Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of its characters. Just the plot and the OCs.
Chapter Six: Unexpected encounter
Inuyasha and Kagome were currently in the modern era waiting for some friends of hers to pick them up. Inuyasha wasn't enthusiastic about that, but Kagome had reasoned that since she didn't make so many absences at school anymore, she didn't have so many excuses. She had turned them down more than a few times since the last time they met, and one meetup couldn't hurt him – or so she hoped; no one could really say what could happen with Inuyasha going out freely in her time.
Since they mated he had been visiting much more this era; he picked her and Souta up when she went to school, sometimes went grocery shopping with her mother and was starting to get used to her world. He didn't ask so many questions anymore and, especially, he had learned to ask them at home and not loudly in the crowd after a very embarrassing incident. The only things he really could not get used to were the shoes and the hat/bandana he was forced to use every time he left the perimeter of the shrine. He even started to like the tight modern clothes, even if that was probably because of the response he usually got from Kagome when he wore them. "They really make his ass great," thought her while she was finishing the last touch on her outfit. That doesn't mean Inuyasha didn't appreciate the comfort modern clothes on her provided; he even regretted that she had started wearing miko robes in his time.
That night, they planned to go to Karaoke with Kagome's friends, Kanako and her friends. She had retrieved one of her favourite skirts, and Inuyasha was ogling her from his perch on the bed. She didn't have so many occasions to dress up anymore since most of the time she spent in her era was usually dedicated to school staff. "That wimp isn't coming too, right?" Inuyasha asked, already annoyed by the mere thought.
"No, Inuyasha, Hojo is not coming. And you should stop calling him names. He's not a wimp; he's just a little bit naive."
"Keh. If he's just a little bit naive, then I'm the calmest of the men."
"Ok, maybe he lacks perception too. But you should stop getting into fights with him every time you pick me up at school. It's not like I have any interest in him, I love you, and he simply can't understand that. You'll see that if you start ignoring him, he'll come around sooner or later."
"Why should I?" he argued, "He is challenging me by saying that I'm not worthy of you. If he keeps spouting bullshit, I'm gonna shred him limb from limb even if you say that I can't."
"For the last time, Inuyasha, in this era, you can't go killing every male who challenges you, you would be put in jail, and no, you cannot escape from there. Why can't you simply ignore him? You act as he could steal me from you. You worry too much," she said before sealing their lips with an intense kiss.
"Keh."
"Inuyasha, we finally meet again," Michi shouted from their table as soon as they entered the club. While they meet Kagome more now that she wasn't missing school so much, they hadn't met Inuyasha after that last time.
"Yeah... I've been busy in the last month," he replied, scratching the back of his neck and sitting down at the table with them between Kagome and Ayumi.
"You didn't tell us what you do in life... I presume you're already working since you're older than us," Ryuu started.
"He works in the shrine. Is that right, Inuyasha?" Yuka chipped in.
"Shrine? You didn't seem the collected type that guards a shrine," Sayuri said sceptically.
"Actually, no, he only works at grampa's shrine when he's staying with us. He helps him with things that are too heavy for him," Kagome explained while Inuyasha nodded. "He works at the local hot springs, he has relieved the family business, and with the flow of tourists, one can earn a lot of money."
"Damn, I have to write down all the lies I tell them or I could create a mess."
Meanwhile, Inuyasha tried to make it seem like he already knew everything she was saying even though he didn't understand everything.
"Well, that's cool. We could come to visit you sometimes if only Beppu was so far. We don't have time for school at all. How do you two manage to keep your relationship if you live so distant?" Kanako inquired.
"If only you knew that we live together and didn't have a long-distance relationship."
It was Inuyasha who answered. "We see each other every day." Kagome would have gladly slapped a hand to her face if she could have; he had just made things a lot more difficult to explain. But that wasn't enough, apparently, because Inuyasha kept going on. "When she isn't at the shrine, she is with me in... Beppu. So it's easy for us." He grinned like he was proud of himself. The others gaped at them. "What?"
"You mean you live with her at the shrine when she isn't in Beppu with you?" Sayuri asked, shocked. He nodded again, and she turned to Kagome. "And your mother let him live with all of you? And she let you live alone with him in Beppu?"
She bitted her bottom lip nervously. "Well... you see, my family loves Inuyasha,"
"Yeah, but you're still too young to have this kind of relationship," Eri tried to say; she was more shocked than the others because she couldn't think that Kagome had kept something big like this from them.
"And why not? After all, her mother knows that we're getting married after school." He couldn't say that they already were, but her mother had also said she wanted another ceremony before Kagome left for good.
