InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The sun and the moon ❯ Explamations ( Chapter 15 )

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Chapter 15 Explanations

The doctor blinked several times, taking in the news. Had he heard him right? Was he really a demon? It would certainly explain a lot. It was quite interesting. It intrigued him and he wanted to find more about them. He had seen some people around the city with similar markings. But he was sure that those were tattoos. Demons really did not exist.

Did they?

His brain told him it was true, though. Two stood before his very eyes.

“Demons?” he repeated, slowly leaning back on a chair in thought.

Sesshomaru nodded firmly. “Demons.”

The golden eyes studied him closely. He was not frightened about the idea. These demons seemed to be friendly. He would have been dead if they were not. He was just fine about the whole idea, and surprisingly calm. It was as though it was something entirely natural. Like seeing a female patient nude. It was nothing to him.

“We're dog demons, if you are wondering. Now, are you going to be willing to treat my brother again should we ever come back to this hospital?”

“Of course. This is my personal 'privet' hospital for such beings as well.”

Did he mean that there were other demons around here? “What do you mean by that?”

“Just occurred to me, that you may not be the only demons here. I've always presumed that those demonic markings on your face are tattoos, and that they were the new fad. I've seen them on certain faces around here. Not many though. Maybe once a year I will see them.”

If what the human was saying was that there were demons in this era as well, InuYasha was at risk of being in harm's way. Yet surely they had to be rare to find and they couldn't be that strong if they're hiding from the world. But then again. They could be just humans after all.

“I think they're just humans that want to be demons and vampires. I doubt they're, because of their eyes. None of them have gold or unnatural colors,” he explained.

“Maybe so.”

“At any rate, I will treat your brother when ever you are around and have need of me. I will charge you for little, and just the cost of the supplies, that are used in the treatment. I am most glad to know that you're all different from this world. I will keep your secret of you being demons.” The doctor paused and smiled. “It's great that you told me. It helps me get a better understanding of my patients. I love animals. I know your not animals, but dog demons? That's cool.”

“Is there anything else you would like to know?” asked Sesshomaru.

“Well,” he started in thought as he looked down at the tail behind his patient's body. He had seemed quite quiet throughout the whole conversation, he now looked over at him with narrowed eyes. “Those tails. They're so interesting. May I touch it? Oh, an' those ears...”

“You may touch the tail lightly. But not the ears,” InuYasha said in a weary tone which was strained with the heat. He had been asked them those questions more times than he could recall.

The doctor nodded and ran his hand lightly through the river of silky light silver strands that reached just below his knees. It flicked lightly in annoyance as the doctor pulled back with a small grin. “It truly is an honor to have treated you here. I do believe that you are well enough to be going home. I suggest that you take your time healing. Don't be going out and about too much, you're still weak from recovering.” Doctor Kai looked back down at the scars and back up at Sesshomaru in question. “Are they really from what I had been told?” Doctor Kai ran his hand lightly over the scorching scars. They were extremely hot. Going over to the cabinet just beside the bed he pulled out a box with a cord coiling onto a white and blue stick. Doctor Kai pulled it out and stuck it in a box which then so it covered a long silver rod. “ I am concerned with about his temperature,” he answered as he found the taller demon brother eyeing the rod suspiciously. “Is he normally at this warm?” he asked as he walked over to the eldest demon's side so he could get a temperature reading. “Open and put this under your tongue.”

InuYasha gave a short protest and stuck it under his tongue.

It beeped within seconds. “108.1, wow!” By human standards he really shouldn't be alive, nor should he be if it was a dog's temperature. “Amazing you're alive.” He quirked his eye brow down at Sesshomaru. “But tell me, how did the scars occur, if you don't mind me asking?” he said, going back to the subject of the scars.

Smart little human, they thought painfully.

“No, not exactly,” Sesshomaru replied softly as he looked at his brother's pained expression. “My brother was beaten, enslaved, raped brutally by one of out our enemies. He was shifted from his old nature to this,” he said as he waved his hand gesturing to his brother's state of being.

“You mean to a dog demon?”

Sesshomaru shook his head and watched as the doctor tossed the cover of the metal rod that read his brother's temperature, into the trash before it was set back in the cabinet where it was closed again, hidden from sight. “He was a half breed before. Half human. Half demon. This half demon had sent set others on my family. My brother was thought dead. He was not. He was captured soon after and the half demon violated him and transformed him to a full demon hoping to absorb his power and use him as a sex slave.”

