Kagura open her eyes to a sight she had seen a hundred times before. She was laying in a massive bed in some far away mansion. Her wounds were gone and her clothes were changed. Her heart hummed within her chest where it belonged. And standing before her was none other than Sesshoumaru, the man who had miraculously saved her from death. The man she loved but could never have. The thing about the underworld she had learned was that more than physical pain, it tormented you with emotional pain. It gave you all your greatest desires right before ripping it all away. Torturing you with the thing you want most. For her it was him, the great dog demon lord of the west, Sesshoumaru. But this was just another one of hell's illusions. That she had never died but been saved by him, loved by him. Or so she thought until he spoke words that not even hell itself could conjure up. "How dare you die without my permission" he said in that calm regal voice of his, the anger, guilt and pain dripping from his words. She stared up at him wide eyed. Not believing her ears. Never in what felt like an eternity had one of the illusions say something like that. Words that without a doubt belonged to Sesshoumaru, but how. Only now did she truly start to take in her surroundings. First and foremost she took in Sesshoumaru. The large bed covered with velvet she was on. The crimson painted walls lined with tapestries and calligraphy. The columns woven with golden vines that climbed to the ceiling. With opened bay windows that let in the moon's soft glow and gentle breeze. All these things only registered in Kagura's peripheral vision. Her main focus was on the man standing before her. He was different than she remembered. He seemed much more noble, mature and powerful. The underworld could only use the memories pulled from the minds of its inhabitants against them. But it did not give it only took away, till you can't even remember the faces of your loved ones anymore. But the man who stood before her now, she could feel presence, his warmth, his...irritation. Wait what. Why was he so irritated at her with that look of annoyance all over his face? Then she realized she'd been staring at him the entire time without saying a word. "Are you done gawking at me already? I asked you a question." He spoke in a low but edgy voice. "I-I-I don't understand what's happening." She stammered. Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and sighed. "Then I will tell you. You have been dead for the past three years but that is no longer so. In order to bring you back I had to retrieve your body which was destroyed by miasma form hell. Then the matter of restoring your soul was child's play with Tensaga. The reason for my doing this was self clarification. I could not live with your death on my conscience." His words were like being injected with miasma all over again. He brought her back just to clear away the failure of saving her. She shook with anger and sadness. "So that's it, you just wanted a clean conscience. Do you know what three years in hell feels like? It's a lifetime. Yet all-." She faltered when he began to do something she couldn't fathom. Sesshoumaru silently removed his swords and placed them on the sword-racks lining the back wall, and then removed his armour and mokomoko until he was left in just his kimono alone. Kagura's face turned beet red and she back up on the bed. Why the hell is he undressing, what could he want (like you don't know what he wants) she asked herself. "There is one other thing I would like to confirm." He said while approaching the bed. "And what would t-that be." She responded, backing up a bit. "You took something with you when you died. Something you managed to gain right at the end. I want to confirm if I should leave it with you or take it away." What was he talking about? What she gained before dying. The only thing she could think of was. No, her eyes went wide with realization, her heart. That is what she had gained before dying. It was the reason for her death and now he wanted to take it from her. She backed away until she hit the wall and clutched her chest where her heart was pounding within. Almost wishing she was dead again if it meant protecting it. He used his speed to close the gap between them, placing his hand over hers. She screamed but didn't fight him; she knew it would be useless even if she had her fan. Then something even more bizarre occurred, he smiled. "Relax woman" he said softly, leaning into her, his nose brushing against hers, making her heart race. "It was not your heart alone you took with you to hell. You also whisked away mine. I brought you back to reclaim it but now I think I would prefer it if you kept it. If you wished to that is." His words had her heart hammering inside her chest so hard it felt like it was about to break out through her ribs. She tried to claim it down but could not. Of course she wanted his heart. But not just that she wanted him completely. At first she wanted her heart back purely for herself. To be free of the detestable hanyou Naraku and live how she chose. But after meeting Sesshoumaru that goal change. Now she wanted it back to give it to someone worthy of it. To exchange it with his, and now she finds out that she had taken it without either of them being aware of it. She tried to answer, to say yes. But the air in her lungs was gone, her vocal cords maddeningly silent. At a lost as how to respond, her body answered for her. Leaning forward those last few inches and pressing her lips lightly to his own. Warmth flooded her body from the contact and she instantly felt light-headed. The kiss grew more passionate by the second as they both surrendered their hearts to one another. Their questing hands roaming everywhere they could reach. Sesshoumaru finally broke away, while Kagura's body listed forward unwilling to release his lips. "Should I take that as a yes then?" He said with a cocky smile gracing his lips. Her answer came in the form of her throwing her arms around his neck and crashing her lips back into his. She kissed him like his lips were more important to her than oxygen. And Sesshoumaru returned it with equal frenzy. They licked and sucked at each other's lips, Sesshoumaru using the moments when she gasped for breath to plunge into her mouth with his tongue. Tasting her teeth tongue and saliva, leaving nothing untouched, making Kagura moan and shiver from pleasure and heat. He pulled away from her gaining a groan of disapproval until it turned into a surprised shriek when he grabbed her ass firmly and tossed her back onto the bed. Pure lust danced in his eyes that were directed straight at her, turning the heat inside her into an all consuming inferno. "I have three years of built up irritation towards your blatant thievery woman. So I sincerely hope that you don't believe that this will be a short night.

