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This chapter will introduce a lot of themes I mentioned in the previous one. And a big thank you to my first followers Trippy Fairy and hobo ghost! It made my day yesterday when I saw I had a follower :)

So here's the update as promised! And as always I don't own anything.

Honor Bound

Humans are vile disgusting creatures. The half-breed has forever tied me to the filthy miko. Until I find a way to remedy myself of my current predicament: I had to uphold my honor.

I slowly stood at the base of the tree I had been leaning against. The miko had passed out from her exhaustion, and what I had to do next sickened me to my core. I stalked over to the miko as if she were my prey. Carefully, I pried the sleeping miko from my half brother's corpse. She was in desperate need of a bath, especially after clinging to him for hours. I will never understand the weakness of human emotions. I held her as far from my body, without dropping her, as possible. After all, I couldn't let her filth taint this Sesshomaru.

There was luckily a stream not far from their shoddy attempt at a campsite. It took every bit of honor I had in me to not drop the miko into the stream. Taking a good look at her, I wrinkled my nose in disgust at her highly inappropriate attire. She not only abused my nose with her disgusting scent, but her outfit was more revealing than that of a whore. More than anything I wanted to shred her scandalous clothing and give her a stern lecture.

'Remember, we are honor bound.' I growled lowly in response towards my beast, but knew I had to stay my claws for now. I gently removed her clothing and entered the small stream while carrying her. I laid her body in the water, with my arms underneath of her for support. First I had to scrub out the blood and guts from her hair, before I could wash away the grime stuck to her body. Once her offending scent was bearable I quickly snatched her out of the water. Unaccustomed to dressing a female it took longer than I would like to admit in dressing her.

Once again I carried her sleeping form back to their camp. Instead of placing her with her human companions, I took her with me to my claimed tree. Carefully placing her in my lap, all I could do was think of a way out of this hell. My nose never lies, her scent reaks of purity. The half-breed never mated her, or even initiated any courting procedures. This could be my only way out, otherwise, I'm chained to a nasty human until one of us dies.

- The next day-

It was well past daybreak, yet none of the humans were stirring. We didn't have the luxury of sleep, the sooner we get back to the Western Lands the better. Annoyed that these foolish humans could sleep peacefully, while my life hung in the balance, I snarled at the miko in my lap. I abruptly stood up letting her fall from my lap onto the hard forest floor. She yelped in pain which brought me immense pleasure. She deserved that and much more, but once again my honor stood in the way of acting further. I bit back a shudder before offering her my hand. She rubbed her eyes several times, in shock or tiredness I didn't know.

The miko shakily put her dainty hand in mine and stood. She glanced from our joined hands to my expressionless face and then back to our hands. She yanked her hand away from mine as though I had burned her, and started brushing imaginary dirt off of her clothes.

"Why are you still here Sesshomaru?" She held no malice in her voice, but she clearly wanted me to leave. I will let it slide just this once that she forgot my honorific.

"This Sesshomaru has business with you Miko." She furrowed her brows when I called her miko. I refuse to treat her as my equal when she clearly is not. "I have a name you know, it's Kagome. Not miko, priestess, wench, or whatever else you come up with. Now, if you think you can handle calling me by my name, you can tell me what you have to say and then leave." She huffed in anger while she tapped her right foot expectantly. "Let me be perfectly clear Miko. To call you by name would be saying we're equals. We are not equals. Whether demoness or human, you are a woman, and thus can never be my equal. Now the reason I'm still here. With the half-breed dead I'm required to take you with me to the Western Lands. Once there you will be taught your role. As a woman I'm appalled at your behavior and disgusted by your attire." I allowed it all to sink into her puny brain, preparing for the confrontation that was sure to come. She can come willingly, or I will force her. Until I can make my claims with the other demon society leaders, I have to play by the rules.

She was shaking in anger, if I offended the miko so be it. She better get used to it now; I don't know how she has survived this long acting like a trollop. She raised her hand as if to slap me, and I grabbed her wrist before she could even swing her hand my way. "Did you really think you could slap this Sesshomaru?" I sneered at her while I increased pressure on her wrist. Her face grimaced in pain, but I wasn't done teaching her a lesson yet. "Resistance is futile miko. The half-breed might've put up with your shameful behavior but I will not. You will respect me, we will be together for a long time." I whispered into her ear. She groaned and tried with a newfound fervor to free her wrist from me. "Respect is earned not given." She spat out as I increased pressure on her wrist. I could feel the erratic beating of her heart on my clenched hand. I could break her wrist if I wanted to, but that would just cause more trouble for me. I snarled in anger and released her wrist, causing her to fall to the forest floor.

She instinctively cradled her wrist while hissing out in pain. Then, in that moment, I knew the miko was going to make this difficult every step of the way. She started shrieking loudly like a harpy. I had to cover my ears before she damaged them with her screams. The wretched miko smirked as her companions rushed to her side.

"Are you alright Kagome?" The slayer was very overprotective as she wedged herself between us. "The miko is leaving with me, I will use force if necessary." "I'm not going anywhere with you. Look what you did to my wrist you jerk!" The miko made sure to show off her bruised wrist to both the slayer and monk.

"Now now, lets not forget ourselves. I'm sure there is a good reason why Lord Sesshomaru has to take you." The monk looked at me expectantly, as if this Sesshomaru had to explain himself. "I will not repeat myself monk. Miko say your goodbyes." The slayer glared profusely at me, but wouldn't step aside. "How do I know you won't kill Kagome?" I inwardly sighed, humans and their incessant talking. "To kill her would bring shame upon my family. This Sesshomaru needs the miko alive. Once she is settled in the Western Lands I will send for you to visit her." I clenched my teeth together at that promise, but I was becoming more agitated by the second. This seemed to work, however, as the slayer relaxed. "We will see you soon Kagome. You better take good care of her!" The miko finished her goodbyes, before she reluctantly stood by my side. "Come miko, we have a three day journey ahead of us." I said before turning my back to her and I left the clearing. I could sense that she was actually obeying me for once.

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So because this was Sesshomaru's pov some things were left unpainted so to speak. When he bathed her, he wasn't taking in any of her features. He though of it as a chore, so he obviously wasn't going to check her out or get a boner. And just so we're clear kagome's spirit hasnt been broken yet. So the next chapter will be their 3 day journey to the western lands. Miroku and Sango go back to Kaede's, and someone evil makes an appearance. I'm sorry if the chapter was a bit choppy, I edited this over 3 times! There is one part that I felt seemed a bit forced. I apologize for that, I'm a bit rusty. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Will update by Thursday, shooting for Wednesday but the reality is probably Thursday.