InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Little Girl ❯ The question ( Chapter 19 )

 

“So?”

 

“So what?”

 

“Inuyasha c'mon. You know what I'm talking about, I can tell by the blush on your face…so?”

 

“Kagome I - I don't kiss and tell.” The inuhanyou turned away from the girl thinking that would be that, but he soon opened his golden eyes and looked over his shoulder with vexation and disbelief. She was laughing?!

 

“Oh please!” Kagome chuckled heartedly. “I know you much better than that Inuyasha. So tell me! Have you mated Maika or not?!”

 

His face turned brighter and he quickly turned away again, only to have Kagome standing in front of him a second later.

 

“Wait a minute, are you telling me that for all of the little pda's you two have that you haven't mated her yet?!” she asked with disbelief.

 

He and the female inuyoukai warrior were the two most publicly affectionate lovers she'd ever seen, even more so than Sango and Miroku, thou that once-monk did sport far more hand prints now than he did before the two had fallen together. She still couldn't believe it.

 

“No, I haven't mated her yet! There are ya happy now wench!” his gold eyes flashing with irritation.

 

“No, well yes, but still no.”

 

“What?” Inuyasha snapped at the girl. She was the only person who could single-handedly put him in such a state of confusion as he was in now.

 

“You heard me.”

 

“Yeah I heard you but I have no clue what you said. And what the hell is a p-d-a?”

 

“Public display of affection,” she defined and the hanyou blushed as bright as his fire rat clothing. “And yes I'm happy you told me, but no I'm not happy you're not mated. You two are all over each other, so why not? What's holding you back?” she asked concerned for her friend.

 

“You know the public mating ceremony you and Sesshoumaru are going to have where he marks you in front of everyone?” Kagome nodded. “She wants us to do that too.”

 

“Really?!” she smiled brightly. “Oh I can't wait to tell Ses-”

 

“No!” he shouted cutting her off. “You can't tell him, not before I talk to him. As the male I have to formally ask, and as the younger brother I have to have his blessing to mate.”

 

“So? What's stopping you? Just go talk to him. He's not as evil as you think.”

 

“I know that! I just,” Inuyasha sighed heavily and dragged his clawed hand roughly through his silver locks, yanking out a few strands thanks to tangles; he winced as he looked at the strands in his hand and carelessly dropped them to the stone matted floor of the library that he and Kagome sat talking in. “I don't know how to talk about this stuff.”

 

“You talk about it with me.”

 

“No. You drag it out of me kicking and screaming. Sesshoumaru will just sit there all prim and proper and prissy,” he glared as Kagome giggled at his description of his brother, “and expect me to just come out and say it. He won't drag it out and make me beg for mercy until it's all said like you do.”

 

Kagome harrumphed at his words and then smiled brightly with a certain gleam in her azure eyes.

 

“No.”

 

Her smile faltered as she frowned at him. “You don't even know what I'm gonna say.”

 

“No but I know that look and it always means trouble, so no.”

 

“It's not anything bad.”

 

“Ka-go-me,” he growled out slowly. “I know you too well for that innocent look to work. I know that look and I know what it means so no.”

 

“Please just hear me out?”

 

“No. Every time you have that look either something goes wrong and I look like a baka or we fight, you get mad and I get sat.”

 

Kagome merely raised a perfectly shaped brow before tackling her fried to the ground and sitting on his butt while holding him to the floor with her hands firmly planted on his shoulders. Inuyasha grunted and tried to buck her off but only served to make her slide down to straddle the small of his back. Moving one hand, she quickly thwacked him upside the head and reclaimed her hold on his shoulders.

 

“SESSHOUMARRRUUUU!” she belted out and Inuyasha's ears folded back at the noise. Not ten seconds later Sesshoumaru stood in front of her kneeling form and looked at her quizzically. “Ah good, you're here!” she said perkily - a little too perkily. “We need your help, or rather your brother does, he has something to ask you.”

 

“Damnit Kagome, this is why I wouldn't say yes to you. I knew that damn smile meant trouble.” The hanyou's voice was muffled and pouty and he grunted when said miko squeezed her hips tightly around his waist to shut him up.

