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Inuyasha: What a drama queen...
October 31, 2004
3:06pm - Afternoon
Knock. Knock.
The red wood door was opened, and Inuyasha looked at his brother, his amber eyes outlined in red from his silent tears, his son and wife where still asleep, as he looked away from Sesshoumaru's amber gaze.
"I'm guessing it wasn't a call, since she is still mute...I presume anyhow" came his serious voice as he shut the door and followed Inuyasha to the living room.
Inuyasha handed him over the letter and envelope, what neither realized was that Kagome had awoken and was listening in their conversation.
"She's still in southern Japan..." spoke Sesshoumaru having sniffed the letter.
" So she's been adopted...that's good for her, she did spent most of her life as an orphan. I'll contact Yura, she's still examining her empire, so she'll probably go to the south to see if she can find her again. Its been 10 years Inuyasha, I'm sure if she knew about this, she'd cry knowing you where still devoted in finding her." spoke Sesshoumaru as he pocketed the letter, and gave Inuyasha a serious look.
"I say it again, I apologize since it was Jaken that was half responsible for her leave. Also he's still refuses to say who he gave her to that night." came the cold tone with sligh venom in his voice.
"Sesshoumaru...I think I should find her...I failed to get her 10 years ago, I should do it now...Kagome will understand, it will be only for a couple of weeks..." muttered Inuyasha, unknowingly to him that his wife heard all of it and misunderstood it, she was crying thinking he was leaving her.
Inuyasha's eyes widen instantly smelling Kagome's tears and swiftly got up hearing the door slam shut, he ran after his wife. Sesshoumaru stayed knowing it was best to leave the two alone and the fact Ryu was still home. He merely took out the letter and gave a small sign and closed the door Inuyasha failed to do so.
'Demon arts...just what is this about Rin? Who did this to you?' he thought as he listened to his nephew coming down the stairs.
"Uncle Sesshoumaru?! Where's mommy and daddy?" asked Ryu as he looked up at his incredibly tall uncle.
"Solving their problems, Ryu have you ever seen this woman?" asked Sesshuomaru as he kneeled down to atleast be near Ryu's level, he took out his wallet and went into the back of it and took out a photograph of Rin with Yura the night during the party.
"Once, when daddy was in the guest room and watching some old video's Aunty YuYu and her came up alot. Daddy doesn't know I saw it though." came Ryu's reply as he looked scared for a moment.
"Are you going to tell daddy?" he was worried for an instant before masking it, one thing he knew about his uncle he was never happy to see weakness.
"No. I won't, just wondering if you've seen her. Ryu do you know why your a half demon and not just a quarter?" he questioned Ryu once more.
"Mommy says it's because when I was still in her tummy that grandpa Inu-no-tashio performed demon arts that made my third human half into a demon one." came his reply once again.
"Correct. That is all Ryu, also don't tell your parents I asked you any of this understood?" asked Sesshoumaru standing up while looking down at his small nephew, who nodded in response.
"Ryu, come with me. I have work to do, unlike your father I catch up during the weekends, and I doubt they'll be home for awhile" spoke Sesshuomaru with a simple tone as he quickly wrote a note explaining their son's whereabouts, and waited for Ryu to grab his black leather jacket and wrap his red bandana over his puppy dog ears.
'Great, he resembles Inuyasha in his punk years, only with black highlights.' he thought with a frown and locked the door with the spare key he was intrusted with.
October 31, 2004
3:45pm - Afternoon
"Hey uncle can we go to the train station? At school Ms.Abi started a pen-pal program and my pen-pal is coming to Tokyo today, can we go meet her? She's from the south!" spoke Ryu looking up at his uncle hoping he would say yes.
'Geez, they give off reports and programs middle schoolers usually have' thought Sesshoumaru with a frown as he walked towards the station.
"Her name's Mikadzuki it means crescent moon, but since her name's so long she likes to be called Mika." spoke Ryu as they walked to the station, Sesshoumaru didn't have emergency work to do, but he'd rather do boring paperwork than slowly realize that his nephew had indeed inherited his sister-in-law's chatterbox mouth.
