InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ Connected by Blood ( Chapter 42 )
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By: mshutts 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 04.18.2006 | Updated On: 04.18.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 2.4K | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 04.18.2006 | Updated On: 04.18.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 2.4K | 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 41: Connected by Blood
After talking to Inuyasha, Myouga was hopping along towards Totosai. The old sword-smith was one of his best friends and had been a good acquaintance of the late dog general. If there was someone who might be able to help him assist his master, it would most likely be him.
What Lord Inuyasha had told him disturbed him to a great extent. First there was the fact that he was gaining the ability to bear pups. He had no idea how to aid his master in such a feat, not that anyone really did to his knowledge. He sighed, his lord’s already difficult life was about to become even more so.
And if that was not bothersome enough, there was the fact that his youki was apparently calling out to his own elder brother. That Lord Sesshoumaru’s youki had been calling right back to his master’s youki was even more disconcerting and inexplicable. To the extent of the flea’s knowledge, the older brother had always hated the younger brother.
Myouga could remember talking to their father about his concerns over the murderous intentions that his eldest seemed to be harboring towards his younger brother even before he was born. His late master had acknowledged the concerns while not taking them quite as seriously as Myouga had thought they should be taken.
It had seemed that the great dog general was not as worried as he was. Maybe it was that he did not take the threats seriously, but Myouga thought it was much more likely that he was trying not to think about them. He had many other problems to deal with at the time, after all.
Be that as it may, while it was certainly not unheard of for siblings, especially in the royal clans, to mate with one another, it was a little odd for the mating to be between two individuals who, by all accounts, hated and were actively trying to kill each other.
Then again, he supposed that if either of them had honestly wished for the other one’s death, one of them would be dead by now. The games they played with one another were certainly deadly enough. Although he supposed there was always the possibility that they had both only escaped death through a series of flukes. There had been an awful lot of near misses, in any case.
But his main concern at the moment was for his master’s well-being. Since he could taste the change in his master’s blood, he was going to the one person who might just know more about that blood than he did. After all, in the forging of the swords Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga, Totosai had become relatively intimately acquainted with the blood and power present in the father as well as his sons. He might be aware of something that Myouga was not.
And it was because of the change in the taste of Lord Inuyasha’s blood that Myouga was concerned. What if this alteration was not only significant of gaining the ability to bear pups but also of something far more sinister? What if there was a spell on him? What if that was why the attitude of his master had taken such a drastic turn?
However, even as he thought this, there was something else in the back of his mind. His lord had never, in the entire time he had known him, shown any interest whatsoever in mating. He had talked of marrying Kikyo, but not mating her. He had not even mentioned mating or marrying the Lady Kagome, although Myouga knew the idea had occurred to him.
Which was not to say that Lord Inuyasha was not receptive to potential mates. He had made sure that, if nothing else, his master knew to be open to potential mates. But, it had never made any difference. His master’s youki had never called out to any other demon or demoness in all the years he had known him.
Whenever he had expressed unease about this in the past, he had either been brushed aside or told that no one would want to mate with a half-demon. Since he knew that this was not the case, as he had seen young demonesses try to ensnare his equally young master, he just took it to mean that Lord Inuyasha was not interested in any of them.
If he was now interested in Lord Sesshoumaru, that might explain part of it. More so because Lord Sesshoumaru was interested in him. With his knowledge that Lord Sesshoumaru only had one possible mate, it would stand to reason in his mind that it would also mean that his one possible mate would only have one possible mate as well. For, if his only possible mate ended up with another demon or demoness, that would leave Lord Sesshoumaru with no mate at all.
The whole thing was very confusing, but it did explain the oddities that had been present in his master’s youki for as long as he had known him. The way there was always a flare of power when he was in the presence of his elder brother, for instance. In the past, Myouga had written it off to being the rush of hate that filled his master, but what if he was wrong?
