Notes: Brief Chapter because I had a little time to kill this morning.
Warning…Atotori is being his sweet charming self in the first section, just the man your mother was scared to death you would date, and your father kept the loaded handgun ready for. This isn't going to be a continuing trend cause it isn't my style…this sick-sucker is going to change bit by bit, get worse in different ways…his personality is Onigumo as I remember him being described--obsessing & possessing to destroy. Aint ya glad you aren't Kagome right now? Anyway, Atotori is going to drop into the background now a bit since I have given a good intro to him, and in this chapter we meet his --aHEM--children.
Yeah, this guy makes Charles Manson and his "Family" look like Leave it to Beaver.
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Calling all artists!
I have been thinking about putting together a collection of art from my stories and some of my other random sketches (on Media miner I imagine.)
I have some from Loss that I did awhile ago, and I have one of Atotori, and his kids, Sinepon, a couple scenes from Unbreakable, ----I'd love to have reader contributions!!! If your interested in contributing let me know by e-mail! I have two yahoo addresses, one is
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WARNING: VIOLENCE, ADULT THEMES, INCEST
Part Two
Chapter 14
Time Apart
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Atotori rose from the futon in the dark chamber, stretching his long muscular legs out and standing on his toes to stretch his muscles. He'd felt so wonderful in the month since he had arrived at Naraku's,…well, now, his palace with his children in tow.
Yes, they were his children, he refused to think of them as anything else, that's how one began to treat them as if they were disposable toys as Naraku had. They were precious, both of them. Sweet and darling, just waiting for his love and nurturing. Their pods had opened nearly a week after Atotori had awoken. His son first, then his daughter. His son was a wealth of knowledge, brilliant and devious. Already his mind had improved on many of Atotori's plans by half. His daughter was sweet and charming, she was a wonderful deceiver, more than able to lure female "distractions" to the palace for Atotori's pleasure's. In the last month, she had deceived six. It was good, but she would have to do better, his lusts were growing.
They were both amazingly beautiful, their bodies rounded and finely muscled with Atotori's deceptively innocent features, large deep violet eye's fringed with long lashed and his pouting lips. He had been so dazzled by his children's beauty that he had taken them into his bed immediately once they were clean to claim them. He didn't harm their silky flesh, but instead was gentle with them in his lovemaking. He refused to act out his wilder desires on his own but to exert those on the humans who crossed his path. He didn't want his children to fear him.
His son he named Jinchi, his daughter Keikoku. They would be first in his house, his inner circle. The new children he would begin to create, the ones he would never share his bed with, those would be ones who would do his dirty work, the more heinous tasks, like the one's he had planned for the hanyou and miko.
Thinking of the miko served to excite his lusts again, he forced himself to push her from his thoughts. It was not the time to get over excited. The village girl shackled in his chamber could no longer nourish his dark desires, she had stopped being useful an hour before when she stopped screaming and her eyes became blank and lifeless.
Atotori stepped to his chamber door
"Jinchi-chan" he called softly
A moment later, the young man in dark purple hoari and hakema stepped to the door.
"Otou-san" he bowed slightly
Atotori returned his bow.
"Jinchi-chan, rather a weak one I'm afraid, barely lasted sundown to sunup." he laughed "Put her clothes back on her and return her to where she came from, let her village be concerned with her disposal. Tell Keikoku-chan that I will need a new distraction by tonight"
The boy bowed "Hai Otou-san" he turned to leave "Wait, Jinchi-chan, tell your sister I would like to see her immediately in my private chamber. She need not dress first"
"Hai Otou-san" He bowed again and left.
Atotori looked down at the catatonic girl on the futon and sighed, "It's a pity really, you have such a sweet face…" He dipped his finger over the blood on her chest then he put the finger in his mouth "yet your blood isn't very sweet at all."
He took his robe from the hook on the wall, put it on then left the chamber.
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No one dared say a word to InuYasha as he sat against the wall of Kaede's hut glaring a hole through the wall opposite him, hugging Tessiaga as if it were someone else. To make matters worse, during all those months in the cave, Miroku and Sango had almost forgotten this InuYasha existed. They had gotten to use to the other InuYasha, the sweet one who smiled all the time and laughed when Miroku teased him, well, most of the time.
"Kami InuYasha" Shippo stood arms akimbo in front of InuYasha. "It's not like this is the first time Kagome's ever gone home for a few days." InuYasha growled at him, a sign that there was still a bit of the mellowness remaining in the hanyou from the winter seclusion. Normally when he was in this kind of mood Shippo would have gone flying at the mention of Kagome's name.
"What's your problem anyway?" Shippo persisted, causing InuYasha to lurch to his feet, trying to keep his promise not to beat the tiny kitsune anymore. That promise was as good as out the door when the rolled piece of paper slid unnoticed from InuYasha's sleeve onto the floor of the hut to be scooped up by Shippo.
