Summary: To keep her family from finding out a dangerous secret that may tear it all apart, Kagome Higurashi becomes the Mistress of Sesshomaru Takahashi, the leader of the deadliest gang in Tokyo, all through blackmail.
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi.
Kagome let out a breath as she wrapped up her cleaning of the beachhouse glancing into the backyard to see Rin and Shippo were still playing with Zero, teaching him how to sit and fetch as if he were a dog. The feline was more than perfectly okay with acting as a canine and keeping the children entertained while Ran and her mother were on their way over.
She had been woken up in the tid bits of dawn by her screeching telephone, which a grumpy Sesshomaru almost demolished once he had gotten up to answer. She was then texted by her step-father that they would be there for lunch without even asking if it was a practical time. Damn bastard.
Sesshomaru had seemed wary of Ran coming over so he decided he would also be back in time for lunch and help her introduce the adopted children to her mother and 'ex-pimp'.
To ass onto everything, Souta was going to drop the twins off so he could take Kirara out for their anniversary.
Decked out in a stylish light green romper, she was more than happy to take on the extra kids and began preparing (microwaving) the food Sango had left before taking off to do some recon for the Taiki Clan.
Souta walked in through the kitchen doorway half an hour before the parents were due to show his beautiful wife by his side strutting gloriously in her spiky purple stilletoes and a little black dress.
"Good afternoon!" Both twins charged in, pumped up with pure energy in orange parkas looking more like themselves than when they usually went out looking similar.
Michiyo was sporting a cute purple dress with white tights and Miyako was in a pairof jeans and a Jersey of the Chicago Bears Kagome had given her for Christmas.
"Well about time you two spawns got manners, " She smiled returning the hug they momentarily crushed her in.
"We missed you so much!" They both loked up at her with their bright innocent eyes, "And Souten does too, so she's coming over!" They announced making Kagome roll her own eyes, leave it to them to take charge of her guest list.
"Girls!" Kirara berated softly.
Kagome grinned, "It's OK beauty, " She finally gave her approval for the outfit. "Mom and Ran are coming over, the more distraction the merrier."
Kirara smiled knowingly, "If it's Ok with you to have 3 demon children around then fine! But dont say I didn't give you a way out."
"Demons?" Rin's voice came from the glass door as the trio finally returned from their adventure out in the snow.
Souta's chocolate colored eyes took in the fiery red headed demon and the brunette human girl with confusion.
Kagome recognized the look immediately and offered the truth to him as an answer to his silent question. "This is Rin and Shippo, I adopted them."
Kirara kept her composure by Souta wasn't as calm with his response. The twins squealed with excitement and dragged the two away before their father had a chance to react.
"When did this happen?" He asked his face still confused and his voice hurt slightly. "Where are they from?"
"They're from the countryside." Then she added the words that made everything begin to fall apart in the fragile seams of her fucked up life. "I met them when I went to see father."
"Your father?" Yuma's kind voice was completely unexpected.
Through the kitched door walked in both Rand and her mother dressed as usual to impress. Being the head of the Sauna name required them to.
"Mom." Both Souta and Kagome gasped.
Yuma's betrayed face made quilt crawl into th epit of Kagome's stomach instantanously. Crap! How could she hace forgotten that she was supposed to be awaiting their visit earlier than they had announced, it was a basic rule of thumb!
"You went to meet your father?" Ran's own worn out face held just as much betrayal and anger.
The child who had despised the presence of her step father slipped out and she rolled her eyes, completely disrespecting him. He was the most angered by her reaction to his reaction.
"Kagome?" Yumas asked softly after her daughter fell silent.
All eyes turned back towards the brunette and Kagome gulped, figners twiddling as she softly answered in return, her blue eyes locked on the kitchen tile floor, "Yes."
"KAGOME HIGUURASHI!" The scream startled the gorup of adults in the kitched out of their tense moment as Kikyo charged into the scene, face red, eyes glassy and full of pure viousness.
