A small moan passed pink lips as Kagome shifted slightly under the weight upon her body. Fingers lightly caressed her upper thigh as a hot tongue assaulted her pulse point.
Her mind worked to sort out what was happening to her but her body was overriding any rational thought as fingers slid under her shirt and latched onto her hardened nipple. It twisted, flicked, and caressed it like the finger were meant for that task and that task alone. She arched her back pushing herself closer to the hot body above her.
She parted her lips and gasped loudly when the fingers caressing her thigh moved to her center, slipping beneath the elastic of her underwear. They slid lightly over the outer edges of her core and stopped when they reached the hard little bud of her pleasure center. When the finger pressed hard against that little ball a moan of pure bliss was torn from her lips.
Her body writhed as the finger worked over the sensitive spot before it slid down dipping itself deep into her hot wetness. She thrust her hips wanting to feel the appendage deeper into her needy body so that the tightness in her stomach would relent.
The large body above her slid down her until it was between her legs where she felt her shorts and underwear torn from her body followed by a hot wet appendage diving into her core. She shot upright at the overwhelming pleasure sensations that shot up her spine. Then when that tongue moved around inside her she fell back upon the bed locking her fingers into the hair of her midnight lover and moaning out her pleasure.
That tightening in her belly seemed to tie her whole being up into a tight knot until she was unable to fill her lungs with life giving oxygen. Then as the tongue darted deep into her core and a finger rolled that little bud expertly everything within her shattered as her body turned in on itself with her release.
Kagome shot up bolt right, sweating, and panting profusely. Her eyes darted around the room looking for the male that would touch her so intimately. Her body still held the lingering sense of him touching her and her center burned with need.
She narrowed her eyes into the darkness. "Naraku, you bastard." She hissed as she laid back down, willing the achy need for release to go away. Much to her dismay, it maintained its throbbing hold upon her leaving her with only one choice… she was going to have to find her own end.
Slipping her hand into her shorts, she pressed against her little but and pressed her hips up against her finger, wanting to feel the digit deep inside her. She worked over her little bud, moaning and gasped to herself when she slid her finger down and dipped it deep into her core. Pumping her finger in and out of her wetness, she added a second as her other hand joined the first, working over her bud of bundled nerves. It wasn't long until a loud moan passed her lips as her body tightened, exploding her release upon her fingers.
She lay there panting, trying to catch her breath, and cursed herself to hell and back for allowing the hanyou to get to her as he did. "DamnitDamnitDamnit!" She growled as she fisted her hands at her sides. "I will kill you you bastard." She growled deadly knowing full well that he could hear her.
After fantasizing about all the bloody ways to kill the hanyou once she got her hands on him, she peeled herself out of her bed, grabbed her robe, bag with her bathing supplies, and made for the hot springs. She needed to wash the sin from her body and was going to scrub her skin raw if she had to in order to remove the feeling of his touches upon her skin.
xx
Sesshoumaru stared at the distracted girl to his left. Something was very wrong with her and when there something wrong with her she had a tendency to turn in on herself trying to vanish from the world. "Girl."
Kagome slowly looked up at the demon lord. "Hai, Sesshoumaru?" She responded with a small sigh.
"What troubles you?" He asked with an edge to his voice that said she had better tell him everything.
Kagome set her chopsticks down and began fidgeting her hands in her lap. "Well…" She trailed off as she turned her head to her lap. "Something happened last night and I am ashamed of myself because of it." She whispered.
He watched the girl intently and narrowed his ambers slightly sure he wasn't going to like what she was about to say. "Explain."
Another deep sigh of regret passed her lips before she began her story. Her voice was just above a whisper and laced with soul tarnishing shame as she told him about the dream which didn't feel like a dream.
Sesshoumaru listened to her tell of her encounter last night with the fangs of rage nipping mockingly at him. He knew the hanyou wasn't actually in his home or touching the girl. He used his heart to tap into her mind and make her feel like what was a dream was reality. When she finished telling him of the occurrences of last night she looked up at him with sadness deep in her brown eyes. "It was no more than a dream created by his hand though his heart." He nodded curtly. "Today it shall end."
Kagome looked at him hopefully. "Really? You figured out a way to break the bond between us?"
He gave her a small nod. "We will be leaving shortly and once we arrive at our destination you will call the hanyou to you."
"You're not going to kill him are you?" She looked at him eyes wide and fearful. "I mean if that's the only way to end it then I guess I…" She trailed off as she thought about never seeing her family or friends again after her death.
