InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Story Continues ❯ Staying in Control ( Chapter 15 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

"What could be taking her so long? It's been twenty minutes. Our food is already served. I am about to go in there and make sure she didn't fall in," Inu Yasha half joked.

'Hai, it is quite odd that she is in the bathroom this long. She doe not primp.'

Without a word to Inu Yasha, Sesshoumaru stood up and made his way to the women's bathroom. As he neared, he had smelled the scent of youkai, however not what type.

'Odd, I can only get their base scent.'

For inu youkai, scents compromised of several attributes. The most base scent identified what type of creature in general, whether youkai, hanyou, or ningen and that was in the skin. The second key was blood scent and that identified specifically what the youkai, hanyou or ningen was. Then there was imprinted scent and scent of emotion. The imprinted scent was different for each person and compromised of several combinations of scent. Of course if the creature was dirty, that was just a regular scent that marred the imprinted scent. As for scent of emotion, that was pretty explainable. Every emotion had a scent. Happiness was a light scent while anger was bitter and then the strongest was arousal, which tended to be sweet and overpowering.

The youkai had masked its imprinted scent, but he could smell Kagome's scent and the last lingering emotion that she had left and it was the stench of terror. He growled menacingly before slamming the door open. No one was in the bathroom and the window was wide open.

Kagome had been taken!

"Where's Kagome?" Inu Yasha wandered in behind him.

"Baka, can you not smell it? Kagome was taken!" Sesshoumaru grabbed Inu Yasha by the collar.

A feminine voice from the door hesistantly wafted to their ears, "Um, this is the women's
restroom."

"Glad you observed, lady," Inu Yasha sneered, ripping himself away from Sesshoumaru's grasp and ran out.

Sesshoumaru quickly followed, tossing a was at the waiter and exiting. As he exited, he could feel Inu Yasha becoming unstable and as he rounded the corner, he saw that Inu Yasha’s concealment had dropped, his silver hair and eyes in plain sight to any lurking ningen.

“Control yourself, half- breed. Your concealment has dropped and less than half a block away are those pesky photographers,” Sesshoumaru growled, and slipped his hand in a pocket, only to bring out a necklace.
Sesshoumaru always had the necklace ready in case Inu Yasha lost control and it seemed that until Kagome was brought back, he would have to use it on his half brother. The necklace had sealings on it similar to Tetsuseiga, and an enforced glamour courtesy of Shippou. The other effect was not as pleasant and that was to subdue Inu Yasha into unconsciousness. Sesshoumaru did not relish it, but it was a far more civil way to deal with Inu Yasha in his demonic state than brandish Toukijin on him.

Sesshoumaru grabbed Inu Yasha and forced the necklace over his neck As soon as he succeeded in securing it, Inu Yasha slumped over in his arms.

‘Sumimasen, little brother.’

He threw Inu Yasha into the limo and climbed in behind while flipping his cell open.

“Jaken! I am going to cut your head off and then bring you back to life, and then repeat it many times,” Sesshoumaru roared.

It took a few minutes before Jaken’s shaking squeaky voice replied, “But milord, this unworthy one has done what you have asked.”

“Apparently not enough. My mate- to- be is missing. I want as many people looking throughout this city to find her. I want her back by tonight or I will kill you by means of torture and never revive your worthless carcass,” Sesshoumaru growled.

Sesshoumaru was not usually this way, and normally would have kept calm, but since the mark, he had not expected his control slip. He chalked it up to the mark and he could feel his beast within clamouring for control to just transform into his true form and rampage everything in sight.

He could not do that and cursed silently to himself wishing it were the days of Sengoku Jidai where he could do what he wanted. He was still Lord of the Western lands in these modern times and he felt like a caged animal. He had a private island to vent his frustrations in his true form, but it was farther into the Pacific Ocean and right now was not the time to just up and leave.

All of a sudden Inu Yasha snored loudly and broke Sesshoumaru away from his thoughts.

‘How repulsive! Perhaps I should ask the kitsune to place something to prevent Inu Yasha from snoring!’ he groaned.

He really needed Inu Yasha coherent again, but in removing the necklace, Inu Yasha was still unnerved and he could not quite carry Tetsuseiga around in public. Despite Sesshoumaru being full dog demon, Inu Yasha had inherited quite a powerful nose and had far more practice due to survival instinct. Sesshoumaru admitted in a way that he had been a bit pampered while growing up as he was given basic instinctual lessons. He did have a powerful nose, but did not have the practice Inu Yasha had, despite even being several centuries younger and a hanyou.

‘If he would just control his raging blood, then we would have Kagome. I’m forced to wait until she is found.’

Several of his elite army were strong in tracking, and were familiar with Kagome’s scent. Since the youkai that took her gave no clue to what kind of youkai they were, they were simply going to have to track Kagome’s scent.

The limo arrived back at his home and he lugged Inu Yasha out. By that time, Sesshoumaru decided to place his half brother in the sealed chambers underneath the building.

‘He will not be able to escape and this Sesshoumaru can focus on more productive things like retrieving our mate- to- be.’

He made his way into the dark basement and opened up a thick metal door. Before throwing Inu Yasha within, he removed the necklace, then quickly shut the door. The door immediately glowed blue and he could hear Inu Yasha coming to.

‘He will definitely not be happy.’

Sesshoumaru decided to join the pursuit and went to his office to inform Jaken as his cell phone had no range within the thick walls of his home. As he opened his office door, he noticed the trace scent of a youkai, again concealed from detecting what they were and immediately growled. There on his desk, propped up by his keyboard was a white envelope with his name emblazoned on it in big letters.

He hesitated, many questions running through his mind.

‘Does the envelope contain a trap? Is Kagome being held as randsome? Is she okay?’

Sesshoumaru whispered a spell to protect himself while reaching out for the envelope. Some youkai were talented enough to conjure spells that cursed the recipient. Some curses were either for death, impotency, or horrible luck. He was much stronger, but after seeing a past taiyoukai open a scroll and be inflicted with impotency, he made sure he researched and memorized any spell of protection against curses.

Lucky for him, the envelope contained a simple three- by- five inche note card. It read:

“My Dearests, I have your little pet. If you want her, you will come to the docks tonight near the old Shipyard. You will be expected to rescind your marks and mark me as your beloved mate instead.”

The card had no signature, no revealing scent and the writing was too common in structure to pinpoint to anyone. The only thing it made Sesshoumaru do was melt it with his dokkasou.

‘A female youkai as we suspected. She will die! Such audacity to think this Sesshoumaru would rescind his mark from his chosen mate.’