Undercover Romance | By : PhoenixDiamond Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 4252 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Chapter 16: Lost Hope
"I want him fired!"
"We can't make an officer resign for something that was out of his hands Son." "It was in his hands! I left my best friend in that bastard's protection. Now look what happened?" Inuyasha slammed both his hands palm down on his father's desk top. "I left my best friend alone with that jerk thinking he was so capable," He mocked the words his father said before, making air quotes in his fingers. "But the fool was only capable of getting his ass kicked and Hiei killed—" The door opened and closed to his brother's calm demeanor gracing the room. "'Bout time you came in here. Please tell me you fired that idiot Koga?" Taisho seeing the cool expression in his eldest son's eyes knew he wanted private time with his brother, rose from his seat and walked out the door but gave Sesshomaru a warning glare to go easy on him and left. With their father out of the picture, it'd be simpler to speak with the hanyou on familiar terms. "No I did not." He responded simply to the question asked. "What why not? He didn't do his job—" "He did his best Inuyasha. Not every assignment given will be completed in this line of work. The sooner you realize that, a better officer it'll make you." "I don't' want to be an officer who can't keep his word. I'm a man of honor!" Inuyasha patted his chest where his heartbeat thumped. "I stand by my word when it's given. If I make a promise, expect it to be fulfilled. I expect the same thing of everybody else!" "Everyone isn't capable of keep a swore vow—" "Well they should be! If I'm able to keep my promises then so should everybody else!" "Not when it's taken out of your hands—" "That's a convenient excuse for the assholes who are too fucking weak to be man enough to keep their word—" Whatever else was going to be said by the hanyou was stopped by the quickened punch to his jaw, sending him sprawling to the floor. Inuyasha sat up holding his jaw with widened eyes looking up at the suddenly cold featured demon standing before him with clenched fists. "Do not speak of things you know nothing about Hanyou." Sesshomaru sighed studying the hand he used to render his brother silent. "When an honorable man makes a promise he intends to try his hardest to fulfill its dutiful purpose to the highest degree. But when that destiny plays a hand in that vow there's nothing you can do but let faint run its course." Inuyasha staggered up to his feet frowning viciously. "How the fuck would you know? You've never had to lose someone close to you—" Another hardened punch rammed directly in his nose, once again knocking his ass back on the floor. "Do not speak upon matters you know nothing of!" Sesshomaru reached down scuffing the hanyou by his neck, then hammering his back against the nearest wall. "Agghh!" "I too lost someone precious to me. I suffered for years blaming myself because I didn't keep my vow to her. I promised to protect her with my life but she was murdered before my eyes. I watched her died in my arms, her blood soaking through my clothes! I watched her die and yet I could do nothing! You dare to imply me as being some cold lifeless man without a care for anything in this world? Well I too had something to protect, but I lost her. I failed!" A squeeze of frustration gaged the hanyou who circled his claws over Sesshomaru's wrist, gasping for air. "It's…it's not the fucking same…" He wheezed through his fangs. "The hell it isn't." The vise hold slacked to offer some relief. "It's the exact same and it has the same effects on a man's pride." Inuyasha frowned noticing the dullness zapping the light from his brother's eyes as he asked, "Who was it you couldn't protect?" Sesshomaru regarded the hanyou's face closely before lowering him down to his neck, fingers still locked around his neck. "Kagura. Her name was Kagura Tojo. I adored that demon's spirit. I still do to this day." Even if the woman was dead, Inuyasha felt a pinged of jealousy toward her he couldn't describe. "I long for the chance to be able to keep my vow to every person I've voiced those words two but I can only do so much. I've broken enough promises to know that I can't satisfy everyone," Sesshomaru unlatched his fingers from the slender throat. "But