"You will return to the palace and be sealed away." Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes just daring him to dispute his order.
Naraku was very tempted to roll his eyes. "For the last time; you are not going to seal me away." He began surrounding himself in miasma. "When you get over yourself and this need to control me you can find me in the mountains just north of your castle."
"Wait for me!" Shingai yelled as she ran to him and grabbed his arm before he could vanish.
Sesshoumaru glared at the spot Naraku so recently vacated and wanted so bad to kill the kumo for his insolence. This back and forth between them was beginning to wear on his last nerve; even if it was his own fault things were going this way.
He was suddenly struck by Naraku's last words and he couldn't help but narrow his ambers deeply. Naraku was hiding within his domain without his knowledge and permission; he really should kill the kumo for his behavior but knew he wouldn't.
He placed his hand to his stomach and once again tried to feel if he was pregnant or not. It irritated him more than he would like to admit that he couldn't tell If he was or wasn't. However; even worse than that, was how much the thought that he may not be pregnant bothered him. Actually it was making him feel rather angered and that angered him even more.
He needed to get a grip on his senses and his sanity. So with something of an inward huff he returned to collect his armor and head home to sort out his emotions and thoughts.
xx
Naraku draped his arm over his eyes as he once again tried to get some sleep but sleep seemed just as elusive as the shikon shards scattered around the country. He could feel Sesshoumaru holding his heart like a vague third sense. He wasn't sure what the inu was doing with it only that he was holding it in his hand. The flowing movement of his heart like floating on thin air was starting to get to him. Up and down, around and around, twisting, turning, and on occasion a light squeeze that was almost painful.
Really Sesshoumaru needed to get over whatever was going through his head and just let it be.
When he felt the lurch and spin of Sesshoumaru turning it within his fingers for what had to be the millionth time, he almost flew out of the castle to go and snatch his heart away from him. Maybe he'd even belt him in the mouth for good measure.
If only the inu was already pregnant then that would make this whole mess a lot easier to deal with. Sesshoumaru would have to depend on him and he'd be right here with him where he wanted him to be anyway.
Maybe he should just go kidnap him and fuck him until there was no doubt as to whether or not he was with child.
He suddenly pressed his lips together as he moved his arm to his forehead and glared at the ceiling when he again felt a nearly painful squeeze of his heart. For someone who claimed to have an iron tight hold over his emotions Sesshoumaru certainly was all over the place with them. Irritation, jealousy, contentment, jealousy, anger, jealousy… his dark eyes suddenly glinted as he realized how to get Sesshoumaru back to him.
Sesshoumaru's jealousy was the key which was already proven with that whole Abi situation. Yet how did Sesshoumaru know he was with Abi in the first place? He didn't tell anyone about meeting with her and it was just a spur of the moment idea he had.
Was it possible Sesshoumaru could feel what he was feeling through his heart? If that was the case then Sesshoumaru could feel his irritation which made him wonder if the inu was irritated because of his irritation causing him to toy with his heart all the more.
So now he wondered what would happen if he put off the sense of pleasure? He'd be dead no doubt; he snorted to himself. If Sesshoumaru even thought for a second that he was deriving pleasure with anyone; himself included, without him he'd surely kill him without a second thought. His actions with Abi had already shown how easily Sesshoumaru was provoked into a jealous fit.
Therefore, what emotion could he exude that would cause Sesshoumaru to come running to him, with minimal pain and no death?
He suddenly frowned as he realized that there was one and it was one that was hard to fake cause most days he didn't feel it. Happiness was only felt when he was being his true dark self and to fake it wasn't something he could do. Well, he could go out and torture and kill some demons or humans or both to make himself happy.
Sesshoumaru would come to see why he was so happy without him and then he'd have his inu right where he wanted him. Here with him so he could keep him naked and in bed always it was a pleasant thought. Now that thought that caused him to grin to himself happily.
He suddenly shot straight up and gripped his chest tightly against the searing pain.
That was it!
Guards or no guards he was getting his heart back. One little happy thought and the inu was seething? Sesshoumaru had to be pregnant to be this damn emotional; he decided. So without another thought he disappeared through his bedroom window heading for Sesshoumaru to put an end to this nonsense.
xx
"How did you get past the guards?" Sesshoumaru growled at the being standing in front of him.
Naraku narrowed his dark eyes deeply. "It doesn't matter." He responded in kind and snatched his heart from Sesshoumaru's fingers. "I have had quite enough of you playing games with this." He pressed it against his chest and absorbed it into his body.
"You will return what is mine." Sesshoumaru ordered deadly as his ambers began to bleed crimson.
