Inuyasha Series © Rumiko Takahashi
It's been a while since the last time I update my Inuyasha fan-fiction and if you're still remember me, I'm not forgetting any of them.
3. Don't leave your important thing unattended
"Why I can't go!" Inuyasha demanded, trying not to let anger get the better of himself but damned Sesshoumaru to hell for pushing it. He turned to the eldest moodily, "Mother, you are not going to take his side in this matter, are you?"
"While I have no reason to agree with him," She raised a hand to stop him when Inuyasha was about to boast at his frowning sibling, "I certainly have no reason to agree with you either."
"Mother!" Inuyasha protested heatedly.
"You are not going with me. This is final." Sesshoumaru stated before their Mother could say anything else. He preferred getting this over with and moved on to other things that did not include spending time bickering with his family over something trivial as this.
"I don't want to hear this from you! You went into wars in the front line with him since the time you were even younger than me as his heir!" Inuyasha snapped, finally let go of his frustration and started pacing around the vicinity in hope of dispersing some steam while the other two demons lounged in the bed of fur surrounding them.
"The era is changing, Inuyasha. It is no longer wise to bring one's heir into war and risk him unnecessarily. I am not implying you are not strong enough—"
"That's just your nice way to help yourself not saying I am weak!"
"That is not where I want you to focus on what I am saying!"
"Is that it, Sesshoumaru-sama?!" Inuyasha sneered, hardly hiding any of the contempt he felt at that moment, "Am I making Your Highness feel disgraced of the abomination filthy hanyou-me that—"
"Inuyasha!" Sesshoumaru snarled in warning, already abandoned his seat and marched toward his younger sibling menacingly.
"Enough." She said evenly, commanded the silent stalemate between her sons despite having yet to raise her voice.
Stopped glaring at Sesshoumaru to redirect his gaze to the elder female, Inuyasha bowed his head, "I apology, Mother."
She frowned. Inuyasha was sorry for disrespecting her presence and clearly not because of what he said to Sesshoumaru. This stubborn puppy… She sighed, also stood to approach the youngest of them and petted the still irritating twitching triangle shape ears soothingly. Inuyasha was too expressive, too innocent, too caring. "Show me you are sorry by listening to what he has to say, little one. And Sesshoumaru," She turned to her eldest son, her gentle expression turned neutral where Inuyasha couldn't see, "If you are going to leave someone behind waiting for you, do settle things in the way that will not leave either of you regretting it later."
"You are talking as if he'll never come back!" Inuyasha huffed, crossing his arms and refused to look at Sesshoumaru, trying to cover his cold dread about the very possibility of what he had just said.
"On contrary, I am more worry that he will be too distracted for his mind to fully focus on what he should do," She left then, but not before commenting airily on her way out of the main hall, "You two are nowhere close to your Father. There was no hard feeling every time he and I parted whenever he had to go doing what he thought was right."
Now alone with each other, Inuyasha bit his bottom lip in order to not lash out again. He did not want this. As if two entire centuries of bitter hatred were not already enough, they had to stand here refraining themselves from biting each other's head off while he could use some snuggling and more petting when it was way pass due time too! The fluttering of clothes and footsteps reached his ears, causing the knot in his stomach to tighten at the thought of his sibling leaving but, as soon as arms wrapped around him and drew him to the familiar body, the back of his eyes ached and his throat constricted painfully.
"I'm sorry," Sesshoumaru whispered near a dropping puppy ear.
It took all of himself to not turn around and simply buried his face in Sesshoumaru's throat as he usually did when he wanted to hide his true feeling in front of his brother. Inuyasha stood rigidly and finally managed to breathe out in defeat, "No you're not."
Sesshoumaru sighed and placed his chin atop Inuyasha's head, pulling his sibling physically impossible closer to himself.
Inuyasha swallowed hard, going to be suffocated by the prolonging silence. "Say something!" He bit out, barely blinked back the flood of frustrated tears kept blurring his sight.
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and nuzzled a furry ear near his cheek, "I cannot say what you want to hear from me."
