Ch.8
Gold eyes met blue.
Blue looked at gold.
Gold looked back.
The blue eyed human smiled and waved. "Hi."
A white brow rose and a soft, unnerved growl answered the greeting.
"My name's Souta by the way, and you don't have to say your name because Kagome did that already but are you really Inuyasha's older brother? Can you really turn into a giant dog and drip poison out of your claws because if you can that is so cool!" The human child jumped from his place on the floor to sit on the strange spinning chair next to him on the...futon? "If Inuyasha's a demon can he turn into a giant dog to? Will you turn into it now, cause I really want to see it and I promise not to take a picture of you and show it to my friends, mostly because Kagome would hurt me if I did that." The endless chatter paused for a minute as the boy frowned and Sesshomaru relaxed thinking the noise was over.
"But I don't see why it would matter if I showed a picture of you in your dog form to my friends because its not like anyone would believe it, really I think they'd probably think I found a picture of Clifford and changed the color because he's red and Inuyasha says your white when you transform. Your hair is really, really long, even longer than Inuyasha's, why is that? You're both guys doesn't the hair make you feel all girly? I mean you look enough like a girl anyway even without the hair so why don't you just cut it and make it shorter?"
Sesshomaru's eyes were wide as he pressed his head back into the cushions. He ignored the fact that the ningen just called him feminine and he silently wondered if Rin ever talked this much.
"Oh, but its probably a demon thing isn't it? Like your stripes, why do you have stripes cuz last time I checked dogs don't have stripes or moons on them, and Inuyasha doesn't have any markings like that either. Is it because you're pure bred? Oh, wow," Souta slamed a fist into his palm making Sesshomaru's eyes widen a little further in distorieation. "I"m so rude aren't I? This is the first time you've actually woken up in like, a week, and I haven't even asked if you wanted a drink or something to eat. If I got you some water would you want it in a bowl, and do you eat dog food or people food? Do you have to go out? Because I can open the door for you and st-"
"Shit for brains kid, don't you ever shut up?"
For once Sesshomaru was grateful for his little brother's appearance, thanks to his interrupting the human had stopped talking and the Taiyoukai felt he had a little time to think. And to figure out where the hell he was.
"Oh! Hi Inuyasha, I was just talking to your brother-"
"Yeah, I got that," the hanyou walked towards the pair with his hands shoved in the sleeves of his haori. "Why don't you get out of here and go play or somethin', the last thing we need is for you to get eaten."
Souta's eyes widened before he glanced at the demon besides him and bolting out the door.
Staring at the spot Souta disappeared through Inuyasha shook his head. "I will never understand that whelp. Most people would have started screaming if you looked at 'em." Turning one irritated gold eye down to his brother Inuyasha posed the question, "How do ya feel bastard? While the kid may be annoying he was right, this is the first time in a week you woke up as you and not dog you."
Licking dry lips Sesshomaru glanced around the dwelling, taking in all of the strange objects along the walls and floor. "Where am I?"
Ears pressing back at being ignored Inuyasha sat. "We're in the future-well, the future for us anyway. Its Kagome's present time." Turning his head the half breed looked into the threshold that led into the kitchen. "Kagome went out for a bit with her grandfather, so we're alone with the kid and their mom."
Memories coming back in a flurry of motion Sesshomaru stared at his younger brother. "How long have we been here?"
"Eight days."
With a surprised grunt Sesshomaru flew into an upright position only to snarl in pain as healing wounds complained. "We have to get back," Sesshomaru snarled to a shocked Inuyasha. "We have to get back, the humans don't stand a chance against Naraku and without either of us there, there will be no stopping him from obtaining the last jewel shard."
Taking the demon's words like a hit to the gut Inuyasha dropped to the sofa next to his brother. "Holy fuck, I didn't even think of that. I have to get back there and make sure everythings okay."
"Make sure whats okay?"
The demons turned when Kagome and her grandfather came walking through the front door. Sesshomaru's visions still slightly blurred from the week's long, disturbed sleep. Plus these scents weren't helping him in the slightest.
"No one, except the humans are there to protect Kohaku from Naraku. I'm gonna hed back to check up on them."
The priestess and demon started to hurry towards the door when they saw Sesshomaru standing up and following them. "You can't go yet Sesshomaru, you're still in no position to fight."
Snarling Sesshomaru ignored the miko's words and the blood trailing down his extremeties as he continued. "I don't heed humans in my time, why should I heed your words here."
Standing in his brother's way Inuyasha's ears were pressed flat. "Because she's right. You're no help in the condition you're in."
Eyes bleeding red Sesshomaru bristled, causing Souta to meep and the humans to wince. "You have no right to presume that this Sesshomaru would be of no assistance half breed. You have no say in whether I go or not."
As the males glared dominance games at each other they missed out on the pointed looks passing between mother and daughter.
"He may not, but as a mother I can not watch as an injured being goes out into battle." Now, on normal situations Sesshomaru would have destroyed the small bullet coming at him without blinking but thanks to the distortions and the odd smells...the tranquilizer dropped him like an elephant.
"Oh god, he's gonna kill us isn't he..." Kagome whimpered as she clung to Inuyasha's back as he raced to Kaede's village.
Inuyasha snorted. "Of course not. The ropes I gave to your mother are strong, not even Sesshomaru can break out of those things, especially seeing as how your gramps was planning on getting a priest to cast a spell on him." Leaping over a creak Inuyasha was slightly surprised to the fact that he couldn't smell Naraku anywhere around.
He had expected to be crying in the hanyou's stench, along with the reek of a villages worth of corpses.
Gripping tighter onto the fire rat the priestess muttered, "I know...but still. They're my family...they don't stand a chance if he broke free."
"Your ma's tougher than she looks, and if all else fails Souta can talk the guy into a coma."
AN) sorry for the wait and the crappiness of the chapter...