InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ Contemplation and breakfast ( Chapter 32 )

Chapter 32) Contemplation and breakfast

Sesshomaru was looking out at the dissipating mists before the main lodge as he rested a hip along a section of horizontal pole that ran between the supports on the porch.

Although there was no way of visually telling what he was thinking, there was a rather heated debate raging behind his normal stoic expression.

`Why do I feel jealous of that stupid hanyou? ` Sesshomaru asked himself for like the tenth time since his little encounter with curiosity and Kagome's tong pointed at him.

`I have never wanted anything he has had except father's sword the entirety of our lives. Yet the look of utter contentment and love I just witnessed in there sparked something. ` Allowing a slight lowering of his brows as he focused unblinkingly at the tree line, Sesshomaru continued his self-contemplation.

`I don't know what has been happening lately to me, yet I feel more relaxed lately. I shouldn't relax though. ` He remained himself sternly. `Naraku prays on those who relax, those who let down their guard, I need to get a hold of my emotions. ` Nodding to himself, Sesshomaru grimaced visibly before returning to his blank expression.

`But I cant! I just don't know why. But I can't seem to lock my emotions away anymore. This could be a rather large problem. ` Sesshomaru thought with an odd sensation in his chest.

Rubbing the location above his heart absently, Sesshomaru allowed himself a sigh.

Leaning back against the supporting pole behind him and sitting on the pole beneath him now, he allowed himself his guilty comfort of thinking of Rin to calm him.

Picturing her smile a moment and the feel of her curled up next to him, Sesshomaru sighed again as he felt his tension slowly leave.

Frowning briefly, Sesshomaru chasted himself for the thousandth time in the almost two years since allowing the child to accompany him, that he shouldn't allow himself to depend or care for a human so much.

Blanking his mind out to clear his conflict, Sesshomaru just sat there for a time and closed his eyes as the gentle, warm south wind ruffled his hair as the sun warmed his almost peaceful form.

Sighing in guilty pleasure at just relaxing for once, Sesshomaru was purposefully left alone as a cloaked pair of figures smiled at one another and entered the lodge with a capsule full of food.

As Lina lifted her finger to her lips in a signal of quiet, both her and Joseph crept into the lodge on silent feet as they allowed their grandson some tranquility.

Raising his head after a few moments and allowing a brief smile after opening his eyes, Sesshomaru went inside after smelling the food smell wafting through the windows. Knowing Lina and Joseph had arrived a moment before Sesshomaru shook his head and opened the door as his hair flared out briefly at the action.

Inside~~

Kagome was giggling from her position on the couch, with Inuyasha's head still in her lap as she watched Lina produce the capsule in magician like fashion.

Twirling the capsule in the air for a moment, Lina grasped it lightly between her thumb and index finger before playfully showing her imaginary crowd as Joseph made appreciative sounds for her and clapped from his seat at the head of the table behind her.

Putting her other hand over the capsule as she showed her audience, Lina widened her eyes a moment. "Now you see it." With a poof behind her, Lina smiled broadly as she opened her hand and the capsule wasn't there. "Now you don't." Grinning broadly now, Lina bowed as Joseph clapped again.

Only to boo a few seconds later when the smoke cleared and the food was there with the capsule in the center of the table.

Feigning fake surprise, Lina tried to play the hurt magician as Inuyasha groaned at her theatrics and Kagome let out a soft catcall, thinking of Inuyasha who was only a foot and a half below her.

"I don't know where I went wrong." Lina gasped theatrically. "It should have disappeared. I don't "know" where I went wrong." Gasping again and raising her right hand to dramatically lay over her forehead. Lina dropped to her knees and looked up at the ceiling imploringly as Inuyasha groaned again. "I'm such a failure. How am I "ever" going to live this down? I'll "never do magic AGAIN!" Before Lina promptly fell forward with a soft thump as Sesshomaru came in and looked at Lina as if she had lost a few marbles.

Joseph clapped and groaned as Lina shot up off the floor and bowed as Kagome clapped. Inuyasha, not knowing what to think, just looked up at his love in puzzlement before sharing a look with his brother that spoke volumes. `Oh well, can't choose your family. `

Grinning and rushing forward, Lina tried to grab Inuyasha's hands before he frowned and with a `help me` look at Kagome. Allowing Kagome to link her hands with his as a `Lina deterrent`, looking strangely at his grandmother as she looked between the two and turned. Calling over her shoulder, Lina bounded up to the table and kissed her mate before sitting down next to him.

"Come and eat."

Sharing a look with Kagome, Inuyasha released one of her hands before leading her to the table to eat as Sesshomaru went to the built in shelves for eating utensils.

As they all sat down, Lina smiled as everyone dug into their breakfast.

Wheels churned hard as she planned how to allow Kagome to train with Inuyasha for today with a little off time this afternoon.

Looking over at her mate and finding the knowing expression on his face, Lina allowed herself to smile wickedly at him with a naughty thought directed at him.

Noticing the shared look of heat between Inuyasha's grandparents, Kagome smiled a knowing smile before turning to Inuyasha who was rather oblivious as he chowed down.

Feeling inside her head for the connection she had felt since yesterday, Kagome allowed her grin to widen as she allowed herself to picture the feeling of running her fingers up his ears lightly, tickling the guard hairs along the way. Connecting with that sensation and the connection at the back of her mind. Kagome watched Inuyasha stiffen and shiver after a few moments as his ears perked up and shook delicately.

Joseph looked down the table knowingly after a shared look with Lina to confirm the shift in Kagome's aura. Both older youkai could feel it as it twined with Inuyasha's, but not quite able to completely connect.

Noticing his gaze, Inuyasha sent Joseph a guarded, yet puzzled look at him after feeling the strange, yet arousing sensation of someone playing with the sensitive edge of his ears.

Watching as Joseph redirected his gaze, Inuyasha followed it to Kagome as she stared off and out the window behind the table. Inuyasha watched spellbound as she licked her lips briefly and after a moment widened his eyes at the feeling of a tong running up along the edge of his right ear.

Shuddering a moment in irrepressible response, Inuyasha could only stare at her before allowing his gaze to return to Joseph's for a moment as the older youkai nodded almost untellingly.

Focusing on Kagome intently as he returned to eating, now with his chair sideways and bowl in his lap, Inuyasha waited for what she would do next.

Eyes widened a moment later again as she refocused on her food and rubbed her palms briefly against her legs before picking up her chopsticks and a feeling of being rubbed down there appeared for a brief moment.

Smiling broadly through his ramen, Inuyasha watched as Kagome noticed his gaze and asked him innocently. "What?"

"Oh nothing." Inuyasha said cryptically as he turned his chair back towards the table and wondered if the last part was on purpose.

Sharing a look with her mate, Lina knew it would only be a matter of time before her grandson took his experimenting mate, if she didn't try to take him first.