InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Strange Duet ❯ Interlude ( Chapter 13 )

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

I'm still working on the true 13th chapter for Strange Duet so please; don't think I'm abandoning that story! This chapter has some suggestive content so; I do not want those of you who think they can't handle it to read this. This is a filler chapter.

Standard Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. The wonderful Rumiko Takahashi does and I thank her for creating such an awesome story and characters to inspire me to write these fanfics.

Soundtrack: Scars Left by Time- Yasunori Matsuda

It was always this way, no matter how often she tried to ignore the feelings; they were still always there.

Always lurking beneath the surface until he showed himself.

Everything went straight to hell from there until he was finished with her.

She pulled the tie out of her hair, letting the black locks fall down past her shoulders and past her hips as she began to pull it back into a high ponytail. Good Gods, the youkai were more than active as of late and that made it seem like she was working double the normal amount of time she was supposed to.

`He'll be pissy with me again and we'll fight before having the make up time.'

Dark grey eyes stared into the reflection as she finished pulling her hair up and stared into the eyes of the woman shown back to her. Fingertips came up and traced the scar from the wound that had nearly blinded her so many years ago. Starting just above her left eyebrow and ending just below her cheekbone, the jagged white line wasn't easily covered up by any kind of make up available in this era.

`Not that I could cover it up when it healed in the first place. Good Gods, I'm getting too old for this kind of crap.'

Forget the make up, as she usually told herself every day, she'd be more recognizable this way anyhow. At least, with the youkai around here. The people here hadn't placed two and two together to make four yet. At most they figured her an aunt or something of the girl that Reikan was currently watching out for.

“Sitting here naked isn't going to accomplish anything either.”

She muttered to herself irritably. Her husband was such a stick in the mud, still as overprotective and possessive as he was when they had first started out as a couple. Her eyes softened as she smiled at the silver heart shaped frame on her vanity top of her family. Her beloved children, she wasn't about to let him try and get her pregnant again, perhaps when the twins were grown up and in college she'd think about it, were in there smiling happily with her own happy face and the proud yet smug half smirk, half smile on her husband's face.

`We had a long and hard road to get our family to how we are now. So much in the past that shouldn't have happened…'

“You need to stop trying to spy on me while I'm reflecting on my thoughts Reikan. Had I not recognized your signature energy, I might have killed you by mistake.”

The door opened and closed behind the tall smiling man as he dropped the illusion covering his form, black hair changing to silver as he tossed his jacket on to the bed and came over to stand behind his wife.

“And you need to cease staying in your room unclothed while I am away from the house. Not to mention when you needlessly place yourself in harm's way.”

The two of them exchanged matching stubborn looks before shaking their head and smiling at one another. They had been together for a long time now and this was an old argument between them. Reikan reached out and removed the tie from his wife's hair effortlessly before gently pulling her up so that she was standing in front of him.

“You are trying to give your bodyguards a heart attack and your husband one as well. Hasn't that grown old yet?”

“Not if you still give me a reaction like this one it doesn't.”

She said with a laugh as she turned around and reached up to touch her husband's face, fingertips tracing the stripes on his face as she gave him a kiss in greeting. His hand strayed to her chin, keeping her face up while he deepened the kiss, his free hand settling on the small of her back as he pulled her closer to his body. When they parted, he swore softly under his breath before nipping her neck and resting his head against her shoulder, allowing her to embrace him even as he maneuvered the both of them towards the enormous bed in the center of the room.

“You are going to kill me long before anyone else will.”

“Just as long as I'm the one who is killing you then that's fine.”

There was a note of seriousness in her voice as she felt herself lowered to the bed and shook her head, holding him close as he rested beside her. One leg moved between hers and entwined as the couple just rested there for a moment, reveling in each other's company.

“So, how did everything go?”

Reikan sighed and closed his eyes, holding his wife closer to him as he relived the brief moment he had just had with the young girl.

“I dislike having to lie. Yet I know it is essential to what will be coming up in her future. After all, we would be the ones to try and change the past.”

Her eyes darkened as she rested her chin on his shoulder, eyes looking into the distance and at the wall behind him as she felt the prickling of distant memories begin to surface once more.

So much blood and carnage…

There was so much devastation and death around that it felt suffocating.

Or like she was stuck in the path to the afterlife.

Earth soaked a dark russet with blood and strewn with hacked off limbs and other unidentifiable pieces of viscera and flesh surrounded her as she gathered her power within her, tears in her eyes as she heard the scream of someone very dear to her in pain…

The roar of pure unadulterated fury and loathing echoing in her ears just as something pierced her flesh and burned her, forcing her eye shut as she too screamed, jerking her head to the side as she felt her power explode from her and hit whatever was attacking her…

The pain and devastation on his face as she watched him hold her closely, with the rest of them numb with disbelief and grief.

The Shikon no Tama held in someone's fist before it exploded and she felt a burst of agony ripping through her entire body…

“Enough, you need not relive the past.”

Her eyes cleared and lightened, one eye moving from dark grey to a paler color while the other still held the same shade of blue-grey as before. A warm hand was against her cheek as she felt her chin moved and his mouth touched hers. Their lips teased and clung to each other for a long while as she was forced to push the memories back for another time.

When he finally allowed her to come back for air, she gave him a rather sour look before speaking.

“Well that was rude of you. I could have remembered something important.”

“As well as something that could break you when you have only recently been able to deal with a few of the consequences from that battle.”

The future was something they couldn't see ahead into, but, this past that they were trying to manipulate was something that they had both experienced…and felt that they had to change.

Except that her damn stubborn husband liked to know more than she did, just so that he could be ahead of her.

`Then again, all men are like that. If a woman has power and knowledge over them, then there's nothing save physical strength that they can threaten her with.'

“I think I can decide for myself what would break me or not.”

“Like you had when you decided to examine the grave?”

A chill swept through her as she shivered, eyes darkening again as she was held by her husband, picked up and held on his lap as if she were a tiny doll.

“…”

“That was crass of me, I apologize.”

Reikan murmured softly as he allowed his claws to emerge, their children would be off playing over at the Higurashi Shrine in the past, the `maru trio with them as protection for seven more hours their time, and brush through her hair. His fingers massaged her scalp as he felt her gradually begin to relax.

“Do not judge me harshly. I still feel the loss as well.”

“I'm not judging you, after all, I was the one who…”

Reikan silenced her with a nip on the side of her neck, the familiar mark glowing briefly before she shuddered and leaned back into him, skin and face becoming flushed even as he smiled at her reaction.

“You were not the cause. Perhaps you were the key figure in implimenting the battle but you were never the cause of all of that. Naraku chose his path and we were sent to deal with him as accordingly as possible.”

She made another face as she turned around and straddled him, fingers unbuttoning his shirt and moving lower still as she leaned up and kissed him before moving away and smiling mischeviously at him.

`We have a little while before we pick up the children.'

“Then show me how truly sorry you say you are.”

His eyes flared into molten gold as his hands moved down to her hips, one moving to the side to cup her as he smiled and murmured into her ear even as he twisted to pin her against the white sheets.

“You will not be leaving once I am finished with you.”

“Prove your words aren't just that then.”

“Be silent, talking ruins my concentration.”

“You poor thing.”

The sounds of laughter, feminine and masculine rang out through the house and into the other rooms as the two coupled and allowed their souls to unite once again, as they had only a few times before.

`I will not give up on changing the past for the future. No matter what.'

Well, I'll try and get the chapter finished in the next week or so life has been busy lately so, I hope you can forgive me Please keep reading and reviewing!