WARNING: Adult Content

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Chapter 12 - Bonds Created

Once she had snacked a little, Kagome returned to her room for the night. After she took a bath she went across the hall and tucked Shippo and Rin into their beds. When she left the room she lent against the wall. She decided that she was not ready to go to sleep yet. She decided to go to the common room for this area of the palace, Kagome was sure that she would find cousins of hers within the room. Upon entering the room, she saw many members of the family and their friends in small groups around the room. It upset her greatly when she saw Sesshoumaru sitting towards the wall of the room, no one else recognizing his presence. As she made her way through the room many of the rooms occupants called out to her and waved her over to their groups. In response, Kagome lifted her hand into the air to recognize them and continued her current path.

"Care to have some company?" Kagome questioned upon reaching the small group of pillows gathered around were Sesshoumaru was sitting.

He inclined his head slightly in acknowledgment and motioned towards one of the pillows near him. Before he had a chance to say anything, another walked up behind Kagome and began to talk.

"Cousin, I am glad to see you return to us." Kagome looked up from her pillow and saw her youkai cousin. His breed was commonly called a hell hound. In this hybrid form, his eyes danced with flame and he had red hair a black right facing crescent showed on his forehead. In true form, his black fur burned red with fire.

"Arimon, you're a long way from home." Kagome stated looking up at her cousin.

"Indeed, tell me cousin, what is it that you are called now?" Arimon questioned.

"Kagome, and this is our cousin, Sesshoumaru. He belongs to the lands my family was sent to." Kagome stated.

"Sesshoumaru, in my home lands my name means 'burning death,' tell me, does you name carry meaning?" Arimon stated arrogantly.

"Indeed, it means 'killing perfection.'" Sesshoumaru stated with equal arrogance.

"Oh really, I wonder if your parents named you correctly." Arimon stated, looking over Sesshoumaru's smaller build.

"I could suggest a method to sate your curiosity." He commented.

"Tell me, beloved cousin," He began, turning to Kagome, "Who would win between us?"

"Sesshoumaru." Kagome stated, "And I'm not your beloved."

"Sesshoumaru? What makes you certain of this?" Arimon questioned, his pride hurt slightly.

"Because I will stand with him during any fight, and you should know that not even you could stand against two adjacent crescents." Kagome answered.

"Oh really? I wasn't told that house Hasan had been bound to another house. When did this happen?" Arimon stated. Upon hearing his words, many in the room became silent and turned their attention towards the three towards the corner.

"House Hasan is not bound to any other house. I, Higurashi Kagome and Hasan Netali, have sworn fidelity to Taisho Sesshoumaru, and I will stand with that until my soul passes to the next world. Furthermore, everyone in this room should be ashamed at how they have treated a member of this family. Did a single one of you introduce yourself to him when he came into the room?" Kagome questioned and looked around the room, everyone looking away from her eyes gave her the answer. "That's what I thought. Well, since he's not worth acknowledging as part of the family, I'm not part of it either." Kagome stated. "If it pleases you, cousin, I should like to go somewhere a little more pleasant." She questioned as she stood up.

"That pleases me greatly, beloved cousin." He stated, looking at Arimon when he had said the last.

Kagome's lack of response at the endearing term irritated Arimon, but he would not act out in such a crowded room. Kagome took Sesshoumaru by the arm and the two of them made their way out into the hall. Once they were quite a ways from the sitting room, Sesshoumaru decided to speak.

"Would you mind telling me exactly what happened in there?" He questioned.

Kagome stopped him and removed his necklace, "Hold that for now, I don't want anyone to understand us. When he said something about my house being bound to yours, he was saying that my house had been turned into a servant house." Kagome explained.

"What about his use of the term 'beloved cousin' what was his meaning behind that?" He questioned.

"You really didn't use it right either, you saying that basically meant that you were expressing a desire or admitting that we are intimately involved but not permanently attached. His statement was expressing a desire for it." She explained again.

"And your lack of response when I stated that?" He questioned again.

"Meant that I accepted your placement of me." Kagome answered.

