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The Lucky Ones
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The Lucky Ones
By Terri Botta

Disclaimer: I don�t own
Inuyasha. Sole copyright belongs to Viz and Rumiko Takashi. I�m poor so don�t
sue.

Rating: R for later chapters.
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome,
Miroku/Sango
Summary: Sometimes Fate hands
you a gift you never thought you�d ever get, and it�s up to you to accept it
for what it is.
Feedback to:
tci100@psu.edu
Website: http://www.wordsmiths.net/Botta

A/N: I�m getting a bunch of
comments about breastfeeding as birth control. Yes, breastfeeding women don�t
usually ovulate but only if 1) they feed on demand every 4 hours and no longer
than 6 hours at night with no other supplemental feeding, the infant is
less than 6 months old, and the woman had not resumed menstruating. The
conditions for this type of birth control are very specific, and while 98%
effective while in effect, it is unreliable because it is very easy to break
the conditions and once a woman starts menstruating again, all bets are off. I
know of at least 2 women who have had �Oops, but I was breastfeeding� babies.
Kagome does not meet these requirements for a number of reasons, therefore she
would not be protected.

Glossary of terms used in
this chapter:

Geta- sandals

Hei- low-roofed defensive walls of a castle.

Yagura- �arrow house�- housed weapons and soldiers.

Tenshu- main keep or tower of the castle

Honmaru- innermost bailey of a castle (where the Tenshu is located)

Ninomaru- second bailey

Sannomaru- third and outermost bailey

And lastly, Kristin�s done it
again! Another awesome Lucky Ones pic. Go to kristinsstudio.com
and click on Gallery then Inuyasha.

Okay, I�ll shut up now and
let you find out what I did to poor Fluffy.

