She found her way into the kitchen. The chef looked up at her with a smile and offered her a plate of food. She smiled, took it, thanked the man and sat at the small bar. A dish was placed on the floor for her contestant companion who looked up at her for permission before devouring its contents. She ate it in comfortable silence then once she had finished she placed her dish aside and once again thanked the chef exiting the kitchen. The wolf smacked his lips together in his own thanks before trotting off after his mistress.
She walked back out into the garden and stared up at the star filled sky. It was so beautiful. She seated herself on the bench Kagome and Inuyasha had been on earlier and just stared up at the sky. The wolf laid down at her feet, resting comfortably. Sesshoumaru emerged from the shadows of the trees. He had been searching for her for the last half hour. He knew if he waited long enough she would return to the garden. He attempted to sneak up on her.
"Come to join me have you?" She asked softly catching him off guard.
"To scare you actually but that doesn't appear to be the case." He said.
"I heard you. Breathe softer." She said with a smile turning towards him. He still had no shirt or shoes on. It should have been a crime for the man to walk around half nude, he was far too attractive. He seated himself beside her.
"Inuyasha and Kagome were making quite the racquet when I went passed their room." He said with a smile.
"I don't need to know that." She said gagging.
"I didn't either but I had to hear it." He said.
"Poor you." She said smiling. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes grabbed her arm and pulled her back into the castle. He dragged her right down the hall and stood before Inuyasha's door.
"Aww Sesshoumaru, I don't want to hear this!" She growled at him. The whimpers and moans coming from Inuyasha's room where far too loud. He chuckled and brought her into his bedroom three doors down.
"You can still hear them in here. If I must suffer so must you." He said. She groaned and fell on the bed covering her head with a pillow.
"Why didn't I kill him when I had the chance?" She whined from under the pillow. Sesshoumaru laughed sitting down beside her.
"I'm asking myself that same question." He said. She pulled her head out from under the pillow and set it on top of the pillow. Sesshoumaru laid beside her resting his head on hers, his long hair falling across her shoulders and back. It was strangely intimate. "I could get use to this." He mused aloud. She smiled from her place turning her head so it faced into his neck.
"So could I." She said matching his tone. Sesshoumaru got up snuffed the candles that lit the room, then placed himself in the same position and pulled the blanket over them. Together they peacefully went to sleep curled in the other's embrace. The wolf after a few muttered growls at the lord's proximity to his mistress, laid across the bottom of the bed and slipped into his own sleep.
"Could you have been any louder last night?" Kiyota asked Inuyasha at breakfast the next morning.
"Gah! You heard that?" He asked turning red.
"The whole castle heard it." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome turned twenty shades of red as did Inuyasha. "Not that its not a bad thing you two are together again but stop with the sex inside my home." He finished.
"Especially when we're sleeping three doors down." Kiyota whined.
"She had nightmares all night. It was hard enough keeping her quite." Sesshoumaru pointed out. Kiyota nodded.
"You did not!" Inuyasha protested taking a bite of his food.
"No I didn't. I slept quite peacefully curled up naked with your brother." Kiyota said taking a bite of her breakfast. Sesshoumaru coughed and almost choked on his tea. He glared at her.
"WHAT?!" Inuyasha yelled. "Sesshoumaru you couldn't possibly have done that! How could you?!"
Kiyota howled with laughter. Sesshoumaru rubbed the bridge of his nose trying not to laugh at his younger brother's outburst.
"We were not naked." Sesshoumaru informed.
"You were half naked." Kiyota said with a smile.
"I was half naked, she was annoyingly fully dressed." He said baiting Inuyasha more.
"Hey I can't help it if you never made a move." She said setting her plate on the floor for her wolf to eat.
"Didn't know I was allowed. Tonight will be different." He said.
"ENOUGH! Not while I'm here." Inuyasha interrupted. Kagome was still mortified and ate quietly. It wasn't every day an entire castle in feudal Japan heard you're virginity taken.
