Hi folks, lots of new folks with interesting things to say. I shall welcome RedHerring (it's just an AU story, enough said), 32246831 (guess my speed typing needs work) and Blurry (you just gave me a great idea).
Thanx to Blurry, indeed I will take votes and such on if you wish for Rin's baby to be a boy or a girl (sees the many reviews rolling in now!)
This is perhaps the longest, but dullest of chapters. Sess and Inuyasha have brotherly conversation. Aww…
Demon Zoo
By Fantasy Cat
Disc: The screen is blinding me. AHH no own! No own!
Chapter Fourteen
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This was a peace he didn't want to let go. Yet, it disturbed him so much. Sesshomaru didn't understand why. His arm was wrapped around Rin's sleeping form. Her head leaned against his soft tail as if it was a pillow. The demon didn't know sleep. His focus was in a thousand places at once. And while lost in his thoughts, his fingers felt the movements of the already troublesome hanyou. He could sense it. The puppy will want to come out soon.
He couldn't resist the feel, the warmth of Rin, breathing against him as she slept. That, which was rise and fall he could see of Rin's chest seemed very soothing. As he thought about his future child once again, Sesshomaru was struck by disturbing thoughts, mostly of the past. The youkai couldn't stay in this moment forever as much as he wanted to.
But Sesshomaru couldn't bear to look at her without knowing that she was the same one. The one who brought him his first feelings of guilt and frustration, but they came too late. He raped her. It was months ago but this was not something he could deny. He raped her, and then kept her in his cave like a common animal. That's what he was though wasn't he? A demonic animal whom put his needs above everyone else's, even a human's. And what Rin didn't want, he needed and he took full advantage of that.
Carefully, he snuck out of the bed and out of Rin's room. Sesshomaru wanted to damn himself for these feelings of guilt. But somehow his instincts detected a human understanding of demons that he didn't. The youkai was pleased that it was dark and only moonlight could be seen in the hallway. We went around through the living room, and into the kitchen.
For some reason, he felt hungry. Really, really hungry. He hoped that Kagome had some meat.
"Don't bother, Kagome's a vegetarian," said a shadow in the kitchen. "How the hell do you live like this?" asked Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha leaned back on his kitchen chair. "She wanted me to try tofu. It's a nasty meat alternative."
"So, Inuyasha. Is this how you want to live your life? Stuck in a house with the bitch all day?"
"Damn it, Sesshomaru." Inuyasha couldn't scream or he would wake everyone up. "At least I'm not living in a cage anymore eating off of dog food bowls. You should be, too. I mean, I don't think I can stand seeing you everyday, but look on the bright, Kagome's got a hot tub!"
"You have little to worry, brother. I do not wish to stay in this shack with you."
"Eh? So where you gonna go? How do you suppose you are gonna get away from Naraku?"
"Cages and buildings are no place for demons. I am going to go into the woods, away from all things human."
"Ditching the mate?" asked Inuyasha curiously. "No, she is coming with me."
"Yeah right, Sesshomaru. I bet she's going to love living like an animal living off of small mammals like you. She'll hate it."
"Then she must learn to accept her fate," muttered Sesshomaru. "Rin is my mate which means she is eternally bound to me and I own her for life."
"Yeah, I know how it works. If dad hadn't been caught, then mom would've really had to live like an animal…" Inuyasha was losing his thought looking out the kitchen window. Then he got back to reality. "Sesshomaru, no human will accept being lower than a demon. It doesn't matter what the demon mating laws are, Rin's a human. She's not just gonna drop everything to live with some demon who raped her."
Sesshomaru growled. "Inuyasha, do you have to be so…so…"
"Right?"
"Yes!" Inuyasha smiled at getting his brother to admit. Inuyasha truly was the brains in the family. "Then I must ask you something Inuyasha," said Sesshomaru. Inuyasha perked up his ears, he liked where this was going. "You seem to know humans better than I do. How do their mating laws work?"
