Inuyasha; A Feudal Fairy Tale – The Sesshoumaru Blues

Chapter Five – Illegitimate Son, Rikkimaru

The young adult Inuyasha leapt tree branch to tree branch. His glowing red kimono making him look like candy—or Santa Claus. Rikkimaru followed close behind him. Rikkimaru was in his teen years. Rikkimaru's hair had grown down to his lower thigh and he was wearing a black kimono get-up similar to Inuyasha's. After all, Inuyasha had been training Rikkimaru.

Zayane had become afraid of herself. She didn't want to force witchcraft on her son, but she couldn't let him be defenseless. Rikkimaru was a half demon, but it still put him in the demon circle of killing for power or just killing for fun. Zayane didn't want her son to be the one that go killed for fun. And in her fear, she handed over Rikkimaru to Inuyasha to be taught melee and other various combat techniques and the demon food chain.

Rikkimaru and Zayane were close, but Zayane's gift and her curse of manipulating time interested Rikkimaru. She wasn't going to put the burden on her child. Rikkimaru thought about his mother all the time and how she was little over protective but only wanted to help him.

"Hurry up, Rikkimaru!" Inuyasha called to him. Rikkimaru was falling behind, thinking about what his mother was doing.

"R-Right." Rikkimaru said, taking it up a notch. Inuyasha landed on a huge tree branch. It was a tree that Inuyasha had no idea that he'd be bound to some time in the future. Inuyasha has swooped down perching on the branch. It was funny how he resembled a dog sitting on all fours. Rikkimaru landed right beside him, doing the same sitting position that Inuyasha was.

"Can you see the shrine over the trees?" Inuyasha said with narrowed eyes. Inuyasha despised being a half demon, but what he hated more was how much Rikkimaru made it look bad.

"I guess…" Rikkimaru said timidly. He was apathetic to the shrine.

"A priestess name Kikyou guards the Shikon jewel." Inuyasha's eyes seemed to brighten when he mentioned the jewel. Rikkimaru scratched behind his head.

"What the hell is the Shikon jewel?" It was like an arrow in the chest(1) for Inuyasha. It was an insult to him, as well.

"It's a powerful jewel that has been known to grant wishes." Inuyasha said while whacking Rikkimaru up side the head.

"Ow! You didn't have to do that, you know!"

"Oh pipe down, your mom did it to me all the time. It teaches discipline!" Inuyasha clarified.

"I don't think my mother meant for it to teach discipline, more like pay attention to learn the discipline." Rikkimaru narrowed his eyes at Inuyasha. Inuyasha turned to face him with one of his typical beady eyes looks. Inuyasha poked his lower lip out in annoyance.

"Look, the only reason why you're here is because Zayane told me to watch over you." Inuyasha almost snarled. Rikkimaru gave the same look back to Inuyasha.

"And the other reason why you're here is because my mom watched over you. Weakling!" Rikkimaru threw out the insult. Inuyasha scoffed like a girl.

"You want a piece of me, Rikki?" Inuyasha abbreviated his name. Inuyasha stood up on the tree branch. Rikkimaru stood up, too, getting into Inuyasha's face.

"Yes, I'll take a piece, well done!" Inuyasha squinted his eyes, his ears starting to lay flat.

"What are you talking about, 'well done'?" Inuyasha said and remembered suddenly, but it was too late. Rikkimaru had made the seal with his hands, and then lifted his right hand to his mouth in a fist. Rikkimaru extended his pinky finger, taking a deep breath and shouted,

"Fang of Fire!" Rikkimaru blew out a chain of fire at Inuyasha. Inuyasha jumped out of the tree.

"Have you gone mad?" Inuyasha screamed on the way down.

"Nah." Rikkimaru said, following him down. They loved to horseplay together.

"I should Iron Reaver you to the moon!" Inuyasha threatened. Inuyasha and Rikkimaru sniffed the air. They turned their heads in the same direction, just in time to see Lady Kikyou release her bow at them. A sacred arrow flew past them, barely missing. "Run, Rikkimaru!" Inuyasha darted like they had done a snatch and grab at a convenient store. Inuyasha was out of sight, but Rikkimaru was frozen in fear. "Rikkimaru! Oh goddamn if Zayane finds out that I let her son eat it by a human she'd—she'd do things to me worse than death!" Inuyasha panicked.

