Chapter 12 : Across the barrier is how Sesshomaru Became Cold
" Back! Foreward! East! Whip! Transform!" Jaken comanded. Sesshomaru groaned as he shifted into his true self.
" Ahgg! Jaken I am ready! I can handle a stupid barrier! I am fifteen years of age and I am strong enough to go!" Sesshomaru persisted as his Master shook his head.
" You are indeed strong enough." Jaken said scowling at his pupil's impaiteince. It seemed like it was just yesterday that Jaken had made the promise to strenghten his student. Sesshomaru transformed into his lesser self and threw off his yukata shirt exposing exreme development. He wasn't a pup anymore.
Sweat dotted Sesshomaru's body as he blew another forceful attack at the air. His long white hair flowed behind him as he bounded to the skies. His arms were no longer thin and boney, but strong and full of passion. He landed to the ground and summoned his whip, cutting down half the gardens. He was now folowing every one of Jaken's instructions, as he sent a high kick whipping through the air, and landing his heel in the solid ground, leaving a crater. He breathed heavily and again leaped towards the sun.
" Jaken, please let me go! My father could have perished and I wouldn't have known!" Sesshomaru said streghtning his claws as he sent poison through the earth, leaving a spot of dead grass on the once beautiful gardens.
" SESSHOMARU!" Satsuki screamed in anger as she approached the courtyard seeing a mess. Sesshomaru at once leaped toward the ground, accidently coming down too fast. As he landed, the lawns of the gardens craked and became ugly. Satsuki put on a sour face as her anger rose.
" I CAN'T BELIVE YOU-YOU-YOU UGHHH!" Sesshomaru's mother yelled before she left the courtyard. Sesshomaru shrugged as he slipped back into his shirt. Sesshomaru sat down near a tree and Ah-un laid next to him, curling his tail around around his Master's waist. The youkai was about to sleep when something caught his eye. A sense of De' sa' vu came over him when he saw a figure running from behind the creek. Sesshomaru stood and called out to it, and this time the creature glanced at him, and darted even faster through the feilds. For an instant, Sesshomaru caught a glimpse of the creature's eye. It was innocent and round, and the color forest-brown was encircled around its pupil.
Sesshomaru was faster than he was ten years ago so he sprinted after it stopping right before its very eyes. The thing stopped dead in its tracks and lookeed up into Sesshomaru's cold topaz eyes.
" What are you?" Sesshomaru asked coldly. The creature fell over and darted back into the forest leaving no sign it was there, exept for the scent of the creek.
Sesshomaru then knew that if somehting could survive accross the boardline, then why couldn't InuTaisho? It was time to leave.
Sesshomaru headed back to the castle, bowing to his Master in gratidude for allowing his journey to take place. Ah-un trailed behind him groaning at Jaken somewhat saying thank you.
" Master, are you sure it's a bright decision to venture beyond the barrier... t-tomorrow?" The two-headed beast asked his Master as they continued up the path. Sesshomaru simply gave a grunt of displeasure.
" Can't we just wait another year before our journey takes place? Or mabey even forget the idea of finding your father, and-j-j-ust settle down." Ah-un stuttered hopefully. Sesshomaru looked at his dragon and back again at their destination.
" Ah-un I' ve been waiting for this moment for almost my whole life, and I am not going to give up on the idea." Sesshomaru said casting a wicked glare upon the castle. Ah-un silenced himself before beginning his next persuation towards his Master, for he knew his two heads would be cut down in an instant if he mentioned such foolishness to his Master.
When they stepped into the castle grounds the servants of the palace no longer waved with a smile at Sesshomaru, but bowed to him in deep respect. Sesshomaru walked by them as if they were nothing, and glided quietly up to his bedchamber. As soon as he entered the room, the mighty Tensaiga began to rattle in the presence of Tetsusaiga. Sesshomaru put a hand agianst the sheath, calming its exitment. The dog lord placed a hand in a tight grip around Tesusaiga's sheath and slipped the sword through his sash. Now was the hard part. He had to weild Sounga.
Sesshomaru walked down to the east wing and slid open the door to his father's quaters. The dog lord starred at the sword in amazment. It was an incredible weapon with a sphere of power forged into the handle. It held an exremely demonic aura which could posess someone who wasn't strong enough to hold it firmly. Sesshomaru stepped close to it and the mighty sword began to speak.
" Sesshomaru, I' ve been waiting for you to come." The weapon said making its sphere glow a maroonish color. The dog lord's will was stronger than the sword's so with one quick moitoin, Sesshomaru weilded Sounga, and placed it through his sash, just like any old sword. At that moment the shoji slid open.
Satsuki looked at her son with a slight expression of sorrow as she stepped into the room.
" I had heard you will be leaving at dawn." She said tilting her head down. Sesshomaru gave a nod without turning around to face his mother.
" Are you sure you are strong enough to decice on such a dangerous task?" Satsuki went on looking at her son with shaking eyes. Sesshomaru gave another expressionless nod with his back turned.
" Its seems like just yesterday...th-th-at you were just a pup... But I guess...you aren't my little pup anymore..." She said catching a hot lump in her throat. Sesshomaru turned at that comment, but had widened his eyes when his mother bounded towards him and embraced him tightly.
