Chapter 4

Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You

Kagome was woken up by the first rays of the sun as it broke the horizon. She looked around to see if the brothers had left yet and felt her disappointment take hold when she realized they had gone already. She sighed and got up to get the rest of the pack moving, the guys expected them to be waiting in Edo when they got back, and she was going to make sure the pack got there in one piece.

She went about rousing the camp getting first the adults up and then the children. Sango and Miroku asked where the brothers were and Kagome explained as well as she could. Once the stew was eaten and camp packed up they set out for Edo.

The first few days of travel went about as well as could be expected. Kagome ran a tight ship. They would hunt as they walked so each night they had some meat to add to her rapidly depleting stock of rice. But by the time the middle morning of the third day came upon them, the kids were restless. Kagome couldn't let them play as far out without the demon brothers there to keep an ear out. They weren't used to being so cooped up. And so they started to whine. And once the kids started to whine everyone's tempers started to thin. And Jaken started telling stories. She originally thought it was to keep the kids entertained but as time wore on she realized he was trying to drive her insane.

It was still dark out when Sesshomaru poked his half-brother with the sheath of Tenseiga. "Time to leave Inuyasha."

Inuyasha woke with a start. "Yeah ok let's tell Kagome goodbye and get going," he jumped off the branch and started toward the Miko.

"It's time to leave," Sesshomaru repeated. And gave him that look one eyebrow raised.

"So what? I am not allowed to tell Kagome goodbye? We aren't going to see her for nearly a week." Inuyasha growled. He crossed his arms in a huff.

"And she will have to keep everyone inline while we are away. Let her get her rest, while she can. You know she will stay up the most on guard duty with us gone." Sesshomaru sighed and tried to explain himself to his little brother. He really wasn't used to explaining himself to anyone.

"Keh" Inuyasha replied and started to walk away from camp. He didn't want to admit it but the bastard was right. Kagome would guard the pack herself with neither himself or his half brother there to do it. But that didn't mean he had to like leaving without saying goodbye and if Kagome said something he was going to put the blame exactly where it was deserved, firmly on Sesshomaru's shoulders.

"So why do you want me to help you patrol your lands? It's not like there is anyone that can give you a real fight anymore." Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest while walking.

"This Sesshomaru wasn't completely truthful as to the purpose of this trip. We go to see Totosia."

"Why? Is there something wrong with your armor or something?"

"You really know nothing about mating traditions do you?" Sesshomaru was actually shocked that Inuyasha didn't know the reason for the trip to see Totosai. "No, we are going to commission a weapon for Kagome. Ideally, we would give one gift but I will leave that to you if you want to give her your own I will not sway you."

"So mating with Kagome would let her use a demon weapon?"

"She has no problems wielding Tessiaga little brother." Sesshomaru's eyebrow lifted as he smirked. He couldn't help the small jab at his brother's pride."Come it's time to run."

Inuyasha barely registered the words before Sesshomaru left him behind in the dust. They spent the day actually enjoying each others company probably because running meant they couldn't talk very much.

By the end of that day they had arrived at Totosia's mountain home and in true Sesshomaru fashion, he walked right in and demanded Totosia forge a mating gift.

"Smith, you will use one's fang and that of the hanyou to make a mating gift," Sesshomaru had his mask firmly in place. The reappearance of it is what made Inuyasha notice that his brother had stopped hiding most of his emotions and thoughts from the pack.

"Now why would the great and powerful Western Lord want a mating gift made with both his own and his brother's fangs?" Totosia said and scratched at his bald head with his hammer.

"Kagome agreed to a dual mating old man so we need the proper gift for her, " Inuyasha grinned huge and proud to finally be able to say that Kagome would be his. He found he didn't even mind the fact that he had to tack Sesshomaru on there too.

"Hm."

"So Touga's boys finally agree on something huh? This would please your father very much, " Totosia beamed at the younger brother. Inuyasha blushed as red as his robes and mumbled thanks, Sesshomaru simply raised one eyebrow and glared at the old smith.

"How long will it take? We cannot be gone longer than a week."

"That should be plenty of time. Now I need a fang from each of you, " he held a hand out toward the brothers waiting for them to each pull out a fang.

Inuyasha hated pulling his own fangs it hurt like hell and took way too long to heal in his opinion, but if giving up a fang meant that Kagome could have as powerful a weapon as both he and Sesshomaru had well, he would pull a dozen fangs, in fact, that gave him an idea he wanted to talk over with Sesshomaru later. But that would wait. He wanted his brother's opinion before he opened his mouth and suggested something stupid. He handed off his pulled fang to Totosai. And his tongue teased the hole where his tooth once was and he winced.

