Chapter 11
Taisho Co. have been the number one family owned company in the nation. But that title was on the verge of leaving because there was a new adversary on the rise.
Aurora was researching online and came across a new company on the rise called Onigumo Co. that specializes in creating medicine and antidotes for poisons.
She narrows her eyes as the picture of the owner showed on her computer screen. Just by looking at the picture she could tell there was something dark about him. 'Touga needs to know of this.' She thought.
Val came into Touga's office to visit Aurora. "What you looking at there?" She looked over her shoulder at the screen. Her eyes went wide.'Onigumo Co. Never read of them.' She then looked at the photo of the owner Naraku. She had to keep from gasping. 'He looks like.' She covered her mouth with her hand but kept her composure. "Aurora why are you looking his up?"
Aurora blinked and looked up at Valérie her best friend and sister. "No reason...just saw that his company was on the rise." She looked back to the screen. "I believe Touga needs to know of this."
"Yeah you um show him." Val said quickly. She shook her head. 'Val get yourself together he is dead.' She thought to herself.
"What is it I need to know of?" Touga asked stepping out of his office.
"Well, General it seems Taisho Co. has an adversary on the rise. Onigumo Co. is rising to the top with its medicine and antidotes." Aurora stated and turned her screen to Touga. "What do you think?"
Touga looked over at the screen with curiosity plaguing his Amber eyes. He looked it over. "I see. Perhaps it may be beneficial to meet with this man. Ms. Valérie please go and grab my son." He looked to Val and she nodded and went to grab Sesshomaru. Touga looked to his mate. "What do you think?"
-Val-
Valérie knocked on her mate's office door. "I think a meeting would be beneficial but...there is something about him. His eyes hold something...and I can sense darkness in them." Aurora stares at the picture intently. 'So much darkness.'
Sesshomaru opened the door immediately knowing it was his Valérie. He smirk and leaned against the door. "You know you don't have to knock on the door to enter."
"I know just tired I guess." She faked a smile and grabbed his hand. "Come on your dad wants to see you."
Sesshomaru raised a brow and looked at Valérie. 'Something is wrong.' He followed her to his father's office.
-Aurora-
"I think a meeting would be beneficial but...there is something about him. His eyes hold something...and I can sense darkness in them." Aurora stares at the picture intently. 'So much darkness.'
Touga smirked. "Perhaps you are right." He looks to his son. "Seems someone is trying to topple us. The Onigumo Corporation." He leaned his back against the wall and crossed his arms.
"I'm gonna go back to work." Val kissed Sesshomaru's cheek and she ran off.
Aurora leaned back in her chair with her hands clasped together and read the owners bio and other things of importance. 'Naraku is his name. Translated as hell...intriguing. '
Sesshomaru nodded at his mate and looked to his Aurora's screen. "So it seems father any plans to stop this?"
"Well I figured maybe it might be beneficial to have a meeting with him. Seeing if he would be up for a merger." Touga said calmly. He knew had to play his cards well but he had never heard of his Naraku before.
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes a bit. "Hn...A meeting I agree on father but a merger no. He is new and unknown." He walked forward and took read the bio on Naraku.
"Not completely. I've heard the name of Onigumo before but I cannot however pinpoint where." Touga rubbed his head. "Aurora would you call and set up a meeting?"
Aurora blinked. "Yes I can Touga." She grabbed her phone and dialed Naraku's office number. The phone rang as she waited for a response.
Sesshomaru nod at his father and went back to his office.
"Hello yes Onigumo Corporation this is Kagura may I help you?" The voice on the other line said. Touga's eyes went wide. "So that whore works for him." He said quietly.
Aurora lips twitched and made her voice professional. "Greetings, Kagura. May I speak with Mr. Onigumo please it is of business that I think he will be delighted to hear."
"Sure one moment please." She put Aurora on hold.
Touga stood by listening intently. "Put it on speaker when he answers."
Aurora waved her hand and waited for the owner's voice to speak through the phone. Where she heard breathing she put it on speaker. She motioned for Touga to keep quiet while she set up a meeting time.
"This is Naraku, to who do I own the pleasure of addressing?" He sounded cocky and his voice was deep and cold.
Aurora's hand twitched. 'His voice...so deep, so dark.' She thought. "Greetings, Naraku. I am Aurora the secretary of Touga Taisho, president of Taisho Company. I am calling to ask if you are willing to have a meeting with Mr. Taisho on business." She made her voice sweet and sensuous to try to enrapture him to agreeing.
