AN: Here it is, the last chapter...I hope you guys like it....let me know what you think now that it's completely finished...thanks to all of you that have read and reviewed this, you guys are awesome...and Happy Reading :D
Chapter Ten –
Kagome was starting to get nervous. It wasn't like she hadn't known how this night would end if her plan was successful, but it was one thing to think about it and quite another for it to actually be happening. When they had reached Sesshomaru's home he had led her into the living room and they had hardly been there two seconds when he was suddenly on her again; his lips devouring hers as their tongues dueled. He had restrained himself then, much to her amazement as he had dropped the glamour magic as soon as they had pulled into his driveway and his eyes were now shockingly crimson and royal purple with his power still surging like a living thing everytime he touched her. He had asked her what she wanted to talk about and she stuttered embarrassingly as she tried to concentrate through the haze of passion and the fact that his body was still so close to hers.
"I wanted to officially answer your question," she had told him breathlessly, "Not that you haven't already figured that out, but it's 'yes'," she told him in a determined voice.
"You want something more than dating between us?" he asked in a voice that was so intense she started shivering just listening to him talk. In light of this she just nodded emphatically in reply. "Good," he said with his mouth against her skin as he had pulled her close again. "For I find myself wanting much more than that between us as well," he murmured growlingly as his teeth scraped against the spot where her neck meets her shoulder. "Much more," he repeated before kissing her lips again, and rendering her incapable of higher reasoning and thinking for awhile. She had tightened her arms around his neck, trying to bring him ever closer and her nails dug into his scalp when one of his hands was on her butt, lifting her to fit their bodies more intimately together. He nipped at her bottom lip then before sucking it into his mouth at a torturously slow pace. She cried out his name breathlessly when the clawed fingertips of his other hand started caressing her breasts as well. He hissed out a breath when her fingernails left half-moon shapes in his skin deep enough to almost break the skin.
"Oh, Kami, I love you, miko," he groaned, as he had just realized that it was quite true after everything that had happened tonight. Sesshomaru heard her gasp of shock and felt immense waves of awe and surprise pouring from her.
"You love me?" Kagome asked almost stuttering once more with her surprise.
"Truly I do," he told her simply and honestly.
"Oh, Sesshomaru!" she exclaimed shriekingly before tears suddenly started rolling down her cheeks.
"What's the matter, miko?" he asked her in a worried tone, though he already knew. "Don't you love me?" he questioned while wiping her tears away gently despite the well-manicured claws.
"Of course I do," she told him matter-of-factly, "I wouldn't have sang that for you tonight if I didn't," she told him.
"Then these are tears of joy?" he asked and she nodded fervently. "And you want to be my bitch?" he asked again.
"Oh, yes," she cried, "For as long as you'll have me," she declared.
"Is forever long enough?" he queried and she gasped.
"What are you saying?" Kagome asked him, wary to believe he meant what she was thinking he did.
"I'm asking you, officially, to be my mate," he told her feelingly as he pulled her closer against him. "Please say yes," he said, as he came the closest to pleading with someone he ever had in his life. "I love you, Kagome," Sesshomaru admitted, finally using her name again.
"Say it again," she practically demanded after taking his head between her hands.
"I love you, Kagome," he whispered, knowing exactly what she meant.
"Of course I'll be your mate, Sesshomaru," she confessed, "I love you more than I ever believed possible," she murmured before he cried out in the happiness of the moment and hugged her tightly, lovingly against him. He vowed that she would never be put in any kind of harm's way as long as she was his, he would protect her from everything, even himself. Their hug morphed then as she leaned up to kiss him, pouring her love and pent-up emotion into it. He took over control of the kiss easily, as was his nature, and tilted her head, his hands fisting in her hair, to deepen the kiss even more.
Kagome couldn't help the moan of pure pleasure that came from deep inside her as he kissed her in such a way. She found herself clinging to him as he pressed her against the wall suddenly. She arched into his touch when his hands cupped her breasts once more and raised her legs to wrap them tightly around his hips. He moaned in response as their bodies moved together at an angle that panting when his hips fit against hers in just the right way. She found her body wanted to do that again, but was distracted by a blinding flash of rainbow colored light before she realized they were now in a room she had never seen before.
