NOTE this won't be Mpreg. Not because I don't like it -trust me I love InuYasha pregnant- but it would mean two problems. One, who would be the first father? Have cubs with Kouga and pups with Sessh in two rounds? I find it slightly unfair. Plus, pregnancy hurts... especially to males. Second, it would add too confusing things and I don't want InuYasha pregnant and as fat as a cow in this fic. Maybe in another fic, if I do one, or in a sequel, if I do one. Annnnnnd... well, he will need all his strength for the troubles he's going to face... as I stated I am an angsty craving fan lover.
MasterFranny: in this chapter we find out what happened with the group to make InuYasha go away. It's just like a FLASHBACK, but bear with me, because I love the idea for this chapter. Ehm, after you read it you may think I am strange and I think I actually am.
Hope you like!
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Won't include Miroku into the threesome -duh, that would mean it's a fourthsome. I'm not good at them, never did one before. Heck, this is my first try at threesomes too! Xx Ok, but if you DO want Miroku get laid with someone that's not Naraku, Sesshy, Inu or Kouga, maybe who knows, some male OC coming later, or some female OC or Sango, I'll have it. But ONLY if you want it.
Not Naraku because for how much I love Nara-kun he's the very bad guy, can't be paired with any of the good ones!
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Rating T.
Summary Naraku isn't the only problem InuYasha is going to have. A stronger youkai, coming from an old rivalry between clans, is now up to have his revenge on them… Sesshomaru/InuYasha/Kouga threesome YAOI Probably Kagome bashing
Disclaimer I will never own InuYasha. But I like it a lot, and I like to think stories for the charas -plus, I like bashing the ones I hate and hurt the ones I love.
Warning this is going to be YAOI, that means boy x boy relationship so don't like don't read. This will be INCEST too, between half brothers. This will be threesome, that means ménage a trois. Flames about that will be used to power up my fireplace. This will contain severe BASHING against The Toad better known as Jaken. And The Bitch, better known as Kikyou. And The Other Bitch, better known as Kagome.
"talking"
'thinking'
-Flashbacks, memories, dreams-
Circling Paths
Chapter 02: Disgusting
-Start FlashBack-
Sun shining above them, just like it happened every day, the group continued their walk through the country. The blue sky was graced with puffy white clouds and there was no sign of incoming rain, no sign there was a storm coming onto them. It simply was a wonderful day.
InuYasha was walking with the group, not caring about the inviting idea of a trip on the trees right now, and he was looking around as he walked, ready to intervene at any sign of danger. His golden eyes scanned the surroundings with great care, but there was nothing to fear right now -they were the only living beings around.
Next to him was Kirara, the little feline youkai in her weaker form, not sensing danger to worry about, just enjoying the feeling of the sun on her back.
Some feet behind Kagome and Sango were chatting happily about something that the two demons were ignorant to, and cared nothing about whilst the perverted monk continued walking slower, hoping for a chance to touch Sango's butt one more time -he cared nothing if he would then receive another painful slap.
It would be worthy the try.
Shippou was playfully jumping around, following a small butterfly around the path, smiling and giggling just like a kit would do. They were all relaxed and carefree, for once there were no demons, no people attacking them, no nothing.
It had been already two days ever since his little 'incident' with Kouga, and InuYasha was happy to feel his youkai blood behaving, even if he had to endure Kagome's 'osuwari' every now and then.
He was starting to believe his problem was long gone, maybe the little fight against his ookami opponent helped him ease the tension building in him -so he was relaxing as well as the others.
He knew Kagome could not understand, but as she continuously stopped him and Kouga from killing each other, it was making them uneasy and vicious, as in need of a good fight to ease the tension a little. Maybe if she had let them fight before, they would have come to better terms around each other and now would be allies instead of opponents -that if, the clan rivalry hadn't been there also.
"Do you feel any village nearby? I am in need of a good bath," Kagome stopped speaking with Sango to cast a look at the half demon walking before her.
InuYasha scowled slightly, having to snap out of his thoughts; he didn't like the last bit having to stop at villages to have the ningen girl do such stupid things as a bath.
She could just do it at any nearby spring.
But he had to remember Kagome was not just a female -females were really strange at times- but also a ningen. He knew ningens liked to live in villages and not in the forest, they loved comfort and security.
