A Mate for Sesshoumaru
Pairing: Sesshoumaru/Inuyasha
Disclaimer: The characters of InuYasha are not mine; they are the property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
W A R N I N G: This is about male pregnancy (possibly) and male/male relationships which includes incest. I'm letting you know now what the relationships WILL contain. So, if you are AGAINST such pairings, please find something else more to your liking, you have been warned.
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Vocabulary: Kaasan—mother (hon).Ojisan—uncle.Otousan—father (hon).Obasan—aunt.
Tsukuyomi—god of the moon.
Senkakusha—seer, enlightened person.
Moriyaku—nurse, nanny, guardian.
Inari—god/goddess of fertility.
Beta-read by: Mitts. Thank you for beta-reading and for taking on another project with me. I appreciate all the help. Any mistakes after she has completed her work are mine.
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Chapter 12: A Look Into the Past
Before Sesshoumaru could explain to his father what had happened, Toga knocked him clear across the room.
The older heir pulled himself from the rubble of the stone wall that he had been thrown against, while scrubbing the blood from the split of his upper lip with the back of his hand. On his knees, Sesshoumaru spit out even more blood including a couple of jaw teeth; as he attempted to regain an upright position. But he wasn't worried about the gaping hole in his mouth from the missing porcelain. He knew that new ones would be re-grown by the morning.
No, Sesshoumaru was only concerned about the condition he had put his mate in—and all because of his distain for Inuyasha as half-blooded inu youkai, and his inability to control his temper.
Seeing the sorry state her son was in, Izayoi fell to her knees beside Inuyasha, sobbing out loud as their healer worked on him. "I told you that this would happen!" she yelled in her husband's general direction.
"What? What in the name of all creation possessed you to violate your mate in such a manner?" Toga roared, pulling Sesshoumaru to his feet, shaking his pup hard to emphasize his displeasure at Sesshoumaru's treatment of Inuyasha.
"I—I…didn't…"
"Then what the hell did you do, Sesshoumaru?!" Toga growled, demanding an answer.
And it was for the first time, Toga saw his son's tears. Not even when Sesshoumaru had been younger, did he shed a tear whenever he got beat during his training or when he fell, scrapping skin. This was different; Sesshoumaru was openly showing his emotions.
In a calmer voice, he asked again, "What happened, my son?"
Sesshoumaru now understood what his father meant when he had said—'Your brother is special.'
Something must have clicked in that pivotal moment for the young daiyoukai, and he slumped over in his father's arms, clinging tightly to his massive form, a shudder passing through Sesshoumaru's body as he spoke, his words coming out from trembling lips, "I caused my mate to lose our pup."
Both Izayoi and Toga gasped.
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A dark cloud seemed to have settled over the Inu no Taisho's house by the next morning, but luckily the guests were blissfully unaware of the goings-on behind the closed doors of Toga's study.
The inu lord had not slept well at all the previous night, not after the healer had confirmed what Sesshoumaru had told him…
Midnight had already passed by the time Moriyaku visited Toga to give him the status of his second son.
Bowing, she began with, "May I be blunt, my lord?"
Seeing him nod his head in acquiescence, Moriyaku began to give her account.
"Sesshoumaru has beaten my charge to the point of unconsciousness. Inuyasha has sustained several broken ribs and a ruptured lung. In addition to that, he has severe bruising to his stomach and face. One of his eyes is swollen closed. And… and he hemorrhaged out— losing the pup he was carrying. I established this fact as I was examining his shirt for the source of the blood, when I discovered the tiny, barely formed pup. By the size of it, Inuyasha was close to being two weeks into his gestation, my lord."
She paused, waiting for the information to sink in before continuing. The demon lord made no indication if the information disturbed him as much as it had bothered her.
"Right now, Inuyasha needs plenty of rest. I've already instructed Lord Sesshoumaru not to couple with his mate for at least a full moon to allow Inuyasha's body to heal. However, my lord, it would be in my charge's best interests to get away for a while, once he's strong enough to travel."
Toga rubbed his face with both hands, sighing. He couldn't deny that the loss of Sesshoumaru's pup had changed his eldest son—for the better—as morbid as it came about.
Inuyasha remind unconscious in the days following his beating, and Sesshoumaru had not once moved a muscle from his position by his bed. The healers had attempted numerous times to get the young lord to rest, but Sesshoumaru proved to be obstinate. He stayed by his mate's side, just in case Inuyasha awoke.
