Hey all! I am back! For those who have questions about my absence, I will instead direct you to my profile as it will answer your questions. On another note, Snow Pearl was nominated and won a joint third place with Sessakag's "Angel" for best Sesshoumaru Portrayal for Dokuga's 3rd Quarter 2010 awards. I thank all who nominated and voted for Snow Pearl! Thanks to all for your support and for enjoying this story!

By the way, there is mature content in this, towards the end. Also, I haven't edited this chapter too much so it may be kinda... bad... but let's see how it goes!

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Snow Pearl

Chapter Twenty Nine

By: PhoenixBlade


I awoke from the fog of unconsciousness to the mumblings of a fool. Wherever I was, it was warm. A sweet smell permeated the air, making my body feel heavy, weak and numb. My eyes opened slightly, taking in the dim, dark room. The only light I could spot as my eyes began to clear was from a candle somewhere in front of me. Though I was seated upright, I could not feel my legs, my arms, or any other part of my body. My body swayed slightly as I tried to lift my head, but even that was a chore to do.

The mumbling grew louder, mixed in with the pounding and grinding sounds of a mortar. Forcing my eyes to look up, I saw Mukotsu. The bastard.

Mukotsu! You snake! You dare defy me! I thought to say, but my lips refused to budge.

Whatever herbs or poisons Mukotsu was using, it was doing a good job of keeping me knocked out, or barely conscious and unable to move.

"I need a little more… mumble mumble… no… that's too much...ah…too little… mumble mumble…" and he continued to mumble away as he added more herbs to the mortar.

When he moved to get up, I closed my eyes and feigned sleep. I heard the rustling of his clothes and the pads of his feet hit the creaky wooden floorboards as he came before me. I wanted to reach out my hand to grab that stubby neck of his and choke the life out of him.

"Ah… you're still asleep… yes, my lovely lady, sleep forever if you must… but soon, very soon… I will make you like me… no one will dare to touch you, yes, no one…"

I heard him move a bit before a long piece of light fabric was draped over my head.

"A veil, to frame your beautiful face. Soon, we will be married, my lady, soon! We will finally be together once I make you as poisonous as me! Yes! Then, no one will be able to touch you, except me!" he chuckled.

I wanted to scowled at him, swear and curse him. Driving my sword through his gut would have been better.

He continued, "Ah… Renkotsu was right to tell me to take you away."

Renkotsu! So he was behind this!

"Although I don't like him much, he's smart, I'll give him that. He was right though, about that creature you serve. That animal wouldn't have been able to take care of you-what a dog he is! Dogs are trash, not your superiors! Animals can't take care of someone like you, my lady! Only I can!" he muttered to no one in particular.

He mumbled some more to himself, about asking Renkotsu to come to his wedding before it got too dark, I heard him walking away. The sounds of a door open and close told me he was gone. I slowly opened my eyes, making sure that he was gone. Once I was sure, I began to fidget, to move my body to grab something, anything. The poison maker hadn't bothered to tie me up, a large mistake on his part. Though potent, I would not let the lull of the poison in the air to force me back to sleep.

I spied a knife by the candle, not too far from me. If I reached out for it, I could grab it. I tried moving my fingers, then my hand, then my arm until I began to have some control back, though not very much. My hands fell to the floor before me, slowly dragging me forward to the knife. The poison in the air was strong and I swear I was almost knocked out several times, but somehow, I dragged my body on until I grasped the knife in my hand. Panting and shaking my head to clear my mind once more, I knew what I had to do next.

One, two, three.

With all the strength that I could muster, I stabbed the knife into my arm. I held back a scream as the pain quickly overwhelmed me, piercing and sharp. I felt the warm blood seeped through my sleeve once I tore the knife out, biting back another cry of pain. Good. I could focus on the pain. That would keep me awake while I tried to escape.

I took several deep breaths as my mind became wide awake, my body responding to pain. Tearing off Mukotsu's veil, I forced myself up with knife in one hand and the other hand over my self-inflicted wound to keep it from bleeding too much. Just before I exited, I saw my weapons sitting by the wall next to the door. I grabbed them and left the room to meet the light of day. The light stung my eyes, unused to all the brightness, but for once, I was glad for it…yet it did not last long as I had little time before Mukotsu would return. Looking around, I saw that we were in a forest, heavily wooded as it would seem. Though I had some strength back, it was only enough to keep me moving, not enough to fight. I had to get away from here… wherever here was.

I darted forward, taking blind steps and trying to keep as alert as I could just in case Mukotsu or something else there that was bad could get to me. Assuming that what Mukotsu was saying was true, I looked at the angle of the sun and figured which way would lead west. Why go west, I didn't know… but west I went.

Along the way, the bleeding got worse. I paused for a bit to rip off my sleeves to wrap around the wound, then I continued on. Along the way, I found herbs to help slow down the bleeding and realized then that the herbs were rare to find except in…the west.

I gasped.

I was still in the west, in Sesshoumaru's forest.

And for once, I was relieved to be somewhere I knew where it belonged to that youkai.

There was a faint rustling behind me. I immediately grabbed a dart, still hidden under my gloves, and threw it where the noise came from. Out jumped the short form of Mukotsu. Fuck.

"My lady! Why have you wandered so far away from our love shack? Why are you trying to run from me?" he pleaded with me.

