INUYASHA: SEALED FATES UNLEASHED
By: Lady JenDragon
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Author Notes: Sorry, I recently moved and mother was diagnosed with cancer. All I got.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Dreaming of Brothers
Asaia led the way through the raging winds approaching the base of the mountains. Tir's spell worked but with one major flaw, with the sand dragons off doing battle, the base would be left unprotected. A demon Dragon only possessed so much magic.
Asaia smiled.
The reason Sesshomaru was removed from the group. Son of the Dog General and a full demon, only he would possess the knowledge of the battle fought before. The loss Atokiyada suffered at the hands of the Dog General and his army would not go unpunished. No half-celestial-half-demon could over power such powerful demons of legend especially the numbers that amassed previously.
They began dying off one by one after that battle. It took some time, but Atokiyada made sure no demon among the victorious survived to live to see her rise again. Asaia was not sure but she suspected that her sister's other minions were dispatched to begin eliminating those who stood against her. The stories began to circulate soon after the battle. Nothing was found to prove one way or the other.
Only one remained. Asaia but she was considered not to be much of a threat at the moment. She used to consider this an insult but soon learned that there were more ways to neutralize power than to wield power. Still, she knew to keep such knowledge silent.
"What do we do now?!" Sango yelled, using her arm against the raging sandstorm.
"I don't know!" Inuyasha growled out, his kimono flapping wildly in the whipping winds. "I can't see anything!"
Asaia slowed to keep them together. She tied a ribbon around the wrists of the group to keep track of them. Jaken and Rin took refuge behind the monk who seemed less concerned about the winds. KiRaRa in full demon form was tied to Sango's armor, slowly pulling the demonslayer towards the mountain base.
"Come!" Asaia pointed, she could feel Tir's aura close by. "This way!"
Miroku, with Shippo on his shoulder using a fox demon magic leaf to form a shield against the winds, nodded and followed the small girl. Part of him wondered what other secrets the small but mysterious child was hiding.
Inuyasha growled and pressed on. Sango quickly grasped his kimono to avoid his being left behind. She could see nothing now and hoped KiRaRa knew where she was going. Sango wanted to pay back some of the hell she was dealt by this Atokiyada person. This woman would pay for what she did to Kagome.
'Oh Kagome…' Sango squeezed Inuyasha's kimono tighter. 'Be ok! We're coming, just hold on!'
"Inuyasha!" Asaia shouted. "Follow your nose!"
It would be best if she let them get to the castle first. Asaia easily found the half-demon's hand in the chaos. Eagerly, she urged him forward.
"Keep your eyes closed and follow the scent of the stink bug from before!" Asaia ordered pushing Inuyasha in the direction the castle was sure to be. "If you open your eyes, sight will deceive you! Feel your way to the mountain. Stay together!"
Inuyasha struggled against the wind but the young girl's voice sounded so close. Like it was in his head. Shaking the craziness from his thoughts, he gritted his teeth and took the lead.
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Asaia waited until the group passed her, turning back towards the continuing battle between the Sand Dragons and demons. Tir's aura was getting very close, he most likely sensed the non-demon group escaping into the mountain canyons.
Atokiyada always did like the mountains, even as a child. She would prefer to have her castle in the jagged, barren rocks of the western mountains. Perhaps her sister thought of them as safe haven away from the mortals below. As pretty as the mountains were, Asaia preferred the crashing waves of the ocean.
For waves could destroy even the highest of mountains. She liked the idea of the water being the best weapon. Atokiyada preferred weapons of immediate destruction. Water was something she learned early enough could be just as deadly as it was beautiful. Her sister failed to understand her power. Now that she had come this far, she would not allow Atokiyada to win in her conquest of this land.
It would be sooner rather than later when she face Tir again.
Her friend used to mean so much. She missed him even after all these years, watching him grow deeper and deeper under Atokiyada's spell and unable to stop her sister. She resisted using the Pearls of Truth knowing that sheer desire to free her friend would only result in pointless celebrations. The depth of the spell was unknown and since he had been under for so long, she was unsure of the lasting effects.
Atokiyada needed the Demon Dragon to carry out her feeble and cowardly whims, mainly to keep the mortals of the lands in line. Comparatively young and still small for a Demon Dragon, Tir would not likely grow out of his susceptibility to spells for another 10,000 years. Her sister waited until Asaia went off on one of her trips to lure the Demon Dragon into her spell casting.
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It seemed like forever. The crawling around on their hands and knees seemed such a stupid idea. Yet, Sango and Miroku urged everyone to follow Asaia's direction. The scent of the stink bug got closer and more pungent. Not something Inuyasha wanted to smell but if it helped find the castle…who was he to argue?
Inuyasha felt the flat smoothness of a floor under his palm and continued to crawl along through the never-ending winds. Listening to Asaia's and the others assurances that they would find the castle as long as his eyes remained closed seemed foolish at first. How could he not see the castle if his eyes were open? At one point, Sango got mad at him and threatened bodily harm in his sleep and to make Kagome brought no food from home for him.
