Yay! I just found more coffee! I'm so stoked… so, thanx to all my reviewers so far, and all you people who have fav'ed and put this story on alert. You guys rock!
Anyway, onwards, me thinks.
Inu no Taisho stood watching the beautiful dark haired human slump to the ground and lost consciousness; he could see a burn mark on his cheek, and could smell his eldest sons venom in the air. Turning to his sons, his eyes lost their warmth; he saw their state of dis-haven, saw the blood and barely healing wounds.
He felt disgust at the thought that his sons were fighting to what seemed to be a death match.
"Son, what is your name?" he asked the youngest, recognizing the puppy ears that lay on top of his head as the same he had seen the day he had died.
The hanyou started, and then bowed like his brother. "Inuyasha." He said simply. He could see Sesshomaru was itching to speak
"speak, Sesshomaru."
His eldest looked up, the disbelief barely evident in his cold eyes.
"How are you here, father?"
"You know perfectly well how I am alive without the help of my fang."
"But the only thing that can bring a demon back is the power of a true mate..." he said off handedly, only to watch as his father raised an eyebrow, shifting so that he better shielded his mate. "Him?" the shock was evident in his gaze, and it was obvious his father knew he just tried to kill the boy. He might hate the fact that his father loved humans, but even he would never intentionally kill his fathers true mate. "Father-"
Inu no Taisho ignored him, turning instead to pick up the battered body of the boy.
"We will discuses this later."
Sesshomaru bowed his head, shamed at the disappointment in his father's words.
The older daiyoukai turned in the direction of the western palace, only to pause when he noticed Inuyasha had not stood to follow.
"Inuyasha, are you not coming?"
"W-why would you want me to come with you? I'm just a hanyou." the boy spluttered, eyes wide.
Inu no Taisho did not miss the look of distain over his eldest sons face. To most, he was as impassive as always, but not to his father.
"Anyone who judges you by what you where born into are not welcome in the west." He stated simply, seeing Sesshomaru stiffen. "You are my son; you are the prince of the west. Come."
Inuyasha bowed to his father one more time, and then followed after the two daiyoukai.
~888~
~ "Taisho! No please! INU NO TAISHO!" Harry watched as a woman holding tightly onto a crying bundle sobbed and shook as she watched a house burn to the ground. He watched as she stood, looking around with fear in her eyes. Harry called out to her, but she didn't turn, instead she ran into a dense forest, her long tangled black hair whipping out behind her.
Harry ran after her, he couldn't leave her out there alone. He ran, quickly catching up with the exhausted woman. She slumped against the ground, sobbing and clutching the babe in her arms tightly. Harry stood before her, simply watching as she kissed a beautiful white haired child.
"I will watch over you my child, I will protect you, and I will never leave you my Inuyasha…
~ "they are scum! Filthy humans! Anyone who respects them is an idiot!" a beautiful woman with moon silver hair ranted to a young boy; Harry saw magenta stripes and a crescent moon adore the boys forehead.
"Are you calling me an idiot Inukimi…" a pleasant voice sounded from the dark, and a tall golden eyed man stepped out.
"Oh Inu no Taisho, of coarse you're an idiot. Showering your affections on those things - on those humans!" The woman shot back, smiling coldly, her voice dripping with disgust.
The man laughed, kissing the woman and left. Harry watched as the woman's face became colder once more. She turned back to the crescent mooned boy. "Sesshomaru, if you follow in your father's foot steps and shower affections upon those scum. You are no longer my son."
Harry saw the boys frightened gaze drop to the floor.
"Yes mother…"
~ "mama!" a small puppy eared boy tugged at the lifeless body of his mother. He sobbed when he heard voices.
"-that way!"
"-we can finally kill it."
"-lets go!"
The boy started bragging his mother into the shelter of the woods, but when a stone hit him in the head, he snarled, jumping towards the group of men.
"Leave my mama alone!" he screamed, and Harry watched as he attacked them, until they ran, cuts and bruises littering their bodies.
Harry walked with the crying boy; and knowing he shouldn't, started giving his strength and lending his power to help the boy along.
When the reached a beautiful clearing, the boy started digging, his young claws digging into the hard earth; once again Harry did as he shouldn't, he helped the boy by soothing his pain, loosening the earth where it was too hard. He stood by the child until the soil was packed over the form of his mother, and as the sobbing boy, who had left with the promise to do her proud, Harry let his magic seep into the earth, growing grass and beautiful flowers.
He turned to see frightened gold eyes watching were his magic worked.
