InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tale of Sesshoumaru ❯ Naraku's Return ( Chapter 34 )

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The rumors then were true. Naraku watched the two foolish inuyoukai shagging in the dirt of a road from his minion's mirror and was satisfied. Soon he would have Sesshoumaru's wife, her jewel shards and the infant inside her to add to his demonic collection. She must be a strong one to survive Hell. Since he did not believe in luck, he assumed it was by strength alone she had escaped.

 

She would tip the scales and make him stronger than her smug husband. Naraku knew all too well that pride came before a big fall, and Sesshoumaru's pride would make him fall big. He himself had no pride to trip him up. He waited patiently in the shadows, licking his wounds once again, a genius tactician. What he could not take by force he would gain by trickery. The proud could not do trickery well. They usually gave themselves away. Naraku grinned to himself.

 

He dismissed the little white haired girl, who was pretty much useless for anything except spying on others. Unlike Kagura, she had no real mind of her own. She would do what ever he ordered her to do, when ever he wanted it. He knew if he ordered her off a cliff, the mindless thing would do it.

 

Kagura though, she was getting troublesome. Every season that passed proved more and more challenging. She was obedient enough, but not devotedly. Her eyes did not ooze blind obedience to him anymore. Something, somewhere had grown in her. It wasn't a soul, she had none. It wasn't a heart, she didn't have one of those either. It was her consciousness, something he had accidentally instilled in her when he created her of his own flesh.

 

It really didn't matter in the long run though. He could always reabsorb her and make yet another walking mass of organs and limbs. He had plenty of weaker ones he could prune off, saving the better ones for himself.

 

“Kagura,” he called, ordering her to the dug out room he was in. He knew she heard him by the way her footsteps changed on the floors above him. She would appear any moment.

 

The woman dropped to her knees in a bow, but her head remained high with a turned up chin. “Hai?”

 

“I have something for you to do.” Naraku's eyes glared. “I want you to cause a disturbance in the buffer lands. Something large...something to attract Sesshoumaru.”

 

“But he cares for nothing. He will not go there.”

 

“Murder the horse youkai named Hizumeha and pin it on that smug son of a bitch. He will go when he has been accused. Sesshoumaru cares for his own name enough.”

 

“I see.” Kagura said, feeling a slight remorse for the handsome inuyoukai who had battled Naraku and saved his little companion Rin. She was glad that she was not being sent to battle him directly. Firstly she feared him, secondly, she really did not want to be his sworn enemy. That would be assured death, but also...also...she would never get to know him better.

 

Sesshoumaru was interesting. He was quiet, calm, poised. The dog demon had something about him others just didn't have. She could follow him easily. She would follow him like the little girl. She would rather be free roaming the countryside than being pawn and slave to Naraku.

 

When her nasty master turned away from her, she stood and left.

 

Kagura flew on a hot upshot of air into the clouds overlooking Sesshoumaru's lands. She didn't know what drew her there. Something inside her wanted to call out to him and tell him he would be walking into a trap of her own making. She had no choice but make the distraction. Orders were orders...but Naraku never told her to keep her mouth shut.

 

Hiding in a bank of clouds, she watched his white hair billow around him as he stood high on a parapet. He seemed to be thinking. That was something she admired in him. He always seemed to be thinking. After a time he walked down to the courtyard and called for Jaken. Leaving Rin inside somewhere, the two demons left out in a rapid rate, Sesshoumaru taking to the air, dragging the little runt behind him by the collar.

 

This situation could not have been better for Kagura. The poor little girl would be safe at home this time and there would be no witnesses except for the little toady to vouch for Sesshoumaru's whereabouts. She kept a fair distance from them, but followed them, surprised when they turned towards the buffer lands. By the Kami! He was going where she needed to be. Framing him would be all the easier.

 

Jaken had intercepted the messenger before he ever made it up to the outer walls. Taking the scroll from him, he dismissed him quickly and cruelly, threatening him to go home as fast as his little pony legs could carry him. As soon as the messenger pony was out of sight, he ran for Sesshoumaru with the missive meant for Akanesuji.

 

Hizumeha had found a large snake demon and was requesting her assistance. He wrote that it may have a jewel shard, and he needed her second set of eyes, ears and claws to defeat it. Hizumeha admitted he could not doing it alone. Sesshoumaru thought him incredibly weak. Either that, or he wanted to see his wife alone.