The doctor looked horrified. “I'm so sorry to hear that.”

Again, he shook his head. “That's all right. We'll heal with time.” Sesshomaru paused in thought, debating whether or not to tell him about their heats. It could not hurt. He had already told him about their demoness. “Also,” he added. “ To answer the question of his temperature, it is not normal for it to be that high, but my temperature is also about the same. We're in the midst of heats., Dog demons have these, as well as other demons. It is to make sure we are...” he drawled careful of how to put it. Not even a human who had saved his mate could be trusted. “... More fertile.”

“So he basically raped you and presumably ripped your eye out or something, and then gave you all those scars as well?” he asked. Skeptical as to what he asked he pressed the matter of what he had just said about being fertile. “What do you mean? `Fertile'?”

InuYasha spoke up first about the fertile part, not feeling as though he wanted to hear his brother and mate say what really needed to be confirmed. That could wait another moment. “He means, that male demons of our kind are most fertile during our heats. Males can become pregnant.” He did not mind talking about such matters as much as he minded the conversation of him being in Naraku's hands and what they had done to him. Looking at his the doctor's puzzled look he went into further detail He had not really known about male pregnancies. His father had only told him so little, figuring that it wasn't time to know just yet. “I have no idea how it works but it should last between 3 to 7 months. Depending on the litter size. I have no idea how they come out...” he said wincing at the thought that his pups may not come out, and the fact they could come out of his penis, rather than a vaginal entrance- which he had none. But it was possible to have them come out of his anal canal, where his rectum could be connected to a birth canal and womb. He looked at Sesshomaru's just- as- puzzled eyes.

InuYasha sighed, he might as well move on, seeing that there was that there was little more that they could discuss. He would just say it once more. The best way to heal, was to face the problem, and to talk about it.

“To answer the first question you had asked before?” He took a deep breath and nodded., “Yes. He has done so much too to me it so hard to think about it. I can't stand the thought of him touching me or even think about it,” InuYasha said finally as he scrubbed his arms feeling dirty and violated. “Being a demon now, my eye will heal in a few decades, maybe a few centuries hopefully. If not, it'll come back sooner or later.” InuYasha, who was being carefully monitored by his eldest brother and mate, Sesshomaru, had fallen into a small hole of depression again. Sesshomaru became concerned with the situation. “Are you finished looking at my back? It's so annoying, and it's making me feel uncomfortable.”

“Hai, I just will have to come back with a few ointments, some are beginning to look infected. I wouldn't want that to happen now would I? You may take this home with you when you're dismissed in a bit. I will bring you the forms to sign saying that you were realized released from the hospital.”

InuYasha nodded and rolled back on his back with a slight grimace of pain.

They watched as the human give a slight bow, and excused himself from the room letting them know that he would return in a few minutes.

Doctor Kai couldn't believe his ears, demons? Male pregnancies? So much researching could be preformed on them! But he was true to his word, he would keep to it and keep his mouth shut.

“He sure did take it well, little brother now didn't he?”

“Yes.”

“I'm glad we'll go home soon. I do not like it here that much. It's not very private.” With a flick of the elfish ear he tuned into his brother's fiery heart beat as his own matched its pace. Soon. “What do you say, stay here? In this era? Or go home and have wild demon fucking?” he asked, grinning ear- to- ear as he wiggled his eyebrows.

Sesshomaru watched as a blush fell across his mate's cheeks.

InuYasha nodded in understanding. Their bodies were still on fire. The heat was not going to go away on its own, now that they have had been reunited. Nothing would stop their Youkai's from being with each other and performing the ancient ritual that was used to court, mark and mate forever throughout the ages. Tonight would be the night in which it all would happen. Bad memories or not, their Youkai's were going for it all, blocking out the pain, all they would see is was passion and fire.

“It's a pleasant thought, Sesshy, we better not say much, we may not make it out of the hospital.” InuYasha could feel his body growing tense with need. “ I think we can wait until later to visit this time. What I really feel like doing is dealing with this heat.”

“Soon.”

