A Feudal Fairytale Retold

Chapter 05 : Sesshomaru, Youkai Lord of the West

Author's Note: Hello! Sorry about how long it always seems to take me to update this story… (not that I don't take long on ALL of them…) but this one especially. It's the hardest to write… I think its because I'm trying to follow Rumiko Takashi's work (I use the graphic novels, hehe) and add my own twist to it. Its hard and I only have the first two novels! Hehe.

Warnings: Profanity. Violence. The works. Nothing too bad…

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Slap.

Inuyasha sat up in his sleep, holding his cheek. It took him a moment to realize why he had just smacked himself.

"Myouga." Inuyasha sniffed and let the little flea fall to the ground, flat as a pan cake. "What do you want?"

"Inuyasha-sama," Myouga stood up and straightened himself up, "Is that all you have to say after all these years!"

Inuyasha raised one eye brow and then it clicked in his mind. He'd been under a spell for the last… well, fifty or so years… (he'd have to ask Kagome later). Although it seemed like only yesterday to him…

"Oh yeah." Inuyasha smirked, "What have you been up to?"

Myouga fell over but quickly stood back up, "Catching up will have to wait, Inuyasha-sama. Your lord brother has been spotted not too far from here! I seen him with my own eyes the other day! Something must have drawn him from his Western Lands, Inuyasha-sama, and I feared it was your awakening… but I see he has not attacked you…"

Inuyasha snorted, "I'm not worried about the likes of him! Myouga, what do you know about the jewel shards?"

Myouga smiled slightly, "Still after the Shikon no Tama, I see." He shook his head, "I only know that they've been scattered all across the lands. It will take forever to find them all."

"Hah!" Inuyasha laughed, "Not for me! I've got my own personal shard detector."

"What?" Myouga asked, "What is that?"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and pointed to the two women sleeping on the ground. "That one, on the right."

"Ah! I noticed your companions..." Myouga nodded, "That girl has the ability to sense the shards? How is that possible? Only Kikyo… forgive me Inuyasha-sama…"

Inuyasha ignored Myouga's mention of Kikyo's name, "Turns out Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation…"

"Is that wise?"

"What?"

"Is it wise to travel with the reincarnation of the woman who both stole your life and your heart?" Myouga had to ask, despite the hand that Inuyasha raised and that landed painfully on top of him.

"Don't bring up things that don't mean anything now! Kagome isn't Kikyo, she's Kagome. And she's nothing like her either…" Inuyasha sniffed, "Kikyo was beautiful and intelligent."

"And she betrayed you."

Inuyasha smashed him again, "Shut up, Myouga. I already know that. But Kagome isn't like that. I can tell."

Myouga frowned. Since when had Inuyasha become a good judge of character. "I suppose I will have to stick around and determine if I agree with you…"

Inuyasha raised his hand again. "I don't need you to baby sit me anymore, Myouga!"

Myouga cowered down slightly, "Inuyasha-sama! I served your father loyally and I have served you since your birth. It's my job."

Inuyasha snorted and shrugged. Then he threw his hands behind his head and looked away, "Whatever. Stick around if you want."

Myouga nodded and indicated to the other sleeping form on the ground, "And who's that, Inuyasha-sama?"

Inuyasha glanced down at Sango. "Oh… her?"

"Yes." Myouga nodded.

"Well. I sort of gave my word that I'd protect her for all time, or something like that… only for exchange of Kagome's help, of course… so I guess… I'm sort of stuck with her."

Myouga blinked.

Then he shook his head.

Inuyasha glanced at him from the corner of his eye, "What?"

"She does not seem like one who needs protection." Myouga mused aloud. "I can tell by her sleeping habits. Look, its obvious that she is sleeping deeply, but I believe if anything were to come within… say five feet, she'd be awake and alert."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Lets test that theory." He moved his foot and knocked Myouga out of the tree.

Myouga landed on Sango's face. The taijiya twitched in her sleep. And then she opened her eyes and stared at the little flea sitting awkwardly on her nose.

Inuyasha smirked as Sango continued to stare at Myouga. Then she lifted him up by the back of his shirt and sat up. "Where did you come from?"

Inuyasha blinked and so did Myouga.

"Um. I sort of… look after Inuyasha-sama…" Myouga said. This human woman was… gorgeous. Sango smiled slightly.

"You must be a very strong and brave soul, little flea."

Myouga laughed. Inuyasha frowned, "What's that supposed'ta mean?"

Sango looked at him from over her should and smiled, "Nothing, nothing…."

Kagome snored lightly in her sleep and flopped over. Sango smiled and put her hair into a pony tail. Myouga was sitting on her shoulder, tempted beyond temptation to…

Slap.

Inuyasha laughed as Sango held Myouga out before her. "You bit me!"

Myouga bowed his head, "Forgive me Sango-sama, your blood… I've never had any quite like it before…"

Sango thumped Myouga back towards Inuyasha, who caught him. "Don't get a taste for it, flea."