So he had to accept what she asked him, as Sango and Miroku were on her part in these matters- they do liked more to stay in villages than in the wild.
Humans need humans.
Shippou cared nothing at all to him having food was the only thing that mattered.
With a deep sigh InuYasha jumped on a nearby tree and soon enough he picked up a light scent coming from his rights, and looking at it carefully he saw a small village. Jumping back down to his friends he pointed to the right, "that way, nothing more than one or two miles, there is a village, we can stop there".
Happily Kagome fastened her pace, she couldn't wait to have a bath. Miroku stroked his chin in thought, wondering if he could exchange their hospitality with a fairly useless help against some minor demon or better, helping some rich man getting rid of a 'curse'.
They arrived at the village in short time, the sun already falling down, orange gracing the blue sky. They walked through the fields seeing people still working in them, and as they reached the first houses, they saw some children playing happily watched by some adults.
As they looked around a man spotted them, and his face lit up as he made his way towards them in a hurry. He could have been on his forties, his black hair already striped with grey, a determined expression as he looked at the group -who had saw him coming and had stopped to wait for him.
As the man stopped before them, he bowed slightly before Sango and Miroku, "you must be the great Youkai Slayer Sango, and you the powerful Monk Miroku! " he bowed again, attracting the attention of the other villagers. "We couldn't have hoped any better, we were searching for help but we didn't know where you were".
Sango and Miroku looked perplexed at each other, "if you do know us and you were searching for us, you may want our services?" Sango asked.
The man bowed again, "yes, but please, follow me... if you accept our request we will give you hospitality and adequate reward!"
Miroku's eyes lit up at the thought of a reward, whilst InuYasha merely rolled his eyes. He was expecting some lower class demon Miroku or Sango would destroy in less than five minutes, then the monk would ask for a lot of money or similar reward, pretending the demon hunting to have been hard to accomplish -as usual.
Some time later, sitting in the man's lounge -the man's name was Hitoshi, and he was one of the richest of the village- Sango questioned him about why he had been searching for them.
"It's a problem with a couple of spirits, two souls still clung to earth, they come every night, scaring us and breaking walls and roofs... we can't live anymore like this, we really need some help! I'll give you whatever you ask but please, help us get rid of them!"
It was nothing new, to InuYasha's point of view, many villages had similar problems with vengeful souls, more often demons who controlled some poor soul to create havoc.
But he saw something in the man's eyes, that made him think he wasn't telling them the whole truth.
"If they appear at night, we will stay here and we will wait for them," Miroku assured, raising his hand in a reassuring gesture. "I promise you we will calm them down!"
Hitoshi looked rather pleased and reassured as he ordered the servants to take in food for the guests, leaving them alone for the night.
InuYasha ate as always, stuffing his mouth as much as he could -forget the place and his hatred for villages, but the food, it was delicious- with little Shippou doing the same. Kagome too ate happily, she was waiting for the hot water so she could bathe, whilst Miroku and Sango quietly spoke with each other.
"Two souls, they may be demons," Sango picked up a onigiri, biting down on it while thinking about what Hitoshi said to them. "or haunted souls that need to find peace, either way we'll stay up this night" turning to Kagome and Shippou she added, "you two can sleep, and InuYasha can as well, this sounds like nothing dangerous at all".
InuYasha growled deeply in his throat but did not reply -he was still inhaling the food.
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It was almost midnight, and Miroku and Sango were wide awake, waiting for the two spirits to appear. They were walking around the village, knowing there wasn't a specific place they could appear, while Kagome and Shippou -with Kirara cuddling near them- were sleeping softly in Hitoshi's house. InuYasha had offered to help since he wasn't tired, and was now on some house's roof to have a better view.
It was him who saw one of the souls first.
Jumping down the roof InuYasha was trying to convince himself there had been nothing wrong in the man's attitude, but as he stepped around a corner, he saw him.
Yes, it was a he.
A young man, on his early twenties, floating in a transparent shiny azure veil. His hair had been cut short on his shoulders, a faint brown, and his haori was torn and messed. InuYasha stared at the spirit as he raised his hand, and a wall trembled before crashing with a loud noise.
InuYasha knew he could do nothing against a spirit, but he nonetheless sped up towards him, in a desperate try to stop the dead man from destroying the village, but he froze as the glowing spirit turned to him.
