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The Tale of the Demon Lord	By : Arianawray Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 56279 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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XXXII: Trust
"Forgive me for being the cause of so much trouble," Natsumi cried, pressing her forehead to the floorboards of the meeting room which Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, Totosai and the ministers had withdrawn to before their evening meal. "Minister Atsushi, I have cost you far more than my life is worth. I am so sorry. I know how you treasure the works of art you collect."
She was bruised and bandaged in several places. However, she had suffered no serious injuries, a fact that Satoshi had confirmed privately with Inuyasha after carefully examining the attendant.
"What an absurd thing to say," Atsushi said, going over to her and raising her to her feet. "No life as good as yours is worth any amount of goods or money. I am most pleased to have redeemed, twice, a young demon who has proven so pleasing to my king and my prince."
"Yeah, stop apologising for being alive, Natsumi!" Inuyasha said in his inimitable way. "You're worth a gazillion Narakus! I wish someone hadn't stopped me from hacking off his ugly tentacle when he snatched you out of the window!"
The incident had fired his spirit, and made him forget all about his earlier doubts about whether he should have progressed so fast and so far with Sesshomaru. In fact, he felt feisty enough at the moment to go through several rounds of no-holds-barred sword-fighting with his brother.
"If someone had not stopped you from doing exactly that, the field would have filled with toxic fumes, and Natsumi, the kitchen fellow with her, the children and the gardening staff would all have been poisoned on the spot," Sesshomaru growled in response.
"I could have dispersed the fumes with a swing of the Tetsusaiga, like Totosai taught me!" Inuyasha insisted.
"And taken an entire wing of the castle along with it, I'm sure," Sesshomaru said. "You need a good deal more training with that sword under Totosai's tutelage and mine before you wield it for anything other than hand-to-hand combat. By the way, what was that kitchen servant doing in the royal wing?"
"I asked Kazuki to stay and keep Natsumi company while she had her lunch in my room. I told the guards he was the only one permitted to bring her meals to her. And I am not that bad with my sword!"
Sesshomaru let it go and dismissed Natsumi, who withdrew gratefully, still upset at the thought of how much the minister had given to save her.
The royal siblings, Totosai and the two ministers then began to dissect Naraku's visit.
"I am certain that something happened when Kanna's mirror shattered in the art gallery in the north wing, or when Hakudoshi dropped in uninvited on Inuyasha in the library," Sesshomaru said. "Inuyasha noticed a fragment still missing from Kanna's mirror. They claimed that the mirror needs time to repair itself fully, but I am more inclined to believe that the shard was left somewhere – have my security staff finished scouring the gallery for it?"
"Your staff have combed every inch of the gallery," Minister Atsushi said. "However, they have indicated that they would prefer to go over the place once more along with the member of the housekeeping staff who is assigned to look after the gallery and its pieces of art."
"Why did they not do so with that person from the beginning?" Sesshomaru asked.
They sent for the head of security, who explained: "My lord, the person they need is ill."
"Ill? How did that happen?"
"My lord, many guards had to be redeployed to cover the duties of those sent to deal with the floods; some housekeeping staff were also reassigned to more urgent and sensitive tasks covering both housekeeping and security. The art galleries were not a security-sensitive area, so we withdrew the housekeeping staff from them and reassigned them to areas requiring more of our trusted staff in attendance. The custodian of the gallery in the north wing was put on night-watch duty in the administration wing. He reported hearing a suspicious noise last night and went out to one of the balconies to check on it, when he was bitten by a centipede."
"A centipede?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Yes, my lord. Not a centipede demon, but an animal centipede. Such a bite would normally cause a demon no problems, but he felt extreme pain, and the healer said that the animal had most probably bitten a snake-demon or some other venomous demon just before biting our guard. The wound has affected him enough to leave him feverish in the staff infirmary. As it was an incident involving a mere animal, and not a situation involving any of the visitors, I did not think it necessary before this to trouble Your Majesty with the details. I ask your pardon if that was a mistake on my part."
"He detected no foreign demon presence before, during or after the incident?"
"No, my lord."
"If he is not critically ill, have him carried into the gallery and ensure that he checks every piece of art and every inch of the walls and floors," Sesshomaru ordered. "Then if he remains lucid, question him in greater detail about what happened last night, and give me a thorough report."
"Yes, my lord," the chief of security replied, before retreating from the room.
Left to themselves again, they set aside the matter of the spider children's behaviour and the centipede bite pending a fuller investigation, and discussed the suddenness of Naraku's departure.
