InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Found After Centuries: pt 3 Sibling's Journey ❯ Chapter one ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1

By: Inumaru_Rapture

Disclaimer: I do not own the Original Inuyasha character. I do own the ideas behind the children and grandchildren and other characters. The story is mine as well… I just don't own Inuyasha, Kagome, Sesshoumaru, Rin, Sango, Miroku, Naraku, Kikyo, Shippo, or any of the other original characters. I'm sad now.

 

Time passes slowly now, I sit in wait for the next attack. I can feel the blood drying on my scalp from the blow received during the last attack. The bark of the tree scratched at my back and shoulders as I pressed myself against it. I was playing cat and mouse with this creature, and I was the mouse. I didn't like the predicament I had gotten myself into. Why was I so stuck on trying to make myself seem stronger than I really was?

Tree branches rustle above me. A tear runs down my cheek. I'm too afraid to look up, but my hand tightens on the hilt of my sword. My hand slips before getting a good grip on my sword. I didn't even notice the blood feeding the earth under my feel. My eyes feel so tired. My head is spinning, my eyes swarm and can't focus around me.

“I'm going to die…” my lips whisper with a voice hoarse and unlike my own. I let out a small laugh of irony and press my back onto the trunk of the tree to stand up. The beast jumps before me, snarling and growling with a red hot passion. Serves me right for coming upon the she-beast's nest of pups. I knew I was going to die the moment I saw the little pup. Red streaks grew from her eyes as she raised an enormous paw up to finish me off. I shut my eyes and dropped my sword as I felt the pain that never came. When I opened my eyes, a woman stood before me, a demon woman. She was dressed in the finest of silks, her long black hair was tied into an eccentric braided bun, and she had pink stripes across her cheeks, as well as a blue half moon on her forehead.

“Forgive the anger, human,” the demon said softly, the red of anger leaving her eyes. I stood trembling before her. I could feel ripples of her power lapping against me. “I should have found a better spot to birth my pup… Leave now, and speak not of this location to anyone. I know your scent. If others come, I will hunt you until your last day.” I stammered a vow to remain silent, grabbed my sword, fumbled as I tried to stumble away. Suddenly, I was engulfed in pink. I screamed in shock, but I felt better, cleaner, whole. I looked over myself and saw all my wounds healed.

“Thank you, m'lady!” I bowed many times to her before scrambling off back to my family to tell of my good fortune.

 

The demon watched the hunter run off, her stomach rumbling from lack of food. This was to be her last pup for a while, and nothing was to harm it. Her previous had been harmed by human hunters, and now was a three legged, rather than a four legged inuyoukai. Her son's health wasn't the best either. Pink eyes glistened as the sound of her pup squealing for milk was brought to her ears. Taking off towards her den, she held her ears open as a new sound was brought forth. Pausing, she tackled the male scent she knew as her mate and snatched the newly fallen deer from him. A pleased smirk crossed his lips to see his ravishing mate take off before him, returning to her den. His chase gave way and he followed her at a short distance, feeling her power as she pulled down the barriers set around her new born male pup, and bring up new barriers around the family of three.

The female youkai knelt beside her pup and brought him up, the top of her kimono gracefully falling to give forth the nutrients needed to sustain her little son. Though he was little now, he would soon grow to an adept size to fend for himself, even if he would not leave the comforts of his family's mansion. The male youkai knelt beside his mate and pulled her and their pup into his arms, cradling them.

“Having so many pups to watch over is rather difficult, and Jaken has his scaly claws full with the triplets. Gabriel and Inumaru have taken Kaira to Inuyasha's village to visit Emiko, Kohaku, and Keitaro. Inuyasha sent word that his Masako was doing well with their newest, a female christened Nami. Oki and Suki sent pictures of their gardens and of themselves. They are growing into fine young hanyou females for that mutt of a brother of mine to be proud of. His mate doesn't seem to be capable of giving him heirs though.” The male spoke the news into his mate's ear as she purred and wrapped her ebony tail around herself and her pup. A silvery silk fascination wrapped around all three of them as he continued. “Aiko and Amaya are at home with Yohaka, and the two of them are keeping watch over Goro, Haru, Miya, and Yasuo. Satu and Rin are home again, Sanyu and Tama are well, hoping to see the new pup. Their mother was ecstatic when I told her where her mother was. She smelt of attempted pup, but I couldn't tell yet or not. Humans take a bit longer to tell than youkai.”

“What of Washi? Is he well?” The female asked her mate as she took the suckling pup to her other nipple. There was a tension of hesitancy from the male.

“Not as well as before you left to birth, my love. He misses his mother, and his hobbling seems more weighted. He won't let the nurse by him, and he only wants his mother,” he was silent for a moment. “For a pup of only 5, he is a stubborn little one, isn't he?” The female chuckled.

“He gets it from you, Sesshoumaru,” she purred. A comfortable silence passed between the mated couple.

“Does our pup have a name?” Sesshoumaru asked quietly, running a soft hand over the small mass of hair on top of newborn head.

“Keiji.”

“To Lead Cautiously? Why such a name for one so young?”

“He will grow into it, I can see him leading his family to great things one day, when we are but a memory,” her voice was soft, distant. Sesshoumaru licked her mating mark softly.

“I must return. Come home soon?” Sesshoumaru kissed her mark once she nodded and unwrapped his silken fascination from them before disappearing from the den.

“My Keiji. You will lead us to great things,” the female whispered softly as she kissed his sleeping head.

 

Gabriel slowly walked the elaborate hallways that made up his home. His long hair was tied into a ponytail at the nape of his neck, a working of his younger sister's that he barely made out of her room alive. He and his twin brother, Inumaru, were the only two hanyou in the entire family. Being first born from their once human mother and their youkai father, Gabriel and Inumaru shared the ears of their uncle, Inuyasha.

Upon returning from their short visit to Inuyasha's village to see Emiko, her siblings, and their unrelated Aunt and Uncle, Gabriel had news for his father that he was sure his mother would be displeased in hearing. Not only had Inumaru stolen Emiko and brought her home with them, but Aunt Sango and Uncle Miroku had birthed another daughter without informing his mother of the new blessing.

A sharp scent brought the silver hared hanyou to his father's office and noticed he was in. With a strong knock, followed by a grunted answer, Gabriel entered his father's study.

 

Inumaru's black hair flowed much like his Uncle Inuyasha's hair did. His silver ears peeked from the ebony terraces and twitched every now and then as Emiko fluffed them with her thumb and index finger. They were in the garden, where they used to play as young children, but now that both were nearing 23 and 22 years old, respectively, friendship between the two had increased to something more.

“A'Janae!” Inumaru heard his littlest brother calling for his nurse youkai. Washi had short black hair, a scar across his left cheek, and walked on only one leg, his right leg having been taken by hunters when he was a newborn. Inumaru hurried to Washi as he saw him stumble a bit. Picking him up, Washi tried to smile, but his eyes were always so sad, that his attempts to smile always brought tears to his brother's eyes.

“You okay, Washi?” Inumaru asked softly, setting him down and picking up his walking stick for him. Washi put the stick under his right arm and tried to smile again.

“I was looking for A'Janae. I'm Hungry…” At that moment, a tall, slender orange neko youkai came into the garden.

“There you are! I've been looking all over for you Washi! Come and eat your dinner!'s side. The two walked back into the mansion as Inumaru returned to Emiko's side.