His face was down cast, eyes burning with grief, pain and sadness so great InuYasha felt a stab in his heart. This was not the face of a controlled soul or a demon, this was something different.
The man looked at InuYasha with a defeated expression, before turning to his right and floating through a wall, disappearing from the hanyou's sight.
"InuYasha!"
As the silver haired hanyou snapped out of his state Miroku and Sango appeared behind him, slightly panting, "what happened? We heard a-"
Seeing the wall crushed on the earth Miroku stopped and looked, "it was one of them?"
"Aa," InuYasha replied, blinking. He still couldn't shake away the massive sadness he felt after looking at the man's face.
He was not one of the revenge searching souls, this was something bigger, and he had been right, the man, Hitoshi, knew something he hadn't told them.
"So it was a man," Sango said after InuYasha told her and Miroku the apparition. "But why sadness? It's not uncommon to feel grief after dying, so the soul is chained to our world, but usually sadness grows into rage and fury".
InuYasha pressed his lips together, but in that moment something happened -a cold feeling rushed through his body and he shivered. Glancing at the two humans near him he saw they were shivering too, and looking before him he suddenly knew why that was happening.
A shape was making itself clear in front of the startled three, this time not a man, but a young woman with long, silky hair and wearing a tattered and dirty kimono.
InuYasha felt another wave of sadness hit him as he looked in shock at her face, mirroring the same pain, the same grief, the same sad dread that was clear on the other soul's face.
Her stare was intense and ghostly tears were glowing at the corner of her eyes, disappearing as they fell through air.
He felt Miroku stiffen near him, Sango doing the same both took aback by the strong feeling they were receiving from the apparition. The woman didn't break anything, she glanced at them in despair, and after a few seconds she turned and disappeared through a wall, the same the other spirit went in before.
As if breaking free from a spell, the three of them started moving again, releasing a breath they didn't know they were holding, the cold sensation disappearing as well.
InuYasha turned to the demon slayer who was frowning, "what was that, Sango?"
She shook her head incredulously, "I never saw anything remotely like this in all my life... Miroku, what do you think?"
The monk was deep in thought, his face serious as he replied, "I think something's happened here in the village, something we don't know... and we must find out," he looked at InuYasha, "Hitoshi-san said they appear once per night, this means they won't come back for now. Tomorrow you and Kagome will search for something that may help us with the villagers, while me and Sango will try to find the source of the power of the two apparitions".
InuYasha nodded, lost in his own thoughts.
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"Why should we search for information about this spirits?" Shippou whined as he followed Kagome and InuYasha down the hill towards the rest of the village. "Can't Miroku just chant one of his spells and have them go away?"
Kagome stared at him with a sympathetically face as she tried to keep up with Inuyasha's pace -she had never saw him so interested, or should I say intrigued, by this kind of things before.
"You both weren't there when the two souls appeared," InuYasha wasn't looking at them as he spoke. "They looked so... sad".
"I don't care as long as I get to have a bath every day," Kagome replied smiling happily.
InuYasha rolled his eyes and spotted the man that offered them his house talking with an old woman -probably Kaede's age.
"Hey, ya!" he called, and Hitoshi turned towards him, his face suddenly tensing up slightly.
"Did the monk and the demon slayer get rid of the two spirits?" he asked tentatively with a hopeful face.
"Not yet, they asked us to have a better background on who the two might have been, or else they won't succeed into giving them peace," InuYasha replied roughly. "I know you are hiding something, so spill it out!"
"InuYasha!" Kagome blushed slightly at his bluntness and waved dismissively at Hitoshi, "please, Hitoshi-san, don't be angry, he's just too blunt sometimes!"
InuYasha's ears twitched in irritation but then his nose picked up a familiar scent. It was growing nearer each second gone by, and soon the hanyou was able to recognize it -it was the damned Ookami.
Ever since their confrontation the two hadn't see each other again, and InuYasha was a little uncertain about it right now -he was sure Kouga would not go telling everyone about their speech, but still.
A cloud of dust could be seen as the wolf Prince appeared from above the hill, running towards Kagome at top speed, eyes flashing, and he stopped right in front of her, taking her hands in his own, smiling in a flirtatious way, "my sweet Kagome, how nice to see you here!"
Kagome blushed ever so slightly, smiling happily back as InuYasha felt a tremendous rush of -jealousy?- anger growing in him.
