InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Primal Scream: The Series ❯ 43 ( Chapter 43 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Sesshomaru slammed the front door with a force that sent pictures crashing. He'd never slammed anything in his life, save for the time he'd thrown a tantrum at seven and slammed his bedroom door so hard it shattered into splinters. Needless to say, he'd never been wiling to try that again in his father's house.

But it felt so good.. the events of the past hour and a half had taken their toll on him. Strong as he was, Kagura had almost managed to break him. Not finacially for he could have withstood that, she had hit him the only place Sesshomaru was vulnerable, his pride.

Like a bad movie it replayed in his mind:

Sesshomaru had not planned to spend the evening alone, but it looked as if he would. Inuyasha had left this afternoon and not yet returned, his father and uncle had left for the strip club and he really didnt expect them back anytime soon. Bankotsu, Rin, Jace, and Shirori had all gone to spend the night with Sango and Miroku to celebrate Shirori's sixth birthday with a party and sleepover. Gypsy had dissappeared too, he noticed, but it was the full moon so it was safer that she stayed away from everyone in her heat. With the nanny looking after Hakundoshi, Haseo, and Jakotsu, the only concern Sesshomaru had was where the heck his mate had gotten off to.

Since the beginning of their marriage there had been problems. She was never open about her feelings, always making him feel as he didn't even belong in his own bedroom. She'd given birth to his children with little or no emotion, and in the seven years of their marriage, they had never had a serious conversation lasting more than thirty minutes. When he did start to feel that they were making prgress, she would pull away from him-- shutting him completely out of her life. And yet he had not been willing to call it quits yet, he refused to be like his father and leave one woman for the next no matter how miserable he was. After finding out about her supposed rape, a story he believed les every minute now, he had been willing to chalk her shortcomings as a mate up to that.

But the fact was, her rejection had left him emotionally stagnant, detached from everyone, and sexually frustrated to no end. It seemed that he would never get out of this cold icy rut his life was in, suffering silently on the inside while remaning stoic and hard on the out. But that was the way of a good businessman. But now Kagura had added one more insult to injury---

For two weeks, she'd been vanishing at odd hours during the day and night. At first he had believed her story about the gardening club, and then the new excuses of her meeting with friends from said garden club for dinner and coffee and such even though she made it clear he was NOT invited. His confirmation that something was wrong was when he actually ran into the president of the city gardening club and she confirmed his worst fear. She had no idea Kagura was at any of their meetings. Angry beyond reason, Sesshomaru stormed into the mansion looking for answers, only to be met with silence. A mere ten minutes after his arrival, Kagura had stepped across the patio and into the house.

"Where the hell have you been today?" Sesshomaru's eyes flashed red, the scent around her was unimistakable.

"Sesshomaru! Let me go you're hurting my arm." She hissed, not wanting a scene in the house.

"When I get the answers I want I'll consider it. Now, bitch, I'll ask again-- and do try and tell the truth-- WHERE were you? WHERE have you been going?" He demanded.

"Garden--"

Sesshomaru slapped her backhanded and she cried out softly as her head bounced off the wall behind her. "I'll bet you were in the garden! You were in Naraku's garden. Honestly Kagura! Do you like being taken on the cold hard ground? Did he transform so you could play with his tentacles too? I had no idea you liked it that way, Kagura!"

"Sesshomaru, you are being crude! I was not with him--" She stopped mid-rant, being shoved up against the wall harder.

"You reek of his scent, you lying whore! You fucking reek of his cum and--" his nose wiggled, and it would have been cute had he not suddenly snarled. Kagura's fresh breezy scent had a new essence-- a more flowery undertone. Kagura's eyes shot open, she knew that he'd figured it out.

"Sesshomaru, I can explain--" She begged, feeling it might be for her life.

"I don't want to hear anymore of your damned pathetic excuses. This-- this says it all!" He pointed to her abdomenen. "I should rip out the cursed fetus with my claws and feed it to some hungry snake demon!"

"Sesshomaru she's yours... I swear!" Kagura sobbed, dropping to her knees in a plea for mercy. But she wasn't sure why-- this is what she'd wanted. To be free of Sesshomaru...

Right?

"There is no way-- and you cannot fool a dog demon. I can sense my own children. It is a girl though-- you're right. It's Naraku's spawn! You sicken me! Get out of my sight before I kill you!" He snarled cruelly. "I'll send your things if and when I feel like it. If I ever see you or the bastard child of Naraku again, I'll not be held responsible for my action!"

