InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pride (In the Name of Love) ❯ Chapter 54

Pride (In the Name of Love) 54 / ??
Written by Jezz-Ra
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A/N - Mmm, time for dinner. This is largely a chapter of various results, tying up some loose ends, as it were. This chapter is a little short out of necessity - it was a great place to end it and my time today to write is not what I wish it was.
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Dinner was a rather tense affair. Sairex and Sesshoumaru were absent - apparently, it was going to take the raven a bit longer than previously predicted. Toga was fidgety and tense - trust Sairex as he might, he didn't like knowing that the raven was doing something terribly painful and rather gruesome to his pup.

The kitchen staff, as always, served a fabulous meal. Fruits, meats, soups, and the demon-tea Sesshoumaru and Toga favored, all if it expertly prepared and artfully arranged.

Inuyasha and Kouga dug into their meal with healthy appetites, as usual. Miroku sipped quietly at a bowl of soup and nibbled at some various fruits, but he was desperately curious as to how things were going with his lover. Toga was more than curious. It was all the agitated inu could do not to leap to his feet and start pacing.

It was with some surprise that Miroku noted Toga did NOT tackle Sairex immediately as the raven walked into the room. His hair was tied back and damp - he appeared to have just come from the bath. // Probably was a mess... // Miroku thought. He watched as Inuyasha, Kouga, and especially Toga all flinched. Inuyasha frowned in alarm and leapt to his feet, hand going to the hilt of Tetsusaiga.

"Shit...what'd you do to my brother? Bathe in his blood?" He growled dangerously, prepared to cut down Sairex where he stood. A sharp warning growl from his father melted some of Inuyasha's ire, however.

"Father...he smells like blood, A lot of it. SESSHOUMARU'S blood. And I want to know what the hell is going on. You've been awfully jumpy all evening."

Sairex smiled tiredly. "Vell. I hacked him to pieces. However, he is zleeping peacefully in your bed." Here he nodded to Toga. "As far as I know, da operation vas a complete zuccess. He'll heal at his normal rate and zhould be almost if not completely better by morning."

"What the FUCK? Why are you chopping up my brother?!"

"Inuyasha, enough!" Toga growled. Inuyasha, however, largely ignored the command in favor of glaring at Sairex.

"At ease, Lord Inuyazha. I did noting to harm your brother. I removed Zetsukosei's scar from him, it just...vas a bit messier dan I could easily deal vith. Zo yes, despite bathing, I'm zure to your more zensitive demon noses you can ztill zmell his blood-zcent on me. I'm zorry for dat, but I assure you, it vas unavoidable."

"You fixed that damn scar? Truly?"
"Yes. He zhould be fine in a few hours."

Toga's eyes narrowed. "And what about YOU, Sairex? Why are YOU bleeding?" Miroku blinked in alarm.

Sairex grinned ruefully. "Vell...lets just zay I learned da hard vay to tie him down before taking a knife to him. He clawed my arm pretty good." Noting the horribly alarmed look on his lover's face, he continued hastily. "Oh, Miroku, don't vorry zo much. I'll be fine by morning myzelf."

Toga arched an eyebrow. "I thought you were going to render him unconscious?"

"I did. But he lashed out in zubconscious defense of himzelf. I tink knowing dat I vas ztanding dere vith a knife I meant to use on him put his mind on too high of an alert."

"Thank you, my friend." Toga said with a slight grin.

"Kaa, don't mention it. All I did, any healer could have done. I just knew vhat to do from experience vas all."

"Maybe I should simply promote you to healer as well as advisor."

"Kaa, no. I'm not zo good at healing. I knew vhat to do in dis case, and I know lots of herb-lore, but my knowledge is otherwise very, very basic. Not really vhat you vant. I'm a much better zeer."

Toga nodded and stood after finishing the rest of his tea. "If you will all excuse me, I believe I will retire early in case my Sesshoumaru needs something."Sairex held forth a packet. "Zhould he vake early, put dis in zometing and have him drink it, it vill numb da pain."

"Indeed, thank you." Toga glanced around before snagging the pot of tea and a couple of cups. "This will do." After bidding everyone a good night again, he headed off to his bedchambers, feeling inordinately weary. // Probably from all the stress... I'm so relieved all went well. Perhaps my pup is truly free of that beast's curse now. //

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"Riinnnnn!"

