InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ Fears of the New Moon ( Chapter 59 )
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By: mshutts 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 05.05.2009 | Updated On: 05.05.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 2.4K | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Psychological / Hentai | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 05.05.2009 | Updated On: 05.05.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | 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 57: Fears of the New Moon
Sesshoumaru moved determinedly down the hallway towards his sorcerer, still holding onto Inuyasha’s wrist. He was watching his little brother out of the corner of his eye as the half-demon fingered the spot where the rosary used to be in wonder. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction that he had been able to relieve his mate of this particular burden.
In fact, he was feeling so self-satisfied that he almost missed his mate’s softly spoken words. The ‘thank you’ that was spoken in Inuyasha’s unusually gentle tone was enough to shock him. He had not been expecting it at all. His baby brother did not express appreciation for things. At least, he did not in his experience of him.
In an attempt to cover up how nonplussed this turn of events had made him, he inquired as to why he was receiving thanks. As far as he was concerned, there was no true reason for him to receive gratitude. All he had done was what any alpha worth anything would have done. Did his brother not know that? There was nothing special about this, no need to call attention to it.
And so, after ascertaining that his mate knew that he was only doing what any good mate would do, he continued on his way. He reasoned that the half-demon was slightly taken aback by what he had said and needed a bit of time to process it, which he would not take away from him. He was well aware of the fact that his new mate did not understand much of mating practices and how mates acted towards one another, after all.
However, when he still was not joined even after what he considered to be a reasonable amount of time, he called out to his younger brother to retrieve his attention. And, when the predictable outburst came, he recalled, rather fondly, how his brother had laid out the conditions for his submission. Truth to be told, they were almost too perfect.
He wondered if his young mate was aware that he had more or less been describing the entire, often confusing, nature of their own relationship. Being that he was brother, alpha, mate, and even guardian of the boy, it was enough to make one’s mind run around in circles if one thought about it too much.
And yet, with as puzzling as it had the chance of being, Sesshoumaru still thought it was absolutely perfect. After all, their entire relationship to date had been confusing, why should their mating be any less so? With a small smile inside his head, he sought to bring his younger brother along with him once again.
He knew that he had his brother when he baited the hook with what he had planned for the miko. Sesshoumaru was well aware that Inuyasha would not be able to resist finding out just what was going to happen to her. He still had that annoying habit of trying to protect her going on. And, after promising he would not kill her, his brother was once again following him, much to Sesshoumaru’s pleasure.
Then, all the sudden he felt a pulse. It was an odd sensation, but he did not feel concerned by it. However, he suddenly heard a gasp from his mate. Turning quickly, he was just in time to see a figure in red with black hair running around the corner, away from him, right where his mate used to be.
His youki panicked for a moment before he reminded it that his mate’s human side had black hair. And, using some guesswork as well as half-listened to rumors, Sesshoumaru determined that the figure in red who had retreated so rapidly was in fact his mate, who was now apparently human.
Putting all thoughts of revenge aside for the time being, he quickly made off after his mate, wondering why the child had run away from him. And why there was a scent of fear in the air where the boy used to stand. Inuyasha could not possibly think he meant to harm him, could he?
The very idea was ridiculous. He was his mate. His ALPHA mate. Every instinct in his body was currently in tune to protect his little brother. Surely, even without full knowledge of the bond, his baby brother had to be aware of that. The hanyou’s own youki would have shown him as much.
‘But he is without youki at the moment,’ Sesshoumaru’s own thoughts reminded him.
The demon lord’s eyes widened slightly. A horrible thought had just occurred to him. He had thought that the three parts of Inuyasha were together in their opinion of him as a mate. But, what if that was not the case?
What if the other two sides had effectively overruled the human side? What if the human side had realized that he stood no chance in going against both the demon and hanyou sides and decided to say he agreed but only to buy time until his little brother turned human so that he could affect an escape?
Once again cursing his lack of foresight in dealing with his little brother when he was a young child, Sesshoumaru hurried after his wayward mate. There was no way he could allow this human side to take everything he had just gained from him.