"You wimpy wolf, what the hell are you doing here? I thought you hated the human stench!" he hissed, or better, growled, as he stepped between the ookami youkai and Kagome, who merely blinked.
"Oh, the half breed!" Kouga's eyes flashed with amusement as he saw the hanyou so angry. He could remember perfectly their encounter and what the silver haired one told him, but he was positive not to act as if he cared. It had been a strange day, and he knew InuYasha was acting up to what he replied to him, but none of it would be mentioned never ever again. "Go away you stupid mutt, Kagome deserves better than you, she deserves me".
As usual, the two stared at each other with hatred, but now there was some kind of acknowledgment in both guy's stance.
Not as near as respect, but a similar feeling that could pass as acceptance.
"You two, stop fighting, InuYasha we need to do what Miroku asked us to!" Kagome was a little pissed off because they were involved into fighting each other way too many times. She needed the help of InuYasha, but maybe Kouga would help, too. "Well Kouga-kun, why don't you stay and help us?"
She started to explain the whole thing about the wandering souls, but in the end Kouga merely stared at her, then at InuYasha and at the human who was now looking as if his eyes would pop out of their sockets.
Obviously, he wasn't fond of demons.
"Sadness?" Kouga snickered. "I always knew souls suffered from rage when chained to this world, not sadness! Maybe the mutt's sight isn't too good anymore!"
InuYasha growled, "there was so much sadness in their eyes that blocked me and I couldn't move!" He turned to the man, eyes burning with rage -against Kouga that's it- and Hitoshi stepped back in fear. "So then, tell us what you know!"
"They killed themselves!" Hitoshi cowered in fear. "They were the disgrace of this village, this is why no one here wants to speak about them! They were a sin!"
"They were a disgrace because they killed each other?" Kagome frowned as she stared at the man, not understanding why they would be.
"No!" the man's eyes were now full of hatred and disgust as he continued, spilling out the awful truth. "They were lovers!"
"And? Were their families opposite?" Kagome still didn't understand.
What could be wrong into two loving each other?
"They were brother and sister!" finally, it was out. The man's face was flustered with both shame and anger, as he stared with wide eyes at them, waiting for the reaction he was expecting them to have. "It was Incestuous!"
There was silence for a moment, before Kagome's face turned livid, as if she was going to puke. Of all the things she was expecting, she was not expecting that.
InuYasha looked at Shippou, who was now on Kagome's shoulder, then at Kouga -all three of them were wearing the same confused face. They couldn't understand what the man was saying, nor why it should be so shocking.
"So?" InuYasha dared to ask, and the scared eyes of the man turned on him again, Kagome also looking at him. "What does that mean?"
Kagome tried to snap away from her revulsion enough to answer him, "it's a sin! To love that way your sibling! It's just plainly disgusting! Having... sex with your relative!"
Kouga stared at her disgusted face in shock -he had thought she of all people would know. Why was it so disgusting?
"It's sick! Insane! disgusting and horrible!" her face was now of a purple shade, she felt sick inside just thinking about it. "They did the right thing killing themselves, freeing the world from such a sin!"
Shippou glanced up at her with big eyes, "why are you saying this, Kagome? It is not wrong for family to love each other!"
"Not like that!" she screamed panting hard.
"Kagome, would you be disgusted by someone loving another of his same sex, then?" InuYasha stared intently at her, waiting for her reply. He was shocked she would think like this, he was astonished she would repel the very idea of it.
"Of course!" she turned to him, wide eyes, shaking her head madly. "There is nothing worse than two being of the same sex loving each other! It can't be accepted! I hate to think there is someone so perverted, sick, insane to love someone of the same sex! It's not natural, they must be sick!"
InuYasha, Kouga and Shippou stared in deep shock at her outburst, speechless.
They could not understand why she was talking like this. In the youkai world it wasn't uncommon -on the opposite, it was natural and normal- to fell in love and mate with beings from the same family, or same sex. Knowing most male youkai could get pregnant, and some type of female youkai possessed what was necessary to get others to conceive too -not all of them, just some races actually, like snake youkai and toad youkai- it was natural, accepted and nothing out of ordinary.
In his short life -hundred years, not counting the fifty he remained under the spell, obviously- he saw and heard of many couples of mated youkai who had been deeply in love with each other and were related or of the same sex.