Before she could be attacked by the taller yet less threatning woman that was her oldest sister Sesshomaru stepped in through the door leading to the garage, stopping the knife that would have sunk into Kagome's chest, midair.
"Kikyo?" Yuma hissed outraged.
Realizing that she was not in th evicinity of the beach house she had tracked her younger sister to, alone, she scrambled for some excuse to cover up her attempt to rid the world of Kagome.
"How could you? How could you lie to Inuyasha? How could you degrade my name to such filthy lies that only a truly demented person could come up with?" She threw out the semi-truth.
"What the Hell are you on now?" Kagome glare fiercly past Sesshoamru who refused to move from his protective stance, fangs cared at the black haired sibling.
Kikyo bristle, "You told him that I left you like some poor defenselles kitten to the fangs of Naraku!"
When Souta paled, it went completely unnoticed by the group.
"What's going on?" Yuma demanded when insults began getting thrown back and forth between her two daughters, rousing the curiosity of the children.
"Kit, take your sister and the twins to the theater room." Sesshomaru grownled out, his golden eyes still locked on the woman who had tried to just kill his Kagome.
Shippo eeped before doing as told and dragging the three girls back up the stairs.
"Mom, Kikyo abandones Kagome in the train station to get raped by Onimugo a long time agon." Souta clarified, "I told Inuyasha."
Ran had to catch the woman in his arms when her eyes rolled to the back of her head and body fell limp.
"Honey," Ran whispered shifting to the ground so he was cradling her head only.
"Mom!" Kagome and Soura gasped, each joining Ran on the cool tiled floor.
She slowly opened her eyes to take them in. "I'm sorry, I was overwhelmed."
Ran let out a sigh of relief, hoping that it truly was the only thing wrong. Kagome recognized the glint of love only reserved for her mother lighten up Ran's face.
"How could you Kikyo?" Yuma pleaded out to her oldest daughter who had chosen to remain standing and looking frightened by the door way.
"I'm not the only one who did something to kagome!" Ah, Kikyo's favorite tactic, being out someone who had a bigger fault. "Ran pimped her out while she was in the States!"
Complete silence took over the kitchen.
Sesshomaru grabbed Kagome when her shoulders began shaking and hugged her to his chest, calming her killing intent just barely enough to keep her from clawing her sister's eyes out.
"Ran?"
"Get out," Kagome hissed as a pleased smile found its way onto Kikyo's face. "Your lies here are no good, just leave."
Ran turned his head so quickly to his step-daughter that his neck popped in different places.
Yuma let out a shaky breath as if she had just been relieved of all horrible thought about her husband.
"So you can protect this man, who isn't blood. Yet you go and snitch on me?"Kikyo slammed her heels into the tiles, pale face turning bright red. "You're a sorry excuse for a siser, this entire family is fucked up, you the prostitute, Ran the pimp 'daddy' and mom, th eone who pretends to be clueless about what's happening right infront of her. Souta even went through some serious rehab!"
Kagome was the first to throw the punch in, managing to make the older girl stumble back in shock and in pain. The initial reaction followed by her swinging back only to have her fist stopped by the protective arm Sesshomaru threw up.
"Out." he growled, his eyes flashing red with the scent of pure killing intent rolling off his beloved's body. The regret she would have if she was the casue of her sister's death motivated him to keep the blow up as least violent as possible.
Being a priestess Kikyo knew that she needed to get out to continue living, that lash out of his Yokai had been tingly, a pure warning, the next one would scar her. Quickly she scattered.
Kirara blinked and scooted closer to her husband, unsure of how to take the situation. Her abilities told her that the statement had not been a lie, but then again, it wasn't any of her business. To add on to that she felt that if Souta were to find out, the situation would take a turn to the complete worst.
This called for a serious girl night. She frowned, why did this have to be on her anniversary?
"Are you alright?" Souta asked moving to his sister who nodded, refusing to be touched, even by Sesshomaru.
This fact made both men scowl deeply.
