InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ At Sesshoumaru's Castle ( Chapter 32 )
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By: mshutts 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.16.2006 | Updated On: 02.19.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 2.3K | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.16.2006 | Updated On: 02.19.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 2.3K | Status: Work In Progress
The Prophecy
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in except for Sturaki
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Chapter 32: At Sesshoumaru’s Castle
He realized that mating season must have started when he was sleeping. It was very hard for him to think straight at the moment. Especially since he was surrounded by his older brother’s scent. Not only that, but the floor had gotten a lot softer than he remembered. Considering this for a time, he realized that he was no longer lying on the floor of Sturaki’s home.
He seemed to be lying on a futon now and that, coupled with his brother’s scent overwhelming his senses, brought him to one conclusion. His brother had once again carried him while he was sleeping. And, judging by the smells, he was most likely in Sesshoumaru’s castle.
Wondering why his elder brother had not just returned him to Kaede’s dwelling, Inuyasha opened his eyes. Looking around, he took in the furs lying off to the side of the futon, undoubtedly for when it was colder out. There were a couple of windows to one side of the room and a short table on the opposite wall.
Unlike many of the dwellings he had been in, the futon was located in one corner instead of the center of the room. He understood that this was the most defensible place to have the futon located, he himself often slept in corners for just such a reason, but he wondered at why his brother would have felt he needed to do so as well.
Inuyasha berated himself for having fallen asleep again while he was at Sturaki’s home. This really had to stop. He could not just keep falling asleep at the drop of a hat. He didn’t care if his youki insisted he was safe in his brother’s presence. As far as he was concerned, that just went to show how stupid his youki was.
On the other hand, it was not like he was really in any shape to put up much of a fight about it either way. If his elder brother wanted to kill him at the moment, he knew that he was as good as dead. He could bluster all he wanted to, but he could feel himself getting weaker.
He hated this weakness with a vengeance. It left him completely vulnerable to the manipulations of his brother. Remembering something Myouga had said in the past about females becoming more docile when they went into heat during mating season, he wondered if that was what was happening to him.
If that was the case, he knew he would not only be feeling weaker, he would also be feeling much more subservient to Sesshoumaru. In that his brother was his chosen mate, this heat would tell his instincts to submit to him. The weakness and open submission were there to entice the male to mate with the female.
On the plus side, he knew that once the mating had taken place and been formalized, it was not nearly as difficult to fight the desire to submit. The only chance he had at the moment to get out of this mating would be to leave his brother’s presence immediately. Even that was not a sure thing if his brother suddenly decided he did want him for a mate.
It was then that he noticed something he had not before. His elder brother’s scent was not just in this house, it was on him as well. In his slightly muddled mind, he had not even realized that he had been scent claimed until just now. On a normal day, he would have been appalled that it had taken so long, but today he was just glad that he recognized it before he had attempted to leave.
Had he tried to leave without taking it into account, he knew that it would have alerted his elder brother to his every move. It was how he kept track of his own group, after all. It was much easier to find someone bearing your scent claim than it was to find someone without it. It was one of the reasons that the scent claim was such a popular practice.
But it made him wonder why his brother had done it. By laying a scent claim, one took responsibility for the individual who was claimed. From that point on, until death or the scent claim was removed, it was the duty of the marker to protect the marked. At present, if anyone attempted to harm Inuyasha, it would be the same as if they had attempted to harm Sesshoumaru himself.
The mere laying of the claim in the first place displayed a type of caring that he never would have expected from his elder brother. Although it was a common practice to use scent claims, they were never taken lightly. The marker was required to take on full, conscious responsibility for the marked’s safety. The thought of his elder brother doing such a thing for him would have been ludicrous had he not seen it himself.
There was one other possibility for the scent claim, however. He knew it was the first step in the mating ritual. Why his elder brother would wish to begin the mating ritual with someone he did not care about, however, was something Inuyasha was not so sure he understood.
He knew that his older brother had no mate as of yet. Therefore, he also had no heir. He supposed it might be a good idea for the youkai lord to make him his mate for the sole purpose of bearing him an heir to the throne so to speak. But, if that was the case, surely he could have found another demoness to do so long ago.