Kikyou lined up her shot, the tension building. It seemed like Rikkimaru was the innocent doe that the sadistic hunter, Kikyou in this case, smiled their buck teeth at before shooting the graceful, beautiful creature.

"Vile demon, you cannot have the Shikon jewel!" Kikyou shouted, letting her arrow fly true. Rikkimaru closed his eyes tightly, bracing for impact as Inuyasha hid in the bushes

BLUES

Zayane glared with the sacred arrow in her hand. Kikyou stepped backwards. Everyone was shocked that Zayane showed up. Zayane didn't look a day over 20 as she was dressed more of a ninja now than a servant. She had fishnet up her body, with hand gauntlets for melee combat. Her haori was cut in such a manner it hung off her shoulders and it was sleeveless. Underneath the haori was a black and pink kimono. Zayane still wore the eye patch the Inuyasha's father had given her.

It was easy to pluck the arrow from the air when it was frozen in time. "Excuse me." Zayane said to Kikyou. Zayane was angry but kept her voice calm.

"Another demon?" Kikyou said quite loud. Zayane shook her head no.

"A Mistress of Time; a witch in short." Zayane informed Kikyou but to the matter at hand. "You just shot at my son."

"I've mistaken him for a demon coming after the Shikon jewel." Kikyou humbled herself by bowing her head. "I'm gravely sorry."

"Well, just don't go shooting anything that moves." Zayane said, her anger fading. Kikyou gave a faint smile.

"Well, he was blowing fire from his mouth at another demon. I just assumed they were fighting to get to the shrine before the other could manage." Rikkimaru walked to his mother, with a glazed over look in his eyes.

"Another demon, huh?" Zayane glared around. "I can guarantee you that my son has nothing and wants nothing to do with the Shikon jewel." Zayane snatched up Rikkimaru by the sleeve. Kikyou watched Zayane pulled Rikkimaru away.

"…He was a half breed." Kikyou muttered to herself, turning away to go back to the shrine.

BLUES

Zayane pushed Inuyasha against the wall of her modest hut. "What were you doing?"

"Nothing, I swear!" Inuyasha said putting his hands up in a 'you got me' manner.

"You'd better tell me why you around that shrine when I told you to stay away from it!" Zayane shook her finger at him. It felt like Zayane had two children instead of one. It was getting on her nerves to play babysitter to Inuyasha all the time. If he wasn't slaughtering helpless demons it was stealing something.

"I was just showing Rikki the shrine, so he could stay away from it, too." Inuyasha lied. Zayane smelled it on him.

"You reek of lies!" Zayane called Inuyasha out. Rikkimaru just sat on a straw mat, watching his mother chew Inuyasha out. "That jewel will never make you into a full-blood demon!"

"Shut yer face!" Inuyasha shouted. He didn't want to believe it.

"All the time you spend watching that jewel, you could spend training yourself to be as strong as one! Build the well before you are thirsty, Inuyasha!" Zayane had stopped calling him Lord Inuyasha once she gave birth to Rikkimaru and at times like these, Inuyasha missed it.

"I'll steal that jewel and prove you wrong, you old hag!" Inuyasha smarted.

"That's it!" Zayane snatched up Inuyasha by the doggy ear. "An old hag, eh?"

"Y-you want a piece of this!" Inuyasha cried. Rikkimaru stared in disbelief. Zayane took Inuyasha outside, throwing him into a near by field. Inuyasha stood up on his feet, scrambling really.

"Right now, you and me, a duel of Iron." Zayane said crossing her arms. Inuyasha laughed, rubbing his ear though.

"You think you can beat my Iron Reaver, old hag?" Inuyasha boasted. Zayane lifted her hand.

"I taught it to you. You will not surpass the teacher this round, half breed. Rikkimaru!"

"Yes, mother?" Rikkimaru answered from the hut.

