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Chapter Three: Need

She moaned as he slid into her, she was overcome with intense pleasure. As he pumped faster into her she felt the knot building, faster and harder he pounded into her and just as the world was going to shatter around them she woke up panting. Kagome had never had one of those dreams before, and she was now painfully aroused. 'Damn you Sesshomaru' she thought as she looked around to see if anybody was up, thankfully no one was. 'Okay kagome calm down it was just a dream, think gross thoughts, Kaede in a bikini' Kagome shuttered at that, but the painful feeling was gone.

She let out a deep sigh, waking up a certain hanyou. "Oi wench, I finally figured out that smell," he paused "you're not innocent anymore."

Kagome could only gape at him, his words had woken up the rest of the party and they had caught the last of it. Miroku looked at Kagome and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively "care to share kagome?" Kagome shook her head furiously and glared at Inuyasha 'He just had to yell it to the whole world, didn't he!' she thought heatedly, as she yelled "SIT! Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, I can't believe you! SIT" As she finished she ran into the wood leaving an Inuyasha shaped hole in the ground, and you could hear him groaning.

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'We must see mate, she is distressed' wined his demon side. Sesshomaru ignored it reading the last paper on his desk, once done though his demon wined again 'Go see our mate' 'I shall not lower myself to go see a human, whom I did not choose as a mate' he said. His demon side growled and went to the back of his mind. Nodding silently, Sesshomaru got up and walked out onto the balcony, as a flood of emotion hit him Sesshomaru drew his eyebrows together 'Why is the mating bond so strong, I can feel her emotions even though she is far away.' He watch Rin run through the gardens playing hind n' go seek with Jaken, a small smile graced his lips as he watched his young ward.

He closed his eyes and focused on the mating bond, if it was as strong as it felt then he should be able to tap into her thoughts. After a moment he caught pieces of her thoughts 'Motherfuc-…Inuyasha being all…how dare he...' he was surprised at how angry she was. He stopped concentrating and thought that it would need some work before he could read her thoughts fully and her his. 'Damn mate mark' he thought. A new emotion crashed into him, fear, she was terrified, his demon rose up from the back of his mind 'Find mate, She's in danger!' it snarled.

Sesshomaru didn't argue for once, he summoned his cloud and took off in the direction the mate mark was pulling him.

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Kagome screamed hoping Sango and Miroku could hear her, or even Inuyasha. There in front of her was a panther demon; Kagome being lost in her anger ran from camp without her bow and arrows. 'I'm such an idiot' she thought as she was backed into a tree, the panther demon stalking her drool dripping from its mouth. Kagome closed her eyes, waiting for it to strike, a second later a sickening slice was heard. She opened her eyes to a headless panther demon, shocked she looked around only to spot red eyes in the bushes. Her fear returned as the eyes grew closer to her, but once the owner of the eyes was in the light the fear instantly vanished and she let out a sigh of relief "Sesshomaru, thank you so much."

Sesshomaru's eyes returned to their normal gold as he looked at her, 'She is not afraid of me' he thought bewildered. She looked around, seeing if there were any more demons other that the one in front of her. "How did you know I was here?" she asked suspiciously.

He looked at her blankly and said "The mark pulled me to you when you were distraught"

Kagome glared at him "Mark? What mark?" He stared blankly at her "You do not know what happens when you mate with a demon?" with a shake of the head he sighed inwardly "When I bit your neck a bond was formed, this bond is strangely strong for some unknown reason, a strong bond allows us to communicate through a mind link and sense each other's emotions, the mark also symbolizes that you are my mate."

Kagome gazed up at him, "That was the most I have ever heard you say," she smiled which turned into a frown as she processed what he said. "You mean you can read my mind? Wait what does being your mate mean?" In his mind Sesshomaru groaned and said "I can read your mind but only if you allow me access to it, and being my mate would be the demon version of a wife…" He trailed off at the look on her face. She was horrified 'I have a husband and I didn't even know it?' "Oh my god" was all she said out loud, she sat down in shock.

"Can we ignore the bond and go on until Naraku is finished off?" Kagome asked looking up. He shrugged his shoulders, a very unsesshomaru thing to do. "I do not know, demons that have mated and didn't want to be mated just kill each other, or they give into their need and go to them."

"Need?"

