Psycho Demon-Witch: Thank you for all the reviews. I'm really sorry about this, but I won't be able to update as often as I used to because of college. The teachers really messed up our timetables, on one day, I have a break, then free period, then lunch. Basically I'm stuck in college for two and a half hours doing nothing. I will try to update as often as possible.
Chapter Six
The first thing Sesshoumaru noticed when he, Inuyasha and Kagome jumped into the Bone Eater's well was the fact that there was no longer any daylight. He looked up to see a wooden roof covering the entrance of the well. He jumped out of the well, followed by Inuyasha, who carried Kagome. Kagome walked up the steps and opened the door.
A wide variety of smells hit Sesshoumaru's sensitive nose. He only faintly recognized one of them as being human. The others didn't smell like anything he had ever smelt before, and he didn't like them. Even the air smelled polluted. He held a hand to his nose, and looked at Kagome. "What are those horrible smells?" he asked with a growl. Kagome looked at him apologetically, forgetting how sensitive his nose was.
"I'm sorry. It's the smell of exhaust fumes and pollution in the air. I think you can smell the waste in the sewage systems as well" she said.
"What are 'exhaust fumes?'" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Exhaust fumes come from cars, you will see one of those soon enough" Kagome answered.
"Yeah, they got all sorts of weird stuff here" Inuyasha cut in. Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. He was very curious about all this 'weird stuff'. Kagome led them to the front door of her house. She opened the door and ran in calling
"Mum, Grandpa, Souta, I'm back". Sesshoumaru heard footsteps coming from behind one of the strange doors. The door opened, revealing a woman, maybe in her late thirties with short brown hair. Sesshoumaru had never seen a woman with such short hair before.
"Kagome, you're back. Hi Inuyasha, and you are?" Mrs Higurashi asked, noticing Sesshoumaru, looking completely lost amongst the unfamiliar territory. Noticing his look she said "You must be from the Feudal Era too, right?" Sesshoumaru nodded.
"Mum, this is Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha's older brother" Kagome explained, seeing that Sesshoumaru wasn't going to do much talking today.
"Wait a minute, I recognize that name. Isn't he the one who keeps trying to kill you and your friends?" Mrs Higurashi asked with a reproachful look on her face as she looked at Sesshoumaru. She couldn't believe the demon before her was a killer. Other than the swords he kept at his waist, he looked almost harmless. Sesshoumaru flinched when he heard her tone.
"it's OK, Mum. He's with us now" Kagome said hastily.
"OK then. You don't have to be in school for about an hour, so why don't I cook us a breakfast?" Mrs Higurashi said cheerfully. Sesshoumaru now knew where Kagome got her mood swings from. Mrs Higurashi ushered them into the kitchen and told them to sit down while she took out some pans from a cupboard and food from a large white thing Sesshoumaru had never seen before.
"That's a fridge. It's used to keep food cold" Kagome explained. And that was how the next few minutes were spent, Sesshoumaru seeing strange objects, and Kagome explaining what they were. She found it easier to teach Sesshoumaru than Inuyasha, who still maintained that people's souls were trapped in the television, and she was glad of that.
When Mrs Higurashi finished making breakfast, Sesshoumaru heard a loud thudding from above him. Kagome rolled her eyes and said "Little brothers are soo annoying". This comment caused Sesshoumaru to smirk in Inuyasha's direction. In return he got a glare, to which he only raised his eyebrow. Sesshoumaru was well practised with glaring, and the feeble excuse of a glare Inuyasha was throwing his way wasn't going to make him afraid. A small figure burst through the door and ran to the nearest available chair. "Souta, did you have to make so much noise, you could have woken up the dead" Kagome said.
"Ha, waking the dead is your job" Souta said mockingly. Kagome glared and said
"Shut up or I'm going to throw your play station out a window"
"OK, OK, don't lose your hair… who are you?" Souta asked Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru's piercing gaze made shivers go up Souta's spine.
"Sesshoumaru, stop scaring my brother" Kagome admonished. Sesshoumaru shrugged and looked away from the boy, who jumped up and said
"Hey, aren't you going to tell me who you are?"
"I believe Kagome answered that question just a moment ago. Are you deaf, or just stupid?" Sesshoumaru said coolly, turning to face Souta again. Souta blushed and sat back down. This demon was clearly the opposite of Inuyasha, who would start a slanging match first chance he got.
