Hanyou

6: The Pure Blood Lord and Dirty-Blooded Princess


“She’s…human,” Inu Yasha stammered like an idiot as he stared at Meishou, she was clawing at Sesshoumaru’s hand as it held her neck.
“Amazing, not only is Meishou like you in hanyou appearance, but also in human cycle,” Miroku said quietly before they returned to the situation.
“Hand over Tetsusaiga or I’ll crush this human bitch’s throat,” Sesshoumaru stated calmly and Meishou was slowly turning blue.
“Sesshoumaru! Let her go!” Kagome cried and suddenly Meishou froze, catching his attention.
“Sess….Sesshou….Sesshoumaru!” Meishou gasped before she began to thrash more furiously, somehow catching Sesshoumaru in his manhood with her foot. He let go and she gasped as she held onto her throat, recovering faster and running towards the cave.
“Meishou! Move it!” Inu Yasha cried and the human hanyou woman dove at the mouth of the cave. He pulled Tetsusaiga out for the moment it took for her to enter before replacing the sword and refng tng the barrier.
“That…that was too close,” Kagome sighed and there was a growl. Sesshoumaru glared at Meishou as she glared back at him, her human teeth bared.
“You girl, you reek of Prince Ranmaru,” Sesshoumaru growled as he walked back and forth outside of the barrier. “Yet, you are human. Still your scent is that of Ranmaru.”
“I’m glad your nose functions, sadly your brain doesn’t!” Meishou snapped back. Sesshoumaru stopped and looked at her, sniffing at the barrier.
“It is not possible,” he growled, his eyes flashing red.
“What’s not possible, Sesshoumaru?” Inu Yasha asked, giving a glare at the humans in the cave. Sango and Miroku stepped back, Shippo and Kirara following them. Kagome looked from the hanyous to the inu youkai.
“Lady Kagome, leave them, this is their affair, we may not take part in it,” Miroku said. Kagome started to tell him off when she saw the look on Inu Yasha’s face. She nodded and sat beside her friend, holding her adopted son as she watched.
“You could not possibly be one of the half-human whelps born of the human wench of Ranmaru,” Sesshoumaru snarled and Meishou looked at him before growling low in her throat.
“I was sure the Lord of the Western lands would at least have enough wits to put that together!” Meishou cried and Inu Yasha stepped back, this was not his fight either, but she was a member of his pack and as the Alpha Male it was his job to protect all the members of his pack.
“I was sure that the half-breeds he spawned as well as the wench of his were slain before the village was wiped out by a rough youkai,” Sesshoumaru stated as he kept pacing outside of the barrier.
“Well, you were a fool not to investigate yourself,” Meishou hissed. “I’ve managed to survive even though I was at several disadvantages, you traitorous bastard!” Inu Yasha sighed, this was going to end poorly no matter what.
“You, bitch, should learn to hold you tongue,” Sesshoumaru stated as his eyes narrowed.
“You are my cousin, yet you slain your own uncle in cold blood!” Meishou snarled and Sesshoumaru looked at her with a slight smirk.
“This Sesshoumaru, has done no such thing, I killed a rabid wolf that was trespassing on my lands,” he stated and Meishou’s hand tightened on her sword hilt.
“My father was a good and honorable Prince! I will return his title and lands to his bloodline!” Meishou snarled and Sesshoumaru threw back his head and laughed.
“And how would a pathetic half-breed bitch do that?!” Sesshoumaru asked and Meishou smiled.
“The Council of Four once ruled that if the sole survivor of a Prince’s line was a dirty-blooded female that if she married a pure-blood Prince, the title and lands of her father would be returned to her second born son,” Meishou smiled and Sesshoumaru’s eyes widened. “All I need due is become the wife of a pure-blood Prince and produce him two sons, then the title and lands you ‘inherited’ will fall to my son and be returned to my father’s bloodline!” Sesshoumaru smirked.
“Still, you must find a Prince that will accept a half-breed for a wife,” he chuckled. “And you must survive till the second son is born.” With that Sesshoumaru was gone but neither hanyou-turned-human moved until the crickets began to chirp.
The two walked back to the fire where the others were gathered and Meishou plopped down with a miserable look on her face.
“I take it something is the matter?” Miroku asked and she groaned before hiding her face under her bangs.
“You could say that,” she groaned. The group looked at Inu Yasha.
“Don’t ask me, I don’t know anything about this Council of Four or nothing,” he said as he looked at the human girl at his side. “Care to explain?” Meishou got up and began pacing back and forth.
“It was a stupid move to pull, but I was desperate to wipe that damn smirk off his face,” she groaned. “The Council of Four was the first council among the canine youkai. One wolf, one jackal, one inu, and one kitsune. The Council made up most of the laws concerning the lords and princes of the canine youkai society. The old laws are still obeyed on punishment of death, but very few laws concern hanyou. Still, I made sure to find out every law I could use to help me get revenge and no revenge would be greater than to take away the spoils Sesshoumaru got for killing my father!” Meishou sighed and sat back down, still looking miserable.
“Great, so now you can get back what was taken from your father?” Kagome cried.
“Weren’t you listening?” Inu Yasha asked. Kagome looked shocked and was about to say something when Sango grabbed Kagome’s shoulder.
“Kagome, before you get rash with Inu Yasha for his gruffness, you must understand something about canine youkai, especially wolf and inu youkai. Males are the leaders, Alpha males are the Princes and Lords. Inu Yasha is an Alpha male as is Sesshoumaru, that is why Inu Yasha is always being attacked. Sesshoumaru cannot risk loosing his Alpha male status to his younger, half-human brother. Meishou is in a very bad position. She is a female hanyou, usually the lowest ranking member of a full-blood pack. She would never be considered worthy of being the wife of an Alpha. The lowest ranking female is often just a concubine for the rest of the males in the pack,” Sango explained.
“From what Meishou said to Sesshoumaru, she won’t be able to take the lands or take the title from Sesshoumaru, but the nd snd son of an Alpha male, if she finds one to marry, can, by law, reclaim the title of Prince and have his grandfather’s lands restored to him,” Miroku said.
“But what about Meishou and the first born son?” Kagome asked.
“Wench, the first born son would be expected to be the heir of the Prince and the second would inherit his mother’s claim on the grandfather’s rights,” Inu Yasha said. “As for Meishou…” he looked at her and Meishou snarled.
“I have no claim because I am female, only my second son would have claim,” she snapped as she glared at the fire. “But it is my only hope now.”
“Why do you say that?!” Kagome cried. Meishou looked up at the girl from the future.
“Because, I never met Sesshoumaru before this night, I…I didn’t know what to expect, but he is far stronger than I am. I wouldn’t stand a chance against him in a fight,” she sighed. “My only way of hurting Sesshoumaru would be by taking away the spoils of murdering my father, I have no other choice.”
“Still, it’s going to be hard to find a pure-blood Prince to accept a hanyou female as the Alpha bitch of his pack,” Inu Yasha sighed and Kagome gave him a look.
“What about a pure-blood wolf Prince that would accept a HUMAN female as the Alpha bitch of his pack?” she asked and the whole group looked at her.
“Tell me you don’t mean him?!” Inu Yasha growled and Kagome nodded.
“Why not? He’s been after me for so long, if we could focus his attentions on Meishou her problems would be solved,” Kagome said.
“She makes it sound as if it were easy to get him to fall out of love,” Sango sighed.
“Not that I’m complaining about your willingness to help me but….who are you talking about?” Meishou asked, looking completely confused.