/- These mountains get cold quick! -/
Following the scent of the unknown male, Inuyasha growled, finding the cold air of the mountain to be annoying. However, he'd expected that on the count that it was dusk and the sun was out of site.
The climb up the mountain wasn't the hard part. It was finding the male in the many rocky cliffs, boarders, and valleys of the range that was tricky. And as big as the place was, Inuyasha could hardly pick a place to look first. In the end, his noise did the work. Tracking the quickest way to where ever, the hanyou soon looked upon a large castle, almost the size of Naraku's.
What amazed him, however, was the fact that it was built on the side of the mountain.
/- Damn. How am I suppose to get in it? I bet if I hadn't rushed all the way over here, I'd know more about the rapist. That old hag Kaede knows everything. -/
Suddenly beating himself up for not getting any information before leaving the Western Lands, the hanyou gasped, seeing something fly from the main mansion. It was too far up to be recognized as nothing but a person with wings. Hiding, so not to be seen from the sky, Inuyasha's nose wrinkled, catching the scent of another... more familiar person.
/- Sesshomaru? How can that be; that flying creature smells faintly of Sesshomaru... -/
Passing it off as his nose working too hard, Inuyasha figured the only way in the castle was by flight-- on the count of the creature. However, that didn't stop him.
/- One of those lower leveled mansions must have an opening I can get to. Either that or climb up the mountain to jump in the courtyard... which wouldn't be too bright on the count of they would sure as hell have guards. I don't want trouble... just the life of Kagome's attacker. -/
With that in mind -and a powerful jump- Inuyasha went air born, covering ground on the mountain range and still complaining about the cold.
In the main mansion's bed chambers, Tenshika sighed, running a hand through her sky blue hair as she walked to her room. She was tired from a day of killing. Of course, nothing gave her more pleasure than seeing the death of another half breed, but the energy needed was so much, it was stupid.
Sliding open a door and entering her room, she sighed again, replaying today's events in order as she undressed herself.
/- Let's see... I killed five half breeds today, counted over twenty new additions, warned off Sentai three times... and decided to keep an offspring for once. -/
Smiling to herself, Tenshika slipped on a white kobi (whatever that thing is that looks like a robe you put onto sleep in). She was quite content with herself for some reason, and in the back of her mind Tenshika didn't like it, nor understood it.
/- Why am I so cheerful all of a sudden? I've never been this happy in my life. Every since last night... -/
The shoujo ryu lord gasped as a suddenly flash of her forgotten scene last night went through her mind. Sliver hair and shining yellow eyes. Those eyes... it sent a shiver down Tenshika's spine and a flutter in her blue wings. No one had ever turned her on such as that man. Not even Sentai could match him.
/- And I mated with him. Oh, if only I knew who he was! I'd be even happier, but somehow... just knowing that I'm going to rear his child makes me extremely blissful. It's scary, even. -/
"Well, someone's in a good mood."
The dragon lord gasped, but then growled, turning around to face Sentai, leaning on the entrance of her bathing room. He was dressed in nothing but pants of black silk.
"What do you want?" She snapped, her wings stretched in showing her annoyance.
Sentai stood off the door, crossing his arms, smirking.
"Calm down, Tenshi." Sentai started, making Tenshika growl at the nickname. "I didn't come here to fight... or to flirt."
"Then why did you sneak into my chambers without my say so? You know only my 'mate' can do that, which you are not."
Sentai dramatically put his hands to his heart, a fake hurt expression on his face. "Oh, Tenshi, that was just hurtful! You know we're practically mates -we've know each other for so long- so I have every right to come in your chambers." He stated, nearing the shoujo ryu lord.
However, Tenshika snarled loudly, causing him to recoil.
"Keep your distance. You said you weren't here to flirt, so what did you invade my privacy for?"
Sentai sighed -seeing he failed once again at taming Tenshika- and went on.
"Well, I though I'd tell ya a clue to who your baby's daddy might be."
The dragoness' teal blue eyes lit up in hope, shown clearly to Sentai, but then hidden again.
"I told you, Sentai. I do not wish to know of him. It was just another one-night stand." She huffed, looking away.
"Don't even play that with me, Tenshika," Sentai replied, using her real name to grab her attention. "I can sense that you actually have a parental love for that kid and are on the brink of 'desperate' of knowing its father. I can see it in your eyes."
