InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lady Kagome ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

"Lord Sesshoumaru, the half-breed is here," Jaken ran into Sesshoumaru's private study. "Milord, let me disperse him."

"No, Jaken. I will deal with my brother," Sesshoumaru rose, slipping Tokijin and Tenseiga into his sash.

"Sesshoumaru, get your ass out here," Inu Yasha demanded, the Tetseiga already transformed.

"Hello, little brother," Sesshoumaru appeared at the moat of his palace.

"Where is Kagome?" Inu Yasha growled.

"She is within my home. The woman was in tears only days ago. Little brother, she does not want you. You chose the clay bitch. Now get off of my lands or suffer dire consequences," Sesshoumaru warned.

"It was a mistake. I love Kagome. Kikyo put me under a fuckin’ spell, knowing Kagome would walk in. I told Kagome that I love her and I meant it. I'll fight you if I have to," Inu Yasha growled further, cracking the knuckles of one hand while holding Tetsuseiga in the other.

"With the Tetsuseiga? You cannot fight for her with that. She is bathing. You can see her when she is done and ask her. You will not cause trouble in my palace. If you behave, I can have your room prepared," Sesshoumaru offered.

"Why the sudden change of heart?" Inu Yasha asked, quite confused.

"I will allow you to talk to Kagome. I will not deny my guest that since she has been agreeable in her stay so far. As for your room, it has always been your room," Sesshoumaru replied.

"No, you hate me. That's not possible! What kind of trick is this?" Inu Yasha said, now upset.

"Brother, grow up. If you believe I had anything to do with your mother's death, I swear on our father's grave that I did not. I am not an emotional man. You are my only blood, even tainted as it is. I could have killed you if I wanted, even on your human night," Sesshoumaru explained, growing bored and berating himself on why he indulged Inu Yasha's curiousity. “In the years following father’s death, I was challenged constantly for the Western domain. I could not take care of your mother or you, so I had to send you away. By the time things had settled out, rumour had it that your mother was dead by renegade demons and your human relatives shunned you yet made you think that I had also shunned you and commanded that your mother be killed.”

Inu Yasha was at a loss for words after Sesshoumaru's confession. Years of hating his older half brother over stupid rumors. He fended on his own since he was a pup. Finally, his thoughts came together.

"Why didn't you tell me before? Did you enjoy toying with me?" Inu Yasha growled, then swiped Sesshoumaru across the chest with his claws, leaving deep bloody gashes through his haori. “All those years I fended for myself while you lived here all comfy. Sesshoumaru, you were my only direct living relative and never even tried to reason with me. How can you think I will just let everything be bygones?”

"It was necessary. I cannot have a weak little brother. It was the only way to get through to you as you had been angry and did not want to listen to any reason," Sesshoumaru grabbed Inu Yasha by the neck and threw him against the side of the stone palace. "If you know what is best little brother, I suggest you come in peacefully. You will not continue this violence in the presence of my ward."

Sesshoumaru's eyes tinged with red briefly and then returned to normal as he turned to go within his home. He felt a bit guilty for treating Inu Yasha like he did all those years, but he was not familiar with being a father nor wanted to be that way to his only sibling. His own mother died protecting him and Sesshoumaru’s only honour to protect involved the Western domain, and not Inu Yasha. He just did what he could by instigating Inu Yasha’s ire to defend himself as Sesshoumaru himself was a young lord, barely out of his own pup years, ruling the Western lands.

Inu Yasha only nodded, then picked himself off the ground to follow Sesshoumaru inside. He understood that Sesshoumaru had grown up hard and only had loyalties to the Western lands, as he had been groomed as a pup to take up when he was ready. However, he knew that his father died the day he was born, leaving a very young Sesshoumaru as Lord of the Western lands. He remembered that often his tutors reprimanded Sesshoumaru for wanting to play with him in the halls while calling him a “dumb half breed” and requesting that Sesshoumaru kill his brother. But Sesshoumaru did not adhere to his advisors’ requests and that often led to challenges. Sesshoumaru would come back bloody and his silk haori in tatters as his guards dragged in the corpse of the loser. He remembered noting how his older brother seems to harden after each kill, becoming a little more withdrawn from him, eventually not even playing with him. Then, one day, the guards rushed him and his mother outside the palace and far away to his mother’s people as he watched fire rise in the forests of the Western lands.

As Inu Yasha followed his brother, he watched his brother’s knee- length hair sway, and remembered how he had idolized his brother. It was his reason why he had wanted to become a full demon, so he could be just like his brother and help him defend the Western lands. No matter how many times he had been chased down by ningen and youkai alike to be beat, he dreamed of being by his brother. It was natural for him, despite being hanyou, he was aware that his inu demanded to defend his pack and his brother was part of it. He had hated every battle that he had gone against Sesshoumaru, especially when he had cut off his arm. He secretly mourned the loss of his brother’s perfect limb and hoped that one day it could be returned, but it could not. He had thrown his arm into Hell with Sou’unga attached to it in order to rid the world of both the sword and his father’s rival, Takemaru.

Sesshoumaru stopped at a doorway and slid open the shoji screen.

“Wait in the dining hall. I will send Kagome to see you,” he motioned and then turned to leave as Inu Yasha stepped into the room.