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Chapter Six: Count your losses as blessings
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Inuyasha's beast
Sesshomaru's beast
Sesshomaru walked inside the hut and everyone's eyes suddenly turned to him. Sango's and Miroku's eyes were happy that he wanted to help InuYasha break free of Kagome's grasp. InuYasha's eyes were shocked that he was still here. Kagome's eyes were glaring daggers at the demon lord. Shippo followed her steps and glared at him as well.
"Sesshomaru...What are you still doing here?" InuYasha asked standing up and moving closer to him. Something in his head was screaming at the boy to snuggled against the older inu, but the screams were very faint and he didn't pay too much attention to them. Maybe it was his instinct to protect his pack from Sesshomaru. 'Yeah...that's the reason.' He thought not that sure of himself.
Sesshomaru looked at his little brother's innocent eyes, but behind those eyes he could see so much pain. Pain that he, himself, didn't realize. Sesshomaru grabbed onto InuYasha's hand and pulled him close so that there was no distance between them. He forced InuYasha's hand towards his mouth, lightly dragging his fangs across his wrist. He sunk his fangs into the hanyou's hand and watched as he winced, but did not pull away. The first good sign that Inuyasha was not completely against it. Then again, he was sure that his brother didn't even know what he was doing. "Inuyasha. With this mark, I have now begun the courtship to become your mate."
At his statement, Inuyasha went beet red. He wasn't expecting him to say that so openly. InuYasha knew Sesshomaru wasn't one to beat around the bush, but still. In front of everyone no less. And what about Kagome, he already promised to be her mate. Well, he never really did say that he wanted to be her mate, but he didn't really have a choice in the matter and that fact didn't really bother him. He was happy with Kagome. Inuyasha would have no problem being her mate and creating a family with her. "Sesshomaru..." He whispered softly. His blush still tinted on his cheeks. "Oh hell no!" Inuyasha turned to see Kagome stomping up inbetween them and smacking Sesshomaru's hand away.
"This is my dog! He isn't going anywhere with you. It belongs to me Sesshomaru. As long as I'm alive, then he knows his place is by my side. Besides he has already promised himself to me. So just leave and take your stuck up attitude with you." Kagome said with a smirk as he held Inuyasha's hand. Inuyasha held her hand back with much hesitation and lowered his ears against his head. His eyes covered from his bangs. Inuyasha didn't know why Kagome's words hurt. They were all facts, but still. He didn't feel as if he was an object or some type of pet.
Sesshomaru felt the sadness rolling off of Inuyasha in waves. His aura was completely distraught and saddened at her words and that drove him insane. His beast was screaming at him to make the poor hanyou feel better. "Inuyasha doesn't belong to you mortal and he isn't an object he is a person. A half demon to be exact." Sesshomaru said with a growl as he tugged Inuyasha back to his side. He felt Inuyasha's head unconsciously lean against his chest. It was a soothing feeling as a purr began rumbling in his chest to try and make Inuyasha feel better. It must have worked because he didn't look too sad anymore.
"Oh puh-lease. Inuyasha is a mutt that doesn't know his place in the world. So its up to an angel like myself to help guide him in the right direction. Isn't that right Shippo?"
"Yeah. Kagome's right. Inuyasha is a dumb dog that doesn't know that his place is below me." He said jumping off of Kagome's shoulder and onto Inuyasha's head. He began yanking on his delicate ears and Inuyasha gave off a growl before smacking Shippo in the wall. Shippo fell to the ground in a crumbled heap crying softly. Sesshomaru looked at the boy in annoyance. The kit wasn't injured. He was faking it.
"Inuyasha! Bad dog! SIT BOY!" She yelled and Inuyasha slammed into the ground with a groan. "See Sesshomaru. Dumb bad dogs have to be punished if they don't treat their master's right. Shippo, continue with the discipline." Kagome said with a smirk as Shippo bounced back over to Inuyasha and started tugging at his ears once again, but more roughly this time.
Every time Inuyasha was about to get up and throw the kit away, Kagome said another sit command that hurt ten times worse than the one before. There was a crater in the ground in the shape of Inuyasha's body and she still didn't stop. Instead she started saying it more and Shippo continued pulling and scratching on Inuyasha's ears to the point where they were bleeding continuously. Inuyasha didn't know what to do since she wouldn't stop saying that damn sit command. Instead tears collected in his eyes and he gave off a soft whine.
