I don't own Inuyasha
I had this chapter written on my computer for some time already. Just to make it clear, I didn't come out with this idea on my own, I've got the idea for this story after reading the story 'My Greatest Mistake' written by 'Marie Phantom'. Though, only the main idea is the same, other than that it's completely different. I hope you'll enjoy :).
Chapter 01 - What Really Happened
The fight between Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha seemed to last for hours already. Inuyasha's friends were standing aside as they were told by him and just helplessly watched those two as they were practically trying to kill each other. Sesshoumaru's companions weren't present as Sesshoumaru never dragged Rin near fights and Jaken was ordered to look after her. Sesshoumaru struck at Inuyasha with his sword and Inuyasha managed to dodge it just in time.
"Inuyasha! Be careful!" Kagome shouted at him, but he didn't really paid her attention at that time. But the sentence caught attention of someone else.
'Sesshoumaru! Be careful!' The same sentence yet from another voice rang through Sesshoumaru's mind and he almost failed to dodge Inuyasha's attack.
"Got tired already?" Inuyasha asked mockingly. Sesshoumaru growled and attacked Inuyasha again. But that strange sentence was still running through his mind. Was it an imagination? Or was it a memory? Then when did it happen? Whose was that voice?
Their swords clashed and Sesshoumaru caught a glimpse of the worried face of that strange priestess traveling with Inuyasha. She was standing there with her hands clutched to her heart, silently praying for Inuyasha's safety. Another, but very similar image replaced this one in Sesshoumaru's mind.
He walked through the gardens with a young woman walking beside him. She had a long black hair and pale skin and when he looked at her, she smiled at him. That made him uneasy for a while, but then he smiled back. Though, their peaceful walk was interrupted by some lower demon who appeared in front of them and Sesshoumaru growled in annoyance.
"Stay back!" He said to the woman and she nodded. Right before he charged at the demon, he glanced at her to check if she is in safe distance. She was standing in the same posture with the same worried look on her face as the priestess traveling with Inuyasha and exactly in this moment the imagination and the reality mixed together.
"Please be safe." Both the real girl and the woman in his vision whispered simultaneously. Something in his mind snapped and the long time locked memories returned into his mind. His eyes widened as the memories started to sink in and he jumped back as he no longer wanted to cross his sword with Inuyasha's. He saw the confused look on Inuyasha's face and he couldn't handle anymore to be here so he took off without saying a word.
"What was that?" Inuyasha asked confusedly, but nobody had any answer for him. As he looked over his friends, everyone was just shaking their heads and he sighed.
"Fine, let's go. There's no reason why to bother with him anyway." He stated and already set out in random direction. The others followed him without saying anything but the event left them wondering. What happened to him? He never withdrew from a fight like that. It was so sudden and they couldn't come up with any explanation at all.
After some time of walking Inuyasha suddenly stopped and they all looked in the direction where he was looking to find out what was happening. The two-headed dragon whom they saw with Sesshoumaru was flying up above them and now changed his direction towards them.
Jaken, Rin and Ah-Un were walking through the forest searching for their Lord. They were searching for him for some time already and Rin was getting tired.
"I wonder where did he go this time." She was thinking aloud and Jaken sighed.
"Who knows." Jaken said tiredly but couldn't say anything else as one branch from some little tree hit him straight to the face. He fell backwards on the ground and Rin giggled.
"Master Jaken, you were just defeated by the tree." She giggled even more and Jaken growled.
"Be quiet Rin, that's not funny." He picked himself up and continued in his way angrily, Rin still secretly giggling. They went through some thick bushes and when they were on the other side, they spotted Sesshoumaru.
"What did you do to Lord Sesshoumaru you half-breed!" Jaken yelled at Inuyasha hopping off of the dragon. Inuyasha just stared at him not knowing what to think about it.
"I didn't do anything to him, it was him who left from our fight like a coward!" Inuyasha then yelled back.
"Lord Sesshoumaru would never run away from the fight!" Jaken defended his Lord stubbornly.
"Well, he did so deal with it!" Inuyasha snapped at the small imp and hit him in the head. But before Jaken could complain about that action, they were interrupted by a voice on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Explain me more closely what exactly happened." Myouga directed his question at Jaken and everyone's attention turned from him at Jaken.
