AN: My Beta: Nat-Chan! thankies! one chapter after this Epilogue only! thats right the Epi and thats it!
Chapter 10: The Jewel's Miko
He felt regret, a feeling he did not like at all as he looked down at the slow to heal scar on his thumb's pad. His pup sat in his lap as they gazed out at the slowly waking stars. "Tell me about mother." the pup's voice carried to him. It was something he always asked. A question Sesshomaru could answer before, but now, he didn't seem to want to try. He couldn't bear to see their pup, and know that he was no longer connected to his pup's mother, even wherever it was that she was. If he understood what was happening, he might say he was heart broken.
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Amaterasu looked at the jewel. While she, herself, was something akin to infallible, this little bobble was proof that she was in fact not so perfect. Loathe as she was to admit such a thing, the girl child, Kagome, had been born fitted with abilities and candor to assist the miko in her plight. She had not only done her job, the girl child had outdone herself, and in doing so, re-written her own fate. It was unheard of. If the goddess' father were to get wind of this, she knew she'd be in trouble, and for almost fifty years she had been trying to figure out what to do. Fifty years, while the miko and her once mate met and spoke, her pup growing a bit, her friends growing old. Fifty years had past, only to have something go wrong.
Studying the tiny chaos marble she sighed. "What is the point of fussing? It is only one human," stated her youngest brother, Susano'o, his wild red hair and glowing ocean green skin giving him away as the ocean god. Again she sighed.
"Yes Ama, why so shaken over one mortal soul?" questioned her other brother, facing away from her so that she could only see his gleaming white silver hair, the slight bits of his pale blue skin, marking him as the moon god.
"She is the wife, and mate of your general," her own soft female melodic voice called out to Tsukuyomi. "Sesshomaru has now asked her not to come to him in his dreams. And she has released him from their bond," she stated causing the moon god to face her only just but as much as he could.
"Is she? I was not aware of that," the moon god spoke. "When did this happen, the bond breaking?" his dark baritone voice asked. She sighed.
"Just this night before, you were watching over the lands," the raven tress, golden skinned goddess answered with another sigh.
Susano'o looked between the two siblings. "Why don't you just send her back?" he questioned as if it was obvious, his own tenor sounding like the other gods, melodic. Amaterasu, and Tsukuyomi looked at one another and smiled before their sister suddenly frowned. "What now?" asked the annoyed sea god.
"Her human body was destroyed when she came to the heavens like this." She showed them the jewel. They seemed to ponder this for a moment before the moon god spoke again.
"What is left of just her?" he asked. Amaterasu grasped the jewel and blew on it, forcing the laden souls within to their rightful resting place, and the marble to vanish, leaving just the essence of its guardian there. What was left was just the barest hint of humanity, power, time, and her mate's youki. Smiling, the moon god spoke once more.
"If its to your agreement I think I have a perfect plan…" he spoke.
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Kagome didn't know what was going on, her darkness was fading out, into a blinding golden light, and she couldn't help but feel scared as what was left of the jewel. She felt venerable without that which she had protected. Her essence reaching out, she felt in awe of everything around her. Her senses going wild, overwhelmed, as she could hear melodic whispers, hums of voice, she didn't know what was going on but she didn't know if she liked it either.
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Sesshomaru sat with his pup in his lap, having finally asked and listened to him speak most of the night, the pup was asleep. He did not do this often but the boy had stayed up most of the night with him speaking about his dam. His pup had asked so many things, and so much he found he couldn't answer, but what he could he wove into a story about the female that had taken over his heart unknowingly. He looked once more at the pad of his thumb, seeing proof that she had released them from their bond. His chest ached and his heart clinched at the thought. He even wished to take it back, yet he knew her, and her resolve. She would not. She wasn't that type of woman.
