InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Hanyou Handbook: A Romance ❯ Chapter Seven ( Chapter 7 )
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By: donatella 
Sesshomaru has a discussion with the doctor and finally finds out what the future holds.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Hentai / Drama / Comedy / Romance / Angst | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 04.23.2011 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 825 | Status: Work In Progress
Sesshomaru has a discussion with the doctor and finally finds out what the future holds.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Hentai / Drama / Comedy / Romance / Angst | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 04.23.2011 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 825 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: Inu Yasha and its characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise. I make no profit from this fiction. All original characters and story are owned by Donatella D.
Author's Note: Thank you to everyone who reviewed. Constructive criticism is always welcome. Enjoy.
Chapter Seven
With things looking much better, Miroku and Sango left to see if their hut was still standing and relieve Rin and their neighbor of babysitting duty. Jaken was removed to the fresh air outside with A-Un, and Sesshomaru and the doctor sat in Kaede’s hut discussing what might become of Inuyasha and what his immediate future held.
“Lord Sesshomaru, you need to sit closer to your mate,” the doctor instructed.
“Do not call him that,” Sesshomaru warned.
“Very well then, your brother,” the doctor corrected himself starting to get the idea that maybe this was not a match made in heaven.
Sesshomaru didn’t like the sound of that either and growled his disapproval, but he got up anyway and walked over to where Inuyasha was sleeping and sat down next to him. “Why do we need to be close?” he asked.
“He needs your demon energy to make the changes to his body, if he is not close to you, then he cannot absorb it, and without that power, he will use all his own and die. He also needs to be covered in your scent so that his own scent will no longer be driving every demon in the vicinity crazy, and that will make everyone in this village much safer.”
Sesshomaru‘s patients were starting to wear thin when he changed the subject, “We have nothing but hatred for each other, why would he choose me for his mate?”
“As I said, he does not choose; his body does. His body was searching for a demon with enough power to feed him the energy he needs to survive. Perhaps you were the only powerful demon available. And, even his body would not have chosen you if he already hated you, that would not make for a very good mate.”
“There is one thing that does not make sense to me, doctor.”
“What is that, my lord?”
“When I found Inuyasha, he was being raped by more than a dozen demons. Would he not already be impregnated? Why would he need to mate after such an attack?”
“That is a very good question.”
“I thought so.”
“When I examined your ma… brother, I did see the damage done by the demons; however, he had not yet developed. In other words, he did not yet have the female parts for the demons to rape -- they raped him anally, and even though it was a horrible attack, it is not possible for any human or demon to become impregnated that way. It will take your brother some time and a lot of your own demonic power to be able to make the metamorphoses into his new body before he can be with child. Again, that is why you need to stay close to him.
Sesshomaru wasn’t quite convinced of any of it, but he did feel the strange need to be close to Inuyasha; somehow, it felt right to be sitting next to him and he fought the urge to take him in his arms and hold him. Why would he feel this way? He wasn’t the one with the condition, and it bothered him. He had to remind himself how much he hated his brother and how he wanted nothing more than to see the little whelp dead. Yet, this desire to touch him was becoming overwhelming and he needed to distract himself from it.
“Doctor, I’m curious, why would a demon such as you tend to half-demons?” Sesshomaru questioned the doctor.
“Both my mother and father were half-demons; they were siblings like you and your brother. When I was growing up, both demons and humans rejected our family and with nowhere else to go, we settled in the south by ourselves far away from all who wanted us dead, or so we thought. Until one day when a group of angry, young demons decided they did not want us around, no matter how far away we were, and they came to kill us all. I managed to escape only because I could run a little faster than my half-demon parents,” he said sadly.
“So you are not full demon.”
“I don’t really know, nor do I care, but that is the reason why I devoted my life to helping half-demons. My parents were good and kind people and I don’t believe they deserved all the hostility that others had toward them. No one deserves to be hated simply for who they are,” he said, as he sensed he had struck a nerve in the elder brother.
Sesshomaru said nothing, but suddenly understood why he didn’t like this doctor.