"She has two siblings and is my age, her grandfather taught her to speak, since her mother can't, and I don't think her father's alive...her only father like figure is her mother's caretaker." spoke Ryu as Sesshoumaru entered the train station and looked around seeing it was indeed more fuller than it was 10 years ago, he used jet's and plane's but not trains when he travelled during business.
"I'll be back, the south train is here!" spoke Ryu as he went over to where the passengers were coming out of.
A family of six came out and they wore surprisingly warm jackets with hoods covering their heads, they must have lived in a southern dojo, since by scent it was that of unpolluted forestry wood, only dojo's that Sesshoumaru's father had ever visited could have.
Ryu took out a letter, most likely from his pen-pal and looked around, finally the smallest figure of the family of six took off her hood and took out a similiar letter and smiled at Ryu as she ran to him. Leaving her family, and the side of a slightly taller figure, but another taller than the other four figure instantly watched her walk away and slowly followed her.
"Ryu Tashio?" she asked with a small hopeful smile at the boy only a couple of inches taller than her.
Ryu smiled back at her and gave her a toothy grin.
"Mikadzuki Takahashi?" he playfully asked her. The girl gave a small scowl at the name Ryu said and stuck out her tongue showing her small fangs in the process.
"I told you in the letter to call me Mika!" she gave a glare up at Ryu who smirked at her in amusment.
Sesshoumaru's amber eyes trailed down the small girl, her navy coat was unbotton to reveal herself and her outfit. She had mid-back long silver white hair with parted bangs to show a navy headband, she had pointed demon ears but her scent was that of a half-demon's and her eyes where a familiar onyx-brown color. Her skin was just as pale as Sesshoumaru's, and her hair the same shade as his as well.
She wore a fushia purple sundress with blue and white flowers on the bottom flare, with a pair of white single strapped sandals and a blue scarf belt on her hips, that tied into a cute bow on her side, she had a tail, white just like her hair but puffyish. Sesshoumaru couldn't help but stare at her tail silghtly longer than nessessary, since it resembled his own tail which he concealed, though his wasn't as puffy but more silky, it was only puffy when he himself was a child.
'I never knew their where was another clan of silver dog demons in the south' he thought as he looked at the 5 year old girl.
"Mika, you shouldn't leave your brother's side like that." came a serious and low voice belonging to a man, and Sesshoumaru's amber gaze looekd over to the taller figure that had followed Mika to Ryu.
"Oh! Akayume! You startled me! I left with a reason, my pen-pal came to meet me after I told him I was coming today!" she said cheerfully.
Akayume was just finished having a glance over by Sesshoumaru. He was only a couple of inches shorter than Sesshoumaru, about Inuyasha's height. He had pale skin, paler than Sesshoumaru's it resembled sheet white. He had a muscular body like any humaniod demon that looked quiet young would have, he could've been about 28 years old by glance.
He had silky mid-back long pitch black hair with side bangs not covering his forehead at all. His face was extremely smooth and had no marks at all, he wore a black high collared shirt that was unbotton to show his toned chest and black stringed cross necklace. That was put over his neck mulitiple times to give it a 'sexy' effect. WIth matching black dress pants on and black shoes, he wore one glove and his other hand was bare and as pale as the rest of his skin that made him look 'sexy' to the teen population.
He had a 'emo sexy' look to his face, and Sesshoumaru could instantly tell that he was a demon, his coal black eyes looked over to Ryu and Sesshoumaru and slightly narrowed from their already sharp form at Mika.
"Mika, its time to go also we have to talk." he said in his dark, low voice that left Ryu with a small shudder.
Mika only nodded not realizing the cold aura he gave off and said her goodbyes to Ryu.
"I hope we can see each other soon Ryu!" she said gleefully as she left in the arm's of Akayume, she was indeed small for her age and the man left to the rest of the hooded family waiting for them.
Sesshoumaru watched as Akayume gave the girl to another figure who she gave an apologic smile, he assumed it was the brother she had wondered away from. Akayume moved to the thrid tallest figure and grabbed a slender arm only a female woman could possess and pulled her away quickly while motioning the other's to hurry.
