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Rin moaned in pleasure as strong white teeth nipped her fingertips, sliding her fingers into a hot mouth where they suckled gently making her writhe. A knee was placed firmly between her legs pinning her there, as long fingers massaged her delicate palm, the brush of claws making her hairs stand in desire.
She came awake slowly, it was morning from the opened window she heard the song of sparrows in the garden.
"I wonder when you would awake Rin. Though I did enjoy your soft moans of pleasure as you slept" Sesshoumaru's molten amber voice breaking the content stillness she had lingered in.
Rin's eyes flashed open, gazing down at her was Sesshoumaru-sama his long hair sliding slowly over one side of his wide shoulder. He had pinned her gently into the futon, her long sleeping robe hopelessly entangled in her legs and his own.
His gently nipped her pulse, "Why are you here?"
Rin bit her lip suppressing the urge to moan as he kissed the bend of her arm, tongue flicking over the sensitive flesh.
He groaned "Again you have that sweet smell, how maddening it is" he nibbled her shoulder through the thin fabric of the kimono. Rin couldn't answer, her free hand caught in his hair pulling in response to each brush of his lips.
"Jaken said... said you were sleeping off the sake. I came to see if you were alright" she heard herself choke out, gasping as his fangs brushed her bare shoulder.
"Mhhmmm what else?" he bit her ear, Rin felt her insides liquefying, consumed with a white hot fire. She squirmed beneath him, her thoughts scattering like a spilt bag of brightly colored marbles. She sought his lips moaning in frustration when he denied her a kiss.
"That you were in Heat"
He paused "That ferret of a demon never knew how to keep his mouth shut" now he bent to kiss her and Rin opened her mouth beneath his lips with a soft whimper of surrender.
"SESSHOUMARU!" there was a scream from the door, with a groan of supreme agony Sesshoumaru broke the kiss with Rin and looked over his shoulder. There standing that the door was none other then Arashi-sama and Sumomo-san their mouths agape.
He looked at Arashi through his long screen of lashes, the golden flecked with crimson red.
"You've caught us. I suppose there will be no marriage now.. Now that I have deflowered this mortal girl."
His kimono slid off his shoulder revealing a muscular alabaster arm.
Arashi was white her kitsune ears flicking in agitation. The wood of the screen door under her grip suddenly splintered. Sesshoumaru laughed as he slid from Rin and stood in one elegant motion. Rin scrambled to cover up, no longer remembering how her whole sleeping robe had been opened so throughly. She curled into a fetal position and groaned in mortification. Watching as Sesshoumaru made his way over to Arashi the kimono sleeve hanging against his hip one entire side of his torso exposed. His hair like spun silver askew... truly he did look like a man who had just...
Rin shut her eyes and squelched that thought, but he hadn't! He hadn't taken her virginity, he had only kissed her with those lips carved only for sin. She took a deep breath as Arashi-sama's choked voice broke the tense silence of the room.
"I hate you" Arashi whispered hot angry tears whispering down her face, the pieces of wood falling from beneath her hands and onto the bamboo mat floor. The fine powder staining her magenta kimono with pale brown stains.
Sesshoumaru still silent, reached up and wiped the tears from her face. She growled in the back of her throat, he withdrew looking at her with cold, unreadable eyes.
"We both knew it could never be. Even as children my Father despised your family for your mortal mother" he said after a time.
Arashi hissed and lunged at him, sharp claws extending. Sesshoumaru caught her wrists effortlessly, with a wicked smile. Tossing her onto the persian rug with a laugh, Arashi wept openly
"You will never be welcomed to the Imperial Palace ever again Lord of the Western Lands. I suggest you stay away from the capital or I will have you brought in like the dog you are." Arashi snarled through her tears.
"I intend to stay as far away from this palace as possible" Sesshoumaru replied cooly before his eyes slid to Sumomo.
"Sumomo-san fetch me Kazaki-sama. I am leaving this place."
Dumbfounded the woman turned and ran to fetch the guardian of the crown prince... Wondering if she would have her job once all was said and done.
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When Sesshoumaru had gone out of earshot, Jaken let out an evil cackle. He had been wearing a wicked smile for the last ten miles. They were far, far away from Edo by now and it had been a dozen hours since the escapade at the palace.
