Forgive me Father

Inuno couldn’t sleep. The short times that he had drifted to sleep he was plagued by dreams of him and Kagome, which still pained his heart. Looking around to see if had woken the others, Inuno sighed as they were all still blissfully asleep. He got up quietly putting his hat on as he walked out of the hut. The night air was cool against his face. The air back here was so much fresher than it was in the future without the pollutants of cars. Looking up at the moon he realized that the new moon would be tomorrow. He laughed to himself.
“good thing I’m not going to be here” he muttered, and half wondered if it would be the same in the modern time. ‘Probably’ he thought to himself. He found himself wandering out of the village and to the spot where he and Sesshoumaru had been meeting. Half hoping to see him there.
Inuno sighed as there was no sign or smell of Sesshoumaru around. He sat down next to their tree and hugged his knees to his chest. Tonight was a lonely night. Inuno stayed there alone with his thoughts till the sun was just brimming on the horizon. He didn’t want to watch the sun rise. He got up and walked back to town. He didn’t go back into the hut that he was sharing with Inuyasha, but settled up a tree to catch a little nap, in hopes that he wouldn’t have dreams of Kagome.

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He was with Sesshoumaru out in the country, far from the city centres that would be targeted by bombings by the allies. They had both fled the city when war was declared. They didn’t want to get involved in the humans war. Unfortunately they were only some of the youkai who held this ideal. Several of them had signed up right away for the change to go and slaughter. Others had gone for a chance to fight, for what seemed like the first time in their life, that was the cause of Inuyasha’s worry. Shippo and Takai, the two adopted youkai whom he considered his and Kagome’s first sons had gone headfirst into this war. Everyday he worried that he would get news that something had happened. Sesshoumaru told him that he was acting like a woman. He couldn’t help it. He wasn’t there to protect them.
Then it happened. The day that he dreaded.
We regret to inform you of the death of Heicho [equivalent of a lance corporal] Shippo Higurashi.
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Inuno sat up so fast that he almost fell out of his tree. A small squeak startled him even more still.
“Are you alright Inuno?” Shippo asked from the bottom of the tree.
“I just had a dream about the past, strangely enough it was about you.” he said looking down at Shippo before jumping down from his branch.
“Me?”
“Well, sort of. I got a letter about you in the dream.” Inuno wanted to asks him not to run off and join the human war in the future but he knew that he couldn’t . Shippo must have seen the internal battle going on through Inuno’s eyes.
“It was bad news wasn’t it”
“Yes it was.”
“But you said u got it in a letter. Why weren’t you there with me?” Shippo asked.
“Because you were all grown up, and made your own decision to go and do something, contrary to what I was going to do. Although I tried to convince you to stay with me you still went.”
“Oh…” Shippo was quiet for a moment then took Inuno’s hand. “I’m sure that I was happy with my decision.” he smiled as Inuno looked up at him.
“I hope that you were.” Inuno smiled back at him and patted him on the head.
“Kaede says food is ready”
“Soon I can go back to Matou’s cooking!” Inuno cheered, and Shippo laughed at him. Inuno picked Shippo up and put him on his shoulders as he walked off to Kaede’s hut to have breakfast.

Being back in the past with Kagome made all the memories just pop up everywhere. He would see her helping Kaede and suddenly he would see her in her priestess robes helping people. Watching her break up a fight between Shippo and Inuyasha was like it was Shippo and Takai. By mid morning he couldn’t take anymore of it. He now understood why in the past his future self didn’t come back for long stints. The memories were overwhelming.
“Kagome I think I’ll head back to the modern era now.” Inuno said so suddenly that everyone looked at him.
“Missing Matou?”
“That too. Inuyasha don’t practice unless Kagome or I are around. If anything happens Kagome can purify you if I’m not around.”
“Eh?” Kagome looked at him questioningly.
“Working on making him conscious when he is in demon form” Inuno explained.
“Oh…Is it dangerous to be around him?”
“Not really. He can manage for about a minute before losing the form right now.”
“Almost two!” Inuyasha protested
“I’ll be back in about two weeks. I have some work and studying to do in my time.”
“Okay” Kagome smiled at him. “Oh don’t forget Matou’s Bento box!” Kagome ran into Kaede’s hut to grab the now clean bento box for Inuno.
“Right! I’d be kicked out of the house for forgetting that for sure” he half heartedly laughed. He had been surprised that Sesshou had let her take that box in the first place. If he had forgotten it there would have been hell to pay. Kagome came back and handed him the box. “Thank you Kagome” Inuno smiled then waved to everyone as he walked off to the well of souls.
