"What the hell's the matter with frosty?" Inuyasha inquired loudly, plopping into a comfortable office chair. "And what's with the meeting?" One minute, he was lounging at home, the next he was being called in by his old man.
Inutaisho glanced at his son. "Care to explain, Sesshomaru."
Sesshomaru glared at his father. Just who did he think he was. "Father thinks I need an intervention." Like there could possibly be anything wrong with him. He was Sesshomaru after all. The maru didn't stand for anything but Perfection.
Inuyasha smirked, baring a fang. "About time, your cold ass attitude was getting on my nerves."
"It isn't about my attitude, halfbreed."
"Well, why the hell not?! You shit icecubes!"
Inutaisho growled. "Will you both shut up?! This is about Sesshomaru's marriage and mateship."
"What? He found out Kagome is planning to leave him?" Inuyasha asked boredly.
"You lie." Sesshomaru protested, his fists slamming on the table.
Inuyasha flinched. It was seldom that Sesshomaru lost his cool, and the few times he did were terrifying. "I-I was joking, Sess. Jeez. You know we're always at each other's throats. It's like a game."
Sesshomaru glared, slumping back in his chair. He couldn't believe he was about to do this. "There may be truth to your words."
"Wh-what? You're insane." Inuyasha shook his head. No. No way was that possible. Kagome would never leave him. Sure, she was too hot for him, and too smart, and too interesting, but she loved him! Kagome would never...right?
"Son, what makes you think Kagome would ever want to leave you?"
Sesshomaru exhaled softly. "You saw her this morning, father. She did not even want to be in my arms."
Inutaisho shrugged. "You overeact, my boy. Izayoi pushes me away everytime we have a fight. That's what women do."
"Kagome and I aren't simply having a fight, father." Sesshomaru sighed. "This has been going on for some time."
"What could have brought this on? I'm sure Kagome still loves you. Does it have to do with those pains she has in her abdomen?"
"Yes." Sesshomaru drawled, licking his lips as he felt a nervousness that usually didn't come over him.
Inutaisho and Inuyasha waited a moment, before Inuyasha snapped. "Care to elaborate, asshole?" The hanyou winced when his father hit him in the back of his head, making a dull CLUNK on his skull. "What?"
{Sesshomaru's POV}
I narrow my eyes at Inuyasha. Of all the times for him to act like a complete moron, he chooses to remain one now. "About two years ago, I was...unfaithful to Kagome."
"Unfaithful?" Father mutters, his eyes wide. "You mean a little peck on another woman?"
"No, father. This Sesshomaru means that I rutted with another female, on numerous occassions."
"Wow." Inuyasha stares at me. "I didn't know you had it in you. I thought you were perfect, a goody good."
"I am perfection. That was a mere...miscalculation." I quip, hoping to end the conversation here.
Father in unwilling to let it go. "A miscalculation?! What?! You miscalculated when Kagome would find out?! When she'd walk in on you and your whore?!"
I glare at him, anger burning in my veins. "I miscalculated my intelligence, my strength for a moment. I was..." Dear Kami, pigs must be flying overhead, "weak for a moment."
"Does Kagome know?"
"Of course she does."
Inuyasha nods, his arms crossed as he reclines in his chair. "How'd she find out?"
I close my eyes. "I told her." I'd almost killed that wench of a whore when she threatened to tell Kagome.
"Sesshomaru, h-how did that begin?" My father touches my shoulder. I shrug off the foreign touch, remembering what happened.
*Flashback*
"Sesshy!" Kagome whined in my ear so loudly that I held the phone away.
"Yes, Kagome?"
"The baby's craving cooked sushi, charred sushi in fact."
I arched a brow. "Kagome, sushi is raw fish. You do not burn it."
She huffed. "Just get it. I don't care what it's called, but I want it black and crunch with strawberry pocky and shrimp ramen."
"Anything else?" I clenched my phone tightly in my hand. That was the third time she'd called me in less than an hour.
"And tampons."
I growled. "Pregnant women should not bleed."
Kagome simply growled back. "Some of them do, Sesshomaru. What's wrong with you? Is it that stupid merger? Look, Urusuei corp will gladly merge with you. Stop stressing and yelling at me!" She started to cry.
"Kagome, calm down. I'll have you charred sushi, pocky, and ramen in at least an hour."
