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To Protect the Alpha Female	By : Sylean Category: InuYasha > General Views: 10682 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter 26: To Provide Entertainment

“I want to know; now you tell me right this instant,” Kagome pointed crossly at a tree in mock preparation for the conversation she wanted to have with Sesshomaru. Every time anything about his past surfaced, either those who knew pretended to instantly forget or Sesshomaru shut them up. “If you don’t, you’ll be sorry, because I’ll, I’ll…” ‘I’ll what?’ Kagome realized there was not much she could threaten Sesshomaru with. “I’ll chop you down for firewood.” ‘If only that’d work on Sesshomaru.’ Who was she kidding, like she could ever force him to do anything he didn’t want to; and he clearly didn’t want her to know. Okay, so maybe a different angle. Force wouldn’t work, but maybe a little psychology. “Fine, know what, I don’t want to know. It’s probably boring anyways.” Not surprisingly, the tree did not answer, and this fact finally reflected to Kagome how ridiculous her actions were, “What am I doing?”

“That’s what I was wondering?” Shippo’s little voice echoed from behind her.

Kagome cringed at being caught, hoping he hadn’t heard her childish ranting to an innocent tree. She let out an awkward laugh and tried to brush it off, “Oh, it’s nothing. Just talking to myself.”

He cocked his little head to the side, as if that would help him see right through her, “It’s okay, Mama. It’s okay to be confused.” She sunk to the ground, the tall ferns tickled at her cheeks as she leaned back against a moss-covered log. Shippo eagerly took the invitation of her open arms and nuzzled into her chest. “Is it about Sesshomaru?”

A short laugh, more accurately an audible exhale, exited Kagome’s nose. She should have known better than to try and hide anything from him, Shippo noticed her moods better than anyone. “I’m not sure what to do, Shippo,” she admitted to the little kit, holding him tighter. She felt the tears of frustration prick at her eyes. “One day he’s telling me how perfect I am, and the next he is all business and won’t even spare an single ‘unnecessary’ word.” She sighed at her thoughts. “I’m trying to get to know him, I’m really trying, but he doesn’t seem to want to spend extra time with me.” A whimper slipped out unbidden. What did it take to simply have him talk to her? That’s all she wanted. “Maybe I should just call the whole courtship thing off, I don’t think he’ll ever love me like I need him too.”

Shippo felt a bit guilty listening to his mother pour her worries out; here he wanted Kagome to be with Sesshomaru for his own reasons, and he hadn’t even noticed how hard this was on her. Was it all because Sesshomaru showed him respect; had he let that cloud his mind to his mother’s feelings? Sesshomaru never deliberately hurt her like Inuyasha’s insults had, but his indifference seemed to be taking an even bigger toll. He clenched his fists in frustration to mirror her exhaustion. Sesshomaru promised to make Kagome happy, well, this was not happy. “I’m sorry, Mama. I shouldn’t have given him permission,” he tightened his little fists into her shirt and buried his face in the fabric.

“Permission?” she asked. Since when did Sesshomaru ask permission?

He nodded into her chest, “He told me he’d help me with my demon blood when I got old enough, and I guess I got tricked into agreeing to let him court you.” His tears leaked into her shirt. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know it would hurt you so much; I thought he would be good to you, he told me he would treat you right.”

“He offered to help you?” Shippo nodded to her question. “Is this the same event that causes many demons to lose their minds and turn savage?” Kagome recalled, ‘The book he loaned me said something about that.’

“Yeah, that’s it,” he finally looked up, surprised to see her no longer crying. “Why?”

A renewed whimper burst out of her throat and fresh tears fell, “I’m so glad.” Kagome hugged him tighter. When she read that section in the book, she had been so worried about what would happen to her little Shippo without a demon sire to help him through it, but now, with Sesshomaru’s promise to fill that role, she could sleep easy knowing her little kit would not turn rabid. “I was so worried about what would happen to you.” Because of Sesshomaru, Shippo would have a long life. ‘Maybe he’s not so bad after all,’ the familiar thought resounded in her mind. ‘I’ll try again, and this time, I won’t let him just walk away.’

