InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tale of Sesshoumaru ❯ On the Road Again ( Chapter 25 )

Akanesuji took a sheet off of her raised futon bed and carefully placed a pile of clothes into it, folding it neatly into a bundle and tyeing together with cord. Her love came from his room with a similar bundle. He was dressed in yet another fine white kimono and hakama set. It seemed he had no end to them. They were all alike, yet dissimilar. White with red. White with flowers. White with dogs. White with red and blue. White white white white.

 

"Ever wear any other colors?"

 

"You remember that green and black set don't you?" He raised an eyebrow, thinking something almost similar. She sure had plenty of red. Red and black. Red and white. Red and black and white. Red with black and white and a touch of purple. Red red red red.

 

"Never mind."

 

They left down the hall together, him leading and she following a few footsteps behind him and to the side. "Tanuki! Where are you, you little bastard?" he yelled, disgusted at carrying his own things.

 

If there was one thing that never changed about Sesshoumaru, it was his disdain for looking unlordly. The little raccoon dog rounded the corner, pulling his clothes together. While the big dogs were at play, he was in a nook masturbating. Sesshoumaru curved his lip in disgust. Giving him a kick in the shin he ordered him to carry there things. "Fluffy dear. That is not necessary," his wife chided. "I don't mind carrying your things for you."

 

"Yes it is necessary. I don't like little dogs getting their rocks off on our expense."

 

The tanuki picked up their two satchels and followed them in silence until they got past the main gates and out to the road. Smacking him over the head, Sesshoumaru gave him instructions to throw Akanesuji's mother's body over the far wall somewhere and to keep an eye on things while he was gone for the summer. The little man nodded, scratching his huge balls and was happy when they turned and left.

 

"We really didn't give a very good farewell to the court."

 

"Fuck them."

 

Akanesuji's mouth dropped in surprise. She had never heard him once say anything so vulgar before. Was he finally opening up to her and allowing his internal thoughts to leak out? She pursed her mouth and shrugged her shoulders to herself. This was Sesshoumaru she was talking about to herself, and he wasn't about to change his ways anytime soon, no matter how many apologies or confessions to being a moody bitch.

 

Turning to face her, he tilted his head expectantly, expecting her to stand next to him. "I'm waiting" his face read. With a quick step she came up even to him and picked up her things. In no time he had a good clip started and she had to hustle a little to keep up.

 

"Do you have to walk so damned fast?"

Sesshoumaru simply looked at her blankly. Duh.

 

Out of spite he started to jog, his feet barely touching the ground, just the front pad and toes. She grunted in frustration and tied her bundle over her back so that her arms were free and changed into her dog form, making her stride a little larger than his. She would not be beaten at this game.

 

Her shoulder as a dog met his shoulder as a man, and so with amusement he bundled his things on to her back as they jogged along. Akanesuji growled, thinking it wasn't very funny.

 

"You did offer to carry my things." he reminded her. The large red striped dog rolled her eyes.

 

Her nose was wet as a rule, but with the exercise of loping along it dripped a little and she drooled, tongue laying to one side between tall pointed teeth. Sesshoumaru thought she was a very messy dog, but kinda cute. Her fur puffed out everywhere and she looked less like a Kishu Akita Inu and more like a northern Hokkaido Inu. He on the other hand, was very happy to be Kishu, a lovely white and not have all that red in his coat that she did. Her tail curved over her back more than his did, exposing her sex to the world. Thank the gods she didn't do that in human form.

 

Sesshoumaru picked up the pace even further, going into a light sprint and she followed suit. Running like this was much more fun than running like he did. She had no idea where she was going, but just to play his game she broke into a full sprint, kicking up dirt into his face. She howled and yipped with a "see you there!"

 

He would not be out done. With a very good running jump he landed on her back and rode her like a horse. The dog laughed and laughed, swerving to the left and right to swat him with low branches, but he would not be unseated. Leaning in low and grabbing her soft fur, he latched on like a professional jockey. Slobber splashed on him in the wind and she was filled with joy. Sesshoumaru didn't really weigh much in this form and she was enjoying the feeling of running free.

 

This is what she loved the most he realized. Being free to roam. She was so much like himself. He too liked to roam the countryside free of court, free of responsibility and free of other people. The two of them were really two of a kind. Maybe he had done her wrong by trying to get her to stay safe within walls. Maybe this was where she was mean to be, with him, running blindly into the next adventure.

 

With a gentle kick of his foot, he nudged her to the right hand road at the fork and once past a small village of rice farmers he directed her into a deep forest. There she could not sprint anymore, but bounded up and down almost like a deer. His ass smacked her back hard when she did this and it hurt his balls, but he would not let her know that. Akanesuji just giggled and growled and panted with a gruff. After passing through some low hills they came to the small mountain where Jaken and Rin were staying. She finally recognized it as the one she had visited over year ago, having coming to it last time from the opposite direction. With leaping strides she scurried up the side until she landed squarely on all four feet at the mouth.

 

Rin clapped with delight to see Sesshoumaru and the big silly dog. "Is that you Akanesuji?" she asked, looking carefully into her pink eyes with curiosity.

 

The inu nodded and gave her a big giant wet slurp. Saliva dripped off her cheek and ear, her hair now wet and sticking in strange directions. Akanesuji laid down letting her belly rest on the floor and Rin was quick to jump on after Sesshoumaru got off. "My turn, my turn!" she whispered, kicking Akanesuji to get her to move.

