InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Unexpected - Rain on Sakura Blossoms ❯ Chapter 19 ( Chapter 19 )
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 03.19.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.7K | Visits: 120 | Status: Work In Progress
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 03.19.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.7K | Visits: 120 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 19
Finally, he was going home to see Raine after a tiring war. Right now all he wanted was to rest with her by his side and tending to his wounds. He had missed her greatly and longed to have her in his company. He missed her smile, her smell, the taste of her lips; everything about her. He sighed. Yosuke loved his wife but sometimes he felt like she didn't really return that love.
Yosuke groaned in pain as the horse continued on. Each gallop sent a jolt of pain through his broken arm and aching back. In front of him his father rode with his head held high and his back straight. As leader of the army he felt it his responsibility to boost the moral of his men.
A lot of lives were lost in the war, mostly on their side. Telling the families of his fallen soldiers would be a difficult task. The village would be in a state of mourning for quite sometime. Luckily in Yosuke's home the only sadness would come from losing the war. If his father had died only Kami knows how devastated his mother would be.
Chimu was not feeling very well but he still looked, or at least pretended, to be fine for his soldiers. After being so thoroughly beaten in the war, Chimu did not feel very good about his performance or that of his men, but this was not the cause of his sickly feeling.
The worst of all was his wounds were burning and had started bleeding again. But the blood oozing from one particular wound was darker that normal, almost black even. He was feeling dizzy and weak. All he wanted at the moment was to rest, but he could not be seen as weak in the eyes of his men. He took a deep breath to gather some strength. His head fell backwards and his vision became blurry and everything was in threes. He barely heard Yosuke call out his name when he fell of his horse.
Yosuke saw his father fall off his horse and immediately stopped his own steed and got off to check his father. Chimu had fallen on his stomach so Yosuke had to turn him over. The amount of blood that was on the ground was very disturbing. Using his good arm Yosuke tore open his father's haori only to see that his wounds had become infected and the blood flowing from them was very dark.
Yosuke had to get his father home and soon, if not Chimu was sure to die.
*oOo*
Thor sighed as he watched Raine get dressed after another round of wild youkai sex. They had mated so much in the last week that he had lost count, but he knew it was over twelve, excluding the times before his heat cycle. All he knew was that he definitely wanted her as his mate. The only thing in their way was her husband, he could not mark her if she was with someone else.
He stretched his sore muscles and yawned. Thor was quite tired from mating Raine; he needed to rest and gather his energy for later. Now he only had two days left in his heat cycle which he wasn't very happy with. Although the entire experience was painful, the end of his heat cycle meant less mating for him and Raine and he was not looking forward to that.
He sighed and sat up, propping himself up on his elbows as he enjoyed the look of Raine's perfect body.
Thor felt bad that they could only spend such little time together. It wasn't fair to them. They were so in love and yet could not do as they pleased or be free to see each other at anytime. If they ever did get together officially his father would not approve. History did not need to repeat itself and Thor would make sure it didn't, his family didn't need that. If anything his uncle InuYasha would be there to help/
He took a deep breath and inhaled Raine's scent. The change was already there and it had only been a day. Mika would be very happy, as well as Shiaka and Malique and hopefully so would his father. One thing he was sure of was that Raine would be happy. He just hoped she'd be ready for something like this. How would she explain this to her though? Surely he would find out eventually. He sighed. When it came to that, he and Raine would handle it together.
The burn on Raine's back was still pulsing and it was very annoying. She was very uncomfortable when she sat or lied on her back. She tried a pain killing remedy Myoko gave her but that didn't work at all. In fact, all it did was give her a stomach ache.
Another weird happening was that she had a minor craving for medium rare chicken liver, something that she hated all her life. She had never tasted it but the thought of eating a liver was disgusting enough. Also, vegetables were no longer as good as they used to be and sushi was ten times better. To top it all off, these changes occurred over night, literally. She had no clue what was happening with her body. It all happened so suddenly.
She went over to Thor, who was still naked and got down on her knees and kissed him passionately. She missed their midnight meetings in the forest. Just the two of them sitting in the trees, she'd be in his arms and they'd either talk all night or just stay quiet and enjoy each other's company or just fool around. Either way they were together and that always made her happy.
She pulled away and looked lovingly into his eyes with a smile on her face. Those sapphire eyes just gave her such a warm feeling, so relaxed and at peace. She always felt comfortable around him, another thing she didn't have with Yosuke. The more she compared Thor to Yosuke, the more she felt like she and her youkai lover should be together. If only it were so easy.