~"you are not worthy of that sword!" a cold voice hissed as power exploded through the air "you are the cause of fathers death, you don't deserve it!"
"Fuck you!
Harry stood behind a tall white haired man.
"WIND SCAR!"
A massive funnel of power cut through the air, right to Harry-
"Ahh!" Harry sat up with a scream, sweat blinding him and pain overtaking his body. He knew it was healed, because his power worked whenever he had visions, but he still hurt.
"Are you okay?" he heard a soft voice and his head turned to meet golden eyes.
"Inu no Taisho!" he gasped, recognizing him from the vision. "But your dead!"
The demon before him cocked his head, looking at him with pleasant curiosity.
"Very odd, you know me and yet I have yet to introduce my self"
"I… I saw it…" Harry hung his head, not sure why but feeling a frightening urge to tell this man everything. And he quite literally meant everything.
"Do you know why you are here?" Inu no Taisho asked him, folding a long clawed hand over his throat and leaning forward.
"Er, I messed up a time traveling spell…" again with the blurting of things that were meant not to be spoken of!
"Fascinating, so you are a sorcerer?"
Harry snorted delicately and looked side ways at the powerful man. "No, simply a wizard. I'm not near powerful enough to be called a sorcerer, only Merlin can take that hat."
The demon cocked a head again, this time looking very confused. "Why would this Merlin 'take a hat'?"
"Eeerrr…"
"And that is not what I meant; I was wondering if you knew why you were in my castle."
Harry looked around, realizing he was in a beautiful room. He looked down and blushed; his chest was bare, and he wore only his boxers, with his leg tightly wrapped in crisp white cloths.
"Err" Harry felt oddly giddy, what with him being practically naked next to an extremely hot guy… Harry stilled his thoughts, thinking it not appropriate to think like that at the moment. "No I don't."
Inu no Taisho appraised him for a moment, and then said something that would have made Harry fall over if he had been standing. "We're mates."
"whaaaaaa?" Harry then realized you don't need to be standing to fall over. "oof!" he was caught by mister super-sexy-demon-man.
"Mates; soul mates to be more exact." Inu no Taisho said as he steadied him, raising a brow, and smiling slightly. "It seems that I'm only alive because you came here from what ever time you are from."
Harry's breath caught as the beautiful creature slid a clawed finger down his cheek, stopping at his trembling lips. "How?" he whispered, his breath ghosting over the pale finger at his lips.
"Your power, it pulled me back."
"But magic can not raise the dead." Harry gasped out, as fingers traced his jaw, moving to rest on his racing pulse, thoughts of his friends all dead and him not being able to do anything about it. He felt his heart clench painfully and dropped his head as he was assaulted by hated memories.
"Shh," the demon whispered, lifting Harry's head on locking soft gold with tearful green. "It is not your usual magic; it is the power of soul mates… nothing is more powerful than that."
Harry nodded, letting the man draw him in and comfort him, a reassuring, soothing hand stroking his back, not faltering as Harry stayed tense and on guard.
After what seemed like ages but was really only a few minutes, Inu no Taisho pulled away from Harry, looking at him cautiously.
"Are you well enough to attend to some important matters?"
Harry froze; mates… had to… oh no! He wasn't ready for that! He couldn't, no…
"I- please, I need - please I can't…" Harry started moving away, hands moving to cross his chest protectively, tears threatening to spill again.
What the hell! Harry was briefly sidetracked by his emotional behavior…
Inu no Taisho looked at his in concern, only to gasp. "No! Not that, I would never fore that on you! I meant, concerning my sons-"
At this Harry sank down, bringing the sheets over his head. "No."
Harry closed his eyes, letting himself fall back to sleep as he listened to the shocked silence.
~888~
Inu no Taisho sighed as he looked over his papers; his son really had been doing a magnificent job with the lands so far, but it still would not relieve his son from the punishment he would face. He had, after all, attacked his mate.
He thought back to the past week; Harry spoke to him, let him touch him – though only with his hands and no lower than the shoulders – and he was responding. But he still kept a distance as they spoke, every touch – even the innocent ones – the boy flinched at, and even as he responded, he held back.
Inu no Taisho felt like he was slowly having his heart torn out. The pain of being woken from the after life but not be allowed to touch what kept him alive was slowly and torturously killing him.
Literary.
If his life mate denied him, he would leave this world again – after all, what point was there in living without your other half?
Tbc
Hope you enjoy, sorry it took so long, my computer crashed.
Love ya
lisa