 

"Oh Rin," the female dog laughed, "maybe later."

 

Jaken unloaded their things off her back and Rin slid off, petting her fur. "You don't look like a giant toad," she stated disapprovingly.

 

Akanesuji rolled over, exposing her tummy and rubbing her back around, feet flying here and there. "Of course I don't look like a toad. Why would I look like a toad?"

"I told Sesshoumaru-sama that you would come back when you looked like a big fat toad." Rin stomped her foot. "Where is my baby brother!"

 

"Now, now Rin. He's still there. He's just very little," the dog said.

 

Rin cuddled up onto her chest and let the big shaggy paws embrace her. "I'm still your little girl?"

 

"Yes baby. You are still my little girl."

 

Jaken grumbled as he unloaded all of the things, setting everything inside a nice plain wooden box at the back of the cave, next to a barrel of dried goods and a sack full of rice. Dinner had already been consumed and he had been cleaning up when they arrived. Rin had been playing on her bed, waiting for night to fall and sleep take her. This situation was even better. She would cuddle with Akanesuji tonight.

 

Sesshoumaru set his furry mantle down in a pile and pulled off his armored breastplate, setting it to the side. Using his stole as a pillow he sat down and slapped his leg for the big dog to join him. Akanesuji didn't let the irony of the act escape her. She was his pet and he was her master, but that was fine for the moment. It would not always be so, just as it hadn't been for some time. Sooner or later he would have to let her free. Keeping her prisoner would not endear her to him.

 

Carefully she rolled over so as not to squish Rin and crawled over to her lord. Laying her big head on his lap, she let her tongue lay over his sash. With his free hand he pet her while Rin curled up in the crook of her front leg and chest. They were a big, fuzzy bundle between Akanesuji's fur and his mantle. Everyone would be warm tonight. Jaken bemoaned the fact that tomorrow he would have to wash dog drool from his lordship's clothes and Rin would smell like wet dog.

 

Akanesuji fell deeply asleep. Everyday that went by in her pregnancy she wanted to sleep more and more. Rest was now a requirement wither she liked it or not. Sesshoumaru closed his eyes too, rest for him was just that- rest. In the middle of the night her puppy dreams disturbed his stillness, her feet twitching and her soft barks and growls echoing through the cave. Rin luckily didn't notice.

 

She dreamed of open fields and butterflies, sunshine and children playing. Her love stood on the hill above it all, watching them all protectively. It was comforting. Turning back to look at the children, there was Rin, and her son, along with all the small children of her villages. Turning back to look at Sesshoumaru, he was gone again. He had left her once more.

 

The dog jumped up and violently shook itself, looking wide eyed around herself still caught up in the dream. Screaming she transformed back to her human form and grabbed her hair. Sesshoumaru jumped up too, her sudden screaming pulling him out of a blissful dream he was having about sex. He looked down to find her panicked and horrified, dressed in her crumpled traveling clothes from earlier.

 

"What is it?" he said calmly, not allowing his emotional concern to surface.

 

"Another night mare. It was nothing."

 

Sesshoumaru nodded and sat back down, holding out his arm to her so that she could curl back into him. The rest of the night they both did not sleep. She pondered their weird but loving relationship and what the future might hold. He pondered how to get into her pants with Rin and Jaken in the cave.

 

They hit the road early, getting back on the trail heading north. The two daiyoukai had not smelled Hizumeha yet and guessed that they would reach him sometime today. They had not passed him accidentally on the road. Sesshoumaru and Akanesuji walked side by side in their usual silence, Rin behind them picking flowers, Jaken behind her yet with Ah-Un's reins in his hands. The merry little band rarely talked, and when they did it was usually between Rin and Akanesuji. Now that she was here, Jaken had no one to talk to.

 

The conversations went something like this all day:

 

"What is my baby brother's name?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"When will he be here?"

 

"I don't know.

 

"Do you think he will like flowers?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"Will you have a girl after him?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"You sure don't know a lot of things Akanesuji."

 

"True."

 

""What color of inu will he be?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"Do you think he will cry a lot?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"You sure don't know a lot of things Akanesuji."

 

"True."

 

"Do you think Jaken should have a baby brother?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"Do you think Inuyasha will like my baby brother?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"Do you think Kagome and Inuyasha will make me a cousin?"

 

"I don't know."

 

"You sure don't know a lot of things Akanesuji!"

 

"True."

 

Sesshoumaru desperately wanted to stick a sock in her mouth. With Akanesuji joining their little jaunts, Rin was a total blabber mouth.

 

There were reasons he liked Rin's company. She never asked him forty questions. She kept to herself. When he needed someone to hug, she was there. Quietly. He was starting to doubt if he would ever bring Akanesuji on another trip. Ever. She made Rin unbearable.

 

Sesshoumaru sighed to himself. Maybe when Rin got all of her questions out of her system things would get better. Looking over to his love, he realized she was thinking the same things too. Her face was a total blank and she was staring ahead, eyes glazed over and hoping Rin would quit with the forty questions too. When she turned her eyes to him, they met with a cry of "help me. She wont leave me alone."

 

The daiyoukai inwardly laughed. Maybe having her here to torture was going to be fun.