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The Forest That Bore His Name	By : Raithea Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 17700 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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~~Chapter Six~~
Life Changing Chances
Kagome quietly closed the shogi behind herself as she exited the room where the young hanyou was finally sleeping.
“So he is resting,” Asagi asked, handing Kagome a cup of strong tea.
Kagome cradled the cup in her hands and nodded. “I had to threaten him with a sleep sutra before he finally settled but he’s asleep now.” She smiled then, “He has such a strong spirit, even after all he’s been through,” but the smile quickly faded, her eyes growing distant, “He will need it for what’s to come.”
Asagi looked at her questioningly but Kagome merely shook her head. Asagi decided not to press the matter. “The dog is coming here to speak with you,” she informed Kagome flatly.
Kagome frowned at her, “Can’t you two ever get along.”
“No.”
Kagome sighed, “I’ll go and speak with Sesshomaru in the front room. Can you please watch over our guest? I want him to get as much rest as possible, so make sure the others keep it down.”
Asagi agreed but before Kagome could go, asked what had happened to the other hanyou.
Kagome shook her head, “I have my suspicions but it isn’t my story to tell.”
Asagi nodded her understanding, setting her teal ponytail swayiny before she moved to enter the room, “And Asagi,” Kagome said, stopping her with a hand on her shoulder when they drew level, “don’t ask him about it either.” Asagi nodded again; then opened the shogi once more and quietly entering the dim quarters.
Kagome let out a breath, her shoulders slumping forward, some of the tension going with it. She took a few calming breaths, settling her frazzled aura and took a slow sip of her cooling tea. She knew she would need her calm for this new trial that she had invited into her home. From her brief encounter with the hanyou Kagome was already beginning to dread finding out his whole story. She took another sip of her tea then put it on one of the hall tables, hopefully to get back to it before it was too cold, before she went to meet Sesshomaru.
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Sesshomaru resisted the urge to pace about in the small room, feeling just as restless as he had the night before. Time had not eased the gnawing feeling in his gut and the miko seemed to be taking an obscene amount of time. What could possibly be so all consuming; he was their landlord for pity’s sake!
It took another nerve-grating minute before the miko finally arrived.
“Hello Sesshomaru,” Kagome gave him a small bow as she entered the room, which he returned with a curt nod. “I am sorry for keeping you waiting but something came up that I had to take care of.” She shrugged, “I can’t stay long because of it so you’ll have to forgive me, but anyway, what did you wish to speak to me about?”
Sesshomaru nodded offhandedly at her apology, opening his mouth to cut straight to his point, as he was not one to mince words, when the last smell he’d ever expected popped back onto his radar. No…it couldn’t be. He stopped, concentrating and realized it was coming straight from the miko. His eyes immediately narrowed in suspision; it couldn’t, it shouldn’t be possible, but in his experience, this miko had the annoying habit of pulling off the impossible.
“What, exactly, was the nature of this emergency?” Sesshomaru asked, pleased that his voice remained flat.
Again, Kagome shrugged, “A trespasser, that’s all, nothing Kirara and I couldn’t handle.” Sesshomaru’s anger hiked up again.
“And I was not informed,” Sesshomaru demanded, his voice no longer calm.
“They fall under my jurisdiction, so you don’t need to worry about it,” Kagome replied waving it away.
“So then it is a hanyou.” He stepped forward, trying to loom over her.
Looming never did work with her. She gave him a look, “Well yes,” she said, putting her hands on her hips, apparently affronted by Sesshomaru’s increasingly aggressive tone. “What in the world is wrong with you today?”
Sesshomaru completely ignored Kagome, walking swiftly past her and heading the way she had come. “Hey,” she cried, quickly running to catch up with him, “Where the hell do you think you’re going?!”
“To confirm who this trespasser is,” he barked back.
How? How in the name of all the gods? Sesshomaru couldn’t believe it. How had that blasted half-breed managed to get here? And though it solved one of his dilemmas it caused a great many more. Damn hanyou, he never caused anything but trouble. His vague concern about what to do with the boy living on his border had been sharpened into an immediate pain in his ass.
Kagome continued after him and only just managed to stop him as they reached the boy’s room. “What the hell is the matter with you?” she demanded in a low hiss; trying to turn him away from the room.
Again he ignored her, “Move aside, Miko.”
Kagome looked at him, surprised, “Do you know who he is, Sesshomaru?” she asked.
“I have some very strong suspicions,” he replied curtly, not bothering with keeping his voice low.
“So who is he?”
Sesshomaru remained silent for a moment, weighing his options, but he couldn’t see what could be gained from not telling her this. And it would probably get him in that room faster. “His name is Inuyasha.”
Kagome blinked at him, “Inuyasha?” Then her eyes widened in surprise, “Wait…Is he the one that Kaede-sama told me about…th..the one she couldn’t help?” she asked, disbelieving.
