InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pride (In the Name of Love) ❯ Chapter 62

Pride (In the Name of Love) 62 / ??
Written by Jezz-Ra
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"Alright, I think I'm ready. Do I look sneaky?" Inuyasha smirked and adjusted his ponytail, pausing to check his reflection out in the mirror. Kouga sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Inuyasha, are you actually serious? You're going to STALK your brother?"

Inuyasha looked offended. "My father told me to watch him and not let him know about it. So I decided the best way to do that is to keep my distance. Be subtle."

Kouga stared at Inuyasha. The hanyou was, indeed, many things. He was strong, and he was intelligent, even if it wasn't in a book-smart way. He was decisive and loyal to a fault.

He also possessed all the subtlety of a sack of rocks to the face.

"Alright, fine, I'll admit your brother's easy to look at ... for a dog... but are you really going to just sneak around after him for the next three days?"

The hanyou smirked and slid forward, trailing clawed fingertips over Kouga's collarbone, his voice a low purr. "Why, are you jealous? You would rather I stalk you instead?"Kouga's cheeks flamed immediately. "Bah! Why...why would I want to be stalked by some dumb mutt? It's not like...not like I have any claim on you anyway!"

Inuyasha smirked, leaning in so close that Kouga could almost feel his lips move against his own when he spoke. "All you would have to do is ask, wolf..."

Before the startled, blushing wolf could respond further, Inuyasha was gone.

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Sesshoumaru tried his level best to ignore his brother all day. At first, he had assumed the hanyou's presence was simply coincidence. He put it to the back of his mind and continued about his business.

As the day progressed, however, it became obvious that Inuyasha was following him. It was also obvious that he was attempting to not be noticed. To his credit, Inuyasha was being fairly stealthy. Had the settings not been so intimately familiar to Sesshoumaru, he may indeed have not noticed him so much, perhaps overlooked him completely.

Eventually, however, curiosity turned to annoyance and Sesshoumaru used his powers, teleporting directly behind his brother. His voice was a familiar, commanding snap.

"Why do you follow this Sesshoumaru, brother? Were you put up to this?" The thought that their father may have set his brother to watch him irked the taiyoukai greatly, however justified his father's fears may have been.

"What? I don't know what you're talking about..."

"I hope you do not think I am a fool, Inuyasha. Do not make that mistake."

Inuyasha thought quickly, his eyes darting about for anything to help him. He blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "I had a problem and I ... I wanted to talk to you about it instead of going to someone else."

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes suspiciously but inclined his head, an indication that Inuyasha should proceed.

"I...um... well, I think if I'm going to be a better...er... lord of sorts, I should learn to read and write so I don't have to look like an idiot. And I'd feel stupid asking the teachers like you have for Rin and Shippo...it's embarrassing. Would you teach me?"

"This Sesshoumaru is no teacher." Despite his automatic protest, Sesshoumaru was absurdly pleased by the request, even if he doubted its validity. "Hn...come."

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Sesshoumaru gestured to one of the many pieces of parchment scattered across his desk. He had been doing his level best to give Inuyasha an overview of what all he would be getting into. It quickly became apparent that the hanyou was bored half to tears. Sesshoumaru smirked inwardly - his earlier presumption had been right. Inuyasha wanted no part of this at all. In fact, judging by the way Inuyasha's ears drooped and his eyes stared blankly at the paper in front of him, he began to doubt the hanyou was paying him any attention at all.

"And this is the final symbol you use to write your name. I will eventually teach you how to sign your full title in proper script."

Inuyasha nodded, bored. His ears did not so much as twitch.

"And this is the sign for our House...." Sesshoumaru went on to detail the seal to his brother before shifting to the next paper.

"This is the document that explains how I intend to take your wolf prince as my mate in a complex ritual involving three dead chickens, a snake skin, fourteen green pebbles and a frilly pink dress. With bows. I believe it will be quite fetching, bring out his eyes."

Inuyasha nodded distantly as he had for the last several explanations Sesshoumaru had given. He suddenly jolted in a way that Sesshoumaru felt was quite comical. "Wait, what?"

"Inuyasha, I am no fool. If you truly wish to learn literacy, I will show you, or I will have one of the castle tutors show you. I am no teacher. But I will not allow you to follow me about and waste my time. My Lord Father put you up to this, didn't he?"Inuyasha shook his head rapidly. Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed dangerously and the hanyou finally relented, his ears flattening back against his skull. "Alright, fine! Yeah, the old man was worried about you so he set me to look out for you. He's worried that something might happen to you or..."

"Or that I'll do something to harm myself."

"Well, shit, Sessh, I'm sorry but you don't have a perfect record of late. I'm not blaming you for anything, a lot of nasty, fucked up shit happened to you. Anyone would have trouble dealing with all of it, especially with all the extra stuff you put up with being in your position."