She didn't know why, but as much as she wanted to be with Thor and loved Thor, she found it hard to break away from Yosuke, whom she didn't love. It just didn't make sense. Why would she stay with a man she didn't love when she could leave with the one she did? No sense. She sighed. The complications. Why was it so hard?
“You okay?” Thor asked hearing the tone in her sigh.
“Hai,my burn hurts a little.” She replied.
“Here let me.” Thor said turning her around.
He slid the kimono off her shoulders until the burn was visible. It was still glowing. Slowly he licked it and Raine sighed as the pulsing started to fade and the glow slowly disappeared until her skin was its original colour.
“Arigato koi.” Raine said.
“It was nothing. I'd do anything to make sure you're comfortable, especially now.” He said.
Raine gave him an odd look. “Okay, what does that mean?” She asked.
He smiled and squeezed her hand reassuringly. “Exactly what I said.” Was his reply.
*oOo*
Romy was in her bedroom brushing her long, beautiful hair. She had just taken a bath in the hot spring in the bath house. It was a long relaxing bath with incense and candles as one of her female servants played music for her in the background. It was one of those times she pampered herself. After all she was a Lady and a Lady deserved, infact was owed (in her opinion) such simple pleasures.
As she stared into the mirror and smiled at her reflection, she thought of how to expose Raine when Yosuke returned. She didn't have any proof, but she knew something was going on between her and the youkai she was treating. She could feel it in her bones.
Whenever Raine left to treat his wounds it took her quite long just to apply salvae and a bandage. The second time she confronted the girl, Raine merely said that they were discussing what it was like to be human or youkai. He was curious about the human lifestyle and she the youkai. Simple. Romy didn't buy any of it. They were up to something, she knew all the tricks.
At first, Romy thought that her daughter-in-law was a nice girl, but then she did something to upset her dear son Yosuke and for that she could not be forgiven. Apparently they were over it, but Yosuke didn't even get mad or yell at her. That girl did something horrible to him and all he did was get sad. Raine could not go unpunished. She would pay for hurting her son. Yes that incident was a long time ago, but she didn't like Raine for her son anymore and would do anything to destroy their marriage.
There was a knock on the door and Romy told her visitor to enter. Ayumi entered shyly and bowed.
“Romy-sama, they have returned.” She said.
Romy gasped. Finally her Chimu was back home. Oh how she missed her husband, She put down he brush and dismissed Ayumi. She took a good look at herself in the mirror and brushed off her skirt. She had to look presentable for her husband.
*oOo*
Raine closed the door to Thor's “room” and headed for her bedroom. She was quite tired and need to rest. She yawned and stretched as she neared her bedroom. Her bed was just calling her name, telling her how much it missed her. Yes, she missed it too. All she wanted was sleep.
When she reached the door and was about to slide it open, Ayumi showed up.
“Raine-sama, they have returned.” She said. She didn't need to bow, Raine preferred she didn't.
They couldn't be back, not yet. Thor wasn't even gone yet. Yosuke could not be back yet. How would she explain Thor? Oh Kami what to do? Suddenly her burn tingled and she calmed down, no longer worried.
She walked around to the front of her house, Ayumi trailing behind her and sure enough Yosuke was off his horse hugging Romy. When he pulled away from his mother she could see he had a broken arm along with other injuries.
Time for the waterworks. All she had to do was think of something sad and make herself cry so it would look like she really had missed him and was worried about his well being. As she got closer to Yosuke he extended his good arm to embrace her and she tried her best to look like she was holding back tears. When he pulled her into a hug, she “cried” into his sling.
“Okay, okay. I'm here, I'm alive. You need not cry.” Yosuke said in a comforting tone.
Raine pulled away from his hug, tears streaming down her face and pretended to try to smile. “I know, it's just,” She paused to seem overwhelmed with emotion, “I was so worried about you. I missed you so much.” She said sobbing.
“I know I missed you too.” Yosuke said stroking her hair. He leaned in for a kiss.
Yosuke was just believing every word she said. Raine couldn't believe he actually bought it and found that forcing herself to cry wasn't so hard. Maybe she was just a natural born actress.
Romy saw the way her daughter-in-law was acting and knew better than to believe her.
“We have a guest staying with us dear.” She said.
Yosuke was surprised to hear this. They were not expecting anyone. “Really? Who?” He asked.
“Oh, no one.” Raine cut in when she saw Romy was about to speak.