"Bankotsu--"

"Is my son!" Sesshomaru snapped. "You or that spider come within one hundred feet of him and I'll kill you both with my bare hands. And that goes for Hakundoshi, Rin, or Jakotsu. You have just written yourself out of their lives forever."

Kagura scrambled out the door, with one last look at his back, which he'd turned to her. She had intended to tell him but not like this. There was no easy way to explain to Sesshomaru how her feelings for her step father had changed, for all she knew she was under a spell, but whatever it was-- it felt right when she was in his strong arms. Nothing could touch her and she had no worries. Sighing her goodbyes, Kagura left without a look back.

Sesshomaru had heard her leave and with a heavy sigh stomped over to the wet bar in the den and made himself a cocktail. He could see bits and pieces of his past flashing on the wall before him, like a bad movie...

Like the night Inuyasha had introduced him to the bitch. As much as he wanted to blame this on his hanyou brother-- he couldn't. He'd been in his right mind when he married her, he'd even been in his right mind when he kept running back to her bed time and time again when he knew he should keep his distance. It was his seed that had created Rin, Jakotsu, and Hakundoshi.

"Damn you, Naraku." He looked into the glass in his hand with disgust. With a sneer that could have melted ice he smashed it on the varnished wood and grabbed the bottle, turning it back with a hearty growl.

He almost wished his father were here, but that thought sickened him. He would not be some silly ninny who ran to 'daddy' for help. He was a grown man, he could handle this himself. He wanted revenge! He wanted blood on his claws. He wanted Naraku's testicles skewered to the wall over the fireplace and his head on a silver platter. Sesshomaru felt his beast stir inside him, calling to be let out...

His golden eyes now turned crimson, he turned to the sound he'd just heard behind him. Red orbs glowing with demonic wrath met emerald green pools that threatened to drown the owner in lust and power. The ookami in Gypsy spoke quickly, calling to Sesshomaru's untamed Inu beast-- challenging it even. She was in full blown heat, he realized with a start. Her beast was awakened and he could feel the demon blood in him boil in answer to her unspoken question.

And it spoke two words. Revenge and sex.

Fangs bared, Sesshomaru stood up, not advancing yet. Gypsy growled slightly, her eyes refusing to leave his. She held him riveted in place, the alpha female and the soon-to-be alpha male staring each other down, neither willing to give up.

The smell of unbridled passion and arousal drifted across the room, perking Sesshomaru's interest. "Why, Gypsy, are you coming onto me?"

Gypsy made a small purr at the husky quality of Sesshomaru's voice, it was drawing her in. Stealthily she crept up on him, pressing her full breasts flat against his chest. "Do you think you could handle it if I were?"

Sesshomaru's tongue licked out over his bottom lip, it was suddenly dry. He'd only been with one woman, and he had heard and seen Gypsy in action.. he couldn't answer that question. She ground her hips against him, forcing more of her musky scent up to his nose, sending his beast reeling. Sesshomaru gave up control, it would feel god to let out the demon within, and let the chips fall where they may.

In one swift movement, he dipped his head to Gypsy's and pushed his tongue between her waiting lips. He was unmindful of her fangs, which were considerably larger than his, and tasted blood as result. That mettalic tang did it-- it sent him over the edge and unleashed his inner beast. With all the grace and class of a rutting bull, he drove his brother's mate into the couch, mounting her roughly. He'd never rutted with a true canine demon before, and was unprepared for the sheer roughness in which she liked it. She took charge, even though she was under him, locking her legs around his waist and pulling him against her.

Gypsy rutted with a wild passion he was unaccustom to in his former lover. Kagura had managed to satisfy him, but never like this. The writhing, screaming wolf bitch beneath him was greedy and could have cared less if he gained satisfaction or not, she was out to satisfy an insatiable demonic heat that coiled within her lower belly. The simple act of not caring motivated him to go further and faster, trying to make an impression on the cold hearted bitch.

"Gypsy.." he breathed. "Kami, what have you done to me?"

With a rough arch of her back she seated him inside her once again to the hilt and sneered. When she spoke it was her demon voice, not the sweet chirping sound he had been annoyed by for so many years-- quite the contrary this voice seemed to arouse his need more. "Don't fall in love, Sessh-- you're only good to me for one thing."

That crack was almost more than his already shattered pride could take and before he realized it, his eyes had blazed again. "Fucking bitch. I'll show you what I'm good for--"

Before she could she could smart off again, Sesshomaru yanked his pulsing cock from her and twisted her onto her stomach, pulling up her hips, and driving back into her. "This is how a true bitch gets fucked, Gypsy. Or didn't you know that? Has my baby brother neglected his duties in bed so much?"