"What was that? Where are we?" she asked in a daze when he moved his lips to her neck.
"That was me teleporting us, and this," he punctuated his words with kisses along her neck, "Is my bedchamber."
"Oh," she said, which turned into a whimper as her back hit the very soft linens that covered his bed, and his body hit hers at a surprising angle. Her higher reasoning didn't last much longer though as he continued his fiery trail of lips, teeth, and tongue. He moved his mouth to her shoulder and back again, placing open-mouthed kisses and scraping his teeth against the tender skin until she could do nothing but whimper and cling to him desperately. He removed her shoes then, and more quickly than she would have imagined possible. She was so distracted she barely noticed until he ran his fingers slowly back up her bare legs. She gasped when his clawed fingertips brushed against her inner thighs just above her mini skirts hemline and she remembered the last time they had been there. She blushed and she could already feel the unnamable sensation building deep inside of her once more.
He moved his trail of kisses lower and her muscles tightened when his lips reached the tops of her breasts. Knowing what to expect, it seemed, did not lessen the intensity of the sensations he brought out in her she discovered. He reached up to the zipper in the front of her corset and paused to look up at her before continuing with her slight nod, her face flushed with arousal and a slight smile on her face that held the love that she felt for him. He continued his trail of kisses as he slowly unzipped her corset, using every part of his mouth in a heated trail down the skin he exposed.
Sesshomaru unwrapped her slowly, like one of those presents humans seemed to always be giving each other. He savored the unveiling of her creamy white skin and cherished it by kissing and tasting every inch. When he had bared her completely and slipped the corset off of her he watched as she tried to cover herself from his gaze. His royal purple eyes bored into her , the hunger she could see there seemed to take her breath away.
"Don't cover yourself from me, my little miko," he said heatedly, "You are beautiful, every inch of you," the emotions she heard in his words, namely love and passion, made her lower her arms slowly, his hungry eyes following her movements intently. She felt ridiculous trying to cover herself anyway as she had practically ripped her own shirt off last time, so she didn't know what was wrong with her tonight. But then she realized that the fact that he loved her and she had agreed to be his mate, and the fact that she knew exactly where this was heading tonight, made it so much more intimate and her nervousness was rearing its' head. His eyes found hers again, staring into them as he slid his fingertips up her silky skin until he cupped her breasts lightly, mindful of his claws. She gasped at the feel of him touching her skin on skin once more. She cried out his name breathlessly and arched into his touch when he moved his thumbs lightly across their already hardened peaks.
"You are still so responsive, my little miko," he said and it sounded almost endearing, "And we have barely begun." Hearing this Kagome couldn't help the gasp as where her thoughts strayed upon hearing his deep voice rumble against her pulse as he placed a kiss there. When his mouth suddenly replaced his hands she was completely shocked and it seemed these sensations still overwhelmed her as well. Her body arched off the bed several inches despite him holding her down and his name burst from her on a moan as her fingers tightened in his hair. The feelings were so immense her mind didn't know exactly how to respond to what her body was feeling. He sucked slightly then and tugged lightly. She whimpered as the hardwire to the place between her thighs was throbbing everytime he tugged once more.
He moved up to kiss her lips again and she wanted to touch more of him, for she hadn't really gotten the chance last time. She felt the need to give him the same kind of pleasure he was giving her, but she wasn't exactly sure how to accomplish that. But she felt bad that she seemed to be getting more than she was giving. She ran her hands down his chest and stomach, and was able to feel the ridges of muscle under her fingertips through the thin material of his t-shirt. She reached under it then, the warm flesh felt so much better without the cloth barrier. She lifted his shirt up until she couldn't go any higher without his help. He broke the kiss momentarily so he could pull his shirt over his head and throw it in the same direction he had tossed her corset. She couldn't help smiling up at him shyly in return when one of the corners of his mouth raised in a sexy little smile of his own. As his shirt was gone, it revealed more of his lovely muscled form and more of the familiar red stripes in places she had seen before and, more interestingly, in places she hadn't. Aside from the ones on his shoulders and forearms she also discovered he had them across his hips. She traced these with her fingers and he growled in response, she was gratified to know that she could cause him to respond on any level. Kagome was now curious to see if he had them anywhere else on his gorgeous body.