Coming out the other side of the well Inuno waved to Kagome’s grandfather, who vaguely recognized him as the man that Kagome had brought home the night Inuyasha had been dressed up in modern clothes. Inuno explained again that he was the modern version of Inuyasha before he walked off towards his apartment that he shared with Sesshou. He took out his cell phone and turned it on. Wondering how many messages that he would have. A pleasant voice told him that he had 5 voice mail messages. One was Sesshou telling him that he missed him and hope to see him soon. Two were Takai asking for him to come over as soon as he got back to tell him about everything that had happened while he was in the past. One was from Kikiyo that he promptly deleted. The last two were from Kouga and Ayame both wanting to know that he had made it though his trip into the past alright Kouga wanting to know what was going on in the past and Ayame wanting to know how he was holding up.
‘Takai can wait. Right now all I want is a hot shower and a soft bed.’ Inuno thought to himself. As much as he just wanted to run to his apartment he took the train like humans did. He didn’t want to bring attention to himself. Least of all he didn’t want the priests that were intent on full youkai extermination to know where he and Sesshou were living. 20 minutes later he had almost fallen asleep on the train and missed his stop. Thankfully his ears still worked and perked at the sound of his stop in time to wake him and squeeze through with the rest of the pack that was leaving the train.
Inuno breathed a sigh of relief when he finally got into his apartment. He stripped off his jacket and put his hat on the shelf above where he hung his jacket. The apartment was quiet. Sesshou was probably already at work. Kirara mewed a greeting at him, causing him to smile at her.
“I’m home.” he said to her. He leaned down so that she could smell Sango off him to know where he had been for the last few days. Kirara head bunted his hand.
“Yeah I went back in time and seen her Kirara. She looks good and is happy to hear that you are alive.” Inuno said as he pat then scratched Kirara head, causing her to purr.
“Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to get the grime of the feudal era off me with a nice hot shower! Unless you want to join me?” Kirara mewed in protest and backed off.
“I didn’t think so.” he smiled before getting up and walking for the master bath.
Almost 30 minutes later Inuno appeared out of the master bath drying his hair with a towel and another wrapped around his waist. The shower had managed to relax him and now he was ready for sleep. He towel dried his hair a little bit more before dropping both towels into the laundry bin and crawling into bed.

Something had woken Inuno. For a moment he wasn’t sure what it was. Then it came again. A knock at the door. He growled to himself. Half wanting to ignore it and go back to sleep. He threw off the covers and reached into the closet for a pair of pants and a shirt. Pulling them both on he didn’t bother to do up the shirt. Grabbing a bandana from his dresser he did that around his head to hid his ears. As he walked to the idiot that was at the door. He looked through the peephole to see who it was. A middle aged man in a grey suit with short greying black hair and matching black eyes. was standing on the other side of the door. He looked calm. This perplexed Inuno. He sighed and opened the door.
“Can I help you? Or do you just like to interrupt afternoon naps on purpose?”
“I’m sorry to interrupt.” the grey suited man started. “I’ve come to inquire about Inuno Matou”
“That is me. Who sent you to inquire about me?”
“You have been absent from your studies for the last few days so some of your professors had become worried about you. I have just come to check up on you to make sure that everything is alright.”
“I was on vacation”
“If you wouldn’t mind just writing them a note, here I have some paper you can use and a pen” the grey suited man reached into his pocket and produced a pad of paper and a pen and handed it to Inuno. The instant it touched Inuno’s hand it stung.
“Your paper is sharp” Inuno commented trying to make up for his sudden grimace when he touched the paper.
“It only hurts youkai” the grey man said taking a step towards Inuno. Inuno felt a pit form in his stomach.
“I’m not a youkai, I study them” Inuno said calmly hoping to get out of this situation without an outright fight for his life.
“you are either full youkai or half youkai” the grey man said eyeing the bandana on Inuno’s head. “I’m guessing half.” he said as he tore a piece of the paper off another notepad that he had taken out of his suit pocket and threw it at Inuno. Inuno dodged it by doing a graceful back flip further into the apartment. This wasn’t going to end well and he knew it. Taking a deep breath he charged the disguised monk.

Sesshou was happy to get off work a bit early. In fact it was still light out when he slipped into his parking spot before he walked up to the front door of his apartment building. He was soon socked to see police cars outside his apartment building. Even more shocked when he got off the elevator and seen that the police were on his floor. Walking cautiously to his apartment one of the policemen stopped him just as he approached.
“Sorry sir this is a crime scene.”
