InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ Being Caught in a Spell ( Chapter 24 )
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By: mshutts 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.02.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 1.9K | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.02.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 1.9K | Status: Work In Progress
The Prophecy
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in
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Chapter 24: Being Caught in a Spell
Dog boy was acting very strange. For the first time that Shippo knew of, he had not started up a fight with his older brother on sight. Not really, anyway.
In fact, if he hadn’t known any better, he would have said it was more of the way he argued with Miroku than the way he argued with his brother. To the kitsune’s knowledge the dog brothers always fought with swords just as much as words, but neither one of them had drawn a sword.
When he asked his adoptive father about it, Inuyasha had looked surprised as if he had not been aware that he had not drawn his sword himself. All it served to do was worry Shippo more. Something was obviously very wrong with his father.
Then there was the fact that they were obviously talking about something they had done recently, but Shippo could not place when this would have happened. Maybe last night when he thought his adoptive father was missing?
Was he actually out doing something with his brother? It did not make sense to the kitsune, but then again, this whole discussion was making no sense to him. There was also the fact that his father had not been surprised when Sesshoumaru had walked out of the trees. It was almost as if he had already known the demon lord was there.
Apparently while he had been thinking, his father had grown tired of the conversation with his elder brother and decided to go back to the village. Shippo cast a glance back at the youkai lord, he didn’t look too happy with the abrupt departure of his sibling. Then again, he never really looked happy no matter what was going on.
Asking Inuyasha if he was sure that it would be alright to leave like that, he was a little surprised when his question was answered with a question of what he thought the demon lord was going to do. Images ran through his head of being decapitated by the light whip or watching his father be impaled by his brother’s hand again.
Trying to shake these pictures from his head, he asked his father why Sesshoumaru was there anyway. When he was told it was mating season business, his mind immediately jumped to the worst case scenario. Sesshoumaru had found a mate that it would be politically advantageous for Inuyasha to have and was going to force him into it.
He had heard of it happening in royal clans before. Not so much with demon nobility, but it often happened with the humans. He was scared that his father was going to be pulled away from him and forced to mate with an individual he had likely never met just to fulfill the whim of his elder brother.
When he did not immediately calm his fears, Shippo was sure that his worst nightmare had come true. But all that was put aside with the explanation of why his father could not take his mother as his mate.
No one had ever explained to him the reason behind finding a mate. He had always known that it had something to do with youki, but he had no idea that his own personal feelings would play no part in the matter. With all Miroku’s talk about falling in love, he was a little disappointed to realize that love was not likely something he would be falling into, ever.
It led him to wonder what it was that he had been feeling for all those girls in the villages he had met. It couldn’t be love, could it? Maybe they were talking about a different type of love. ‘Yes, that must be it,’ he decided.
The love he felt for the girls in the various villages was not the type of love that one would have for a mate. After all, he was still much too young to have a mate.
On the other hand, that observation certainly explained some of the more unusual pairings he had come across with demon mates. If it had little to nothing to do with love, demon mating season made sense. With everyone out and focusing on finding the one their youki called out to, it would be much easier to find your mate than if you had to go through the rather extensive courtship rituals that the humans in their pack seemed to favor.
So, now he knew that, when he was older, all he would have to do is find another demon his youki called to and mate with her. To that end, it made perfect sense that his adoptive father’s youki did not call out to his adoptive mother’s youki because his mother had no youki. When he asked to determine if his line of reasoning was correct, he found that not only did his father have no answer for him, but the demon lord had an answer.
He had not even been aware that Sesshoumaru had followed them and, if his father’s reaction was any indication, he had not been aware of it either. After hearing the youkai lord’s explanation for why his father’s youki was not interested in his mother, he was outraged.
His heated statement, which should have earned him punishment from a very irate demon lord, seemed to completely pass under his notice. All except one point that is. Sesshoumaru found it to be very interesting that he had said his father loved his mother. So interesting, in fact, that he put his father on the spot about it.
Shippo immediately wished he had kept his mouth shut. If there was one thing he knew his father did not like to talk about, it was how he felt about people. When he heard silence instead of even an attempt at a response, he had assumed that the matter was going to be dropped and mentally released a sigh of relief.
