InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Healed Over ❯ Children ( Chapter 50 )
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By: FullMetalArm 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 03.17.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 7.1K | Visits: 187 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 03.17.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 7.1K | Visits: 187 | Status: Completed
Chapter 50
“Oy, Sis! The damn tanks acting up.” The female demon who’d been watching the progress of their new weapon had finally fallen asleep. Looking at her clock she noticed it had barely been three hours since she’d fallen dozed off for the first time in three weeks. Her demonic blood wasn’t the only thing that had kept her going. The fact remained that after four years of painstaking genetic growing had taken its toll on her body.
Swinging her feet over the side of her bed, the female opened the door to a mass of bodies rushing to the lab. Grumbling at her specimen being disturbed, the demoness slowly made her way to the monitoring station. Fumbling through her jacket, she pulled out her card in order to give it a quick swipe. The lock beeped loudly allowing her access into the room where the computer was going frantic. Rubbing her eyes, she found that the research subject was almost to one hundred percent recovery.
Hitting a spectral button, the scientist saw the mix of demonic and human auras’ becoming stable inside of the nearly reanimated body. Reading the numbers, she pulled up a comparison of Sesshomaru at full power in his human form noticing that its power was equal to the demon lords. It wasn’t surprising since the numbers from the machines were showing the subject had gone into a panic. Hitting a button, the girl released a powerful tranquilizer into the preservation liquid.
The machines calmed in a matter of minutes signaling the subject was fully contained. Hitting the drain button the girl spoke into the intercom, “Get a gurney and some straps.” A group of subordinates rushed out of the room as she spoke again, “Keep weapons loaded with sedatives. This one is dangerous, but once the surgery is over, he will be controllable.” The sound of guns being loaded with darts satisfied the scientist’s mind. The creature’s activity showed that it was a success and the scent of her lord’s happiness filled her station.
“You did very well girl. With this we can finally bring our demonic brethren back to their former glory. Well, I despise that we had to resort to mixing demon and human blood to create this warrior, but once its purpose has been fulfilled we can lock it up and use it when usurpers appear.” Nodding, the female demon watched as her creation was carted off into the O.R.
Excusing herself from her master’s presence, she followed the group of demons as they entered a room filled with her assistants. Once cleaned she put on the necessary garments and began the necessary procedure. First they had to shave a bit of hair away from his scalp. The bald patch was unsightly, but given a few days the hair would be back to normal. Slicing away the flesh, she allowed her assistant to clean a bit of blood before sawing into the bone.
She was glad for the technology in her experiments. The saw was sharp and easy to handle, meaning that she need barely to press down in order to slice into the bone. Before the final bit of bone was cut into, her assistant applied a small suction cup to the bone and pumped it a couple of times. Making one last cut, the bone came loose and the demon assistant put the bit of calcium onto the surgical table. Picking up a small needle, the geneticist surgeon injected it into the brain.
For a human, such a procedure would be ninety-nine percent fatal, yet the powerful genetics of Sesshomaru allowed the brain to heal completely once the needle was removed. Only difference there was a small remote controlled device left in his brain. Signaling her friend, the demon let her place the slice of bone back into position before applying the calcium adhesive. With it glued, she used small concentrated blasts of hot air to dry the bond so they could get the subject into quarantine.
With the surgery finished, the girl headed into the showers with a small radio so she could hear of any problems that could occur. As she cleaned herself, the towering form of her master appeared behind her and pressed himself against her. She knew what was going to happen and let it happen willingly. Her master had marked her many years ago yet for the sake of their plan they never fully mated. They’d sired a couple of children who were sent to live with family or guardians out of concern for their safety.
Once it was done her master held onto her whispering, “You’ve made me proud, and soon our children will see what a strong mother they have.” The girl cried a few tears at the thought of not seeing her children. She’d only raised them for the first five years of their lives and only saw them when the family brought them by or they went and found them. Their oldest was nearly three hundred while the youngest wasn’t even ten. Of the four children they had their twins were the ones that didn’t pay much attention to them.
Her master and mate sensed what was wrong and cleaned her up before taking her to their chambers. In their room he dressed her in some comfortable clothes before changing himself. Without warning a voice said, “Sir, Madame! The subject is chained but somehow he has killed three of my men with an . . . ” Static filled the air and the two rushed to the containment room finding the newly revived human with the markings of his genetic donor.
Only the man had received the demon’s powerful claws and whip to use in combat. Pulling a remote out of her pocket the demon hit a green button surprised to see the man fall to the ground screaming in pain. Releasing the button, the girl was happy to see her obedience enforcer was working at normal capacity.
As the naked human stopped his writhing, the Lord walked forward saying, “Well you certainly do live up to your reputation.” He smirked as the man got onto all fours. Patting his new toys head, the Cougar Lord laughed, “That my friend was an electric shock sent directly to the pain receptors in your brain, so I suggest you stop slaughtering my men before I use you in a night of fun. And let me warn you, you’d be lucky to survive even with your new found regenerative powers.”
The human lunged at the demon, only to be pulled back by his chains. Growling loudly he asked, “I’m supposed to be dead. This is twice now that I have been taken from my eternal sleep.” His gaze never faltered and his words never gave a hint of fear as he made the statement. Standing up with the loud clanking of his chains, the revived man asked, “Is Naraku involved in this new attempt to bring me back from the dead? Because if he is, why me out of the whole Shinchinintai? I’m sick of this and wish for my rest.”
Bringing his fist down on the human’s face, Cougar sneered, “You shall have your rest once you help me kill that bastard Sesshomaru and all those connected to him.” The cougar smirked at the reaction happening within his new weapon. Eyes shone with the greatest type of pleasure at mention of the dog lord. To be more accurate the person whom he would be able to fight that was connected to the demon lord. As the man wiped the blood away from his lip Cougar stated, “Yes his half-breed brother is still alive as well. And I have no doubt that you are willing to cooperate for now?”
Sitting up right, the human let out the most powerful stench of blood thirst the two demons in the room had ever experienced. Gripping the chains the man snapped them off his arms saying happily, “That dog’s head shall be mine. But I must ask why you wish to kill them and those who pledge allegiance to them? Seems incredibly dull if all you have is some stupid grudge against one demon.”
Pulling a blade off of the wall, Cougar dangled it from his finger saying coldly, “Because half-breeds are becoming a problem. Now I am not saying that I have any problem with half-demons. But, when an unnatural half-breed such as that aforementioned Naraku are capable of becoming more powerful than some of our eldest demons, things tend to get out of hand.” Flicking his wrist, Cougar smiled as a series of scratches appeared in the stone dungeon wall.
Tossing the blade to it’s owner, the demon continued. “You see, after he was killed, half-breeds realized just how strong they truly are. What with that horse demon’s sone Ginenji, and that atrocious Inuyasha for examples of their demonic powers, most hanyou’s choose to fight back instead of submitting or run in fear of us demons’ as they normally did.” Punching the wall Cougar hissed, “It all started when those bastard dogs won against Naraku, and over the past five hundred years they’ve been so comfortable that they are risking our secrecy and now we are the prey of humans’ once again.”
Rushing forward the human stuck his blade into Cougar’s leg. Shivering at the sight of blood the human cooly stated, “So you create a half demon to slay half demon’s. What’s my reward for helping you out besides getting this damned device out of my head.” He removed the blade only to lick some of the blood from the edge. His eyes fluttered momentarily as he said, “My blade is sharper than ever, and since you’ve decided that I’m more useful than my other brother’s I’ll help you. Just make sure once my job is done you remove this device and not put anymore in me, on me, or create any machines that will force me to submit before you let me make my way in these new times.”
Slicing into his hand Cougar kept the blood flowing as his new ally sliced into his own. They clasped hands creating the blood oath. Both grimaced as their hands became marked with one another’s symbols binding the contract. Taking his hand away the newly created half demon saw an oddly shaped claw on his palm. Smiling he said, “Pleasure doing business with you.” Turning his head he looked at the woman growling, “And you have no need of that thing anymore. I made a contract and I stick to them.”
