InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pride (In the Name of Love) ❯ Chapter 112

Pride (In the Name of Love) 112 / ??
Written by Jezz-Ra
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// blah // indicates thoughts.

A/N - A duck walks into a bar. Asks the bartender, "Got any quackers?"
Bartender replies, "No, sorry." The duck leaves.
Next day, duck walks into the bar. "Got any quackers?"
Bartender replies, "No." Duck leaves.
Next day, duck walks into the bar. "Got any quackers?"
Bartender is getting a little irate. "No." Duck leaves.
Next day, duck walks into the bar. "Got any quackers?"The bartender says, "No, dammit, and if you don't stop coming in here and asking me that every day I'll nail your ass to that sign over there!" Duck leaves.
Next day, duck walks into the bar. Bartender glares. Duck asks, "Got any nails?"
Puzzled, the bartender replies, "No..."
Duck grins. "Got any quackers?"

I really need to come up with some more cunning things to say....XD Another fine joke, courtesy of Chris. I heard SO many "XX walks into a bar..." jokes the past few nights....SO many....
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Tsetsukosei growled low in his throat. "You ask me for much, considering that it was I that came to YOU for our mutual benefit in the first place."

His companion scowled darkly. "I wasn't planning on acting or involving myself in any way. It is only right that you compensate me for my personal risk."

The dracolich rumbled low in his throat before muttering a few dark words. A small blood-red orb appeared in his claws. His associate smirked.

"See? I knew you would see things my way."

"Hn...you seem to think this a small matter. You do not know how long it took me to work this spell or what it cost me. However...your continued assistance is to my benefit." The dracolich slowly extended his claws and dropped the orb into an eagerly waiting hand.

"I do not understand why you used such mundane methods as chains and bars to contain Sesshoumaru if you can enact a spell of imprisonment such as this."

Tsetsukosei snorted. "Fool. If I ensnared the pup in a concealment such as that, I could not interact with him or torment him in any way. This is purely for containment. You can do nothing but speak with those bound. I desired far more than that...but I underestimated how profound his lunacy would be."

"So all I have to do is speak the command word and the name within range, and the spell activates?""Yes. Still, I think you are underestimating your opponents."

"Am I? With this to hold over them and my own power, the West will have no choice but surrender to me...and with Toga's sons under my rule, no matter how reluctantly, no one can challenge me. And once all is secure, we will discuss the matter of Sesshoumaru."

Tsetsukosei growled dangerously. "There is to be no discussion. You may use him for your purposes, then he is MINE to do with as I please."

"I have no issue with you doing as you please, but I wish to maximize the damage. My reasons for doing this are multifold, as you well know. I want them to SEE what you are doing to that wretched pup. I want his pain to be legend...for my own ends."

Tsetsukosei smiled slowly. "You are cruel...very well. We will have this discussion at a later time. I shall await your contact to tell me when it is done and the binding is complete."

"You can be sure I will let you know as soon as possible. Now away with you, beast..." Glittering eyes shone with malicious delight as they eyed the spelled orb. "I have much to do."

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Sesshoumaru eyed Naraku warily and slowly sat up. The kumo did not waver, vanish, or make any sudden moves - rather to the crazed youkai's surprise.

Naraku pulled up a chair and sat down, sipping idly at a cup of tea. As an afterthought, he offered one to Sesshoumaru. "Would you like some? One of the cooks mentioned you favored it."

Sesshoumaru frowned, his mind raising a thousand questions at once and arguing - rather loudly - as to the impossibility of it all. Tsetsukosei would not know about something like this....would he? And how could that beast know exactly what the dungeon in his own castle looked like? And why would he create the kumo, of all things, to speak with him? How could he know about the tea?

Hesitantly, the taiyoukai slid forward and accepted the proffered cup, sniffing at it. Yes, it was...exactly how it should be.

Naraku watched Sesshoumaru for a while before speaking. "I've invited a couple people to come speak with you. It should be terribly interesting. Provided they arrive and all this happens before your brother kills me. He doesn't want me anywhere near you."

"This must be some sort of trick. We do not believe you..."

"Don't you? Why in the name of all that's holy would your mother use ME to trick you? She didn't even know me, possibly didn't even know OF me. That isn't to say I know much about me, really...but I don't think I ever crossed paths with her."

"Hn....she is devious."

"Why is it you believe this is all your mother's plan, anyways?"

Sesshoumaru stared at Naraku. "We saw her...and we knew her. She is always watching us. We cannot escape her eye, we are branded by her. She hates us because we are."

Naraku nodded. "I see...and how do you know it is your mother? You never met her, as far as I have learned."

"We have seen her and we know her. It does not matter that we have never seen her." Sesshoumaru hissed angrily, clenching his teacup so tightly that it shattered. He didn't seem to feel the jagged spears of china splitting his hand.