"No." Naraku responded just as deadly. "Maybe when you can stop being such and emotional bitch I will give it back." He stepped back from him towards his bedroom window.
"He's in the garden!"
"No, he's in the warehouse!"
"Over there, the training grounds!"
Sesshoumaru tilted his head slightly to look past Naraku out the window as Kenta's voice entered his head.
"My lord the castle has been breached."
"He's on the roof!"
"Wait; he's in the weapons shed!"
Sesshoumaru pressed his lips together and stared at Naraku who was now smirking at him.
"Maybe I'm the real one maybe I'm not." He jumped through the window. "You know where to find me if you want it back." His voice echoed through his head as he vanished from sight.
Sesshoumaru just stood there mad beyond all reason and trying to decide who to maim and kill first. His guards for letting Naraku slip past them without noticing? Kenta for not training the guards properly? Naraku for stealing his property?
"All of them." He growled to himself as his eyes narrowed to deadly little slits.
"Kenta gather the guards, the intruder is gone, it was a test and you all failed."
"Hai my lord."
First he was going to get his guards situated and punished then he was going after Naraku. The kumo was going to pay and pay dearly for his transgressions and for stealing from him.
xx
Naraku watched as Sesshoumaru made his way towards his hidden castle and grinned to himself in anticipation of the fight that was about to come. If he played this fight just right; it would end with a naked Sesshoumaru beneath him.
"I expected you here sooner than this." Naraku smirked when the inu landed in front of him.
Sesshoumaru glared at him as his claws flexed wanting to gut the kumo on the spot. "Be glad I don't kill you." Sesshoumaru growled in return.
"For what?" Naraku questioned with a smirk and an arched brow as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Taking my heart back? It's mine I can do what I please with it."
"Iie." Sesshoumaru almost snarled at him as he tried to suppress his rage which was causing his eyes to tinge pink. "It is mine and you will return it."
"Alright," Naraku nodded. "tell me what we are and it is yours." He narrowed his dark eyes upon him. "And do not say nothing because if that was so you wouldn't be here now."
"I have told you several times already what we are." He answered curtly.
Naraku pressed his lips together into a thin tight line as he stared at him. "Mine and nothing are all you keep saying and neither of those are anything." He finally decided to just put it out there and force the inu to answer. "This is it; the last time and if I don't get an answer you will never see me again."
Sesshoumaru eyes widened just the slightest at his threat and knew without a doubt that Naraku would fulfill his promise if he failed to answer him this time.
"What are we Sesshoumaru?"
He ground his teeth together irritated that the kumo was so stupid. "I have answered this same question over and over again." He bit out. "However," he cut in when Naraku opened his mouth to respond. "since you seem to be so simple perhaps never seeing you again would be for the best."
He almost smirked at Sesshoumaru's attempted trickery but maintained his hard stared upon the inu. "So be it." He decided to call his bluff and started surrounding himself in his miasma.
As he expected Sesshoumaru was on him before the poison could fully manifest itself around him. He jerked Sesshoumaru's hand from his throat, grabbed him by his haori, and slammed their lips together. He was so very tired of these stupid little games so he decided to just take Sesshoumaru whether the inu agreed to it or not.
He surrounded them in his miasma and headed for his bedroom so he could have his way with him until there was no doubt as to whether he was pregnant or not. Which is what he should have done in the first place when he first captured the inu.
xx
Sesshoumaru stared up at the kumo hovering over him and bared his fangs at the bastard.
"Threaten me all you want," Naraku glared at him as he jerked open Sesshoumaru's haori. "but we both know this is exactly what you want."
"Only in your deluded mind." Sesshoumaru growled at him.
He was tempted to roll his eyes at that as he moved down and placed his hands upon his flat stomach. "I'm more than certain that we have a baby in here." He said mostly to himself as he leaned down and placed a kiss to his stomach.
Sesshoumaru watched him and narrowed his eyes even further at his words. "iie."
He looked up at him and smirked. "How certain of that are you?" When he did nothing but press his lips together tightly as he stared at him he had his answer. "So, you don't know for certain yourself." He gripped him by the sides and gently caressed his flesh with his thumbs. "There has to be a way for us to find out for sure." He said mostly to himself as he stared at Sesshoumaru's abdomen before looking up his body to lock stares with him. "Your beast doesn't know?"
Sesshoumaru stared at him for a moment still glaring at him but didn't do anything stop any of this. "I have not conferred with him."
"Maybe you should." Naraku pointed out as he moved to hover over him with hands on either side of his head. "After I make love to you however." He nodded then leaned down and buried his face into his neck; nipping and sucking on the pale flesh.