InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fang of the Father ❯ Enter Sesshomaru ( Chapter 13 )

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

LES: At the time that I wrote this, I hadn't gone much further in the manga than the English releases, soI don't know much about Sesshomaru's sword, the Bakseiga. (I'm not even sure if I'm spelling this right.) So in my story, I'm just gonna stick with Sesshomaru possessing the Tenseiga and the Tokijin. As for his left arm… I'll leave it off. Of course, now I have read further, and now wish I had included more of the manga. The Bakseiga turns out to be pretty darn awesome.

Chapter XIII: Enter Sesshomaru

The next morning, Inuyasha was glad that Kagome choose a star-gazing spot so far from Kaede's village. Still, if anyone moved towards the direction of the Goshinboku (Translation: Sacred Tree), they would have eventually stumbled upon the nude mates cuddling under Inuyasha's haori.

For a moment, they merely gazed into each other's eyes. Kagome gently traced her hanyou's jaw line with a soft finger. She pulled him into a soft kiss. “My beautiful hanyou…” Kagome breathed.

“Back at you, bitch.” Inuyasha said.

Kagome giggled and the decidedly modern expression. “You've spent too much time in my era.”

“What are you talking about? Any time I go to your era, you confine me to the shrine!”

“So says the hanyou who got his picture on the news.” Kagome laughed.

“That picture hardly looked like me at all!” Inuyasha hissed.

“Oh yeah, how many red-kimonoed, clawed, fanged, silver-haired, dog-eared hanyous are running around in my time?” Kagome laughed.

“You never know. There could be a ton of us.”

“Just admit it, you're busted.” Kagome sat up, taking most of Inuyasha's haori with her. (Not that he cared.) She re-gathered her clothes, and began to get dressed. Once the slight coverage of his haori was no longer needed, he began to get dressed too. “Inuyasha?” Kagome asked as she put the finishing touches on her outfit. (She had changed into her miko outfit late that day before, before she had gone star-gazing.)

“What?”

“How much longer until you'll be able to tell if I'm pregnant?” Kagome asked.

Inuyasha shrugged. “Maybe now. You want me to try?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, lay down.”

Kagome did as Inuyasha told and laid down on her back. He crawled over her, his face hovering over the junction of her legs.

“Come on, open for me.” Inuyasha said.

“Do you really have to get that close?” She asked.

“At this early point, yeah.” Inuyasha said. “From here, all I can smell is you, let alone any pup you might be carrying. Come on, it's not like haven't never been down here before.”

Kagome blushed and did as she was told. Once he had a clear path, he shamelessly pressed his face against her covered sex and scented her. After a few seconds of torture as Kagome got aroused again, Inuyasha pulled away. “Well?” Kagome asked, trying to control her breathing.

“It's there.” Inuyasha said faintly, almost as if he could hardly believe it. “Very faint, but it's there.” He smiled genuinely at his mate. “We have a pup, Kagome!”

Kagome sat up and embraced her mate. “Oh, Inuyasha!”

“Kagome, thank you.” Inuyasha said. “You've made me the happiest hanyou that ever lived.” He kissed her passionately.

A short distance away, Sesshomaru watched the two mates, his face utterly un-readable as usual.

He could smell the difference in Inuyasha's smell the moment he entered the valley. Now the hanyou smelled more like their shared father then he ever did, even during his previous partial transformations into a full Yokai. Now his Yokai blood was more prominate than ever, but he was not going insane as he had previously seen. His fangs and claws were longer, and he would have been able to scent his older half-brother were he not so tied up in his mate. His younger half-brother bore the facial markings of a Yokai Lord, and he had the power to turn his human mate into a hanyou with his mating mark.

So… that surge of power… it was Inuyasha. Sesshomaru thought to himself. The surge of Yokai power like his father had risen from the grave.

His clawed hand drifted to the hilt of the Yokai blade Tokijin. With his younger half-brother distracted by his own mate, his senses were pathetically dulled.

It would be so easy for this Sesshomaru to kill him right now. Then this Sesshomaru would gain his rightful birth-right in his father's powers.

Sesshomaru barely spared a thought as how his hanyou half-brother had gained their father's power. The Yokai had come to suspect that his father went mad in his later years and favored his worthless scum of an offspring in his madness. After all, Inuyasha was the guardian of their father's grave, the chosen wielder of Tetsusaiga… so his insane father must have favored the half-breed whelp with his powers also.

Sesshomaru's grip tightened on Tokijin. He could part Inuyasha's head from his shoulders before he even knew what was happening.

Suddenly, he rushed forward with all the grace of a high-ranking Yokai. He drew the Tokijin. A hundred feet away, and the fool hanyous still hadn't realized his presence. Too easy for this Sesshomaru.

Unfortunately, the Gods heard his thought, and decided to give him his desire.

“Lord Sesshomaru! Wait for me!”

“Sesshomaru-sama! Wait for Rin!”

The calls of Sesshomaru's wards alerted both hanyous to the danger. Inuyasha quickly assessed the situation. His half-brother was coming at him, the deadly Tokijin raised and ready to kill.

The hanyou yelped in the Inu language, a yelp that carried the meaning of `liter-brother' and surprise. Then he quickly gathered Kagome in his arms and leapt away. The Tokijin cleaved the ground where the two hanyous had been not half-a-second before.

Sesshomaru frowned at how Inuyasha had addressed him in the Inu tongue. “Not `liter-brother'. A hanyou is certainly no brother to this Sesshomaru.” Sesshomaru said.