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“Totosai,” Sesshomaru’s voice held a hint of amusement as he called to the old demon dwelling within a large skull for a house. His scent was still fresh in the area and distinguishable from the potent stench of sulfur from the active volcano in which he resided. The mere fact that the badger demon was still here, already told him of the old man’s decision for his request. For as often as he pretended to be lacking in mental capacity, he was far more aware of what was going on than what he portrayed. Being in the area instead of fleeing and hiding, meant he was prepared to offer his services.

“I thought I might be seeing you before long, Sesshomaru,” Totosai didn’t bother to stand as Sesshomaru stepped silently into the dwelling. His hammer never faltering in the rhythm he was currently pounding away. The shrill resonance of clashing metal filling the air in the small space unapologetically assaulted the sensitive ears of the demon lord.

“I can assume you already have a decision for me,” Sesshomaru spoke haughtily, looking down on his father’s old friend.

“That depends,” Totosai still did not even bother looking up, “it is a bit more complicated to forge a weapon for someone like her than it would be for someone like you.”

Sesshomaru held out his hand, revealing a fang resting innocuously in his palm. The hammering stopped and the old demon pulled himself from his folded place on the ground to receive the material he’d be working with, ‘Sure, ruin my fun, Sesshomaru. And here I was looking forward to ripping one from your arrogant mouth.’ While inspecting the fang Sesshomaru handed over, Totosai said, “Lucky for you, Sesshomaru, I rather like that girl.” He felt into the aura the fang emanated and noticed that even though he knew well this fang could potentially make a weapon of great destruction, it did not exude hostility towards the Tenshi No Ko. ‘So, he actually likes her, that will make my task easier seeing as his fang does not wish her harm.’ “I will make a weapon for her, what did you have in mind?” The chance to make a weapon for such a rare creature did not come around often, it was an opportunity he could not pass up.

“Three days,” Sesshomaru pulled a scroll from his sleeve and handed it over.

Totosai narrowed his eyes at the demand before unrolling the sealed parchment. The image on the page made his eyes bug out even further than their typical with disbelief over what Sesshomaru wanted for her, “Are you sure this is what you want for her? What am I saying, of course you are sure, but I’ll need more than just three days if I am to gather the materials and make this on my own.”

“I will retrieve a bough from Bokuseno,” Sesshomaru clarified, “and anoint the weapon with her blood at such time when I present it.”

“You’ve already thought this out, it seems,” Totosai admitted, reading over the specification for the unique weapon. A smile came to his face as he thought about the finished product; it would be a fine companion for the powerful female. Sesshomaru turned to leave as Totosai got to work, ‘And perhaps the pup will finally lose his insolence if he gets laid,’ his glare intensified at Sesshomaru’s receding back. ‘Poor girl, what she really needs is a leash for that stuck-up dog.’

“Chokyukai? Haven’t I heard that name somewhere before, or am I just imagining it?” Kagome pondered over the pig demon they had just lured out of hiding by using her as bait. He began ranting exuberantly about his lineage. Apparently, he thought very highly of himself and was abducting human women to be his brides.

“What’s this swine talking about?” Inuyasha mumbled.

“You’ve never heard of the Journey to the West?” the pig exclaimed disbelievingly.

“Ah!” the name finally rang familiar. “So you actually are descended from Cho Hakkai in the Journey to the West?” No one else had the faintest clue what Kagome began reciting, something about a monk, pig, monkey and water demon retrieving sacred sutras, but the pig preened under her narration.

“You know all about my ancestors. What an exceptional girl you are,” he snorted between sentences. “This is your lucky day; I’m going to make you my wife.”

“No way,” Kagome turned her head away.