The first -mating between same family members- helped strengthening the blood and the power of the progeny, contrariwise what happened in the human world, and the latter -same sex mates- was as normal as male-female mating.
None of them could understand then.
Shippou felt afraid of Kagome, the look in her eyes was scary, but he had to ask "you hate that Kagome?"
"Of course I hate it! Who on their right mind wouldn't?" she replied, as if it was the most obvious thing. "Little Shippou, you have to learn to think the right things, so you won't get sick like them!"
Shippou's eyes filled with tears as he stared in pain and sadness at her, jumping down from her shoulder like he had been burnt.
"You would hate my mom then!" he sobbed miserably, jumping up on InuYasha's shoulders, asking for comfort.
Kagome wasn't aware of the tension now building in InuYasha and Kouga's bodies, but looked in surprise at Shippou, "why should I?"
He cried harder, but did not answer her.
InuYasha stood there with a crying kitsune on his shoulder, staring in disbelief at Kagome, he simply couldn't understand how could she say things like that.
He thought her to be better than this, to be superior and not this close minded. How could she speak like this, especially knowing Shippou's 'mom' had been a male?
Maybe she didn't know, but still, InuYasha was sure it wouldn't have changed how she was thinking. Maybe then she would have rejected Shippou as well, because son of a 'sick and disgusting unnatural' couple.
He couldn't but feel furious.
Kouga was going through same trail of thoughts -except the part involving Shippou, he didn't know about his 'mother', not before hearing him saying that to her however- and he asked himself how could he have fallen for such a person, who couldn't accept that love -mating, because youkai mated for life, but in human terms it could have been love, or marriage- cared nothing about sex or ties.
It was a mushy and unusual thought from such a direct and stubborn youkai, but every demon knew that love knows no boundaries nor gender.
It was normal.
How could she say something this painful and horrible? One could not -and must not- decide for another being, each one controls his own life, and that could only depend on how much their decisions matter for them. She couldn't act as if the world had to spin like she wanted, because she couldn't rule on the hearts of other people, youkai or ningen.
Heaven -or Hell- depending on how much your choices in life mean to you.
She decided it would be Hell.
"They killed each other because the village rejected them," InuYasha stated looking at the man. He couldn't even look at him without wanting to hit him with his claws, and instead not waiting for an answer he looked at the tense Kouga, "I know you may not want to help, but you know what you have to find".
Kouga nodded and took off, this time not using the Shikon no kakkera in his legs but running slower, his head turning around.
InuYasha turned to Kagome and the man, who were both looking as if they were still oblivious to the three's tension, both had calmed down -especially Hitoshi after Kagome's outburst, that had reassured him she was thinking the same as him. It was clear they both believed Kouga, Shippou and InuYasha were of the same advice.
"I'm sorry, but we won't be able to help the village with the two souls," InuYasha's voice was cold and filled with thin hatred that Kagome didn't detect, but she looked in shock at him.
"Why! They have all rights to get rid of the two sinner souls!"
Shippou was past gone crying now, just looking strangely emotionless at Kagome, as if expecting her to take back her speech, or just say she was sorry. But she was utterly puzzled and a little angered at the Hanyou so she didn't acknowledged little kit's distress. She was too used to people doing what she told them, and she was too blind to see how much she hurt the kitsune.
"It can't be helped," InuYasha's voice lacked the warmth it once had -it seemed so much time ever since he last spoke with warmth- but the iciness was lost to the ningen girl as she stared in disbelief at him. InuYasha knew he couldn't stay any longer in her presence, just like the other time he fled, but this time it was different though -it wasn't his blood demanding him to go, but his heart.
He'd been hurt too, but he couldn't leave until Kouga returned saying he'd found what he was searching.
"It won't be helped," he replied with a little bit of venom. "we will leave as soon as I performed it".
Kagome stared at him, performed what? She couldn't understand why the silver haired one was now so angered and the only thing she could think was that he was disgusted too by Hitoshi's admission. InuYasha must have been utterly disgusted by the sin the two committed and was now eager to leave -she was of the same opinion.
She would regret not helping the man thought, and she had to ask InuYasha why they couldn't be helped, but the hanyou simply took off, Shippou still resting on his shoulder with a dull expression.
She bowed to the man, saying she was sorry they couldn't help, but had to follow the half demon in a hurry, coming to walk at his side.