*******

Chapter Twenty-Four

It had been
so long since he had traveled unfettered that he�d forgotten what it was like.
The ground was a green blur beneath him as he ran, leaping from tree top to
tree top, the sky an endless sea of white-capped blue. It struck him as odd
that he actually noticed stuff like the green and the blue when before he
couldn�t care less what the land around him looked like. He blamed Kagome�s
influence. The woman was always pointing out how lovely this field looked or
how nice the view was or some such female nonsense about trees and flowers and
the weather, but when he finally reached the outskirts of the Western Lands two
days later, he had to admit that it was beautiful.
The weather
was warm with autumn coming late to the temperate land, and he remembered well
the long sunny days and mild winters of his brief childhood. One of the first
things he had done once he was self-sufficient was leave the Western Lands
behind with a vow never to return. He hadn�t kept that vow, of course. Shard
hunts had brought him there a number of times over the years, but he never went
there unless he had a reason, and he always avoided his father�s stronghold. He
had nothing but painful memories of the great house on the coast. It was there
that Sesshoumaru brought him after his mother had died, it was there that he
learned what it meant to be a hanyou among youkai, it
was there he had spent some of the most painful and sad years of his young
life. He hated that place more than he hated any other place in the whole of
Nihon. And now he was willingly going back there. He knew he must be insane.
Two days
into his trip, he began noticing signs of invasion. Villages were damaged, rice
fields destroyed, and the signs and scents of recent violence and death tainted
the normally sweet wind. On the morning of the third day, he stopped in one
small village that seemed to have been severely affected. All of their fields
had been decimated.
�Fucking bastards. These people will starve
if they can�t replace the food before the growing season ends.�
He saw one
rice field that had had all of its banks destroyed and the precious water needed
to grow the rice had run off.
�Damnit.�
He was
staring at the destruction when he heard a noise behind him. He turned to see a
group of peasant women, all looking wan and weary, staring at him with fear and
hope in their eyes. They regarded each other for several long moments then one
of the youngest ones ran forward and threw herself at his feet.
�What the?�
�Inugami-sama! Inugami-sama,
please help us!� she begged. �Our fields are destroyed and our oxen driven off.
All of our men are gone and not returned. We are defenseless and helpless.�
Another of
the women, looking older with earth-stained hands and a worn face, came to try
to drag the woman away.
�Hitomi, come away. Do not trouble the lord with our petty
problems��
�Petty problems? Woman, your fields
are destroyed and you�re all going to starve if you don�t do something! Where
the fuck is my brother? Not even he would have let this go unanswered!�
�Get up,�
he ordered, crossing his arms over his chest.
Both women
scrambled to their feet, bowing and trembling.
�Forgive
her, my lord. She is young and unused to hardship��
�What
happened here?� he demanded.
�An army,
my lord. A terrible army came. They raided the village. They took our food and
our able bodied men�� the older one replied, her eyes down in respect.
�They took
everything! The food, our men, and our beasts! Then youkai
came and destroyed the fields! We have nothing left! We will all starve!� the
young one sobbed.
�Where is
this army now?�
�It marched
West, my lord, to make war upon the Great Lord,� the older woman answered, eyes
still down.
�How long
ago was this?�
�Nigh on
two moons, my l�left, woman. No one cast me out.�
�He said
there were rumors that the rejected brother would one day return with an army
to steal the Great Lord�s lands.�
�Is that
so? Sounds just like my brother�s pansy-assed seneschals.�
�I must
admit, when the army came I feared it was the legend coming true, but their
leader was a human; a man who called himself Takasho Nimori.�
�Hmmph,
never heard of him.�
He nodded.
�Sesshoumaru said it was a human army that threatened him.�
�Not just
human. Before the army came, a man passing through on his way to the coast
warned us that he had heard tale of the Great Lord�s marshal betraying him.�
�So that�s what Sesshoumaru meant when he
said not of all his subjects were trustworthy. I feel sorry for anyone who
dares to betray my brother. He�d rend them limb from limb then leave them alive
just to suffer.�
�My lord,
have you returned for good?� the headwoman asked, bringing him out of his
thoughts.
�No. I just
came to check on my brother. I live in Musashi
country now.�
�Musashi? You have come a long way.�
�More than
200 ri and I have further to go before I reach my
brother�s castle.�
They
stopped outside of the hut and he turned to her. �I�ll rest for a while then
go. No one is to bother me.�
The
headwoman bowed. �I will see that your wishes are obeyed, my lord. You have
been so kind to us. It is the least we can do.�
�Thank you.
I�ll try to come back on my way home to let you know what�s happening, and if
any of your men are coming home.�
The
headwoman took his hands and kissed them. �Thank you, my lord.�
He nodded
to her then entered the hut, making sure the reed door fell closed behind him.
A little fire had been lit in the pit, and a futon with fresh bedding had been
laid out for him. Seeing the sleeping space, his heart ached and he wished for
a cozy den that smelled of fresh hay and Kagome.
�Kagome. I wish you were here. I
don�t know if I can sleep alone anymore.�
He didn�t
bother with the futon, but sat with his back to the far wall, Tessaiga resting against his shoulder. Sleep came slowly, but
it did come because his body desperately needed it. He slept lightly for only
four or five hours, but it was enough for his hanyou body to �recharge its
batteries� as Kagome would say.
It was the
middle of the night when he emerged from the hut and the village was quiet and
still. He caught two night hares and left them in the hut as an offering for
their hospitality, then moved to continue on his journey to the Great House.
�Hell if I know what I�m going to
find there.�

