InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fang of the Father ❯ Open Wide! ( Chapter 9 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

LES: Some more Inuyasha-torture provided by our resident crazy old man, Totosai! Plus a spur-of-the-moment funny moment! Inuyasha as you'll rarely see him!

Muse: (eye-roll) Get on with it!

Chapter IX: “Open Wide!”

Early the next morning, Inuyasha stepped out of the hut, taking in a deep breath of morning air. Nothing like a breath of clean spring morning air to wake up a lazy hanyou.

He considered waking up Kagome so that she could watch the sun-rise with him, but he decided to let sleeping dogs lie. After all, neither of them got much sleep last night. He barely managed to bite back a cocky grin.

“Ah! Good morning, Master Inuyasha!” It was Myoga. The tiny Yokai flea perched himself on the end of his master's nose, but did not bite him… for once. “Just in time. I hope you don't mind, but I've asked that Totosai come to the village today.”

“Huh? Why?” Inuyasha asked.

“Well… Lady Kagome is now a hanyou, and having received her powers from you, it is highly possible that she could have the same… er… Yokai issues that you do when your life is threatened.” Inuyasha understood instantly. Myoga was referring to the times when he transformed into a full mindless Yokai when he released Tetsusaiga and his life became endangered. “Totosai has agreed to make a Sealing Blade for her.”

“From what?” Inuyasha asked. “My old man's dead. Even that best Yokai smiths can't make a decent blade from dead fangs.”

“Totosai is confident in his abilities.” Myoga said, sounding like he was hiding something.

“Inuyasha?”

The hanyou glanced around at the door of the hut. His beautiful hanyou mate stood in the doorway, smiling warmly.

“Ah! Lady Kagome! As lovely as ever!” Myoga said, apparently trying his hardest to flatter his master's mate.

“Bitch, get some more sleep.” Inuyasha said.

“Really, I'm fine.” Kagome said. “I guess you also gave me your energy when you gave me your life-span and your power. What are you two talking about out here so early?”

“Having Totosai make my Lady's Yokai-Sealing Sword.” Myoga said. “Mostly as a precaution.”

“But… Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga was made from his Father's fang. What could Totosai use?” Kagome asked.

Suddenly, a horrible thought occurred to the hanyou. The Tetsusaiga had the power to seal away his Yokai nature, and had been made from his old man's fang. What if this Sealing power had passed on to him with his old man's Yokai power? What if his fangs now had the Sealing power?!

“Oh, Hell no!” That was the last thing Inuyasha said before he was up the closest tree.

It was well past noon, Totosai had arrived on his flying three-eyed cow, but Inuyasha was still up the tree. And he didn't seem like he was going to leave his leafy perch any time soon.

“Come on, Inuyasha, now you're just being ridiculous!” Kagome called up at him.

“Yeah, stop acting like a big baby!” Shippo called up at him.

“No thanks!” Inuyasha called back. “I happen to like my fangs just that way they are!”

“But Totosai said that your fang would grow back as good as new by tomorrow night.” Miroku called up at him.

“Come on, Inuyasha, we don't have all day for you to behave like a child!” Sango yelled.

“Feh! Speak for yourselves, pathetic humans! I have the life-span of a Yokai! Two hundred years and still young! We'll see who withers first!” Inuyasha called down.

“Kagome? The word?” Miroku prompted.

Kagome sighed. “I'm sorry, Inuyasha. Sit.”

Inuyasha let out a cry of dismay as he was once again introduced face-first to the ground from a high place. “Now.” Totosai said, pulling out a large pair of tongs. “If you will transform into your true Inu-Yokai form…”

Inuyasha glared at the tongs with apprehension, and then snorted. “I don't know how.”

Sango nudged Miroku, her face unreadable. “Lecher, this is your cue.”

Miroku sighed, hoping that he wouldn't get torn to shreds for what he was about to do, either by Inuyasha or Sango, even though she was giving her permission. His wind tunnel might be gone, but he was still cursed with lecherous thoughts. Still, it took plenty of courage to grope Kagome's backside in full view of her mate.

Kagome gasped in shock at the sudden contact, knowing instantly that those hands did not belong to her mate.

At the sight of Miroku stroking Kagome's rear, something primal awoke in Inuyasha, like when he had fought Kouga. “Kagome! My bitch!” He roared as the pure Yokai need to defend his mate from a rival male over-rode any human thought, and unleashed his truest form.

The full Inu-Yokai snarled and turned his rather large fangs on Miroku. But, suddenly, Totosai was there with his tongs firmly clamped around Inuyasha's left canine.

As the fang was ripped free from its setting in the Inu-Yokai's mouth, the dog let out a pained yelp and quickly retreated. Apparently, Inuyasha had decided that it just wasn't worth it.

Kagome rushed over to him as his hanyou form returned. “Ow!” He hissed as his tongue explored the hole left by his missing fang.

Totosai was busy examining the large fang that he had extracted from Inuyasha. “Well, Totosai, will it work? Did Inuyasha gain the Chouin-Shikon of a Yokai Lord?”