InuYasha glared at her, he knew he couldn't have her change opinion, he knew people had their rights to think whatever they wanted to, but she hurt him, she hurt Shippou, and even Kouga. He couldn't stand to look at her anymore, knowing she was rejecting the very essence of being youkai.
Maybe this was a human thing, maybe she had been just raised this way but still -it hurt.
He had thought humans to be better than that. He had thought her to be better than that.
"Why can't we help them, InuYasha?" she was a little sad about it, he could tell, but not because the two lovers had to kill themselves to get free of the hatred of their own village, but because she wanted to free the village from their distressed spirits.
"It's something they have to get rid by themselves," he hissed, knowing he couldn't keep himself from snarling at her anymore.
The two spirits had regrets for the living word and wouldn't leave until the ones who rejected them would understand and accept their love. But the village would never understand, would never accept, so the two were bound to infest the village forever, until someone gave peace to their suffering souls.
When he saw the man and he looked at him, the massive amount of sadness had InuYasha's heart double in pain, as the look in the woman's eyes. They couldn't be with each other, trying every night to find their love, wandering through the village in pain and loneliness, destroying walls so to demolish the barriers between them.
If they had to stay haunting the village forever, then they had to be together.
"InuYasha! Kagome!"
He heard vaguely Sango and Miroku run towards them, and he felt Shippou leave his shoulder to jump on Sango's. Kirara, who had been with Sango and Miroku, stared at him and then at InuYasha, sensing their tension but not understanding why.
"What happened? We tried to follow the scent lingering on the souls with one of my spell scrolls but it failed once at the end of the village..." Sango looked at InuYasha's fuming frame and then back at Kagome, who was somewhat distressed as well, and staying behind she turned to little Shippou, her eyes curious, "what did InuYasha do this time?"
The little kitsune kit stared up at her, down cast, before looking away and mumbling under his breath, "it was not InuYasha this time, it was her".
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Kouga sniffed the air, knowing exactly what he was searching for, and looked around. The scent of the humans was tick and unpleasant for him, too used to youkai's, lingering around him from every directions, having him cringe in disgust.
It was not just the simply human smell that had him grimace, but that particular human smell.
Humans who hated the very idea of being a youkai. He couldn't believe it, couldn't believe Kagome was one of them. She always looked like she would accept everything, she accepted his story when he told her he was in a war against the Birds of Paradise, she accepted his bloody past -even when she found out he'd killed many humans to feed his pack- she accepted the idea of a hanyou as a worthy being -another guilty twinge there at the thought- she accepted the idea of youkai to be bad but some to be good as well, but she couldn't accept that.
How could he decide she would be the one he would mate with? How could he after seeing her acting?
He was disappointed to see how wrong he had been considering her worthy his time, as well as worthy InuYasha's own time. He wouldn't want to fight anymore for her, not after that, and he was sure the hanyou wouldn't want to neither.
Kouga couldn't know if InuYasha would forgive her, he knew the ningen girl longer time than him, but he himself was sure he would never ever forgive her.
Shaking his head to clear it from these thoughts he finally picked up the scent he was searching for -the scent of dead, the smell of decomposing bodies.
Quickening his pace he run at top speed -the maximum speed he could muster without using his shards- and halted himself in front of what appeared to be a cemetery.
He looked around hastily, trying to detect some specific smell, but it was harder since he had never saw the apparitions and he couldn't see their aura. He was not a miko, luckily.
After a while he stood sniffing around, with closed eyes, he caught a strange smell coming from the right, and turned his head without opening his eyes.
It was just like the other smell of dead corpses, but held something more in it, just like a bud would smell in-between full grown flowers, or a sour fruit would smell in-between more mature ones.
It was something no one could pick up but a youkai, the thing that could help a youkai detect what mikos could easily see as aura, or ki emanation. It took sometime to actually detect it, but Kouga managed to and followed the different smell until he was in front of one grave.
Sniffing it with care he could feel another lingering scent and soon detected the second grave.
He sped off, now searching with his enhanced senses InuYasha's scent, and soon came to a halt in front of the distressed hanyou. He saw the slight change in his acting, and knew he wasn't far from snapping too, so he merely pointed at the cemetery, "up there," he said calmly.