"Sesshoumaru! Be nice" Kagome said. Sesshoumaru merely looked at her with an emotionless look before turning his gaze to the wall in front of him.
The food was soon ready, and as soon as it was set down, much to Sesshoumaru's disgust, Inuyasha began pigging his food down. Apparently this was an every day occurrence, as the Higurashi family didn't seem fazed by Inuyasha's manners. Sesshoumaru looked at his plate and at the strange food upon it. He sniffed it cautiously, but found no trace of anything deadly. He picked up his chop sticks and slowly picked up a piece of food and even hesitantly put it in his mouth.
He was surprised at the taste. He always thought that human food was disgusting, but this was quite tasty. He began to eat at a slightly faster pace, occasionally looking at Inuyasha, who had already finished. Inuyasha caught Sesshoumaru looking at him, who turned away, a small blush on his cheeks. Once they had all finished, Kagome set to sorting her bag out for school. Sesshoumaru watched her place several different books in her bag. They were unlike any book Sesshoumaru had ever seen, and was curious about them. He liked to read, and to learn. He had read many books in his lifetime and was much smarter than most demons, despite his age which was young for a demon. He asked Kagome if he could read them at some point. "Of course you can, I don't know why you would want to though, school books are really boring" she replied.
"I've read many books others consider 'boring'" Sesshoumaru said. Kagome shrugged before saying good bye to them. Her mother walked her and Souta out of the house and waved them off.
After they had gone, Mrs Higurashi went back into the kitchen. "I wonder where father is" she said. He had gone to see what junk he could pass off as an genuine charm earlier that morning, and hadn't returned.
"Who is your father?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"You don't want to know. He will try putting fake spells all over you" Inuyasha said. Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. He was fast becoming bored, so he went outside and jumped onto one of the goshinboku trees' branches. Inuyasha shortly joined him. He wrapped his arms around Sesshoumaru, who leaned into the embrace. "What are we going to tell the others? They're human, they might not understand" Inuyasha said. Sesshoumaru frowned. It was only a matter of time before they found out.
"I don't know. You don't have any regrets, do you?" he answered.
"No" Inuyasha exclaimed and held Sesshoumaru tighter. "I won't ever regret being with you" he finished before placing his lips onto Sesshoumaru's.
Sesshoumaru moaned slightly into the kiss. This encouraged Inuyashato deepenthe kiss, licking Sesshoumaru's lips. Sesshoumaru granted Inuyasha access at first, and then began to battle against Inuyasha's tongue with his own. Both moaned as their tongues brushed against each other repeatedly. Sesshoumaru eventually gave up and let Inuyasha explore his mouth. Inuyasha moved to cover Sesshoumaru's body with his own, though it was rather difficult with them being in a tree. Sesshoumaru pressed his body closer to Inuyasha's, their slight arousals brushing against each other. Sesshoumaru gasped at the pleasure it brought him. He had never experienced such pleasure before. Inuyasha ground his hips against Sesshoumaru, earning more pleasured moans and cries from him. Their hands roamed the others body frantically, needing to feel more of the other, but when Inuyasha slipped a hand into Sesshoumaru's kimono, Sesshoumaru stopped him from procceeding any further. "We can't, not here" he said softly. Inuyasha nodded, and kissed Sesshoumaru once more before resuming his place on the branch. Sesshoumaru leaned against him, and Inuyasha ran his hand through Sesshoumaru's hair. Their time alone was cut short when they heard a loud noise coming from the storage room.
They jumped down from the tree and walked over to the room and opened the door. They saw grandpa on the floor with old boxes surrounding him. Inuyasha almost started laughing at the sight. Grandpa looked at him, then at Sesshoumaru. "DEMON" he yelled and with surprising strength, he shoved all the boxes off him and reached into his pocket. He pulled out several pieces of paper and stuck them on Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru growled and pulled them off. He glared at the old man and said
"If you are going to try and kill me, make sure your spells actually work".
"What? I made these myself, they must work" the old man cried out.
"Trust me old man, anything you make won't work" Inuyasha said.
"Who is this demon, Inuyasha?" Grandpa asked.
"This is Sesshoumaru, my older brother" Inuyasha replied.
"The same Sesshoumaru who's tried to kill you and Kagome in the past?" Grandpa asked.
