InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Slave ❯ Home sweet home ( Chapter 8 )

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

Slave

Summary: Heat, a new `home' and more problems.

I would like to thank my beta and all the readers and reviewers.

Chap 8. - Home sweet home -

The previous night Inuyasha had fallen asleep crying on the floor in the middle of the chamber-like cage in Sesshoumaru's house. When he woke up in the next morning he was still on the floor; it was cold and a cool morning breeze filled the room.

Inuyasha stood up he was in pain and hungry. At first according to his debilitated nose and his eyes, there appeared to be no food or anything drinkable in the chambers.

He studied the place again. The chambers had a large room with a door to a winter garden (with some birds in cages), a large bedroom with a large bed and a bathing area. Rich furniture everywhere.

“Keh, I have got a golden cage but no food; this bird here is starving.” He screamed.

He then went to the bathing area. “At least I can have water in this place.” He sniffed the air. The water was a little hot, as it came from a hot spring. He drunk some water and washed his face; looking at his state he decided to have a bath.

When he returned to the principal room, there was a small youkai holding a silk red kimono, standing next to a table set with food.

“Good morning, I brought breakfast and a kimono.” The youkai put the kimono on the closest chair and left. It was so fast that Inuyasha did not have time to say anything.

While Inuyasha was dressing the kimono, he realized that there was no underwear, no undershirt or anything. He would be only covered with the kimono, and it was a little big to him. It was a beautiful kimono though. It was, red with some small white flowers, the same pattern as the ones on Sesshoumaru's clothes.

Inuyasha then sat to eat his breakfast. It could be considered a traditional one, if there was not so much meat and different kind of edible animals, cooked, steamed, grilled and raw, even though everything was placed in a so organized fashion that was fancier than the way he had learnt at Kiramaru's place. He waited for some minutes, but nobody came, so he started to eat very slowly and with his ears he tried to listen if anyone were coming. Again nobody showed up for hours.

The silence was annoying. Even with his inu-hanyou powerful triangular ears, he was not able to pick up any sound. He could not listen to what was going on in the house, or in the next room. He could listen to the birds and to the faint breeze that come somewhere from the winter garden. He could even listen to the water in the spring at the bathing area. But nothing more. No voices, no steps, nothing.

“Maybe these chambers are far from the principal house. Yes, it must be a big complex, so these quarters must be far from the ones where people normally stay. That explains the lack of sound and scents.”

Inuyasha then looked at the place where his bag was. He took the sword and placed it in the wall in an empty space specially made to place swords, and in the last drawer in a dressing table in the bedroom he put his fire rat clothes, his little things and under them he put Kouga's headband.

He got the little bottle of medicine Miiko gave him and sipped a little of it.

`It has been a while since I last drank this. Kiramaru-sama told me to drink it to avoid further problems and a possible pregnancy, I did not have any of it during the time I was free or in the last week. Well at least I will like the father--' Inuyasha started to imagine and laugh about the whole thing. `If I have got pregnant, Kouga would be the father, would be nice to have a small Kouga running in this room, space he would have a lot.' Soon the happy image changed to a more realistic one. `Sesshoumaru-sama would not allow another hanyou here, even though he would be only one-fourth hanyou, Sesshoumaru-sama would not let me stay with the puppy, actually I think he would kill me if I ever get pregnant, I hope I am not pregnant.' Inuyasha looked to the mirror on the dressing table and examined his body. He was still thin, he could see some of the last night's bruises, his belly was flat and he could count his rib bones. `No, I am not pregnant.'

There was nothing else to do in his room. So, he went to the garden and sat on one of the benches; soon he was sleeping. He woke up with the nice aroma of food. The same youkai that in the morning had brought him his breakfast was there, standing next to a table, there in the garden.

“Good afternoon, I brought lunch.”

“Arigato, can you stay with me and--” Before Inuyasha was able to finish the sentence or stood up the youkai was gone. “Well, I guess he or she can not stay here with me.”