However, before he made it to his mate, he noticed that the human had run into Sturaki. Pausing for a moment, he caught a glance from the witch which was clearly asking him to stay where he was, out of earshot and sensing range of the human. And, since it was unlikely she would do anything to hurt their bond after being so instrumental in formulating it in the first place, he allowed her to have her space and waited, silently, to see what she had in mind all the while preparing to detain his mate if necessary.
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She could barely keep herself from rolling her eyes. Humans were such frustrating creatures. Why they had to make such a big deal out of such a little thing was beyond her. It was obvious that the dog demons belonged together. Anyone could see that. ‘Anyone but a human,’ commented the voice in the back of her mind and she sighed again.
She couldn’t believe just how much time she had spent attempting to explain what was going on to them. ‘Why did I even bother?’ she wondered. ‘It’s not as if they’ll even begin to understand it.’ She mentally shook her head in frustration. She was going to give herself another headache if she continued to think about it.
After leaving the annoying beings behind again, she had decided to walk back to her quarters and try to get some more meditation in when she was almost run over by a figure in red with black hair and violet eyes. She had a second of shock before she realized that this must be Inuyasha’s human form and gripped the red sleeve before its owner could bypass her, determined to find out what was wrong.
This desire was only increased when she, moments later, saw the youkai lord of the west appear around the corner, obviously in hot pursuit. Sensing that the child in front of her might be more willing to talk to her than to his mate, she asked the elder with her eyes to let her handle this and gave a slight nod of gratitude when he came no further.
Turning her gaze back to the child, she could see the frightened look on his face and practically feel the panic seeping off him into her own body. “Little one?”
“Look, you old hag, let me go. I gotta get outta here,” he replied curtly as he tried to pull the material from her hand. He was strong for a human but no match for her currently.
“Not until you tell me what you are so frightened of.”
“Feh. I ain’t frightened of nothing,” Inuyasha said with a huff.
“No? Then what were you running from, child?”
He looked at her like she was crazy. “Can’t you tell? I’m human right now. No one can see me like this.”
“Not even your mate?” she asked, tilting her head to the side in question.
“Especially not Sesshoumaru,” was said with such surety that it caused her to wonder just what the hanyou thought his mate was going to do to him.
“Why not? Do you not think he would like to get to know all sides of you?”
“Hell no. He hates humans.”
“But he has that little human girl with him, does he not?” she inquired trying to get him to see how ridiculous he was being.
She could see his resolve wavering. “That has nothing to do with this,” he finally decided upon.
“How could that have nothing to do with this?”
Inuyasha turned away from her, “You don’t understand.”
“Maybe if you told me, I would.”
“Why would I tell you anything, witch?” he asked, looking at her skeptically.
“Remember, I have seen your life, I have seen your streams, perhaps I can help you steer your course. After all, when I was visiting you in your dreams, you asked for my advice. I did not give it then, but perhaps I will be able to give it now.”
“Maybe,” he hedged, still unsure about whether to accept her help or not.
“How about we start with why you are afraid of your mate. Did he do something to you?”
“That’s just it!” the hanyou turned human yelled. “He’s NOT my mate! I’m NOTHING to him!”
“Don’t be absurd child, of course he is your mate.”
The human looked at her with tears in his eyes. “No, he’s not,” he whispered. “When we mated, I did not accept his mark.”
Her eyes widened. Of all the possible trouble, she had had no idea it was of this nature. “Whyever not, child? I thought you wanted to be his mate.”
The hanyou turned human thought about it for a moment and then tried to explain, cautiously. “Well, the demon really wanted to be his mate. The half-demon managed to be convinced by the demon because of mating season.”
“But what about you?”
“I didn’t trust him,” came out as a whisper that she had to strain to hear.
“Why not?”
“After all the horrible things he had done to us in the past, I didn’t trust him enough to give him power over myself. And now, I said I would give him a chance, but what if he doesn’t want me anymore? I don’t bear his mark like the demon and half-demon. I’m nothing to him,” he said, getting more and more visibly upset as he continued to talk.
With a deep breath, he continued in a despairing voice, “I’m the one who wanted nothing to do with him. You don’t know my brother like I do. He holds a grudge for a really long time. If I was him, I wouldn’t want to see me. I almost destroyed his mating.”
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That was as much as Sesshoumaru was willing to hear. Now that he knew it was the fear talking rather than some preconceived plan to leave him forever, he could deal with it accordingly. And it had to be dealt with, immediately.
