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 43

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

"War?" Kagome asked in shock. Sesshomaru frowned as he continued to walk away.

"Yeah, the humans are rallying against us and the yōkai clans are coming together to fight this threat, the inuyōkai clan needs the Inu no Taisho to lead them," Fumio explained. Sesshomaru just stood there and now watched the group as the discussed what he had known for a while. His father had claimed this would happen one day. This was a part of the reason Sesshomaru never understood his father's attitude.

InuTaisho had despised humans with a fiery passion, even as a pup. But Rin had always stood proudly before InuTaisho despite her being human; even as a pup he remembered her standing between him and his parents. So centuries of his father's obvious hatred of humans had 'rubbed off' on him. Though in truth that wasn't how he worked; Sesshomaru hated everyone equally, he was just exclusively hated a few and only loved one. But since InuTaisho hated humans it had shocked and infuriated Sesshomaru when he had mated Izayoi.

Izayoi was a kind enough human, Sesshomaru would admit that. But his father had fallen hard for that human, InuTaisho had gone from a hater of humans to an advocate for the humans and hanyōs of the world in a matter of two years. Sesshomaru disgust and hatred for his father was not in bedding a human; Kami knew he couldn't complain when he had bedded Rin then; but rather in his father's hypocritical ways. And it had cost Sesshomaru what was most dear. Well he did not care about this war to come, it had been coming for a millennium anyway.

"Oh! This is why…" Inuyasha trailed off and Sesshomaru lifted a brow menacingly.

"Wait! Is this why there are no yōkai in my time!?" Kagome shouted at his back, he shrugged.

"No, Kagome, there's yōkai in your time, your friend Yuka is part Ookami," Inuyasha said and Sesshomaru tilted his head a bit. Inuyasha shrugged.

"What!?"

"I don't think she knew, but it was rather obvious with that scent, and yōkai were in your time. They just weren't obvious," Inuyasha shrugged.

"Then what's this war about?" Kagome asked as she gently rubbed her bulge. Sesshomaru frown, this war to come was what all wars were about.

Power.

Nothing more, humans were greedy arrogant creatures who always desired more power. And they though themselves advanced enough to take the power. Sesshomaru knew better, he already knew how this war would play out and honestly he was not interested in fighting it. Yōkai would win, they would probably integrate themselves in with the humans and disappear from the obvious world. They would probably maintain a subtle form of supreme power but he wasn't certain. Yoaki in general were survivors. The Inu Clan wouldn't need him.

"My lord, you must aid us! With your help we could annihilate the humans once and for all." Chieko informed him, he glared at the blue inuyōkai who shrunk where he stood. Sesshomaru did not care about eradicating humans or yōkai, all he cared about was down that fucking well! And she had yet to resurface so honestly he couldn't give a fuck one way or the other what happened with this 'war' to come. All he cared was that this well was not tampered with until Rin surfaced. After she surfaced he was going to destroy this fucking menace, seriously the well was just created to fuck with him and his life. And from the time he was a pup to now he hated that well with a fiery passion none could understand. But if this war attacked the well…

"Hn."

"My lord!" Fumio shouted in a voice worse than Jaken's. Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed and the red yōkai also tried to shrink in his place.

"I am not fighting in this war," Sesshomaru said firmly then he sat on the lip of the well again and waited for Rin as the moon rose. She had better come back soon, it felt like centuries since she had left him rather than the day it really had been.

"But my lord!"

"Lemme talk to him," Inuyasha said and Sesshomaru ignored the bumbling idiots as they walked away with Kagome. Sesshomaru ignored Inuyasha too as he sat there looking down the well waiting for Rin. She had better get here soon, he had a few choice things to tell her for her impulsive decision to leap down this fucking well and leave him here with these idiots. And yes, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kohaku, and Inuyasha were all idiots! Not to mention Jaken too but he had sent Jaken on an errand to leave him alone with Rin for a week and now she was down that fucking well doing only Kami knew for what!?

The mark on his chest heated, he winced a bit internally as he held onto Tenseiga. When she got back he had a few choice things to tell her. Particularly about her wasting a precious week they would have had together since he had managed to rid them of Jaken.

"You know time there and here move differently, right?" Inuyasha asked as he leaned over the well.

"Hn," he knew.

"Then stop waiting for her she'll come back Sesshomaru, for now work on what you have in front of you. Besides a war might be a good way to pass the time," Inuyasha said nonchalantly.

"Why? It's a pointless struggle, yōkai will prevail," Sesshomaru pointed out. Inuyasha just sighed then they both stared down the well.

"What happened to Rin? Why are you so compelled to sit here waiting for her when that could take years, Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha demanded sharply. Sesshomaru glared at his younger sibling, then looked down the well again.

He couldn't explain it.

All the blood, the screams from him as he watched her be stabbed, the panic, the fear of her dying. The way she smiled with blood on her lips and a weak hold on his shoulder when he grabbed her and ran. The calm way she told him what had to be done, and the sheer pain he felt when he had let her go. He couldn't explain the way it felt like he had been dead for centuries between seeing her, and then finding that bloodied little corpse of the woman he would come to love more than life. No there were somethings he could never explain, and this was one of them.

"Because, she'll be dying when she returns," Sesshomaru answered finally.

Inuyasha stiffened.


Sorry about yesterday, literally right after I posted the chapter for Healing Pain I received some really, really, really bad news and was devastated for the rest of the day. I'm still devistated today and scared, terrified more like it, but I figured that instead of wallowing in this terror I'd write today. So there will probably be a lot of updates for all of you because I'm trying to keep my mind from heading in all the awful directions. Not that it's working but it's worth a shot since I'd rather write than dwell.

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Never Be the Same! =| (Sorry, I can't really smile or bring myself to post a smile)