At A Beginning...


I Do Not Own Inuyasha


Solitude: Remoteness; a quality of quiet or remoteness or seclusion in places from which human activity is generally absent…


Chapter 42

Inuyasha's Time in the Edo Villiage... (the night of Rin's departure down the well)

Kagome sat in her hut staring at the two inuyōkai who held her offered tea carefully and smelled it as if it could've been poisoned. She had never met any other inuyōkai aside from Sesshomaru so this was…

Different.

Chieko was not silver like Inuyasha or Sesshomaru, he had long, brilliant blue hair with eyes that were an offset blue. In truth he looked…odd, especially considering his kimono was an unusual shade of yellow-orange. His markings were three slashes of red on each cheek making it look as if a woman had clawed his face or someone had taken a knife to his face. But overall he was unusually handsome, but small; he was as tall as Miroku; which was shocking to her because even Inuyasha was taller now. Sesshomaru still towered over them but apparently he was different and wouldn't finish growing for another thousand years. Whatever that meant, but according to science human men did not finish growing until well into their twenties so she figured Sesshomaru was still maturing. Not that he needed much maturing.

And if Inuyasha's favorite color had been red then he had nothing compared to Fumio who had blood red hair, crimson eyes, and red markings. Fumio looked threatening, dressed in a blood red kimono with red claws and a menacing look about him. In all honesty he made her husband look like the adorable puppy he was inside. Still Fumio made her nervous as she sat back and rubbed her bulging belly to look over the inuyōkai who looked intently at her mate who sat beside her with his dog ear twitching in unease.

"You seemed eager to get Sesshomaru," Kagome commented.

"Yes, who are you?" Chieko asked pointedly looking at Inuyasha. Fumio whacked his friend upside the head in a manner that made her think of Ginta and Hokkaku with Koga. She watched as Chieko glared at Fumio and Fumio vehnemently shook his head at his friend.

"Ignore him, we do not see many hanyōs." Fumio growled while glaring at Inuyasha. Inuyasha shrugged but she knew he was a tad bit hurt over their attitudes. She also noted that they hadn't taken a single sip of tea. Perhaps that was a inuyōkai thing or perhaps…

"Is the tea not to your liking?" Kagome asked sweetly. Chieko paled, then gave a nervous smile while Fumio turned red.

"N-n-no! We would not wish to offend the mate of the Inu no Taisho but we don't…wedontdrinkhumanbeverages!" Chieko rushed out quickly. Kagome paled then, her? Mate? Inu no Taisho? She looked to Inuyasha who sat there looking as dumbstruck as she.

"WHAT!?" Inuyasha roared and there was no stopping him then as he bodily threw their guest out. Kagome just looked at her bulge then sighed as she carefully got to her feet to break up yet another fight her mate had leapt into.


Inuyasha lunged for the blue idiot in an attempt to wring his neck when the red one threw him back then. His drew Tetsusiaga and snarled.

"She's mine! Not his!" Inuyasha growled, he was highly offended that they thought Kagome belonged to his brother. He was a more than adequate mate for her.

"Enough!" Inuyasha's amber gaze narrowed onto his silver brother who was standing tall with Tenseiga at his side. Who did he think he was to tell him enough when he was defending his claim on Kagome!? Did Sesshomaru not know how infuriating it was to have his claim on his mate challenged!? But there was a look in his brother's cold amber eyes which had the two colorful buffoons cowering and his own ears flattening against his head as he stood in a defensive stance.

"Inuyasha is the son of InuTaisho, he is not Inu no Taisho and the miko is not mine." Sesshomaru's voice was dripping with disdain then, Inuyasha frowned. Of course Kagome wasn't Sesshomaru's, Kagome was his but the disdain he heard in his brother's voice had his lip curling back then.

"Oh!" the idiots then looked at him before bowing to him. His ears came up then as he stood there wide eyed at the sight before him. No one had ever bowed to him but his inu instincts liked it, he was a dominate over them though he was still a subordinate to his brother. But he didn't mind, at least he was being acknowledged.

"I am sorry for the blunder, I did not know that InuTaisho had had another son and assumed the mark belonged to my lord," Chieko explained.

"What mark!?" Kagome demanded sharply, Inuyasha winced as he turned to look at his mate. He had marked her a while ago but he had never explained the mark…he didn't like the glare his wife was giving him.

"You know, that mark…" he trailed off.

"What are you two still doing here, be gone," Sesshomaru said coldly to the two colorful inuyōkai before turning around.

"But, my lord!" Fumio shouted after him. "There's a war coming!"


273 Years Into the Past...

Izayoi stood there in her garden. It had been a week since she had last seen Rin and she had just assumed the girl had continued with her journey. Rin had arrived in the early spring when everything had started blooming but now as summer came to an end Izayoi couldn't help but miss her viberent friend. But she had a feeling that Rin, much like spring and summer, was always fleeting to give a moment of joy then be gone.

Izayoi smiled slightly as she walked through her garden to the back wall. The moon hung in the sky with a grace she did not understand and Rin's words rang through her head as she glance down at the herb Rin had slipped her. Climbing over the wall Izayoi smiled slightly before dropping into the forest to find the inuyōkai she could not resist.

And she knew why she couldn't resist him.

That precious rogue was the only one she loved.


Sorry about yesterday, but George is an ass! He kept eating everything (and for those of you just tuning in George is my computer, I named him because I yelled at it so much). I'll be posting two more chapters today and that's it; else I'll be taking a hammer to George...

There'll be a chapter of Because I love You (long overdue and I'm sorry about that but c'est la vie... Besides there's been a ton of stuff going on in my life that I've been dealing with so I haven't had quality writing time) and a chapter of Healing Pain (working on a fun fight scene there).

That's all for now folks; tomorrow my updates should track with what I have posted in At A Beginning: Chapter 39 provided George doesn't eat my work. If he does... God Help Him!

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Never Be the Same! =)