I unsheathed my sword and held it before me. Why did my sword feel so heavy?

"I only wanted to save you from the beast that caught you! Renkotsu told me that you'd understand once I made you mine! Why don't you understand that I love you?"

My eyelids were suddenly heavy and my body weakening. I shook my head and focused on the aching pain in my arm and the man before me… or tried to. He continued rambling on as I fought to stay conscious. It was only then that I noticed that the air smelled sweet. I realized then that he had let loose his poison while distracting me. Fuck.

My other arm flew to my face, to ward off the poison in the air, but it was no use. I tried backing up, but my knees buckled and soon fell. I stabbed my sword into the ground to help me up, but that was proving to be a chore. All the while, Mukotsu continued talking, taking a step closer and closer. I tossed the knife from earlier at him, but it fell short from hitting him and instead, struck the ground between his feet.

I grunted as I tried to pull myself up again, but my legs refused to move.

"If you stop fighting my love, then it will all be better…" crooned the short man, "once I make you drink the poison, you'll be like me and only then can we truly be together!"

"I don't want you!" I growled.

He stopped, seemingly surprised before he spoke again.

"Maybe not now, but I know you'll learn to love me! We won't be able to have any kids together because of the poison being in your system, but I can love you and care for you all you want!"

"Get the fuck away from me!" I spat at him.

Mukotsu became angry, "It's that creature, isn't it? You want him so bad and his fucking brats! No matter! Once I give you the poison, you won't be able to have anyone's brats, and no one but I can touch you!"

"You're an idiot!" I shouted at him as I tried shaking off the poison, "Mikos and youkai cannot have children!"

Mukotsu stopped again, shocked at the revelation that I could never bear any of Sesshoumaru's children, not that I would have cared. The energies between us were constantly at war with each other. Any child I would have had would have instantly been aborted due to the conflicting energies of its parents and the fact that my body would have purified anything alien, youkai-wise, instantly. Even if I had any children, they would only be problematic for me and my goals.

He said no more but kept coming. As a last ditch effort, I grabbed my wound and squeezed, making the pain increase tenfold, but it wasn't enough to help me move my body. The poison was stronger this time around. I was doomed.

Just as the poisonmaker was just steps away from me, a familiar and large youki suddenly washed over me. It was…!

In the blink of an eye, what used to be in Mukotsu's place now stood the tall and dominating figure of Sesshoumaru in his white kimono, sans weapons and armor. He held Mukotsu up by the throat with his claws, now dripping with poison, and before Mukotsu could say anything, his throat was crushed and his body flung into the bushes unseen. I watched on as Sesshoumaru cut the air with his poison and suddenly, the sweet smell of Mukotsu's poison was gone. With it, my strength began to return, little by little.

When I was finally able to lift myself from the ground, Sesshoumaru turned around. I gulped as his youki suddenly expanded, overpowering my own miko energy and forcing me to submit. His eyes were blood red, his stripes were jagged and his fangs were bared. He was trying to hold himself back, but from what?

He came towards me, his steps hard and his movements rough. With every step, I felt myself begin to cower at his awesome power, and with every stride, I worshipped him like a fearsome god. Gone was the hatred I held for him, though only temporarily, and left in its place was desire and lust, with the promise of intense and passionate sex. He stopped before me, breaths deep and ragged, his body was stiff like a board. He growled a low growl before he suddenly descended and knocked me onto my back. Climbing over me, he tore off all my clothes, along with his, and played with my body until I dripping wet and begging for him to take me quickly, lest I die from his attentions.

His thick length rubbed against my clit in several strokes before I felt his fangs sink into my shoulder the same time he pushed himself inside me. I gasped as he set a quick and fast pace. My hands fisted into his hair as his lips moved to lap away at the blood seeping out from both wounds on my shoulder and arm. One hand wrapped around my leg, forcing it to lift higher on his hip and spreading me wider for him. His other hand groped my breast and squeezed it to the point of pain. I found myself unable to breathe as his movements suddenly became jarring, as if he tried pushing all of himself into me with every push, only to pull out quickly and repeat. My hands fisted in his hair, reaching for anything and everything that was him as he fucked me hard in long and harsh strokes.

Then, before I knew it, I came hard against him, screaming his name. In a few more strokes, he finally released inside of me. It was enough to render me unconscious, due to the intensity of our climaxes and blood loss, but Sesshoumaru pulled out his still-hard penis and flipped me over. I suddenly snapped awake when I felt his hard body crushing me to the ground and his thick penis pushing inside of me, wet and bulging, ready for another round.

I moaned as he growled in lust. When he began thrusting again, sharp and fluid, I realized then why I had been called back to the Western Lands.

"Mine!" he snarled as he came with me, but continued thrusting, his length throbbing and still hard.

The youkai lord was in heat.


Time for story suggestions! Might I suggest "Stealing Heaven" by Freya Ishtar? It's a mighty good read, AU and mature, but very well written nonetheless. It's full of Kagome/Sesshoumaru hotness, archeology, possession by supposed dead demons, crazy dead fangirls, other things, and Naraku, who always makes things interesting for me considering he likes to "eat her up." Pun intended. Teehee. This is a MUST read!

Well, hope you enjoyed this chapter!