InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pride (In the Name of Love) ❯ Chapter 95

Pride (In the Name of Love) 95 / ??
Written by Jezz-Ra
Warnings - Not all warnings apply to all chapters. Yaoi, Het, Rape, Lemon, Violence, Language, Torture, Angst, Incest, Dark (at times). It's a massive story, folks, it's got a little bit of everything.
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A/N - For those that didn't notice, another sidestory featuring Toga and a mini-Sesshy was posted last night ("My Wayward Son") on all my usual posting sites. Do enjoy. =D I'm going to try and finish the other one I have started and THEN I may resume editing...who knows. Ugh. It's a daunting task...I have to reread everything for missed words, mistyped words that are still proper words...(sometimes Jess's brain doesn't...fire properly...and I'm thinking of something besides what I'm doing and I throw a entirely incorrect word into the midst of what I'm saying...)

Anywho, yeah. Enjoy. Still happily accepting art submissions for my Sairex. Love y'all.
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Sairex, in Miroku's body, helped Toga through the portal with his own body and all their collected weaponry. He could feel Miroku flailing about in his mind at the condition that his own body was in. Toga had several minor injuries, but none of them were as bad as his horribly burned right arm, which didn't want to move or respond to his command at all.

Sairex sighed when the portal was closed and let himself fall back into his normal body. His consciousness abruptly shut down. Miroku wasted no time in darting over, alarmed at the amount of blood on and still pouring from his lover. Sairex's injuries were deep from the cutting wires, and the veins in his wrists had been severed. Miroku worked hastily to bandage him up, and Toga watched in silence for a moment before sighing.

"I suppose...if I have a chief advisor....I should occasionally listen to his advice."

Miroku frowned as he moved Sairex into bed, arranging him with infinite care so he wouldn't wake up sore or with crunched wings. "Would you like me to tend your arm, m'Lord?"

"No. It will heal soon enough on its own, likely by this evening. It looks worse than it is."

"You look like you were trying to cook yourself."

"Hn...I rather did." Toga growled at the memory. Oh, that wretched thing had JUST made it into the barrier. He had thought he had Jormandar when he yanked him through the barrier initially. So, so close... Toga sighed. He would have to come up with a better attack plan than 'run in and destroy'. // Good thing Sairex isn't the I-told-you-so type... // "Give him my apologies when he comes to."

Miroku nodded, eyes never leaving Sairex. "I've...never seen him dressed like that before."

Toga glanced between them, his voice quiet. "I haven't since I was young."

"This all must be terribly difficult and awkward for you both."

Toga raised an eyebrow. "Pardon?"

"Loving one another...being forced apart, and then suddenly living within the same walls after so much time."

"You needn't worry, I have no intention of trying to take him from you."

Miroku smiled. "Oh, I am not worried. I trust him, and I trust you. I merely feel sorry for your situation."

Toga sighed. "It was...difficult. And you're quite perceptive. I do still care for Sairex, deeply, and I know he returns it. Even so...that chapter in our lives is closed. He loves you now."

"I know. And that is why it does not bother me if you two are close. I just don't want to see it eat either of you up inside and have you run around hiding it for fear of what I may think."

Toga smiled and nodded. "You are a very interesting human. I can see why Sairex is attracted to you." Miroku's eyes almost popped out of his head when Toga was suddenly in front of him, entirely too close. His voice had dropped to a husky murmur. "Yes, I can see it easily..."

The monk's voice came out as something of a squeak as he leaned back as far as the wall to his back would allow him. "Wh-wh-what are you doing?!"

Toga chuckled and gave the startled Miroku a brief one-armed hug. "Teasing you, monk. But I do wish to thank you regardless. Take good care of my raven."

Miroku nodded blankly, and it took him a moment to recover his wits enough to speak. "You're welcome...now go and see Sesshoumaru. He's been rather snappish all morning."

The inu patriarch chuckled and nodded before heading out the door.

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Inuyasha and Kouga both were surprised when they actually caught up to Naraku. The kumo was sitting on a rock and simply eating his lunch. He didn't so much as look up when they started to approach.

"Is that..."

Inuyasha growled. "That's him." He yanked Tetsusaiga free of its sheath and charged towards Naraku. "NARAKUUUU!!!!"

The kumo blinked, appearing startled, and nearly spilled his tea. // Naraku? // The word sent off all sorts of bells and whistles in his mind, although he didn't know why. He scowled in irritation at the charging half demon. "Do you mind?"

Inuyasha skidded to a stop, baffled. "What the fuck are you talking about?"Naraku stared at him for a long moment. He KNEW this hanyou. He knew him well. // But how do I know him? Friend? Foe? // Unable to piece together his painfully muddled thoughts, the kumo settled for a dark glare. "I am simply attempting to have lunch, I do not need all this commotion."

