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Sota's Wedding

Yuki

Morning

Grown-ups are strange people, that's all she can think while she observes the preparations. Chichiue will be back at any moment. He's at Soba-sama's castle in the sky which means that he is visiting her half-brother. He was supposed to be back before the sun set. "Yuki!" Rin called her.

"What?"

"Come help me," her mother instructed her.

"I don't want to," she stomped her foot, pouting as she trailed after her mother.

"Take the flowers and put them in the corners of the courtyard."

Yuki only rolled her eyes as she grabbed a few arrangements from the public dining hall and then out to the courtyard flopping them in the corners.

"Can you try to make them look nice?" Kagome asked her while picking up the arrangements and tying them to trellises.

"Why are you asking me if you want it to look nice?" Yuki licked her fangs as she ran away.

"Yuki!" Her mother shouted after her.

No…no…no! I'm not decorating!

"Stop," Katsumoto landed next to her. "Come on, back to the house."

"No!" She folded her arms over her chest, glaring at the black haired fiend in front of her.

"You're brothers are at the house so that is where you are staying," he said firmly gripping her shoulder.

"Let me go!" She tried to rip her arm away from him.

Katsumoto burst into laughter. "Is that the best you can do?" He yanked her into his chest and flew into the air taking her back home. "Now go be useful."

"Why don't you be useful!?" She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Yuki," Rin took her by the arm and brought her to the door. "I swear if you don't behave," she leaned over and whispered in Yuki's ear. "Your backside will be more sore than your face was when I lost my memories."

Yuki gasped appalled. "He told you about that?"

"Of course," her mother giggled. "Did you think he wouldn't tell me he had to slap you across the face?"

"You said he wasn't allowed to hit me!"

"That was before you turned into a brat," Akari said over Rin's shoulders. "Now you can help me set the tables. Take these plates."

"You're the one that's a servant!"

"Rin!" Kagome called. "What the hell did you do to my niece? It's not like Inuyasha is that well behaved, but jeez none of my kids act like this."

"Yes well none of your kids have Sesshomaru for a father. And we're hosting this wedding. What are you complaining about?" Ka-san asked.

"We would have hosted it. It's not my fault I was forced into this," Inuyasha carried a large stack of plates into the public dining room. "Don't you have servants who could do this?"

"Osuwari!" Kagome yelled over her shoulder as she opened the door.

"Jokes on you!" Inuyasha stuck his tongue out at Kagome. "I'm not wearing them anymore!"

"I knew I never should have taken them off," Kagome ran back to grab more cups from outside.

"I swear, chickens are more organized," Yuki muttered as she lifted a stack of plates and followed after everyone else.

Harutoga

Evening

He sat entranced as his father told him a bed-time story. This time they were telling the story of how he fought a group of snake demons the night that Sota was born. Chichiue had come to visit Ka-san when she was just a girl, but Ojisan had left by himself and Chichiue knew Ojisan would be dead if he didn't help. So he went after them. When he got there, the Monk and Inuyasha were surrounded and Chichiue used his Bakusaiga and the snakes were lit on fire. He burned them to death and their bodies were hacked into pieces, blood spurt from their mouths, and—"This is a bedtime story?" Ka-san leaned against the door.

"We were just getting to the best part!" Yuki sat in rapt attention holding Taiyomaru who had FINALLY stopped crying the second that Chichiue landed.

Ka-san knelt down on the bed, hugging Chichiue around the waist and kissed his cheek with a smile. "Death and gore? That's your bedtime story?"

"Glory and pride," Chichiue sat up straighter. "They should know of the might of their father."

"And their mother?"

"All you do is have babies," Harutoga said quickly. "Chichiue fights things."

"I fought an Ogre King!"

"Yeah but you would have lost if Natsuki didn't come," Yuki said.

"I fought snake demons before!"

"Chichiue saved you," Harutoga reminded her.

"I fought the Healer!"

"I softened him up," Yuki reminded her. "I stabbed him and pumped him full of Dokkasu a few times."