 

He wasn't too keen on that idea. Hizumeha made his blood boil.

 

Kagura watched as Sesshoumaru killed the snake with hardly a sweat. It had taken him the afternoon to find it because it was curled up in a rice paddy, but killing it had only taken five minutes. Digging out the jewel shard, Sesshoumaru dropped it into the deep pocket of his kimono sleeve. He would not leave it for another to steal and cause trouble. “Jaken...go inform Hizumeha that his favorite demon hunter has killed the snake for him.”

 

“Yes my lord.”

 

“Do not screw this up, Jaken. I am counting on you to be believable.” Jaken bowed and groveled, then backed up and ran for Hizumeha's castle. Sesshoumaru started to bury the snake, which was now deflated down to a reasonable six foot length. If Hizumeha was really afraid of this snake, he was a fool.

 

Kagura jumped from her spying place in a far off treetop and walked into Sesshoumaru's view, careful not to appear aggressive or threatening. “I never expected to see you doing such menial labor,” she said to his back.

 

“Don't expect to ever see it again.”

 

“Tell me, Sesshoumaru-sama...what brings a big bad daiyoukai like you out to kill a little, piss ant snake demon? Are you too now collecting shards?”

 

Sesshoumaru lied. He really didn't care about them, but he would use them as a convenient excuse. “If I collect at least one or two up, Naraku can never have the completed jewel.”

 

“Ah. Revenge. That I understand.” she said, folding her arms in front of her and watching him with a hauty look. “Who is Akanesuji?”

 

“A local demon hunter. I would rather everyone not know about my involvement in this.” He lied again. If she hadn't already heard about his marriage to Akanesuji, then she didn't need to know at all.

 

“Your secret is safe with me.”

 

“Is it now...” Sesshoumaru suspected her of lying, but could not be sure. He knew she hated her master almost as much as everyone else did. He was not a good master to her at all. Raising to a stand, he brushed his hand over his hakama pants, wanting to get the dirt from his nails. Using them as a shovel was disgusting work.

 

Kagura nodded and approached him closer, standing only a few feet from his shadow on the ground. “It will be safe with me...if you give me something in return.”

 

“What do you want?” As long as it was nothing important, he could pay her off he thought. Hell, he would give her the jewel right now himself if it would guarantee her silence.

 

The wind witch took a step and came up close to his armor, touching it with the end of her index finger and dragging that finger up to the collar of his kimono. “I do not want anything I must carry home with me. I do not want to incur Naraku's wrath.” Looking up into his cold eyes she confessed, “I want something that will pleasure me greatly for a few fleeting moments...like the wind.”

 

“I cannot give you the wind.”

 

“No. But you can give me pleasure.”

 

“I could just kill you and avoid this compromise all together.” Sesshoumaru did not want to lay the bitch. He had just gotten his wife settled down back at the estate, her legs and arms and heart ever faithful to him. This wind witch would not screw up a relationship that had already been screwed up several times before by their own combined stupidity. They could fuck it up themselves just fine without someone else's help.

 

“Naraku will take the girl if you take me.”

 

Sesshoumaru had a sudden choice to make. He could kill the wind witch, which would send Naraku after Rin again and possibly give away his little game with Hizumeha to Akanesuji and cause a large breakup fight once again, or he could just fuck her and enjoy himself a little, keep his little buffer land secret and keep the jewel shard. Logically, fucking her was the best thing to do.

 

He never even considered the other option. Carnal relations with Kagura would send Akanesuji into a fit. He was alpha male after all, lord of the Western lands and fully capable of taking lovers, concubines and additional wives at his whim.

 

“You're stalling.” Kagura said, noticing that he was weighing everything in his mind. Knowing he was thinking about it impressed her. Any other man on the planet would have immediately chosen the sex, valuing her body over everything else she had to offer, but Sesshoumaru had more self control than that.

 

Sesshoumaru grabbed her by the back of the head and forced a heavy kiss on her. “Is this what you want?” he said with just the hint of seduction.

 

“Yes...” Kagura's knees went suddenly weak, she felt like she was going to fall. Naraku never made her feel this way when he pressed his slimy lips to hers. She liked it. She loved it. She wanted more of it.

 

“Then tell me how I can satisfy you. I want you pleasured so much you will never...ever...betray me.”