This happened again at dinnertime. The food was brought by the same youkai. Inuyasha did not know how the youkai entered the room. The youkai was again standing by the side of a set table and the food placed in a very fancy way. Different kinds of meat and little greens. There were no rice or beans and even the miso soup would have meat in it. The food was different in taste from the ones he used to eat at Kiramaru's and at the villages. It was delicious though.

On the next days Inuyasha tried to talk with the youkai, but all his attempts were fruitless. The youkai would not talk with him. The youkai only brought the food and a new kimono every morning.

The chambers were cleaned while Inuyasha was sleeping, it did not matter what mess he would make. Whenever he woke up the room would be clean and the things fixed.

Inuyasha got bored and his fever was back early in the morning of the third day. He would be at the bathing area most of the time. The dizziness and the pain were back too.

He tried to sooth the pain by masturbation, but the pain in his cock was tremendous. He didn't have the opportunity to talk to anybody about this, but since he was violently spanked by the thunder youkai brothers he would have to deal with this strange pain. It was like something was broken inside it and even with his body's healing power it seemed that his cock would never be healthy again.

Only once, at that bathhouse with Kiramaru he would not be in pain when he had his cock touched.

`Kiramaru knows how to deal with my body, if I stay longer here, I will die in pain.' Inuyasha's eyes were wide open in a sudden realization. `Sesshoumaru-sama wants me to die this way, alone and in pain, by this fucking heat'

Panic. `If I was not with Kouga-sama during those days. I would be dead already!' Inuyasha was desperate. `Sesshoumaru-sama should have killed me that night with Kouga-sama, it would be less painful, but thinking about that, he wants me to die in a very painful way. Maybe it is not the heat, maybe the food is poisoned!' `Hysterical' would not define Inuyasha mood right now.

Maybe due to the lack of activities or someone to talk with, Inuyasha started to imagine things.

During two whole days, he did not eat. He put his food to the birds; he only calmed down when none of the birds died.

Then he would try masturbation again, even in great pain, to avoid dying from the heat's effects, but it did not work.

After that he tried to stimulate himself by introducing his fingers or other objects in his anus. The next night when the fever was unbearable he tied up his own legs and one arm with the torn pieces of the kimono he was wearing.

The pain and the lack of motion, added to the fingers or the objects he inserted himself, helped a little, so he decided to repeat this scene the next 3 nights.

During his self-infliction games he would try to escape from his own sick actions, but at the same time he would get so overexcited by the pleasure and painful proceedings, that he achieved some kind of crazy climax and his body had the same reaction as when he was with Kouga, he would faint and get in a coma state till next day.

Now in the mornings, the unspeaking little youkai would come, set him free, help Inuyasha with his morning bathe and feed him

Thirteen days had already gone away since Inuyasha arrived. Thirteen long, painful and solitary days.

But Inuyasha was not the only one in his agony.

Sesshoumaru could not avoid it anymore, he was thinking about his otouto more than he wanted.

`Inuyasha is changed. When I found him with the ookami, his eyes, they were happy eyes. During the fight I could also sense some alteration in his youki. There were not the same eyes or youki of the hanyou I found with that slave-trader. Would that be because Inuyasha was close to a possible mate? I did not see any mating mark or any other bonding mark.' Sesshoumaru could feel the uneasiness to be again wondering about the boy and his heat.

That was disturbing to Sesshoumaru. Again, his emotions were in a battle over what he was to do. And to make things worse, his own heat was making itself more and more present. There would be days that he would ask Jaken to lock him in his underground study room to avoid any chance to visit the hanyou.

He knew the hanyou was having heat crises again and according to a few youkai in the house, brave enough to question him, Sesshoumaru the lord of the castle, the little hanyou needed a mate as soon as possible or else he would die in a matter or days or weeks. Different from what he, Sesshoumaru, knew about heat in Inu-youkai, the boy would not make his third heat season.