Pocketing the control the demoness stated matter of factly, “It’s an insurance policy for our own safety. And, I’d just like to tell you that I have many more of these so don’t think of destroying it or I’ll turn your head into chowder.” Removing herself from her mate’s and now allies’ sight, the demon female grabbed one of her attendants growling, “Prepare him for introduction and make sure he has his items in his quarters. Also, I want him tailed at all times.” The attendant bowed obediently as he entered the door to take the male to his new rooms.
Entering her own study chambers, the demoness was surprised to find the oldest of her twins, her daughter Ceras, glancing over her research notes. Before the demon bio-engineer could throw her daughter out the child said, “I’m three centuries old and I know the hostilities my twin brother and I have aimed against us here. I just came to warn you that should this follow through, you will not have our support and will be on your own.”
The two gave each other glares of pure hatred as the girl left the room. Settling down at her desk she was happy to see that her computers hadn’t been disturbed and her notes all in order. Pulling up a stack, she began making sure that her creation would be able to stand his rigorous training in order to deal with Sesshomaru and his brother. She just hoped that the human Seiya would be left for her to kill. “The stupid boy should never have mated with him, but now he faces death and that is something we all must face.”
Seiya gave out a few loud sneezes as he cut into some vegetables. Sesshomaru looked up from his place at the table asking, “If you’re getting sick I would suggest you stop handling them so we are not blamed for those children getting sick.” Glancing out the window he saw a large group of children being entertained by a magician. The pair was sitting in the kitchen of Robert and Michelle’s house for Yari’s fourth birthday.
It’d been an odd couple of months since Halloween. Khilu hadn’t asked any more questions about where babies came from. She was in some day classes with other children and save for some light teasing about her marks, no problems had occurred with the kids. The couple had even gone to their first ever a parent-teacher conference to discuss Khilu’s progress. Sesshomaru was as usual out of place, the feeling was mutual with Seiya since they were, as usual, the only gay couple.
Staring around at some of the other parents he got a weird vibe from another couple. Sure they seemed comfortable enough, but he’d seen some that sort of thing when he went to his father’s business dinners. Turning his eyes away he stared out a window to find some of the kids playing around on the jungle gyms. He couldn’t see Khilu, but he didn’t mind. It was school and she was fairly safe, and if anything happened all she had to do was transform and run away.
Yawning loudly, the demon asked, “You could have done this without me. I know nothing of these things and my presence here is most uncalled for.” The men in one of the other two couples gave a cough to suppress his laughter. Grunting in his mind, Sesshomaru was relieved to hear their name’s called. Stuffing his hands in his pockets the demon begrudgingly made his presence knows to the teacher as Seiya made an attempt to be polite.
Taking her seat the woman said happily, “Well, the first question I must ask you is how she got such a beautiful name and what it means.” Sesshomaru grunted a lightly stating that her name meant ‘after twilight,’ and that Seiya had gotten it from some book. Turning to the more polite of the two, the lady asked, “What book would that be?”
Sitting forward the human said, “I think the word Tolkein should suffice.” When the lady laughed at the creativity Seiya smiled politely as he asked, “Not to be rude, but I thought the purpose was to discuss her learning behaviors, not her name?” Pulling out some paper the teacher said that it was some of the drawings and practice sheets of writing Khilu had done.
“She’s not that bad an artist, but her language skills are rather impressive for a three-year-old. Do you read to her and teach her as you go along?” Grabbing a bit of a writing worksheet, the teacher pointed to the bit in English stating, “These are papers we use to teach older people to learn English, and if you look here, “ she pointed to some of Khilu’s less than graceful writing, “she started writing and reading out loud in English.” Handing it to Sesshomaru she stated, “It scared some of the children because a few told me that their parents argue in English when they don’t want to let the kids hear some of the swearing.”
Setting the paper back on the stack, Sesshomaru coldly stated, “Our daughter has been taught both English and Japanese. My husband was taught Italian and Greek to accompany both his English and Japanese grammatical skills at an early age. And, I myself learned English in only a year and a half. So, from what I’ve told you, the use of language is important in our families and we’ve passed that onto both of our children.”
Taken aback at the demon’s abrupt response the teacher said, “Well, it’s good to teach her language skills early on. I can tell that you yourself are a very educated man and choose your words wisely. I’d hate to get into a debate with you.” Seiya laughed at the teacher’s ignorant courage about whom she was dealing with. Smiling she said, “Well, Khilu is doing fairly well in some of our early science and math things. Basic addition for now and once she’s a bit older we’ll get into the subtraction and other things. I think she’s going to do just well when you get her into regular schools.”
Laughing to himself at Sesshomaru muttering about the teacher being a fool under his breath, Seiya asked, “Has she been a bit of a smart aleck or anything like that?” When the teacher said Khilu was a very well behaved child Seiya said, “So she’s polite to people outside the family? Interesting because at home her tongue is about as sharp as his or mine in a heated argument.”With that comment made, the two were sent out to collect Khilu before heading through the well for the weekend.
Now in the present, Sesshomaru’s nose caught a scent he hadn’t smelt in years. Keeping himself in the seat he waited as the heavy clunk of a wooden cane echoed through the house. Putting the snacks to the side, Seiya turned with a huge smile shouting, “Grandpa!” Hugging the old man, Seiya patted him gently whispering, “I’m sorry we haven’t come and visit you.”
Chuckling, Gerald pushed himself away saying, “You look exactly the same. It’s only to be expected though with him as your soul mate.” Reaching his hand out, Gerald shook Sesshomaru’s with a slight bow snickering, “I bet you two are like I was at his age.” Sesshomaru and Seiya blushed at the old man’s comment. Chuckling, Gerald put a small envelope in Seiya’s pocket as he said, “This is for Rin and Khilu. I know you have plenty of money, but just let them go berserk with it. Knowing you Seiya those two are very careful about what they buy.”
Rolling his eyes, Seiya sat next to his grandfather at the counter asking, “Why are you here? Is something wrong?” The old man said that it was to meet his great-grandchild at least once before he went. Feeling a tear rise up, Seiya muttered, “So you are getting worse?” His grandfather said that he was getting weaker and he wanted to die with his family around. Not alone in any of his houses. Grabbing the old man’s hand Seiya asked, “What’s going to happen to the houses?”
Chuckling Gerald said, “The Toronto, Colorado, New York, and Washington homes will be used for hospices and rest homes. The others will be either auctioned off or given to select family members. Such as the one a few miles away will go to you should you two choose to reproduce more.” Seiya began to protest but Gerald said, “It’s yours alone. It’s in the will so that you can’t sell it and it is to remain in the family. Just use it to raise your children that’s all I ask of you.”
Sesshomaru coughed saying, “I’ll see to it that he does not let your gifts go to waste.” Glaring at his mate Sesshomaru stated cooly, “To deny someone their dying request is one of the most cruel things you can do. So, you are to take that house, and should we have more children, we shall sell the other and move them into his.”
Before Seiya could agree Robert came in saying, “Gerald, I have someone that you should meet.” Plopping Khilu down in front of the old man, Robert said happily, “This is my grand daughter, Khiluial Anna Mizutani.” Kissing her cheek, Rober told the girl, “This is Seiya’s grandpa, Gerald Constantine. He’s the one who sent you Bun-bun.”
Bowing a bit, Khilu said, “Nice to meet you mister. Thank you for Bun-bun, and he’s good at keeping me company when I sleep.” The child could smell that something wasn’t right with the old man. Rubbing his cheek she asked, “Are you okay? You look sad.” Kissing her cheek Gerald said that he was fine, but Khilu didn’t buy it. “Okay, if you say so. Papa, can I go back and play with the others?”