However, the dragoness just huffed again, keeping her eyes away. Sentai neared her once again, but not to flirt. He put warm hands on the shoujo ryu lord's shoulders, rubbing them gently.
"Listen... I have the best sense of smell out of all of the ryus here... and I can faintly tell that your child's father is related to the male that had claims on the miko I mated with."
Tenshika gasped, turning around to meet Sentai's coal-colored eyes.
"That can't be true, Sentai. The miko smelled of half-demon, did she not? How can my child's father be kin of a hanyou?"
The Northern ryu lord lifted his shoulders.
"I don't know, Tenshika, but my nose never lies. Since I traveled to the Western Lands when I mated with the miko, your child's father should be there."
For the first time, Tenshika smiled at Sentai, actually embracing him as her wings relaxed. She slightly sobbed, rubbing her face in his bare chest.
"Doumo arigatou gozaimasu, Sentai. Arigatou..." She whispered.
"You're welcome..." He responded, embracing Tenshika back.
However, Sentai couldn't pass up such a golden opportunity. As one hand rested against the dragoness' back, the other headed south, groping Tenshika. She grew so angry, she clawed Sentai's back where her hands were and then punched him to the ground.
"Horny male ryus... don't know when to runt and when to stop." She huffed, crossing her arms.
Sentai chuckled nervously, rubbing his back were blood was starting to leak.
"Gomen, Tenshika-sama. How about I make it up to you by being your nose tomorrow? I'll guide ya to the male that smells like your baby."
She recoiled, gagging mentally at the fact that she would spend the whole day with Sentai.
"No thanks; I'll manage by myself... and I'll start looking right away." Tenshika sighed, slipping her kobi off.
Ryus, not ones for modesty, didn't think twice about seeing each other nude. Hence, Sentai didn't blush or nosebleed when seeing Tenshika slip on her armor. It was nothing he hadn't seen before.
"Are you sure you want to go to the Western Lands alone, Tenshika? It's a long ways and you don't gain protection from the Lord of the Southern Lands if you go." He reminded as Tenshika reached for her weapon of choice... a blue-painted zanbatou.
"I'm sure, Sentai. I'm willing to rusk my safety to know of my child's father. And I can sniff out any half demon. I'll be fine... and I'll expect you to run things while I'm gone." She sighed, looking at the ryu lord soulfully.
Seeing as Tenshika was in another situation that she wasn't going to be talked out of, Sentai sighed, chuckling.
"I hope for your safe return, Tenshika-sama." He added, bowing slightly.
Putting on her midnight blue cape -sliding her wings through the holes in the back- she bid her 'companion' fare-well and ran off. Walking out of the bed chamber, Sentai's expression suddenly turned from his 'glass-half-full' mood to a killer instinct.
/- I can smell a hanyou... it's the one that had claims on that miko. I've been expecting him. -/ He stated, going to the lower levels of the castle to cut him off.
Opening the door to the main mansion doors and flying off, Tenshika not only had one lead of her child's father, but two.
/- Kin of a half breed... and has yellow and silver eyes. I'll find him, even if I have to travel all over Japan to do it! -/ She vowed, flying over and out of the mountain range.
However, as the shoujo ryu lord lifted out of the range, she could have sworn she smelt the stench of a half demon near the castle. Too set on her current mission, Tenshika took no time to kill it and flew off, her mind in full focus.
In the lower levels of the mansion, most ryus lay asleep... unaware that a hanyou was in their wakes. Making his steps light so not to stir any of the villagers, Inuyasha continued his search for Kagome's attacker. Finding the male's scent to be strong, Inuyasha quickened his pace, finding the hallway he was in the take him to the main mansion.
Suddenly, blood came to his nose.
/- The male... he's bleeding. Not a lot, but it makes his scent easier to find. -/
The hallway became wider and wider, giving the hanyou the impression that the more important villagers slept here. Finally he was in the main mansion. However, Inuyasha didn't stop for a moment on the trail, finding it to be very strong.
Suddenly, he winced back, feeling cold blood under his feet... and a trail going down another hallway and into the shadows. However, before he could get to the shadows, a small chuckle came from them. Inuyasha growled. "Show yourself!"
"So, you're the hanyou that had claims to that strange miko. I figured you'd come."
Inuyasha stepped back snarling as Sentai showed himself, smirking. The hanyou got a good look at him. Black narrow eyes, shoulder-length hair... and black wings.
"What are you?" He whispered.