"I do not like it that he left so abruptly, after such a short stay," Minister Ryota said. "The last two times he came, he tarried a whole week on each occasion. Something prompted him to go early this time."
"It had to be Totosai's unexpected appearance," Inuyasha said.
"It won't be the first time I've frightened people away," Totosai muttered, more to himself than to anyone else. He was sitting on the bare floor again, facing the others who sat on cushions around a low table, but his mind seeming to be a thousand miles away. He had returned from the forest patch with Sesshomaru and Inuyasha a while ago, after spending some time telling Bokusen'o about all that had happened.
"Possibly, but not necessarily so," Ryota murmured. "One such as Naraku would be intrigued, not driven away, by the appearance of such a powerful demon."
"Could it be that he was embarrassed by his loss of control over Natsumi?" Inuyasha asked.
"Your Highness, Lord Naraku is much too thick-skinned for one instance of loss of self-control to upset him into changing his plans," Minister Atsushi said.
"His leaving like that has an air of his either having obtained something he wanted, or having decided that he could not obtain something he desired," was Sesshomaru's assessment.
"It can't be my sculptures," Atsushi mused. "There's nothing unusual about the sculptures themselves apart from their exquisite craftsmanship. The marble itself is of high quality, but is otherwise ordinary enough."
"The sculptures were probably nothing more than icing on the cake – an invisible cake we cannot see yet," Ryota murmured thoughtfully. "There's something else going on."
"He hoped for a mating alliance, but did not get one despite repeated attempts to persuade Lord Sesshomaru to agree to one," Atsushi remarked. "Can it be that he abruptly concluded it was useless and decided to retreat?"
"Without first imposing on us for several more days and enjoying our hospitality to the full?" Sesshomaru asked rhetorically. "That is most unlike Naraku."
"It might have something to do with what I overheard in the forest," Inuyasha spoke, suddenly remembering that he had not had time before this to tell Sesshomaru about Kanna's magic mirror.
"What did you overhear?"
"Kanna asked the mirror who the fairest in this land was, and the mirror said it was you," Inuyasha told his brother, with a tiny smirk on his face at the thought of how even magical objects knew that Sesshomaru was the most splendid creature in the kingdom. "Then she asked who the fairest of their clan was, and it answered 'Kagura'. Hakudoshi said he knew from that answer that Kagura had to be alive."
"Are Kagura's bodyguards still with her?" Sesshomaru asked Atsushi.
"Yes, my lord," the minister replied. "She will keep them with her for a few more days, until we are certain that no danger to her remains."
"Good. In the meantime, have our security guards scour the castle. Make certain that they have left nothing and no one behind," Sesshomaru ordered. "Natsumi can resume sleeping in her own quarters again, but I want two guards posted outside her door all night for the next few nights. We will have no problems assigning staff to such duties now that the soldiers have returned from the south."
Dinner was announced, and the five ate a peaceful meal in the dining hall, unburdened far sooner than they had expected to be of Naraku's smothering presence.
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"Contradicting me in front of the ministers and attendants?" Sesshomaru growled at Inuyasha when they were back in the royal wing after seeing Totosai to Bokusen'o's forest patch for the night. "I judge that you need more training with your sword and you insist that you are not bad with it, in front of everyone else?"
Inuyasha's ears flickered downward a shade, but rose defiantly again as he grumbled in response: "Well, I really am not that bad with the Tetsusaiga. You make me out to be some kind of klutz."
Having sent word to all their room attendants that they had no need of their services this evening, they entered Sesshomaru's room and closed the door behind them, shutting out the world.
"I should punish you for talking back at me in front of others," Sesshomaru remarked, shedding his robes quickly and watching Inuyasha with an appreciative eye as the boy pulled off his outer layers of clothing.
"Yeah, yeah, you keep going on about spanking me till my bottom is too sore to sit down on – I'm starting to think you have a spanking fetish."
"You truly are an insolent creature," Sesshomaru growled, waiting until Inuyasha had unknotted the ties of his trouser underlayer and had dropped them to about his knee level before pouncing on him and trapping him against the wall beside the bed.
"I didn't say I was ready to get frisky with someone who insults my sword-wielding skills," Inuyasha growled back, struggling to free his ankles from the trousers.
"Whatever happened to that obedient little puppy who did exactly as he was told on his first night home?" Sesshomaru purred, a hand cupping Inuyasha's bottom, knowing as he spoke the words that he was risking a lashing from Inuyasha for reminding him of those traumatic first few days back in the castle. "I was obviously fooled by his compliance – he's really a wild beast with a sharp tongue and vicious manners."