"O-okay." She sniffed. "I love you."
"I love you as well." Placing the phone back into it's cradle, I closed my eyes and began to massage my shoulders. I was so caught in my own ministrations that I did not notice that anyone had entered the room until I felt to small hands take over where mine had. Moaning lightly, I lowered my hands. It took me a moment to realize what was happening, and when I finally did, I inquired, "Who are you?"
A soft, cool wind blew over my sensitive ear, and I nearly shuddered. "You're so tense, Sesshomaru."
"I am."
"Because of the merger."
My muscles tensed slightly. "Perhaps."
"You shouldn't worry." The woman's hands reached over my shoulders and slid down my chest. "The merger will be in the bag by the end of this hour. As long as you give me what I want."
"Who are you?" I repeated, grabbing her hands and turning around. My nerves tensed when I saw her face. For a mere second, I almost thought it was Kagome. But know, my Kagome should never have been compared to that.
"I am Urusuei's daughter, Kikyo." A large smirk crossed her face. "And I'm going to be your lover starting tonight."
*End of Flashback*
"I shouldn't have complied, but I did. I knocked everything off my desk and threw her down on it. After locking my door, I returned to her and began to take off my clothes. Before I realized, I had taken her. Thrusting her clothes at her, I sped from my office, sick with myself, ashamed." It shocks me that I am telling my brother and father this. "Kagome was asleep, thankfully. I bathed and slid into bed with her, holding her tightly. She'd asked for her things, which I'd forgotten. I made up a quick lie and put her back to sleep. That was that. The wench," who I haven't named to them for many reasons, "and I continued our rendevous for a few months before I told Kagome."
Father and Inuyasha stare at me, their mouths open wide. "Wow."
"Yes."
Inuyasha shrugs. "Yeah. That would be a reason to leave you, but that was forever ago."
Father bites his lip, then looks at me. "But that doesn't explain her pain."
I cringe involuntarily. "One night I was particularly furious with myself for a mistake I had made with the whore."
"A mistake?" Inuyasha pries.
"I did not withdraw when I climaxed. " I admit. "Luckily, she was not in heat. However, that night when I returned to Kagome, there was still much pent up rage. I took her, even though she was tired from a long day with Amaimaru."
"Sesshomaru...tell me you didn't." Father pleads, but I nod.
"I took her against her will, against her struggles. I was rough, and I harmed her. She bled so much blood, Father." I sigh. "For the first time in many years, I was afraid. She nearly died." Looking up, I am not surprised to see my father's eyes glowing the bright red of his beast.
He stands. "Damnit, Sesshomaru! You couldn't have told me?! Or anyone else in this damn family! I should skin you two alive!"
I frown. "It was none of your business, and Kagome was ashamed, embarrased. She did not want anyone to know, nor did I." I pause. "There was much damage. Doctors feared that if she were to have more children, it would kill her. They removed her uterus."
"N-no more grandpups?" Father never fails to annoy me.
"No, father. Amaimaru will be your only, unless Inuyasha finds a woman foolish enough to take him."
"Look who's talkin'." Inuyasha snaps back, and I do not blame him. I was merely trying to take attention off of me.
"I'm disappointed, son."
"As am I, father."
"Calm down, fluffy. Kagome hasn't left you in all this time. She won't leave you now."
I arch a brow. "Are you attemting to comfort me, little brother."
He blushes. "Keh, I'm just sick of seein' your ugly mug twisted that way."
"Hn."
"What?" Father presses.
"The kumo."
Those two idiots think for a moment on who I am speaking. I honestly come from a family of morons. "Naraku?" They ask, unsure as they reach the same conclusion.
I nod. "He flirts with my mate...and she flirts back."
"You can't be serious." Father asks softly.
"As death itself, father."
"Dear Kami. But why would she do that?"
I narrow my eyes. "Because I no longer touch her for fear that I will harm her."
"Oh." He looks toward the door when there is a knock. "Enter."
{Kagome's POV}
I push the door open with a small smile. I know he's been waiting on me for hours. Then again, perhaps not. Smiling, I greet him, "Hi."
He smirks at me from his seat. "Hello, Kagome."
"Sorry I'm a little late. I was handling some things."
"It's alright. Have a seat." He points to the chair straight ahead of him.