“I must be going. There are other half-demons I need to check in on, but I will return when I am needed here,” the doctor said as he got up to leave, not before producing a big, heavy book he brought with him and handed it to the priestess. “I leave you with this. It will explain some of the finer details and give you some herbal remedies for the boy; it will be a good reference while I am gone. I promise to return soon, Lady Kaede,” he finished as he bowed his goodbye.
“Thank you again for coming, doctor,” she said, as she accepted the book, and then began to thumb through it.
***^***
As the night progressed, the priestess and Rin went to sleep, while Sesshomaru sat by Inuyasha and contemplated the future. Spending the rest of his life with his brother was like some kind of bad joke… or poetic justice, he thought. All the years of cruel treatment toward Inuyasha was coming back to haunt him -- and he thought karma only applied to humans, but this was clearly some sign of karmic punishment.
Of course, he didn’t have to do this; he didn’t have to stay with Inuyasha. There was no one who could force him. He could get up and leave right now if he wanted to; so why didn’t he? Why did he continue to sit there next to his brother as if he were actually considering the ridiculous notion of taking him as his mate and spending the rest of his life with him?
‘Father’, he thought. He knew all too well what his father would want him to do, but that wasn’t fair; why should Sesshomaru give up his life to save his brother’s? Once again, just like tetsusaiga, father had a favorite son. He looked down at Inuyasha and realized his brother was awake and watching him. Those giant, golden eyes searing into his conscience actually made him feel a little guilty about the thought of abandoning him.
“Aniki,” Inuyasha said in a weak voice barely above a whisper, and then he reached up to take his brother’s hand in his, and closed his eyes once again.
Sesshomaru looked down at the much too cold hand covering his own and placed his other hand on top to warm it. When had he become so soft-hearted? Rin did this to him; he was sure of it, and he reminded himself once again how much he hated his half-breed, little brother.
‘Aniki’; he hadn’t heard Inuyasha call him that since he was a small child, long before he knew his older brother hated him. The doctor’s words haunted his mind as well: ‘No one deserves to be hated simply for who they are’. Indeed, Sesshomaru knew Inuyasha had never really done anything to deserve his hatred, except for being born, that is. Still, did he really need to justify his feelings? He decided he wouldn’t fight it… for now; and he laid his body down next to the half-breed brat, put his arm around him, and went to sleep.
To be continued…
Author's Note: Thank you to everyone who reviewed. Constructive criticism is always welcome. Enjoy.
Chapter Seven
With things looking much better, Miroku and Sango left to see if their hut was still standing and relieve Rin and their neighbor of babysitting duty. Jaken was removed to the fresh air outside with A-Un, and Sesshomaru and the doctor sat in Kaede’s hut discussing what might become of Inuyasha and what his immediate future held.
“Lord Sesshomaru, you need to sit closer to your mate,” the doctor instructed.
“Do not call him that,” Sesshomaru warned.
“Very well then, your brother,” the doctor corrected himself starting to get the idea that maybe this was not a match made in heaven.
Sesshomaru didn’t like the sound of that either and growled his disapproval, but he got up anyway and walked over to where Inuyasha was sleeping and sat down next to him. “Why do we need to be close?” he asked.
“He needs your demon energy to make the changes to his body, if he is not close to you, then he cannot absorb it, and without that power, he will use all his own and die. He also needs to be covered in your scent so that his own scent will no longer be driving every demon in the vicinity crazy, and that will make everyone in this village much safer.”
Sesshomaru‘s patients were starting to wear thin when he changed the subject, “We have nothing but hatred for each other, why would he choose me for his mate?”
“As I said, he does not choose; his body does. His body was searching for a demon with enough power to feed him the energy he needs to survive. Perhaps you were the only powerful demon available. And, even his body would not have chosen you if he already hated you, that would not make for a very good mate.”
“There is one thing that does not make sense to me, doctor.”
“What is that, my lord?”
“When I found Inuyasha, he was being raped by more than a dozen demons. Would he not already be impregnated? Why would he need to mate after such an attack?”
“That is a very good question.”
“I thought so.”