********

Morning
dawned on the forth day and found him less than 20 ri
away from the coast. He�d stopped again to wait for dawn because he wanted to
see clearly. Now he was regretting that decision.
The human
army had trampled the land in one huge swath that looked like a massive
le
leveled by hundreds of feet, all leading to his father�s House. Any village in
its path was ransacked, then attacked by the youkai
that followed the army, feeding on the dead and the dying. Over and over he saw
the same plight of the people as he had seen in the little village the day
before: women left behind, men conscripted to fight, fields decimated and pups
starving. And no one had heard a word of the Great Lord. They knew the army had
been defeated, the human leader killed, and the remaining soldiers were running
for their lives, but of the Great Lord, they knew nothing.
And
everywhere, the rabble of the youkai world- the
carrion eaters- wreaked havoc on the countryside. The bastards actually had the
audacity to challenge him; to call him �filthy, weak hanyou� and try to kill
him. They were pathetic excuses for youkai and he
didn�t even bother to soil Tessaiga with their blood.
By the time he reached the familiar coastline, he was worried, pissed off and
fed up.
�Sesshoumaru, you asshole. You�d better be
dead, because if you�re not and aren�t gravely wounded, I�m killing you myself!�
The worst
damage was just outside the walls of the Great House. Bordered by the sea on
one side, and sheer cliffs on two others, the only way to lay siege to it was
from the north side. It looked like the army had attempted to breach the first
defensive walls but that was the furthest they got. Parts of the hei had been burned in what was an obvious effort to use
fire to burn the Great House down, but that was the only damage the castle
sustained.
�Stupid assholes. You think a taiyoukai�s castle would be vulnerable to fire? Were you
guys complete idiots?�
The long
barren plain approaching the castle was a scorched graveyard of hundreds of
human skeletons that were picked clean by the carrion-eaters. Bones and bits of
hair and armor were scattered all over the hard, blackened ground, and
everywhere the scent of blood and death lingered. What disturbed him most,
however, were the remains of a huge cremation pyre just outside the Great
House�s main gates. The bones here were not human, but youkai-
and not lowlife youkai either. Judging by the scraps
of armor and clothing that had escaped total incineration, the bodies appeared
to be some of Sesshoumaru�s seneschals.
�He killed his own seneschals? What
the fuck is going on here?! These were the ones left in charge when he went off
hunting Naraku! Why the fuck would he kill them?�
The last
body answered some questions. It was what was left of Sesshoumaru�s
Lord Marshal. Not even the carrion-eaters had dared to touch the corpse of the inu-youkai who had been dismembered, flayed open and nailed
to a massive tree trunk that had been forcibly rammed into the ground dily
ly
in front of the gates. All four limbs had been removed, the rib cage cracked
apart and the abdomen sliced open. The body was contorted in agony, the
sightless skull frozen in a horrible scream.
�Looks like someone disemboweled him then
injected him with poison. He was dissolved alive from the inside out and there
was fuck all he could do about it because his arms and legs were ripped off,�
he thought, holding his nose to block out the stench of rotted flesh and the
remnants of his brother�s poison claws. �Whatever
you did, you must have really pissed Sesshoumaru off. Were the rumors true that
you betrayed my brother? If they were, it looks like he went easy on you.�
With no
small amount of trepidation, he moved around the tree with its grotesque
warning, and scaled the gates and inner walls to reach the honmaru.
Once inside the inner circle, he noticed the complete lack of life. Where
normally the Great House would have its youkai
retainers, staff and defenders, now there wasn�t a hint of activity. The tenshu was deserted and in a terrible state of neglePartParts
of it looked smashed and blown away, and two of the yagura
had been destroyed.
�Not quite deserted�� he thought,