“If it's no one why can't I know who? It's not like they're a youkai or something.” Yosuke said.
“Oh but he is.” Romy said stressing on the gender.
“What?” Yosuke said looking at Raine angrily.
Damn that Romy! Now what was she to say. “I can explain. You see he-” She began.
“-was just about to leave.” Thor cut in.
He stepped out of the house, fully dressed. He looked at the man standing in front of Raine visibly angry and assumed this was her husband. Judging from his clothing he could tell he was a soldier.
He walked over to him. “I am Thor, son of Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands and Mika, Lady of the Western Lands and heiress to the Southern Lands. I hope my stay here has not caused any trouble.” He said.
Everyones' jaws dropped, especially Raine's. She never knew that her boyfriend was of royal lineage. Why would he keep something like that from her? Maybe for the same reason as Yosuke but either way he kept something from her.
If Romy had known that she had royalty in her home she would have gone out of her way to make him comfortable but she still felt like something was going on between him and Raine.
Then Yosuke, Raine, Romy and the rest of the army got down on the ground and bowed to Thor.
“Please rise.” Thor said.
Yosuke was the first to rise. “No my Lord, your stay has been no trouble.” He said.
Thor turned to Raine and took her hand. “Arigato fair maiden. If not for your kindness I would be dead right now.” He said before kissing the back of her hand, making her blush. Thor bowed to her before walking away in the blink of an eye.
“Where is your father?” Romy asked Yosuke.
Yosuke became pale and looked down at his feet. He knew this was coming, he knew it wouldn't be long before his mother asked that dreaded question. He ordered the soldiers to move his horse and braced himself for his mother's reaction.
Romy gasped. Lying on the horse, bleeding and limp was her dear husband Chimu. She could not believe her eyes. She covered her mouth with her hands and dropped to her knees, shaking her head as the tears started to flow.
“No.” She sobbed.
Yosuke went over to his mother and got down on the ground in front of her so that she no longer had to look at his father's body and hugged her.
“We tried to get him back home in time, but it was too late.” He said.
“No!” Romy screamed into her son's chest as she started rocking back and forth.
Yosuke looked over to Raine who was also on her knees with her hands held limp by her sides as she stared at the ground in shock and disbelief. He slid over to her and pulled her into his embrace. She held onto his good arm and put her nose in his shoulder. A lone tears slid down her cheek and Yosuke's.
Chimu was dead.
Finally, he was going home to see Raine after a tiring war. Right now all he wanted was to rest with her by his side and tending to his wounds. He had missed her greatly and longed to have her in his company. He missed her smile, her smell, the taste of her lips; everything about her. He sighed. Yosuke loved his wife but sometimes he felt like she didn't really return that love.
Yosuke groaned in pain as the horse continued on. Each gallop sent a jolt of pain through his broken arm and aching back. In front of him his father rode with his head held high and his back straight. As leader of the army he felt it his responsibility to boost the moral of his men.
A lot of lives were lost in the war, mostly on their side. Telling the families of his fallen soldiers would be a difficult task. The village would be in a state of mourning for quite sometime. Luckily in Yosuke's home the only sadness would come from losing the war. If his father had died only Kami knows how devastated his mother would be.
Chimu was not feeling very well but he still looked, or at least pretended, to be fine for his soldiers. After being so thoroughly beaten in the war, Chimu did not feel very good about his performance or that of his men, but this was not the cause of his sickly feeling.
The worst of all was his wounds were burning and had started bleeding again. But the blood oozing from one particular wound was darker that normal, almost black even. He was feeling dizzy and weak. All he wanted at the moment was to rest, but he could not be seen as weak in the eyes of his men. He took a deep breath to gather some strength. His head fell backwards and his vision became blurry and everything was in threes. He barely heard Yosuke call out his name when he fell of his horse.
Yosuke saw his father fall off his horse and immediately stopped his own steed and got off to check his father. Chimu had fallen on his stomach so Yosuke had to turn him over. The amount of blood that was on the ground was very disturbing. Using his good arm Yosuke tore open his father's haori only to see that his wounds had become infected and the blood flowing from them was very dark.
Yosuke had to get his father home and soon, if not Chimu was sure to die.
*oOo*
Thor sighed as he watched Raine get dressed after another round of wild youkai sex. They had mated so much in the last week that he had lost count, but he knew it was over twelve, excluding the times before his heat cycle. All he knew was that he definitely wanted her as his mate. The only thing in their way was her husband, he could not mark her if she was with someone else.
