InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ Awakening Powers ( Chapter 46 )
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By: mshutts 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 06.08.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 2.7K | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 06.08.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 2.7K | 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 45: Awakening Powers
Inuyasha awoke to an unusual sight. The witch Sturaki was kneeling next to him, looking down with a slightly concerned face. Behind her stood two youkai: a wolf and a swan by their scents, healers both by their garb. He tried to move, but found that he was being held down by something. It was not until then that he realized his mate was lying, sound asleep, on the futon next to him and had managed to trap the hanyou’s arm and leg under his own.
He tried to shift out from underneath the larger male, if for no other reason then because there were other people, not all of whom he knew, in the room. However, for every movement of his, the hold on him only grew stronger. Not feeling up to taking on this task at the moment, he allowed himself to drop back onto the futon beside his slumbering mate.
Taking in the faces of the three others in the room, he decided to try and get answers from the only one he recognized. Turning his eyes to the witch, he asked, “What happened, witch?”
“Do you not remember, child?” Sturaki asked, looking a little surprised.
Inuyasha thought about it. He tried to piece together what had happened, but it was all a blur to him. Apparently, his memory didn’t seem to be working so well at the moment. “The last thing I remember is fighting with Sesshoumaru. He was being an ass, trying to force me into submission, and then… nothing.”
“You have been in an unnatural sleep. Your youki was losing strength and it caused you to collapse,” came an explanation from the swan youkai.
Inuyasha looked at her for a second. “Who are you?”
“I am the healer, Yoshehana, Lord Inuyasha,” she responded with a bow.
“Ok… Does the bast- uh, Lord Sesshoumaru know you’re here?” He was not in the habit of using any type of honorific, especially not for his brother, but being that he was mostly incapacitated and this healer was obviously at least partially in charge of his care, he decided to err on the side of caution and tagged it on.
However, even with the addition of the title, she still looked taken aback by his question. She was looking at him as if he dealt her an insult and he inwardly rolled his eyes at such idiotic behavior over a simple question. “Of course he knows I am here. I am his healer.”
“Right,” he said, not sounding as if he completely believed her. Why would his brother want such a fragile looking creature for his healer? She looked like a strong wind would knock her over. Pushing aside his musings for the moment, he turned his gaze to Sturaki, asking, “So what really happened?” while purposefully ignoring the annoyed look on the swan demoness’ face.
“From what I have seen, you managed to complete the second claim without any problems. Then, the next morning, Lord Sesshoumaru tried to force you into acting like the beta mate. The human side of your being rebelled against this idea. However, since the internal desire to submit brought on by mating in your demon side is so strong, the battle between the two sides was enough to knock you out.”
Inuyasha nodded his head. That sounded similar to what he recalled from before he had passed out. “But then why am I awake now? And I don’t feel any battle or anything like that in my head anymore.” Come to think of it, he felt very much at peace with himself at the moment. He was even feeling oddly at peace with his elder brother holding him the way he was, despite the fact that there were others in the room. He offhandedly wondered if these feelings were an aftereffect of the mating as he listened to the witch’s reply.
“You might no longer feel the battle because your mate is currently asleep. Or he might have actually managed to put your mind at ease while YOU were asleep,” Sturaki did not sound so sure herself at the second possibility, but that was not what grabbed his attention. Unless there was a chance of it having happened, she never would have even mentioned it.
Because of this, Inuyasha looked at her in confusion. How could his elder brother have put him at ease while he was still out? She appeared to understand his confusion for she sighed and explained, “I helped him to get into your mind…”
“What the fuck did you do that for?!” Inuyasha screamed, momentarily forgetting about his weakness and the fact that his mate was draped over him, and pushed himself up into a full standing position. He ignored his elder brother who had abruptly awoken at the jostling and was currently looking around slightly dazed and confused. In another situation, he would have found it to be highly amusing, but right now he was much more concerned about what this witch was saying.
