Brother's Keeper: Scroll 4

InuYasha felt his whole body go numb, the face that stared down at him was his...otou. InuYasha felt his heart beat faster as the silence ticked away, for what felt like hours. Finally his otou turned around, and had his back to InuYasha.

 

"Get up, your position is not correct for a warrior." InuYasha's otou said in a flat tone. It sounded eerily identical to Sesshomaru's stone voice. InuYasha couldn't move, he had grown roots that had attached him to the floor. "I said get up!"

 

InuYasha jumped up, his whole body shaking, and he felt the heat come up on his face. He had never felt this way before, scared of anyone like this. He was sweating his small frame in the large shadow of his otou.

 

The Daimyo-sama turned and pushed Sesshomaru's head softly and they started to walk away, InuYasha paled.

 

"Wait!" InuYasha felt his face go red, he sounded like a little girl. "I'm, uh...lost."

 

"Youre lost?" There was a hint of a small amusement behind the Daimyo-sama's voice, and InuYasha felt even more embarrassed. "In your own fortress youre lost?"

 

"Ummmm..." InuYasha couldn't conjugate any words. He looked up at the youkai who looked at him with a concerned look. InuYasha felt his stomach drop when his otou turned fully around once more that he suddenly realized he might be in trouble. A lump came up in his throat, and he gulped.

 

"Your scent is of Tsueesenshi, but I have never seen your face before."

 

"Uh..." InuYasha felt his ears flatten on top of his head. Why couldn't he just tell him off? What the hell was ripping his voice out of his mouth? InuYasha looked into those golden eyes then reverted his eyes back to the ground in an instant. Why was he acting this way? This is all a bad dream right? My otou is dead, that brat isn't my onii...

 

"Ugh!" InuYasha grabbed his head and backed away from the Inu youkais imposing figure. "Just....stay away from me!" And he darted, he had to get out of here!

 

InuYasha turned the corner, and felt a strong wind surge up next to him. Next thing he knew he was on the ground again rubbing his head. InuYasha looked up to see the Daimyo-sama standing in front of him, InuYasha had run into him.

 

"Gah..." InuYasha scooted back. How can he be in two places at once? InuYasha jumped up and ran the other direction, he was trapped in this nightmare and he wanted out! He felt speed he never had burst through his frame forcing him to go even faster.

 

Then he was right in front of him again, but this time InuYasha stopped himself before he went crashing into him again. Panting, InuYasha stared at him, his otou knew this place, and he didn't. InuYasha just backed up and cracked his claws.

 

"I said stay away from me!" InuYasha growled. Before InuYasha could comprehend the facial reaction to the threat on his otou's face, he was pinned to the wall, a large hand wrapped around his wrist, rendering his claws useless.

 

"Why are one of my warriors acting irrationally?" InuYasha wished that was a rhetorical question.

 

"I'm not your..." InuYasha froze, he felt a sword handle push on his side, but that was all he needed to look down and notice what that sword handle was. It was Tessaiga.

 

Suddenly his vision was swirled away from Tessaiga's hilt and his forehead slammed into the wall. His otou had him suspended by the neck.

 

"Gak!" InuYasha chocked. His hands wrapped around the Daimyo-sama's wrist, trying to claw his hand away.

 

"Why were you looking at my swords with that gleam in your eye, boy?" InuYasha felt anger burn through his system. Because one of them was his!

 

"Tsueesenshi-san, where the hell..." InuYasha looked to his right to see the bitch walk up and then froze. She stopped in mid-sentence and fell to her knees, bowing at the man that was chocking InuYasha's throat at the moment.

 

"Inu no Taishou-daimyo-sama, please release him! He has lost his memories and..."

 

"That is enough Aisuru." InuYasha felt his throat be released and he collapsed on the floor, coughing. "Inform me first about such things before I think we have intruders in the castle."

 

"Sorry Daimyo-sama!" Aisuru bowed even closer to the ground. She raised her head and gave InuYasha a nasty glare. "He won't be leaving his room without anyone with him."