"Inuyasha--" she breathed, an image of his face buzzing by her face and suddenly subduing her slightly. But it was too late, Sesshomaru had wrapped his hand in her tresses and forced her head back almost painfully.

"How dare you think of that hanyou while you have a true demon cock inside you, you may get away with disrespecting him but you will not do that to me. I will not play the game nor will I buckle to you."

Sesshomaru's voice was still monotone and emotionally flat. Gypsy responded by lowering her head and pressing closer to him, begging for him to thrust.

He would have stopped and made her wait, but the beast that was driving his hips forward would not allow such delay and he slammed into her at such an angle he felt himself touch something inside her-- something that made her cry out in pain or pleasure-- he didn't care which one. Gypsy bucked under him, spine arching, head back.

"Sesshomaru!!" She begged. "Please... so close.."

"As if this Sesshomaru cares what pleasure you derive from this, this is for my amusement alone," he said as he drove into her once more, unloading his seed into her more than willing womb.

Gypsy clamped around him, pulsating to an orgasm that forced some of his seed back out and down her thighs. He collapsed on top of her, driving her forcefully into the couch's cushions. She panted, her skin wet with perspiration so that his white silky strands stuck to her shoulder.

Sesshomaru pulled away from the ookami bitch with a disgusted sneer, mentally chastising himself. He'd lost control, went temporarily crazy and as result had severed the already delicate bond he and his half brother shared. He'd rutted with his brother's mate like an uncouth, wild animal. He, Sesshomaru, was no better than his perverted brother, or his playboy father whose lifestyle he'd been criticising for years.

The scent of Gypsy's heat induced lust dyed away quickly now that she was temporarily sated. She looked at him with narrowed, hate filled eyes. No love was lost between the two, had she not been under the demonic influence of the full moon she'd have probably never been lured into this tryst. Yet, something seemed off about Sesshomaru right now. He was not proud and strong, condescending-- he looked broken and lost. He made a half hearted attempt to cover his withering cock with a blanket that always stayed on the couch, he lacked even the energy to get up from this position.

He suddenly found himself alone in the living room, a bottle of tequila in his hand and a loud voice in his head. His inner beast was speaking to him, quite lucidly.

*Ha! We got laid.. mmm she wasn't bad. Inuyasha's a lucky bastard.*

"Shut the fuck up, you got your's. I wanna drink till I forget I ever let you take over me like that. Kami I can't believe I gave in to you." He chortled.

*Come on, Sesshomaru. You know I can take over you anytime I wanna. Especially now! Look at you sniveling over a woman... Kagura isn't worth it.*

He shook his head, "Fuck the hell off! Seriously, I loved her."

*Yeah, that's where you screwed up. Yeah, thats right, Sess, pour more liquor on it-- maybe it'll go away.*

"Thank you, that was my intention." Sesshomaru drained the bottle and stood slowly, he was dizzy. "Now shut up!"

*I'm trying to protect you!*

"You're trying to protect yourself! Now go back to where ever the fuck you came from." He looked around the bar area for some whiskey.

*Ol' man knows how to stock a bar- eh?*

"Yeah he does.. wait, did I just agree with you?" Sesshomaru growled. "What do you want from me?"

*Nothing yet.*

"Nothing ever." Sesshomaru uncorked the Crown Royal.

"Just keep on drinking..*

"Like I need your permission." Sesshomaru took another long drink, this was so unlike him. He as known to indulge in a drink occasionally but not with this magnitude. He just didn't know what else to do, and there was no one here to take his anger out on.

*Sessh?*

"Shut up! Stop caling me Sessh, and leave me alone. Oh, dear Gods I need a shower-- I reek of damned wolf and sex!" He stormed into the bathroom, his beast finally quieted for a while.
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Tsunade was late getting to her home after the late night tryst with Inutashio. The house was eerily dark and only a lamp by the couch lit her way through the littered floor. It looked as if someone had thrown a party in her absence. For once she didn't care.

Despite her best effort her mind kept replaying the night she'd met Inutashio....

It had been a stormy night, the rain cut visibilty to zero and thunder roared overhead like an angry giant. Tsunade was hurrying home from a party in her classic '79 Trans Am, an ill-thought out gift from doting grandparents on her sweet sixteen the year before. She'd taken a side road to escape a traffic jam on the LA freeway when she lost control in a three inch pool of water and slammed head-on into the side of a silver Mercedes Benz that was coming towards her.

