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Omega	By : Namiriana Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 12163 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Omega
Date: September 24, 2011
Chapter: Complications and Truths
Innocent: free from guilt or fault
Righteous: arising from an outraged sense of justice or morality
The lord of the Western Lands and his son were full of relief when they say that they were finally reaching the mountain plateau that signaled the dwelling of the Northern Wolf Tribe which was also home to the lord of the Northern Lands, Kouga. While demons do not tire easily, the mountain upon which the Northern Tribe lived was a feat to get up because of the steepness of its slope which is one reason for their renowned leg strength. It had also been a great many years since they had enjoyed the hospitality of the other canine clan and it would be interesting to see the changes that time has made to the pack. Just as expected, the inu-youkai of the Western Lands were received warmly into the caves of the wolves and before any talk about the business upon which they came, they took time to reconnect with one another and to fill in the gaps that news on the wind could not carry. However, the most surprising news came in the form of the death of the entire warrior population of the Southern Wolf Tribe and the punishment that was handed down to the offender.
“Kouga, my friend, did you not hear about the declaration made by the High Demon Council a decade ago?” Inu no Taisho spoke to the young ookami. The dark haired male replied negatively.
“Reducing someone to Omega has become a forbidden practice. There have been too many instances in which the offender was innocent of their crimes and the return to their normal state was faulted. An innocent that is promoted from Omega, never regain their former selves like criminals but they are also not able to forget their time as Omega because their minds were never completely sealed away. This has led to most of the innocents committing suicide,” Inu no Taisho explained.
In demon society, for a demon or half demon to commit suicide means that they have gone through an experience so traumatic that their own youki will turn against them in order to end whatever pain, injustice, or memory haunts the affected individual. Suicide for a demon, is the absolute last resort that is used when those that have wronged the demon in question have failed to acknowledge and correct their mistake/crime.
“There was proof of his crime against the Southern Tribe, but had we known about that declaration, I swear to you we would not have used this method, however it is too late to take back what has happened now despite the declaration. I just wonder what happened that we were not given notice of this.” Kouga remained pensive for a moment before he changed topics to more boring matters such as revising their millennia old treaty to throw out outdated practices and to incorporate new ones to accommodate the different times.

Omega was not allowed to sully the main caves with his presence and so his sleeping area had been moved to the prison cell that he had started out in before his sentence and farce of a trial. His duties had been changed so that he mainly dealt with cooking and cleaning up after everyone else once they had left about their daily business. They did not want the filth that was Omega to offend their guests and this was the result. For Omega, however, it was bliss because everyone about him was too busy with the arrivals to care much about his presence beyond what was necessary. He was not hit, spit at, yelled at, or abused in many ways. His sleep had been uninterrupted and the scraps that he was given were better than normal because of the quality of the food in general was better than normal thanks to the new arrivals. With those little slices of peace in mind, Omega made certain to stay out of sight so that he would stay out of mind. However, all good things must come to an end and he had just hoped it would have waited for the arrivals to leave.
It was six days into the visit of Lord Inu no Taisho and his son Sesshoumaru when the peaceful little bubble that surrounded Omega was burst. The morning meal had been completed and Omega was moving in to clean up the remains because he had thought that everyone had left. In reality, the son of the lord of the Western Lands had remained behind for reasons unclear to everyone else and had moved into a slight depression in the cave wall. He would later admit to himself that he was curious, so he stayed behind to see why the wolves were hiding their so-called criminal when most would want to exploit and humiliate the offender to further that individual’s punishment. He got his answer when he saw just who the criminal was and not only that, the punishment exacted on Omega was a violation of the treaty between the dogs and the wolves in relation to criminals against the other. Despite the fact that this particular inu had been cast out from the house of Inu, the negotiations of the treaty still applied to him.
