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Bright Nights and Soft Lights	By : Azure.Zink Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 7854 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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Inuyasha woke for food but was surprised when no one began questioning him immediately, even Kagome was quiet. They talked about trivial things while he sat around and listened. It was really odd for him, to say the least. When they finished eating, the group started settling for bed. Inuyasha was unsure if he was going to sleep in the same hut as them but that’s what he ended up doing. In the morning, they were all waken by a youki approaching quickly. They all hopped up, ready for a fight as they exited the hut quickly. The being stopped several yards away from them. “I’m here to deliver a message to Lord Inuyasha!” The youki merely stared at the baffled group.
“That’s me….” Inuyasha scowled a bit. The youki walked over and handed him a letter with a royal seal.
“I’ll be on my way.” The youki said before darting off.
“What does it say Inuyasha?” Miroku asked curiously.
Inuyasha broke the seal and opened it, “AM I A FUCKING ERRAND BOY?” Inuyasha couldn’t believe Sesshomaru, he really thought I was going to do as he asked for nothing in return? As a fucking favor? “He’s a fucking asshole! I can’t fucking stand him!” Inuyasha handed the letter to Miroku, “He wants me to go all the way to the Western castle, which is more than a weeks’ worth of travel, with a child and our older selves AND their kids. Why didn’t he just send this to them? I don’t see why I would have to go along. They can just take Rin with them, they’re powerful enough.”
Elsewhere, in a nicely built hut, the older Inuyasha was cracking up while his mate buried his face in his fur. “Do you have to laugh so hard?”
“I’m just thinking about all the fun courting you’re going to do, that I get to see again.” Inuyasha replied through his laughter.
The young Inuyasha, annoyed, came to the hut and knocked. Sesshomaru opened it and Inuyasha became nervous. He could admit that he liked the older Sesshomaru. He was kind, gentle, not all holier than thou, at least with him. However, he felt like it’d be easier to talk to himself, “Can I talk to the other me?” Sesshomaru nodded and let the hanyou in. Inuyasha was feeding Kiki while the rest of the kids ate on their own. Shippo and Rin made six kids they were currently caring for. “Sesshomaru wants you all to go to the western castle.”
“Oh yeah? We were planning on it.” Inuyasha nodded with a smile.
“Well okay, take Rin with you.” Inuyasha added and turned to leave.
“No no no, little me. You’ve got something a little messed up. I’m not doing what Sesshomaru asked you to do.”
“You’re going there anyway, what’s one more kid?” Inuyasha grumbled back.
The older Inuyasha merely stared at him, “Go read the letter again and think about it. He sent you a letter.”
The younger Inuyasha glared at his older self and left the hut. He planned to go to the sacred tree, but he couldn’t be there without thinking of the previous day. So, he went to the well. He sat at it’s base and read the stupid letter again. It just seemed like Sesshomaru being a lordly asshole. Inuyasha sighed, he didn’t understand what he was supposed to be looking for, Sesshomaru had never sent him a letter before it was odd. That’s when it clicked for him. Sesshomaru had never sent him a letter. What did that mean? Inuyasha frowned and thought some more. “Sesshomaru knows they’re strong enough to bring Rin to him…so why does he want me to take her…” All of his thoughts were leading to just one possibility, Sesshomaru wanted him to come to the castle. Inuyasha’s head began to hurt. He thought about the kiss from before then about the older Sesshomaru’s words, about it being up to him to chose if they would pursue the future shown to him. He even thought about how the older had said he wanted him, even now, though he couldn’t understand how or why. How can you go from hating someone’s guts to wanting to mate them? While he would be fine with the older Sesshomaru, he still held quite a bit of animosity towards the younger. They felt and acted like different people, so it was easy to treat them as such.
Inuyasha sighed heavily, if Sesshomaru wanted him to come to the castle, why not just be straight forward and simply ask. Did the younger Sesshomaru like me? Is that why he kissed me? Inuyasha kept thinking about his situation. Should I go? He started thinking about the older versions of themselves, they seemed pretty happy with each other. The older Sesshomaru is who the current Sesshomaru would grow to be, they’d have such a nice family as well. It was appealing, but he still didn’t know how he should feel about his Sesshomaru. Deep down he hated the youki. Hated him for everything he’d ever done to him, after all, Sesshomaru was the reason his life was so hard, why he starved regularly as a child, and nearly ended up a meal most of the time. However, his youkai wanted him and that’s where he was conflicted. He was unused to dealing with his youkai’s desires. His youkai started getting upset with him, demanding that he go to the ancestral lands, so Inuyasha started ignoring it, until he literally couldn’t hear anyone speak because of how loud it was shouting at him. “FINE! I’LL FUCKING GO!” He shouted, getting a few stares.