"Inuyasha," Kagome hissed, "you weren't supposed to tell that yet."
"And why is that?" he asked, befuddled.
"That is why..." she replied, pointing at her speechless friends.
"You're getting married?" Michi finally managed to spit out.
"Uhm... yeah... Inuyasha asked my mother one month ago." She finally said something that wasn't entirely a lie.
"And where is your ring?"
"Why didn't you tell us? We thought best friends tell each other everything..." Eri, Yuka and Ayumi asked aghast.
"We're going to tell you, but you see, I didn't want the school to find out. You know I'm still young, and they could have the wrong impression. For the same reason, I'm not wearing a ring." She nudged Inuyasha before he could ask 'what ring'. "But enough talking about us; we're not here for playing twenty questions after all." She laughed tensely. "Who is gonna be the first to sing a song?"
"Not me," all the males said in union.
They were at the club for less than an hour and a half when, suddenly, an older man approached Inuyasha rudely.
"Hey boy!" he said while putting a rough hand on his shoulder and trying to apply some pressure on him with poor results.
Wrong move n.1
"What do you want?" he asked back almost as rudely, nearly dislocating his arms when he removed his hand.
Everyone was looking awestruck now, not expecting Inuyasha to be so abrupt and, certainly, they didn't expect Inuyasha to respond with such quick reflexes. The man appeared to be strong, with his broad shoulder and muscled arms, and maybe, he was by usual standards, but Inuyasha was a hanyou after all. If the man was trying to intimidate him, he would have to do more than that.
"I have a matter to settle with your father, but since I can't get in touch with him, I thought that maybe it could be a good idea to send him a message through you," he explained, cracking his knuckles. "If you know what I mean..."
"Oh, really? Send him my regards if you find him. Maybe you should start looking in some other place. Last time I checked my father was long gone. Maybe that's why you can't catch him; you should try to at the graveyard," he replied, getting angrier every minute that passed. He mentally snorted; Kagome insisted that her world was safer, but then something like that happened. Was it normal that men approached that way trying to start a fight? He expected this kind of behaviour from men living in his era, but apparently, old fools existed still 500 years in the future.
"Don't play with me, boy. You looked just like him. And you're of the right age to be his son," the unsuspecting man continued.
What was this fucker saying? Looking like him? Fat chance to find someone similar to him here.
"Now, let's calm down," Kagome interrupted before Inuyasha could put his hands on the man. She could at least try to do some damage control; they didn't need the whole club to know what her boyfriend could really do, let alone the interference of the police if Inuyasha managed to have his way with the fool. "This must be a misunderstanding; his father is really dead."
The man leered at her, "Oh, is this your bitch? Maybe I could have fun with her and declared even."
Wrong move n.2
"Ok, maybe it wasn't the best move to make," Kagome thought, "Men are real pigs."
In one swift move, Inuyasha had grabbed the man by his throat and has slammed him against the wall. The hanyou was applying a lot of pressure on his neck, his claws almost drawing blood. From the man point of view, he could only feel long sharper nails prickling at his skin. Had he been able to look down at Inuyasha's hand, he would have surely freaked out. There was no way they would have been passed as human fingernails from that distance.
In the meantime, the whole room had grown silent. Everyone was looking at the brawl now, curious about the ruckus and at the young boy who had an older, stronger man hanging by the throat.
"Inuyasha! Please, don't hurt him," Kagome whispered. But her words fell on deaf ears. Inuyasha had seen red the moment the man had spoken and threatened his mate; there was no way he would have left this man run away without a scratch.
"Now, you listen to me and listen to me well, fucker. You don't talk to her, you don't look at her, and certainly, you don't leer at her. I don't know what shit you are spouting off, I don't know the other fucker you're speaking about, and I don't wanna have anything to do with it. You're gonna leave us alone and go back to the shithole you crawled out of. Did I make myself clear?" He let the man fall on his ass rudely, kicking him for good measure.
Inuyasha took a deep breath and tried to focus on the feeling of his mate behind him, on her scent, so he could calm down because right now he was dying to beat the shit of out his man, and he knew he couldn't. Damn, how he hated this era sometimes.
When he finally regained some sort of control, Inuyasha went to turn over and leave the man be when he spoke again. "That's not possible! He and his son are the only ones with silver hair and golden eyes. It must be you! I've never seen someone else like that!" He was afraid now, the boy was stronger he let on, and he began to regret his good idea.
"What?" Inuyasha narrowed his eyes. That was impossible; the only ones with those characteristics were him and his half-brother, who at the moment wasn't even in that era. He couldn't be.
