Brother's Keeper: Scroll 11

InuYasha stalked after the Inu youkai doing his best not to let his growls be in the ear shot of the bastard in front of him. InuYasha scratched the back of his ear, unfortunately the fleas had decided that had been the best place to bite him. So now it felt like his ears were on fire.

 

The hall they were twisting and turning through wasn't as large as the previous halls, and the ceiling was lower to the ground. InuYasha hated this, it felt like he was being suffocated.

 

"If I hear you sigh another time, I'm going to lose my patience with you." InuYasha snapped his head up and looked at Trisnover.

 

"Whatever asshole." InuYasha spat. He really hadn't realized he had been sighing. The Inu youkai gave him a cold stare, but said nothing about his rude comment.

 

InuYasha's thoughts immediately went back to the well, and he felt his stomach drop. He couldn't go back, he was trapped here. The thought of not getting back to Kagome was a stab in the gut. And he had deserted his friends at the hands of Naraku.

 

"Shit." InuYasha growled. Kohaku was still in Keade's village with the last shard, and what was even worse Magatsuhi was still roaming around. InuYasha fiddled with his kimono and threw his ponytail back. He hated it this way, and ripped the tie from his hair, freeing it. Throwing the string to the ground, InuYasha shook his head, letting his hair have more air.

 

InuYasha felt a small throb in his head, and growled softly. He had just given himself another headache. InuYasha rub his forehead as an attempt to ignore it and looked down at his feet, the padding on them was next to go. Ripping them off quickly, InuYasha curled his toes allowing the cold air to pass through toe. He stopped when he realized he had an audience.

 

Trisnover was giving quite the oddest look, somewhere in-between horror and shock. InuYasha put his leg down and glared at the older Inu youkai.

 

"What?"

 

"Are you planning to walk in front of all the daimyo-sama's and their ladies, naked?" The beta asked, a bit worried he was dragging along a stupid pup!

 

InuYasha snorted to keep himself from bursting into a round of laughter. "Hell no." InuYasha snapped, "I just hate things on my feet, and my hair does not need to be tied up!"

 

This time it was Trisnover who snorted, "You look like a ruffian." Was all he said before turning his back and began walking forward again.

 

InuYasha decided not to argue anymore and just glared forward at Trisnover's back. He noticed the thing Sesshomaru always wore was missing from the Inu youkai's armor. In fact, the only Inu youkai he had seen wearing that fluff thing was his father and his bitch. InuYasha didn't personally care really, it was just something he had noticed.

 

InuYasha's ears perked up when he began hearing loud, distinct voices. Trisnover turned a sharp corner and disappeared for a second. InuYasha was about to turn into it when a bitch came around the corner and gave him a disapproving glare.

 

"Yes, he can definitely not go in looking like that." She said in utter disgust.

 

"What the hell are you talking about bitch?" InuYasha snapped. Before he could protest, Trisnover came and grabbed his arm, dragging him to the other end of the hallway and threw him in a dark room.

 

What the hell are you doing!" InuYasha snarled, swiping his claws, only to have met air. The bitch came in with a set of nicely folded kimono's and a piece of armor.

 

"Get dressed, you're not appearing before the daimyo-sama's of this land looking as if you walked in from battle." The bitch said.

 

InuYasha wanted to protest, but she had left before he could utter even one insult. InuYasha sulked and plopped on the ground, crossing his legs. He wasn't one to be prompt for walking into a room. It was ridiculous.

 

InuYasha had never been told what to wear his entire life. Actually, he didn't even remember anything else he did wear besides his fire rat. InuYasha narrowed his eyes at the folded clothes on the ground before him. Not wanting anyone to actually come in a force him to dress, he grabbed the kimono and started to strip of his current clothing.

 

InuYasha looked down at is body, it definitely wasn't his. First of all, he wasn't this tall, nor did he have royal purple stripes on his arms and ankles. Glaring down at the wrapped wound on his side, InuYasha could only wonder why it wasn't healing. The flea bites had long faded, and so had the sickness do to his youkai healing. But not this wound, this wound had decided to remain open and wide, and at the slightest pull of his muscle he would tear right back open.