He had never heard of a partial mating before encountering his little brother’s human self inside his head, but he had thought that was merely a symbolic thing, not that it meant that he, in all truth, had NOT marked the human side.
From his understanding, if he were to take the haori off his mate right now, he would not see a mark at all. He had never heard of such a thing. Although, he supposed it was possible that the mark was there, and it was simply that the human did not sense it. Human’s had such weak senses, that that might just be the case.
In either instance, it was obvious to him what needed to be done. He needed to collect his mate, take him back to their chambers, and see to setting this side right. He could not have his young mate running off every time he turned into a human, after all.
As such, he stepped forward out of the backdrop where he had been listening. “Inuyasha,” was all he said and his young mate’s eyes turned fearfully towards him. While at one point he might have relished that fear, now it only made him feel sick. What must his mate think of him to believe he would harm him when he was defenseless?
Pushing forward regardless, Sesshoumaru stated, “We have much to discuss. You will come with me.”
He watched the human in front of him back up shaking his head. It looked as if Inuyasha was going to continue backing up even farther but for the witch standing behind him, effectively blocking his path.
Sesshoumaru observed the frantic eyes of his mate turn to the witch. All she said in response was, “Go.”
Now his little brother began to back away from both of them until he ran into a wall and looked back and forth rapidly as if searching for an escape route. But there was not one to be found. Sesshoumaru knew that even if his brother ran, he would easily catch him with only his human strength to aide him. He knew that his brother knew it as well.
The youkai merely stood and watched the younger boy for a moment before deciding that it did not look like he had any intention of making a move before stepping forward and holding out a hand. When no move was made other than to look at the hand in confusion, Sesshoumaru said, “I will not hurt you. We must talk.”
“What if I don’t want to talk to you?” came the muttered response from his beta.
Resisting the urge to lose his temper as he KNEW that would not help the situation, Sesshoumaru moved forward faster than a human could see and lifted his brother into his arm and fur. Mate in tow, the inuyoukai ignored the complaints of the boy in his arms and walked purposefully back to their chambers. This matter had to be settled tonight.
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As always, thank you for reading and/or reviewing. I greatly appreciate both.
By: mshutts
WARNING: incest
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in
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Chapter 57: Fears of the New Moon
Sesshoumaru moved determinedly down the hallway towards his sorcerer, still holding onto Inuyasha’s wrist. He was watching his little brother out of the corner of his eye as the half-demon fingered the spot where the rosary used to be in wonder. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction that he had been able to relieve his mate of this particular burden.
In fact, he was feeling so self-satisfied that he almost missed his mate’s softly spoken words. The ‘thank you’ that was spoken in Inuyasha’s unusually gentle tone was enough to shock him. He had not been expecting it at all. His baby brother did not express appreciation for things. At least, he did not in his experience of him.
In an attempt to cover up how nonplussed this turn of events had made him, he inquired as to why he was receiving thanks. As far as he was concerned, there was no true reason for him to receive gratitude. All he had done was what any alpha worth anything would have done. Did his brother not know that? There was nothing special about this, no need to call attention to it.
And so, after ascertaining that his mate knew that he was only doing what any good mate would do, he continued on his way. He reasoned that the half-demon was slightly taken aback by what he had said and needed a bit of time to process it, which he would not take away from him. He was well aware of the fact that his new mate did not understand much of mating practices and how mates acted towards one another, after all.
However, when he still was not joined even after what he considered to be a reasonable amount of time, he called out to his younger brother to retrieve his attention. And, when the predictable outburst came, he recalled, rather fondly, how his brother had laid out the conditions for his submission. Truth to be told, they were almost too perfect.
He wondered if his young mate was aware that he had more or less been describing the entire, often confusing, nature of their own relationship. Being that he was brother, alpha, mate, and even guardian of the boy, it was enough to make one’s mind run around in circles if one thought about it too much.
And yet, with as puzzling as it had the chance of being, Sesshoumaru still thought it was absolutely perfect. After all, their entire relationship to date had been confusing, why should their mating be any less so? With a small smile inside his head, he sought to bring his younger brother along with him once again.