catching a familiar scent and heading for it.
He found Jaken huddled outside the closed shoji of the Great Hall.
The little toad looked shell-shocked and was staring off into space.
�Oi. Toad,� he said, making Jaken
nearly jump out of his skin.
�Inuyasha?!�
the small youkai exclaimed.
�What the
fuck is going on here?�
Jaken focused on him and stared at him for a long time,
then the little toad ran to him and threw himself at his feet.
�Inuyasha-sama!�
�Eh?� �Whs its it with people throwing themselves
at my feet? And the toad has never called me Inuyasha-sama!�
A cold feeling of dread filled him. �Does
this mean that Sesshoumaru... NO! There�s no body! And everyone I�ve talked to
said that Sesshoumaru defeated the army. He can�t be dead!�
He kicked Jaken lightly. �Get up and tell me what the fuck is going
on here! Where is my brother!?�
Jaken sat up, his huge eyes watery, his small body
trembling. �Sesshoumaru-sama lies within,� he replied, pointing to the closed
doors.
He snorted
and moved to open the doors but Jaken stopped him
�You must
not! He will kill you if you approach him. He�s killed anyone who has tried. He
even attacked this Jaken, his faithful servant for
over a hundred years!�
�So he is still alive. Phew.�
He sat down
cross-legged in front of the toad. �Tell me what the fuck happened here.�
Tears
spilled out of Jaken�s eyes. �It was horrible. At
first it was just Sesshoumaru-sama defeating that insolent human and his
pathetic army. Jaken fought by his side and
Sesshoumaru-sama laid waste to them in a day. He left the bodies to rot as a
warning to any others who might try to come after or seek revenge. He hunted
the stragglers and struck them down as well. Then he returned to the House. I
thought we would have a celebration to commemorate his swift victory, but he
came back with murder in his eyes.�
Jaken shuddered at the memory. �Long we had suspected that
there was a betrayer. The army had magical wards to protect them and hide them
from detection, and they had been granted passage across the country in
Sesshoumaru-sama�s absence. When Sesshoumaru-sama
returned from hunting the last of the human rabble, he knew that the betrayer
was Manshirou, his own Lord Marshal! He attacked and
their battle was terrible!�
�Was
Sesshoumaru wounded?� he interrupted.
Jaken shook his head. �Not seriously. Tenseiga
protected him from the worst of it.�
�So he
fought Manshirou here. That�s how the yagura got blown up?�
Jaken nodded. �But I haven�t told you the most horrible
part. Manshirou had conspired with that hated Naraku to plot Sesshoumaru-sama�s
death!�
�WHAT?!�
The toad
nodded again, furiously. �It would seem he was hoping Sesshoumaru-sama would be
defeated by Naraku and then he would seize the
Western Lands, but Sesshoumaru-sama would never lose to a lowly hanyou!�
He winced
but ignored the insult.
�When
Sesshoumaru-sama defeated Naraku, Manshirou
plotted to kill Sesshoumaru-sama himself!�
�Oi! I defeated Naraku!�
�Never! I
witnessed it myself! Sesshoumaru-sama dealt the killing blow!�
He whacked
the toad on the head. �You were too busy hiding behind that two-headed dragonet
with Rin to see me destroy Naraku
with my Tessaiga, you coward!�
�It�s not
true!�
He grabbed Jaken and shook him, then realized if he killed the toad,
he�d never find out what happened. He threw him roughly to the floor and pulled
Tessaiga.
�Tell me
what happened next.�
Jaken began to shake violently, but not with fear of Tessaiga. �Sesshoumaru-sama defeated Manshirou
and began to mete out punishment. He dismembered Manshirou
and skewered him to a tree...�
�I saw what
he did,� he interrupted.
Jaken shook his head. �No... you don�t understand.
Sesshoumaru-sama used Tenseiga on him to... to...�
�He can�t be serious! He didn�t... He
didn�t! Not even my brother would do such a thing!�
�Don�t tell
me he used Tenseiga to revive him then kill him
again!�
Trembling
even more, Jaken nodded. �He did it twice before Tenseiga rejected him.�
�Tenseiga
rejected my brother?�
�He threw
his father�s sword away and then... he went mad.�
�Went mad?�
Jaken nodded. �He drew Toukijin
and began killing. Manshirou had conspirators, and he