Inuyasha gave a sour smile. "Am I allowed to be selfish? I think I am entitled to be as bad as any living thing out there, right? So don't go. You don't have to go. Why it must be you? You don't even own the lands they are living in so why you have to help them keeping it? Because they call you their Lord whenever they need your power to overcome what they should do alone? Don't fucking make me laugh! They all combine don't even start to be worthy about one-thousandth of you. They can go fight for their stuffs or die protecting it or run for their life, I don't care. I only have you…" Inuyasha's breath hitched, choking in the truth of his fear. He turned around abruptly in his brother's arms and grabbed Sesshoumaru's neckline tightly, his trembling voice cracked around the edge, "What happened with you? You used to only do what you wanted! Since when did you turn into an ally of justice? You didn't put a mass of weaklings under your protection! You sheltered no one! You obligated to nothing! You were only interested in power, in conquering those who are supposed to be stronger than you, in surpassing the Old Man, in killing me! When did your world expand to other things? You can't…!" Inuyasha shook his head, pupils dilated. "Go back to how you used to be, Sesshoumaru. Hate me. Loathe me for your Father's death. Go after me to take back his Tessaiga which should be yours. Leave people to fight their own battles that hardly concern you—!" He was silenced in his mad ranting by lips closed over his. Inuyasha struggled to break free but Sesshoumaru had woven his claws in his hair to keep his head in place, the steel grip around his back further prevented him from all attempts at putting any kind of distance between them.
Why are you always unfair to me?
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"Sesshoumaru does have a valid point in wanting seclusion when it is time for you both to become mates, Inuyasha. Because it will take a while." She told him with a playful smile.
Inuyasha tilted his head, "A while?" He repeated, "How long is a while?"
Her smile took a turn toward the sly side, "A while," She whispered mischievously, placing her finger on his mouth to stop his coming question, "This is what makes all the mating occasions within the Royal lines unique even among us in comparison to the rest."
"But… I am not… Sesshoumaru and I are…" Inuyasha trailed off, his ears dropped in disheartened. He bit his bottom lip, hiding his eyes behind his bangs, "We can't make… make… uh…"
She blinked, then realized what he was trying to say, prompting her to cover a chuckle with her kimono sleeve. Inuyasha, feeling utterly insulted and thoroughly humiliated, crossed his hands and huffed in indignant. Finally reigned in her mirth to draw her youngest in her lap, she petted his ears in placation before admonishing him gently, "Silly puppy, that is far from the main purpose for a mating of our clan. Have you not figured it out by now if Sesshoumaru merely wanted a pup, he could do so with any demon or even human he chose on his whim long ago?"
Inuyasha looked up at her, eyes brimming with innocent curiosity, "Then?"
She shook her head and kissed his nose, "No, darling baby. This is something for only you to know when the time comes."
Inuyasha pouted and no amount of puppy-ness he tried later could get her to tell him. Until he was completely convinced she truly didn't know.
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Inuyasha threw his hands around Sesshoumaru's neck, fighting his brother for dominance. If Sesshoumaru was going away soon, he would make the time they had left to spend with each other worth it to the last instant. He was ready. And if their Mother was right, he could only hope after a while, whatever was going to take Sesshoumaru away from him would pass before any of them realize it, so his sibling no longer had to go anywhere.
Sesshoumaru was taken by surprise at Inuyasha's ferocity. Something blaring in the back of his mind went unheard because he found himself submerged in his own desire faster than he remembered. With the way Inuyasha was fighting him, this had gotten far too serious. His younger sibling was going to dominate him very soon. With a lustful growl, Sesshoumaru pried Inuyasha from him long enough to throw his younger brother on the fur bedding they had been lounging earlier and pounced before the disorient half-demon had the chance to grasp his bearing.
Inuyasha was overwhelmed by the way Sesshoumaru handled him. His open challenge for control if anything could very well be seen as an offense for opposing the elder who he had acknowledged. But as Sesshoumaru trailed nips and kisses down his throat and deftly undid the cord keeping his suikan close, he couldn't bring himself to bother with the right and wrong any longer, he didn't care about those things to begin with. Inuyasha threaded his claws in the familiar lengthy silver hair and pulled his brother up, demanded to resume the kiss he had started earlier but got interrupted for a quick readjustment of position.
Why I've been making you wait?
