InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pride (In the Name of Love) ❯ Chapter 111

Pride (In the Name of Love) 111 / ??
Written by Jezz-Ra
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// blah // indicates thoughts.

A/N - So a guy walks into a bar and asks the bartender..."Hey, do you have any helicopter chips?"
And the bartender responds, "Sorry, all we have is plain."

Plain...PLANE...XD

Trust me when I say its funnier after you've been up all night. Courtesy of my friend Chris.
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Morning came, and the sun slowly peeked over the horizon.

The breath was blasted out of Sairex's lungs in a startled wheeze as something landed on him out of nowhere. Yellow eyes shot open to regard his attacker.

His daughter Aliana was beaming at him and Miroku and trying hard not to bounce.

Sairex let out a low groan and rubbed at his eyes. He noted that the shock and the impact hadn't produced more than a slight twinge of pain in his chest. // At least I'm mostly healed...// "Nn...Ali, vhat do you vant?""Father, it's MORNING!"Miroku mumbled and pulled a pillow over his head.

"Wake UP!" Ali insisted, bouncing slightly before leaping off and trying to haul the blanket with her.

"Ack!" Sairex snagged the covers and squinted at her. "Kanas kita..." he muttered before nudging Miroku. "Vake up."

Miroku slowly blinked bleary violet eyes at the girl, brushing a few rogue strands of hair from his face as he sat up. Ali giggled as they fell right back in place. "Ali...why are you waking us up so early?...we had a rather rough night..."

"Auntie Kagome said you had to get up NOW and come with her." Here the girl paused. "Well, actually, she said just you, Daddy. She needs you to help her and Uncle 'Yasha get some magic stuff to make Father and Uncle Toga feel better. She says YOU need to sleep." Aliana nodded very seriously at Sairex before pushing him back on his back and tucking the covers up under his chin.

Miroku bit back a smirk.

Sairex closed his eyes with a sigh and allowed himself to be tucked back in. "Vell, den, maybe you zhould have jumped on HIM first den. I VAS zleeping."

Ali blinked. "Well...I was going to, but I wanted to say good morning to both of you! Daddy, are you getting up? Come ON!"

"Yes, yes...go...see your Aunt Kagome and get some breakfast or something so I can get dressed and ready to go, alright?"

"Ok!" Ali chirped happily, before giving Sairex a quick kiss on the cheek and then bouncing out of the room.

Miroku glanced at Sairex, amusement dancing across his features despite the events of the previous night. "The joys of parenthood?"

"Kaa...zhe does dat much more and zhe vill be a parent down. My poor heart can't take it. Ezpecially right now."

Miroku frowned, concern overriding his amusement. "You alright, love?"

"Eh. I'm ok. It's more or less healed. I zhould be fine before tomorrow."

"Mm...what about...." Miroku trailed off, noting the wince on Sairex's face.

"Toga vill heal more zlowly dan he normally vould and vill not be able to zleep or lose consciousness at all for at least a tenday, maybe more. Even if it's to zave his life, I've done a terrible ting to my friend. A very terrible ting."

"But as you said, its to save his life. Short of Kagome we don't have anyone that can do any healing at all...and she surely cant use holy magics on a demon."

"I zincerely hope zhe has zometing dat vill numb him or help in zome vay. Vas...it very bad?"

Miroku finally finished working his way into his robes and then began raking a brush through his hair. "I'm sure she will."

"I'll take dat as a yes, it vas."

"I felt terribly for him but there was nothing I could do. I tried some herbs but they didn't seem to have any effect."

Sairex sat up abruptly. "He kissed me."

Miroku blinked, pausing in mid-brush. "Eh?""Vhen ve vere dead. He's...kaa...dis whole ting vith Zezzhoumaru is affecting him a lot more dan he vants to let on, and he's hurt and lonely and confused. It's going to become zometing of an issue. I vant you to know dat I love you and vill never do anyting to hurt you, but dis vill need dealing vith at zome point.""Oh, I know. And I know how hard this has to have been on both of you. Really, I'm surprised it hasn't come up before now."

Sairex squinted. "You zound like you expected dis."

"Yes. Really, Sairex..." Miroku turned to face his lover and set the brush down, smiling. "Don't let it eat at you. You two never had any closure, never were able to deal with things. No matter what the resolution ends up being, you can't just leave things up in the air or swept under a rug and expect it to go away. Neither of you will have any peace. I know you love me, and nothing he does will change that. I can accept if you still have feelings for Toga, and I'll deal with whatever happens because of it. All I ask is that you remain honest with me and don't try to hide anything."

Sairex's lips twitched into a half-grin. "Heh. Vant to go zhack up vith a dog vhen he gets better? Betveen da two of us he von't know vhat hit him."

Miroku smirked lasciviously. "Mm...that has it's possibilities..."

Sairex's eyes popped wide. "I vasn't zerious!"

Miroku smiled and patted him on the shoulder. "Maybe I wasn't either." The monk smiled innocently and pulled his hair back into a tail. "Maybe."

