Sesshoumaru watched closely as the child, a few feet away from him, chased one of the villager's cats, no laughter coming from him since this had turned into a hunt. He took in the sight of the child, shaking his head slightly as he took in the short, stubby ears on the top of his head, the blue-ish tinted hair that went down slightly past the child's shoulders, the golden cat-like eyes, the sharp claws, & the little fangs that the child was baring as he chased the cat. -This pup is a little over two years of age, still in need of his father, yet Inu Yasha fails to notice it. He acts as if the boy does not exist,- he thought to himself.
Reikon Hakaisha felt a pair of eyes watching him, so he looked in their direction to see Sesshoumaru staring at him. Without hesitation, he went over to the youkai Lord & stood in front of him, a mean look on his face. "What're you starin' at ancient?" He asked with a taunting laugh.
Sesshoumaru slowly quirked an eyebrow at him, the look on his face showing that he was wondering how a child would be so bold with such a strong youkai as himself. "Surely you jest in taunting me, quarter child," he said, hissing the last word as if it burnt his mouth to speak it.
Reikon Hakaisha glared at him, cracking his knuckles in the same way his father had done in front of him before. "I ain't no quarter freak. I'm a full grown youkai."
"You only wish."
"Who are you?"
"I am Lord Sesshoumaru; your uncle through your father."
"Heh, pop always talks about how bad of a fighter ya are," Reikon Hakaisha smirked, putting his hands on his hips. "I bet I could beat you with one hand tied behind my back. You know, make the fight fair."
Sesshoumaru wrapped his tail around the child, pulling him off his feet to hang him upside down by his waist. "Do not make me laugh child. You are less of a youkai that your father," he said. "You could never beat me in a fight. Both arms or one." With those words, he squeezed the child with his tail before throwing the child, with his tail, over to where the child had come from. He rose to his feet from the porch of a hut he sat on & walked inside where he found his brother looking at a piece of paper that he quickly folded when he smelled his brother in the room.
"What are you doing in here, Sesshoumaru?" Inu Yasha asked, a growl in his tone.
"I came in here to get away from you wretched son," Sesshoumaru answered as he sat down on a mat. "You should teach the little whelp some manners. After all, he is your son, is he not?"
"He's an accident. One I wish I could take back, that's for sure." Inu Yasha put his back to his brother & glared at the wall of the hut, wishing his brother would just leave.
"He is all you have left of your human wench, yet you act as if he is from another male she conceived from. You loved the woman so much, yet the very thing she gave her life for, you push away. It is your fault, not his, that he was born. You raped her, making him grown inside of her. She could have gotten rid of the child. Aborted it. But she didn't because even though you felt bad for how he was made, you still loved the fact that you would have a child." Sesshoumaru rose to his feet & walked over to his brother; grabbing his ear & making him face him. "You wanted the mutt child so bad, you better start taking care of it as a father should, or I will take care of him myself." As he said those last words, he let go of his brother's ear & showed him the poison that now dripped from his claws. "If you feel he is such a burden, then perhaps someone should get rid of him for you." Inu Yasha glared at his brother's back as the older brother turned & left the hut, walking into the road towards Kaede's hut where Nashori still was. As he came upon he hut, he took notice that he could hear chanting from within the hut, so he decided it best to sit on small porch that connected to the house.
Back at Inu Yasha's hut, he was leaning against the wall, looking at the piece of paper from earlier, which was a picture of Kagome playing with Kirara that she told Miroku to take after explaining to him how to take the picture. His eyes were sad, but his face was hard & angry to throw off he sadness in his eyes. He had no one in the world & even though he had his son, Sesshoumaru was right, he pushed him away. Reikon Hakaisha was the only thing he had to remind him of what he had with Kagome. Granted he may have raped her, but that was only because he had loved her so much that it was unbearable to not have her as his.
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"Inu Yasha why are you looking at me like that?" Kagome asked as she backed up against the tall tree she found Inu Yasha hiding in just a few moments ago.
"Kagome." Inu Yasha's voice was soft as he spoke her name. "Kagome, I need you..."
"What are you talking about?"
Inu Yasha pulled her to him, holding her close as he kissed her hungrily, closing his eyes. He could feel her fighting against him, but he wanted her, needed her, felt he couldn't survive without her. He forced his tongue into her mouth, rubbing her tongue with his won, despite her failing attempts to push him away. When she managed to turn her head away, he heard the intake of breath & saw her mouth open, preparing to say the incarnation that would end all of this on the spot. "I'm sorry Kagome," he said before he pushed her back against the tree, making her hit her head, which knocked her out.
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He had never forgiven himself for that day; because that was the day he raped her after she woke up from him knocking her out. He didn't find out she had conceived his pup until she came through the well one day & he could smell the pregnancy that was getting under way inside of her. He looked at the picture in his hands & felt his chest tighten & his throat close up as he fought back the tears that he felt would show him as a weakling. He ran his clawed finger along Kagome's cheek in the picture, picturing it was her skin & not this paper he held.
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"Nashori, it seems yeh are a hanyou like Sesshoumaru thought," Kaede said as she stared at the girl before that was transformed as Kaede removed a spell she found over the woman. She looked at the wide green eyes of the girl & the long hair that stopped at Nashori's waist that was a pure black. Moving her gaze up even further, Kaede found herself staring at two rounded off cat ears sitting on top of the girl's head. "Stand up Nashori," Kaede said as she herself stood. She walked in a slow circle around Nashori, stopping behind her when she saw the black tail with a rounded tip that hung from the back of her knees, going up under her skirt. "I may have to cut a hole in yer skirt for yer tail to come out through. Wouldn't want to risk it lifting the back of yer skirt & giving Miroku or some other male villager a view of below."
"Tail?" Nashori turned her head & looked down to see the tip of the tail moving from side to side slightly. When she saw this, she couldn't contain the shocked, & scared, yelp that erupted from her mouth. "Why do I have a tail?!"
"Calm yerself Nashori. All hanyous have a tail that they hide underneath their clothing. Some of them, however, prefer to have their tail out in the open, not caring what others think of it or what accident comes to it."