knew she wanted to hear the rest of the story.
"When she heard his story, she felt very sorry for the lonely prince. 'Maybe princess Orroki can give you wings!' she said, knowing that the princess was a very kind faerie. The prince looked very excited, and he took Akiou's hand and brought her to the princess' room. Once there, Akiou bowed to the princess and asked about prince Kiioru's wings.
"The princess was very dismayed, and she said, 'I'm very sorry Akiou, Kiioru... But I cannot give you back your wings. Only the witch who stole them can give them back.'"
Sesshomaru stopped when his daughter yawned, deciding he'd stop the story there. "Alright, Rin, I think it's time for bed now. I'll finish the story another night, okay?"
She just nodded, her eyes closed, and she smiled when she felt her father's lips on her forehead. "G'night daddy."
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Okay, so I had a little bit of a difficult time writing that chapter. I'd want to write, and then I'd go off, and then I'd... I donno. And I'm really sorry it's so short. I think it is, anyways. It was supposed to be longer, but I wanted to show Sesshomaru interracting with Rin more than anything in this one. So the quest will be in the next few chapters. (I haven't thought of one yet, or rather what they'll be doing, someone wanna help with that?)
By the way, any names I use besides those of the InuYasha cast, are made up. Original characters, if you will. Akiou is pronounced Ah-kee-you. Orroki is pronounced O-row-kee. Kiioru is pronounced Kee-oh-rue. I'd also like to say, that I really enjoyed writing that little story Sesshomaru made up. Maybe I'll turn it into a one-shot and switch around the characters a little. Hmm...
Side Note: I LOVE alternate scenes... =D Ahh, the freedom and the randomness.