Chapter 23
Touga had finally found his mate but she was in bad condition. His lovely mate had been raped and impregnated by Naraku whom supposed to be dead. His mate mark on Aurora was now gone and replaced with that spiders mark. He growled deeply as he went into a rage. 'Hurt...mate...took mate...' Touga's inner demon growled angrily.
"Well, Inu no Taisho I was wondering when me and my mate would be graced by your presence." Naraku smirks.
Touga's chest rumbles with anger and his markings appeared and eyes became red. "I'll kill you." He called for his sword Sō'unga. The hell blade came up from the ground and into Touga's hand. Aurora watched Touga with a blank expression and then looked away.
Naraku smirked and tentacles sprang from his body and wrapped around Touga's body and throat. He pulled a gun out of his pocket. "You old dog you should know not to bring a sword to a gun fight."
Razor sharp wind suddenly surround Touga and the tentacles was shredded from Touga's body. "Black spikes." He says menacingly and Sō'unga shot black spikes towards Naraku and impaled him. Naraku laughed and pulled the spikes out. He sauntered over to Touga and one of his tentacles pierced his arm while he shot his gun and hit him in the shoulder. Sō'unga pulsed and the environment changed. The building they were in become engulfed with fog and an invisible force field surround the building. It was the hell blade's phantom castle ability. The sword pulsed again giving its wielder immense durability. Touga smirks and shrugged off the gun shot and it healed immediately and Sō'unga's corrosive aura burned the tentacles. Naraku hissed and more tentacles sprouted from him and from the tentacles themselves miasma followed. The poisonous air surrounded Touga and Naraku smirked as he snapped his fingers and Saimyosho seemed to appear out of nowhere and flied towards him.
Touga used a low powered Dragon Twister to destroy the Saimyosho and blow away the miasma. He growled and jumped into the air slashing away at Naraku's tentacles as he reached him. "She's mine." He growled and grabbed Naraku's neck and threw him into the opposite wall.
"Hate to break it to you old dog but she's mine now, and soon she will have my child and once that pitiful mutt she's carrying as well is born I'll rid it of this world just like how I'm going to rid it of you." Naraku spat and more tentacles appeared and slashed at Touga and growled as he used his superior swordsmanship to destroy the tentacles. He sped to Naraku and hit his head with the butt of Sō'unga's hilt. Naraku snapped his head back and chuckled lightly and a tentacle came through his chest and pierced Touga. "I'm going to enjoy killing you."
"Don't think I'll die so easily fool!" Touga grabbed Naraku's tentacles and let his blades corrosive aura destroy it and it goes up the tentacle to Naraku burning him.
Naraku however was unaffected and he just kept laughing as more and more tentacles grew surrounding Touga. "You wanna know what I use this basement for old dog? I bring demons here and absorb them to make me stronger." Naraku clicked his tongue and his eyes flashed red. "And you old mutt are next."
Touga's eyes widen and he moved back and hit the wall next to Aurora. He looked down at his mate and had a determined look in his eyes. "Aurora I can fight all I can but I will soon become weaken...do you know of way." He whispers to her as he slashed at some tentacles.
Aurora looked up at Touga and touched his ankle. 'Power transference.' She thought and transferred some of her power to him.
Her third eye opened and looked at Touga. She spoke into his mind 'the spell you will need to say is Aku chōeki no ōbu, but you must stab your arm into his chest and say it.' She says then returned to being silent. Touga smirks inwardly and pushes off the wall and use a low powered dragon twister at all the tentacles.
Naraku smirked and more and more of his tentacles went after Touga. "Just give up old dog and save yourself the embarrassment."
"This old dog still have tricks." Touga smirks and Sō'unga took control of his arm and turned into a sword arm. The arm brutally destroyed the tentacles and Touga slams into Naraku and punched his arm into the spider's heart. "Aku chōeki no ōbu!" Touga yelled loudly.
Naraku blinked and he growled at Touga as he slowly fell to the ground dying. "Damn you old mutt." Naraku coughed up blood. "I may not have gotten what I wanted but at least I'll be taking my whore daughter with me to the afterlife." He laughed loudly and maniacally as his life force was drained from him. His laughs became quiet and his body became limp as Naraku soul was turned into an orb.