"You will not die today." He nearly sighed in annoyance at her thinking he would let her die for this. What did she take him for?
"Really?" She sighed only partially relieved.
He gave her a nod. "Now finish your food and we shall leave immediately." He ordered as he rose to his feet. He was never one to really anticipate anything being it never really worked out how you imagined it too. However today he couldn't wait to face the hanyou filth nor could he wait to see the look on his face when he dished out his ultimatum.
xx
Kagome stood next to Sesshoumaru shifting nervously from foot to foot. They had been standing there for about an hour and the hanyou still hadn't showed up.
"Again." Sesshoumaru ordered causing her to give him a small nod.
Again she tapped into Naraku's heart and called him to her only this time she pulled their hearts from her chest and as much as she hated to do it she put pressure against it. She gasped in pain as she squeezed the large pink orb in her hand that contained her heart, Naraku's heart, and the last shikon shard around the two.
"That will be enough." Sesshoumaru ordered seeing the intense pain she was causing herself.
Kagome sighed in relief as the pain receded when she loosened her grip upon the orb in her hand. "He's coming." She whispered as she stepped closer to Sesshoumaru.
The taiyoukai said nothing he just kept his eyes locked on the spot where the hanyou would appear. He didn't have to wait long for soon the hanyou appeared before them in a swirl of his black miasma.
Naraku paid no mind to the taiyoukai as he locked his rage filled eyes upon the girl. "Are you ready to return what you have stolen from me?" He hissed.
Before Kagome could say a word Sesshoumaru started. "Iie, you will receive nothing from the girl."
Naraku turned his crimson eyes to the demon lord and stared deadly at him. "This concerns you not demon." He growled.
A small smirk played on Sesshoumaru's lips. "Oh hai it does. The girl is under my protection as her guardian."
The hanyou stared at the demon lord. He knew too well the rules of the youkai world and he did not like it one bit. Yet that didn't mean he had to follow the written laws that the demon lord placed upon his lands. He didn't pay homage to the western lands or its lord nor would he ever.
Sesshoumaru kept his eyes locked with his enemy's. He knew that you never take your eyes off your enemy for any reason. "As this girl's guardian and after much thought concerning this I have decided that you will marry the girl."
Kagome gasped and stared up at the demon lord face quickly draining of any color and body trembling in fear that she was actually going to be the hanyou's wife. "Sesshoumaru no." She whispered fearfully.
Sesshoumaru paid the girl no mind he knew what he was doing and besides with the contract she signed she had to at the very least try his solution to her problem.
Naraku stared at the demon lord not liking for one second what he was saying. There was no way Sesshoumaru would just hand over the shikon miko just like that. "What game are you playing at inu?" He questioned as he narrowed his ruby eyes.
Gold eyes maintained their grip on the crimson of his enemy. "However, there are certain rules that you will abide by. Rules that you WILL follow under my supervision so that I can assure the girl's safety as her signed guardian." He took two steps towards the hanyou. "First as her husband and mate you will bow to me as your lord and take up rank as a guard to the western lands. You will defeat my enemies and maintain order within my lands. Secondly, when you and the girl create your first heir he will fall under my control so that I may train him as I see fit as the future general of my army. You will stay at the Palace of the Moon for as long as I decide and perhaps when I feel you have fulfilled your loyalty to me, I shall release you from this agreement." He ignored the whimpering from the girl standing behind him and watched with a superior gleam in his eyes hidden behind his mask of indifference. "Finally you will hand over the shikon no tama so that she can rid the land of its curse."
"I will not agree to these terms." Naraku growled. "The shikon no tama is mine and once I have obtained the last shard I will be the most powerful being in existence." He glared at the demon lord. "Then once I have become the ultimate being I will rid you of your miserable life."
Then he had him. Sesshoumaru knew the hanyou would play right into his hands. "You claim the shikon no tama as yours." He arched a silver brow highly. "Kagome, you will repeat the spell you placed upon the hanyou."
Kagome stared at Sesshoumaru's back for a moment then whispered. "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine."
Sesshoumaru gave a curt nod at the hanyou. "You claim the shikon as yours but what is yours belongs to the girl." When those words left his lips the shikon, less one shard shot from the hanyou's chest and landed in Kagome's hand.