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A few days later and everyone was preparing to head out. Inuyasha didn’t understand why his friends had invited themselves, especially Kagome. This was a youki fortress, there would be no humans present. “I don’t want a week’s journey to take a month with all the stopping I’d have to do for you.” He stated when he realized he could complain freely now.
“Are you saying you don’t want us to go?” Kagome asked incredulous.
“Yea, actually, I’d really rather you didn’t.” Inuyasha commented, the group was taken aback. “I don’t have time to protect you all.”
“We understand Inuyasha, however we don’t want you to go alone, we’d feel more comfortable if we’re all together.” Miroku said. “We’ll keep up, if there are any complaints we’ll turn back immediately. How’s that for a compromise?” The monk suggested, knowing who most of the complaints would be coming from because of her weak constitution.
“Fine. Also, I’m not carrying you Kagome. At all. Pull your weight.” Inuyasha added before he began walking. The group was rather large with twelve people, while there was safety in numbers the shear amount of people that needed to be protected put him on edge, however for miles he couldn’t even sense a youki.
“You can relax Inuyasha, no youki will approach while I’m here.” Sesshomaru stated calmly. “You’re also too powerful for them to dream of approaching.” He said while looking at the older Inuyasha as he carried Kiki whose legs were tired. They continued to walk all day and into the night. The younger Inuyasha was carrying Rin, while the older was holding Kiki and Sairin, and Sesshomaru was holding Sairiu. It was nearly midnight when they finally decided to stop.
“We’re making good time.” Sesshomaru stated, they were already passed where they’d be if they’d taken regular breaks. He had thought about flying everyone on his ki cloud, but that was before all the humans decided to tag along. They were so irrelevant for him that he completely forgot they’d been in the castle. The only thing he really remembered about them is what caused Inuyasha to kill the schoolgirl, and why Inuyasha has such animosity towards them.
Everyone settled down to sleep, and soon enough they were repeating. Only resting at night. On the 4^th day of travel, Sesshomaru smelled something incredible. A plant that he loved to eat, that had gone extinct 500 years ago in their time. He wanted seeds but he also wanted his children to try the fruit it produced. They were nicknamed the canine cantaloupe because of how popular it was among canine species. “Arashi. I have a task for you.”
The young prince looked as if he wanted to huff, his father’s little missions for him were always ridiculously difficult compared to his dad’s. “Yes Father.”
“Sairiu, Sairin you too.” The two little girls perked up. “There is a plant, for Sairiu and Sairin I want you to gather 30 seeds and 2 fruit each. For Arashi you should gather thrice as much.” Sesshomaru went on to describe the smell of the plant and what it and the fruit looked like.
Inuyasha thought it was funny how intense Sesshomaru seemed about the fruit, but the kids looked extremely bored at the seemingly simple gathering task. “How’s about this. The first to finish can ask us for one thing, and we’ll get it for them, no matter what it is.” Sesshomaru didn’t argue with him about the prize, he wanted those fruit and seeds that badly. In the past, they’d tried to save them but an attack on the castle made their efforts useless.
Arashi darted off quickly, leaving his sisters behind. The twins went off in separate directions as they began to search. “Think they’ll find it?” Inuyasha asked his mate.
“I believe Sairiu will do the best in this task.” Sesshomaru replied.
The younger Inuyasha and the humans continued to walk with them. The young Inuyasha could still sense the kids nearby, though Arashi was much farther than the twins had gone. He could also sense a youki beast close to Sairin. He said nothing about it as he was sure the other two sensed it as well, and they didn’t seem to be concerned. Though after about an hour or so, Arashi came peeling through the forest, covered in dirt, panting wildly, with a huge grin on his face. “DONE!” The group stopped and Arashi approached his parents to present his findings. He was carrying two makeshift baskets, made from reeds he found at the river. Sesshomaru checked what he’d brought and smirked at the efficiency of his heir.
“Why are you so dirty?” Inuyasha asked, looking quite amused.
“I don’t know how to make digging tools and I didn’t want to mess the fruit up my digging in my true form. So, I did it like this.” He explained gesturing to all the grit and grim covering him.
“Well you’ve finished first.” Sesshomaru said as he took a look at the fruit he’d been craving for 100s of years.
“YES!” Arashi threw his hands up in joy. Sesshomaru whistled loudly. The girls were much farther away from them than when they first began, and it would take them a bit to catch up with them once more.
