InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
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Revelations Part 1
“But the one who tried to kill you…that's Taro. Your son and my brother…”
Hearing these words, Kagome pales. Her mind refusing to connect the fact that the youth she had felt a spiritual connection to was not only her son, but also someone who wants to destroy her. Hence seconds later, the young miko from the future proceeds to promptly pass out.
The others including the older Shippo rush to her as she falls, only to be growled at when Inuyasha catches her. Cautiously they begin their approach once again, only to observe as his eyes flicker red momentarily as if warning to them to back off. Stopping where they are, the older version of Shippo holds back Sango and Miroku motioning them to remain where they were.
Then stepping forward, the hanyou growls once more, telling him to back off. But somehow as the others observe Inuyasha sniffing the air. The hanyou visibly relaxes and allows him to approach.
“What just happened?” Sango murmurs quietly to Miroku, as the demon and the hanyou fuss over the unconscious young woman.
“I think…Inuyasha's demon acknowledged Shippo is family.”
“What do you mean?”
“Remember how Inuyasha's eyes have been flickering red off and on lately. But not the red of the mindless killer we knew, but as Kagome said more warm...sedate.”
“Yes.”
“I think what's happening is through the marks Inuyasha shares with Kagome. Is that the demon is manifesting itself. But not as a mindless killer…”
“You really think so Miroku?” Sango questions softly.
“Yes…we know from the experience against Kaguya, that Inuyasha's demon isn't quite as mindless as we thought at first.” The monk replied. “Even though he slashed at me, what happened when Kagome approached him. He stopped for a moment did he not?”
“Now that I think about he did. But once Kaguya started up her chanting again, he continued to lose control though, Miroku.”
“True…Sango very true. But something tells me if we were to go against Kaguya now…it would be a whole different story. I think through their bond, that Inuyasha has managed to maintain some control, to the point that his demon side now might truly be able to tap into their soul.”
“I see…” Sango replies as she studies her friend, who is starting to come around. About to step forward and join the hanyou and the adult version of the little fox child, Sango stills as a hand finds her backside once more, only seconds later.
Twitching with unsurpassed anger, she whirls and pulls back her arm as she forms a fist.
“MIROKU! YOU LETCH!”
All eyes turn to the slayer as she swings at the perverted monk, who has already begun to run away from her temper. A smile appears on Kagome's face and she can't help but begin to giggle. Wincing a little bit, as the laughter erupts from her lips, you hear the chuckles coming from the hanyou and the other demon at the antics those to cause.
Still, watching as the slayer and monk chase one another around. Inuyasha and Kagome turn to the other, who stands beside them. Their eyes looking into his, they are embraced by the older youth in a heart wrenching hug as he begins to cry.
“I have missed you Momma…Papa…missed you so much…”
Surprised by this older Shippo's declaration, the young couple look momentarily caught off guard. Yet hearing the emotional words, of longing erupting from this man's lips, their arms surround the demon to give him comfort and to reassure him of their presence in his life.
Finally, as he calms down and relaxes, they look at him with kind and curious eyes.
“Feel better Shippo?” Kagome smiles. Her hands on his cheeks and forehead, checking his temperature out of habit. Shippo, despite being older than his adoptive parents at this age, nods his head, and nuzzles her hands like a lost child.
“I have missed you Momma…I have missed you and Papa so much.”
“Keh! Fox, we're right here! We ain't going anywhere.”
“I know Papa…” Shippo responded as he laughed wryly. “It's just…it's just to me you have been dead for about 15 years….”
“Dead?” Inuyasha worded quietly as Kagome paused in mid touch. Her hands shaking visibly from his words. She asks the one thing that anyone would ask given those words.
“How…how…”
“You don't want me to answer that Momma…” Shippo murmured quietly as his head found its way into her lap. Her fingers still shaking somewhat, she begins to relax as this is something that Shippo has taken to doing recently…or the child version has.
“Answer her Shippo.”
“Papa…”
Inuyasha stared at the jade green eyes of the fox in front of him. Despite the fact that the fox is in a sense older than him in this form, by many years. Somehow, the demon inside him demands the answer and as his eyes flicker red…Shippo begins to speak.
Not because he wants to, but because he has to….
“It was Taro…his powers Momma…are the opposite of yours. Where you give off a pure aura and light.”
“His is black and corrupted.” Kagome murmurs sadly. “What caused him to be like this…”
“I don't know.”