As these confusing thoughts swirled in his head, he wondered if Sturaki had told Sesshoumaru something after he had gone to sleep that would make this apparent change of mind make more sense. After all, his elder brother was only supposed to have one mate. If his mate was his brother, it would stand to reason that his brother’s mate was him.
He idly wondered if his brother would put aside the distaste he had for him personally to do his duty in securing the mate he had been preordained to have. Somehow, it wouldn’t really surprise him if he did, but what kind of life would that leave for his mate?
Pushing these thoughts aside, he sat up, placing the silken sheet that had been lying over him to the side. On the wall to the right of him, he saw the sliding opening that would signify the entrance way, but it was closed at the moment. Wondering what his elder brother had been thinking when he had brought him here, Inuyasha stood and walked to the entrance.
Sliding the panel to the side, he looked up and down the hallway. He didn’t see anyone, but he could hear faint voices in the distance and, with nothing better to do, he made his way towards the sound, passing down empty hallways.
He could smell a multitude of scents permeating the air in addition to his brother’s scent. This made sense, in that there were undoubtedly servants roaming around somewhere if he was correct in assuming this was his older brother’s castle.
He heard giggling just up ahead, and as he came to a corner in the hallway, he was barreled into by a small, human girl. While the collision had not affected him, it had knocked the girl flat to the ground. He watched in mild concern as she righted herself, apologizing profusely only to look up at him and stare.
He stared right back at her, wondering who she was. He recalled dimly his elder brother having a young human following him around and assumed that this must be her. A cursory sniff ascertained that she did indeed bear the scent claim of his brother and, as such, was not likely to be in any danger in these walls.
Apparently having finished her perusal of him, she asked, “Are you Lord Inuyasha?”
A little confused at the ‘Lord’, Inuyasha looked at her a second before responding, “Yeah, who are you?”
“I am Rin,” she stated with an impish grin.
Wondering why she was so cheerful, he asked warily, “And do you know where my brother is?”
She seemed to think hard about that one. It occurred to him that she might not know that he was Sesshoumaru’s brother, as such, he rephrased his question. “Rin, do you know where Sesshoumaru is?”
Her eyes suddenly lit up and she asked, “Lord Inuyasha is looking for Lord Sesshoumaru, too?!”
Not used to dealing with someone like her, he cautiously answered, “Uh, yeah, I guess.”
Suddenly the grin that had already been on her face widened even more until Inuyasha was afraid she was going to split her face completely in half. “Yay! Lord Inuyasha and I can look for Lord Sesshoumaru together!” and, without waiting for a response, she grabbed his hand and began pulling him back down the hallway he had just come up.
She then proceeded to remind him of every other human female he had ever met when she refused to listen to his protests that he had just come from that direction and continued to pull him that way anyway. Giving up what he knew from past experience to be a hopeless cause, he opted to watch the short pigtail on her head bounce with her steps instead.
She was certainly a lively child. He was curious as to why his brother had taken her under his care, but was pulled from his musings when she proceeded to lightly knock on the panel that led to the room he had just exited. Half a second later, she turned and continued on her way, but Inuyasha was confused. Why had she done that?
“Oi, Rin. Why’d you knock on the panel?”
Turning to him, her look reminded him of one someone would give a very slow child. “I had to see if Lord Sesshoumaru was in his sleeping room. If he had been, he would have answered.”
She then turned around and attempted to continue on, but Inuyasha stayed put, his mind awhirl. He realized that he had not just been in a sleeping room, he had been in Sesshoumaru’s sleeping room. That meant he had been sleeping with Sesshoumaru’s sheets on Sesshoumaru’s futon.
The gravity of the situation was enough to boggle the mind. Why had his brother put him to sleep on his own futon? There had to be multiple rooms in the castle that he could have been placed in. Visiting demon lords had to stay somewhere, right?
Pushing away his demon side that was absolutely enthralled that his intended mate had allowed him to sleep on his personal futon, and his human side that was reluctantly admitting that it was rather sweet of his brother to do so, he turned his attention back to Rin.
She was currently giving him a very concerned look. If he knew that look right, it was the one Kagome gave him right before she insisted he take off his haori so she could see what damage the latest demon they had been attacked by had done.
