That Night At the Inn
Fire
"Be careful, dear." Mama Higurashi said as Kagome approached the well.
"I'll be fine." Kagome promised. "I'm going to wait for him right on the edge of the well. If anything happens, I'll fall right in, okay?"
Mama Higurashi nodded. "I trust you, dear."
Kagome climbed over the lip of the well and looked down into the dark bottom that was her portal to her second home.
It was at times like these she always felt a sort of vertigo. Everything in her rebelled at the idea of jumping almost fifteen feet into a dry well. It was an instinctive reaction.
But she knew, just beyond that dirt, lay some kind of transportation device. She didn't know what it was, how it worked, or even why. But the important thing was that it did.
She reached up and stroked the smooth silver of her and InuYasha's amulet. She doubted it was even worth the silver it was made of. But it was the symbolism that counted. And her grandpa passed it on to InuYasha to pass onto her. Just as Higurashi men had doing for centuries.
Kagome turned back to her mother and smiled. "Bye, mom. I'll be back soon."
"See you soon." Mama Higurashi waved as Kagome pushed herself off the wood of the well and fell.
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"I swear if you break this again I'm sheathing it in you!" Totosai growled as he threw the newly repaired Tessaiga at InuYasha.
"Great!" InuYasha drew and transformed it. There wasn't even a scar to show where the crack had been. And the thing wasn't any heavier either! Thank Kami for small miracles. "Wow, Totosai! You really out did yourself. It's almost like the crack was never there."
"Yeah, well I'm the best." Totosai said with not a little pride. "Now, did you get what I sent you for?"
"Huh?" InuYasha turned himself away from his perfected blade and back to the conversation. "Oh, yeah. Here." He put his hand into his robe and pulled out a bag that clicked as he moved it. He tossed it over to Totosai who caught it deftly mid-air.
The old man opened the sack and smiled, pleased. "Blood rubies from the Caves of Despair."
"And let me tell you, they call them the Caves of Despair for a reason." InuYasha shook at the memory. Nothing overly terrible happened there but the feeling of dread and misery just seeped into your body the further in you went. By the time InuYasha reached the rubies he was on the verge of just killing himself to end the misery. Thoughts of his daughter was the only thing that kept him going.
"Let me just finish the bracelet." Totosai turned to his already burning forge as he grabbed his hammer and closed the sack back up.
"Welcome back, Master InuYasha." Myouga jumped onto InuYasha's shoulder. "What are your plans now?"
"I'm going back to Kagome." InuYasha smiled a bit at the thought. "I promised I would only be gone three days. She's probably already waiting for me."
Both of them looked over when they heard the hammer slam down and the rubies crunched and shattered under the blow.
They watched silently as Totosai slammed his hammer down again and again until the rubies were nothing but dust in the specially created sack Totosai had him collect them in for just that reason.
Totosai, mumbling softly to himself, opened the bag, took a handful of the ruby dust, and threw it into the flames.
Flames that suddenly turned blue.
"What's he doing anyway?" InuYasha asked Myouga. Totosai, he knew, would ignore him completely when working like this.
"I only saw him do this once before when he reforged Tessaiga for you." Myouga said, sitting cross-legged and folding his four arms as he observed. "Your father had to collect blood rubies as well."
Totosai was still mumbling, a spell InuYasha recognized dimly, picked up the half finished bracelet off his worktable and tossed it into the fire. Immediately after, he threw in a chunk of adamant InuYasha had to swim deep in the sea to fetch. Two pieces of amethyst InuYasha had to slay a jewel hording dragon demon to retrieve. Then a handful of moon gems InuYasha had traded a lock of his hair for with some weird demon lady who had found his hair fascinating. InuYasha was pretty sure she was going to use it for some kind of spell. Lastly was the two fangs InuYasha had surrendered for the project three days ago.
That was when the flames turned white.
Totosai took the last of the ruby dust and threw that in as well. There was no obvious reaction this time.
The sword smith took a deep breath, held it in his cheeks for a moment, then breathed it all out into the fire. Though red when it escaped his lips, the fire from his chest turned white as it merged with the magical blaze.
Then InuYasha gasped as Totosai reached into the fire with his bare hands and began handling the jewelry.
"What's he doing?" InuYasha gasped as the smell of burning flesh soaked the air.
"Totosai has a blood connection with all his creations." Myouga said, flinching despite his calm words. "Normally, a few drops will suffice. However, sealing devices are extremely magically powerful objects. It requires a more...hands on method."
Even as they watched, their faces clenched in pain, Totosai was fitting the gems into the beautiful silver that InuYasha had mined himself at the base of Totosai's mountain. He had been told that fetching the ingredients himself would increase the power of the object.
But what he did was incredibly easy in comparison to sticking his limbs into white hot flames.
