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Akira and Kai were still flirting in the dining room with an uncomfortable Embry sitting at the opposite end of the table from them. Akira looked up at Sky and smiled; Sky returned the smile while looking back and forth between Akira and Kai with a raised eye brow. Akira just blushed and looked at Sesshomaru and Sky holding hands with a questioning look. Sky just smiled and shrugged. She went and sat by Embry since he was her dad's general. She knew him and was more comfortable sitting close to him than Kai and Akira.
Sesshomaru brought her a sandwich and some water. "I need to speak with both of you gentlemen after lunch." He said sitting down. "Akira, you'll just have to go with Sky until Kai and I come find you." Akira and Kai blushed.
When they were finished eating the men left, leaving the girls alone. "So, what do you want to do?" Sky said.
"Let's go to the hot springs." Akira said. "I want to relax."
They left for the hot springs with towels in hand. It was about a five minute walk. The spring was gorgeous. There were tulips growing a few feet away on one side and it was surrounded by trees with only a little path in and out. Big and small rocks lined the outside so you had a place to lean back on. The two girls stripped and got in. "You were right. This is relaxing." Sky said as she leaned against a rock. "So, what's going on between you and Lord Inutaisho's general?"
"Well I like him and he seems to like me, but most guys aren't interested after they find out I am a fallen angel." Akira said sadly. "I mean he calls me beautiful and treats me so well. I don't want to tell him."
"Sesshomaru already knew what you were so I am sure he has to know." Sky said trying to reassure her new friend. "If he doesn't like you because of what you are he doesn't deserve you."
"I know but I wish for once that a guy I actually like would like me back after I tell them." Akira said.
"He will." Sky said. After that they went into silence. The water was hot and it soothed their muscles and it gave them time to think over their relationships.
Akira was worried over what Kai was going to say when she told him. She decided that would be the first thing she said to him when he and Sesshomaru came to get them.
Sky was thinking over questions she wanted Sesshomaru to answer. She wanted to know so much about his life. To be around him as much as she had she still didn't know very much about him. But the first question she wanted answered was who the man in the baboon suit was. And why he said he wouldn't stop anyone who was insisting on having sex with him? She wanted to know more about his mom and his life. She knew about his dad and brother but she really didn't know anything about her soon to be mate.
"I told you the dirt on me and Kai. So, what's going on between you and Fluffy?" Akira asked breaking the silence.
"We are going to be mates in a little over a year." Sky said.
"Oh. You love him." Akira stated. "That's nice."
"I don't love him. It was arranged."
"Do you think you will fall in love with him? And what were you two doing all morning? I never saw you at all until lunch." Akira asked with a smirk.
"I will have to love him eventually and hopefully I will fall in love with him. I just hope he can fall in love with me too. He lets his pride show more than anything else. And we were just talking. We were playing twenty questions." Sky said sticking her tongue out at Akira. "And that was all we did Ms. Pervert!"
"Hey you asked me so I asked you. All is fair in love and war." Akira defended herself. "And speaking of perverts!" She pointed to Sesshomaru and Kai coming down the path.
They both ducked under the water to their chin and wrapped their arms around themselves.
"I knew you were an arrogated ass but I didn't know you were a pervert." Sky said looking at Sesshomaru.
They had stopped a few feet away from the hot spring. "Stop playing around and come out. We have things to discuss." Sesshomaru growled.
"We are not coming out until you boys leave." Both girls scream.
Sesshomaru and Kai went half way up the path. The girls grabbed their towels and clothes and went to the opposite end of the springs, dried, and dressed. "I can't believe those two. They could have at least yelled or something." Akira said as they started up the path.
Akira and Kai went back to the castle while Sesshomaru led Sky back to the spot they were at that morning. Sesshomaru wanted to know exactly what Sky had meant when she made the comment about falling in love and why she didn't think he was a pervert. Didn't they just discuss that this morning?
Sky sat down with her knees pulling up to her chest, arms wrapped around her legs staring out at the water. Sesshomaru stood just a few feet behind her. The more he had thought about it the angrier he had gotten and he didn't want to hurt her.