Sesshomaru watched his brother roll over onto his back in thought. His eye looked out- of- focus. His expression changed to a troubled one, with his gray eye brows knitting together. After a minute he looked over at his eldest brother. “What will happen when we return? Do you think Naraku will come find us again, and finish what he started?”

“He is in a weakened state. He will not come after 3 powerful full demons. It would be a foolish move. He may just have used all his strength up earlier when he found his way into our minds.”

There was a light rap on the door and Doctor Kai entered the room carrying a clipboard and a few papers and pen. “I need you to sign your name here on the highlighted lines indicated,” he pointed out the 'x' signature line where it was highlighted in a clear bright color of yellow. “I also have some medications and ointments. Take the pills that are in the bottle,” he said, gesturing to the clear orange brown bottle that was placed in Sesshomaru's hand and along with a fat tube of ointment. “Have him take that ever 8 hours and apply the ointment every 5 hours or when ever it is necessary. I can picture them scabbing over and itching quite badly so the ointment will also help with the itch.” Doctor Kai paused, looking down at Sesshomaru's signatures before continuing. “ I should also have that X-ray brain scan done. So I'll come back for him to bring him in to do that. They should come through within minutes. I will also call immediately for the helmet so you can get it by tonight.”

Sesshomaru and InuYasha nodded.

There was a light rap on the door. Sesshomaru looked over from looking at the clip board that was in his hand and the pen in his hand as he had just finished signing the sheets of white paper.

It was the nurse, she must have been waiting to give InuYasha his bath, seeing how she had not come to give him one when they had come back from being outside. Doctor Kai must have told her to put it off on it because he was going to visit.

“You may enter.”

“I was going to give your brother a bath but since your family and friends are here, and you're to be leaving soon I just came to tell you that I will not be bathing him today. I trust that you can wash him yourself?” asked a blond haired nurse with green eyes. She was average weight with her hair in a low pony tail.

“I can.”

“All right. Well Dr. Kai has a short paper with directions on how to care for sutures, I'm sure you'll he'll give you a page soon before you leave. Wont you?” she looked over at the Doctor that stood near by. He gave a short nod. “Well I'll send them in.” She gave a courteous bow and left; closing the door behind her.

There was a knock a minute or two later.

“You may enter.”

It was his father and the Higurashi family. InuTaisho carried two outfits, which were folded over his arm neatly. “We went looking for some new clothes for you two. InuYasha will need some when he gets out,” his father said, coming over to his sons before ruffling his eldest son's hair, knowing that it made him angry. He smirked as he was rewarded with a soft growl. “Speaking of which, when is he getting out?”

“When ever you can take him home. But you'll have to wait till the helmet comes in tonight,” Dr. Kai smiled as he took the clip board back from Sesshomaru and looked it over and nodding nodded in approval. “I'll go get the remnants of whatever he had been wearing or had on him, but the antique looking hoari and hakamas look rather beaten up. Do you want them still?”

InuYasha nodded. He could patch them up at home. Most of the time the material would weave itself together, so it looked good as new. “How long will it take to make one?” InuYasha asked.

The doctor shrugged. “Not that long, just takes time for them to drive up here. I have your measurements. So it will be about 4-5 hours.”

“That's not too bad,” Sota said, finally speaking.

“Nope. Well, all right, well I'll be back in a little bit and I'll bring a wheel chair so we can go have an X-ray on him done. It will not take long.”

They exchanged bows and watched as he left the room.

“I thought you two wished to see more of this era?” asked Grandpa Higurashi as he sat down in another chair over by the wall.

“No, we wish to get other businesses out of the way first. We can always come back, right?” asked Sesshomaru.

“Yeah, just make your way through the well,” Kagome answered.

“Hai.”

InuTaisho handed his eldest son a pair of khaki tan slacks and a white sweater. There was a hole sliced just below the waste waistband on the back of the pants, so his tail would fit through when he was not in public. The white sweater was light and would cover his missing arm. He looked over at the offering hands that were held out and were handed a pair of shoes, (black loafers, if you must know.) It was all suiting to him. It seemed to be high class clothes and that was just his style. “Thanks. I'll put these on.” Sesshomaru set the medications and ointment tube down on the bed before he then took the clothes into a small water closet/bathroom, closed the door and began to change.

