Chp 29: From fucked up to worse
Disclaimer: The day I own Inuyasha is the day Marilyn Manson declares himself a monk. -_-' Meaning I won't own them. Ever.
A/N: Aren't you all happy? I'm typing this chapter while waiting for an appointment with my psychiatrist. V_V I hope I won't end up pushing this story into overdrive to get it finished. But I'm really starting to lose interest, which is happening all too much to me lately, and I want to get through these next few chapters that will be boring on my part. Before I continue this story, I want to make a few things clear. This story will NOT be a charmed/IY crossover. That is a whole different story. This IS SESS/KAG. Make no mistake about that. And, NO LEMONS, limes maybe. So please don't ask. I have so many other fics going right now, that my mind is a jumble. My muses must be getting back at me for calling them broken.
Max: Damn right.
Amreld: Shut up.
I am going to press stop on all my other stories and focus on getting the next 4 chapters of this story done as soon as possible. ^-^ The next fic I have out will be called...well, for now I'm calling it 'Ride the lightning' after Metallica's cd. Tell me if you guys like that title.
Also. I have recently discovered a website that is looking for people to write original stories for them. And if it's over 6000 words, they'll pay $60:00. Cool ne? If there are any people out there that ever get sick of writing fanfiction, have a weird obsession with vampires, and have a joy of writing gory, evil, vampiric, macabre stories. Go to Vampires.com and click on "writers needed" or "writers wanted". I don't remember which one.
Just a note. I am going to make this chapter mainly about Kimi and Naraku and their developing relationship, and Fluffy and Inu's past. So don't throw anything at me. K? Oh, and if any of you are nice enough to want to talk to me. My AIM names are,
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Or
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Naraku's eye twitched as he tried to block out the sound of the chattering Necromancer sitting next to him. 'Must be all of my bad Karma...' he thought grimly.
"So..." Kimi drawled. "Is there a Mrs. Naraku?"
Naraku stopped flying abruptly and stared at her with a blank look on his face. "No." He growled out dangerously.
Kimi grinned impishly up at him and sweatdropped. "Uh...Just asking!" She laughed nervously.
After about another fifteen minutes of flying. Kimi looked below them and saw the same pond she saw about five minutes back. "Are you going in circles?" She asked suspiciously.
Naraku looked below him with an irritated look on his face. "Sadly. Yes. That bastard Sare put a fucking concealing spell his fucking castle so I can't FUCKING FIND IT!!" Steam was practically coming from his pointed ears and Kimi was backing away from him with a frightened look in her eyes.
Naraku looked over at her and sighed heavily. Kimi scooted a bit closer and said. "Chill. Stress isn't good for the skin. And you wouldn't to ruin you're beautiful complexion now would you?"
Naraku sighed and flopped down on his cloud roughly. "Whatever. So. How old did you say you were again?" he asked.
Kimi screwed up her face for a second. "Um. Somewhere around 450." She said with a shrug.
Naraku stared at her. "Damn. How long is it going to take for you to grow?"
Kimi shrugged. "I should be reaching my growth spurt in about three weeks. But it really depends."
Naraku stared at her. "It is quite unnerving that you are over four times older than me."
Kimi turned her head roughly to stare at him. "What?! How old are you?"
"About 105."
Kimi sucked in a breath. "You're kidding..."
"Nope." He said. "Onigumo was about 53 when he became Naraku. And it has been about 52 years since then."
Kimi briefly stared at his body and then her eyes widened and she said. "Holy shit!"
Naraku looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "What?"
Kimi stared at him open mouthed. "You have about 700 different demon souls inside your body." She said worriedly.
Naraku just shrugged. "So?"
Kimi frowned. "They're eating away at your body."
Naraku looked at her and said. "I know. And when this body becomes too weak. I will find another."
Kimi looked down sadly. "So you're a parasite."
Naraku frowned and said. "I don't like to think of it that way."
Kimi looked over at him again. "You know. You still have a human soul."
Naraku growled.
"You shouldn't deny it. And every time you take another body. You gain another soul. And after a while. One of the two will be driven out. And then you'll either be a human with however many different souls. Meaning you'll die a horrible death. Or you'll be a very ugly demon."