Sesshomaru fought a sigh that threatened to come out 'Humans and their endless questions.' "Dog demons mate for life, the two mated usually stay together and mate over and over again, but in some cases the two are separated and their need to mate will become too great and they will seek out their mate. If one or the other mates with someone else they both will experience great pain, now that is all I will tell you today."

With that he turned around, Kagome stood up and yelled "Wait," he paused "Thanks for explaining, Sesshomaru." With that he took off in the direction of his castle.

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Kagome returned to camp, she was quiet, and she was lying in her sleeping bag with Shippo that night thinking over everything that Sesshomaru had told her. 'I hope I can last long, without him' she thought falling asleep.

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When the morning came, kagome awoke again feeling aroused only it was a bit more painful then yesterday. 'Fuck, I can't last a few months let alone a few days' she said trying to calm her body down. 'Think, umm, Naraku in a speedo.' (That thought goes to the person who wrote King of the hill) She instantly felt sick to her stomach, but at least she wasn't aroused anymore. 'Maybe I can try that mind thing Sesshomaru was talking about.' Kagome concentrated and felt out for Sesshomaru. 'Sesshomaru, can you hear me?' She said into her mind. She felt a flicker, 'Women, what are you doing?'

Kagome jumped at the sudden noise, and looked around 'Sesshomaru?'

'Who else would it be, human.' He thought, not really asking the question.

'Well it freaked me out, and my name is Kagome thank you very much, so use it.' She thought, anger rising.

'Don't order me around, wench, now what do you want I have more important things to do.' She felt his anger, and shivered.

'You feel it too don't you' she asked timidly, staring at a tree in front of her.

'If you are talking about the need, yes, unfortunately.' She practically heard the glare in his voice. 'Do you still want to wait till the end of the final battle?'

Kagome was surprised, 'You are actually considering to mate me again?' she sputtered, and looked around seeing no one up yet she kept her mind open.

'Would you rather die from the pain?' he asked. Kagome shook her head, then remembered that he couldn't see her, and thought 'No, I don't.'

'Then we shall meet, regularly every night when the moon is high.' He said thinking about what he just did.

'Alright' kagome thought after a moment 'but tell me where to meet you every night, okay.'

After his consent, she closed the mind link, and went about fixing breakfast.

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Sesshomaru sighed, as he sat at his desk, sitting back and closing his eyes he thought about his deal with the miko, 'I have truly fallowed in my father's footsteps whether I liked it or not.' As he finished that thought, Rin came running in. "Sesshomaru-sama look Rin has picked some flowers for you" she said in her sweetest voice, showing him a bouquet of flowers.

"Lovely Rin now find Hanita to put them in water, so they don't die." He said, the little girl smiled and ran back out of the room calling for the maid. He looked out the window and thought it was time to look for his mate.

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Kagome gasped in pleasure as he entered her, running her fingers through his soft, silky hair, she moaned. He pumped hard into her, faster and harder he went until he and her came at the same time, screaming each other's name.

She lay on his chest, breathing in his scent, fresh pine and something she couldn't identify. She looked at his face, seeing that his eyes were open and looking at the sky. They had been meeting up like this for a little over a month, not every day more like every two or three days. Kagome reached up and traced his ear, earning a growl of pleasure from him. She, being bold tonight, lifted her head and traced his outer ear with her tongue. Sesshomaru growled louder, at the pleasure she had caused. Going down his body, kissing along the way, she reached his manhood. When she touched him, he had hardened instantly; she gave his head a light lick making him moan lowly. Slowly she put him in her mouth, and sucked softly, making his hips buckle. She took him out of her mouth, only to lick up his shaft, swirling her tongue around his head sucking hard.

Sesshomaru finally had enough of this; he grabbed her arms and threw her off of him, landing on her back. He was on her in a second, sliding into her, and making love to her for another hour or two.

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Kagome bathed and dressed, sat in front of Sesshomaru, they usually talked after they had sex, more her talking and him listening, Kagome insisted because she didn't want to not get to know someone who she was so intimate with.

"How is Rin?" she asked

"Hn" was his answer, as usual. Kagome glared at him, "Come on how are we suppose to get to know each other if you won't say much of anything."

He sighed "Rin is fine, now I must go I have much to do at my home, see you soon, kagome." With that he formed his cloud and flew west. Leaving a surprised kagome sitting there, 'That was the first time he used my name not having sex' she thought, getting up and walking back to camp.