Sesshoumaru walked past Ryu, silently motioning the smaller boy to follow him, they had spent enough time their, truthfully Sesshoumaru had been reliving the past when Ryu searched for his friend, the cries of Yura as she weeped in public, and the quick flash of onyx-brown eyes that had such a fearful pained look as it left with the zooming train.
October 31, 2004
5:35pm - Afternoon
Sesshoumaru was doing paperwork, and made his slutty secretary care for the furball he called a nephew. Once he finished the paperwork, he opened one of his locked cabinets and took out an old book.
"Atleast I keep a copy here..." he muttered under his breath and placed the red leather book down on his desk, it was big and looked ready to fall apart from old age.
On the front of the large book was a simple cursive written title 'Demon Arts'. Sesshoumaru opened it and flipped through the book. He did this for about five minutes until something caught his emotionless amber eye.
"Hn...This is just an extention on what happened to Ryu as an infant inside his mother..." he said boredly and closed the book, knowing he hadn't found what he was looking for.
Putting away his book, he decided it was best to ask for advice from the one man he trusted when it came down to serious things like this. He dialed his father Inu-no-tashio's number.
RING! RING!
CLICK.
"It's quiet unlike you to call me at your office Sesshoumaru." spoke an amused voice that sounded strict yet fatherly.
"I know father. I told Inuyasha the same thing when he called me." came the cold and low response of Sesshoumaru.
"Inuyasha called you? Hm...what is this about Sesshoumaru?" questioned Inu-no-tashio as he waited for his son's explaination.
"What can you tell me about demon arts, and of Rin having been shown them?" came the serious voice of Sesshuomaru as he stood up and lookng out his large window and down below at the busy streets of Tokyo.
"What?! Exactly what is this about Sesshoumaru? You know as much as me that demon arts have certain spells to change female humans on one thing. The flow of a child fathered by a demon inside the womb." spoke Inu-no-tashio in a panic like tone hearing this.
"I know that, it can only play around with the timing of expected child if its more than one or in Inuyasha's son Ryu's case make only a small quarter of them half, which is why he's half human and not a third of it." replied Sesshoumaru as he listened to his father's unnatural tone rise up.
"Sesshoumaru, why was Rin brought up into this? Its been more than 10 years and we hadn't been able to trace her! Why are you bringing this up now?!" questioned Inu-no-tashio as Sesshoumaru continued to look out his office window with a great view of the blue sky.
"...A letter was sent to Inuyasha, it was from Rin." was all Sesshoumaru said before hearing a click on the phone knowing his father was most likely coming to his office, turning from the window he pressed a button on the intercom on his desk.
"Kagura. I can hear you threating my nephew from in here, your fired." spoke Sesshuomaru as he heard Kagura give a cry and run into his office begging forgiveness.
"I'm sorry Mr.Tashio, he's a little demon!" she tried to defend her actions while wearing the too tight and too small business outfit.
"Technically, yes he's suppose to be a demon, but he does have human in him, thanks to his mother" replied Sesshuomaru while motioning to the door.
"Kagura leave or I'll call security." he said in a cold deadly voice, while leaning back at the front of his desk slightly and seeing Ryu come in crying after having been threated and having an ear piercing scream hit him in his sensitive puppy dog ears.
Kagura continued to try and gain back the dignity Sesshuomaru had melted away by one look. Ryu walked up to his uncle, rarely ever seen crying infront of the intimating man, but even he didn't like the bitchy secretary that was rude and stunk, so he decided to play the defensless part.
"..." Sesshuomaru picked up his nephew with ease, who was wiping his eyes and making sure to face Kagura whie doing it, Sesshoumaru moved his other hand to press a button beside the intercom and waited for a minute as two guards came to pick up the shameless Kagura.
"Always knew she was a bitch, but to make a kid cry? That's low, even for her" muttered the guard to the other, as he motioned to little Ryu who had finished wiping his eyes.
"AH! THAT KID IS A DEMON! FINE! FIRE ME! BUT KNOW THIS TASHIO! NO OTHER WOMAN WOULD EVER! AND I MEAN EVER! BABYSIT THAT LITTLE PUNK!" she screamed and struggled against the guards as Sesshoumaru let Ryu go, who only looked up at him.
