InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Impoverished Heir ❯ Where I Need to Be ( Chapter 15 )

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“Impoverished Heir” chapter fifteen

Where I need to Be

 

“Rin,” Sesshomaru murmured. His voice sounded cracked and exhausted to his own sharp ears. Rin smiled painfully and tucked a lock of hair behind her ear.

“How are you, Sesshomaru?” she asked softly. Sesshomaru watched her with narrowed eyes and found it was very hard to breathe.

“Well then…” Myoga huffed and tried not to smile in the corner of Sesshomaru's vision. “I'll leave you both to it.”

“Myoga-san,” Sesshomaru said. Myoga paused at the door. A bead of sweat collected at his temple at his boss' tone.

“Yes, Sesshomaru-san?” he asked.

“Never do something like this without my leave again. Ever,” Sesshomaru commanded. His cold gaze promised this conversation was not over in the slightest. Myoga swallowed.

“Yes, of course. Good night, Sesshomaru-san. Good night, Rin-kun,” Myoga bowed. He hastened out of the double doors and closed them shut behind him. Rin looked down and played with the ends of her hair as the doors clicked shut. Sesshomaru was watching her and she wasn't sure if things were as open as the opportunity Myoga-san had made for her.

“Why did you come here, Miss Onigumo?” Sesshomaru bit out. Rin looked up, her eyes full of pain. He had switched to her adoptive name and showed her obviously what he thought of her now. She swallowed her heart.

“I came to you to help you. I can find the information you need to bring down Onigumo Naraku,” she vowed. Sesshomaru was not moved. He looked as frozen as sculpted ice.

“Your father,” he intoned. Rin sighed.

“Yes, my father. Please, Sessh… I want to help you. In our time together, I tried to show my loyalty was for you.”

“Yet you told your father of every move I made,” Sesshomaru growled. Rin watched him with sad eyes and swallowed. “Why did you come here! I don't trust you.”

Rin watched her love pace back and forth, his movements clipped and angry. She caught his sleeve as he passed her by. Sesshomaru froze.

“I want to make up for my mistakes, Sessh. I want to be near you, if only to help you…” she whispered. She dared to hope when Sesshomaru stopped.

“WHY??” he screamed at her. Rin gulped, her heart shredding. She knew he was asking more than why she had spied on him. “Why didn't you just come to me first? I would have tried to understand!” Loyalty was first and foremost very important to Sesshomaru. Yes, he knew he would have tried to understand her treachery, try being an important part of the word. But he didn't know what he would have done even if she had while worming her way close to his heart…

“I know! I know….” Rin gulped. She let go of his sleeve. Sesshomaru felt the light go out of his world briefly. “I was trying to fulfill my…obligations. He did help me, Sessh.”

“You will call me Sesshomaru,” Sesshomaru growled. “You haven't earned the right to call me Sessh.”

Rin gulped. “Sesshomaru…all I can say is: I'm sorry. I wasn't acting for you.”

Sesshomaru paced back and forth and tried to stab the subject from a business angle. “Does he know you're here?”

“No! He doesn't know what I'm doing, I promise,” Rin answered. Sesshomaru watched her with narrowed cold eyes then finally nodded. She relaxed ever so slightly.

“What is it you can offer me?” he growled. Rin jumped to hand him several folders from her arms.

“As you can see, my father has several offshore handlings funded by your father's money,” Rin stated. She ran a slim finger down the columns. Sesshomaru nodded. He looked up, his face still impassive.

“I think we can work something out, Miss Onigumo.”

Rin tried not to hope too much that he would want her still.

 

* * * *

 

Sango read the instructions on the back of the tiny box and frowned. She sighed and felt her flat belly. She tapped one bare foot against the tiled floor of her small apartment's rest room and watched herself in the mirror. Her hair hung limp and tangled from sleep, her eyes looked exhausted. Her breasts were still firm and her body slim. Sango wondered how long that would last. Both hands cupped her trim stomach beneath her tank top as she waited for the specific amount of time to pass before checking for results.

“Pee on strip and wait one minute. Sure, easy….” Sango swallowed. Her throat was dry and she felt dizzy and her heart was going a mile a minute. Miroku was still asleep in her bed and she hoped he wouldn't wake up and surprise her. She needed to find out if her instincts and Hoshi Takada's were correct. She had refused alcohol since that visit with her lover's parents, to safeguard the possibility. She would rather be on the safe side.

Sango tried to swallow the paralyzing fear of being pregnant and tried to think about infants and Miroku's eyes. Her wristwatch beeped one minute and Sango made her self walk to the sink's counter to look at the strip's result. Looking down was the hardest thing she had ever had to do.