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As she entered camp Inuyasha was up sitting by the fire, with Kikyou next to him, they were whispering furiously at each other. Sango and Miroku sat at a base of a nearby tree, a sleeping Shippo next to them, Kirara in Sango's lap. Inuyasha glanced at her and glared, Kikyou looked at her with a triumphant smile on her face, he got up and walked up to her.

"And where the hell have you been, wench?" he asked not to gently. Kagome stared at him with a straight face and said bathing; Inuyasha glared even more saying "Why?"

Kagome shrugged saying "I feel dirty after a long day of walking in the hot sun."

Inuyasha stepped closer to her "Kikyou said that you were off meeting up with someone, care to explain to me why you go into the woods, which are dangerous, just to meet someone?"

Kagome glared at Kikyou with newfound hate 'That bitch, oh she will get it' "Nope, my personal life is my business, and I don't have to explain myself to you."

Kikyou laughed "You just admitted that you were meeting someone at night, you are the stupidest I know." Kagome felt the anger boil up, she wanted very badly to hit someone, preferably the two in front of her. Sango jumped up and punched Kikyou in the face, "Do not insult Kagome like that, bitch." She yelled to the clay pot. Breathing deeply Kagome couldn't get her anger under control at all. She turned towards a big tree behind her and punched it as hard as she could. Her powers poured out of her fist and into the tree splitting the trunk, making the tree fall.

Inuyasha gaped at the sight of the fallen tree, then to kagome. "How did I do that?" She asked her anger now depleted turning into surprise. Miroku grinned saying "You know she could have hit you with that, and then we wouldn't have to listen to you bitch all the time." Inuyasha turned to glare at him, making kagome sit him.

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After that was all done and over with, they had set off this time to the west. After walking for about an hour or two Inuyasha got tense, and started growling.

"What is it Inuyasha" Miroku asked

"Sesshomaru" Inuyasha growled out, pulling out the Tetsusaiga from its sheath. The sword glowed as if about to change, but it didn't. "What the fuck is wrong with my sword?" he yelled outraged, waving the sword around, seeing as that didn't work he sheathed it again.

"Brother I for once am not here to fight you," Sesshomaru said walking into the clearing; he gazed at everybody, landing on kagome. "Miko, I am in need your services, my ward is sick and I only have demon healers." He said.

Kagome gasped "Rin is sick?" At Sesshomaru's nod she grabbed her bag from Kirara and walked over to him.

"Kagome! Don't go near him!" Inuyasha yelled. Kagome glared at him, "You have no say in what I do or don't do, alright Sesshomaru-sama I'm ready take me to her." He wrapped his arm around her and took off into the sky, Inuyasha yelling her name.

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"Why were you so angry?" he asked suddenly. Kagome looked at him confused for a moment then this morning came back to her.

"Oh Inuyasha being stupid, and Kikyou rating on me for sneaking out at night, the both made me so mad. Then Sango hit Kikyou, I tried to calm down, but I needed to hit something. I hit a tree, I made the tree fall Sesshomaru, I don't know how I did it either." Kagome said, taking a breath.

Sesshomaru looked ahead, "It may be due to the mating, I'm not sure,"

Kagome gasp "Sesshomaru doesn't know something, the world's ending!"

He continued "I will look it up while you look at Rin." He reminded her that there was a sick child making her worry for her.

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Inuyasha paced the clearing, it had been two hours since kagome left and he was getting restless. "What is taking that woman so long!" he yelled startling everyone else in the clearing.

"Inuyasha calm down, the girl can take care of herself, now let's move on please." Kikyou said standing up.

Sango glared at her and said "I think we should wait, what if she gets lose trying to find us if we leave?" Miroku nodded in agreement.

Inuyasha growled, "I'm not waiting long for her I'll give her till tomorrow, if she is not back then we move out." Kikyou nodded in agreement, a smirk on her face.

Sango glared at her, as she sat down next to Miroku. "I can't stand her any longer Miroku, what if Kagome takes longer than a day?"

"Sango my beautiful flower, there is no need to worry; we will stay here until she comes." He said moving closer, making her blush.