"So no one else wants to take care of me as you work?" he asked carefully as Sesshoumaru shook his head.
"Your a Tashio, and one of our curses is that females tend to never leave us be. Their will be another secretary to play with you soon. Mainly to appear sweet." he responded to the smaller boy.
Ryu could only nod at Sesshoumaru before sitting down and playing with his red bandana he had just taken off. Sesshoumaru sat back down and lazily watched his nephew amuse himself, and reached into his pocket to take out the letter and read it over once more before taking in a deep breath, the scent of the letter came to his nose and he let out his breath out quickly.
'...Why the hell is it like sweet toxic to me?!...Just like 10 years ago...' he thought bitterly as he moved the note to the end of the table and turned away from Ryu to look out his window again.
Ryu watched his uncle act strange, he caught the scent of wild flowers, like as if they were in unpolluted Japan, but that was usually in the forsetry down south. He gave another sniff and felt the scent relaxing it was a mixture of wild flowers and a rainforest after a rainstorm, both naturally calming.
He continued to play with his bandana as he watched his uncle look awayfrom him and the piece of paper he had taken out that smelled of the natural scents. It reminded him of Mika's scent, except her's wasn't that distinct, she had a more waterfall and wild flower scent to her.
"...Unc-" began Ryu only to be inturrupted by the door slamming open.
BANG!
"Sesshoumaru! I'm here what is this letter from Rin!" commanded Inu-no-tashio as he stromed into the office only to freeze, having realized Ryu was their and listening to everyword, and Sesshoumaru just lazily turned to his father from his sitting spot and former window direction.
"Father. I'd ask you to restrain yourself of any questions until a new secretary comes in to take Ryu away and play with him." spoke Sesshoumaru as he looked at his door to see his brother's secretary Sango Taijiya, the only human in the building who didn't drool over him or his brother, the only decent woamn, and from a line of demon-slayers.
"Excuse me, I came to care for my boss's son Ryu." came her strict voice, it was usually playful but when she was in the presence of higher authority and stronger demons she showed she was a deciplined woman.
Sesshoumaru nodded and Ryu ran over to his father's secretary, he knew her well, well enough to know she was nice, and whole lot nicer than Kagura Onigumo.
As Sango gave Ryu a small smile and picked him up. She gave a quick bow dismissing herself with Ryu who started to play with her hair and chatted animatedly with her.
Inu-no-tashio heard the door shut and gave Sesshoumaru a serious look from his own amber eyes that lost their fatherly spark.
"Sesshoumaru, about this letter..." he was more calm than when he came bursting in and waited for Sesshuomaru to look away with his own cold amber eyes.
One hand motioned to the letter at the end of the table he worked at, and Inu-no-tashio picked it up reading it over. His amber eyes widen slightly after finishing reading it, but held a confused gaze as he read over the last sentence.
"Demon arts..." muttered Inu-no-tashio as he looked at Sesshuomaru who took out his demon art's book again.
"I've checked and I couldn't find anything worth looking into..." replied Sesshuomaru as he looked at his father who held a serious deep thought look.
"Sesshoumaru...do you think it's possible the night she was raped...Rin...could've been pregnant?" asked Inu-no-tashio in a slightly low tone as Sesshoumaru's eyes widen slightly and almost held an pissed off look to them.
BANG!
Sessohumaru slammed both his hands onto the desk before him angrily and had stood up while retorting to his father.
"Father. Do. Not. Suggest. Something. So. Crude." calmly spoke Sesshoumaru venom in his voice, as his amber eyes glared at his father as he sat back down.
"Accept it Sesshoumaru, the proof is infront of you! The only way for Rin to be touched by a hint of demon magic, would be if she was expecting! As we know her, she would never want to kill a child she would claim innocent despite how she got it!" barked Inu-no-tashio not bothering to hide his own anger.
"Something tells me, she was accepting triplets, since it says 'In 94. Was when it began, 97. It continued, and 99. It ended. Demon Arts.' Sesshoumaru summon that imp Jaken NOW." barked Inu-no-tashio as he slammed his own fists onto the table and infront of Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru pressed a button on his intercom while giving his father a look that could kill. Both son and father narrowed their amber eyes at one another. Finally a knock at the door broke their glaring contest and with venom in his voice Sessohumaru spoke.
