Chapter 2

Warnings: Yaoi, Incest, and M-preg in later chapters!

I do not own Inuyasha, I only own the storyline and the OC Jin.

Thank you! Enjoy!

When we entered the western land's castle gates, a man that looked like a copy of Inu no Taisho was standing there with his arms crossed. His hair wasn't pulled up into a ponytail though, and he didn't seem to even have the ability to smile like Inu no Taisho did.

"Welcome." He said, not even bothering to look at me or Inu no Taisho.

"Thank you for welcoming us, Sesshomaru."

I was suddenly hit with the realization that this was Sesshomaru. My brother and soon to be mate.

"Sesshomaru?" I asked, probably sounding like a moron, but I needed to confirm that I heard his name correctly.

"Hm?" He looked at me, golden eyes that were as cold as steel.

I scoffed to myself. Simply at the ironic tale my life felt like it was becoming. "So you're my brother then?"

"Half-brother." He corrected.

"Don't be rude to Jin, Sesshomaru." Inu no Taisho scolded him.

This guy was making me angry. The low sort of anger that burns.

"Why shouldn't I? He's not even a full demon. He's a mutt."

My fist moved towards him before I could even think about it. I had never been called a mutt before. I only heard someone call my mother it once. It got me so mad that I attacked the guy. Mom was mad at me for that, but this Sesshomaru guy was going to hear from me. I wasn't going to be called a mutt, because if he called me one, he was calling her one. I would defend her honor.

Sesshomaru was caught off guard and I almost hit him. He dodged me by an inch at the most.

"Don't you dare call me a mutt." I pulsed the anger out of my body and spikes of bluish crystal rose under his feet. He flipped and landed away from them, but I noticed a scratch of blood dripping down his calf.

"I'm a bit impressed." He said.

I have to say though, in that moment, I was really impressed. I had never used any sort of real power. I never needed to learn to fight.

"I'm even more impressed." Inu no Taisho said. "I thought Aimi said she wasn't going to train you to fight."

"She didn't." I told him. "I don't even know where that came from."

Sesshomaru's lifeless expression shifted for just a second. He showed a hint of shock, but it faded quickly.

"You've never trained before?" Sesshomaru asked.

I shook my head and smirked, "Yet I still got you to bleed."

"Indeed, Jin shouldn't be underestimated, right, Sesshomaru?" He gave his son a pointed look with a hint of a smirk. I think he was glad I had shut the prince up. Sesshomaru looked like a know it all who always got his way. He was very displeased with this situation him and I had come into.

"Father, I want to speak to you. Alone."

"Very well." He sighed and looked to me. "Please just say here for a few minutes."

I nodded. I didn't really have a problem with being out by this main gate. There was a beautiful stone garden on both sides that I had no problem exploring.

Sesshomaru led the way as they disappeared inside. I don't know why he bothered bring our father inside when they both were yelling so loud I could hear everything.

"I do not want to marry him!" Sesshomaru started as soon as the doors had shut.

"Maybe you should have thought about that before you spent the last century ignoring your duty to find a mate!"

I sat down on my bench between to Sakura trees and sighed. This was going to be a hellish place.

"I would have found one if you would've told me you were going to set me up with a mutt like him!"

"That 'mutt' just hurt you with no training. So swallow your damn pride, Sesshomaru! It doesn't matter what his blood is. The child you bare will have next to no human or cat demon blood in them. It won't even matter! It's a blessing that we can keep the bloodlines this pure within the family. Do you honestly know of any other worthwhile dog demons?"

"No." Sesshomaru growled. "None of this would be happening if you could keep it in your pants, Father!"

"None of this would be happening if you could keep it out of your pants, son!"

I couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Whatever. You're lucky he has decent abilities as a demon."

It was surprising to hear the prince say that after just mocking me. Why was his problem with my blood anyway? Why was it such an issue? I guess it was more important to the royal family then it ever was to me.

"He has a lot of potential. Once he begins training and the two of you chose to stop fighting with each other, I believe it will be a good marriage."

"Don't count on it. It will be duty that holds us together, that is all."

Sesshomaru's words hurt. They felt like a stamp upon me. I was just a tool to bare children and continue a bloodline. I was never going to be worth anything to these people. Inu no Taisho may try to be kind, but he still arranged this for his clans advancement, not my well-being.

"You will share your room with him." Inu no Taisho said suddenly, and the yelling started again.

"What? Why? There are hundreds of rooms here."

"You need to learn to live with each other."

Another growl from the prince and he came back outside, his face stone with anger. "Come with me." He said and I followed. My list of other options was basically blank. I didn't take in much of the castle. It had wood floors and was decorated in a huge collection of statues and art. Soon we stopped at a door and he slid it open. Inside was the size of my entire home. There was a large bed in the corner, a kotatsu and a private bath coming off the room. The room had two closets and dressers. I was in awe. There was even a fire place with a small sofa in front of it. Inside there were two maids dusting off the dressers. "Get out." He told them and they nodded, bowing to us before they left. I could see them taking peeks at me and I just smiled at them. "This is my room. Our room, I guess."