Knowing to be wary of that look, he asked, “What?!” in as gruff of a manner as he could manage at the moment. Unfortunately, it had as little effect on her as it did on Kagome. He really had to get away from these humans that liked to hang around demons.
Instead of cringing away from him, she asked him if he was alright. He told her to forget about it and keep looking for his brother and, accepting that as an answer, she turned and continued to drag him down the hall. ‘At least she’s easier to appease than Kagome,’ he mused.
He watched in morbid fascination as she, still holding his hand, skipped around the corner and down the next hallway chattering on about flowers and trees and whatever else she was talking about. He briefly wondered if anyone ever talked to this girl when he realized the scent of his brother, which had been strong to begin with, was getting stronger.
He didn’t even have time to consider it when the little girl had already lightly knocked on the panel. Hearing a, “Yes, Rin?” in the unmistakable voice of his elder brother, he was abruptly released as the girl literally flung herself into the room.
He could only watch in disbelief as she ran at his brother where he was sitting at a table and screamed her battle cry, “Lord Sesshoumaru!” Sure those would be the last words out of her mouth, he couldn’t do anything but wait for her demise when she stopped suddenly, not two inches away from his brother, never touching him.
He had to admire how well-trained his brother had her. Pondering the idea of asking his elder brother for pointers on dealing with his own group, he remained in the entranceway. Not really wanting to talk to his brother now that he was here, he was just about to leave when the golden eyes that had been looking at something on the table up till this moment, locked with his.
He could feel the pull and walked into the room without conscious thought. He felt as if he were in a daze. Ignoring the child who was talking a mile a minute to her ‘Lord Sesshoumaru’, he walked directly up to him as if under a spell.
Inuyasha was unsure what his brother did or said to the little girl, he was in too bewildered a state to do anything but focus on his elder brother. However, Sesshoumaru must have done something because Rin up and left the room for no apparent reason. All he knew was that he was now alone with the one his youki was insisting was his mate during mating season and his mind only had room for one idea.
He felt a shudder go down his spine when he heard his intended quietly mutter, “Come here, Inuyasha.”
And, despite the faint protestations of his human half, he moved forward towards his older brother.
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What’s that evil laugh? Ah, yes. Kukukuku. Oh, I feel bad for you people.
Thank you for reading and/or reviewing.
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in except for Sturaki
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Chapter 32: At Sesshoumaru’s Castle
He realized that mating season must have started when he was sleeping. It was very hard for him to think straight at the moment. Especially since he was surrounded by his older brother’s scent. Not only that, but the floor had gotten a lot softer than he remembered. Considering this for a time, he realized that he was no longer lying on the floor of Sturaki’s home.
He seemed to be lying on a futon now and that, coupled with his brother’s scent overwhelming his senses, brought him to one conclusion. His brother had once again carried him while he was sleeping. And, judging by the smells, he was most likely in Sesshoumaru’s castle.
Wondering why his elder brother had not just returned him to Kaede’s dwelling, Inuyasha opened his eyes. Looking around, he took in the furs lying off to the side of the futon, undoubtedly for when it was colder out. There were a couple of windows to one side of the room and a short table on the opposite wall.
Unlike many of the dwellings he had been in, the futon was located in one corner instead of the center of the room. He understood that this was the most defensible place to have the futon located, he himself often slept in corners for just such a reason, but he wondered at why his brother would have felt he needed to do so as well.
Inuyasha berated himself for having fallen asleep again while he was at Sturaki’s home. This really had to stop. He could not just keep falling asleep at the drop of a hat. He didn’t care if his youki insisted he was safe in his brother’s presence. As far as he was concerned, that just went to show how stupid his youki was.
On the other hand, it was not like he was really in any shape to put up much of a fight about it either way. If his elder brother wanted to kill him at the moment, he knew that he was as good as dead. He could bluster all he wanted to, but he could feel himself getting weaker.
He hated this weakness with a vengeance. It left him completely vulnerable to the manipulations of his brother. Remembering something Myouga had said in the past about females becoming more docile when they went into heat during mating season, he wondered if that was what was happening to him.
If that was the case, he knew he would not only be feeling weaker, he would also be feeling much more subservient to Sesshoumaru. In that his brother was his chosen mate, this heat would tell his instincts to submit to him. The weakness and open submission were there to entice the male to mate with the female.