"Apparently, I can't do anything and you're the hero." Ka-san let go of Chichiue and even Harutoga saw the tears in her eyes. "I'll take the baby." She bent over to take his baby brother but even that made him start screaming and she flopped the baby back in Chichiue's arms and left the room.

"You made her sad," Chichiue said firmly bouncing the baby in his lap. "Ka-san is a warrior."

"But you only ever talk about yourself," Harutoga told him.

"Ka-san has slain many ogres on her own. The first time I saw it, she was sixteen. Did I tell you this story?"

"No!" Yuki and Harutoga answered at the same time.

"She was in the forest with her friend," and he grimaced when he said the word friend and Harutoga wondered why. "They were near Kaede's village walking home. She had your cousins with her. This was before Mayumi was born. They were very young and her friend had his nieces and nephews. An ogre came from the bushes and attacked her. He said he would eat her to make Chichiue suffer. She jumped into the air, like a falcon, onto his shoulders. She threw a knife into his neck first, then slid down his back using the katana that I gave her. He fell to his death. That is the power of your Ka-san. Now into bed, the wedding is early in the afternoon and you need to sleep."

"How come she doesn't do that anymore?" Harutoga asked as he made himself a nest in Yuki's bed.

"Because she's weak after having babies duh! Ouch!" Yuki rubbed her forehead and snarled at her father.

He had flicked her in the head for her insolence. "Because she cares for you and this village. When you lived by the ocean, who killed the ogres?"

"Ka-san," they said together.

"Who made jewelry to pay for your clothes?"

"Ka-san."

"Who killed the Healer?"

"Ka-san."

"Is she weak?"

"No," they said together. "Just because she is human, doesn't mean she is less than this Sesshomaru. Now go to sleep." He kissed their brows and left the room.

Rin

Early Morning

She fell asleep before he came to bed the night before. Something about feeling like she could do nothing right was eating at her as she finished the rest of the preparations. As she woke she felt herself wrapped in arms and warm breath puffing next to her neck. She sat up, her red yukata half falling off her shoulders as she did. She wiggled out of his arms to stare at him and leaned on one hand to trace the markings on his face before leaning over and kissing his sleeping lips. "I chose this didn't I?" She said it quietly, more to herself than to him as she checked on the sleeping baby in the basket next to her.

"Chose what?" his voice came from behind her.

"I woke you, I'm sorry." She slid her yukata off her shoulders baring her naked body to him, while she rummaged for clothing.

"Such a pleasant sight to wake up to," he said not getting up. "Come back to bed."

"There's too much to do, that is if I am of use to anyone for anything." Her back was turned and she was glad he couldn't see the tears welling in her eyes.

"Should I say what I can smell, and feel my heart? Come to bed. You have many uses."

"A vessel for children? For pleasure?"

Her hand was grasped and she was tugged back onto the futon and into the arms of her lover. He wrapped one arm around her waist and leg around her ankles. "We were friends before we were lovers and before that I cared for you as a father does a daughter. I remember when you lost a tooth do you remember?"

"I was scared."

"You told me that your first tooth hurt when it came out. One of the village children had hit you in the face with a stone."

"And you wiggled the tooth until it came out," she chuckled. "I remember. How is this making me feel more useful?"

"You warmed my heart with your trust. You gave me my strength. Did I tell you the first time Naraku kidnapped you, I nearly died?"

"No," she said quietly.

"He trapped me in his body in an attempt to absorb me, to fuel his body. For a moment inside, I thought does it matter? But then I thought of the little girl who was waiting for me and again with Magatsuhi. I was injured and more than anything in that moment, I wanted something to destroy Naraku, to protect you, my heart. Bakusaiga was made from my love for you. I am not the hero without you. I am nothing without you."

She smiled listening to him speak.

"You are powerful, driven, beautiful. They will know the strength of their mother."

"When all you tell them stories of is yourself and your father?"

"Last night, I told them of the day you slew an ogre when you were sixteen. Tonight, I will tell them of the twelve year old girl who killed two demons for the first time. After the wedding you will tell me more, of the time when you trained as a child and hid it from me." He warmed her cheek with his lips. "They will hear of your battle against Touma, how your birthed Yuki in a cave by yourself and all the exploits of your life."

