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In a Blue Moon	By : NihilEtNemo Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 15598 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter Eleven

Complete Moon

Inuyasha walked back into camp, the limp form of his brother held in his arms. Kagome gasped at the sight.

“Inuyasha, what happened? Is he hurt?”

“No, he’s not hurt.” He laid Sessho-maru down by a tree and sat beside him. Was it just his imagination, or was Sessho-maru smiling a little? Could someone smile while unconscious? He wasn’t sure, but it looked like he was.

“Then what happened to him?”

Inuyasha looked up from his contemplation of Sessho’s face to answer Miroku’s question.

“He wanted me to give him the last mark… so I did. He passed out.” Miroku was probably jealous at that; it almost made Inu smirk. Bet he’d never made someone come so hard they passed out…

“Are you sure he wanted it?” Sango actually seemed concerned for his welfare. What was her concern with Sessho anyway? Inu couldn’t stop himself from being a little jealous. He was the one who was supposed to be taking care of him, not her. He knew what he was doing, what was best for them. It was almost as though she wanted to be Sessho’s mate instead of him – but that was just crazy. He shouldn’t be jealous. He knew for a fact that she wasn’t the least bit interested in his brother – his mate – and that Sessho didn’t feel anything for her, even if she was.

“Yes, I’m sure. He begged me for it – he said he didn’t want what happened with Naraku to happen again.” He lightly ran his fingers through Sessho’s long hair… how did he make it so soft? His own would never feel like this. Sessho purred softly, and he smiled.

“I don’t think he asked you out of love, Inuyasha…” she said warily. He scowled up at her, and saw Miroku nodding sagely, as though he had any idea what she meant. Shippo sat at Sessho’s head and stared into his face.

“What do you mean by that?” he demanded. Why else would Sessho have asked him?

“Maybe…” This time it was Kagome who spoke. “Maybe he doesn’t, really… If he said it was just so that no one could take him like Naraku did, maybe it just means that he doesn’t want to be used anymore…” She actually seemed apologetic, but it wasn’t doing much to dampen his anger.

“If he just did it because he didn’t want to be used anymore, then why would he do it at all? Wouldn’t that just mean that I was using him?” he demanded loudly, not really caring if he awakened his new mate.

“Well…” She trailed off and looked away.

“What we mean, Inuyasha,” said Sango evenly, “is that maybe he thinks you won’t be able to control him, but the mark will keep other demons away. He might be the one using you.”

Inuyasha scowled at them all and stood up. “Fine, believe whatever you want,” he spat, and jumped into the tree, then into the next one. Sessho-maru wasn’t just using him – he wasn’t! He wouldn’t do that to him… not anymore…

Shippo jerked away when the still form on the ground whined. Inu looked back in surprise; Sessho looked like he was uncomfortable – almost in pain. Inu understood instinctively that he needed him, and jumped back to his side, glaring at the others and daring them to say anything. If Sessho was just using him, would he be whining for him?

Sessho relaxed again when he shoved Shippo away and sat against the tree, holding his head in his lap and running his claws through his hair. He began purring again before too long, so quietly that only he could hear. He knew Sessho couldn’t be using him…

Warm… soft and warm… smell of Inuyasha…

I hear myself purring – purring loudly. I have no urge to stop it. Inuyasha… I feel so complete. I have no real idea what I had been missing, but I know that I no longer am. I know I have never felt better…

And I am strong again. I can feel it. I have been so weak since Inuyasha gave me the third mark, but now, now that I have been marked completely, I am nearly at my former strength. I unconsciously crack my knuckles, still purring. I can feel the energy flowing through me…

“Are you awake, Sessho?”

“Yes.” I purr even as I speak. I feel so good. “You did it…”

I hear him grin. “Yeah, I did…” His arms tighten around me, and I breathe deeply of his scent, blocking out that of everything else: his friends, the air, the dirt, plants, animals around us. All I can smell is Inuyasha… is my mate…

“You really wanted it, right?”

I must smile slightly. “Yes, Inuyasha. I did want you to do this. I am not using you. You are not using me. Your friends are right, to a point: I asked you to because I did not want to be taken and used against you, or for any other reason… But I have no illusions. You control me utterly now, have you any desire to.”

He is silent for a moment, but I know he is only considering everything I said, deciding what to ask or say first. There were several things he can and may comment upon in that statement.

“You trust me enough to let you control you like that?”

“I have not much choice now, have I?” I ask reasonably. “But, I trust in the fact that you have an overly kind disposition and will not make me do anything I have no wish to…” Well… not much. I imagine he will not be able to resist it, and he will use it to my annoyance, thwarting me if I try to defy him in any petty manner… but I do not imagine he will do anything truly against my will. Certainly nothing to endanger me.

“How’d you know what the others thought?”

“I dream about you, Inuyasha, when I sleep. It shows me what is happening with you at that moment, I believe. I saw your conversation.”

His claws run through my hair. “But you just did it so that you wouldn’t be used again.”

“Mostly…” The purring fades away; that will make him unhappy. He will, of course, see that I mostly am using him to protect me… But he cannot be too displeased with it, can he? After all, he has what he wanted. He has me, so that I will never be a threat to him again, nor stand in his way in any way… I am at his mercy. It is what he has always wanted, it is not? So he cannot be too angry with me, can he? Please, do not be angry with me…

“I thought as much.” He does not sound so terribly angry… Perhaps he forgives me…

“You are not angry?”