Just outside the door, InuTaisho handed his youngest son his clothes, which he would put on later. They were slacks like Sesshomaru's clothes. The only difference was the size, color, and the fact that the top was not a sweater, rather a dress shirt that was a black color. It wasn't exactly his style but it would do for the heat; confining pants would do him no good.

“Thank you, father.”

“You're welcome.” InuTaisho smiled as he placed his hand on his son's shoulder and leaned down to look at any damaged done to his son's face. InuYasha wasn't much appreciative of people starring at him like he was some deformed being. He wasn't that bad. Not compared to some of the demons that he had seen in his years. “You'll be better in no time.”

“Keh.”

His father smirked and cupped his son's right cheek, stroking at the demonic markings that ran in a thick jagged bluish crimson on each of his cheeks. InuYasha couldn't resist a light sigh. “I'm not a cat!” he hissed, coming back from a light daze as his father removed his hand.

“I know.”

Sesshomaru came out of the water closet/ bathroom and took his place again beside his mate, placing his soiled clothes in his lap. He could wash them later, or just give them to the Higurashi family for the next visit later on.

“I told the doctor that we're demons,” Sesshomaru said without emotion. “It was best just to get it out. He reacted pretty well,” he added.

The dog demons' father looked down with serious eyes. “Sesshomaru, you know that is bad. If it gets out, we could be endangering out safety,” he said sternly.

“Yes, father, I am aware of that. It would not be hard to kill them. We are the superior species. One strike of InuYasha's sword could wipe them all out. It is not as though we are going to be living here either.”

“He has a point, besides I'm tired of telling them that I am deformed. I'm not. Besides he won't tell anyone, I could not smell a lie,” InuYasha said as he sat up slowly, grimacing at the pain that tore at his body again.

“Well I guess we'll see sometime or another,” InuTaisho said as he crossed his arms and leaned against the bed side table.

They sat or stood there waiting for the doctor to come back with the old clothes, wheelchair and a surprise box of Ramen noodles, earning the doctor a smile. InuYasha was quickly loaded into the wheelchair after having the IV and other tubes that had been connected to him, were removed. Sesshomaru wheeled InuYasha who had been given a box of Ramen noodles as a promised present from the tests that had been run on him earlier.

Doctor Kai wheeled him alone down the hall; telling the Higurashi family and the Dog demons to wait there, they could not come in the for the head test for X-raying. They let him go reluctantly and watched as the doctor take took him away.

“You have a nice group of friends and family, InuYasha. It is good to see such support with my patients.”

“I am glad to have them,” InuYasha said as his ears turned backwards to listen. “So does this hurt?”

The doctor shook his head. “No. I promise that it will not hurt a bit. What we'll do is just put you in a tube, scan your head, then we'll lay you out on a bed to take a picture of your head. Then you are finished. After that I will have them on record so if you ever have problems then we'll look back on them. Unless you do not wish to have them saved. Then we can destroy them.”

InuYasha did not mind, but it he didn't feel as though they needed them. They could be given into the wrong hands. “I think I will want them destroyed.”

“Of course.”

They entered a large room where they had a few nurses help InuYasha get onto the bed that was just before a large white tube. They told him if he felt the need to totally get out of there, and to stop, all he needed to do was holler.

Nodding they moved him into the tube (MRI- think that's what it is called).

It did not hurt. He just felt a pulling inside his body. It was very uncomfortable. It soon came to a short end and they removed him, placing him in the wheelchair before moving him to another room where he was laid on the table. The nurse placed a heavy lead apron on him and supposedly, X- rayed.

He could feel a flash of something going throughout his head. Painless. But annoying.

It was all over within 30 minutes.

Doctor Kai ran another quick test over InuYasha's body. He made sure everything was set to go, and that the sutures would stay in long enough, as well as checking out how they were healing before being taken back to the room to be greeted by his mate and family.

Hours later

The helmet arrived finally. There was a pair of big rounded off triangular holes on top of the helmet where the 2 dog ears would fit through. The triangular holes would allow him to flatten his ears, as well as be more fitting to them. The helmet was a silver color with a flame strip going down each side of the helmet. It was fit for his fiery personality.

Trying it on, he found that it was lightly padded and a perfect fit for the two ears that stood out of the helmet. Kagome found it was rather silly but said nothing.

“Looks like a biker's helmet, InuYasha!” Sota said, looking at him. “That's awesome.”