"Fuck I hate doing that." his entire mouth tasted of his own blood. He spat out the blood that had collected in his mouth.

"Suck it up baby brother, " Sesshomaru said his fingers already in his mouth pulling his own fang. He used a drop of his own poison to seal the hole from bleeding.

Totosia took both fangs hummed to himself and turned away from the brothers. He walked back to his workroom and sat at a desk.

"Hey, you Old Geezer you gonna make her a sword or a bow?" Inuyasha a was curious what Totosai had planned

"Hush whelp your elders are thinking. I will meditate on it Sesshomaru you may go about your business I need Inuyasha to pump the bellows for the furnace." Totosai said without looking up from his work.

"Hey, why do I gotta do all the work?!" Inuyasha whined.

"Do you have need of any other items to finish the mating gift?" Sesshomaru asked the old demon smith.

"No no. Now off with you come back in 5 days, it will be done."

Sesshomaru nodded his head once and said "then this Sesshomaru shall be back in 5 days. I trust it will be up to my standard."

With that Sesshomaru sped off to his home, he had a few things to deal with there.

Perhaps I will make Jaken stay at the Shiro and manage it. It's not like I use it for anything other than receiving reports on my lands and announcements from the other Lords.

When he arrived at the Shiro he went straight to his personal office and sat at his desk to get whatever paperwork needed to be done out of the way. So he pulled out his writing brush and inkstone. Before long Sesshomaru looked up and noticed the sun was setting. He had gotten most of his paperwork out of the way he was ready for a bath and something to eat. Sesshomaru left his office and walked toward his private quarters on the way he saw a young pretty female inu servant.

"This Sesshomaru requires food brought to my private quarters," he didn't look back to see her nod he simply expected it to be done as he required.

As soon as he got into his private quarters he began removing his armor and he carefully put it on the stand that sat in the corner of his room he then untied his sash and removed his boots and tabi socks. He untied his haori and hakama letting them fall to the floor not caring where they lay. He then removed his undershirt and stood there naked when a knock came at the door. Sesshomaru grabbed a bathing yukata out of his wardrobe and tossed it on over his nude form.

"Enter."

The young inu demoness from before came in with a tray of thinly sliced raw meat and a few pieces of seasonal fruit. She set it on the low table in the center of the room and gazed up at the fearsome Lord through her bangs.

"You are dismissed," he said in a cold uncaring voice.

"My Lord if it pleases you, this humble servant could help you bathe," the female said in a sultry tone. "Surely the great Lord Sesshomaru could use some help relaxing…"

Sesshomaru grabbed the girl around the throat and held her up his eyes turned red and he snarled at her. "You are barely fit to bring me my food let alone keep my company. You are unworthy to grace this Sesshomaru's presence." His beast was threatening to get free he knew if that happened he would kill the girl for her insolence in propositioning him. The beast had chosen their mates and no young pretty demoness could change that." LEAVE." he tossed her toward the door. "Never do such a thing again. This Sesshomaru has chosen his mate and such disrespect will not be tolerated."

The young girl scrambled to leave the room before she made her Lord any angrier.

Sesshomaru sighed to himself and decided to take his snack into the bath with him. He grabbed the plate and headed to his personal hot spring. He tried to imagine how Kagome would react. She would probably squeal and jump right in. The woman was like a child when it came to bathing she simply loved it if he didn't know better he would think she had some blood of some kind of water sprite in her. He lightly laughed at his own thoughts he wouldn't put it past her to have some kind of supernatural ancestry, after all, it seemed that even the strongest of beings were either drawn to her like himself or fearful of her. And between his brother and himself, they would take care of any threat to the pack. They would not fail in protecting their family as their father had.

Those thoughts turned into memories of the few times he had gotten to hold and kiss Kagome and the memory of Inu bringing her to completion came roaring up in his mind causing his previously flaccid cock to quickly inflate. He remembered the sounds she made as Inuyasha licked and sucked at not only her dripping pussy but that small back entrance to her ass as well.

Oh, how he had wished it was him doing all those wonderfully wicked things to her body but he wasn't really jealous he knew his time would come and if Inuyasha being the first one to get that far helped to ease her worries he was ok with it.

Sesshomaru stepped down into the large spring and sat on the low ledge that went around the entire perimeter of the pool. His thoughts had not helped his current raging predicament with his cock. So he closed his eyes and thought about what it would be like to take Kagome with his brother. His hand wrapped around his hot weeping cock.