Inuyasha and Kouga stared at Naraku with twin expressions of disbelief. Inuyasha finally dealt with it as he dealt with any situation that did not present an immediate answer - he lifted his sword. "I don't know what the hell you're up to, but I'm going to make you pay!"

"Pay?" Naraku irritably put his sandwich down. Damn this hanyou, he was hungry... "Do I know you?"

Inuyasha gaped anew. "Wh...dammit, of course you know me! You spent years trying to hurt me and KILL me!"

"I did?"

"Yes!"

"Then you know who I am." Naraku needed some answers. This confusion was maddening.

"Yeah, I know who you are, you asshole! And why the fuck are you burning all these villages?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean, you don't know?!"

"Who am I?"

Kouga finally got his mental feet under him enough to speak. "Wait a minute...you're saying you really don't know who you are, who we are, or anything?"

Naraku scowled at them both. "No."

Before Inuyasha could retort, Kouga clamped a hand over his mouth. "'Scuse us." He drug the angry hanyou away a bit before releasing him.

"What the fuck did you do that for?" Inuyasha hissed, ears flat against his skull.

"Mutt, I think he's telling the truth."

"I don't give a shit if he is. He's killing people, burning villages, and he's FUCKING NARAKU. I don't care if he was doing community service and handing out flowers to little girls! He's FUCKING NARAKU. And I'm either going to kill him or drag him back home."

"Well, no shit. I just...how the fuck could he have amnesia?""Don't know. I'll let someone else figure that one out."

"Right. Think he'll come peacefully?"

Inuyasha smirked and hefted Tetsusaiga. "Hope not."

o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Jormandar sat in his throne, still badly shaken. The wretched inu had almost killed him! He had never expected to be yanked out of his barrier like that...and Toga was fast, too fast...and frightful in his rage.

"Stupid dog..." he grumbled angrily. He began assessing the damage, trying to ignore the fact that he had almost lost his life.

Toga and Sairex had killed a lot more of his total defense force than they had realized. Had they stuck around another half hour or so, they probably would have depleted his castle guard entirely.

// And with my army out abroad, I would have had no second line of defense save my traps and wards. While that likely would have saved me...there is a chance it would not have. //

Jormandar sighed as he thought of how close he had come to actually capturing Sairex, too. He had caught him, but found the raven's mind to be shielded against his intrusion. // I should have drug him in anyways...what a stupid mistake on my part. I had him incapacitated, even if I couldn't control him. I lost an indescribably priceless hostage. Damn that inu...him and his son both. I am going to kill every single canine in every damn realm, purge the world of them! It will be a better place. //

Grumbling, the puppetmaster made his way to his throne room and irritably began flipping through books. Oh, replacing those undead would be expensive without Karalichala here.

// Just one more thing I lost because of that damned Sesshoumaru... ugh. Now I have to either get more myself...and that takes time and resources...and is difficult for me...and slow. Or I can buy them...but admitting I need a castle guard build up might alert them to the fact I am vulnerable for assault. Damn it! //

With a growl, Jormandar threw back his hood and snatched up a mirror. A few murmurs and gestures and the image in the glass began to ripple. It eventually cleared, revealing Tsetsukosei in his Shimaku disguise.

"What is it?" Tsetsukosei hissed irritably. He did not have many excuses for slipping away from the healers and his generals right now.

"The damned inu Lord attacked. Side by side with that blasted raven."

"Well, you seem to have come out of it alright."

"They killed almost all my guards and my army is on its way to you."

"You have barriers."

"The bastard almost killed me!"

Tsetsukosei hid his smirk. "And you think I would mourn your death, Jormandar?""I still have your phylactery, you wretched thing."

The dracolich growled. "I am aware. What is it you would have me do? I cannot very well send you soldiers. If your army goes back, we don't have a chance in hell against the West. In truth, we don't have much chance regardless...but I do not care if the West is conquered. My only desire is to get my claws on the Inu no Taisho's pup."

"Hn, I've been keeping tabs on them all. I still have some eyes and ears in the castle that the Kinslayer hasn't ferreted out yet. The dog has a newfound resolve in life and living. You won't be able to break him this time, not like before. He was mostly alone then."

Tsetsukosei chuckled, a malicious smile appearing on his face. "Oh, on the contrary, Jormandar. BECAUSE of these connections, it will be so much easier....and the best part about it is that I will hardly have to do a thing."

Jormandar eyed the shapeshifting beast skeptically, though he was intrigued. "What...did you have in mind?"