InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Time and Again ❯ Chapter 3
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By: Monkan 
The new beginning
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Mystery / Hentai / Drama / Adventure | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.19.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
The new beginning
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Mystery / Hentai / Drama / Adventure | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.19.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
Author Note: This chapter is long over due, it been so long since the last update and I know that I said that I wanted this story to live long but I've decided that I can't do that. I'm still happy that I wrote this story, even if it was hard to finish in the end. Honestly, it all became chaos and I lost myself several times. I don't know if this chapter is a disappointment or a success. Frankly I hardly knew how to connect things with each other or how to continue. At least I finished this story and the plot twist were bigger than anything I've ever done before. I'm thinking though about a small sequel to this one, there were some things I didn't get to write. At least for now, enjoy this last chapter.
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 hanyou he has taken under his wings a dark force begins to threaten the life of his family. The future seems awfully close.
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any other character in the anime or manga. This is purely fan service.
Pairing: Sess/Inu. If you don't like the idea of homosexuality, or incest, then I would be happy if you leave without making any fuzz about it. Flamers will be ignored and only takes up space in the review section.
Warning: M/M, Yaoi, Incest, AU, Angst, Fantasy, Mystery.
Read, Enjoy and Review. All feedbacks of encouragement, joy, happiness and constructive criticism are welcome.
Time and Again
by Monkan
Chapter 3 of 3
The great hall of InuTaisho were alive with chatter and music. The yearly festival that were held each decade for the youkai of royal family had fallen upon his castle this time and so he had taken it upon himself, along with his mate, to plan everything instead of leaving it to his closest counselors. The great room was decorated tastefully with much natural beauty from the forest and with silk and candle lights around the room. The food were for all tastes, be it those that ate meat or those that lived of the fresh fruits nature had to offer. Wine were served to those that wanted to indulge in it and the mode were merry. Setsuna stood at one end of the hall, talking with the other Ladies of the Lands as well as their daughters while InuTaisho were on the other side, talking to the Lords of the Lands. The day had proceeded without incident and everyone were relaxed.
However, InuTaisho hadn't seen the hanyou for the evening and he were now and then wondering where he was. His eyes would also search the halls for his son now and then. The little boy had began to grow at a fast rate and were now able to walk around the castle on mostly steady feet. It had been only two months since the kidnap attempt and since then they were now aware that someone was after their family and the security had gone up, but InuTaisho couldn't help but feel that he needed to keep an eye on his son.
He knew without a doubt that one day Sesshoumaru would grow up to be a magnificent and graceful Lord of the West, a heir he wouldn't have any trouble to leave the throne over to. He would be a kind and strong leader for their people and the land would prosper. Of that he had no doubt.
So why? Why did he feel such an anxiety? It had began when the hanyou had entered their lives. There were something around him that made InuTaisho apprehensive about what were to come, some unknown fear had crept into his heart and were growing stronger every day. He couldn't place what surrounded the hanyou even though it was very familiar, he just knew it was something he greatly feared. They still didn't know where he came from and his heritage was therefore also unknown. what puzzled InuTaisho more was the hanyous temperament. Even if the hostility was real there were still a tenderness in him, he never meant to hurt anyone although he broke a few hands that tried to touch him. While his eyes glared hatefully at others to keep them away, they tried to hide the loneliness he felt. Even if he didn't let anyone touch him it was obvious that sometimes he longed for a simple touch of friendship.
InuTaisho trusted the hanyou, something in his heart had told him that when he started to look past the facade. His heart even cried out in pain each time he saw the lonely and abounded look in his eyes. The hanyou still didn't talk even if you asked him something, he just kept all his secrets and pain inside his heart. Though his actions didn't say anything of something threatening it was clear that they were kept to a minimal so they wouldn't attract to much attention.
No matter how he looked at the hanyou he got the impression of a hunted animal.
"My Lord?" a voice pulled him from his thoughts and InuTaisho noticed that he had been spacing out and had rudely ignored his formal guests.
"I'm sorry, something just crossed my mind. You were saying?" InuTaisho excused himself and concentrated on the other Lord once again. It was a Lord that had only recently come to power after his father had died. A good youkai although a bit green around the edges he tried to make up for the lost of his father.
But the young Lord wouldn't take the hint. "Something the matter?" he asked while his purple blue eyes stared into InuTaisho's eyes. He wasn't really intimidated by the great Lord before him but at the same time he clearly respected InuTiasho.
"No. Just some private issues." Since the hanyou rarely showed himself it wasn't hard to hide him from prying eyes, even though InuTaisho had no intentions to do that from the beginning.
He just wished he knew the answers to this big mystery. InuTaisho had no idea his wish would be granted in a most gruesome way of reality.
What no one knew or sensed was that under the night that had fallen around the castle, things were changing. Fast and severally.
-o-o-o-o-
InuYasha sat high above the crowd and looked over them. He could see them all up there. Faces he had seen before and those he had already come to know. He still felt detached. He had ever since he had arrived here. Everything seemed to be in a daze and he couldn't break through it, he saw and reacted but were his reactions really his? The only things he had felt since coming here was bewilderment, hate, sorrow and loneliness.
He didn't belong here. He wanted to go home but there was no home to go back to. Hell, he wasn't even sure how he got here. One moment he had fought and then the next moment something closed around him, stalling his breath and then he was here. He hadn't had a choice in weather he wanted to be here or not. He had been forced and he didn't know whom had done it. He first thought it was the witch but then again he also knew she wouldn't take actions without reasons and by the time the battle had begun, she was already......