“The blade will not be as grand as Tetsusaiga or as powerful as the Tenseiga, but it will seal the girl's Yokai.” Totosai finally concluded.

“Sealing Fangs?” Kagome asked, confused, translating `Chouin-Shikon'.

“A Yokai Lord needs a way to control the Yokai on his lands.” Myoga explained. “With a single bite, Master Inutaisho could temporarily seal away most Yokai's powers. Only other Yokai Lords can resist such a bite.”

“That sounds useful.” Shippo commented.

“Yeah.” Inuyasha hissed, looking slightly comedic with his left fang missing. “When my fang grows back, maybe I'll try it out on you!”

“Kagome! Inuyasha's being mean to me!” Shippo called out.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome growled in her dangerous `You-are-about-to-be-sitted' voice.

Inuyasha, however, preempted her by crouching on the ground in a much less painful sit. Kagome was apparently satisfied, and turned her attention elsewhere. “Weakling kitsune.” Inuyasha mumbled in Shippo's direction, and Shippo stuck his tongue out at him.

His attention returned to Kagome, who was speaking to Myoga. “So, how does this `Chouin-Shikon' work? Is it like my purification arrows?”

“No. Your arrows destroy Yokai power. It kills the Yokai, and can either turn hanyous mortal for a time or destroy them, depending on the power in the arrow, and has little-to-no effect on humans. The Chouin-Shikon doesn't destroy powers, but seals it for a time. The stronger the bite, the longer the Yokai loses its powers.”

“Like what happened to that old Dragon Yokai?”

“Ryukotsusei?” Inuyasha supplied.

“Yes. It was a highly vicious battle because Ryukotsusei himself was a Yokai Lord, with the Northern Lands as his domain. It took many days for Master Inutaisho's powers to overcome Ryukotsusei's resistance to his bite, but in the end, he managed to seal him away, by actually breaking off one of his fangs in his body as a permanent, or so we thought… seal.”

“Why did they fight in the first place?”

“This is constant war between the four Yokai Lords. All want to control Japan sorely with no interference from the other three. Ryukotsusei invaded Master Inutaisho's lands first, because word has it he feared the foreign, but powerful, Tiger Lord of the East.”

“Well… in Chinese legend, dragons typically are afraid of tigers.” Kagome supplied.

“Well… Ryukotsusei is no more, having been killed by our own Inuyasha.” Miroku said.

“So… Ryukotsusei was a Yokai Lord? It makes sense. That was a tough fight.” Inuyasha admitted. “Without the Back-Lash Wave, I probably would have lost.”

“But you didn't and that's what's important.” Sango said.

“So, Totosai, how long until the blade is ready?” Myoga asked.

Totosai seemed to consider it. “In three days, come.” With that, he carted off Inuyasha's lost fang.

“Three days, then?” Inuyasha asked, and then winched. “Damn! This stings!”

“Mate… you give a whole new meaning to the phrase: `As hard as pulling teeth'.” Kagome sighed, moving over to her mate and running her fingers along his jaw line. “How about something to take the edge off the pain?”

Inuyasha grinned. It was still spring, and his lustful mind kicked into over-drive. “Sure. What do you have in mind?”

Kagome giggled. “My Grandfather once said that good Sake will take away any pain.”

Inuyasha's ears drooped. Definitely not what I had in mind! “Sake doesn't work on hanyous like it works on mortals. I've never been drunk.”

“Maybe you've never tried hard enough.” Kagome said, batting her eyes.

Inuyasha grinned smugly. “Why, bitch, is that a challenge?”

“Hanyou to hanyou.” Kagome confirmed.

Miroku and Sango heard the conversation, ushered Shippo to play with Kirara, and then Miroku called out. “Hey! We're in!”

Surprisingly, Miroku managed to unearth unholy amounts of Sake from his and Sango's hut.

“Wow. What kind of monk are you?” Inuyasha asked for what seemed the millionth time since they met the lecherous monk.

“The kind that will generously accept any gift given in gratitude or payment for services rendered. Even when they have nothing to give except Sake.” Miroku said, smiling.

“Feh.” Inuyasha said, taking a small cup for himself.

The others helped themselves, but Kagome stopped Inuyasha from serving himself, and poured his Sake for him.

“Heh. Like a good wen…” He trailed off at the look on Kagome's face. “…Er… bitch.” Inuyasha knew, without a doubt, that he had escaped a sitting.

“Kagome, I don't know what kind of drinking games your era has, but the rules to this one are simple…” Miroku grinned. “The last one standing wins.”

“The best kind!” Sango laughed.

“You pitiful humans don't stand a chance in hell against us hanyous!” Inuyasha laughed. “Mark my words; it'll come down to Kagome and me!”

“Over-confident as always, eh, Inuyasha?” Miroku laughed. “Okay, the game begins… now!”

As one, the four good friends drank their Sake. Kagome finished hers with a slight cough.

“Don't tell me you're already wimping out on me, Kagome.” Inuyasha said.

“Not on your life! It's just that… I've never tried Sake before. It's… different. Good, but different.” Kagome said.

“Oh? A Sake-virgin, are you? I've got this one in the bag!” Inuyasha said, helping himself to another generous helping while the others followed suit.

