A/N: I am truly upset by my writing in this chapter :( I'm losing my touch and school is killing me and my ideas. Help? Maybe some plot feedback from you guys could help some. Enjoy :D
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Like a Battery
Disclaimer: I own nothing except Tao and da bebii! :D
Inuyasha looked down at his nephew. He could have sworn that the kid wasn't breathing—he'd checked like 5 times now. What the hell was Sesshoumaru thinking attacking his own kid like that? 'Then again…I was attacked by him too before and honestly it was tough getting him back to normal. I had to bite him—like REALLY bite him-the last time he went psycho.'
He sat down on the bed next to Tao and brushed some hair from the boy's face. As much as he looked like his brother, he looked so much more like Kagome. He remembered when she and he had been dating back in middle school. They were inseparable back then. Always did the boyfriend girlfriend thing and held hands and kissed. Then they realized soon that they were more suited as a sibling pair. Then Kagome had met his brother and OH BOY Inuyasha wasn't gonna lie and say he was happy about that. He was hurt and angry and pretty much wrote Kagome out of his life. That is until she was in a car accident and had broken her leg and 3 ribs and was requesting to see him only him at first.
He'd gone to hospital and seeing her lying in the bed all bandaged and bruised, he broke down and told her he was sorry for everything and that he never wanted to be apart from her again. She forgave him. She was his best friend and the only person he's ever truly loved.
He'd been stuck in a rut around the time when Kagome was pregnant with Tao. He'd been laid off of his 2 jobs and he couldn't get into a decent university, and his girlfriend had just broken up with him, and yada yada yada. The day Tao had been born his brother had been away in Osaka for business junk and couldn't get a hold of for whatever reason. Kagome went into labor while she was helping him clean his nasty apartment. She was just walking into the kitchen when he'd heard a yelp. He'd gone into the kitchen expecting to see her electrocuted or something but instead found her standing in the middle of the kitchen with her pants soaked. Oh boy.
Long story short—he was the one that held Kagome's hand while she gave birth to Tao—CORRECTION he was the one who had his hand broken while she gave birth. His hand still didn't work right. Sesshoumaru had flown in as fast as he could and was there within the hour of Tao being born. He'll admit that he had a pang of jealousy when he watched Kagome and his brother gaze down at their child with love and pride. He'd wanted that.
Tao coughed next to him and stirred slightly. He opened his eyes and looked around slowly before looking at Inuyasha-then he lunged at his uncle with a fierce snarl. Inuyasha caught him and held him tightly in his arms. Inuyasha felt his demon side dominate and begin to calm down Tao before the boy just stopped struggling entirely. He was like a limp doll in his arms. "Get it together Tao!" He said, shifting towards the bed again. He pried his nephew off of him and set him down on the bed, pulling back the covers.
"Uncle…dad—mom.." Tao gasped, trying to keep his eyes open. They continued to roll into the back of his head. He was sounding parched for water. Grabbing the cup from the bedside table he hefted his nephew up and tipped it down into the kid's mouth. Tao coughed and finally managed to swallow. When he was sated, Tao moved to sit himself up. He looked at his hands and found them shaking. He vowed to himself that he never wished to see his father's power again. At least against himself. Tao could still feel the earth shattering youki his father had exploded with. That was the aura of a true demon…and Tao had never been so afraid in his life.
He shifted and felt his breath stop in his lungs-his shoulder and arms were in so much pain it was practically paralyzing. "Did father go to mother?" He wheezed, willing the pain away. He could feel himself begin to heal but being a hanyou made things take longer and were a little more painful. He looked at his uncle and saw the pain in Inuyasha's amber orbs.
"Yeah…when I charged in he was sitting over you looking like he was in shock." Inuyasha scoffed crossing his arms and standing up to pace around.
"He was shocked at attacking me or because he found out mother's pregnant?" Tao asked solemnly, berating himself for being stupid for letting his father find out. He knew it was going to happen eventually, but in a different country and on a supposed vacation? Ugh…
"Both. Finding out that his mate is pregnant with his kid like that is like taboo of some kind-some kind of demon crap that I don't give a shi—poop about." Inuyasha answered stopping at the balcony windows and peering out into the city. "I know your ma didn't want Sesshoumaru to find out at all but seriously—you can't hide things from my almighty brother. It just doesn't work."