“What is that that they collected?” Miroku asked, having never seen the strange fruit.
Sesshomaru broke the fruit in half, giving one to Kiki to eat and the other to Inuyasha. The older Inuyasha rolled his eyes but ate what was given to him. Sesshomaru did the same to another and gave them to Shippo and Arashi. “Something delicious.”
“What about my reward!?” Arashi exclaimed.
“What is it that you want?” Inuyasha asked as Sairiu joined them from the forest, she too was holding a makeshift basket but the difference being the wooden trough in her hands and how neat and clean she remained. She frowned and gave her basket to her father before crossing her arms. She’s been very close to being done, only missing the seeds from one of the fruits.
“No training for 2 months.” Arashi stated seriously.
Inuyasha and Sesshomaru shared a look. “Arashimaru, that is a ridiculous request.” Sesshomaru stated, not expecting his heir to ask for such a thing.
“Ever since I was born all I do is train even games are training. I just want to do nothing for a while. I want to try new stuff and I honestly hate training.” Arashi frowned deeply.
“Arashi, your training is too important to neglect. You are in a very delicate period of development and you could become stunted in your growth.” Sesshomaru explained.
“But its not like we live here. The future is different. It’s not like I’m fighting against wild animals and super villains every day like you had to.” Arashi argued back, becoming visibly agitated as it seemed his father was heading towards a no, even though the incentive stated it could be anything.
“I do not wish for you to be harmed Arashi. There are many things that can happen if you are lax in your training. I understand that it may be difficult, but it is necessary.” Sesshomaru continued giving Inuyasha a look. “Your request puts you in danger, you have to choose something else.”
The young heir bit his lip, “That’s not fair. Sairin and Sairiu don’t even have to train like I did. That’s ALL I DID! Ever since I was little, all I did was train, and all I’m asking for is a break.” Arashi was becoming more and more upset with his father. The older Inuyasha could see that having a break meant more to their son than what he was saying. Usually, Arashi wasn’t one to rebel or cause trouble. He’d been wondering when something like this would happen, their son always seemed too compliant to him, considering who his parents were.
“I never get to do what I want. I always do what I’m told, and I never argue no matter how much my body hurts or how tired I am. Why can’t I get a short break after 136 years of training. I just want to be able to lay in bed and do nothing. I want to watch TV shows like everyone else. I want to go to real school! I want to be able to make friends my own age instead of having people look at me like I’m this untouchable and unapproachable being, and I’m tired of pretending to care about what all those noble jackasses have to say! I just want to be a normal kid for 60 days of my long life.”
“You are the crowned prince. You cannot be normal; you are far from that. You have a duty to your people and your land.” Sesshomaru felt like he needed to take a deep breath. He was trying to listen to what his son was saying and find some common ground with him, but it was difficult when he was so riled up.
“YOU DON’T EVEN TRAIN EVERY DAY! NEITHER DOES DAD! AND SAISAI DOESN’T EITHER, SO WHY DO I HAVE TO?” Arashi shouted, his emotions getting the better of him. He felt like his father just didn’t care about what he had to say most of the time, so he didn’t bother. He always said things like, “You’ll understand when you’re older.” Or “It’ll benefit you in the future.” He wanted to cry.
Sesshomaru let out a soft breath through his clenched teeth. His son was young and inexperienced. Young and inexperienced. He kept reminding himself. “Sesshomaru.” Inuyasha spoke before he could. “Arashi-shi come on, let’s take a walk.” Inuyasha could feel how agitated his mate was becoming. Technically, the things their son did was nothing compared to how Sesshomaru was trained. By comparison, it was very easy going though time consuming. He himself wasn’t home very often but knew his schedule and it didn’t leave very much room for personal time. He also didn’t know his son wanted to attend a real school. His mate had never said anything to him about it. He looked around at the humans who were trying not to be noticed in the awkward family issue. His younger self looked on in interest. “Little me, Sairin is taking too long, can you go check on her?” She had stopped moving and he was worried, there was a large youki walking around, though she should be able to handle it herself.
Arashi stomped his way into the forest and Inuyasha followed. Before he scooped his angry son up and darted away as quickly as he could, out of his mate’s earshot.
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As Inuyasha did as the older requested, he couldn’t help remembering the expression on the older Sesshomaru’s face. He seemed like he was having a hard time with his son, though they seemed really close to him before. When the hanyou finally found the little girl, he could see her up in a tree, on a low branch, looking down at the creature with a bored look on her face. It was a low level youki beast that was circling the tree she was in, not having the intelligence that would tell it to look skyward for the meal it was searching for. Inuyasha remained silent and watched as the little girl stared at it.
