"Inuyasha. Grandmother. Mother. Father, I was... *she hesitated a little*... raped."

Everyone, except for Kagome, Kikyo, Inuhime, and Sesshomaru, was growling and their eyes turning red.

"Will you please stop and calm your beast? It's over 50 yrs too late to do anything about it, anyway. It doesn't matter how he was conceived. What matters now is that he needs us, now more than ever."

They immediately calmed down.

InuTaisho asked while his beast is still present, "Is that why you threaten us?"

Inuhime nodded.

Kagome, Kikyo, and Inuyasha were confused. They had a question mark on their faces. InuTaisho saw their questioning expression. He sighed.

"Usually, when a female isn't mated and had a bastard pup. The Counsel would take that pup and kill it. It wouldn't matter if it's a pup of a lord or not. Inuki, you have no reason to worry. We won't do anything, especially kill one of our own."

Inuhime was now tearing up. She ran to her father and glomped him, which made him fall backwards.

"Thank you, father."

Kimiko chuckled at the scene because Inuhime and InuTaisho had always been like this. "At least, that hasn't change," she thought.

She cleared her throat to get all, who were present, attention. "My dear, I've been the head of the Counsel for a very long time. And I planned of not having my own great-great grandpup killed for something as foolish as that. Besides, this hadn't happened before in the history of the Western Lands. However, InuTaisho, you were only half correct. Yes, it's true that if a female isn't mated and had a pup would be killed, however, that's up to the female's parents. It does depend upon the situation. In this case that Inuki was raped, it would be her decision to rid the pup. A youkai females are rarely raped, since they are stronger than their human counterparts."

The human women and the hanyou nodded in understanding. Kagome thought, "That almost what would happened in the modern era. Although, it was rare to hear it on the news or read it in the newspapers or magazines."

Then there was silence in the throne room, the emotions were mixed with anger, relief, disgusted, and many others. The air in the room was thick and heavy. It almost seemed overwhelming. However, Inuhime isn't finished.

"There's more that you must know. Naraku is alive. I believed that Kagome had told you, but this is now a confirmation. Also, Akuokaesu isn't the Lord of the Southern Lands. It's really Naraku. His son is only the face as Naraku rules behind the scenes."

Inuyasha griped, "Figures... that bastard had always pulled this shit on us, when the Shikon no Tama still existed."

Kagome agreed.

Inuhime continued, "Inuyasha, I love you, but if you interrupt me again. I will put those beads, that you love so much, on you and then sit you until you reach the other side of the world."

Inuyasha swallowed a lump. "As I was saying before Inuyasha interrupted me... *she glared at him*... Akira is really mated to Naraku but to the outside world and the Southern Counsel, she's Akuokaesu's mate."

Everyone was surprised to hear that.

Kimiko then looked at Zokushi, who's been quiet all this time. "Zoku, how is it that you knew where Inuhime and Rin were?"

Everyone, except for Inuhime, then, looked at Zokushi wondering the same thing. Zokushi gave a nervous laugh.

She acted like a child. It had always been like this whenever she came around her best friend's family.

"Well, you see... I was visited by Amaterasu, after we tried to find the hoju... *she looked up to Inuhime, then unknowingly, that she already had it*... I am sorry Inuhime, we looked everywhere for the hoju, but it somehow vanished. Anyways, the goddess told me to go to the Southern Lands and wait until she returned. I did what she asked. A week later, she returned to me. She told me that a need to disguise myself as a guard. That's because guards could roam freely. I have no idea that Rin was there. I didn't even recognized her, at first, until we were returning from the Southern Palace."

Everyone nodded in understanding. Inuhime had already known of the plan, that Zokushi needed to disguise herself to save Inuhime's son and unknowningly Rin. She knew that she needed to die in order to have Naraku and the others believing that she would be the flaw in his plans. Predictable as Naraku was, he killed her. Inukimi looked at her daughter questionably. She was dissatisfied. She wanted to know how her daughter escaped from Naraku's vile hands.

Inuhime must had sensed that her mother wanted an explanation of how she escaped.

Inuhime added, "If you are wondering how I escaped, then I must tell you. You see... Izanami came in me in a dream, because I was sleeping, most of the time anyway, due to my curse. Anyway, she explained to me that the only way to escape him and the blood curse was through my death."

She stopped for them to absorb the information. "However, Naraku was planning on killing me anyway by having my own family killing me. If that happened, I would still be in the Afterlife. You see, the curse wasn't weakening at all. He only had strengthen it just to have enough strength to fight you. However, it wasn't very much, though. The purpose of the blood curse was to weaken me and take all of my power. Somehow, he knew of my 'punishment' by the counsel, who had taken half of my power. One day, Naraku, somehow, got into my cavernous prison, that was where he raped me. When Sesshomaru and Kagome were returning home, they'd happened to enter my prison. I knew they were there. Sesshomaru was so focus on Kagome that he didn't even notice me. Anyway, when we were resting for the night. I felt some strange auras. I followed it. Suddenly I was attacked by a lot of rogue demons. Rogue they may be, but they were being controlled. During that fight, one of them stabbed me. The blood from that dagger was what initiated the blood curse. Amaterasu told me the only way to reverse the curse was through my death. However, to resurrect me, I needed three blood relatives of the caster of the curse.

Kagura, Hakudoshi, and Kanna willingly gave up their lives for mine. I will forever be thankful for their sacrifice. So, that's how I am here today. Curse free. As for the hoju, I have it. I already absorb my power back into myself."

Everyone, excepted for those who didn't know who they were, was surprised that Kagura, Hakudoshi, and Kanna were also resurrected and willingly gave up their lives for Inuhime. Not only that, but Inuhime had the hoju all that time. However, she didn't tell them that she asked Bokensou to keep it until the right time, whenever that would be.

Inuyasha (c) Rumiko Takahashi

Fanfiction & OCs (c) ladytari