Chapter 10: The Second Midnight Visit

(A/N: Ok all my lovely little hentais here is a little citrus for you. For those of you who don't want to read it I did a line of this before it gets what some might think offensive. Also I ask for impute –advice is welcome too- and mercy as I have NEVER written a lemon before.)

Last time

Kanaye finished her story by leaning back with a sigh, her right hand over her heart. That was also another habit that didn't help the confusion she already caused: claiming to be in love with other women; Sesshomaru was sure she did it just to deter men who had their sights on her. Though her speech gave him a thought maybe it really was the maid he should be watching, he would definitely be watching her more closely until he saw true evidence not to.

Chapter 10

Kagome knocked on the door to Kikyo's room and entered to find Kikyo fully dressed, and Kisho and Shippo standing on either side of her. "Your punishment is 40 strikes bitch, then no food or water for three days." Kikyo gave a smug little smirk when she added. "Be sure to use that special whip you were telling me of, and Akako; be ready to work tomorrow." Kagome bowed her head and waited for Shippo and Kisho to grab hold of her upper arms and take her from the room.

Once they were far enough away they loosened their holds on her and had to speed up to keep pace with her as she lengthened her stride. "So what do you boys have for me?"

"We have a whip that a priestess blessed for us. That was what we were telling Kikyo of only we just mentioned it was extremely painful."

"Sounds good what priestess blessed it?"

"An old woman named Kaede."

"I've heard of her, it's said she is very powerful so hopefully it will at least break the skin."

They reached the courtyard in silence. It was the usual place for punishments to be carried out, as there was lots of room and lots of people for humiliation as well as pain. Both Kisho and Shippo looked incredibly upset as the rest of her men filtered through the gathering groups of curious people. It was Shippo who had to formally announce what she was being punished for. "Akako you are charged with insulting the honor of the lady of the east, lady Kikyo. Your punishment is 40 strikes."

Kisho was wrapping the whip around his hand with nervous tension. "Don't forget to flick the wrist." Kagome whispered for Kisho's ears only as she loosened her obi and arranged her kimono so that it exposed her back. Kneeling on the cobblestones her hands held the front of her loosened kimono closed as she waited for the strikes to begin.

If Kagome hadn't been busy trying to relax her muscles she would have seen Kisho prepare for the fist strike then give a quick nod before bringing it down hard. If not for the sudden pain like liquid fire burning through her back as her blood fell, she would have seen Shippo step back and the rest of her taichi step forward until they were shoulder to shoulder, then turn to face the crowd so they didn't have to watch yet blocked her from view.

After each strike Kisho paused for about three seconds as he was supposed to, but when they were half way through he stopped to rest his wrist a bit. Kagome had yet to utter more than a low moan when the whip hit. It was when she heard more of Kikyo's shrieks that she managed to look up and notice what her men were doing.

Kikyo shoved her way into the circle looking harassed. "You question me! Yet what have you done to get all these soldiers loyal to you?" Kikyo said soldiers as though it was a curse. Kagome sat up so she was sitting on her heels tears streamed down her cheeks at the pain caused by doing so.

Incensed at Kagome's silence Kikyo stomped up to Kisho. "Give me this!" Kikyo hissed as she ripped the whip from his hands. "My lady but you don't know how to use-" He protested though it was in vain as Kikyo whipped it around her head then moved to snap it on Kagome's back.

It didn't hit Kagome at all, instead it snapped back causing a gash in Kikyo's own back. She shrieked as the purifying power had its affect on her soft yet still demonic skin. Angry she snapped it a dozen more times landing a couple on Kagome's cheek as Kagome's head was turned to watch her, but most landed on her own face and back. Throwing the whip back to Kisho she yelled. "Give her another 30!" "But she has already had 20." "You question me?" Kisho shook his head and Kikyo ran out of the circle and back into the palace.

Kisho looked back at Kagome she nodded her head then looked in front of her. As the strikes started again Kagome watched each one of them flinch at the sound of impact. It was too much. Each one of them was standing there just to block her from view but she could tell that it was hurting them as much if not more than it was her. "Stop it!" She couldn't take it, her own pain was containable, theirs wasn't.

"Stop it! NOOOO!" She was crying full force now and any who heard her cries thought that it was finally too much, that she broke; any but her men, they knew what she wanted but weren't going to budge. She was their leader.

"You shouldn't be moving! Are you sure you have to do it tonight? I mean where is the harm in staying in for one night?" Sango was pleading in a whisper. Dinner had been delayed because of the day's excitement and then Sango had had to go with Kikyo, so it was already many hours into the dark of night now as Sango finished bandaging up the wounds.

"I have to go Sango. It's my duty to find out all I can, and if something only I can find will help us? I'll do everything in my power to find it." Kagome couldn't stand to be bound by her corset so she went without it; pulling the soft black leather shirt over her head, it brushed gently against the fresh bandages as she moved. Kagome cupped Sango's cheek with her hand, "I'll be alright I always am." and with that Kagome seemed to vanish, though all she had done was move with her lightning speed out the door as she switched to her youkai form.

