Chapter 25: Containing A Beast's Anger

To say Sesshomaru was mad would've been nice. He was furious that three of his pack members had been under attack in a place that should've been safe. One member had been forced to expand his youki in order to protect the others. A pup had been in danger! This was unacceptable.

Standing outside the tent he closed his eyes to calm his beast. He knew his eyes were beginning to bleed red, so calming the beast was imperative. Opening them with his emotionless mask in place, he stepped through the tent flaps. Upon entering he was greeted by a tantalizing scent of herbs and spices; some he knew the names of, others he didn't. Next he looked about to see what this peddler was selling. Silks, furs, furniture and decorative pillows laid about in an unorganized way. Large tapestries hung, decorative shoji screens and even beautiful rugs were shown off. However, none interested him. Standing in the corner of the tent he found the object of his desires; the white fox.

She hadn't even heard him enter. He stood over her by a good three feet. The woman turned quickly when she saw his shadow loom over her. Her eyes widened when she saw his crest on his brow. Bowing ever so slightly she spoke. "My wonderful a great Lord, how may this lowly fox help you?"

"Lowly?" He asked as his aura flickered. "So you admit that you are beneath this one?"

"Of course! The great dog generals son; Lord Sesshomaru is above all!" She said happily. Her hips sashayed as she stepped towards him. "This fox is honored to have such a Lord in her domain." She smiled and fluttered her eyelashes at him. Her scent changing from curious to flirtatious.

Growling inwardly he couldn't believe the audacity of this female. "Then should one or more of this one's pack visit here; you would not be discourteous."

Her smile broadened. "Of course not my generous Lord!"

His eyes flashed red causing her to gasp and back away from him. Her scent changing instantly to fear. "But you already have!" He snarled. "You have forced this ones intended's son to expand his youki in order to stop you from attacking his uncle who held a pup that's a member of this ones pack!" She gasped as his aura expanded and became suffocating. She fell to her knees and couldn't move or breathe. His power was more than she could bare! The sound of a sword leaving it's sheath echoed through the tent. When the woman looked up she was greeted by a red eyed lord with the legendary Bakusaiga drawn and pointed at her. Her eyes widened as her fear became so thick she couldn't breathe.

"Sesshomaru!" a feminine voice called out to the enraged Western Lord.

Kagome looked to her left to a noise of somebody coming into the village from the forest and giggled when she saw both of her friends disheveled looks. Miroku smiled as he looked at her while Sango's cheeks became slightly pink. "Enjoying your time away from the children?" She asked gaining a nod from both. "Great!" She then locked arms with Sango. "There's this jeweler that I've gotta show you." She smiled at her friends relieved look. "He made this necklace I'm wearing and the combs Rin's wearing. Sesshomaru bought them and Rin made a new friend."

When both women looked down at her, Rin's cheeks heated. "Kimoto is nice." She whispered as a thought appeared in her mind. "Do you think she'll be at the lake for the night events?"

Kagome shrugged her shoulders and shook her head. "I don't know but perhaps we should ask her." She stated as they began their walk back through the village. As they rounded a corner they all froze at the sight before them. There stood Inuyasha with Miri on his shoulders with Kazumi laughing as the child was playing with her two new dolls on the hanyou's head. Inuyasha's ears were flat against his skull at the embarrassment.

Kasumi turned her attention away from her silly sisters antics and spotted her parents. "Mama!" She cried out, letting go of Kazumi's hand she ran over to her parents. "Papa!" She hugged her fathers leg and smiled up at him.

Miroku bent down patting his eldests head. "Have you behaved Kasu." He asked causing the child to smile at his nickname for her while nodding. "Good girl." He then had two dolls shoved into his face. One was made from material and had tiny glass eyes, a sowed on smile and a decorative kimono with the House of the Crescent Moon colors on the dress. The second doll was a stringed wooden puppet with painted on clothes. Smiling he kissed her forehead. "They're beautiful sweetie." Giggling she turned towards Kazumi and hugged the former Western Lady's hand.

"We had fun today." The Lady stated as she looked over towards her companion. Inuyasha just groaned as Miri began petting his ears; this caused everybody to laugh at the hanyou's misfortune. Looking up from when she'd been doing Miri cocked her head not sure why everybody was laughing.

Just as the laughter died Kagome heard somebody calling her name from behind her and turned to see her brother running towards her with Koku in his arms. Sango's eyes widened when she saw her son; who was giggling in the elder youths arms. Souta held the babe out to his mother who took him and began inspecting the baby. "Ka-Kagome." Souta panted. "We've got trouble."

That was when a red haired two tailed fox walked up behind Souta. Kagome's eyes met the second boys , this caused her eyes to widen. "S-Shippo?" She question gaining a nod from the smiling youth. "B-But how?" She grabbed his face and began inspecting it.

Shippo smiled happily as he was inspected by the woman he considered his mother. "We were attack." He stated. "Souta and Koku were in trouble. I had to expand my youki to protect them." He looked down at his bare feet. "I was so scared I'd fail, but-" he looked at her. "I did it! I didn't need help. I protected them!" He felt his chest puff up with pride.

"Yeah," Souta stated solemnly. "But now Lord Sesshomaru is doing some and we though we'd tell you."