“Thanks,” he replied.

Sota smiled.

“The X-rays say that you're your brain healing nicely. So are the rest of you. Just, just take it easy and you'll be well in a few weeks,” the doctor said as he pulled the X-rays down. “I'll dispose of these.”

“That is good to hear,” Joy said nodding. She would be sure that the X-rays were disposed of too. When she went back there later that week.

“Also, you should allow your head to get some air for about 2 hours every few hours,” he added. “It is so your skin does not get too dirty and moisture does not build.”

“Will do,” InuYasha said.

Satisfied with the his condition, he walked them down the hall and out of the hospital to the car that was pulled up in front of the doors, ready for its passengers to climb aboard.

“The sutures should fall out in a few days or week but they will, if you can help it along and, keep them dry. They will fall out too soon if they are wet, that could lead to infection and back at the hospital again,” Doctor Kai said as he watched Sesshomaru load InuYasha carefully into the car. “Take care, hope you fair fare well.”

Sesshomaru and the family said their thanks for everything that they had done for them and made sure everything was set to go before they strapped themselves in. With Sesshomaru, InuYasha, InuTaisho and Kagome in the back and Joy and Grandfather Higurashi with Sota on his lap, they drove off to the Higurashi home. There they would find the well and return home.

All the way there, InuYasha was ready to go right at it with Sesshomaru, within all the confines of the car. Resisting a bit longer, he watched as the metal boxes on wheels that were called “Cars” drive by at high speeds. Needing the fresh air, they rolled down the glass windows.

For some reason, an odd urge called to the Dog lords to stick their heads out the window to feel the wind pull at their hair or ears. They shook off the feeling- save for InuYasha, who had just been leaning over his mate who had sat on the outside beside his mate, painfully started putting out his head out of the window. The wind tugged at his ears which flattened themselves against his skull to prevent the tickle of the wind in his ear canal.

InuTaisho cleared his throat just as Sesshomaru gently pulled his brother back from the window. He did not need his brother to be decapitated. “InuYasha, please resist,” his mate said, as a smirk pulled at the corner of his lip.

The eldest watched his mate settle back into his seat, regaining his composure just as he leaned over to rest against his brother's body, his head rested on his the head on his shoulder as he nuzzled his brother, with a light purr. InuYasha's hand toyed with his hair and rested his eyes. Soon falling asleep, Sesshomaru relaxed a little.

They would need a lot of energy for the next few days to come. The mating process could take a week or more before it fully ended. Knowing that their lives would be further forever different from before, they savored it while it lasted.

“Father, what it like is for a male to give birth, you have never really told us. Knowing this heat is bad, we are most likely to come out, with pups,” Sesshomaru said softly as he looked over to his father who sat beside InuYasha's sleeping form.

“Not quite sure positively, it varies with the race, in other cases the body will do different things, it could shift into demon/dog form, shift female for the first 24 hours before birth, or the body shifts its insides so there becomes a birth canal through the rectum. In some rare cases you have to cut open the abdomen to remove the pups or pup. But I have not experienced such male pregnancies in ages.” InuTaisho paused in reflection. “My forefather had experiences with such male pregnancies before, however, I was not quite interested in such, and never thought to ask seeing how I was mated with your mother at the time.”

That was wonderful news to Sesshomaru's ears. They had no idea of how they would birth the pups if they became pregnant. Well they would figure that out when the time comes. For now they would enjoy the time as non- parents. “We'll figure it out.”

The eldest brother felt a warm hand on his thigh, looking down to find InuYasha's hand creeping its way up his leg. Stiffening, he looked at his brother's sleeping features. His youkai must be feeding him heated dreams and removing the fitful ones. Smiling, he removed the hand that hardened his body and created a tent in his casual pants. With a slight blush, he placed the hand in his own.

It would be an interesting ride home to the Higurashi shrine and back to their rightful home.

A/n: Short chapter I know. Sorry, writer's block. Anyways, just had to put a sort of info chapter in. But I promise a hot chapter next time. Heh, thanks for the reviews. Keep them coming!

Oh! And I have a bunch of surprises coming up, Ooo! I can't wait to start written them, I have them down on a piece of paper for my ideas, hehe. I feel mischievous. Well, goodies goodies. :) grows horns and a tail