InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tale of Sesshoumaru ❯ Inuyasha comes to call ( Chapter 18 )

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It took two days for Inuyasha to arrive with his companions. They came by way of their little cat demon Kirara who had puffed herself up to the size of Ah-Un. Touching down along the road that ran through the pastures, they walked up to the gates cautiously and were rewarded with Jaken opened the doors and allowed them entrance. He led them up the rolling hill up to the main buildings, past the army barracks now empty, the small temple dedicated to the Goddess Sieobo and the shrine to all of the Inu ancestors. Inuyasha and Kagome noted that the shrines had been left unkempt since the summer months, the bowls devoid of fresh offerings and incense. The Inu felt a strong need to stop and pray, but couldn't exactly explain it. His inu ancestors had never been of much help to him in this past and it surprised him that he would want to honor them much now. Kagome's miko leanings gave her totally different feelings. She had a since of daily duty.

 

Sesshoumaru sat quietly on the dias as they entered the main meeting room. He wanted them to bow as was custom when one entered a great lord's estate, but he didn't exactly expect it. His brother was brash and had no love of ceremony and custom. He was very pleased when Kagome and Sango did it out of sheer politeness, followed by the monk Miroku. The first girl gave Inuyasha a dirty look when he refused to bow. When he did not comply with her hint she whispered “sit” and forced him to do it, though in a very awkward and uncouth manner. Grumbling he pulled himself into a kneeling position and shot her returning ugly looks.

 

Sesshoumaru had not realized that the girl possessed such power over his brother. He filed that information into his brain for later consumption.

 

“Thank you all for coming,” Sesshoumaru said with a polite half bow in return from his seated position. “Please sit. We have much to discuss.” The group gave each other confused looks and one by one they all sat. Kagome next to Inuyasha, then Sango next to her and the monk next to her. The little kitsune Shippo went to sit in Kagome's lap. Sesshoumaru turned to Rin, who was quietly next to him and asked her to take the little fox out to play. He did not want to discuss his business with her in the room and she seemed quite happy to have someone more near her age to play with. Grabbing the little boy by the hand, she led him out and down the hall to her room.

 

“So what do you want jerk-face?” Inuyasha demanded almost immediately after Rin was out the doors.

 

“Please brother, while you are in my home, can you at least try to be a good guest?” the elder inu asked, his face showing obvious disappointment in his brother's lack of good manners.

 

“Only if you are a good host.” Inuyasha spat. Kagome turned and smacked him over the head.

 

Sesshoumaru could not help but feel like he was watching a puppet play or some child's theater where the characters slapped and punched each other for the audience's entertainment. All that needed to be added now was for the monk to grope the slayer and a whole big brawl would start.

 

“Please Sesshoumaru-sama,” the girl in a green and white dress said, “continue with what you were saying. I promise he will behave in your home. I am sorry he can be such...a dog.”

 

Sesshoumaru simply nodded. It was non-exact and non-committal. Nods were good. “Kagome-sama, isn't it?”

 

The miko nodded with a smile. She had not expected him to remember her name, or address her as Miss. Kagome. “This is Sango,” she pointed to her companion, “and Miroku.”

 

“The reason I have asked you here is because I have taken a wife and we are expecting a child.” Everyone's face was quite shocked. They had never expected the cold hearted inu to ever want such a thing. “The problem is, we have gotten into a fight and she has run off.”

 

“Serves you right.” Inuyasha blurted. Kagome smacked him again. “Be nice,” she said between her teeth.

 

“He's right,” Sesshoumaru confessed unexpectedly to the group. “It does serve me, but my concern does not lie in my punishment. It lies in her belly. She is still my wife and she carries your nephew and grandson of Inu No Taisho.” The older inu looked forcefully into the younger's eyes as if to convey some sort of meaning. “I want to know if you have seen her in your travels.”

 

“What does she look like?” Inuyasha asked, this time being a little less gruff and a lot more understanding. If his Kagome was gone from him and he could not find her, he too would seek outside help to find her if he had to.

 

“I married our fourth cousin, the Lady Akanesuji of the Inu clan. Do you remember her?”

 

“Tall, red stripes and pink eyes? Yeah, I remember her. I saw her just a few weeks ago.”

 

“What happened?” Sesshoumaru asked, wondering if they had met on friendly terms or if they had battled.

 

Kagome gave Inuyasha more weird looks. She didn't remember meeting any inuyoukai. The hanyou must have met up with her when she had been down the well and in her own time.

 

“Well nothing much,” Inuyasha was quick to say. “She was traveling through our village and at first Miroku and I thought she was some evil demon who had come to trick us into giving her jewel shards, but she never attacked us or anything. She wound up giving us some instead. We all had dinner together and in the morning, she left.”

 

“How many did she give you?”

 

“Two.”

 

Sesshoumaru pursed his lips together. The last time he had seen her, she had more than six. She had no real reason to give them away, unless of course it was part of some bigger plan. “Tell me, did she try to trade you the shards for the Tessaiga?”

 

“Nope.” Inuyasha rubbed his chin in thought. “She never even paid it any attention now that I think about it.”