On the plus side, he knew that once the mating had taken place and been formalized, it was not nearly as difficult to fight the desire to submit. The only chance he had at the moment to get out of this mating would be to leave his brother’s presence immediately. Even that was not a sure thing if his brother suddenly decided he did want him for a mate.
It was then that he noticed something he had not before. His elder brother’s scent was not just in this house, it was on him as well. In his slightly muddled mind, he had not even realized that he had been scent claimed until just now. On a normal day, he would have been appalled that it had taken so long, but today he was just glad that he recognized it before he had attempted to leave.
Had he tried to leave without taking it into account, he knew that it would have alerted his elder brother to his every move. It was how he kept track of his own group, after all. It was much easier to find someone bearing your scent claim than it was to find someone without it. It was one of the reasons that the scent claim was such a popular practice.
But it made him wonder why his brother had done it. By laying a scent claim, one took responsibility for the individual who was claimed. From that point on, until death or the scent claim was removed, it was the duty of the marker to protect the marked. At present, if anyone attempted to harm Inuyasha, it would be the same as if they had attempted to harm Sesshoumaru himself.
The mere laying of the claim in the first place displayed a type of caring that he never would have expected from his elder brother. Although it was a common practice to use scent claims, they were never taken lightly. The marker was required to take on full, conscious responsibility for the marked’s safety. The thought of his elder brother doing such a thing for him would have been ludicrous had he not seen it himself.
There was one other possibility for the scent claim, however. He knew it was the first step in the mating ritual. Why his elder brother would wish to begin the mating ritual with someone he did not care about, however, was something Inuyasha was not so sure he understood.
He knew that his older brother had no mate as of yet. Therefore, he also had no heir. He supposed it might be a good idea for the youkai lord to make him his mate for the sole purpose of bearing him an heir to the throne so to speak. But, if that was the case, surely he could have found another demoness to do so long ago.
As these confusing thoughts swirled in his head, he wondered if Sturaki had told Sesshoumaru something after he had gone to sleep that would make this apparent change of mind make more sense. After all, his elder brother was only supposed to have one mate. If his mate was his brother, it would stand to reason that his brother’s mate was him.
He idly wondered if his brother would put aside the distaste he had for him personally to do his duty in securing the mate he had been preordained to have. Somehow, it wouldn’t really surprise him if he did, but what kind of life would that leave for his mate?
Pushing these thoughts aside, he sat up, placing the silken sheet that had been lying over him to the side. On the wall to the right of him, he saw the sliding opening that would signify the entrance way, but it was closed at the moment. Wondering what his elder brother had been thinking when he had brought him here, Inuyasha stood and walked to the entrance.
Sliding the panel to the side, he looked up and down the hallway. He didn’t see anyone, but he could hear faint voices in the distance and, with nothing better to do, he made his way towards the sound, passing down empty hallways.
He could smell a multitude of scents permeating the air in addition to his brother’s scent. This made sense, in that there were undoubtedly servants roaming around somewhere if he was correct in assuming this was his older brother’s castle.
He heard giggling just up ahead, and as he came to a corner in the hallway, he was barreled into by a small, human girl. While the collision had not affected him, it had knocked the girl flat to the ground. He watched in mild concern as she righted herself, apologizing profusely only to look up at him and stare.
He stared right back at her, wondering who she was. He recalled dimly his elder brother having a young human following him around and assumed that this must be her. A cursory sniff ascertained that she did indeed bear the scent claim of his brother and, as such, was not likely to be in any danger in these walls.
Apparently having finished her perusal of him, she asked, “Are you Lord Inuyasha?”
A little confused at the ‘Lord’, Inuyasha looked at her a second before responding, “Yeah, who are you?”
“I am Rin,” she stated with an impish grin.
Wondering why she was so cheerful, he asked warily, “And do you know where my brother is?”
She seemed to think hard about that one. It occurred to him that she might not know that he was Sesshoumaru’s brother, as such, he rephrased his question. “Rin, do you know where Sesshoumaru is?”
Her eyes suddenly lit up and she asked, “Lord Inuyasha is looking for Lord Sesshoumaru, too?!”