She chuckled and wiped her eyes. "I shouldn't doubt you."

"What did you choose?"

"Life next to a dai-yokai. You will always outshine me."

"I am the moon," he touched his forehead, fingers running over the crescent moon. "I reflect the light of the sun. You are my sun. We will make love before you leave this room." He rolled her naked to straddle his lap, it was only as he slid into her that she realized he was naked too.

She grit her teeth, taking him in and wiggling to find comfort. "I wasn't ready yet," she panted.

A smirk creased his features as he held her chin and took in her lips. "Then let me help you."

Taisho

Mid-morning

No one tells you how to say goodbye to a brother. They decided together to come after helping Sesshomaru with the Healer fiasco and because their mother would return to her time and Sota was a freakshow who would need special permission to keep his head covered while Taisho always felt like an awkward second wheel to his smoother older brother. Sota had everything, the looks, the wiggly ears, blades of blood and was even taller and more youthful because his yoki was more powerful. But, they had bonded serving their uncle together and then Sota found Sayako and ever since she went into heat the month before he had barely seen his brother. Now they would be parted, for how long he didn't know.

"Stop looking so sour," Sota told him as he dressed in a fine silken black Kimono with dragons embroidered in gold. His hikama contrasted in pristine white as he tied his obi and threaded his katana through it.

"You're getting married. You're sixteen!"

"So?" Sota sat down on a wooden bench in their room that was western style rather than Eastern. "What's wrong Taisho?"

"You're leaving me. It's always been you and me and now you're going." The black haired brother sat on the bench. "What am I going to do here now?"

"Stay? Take care of the barrier. Keep Obasan from killing Ojisama," Sota chuckled at his joke and slapped a hand against Taisho's back. "We knew it would happen one day. Besides you'll find someone to love."

"I hope she's human. How is your back?"

Sota reached over his shoulder laughing. "It finally healed."

"Did you bond her?"

"No, she did me but I couldn't. She pummeled me, I had to hold her down which wasn't easy because she is so much stronger than I am. Can you imagine? Being married to a being so much stronger than you?"

"You mean like To-san and Ka-san?"

"Yeah but at least To-san is stronger than Ka-san. It's odd," he shook his shoulders nervously. "I'll bond her tonight. Ojisama will help me."

"Isn't supposed to happen during?" Taisho nervously asked.

He nodded. "He won't be in the room, but I need him to thread some of his yoki into the sword for me to draw on. We knew it might happen that on my own, I don't have enough. So if I can use the katana to strengthen what I have, we can do it."

"Either way, I'll miss you."

"She's pregnant," Sota told him standing up. "We don't know how long it will be. More than three months, less than nine."

"Really? I'm going to be an Uncle?" Taisho hugged his brother. "That's amazing!"

Kagome

Afternoon

There are no words that could have prepared her for this day. Her son is sixteen and getting married. It would be a scandal on the other side of the well but here it's considered normal. "Just breathe," Sango encouraged her as Sota and Sayako paced up the trail of flowers that had been laid for them. They would get married under a canopy of flowers, while the hot summer sun traces orange silhouettes on their bodies. Sayako wore a white kimono despite the loss of her virginity. "Just breathe."

Kagome wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's stomach and he smiled at her proudly. Their lips met briefly as the young couple was led to the canopy. Koga came forward first to deliver a speech. It spoke of the spiritual bond that transcends time and space. He wound a red string around their wrists, saying that it represented an eternal thread. They would be together in this life and the next. Her hanyou lover glanced down at her and tore a thread from his clothes, wrapping it around her wrists and whispered in her ear, "for always."

She couldn't hold back the tears, her baby was getting married and just before the procession started Taisho let the secret out that Sayako was pregnant and she would soon become a grandmother in her thirties, she laughed internally. Another scandal if it were to happen in her time. Sesshomaru stepped forward first to bless their union, then Inuyasha and then the children were encouraged to throw rice and candies at the couple to bless them with many sweet years just before the villagers who could play instruments began a sensuously slow song that Kagome had no idea what to do with.