"Yes, so what?" Inuyasha snapped. The old man wisely said nothing more and proceeded to the house. His daughter greeted him and he sat down in the nearest vacant chair.
"So why are you here, Sesshoumaru?" Grandpa asked.
"I was curious about this place" Sesshoumaru answered. Grandpa nodded.
"What's with the stomach, I didn't know demons looked like that" he said. Sesshoumaru growled warningly at him. "Hey, it's just a question" the old man said, putting his hands up.
"Yes, but a rather offensive one. You are right, demons don't look like this unless they are pregnant" Sesshoumaru said. Both Grandpa and Mrs Higurashi stared at Sesshoumaru.
"But that's not possible, you're male" Mrs Higurashi exclaimed.
"You're daughter had the same reaction as you. It us possible, I am a Ukiyo demon, a male demon able to bear pups" Sesshoumaru explained. She and her father nodded.
"So who is the… other father of your pup?" Grandpa asked.
"It's pups. And it is a bastard by the name of Naraku" was all Sesshoumaru would say. He refused to go into further detail.
A few hours later, Kagome and Souta arrived home. Kagome had some of her friends with her. It seemed that they were keen to meet Inuyasha's older brother when Kagome had accidentally let slip he was there. Inuyasha ran to get his cap as Kagome walked into the kitchen, closely followed by her friends, and let out a sigh of relief when she saw Sesshoumaru sat down. It would make it hard for them to spot his pregnant belly. "Sesshoumaru, I would like to introduce you to my friends, guys this is Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha's half-brother. Sesshoumaru nodded at them, while they started giggling.
"You never told us he was this good-looking" Yuka squealed. Sesshoumaru struggled not to wince at the high pitch of her voice. He glared at her, but she seemed not to notice.
"Wow, look at the tattoos on his face, they are so cool" said Eri. Sesshoumaru didn't know what 'tattoos' were, but he knew that his markings weren't them.
"They are not 'tattoos', I was born with these markings" he stated coldly.
"You weren't kidding about him being cold" Arimi whispered, unaware that Sesshoumaru could here them. But Kagome knew he could here her and she gulped. She looked his way and saw him raise a fine eyebrow. Kagome smiled nervously before turning to her friends.
"Well, now you've met him, what do you want to do now?" she asked.
"We want to stay here and get to know him a little better" Eri said. Kagome sighed. It was going to be a long afternoon. Sesshoumaru didn't look too happy with this prospect either, she just hoped that he wouldn't decide to chop her friends heads off. They moved to sit near him and began firing questions at him.
"How old are you?"
"Where do you come from?"
"Is your hair natural?"
And it went on like that, with Sesshoumaru trying to ignore them. Yuka shrieked when she noticed Sesshoumaru's ears. "Are those REAL?" she asked.
"Yes, problem with that" Sesshoumaru said icily, beginning to lose his temper.
"No human has ears like that" Yuka said. Sesshoumaru glared at her.
"I am no human" he growled. She and the others froze.
"The legends are true? Demons really do exist" Eri said. Kagome sighed. Her hard work of hiding the truth from them had just come crumbling down. "Does that mean Inuyasha is a demon?" Eri asked.
"He's a half-demon" Sesshoumaru said simply.
"WOW. I never thought I'd meet a demon, where did you come from?" Eri asked.
"None of your business" Sesshoumaru snapped. "Miko, get your friends away from me before I do something they will regret" he said. Kagome gulped. She steered her friends out of the room. Sesshoumaru could hear them asking Kagome questions about the 'Miko' comment.
After a few minutes Kagome came back into the kitchen and collapsed on a chair. "They're never going to let this drop" she cried.
"I apologize, Kagome. I should not have lost my temper" Sesshoumaru said.
"It's OK, I think they would have found out soon enough, besides they were really annoying you" Kagome said.
"But still, I have always had control over my temper, I don't know why I snapped the way I did" Sesshoumaru said.
"It's your pregnancy, I thought we covered this. Your hormones will be all over the place, leaving much more emotional" Kagome explained. Sesshoumaru still thought he should have been able to control his temper, they were going to be here a couple more days and they would have to face more of Kagome's creepy friends.
Psycho Demon-Witch: Um, that wasn't as good as some of the other chapters I've done, but I will make the next one better… hopefully... heh. Please leave a review!