Touga looked at the orb and used Sō'unga to open a passageway to hell. Touga glared at the orb with hatred. "She's mine you fucking spider. Always have been mine and shall forever be mine." He spat at it and kicked the orb into hell and the door closed. Sō'unga went back to its place at the mansion and he made his way to Aurora.
"Leave me." Aurora whispers and looks at the wall with a blank expression.
"You're crazy if you think I'm leaving you here." He picked her up in his arms. "Come time to go home."
"I'm tainted." Aurora looked away from Touga. The mark on her neck was still there. "You don't want me." She whispers.
Touga growled and bit Aurora's neck reinstating his mark. "I will want always want you Aurora, I meant it when I said I love you and I want to marry you."
"I'm having his child." She says further looking anywhere but him.
Touga sighed and held his mate. "I don't care, it may not be my child but I will treat it as such. And I still love you no matter what. Nothing has changed how I feel for you Aurora."
"I'm sorry." Aurora closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Touga sighed and kissed her forehead. "Don't apologize my mate, I could never be angry with you." He whispered softly as he left the building. He could sense his sons Sesshomaru's distress for his own mate.
-Meanwhile-
Valérie's condition worsened by the minute. Toshiro was allowed to come out of the NICU and he didn't leave Sesshomaru's arms. Valérie had a constant pained expression on her face as she laid there dying.
Sesshomaru looked down at Toshiro who was in his arms. He showed Toshiro his mother. "This is your mother...my mate and future wife." He gently placed him on her chest. Toshiro touches Valérie's cheek and whimpers. He looked on and felt horrible. 'Hurry Inuyasha.' He thought
-With Inuyasha-
Inuyasha growled loudly and he held out his hand and his father's sword Tessaiga appeared in his hands. "You're going down you stupid bitch."
Tsubaki chuckles darkly. "Like a half breed like yourself can kill me." She smirks and waves her hand summoning Kikyo and made her a slave. "Kill him." Tsubaki says. Kikyo nodded and aimed a reiki powered arrow at Inuyasha and let it fly.
Inuyasha quickly dodged it. "That's a damn dirty trick. Don't have the strength to kill me yourself?" He spat he wasn't hesitant to kill the woman he once loved as she stood before him. He shook his head. 'Hurry up and do this so you can go home to Tori.' He thought and he raised Tessaiga in the air and brought it down quickly using the wind scar. Kikyo moved back and fired more arrows. The wind scar hit her as she wasn't fast enough to dodge it completely.
Kikyo was destroyed and Tsubaki looked at Inuyasha. "Oh I'm strong enough." She smirks and waves her hand and a small sword appeared. She charges Inuyasha and slashed her sword at him and used a lightning bolt spell to hit his chest.
Inuyasha bounced back in time however and dodged most of the blast. "You're a pretty dumb bitch to be working for Naraku don't you know that? He is just using you."
"Don't care, as long as I get what I want in the end. And I achieved what I want to make sure that bitch of a cousin of mine is hurt immensely." She smirks wickedly and sent a lightning current at him.
Inuyasha dodged and he swirled Tessaiga in his hands and used the wind scar on her.
"Oh yeah? If that's really what you wanted why didn't you leave my sister in law alone!?" He yelled
Tsubaki made a shield. "She was but a means to an end. Another way to hurt cousin dearest." She smirks and sent a wave of dark magic to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha growled in pain. 'Damn how do I bring down this damn bitch?!' He thought angrily and he looked around and he saw a white serpent slithering around on the ground and he inwardly smirked. He sent another wind scar Tsubaki's way and while she was distracted he attacked the serpent and decapitated it nullifying her powers.
"You son of a bitch!" Tsubaki yelled. "Do you know what you just did?" She hissed at him.
Inuyasha smirked and jumped at her until he was in front of her. "Of course I did. I just ended any chance you had at winning." He smirked and rose Tessaiga and brought it down killing Tsubaki. Her soul sent to hell to burn for all the injustice she caused.