Inuyasha stuck his tongue out at Sesshomaru.
"I did warn you that your tongue would be on my menu tonight, did I not, little brother?" Sesshomaru asked with a smile. "I see you're offering it to me very willingly now."
The half-demon's tongue shot back into his mouth, but Sesshomaru pressed his lips to Inuyasha's and drew that tantalising piece of flesh back out, seducing it and luring it into his own mouth. But when he himself probed Inuyasha's mouth, he unexpectedly found his tongue seized gently but firmly between sharp teeth, which were applying warning pressure.
Those fangs were soon replaced by the lethal sharpness of claws – Inuyasha had drawn his face away from him and was now pinching the demon lord's tongue between his thumb and forefinger. "Maybe I should have your tongue for dinner instead," the boy murmured with a grin. "This bad, bad tongue which has said such nasty things in the past…"
Sesshomaru would have given a stern reply, were it not that he literally could not move his tongue to speak. He answered with a smouldering glare and pinched Inuyasha's butt sharply. But the half-demon still would not release his tongue.
So Sesshomaru put both his hands under his little brother's bottom, lifted him up, tangled trousers and all, and deposited him in the middle of the bed very carefully, while his tongue remained imprisoned, and a cheeky grin remained plastered all over Inuyasha's face.
"You're starting to drool," the prince commented, amused. "You obviously need some help with keeping clean, you messy dog."
Inuyasha raised his head, and started to lick the tiny trail of saliva that was running down his fingers and making its way down his wrist. He licked up, and up, until he reached the tip of Sesshomaru's tongue. Only then did his claws let go.
Sesshomaru still could not speak, for he was now locked in a deep kiss with Inuyasha, and enjoying the feeling of the boy squirming under him as he continued to struggle to disentangle his ankles from his undertrousers.
At last his feet came free of the fabric. He wrapped his legs around Sesshomaru's waist and flipped them both over so that he was on top of the demon lord. He pulled away from the kiss, and stared down at Sesshomaru who lay beneath him.
"Doesn't look like I'm the one who's on the dessert menu tonight," Inuyasha remarked, for Sesshomaru was totally naked, while he still had his white shift on.
"I can change that in a second," Sesshomaru answered, pulling Inuyasha's shift over his head and off his body in a fluid move.
"Only because I allowed it," Inuyasha grinned.
"That is true," Sesshomaru conceded.
The demon lord fell silent then, gazing up at the charmingly wide-eyed creature who straddled him like a puppy playing at being dominant – except that this pup, with his muscular body and thighs like iron, was quite physically capable of challenging him for dominance if he really chose to exert his strength.
So it was a mark of how much trust he placed in Inuyasha that when the younger one leaned down and kissed him in the hollow of his throat, between his collarbones, Sesshomaru simply closed his eyes and tilted his head back, baring his neck.
"I still think…" Inuyasha said, between this kiss and the next which he planted on Sesshomaru's chest. "…that we rushed into it…" Another kiss and a light flick of the tongue over one nipple. "…but you didn't take advantage of me…" Kissing his way over to the other nipple and testing his teeth lightly against, drawing a tiny groan from the demon lord. "…because it was my choice too… and I wanted you…" A slow kiss and trail of the tongue over Sesshomaru's taut abdominals. "…and I know you wanted me…" A kiss and lick high on his right hip. "…and if what you were telling me over lunch was that you choose me to be your companion… then I accept."
Inuyasha followed that up with a firm caress of Sesshomaru's thickly erect, weeping organ, stroking it with one hand and capping it with his mouth over the tip, teasing the smooth head with his tongue and exploring the slit from which beads of fluid were emerging to be licked up by him.
How he had hated doing this very deed on his first night home, and how much he was starting to enjoy it now that he could see through fearless eyes its effect on his lord and brother, who was arching his body and moaning under his hand and mouth.
Sesshomaru had wanted to answer Inuyasha at the close of his seductive speech, interspersed with those maddening little licks and kisses. But the boy had obviously acquired a variety of ways to render him speechless, from deep lip-locks to claws threatening his tongue, and now this – this seamless pairing of a strong fist and sweetly hot mouth both wrapped tightly about his shaft from base to tip, moving up and down in what seemed to be the perfect rhythm, leaving the demon lord feeling as if he was incapable of anything other than complete surrender.