all I can do is say I've done my best. The same can be said for Koga." Inuyasha turned his bottom inward jerking his head away in anger. "I wish…I just wish that—" Sesshomaru tilted his chin back to face him forcing the hanyou to look at him with blurry eyes. "He cared for Hiei, Inuyasha. He tried his best to protect him. If the situation were reversed I could say the same thing. I know I would've tried with all my power to protect the person who was precious to me." Inuyasha closed his eyes, wanting to will away the truth in Sesshomaru's words. "You've become precious to me. In the short time we've spent together, I've come to see how special you are. I missed being there for you when you were a child." No he couldn't mean that. "I miss holding you in my arms." Why now? Why when he wasn't in his right mind to handle this? "I miss coming home to see you waiting for me at the door." This wasn't the time nor the place. "I miss it all… and I know you do too." No he didn't. He didn't want to miss anything involving him. He didn't want any of it. Not with him. "Inuyasha… I promised you time for us to get to know one another and to hopefully gain was destroyed over centuries of hatred. I intend to keep that vow. But what I didn't expect, are these confusing emotions surrounding you to affect me." In so many ways he hadn't expected a lot of things to occur between them. "No Sesshomaru…" "I'll give you time to consider your own confusion..." He brushed his mouth firmly to Inuyasha's ear ignoring the timid gasp. "However as faint would have it, the tables are turning against us. Our sensations, even if we won't admit it, are working against us. Feelings we both aren't familiar with are surfacing that we have no control over…" Inuyasha considered the words he said trying to steady his breathing from the close proximity of their bodies. Nuzzling his face into the mop of soft hair Sesshomaru inhaled the haunted scent that's slowly began to curse its existence into his mind. "You're tangling me in this web of confusion Inuyasha. Gods and I'm so glad you are." Inuyasha shuddered from the intimate whisper, sizzling the arched point of his ear. Sesshomaru seemed so sure if what he wanted or else pretended to, but what about himself? Was Inuyasha sure? Especially at a time like this? "W-what if I don't know what I want?" Time was his only friend now, and with Hiei gone, time was his only consultant on what he truly wanted. "Only time can tell what you'll feel Inuyasha but until then," Sesshomaru tilted his chin up gazing into his watery amber eyes and gently pressed their lips together for a brief kiss, lingering long enough to nibble his bottom lip between his teeth. The kiss was sighed apart by both Inus as Sesshomaru lend in to press their foreheads together. "Be strong." Another kiss left Inuyasha flushed and confused, watching his brother walk away toward the front door. Sesshomaru cast the hanyou one final side glance before disappearing out the door. Now he was alone. Left in this deafly silent room to ponder over the stressful events marring his subconscious. Why did Sesshomaru have to press him now for this? Whatever this was, Sesshomaru seemed to have it under control. Why was this so much easier for him to handle then Inuyasha? He made it seem so simply. So-So easy to just jump into this… this thing slowly coming to a head. Inuyasha brushed his fingers tips over the swell of his lips, feeling the vibrate tingle tickle his flesh. There was too much to take, he thought, sliding down the support of the wall till bumping his behind on the plush carpet. Wrapping his arms around his knees, Inuyasha dropped his head in the cuffed curved of his legs. Gun fights, crazy witnesses, psycho killers, a murdered best friend, and possibly something happening between him and the brother he thought he hated. It was enough to break even the strongest man to the point of tears. Too much for one to hold all on his own and those salty drops slide down one of the strongest men of all.Sesshomaru closed the door behind him releasing the pent up of the confused mentality revolving around this mixed up ridiculousness. Bracing his back against the door, he replayed the conversation over wondering what possessed him to say that. Inuyasha's vulnerability was probably what encouraged the dubious act of confessing to something he knew nothing about.