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Golden eyes opened, Inuyasha sat up with a startle, hand over his chest to calm down the wild beating of his heart. As if remembered something or someone, he looked around frantically only to feel the chill gripped his entire being when realization dawned to him that he was all alone. Looking down to himself, clothed as usual, not a cord was out of place, the half-demon rubbed his neck, swallowed thickly when his thumb only brushed over smooth skin absented of the bite marks that should have been there. Inuyasha lowered his head, closed his eyes to hold in the ache behind his lids calling forth the possible waterfall he was about to let out. He sank his claws in the fur curling around himself angrily, hissing through his fangs, "That unreasonable selfish bastard—" He choked and tensed immediately when arms wrapped around him and pulled him back to the warm chest from behind.
"You shouldn't talk about this unreasonable selfish bastard while he is listening." Sesshoumaru practically purred in a triangle shape ear before nipping it in reprimand for good measure. Inuyasha was trembling violently in his arms and only thanked to his centuries of experience in dangerous situations that he was able to catch the furious fist aimed at his face on time, as well as the second one mid-swing.
The strength behind his attack evaporated the instant Inuyasha saw his brother's face up close and no amount of hallucination could imitate that unmistakable smirk that could only belong to the real thing. Taking advantage of the loose hold on his hands to break free, Inuyasha grabbed one of Sesshoumaru's arms and chomped down harshly, breaking skin and drawing blood in the process. All Sesshoumaru ever displayed of his bewilderment was a blink, his high tolerance of pain was very much taking the blame for the apathy. Patiently he waited until Inuyasha removed his fangs and lapped the blood clean. Looking at his sibling curiously, Sesshoumaru stated, "You bit me."
Inuyasha poked his sibling's chest and told him demandingly, "You are to come back to me when this," He waved the wound he had created on Sesshoumaru's wrist at their eye level, "Is about to fade completely. I don't care if you are in the middle of the battlefield. Got it?"
"And now you are ordering me." Sesshoumaru remarked in wonder, neither saying yes or no to the gall of his daring hanyou.
"GOT. IT?" Inuyasha emphasized, trying to keep his scowl despite the flood of relief filled him that his brother had not left without saying anything to him.
Instead of answering, Sesshoumaru gathered Inuyasha in his arms again and hold his brother in silence. He soon closed his eyes when Inuyasha reached around his shoulders and clutched him tightly.
"Promise me…" Inuyasha breathed in the hollow of Sesshoumaru's neck.
"Promise is a fragile thing, Inuyasha. It is made to be broken," Sesshoumaru voiced coldly, "I will give you no such thing that can only be equal to a pathetic false hope."
Inuyasha angled his head upward to look at his only sibling, whose face was half-visible where the moonlight cascaded from behind. The trails of beauty were all ethereal. Even with countless flaws Sesshoumaru was still a perfection. It felt ever more surreal to him to be related to this dangerously powerful creature by blood and to be wanted by said creature. "Then give me something," Inuyasha tilted his head, purposely exposed his neck, "Something can announce to even the fools that I belong to you at first glance."
Sesshoumaru caressed the round cheek, sighing quietly to himself. "Don't tempt me any further, Inuyasha. If only you know how close you had endangered your life earlier…" The demon eyes narrowed more at the opposite widened pair.
It was real… "I…" Inuyasha bit his bottom lip, but not looking away as if he had done something wrong.
"I pride myself in my control over my impulse. However that is no longer applied when you are concerned as of late. I do not want to take you for this reason, Inuyasha," Sesshoumaru put a finger on the other mouth when Inuyasha made to protest, "I have no intention to be lost to you. You become my mate or not is irrelevant."
"You can't even give me your words. Don't you remember the Old Man, Kikyo, and then Kagome? Every time I thought I finally had what I wanted, they were ripped from me before I knew it." Inuyasha smiled bitterly, pressing his forehead on Sesshoumaru's shoulder and breathed out shakily, "I want to believe you are selfish, so no matter how long I am with you, I won't lose you because of me…"
"It is too late, Inuyasha," Sesshoumaru lifted his sibling's face and licked the tender lips presented to him soothingly, whispering against the soft flesh, "I am selfish. That is why I will do anything for you."