"It's huge. I don't need all this." I said.

"I usually live in this room by myself." He replied.

"Yes. I know that. I'm sure it fits you, but I'm used to a smaller place. I don't need all this."

He sighed. I could tell he wanted to just get me another room, but Inu no Taisho would be angry I was sure. "Look, I would much rather you have your own room," He sat down on the bed, "but this is how it is so just get used to it."

I sighed and stood awkwardly in the middle of the room. He had just a hint of annoyance on his face as he stared into the fireplace. "I'll be doing a lot of that."

"Yes, because this isn't your world."

"It's not." I wasn't going to argue the truth. I didn't belong here. I was standing in a pristine room with dirt on every item I was wearing and on every part of me from burying Mom.

"You're filthy." He pointed out, probably noticing me looking at the dirt engraved into my palms. "Take a bath." I just nodded and headed towards the bath. "I'll take one too."

He followed me and I was feeling more awkward then I had from the start, but was trying to ignore it. I felt like he was trying to see if I would be bothered, and I wasn't going to give in to him. I wouldn't show this man any fear of his presence. I wasn't scared of Sesshomaru. I just didn't like the way he made me feel worthless. Mother always told me I was like priceless, but I feel like Sesshomaru somehow could name a price high enough with ease.

I stripped in silence, and so did he. I didn't look at him, I just washed myself as I sat on a chair under the shower head. My skin was a completely different color by the time I was done. Sesshomaru stepped into the warm tub of water before I was even done with my legs. I'm sure the Lord of the West didn't have a piece of dirt on him. I did notice the red tint of bloodied water swirl down the drain when he was washing himself though. The drops I had stolen from him in our fight earlier.

When I finished cleaning all the dirt away I sank into the tub across from him. I couldn't help but let out a sigh. This was the warmest bath I had ever been in. Sesshomaru just rests against the edge with his eyes closed. He looked almost innocent just sitting there with his snow colored hair drifting around him.

I felt like we were yin and yang. My hair was as black as night, just like my mothers, and as the long ends of them floated around us they tickled and fought with each other.

He opened his eyes and looked at me. "I didn't realize your skin was actually that pale."

"I was really dirty."

"From burying your mother?" He asked like it was the most normal action I could've been doing.

"Yes." I could tell my voice was darker, but his face didn't flinch at all.

"It's truly unfortunate she died. You couldn't been far away from here then."

"You say that like her dying was such an inconvenience for you." My fists were clenching under the water.

He sighed, "Well, it was."

I came at him with my fist once again, but he caught it this time. The water sloshed against the side of the tub and he chuckled darkly. "How dare you!"

"How dare I? It's the truth, Jin. It's an inconvenience for you too. Now you are forced from the life you knew, and I am forced to mate with you."

Tears flooded me as the numb darkness that had been encasing my heart broke into a lonelier feeling. "Why did she have to die? Why did she have to leave me? Why did I have to come to such a horrible place?" Sesshomaru just held my weakening fist in his hand and let me cry above him.

"I don't know." He said.

I pulled away and splashed roughly back into my seat, curling up into myself. "It's so unfair."

"I'm sorry."

I looked up, eyes red with tears and he was just looking at me. "What?"

"I said I'm sorry. I hate this too, but I shouldn't be taking it out on you. This is my—our father's stupid plan. It's him I'm angry with. You're just a lost, hurt kid who's just as caught in this web as I am."

Suddenly, he stood and picked me up. "Wait! What are you doing?"

"Relax." He placed me on my feet once he stepped out of the bath and handed me a towel. "Are you hungry?"

"Yes." I said, a bit sheepishly after being forcible lifted. I reached for my clothes but Sesshomaru pushed my hand away.

"We'll get you some clean ones." He wrapped his towel around his waist and I followed suit. We stepped back into the room and he went for one of the closets, pulling out a white silk kimono and draping it around himself. I couldn't stop myself from looking at the lines that wrapped around his body from his demon marks. My marks on my body were different. I only have a single spiraling dark blue stripe that wraps around my left arm.

Once clothed and starting digging deeper into the closet. "You're smaller than me," he said, "but the kimono I had when I was younger should fit you." He then pulled out a white kimono matching his and I was really starting to wonder if he ever wore any color but white, even though he had other color kimono in the closet. "Here."

"Thank you." I slipped into it was amazed by how soft and silky it was. My clothes had always itched or were too short somewhere on me.

"You look good in a proper kimono." I looked away and was about to disagree with him when he spoke again. "What do you want to eat?"

"Anything is fine."

"Anything? Otoro then."

I had heard about people having otoro before. It was an extremely expensive type of sushi. It comes from a very specific type of tuna. "That is too much! I don't need something like that! Just some ramen or miso soup would be fine."

"You said anything is fine, we are having otoro." He made his way to the kotatsu and sat down.

"Sesshomaru, I really can't accept something like that."

He sighed, "Jin, you are a prince now too. You can have anything you want. Plus, you should understand a lot of high quality dishes for parties and such. The wife usually plans those sorts of events."