“I helped him because you needed him there,” she answered as if she were talking to a slow child. Watching the patronizing look cross the witch’s face merely infuriated him more and he used this fury to fuel his weary body into remaining upright.
“Did you ever think I might not WANT him there?! It’s bad enough you come and go as you please! I do NOT need more people in my head!” he yelled, stepping over his prone, and now looking a little more alert, if not still confused as to what the shouting was about, brother.
However, despite his advances and the growl that issued in warning from his throat as he drew closer, the witch did not falter in her gaze or show any sign of backing down. “I did what I had to, child. Nothing more, nothing less. If you had allowed me into your mind, I would have done it myself. However, you decided that the only one welcome there was your mate, not I.”
Inuyasha glowered at her. It was then that he felt something on his calf. Looking down, he saw a pale hand that he readily recognized wrapped around the bottom of his leg just above the ankle. Turning to the owner of the hand, he asked, “What do YOU want?”
He was answered by a completely calm, even serene voice, “Mate. Calm down. What is done is done. It cannot be undone.”
Inuyasha looked into the tranquil, golden eyes of his mate for a moment and felt all the anger drain from his body. Only, with the rage no longer present, he realized that he was, in fact, feeling unbearably weak. He supposed being in an unnatural slumber for so long would do that to a person. He felt his stance falter but before he fell, his waist was encased in the strong arm of his mate.
Allowing the arm to draw him back down to the ground, he sat on his brother’s lap in a loose embrace without protest. He did not even object when the youkai lord rested his head on his shoulder and nuzzled his neck although he did find it to be a bit of odd behavior on the part of the youkai. Despite that observation though, there was something inside him that was telling him to accept this. That this was alright. This was the way it was supposed to be and, despite the oddity, he could feel himself relaxing into the hold.
They remained there for moments that felt like hours to Inuyasha as he felt rather than watched his mate settle himself around him more comfortably. Evidently having found the most comfortable position he could with the way they were sitting, his elder brother stopped his movement all together.
When Sesshoumaru went right back to sleep with his head still resting on Inuyasha’s shoulder, seeming to content himself with breathing in the half-demon’s scent continuously, the younger male could hold his peace no longer. “What the hell happened to him?” His older brother was not acting the way he normally did, no matter how he chose to look at it.
Once again the swan demoness answered his question. “He has been by your side since you fell ill. He refused to sleep, barely ate, and has been feeding his youki steadily into you the entire time.”
Inuyasha felt his eyes widen in amazement. He turned an incredulous look on his mate and wondered what in the world he had been thinking. That didn’t sound like his elder brother at all. And yet, if someone had told him that his big brother would be sleeping on his shoulder while holding him in his lap, he would have called them crazy as well.
He was pulled from his contemplation by a new and rather unpleasant sensation: this one in his stomach. “Speaking of eating, you got any food around here? I haven’t eaten in… how long was I out?”
“Just over a week, Lord Inuyasha, and I will send a servant to retrieve food for you right away. You must be starved,” answered Yoshehana.
He watched the healer leave the room, undoubtedly to find a servant to bring him food and turned his gaze to the elderly wolf healer who had been silent this entire time. “So, what’s your deal?”
The wolf looked at him in mild offense. “Excuse me?”
“Why are you here? I can’t imagine my brother would keep a wolf on staff.”
“Your brother? What does your brother have to do with this?”
“We are in my brother’s palace, you know.”
“Ah, I see, you are confused about your whereabouts. You are no longer in your brother’s palace, both you and your mate were moved to your mate’s palace, most likely after you went to sleep. Although why they would choose to move you instead of just leave you at your brother’s palace and have the help come there, I cannot answer for you.”
Inuyasha looked at the wolf healer closely. It was incomprehensible to him that a wolf demon would not be able to tell they were related. The scents should have been easily matched up as being family, even though they were only half-brothers. Then again, he supposed the wolf may have lost some of his more delicate senses to old age. But if his sense of smell was truly that bad, Inuyasha couldn’t comprehend how he could be a decent healer.
