A Royal Pain

Sesshoumaru was indeed shocked at the turn out for this battle. Unlike the battle with the Panther demons, the throng that had gathered was so immense he was certain that they would be victorious just by numbers alone. There were thousands of demons that came to his call and what was amusing about this was that even the peaceful otter and lynx tribes showed up among other smaller groups of demons. Sesshoumaru had no bloody clue how some of these smaller, weaker demons would be able to do for them, but they were welcome to fight if that was their desire.

It almost seemed like overkill, but the fact was dragon demons were some of the strongest fighters out there and since they controlled the dragons of all the lands it would be quite the fight.

A leader from each tribe came to greet the Lord of the West and all of them had been dealing with problems from the demon dragons that had come into their lands killing off whole villages trying to take over the East and North.

The two main Lords, Lord Akinori Yamaguchi of the East and Lord Hiro Nakashima of the North, wanted to divvy up the land between the three of them, but Lord Sesshoumaru had rights to take all the lands from all of them if he so chose. After all he was the Inu No Tashio.

“Lord Sesshoumaru is this battle for lands or for your brother?”

Lord Yamaguchi of the Gray Heron tribe asked Sesshoumaru. His large yellow eyes showing his concern for his people since he did not want his soldiers to be slaughtered in vain.

“Why do you ask Yamaguchi? Does it really matter if I wish to keep my brother alive since there is more at stake than just his life? I am certain you do not wish for the dragon demons to invade your lands any longer.’
“Lord Kaneko had disrupted the harmony of all our lands. If you wish to bow out of this battle than do so since I am certain that others would be welcome to take your place.”

Lord Yamaguchi blanched a bit.

“No Lord Sesshoumaru, I do not wish to bow out.”

Lord Nakashima of the Black Bear tribe frowned.

“I believe your brother is a hanyou Lord Sesshoumaru. He goes by the name of Inuyasha?”

Sesshoumaru nodded to the affirmative.

“I have heard of his many heroics. He must do your family proud since we as a tribe have learned from his example that half demons are now being accepted amongst tribes. I will gladly fight to help one who has helped so many in all our lands.”

Sesshoumaru let a small smirk cross his face at the praise the Bear tribe was giving to his little brother. Inuyasha did indeed make a name for himself and Sesshoumaru was proud of him.

“Yes, Inuyasha indeed has done much for the Inu’s if not by pure accident at times. Fortune has been on my little brother’s side for some time, but unfortunately not all things last. I would like to gain him back unharmed, but we all know that such a thing may not be possible.’
“Right now we need to get back to the matter at hand since once this battle is finished there will be much to discuss concerning the land and the demons that are left alive.”

Lord Yamaguchi and Lord Nakashima looked over the battle plans that Sesshoumaru had set out contemplating the best move to make that would allow for fewer casualties since many of these tribes had never fought a dragon before.

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Kagome held onto Inuyasha’s sword hoping that it would be returned to her husband soon. Sango and Miroku stated that the guards of the castle could look after it placing the tessaiga into a room where it would be watched twenty four hours. Kagome refused to let it go though and insisted they go after Inuyasha.

“Kagome we told you a thousand times already that Lord Sesshoumaru will come back with Inuyasha. You need to let others take care of you. You haven’t moved from that spot for days now and everyone is concerned.”

Kagome looked at Miroku and cried.

“But he needs his sword. Inuyasha will go full demon on them without it. He could hurt a lot of people and now that he doesn’t have his beads on I can’t help him.”

Sango sighed. Both Miroku and Sango felt for Kagome and understood. The problem was that they were in no condition to fight off dragons. Sango being pregnant and Miroku’s loss of his wind tunnel made things harder for them to battle.

“Kagome you must understand. Sesshoumaru will take care of Inuyasha. He is the only one who can stop Inuyasha if he does go full demon. We will just be in the way. Things aren’t the way they used to be. There is much more than just your life and his at stake. Please give me the sword Kagome and I promise I will watch over it for you while you wash up. You don’t want Inuyasha seeing you this way.”

Kagome sobbed, but reluctantly gave the tessaiga to Sango and Miroku. Miroku grasped it from Sango and Sango helped Kagome into the baths.

Lord Takeda came into the room watching Sango take Kagome to the baths. He was a bit relieved.

“So she finally relented. This has to be hard on all of you. I wish there was something more I could give you to help with your loss. It should have been my fate to go with that bastard Lord Katsutoshi Kaneko. Now not only have my people suffered, but you as my guests have suffered. I am failing as a Lord and this will not do.”

