Seal of the Silver Flower

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Nor do I profit from this fic or intend any gain from this fic. Rumiko Takahashi is the creator of this anime. I own nothing of it, nor do I intend to.

Chapter 4


Inuyasha jerked at the chain holding her bound to a heavy tree. Her human captors had parted ways with the priest some days ago. The spells binding her fading slowly over the last few hours. Now, her yokai was returning in a rush of seething hatered.

Glittering eyes narrowed as one of the humans stumbled drunkenly in her direction. With her hands bound by chain, around the tree's wide trunk, she was only able to bare her fangs in warning.

"Fo' a half-bree' beetch," the human began, "Your pree... pretty." he mumbled out.

"For a human drunk, your amazingly stupid." she commented.

"Tha's not fair. I called yooo preeaty. Yooo shoul' be ni'cee." he said as he finally reached her and ran a hand through her pale tresses. The crimson of her kimono and hakama had become stained with dirt. Even her lips curled at the scent coming from her body. The curves and muscles of her body hidden beneath the bulky folds of her clothing.

Inuyasha drew up her legs and grimaced when the human stumbled closer and pressed his disgusting self into her. Inuyasha snapped. Kicking her feet up, she rammed one bare foot into the human's gut. Her other foot connected with the man's neck and an audible snap echoed through the clearing.

The other two men jumped from their positions near the fire. Inuyasha ground out a curse. One of them picked up a burning log while the other picked up a long heavy whip.

"Stupid, little hanyou. You shouldn't have done that." the log man said. His friend looked with furious eyes at the dead male. "That was our brother. But an animal like you wouldn't understand that would you?"

Inuyasha flinched from the insult. Her ears flattening as the man with the brand came nearer. His partner stood back and uncoiled the whip. Her memories of recent times were beating at her. The insults from the Tai-Youkai, followed by her rape, and then the times after that. When he had abruptly left, it had nearly destroyed her.

The discovery some months later of her rounding belly scared her to no end. That had been the morning these humans had captured her. For two weeks they had held her here. Now this was happening. She got her feet back under her and prepared for a fight as best she could. The man with the brand raised it and came to bring it down across her skull.

Inuyasha growled as it knocked into her temple, but she then kicked up her foot and connected with his upper chest. When a wet mass of warm met her efforts, she grinned. The man fell backwards as his corpse twitched with spasms of death.

The crack of a whip and the scent of her own blood, trickling warmly down her cheek reminded her of the the last man. Dark markings appeared on his face as he pulled the whip back. "Family is such a burden." he began. "And when you try to do your best, bring them up right, they just tend to die. But this, this is just not good. You Inu tend to think to highly of yourselves."

He flicked the whip and the tip caught one of her delicate ears. Searing pain shot down the appendage. "Your hanyou." she growled, flattening her ears to try and protect them. The man pulled a set of bolos' from his sash and began to whirl them.

"Unlike my brothers' I am not stupid enough to approach a bitch when she is in need of company or manners." He marked. With a final spin he unleashed the bolos' and watched as they caught her feet. With the deadly limbs safely insnared, he approached her and drew forth a knife from under his kimono. Inuyasha flinched when he set the blade to the delicate cream of her skin. Catching her chin, he drew the naked edge across her flesh.
The sharp scent of her blood rose into the air as he then leaned in and licked the blood from her cheek. Inuyasha bit her tongue at the action as nausea bit into her abdomen. When a low growl, murderous in it's own qaulity ripped open the air, the hanyou male looked over his shoulder to spy a dark beauty.

Her violet eyes were lit with fury. Flowing kimonos of deep blues, ebony, and emerald highlighted a face worthy of the kamis. A wealth of curls, black as sin spiralled down her back and over her shoulders. Drawing forth a slender blade, an impossible shade of ivory and pearl, she raised the blade till it pointed directly at the hanyou male.

"You attack another hanyou, as if it were your right." she said simply. "You precede to steal from her that which was stolen from you. Damn you and your kind, centipede. Even the spiders have more honor than you."

The appearance of two male tai-youkai brought Inuyasha up short. Her eyes widened as she took in the two males. Silver ice and storm. The woman they took up positions on either side of shimmered with power. Sesshomaru sparked with icey acceptance and the General beside him pulsed with leadership. The hanyou slaver barely dodged before the female was on him.
She was a wealth of glimmering fury. Just as he raised his blade to fend off the female, his head was on the ground. Izayoi looked up at the bound female and smiled. The bitter eyes of the wild inu was something she had once seen upon herself.