This was similar to his actions with Kagura but not as intense. This was beyond intense. It was beyond bizarre. "He's not Kagura." Said the hardened tone of Taisho, with his arms crossed, lending against the wall. Sesshomaru's jaw tensed but he didn't respond. "Think before you act on these affections Sesshomaru. You've never been one to allow such things to affect your judgment until it came to those you cared for." "When our relationship becomes your business I'll ask your advice." Sesshomaru replied icily more toward impatience with himself then with his employer. Taisho kicked off the wall to stand behind the silent demon. "It is my business when it involves the lives of my children." "We're no longer pups—" "None the less," Taisho cut off smoothly. "I don't want to see either of you hurt in the end. Therefore I employ that you both consider your options before making any rash choices. Especially you." Sesshomaru whipped around to face his frowning father. "And what exactly does that mean?" Unfazed by the chilled glare, the chief returned his own glare just as intimidating. "In the end, I hope you won't take anything that forms between you and your brother too lightly. He's not as likely to let go as easily as you would. For all we both know these so called feelings could be on a whim." Sesshomaru was more than glad that they were the only two in the DIA section because this was about to get a little ugly. "Are you implying that I'm merely toying with the boy's emotions?" "If your past actions are anything to go by how reckless you can be—" "What exactly do you define reckless?" "Well we can begin with your work history. Take note, December 7, 27 years ago, the criminals Ginta and Hakakuku. Very strong demons, well diverse in their skills of battle. Yet you allowed your cold hearted emotions get the better of you, leaving them dismembered in the middle of a parking lot without a drop of blood on your clothing." "I fail to see any harm in taking care of business." "April 27, 10 years ago, the villain Midoriko you literally left her body in flames in the basement of her own home." "She killed and ate ten young children—" "July 19, 8 years ago, the master thief Yoko Kurama was found hanging by his throat with his own tail in the last building he tried to rob." "ENOUGH!" Sesshomaru shook his head to erase the horrid images he conjured up listening to his past assignments. "I was merely doing my job—" "—That was never performed so brutally until Kagura's death. You allowed your emotions to get the better of you and now you're doing it again. If you allow your feelings to cloud your choices again you're going to wind up hurt Sesshomaru." "I can take care of myself father." Taisho sighed shaking his head at the head strong brat he called son. There was no point in pressing the issue any further so he decided to let it go with a final word of advice. "Sesshomaru, just…just promise me you'll think with a clear mind during and after this case is over. Do you understand?" Sesshomaru relaxed but only enough to fool his father to think he wasn't as conflicted as he thought. "Yes Father." "Good. Now take a trip home. I'll call you after we get some information out of Byakuya." "You haven't gotten anything from him since last night?" "No," Taisho rubbed the back of his in a childish manner. "Miroku took it from there last night and only managed a few confessions." "A few is better than none." They were getting somewhere. That alone was a blessing in itself. The demon hadn't expected for the case to move at such a steady speed. At this rate they were sure to capture the man involved in this murder, who no doubt Naraku. With Kagome as their star witness and Byakuya's confessions they'll be done in time for everyone to take a much needed vacation. Arriving to the conclusion that there was little he could do in the office, Sesshomaru bowed his farewell to his father and left to head on home. Leaving Kagome alone for too long left her in a vulnerable state. With one of his own captured, Naraku was sure to come back looking in order to finish him off. Their main concern would be to find the girl of course, but the small relief they could be assured of was that Naraku had no idea where to find the girl. During the distant drive home, entangled thoughts of the past week blew in and out of his concentration. In a matter of seven days Inuyasha and he had gone from arch enemies to understanding partners to… two confused brothers. Inuyasha wasn't the one at fault with this. Sesshomaru knew he was pressing the hanyou for a change but that change has manifested into a want…or dare he say desire? Could that be the absent term to the feelings the two were slowly developing for the other? Those kisses were proof enough to be sure. But why did it