InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love is a Battlefield ❯ Chapter 9

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Inuyasha, and the characters therein, are the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I am in no way affiliated with Takahashi, or VIZ Productions

 

Love is a Battlefield

 

A Sesshoumaru tale.

Chapter Nine

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Love HS

 

~ Shaking his head he left the room and headed for his chamber something telling him things were changing but not if it was for good or ill.~

 

Cratus frowned as he once again found Sesshoumaru wandering the halls in the middle of the night, his lord had returned two weeks ago refused to speak of were he'd been or who with and was acting odd. He laughed; something Cratus thought he'd never hear again. He almost always had a bitter sadness on his face unless he concentrated which his lord didn't seem to be able to do lately and only a few days ago he'd helped a servant when a month ago he would have killed her for dropping one of his mothers vases.

He'd caught the ancient thing in his hands and handed it to her with a smile. And this morning Rin had made his lord grin, smile broadly enough to flash dimples that Cratus had almost forgotten Sesshoumaru had. But most the distressing thing wasn't his lack of concentration or emerging emotions the healer had thought his lord had no longer possessed, he'd buried them that deeply. No it was the fact that he'd found Sesshoumaru crying and of cause Sesshoumaru had not told him what had brought him to tears.

Mayhap the boy didn't know.

“Lord Sesshoumaru,” he called softly and watched as his lord froze then turned that brittle look in his golden gaze.

“Come with me, please my lord,” he said and watched the younger demon frown.

“My lord…” he paused then decided he'd try something he hadn't done since Lord InuTaisho's death, “Sesshoumaru, son, please,” he said and the boy huffed, literally huffed before marching to his room.

Wow, it worked, Cratus thought momentarily frozen too shocked to move.

Entering his chamber he found Sesshoumaru curled up by the window, those golden eyes reflecting the lamp light as he stared that the healer. Cratus was a handsome man of 6'6, golden hair, the metallic strands the exact colour of Sesshoumarus eyes, turquoise eyes filled with ancient knowledge and power, broad shoulders and pail honey coloured skin. On his forehead was an upside down lavender triangle and strips of vivid red adorned both cheeks.

A visual add to the demonic and godly heritage the healer had.

“Sesshoumaru, what's wrong?” Cratus demanded.

“…nothing,” Sesshoumaru replied honestly, though he sounded more like an irate teen than a seven hundred and seventeen year old lord.

“Come on, you've been prowling the manor for nights now, what has you so troubled you cannot sleep,” Cratus asked.

Growling deep in his throat Sesshoumaru felt heat rush up to his cheeks and though he tried to stop the blush it over took and coloured his face.

Sighing his irritation for Cratus's benefit he said “I've taken a mate… or more precisely I've become someone's mate.”

“You haven't marked this mate in return?” Cratus asked shocked, Sesshoumaru, he knew was a possessive man and watched as the boys gaze fell to his long fingered hand.

Fidgeting with his golden obi Sesshoumaru shook his head jerkily from side to side.

“No, I couldn't do that to him…not while knowing that he loves another and hates me,” Sesshoumaru said as tears burned his eyes.

“Being unable to mate because I have been claimed is not all that bad really. He can go on and mate with his love and I'll watch over fathers lands and maybe…maybe I'll stop loving someone who does not return my love…or maybe this is my punishment,” he murmured to Cratus's surprise Sesshoumaru hadn't been this open in centuries, ever since his father had begun to treat him harshly.

“My punishment,” Sesshoumaru repeated, “To love one I used to hate for fear of losing him and dieing all over again. To love one who hates me for things I cannot change, for mistakes I've made which shaped the man he's become…InuYasha,” he breathed.

“My lord- Cratus began only to have Sesshoumaru snort at the title.

“Cratus you know better, I'm no lord, I'm a land owner, a keeper for all father held dear and thought heir to all I am naught but a tool, save the formality old one, we know better,” Sesshoumaru said and Cratus's heart clenched.

His Sesshoumaru had been treated badly , torn between two dominating parents he'd thought loved him only to learn he was just as he had put it, a tool. His parents had demanded perfection and when Sesshoumaru didn't meet some expectation they yelled and screamed at their pup.

Cratus had been the only one since his 50th birthday to care.

“Very well, son, I want to examine you, I know you've been … intimate with Lord InuYasha- again he was cut off by an odd noise torn from Sesshoumaru's throat.

“Cratus, we were more than intimate, I let him fuck me into the ground and ride me like a prized stud,” the demon said crudely.

