An Inu Yasha Fan Fiction Saga
DISCLAIMER : I don't own Inu Yasha. All
fan characters property of Aoi Kami Sarah
NOTE: To those who don't think Sesshou-maru has a tail, I can't
find definitive proof that it ISN'T a tail, so please just go
with it.
CHAPTER FOUR
Houseki woke
a short while later and felt the dew on her face. She sat up and
noticed the impressive youkai immediately. She ran a hand through
her hair and straightened out her short kimono. "If you wanted
to get me alone, you could have just asked me out, Sweet-cheeks."
Jaken nearly fell on his face. "How
DARE you speak to Sesshou-maru-sama in such a fashion!?"
"Well," Houseki stood
up and rubbed the sizable lump on her head. She ignored the toad-like
youkai and addressed his master. "Your manners with me were
less than chivalrous... so you get what you deserve."
"Who are you that you have
the same appearance as Inu Yasha?" Sesshou-maru demanded.
"Why do I get the feeling you
don't like my Tou-chan?"
"Tou... He's your father? How
disgusting! I was planning on using you as bait, but now that
I, Sesshou-maru, know this fact, I believe I will kill you right
now."
Houseki narrowed her eyes. Sesshou-maru
raised his only hand, dripping with poison, and made to strike.
"Ah, ah, ahhhh," she scolded.
Sesshou-maru froze in place. Houseki beckoned him closer. His
eyelids lowered and he obeyed.
"What have you done to Sesshou-maru-sama!?"
Jaken cried and wagged his staff at her.
"Buzz off kid, I'm working
here." Houseki grabbed the staff of heads and punted the
little demon off into the forest. "Now that we're alone,
tell me, Sesshou-maru was it? Tell me... that you're a pretty
boy."
"Bishounen desu."
She grinned. "That's right."
Houseki leaned in and stroked his face. "You sure are pretty..."
Their lips met. Houseki pulled back and spat. "UGH! What
the hell!?" She observed him for a moment. "Why do you
look so good, but taste so bad?" She shrugged. "Oh well.
It's been fun, Fluffy, but I gotta hit the road." Houseki
pointed to the ground and he sat down on his haunches. "Good
boy!" she giggled and turned to rejoin her friends. Standing
in her way was a small, human girl of about 6 years of age.
"Why Sesshou-maru-sama sitting
like that?" she asked in a very innocent voice.
"He's... Well..." She
tried to explain and wondered where the kid came from and how
she knew the youkai.
"Is he feel ok?" she asked,
tears welling up in her eyes.
Houseki smiled. "He'll be just
fine after I leave. Promise."
The little girl held out her hands.
"Sesshou-maru-sama gave Rin these." She clutched a dozen
brightly-colored ribbons.
"He did?" She asked and
eyed the well-cared for long, white hair. "Hey, I got a fun
idea!"
*
Inu Yasha woke and noticed Houseki
was gone. "Shit..." he grumbled. "Oi, Houseki."
When there was no answer, he dropped down and looked around. "Houseki?"
He sniffed the air. Miroku, Shippou, Sango, Kirara and Kagome
were just a few hundred feet away. He could smell breakfast cooking.
His stomach called him towards it, but his heart pulled him the
other way. "Musume!?" he called and sniffed deeper.
"SHIT! Sesshou-maru!"
Houseki woke
and pulled Rin off of her. "Hey kiddo, I gotta go."
"Mmm?" she muttered and
rubbed her eyes.
"You take care of that youkai,
ok?"
She looked to Sesshou-maru. He was
still sitting up, but his hair and tail were covered with a dozen
brightly colored bows. Houseki walked over to him and crouched
down. "Hey pal. I know you're gonna be pretty steamed when
you snap out of my little trance, but I coulda done a hell of
a lot worse to ya, trust me." She waved Rin over and motioned
for her to crawl into his lap. "You know like I know, that
this little one here doesn't stop singing your praises. And I
know how unusual it is for a youkai to hang out with a human.
So you must really care about her." She flicked a bow with
her finger. "Take care, both of you." She smiled, tousled
Rin's hair and walked away.
Within moments Sesshou-maru's eyes
opened fully and he repressed the urge to scream. He looked down
into his lap. Rin had fallen back asleep. He reached up with his
only hand and pulled a ribbon from his hair. He untied it with
his teeth and tried to tie it in Rin's hair rather unsuccessfully.
He sighed and stroked her dirty, messy hair.