“When I examined your ma… brother, I did see the damage done by the demons; however, he had not yet developed. In other words, he did not yet have the female parts for the demons to rape -- they raped him anally, and even though it was a horrible attack, it is not possible for any human or demon to become impregnated that way. It will take your brother some time and a lot of your own demonic power to be able to make the metamorphoses into his new body before he can be with child. Again, that is why you need to stay close to him.
Sesshomaru wasn’t quite convinced of any of it, but he did feel the strange need to be close to Inuyasha; somehow, it felt right to be sitting next to him and he fought the urge to take him in his arms and hold him. Why would he feel this way? He wasn’t the one with the condition, and it bothered him. He had to remind himself how much he hated his brother and how he wanted nothing more than to see the little whelp dead. Yet, this desire to touch him was becoming overwhelming and he needed to distract himself from it.
“Doctor, I’m curious, why would a demon such as you tend to half-demons?” Sesshomaru questioned the doctor.
“Both my mother and father were half-demons; they were siblings like you and your brother. When I was growing up, both demons and humans rejected our family and with nowhere else to go, we settled in the south by ourselves far away from all who wanted us dead, or so we thought. Until one day when a group of angry, young demons decided they did not want us around, no matter how far away we were, and they came to kill us all. I managed to escape only because I could run a little faster than my half-demon parents,” he said sadly.
“So you are not full demon.”
“I don’t really know, nor do I care, but that is the reason why I devoted my life to helping half-demons. My parents were good and kind people and I don’t believe they deserved all the hostility that others had toward them. No one deserves to be hated simply for who they are,” he said, as he sensed he had struck a nerve in the elder brother.
Sesshomaru said nothing, but suddenly understood why he didn’t like this doctor.
“I must be going. There are other half-demons I need to check in on, but I will return when I am needed here,” the doctor said as he got up to leave, not before producing a big, heavy book he brought with him and handed it to the priestess. “I leave you with this. It will explain some of the finer details and give you some herbal remedies for the boy; it will be a good reference while I am gone. I promise to return soon, Lady Kaede,” he finished as he bowed his goodbye.
“Thank you again for coming, doctor,” she said, as she accepted the book, and then began to thumb through it.
***^***
As the night progressed, the priestess and Rin went to sleep, while Sesshomaru sat by Inuyasha and contemplated the future. Spending the rest of his life with his brother was like some kind of bad joke… or poetic justice, he thought. All the years of cruel treatment toward Inuyasha was coming back to haunt him -- and he thought karma only applied to humans, but this was clearly some sign of karmic punishment.
Of course, he didn’t have to do this; he didn’t have to stay with Inuyasha. There was no one who could force him. He could get up and leave right now if he wanted to; so why didn’t he? Why did he continue to sit there next to his brother as if he were actually considering the ridiculous notion of taking him as his mate and spending the rest of his life with him?
‘Father’, he thought. He knew all too well what his father would want him to do, but that wasn’t fair; why should Sesshomaru give up his life to save his brother’s? Once again, just like tetsusaiga, father had a favorite son. He looked down at Inuyasha and realized his brother was awake and watching him. Those giant, golden eyes searing into his conscience actually made him feel a little guilty about the thought of abandoning him.
“Aniki,” Inuyasha said in a weak voice barely above a whisper, and then he reached up to take his brother’s hand in his, and closed his eyes once again.
Sesshomaru looked down at the much too cold hand covering his own and placed his other hand on top to warm it. When had he become so soft-hearted? Rin did this to him; he was sure of it, and he reminded himself once again how much he hated his half-breed, little brother.
‘Aniki’; he hadn’t heard Inuyasha call him that since he was a small child, long before he knew his older brother hated him. The doctor’s words haunted his mind as well: ‘No one deserves to be hated simply for who they are’. Indeed, Sesshomaru knew Inuyasha had never really done anything to deserve his hatred, except for being born, that is. Still, did he really need to justify his feelings? He decided he wouldn’t fight it… for now; and he laid his body down next to the half-breed brat, put his arm around him, and went to sleep.
To be continued…