Inuyasha growled, a little angry at himself for addressing his bastard brother as a liter-mate, even if it was his Inu-Yokai taking over for a split second. “True.” Inuyasha hissed. “But the Inu language has no word for `arrogant bastard half-brother who tries to kill me every chance he gets'!” Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga. “What do you want, Sesshomaru.”

“The head of the hanyou who would dare steal the birth-right of this Sesshomaru.” The Yokai growled. “You have gained our mad father's powers. How? This Sesshomaru knows not. But he will have them back!”

“This is about the Western lands?” Inuyasha growled. “This happened when I chose my mate, and was an unwanted side-effect.” Inuyasha dug his claws into his cheeks, mangling the Yokai markings on his face. Kagome cried out in shock, but Sesshomaru knew Inuyasha's true meaning. He was spitting on, and denying, his claim on the Western Lands. “You want the Western Lands? Have them! I have never wanted anything to do with the Inu-Yokai clan!”

“It is not so simple.” Sesshomaru said. As if to prove his words, Inuyasha's face had already healed; a fast healing, even for him. The Yokai markings were left as if nothing had ever maimed them. “Now that you've become a Yokai Lord, the power is yours until you die.”

“Feh! Sorry to disappoint you, Sesshomaru, but I have no intention of dying.” Inuyasha called forth the Adamant power of the Tetsusaiga. `Not when my mate is expecting.”

“What?”

:Mate carries pup.: Inuyasha barked in the Inu language. :Protect mate and pup.:

Sesshomaru glanced at Kagome. “Indeed. Should this Sesshomaru offer his congratulations and be happy about having a filthy hanyou as a brother-pup?”

“Back off, Sesshomaru!” Inuyasha growled. “Unless you want adamant spikes sticking out of your chest.”

“This Sesshomaru has no time for pup's games.” Sesshomaru said, turning to leave. “Next time we meet, leave your mate behind for her sake.” They blinked and the Inu-Yokai was gone. They both watched as Sesshomaru's two wards gave chase of their master.

After several seconds, Inuyasha released a breath that he had been subconsciously holding. The blade of the Tetsusaiga returned to normal and hit the ground.

“Inuyasha! Are you all right?” Kagome asked.

:Mate fine.: Inuyasha unwittingly answered in the Inu language. Then he finally seemed to realize that he was barking and whining like a dog. “Oh, sorry. My Inu-Yokai got the better of me.”

“It's all right.” Kagome laughed. “I think it's cute. Besides… I can understand it.”

“What? You can?” Inuyasha asked.

“I think so.” Kagome said. “I mean… its weird cause it's not like translating one language to another. There aren't any words in the Inu language. It's more like you're speaking… `feelings'.”

“Well… exactly.” Inuyasha said. “What did you understand?”

“You mean when you made that noise?” She imitated the soft noise Inuyasha had made when he told her he was fine. “You were telling me contentment.”

“Almost.” Inuyasha said. “You're concentrating too much on my vocal message. Most of it is body language. Try again.” :Mate fine.:

“You're telling me that you're okay!” Kagome gasped, glad that she could now understand her mate. Now that she understood how big body language was to Inu-Yokai communication, Inuyasha turned into quite a talker.

“What about you?”

Kagome grinned and surprised Inuyasha. :Mate fine. Pup fine.:

Of course, all Inu-Yokai and Inu-hanyou knew the Inu language by instinct. It seemed that all Kagome needed were the basics before her instincts took care of the rest.

Inuyasha smiled. :Alpha-male glad.:

“We should go back to the village.” Kagome said. “Sesshomaru's definitely going to come back for more.”

“That stupid bastard never knows when to give up.” Inuyasha hissed. “You're right. Let's go.”

Sesshomaru moved quickly through Inuyasha's Forest, having no wish to stay in that cursed valley any longer than necessary. “Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Sesshomaru!” His toad-ward, Jaken, raced after him, holding the reigns of the two-headed dragonet Ah-Un. “Why did you not dispatch of that flea-bitten cur?”

“Rin does not think Lord Inuyasha has fleas.” Rin piped up, smiling eternally.

“Be quiet, insolent child! And don't call the half-breed brother of our Lord Sesshomaru `Lord'! That mangy pup is not worthy even to clean the mud from Lord Sesshomaru's feet!”

“But he has always been kind to Rin. And so has his Lady Kagome.”

“Not only is he tainting the air with his own hanyou filth, but he dares to turn his mate into a hanyou, and are expecting a hanyou pup!”

“Will the baby have their ears?! Cute!” Rin giggled.

“Jaken, Rin… silence.” Sesshomaru ordered.

“Yes, Sesshomaru-sama!” Rin said, falling silent instantly. Jaken gasped like a fish out of water, but said nothing.

Sesshomaru continued on his way. They cannot know… this Sesshomaru's best chance at defeating Inuyasha is to surprise him. When he gained the Yokai Lord's powers and our father's powers, this Sesshomaru lost those powers. Our clash has an undecided outcome when our powers are matched.

LES: Yes, Sesshomaru DID have Inutaisho's power, but only until Inuyasha rightfully gained them. And, yes, right now, they are pretty evenly matched in terms of raw power. And, man, Sesshomaru and Rin are so hard to write for! Why do they both insist on referring to themselves in the third person?! You won't believe the number of times I had to go back and correct myself when either one accidentally said the word `I'. Even now, I might have missed a few. Oh well, that's called being true to the character. If Sesshomaru calls himself `this Sesshomaru' and Rin always says her own name in place of `I' and `me', who am I to change it?