Tao nodded and looked down at his hands. They were red, probably from his youki coming out and trying to overpower his father. He sighed and felt the need to cry. NO. He wouldn't cry. He was supposed to be strong. His father would berate him for being weak. His father… He didn't know what he should be feeling right now. His father practically almost killed him… 'Am I angry? Do I hate him? What am I supposed to feel in a situation like this? I've never had to deal with something like this. What's going to happen with mother? Father had better not doing anything to her…' Tao glanced up at his uncle, and in turn his uncle looked back.
"Do you know where they've gone?" Inuyasha asked, stopping his pacing and crossing his arms. He looked worried too. Tao nodded.
"I have an idea…where they may have gone… but we have a problem."
"Okay…and what could be worse than what your dad could be doing to your ma right now?" Inuyasha scoffed.
"Can you give me a piggy back ride? I don't think I have enough energy to walk."
"….you're serious?"
Tao grinned slightly. Inuyasha began to mumble incoherent things and threw his hands up in obvious defeat. Tao picked up on "ramen" and a sharp "KEH" in the mumbo jumbo before his uncle knelt next to the bed. He mustered as much energy as he could and gasped slightly in pain while finally getting onto his uncle's back.
"Hang on tight kid. Man….when did you get so big?" Inuyasha said, groaning in slight discomfort. Tao didn't answer. He just clasped his arms around his uncle's neck and rested his head down.. 'Mother…I hope you're all right…'
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Kagome knew exactly where she was and what was happening she just chose to not open her eyes and acknowledge the oncoming conversations. Or yell-fest. Whatever you wish to call it. She never should have kept it a secret…otherwise she wouldn't have been kidnapped from one of the most successful moments of her career-in front of millions of people I might add-or she wouldn't be dealing with an EXTRA pissed off youkai. Taking a deep breath she made a decision. Opening her eyes she looked around—willing her eyes to adjust to the darkness. Looking around she finally saw a dark figure crouched low to the ground across the platform from her. Kind of creepy when you sort of forget that it's your husband you're with. Silly Kagome…her husband was trying to intimidate her. She wouldn't let that happen.
"Are you awake?" She heard his voice. What a silly question.
"What a silly question, when you knew before I opened my eyes." She said, gripping the metal railing next to her and pulling herself up rather awkwardly. She looked up at the man across the tiled floor, after dusting herself off, and sighed. She opened her mouth about to say something when she felt the sudden immense pressure of his youki and he was suddenly standing in front of her. She caught her breath and made the instinctive move to back away. She felt suddenly nostalgic…saddened for her memories of past days came back to her when she smelt his musky smell. His cologne…his masculinity. He was so close to her.
"You're a fool, Kagome…" He spoke. Did his voice just shake? She noticed his fists clenched. He didn't have his charms on. At the moment he was pure beast. Wait what? A fool?"
"Excuse, me? What the hell do you mean a fool?" She asked incredulously.
"I had every right to know that the child is mine. You were foolish enough to think that this Sesshoumaru would never find out?" His voice was shaking more with every word. She had no idea he would be this pissed.
Kagome crossed her arms and shifted her way to one leg and quirked an eyebrow. "As far as I'm concerned Sesshoumaru, you gave up any rights to know anything about me or my business when you went after that tramp at your office."
Silence.
"Don't change the subject, woman." He practically snarled—his teeth grinding together. Kagome gulped a little, hoping her panic wasn't noticeable.
