InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Temptation ❯ Naked ( Chapter 9 )

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Temptation (The temptation to read the latest manga chapter is killing me!)

Chapter 9: Naked

 

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“Selina Valentine was found dead late last night at her home five miles outside Mistveils. A sophomore at the local highschool, her teachers referred to her as `a very bright' - and according to her science teacher, Mr. S. Sanders - `very developed' young woman.” The reporter's voice was livid, hands making furious motions as she spoke. Any stranger to the normally dull area might think a nuclear bomb had just been dropped on NYC.

 

The television blurped, screen fading in and out from the roaring white noise. Remy fiddled with the antenna, muttering apologies to her guest. “I don't often use this old thing…”

 

“It's all right,” Kagome assured her. Ancient as the set may be, the volume made her cringe. What are you up to in that bathroom, Inuyasha? She wondered wryly.

 

“It really is awful,” the older woman exhausted. She settled back on the sofa, letting the television howl away. “Some sick kid stabbed her in the neck with a meat fork.” Remy shuddered, staring down at her feet.

 

Kagome closed her eyes. “What is wrong with people nowadays…”

 

“Probably got the idea from some new XCube game,” the woman muttered darkly.

 

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Grey skies whispered with curling smoke of a fading flame, swept the land in warm gusts. Burning and clawing, it swelled within. The smell of fear enticed him; and he breathed an empty plea. He controlled the dark needs that pushed him forward and ruled his mind. A form nature should have never been forced to burden. And so he was the shadows, moved with that forbidden ghostly grace.

 

How is it possible the half-breed is here? His mind murmured, the hanyou's scent brushing his mentality like ruffling the pages of a forgotten book. The memories folded and discarded were forthcoming. Sesshoumaru abandoned them, sweeping across the sad patch of yard. Crimson began to pool, clouded his sight in the most dangerous way. The building heat searched for escape.

 

Inuyasha bit out a curse, all ready climbing to the outer sill of the window. “Stay here, Rin,” he growled, bending his knees to jump. Her protests were ignored, and he leapt to the ground to meet his brother.

 

Sesshoumaru was different, he discerned. The angry demon he had known was gone, hidden beneath years of solitude. Once molten amber had faded to a cold, dull gold. The same eyes that studied the hanyou's form now with plain disgust.

 

“Robbing the cradle with this one, aren't you?” Inuyasha growled.

 

The inu youkai drew to a stop. He was silent at first; contemplating the unexpected situation he had just stepped into. And then something flickered to life in his gaze; lips curving up in a sadistic almost smile. “Does it bother you, half-breed?”

 

“You've changed.”

 

“I am no different,” Sesshoumaru assured him coolly.

 

The air around them stirred, buckling under the tension. “Does she know?” Inuyasha questioned quietly, careful the young woman scrutinizing the pair with anxiety from her window would not overhear.

 

He raised a slender brow.

 

“Does she know what you are?” The hanyou spat.

 

“No,” he answered indifferently. “I suppose you'll enlighten her?” It was amazing how Sesshoumaru managed to sound so mocking without betraying his deadpan tone.

 

“No,” Inuyasha decided after a moment, “you will.”

 

That was a puzzling answer, the youkai admitted. The other brother seemed to sense the mild confusion.

 

His tone was serious, yet his eyes seemed to laugh in spite of the inu youkai. “You've been in close contact with her a lot, but she hasn't been harmed in any way, Sesshoumaru. Unless… you've decided to start playing with your food.” Inuyasha's face twisted in disgust at his own musings.

 

Sesshoumaru could feel his instincts pull and knot, and his mind took a shady turn. How easily that half-blood flesh would bleed! He realized with a twist of his heel as he stepped forward. In some lost part of his rationality he knew she was watching. Knew he would frighten her. Knew she would hate him when he killed this disgrace that had plagued the corners of his mind for so long.

 

Inuyasha noticed the potent gleam in his brother's eyes, and he prepared himself for the worst.

 

I was abandoned for this half-breed, the inu youkai remembered. I needed no one, he reassured himself.

 

Sesshoumaru laughed, the sound dark and cursed. “Have you come to visit your aniki, then?” He questioned. His voice was low, fell on the hanyou's ears in a sick, soothing tone.

 

Inuyasha scowled, eyes narrowed. “Keh, don't be a wishful thinker.” He flexed his claws. The youkai came closer.

 

“You gonna eat this one too?” the half-demon bit out, tensing. “She can't be over sixteen.”

 

Sesshoumaru growled. His youkai blood burned, clouded mind craving what he had always denied. His lips curved in a silent snarl. I am no different.