He knew that he had his brother when he baited the hook with what he had planned for the miko. Sesshoumaru was well aware that Inuyasha would not be able to resist finding out just what was going to happen to her. He still had that annoying habit of trying to protect her going on. And, after promising he would not kill her, his brother was once again following him, much to Sesshoumaru’s pleasure.
Then, all the sudden he felt a pulse. It was an odd sensation, but he did not feel concerned by it. However, he suddenly heard a gasp from his mate. Turning quickly, he was just in time to see a figure in red with black hair running around the corner, away from him, right where his mate used to be.
His youki panicked for a moment before he reminded it that his mate’s human side had black hair. And, using some guesswork as well as half-listened to rumors, Sesshoumaru determined that the figure in red who had retreated so rapidly was in fact his mate, who was now apparently human.
Putting all thoughts of revenge aside for the time being, he quickly made off after his mate, wondering why the child had run away from him. And why there was a scent of fear in the air where the boy used to stand. Inuyasha could not possibly think he meant to harm him, could he?
The very idea was ridiculous. He was his mate. His ALPHA mate. Every instinct in his body was currently in tune to protect his little brother. Surely, even without full knowledge of the bond, his baby brother had to be aware of that. The hanyou’s own youki would have shown him as much.
‘But he is without youki at the moment,’ Sesshoumaru’s own thoughts reminded him.
The demon lord’s eyes widened slightly. A horrible thought had just occurred to him. He had thought that the three parts of Inuyasha were together in their opinion of him as a mate. But, what if that was not the case?
What if the other two sides had effectively overruled the human side? What if the human side had realized that he stood no chance in going against both the demon and hanyou sides and decided to say he agreed but only to buy time until his little brother turned human so that he could affect an escape?
Once again cursing his lack of foresight in dealing with his little brother when he was a young child, Sesshoumaru hurried after his wayward mate. There was no way he could allow this human side to take everything he had just gained from him.
However, before he made it to his mate, he noticed that the human had run into Sturaki. Pausing for a moment, he caught a glance from the witch which was clearly asking him to stay where he was, out of earshot and sensing range of the human. And, since it was unlikely she would do anything to hurt their bond after being so instrumental in formulating it in the first place, he allowed her to have her space and waited, silently, to see what she had in mind all the while preparing to detain his mate if necessary.
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She could barely keep herself from rolling her eyes. Humans were such frustrating creatures. Why they had to make such a big deal out of such a little thing was beyond her. It was obvious that the dog demons belonged together. Anyone could see that. ‘Anyone but a human,’ commented the voice in the back of her mind and she sighed again.
She couldn’t believe just how much time she had spent attempting to explain what was going on to them. ‘Why did I even bother?’ she wondered. ‘It’s not as if they’ll even begin to understand it.’ She mentally shook her head in frustration. She was going to give herself another headache if she continued to think about it.
After leaving the annoying beings behind again, she had decided to walk back to her quarters and try to get some more meditation in when she was almost run over by a figure in red with black hair and violet eyes. She had a second of shock before she realized that this must be Inuyasha’s human form and gripped the red sleeve before its owner could bypass her, determined to find out what was wrong.
This desire was only increased when she, moments later, saw the youkai lord of the west appear around the corner, obviously in hot pursuit. Sensing that the child in front of her might be more willing to talk to her than to his mate, she asked the elder with her eyes to let her handle this and gave a slight nod of gratitude when he came no further.
Turning her gaze back to the child, she could see the frightened look on his face and practically feel the panic seeping off him into her own body. “Little one?”
“Look, you old hag, let me go. I gotta get outta here,” he replied curtly as he tried to pull the material from her hand. He was strong for a human but no match for her currently.
“Not until you tell me what you are so frightened of.”
“Feh. I ain’t frightened of nothing,” Inuyasha said with a huff.
“No? Then what were you running from, child?”
He looked at her like she was crazy. “Can’t you tell? I’m human right now. No one can see me like this.”
“Not even your mate?” she asked, tilting her head to the side in question.
“Especially not Sesshoumaru,” was said with such surety that it caused her to wonder just what the hanyou thought his mate was going to do to him.
“Why not? Do you not think he would like to get to know all sides of you?”
“Hell no. He hates humans.”