Finding a suitable mate to the hanyou was a dilemma to Sesshoumaru, due to his own heat crisis. Sesshoumaru was not in the mood to search and analyze a suitable mate to the hanyou and then leave the castle or receive any guests. Although, there was a part of Sesshoumaru that did not want the hanyou to be with another youkai. The hanyou was his to kill and to cuddle.

One afternoon on the second week the hanyou was there, Sesshoumaru had to leave the castle for some hours to solve a very complicated issue with the locals and when he returned he could listen to the screams of the hanyou.

He knew, through the servants, that the hanyou, in a semi-conscious mode due to the heat, would have violent attacks and cry out begging for his “oniisan”. Sesshoumaru had never been present at one of the events. And being there at that moment was painful, the hanyou was almost tearing the door down. He could listen to things being destroyed, the hanyou calling for help, imploring to be taken, begging for his life and other things.

Sesshoumaru was paralyzed. He wanted to enter the chamber and kill the hanyou, but a fraction of his mind, a huge one indeed, desired to enter the chambers and make, no matter how, the hanyou stop crying, Sesshoumaru wanted to embrace and fuck the hanyou till his own youki and heat settle down.

`He will be quiet if I use that subdue command, the servants can tie him to the bed and silence him with some cloths, or I can even cut his tongue off or I can simply kill him…' While the reasonable Sesshoumaru tried to find excuses, his youki lead him to the hanyou's chambers door.

Inuyasha, even in his semi-conscious heat mode, could listen to the door being opened, and he sensed for the first time in days a powerful youki. His first reaction was, run away from it, he tried to hide, but he did not know where to go. He was tired and in pain so the easiest solution was run to his bedroom, and hid under the bed. `It is not a cave, but it would protect me from this youkai, oniisan could be here and save me. This youki does not belong to Kouga-sama or Tsukyomaru-sama, this youki is different. It is much more powerful than both youki. I need to protect myself.' From his hidden place, Inuyasha looked at Tetsuseiga, but he knew he did not have time to take the sword to protect himself because the youkai was already by his door. “Please oniisan-sama save me…” Inuyasha screamed without looking at the door.

Sesshoumaru entered the room. For seconds he studied the area. In a way, this place was a battlefield; carefully he walked around the mess using his youki to guide him to his opponent. When he got to the bedroom's door he could sense Inuyasha's fear along with his heat scent.

He scanned the room searching for the hanyou and found no one, then he listened to a scream-like plea from the hanyou and he could realize that the hanyou was under the bed.

Trying his best to maintain his cold faÃ§ade, Sesshoumaru said. “What is all this mess, hanyou?” He got no reply. “Well, since my presence is not what you are looking forward, I think I shall leave.” Again a pause and no reply. He could hear the fast breathing under the bed and sense the hanyou's fear reached a higher level. Sesshoumaru decided to leave, turning on his heels as he stated another sentence, “From now on be silent hanyou or I will return and state the command word and make you be qui--” Sesshoumaru would have continued his sentence if he was not grabbed by a semi naked Inuyasha.

Inuyasha under the bed could listen to a much-distorted voice, the youkai was saying things he could not understand. He only wanted the youkai to leave, let him alone and alive. He needed Sesshoumaru to protect him. His fucking weak and crazy-for-sex body and youki would not resist to that powerful youki, for too long.

`Maybe oniisan is coming, I can smell a little of his scent. Oniisan would not allow a youkai to get in his house and take me, would he? Oniisan would not sell me or lend me to others in his house, would he?' Inuyasha was asking himself these questions with closed eyes and shaking his head in frenzy, but at the last question, he opened his eyes and looked at the door. He could see boots, boots leaving the room, then he could see Mokomoko-sama and in a speed only comparable to Sesshoumaru's, Inuyasha got out of his shelter under the bed to grab Sesshoumaru. “Oniisan, you came to save me!”