What if the flare was caused not by hate, but by his youki trying to call out to his future mate’s youki, even across the battlefield? If that was the case, their father would certainly have been angry with him for never noticing it before. It was his job to look after his youngest and if he had not even been able to notice such a simple thing as his master’s youki calling out to his future mate, what did that say about him as a servant?
Putting his musings to the side, he sighed in relief as he finally reached the cave that was Totosai’s current dwelling. It had been a long journey due mainly to the fact that no bird wanted to fly out over the fire fields that his old friend preferred for his home. He could hear the sounds of the elderly demon at work and quickened his pace, looking forward to a free meal.
Not that he preferred Totosai’s blood. No, he had a much greater preference for the royal blood that flowed through his master’s veins. It was much sweeter and fuller in flavor than the blood he normally found, but beggars couldn’t be choosers. Besides, he had drunk much worse blood than the sword-smith’s before.
Seeing that Totosai was otherwise occupied, Myouga jumped lightly onto his friend’s back and began to suck blood out of his shoulder as quickly as possible. Being a flea, he knew that he would get swatted within moments of beginning his meal, so he made sure to drink as much as he could, as rapidly as he could.
When the expected swat came, he merely floated to the ground and then reanimated, turning to his friend. “Totosai, it has been a long time.”
“Myouga? Is that you? What brings you here?”
“Yes, Totosai, it is I. I have a question for you about Master Inuyasha and Lord Sesshoumaru.”
“Who?”
“The Master’s sons,” Myouga calmly clarified. It always paid to be patient when dealing with Totosai.
“Why would I have anything to do with those insolent pups?” he asked in a normal voice before mumbling, “Trying to kill and threaten an old man. If The Master were still alive, he would have a thing or two to say to them.”
“Yes, well, something very interesting has happened.”
He now had the old demon’s full attention, “Oh?”
“Master Inuyasha has recently gained the ability to bear pups.”
“Bear pups? That’s not right. If I recall correctly, the younger child was a male as well.” Totosai then looked off into the distance contemplatively, “Although, I suppose I could have been wrong. But it sure looked like a male to me.”
“Totosai!” Myouga called, bringing the attention back to him.
“Oh, hello, Myouga. What are you doing here?”
Holding in a sigh, Myouga reiterated what he had just said. “I was just telling you that Lord Inuyasha has gained the ability to bear pups and it now appears that his youki is interested in Lord Sesshoumaru for a mate.”
“Lord Sesshoumaru? Really?” the sword-smith asked with great interest.
“Yes, I don’t know how this happened. The Master would have been so displeased,” Myouga shook his head, wrought with anxiety.
He was so caught up in thinking of the anger that his previous master would have felt, that he didn’t notice the thoughtful look come onto his old friend’s face. “I don’t know that I would say that, Myouga.”
Myouga looked to the sword-smith with new hope. Did he know something Myouga didn’t? “You don’t think so, Totosai?”
He watched his old friend blink at him in confusion again. “Don’t think what?”
“You don’t think that The Master would be upset with his sons mating one another?”
“Why would he be? Siblings mate each other all the time.”
“Yes, but they normally don’t hate each other.”
“Who don’t hate each other?”
“The siblings who are mating.”
“Ah, yes, well, there is that. Don’t see why it would actually be a problem for them though,” he said, looking confused and scratching his head.
Myouga looked at his old friend curiously. Were they talking about the same people? Maybe he better clarify again. “Totosai, we are talking about Lord Sesshoumaru and Master Inuyasha. They hate each other. They have been trying to kill each other for as long as I can remember.”
“Exactly.”
“Exactly, what?”
“They have been trying to kill one another for as long as you can remember.”
Myouga was beginning to get a little exasperated. “Yes, Totosai, I know that. That’s how I know they hate each other.”
“No, no, no. That’s how you know they DON’T hate each other,” Totosai responded as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
“Totosai, that doesn’t make any sense.”