Houseki nearly
slammed into her father as he came charging towards Sesshou-maru's
scent.
"Houseki! You all right!?"
"Yeah..." she shrugged.
"Little tired."
"Where's Sesshou-maru!?"
She blinked a little. "Oh,
he's probably just snapping out of my little seduction."
"You..." his eyes widened.
"You seduced Sesshou-maru!? Holy shit, you didn't.. you know...?"
"Nah. I kissed him, but he
tasted funny."
Inu Yasha grinned wide. "He
ought to, he's your uncle."
"ACH!" she cried and spit
and wiped her mouth again.
"Why did he grab you?"
"He wanted to use me as bait."
"Don't worry, I'll take care
of him!" Inu Yasha tapped the Tetsusaiga and grinned.
"Leave him be. He won't bother
you again." She waved and walked back to camp.
Inu Yasha sniffed the air. His scent
was retreating. Sesshou-maru was leaving the area. He raised a
brow.
"Thanks for lookin' out for
me, Tou-chan."
Inu Yasha slumped his shoulders.
"Shit."
*
A week later, Miroku found the group
a nice place to stay at the home of a local aristocrat. Houseki
complained of a head ache and found a nice quiet room to lie down
in. Dusk fell and Miroku busied himself cleansing the house of
evil spirits while Sango and Shippou busied themselves with another
task.
Shippou scuttled off around the
corner of the hallway in search of Inu Yasha and Sango ducked
into the room she and the girls and Shippou would spend the night
in. Kagome was busy with her social studies homework.
"Hi Kagome-chan. How's your
work coming?"
"Slow. I just can't seem to
concentrate anymore."
"You're not still thinking
about.. what happened, are you?"
"What else," the girl
sighed and closed the book. "This sucks, and Inu Yasha seems
to be drifting away, doesn't he?"
"Well, actually..." Sango
grinned. "He asked me to tell you to meet him by the little
pond behind the house."
Her eyes went wide. "He did?"
"She
want's to meet me where?" Inu Yasha asked incredulously.
"By the pond! Hurry! You don't
want to stand her up, do you?!" The kitsune pushed at him.
"Well, no.. but... Hey, this
smells sorta fishy, Shippou. You sure this isn't your fucked up
idea of a joke?"
"I assure you it's not!"
he chimed. "Now go or you'll make her sad some more!"
Inu Yasha made a face and got up.
"Goddamn woman," he muttered to himself as he walked
away. "Shoulda left me on that tree... woulda saved her and
me the trouble..."
Miroku finished his obligations to the master of the house and wandered off through the halls in search of loose treasure. He poked his head in each un-occupied room he came to, but the guest quarters were inconveniently free of expensive items.
Houseki sat
by the light of a small oil lamp and brushed her hair. It wasn't
often she got to live more like a human, and she tried to make
the best of it. She had her clothes washed and now wore a long
kimono with an ornate sakura pattern. Houseki had lied about her
head ache. The ache was more figurative. There was something missing
in her life. Everything had been wonderful so far: the freedom,
her friends. But yet Houseki yearned for something. If she could
put her finger on it, she would have used her succubus powers
long ago to get it. Whatever it was, she had gone over two millennia
without it, so why should she feel so... empty now?
Maybe
choosing this form had been a mistake. She lifted her hair up
to pull out a knot and gasped in horror.
"What the hell!? Why is my
hair black!?" She then noticed that her claws were gone,
and her ears sat much lower on her head and were... "Human
ears! Oh this must be the day I lose my youkai powers like Tou-san
said." She sighed in relief but gasped again as the door
to her little room slid open suddenly.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I... hello..."
Miroku straightened up. "I don't believe I've made your acquaintance."
He stepped forward and bowed deeply. "I didn't mean to disturb
you, Princess...?"
Houseki blinked a few times and
before she called him a dolt for not recognizing her, even without
the ears, she noticed the way he regarded her. There was sparkle
in his eye, a smoothness to the way he spoke that exhilarated
her. Houseki stood and bowed back to him, her silken robes flowing
around her. "I am... Tsukiko. You must be the monk who has
cleansed or house. I must thank you, Houshi-sama."
"The pleasure is all mine,"
Miroku crooned. "May I sit with you a while, beautiful princess?"
Houseki covered her mouth to prevent herself from grinning. "Certainly."
END CHAPTER FOUR
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GLOSSARY : Bishounen = handsome boy . Musume = daughter . Kitsune = fox . Houshi-sama = priest .