Kagome stared at the shikon no tama then removed the pink orb from her chest containing their hearts and set it next to the almost complete jewel. The shikon sparked pink and the barrier surrounding the two hearts shattered and moved to the gem completing the shikon no tama.
Naraku charged for the girl but quickly found a dark sword pressed against his neck.
"Do not." Sesshoumaru threatened.
All eyes watched as the light shot into the sky then came back down to the ground depositing an old miko. "Midoriko." Kagome gasped in shock.
Midoriko walked over to Sesshoumaru and gently pushed his sword away from Naraku's neck. "Come my love it is time for you to return." She ordered as she held her hand out to him.
Naraku looked at her hand then locked his eyes with hers. "I will go nowhere with you."
Raven hair lightly swished around the miko's waist as she shook her head. "You have no choice. I have allowed you your freedom for long enough it is time for you to return and become complete."
"I will never return." Naraku growled. "This is my place and my world to control."
Midoriko narrowed her eyes deeply upon the hanyou. "Defy me no longer. Today you will return to your rightful place or I will force you back." She snapped at him causing her powers to flare up around her.
Naraku shrunk back away from the angry miko in what Sesshoumaru could have sworn was fear.
"Now come." She ordered in a deadly voice and was pleased when the hanyou silently and obediently placed his hand into hers."
Sesshoumaru and Kagome watched as Naraku was surrounded in pink light then vanished from sight leaving only the elder miko. "Where did he go?" Kagome asked as she moved to stand next to Sesshoumaru.
Midoriko looked at the girl and gave a small sad smile. "Kagome. I am sorry for all the pain I have caused you but in order for me to recapture my wayward husband I had to bring you back to this time."
"Husband?" Kagome gasped in shock. "You're married to Naraku?"
"No my child, Naraku is only half of my husband. When I created the shikon no tama my intention was to seal away the evil that possessed him. However a part of him managed to escape and with my soul bound to the jewel I was unable to capture him. I thought Kikyo would be strong enough to capture him but her selfish desires tainted the jewel allowing Naraku the opportunity to kill her." She walked to stand in front of Kagome. "I had to send the jewel to you because your purity was strong enough seal the jewel preventing my husband from becoming complete. When you were old enough and when your powers were coming into their own I had to call you to this time. I needed to draw Naraku out so that I would be able to return the missing part of my husban back and complete him."
She smiled at Kagome and continued. "However I wasn't expecting the jewel to be shattered and for him to gain the majority of the shards preventing me from being able to call him back to me."
"So he's going to be forever trapped in the jewel?" Kagome questioned sadly.
"No; once he's complete I will be able to remove the evil that resides in his heart…" She trailed off as she took Naraku's heart from Kagome's hand. "And he will become the youkai that I fell in love with so long ago."
Kagome furrowed her brows. "But I thought that that was Onigumo's heart."
"It is… in a sense." Midoriko held the red jewel up. "You see, my husband sent his heart to seek out the perfect child, a child that would give into his evil desires. He searched for a long time until he found Onigumo the perfect human to be manipulated for his evil purposes. By joining his heart with the heart of the child he could become the evil you know today, gain the shikon no tama, and release the remainder of his essence becoming the ultimate evil." She smiled at Kagome. "Thank you for all that you've done and I give you my apologies for forcing you to suffer as you have." She gave a small nod then began vanishing from sight.
"Wait?" Kagome called to the slowly vanishing miko. "Just one question."
Midoriko gave a small nod as she reappeared before the girl.
"Um… does this mean I have to return home for good? Never to come back?" Her eyes began filling with thick heavy tears.
Midoriko looked at the taiyoukai, gave him a small nod then turned back to the girl. "I do not know of your fate with the well." Again she locked eyes with the demon lord and kept her eyes locked with his as she told of what may happen. "Perhaps it will allow you to continue to visit both times or perhaps it has already sealed. I do not know. It is possible that you could travel back to your time but you might not be able to return to this time. " She sighed. "The well is as mysterious as the shikon no tama's power." She looked at Kagome. "Your life is your own now and it is for you to decide where you really belong. Once you have made your decision the well will allow you your wish."
Kagome furrowed her eyebrows. The miko just told her two different outcomes as to what the well would decide. It didn't make sense. "I don't understand." She started but as she turned her eyes back up to the miko she found that she was already gone.
"Come miko let us return home." Sesshoumaru ordered as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
Kagome turned still lost in thought as she slipped her arm through his closing her fingers over his inner elbow. "So does this mean I can't go home? Or can I go home but not come back?" She looked up at Sesshoumaru hoping beyond hope that he would know the answer since he seemed to know the answer to everything else in her life.