"oh." I said. I really had never thought about doing something like that. Not to mention it was weird to be called a wife. "Then, I guess thank you for teaching me." I finally gave in and sat beside him at the table. He rang a bell and a maid, a different one then earlier, came in.

"How can I help you, my lord?" She was very cute. Long brown hair in a ponytail and brilliant green eyes.

"Two orders of otoro, please."

"Right away, sir." She bowed, "Would you like some tea as well?"

"Yes, Niku." Sesshomaru answered. Niku left and we sat in silence until she came back with a tray of tea and placed it on the table for us.

"Thank you." I smiled at her.

"Any time, my lord." Niku left and I felt weird about being called my lord, but decided to let it go.

"There are a lot of maids here." I said Sesshomaru slipped some of the tea.

"Yes, Niku, is my head maid. Ayumi, and Yuiko were the two in here earlier, they are two of the four cleaning maids for this wing. The other two are Ishi, and Chihiro. That's just this wing of the house though. There are many others."

"Wow." I said. "I'm glad you know their names."

He looked at me, a hint of curiousness behind his eyes. "What do you mean?"

"I'm glad you're not some raging lord who doesn't even care to know his servants names."

"No. I'm not. Servant are important." Just as he said this one of the girls from earlier came in carrying two plates of food. She smiled and set them down better us.

"Anything else, my lords?"

"No, Yuiko, I think we're alright." Sesshomaru picked up his chop sticks as Yuiko left, bowing before she exited the room.

"Itadakimasu." We both said and I carefully put my chopsticks to the otoro.

"Is it really okay that I eat this?" I asked.

"If you don't, I'm going to feed it to you."

That was all the motivation I needed and I tucked the otoro into my mouth.

I was in heaven.

It was the best food I had ever eaten. I was melting into the kotatsu as the flavors took over my mouth.

Sesshomaru seemed like this was any other plate of food, but I just ignored him. I was in taste bud heaven. I think I chewed every bite until it was mush just to keep the flavor in my mouth. Sesshomaru had finished quite a bit before me and seemed to be enjoying my reaction to the food.

"Glad you ate it, I see."

"This is the best food I've ever tasted!" I was almost singing.

He chuckled, "This isn't even the best."

"There are things that are better than this?" I asked, totally stunned at the world of food possibilities that were coming towards me.

"Oh yes."

I basically tackled him, grabbing onto his arm. "You're not lying to me are you?"

"Why would I?"

"I don't know, to tease me?"

He scoffed and pushed me back into my seat. "I'm hardly so childish."

I really wanted to laugh at him for that. He was quite the spoiled brat weather he saw it or not, but I didn't want him yelling at me or making me feel worthless again so I didn't.

"I'm so full." I said instead and laid back onto the tatami mats.

He didn't say anything but rang the bell again and got up to sit by the fire place. Yuiko and the girl from earlier, who I assumed was Ayumi, came in and cleared the table. When they came in I got up to get out of their way and sat on the corner of the bed closest to the fire place and the couch Sesshomaru was on. It was warm and reminded me of when Mom and I would make fires in the back yard and sit by them. I got lost in the memory. The smell of the burning wood, the heat on my face, my mother's laughter.

"You look happy." Sesshomaru said, breaking my thoughts as I looked to him and then to my feet.

"I was remembering something."

"I don't smile when I remember things."

I didn't know why he was telling me this, but it made me realize for the first time that Sesshomaru had always been in this kind of life. Expectation, duty, images to keep. I had never had anything like that. My life was just simple and happy. "What was your mom like?"

The question caught him off guard and he looked at me a little oddly. "She's a wicked woman sometimes. Sometimes I can tolerate her."

"I wish you knew my Mom." I said. "She was great. She was always smiling."

"My mother's smile usually means something bad or annoying for me to deal with."

"I can't imagine that."

"You'll be able to once you meet her." Sesshomaru gestured to the spot beside him. "You can sit on the couch too, you know?"

I nodded and took the seat beside him. "I guess we should get used to being close."

He didn't say anything but I was fairly sure he agreed with me because he let his arm fall over my shoulders. We sat there for a long time in silence. It was strangely nice. I felt like I wasn't completely unwanted here.

I really wasn't sure how we went from me being a mutt to calming sitting beside each other, but I was glad. I don't think I could take so much fighting after my mother's passing. It would be too much for me to handle.

After a few hours of sitting and silence I started to yawn.

"Do you wish to sleep?" He asked.

"Yes. I can just sleep on this couch if you want. It's more than comfortable."

"Nonsense." He pushed me to my feet with the arm around my shoulders and walked me to the bed before going around to the other side and getting in. I stood there staring at him and he just waved me in.

The bed was like a cloud. I could've died right then and there. I would have been happy to stay there forever. "Why is everything here so soft and amazing?"

He chuckled, "Because we pay a lot of money for it."

"I'll count the yen as I fall asleep." I joked, hugging onto a pillow and curling happily into my side. "Goodnight, Sesshomaru."

"Goodnight." He said.