A/N: I'm sure you've noticed that I like doing the back stories and such. It helps me to write though and keeps me inspired. This way you all understand the tension between all of the parents. Besides there are so many ways to do it and it's fun too. Also. I think there are a few deviants here from deviantart and I was wondering if maybe I should do an contest. If I do I'll probably give away a three month premium membership. I really enjoyed writing a few scenes here and would love to see them come to life. Anyways on to the story. This chapter is mostly about Sesshoumaru's mother and father and their past relationship. Reviews will keep this afloat. Thanks for reading :D
.Silence.
A white room seemed to enclose on Akemi, her feet seemed to be the most interesting things at the moment. Being in the central air made the young woman shiver in her fragile paper dress. Every piece of her wanted to run from the small white room. She had never been good at waiting. Akemi glared at the door trying to will her doctor to her faster. Akemi had already been here a number of hours while they ran tests. The woman was growing anxious. She wanted desperately to get home to her son and husband. They did not even know that she had gone out. The door opened answering her prayers. Akemi smiled and swung her feet on the table, the white paper crinkling with every movement.
"Hey, I'm Dr. Akimoto. Now I need you to take a few deep breaths and calm down." he was a young man, handsome too.
"They already examined me. I just need my results." Akemi could feel the itch in her fist to punch him in his pretty face.
"I'm about to give you those. The only problem is that, it's life changing news." he rested a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him and laughed nervously in one huff before growing silent.
"If he knocked me up again, I'm going to kill him." she tried to lighten the mood.
"Mrs. Silver, you have cancer." he dropped the bomb quietly and looked into her gold eyes. Akemi breathed out deeply.
"I have to get home. My son..." she began with tears falling down her cheeks.
"Mrs. Silver you need to begin treatment immediately or you will lose every opportunity to watch your son grow. Is that what you want?" Dr. Akimoto was impassioned with his words. Akemi looked at him with strong eyes and smiled.
"There are some things that I have to take care of right now. I'll be back in the morning." It was as if Akemi had shooed the doctor away. The young woman sat for what seemed to be an eternity staring down into her hands. She took many deep breaths and tried to control her tears. Akemi dressed slowly and walked to her car, not escaping the pity filled stares that followed her back. She knew that they would whisper. A gust of strong wind blew against her skin, it was warm and beautiful outside. Today was not she wanted. Akemi had almost been looking forward to another pregnancy. Sesshoumaru had just turned three and she was ready for him to have a little sister or brother. Fighting tears she grabbed her phone and dialed a number she thought she never would again. Akemi was in disbelief herself for what she was about to do. She had promised herself that she would never speak to her parent's again.
"Mother?" a loud gasp sounded on the other line. Akemi breathed in deeply and tried to begin a sentence that seemed to stick to her tongue.
"I have cancer." she said it with power.
Akemi glared at the police officer who stood before her with a silent mouth. This was not the type of situation that he relished to be in. This was not a place that he liked to be himself. The woman before him was soaked with rain water and tears. The man's silence was beginning to take her to the edge of a point she did not normally wander to. Inutaisho placed a hand on her shoulder which she shook off angrily.
"My son is missing." she growled at the officer. It had not been the first time had told him this tonight.
"You have to give it twenty four hours. The kid is probably just pulling a stunt." his voice was smug and annoyed all at once. Akemi threw herself over the counter but was caught by the arms of her ex husband. Inutaisho had expected her to do this and just waited for the lunge. This woman had not change one bit over the years. The officer had a look of complete and utter relief of his face. Akemi could be utterly violent when she was in one of her moods. However, he was well aware that this was not the circumstance for them to sit back and watch. Or perhaps it was all they could do. She had warned him to protect their son with his very life. Yet, now he was missing. Inutaisho gazed over at the officer once more
"Send a search party out now." he growled. The woman in his arms was now sobbing uncontrollably. Her small body shook in his arms making him tighten his arms around her. Akemi could not stop she was overcome with the intense waves of anxiety. Sesshoumaru was all they had to prove that they'd once been in love. He was everything good that came from them. If they lost their son, there would be nothing but a bad memory of what had failed in both their lives. Inutaisho glared at the officer whom he knew was going to open his mouth to say the same twenty four hour comment. Patience was growing thin on his end causing his eyes to become sharper and more intimidating.
"I need to talk to my boss first." Inutaisho sighed in relief and watched the short man hurry into a small office that read sheriff on it's door. The man that emerged was tall with short messy black hair and brown eyes. He smiled at the short annoying man and walked passed him.
"What's going on?" he asked Inutaisho, but of course Akemi jumped out of his arms and grabbed the man by his collar.