"Um…well…it's like this Sesshomaru. A man is not gonna have sex with the first person he sees because he's in heat. That happens when's he truly in love with a CERTAIN girl and then they do it. Now there's this thing call marriage that I read about but there's too much legal stuff. So yeah, man, woman, don't have sex unless they love and feel for each other."
There was a silence between the two brothers in the kitchen until… "That is so utterly ridiculous," said Sesshomaru. "Except…this 'love' it's not for the sake of relief I see." This time it was Sesshomaru who was lost in thought. His mind was going back in time. Not to Rin, no. Much farther than that.
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A small nose followed the strange scent through the cave until he was inside the very base of the mountain. His eyes could see in the darkness of the smallest room, two exposed beings. One was a human who lied comfortably naked on the ground. Some clothes where being used as a bed. The other he recognized right away, but he found it hard to believe.
"Father?" called a young voice. "Who is she?" The voice referred to the woman on the ground. She was sweating and panting but there was a smile on her face as if she seemed to have enjoyed what just happened.
"She's a human," said big demon. "But why dad? Why did you just do that…and with a human?" The young voice sounded a bit angry but moreso confused.
"Because, she is very special to me, she gave a wonderful human emotion. It is how human mate. They call it love. And I love her."
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Sesshomaru had the nerve to never tell Inuyasha anymore about his mother than what the hanyou already knew. "So Rin's kind only mate out of love. It doesn't seem that way to me. The other women I took and killed before, they had many scents but Rin….before I took her she smelled clean and fresh."
"Whoa, she must've been a virgin before then," said Inuyasha.
"I dirtied her, and yet I was obsessed. I finally had a clean one that carried only my scent alone. I tire of the dirty ones that Naraku has brought to me before. Perhaps, this 'virgin' was what I wanted. So I kept her and let her conceived."
"Umm…I think that's more than I wanted to know, Sesshomaru."
"But you are right, Inuyasha. I took her freedom away. She deserves more than to be yanked around on my chain for eternity just because of some demon mating ritual. But how will I manage…" For one moment it seemed that the powerful youkai was being controlled by his emotions, emotions that were meant to be human. He turned his eyes and found Inuyasha staring at him. Whether in fascination or humor, he didn't know. But he refused to go down this way. He still had all the power. He would need that power, to rip Naraku into shreds.
"Inuyasha, I haven't been the true demon that I am. I want to strike fear into human hearts again. I want to feast on flesh and show the world my superiority. No human is meant to change what I am." Sesshomaru felt his demon blood, and his true natural emotions return to him. He wouldn't let what has happened in the past few months change him. The reflection in the mirror showed Sesshomaru's eyes turn red like the real demon he was. Sesshomaru the most fearsome of domestic youkai. He turned coldly to his half-human stinked brother.
"I am leaving in the morning and she goes with me!" Inuyasha almost moved back from his seat in terror of his brother, but suddenly he sensed the calmness returning in Sesshomaru. "I'm sure you want to be with your Kagome alone."
"I TOLD YOU TO NOT- oh wait. You didn't."
"I suppose since you are half-human, it wouldn't matter if you made her your mate."
"What?! Me and Kagome?! I'm just like a pet to her. She washes my cage and brings me food. She even makes me train to sit. But me and her…that's…"
"That's too bad. I can sense good pairings when I see one. You and Kagome have beautiful chemistry together."
Inuyasha crossed his arms over his back. "Feh, believe whatever you want. But Kagome and I don't seem like the intimate type." Sesshomaru walked past his brother. "Do you smell that?" asked Sesshomaru. Inuyasha began to sniff the air. It was faint but the strange scent seemed to become much clearer. "Yeah."
"Something's coming closer." Sesshomaru and Inuyasha followed the scent into the living room. Inuyasha found himself by the window and pushed the curtain for a peek. A blast of light came in. When Inuyasha could see again, he could see other lights coming. They were closer and there were so many.
Trucks and helicopters were surrounding the house. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru felt trapped in the center of the room. "It seems we've been found," said Sesshomaru.