He started to kiss her again and her thoughts started to scatter. Not brave enough to contemplate trying to undo his jeans at the moment, she moved her hands to his back and lightly massaged the tight muscles she found above where his jeans hung low on his hips. He seemed to have no trouble undressing her further, as he found the side zipper of her skirt and slid it down, though, given the length of her skirt the zipper was less than two inches long it wasn't that hard to do. He pulled it down her body then and she lifted her hips to help him along. She felt suddenly very awkward lying there under him in only a pair of her cutest black lace and cotton panties. Without warning a nervous giggle escaped her when his clawed fingers ran down her stomach and across to her hips. She gasped at that unexpected outburst and her cheeks bloomed with fresh color.
"Relax, my tempting little miko," he whispered, his breath hot against her ear. And she surprisingly did feel herself relaxing. Until, that is, he started trailing the tip of his tongue and teeth over the skin of her ear and down to her neck while his hand started to caress the skin above the waistband of her panties. His other hand went to immediately caress her inner thigh, his claws grazing where the material ended and the most sensitive of her skin began. She arched into him again at that, a whimper escaping her lips.
He couldn't help the growl that vibrated his chest at that submissive sound coming from her at such a moment. He suddenly had to resist the urge to use his claws to shred the last garment that remained on her beautiful form. He restrained himself though, and instead slipped the tiny thing down her legs slowly and off of her completely. His fingers brushing against her shaved outer lips, causing her to jump off the bed in surprised pleasure. He could tell from the sounds she was making and the whirlwind that was her emotional state showing in her aura that she was close to her first climax of the night and he knew that he would always enjoy giving them to her almost as much as she was going to herself.
Kagome felt overwhelmed when Sesshomaru started to kiss her again. He used his tongue to pet her own before taking the kiss deeper. She cried out in shock when his fingers started to caress the inner folds of her womanhood before he found the hidden bundle of nerves that no man had touched before. When his other hand moved up to caress her right breast in a way he had yet to do before and sucked lightly on her tongue, that wall that had been building broke inside of her and she went quite happily over the edge of pleasure and pain. She cried out his name in a loud moan as her inner muscles tightened around one of his fingers he had slyly slipped inside her slick passage to test her readiness.
In the fastest movements she had seen him make, moving faster than she could observe the detail, whether she was overwhelmed by her climax or not. All Kagome saw regardless was that one second he was still half-dressed and seemingly the next he was pressing his newly bared form tightly against hers as aftershocks of pleasure were still shaking her body. They both cried out as their bodies seemed to fit perfectly and intimately together. His fully aroused member rubbed against her entrance and she felt his muscles tense like he was holding back from just plunging inside of her immediately.
"I'm sorry for the pain you must briefly endure," he murmured growlingly, and yet she could still hear the gentleness that was coming through, allowing him to form words at all.
"You think I still have a hymen after all those fights in the Feudal Era?" she questioned ruefully and she kissed him passionately, wanting him with an intensity she never had before, "Just make love to me Sesshomaru," she breathed into the kiss; their breath mingling as their bodies were yearning to . "Make me yours completely," she told him and the cry he emitted sounded more beast than man. She saw his eyes that were still fully transformed and his stripes were now jagged with the power surging against her own.
"Yes," he hissed, "This still might hurt, forgive me," he repeated before plunging deep inside her in one slick stroke. They both cried out, but hers was from the surprising slice of pain as her virginal passage wasn't used to such a big intrusion. But before the sound stopped it became something more as she tried to get used to the strange feeling of him filling her so completely. He stopped once he was buried inside her, giving her time to get used to him. Part of him inwardly winced at the flash of pain that he had sensed in her aura. But the pure pleasure that was zinging through his system at finally being inside her outweighed the quick burst of regret. That quickly disappeared as well when she started to move slightly, trying to get used to the intimate invasion.
