InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Time and Again ❯ Chapter 2

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Author Note: It's not like I forgot about this story its just that I couldn't give all on-going stories, I still have one at ff.net, my full attention since I've been working all days long. Since I graduated this year and summer is over now I can give my stories some more time until I find a full-time job. This story will continue to be a little slow moving for now but I have some really interesting ideas for you to look forward to. This chapter will give some answers but also more questions. Don't get the wrong idea about the main pairing right now, there is a logic explanation for everything... even my twisted ideas. Nothing to worry about but simple question; when is the next chapter coming?

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any other of the original characters in the show.

Summary: One night InuTaisho receive a request to take care of a friend of the youkai witch. But when InuTaisho begins to understand that this is no ordinary youkai he has taken under his wings a dark force begins to threaten the life of his only son. How will he save his son and heir and who is this hanyou that strangely knows very much about the future?

Pairing: Sesshomaru/InuYasha.

Warning: m/m, yaoi, incest, AU, angst big time, torture, violation, more may come

Read, Enjoy and Review. All reviews of encouragement, joy, happiness, questions and constructive criticism are welcome.

Time and Again
by Monkan

Chapter 2

A week had passed since that day. InuTaisho had thought trouble would arise around the hanyou but to his surprise nothing happened. He still didn't know the hanyou's name and as a side note, he hadn't heard him speak a single word either. He didn't know who or where the hanyou was or came from. He did however made the conclusion that he belonged to the inu-youkai clan but there was no record of the birth of a hanyou in the last five hundred years. But his biggest surprise was that there was no one that disliked the hanyou. They weren't fully comfortable with him but there was no open hatred or disgust among the other youkai in the castle. Everyone accepted the hanyou.

The hanyou did rarely take of the white cloak he wore. When maids tried to take it of he would escape and hide until they gave up on finding him. It was strange how he seemed to know so very much about the castle but hadn't been there before. But he had promised to look after and protect the hanyou as Trista the Witch asked of him. Not only that, the hanyou had saved his mate from death and that made him indebt to the half-demon. He was a man of honour and there was nothing that would make him break his word now.

InuTaisho hadn't realized how deep in thought he was until he heard his mate, Setsuna, come running into his study.

"Sesshomaru is gone."

"What?" InuTaisho exclaimed as he rose in a flash.

"I looked away for a moment and then he was gone. I don't know what happened. One second he was there and the next he wasn't."

The daiyoukai didn't need to hear more. He was already out the door with his mate behind him and gave out orders to look for his son. They couldn't find Sesshomaru anywhere and dread of what may had happened seeped into them as their search became more and more frantic. The whole castle was in uproar of what may have happened their little prince. Hours later and they still hadn't found him and they had even searched outside the castle. Until...

"My Lord!" came the yell from one of the older servants and InuTaisho followed it until he himself saw what was the matter. The hanyou was walking into the front yard while dragging a lizard youkai who looked unaware of the world around him. The hanyou also held against his chest a bundle made out of his white robe and in it laid little Sesshomaru, soundly sleeping with his fists near his face.

More and more youkai gathered and word that the little prince was safe spread quickly. Setsuna came running up to them and took Sesshomaru in her arms before making sure her son was alright.

The hanyou threw the lizard youkai forward and he made a crash landing into a ungraceful heap. He came around with the hit but before he had a chance to even gather his situation a hand wrapped around his elbow and twisted it back until everyone thought that it would break but amazingly didn't. The all to familiar pain shot through the lizards arm. He let out an agonizing scream.

"I confess. I confess. It was I. I'm the guilty one." the pain lessened but didn't go away. "I was ordered to kidnap the heir of the West. Please let go of my arm, its going to be torn off."

The relief that came when his arm was released was something he hadn't known before. The pain throughout his body were horrible and any more harm done to his body and he wouldn't be sure if his self-healing would be of much use.

A pair of shoes came into view and the lizard had a sickening feeling in the pits of his stomach. He raised his head enough to cause him pain but also to see the furious face of the daiyoukai whose son he had tried to take away.

"Who send you?" asked InuTaisho.

Fear overcame the lizards face. "I-I-I can't tell you." he stuttered. "P-p-please ask me anything but that."

InuTaisho grabbed him by his neck and held him so far above the ground his feet couldn't touch it. "WHO?" he roared.

The lizard opened his mouth as if to speak but blood came rushing out instead and he never got a chance to say anything before he was dead. InuTaisho dropped him and watched his lifeless body, suicide. He could smell it; the way his fear had overtaken him and then how every emotion from him vanished just seconds before he was dead. InuTaisho wasn't sure what to think. Was the fear of speaking his employers name so great that he would chose death right away? Or was there something behind it all that he wasn't seeing? Who could have been behind it all? It all only added to more questions than answers.

