Author: essenceofthedark
Pairing: Inuyasha/Sesshomaru
Author's note: chapter four, that's not bad if you ask me… Yah, as you can see, the title above is changed IT WILL NO LONGER BE NAMED GOLDEN EYES; BUT KOGANE NO HITOMI! Everyone got that so they aren't surprised next time I update and they gets a story called Kogane no Hitomi? Good, good! Well, Kogane no Hitomi means Eyes of Gold and I changed the title because I've seen another story named Golden eyes here on FF and I thought that Kogane no Hitomi sounded so much more esthetic somehow…
Ummm, this chapter is late, not because of anything else but a writer's block, again… I seriously hate my writer's blocks; they're so damn annoying and are making me so frustrated… and sorry! I really am, however in this tempo I can keep this one going for years… ; okay I'll try not to, but… goddammit, I swear I'll try to update more often . !
Oh and if anyone want a lemon later in the story they'll have to ask for it or tell me that they do! Is that clear? Good! REMEMBER TO REVIEW! Now on with the story:
Music I listened to while writing this fic: DéspairsRay, Naruto-music, Tori Amos and Deadman
Chapter four: Cooperate!
Inuyasha's view
"I just thought…" my voice dropped down to a low whisper. "… that, if you are going t-to get revenge on Naraku… perhaps we could cooperate…" I trailed off, blushing even more, this was terribly awkward. If anyone would have told me yesterday that I was going to propose a cooperation with Sesshomaru I would have laughed them off as insane. Now I started to wonder if I were insane myself, asking him to cooperate with me, something we hadn't done for… what? One hundred years? More? I have lost the count of them. And if that wasn't enough, I had just spent quite some time with him, most of it unconscious though, without us even fighting, I just couldn't let this opportunity to get closer to him slip from me.
I didn't dare look at him, sure that he would just turn around and leave, that or attack me. The thought made unwanted tears come to my eyes, now that we were closer than we had ever been since our enmity began, I just wouldn't let it go. I knew it wasn't much that had happened, it wasn't like he had put our enmity aside for forever, nor had he accepted me as a family-member, but for me only having him rescuing me, even though I didn't like having to be rescued in the first place, was a huge improvement. It also had given me a hope for a future where we wouldn't be enemies, now that my friends were gone I felt sort of desperate for acceptation from someone and he was, even though it didn't seem so, still my brother for Kamisama's sake!
At the thought of my friends I felt more tears well up in my eyes, but still I held my mask. I didn't know if Sesshomaru was still there, but if he was… crying in front of him would never do if I were to put up a good impression, he already thought me too weak.
I completely shut out the voice that told me it was more than desperation for acceptation that made me want to go with him. I had fought him for so long and I didn't want to do so anymore, I was tired of fighting both him and my gut-feeling. I wouldn't give in to my gut-feeling totally however, something told me that just strolling up to him and giving him a hug without warning would not be such a good idea.
Slowly I opened my eyes and lifted my head up slightly to see if he had gone, but surprisingly he still stood there, clearly contemplating what to do. Perhaps he considered which way would be most satisfying to kill me. Suddenly he gave a slight nod, still with a blank expression on his face.
"I accept"
Sesshomaru's view
"I accept" I heard myself say and strangely enough I knew that if I hadn't had full body-control I would have blushed right now. However, I refused to let the blush grace my face.
My brother beamed with something I could only describe as joy. The sight of him, wet all over standing naked in water up to his waist with long bluely silver-locks and those adorable dog-ears, beaming like that just because I had agreed to cooperate with him, made me want to blush even more. Immediately annoyed that I, the great demon lord of the western lands, was forced to have these emotions, I turned my back at him starting to walk away as I said in the same cool voice; "But only because it will be easier to get my revenge on him"
"Oi, oi, matte yoo" he called after me as I had taken only three steps, making my footsteps falter. I heard water splashing as Inuyasha waded through it to get to land again and his movements as he started searching for his clothes. Even though his lack of elegance annoyed me somewhat I found that it fascinated me, how rash and carefree he was, so unlike me who always thought everything through and had a thought behind my every move.
I heard him find his clothes, but then he stopped and I turned to look at him, wondering what he was doing. He stood holding his clothes up and looked sceptically at them, clearly hesitantly to put on the almost completely shredded clothing that were bloodstained all over.
Inuyasha's view
I stood looking sceptically at my clothing which was torn up and almost covered in blood. I couldn't exactly say it tempted me to put it on. Suddenly I felt something being laid over my shoulders and glanced up surprised. Sesshomaru had put his hadorio over my shoulders. I let go of my ruined clothing and quickly put his hadori properly on.
"Arigatoo" I said as he turned to walk again, quickly catching up and following him to wherever he went. He didn't acknowledge my gratefulness and just kept on walking. That couldn't however ruin my mood. He really did care, if only a little!
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"Where are we going?" I asked, not able to restrain my curiosity anymore, we had walked for hours and I hadn't once smelled Naraku or his minions, so why we still were heading the same way was beyond my comprehension. He looked at me, and if I didn't know better I would say he was rather amused.