"Thank you." I sit with a small smile, adjusting my red dress. Before me, on a plate, is Ebi no bacon maki, or bacon wrapped shrimp. I haven't had this in a while. "It looks delicious, Naraku."
"Arigato, Kagome." He smirks again, lifting his wine to his mouth.
Our plans had been changed. Instead of meeting him at the cafe at nine, I met him at his home at noon. Sesshomaru wanted me at his office by 4:30 for dinner, and he said he'd be up all night working in his home office, so all hopes of sneaking out had been killed then.
I blush heavily as I feel Naraku's stare. I can hardly eat with him looking at me that way, so intensely. "What is it?" I finally muster up the courage to ask.
"I'm not a man for games, Kagome."
"Oh?"
"I see what I want, and I take it."
I nod.
"I want you. It's obvious that Sesshomaru does not know how to treat a rare beauty like you. So I am giving you a once in a lifetime chance. Do you want me? It is either yes or no."
I struggled to swallow. "U-um, wow, this is unexpected."
"Come now, Kagome. I'm offering you a life you probably haven't known for a long while, if at all. Will you accept it?" He stands, offering his hand to me.
I lift my hand slowly, trying to make it stop trembling.
He stares at me with warm eyes. "There is no need to be worried. I'll take care of you. I'm not Sesshomaru."
"Then I accept your offer." I whisper, grasping his hand.
He smiles, a rather genuine smile compared to his smirks.
'Master no!'
'Beast, please. He's going to show me what love feels like. I've for gotten.' I feel tears forming in my eyes as he leads me upstairs to his room.
'No love! Sessho love! Naraku take advantage!'
'Big words for a dumb beast.' I sneer.
'Master, stop!'
I smile as Naraku lightly pushes me on his bed. It's so bouncy, so fluffy. Giggling, I curl up under his black comforter and red sheets. "Such a comfy bed."
"In mere seconds, Kagome, this comfy bed will be rocking with passion." Naraku breaths in my ear. I didn't even feel him climb into the bed.
Nervously, I slide away a little. Sesshomaru's the only man I've ever been with. Naraku moves closer, and again I don't feel the bed move. "Tempurpedic?"
Naraku's eyes narrow, and he sits up. "Kagome, I told you downstairs, I don't have time for games. Either you want me, or you do not. I can either make love to you and show you what true emotions are like, or you can go home to Sesshomaru and be degraded and unwated."
Tears fill my eyes again. "I..."
'Master, he make you cry!'
'N-no. I'm just so confused.'
'Say no.'
'And miss this chance?'
"Kagome," Naraku pushes his lips against mine, sighing into it, "don't you want to feel loved?"
I nod, whimpering. "Yes."
"Then let me be the one to, if Sesshomaru can't."
'NO!'
'Yes.'
"O-okay." I stiffen as I feel his hands creep under my shirt.
"Relax, Kagome." He coos, and I can't help but loosen up. "There." Kissing me a little more fiercely, he molds his hand around my breast, groping it and squeezing it.
I moan. "Mm."
"This is only a small taste my dear. This is only a small taste."
{Naraku's POV}
She is so utterly delicious. What is wrong with Sesshomaru? Even now, as she sleeps on my chest, I feel the need to be with her always, and I've only met her a few times. He is a fool.
She stirs as her phone vibrates. Quickly, I grab it. Her alarm is going off. Dinner with Sesshomaru? I growl lowly. Like hell she'll be going. Shutting it off, I toss the phone to the floor and huddle closer to her.
I don't want her to leave my arms, and I don't won't to leave her presence. Oh my, I fear that I, the devious Naraku, have finally found a woman that I can spoil. She's mine now, and I won't let Sesshomaru take her back.
Adjusting our positions, I roll her onto her back and lay my head on her chest. "Mine."
(Normal POV)
Kagome's eyes fluttered open. She attempted to stretch, only to find a head on her chest. She panicked instantly. When did that get there? Who does it belong to?
'Naraku.' Her beast growled. 'You whore. You betray Master.'
'I...' She shook her head, waving off her guilt. 'He betrayed me first. I'm only taking what's owed to me.'
Her eyes cut to the clock on Naraku's nightstand. "3:47." She whispered, eyes wide. She had to meet Sesshomaru. After five minutes, she managed to push Naraku off her chest. '3:52!' Grabbing her clothes, she hurried into his bathroom to shower.