seem so much deeper than that? So deep in thought was he, the dog demon hadn't realized he'd made it home until blinking back to reality. His car had been parked and turned off. How long had he been sitting there like a fool? How moronic. He stepped out of the car and begin his active stride strolled up the reception section of his building, wanting to get inside as soon as possible for a steamy shower and a well-earned nap. He hadn't slept in nearly 24 hours. "Mr. Toshiba?" The receptionist called to the retreating demon. Sesshomaru turned around keeping his face neutral. "Yes?" "You had a visitor sir. He came looking for you about 10 minutes ago asking if you were up but I said no." "Visitor?" He had no known associates beside those he worked with. "Who was it?" "No one I remember but he said he was an old acquaintance of yours and wanted to speak to you." Peculiar. "Well what happened?" He pressed. The receptionist shrugged pointing toward the elevator. "He said he knew where you lived and said he'd just make himself at home. He had a key." No one had a key to his place. The only other person in the world whoever had a key to his residence was Kagura and she died. This wasn't voting well for his instincts as they kicked into overdrive. "Describe him to me." Please don't let this be who he thinks. She tapped her chin in thought trying to think of the best way to describe the dark man. "Well he had long black, wavy hair, he was your height and deep red eyes—" Oh dear God… "And he went upstairs?" He asked almost afraid to hear her said that one word. "Yes." She nodded proudly. "You fool!" Sesshomaru roared running toward the stair well. There was no way in hell he'd make it in time to the penthouse on that elevator. His only option was to take the stairs as quick as his demonic speed would allow. Naraku? Christ why was Naraku here? Did he know? Did he know Kagome was hidden in his home? Damn and he'd been here a full ten minutes. Anything could've happened in that stretch of time. It was going to take him a full four minutes at his best speed to reach his apartment in time. He was hardly paying attention to the two or three steps he stepped at a time to reach the top. Four minutes later he was there pulling out the gun lodged in his holster. If that bastard Naraku was there he needed to be prepared for anything. Creeping against the way as quietly as possible, the experienced officer went straight to stealth mode, knowing the slightest noise could alert his enemy or enemies. Naraku never was the type to travel alone, the twisted coward. The closer, he came the faster his heart sped up to meet with the horrendous dose of adrenaline rush pumping in his veins. The door was now five steps away and from his side wall position, he could clearly see that the front door was jarred. No jagged signs of ripped wood, meaning Kagome must've opened the door without thinking. If the human was dead she only had herself to blame. No sense in worrying about her now. He might as well consider her a loss for this case. He reached the door. Taking a deep determined breath, Sesshomaru jolted off the wall and kicked the door in with gun erect at the open entry. Slow, careful steps were taken inside the stale atmosphere. Lamps were shattered, windows, busted, picture frames destroyed… etc. The entire place was in shambles. No item was left unturned as he quietly crept further inside keeping his weapon cocked and ready for anything. He tip toed over pieces of glass and hidden crushed objects that'd alert the intruders of his presence. Suddenly a brushed sound of crunching glass caused him to whip around pointing his gun in the face of the one he'd been looking for all along. "Naraku." Said demon calmly came into the light smiling that dashingly cruel smile. "Well, well Sesshomaru it's been quite a while has it not?" "Spare me the small talk Naraku. Where is the girl?" "Be calm dog, the girl is safe." "I fail to believe that lie." "Ah so you require proof do you? Very well." The arrogant man snapped his fingers. A tiny whimper tickled the inside of Sesshomaru's ear as he side glanced behind to see that Kagome was indeed fine, but within the grasp of a silver haired henchman. He could count his blessings that the girl was alive. For now anyway. "Since you don't want to settle for small talk, I'll get to the point." Naraku stood his ground lightly picking off the invisible lint of his coat. "I'll gladly give you the girl back but only in exchange for something more valuable." As predictable as any given hostage situation, the detective knew where this dread deal was going. "I plan for my ventures to be finished in a timely manner but I need some insurance that there won't be any cop activity involved." A twisted smile curled over his lips. "Care to