 

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Delicate fingers clasped the edge of a wooden sill, showing the white of her knuckles. She shuddered, trembled. The wind pushed at her face and pulled at her hands and churned as if seeking shelter by the girl. As if whispering from some deep, lost recess she knew it was afraid too. Afraid for her, for them, for him. And it was absurd, because it was his fault.

 

He was the one who frightened her. Still, she was afraid for him, too.

 

And could almost, almost forget-

 

The wind bowed and jerked. Rin pulled herself away from the scene, slammed the window shut. Moving quickly, she hurried down the flight of stairs. They creaked and moaned beneath her feet, commanded she stay. And it was unheeded with only a slight hesitation in her steps, because had to get out there.

 

“Rin-chan!” Kagome's voice chirped readily. “Where are you-”

 

“Outside, won't take long,” the younger woman answered too hastily. “Inuyasha's tampering with the bathroom faucet,” she added, almost as an after thought.

 

The raven-haired woman stared, caught off guard by her friend's almost panicked state and the slam of a front door. She turned her gaze to the stairs, worried her bottom lip. With the faucet? Yeah, right. “I'll be… right back, Remy, I need to check something…”

 

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A deep sense of dread swelled in the hanyou's chest watching him advance. Sesshoumaru's before essence disbanded, vanished within the hungry beast whose eyes bled a haunting red. Elongated fangs protruded over his lower lip in a malicious sneer. Inuyasha saw his brother step, saw him raise a hand, and step again.

 

But he did not see the youkai swing left in a fluid sweep to stand behind him, until he felt the prick of claws digging into the arm now twisted behind him. Inuyasha growled, swung his other arm around to strike Sesshoumaru's face, only to be thrust forward by a knee to his back.

 

“Please, stop!”

 

The young woman's voice echoed in Sesshoumaru's ears and made him turn. He watched her freeze in horror, and he relished the scent of her terror. Oh, how he wanted to add to it! Flexing claws at his side, he leapt.

 

No! The hanyou's mind roared. He moved; legs burned with the sudden burst of speed, yet he was still so slow.

 

And Rin was knocked to the ground, air gone from her lungs. She rasped, his weight crushing her small fame. She could feel his chest rumble in a low growl, his hands pinning hers, his breath on her cheek. His eyes stole into hers, and with a choked cry she fell limp as he nuzzled his face to her neck and breathed.

 

“Sesshoumaru,” she wheezed in a dead whisper, only distantly aware of the half-demon beating and jerking at him. “Please stop.”

 

The youkai heard her faint plea. He tightened his grip on her in response to Inuyasha's onslaught. I cannot! He wanted to yell at her. This is your doing, your mistake for tempting me. He ran a warm tongue over her skin, and shuddered as she did. You made this happen, I cannot stop.

 

“Please,” she begged. “I know you don't want to do this-” But what do I know? He's going to kill me. But his eyes- they are not his… he couldn't.

 

Sesshoumaru lifted his head, shifted his weight from her. Gold took crimson, and he watched her with ragged breaths. Her neck shone wet, and he stiffened.

 

Inuyasha heaved, shoved his brother off her. The youkai tensed, grimaced as he landed on his back. And then he closed his eyes, and fell still.

 

“Is he-”

 

“No,” Inuyasha muttered. He tossed her a withering glare as he knelt beside Sesshoumaru's body. No doubt he was insane, the way he had had reacted- “Why did you do that? He could have killed you!”

 

Rin shuddered, pulling herself up. “Do what…?” She questioned softly.

 

“Come out here! That bas-”

 

“He would have killed you.”

 

The hanyou scowled, and chose to ignore the comment. “We need to get rid of Sesshoumaru while we can, otherwise more than just you will wind up dead.”

 

“He wouldn't-”

 

“It's his nature!” Inuyasha exasperated. “It's what he does!” He ran a shaky hand through silver bangs, frowned. It was impossible, because by now she should have understood and known.

 

The woman pulled her knees to her chest, and felt her racing heart. “I don't… understand. I just, I really don't think he was…”

 

He eyed the inu youkai wearily. “A long time ago-”

 

“How long ago,” she interrupted, biting the inside of her cheek.

 

“Inuyasha!” Kagome's voice cut through the air in a shrill shriek. Eyes fell on the window of Rin's second story room. “What happened?” She questioned abruptly, “And who's that?”

 

The hanyou groaned.

 

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NOTES: It's so short! I know. I'm sorry. I was kind of happy with the beginning of this chapter, then halfway through it's like it lost all its flare. Don't worry, a lot will be explained probably in the next chapter. I hope. n.n I really lost my way writing this. -Dies-

 

Q: Miroku and Sango?

A: I'll try to find a place for them…

 

Q: How long until more Wicca?

A: Soon. Very, very soon.

 

Q: Any more flashbacks or information on Sesshoumaru's past.

A: Soon. Very, very soon.

 

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