 

"As if..." InuYasha started.

 

"Be silent." InuYasha froze and stared up at the Daimyo-sama. Inu no Taishou, that was his otou's name.

 

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InuYasha rubbed his neck as Aisuru unwrapped his bloody bandages and started to rip some new ones into shape. InuYasha was furious, if this was a dream, it was turning sour rapidly.

 

"You shouldn't have done that." The bitch said. "If anything, you don't piss off the Daimyo-sama. Its not wise."

 

"Keh." InuYasha growled, he rubbed his bruised neck and stared at the intently. "Who's his brat?"

 

"Sesshomaru-daimyo-sama, but he is not ready to be a..."

 

"Sesshomaru, that's his name?"

 

"I just said that!" She glared at him. "Why are you making me repeat myself?"

 

"Guh..." InuYasha looked away, he really didn't like this. The brat's face popped into his mind again, and he could see Sesshomaru's face through that young face. It was wrong. Seeing Sesshomaru so young, was wrong.

 

"Will you stop fidgeting?" Aisuru snapped. "You're making things harder."

 

"I'm not." InuYasha hissed. She sounded almost like Kagome, he almost thought she was for a second. Suddenly he heard a loud growl, and he jerked his head around snarling at her.

 

"Don't growl at me bitch!" InuYasha spat.

 

"That wasn't me, that was your stomach."

 

InuYasha felt his face go red. "My stomach...?"

 

"Yea, its almost time to go eat anyway." Aisuru grumbled, "Damn Kami-Kodomo."

 

"What has food got to do with a Kami-Kodomo?" InuYasha asked, he frowned at the thought that a Kami-Kodomo actually existed. The word sounded like a houshi or a miko, who was given the humans spiritual powers to fend off the evil omens, fortunately which is youkai.

 

"They have cut are food supply from our human farms." Aisuru grumbled, "And we take one foot outside they castle to hunt, they snatch us, and they only thing they give back of you is your head."

 

"What?" InuYasha blinked, "Your telling me we're surrounded by an enemy? Prisoners of your own castle?"

 

"I guess you can put it that way." The bitch sighed. "You have forgotten everything."

 

"I..." InuYasha growled, something about this was all wrong. His otou was the Daimyo-sama of this castle, and yet he was a prisoner? What the hell? This was definitely a nightmare.

 

"Look, Tsueesenshi-san, I'm sorry about this...scar, but you're lucky to have survived it. All the previous warriors who have been given the same scar have all perished." Aisuru said.

 

InuYasha looked towards the ground, a bit speechless about this information. He stood up and leaned against the wall.

 

"The well, it sent me back, back in time." InuYasha put a hand to his head and slowly sank to the floor. How far had it sent him back? If Sesshomaru is a mere brat, his mother didn't even exist yet. He didn't exist yet.

 

InuYasha closed his eyes picturing the imposing figure of his otou. His white kimono, the armor more elegant then Sesshomaru's. His hair tied in a long ponytail, and the stripes on his cheeks, purple like InuYasha's.

 

No wonder Sesshomaru said he looked like otou, he did. InuYasha didn't see Sesshomaru in that face, he saw his, a transformed InuYasha, but still, it was him.

 

"Tsueesenshi-san?"

 

"Its InuYasha."

 

"I'm not going to call you that." She folded her arms.

 

"Yea you better." InuYasha snarled at her. "I don't know who Tsueesenshi was, and I don't care. I'm InuYasha, that's what my..." InuYasha stopped himself. He didn't want anyone to know that the Daimyo-sama was his otou. First, no one would believe him and second, he couldn't bring himself to confront the man again, his presence made InuYasha feel weak and submissive.

 

InuYasha perked his ears up when a dozen voices started to pass the doorway of the room they were sitting in.

 

"Time to go eat, we can only eat once a day due to food shortages." Aisuru stated. "And you better follow me so you don't get lost again, brainless."