The sound of faint footsteps leaving reached his sensitive ears and InuTaisho looked up and saw the hanyous retreating back. It was as if nothing had changed but somehow InuTaisho knew that something was off with all of this. First of all... how had the hanyou known where the kidnapper was going? When no one of the others could find his son this complete... stranger finds, saves and returns without a scratch. It was as if every action about him was making the mystery about him deeper. He seemed to know things that others didn't. The intruder that tried the kidnapping wasn't that easy to find. Lizard youkais weren't just known in names alone for their skills as spies, kidnappers and assassins. That was the reason they hadn't found the intruder until the hanyou entered with him unconscious. If it hadn't even been for the hanyou they would had lost Sesshomaru to who knows whom and what could had happen to him was even more frightening.

No. He couldn't go around suspecting the hanyou for something that might be totally wrong accusations, but until he knew for sure the hanyou wasn't an enemy he would have to watch him carefully. At least now he knew there was someone else out there that sought to harm him and his family.

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The following days was seemingly uneventful and everyone seemed to have calmed down from the events with the lizard. The hanyou was often found in the garden, mostly not doing anything but sitting there.

InuTaisho watched from one of the windows that faced the garden and at the figure sitting down there. He watched as Setsuna came up to the hanyou with Sesshomaru in her arms. From this distance and with the glass between them he couldn't hear what his mate was saying but he saw her say something before sitting gracefully down beside the hanyou. The half-breed looked at her face before down at Sesshomaru who was awake and watching him with interest.

Setsuna saw the barrier that guarded his inner emotions falter and for the first time she found herself seeing a different light behind those golden eyes. A shimmer that seemed out of place, lonely and... scared. A clawed finger came up and touched gently Sesshomaru's face. The silver haired pup made a light happy sound that caught the hanyou off-guard.

Setsuna had a keen sense of catching the small details that could mostly go unnoticed by others. In other words; she could read others very easily.

"Why are you doing this to yourself`?" she asked calmly. The hanyou looked up at her with questioning eyes. "There is something that tortures you but you won't let it out. As if you are knowingly hurting yourself, locking yourself away. Sooner or later the damage your silence will cost will be to great."

As her words was spoken she knew immediately that she had made the wrong move. She saw how his defenses rose and locked his inner self even deeper behind chains and walls for anyone to break through. She flinched back at the ice cold glare in the hanyou's eyes. Never... not even her own mate had showed such a cold glare at anyone. It wasn't just cold but also haunted. It spoke of had seen a terror far worse than anything she could even imaging.

"Is something wrong?" asked InuTaisho as he came up behind them and they both turned around. The hanyou stood up and walked away without a sound. Both Setsuna and InuTaisho remained where they were, looking after him.

"What were you talking about?" InuTaisho asked his mate.

Setsuna looked up at her mate with her golden brown eyes. "I asked too much."

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When he finally was alone in one of the big common rooms that could almost be mistaken for a library the hanyou stopped and took deep breaths. His ears laid back against his skull like he was trying to keep out all sounds. He caught a glimpse at the corner of his eyes and flinched at the same time his head snapped to the side to see his own reflection in the whole body mirror standing there.

His amber eyes stared deeply into the eyes of his own reflection. Sounds. He could hear sounds. Voices calling him. The sound of his own memories. All those voices he once knew. He didn't have to concentrate at all to separate all the voices. They were all calling him just like they had so long ago. Or was it would? Or wouldn't anymore?

They all screamed and talked to him until it sounded only like one voice... and finally...... his voice.

InuYahsa

The mirror broke into shards just as a group of maids entered the room and they saw the hanyou standing by the mirror, his fist bloody as it dripped blood onto the wooden floor under his feet among the shards from the mirror. The wounds on his hand healed right away and what remained was the trails of blood.

The maids stood frozen until instinct of their duty hit them and they came rushing to him to clean up and make sure he was ok. The hanyou looked at them and gave them a weak smile before escaping the room and the questions.

He escaped mostly unnoticed to his room, his white cloak falling around his body in soft waves. The cloth was separated and a deep red kimono was revealed. He put both hands on his bed and took slow deep breaths. He could still hear the voice. A calling from another place, the place he belonged.

"I want to go home." he flopped down on the bed and curled into a features position, holding his arms close against his chest. "Why...? Why did you send me here?" warm tears spilled from his eyes and onto the soft covering. "Please tell me, why couldn't we face the end together?"

I can't let you die.

"You're not fair."

For both of our sakes you have to live.

"I don't want to be alone."

Forgive me...

"Don't leave me."

For eternity and beyond...

"I'm scared."

Remember that I...

"Please don't be so cruel."

Love you, InuYasha.

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"Sesshomaru."

Tbc!