InuYasha shock his head to get rid of the thoughts. He only got depressed when he thought about it all. So he had forced himself to stop thinking about it.
He longed to be home, and in a way it was his home. Sesshoumaru was here, though he was just a little kid he had still managed to worm his way into his heart. There were also his father whom he had never seen before, at least not alive. And there were some others he knew but all others weren't here.
Where they still fighting? Had they won or lost? What about Sesshoumaru? What was he doing? Had he returned to the castle yet? Was he even still alive? Could he ever go back? Would he like to stay here and build a new life? Could he... turn his back on Sesshoumaru and deny his heart? Start over again with this Sesshoumaru?
....
No he couldn't. He couldn't do that, even if this Sesshoumaru would one day grow up and become the powerful and beautiful youkai he was destined to be they weren't the same. It wouldn't be the same. Even if he had lost everything he would still betray 'his' Sesshoumaru and their family. It would kill him.
After all, he didn't belong here. This wasn't his time.
A sudden shudder ran down his spine and his blood turned to ice at the same time it burned. His muscles tensed and his heart stopped beating. The hair on his neck stood on edge and he almost lost control of his youki. Slowly he turned his head and looked down at the crowd. None other had sensed it and that was just because they didn't know yet. InuYasha's eyes searched the hall and shifted his body so the white cloak around him fell down from the sill.
His eyes caught the one infesting him with the same fear and hate he had felt the last few years. The one responsible for his lost. He couldn't hold back the growl that rumbled in his throat.
Naraku.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-
InuTaisho turned around just in time to see a pair of blood red eyes across the room. Then a low growl caught his ears as well as many others of the guests ears. The air was filled with the fluttering sound of cloths and in the middle not far from the red eyed youkai landed the hanyou in a graceful flow of white and.... red? The cloth around him had parted and from beneath it was a red yukata with equal red hakama visible. What striked InuTaisho most was that it looked just like his fire-rat cloth that lay stuffed away in his room.
The red eyed youkai looked baffled for a moment before his face turned ice cold with mirth.
"How come you're still alive... and here, InuYasha? You were surely dead."
"I don't know." InuYasha's words drifted from his lips and InuTaisho and everyone else heard his voice for the first time, and also his name. "But I do know that you will die this time Naraku." his voice was a little deep but also held a boyish undertone in it, slightly hoarse from disuse.
The one called Naraku smirked. "Don't you know that time is with me InuYasha. But do tell me InuYasha..." Naraku paused. "How are you going to kill me when you couldn't even save Shinsei from death."
"Don't you dare..." InuYasha started but was cut of.
"If I recall it he died pushing you out of danger just to have him die for nothing. How would your mate respond to it if he knew the truth? The child you were destined to bring forth, for the greater good of Japan, only to be killed by protecting you." he thoughtfully said.
InuYasha's hate toward the evil youkai grew with every word that held truth among his lies. "Don't think that your words will make me do the same thing twice. You don't even belong here, your lies holds no truth to them yet. And you may be a youkai now but you will forever be a lowly bandit in the rotten depths of your heart."
Naraku was stunned for a moment but then hissed from between his teeth. "I may not belong here but so do neither you. You if anyone are the biggest mistake nature could ever create. I may have been a human but that is far from what I am now, compared to you who were born between a human and an youkai. It must have been because of your dirty blood that you were able to snare your "mate" to yourself. For we both knows that he would never chose you. He hated you more than anything. The one that dirtied the blood of his noble father."
He knew it was partly true. Sesshoumaru may have hated him once in their life but that wasn't the case anymore. If only...
"Now that Shinsei is gone your purpose to him is for nothing. Your are even more worthless than you were before your mating. For who in their right mind would ever mate with someone so close to their own blood who can't give him a heir anymore. You. His own, dirty, human born, worthless, hanyou, little brother." Naraku sneered at him. "The house of the Inu-Youkai will fall with your birth."
InuYasha suddenly became aware of those around them. For a moment he panicked and he couldn't dare to look around in fear of what he would see. The wounds was still to fresh for him to face others. He couldn't heal in such a short time these wounds. Maybe everything everyone had said to him was true, that their mating was a mistake.
Suddenly he felt a strong youki close around him and embraced him. In that moment he could feel the strong arms wrap around his torso, the silken hair fall over his shoulders, the strong chest pressed against his back, the eternal face pressed against his hair and those lips next to his ear, he could even smell the scent of his mate. Even this far apart they were still connected by their bond.
InuYasha felt another pair of hands grab his hand and the tiny claws of his child touched him, the tiny youki was so similar to theirs. A nose nuzzled the hair close to his ear and he could hear the words in his heart.
"I'm always with you. Where ever you are."
"What was that?" Naraku asked with a sneer.
'Trust me.' a voice whispered in InuYasha's head.
InuYasha raised his golden eyes and glared at Naraku with such intensity that it actually made him flinch. "You may think that you have won the war but as long as me and my family lives we will fight you."
"Then why don't you just die?" Naraku said as he threw his hand through the air and InuYasha was thrown back as he blocked the wind. Blood dripped from his body and stained his cloths red. "You talk bravely but what can a lonely hanyou do?"
As the second attack was about to hit him more forcefully a white blur intercepted it and it hit the wall, sending cracked stone all over the guests.
InuTaisho stared unflinching at the back of the new figure that had appeared. It looked so familiar.
"Who...?" Naraku hissed angry as he stared at the intruder in disbelief. "Who are you here?"