He snorted again, “I’ve heard that before. When a girl says ‘no’ she usually means ‘yes.’” This back and forth exchange went on for a while before the wild boar demon pulled a gold tiara out and sent it towards Kagome. It missed and instead landed on Inuyasha’s head, making him instantly submissive towards Chokyukai. His friends pried it off only to try it on Miroku with the same result. Anyone who wore it instantly fell in love with Chokyukai. One more flying tiara later and it landed on its intended target. A gust of tornado like wind brought the “love-struck” Kagome to Chokyukai’s side. “You carry a foul stench;” he stated brusquely as he snorted around her hair, “smells like dog but no matter, I see you are still untouched.”

“Why you,” Inuyasha drew Tessaiga. “Get your hands off her!”

They only managed to clash blades a few times before Chokyukai fled, claiming Inuyasha was not worth his time, “Now that I have my bride there is no reason to stay.” The conjured tornado disappeared into the clouds, but left behind a potent stench to follow.

Tessaiga skewered into the ground, making Shippo flinch, “Inuyasha, are you okay?”

“Damn it, I can’t take it. Right now, Kagome is…” Inuyasha cringed as visions of Kagome hanging all over that disgusting pig filled his mind. ‘Sesshomaru will kill me,’ he shivered. “We have to get her back.” ‘Before Sesshomaru finds out.’

Luckily, the scent left behind made his hideout easy to find, and a quick transformation by Shippo had the demon being lured out again. While the pig was occupied trying to seduce a disguised fox, Inuyasha got to Kagome and removed the tiara. Her arrow sealed the swine’s fate, banishing him back to the continent rather harshly.

With the abducted women returned to their village and mission complete, Inuyasha wasted no time in finding a hot spring. Kagome thought he was just being nice, but in reality, he wanted that pig’s scent washed off before Sesshomaru came around to deal out his unusually harsh brand of punishment.

A voice many octaves deeper than Sesshomaru’s own reverberated in laughter, “So you’ve come, Sesshomaru.”

“I’m sure you know why I am here, Bokuseno,” Sesshomaru retorted blandly, not letting the tree get to him.

“That I do,” Bokuseno agreed with mirth in his voice. “You wish to use one of my boughs as gift for the same female you thought unworthy of you only a short while ago, do you not?”

“What say you?” Sesshomaru’s voice hardened. He was not in the habit of looking back; he needed an answer for the present.

“Worry not, I will grant your request, but first,” Sesshomaru knew the old tree would not let him off that easy, “tell me what you see in her.”

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes and began telling the magnolia tree demon all that had transpired in short, clipped sentences. Part way through, Bokuseno closed his eyes and listened patiently. Sesshomaru was sure the tree already knew much of this; he always seemed to possess an unnatural form of understanding. He was probably only doing this to get a reaction, but Sesshomaru would not give him the satisfaction. When he finished his retelling, he blandly asked the irksome tree, “Is that all?”

Bokuseno opened his eyes, “You must also agree to bring her before me; I wish to see her for myself.”

“Very well,” the tree’s branches rustled in response and a branch tumbled down into Sesshomaru’s grasp. He had what he came for. One last shared look and he departed back to Totosai’s hut; the sword smith should be ready for the bough by now.

‘Now where are those notes,’ Kagome flipped through her notebook in search of a specific part. She was grateful that she opted to copy down the mating sections word for word; there just had to be something in here she could use, ‘Ah, here. Ability to Provide; that is the ritual he is currently working through. Let’s see what all is left...’ Kagome skimmed over the parts of little interest, combing for something of value, ‘Hunting and offering his kill, check, already did that. Gifts, hmmm, not yet, but I don’t think I can use anything there. Umm, protection, hmmm, I could say he needs to protect my heart… No, that’s grasping for straws. I need something with legitimacy he can’t dispute. ‘Anything to keep her healthy, since some species have needs beyond our own.’ ’ Kagome blinked and reread that last line over and over. ‘Wait, that’s it! I know how to get him to talk with me.’
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