“…Oh Gods.” Positive. It was positive. Sango gave a small laugh tinged with fear and held up the strip. Apparently she was going to bear Miroku's child sooner than she had thought.

Sango hid the evidence and returned to her bedroom. She watched Miroku a moment then crawled into bed at her lover's side. Miroku groaned in his sleep but she tucked herself against his shoulder. Miroku's fingers twitched in his sleep then went still. Sango watched him tenderly then closed her eyes. She needed some feminine advice as well as a trip to the doctors.

 

* * * *

 

Sango stirred her water glass, her hands busy for something to do. The ice cubes clinked against the glass and Kagome sighed.

“You sounded urgent on the phone, Sango-chan, what's going on?” Kagome smiled. Sango let her face relax and she regarded her new friend with soft eyes.

“I just found out something this morning, and I don't know what to do about it,” she confessed. Kagome reached across the table and patted her friend's hand.

“No matter what it is, we're here for you, all of us. So what happened?” Kagome asked. Sango swallowed and opened her mouth. Her throat was dry again.

“I'm pregnant.”

Kagome sat and blinked, then blinked again. “What? Does Miroku know?” she asked hurriedly. Sango pushed her hair over one shoulder and sighed.

“No! And I want you to keep it that way,” she begged.

“Don't worry, I'll help you…”

“Oi, huntress! How you doing? Kagome, you just sat down and didn't wait for me,” Inuyasha complained. He ambled up and Kagome smiled. She leaned up and let him kiss her cheek. Then the young man leaned to kiss Sango. She nervously accepted, and blinked. Was he developing white hairs already?

“Inuyasha, your hair's mussed,” Kagome giggled. Sango wondered what she was getting at until Inuyasha yelped and ran his hand through his dark bangs. Strands of white stuck out in the dark color and he jogged to the bathroom.

“Be right back!” he called. Kagome turned back to Sango with an amused smirk.

“He's self conscious that he's getting white hairs,” she explained.

“I know, I thought I saw some,” Sango answered. “Did he get contacts recently?”

“No,” Kagome answered simply. Sango stared at her then changed the subject.

“I guess I'll figure that mystery out later. What am I going to do, Kagome-chan?” Sango murmured, her eyes wide with terror.

Kagome patted Sango's hand, seeing a woman in misery before her. She genuinely liked her lover's best friend and they had been getting along famously.

“Sango, it's going to be okay, it really is. Go see a doctor first off, and then tell Miroku and your parents. We're all going to be here for you,” Kagome said intently. Her eyes bore into Sango's and the other woman let the exhaustion leave her eyes finally.

“Thank you, Kagome-chan. I don't know what I'd do without you…”

“I'll go to the doctors with you if you want. When do you want to go?” Kagome whispered. Inuyasha exited the men's room and yawned widely.

“Tomorrow? I can call my Doctor tonight,” Sango leaned forward and whispered with her. Kagome nodded, smiling.

“So what'd I miss, ladies?” Inuyasha asked obnoxiously as he stopped at the table. Sango and Kagome both stared up at him and he sweat-dropped.

“Should I come back later?” he asked. Kagome laughed and tugged at his arm.

“No, you can sit with us, Inuyasha. Are we all ready to eat?”

“I know I'm starving,” Sango muttered. Now that she had confided in someone other than Hoshi-san, she had some of her appetite back.

“Alright, you know you have to eat me under the table,” Inuyasha teased. Sango rolled up her menu and swatted her best friend with it.

Inuyasha laughed and hid his face behind Kagome's shoulder. Her fingers drifted through his dark bangs. Strands of white peppered with the black and Sango watched them thoughtfully. What was happening to her friend? As soon as she saw the doctor and told both parties of Miroku and The Parents, she would get to that answer.

 

* * * *

 

Sesshomaru and Rin spent an uncomfortable afternoon together. Rin was nervous that he had called in a plump older woman to cancel all of his daily appointments, and extend personal apologies to the recipients. Then Sesshomaru had sat across from her at his large desk and he had forced business. So Rin had explained as best she could about the files she had taken with her to great lengths to get him to agree that her being there was a good idea.

Sesshomaru had been congenial, quiet and reserved. He kept his appearance immaculate and he watched his movements. Rin didn't try to push anything further, but that wasn't until Kaze Kagura sauntered on in.

“Hey there, hi there, ho there!” she crowed, knocking then pushing into the large office. Sesshomaru scowled at her but Rin stood and touched her hands.