Rin blinked as Shippo hammered on her door. Her and the kitsune had become fast friends ever since he had come to live in the castle. Rin got into far less trouble than Shippo did, however - mostly because she obeyed Sesshoumaru's every command to the letter whether or not her lord was there to see her do so. "You can come in."

Shippo hurried into the room and shut the door. "Rin...I found...the best potion ever. But I don't know who to use it on."

Rin blinked. "Potion? What does it do?"

"It turns men into women. I don't know if it works the other way, but probably."

Rin stared at him. "What...what are you going to do with it?"

"I dunno...who do you think I should give it to?"

"You could ask..."

Shippo rolled his eyes. "No, Rin, I meant sneak it to someone."

"But wouldn't that be a terribly big surprise?"

"Well, that's the point! Do you think Inuyasha would kill me?"

"He would chop off your tail and feed it to the wolves."

"And what if I gave it to the wolf?""I don't know how Inuyasha would feel about that." Rin blinked. "Isn't it kind of mean to go around randomly transforming people?"

"Nah. Do you have a problem being a girl?"Rin blinked, then smiled. Well, no, she didn't! In fact, she rather enjoyed it. Maybe it was alright after all. "Ok, what do you need me to help you with?" Since it was a good thing to be a girl and all, she would aid the kitsune.

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"My dear Lady, how long will it take for Tsetsukosei to be fully restored?"

Karalichala gave Jormandar an irritated glare before speaking. She hated the common tongue of the Circle demons, it came so awkwardly to her... "It vill take zeveral moon-cycles, but it has begun. My vork is done in dis regard."

"I see...and so what now for you?""Hn. Jormandar, are you a fool? I vill go into hiding. I have no vish to fail after coming zo far."

"And how, pray, will you hide from him? It was one thing when Sairexannaras did not know you existed...it's quite another when he has a personal vendetta against you and you bear a part of him inside you. Would it not be better to remain here? I may be able to offer you some measure of protection."

Karalichala sneered at him and then turned, striding from the room without looking back. She had her own plans. She had survived this long by not being a fool, and, while it had been a risk...she had no regrets about her assault on Sairex. She would simply have to lie low until the child was born, and then go from there.

However, Jormandar's point was valid. How, indeed, would she hide from Sairex? He had long ago developed ways to track his kindred. It would be even easier for him to find her with his child in her belly. She had no doubt that her life was probably forfeit should the other raven catch her. True, she had absorbed a formidable amount of power...had studied hard and excelled in many different forms of magic. But she was not the first exemplary member of her clan. She was, however, the last...and this bothered her terribly. Sairex had cut down all the others.

And Sairex had further reason to bear a personal grudge against her. She had killed the human that shared his bed and likely meant something to him.

Karalichala paused, wondering if he would kill the babe. // I suppose it depends on how far along it is. Should he catch me soon, I have no doubt he'll simply destroy me. Should I actually have the child...well, we'll see. There is no research to tell me if he ever killed a child. Our clan was small and children left to live so rare...//

She walked across her dark laboratory, lighting a pair of torches and beginning to pull ingredients off of shelves, mixing them carefully. // Speeding up this pregnancy will do wonders for me. I should bear the child before Tsetsukosei is freed of my bonds...which is good. I do not want to risk retaliation from the lich while I am incapacitated. Oh, but this child had best be male...I don't want to have to consider finding a way to strike at the Deathraven again. //

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Sesshoumaru's eyes slowly flickered open. He was warm and content, snuggled up against a warm body with the blissful warmth of a furry mokomoko coiled around him, and his father's comforting scent everywhere. Where Sairex had cut him his skin felt a little tight, but there was no pain. He had slept through the night.

Rather eager to see the results of the raven's handiwork, he opened his eyes and reached for the bandages...and froze in place, shocked into complete stillness.

It was not his father he was snuggled up to.

It was a woman.

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A/N - The reason the lovely little potion did not work immediately was because it was not a solid, concentrated dose, but rather dispersed throughout the contents of...well. Toga and Sesshoumaru's tea. Sesshy, however, slept through it...Inuyasha and Kouga aren't tea people...and Miroku's got no interest in demonic tea. Who knows what's in it? XD