Sango flushed watching some of the demoness drag their partners into a circle around a lit pyre and the men fall to one knee. "What are they doing?"

"I want to do that," Miroku licked his lips.

"You'd do anything," Sango said flatly.

"As long as it was you," he said cheerfully.

The women began swaying their hips while pointing at their lovers.

"It's a dance," Rin ran over and grabbed Kagome and Sango by the wrists. "It's a lovers seduction. The female draws the male in."

"I don't know this dance!" Kagome protested.

"Neither do I. It's a wolf demon dance, but I'm not missing my chance to make him," she pointed at Sesshomaru, "dance with me. Come on!"

Kagome watched as Rin grabbed Sesshomaru wrist and led him into the circle. He lowered himself onto one knee with a fire in his eyes that made Kagome blush, especially when Rin swayed her hips and jiggled her belly at him, just before she slid one leg over his shoulder, making her kimono bare her legs and he rubbed her hips sensuously for everyone to see. "Shall we?" Inuyasha asked red cheeked.

Why not?

She led him into the circle. The women danced in a round, skipping and flipping their hips until they came to their partners. Kagome giggled as she swung her hair into his face and then ground herself against him, starting by holding his shoulders and rotating her hips against his face. It seemed entirely immodest to dance like this where others could see, but Koga's nose was buried in Ayame's crotch, Sesshomaru was holding Rin's butt in his hands while she bent backwards and rocked her hips into his face. Sango held Miroku's hands as they wandered up her sides and she ran her butt up against his face and he nuzzled the cheeks warmly. No one was watching her, so she shimmied herself down until her legs were wrapped around him. The dance alone was making a heat rise in her center and she wanted him. She turned around as he stood and rolled her shoulders into his chest as his hands explored. They dipped down and lifted the fabric of her emerald green kimono to bare her legs. He knelt back down following the other men and then she felt his hands massaging the inside of her thighs. She gasped in surprise at how warm it made her feel and how badly she wanted to continue this naked, until she saw Rin backing away from Sesshomaru and untying her obi, letting her outer layer fall to the ground. Underneath she wore only a thin layer that left very little to the imagination. Sayako had done the same, so did Ayame until they were hardly clad. Sango flushed and removed her outer layers. "Take it off," Inuyasha stood up with the men, it seemed their only job was to stand and kneel and paw at their females.

Sesshomaru now had his nose firmly pressed into Rin's crotch and Kagome wondered what exactly they were doing but shook herself free. "I don't have anything on under it." She shook her butt in his face, back and forth. "Just underwear."

"That's a problem," he said tugging on the string of her thong. "I guess I need to take you somewhere private then."

"Can we? Is it bad form."

"I don't think so?" Inuyasha pointed at Rin who seemed to be riding out an orgasm. Kagome was more than glad that Rin's yukata was covering whatever it was that Sesshomaru was doing to her, until she noticed that many of the demonesses were moaning and gyrating against their lovers. "Let's go!" He snatched her around the waist and ran with her back to their room.

Inuyasha

Late Afternoon

"Fuck Kagome," Inuyasha flopped backwards on the bed after she had rode him until he exploded inside of her. "Wow…we should marry all our kids off to wolf demons."

Kagome climbed off him and passed him a towel. They were in the private family guest rooms. "Oh…ah! Sota! Yes! Right there!"

Inuyasha's ears drooped slightly. "I'm not sure I want to hear that."

Kagome turned bright red. "Harder, oh fuck me harder! Yes! Oh I'm going to! SSSSSSOOOOOOOTTTTAAA!"

"No, I'm not so sure I want to hear that either." She scrambled to find her clothing and flew into them like she was being chased by something darker than Naraku.

Inuyasha watched with a solid and satisfied smirk as he did the same. They ran out of the hallway just as it was obvious that Sayako came with a horrendous howl that rattled the walls and Sota roaring so loud that they picked up speed. "Okay I know our son is having sex, I definitely don't want to hear him having sex," Kagome said to him.