He started to move and Kagome's mind was completely wiped clean in the amazingly overwhelming friction as their hips met and their bodies took over from there. He started a rhythm that had her making whimpering noises low in her throat and she could feel and hear him growl in response. She could feel the sensations building inside her again. Her fingernails bit into his shoulders as he raised her knees and changed the angle that had her crying out with every incredible stroke.
Feeling himself getting closer to his own climax his beast took over momentarily as he pulled out of her, ignoring her gasp of surprise and turning her over and onto her knees, before plunging inside of her once more. Needing her to go over the edge first, he reached down to caress the little bundle of nerves as he angled her hips, getting deeper than he had before. Just when he could sense she was on the edge, he felt his fangs sharpening and elongating as he ran his tongue over the spot his beast had been telling him to mark since that first night. It was so excited to finally be getting its' way he was growling so loudly it was shaking him. With his next stroke he felt her burst and chose that moment to sink his teeth into the place her shoulder met her neck, tasting her blood. That something special in his saliva began to change it as he marked her as his for the rest of her, suddenly much, much longer, life. The feeling of her inner muscles milking his member in such a way and at such a meaningful moment sent him over the edge as well. He felt an infusion of pleased surprise through their newly forming bond when he growling shouted her name as he spilled his seed deep within her body.
"Mine," he couldn't help but utter as their bond completed itself. He collapsed then, pulling her close and turning her so she faced him once more, as like all dogs he liked a good cuddle and snuggle. They both fell asleep like that, content in each others' arms.
Kagome awoke sometime later, not knowing that her new mate was also awake at first. She was just enjoying watching him sleep, his features so peaceful and almost innocent as he slept, and even a bit more gorgeous if possible. She reached over to caress the markings on his eyelids, and then the ones on his cheeks very lightly as not to disturb him. She was also trying to get used to the slight soreness in places she hadn't even known could ache before tonight. She was running her fingers through part of his hair that was hanging between them when the rumble of his voice told her she was not the only one that was awake.
"You seem restless, my mate," his deep voice rumbled. He turned raised his head so that she was trapped within his dark golden gaze. She smiled at him and was surprised when she felt her cheeks flush. She liked hearing him call her 'his mate' almost better than when he called her by her name.
"Not at all," she whispered, still staring into his eyes, and running her fingers through his hair almost absentmindedly. "I find that I am content for the first time in my life," she told him with as much honesty as she had ever felt.
"I am glad you feel as I do," he said as he caressed her cheek softly, "But what is that indecision I feel pulsing in your aura?" he asked her then, truly curious.
"Oh," she started, surprised he had picked that up, but with their new connection that was surprisingly strong and his usual perceptiveness she knew she shouldn't be surprised. She laughed then at the errant thought that was causing her the emotions he was picking up. "Actually," she told him with a chuckle, "I was just trying to decide how to explain this to my mom and the rest of my family," she giggled again, "But that isn't really important at the moment," she told him and leaned in to kiss him tenderly.
"Kagome," he began and she beamed that he had used her name again. "That reminds me of something I need to speak with you about," he said in such a serious tone that she was suddenly worried that this was the part where the rug was pulled out from under her just as she had become the happiest she had ever been. He placed a quick kiss on her lips before getting up and going to the other side of the room closer to her side of the bed.
"What?" she asked with a wariness mixed with her curiosity. "What as are you doing?" she questioned when he pulled something out of a drawer in a chest next to the bed. He turned toward her with his trademark smirk in place before coming to sit beside her on the edge of the bed. He took her hand and placed a kiss on her palm before she was caught in his eyes once more, only this time they were brighter with some emotion.