Inuyasha smirked. He remembered himself saying a similar sentiment once. But Myouga never learned… "Wake the girl up."

Sango glanced at him, "Let her sleep a little longer."

"No."

"Yes."

"No, we need to leave."

"Not yet we don't."

"I say we do and that means we do!" Inuyasha growled.

Sango narrowed her eyes and then she crossed her arms, "Don't make me say it Inuyasha. Let Kagome sleep a little longer. We had a lot of excitement yesterday. She's new to the whole fighting for your life. She's not like you and I. We know what its like to be in battle constantly." Sango didn't show it, but she was slightly surprised about the connection between them she had accidentally revealed.

Inuyasha was slightly baffled for a moment as well. And then he growled, "You had better not say it!"

Myouga blinked, "What is this 'it'?"

"If I say… um… cover your ears Inuyasha…" Sango said.

"How do you know it will work?" He growled out. Sango shrugged.

"I don't know…" She then smiled, "Even if it doesn't, you can handle it, can't you?"

"Yeah." Inuyasha placed his hands over his ears, "Whatever."

"When I say Osuwari-"

BAM!

"-he falls to the ground…" Sango frowned, "Looks like it didn't work."

Inuyasha picked himself up off the ground, "Dammit! Stupid girl!" He sat down beside her and crossed his feet and arms.

Sango laughed and quieted as Kagome snored slightly. She looked at Myouga (sitting comfortably on Inuyasha's shoulder), "So are you going to be traveling with us?"

"Only when there's no danger," Inuyasha answered before Myouga could. Myouga frowned at Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha-sama, why are you so cruel?"

"What? Its true!" Inuyasha growled.

Suddenly, he and Sango both snapped their heads up, "What's that!" Kagome bounced up, her miko senses picking up on the force even in her sleep.

"I don't know," Inuyasha stood up, as did Sango and Kagome. "But I don't like it."

"Its headed right for us." Sango said quietly, lowering her voice for reasons she wasn't quite sure. But whatever was headed for them, was very, very powerful.

"Shard?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.

"No." Kagome shook her head, "I don't sense any shards."

"Damn," Inuyasha murmured, "Probably after ours. Get ready…"

Then they saw it, stepping over forest with little more than a lift of its foot. Kagome's jaw dropped, "What the hell is that?"

Inuyasha looked at Sango, who had grabbed hiraikotsu. She looked at Kagome, "An ogre, I believe. I've never seen one…"

"Is that a carriage?" asked Kagome, pointing towards the sky, "Look there's a woman inside!"

Inuyasha's eyes widened as the carriage neared them, "M..mother…" His voice was so soft, but both girls heard him.

"Your mother?" Sango asked.

"No… she's dead…" Inuyasha growled. "What the hell is this?" he shouted loudly as the carriage stopped above them. The ogre moved closer, but stood fifty feet or so away from them. And then they saw him.

Sitting on the shoulder of the ogre was a youkai who resembled Inuyasha, but with more elegant features. He stared down at them, his eyes focused on Inuyasha.

"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha growled out, "Is this your doing!"

"I'm flattered that you remember me." Sesshomaru said, his voice carrying although he spoke softly, "My disgraceful hanyou brother."

Inuyasha gritted his teeth from the surprised gasps behind him. He clenched his fist and retaliated, "What the hell are you doing with my.. my mother!"

"I have given her new life," Sesshomaru smirked, "As you can see, she's very happy to see you."

"Inuyasha!" His mother's eyes filled with tears, "Its true… I have come ba-ACK," The chains around her tightened. Jaken and several imps controlled the carriage.

"LET HER GO DAMN IT!" Inuyasha shouted, jumping into the air. Quicker than any could follow, Sesshomaru knocked him out of the sky. Sango hefted hiraikotsu and threw it at the carriage. It slammed into it and burst threw the other side. Sango jumped into the air, knocked an imp away, and caught Inuyasha's mother. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes as he watched her.

"You're traveling with human women?" Sesshomaru shook his head, "How fitting."

Sango and Kagome both narrowed their eyes, "Go away you…monster!" Kagome shouted before helping Sango and Inuyasha's mother.

Sesshomaru looked amused. Inuyasha had picked himself off the ground. He growled, "Leave them out of this Sesshomaru! Why have you brought my mother back to life?"

"I suppose we might as well get this done with," Sesshomaru shrugged, "I've come to ask you where our father's grave site is."

"How the hell should I know?" Inuyasha growled.

"Not good enough," Sesshomaru cocked his head towards the ogre, "Attack."

Inuyasha's eyes widened as the huge hand came pummeling towards them. His mother shoved Kagome off and jumped in front of Inuyasha and the world was white.

Sesshomaru smirked as the dust cleared. Inuyasha had entered the illusion. Now it was only a matter of time before he knew what he had come to find out. The wenches were- he paused. Where was the other one? His eyes widened and he ducked as hiraikotsu passed over his head.