“Fine, I think you're pregnant, now can I examine you to make sure or are you going to interrupt me…again?” Cratus snapped to shocked by his nice, kind, shy or cold, sadistic and regal (those two switch with age and mood) Sesshoumaru's crassness.

Staring at the older demon Sesshoumaru tilted his head and sighed before standing “Fine, examine away,” he said moodily this heartache was making all other emotions harder to control and it was all he could do not to fling himself at Cratus and ask the demonic demigod to hold him, just to hug him until his pain went away.

Doing so quickly, so the moody man wouldn't take his head; he confirmed his suspicions.

One; his lords nipples were larger, pinker.

Two; as soon as his hand touched the mans' stomach he felt the tiny life that was just starting.

“Congratulations, son, you're with pup,” Cratus said happily as the blood drained from it and his hands skimmed his now bare stomach, noting the softness of his flesh which used to be stone hard.

“I…I'm pregnant?” he asked stupidly.

A gentle smile curved Cratus's mouth as he nodded.

“I will bare InuYasha's pup?” he asked as if he needed the conformation.

“Unless you've been intimate with another, yes you're pregnant with your mates young,” Cratus said amused by the innocent awe in his lords' face.

Blinking rapidly Sesshoumaru stared at the healer as darkness covered his world and he collapsed.

 

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Sesshoumaru woke in his chambers, his furs and silks covering his nemaki (sleepware) clothed body and he knew of only one person who would dare undress him. Cratus.

Pregnant, the word danced around his mind and he found himself welcoming the news, he was pregnant! Though his next thought removed his smile and replaced it with a worried frown, InuYasha might bare a hatred of their pup, much as part of his old hate for InuYasha had been his old hate of his father. He didn't want his pup to grow up with his own father loathing him or her for what it's `mother' had done. Sighing he got out of bed and shoved open his balcony doors, the moon light giving his pail skin a luminescent glow to it.

Father had always said Sesshoumaru had been made of the night, his stillness, his calm nature, even in his emotional years had only proven it. His father had also said that he looked his best in the moon light which at the time he'd taken as a complement but now he thought it a curse.

Even InuYasha didn't want to be with him in the light day, he didn't want others to know of their relationship and their pup would just confirm that.

InuYasha; the day to his night,

The fire to his ice,

The hate to his love,

The joy to his sorrow,

Perfect opposites,

One loved, the other hated.

Laughing at his own thoughts he remembered the way his baby brother glowed in the sun, his pail honey coloured skin kissed by that golden light that never seemed to touch his.

A little, nervous knock on his door caught his attention and he took a deep breath.

Rin.

“Come in Rin,” he called loud enough for her human ears to hear.

He listened absently to the light piter pat of her bare feet on his hard stone floors as she came to his side.

“Father, did you have a bad dream too?” she asked innocently as she took his hand.

Lifting her up into his arms he rested against the railing of his balcony, lately Rin had been an extension of his hip, when ever she was near he'd lift her up and carry her until she wanted down or he put her down.

She loved it.

And he'd begun letting her call him `father'.

They were family and he wasn't going to be like his own father, he'd already decided that.

“No Rin, no I didn't have a bad dream,” he replied looking down at her.

“Rin, how would you feel about having a little brother or sister?” he asked and she beamed at him.

“I'd love it! We'd play together and everything!” she said happily.

“I'm glad, because Rin,” he said staring into her eyes “I'm pregnant,” and suddenly it was very real, he was pregnant, the only one who could have made it more real was InuYasha but…but InuYasha probably wouldn't be around and Rin would stay with him for many years to come.

“How?” she asked cocking her head to the side.

“I'm special,” he said and she smiled that small secret smile he felt he'd never understand.

“I know! Are you happy about it?” she asked.

Thinking about it he nodded slightly.

“Good! Are we to tell Jaken? Or is it a secret until later?” she asked and he smiled.

“We'll keep it to ourselves a little longer huh?” he asked and she nodded.

 

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“That way!” Kagome yelled pointing as she rode on Kilala's back with Miroku and Sango, InuYasha had refused to carry her on the pretence that he need to he free to fight immediately. The truth was he didn't want her touching him, ever since he'd been with Sesshoumaru the very thought of it made his skin crawl. It had been a little over a month since he'd seen his brother and he missed him something fierce but if Sesshoumaru had wanted him then the demon would have come after him surely.

Then suddenly the demon on his mind appeared.