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Penetration	By : TheKaytla Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 8601 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter Nine

Sitting by the evening fire with a belly full of stew, Inuyasha was tensed and ready to jump as he glared into the flames. How long was he going to have to put up with this? What the hell was Sesshomaru playing at, hanging around like this? And when was he going to get an honest answer to that question?

He couldn't sense the bastard anywhere nearby now, but that didn't bring him any comfort. In fact, it was the main reason he felt so on edge. In his current state, Sesshomaru could be standing right outside the fucking door and he wouldn't know any different. Kaede would be the one to sense the impending danger, not him. And her senses had never been as strong as Kagome's and were only fading with age.

He flipped his dark hair over his shoulder absently and turned to look at the aging miko. She sat opposite him across the fire pit, sharpening her arrows. He'd told her already it was useless; when he realised Sesshomaru might come after him in his human form, he'd had to tell her about the danger. She'd insisted on arming herself. It was just another reason for him to feel uneasy; if she tried to use her arrows on Sesshomaru, she would die.

If it came to that, he'd just have to step between them. It was as simple as that. He was the one Sesshomaru wanted to kill. If he suggested they fight it out, it would hopefully distract from Kaede. It wouldn't be the most dignified way to go, sliced to ribbons as a weak human, but at least he'd go out saving a friend. That was all that mattered.

He could only hope Sesshomaru had finally wandered off somewhere else. He'd not been able to sense the daiyoukai for a couple of hours before the sun set; maybe that meant Sesshomaru had left the area for a while. If he didn't return before morning, a crisis would be averted for another month.

Another month... Would Sesshomaru really hang around that long? Just to annoy him? Was he really that petty?

Thinking about it, Inuyasha decided yes, he was. He might hide it by acting all aloof and superior, but really, he was just a bully. A petty one. Why else would he be spending his apparently oh-so-precious time hanging around here, randomly appearing to insult Inuyasha, then drifting away again?

It didn't make any other sense. And it was really annoying.

And it made him say and think stupid things.

Remembering what had happened earlier in the day, he couldn't help but cringe. That had just been... mortifying. And completely untrue. He was not attracted to Sesshomaru. For one thing, they were brothers. For another, Sesshomaru was the biggest asshole he had ever met. He was even worse than that jackass, Koga. And for yet another thing, it just wasn't possible to hate someone as much as he hated Sesshomaru and still like something, even a small thing, about him.

What had happened earlier had just been some sort of mindfuck. He was just stressed out from all the stalker bullshit and his mind had started playing tricks on him, that was all. If Sesshomaru had finally gotten bored and wandered off (as he fervently hoped was the case), he'd be able to relax again and get his head back on straight.

But what if he wasn't gone? Inuyasha raked a clawless hand through his hair irritably, dragging his dull nails across his scalp as he sighed. What was he supposed to do if this carried on? It hadn't even been a fortnight yet and he was already starting to go out of his fucking mind.

Kaede suddenly tensed and turned toward the door, and Inuyasha was instantly back on high alert. "What is it?" When she didn't answer, he hopped impatiently over the small fire to crouch beside her and shake her shoulder. "Damn it, old woman, what's the matter?"

"Youki," she said, carefully picking up an arrow and nocking it. "Coming this way. Fast. I suspect it be Sesshomaru."

Inuyasha cursed colourfully, hopping over the fire yet again to where he'd left Tetsusaiga, hurriedly grabbing it. It may be just another rusted blade while he was human, but he didn't much like the idea of going against Sesshomaru completely unarmed. He might at least be able to block with the Tetsusaiga's blade and sheath. And if a miracle happened, he might just stay alive until sunrise.

By the time he was standing with his sword in his hand, the tension in the room was palpable. Kaede knelt by the fire with her bow held steady, arrow angled at a slightly upward trajectory. Its path should take it straight into the heart of the daiyoukai who stood in the doorway under normal circumstances, but a fight with Sesshomaru was anything but normal. Inuyasha knew it would never reach him.

For a brief moment, he was frozen, watching them watch each other. A dim part of him admired Kaede for the balls it must take to stare Sesshomaru down, knowing he could kill her in a heartbeat, but the larger part was focusing on that last part and leaning toward panic. A trickle of sweat ran down his spine and it wasn't from the heat of the fire.

"Kaede..." he said warningly. Her eyes didn't even so much as flicker in his direction.

"Quiet, Inuyasha," she said instead. "If he believes he can take your life so easily, he is sorely mistaken."

Inuyasha stepped forward and shoved her arm down, breaking her aim. "Don't be a fucking idiot," he snapped, moving between them. "He'd kill you before you even blinked. You're only human."

"But so are you," she argued, rising to her feet, the bow and arrow still in her hands.

"Yeah, but I know how he fights," he countered. "I'm the only one who stands half a chance. So stay out of my way, all right? I can't fight him and worry about you."

He waited until she'd moved back a few paces before giving his full attention to Sesshomaru, Tetsusaiga raised between them. The daiyoukai's expression was as blank and composed as ever, his body almost relaxed; it hadn't changed one iota since Kaede had backed down, which meant the bastard hadn't been concerned at all by the sacred arrow pointed at him. It only irritated Inuyasha, despite having the same opinion as his brother for once.

Giving as best a snarl as he could in his human form, Inuyasha braced himself for the worst. "If it's a fight you want, bastard, we don't do it here. We go somewhere else."

