It All Started On A Rainy Night [New Chapter!] | By : Aurizan Category: InuYasha > General Views: 4787 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Disclaimer: Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. But Takara and other OCs are mine. Some deal as before - first the past then the present. Warning for language and violence. And LovelyJaded, I think this chapter will answer your question *grins*
Past
The courtyard was dark and quiet. The entire neighbourhood was dark and quiet, except for a dog barking somewhere in the night. Sesshoumaru sighed and opened the front door. He stepped inside and closed the door quietly after him. As he suspected, everyone had gone to bed and the house was still. He took off his shoes and jacket, and shrugged his backpack up his shoulder before tiptoeing his way to his bedroom when he passed the living room.
"Sesshoumaru,"
Twelve year-old Sesshoumaru froze. He turned his head and out from the shadows Touga materialised. Cursing inwardly, Sesshoumaru forced himself to relax and then turned towards Touga. It was late and he was far too tired to deal with his father’s anger and braced himself for whatever lecture was in store for him.
"Chichi-ue,"
"Where have you been, Sesshoumaru?" Touga asked, striding towards him, "I remember clearly telling you, you had to be home by dinner because we were having someone over and yet when I searched for you, you weren’t here,"
Touga stopped and towered in front of him. He folded his arms across his board chest. He frowned and stared sternly into his son’s matching golden eyes, "Not only did you disobey my request but you return hours after your curfew."
Sesshoumaru bit back a sigh and shook his head. "I’m sorry chichi-ue. The train from Kyoto was delayed. There was-"
Slap!
"Excuses?!" Touga bellowed when Sesshoumaru’s face whipped sharply to the side. His long hair fanned out before cascading like a sliver curtain over his face. Touga froze for a spilt second, completely stunned that he had hit his son, but quickly masked his shock with firm sternness and lowered his hand. Sesshoumaru didn’t make a move. Or a sound. He just stood there with his head bowed and arms to his sides.
"I don’t want to hear your excuses, Sesshoumaru! You are a smart boy and know how long the train route to Kyoto and back is, and yet you decided to play with fire?! Since you weren’t here and missed what I had to tell you, I will have to repeat myself!"
Touga turned away from him, scowling. "I don’t know if you remembered Kenshin Nakano, he and his wife died in a car accident six months ago...they...they left a daughter behind, Takara. She will be staying here with us from now on and I expect you to treat her appropriately. Is that understood?"
"Hai, chichi-ue."
"Hm...Now go to bed. You won’t be having any dinner and you are grounded for a month. No more field trips, Sesshoumaru. You go to school and come straight back here! Understood?!"
"Hai, chichi-ue."
"Very well," Touga paused and looked over his shoulder. He stared at Sesshoumaru, seeming to be waiting on something...when after few more seconds neither father nor son made a move to do or say anything and Touga walked simply away.
Sesshoumaru waited until he couldn’t hear Touga’s footsteps anymore and then hurried up the stairs. He moved quickly and quietly down the dark corridor until he reached his room and opened the door. When the door shut, the pain from the slap made itself known. Sesshoumaru squeezed his eyes shut and pressed the palms of his hands into his eyes as he pushed back the burning sensation that stung his eyes. He inhaled shaky breaths to calm himself. He wasn’t going to cry. He wasn’t going to whimper or make a sound - he wasn’t a child.
Loath burned like acid in his gut and threaten to consume him if he didn’t gathered himself. He needed to calm down. His father - no, Touga - wasn’t worth getting this much upset over.
‘He is not worth it...he is not worth it.’ He kept telling himself.
After a little while Sesshoumaru relaxed and let go of everything. The anger. The hatred. The misery.
Emotions.
He shook his shoulders and dropped his hands from his face. He walked over to his closet and opened it. He moved clothes and shoes aside, and found a box in the back. Inside was a bottle of water and two apples, his food storage just in case. He hungrily ate one apple up and walked over to his bed, eating the second one. He fell back on his bed and stared emotionlessly at the ceiling.
For eight months, nearly thirty-five weeks and over two-hundred and forty days, this house had been his prison. Sesshoumaru wasn’t lying when he tried explaining the train from Kyoto had been delayed due to a landslide that blocked the train tracks.