Inutashio had been on his way home from a late running meeting when he to decided to take the ill-fated detour down the side road to miss traffic. He'd promised Inuyasha he'd be there in the morning when he woke up for his eighth birthday. The impact of the two cars colliding was enough to kill a human on contact, and that's what Inutashio found when he opened the Trans Ams door with a mighty pull that pulled not only the wedged shut door open but half the side of the car off.

Something tugged his heart when he saw the sweet face of the high school junior, blood streaking it's lovely soft contours. He didn't even stop to think before he lifted her and placed her into the Mercedes, which even though the door was ruined, still ran. Ripping into his wrist with his fangs he'd given her enough of his blood to keep her alive until he got home. Then while everyone was asleep, he had revived her with Tenseiga. The effects of her having consumed Demonic blood were instant, her eyes changing from green to golden and a small blue diamon appearing on her forehead, a demon mark.

Inutashio returned the girl to the scene and called for paramedics. Of course she was fine, she'd been ever greatful to the handsome demon who was quite a bit older than she. They had exchanged numbers and after the insurance refused to pay for her car-- he paid to fix it. After that, the two had started dating.

She'd been well aware of the gigantic age difference, but the fact that he was demon and she was now half demon changed things. It no longer mattered. Inutashio had told her from the start he was married, and was quite happily in love with Izayoi. But even he could not dispute the fact that he and tsunade shared a special bond-- one that he had never and would never share with another human.

If anything, she thought bitterly, she had pursued him knowing full well she'd be nothing more than a mistress and that she'd have nothing more than a night here and there-- or a lunch date if she got lucky.

Her lamenting was interrupted by the entrance of a young man through the front door. His eyes were shining green, like hers used to be, and his skin was pale and porcelain. He had on eye make-up and dark lipstick, and he was wearing a black mucsle shirt and black pants that jingled and hung low under the weight of a half a dozen silver chains.

"Where the hell have you been?" She snapped, angry.

"I could ask you the same thing." He yawned, his blazing green eyes meeting hers.

"Don't you get cheeky with me, young man. You're getting way out of control." She snapped. "Your teachers called this morning. you have been kicked out of school again. You're drinking, partying, and God knows what! I just don't know what to do about you anymore."

The boy glared, narrowing his emerald orbs at his mother. "Then why didn't you abort me? Or at least marry my father?! Do you even know who the bastard is?"

Tsunade had tried being a patient mother, it eased her guilt for having put this boy in the position he was in now, a teenager in need of a father-figure who was absent because she lacked the courage to tell his father about him. But her lenient parenting had caught up with her when he hit twelve and he'd started acting out-- or rather just acting like some form of demon.

"You will watch your tone and your language in front of me young man!" Tsunade snapped angrily. "You are in no position to give me grief, you're in enough trouble as it is."

"Oh what are you gonna do about it?" The boy challenged, his voice as defiant as she knew his fathers to be.

"I'm not wholly sure. I do know you are forbidden to leave this house until further notice!" She crossed her arms. "Go-- just go to your room."

"Whaever, man!" He yelled making his way up the stairs, mumbling the normal teenage rant about how unfair life was.

Tsunade rubbed the bridge of her nose. He was semi-violent, loud, crude, and she honestly did not think she could handle him He didn't respect her, it was clear, and without that respect she could never discipline him to a point where it would change his life. And even if she could -- she wondered if she were mentall, emotionally, and physically strong enough to do it.

With a heavy sigh she realized the time had come. For his own good it was time to introduce him to the 'bastard' who had helped create him. She had no other choice, the boy needed a strong father figure-- and his father had raised his two half brother's who were just as bad as him, if not worse. And Sesshomaru and Inuyasha hadn't turned out half bad, she told herself.

Tsunade stared at the phone on the table by the couch, she even sat down and held it in her hands. She'd call Inutashio tomorrow, she decided. But this wasn't the kind of thing to blurt out over the phone, she'd ask him out for a drink or something. Then there was going to be the challenge of telling her son that his father was the Inu-demon Lord Inutashio.
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In his bedroom, Sesshomaru lay beneath his soft silver silk sheets and stared at the ceiling. He was pretty intoxicated for a demon, which had taken quite a bit of hard drinking to achieve. He'd never been so drunk in his whole life. From the next room he could hear Inuyasha and Gypsy going at it like wild dogs in heat-- which is exactly what they were. There was another voice in there too-- Kouga-- they were having a threesome clearly.

His filthy hanyou half brother had the attention of two while he, Sesshomaru, lie alone because his mate chose her former rapist. The thought made bile rise in his throat, he was sickend by it all and his anger grew ten-fold. Listening to the sounds of the house around him for the first time in literally years, he realized he was going stir crazy-- or just plain loco.