"Miko, the well holds a magic that none understand. Perhaps it will decide your fate based on what it sees in your heart."
Kagome leaned her head against his arm and sighed. "Well that doesn't help at all." She ground out. "I don't know what I want. I mean, my family whom I love is on the other side of the well but here I have my friends, Inuyasha, Rin, and you whom I love just as much."
"You will decide what is best in due time." He said knowingly.
"I suppose your right." She placed her other hand on his bicep and hugged his arm to her chest oblivious to what she was doing. "I can't believe that Midoriko was married to that evil youkai." She looked up at him eyes wide. "Bizarre."
Sesshoumaru kept his eyes forward but gave a small nod of agreement.
She gasped lightly as a thought hit her. "That reminds me. Sesshoumaru…" She said his name with an accusatory tone.
"Miko do not." He ordered as he knew where her thoughts had suddenly turned.
"Aww… Come on Sesshoumaru. I only bring it up because I care about you and your future." She huffed.
He eyed her from the corner of his eye. "My future does not concern you."
"It does so." She bit out with a jab of her finger into his shoulder. "You're like my best friend, you know more about me than anyone including my mom." She said with a sharp nod. "My deepest secrets are not secrets any longer since I shared them with you." She again leaned her head against his arm. "You have done more for me and stood by my side during the darkest time of my life I only wish to return the favor."
Sesshoumaru kept his silence he knew that there was no way to stop her from nagging him. He knew this because he had been trying for years, to no avail. So he just stayed silent and let her little fit over his wifeless life run it course.
"You need someone someone whose life is incomplete without you in it. You are a being that is the voice of calm in a world of insanity." She turned her head up to look at him. "Someone out there whose life is in utter chaos needs you to show them the path to sanity. They need you to be the hand that helps them through their troubles." She waved her hand in the air. "Like you have done for me."
Sesshoumaru gave a barely audible snort. She was in effect describing herself. Yet he could easily tell that she wasn't speaking of herself in the least.
"You need someone to protect, to keep safe, someone that makes you feel complete no matter what life throws at you." She looked back up at him with wide knowing eyes. "And I'm sure someone out there needs to be protected from the thorns of life so that they're not always pricking their finger when they make the wrong decisions."
Again, she was describing herself but yet he knew she wasn't. Everything she was saying was everything she was and she was speaking of someone out there that she didn't know. He cut his eyes sharply down at her with the next words that left her lips.
"Plus you need someone to play with your pretty hair." She said with a giggle as she grabbed a handful of the silvery stuff.
"Girl my hair is not to play with." He growled.
Oh how he hated it when she would say stuff like that. It made him feel like she was implying that he wasn't the powerful youkai he was.
"Come on Sesshoumaru. You can't be so stuffy all the time and besides I know you and know for a fact that you are not always what you want the world to see you as."
He halted his progress and turned to face her with narrowed eyes. "Girl, your forget yourself." He leaned down so that they were nose to nose. "I could kill you with a single swipe of my claws." He growled.
Kagome locked her eyes with his and smiled hugely as she patted his cheek with her hand. "You could but won't. You're just a big teddy bear and besides you would miss me if you did." She then turned and began walking away from him.
Sesshoumaru watched her go and curled his lip at her. She was right he wouldn't kill her, maybe maim her up a little but never kill her. He followed off after her thinking that perhaps he should punish her for calling him that loathed nick name she gave him. Teddy bear indeed. When he found out what a teddy bear was he was more than tempted to kill her but he knew as well as she did that he wouldn't. 'Stupid girl.' He growled to himself.
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Sesshoumaru sat at his desk with the girl standing next to him. He could feel her apprehension but for what he didn't know. It unnerved him that she had been so silent for the last two days. He knew what it meant when she was quiet it meant she was thinking and when that happened nothing good ever came of it.
"Well I guess this is it." Kagome nodded as she held her finger out to him.
Her words struck him as odd like this was the last time they were ever going to see each other. It was almost as if she expected herself to disappear once the contract was fulfilled. He grabbed her by the wrist and jabbed the tip of his claw into her finger getting her gasp of pain along with typical flinch like the pain was unexpected. He then jabbed his claw into his own finger and pressed it against hers forcing a single drop of their mixed blood to fall upon the contract sealing it.
