Hi~ Everybody~! Lady of the Mays here, with new story. I'm sorry to say that I couldn't help but work on this baby. I really should get to my other fics but this idea wouldn't leave me alone. The inspiration fairy finally stopped and now that it's coming along, I want to hear what you all think about it.
A warning, this story will involve sex.
If you like, good, if you don't(Or are my little sister in this case, Cassie for the sake of your sissy's sanity please don't read this) hit the back button and leave. Or if you don't like fics with sex, stick around for the plot, it's interesting to say the least.
I don't even know where this came from so be gentle with your comments alright? This is the first time I'm writing adult situations as well, all advice or critiques are welcome of course and will help in later updates and fics.
As always I don't own Inuyasha, or any Yu yu Hakusho characters in this fic. And no it's NOT a crossover, I just thought adding some YYH characters would be fun.
The inspiration fairy did give me a IY/YYH fic idea too, so if you really like that fandom along with my writing style; sit tight. It will come about. Eventually... I think ^_^" I blame the inspiration fairy for this. Too many ideas, so little inspiration for them. If I wasn't' afraid she'd leave me I'd whack her upside the head.
I'm also considering getting a Beta reader, I need someone to help me clean up the fics and keep me on track. If you know one, or happen to be a Beta, and want to work with me shoot me a PM.
Chapter 1: Beginnings to Disaster
1 year ago
"I don't care you bastard! I don't want fuck to do with you, no matter what the old man says!"
"It doesn't matter what you want half breed. Father has already drawn up the contracts for the engagement and girl's father has agreed, by this time next year you will be wed to the girl. He's finalizing everything with him at this very moment."
"Sesshomaru you twisted fuck! It wasn't enough that you had to take my girlfriend, now I YOU'RE telling me I gotta marry some chick I couldn't give two fucks about?! I ain't gonna do it!"
"That female you were so infatuated with was using you to dig into the Taisho finances, it isn't my fault that she found me more pleasing to look at than you. You will do this Inuyasha," Sesshomaru growled. "You should be thankful that the contract is for your marriage at all. Who would wed, and bed, a hanyou as uncouth as you? Another reason that your female left you, it continues to surprise me that any of the females you've courted put up with you for that long."
A growl tore itself from Inuyasha's throat, amber eyes became red with rage and jagged purple marks appeared on his handsome boyish face. He snarled at the older male, glistening fangs and pointed claws brandishing threateningly at him.
The door slammed open, a male very similar to the two arguing entering the room. "Enough Sesshomaru, you will not antagonize Inuyasha more than you already have, and you pup will calm down and listen to your elder brother."
The youngest male snarled and lunged at his sire, too enraged to care. It was too much; the loss of his mother only a few months ago, his female leaving him for another male, the taunts, jabs, at him just for being born a half-demon from his brother. He was SICK of it all!
Crimson flew from deadly claws, flowing down tanned flesh, a grunt of pain reverberated the room.
"Inuyasha!"
He ran, not looking back to his sire or older sibling, into the night. A daze of pain and rage coloring his vision.
Present
Sesshomaru Taishou, Vice President of Taishou industries, mentally sighed at the stack of papers his personal assistant Janken handed to him. His silver hair and gold eyes, combined with magenta stripes on his cheek and crescent moon on his forehead, marked him as the eldest son and heir to the Inu-no-Taishou. His face could only be called attractive, even as the glare that he sent the stack of paper could have made it burst into flames.
Sesshomaru growled, todays stack was larger than yesterday. And no doubt that somewhere in the stack was an angry letter from Onigumo Kumo, and an update of the private investigators that his sire had hired over a year ago. He quickly dismissed Janken, and once he was out of his office, folded his clawed hands together and sighed.
A year. It had already been a year and they still couldn't find his pathetic excuse of a half-breed half-brother. A year of the finest youkai detectives, some with centuries of experience, and the half-breed still couldn't be found. Oh, Sesshomaru didn't care, not one bit. If his pathetic half brother wanted to die in a ditch he couldn't have cared less, but his sire, Touga, the Inu-no-Taishou, and president of Taishou Industries, wanted the half-breed found.
Frankly he couldn't understand why his sire was so frantic to get the half-breed back. He'd been nothing but a stain on their great lineage when his sire decided to marry a human female after the passing of his own mother. And while at the time the human woman had been a princess, she was still a powerless human completely dependent on his great and terrible sire for anything and everything. She had been reasonably good looking, by human standards, but still powerless.
If his sire had wanted a human female so badly why couldn't he have chosen one with power of their own? Even a miko would have been preferable!
Seshomaru sighed again and grabbing the first paper, began to read. Another proposal from Shikon Inc. It wasn't a bad proposal, donating funds to convert acres of unused land into a new forest would certainly better the company's image. That was if the company didn't already have a good image in most sections of business that they did. Why did they insist on sending their proposals if they don't need it? Sesshomaru thought irritably.