Sesshomaru took her hand taking her back to the children. When the demon was back Gerald exclaimed, “She looks more like your mother than you do.” Seiya blushed slightly at the comment forcing the old man to laugh. “It’s not a problem. I’m just surprised at the sight of her. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen your mother save for a picture and looking at her fills a great pain in my heart. Thank the lord for genetics.”
“So you left to go and pick up the old man, Robert-san?” Sesshomaru asked over his cup of tea. Given an confirming and slightly embarrassed answer from his father-in-law the demon said, “It is of no concern as to why you left. Just make sure your son knows of where you go to so he does not bother me.” Sesshomaru shuddered a bit at Yari’s whines and of the boy latching onto his leg when the boy found out that his father was leaving during his party.
“It’s not my fault he sees you to be a bit of a father figure. Although I don’t know why he views you as one.” The comment earned the man a growl from the demon making him lift his hands saying, “Oh calm down. You’re a great father, it’s just he’s never seemed very attached to you so why he ran to you instead of Seiya is beyond my knowledge.”
Mumbling about the child needing more independence. Sesshomaru went outside to get clear of the quiet while Seiya asked, “So, when are you going back home?” The old man sipped at his own tea without saying a word to his grandson. The silence was all that Seiya needed to figure out what was happening. “I take it you plan on spending the rest of your days here then?” The old man continued with his silence as Seiya asked, “So you want me to move into your house after getting it signed over. Or are you staying with dad?”
“I don’t care what happens. I just want to spend my days with you. So, who’s going to go and change this old man’s diapers?” The two men kept their faces frozen while trying to figure out how to turn the old man down without seeming rude. “I’m kidding you two numb nuts. I may be old but I don’t have any problems that serious.” With their faces fully relaxed, Gerald asked once again, “I’m serious though on wanting to know whom I’ll be staying with. I just don’t want to be alone.”
Giving a heavy sigh, Robert clasped the old man’s shoulder happily saying, “Don’t worry Gerald. You can stay with me, Yari, and Michelle for as long as you need.” Giving his son a small smirk the middle-aged man said, “Once you two get out of your house he can choose where he’ll stay. And this is also a good way for him to at least pass on something to your brother and daughter son.” Seiya stuck his tongue out at the man getting a similar response from his father who said, “Just make sure you tell Kagome about your moving because I don’t want her going nuts on me trying to learn why you’re not home.”
Later that evening Yari was sitting on the floor of his bedroom playing with some of his new toys while Khilu played with Bun-bun. Looking over she grabbed one of the trucks asking, “Why does Grandpa Gerald look so wrinkly? My Papa’s older than him and he’s not wrinkly.” Yari ignored her and continued on playing with his toy set of a small town. Tapping the floor to the boys, annoyance Khilu asked again, “How come that guy’s wrinkly?”
Picking up some of his toys, Yari glared at his niece saying, “Cuz he’s old. When you get old, you get wrinkles and I heard he’s nearly a hundred.” Putting the lady back on top of a building he asked, “Why’s Sessho older than him? He look like Seiya age so he not old.” Yari could see the girl was a bit mad at him calling her a liar. Making a dog walk up the stairs of another building he said, “What I do? It’s true that Sessho look like Seiya age so how is he older than Great Grandpa?”
Setting Bun-bun down, Khilu drove small truck through the town saying happily, “Cuz, Papa isn’t human. Papa a demon and demon’s don’t age like humans. Which means I’m going to look pretty for a long time!” Yari said that the girl would look uglier than a pile of vomit making Khilu shout, “I too will look pretty cuz Papa demon and I half-demon so I age like him Yari!”
“I don’t care cuz you still look ugly.” Khilu pouted her lips and looked on the verge of tears. Sitting up he said, “I sorry Khilu. You not ugly, I just tease so don’t cry.” Khilu turned her head with a loud huff saying that he was mean and she should tell on him. Sweating nervously Yari handed her the truck she’d just been playing with. “Here this is one of my favorite toys. But, since you like it you can have it so you don’t tell on me.” Khilu shook her head saying that she wanted an apology. Putting the toy down Yari said sadly, “I sorry for calling you ugly. I think you’re really pretty.”
Looking at her uncle the girl smiled saying happily, “Thank you and I won’t tell on you. But, I told truth about Papa.” Saying that he knew about Sesshomaru, Yari let his niece play with his toys as Khilu said, “How come you have same doggies as us? We have Pup and Tater, but I never know your doggie’s names. But, they are really nice doggies. Although your girl dog is a bit weird since she stinky.”
Grabbing another set of toys, Yari began driving a car around the floor saying, “Daddy said it’s cuz Mommy puts too much of the doggy meat in her food so she farts a lot.” The two children laughed loudly while making tooting noises mimicking the way the dog sounded when out of nowhere the dog waddled in and immediately began licking Khilu. Yari giggled at the girl being licked when his other dog came in to start licking him. “Stop it Jack!” As the two were mauled by the dogs Michelle came in and pulled the dogs off of them.
“Okay you two, we’re trying to figure out if Khilu and Seiya are going to stay the night.” Patting her son’s head she asked, “If they did, would you mind sharing your room tonight with Khilu.” Yari smiled happily saying that he wouldn’t care as Khilu said she’d like to stay. Kissing her granddaughter and son, Michelle said, “And no monkey business or you’ll be in big trouble.”
Yari and Khilu made a few monkey noises to irrate the older woman, when without warning Robert came in playing with them. After wrestling for a bit, Khilu was on his back while Yari hung from his neck both shouting for ice cream. Crawling to the door slowly Robert said, “Sesshomaru take one of them off me, please?” The demon took his own child and headed downstairs where Seiya was in the middle of having a small glass of brandy with his grandfather.
Khilu backed up saying, “Daddy stinky.” Downing the rest of his drink, Seiya asked her if she was okay with staying the night. Curling up in her father’s lap she said, “Yup, and I get to play with Yari all night!” As Robert made his way into the kitchen Khilu asked happily, “I want chocolate chip ice cream, please.” While she waited Khilu asked her daddy, “Daddy, are you going to look like Grandpa Gerald when you get his age?”
“Your father will age like I do Khilu.” Chuckled Sesshomaru as he watched his mate and daughter talk. When asked why Seiya would age like him the demon responded, “Because your father and I have a bond that happens during demon mating. The end result is that he ages like me and is immune to the deadliest of human diseases. But, he can still get a cold like you did a couple weeks ago.” His daughter happily said that she was glad her daddy would be around for a long time before taking her ice cream and heading to the living room.
The kitchen soon emptied out leaving only Seiya and Sesshomaru in the kitchen. Getting up from his seat, Sesshomaru moved next to his husband in order to rest his head on the man’s shoulder. Shocked by the sudden display of affection, Seiya kissed Sesshomaru’s head asking, “What’s the matter? Afraid of what might happen if I age like my grandfather?”
Kissing the bit of exposed neck that his mate had out, Sesshomaru whispered huskily, “I would do everything in my power to keep you this way for as long as possible.” Muttering at how selfish his mate was being, Seiya kissed the demon just at the moment Yari walked in and made a whooping noise. Getting up from the table, Sesshomaru grabbed the child by the scruff of his shirt, only to dump him on the couch next to his father before heading back into the kitchen saying, “That child is lacking in manners.”
Setting his glass in the sink Seiya kissed his husband on the cheek before heading into the living room to find Gerald sitting between the kids as they watched a movie. Sitting next to his brother Seiya said, “They all die in the end.” The kids started climbing over to hit him as Gerald laughed and held the kids down for Seiya to help tickle them. After a few moments of kicking and screaming, Khilu began to cough from lack of air. Picking her up, Seiya patted and rubbed her back saying gently, “Take slow breaths.”