He watched as she pulled her finger back and made to stick it in her mouth as she always did. However before the finger could breech her lips he grabbed her by the wrist and brought the finger to his own mouth.
Kagome stared wide eyed as he slipped her finger between his lips dragging his tongue over the small puncture wound. It felt like hot, wet, silk gliding across her finger and sent an unexpected shiver up her spine. "Um…" She started as he pulled her finger from his mouth and placed his lips against her inner wrist gently scraping his fangs against her flesh.
Her bottom lip found its way between her teeth as she tired to sort out what it was he was doing. "Um… Sesshoumaru?" She asked as his lips connected with her inner elbow.
Sesshoumaru moved up her arm to her neck until he found her pulse point. "Hmm?" He questioned as he slid his tongue across the spot where he could feel her heart trying to beat its way out of her body.
"What are you doing?" She whispered and followed that up with a gasp as his tongue slid across her neck until he came to the base of her ear.
"Tasting you." He answered as his teeth gently caught the lobe giving it a little nibble.
Kagome furrowed her brows deeply completely confused by what he was doing. Where was this coming from and what was he thinking with doing this and doing this to HER of all people in the world. "Sesshoumaru…" She started but was quickly cut off when he pulled her into his lap and began nuzzling his cheek to hers.
His eyes lightly fell closed as he slid cheek to cheek until his lips came in contact with hers. He slid his lips gently across hers a few times before he sucked her bottom lip in between his teeth gently nibbling upon it.
Kagome's mind was reeling at these strange actions from the demon lord. He felt so warm against her and his lips were soft like the petals of a rose. She couldn't help herself she let her body melt against him as she pressed further into his kiss.
Sesshoumaru smirked inwardly as he felt her body give into him. He picked her up, rose to his feet, and left the study heading for his chambers.
Once inside he set her down on his large bed and broke the kiss leaving her breathless and staring up at him with clouded chocolate eyes.
Kagome moved to sit on her knees in front of him and stared up into his golden depths. "Why?" She whispered.
Sesshoumaru smirked down at her. "Someone whose life is utter chaos needs me to show them the path to sanity." He grabbed her chin and leaned down then whispered across her lips. "Your life is chaos." He followed that up with a gentle kiss.
Kagome just stared at him shocked as he pulled himself back up to his full height. "But… but I'm a human."
"Hai, I am reminded of that every time you come here needing me to fix your mistakes." He eyed her for a moment before he gently stroked his claws through her hair. 'Something to protect.' His fathers words echoed through his head as he looked at her. This must have been what he was talking about what his father saw in that woman he betrayed his mother for.
She rose up on her knees and locked her eyes with his. "Perhaps you need my chaos in your perfect boring world."
He smirked at her. "Perhaps," he started as he ran his claws lightly up her arms causing her to give off a shiver. "or perhaps I just need you."
Kagome reached out, sliding her fingers through his hair, locking them at the base of his neck. "I think I need you more." She said as she leaned up nipping his chin. Her hands slid down his back to his waist then around to the front where she pulled his sash letting it fall to the floor.
Sesshoumaru watched as she slid his haori open running her hands across his chest to his shoulders where she pushed the garment off his body. She then slid her hands over his shoulders, down his arms then slipped them around his chest pulling him in close. She pressed her cheek against his chest hearing and feeling the steady beat of his heart.
"So warm." She whispered as she turned lightly kissed the dip in his chest as she ran her fingers up and down his spine.
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes at the feel of her gentle touches upon his flesh. He placed his hands on her waist just under her shirt and slid his hands up, pushing her shirt up, forcing her arms up so he could pull her shirt off. He flung the shirt to the floor and placed his hands on her waist picking her up and laying her on the bed.
Kagome watched eyes hazy as he came down over her locking his lips with hers. She wrapped her arms around him, sliding her fingers down his back, to the waistband of his hakama. Slipping her hands beneath the fabric, she reached down and squeezed his nicely shaped ass, forcing a half groan half growl from his lips.
He leaned down nipping at her neck, sliding down further and further until he came to her bound breasts. With a quick slice with his claws, the garment popped open revealing the hidden treasures behind the white lacy thing. He wasted no time in wrapping his lips around a taught nipple as he twisted and teased the other. With each swipe of his tongue over her nipple, a deep breathless gasp was tore from her throat causing him to increase his assault upon her sensitive flesh.
"Kami Sesshoumaru." Kagome moaned with a deep exhale as her fingers tangled deep into his silver silky hair.