Grumbling, Inuyasha relented and did as he was told. A part of him wondered if Sango was right. Still, he could not risk leaving Kagome to the mercy of this Atoki…whatever her name was hands.
She made him forget something. Something that haunted him in his dreams and that bothered him. It concerned Kagome but he could not place the emotions that went with the dreams. Every night he dreamt of images that made no sense. The screams in his ears, the crying, the refusal to…to do something. Inuyasha shivered at that moment.
As if by magic, the winds stopped.
There was an eerie calm. The floor seemed to remain smooth, seemingly polished. Inuyasha stopped crawling, slitting his eyes. He opened his eyes fully, finding the golden arches of a strange looking castle that seemed to extend down a long, wide hall.
"Come on." Inuyasha got to his feet, dusting himself off.
Miroku then Sango followed by KiRaRa came out of the swirling winds outside. The ribbon attached to KiRaRa was still taut indicating that Rin was still out there somewhere. Sango rushed to KiRaRa and began pulling the ribbon into the calm stillness of the castle.
Minutes passed, Miroku bent down to help pull on the ribbon. Despite the small width of the ribbon, it held up against the rage and chaos outside. Sango occasionally shifted her gaze to the wild winds held back by some invisible barrier to keep the unwanted out. But they got through without restriction. Why?
Shippo came out first followed by Rin a few moments later. Luckily the ribbon was bound tightly around the young girl's wrists otherwise she would have flown away. Jaken did not seem to have made it yet but the ribbon remained taut. The green imp would eventually find his way.
"Strange." Sango looked around as she helped Rin get to her feet, glancing around the immediate area. "I don't think I've seen anything like this before."
Rin quickly took over pulling on the ribbon with Miroku's help. Sango turned around to look around, readying her Herykotes for any surprise attacks
The entire castle appeared to be made out of gold. Even the ceiling seemed golden and shimmered in lights coming from sconces on the wall in the shapes of shells. The floor was tiled in gold and shimmered in the light as well. All the walls appeared to be made of gold bricks and stand as tall as the mountains themselves. There were no decorations on the walls just blank, empty walls extending on forever. The place seemed so vast.
"Is this a trick of the sight, you think?" Miroku asked no one in particular. "Asaia seemed to think that the only way to find the castle was to follow the scent of the stinkbug."
"Master!" Rin cried in relief as Jaken finally came out of the winds. "Are you alright?"
Miroku, and Sango went to stand with Inuyasha.
"Any luck?" Sango asked?
"The smell is everywhere." Inuyasha narrowed his eyes. "I think the bug was discovered just before we arrived."
"So now what then?" Rin asked as Jaken slowly got to his after regaining his senses.
"Where's Asaia?" Miroku looked around.
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Asaia waited for more than an hour, curious as to why Tir was waiting so long. Was he waiting at all? Her spell was not that powerful, choosing to not use the power from the Pearls. She wanted to keep that power saved for her face-off with Tir. Perhaps there were side effects of the spell her sister used to capture the demon dragon? She had not considered the possibility.
Her Pearls of Truth had masked the group leaving the valley climbing into the mountains long enough to get them far enough away from the on-going battle. Some of the stronger demons were holding the line against the sand dragons. Tir would have problems with the stronger demons banding together against him like this over a prolonged period of time.
Certainly Tir would guess that his senses were off and cast his own spell to detect the intruders. He knew they were here and Asaia doubted that he would forget them. She hoped Inuyasha and the others were close to getting to the castle if they did as they were told and kept their eyes closed.
Atokiyada would not like her minions to fail her again.
A green streak landed in front of her. Asaia leapt backwards nearly avoiding the talons swinging downward to crush the source of the protective spell she used on him. Tir was slow today. Perhaps he was tired, Asaia concluded.
"Where are the others?!" Demanded Tir, growling from deep in his chest.
"You face me now." Asaia spoke softly. "The others have gone on."
"You?" Tir regarded her with disgust, his mouth lifted in a snarl. "A mere child? Face a Demon Dragon?"
Asaia regarded Tir with solemn regret. Atokiyada's spell erased his memory after being under it for so long. He did not remember the battles they used to engage in to train one another.
"Choose your weapon, child." Tir growled.
Asaia held up the Pearls of Truth. She noted the sickening green color of his scales in the limited light. His skin was drying out. An indication of weakening power or that the spell of Atokiyada was taking its toll on Tir's magic. A demon Dragon could be controlled for only so long, after all.
"You think jewelry will save you from me?!"
"It's all I have." Asaia replied calmly. "Old friend."
Tir had begun a forward motion to commence an attack but stopped in mid-step.
"Old friend?" The Demon Dragon eyed the child and growled out. "Surely you don't expect me to believe I was ever friends with a human."
"I am celestial and human." Asaia walked forward. "We used to play together many moons ago. Atokiyada has erased my memory from your mind with her spells."
"ENOUGH!" Tir launched himself at Asaia.
Asaia smiled.