 

InuYasha smirked at her, but didn't respond. Too much was going through his mind, but he was hungry. This body hadn't eaten in a while. Standing up he followed the colorful kimono of the bitch and set in pace behind her.

 

The voices belonged to many Inu youkai, InuYasha suddenly felt very small and insignificant. There was so many youkai; InuYasha had never been around so many without the intent to kill them all.

 

Most were dressed in fine silk, the bitches wore colorful kimonos, and on occasion, he saw a few wearing armor. The males almost all wore armor, some didn't, like smaller but still bigger then Sesshomaru walked without the fine steel on their bodies.

 

Most all had silver hair, but caught a few with black and even gray hair. None looked like they were past the human age of thirty, and most of them were quiet tall. InuYasha felt short, he was one of the shorter ones, almost considered a brat himself. He was still taller than the bitch he was following, but that didn't make him feel any better.

 

InuYasha perked his ears up when they left the long hallway and entered a massive room. InuYasha followed the bitch and sat down on a small cushion. He looked in front of him, a lone plate sat in front of him with a set of chop sticks lying across the surface.

 

InuYasha heard his stomach growl again, and he hit it to tell it to shut up. InuYasha watched as all the Inu youkai seated themselves. He saw obvious pairs; the males had a hand wrapped around the females waist, meaning they were mated. The ones who weren't, sat alone but still communicated to other males and females without a slight distinct on what gender they were.

 

InuYasha felt wrong, he was not one for formal dinners, or anything formal for that matter. He felt tempted to leave, but he was hungry, that was the only thing that made him stay. He was dressed in a light blue and white kimono, and had been given a chest plate to cover his wound, just in-case it decided to bleed through his kimono.

 

His hair remained tied up, it annoyed him once in a while, but Aisuru said loose hair was often informal and needed to remain up. InuYasha itched his scalp, he had never tied his hair, it felt confined that way. He noticed a male was giving him a funny look and whispered to his mate, and pointed to the top of his head. His bitch looked at him and frowned, and then she giggled.

 

InuYasha flattened his ears as far as they would go on his head, they were talking about his ears.

 

"Tsueesenshi-kun!" InuYasha jostled to the name. He looked up to see the twins sit next to Aisuru and looked at him. "Glad you could join us, I heard..."

 

"Shut it." InuYasha snapped, he wasn't in the mood to talk. He crossed his arms and gave everyone in the room the best scold he could give. He hated this, he heard rich humans prompt everything so fancy, and he never thought he would go through something like this. Forget this, InuYasha thought, I'm not that hungry.

 

"Everyone, quiet down!" InuYasha froze just as he was about to get up and looked at a Inu youkai standing in the center of the circle. The plates and cushions had been placed in a semi-circle, so that everyone could see one another.

 

With that the Inu youkai that had spoken stepped down and sat in a empty space, and InuYasha felt his body go cold when the next figure entered the semi-circle. The Inu no Taishou, his otou.

 

"To inform, we have lost two more of our warriors. One of those warriors has been returned partially." Mummers of anger was sent through the crowd of Inu youkai and InuYasha saw Aisuru's hand curl into a fist.

 

"We will now eat." The Inu no Taishou turned to leave, when a male Inu youkai stood up fast.

 

"Daimyo-sama, may I speak?" InuYasha watched his otou turn around.

 

"Go on."

 

"We have to attack them! This is ludicrous!" The male bowed his head in respect, but his golden eyes challenged his Daimyo-sama. "By the end of the season, we'll be nothing but skin and bones and we won't be able to fight them. I say we need to do a full-scale attack them before they kill us in our own fortress."

 

"Attack an enemy we know nothing about?" The Daimyo-sama answered in a cold tone. "Attack an enemy we know nothing about how their fortress is set up? Do you take me as a fool?"

 

"No Daimyo-sama, I do not take you as a fool, I'm only trying to stop this madness." The male youkai bowed.