That is, until the demon lord suddenly jumped onto the branch right next to him and his father. The youki of Sesshoumaru was overpowering the youki of his father and all his instincts were telling him to run and hide. He heard the demand again and began to shake. They were right next to a rather pissed off full dog demon and amazingly enough, his father was doing nothing about it.
In fact, Inuyasha rather pointedly ignored the demand in favor of trying to calm Shippo in his own way. Shippo found some comfort in the fact that his father was not scared of Sesshoumaru. Then again, his father also had the habit of purposely pissing off full-grown higher level youkai so maybe he just didn’t know how to be scared. In any event, the confidence that his father was radiating did much in the way of calming the kitsune.
Then, his father apparently decided that the youkai sitting next to them was not already angry enough and tried to piss him off even more. While Shippo watched in horror, a hand shot out and elegant fingers wrapped around his father’s throat. This was closer to what he had been expecting since the beginning of this rather bizarre encounter.
Closing his eyes in terror, not really wanting to see the last moments of his father’s life, Shippo waited for the sounds of his father’s neck snapping or the tell-tale poison burning through his skin. When he heard neither of those, he cautiously opened his eyes, not really wanting to know what was happening to his father, but not being able to stop his morbid curiosity.
What he saw shocked him. His father was, rather affectionately, stroking the hair of the youkai lord that had since loosened his grip on Inuyasha’s throat. Glancing at Sesshoumaru’s eyes, he could still see the hint of red in them that had appeared with his father’s answer to the question. As he watched the interaction between the two, he realized that the red was fading slowly from the youkai’s eyes.
He also realized something else. This behavior between the two of them reminded him a little of how his parents used to act towards each other. He could remember watching his mom calm down his dad from a rage in a similar manner to what Inuyasha was doing with Sesshoumaru at the moment. He couldn’t remember his dad ever trying to choke his mom, but everything else appeared the same.
A rather disturbing thought occurred to the kitsune. His adoptive father had said he had mating season business with his elder brother. However, he had not said what exactly this ‘business’ was. Could it be that the mating season business was not what Shippo had assumed it to be?
Shippo had thought his father was going to be forced into mating some demoness for political purposes, but if this was any indication, he was not so sure that his father was going to be mating a demoness. It looked disturbingly like he was considering mating his own brother.
The kitsune immediately dismissed that idea as being ludicrous. His father had just told him that youki’s fell in love at first sight. There was no way he would have been trying to kill his intended mate. More over, there was no way his intended mate would have been trying to kill him. He had to be missing something.
If the two of them were actually intended mates, they would have been acting a lot friendlier toward one another from the very beginning. He was sure of it. But, putting aside the past, he had to admit that they had not been acting nearly as aggressive during this particular meeting.
The most violent thing that had happened so far was his father getting choked by his elder brother, but that could possibly be written off to jealousy if the whole intended mates thing was to be believed. He had seen Kagome act in similar ways towards Inuyasha over the Kikyo issue, even if she did not have the physical strength to be anywhere near as brutal as the youkai lord.
The next words out of his adoptive father’s mouth confirmed what he had almost completely ascertained himself. He knew his father did not lie when sounding so serious. So, if he said that he was his brother’s instead of Kagome’s, he meant it. Then, right in front of the disbelieving kitsune’s eyes, Sesshoumaru grabbed Inuyasha and plopped him right into his lap.
Sure that THIS was going to provoke the hanyou, Shippo waited for the outburst. It never came. Instead, he watched his father almost cuddle into his elder brother and allow himself to be nuzzled. If it had been any other two people, Shippo would have called it affectionate. As it was, he was having a very hard time stringing two thoughts together at the moment.
This scene went against everything he knew to be true. His father and elder brother hated one another. They were constantly trying to kill each other. Yet, here they were, acting every bit the part of intended mates. When he saw the youkai lord move his attention to his father’s neck, he couldn’t take it any longer.
“What are you doing?!” Shippo screamed at the top of his lungs.
He almost regretted the action when two pairs of golden eyes focused on him. “What are you talking about, runt?” his father growled out.
Shippo looked at Inuyasha in disbelief, he had thought it was obvious. “You’re… you’re CUDDLING with Sesshoumaru!”
Faster than Shippo could follow, his father was dropped to the ground from their perch, falling on his head, and the demon lord was standing regally on the path once more as if the entire incident had never occurred.
