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Dreams of Red	By : Saranwyn Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 5877 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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“My Lord,” the captain of the guard came into his study. InuYasha and Hisoka were outside studying, again. “We have sensed the half-breed, Naraku’s, presence nearing.” Finally, Sesshoumaru thought, standing.
“Good. I will handle him.”
“If I may protest, please at least let me accompany you.”
“I would rather not scare him off. You may come if you smell an excess of my blood.” The tiger demon bowed.
“Thank you, My Lord.” The demon lord strode out. “And post extra guards surreptitiously nearly daughter and chosen mate. Naraku is not to get to them no matter what. And if I don’t come back soon, make sure you keep InuYasha here so he doesn’t go do something stupid.”
“Yes, My Lord, but-!”
“No buts. Even if something happens to me, its his duty to take care of Hisoka. Also, should something happen to me – not that Naraku is capable of killing me – please request that my mother take over the head of the West once again until Hisoka is ready to rule.”
“…Yes, My Lord.” Sesshoumaru now strode off, leaving the palace and heading towards Naraku’s scent. The half demon was approaching on foot, swathed in his fur cloak and baboon mask. He stopped when Sesshoumaru appeared before him.
“Lord Sesshoumaru…how polite of you to come greet me,” Naraku greeted him guardedly. The demon lord smiled thinly.
“You know, before you kidnapped my daughter, I was going to hunt you down and offer you a deal. You would stop pursuing InuYasha and I would let you live. However, you abducted my daughter, and I just can’t seem to find it in the goodness of my heart to forgive you. The most I can offer you is a quick death.”
“You underestimate me.” Sesshoumaru scoffed and with a roar, transformed into a giant, white dog. Before Naraku had time to recover from his surprise, he was pouncing on the half demon. Naraku managed to dodge just in time and thus began the battle. It didn’t take long for the half demon to realize just how thoroughly outmatched he was. He’d come prepared to sneak in, snatch InuYasha, and leave, not fight an all-out battle with a very angry demon lord. Sesshoumaru’s relentless attacks began to wear him down, and he started looking for ways to escape, but each time he tried, he was pinned back down, again. His regeneration began to slow, and the strikes he got in on Sesshoumaru were glancing at best, more often completely ineffective. Suddenly, the InuYoukai had him pinned on the ground and the last thing he saw were the demon’s red eyes leering down at him and the flash of teeth.
Sesshoumaru transformed back into a human, staring at Naraku’s disintegrating body. Blood dripped from his fingers and smeared across his face. It was disgusting, but there was some animal sense of accomplishment in it, some bestial triumph that urged him to go roll in the gore and revel in it. Quashing that disgusting, base instinct, he instead turned on his heel and headed back inside to bathe.
Relaxing into the hot springs, head leaned back and eyes closed, he realized that he probably should feel a greater sense of accomplishment. After all, Naraku was the one that had defeated InuYasha, right? He couldn’t have been too pathetic, but still, he could only feel like he’d just defeated another enemy. Somewhere in the back of his head, he still didn’t even feel like Naraku had been a worthy opponent.
You think about him too much, he chided himself. He’s dead, who cares about how worthy or unworthy he was? You killed him; he will no longer threaten your family. There was a knock on the door and then InuYasha came in. Sesshoumaru heard the Hanyou slip into the water beside him. A warm, calloused hand settled on his shoulder, rubbing gently in small circles. He exhaled deeply, smiling at the comfort of it.
“I smelled Naraku’s blood on you when you came back.”
“He’s no longer an issue.”
“You killed him…just like that?”
“Yes.”
“O-oh…”
“What?”
“Well…I guess I forgot how much stronger you are than me.” Sesshoumaru chuckled and kissed InuYasha’s nose.
“It’s only natural – I’m a full demon, not to mention I’ve had more time and training than you…by quite a bit. If you fight like you did fifty years ago, you’re not even close to realizing your full potential.”
“F-full potential?”
“I think with real training and hard work…you could get a lot better. Especially if you learned to use a sword.” InuYasha slid around in front of him, staring at him very seriously.
“Will you teach me? Since coming here…I realize how much I have to learn, still. I always thought I wasn’t missing that much, but even compared to the servants here…I know nothing.” His ears drooped a little. “All this time, I thought I could take care of you, but it turns out I’m the one that needs taking care of.”
“InuYasha…that’s not true. You know a lot about how to take care of yourself, and others, especially for the nomadic lifestyle you’ve gotten me addicted to. Don’t get all depressed, like this. It’s not like you.” The Hanyou smiled a little.
“I just hate feeling useless.”
“You’re making me happy…isn’t that enough.”
“Y-yeah…I guess. It’s just…you know, Naraku was my problem…and I got you involved, and then you took care of it and…I just feel like I’m always putting burdens on you when really I just want to take care of you. Good intentions are one thing, but they’re no good if I only do exactly the opposite of what I want.” Sesshoumaru frowned curiously.
“You’re not burdening anyone. Hisoka loves having you around, even when she’s just with me, she talks about you all the time. I guess even after all this time, she still wanted to have her father around…”
“I feel like her playmate more than her father, most of the time.”
“Hm…well, no doubt she gets lonely. The servants are too shy to play with her, and often I’m too busy. Until you came, she spent the vast majority of her time alone. I always regretted it a little, but it was how I was raised, and no doubt how my mother was raised, so…I knew no other way, I suppose.”
“…Someone in your position must get pretty lonely then…”
“Well, I didn’t get lonely, really. I mean, I got bored…nothing was exciting, but I didn’t get lonely. I suppose I’m just one of those people…who don’t need much company. Which is why it’s so surprising that I enjoy yours as much as I do, even when we’re not…intimate.”
“You like having me around…for more than…that?”
“Of course. If I wanted you for only sexual intercourse it would’ve been easy to almost never see you and just call you to my room when I wanted you – I would’ve even had you live in the servants quarters. I chose for you to live in my room with me because I want you around me as an equal…not just as a bed warmer.”
“O-oh…I never…realized that.” The demon lord leaned his head back, closing his eyes, again. “You’re beautiful, you know that?”
“Yes, I have been made aware of the fact.”
“No, I mean, you are the most beautiful…anything that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Even compared to the sunrise or the full moon or the snow-filled woods…before I met you, I thought those were the most beautiful sights in the world…and then…I saw you for the first time and it was like…like beauty hadn’t even existed until right then.” Sesshoumaru chuckled, basking in the sincerity of the praise.
“Until I saw you…my world was grey,” he admitted softly. “You vibrancy…was something I had only ever dreamed of, and even then…my imagination was pale by comparison.”
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