"Hello, little one. I am Izayoi and we have been searching for you." she said. Inuyasha bit her bottom lip and pulled helplessly at her bindings.
"I couldn't give a damn about who you were. Free me so that I may be on my way." she responded. Sesshomaru growled at her pointless attack to his mother. A snarl from the male beside him silenced his words. Izayoi grimaced from the younger female's course tone.

"Inuyasha, that is your name is it not?"

"Keh'!"

"Answer her, girl." the general finally broke in. "And be polite about it."

"Your not my father, old man." she responded. Pulling her legs closer to her body, the inu hanyou curled them under her lower half.

Inu no Taisho looked at his son. "This is the female? Feh'. Untie her and let her go about her life." he ordered. "My dear, we should be going." Izayoi looked at her husband and nodded.

"Her manners are course. Surely they can be trained out of her or something?" she asked. "Sesshomaru's yokai wants her and it's been ages since he showed interest in the females." Inuyasha growled and jerked on her bonds as the Tai-Youkai prince neared her. Once he was within a certain distance of her, he stiffened. His whip appeared at the tip of his claws and he lashed through the chain.

Pulling a small pouch from his kimono sleeve, he tossed it with a clink to the ground. Turning his back on her, he summoned his yokai around him and vanished in an orb of golden light. His parents groaned and his father rushed after him. Izayoi turned to the hanyou female and sighed.

"Will you come with me?" she asked. "My son wronged you horribly. I'm sure that there is much to be done for your future. Despite my mate's decision on your joining our family..."

Inuyasha toed the pouch. "What's this for?"

"Payment. Or rather, an attempt to undo the damage done."

"Payment for use of my body?" she asked. The bite of acid leaking in her tone caused the hime to flinch. Wiping her blade across the corpse she had beheaded, Izayoi looked once more at the female.

"It's the inu tai-youkai way. I'm so sorry." she said. "Don't let what happened destroy you." Inuyasha toed the pouch once more and growled. Scooping up the money she tossed it with a howl of rage into the forest.

"I'll have nothing to do with your clan." she said as she placed a hand over her womb. Izayoi raised startled eyes to the golden eyed female. "Not after what I've been forced to endure."

"Oh, dear."

Inuyasha turned from the youkai female, her gaze going to the forest beyond. With a leap and flash of crimson, she vanished into the green woods beyond. Only the wind marked her passing as Izayoi turned furious eyes towards the path her males took.

"I'll kill them!" she breathed.


"Sesshomaru!" his father barked at the younger Dai-Youkai. The male paused in his steps and remained frozen, starring straight ahead as he waited his father's words. "You have made some disaterous decisions. Why did you have to go after a hanyou? Even if she was of royal blood, she is nothing but a mark of shame. Now to us as well as her blood kin."

"It was late in the season, father. I had little control over my own actions. Is that not how is between yourself and mother? Or is that for myself, such actions are beyond me?" he countered. His golden eyes flashed red as he curled his claws into fists beneath the pure white of his haori.
Inu no Taisho growled. "There is an understanding between us, of course. We are a mated pair. There are differances. You took a half demon without her permission. That is quite different between ourselves and you. Now, what do you plan to do about this?"

"That is not your concern, Father. The hanyou is mine to deal with." His tone was calm and possesive. The general flinched from the ice in the younger demon's voice.

"I do not care for your attitude, my son. Yet, you are a male grown and have no need of my opionon, or so you think. Sesshomaru, there is still much you have to learn. Despite the hate you have for hanyou..."

"You father, are one to talk. Was it not you who dispatched those hanyou cubs from your half brother? Kouga was not pleased. You then furthered your own crime and had me assassinate his human miko mate. Then you turned around and gave him to the ookami Ayame. No father, your own crimes are just as great as my own. Human, hanyou, or Youkai. We are the ones who decided the fate of our clan. I merely used the bitch to relieve my lust." he growled. His back tightened as he turned to face the elder demon.

"Both of you shut your traps!" Izayoi snarled. "That girl is going to suffer because of your stupidity, Sesshomaru. And as for you Toga, don't get me started!" Her sudden leap into their conversation startled at the sound of the female's bark. Spiralling curls and ruby flashing eyes let them know, she was barely holding onto control. "We are going home so that I may speak with the rest of the female members of the pack. Perhaps Sango or Ayame will know what to do with this mess."

When she was done speaking, she whirled about and took to the skies, her true form revealed against the sky in a wrathful embrace of sheer power. Neither male spoke to the other as Toga likewise followed her back home. However, Sesshomaru remained frozen where he was. His mind once more locked in on what he had done and what he was wanting.

Inuyasha, his yokai called. He wanted his mate. Unclaimed or not... He wanted her.

A/N: Sorry for the wait. R and R?