InuYasha reached out and gently touched the back the other youkai. His head rested against the soft silk kimono that covered the back. White silken hair was braided and thrown over one of his shoulders. The long fluffy tail were wrapped over the same shoulder as the braid.
"Even a hanyou can create a future." the deep voice of the youkai spoke out. "But someone as blinded by his greed like you can't see that."
InuYasha had started to tremble, "Shinsei." he whispered.
"I'm sorry I had to make you suffer, dad." the youkai said over his shoulder. His eyes were a golden shade with darker spots of melted gold in them, thin lips in a sad smile, two strips on his cheek as well as high cheek bones. "I didn't expect the war to reach you in the first time. I made a mistake and you and father had to pay for it."
"Shinsei..." Naraku said. "How can you be Shinsei. Shinsei is a little brat no older than 50 years."
Shinsei looked at the evil youkai. "I don't have to explain myself to the likes of you." He pulled his sword. "It was my fathers last wish to bring dad back and I'm here to honor that wish. Your death will only bring joy to my family."
"How impudent." Naraku yelled and attacked.
Shinsei pushed InuYasha back so he was out of range before he swinged his sword. The edge of the blade cleaved Naraku's hand like it was made of butter. The red eyed youkai jumped back but his arm was cut clean of. His blood dripped onto the floor.
"It's time to end your life." Shinsei said as he raised the sword and it turned deep red which sparkled like lighting. He swung it down and a deep red dragon roared above him before it flied toward Naraku. The breath from it cracked the floor. Just when the dragon was about devour Naraku a shadow raced forward and threw a jewel into the gap of the dragon. It exploded and disappeared.
"Let me tell you something, Shinsei. As long as I'm by Naraku-sama's side I won't let anything harm him." The shadow said, his face couldn't be seen. "It looks like we underestimated you. We will take out leave now, see you in the future, my dear Lord."
The shadows around them swallowed them and they were gone before anyone could do anything.
Shinsei's grip on the sword tighten. "Captain Torii. It was you after all."
He turned around, his braid flying in the air and he walked over to InuYasha. He knelt down and stared into the face of his dad that he hadn't seen in ages. Reasons and consequences had lead him to this and he had even endangered the past with the war he fought. His regrets were that his family couldn't have the peaceful time together that they deserved. Instead the war had reached them and destroyed them. Even to this point where it reached the childhood of his sire.
"I'm sorry." he said quietly. "I never wanted to involve you in this but to send you back here were the only thing I could do to prevent our family to be erased." he bowed his head in shame. "I'm so sorry, dad." tears fell from his eyes and hit the hard floor. He was aware that around them InuTaisho were taking control over the situation and made sure the injured were taken care of.
It was the flaw when he fought, he had forgotten about the others around him. Those that had nothing to do with this. But he wanted to end Naraku's life so much he had forgotten them. He at least knew there were no deaths among them.
A hand on his head petted him and he looked up and into the kind golden eyes he remembered so much. "It's not your fault." InuYasha whispered, when his hand caressed Shinsei's cheek it was then the young youkai realized that the hand was covered in blood. A large piece of stone had settled deep inside InuYasha's body, draining it from its life.
"Dad." he said as his eyes fearfully watched blood drench InuYasha's cloths in crimson. "No. No. No. Don't die. I promised father that I would bring you back. You can't die now. Trista should be back any moment now and everything will return to normal."
"I'm happy that I got to see that you have grown into such a fine young man, my son." InuYasha said as he swayed dangerously from side to side. Shinsei caught him before he fell to the floor. "Show me.." he whispered. "Sesshoumaru's... last moment."
The tears trailed down his face, there was nothing he could do. Trista were close by but by the time she got here InuYasha would be dead. Once more he was powerless to help his family.
"Please."
Shinsei lifted his sword diagonally from them toward the ceiling and it glowed.
His royal armor who carried the mark of the Inu-youkai lineage were damaged. Splinter from it fell to the ground as he held a sword tightly in his hand. His claws dug into his palm as it squeezed the handle so tightly it should had broken. Around him lay hordes of enemies and fellow comrades. The land were burning, burning out the ancient history it had carried witness to. The glazed look in the golden eyes seemed to sharpen until they came back to awareness. A whisper from his lips were lost to all ears as he stood proud and tall before running toward the castle surrounded by dark smoke.
He jumped through the broken front gate and over the many bodies that laid over the stone floor. He ran through the castle until he reached the large doors that lead to the great hall of the throne. He burst through them and stopped dead in his tracks. His sword clattered when it hit the ground. He knelt down and reached for a small child whose body was lifeless. The shards of Tensaiga laid next to him and it's broken blade seemed to cry tears of silence that couldn't make redemption. The youkai held the body close to his chest, tears fell from his eyes as he stroked the white hair of the child. His eyes lost their shine of life, joy, belief, honor and peace as he held the child.
But it wasn't until he looked up toward the great crystal that had grown monstrously in the hall that his soul, body and mind lost it's life. Tears so heavy and clear ran down his face and as they fell from his chin they sparkled like diamonds.
His slightly parted lips trembled for a moment before opening to its biggest and screamed in pure, heart-broken terror at the body that laid sealed inside the crystal.
"INUYASHA!"
The once proud Daiyoukai put gently the body of the child on the cold stone floor, before he grief struck and shamefully crawled over the floor on his hands and knees. His stained slender hands trembled with sudden weakness but they still refused to give way until they reached their goal. The giant crystal lay before him and he sat back as his fingers slowly touched the transparent material. The cold touch of it didn't matter and both of Sesshoumaru's hands rested against the crystal that held his lover trapped inside.