Kagome's thoughts intruded upon her as she crept her way along the hall. Shippo had been crying when he had picked her up carefully and taken her back to Kikyo's room at her insistence. Kagome had refused to go to the healer as they wouldn't be able to help and may just serve in finding out her secret. He had seemed so young, even younger then his seemingly 15 years. Far to young to be seeing the things he was forced to. That was why she was doing what she was doing: to stop this war permanently.

Dragging her thoughts away from the disturbing images and bringing them back to the task at hand, she approached Sesshomaru's room without any difficulty. Not feeling him anywhere inside as she opened the door she did a visual scan, he was still nowhere to be found so Kagome began her search for potential secret doors and hiding places.

She had finally found a small piece of floorboard that lifted up just to the right of the desk in between it and the wall, when she was grabbed by the back of the neck and thrown. She hit the opposite wall with a silent scream and began slowly sinking to the floor. She opened her eyes when someone picked her up into a standing position and pinned her there with their weigh.

"About time you came back here." Sesshomaru said in a mildly teasing tone. "Why? Did you miss me?" Kagome ground out, her teeth clenched against the pain of having her back pressed into the stone. Sesshomaru grabbed her chin and turned her head to the right so he could examine the whip marks on her left cheek. "I heard Kikyo tried her hand at the whip today so that means you're one of two people: The lady Kikyo or the maid Akako." Kagome laughed and turned her head to look at him noticing that Sesshomaru was dressed only in his hakama again. "Who do you want me to be?"

Sesshomaru looked at her his gold gaze seeming to melt into her blue black one before he moved slightly to whisper in her left ear. "You." Kagome sucked in a breath and held it shocked as much at receiving such an answer from the great Lord Sesshomaru as by what he did next.

Sesshomaru pressed his cheek against hers trailing her blood along it as he moved his mouth along her jaw line, re-angling his head he began licking the cuts clean. Kagome gasped at the feel of his tongue on her skin and he gave a low chuckle. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up."

Kagome felt his hand come up under her backside and lift her up, forcing her hands to go to his shoulders and legs to wrap around his wait if she wanted to stay balanced. Again he caught her eyes with his gold ones so she wasn't even aware they had moved until she felt his bed beneath her. "Hey you better no-" His mouth collided with hers forcing all thoughts of what she was going to say out of her mind as they fought for dominance. She felt his hand on her stomach as he worked to pull off her shirt, but couldn't find the discipline to rip her mouth away and tell him off for it.

He waited until they broke apart for air before finally pulling it over her head and tossing it to the other side of the room. "What are you going to do?" He smirked slightly as he found the end of her bandages. "Stand up." Kagome raised an eyebrow but stood nonetheless.

Pinching the end of the bandage between his thumb and forefinger he gave a little tug causing Kagome to start twirling. Holding her hands above her head she continued to twirl slowing down as it reached the last layer that clung to her skin drenched in blood.

She heard Sesshomaru hiss as the last of the cloth finally slipped away revealing her bloody, raw back. Feeling Sesshomaru stand up behind her she felt his arm snake around her stomach and he began to lick the slices on her upper back. Kneeling so he could reach the lower gouges he dragged her down with him.

The slashes hurt like hell already, but as his tongue ran over them they went to almost unbearable then down to nothing. Kagome let a low moan escape her, the heat of his breath on her back driving her senses crazy. 'Puppy dogs are useful.' She thought evilly taking his hand and bringing it to rest on her left breast. She left his hand there to do as he pleased as she reached down and grabbed onto each of his muscular thighs squeezing them every time another moan escaped her.

Sesshomaru kept licking her back even after the wounds had healed over leaving new puffy light blue skin, though his attentions were no longer on healing as he began to draw lazy circles around her nipple with his claw. Kagome arched her back and began to pant. She'd have to go soon or it would go to far.

Turning around she wrapped her legs around his waist again and kissed him hungrily. He chuckled and leaned back so she was straddling him and able to feel how hard he was. Her claws grew a bit as she raked them gently down his chest drawing little drops of blood.

It was her turn to laugh as she stuck her hand down his hakama. She watched, her face inches from his as he stiffened, his eyes narrowing as she drew her claw along him. Brushing her thumb against the tip she watched him close his eyes and felt him shudder beneath her. Kami she loved being bad. Pulling her hand back out she 'Got comfortable' moving her hips against his.

Finally there it was, the low growl of pleasure she had been waiting for. Now was the best time for her to leave, while he was not aware enough to notice her moving to go and yet not too far gone for her to be in too much trouble the next time she bumped into him in his room.

In a flash she was off him, across the room shirt in hand and off the edge of the balcony.

Sesshomaru knew she was gone and he wasn't surprised. He had expected it, he just hadn't expected her to go so far first or to go so suddenly, he hadn't even felt her muscles tense before she was gone. 'She is as much a threat as she is fun to play with.' He thought rolling the taste of her around his mouth.

Kagome didn't return to Kikyo and Sango till false dawn was nearly over she was just to riled up. When she entered the room -back in human form and bathed- she was stunned to see Kikyo sitting up waiting for her. "There is some explaining that needs to be done Akako." She said with venom.

(A/N: Alrighty people there you go for now. Don't worry, the story has quite a ways to go before I wrap it up. And before any of you think I'm some kind of weird sicko for knowing how to whip people; I'm not, I just KNOW some weird sickos who know how to use a whip and added my knowledge acquired by too much TV to that. TTFN :D)