killed those first, but then he moved on to anyone who was in his path:
servants, courtiers... anyone who dared to come near him. Most deserted him and
escaped with their lives; the rest he burned.�
�The cremation pyre of youkai bones...�
�At first I
thought Toukijin had taken him over the way it did Kaijinbou, but Sesshoumaru-sama�s
eyes were clear and he spoke with his own voice. I ran and hid, but I would not
abandon my lord, so I waited until it was all over. Sesshoumaru-sama had
retreated into the Great Hall. A few of the servants who remained faithful to
him tried to reach him, but he struck them down. Their bodies lie within. I
tried, but he struck at my voice and barely missed. The rest left, fleeing this
place, but I remained behind. He�s... been in there ever since.�
He sighed,
his heart heavy, and sheathed Tessaiga. Then he stood
and looked at the closed shoji.
�I will
deal with Sesshoumaru.� �What can I do if
he�s gone crazy?�
Jaken stood and grabbed his haori
sleeve. �You must not. If Sesshoumaru-sama is not fit to rule, then you are
rightfully the new lord! If Sesshoumaru-sama kills you, the Western Lands will
fall into the hands of the rabble!�
�Bah! I
don�t want these lands. You�ve said it yourself. I�m a lowly hanyou. The inu-youkai would never accept me as their leader.�
�What was it that pushed him over the edge?
Was it Tenseiga�s rejection? If the sword accepted
him again, would he return to reason?�
�Where is Tenseiga now, Jaken?�
Jaken turned and led the way out of the house. The sword
was lying by the garden next to the partially decomposed body of the two-headed
dragonet.
�Ah-Un was
killed during the fight between Sesshoumaru-sama and Manshirou,�
Jaken explained sadly. �Rin
will be so sad. She was very fond of Ah-Un.�
�Sesshoumaru
brought Rin to us before the fight.�
Jaken nodded. �I know. We discovered a plot to steal her,
and Sesshoumaru brought her to you to keep her out of danger.�
�So that�s why he needed me to keep
an eye on the kid!�
�I am very
glad she was not here to see what happened. She would not have run away and she
would certainly have been killed.�
�Maybe... or maybe that girl could have been
for Sesshoumaru what Kagome is for me: a reminder of my heart.�
Nodding, he
approached Tenseiga and knelt before the sword. He
knew both this sword and his own had sentience, and chose their masters
carefully.
�Tenseiga, you
rejected Sesshoumaru because he used you for evil and dishonored Oyaji, didn�t you?�
He took Tessaiga out of its sheath and placed it beside its twin.
�Tenseiga, Tessaiga: forged from Oyaji�s
fangs until Tessaiga was broken and repaired with
mine, but still Oyaji�s fang lives in my blade. Tenseiga, great sword of healing, will you help me for a
short time?� he addressed respectfully.
Slowly, he
reached for the hilt, his hand shaking slightly.
�Will you reject me as Tessaiga rejects Sesshoumaru?�
His hand
closed on the hilt and there was a long, tense moment, then Tenseiga
pulsed twice in his hand and transformed, the blade beginning to glow with an
unearthly blue light. He breathed a sigh of relief.
�Thank you, Tenseiga.�
With his
free hand, he picked up Tessaiga and put it back in
its sheath. Then he stood and moved to walk away, but Tenseiga
pulsed again.
�What is it?�
He saw
shadows moving in his peripheral vision, and looked at the body of Ah-Un. In
the light cast by the sword he thought he saw... little ghouls picking at the
corpse.
�What are those things? Are... are
they what Sesshoumaru strikes at when he uses Tenseiga?
Will it even work after the body has been dead all this time?�
Tenseiga pulsed again and he felt the pull. �I
guess so. Okay then, it�s obvious what you want, so here goes...�
Swinging the
blade, he struck at the ghouls and killed them. They disappeared with little
shrieks and the moment they did, Ah-Un�s body healed
and became whole again.
�Wow.�
He looked
at Jaken, who was sputtering with shock.
�Inuyasha-sama...�
Behind him,
Ah-Un groaned and began to struggle to stand.
< sty style='mso-tab-count:1'> �Toad, stay
with the dragonet. I�m going to bring my brother back his sword.�
Jaken bowed and did as ordered, staying with the newly
revived dragonet while he went back into the house. Steeling his nerve, he marched
