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USE OF TENSEIGA AND TETSUSAIGA: We have us some debate going on about the use of the swords. Tetsusaiga being used by Sesshomaru: Sesshomaru CAN use Tetsusaiga. Their father put a barrier on it making it so that no pure-blooded demon could wield it. He did this because he knew that Sesshomaru would kill Inuyasha for it. Instances of use: The first time he is shown wielding it is when Naraku gives him a human arm with a shikon shard. The second time he uses the dragon arm to try to destroy it. After that in the 3rd movie he uses it on So'ungo burning his own hand in the process from the barrier. With Sara Asano he uses Tetsusaiga to save her. So he can wield the sword and could have had his father not put that barrier on. Tenseiga being used by Inuyasha in Sesshomaru's Fear: The only requirement for this sword is a compassionate heart. That's it. There was never another requirement, however based off Inuyasha being unable to train the blade's use of Meido, that's why I made it an incomplete revival. Technically this is fanlore but from canon all you need is a compassionate heart and that's it.
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Yuki-Past
He returned furious and yelling. Ka-san tried to stop him but he tossed her out of the way and she shrank back before Yuki was dragged into his study. She hasn't stopped crying since. She lays stomach down on her futon, her backside swollen with bruises. He didn't use his hand this time but his whip until she howled in pain. He cursed her for being a stubborn and stupid child. He carried her back to her room, flopping her on her stomach and then Ka-san and Chichiue started shouting at each other. He said he was tired of her always interfering and she said he was acting like a monster. He threatened her if she didn't stop berating him and she screamed at him that he was being unfair. He left furious.
The first time Chichiue hit her was five years before when she ran off to find Bukoseno alone. After that, there were times she knew she pushed and if she was really bad, she faced him when he came home. It was worse this time.
"This wouldn't happen if you would stop wandering off!" Harutoga yells at her while he dips a cloth into a bucket of cold water. He lifts her blood stained kimono off her shoulders down her flat waist. She cries as the material is peeled of her tattered skin. He said if she ever ran off or left the barrier again, he would do worse and it was better that she faced him than face the monks again. They would have killed her.
"Shut up!" she screams at him, swiping at his face. "Just get out."
"It's my room too!" Harutoga snipes at her.
"No it's not! It was never your room. It's mine! Get out!"
Harutoga didn't hear what Shiori said. Does Soba-sama hate me? Harutoga growls as he leaves to room.
No sooner does the door close then it opens again and Taiyomaru comes in followed by Katsumoto. Taiyomaru holds a jar and she recognizes the yellow cream inside. The elder demon says nothing, except to lean down next to her on his knees and rinse the cloth on her back. Taiyomaru goes to her other side and his tiny finger wedges the cream into the broken strips of her skin. She winces, flinches, and then cries harder because of how it stings.
"Where's Ka-san?" she asks her youngest brother.
"He said she couldn't comfort you," Taiyomaru answers. "Shh," he leans over Yuki and sets his hands over her back. She feels heat and then the sting bites less. It's almost as if she can feel her skin knitting back together.
"Good little one," Katsumoto says to Taiyomaru. "Is that better, Yuki?"
The dog-demon's hand is warm when it touches her cheek.
"What did you do, Taiyomaru?" She sits up touching the tender flesh of her back. Thin pieces of new flesh cover the gashes her father left her. It still hurts and her muscles are sore but it's not as bad as before.
"Chichiue's light is inside you. It hurt him to hurt you," Taiyomaru says plainly.
"No it didn't," she snarls and finds herself crawling into Katsumoto's lap. "Where were you?"
He loops an arm around her side. She smells shock at first as his body stiffens but she wants someone to hold her. It was scary enough facing a group of monks that wanted her dead, she didn't need to face her father's rage after that.
"Here. We sensed the reiki, it was less risky to send Hisato. If they came to the barrier, my strength was needed here."
"I really messed up?" She can't hold back and buries her face in his shoulder.
"It was stupid, little one," Katsumoto exhales next to her ear. "Very stupid."
"Why can't you just listen?" Taiyomaru stands up with the bucket of bloody water and leaves the room. "You wouldn't get in trouble all the time."
It's night by the time that she leaves Katsumoto's lap. For reasons she didn't understand, he allowed her to sit and mope and at least someone was willing to hug her. Her stomach is growling. She wants dinner, but there is someone else she needs to talk to. His yoki is weak, but his scent is strong. Years before, Chichiue moved Hisato into the room Jaken used to live in and Jaken was given a bigger room down a side hall. "Yuki, where are you going?" Jaken calls her from the hallway.