Still looking at the wolf as if he was a little on the crazy side, Inuyasha slowly and clearly said, “You see this demon sleeping on me right now? This is my brother, Sesshoumaru. He is also my mate. When I say I am at my brother’s castle, I am also saying that I am at my mate’s castle. Got it?”
He watched the wolf demon look at him like he was insane. “How can you say he is your brother? You smell nothing alike.”
Inuyasha was just about to argue the point when Sturaki stepped in. “Actually, they are brothers, half-brothers if you want to get specific. They have the same father.”
“Then how do you explain the lack of commonalities in their scents?” the wolf demon asked her in challenge. Inuyasha could easily tell that the wolf demon was sure he was right and they were wrong.
“The difference in scents has nothing to do with their familial relationship and everything to do with the changes that are taking place inside Inuyasha himself.”
Inuyasha once again turned his attention to the witch. There was only one change that he was aware of having taken place recently, “You mean the ability to bear pups?”
“That as well as some other changes that are taking place inside you.” When he looked at her confused, she decided to elaborate. “You are aware that you are still growing in power correct?”
“Sure,” Inuyasha said with a shrug. “I’m not exactly full-grown yet, you know?”
“Indeed. There is a power in you that is just beginning to come to the surface.”
Just as she finished speaking, a servant came in and placed food in front of Inuyasha. He found himself stuck with a choice, either eat or find out about this new power of his. He was incredibly interested in this new power, but was also quite hungry. The witch seemed to notice his problem and told him, “Eat, child, you are starving. I shall tell you what you wish to know.”
After he began to eat, she continued to talk. “Remember the discussion we had about your ability to sense things? This is more or less an extension of that.
“You are gradually becoming more and more in touch with the world around you. You will find it easier and easier to sense things. Eventually you will be able to actually affect the world on a larger scale in return.”
Inuyasha could accept that, all his other powers had been growing in leaps and bounds lately, why not that one, too? But it still didn’t explain a damn thing about his scent. His scent had never changed before when he had gained a new ability, why should it now? As such, Inuyasha stopped stuffing food into his mouth long enough to ask, “But what does that have to do with my scent changing?”
“As you get more in touch with the world, your scent is changing to reflect that. It is becoming less of a combination of your parent’s scents and more of an overwhelming natural scent. It will only become more pronounced as time goes by.”
“That’s utterly ridiculous,” the wolf demon said and Inuyasha was inclined to agree with him. “Gaining new powers does not lead to a change in scent.”
Sturaki turned to look at him, “Maybe not when the new power being gained is a demonic power, but I never said that this was a new demonic power.”
“If it is not a demonic power, then what is it?” Inuyasha asked, having finished eating the food in front of him. He was starting to think that his elder brother had the right idea in falling asleep. He was finding it hard to follow the conversation in his current state.
He ‘keh’ed to himself. Who would have thought that one could wake up from an unnatural sleep feeling more tired than they had before? Apparently Sturaki noticed his problem for she said, “It is not important right now. All you need to concentrate on at present is regaining your strength.
“Go back to sleep with your mate, I will make sure no one disturbs you.”
Inuyasha considered arguing with her, but really did not feel up to it at the moment. Watching the healers and witch take their leave of the room, he stifled a yawn and tried to figure out how to get comfortable.
After attempting to move and finding that what had appeared to be a loose embrace was actually a rather secure one, he gave up on moving. It wasn’t as if he had not been in much less comfortable positions for sleep in the past, after all. So, Inuyasha decided to just let Sesshoumaru have his way and closed his eyes to follow his brother into sleep, still sitting up in his mate’s lap, completely oblivious to the turmoil that was taking place in the rest of the palace.
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I wanted to thank everyone who wished my daughter well with her broken leg. She is doing much better now, although she still doesn’t like to walk on it. (Something about a weakened ankle from it having been held immobile for so long.)
Next chapter, back to the rest of the people at the palace, namely Kagome and company. (Show of hands: How many forgot all about them? Uh-huh. I thought so.)