But did he get the chance to explain? No. Not that Sesshoumaru was surprised.
He expected nothing less from the man he called ‘father’.
Sesshoumaru didn’t want to be staying under the same roof as much as he didn’t want him there, but what choice did Sesshoumaru have when Social Services gave Touga the guardianship after his mother-
‘Don’t!’ His mind yelled and Sesshoumaru quickly pushed the memory away when he began remembering what happened eight months, nearly thirty-five weeks and over two-hundred and forty days ago.
‘Just few more years then I’m out! I will take the money and leave. Never to be heard from or seen again…just few more years, Sesshoumaru.’
And he really hoped he had the patience to last that long in this prison hold. He barely could stop himself from strangling his half-brother, Inuyasha. And he absolutely hated Touga’s new bitch. He couldn’t stand the way she looked and treated him lovingly and caringly after everything she has done!
‘If she had only stayed away and kept her legs shut, my mother wouldn’t had-‘
Again tears began to burn in his eyes ‘Why did you have to leave?’
Sesshoumaru bit his lip and shut his eyes. As if staying here with these people wasn’t bad enough, another had joined the household - Takara
Sesshoumaru had a sneaky suspicion she was another bastard child of Touga’s, why else would she be staying here? And the story about ‘her parents dying in a car crash’ was just a cover-up.
‘Great. Another annoyance to brighten my day...’
Sesshoumaru rolled onto his side and buried his face in his knees. He then fell asleep without changing clothes on top of the bedcover.
Present
Okay, so saying Kara was Sesshoumaru’s sister was a bit exaggerating.
It turned out Touga had told the truth about Kara and her parents’ death. Kenshin Nakano had been one of Touga’s closest friends and had moved to the States to run the company’s American branch. There he met Adele Evans, Kara’s mother. Sesshoumaru didn’t have any memories ever meeting Kara’s parents but they had apparently attended his christening and first birthday.
But just because Kara wasn’t blood related it didn’t make things easier.
Sesshoumaru shut off the shower and wrung his hair. He was running late to the family dinner Touga ordered him to come to. By the sound of things Touga wanted the entire family to welcome Kara back and had nooo idea he had been a grandfather for four years.
Sesshoumaru sneered at the thought. He was looking forward seeing the looks on Touga’s and Inuyasha’s faces when they learned Sesshoumaru had a daughter with Kara.
Kara thanked the taxi driver and got out of the cab. The cab speeded off to whatever destination and Kara started towards the open gates dressed in a black empire-waist dress and coat. Half of her hair was down, the rest pulled back with a white ribbon. Kara walked pass the open gates and headed up the long driveway. Her old home came in view and grew larger the closer she got. Her heart began to pound in her chest. Her palms felt sweaty and clammy.
By the time she reached the stairs, countless knots had tied inside her tummy and nearly made her sick.
Kara went up the stairs and stopped in front of the entrance door. She raised her finger to press the doorbell when fear and anxiety gripped her. The knots tightened further in her belly and she began feeling hot in her coat.
‘I can do this. I can do this.’ Kara encouraged herself when the truth was she couldn’t. This wasn’t the place she wanted to be at.
She wanted to be with Sesshoumaru.
Since have told him he was Yukiyuri’s father, he hadn’t called and Kara was worried...but too much of a coward to call him up and hear how he was doing. He needs time. was her excuse...and remembering how she had dealt with things afterwards caused her to stay away as well. She pretty much ran out of the room when the words were out and left Sesshoumaru shocked and alone to digest the news on his own.
Was telling him the truth really the right thing to do? Nearly five years since last and when they reunite for the first time Sesshoumaru learns he has a daughter?! A girl he doesn’t know and might not want to know!
Did Sesshoumaru even want be a father?! Had the thought even crossed his mind?!
Kara sighed and rubbed her forehead. She is been having a headache since morning due to lack of sleep and too much thinking. Her head kept spinning and spinning, and there was nothing she could do about it - the ball was Sesshoumaru’s court...when her mother called.