Inuyasha was in control for now, and he literally milked it for all it was worth. One part of him wanted badly to please Sesshomaru without a fault, and the other impish part of him idled with the thought that this was sweet revenge for all the ways he had been manipulated in the past – for it was wonderful to hear Sesshomaru panting helplessly, to glance upward and see the flash of pleasure and pain across his face as he withheld a stroke for half a beat while pinching his butt, and to feel that thick, perfect cock swell and harden even further in his mouth, throbbing in a plea for release.
He allowed himself to be evil for just a moment as he removed his mouth from his organ but carried on with his hand while he slid up alongside Sesshomaru's body to kiss his pointed left ear and whisper into it: "So have you an answer for me, Sesshomaru? I have accepted you – what do you say now?"
The eyelids opened a crack, and underneath the fiery desperation for climax that swirled in their depths was a glint of a warning: When we are done here I shall spank you till…
But the old threat held no fear for Inuyasha any more, and he kissed Sesshomaru on the mouth again, stealing his panted breath and any words that might have come, until Sesshomaru threw back his head, broke the kiss and gasped: "I accept you – I more than accept you – Inuyasha –"
Only then did Inuyasha bend his mouth to the tip of Sesshomaru's member again, remove his hand, and take him as far in as he could without choking, pleasuring him perfectly until Sesshomaru's seed exploded into his throat and waves of utter satisfaction and relief rocked the demon lord's body, until the last ripple of physical tension had melted away into pure contentment.
Inuyasha swallowed and released Sesshomaru from his mouth, then lay on top of him, keeping his damp organ ensconced beneath the warmth of his thighs until it softened almost completely, by which time Sesshomaru was gazing up at him through sun-coloured peepers that had not entirely lost their threatening message, despite the warmth flooding them.
Inuyasha gave him little pecks and nibbles on the chin and along his jawline to appease him, an instinctive dog-demon action which worked very well on the dog-demon king, for the fire in his eyes grew gentle, and he drew Inuyasha's head onto his chest.
They rested quietly for some time. But when Inuyasha stirred some minutes later, a sharp hand landed hard and swift on his backside, which stung to a surprising degree.
"Ow!" he yelled. "What was that for?"
"That was for teasing me, and for playing at dominating me – did you really think I would let it pass?"
Inuyasha rubbed his butt with the flat of his hand to soothe the sting, but he had a grin on his face. "Well, I was good at it, wasn't I?"
"You were passable," Sesshomaru murmured, wrapping his arms around the delectable body covering his own. Softening his voice further, he said gently into one downy ear: "And you are the only one in the entire world I would permit to take such liberties with me."
He nibbled on the tip of that ear, making it flick in response, and then it was Sesshomaru's turn to tease and pleasure the boy, returning in full what he had been given, taking Inuyasha to the very brink of physical desire until he shamelessly cried out Sesshomaru's name – and not caring a whit who heard him.
"You may think we rushed into it, but I do not think it happened a moment too soon," whispered Sesshomaru as he cradled Inuyasha afterwards. "I am more pleased than I can say that you are mine – my own, my chosen companion – I could not have made a better choice."
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Sesshomaru did not entirely like it that Inuyasha returned to his own room at dawn. If he had had it his way, the demon lord would have been pleased to have risen from bed, bathed, dressed and breakfasted with his little brother without once letting him out of his sight. It was his dominant nature, wanting to keep what he cherished close to him at all times, except when work demands required him to set aside his private life for a while.
But Inuyasha was independent and half-human, and his years of fending for himself had left an indelible mark on his nature, which would seek solitude and silence from time to time. He needed his space. He did not actually say so, but his aura communicated his need to be alone.
Sesshomaru reluctantly acknowledged that and let him go to his room for the two hours they had before breakfast.
Over breakfast with Totosai and the ministers in the dining hall, they exchanged looks and hidden smiles, most of which were not as hidden from their companions as they might have imagined.
Totosai and the ministers exchanged looks of their own – different looks which told one another of their relief that neither the king nor the prince would be likely to end up mated to any of the spider demons now – or to any individuals from other lands, the way things were going.
Sesshomaru left the breakfast table that morning knowing that Inuyasha would be having his lessons with Jaken out of doors, in the company of Bokusen'o and Totosai, after which Totosai was to take him through more training with the Tetsusaiga.
He parted with him with his usual kiss on the forehead – which today was returned by a quick peck on the lips – and said to him as he so often did: "I shall see you at dinnertime."
But by mid-afternoon, when the ministers and their staff had left for their own homes, Sesshomaru was aching to be close to Inuyasha again. He decided on a whim to abandon his work and spend the rest of the day with him, only to discover when he went in search of him that the prince had left the castle grounds.