He sighed, his mokomoko curling up around himself and their pup as the night wind chilled him. His solar lamp colored eyes blinked as he watched the stars twinkle, and wondered many 'what if's,' wishing to change time and fate, and not being able to. It was not a feeling he liked, to feel helpless in any way, yet he did. Looking down at his slumbering pup's face he could not help but see the pup's mother in him. A constant reminder of what he could not have. While he understood honor and duty, he cursed the miko that had even birthed the damn jewel in the first place, yet at the same time it was a mixed blessing. The jewel's existence had given him a beautiful mate, who had given him an even more beautiful pup. Yet it had taken her away from him.
He didn't know how to feel about it all, and was resolved to pick his pup up and go inside when he felt he was unable to move. Growling at the audacity of anything thinking it could not only come into his lands, but his home and force him to still along with his pup, his eyes bled crimson as the fire of his soul pushed against the very force holding him down. A glowing form of golden beauty began to form before him. He could not see her face for the light she emanated was far too bright, nor could he hear her voice clearly for it was too beautiful and must be of the kami for him not to hear. A second flare of white light appeared next to the golden source and a voice was formed from this being.
"I am the voice of the kami, we have seen all and have come to the conclusion that this female will be given a chance once more to live. Take heed Daiyoukai, this is your only chance to redeem yourself of your fallen honor as it regards to your mate. She is of new body, and will need your assistance to adjust. Do not forsake the gift we give you, for she is precious to us."
The daiyoukai's eyes burned as he opened them finally as the blinding light dimmed enough to see what they were talking about, as both sources of white and golden light left, leaving a large black fuzzy mokomoko curled up around something. His hackles raised as his senses took over, her scent of sakura, moonflowers, and tea, was still there only now it was laced with his own scent as it had been after they mated, yet he could still smell the innocence of her body, her youkai body. His heart leapt as he heard her heart beat waking from the slow slumbering beat it had once been as the light had left her. Slowly the fuzzy black mokomoko uncoiled, and a tanned bare leg stretched out, it was an enticing sight to behold.
A second leg joined it, and then a throaty husky moan that brought the memory of a similar sound back to his mind. He did not dare hope that it was she, his Kagome. His heart beat began to rocket, waking his pup, as what he could only hope was his pup's mother began to fully wake into the world. The slow moving dawn cut into the sky as the female pulled herself up, looking out at the world, her mokomoko around her wide hips, her back facing them her long raven tresses covering her from sight as she finally spoke. "I'm sorry Sesshomaru," she called out softly. "I thought I'd released you, I didn't mean to call you once more." She heard his breath stagger as he placed something down, not knowing he was scooting their pup away and off to his own chambers to sleep this day.
Sesshomaru watched as his pup held questions, yet the pup still left the pair alone. He looked back at her, noticing every bit of her was the same yet different. Where she had once been human, miko, she was not any longer, and most definitely inu. Her form sang to him, and his beast reared painfully, his soul called to her, and she turned to look upon him, his heart skipped a beat looking into her sorrow filled eyes. He could see that she was hurt, that she didn't understand this wasn't a dream, this was real and she hadn't called in. She'd been given back. His legs finally decided to heed the command he'd given them the moment he noticed it was her, and walked him over to her form.
He bent before her, watching as her face and eyes down cast, her long lashes shooting into a crescent upon high cheeks, she was beautiful. He was listening to her as her breath hitched while she noticing dainty clawed fingers, he himself was noticing the same. Taking in her pointed ears that he now wanted to run his tongue upon, the swell of her more heavily endowed breasts, the sight of her flat belly that he wished to fill once more with his seed. His cock twitched at the very thought of claiming her again, yet he had to know, had to make sure. Too many things he'd seen in this world had gone wrong, too many fake, upsetting, and debauched things had happened, even the dead were not safe from such scandalous foes that were greedy.
His own clawed hands found her chin forcing her to tilt her face up and yet still her eyes were closed, still she would not look at him. His thumb traced her slightly plumper lips, taking in the sight of the early morning rays kissing her tanned skin, as the sun made her glow. "Kagome," he called her, and her eyes fluttered open to show him those icy blues he had fallen for so much. No other youkai he'd ever met had such eyes, most if they were blue were an almost unnatural bright color of blue, her own were so pale they were almost frightening with her dark completion, yet the sight of them could only make his own heart sore.