After a minute Khilu nuzzled against Seiya whispering, “That was mean Daddy.” Seiya said that it was all in good fun but the child simply said, “Still it was mean to tickle me until I coughed.” Patting her head gently, Seiya said that she shouldn’t have started attacking him the way she did. Sticking her tongue out, Khilu grabbed her bowl and sat in one of the armchairs away from her family. Sesshomaru saw this and asked her to come into the kitchen. When she got in there, she asked, “What’s the matter, Papa?”
Taking the bowl, Sesshomaru set on the counter shortly before kneeling down. “Your father is right. If you didn’t want that to happen you shouldn’t have started playing around.” Khilu opened her mouth to retort, but was cut off by her father. “I don’t care what you have to say. Yes he should have stopped sooner, but what have we taught you about doing something?” Khilu muttered the response to which Sesshomaru said, “That is correct. Do not start anything unless you are willing to accept the consequences of your actions.”
Khilu looked at the floor saying, “I’m sorry.” Sesshomaru flicked her nose before patting her head saying that it was okay. “I’ll go and say sorry to Daddy.” The child left for the living room to find Seiya in discussion with Robert about some party that was going to happen. Climbing into her daddy’s lap, Khilu gave him a kiss and hug as she sat quietly listening to them talk.
“Why do you need me there? I’m not taking over the company and you know how much I hate those damn things.” Robert stated that it was just for appearance reasons and that Sesshomaru didn’t have to come. Smirking at the idea, Seiya patted his dad on the shoulder saying, “Well, if my husband can’t come, then we should both go.” Robert put his hands up saying that his son should forget it. “Yeah right, Dad. Me and Sessh’ll be there. Hey, can Kagome and Inuyasha come as well?”
Scratching his chin momentarily, Robert gave a slight smile saying, “I think it’d make it a fun evening. Your dog-eared brother-in-law, along with your purple-marked husband at a huge gala event such as this, may cause some of my colleagues to die of pure shock.” Reaching over, Robert gave Khilu a kiss on the head before saying, “I’m going to bed. Just make sure you talk it over with Kagome and have her talk it over with Inuyasha since we all know how he gets with clothes at certain times.”
Once his dad had left, Seiya gave the clock a quick glance surprised to see that it was already past Khilu’s bed time. Picking her up, Seiya took her upstairs saying, “You got to stay up later than normal. But, now you need to go to bed.” Khilu began protesting that she wasn’t tired, he would have believed her save for the loud yawn that escaped from her mouth moments later. Taking her into Yari’s room, he got her dressed only a minute before his brother came in dressed for bed as well. Kissing them both he tucked Khilu into the spare futon mattress and headed out finding Michelle waiting for him.
“You’ve done an excellent job with her.” Seiya said that he wasn’t doing that well of a job which seemed to tick the woman off slightly. “That’s nonsense Seiya.” Shutting the door the rest of the way, Michelle looked at a picture of the child being held by Sesshomaru and kissed by Seiya when she was a few months old. Grinning she said, “She’s loved and disciplined. You two have raised her to know she can’t always get everything she wants and that she has to earn the thing instead of them being given to her.” Sighing she rubbed her head saying, “Yari is a lot like her, but he’s as stubborn as your father and has a tongue of silver.”
Chuckling, Seiya put an arm over the woman’s shoulder saying, “Well he’s got Jiro’s negotiation skills. That man could probably con the emperor out of his throne if given enough time.” Michelle chuckled as she told Seiya that it was a gross over exaggeration of his uncle’s skill. Giving her a kiss on the cheek he said, “Even so, Jiro is a diplomat and has to be convincing. I’m pretty good at it too, but I think Yari’s got a stronger display of that family flowing through his blood.”
Giving Seiya a quick hug, Michelle said her goodnights and shut the door to hers and Robert’s room. Seeing his grandfather still up, Seiya knocked as he whispered, “Grandpa, are you up?” Gerald made the comment that he was about to fall asleep. Sticking his head into the guest room, Seiya asked, “I just wanted to know if you needed anything before I went to bed?”
“Just make sure I don’t hear any noises emanating from your room.” Picking up a slipper off the floor, Seiya chucked it at the old man. “I don’t care what ya do in there, but I just prefer not to know what you two sound like.” Seiya shut the door saying that the old man was worse than his friends wanted to know about what happened in his and Sesshomaru’s bed. “I like to think of myself as mildly curious, yet unwilling to know.”
Entering the bathroom, Seiya was surprised to find Sesshomaru in the shower cleaning up before bed. Taking off his clothes, Seiya climbed into it and grabbed his mate around the waist placing some kisses on his mating mark. “That’s not a good thing to do right now.” Sesshomaru groaned loudly. His mate continued to nip at the purple tattoo like marking which made Sesshomaru pull away slightly. “Don’t you have anything better to do than seduce me while I bathe?”
Putting his head over the demon’s shoulder, Seiya held his head under the water enjoying the warmth. “Not really. But, Khilu and everyone are in bed.” Grabbing some soap and a rag, Seiya began rubbing his mate’s body. “My dad asked me to go to some big dinner in a couple of weeks.” Sesshomaru asked what that had to do with him and getting cleaned which made his husband chuckle, “It doesn’t have anything to do with this. I just don’t want to go alone and besides it’ll put you into the modern form of those feasts royals always throw.”
Rinsing himself off, Sesshomaru turned around to place his lips onto the human’s. “If it will allow me to learn how I can gain alliances and power it should be worth the torture.” When his statement was made, Sesshomaru pulled his mate into a long deep kiss. Seiya was forced back into the wall of the large shower, putting him right where the demon wanted him.
Breaking the kiss, Sesshomaru nuzzled his mate’s cheek as he whispered huskily, “Maybe I can get them wrapped around my finger. A lot like I have you wrapped around it.” Seiya laughed in the demon’s ear and made a comment that Sesshomaru was the one wrapped around his finger. “I highly doubt that seeing as you’re just a frail little human boy. Where as I am a powerful demon lord.”
“Well, if that’s the case then how come every time you start talking like that, I’m the one who ends up making you beg like the dog you are.” Sesshomaru nibbled his husband’s ear saying that it was just a ploy until Seiya’s guard was down. “If that’s the case then I’m going to make sure I don’t ever let it down around you.” Breaking away, Sesshomaru shut the water to the shower off, grabbed a towel from outside the shower, and began drying off.
“I think I’ve gotten you while your guard is dropped. If you remember a couple of nights ago that involved the handcuffs.” Seiya jumped out of the shower and chased the demon into his old room. Seiya tried to tackle the demon onto the bed, only to have the demon move out of the way. As the human landed on the bed, Sesshomaru locked the door before removing his towel. “Well I guess you need me to teach you a lesson again.”
Moving the rest of his body back onto the bed, Seiya barely stopped the demon from pinning him face down into the pillows, “How about we don’t do any sort of teaching tonight. My leg is bothering me again.” Relaxing his muscles, Sesshomaru let his arms drop to the bed so that he could massage his mate’s hip. Laying on the bed, Seiya let the hands work the knot out as he said, “Thanks.”
When he felt the knot release, Sesshomaru kissed a few of the human’s scars. Each one held a memory of what his mate had gone through and how much Sesshomaru wanted to keep him from any more pain. “If it will make you happy, I will go to the dinner with you. I would just like to know if my brother has anything to do with this?”
Biting his lip, Seiya mentioned that Robert did invite Inuyasha and Kagome. Growling, Sesshomaru scrapped the human’s mating mark to get a small bit of blood from him. “That’s your lesson for tonight.” For biting the boy, Sesshomaru received a punch in the shoulder as counter attack to his teeth. “Please do not insult me by thinking that would teach me a lesson.”
Pulling the demon down, Seiya crawled under the covers and was shortly joined by Sesshomaru. Moving next to the demon, the human held him close, “Do you think that my grandfather will end up living with us?” Sesshomaru didn’t answer, instead he just kept his eyes open as Seiya drifted off to sleep wondering if having the old man around for a long period of time would be something he could tolerate.
