InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pride (In the Name of Love) ❯ Chapter 109

Pride (In the Name of Love) 109 / ??
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 - Another sidestory was posted yesterday - Serenity (named after the Godsmack song of the same name) - starring one mini-Sesshoumaru. Be sure to check it out. =D I also accept new plotbunnies for sidestories...especially since I have the editing finally done. They don't have to be big...just a little idea or two and I can go from there. I'm especially a fan of Sesshy when he was young...lol.

I've more or less got my editing done, I'm just re-uploading all my fixed chapters now. I could have had THAT all done, I'm sure, if I wasn't stuck on uber-slow dialup.

A funny fact for you all - I had a HELL of a time editing any of the...intimate...parts in this or my sidestories. They made me blush terribly and I kept averting my eyes and not wanting to look directly at them or feeling terribly naughty if I did. And I wrote the damn things in the first place... XD
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"So...what's the plan?"

Sairex glanced at Toga. "Vhat in da hell makes you tink I have a plan?"

Toga sighed. "You really ARE crazy. I mean it, this time."

Sairex smirked. "Vell...I tethered myzelf. If I can get to da place vhere I first came here, I can make da jump back. Da problem is...I ztill have a zvord in my heart and you vere gutted like a fish. I'm vorried if I pull us back, ve'll just die again unless zomeone tinks to patch us up."

"Well, can't you...contact your monk somehow?"

"No. Da living can't hear da dead, it vould drive dem inza-" Sairex stopped and glanced at Toga. "I just had a helluva idea..."

"...Are you sure it wont hurt him?"

"You don't zeem to have yet had da pleasure of zpeaking vith your Zezzhoumaru zince his return. Noting I do could make it any vorse."

Toga growled low in his chest, mulling over the idea and not really finding it to his liking. Sairex frowned.

"Toga, look. Ve don't have a lot of options or a lot of time. And if ve DO run out of time, vell, dat's it. Ve both ztay dead. Do you tink anyting anyone does vill have any effect on Zezzhoumaru if you're dead? Especially if he finds out it vas he himzelf dat killed you? Isn't it vorth da risk?"

"I do not like it, even if he has no mind to speak of to damage, Sairex...but fine. Just...make it brief."

Sairex nodded and sat down lotus-style as he began to concentrate.

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Inuyasha jerked awake when Sesshoumaru sat up. His brother was scowling and seemed to be having some sort of internal debate.

"Why do you sound strange?...Hn. Why would we care to do any such thing?...Hn, the hanyou is not real. Fool..."

Eventually his gaze flickered over to Inuyasha, looking rather annoyed. "There are two dead bodies that must be bandaged and healed upstairs, hanyou, but they must not be moved."

Inuyasha frowned. "Why in the hell would anyone bandage a dead body?"

Sesshoumaru growled and shook his head hard, hunching over, his claws trembling near his head as if about to strike. "GET OUT OF OUR HEAD!!!"

Inuyasha yelped as Sesshoumaru launched himself at the wall, cracking his skull hard against the stone, hard enough that it dropped him in a heap and a flower of blood blossomed at the point of impact.

"SHIT! Sessh, damn it!"

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Sairex yelped and jerked as the connection was violently severed. He wobbled and almost fell over the side of the ferry and probably would have if Toga hadn't grabbed hold of him.

"What the hell happened?"

Sairex gave Toga a guilty look. "I...got troo and...he troo me out. Violently."

"Is Sesshoumaru alright?"

Sairex winced and rubbed at his head. He had felt everything the crazy taiyoukai had in his brief contact...had heard the whispers of other voices in Sesshoumaru's head, the distant maniacal laughter...and he had felt when Sesshoumaru's head smacked into the wall too.

"I...no, Toga. He's not. Not just because of me. I vas in his head, and...ve need to help him."

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Miroku finally found Inuyasha down in the dungeons. He was choking down his own grief as much as he was able, but knew his friend deserved to know about his father. Inuyasha knew something was wrong before he even saw Miroku or heard a word from the grieved monk - Miroku was covered with blood.

Inuyasha's eyes were huge as he looked at his friend. "Wh...what's going on now?"

"Sairex and...and your father. They...they're...." Miroku clenched his fists, struggling to keep his voice steady but failing, unable to choke back a sob.

Inuyasha frowned as he turned his gaze back to Sesshoumaru. "You crazy bastard, did you actually know something about this that I don't?..."

Miroku blinked at Inuyasha's odd comment. "What?"

"Before my brother tried to drive his skull through the wall he told me...that there were two dead bodies upstairs that needed to be bandaged up and healed, but we couldn't move them. And then you come here...to...to tell me that..."