Sesshoumaru looked up and into the frozen face of InuYasha. The eyes looked lost and beyond his reach. Unable to see them anymore he gently pressed his cheek against the visible wall and cried heavy tears of sorrow and lost.
He barely noticed it but the wind brought with it a white cloth with royal markings on it. So hopelessly in his grief he wasn't even aware of his lips moving unconsciously... begging to save his family. The castle came down around him, taking everything with it.
The scene ended and the hall was silent. Except for the single footsteps that lead to Shinsei.
"I'm sorry I'm to late." Trista the witch said in a sad voice. "I came back as soon as I could but there was nothing I could do in the end."
"Don't say stupid things." Shinsei said to her, his voice broken and lost. "Can't you see his smile?"
Trista looked down at InuYasha's face and was surprised to see his face smiling, even though he was dead.
"They didn't die for nothing. They have taught me something important, I can't correct my mistakes this time but next time I will not make the same ones. Next time I will protect everyone."
"Lord Shinsei." Trista said.
Shinsei started to become transparent, he was vanishing into thin air. He looked up at Trista with a sad smile. "Both my parents are dead and so are my younger self therefore my existence will vanish." he looked thoughtfully at the child that would one day become his father. "Promise me..." he whispered to Trista's ears only. "That you will watch over them." InuYasha's body was vanishing in his arms.
"I promise my Lord." Trista said.
"And one more thing." Shinsei said even though he was half gone.
"Yes."
"No one will remember us, except you. All evidence of us will vanish, time will turn back, everything will continue like it was supposed to but I want you to do something else this time."
Trista nodded. "What is it my Lord?"
Shinsei smiled. "I want you................" he vanished into thin air and before Trista knew it herself she were once again standing in her house. She looked around, everything looked exactly like it did that time when she for the first time met her future Lord. She knew that she alone bore memories of that day and that it wouldn't happen again. She alone would be the one to bare out her destined Lord's final and first wish.
-o-o-o-
The following day, Trista the Witch honored the Royal Inu-Youkai family with a prophesy to their son.
It said that Sesshoumaru and his destined mate would bring forth a heir. A heir that would bring great victories in the upcoming wars, and bring the people of their land great happiness and peace. Sesshoumaru's mate would be connected to him by half his blood and that their love alone would change the course of destiny in Japan. A Daiyoukai and a Hanyou of the same demon blood would be the beginning of everything and their family will be the greatest ever.
Since it was Trista the Witch that told the prophesy very few doubted it.
The next day Setsuna, InuTaisho's wife and Sesshoumaru's mother was assassinated in front of everyone. Her life couldn't be saved.
Sesshoumaru grew up and lived up to be a magnificent youkai. His fathers pride was evident but it was also when Sesshoumaru was 400 years that InuTaisho took a human mate and InuYasha was born. Despite the fact that Sesshoumaru hated InuYasha and his mother everyone believed that this was the hanyou of the prophesy so long ago spoken of. Even more so when InuTaisho died protecting InuYasha and his mother.
Trista kept her promise and watched as history unfolded and she protected the siblings against dangers they weren't aware of. She waited for the day they would realize their love and mate, she waited for their family to unite and she waited for their only heir to be born.
She waited for her Lord to be born. For she knew he would need the memories she had protected of his previous life.
-o-o-o-
An ethereal shadow stood by the rippling water. The creature had white silky hair that framed a pale face and golden eyes. His hair was long enough to almost touch his feet, the wind blew past him and drew his hair behind him. The features was that of a man and his face was set in a soft smile. Twin stripes on his cheeks and a crescent moon on his forehead was the only other features that stood out. He was dressed in a white kimono with purple marks around the neck, sleeves and the bottom. The arms was cut differently from normal models of kimonos. The cut began at his pale wrist and the cloth ended a little lower than his knees. The markings was elegant and noble, speaking of a world of history they only knew of.
The beauty of this creature was out of this world, even if it was clear that he was youkai, some would say that he looked like something that didn't belong to this world. His pure white complex that could be compared to the new fallen snow that had a tint of blue, the sign of pure fallen snow, unstained by the world and all its hardships. The moon let it's light filter through the leaves from the tree above him and bathed him in its pale shine.
In the rippling water stood a hanyou. His hair was more silver than white and reached down to his butt. His skin wasn't as pale as the others but it wasn't overly tanned. His equally golden eyes shinned with infinite childish innocence and brightness. He didn't have the markings on his face but his features was another sort of beauty, more handsome and mature but at the same time inmature and childish. Puppy ears at the top of his head was clothed with white fur as the wind made them twitch slightly in the cold breeze of the night.
He was dressed in the same sort of kimono as the other one but his marking was a deep red color. The same as the blood that flowed through them both.
Another sort of ripples floated through the water as it parted for the ethereal youkai as he made his way over to the other. His steps was smooth and graceful, the water let him through without trouble it almost seemed to part for him.
When they were standing face to face their height difference was clear and the youkai that stood still in the water was obviously shorter by a few inches, but not overly short as his eyes reached up to the others nose.
A hand reached down and laid on the younger demons cheek. The smoothing sound of the wind was the only sound as they stared deeply into each others eyes.
Ever so slowly they drew closer, the hand never once lowered but more like guided the others face to his. His sleeve pooled at his elbow and revealed twin straps on his arm too.