“Oy, Sis! The damn tanks acting up.” The female demon who’d been watching the progress of their new weapon had finally fallen asleep. Looking at her clock she noticed it had barely been three hours since she’d fallen dozed off for the first time in three weeks. Her demonic blood wasn’t the only thing that had kept her going. The fact remained that after four years of painstaking genetic growing had taken its toll on her body.
Swinging her feet over the side of her bed, the female opened the door to a mass of bodies rushing to the lab. Grumbling at her specimen being disturbed, the demoness slowly made her way to the monitoring station. Fumbling through her jacket, she pulled out her card in order to give it a quick swipe. The lock beeped loudly allowing her access into the room where the computer was going frantic. Rubbing her eyes, she found that the research subject was almost to one hundred percent recovery.
Hitting a spectral button, the scientist saw the mix of demonic and human auras’ becoming stable inside of the nearly reanimated body. Reading the numbers, she pulled up a comparison of Sesshomaru at full power in his human form noticing that its power was equal to the demon lords. It wasn’t surprising since the numbers from the machines were showing the subject had gone into a panic. Hitting a button, the girl released a powerful tranquilizer into the preservation liquid.
The machines calmed in a matter of minutes signaling the subject was fully contained. Hitting the drain button the girl spoke into the intercom, “Get a gurney and some straps.” A group of subordinates rushed out of the room as she spoke again, “Keep weapons loaded with sedatives. This one is dangerous, but once the surgery is over, he will be controllable.” The sound of guns being loaded with darts satisfied the scientist’s mind. The creature’s activity showed that it was a success and the scent of her lord’s happiness filled her station.
“You did very well girl. With this we can finally bring our demonic brethren back to their former glory. Well, I despise that we had to resort to mixing demon and human blood to create this warrior, but once its purpose has been fulfilled we can lock it up and use it when usurpers appear.” Nodding, the female demon watched as her creation was carted off into the O.R.
Excusing herself from her master’s presence, she followed the group of demons as they entered a room filled with her assistants. Once cleaned she put on the necessary garments and began the necessary procedure. First they had to shave a bit of hair away from his scalp. The bald patch was unsightly, but given a few days the hair would be back to normal. Slicing away the flesh, she allowed her assistant to clean a bit of blood before sawing into the bone.
She was glad for the technology in her experiments. The saw was sharp and easy to handle, meaning that she need barely to press down in order to slice into the bone. Before the final bit of bone was cut into, her assistant applied a small suction cup to the bone and pumped it a couple of times. Making one last cut, the bone came loose and the demon assistant put the bit of calcium onto the surgical table. Picking up a small needle, the geneticist surgeon injected it into the brain.
For a human, such a procedure would be ninety-nine percent fatal, yet the powerful genetics of Sesshomaru allowed the brain to heal completely once the needle was removed. Only difference there was a small remote controlled device left in his brain. Signaling her friend, the demon let her place the slice of bone back into position before applying the calcium adhesive. With it glued, she used small concentrated blasts of hot air to dry the bond so they could get the subject into quarantine.
With the surgery finished, the girl headed into the showers with a small radio so she could hear of any problems that could occur. As she cleaned herself, the towering form of her master appeared behind her and pressed himself against her. She knew what was going to happen and let it happen willingly. Her master had marked her many years ago yet for the sake of their plan they never fully mated. They’d sired a couple of children who were sent to live with family or guardians out of concern for their safety.
Once it was done her master held onto her whispering, “You’ve made me proud, and soon our children will see what a strong mother they have.” The girl cried a few tears at the thought of not seeing her children. She’d only raised them for the first five years of their lives and only saw them when the family brought them by or they went and found them. Their oldest was nearly three hundred while the youngest wasn’t even ten. Of the four children they had their twins were the ones that didn’t pay much attention to them.
Her master and mate sensed what was wrong and cleaned her up before taking her to their chambers. In their room he dressed her in some comfortable clothes before changing himself. Without warning a voice said, “Sir, Madame! The subject is chained but somehow he has killed three of my men with an . . . ” Static filled the air and the two rushed to the containment room finding the newly revived human with the markings of his genetic donor.
Only the man had received the demon’s powerful claws and whip to use in combat. Pulling a remote out of her pocket the demon hit a green button surprised to see the man fall to the ground screaming in pain. Releasing the button, the girl was happy to see her obedience enforcer was working at normal capacity.
As the naked human stopped his writhing, the Lord walked forward saying, “Well you certainly do live up to your reputation.” He smirked as the man got onto all fours. Patting his new toys head, the Cougar Lord laughed, “That my friend was an electric shock sent directly to the pain receptors in your brain, so I suggest you stop slaughtering my men before I use you in a night of fun. And let me warn you, you’d be lucky to survive even with your new found regenerative powers.”
The human lunged at the demon, only to be pulled back by his chains. Growling loudly he asked, “I’m supposed to be dead. This is twice now that I have been taken from my eternal sleep.” His gaze never faltered and his words never gave a hint of fear as he made the statement. Standing up with the loud clanking of his chains, the revived man asked, “Is Naraku involved in this new attempt to bring me back from the dead? Because if he is, why me out of the whole Shinchinintai? I’m sick of this and wish for my rest.”
Bringing his fist down on the human’s face, Cougar sneered, “You shall have your rest once you help me kill that bastard Sesshomaru and all those connected to him.” The cougar smirked at the reaction happening within his new weapon. Eyes shone with the greatest type of pleasure at mention of the dog lord. To be more accurate the person whom he would be able to fight that was connected to the demon lord. As the man wiped the blood away from his lip Cougar stated, “Yes his half-breed brother is still alive as well. And I have no doubt that you are willing to cooperate for now?”
Sitting up right, the human let out the most powerful stench of blood thirst the two demons in the room had ever experienced. Gripping the chains the man snapped them off his arms saying happily, “That dog’s head shall be mine. But I must ask why you wish to kill them and those who pledge allegiance to them? Seems incredibly dull if all you have is some stupid grudge against one demon.”
Pulling a blade off of the wall, Cougar dangled it from his finger saying coldly, “Because half-breeds are becoming a problem. Now I am not saying that I have any problem with half-demons. But, when an unnatural half-breed such as that aforementioned Naraku are capable of becoming more powerful than some of our eldest demons, things tend to get out of hand.” Flicking his wrist, Cougar smiled as a series of scratches appeared in the stone dungeon wall.
Tossing the blade to it’s owner, the demon continued. “You see, after he was killed, half-breeds realized just how strong they truly are. What with that horse demon’s sone Ginenji, and that atrocious Inuyasha for examples of their demonic powers, most hanyou’s choose to fight back instead of submitting or run in fear of us demons’ as they normally did.” Punching the wall Cougar hissed, “It all started when those bastard dogs won against Naraku, and over the past five hundred years they’ve been so comfortable that they are risking our secrecy and now we are the prey of humans’ once again.”
Rushing forward the human stuck his blade into Cougar’s leg. Shivering at the sight of blood the human cooly stated, “So you create a half demon to slay half demon’s. What’s my reward for helping you out besides getting this damned device out of my head.” He removed the blade only to lick some of the blood from the edge. His eyes fluttered momentarily as he said, “My blade is sharper than ever, and since you’ve decided that I’m more useful than my other brother’s I’ll help you. Just make sure once my job is done you remove this device and not put anymore in me, on me, or create any machines that will force me to submit before you let me make my way in these new times.”
Slicing into his hand Cougar kept the blood flowing as his new ally sliced into his own. They clasped hands creating the blood oath. Both grimaced as their hands became marked with one another’s symbols binding the contract. Taking his hand away the newly created half demon saw an oddly shaped claw on his palm. Smiling he said, “Pleasure doing business with you.” Turning his head he looked at the woman growling, “And you have no need of that thing anymore. I made a contract and I stick to them.”