Kagome raised and eyebrow as Inuyasha suddenly cursed. "Bad Uncle Inu!" Miri scolded the hanyou by hitting his head. "No cursing. Mama says so!" Miri suddenly found herself being picked up by Inuyasha and placed into Miroku's arms.

He looked at Kagome and snagged her wrist, threw her on his back and took off. Kagome gasped. "Inuyasha!" She cried out in surprise.

"Your boyfriend is about to kill somebody because he finds them a threat to the pack." He stated gaining a gasp from her. Inuyasha followed his brothers scent through the village. What anybody saw was a blur of colors as unknown to them the Western Prince ran through their village madly looking for his brother.

"Why?" Kagome asked.

"Because those three were almost kill and Shippo was forced to expand his youki before he should've. Shippo had a century before he'd have to do that. Now he's got a shorter childhood and has to learn how to fight. He'll enter his adulthood in a few decades instead of a century." Kagome's eyes widened. "In other words he shortened his life by a century just to save Koku and Souta."

"And Sesshomaru is going to make the person responsible pay for this action?" She asked as she sensed him about to stop.

"Yeah." Inuyasha frowned as he stopped outside the tent. He smelt his brothers anger, he also smelt the pungent scent of fear. His markings began to become jagged and eyes began to redden. "You better go in there. If I do, I'll kill."

Kagome nodded as she ran into the tent. Her heart pounding in her chest as she entered the tent. Her intended's aura was so powerful. Her reiki flared causing her to glow with a pink aura. "Sesshomaru!" She cried out as she spotted him with Bakusaiga fully drawn and pointed at a young fox woman who was on her knees before the frightening Western Lord.

Kagome ran to his side only to be grabbed by his arm with lightning-like speed and pulled towards his chest which was rumbling loudly with a growl. His face was contorting between forms. His beast wanting to come out and tear this woman apart. Kagome suddenly remembered what Kazumi had told her about Inu and their beasts when angered.

Kagome was sitting next to Kazumi in the koi garden. Their tea having been just served as the lunch plates had just been taken by the servants. Kazumi turned towards Kagome and smiled. "When angered both Inu and beast have the same mindset. Destroy the thing that angered them. Depending on who angered them will be the determind punishment. If it's a mate it's usually something small like ignoring them or distorting something they enjoy doing or forbidding them from being near a friend they enjoy being around. If it's a pack member, that pack member will be beaten, exiled or killed; depending on what they're being punished for. A stranger on the other hand has two options submit and become a slave to the household of that Inu until the punishment is served or death; death usually occurs every time because nobody will go near an angry Inu in order to help them see reason." Kazumi looked ahead of them towards Sango and the children who were playing on the porch as their mother sewed the holes in her husbands clothing.

A rumbling growl brought Kagome back to the present. Reaching up to his cheek with her right hand she gently stroked his jagged markings. She knew these were sensitive because of her lessons with Kazumi. A female would touch these for two reasons, to calm her mate or initiate sexual relations. His growl suddenly paused his sword still pointed at the female fox. Kagome then stood on her tip toes and began nipping his jawline and nuzzling it with her nose. His transformation stopped as the growl turned to a slight purr. His eyes closed as he turned his face towards her head and nuzzled the crown of her head before pulling her up closer for him to burry his nose into her neck and shoulder; his mouth closed around the joint whet her neck met her shoulder. He suckled at the pulse point there causing Kagome to gasp. Her fingers gripping the edges of his chest armor. His aura changing from anger to arousal. He gripped her leg and wrapped it around his hips. He growled lightly as she began to pant, her body becoming over heated and all he'd done was suck her neck!

Sesshomaru pulled away from her neck to look at her. He smirked at her. Her lips were slightly parted, eyes hooded with barely contained passion and her arousal had perfumed the tent with it's scent making him almost forget why he'd been here in the first place. His eyes narrowed towards the still kneeling fox who'd been momentarily forgotten. Releasing Kagome and placing Bakusaiga back into it's sheath he looked upon the white fox. "Your life has been spared today."

The woman gasped. "Thank-you mi-" she was interrupted by a snarl.

"Silence!" He snarled his eyes still red as his beast was still close to the surface. "Your life has been spared only by this ones intended. It now belongs to her." He looked at Kagome. "It was her brother and son that you threatened!" He snarled. His pupils fully turned black. "Until the last day you draw breath your life belongs to her. You step out of line once; it will belong to this one and I will not show mercy twice."

"Yes mi'lord!" She cried out knowing how close she'd been to death.

Turning abruptly on his heel, Sesshomaru grabbed Kagome's wrist and drug her out of the tent cup on seeing Inuyasha he spoke. "Take the fox to the Shiro and hand her over to the captain of the guards there and tell him she's to be given the Crescent Moon's slave mark." Inuyasha nodded as he walked past the two.

Sesshomaru kept his grip on Kagome's wrist tight, but not tight enough to leave a bruise. Pulling her behind him, he took off into the nearby forest to have a talk with his little Miko and give her a lesson in awakening a beasts lust.

M-Angel: See Kagome is putting her lessons to good use. Yes the next chapter will contain some smexy Sesshy/Kaome loving however that full chapter won't be posted. ^_^