Thank you for returning to my fan fiction. I am very pleased with the amount of interest and I am very honored that someone has added my story to their C2 community. Read on.
Kagome woke up sleeping against something hard, but soft. She ran her fingers through the fluffy material and then heard a growl.
Kagome eye's snapped open. She looked up and her eyes fell upon a sleeping Sesshomaru.
She panicked, yelped and thrust herself off the bed. She landed on her butt with a hard thud, which woke Sesshomaru up.
"What the hell is going on?" Kagome demanded, looking at the lazy eyed Sesshomaru who yawned.
Sesshomaru looked at her oddly.
'Does she not remember?' Sesshomaru asked her.
As if on cue Kagome groaned and put her head in her hands.
The memories of yesterday came flooding back to her. She remembered the events: saving Kikyo, giving her life to Sesshomaru, healing Sesshomaru, kissing Sesshomaru and, of course, sleeping in the same bed as Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru let a small smirk play across his delicate features as Kagome stood up, rubbing her butt.
Kagome looked around the bedroom and remembered her sleep. She hadn't slept so well in months! She hadn't even had a nights' sleep like that in her time!
Kagome looked at Sesshomaru, who was fighting off sleep.
He was a demon but he still got tired once and while and the events of the past week had left him tired.
He looked lazily, and longingly, at her.
Kagome sighed and crawled into the bed next to him. He pulled her too him and nuzzled into her neck, inhaling her sweet, calming scent.
Kagome giggled as his breath tickled her neck.
She sighed as she felt his breath even out and knew he had fallen back asleep.
Kagome thought about everything.
'Okay, first I saved Kikyo's life for no apparent reason. Second, I healed Sesshomaru because I wanted to, and also because I had to. Third, I kissed him. Fourth, I slept in the same bed with him. And last, but not least, I don't feel any regret. I don't get it! This is Sesshomaru the cold hearted, extremely sexy youkai of the west. Ah! Sesshomaru isn't sexy...he's…gorgeous. No!' Kagome mentally fought with herself about all the things she thought Sesshomaru was.
She lay there, thinking for another two hours before Sesshomaru started to wake up again.
He pulled her closer, although she was already close to him, and snuggled into her neck.
"Sesshomaru, you have to get up." Kagome whispered.
She got a grunt in reply and laughed as she felt his breath tickling her again.
Sesshomaru lifted his head and looked at Kagome, who was looking at him with a smile.
"Good morning." Kagome greeted.
Sesshomaru nodded, not completely awake yet.
He leaned down and planted a light kiss on her lips.
He sighed as he sat up and swung his feet over the side of his bed, standing up.
Kagome rolled on her side and watched Sesshomaru's backside as he walked over to his dresser.
'He has a nice ass too.' Kagome added to her list of things Sesshomaru was and had.
Sesshomaru smirked at Kagome reading her thoughts.
"A servant will bring you something to wear. Bathe and meet me downstairs." Sesshomaru told her.
Kagome smiled and nodded as he left the room.
She stood up and stretched.
A servant entered very timidly.
"My lady, my lord has sent me to bring you this." The servant squeaked, handing Kagome a silk kimono.
Before Kagome could thank her she was gone.
Kagome entered Sesshomaru's bathroom, stripped of her nightgown and slipped into his spring.
She washed her body and hair quickly, not wanting to keep him waiting.
She put on the kimono and marveled at herself in the mirror. The kimono was dark blue with white crescent moons on it. She tied her damp hair up into a loose bun and stepped out of the room.
A male servant lead her to Sesshomaru's study where he was sitting, looking over some papers.
He looked her over and suppressed the growl of approval he felt coming on as she sat in front of him.
He put down the paper he had been looking at and looked at Kagome.
She shifted uncomfortably under his intense gaze.
"Are you hungry?" He asked her.
Kagome shook her head; she was used to only eating on meal.
There was long silence that made Kagome uneasy.
"So, what now?" Kagome asked him, breaking the silence.
"Yes, what now?" Sesshomaru replied.
"You can't answer my question with a question." Kagome laughed.
"Well than, what do you wish to do now Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"I don't know, that's why I asked you." Kagome told him with a smile.
"Well I have some boring paper work to fill out." Sesshomaru told her.
He had never been so open and light hearted with anyone before but Kagome brought out a side of him he had only briefly known as a child.
"You're welcome to explore the castle if you wish." Sesshomaru told Kagome.
Kagome smiled at him and nodded.
"Will you…join me for dinner tonight?" Sesshomaru asked her, as she reached the door.
"Of course." Kagome replied, smiling, warming Sesshomaru's heart.
She left the study with a bubbling feeling in her, she was happy, it was odd. She had never been that happy around InuYasha but being in the castle and near Sesshomaru brought out of the best of her.
Kagome made her way to the front entrance and looked around. There was a staircase to the left leading upstairs, where Sesshomaru's bedroom was. There were two halls going in both directions and a hall leading right into the castle, where she had just been.
'Right or left?' Kagome asked herself.
She spun around and looked left.
'Left it is.'
Kagome walked through the hallway marveling at the decorative state of the castle and walked all the way to the side of the castle, where she found a few servants standing.
"My lady, what are you doing in the servant's quarters?" One of the youkai asked, nervous.
"Oh is this the servant's quarters? I didn't know, I'm sorry if I'm interrupting things." Kagome replied.
"No need to be sorry my lady. We were just worried that you needed something we had over looked." One of the other youkai announced.
"Oh no of course not! You guy's are doing a wonderful job." Kagome told them warmly, causing all of them to praise her for complimenting them.
The three youkai skipped away a few seconds later as a male youkai walked around the corner.
"Oh my lady." He announced, bowing low. "Why are you in the servant's quarters?" The youkai asked her.