"Then stay," Inuyasha beseeched, the first of tears made a trail down his cheek, "Aniue…"
Eyes widened, Sesshoumaru failed to hold in a gasp at the obvious yet foreign addressing, more than the pain in his chest that lone tear had caused. He was torn between holding Inuyasha impossibly tighter until the tears dried and punishing Inuyasha for using the advantage he had given his younger from his earlier confession against him. But he couldn't bring himself to do the second thing, because Inuyasha looked so precious right now it was practically a crime to fault his baby sibling of anything.
"Sesshoumaru…" Inuyasha whimpered. The sound had no right to be sinfully seductive just as it was disturbingly pitiful with the half-demon's current state of mind and, might or might not know that he was pressing himself against the demon who could have devoured him completely in that instant, or he just didn't care.
Sesshoumaru considered forcefully shut down Inuyasha's consciousness like he had done earlier when his sibling almost successfully manipulated him to bite. Things could have gone badly if he hadn't come to his sense when he did. It only served as proof of how much power Inuyasha already had over him and yet to include a mating bond to the equation. "You are too much," Sesshoumaru whispered, bumping his nose with Inuyasha's.
It seemed all they did as the time drew near to Sesshoumaru's departure was sleeping. He would wake up to the rare sight of his elder sibling's innocent expression. Apparently even Sesshoumaru couldn't keep his dangerous aura while he was reposing. Or it was just because this place offered enough security for both of them to drop their guard completely and be careless of the world for a while.
Inuyasha brushed aside the stray silver strands fell over Sesshoumaru's cheek, idly marveled at the different texture of their hair. He had already become so familiar with this urge to memorize everything that was Sesshoumaru, no matter how much his brother told him the reason for this kind of gesture was ridiculous even if it was sweet at the same time. He leaned up to press his lips against Sesshoumaru's, smiling when the demon unconsciously relaxed himself and slightly parted his own lips in receiving. Inuyasha pulled back and lay down again on his brother's chest. He closed his eyes, his breathing was even out, once more lulled into a fitful sleep until the next time he woke up in the protective arms of this demon who had never become unimportant for any moment of his life.
He completely missed the slight curl of Sesshoumaru's lips and when those same lips kissed his forehead next.
"You smell like Sesshoumaru." Shippo stated straightforwardly when he saw Inuyasha finally showed up in the village.
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and reminded the younger demon, "Because I've been with him."
"No. If I didn't see you first I would assume it's him," Shippo persisted, hopping on the half-demon's shoulder and took a long sniff at his neck. "Yup, definitely you smell exactly like him!"
Inuyasha stared at Shippo as if he was an idiot but he said nothing and continued walking further into the village. The noisy fox would drop it when he realized Inuyasha was not going to humor him any further.
"Ah, Inuyasha-sama!" Rin waved, grinning brightly when she spotted him while she was in the middle of a conversation with an elder village woman.
Inuyasha blinked and gave an awkward "Yo" in return. He was still not entirely used to her overenthusiasm at the sight of him. The same villager bowed to him, wished him a nice day and left. The era is changing, he heard Sesshoumaru's previous words spoken to him in his mind. Indeed, several years ago not a single living being wouldn't look at him as if he was something so vile they didn't even bother to hide how repulsive it was to breathe the same air as him. He had lived distrusting of everything ever approached him, knowing all they wanted was to harm him one way or another or worse, and he never got to disappoint, not even once. Not until Kikyo.
"—yasha? Inuyasha!"
He winced when the call of his name got too loud. "I hear you," He huffed, walked pass Kagome and others toward Kaede's hut.
"We've been calling you for a while," Miroku sighed dramatically beside him, "We are deeply wounded Inuyasha. After so long you've decided to visit us but all you do is standing in the middle of the road daydreaming about your sweetheart brother!"
Inuyasha looked over his shoulder. Kagome, Shippo, Miroku, Sango, Kirara, Kohaku and Rin. These people who had fought by his side on numerous occasions, leaned on him, protected him, helped him, trusted him. They expanded his narrow viewpoint of the world and exposed him to many of the unknown, and made sure to be there for him even as they were settling down to a more peaceful part of their life. He wondered if this was what called, "Friends…?"
The humans looked between themselves, completely puzzled at Inuyasha's strange behavior as well as his mind-wandering silence.
"No," Sango shook her head, "Not just that, Inuyasha," She looked at the others briefly, together they nodded and then she turned back to the half-demon, "To us, you are family."