 

“Hush you,” she growled playfully to her once heartthrob and now friend. She breathed deeply and looked up at her lover with a big smile. “Your brother wants to ask you something but is nervous and doesn't know how to go about it.”

 

“Ka-Go-Me!” she squeezed her thighs around him again.

 

“But! Since it is the male's duty, honour, blah blah blah, to ask you, and its so kawaii too, but I will leave it to him to tell and explain. Oh and Sesshy,” Kagome said as she stood up and stepped away from Inuyasha and up to her taiyoukai, “you know how I have a way of dragging information out even when those I get it from don't want to share it?” he nodded. “Employ every single one of my methods, or at least those you've learned so far.” Leaning up on her tip toes, her hands against his chest, she kissed him on his neck, just under his jaw earning a contented rumble.

 

Waving to the inu brothers, she left with a smile and a bounce in her step, closing the library doors behind her. Sesshoumaru looked at his half brother who had stood up and was now straightening his haori and brushing unseen dirt of his chest. Raising a brow to his little brother, Sesshoumaru sat regally in one of the chairs that stood on either side of a table holding an oil lamp.

 

Waving a hand and offering the opposite chair to his brother, the inuyoukai watched amused as his brother sat down and crossed his arms inside the sleeves of his haori as he had done countless times in the past.

 

“Well Inuyasha,” Sesshoumaru started. “Kagome said that you had something to ask this Sesshoumaru.”

 

Inuyasha growled softly under his breath as he thought of just how Kagome had gotten him in this so soon.

 

“If you would prefer that we spar as you ask, that could be arranged,” the taiyoukai said when he heard the growl.

 

Inuyasha huffed and growled slightly and then began to slowly speak, his words unsure and hesitant.

 

“Maika…”

 

“My most gifted warrior of both genders.” Inuyasha glared.

 

“…and I…”

 

“My half demon brother.”

 

“Do you have to do that?!”

 

Sesshoumaru smiled amused and then realized just how difficult whatever Inuyasha wanted to say was. Standing quickly he motioned for his brother to do the same. With a quick and stern `follow me' he led the way out of the library and out in to the forest on his palace grounds.

 

Looking back at his brother, Sesshoumaru leapt into the nearest tree and then from tree to tree, his brother following. Finally, once he had reached the dead center of the forest, he stopped and sat upon a thick branch high in a towering sakura tree. Inuyasha perched in a branch of similar height in a tree facing his brother and Sesshoumaru shook his head. Motioning for his brother to join him on his branch, Inuyasha watched him for a moment before complying.

 

Sesshoumaru wrapped his brother in his arms and maneuvered him to sit with his back against his chest as they had in the god tree in Kagome's era when they had talked after Rin had gotten out of the hospital. Hugging his little brother, Sesshoumaru breathed deeply and sighed out the breath in an effort to calm and focus himself. There were times when sitting like this with his brother seemed strange after all the years of separation, but he would do anything to get those years back. Resigning himself to the realization of the impossible, he focused on the present and settled his hand between his brother's ears.

 

Alternating between stroking the hair and scratching the ears, he kept up the motion silently until he heard his brother begin a rumbling purr and felt him relax against him. Once he heard his brother's low whine of sleepy pleasure he began his questioning, his voice soft and hypnotic, keeping it as soothing as he did when he told Rin stories to put her to sleep at night when she couldn't sleep.

 

“What is it about you and Maika you wish to ask me dear brother?”

 

“It's about *yawn* the mating ceremony with you and *yawn…whine* Kagome…”

 

“Yes and what about it?”

 

“Maika and I *big yawn* want to…join the…ceremony *yawn* make it joint…between *yawn* the four of us *yawn…snore*”

 

Sesshoumaru smiled softly and looked down at his brother who was sleeping peacefully in his arms.

 

“There now Inuyasha,” he whispered, “was that so difficult?”

 

A nap would be nice he thought, and leaned against the tree and closed his eyes, drifting peacefully into contented slumber.