Their faces' were just an inch apart now and their eyelids dropped to half-close before fluttering down to hide their eyes, their breaths mingled as they slowly, slowly drew even closer until their lips touched. The kiss was passionate and long. The wind had grabbed a hold of the taller youkai's hair and clothes and blew it so it shielded his lover from the world. The puppy-eared hanyou's hair blew behind his back and mingled with his lovers.
When the kiss ended they held each other close as the rest of the world slowly passed them by. Not once did they let each other go. It was almost like a silent, unspoken promise that even if the world was ending they wouldn't leave each other.
The End
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 hanyou he has taken under his wings a dark force begins to threaten the life of his family. The future seems awfully close.
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha or any other character in the anime or manga. This is purely fan service.
Pairing: Sess/Inu. If you don't like the idea of homosexuality, or incest, then I would be happy if you leave without making any fuzz about it. Flamers will be ignored and only takes up space in the review section.
Warning: M/M, Yaoi, Incest, AU, Angst, Fantasy, Mystery.
Read, Enjoy and Review. All feedbacks of encouragement, joy, happiness and constructive criticism are welcome.
Time and Again
by Monkan
Chapter 3 of 3
The great hall of InuTaisho were alive with chatter and music. The yearly festival that were held each decade for the youkai of royal family had fallen upon his castle this time and so he had taken it upon himself, along with his mate, to plan everything instead of leaving it to his closest counselors. The great room was decorated tastefully with much natural beauty from the forest and with silk and candle lights around the room. The food were for all tastes, be it those that ate meat or those that lived of the fresh fruits nature had to offer. Wine were served to those that wanted to indulge in it and the mode were merry. Setsuna stood at one end of the hall, talking with the other Ladies of the Lands as well as their daughters while InuTaisho were on the other side, talking to the Lords of the Lands. The day had proceeded without incident and everyone were relaxed.
However, InuTaisho hadn't seen the hanyou for the evening and he were now and then wondering where he was. His eyes would also search the halls for his son now and then. The little boy had began to grow at a fast rate and were now able to walk around the castle on mostly steady feet. It had been only two months since the kidnap attempt and since then they were now aware that someone was after their family and the security had gone up, but InuTaisho couldn't help but feel that he needed to keep an eye on his son.
He knew without a doubt that one day Sesshoumaru would grow up to be a magnificent and graceful Lord of the West, a heir he wouldn't have any trouble to leave the throne over to. He would be a kind and strong leader for their people and the land would prosper. Of that he had no doubt.
So why? Why did he feel such an anxiety? It had began when the hanyou had entered their lives. There were something around him that made InuTaisho apprehensive about what were to come, some unknown fear had crept into his heart and were growing stronger every day. He couldn't place what surrounded the hanyou even though it was very familiar, he just knew it was something he greatly feared. They still didn't know where he came from and his heritage was therefore also unknown. what puzzled InuTaisho more was the hanyous temperament. Even if the hostility was real there were still a tenderness in him, he never meant to hurt anyone although he broke a few hands that tried to touch him. While his eyes glared hatefully at others to keep them away, they tried to hide the loneliness he felt. Even if he didn't let anyone touch him it was obvious that sometimes he longed for a simple touch of friendship.
InuTaisho trusted the hanyou, something in his heart had told him that when he started to look past the facade. His heart even cried out in pain each time he saw the lonely and abounded look in his eyes. The hanyou still didn't talk even if you asked him something, he just kept all his secrets and pain inside his heart. Though his actions didn't say anything of something threatening it was clear that they were kept to a minimal so they wouldn't attract to much attention.
No matter how he looked at the hanyou he got the impression of a hunted animal.
"My Lord?" a voice pulled him from his thoughts and InuTaisho noticed that he had been spacing out and had rudely ignored his formal guests.
"I'm sorry, something just crossed my mind. You were saying?" InuTaisho excused himself and concentrated on the other Lord once again. It was a Lord that had only recently come to power after his father had died. A good youkai although a bit green around the edges he tried to make up for the lost of his father.
But the young Lord wouldn't take the hint. "Something the matter?" he asked while his purple blue eyes stared into InuTaisho's eyes. He wasn't really intimidated by the great Lord before him but at the same time he clearly respected InuTiasho.
"No. Just some private issues." Since the hanyou rarely showed himself it wasn't hard to hide him from prying eyes, even though InuTaisho had no intentions to do that from the beginning.
He just wished he knew the answers to this big mystery. InuTaisho had no idea his wish would be granted in a most gruesome way of reality.
What no one knew or sensed was that under the night that had fallen around the castle, things were changing. Fast and severally.
-o-o-o-o-
InuYasha sat high above the crowd and looked over them. He could see them all up there. Faces he had seen before and those he had already come to know. He still felt detached. He had ever since he had arrived here. Everything seemed to be in a daze and he couldn't break through it, he saw and reacted but were his reactions really his? The only things he had felt since coming here was bewilderment, hate, sorrow and loneliness.
He didn't belong here. He wanted to go home but there was no home to go back to. Hell, he wasn't even sure how he got here. One moment he had fought and then the next moment something closed around him, stalling his breath and then he was here. He hadn't had a choice in weather he wanted to be here or not. He had been forced and he didn't know whom had done it. He first thought it was the witch but then again he also knew she wouldn't take actions without reasons and by the time the battle had begun, she was already......
InuYasha shock his head to get rid of the thoughts. He only got depressed when he thought about it all. So he had forced himself to stop thinking about it.
He longed to be home, and in a way it was his home. Sesshoumaru was here, though he was just a little kid he had still managed to worm his way into his heart. There were also his father whom he had never seen before, at least not alive. And there were some others he knew but all others weren't here.