-Meanwhile-
The moment she died Valérie's scar stopped burning her and killing her and her expression softened. Toshiro looked up seeing this and he pointed his little finger at his mother while looking at his father.
Sesshomaru ran a hand in Valérie's hair. "Wake up love. Our son wishes to hear your voice." He whispers
the doctor came in and checked Valérie's vitals.
"This is remarkable how much her health seems to be improving." The doctor mumbled and he lessened her medicine so she would eventually wake up. "She should be up soon sir."
"Thank you doctors, please give us time alone." Sesshomaru says politely dismissing the doctors. He looks at Toshiro. "Your mother will wake soon."
A few hours went by before Valérie's expression started to change again. She grunted and she slowly opened her blue eyes and she looked up at the ceiling of the hospital room.
Inuyasha ran in. "Did I make it is she okay?" He said a little loudly.
Valérie groaned. "Too loud..." She mumbled and she slowly sat up and held her head.
"Thank you Inuyasha." Sesshomaru mumbled and placed Toshiro in Valérie's lap. "He wants to hear his mother's melodious voice."
Valérie ignored Sesshomaru not forgetting what she had seen before she had given birth and she held her son tenderly. Toshiro reached up for his mother and cooed and she had a soft smile on her face as she looked down at him. "Hey baby." She whispered and kissed his forehead
"Welcome Sesshomaru, I also took care of the slut Aya who was in cahoots with Tsubaki for ya." Inuyasha says and looked at Toshiro. "Damn why he had to look like you?"
Sesshomaru growled at Inuyasha. "Hush idiot brother." He mumbled a thanks to him.
Valérie blinked and she looked to Inuyasha. "What do you mean? Aya?" She slowly rocked Toshiro.
"Aya, the temp secretary was meant to seduce Sesshomaru to cause you stress and make you have Toshiro early." Inuyasha scratched his head.
Valérie blinked several time. "Well it certainly caused me stress that's for sure." She mumbled and she looked at her mate. "I really thought you did when I came to work earlier...I was coming to surprise you."
Inuyasha took that as his cue to leave. Sesshomaru looked into Valérie's eyes. "Do you really think so lowly of myself? Do you think that I would lower myself to commit adultery to a woman who's my mate and soon to be wife?"
"I guess it was pregnancy hor-" Valérie blinked in shock as she stopped talking. 'Did he just say.?' She thought as she looked at him.
"I was going to propose when I came home." He showed Valérie the ring it was just like her mother's.
Toshiro fell asleep and Valérie's hand came to cover her mouth and a tear fell down her cheek.
Sesshomaru placed the ring on Valérie's finger. "I care only for you and now our son."
Valérie teared up more and she laid Toshiro down in the small crib that was next to the hospital bed and she moved to sit in Sesshomaru's lap and she hugged him tightly and cried into his chest. "I love you so much. I'm so sorry I ever doubted you." She cried
Sesshomaru held onto Valérie. "It is alright. It was my mistake in not easing your worries. Though I did leave several hints to you as to what I was doing."
Valérie sighed. "I'm too damn stubborn for my own good." She mumbled and then her memory started to trigger something. "Sessh what about Aurora? Touga called me right when my water broke. Please tell me she's okay." She was shaking she was so scared.
Sesshomaru didn't answer right away. "Father had told me what had happened." He says
"Sessh you're not answering me is she okay?" Her heart rate was rising and beeping loudly on the monitor that she was still connected to.
"Aurora was kidnapped by Naraku and her mate mark that belonged to father vanished. Naraku raped her repeatedly and impregnated Aurora with his child. Father killed Naraku again and Aurora isn't the same anymore." Sesshomaru said softly to Valérie that she didn't almost hear it.
Valérie covered her mouth to stifle her gasps. "Sessh I got to go see her no-" she stopped to hold her stomach in pain. Her c-section incision not even coming close to healing yet.
Sesshomaru knew that he wasn't going to win this fight. He pulsed his youkai and healed Valérie's incision. "Alright." He picked up Toshiro and held him securely. "Come." He takes Valérie and had her and his son dispatched from the hospital then drove to the Aurora house.