He stretched his sore muscles and yawned. Thor was quite tired from mating Raine; he needed to rest and gather his energy for later. Now he only had two days left in his heat cycle which he wasn't very happy with. Although the entire experience was painful, the end of his heat cycle meant less mating for him and Raine and he was not looking forward to that.
He sighed and sat up, propping himself up on his elbows as he enjoyed the look of Raine's perfect body.
Thor felt bad that they could only spend such little time together. It wasn't fair to them. They were so in love and yet could not do as they pleased or be free to see each other at anytime. If they ever did get together officially his father would not approve. History did not need to repeat itself and Thor would make sure it didn't, his family didn't need that. If anything his uncle InuYasha would be there to help/
He took a deep breath and inhaled Raine's scent. The change was already there and it had only been a day. Mika would be very happy, as well as Shiaka and Malique and hopefully so would his father. One thing he was sure of was that Raine would be happy. He just hoped she'd be ready for something like this. How would she explain this to her though? Surely he would find out eventually. He sighed. When it came to that, he and Raine would handle it together.
The burn on Raine's back was still pulsing and it was very annoying. She was very uncomfortable when she sat or lied on her back. She tried a pain killing remedy Myoko gave her but that didn't work at all. In fact, all it did was give her a stomach ache.
Another weird happening was that she had a minor craving for medium rare chicken liver, something that she hated all her life. She had never tasted it but the thought of eating a liver was disgusting enough. Also, vegetables were no longer as good as they used to be and sushi was ten times better. To top it all off, these changes occurred over night, literally. She had no clue what was happening with her body. It all happened so suddenly.
She went over to Thor, who was still naked and got down on her knees and kissed him passionately. She missed their midnight meetings in the forest. Just the two of them sitting in the trees, she'd be in his arms and they'd either talk all night or just stay quiet and enjoy each other's company or just fool around. Either way they were together and that always made her happy.
She pulled away and looked lovingly into his eyes with a smile on her face. Those sapphire eyes just gave her such a warm feeling, so relaxed and at peace. She always felt comfortable around him, another thing she didn't have with Yosuke. The more she compared Thor to Yosuke, the more she felt like she and her youkai lover should be together. If only it were so easy.
She didn't know why, but as much as she wanted to be with Thor and loved Thor, she found it hard to break away from Yosuke, whom she didn't love. It just didn't make sense. Why would she stay with a man she didn't love when she could leave with the one she did? No sense. She sighed. The complications. Why was it so hard?
“You okay?” Thor asked hearing the tone in her sigh.
“Hai,my burn hurts a little.” She replied.
“Here let me.” Thor said turning her around.
He slid the kimono off her shoulders until the burn was visible. It was still glowing. Slowly he licked it and Raine sighed as the pulsing started to fade and the glow slowly disappeared until her skin was its original colour.
“Arigato koi.” Raine said.
“It was nothing. I'd do anything to make sure you're comfortable, especially now.” He said.
Raine gave him an odd look. “Okay, what does that mean?” She asked.
He smiled and squeezed her hand reassuringly. “Exactly what I said.” Was his reply.
*oOo*
Romy was in her bedroom brushing her long, beautiful hair. She had just taken a bath in the hot spring in the bath house. It was a long relaxing bath with incense and candles as one of her female servants played music for her in the background. It was one of those times she pampered herself. After all she was a Lady and a Lady deserved, infact was owed (in her opinion) such simple pleasures.
As she stared into the mirror and smiled at her reflection, she thought of how to expose Raine when Yosuke returned. She didn't have any proof, but she knew something was going on between her and the youkai she was treating. She could feel it in her bones.
Whenever Raine left to treat his wounds it took her quite long just to apply salvae and a bandage. The second time she confronted the girl, Raine merely said that they were discussing what it was like to be human or youkai. He was curious about the human lifestyle and she the youkai. Simple. Romy didn't buy any of it. They were up to something, she knew all the tricks.
At first, Romy thought that her daughter-in-law was a nice girl, but then she did something to upset her dear son Yosuke and for that she could not be forgiven. Apparently they were over it, but Yosuke didn't even get mad or yell at her. That girl did something horrible to him and all he did was get sad. Raine could not go unpunished. She would pay for hurting her son. Yes that incident was a long time ago, but she didn't like Raine for her son anymore and would do anything to destroy their marriage.
There was a knock on the door and Romy told her visitor to enter. Ayumi entered shyly and bowed.
“Romy-sama, they have returned.” She said.