"Ahh I see, so it seems I grabbed the old dog's attention." Naraku said through the phone. Touga's ears twitched. 'Definitely going to have to keep an eye on this kid...'
Aurora giggled softly. "Old dog is correct Naraku and it was I who saw of your accomplishments sir." She leaned in her seat and played with her nails. "And might I say you've done magnificently." Touga looked to his mate curiously not liking her play on her words or her tone.
"Well I must say you have a very perceptive eye." he went silent for a moment. "Very well, I will meet with him and his son."
"Of course Naraku-sama or should I call you Hell that is what your name translate to." Aurora's tone was sensuous and flirty. Touga growled lowly only for Aurora to hear and he glared at the screen.
"Naraku is just fine young Aurora. I will have my secretary call you back with my availability I must be going now." His deep and cold voice said and then he hung up.
Aurora place the phone down and looked at Touga. "Why are you growling Touga?" She asked. 'So dark and cold...stop why am I thinking this.' She thought again.
"I don't like that tone you used with that child." Touga was angry but he was trying to keep himself composed.
Aurora looked at Touga. "Baka, it was just play on words Touga nothing more. Words meant to attract flies to honey." She stood up and put her arms around him. "No need for you to be jealous inu-kun." Touga calmed down under his mates touch but he was still angry.
"You're the only one I want." She place butterfly kisses over his neck. She place her hands on his shoulders and rubbed them soothingly. He let out a sigh and he held his mate.
He let out another sigh and he softly kissed his mate. "I love you too. Just no more of that tone. I don't trust this child."
"I understand, now get to work old dog." She says and went back to her seat. Aurora computer screen stayed on Naraku for a while then she shook her head. 'Appear.' She thought and her time appeared. She skimmed through it to find a solution to why she was thinking of Naraku. 'The tome, reads that, I as a dark priestess is attracted to darkness and to find one that has darkness...makes me attracted to that person for a certain amount of time before I consume said darkness.'Aurora looked up at the screen and shivered at the thought.
He sighed and sat back down at his desk and went back to work. An email popped on his screen from Naraku himself. "Salutations, Inu no Taisho.I see that your secretary has...made my accomplishments known to you good. I am willing to meet with you tomorrow at 12pm sharp at your facilities and bring young Aurora, I wish to see the face behind that voice." The email from Naraku read. Touga growled lowly, but he answered the email nonetheless. 'She won't be coming to the meeting.' Touga sent the email and rubbed his temples. 'Where have I heard Onigumo before?'
Aurora sighs and rubs her temples. 'Naraku...' She thought.
Touga saw that his mate was stressed and he went to her and rubbed her shoulders. "Something wrong?"
Her skin tensed under him. "I don't know...the tome says that I am...attracted to Naraku's darkness and that I will consume his darkness."
Touga growled lowly. "I don't want you near him."
"Touga, there are some things you can control and things you cannot. His darkness will attract me to him either way. It's best that I meet him now in a control environment instead of out in the streets." She sighs and looks at him.
He sighed he didn't like this but he nodded. "Alright but you won't be left alone with that child. He has an attraction to you already."
Aurora chuckles. "Takes more than an attraction to woo me Inu-kun. I am not an easy girl to ensnare." She turns her chair to look at him. "But I understand."
Touga smirked. "Good, I won't have someone come and take you from me." He kissed her softly.
"That will never happen." She kissed him back and pulls him to her.
"Good." He purred and he picked up his mate and brought her into his office. Aurora let Touga take her to his office. Touga laid her down on the couch and started to kiss her neck lovingly.
"S-show me I'm yours Touga." She lowered his pants and moved aside her panties.
Touga kissed her lovingly and pushed into her folds after removing his pants. "Gladly." He purred.
"M-make love to me..." She whispers. Her eyes closed as she felt her love enter her. Touga thrusted slow into her and kissed her passionately as he did this wanting to show her every once of love that he had for her.
Touga thrusted slow into her and kissed her passionately as he did this wanting to show her every ounce of love that he had for her.
"I love you..." She whimpers and kissed his neck. "Love you so much."
"And I you my priestess." He moaned into her ear and kissed her deeply. His thrusts slow and very pleasurable.
"I'm close..." She felt so good right now. 'Oh how I love him so fucking much.' Her eyes clench shut as she felt her inner muscles tighten.
Touga picked up his pace to speed along their climax and he kissed her passionately as he reached his.
Her arms tighten around Touga as she orgasmed with him. 'I love you...'