*This is what happens when you been uptight too long* His inner demon spoke clearly, Sesshomaru closed his eyes.

"Take a hike."

*No can do-- I gotta save your ass yet again.*

"I don't fucking need you! I'm fine!" He yelled in his head to the voice.

*You do need me. God listen to them next door.* The demon pointed out the screaming party going on next door. Kouga breathlessly muttered words of love to someone-- Inuyasha or Gypsy-- who knew? Inuyasha made demands on someone to go faster and Gypsy howled and carried on like she was in ecstasy.

It drove him mad, and not mad as in angry, for he had passed that ages before-- mad as in insane. No matter what he did, he was destined to fail. His father had held him in such high regard, trusted him with his multi-million dollar diamond import/export business where he held a job as assistant to the CEO, Inutashio. Sesshomaru was the epitomy of perfection, his family's shining jewel-- what would they think now?

*There gonna think you are a loser* His inner demon cried. *Just like Inuyasha.*

"Oh God, not you again!" Sesshomaru groaned and turned intot he pillow.

*You're so emotionally crippled he couldn't even hold his your own marriage together. Truth told, you were such an awful husband, your wife would rather be with a child molesting rapist who had forced her to bear his son at the tender age of 13!* The beast sneered.

"I was a good husband, I gave her space and I was better to her than my father was to my mother, I'll wager that! I-- I loved her at least.." he admitted silently. "I loved her and she was the only one I had ever loved!'

*And look at you now!* That inner demon screamed again, so loud it drowned out the sounds from the house, all Sesshomaru could hear was his pumping blood and the sound of his demon crying out to him.

Sesshomaru made a small whimper. "Please go away.."

*Ha! You wish! Look at you, Sesshomaru. Look in the mirror!*

Sesshomaru turned to the full length mirror by the bed, his skin going paler than normal, his hand stuggling not to shake. He saw his reflection staring back at him like a foreign being who looked just like him. And then that being spoke to him independently.

*The almighty Sesshomaru.* Sneered the being that he was beginning to recognize as his inner demon. Somehow it had manifested itself in his reflection in order to get across his point. *Can you believe how weak you are? You have sunk so low that you actually took your brothers mate! Look at you -- blind drunk just because that bitch ran off! What would father say?*

It was too much, he had finally went over the edge and become everything he despised in life. Violently he surged from his place in the bed and grabbed the bottle that taunted him from his dresser. "I will not let you get to me! I am stronger than this.."

The bottle broke against the wall, but the noise was drowned by the sound of something that sounded like a freight train hitting the house. He was thrown to the ground, momentarily stunned and confused. The house erupted in noise and confusion as everyone scrambled to get outside. Several screams ripped through the night, and blinding light filled Sesshomaru's room.

Inutashio had been home for a few moments before Jiraiya pulled himself through the front door, singing some off ket song about drinking and women. They too had been promptly tossed to the ground like rag dolls and left to wonder what the heck was going on. Kouga, Inuyasha, Gypsy, and Sesshomaru gathered into the foyer with Inutashio and Jiraiya. Inuyasha oushing his way out the front door.

"Naraku!" He shouted at the spider demon who sat safely in a protection barrier on top of a purple cloud of miasma, to his left stood Kagura and they were surrounded by the children. It looked like a nightmare.

"Greetings, Inuyasha!" Naraku called, "I believe I have something that interests you!"

"Bastard!" Inuyasha snarled. The rest of the household poured from the door and formed a half circle around the hanyou. "Give me back the kids!"

"You can have the bitch!" Sesshomaru snarled, "But you will not touch my children!"

"If you want them, come get them." He laughed cruelly and moved the oversized barrier bubble towards the West. The cries from the kids echoed in Inuyasha's head, sending him into a wild frenzy of anger.

Inutashio grabbed his arm, his face stone cold and serious. "Get Tetsusaiga, Inuyasha. Sesshomaru-- get Tenseiga and Toukijin."

"What will you use?" Gypsy quipped,following Inuyasha into the den and grabbing her two daggers.

"Sounga." Inutashio opened a steel case that was concelead in the wall, drawing out the already glowing sword.

"Surely not Sounga, father!" Sesshomaru's eyes widened a little, "Father, that demon sword is-"

"This might possibly be the final battle, boys. We need all we can get. Now come on!" He turned and fled into the dark night.

