Sweetest Sin

DaggersBloodPain

A/N I know it has been a very long time since I have updated but here it is and nearly twice as long as my usual posts. I ask you please be patient I love this story and it will be completed I am sorry it is taking so long but some things cannot be helped.

Chapter Ten

Mate

"We need to get out of here and soon, these two need to be looked at by a healer." Kouga told the rest of the group distracting them and giving the two youkai some privacy.

"Is that Ayame?" Kagome asked fearfully looking at the disheveled red hair of the girl clutched in his arms.

"Yes, she was in the same cell protecting Rin." He explained quietly as Sesshomaru and Inuyasha finally broke apart panting heavily.

Sesshomaru pulled Inuyasha to his feet slowly. While the Tensaiga had healed him, he would still be sore for a while. They slowly walked over to the others. Inuyasha started immediately checking over his friends, all of them carried some bruises and were bleeding in several places. Nothing immediately life threatening that he could see. The most damaged by far was Rin and Ayame, which wasn't surprising.

"Where is the closest healer you trust?" Kouga asked getting impatient.

"Kaede is the only one we know of that might heal a demon. Her village is a three day walk from here as close as I can tell." Sango answered the impatient wolf.

"How far is the western castle?" He asked Sesshomaru not liking the thought of taking a group of so many demons to a human village.

"Five days," He answered immediately. It was his habit to always know where home was.

"Then we head for the miko's village. I am not entirely comfortable taking all of us to a human village, but if it cannot be helped." Kouga said with a helpless shrug.

"You will not have to take all of us. I plan to take Inuyasha with me back to the western castle. If he is going to take his rightful place he needs to do it before the rest of you come. I cannot guarantee the safety of both him and everyone else until things are settled." Sesshomaru added in.

"Are you sure about this?" Inuyasha asked nervously.

"Yes, it is time you took your rightful place." Sesshomaru reassured.

"Alright, I will go with you to the West." Inuyasha agreed.

With the hanyou's agreement, they got ready to leave. With the most wounded being helped onto Kirara's back. She was not able to carry all of them so they were forced to chose who would walk and who would ride. Once everyone was set and ready they headed off in their respective directions.

Sesshomaru and Inuyasha decided to do their traveling in their youkai forms. It would give them time to get to the palace and do what needed to be done before the others healed up enough to follow. If everything went smoothly, it shouldn't take too long for Inuyasha to claim the place he had been denied since early childhood. There would surely be some opposition, particularly from the overzealous faction that would have to be convinced by the use of brute force.

Inuyasha knew there was going to be some sort of display, there simply had to be to prove he was worthy to rule with his brother. He was not quite sure what would be asked of him, he assumed he would fight someone of his brother's choosing, but his opponent could be Sesshomaru himself for all he knew. He wasn't concerned enough to ask. With all of his training, he knew he could beat just about any opponent his brother threw at him, but would it be enough to convince the traditionalists?

Sesshomaru was thinking along similar lines, but his concerns were focused more on what would happen after Inuyasha had proved his worth. He knew his brother well enough to know he would face whatever challenge was thrown at him and come out on top. After his defeat of Naraku, Sesshomaru doubted any warrior could beat him in single combat.

The questions in his mind centered on how Inuyasha would handle the new notoriety, before he was just the hanyou brother to the one Lord of the West. He could get away with far more mistakes because he was not expected to know the customs. The moment the first person called him a Lord he would be expected to act like one no matter the circumstances.

He knew Inuyasha was going to ruffle feathers, because even if by some miracle he managed to teach him all the ins and outs of courtly graces in the few days it would take to reach the palace Sesshomaru doubted he would use them unless it suited him to do so. It was an odd feeling to know this, and yet he knew if something like that came to pass he would do nothing to stop it. The wildness in Inuyasha was what made him the perfect alpha, and the perfect ruler. He would not try to tame him and loose that advantage. The older youkai on his council was just going to have to adapt or loose their positions.

That night they feasted on freshly caught game, completely raw. Sesshomaru noticed the obvious relish Inuyasha showed at what should have been a fairly common supper for any of the predatory youkai.

"Why is this so odd to you?" He asked once they had finished their meal.

"I rarely get to indulge in raw meat. Traveling with humans required me to adjust. I manage to sneak it occasionally but I have been caught at it once before and it was not well received." He explained.

"Don't they understand that it is natural for you, and beyond that all youkai need to partake of raw meat to feed their demons. Without it, we are far more likely to fall into a bloodlust and attack someone we shouldn't. What about the Kitsune? He is old enough to feel the hunger." Sesshomaru asked astonished that he hadn't noticed the oddity in his brother before this.

"On the few occasions that I get to go out to hunt on my own I bring some back for him. I have taken him with me once when the others were asleep. That was the time I was caught, they were searching for him when they found me, we were just lucky they didn't see him eating the meat as well. I never got around to explaining why I needed it. As humans, I doubt they would understand the need to eat raw flesh in order to not hurt something else. I had finally found a pack I wasn't about to loose them over something as small as a raw rabbit." Inuyasha explained in full.

"You should at least try to help them understand. If they are really your pack they will be obliged to at least listen to your explanation. It is something you must learn once you become a Lord, your word will be law in the west. Your orders must be carried out or punishments will be assigned. You could actually kill any member of the court for disrespecting you but that is left to the truly offensive and slanderous remarks. A Lord is often looked upon more for the mercy he shows than hi punishments." Sesshomaru explained.

