OoOoO! Sesshomaru and his coucil are devious, and I like the way they think. I continue to agree with Sesshomaru about Kagome needing to be held responsible for her own safety. It is one thing, if they jump in before a killing blow, but another entirely to gaurd her from everything. Weakness,  real or perceived, is a death sentence. I think that the idea for kagome to find her own Lady's in Waiting is a brilliant move as well, because he is right. No high born lady is without lady's in waiting, and if they choose to be her willing companions, they will protect her because they want to, not just because they have to which is a major difference. If Sesshomaru just assigned women, word would get out and it would have a nasty backlash. This is where Inupapa's "Don't be like me" lesson really comes out to play. Akihito's idea of having Sessmama come now was really the best idea because if she didn't give Kagome the titles, either by Kagome forcibly taking them or her giving them willingly, none of the island's inhabitants would truly view her as the Lady of the West, which would only spell rebellion and anarchy. Plus it's just another way for Kagome to show her strength and her power if she were to defeat the Lady Mother, who is well known for her strength and visciousness. Not many would want to stand against Kagome after a win such as that.

I have a feeling that the battle between Inuyasha's two natures is something that is going to take quite some time to figure out and find a compromising balance between the two. And time to really take to heart the lessons that "ghosts" of his past were trying to teach him, a lot of it came too much and too fast, and he still needs time to overcome his biggest obstacle, himself. Though these lessons will help him to do that, as the old saying goes, "Rome was not built in a day".

Even now, Inuyasha the Eternally Stupid still does not get it. That everything that happened did not affect only him. Inuyasha is truly a selfish creature, is he not? Still he does not get the the similarities between he and his father, that one singular choice that they made brought their worlds crashing down around them. Even now, Inuyasha still does not fully inderstand all of what he has lost, and the lives that he has effectively changed forever.

It seems that Inupapa and Inuyasha have more in common than originally thought. Running headstrong into danger, foolish and proud, at moments cruel and viscious,  and arrogant to a fault. I wonder if INuyasha sees these corralations....Anyhoo onto more dark and nasty truths.

Yes, Sessmama shaped Sesshomaru into who he is today, but how much of it was revenge for Inupapa's treatment of her because this is obviously not the first dalliance he has had. It doesn't make it right, not by a long shot, but I can't helo but wonder. On to the next, hopefully we get to see the fall out from that night.

Hmmm I am starting to wonder if all of Sessmama's hate and rage and why she treated Sesshomaru as she did can be laid at Inupapa's feet. Because at this moment, he is at his most cruel, his most sadistic. He truly wishes to harm her, in all ways. I will admit to feeling a small spark of pity for her in this moment. But why is it that he treats her this way? 

My question is, Inupapa has made refrences to watching over Inuyasha so how doe she not know that Inuyasha has doen everything he can to hide from his demon nature. Or, how he would even know what is considered the norm in demon society because who was there to teach him? Poor Inu, not only does he have to be subjected to his mother's first time with his father, he also gets to see some Sessmama action too. 

O.O This chapter is now dubbed the "Spurt of Shame" chapter. Bahahaha! Oh Inupapa if your intent was to get Inu the Molested to come to terms with his youkai half, to accept it, to trust in it, you have created a major setback. Not to mention that comment about him needing a woman. While funny, hilarious even, will do nothing but make Inuyasha hate himself even more since he knew that his dad was mocking him but didn''t have the control to not *ahem* burst. Poor puppy.

Hey, if Inupapa has to air most of his dirty laundry, admit his mistakes, he should at least get a good memory to look at while showing teaching Inuyasha some lessons. And oh what a smutty good memory it is.

Hmmm this scenario of forced submission seems vaguely familiar. XD The body is a ruthless traitor to make noncon, go dubcon, to end up at fullcon because it demands it, because it causes pain to deny the pleasure. :shudders: It's rough. Aside from that though, I had this image of Inupapa holding Izayoi up like some offering to the gods, and Izayoi just flailing around in mid air. Maybe it's because it's 6 a.m., or maybe it's just my warped mind, I don't know but I had a good chuckle out of that.

A lusty Inupapa is a dark one, as dark, if not darker than Sesshomaru. His cunning, the gentle veneer that he gives his face, is a weapon in it's own right. It's a mark of a true predator, and Izayoi has damned herself by her omission, one that Inupapa will more than likely never let her forget.

Once again, I am reminded how sad Izayoi's story really is. Though she was chosen to be wanted, loved, by the Inu no Taisho, she will never be his queen, his empress, his equal in all things. And in this, I think that Inupapa was selfish. From this moment on, Izayoi's life would be nothing but strife and grief and pain, things that would be passed down to his second son. And yet, I don't think Inuyasha sees the full truth of his father's selfish and dark desires.

Truths about Kagome? You mean the things that you knew all along and just refused to notice? How about how everything that happens from here on out is a product of his own making? In essence, he gave Kagome to Sesshomaru on a silber platter, she is now his to do what he will with. I do think though, that Inuyasha is mixing up his mother's and  Kagome's situation a wee bit, whether this is out of stubborn unwillingness to accept that fact or not remains to be seen.

Doom, so much doom for those silly human women who do flee from hot smexy demon overlords. Once again Inupapa has made stressed the fact that Kagome is mate and not lover. Are the ties of the bond that much stronger because there wasn't a mutual power exhange like with a regular mating pair, and that the bond is solely based on Sesshomaru's power? :ponders:

It almost seems like Inupapa thinks that this is a curse, to be drawn to that light. I am curious though if the bond is influencing Sesshomaru's desicions. Inupapa said that Sesshomaru feels it more strongly than he himself ever did, and the Inuyasha is to blame. That can only mean the forcing of the mate bond through Leader's Right, or does he perhaps mean that now that Sesshomaru has Kagome with him, he cannot help but be subjected to and surrounded by that light.

Hmmm he says in the beginning, obviously that means that his feelings changed, but i think the important thing to note is that he said both brothers have this in common in regards to Kagome. For Sesshomaru there is lust and the want to care for her, so does that mean that it is the same for Inuyasha? That what he thought was love, was not; but just a need to be loved, to be cared for?

Who though has Sesshomaru had trust in, then lost? Yuugao's when he killed her, or his council's for not being able to control himself? Sesshomaru is already learning that to care is to fear (let's face it, he does not love her, not yet anyway), but he has not come to the conclusion that that fear can make him stonger than anything else on this earth. But this lesson will take Inuyasha a lot longer to learn, I think.

Inu the Enlightened seems to be backsliding, but in this Inupapa is right. The brothers do need to learn to trust, they have both lived their lives without it. There is no true trust in them for the others around them, for each other, and most importantly, in themselves.

Poor puppy, lashing so he can get attention from his father. It's so sad because it seems that is the only way to Inupapa the Neglector's attention. He left his son to fight wars, to politic, to combat famines and he had noidea what was going on in his own home, his own lands. I'm sure more enlightenment is to come Inuyasha's way that his great father is not so great after all. In my opinion, Inupapa's only redeeming quality at this point is that he acknowledges just what he has done, even if it is in death. 

Hmmm...Did he really take the first step, or is Inupapa just following Sesshomaru's lead by giving him what he wants, giving him an outlet for all the rage and pain he has stored up.