Aurora smiles up at Touga. "My mate." She said happily and proudly. She pulled Touga to her chest so he could listen to her heartbeat. Touga smiled at her and he brought her hand to his lips and he kissed it. She put her hand on his chest to feel his heartbeat.
Touga waited until Aurora was asleep on the couch. He had brought to her home and he went outside and pulled out his phone to call his son Inuyasha.
"What's up old man?" Inuyasha grunted into the phone
"I resent that I'm not that old." He shook his head at his son's remark. "Listen have you heard of the Onigumo Corporation?"
Inuyasha scoffs then hummed. "Yeah, the new company on the rise. What of it?" He said getting to the point
"This brat who runs the company his name is Naraku. I want you to keep an eye on him." Touga says
Inuyasha growled. 'Always calling to want me to do shit! Never is it about me or how I'm doing.' "Fine, is that all?"
"No, I wanted to know if you were coming home this weekend. Aurora would like to know her step son after all and Ms. Valérie has shown interest at getting to know you as well, but you know how your brother is at relaying messages." Touga replied
Inuyasha's eyes widen a bit. 'They want to get to know me...' "Y-yeah I'll be there..." He mumbles. "And can I ask you something?"
"Yes what is it son?" Touga asked curiously
"Do you regret having me, and did you love mom?" Inuyasha voice cracked
Touga sighed. "I loved your mother Inuyasha and it took me a long time to get over her. Why would I regret having you? You're a wonderful son."
"I feel I never got your approval or your love...I feel that I'm a disappointment." He said.
Touga sighed. "Well you did son. You have grown into a great young man and I hope one day you will bring a girl home. I hope one day you come home and stay home."
"You want me home? I'll...think about it." Inuyasha mumbles. "And old man...I mean dad thanks." He hung up.
Touga smirked. "You're welcome son." He hung up and he looked up at the sky. 'Izayoi...'.
'Be happy...Aurora makes you happy...' The wind whispers in his ear.
'That she does.' He smirked and walked back into his mate's room and got into the bed with her. He kissed her neck and held her and closed his eyes.
-Meanwhile-
Valérie sat down at her desk and she noticed her hands hadn't stopped shaking since she saw Naraku's face.
'No it's not get it together Valérie he has been dead for years.' She took a deep breath to try and calm herself down.
'It's no use. I'm too stressed.' Valérie stood up. She wrote a note and left it on Sesshomaru's desk and she went out the door. 'It can't be it can't possibly...'
As Sesshomaru arrived at his office he saw the note left to him by his mate. "Sessh I'm not feeling well and I didn't want to bother you. Everything was already done so I went home. I'll see you later I love you Val." The note on his desk read. Sesshomaru looked at the note and place it gently on the table. He looked at the clock. 'Can't leave yet...damn.' He thought and went back to work.
Valérie hurried to the old house. She stopped in front of the building. It was the one thing she inherited from her parents but she would never dare to enter into that house until today. Valérie got the keys for the house out of her purse and she opened the door and unlocked it. The house had been the same as she had left it. No heat, no running water, and no electricity. The house she grew up in until her parent's death. There were cob webs on the furniture and it was cold and dark just like her past with her father. She walked slowly throughout the old creaky house. It sent a shiver down her spine as multiple memories flashed through her mind. She looked at the old dusty picture of the shelf and she picked it up. It was a picture of her and her parents from a happier time. She put the picture in her purse and she quickly left the hold house and went to her condominium.
Valérie opened the door to her home and she put her stuff done and she pulled up the picture of the Onigumo Corporations owner Naraku on her laptop. She looked at the photo from her old home. 'The resemblance is almost spit on except for the hair. That bastard would never grow his hair out that long and this guy looks paler in comparison but still...there is no way.' She sat the picture down and she laid down on her bed. She paced around her home. She replayed the night of her parent's death over and over again in her head. 'It's not him he is dead, so why can't I stop thinking about it?'
Valérie sat down on her bed completely exhausted. 'He's dead Valérie stop worrying.' She laid her head on the pillow and she closed her eyes. 'Just sleep it off you will be fine.' She rolled over in her sleep. She opened her eyes and she was back at home her old home. She could hear her father screaming at her mother and she held her knees to her chest. The screams were becoming louder and she could hear her father's footsteps as he ran down the hallway to her room. Her mother pleading for him to stop. Her father busted through the door and grabbed Valérie by the hair and pulled her off the bed and to the ground. Her cries for him to stop went on deaf ears. "Onigumo stop!" Her mother yelled and Onigumo slapped her across the face and he ripped Valérie's night gown. He reeked of alcohol again. He had a sharp old knife in his hand. It was covered in a red liquid and he brought it down along Valérie's spine ignoring her cries of pain.