Naraku sighed and looked away. "That's why I need to Shikon no tama."
Kimi smiled a bit and said. "You know the god thing about being friends with a Necromancer?"
Naraku looked over at her from the corner of his eyes. "What?"
She grinned wolfishly. "You can cheat death."
Kagome inhaled deeply through her nose and let the smell of Sesshoumaru's castle calm her frayed nerves.
"Ahhhh...It feels good to be back to a sort of home."
Sesshoumaru looked back over at her from his place in a large armchair. "What do you mean, 'sort of home'?"
Kagome shrugged. "I have another place that I've come to know of as more of a home. Speaking of that place. I need to go there and clear out all my souls..."
Sesshoumaru just raised an eyebrow.
Kaze shot into the room with a shriek and tumbled wings over tail feathers to cling frantically to Kagome's shoulder. He hoisted himself of with his beak and sat there with his feathers puffed out to three times to normal size.
Kagome smoothed out his neck feathers and said to him. "Shhh...What is it?"
Kaze just stared angrily at the door that he had come in through.
Kagome purred to him and then spoke in falcon tongue. "What happened?"
But Kaze needn't answer, because she could hear it down the hall.
"WHERE THE HELL IS THAT STUPID FUCKING BIRD?!?!"
Sesshoumaru looked over at the door with an irritated look on his face. "I thought I told him not to use profanity when Rin was present. And he is yelling loud enough to wake the dead."
Kagome peered out the door to see Inuyasha sniffing the air and growling loudly. She walked over to him and said. "What are you yelling about? And why is Kaze so ruffled?"
Inuyasha took one look at the wind falcon and launched himself at Kagome screaming at the top of his lungs.
Kagome's eyes widened and she ducked as Kaze shot off her shoulder to cling to one of the rafters high above them, so Inuyasha dived right in between them.
Kaze screeched angrily at Inuyasha.
Kagome whirled around and glared at Inuyasha. "Okay. What the fuck is going on?"
Inuyasha glared at Kaze perched high above him. He turned around and pointed to his hair. "This is what's going ON!"
Kagome stared wide-eyed at his hair. She covered her mouth to keep from laughing.
Inuyasha's hair was cut raggedly so that it was at many different lengths. And it looked quite funny.
Inuyasha hardly agreed.
Kagome lost the battle and bursted out laughing.
Inuyasha glared at her. His face red from embarrassment and anger. "STOP LAUGHING! IT'S NOT FUNNY!" He whined.
Kagome wiped the tears from her eyes, and gasped for air. "Gomen Inuyasha. But it does look funny. Come here and let me fix that for you."
Inuyasha looked skeptical for a moment be fore he walked over to Kagome and turned around. He pouted while giving a murderous look to Kaze who was perched haughtily up in the rafters preening his feathers.
Kagome examined Inuyasha's hair for a moment before taking it in a fist and swiping her claws across it in one clean cut.
A handful of snow-white hair fell to the ground.
Inuyasha turned around swiftly. "What the FUCK did you just do?!" He yelled hyperventilating, and looked about to cry.
(A/N: I took that line from a story that my friend Jupiter wrote. An X-men Evolution short comedy skit called, 'Pyro's problem'. Go check it out at her website! )
Kagome shrugged and said. "I cut it to one length."
Inuyasha stared at his hair on the floor and his left eye began twitching rapidly.
Kagome patted his shoulder pityingly and said. "Don't worry Inuyasha. I'm sure it'll grow back soon.
Sesshoumaru had come out just in time to see Kagome sever Inuyasha hair, and was now smirking at his half-brother's misfortune.
Inuyasha looked at his hair strew about the floor and then sighed heavily. He glared up at Kaze and growled.
He stalked off to go sulk somewhere else.
Kagome stared after him pityingly. "Poor Inuyasha..."
Sesshoumaru turned back to the lounge room he had been in before and said. "He was like that when he was a pup too. Whenever anyone would try to touch his hair, or his ears. He would start yelling and growling. And I think he even once tried to bite off Sare's finger."
Kagome giggled and said. "I've never seen someone so upset over hair removal before, well, except Manten."
"You obviously don't know Inuyasha as well as you think you do." Sesshoumaru said as he settled back into his armchair and closed his eyes.