Not used to dealing with someone like her, he cautiously answered, “Uh, yeah, I guess.”
Suddenly the grin that had already been on her face widened even more until Inuyasha was afraid she was going to split her face completely in half. “Yay! Lord Inuyasha and I can look for Lord Sesshoumaru together!” and, without waiting for a response, she grabbed his hand and began pulling him back down the hallway he had just come up.
She then proceeded to remind him of every other human female he had ever met when she refused to listen to his protests that he had just come from that direction and continued to pull him that way anyway. Giving up what he knew from past experience to be a hopeless cause, he opted to watch the short pigtail on her head bounce with her steps instead.
She was certainly a lively child. He was curious as to why his brother had taken her under his care, but was pulled from his musings when she proceeded to lightly knock on the panel that led to the room he had just exited. Half a second later, she turned and continued on her way, but Inuyasha was confused. Why had she done that?
“Oi, Rin. Why’d you knock on the panel?”
Turning to him, her look reminded him of one someone would give a very slow child. “I had to see if Lord Sesshoumaru was in his sleeping room. If he had been, he would have answered.”
She then turned around and attempted to continue on, but Inuyasha stayed put, his mind awhirl. He realized that he had not just been in a sleeping room, he had been in Sesshoumaru’s sleeping room. That meant he had been sleeping with Sesshoumaru’s sheets on Sesshoumaru’s futon.
The gravity of the situation was enough to boggle the mind. Why had his brother put him to sleep on his own futon? There had to be multiple rooms in the castle that he could have been placed in. Visiting demon lords had to stay somewhere, right?
Pushing away his demon side that was absolutely enthralled that his intended mate had allowed him to sleep on his personal futon, and his human side that was reluctantly admitting that it was rather sweet of his brother to do so, he turned his attention back to Rin.
She was currently giving him a very concerned look. If he knew that look right, it was the one Kagome gave him right before she insisted he take off his haori so she could see what damage the latest demon they had been attacked by had done.
Knowing to be wary of that look, he asked, “What?!” in as gruff of a manner as he could manage at the moment. Unfortunately, it had as little effect on her as it did on Kagome. He really had to get away from these humans that liked to hang around demons.
Instead of cringing away from him, she asked him if he was alright. He told her to forget about it and keep looking for his brother and, accepting that as an answer, she turned and continued to drag him down the hall. ‘At least she’s easier to appease than Kagome,’ he mused.
He watched in morbid fascination as she, still holding his hand, skipped around the corner and down the next hallway chattering on about flowers and trees and whatever else she was talking about. He briefly wondered if anyone ever talked to this girl when he realized the scent of his brother, which had been strong to begin with, was getting stronger.
He didn’t even have time to consider it when the little girl had already lightly knocked on the panel. Hearing a, “Yes, Rin?” in the unmistakable voice of his elder brother, he was abruptly released as the girl literally flung herself into the room.
He could only watch in disbelief as she ran at his brother where he was sitting at a table and screamed her battle cry, “Lord Sesshoumaru!” Sure those would be the last words out of her mouth, he couldn’t do anything but wait for her demise when she stopped suddenly, not two inches away from his brother, never touching him.
He had to admire how well-trained his brother had her. Pondering the idea of asking his elder brother for pointers on dealing with his own group, he remained in the entranceway. Not really wanting to talk to his brother now that he was here, he was just about to leave when the golden eyes that had been looking at something on the table up till this moment, locked with his.
He could feel the pull and walked into the room without conscious thought. He felt as if he were in a daze. Ignoring the child who was talking a mile a minute to her ‘Lord Sesshoumaru’, he walked directly up to him as if under a spell.
Inuyasha was unsure what his brother did or said to the little girl, he was in too bewildered a state to do anything but focus on his elder brother. However, Sesshoumaru must have done something because Rin up and left the room for no apparent reason. All he knew was that he was now alone with the one his youki was insisting was his mate during mating season and his mind only had room for one idea.
He felt a shudder go down his spine when he heard his intended quietly mutter, “Come here, Inuyasha.”
And, despite the faint protestations of his human half, he moved forward towards his older brother.
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What’s that evil laugh? Ah, yes. Kukukuku. Oh, I feel bad for you people.
Thank you for reading and/or reviewing.