“Damn it, Sesshoumaru! What’s wrong with you?! You didn’t have to drop me like that! You’re such a bastard!”
“I have no idea what you are talking about, little brother,” Sesshoumaru replied, expressionless as ever.
“Don’t know what I’m talking about, my ass! You dropped me from the fucking tree!”
“Be that as it may, it has no bearing on the matter at hand.”
“So, you finally gonna tell me what you want, big brother?” Inuyasha asked with a sneer.
Shippo looked on the scene playing out below him. He sighed with relief. THIS was more like it. The two of them, seconds away from either drawing swords or ripping into each other with claws. This is what he was used to. Sure, it was violent, but at least it was normal. He’d been getting pretty worried there for a minute.
He was so relieved, he almost missed the youkai lord’s reply. “You are going to come with me. We have a problem that must be resolved immediately. I trust you know of what I speak?”
Okay, now Shippo was confused again. What problem? With the exception of their rather odd behavior earlier in the day, there was no problem that he could see. Wait, maybe that was the problem. Maybe they were under some type of spell!
‘Yes,’ he decided. ‘That must be it. They were involuntarily put under a spell of some sort and now they must find the person who caused the spell and force them to undo it.’
His father scoffed, “Of course I know what you’re talking about. I’m not an idiot, you know.”
“Really? You could have fooled me.”
“Shut up, bastard!”
“Come, little brother,” Sesshoumaru said, turning to go back the way he came.
Inuyasha gave a great sigh and took one step to follow him when Shippo called out, “But what about me?”
He watched his father stop and seem to contemplate things for a minute. A second later, his father was next to him in the tree once again, picking him up. He found himself being rather quickly returned to the village. Once he was just inside the village, Inuyasha told Shippo, “Tell everyone I’ll be back as soon as I can, got that?”
At his nod, Inuyasha turned and walked back into the forest. As an afterthought, Shippo called out, “Good luck breaking the spell!”
He thought he might have heard a, “Keh,” but he could have been mistaken. Turning back away from the woods, he raced towards Kaede’s hut. Just wait until Sango and Miroku found out what he knew.
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I have no idea when we’ll get back to the shard hunting group again. It might be a while.
As always, thanks for reading and/or reviewing.
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in
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Chapter 24: Being Caught in a Spell
Dog boy was acting very strange. For the first time that Shippo knew of, he had not started up a fight with his older brother on sight. Not really, anyway.
In fact, if he hadn’t known any better, he would have said it was more of the way he argued with Miroku than the way he argued with his brother. To the kitsune’s knowledge the dog brothers always fought with swords just as much as words, but neither one of them had drawn a sword.
When he asked his adoptive father about it, Inuyasha had looked surprised as if he had not been aware that he had not drawn his sword himself. All it served to do was worry Shippo more. Something was obviously very wrong with his father.
Then there was the fact that they were obviously talking about something they had done recently, but Shippo could not place when this would have happened. Maybe last night when he thought his adoptive father was missing?
Was he actually out doing something with his brother? It did not make sense to the kitsune, but then again, this whole discussion was making no sense to him. There was also the fact that his father had not been surprised when Sesshoumaru had walked out of the trees. It was almost as if he had already known the demon lord was there.
Apparently while he had been thinking, his father had grown tired of the conversation with his elder brother and decided to go back to the village. Shippo cast a glance back at the youkai lord, he didn’t look too happy with the abrupt departure of his sibling. Then again, he never really looked happy no matter what was going on.
Asking Inuyasha if he was sure that it would be alright to leave like that, he was a little surprised when his question was answered with a question of what he thought the demon lord was going to do. Images ran through his head of being decapitated by the light whip or watching his father be impaled by his brother’s hand again.
Trying to shake these pictures from his head, he asked his father why Sesshoumaru was there anyway. When he was told it was mating season business, his mind immediately jumped to the worst case scenario. Sesshoumaru had found a mate that it would be politically advantageous for Inuyasha to have and was going to force him into it.
He had heard of it happening in royal clans before. Not so much with demon nobility, but it often happened with the humans. He was scared that his father was going to be pulled away from him and forced to mate with an individual he had likely never met just to fulfill the whim of his elder brother.
When he did not immediately calm his fears, Shippo was sure that his worst nightmare had come true. But all that was put aside with the explanation of why his father could not take his mother as his mate.