It wasn't hard to to find the miasma trail and follow it to the well. The damnable thing was open like an invititation to a well laid trap. And with the kids on the other side-- no one hesitated to plunge down it. the weightlessness, the floating and flashing lights were rudely interrupted by the abrupt stop at the end on the hard ground of the feudal era.

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were first on their feet, having been the only ones who had not landed on someone else. Swords drawn and ears working to catch the slightest sound.

Kouga pointed to the horizon, an blinding light was travelling towards them at an alarming rate, "Inuyasha, watch out!"

The impact was like that of a bomb, sending bodies and dirt flying in every direction. Gypsy landed along the treeline, amazingly on her feet, he first thought for her pups and she whirled towards the sound of whimpering. Somehow Sango had landed against a tree behind the wolf demoness, her weapon semi on top of her-- she'd been smashed against a tree.

The roar of the explosion had barely died before Miroku was crawling towards Sango. Inuyasha was no where to bee seen but Gypsy heard his voice.

"Gypsy, find the pups.." his voice sounded desperate. Inutashio had turned into dog form and was using his sense of scent to track them, Gypsy was off in the other direction just to make sure more ground was covered.

A tentacle shot out of the bubble, Naraku's cruel laugh followed. "Ku,ku,ku! I at last have the whole jewel and after I destroy you self righteous demons and demon slayers I shall rule the world Bwhahahaha!"

"Give it up, you asswipe!" Inuyasha slashed through the tentacle with Tetsusaiga. "You couldn't run the seven eleven!"

"You talk big for the father of a dead pup!" Naraku snapped..

"You better not touch a hair on either of those pups!" Inuyasha snarled.

"My mistake," Naraku glared at Kouga, "It was your pup."

Kouga bared his fangs, his blue eyes turning suddenly orange as his youkai rose to the surface, "If you touched my pup I'll kill you.."

Naraku's laugh made it hard to tell if he was lying or not. Angered into insanity, Sesshomaru drew Toukijin and charged only to find the sword useless. A shower of sparks flew from Toukijin, throwing Sesshomaru back a few feet. He braked the slide and remained standing.

"What the hell?" He exclaimed. "Why did my sword fail?"

"Thanks to Kagura I was able to borrow some power from your father," Naraku smirked. "That means this bubble of protection cannot be destroyed by anyone related to Inutashio!"

"I should have known that looked familiar!" Sesshomaru yelled, seething that Kagura had managed to rob him of that one demonic power. Upon becoming his mate she'd inherited the power to create a protective bubble around herself and her kids. Once she had taken Naraku as mate, he inherited the same power.

A mighty roar echoed through the forest, startling even Naraku who wheeled inside the bubble towards the sound. The ground seemed to shake beneath their feet. The roar was followed by a howl of what sounded like utter agony and Kouga answered it.

"You son of a bitch.." The ookami male that was no longer recognizable as Kouga, turned on Naraku. "How fucking low can you get! He was just a pup!"

"The pup was too much to bear. Like you-- his life was worthless to me." Naraku shrugged. "I would not worry for you will soon join him!"

"What the-- Jace is--" The tears overtook Inuyasha and spilled out onto his cheeks before he could stop them.

"That was Gypsy's howl. She's found the cub and he's not alive." Kouga's voice shook then broke uncontrollably.

Inuyasha was on his feet running for the forest, followed by Kouga-- both desperate to get to their fallen pup and see the condition of the others. Sesshomaru attacked Naraku again even though he knew the attack would be as fruitless as it ultimately turned out to be. Deflected by the shock of his sword against the barrier he flew backwards and landed on his feet.

"Prove to me you have a spine Naraku!" He shouted. "Fight me!"

His manhood challenged and seeing as he was a fair match for Sesshomaru. Naraku dissapated the barrier and stepped out onto the earth below. A smug look upon his finely chiseled features.

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Inutashio was the first thing Inuyasha saw, he was in dog form and standing over the limp bodies of Bankotsu, Rin, Shiori, Haseo, Hakundoshi and Jakotsu. Upon seeing his son he turned back into humanoid form, his eyes dull and greiving. Gypsy hovered over a small dirt and blood stained body just a few more feet away. Jace's neck had been snapped along with several other injuries of varying degrees. The cub had put up one heck of a fight, it was obvious. Kouga hit his knees, his fingers sliding through his sons hair. Inuyasha could not bring himself to touch the body.

Shaking violently, Inuyasha averted his eyes from Jace's body and placed a soft hand on his mate's shoulder. No words were needed at this moment, all was said in a touch. Beneath his hand he suddenly felt a surge of energy, hot and coursing-- like he'd stuck his hand in a bowl of hot water. He withdrew the appendage quickly, Gypsy's electricity was coming to the surface. Inuyasha felt her pain, it stabbed at him from all sides.