to the Great Hall and threw open the shoji.
�Oi! Sesshoumaru, you asshole! What the fuck do you think
you�re...� He stopped because the hall was empty except for the rotting bodies
of three servants. �What the fuck? He�s
not here?�
A breeze
from behind the main throne brought his brother�s scent to him and he crossed
the room, moving behind a separating screen to find a portion of the outer wall
slid open to the sea. The covered walkway looked out over the cliffs and the
crashing waves below.
Moving out
of the house to the narrow gangway, he turned and saw Sesshoumaru at the end of
the corridor. His brother was slumped against the side of the house, staring
out at the sea. Physically, he did not seem harmed, but the look on his face
froze Inuyasha to the core.
�Oi! Sesshoumaru!� he began, making his way over.
Sesshoumaru
moved almost too fast to see. Toukijin was out and
striking, a blast of power flying his way. Instinctively, he raised his hands
to protect himself, blocking the blow with Tenseiga.
The sword pulsed and deflected the blast, sending the energy careening
harmlessly off into the air.
�Tensegia...�
�Keh! Nice try,� he taunted.
Sesshoumaru
glared at him from the corner of his eye. He hadn�t moved from his spot on the
gangway floor.
�So Tenseiga chooses new new master. A worthless half-breed.
Take that useless thing and go,� the inu-youkai
ordered, hate in his voice.
�Feh! Not hardly. Like I�d want your sword. It just wanted
me to come in here and kick some sense into your stupid ass.�
Sesshoumaru
struck again, and again he blocked with Tenseiga.
�Insolent
whelp!�
�You�re one
to talk! I�m not the one sitting here staring at fucking seagulls while your
lands fall apart!�
�What do I
care for these lands?! They are full of worthless humans and traitors!�
The youkai lord flew to his feet and rushed at him, Toukijin slashing. He leapt back, almost hitting his head
on the roof of the walkway and blocked with Tenseiga.
Tenseiga pulsed and let out a burst of energy every
time the demon sword hit it as Sesshoumaru tried to cut his brother.
�Shit! He�s fucking nuts!� he
thought as he was pushed back again. Tenseiga
continued to protect him and he did nothing offensive towards his brother,
merely defended and trusted in his father�s fang.
�They�re
yours! Oyaji left them to you! You always took care
of them! You said it was your duty as Oyaji�s heir.
You never got involved in the humans� petty disputes and you didn�t dispense
Law, but you made sure they weren�t starving or being slaughtered.�
�They are
the scum that rose against me!�
�That
bastard Takasho Nimori
wasn�t from here! He was a foreigner who stole men from the villages and forced
them to fight if they wanted to protect their families! Half of them didn�t
even know you were back and thought they were fighting Manshirou!�
�You will
not say that cursed name in my presence, hanyou!�
Blades
clashed and he held his ground, gritting his teeth and meeting Sesshoumaru�s furious glare.
�I came all
way way here because you left your brat with me, and she pin pining for you so
much that she wouldn�t fucking sup! up! I find villages burned, fields
destroyed, women and pups starving, carrion-eaters running around doing
whatever they damn well please, and my good-for-nothing brother who thinks he�s
so much better than me, staring off at the tides!!�
Using all
of his strength, he thrust Sesshoumaru backwards, sending him flying down the
gangway.
�Why am I,
the bastard hanyou, the one your seneschals have been saying was cast
out,
doing more for your people than you are?�
�FILTHY
HALF-BREED! Know your place and lick the ground!� Sesshoumaru seethed, rising
to his feet, his face starting to elongate.
�Shit! He�s gonna transform!�
�I don�t
bow to anyone! Least of all you! Go ahead and show your true form if you want
to lose your other arm! I�ve got both of Oyaji�s
swords and I took down Ryuukotsusei who killed Oyaji! Do you really think you can beat me in the
state you�re in?�
�How dare
you threaten me, you worthless cur!� the taiyoukai
raged, but he did stop transforming.
�If you�ve
got the energy to fight me, you�d be better off using it to rid Oyaji�s lands of the rabble that are taking it over! The