As always, thanks to everyone who takes the time to read and/or review. I appreciate them both.
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in
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Chapter 45: Awakening Powers
Inuyasha awoke to an unusual sight. The witch Sturaki was kneeling next to him, looking down with a slightly concerned face. Behind her stood two youkai: a wolf and a swan by their scents, healers both by their garb. He tried to move, but found that he was being held down by something. It was not until then that he realized his mate was lying, sound asleep, on the futon next to him and had managed to trap the hanyou’s arm and leg under his own.
He tried to shift out from underneath the larger male, if for no other reason then because there were other people, not all of whom he knew, in the room. However, for every movement of his, the hold on him only grew stronger. Not feeling up to taking on this task at the moment, he allowed himself to drop back onto the futon beside his slumbering mate.
Taking in the faces of the three others in the room, he decided to try and get answers from the only one he recognized. Turning his eyes to the witch, he asked, “What happened, witch?”
“Do you not remember, child?” Sturaki asked, looking a little surprised.
Inuyasha thought about it. He tried to piece together what had happened, but it was all a blur to him. Apparently, his memory didn’t seem to be working so well at the moment. “The last thing I remember is fighting with Sesshoumaru. He was being an ass, trying to force me into submission, and then… nothing.”
“You have been in an unnatural sleep. Your youki was losing strength and it caused you to collapse,” came an explanation from the swan youkai.
Inuyasha looked at her for a second. “Who are you?”
“I am the healer, Yoshehana, Lord Inuyasha,” she responded with a bow.
“Ok… Does the bast- uh, Lord Sesshoumaru know you’re here?” He was not in the habit of using any type of honorific, especially not for his brother, but being that he was mostly incapacitated and this healer was obviously at least partially in charge of his care, he decided to err on the side of caution and tagged it on.
However, even with the addition of the title, she still looked taken aback by his question. She was looking at him as if he dealt her an insult and he inwardly rolled his eyes at such idiotic behavior over a simple question. “Of course he knows I am here. I am his healer.”
“Right,” he said, not sounding as if he completely believed her. Why would his brother want such a fragile looking creature for his healer? She looked like a strong wind would knock her over. Pushing aside his musings for the moment, he turned his gaze to Sturaki, asking, “So what really happened?” while purposefully ignoring the annoyed look on the swan demoness’ face.
“From what I have seen, you managed to complete the second claim without any problems. Then, the next morning, Lord Sesshoumaru tried to force you into acting like the beta mate. The human side of your being rebelled against this idea. However, since the internal desire to submit brought on by mating in your demon side is so strong, the battle between the two sides was enough to knock you out.”
Inuyasha nodded his head. That sounded similar to what he recalled from before he had passed out. “But then why am I awake now? And I don’t feel any battle or anything like that in my head anymore.” Come to think of it, he felt very much at peace with himself at the moment. He was even feeling oddly at peace with his elder brother holding him the way he was, despite the fact that there were others in the room. He offhandedly wondered if these feelings were an aftereffect of the mating as he listened to the witch’s reply.
“You might no longer feel the battle because your mate is currently asleep. Or he might have actually managed to put your mind at ease while YOU were asleep,” Sturaki did not sound so sure herself at the second possibility, but that was not what grabbed his attention. Unless there was a chance of it having happened, she never would have even mentioned it.
Because of this, Inuyasha looked at her in confusion. How could his elder brother have put him at ease while he was still out? She appeared to understand his confusion for she sighed and explained, “I helped him to get into your mind…”
“What the fuck did you do that for?!” Inuyasha screamed, momentarily forgetting about his weakness and the fact that his mate was draped over him, and pushed himself up into a full standing position. He ignored his elder brother who had abruptly awoken at the jostling and was currently looking around slightly dazed and confused. In another situation, he would have found it to be highly amusing, but right now he was much more concerned about what this witch was saying.
“I helped him because you needed him there,” she answered as if she were talking to a slow child. Watching the patronizing look cross the witch’s face merely infuriated him more and he used this fury to fuel his weary body into remaining upright.