"I will kill Naraku for this!" He promised, turning to race towards the clearing where Sesshomaru was battling Naraku with thundering blows that shook the ground. When his eyes fell on Naraku-- the man responsible for taking the life of his son-- Inuyasha's eyes went wide and crimson. He needed the taste of blood. He attacked with a scream that startled everyone in the clearing.

Sesshomaru dodged a blow from Naraku's katana and countered with a sharp blow of his own. Faced now with two angry demons, Naraku transformed, his tentacles tangling Sesshomaru hopelessly as he turned to fight Inuyasha head on. From somewhere behind Inuyasha, the trees shook witht eh force of an oncoming demon. The aura so strong that even Naraku stopped with alarm. From the line of trees broke a terrifying site; a black wolf standing at least ten feet tall. Her eyes burned green, and her fangs were bared in a deadly sneer. She craved blood, and she was coming for Naraku. Miroku, Sango and Inutashio arrived then, carrying the children as best they could in an attempt to get them back through the saftey of the well. But the sight of Gypsy in her demonic form for the first time, made everyone stop to gawk in fear and interest.

Sesshomaru twisted the tentacle that held him backwards and slashed throuh the rest of them while Naraku was distracted. Inuyasha recognized his mate, the connection still there even in Demon form. Naraku forced the barrier once more, deflecting an attack from all three sides by all three of the demon swords. His laughter was more than inutashio could bear. He turned Sounga power loose, unleashing a line of fire that left eighteen foot deep craters in its wake. But it was still not enough.

"You waste your time, pathetic dogs! Hahaha! I am indestructable," Naraku said, smirk stuck in place on his cruel lips.

"No you're not," Gypsy spoke huskily, snarling with giant flesh riping fangs as she stepped forward.

"Don't waste your time, hanyou!" Naraku snapped. "No one related to Inutashio can ever break this barrier!"

"You stupid baka," she laced her ears back, turning suddenly human before the other demon. "I am not related to Inutashio!"

Suddenly realizing his mistake, Naraku started to move only to be hit with a double ball of fire from Gypsy's finger tips that shattered the barrier completely and left him stunned. Seeing that oppourtunity, Gypsy turned to Inuyasha. "Take his head!"

Upon his mate's request, Inuyasha launched himself at Naraku with reckless abandoned, the sword crashing down on his left shoulder and almost slicing the spider demon in half-- his kimono ripped as he darted to the side, sending a small ball of pink light flying forth.

Somewhere someone was yelling, 'The jewel!'

Inyasha didn't care. this wasn't about the jewel anymore-- this was revenge. Gypsy, seeing what had happened, forced herself airborn just in time to catch the jewel before it struck the hard ground.

Naraku flailed wildly, the barrier reappearing just in time to block another blow from Inuyasha's sword that would have rent him to shreds. Sesshomaru sunk to the ground with a roar of pain that shocked Inuyasha back into hanyou form. With Sesshomaru's last powerful swing, Toukijin had hit Tesusaiga and had been torn from his hands and on the way back to Earth had severed Sesshomaru's arm. Sesshomaru held the bleeding wound and cursed under his breath, though his face did not change.

Horror and shock registered on Inuyasha's face-- his son was dead, his brother's arm was lying on the ground, severed and disembodied. Gypsy was at his side instantly, her anger still making it impossible for her to touch anyone. The tingle of her aura brought him to his senses and he scrambled to Sesshomaru's side. Oblivious to Naraku, he had one shot to fix this and he was damned if that stoud spider-boy was going o screw it up. If things went right, he reasoned, they'd all end up at home safe with no more worries.

"Gimmie the jewel, Gypsy." Inuyasha said, kneeling by Sesshomaru as Naraku yet again escaped.

She didn't question it-- she handed him the jewel. His tears flowing freely, Inuyasha wrapped an arm around Sesshomaru, the words leaving his lips had been meant for comfort. In his pain and anguish, he'd forgotten he had the jewel in hand. "This is my fault, please forgive me, Sesshomaru. I am so sorry-- Oh, Kami, I wish we could go back in time to before I screwed up my whole life and start over fresh!"

That said, the jewel lit up in the palm of his hand, blinding everyone with its hot pink aura that surrounded everyone and everything in its path...then exploded sending thousands of lights across the dark blue sky, like fourth of July fireworks.

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Inutashio sat up in his bed. Not unusual to be sure, he thought. "I wonder if all that was a dream?"