"My son is missing." The sheriff did not flinch from the impact of her body but instead kept her from bouncing off of him. The man proceeded to sit her down on a bench with a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm Daisuke Moroyami." his voice was just as friendly as his face. Inutaisho could feel the man's kind heart from where he stood.
"I can issue a low priority search now, and then tomorrow I can bring it up to top priority. I have to go by protocol. I'm going to alert all my cars of the situation and have them on the look out for your son." his chocolate eyes glimmered with sincerity.
"Thank you." Akemi thanked him throwing her arms around his shoulders. Inutaisho watched his ex wife with a certain melancholy. Shaking his head of silver hair he reached for her shoulder.
"Akemi, lets go. You stay at my house tonight." he invited her. There was no way they could not be together during such a time as this. The rain had stopped and Akemi pushed him away from her.
"I should go home." she told him.
"We took the same car here." he reminded her.
"I can't be in your house. I'm sorry. I'm going home. You can call a cab." she told him snatching the keys from him. There was only reason that she did not want to be in house and he knew what it was. The sense being that Izayoi and Inuyasha resided there. It also held the memories of his new family decorated on every wall. Akemi did not want to see it. There was no appetite to see either parts of his new family.
"I'll go with you. Let me call Izayoi." she rolled her eyes at him and watched her slam the door to her 1963 Volkswagen van. She had bought the car shortly after meeting him. It was her prize possession. In the backseat, she had a mattress instead of seats. This car very obviously had belonged to a hippie before she had owned it. If his memory served him justice it may have been in this very van that Sesshoumaru was conceived. He smiled slightly at the memory. It was as if he could see himself with her giggling years ago. Their relationship had once been beautiful. He got in the car and looked at her.
"Don't look at me like Inutaisho." she told him. Akemi's stress became something deeper and growing in the pit of her stomach. Inutaisho looked out the window. She had driven them to a secluded mountain path. Inutaisho knew that she did not want him to know where she lived but he did not anticipate this type of secrecy. He was now well aware that she intended to sleep in her van. If he refused to leave her alone she was going to torture him. Akemi smiled at him lightly and threw a blanket towards the front seat.
"You sleep up there. I'll sleep on the mattress." she began peeling off her damp pajamas and was left in only her matching black lace bra and panty. After releasing her hair she dropped on the soft mattress and covered herself with a plush comforter. She was just as beautiful now as she'd been in the past.
"You can't expect to sleep out here like this." Inutaisho protested.
"We used to do this all the time." she reminded him.
The humidity of summer clung to their skin leaving the two very irritable. Akemi had been seeing the handsome Inutaisho for a little over four months now and was hardly able to contain herself around him. Never in her life had she felt so entirely free. For the most part it felt as though he had enabled her to fly, he had given her wings. He was four years older than her but she felt like they were two youthful spirits just drifting around in the forest. Inutaisho led her to the open van with a smile and threw her small body down on the mattress. Her hair was back to it's natural opaline silver and it made him even more enticed by the vixen. She had captured him easily.
"What are you doing?" she feigned nervousness gazing at the man.
"Can I have you?" he asked her gently holding her hands above her head.
"Have you not already?" she bit her lip as a sign of lasciviousness. Akemi had made no effort to hide her physical longing for him.
"Can I give you a last name?" he was guileless in his words. It was no secret that he meant marriage. Akemi giggled at him with mirth.
"Well, I guess it would be fitting. Our child should have parent's who are married." she turned her face to the side and closed her eyes. The grin on her face was impossible to contain. Inutaisho released her hands and grabbed her chin so he could look into her eyes. He was in shock. The impending future of fatherhood was now upon him and he wanted it. He wanted her to be his and for their child to have them both. A tear fell from his eyes and landed on her face while a happy shout left his lips. Akemi grabbed his face and pulled him down to her. Soon after they lay in each other's arms with no concern to the heat both covered in a sheet. She rested her head on his arm and looked up to the roof of her van.
"How many months has it been?" he was fascinated resting a hand on her abdomen. She rested her hands on top of his.
"The little jumping bean? Well I think they told me she's three months along." Akemi's words barely shocked him. They had not been able to separate from each other for more than a few hours a day. Another reason being they both had a great appetite for each other.
"Well, I'll be looking forward to meeting my son." he teased her.
"I like boys better anyway. He'll just have to be beautiful like his mother." she intertwined her fingers with his tightly.
"He has to look like a man." Inutaisho chuckled lightly at his girlfriend.
"I want to stay with you forever." she turned on her side and burrowed deep into his side wrapping a slender arm around his chest.
"If you don't I won't forgive you for leaving." he warned with a kiss on her forehead.
"You told me back then that you would not forgive me if I left. I didn't listen." Inutaisho was brought back to the present with her regretful voice. Her voice still carried an air of music. He turned his gaze towards her and felt a spark inside of his chest. She was staring at a strand of hair she played with between her delicate fingers. The thin sheet had moved around with her trying to find a spot and only her torso was revealed.