He cared nothing for the other two humans as he sped up again, this time knowing InuYasha, the feline youkai and the kit were following.
"Hey! where are you going! What is Kouga doing here!" Sango's question went unheard as she, Kagome and Miroku tried to chase them, but they were soon left behind.
Kouga thought, with a little twinge of amusement, this was the second time that he and the Hanyou were actually agreeing about something. But this was between youkai and InuYasha was still part demon.
Staring at the grave before him, and then at the other one far away, InuYasha felt a wave of anger building up deep within him. He knew what to do, he knew this was something that had to be done.
As Shippou explained to Kirara in a low voice what they had witnessed, having the little feline cry out in both rage and shock, InuYasha kneeled before one of the two graves.
It wasn't even a full grave, not like the ones humans usually buried the dead, it was just a hole now covered with soil, there was not even a name on it, the corpse hadn't been purified when buried, no one prayed on the tomb for the sake of the soul.
He could just ask Miroku to pray later. He would do it, he was a nice person after all.
Digging his claws deep in the soil of the grave he could feel a slight burning feeling as he did so, waves of energy flickering around his fingers then up to his arms, but just for a second, then the resistance vanished.
He picked up two handfuls of soil as he looked up at Kouga doing the same, with Shippou and Kirara watching, then he looked around and spotted a free spot on the grass, and laid down the soil on it. Kouga did the same, mixing the two different soils together.
Then he dug a little hole, not bigger than four or five inches, and let the mixed soil fall inside, covering it completely.
As he finished this and stood up again near the hanyou, some sort of glowing appeared around the mixed soil, raising in the air soon changing into the form of the two souls.
Both were transparent and their faces were still sad, bu as soon as they intertwined their fingers a soft sad smile made its way on their pale faces, and both lovers looked gratefully at the four demons.
The woman's lips moved to mouth a silent 'thanks' before both disappeared in the sunlight.
They could never find peace because their regret was deep laced with the villagers' acceptance, and since no one there would ever accept their love, they were bound to stay and haunt the village forever.
There were no names on the new symbolic grave, no one would ever know who the two were, no one would remember or try to accept.
But at least in their misery they stood together.
Kouga breathed deeply then turned to the hanyou next to him. "For how much I care, little mutt, you can have the filthy girl," he stated with a growl, "she wouldn't be the mate I am searching for".
"There I was thinking something similar," InuYasha replied with a sneer. He was still bound to follow her because of the rosary, of the shards and because of the hatred against Naraku, but his feelings towards her had changed none too subtly. "But there again, this means I finally get rid of your annoying presence, you wimpy wolf!"
"Don't be too sure mutt face, I want my own revenge against Naraku so we will see each other as soon as Naraku is around," with this Kouga the Prince of the Ookami clan smirked wickedly and stormed away, this time using the shards' power to disappear in a cloud of dust.
Shippou stared at the grove in silence before looking up at InuYasha one more time, "are they happy now?"
"Sort of," replied InuYasha, unusually calm. He then turned towards him and Kirara and felt the scent of his ningen friends come his way.
He didn't want to see Kagome right now, he knew he needed some time to actually reflect and he knew he would calm down, seeing he couldn't change Kagome's mind but he needed her to find Naraku.
Right now he didn't want to risk to say -or do- something that could ruin their alliance, and he was sure that by staying there he would.
"Tell Miroku to pray over this grave for their souls, don't let Kagome stop you" he told the little kitsune before turning away.
"Can I come with you as well?" pleaded Shippou, he too surprised about his request, but felt his mood sober when InuYasha shook slowly his head. "Another time" he murmured before jumping high, disappearing above a high tree near the cemetery.
As Miroku, Sango, Kirara and Kagome stopped near Shippou, he looked at them once, before sighing. He was not that smart and he was really too young to understand it all, the only thing he knew was that Kagome would hate his 'mom' and she would hate all youkai if she knew, even him.
He could forget it for a while, maybe even act as if nothing happened, but deep inside all of them would remember that day.
-End FlashBack-
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MasterFranny: I know, strange chapter. I hope you will understand what I meant by writing it. Hope you like it, and review me to tell what do you think. I know, Shippou's mom surely was not a he, but come on, it was a wicked idea. And for my fic, in my world where I can do whatever I like, she is a he.
Blame me.
Hope it wasn't confusing... and sorry if it was too short.
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