Suddenly the late night peace was shattered by music, Nine Inch Nails to be exact. He shoved the covers off, muttering a threat. "What the hell is he doing? Trying to wake the babies up?"

Myoga was asleep in the hall by Inutashio's door and was on his feet as soon as he heard he door opening. "Master, Inutashio, is everything alright?"

"What the Hell is Inuyasha doing? If he wakes those kids I'll--"

"There are no kids, sir." Myoga looked down at the carpet then popped up on Inutashio's shoulder. "Do you not recall earlier this evening?"

Inutashio's eyes narrowed, "Yes I do! But whats that got to do with this infernal noise?"

Just then Sesshomaru stormed out of his bedroom, and Inutashio rubbed his eyes and did a double take. He was no longer the well muscled six foot three demon who was his oldest son. Sesshomaru was roughly five foot nine his hair barely reaching his tailbone and he was rather slender and trim. His demon markings were still a light shde of magenta, and when he spoke it was not the silky seductive voice that bought women to their knees, it was the shaky rough voice of a teenager in the throes of puberty. Inutashio looked at his vassal, puzzled.

"Inuyasha! Turn that crap down, you know you're not supposed to turn it up after 11!" Sesshomaru pounded the door impatiently.

"Fuck off!" Inuyasha's reply came from behind the door, and the music got louder....

"You see when Inuyasha wished to go back to the point in his life where he messed up and start over-- the jewel granted his wish. Everything was thrown back into time. I suspect Inuyasha is around fourteen and Sesshomaru is maybe sixteen in human years." Myoga explained, rather downtroddenly.

"And there's nothing we can do?!" Inutashio went quickly back into his room an shut the door.

"I am afraid not, master."

"So what the hell do I do? How can we change then back? Where are my grandkids?" The elder demon was frantic with terror.

"There is nothing we can do, I am not sure why you were allowed to keep your memory. Basically Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are kids again, and they are going to live their lives again and hopefully fix their past mistakes."

Inutashio's mind spun like a ferris wheel. This just had to be a dream-- a nightmare. "What about everyone else? What do I tell them?"

"Well the kids are not here, you see with their fathers thrown into reverse aging like that-- they simply have not been concieved yet. Their souls are returned to whence they came. Unless I miss my guess, then everyone around them will not have any memory of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru being adults, mated, their kids or anything."

"And Gypsy? Kagura?"

"Probably home with their family with no memeory of the past nine years. I think Miroku and Sango were also affected but as far as that goes, everyone else will resume life as normal." Myoga explained this with great dramatic hand waves and hops.

"Myoga, are you sure about all this?" Inutashio sat on the edge of his bed, the noise from down the hall the least of his worries.

"I talked it over with Totosai last night while you were knocked unconcious from the jewel's effects. I actually saw the children reduce to the lights of disconnected souls-- it is a sight I hope never to see again." The flea shook his head woefully.

"Myoga?" Inutashio's voice was softer now, wistful even. "If we went back in time-- is Izayoi still alive? Where is she?"

The small vassal sighed a little, "I am sorry Master. The jewel cannot raise the dead, and even if it could-- that's not exactly what happened, sir. You see, everyone was reverted to their early teen years, but time was not altered or changed. We are still in the year 2007."

"You're basically telling me that I have to raise Inuyasha and Sesshomaru through puberty again without Izayoi?" Inutashio sounded a bit taken aback now. "Myoga-- tell me you're kidding."

"I wish I were, Master Inutashio, I wish I were. But I'm sure Lady Tsunade will assist you."

"How do you know about her?" Inutashio looked at the flea with a frown, this night truly was a nightmare.

Myoga shuffed around before answering. "There are things I must not tell you for they are not my place but I'll wager by morning light you will know. Right now, you need to focus on getting those boys back in line and on the right path before we have this same sort of thing happen again. The jewel shattered after the wish was made, therefore we should start looking for it once again."

"Shattered again? You mean that cursed thing is still out there somewhere?" Inutashio strode to the window and sighed against the glass, his breath fogging the pane a bit.

"Yes-- yes it is. There is a small chance that finding all of it can put the boys back to their right age as well as return the children." Myoga sat on the window sill. "But I highly doubt it, changes like that are usually permanent. However, the children will be returned, as is their destiny, but they will have to be concieved in love. Until then, and I hate to sound cliche, but they are in a safe and happy place."

The elder demon nodded. just then something shattered, something that sounded expensive...

"Daddddddddddd!" came twin replies from the downstairs den.

Inutashio covered his face with a feigned sob, "Oh Kami what did I do to deserve this?"