"Placement of you?"

"That you have say over me and my children. It's a lot like admitting someone into a family pack."

"If that is the case, I release you of it."

"Since you now know what it means, you rescind?" She questioned.

"You only accepted to save face for me, I can't hold you to it." He answered

"That's not an answer to the question, Sesshoumaru." She responded.

"I would not hold you to something you did not accept honestly, beloved cousin." Sesshoumaru stated.

"And I would have found a different way to back out, if it had not been honest, beloved." Kagome responded.

Sesshoumaru reached up with one hand and held the side of her face. Kagome chose not to react other then to look into his eyes. After a moment, he lent down and softly placed a kiss on her lips. The kiss was not heated and full of passion, it was soft and full of love. It was not a kiss that would be shared between two new lovers, but one enjoyed after years of being joined. All of the times they had shared intimacy in the dream world, this was the first time either one of them had crossed the line and brought it out in the waking world. It was odd to Kagome that she felt no nervousness by his kiss or by him being so close to her. As he backed away, she opened her eyes and smiled softly at him. He left his hand on the side of her face, and with his thumb he caressed her cheek which caused her to smile more. She reached her arms out and wrapped them around his back. As she pressed the side of her face into his shoulder she could feel the heat from his skin and hear his heartbeat. It was a sound she had become accustomed to hearing, the beat was slow and strong as always. Sesshoumaru's arms were wrapped around her shoulders, the side of his face pressed against the top of her head.

"I should have done this a long time ago." Sesshoumaru admitted.

"So should I." Kagome stated in response. After a few more moments, Kagome released him and pulled back a little, "Let me show you the rest of the palace."

As he finished backing away, he nodded and waited for her to begin. Before beginning to walk away from the area, Kagome took his hand and smiled. Nearly half an hour passed when the tour took Sesshoumaru to a place he knew well. The back gardens were calm this time of night, the water shifted softly in the pool. Everything looked exactly as he could remember. The pool, the statues, the columns, the lounge chairs, everything. Without thought, Sesshoumaru slid his arm around her waist, resting his hand just beneath her belly button. Kagome smiled at the familiarity of his action and lent back towards him. After a moment, Sesshoumaru's arm moved. Before Kagome could decide what he was going to do, he picked her up and walked down the steps.

"I will not allow you to remember this as a dream." He told her softly as he began to set her down on one of the stone benches.

"I wouldn't want to." She responded looking up at him as he moved on top of her.

Sesshoumaru sat on his knees, one of her legs on either side of him. She wrapped her legs around him and lifted herself up. She brushed the side of his face with one hand and smiled when she saw him lean into it. He wrapped an arm around her back and brought her close. This time when he kissed her, she could feel heat erupt from inside her. During the kiss, Kagome felt her shirt become undone and cast to the side. Both of his hands caressed her back which caused her to tighten her grip with her legs and arch her back. Their kiss broke for a moment while they each took a breath and then it resumed. Soon Kagome felt her skirt unlatch and it too fell to the side. A moment passed and Kagome felt his hands cease their wandering on her sides and back. He gently pushed back on her shoulder and she let herself fall back onto the bench in response. Sesshoumaru began to kiss her neck, and slowly worked his way down her body. He gently sucked on one of her nipples and Kagome couldn't help but gasp a little and arch her back. The pain she had felt some time back was returning, only this time, he had caused the pain not a dream, and he would take the pain away. After moving to her other nipple he continued working his way down. Kagome felt his fingers gently rubbing her clit, and the feeling it produced did not help her sanity. She didn't want to have to wait any longer, but another part of her wanted this to last longer so that she could enjoy it. Her back arched strongly as she felt his finger slid in her, a moment later it was joined by another. Without any warning, she felt herself tare on the inside. She'd always heard of your cherry being popped, but she had not know that it would hurt this bad. A moment passed and the pain began to fade, without realizing what was going on around her, Kagome felt Sesshoumaru's tongue brush against her inner thigh lightly. As he continued, his tongue massaging her inside and out, the fire within Kagome drowned out the pain she had felt.