If he didn't know better Seshomaru would have thought that the company was in some kind of financial trouble or looking to try and scam their company out of thousands. Much could be said about Shikon Inc, and their still unknown owner, despite his best efforts in trying to find out just WHO exactly owned it, and very little was bad. They did good work, most of it was centered around education and ecology creating colleges that produced some of the best students and hundreds of acres of land into habitats for Japan's endangered species. They also stayed far away from any business having to do with the detestable spider and his ilk, something that Sesshomaru was grateful for.
He heard a door open and looked up to see his secretary, Rin Higurashi, come in. She wore a comfortable black pencil skirt and a soft blue blouse. Her practical heels covered dainty feet, clicking against the wood floors of his office. When Sesshomaru had first heard his father had hired him a human secretary, he'd been furious. Humans were weak, often lazy, disorganized, and more often than not smelled awful.
When his sire introduced them, the first thing he had noticed was the clean scent she had, oranges and thyme. She stood about 5'4 her brown hair stopping at her back, a small bit went off in a side ponytail, and her big brown eyes. His sire had said that she came highly recommended by an old friend, but if she didn't last two weeks then he could hire whoever he wanted as a secretary. He tried everything short of harming her to get the woman to quit, he was a ruthless man but he did have honor, she was like a cockroach. Nothing he did fazed her, when he threatened her she smiled, when he pointed out her mistakes she learned from them and did her work even better.
Sesshomaru would never admit it but the little woman was really good at what she did, her credentials certainly were earned.
"Taishou-sama," she greeted cheerfully.
He gave her a small nod in acknowledgement, "Rin, my schedule for the day."
She placed a folder on his desk before taking out her phone that also functioned as her work planner. She gazed scanned the screen, "You have 7 appointments planned today, 3 are for internal affairs, one for finance, and the marketing department presenting their newest project, and of course one being Kumo-sama's usual ranting-" He snorted, the spider didn't know when to give up. You'd think that after so many rejections the damned spider would stop trying to pressure him into his half -brother's place in that contract. "-quite, Taishou-sama. Anyway, about 20 minutes into Kumo-sama's meeting, unfortunately, you'll have to leave for a meeting with Lord Kitsunebi to renew the treaty between the West and the South. He also mentioned that he has had concerns about something lately."
"Did he say why?" Sesshomaru asked, a single eyebrow raised. The old fox was nearly as old as his sire, but twice as cunning, very little could concern the tricky Fox Lord of the South.
Rin shook her head, "No he didn't. There has been an increase in the low-class demons lately in most of the other Cardinal lands, he possible wants to discuss how to keep the human population as calm as can be while its dealt with."
"Hn. Concerning, but not at the moment. Continue."
"Hai Taishou-sama. After your meeting with Kitsunebi-sama you are to go to a late lunch with several business men from London looking for a sponsor for their idea. Apparently they claim that that they can create drinking water from salt-water. Then-"
Rin was interrupted by a ping noise from her phone. She touched the screen and read something, her brown eyes widening in surprise.
The expression on his normally bubbly secretary's face made Sesshomaru curious. What had caused such a expression? "Rin?"
Rin tensed, as if just realizing that she had stopped giving him his daily schedule. "Umm, gomen, Taishou-sama. It would seem that you no longer have any meetings today. Your schedule has been cleared."
"And just who has the audacity to decide that this Sesshomaru is not to do business?" His anger making him revert back to his old habit of talking in the third person.
"Ah... President Taishou, Taishou-sama," Rin answered nervous for the first time that he'd seen her. "According to his message, you are to not have any meetings and to return to the mansion. President Taishou says that he has something important to tell you."
"Hn," Sesshomaru said, his anger lessening. "If my sire has something to tell me than he can call or leave a message. There is too much work to be done for me to leave just because my sire said so."
"But Taishou-sama, your sire insists that it's important."
"And what is more important than the continuation of this company?"
Rin shifted from one foot to the other, obliviously unsure. "Ah, your brother, Taishou-sama. He's been found."
Sesshomaru gripped the steering wheel of his foreign, and very expensive, spots car that he had parked in the driveway of his family's mansion. Trying to get some strands of his anger under control.
Inuyasha
His brother.
Why did his sire put so much value on him? Why wasn't he content with him, his official heir? Anger surged up within Sesshomaru once again, and once again it was directed at his sire and half brother. Why? Why was he never enough for his sire? Wasn't he strong enough? Powerful enough? Hadn't he done enough?
He felt the leather underneath his hands give way and immediately let go before getting out of his car and slamming the door behind him. He walked up to the mansion, frustration warring dangerously with rage though his face was a mask of blankness and his eyes resembled gold nuggets. A servant must have felt his approach because the mansion door opened for him and told him that his sire was in his study.
Sesshomaru ignored everything and everyone as he made his way to his sire's study. The walk was far too short to get his emotions back under control, not bothering to knock he slammed the door open. What greeted Sesshomaru in his father's study was enough for his anger to leave him momentarily.
A woman with long hair the color of a moonless night had her back to him, as she combed delicately elegant fingers through Touga's silver white hair. His sire was siting in his great oak desk, hands folded together as if in prayer and eyes closed, leaning into the woman's touch with a ease that spoke of great familiarity. The woman turned to face him, but did not stop her ministrations. Sesshomaru had never seen a human, he could tell from her scent, having eyes the same color as violets. Touga opened his eyes, the same gold color as his son's much, much, more expressive.
