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Through The Well	By : TheKaytla Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 25850 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 9
Disclaimer: I do not own the series Inuyasha, nor its characters.They are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
- 1-One
- 2-Two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
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Chapter Nine

Inuyasha rose with the sun. It was only his second morning waking up in this strange yet familiar village, but experience had already taught him that he was in extreme danger at this time of day. Wasting no time, he rolled silently to his feet and grabbed his Tetsusaiga in a single movement, tiptoeing so as not to wake Kaede as he made his way over to the window and climbed out.

A single bound had him landing lightly on the roof with barely more than a rustle, and immediately he hunkered down, laying as flat as possible among the stone weights on the wood, his ears perked forward, straining for sound. He couldn't hear anything just yet, but that was certain to change very quickly.

Sure enough, about twenty minutes later, he heard the hurried sound of bare feet on packed dirt path. Cautious, he flattened himself even more, ears laying against his skull, lest they happen to look up and spot him. He could hear their voices now, hushed and excited whispers as they plotted the day's torture for him.

"Do you think he's awake yet?" one, the only male in the group, asked.

"Maybe," said a female voice, considering.

"But if he isn't, we can wake him up," said another, almost perfectly matched voice cheerfully. The identical twin sister. It was only his sensitive hearing that enabled him to tell them apart by voice alone.

"That's true!" said Rin, who he'd discovered was the ringleader of the group. He heard the distinct sound of the canvas door being pushed aside. "Inuy -- Where's he gone?"

"Uncle Inuyasha!" the twins shouted in unison together, setting about the search immediately like dogs on a scent. "Come out!"

The youngest boy lingered closer to Rin. "Rin, where's Uncle Inuyasha?"

"I don't know... but I bet if we look hard, we'll find him in no time." He could almost see her beaming bright as sunshine, even this early in the morning. "Let's go look. Come on, you two. He can't be far."

Well, she's right about that, Inuyasha thought as he cautiously lifted his head just enough to see the four of them heading deeper into the village. He let out a soft sigh of relief, the trouble averted for now.

He watched them disappear around a corner. Miroku and Sango's kids; six-year-old twin girls and a four-year-old boy. He'd had no idea they even existed until they'd all piled on top of him in a giggling, shrieking mass of excitement before he'd even opened his eyes yesterday morning. Apparently, his friends starting a family was old news and not even worth warning him about.

After the first attack, he hadn't been able to get away from them. They'd been relentless, constantly hanging off of him and asking him pointless, nonsensical questions. He couldn't even escape because he'd had at least one of them holding onto his sleeve or the leg of his hakama or a huge clump of his hair at all times. By the time they'd gone to bed, he'd been practically a nervous wreck and had decided then and there that there would be no repeats.

And to make it worse, Sesshomaru had laughed at him. Fucking laughed at him. He'd never even heard that happen before, but he certainly didn't appreciate it directed at him when he was in such obvious physical and mental distress. He hadn't even tried to help, not once. It turned out this Sesshomaru was still kind of a bastard.

Inuyasha rolled over onto his back and puffed out his cheeks. As he stared at the sky, still tinged pink with the fading dawn, he couldn't help but wonder what other huge surprises this world would throw at him today. He had a sinking feeling that a lot of days were going to knock him on his ass before he got used to how things had changed.

If not for... stuff... between him and Sesshomaru when he first arrived, this kid business might have been the most surprising thing he'd discovered so far. He'd expected Miroku and Sango to have kids eventually, yeah, but... hell, it seemed really damn soon to him that suddenly there were three running around. It was taking him a while to wrap his head around it.

And this "uncle" thing.

And the ear pulling.

And everything else.

Maybe he should just go live in the forest for a while. At least out there, he could be fairly certain the trees weren't going to throw him for a loop by suddenly changing colour or some shit.

However, before he could make a move one way or the other, he felt two youki heading in his direction that made him tense automatically before he willed himself to relax. That was taking some getting used to, as well. He was really trying to act like he was fine with the two of them being around, but he wasn't sure he was succeeding.

One small benefit to the kids mobbing him was that neither Sesshomaru or Koga had been able to get him alone. And judging by the looks on their faces at times, they'd certainly wanted to. If he avoided the kids today, he'd spend it dodging youkai, too. Torn, Inuyasha sat up and looked toward the trees.