Kagome looked over at him. "Oh really? And you do?"
Sesshoumaru cracked one eye open and placed his fingertips together in front of his face. "Actually. There are quite a few things I know about Inuyasha that you would have never dreamed of."
"Like what?" She asked cynically.
"He is attracted to the neko youkai you had killed."
Kagome's jaw dropped and her eyes widened. "No way..."
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and smirked. "I still have the stuffed cat he used to cuddle when he was very young."
Kagome's eyebrows drew together and she said. "If you hate Inuyasha so much, then why do you still have it?"
Sesshoumaru sighed. "I don't hate Inuyasha. His dislike of me is misplaced."
Kagome squinted at him and said. "Explain."
Sesshoumaru sighed and said. "It was our father, Inutaisho, after he was unfaithful to my mother, with Inuyasha's mother, that caused it. When our father found out that he would have another child, he immediately told me. And he warned me not to tell my mother. I, of course, didn't, which was a mistake in itself. Our father had quite a temper, and when my mother did find out, after Inuyasha was born, she immediately called council with the other Lords and Ladies, and humiliated him quite sufficiently. Which in a three word phrase pissed him off."
Sesshoumaru looked over to a painting on the wall. It was a picture of a smiling female Inu-youkai. With markings the same As Sesshoumaru, the same fluffy tail, and the same white hair.
"My mother did not want me staying with my father. Because, as she said, he insisted on "keeping his human whore with him". My father was quite mad at my mother. And his name was reasonably ruined. Because the whole youkai society knew that he had shamed himself with a human. My mother realized this too late and decided to keep me with her indefinitely. For fear he may become violent."
Sesshoumaru sighed and looked away from Kagome. "Which he did."
"When attacks started on him from angry youkai who believed he was not fit to rule anymore. He decided to take out his anger on those around him. First it was just the servants, and people like Jaken. But then he started to become violent towards his human mate. After awhile. She got tired of it and took her own life. Inutaisho really could have cared less. Inuyasha was only three when this happened. So he didn't really understand. Now that Inutaisho had no one to take his anger out on. I feared he might have started to hurt Inuyasha. So, as any older brother would have, I went back to Inutaisho against my mothers wishes and stayed there."
Kagome was now seated on the floor next to Sesshoumaru listening intently.
"I had nothing against Inuyasha. It wasn't his fault he was born a hanyou. I really didn't have anything against hanyous and humans when I was younger. So, as I had predicted, Inutaisho tried to hit Inuyasha after a pack of wolf demons had ambushed him in the mountains. I placed myself in front of Inuyasha and took the blow for myself. I got back to my feet with a sizeable bruise on my face and a split lip, took Inuyasha to my room, and waited out my father's anger. I knew he would not stop, so I took Inuyasha with me wherever I went. And taught him how to hunt and whatnot. But Inutaisho became tired of not having a punching bag around so he took every available chance to beat me or Inuyasha. I tried all I could to keep Inuyasha away from him, but he managed to get him alone at the worst possible times."
"Me being around the human age of sixteen, I was still too young to actually leave anywhere for good. By youkai laws I wasn't even allowed to. I decided to take Inuyasha and try to go back to my mother. At night I tried sneaking out. But my father caught me and actually gave me a broken arm. In another week. I tried again. And got as far as my mothers den. I gave her Inuyasha, and then Inutaisho dragged me back. Saying my mother could "keep the worthless half breed". When we got back to his castle. Which was in the northern part of the western lands, I got the shit kicked out of me."
~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~
"SESSHOUMARU!"
A sixteen year old Sesshoumaru winced as his father stormed into his room where he had been locked for the past few hours.
"I thought I told you not to leave here!" Inutaisho yelled as he took his son by the throat and held him against the wall. "It's because of you and your bitch of a mother that I will never be trusted as a ruler again!"
Sesshoumaru gasped for air as his father's hands constricted around his neck, cutting of his air supply. He grasped his father's wrist in a futile attempt to remove his hands as they threatened to squeeze the life from him.
Inutaisho threw Sesshoumaru into the wall where he slid down and curled into a fetal position, coughing.
Inutaisho walked over and kicked him viciously in the stomach.