"This is what you get for not listening to me again you dirty little tramp!" He yelled at his ping daughter.
With Sesshomaru, he looked to the clock and finally he could leave. He hurriedly left his office and followed Valérie's scent.
Valérie screamed loudly at her father and the pain in her spine. He let her go and he walked to his wife and slapped her. Her father took the night and he stabbed it into her mother's chest.
"Mother no!" She screamed in the dream and in her sleep.
Sesshomaru's ears twitched and ran quickly as he followed her scent to the condominium. He went inside hurriedly and into her bedroom finding her screaming. "Valérie!" He went to her side and put her in his arms. She was shaking and panting and sweating still stuck inside the nightmare. Her young self-watched as her father wept over his fallen wife and her mother. He proceeded to stand up and walk out of the room. Valérie saw the gun go to his head. The sound of the gun shot was the last thing she heard before she was just surrounding by darkness. Screaming and crying for a way out. Sesshomaru shook his mate awake. He growls and decides to kiss her awake. Valérie tensed up against him. 'Sessh...' She calmed against the kiss and opened her eyes. She was still crying and sweating.
Sesshomaru held Val tightly. "I'm here." He stated. Valérie nodded and she just silently cried into his chest.
"I'm here Valérie, my mate." He picked her up and placed her in his lap. Her body relaxed against his. "I haven't had that nightmare in so long." She mumbled and cuddled closer to him.
"Shhh it's alright, just a dream." Sesshomaru said softly as he rubbed her back.
Valérie sat up and she rubbed the tears from her eyes. "When did you even get here?"
"Not long ago, I heard your screams." Sesshomaru whispers softly.
Valérie nodded and she stood up. "I'm gonna take a shower okay?" She started to get undressed and her scar along her spine had a soft glow to it that quickly went away. She washed her face off in the sink. She let out a sigh and finished her shower quickly. She put her hair in a braid. She walked back into her room and sat at her vanity. She looked at her jewelry box and found her mother's ring. It wasn't her wedding ring or her engagement but it was her favorite ring and she slipped it on to her finger. She felt completely at peace when she wore her mother's ring. It had a white gold band and a single sapphire.
Sesshomaru looked around the room still waiting for Val. 'This all started when Aurora found...Naraku's company.'
Val walked in still wrapped in her towel and sat next to Sesshomaru and she sighed and laid her head down in his lap.
He put his hand on her head and softly massaged her scalp. "Do you wish to talk about it?"
Valérie let out a sigh and she sat up and grabbed her laptop. She pulled up the picture of Naraku.
"I didn't tell you this because I hate mentioning it but I own my parents old house in my name. Since two people died there it never sells and I can't be there for more than five minutes without having a break down."
Sesshomaru hummed. "I understand." He motioned for her to continue.
"Well look at Naraku and look at this. It's the only picture I still have of my father." She handed him the old dusty photo.
"They look similar, but it could be of coincidence." Sesshomaru mutters as his eyes roamed the pictures.
"I saw him die myself...he put a gun to his head but I just don't trust it. My father's name was Onigumo." She shook a little remembering her father. "All of this and being at that house brought on the nightmare."
"I see, do you wish for me to stay the night." Sesshomaru place his hand on hers.
"Please." She laid her head on his chest and she sighed.
"Then I shall stay." He removed his shirt and pants then got into bed with her. Valérie nodded and she cuddled close to him. Sesshomaru wrapped an arm around Valérie and brought her closer.
"Sessh..." Valérie said with such love in her voice and she kissed him softly.
"Val..." He mutters softly and lovingly. He returned the kiss and held her closely.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and she pulled away from the kiss and she put her forehead to his, tears still in her eyes. "Make me forget Sessh..."
"Of course..." He slides off his boxers and removes her towel. He guides Val on his erected member and enters her. Sesshomaru gently moves his hips up to hers creating the needed friction between them. Val moaned lowly and she kept her arms around his neck and she pulled him down to kiss her legs wrapped around his waist.
"I love you..." He mutters in her ear. He slowly thrusts in her wanting her to know he was there for her wanting to show her his love for her.
"I love you so much..." She whispered in his ear. Her eyes glazed over with love and her voice was soft as she let out sweet moans.
"Cum with me." He says lovingly in her ear as his thrusts was slow and passionate. He joined his lips with hers as they made love and reach their combined climaxes.
"Oh Sesshomaru I love you." She moaned against his lips as she climaxed.