Kagura pov

I was too dazzled by his burning gaze to notice what his hands were doing. I definitely felt when he used the claw of his right index finger to slice open my kimono and undergarments at the same time. His eyes declaring that he refused to wait any longer to make me his. I shivered from both the sudden cold and the intensity of his gaze. I attempt to speak, to launch a complaint about his clear abuse of my clothing but he sealed my lips shut with his own. I guess words were not the sounds he wanted to hear from me. My mind was in complete turmoil, half refusing to believe that this was real. That he would jump into the underworld to save me. That he wanted me. He slowly moved from my lips, burning a trail of wet kisses to my ear, whispering his intent to have me screaming his name. He continued his destructive path down the column of my neck to my collarbone. Nipping and licking at it until I was writhing beneath him. Moving unbearably slowly to the mound of my breast, he kissed around it, refusing to touch the hardened nipple but ghosting over it with his breath till I whimpered. He locked his gaze with mine, delighting in my quivering from under him and my lust filled eyes. He knew what he was doing to me, driving me crazy with his touch, god this man was going to be the death of me all over again. Suddenly his lips clamped down over my nipple making my back bow and causing me to fist my hands into the sheets and moan his name far louder than I thought I could. My mind went blank as he rolled the sensitive nub in his mouth with his tongue while massaging the other one, pinching it between his thumb and index fingers. His free hand slid down my body and began tracing circles around my clit and neither-lips. Oh sweet Jesus is he trying to give me a heart attack, there only so much a girl can take at once. He moved his lips moved up to ear. His hot breath sending sparks down my spine. "What would you like me to do next" he rasped into my ear, sucking at the lobe. How was I supposed to answer him in my devastated mental state? "You know what I want" I moaned out, clutching at his back. "Oh so now you believe me to be physic. How would I know what you want if you do not voice them" he said, sucking the sweet spot on my neck and pulling more moans from me. God he was such a tease. "You, inside me, right now." he then slip a finger inside me pumping it a few times before inserting another. "OH GOD, SESSHOUMARU, NOW, PLEASE!" I cried out in desperation. He was satisfied with that reaction and slid his fingers out, stripping completely and lining up his large erection with my entrance. I gasped at his size, he really was great demon, I wasn't entirely sure something that large would fit inside me. But he then quickly slid into my wetness until he was fully sheathed within me. I was gasping for breath and digging my nails into his shoulder blades at the pain. But it soon dissipated leaving behind and incredible sense of fullness. Now I belonged to him body, heart and soul and tears of pure joy rolled down my cheeks. With the last trance of pain gone I rolled my hips against his to show him I was ready again. He kissed off my cheeks and then kissed my lips passionately as he pulled out and trusted back in. I broke the kiss and threw my head back, moaning loudly at the pleasure that washed over me. He slowly increased his pace and my moans slowly turned to screams. Soon he was pound into me at a pace that bordered on animalistic, the skin of our hips slapping against each other and echoing through the room. He attacked my nipples again while keeping up his rigorous pace. My back arched off the bed, thrusting my chest into his hungry hot mouth as I screamed his named. Then just stop all movement and sat up straight. I whimpered and writhed for his touch, mad that he stopped when he did. The hot coil that was tightening in the pit of my stomach was now fading fast. I threw him my best puppy dog eyes, silently begging to continue. Without warning he gripped my hips tightly – no doubt that's going to leave a mark – and slammed into me with such force and so deeply that it was nearly painful. The coil in my belly didn't even have time to wind up and it exploded immediately upon impact. "OH MY FUCKING GOD!" I screamed as my puppy dog eyes rolled back into my head. My hands fisted in sheet so tight they ripped through them as my body bowed off the bed. I was screaming his name over and over again as my orgasm tore through me. I almost black out form the force of it. As I finally came down from my high Sesshoumaru slid out and then drove back into me with identical force. I was screaming his name and arching yet again as my conscience was sent on another trip. This time though he built up a rhythm, making me cum on nearly every thrust. My mind was in utter shambles, he was going to be the death of me all over again although I don't think I'll mind it this time. "Oh god, Sesshoumaru, you'll make me go crazy, oh god, baby please, no more, I can't take this, oh god again, I'm cumming again, AHHH!." He of course didn't stop as orgasm after orgasm rocked me to my core. Then his pace became erratic as he finally moaned my name to his own release, flooded my womb with his warmth. Never have I felt more complete than in this moment, relishing the feel of him within me and his weight as he collapsed on top of me. We stayed like that for a few minutes just enjoying each other's presence. Let everything that happened to night sink in. He had come to heel just to get me, confessed his love to me, and then made earth shaking love to me. This was a lot to take it both figuratively and literally. "So I guess this means I'm keeping it then, your heart that is." He chuckled into my neck. "What do you think? Of course I will be taking yours in exchange." Now it was my turn to chuckle "you don't hear me complaining about it do you." Then we both returned to comfortable silence. "Hey Sesshoumaru" I whisper into his ear. He shifted his face to look at me and I kissed him deeply, with all my heart behind it. "I love you" I whispered as fatigue began to over take me. He smiled and said "I love you too, Kagura". Then he flipped me onto my hands and knees and took me by the waist again. I stared back at him dumbfounded, he couldn't possibly be serious. He wanted to go at it again, after the royal fucking he just gave me. But his expression said that he was dead serious.

"What, didn't I tell you that this was going to be a long night."

To Be Continued.