 

Pulling up the white hakama, he grabbed the strands and tied them around his hips and picked up the kimono and stared at his reflection in the armor. He looked older, more mature, but his face was plastered in a scold. InuYasha sneered and batted the armor away, focusing back on tying the long obi which was giving him hell.

 

"How does Sesshomaru handle all of this shit?" InuYasha wondered. InuYasha knew his onii wasn't one to undress, actually he wasn't even sure if Sesshomaru ever did. InuYasha smirked thinking of it. 'And Kagome thinks I'm bad about taking bathes.' InuYasha thought. The thought of Kagome sent another lurch through his gut, and InuYasha closed his eyes. Would he see her again? Would he ever see his friends again? He had to find a way back, even if it killed him.

 

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InuYasha walked up to Trisnover who was standing just outside a covered doorway. InuYasha itched his scalp for the hundredth time, he just hated being in these clothes. The bitch had come in on him just when he had (well attempted) to put on the armor. He had fallen and thrown it across the room, spewing curses a mile a minute, fuming that it wouldn't go on.

 

InuYasha tapped his foot, once again covered in some sort of black padding, and waited for what ever was going to happen. Usually InuYasha would never wait on anything, especially something like this. But he had no where else to go, and his best chance of getting back thru the well was with these youkai. The daimyo's of the land, the most powerful youkai that walked the Earth. InuYasha knew if there was a chance that one of them would be able to somehow get him back to the time where he belonged. Though, it was only hope InuYasha was clinging too. He knew none of these youkai, except his otou, so he had no idea what to expect.

 

The scents coming from that room where extremely powerful, it was actually hurting InuYasha's nose somewhat. It smelled like two hundred Sesshomaru's in there, and InuYasha doubted that there that many youkai in one room.

 

"InuYasha-san, you may enter." A female voice said. InuYasha looked up to see an elegant female youkai standing in the flap of the doorway. InuYasha resisted the urge to growl, how did this bitch know his name?

 

Holding the flap back, InuYasha barged in after her, doing his best not to look clumsy. He was met with an astonishing site.

 

At least forty Inu youkai, and other types of youkai sitting in a semi-circle. They were all dressed in elegant kimono's and were presented as if they were at some human wedding. Females stayed next to their male companions, but some where on their own. One female was rather not far off to InuYasha's left, and she was the most well dressed female he had ever seen. She sat without a male accompanying her, and then she gave him a glance.

 

InuYasha suddenly realized, they were all now staring at him. InuYasha felt his body go rigid when every eye in that room were directly into his. InuYasha started to feel his body start to shake slightly, and a sweat break out on his forehead.

 

"Sit." InuYasha immediately froze, half expecting himself to slam into the ground. When he realized that a male voice had said that, he quickly straightened his position and glared at the voices owner. His father.

 

InuYasha glanced down at the mat, and slowly sat down on it. He glared at the semi-circle of daiyoukai's and fidgeted.

 

"This is your beta, Tsueesenshi-san?" InuYasha looked up to see a large male Inu youkai gesture toward him, and then he turned to Touga. "He looks rather small to be a..."

 

"He was beta." Touga corrected the Inu youkai. "Now, Trisnover has replaced him for the time being." InuYasha felt his face go hot when his father turned toward him.

 

"Did the Kami-Kodomo do this to him, Touga-sama?" The female next to InuYasha asked him.

 

"Yes." InuYasha glared at Trisnover as he came from behind him and entered the room, bowing quickly to the lords and ladies. "He was given what we call 'The Blood Paw'."

 

"The what?" InuYasha snapped.

 

"Be silent." Touga said. InuYasha closed his mouth, but kept his icy stare.

 

"Wouldn't that have killed him though?" InuYasha turned to another male, and immediately recognized him and the two soldiers next to him. They were the ones that had taken him from his cave.

 

"It should have, yes." Trisnover nodded.

 

"Then how do explain that?" The male who spoke earlier, gestured towards InuYasha. InuYasha let out a small growl.