She had seen Yuki’s face on the cover of a magazine and wanted to hear how she and Kara were doing...and tell her about the dinner Touga planned having for her.
"Really mum, there’s no need. Can’t we have a dinner another time?"
"I understand honey but...but don’t you think its better he hears about Yuki from you rather reading it in some paper?"
Her words had struck a cord and Kara knew her mother was right. Her father deserved hearing he was grandfather from her and not from some newspaper.
And here she was staring at the red panel-wooded door. Kara sighed to loosen up and rolled back her shoulders - it was now or never.
She raised her finger to press the button when the front door ripped open.
"Takara-hime?!"
Kara blinked. "Myouga-jiji..."
"Oh thank goodness you are here!" The old man exclaimed relieved and grabbed Kara’s wrist before she had the chance to react.
She stumbled over the threshold and got dragged into the house. Kara was surprised by Myouga-jiji’s strength. She would have never guessed the old man had such a firm grip. Kara tried to pull her hand back but the old man wouldn’t bulge.
"Myouga-jiji, what’s wrong? Why the hurry?!"
The old man ran a hand over his bold centre and sighed gravely. "I-I-I...I don’t know what happened! One minute the young master walked in and then the next," He sighed heavily again and shook his head, wailing to himself.
"I...I don’t understand...w-who’s furious?"
The answer hit her like tones of bricks when she reached the den and came face to face with her ex.
Inuyasha.
Their eyes met almost instant when she stepped into his view. He must have heard her high-heels click loudly when Myouga dragged her.
Five years...
It had been five years since Kara last saw Inuyasha and their last time hadn’t been under happy circumstances.
The memories of the last time flooded back and hit Kara with full force.
The rainy night she came home early, cold and wet, and found a high-heel shoe which didn’t belong to her.
The night she had furrowed and picked it up. She had then looked up and saw clothes tossed carelessly around the apartment, clothes which hadn’t belonged to her but Inuyasha and someone else.
The clothes left a trail to hers and Inuyasha’s bedroom and there she found her boyfriend of five years rear entering her best friend.
The whole event felt so surreal. Like a scene taken straight out of a cheesy soap opera and her mind couldn’t really wrap itself around the situation.
Kara wasn’t sure how long she had stood there shocked and speechless as she watched Inuyasha screw Kagome from behind when Inuyasha suddenly let loose a pleasureful grunt and the spell Kara was under broke and she screamed.
Inuyasha had looked up horrified and paled while Kagome screamed and tried to cover herself with sheets, which had been pushed onto the floor. Kara’s stomach had then turned violently and she gagged before bolting out of there.
And here he was five years later glowering at her?!
Kara frowned and glowered back. The anger she hadn’t felt since that night build up and threaten to burst like a dam.
She opened her mouth to ask what the hell is your problem when Inuyasha beat her to it and yelled, "How could you?!"
Kara was so taken back she stumbled hearing his harsh tone. The heatedly anger she had felt the second before was suddenly replaced with confusion.
"I-I-I...What?!"
"How dare you keep this from me?" Inuyasha growled and stepped towards her.
Kara nearly shrunk back and wet her lips. She had forgotten how intimidating Inuyasha could be when he was angry. He was board at his shoulders and chest like his father. Muscles he had built up after been on the swim team and trained Kendo. Kara couldn’t deny a part of her filled up with sudden desire when she saw how the sweater stretched across his taut chest.
Inuyasha was hot and he looked even better now with short bed-tussled hair than he did with the long - usual untamed - hair he used to have when they grew up.
If things were as they were before she discovered him screwing her best friend in their bed, Kara might have grabbed Inuyasha by the collar and flushed her body up against his and claimed his lips in a heated kiss, but the things weren’t the same and the sudden lust she had felt quickly got crushed underneath the tones of boiling fury she felt towards him.
Kara narrowed her eyes and stood straight with her chin high. She stared coldly into Inuyasha dark-golden eyes and stepped up to him, a reaction Inuyasha hadn’t counted on. He still thought Kara got intimidated by his larger and broader form and would back down like she usual did...but clearly he was wrong and a lot has changed over the years.