Pocketing the control the demoness stated matter of factly, “It’s an insurance policy for our own safety. And, I’d just like to tell you that I have many more of these so don’t think of destroying it or I’ll turn your head into chowder.” Removing herself from her mate’s and now allies’ sight, the demon female grabbed one of her attendants growling, “Prepare him for introduction and make sure he has his items in his quarters. Also, I want him tailed at all times.” The attendant bowed obediently as he entered the door to take the male to his new rooms.
Entering her own study chambers, the demoness was surprised to find the oldest of her twins, her daughter Ceras, glancing over her research notes. Before the demon bio-engineer could throw her daughter out the child said, “I’m three centuries old and I know the hostilities my twin brother and I have aimed against us here. I just came to warn you that should this follow through, you will not have our support and will be on your own.”
The two gave each other glares of pure hatred as the girl left the room. Settling down at her desk she was happy to see that her computers hadn’t been disturbed and her notes all in order. Pulling up a stack, she began making sure that her creation would be able to stand his rigorous training in order to deal with Sesshomaru and his brother. She just hoped that the human Seiya would be left for her to kill. “The stupid boy should never have mated with him, but now he faces death and that is something we all must face.”
Seiya gave out a few loud sneezes as he cut into some vegetables. Sesshomaru looked up from his place at the table asking, “If you’re getting sick I would suggest you stop handling them so we are not blamed for those children getting sick.” Glancing out the window he saw a large group of children being entertained by a magician. The pair was sitting in the kitchen of Robert and Michelle’s house for Yari’s fourth birthday.
It’d been an odd couple of months since Halloween. Khilu hadn’t asked any more questions about where babies came from. She was in some day classes with other children and save for some light teasing about her marks, no problems had occurred with the kids. The couple had even gone to their first ever a parent-teacher conference to discuss Khilu’s progress. Sesshomaru was as usual out of place, the feeling was mutual with Seiya since they were, as usual, the only gay couple.
Staring around at some of the other parents he got a weird vibe from another couple. Sure they seemed comfortable enough, but he’d seen some that sort of thing when he went to his father’s business dinners. Turning his eyes away he stared out a window to find some of the kids playing around on the jungle gyms. He couldn’t see Khilu, but he didn’t mind. It was school and she was fairly safe, and if anything happened all she had to do was transform and run away.
Yawning loudly, the demon asked, “You could have done this without me. I know nothing of these things and my presence here is most uncalled for.” The men in one of the other two couples gave a cough to suppress his laughter. Grunting in his mind, Sesshomaru was relieved to hear their name’s called. Stuffing his hands in his pockets the demon begrudgingly made his presence knows to the teacher as Seiya made an attempt to be polite.
Taking her seat the woman said happily, “Well, the first question I must ask you is how she got such a beautiful name and what it means.” Sesshomaru grunted a lightly stating that her name meant ‘after twilight,’ and that Seiya had gotten it from some book. Turning to the more polite of the two, the lady asked, “What book would that be?”
Sitting forward the human said, “I think the word Tolkein should suffice.” When the lady laughed at the creativity Seiya smiled politely as he asked, “Not to be rude, but I thought the purpose was to discuss her learning behaviors, not her name?” Pulling out some paper the teacher said that it was some of the drawings and practice sheets of writing Khilu had done.
“She’s not that bad an artist, but her language skills are rather impressive for a three-year-old. Do you read to her and teach her as you go along?” Grabbing a bit of a writing worksheet, the teacher pointed to the bit in English stating, “These are papers we use to teach older people to learn English, and if you look here, “ she pointed to some of Khilu’s less than graceful writing, “she started writing and reading out loud in English.” Handing it to Sesshomaru she stated, “It scared some of the children because a few told me that their parents argue in English when they don’t want to let the kids hear some of the swearing.”
Setting the paper back on the stack, Sesshomaru coldly stated, “Our daughter has been taught both English and Japanese. My husband was taught Italian and Greek to accompany both his English and Japanese grammatical skills at an early age. And, I myself learned English in only a year and a half. So, from what I’ve told you, the use of language is important in our families and we’ve passed that onto both of our children.”
Taken aback at the demon’s abrupt response the teacher said, “Well, it’s good to teach her language skills early on. I can tell that you yourself are a very educated man and choose your words wisely. I’d hate to get into a debate with you.” Seiya laughed at the teacher’s ignorant courage about whom she was dealing with. Smiling she said, “Well, Khilu is doing fairly well in some of our early science and math things. Basic addition for now and once she’s a bit older we’ll get into the subtraction and other things. I think she’s going to do just well when you get her into regular schools.”
Laughing to himself at Sesshomaru muttering about the teacher being a fool under his breath, Seiya asked, “Has she been a bit of a smart aleck or anything like that?” When the teacher said Khilu was a very well behaved child Seiya said, “So she’s polite to people outside the family? Interesting because at home her tongue is about as sharp as his or mine in a heated argument.”With that comment made, the two were sent out to collect Khilu before heading through the well for the weekend.
Now in the present, Sesshomaru’s nose caught a scent he hadn’t smelt in years. Keeping himself in the seat he waited as the heavy clunk of a wooden cane echoed through the house. Putting the snacks to the side, Seiya turned with a huge smile shouting, “Grandpa!” Hugging the old man, Seiya patted him gently whispering, “I’m sorry we haven’t come and visit you.”
Chuckling, Gerald pushed himself away saying, “You look exactly the same. It’s only to be expected though with him as your soul mate.” Reaching his hand out, Gerald shook Sesshomaru’s with a slight bow snickering, “I bet you two are like I was at his age.” Sesshomaru and Seiya blushed at the old man’s comment. Chuckling, Gerald put a small envelope in Seiya’s pocket as he said, “This is for Rin and Khilu. I know you have plenty of money, but just let them go berserk with it. Knowing you Seiya those two are very careful about what they buy.”
Rolling his eyes, Seiya sat next to his grandfather at the counter asking, “Why are you here? Is something wrong?” The old man said that it was to meet his great-grandchild at least once before he went. Feeling a tear rise up, Seiya muttered, “So you are getting worse?” His grandfather said that he was getting weaker and he wanted to die with his family around. Not alone in any of his houses. Grabbing the old man’s hand Seiya asked, “What’s going to happen to the houses?”
Chuckling Gerald said, “The Toronto, Colorado, New York, and Washington homes will be used for hospices and rest homes. The others will be either auctioned off or given to select family members. Such as the one a few miles away will go to you should you two choose to reproduce more.” Seiya began to protest but Gerald said, “It’s yours alone. It’s in the will so that you can’t sell it and it is to remain in the family. Just use it to raise your children that’s all I ask of you.”
Sesshomaru coughed saying, “I’ll see to it that he does not let your gifts go to waste.” Glaring at his mate Sesshomaru stated cooly, “To deny someone their dying request is one of the most cruel things you can do. So, you are to take that house, and should we have more children, we shall sell the other and move them into his.”
Before Seiya could agree Robert came in saying, “Gerald, I have someone that you should meet.” Plopping Khilu down in front of the old man, Robert said happily, “This is my grand daughter, Khiluial Anna Mizutani.” Kissing her cheek, Rober told the girl, “This is Seiya’s grandpa, Gerald Constantine. He’s the one who sent you Bun-bun.”
Bowing a bit, Khilu said, “Nice to meet you mister. Thank you for Bun-bun, and he’s good at keeping me company when I sleep.” The child could smell that something wasn’t right with the old man. Rubbing his cheek she asked, “Are you okay? You look sad.” Kissing her cheek Gerald said that he was fine, but Khilu didn’t buy it. “Okay, if you say so. Papa, can I go back and play with the others?”