Miroku's eyes lit up. // Figures you'd have some sort of plan, damn crazy bird... though why you'd choose to contact us through Sesshoumaru of all people is beyond me. // "Well...there's a barrier around them. I don't know what...happened to your father...it was probably Sesshoumaru. But Sairex..." Miroku swallowed hard. "Sairex did himself in, but I thought there was something strange about it. He put up a barrier around them."

"Well...I guess it...even if it's just crazy talking, I guess it couldn't hurt to try."

Miroku nodded and the two of them made their way upstairs. Inuyasha couldn't fully contain his emotions at the gruesome scene. "Fuck me..."

"Can you take down the barrier? I'm too weak right now or I'd have done it myself." // And probably would have screwed everything up... // Miroku bit back the chilly dread that had welled up inside of him at THAT unsettling thought.

"Yeah, it's not a very strong one." With a few solid strikes, Inuyasha was able to break Sairex's barrier and he and Miroku set about tending to injuries, trying very hard to ignore how lifeless their patients were.

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Sairex grinned abruptly. "Vell, looks like your pup got da message troo. Inuyazha and Miroku are working on patching us up right now. I'll be pretty easy, I imagine, but you..."

"I imagine it wasn't very pretty."

"Not at all. How in da hell did...I mean..."

"He's fast and I never, ever thought that my Sesshoumaru would try to kill me." Toga closed his eyes, wincing.

"He vasn't doing it consciously, you know. He tinks you're all hallucinations and illusions. He vould never ztrike you for real, Toga. Da boy loves you too much."

"I know, I know...it just...still hurt. Heh. I ached to see him every minute of every day for three years, and the moment he's conscious, he runs me through. Fate has a cruel sense of humor."

"Dats for damn zure." Sairex turned to face Toga more fully, noting the disheartened look on the inu's face. "Hey...vhat's dat look for?"

"He doesn't even think I'm real. How can I ... what do I do? All I want to do is hold him. I'm so grateful that he's back after so long. I didn't....didn't think he would be. And he doesn't even think I'm anything but a hallucination. If anything, my presence only makes it WORSE."

Sairex frowned and slid over, hesitating for a moment before hooking his arms around the inu and giving him a tight hug. "Cheer up. Tink of it dis vay. Before ve got him back...he didn't tink you vere anyting but an illusion AND dere vas no chance of dat changing. He vas ztill having his mind damaged further. But now ve can ztart to fix tings. It might take a vhile, but...ve'll get you your Zezzhoumaru back."

Toga sighed before returning the hug, sitting down and hauling the raven into his lap. Sairex eeped as he was hauled off his feet to land less than gracefully in his new seat.

"You know, one of dese days, I'm going to become quite cross vith da vay you people all just toss me around like I'm a ztuffed toy."

"You weigh about as much as one. It invites throwing about."

Sairex snorted and jabbed a finger into Toga's chest. "Hn. Just you vait. One of dese days..."

"What, you'll throw ME around?"

"Nah...couldn't do dat. You damn inu types veigh too much."

Toga couldn't help but chuckle - Sairex had a way of making him feel better no matter how determined he was to be miserable. "Are you calling me fat?"

"Vell, you vere da one dat zaid it...you could probably use a couple laps around da courtyard vhen ve get home." Sairex poked Toga in the sides and blinked when the inu jumped and let out a startled little laugh. Yellow eyes widened. "You're kidding...you're ticklish?"

Toga shook his head vehemently. "I most certainly am NOT."

Sairex crowed in amusement and immediately attempted to exploit Toga's newfound vulnerability, getting several good pokes in before the inu snagged his wrists.

"Stop that...!"

Sairex snickered. "Da most powerful demon in da vorld...ticklish! Kaaa!"

"You, Sairexannaras, are absolutely incorrigible. HEY!" Toga broke out into helpless laughter as Sairex curled a wing and drug the tips of his feathers along the back of Toga's neck. The inu tried to shift to grapple the offending wing, but couldn't very well let go of Sairex's hands either.

"Ack! If you don't ztop squirming zo much you'll knock da boat over!"

"As if I'm going to let YOU best me, you fiendish bird! You will rue the day you made this discovery!...Well, go on! Start rueing!"

Sairex couldn't help but laugh as he ended up pinned flat on his back, unable to bring his wings to bear. Really, he had absolutely no prayer of out-wrestling Toga. Speed didn't count for much when you were grappling, after all.

"Are YOU ticklish, bird?""No. You build up zometing of an immunity to it vhen you live your whole life attached to a buncha feathers." Sairex wiggled the tips of his wings to illustrate his point.

"I always knew how to put you in your place, though..."

Sairex's eyes flew wide as Toga leaned in close, a mere hairsbreadth from him. Breathing was suddenly a rather difficult feat. "T..Toga...vhat are you doing?"

"Hell if I know..." the inu muttered before closing the distance between them and capturing the raven's lips with his own.