“You're going to have to do some explaining to how you keep doing this,” Rin gently chided then turned to the reserved businessman. “May I introduce Kaze Kagura of my father's office?”

“Call me the mole within a mole,” Kagura offered, and bowed her head slightly. Sesshomaru briefly inclined his head. But Rin could tell he was not pleased.

“What can she do and how can you trust her?” Sesshomaru asked Rin as if Kagura weren't even there. Kagura sauntered to the other chair opposite the large mahogany desk and crossed her legs. Her thighs were bare, her skirt riding high. Her blouse was unbuttoned halfway, showing an impressive amount of cleavage that would have gotten any man's heart boiling. Sesshomaru was not impressed however.

“She's been able to access Onigumo-san's personal coded files directly from his office,” Rin offered. Sesshomaru raised one fine eyebrow but otherwise his expression did not change.

“This one has the mad skills,” Kagura stated proudly, blowing on the back of her long red nails. Sesshomaru scowled.

“This one resents the usage of that phrase,” he almost snapped. Kagura uncrossed her legs and rose to her feet.

“So what are we doing? Has your boy come around?” she asked Rin. Rin flushed uncomfortably and bowed her head.

“He's allowed me to visit with him and work with me, but I think there's a lot of work to be had about that,” Rin murmured. Sesshomaru's heart almost broke to the sincere pain he heard in her voice but he hardened himself.

“Onigumo Naraku stole from my father and I intend to have it back. Show me what you can do, Kagura-san,” Sesshomaru commanded. Kagura nodded and rooted through her shoulder bag. A security tape fell out with the papers she produced.

“Oh my, what's this?” Kagura pretended to wonder and Rin sorted her files. Sesshomaru regarded her impassively.

“Footage from Onigumo's?” Sesshomaru asked in conversation. Kagura grinned.

“Why of course! How'd you guess?” Kagura asked. “I see you have a television over there.”

“This better be important,” Sesshomaru groused. He adjusted his tie and leaned back in his chair. Rin looked from him to Kagura, confused. Kagura regarded the distance between the beautiful man and his once lover with soft sentimentality. `If this doesn't break you out of your shell, man, I don't know what will.'

Sesshomaru thought the footage would be of underhanded dealings between high figureheads of power or something equally sinister. Something you see in the movies, something you were expecting. What Sesshomaru saw on the black and white image made his heart tear out of his chest and threaten to undo him. Rin gasped across the desk and covered her face with her hands. On the television monitor, Onigumo Naraku was on top of Rin pumping away. There wasn't any audio, but the actions were more than implied to be what was happening.

Sesshomaru sprang up to his feet and slammed his fist against the monitor with an inhuman roar. Kagura crossed her legs and sparks flashed and Sesshomaru vented his emotion on the unfortunate piece of machinery.

“Sesshomaru…” Rin whispered. Sesshomaru turned to her and she saw his heart finally reflected in his angry eyes.

“Has he touched you? Has your father touched you?” he asked, his chest rising and falling. Rin gulped, her eyes wide.

“Yes,” she whispered and she felt the world fall out from under her feet. Sesshomaru threw a glare at Kagura, then pulled Rin up by her elbows.

“So that's what was going on,” he swore. Rin looked up into his face.

“Sesshomaru?” she whispered. Sesshomaru pulled her against his chest, his arms going around her.

“Stay with me, Rin. This one will protect you,” he rumbled. Rin gasped softly and twined her arms around his neck. She shook with love for him.

Kagura coughed and collected her bag.

“I suppose that's my cue to get back to work,” Kagura offered. Sesshomaru rumbled a response and rocked Rin in his arms.

“Sessh,” Rin wept. “I wanted to tell you about that. But I wanted to just keep what…”

“Be silent, Rin,” Sesshomaru intoned. “I'll keep you a bit longer…”

Rin laughed weakly and hugged his neck. Sesshomaru picked her feet off the floor, and carried her to his couch. He set her on his lap and pressed small kisses across her brow with mounting fear. When Rin murmured softly and looked up at him with trust in her eyes, his heart soared. Their lips met softly then with growing passion. Their touches were so tender and they were so lost together….

“Takahashi-san? Eep! I'm so sorry!” The plump secretary bowed hastily and reshut the door. Rin tucked her face against the fabric of Sesshomaru's suit jacket.

“Who was that?” she wondered. Sesshomaru ran his hand through her long hair.

“My secretary,” he admitted ruefully.

“I thought I was yours,” she said. Sesshomaru rocked her gently.

“You are mine. And you can be my secretary again,” Sesshomaru offered.

“Sessh…” Rin whispered.

“I'm not letting you go tonight,” Sesshomaru whispered.