He could certainly escape for a while. Spend a few days calming down. But how calm would it really be if he was constantly running from one or even both of them? It would most likely just be delaying the inevitable. But in all honesty, he really wanted to delay it.

Before he could make a choice one way or another, a shadow passed briefly overhead and then Koga dropped onto the roof in a crouch in front of him, leaning in close and blocking his view of the forest. Remembering what had happened when Sesshomaru got close, Inuyasha shoved a foot in the wolf's chest and scrambled back a bit. He would not be caught unprepared again.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Inuyasha snapped.

"You weren't thinking of trying to escape, were you, muttface?"

"Like fucking hell I was," the hanyou snorted, but he was worried by the sudden thought that maybe this Koga knew him better than the one from his world. He'd have to be careful... "You think I'm some kind of damn coward?"

Koga grinned toothily. "Good, 'cause we're gonna have a nice little chat. You ain't getting away from me again."

Inuyasha was opening his mouth to argue when he noticed Koga glance at Sesshomaru, standing in front of the hut, and his eyes naturally followed. He was just quick enough to see his brother (was he really his brother, if they were from different worlds? He hadn't worked that out yet, and it bugged him) hesitate, then give a barely perceptible nod. He turned back to find the wolf focused on him again. An agreement had been made, apparently.

So... Sesshomaru and Koga were close enough that they didn't need to talk to communicate. Right. He'd just acceept that. He had to learn to start taking this shit in stride or else he'd have a fucking breakdown before he got home.

"Inuyasha," Koga growled. "You better not be tryin' to think of some way out of this, you bastard. This is gonna --"

Inuyasha slapped a hand over the ookami's mouth. "Shut up!" he hissed. "Gods, you're fucking loud!" The hanyou's ears swivelled back and forth nervously, picking up the sound of the brats returning, lured by the commotion.

"Fucking hell. No peace and quiet here, ever," he muttered, then rounded on Sesshomaru, pointing at him. "You. If you're any kind of decent, you distract those brats, all right?"

For a moment, he could have sworn there was a glimmer of amusement in Sesshomaru's eyes, but it was gone with a blink. The daiyoukai inclined his head. "As you wish," he said simply, and turned to walk deeper into the village to meet the children.

Huffing out a breath of relief, the hanyou turned back to an increasingly impatient Koga. He sighed. "Ok, fine. Talking. But not here." He got to his feet and stretched. "Follow me."

~*~

He led Koga back to the well, which he sat on the ground leaning against. The Goshinboku here didn't feel like his and that made him vaguely uncomfortable, so this was the next most familiar landmark. Plus, once he got rid of Koga, he planned to see if it was working yet.

Koga flopped down on the grass in front of him. He glared suspiciously at the well, seemed to struggle with himself for a moment, and then let go of whatever it was he'd been planning to say about it. Then he just stared at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha tolerated this for a full thirty seconds. "For fuck's sake, spit it out!"

"This isn't easy to take in, you damn mutt!"

"No shit. Ya don't say. How the fuck d'you think I feel, dumbass?" the hanyou grouched, tucking his hands in his sleeves irritably.

Koga plucked a piece of grass and twirled it between his fingers. "Yeah, I get that it's strange," he said, quieter and suddenly serious. Inuyasha tensed almost immediately. "No one's trying to freak you out or any shit like that. It's just... we all got questions, y'know? Things we need to know to work it all out."

Wary, Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah... I get it. So whatever you wanna ask, just do it."

"Well, I just... y'know, I wanted to, uh..." The ookami shredded the piece of grass with his claws without even noticing. "Hell, I wanted to know about us, ok?"

Inuyasha blinked and the colour drained out of his face. His belly turned to lead. About him... and Koga. He wanted to know about it. That meant there was something here big enough that he wanted to know if it was the same where he came from.

Fucking hell, what did his other self get up to? First Sesshomaru, now Koga? What the fuck was wrong with this other Inuyasha? Well, whatever the case, he had to make it absolutely clear that nothing like that would ever happen with him. Ever.

"Honestly? Hated you." Inuyasha bit off the words, back ramrod straight. "Absolutely hated you. Tried to kill you all the time. You tried to kill me, too. Couldn't be near each other without a bloodbath."

Koga absorbed that in silence. His fingers stopped twirling the shreds of grass left. Once again, Inuyasha felt irrationally guilty for making someone look so dejected, and his mouth started working again before he could stop it.