"This Sesshoumaru does not need a keeper, Inuyasha! What I do with my life is my own concern and my own affair."

"Fuck that. That right there is exactly why the old-" Inuyasha cut off at the low, warning growl from his brother. "..why our father wanted me to look after you. What you do is OUR business too because we care about you. I don't know exactly how serious or deep your relationship is with him and I'm not gonna ask....but he'd be devastated if you managed to pull off some stupid shit and get yourself captured or killed. It's REALLY obvious to everyone that you are the ...like...fucking center of his world. And I don't hold that against you. I'm not jealous. For who knows how long, you were all each other had. He raised you and you followed him like the sun rose and set on him. You still do. And there's nothin' wrong with that. But the point is...you have people that love you and would be hurt if you were gone. Father, Rin...me..."

Sesshoumaru was silent, giving his brother a look that really wanted to be a glare but wasn't quite making it. He couldn't bring himself to look appropriately haughty.

"Besides...I want to spend some more time with you. I haven't had the chance lately, what with all the chaos going on around here."

Sesshoumaru snorted. "Hn...if I find this is some sort of twisted play, I will come over this desk and..."

Inuyasha arched an eyebrow. "Oh? What will you do, exactly?""I have not decided, but it will be assuredly unpleasant."

"Mm, sounds kinda hot. Come get me."

Sesshoumaru squinted. "I am threatening you, not attempting to seduce you."

"Eh, it starts with being pounced on. Sounds seductive enough for me."

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair. "Well, I'm not about to make any such attempts now."

Inuyasha smirked and stood. "Well, then I suppose I will just have to come to you." So saying, the hanyou planted a palm on Sesshoumaru's desk and vaulted lightly over it. The taiyoukai blinked but was half trapped in his chair, since Inuyasha was suddenly directly in front of him. "No reason we can't enjoy ourselves...but I think I'll skip the ritual with dead chickens and pebbles."

Sesshoumaru stared at Inuyasha for a long moment before speaking gravely. "Well, that is not a ritual to perform lightly."

Inuyasha blinked. "You were just...making stuff up."

The taiyoukai looked indignant, and then incredulous. "Making stuff up? Hn. Has no one taught you about proper demon mating ceremonies? Not even your wolf? He didn't even tell you about the chicken ritual?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened and his ears drooped downward. "...No..."

"Oh...it's quite serious. Although I DID add the part about the frilly pink dress."

"What....what the hell does this ritual signify and...how do you do it?" Inuyasha asked somewhat doubtfully, leaning back to sit on the edge of the desk.

"It begins with arranging the green pebbles in the appropriate place along a diagram in the floor..." Sesshoumaru kept a level tone and blank expression as he began detailing the process of performing this ritual. Inuyasha's expression was somewhat doubtful, but he was still hanging on every word. After Sesshoumaru had sketched a design on paper and explained what to do with the stones, Inuyasha had a thought.

"Then what the fuck are the chickens for?"

"Eating, of course. Rituals are hungry work."

"You're fucking with me..." the hanyou finally accused, even though it was obvious by now that he no longer thought that was the case.

Sesshoumaru dropped his blank look and smirked somewhat mischievously. "And if I am?"

"You asshole! You had me starting to believe this crazy shit!"

"Oh, REALLY, Inuyasha, what demon would go through all that tripe?"

Inuyasha's ears flattened back and he growled before springing forward. Sesshoumaru had nowhere and no way to dodge, sitting in his chair as he was, and Inuyasha took him - and the chair - down in a tangled heap. Sesshoumaru squirmed and tried to extricate himself from the mess, trying to glare at Inuyasha but almost laughing instead. "Get off me!"

Inuyasha promptly sat on his chest. "And if I don't?""Then I'll throw you off."

"Because you have such good leverage sitting in a chair on its back..."

"Hn...you think this Sesshoumaru can not make you move?"

"Kinda wish you wouldn't, you're fairly comfortable." Inuyasha smirked and patted Sesshoumaru on the thigh, leaning back contently.

"Unhand me, hanyou!" Sesshoumaru growled, trying to lift himself and finding, much to his chagrin, that Inuyasha was right about his lack of leverage. With the bottom of the chair forcing his legs up, it left him in an incredibly awkward position.

"You like my hands on you."

"If you want to keep your hands on YOU and not have them removed at the wrist, I suggest you take them back and get the hell off me!"

Inuyasha chuckled, snagging Sesshoumaru's wrists before he got clawed. Sesshoumaru was starting to glare now, and Inuyasha sighed before reluctantly getting off him. "Fine, fine..."

The taiyoukai slithered free of his chair and sat up, attempting to look dignified as he brushed himself off. "Hn, not everyone is some....some overly-hormonal beast that can't control themsel--mmph!" Sesshoumaru was cut off as he was again pounced at, his eyes flying wide as Inuyasha silenced his griping with a kiss.