Heirlooms
Author Shortey 83
Chapter 20
Disclaimer : I do NOT own InuYasha or any of its characters!
Story Start:
Kiyoshi had been insatiable as of late. Both Inu no Taisho and Sesshomaru had noticed a few weeks after her monthly bleeding, she would desire their rough treatment again and again. During that time, she would demand that they both be at the castle in order to satisfy her growing sexual hunger. It wasn't until each of them had locked themselves inside her and buried their fangs into her mating marks that she was satisfied.
They continued to harass her during her bleeding as well. Well she thought It's not fair to call it harassment. After all, tasting their blood is like getting drunk without the hang over…
From what she had seen during her few short years, there were four different types of drunks. There was the Angry drunk, like her neighbor, whose name she couldn't recall at that point in time. He was a nice person, but giving him alcohol was a bad idea.
Then there was the emotional drunk, like some people she had seen leaving the bars, crying over the slightest thing that upset them.
There was the Attention hog drunk. For instance the younger girls who knew they were drunk and flaunted it for everyone to see.
Finally, there was the funny drunk. The one who seemed to do the funniest things and made people laugh.
She was the funny drunk.
She had even done the seemingly impossible after bedding Sesshomaru during that time.
She was recovering from yet another mind blowing orgasm, opening her eyes in time to watch him pull out of her and gasped. Sesshomaru snapped his head to her, looking to see the reason behind that gasp. Kiyoshi's eyes went wide as she starred at him, her face a mask of shock.
"What?" Sesshomaru questioned, a little worry in his voice.
"I've only got two words for you." She told him.
He cocked his brow as she looked down and then back up to meet his eyes again. "Murder weapon."
She watched as his eye brows pulled together slightly in confusion before understanding dawned on him… and he laughed.
Kiyoshi had actually made Sesshomaru laugh, however the magnitude of the event was lost on her as she joined his laughter in a drunken stupor until she finally forgot why they were laughing- one of the benefits of being drunk which in turn only kept her laughing.
This continued for a few months, but as winter finally gave way to spring, she realized that she had a promise to fulfill.
"The weather is warmer now, My Lady" one of the castle's children chimed as they swarmed her at the bottom of the stairs now that she wasn't accompanied by her mates- they were far too skittish to approach her with both of the powerful males near her.
"You're right- it is, and I am glad to see that you have all kept your end of the bargain." She told them as if conducting a business transaction. With that she called for Osamu to accompany her out with them.
"Alright, what would you like to see?" she asked them, laughing when they all began shouting loudly at the same time. "One at a time" she chuckled.
And so it began. The children each took turns getting her to shape the earth into the forms of animals, summon fire in the form of flowers, and make the water leap from the lake. For hours she entertained and played with them until finally she felt herself becoming tired.
"Perhaps we should retire for the day, My Lady" Osamu whispered to her, "I can tell that you are tiring."
She admitted he was right and promised the children a picnic when summer began if they kept up their chores. They agreed and Osamu followed Kiyoshi back into the palace and up to her mates' study.
She peeked her head in the door and they both looked up from the documents they were reading. "So…" she began hesitantly, "… whenever the two of you get a free minute or so, could I borrow you?"
"What's wrong, Kitten?"
"Oh it's nothing too important…"
She watched his eyes narrow. "What are you hiding?"
"Me? Hiding? No… I just… just need you two for a minute or two… or an hour…" She quickly lied and mentally slapped herself. She was such a bad liar and they were practically living, breathing lie detectors."
It was a little worrisome how father and son both set down their scrolls, laced their fingers together, and cocked the same eyebrow at her.
"Ok… That was weird" she said closing the door and motioning Osamu into position.
"You know what to do…" she told him as she took off down the corridor and ran full speed towards their chambers. She laughed when she heard the banging of their study door and Osamu's feigned apology. "Forgive me, My Lords, but I am afraid that your lady has instructed me to ensure the door remains stuck until she gets a fair head start."
"You're not supposed to give away the plan!" she yelled back with a laugh over her shoulder as she reached the top of the stairs, but she had only made it halfway down the next corridor when she paused, her head swimming.
She heard the echo of their footsteps as they ran after her, but the sound began to fade away as a vision crept into her mind.