“That is my apartment” Sesshou said pointing to the apartment that there was one police officer just inside the door.
“Dr. Sesshou Matou?”
“Yes”
“Can I see some ID”
Sesshou dug into his pocket and pulled out his driver’s license for the officer to prove that he was who he said he was before he could pass. Fear now starting to rise, what had happened. Was Inuyasha home when this happened. Had something happened to him? When he got to the door the other officer escorted him through his front hall where a fight had obviously taken place. He seen one monks seal stuck to the wall.
‘oh no’ he thought to himself as he was escorted into the kitchen. There sitting on a chair was Inuno. Sesshou breathed a sigh of relief.
“Sesshou!” Inuno got up from the chair and ran across the kitchen and hugged him.
“Oh thank goodness your alright. What happened?”
“Some fool decided to break into the apartment, we had a struggle and I subdued him then called the police. They have him in custody now.”
“Good thing your boyfriend is a 4th dan black belt. Or things could have been a lot worse.”
“I’m sure.” Sesshou said looking down at Inuno.
“Sesshou can we go stay at my place tonight cause of what happened here?” Inuno wanted to let the police know that they were not going to be at this apartment but he didn’t want them to know that they were going to be moving altogether.
“Sure” Sesshou caught onto Inuno’s ploy. Being as Inuno didn’t have his own apartment but the two of them did have a couple of safe havens spread across the city just in case something like this did happen.
“We’ll need to know the address that you’ll be staying at in case we need to get a hold of you.”
“Of course.” Inuno smiled and gave the officer the address of one of their safe havens that they hadn’t used in almost a year. Something sure to not be watched.
“Well that is all that we need from you. If you need anything give us a call.” the officer said and handed a card to Inuno.
“We will.” he nodded and pocketed the card. It took 15 minutes for all the police to clear out of the place. It was another hour before Sesshou and Inuno had cleaned the place and packed some things including the fridge’s contents and Kirara and Hana into a carrier. It took two trips down to Sesshou’s car to get all the stuff that they were taking with them into it but the car could have still fit more.
“lets hurry Sesshou I want to be into our new place before dark.” Inuno squeezed Sesshou’s leg as they both had gotten into the car and buckled up. Sesshou looked at him quizzically for a moment and then said;
“Oh it’s the new moon” looking up at the sun he then commented. “I hope there isn’t much traffic or you might change before then.”
“Lets hope for little traffic.”
There was little traffic as they drove over to the other apartment. They had managed to get the first load into the house before Inuno had changed.
“Aw you look cute as a human Inuyasha” Sesshou commented from behind him. Just as the change took place.
“Fuck. This means I’m going to be sending you to get the rest of the stuff, you know that” Inuno cursed looking up at his black hair before setting the box that he was carrying in the kitchen.
“I figured.” Sesshou set his box next to Inuno’s and planted a kiss on Inuno’s neck. “You know I don’t mind it when you are human”
“I know you don’t. some days I think you like it better when I‘m defenceless.” he glared sideways into Sesshou‘s head. Sesshou chuckled and placed another kiss on his neck before he left to get the other things from the car. This apartment was a little smaller from the last one. The kitchen was a little bigger though. Sesshou would like that. Inuno started to unpack the stuff that they had brought with them. Stocking the fridge and cupboards. Adding some clothes to the closet. Finally he put Tetsaiga, Tensaiga and Bakusaiga on their stand on the wall.
Sesshou had gone into the kitchen while Inuno had been unpacking. Within a few moments Inuno had noticed that he had started cooking. Having had skipped lunch in lieu of a shower and sleep Inuno’s stomach now protested loudly. Sesshou laughed from the kitchen and proclaimed;
“5 more minutes.”
“Ugh… you heard that?”
“Yup”
Inuno flopped on the couch next to a relaxing Kirara. She glared at him for disturbing her, but went back to sleep after Inuno scratched behind her ears a few times. Inuno turned on the TV to get a recap of what had happened in the last few days since he had been gone on the news. They were partway through a segment about a recent crime wave when Sesshou handed him a bowl full of steaming fried noodles.
“Mm smells delicious.” Inuno said before taking his first bite, knowing that it would be. Sesshou smiled as he sat down next to Inuno with his own bowl of noodles. Inuno leaned into Sesshou as he ate his food quickly. It was just as tasty as he thought it would be.