"Yasakani no Magatama?" Inuyasha eyed the box suspiciously, attempting to poke the black jewel inside with the tip of his claw.
Kagome swatted his hand away with a loud smack, causing Inuyasha to squeak in startle and scowled at her. "No touching," She reprimanded him like talking with a misbehave child.
"Hmm," Miroku scratched his chin thoughtfully, "Where did you get this Kagome-sama?"
Kagome glared in warning at Inuyasha before turning to the monk, "Sesshoumaru did."
"Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha peaked up, "I didn't hear any of this from him. Hell, I didn't even believe he would keep something like… this?"
"How would I know?" Kagome talked back defensively, "All he told me was your Mother gave it to him and that he didn't know what it could do to you."
A questioning eyebrow raised, "My Mother?" The half-demon repeated.
"To prove to him she didn't control your Father when they were… you know?" Kagome hinted, deliberately avoided talking about the obvious topic that was still sensitive to a certain point.
"If it couldn't do anything to Sesshoumaru, how could it even be effective against the Old Man in the first place?" Inuyasha demanded, confused as to why his Mother would give this to his brother when she should have known it was useless.
"There are too many possibilities, Inuyasha," Miroku patted Inuyasha's shoulder to placate his irritating friend, "I believe your Mother meant something else or Sesshoumaru-sama would have returned it already."
"Come to think of it, Inuyasha's Mother was a princess, right?" Sango pondered aloud.
"That's right." Myoga jumped down from Kirara's head out of nowhere, standing before Inuyasha. "Not only was she a princess, but also the successor of a specialist line in her clan."
"Specialist line?" The adults minus Kagome echoed.
"The kuromiko." Inuyasha answered with a nonchalant expression.
"… That's also what Sesshoumaru told me." Kagome admitted sheepishly after an awkward silence followed for the others to proceed the information.
"That seems to lose its meaning as time passes," Myoga continued, "Originally, a kuromiko was someone who conversed with youkai, even befriended some and made contracts with some for various reasons that also include exorcism and on rare occasions, purification. The most important part was a kuromiko could see something normal priestesses and monks couldn't see. Someone with a weak mind could be easily taken over by the demonic intention of the youkai they contracted and turned out not far from that Tsubaki."
"I heard from my Mother there was something passed down from generations to the successor of kuromiko but she no longer kept it since before I was born. I assumed this was the thing." Inuyasha remarked, jerked his chin at the box sitting in the center of their circle.
"Inuyasha-sama, why don't we make a trip to the Lady Izayoi's Castle?" Myoga suggested.
"How long do you think it was since then?" Inuyasha questioned with a disdain grunt, "There is nothing but ruins now."
"It wouldn't hurt to look if you don't mind, Inuyasha," Sango encouraged soothingly, "Besides, it's been so long since we all go somewhere together like back then and I'm kind of missing it."
Feeling slightly embarrassed, Inuyasha huffed, "Whatever, don't say I didn't warn you if you are disappointed later."
"Then it's decided." Kagome smiled, smacking Inuyasha's hand when he reached over to the jewel again.
"Stingy." The half-demon muttered under his breath.
"No touching until we know if it's safe for you." Kagome reminded him.
"Let's walk from here." Inuyasha suggested, directed Hachiemon to descend in the forest on the edge of a village, "We'll attract some unwanted company if we are going to fly above their heads to get there. Shippo, just to be caution, change into some kind of pet and stay close to Kagome." He turned from Shippo to address the racoon youkai, "You too." Then he crossed his arms, staring at Kirara thoughtfully.
The cat demon tilted her head, mewing at him in askance.
Inuyasha shrugged, brushing aside her concern. "I'm used to it, don't worry. Besides, we've seen many kinds of reaction when I and Miroku went around in his scamming career." He said over his shoulder, bashing the shameless monk with his accusing tone.
"Inuyasha-kun, I have a wife and many children to take care off." Miroku defended himself good naturally.
Inuyasha shoved Shippo and Hachiemon, had shapeshifted themselves into a fox kit and weasel respectively at his order, in Miroku's hands. "Since you're good with kids, take care of them too." He grinned at his friend's dismay expression.
"You took his bait, Miroku-sama," Kagome shook her head in sympathy.