“Of course it does, Myouga. If they really hated each other, they wouldn’t be trying to kill each other, one of them would be dead. They’re both alive, so they don’t really hate each other.”
Myouga had never thought of it that way. He had always just assumed that their constant death threats and insistences that they hated one another really meant that they hated one another. They certainly put on a rather impressive show if that was not the case.
While Myouga was wondering, Totosai continued to think aloud as he was wont to do, “Quite strange really. You would think that Lord Sesshoumaru would like nothing better than to kill his hanyou brother. Must be the blood connection.”
“Blood connection?”
“Hmm?” asked the sword-smith, whose mind appeared to have once again wandered off the topic at hand.
“You mentioned a blood connection between The Master’s sons, Totosai,” the flea demon patiently reminded him.
“So I did, so I did.”
Myouga turned on his old friend and asked him accusingly, “Why is this the first I’m hearing of a blood connection?”
“I didn’t already tell you?” Totosai asked, scratching his head. “Hmm, I thought I had.”
“Totosai, what is this blood connection between Master Inuyasha and Lord Sesshoumaru?” Now that he could feel an answer coming nearer, Myouga was beginning to get more excited. Maybe this was something he could use to help his master.
“It’s quite simple, really. When The Master first asked me to forge his swords for him, he had a premonition that he would not be long in this world. He knew that when he died, there would be no one to protect his as yet unborn child.
“In order to ensure at least partial protection for him, he had me use Lord Sesshoumaru’s blood in the forging of the Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga. When I reforged the Tetsusaiga with Lord Inuyasha’s fang, his blood was added to the mix.”
Myouga was used to having to pull information out of his old friend, but he had to admit that in his brief moments of clarity, there was much information to be gained. If only one could determine what that information was.
The flea had to acknowledge, listening to the explanation, that it was a mark of brilliance on The Master’s part. In using Lord Sesshoumaru’s blood in the forging of the swords, it ensured that even though his eldest hated the soon to be coming child with all his being, he would not be able to kill him in most instances.
While the Tetsusaiga was still inside Lord Inuyasha, Lord Sesshoumaru’s youki would acknowledge that the hanyou held his own blood inside him. As such, it would be against fatally attacking except in the most extreme of circumstances. The fact that it was a pup instead of a full-grown hanyou would only reinforce the desire to protect instead of kill in the elder youkai’s mind.
Then, after the Tetsusaiga was removed, there would still most likely be the mark of Lord Sesshoumaru’s blood on him due to the arm that was left behind in his eye and the residual aura left from having been exposed to his blood through Tetsusaiga for such a long time.
The fact that he was positive neither of them were aware of this only added to the genius of the idea. If he had known what his father had intended to do, there was no doubt in the flea demon’s mind that Lord Sesshoumaru would have forcibly overcome his inhibitions and killed his half-brother on the spot. However, because he did not know what was causing these feelings, he most likely wrote them off as being caused by something else.
It was a rather amusing set of circumstances. To think that two beings who were so disparate could be drawn together, even bound to one another with something as simple as a sword…
Wait.
Hadn’t Master Inuyasha said that his and Lord Sesshoumaru’s youkis were being drawn to one another? In fact, if he remembered correctly, that was what he was basing his entire decision to mate with his elder brother on. What if the call of their youkis to one another was nothing more than a reaction to their blood having been mixed in the Tetsusaiga?
Oh, no. He had to get to Lord Inuyasha right away. What if he did something irrevocable before he had all the information?
With a quick goodbye and thank you to his old friend, he hopped out of the cave and through the fire fields. He then made his way to the Western castle, sure that this would be their final destination as quickly as possible. With any luck, he would not arrive too late.
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So, Myouga’s also going to the castle. How many people does that make now? Sorry about another Inu/Sess light chapter. They are both much more heavily in the next one.
Thanks again to all who read and/or review.
One last note to anyone having problems with getting at the updates: Press the ‘ctrl’ key on the keyboard while clicking on the ‘refresh’ icon on your screen. It forces the system to completely reload the information and brings up any changes or story updates.