“I never bothered to inquire about the reasons behind that woman’s ridiculous crusade for the hanyou,” he snapped, easily sidestepping her and pushing the door open with a snap; only to find the irritating one in his path.
Asagi scowled at him, making sure to completely block his way, green eyes flashing with her anger. “What in all the bloody hells do you thing you’re doing?!” she yelled.
Sesshomaru merely glared back while Kagome made urgent shushing noises behind him, “Will you two keep it down; he is trying to sleep.”
Sesshomaru glanced at her, “I wish to speak with ...”
“Well you can’t,” Asagi cut in, “He needs his rest and you’ve already woken him up as it is,” her voice holding a particularly annoying note of finality. Sesshomaru scowled at her but decided to ignore her brass ass attitude for the moment in favor of turning his attention to the room beyond. He couldn’t see much beyond the doorway but the scent from inside was reading loud and clear.
It was definitely Inuyasha.
And it seemed like he was little better then he had been before. The sickening scent of shouki continued to permeate the smell of his blood and Sesshomaru could still hear his loud irregular breathing. He was still in need of medical attention so how in the world had he gotten away? How had he managed to escape when he was in such condition? Was this merely a ploy to garner sympathy?
“What do you intend to do with him?” Sesshomaru asked, turning once again to the miko.
The women looked at him, clearly both confused before Kagome answered him, “I promised that as long as he rested up here a few days, he could be on his way.”
Sesshomaru looked at her disbelievingly, “You would let him go in such a condition.”
He could see the annoying hanyou’s expression of incredulity at his words, but the miko’s expression of downright suspicion would turn out to be the most troublesome. “Why this sudden concern for his welfare Sesshomaru, and how in the world could you know what his condition is like?”
The tension in the air was becoming palpable with Kagome’s increasingly darkening demeanor. Again it was a matter of time wasting as far as Sesshomaru was concerned, she could rant and rave for hours on end, so the quickest way to bypass the chatter would be to answer her. Besides, discussing what to do with Inuyasha had been what had brought him here in the first place. And the reason she was his confidant was because she would, no matter what, keep his silence. And, though he would never admit it; she would at times give him new insight or ideas for certain problems - her long life helping to ebb some of her natural human stupidity. But to start off, he needed to know what she already knew. “What do you know about him?”
She glowered at him a bit more before reluctantly admitting that she knew virtually nothing. As Sesshomaru began to answer, the irritating one closed the door to the room, either to give them privacy for their talk or to try and tend to Inuyasha. “I discovered him at Naraku’s, yesterday.”
Kagome sucked in a sharp breath, her eyes going wide. “Dear god. How the hell did that sick bastard get a hold of him?”
Sesshomaru felt some unfamiliar emotion spear through him that in anyone else might have been called guilt. But as he’d done nothing wrong; he had no reason to feel guilty.
He looked briefly off to the side as he squashed that unwelcome and distinctly unpleasant feeling before turning back to her. “I believe Naraku adopted him. Parts of their conversation led me to that conclusion anyway.”
“But...but, how do you know about him at all? It kinda sounds like…” she trailed off, her eyes going wide, as two plus two finally added to four. It just couldn’t be.
“We had the same father,” was his only answer.
“Oh, Sesshomaru,” pure and unequivocal disappointment lining every syllable, “How could you do this to your own brother?” A small part of Sesshomaru; a very, very small part of him felt that disappointment strike at him and that made him angry. This blasted miko had no idea what an annoying, irritating little punk Inuyasha could be and she, a human, presumed to judge this Sesshomaru.
And now he was annoyed, “I didn’t do this to him,” he snapped. “When my father passed away I decided that it would be best if he was adopted by a more appropriate family.”
Kagome’s disappointment changed to anger faster then a set of traffic lights, “Best...BEST!! How could you possibly think that sending a young hanyou into that horrific system could have been for the best?!” Grief started to creep into her features, muddling the anger in her face, “How long?” she demanded, “how long has he been at the mercy of that monster?” Her arm sweeping out in the direction of the threat perched on their border.
Sesshomaru answered her with a question of his own, “How long has this sanctuary for the hanyou been here?”
Kagome’s eyebrows disappeared into her bangs, as she could only gape at him before spluttering out, “A...a hundred years! Bu...but what happened?” For all his pomp and bluster against the hanyou, Kagome had never really thought it had been much more than that; a socially trained surface reaction, always believing his ingrained sense of honor would keep it in check. She had never expected it to be anything like this.
Again Sesshomaru felt that unknown feeling swell within him, “When Inuyasha went into the system, the miko before you approached me and asked to change this shrine into a foster house for hanyou. I agreed but only under the current provisions that are now in place. And with the stipulation that if Inuyasha were to return he never set foot in the estate house.” He paused thinking carefully on his next words. “When Inuyasha did not return I assumed that when she had gone for him he had already been placed in some suitable care.” He looked away from her, towards the wall where he was sure Inuyasha lay on the other side. “Now I doubt that was the case.”