Later, only Miroku and Sango appeared to be drunk, but even intoxicated, they were not going to back down and lose lightly.

Needless to say, both of them were highly amusing flirtatious-type drunks. Everyone present was previously aware of how Sango behaved drunk because of the time she got drunk on the Sake Sage's Sake-Mist. She had flirted with Inuyasha, embraced him, and tried to kiss him.

Inuyasha clearly remembered this incident, and kept his eye on Sango. However, most of her attention was focused on the monk next to her, and she said nothing even remotely flirtatious towards Inuyasha. That is… until…

“Hey, Inu… ya…sha?” She asked, swaying and slurring his name heavily. “I've… been wondering… how long is your tongue?”

Kagome, who was still clear-headed, gasped and blushed brilliantly at the question directed towards her mate. “Sango!”

“What? Dogs have, like… really long tongues!” Sango said, like it was the most obvious and natural thing to wonder in the world.

However, Inuyasha didn't seem to be the least bit embarrassed. He had either missed the sexual over-tones of the question, or was just plain ignoring it. He promptly stuck out his tongue, revealing to all that it was noticeably longer than a human's… but not as long as a dog's proportionally.

Sango giggled madly, and Kagome could only wonder what she was thinking about, but it was probably thoughts she wouldn't want some woman thinking about her mate. So, with little other option, she reached out, and grabbed the hanyou's tongue.

“Ow! A-o-me!” Inuyasha yelped, his tongue still held captive.

“Put that back in your mouth, or I'll rip it out.” Kagome threatened in a low voice.

As soon as she released her death-grip on his tongue, he did as he was told. “What did I do?”

Miroku laughed. “Kagome's defiantly not drunk yet, cause we all know that she's a Happy-type drunk!” He was feeling up Sango's backside with his free hand, and, to everyone's surprise, she actually allowed the perverted monk.

Inuyasha and Kagome stared. “Who are you, and what have you done with Sango?” Kagome asked, almost horrified.

Sadly, the contest ended without an official winner, thought Inuyasha was a clear leader. Miroku and Sango had passed out, just as Inuyasha had predicted, Kagome had finally gotten drunk, and their Sake had run out when Inuyasha could only be described as `buzzed'.

Kagome was only managing to cause late-night trouble because she was an obnoxious Happy Drunk. “All hail the Yokai Lord of SAKE!” She announced grandly to a sleeping village with a mad giggle.

“Shh!” Inuyasha hissed, catching her as she tilted dangerously. “Everyone's asleep!”

“Let them sleep!” Kagome said, rounding on Inuyasha and grabbing a fist-full of his hakama (Translation: Inuyasha's pants), causing him to yelp in shock. “Let's do it!”

“Kagome! We're in the middle of the village!” Inuyasha hissed, prying her fingers off him.

“I can't help it! Your silver hair… your golden eyes… your dog ears… and that tongue of yours! It all turns me on!”

She wasn't lying; Inuyasha could smell her lust and arousal. He groaned with need, but managed to calm his libido somehow. “You need a subduing spell of your own.” He muttered.

“Come on, Inuyasha!” Kagome said.

“You're drunk, Kagome. Odds are you won't remember a thing in the morning.” Inuyasha said. By the look on her face, her stubbornness gave out. Wow! I won! I actually managed to talk her out of something! Well… it's probably just the Sake making her go soft. “Come on.” Inuyasha held her, turning once more into a protective mate.

She leaned into his embrace as she allowed him to lead her back to their hut. “I love you, Sexy.”

“I love you too, Kagome.” Inuyasha said. `Now, I want you to get some sleep.” You'll be going into Heat soon, and you'll need your energy to carry a pup.

LES: I added the drinking game last minute, because any Inuyasha fanfic needs its funny moments. Personally, I don't like reading all the `woe is me' angst-y Inuyasha fics. A little humor never goes wrong. Okay, I'm cheating once again by making one of the Yokai Lords a tiger, which isn't native to Japan. I tried to make it a little better by pointing out that the Lord is foreign. (Yokai Lords were chosen based on strength, not their native lands.) But I wanted each Lord to be a balance and opposite for another. The Dog Lord of the West is opposed by the Cat Lord of the South. The Dragon Lord of the North is opposed by the Tiger Lord of the East. Yes, in Chinese mythology, the Tiger was the only creature that could battle a dragon and live to tell of it. As far as I know about Japanese mythology, dragons have no animal rivals. The Tiger Lord will be the most powerful since he'll be the last `original' Lord left. Lord Inutaisho, that mummified Cat Lord who I can't recall the name off, and Lord Ryukotsusei are all dead, leaving their rule to less experienced heirs. I hope that I don't get bashed too harshly for my choices. Just, rest assured, I never do anything without reason. Even if I don't have a reason at the time, I'll eventually come up with a reason for having done that, if that makes sense. I don't know, I've done it before…

Muse: You're pathetic. No wonder your English professors don't like you.

LES: They just don't like my writing style! (grumbles) Mark me down for using appropriate clichés and being `too cute'…

Muse: (shakes head) Pathetic.