 

"InuYasha-san, you say you are a rouge, is that correct?" InuYasha turned to the female next to him. She was quite elegant and her manor was formal, though her eyes were so dark, InuYasha felt like she was shooting arrows through him.

 

"Yea." InuYasha mumbled, "And how the hell do you know?"

 

A few of the daiyoukai's fidgeted at his words, and InuYasha felt daggers at his neck from his otou's stabbing eyes.

 

"I believe it has been known for quite awhile now." the female promptly answered him, ignoring his rude question. "Your imperious behavior for one, is quite the opposite of how royalty acts. And for another, you tried living in the forest with a serious wound. You obviously know your way in nature, but your rude manor and delirious behavior indicates your parents or your family never brought you up in a respectful manor."

 

'Kami she acts like she's my mother!' InuYasha thoughtfully snorted. Crossing his arms and straightening his back, InuYasha glared. "Your point? I don't know what the hell you all want with me, but I'm tired of sitting here listing to you all talk as if you were possessed! I'm not a person who waits on anyone!"

 

"Obviously." A male snorted.

 

"You obviously waited to long for something." Another male Inu youkai muttered.

 

"What the hell do you mean by that?" InuYasha spat.

 

"I believe we have a transition of souls between you, and Tsueesenshi-san." The female next to InuYasha said. InuYasha glared at her, and then his face fell.

 

"Meaning what?" InuYasha asked.

 

"Your soul has entered Tsueesenshi-san's body for reasons we don't know." The female answered him promptly.

 

"What?" InuYasha snapped.

 

"So 'rouge'," the male Inu youkai that had saved him started, "May I ask, how is it that your soul did not pass on to the next world?"

 

"What the hell is this all about!" InuYasha snarled, standing up.

 

"Sit down." Touga glared. InuYasha's youki flared, but he reluctantly sat back down on the cushion.

 

"Your soul ended up in Tsueesenshi-san's body for a reason, we would like to know why it remained wondering among the living." The female said.

 

"Are you telling me that I died?" InuYasha snorted, "I didn't die." Silence. "What?"

 

"Are you telling this council that your own soul removed itself from your own body and went into Tsueesenshi-san's on its own?" A strange looking male youkai asked.

 

"I..." InuYasha stared at them, "I don't know." Shrugging, InuYasha crossed his arms and legs again and slumped. Having to sit here was becoming rather uncomfortable, that and having forty daiyoukai's staring at you.

 

"So where is your body?" The male from the cave asked. "I assume you left to find it, correct?"

 

"I..." InuYasha stayed silent, his body was through the well another whole different time from now. "I couldn't find it."

 

"I see." InuYasha glared at his otou as the daimyo-sama stood up and gestured his mate and son.

 

"It is rather strange..." InuYasha flicked his ears as the youkai's started to have their own conversations amongst each other. InuYasha was about to stand up to leave, but two golden eyes from his father stopped him cold.

 

"As for your inexperience living under the rule of a daimyo-sama, and your extensive mistrust to those fellow clan members around you. You InuYasha will be in charge of watching my son, Sesshomaru, until we either find the solution to your unfortunate situation or you learn how to be a proper Inu youkai under my leadership." Touga stated.

 

"WHAT!" InuYasha jumped up in horror. "Hell no!"

 

"Sit down you indecent fool." A male Inu youkai snapped.

 

"Is there a problem boy?" Touga narrowed his eyes, trying to keep his own temper from rising up.

 

"No, I can't..." InuYasha paled and took one glance at Sesshomaru and immediately fell on his tailbone, defeated. "Whatever."

 

"Then leave, your presence is no longer needed here." His father said loud and demanding. "My mate will retrieve you in the morning, now leave."

 

InuYasha was more then happy to leave and jerked his arm out of Trisnover's hold and sprinted out the room before anyone could stop him.

 

"Fuck!" InuYasha slammed his head against the wall, and punched it with his fist. Not only was he stuck here, in this body, in this castle, now he had to take care of ONII who was...

 

"Damn it all!" InuYasha sighed, how was he going to handle this? He couldn't even handle Shippo, how was he going to handle the cold, now bratty Sesshomaru?