" I love you my son, and I don't want you to leave l-like InuTaisho did! Please don't do this to me!" Satsuki cried as she buried her head in the folds of her son's yukata. Sesshomaru looked down to his mother who was crying lakes of water. He felt like shedding her tears for her, but no matter how sad the situation was, he couldn't cry. He didn't hold back tears, and he wasn't forcing them back either, he just couldn't bring himself to anymore.
" Mother..." Sesshomaru began causing Satsuki to lift her head from her son's chest. " I will always be with you. No matter where I am standing, I will even be with you when I perish. And I promise that I will return...someday. I will as soon as I can. And just to let you know..." Sesshomaru paused and was slightly ebmarrassed by the words he was about to say. " I will always be your little pup." He finished leavind a red in his cheeks. Satsuki looked up at him and smiled behind her tears. Sesshomaru returned the smirk and wrapped his arms around his mother.
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InuTaisho snapped his eyes open, and looked to his side. Izaiyoi was there, sleeping calmly against the general's furr pelt. She seemed fine. But for some reason, that wasn't the reason why InuTaisho was awakened. The dog youkai looked up to the sky. He didn't feel like Izaiyoi was the only one he should have been protecting all these years. There was someone else that was important to him. But who?
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" Well Sesshomaru! Eversince I'd known you, you were nothing but a load of trouble. But I can't belive that load of trouble is leaving me here to suffer the punishment of learning to find a new way to have a pleasant time!" Suseimaru said to his good freind. Sesshomaru would have scowled at this tone of speech years ago, but now was very fond of it. Sesshomaru gave a hug to his freind and smiled. Suseimaru and himself were exellent freinds for ten years and loved to get into mischef together. But now they trouble duo would be separating for who knows how long?
" Come Ah-un." Sesshomaru said tugging the reins of his dragon. The two-headed beast groaned and began to follow its master down to the creek.
Sesshomaru's mother waved until her son was out of sight and began to weep tears of joy saying," My little baby going off to destroy people!" The chef patted her back when she turned to cry heavier.
The journey took place at night, for Sesshomaru understood that they would have a better chance of sneaking into the world if who knows what would be sleeping. Sesshomaru began to sum up the elder youkai's stories of the humans. If the stories they said were true, the so-called humans would live directly beyond barrier. But if those tales were fibs, others say that the boardline is the barrier that separates nightmares and reality. Sesshomaru felt his stomach run into his heart at such a thought, and he wasn't alone with that feeling.
Ah-un's jaws were chattering and shivers were running up and down his back when they approached the barrier. Sesshomaru took a deep breath and found that his fangs were also cliking together.
" What is this feeling of the want of releasing my body fluids?" Sesshomaru asked Ah-un while hugging a rock.
A.N. " If you don't know what that sentance meant, it means that he feels like peeing his pants! LOLS!"
It was was true. They were both cowards. " You go first Master!" Ah-un said hiding behind a shaking Sesshomaru.
" No! You go first! You're of the brave race of the dragons, which wouldn't even flinch at death!" Sesshomaru started in a squeaky voice. " Besides you wouldn't want walk behind a man that's about to release all of his liquids!" Sesshomaru finished leaving Ah-un speechless for thirty seconds.
" Yes! You are only prooving my point Master! See if you went beyond the barrier first and actually did soak your pants with urine, I wouldn't disolve into thin air because the nice little boardline would protect me from your acid!" Ah-un finished leaving his Master with nothing more to say. Sesshomaru took in breath and bounded accross the creek so that his nose was a centimeter away from the barrier. He turned back and said some short prayers before he leaped through the water-like boardline.
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Sesshomaru opened one of his eyes and saw the sun? Wait! The sun wasn't suppose to be up! It was the middle of night when he jumped through the barrier! What was this silliness!? Sesshomaru found that after one hour of scanning the strange lands, he realized everything was opposite from the Youkai world. The place were he was standing wasn't a creek, but dried mud that evaperated form the heavy rains of winter.
Ah-un, on the other hand was terrified! What if his Master was devoured by his worst nightmares, never to be seen again!? The dragon moaned, and groaned, worrying over his Master's safety, until he finnally colected up his courage and bounded through the ice-cold barrier.
InuTaisho felt a familair aroma fill his nostrills. It was a very clear scent but he didn't know what it was. Was it Izaiyoi? No, no, no, no! Not Izaiyoi! Was it Izaiyoi? Ahggg! NO! It seemed the only thing the dog general could think of was Izaiyoi. InuTaisho turned back and took in a deep breath of the air, and now all he could smell was the 16-year old human girl behind him.
" It's probably my imagination." He said to himself as he countinued to walk.
Ah-un and Sesshomaru reached the middle of a forest and were somewhat lost. The dog youkai couldn't pick up any scent of his father at all, and became thoughtly frantic. Sesshomaru looked down to the grass and sighed. Mabey his father did die. Or mabey he just dissapeared. All of these thoughts raced in his mind until he simply fainted.