"Hey, what's this? To InuYasha from Kagome…Oooo I Love Letter from Kagome to InuYasha….?!?" Shippo laughed, rolling on the floor.
"Umm Shippo, you better give that back." Sango glanced at InuYasha, his hand on the door screen to leave; now he seemed frozen in time.
"I want to read it first." Shippo read the first line of the poem out loud as if he were reading a comic book. InuYasha still stood with his hand on the screen, albeit now in a fist. He was secretly counting backwards, a trick Kagome had told him about to keep him from blowing his fuse. "Shippo" Miroku shook his head at the baby demon "I'm serious, you have no idea how lucky you are that InuYasha hasn't pounded you yet, now give it back."
Shippo smiled, nose high in the air. "Kagome told me she made InuYasha promise not to hit me anymore. He even promised her if he did she could osuwari him twice for every hit."
InuYasha turned around and walked calmly to where Shippo stood. He looked down at Shippo, his face amazingly calm; his eyes however, were at full boil.
"Shippo, give it over." he put his hand out.
Shippo laughed and ran to the other side of the hut near the door. InuYasha jumped down again and walked to the door. He stopped and unsheathed Tessiaga and waited for it to transform. Then he turned to Shippo, holding it just over his head.
"The scroll or your head, runt, I'm getting one of 'em."
Shippo gulped and handed InuYasha the scroll. InuYasha took it back, tucking it safely in his under robe once again.
"Now apologize brat."
"I'm sorry InuYasha" Shippo stared, his eyes huge.
"Now apologize to Sango and Miroku for not listening to them and Kaede for misbehaving in her hut."
Shippo made his round of apologies, and then InuYasha sheathed Tessiaga again and nodded to Miroku.
"Going for a walk, be back."
Miroku nodded and InuYasha left the hut.
Shippo immediately got brave.
"InuYasha you idiot! You just wait till I tell Kagome!"
"Shippo," Miroku looked at the kit with a serious eye "That scroll is almost as precious to InuYasha as Tessiaga is, considering that and your conduct, your lucky he didn't hit you."
"I wouldn't have blamed him if he had" Sango nodded "so you won't be telling Kagome anything. Furthermore, should you ever pick up InuYasha's scroll again, you are to hand it right over, is that understood?"
"Okay." Shippo had the grace to look appropriately sorry. "I don't understand though, it's just a bunch of words."
"I don't know what is on this scroll of InuYasha's" Kaede smiled "However if he was so upset at the idea of losing it, I do not think it is 'just a bunch of words' to InuYasha."
"What happened in that cave?" Shippo rolled his eyes. He would never understand adults.
"Yes, what DID happen? Tis a good question Shippo."
Miroku and Sango looked at one another and laughed. Where do they even begin?
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InuYasha jumped high into his favorite spot in Goshinboku, then rested back against the trunk of the tree. He grinned, Kagome would be so proud of him; he got through it without hitting the runt. Little brat was lucky he'd had those osuwari's holding over his head; otherwise he would have been through the wall the first time he refused to hand over the scroll.
He reached inside his inner robe and pulled it out to read over again. Her words were so sweet, filling his heart and then being pumped through his body with his blood, she was his lifeblood.
KAMI HOW HE MISSED HER! She had been gone two days; two very long, long, horrible, and miserable, days, and she would still be gone for two more. Two long, long, horrible, miserable, days. After they got back to the village there had been a horrible late season snowstorm, stranding them in again. There had been a lot of damage to huts and InuYasha offered to help with repairs before they went back out in search of shards. Kagome had smiled; he had changed so much over the winter, since Naraku's death. He was more relaxed and fun to be around. Kagome had wanted to go home since it had been months, but she didn't want to go without InuYasha. So she stayed behind and helped with food for the village men who were doing all the repairs.
By the time they were finally able to go through the well a couple more weeks had passed and Kagome's mother had been nearly frantic with worry about her. Kagome was doing at home schooling for her junior year because of her "illnesses". So she had gone to school to turn in the first half of the schools years' worth of assignments and turn in her books, and then she had to pick up her assignments and books for the second half.
While they had been there Kagome's mother found out that Kagome's grandmother, her mothers-mother was very sick, so Mrs. Higurashi, Kagome and Sota went to go spend the day there. While they were there, InuYasha stayed and helped Higurashi-sama with the spring-cleaning in the shrine.
In the middle of the day, Kagome called to say that Mrs. Higurashi's mother wasn't expected to make it through the day…and she died late that night. Kagome called again to say they were staying over until after the funeral so Mrs. Higurashi could help her family settle things, and they would be back in four days. That was two days ago.
He and reached into his robe again for the chain, he clicked the button open and saw the watch, then he moved the hands on the dial to the twelve and a secret compartment opened, inside was his other favorite things in the world, pictures of her that she had given him.