Myouga and InuYasha turned their noses away from the smell of cooked flesh and let Totosai, who showed no signs of pain, work in peace.
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Sesshomaru paused as a new smell wafted to him on the breeze.
Jaken and Rin, who sat on Ah-Uhn, paused as well as they tilted their heads in curiosity.
Sesshomaru ignored him as he tried to catch that scent again.
It smelled like...
But surely that would be...
Well, not impossible he supposed. But surely even InuYasha wouldn't be...
Well, he might be that stupid.
He caught the scent again and definitely recognized it. The smell of a human woman impregnated with a dog demon pup.
And there was only one woman with whom his brother would be idiotic enough to impregnate.
Or, more accurately, only one woman who would let his brother impregnate her.
Well, actually, two women would let his buffoon of blood kin impregnate her but since dead women couldn't get pregnant in the first place, that left only one.
"Uh...My Lord?" Jaken finally spoke up.
"Is something wrong, Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin asked.
Instead of responding, Sesshomaru took a slight turn and began following the scent. It was a sort of morbid curiosity that drove him forward.
After all, the human bitch InuYasha traveled with seemed much more intelligent than his brother. Surely, she wouldn't have let his brother mount her in such a dangerous time with Naraku running around.
Well, apparently, she would. And he just couldn't stop himself from wondering why.
Simply morbid curiosity.
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"Are you sure you're ready, Seitekina?" Naraku asked kindly. He was nude, not bothering to dress himself after the last time they had joined their bodies to give her energy.
"I said I'm fine." Seitekina grumbled as she pulled on a kimono.
Truthfully, she didn't like Naraku much. His sweet, charming demeanor was so fake it almost made her vomit.
However, she loved Kirai, her precious mate. She loved him more than anything. Without him, her world was dark, colorless, and bland. She would join him in death, but only after she killed those that killed him.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Seite!"
Seitekina turned quickly and beamed as Kirai approached. A beautiful, large purple flower in his hand.
"For you, my dearest love." he presented it to her, with a broad smile.
"Oh, Kirai." Seitekina took it lovingly and breathed in it's sweet fragrance. "It smells beautiful."
"Of course." Kirai smiled charmingly. "I kept trying until I had a flower that smelled just like you."
"Kirai." Seitekina blushed a bit.
She was a succubus, he was an incubus; sex was just part and parcel of what they did. If he wanted sex, all he had to do was ask and he would get it. Like a neighbor asking to borrow a cup or a pot. Nothing more.
However, pretty words and romantic intentions. Those were a rare gem to her people.
"I love you, Seitekina. With all my heart." Kirai smiled.
"I love you, Kirai." she went into his arms and buried her face into his neck.
OOOOOOOOOO
Oh, yes, those bastards who killed him would pay and pay dearly, Seitekina thought as she tied her obi. Then she could finally end this horrid agony that was her life now and join her beloved in the after life.
"I know where both InuYasha and Kagome are now and they are separated." Naraku said as Kanna came into the room. "Which would you like first?"
Seitekina almost blurted out InuYasha. His claws, after all, were the ones that tore her dear love apart.
But no.
Death was no punishment. At least not one good enough to satisfy her.
No. What he needed was the same agony, the same torture, the same horrific knowledge that she had.
"Kagome." Seitekina said at last. "I will kill the woman first. Then bring her body to toss at that InuYasha's feet."
"Ooh, you're dark." Naraku admired with a smile wondering why he hadn't thought of that. "Very well, Kanna?"
They both turned their attention to the mirror in Kanna's cold hands. The mirror flashed, like a beam of light had struck it, then dimmed to show that Kagome woman climbing from a well. Wearing a most particular cloth. Some kind of blue thing wrapped around her legs and a top that, frankly, looked nothing like anything Seitekina had ever seen before.
"What an odd woman." she remarked. "What was she doing in a well?"
Naraku shrugged. "Maybe she fell in. What does it matter? You know where she is. Kagura will take you there."
Seitekina nodded. "Did you get what I sent you for?"
Naraku nodded to Kanna.
The albino reached into her sleeve and pulled out an orb, It was green, flashing, and just a few sizes bigger than the completed Shikon Jewel.
"Another explosion?" Naraku asked as she took it from Kanna. The woman was dark but woefully unimaginative.
"I don't plan on dyeing in this one." Seitekina promised as she put the orb in her obi. It wouldn't break accidentally. It only broke when someone had the intention of breaking it. Her demon friend was crafty that way. "But seeing his mate's horrifically mangled body should be just perfect for that half-demon scum."
Finally, her love would get the vengeance he so deserved.
And she would get the peace she so desired with him.
And that half-breed and human hussy would get exactly what they deserved for robbing her of her only source of happiness in this world.
Someone has some issues huh, well what do you think is gonna happen?