"Koga said when they did it the first time, that he nearly caused an avalanche. She screamed that loud," Inuyasha laughed.

Now that the sensuous dance was over a new, jollier tune floated into the field of daisies and around the pyre the children danced. A smile crossed his lips as he watched Mayumi and Yuki hold hands. Next to them Taisho held Taiyomaru in one hand and Harutoga's hand in the other. Izayoi joined in with the girls and it didn't take long for Sesshomaru to join next to his brother watching them, holding his white haired child in his hands. "You brought him to my son's wedding?"

"Tsukimaru is my son. Why should he not come to his cousin's wedding? His mother is in the castle." Tsukimaru sucked happily on his father's thumb, half gumming it.

"He still looks like a newborn. Can I hold him?" Inuyasha asked holding out his arms.

"You want to hold the son who tore my house apart?" He shrugged and passed his son to his brother.

"It wasn't his fault," Inuyasha said as he made silly faces, blowing raspberries at the baby to get him to smile. He was rejected when Tsukimaru frowned and immediately broke into hysterical screams. He threw the baby back at his father. "Apparently he doesn't like me."

"I would also dislike being slobbered on by someone like you," Sesshomaru said wryly, but then he exhaled heavily. "It's good to see our children celebrating together."

"Almost like the past never happened. Do you worry about it with Tsukimaru and your hanyou children?"

"Often." They found a grassy area to sit together. "I want them to be friends, allies, not enemies. Not like you and I."

"Would it have been different if Oyaji had said why he did what he did with the swords?" He had always wondered about that. Would their lives have been different, hatred avoided?

"It couldn't be taught with words. It had to be as it was. But this one," he said nuzzling his son's nose, "will be outnumbered by the other three and I do not wish him to ever have to face Yuki's temper. She will kill him. It will take centuries for him to be stronger than them and they are inseparable. He threatens one of them, he will face all of them."

"I hope I live long enough to see it. I never thought you would father a hanyou."

"Neither did I."

"It never bothers you?" The scars of the past ran deep and he could see his brother eying him as they sat together.

"They were made in love. The past is the past Inuyasha. You are my brother, annoying as you are. You have cared for my family many times in the past. Rin would not be alive without you," and then he winced and Sesshomaru said so quietly, it was almost missed, "I am sorry for the pain I caused you before, it was childish and immature."

"Thanks," he said quietly. "It was stupid wasn't it? The way we fought?"

"A waste of energy, I should have just killed you," he rose from his place and brought the baby to Rin. "He's hungry, feed him."

Sesshomaru

Middle of the Night

The celebration has been long and the middle of the night approached. Before he returned home, he had gone to get demon shochu. It was quadruple the strength of regular sake and even he was feeling its affects. The males were gathered in the public dining halls together singing at the top of their lungs. He slammed his hand down on the table, picking up another glass of sake and downing it. He closed his eyes and opened them to find two Rins standing in front of him. He belched and covered his mouth, trying to recover his dignity and said, "Rin who is your beautiful sister?"

"I think you've had enough."

"I've never had enough. Nring her to bed," he giggled joining a chorus of laughter.

"Okay, that's enough come on," she bent down enough to get an arm around his waist.

"Why doesn't she help you carry this Sesshomaru to bed?"

"You're seeing double," she rolled her eyes and shook her head. "My love, you've had too much to drink."

He leaned on her as he walked, his feet moving sloppily as he did. "The night is young my heart, we should celebrate."

"We will," she assured him as he carried her.

"You're lying," he said smelling her neck and licking her skin. "Where did your sister go?"

"She went home. She has a husband and a family and many children."

"I will kill him. She will be mine," he tripped and landed against the wall. "All the beautiful women will be mine! We will fuck, until you cannot walk."

"You already cannot walk!" she fumed at him with her hands on her hips. They had made it as far as the private corridor with Rin glaring at him. "Come on."

"I'm thirsty," he stalked her like a dog, wrapping his arms around her waist and squeezing her ass.