Sesshomaru almost seemed to come to life then. His eyes focused on Inuyasha's face, slowly roaming over every inch of it. They even drifted over the top of his head, and Inuyasha suddenly had the distinct impression his brother was examining his human form. Abruptly self-conscious, he growled (or as close to it as a human could get, at least).

"Look, I'm not in the mood for a staring contest," he ground out through gritted teeth. "If you're gonna fight, hurry it up. If not, you can fuck off."

The daiyoukai's eyes drifted down to his brown eyes and held them. "This Sesshomaru did not come here to fight." He paused for a moment. "Merely to answer a question."

"Oh, yeah?" Inuyasha kept his sword up. "What question might that be?"

"Your youki disappeared abruptly," Sesshomaru replied, his tone musing. "I admit to some... curiosity. Thus I came here to see why, but now it is clear. You have entered the period in which you become human."

"Yeah, no shit," Inuyasha said flatly. "Now we've straightened that up, you can get lost."

Sesshomaru ignored him. "I assume the transformation coincided with the setting of the sun, and that you revert back when it rises again." Inuyasha tried very hard not to give anything away, but apparently was unsuccessful. "Yes, I see you do. The night steals your powers. But not every night, or I would have noticed before now. Something special about this night, then."

Inuyasha felt himself growing tenser and tenser by the second. His biggest secret, unravelling before his very eyes, picked apart and seen through with such ease by his worst, most dangerous enemy. If it carried on any longer, Sesshomaru would forever know when he was at his most vulnerable.

"You figured it out, all right? You don't need to stay here with the dirty, filthy humans anymore. Get the fuck out of the village if you don't want to fight, asshole." But again, he might as well have not spoken at all.

"The moon," Sesshomaru said. "There is no moon tonight. That is what seals your powers away. It makes perfect sense."

What did Sesshomaru mean by that? It made perfect sense for the moon to affect him? Why? Inuyasha couldn't help it; his eyes reflexively flicked up to the crescent moon marking visible through his brother's bangs. Sesshomaru's head inclined just slightly in acknowledgement.

"You are surprisingly astute, hanyou. Our inuyoukai line belongs to the moon clan and, by virtue of our father's blood, so too do you. Of course... the moon holds no sway over purebloods. Perhaps it is further proof that you are an abomination that should never have come to be."

Inuyasha's hackles raised at the disdain growing ever more prominent in Sesshomaru's otherwise dispassionate voice. "Well, excuse me for being a fucking half-breed," he spat.

"Hn." Sesshomaru's eyes once again roamed over the hanyou's face. "This humanity becomes you, Inuyasha." His cool amber eyes drifted over the long black hair before finally returning to his eyes again. "You look like your mother."

Of all the things Sesshomaru could have said to him, that was the last thing Inuyasha would have ever expected. He felt almost physically stunned; his hands lowered Tetsusaiga of their own accord, and he could only imagine what expression he was wearing, because his entire face felt slack.

Sesshomaru had known his mother? Enough to remember her face and compare it to his? He'd never heard that before. His mother had never said anything about an older brother; he'd had to find out the hard way that Sesshomaru even existed and that he wanted nothing to do with him. If she'd told him from the start... maybe that lesson might not have been so scarring.

A matter to consider another time. Now he had other things to think about.

"You knew my mother?" He stepped forward, mindless of how dangerous it usually was to be this close to Sesshomaru. "Honestly?"

Instead of answering, Sesshomaru turned away from him. "This Sesshomaru assumes, given your current state, that you will remain in the village until morning. Make sure you do."

"What?" He was completely baffled by that, but pushed it to the side for now. "Don't turn away from me. Answer the --"

But Sesshomaru's form was shrinking into a ball of light, and before Inuyasha could so much as yell at him, it was flying upwards and to the west.

"You son of a bitch!" he yelled after it. "Get back here, damn you!"

The ball didn't slow, and quickly it was lost to his dull human vision, leaving a confused and frustrated hanyou behind.

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A/N: Wow... been so long since I updated this. Really. I actually worked out the amount of time but don't want to say 'cause I might get stoned to death or something. >>

Anyway, this fic is still in something of a hiatus. I had to move computers around the time I posted the last chapter and the outline I had for this was one of the things I didn't get a chance to transfer over. Now that computer is packed away with the pieces scattered around the house, so I can't get it back up and running again. So it's a case of trying to remember what I can and fill in the rest with new ideas. Hence why I've been unmotivated for it.

This probably wouldn't even be here if Demitria Miriam hadn't been bugging me about it on and off in recent weeks, so she's the one you must send thanks to. Her voodoo magic strikes again.
And before I submit this... a bit of shameless self-plugging. So I'm also gonna take a moment to say again that I'm starting a series, of sorts, called Trials of the Dog General. Basically a collection of drabbles, oneshots, mini-series, etc. told (mostly) through the eyes of the Inu no Taisho about the struggles he faces in his life. Written in no set order; can be canon or not, Feudal or modern AU, not necessarily connected to each other in any way but some might become mini-series along the way. What's different about it is that I'll only be uploading it at LJ. There's one drabble up already that I've written recently. You can find it here: http://kaytla.livejournal.com/17519.html

Anyway, enjoy, everyone. Apologies in advance if it takes me a while to update this in the future.
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