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in
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Chapter 41: Connected by Blood
After talking to Inuyasha, Myouga was hopping along towards Totosai. The old sword-smith was one of his best friends and had been a good acquaintance of the late dog general. If there was someone who might be able to help him assist his master, it would most likely be him.
What Lord Inuyasha had told him disturbed him to a great extent. First there was the fact that he was gaining the ability to bear pups. He had no idea how to aid his master in such a feat, not that anyone really did to his knowledge. He sighed, his lord’s already difficult life was about to become even more so.
And if that was not bothersome enough, there was the fact that his youki was apparently calling out to his own elder brother. That Lord Sesshoumaru’s youki had been calling right back to his master’s youki was even more disconcerting and inexplicable. To the extent of the flea’s knowledge, the older brother had always hated the younger brother.
Myouga could remember talking to their father about his concerns over the murderous intentions that his eldest seemed to be harboring towards his younger brother even before he was born. His late master had acknowledged the concerns while not taking them quite as seriously as Myouga had thought they should be taken.
It had seemed that the great dog general was not as worried as he was. Maybe it was that he did not take the threats seriously, but Myouga thought it was much more likely that he was trying not to think about them. He had many other problems to deal with at the time, after all.
Be that as it may, while it was certainly not unheard of for siblings, especially in the royal clans, to mate with one another, it was a little odd for the mating to be between two individuals who, by all accounts, hated and were actively trying to kill each other.
Then again, he supposed that if either of them had honestly wished for the other one’s death, one of them would be dead by now. The games they played with one another were certainly deadly enough. Although he supposed there was always the possibility that they had both only escaped death through a series of flukes. There had been an awful lot of near misses, in any case.
But his main concern at the moment was for his master’s well-being. Since he could taste the change in his master’s blood, he was going to the one person who might just know more about that blood than he did. After all, in the forging of the swords Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga, Totosai had become relatively intimately acquainted with the blood and power present in the father as well as his sons. He might be aware of something that Myouga was not.
And it was because of the change in the taste of Lord Inuyasha’s blood that Myouga was concerned. What if this alteration was not only significant of gaining the ability to bear pups but also of something far more sinister? What if there was a spell on him? What if that was why the attitude of his master had taken such a drastic turn?
However, even as he thought this, there was something else in the back of his mind. His lord had never, in the entire time he had known him, shown any interest whatsoever in mating. He had talked of marrying Kikyo, but not mating her. He had not even mentioned mating or marrying the Lady Kagome, although Myouga knew the idea had occurred to him.
Which was not to say that Lord Inuyasha was not receptive to potential mates. He had made sure that, if nothing else, his master knew to be open to potential mates. But, it had never made any difference. His master’s youki had never called out to any other demon or demoness in all the years he had known him.
Whenever he had expressed unease about this in the past, he had either been brushed aside or told that no one would want to mate with a half-demon. Since he knew that this was not the case, as he had seen young demonesses try to ensnare his equally young master, he just took it to mean that Lord Inuyasha was not interested in any of them.
If he was now interested in Lord Sesshoumaru, that might explain part of it. More so because Lord Sesshoumaru was interested in him. With his knowledge that Lord Sesshoumaru only had one possible mate, it would stand to reason in his mind that it would also mean that his one possible mate would only have one possible mate as well. For, if his only possible mate ended up with another demon or demoness, that would leave Lord Sesshoumaru with no mate at all.
The whole thing was very confusing, but it did explain the oddities that had been present in his master’s youki for as long as he had known him. The way there was always a flare of power when he was in the presence of his elder brother, for instance. In the past, Myouga had written it off to being the rush of hate that filled his master, but what if he was wrong?