“Did you ever think I might not WANT him there?! It’s bad enough you come and go as you please! I do NOT need more people in my head!” he yelled, stepping over his prone, and now looking a little more alert, if not still confused as to what the shouting was about, brother.
However, despite his advances and the growl that issued in warning from his throat as he drew closer, the witch did not falter in her gaze or show any sign of backing down. “I did what I had to, child. Nothing more, nothing less. If you had allowed me into your mind, I would have done it myself. However, you decided that the only one welcome there was your mate, not I.”
Inuyasha glowered at her. It was then that he felt something on his calf. Looking down, he saw a pale hand that he readily recognized wrapped around the bottom of his leg just above the ankle. Turning to the owner of the hand, he asked, “What do YOU want?”
He was answered by a completely calm, even serene voice, “Mate. Calm down. What is done is done. It cannot be undone.”
Inuyasha looked into the tranquil, golden eyes of his mate for a moment and felt all the anger drain from his body. Only, with the rage no longer present, he realized that he was, in fact, feeling unbearably weak. He supposed being in an unnatural slumber for so long would do that to a person. He felt his stance falter but before he fell, his waist was encased in the strong arm of his mate.
Allowing the arm to draw him back down to the ground, he sat on his brother’s lap in a loose embrace without protest. He did not even object when the youkai lord rested his head on his shoulder and nuzzled his neck although he did find it to be a bit of odd behavior on the part of the youkai. Despite that observation though, there was something inside him that was telling him to accept this. That this was alright. This was the way it was supposed to be and, despite the oddity, he could feel himself relaxing into the hold.
They remained there for moments that felt like hours to Inuyasha as he felt rather than watched his mate settle himself around him more comfortably. Evidently having found the most comfortable position he could with the way they were sitting, his elder brother stopped his movement all together.
When Sesshoumaru went right back to sleep with his head still resting on Inuyasha’s shoulder, seeming to content himself with breathing in the half-demon’s scent continuously, the younger male could hold his peace no longer. “What the hell happened to him?” His older brother was not acting the way he normally did, no matter how he chose to look at it.
Once again the swan demoness answered his question. “He has been by your side since you fell ill. He refused to sleep, barely ate, and has been feeding his youki steadily into you the entire time.”
Inuyasha felt his eyes widen in amazement. He turned an incredulous look on his mate and wondered what in the world he had been thinking. That didn’t sound like his elder brother at all. And yet, if someone had told him that his big brother would be sleeping on his shoulder while holding him in his lap, he would have called them crazy as well.
He was pulled from his contemplation by a new and rather unpleasant sensation: this one in his stomach. “Speaking of eating, you got any food around here? I haven’t eaten in… how long was I out?”
“Just over a week, Lord Inuyasha, and I will send a servant to retrieve food for you right away. You must be starved,” answered Yoshehana.
He watched the healer leave the room, undoubtedly to find a servant to bring him food and turned his gaze to the elderly wolf healer who had been silent this entire time. “So, what’s your deal?”
The wolf looked at him in mild offense. “Excuse me?”
“Why are you here? I can’t imagine my brother would keep a wolf on staff.”
“Your brother? What does your brother have to do with this?”
“We are in my brother’s palace, you know.”
“Ah, I see, you are confused about your whereabouts. You are no longer in your brother’s palace, both you and your mate were moved to your mate’s palace, most likely after you went to sleep. Although why they would choose to move you instead of just leave you at your brother’s palace and have the help come there, I cannot answer for you.”
Inuyasha looked at the wolf healer closely. It was incomprehensible to him that a wolf demon would not be able to tell they were related. The scents should have been easily matched up as being family, even though they were only half-brothers. Then again, he supposed the wolf may have lost some of his more delicate senses to old age. But if his sense of smell was truly that bad, Inuyasha couldn’t comprehend how he could be a decent healer.