No one had ever explained to him the reason behind finding a mate. He had always known that it had something to do with youki, but he had no idea that his own personal feelings would play no part in the matter. With all Miroku’s talk about falling in love, he was a little disappointed to realize that love was not likely something he would be falling into, ever.
It led him to wonder what it was that he had been feeling for all those girls in the villages he had met. It couldn’t be love, could it? Maybe they were talking about a different type of love. ‘Yes, that must be it,’ he decided.
The love he felt for the girls in the various villages was not the type of love that one would have for a mate. After all, he was still much too young to have a mate.
On the other hand, that observation certainly explained some of the more unusual pairings he had come across with demon mates. If it had little to nothing to do with love, demon mating season made sense. With everyone out and focusing on finding the one their youki called out to, it would be much easier to find your mate than if you had to go through the rather extensive courtship rituals that the humans in their pack seemed to favor.
So, now he knew that, when he was older, all he would have to do is find another demon his youki called to and mate with her. To that end, it made perfect sense that his adoptive father’s youki did not call out to his adoptive mother’s youki because his mother had no youki. When he asked to determine if his line of reasoning was correct, he found that not only did his father have no answer for him, but the demon lord had an answer.
He had not even been aware that Sesshoumaru had followed them and, if his father’s reaction was any indication, he had not been aware of it either. After hearing the youkai lord’s explanation for why his father’s youki was not interested in his mother, he was outraged.
His heated statement, which should have earned him punishment from a very irate demon lord, seemed to completely pass under his notice. All except one point that is. Sesshoumaru found it to be very interesting that he had said his father loved his mother. So interesting, in fact, that he put his father on the spot about it.
Shippo immediately wished he had kept his mouth shut. If there was one thing he knew his father did not like to talk about, it was how he felt about people. When he heard silence instead of even an attempt at a response, he had assumed that the matter was going to be dropped and mentally released a sigh of relief.
That is, until the demon lord suddenly jumped onto the branch right next to him and his father. The youki of Sesshoumaru was overpowering the youki of his father and all his instincts were telling him to run and hide. He heard the demand again and began to shake. They were right next to a rather pissed off full dog demon and amazingly enough, his father was doing nothing about it.
In fact, Inuyasha rather pointedly ignored the demand in favor of trying to calm Shippo in his own way. Shippo found some comfort in the fact that his father was not scared of Sesshoumaru. Then again, his father also had the habit of purposely pissing off full-grown higher level youkai so maybe he just didn’t know how to be scared. In any event, the confidence that his father was radiating did much in the way of calming the kitsune.
Then, his father apparently decided that the youkai sitting next to them was not already angry enough and tried to piss him off even more. While Shippo watched in horror, a hand shot out and elegant fingers wrapped around his father’s throat. This was closer to what he had been expecting since the beginning of this rather bizarre encounter.
Closing his eyes in terror, not really wanting to see the last moments of his father’s life, Shippo waited for the sounds of his father’s neck snapping or the tell-tale poison burning through his skin. When he heard neither of those, he cautiously opened his eyes, not really wanting to know what was happening to his father, but not being able to stop his morbid curiosity.
What he saw shocked him. His father was, rather affectionately, stroking the hair of the youkai lord that had since loosened his grip on Inuyasha’s throat. Glancing at Sesshoumaru’s eyes, he could still see the hint of red in them that had appeared with his father’s answer to the question. As he watched the interaction between the two, he realized that the red was fading slowly from the youkai’s eyes.
He also realized something else. This behavior between the two of them reminded him a little of how his parents used to act towards each other. He could remember watching his mom calm down his dad from a rage in a similar manner to what Inuyasha was doing with Sesshoumaru at the moment. He couldn’t remember his dad ever trying to choke his mom, but everything else appeared the same.
A rather disturbing thought occurred to the kitsune. His adoptive father had said he had mating season business with his elder brother. However, he had not said what exactly this ‘business’ was. Could it be that the mating season business was not what Shippo had assumed it to be?
Shippo had thought his father was going to be forced into mating some demoness for political purposes, but if this was any indication, he was not so sure that his father was going to be mating a demoness. It looked disturbingly like he was considering mating his own brother.