Sairex couldn't do anything but stare as Miroku began whistling and sauntered out of the room.

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"So...not that I mind helping out, but why do you need me to come with you?" Miroku arched an eyebrow at Kagome.

"Well...you're the one that tended to Toga's injuries so you have the best grasp on how serious things are."

"He should be dead."

Kagome frowned. "That bad, huh?"

"Worse. Sairex said he will remain fully conscious and won't be able to sleep for a good ten days or so. Maybe more."

"That's horrible...even if we numb him?"

"I'm sure he'd rather be numb and awake than in pain and awake."

"That's true. Well, I suppose we better get going, then." Kagome said with a slight smile.
"Where are we going?"

Miroku's spine stiffened and Inuyasha flinched visibly at the sound of Naraku's voice. The hanyou turned to squint at the kumo with a growl. "YOU aren't going anywhere!"

Naraku sighed heavily. "Fine...I'm not much for travelling anyways." The kumo's expression brightened. "I'll go chat with Sesshoumaru until you come back."

Inuyasha was across the room in a split second, his hands fisting in Naraku's haori and pulling the kumo closer, growling dangerously. "You stay the fuck away from my brother."

"Jealous, are we? You didn't want me to come with you, so I assumed I would go to someone that wouldn't scorn my company...but..."

Inuyasha snarled and jerked back as Naraku tweaked his ears. "Keep your damn hands off of me! Why the HELL do you torment me all the time?!"

Naraku stared at Inuyasha. "Torment? I have done nothing to torment you. I've been nothing but friendly and nice to you."

Inuyasha growled. "Just leave me alone...and my brother too. He's fucked up enough without you adding to it."

"He talks to me, at least. We had some interesting conversations before the bird found us in that Circle place."

Miroku stared incredulously at Naraku. "Sesshoumaru spoke to you? Actually to you and not...just to himself? An actual conversation?"

Naraku nodded. "Well, yes, although he has some damned strange ideas in that pretty silver head of his. From what I've gathered, this is ultimately all a plan concocted by his mother to get revenge for something or other. His mother is the moon, by the way. Or the moon is part of her. And she spies on him and sends illusions and ghosts to torment him. And nothing that happens out here matters anyways, because eventually he'll wake up as the dragon's captive again."

Inuyasha frowned. "He....he actually said all those things to you?"

"Yes."

"Why the fuck is my brother chatty with you?"
Miroku frowned. "Possibly because...Naraku would not have been amongst the illusions used to torment him, considering their history. Therefore Sesshoumaru...would not doubt that Naraku was real."

Naraku nodded. "I actually just want to help. I'm sorry if that's so difficult for you to accept. I'm growing rather weary of being treated so dismally when I've done nothing to warrant it." Before Inuyasha could spit out a retort, the kumo slid out of the room.

Miroku sighed heavily and shook his head. "Lets...just get going, Inuyasha. If Naraku really wanted to hurt Sesshoumaru, he had ample opportunity to do so and didn't make a move to take it."

"Ugh. Why can't he just...I don't know, die or something?"

Kagome snorted. "He's Naraku. He doesn't die. But Miroku was right, we should hurry. The longer we wait, the worse things get for your father."

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Sesshoumaru groaned, his back arching as imagined fingertips trailed down his chest, then over his stomach...as deliciously sharp teeth nibbled at his throat, tauntingly close to the thick vein in his neck that they could so easily rip open in one powerful bite...but they never would. Powerful hands seemed to be everywhere on him as he was caressed, loved...and utterly dominated and claimed. So owned, even though he was Lord Sesshoumaru, and he bowed to no other of his own free will. He never would.

But oh, it was so right. He belonged body, heart and soul to his Lord Father, after all. He would follow him with unfailing devotion to the ends of the earth. He was an extension of his will, his weapon, his slave, his successor, his advisor, his lover, his whore...oh, he would be anything for this godly male without a thought of ever questioning him. Belonging to him was the culmination of his existence. It was what he was born for, after all...to be His Sesshoumaru. Yes...

// Oh, gods, yes...let me be anything for you, my Lord Father, let me show my devotion...just let me be yours, let me stay with you always. I do not care if it is nothing but a dream, I do not wish to wake. Please...I am nothing without you, a broken-winged bird, all my heart in shadow...//

But the dream was already fading...he could feel the oppressive presence of HER, pulling him towards consciousness, hating him for even these twisted illusions, hating him for his unflawed love.

And oh, it made her so jealous. She hated him...wanted to destroy him if only to take him from his Lord Father...

Sesshoumaru's eyes snapped open as a cold sweat broke out on his skin. Ghostly figures retreated from him, things barely glimpsed out of the corners of his eyes retreated before he could get a good look at them...but they were merely biding their time. He could feel them, watching him. Slowly, the inuyoukai drew his legs up tightly against his chest and hugged them there. Gods, he was so cold...

Sesshoumaru stiffened as a mild voice intruded in his private little world. "Ah...you're awake."

Slowly the inuyoukai sat up and turned to regard Naraku.