one who is responsible for these lands isn�t me, it�s you, and you�ve got hordes
of carrion eaters out there laying waste to your countryside.�
As if on
cue a mass of writhing lower youkai appeared on the
cliffs, drawn by the sounds of battle and the promise of fresh meat, and
Sesshoumaru turned hateful eyes their way.
�Heh, there�s only
one thing Sesshoumaru hates more than me, and it�s those pathetic bastards.�
�Low-life
SCUM!� Sesshoumaru roared, flying out to attack the carrion-eaters with Toukijin.
�And I�ll give you a hand,� he thought
gleefully, shoving Tenseiga into his waistband and
drawing Tessaiga as he leaped after his brother.
�Kaze no Kizu!�
He blasted
a horde of them, sending their bits and pieces falling into the sea.
spanspan>�Heh! Take that!�
Suddenly,
Sesshoumaru slammed into him, knocking him down to the cliff. He skidded on his
back, thinking that Sesshoumaru had just attacked him, but the taiyoukai only had eyes for his new prey.
�What the fuck?�
�Stay out
of this, hanyou!� Sesshoumaru ordered, before turning his blade to the
carrion-eaters.
At first,
he was pissed off, but then he saw the light back in his brother�s eyes and
laughed to himself.
�Okay, you wanna
do the ass-kicking, I�ll let youve dve done plenty of it already. I�ll let you
have some of the fun.�
He sat back
and watched as Sesshoumaru made short work of the youkai
too stupid to run away.
�Get out of
my lands, worthless rabble,� the inu-youkai growled,
finishing off the remainder of them before coming to stand next to where he sat
on the cliff.
�Keh! There�s plenty more where they came from. The whole of
the Western Lands is infested with them. I killed countless of them on my way
here.�
Sesshoumaru
growled again.
�Hey, what
do you expect? You�ve been fucking brooding for two months, of course they�re
gonna move in and take what opportunities they can. They�re fucking scavengers
and you�ve got a whole field of bodies out there for them to feast on while you
were staring off into space. What the hell happened to you Sesshoumaru?�
His brother
didn�t answer, but faced the sea, his long white hair blowing in the w The Then
he turned and leaped back to the Great House, disappearing into the Great Hall.
Inuyasha followed.
Sesshoumaru
crossed through the Great Hall and walked out of the house, not sing ing until
he had left the main entrance. Inuyasha found him outside in the courtyard,
staring at Jaken who was sing ing there with Ah-Un.
The toad youkai bowed deeply, his nose almost
touching the ground.
�Sesshoumaru-sama.�
�Jaken.�
There sil silence, then Sesshoumaru spoke again, this time softly. �You stayed.�
�This Jaken would never abandon his lord.�
The inu-youkai did not reply, but Inuyasha swore he saw the
cold golden eyes soften.
�Hmmm, maybe Kagome ight ght about him and
he isn�t as hard-hearted as I thought he was.�
Sesshoumaru
moved and he, Jaken and Ah-Un followed him past the
smashed yagura and out of the honmaru.
The inu-youkai crossed through the ninomaru and sannomaru and came
to the main gates. He opened them and exited the castle stronghold, sparing
only a glance for what was left of his Lord Marshal as he walked.
They came
to the scorched battlefield full of human bones and Sesshoumaru stopped to
survey the sight. Inuyasha came to stand beside him and spied a group of bones
that caught his particular attention. Judging by the scraps of clothing and
simple geta scattered around where their feet would
have been, it was obvious that these men had been peasants, probably conscript
farmers from one of the villages. He saw Sesshoumaru turn his head to look
where he was staring, and a little frown marred the normally expressionless
face.
�He sees what I see. Poor bastards
forced to their death.�
In his
waistband, Tenseiga pulsed.
�Hmmm, Tenseiga.
You don�t like it either do you? Are you ready to go back to your master?�
The sword
pulsed again and he nodded, pulling it from his waistband.
�Oi. Sesshoumaru,� he said, offering his brother the blade.
Sesshoumaru
was silent for several moments, then spoke, �Tenseiga
has rejected me and chosen a new master.�
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