Sesshomaru turned back to the miko, whose face was carefully blank, a bad sign. “That was a stupid assumption.” Yes, indeed, a very bad sign. The miko was lucky she was who she was; anyone else would have been headless by now. As it was the head was still on her shoulders and gearing up for what looked to be an almighty squall. “So what do you indend to do now?”
An eyebrow went up at that as though it should be obvious, “He will remain here of course.”
And that had finally done it. “What?! Why you arrogant, pompous, self serving, supercilious bastard! You just want to handle him like…like he’s some unwanted problem or something, like...”
But he cut across her. “He IS an unwanted problem.”
Kagome was so angry that words, for a moment, seemed to fail her; her miko powers sending out the occasional spark in the air as her fists shook at her sides in an effort not strike out at the youkai in front of her, “And in a few days, when he wants to leave, what should I do then?!”
“Stop him of course.” Again as though it should be perfectly obvious.
"I'm not about to keep him prisoner here," was Kagome's indignant retort.
"Surely a miko of the calibur required to be the keeper of the Shikon-no-tama can handle one young hanyou," Sesshomaru responded condescendingly,
"That’s not the bloody point! This is a haven, not a holding cell," she shrieked, her voice going a little hoarse.
Sesshomaru stood there a minute, staring at the miko who was nearly apoplectic with rage. They were getting nowhere with this incessant banter, back and forth. But to hope to make any progress he first had to admit to himself and thus to her, what the problem was. Truth be told he hadn’t even considered what in the name of all gods he was going to do with the hanyou if he had decided to retrieve Inuyasha. Hell, he hadn’t even come up with a plan for getting the mutt out of there. That’s why he had been coming here in the first place. Only to arrive and discover that the point was entirely moot and a completely different disaster had been dragged to his doorstep. He sighed.
“I don’t know what do with him.”
And just like that her anger dwindled away to linger with consternation and a bit of exasperation. She folded her arms across her chest, staring off at some random point before she spoke again in much softer tones, “He should stay here at least a few more days to receive medical care. And then we’ll talk with him about his future options.” She looked up at him again, “But Sesshomaru I really think you should at least offer him a chance to stay with you, even if he doesn’t take it.”
There was a long silence before Sesshomaru reluctantly agreed to take it under advisement.
Kagome nodded, then sighed, “I really thought all your hanyou hating was all fluff and bluster, ya know.” Again he could hear the disappointment, but also what seemed oddly like a sense of loss. It made Sesshomaru wish he had never found out what had happened to Inuyasha all the more. Then he wouldn’t be in the awkward position he was in now.
“I never lied about how I felt about them,” he replied coolly.
“No I suppose you didn’t.” She let out a breath of exhaustion, “I should probably go in and see how he’s doing. Is there anything you know about him that could help me?”
Memory flashed before his eyes, as that sickening smell came back to him; causing his stomach to churn in remembered disgust. “Yes, he has received a Youkai Branding.”
Kagome gasped, hands flying to her mouth, “When?”
“The night before last, I believe.”
Kagome looked towards the room, as if she could actually see Inuyasha through the walls; actually see the open wounds on his back. “So why isn’t that bastard knocking down our door?” Kagome asked, hands clenching and unclenching at her sides in an effort to control her fragile temper.
“As far as I know he will be away for a few days on some business trip and he probably believed Inuyasha would be in no condition to move for several days as it was.”
Kagome’s lips quirked to a grim smile, “He’s a lot tougher then Naraku thought.”
Perhaps he was not the only one.
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A/N: First off I would once again like to thank my beautiful beta Dracavia for helping get this chapter out and making me more comfortable with it. Second I sincerely apologize for the abhorrent lateness of this chapter from what I promised. The aforementioned deadline was totally within my reach, when it came around all I had to do was insert a paragraph and have dracavia beta it and I simply didn’t. I let school completely suck up all my effort and became an absolute sloth about everything else.
Third many of you have mentioned confusion about the timeline of this story so I’m gonna clear a few things up. First off Inuyasha does indeed look the same age as Kagome, he was done growing height wise but those subtle changes into full adulthood haven’t happened. Essentially he looks the same as he does in the anime maybe a touch older.
Very important: No matter what character I’m talking about the age they appear to be in no way means how many years they’ve lived. So if you think my timeline is off, trust me, I have the whole thing written down and will eventually tell you everyone’s actual age. Inuyasha for example is around 160 years old. I’m doing what Rumiko Takehashi did in her interview where anyone with youkai blood she merely told us what age they appeared to be and has never told us anywhere what ages any of them actually are (the movies aren’t her official position), so essentially its up to the writer’s discretion. Though several times she has said that youkai live thousands of years. And Sesshomaru has to be over 65 because Inuyasha recognized him right away. I’m also fairly confident that Inuyasha ages different then humans because Rumiko wont’ say his actual age. But I’m extending the mystery to every character so assume nothing and eventually I’ll tell you what’s going on. That’s all I’m revealing for now.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and the little man in my finger says I never will.
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