There were four of them, not particularly big, but big enough to make his heart thump in his chest. He crossed his arms over his chest and closed his eyes, then sighed deeply. He wished they were still in the cave, back in the alcove with the fur mat…nice and cold so they had to keep each other warm…
"InuYasha…"
Someone was shaking him to wake him.
"InuYasha, you need to wake now."
His eyes opened slowly, he was still sitting in Goshinboku but a heavy fog had surrounded him. In front of him, he could just make out the shape of a woman in a blue kimono with long black hair. He tucked his treasures back in their safe places and then sat up, Kikyo slowly came into focus.
"Kikyo…"
"InuYasha…"
InuYasha reached out for her hands.
"Kikyo…I never thanked you…for the night in the storm, and Kagome, Please don't be angry with her for what she said when we argued, it was my fault really."
Kikyo smiled a little. "InuYasha…slow down. Of course I forgive Kagome; I hurt her so much while I walked the earth after my death…"
"We both did."
"That's why I have asked to watch over her, and you, now. To make amends to Kagome." Kikyo put her hands on his, looking down "That's why I have come InuYasha. I tried to come before, but I could not reach you or Kagome, have you been through the well?"
"Yes, she is there now."
"You must understand InuYasha, when you are not in this time, I cannot come to you, or protect you. A guardian only has authority in the time that they have known in life."
"Is that what you are now Kikyo? Our guardian?" InuYasha smiled
"When I died again because of my sacrifice, I was granted a reward of sorts. I asked to be able to protect you, Kagome and the others in the final battle against Naraku. And the chance to repair the damage my reawakening did to what should have been between the two of you."
"I don't understand Kikyo. Why have you come again then? Kagome and I are together now, were both happy and Naraku is dead." He touched her cheek softly with his knuckle "Your work is done now; it's time for you to rest."
"I'm afraid it is not InuYasha."
"What do you mean Kikyo? What's left for you to do?"
"InuYasha, in order to keep you and Kagome together, to give you more time, you know I arranged for her to shatter the Shikon no Tama once again by directing it to the exact place that was missing Kohaku's shard."
InuYasha grinned, "How could I forget, poor Kagome."
"InuYasha, what I didn't realize at the time was that Naraku had created a being to be his heir."
"His heir?"
"Yes, an heir that would inherit his power, his strength."
InuYasha looked at her blankly.
"Shortly after Naraku was killed their was a huge explosion of his energy. His power, strength went out from him, and into someone else. Someone else that wasn't suppose to have a mind or will of its own, a void, like Kanna. This void likely had a small bit of Naraku's aura, then all he would have needed was a tainted Shikon no Tama shard, which he could have gotten …"
"From Kohaku's back. Kikyo, are you telling me Naraku is still alive somewhere regenerating?"
"No, Naraku is definitely dead."
"But…."
"Kanna betrayed Naraku, obviously this void that was suppose to inherit Naraku's power took it and betrayed him, likely got its hand on a pure shard and killed the trace of Naraku's aura and has been growing in power since. For weeks, I have been feeling a rising evil, an evil aura of some kind, but until last week, it seemed like just another evil demon like one of Naraku's weaker ones.
"Last week Naraku's palace disappeared again just after a huge rise in the demonic aura surrounding it. Right now, this aura is very immature and undisciplined. But it has part of the Shikon no Tama already; still you and the others should be able to destroy it. But if you don't, if it gets too much more of the Shikon no Tama, or matures too much it will get much more difficult."
"Where is it now Kikyo?"
"Naraku's palace, but it is hidden behind a powerful barrier. InuYasha, if this thing gets to three quarters of the strength Naraku did…there is no way to defeat it. You must defeat it soon. There's more you must know InuYasha…"
"What will we need to know to take this bastard Kikyo; all we do is kill him like Naraku."
"Naraku was mostly demon in instinct, his only human type characteristic was his heart belonged to Onigumo, and it wouldn't allow him to kill me. That has been destroyed. This new demon will be the opposite. He will not be fond of killing, though don't be fooled, he will if needed. But he will be extremely obsessive and horribly perverse with the worst imaginable human traits, like Onigumo. He will want the Shikon no Tama for its power and he will be obsessed with one person and that will turn into a desire to possess and destroy…like Onigumo's twisted obsession for me."
Kikyo looked down then, a look of absolute horror on her face.
"Kikyo…what is it?"
"One person has the ability to see the Shikon no tama shards, she is beautiful, and also concedering the relation to Naraku and Onigumo, being my reincarnation might be a factor as well."
"What are you saying Kikyo?!" His eyes were wild and full of fear.
"InuYasha, Kagome is in the most danger she has ever been in. If you and the others are not very, very careful…you will lose her."
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