"Enter..."
The door opened to reveal a small impish figure that seemed to resemble a ugly swamp green toad. He wobbled to stand infront of the two taller men with deadly vibes emitting from them, while the door quietly shut closed.
"Jaken...If you once again evade from answering me, I will personally kill you, now that the stakes are higher than ever" spoke Sesshoumaru his eyes promising death as venom seeped into his words.
Jaken gulped, his beady black eyes looked away waiting for the question he knew was coming, he glanced down at his arm, where their was still a mark form 10 years ago.
'That wench Yura attacked me senselessly, and no matter how hard the doctors tried they couldn't get rid of alot of the marks she gave me...what's so important about that other wench anyways, I remember her always smiling and happy, and she knew Sesshoumaru...' he thought with a small frown.
This time Inu-no-tashio stepped forward and began to speak with such authority, Jaken quivered like he did with Sesshoumaru, he feared he'd beat him like Sesshoumaru often did.
"10 years ago, in 94. You Jaken Imka did something awful, you took someone under the care of the Tashio's and gave her to someone who raped her, making her so out of reality that she fled Tokyo. Now we have found a trace on her, you remember well what happened to you, when Yura got her hands on you, and what Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha did to you after that, if you do not answer me truthfully I'll give you over to Inuyasha who's dying to get his fangs in you, to rip you into shreds, painfully and slowly." spoke Inu-no-tasiho as he looked down at Jaken who only gulped at his words.
"Who did you give Rin to, 10 years ago?" he questioned as he leaned on Sesshoumaru's desk, who gave Jaken a look to kill.
"...I cannot say..." muttered Jaken as he looked down at his impish feet.
"Jaken. Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, either you tell me, even if you have to whisper it into my earm or I'll rip you limb from limb in here!" barked Inu-no-tashio while Jaken began to shake.
Jaken looked over to Sesshoumaru who only continued to watch him like a hawk, mouth in a thin line, and giving off a deadly vibe.
He slowly walked up to Inu-no-tashio and motioned for his ear, he complied by bending down slowly and when Jaken muttered a name into his ear, Inu-no-tashio's amber eyes widen and he swiftly threw his arm back, slamming Jaken into a wall in the process.
"HOW DARE YOU!" he shouted with rage as he grabbed Jaken from the floor and gave him a good shake.
Sesshoumaru stood up and walked over to his father, he deeply wondered who it was and when he put an arm on his father's shoulder to calm him down, he didn't expect to be suddenly thrown across the room and slammed his back onto the wall opposite from where his father and Jaken were.
BAM!
Inu-no-tashio looked over to Sesshoumaru who was getting up, just in shock having gotten a sudden trip, no real damage.
"Clair to explain why you did that?" he asked with his usual cold tone while getting up and glaring at his father.
"It's better I tell Inuyasha first, so I can calm him down." was his only reply as Jaken was thrown out the door swiftly.
Sesshoumaru raised one eyebrow at his father but nodded none the less at him. He stood away from the wall he had been thrown at, and followed his father out the door.
"Sesshoumaru, it's best if you get your brother's secretary Ms. Taijiya to cancel your afternoon plans, and to give Ryu to his mother. She does have Kagomes number..." spoke Inu-no-tashio as he headed out of th building first.
'Just what did you hear father...' questioned Sesshoumaru in his thoughts. He only went into the direction of Sango who continued to care for Ryu.
"Sango. Cancel all my appointments, and send out an ad for a new secretary for me, also contact my sister-in-law to take Ryu home. I have to go" was all he said to Sango who quickly wrote everything down.
Inuyasha: ...Why'd you end here?
Shananrui: Because for one, I had writters block and I thought it would be a waste to not upload the chapter so their! sticks out tongue at Inuyasha
Inuyasha: Your so immature!
Shananrui: Oh! This coming from temper tantrum himself!
Inuyasha: ...Stupid. Anyways ignoring Shananrui REVIEW!