Inuyasha was holding Sesshoumaru with his semi-naked body, the kimono was in shreds and opened. In seconds Inuyasha's legs where holding Sesshoumaru's hips and Inuyasha could rest his head in Sesshoumaru's chest armor. Sesshoumaru, on the other hand, was holding Inuyasha with his arms, his hands touching the hanyou's naked body.

The short body contact was enough to start a chain reaction all over their bodies and in seconds they were guided by their youki only.

Both youki almost immediately took hold of the situation and Sesshoumaru's last conscious action was stopping Inuyasha from breaking his armor while the hanyou was tearing apart his clothes.

At the first sun's ray of lights in the next morning, Sesshoumaru opened his eyes in horror. `This is the scent of otouto's chambers not mine, what have I done?' In a fast movement, he was out of the bed.

All he saw made him sick. The room was a mess. The bed cloth destroyed. A naked all bruised Inuyasha, laid down on the all covered in blood and semen bed, on the hanyou's neck a clear and huge mating mark. Sesshoumaru automatically touched his own neck while looking at the mirror on the dressing table placed not too far from the bed, he could see to his relief that there were no signals or marks. Actually, there were not any marks, scratches, nor bruises, as on Inuyasha's body.

Sesshoumaru was sick with the view and without a second thought left Inuyasha's chambers.

He was naked but he did not care about it. He want to be in his chambers, clean his body and take the nauseating odor off his body.

After the bath he got dressed and decided to stay in his underground study room. He ordered to not be disturbed, but he wanted to talk with the castle counselor.

“I can not remember what I have done, but I could have some guidance in what I should do from now on.” Sesshoumaru said while he awaited the elder in his underground study room.

Some time after Sesshoumaru left, Inuyasha woke up, he was in pain but happy for the first time in his adult life and in heat. He woke up feeling really energetic and happy. He had never felt that way with Kiramaru, not even after a night of pleasurable games without real sexual intercourse, and even after a crazy non-stop sex marathon with Kouga, never, he was totally sure about it; he had never felt the way he was feeling at that morning.

For the first time in his life he felt complete, there was pain, but he knew pain was part of the game, and he did like the alluring feeling when pain and pleasure were mixed.

He could feel the scent of the last night's mating; he could feel Sesshoumaru's semen coming out of his sore ass; he could feel the marks caused by those powerful-clawed hands. Till some moments ago he could fell the warmth of that powerful body… `Wait a minute, where is oniisan, why am I here alone in this bed?' and then Inuyasha opened his eyes, to see some youkai cleaning and fixing the room.

In a shy tone, Inuyasha asked where he was and whispering he asked about Sesshoumaru's whereabouts.

“Come, better have a bath and soon breakfast will be here.” The small youkai that everyday brought him food, was helping him to leave the bed and guiding him through the bedroom to the bathing area.

“Where is Sesshoumaru-sama?” Inuyasha asked again while the youkai scrubbed his body, cleaning the blood and semen from his chest and back.

“Sesshoumaru-sama is in his office; he has many things to do.”

“So I will wait him patiently here; he must come and visit me later in the afternoon or at night, ne?” Inuyasha said smiling.

After the bath while he was combing his hair. He was happy to see his image in the mirror, all the bruises and scratches and the most important mark, the one on his neck and shoulder. It was still alive and kicking with some blood over it. A collection of teeth and fangs from his shoulder up to his neck, a thin bone and flesh could be seen. But Inuyasha did not care. It was a mating mark. Sesshoumaru could have denied him as a brother all his life, but now Sesshoumaru had accepted him as a mate and he was happier than ever.

All day long Inuyasha behaved as if he was a little child waiting Santa Claus.

In the underground study room, Sesshoumaru was ready to go and find out to where the counselor was. Almost one hour had passed since he had requested the elder's presence and the elder had not showed up yet.

When the door finally opened and a very old youkai entered, Sesshoumaru asked him to sit and started his report.

“Good morning to you too, Sesshoumaru-sama.” The elder said in a mocking tone. Sesshoumaru growled.