Romy gasped. Finally her Chimu was back home. Oh how she missed her husband, She put down he brush and dismissed Ayumi. She took a good look at herself in the mirror and brushed off her skirt. She had to look presentable for her husband.
*oOo*
Raine closed the door to Thor's “room” and headed for her bedroom. She was quite tired and need to rest. She yawned and stretched as she neared her bedroom. Her bed was just calling her name, telling her how much it missed her. Yes, she missed it too. All she wanted was sleep.
When she reached the door and was about to slide it open, Ayumi showed up.
“Raine-sama, they have returned.” She said. She didn't need to bow, Raine preferred she didn't.
They couldn't be back, not yet. Thor wasn't even gone yet. Yosuke could not be back yet. How would she explain Thor? Oh Kami what to do? Suddenly her burn tingled and she calmed down, no longer worried.
She walked around to the front of her house, Ayumi trailing behind her and sure enough Yosuke was off his horse hugging Romy. When he pulled away from his mother she could see he had a broken arm along with other injuries.
Time for the waterworks. All she had to do was think of something sad and make herself cry so it would look like she really had missed him and was worried about his well being. As she got closer to Yosuke he extended his good arm to embrace her and she tried her best to look like she was holding back tears. When he pulled her into a hug, she “cried” into his sling.
“Okay, okay. I'm here, I'm alive. You need not cry.” Yosuke said in a comforting tone.
Raine pulled away from his hug, tears streaming down her face and pretended to try to smile. “I know, it's just,” She paused to seem overwhelmed with emotion, “I was so worried about you. I missed you so much.” She said sobbing.
“I know I missed you too.” Yosuke said stroking her hair. He leaned in for a kiss.
Yosuke was just believing every word she said. Raine couldn't believe he actually bought it and found that forcing herself to cry wasn't so hard. Maybe she was just a natural born actress.
Romy saw the way her daughter-in-law was acting and knew better than to believe her.
“We have a guest staying with us dear.” She said.
Yosuke was surprised to hear this. They were not expecting anyone. “Really? Who?” He asked.
“Oh, no one.” Raine cut in when she saw Romy was about to speak.
“If it's no one why can't I know who? It's not like they're a youkai or something.” Yosuke said.
“Oh but he is.” Romy said stressing on the gender.
“What?” Yosuke said looking at Raine angrily.
Damn that Romy! Now what was she to say. “I can explain. You see he-” She began.
“-was just about to leave.” Thor cut in.
He stepped out of the house, fully dressed. He looked at the man standing in front of Raine visibly angry and assumed this was her husband. Judging from his clothing he could tell he was a soldier.
He walked over to him. “I am Thor, son of Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands and Mika, Lady of the Western Lands and heiress to the Southern Lands. I hope my stay here has not caused any trouble.” He said.
Everyones' jaws dropped, especially Raine's. She never knew that her boyfriend was of royal lineage. Why would he keep something like that from her? Maybe for the same reason as Yosuke but either way he kept something from her.
If Romy had known that she had royalty in her home she would have gone out of her way to make him comfortable but she still felt like something was going on between him and Raine.
Then Yosuke, Raine, Romy and the rest of the army got down on the ground and bowed to Thor.
“Please rise.” Thor said.
Yosuke was the first to rise. “No my Lord, your stay has been no trouble.” He said.
Thor turned to Raine and took her hand. “Arigato fair maiden. If not for your kindness I would be dead right now.” He said before kissing the back of her hand, making her blush. Thor bowed to her before walking away in the blink of an eye.
“Where is your father?” Romy asked Yosuke.
Yosuke became pale and looked down at his feet. He knew this was coming, he knew it wouldn't be long before his mother asked that dreaded question. He ordered the soldiers to move his horse and braced himself for his mother's reaction.
Romy gasped. Lying on the horse, bleeding and limp was her dear husband Chimu. She could not believe her eyes. She covered her mouth with her hands and dropped to her knees, shaking her head as the tears started to flow.
“No.” She sobbed.
Yosuke went over to his mother and got down on the ground in front of her so that she no longer had to look at his father's body and hugged her.
“We tried to get him back home in time, but it was too late.” He said.
“No!” Romy screamed into her son's chest as she started rocking back and forth.
Yosuke looked over to Raine who was also on her knees with her hands held limp by her sides as she stared at the ground in shock and disbelief. He slid over to her and pulled her into his embrace. She held onto his good arm and put her nose in his shoulder. A lone tears slid down her cheek and Yosuke's.
Chimu was dead.