It was like a huge fog bank had rolled into her field of vision and suddenly lifted to reveal a heavily wooded area. It seemed to have been decades since another being had walked through the brush as she was doing, and yet she heard voices.
"What is she?" a familiar voice asked. "Someone with that kind of power cannot be a mere human."
"I do not know. For now she shall remain a mystery." Another voice answered. "Learning what she is will take even longer now that you have been banished."
"Forgive me that was not my intention. Fear not, I shall find a way to lure that skinny human away from her mates in time."
The other voice chuckled in response. "She is rather thin, isn't she?"
The familiar voice huffed. "Two demon males will play with something like that, but what they truly desire are the curves of a woman- not the lean flesh of a girl."
"Let's hope you're right"…
And with that the vision faded, leaving her standing in the hall with one of her mates on each side of her.
"Are you alright, Sweet?" Sesshomaru asked, his hand coming up to brush his knuckles against her cheek.
"It seems you've had a vision, Kitten. Is it something we need to be made aware of?" Inu no Taisho asked from her other side.
Still reeling from her experience, Kiyoshi merely shook her head and walked off to their chambers, leaving them behind. After a few moments she heard them begin to follow her, but she didn't stop until she reached their chambers and she heard them close the door.
Without removing her kimono, Kiyoshi flopped onto the bed face up and covered her head with a pillow. The bed sank down at her feet and her side.
"Do you wish to speak about it?" Inu no Taisho asked from her side.
She flung the pillow aside and gave each of them a long, hard look. "Am I too skinny?"
It was quite comical to watch each of them, tense and on edge abruptly exhale and drop their heads, shaking them- Father and son were so alike.
"What makes you think that, Sweet?" Sesshomaru asked, his hand finding its way to her ankles.
She explained that part of her vision to them and they looked at each other for a moment before Inu no Taisho spoke. "Kitten, if we thought you flawed in any way, we would not have agreed to mate you."
"I'm not saying that you think I'm "Flawed", although I am- which I may add is part of being human. What I'm asking is if you think I'm too skinny? Be honest and don't sugarcoat it."
"What would we be coating in sugar?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Hopefully her." His father replied.
"I think we're losing focus, boys." Kiyoshi chimed in.
"I think I would prefer honey to sugar." Sesshomaru continued, ignoring her.
"I agree. Tell you what, I'll undress her and you get the honey." Inu no Taisho also ignored her.
"Are you two even listening to me?!" Kiyoshi demanded.
"I think I would rather undress her and you can get the honey." Sesshomaru argued back.
"But putting it on her was my idea." Inu no Taisho demanded.
Kiyoshi couldn't take it anymore!
Quickly she hopped off the bed and stomped over to the door opening it to find Jaken was about to knock on it.
"This just came for My Lords," he said in his squeaky voice. "News from Kagome and InuYasha."
"Thank you Jaken, but could you please fetch me a large jar of honey?"
The imp gave her a questioning look but a growl from Sesshomaru sent the little creature scurrying off in search of honey. While she waited for Jaken to return she handed the scroll to Inu no Taisho, knowing Sesshomaru would probably toss the scroll to the side.
He opened the scroll and read it before giving them a grin. "It seems the child shall be born late summer or early autumn." He announced handing the scroll over to Kiyoshi to read.
"From what she says, how the baby is all the way up in her ribs, I'm willing to bet you it's a boy." Kiyoshi told them.
"You can't know that." Sesshomaru chuckled.
"Unless she's had a vision- Come now, Kitten. You must play fair."
She grinned at them. "I didn't have a vision, but past experience with people I've known tell me that it will be a boy. However, I'll have to see her before I can confirm that theory."
"Then we may have to take a trip. I would like to see how you guess the gender of a pup while it is still in the womb." Inu no Taisho said, and Kiyoshi gave him a smile.
"I'd like that. I kind of miss them."
Sesshomaru was about to argue with him, but a soft knock on the door interrupted him.
"Thank you, Jaken. "That's all."
Kiyoshi closed the door on imp after he gave her a bow and turned to leave, locking the door.
"Back to what we were discussing earlier, I have a better idea." She gave them a sassy grin and motioned them to follow her with her finger. She heard them follow her into the bathing chambers and set the jar on one of the wooden tables.