Where they still fighting? Had they won or lost? What about Sesshoumaru? What was he doing? Had he returned to the castle yet? Was he even still alive? Could he ever go back? Would he like to stay here and build a new life? Could he... turn his back on Sesshoumaru and deny his heart? Start over again with this Sesshoumaru?
....
No he couldn't. He couldn't do that, even if this Sesshoumaru would one day grow up and become the powerful and beautiful youkai he was destined to be they weren't the same. It wouldn't be the same. Even if he had lost everything he would still betray 'his' Sesshoumaru and their family. It would kill him.
After all, he didn't belong here. This wasn't his time.
A sudden shudder ran down his spine and his blood turned to ice at the same time it burned. His muscles tensed and his heart stopped beating. The hair on his neck stood on edge and he almost lost control of his youki. Slowly he turned his head and looked down at the crowd. None other had sensed it and that was just because they didn't know yet. InuYasha's eyes searched the hall and shifted his body so the white cloak around him fell down from the sill.
His eyes caught the one infesting him with the same fear and hate he had felt the last few years. The one responsible for his lost. He couldn't hold back the growl that rumbled in his throat.
Naraku.
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InuTaisho turned around just in time to see a pair of blood red eyes across the room. Then a low growl caught his ears as well as many others of the guests ears. The air was filled with the fluttering sound of cloths and in the middle not far from the red eyed youkai landed the hanyou in a graceful flow of white and.... red? The cloth around him had parted and from beneath it was a red yukata with equal red hakama visible. What striked InuTaisho most was that it looked just like his fire-rat cloth that lay stuffed away in his room.
The red eyed youkai looked baffled for a moment before his face turned ice cold with mirth.
"How come you're still alive... and here, InuYasha? You were surely dead."
"I don't know." InuYasha's words drifted from his lips and InuTaisho and everyone else heard his voice for the first time, and also his name. "But I do know that you will die this time Naraku." his voice was a little deep but also held a boyish undertone in it, slightly hoarse from disuse.
The one called Naraku smirked. "Don't you know that time is with me InuYasha. But do tell me InuYasha..." Naraku paused. "How are you going to kill me when you couldn't even save Shinsei from death."
"Don't you dare..." InuYasha started but was cut of.
"If I recall it he died pushing you out of danger just to have him die for nothing. How would your mate respond to it if he knew the truth? The child you were destined to bring forth, for the greater good of Japan, only to be killed by protecting you." he thoughtfully said.
InuYasha's hate toward the evil youkai grew with every word that held truth among his lies. "Don't think that your words will make me do the same thing twice. You don't even belong here, your lies holds no truth to them yet. And you may be a youkai now but you will forever be a lowly bandit in the rotten depths of your heart."
Naraku was stunned for a moment but then hissed from between his teeth. "I may not belong here but so do neither you. You if anyone are the biggest mistake nature could ever create. I may have been a human but that is far from what I am now, compared to you who were born between a human and an youkai. It must have been because of your dirty blood that you were able to snare your "mate" to yourself. For we both knows that he would never chose you. He hated you more than anything. The one that dirtied the blood of his noble father."
He knew it was partly true. Sesshoumaru may have hated him once in their life but that wasn't the case anymore. If only...
"Now that Shinsei is gone your purpose to him is for nothing. Your are even more worthless than you were before your mating. For who in their right mind would ever mate with someone so close to their own blood who can't give him a heir anymore. You. His own, dirty, human born, worthless, hanyou, little brother." Naraku sneered at him. "The house of the Inu-Youkai will fall with your birth."
InuYasha suddenly became aware of those around them. For a moment he panicked and he couldn't dare to look around in fear of what he would see. The wounds was still to fresh for him to face others. He couldn't heal in such a short time these wounds. Maybe everything everyone had said to him was true, that their mating was a mistake.
Suddenly he felt a strong youki close around him and embraced him. In that moment he could feel the strong arms wrap around his torso, the silken hair fall over his shoulders, the strong chest pressed against his back, the eternal face pressed against his hair and those lips next to his ear, he could even smell the scent of his mate. Even this far apart they were still connected by their bond.
InuYasha felt another pair of hands grab his hand and the tiny claws of his child touched him, the tiny youki was so similar to theirs. A nose nuzzled the hair close to his ear and he could hear the words in his heart.
"I'm always with you. Where ever you are."
"What was that?" Naraku asked with a sneer.
'Trust me.' a voice whispered in InuYasha's head.
InuYasha raised his golden eyes and glared at Naraku with such intensity that it actually made him flinch. "You may think that you have won the war but as long as me and my family lives we will fight you."
"Then why don't you just die?" Naraku said as he threw his hand through the air and InuYasha was thrown back as he blocked the wind. Blood dripped from his body and stained his cloths red. "You talk bravely but what can a lonely hanyou do?"
As the second attack was about to hit him more forcefully a white blur intercepted it and it hit the wall, sending cracked stone all over the guests.
InuTaisho stared unflinching at the back of the new figure that had appeared. It looked so familiar.
"Who...?" Naraku hissed angry as he stared at the intruder in disbelief. "Who are you here?"
InuYasha reached out and gently touched the back the other youkai. His head rested against the soft silk kimono that covered the back. White silken hair was braided and thrown over one of his shoulders. The long fluffy tail were wrapped over the same shoulder as the braid.
"Even a hanyou can create a future." the deep voice of the youkai spoke out. "But someone as blinded by his greed like you can't see that."
InuYasha had started to tremble, "Shinsei." he whispered.