"Home" he said simply and walked on, leaving me standing, staring dumbfounded at his back. 'Home' had he said, would he really let me into his home? Hell, yesterday I would have been hunted down and killed mercilessly if I just put one toe inside his territory and now suddenly I was invited, well kind of, to his home. When he noticed that I didn't follow him anymore he turned around and looked at me, which made me realise that I stood gaping like a goldfish. I closed my mouth quickly before opening it again to ask why when he suddenly spoke up.
"I hope you weren't planning to fight Naraku wearing that" he smirked while looking at me and I suddenly remembered that I was only wearing his hadori, nothing else and I saw his point. His hadori hung rather loose on me as I was not only at least two sizes smaller than him, but it didn't reach longer than down to my mid-thighs; making me look, well, rather slutty. Feeling myself blush profusely as the realisation dawned on me I tried to make the hadori go as long down as possible I could make it only causing its back to go way up towards my ass. Yelping softly when I realised that the longer down I got it in the front the higher up it got in the back I gave up.
Sesshomaru's view
As he blushed and tried desperately to make the hadori cover more of his skin I felt lightening-struck. 'I have never seen him so cu…' the thought died as I thought it. Cute? Cute? When had I, the great demon lord, been reduced to thinking such thoughts? I knew the answer instantly as I had asked the question. It had happened after I had become aware of these feelings for him, the ones I shouldn't have. Closing my eyes I forbid myself to think over this right now, this was not the time. I opened my eyes again and looked at him again. Scratch what I had said previously. He wasn't cute, he was… I'm not even going to go there.
Turning around I started walking, aggravated with my own thoughts. I – shouldn't – be – thinking – this! Absentmindedly I could hear him stop fussing over his clothes and hurry to catch up with me.
"Ano…" he stared before stopping and looking in another direction. I had sensed it too, another demon, quite strong actually, was heading our way. And as I had thought a moment later we could see a cloud of dust come swivelling our way. As it came closer I could hear my brother start to growl, perhaps it was someone he knew.
"Kouga" he stated grumpy when the dust cloud had appeared in front of us and stopped, revealing a tall, young, good-looking wolf-demon.
"Oi, mutt" the one who I now knew was called Kouga1 stated as he looked at my brother. When he noticed what he was wearing both his eyebrows went up and he got a humorous glint in his eyes. "I didn't know that mutts like you would dress like that" he pointed to how little the hadori hid and even though it was good hidden I could see the hungry look in his eyes. It was all I could do to stop a growl that was rising in my throat and I was only so far from yelling at him to stay away from MY little brother. How dared he look at him like that? I was practically fuming on the inside, too gone in my jealousy to notice that I had gone from attracted to my brother to being protective AND possessive of him too.
Inuyasha's view
I blushed furiously at the wolf's comment and scowled at him while trying yet again to make it hide more of me. How dared he make fun at how I was dressed? It wasn't as if he wasn't wearing more clothes than me, actually, he wore less. But I had to admit that his clothes looked less… slutty, than mine. However, that gave him no right, no right, to criticise my clothing, it wasn't as if I had much of a choice in what to wear.
"Oi! Inukkuro2, where's my woman?" Kouga looked around as if just having discovered her absence. I stiffened, I had hardly thought of my dead companions until now, I guess I had tried to forget all the pain all thoughts of them brought and just tried to accept having my brother acting civilly to me for now. I really wasn't ready for the process of sorrow wreaking my heart and clouding my thoughts right now.
Sesshomaru's view
I raised one eyebrow, his woman? I must have missed something because this looked like an old argument between the two of them.
To Be Continued
o Wordlist: oi, matte yo – hey, wait up, hadori – some sort of jacket you can wear over your kimono, arigato – thank you,
1 I think Sesshomaru meets Kouga at some point in the series, doesn't he? I've seen a pic of those two, but I haven't watched that much of the series, so in my fic they haven't met yet ;
2 I think this is what Kouga calls Inuyasha? Am I right?
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Answers to reviews (by the way I only answer signed reviews unless there's an important question I find in an anonymous one...):
Hmmm everyone thatseems to have an opinion about a lemon later on in the story seeems to want it... just keep saying that
Phoenix Archangel: Hehe I think you get your wish Anyway, it's now updated even though it wasn't exactly soon... ;;;;;;;;;;;
Aseret Kitsune: I'm so glad you like my story... and here's the next chappie
Bringer Vixtorrien: I'm so glad you like it 3
kari2500: Hehe, I have a tendency too to like it when everyone is out of the way... what confirms this is my story about InuyasaxHojo if you want to check it out... yeah... they are sooo cute and I agree that they're incredibly cute when they blush... which is why Inuyasha will find himself with a lot of blood going to his head in the future... and a certain place further down... ;; so yeah it'll probably be a lemon, ja
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Kyaa . Inuyasha in only Sesshomaru's hadori… blushblushblush drool I needn't say more… hehe… … … … GOD I so wanna draw him wearing that together with Sesschan
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