"You have a lot of nerve raising your voice at me, Inuyasha..." Kara drawled with a frosty tone, a tone which could match the Master of iciness, Sesshoumaru.
Kara folded her arms across her chest. The action caused her breasts to pop out and Inuyasha being a man and all couldn’t stop his eyes from dropping. Kara twisted her mouth. In the past his response would have been pleasing and sent waves to her heated core but now...
"Takara,"
Kara tore her sharp gaze away from Inuyasha and met her father’s eyes. Instantly the pent-up anger melted and she lowered her arms. A smile began to spread onto her face, along with the warm and secure feeling her father always gave her as a child when she saw the look on his face...
"Dad..." Kara greeted him carefully - why was he looking at her like that?
"Takara...is there something you wish to tell me before I ask you a question?"
Kara’s heart dropped in her chest. Her father only used her full-name when he was angry or displeased about something...
Kara’s gaze flicked over to the person standing next him and a cold feeling of dread crept onto her. Her mother Izayoi was pale in the face. Her lips were pressed into a firm straight line while her eyes were wide and warning...
Chilling chills raced down Kara’s spine, something was up...
Kara turned back to her father and masked her fear with innocence. "No..." She answered, regretting it immediately when Touga’s eyes hardened. Kara swallowed, feeling suddenly dry in her throat.
"Sooo, you have nothing to tell me..."
"No." Kara insisted maybe too quickly...
She heard a dry chuckle from her side and sent Inuyasha a venomous look which shut him up. Touga straightened up and strided towards Kara with long and slow steps. It took everything in Kara not to bolt out of the room. She felt like a teenager again. Like that one time she lied about a sleepover at Kagome’s and went to a party and got ridiculously drunk.
How her father ever found out, she never knew...and the punishment she got...
Urgh...it was something Kara never wanted to recall.
Touga stopped at an arms length away from her and stared into her eyes. The stare he always used when he disciplined his children or scared associates who tried to fool him - and it always worked.
"Takara. Inuyasha arrived few minutes before you did and told me something interesting. You wouldn’t happen to know what that could be?"
Kara unable to speak just shook her head. Dread continued to grow like a looming shadow ready to strike down and swipe her away.
"Hm..." Touga muttered and pulled his hand out from his back and held up a magazine spotting Yuki on the cover with Kara kneeling infornt of her with a shocked (dumb) look on her face.
"Fuck!" Kara cursed before she could stop herself. Her eyes flew up to her father and she pleaded, "Daddy...it’s not what you think!"
"Its not what he thinks?!" Inuyasha cut in, "Who the hell is the kid?! I don’t remember ‘pregnanting’ you so could you pleeease explain to me what the fuck is this?!"
"I-I-I...y-you wouldn’t understand!"
"Understand what? What the hell is there to understand, Kara?!" Inuyasha yelled furiously. Touga sent him a look to calm down.
Kara fought the tears but they welled up anyway. She tilted her head back slightly as if to keep them in her eyes instead of falling down her cheeks. But it was already too late and Kara wiped them immediately away with her hands.
"You kept my own daughter away from me. How could you?!" Inuyasha walked up to Kara and shook her shoulders, "How could you do this to her? To me?! I thought you loved me!-"
"-Loved you?" Kara retorted with clenched teeth and pushed Inuyasha off, "How dare you say that when you know I did?! I wasn’t the one who went behind your back and slept with Kagome!"
There was a loud gasp somewhere in the room. Probably Izayoi’s. Touga’s eyes widened and he turned sharply towards Inuyasha. "Is this true, Inuyasha? You told me Kara broke off your relationship because a long distant relationship wasn’t what she wanted!"
"He what?!"
Kara threw her head back and laughed dryly. She choked on sobs and laughter and wiped her face. The tears were flowing much easier now and kept coming wave after wave, "Is that what he told you?! I caught him fucking Kagome in my home on my bed! The bastard didn’t have the guts to tell you he had found someone else and used me as a scapegoat?!" Kara turned towards Inuyasha. Her watery brown eyes had turned black and burned, "Fuck you Inuyasha! Fuck you and Kagome! Where is the whore by the way? I sure as hell would like to beat the shit out of her!"
