Love Me Love Me Not | By : Namiriana Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 10157 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Title: Love Me Love Me Not
Chapter: A Miracle and A Tragedy Date: July 3, 2010 InuTaisho was over the moon with glee at the news he had just received from his mate after her visit to the healer. She was finally pregnant and it was not a moment too soon either as they could tell that this season had been her last chance to give him a child or forfeit the mating so that he could properly impregnate another. She was overjoyed as well as she had always wanted a pup of her own to care for. She was tired of watching the other mated inus laugh, play, and rear their own pups while her body betrayed her by refusing to become pregnant. It was finally happening and the royal leaders were bursting with the joy of their blessed miracle. Especially as it seemed to bring Raja out of her ninety year depression after the ningen had bore her mate a child and she had not. Word spread fast throughout the palace that the Lady of the West was finally with child. The servants that worked in the palace were excited about the prospect of having the first royal birthed child since InuTaisho himself almost three millennia ago. The kitchen staff went about preparing foods that would encourage strong growth of the child and good health in the mother while the tailors were just waiting for the orders to begin the royal pup’s wardrobe. The air of joy and excitement was so festive that it even reached the villages outside of the palace walls. From there, the news that Queen Raja was expecting the heir of the Western Lands spread to the lands of the north, south, and east. By the end of the season, InuTaisho was already being swamped with offers to arrange a mating between the unborn child and another’s child. He put those aside for the moment, as they did not know the gender of the child nor did they know whether the child would be an Alpha or a Beta. The anticipation did not last long. Halfway through the pregnancy, Lady Raja fell seriously ill and none of the healers could figure out why. After putting the Lady of the West on bed rest for a month and examining her thoroughly with consultations from other healers, they finally believed that they had the answer to the inu queen’s ailment. They went over all other possible options before they dared to approach the Lord of the West. Their conclusions, however, continued to come back to the same thing no matter how they examined her or looked at the results. “My lord?” Healer Pancho spoke up softly as he watched the distraught lord caress his mate and child lovingly. The great inu demon looked up and merely nodded for the healer to say what he had to say. “We have found the cause of Lady Raja’s ailment.” “What it is? Can you fix it?” “The pup is killing her, my lord. It is sapping too much of her strength and youki.” InuTaisho looked at the healer to see if his words were a lie, but he neither saw nor smelt any deceit off of the raccoon demon. “Can the problem be fixed?” InuTaisho asked desperately. The healer shook his head in the negative. “You are already overcompensating for the youki that she cannot provide, but the pup cannot survive on your youki alone. Without Lady Raja’s youki the pup will never be grounded enough to survive on its own. The pup will have to be terminated or it will drain her of all her youki and kill her. How long it will take the pup to do that is unsure, but it is definite that the pup will kill her.” InuTaisho dismissed the healer as he looked back at his mate who had been listening to every word. He saw the tears in her eyes as she was in one of her rare lucid periods and actually understood what was going on. “This decision is purely up to you, koi. I will not influence your decision either way.” InuTaisho kissed her brow softly before giving her the space he knew she needed to decide whether or not she would continue with the pregnancy. InuTaisho’s howl of grief could be heard throughout the palace and its neighboring grounds. The Lady Raja had gone through with the pregnancy, but during the birthing process yet another with the pup had come up. During the birthing, the healer had found that the Lady’s birthing canal was too small to allow the pup passage. They were going to have to assist in opening her body enough to allow the pup to pass or the pup would smother to death. They managed to dilate her enough to allow the pup through, but the white haired infant did not move nor cry when separated from its mother’s body. The healer barked out to a small presence outside the Lady’s room. A hanyou with white hair, golden eyes, and white puppy ears on top of his head quickly and quietly entered the room carrying a bundle wrapped in cloth. The half-breed handed the bundle to the healer before backing out of the way, not having been dismissed from the room quite yet. InuTaisho was distracted by his bastard child for a moment before returning all of his attentions to his mate and child. The Lady of the West was fading fast and she had not provided enough youki to the pup for it to survive on its own. The healer opened the cloth to reveal a wooden, hollowed branch that had several symbols written on either side of the openings. Placing the infant’s chest against one end of the wooden instrument, he settled the other end in the direction of the Lady of the West and began to chant softly. The glow of youki began to surround infant and mother as the healer continued to chant. After a moment, the glow began to dim rapidly on the queen of inus while it began to slowly become brighter on the newborn pup. Only when the glow around Raja disappeared did the healer stop chanting. He looked at the pup in his hands and examined it thoroughly before looking at his lord. “It was not enough, my lord. My condolences.” InuTaisho howled his grief to the skies and any deity that would listen to his mournful cry. Both healer and hanyou left the lord with his deceased mate and child to mourn. By morning the entire palace had received word of the untimely death of the Lady of the West and of the heir of the Western Lands. The child would have made a great lord had he lived, but it was not so. When InuTaisho wondered the halls of his palace the day after his mate and child’s death, he was relieved to see that the servants had taken proper action. Thick, dark curtains covered the large, airy windows while any paintings of the Lady of the West had been draped in black. 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