Sesshoumaru smirked around the small bud between his teeth before releasing it and giving the other some oral attention. Once satisfied with the gasps escaping her throat, he kissed his way down her chest, over her stomach until he came to the top of her pants. Lifting up he pulled them loose then yanked them from her body along with her underwear. For a moment he just stared at her naked quivering body before he began ridding himself of his remaining clothing.
Kagome stared at him with clouded eyes taking in his naked form causing a strange anticipating tingling sensation to build up within her belly. She opened her mouth and said the only thing that was running through her mind. "I want you."
Amber eyes stared at the naked girl, devouring her and showing her what was to come. Lying down covering her body with his he locked his lips to hers delving his tongue deep into her hot mouth. He slid his hands down her arms, grabbing her around the wrists drawing them up, and locking them above her head with his grip.
She could feel his hard length pressing against her and wanted to feel it throbbing inside her. She moved and shifted, trying to force the length inside her, but to no avail. "Please Sesshoumaru." She begged against his lips.
Sesshoumaru lifted up slightly looking down at her as he lined up and thrust himself home causing her to cry out in pleasure at being filled so suddenly. He began thrusting with long slow strokes forcing her to thrust back against him wanting him deeper and begging for more friction. Sesshoumaru tightened his grip upon her hands as his other hand latched onto her breast teasing the bud with his finger tip.
Kagome wrapped her legs around his back her heels pressing hard into his lower back trying to force him deeper into her. She moaned loudly against his neck as his tongue trailed along the rim of her ear. She jerked her hands trying to break free of the hold he had upon her but it was for not. He only tightened his grip upon her wrists as his thrusts increased in power and speed. "More." She gasped when she felt him hit something deep inside her.
Lifting up he looked down at her and released himself completely to the feelings coursing through his body. His eyes began to bleed red, as he released his hold upon her, grabbed her hips raising her up, and pounding deep and hard into her as his inner beast raged in pleasure.
Kagome cried out in a mix of pleasure and pain as his thrusts demanded her body to give over to him completely. She fisted her hands into the blankets as she felt that hot burning sensation consume her forcing a cry of pure ecstasy from her lips.
Pumping hard into her, he felt her inner muscles tighten around him, causing a growl to rumble through his chest. It wasn't long until he heard her crying out her release with his name on her lips. He dug his claws deeper into her hips and increased his pace so that he could find his own end. He threw his head back and let off a loud feral growl announcing his conquest of the female that was to be his bitch.
While his release spilled deep into her belly, he grabbed her wrist, sank his fangs into her soft skin and followed that up by doing the same to his own wrist. He pressed the two bleeding appendages together as his crimson eyes locked with her hazy chocolate. "What's mine is mine," a smirk pulled on his lips as he finished. "even you."
Kagome heard the words and didn't care. She had always desired the demon lord but because she was human she knew she would never have him. So she decided to go for the next best thing making him her friend not only her friend but her best friend. As she stared up at him she reached out and grabbed him by the neck pulling him down and locking him into a deep kiss.
She bit his lip hard breaking it open then followed that up with running her tongue across his fang opening the appendage bringing forth her crimson liquor. After she thoroughly mixed them together by swirling her tongue around his mouth. She then pulled back and whispered her own curse against his lips. "My life is your life as yours is mine. Together forever, united as one, bound by blood, joined by love." She then stared up at him with an evil smirk on her lips. "You belong to me." She growled seductively then followed that up with an evil laugh.
Sesshoumaru cocked a brow at her. "Bitch I belong to no one." He growled forcing her to narrow her eyes at him. He dropped down, going lax over her body, forcing her to struggle against him and his weight.
"Kami!" She gasped with a cough as her lungs were compressed against his great weight. "Get off me!" She slapped against his arms as she tried to roll over and push him off her.
Sesshoumaru rolled over onto his side and pulled her flush against him then looked down at her when she smiled at him.
"Ya know Sesshoumaru," Kagome started as she snuggled closer to him. "I have loved you for a long long time and now I can love you for real instead of pretending." She placed her hand on his cheek and ran her thumb along the stripes on his cheek. "My best friend." She whispered and smiled as he looked down at her.
Sesshoumaru just stared at her not responding as he wrapped his arms tightly around her. "Sleep." He ordered as he let his own lids close. He had taken the girl as his own a girl whose life was one disaster after another leaving him to clean up her messes and he couldn't imagine it being any other way.