What if the flare was caused not by hate, but by his youki trying to call out to his future mate’s youki, even across the battlefield? If that was the case, their father would certainly have been angry with him for never noticing it before. It was his job to look after his youngest and if he had not even been able to notice such a simple thing as his master’s youki calling out to his future mate, what did that say about him as a servant?
Putting his musings to the side, he sighed in relief as he finally reached the cave that was Totosai’s current dwelling. It had been a long journey due mainly to the fact that no bird wanted to fly out over the fire fields that his old friend preferred for his home. He could hear the sounds of the elderly demon at work and quickened his pace, looking forward to a free meal.
Not that he preferred Totosai’s blood. No, he had a much greater preference for the royal blood that flowed through his master’s veins. It was much sweeter and fuller in flavor than the blood he normally found, but beggars couldn’t be choosers. Besides, he had drunk much worse blood than the sword-smith’s before.
Seeing that Totosai was otherwise occupied, Myouga jumped lightly onto his friend’s back and began to suck blood out of his shoulder as quickly as possible. Being a flea, he knew that he would get swatted within moments of beginning his meal, so he made sure to drink as much as he could, as rapidly as he could.
When the expected swat came, he merely floated to the ground and then reanimated, turning to his friend. “Totosai, it has been a long time.”
“Myouga? Is that you? What brings you here?”
“Yes, Totosai, it is I. I have a question for you about Master Inuyasha and Lord Sesshoumaru.”
“Who?”
“The Master’s sons,” Myouga calmly clarified. It always paid to be patient when dealing with Totosai.
“Why would I have anything to do with those insolent pups?” he asked in a normal voice before mumbling, “Trying to kill and threaten an old man. If The Master were still alive, he would have a thing or two to say to them.”
“Yes, well, something very interesting has happened.”
He now had the old demon’s full attention, “Oh?”
“Master Inuyasha has recently gained the ability to bear pups.”
“Bear pups? That’s not right. If I recall correctly, the younger child was a male as well.” Totosai then looked off into the distance contemplatively, “Although, I suppose I could have been wrong. But it sure looked like a male to me.”
“Totosai!” Myouga called, bringing the attention back to him.
“Oh, hello, Myouga. What are you doing here?”
Holding in a sigh, Myouga reiterated what he had just said. “I was just telling you that Lord Inuyasha has gained the ability to bear pups and it now appears that his youki is interested in Lord Sesshoumaru for a mate.”
“Lord Sesshoumaru? Really?” the sword-smith asked with great interest.
“Yes, I don’t know how this happened. The Master would have been so displeased,” Myouga shook his head, wrought with anxiety.
He was so caught up in thinking of the anger that his previous master would have felt, that he didn’t notice the thoughtful look come onto his old friend’s face. “I don’t know that I would say that, Myouga.”
Myouga looked to the sword-smith with new hope. Did he know something Myouga didn’t? “You don’t think so, Totosai?”
He watched his old friend blink at him in confusion again. “Don’t think what?”
“You don’t think that The Master would be upset with his sons mating one another?”
“Why would he be? Siblings mate each other all the time.”
“Yes, but they normally don’t hate each other.”
“Who don’t hate each other?”
“The siblings who are mating.”
“Ah, yes, well, there is that. Don’t see why it would actually be a problem for them though,” he said, looking confused and scratching his head.
Myouga looked at his old friend curiously. Were they talking about the same people? Maybe he better clarify again. “Totosai, we are talking about Lord Sesshoumaru and Master Inuyasha. They hate each other. They have been trying to kill each other for as long as I can remember.”
“Exactly.”
“Exactly, what?”
“They have been trying to kill one another for as long as you can remember.”
Myouga was beginning to get a little exasperated. “Yes, Totosai, I know that. That’s how I know they hate each other.”
“No, no, no. That’s how you know they DON’T hate each other,” Totosai responded as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
“Totosai, that doesn’t make any sense.”
“Of course it does, Myouga. If they really hated each other, they wouldn’t be trying to kill each other, one of them would be dead. They’re both alive, so they don’t really hate each other.”