Sesshomaru was in shock at the display of utmost disrespect. He looked towards Miroku and Sango to see that they weren't doing anything. Instead they turned away from him so that they didn't have to make eye contact. These humans were just disgusting. Sesshomaru suddenly smelled salt and knew that someone was about to cry. He looked at everyone's face with confusion before looking at Inuyasha. He was about to inhale deeper when he heard a whine. A pathetic whimper from his brother basically calling for any type of help. Sesshomaru's eyes immediately bled red as he beast was unleashed from within. He grabbed onto the kits tail and slammed him through the hut's wall making sure there was a huge gap to where Shippo had flew.
"Shippo!" Kagome screamed about to go after him when she felt her breathing tube just close. Sesshomaru had a death like grip around her neck and growled softly. Kagome face began to turn blue from the lack of oxygen and her arms started falling to her eyes in a limp matter.
Sesshy began tugging onto Sesshomaru's ear trying to pull him away from the poor girl even though she deserved nothing less. "No Doggy! Don't you see that Inuyasha isn't ready to separate from her yet. He will hate you if you do this and then you'll be alone for the rest of your life. Don't kill her doggy!' He yelled, but Sesshomaru just ignored him. Sesshomaru didn't care if Inuyasha never talked to him another day of his life. He just needed to get him away from this. Killing the wench seemed like the easiest and the most desirable way to go. Sesshomaru could hear her heart slowly moving to a stop when he heard his brother call to him.
"S-Sesshomaru...stop. Let her go." He whimpered out as he barely pulled himself out of the crater. His ears still were hurting and he could feel his migrane getting worse. "Don't kill her. Sh-she's my friend. Don't hurt her." He said as his eyes closed, falling to the ground. Inuyasha was waiting for the impact, but it never came. He was instead in his brother's arms. Inuyasha was exhausted so instead of speaking, he just let himself pass out.
When Sesshomaru watched as Inuyasha was falling and flung Kagome to the side. He easily caught Inuyasha and brought him into his arms. Inuyasha was completely knocked out. Sesshomaru looked back to see Kagome breathing in gasps of air and frowned. He wanted to kill her, but it seemed that Inuyasha was still a little too weak minded. "You should be ashamed of yourself. You call yourself a miko. Your ancestors would be disgusted with how you turned out to be. I'm taking Inuyasha away, don't try to follow. I'll kill anyone who gets close. That means you two as well." He said referring to Sango and Miroku. "How can you say you are worried about him if you let her do this to him. Have you no honor? I don't know how he stayed with you all for so long, but it ends now." Sesshomaru said coldly as he left the hut and took to the skies. His mokomoko instantly wrapped around Inuyasha's form in a snuggling manner. It was fidgeting with fear and sorrow. Sesshomaru knew that Inuyasha had dealt with pain all his life, but this was too much. He continued flying until he found a nice opening covered by trees. There was a waterfall that fell into a beautiful lake to the right of them and from what he could sense, there was plenty to eat to survive on. For now he would stay here with Inuyasha since, he couldn't really go back to his castle.
Inuyasha woke up hours later with a major migrane. Inuyasha cracked his eyes open to see that it was dark outside. His ears twitched at the sudden noise around him and he winced softly. Why were his ears so sensitive? And then just like that, he remembered everything that happened earlier that day. Inuyasha whimpered softly at the pain that coursed through his body. Especially his ears. Were there scars now from Shippo's claws? It felt like he had broken a couple of ribs. His demon blood was healing it now, but being a half demon it can only heal so fast. Inuyasha gave off another whimper as his eyes filled with tears. Why did Kagome do him like this? He thought Kagome loved him, but do people, who are in love, do that to each other. He never seen anyone else do it, so why? It didn't make any sense to him. A stray tear fell from his eye and he let it fall. He didn't care anymore. What was the purpose of living if his own pack treated him like dirt? By time now, tears were falling from his eyes.
Sesshomaru walked back to the area he secured to be his new home for now to see Inuyasha whimpering and crying like a young pup that had just lost his mother. He placed down the logs and the rabbits that he got for dinner. "There is nothing to cry about brother. What you had before was fake. Nothing to cry about. You shouldn't have been with people like that from the beginning. But I guess you can't be blamed. Its not hard to manipulate your brain to others bidding." He said and immediatlely regretted it at Inuyasha's depressed expression. Inuyasha whimpered softly as the tears continued falling from his eyes.
Sesshy smacked Sesshomaru's head with a log and received a glare from him. 'Don't glare at me baka inu! Inuyasha is hurting right now, you can't just say insensitive things like that to him!'