Sango and Kohaku nodded in agreement.
"By the way, Kohaku," Inuyasha said suddenly, leading the group toward the village but subtly pushing a reluctant Miroku to walk in front of him.
"Yes, Inuyasha-sama?" Kohaku answered at the call of his name.
"The handcrafts here are good."
Kohaku stiffened and turned his head to the side, trying and falling to hide his fluster from catching the hint.
Sango and Kagome giggled behind them. "Ooooohhhh!"
Kohaku ducked his head in embarrassment before letting out an exasperate shout, "It's not what you think!"
"The flower is getting old." Inuyasha commented offhandedly.
"Inuyasha-sama! Both Rin and I are still too young!" Kohaku argued.
"Who's talking about Rin? I'm saying I can't bring any flower back to Kaede because she's too old for that." Inuyasha poked the younger demon-slayer on the forehead before passing him when Kohaku stood rooted to the spot after realizing he got owned.
"Don't worry, Kohaku-kun. We'll cheer for you!" Kagome winked and patted the younger boy on his shoulder.
"Good luck Kohaku," Sango smiled at her brother.
Kohaku shook his head, unwilling to talk about this matter anymore. "Sesshoumaru-sama will skin me alive if he knows this."
"Nah. He's a big bully and a helpless romance at heart. You're safe." Inuyasha absentmindedly scratched Kirara under her chin, causing her to mew contently on his shoulder.
"Are we talking about the same person, Inuyasha-sama?" Kohaku questioned warily, catching up with the half-demon.
"No," Inuyasha denied, grinning, "But a demon, yeah."
Kohaku felt like sobbing.
"Inuyasha, don't be mean." Kagome reprimanded.
A loud bell went off and several voices screamed "DEMON!" reached their ears.
The corner of Inuyasha's mouth curled up. "Here comes the usual." He raised a hand and nonchalantly caught a talisman flying at him between his index and middle-finger. As soon as the anti-demon tool came in contact with him, it was reduced to ash.
"What?" Miroku and Sango gasped. Kagome and Kohaku could only stare at the half-demon in awe.
"How come?! The demon was supposed to be at least weakened by it!" A young monk yelled in frustration, hiding behind a tree not far from the group.
"Hn," Inuyasha smirked, "This soil will never harm me."
"What do you mean?" Kagome whispered so as not to alert the listening ears around them.
"We are in the Setsuna region. Since Lady Izayoi was the priestess who created the protective barrier to protect her people from demons, the nature recognized Inuyasha-sama as a part of her therefore it also protects him by extension. No art of purification or curse can harm him when he was inside her circle of influence, but the humans." Myoga explained from Kagome's shoulder.
"Everyone, there is nothing to be afraid of! He's our companion and means you no harm!" Miroku announced, already displeased at the thought of Inuyasha's hard life when he was a child living among these people.
"Ignore them Miroku. We only need to pass this village, it's not like we're staying." Inuyasha advised his friend with a fleeting grateful smile that soon disappeared as he walked ahead with Kohaku in tow.
"Turn back. There is nothing beyond this land." An old male voice with authority said from behind them.
Inuyasha grinned over his shoulder at the hard expression directed at him from the owner of the voice. "That means there is something, then?"
"If you take any further step, we'll no longer be lenient with you. You've been warned, demon." The man, might as well be the person of highest status in this village, threatened.
"Too bad I don't take order from any of you," Inuyasha scoffed, "I believe I have more ownership of this land than you lot ever be."
"Imbecile!" The man drew out a stack of talisman from the sleeve of his kimono, expertly spread them in his hand and threw at Inuyasha.
The half-demon put his hand on Kohaku's shoulder, whispered to the young male quietly, "Remember you are a demon-slayer, not a man-slayer. That new weapon of yours can easily cut a human in half easier than it did a youkai."
"But Inuyasha-sama…" Kohaku frowned, gritted his teeth in anger. He noticed Kagome and his siblings didn't fare any better than him and had picked up their pace to get out of here preferably sooner than later.
"Don't let the effort of Kagome, your sister and brother go waste. And besides, haven't you heard Myoga-jiji?" Inuyasha grinned devilishly as all the talismans evaporated before they could start getting close to him, "Nothing but human can harm me here."