Myouga had never thought of it that way. He had always just assumed that their constant death threats and insistences that they hated one another really meant that they hated one another. They certainly put on a rather impressive show if that was not the case.
While Myouga was wondering, Totosai continued to think aloud as he was wont to do, “Quite strange really. You would think that Lord Sesshoumaru would like nothing better than to kill his hanyou brother. Must be the blood connection.”
“Blood connection?”
“Hmm?” asked the sword-smith, whose mind appeared to have once again wandered off the topic at hand.
“You mentioned a blood connection between The Master’s sons, Totosai,” the flea demon patiently reminded him.
“So I did, so I did.”
Myouga turned on his old friend and asked him accusingly, “Why is this the first I’m hearing of a blood connection?”
“I didn’t already tell you?” Totosai asked, scratching his head. “Hmm, I thought I had.”
“Totosai, what is this blood connection between Master Inuyasha and Lord Sesshoumaru?” Now that he could feel an answer coming nearer, Myouga was beginning to get more excited. Maybe this was something he could use to help his master.
“It’s quite simple, really. When The Master first asked me to forge his swords for him, he had a premonition that he would not be long in this world. He knew that when he died, there would be no one to protect his as yet unborn child.
“In order to ensure at least partial protection for him, he had me use Lord Sesshoumaru’s blood in the forging of the Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga. When I reforged the Tetsusaiga with Lord Inuyasha’s fang, his blood was added to the mix.”
Myouga was used to having to pull information out of his old friend, but he had to admit that in his brief moments of clarity, there was much information to be gained. If only one could determine what that information was.
The flea had to acknowledge, listening to the explanation, that it was a mark of brilliance on The Master’s part. In using Lord Sesshoumaru’s blood in the forging of the swords, it ensured that even though his eldest hated the soon to be coming child with all his being, he would not be able to kill him in most instances.
While the Tetsusaiga was still inside Lord Inuyasha, Lord Sesshoumaru’s youki would acknowledge that the hanyou held his own blood inside him. As such, it would be against fatally attacking except in the most extreme of circumstances. The fact that it was a pup instead of a full-grown hanyou would only reinforce the desire to protect instead of kill in the elder youkai’s mind.
Then, after the Tetsusaiga was removed, there would still most likely be the mark of Lord Sesshoumaru’s blood on him due to the arm that was left behind in his eye and the residual aura left from having been exposed to his blood through Tetsusaiga for such a long time.
The fact that he was positive neither of them were aware of this only added to the genius of the idea. If he had known what his father had intended to do, there was no doubt in the flea demon’s mind that Lord Sesshoumaru would have forcibly overcome his inhibitions and killed his half-brother on the spot. However, because he did not know what was causing these feelings, he most likely wrote them off as being caused by something else.
It was a rather amusing set of circumstances. To think that two beings who were so disparate could be drawn together, even bound to one another with something as simple as a sword…
Wait.
Hadn’t Master Inuyasha said that his and Lord Sesshoumaru’s youkis were being drawn to one another? In fact, if he remembered correctly, that was what he was basing his entire decision to mate with his elder brother on. What if the call of their youkis to one another was nothing more than a reaction to their blood having been mixed in the Tetsusaiga?
Oh, no. He had to get to Lord Inuyasha right away. What if he did something irrevocable before he had all the information?
With a quick goodbye and thank you to his old friend, he hopped out of the cave and through the fire fields. He then made his way to the Western castle, sure that this would be their final destination as quickly as possible. With any luck, he would not arrive too late.
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So, Myouga’s also going to the castle. How many people does that make now? Sorry about another Inu/Sess light chapter. They are both much more heavily in the next one.
Thanks again to all who read and/or review.
One last note to anyone having problems with getting at the updates: Press the ‘ctrl’ key on the keyboard while clicking on the ‘refresh’ icon on your screen. It forces the system to completely reload the information and brings up any changes or story updates.