“What do you mean you don't know Shippo!” Kagome screams as her heart reaches out to the youth. Her mind seeing nothing but the intense pain in his gold eyes. Ignoring the anger and the seething hatred, that had been visible, all she had seen was the hurt little boy.
“I mean I don't know…it happened so fast when I was younger…” The fox replied. “And it was so long ago…I think I have forgotten…I just remember your faces when it happened. When Taro disappeared.”
“He vanished?” Inuyasha said quietly. “My son vanished? I still find it hard to believe that…that guy is my son. It just can't be Kagome isn`t…it`s too soon for us.”
“I know that Papa and you might as well get over it…because he is your son and my brother.” Shippo said with a bit of annoyance mixed with sadness, that Inuyasha growls at. About ready to retort, Kagome stills him with a gentle touch as she then turns to
“Please Shippo tell us about him…tell us what you know.”
“How…I can't tell you about him, the only memories I have are so old..”
“Just try Shippo. Please…for me.” Kagome whispered softly, pleadingly. The connection she had felt for the young man was so strong, when he had confronted them. It was like a part of him was reaching out for her and Inuyasha…
“I can't Momma…I don't remember much…it happened when he was only 6 years old. He just vanished from home…”
“Try…please Shippo...I have to know…” Kagome pleaded. The expression of pain and loneliness etched onto the young Taro's face was deep in her mind. Inuyasha feeling her thoughts, wraps his arms around her and starts nuzzling the young woman's neck. As his growls become low and soft, they realize it is an instinctive reaction designed to help her relax and to calm down.
“Okay…I remember his love and his worship… I remember he loved to be with you so much Momma. He smelled to me, of cookies and…”
“Cookies?” Sango asked with a confused expression.
Shippo laughs wryly and looks up as Miroku and Sango began to join them. The demon slayer having paused ay Kagome's scream, had proceeded to come closer so that they may learn about their newest enemy.
“Taro was just a child when he disappeared. Inuyasha can tell you, that their scent doesn't fully develop until a little older, but they tend to take on the scent of some of their most favorite things. Thus Momma's cookies, he always craved them no matter what… Papa used to tease him about it gently, which always annoyed Taro…but Momma would always nail him with a remark about his love of Ramen…”
“That does sound like Inuyasha and Kagome all right….” Miroku mused as he listened. Causing the hanyou to whirl and glare at him rather dangerously.
“What did you just say Monk?”
“Nothing…nothing Inuyasha…” Miroku hastily replied. He was already hurting enough now from the second beating he got from Sango. He doesn't want to make it three times in one day…
In the meantime, Shippo just chuckled at the monk's antics, but as Inuyasha's amber eyes return to him. He feels the need to speak even more pressed against him by that singular pair of gold eyes.
“I hate it when you do that, Papa…”
“Do what?” The hanyou replied with ease. The response he had to the older fox's comment was surprising for it felt almost natural.
“Glare at me, as if you expect me to continue.”
“Well it is what I want you to do…” Inuyasha mused with a half hidden smile.
Shippo relaxes even more at the sound of Inuyasha's voice. Hard to believe sometimes, that this brash hanyou, would evolve into the man he was proud to call papa. Still feeling the hanyou's questioning gaze combined with the gentle touch of his adoptive mother. Shippo surrenders once more and speaks of past feelings….
“As I was saying before, he always smelled to me of cookies…and the moon…”
“The Moon?” The others murmur with a surprised tone, but then all eyes turn to Inuyasha who begins to chuckle with a mixture of worry, fear, and glee. “Are you sure the moon, Shippo? Are you sure Taro smelled like that of the moon…”
`If by what you mean, every time I came close he smelled like the night sky, the forest asleep and everything.”
“Uh huh…”
“Answer me this…where is Sesshomaru?”
“Sesshomaru?”
“Yes, my fucking half brother!”
“He's dead…” Shippo replied quietly. Thus causing a wave of shock to spread throughout the small group.
“Go on…Shippo.” Miroku said quietly as Inuyasha seemed to shocked to continue. “Please continue.”
“No one really knows. His body was just found one day outside our home…Papa was not pleased…”
“DAMN RIGHT I WOULDN'T BE PLEASED! NOBODY KILLS MY BROTHER BUT ME!”
“Actually Papa…you and Sesshomaru had made a truce of sorts…” Shippo stated with a bewildered expression. “No one not even Mama knew why, but something tells me you do…even if it hasn't already happened yet.”