"Get out here and count us up!" Zayane instructed. Rikkimaru trotted over to them. He stood in the middle as Zayane smiled at Inuyasha and he smiled back. Rikkimaru raised his hand, to drop it once he reached the number ten. Rikkimaru seemed bored. And that would be because he had attended many Iron duels and his mother won each time.

"One…" Rikkimaru started. Zayane pulled her arm back; Inuyasha did the same, waiting for ten. Rikkimaru gave shifty eyes as something was up his sleeve. "…Two… TEN!" Rikkimaru ran from the war zone, diving to the ground with his hands over his head.

"WHAT?" Inuyasha called, it was a curve ball.

"Iron Reaver, Soul Stealer!" Zayane called throwing her hand down, sending waves and waves of claws at Inuyasha.

"GYAAH!" Inuyasha was blown away.

BLUES

"Cheater, cheater, cheater, cheater…" Inuyasha repeated on his back, with swirling eyes. Zayane and Rikkimaru hovered over him.

"I think you over did it, mom." Rikkimaru said, poking Inuyasha with a stick. Inuyasha was unresponsive but he kept saying cheater.

"That was a mean thing to do, Rikkimaru." Zayane looked over to him.

"Just trying to keep it interesting."

"That's my boy." Zayane punched Rikkimaru in the shoulder. Rikkimaru reached for his shoulder.

"Not so hard, mom."

"Sorry…" Zayane said, reaching her hand down to the semi-conscious Inuyasha. "Come on now get up."

"No way!" Inuyasha was making sense now. "You and your son are dirty cheaters!"

"Don't blame me or Rikkimaru for your lack of training. If you were well trained and actually focused, you wouldn't be on your back right now!" Zayane scolded. Inuyasha took her hand, and she helped him up. "I'm teaching you because I don't want Sesshoumaru to kick your ass." Zayane sighed.

"He's not gonna!" Inuyasha dusted himself off. Rikkimaru narrowed his eyes.

"He did last time." Rikkimaru reminded.

"Shut yer face! Sesshoumaru was on crash course for you!" Inuyasha argued.

"You shouldn't have said the boa made him look fat. You know how he is about his girlish figure." Rikkimaru made fun. Zayane went blank faced. Rikkimaru had no idea who his father was and he had no clue that he was talking about his father like that. Zayane tried to be motherly and protect Sesshoumaru's image with punishment.

"Rikkimaru, go to your room!" Zayane pointed towards the hut.

"I don't have a room, remember?" Rikkimaru turned towards the hut anyways.

"Go to your tree or something creative like!" Zayane said. Rikkimaru walked back to the hut. Inuyasha looked at Zayane with his lips pouted.

"You should really tell him." Inuyasha blinked a few times.

"No, then he'd be emotionally disturbed that when you and he go to mess with Sesshoumaru he tries to kill you both." Zayane crossed her arms. "It's about time I met up with Sesshoumaru. Rekindle our dead love."

"Rikkimaru is a love child? Ewwies." Inuyasha made barfing noises. "I thought Sesshoumaru raped you. I could have understood that."

Zayane's face went blank again. "Inuyasha, I've told you dozens of times that it was a mutual—thing. And I'm not that ugly!"

"It's not that, Zayane. It's just that demons actually rape humans all the time, especially servants," Inuyasha winked. "Then proceed to disembowel the women in front of their children, then kill their fathers and put their heads on pikes…"

"Okay, I get it Inuyasha!" Zayane closed her eyes.

"This is just the weirdest family ever. So you're my sister-in-law, and Rikkimaru is my nephew, right?" Inuyasha was getting confused.

"I suppose." Zayane rolled her eyes. "Don't you ever think of this stuff before hand?"

"Nah. I only think about the jewel, killing stuff, and fine looking women—not being you." Inuyasha smirked at the insult. Zayane did not.

"Goddamn it, Inuyasha! Just for that, if I see you around that shrine or if you even bring Rikkimaru near it, I'll kill you! And I mean it! I'll rip your cute little ears off through your ass!" Zayane said shaking her fist at Inuyasha.

"Yeah whatever. You're more of a mom than a sister, old hag!" Inuyasha said darting off, leaping tree branch to tree branch.