"I honestly didn't think you ever would leave me." he commented turning back into his seat.
"Would we have been happy if I stayed?" she thought aloud. He turned again and found her gaze meeting his. She remained on her back and merely lifted her eyes to his.
"Stop it." he said sternly.
"I was too young then. I didn't understand what we had could carry us through anything. You are right. We broke because I wanted us to." she sat up and looked over her shoulder. Inutaisho had closed his eyes and was trying to ignore her.
"Can I have you?" she was tender when she asked him. Inutaisho was fighting himself. This woman was doing this to torture him. She wanted to tear him to pieces he was sure of it. It was criminal that she could still had such a hold over him. Akemi touched his shoulder and he grabbed her hand with anger in his eyes. She looked at him with sorrow causing his gaze to soften.
"Why are you doing this to me? Do you want to hurt me further than you have already?" he allowed his bitterness flow from his eyes. She wiped his tears with her free hand and pressed her lips to his. Inutaisho was caught of guard and caught in the moment of her showing regret and tenderness towards him. They were not young anymore. A mistake of this magnitude should not be happening. He knew that every moment of his weakness was wrong. It was like a drug addict in relapse. Akemi had missed this complete feeling she had been so used to before. She savored every touch and every taste. Yes, they knew it was wrong and Inutaisho loved his wife. It was just that his first wife had never left his heart. The trepidation that had filled him from the first kiss was gone and now it was just relief and longing. It was wishes being satisfied. These were things that he thought he had gotten rid of. The urges that he thought he'd purged himself of.
"Inutaisho...what have I done to us..." for the first time since he'd known her she had his vulnerable aura around her. Yes, he had seen her cry before. This was by far not the same woman. This was the woman he had always hoped to see. The raw power and confidence was muted and she stared at him holding a sheet to her sleek body.
"It was both of us...I didn't fight hard enough." he wanted to wrap his arms around her, but things were not the same as when they were just starting out. Inutaisho was a married man, a happily married man. Akemi was the woman who had broken his heart viciously and yet here they sat after refreshing on their carnal knowledge of each other.
"Should we forget this happened?" her voice was feeble. He looked at her with a shocked face which quickly turned to a pondering expression. He was a married man and she was his ex wife. What could be done? They could only choose to forget. Akemi nodded and forced onto her face a decision.
"It only happened because of our worry over Sesshoumaru. It didn't mean anything. So it's only right that we forget about it." she dropped the sheet and grabbed her under garments and put them on. Akemi did not see the point of hiding herself he had seen her this way plenty of times before. He grabbed her and pulled her into his naked chest.
"Can I just hold you like this tonight?" she buried her face in his chest and wrapped her arms around him tightly breathing in the smell of his skin. He was always the same. Akemi let tears fall from her eyes. This would probably be the last time she would be held like this by him.
Akemi was a small woman with a largely pregnant belly but always had a few sarcastic words to say. Inutaisho had been struggling with the business. There were no banks that wanted to give him loans. He had been struggling to build himself and even Akemi worked giving every cent she could to him while keeping them afloat with her old jewelry money. Inutaisho had been at work when she went into labor. At that time he was working in the construction field. She had been screaming for him for nearly twenty minutes when he crashed into the room covered in dirt and still in his work clothes.
"What took you so long!" she growled the words through closed teeth. He laughed at her.
"I'm sorry. I was working." he apologized with a deep bow to his wife.
"I hate you. You made me fat and my vagina will never be the same. If you don't like my vagina anymore it's your fault." after saying that she began wailing. Inutaisho walked over to her and grabbed her hand.
"I love you and every part of your body, no matter how many sons we have." he kissed her forehead.
"It's going to be a girl!" she whined. He could only wipe the sweat from her face and push back her hair until the nurse came in alerting them that the time to push had come.
"I love you, Akemi Silver." he took her hand and smiled at her.
"I want to break every bone in your hands." she bared her teeth at him while pushing.
"If it will make you happy." she glared at him and started crying again.
"It's a boy!" the doctor happily exclaimed and placed the newborn on his mother's chest. Akemi's eyes and demeanor changed immediately. Her eyes softened and her voice tightened.
"He's so beautiful. I love you, Inutaisho. Thank you." they were both in tears at the sight of their child. A beautiful healthy son. Her attitude made a complete change. She looked beautiful cradling their son. A sun with abundant sterling fuzz atop his head. His eyes were unmistakably like a sunset. A beautiful mustard. This was a life they'd created together. A life that he would treasure.
.Silence.