“You know that Inuyasha, the hanyou my father had with that ningen wench is living here, and you also know that he is in heat--,”Sesshoumaru said, looking at the elder youkai eliciting the events in a very cool way, till he was interrupted by the elder.

“I also know that you are in heat too, Sesshoumaru-sama.”

“Yes, I am, but that is not the issue in here.”

“No?!” A stern and questioning look from the elder made Sesshoumaru look away.

“I mean, not now. Let me finish, so you can understand the whole situation and maybe you can assist me in this issue.”

“Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama”

“The last days were somewhat difficult for the hanyou; he was having constant heat crisis and almost destroying the chambers where he was placed and himself. Previously he was working as a Yasha in a teahouse. According to his scent when I first met him, he was in a higher level of heat, meaning he had had many sexual partners and in a very short time. Before we get in here, he escaped to have a week or so of reckless sex with a former lover, you know what this means to an Inu, don't you?”

“Poor hanyou, so young and in such precocious condition, he will soon die. Unless he finds a mate. You said he has a lover.”

“A former lover.”

“Why is not this lover with him now?”

“I do not want my family related with ookami. The blood is already unclean with the hanyou.”

“So what about another youkai? Some of the allies…”

“Tell me one that would accept a hanyou and in such physical condition? Moreover, a very ambitious youkai would mate him. But he would want half of the western lands.” Sesshoumaru wisely would find answers to all the possible hypothesis the elder was listing.

“Sesshoumaru-sama, your own heat is making things difficult. I know about your visit to the hanyou's chambers last night. Can you explain that?”

“Last night, when I returned from the meeting with the commoners, I heard the hanyou's screams, when I realized it was already morning, I bedded the hanyou and marked him.” Sesshoumaru confessed his crime looking straight at the elder's eyes.

“You have marked him and did he mark you?”

“No. That is reason I am here with you. I have never heard or read anything about one sided marking among Inu-youkai. And I don't remember what happened last night. I do remember getting in the room. I tried to talk with Inuyasha, but then he grabbed on me and when he was trying to tear my armor apart I helped him to take it off, but after that, I do not remember anything. I woke up feeling fine, relaxed, then I realized what I had done and I got sick about the whole situation so I left his chamber before he woke up.”

The elder listened to Sesshoumaru's explanation and whispering he said, “Your youki took control of the situation, since both of you did not paid any attention to it, but a very important thing about all this is, the hanyou's condition has just got worse. Sesshoumaru-sama you have few options now. A possibility will be you go through the official mating ritual and make Inuyasha your mate for life. The one and only, the official.”

“I can not do that, he is a hanyou, he was banished when he was an infant and we are related by blood.”

“That is not a problem for Inu-youkai, it would clean the blood, if he could bear a child,” the elder said with a naughty smile.

“My allies would be against it and conflicts would start in many weak areas; my foes would celebrate this demonstration of weakness. Innocent lives in many villages would be jeopardized, chaos would be installed in all western lands. I need another solution,” Sesshoumaru said.

“Well, you could leave the hanyou with your mark, but then you have to accept him as your brother officially and this decision would be declared to the public in a big celebration party where he would be introduced to the royals as a royal member of this house. The mark would be settled as a bonding mark among family; it could be done with the right rituals. Doing that, his heat problem would give us some time till an ally or any lord would be interested in him and ask him as a consort or something like that. The problem again would be the allies' acceptance of it and as a possible future mate, because he would be accepted by you as your family, but he would still be a hanyou with shorter possibilities of bearing and heir.” The elder paused for a while, analyzing Sesshoumaru's lack of expression and the way his hands moved. With a grin the elder added the last possibility.

“There is another possibility.” He started.

Sesshoumaru asked the elder to tell him this possibility and the elder stated it.