"Now then, since I got the honey, I think both of you should undress."
"That was sneaky, Kiyoshi." Inu no Taisho growled softly, even as he removed his haori. "Perhaps we will play with the honey later."
That reminded her…
"Oh yeah… I almost forgot" she said, her hands quickly going to her obi to remove her kimono. She loved to hear their low growls as she stripped herself bare, but it wasn't for show. She wanted them to check and see if the burns had spread from so much of her power being used. For some reason or another, she was never able to feel them until she got in the water.
Putting her hair on top of her head she turned and presented them with her back. "I used quite a bit of power today" she told them. "Did it spread any?"
The snarls they let lose confirmed it.
"How long were you using it, Kitten?" Inu no Taisho demanded. "They have spread completely down your back!"
Sesshomaru snarled as well and made his way to his knees behind her and began tending her wounds at the small of her back.
"Pretty much all day, but I couldn't feel it." She said, wincing as Inu no Taisho began to tend the ones that ran down the length of her spine. "I don't get it, I mean, why doesn't it spread everywhere when it does? It looks like it's keeping to certain areas."
"I don't care where it's at" Sesshomaru said in between licks. "As your mate, I forbid you from using your magic unless you are in dire need."
"I agree" his father echoed "There is no reason for you to continue to harm yourself as such."
Kiyoshi sighed, knowing they were right, and hating every second of it. Living with two, domineering alpha males wasn't easy… Which reminded her, one of them should have been gone this week… or was it last week?
Kiyoshi froze, her breath leaving her lungs in a sudden rush.
She moved quickly away from them to the balcony doors in the bedroom and looked out at the moon.
"What's wrong, Sweet?" Sesshomaru asked, and had Kiyoshi not been in a slight panic she probably would have laughed that they were exactly where she left them.
"One of you was supposed to be out traveling…" she counted in her head. "… 15 days ago…"
They looked at each other confused before they looked back to her.
"Did you want some time alone with one of us, Sweet?"
Kiyoshi shook her head. "What typically happens five days after one of you leave?"
They both looked away from her, thinking.
"It's kind of important…" she hinted.
They still looked confused and she wanted to slap them, but she was frozen to the spot.
"It makes you both harass me…" she gave them another hint.
When they gave her another blank stare she finally gave an exasperated sigh and put her head in her hands. "Oh come on, you two! I bleed! It is always five days after our "rough week" that I bleed, so why the hell am I not?!" she demanded, the panic rising in her voice.
She could almost see the realization sinking in. Her period was late.
They were on her in an instant, Inu no Taisho now the one on his knees before her and Sesshomaru behind her, holding her arms tightly as he leaned in and buried his nose against her neck where it met her shoulder. Inu no Taisho also leaned in, but he put his face directly in the Vee of her thighs.
The room grew silent except for their deep, steady inhales.
Both of them froze briefly before soft growls began to rumble from their chests.
"Ah, Kitten, you truly are a treasure" Inu no Taisho purred, nuzzling his face against her sex.
"Indeed" Sesshomaru echoed.
"Why is that?" she finally got out, her voice a little more than a whisper.
Sesshomaru moved his nose from her throat up the column of her throat to her ear, licking the hollow behind it. "Because, you scent has combined with both mine and my father's"
"And that means….?" She breathed, needing one of them to say it out loud, even though she was positive of what they were going to tell her.
"You have conceived a pup from each of us" He growled, and that was all it took.
Kiyoshi's world went black.
Sesshomaru caught Kiyoshi as she fainted, holding her gently against his chest as his own mind spun. His mate, his little Kiyoshi carried his pup. The thought worried him as much as it thrilled him, and as he sank to his knees, he found that his father was still frozen to the spot.
"Does this news upset you, Father?" Sesshomaru asked him as he cradled Kiyoshi in his lap.
That seemed to snap his father out of it.
"I am thrilled to have another child, and for you to have your first, but thinking of Izayoi, while she carried InuYasha, it put a lot of strain on her, and now Kiyoshi has a pup from each of us." He paused and moved closer, lifting her chin with his first two fingers and stroking her cheek with his thumb. "I worry that it may put too much strain on her body, for she is smaller than even Izayoi."