 

"You have challenged more than once on this occasion, Trisnover." Inu no Taishou said. "This will end, but not with a full-scale attack." The male, Trisnover, sighed and bowed again before sitting back down.

 

"The food will be served momentarily." The Daimyo-sama announced.

 

"What about you Daimyo-sama?" InuYasha turned to see a female ask in a polite tone. "You haven't eaten in weeks, why don't you...?"

 

"This will not eat such repulsive food." With that he left the room. The room became silent, and few sighed and shook their heads.

 

InuYasha crossed his arms, he really hadn't understand what was going on, but all he wanted was to be fed and leave.

 

"Hurry up with that food, I'm hungry." InuYasha growled. But the word 'repulsive' entered his brain, what could be so repulsive that his otou wouldn't eat, even for weeks?

 

Slowly the food was distributed and InuYasha glanced to see a slab of fresh, uncooked, pink meat. He frowned, he wasn't used to eating raw meat. After being with Miroku, Sango, and Kagome, they wouldn't even let him touch such things. Now, not haven even eaten raw meat recently, InuYasha was hesitated to eat it.

 

The other Inu youkai began to cut the meat into small piece with their claws swiftly and fast, before picking up the cut up pieces with the chop sticks and began to feast.

 

InuYasha poked at it, a wishing there was a fire nearby so he could cook it. This isn't my body, so I guess its okay, InuYasha thought. Picking up the entire chunk he opened his mouth to bite into it, when someone slapped his hand making him drop the flesh back onto his plate.

 

"Hey!" InuYasha snapped, as Aisuru's hand went back to her lap. "What was that for?"

 

"Use your claws to cut it, don't eat like a pig." She glared at him. InuYasha snorted.

 

"I'm hungry, I'm eating it the way it is." InuYasha snarled, with that he grabbed the chunk and turned his back to her. Just as he was about to bite off a piece the scent of the meat stopped him. He frowned. It smelled extremely familiar.

 

InuYasha turned to Aisuru or the twins in a state of confusion. This meat didn't smell right, he didn't know why, it had suddenly wasn't appealing to him anymore.

 

"What is it Tsueesenshi-kun?" One of the twins asked.

 

"What is this?" InuYasha asked, waving the meat.

 

"Why?"

 

"I would like to know what I'm eating!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"It's the only food we got, eat it." Aisuru said, "You're not getting anything different and you're not getting anymore."

 

"I asked what it is!" InuYasha snapped, he felt his stomach hurt. He took a bite anyway just to sooth it. The taste blasted his mouth, and suddenly felt repulsed. InuYasha spat out the food and dropped the slab of meat on the plate. A lot of the Inu youkai stopped their conversation and chewing to stare at him.

 

"Tsueesenshi-san, you're making a scene." Aisuru snapped.

 

"What is this?!" InuYasha suddenly felt very sick.

 

"Its human, eat it or starve." With that she turned her attention to her food.

 

"Human..." InuYasha felt sick, he felt bile come up his throat. He started to shake and then anger started to build before he could stop it. "HUMAN!"

 

He stood up and threw the plate with the meat on it, backing up, mortified. All of them, they were eating...InuYasha's eyes went large when he set eyes on a small Sesshomaru. Chop sticks in his hands, he sat there, the raw meat dripping from the flesh in between the sticks.

 

InuYasha ran, he just ran. He felt whatever food was in his stomach surge up and knelled against the wall and let it out. He was shaking in rage, his face blinded with fury. He ate human! He ATE human! InuYasha sank to his knees, shaking in horror and disgust, he wanted to beat himself, he was so repulsed.

 

InuYasha ran, he felt the wound pull and tear at his side, but he didn't care, he ran. Whoever got in his way was going to die. His otou, his own people, were eating human. The man that fell in love with his HUMAN mother was letting his people eat HUMAN.

 

"Hey!" InuYasha didn't care who was in his way he shoved whoever was in his way and saw two large doors, and burst through them. He was going to run, until he ran out of this nightmare, or until he ran off a cliff. He was not related to no one who ate human, no one.