"Then leave little brother. I plan on making more noise then you tonight." Sesshoumaru said with a wicked grin.
"He thinks." Kiyota said with an even wider grin.
"You two are fucking with me aren't you?" Inuyasha realized.
"Maybe we are." Kiyota said snipping her tea.
"Maybe we aren't. You'll have to wait until tonight." Sesshoumaru said taking a drink.
After breakfast Kiyota disappeared to the stables after many complaints from the stable hands of her horse's cruelty. She simply laughed and tended to him. He had been in an uproar over his small confines. His loud snorting had scared off a few of the hands. Kiyota rolled her eyes and patted his large neck calming the horse. She took hold of his mane and followed a servant to the paddock area. She turned him out into it and watched him happily trot off to eat his fill of lush green grasses.
"Just leave him out. He's not use to being in a barn. He's a wild horse. He's never had a bit in his mouth or a saddle on his back. I don't expect him to take kindly to a barn." Kiyota said watching him snort and kick into the air before taking off at a full gallop. "And if he escaped the paddock, don't worry. He'll come back." The servant nodded as Kiyota and her wolf left heading back to the castle.
The day seemed to drag by for Sesshoumaru. He hadn't been kidding when he said he planned on making more noise then Inuyasha. Kiyota and Kagome had gone off into the garden to get to know one another. Inuyasha was sitting beside Sesshoumaru in the study awaiting the girls return.
"What are you doing with Kiyota Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha finally asked. He felt he needed to know. He cherished her like a sister, and even if Sesshoumaru was his brother, he wanted to keep her safe from harm. He knew her past, and he knew Sesshoumaru.
"I do not know. We are taking one day at a time. Technically we are together now." He said.
"I see." Inuyasha said.
"You don't approve?" He said lifting an eyebrow.
"Not really. She's too good for you." Inuyasha said. "Too good for me."
"What are you saying Inuyasha? You have feelings for Kiyota as well?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"No, nothing like that. Just she is too kind hearted for the likes of us. To selfless." Inuyasha said.
"I'm good enough for the two of you." Kiyota said from the door leaning lazily against it. "I'm not as kind as you think. Kagome?"
"SIT!" Kagome yelled. Inuyasha fell to the ground with a yelp and a thud.
"Why does she do this to me?" Inuyasha whimpered. Sesshoumaru chuckled holding his arm out to her. She went to him standing beside him. He pulled her into his lap with his arm around her waist.
"You're a bitch." Inuyasha growled from his place on the floor to Kiyota. Kiyota gasped and looked at Kagome pretending to be hurt.
"SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!" Kagome yelled. Sesshoumaru out right laughed, the deep sound of it slightly scaring him. He hadn't laughed like this since Rin had left.
"I'm glad you find my pain so amusing Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha growled.
"That was cruel Kiyota." Sesshoumaru said still chuckling.
"Point?" She asked leaning against him.
"Hmmm, No point." Sesshoumaru said burying his face into her neck inhaling her scent his voice soft.
"If you don't stop that…" Kiyota said gasping when he nipped her neck.
"What?" He asked still softly.
"I'll have to hit you again." She said her voice laced with seduction.
"I may enjoy that kind of thing." He answered.
"OKAY! We are still in the room." Inuyasha interrupted.
"Then remove yourself brother." Sesshoumaru growled. Kiyota laughed hysterically.
"You really think you were going to get something?" She said still laughing. Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha who took the hint, capturing Kagome's hand, leading her from the room before what was about to happen happened.
"I believe I will." He said pulling her across his lap angling her face up towards his. His lips dropped to hers then down her neck nipping. She whimpered and gasped. She growled at him, nipping his neck back. Sesshoumaru groaned.
"We should stop before this gets out of hand." Sesshoumaru said.
"Yes, while it is still day light out at least. We will continue this conversation tonight in the bedroom." She said smiling. Sesshoumaru grinned. Maybe he would get what he wanted after all.