"But, you know, I'm sure you had... other people," he found himself saying. "Just me and you... no. We were never... together. Y'know, like that."

Koga's head came up. "Wait, what? Together? What d'you mean?"

"You know..." He made vague, uncomfortable getures with his hands. Koga blinked.

"You mean we had sex?"

"No! Not me and you! The... the other me."

"What the hell?" Koga growled. "I never slept with you, you ugly mutt. That was all Sessh --"

"Don't say that!" Inuyasha hurriedly interrupted. "Don't want that visual, thank you. Ever."

Koga pursed his lips. "Fine. But don't you go getting the wrong idea about me. I like girls."

Inuyasha glared at him. "I like girls, too."

The ookami blinked. "Really?" he said, and Inuyasha felt like despairing a little. So everyone was just gonna assume he liked boning guys and not girls. Great. "So you and Sesshomaru really never --"

"No!" Inuyasha shouted. "Gods, no. The Sesshomaru I know tried to kill me basically every time we saw each other. He'd pretty much sooner stick his sword in me than look at me."

"Well, the Sesshomaru I know liked sticking something in you, definitely," Koga quipped, a grin breaking out across his face.

Inuyasha howled and clapped his hands over his ears. "Oh, my fucking god," he moaned. "I told you not to give me that fucking visual, you sick son of a bitch. I really, really fucking hate you."

Koga's grin melted away at that and Inuyasha once again felt that sneaky and totally unfair jab of guilt somewhere under his ribcage. Honestly, why did he have to feel so bad whenever he said something that upset these people? If you stripped it down to the core, he didn't even really know them. They looked the same and there were other obvious similarities, but they were essentially different people. He shouldn't be feeling guilty.

But he was, and there was nothing he could do about it. He sighed heavily. "Ok, fine, maybe I over-exaggerated when I said I hated you earlier," he admitted reluctantly.

Koga's expression cleared a bit. "So we were friends?"

"Hell, no. I just mean... I probably wouldn't have killed you unless you started eating humans or some shit like that. And we worked together just fine against Naraku some of the time without killing each other. Mostly we just argued a lot, I guess."

The ookami finally seemed to relax, tossing the thoroughly destroyed scrap of grass to the side. "So it's not much different, then. That's good to know."

"Yeah, well, good for you," Inuyasha said. "Now can we stop this? You're kinda freaking me the fuck out with all this serious talk bullshit."

"Trust you to ruin the fucking mood, dog breath."

Inuyasha snorted rudey. "I don't want to have a mood with you, mangy wolf. Excuse me for being the only one not wanting to talk about feelings like a damn girl."

"You callin' me a girl, Inuyasha?"

The hanyou sniffed. "Might as well be, all this touchy-feely talking shit you've --"

Koga's hand suddenly smacked down on Inuyasha's head and pitched him straight forward into the dirt, face smushed against the grass and pressing deeper still as Koga ground down. "Don't let your guard down when you're insulting someone, asshole," the ookami taunted, sounding far too pleased with himself for Inuyasha's liking.

It took him a few moments to move around enough to take a blind swipe at the wolf. His claws met empty air, but that also meant the heavy pressure on the back of his head vanished and he could sit up. Spitting out grass, he glared daggers at Koga, standing a few feet away and grinning like an idiot.

"You're a dead wolf," Inuyasha growled as he got to his feet. "I'm gonna skin you alive and make a hat out of that stupid tail."

Koga just laughed. "Only if you can catch me, bitch." Then the wolf winked at him and ran into the trees.

Even angry as he was, the female dog reference wasn't lost on Inuyasha. With a vein in his temple throbbing, he gave chase, fully intending to thrash the bastard within an inch of his life.

---

Hey, I'm back with an update! It's been absolutely forever since I posted, and the reasons for that are long and complicated, so I'll shorten it for you: took a break from writing, which turned into block. While dealing with said block, became terribly ill, the highlights of which included exhaustion and my throat closing up, making it rather difficult to breathe.

But I seem to be over all of that now, so hopefully there will be updates on a more regular basis now. I've even answered one question once and for all here; sorry for those of you hoping for a threesome, past, present or future... this just seemed to fit better. Koga's much more entertaining to write - and hopefully read - when they're frenemies, of a sort.

Possibly this has given you something else to think about instead: just why ARE Sesshomaru and Koga so close? Well, you'll have to wait and see for that one. x3

Until the next update, I hope you enjoy. <3
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