“You could have the hanyou as your concubine. There would have some rituals to be done secretively. He would be nothing more than a sexual slave to the others' eyes, without power and without a real position or title in the court. He would not need a mate, because you would be his Goshujin-sama, in both meanings, so useless alliances would not be needed, you would not have problems about your credibility among the others lords and allies or servants and villagers. In addition, in the future, Sesshoumaru-sama, you could freely choose a royal mate to yourself and an official mate ritual would be done with both marking each other, a true and real royal mating bond for life with the youkai you would desire to share the rest of your life with and have as many heirs as you wish. A concubine could be marked, but as a low class being, and would never be able to mark the Seme / Lord…” A pause from the elder made Sesshoumaru look at him with a questioning glare and them the elder added. “The only consequence for the hanyou in the case of you mating with another youkai would be his death, in some months or even years, after that, because of the superior youki of your real and official mate would be recognized and would deny and blur his. But till then who would care about it anyway?” the elder concluded with a smile.

Sesshoumaru did not say a word, his eyes fixed on the tapestry on the opposite wall.

The elder teasing a little longer stated the only thing that would not let the hanyou alive.

“Sesshoumaru-sama if you want to keep the hanyou alive, you must decide on one of these options as soon as possible. This hanyou in a very odd way is very powerful, his youki is fighting against everything. An Inu-hanyou being in heat twice without a mate, after being bedded for so many partners and being marketed by one of them, would be dead already. On the other hand, this hanyou is alive but he could die by the end of this moon cycle. He would die even if he were a complete Inu-youkai. Actually an Inu-youkai would not have lived that long, not without a mate and without the proper rituals after being marked. Things are just getting worse.” The elder youkai was silent for some moments and them whispering he said again, “An Inu-youkai would not last a week, actually he is still alive because he is a hanyou.”

“You do not need to worry about the one week life time, I just marked him one night ago.”

“Sesshoumaru please, do not act like a brat.”

“I need to think about it.”

“Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama, you really do. But please do not forget to `eat' and on your own health.” a slight but still mocking tone was present in the elder's voice.

“Please, leave. Thank you for the explanation.” Sesshoumaru with his emotionless face waved his hand as if dismissing the elder.

The elder smiling left the room but at the door he whispered. “If you keep him as a concubine, in the future, if he could prove his value among the court, you could mate him officially.”

Sesshoumaru stayed in this underground study room the whole day and night. Thinking and studying the possibilities. And on his father's reaction to any of them. `Chichi-ue, please forgive me'.

Meanwhile in the chambers upstairs, Inuyasha spent his day and night waiting to his oniisan.

“How should I treat him now? He will not be my oniisan, my danna, or even my shihan. Could I treat him as my Shujin? Oh Kami-sama! I would call him Goshujin-sama, will Sesshoumaru-sama accept that? But Goshujin-sama could be also misinterpreted. Well he did buy me, in fact. I really don't care about it, I just want Sesshoumaru-sama near me.”

Inuyasha was so anxious that he slept on the cushions in the room next to his bedroom. Earlier he had positioned himself on the cushions in the same fashion Tsukyomaru-sama, the bat-youkai asked for back there at Kiramaru's place. But time passed by and Sesshoumaru did not show up.

In the next morning he woke up with the small youkai rubbing his back.

“Good morning, brought breakfast and a kimono.”

“Good morning, where is Sesshoumaru-sama? Did he come when I was sleeping? Did you see him?” Inuyasha asked. His voice cracked as if he was going to cry.

“No,” was the only reply he got from the small youkai.

Inuyasha waited. The whole day was one of great expectation for him. But late in the afternoon he was worried. He was already planning to escape and search for Sesshoumaru. `Maybe oniisan is sick, maybe he is working too much, maybe he had to travel, or maybe—maybe—he is avoiding me…'

Inuyasha started crying. He stood up from the cushions where he had positioned himself again and went to the bed, where he cried with his face on the pillows.

Soon the heat fever took control over his actions and Inuyasha was no longer controlling his body. It wanted release and since his other half was not there, he would have to release alone.