The discipline of the one once known as Inuyasha should have been handled in inu courts just as if a wolf had perpetrated a crime against a dog it would have been handled by the wolves. The fact that they had not held up their portion of the treaty was a massive insult and doubly one to the house of Inu because it was no secret that Inuyasha was the bastard child of Inu no Taisho. That night, Sesshoumaru requested that his father spend a bit of time with him walking the surrounding woods as he did not want sensitive ears prying on their conversation. Inu no Taisho followed his son without many questions as he wanted to know the cause of Sesshoumaru’s odd behavior and he knew from experience that the demon would talk only when he felt it safe and when he was ready. When they were finally far enough away, Sesshoumaru and Taisho slowed their pace and walked side by side to discuss the matter weighing on the younger’s mind.
“I saw Inuyasha.” Sesshoumaru was once again, short and to the point with his words. Taisho stopped and looked at his son. Sesshoumaru saw Inuyasha often because it was his nature bound duty to ensure his brother’s safety after the boy’s mother had died even if they had been separated for years. It was why their father did not kill the child once he had been born. He was nature bound to ensure the safety of his child.
“What do you mean, you saw Inuyasha?” Inu no Taisho was not sure what to make of the fact that Sesshoumaru had seen his estranged brother, apparently, in this vicinity.
“Inuyasha is Omega. I saw him after the morning meal, I saw the mark, I recognized the scent, but the scent was off. Something is wrong.” Inu no Taisho stared his son in the eye, but nothing was amiss. The older demon nodded his acknowledgement.
“We will talk to Kouga and the Council in the morning after the meal. Bring your brother with you.” Sesshoumaru nodded his understanding.
“Kouga, Wolf Council, we have a matter of urgency to address immediately. We have been allies for a millennia and friends for centuries, but what gave you the right to disregard the terms of our treaty by trying an inu for crimes against your tribe?” Taisho was careful to keep his tone neutral and to put aside all of his current emotions so as to not telegraph everything that he had been feeling. It was hard to do when he saw the knowing looks and knew that they had not forgotten, but had bullheadedly decided to exact their own justice. Just then, Sesshoumaru arrived with the hanyou once known as Inuyasha.
“The Western Lands trusted you to keep to your word and I find that not only did you break your word to our lands, but you insulted our friendship and my house by way of my son?” Taisho looked from the stunned and shamed looking council and Kouga to his two children. Inuyasha did not raise his head; in fact, he burrowed his chin further into his chest that any would think possible. The fear that had mixed with the young one’s scent was also disconcerting to the demon that had cast the little one out not long after he had been born.
“We admit that we were hasty and we were blinded by our rage, but I assure you that the evidence was irrefutable. There was absolutely no way that he is not guilty of the crimes he has been charged with,” one of the council members spoke up after the awkward moment of silence. The same council member cowered under the glare of the lord of the Western Lands.
“No matter your rage, this should have been reported to the Western Lands and you knew this even after your rage had had time to cool. I do not know what to think when I am confronted with this kind of information. Do you remember the consequences for your actions?” Inu no Taisho saw the faces about them turn pale. They had betrayed this term of the agreement and the consequence was that the prisoner in question would be released of the sentence and would not be tried by the dogs themselves. They would be allowed to go free regardless of what they had done.
“Taisho-sama, you can’t possibly mean to enforce the consequence in light of what he did?” Another member cried out. Taisho glared him down as well. “If you had reported it to the Western Lands after you had been thinking more clearly, no I would not be doing so, but you hid this from me and you attempted to hide it from while we are here. That is inexcusable and I have a duty to all those of inu blood to stand up for their right to be tried by their own. You took away a right that was not yours to take.” Taisho looked directly into Kouga’s eyes with regret and disappointment before he spoke again.
“I, Inu no Taisho, DaiYoukai to the Western Lands and all inus that reside therein, invoke the consequences of our treaty. Release the one once known by the name of Inuyasha.” With those words, Kouga had no choice but to walk over to the trembling hanyou, prick his finger, and wipe his blood across the demotion mark upon the marred neck of the young male.