Sango stood behind him, "Tricking Inuyasha with a youkai born of a mother's love for her lost child…" Her eyes got bright with pain, "How cruel…"

Sesshomaru noticed the boomerang come around again, which he easily sidestepped. "How did you manage to escape her magic? In fact, how did you even know it was a fake?"

"I'm a youkai taijiya," Sango growled, "I didn't know at first, but I sensed no human soul."

"Well, bravo, bravo." Sesshomaru chuckled. "Answer my first question."

"I'm quicker than I look."

"Obviously." Sesshomaru snorted as Sango made a bee line towards where Inuyasha and the youkai were. He caught her around the back of the neck and dug his claws into her skin. Should he release the poison? Maybe in a moment. "But you're not quite fast enough."

"Bastard," Sango growled out, "I have to help Inuyasha!"

"Not yet," Sesshomaru smirked, "but maybe in a moment. I do not care."

"How could you do something so cruel to your own brother?" She asked suddenly, her eyes bright.

Sesshomaru tossed her on the ground, "Easy. He is a hanyou. He is worthless."

"Worthless?" Sango cried out, "He's your little brother! You should protect him not-" Her voice died away and Sesshomaru appeared in front of her, grabbing her around the throat.

"Blood means nothing." He growled out, "He is not worthy to be my brother."

"No Sesshomaru," Sango managed to get out, "You… are… unworthy…"

A growl. He stared her dead on for all of a moment. Then he tossed her aside once again, "I will kill you later."

"Why not now?" Sango growled out, picking herself up off the ground. She unsheathed her sword.

"I have what I came here for." He grinned.

"What?"

Just then, Sango saw Kagome drop something into the water. The illusion broke and Inuyasha was released. She could not hear what he was saying, but she darted after Sesshomaru as soon as she saw him move. He had Inuyasha around the throat.

"I never imagined it could be in such a place. Can you imagine this Sesshomaru being so blind?" Sesshomaru said rather conversationally. He knocked Kagome away with his free hand before pointing his index and middle fingers directly in front of Inuyasha's left eye.

"Trust our father to hide his grave in such an odd place. 'The left black pearl..'"

"What the hell… are you babbling about?" Inuyasha growled out. He could see Sango helping Kagome to her feet out of the corner of his eye. Good, they were both alright.

"'A place one can see, yet cannot be seen… A place its own guardian can never look upon…'. He certainly conjured a lot of power to do this. Must have really wanted to avoid desecration to his grave," Sesshomaru laughed and then plunged his fingers into Inuyasha's eye. Inuyasha screamed in pain.

Sango ran forward and slashed Sesshomaru across the back with her sword. The youkai lord whirled around after tossing Inuyasha aside and backhanded her. "I should have killed you before."

Sango skidded to a halt and lifted her head up, wiping the blood that trickled down her chin, "Too bad, huh?"

"No matter," Sesshomaru began to run forward, "I'll do it now!"

Inuyasha jumped in front of Sesshomaru and the two brothers collided. Sango scrambled to her feet, only to be knocked back down as the two slammed into her. Kagome was hitting Jaken with his own cane, "Are you guys okay?" She cried out.

Sesshomaru quickly untangled himself from Inuyasha and Sango. He levitated into the air above them, "Die." A flash of his clawed hand and power shot forward.

Sango's eyes widened as the blast was blocked… by the body of the mother youkai. Inuyasha was holding onto her shoulders, his head turned in shock.

"She saved us…" He whispered in a breath.

"She was born from the love of a mother… who had lost her child." Sango's voice caught in her throat, "He used her…"

Sesshomaru smashed his foot into what remained of her body. "Worthless fool."

"I'm sick of you saying that," Sango growled out as Inuyasha helped her to her feet.

Sesshomaru looked at her but chose to ignore her words. He caught Kagome as she was running by and took the cane from her, "I need this." And then he tossed her aside much like he had done to the others. He dropped the pearl on the ground and slammed the staff down. The old man began to laugh. Jaken grinned as he came running.

"The seal's breaking Sesshomaru-sama!"

A black vortex appeared and without another word, Sesshomaru and Jaken descended into it.

"Inuyasha, you should go after them! I'm sure your father was trying to hide some great treasure!" Myouga bounced up and down on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"You really do vanish when danger comes…" Sango mused to herself. Inuyasha shrugged.

"I don't care about some stupid treasure- Hey Sango! What the hell are you doing?"

Sango had one leg in the vortex, "I'm going to kill that bastard."

"Sesshomaru would crush you." Inuyasha shot back.

"Wait for me Sango-chan!" Kagome cried out and ran forward. Inuyasha rolled his eyes but followed her. Myouga conveniently found himself elsewhere.

"Here goes," Sango said and she vanished. Kagome and Inuyasha jumped in right after her.

Myouga sat high in the tree Inuyasha had occupied when peace had dominated the day, "They might just make it… maybe…" He then frowned, "Actually. Probably not… not against Sesshomaru!"

And the little flea shivered.

Yes! That is all!

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