"She may be smaller" Sesshomaru agreed "…But she is stronger." Looking to his father, determination in his eyes "She will be fine and by the year's end we will be in the den with her and our pups."
Inu no Taisho sighed. "I wish it was that easy for me not to worry. Izayoi was not as safe from others around her while she carried InuYasha, buy Kiyoshi is protected by the both of us. So long as we keep her safe, no harm should come to her." His hand moved to stroke her head, "And besides, as long as we don't show any signs of concern, she will not have any added stress."
Sesshomaru nodded, starring down at his little human mate in silent wonder, before carrying her to their bed, where they each moved to lay beside her. Sesshomaru kept her tucked against his chest while his father moved to finish healing the wounds on her back.
Several hours passed and Kiyoshi still slept.
"Should we try to wake her?" Inu no Taisho asked Sesshomaru, while rubbing a hand up and down her waist.
"I suppose" Sesshomaru answered, rolling her onto her back and moving to lie between her legs.
"What are you doing?" his sire asked as he moved her thighs to rest on his shoulders.
"Waking her up." He said with a grin before leaning in to feast.
Orgasm ripped through Kiyoshi, a combination between the mouth suckling back and forth on each of her breasts and the wicked tongue driving in and out of her core, causing her to soak the mattress. Strong, rough, callused hands kept her open to assault as she tried to slam them closed against the pleasure, dumping her over the precipice yet again, but this time he backed off and allowed her to settle.
She panted hard for a moment. "Wow… you two really know how to bring a girl around."
Inu no Taisho leaned in to give her a quick kiss and laughed. "To be honest, we didn't expect you to faint."
"You and me both" she laughed. "I had never fainted before I came here, now... well now, I'm the sovereign of swoon, but hey, at least you guys always seem to catch me."
"You weren't upset, were you Sweet?" Sesshomaru asked with a hint of worry in his voice.
"Overwhelmed, excited, surprised… yes- Upset, no. I was just caught off guard." She ran her hands through her hair and sighed. "I guess I didn't expect to be pregnant with a child from each of you, at the same time, that's all. Like I said- overwhelmed."
"It isn't very common, even among demons-" Inu no Taisho began.
"But then again there are no demons like the two of you to compare to… I know." Kiyoshi finished and they both chuckled. "But there is still a lot of time, so I just need to focus on not worrying during that time."
"Or at all." Sesshomaru added "We will ensure that everything is taken care of... yourself included."
"Sesshomaru, it sounded an awful lot like you just made me an afterthought." Kiyoshi teased giving him a gentle slap on his arm. "The incubator for your spawn needs… no demands… a little more consideration."
"Your concern is duly noted and the two of us shall deliberate your demand and inform you when a decision is reached."
"Gee whiz, thanks"
Her two mates laughed and leaned in to give her a quick peck on the lips and she couldn't help but laugh back. It wasn't often that Sesshomaru joked, so when he did she always ended up laughing.
"Not to change the subject, but I really want to go to the library to see if I can find something that may help explain why my magic is causing those burns." She climbed out of bed, ignoring the way they both growled at her naked ass as she crawled away from them.
"Alright you, two, let's focus here." She said as she pulled on her kimono. "Get up and get motivated."
Inu no Taisho glanced down at his cock. "I'm already there, Kitten."
"Me too." Sesshomaru added.
"Ha Ha Ha… Very funny. Now if you two would please think with the heads on your shoulders, for a few hours, you may think with the other ones later tonight."
Reluctantly, they both got out of bed and dressed in their kimonos and followed her to the library.
"Alright" she began as she looked over the huge selves of books that took up nearly half the wing of the corridor. "We need to split this up. I'll take the middle," She pointed to Sesshomaru "You take the left" then she pointed to Inu no Taisho "And you take the right."
"As long as you're in the middle." He laughed and walked away to do as she asked, Sesshomaru following suit.
Their library was full of every thing from tales and legends, to accounts of history, and completely disorganized. It made her want to pull her hair out. All she wanted to do was put everything in some sort of order… and dust them all. Some of the scrolls and books were covered in dust and cobwebs, and heaven help her, the first sign of a spider and she was going to scream like a little girl. Nasty, eight legged creepy crawlies were even creepier than their six legged buddies, neither of which Kiyoshi was fond of.