Sesshoumaru spit up blood as he heard a sickening crack. He squeezed his eyes shut as he attempted to get up, only to fall down again under another rain of blows from his father.
No.
This beast was not his father.
His father died a long time ago along with his mothers love for him.
Sesshoumaru's eyes began to bleed red as his demon instincts to survive set in. He ignored the pain in his chest, stomach, and legs as he struggled to his feet. His eyes hidden by his bangs, he managed to crawl into a crouch.
As Inutaisho's fist came crashing down in what would have been an incapacitating blow, Sesshoumaru brought both his hands up to catch it. He stared what used to be his father straight in the eye and watched them widen as he saw the crimson hue of his sons once amber orbs.
Sesshoumaru gripped his fist tightly and climb to his feet. He gripped tighter and tighter and finally noticed the green poison seeping from his fingertips.
Inutaisho growled as the poison coating his hand began to scorch his skin. He wrenched his hand from his sons grip and threw him against the wall again.
A thunderous crack echoed through the entire fortress and every servant froze as they realized what had happened.
Sesshoumaru lay on the floor, the red draining from his eyes to return to amber. Any movement was accompanied by excruciating pain as he realized that his spine had been snapped. He couldn't feel his legs thankfully, because if he could he would probably be in more pain.
Inutaisho smiled evilly down on his son as he picked him up by the throat.
Sesshoumaru swallowed a scream of agony as his father picked him up again. He couldn't even lift his hands to grip his father's wrist. As the edges of his vision began to turn black, he gazed into his father's crazed golden eyes, one question burning in his own.
'Why?' He whispered in his mind.
"Remember who made you pup. Don't attempt to escape me. Next time I will not be so lenient." With that he threw Sesshoumaru on the floor, where he laid, a small pool of blood accumulating from where a broken piece of bone had pierced the skin.
He slowly turned onto his side so he would not drown from his own blood as it slithered up his throat. He coughed, each violent shake more painful than the last. As blood dribbled from the right side of his mouth. He stared at the entrance to his bedroom. And briefly wondered who the hawk youkai in the doorway was.
He looked up at her once before passing out.
~~~~~~End flashback~~~~~~
Kagome stared at him with tears glistening in her eyes. She got up and hugged him tightly around the waist and then kissed him on the cheek.
Inuyasha stared open mouthed at his brother. His bottom lip shaking violently and his eyes shined with unshed tears. He gripped the doorway tightly for fear he may fall to his knees.
Kagome looked up and saw him standing in the doorway. She smiled at him and blinked, making her tears roll down her cheeks. She got off of Sesshoumaru's lap and whispered something in his ear before leaving the room, on her way out, laying her hand on Inuyasha's shoulder before walking down the hall way; wiping her eyes.
Sesshoumaru stood and faced his half-brother. "I-Inuyasha." He said.
Inuyasha gripped the doorway tighter. Crystal drops falling from his eyes to grace the floor. He stared at his older brother, for the first time feeling that maybe he wasn't just a worthless half-breed and maybe Sesshoumaru was actually his brother.
Inuyasha let go of the door and took a few small steps toward his brother. And then ran and tackled him in a huge embrace.
Sesshoumaru was taken aback at his brothers display of affection, and for a moment, was clueless as to how to respond.
Inuyasha gripped his brother around the torso with his face pressed tightly against his chest, a few broken sobs escaping him. Sesshoumaru merely rested his arms on Inuyasha back and shoulders and for a moment, just a moment, smiled down at him.
Kagome looked in on them with a huge grin. She held up a camera and smiled evilly as it flashed. Sesshoumaru looked up at her as she skipped away holding something in her hand.
Rin looked in on her surrogate father and what she now knew to be her uncle. Her face erupted in a face-splitting grin and she wrung her hands together excitedly.
She skipped away after Kagome not wanting to break up her Sesshoumaru-sama's sentimental moment with her uncle Inuyasha-chan.
Naraku sighed as he approached his castle. 'Stupid Dragon...' he thought as he descended.
Kimi was standing next to him, though she came barely up to his waist. She was about the same height and build as Kanna, and looked a bit like her too. She looked down at his castle and raised her eyebrow.