"Hmm... I guess you don't know of a humanoid dragon when you see one. I'm quite offended. You break in, set on killing me when you don't even know what I am." Sentai huffed, a scowl on his lips.
Inuyasha gasped, his voice caught in wires. He remembered... humanoid dragons.
/- N-no... the same dragon that raped my mother so long ago... the same dragon that raped Kagome. -/
Sentai saw the anger in Inuyasha's eyes and found it rather amusing. Then, suddenly, it hit him.
"You know, you did look familiar. You have your mother's hair... the same woman I mated with years ago."
That pissed Inuyasha off more than surprising him. Taking his sword out, the inu-hanyou growled lethality.
"You LECH! You're the one who raped my mother AND Kagome! You have no right to live, scum-bag." He spat out, the venom pouring out of his mouth.
Sentai huffed.
"Hanyou, you'd best mind your tongue. We ryus don't take kindly to hanyous... and you're lucky that I haven't killed you on the spot. As for your mother... she willingly gave her body to me. Your father wasn't present for her during that Red Moon and when she saw me... she wanted it nice... and hard." The Northern ryu lord chuckled darkly, a gothic laugh erupting from his throat.
Finding it very VERY hard to believe, Inuyasha charged.
"You lie!" He yelled, striking with his sword.
Sentai swiftly moved away, ending up behind Inuyasha to the point he could whisper in his ear.
"You'd best put that toothpick away, hanyou. It takes more than strength to win a battle, especially with a ryu."
"Urusei!" He spat, summoning the wind scar and cutting the hallway in two.
Sentai flew through the hole in the roof, landing on the outside of the mansion gracefully as Inuyasha jumped and landed. The Northern ryu lord spat on the ground, sending a irritated glare Inuyasha's way.
"I don't appreciate the hole in our roof. I shall cover it with your skin after I'm finish killing you." he growled.
The hanyou smirked, positioning his sword.
"I'd like to see you try!" He said before charging again.
Sentai made his own charge, his claws pointed out. "After I'm done with you, I'll be sure to 'make nice' with that miko again. She was a blast."
The comment only made Inuyasha more enraged as he ran his sword down Sentai, only to be halted by his claws. Inuyasha gasped as Sentai's claws glowed black and his fingers stopped the sword from cutting him.
"As I stated before, your toothpick of a weapon is nothing against me. I wonder if your kin is better at combat." Sentai stated, clawing out at Inuyasha.
He jumped back, landing on another roof. As the two battled it out, they exchanged dialogue.
"You have kin, do you not, hanyou?"
"What's it to you?"
"My mate smells of you faintly, but not directly of you. She might have courted with one of your kin."
"Don't look at me, I don't keep in contact with my bastard of a brother."
"Answer me this, half-demon; who is the name of your kin --your brother?"
"If you have to know, it's Sesshomaru."
Suddenly, the battling stopped. Inuyasha and Sentai stood opposite of each other, weapons still out... their faces in confusion.
"You mean to tell me that you are the brother of Sesshomaru-sama? The Sessomaru-sama of the Western Lands?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"Listen, we need not be enemies. We might as well be family." Sentai sighed, putting down his claws.
"What do you mean family? Why would I be kin of a rapist dragon like you!"
"Because your brother is the father of my mate's child."
Inuyasha was taken back.
"Wha the...? You can't be serious! Sesshomaru would never mate with anyone. He hardly even courts! What makes you so sure he's the father of your mate's offspring? And what kind of mate courts with someone other than her male!" Inuyasha demanded, pointing his sword at the Northern ryu lord.
In the end, Sentai gave a trademark smile.
"Hanyou... whatever your name is... I have some explaining to give to you that you might want to hear. Put the sword away and meet me at the valley below this mountain."
"Why the valley?"
"Didn't you remember the comment I made about us ryus not being friendly to half-demons? If one was to see you, you'd be dead right now and I would be killed for treason."
Reluctantly, Inuyasha nodded, sheathing his sword. Sentai opened his wings, flying out of the courtyard and down the mountain. Inuyasha also made his way to the valley, sky diving down. As they advance further, Sentai sighed, still smiling.
/- You better be glad I love you, Tenshika. I will be expecting a nice reward from talking with this dirty half-demon for information of you child's father. -/
Inuyasha was having different thoughts.
/- This better be good. I shouldn't be wasting my time talking with this raptist... but he seems to know some dirt on Sesshomaru. This I can't resist. -/