"Dammit!" Ran grabbed her and pulled her into his chest surprising the remaing witnessed in the room. Ran was definitely not one to freely give out hugs." Kagome, I'm so sorry."
Kagome shut her own eyes and inhaled the scent of her step father tucking her own arms around his waist. "I'm sorry Ran."
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"Explain."
There was one thing Sesshoamr hated with absolute passiosn. he despised being utterly confused.
All the children were tucked into the futons they had laid out for them as soon as Rin started yawning.
"Kagome." he growled when she reamine silent.
She pouted lightly and threw herself onto their bed unceremoniously. "He tried to save me." She groaned. "After 3 years he tried to get me to come back."
He stared at her from the bathroom doorway demanding everything to be spilled.
When had this feeling come back? When had she freely become his obedient little Kagome again? She had fallen too fast. And the saddest part was that it was not her first time to this dance.
The thing that bothered her the most was that it didn't really bother her to open up to him easily.
She patted the spot between her legs.
He was in a pair of flannel Pajama pants, broad chest flexing everytime he moved in the slightest. She herself was in a pair of sweats and a large shirt that had a cookie monster on it reminding him that she looked delectable no matter what.
Her hand reached up and curled through his silver hair. "Let me braid your hair."
Excited by her demand, like the dog he was, he sat on the edge of the bed ready to feel her hands pull on his tendrils. She knew he loved this treatment and was using it to her advantage. He could at least tell this was going to be shocking news.
As soon as the first silky thread was layered over she began. "Mom got weak over the years and Ran got more and more worried about her. He decided to change his life around and fix all of his mistakes to be a man worth living by her side. H cut off all the raw deals and became a legit business man. The only thing left was me in America. he came by my apartment and personally begged for my forgiveness and broke down completely. I was used to the lifestyle and was content, but he knew it was wrong. I told him to fuck off, but he stayed for a week. I finally threatened to tell my mother if he didn't stop harasssing me. A year later after a close friend of mine, Yura came down with a cancer I decided to change my life and take Tan's advice and come back just to see of there was still a place for me." halfway done with the braid she laid her lips down at the crook of his exposed neck. "I was palnning on going back to America to spend Yura's remaining time with her and just traveling the world. But then you kept me here."
His throat constricted. "Kagome." His raw deal was probably stopping her from doing things she really wanted he hadn't thought of that.
She shook her head. "No, It's fine. in fact she''s coming down here to live with her parents for a while. See what Japan has to offer her. Turns out that her diagnosis had been incorrect and she's fine."
He felt the last of his hair get enveloped in the French braid and then he turned to look at her grasping her hands. "Kagome, I don't want to hold you back."
She looked at him surprised. "That's what the response to my story is?"
He kissed her hands. "You're mine, that's the end of the story."
She let her shoulders relax and then kissed him. "I love you."
His eyes widened, heart nearly stopped, and blood boiled with sudden possessivness that overtook him accompanied with the words.
She hadn't realizzed what she had unleashed until her back was against the bed, arms above her head teeth gnawing at the junction of her neck. "Say it again."
His voice sent shivers racing down her back and all the way down to her toes. But she was too emberrassed to say it again. She couldn't even believe she had said it once. Was it true? Of course it was! Did she want him to know? She was sure he already knew.
"Uhh."
He growled even more possessive than before and slammed their lips together. She mewled underneath his strength her heart racing and her body feeling as if it were to combust spontaneously. "Sesshomaru." She moaned when his lips left hers to graze over the junction of her neck and shoulder once again.
"I love you, Kagome Higurashi." The raw passion was enough to undo Kagome.
Holy Fucking Dancing Polar Bears.
A/N: I know, I know. You all hate me for taking AGES. But I was going through Electrician school that took up most of my brain space and let me tell you when the military wants you to do something you better do it, even if it includes losing HOURS of sleep. But I'm back and no longer worrying about school. Please Enjoy, I should be updating again sometime this week. ;)
-Kookie