InuTaisho looked back for the fifteenth time in a row, and Izaiyoi began to feel concerned with this strange behavoir.
" What's bothering you, Doggie Man?" She asked with a frown. Doggie Man had become InuTaisho's nickname over the past couple years, and was beginning to sound like his actual name.
" Oh, nothing to make you become worried!" " Doggie Man" replied with a guilty smile. Izaiyoi tilted her head down an inch and nodded.
Sesshomaru awoke to find that he was being carried. He sat up and looked down to see that Ah-un was the one who was carrying him.
" Ah, Master you' ve finally awakened." The two-headed beast said as he continued to march through the forest. Sesshomaru smiled and stroked the mane of his dragon. What a trustable creature, Sesshomaru thought as he looked at his pet with a smirk. The dog youkai jumped off the saddle of Ah-un and all of a sudden caught scent of something to familair to be true. InuTaisho!
InuTaisho caught scent of something familair too. Yet still he had no clue what it was. The aroma didn't leave InuTaisho this time, but grew stronger, as if it were drawing closer to him every second. What was this fragrance that the dog general adored so greatly?
Sesshomaru was riding on the back of his dragon, soaring as fast as lightning through the air. He knew that his father was near, and that he himself wouldn't rest until InuTaisho was found. Sesshomaru searched the forests and among the fields but didn't find anything. The dog youkai became discourage until the scent of his father was so tightly bound into his senses, he thought that he would never forget it. And that's when he spotted it! A figure with long white hair tied up into a pony tail was directly before him! Could it be that he had found InuTaisho!?
InuTaisho looked back and drew his sword in an instant. Izaiyoi hid behind him as she saw a youkai leap off the two-headed creature that was standing before them. Sesshomaru's eyes widened when he caught sight of InuTaisho.
" Father?" Sesshomaru said as he approached InuTaisho. InuTaisho's topaz eyes were now shaking. Father? What did this strange person mean by such a phrase? InuTaisho growled. He had never been a father in his life... or had he..? InuTaisho took in a whiff of the air to find that this strange youkai was the source of the familair scent. Where did he remember this smell from? InuTaisho stopped for a moment when a flashback came to him.
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" Father," the pup Sesshomaru said looking down at his toes.
" Yes, my son? What do you wish to know?" InuTaisho asked looking at his son. The breeze blew the pup's bangs in an eastward direction. It was a warm wind, one with the smell of sakura trees that were lined along the forest.
" When I am as old as you, where will you go?" Sesshomaru said looking up at his father with a deep desire of a response. InuTaisho lifted his son onto his lap, when he sat down under a pink-blossomed tree.
" Well pup, I have to admit that I won't be around forever. But when I'm not there, will you promise to remeber me? And. You. Take. Good. Care. Of. Your. Mother. Understand?" InuTaisho said with a smile. Sesshomaru looked uncertain for a moment when he replied, " I promise!"
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InuTaisho dropped his human sword to the ground, when he remembered.
" Sesshomaru?" He whispered as he received an embrace from his son. InuTaisho was crying when he discovered he had got to see his son again. Sesshomaru pulled back the hug when he had realized something. InuTaisho had no injuries, and he couldn't recognize the scent of his son?! Sesshomaru growled so angrilly that InuTaisho pulled back. And when Sesshomaru caught sight of Izaiyo, his temper exploded.
" What kind of a fool do you take me for!? " The dog youkai yelled so that InuTaisho feared he would be devoured by Sesshomaru.
" What do you mean by such an exlamation?" InuTaisho asked trying to smile.
" You mean to tell me that you have no idea of what disgrace you had just committed!?" Sesshomaru screamed with the white in his eyes turning bright red. InuTaisho shook his head sheepishly. " I'VE HAD NIGHTMARES ABOUT LOSING YOU FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS, MAKING EVERY INCH OF MY DAYS MISERABLE, WITH WORRY FOR YOU! AND TWO OF THOSE YEARS WERE SPENT SLAVING UNDER A WICKED GENERAL! BUT, OH, LOOK, HERE YOU ARE COMPLETELY FINE, WITH NO INJURIES AT ALL, AND LOOK STRAIGHT BEHIND YOURSELF! I GUESS YOU DECIDED TO BETRAY MY MOTHER AND GET BETROTHED TO SOME RANDOM WOMAN OFF THE TRAIL! AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO RETURN FOR A SINGLE SECOND TO AT LEAST SAY A LAST FAREWELL TO YOUR FIRST WIFE AND ONLY SON!?" Sesshomaru exlaimed wasting most of his breath.
InuTaisho was speechless. How would he talk his way out of this one? The answer was he couldn't. Izaiyoi tapped InuTaisho's shoulder and asked," Doggie Man, who's this?" InuTaisho was silent. He felt that he had become mute. How could he admit to his only son that he had forgot about him?
" You can have these back!" Sesshomaru said trusting Tetsusaiga and Tensaiga onto the ground, before he crossed the barrier back to the youkai world.
" A.N. " O.O Sesshomaru threw a temper tantrum! Were you peoples suprised by his reaction. Don't hurt Me! XD It was all just part of the plot! PLEASE REVEIW! And remeber violence is never the answer! = )