"To see Hisato," she says right next to his door.
"You better not run off again," he turns and goes to Chichiue's study. She knocks on the door. There is no answer. Maybe he's sleeping. She purses her lips before jogging down the hall to the supply closet. Her back hurts less now that Taiyomaru did whatever he did. Even she knows he's weird. She pulls another jar of the yellow cream from the shelf, and then goes into the kitchen to get a bucket of cold water and fresh cloths. Even she knows when she has done something wrong.
By the time she comes back her mother eyes her curiously and kneels down in front of her. "You cannot leave the barrier again without Katsumoto. Do you understand now how dangerous what you did was?"
She nods and wipes her eyes, setting the bucket and the cream down to wrap her arms around her mother's neck. "I was so scared!"
Her mother responds with equal urgency, holding her. She pulls back after a minute. "I need to go help Hisato. It's my fault he's hurt so badly."
She opens his door. He doesn't stir from his place on the bed. His sheets are covered in blood. His haori is off and his back is covered in blood soaked bandages. His legs are bare leaving him in just his fudoshi. She climbs onto his futon, setting the bucket on the side. She uses her claws to remove the bandages from his back. With that movement against him, his eyes lazily open. "Yuki?"
"Why didn't she heal you?" She knows the bond allows them to do so. Chichiue does it all the time for Ka-san's bad injuries.
He snorts and replies, "This is after she did." He grunts in pain as the last bandage is removed. She sets about her job, cleaning the blood off his back, while attempting to avoid reopening his wounds that are just beginning to clot. "Why did you leave the barrier, little one?"
"Shiori-chan said her Ojisama killed her Chichiue." She's going to cry again and she doesn't want to. "Does Soba-sama like Tsukimaru better than us? Is that why Natsuki lives with her?"
Hisato grabs Yuki's hand from over his shoulder. "Why would you ask that? She's never shown favor for one grand-child over the other."
"Does she like him more because he's pure-blooded and we're not?"
"No." The tone of his voice gives her hope.
"I need to apologize to Chichiue. Can you ask her to send him?"
"My yoki is too weak to speak to her from this distance."
"Can I send Aun with a message?"
"You're asking?"
"I'm sorry, Hisato-san." She hugs him around the back. "I'm really sorry."
"The women in this house," he laughs holding her hand. "Don't leave without Katsumoto again."
"Okay." She can taste her tears in her mouth as she opens the jar to smooth the cream into the injuries on his back.
"Send your message."
She nods, for once feeling more like the teen she is supposed to be, despite the childlike body she is in.
As night falls, Yuki finds no rest. Her back still hurts enough to keep her from sleeping on it and whenever she changes positions it twinges making her want to cry. She untangles herself from her brothers' arms and opens the door to her bedroom. Katsumoto sits on Hisato's bed speaking quietly and glances over at her as she shields her eyes from the torches that line the hallway. "What's wrong, little one?"
She rubs her back but doesn't say how much pain she is in. She can hear her mother crying on the other side of her door. "I'm hungry," she says, because it's only partly true.
"Go to the private dining hall. I'll join you shortly." Katsumoto carries on speaking to Hisato.
She slowly approaches the dining hall only to turn to her father's study. She touches the door nervously, where before he had dragged her in and tossed her on the ground. She grimaces, closing her eyes, trying to push the memory out. Opening the door, she finds Jaken sitting at her father's desk. "Come in Yuki-chan," he says happily, so happily it makes her sick.
She comes in and sits down in one of the chairs. "Does he hate me?"
"Of course not." Jaken sets the quill down.
"My back hurts." She covers her eyes crying.
"He was scared, although he'll never admit it."
"Are they going to break up again?" Not for the first time she wonders if she'll be the ruin of her father's relationship with her mother.
"No," she hears her father's voice behind her and she stands up wiping her eyes, backing away fearfully against the bookshelf.
He must sense her fear because he crosses the threshold of his office and reaches down, lifting her up. "Yuki," Sesshomaru consoles his daughter. He kisses her cheek and she breathes in the smell of forest and pines while holding tight to his shoulder. He takes her out of his study, across the hall and out an open window, flying with her into the air until they land on the other side of the lake. She curls into his armor-free chest, hugging him. He pulls the back of her yukata open revealing tender flesh. "Who did this?"
"Taiyomaru," she whimpers. "Do you hate me?"
"No," he nuzzles her nose lovingly. "It was dangerous."
"I know."
"You will heal yourself. Do you remember how?" He strokes her back gently, so softly it's hard to believe the same hands attacked her earlier.