He tried to avoid the sick game of pain and pleasure, but it was almost impossible now. He violently shredded his kimono and tied a wrist with it, and then the opposite ankle was connected with this wrist. He was tying up himself, laid down on the bed, his body, belly and face rubbing the bed cloth and his bare back was exposed to an imaginary partner. His free hand finger-fucked his ass and his now-long claws would make it a bleeding and painful process. However, Inuyasha did not care about it. He was hallucinating, lost in his innermost feelings caused by the heat.

In his hallucinations, Inuyasha wished to be taken fiercely by Sesshoumaru. Violent and raw sex could happen in many different positions and Inuyasha would eagerly accept everything and ask for more pain and degradation.

`Sesshoumaru, my Goshujin-sama, will seize me and take away this pain. I just have to wait.'

Inuyasha was almost reaching his sick climax mode when the pain and all the hot feelings from the heat vanished and a raven veil covered him.

During some seconds he could not realize what was going on, then he became conscious that that night was the night of the first new moon cycle. The night when he turned into a ningen.

Despair.

`Sesshoumaru-sama can not see me that way, if he does, he will kill me!' Inuyasha desperately started a fast and not so successful process to set himself free from his shredded kimono. When he finally managed to set himself free, he tried to put something at the door to prevent anyone from getting inside his chambers. It took a while because in his ningen form he could not drag any of the furniture; just a single chair was his ally. `Why am I such a useless thing? Why now? Why did I not pay attention to the moon cycle? Why is this heat taking that long to finish?'

The hours were passing very slowly and Inuyasha's desperation was increasing in size.

`Soon the dinner will be brought and if I am like this, that youkai will realize I am not a hanyou this night and will tell to the others and Sesshoumaru-sama will know and he will come here to kill me…'

“Good evening, I brought dinner.”

“Hai. I will eat it soon.” Inuyasha tried to sound normal, he wrapped himself with the bed cloth and went to the table where the food was set, he looked around and to his relief the youkai was not there anymore. As fast as he could, he moved all the food to the bath area, and spread all the bath smelling stuff at the chambers and in the bath area. He got inside the spring and as the water was always running he begged that his ningen scent was not sensed by any of the youkai in the place.

Inuyasha did not sleep that night and when the first light of the sun greeted the morning making the birds in the cages sing, the now hanyou, soaked up to his bones could leave the spring and aim for the bed. It is useless to say he was tired. Adding to it some light fever and pain; the hanyou was not able to be out of his bed before late afternoon that day.

Sesshoumaru finally decided what to do and he left his underground study room, but before visiting his otouto, he decided to have a bath and relax a little. He knew Inuyasha would agree and not question him about his decision. The only thing he was questioning himself on was, would they be able to have a normal conversation with this heat?

As soon as Sesshoumaru got inside Inuyasha's chamber he could feel, faint, but present, the disgusting odor of ningen blood. A hundred percent ningen blood.

He could not see the hanyou anywhere in the first room so he walked to the next room to find the hanyou sat on a bench in the winter garden.

“Inuyasha, we need to talk.”

“Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama.”

“Here the air is a little better here in the garden, yesterday was your ningen night, wasn't it?”

Inuyasha's eyes were wide open, but he said nothing.

“Have you brought a ningen here to have sex or have you eaten one?” Inuyasha's eyes, if possible, were even wider and he was clearly afraid. `They have cleaned the room, how could Sesshoumaru-sama be able to sense this?' Both brothers could hear Inuyasha's heartbeats.

“I can sense ningen blood in here. The chambers are reeking of it, not only your hanyou blood; it is one hundred percent ningen blood. The air in here is tainted with ningen sweat and blood. There is no ningen or hanyou among the ones in this castle but you and no one would get in these chambers of yours alive.” Sesshoumaru was smiling. A small but true smile.

Inuyasha was on his knees, he did not dare get closer Sesshoumaru, but maybe the older youkai would let him live a little longer, if he demonstrated that he was completely submissive.

