InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ You Should Have Come After Me ❯ Nightmares and a Welcome Friend ( Chapter 12 )

You Should Have Came After Me [[012]]

"Hahahahaha, Jewellisa you fool. Did you really think he would save you? He doesn't truly love you, he only needed you for an heir," Naraku's evil voice rang out in my head.

 

"No you're wrong, he loves me and he'll come and save me. Then he'll kill you slowly and painfully," I growled back, "he would never use me, or keep me form my son."

 

"Again you are blinded by the life you will never see. I killed both your mother and father, most of your precious wolf demons are dead, the man you think loves you is dead, and the son you gave him views me as his father," he spoke again. As I looked out at him from my position I saw a light shine on a young man. He looked exactly like Sesshomaru; tall, muscular, dog and wolf demon blood running through his veins. The only difference between them was this man had black hair with white tips.

 

"Tristan," I whispered. I couldn't believe how much he had grown. At the sound of his name, he looked up quickly and in the blink of an eye he was standing in front of me. He was fast like his father as well.

 

"I don't respond to that name anymore. I am Shikyo Ataenushi now," he spoke. His voice was dark and full of evil, not at all like I would imagine.

 

"No you don't give death to anyone, you are Tristan Sesshomaru; son to Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands and me, Jewellisa of the Wolf Demons," I tried to explain to him. I reached out, only to be held back by chains.

 

"If it is true what you say, then why was I left alone in the forest with no one to protect me? If not for Naraku I would be dead. He took me in and raised me like I was his own. He showed you and my so-called father to me through Kanna's mirror; showed my what my life would have been like if you had raised me. If you didn't leave me in the forest like you did, I would be in the same position you are in right now," he growled.

 

"No! He's possessed you and filled your mind with lies. You are my son and I love you, I would never abandon you." I gasped as his arm shot out at me and ripped through my flesh, grabbing a hold of my heart.

 

"No, you're the one that's lying. I'm glad you broke your promise and left me out on my own to die, now I can give you what you wanted to give to me," he whispered in my ear.

 

Naraku's evil laugh was the only thing I could hear as I watched my own son rip my beating heart from my body.

 

***

 

"NO!" I cried out as I woke up form my nightmare. I looked to my left only to find Sesshomaru not there. I then looked at the foot of the bed at Tristan's crib. Quickly I rushed over to it, only to find it empty of him and Kongou as well. I swiftly turned into my wolf form and ran out of the room looking for them.

 

I ran all around the third floor of the castle in search for them until their scents led me to the stairs that led to the second floor. I practically jumped down all of them in one leap, skidding across the floors to round a corner. Their scents finally pulled me into the library where I found them playing on the floor and Boa closely watching them from a chair close by.

 

I ran up to Tristan and started licking his face. He only giggled as he was happy to see me. Kongou saw me and started barking, jumping around playfully because he saw me as a wolf to play fight with. I change back in to my human form, sitting on the floor and hugging my son as he giggled.

 

"No matter what I promise I will never leave or abandon you ever, never, never, never," I told him. He just continued to giggle and laugh, but I knew he understood me.

 

"Lord Sesshomaru told me to watch him until you had awakened, I'm sorry if I mad you worry at all," she apologized.

 

"No Boa don't be sorry at all, you were only doing your job," I reassured her.

 

"Is there anything I can get you my lady?"

 

"Tea please." She nodded as she left the room to fetch what I had asked for. "Thank you," I called out after her.

 

"Where did that come from?" Takuya's voice suddenly said. I looked up quickly to find him sitting at a desk reading a large book.

 

"How long have you been sitting there?" I asked protectively.

 

"The whole time. Kami calm down princess, what was that little episode about?" he asked again.

 

"I had a dream about Tristan," I started.

 

"What's so wrong with that."

 

"And Naraku was there too," I continued.

 

"Oh. Well what happened," he suddenly became serious.

"It was dark and I was chained to a wall. Naraku was talking about how Sesshomaru wasn't going to save me because he had killed him already. He said that most of the wolves were gone and that he had Tristan. Then Tristan came out and said that Sesshomaru and I had abandoned him and then he killed me," I choked out as the dream came back to me. Tears began to run down my face and landed at my squirming son in my arms. I placed him back on the floor and watched him, through tear filled eyes, crawl after Kongou.

 

"You fucking bastard, what did you do to her?" an all to familiar voice asked from the door. I turned and saw Amber standing there with bags in her hand and Kuro standing next her. I immediately jumped up and hugged her, making her drop her bags in the process.

 

"What are you doing here, you weren't supposed to arrive until tomorrow?" I asked dumfounded.

 

"Well when Kuro should up last night, I knew you were in trouble so I made her leave as soon as I was ready. It's a good thing too, what did he do to you," she explained.

 

"What? Oh nothing, it wasn't him. That's Takuya, Kouga's old friend from before my mother left," I reassured her. She looked at him skeptically, walking farther into the room to give him a full inspection.