"I was wandering the castle and ended up here." Kagome replied.
"Well, I will lead you back to the main part of the castle if you wish." The youkai told her.
Kagome nodded as the youkai joined her and they started off.
"I must say my lady; you are the main talk of servants around here." The youkai chuckled.
"Me? Why? And please, call me Kagome." Kagome replied.
"Well than you may call me Seto. You are the talk because you are the first female Sesshomaru had been serious about." The youkai, now known as Seto, told her.
"Serious about?" Kagome asked.
"Well yes. He see's you as a possible future mate and you have only been here one day. The servants have never seen Sesshomaru so content." Seto told her.
"Oh." Kagome replied.
"Do you not want to be Sesshomaru's mate?" Seto asked her, noting the confusion in her voice even though it was very irrelevant.
"No! It's not like that at all!" Kagome pleaded, noting that they were in the main hallway.
"Well, Kagome, I would love to stay and chat but I must go and see my lord." Seto replied as he walked off.
Kagome threw her hands up in exasperation as she made her way up the stairs, heading for Sesshomaru's room.
'Sesshomaru's mate? Could he really be interested in me? I mean, I could just be a plaything for now. No, that's not his style. That's InuYasha's style. But, why would he pick me? I'm not that pretty; I'm not that smart either, all I am is a stupid shard detector.' Kagome thought as she sat down on the bed.
Kagome looked around Sesshomaru's room.
She looked out the window. It was around two.
'What should I do now? Dinner won't be served until a few more hours.' Kagome thought.
She looked down at the ground and around the room again.
The feeling of inadequacy and being unwanted overwhelmed her. She knew very well that if Sesshomaru wasn't serious she wouldn't be able to go on.
It had only been a day and Kagome felt for Sesshomaru what she had never felt for anyone else. He made her happier than she ever was but had she done the same to the cold youkai? True, he was being unusually nice and not trying to be a block of ice but that couldn't have been her.
Could it?
The hours dwindled away and before she knew it Kagome was standing, dressed regally waiting to be called down for dinner with Sesshomaru.
She was wearing a black kimono with silver patterns on it and a silver obi. She had put her hair up in a twist and let some hairs fall down and grace her face. She had found some makeup and had applied light silver eye shadow on her eyes and added a few sparkles to outline her eyes.
'Not bad for feudal era fashion.' Kagome thought happily.
A servant knocked on the door. It was Seto.
"Hello…" He greeted before stopping to take in the beauty before him.
Kagome smiled lightly at him.
"Sesshomaru really has picked a beautiful woman." Seto complimented as he lead the way to where Sesshomaru had set up their dinner.
They walked into a small dinning room, lit with candles and Seto smiled, bowed and left the room.
Through the doors at the other side of the room came Sesshomaru.
He was wearing a dark blue version of his regular attire.
He walked over to Kagome and growled.
"You look beautiful." Sesshomaru told her, spinning her around.
"Thank you." Kagome replied, blushing.
He pulled out a chair for her and sat down across from her.
"How was your day?" Kagome asked him, getting lost in his golden depths.
"Not as good as it could have been with you." Sesshomaru replied, knowing exactly what to say.
Sesshomaru had, actually, finished his paper work early and spent the rest of the day planning out the dinner.
If all went well Sesshomaru would be very pleased. Very, very pleased.
"Did you like the castle?" Sesshomaru asked his beauty.
"Yes, it was very nice. I met one of your men." Kagome told him.
"Oh?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"His name was Seto; he showed me my way back to the main hall when I got lost." Kagome told him.
"Did Seto show you any disrespect?" Sesshomaru asked Kagome.
Kagome knew that if he had, which he hadn't, he would be dead before morning.
"No but he did have some interesting information." Kagome told Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru raised a delicate eyebrow.
"Sesshomaru, are you interested in making me your mate?" Kagome asked him.
Sesshomaru was stunned to say the least at her forwardness but loved the fact that he could toy with her a bit before he answered.
"Would you like me to be interested in you Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked her, catching her off guard.
"Well…I…umm…I guess I wouldn't be completely against the idea." Kagome told him, knowing what game he was playing.
"Is that so?" Sesshomaru asked her, lust flickering in his eyes.
"Well…I need someone who's strong…passionate…handsome…" Kagome told him, standing up and walked over to him.
She stood in front of Sesshomaru and he pulled her to sit in his lap.
"Is that what you need Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked her, his arms wrapped her waist as she sat in his lap.
"Well I need other things." Kagome told him.
"I need him to be forceful…and rough…but he also has to be soft." Kagome told him.
"Can you be that Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked him.
Sesshomaru growled as he nuzzled her neck.
"Would you like me to be your mate Sesshomaru?" Kagome whispered in his ear.
Sesshomaru shivered and pushed his blood beast down.
"Well…Kagome. Can you be an obedient mate to me? Doing as I command when I command it?" Sesshomaru asked her, licking her neck.
"It depends, what's the command?" Kagome asked him.
Kagome could feel something pressing up against her inner thigh and knew that she, and probably Sesshomaru as well, couldn't play the game for much longer.
"Sesshomaru…if you want me to be…I will be your mate." Kagome told him.
Sesshomaru smiled and looked into her eyes.
"Well than, mate, I should tell you that I am not feeling very hungry at the moment." Sesshomaru told her.
"Neither am I." Kagome replied.
They both stood up and started to walk out of the room. The walked upstairs and stood outside Sesshomaru's bedroom door.
"Sesshomaru, I'm ready." Kagome breathed.
There you have it. Yes, the next chapter will be a lemon and the chapter after that will be the epilogue. But do not fret for I have another story in the making and I hope it will catch your interest as this has yours. Please review.