 

* * * *

 

Kagome hugged Inuyasha's shoulders and kissed the top of his head. Inuyasha leaned back against her, his arms lying over her thighs. The television was on and the two of them merely rested against each other, unwinding from work.

“Did I tell you Kouga-san is missing?” Kagome asked. She ran her comb through Inuyasha's dark locks of hair. Inuyasha ran his fingers up and down her thighs as he kept his eyes on the tv.

“I can't say I'm surprised or sorry,” Inuyasha answered. “Maybe he forgot to pay some of his hit men.”

Kagome hugged his shoulders again and kissed his round ear. “That's a dark thing to say,” she commented.

“I know, but it's true,” Inuyasha grumbled. He leaned his head back against her chest and looked straight up into Kagome's face. She leaned down to kiss his lips upside down, her fingers stroking his cheeks.

“Inuyasha, I know we've sort of glossed over what's been going on…” Kagome began when Inuyasha chuckled.

“Okay, I know I need to buy more protection. But you said your cycle just ended,” Inuyasha said. Kagome stared at him and giggled.

“That's not what I'm talking about; although now that you mention it, you should go to the store,” Kagome said. She thumbed strands of loose hair behind Inuyasha's ears. He almost purred.

“What happened with Kouga-san? You've never explained that.” Kagome lifted one of Inuyasha's hands and inspected his blunt nails. “You put slashes in tiled walls, darling.”

Inuyasha grimaced. “It's just something strange… it just happened.”

Kagome shook his head and had Inuyasha sit up so she could comb his hair again.

“Your eyes changed and that could be a permanent thing. And then there are these white hairs. I doubt a nineteen year old can get them and you better not be stressed around me,” Kagome stated. Inuyasha grinned uneasily.

“Well I'm either tense or satiated,” Inuyasha said gamely. Kagome smiled and kissed the top of his head.

“You WERE named Dog Demon. Maybe this is why,” Kagome went on. “Maybe your father knew. Maybe it's genetic!”

Inuyasha groaned. “Anyone can put slashes in walls if they're mad enough. So what if Pop did it that one time…”

“He did? I was right!” Kagome crowed. “What about your older brother?”

Inuyasha growled. “He doesn't matter in this, Kagome. I don't care if he's changing too.”

“What did happen between you and Sesshomaru-san?” Kagome finally asked.

“We fought ever since Pop died, and the company went under. He had gotten mean as we grew up and he… I think he hated me. He attacked me one night but I didn't just take it. I haven't seen him in months,” Inuyasha confessed. Kagome hugged him and kissed the side of his temple softly as he sighed.

“I didn't know, ai,” she said gently. “I'm sorry.”

“Ah it's okay… but I am not going to see him,” Inuyasha vowed. Kagome silently made a note to try and change that for the future, but tugged on his shoulder.

“Maybe someone your father knew would know why,” Kagome suggested. Inuyasha snapped his fingers.

“Myoga-san might,” he said. Kagome smiled.

“The man who brought you your father's katana?” she asked. Inuyasha nodded.

“He also had something to say about using it. Myoga-san knows more than he lets on sometimes,” Inuyasha said. He climbed up and went to retrieve his cell phone.

Kagome made room for Inuyasha and he leaned back against her legs and chest again.

“Myoga-san? Yeah this is Inuyasha…” Inuyasha said.

“Inuyasha-san! How are you doing? Do you require any assistance?” Myoga asked over the phone. Inuyasha smiled but shook his head.

“Just help in answering a question. Myoga-san, would you know by any chance why Pop named me Inuyasha?” he asked.

Myoga coughed loudly. “Well one would think it was just a whim…. No one really knows the inner workings of their friend's minds after all.”

“Bullshit, Myoga. You know something and you're not answering me,” Inuyasha griped. Myoga stammered and demurred on the other line.

“Have you been able to handle Tetsusaiga's true strength?” he asked. Inuyasha shook his head hard. Dark strands of black hair peppered with white whipped against his shoulders.

“Stop changing the subject! You may as well just tell me,” Inuyasha complained. Kagome was startled to hear a real growl emit from his slim throat.

Myoga sighed. “There is something your father wanted you to know.”

“I knew it, I….”

“BUT,” Myoga interrupted. “He wanted both you and your older brother to know and I will not tell one or the other without both present.”

Inuyasha sighed. “I'm not looking at that asshole ever again!”

“As you say, young master,” Myoga sighed. “Will you at least consider?”

“No! I'll call some other time and maybe you'll come to your senses,” Inuyasha griped. Myoga made a noncommittal sound.