After a few moments she turned around to see Sesshomaru looking out at the water. She could tell he was angry by the way his eyes seemed to glow red. She stood up and walked in front of him. He didn't look at her. "What's wrong?" Sky asked laying a hand on his crossed arms. He growled and pulled away without looking at her. He turned and walked down the beach. When Sky tried to follow, he growled, "Wait here."
So that's what she did. She watched as he continued to walk. She just sat back down. She didn't go back to the castle for dinner or even after the sunset. It started to rain. She still just sat there. It began raining harder and getting cold. "I'm not waiting forever." She mumbled then stood to go back to the castle. She was cold, wet, hungry, and disappointed.
"Where are you going? We aren't finished here." Sesshomaru had sensed her about to leave. He still hadn't calmed down yet.
"We may not be finished here, but I am finished. It's late, raining, and freezing. I'm going inside." Sky said not turning or slowing her pace; even after several warning growls.
That was all he needed. Her defiance wouldn't be tolerated. He pinned her to a tree. "You will not leave until I dismiss you!" He growled.
"I don't care." Sky said. His grip tightened. He was really starting to hurt her arms. "Let me go. This hurts."
"No. You deserve this." Sesshomaru said biting back the urge to slap her.
"Why do I deserve this? I haven't done an-n-ny- aachooo." Sky sneezed. She was going to get sick again and it was his entire fault. She could feel the need to start coughing building up. "You are going to make me sick."
"I don't care. You deserve much worse than this." With that his grip tightened.
Sky gasped at the pain. He was starting to squeeze harder and harder. "Stop! You are hurting me." Sky whimpered.
He had leaned in to squish her with his body. He was going to push her into the tree and squeeze her arms off if necessary. "Ask me if I care." Sesshomaru growled from above her head. When he leaned in he stood so much taller than her. He didn't care. He didn't want to see her.
"I know you don't care. That's why you dragged out here. So you could kill me and no one would come to help because they couldn't hear I or they are too scared of you to help or they don't care like you." She had started whispering but by the time she finished she was screaming into his chest. "You'd rather kill me than grow balls and tell our dads you don't want to be with me."
She had her eyes closed. She could barely breathe. She didn't have the air to cough but she could still feel the tickle wanting her to. Her head hurt. She knew if she lived she would be really bad sick for the rest of her stay here, but she doubted she lasted that long.
Sesshomaru finally controlled his beast when he had processed what she had said. He could sense she had a fever and her arms were going to be badly bruised. He released her only to be slapped and her run back to the castle. He caught her before she cleared the forest. She was yelling 'let me go' and kicking and scratching. He held her waist tight against him and covered her mouth.
"Shh and I will release you. Let me explain what happened." Sesshomaru whispered into her ear.
She calmed down. She wanted to know why he had done this to her. He released her mouth just to move the hair away from her neck then wrap it securely around her waist with his other. He nuzzled again her neck and sank to the ground with her in his lap.
"I'm waiting. If you haven't noticed it is still pouring rain and it is getting harder." Sky yelled as she tried to crawl farther into him to escape the rain. She was just met with a growl.
"On one condition, you take a bath and come straight to my room after." Sesshomaru growled into her neck.
"Okay." Sky said. His breath sent chills down her back as it hit her neck. She just wanted to get out of the rain. She would do anything to get out of it.
Seconds later he dropped her inside her room and left. She went to the bathroom.
After her shower, she dressed in a pair of blue mid-thigh shorts and a black tank top. She walked to his room and knocked. She hadn't realized what happened until she was thrown up against the wall. Her eyes were wide, maybe it was a bad idea to come after all.
Sesshomaru only had on his pants. He was pressing his bare chest into Sky. Sky had to turn her face so he wouldn't break her nose. Sesshomaru looking down at her; he knew she was his. She was pinned against the wall, the two ways out boarded by his arms, and him being a little over a head taller than her, could look down and see if she was trying to escape.
"Sesshomaru stop." Sky breathed. He was making it incredibly hard to breathe.
Sesshomaru had had enough fun for now. He wouldn't take her now; it would be too easy for his beast. The part that was barely controlling his beast's anger and lust didn't want to hurt her or scare her. He still knew she wasn't ready, but he didn't know how he was going to calm his beast before it completely took over.