"That doesn't make any sense!" Inuyasha cried frustrated. "You have always killed whoever was in your way for very little reason and yet you say Lords are measured by their mercy?"

"It is a balance Inuyasha. They expect me to be cold and ruthless so I must be cold and ruthless. This is a given fact so an offense towards me doesn't carry the same weight as it would to a different Lord, just as you will have to form your own reputation and stick to it. You already have the rudiments of it in the tales of your exploits. They will be watching to see how you live up to them.

You will definitely stir up some trouble amongst the council members firmly set in the old ways, but I will not make you change the way you are just to please them. It is the wild in you that will save the west I just know it, and father did to or he would have handled things differently. It was no accident that we were pitted against each other for so long, father was a crafty youkai, he knew what he was doing. I am surer than ever that he planned everything that has happened so far." Sesshomaru confided his suspicions to Inuyasha for the first time.

"Do you think he planned this?" Inuyasha asked as he reached out and stroked the silvery scar he had placed on Sesshomaru's throat.

"That I don't know, but I don't think he would mind the turn of events. He knew one way or another it was going to be you who sired the heirs for the West. My being a Uke was something that presented itself when I was still a pup. When you were born his hopes for the future of our line was restored. If he knew that it is likely his sons would come together to create another strong generation of the great InuYoukai he would be pleased.

"You really don't have a problem with that mark?" Inuyasha asked cautiously.

"No, I already explained this to you and the fight with Naraku has changed nothing. The west needs strong heirs and we can give them to it. I also do not object to the sire of those heirs in any way. I have finally made my peace with you Inuyasha, I will do my best to convince you of this." Sesshomaru assured with a gentle kiss.

Inuyasha realized it was the first time they had kissed since his resurrection. He had known Sesshomaru was slowly growing to care about him, but could this be something else? Could he possibly be in love with his brother? The killing perfection it suited him well, but was there more then a killer beneath the ice?

When he decided to deepen the kiss and wasn't pushed away, his doubts began to recede. This could really work. His brother was going to be his mate. His human side was still coming to grips with the situation but his demon was leaping for joy.

He began to slowly push Sesshomaru to the ground. His confidence grew slowly as the older demon let himself be dominated. Inuyasha knew if Sesshomaru objected to this, he could stop it at anytime but no such intervention came to be.

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Inuyasha straddled Sesshomaru's waist and started to plant kisses on his face and neck. Tasting and touching the pale as the moon skin. His hands rose to carefully remove his brothers clothing. He did it slowly exposing one piece of flesh at a time and not an inch of the newly revealed skin was left unexplored or un-tasted.

Sesshomaru was doing the same to Inuyasha. He was not one to be a passive partner and this was no different. He was quicker in his undressing and more violent in his responses.

The demon inside Inuyasha began to awaken as the first stirrings of pain came from Sesshomaru's claws and teeth. The markings slowly revealed along his skin were frightening sensitive as Sesshomaru's claws scrapped over them.

This pushed him over the edge and any thoughts of a sensual romantic experience went out the window as they started to bite and claw at each other in wild abandon. Mouths crashed together in bruising kisses. Rising up off the ground in a battle for dominance. They pressed against each other with such force their bodies practically melted together. Sweat broke out on their bodies and salted liquid mixed with blood on the fresh wounds stinging them and furthering their frenzy.

Inuyasha bodily lifted Sesshomaru and flipped him over pinning him to the ground the pale neck once again enclosed in his jaws. A claiming bites instead of a marking one. He was asserting his dominance and claiming Sesshomaru as his own. Going with the instincts flooding his body he thrust into the body beneath him, the pleasure mixed with pain causing Sesshomaru to howl beneath him as he pulled out only to thrust again once more. Sesshomaru rising up to meet the thrust. They established a frenzied rhythm, which drew howling cries from both of them.

The scent of blood and arousal was heavy on the air as their cries were carried away on the wind. They came together with forceful abandon. Neither of them had imagined their coupling would be like this. The wildness bred into both their hearts rising to meet the other and pushing them to greater heights of pleasure and pain, their youkais coming to the forefront taking over them.

Inuyasha relished in the activity of his partner. The reactions and battles for control just serving to make him even more aroused then he thought was possible. Nothing could compare with the truly animalistic coupling they were in. this was the secret of nature and life something so primal and elemental the very rock and earth around them called out their delight. He was feeling the full power of an alpha for the first time and he let himself drown in the feeling.

They came together over and over again, coming close to the edge only to come back to the beginning. They just couldn't get enough of everything. The blood on them mixing together and running freely over them. Never before had they felt more connected to the world around them as they were with the stars blinking in their eyes and their hearts racing in time to the other.

Inuyasha could feel himself becoming so close to losing everything. A few more thrusts and the inclusion of Sesshomaru's teeth on his neck and claws on his back had him releasing his pent up seed as he felt the warmth spread from his mate beneath him. Both of them had climaxed together and were riding the aftershocks out at the same time. Inuyasha collapsed on top of Sesshomaru as their bodies shuddered and shock with the force of that first release.

If either of them had been conscious enough to notice, they would have seen the very trees of the forest huddling closer sheltering them from the disturbing wind, and the soft earth beneath them rising up to cradle them. Nature approved of their mating and was working to keep them safe, after such a primal event it was not unexpected.

They slept beneath the stars intertwined together protected by nature and each other. Neither had ever slept so well in their lives.