‘Feudal cooking may it rest in piece’ Inuno thought to himself as he polished off the bowl. Sesshou wasn’t long behind him in finishing his food. As Sesshou got up and put the dishes away Inuno fed Kirara and Hana. He had barely finished when Inuno felt a pair of warm arms wrap around his waist pulling him close and a deep voice whisper in his currently human ear;
“I’ve missed you”
Smiling Inuno turned and wrapped his hands around Sesshou’s neck. He rested his head on Sesshou’s shoulder and added “I’ve missed you too”
“How was my old self?” Sesshou asked playfully.
“I can say honestly I like you better now. You really only had a one track mind back then” Inuno teased Sesshou playfully.
“Well it is a good thing we both outgrew ourselves.” Sesshou said quietly then tipped Inuno’s chin upwards so he could kiss him. Inuno leaned up into the kiss, realizing finally just how much he had missed his Sesshou. The kiss quickly deepened as Inuno let Sesshou into his mouth. He explored and caressed the inside of Sesshou’s mouth with his own tongue tasting the fired noodles that they had just had. They had pulled each other close but it wasn’t close enough. They needed to be closer. Inuno, although he didn’t want to, broke the kiss and pulled Sesshou off to the bed room that he had located while putting stuff away.
Stripping each other quickly Sesshou gave Inuno a playful shove onto the bed before he descended upon him. Inuno pulled him down into another heated kiss. As a human the sensation of Sesshou on his skin intensified. Although the demon mark didn’t work as well and Inuno smiled as his chest pressed into Sesshou forcing their marks to meet the other’s skin. Sesshou would get the full force of the contact while he would get about half of what it would normally be. Half force still set his skin on fire. He wanted Sesshou. Both of them had let their hands wander Sesshou was currently cupping his ass, while his own hands were trailing down Sesshou’s back.
Sesshou broke the kiss and trailed hot kisses down Inuno’s neck pausing at the base to nip it and lick softly, before continuing to his real target. Sesshou was straddled on top of him now on hand teasing his nipple while Sesshou kissed his way down to the other, pausing to lick the mark that claimed Inuno as his, making Inuno arch into him and Sesshou to grin maliciously. Inuno growled which sounded different when he was a human, but this didn’t stop Sesshou. Sesshou licked the mark again for good measure then continued to Inuno’s hard nipple. Sesshou bit the awaiting nub gently and Inuno gasped as the pain and ran his nails up Sesshou’s back. Glaring down at the head and splay of silver hair that was over his chest.
“Sesshou” he growl huskily.
He heard Sesshou chuckle slightly then again take his nipple in his mouth only this time to tease it with his tongue. A groan escaped him as Sesshou’s hand trailed feather light down from his nipple to circle around down to his navel and back up, teasing and threatening to go further. Inuno wanted it to. Inuno slipped a hand between him and Sesshou and ran it down his chest, making sure to lightly brush the mark with at least one finger. Sesshou’s breathing quickened. He still had Inuno’s nipple in his mouth but he had stopped teasing it. Inuno grinned as he trailed his hand downward. Circling a nipple and teasing it between his thumb and forefinger. Before continuing downward and unlike Sesshou he did not tease or threaten and go back to claim a nipple he continued past Sesshou’s sensitive hallow of his hip that caused him to twitch and breath quicker. Inuno stopped only when his hand closed around Sesshou’s hard cock. Inuno then did something that surprised Sesshou he whispered in his ear
“Sesshoumaru, I don’t want you to tease me I want you in me”
Inuno let go of Sesshou, who was turning him over, in just as much need of being in him as Inuno was of having him. Sesshou stretched him to receive him with his fingers. First with one, then getting a second in, and finally a third before he felt that Inuno was ready. When Sesshou removed his fingers Inuno whined a little but knowing that something better was coming.
Sesshou slicked himself with the lubricant that they had brought from their last apartment and pressed himself slowly into Inuno. Inuno was breathing heavy under him husky groans mixed with gasped breath as Sesshou inched in until he had reached the end. He paused for a moment completely encased by Inuno.
“Inuyasha” he moaned huskily.
Sesshou reached around and as he began to thrust he began to pump Inuno’s erection to match. Each time that he would thrust Inuno would rise a little to meet him thrusting him a little deeper. Inuno was lost to the twin pleasure that Sesshou was inflicting upon him his breath was coming in short gasps, he was moaning and he was repeating “Sesshoumaru”. they soon were both over come by the blinding white of ecstasy and lay gasping for breath in each others arms.
Inuno curled his head into Sesshou’s shoulder and said.
“I love you Sesshoumaru” and planted a kiss next to his demon mark. Sesshou smiled down on Inuno, cupped his chin and lifted it towards his mouth. Just before he kissed him he said
“I love you Inuyasha”