“But he has that little human girl with him, does he not?” she inquired trying to get him to see how ridiculous he was being.
She could see his resolve wavering. “That has nothing to do with this,” he finally decided upon.
“How could that have nothing to do with this?”
Inuyasha turned away from her, “You don’t understand.”
“Maybe if you told me, I would.”
“Why would I tell you anything, witch?” he asked, looking at her skeptically.
“Remember, I have seen your life, I have seen your streams, perhaps I can help you steer your course. After all, when I was visiting you in your dreams, you asked for my advice. I did not give it then, but perhaps I will be able to give it now.”
“Maybe,” he hedged, still unsure about whether to accept her help or not.
“How about we start with why you are afraid of your mate. Did he do something to you?”
“That’s just it!” the hanyou turned human yelled. “He’s NOT my mate! I’m NOTHING to him!”
“Don’t be absurd child, of course he is your mate.”
The human looked at her with tears in his eyes. “No, he’s not,” he whispered. “When we mated, I did not accept his mark.”
Her eyes widened. Of all the possible trouble, she had had no idea it was of this nature. “Whyever not, child? I thought you wanted to be his mate.”
The hanyou turned human thought about it for a moment and then tried to explain, cautiously. “Well, the demon really wanted to be his mate. The half-demon managed to be convinced by the demon because of mating season.”
“But what about you?”
“I didn’t trust him,” came out as a whisper that she had to strain to hear.
“Why not?”
“After all the horrible things he had done to us in the past, I didn’t trust him enough to give him power over myself. And now, I said I would give him a chance, but what if he doesn’t want me anymore? I don’t bear his mark like the demon and half-demon. I’m nothing to him,” he said, getting more and more visibly upset as he continued to talk.
With a deep breath, he continued in a despairing voice, “I’m the one who wanted nothing to do with him. You don’t know my brother like I do. He holds a grudge for a really long time. If I was him, I wouldn’t want to see me. I almost destroyed his mating.”
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That was as much as Sesshoumaru was willing to hear. Now that he knew it was the fear talking rather than some preconceived plan to leave him forever, he could deal with it accordingly. And it had to be dealt with, immediately.
He had never heard of a partial mating before encountering his little brother’s human self inside his head, but he had thought that was merely a symbolic thing, not that it meant that he, in all truth, had NOT marked the human side.
From his understanding, if he were to take the haori off his mate right now, he would not see a mark at all. He had never heard of such a thing. Although, he supposed it was possible that the mark was there, and it was simply that the human did not sense it. Human’s had such weak senses, that that might just be the case.
In either instance, it was obvious to him what needed to be done. He needed to collect his mate, take him back to their chambers, and see to setting this side right. He could not have his young mate running off every time he turned into a human, after all.
As such, he stepped forward out of the backdrop where he had been listening. “Inuyasha,” was all he said and his young mate’s eyes turned fearfully towards him. While at one point he might have relished that fear, now it only made him feel sick. What must his mate think of him to believe he would harm him when he was defenseless?
Pushing forward regardless, Sesshoumaru stated, “We have much to discuss. You will come with me.”
He watched the human in front of him back up shaking his head. It looked as if Inuyasha was going to continue backing up even farther but for the witch standing behind him, effectively blocking his path.
Sesshoumaru observed the frantic eyes of his mate turn to the witch. All she said in response was, “Go.”
Now his little brother began to back away from both of them until he ran into a wall and looked back and forth rapidly as if searching for an escape route. But there was not one to be found. Sesshoumaru knew that even if his brother ran, he would easily catch him with only his human strength to aide him. He knew that his brother knew it as well.
The youkai merely stood and watched the younger boy for a moment before deciding that it did not look like he had any intention of making a move before stepping forward and holding out a hand. When no move was made other than to look at the hand in confusion, Sesshoumaru said, “I will not hurt you. We must talk.”
“What if I don’t want to talk to you?” came the muttered response from his beta.
Resisting the urge to lose his temper as he KNEW that would not help the situation, Sesshoumaru moved forward faster than a human could see and lifted his brother into his arm and fur. Mate in tow, the inuyoukai ignored the complaints of the boy in his arms and walked purposefully back to their chambers. This matter had to be settled tonight.
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