"Sheesh mate. You needing some redecoratin'. Talk about a way to keep people away."
Naraku smirked. "That is the idea."
As Naraku landed, the shroud of miasma that hung about the castle cleared a path for himself and Kimi. He led her through the double doors to a low hallway, and called out.
"Kagura."
Kagura appeared behind them and said. "Yes Naraku?"
Naraku pushed Kimi forward and said. "I would like you to place her in the room next to Kanna's. If she needs anything, make sure she gets it."
Kagura nodded and said, "Yes Naraku."
As they were walking through the winding hallway's of the castle. Kagura spoke up. "So, who are you? And why did Naraku bring you here?"
Kimi smiled up at Kagura and said, "Itokimi Awai the Necromancer at y' service mate!" She said cheerfully as she shook Kagura's hand flamboyantly. "Oh, and as for ole pink pelt bringing me here. I'm one o' is friends." She grinned widely. "And you could also say he's stuck with me."
Kagura looked down at the cheerful young girl with a look of surprise on
her face. "How old are you?"
"450."
"Holy shit!" Kagura said. "What are you doing with Naraku? And what would you want to be?" Kagura asked with a clueless look on her face.
Kimi shrugged and said 'I was one of Kagome's friends and just happened to meet him. I don't know why I'm with him. But I am. And, he does have a cute ass."
Kagura laughed and stared ta her with a look of horror on her face at the same time. Which was a pretty big feat for the wind witch.
Kimi just grinned.
Soooo...the truth about Inu and Sesshy's horrible past is revealed. I will go deeper into that in the next chapter. And, is there a blossoming relationship between our favorite evil half demon and the little perverted Necromancer? And what's up with the growth spurt? O~-^O
Wow. This chapter was easier to get done than I thought. I am making a new website. You can all go check out my 'coming soon' page. At
Noooooo!!!! I didn't get the free tickets to Projekt Revolution! They were giving them away on 95.1 and I wasn't the 10th caller!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
It was Linkin Park!
And Korn!
And Snoop dog!
And the used!
Noooooooooooooo!!!!
Ah well. Life sucks. Get a straw. If you like the pairing Nar/Kag, then go check out Sith's stories. N/K is my new favorite pairing. There was a fic out called, "The day the flowers bloomed black" by profiler120 and she discontinued it. Someone else picked it up. Does anyone know who? If you do, Please tell me. I hope this chapter had enough comedy, action, and fluff for you all to be satisfied.
By the way, does anyone notice how often people put things like "REVIEW!!!" at the end of their stories? I used to. But now I just don't get it. If the story is good enough to review, then you'll get a review. I think I'll stop asking and let my story speak for itself.
Max: Hey. Just to let you all know. Amreld has been very mean to us lately by locking us up. So now we're giving her so much inspiration, that she'll go into overdrive and write and write and write. ::grin::
Amreld: -.-; Well. Tell me what you think of the title 'Ride the lightning' after Metallica' cd, for the next story I post. Actually, here's the summary.
Kagome and Kikyou, twins, have known Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha Takamada since they were toddlers, but didn't exactly keep in touch. In a world where Hybrids, people with extraordinary abilities, like Kagome, and youkai like Sesshoumaru, are discriminated against, it makes for a hard living. Even if your father is the owner of one of the biggest company's in the world. Through all hardships, Kagome becomes darker, when she finally meets with Sesshoumaru again in seventh grade, and, what's this? They both love heavy metal? Now in high school, where prejudice against youkai and hybrid is at its worst, Kagome and her group of friends meet a new guy who has learned to cope with his brutal reality. And where does a karaoke club fit in with all of this? AU non romance.
It gets quite actionish, and it has a deeper plot than that of a heavy metal band getting signed by elementree records. Whoops, m'y bad.
By the way...I'm not in a band...yet...anyway...and I'm going to try to make this story about the process of getting signed, (the first half of it anyway) and then what happens after they do get signed. But with a twist. So, if any of you people out there are in a band. Give me some info or pointers? Pleez? And, e-mail me them if you can..........^-^ I'm really not totally clueless. I know about how you get signed, and touring in small clubs and crap, but...just some hints? You know. Only the stuff band members would know? Pleeeeez?
Until next time. Ja ne.
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