In a rather unexpected even the two slumbering adults did not wake up the late evening the next day. There was much stress on their bodies and in their minds. Inutaisho watched the mother of his eldest son with a undiscovered smile on his lips. The woman's mouth was slightly agape and her eyes were calm. It was then he noticed a purple bruise around her wrist. This was caused by his iron grip the previous night he placed a gentle kiss along it begging apology for his roughness. Inutaisho knew now that he could have fought harder for this woman. He did not have to grant her a divorce and he had. He did not have to allow her full custody of their son and yet he did. Inutaisho realized now that he had all but carried her bags out.
"I should have fought for you, Akemi..." his whisper did not go unheard by the sleeping woman. She continued to feign sleep until Inutaisho stepped out of the van. Akemi pushed herself up she had an instantaneous yearning for the warmth of his arms. Akemi truly did feel bad for what she had done that night, she had ripped open both of their still healing wounds. There was an old sundress she had left inside of a small chest in the back of her van. She threw it on with a random pair of flats that sat in the bottom of her car. Today she threw her hair in a messy bun held by two chopsticks.
"I don't know what came over me last night. I'm so sorry, Inutaisho." she said to him. Inutaisho turned to her with a confound face. He looked as if he were going to be sick. The tall silver crowned man fell to his knees dropping his phone. Akemi threw herself to grab the phone and was instead stopped by Inutaisho's arms.
"Listen to me, Akemi. Sesshoumaru is in the hospital." his voice shook but as she collapsed in his arms he caught her easily. He first allowed her to scream and cry. Then he sat her in the passengers seat of the old bus. After a few moments she regained her composure.
"Did they tell you his condition?" she was nervous for the answers.
"The doctor should tell you. What if you faint?" he worried.
"I don't give a damn about me!" she shouted at him.
"His injuries are significant. He could die." Akemi fell silent and quickly pressed her forehead to her knees and began to pray. She begged that her son make it out of whatever trouble he was in alive. She wanted to see that stubborn and cold face peering down at her with a hidden laugh. It seemed to both that despite the neglect of the speed limits that car remained going to slow. As they reached the hospital Akemi ran in frantically. She could hear quite the commotion and drops of blood on the floor. It was no doubt from her son.
"Where is Sesshoumaru Silver?" Akemi practically grabbed the nurse from her chair.
"You must be his mother. Will you sign this consent form for surgery?" Akemi looked up at her with swollen and tear filled eyes scribbling her signature as quickly as her shaking hand permitted. She collapsed into a heap on the floor. The nurse tried to help her up but was instead pulled down to the same level as Akemi.
"What exactly is my son's condition?" she growled in a whisper.
"He has four broken ribs with two separate puncture sites. The have just begun to reattach his severed forearm." Akemi's vision clouded and her body fell forward. Inutaisho grabbed onto her shoulders and pulled her up. They had cut off his son's arm. Was it torture or a slow murder? He could not decide.
"Now, Akemi. We are going to need blood for your son can you donate?" the nurse asked but Akemi just burst into a fit of sobs. Inutaisho looked at her knowing that she was a match for their son while he was not.
"I can't do it." she sobbed.
"Akemi...this is our son..." Inutaisho looked at he desperately.
"I need to speak with the nurse alone." Akemi stood up but was very unbalanced. The whole situation made her week in the knees. The nurse followed her to a quiet spot.
"My ex husband does not know that I had cancer. I'm in remission and I am not a candidate for donating. Is there any one else?" she was desperate, but not enough to risk giving her son cancer.
"I understand. There is one patient but she is in a coma. I'm not sure what we can do." the nurse cupped Akemi's hand and walked away from her. Now they could do nothing but wait for answers and hope for a suitable donor. Akemi knew that she had to regain herself. She was a smart woman she only had to think for a while. Inutaisho had five missed calls from Izayoi and chose not to call her back right now. He only hoped she would understand when he returned home. He only hoped that his other son would never go through such pain. Akemi stood and demanded to see the patient who lay in a coma. This young girl was the only one who was capable of saving her son now.
"I don't know who you are. I only know what you can do for me. You have a gift in your veins that could save my sons life," she held back tears. "I just need you to open your eyes and tell them that it's okay to share some blood." Akemi looked at the sleeping girl. She peeked at her chart. There were no parents and the other things she saw she wished she had not read.
"It seems like you have been through your fair share of troubles. If you save my son I will promise you a good life." Akemi grabbed the young girls hand and sat on her knees. It was at that moment that a doctor walked into the room. At a perfect moment. This child had been found in the same warehouse as her son.
"Rin will give the angel her blood." her hazel eyes opened briefly and looked at Akemi for a moment leaving the doctor in shock. Rin then proceeded to fall deeper into her slumber.
"Did you hear that? She said that she'll save him!" Akemi cried tears of joy kissing the child's hand.