"You spoke the other night," he began completely confusing her and not helping to clear-up her previous confusion as yet, "Of how it was so much easier for yokai like my father, brother, and Shippo as their females already knew of the existence of yokai as fact. That it was, and must be different in these modern time," he smiled at her slightly and all she could do was smile puzzledly back at her gorgeous mate. "I was lucky enough under the strange circumstances of our meeting again to find a mate that understood very well that part of it as well. But," he paused slightly to take a deep breath and caress her cheek, "There as new things that we yokai have to learn about the human side of things as well that my father and the rest didn't have to back then," he said and she looked at him strangely as she still didn't understand what he was talking about.
"Like what?" she asked confusedly, "Taking out the trash and letting your mates have their say in the decisions?" she quipped, but with a sudden real worry behind it.
"I don't plan on making you do anything you don't want to, my mate," he told her, "Not that I believe I could even if I tried," he quipped right back, "No," he continued, "I was not speaking of such matters that I have come accustomed to living in the human world," he declared. "I was referring to more important things," he continued as she sighed in confusion. "I know I began this all wrong, but your confession of sorts tonight distracted me from a goal I had already set before you surprised me," he told her and she was well and truly not understanding what in the world he was talking about.
"What?" she uttered questioningly, wanting him to help clear this up.
"I fear I am talking in circles," he whispered conversationally. "I will get to the point, my love," and she beamed at the endearment as he kissed her hand again. "I know we did this backward by human standards, but it cannot be helped," he muttered the last part to himself as he got up while pulling her to the edge of the bed. She raised an eyebrow at that, a habit she must be picking up from him and chose to remain silent. It didn't matter anyway for she was struck speechless when he suddenly got down on one knee before her.
"I have been told that this is the proper human way to go about this nowadays," he murmured and she stifled a giggle as this was the most unsure of himself she had ever seen the mighty Lord Sesshomaru. She did smile softly down at him though as her eyes became filled with unshed tears. She was so touched that he had even tried to find out how this was done, let alone doing it himself. She gasped as there was suddenly a small velvet box in his hand which he opened to reveal a stunningly beautiful ring with the biggest diamond she had ever seen in real life.
"I love you very much, Kagome Higurashi," he began anew in a serious tone while his eyes shone with pure love, "And have for some time," he continued surprising her. "You would make me the happiest taiyokai in the world if you would consent to be my wife. Will you marry me?" he asked finally, a question she had never thought to hear coming from his beautiful mouth, but it was glorious to hear just the same.
"Of course I'll marry you, Sesshomaru," she told him indulgently, with a joyous giggle. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, as she was just bursting with happiness. "Thank you for asking me; for going to all the trouble of doing the human thing too," she spoke into his hair.
"It is no trouble at all, my mate," he whispered as he nuzzled her neck like the animal he was, "I want to tie myself to you in everyway possible, so everyone and all races will know you are mine."
"I think it was very sweet of you," she told him while nuzzling him now as well. "Wait until I tell my mom!" she exclaimed after he slipped the ring on her finger with a very meaningful look shared between them. He brought her hand up to kiss where the rind rested on it with another look from his amber eyes that melted her insides. It made her completely forget about telling her mother anything, or that she had a mother at all. Seconds later they were lost in a steamy kiss and wrapped in each other's arms, her back hitting the mattress only seconds later.
Many hours later, after a night of expressing all of their pent-up emotions for each other that they had been holding back because of fear and other reasons that seemed completely superfluous now, they lay in a cuddle pile all their own. Both felt content and relaxed, like they had found the missing piece of themselves, and a new home in each other that they had been looking for all their lives without ever really realizing it.
Somewhere in the afterlife a taijiya, hoshi, and inu hanyo were looking down on them in confusion and complete awe. Realizing that love and happiness could be found in the most unexpected places. And sometimes magic makes these things possible. Because sometimes miracles truly can happen, and wonders never cease.
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There's now an epilogue since I'm a dork and forgot to put it up at first!!!
AN2: So, as of right now I have no plans to continue this, but I'm sure I'll write about this pairing again since they are in my head now and will most likely never shut up completely. Thanks to the readers and reviewers, your support had been awesome and makes me feel like I do my job as a writer, so thank again. :)