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The dying fire, drenching the house in deep shadows, dimly illuminated the hut. Kagome woke to find she was lying in a soft bed in a darkened hut, the fire in the center crackling at it continued to die. She sighed, touching her hands to her chest, finding a soft silver and blue blanket keeping her body warm. She wore nothing beneath, the swells of her bosom barely hidden.
Kagome watched the fire momentarily, mesmerized by its changing colors. She sighed and rolled over onto her left side.
Her eyes widened finding Sesshomaru lying beside her, his chest bare except where his kimono was left discarded and covered by the same blanket. His amber eyes opened and shifted to look at her.
"You are finally awake." Sesshomaru spoke evenly.
Kagome sprang up, clutching the covers to her chest with one arm. Alarmed, she panicked when arms circled her waist from behind. Inuyasha set his chin on her shoulder and smiled. Kagome felt his hair against her back.
"Awake?" Kagome asked. "I…"
Inuyasha slowly traced her shoulder with his lips. Kagome closed her eyes for a moment, enjoying the warmth of Inuyasha's touch. She surrendered when he turned her towards him, pulling the covers from her then laying her down on the soft bed.
Kagome felt his fingers slide against her growing need, spreading her legs for him as he kissed her deeply. Lost in the moment, she responded to the rhythm of his tenderness, the growing need she wanted him to fulfill. Her body seemed to respond regardless of her thoughts. Inuyasha let his lips drift to her ear then her neck slowly making his way down to her breast.
'Oh god yes!' Kagome felt her brain pop, her back arching.
Her eyes flew open when a second hand joined Inuyasha's tender touch where her heat began to radiate hotter. Sesshomaru stared down at them with distant reserve, his expression blank but his eyes sparkled slightly crimson indicating his arousal. Kagome found her arm extend towards Sesshomaru as if welcoming him to her.
Why could she not say 'no' to Inuyasha's brother? Why would she want Sesshomaru to touch her as Inuyasha did? Surely she would find this disgusting? Was it because she already had them before?
Sesshomaru dipped his head, taking the untouched breast into his teeth and gently pulling on her. Inuyasha slid his finger inside her at that moment shortly followed by Sesshomaru. Inuyasha matched his brother, nibbling where he found soft flesh. Kagome felt her body reaching a peak, wanting to cry out in pleasure.
Seemingly, both moved to her shoulders, taking their time with the skin. Kagome felt the teeth begin their search of a place to mark her. Make it clear that she belonged not just to one but both sons of the Dog General.
Please!" Kagome begged. "Not my shoulder!"
Neither brother responded to her demand, they only continued their slow journey of discovery.
Kagome could not hold back, her body beginning to shudder at she rode the crest of the wave of this sick ecstasy she wanted. Suddenly, two sharp pains made her cry out as both brothers bit into her breasts near the base.
She leaned her head back to bite the pain back as spasms rocked her body. Kagome could feel the blood oozing from the wounds, eagerly licked clean by hungry mouths wanting more. Inuyasha seemed more aggressive than Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha got to his knees, pulling Kagome up to him. Kagome squeezed her eyes as her body encased him once more, her heat eagerly accepting him. They rocked back and forth for several moments. Inuyasha unexpectedly laid her down and rolled him over until she was on top. Kagome lifted her eyes to the fire then returned back to Inuyasha's needy attention.
She could feel Sesshomaru behind her now, his hand sliding over her back and butt. He lifted her hips off Inuyasha and pressed his own to her. Kagome bit back her surprise as the older brother took over, sliding harshly into her. Her eyes watering as he thrust her, she looked towards the dying fire.
Asaia stood watching her with blank expression.
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Kagome woke from her seemingly endless dozing, her body shivering from the dream, hanging vertically from her prison. Squeezing her eyes shut tightly then opening them, she felt different somehow. The dream did not affect her as it once did. She no longer feared it so that the effect of the dream drifted away rather quickly. Still, she did feel a little…wet sometimes.
Glancing around, the room was drenched in soft light from the wall sconces but she could make out Sesshomaru lying on the floor on his back.
Atokiyada was not here.
'Thank god for small miracles!' Kagome sighed. 'Who knows what she might say if she knew what was going on in my head.'
Sesshomaru remained silent since they both got here and since he was reduced to the chain probably resigned himself to his imprisonment. Remaining attached to the floor hook, the demon took to tuning the world out until such time that a method of escape presented itself. Kagome could not blame him.
'How embarrassing to be treated like a dog. Bet Inuyasha would love to see this. Still, I kinda feel sorry for him being treated like that and all.'
Kagome took a little longer to wonder how much of her dream was accurate about Sesshomaru. Not that it mattered but she felt a bit curious about the accuracy of the dreams. Not that he would touch a human despising them so much. Still, her mind wandered over to these ideas when there was nothing else to do but hang here.
Course, having those ideas did not change her situation though. Kagome tried her wrists and ankles. They remained secured by the binding spell. 'Where are they? I wish Inuyasha would come and get me out of here!'
Was that why she was having the vivid dream again? Because Inuyasha was close?