Sesshomaru took her hand taking her back to the children. When the demon was back Gerald exclaimed, “She looks more like your mother than you do.” Seiya blushed slightly at the comment forcing the old man to laugh. “It’s not a problem. I’m just surprised at the sight of her. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen your mother save for a picture and looking at her fills a great pain in my heart. Thank the lord for genetics.”
“So you left to go and pick up the old man, Robert-san?” Sesshomaru asked over his cup of tea. Given an confirming and slightly embarrassed answer from his father-in-law the demon said, “It is of no concern as to why you left. Just make sure your son knows of where you go to so he does not bother me.” Sesshomaru shuddered a bit at Yari’s whines and of the boy latching onto his leg when the boy found out that his father was leaving during his party.
“It’s not my fault he sees you to be a bit of a father figure. Although I don’t know why he views you as one.” The comment earned the man a growl from the demon making him lift his hands saying, “Oh calm down. You’re a great father, it’s just he’s never seemed very attached to you so why he ran to you instead of Seiya is beyond my knowledge.”
Mumbling about the child needing more independence. Sesshomaru went outside to get clear of the quiet while Seiya asked, “So, when are you going back home?” The old man sipped at his own tea without saying a word to his grandson. The silence was all that Seiya needed to figure out what was happening. “I take it you plan on spending the rest of your days here then?” The old man continued with his silence as Seiya asked, “So you want me to move into your house after getting it signed over. Or are you staying with dad?”
“I don’t care what happens. I just want to spend my days with you. So, who’s going to go and change this old man’s diapers?” The two men kept their faces frozen while trying to figure out how to turn the old man down without seeming rude. “I’m kidding you two numb nuts. I may be old but I don’t have any problems that serious.” With their faces fully relaxed, Gerald asked once again, “I’m serious though on wanting to know whom I’ll be staying with. I just don’t want to be alone.”
Giving a heavy sigh, Robert clasped the old man’s shoulder happily saying, “Don’t worry Gerald. You can stay with me, Yari, and Michelle for as long as you need.” Giving his son a small smirk the middle-aged man said, “Once you two get out of your house he can choose where he’ll stay. And this is also a good way for him to at least pass on something to your brother and daughter son.” Seiya stuck his tongue out at the man getting a similar response from his father who said, “Just make sure you tell Kagome about your moving because I don’t want her going nuts on me trying to learn why you’re not home.”
Later that evening Yari was sitting on the floor of his bedroom playing with some of his new toys while Khilu played with Bun-bun. Looking over she grabbed one of the trucks asking, “Why does Grandpa Gerald look so wrinkly? My Papa’s older than him and he’s not wrinkly.” Yari ignored her and continued on playing with his toy set of a small town. Tapping the floor to the boys, annoyance Khilu asked again, “How come that guy’s wrinkly?”
Picking up some of his toys, Yari glared at his niece saying, “Cuz he’s old. When you get old, you get wrinkles and I heard he’s nearly a hundred.” Putting the lady back on top of a building he asked, “Why’s Sessho older than him? He look like Seiya age so he not old.” Yari could see the girl was a bit mad at him calling her a liar. Making a dog walk up the stairs of another building he said, “What I do? It’s true that Sessho look like Seiya age so how is he older than Great Grandpa?”
Setting Bun-bun down, Khilu drove small truck through the town saying happily, “Cuz, Papa isn’t human. Papa a demon and demon’s don’t age like humans. Which means I’m going to look pretty for a long time!” Yari said that the girl would look uglier than a pile of vomit making Khilu shout, “I too will look pretty cuz Papa demon and I half-demon so I age like him Yari!”
“I don’t care cuz you still look ugly.” Khilu pouted her lips and looked on the verge of tears. Sitting up he said, “I sorry Khilu. You not ugly, I just tease so don’t cry.” Khilu turned her head with a loud huff saying that he was mean and she should tell on him. Sweating nervously Yari handed her the truck she’d just been playing with. “Here this is one of my favorite toys. But, since you like it you can have it so you don’t tell on me.” Khilu shook her head saying that she wanted an apology. Putting the toy down Yari said sadly, “I sorry for calling you ugly. I think you’re really pretty.”
Looking at her uncle the girl smiled saying happily, “Thank you and I won’t tell on you. But, I told truth about Papa.” Saying that he knew about Sesshomaru, Yari let his niece play with his toys as Khilu said, “How come you have same doggies as us? We have Pup and Tater, but I never know your doggie’s names. But, they are really nice doggies. Although your girl dog is a bit weird since she stinky.”
Grabbing another set of toys, Yari began driving a car around the floor saying, “Daddy said it’s cuz Mommy puts too much of the doggy meat in her food so she farts a lot.” The two children laughed loudly while making tooting noises mimicking the way the dog sounded when out of nowhere the dog waddled in and immediately began licking Khilu. Yari giggled at the girl being licked when his other dog came in to start licking him. “Stop it Jack!” As the two were mauled by the dogs Michelle came in and pulled the dogs off of them.
“Okay you two, we’re trying to figure out if Khilu and Seiya are going to stay the night.” Patting her son’s head she asked, “If they did, would you mind sharing your room tonight with Khilu.” Yari smiled happily saying that he wouldn’t care as Khilu said she’d like to stay. Kissing her granddaughter and son, Michelle said, “And no monkey business or you’ll be in big trouble.”
Yari and Khilu made a few monkey noises to irrate the older woman, when without warning Robert came in playing with them. After wrestling for a bit, Khilu was on his back while Yari hung from his neck both shouting for ice cream. Crawling to the door slowly Robert said, “Sesshomaru take one of them off me, please?” The demon took his own child and headed downstairs where Seiya was in the middle of having a small glass of brandy with his grandfather.
Khilu backed up saying, “Daddy stinky.” Downing the rest of his drink, Seiya asked her if she was okay with staying the night. Curling up in her father’s lap she said, “Yup, and I get to play with Yari all night!” As Robert made his way into the kitchen Khilu asked happily, “I want chocolate chip ice cream, please.” While she waited Khilu asked her daddy, “Daddy, are you going to look like Grandpa Gerald when you get his age?”
“Your father will age like I do Khilu.” Chuckled Sesshomaru as he watched his mate and daughter talk. When asked why Seiya would age like him the demon responded, “Because your father and I have a bond that happens during demon mating. The end result is that he ages like me and is immune to the deadliest of human diseases. But, he can still get a cold like you did a couple weeks ago.” His daughter happily said that she was glad her daddy would be around for a long time before taking her ice cream and heading to the living room.
The kitchen soon emptied out leaving only Seiya and Sesshomaru in the kitchen. Getting up from his seat, Sesshomaru moved next to his husband in order to rest his head on the man’s shoulder. Shocked by the sudden display of affection, Seiya kissed Sesshomaru’s head asking, “What’s the matter? Afraid of what might happen if I age like my grandfather?”
Kissing the bit of exposed neck that his mate had out, Sesshomaru whispered huskily, “I would do everything in my power to keep you this way for as long as possible.” Muttering at how selfish his mate was being, Seiya kissed the demon just at the moment Yari walked in and made a whooping noise. Getting up from the table, Sesshomaru grabbed the child by the scruff of his shirt, only to dump him on the couch next to his father before heading back into the kitchen saying, “That child is lacking in manners.”
Setting his glass in the sink Seiya kissed his husband on the cheek before heading into the living room to find Gerald sitting between the kids as they watched a movie. Sitting next to his brother Seiya said, “They all die in the end.” The kids started climbing over to hit him as Gerald laughed and held the kids down for Seiya to help tickle them. After a few moments of kicking and screaming, Khilu began to cough from lack of air. Picking her up, Seiya patted and rubbed her back saying gently, “Take slow breaths.”