 

“What did you talk about?”

 

“She wanted to to hear the story about how I chopped off your arm, so I told it to her.” Inuyasha scratched his head, thinking some more. “She wanted to know where it happened. In fact, she wanted to know when all of our battles were and where they happened.”

 

“You braggart. You didn't tell her where our father's bone lay did you?”

 

“Well...maybe...by accident?” Inuyasha shrugged and looked a little confused. “Does it really matter? The only important things were his fangs.”

 

“Inuyasha, what would happen if someone harvested our father's claws or bones to make more weapons?” Sesshoumaru pointed to Sango's weaponry, made from youkai bones. It was a rhetorical question, only a dumb ass would not get it.

 

“But only Tatosai would know how to craft them into something strong enough to compete with the fangs.”

 

“Yes. Tatosai has already made her wakizashis from the tusks of a boar youkai. She keeps him employed and constantly in food and drink.”

 

“But he would never do anything against either one of you!” Kagome exclaimed. “He is faithful to your father's memory.”

 

“Yes, and thus he is faithful to my son.”

 

The room went very quiet in thought.

 

“You are afraid she will raise your son against you?” the monk Miroku asked, stating the obvious.

 

“No. I am afraid she she will decimate anyone and anything in her path and create the largest Inu dynasty ever seen. She means to finished what our father started.

 

“And that's a bad thing?” Inuyasha asked, thinking that maybe somewhere Sesshoumaru had gone a little nuts. “I don't see anything wrong with that.”

 

“Well I do, whelp.” Sesshoumaru spat. “She will get herself and my son killed along the way.”

 

Inuyasha scratched his ear. Did he just hear him right? Had he found someone to protect and love? Oh by the kami! Sesshoumaru was in love! A big fat smile covered his face. “Oh you got it bad, don't you brother?”

 

“Shut up.”

 

“Oh no. You got it really bad. Look at you. You are so in love.”

 

Sesshoumaru gave him one of the most evil, vile faces, but it didn't matter. Inuyasha had pegged him good. Kagome hit him again. “I wouldn't talk, pup. It seems she holds your leash pretty well,” the elder inu said.

 

Kagome blushed really hard, covering her face with her hands. How had this meeting turned so damn embarrassing again?? Oh yeah...Inuyasha opened his mouth and firmly inserted his foot. She had to do something to change the subject. Clearing her throat she spoke. “Would you like us to keep an eye out for her?”

 

“Yes. Please.” Sesshoumaru answered. “If you see her again, detain her and send for me. I am afraid she is stronger than all of you can handle. She has taken the rest of her jewel shards into herself and made herself more powerful.”

 

Kagome gulped. “How many does she have?”

 

“She gave you two, but she could have as many as six or seven. I really don't know Kagome-sama. She is an accomplished youkai slayer and kunoichi. I suspect the only reason she keeps the others is to make herself equal to me.”

 

“If she is equal to you, than I can beat her with my eyes closed.” Inuyasha boasted. “I could just whip her ass and take the shards from her and give her back to you.”

 

“Sit!” Kagome yelled so that his head smacked backwards into the floor. In the blink of an eye Sesshoumaru knelt over him with his poison claws poised at his jugular, liquid dripping down the skin and puddling into his hair. The smell of burning fur stinking the room.

 

“If you harm one hair on my son's head, I will kill you and make sure that you never....ever...make a son of your own. The whole Inu No Taisho line will die with us.”

 

Of all the threats Sesshoumaru had ever made, Inuyasha could believe this one. Rising to a stand, Sesshoumaru took his place back on the dias and brushed his hair back. Kagome pulled Inuyasha up from the floor, half wanting to kick Inuyasha for his foolish mouth, half wanting to pull him near because he could have been harmed and she feared for his life.

 

“Thank you for attending me, Kagome-sama,” Sesshoumaru said dismissively. “You have been most kind.”

 

Kagome nodded and dragged her raging Inuyasha from the room as Sango and Miroku helped to push him out. He would not back down in dishonor, but he would not turn and fight him either. He had to make some show of dominance at he went out the door just to prove he was not a chicken to Sesshoumaru's threats. Once they were down the hall, he relaxed, pulling his clothes straight and adjusting his hakama.

 

“Sango, can you go help Kagome find Shippo?” Miroku asked, indicating that he would stay with Inuyasha and do some sort of “man-talk” kind of thing. The girls nodded and walked down the hallways and quickly disappeared.

 

“That was too close,” Miroku said to his friend. “You shouldn't have pushed his buttons like that.”

 

“Hey. Just be glad I didn't tell him about you rubbing her ass.”

 

“Well...yeah,” the monk said with a smile, thinking back to her firm bottom. It was the finest inuyoukai ass he had ever touched. O.k. It was the only inuyoukai ass he had ever touched, and it was as firm and strong as a mans, yet as rounded and perfect as Sango's. The best part was that the youkai didn't slap him at all. She just pat him on the head and told him how in the throws of passion she could tear him apart like a little dove. “Sorry sweetie, but humans never last,” she had told him. He didn't want to try it out after that.