 

"Little Takuya from the mountains? The one who would always run up to that little girl and confess his love to?" she finally remembered.

 

"Hello Amber," he said through gritted teeth.

 

"So you've been hiding out here all this time huh?" she teased.

 

"Come on Amber, leave him alone," I tried to get her focus off of Takuya.

 

"Oh I'm just playin' with him Jewelz. So Takuya, have you gone back to marry your one true love?"

 

"No. The bitch has probably stopped training and has become sickly when she realized I wasn't coming back for her anytime soon," he laughed.

 

I walked over to were Tristan and Kongou had crawled off to, and picked them both up. When I turned back to face Amber and Takuya, I saw his face had four deep claw marks in it and Amber's claws covered in blood.

 

"That bitch is me you fucking bastard," she snarled before storming out of the room.

 

"You knew that was coming didn't you?" he asked, moment after she had left. He wiped the blood off his face with a cloth he had pulled out of his light blue obi.

 

"As much as I knew that one day Sesshomaru would learn the truth on his own," I answered. He knew what I meant and continued to clean his face. I watched him for a little while longer until Tristan started waving his arms around while making gurgling noises.

 

I walked down the hall until I came to the stairs that lead to the third floor, and found Amber there waiting for me. "You okay?"

 

"I can't believe that little ingrate had the nerve to call me a bitch," was all that she said.

 

"It's not like he remembers obviously," I reminded as I started going up the stairs to my bedroom.

 

"I know. I just lost it after seeing him after all this time, you know?"

 

We reached my room and I opened the door to find Sesshomaru. He stood there looking at Amber and I with a bare chest and his hands on the rim of his hakamas, preparing to take them off. "I know exactly what you mean," I growled.

 

"At least you have that piece of gorgeousness to look at everyday, make babies with every other minute, and," I clasped my hand over her mouth and glared at her so she would understand that I would rip out her tongue if she continued.

 

I stripped Tristan of his clothes and handed him to his father. He gurgled in excitement to be near him. Sesshomaru on the other hand paid no attention to it, for he was smirking at me because of the comment that Amber had said moments earlier. I turned and pushed her out the door with Kongou in my arms and Kuro following behind.

 

Bringing up the memories of the layout of the castle, I lead her to the bathhouse for guest who Sesshomaru granted worthy of being in his presence. I pushed Amber into the room and closed the door behind me. "What? What did I say?" she tried playing stupid.

 

"What did you say? You basically said everything that was running through my mind that I was trying to find a counter argument for, that is what you did!" I yelled in response as I began to take off my clothes only to slip into the hot water that lay in front of me. I sat there and took in the cool scents of jasmine and honeysuckle, thinking of what was to come ahead in my life. I was shaken out of my thoughts, when the sound of Amber splashing into the water was evident.

 

"So what are you going to do?" she asked when she finally came up for air. She swam in circles around me until I splashed her and swam to sit on a little ledge that jutted out from the wall.

 

"I don't know? I mean I knew he would find out eventually, but I just didn't know he would handle it like this," I confessed. A young tiger demon came and scrubbed cherry blossom smelling soap through my hair, making it smooth and soft. I dunked my head back in the water so to let the soap wash out.

 

"Do want to stay here with him?"

 

"Sometimes, but most of the time he just makes me so mad."

 

"Do you love him?" I had never thought about this question after I had first left the castle. 'Do I? Do I truly love him?'

 

"I don't know."

 

"Lady Jewellisa, Lord Sesshomaru requests you and your guests presence in the great hall," Rin said as she peeked her head into the room.

 

"Thank you Rin, we'll be there in a minute."

 

"He has a human child living with him?" Amber looked at me questionably.

 

"Yes and no I don't know why he lets her stay with him but at least it shows he has some sort of compassion for humans," I answered both of her questions even though she only asked one out loud.

 

"Stop reading my mind onna!" she yelled, climbing out of the water.

 

"I wasn't reading your mind baka, it was I question I also asked myself when I was first here." I followed her lead and climbed out of the water as well, leaving all my stress in it.

 

***

 

"Why are going to the market again?" I asked for the hundredth time.

 

"You have no cloths," Sesshomaru answered. Tristan was in his arms eating at his hair every now and then, and laughing at the funny faces Amber would make behind Sesshomaru's back.

 

"Well what about that blue kimono dress I wore that one night?" 'If he gave that to me, he would have to have had a lot of other stuff as well?'

 

"That was Anika's," he stated.

 

"Oh." I sat quietly, as Ah-Un flew over what were Sesshomaru's lands. It wasn't until we landed that I could hear sounds other then our breathing and Tristan's laughter.

 

"Lord Sesshomaru come to my shop. All your needs will be fulfilled," many human and demon merchants yelled out as they saw their Lord come into view.

'Oi, this is going to be a very long day.'

 

 

Japanese Translations

baka-idiot

Shikyo-death

Ataenushi-giver