“You are released of your punishment; let your crimes and disobedience be a lesson for your future.” The entire area filled with a bright white light before it turned the color of blood and then settled for a few moments at white marred by blood red. The mark of innocence, the mark of injustice, and the mark of one that had been tainted by injustice, the hanyou had been innocent of the crimes of which he had been accused and prosecuted for. Inuyasha lay unmoving in his brother’s arms after the strain on his youki for the last half decade was finally lifted. The inu-hanyou was not even conscious to see the look of anger on his estranged father’s face or the look of horror on the faces of those that had prosecuted him without even giving him a chance to defend himself.
“I think that we should take our leave of the Northern Lands for the sake of allowing both of us to think before we say things that we may later regret.” With those words, Inu no Taisho lead both of his sons out of the Northern Lands and the dwelling of the Northern Wolf Tribe. He did not look back, nor do he look at any of the wolves that were gawking at Inuyasha being carried by the untouchable and coldly distant, Sesshoumaru. Kouga and the council watched them leave with horror, shame, and regret fueling the center of their emotions. The nagging feeling that had been bugging him since shortly after he had demoted the hanyou exploded in his chest from a sense of something not right to outright guilt that they had in essence tortured an innocent soul despite the fact that the one in question was half and half.
Inuyasha did not stir once on the entire week and a half journey from the wolves dwelling to the Western Palace. It was disconcerting because it only showed more and more evidence of just how abused the young one was. For Sesshoumaru, it was much more obvious because he had been the only one to carry Inuyasha and he had felt just how light his little brother had been, had been able to count every bone of his ribs and spine, and had felt just how concave the little hanyou’s stomach had been. It was a wonder they had not killed him, but it showed just how strong Inuyasha was as well. Not only were they waiting with bated breath to see if Inuyasha would ever wake, be relatively okay, but because they also needed to know what happened for Inuyasha to have been put into a situation like the one they had found him in.
“Father, what is going to happen if he does not wake again?” Sesshoumaru was worried for his little brother even if his face did not show it.
“Then we will need seek out one of the ancient healers which means that this will have be reported to the High Demon Council. If they become involved, then all parties involved with Inuyasha, including himself, will be subjected to the spirit readers and punishment will be handed out immediately. Punishment by the Demon Council is something that is not taken lightly, even by DaiYoukai. Remember that they are the most ancient and wise of beings and they do not take kindly to petty injustices that remind them of our human counterparts and this would be one of those instances.” Sesshoumaru nodded his understanding, while he wanted justice done for his brother, he also knew that he and his father would also be held liable because they had cast out a child of their blood because of his other parent and had failed to reclaim him when it was known that the child’s mother was gone and that he was on his own. Their only excuse was pride and reputation and in return that had cost a child his innocence.
“I hope he wakes soon. We have much to make amends for Otou-sama and I believe it will take some time to do so with him for we have much to make amends for.” Taisho nodded his agreement as he looked upon his youngest son once again being fed a mixed potion to allow for some nutrients to energize his body and speed his healing process.

“I love you my little prince. No matter what happens, I will always love my little pup. Stay strong for me, my Yasha, stay strong ‘cause I will always be with you.” Tears slide down chubby cheeks as the woman’s fingers slipped from around him to lay unmoving upon the futon that housed her weakened body. It had been a long fight to live for as long as she had, but she had held on until she could no longer ignore the call. For the child, he grieved because now that she was gone, he had no one. He was all alone in a world that hated him for half and half heritage. “Please, Mama, don’t go. MAMA, DON’T GO!” After the sobs had quieted to hiccups and the tears had slowed enough to no longer hamper his vision, the young child dug the grave that would accept his mother’s body before laying her to rest and marking her place within the earth with the seeds of her favorite flowers. Perhaps one day, his mother’s presence will grant the drab clearing the chance to become a beautiful meadow. With one final tear upon her grave, the child walked away to face a world that would always condemn him for what he was and never look at him for whom he was. Inuyasha woke up with tears in his eyes and howl of misery falling from chapped lips. He remembers why the dreams are so familiar and it is because they are about him.
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