After a minute Khilu nuzzled against Seiya whispering, “That was mean Daddy.” Seiya said that it was all in good fun but the child simply said, “Still it was mean to tickle me until I coughed.” Patting her head gently, Seiya said that she shouldn’t have started attacking him the way she did. Sticking her tongue out, Khilu grabbed her bowl and sat in one of the armchairs away from her family. Sesshomaru saw this and asked her to come into the kitchen. When she got in there, she asked, “What’s the matter, Papa?”
Taking the bowl, Sesshomaru set on the counter shortly before kneeling down. “Your father is right. If you didn’t want that to happen you shouldn’t have started playing around.” Khilu opened her mouth to retort, but was cut off by her father. “I don’t care what you have to say. Yes he should have stopped sooner, but what have we taught you about doing something?” Khilu muttered the response to which Sesshomaru said, “That is correct. Do not start anything unless you are willing to accept the consequences of your actions.”
Khilu looked at the floor saying, “I’m sorry.” Sesshomaru flicked her nose before patting her head saying that it was okay. “I’ll go and say sorry to Daddy.” The child left for the living room to find Seiya in discussion with Robert about some party that was going to happen. Climbing into her daddy’s lap, Khilu gave him a kiss and hug as she sat quietly listening to them talk.
“Why do you need me there? I’m not taking over the company and you know how much I hate those damn things.” Robert stated that it was just for appearance reasons and that Sesshomaru didn’t have to come. Smirking at the idea, Seiya patted his dad on the shoulder saying, “Well, if my husband can’t come, then we should both go.” Robert put his hands up saying that his son should forget it. “Yeah right, Dad. Me and Sessh’ll be there. Hey, can Kagome and Inuyasha come as well?”
Scratching his chin momentarily, Robert gave a slight smile saying, “I think it’d make it a fun evening. Your dog-eared brother-in-law, along with your purple-marked husband at a huge gala event such as this, may cause some of my colleagues to die of pure shock.” Reaching over, Robert gave Khilu a kiss on the head before saying, “I’m going to bed. Just make sure you talk it over with Kagome and have her talk it over with Inuyasha since we all know how he gets with clothes at certain times.”
Once his dad had left, Seiya gave the clock a quick glance surprised to see that it was already past Khilu’s bed time. Picking her up, Seiya took her upstairs saying, “You got to stay up later than normal. But, now you need to go to bed.” Khilu began protesting that she wasn’t tired, he would have believed her save for the loud yawn that escaped from her mouth moments later. Taking her into Yari’s room, he got her dressed only a minute before his brother came in dressed for bed as well. Kissing them both he tucked Khilu into the spare futon mattress and headed out finding Michelle waiting for him.
“You’ve done an excellent job with her.” Seiya said that he wasn’t doing that well of a job which seemed to tick the woman off slightly. “That’s nonsense Seiya.” Shutting the door the rest of the way, Michelle looked at a picture of the child being held by Sesshomaru and kissed by Seiya when she was a few months old. Grinning she said, “She’s loved and disciplined. You two have raised her to know she can’t always get everything she wants and that she has to earn the thing instead of them being given to her.” Sighing she rubbed her head saying, “Yari is a lot like her, but he’s as stubborn as your father and has a tongue of silver.”
Chuckling, Seiya put an arm over the woman’s shoulder saying, “Well he’s got Jiro’s negotiation skills. That man could probably con the emperor out of his throne if given enough time.” Michelle chuckled as she told Seiya that it was a gross over exaggeration of his uncle’s skill. Giving her a kiss on the cheek he said, “Even so, Jiro is a diplomat and has to be convincing. I’m pretty good at it too, but I think Yari’s got a stronger display of that family flowing through his blood.”
Giving Seiya a quick hug, Michelle said her goodnights and shut the door to hers and Robert’s room. Seeing his grandfather still up, Seiya knocked as he whispered, “Grandpa, are you up?” Gerald made the comment that he was about to fall asleep. Sticking his head into the guest room, Seiya asked, “I just wanted to know if you needed anything before I went to bed?”
“Just make sure I don’t hear any noises emanating from your room.” Picking up a slipper off the floor, Seiya chucked it at the old man. “I don’t care what ya do in there, but I just prefer not to know what you two sound like.” Seiya shut the door saying that the old man was worse than his friends wanted to know about what happened in his and Sesshomaru’s bed. “I like to think of myself as mildly curious, yet unwilling to know.”
Entering the bathroom, Seiya was surprised to find Sesshomaru in the shower cleaning up before bed. Taking off his clothes, Seiya climbed into it and grabbed his mate around the waist placing some kisses on his mating mark. “That’s not a good thing to do right now.” Sesshomaru groaned loudly. His mate continued to nip at the purple tattoo like marking which made Sesshomaru pull away slightly. “Don’t you have anything better to do than seduce me while I bathe?”
Putting his head over the demon’s shoulder, Seiya held his head under the water enjoying the warmth. “Not really. But, Khilu and everyone are in bed.” Grabbing some soap and a rag, Seiya began rubbing his mate’s body. “My dad asked me to go to some big dinner in a couple of weeks.” Sesshomaru asked what that had to do with him and getting cleaned which made his husband chuckle, “It doesn’t have anything to do with this. I just don’t want to go alone and besides it’ll put you into the modern form of those feasts royals always throw.”
Rinsing himself off, Sesshomaru turned around to place his lips onto the human’s. “If it will allow me to learn how I can gain alliances and power it should be worth the torture.” When his statement was made, Sesshomaru pulled his mate into a long deep kiss. Seiya was forced back into the wall of the large shower, putting him right where the demon wanted him.
Breaking the kiss, Sesshomaru nuzzled his mate’s cheek as he whispered huskily, “Maybe I can get them wrapped around my finger. A lot like I have you wrapped around it.” Seiya laughed in the demon’s ear and made a comment that Sesshomaru was the one wrapped around his finger. “I highly doubt that seeing as you’re just a frail little human boy. Where as I am a powerful demon lord.”
“Well, if that’s the case then how come every time you start talking like that, I’m the one who ends up making you beg like the dog you are.” Sesshomaru nibbled his husband’s ear saying that it was just a ploy until Seiya’s guard was down. “If that’s the case then I’m going to make sure I don’t ever let it down around you.” Breaking away, Sesshomaru shut the water to the shower off, grabbed a towel from outside the shower, and began drying off.
“I think I’ve gotten you while your guard is dropped. If you remember a couple of nights ago that involved the handcuffs.” Seiya jumped out of the shower and chased the demon into his old room. Seiya tried to tackle the demon onto the bed, only to have the demon move out of the way. As the human landed on the bed, Sesshomaru locked the door before removing his towel. “Well I guess you need me to teach you a lesson again.”
Moving the rest of his body back onto the bed, Seiya barely stopped the demon from pinning him face down into the pillows, “How about we don’t do any sort of teaching tonight. My leg is bothering me again.” Relaxing his muscles, Sesshomaru let his arms drop to the bed so that he could massage his mate’s hip. Laying on the bed, Seiya let the hands work the knot out as he said, “Thanks.”
When he felt the knot release, Sesshomaru kissed a few of the human’s scars. Each one held a memory of what his mate had gone through and how much Sesshomaru wanted to keep him from any more pain. “If it will make you happy, I will go to the dinner with you. I would just like to know if my brother has anything to do with this?”
Biting his lip, Seiya mentioned that Robert did invite Inuyasha and Kagome. Growling, Sesshomaru scrapped the human’s mating mark to get a small bit of blood from him. “That’s your lesson for tonight.” For biting the boy, Sesshomaru received a punch in the shoulder as counter attack to his teeth. “Please do not insult me by thinking that would teach me a lesson.”
Pulling the demon down, Seiya crawled under the covers and was shortly joined by Sesshomaru. Moving next to the demon, the human held him close, “Do you think that my grandfather will end up living with us?” Sesshomaru didn’t answer, instead he just kept his eyes open as Seiya drifted off to sleep wondering if having the old man around for a long period of time would be something he could tolerate.