She searched through anything and everything that seemed to involve magic or related to magic in any way possible, but as the sun began to set, she decided to start again tomorrow.
However as she turned to head back towards the entrance, a strange feeling came over her and a soft breeze brushed against her ear, like someone trying to whisper something to her. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end and she spun around, looking for the cause of the breeze only to find an empty aisle between the shelves.
Again the breeze drifted against her ear, gently rustling through her hair. She was never one for ghost stories, or a believer in ghosts for that matter, but she really felt as if something was trying to tell her something.
Going out on a limb she whispered "What?" and waited.
At first there was nothing and then the gentle gust again. "Here…" she could have sworn she faintly heard. Before she could question where, a few pages further down the aisle rustled and she moved towards them.
Carefully, Kiyoshi searched the shelves near the rustling pages when she spotted something interesting on one of the higher shelves. Carefully she climbed a few of the other ones and grasped the book before she hopped down. The book looked nearly identical to her current spell book, but this one was a full sized tome. Carefully she brushed the dust off the cover and opened it, a small slip of paper slipping from the cover and onto the floor.
On the paper was a drawing and it looked familiar. Kiyoshi studied it closely for a moment, it was a picture of the shelves in the library, towards the back it looked like because from the front of the room if you stood at the end of any of the lines of shelves, you could see the giant oak doors at the front.
In the middle of the aisles in the picture was nothing but stone wall, one of the bricks emphasized more than the rest. As she walked down the rows of books towards the opposite end of the room, she paused. The drawing looked exactly like the place in the room that she was in now, almost as if someone had drawn it as it looked through her eyes.
She moved forwards, kneeling before the stone wall and counted six up from the middle and three to the left. There were a few chips in the stone of the brick itself, but it was just enough for Kiyoshi to grasp it, pulling the ninth brick loose.
She struggled to move the heavy piece of solid stone aside, dropping it when it wasn't far from the ground and jumped back so it wouldn't hit her toes, making a loud thump. "Kitten?" she heard Inu no Taisho call. "I'm good." She yelled back. "But you two may want to come and see this." They were there in seconds. They looked her over and then looked at the stone on the floor.
"What are you doing?" Sesshomaru asked "One of us could have moved that for you."
"Yeah, it was a little heavier than I thought, but have a look at this." She handed them the paper and turned back to the hole in the wall.
"Where did you find this?" Sesshomaru asked and Kiyoshi nodded towards the tome, as she reached into the hole to grab the object that was sitting in the back.
"Yuck" she said, wiping the cobwebs on her kimono before taking her sleeve and wiping off what looked like a small box.
"You don't have to ruin you kimono, Kitten." Inu no Taisho told her as she rubbed away at the little box.
"Well come here and let me use yours." She rolled her eyes. "Whatever this is, it must have been here for a long time, it's caked in dust." But as she wiped at the surface of the box, she gasped.
"It looks just like mine…" she whispered in awe before she showed it to them, and their eyebrows furrowed together.
"Yes, but how did it get here?"
Kiyoshi shook her head and carefully opened the lid. Inside were three more rings. On one was a large diamond, on another, there was a what looked like a piece of obsidian, and on the third there was a blood-stone. "Not as cheery as the other ones." She mumbled looking back into the little box at the folded piece of parchment that was still inside. Inside the paper was a drawing of hands, her hands Kiyoshi realized, and the rings were all in place, and at the bottom of the picture were only a few words.
It's not over. War is coming. Now is the time to prepare. The wounds will spread until they are in the proper place to channel your magic, but will cause no further harm once they are in place. The rings will help you harness the powers of wind, fear, and shadow. Fight hard and defend what is yours.
"I guess there is something else out there," she said handing the note to them as she slipped on the rings. "Something that I can't see."
"We need to strengthen the guard at once." Sesshomaru said once he read it.
"I know you two aren't going to like this, but I need to go over these spells as well." Neither of them argued with her, but from their stance, she could tell they weren't happy. "At least we know that it isn't going to kill me now, but it's going to hurt a little." They both nodded and Kiyoshi followed them out of the library, her mind buzzing, wondering what it was that was still out there, waiting to strike.