fill in the blanks?" Sesshomaru was trained for any type of situation, knowing every clever scheme to use to get out of the tightest situations but this…this wouldn't be one of them. Reluctantly lowering his gun, the dog demon unlatched the magazine, dismembering the gun with one hand, while the other went to work on removing his holster from his shoulders. Hidden small hands were removed from his pants, pockets and chest, dropping to the floor. The final weapon of protection to be recovered was a switchblade pulled from the inside of his black boots. "Hmm why do I get the feeling that that isn't all you have?" Naraku said narrowing his eyes. Sesshomaru didn't answer. "Stripe." The one word command was immediately obeyed. No resistance, no struggle, no back talk. Simply do as you're told and you'll most likely live. Sesshomaru unbuttoned his blue shirt, tossing it to the floor and pulled down his black pants and boxers in one fluid swoop. Boots and socks were kicked and slung far off to the side, until he stood completely nude. Naraku licked his lips satisfied with the outcome and nodded to Hakudoshi to release the girl. The bodyguard did as he was told slamming the girl roughly into the wall hard enough to spring her arm. Kagome fell to her knees crying in pain for two reasons. One being that she was so stupid to open the door to the very man who murdered her best friend and two being that Inuyasha was going to be killed because of her. How could she be so fucking stupid? Sesshomaru stayed motionless keeping his eyes trained on the spider demon before him. He kept the same fearless expression in his cold, daunting gaze as Naraku stepped closer until standing eye to eye with him. "You've always been a lovely creature Sesshomaru…No wonder my wife was so fascinated with you." At the flicker of perplexity, Naraku's mouth formed a shameless 'O' as he chuckled. "Oh you didn't know did you?" Sesshomaru didn't honor the overconfident bastard the benefit of an answer. "Fine I shall tell you," Naraku said as if getting the approval to continue. "You know that magnifying partner of yours from years ago? The one who was murdered? Well I recall a time when it was I she came crawling to share my bedding with. And what a marvelous lover she was." No, he was lying. He wouldn't take the bait. "That slender body, her perked nipples with the brown chocolate buds at the ends," He mocked a shiver. "Mm she was a wonder indeed. Oh and how she worked her sex over me like a steam machine. Every night was a different story to be told." Two fists, clinched at the sides. "But then she met you, the younger more handsome rookie of the DIA who she couldn't resist." "Lies…" Came the barely heard whisper. "Lies? Oh no my dear boy these are far from lies. Kagura was my wife before she ever met you. She was my lover. She was my sex slave. But alas you were the one who destroyed that bond we shared. However the last straw was when she decided to take in two human girls and began her work as the well-known Madam of the city." Sesshomaru's eyes inched open wider than before. Kagome's eyes were on full alert listening to what he was saying. "The wench couldn't keep her legs closed with just two men so she went out to whore her worthless soul to every man willing to pay the highest price." Naraku circled the dog demon continuing with his speech. "The despicable woman dared to assume that I would continue to stay with her while she stayed with you and her toys as she trained her adopted daughters to continue in her footsteps since she wanted to settle down. Since I wouldn't be the one to do it she decided to change her life and stay with one man. And that one man was you." Sesshomaru's head jerked backwards as Naraku's hand entangled in his silver hair. His body came up closer behind him, pressing his crotch to the demon's bare ass. "Yes you. The beautiful, intelligent, perfect man whom no one could get enough of. I loathed you." He yanked harder trying to get a signal of pain from the man in his grasp but received none. "But you were the one she chose. She chose you over me and I always keep what is rightfully mine. So if she couldn't be with me…she couldn't be with anyone." A barrel of air clogged in Sesshomaru's lungs as Naraku lend forward and whispered three words worth decades of search, despair, anguish and pain. "I killed Kagura." A silent gasp. A pinch of pain. A horrid cry. Then there was darkness….TBC: The drama finally surfaces. So what have we learned? ^_^
P.S. Sorry about the lack of detail involving Hiei. I adore that fire demon and I couldn't find myself writing his attack. ^_^ Stay tuned. P.S.S. Is the relationship pace still steady?While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
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