"What is the meaning of this? What did you do!" The same man shouted at him, unable to understand how a demon could do such a thing.
"Nothing," Inuyasha shrugged, "The one who has been doing what is you. Since you are trying to harm the son of the person who had protected your ancestors in exchange for somewhere to raise her own child."
Realization dawned in the man's eyes. "You are…"
"Hn." Inuyasha smirked, folded his arms inside his sleeves and walked off.
"Oh Inuyasha-sama," Myoga sobbed, big fat tears rolled down his cheeks in waves when they were once again deep in the forest on the other side of the village, "I'm sure both the Lady Izayoi and your Father would be very proud of you!"
Kirara mewed, tapping her paws on his cheek when Inuyasha remained silent, lost in his own thought while walking on autopilot.
"Inuyasha?" Sango called after exchanging worry glances with Kagome, her brother and her husband.
"Hm?" The half-demon replied absentmindedly.
"Are you okay Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah. I'm just thinking…" Inuyasha tilted his head.
"About?" Kagome prompted.
"I think… he rubs off on me?" The half-demon wondered.
"I already said you smell like Sesshoumaru and you still are!" Shippo chirped victoriously, hopping on Miroku's shoulder to shake his front paw at Inuyasha, "How long have you been rubbing each other really?"
Miroku and Kohaku walked straight into a tree in front of them. Sango and Kagome barely caught themselves from tripping on nothing. Kirara almost dropped her jaw while she was yawning. Hachiemon nearly got his eyes popped out from their sockets. Myoga experienced a bad case of heart-attack.
Inuyasha whacked the Fox from behind, causing Shippo to lose his balance and turned back to his humanoid form with a large bump on his head. "Stop spying on Miroku and Sango." The half-demon grunted.
"SHIPPO!" The adult humans screamed at the Fox demon in mortified.
"I didn't!" Shippo denied in indignant, "I may look like this but I've lived over fifty human years!"
Inuyasha raised a skeptical eyebrow. "If you say so."
"Inuyasha-sama, I think Sesshoumaru-sama has rubbed off on you." Kohaku agreed.
Inuyasha huffed.
"Ouch!" Hachiemon squeaked and turned back to his humanoid form, rubbing his tail.
"What happened, Hachi?" Miroku kneeled beside his servant, checking out the injury that seemed to be a slight burn.
"I don't know master. I seemed to brush against something like a holy barrier." The racoon demon winced, blowing at his tail.
"A barrier?" Inuyasha repeated, looking around himself. He unsheathed Tessaiga, sure enough, the blade pulsed and turned crimson.
"Are you going to break the barrier, Inuyasha?" Kagome questioned behind him.
"Not really. I'm letting Tessaiga locate it. A barrier is meant to protect something. It's better if we know what is hiding here before deciding to take it down or not." Inuyasha replied, raised Tessaiga and listened to the change in the wind-like aura curl around his sword, noticed the different density of the air in one direction from the others. "Found it."
"Please be careful Inuyasha-sama! We don't know how much has changed here after all these years." Myoga cautioned.
Inuyasha reached over, put his hand inside the barrier, unsurprisingly didn't hurt himself in the process, and hold an old box when he drew back. "This is it."
Shippo hopped on Inuyasha's other shoulder to get a better view of the item and blew on it, caused a no small explosion of dust everywhere and earned himself another bump on the head.
"I don't feel anything spiritual from it." Kagome stared at the box curiously and then to Inuyasha, "Shall we look inside?"
"Why not?" Inuyasha shrugged uncaringly and gave it to her.
Kagome gingerly pulled off the thick cord and pushed the lid just a tad to be sure there wouldn't be anything come out to scare curious people like the prankster box in her time. Getting bolder when it didn't seem to be hiding any hidden trap, she opened it fully to reveal an old piece of paper neatly folded inside and started reading it aloud with widening eyes.
"To my dearly beloved son Inuyasha and his loyal friends who will come upon this in the future,
I am Izayoi—"
"Mother?!" Inuyasha cut in, disbelief apparent on his face.
"Oh my…!" Myoga gasped.
TBC.
A/N: I edited the first and second chapter of this story to correct some misspellings and bad grammars, hopefully it'll lessen the confusion.