"You'd better run you little hoodlum!" Zayane said like an old woman. Inuyasha and Zayane got along very well because they were both arrogant. Zayane missed carrying Inuyasha on her hip while Rikkimaru was in a makeshift baby carrier around her neck. She smiled watching Inuyasha bounce away. Then she realized which way he was heading. "That sonnovabitch is headed towards the shrine! Inumuttface!" Zayane cursed at him.

BLUES

Sesshoumaru leaned against a tree in a forest. Jaken was at Sesshoumaru side by this time. Jaken was so tired of seeing Zayane torture his master so. Jaken couldn't understand why Zayane was so disobedient with Sesshoumaru. It was a disgrace for human or demon to even act the way she did with Sesshoumaru.

"My lord, I don't think she's coming. We should leave." Jaken said, putting the staff of two heads on his shoulder, like he always did.

"…Are you trying to tell me what to do, Jaken?" Sesshoumaru looked down with his cold eyes. Jaken panicked, afraid he had offended Sesshoumaru.

"N-n-n-no, my lord! It's just that, some one as powerful as you shouldn't wait on a human!" Jaken said with a jealousy in his voice. Warm hands slid around Sesshoumaru's eyes from behind him.

"Guess who…?" Zayane said calmly. Sesshoumaru flinched in fear, but didn't show it.

"H-Hello, Zayane." Sesshoumaru stammered. Zayane let her hands go back to her side. Sesshoumaru turned around looking at her with a stunned look.

"Did you miss me…?" Zayane asked child like. She put her hands behind her back, twisting her torso. "Did you?" She didn't sound so child like that time—she sounded like a serial killer.

"Y-yes, of course." Sesshoumaru took a few steps backward. "You know, I just remember that I left a pot of tea on the stove…"

"You didn't leave anything on any stove, Lord Sesshoumaru." Jaken blew a hole through his lie. Sesshoumaru snapped his head around at Jaken giving him a look that pierced through his soul. The look told him he should have stayed quiet until spoken to.

Zayane's eyebrows burrowed. "Are you lying to me, Sesshie?" Zayane asked sweetly.

"Yes—er no! No!" Sesshoumaru backed up as Zayane started approaching him. It was all pins and needles from that point on. Zayane went from sweet to nasty.

"You're always standing me up!" Zayane took a cheap shot at Sesshoumaru going for his manhood. Sesshoumaru squeaked even though it was a miss.

"RUN, JAKEN, RUN!" Sesshoumaru called out, making a head start.

"Sesshie! Where you going? I swear I won't hit you! Let me love you!" She was sweet again.

"You—You stay away from me, woman!" Sesshoumaru pointed while running away. Zayane was hot on his trail. "You keep that son of yours away from me!"

"Is that all you wanted to say to me, Sesshie? Because I wanted to tell you I loved you!"

"She's crazy!" Jaken said running with the staff bouncing every which way.

"Sesshie get back here!" She had anger in her voice, no longer sweet. "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" It sounded like it connected, but a tree went falling in the forest.

"Would you cut it out? This is why I can't stand talking to you!" Sesshoumaru screamed. "You're the crazy, scary, baby's mama! I'm not going to take you back damn it!"

"What? You're flipping dead! Think about Rikkimaru!" Zayane got a kick out of watching some one as powerful as Sesshoumaru go fleeing from her simply because she was his, 'baby's mama.' And a crazy one at that.

"I do! I think about killing him, everyday—along with Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru yelled over his shoulder. "Where the hell is Ah and Un?"

"They are half a mile away, grazing!" Jaken said.

"Oh FUC…"

つづく(Tsuzuku)

Author's notes/Translation notes:

(1)A Kikyou pun. Sorry.

Hahaha, baby's mama—that's a good one. Please endure!

Oh wait almost forgot, to see Zayane and Rikkimaru (because they are OC, other characters) here is the link. Please dun report me for "advertising" I'm just helping the visual learners—A quick drawing I drew my self—on MS PAINT claps for self, not as great as Rumiko but it's something! cut into pieces sorry. If it's broken because of this devianart me! Zayane-Kusanagi :)

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