Toga wasn't quite sure what the outcome would be upon Inuyasha's waking, but he was positive that this was the calm before the storm.
He exhaled.
All of this happening right before the ceremony, no less.
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"What do you mean; she's not getting mated to Sesshoumaru?" Emi questioned her mate. She was not happy to hear that her pup was not mating the future Western Lord.
"I'm saying that we need to find out the truth behind hers and Sesshoumaru's, rutting," Gorai replied.
"The truth? The truth to what? What is your brother trying to say… that our daughter is not carrying his son's heir?" Emi said, fuming at the accusation. When her mate didn't answer straight away she knew that it was exactly what Toga was implying. "Our daughter-"
"Our daughter had finally been pupped, for the first time since her maturity and her ruts with Sesshoumaru, which have been unsuccessful until now. So why is it, that after all of this time, she conceives?" Gorai asked, making his mate contemplate.
And Emi had to admit even to herself, that she did indeed find it quite odd that Kaori's womb had miraculously accepted Sesshoumaru's seed.
"I didn't want to tell you this because I didn't want to believe it myself," Gorai continued. "But Toga, Daiki, and I went to Senkakusha... with Sesshoumaru."
"And what did the old bitch say?" Emi's stomach was doing flip-flops. "Obviously, she told Sesshoumaru that this was meant to be, no?"
"No."
Emi stuttered. Yellow eyes were wide with disbelief.
"Sesshoumaru was a mere pup at the time, having been born for barely a week."
Definitely not liking where the conversation was heading, but holding her tongue nonetheless, Emi waited for her mate to finish his tale.
"Senkakusha foretold that…
'Only one shall conceive of his loins—not yet born but will be—powerful and beautiful—hair of shimmering white touched by Tsukuyomi. With eyes as golden as the sun goddess herself, shall be gifted by Inari, to birth and nurture their young. He will be endowed with the strength of Yawata no Kami…'
"We brothers had gasped, Daiki and me staring at Toga. We all knew. The next child that Izumi bore would be Sesshoumaru's mate. But what was not prognosticated was that it would not be Izumi, but Izayoi, to give Toga another heir."
"By the gods," Emi whispered after listening to Gorai. She sank to the floor, speechless. "It's Inuyasha."
"Hai."
"There must be a way to salvage this?"
"The only way is to wait until the pup is born," Gorai answered, sitting beside his distressed mate.
"And if Sesshoumaru is the sire?" she asked hopefully.
"Then Sesshoumaru will officially bond with Kaori," came the appropriate response.
"And…. if he is not?"
"Then we'll mate her to the sire, or cast her and the pup from our lands, stripping her of royal status."
"But-"
"Do not object, Emi. Should you do so, you too shall follow in her footsteps of being exiled," Gorai warned. "I have no qualms whatsoever of finding another breeding bitch! Be prepared, Emi, regardless of the outcome you shall birth me another heir."
Emi stood, stocked. "No," she whispered under her breath. This was not happening to her.
"I didn't mate you just for you to get pupped once!" Gorai yelled. "I've already spoken with Moriyaku; she is expecting you at first light."
"And why would I be visiting with her?" Emi huffed.
Standing as well, Gorai towered over his petite beta, causing her to shrink back in fear. "You're a smart bitch; do not think that after fifty years you are not able to conceive. I know that Izumi has been supplying you a preventative, Moriyaku will make sure that your body is rid of that vile concoction before I attempt to plant my seed in your womb."
He stormed off before he decided to take a strap to her backside. He needed to be calm and collected, as he was heading to talk with his daughter; and it would not do for him to lose control of his tempter and have her lose her pup. It was bad enough to have Toga inform him that Inuyasha was indeed pupped, only to have Sesshoumaru severally beat him and make him miscarry.
No, Gorai would not be the cause of another precious life lost. If anything, he wanted to know who Kaori had spread her legs for, in an attempt to try to pass the pup off as Sesshoumaru's.
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A/N: Uh-oh! Looks like somebody's in trouble. And poor Sesshoumaru, well, I can't say that I feel sorry for him—he had that one coming. But Inuyasha… does anyone believe that he will be okay? Don't know? Well, stay tuned for the next chapter to find out.
Nemesis
Up next: Inuyasha leaves Sesshoumaru.