“This is boring.” She whispered before flicking her wrist and decapitating the beast. “I thought it would do something special like sensei said.”
“Hey, what’s taking you so long.” Inuyasha asked.
“Oh hi little daddy. It was a Kagakemono. It’s what we’re studying with Miyami-sensei right now.” She explained. “They’re endangered where we’re from. But if I didn’t kill it, I wouldn’t be able to get away from it because I can’t fly very good and it can climb trees.” She rattled off as she climbed down to examine it further.
“Well come on, everyone’s waiting.” Inuyasha jumped to the ground as well. Sairin skipped over and climbed onto his back with a cheerful smile.
Elsewhere, an older Inuyasha sat in a large sturdy tree with his teenage pup in his lap. His son looked very unhappy, “Hey pup, tell me what’s wrong.”
“I’m just tired Dad.” Arashi sounded like he would burst into tears at any moment.
Inuyasha pulled him into a hug, “Yeah? Are you sure there’s not anything else going on?”
“I…I don’t want to be the crown prince…” He sniffled.
Inuyasha nodded his understanding, “That’s a lot of pressure, right? It’s been difficult for you huh?” Inuyasha knew it wasn’t just their past getting to him, he knew that was a part of it and that it probably exacerbated the issue that they were going to have to deal with in the future. “It’s okay shishi, I understand.” His son broke down then, crying sorrowfully about how he didn’t want Sesshomaru to hate him or be disappointed in him. “Your papa won’t hate you or be disappointed in you. Everything he does, he does with your best interest at heart, even though it may seem like he doesn’t care. We’ll all sit down and have a nice conversation about it okay? Cause you know, I’m sure the last thing your papa wants is for you to be unhappy. He loves you a lot Arashi. More than you could ever understand.”
“He has a funny way of showing it.” This caused Inuyasha to chuckle a bit. All he could think about was his mate holding a newborn Arashi, just staring at him before frowning. That day Sesshomaru looked at him and said, “I didn’t think I could love someone else as much as I love you.” Inuyasha looked at the young man their son had become. He had a long way to go but Inuyasha was sure the young pup got both of his and Sesshomaru’s best traits.
Back on the path to the western castle, Sesshomaru decided to stop the group for the night, though there was still daylight. He didn’t know how long his mate and son would be gone for, but he didn’t want them to have to travel too much to reach them. Sairin and Inuyasha joined the larger group soon, with Sairin squealing in delight as he jumped through the trees with her on his back. “Me too! Me too!” Kiki requested, running up to him.
“Hey, I’m not a toy.” Inuyasha stated as he set Sairin down, getting a good look at how wild her hair looked with a chuckle.
She ran to her father, “Papa! Papa! How high can you jump?”
“I’m not sure. Quite high I would imagine.” He answered her giddy question.
“Hold me! Hold me and jump please papa!” She requested with a large smile that was all Inuyasha, her wild hair doing nothing to help in that regard. Sesshomaru raised a brow but did as she asked because of how excited she seemed. Lifting her up, he took one step and jumped as high as he could, leaving a large crater in the Earth. His daughter’s happy screaming took his mind off the argument with his son. It helped him clear his head. As they began falling, Sairin’s screaming laughter became louder. Using his youki, he landed softly and set his daughter down, and she stumbled a bit with her wild hair. Sairiu and Kiki ran to him, stretching their arms up, so he did the same for them. Up in the sky they could see the vast expansion of greenery ahead of them, it was beautiful and Sesshomaru missed sights like this. He would have to start an initiative for his country to replenish the greenery and wildlife that had been lost.
He landed with the girls and Rin ran to him next, “Oh please Lord Sesshomaru. It looks so fun!” Saying nothing he gave the small human and Shippo a turn as well. Though he jumped a lot lighter than he did with the girls for her safety. By the time Inuyasha and Arashi rejoined the group, everyone had settled down for the night. Arashi said nothing and didn’t even look at his father, he simply found a tree that he could tolerate sleeping in and sulked.
Inuyasha said nothing to anyone and joined his mate where he sat with their sleeping children. Rin was also with him and curled up with Kiki in his massive fur. Shifting the children around, he leaned against his mate a dozed off a bit, though he woke to the sensation of shifting. Arashi moved his sister more into Inuyasha’s lap so he could lean on him and be closer to his family. Inuyasha wrapped an arm around him and they nodded off again.
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