Kagome sighed and turned the other way. She'd known about "the other woman" for a long while now. She was used to smelling so many different perfumes in her life of work that she could easily distinguish the good from the bad and the ones she owned and what she didn't. She SO did not own any nasty American perfume by that Paris Hilton woman. Waaaaaay too fruity. She never had to ask Sesshoumaru where he'd been because she'd smelled it faintly on his business suit blazers. She had no idea what had driven him to do that—okay she did and it was mainly her fault but she would never cheat on her husband or anyone for that matter. They needed to figure things out. This baby should grow up with a proper family but if her husband was going to be a prick about what he should have every right to know of…
Sesshoumaru attempted to lessen his beast. He looked her standing before him and felt himself calm even more so. She was his woman and was pregnant with his child. She was talking but he wasn't listening. He was just taking all of her in. She hadn't aged since they'd married. She was lovely and vibrant—and he'd driven her away. But… He felt his youki surge again—'how damn audacious of this woman to think that she could hide something from this Sesshoumaru.' His blood began to quicken and he reached out and whirled her around and crushed his lips down onto hers.
His mate. His woman. She was struggling against him—fighting for dominance. To get away. He would have none of it. He took his hands from her arms and threaded his fingers through her obsidian locks; continuously ravishing her mouth.
Kagome struggled against his firm hold on her and she failed. 'No... Stop it! I don't want this!' He was leading her to the wall behind her and she felt her back make contact to the cold surface. His kisses were intoxicating…she could feel herself spiraling into the black hole know as Sesshoumaru. This wasn't right. She'd worked so hard to not give in to going back to her husband after all these months. He wasn't listening to her! He wasn't in the right state of mind to listen to her—his beast was only laughing at her words.
Enough.
She chomped down on his lip and he recoiled—ripping himself away from her, his hand going to his mouth. She licked her lips and tasted his blood. She looked at him and plastered herself to wall even more. He was not happy. He was furious.
Sesshoumaru looked at the blood on his hands and licked the spot where his wife had just bit him. Does she know what she's done? He could feel his beast creep back around—it was telling him to kill his disobeying mate. She was standing there looking like a wild woman—her hair tousled because of the wind and blood—HIS blood—on her lips. There was a gleam in her eyes that made him want to take her now. Right here. To show her who was the dominant one.
"What the fuck…" She said. He wasn't used to her cursing. Closing his eyes he willed his youki back—far back. When he felt the power blocked, he opened his eyes once again.
She watched him will his power back. He was a lot calmer now. She was so angry she was shaking. He was just standing there and then suddenly destroying her mouth and then calming down. Make up your mind! Her head screamed at him. She was about to give him a piece of her mind when he did the most unexpected thing.
He dropped to his knees and bowed to the floor. She looked at him as he'd just told her that he'd wanted a sex change. What the crap!
"Sessh. Hey what're you doing?"
"I am sorry." Kagome could've sworn that 3 things happened at once.
1. A huge meteorite had hit the planet
2. She peed herself
3. Sesshoumaru really DID tell her that he wanted a sex change.
"Um…Sessho—" She started but was cut off by him standing up.
He stood up. He wouldn't look her in the eye. He couldn't. Who was this man? Where did the stoic man she'd married run off to? It made her uncomfortable.
"Tao is here." He said. Huh?
Sure enough, she saw a blur hop up onto the railing and then sink down on the floor. Inuyasha helped Tao off his back and she saw that he was lethargic and unable to stand up on his own.
"Tao! What happened to you?" She asked, hurrying over to him—completely forgetting about her husband. She knelt down and took her son into her arms. He was looking at her with such a sad look in his eyes.
"Are you okay mom?" He asked, noticing the blood on her lip. 'Father's…'
"Yes I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" She was checking him over making sure he was okay. "What happened to you? Why are you all bruised and pale?" She looked up at Inuyasha who was standing with his arms crossed over them. His eyes flicked over at his brother. Kagome stiffened.
"Sesshoumaru….what did you do to Tao? What did you do to our son?" She asked her voice scarily monotone. She felt a hand on her face and she looked down at the said child in her arms. 'When did he get so big? Sheesh…'
Silence was her only answer and she looked back at her husband. He was standing with his back to all of them; the only thing remotely mobile on his body was his hair blowing slightly in the wind. "Don't blame father, mother. He was only surprised when he saw you on tv."
Kagome looked back down at her baby. Sesshoumaru hurt him…her husband…the father of her child hurt her baby. She could never forgive him. EVER. She struggled to stand and nearly fell only to be caught by Inuyasha. Tao was getting some strength back; he could stand at least now. Kagome turned and looked at her brother in law. "Take Tao. You guys are going back to Japan tonight."