“Well, I'll leave you to it for now, Inuyasha-san. Take care,” Myoga said.

“Yeah, bye,” Inuyasha muttered. He snapped the phone shut and lay down on the carpet with one arm slung over his golden eyes. Kagome patted his chest softly.

“He wouldn't tell you, would he?” she asked softly. Inuyasha lifted his arm and looked up at her with his sharp gaze.

“No, and I know he knows; and he knows that I know he knows,” Inuyasha griped. Kagome laughed and laid her head on his chest.

“It'll be okay. We'll just try again later,” she suggested. Inuyasha ran his hand through her dark hair.

 

* * * *

 

Rin clasped Sesshomaru in her arms. Her legs wound around his hips and his back muscles flexed beneath her splayed fingers. Sesshomaru groaned, his face pressed close to Rin's ear. He held his weight above her on his elbows, his hips thrusting hard against the soft curves of her waist. Each gasp from her lips made his heart sore, and his passion ebb harder. Sesshomaru watched her with half-slit eyes as she cradled his firm thrusts. Her core pulled him in tightly. Sesshomaru could feel how hot she was even though he had made sure to cover his rampant arousal.

“Sessh… Sessh…” she whispered and gasped highly. Sesshomaru kissed her cheek and grunted and pushed his hips harder against her. His deliberate strokes quickened despite his best intentions. Tender love turned hard and hot between the two entwined bodies and they held onto each other as completion exploded fast.

Rin tilted her chin back and cried out, her indication of her end. Sesshomaru growled lowly and carefully nipped her throat. He roared as he thrust hard, making Rin's hips jump against his. He pumped softly, and fell down against her, breathing hard.

“Rin,” he gasped, his lips moving against the damp skin of her shoulder. Her breasts heaved against him.

“Oh, Sessh,” Rin whispered. Her fingers tenderly ran through his dark hair. “I love you, I can't tell you how…”

Sesshomaru lifted his face and smiled softly into his lover's face. Perspiration molded her bangs to her brow, and her hair was scattered across the pillow. She looked exhausted but joyful to be with him and he savored the loving look she gave him in the near dark of his bedroom.

“It's okay, Rin, I know,” he soothed. He leaned on one elbow and pawed a hand over her damp hair. Rin smiled widely and squeezed him against her. “I love you too.”

Sesshomaru felt a thudding pulse from one of his father's blades and looked at the ornate katana propped near the bed. Tenseiga, it was said, had the power to heal, not cut, and could pull a man's soul together into his body and revitalize him. Sesshomaru crooked a smile at the ancient sword and wrapped Rin tightly in his arms. Her shuddering warmth pressed against his chest, his belly, his legs felt more right than anything in the world. He did not need the legend's way to heal himself. He held that right in his own arms.

“Perhaps I can make it all work…” Sesshomaru purred. Rin kissed his neck softly. He separated gently and Rin gasped, feeling the twinge that caused even when they were done.

“All of us?” she asked tenderly, her face alight with her feelings for the man in bed with her. Sesshomaru sat up a moment, his dark hair cascading over his sweaty back. He tugged off the sodden condom and dropped it into a small trashcan near the wide bed. His manhood fell limply against his thigh, moist and spent.

Sesshomaru turned back towards her and smiled, his throat emitting a proud rumble. He stretched back beside his heart and held one arm out.

“Not just us; all of it. The company's coming back up, and it wasn't meant for just me alone,” Sesshomaru said. Rin nestled against his chest, her arm going around his slim waist.

“Your brother? Inuyasha-san?” Rin asked. Sesshomaru kissed her brow.

“Yes. I've done things to him I'm not proud of…and I can make that up. Father would want us to get along,” Sesshomaru said.

“Will you go and talk to him?” Rin inquired. She ran a hand over the muscles in Sesshomaru's chest. His nipple hardened under her ministrations.

“I think I'll send Myoga-san to break the ice. He's told me that my brother received Tetsusaiga well,” Sesshomaru rumbled. He twined one leg with Rin's under the covers.

“If anyone can get someone to agree with him, it's Myoga-san,” Rin declared.

“Enough talk about that, let's focus on us,” Sesshomaru said, then yawned. “And I am tired.”

“It was good though…” Good and exhausting. They had poured their hearts out to each other in that intimate embrace.

“Sleep, Rin. I'll be here with you, always,” Sesshomaru whispered with high emotion sounding in his tone. Rin kissed him slowly.

 

End for now

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Some of what I wrote here is from the heart. Try and decipher, it's very simple.

Most sincerely yours, penpaninu sessh 5/22/06