"Touga, what news have you about the half breed that you would summon this Sesshomaru from work?"
Anguish. Those eyes that were so similar but so different from his own were filled with such hopelessness that his curiosity was beginning to get the better of his anger. The woman stopped combing through his sires hair, "I believe that I can answer that Sesshomaru. Your father is still trying to digest what I told him moments ago."
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at the woman. "Don't speak to your betters with such familiarity wench or I will cut off your tongue."
The woman starred at him for a moment before chuckling, "Perhaps you should take a page from your own book pup."
Sesshmaru growled at the woman, his youki rising, prepared to strike the human for her audacity. The woman flicked her wrist in his direction, a flash of purple appearing for a split second before he felt the flesh of his cheek burning. The scent of familiar energy came from the woman now. How had he not noticed what she was the moment he entered the mansion?
"Miko," Sesshomaru growled, forcefully lowering his youki back down. Foolish. He knew miko still existed, since the Feudal Era the reiki users had often sprung up in the human population. The potential and power seemed to declined till almost none-existent before coming back in the last 100 years or so. Their purification ki was the direct opposite to youki or anything tainted. The truly powerful reiki users could purify him with a touch, and this woman seemed to be a miko of such caliber. He had no desire to be turned to ash.
But what was a miko doing here? Why did his sire seemed to know the woman?
The woman nodded, "That I am. My name is Midorkio Higure, I am an old friend of your sire's."
"You bring news of the half breed," he stated. There wasn't really a point in asking the human why she was here when that was why he was brought here in the first place.
"Hai, when Touga first told me of your brother's-" he growled but she didn't seem to notice "-disappearance I kept my ears and senses out for some sign of him. Touga was very concerned about Inuyasha's safety, and as much as it hurts my heart to admit he was right to. The Trade business has been worse the last 100 years with the return of greater spiritual powers, and I am sad to say that Inuyasha was once of it's victims."
Sesshomaru went ridged, a unmasked look of horror on his face. Touga gave a barely audible whimper that Sesshomaru had to strain his demonic hearing to hear. The human, who he knew couldn't have heard it, turned back to his sire and began combing her finger through his hair again. The woman was clearly trying to give the older male whatever comfort she could give.
He'd heard about what was known as 'the Trade', a slang term that the humans used and some of the more depraved and dishonorable of his own species. It was connected to a massive system of the underworld filled with all manner of unpleasant beings, from rapists to kidnapers to sadistic murderers. Not too much was known about it despite how widespread it was across Japan. The Trade was unique. It went after children that society wouldn't miss; the orphans, desperate, and kidnapped and sold them to the highest bidder.
It was a slave auction, and a death sentence for hanyou.
"Hanyou aren't welcome in human or demon society, as you well know. And time had done little to change the views most beings have of them. The Trade however has a great deal of hanyous up for auction because of this, along with a few special humans, and demons that are thought of being too weak," Midoriko explained, her violet eyes glazed over in memory. "However what is not well known is who runs the Trade itself and how they keep so many youkai from running rampaging around. Most don't even know that the Trade exists, unless you get captured or kidnapped, let alone there are people that run the whole thing."
"And how exactly do you know this human? How are you so knowledgeable about the Trade and it's workings human?" Sesshomaru asked, his face a icy mask despite the suspicion clear in his voice.
That made the woman pause and she removed herself from his sire's side. "I know pup, because I know the one who has your brother. She's one of the leaders of the Trade, called a Director... And one of my colleges."
"Father what are you thinking?! Letting-" Sesshomaru growled.
"Enough Sesshomaru! I have known since the moment I met Midoriko that she was a Director of the Trade," Toga snapped at his eldest son.
"And you let her into this house! Consort with a woman who enslaves children!"
"Don't speak as if you know her pup, or I will show you who is alpha!"
"Touga," Midoriko said placing her hand on his sire's arm in an effort to restrain him. "Its fine, I'm used to this reaction. Please, calm down."
Toga gazed, eyes tinted red, at the much smaller woman besides him. The two starred at each other for a moment before the Inu-no-Taishou calmed, his eyes returning to their normal amber hue. Midoriko gave his sire a small smile before turning back to him, "Sesshomaru what you have to understand about is that not everyone who is a Director became one by choice. The lower Directors certainly, they are just humans that enjoy breaking spirits and violating others. But others, Directors like myself were never given a choice, it's in our blood. And we can no more deny our blood than you could stop the poison that runs through your veins." The woman stopped, as if just realizing what she was saying before rubbing her face, "But this isn't about me, or you Sesshomaru, this is about Inuyasha. Despite your feelings toward your brother you should be glad someone found him when he did. The boy was nearly broken. After what he had experienced he will never be completely whole again. I came today to provide you with the information you'll need to get him back from my college."
"And who is this college your so egger to out?" Sesshomaru growled out.
"My second eldest daughter, Kagome."