He could imagine what she would look like riding his brother. Her hands-on Inuyasha's chest helping to keep her balance as his brother tried hard not to flex his fingers and dig his claws into the swell of her hips as she ground down on his cock and threw her head back as she reached her first of many climaxes to come. His hand continued its slow up and down journey he wanted to draw this out and enjoy his rarely gotten private time.

He could see himself walking up to the couple. Taking up position right behind her. He would reach around and grasp her firm soft breast. He could almost hear her breath catch as he imagined his fingers pinching her nipples. It would make Inuyasha groan because her pussy would tighten down on his thrusting cock. Then he would bend her down so she was chest to chest with Inuyasha positioning and opening her ass to him. His hands would go to the globes of her cheeks and very carefully he would run his claws over the curve and down her thighs causing small thin lines of blood to be drawn no more than a light scratch but with claws as sharp as his that's all it took. Sesshomaru brought his mouth to that little dip right before back turns into ass he licked and sucked at the small dimples right over her shapely ass as Inuyasha continued to thrust into her soft heat. His grip on his cock got tighter his hips started to thrust of their own accord.

Sesshomaru imagined using his hands, one each ass cheek to spread her for him. His tongue went to her rear entrance he licked and sucked on it as he waited for his brother to bring her to another climax. All the while his brain was creating this fantasy his hand continued to caress his hot pulsing cock. His thumb traced the tip and spread some of his leaking precum around the head of his cock.

In his mind, he lined his weeping cock up with her back entrance and slowly started to push in the precum leaking from him making it so he didn't need any additional lubricant. As his mind worked on this detailed fantasy his hand tightened on his cock trying to match how tight he thought Kagome's sweet ass would be. Soon enough the fantasy took over and he was losing his hard-earned control his heart raced and his breathing grew faster. His cock began to twitch in his hand. Just as he was about to spill, his fingers clenched, his eyes turned red, and the beast surfaced. After a few more hard thrusts he spilled his seed into the water and roared his climax for any who were listening to hear.

"Well, I hope I don't have to get used to doing that," Sesshomaru sighed and laid his head back on the edge of the pool. The end of the week could not come quickly enough for him, he missed the pack, but he missed his brother and their little bitch more.

Kagome was just about at the end of her rope with Jaken. Why oh why did her damned mate-to-be leave his annoying toad behind. If she had to hear one more Kami forsaken story about the awe-inspiring and majestic prowess of the esteemed Lord of the Western Lands, The Killing Perfection that was Sesshomaru she was going to take a page out of his book and send Jaken into orbit for a few days.

She stopped walking for a few moments as she tried in vain to massage away the massive headache she had coming on. She felt her body jolt. And heard Sango and the children scream. Kagome looked at her right shoulder and saw an arrow sticking out of it. She yelled that they were under attack and Sango, Kirara and Miroku immediately got into battle stance. Ah-un grabbed the kids up in his teeth and took to the skies where hopefully they would be out of the way. Jaken waved around his staff of two faces and yelled how "attacking this group would mean the end of whoever had dared do such a thing. The wrath of the mighty Lord Sesshomaru would fall on whoever so dared."

This all happened in the time it took the shock change to adrenalin. Kagome wouldn't be able to use her bow until the arrow was at least removed she would damage it more using it injured but she would at least be able to help defend the pack.

Just as Kagome turned toward the direction the arrow had come from she saw Kikyo, black hair bound in a low ponytail and her signature Miko clothing of red and white.

Kikyo was lowering her bow as she stepped out of the dark woods and into sight. Her face was calm and unmoving.

"Reincarnation, I have heard that Inuyasha has chosen you over me. How can such a thing be true? Surely he would rather have the real thing then some weak little untrained girl that can't even defend herself."

"Kikyo what is wrong with you! Yes ok. Yes. He chose me. You want to drag him off to hell! You don't do that to the people you LOVE!" Kagome gripped the shaft of the arrow with her right hand and with the left she reached up and snapped off the arrowhead and began pushing the arrow out of her flesh. Once the shaft was even with her skin she reached behind her and with a scream pulled the arrow out.

"I challenge you Kagome, I challenge you for mating rights to Inuyasha. If you decline that would mean you can not defend your place as the alpha bitch of the pack and you will be forced out." Kikyo snared at her.

Now Kagome was starting to see red. Who the fuck did this bitch think she was? Did she think I was going to roll over and submit?

"I WILL NOT LET YOU TAKE MY MATE OR MY PLACE IN THE PACK OR MY FAMILY. Fuck off Kikyo!" Kagome held out her left arm hand facing Kikyo and pulled that's the best way she could describe it. She pulled and pulled on the feeling of that missing piece of her soul.

Kikyo fell to her knees panting, her hands clenched at her chest, she turned crying eyes to her reincarnation but all she saw there was a woman protecting her love.

