InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sesshoumaru's Secret Life ❯ Back to the Castle ( Chapter 29 )

Chapter 29: Back to the Castle

 

Sesshoumaru slipped the end of the chain over the carved stag horns easily. Now that all she had to do was pull back, the stone around her neck began to glow. Her feelings of resistance began to ebb and she began to wonder what she was doing standing over this chest.

 

She looked down watching the red stone swirl hypnotically and then forced her mind back to what she wanted to do. She closed her eyes, refusing to look at the charmed jewel as sweat began to break out on her forehead. She began to pull back slowly and felt the chain tighten across the back of her neck. Again, feelings of lassitude swam through her and she felt herself lean forward.

 

No, this thing will not beat me, the demoness thought. With a roar Sesshoumaru pulled back as hard as she could and finally the chain broke, the charmed stone flying though the air into a corner of the room. The demoness stood panting from the mental exertion of fighting the spell before she angrily jerked her arm and broke the cuff around her wrist. Composing her features into an icy mask she headed for the door.

 

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“Well, well, isn't this delicious,” Naraku mocked as he looked in the cages his captives were scowling out of.

 

“What have you done with Sesshoumaru?” Miroku yelled being careful not to touch the bars. Inuyasha was still lying unconscious on the floor from the shock he had received when he had grabbed the bars on his prison.

 

“She's perfectly fine. I can see why you are interested in her. She's quite a pleasure to be with,” Naraku returned with a wink causing Miroku to fist his hands at his side. “And look here,” he continued with a smirk looking in on the wolf who had taken a step back as the demon stopped in front of him. “Just can't get enough of me, can you? I'm sure I can accommodate you later on, but I have pressing matters at the moment.” Kouga glared back defiantly. The former spider demon walked down the line of cells until he stood in front of Kagome's. “Where is the jewel?” he demanded, his joking manner now gone.

 

“I don't have it,” Kagome returned bravely trying to see if Inuyasha was awake yet.

 

“Obviously, now where did you put it?” Naraku had had his servants search everyone without results when they found it wasn't on the miko girl.

 

“I don't know where it is,” Kagome returned truthfully. Inuyasha would tell none of them where he had hidden the jewel. He had asked Kagome to trust him and she did.

 

“You expect me to believe that?” Naraku asked, his voice dangerously low.

 

“Believe it or not, she doesn't know,” Inuyasha stated groggily as he sat up. He looked at his healing hands which had been burnt when he had tried to break the bars.

 

“You sound like you might know,” Naraku intoned.

 

“And you're crazy if you think I'll tell you, you bastard,” the hanyou returned angrily.

 

“Maybe, maybe not.” The spirit inside Anoki nodded his bodies head and the rat demon that had been off to the side came forward. Naraku said a few words of incantation and then his servant proceeded to open the now uncharmed door to Kagome's cage. Naraku quickly grabbed the retreating girl and held her in front of him, one arm around her chest holding her shoulders, the other around her waist.

 

The others in the cages began to protest, yelling at him to let the miko girl free. Inuyasha and Kouga almost forgot themselves in their fury and desire to reach their enemy, coming very close to touching their cages.

 

“Are you sure you don't want to tell me?” Naraku asked almost conversationally as he sensuously stroked the hand that had been around Kagome's waist up her side as he looked in the half demon's eyes.

 

Kagome's eyes went large and she tried to struggle harder to get free of the disgusting feel of the inu demon's hand on her body. Naraku just held her tighter and leaned his head forward to nip her on the ear.

 

“You fucking bastard!” Inuyasha screamed. “Let her go!”

 

Kouga was yelling as well. “Don't you dare touch her!”

 

Naraku chuckled as he moved his hand up to fiddle with the top button of the girl's blouse. “Where is the jewel? I won't be patient for much longer.” When Inuyasha didn't answer quick enough he undid the button and reached his hand inside her uniforms shirt, grinning when she squealed in fright.

 

Suddenly everyone heard a ruckus outside in the hallway and the door to the cell room was ripped from its moorings as Sesshoumaru stormed in.

 

Naraku's eyes went wide in shock. “How did you…” he began but soon took a step back, letting go of Kagome as the angry demoness advanced upon him. His small servants tried to come to their master's defence but were dealt with quite efficiently by the taiyoukai's slashing claws. Even before he could react Sesshoumaru was upon him grasping him by the neck, a low frightful growl emanating from her chest.

 

Sesshoumaru threw him against the back wall of the cell as Kagome ran out grabbing the keys from one of the dead rats and running to let the others out.

 

“Kagome!” Sango yelled before the girl could touch the doors, “don't touch them, the spell is still active, you'll be shocked.” All the rest could do now was sit and watch as a cold eyed demon lord reached out and picked up her possessed cousin from the floor. She threw him again, forcefully, this time against the bars of the cage.