Miroku frowned at Kuranosuke. He really did not like Lord Kuranosuke Takeda because of personal reasons, but the man had done much for him, Kagome, and Sango. He was indeed a good Lord and better than most he had met. Kuranosuke cared about his people and for one so young he was very wise. Indeed he would have been a perfect husband to Sango. It was like the guy was flawless. He had looks, power, and his people loved him. Miroku really only had his silver tongue and luck on his side most of the time.

Inuyasha was right about Miroku. Someday he would get himself killed if he did not stop being so greedy. With the money and manpower Kuranosuke had given them the whole slayers village would be rebuilt back to its original glory and there would still be plenty of money to take care of his growing family for their whole lives.

Now it was time for the monk to turn into what he should have been. Miroku vowed after this eh would be a good monk that helped people with their demons without asking for anything in return.

“You have done more than enough for us Lord Takeda. Your people will suffer no more once Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru defeat the dragons. Even without his sword, Inuyasha will defeat Katsutoshi.’
“Inuyasha would not want you to suffer so do not think for one minute that he would allow you to trade places with him. Inuyasha is stronger than people give him credit for.”

Lord Takeda nodded and walked out of the room.

Miroku wanted to cry as Kagome had been doing the last few days since he missed his best friend whom he had never truly appreciated until this moment. He was always using Inuyasha to defeat the demons that he pulled out with his sutras and never really thanked him for doing such things. All he hoped was that Inuyasha wasn’t being treated poorly and wished to Buddha that he had his wind tunnel again. A wind tunnel that he could control at least that was not a curse of course.

Right now he had to be strong for all of them.

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Lord Katsutoshi Kaneko looked down at his intended who was ill from the amount of poison he had pushed into his system. He had planned on taking his new mate by force if necessary that day he carried Inuyasha into his chambers. It was shortly after Inuyasha had awakened that those golden eyes lost their luster and his golden honey colored skin became so very pale.

The healer said it would take at least four to five days for Inuyasha to heal and he was lucky that his chosen mate was a half demon since this amount of poison would have killed a human.

It had been three days now and the fever had not reduced. Katsutoshi had been forced to use his servants to pleasure him and this would not do. Ill or not Katsutoshi would take his mate even if the stupid healer told him to wait.

“Inuyasha……..Inuyasha!”

Katsutoshi growled at his mate forcing Inuyasha to open his eyes.

“That’s it. Look at me. I want those pretty golden eyes to look at me while I take you. We are going to finish what I started.”

Inuyasha watched in horror as the dragon Lord undressed. He was going to be raped again and he couldn’t fight back.

In some ways Inuyasha wanted to come close to death so he could just tear Katsutoshi apart, but there was only enough poison in him to make him immobile and ill. Inuyasha vowed that he would not ever be raped again without a fight. He had to put up with it when he was human, but when he was demon again they all died. They all died.

Katsutoshi’s evil grin could be seen and the lust that filled the dragon Lord’s eyes could not be denied. Inuyasha knew this was going to hurt like hell. Sesshoumaru was nuts. That is all there was to this. Sesshoumaru must like pain because Inuyasha didn’t.

There were fucking scales on this guy’s dick. They would rip him up inside. Inuyasha tried to fight, but it was useless. He was fucking paralyzed.

Inuyasha tried to close his eyes, but the demon bit him again making Inuyasha moan out in pain. There was no poison this time, but it fucking hurt.

Katsutoshi licked away at the blood.

“You taste so delicious. I could just eat you up with that sweet addicting blood of yours. You will get used to this my pet since I will be doing this often to you.’
“Now to get these fancy clothes off of you so you can enjoy what I am doing.”

Inuyasha’s first idea was to tell this fucker off, but all he could get out was a whimper as his clothing was practically ripped off his body. His underclothing was then removed including his fundoshi.

“Good, now there is nothing in my way.”

Katsutoshi practically salivated at the beautiful body below him. It was covered in sweat and that sweat was the poison he injected making Inuyasha his. Now it was time to finish the rites and consummate their union.

“Since you cannot fight me I will take the chains off for now. Am I not generous my little mate?”

Inuyasha didn’t care anymore. He was too ill to fight and his brother would come too late if he came at all. This was the fate he would have to face one day anyway since Sesshoumaru was right. Humans didn’t live long lives. He would be either alone forever or mated away to some other asshole like this.

“I don’t use oils to prepare you Inuyasha. I just will use your beautiful blood. Eventually you will long for me to do this to you every night and I will comply to your sweet demands once we are one.”

As Inuyasha closed his eyes and gritted his teeth waiting for the pain he waited and nothing came. As he opened his eyes he saw blood as it splashed onto his face and the headless body fell on top of him. Inuyasha couldn’t move to get the body off of him, but soon that was removed too. There standing in bloody armor was his savior.