After a few minutes passed, Kagome felt him stop. She forced her eyes to open and looked down to see him moving back to his original position, his skirt no longer on him. As his face moved towards hers, Kagome looked into his eyes and saw that they were laced with red lines, little did she know that red was within her eyes as well. Sesshoumaru lent over her and captured her lips and Kagome wrapped her arms around his shoulders. She felt him slid into her and without thought her hands gripped his shoulders nearly breaking the skin. His lips on her quieted the painful cry that had tried to escape her mouth. For several minutes he did not move as he allowed her body to adjust. When she began to return his kiss as she had before he entered her, he slowly began to rock. Kagome was surprised that she was not in pain anymore, having always been told that the first time hurt. As time passed, his movements changed from soft and slow to hard and fast. The pain she had felt before he had begun had long since left. Her nerves danced, causing her legs to grip him and she felt every muscle in her body clench as a wave of numbness passed over her. Without consent a tear excepted her eye and slid down her cheek. She did not understand why the tear had come but she had a feeling it had something to do with her numbness and twitching muscles. As the numbness began to fade, she felt Sesshoumaru's grip on her shoulders tighten for a moment and she felt him pulse within her. After a short time, his movements stopped and the pulsing she felt within her ceased as well. He slowly lifted his face away from her neck and looked down at her. As her eyes moved to meet his, he lent towards her and placed a soft kiss on her lips before backing away again.

"It is complete. My blood flows within you, and now your blood flows within me. Neither time nor death can break the bond between us now." He whispered to her between breathes.

"Everything is as it should be then." She replied and she wrapped her arms back around him.

"As it should be." He repeated as he wrapped his arms around her back and lifted her to a sitting position.

Kagome did not go back to her room when they left the back gardens. As she fell asleep with Sesshoumaru's arms around her, she smiled, in her own mind everything felt as if it was in place. Kagome had to think about what Sesshoumaru had said, 'my blood flows within you.' She tried to remember when that had happened and realized that it was when he had tried to save her life by giving her his blood. Because he had done it to save her life, his blood had infused into her soul when he had done that. Content that she had found the answer, she settled in and allowed sleep to come. The purr that came from her as she cuddled against him was matched by him as they both fell asleep.

When both of them arrived in the training area after the morning meal, Seti turned and stood up upon their entrance. He gave them both a look of startled realization and motioned for them to come to him. Once they were sitting, Seti looked at them both and spoke.

"It is a good thing this has happened while you are here." He began.

"What are you referring to?" Sesshoumaru questioned.

"The sharing of blood, the bonding of souls, do not think that I cannot feel the change within both of you." He stated, apparently insulted by the question.

"Change, what change?" Kagome questioned, not understanding what he spoke about.

"Let me guess, you didn't know that you were doing anything more then creating a mate's bond. Well, you were wrong. You are adjacent crescents, do you remember nothing about what you were taught about when two such as you join?" He questioned.

"Nothing was ever taught about the two that bond changing." Kagome stated.

"Well, it would see as if your lesson for today is going to change then. Each of you have taken in power from the other, the two foreign energies within you are going to clash against each other for a while until your bond grows stronger. Every bond between two crescents has caused different effects, I can give you no warning as to what these clashes will cause, but I can warn you that the clashing will occur when the two of you are not together. It is extremely important that the two of you remain in very close proximity of each other at all times. One clash holds true with every bond, Kagome, if your energy bursts as it did yesterday, it will hit him, however, Sesshoumaru, you are now immune to the holy powers of tenshi and miko so it will not harm you." Seti stated.

"Why do the classes occur?" Sesshoumaru questioned.

"The energy of a tenshi and youkai are complete opposite of each other. The energy that has been exchanged between the two of you are going to have to adjust and become peaceful with its new location." Seti answered.

"How long will it take for our bond to become strong enough for the clashing to stop?" Kagome questioned.

"That will depend on the two of you. How much time alone the two of you spend together. It could take a few days, and then again it could take several years." He answered.