"We were searching for him in the forest since he didn't return for quite a long time. When we found him, he... he was..." Jaken stuttered searching for the right words.
"He looked like if he was about to cry." Rin stepped into the conversation and Jaken glared at her for saying it in such way.
"You silly girl. Lord Sesshoumaru would never cry!" He yelled at her, but she just folded her arms and looked at him sternly.
"But it's true." She said stubbornly.
"Lord Sesshoumaru! We finally found you!" Jaken exclaimed happily, but then he paused because something about his Lord's posture was off. He was sitting under the tree with his face buried into his palms and showed no reaction when Jaken spoke.
"Did something happen to you Lord Sesshoumaru?" Rin asked with concern and he looked at her. There was something in his eyes they never saw before. His face wasn't the emotionless mask he used to be wearing, but quite the opposite and both Jaken and Rin were startled at that discovery.
"Leave me alone." He stood up and walked away, leaving the confused demon and girl behind. They didn't follow him, too shocked by their lord's behavior and soon they lost him out of their sight.
"I wonder what happened to him." Jaken said after a while. "It must be that half-breeds fault. Let's go" He grabbed Rin's hand and led her to Ah-Un. They hopped on him and Jaken told him to find Inuyasha. They soared above the landscape in search for Inuyasha and his group. They spotted them and Ah-Un landed right in front of them.
"Master Inuyasha." Myouga broke in again. "And what exactly happened between you and Lord Sesshoumaru today?" He asked. Inuyasha looked at him and thought about it for a second.
"Well, we were fighting like many times before, but then he suddenly backed away and left." Inuyasha tried to recall their earlier fight.
"Was there something unusual about him before he left?" Myouga asked.
"I don't know, but I had the feeling that he was looking at me right before he backed away. I have no idea why though, but his expression was strange at that time." Kagome answered instead of Inuyasha.
"So he remembered." Myouga said silently with sigh and everyone turned at him curiously.
"Remembered? What do you mean by that?" Inuyasha asked and Myouga's expression was something like 'Oh no! Did I say it aloud?'
"Eh, nothing Master Inuyasha." He said sweating hard. Inuyasha took the flea between his thumb and index finger and squeezed him there while asking again.
"What is it Myouga! Tell me now!" He demanded.
"I'm not allowed to tell you that information." Myouga said sheepishly. Inuyasha frowned and wanted to give the flea another squeeze when he was interrupted by something else.
"So you knew about that." A very cold voice stated from behind them and they all turned at the speaker as neither of them noticed the presence of the demon lord until now.
"Uhm, yes." Myouga stuttered. "Your father told me about that shortly before he died." He explained. The looks of everyone were turning between Myouga and Sesshoumaru in effort to understand something of what was happening here in front of them.
"I see. But why didn't you say anything?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"I knew you wouldn't believe me anyway." Myouga said truthfully. Sesshoumaru said nothing at that and there was silence before Inuyasha broke it.
"What the hell are you two talking about?" He looked from one to the other.
"If you want to know then follow me." Sesshoumaru stated and already turned in the direction he wanted to go, but then turned back when Inuyasha started to yell at him.
"Like hell I will follow you wherever you want to take me. Just say it here and now!" Sesshoumaru almost sighed. This wasn't something he could talk about in front of everyone. He had to talk with Inuyasha alone. Sesshoumaru drew out his sword and Inuyasha took defensive stance, but was surprised when Sesshoumaru drove the sword into the ground and turned to leave.
"Now, follow me." He ordered and Inuyasha suddenly felt that he shouldn't disobey his order. But something was off. Sesshoumaru left his sword in the ground and wanted him to follow him, why would he do such thing? Was he trying to deceive him somehow?
"Lord Sesshoumaru, are you sure about that?" Myouga asked and immediately regretted it when he met the gaze of said Lord as he turned at him.
"Will you try to stop me?" He asked coldly and the shiver ran through the flea's spine.
"Of course not." He stuttered. Sesshoumaru turned again and Inuyasha followed him. The two dog demons left the clearing, leaving everyone to wonder about what was going on.
"Myouga!" Kagome shouted at the flea, when Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were far enough. "You know what's going on here, now spill it!" He didn't answer and when she looked around to find him, he was nowhere to be seen.