 

Naraku was desperately trying to get his host's body to respond quicker to put up a defence against the assault he was undergoing. He moved out of the way just in time as Sesshoumaru's glowing green hand slashed towards his throat, melting through the bars behind him instead. Naraku rolled sideways across the floor trying to get to the door. He didn't make it as Sesshoumaru grabbed his leg and pulled him back towards her. She let go of him long enough to rake her claws into his neck, exposing the two shards in his neck. She plucked them out and then threw them towards the miko girl who was just outside the cell. Blood flew over the demoness' face as she attacked again, putting her whole hand through her enemies chest.

 

Naraku released his grip on the body he was inhabiting, allowing his host to come forward to accept the brunt of the pain. “Sesshoumaru,” Anoki gurgled out between his lips that were now bubbling blood. “I'm sorry, I never meant for this to happen. I love you,” he whispered

 

“I know,” Sesshoumaru replied softly, holding him to her closely, almost tenderly. She then ripped the heart from her cousin's chest allowing the now dead body to slump to the floor. She stood for a moment, quietly looking on her kin's form before turning and helping Kagome to release the others. The spell on the cages was now gone with the death of Naraku and her cousin.

 

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Back at the castle Inuyasha returned the jewel to Kagome, two more shards now melded into it. Kagome had wanted to give the two shards back to Kouga but he had refused, saying he didn't need them any longer. He and Ginta had decided to stay with everyone at Sesshoumaru's castle. They would make these people, their friends, their new pack. Everyone was now sitting in the main room trying not to bring up the fact that only one piece of the jewel remained to be put with the orb.

 

Upon returning the demoness had wanted to see her children and had let down her walls, telling her husband all that had happened as she wept holding her babies and Rin. Miroku had hugged his family close, kissing the salty tears off his wife's cheek, reassuring her that he still loved her and that what had happened with her cousin was not her fault. Finally she had composed herself and given him a smile of gratitude for the unwavering love he held for her.

 

Miroku had been upset upon seeing the mating mark that Anoki had forced upon her and felt even angrier knowing that Sesshoumaru would suffer separation pain because of it. Eventually the mark would fade allowing her relief from the agony of not having her demon mate with her but it would be a painful couple of months. Miroku vowed to stand by her until the ordeal was over, hoping that in some small way he would be able to help soothe her.

 

Both of them were now entering the room the others were silently sitting in. Sesshoumaru, without a word to anyone, walked over to Kohaku and yanked the shard from his back. The boy slayer fell face first onto the floor with the cries of the others ringing out in the room in shocked surprise.

 

“Sesshoumaru, why did you do that?” Sango yelled, tears coursing down her face as she held the body of her brother. Even Inuyasha was shocked and didn't know what to say to his sister at her seemingly inhumane action.

 

“Trust her,” Miroku told everyone calmly.

 

“Lay him down and step away,” Sesshoumaru ordered the taijiya. She waited and it wasn't long until she saw the death imps appear. With a slice of her claws the imps burst apart and the boy on the ground slowly opened his eyes.

 

“Kohaku!” Sango shouted in joy, grabbing her brother and hugging the now confused boy tightly to her. “Thank you, Sesshoumaru,” the human woman wept. The demoness just nodded and then placed the last shard into Kagome's hand.

 

“Find a fitting place for that cursed jewel,” she ordered the miko. Kagome nodded. She had decided that the safest place for the jewel would be in her own time. There were no demons there so it would be safe from ever being used by the likes of Naraku again. Inuyasha had decided, after talking to his sister, that making a wish on it might not be the best thing to do. Sesshoumaru was sure that to use the jewel in any way would cause nothing but disaster.

 

The group now relaxed glad that, finally, they would get to live a quiet life together.

 

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The small girl checked in her mirror one more time. She nodded to the voice that only she could hear at the moment and continued on her way, an almost imperceptible smile on her normally unemotional face.

 

THE END

 

I must say thank you to everyone who wrote and reviewed to me. I had over 300 reviews on this story and it just blows my mind. Arigato everyone

 

I hope everyone enjoyed the story and even if you didn't I say thank you to those who provided me with constructive criticism. It only makes me want to work that much harder to do a better job next time.

 

I'll be posting a short story soon called “Walking Father's Path.” It's based off a manga novel that I read and I hope you'll all enjoy it. It's another Sess/Mir fic (my fave couple) but set in the modern era. I guess you could consider it an AU fic as well. This time Sesshoumaru is male (LOL) which means this is also yaoi just so everyone knows.

 

Hope to hear from you all again, I love you guys!! *chu*