Both Inuyasha and Tao began to protest but she was firm with her decision and held her hand up, effectively silencing them both. She pointed towards the direction of the hotel and held her gaze with Inuyasha. He was staring back before visually becoming uncomfortable by her stare. He swallowed and looked at his brother's back over Kagome's shoulder before looking at his nephew. Tao was beginning to sweat profusely and he was on the verge of tears; because of pain or because of the results that were beginning to abound with his parents. Without a word, Inuyasha sighed and grabbed Tao and they flew off the balcony towards the streets below. Tao was yelling for his mother-or was he crying? Inuyasha didn't know. He only knew that he could feel the immense pain and chaos his nephew was in watching his parents get farther and farther away from him.
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Kagome felt a lump in her throat form as she watched her son yell for her as he was taken away by Inuyasha. She needed to end this. Now. Turning towards her ever-stoic husband, she finally felt something akin to courage and pure fury rush trough her. It was now or never.
"Sesshoumaru." She spoke, cursing herself for allowing her voice to shake. He responded right away much to her surprise by turning around right away just staring at her. 'Oh crap. Now I'm intimidated.' She shifted her weight from one foot to the other. She was nervous now and everything she'd wanted to say wasn't there anymore. Wait-she did.
"So. What do you have to say for yourself?" She crossed her arms and quirked an eyebrow and had to mentally smack herself at how silly that was. He also quirked an eyebrow at her. 'Get it together Kagome!'
"Okay. Please explain yourself to me. I can understand you being mad at me but-"she took hold of his hand, something surprised her—"why did you use your demon against Tao? Why did you attack our child?" Her voice was barely a whisper.
He looked down at their hands and looked at her. "You lied to me. I became enraged—blindingly so. Tao tried to stop me and I reacted instinctively." That was his curt reply. Kagome didn't know what to think of it. 'He should've been able to know the difference—right? Does he become too induced in chaos when his beast takes over that he can't discern friend from foe?' Kagome felt herself become madder.
"So basically…you could attack any of us at anytime without any knowledge of who we are? You could kill us and not care?" She said. His hand squeezed hers and he tugged her against his chest. She struggled against him, taking care of her stomach that was in the way. "No! Let go of me!"
Everything happened so fast—one second she was being held rather forcefully and the next she was sprawled out on the floor having been pushed out of the way by something. She could hear snarling and feral sounds behind her and she sat up, holding her stomach and gasped. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were pretty much at each other's necks, clawing and snarling—both of their eyes were beat red. 'When had Inuyasha gotten back? Where was Tao?' A sharp pain in her abdomen brought her back to earth. 'Oh God….baby please be okay! Did I fall on my stomach?' She stood up and leaned against the balcony railing.
The snarling continued and she felt a feral feeling come over her. She had to end this. NOW. Running forward the best she could and literally jumped on her husband. She threw her arms around his neck and bit him as hard as she could on the throat-directly above his Adam's apple. Everything thing ceased and she hurt nothing but the rushing sound of her blood in her ears. She was suddenly thrown back into what she found out later Inuyasha. He grunted at her impact. He wound his arms around her and began borderline snarling at his brother once again.
Kagome tasted iron and realized that her mouth was covered and full of Sesshoumaru's blood. She didn't think she'd bit him that hard but wow. 'Please let this work…' Sesshoumaru snarled and wiped his neck, sniffing the blood mixed with her saliva and then training his eyes onto her. With a sudden woosh and blast of wind Kagome heard him yell—which sounded like more like a howl—and disappeared over the edge of the railing. Her eyes were wide in shock—her body reacted at the sight of her husband jumping and she moved forward. Inuyasha moved with her and they both made it to railing. Looking down was pointless—it was night. 'He couldn't be dead right? He's jumped from higher places before….oh my god. Please let him be okay!'
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I am thoroughly upset with this chapter. I'm losing my touch guys. I hope things change when college is done for the summer. =/
\\\\\\\The biting deal is a submissive gesture towards the alpha male in wolf packs and among dogs. It's basically showing the Alpha male that he's the boss and that you'll obey him./