"Well what am I supposed to say to him. I'm just telling him the truth." Sesshomaru whispered softly. With Inuyasha's injured ears, it was a good possibility that he couldn't hear him anyways.
'Yes he knows the truth now, but he doesn't need a reminder that everything he thought he had was one big lie! Doggy, if you want to win over Inuyasha then you have to be nice. Care for him and not be so mean. Tap into your inner emotions and make him feel better. For once just listen to your instincts and what your beast has to say. You don't have to be in contrrol of everything that happens. Now go over there and make him feel wanted. Now!' He yelled in Sesshomaru's ear and he growled softly at the little pixie.
Sesshomaru didn't like to be told what to do. So he decided on his own whim that he will go see what is bothering Inuyasha. Sesshomaru sat down beside him and really didn't know what to do beyond this point. He had tried to think of some things that could help him, but he was coming up blank.
"What do you want Sesshomaru? Are you just here to tell me that I'm stupid? If you haven't noticed by now, I already know. I don't need you reminding me of how dumb I am." He said his eyes red from crying. He was so fustrated and hurt that there was a faded jagged purple stripe on his cheeks. His demon was beginning to show itself and do what is needed to protect himself. Sesshomaru felt his own beast rattle in his chest and was about to calm it down when he remembered what Sesshy said. Slowly, he released how tight his hold was on his beast and allowed him to come to the surface. His beast looked at Inuyasha and licked away his tears. Inuyasha looked at Sesshomaru in shock to see that his eyes were a dark red. "Sesshomaru...are you okay?"
"I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me." Sesshomaru's beast said trying out his new voice. His voice still sounded like Sesshomaru's it was just deeper than usual. "Inuyasha, don't cry. They weren't your pack. They used you. Yes it hurts, but you have to get over it. It may sound harsh, but it will get better."
"How will it get better?! Everything that I have ever come to love was snatched from me in less than a day. How can get this get any better?!" Inuyasha screamed as his demon released himself. "Stay away. You don't care!" He growled loudly.
Sesshomaru growled at the challenge Inuyasha was issuing. He had no idea if Inuyasha knew what he was doing and he couldn't care. The only thing in Sesshomaru's mind right now was making Inuyasha submit to his alpha. Sesshomaru watched as Inuyasha crouched down on all four and snarled at him Sesshoamru has never seen Inuyasha so feral right now, but it seemed like he was...transforming?
Inuyasha snarled at Sesshomaru not wanting to submit to anyone. His mouth enlongated and he grew a long white tail as his body morphed into a dog demon's true nature. His eyes were blood red and his pupils were a new shade of purple. Not wasting too much time for Sesshomaru to adapt to his new form, he swiped his huge paw at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru jumped into the air to nearly dodge the paw before transforming into his own dog demon form. Sesshomaru growled at Inuyasha and Inuyasha just shook his head in rejection. Sesshomaru roared at him before charging him. That tuffled in the grass knocking hundreds of trees down in the forest. They were snapping at each other's throats trying to get each other to submit to the others will. Inuyasha raised his paw and swiped at Sesshomaru's muzzle, successfuly making contact. Blood oozed down Sesshomaru's fur as Inuyasha continued charging him. Sesshomaru side stepped Inuyasha before tackling him down to the ground. Sesshomaru bit Inuyasha's neck, not hard enough to kill, but enough to keep the hanyou still. Sesshomaru growled out something in inu language and Inuyasha barked back at him falling limp as to submit to him. Sesshomaru released his neck and licked it in order to soothe the angry hanyou.
Inuyasha calmed down slowly and transformed back into his human form. He passed out onto Sesshomaru exhausted from using so much energy at one time. Sesshomaru wanted to transform back into his human form, but his beast wouldn't let him. Instead he curled around Inuyasha and laid his head down on his paws. His beast decided that nothing would take Inuyasha from him. Not after he finally got him to submit to him. Sesshomaru snuggled closer against Inuyasha before falling into a deep slumber. Sesshomaru's mind was wondering how the hell Inuyasha even transformed into a dog demon form, when he was only a hanyou. He would ask now, but that was clearly impossible. Just something that had to be asked when he woke up tomorrow. Sesshomaru kept his guard up as he slept with the hanyou, but after about 30 minutes he fell into deep slumber. He hadn't had a chance to sleep like this in years and now he was going to do it comfortably with his future mate.
Ta-Da! Updated pretty quickly right? Thought I bring a little spicyness to the story. Hope you guys enjoyed it! I really put a lot into this chapter. I'll update soon okay! Until the next chapter!