Jaken was truly impressed at his Master. He had no idea Sesshoumaru could still use his silken tongue to talk anyone out of anything. Including imprisoning Rin for impersonating a noble princess, speaking of which, Rin sat on Ah-un in a daze. She kept her eyes glued to the back of one of Ah-un's heads and remained still as a statue of Amaterasu.
He still wondered what had happened after the scene in the bedroom, Jaken knew that both his Master and Rin had words. But he did not know what they pertained. Maybe it had been hubris to push the girl so forcefully into Sesshoumaru's arms but then... If Sesshoumaru had reined in the Heat any longer it would have drove him mad...
But oh! If only he had seen the look on Arashi-sama's face, he would have paid all the gold in the Underworld for such a chance!
He cackled under his breath again, Sesshoumaru was far ahead now a mere speck on the horizon. He cast another furtive glance at Rin who was now dozing in the saddle the kimono she wore of pale green was already covered in dirt and grime. Jaken sighed even after months of training the child still couldn't keep her clothes relatively clean.
Suddenly the small bird demon realized that they were going the wrong way, instead of trekking towards the western lands they were moving towards the Celestial Mountain...
Grabbing the reins Jaken took off at the run, trying to catch up with his Master before he disappeared out of sight...
"What is wrong Jaken?" Rin cried holding onto Ah-un's pommel from dear life, jarred from her tentative half doze by the sudden jarring change of pace.
"Sesshoumaru-sama is taking us the wrong way"
Rin shook her head to clear the fog from her brain, each step of Ah-un's feet was jarring the very teeth from her head.
"The wrong...way?" she bit her tongue and cringed tasting blood, covering her mouth with her hand and nearly falling from the galloping demon animal.
"Yes! Lord Sesshoumaru!" Jaken hollered
The white speck paused and turned waiting patiently for the two demons and mortal girl to catch up. He didn't wait long though.
Breathing heavily Jaken collapsed in the dirt at his Master's feet "Lord... Lord Sesshoumaru are you taking us to the Celestial... M-Mountain?" the yellow eyed demon asked looking up into Sesshoumaru's golden eyes.
"Yes, I am surprised it took you this long to realize it, or maybe that was because you were too involved congratulating yourself for the escapade at the Imperial Palace" Sesshoumaru replied sharply, tone icy. Rin from her position on the saddle cringed, seldom did Sesshoumaru grow angry and she unconsciously began to tremble.
His silence had been calm before storm it seemed...
The Lord of the Western Lands looked up, the two swords at his waist clinking ominously "The perfume of blood is around you Rin"
Her tongue smarted sharply making her wince "I bit my tongue" she replied quietly, Ah-un's heads whimpered and lowered nearly to the ground when Sesshoumaru approached Rin.
"Lean towards me" he demanded, there was color high on his cheeks. Rin stared at the demon who had been her protector for the last ten years in shock. Sesshoumaru had been a different person entirely in that opulent bedroom, that side of him had exhilarated her. But after... He had not spoken to her, not even when he had selected a kimono for her to wear for the journey. It was as if... he had closed himself off to everyone and everything those moments after Arashi-sama had found them. And it had tore at Rin's heart, she thought that finally Sesshoumaru-sama had been in her reach...
Slowly she leaned towards him and Sesshoumaru clasped her chin "Open your mouth"
Rin's face heated to a plum red, her heart redoubling its fearful cadence the blood rushing wildly in her ears "I-I am fine Sesshoumaru-sama" she protested weakly.
"It was not a request" he snapped.
She whimpered and opened her mouth slightly, not wishing to make him anymore angry then he already was.
Sesshoumaru pulled her forward and kissed her lips passionately, his tongue swirling in the depths of her mouth. Rin pulled away with a strangled noise from deep in her throat, flailing wildly for the pommel she barely managed to hang on...Watching in stupefied fascination the way in which Sesshoumaru's pink tongue licked his full lips stained red with her blood.
"Quite good" he commented before turning away, Jaken's beak like mouth was slack with amazement.
"When we get to the mountain Jaken, we are going to have a nice long conversation about your behavior these last few months."
Jaken gulped at the ominous tone that tainted his Master's voice. "Yes, milord"
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