Yet, he still needed to know. He had her attention so he asked, "You once asked me if this was my true form." She nodded, indicating she remembered. "What did I answer you?" he asked. It had been one of the few times they had been alone together, no other would have the answer save his own true mate. He watched as she thought for a moment before she opened her adorable lips before she closed them and thought again, her brows messing together to meet while she thought.
"You said no, and then I asked what's it like to suppress so much into a smaller being? You got quiet for a moment before you said something like, 'Its like fighting for control when you're completely lost in anger, it feels as though its just at the surface waiting,' " she answered looking at him strangely, for she still thought it was a dream, and had no idea why he was asking her such strange things. He wasted no time and pounced the poor unsuspecting miko turned demon, having not paid attention she'd just noticed that she was already nude, and her new claws, were wonderful and helping him to get undressed, 'what a weird dream,' she thought before passion consumed her.
Sesshomaru would have taken her to his bed, but their pup was there, right now he did not want to leave her side, there was so much he wanted to know yet, at the same time right now it didn't matter. The mate of his soul was with him this very moment, the mother of his pup, and pups-to-be, he had been robbed of seeing her gloriously swollen form and he'd be damned if he was again. He planned that night to start to have more. He kissed her fervently, knowing that he'd never let her go. He had only asked, because it was so much torture to love her and not be able to hold her, it made him feel weak to even admit that to himself but he never lied to himself. He had respected her as a human miko, especially when she put her mind towards anything, she was an amazing female. But he'd really fallen in love with her while he was sleeping, in dreams.
Now that he had her, he would never let her go, he'd be possessive, and he'd kill anything that tried to take her away from him once more. Knowing she still thought it to be a dream, his lips descended to her throat in hot kisses that shot both of their blood on fire. He drew blood, something that in the dreams had never hurt her before, and granted she was a demon it would not hurt nearly as bad as it once had the hard pinch of his fangs against her smooth skin had her stop cold. Wide eyes bore witness to his amused smirk. "That hurt," she said as if in thought.
"Apologies," he stated smugly. Again watching as she tried to think through all their dream-like meetings.
"It never hurt before when I called you and you did a lot worse then a hard nip. This…" she trailed off as if taking in everything around her, the fact that she was seemingly a demon, her suddenly aware senses, how everything felt more alive. She looked up at him wide eyes asking what her lips could not.
"The kami have given you back to this Sesshomaru. He never intends to give you up again." To the daiyoukai lord there was no need for words beyond this point. He claimed her again that night, relishing when her own feminine fangs broke the skin on his own neck forcing him to cum again and knot within her once again. He didn't even bother with the shredded cloths on his balcony, and while he would normally go to his own bed, again their pup was asleep there. He took his female, whose legs were locked around his waste into the rooms that were now her own. His room connected to both the left her rooms, and the right to his pup's, and laid them down. No one would look for him here, he knew, and his pup might come to look for him eventually. But for now he held his mate.
The slept in peace that night, before hours passed and he was able to slip free of her, nearly mourning the loss of her slick heat, but he curled his body around her own protectively, as a male does for his female. He watched her sleep, bathing in the warmth and love she gave so freely. Truly he was a lucky man. He knew come morning the world would have to know he'd taken a mate, there would be many things to deal with. Others whose hopes would be dashed, those that wouldn't give up so easily, and those that wished to take her away from him.
Not only this, but he would have to help her in getting used to her youkai form, he didn't mind for he was certain to want to get used to it himself. He felt suddenly very possessive at that moment. But none of it mattered, he would introduce mother and pup tomorrow, and from there they would take it day by day. He looked forward to his future. He knew so much about her, and he couldn't wait to find out more. With this last thought the daiyoukai went to sleep holding his mate to his body, a deep thrum coming from his chest, his beast happy for the first time in many years.
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AN: There will be an Epilogue. But other wise story is finished.