"Seems like he ran away again." Shippo muttered and everyone nodded knowingly.
"Let's set up the camp. Whatever they are talking about now, it seemed that it will take some time." Miroku suggested and without saying anything, they started with the preparations.
Sesshoumaru led Inuyasha on top of a small hill where no one could overhear their conversation and there he stopped, Inuyasha stopping behind him.
"So? What's the big deal?" Inuyasha started irritated. Sesshoumaru turned to face him and for some time just watched him silently.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" Inuyasha asked a little unsettled by his brother's actions.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha, for everything I've done to you." He looked straight to Inuyasha's eyes which widened after that declaration.
"W-What?" Inuyasha stuttered not believing his ears that he heard what he just heard.
"Like I said, I'm sorry." Sesshoumaru repeated. Inuyasha was shocked. Sesshoumaru never repeated anything he said, much less an apology. Especially the apology to him.
"Are you making fun of me? Did you get insane?" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"I'm completely serious." Sesshoumaru assured him.
"So what is this all about?" Inuyasha asked still quite shocked.
"I will understand if you won't believe me or if you'll never want to talk to me again, but I have to tell you the truth." He paused, taking a deep breath and thinking about how to tell him this information while Inuyasha was waiting for him to continue.
"You are my son." He said finally, unable to say anything else. Inuyasha gaped at him, his eyes wide, the silence around them disturbed only by the blowing wind.
He was sitting under the tree, alone, his face buried into his palms as he let the memories fill his mind. The memories he had forgotten because of his father's spell. He almost didn't want to believe that those memories were his own, but he knew they were. The memories of the human woman who intrigued him at the first sight. The woman he spent so many nights with. The woman who was bearing his pup. The woman Izayoi. The pup Inuyasha.
He remembered the conversation with his father after he found out about Izayoi's pregnancy and just a few hours before the memories about her were erased from his mind. He hated Inuyasha for so long, blaming him for his father's death which caused that Inuyasha hated him as well. Inuyasha, his son, hated him with his whole heart and it was all his own fault. He heard the rustling behind him, but he didn't care. He knew it was just Jaken with Rin.
Just yesterday he would be ashamed if someone saw him in the state he was in now. He didn't cry, but he was broken, sad, disgusted, angry. Broken because everything in what he believed was a lie. Sad for all those years he couldn't spend with his son. Disgusted of himself how he was acting all the years back towards Inuyasha and everyone else. Angry at himself that he made his only son hate him. All the emotions could be seen on his face if he didn't have it covered with his hands. Today he didn't care though.
"You're kidding, right? This is just a joke." Inuyasha managed to say finally.
"This is not a joke." Sesshoumaru replied in a way which sounded like a calm response, but those who knew him better could tell that he wasn't calm in the least.
"I don't believe you." Inuyasha said quietly, but they both knew it was a lie.
"Inuyasha, I really loved your mother." Sesshoumaru started and Inuyasha closed his eyes not wanting to face the truth. "My father knew I wouldn't let her go. That's why he used a spell which made me forget about her. My father claimed you as his own for your protection. Half-demons are hated among the high ranked demons and they would surely tried to kill you. My father's status was enough to keep you safe at least from them, mine at that time wouldn't be." He paused and Inuyasha looked at him.
"What about my mother? Did he made her forget about you too?" He asked.
"I don't think so. I guess they made agreement about that in order to protect you." Sesshoumaru said. Inuyasha stayed silent.
"Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said softly and put his hand on Inuyasha's shoulder who quickly shook it off.
"Don't touch me!" Inuyasha yelled and then ran off. Sesshoumaru watched him as he was disappearing from his sight and sighed. He didn't follow him. He said everything he wanted and now it was Inuyasha's turn to deal with that and it was better to leave him to do it alone. He stood there a little longer and then set out to pick up his sword and return to his companions.
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea where should I lead this story. With the idea of Sesshoumaru being Inuyasha's father, the scenario used in this chapter came to my mind almost immediately, but nothing more. I would gladly continue in this story but sadly, no ideas are coming. That's also the second reason for why am I posting it already, that some kind soul would give me some suggestion XD. The first reason is that I just really wanted to show it to you XD.