The kitsune immediately dismissed that idea as being ludicrous. His father had just told him that youki’s fell in love at first sight. There was no way he would have been trying to kill his intended mate. More over, there was no way his intended mate would have been trying to kill him. He had to be missing something.
If the two of them were actually intended mates, they would have been acting a lot friendlier toward one another from the very beginning. He was sure of it. But, putting aside the past, he had to admit that they had not been acting nearly as aggressive during this particular meeting.
The most violent thing that had happened so far was his father getting choked by his elder brother, but that could possibly be written off to jealousy if the whole intended mates thing was to be believed. He had seen Kagome act in similar ways towards Inuyasha over the Kikyo issue, even if she did not have the physical strength to be anywhere near as brutal as the youkai lord.
The next words out of his adoptive father’s mouth confirmed what he had almost completely ascertained himself. He knew his father did not lie when sounding so serious. So, if he said that he was his brother’s instead of Kagome’s, he meant it. Then, right in front of the disbelieving kitsune’s eyes, Sesshoumaru grabbed Inuyasha and plopped him right into his lap.
Sure that THIS was going to provoke the hanyou, Shippo waited for the outburst. It never came. Instead, he watched his father almost cuddle into his elder brother and allow himself to be nuzzled. If it had been any other two people, Shippo would have called it affectionate. As it was, he was having a very hard time stringing two thoughts together at the moment.
This scene went against everything he knew to be true. His father and elder brother hated one another. They were constantly trying to kill each other. Yet, here they were, acting every bit the part of intended mates. When he saw the youkai lord move his attention to his father’s neck, he couldn’t take it any longer.
“What are you doing?!” Shippo screamed at the top of his lungs.
He almost regretted the action when two pairs of golden eyes focused on him. “What are you talking about, runt?” his father growled out.
Shippo looked at Inuyasha in disbelief, he had thought it was obvious. “You’re… you’re CUDDLING with Sesshoumaru!”
Faster than Shippo could follow, his father was dropped to the ground from their perch, falling on his head, and the demon lord was standing regally on the path once more as if the entire incident had never occurred.
“Damn it, Sesshoumaru! What’s wrong with you?! You didn’t have to drop me like that! You’re such a bastard!”
“I have no idea what you are talking about, little brother,” Sesshoumaru replied, expressionless as ever.
“Don’t know what I’m talking about, my ass! You dropped me from the fucking tree!”
“Be that as it may, it has no bearing on the matter at hand.”
“So, you finally gonna tell me what you want, big brother?” Inuyasha asked with a sneer.
Shippo looked on the scene playing out below him. He sighed with relief. THIS was more like it. The two of them, seconds away from either drawing swords or ripping into each other with claws. This is what he was used to. Sure, it was violent, but at least it was normal. He’d been getting pretty worried there for a minute.
He was so relieved, he almost missed the youkai lord’s reply. “You are going to come with me. We have a problem that must be resolved immediately. I trust you know of what I speak?”
Okay, now Shippo was confused again. What problem? With the exception of their rather odd behavior earlier in the day, there was no problem that he could see. Wait, maybe that was the problem. Maybe they were under some type of spell!
‘Yes,’ he decided. ‘That must be it. They were involuntarily put under a spell of some sort and now they must find the person who caused the spell and force them to undo it.’
His father scoffed, “Of course I know what you’re talking about. I’m not an idiot, you know.”
“Really? You could have fooled me.”
“Shut up, bastard!”
“Come, little brother,” Sesshoumaru said, turning to go back the way he came.
Inuyasha gave a great sigh and took one step to follow him when Shippo called out, “But what about me?”
He watched his father stop and seem to contemplate things for a minute. A second later, his father was next to him in the tree once again, picking him up. He found himself being rather quickly returned to the village. Once he was just inside the village, Inuyasha told Shippo, “Tell everyone I’ll be back as soon as I can, got that?”
At his nod, Inuyasha turned and walked back into the forest. As an afterthought, Shippo called out, “Good luck breaking the spell!”
He thought he might have heard a, “Keh,” but he could have been mistaken. Turning back away from the woods, he raced towards Kaede’s hut. Just wait until Sango and Miroku found out what he knew.
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I have no idea when we’ll get back to the shard hunting group again. It might be a while.
As always, thanks for reading and/or reviewing.