Still looking at the wolf as if he was a little on the crazy side, Inuyasha slowly and clearly said, “You see this demon sleeping on me right now? This is my brother, Sesshoumaru. He is also my mate. When I say I am at my brother’s castle, I am also saying that I am at my mate’s castle. Got it?”
He watched the wolf demon look at him like he was insane. “How can you say he is your brother? You smell nothing alike.”
Inuyasha was just about to argue the point when Sturaki stepped in. “Actually, they are brothers, half-brothers if you want to get specific. They have the same father.”
“Then how do you explain the lack of commonalities in their scents?” the wolf demon asked her in challenge. Inuyasha could easily tell that the wolf demon was sure he was right and they were wrong.
“The difference in scents has nothing to do with their familial relationship and everything to do with the changes that are taking place inside Inuyasha himself.”
Inuyasha once again turned his attention to the witch. There was only one change that he was aware of having taken place recently, “You mean the ability to bear pups?”
“That as well as some other changes that are taking place inside you.” When he looked at her confused, she decided to elaborate. “You are aware that you are still growing in power correct?”
“Sure,” Inuyasha said with a shrug. “I’m not exactly full-grown yet, you know?”
“Indeed. There is a power in you that is just beginning to come to the surface.”
Just as she finished speaking, a servant came in and placed food in front of Inuyasha. He found himself stuck with a choice, either eat or find out about this new power of his. He was incredibly interested in this new power, but was also quite hungry. The witch seemed to notice his problem and told him, “Eat, child, you are starving. I shall tell you what you wish to know.”
After he began to eat, she continued to talk. “Remember the discussion we had about your ability to sense things? This is more or less an extension of that.
“You are gradually becoming more and more in touch with the world around you. You will find it easier and easier to sense things. Eventually you will be able to actually affect the world on a larger scale in return.”
Inuyasha could accept that, all his other powers had been growing in leaps and bounds lately, why not that one, too? But it still didn’t explain a damn thing about his scent. His scent had never changed before when he had gained a new ability, why should it now? As such, Inuyasha stopped stuffing food into his mouth long enough to ask, “But what does that have to do with my scent changing?”
“As you get more in touch with the world, your scent is changing to reflect that. It is becoming less of a combination of your parent’s scents and more of an overwhelming natural scent. It will only become more pronounced as time goes by.”
“That’s utterly ridiculous,” the wolf demon said and Inuyasha was inclined to agree with him. “Gaining new powers does not lead to a change in scent.”
Sturaki turned to look at him, “Maybe not when the new power being gained is a demonic power, but I never said that this was a new demonic power.”
“If it is not a demonic power, then what is it?” Inuyasha asked, having finished eating the food in front of him. He was starting to think that his elder brother had the right idea in falling asleep. He was finding it hard to follow the conversation in his current state.
He ‘keh’ed to himself. Who would have thought that one could wake up from an unnatural sleep feeling more tired than they had before? Apparently Sturaki noticed his problem for she said, “It is not important right now. All you need to concentrate on at present is regaining your strength.
“Go back to sleep with your mate, I will make sure no one disturbs you.”
Inuyasha considered arguing with her, but really did not feel up to it at the moment. Watching the healers and witch take their leave of the room, he stifled a yawn and tried to figure out how to get comfortable.
After attempting to move and finding that what had appeared to be a loose embrace was actually a rather secure one, he gave up on moving. It wasn’t as if he had not been in much less comfortable positions for sleep in the past, after all. So, Inuyasha decided to just let Sesshoumaru have his way and closed his eyes to follow his brother into sleep, still sitting up in his mate’s lap, completely oblivious to the turmoil that was taking place in the rest of the palace.
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I wanted to thank everyone who wished my daughter well with her broken leg. She is doing much better now, although she still doesn’t like to walk on it. (Something about a weakened ankle from it having been held immobile for so long.)
Next chapter, back to the rest of the people at the palace, namely Kagome and company. (Show of hands: How many forgot all about them? Uh-huh. I thought so.)
As always, thanks to everyone who takes the time to read and/or review. I appreciate them both.