"Don’t bring Kagome into this! She has nothing to do with this!"
"The hell she does! She is the fucking reason I found you cheating on me for no good reason!"
"No good reason?!" Inuyasha stared at Kara in pure shock, not believing what he had just heard. He threw his hands up and laughed sardonically before lowering his face and pointed at Kara, "You were leaving me! You didn’t care or ask how I felt about you leaving and accepted the damn invitation to that school before discussing anything with me!"
"Bullshit Inuyasha! I asked you! I asked you "Inuyasha, what do you think? Do you think I should go? Or should I stay?" Do you remember what you did? You keh:ed and brushed the whole thing off like nothing!"
"What else could I do?! You had already decided!"
"No, I hadn’t! That’s why I fucking asked you! Because I loved you and wanted to hear your opinion!-"
"-ENOGUH!" Touga yelled, shutting the fuming ex couple up, "This conversation has gone awaaay off track. This wasn’t what we were discussing about. I want to know who this girl is."
"So do I! How could you keep my own child away from me?! What kind of mother denies her own child her father?! Are you such a bitch you don’t care about anybody but yourself?...Oh, wait! I forgot! You are selfish bitch!"
"Shut up, Inuyasha! You have no right talking to me like that!"
"I do when my kid is concerned!"
"Well she’s not!"
"Yes she is!"
"No she isn’t because she isn’t yours!"
A pregnant silence filled the room. The look on Touga’s and Inuyasha’s faces matched, both completely stunned and confused.
"S-s-she is not mine...I-I don’t..."
Kara rubbed her eyes and walked pass him. She took deep breaths to calm the raging emotions rushing through her. A part of her wanted to bash Inuyasha’s skull in while another just wanted to run and hide.
She wiped her forehead and felt the sweat beads. She was hot and bothered, and not in a good way!
"Answer me Kara. What do you mean she isn’t mine?"
"...She is...Yuki is...Yuki isn’t your daughter..."
"But how? She has to be?! Who else-"
"-He is right, hime. Where else would the child get the sliver hair? It runs in the Taishou family," Touga paused with a weary sigh, "...I understand you are angry with Inuyasha and wish to hurt him as much as he has hurt you but to lie about the paternity...You gain nothing out of it, hime. Not only are you hurting yourself but also your daughter, Yuki was her name, right? So stop lying, Takara-"
"-I’m not lying,"
"Hime, are you listening to yourself? You are saying Inuyasha isn’t Yuki’s father when nobody else can be?! Why do you continue to lie? Just tell us the truth. Haven’t you done enough keeping Inuyasha away from his child all these years? Why can’t you just say it?"
"Because it wouldn't be the truth if she did," Another voice spoke up.
Everyone looked towards the den’s entrance. Sesshoumaru was leaning against the door’s frame with his arms crossed. He pushed himself off and walked into the room, his aura demanding the attention of all presence.
Kara swallowed. If she thought Inuyasha looked good then he just lost against Sesshoumaru. Hands down. He was dressed sharply for a family dinner but than again Kara wasn’t that surprised. Sesshoumaru tended to be (overly) conceited when it came to what he wore and he surely wore the dark-grey slacks and the black silk-made dress shirt with a matching dark west very nicely. His tie was white, Kara noted and thought suddenly they wore clothes which matched.
"Teme...what are you doing here?"
Sesshoumaru stared at his brother and raised an eyebrow."I was invited like everyone else, baby brother," Cruel mirth danced in Sesshoumaru’s eyes when Inuyasha flexed his muscles and growled, "But than again I shouldn’t be surprised you asked. You are after all a complete...imbecile..."
"Why you-"
"-What did you mean, Sesshoumaru?" Touga spoke up before Inuyasha attacked his brother, "What did you mean Kara would be lying if she said Inuyasha was the father?"
"Exactly what the words meant, chichi-ue," Sesshoumaru replied coolly and ran a hand through his hair, "She would be lying since I’m the father."
Done! I hope the question which has been bugging you guys, how they are "related" got answered and just as Sesshoumaru thought - just becasuse Kara isnt blood related it doenst make things easier ’wink’
Until next time, take care!
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