"Yeah. You're him! You're Sesshomaru Tashio's son!" The man continued with more confidence when he noticed he had got some other reaction from the boy.
Inuyasha and Kagome paled. Had he said Sesshomaru?
Shin chose this moment to speak up. "That's why you looked so familiar the first time we met; you look like that businessman!"
"Bu-business man?" Kagome asked. How could even he be in this era? No one else apart from Inuyasha had ever been able to cross the portal.
"Yeah, this Sesshomaru had some large business and is filthy rich. I heard it's quite impossible to get in contact with him, let alone meet him. He's quite reserved, and it's hard to find anything about him but a couple of pictures." He grabbed his phone and started looking for one on the internet. "Here, it's him. Silver eyes and golden eyes, just like you, quite strange colours indeed. He seems more stoic than you, but I can see you two have more than one trait in common." He continued, unaware of the turmoil going on within Inuyasha and Kagome.
"More like the ice king," Kagome thought. The man in the picture was without a doubt Inuyasha's half-brother, he didn't have the facial marks or the pointed ears, but it was him in a business suit. His cold and controlled mask was still in place, and the gold eyes still held the same promise of death if someone dared to disturb him. How was that possible?
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was clenching his hands so tight he had cut himself with his claws; one could notice blood drops marring his otherwise immaculate shirt. His thoughts were not far from his mate's. Kagome took one of his hands to prevent him from doing more damage to himself and squeezed it, trying to comfort him. "That's his brother, actually, but we didn't even know he was here in Tokyo. There's no love lost between them; they didn't even acknowledge each other," she explained. "So you have chosen the wrong person to take revenge on." That said, she dismissed the rough man, who didn't make her repeat it twice before running away.
They came back to the table, and she noticed that the people around them seemed quite disappointed that no real fight took place. Kagome's friends looked at them questioningly, but she didn't care now; they needed to leave soon.
"Bastard," hissed Inuyasha, "What's doing that bastard here? How in the seven hells is even here?"
"Well, it's clear that you love each other," commented Michi, "but at least that man offered us some kind of entertainment. You looked like a bad-ass Inuyasha! You must teach me some moves; you took him down in less than a second, my eyes didn't even register you moved at all." He slapped him on the shoulder in a friendly gesture but noticed he was still pretty tense.
"Keh," Inuyasha scoffed. "Even here, that bastard is causing me trouble." Kagome eyed him, worried. It was time they came back to the shrine; it's not like they could explain why they were surprised to see Sesshomaru here. That was a problem. How were they going to resolve it?
Half an hour later, they were getting ready for sleep, and Inuyasha was still stiff. It was clear Inuyasha didn't want to approach the subject right now, and at the same time, he couldn't calm down. She reached for him on the bed and started kissing him on his neck, trying to make him relax, and he responded right away and ferociously. Moving faster than she'd thought possible, Inuyasha had her on her back and her clothes shredded on the floor. His lips were touching her everywhere; he wanted to make sure she was there with him, safe, underneath him. His hands were working on his clothes simultaneously. In a matter of minutes, he had her moaning with his finger probing her core and her lips suckling on her pulse point, leaving small hickeys behind.
They made love more than once that night, and she wondered how she had managed to be so quiet with how rough and passionate he had been. He released all of his frustration on their lovemaking, and the morning after, her mother found them exhausted and cuddled together. Inuyasha was holding onto her like she was his lifeline. She almost regretted waking them up. Without knowing they were naked underneath the comforter, she approached the couple and started calling them.
"Mmm? What is it?" Kagome asked groggily. Inuyasha remained silent, even if he was following the dialogue.
"Dear, there is someone downstairs looking for both of you." It was still early on a Saturday morning, and she had been surprised to find the cute couple outside her door asking for her daughter and her husband.
"Both of us? Who?" She hoped it wasn't someone from yesterday club; Inuyasha did attract quite the crowd after all. Had the man found them somehow?
After her mother had left the room and they were getting ready, she turned to Inuyasha. "Can you tell who they are?"
"No, their scents are masked, and they aren't speaking, so I can't recognize the voice. It seems fishy to me."
Five minutes later, they discovered how fishy the situation was. Sitting on a couch in the living room, there were a markless Sesshomaru with an immaculate business suit and a somehow older Rin.
"Hello, little brother, Kagome," he greeted them.
A/N: Finally, I introduced Sesshomaru for real in this fanfiction. You'll have to wait for the next chapter to discover his role (or better, part of it).