She nods her head, focusing her yoki into the damaged skin of her back until she wavers in her father's lap. Wielding her yoki to force her wounds to close is exhausting. "You will not tell Ka-san I was here."
"She's upset with you."
"And I with her, I came for you. Why did you leave the barrier?"
She relaxes into her father's embraces, breathing deeply of the fur that wraps over his shoulder. Nervously she bites her lower lip. "Shiori-chan said her Ojisama killed her Chichiue because he was with a human…" the unspoken question is left hanging in the air.
She feels him shift from the nest she's made herself against his chest, surrounded by the fluff of his mokomoko. "You think Soba-sama will try to kill me because of your mother."
"Yeah." Her knees meet her chin. "She is stronger than you."
"She loves you." She can feel his fingers running up and down her furry ears. "She doesn't see you as less than Tsukimaru, or Rin as competition to Natsuki."
Yuki struggles to understand. She's been sworn to silence about Natsuki's visits while her father is away. It's why Taiyomaru loves Tsukimaru so much. The two play together and her mother tells her that she does it because Taiyomaru would never calm as a baby, except for his father and his brother. "Do you love him more than me?"
"No." A kiss is left lingering on the top of her head. "You are my daughter Yuki."
"You left Ka-san after I was born."
He tenses and the air becomes stiff between them. "Yuki, were you scared today?"
"Yes."
His fingers massage his neck almost as if the wound that was there before is still open. She knows about that too, that Touma had ripped his throat open and that was why he died in the snow that day. "Even Chichiue needs time to recover from fear."
"You mean like how I want to be alone when I'm upset?"
He nods.
"Does he mean more to you? I heard you and Ka-san fighting about you wanting to see him more often." She thinks about what she just said as her father's arm tighten around her.
"Would you miss Chichiue if you only saw me once a week?"
"I missed you all the time before," she says honestly. It ached when he was never home. "You miss him don't you?"
He nods again. "Tsukimaru is my son."
"I'm sorry I ran off Chichiue." She snuggles into his chest, nuzzling the skin of his neck affectionately.
"Chichiue would be very sad if Yuki died," he mutters by her ear. "My little one. Chichiue loves you, no more and no less than your brothers."
"Why can't you make me a sister? Boys are annoying and not with her."
"Ka-san doesn't want more children." They begin shifting and soaring through the air. "Time for sleep." She climbs over his shoulder onto his back as they glide back to their home.
Just as they land by the back door, Jaken comes running out with a message. He hands it to Sesshomaru and she can see her father's face fall.
"What is it, Chichiue?"
"A letter from Taisho," he hands it back to Jaken. "Inuyasha is ill. Jinenji needs herbs from our garden."
Please review! Okay how cute was this exchange between Yuki and Sesshomaru? And apparently there is an Ask Me Anything button on Tumblr...I have been encouraged to do an ask me anything. How many people would be interested in a live event where you can ask me anything about my stories? Except for spoilers?
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Coming next! Tuesday February 11th, Kagome-past
Kimmigirl9: I know it was intense right? Thank you!
Angel-wing 92: Taiyomaru's differences all have to do with his conception. I actually never wrote it in but I'm going to in a later chapter that he can basically manipulate his father's yoki inside of other people. So his power to heal can only be done on his immediate family and really he is wielding their yoki. If you go back and read his conception it's very different than Yuki and Harutoga. Sesshomaru was out of control for both of them and Rin scared of him because of how he lost control. With Taiyomaru they were in sync with each other and Rin expressed true faith and love for Sesshomaru. Yeah the greeks did interesting stuff. I hope you read above about the sword but there were many different instances of Sess wielding Tetsusaiga in the series.
Reaper 007: Welcome back! I haven't seen a review from you for a while! Sesshomaru is going to have big issues in the past story line and this is all I am going to say and yes in a way Yuki does act out for attention. What Shiori said really upset her and you pretty much predicted the line of this chapter.
Red-Arrow 24: I actually had Kagome try to subjugate him with those beads in Lost Memories it didn't work...yeah Sesshomaru could use a sit command every now and again although I'm on his side. Her actions almost killed her mother and Hisato...
Mechine: Thank you for all your wonderful reviews! When I get around to updating the other stories I'll respond to the other ones :). Yes the plot is getting darker. We are getting to when the Disease is about to begin. I have a plan for fluffy breaks in this part but there are definitely going to be some heavy issues. Yes Sesshomaru has not told them how bad things are above because he is afraid to...which will come out slowly later. Oh him and Natsuki...I wonder how far Kensaku is going to push that?