Kagome's eyesight started to blur. She felt like she had to shake it to clear out the cobwebs. She was so engrossed in trying to pull on her soul and clear her head she didn't see Kikyo fall to her knees. Then she started to see big floating black blobs that distracted her from the site of Kikyo starting to crumble in a wind made of holy powers. She was so focused on getting her soul back she didn't care that she fell to the ground unconscious, with a freely bleeding arrow wound in her shoulder.

Damn Sesshomaru leaving me here with this demented old demon. All he has had me do for the past two days is all of his chores. I have chopped wood, hauled water, hunted for the old geezer, cooked, and cleaned. I haven't even gotten a look at the stupid thing.

Inuyasha was brooding to himself the afternoon of the third day away. He had his hair pulled up in a high ponytail and his haori off. He was hauling wood from the massive pile he had split yesterday into the mouth of Totosai's cave home.

When suddenly a massive wave of reiki rolled over him. He was amazed it didn't purify every demon in Japan that is until he realized it was Kagome's reiki.

"Kagome" Inuyasha yelled as he started to run in the direction he knew Kagome was. He barely made it 5 steps when he was slammed into and he felt a clawed hand wrap around his upper arm and off they went in a ball of pure youkai.

It took less than a handful of breaths to reach the road where the rest of the park was. Sango was wrapping Kagome's shoulder. The brothers could smell the scent of Kagome's blood and graveyard mold.

"Kikyo, where is she?" Inuyasha growled his eyes started to bleed red and the telltale stripes began to appear on his face.

"She's there Inuyasha, " Sesshomaru said and pointed over to the rapidly blowing away pile of ash and clay. "She is no longer a threat. Let us tend our mate, " he said in a soft voice he knew he had to settle Inuyasha down or he would lose control completely and the only person who could turn him back was currently unconscious.

Just then Kagome moaned lightly and blinked open her eyes. She blinked her eyes a few more times.

Sky. Why am I looking at the sky?

" What the hell happened? Sango?" Kagome said barely above a whisper. When she tried to sit up she heard two very distinctive growls. She turned her head and tried to see around her just as she caught a glimpse of white and red. And she smiled up at her two males.

"Hi, guys. Why am I on the ground," Kagome asked? Her eyelids were starting to get very very heavy. "Hey, you didn't say goodbye." she tried to scold them as she lost the battle and fell asleep.

"Fuck, " Inuyasha said in a shaky voice. "That was the scariest damn shit ever."

"Hm, " Sesshomaru replied. He bent down and picked up the small woman. He was fairly certain his heart had stopped beating when he felt the oncoming swell of Kagome's reiki he had actually been a few steps ahead of the massive wave. He had barely thought at all one second he was in his office the next he was grabbing Inuyasha then they were here and Kagome was bleeding and unconscious on the ground. Only Inuyasha nearly losing it prevented him from doing the same. He turned to the village and began walking. They were going to have to deal with this soon. The longer they waited to mark her the more and more the beasts would push forward, and her getting hurt didn't help matters.

The sound of the pups yelling broke him out of his thoughts. He carried Kagome over to where Ah-un had landed. Letting them see that she would be ok she was just sleeping. He let a deep low growl roll in his chest to sooth the pups, it seemed to soothe his little mate as well. He watched her smile and curl into his embrace. He was silently cursing his damned armor at this moment but he didn't want to let her down to remove it. That's when Inuyasha stepped up behind him and let out a small whimper. He turned to look at his brother and saw Inuyasha needed to be sure Kagome was ok as much as he did. So Sesshomaru continued the soothing rumble as he carefully handed off Kagome to his brother.

"She is ok, she exhausted herself."

"Yeah, but she shouldn't have had to be the one to do this. I was supposed to do this."

"Kikyo shot her from behind then challenged her for mating rates," Miroku said as he walked up. He wiggled his eyebrows at Inuyasha. "Kagome started screaming at her and she forced her soul to come back to her. She defended her place in the pack her family and her rights to you." Miroku finished as he walked over to Sango. He felt the need to hold and comfort his wife just than himself.

"This was still my mess, not hers." Inuyasha looked down on his sleeping mate and sighed. "She always gets hurt because she's trying to fix my shit."

"But this isn't your 'shit' as you say it's a challenge to her it is her business she has proven not only to Kikyo but herself as well that she is strong. She had to fight to stay with you. Do you get it?"

"Keh," Inu grunted.

Sesshomaru sighed, "Sometimes our human bitch is more inu then you are little brother."

It only took a few more hours of travel before they were at the village and walking into Kaede's hut.