He looks down at me strangely. “Course not. I knew you had a reason. Didn’t know what it was, but I knew you had it. I’m not stupid enough to think it was because you loved me or something like that…”

I sigh slightly and rest my head against him. He is not angry with me…

“Why’re you acting so weird?”

“‘Weird’?” His claws in my hair feel so good…

“Yeah…” He brushes against my ear, then traces around it. My ears must be as strange to him as his are to me… he is used to humans, with their oddly rounded ears. Such strange creatures. “You normally wouldn’t give a damn if I was mad at you – you try to make me mad. And you’re hanging on me a lot… And you haven’t even looked around even once to check the place out. You always do.”

I sit up and pull away from him. Of course; he does not want me to ‘hang on him’ – I do not know why I was so presumptuous. I have also forgotten myself, been inattentive to my surroundings and thusly the safety of myself and everyone with me. I have been neglectful.

“I am sorry. I should not have…”

He raises my face and looks into my eyes. He seems troubled. Have I worried or disturbed him? I should not have! I will fix it.

“Sessho… what’s wrong with you?”

“There is nothing wrong with me,” I answer immediately and dutifully. He cannot worry.

It seems not to work, though. He only continues to frown. What have I done wrong?

“Is this… because I mated you?” He looks at once confused and taken aback. He has done nothing wrong, however, and he cannot think that he has…

I only blink at him. “Is what because you mated me, Inuyasha?” Nothing has changed.

“This… the way you’re acting. This isn’t you at all.”

“Nothing has changed, Inuyasha. I apologize for worrying you. I wish only to please you.”

He pulls his hand back and seems to almost retreat, backing slightly away from me. I raise my hand to stop him, then pause and drop it again. He may stay away from me if he wishes, though I would know what I have done to turn him off… I bite my lip slightly as I think of all the possibilities, listing everything that may have offended him. I should apologize again – but what if that is what did it? I can do nothing until I know for sure…

“Sessho, I am so sorry,” he says. “I had no idea… I didn’t mean to do this to you. Honestly I didn’t. I am so sorry…”

“Inuyasha…” I lean toward him, but he pulls back away again, and I sit back on my legs once more, keeping my distance. I cast my eyes downward. I am obviously unworthy, if he does not even want to touch me…

“Sessho, I didn’t mean to…”

“Inuyasha, you did nothing. I asked you to mark me. You only fulfilled my request, and you have given me what I wanted from you… And you are still not angry with me, knowing that I asked you to do it to protect myself. You deserve my gratitude. I wish to know what I have done to make you react I such a manner to my presence…”

His voice sounds pained, but I dare not look up. “Sessho…”

“It’s no use.” I look up, my eyes narrowed, in the direction of his companions. Have they been watching the entire time? Have I embarrassed Inuyasha with anything I have said or done? Perhaps this is why he pulls away – perhaps he did not appreciate my actions around his friends. I shall endeavor to be more careful in the future. Perhaps then he will not be displeased with me.

“He’s your responsibility now,” the female continues. Sango. I am supposed to be using their names. Sango. “You mated him, and now this is how he is. You can’t change him back.”

“I didn’t mean to do this.” Inuyasha’s voice sounds so plaintive; I instinctively sit beside him and rest my head on his shoulder and try to comfort him. He does not pull away from me this time… “I didn’t know it would do this, Sango…”

She shakes her head. “It’ too late to do anything about it. He’s your mate – he wants to make you happy. It’s his only purpose now. For the rest of your life – because he’ll only live as long as you do – he’ll be your willing slave. He can’t disobey you. He can’t make you unhappy. You need to protect him and take care of him, almost like a child.”

How would she know? “That is untrue. I am more than capable of protecting myself, now that I have this much of my strength back, and I will never need to be taken care of ‘like a child’.” Even with my head on Inuyasha’s somewhat tense shoulder, I am able to glare perfectly well. She is underestimating me. Yes, I have been mated, but I am not weak and pathetic as she seems to think. I know that other demons will behave as she has described, but I am stronger than that. Sessho-maru is no one’s slave.

Inuyasha relaxes a bit. “See? He’s okay…”

She looks at me evenly. “Inuyasha won’t keep you here. You’ll have to go home now.”

No! I inhale sharply and grip his arm tightly. He will not send me away, will he? “I am sorry – have I done something? Please, do not make me go…” I search his face for any signs of displeasure. “I will change whatever I need to, but please do not make me go…”

His eyes get impossibly wider, and he looks past me, at the – at Sango.

“See?” she says, and turns away, walking back to the others. The monk is sitting and eating unconcernedly, the cub is watching us with interest, and the other female – Kagome – is kind of staring. That ascertained, I look back toward Inuyasha, still pleading silently. Please…

He looks back at me, and tentatively runs his hand through my hair again. I relax a little. “It’s okay,” he says, almost wearily. “I’m not going to make you go anywhere you don’t want to…”

I let my breath out and relax against his shoulder. She was only lying – I can see no point to her lies, but she was lying. Inuyasha will not send me away…

He sighs and wraps his arms around me. “You can stay right mere…” he says.
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