"Ah...of course. Tell me...what is it you know of the raven demon, Sairex?"

Sesshoumaru recoiled sharply, eyes widening as he regarded Naraku. "Wh-what? How can you know of...but..."

"The raven, Sairex, is quite real, I assure you. In fact, he'll be coming in any moment to speak with you."

"Lies..." Sesshoumaru hissed, recoiling into the back of his cell, wishing his hair was long enough to grab to help soothe his agitation.

"Vell, I've been called many tings, but never had my existence passed off as a lie." Sairex smiled slightly as he slid into the room.

"Ah. Right on time." Naraku nodded.

Sesshoumaru stared at the raven wide-eyed before shaking his head in denial. "N-no..."

"Oh, believe me, I'm real enough."

"Prove it..." Sesshoumaru growled, a look of mad triumph in his eyes.

Sairex paused, thinking hard. "Mm. Vhat if I told you zometing dat no one else could know, but you vould know to be true?"

Sesshoumaru eyed Sairex warily before nodding slowly.

Sairex paused, tapping his chin thoughtfully with one finger. "Your father is ticklish."

Sesshoumaru blinked several times in sheer disbelief and then growled. "Do not mock my Lord Father's memory."

"Mock him? Kaa, I vouldn't mock Toga. And I assure you, he's very much alive, not a memory. All you've zuffered...it vas not a dream, Zezzhoumaru. Your brother rescued you. Miroku and I vere able to revive your father after da monk accidently pulled his zpirit from da nethervorld."

"...Tell me something else."

Sairex thought for a moment before beckoning to Sesshoumaru and leaning over to whisper in his ear. Naraku watched, curious, and his curiosity only grew when he saw Sesshoumaru's cheeks suddenly flame bright red and the taiyoukai recoiled sharply.

"How could you know THAT?!"

Sairex blushed a bit himself. "Your father and I vere lovers a long time ago. Zome tings...ztick vith you, no matter da passage of time."

Sesshoumaru made a curious noise that was caught somewhere between a growl and a moan and shook his head hard, backing up until he hit the wall. He crouched down into one corner and stayed there for a long moment before ever so slowly looking over, his voice a trembling whisper.

"Sairex...?"

"Yes, Lord Zezzhoumaru."

"It...it was not...a dream? This place..you...Rin...my brother, my...my Lord Father?..."

"It is as you zay. No dream." Sairex couldn't help but smile as Sesshoumaru slowly met his gaze. Sesshoumaru's eyes were slowly filling with tears, and his pain and sadness were horribly visible in their golden depths...but his gaze was conscious, coherent, and lucid.

"I...I am...I am home? The..." Sesshoumaru slowly raised his hand to his throat, wincing as he felt the very evident bite-scar from Tsetsukosei.

"Ve vill remove it again. I do not know by vhat method Toga's mark vas removed, but I'm zure he'll be happy enough to recreate it vhen he's recovered."

"Recovered?"

"He zuffered a rather zevere injury, but he vill recover in time."

"I am home...I am free....and my Lord Father lives." Sesshoumaru's voice was quavering and soft, and it sounded like he scarcely dared to believe the truth of his words, as if he were trying to convince himself.

"Yes."

Naraku nodded to himself and slid out of the dungeons. His work here was done. Just one more thing for him to wave in Inuyasha's face later... The thought brought a wide grin to the kumo's face.

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After a lengthy discussion, it was decided - albeit reluctantly - that there wasn't much they could do for Toga's injury, nor was it really necessary. Since he could not die from the wound, his demonic healing would take over and fix him up better than any simple stitch-job or bandages could.

All they really could do was find some stout painkillers.

"Well, the problem with that..." Kagome frowned. "Most of the painkillers that would come anywhere close to helping out with the level of pain he's dealing with are illegal."

Inuyasha scowled. "Then I'll just have to steal them."

Kagome stared. "Inuyasha, I really don't care to go to prison for the rest of my life."

"Keh. I won't get caught and you won't come with me. You know I can run circles around any human. I just need to know what I'm looking for."

A little Internet research and a few pictures later, and Kagome reluctantly pointed Inuyasha in the direction of one of the bigger pharmacies in town.

The hanyou was in and out of the building so fast that the startled pharmacists and technicians hardly knew what happened. Later, police were further baffled as they tried to follow the thief...but all reports had said that the man had made an impossible leap to the rooftop...and then moved so fast that he had simply vanished from sight.

Inuyasha returned to the shrine with two bulging sacks containing all the narcotics he had been able to get his claws on in his mad snatch-and-run. He hadn't been able to determine what in the pharmacy's locked cage he had needed at a glance...so he had simply torn the door off and stuffed as much as he could fit into the large sacks he had brought with him.

Soon the trio were on their way back to the feudal era, Kagome busily flipping through a nurse's drug handbook and mentally cataloging their haul as she rode on Inuyasha's back.