Valérie kept her breathing steady and calm. 'I can hear my heartbeat in my ears oh god Aurora I'm coming please be okay.' She thought and she softly cried worrying about her friend. They got there and she picked up Toshiro as she and Sesshomaru walked to the door and knocked. Touga answered the door.
"Touga where is she?" Valérie asked quickly.
"She's in her room. She won't come out or let me in." He said sadly. Valérie looked to Sesshomaru and handed him their son. "I'll be back." She went and knocked on her door. "Hey Aurora it's me." There was scratching at the door and Roscoe let Valérie in. He whimpers and pulls her into the room while closing the door. Aurora could be found sitting down looking out her window unmoving. Valérie walked to her friend and she held her tightly. She didn't say a word and she just held her knowing what she needed was this comfort.
"He doesn't need me." Aurora whispers
"Yes he does." Valérie whispered. She touched her friend's stomach. "They need you, Roscoe needs you." She grabbed her hand. "I need you."
"I don't know anymore." Aurora had tears flow down her face.
Valérie wiped the tears from her eyes. "None of us blame you, we all still love you." She hugged her tightly.
"But I carry his child." Aurora says further
"It's not his child anymore. It's yours. He won't be like him. Look at me. I'm nothing like him." Valérie reassured her and she turned her to make her look at her. "We will all love this kid no matter what."
"Yes...sissy." Aurora nods slowly. "Nephew...where's Toshiro." She asks slowly
Val smiled softly. She stood up and she went into the other room. "Come here baby." She softly whispered and brought Toshiro in to meet Aurora.
Aurora looked at the bundle in her sister's arms. "Toshiro." She mutters and looks at him blankly with a small flicker of light in her eyes. "Handsome."
Valérie handed him to Aurora. 'Aunt Aurora...please don't be sad you're worrying my mommy.' Toshiro projected into her mind.
'Alright Toshiro.' Aurora replied in Toshiro's mind. "He has such a nice voice."
Valérie blinked. "What do you mean?" She looked down at her son.
"He speaks in my mind...such a nice voice." Aurora explained. Roscoe whimpers and looks to Aurora and then the door. He gently nudged Aurora to the door. She looked down and petted his head. "Okay." She walked out of the door and went into the living room. Valérie took Toshiro from her and stayed in Aurora's bedroom to feed him. Touga walked up to his mate and softly kissed her forehead.
Aurora flinched slightly. "No touch...not yet." She went to sit on the couch. She looked at Sesshomaru "Toshiro's voice is nice." She mutters. Sesshomaru smiled softly and nodded.
Touga sighed. He blamed himself for what happened and he walked out the front door to get some air.
"Maru...tell...Touga I don't blame him. Not his fault." Aurora asked him softly.
Sesshomaru sighed. "I think he needs to hear that from you more than me."
"Can't walk that far...get him please." She asked him again. Sesshomaru nodded and he stood up and walked to the door.
Touga was outside smoking a cigar. 'Haven't done this in years...' He thought and looked to the ground.
Sesshomaru walked up to his father and grabbed the cigar and threw it on the ground and stomped on it. "She wants you. Go to her now." He said bluntly.
Touga sighed. "I shall, give us some privacy, go be with your son." Touga said to him and he walked in and sat next to his mate. Sesshomaru walked into the house and went upstairs to be with Valérie and Toshiro.
Aurora slowly looks at Touga and placed her hand on his cheek. "I don't blame you...not your fault."
Touga looked down. "I should have stayed here to protect you."
Aurora looks at him with a dazed glint in her eyes. "Not fault...cannot blame yourself...what happened to me wasn't your fault...all in past now...I'm safe now."
Touga nodded slowly. "You can't blame yourself either, he can't hurt you anymore."
"I do not...I feel that I should've fought him...but I couldn't...I felt weak." She whispers
"It's not your fault. There was nothing that you could have done. What's important now is that you are safe." He softly put his hand on her stomach. "All of you are safe."
"This I know." She looked up at Touga and smiled to him.