As all eyes turn to Inuyasha, the hanyou looks away with a thoughtful and yet reluctant gaze. Then turning towards Kagome and the others, the hanyou begins to speak of something that very few know about…
“What little my mother knew about my father's heritage was enough to keep Sesshomaru from killing us after my father died. But there was one thing that he told her as well as my brother in a bit of a sneer that she related to me concerning those with the scent of the moon.”
“Which is what…”
“My father was born with the scent of the moon. Sesshomaru was born with the scent of the moon…and yet I wasn't…”
“Isn't that partly because of your human blood though.” Sango asked, as the others agreed with her sentiment.
“I thought so at first, but after what Shippo told me about my son…the one from the future…it can lead into all sorts of possibilities.” Inuyasha replied. “Especially into reasons why he was taken from us…well will be taken from us in the future.” He states quietly as he holds onto his mates hand to reassure her….
In those moments as his gold eyes look into hers, Kagome's free hand goes to her mouth in sheer surprise. The others watching her reaction wonders, but then Miroku begins to think….
“Inuyasha…”
“Yes Miroku…”
“Tell me…how are the lords of the Dog Demons chosen?”
Just looking at the monk, who has become his friend through the years. Inuyasha nods his head as if in acknowledging what the monk is thinking.
“I see, then that could be one of many theories into why young Taro was taken…but it still doesn't explain why he is after us and why he traveled into the past if we were already…well dead.”
“That I don't think we will know unless we ask him Miroku and that is one thing I intend to do once I find him…but I think you are right about why that could be why he was taken.”
“What is it about Taro's scent!?” Shippo asks with clear and utter exasperation. “And what does it have to do with him having disappeared.”
“It is simple Shippo.” Miroku murmured. “Taro, a son of a half breed and a human miko is a potential heir to the Western Lands and leader of the Dog Demon Tribe.”
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Elsewhere and in a time far from now…
Lord and Master Kanaye of the Western Lands, brooded…
Long has he craved the immense power of the west home of the Dog demons. With the death of Lord Sesshomaru he had succeeded in taking over by catching him and overwhelming the Dog Lord with sheer numbers in an ambush that was sure to kill the aristocratic Assassin.
Succeeding in doing the impossible, he then became the Lord and celebrated with those of his tribe, who felt those of the great Inutaishio's family had gained to much power through his bloodline.
It has been quite some time Kanaye mused, since that battle he had with the great Dog Lord, who smelled of the moon as much as he did. But yet when it came to combat Inutaishio was far superior in skills and he won the challenge to become Lord.
So Kanaye seethed…
And when the Lord mated to a demon woman, he was incensed as she gave birth to Sesshomaru who also smelled of the moon. It was the first time that this had ever happened…
Normally when the Dog Demon's Lord is on the verge of death…two are always born with the scent of the moon. When they came of age they would fight to determine who would win and become Lord of all.
Now for the first time, a child was born with the scent of the moon…
Thinking that Inutaishio was going to die, he had prepared to battle the youth when the time came. Or at least to train the other pup, when it was born…
He waited for close to three hundred years…
The other child never came…
But something ironic happened…The Lady of the Western Lands had passed away and the great Inutaishio had wed and mated a human woman. With Sesshomaru as the proclaimed successor of the tribe all was peaceful except for his seething at the injustice of his inability to gain the Western Lands.
So when she, the human wench had Inutaishio's second son, Inuyasha, he was relieved when it turned out he did not have the scent of the moon.
He wouldn't…no he couldn't; stand it if the one destined to fight Sesshomaru and win wasn't a full demon…
But then rumors began to circulate…rumors that another child had been born finally smelling like the moon…
And that child belonged to the current lords half human and half demon brother, and miko wife…
Taro…
Grinning at the remembered plans he had made against Sesshomaru, he came up with something even better to prevent Taro from ever challenging him to the right to be Lord…
And it worked like a charm…
Through a few well placed lies after taking the child away from his parents, Kanaye put him through hell on the ancestral lands of the Dog demons, telling him that his parents were dead…and it worked. Taro grew up feeling hate and loss…but he always had this foolish belief his parents would find him…
But then that event happened concerning that stupid toy…and the last of the child who was now a young boy's spirit broke and instead of hope…there was a need for revenge…because he now had it in his mind that if his parents hadn't come they were indeed dead…
He got himself the perfect assassin….
And the rest was history…
But something in his mind was bothering him…
Sending the kid into the past was a good idea right…?
Then why does he feel like he has already lost?