"I'm sorry I had to make you suffer, dad." the youkai said over his shoulder. His eyes were a golden shade with darker spots of melted gold in them, thin lips in a sad smile, two strips on his cheek as well as high cheek bones. "I didn't expect the war to reach you in the first time. I made a mistake and you and father had to pay for it."
"Shinsei..." Naraku said. "How can you be Shinsei. Shinsei is a little brat no older than 50 years."
Shinsei looked at the evil youkai. "I don't have to explain myself to the likes of you." He pulled his sword. "It was my fathers last wish to bring dad back and I'm here to honor that wish. Your death will only bring joy to my family."
"How impudent." Naraku yelled and attacked.
Shinsei pushed InuYasha back so he was out of range before he swinged his sword. The edge of the blade cleaved Naraku's hand like it was made of butter. The red eyed youkai jumped back but his arm was cut clean of. His blood dripped onto the floor.
"It's time to end your life." Shinsei said as he raised the sword and it turned deep red which sparkled like lighting. He swung it down and a deep red dragon roared above him before it flied toward Naraku. The breath from it cracked the floor. Just when the dragon was about devour Naraku a shadow raced forward and threw a jewel into the gap of the dragon. It exploded and disappeared.
"Let me tell you something, Shinsei. As long as I'm by Naraku-sama's side I won't let anything harm him." The shadow said, his face couldn't be seen. "It looks like we underestimated you. We will take out leave now, see you in the future, my dear Lord."
The shadows around them swallowed them and they were gone before anyone could do anything.
Shinsei's grip on the sword tighten. "Captain Torii. It was you after all."
He turned around, his braid flying in the air and he walked over to InuYasha. He knelt down and stared into the face of his dad that he hadn't seen in ages. Reasons and consequences had lead him to this and he had even endangered the past with the war he fought. His regrets were that his family couldn't have the peaceful time together that they deserved. Instead the war had reached them and destroyed them. Even to this point where it reached the childhood of his sire.
"I'm sorry." he said quietly. "I never wanted to involve you in this but to send you back here were the only thing I could do to prevent our family to be erased." he bowed his head in shame. "I'm so sorry, dad." tears fell from his eyes and hit the hard floor. He was aware that around them InuTaisho were taking control over the situation and made sure the injured were taken care of.
It was the flaw when he fought, he had forgotten about the others around him. Those that had nothing to do with this. But he wanted to end Naraku's life so much he had forgotten them. He at least knew there were no deaths among them.
A hand on his head petted him and he looked up and into the kind golden eyes he remembered so much. "It's not your fault." InuYasha whispered, when his hand caressed Shinsei's cheek it was then the young youkai realized that the hand was covered in blood. A large piece of stone had settled deep inside InuYasha's body, draining it from its life.
"Dad." he said as his eyes fearfully watched blood drench InuYasha's cloths in crimson. "No. No. No. Don't die. I promised father that I would bring you back. You can't die now. Trista should be back any moment now and everything will return to normal."
"I'm happy that I got to see that you have grown into such a fine young man, my son." InuYasha said as he swayed dangerously from side to side. Shinsei caught him before he fell to the floor. "Show me.." he whispered. "Sesshoumaru's... last moment."
The tears trailed down his face, there was nothing he could do. Trista were close by but by the time she got here InuYasha would be dead. Once more he was powerless to help his family.
"Please."
Shinsei lifted his sword diagonally from them toward the ceiling and it glowed.
His royal armor who carried the mark of the Inu-youkai lineage were damaged. Splinter from it fell to the ground as he held a sword tightly in his hand. His claws dug into his palm as it squeezed the handle so tightly it should had broken. Around him lay hordes of enemies and fellow comrades. The land were burning, burning out the ancient history it had carried witness to. The glazed look in the golden eyes seemed to sharpen until they came back to awareness. A whisper from his lips were lost to all ears as he stood proud and tall before running toward the castle surrounded by dark smoke.
He jumped through the broken front gate and over the many bodies that laid over the stone floor. He ran through the castle until he reached the large doors that lead to the great hall of the throne. He burst through them and stopped dead in his tracks. His sword clattered when it hit the ground. He knelt down and reached for a small child whose body was lifeless. The shards of Tensaiga laid next to him and it's broken blade seemed to cry tears of silence that couldn't make redemption. The youkai held the body close to his chest, tears fell from his eyes as he stroked the white hair of the child. His eyes lost their shine of life, joy, belief, honor and peace as he held the child.
But it wasn't until he looked up toward the great crystal that had grown monstrously in the hall that his soul, body and mind lost it's life. Tears so heavy and clear ran down his face and as they fell from his chin they sparkled like diamonds.
His slightly parted lips trembled for a moment before opening to its biggest and screamed in pure, heart-broken terror at the body that laid sealed inside the crystal.
"INUYASHA!"
The once proud Daiyoukai put gently the body of the child on the cold stone floor, before he grief struck and shamefully crawled over the floor on his hands and knees. His stained slender hands trembled with sudden weakness but they still refused to give way until they reached their goal. The giant crystal lay before him and he sat back as his fingers slowly touched the transparent material. The cold touch of it didn't matter and both of Sesshoumaru's hands rested against the crystal that held his lover trapped inside.
Sesshoumaru looked up and into the frozen face of InuYasha. The eyes looked lost and beyond his reach. Unable to see them anymore he gently pressed his cheek against the visible wall and cried heavy tears of sorrow and lost.
He barely noticed it but the wind brought with it a white cloth with royal markings on it. So hopelessly in his grief he wasn't even aware of his lips moving unconsciously... begging to save his family. The castle came down around him, taking everything with it.