Sango felt pressure on her backside, glaring at the monk, yelling "PERVERT!" slapping him on the face. "Sango, my hand is cursed I tell you, and you are so beautiful I can't resist it." He said rubbing his cheek, making her blush more.

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As they touched down in the courtyard of his palace, Kagome stared in wonder at all the flowers, and the stone work on the ground. She looked at the palace; it was larger than she thought it would be, it looked to be made out of marble or something.

Her thoughts were interrupted by his voice "Come, Rin must be taken care of first" kagome was led into the castle, tapestries hung on the walls in dark blues, whites, and a deep maroon. As the walked up some stairs, down the hallway and stopping in front of a door. He knocked, there was a quiet come in, and they entered. Kagome was instantly in a world of pink, and orange, "Wow" she mumbled.

She looked at the bed, to see Rin there, under a pink blanket, her cheeks were flushed, and she was sweating. "Hello Rin, I'm here to make you feel better." Kagome whispered quietly to the young child. Dropping her bag, reaching for her first aid kit, she pulled out a thermometer. "Here stick this in your mouth under your tongue, and wait till it beeps then hand it back to me." Handing it to her, Rin did as she was told, a few minutes later it beeped and she handed it to her. "One hundred and one point three, yes you have a temp, are you coughing any?" Rin shakes her head no.

Kagome reached for her Motrin, and a little measuring cup, giving her on tablespoon full. "Drink it, and you will feel better." She did, and laid back down to go back to sleep "Goodnight Sesshomaru-sama, thank you Kagome" Sesshomaru pulled the covers up, and patted her head.

Once they were out of the room, kagome turned to him, "She will need to take medicine in the morning and at night, until she gets better, and sleeping is very good for her, she will get better in no time." He nodded at her, and looked out the window, "It is getting dark, would you like to stay here until morning?" he asked.

"I would like to stay here until Rin is feeling better, if that is alright with you." She said he nodded leading her down the hallway to a giant door; there were engravings of inu youkai on it. He opened it to reveal an elegant room, a big four poster bed on one side of the room with dark blue bedcovers that match his crescent moon. There were double doors leading out onto the balcony, and another door near the bed, and another door on the other side of the room. Also on the other side of the room was a fireplace with a big comfy chair in front of it along with a table that had a vase with flowers in it.

"Wow." She whispered for the third time that day. Sesshomaru smirked "This is my room, the door on the right (by the bed) is to the hot springs and the door to the left (by fire place) is to Rin's room." Kagome nodded walking a little more in, now noticing that there were two big wardrobes in the room also.

He walked to one wardrobe and started disrobing; kagome blushed and turned to look at the painting above the fireplace. It was a man that looked like Sesshomaru, with long silver hair and crescent moon on his forehead, and golden eyes, but it wasn't Sesshomaru. There was also a beautiful silver haired woman, her hair was up in an elegant bun with two chopsticks with crescent moons on the ends to hold it up, her blue eyes shone with happiness. She was sitting down, and the male had his hand on her shoulder, on the woman's lap was a little silver haired boy about the age of four or five, his gold eyes innocent as he looked at the painter.

"That is my father, mother and me a few years before my father met Inuyasha's human mother, and died." He said from behind her. Kagome turned to look at him, "Just how old are you Sesshomaru?" she asked. He looked at her for a moment, and said very seriously "I am 392 years old, this fall I shall be 393."

Kagome looked surprise, "You're like an old dude trapped in a young body, you're like a pedophile." He glared t her, then turned around to the bed "I am quite young for a demon, some are over two thousand years." Kagome put her bag down, and pulled out a pair of blue silk pants and a white tank top. She changed quickly, while he was turned. "So how old is Inuyasha?" The question made him tense, "he is around 150, why?"

"You would think that he would be more mature than he is." She said shrugging her shoulders.

Sesshomaru smirked as he lay down on the bed, "Come we shall sleep now" he said. Kagome blushed deeply, 'I'm going to sleep in his bed, with him?' she thought franticly. As she walked slowly up to the bed, and sat down on the edge, very tense. Sesshomaru stared at her for a moment, before taking her around the waist, and tugging her down. She sighed as her head hit the soft pillow; the sheets were like velvet, along with the covers. 'What a wonderful bed' she thought as she fell asleep, not even telling him goodnight.

He fell asleep soon after her, not thinking of how his arm was still around her waist.

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End of Chapter three