"His Highness has just gone out," the head of security confirmed when Sesshomaru checked with him regarding what his own nose and demon senses had already told him. "He was chaperoned by Jaken-sensei, as you had specified he ought to be on such outings. They took two guards with them, as you instructed. His Highness said he had waited until our headcount of soldiers and guards was back at its full complement before setting out on his first excursion."
"I see," Sesshomaru said evenly, although he was disappointed that Inuyasha had gone out. "It is good that they are following my instructions to the letter."
They were not followed all the way, unfortunately, for it was not until three hours later that the prince returned to the castle, when the sun was already very low in the sky. Sesshomaru had previously said that Inuyasha should not be out for more than two hours at a time, and here he was exceeding the time limits on his very first outing!
"Inuyasha, you are late," Sesshomaru said sternly when the prince returned at last. He had been worried enough to have paced his office and looked out of the window every so often – an illogical act, for he could not see the main gates of the castle from the administration wing.
He had been hard put to pay full attention to the report that the chief of security came to give him regarding the housekeeping servant's account and the combing of the north-wing art gallery – no shard was to be found, although the servant had found two holes side by side in the base of a sculpture which had not had such holes in it before. Shards of something or other might have hidden there before either being moved by someone, or moving away under their own power.
The report gave him much to ponder. But immediately upon being informed that the prince was in sight of the guards at the main gate, he was anxious enough to put the written account aside and walk right up to the front entrance of the castle building to meet his brother.
"It's my fault," Inuyasha said quickly, when he observed the cold golden glare slide over to Jaken and the guards. "I got carried away with all the interesting sights in the town. Jaken-sensei and the guards did advise me to return, but I was too caught up with looking at all the shops and the new houses and one of the schools."
Sesshomaru dismissed Jaken and the escorts with a nod before leading his brother back into the royal wing, where he said to him in private: "I did explain my reasons for not wanting you outside the safety of the castle grounds for more than two hours at a time – yet you have disobeyed me."
"I'm sorry – I really forgot the time, even after I was reminded that I would be late, I kept thinking there would be more time to see more of the town. I'm sorry, Sesshomaru." He was particularly upset because he had wanted to prove to Sesshomaru, ever since his return from the village, that he could be trusted with more responsibilities.
"You know that I don't want any harm to come to you," Sesshomaru emphasised, speaking more gently when it occurred to him that Inuyasha had never lived in a big town, and had probably never been able to visit one safely until now. He would therefore have been fascinated by the variety of life and activity there.
"I know," Inuyasha said, his ears drooping.
"If you want to see more of the town, I can take you there myself tomorrow," Sesshomaru told him with a hint of a smile, feeling guilty that he had never offered to take him there before. "Then you can explore all you like."
His generosity was rewarded by a huge smile from the half-demon, and an equally big hug. "You'll really come with me?" Inuyasha asked, looking up at his big brother out of a happy face that Sesshomaru could only hope to see more of.
"Yes," he said. "I should not reward your poor timekeeping with another outing, but perhaps it is my fault that you have not seen the town until now."
Inuyasha nuzzled him gratefully and said in a cheeky voice: "You can always punish me some other way."
"Such as?"
"Well, you can send me to my room without dinner."
"And?"
"Oh, you know, what you keep going on and on about."
"You mean this?" Sesshomaru asked, running a hand over Inuyasha's pert bottom.
"Mm-hmm," Inuyasha said, squeezing his eyes shut and burying his face in Sesshomaru's chest, for he could imagine what was coming.
But instead of ordering him to drop his trousers and bend over at once, Sesshomaru instead pinched the prince's left butt-cheek so hard that Inuyasha turned quite red in the face.
"Ouch! Bloody hell, that hurts!" the boy protested, gasping out his words, for the pinch was a truly wicked one.
"I know," Sesshomaru said calmly.
"Damn it, I think I'd prefer the spanking!"
"Believe me, you wouldn't."
"Ow…" Inuyasha groaned, as the spot continued to smart although Sesshomaru had removed his fingers.
"That was your punishment for coming home late. But as we have quite a bit of time before dinner, I can make very sure that I will be thorough about kissing it all better…"
So Inuyasha did have to drop his trousers, but not for a spanking after all. And Sesshomaru did not have the heart to deprive him of his dinner, so he eventually went down to the dining hall with perky ears and in a playful mood, looking forward to the promised visit to the town on the morrow.
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