She squeaked in protest, music to his ears. "Those are not drinks!" She slapped his hands off her breasts. "Sesshomaru, get into bed."

"Only if you come too," he burst into laughter leaning on her as she led him into bed. "Let me touch your breasts, they're so beautiful."

"I'm going to remind you of this in the morning." She elbowed his stomach and opened the door their room. He flopped onto the bed, taking her with him, until she straddled his chest. "What do you think you are doing?"

"You? I'm hungry," he said gleefully, shimmying himself down until he could feel the heat of her slit against his lips. "I will eat." He parted her petals, bearing her heat.

"That's not food!" she protested trying to get up but even drunk he was stronger than she was. He held her hips in place and reveled in the gasp he brought from her lips. "My love," she whispered in his ear. "Oh I like that."

"You love this," he said sensuously sucking on her bud that was smashed into his face. He licked it gratefully, running his tongue up her heat then down. He had made her come so hard during that dance she dripped down his elbow, now he was going to enjoy this. He yanked her kimono off her shoulders, freed her hair from the combs she was wearing and inserted his tongue deep into her crotch, licking her walls until she was gasping and leaning over him. "Even drunk, I pleasure you."

"It's so good," she said gripping the pillows in front of her.

He inserted his fingers and pumped her core, licking, sucking, swirling with his tongue while she rocked her hips against his face. He drank her taste, ate her essence until she was moaning and then he felt the familiar rush of muscles vibrating against his nose. She lowered herself down laughing and kissed his lips, tasting of the moisture of her opening and of her own saliva. "You look satisfied."

"Very, now it's my turn," he inclined his head, removing his clothing, although his hands fumbled on his obi and his thumbs felt fat. She helped him with a smile and as she removed his hikama she said quietly. "We have a problem my love."

"What?" He sat up stroking her back.

She twirled his extremely flaccid cock in her fingers with pursed lips and small snorts of laughter escaping her lips. "You seemed to be having a little problem."

"There is nothing little about this Sesshomaru," he glared at the offending appendage.

"Well, I will try my best, but I think you may be too drunk."

"Impossible," he hiccupped, "my yoki powers my penis. It will not be defeated by sake. Up!" he commanded it.

"I don't think that's how it works."

"You will put it in your mouth," he flopped backwards. "That will work."

He felt her hot mouth cover him, she sucked and licked and after a minute she sat back laughing, covering her exquisitely beautiful mouth. "I think it's broken," she broke into raucous laughter as she spoke.

He sat up and touched himself in dismay, "pathetic thing." It was soggy from her saliva, flat and so floppy it was embarrassing. "You will tell no one of this."

"Your secret is safe with me," Rin said laying down against his chest. "Now go to sleep."

"When did your sister get here?" He rubbed his eyes, seeing two beautiful dark haired women against his chest before the world went black.

Please review! What was your favorite part? My husband was rolling last night reading drunk Sesshomaru.

WHY NAG ABOUT REVIEWS? I GOT ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE "WHY DON'T YOU HAVE MORE REVIEWS?" QUESTIONS ON KISS OF FATE WHICH I AM COAUTHORING WITH KIMMIGIRL9. I COULD EXPLAIN, I COULD TALK ABOUT WHY THE SESS/RIN IS DYING BUT REALLY I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO REVIEW TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT, LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR THE WRITING THAT THE ARTISTS DO ON THIS SITE. #REVIEWOTUION PEOPLE. IF WE WANT MORE SESS/RIN STORIES AND TO BRING THEM BACK AS A COUPLE YOU HAVE TO START LEAVING MORE REVIEWS. SO YOU READING THIS, NOT LEAVING A REVIEW? YEAH WRITE ONE, TAKES LIKE FIVE MINUTES OF THE SEVERAL HOURS IT TOOK ME TO WRITE THE WEDDING.

Special thanks to Nighbird755...we wrote a drunk sess scene together, rather role played it and I had so much fun making him drunk I wanted to do it again.

Esther247: I am for sure still taking requests! I just don't have as much time to drabble right now. Darn university classes!