Sesshoumaru then got closer to the hanyou.

The heat was not affecting Inuyasha at that moment, so he tried, in vain, to keep a safe distance from Sesshoumaru.

“Will you answer?”

Closer.

“Oniisan - I mean - Sesshoumaru-sama please…” Inuyasha's voice was cracked as if he was going to cry.

Sesshoumaru's youki did not like that Inuyasha, he preferred the hanyou as the wild bitch-beast he had found under the bed nights ago. Consequently, Sesshoumaru himself also preferred that one.

“Please what? I just want to hear you say what I already know. I want you to say it, hanyou, looking at my eyes.”

Inuyasha looked up and fixed his golden eyes on the also golden ones of his older brother and whispering said what Sesshoumaru wanted him to say.

“Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama, last night was the first new moon night of the moon cycle, last night was the night when I turn into a ningen. Yesterday night I was a complete and worthless ningen...” Inuyasha looked down, his claws hurting his knees even over the silk kimono. He was ashamed of himself, ashamed to be that weak and ashamed to feel pleasure about it.

“Good boy. You are so different Inuyasha - after some years at that house with those youkai, you are really changed.”Sesshoumaru said while walked around the hanyou studying him. “Are you always that obedient or is that behavior the result of the heat added with the mark on your neck?”

“I must be obedient to you Sesshoumaru-sama, I beg your forgiveness about my past actions.”

Sesshoumaru now was impressed. He would never have deduced he would hear that from Inuyasha.

“Why, hanyou, must you be like that?”

“You have bought me, you have the rosary that can dig me to the floor, your youki is too powerful, you are stronger than me, you are the alpha and seme, you are my - I mean, I am just a hanyou, your otouto, weak and in heat.” Inuyasha said that list without taking off his eyes of Sesshoumaru's. But then Inuyasha bent over looking to the floor and whispering, added. “I have been trained to be like that-- I have been spanked and punished for quite a long time to know how I must behave with my Goshujin-sama. I cannot just change, can I?”

“…”

Sesshoumaru simply listened to what Inuyasha said and without any concern, pulled the boy up by the hair and dragged him out of the winter garden and out of the chambers.

“I can't stand the stench of ningen blood any longer, let's talk in a better place.”

In his way, Sesshoumaru saw Jaken, who was standing on a wall.

“Jaken, ask them to clean the hanyou chambers properly, I can sense ningen blood in there. I want it to be vanished no matter how, you all know how I hate ningen odor.”

“Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama.”

Sesshoumaru, without looking back, continued walking with Inuyasha being dragged by the hair throughout the corridor.

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End of chap 8 - Home Sweet Home

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Glossary

***O- for added respect. // -san can be replaced with -sama or -chan. /// -ue: (humble, respectful, archaic)

*(O)niisan: Older brother

*Otouto: Younger brother.

*(O)tousan: Father.

*Chichi-ue: Father respectful and archaic

*`Goshujin-sama': means master as well as husband - that's why it is used in here - this mind twister game with Inuyasha.

*Shujin: forda da esposa chamar o marido

*ookami - wolf

*Ningen : human

*Youkai: youkai: demon

Youki: youki - demon spirit energy / demonic energy (life energy) possessed by demons

Hanyou: half youkai - half human

Hai : hai: "yes", "okay" (in Japanese, "hai" doesn't always mean yes; it may mean, "I hear you.")

Japanese breakfast - http://japanesefood.about.com/cs/styles/a/breakfast.htm - From Setsuko Yoshizuka, Your Guide to Japanese Cuisine. Japanese breakfast consists of steamed rice, miso (soy bean paste) soup, and side dishes. Common side dishes are grilled fish, rolled omelet, pickles, dried seaweed, natto, salad, and more. Actually, you can make any dishes to go with rice and miso soup in Japanese breakfast. It's etiquette to place a bowl of rice on your left and to place a bowl of miso soup on your right side at the table.