The scene ended and the hall was silent. Except for the single footsteps that lead to Shinsei.
"I'm sorry I'm to late." Trista the witch said in a sad voice. "I came back as soon as I could but there was nothing I could do in the end."
"Don't say stupid things." Shinsei said to her, his voice broken and lost. "Can't you see his smile?"
Trista looked down at InuYasha's face and was surprised to see his face smiling, even though he was dead.
"They didn't die for nothing. They have taught me something important, I can't correct my mistakes this time but next time I will not make the same ones. Next time I will protect everyone."
"Lord Shinsei." Trista said.
Shinsei started to become transparent, he was vanishing into thin air. He looked up at Trista with a sad smile. "Both my parents are dead and so are my younger self therefore my existence will vanish." he looked thoughtfully at the child that would one day become his father. "Promise me..." he whispered to Trista's ears only. "That you will watch over them." InuYasha's body was vanishing in his arms.
"I promise my Lord." Trista said.
"And one more thing." Shinsei said even though he was half gone.
"Yes."
"No one will remember us, except you. All evidence of us will vanish, time will turn back, everything will continue like it was supposed to but I want you to do something else this time."
Trista nodded. "What is it my Lord?"
Shinsei smiled. "I want you................" he vanished into thin air and before Trista knew it herself she were once again standing in her house. She looked around, everything looked exactly like it did that time when she for the first time met her future Lord. She knew that she alone bore memories of that day and that it wouldn't happen again. She alone would be the one to bare out her destined Lord's final and first wish.
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The following day, Trista the Witch honored the Royal Inu-Youkai family with a prophesy to their son.
It said that Sesshoumaru and his destined mate would bring forth a heir. A heir that would bring great victories in the upcoming wars, and bring the people of their land great happiness and peace. Sesshoumaru's mate would be connected to him by half his blood and that their love alone would change the course of destiny in Japan. A Daiyoukai and a Hanyou of the same demon blood would be the beginning of everything and their family will be the greatest ever.
Since it was Trista the Witch that told the prophesy very few doubted it.
The next day Setsuna, InuTaisho's wife and Sesshoumaru's mother was assassinated in front of everyone. Her life couldn't be saved.
Sesshoumaru grew up and lived up to be a magnificent youkai. His fathers pride was evident but it was also when Sesshoumaru was 400 years that InuTaisho took a human mate and InuYasha was born. Despite the fact that Sesshoumaru hated InuYasha and his mother everyone believed that this was the hanyou of the prophesy so long ago spoken of. Even more so when InuTaisho died protecting InuYasha and his mother.
Trista kept her promise and watched as history unfolded and she protected the siblings against dangers they weren't aware of. She waited for the day they would realize their love and mate, she waited for their family to unite and she waited for their only heir to be born.
She waited for her Lord to be born. For she knew he would need the memories she had protected of his previous life.
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An ethereal shadow stood by the rippling water. The creature had white silky hair that framed a pale face and golden eyes. His hair was long enough to almost touch his feet, the wind blew past him and drew his hair behind him. The features was that of a man and his face was set in a soft smile. Twin stripes on his cheeks and a crescent moon on his forehead was the only other features that stood out. He was dressed in a white kimono with purple marks around the neck, sleeves and the bottom. The arms was cut differently from normal models of kimonos. The cut began at his pale wrist and the cloth ended a little lower than his knees. The markings was elegant and noble, speaking of a world of history they only knew of.
The beauty of this creature was out of this world, even if it was clear that he was youkai, some would say that he looked like something that didn't belong to this world. His pure white complex that could be compared to the new fallen snow that had a tint of blue, the sign of pure fallen snow, unstained by the world and all its hardships. The moon let it's light filter through the leaves from the tree above him and bathed him in its pale shine.
In the rippling water stood a hanyou. His hair was more silver than white and reached down to his butt. His skin wasn't as pale as the others but it wasn't overly tanned. His equally golden eyes shinned with infinite childish innocence and brightness. He didn't have the markings on his face but his features was another sort of beauty, more handsome and mature but at the same time inmature and childish. Puppy ears at the top of his head was clothed with white fur as the wind made them twitch slightly in the cold breeze of the night.
He was dressed in the same sort of kimono as the other one but his marking was a deep red color. The same as the blood that flowed through them both.
Another sort of ripples floated through the water as it parted for the ethereal youkai as he made his way over to the other. His steps was smooth and graceful, the water let him through without trouble it almost seemed to part for him.
When they were standing face to face their height difference was clear and the youkai that stood still in the water was obviously shorter by a few inches, but not overly short as his eyes reached up to the others nose.
A hand reached down and laid on the younger demons cheek. The smoothing sound of the wind was the only sound as they stared deeply into each others eyes.
Ever so slowly they drew closer, the hand never once lowered but more like guided the others face to his. His sleeve pooled at his elbow and revealed twin straps on his arm too.
Their faces' were just an inch apart now and their eyelids dropped to half-close before fluttering down to hide their eyes, their breaths mingled as they slowly, slowly drew even closer until their lips touched. The kiss was passionate and long. The wind had grabbed a hold of the taller youkai's hair and clothes and blew it so it shielded his lover from the world. The puppy-eared hanyou's hair blew behind his back and mingled with his lovers.
When the kiss ended they held each other close as the rest of the world slowly passed them by. Not once did they let each other go. It was almost like a silent, unspoken promise that even if the world was ending they wouldn't leave each other.
The End