'Sesshomaru know. He always know.'
'Shut up. He knows nothing about me. IF he did, he'd know how much I loved, missed, and needed him.'
'He knows.'
'He doesn't act like it, and I need love. So there. Leave me alone.' She wrote Naraku a quick note, laid it by his head, kissed his cheek, and took off across town to Sesshomaru. Swiftly, she drained Naraku's leftover scent and aura from her body before heading to the head desk in Sesshomaru's building.
"Yes?" A red head inquires.
'She must be new.' She look at her name card. "Ayame, hi. Um, is Sesshomaru in his office?"
"Who are you, and how do you know my name?"
"It's on your name tag. And I'm Sesshomaru's mate and wife, Kagome Taisho."
"Ooh, Mrs. Taisho, our names rhyme." She giggled.
Kagome's eye twitched. "Only the last syllable."
'Idiot.'
'Oh yeah. I bet she's only here because he's fucking her.'
'You idiot for thinking that. Sessy no cheat no more.'
'Riiiight.'
"Is he in?" Kagome asked again.
"Oh yes. Go on up."
Nodding, I take the elevator up and knock on his door. When I hear someone say enter, I head in a small smile on my face. "Hi, Tai, Inuyasha." I glance at Sesshomaru, then away. "You told me to be here, so that we could have dinner."
Sesshomaru stands. "Yes. I did." He hadn't thought she'd come. Perhaps this was a step forward. "How was your day?"
Kagome shrugged. "The same as any other." She shifts from one foot the the other.
Or perhaps they were still twenty steps behind. Sesshomaru took a deep breath, catching a whiff of blood. "Are you injured?"
"No. Why?"
"I smell blood." Inutaisho answered her.
"Oh, that's just a result of those monthly cramps." Kagome lied, smiling forcibly. It was partially those cramps she'd felt that morning, but partially from Naraku's beating.
"Oh." Inutaisho and Inuyasha nod.
Sesshomaru made a mental note to ask her the truth later. He sensed a slight lie. "Hn. Well then, let us leave. Father, Inuyasha."
"Later, Sess, Kagome." Inuyasha called. 'Man, I hope she doesn't leave him.' He bit his lip before adding, 'He's cold enough as is.'
"Yes. We'll see you two later, Kagome and Sesshomaru." Inutaisho waved. 'God help them.'
Sesshomaru placed a hand on the small of Kagome's back, opening his door. He glared at the hanyou who stood behind it. "Naraku."
Naraku smirked. "Sesshomaru, I was just looking for you."
"Were you? I thought I gave you today off."
"I did, but I decided to rush in anyway." He sent a swift glare at Kagome, which went unnoticed by the Daiyoukai who was currently looking down at his tense mate. She seemed afraid or something. Did she fear Naraku?
"Can it not wait?"
"Nope."
Kagome cleared her throat. "Sesshomaru and I were just going to dinner."
Naraku smiled at her. "Why don't you go out and grab us some food? It's going to be a long night."
"What is this concerning, Naraku?" Sesshomaru glared. He could see what the bastard was trying to do. He was trying to seperate Kagome from him.
"Some things have come up. Urusuei is starting to go back on their merging contract. Maybe you can do something to help." He smirked, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Kagome shuddered, moving away from Sesshomaru. "Well, uh, I'll grab you guys some food, then I'm going to spend some time with Amai, Sess."
"Oh no." Naraku shook his head. "You simply must stay and dine."
"Sorry, Kuro-san. I couldn't possibly. I'll call you boys when I get to..."
"That cafe on Chika." Naraku suggested with a cruel smile.
"Y-yes, there." She nodded. "Um, I'll call you then." Turning, she left swiftly. She was in trouble. What if Naraku was mad, and he told Sesshomaru!
'You deserve!'
'SHUT UP!' Kagome shuddered. "Naraku doesn't play games." She whispered.
"He certainly doesn't." Came his voice from behind her. He pushed her into a closet. "I thought you wanted me."
"I do." She whimpered as he kiss her neck softly.
"Then why did you leave me?"
She shivered. "Sesshomaru."
"To hell with him." He sighed, holding her close. "Go ahead, get the food. Don't worry. I will not tell him. As I said, I don't play game." Turning, he left with a grin. 'Unless they're necessary.'
