Haruka's looks explained: he looks a lot like the Haruka from 'Free!' (but didn't do it on purpose). Add silver streaks into his eyes and mix him with a white-haired Izuna with adult Sasuke's bangs and you've got it.
As always,
Enjoy!
~Kyvena
22: A Demon Lord's Fury
Sesshōmaru was currently walking by his father's study whenever massive crashes echoed out from within, making him tilt his head as he passed, only to come to a slow stop and turn to look back as he thought, 'What is he so mad about?' A maid that was shakily carrying a tray of tea for the lord of the lands then gulped heavily before raising a shaking hand and entered. About to walk again, he froze once he heard the fury induced heaving as the sound of a harsh 'SNAP' echoed out.
Maids, servants, and guards alike appeared petrified and terrified at the great dog demon of the west's oh-so angered outburst that could bring them harm. The noticeable anxiety that radiated and projected out from all could clearly be sensed, and he could tell that all were about to have a mental breakdown over this furious daiyokai ruler. Releasing an even breath to shake his own fear, the western heir approach the guard who had heard everything in a calm and dignified fashion.
Coming to a stop, Sesshōmaru then lowered his even tone a great deal so that his father did not hear him, not that he could during the process of completely and utterly destroying his study, "What happens to be the issue...?" The guard peered at the heir of the west with terrified eyes as he spoke in a shaky tone that was just as low, again... not that it mattered, "O-Oh, young lord. W-Well, lord InuTaisho found o-out that l-lord Haruka became m-mated to the angelic heiress, Kagome..."
"Sesshōmaru! Get in here now!" InuTaisho roared furiously, making that anxiety flood into his system again, but appeared calm and bland once he walked back to his father's study before entering and speaking in an even tone, "You wished to see me?" InuTaisho's crimson orbs snapped furiously towards his son before grabbing his pup's throat tightly, only to lift him off of his feet, "Care to explain how the angelic heiress escaped now?! I want to hear the truth, do you understand?!"
Fear now crossed the six-year-old appearing pup's face as he squirmed before gasping out, "Fa-Father, you t-treated her so t-terribly! She s-saved my life, and you l-locked her up! I-I had to d-do something to re-repay my d-debt!" That grip on his son became tighter than before as he snarled out, "Unless my memory proves to serve me poorly, you were not given clearance to do so! Do you think I care about a life debt?! Now, you are to go to the north and retrieve what you released!"
Hurling his small son to the ground furiously so that he crashed against the wall, InuTaisho then glared deadly crimson daggers at his pup that began coughing harshly, all he could do was hold his throat and nod, "As... As you wish, f-father." He had no damn idea how to get to the northern castle, so he whimpered out softly, "I-I just don't know how to get there..." About to go on another rampage, he then froze. Sesshōmaru had always been his key, making him sigh and nod, "Let's go."
He missed how Kagome used to let him hold her hand, even if it had only been for two days, plus twenty years. He had held her hand each time he would visit her with clear worry, but, never showed that worry so that her spirit wouldn't give up at all. She gave so much to others... and asked for absolutely nothing in return. He also missed how Kagome would listen to him talk and converse in return. He was never allowed to act as bright as he normally would around his father or mother.
Looking at his father as they walked, Sesshōmaru figured it wouldn't hurt to try... so he reached up and took his father's hand with his child-like hand, only for his father to shoot his sharp orbs down that made the pup internally flinch before letting his hand fall. Unknowingly, tears began to flood his big and doughy golden orbs before sliding down his face, making InuTaisho sigh heavily before growling, "You may use all of your emotions once Kagome becomes your mother, pup."
Breaking down, Sesshōmaru began to furiously wipe the tears from his face almost frantically as the locket Kagome gave him so long ago swung free from his top, making InuTaisho notice it almost instantly before speaking, "You are no female. Take that off instantly." Shaking his head, he then yelled, "Kagome gave me Affections Touching Across Time, and I promised to care for it!" It had a name? Noticing his father's confused face, the pup then opened the locket for the melody to play.
Watching his father's shoulders relax over the melody, Sesshōmaru then tried again. Reaching up, he took his father's hand in his own much smaller hand as his father finally held his hand in return without releasing a displeased sigh. Peering up curiously at his father, Sesshōmaru noticed the almost unnoticeable smile grace his father's always so stern and straight face over a melody playing from the locket that Kagome had gifted him with when he only appeared four years of age.
"Father? Can I ask you something...?" Sesshōmaru softly questioned, making InuTaisho tilt his head down to look at his son, "Go right ahead pup." Nodding, the young pup nibbled on his lip to think of a way to word this without royally pissing his father off before just asking it as it was, "Why are you so adamant about having her back?" Chuckling, InuTaisho then answered his son, "Putting it simply... she will be mine. Whether she likes it or not." At that point, the pup shut his mouth.
As of now in the north, Kagome dashed forward, only to be caught by Haruka's legs as he rolled over his shoulder and caught himself, yet, then had his tail yanked to the point that it shocked him enough to release her. Azuki walked in to sweat drop over this while picking Kirara up, "How long have they been at it this time?" Kirara's head continued to snap back and forth as she answered, "This is their longest spar thus far. Sixteen hours of nonstop fighting. Neither have rested once."
Both the angel and demon were determined to finally have a clear victor this time. Vanishing into the air as Haruka panted and gasped for air while sweat dripped from each pore on his body. He was hurting everywhere at this point and cringed before shooting his head up to hurriedly jump upside down to kick the angelic maiden, but had his ankle caught as Kagome smirked, "I have memorized how you fight Haru! I WIN!" A massive slam then came to the ground that shook the dojo.
Groans from two sets of people could be heard until Kagome flailed, "DAMMIT! NOT... ANOTHER... DRAW! I REFUSE... TO LOSE!" She weakly rolled onto Haru gasping heavily, which he was no better in the aspects of gasping for air as he gripped her top and yanked her forward as he shot up to collide their heads together, "YOU'RE... GOING TO... HAVE TO... LOSE... BECAUSE I... WANT TO... WIN!" The two were so weak now, that their bodies shook and trembled once they stood.
Haruka knew that no matter what he did to her, the damage would heal, so she would be fine. The two then rushed at one another... in their eyes... while in normal eyes, the two looked like a pair of drunken idiots that were tripping over their feet to fight one another over something completely worthless. Once both were in range of each other, they skidded to a sharp halt and reared their fists back furiously, their eyes filled with determination at this point to finally crown a clear victor.
"Goodness, they are both stubborn," the head maid dryly spoke as she stroked the fire feline's fur once she spoke in return, "Well, I take it back. It has now been seventeen hours." The two sparring ignored the two talking as their fists rushed forward, only to end up lightly tapping one another before sliding to their knees and gasping for air as Kagome's hair finally fell to curtain around her body. The two stared into one another's eyes deeply as they sucked in sharp breaths of air.
Azuki could only chuckle at the two obviously obstinate individuals, only to see this as the lord and lady's chance to finally reform that bond that had been broken. Azuki walked out of the dojo while carrying Kirara, "Give them their space Kirara... It would do both of them some good to hold some alone time." Once that dojo door closed, Haruka groaned in sheer and utter agony his body was now feeling once he fell to his back as Kagome collapsed onto his bare chest, in just as much pain.
The two were gasping for air, incapable of moving at this point in time. Despite her body screaming at her to not move, she shakily raised her hand and slid it into his hold to bring it to her chest as tears began tapping against his heavily rising and falling chest, making him remain silent, but he did give her hand an overly weakened squeeze. After an hour, his chest began to rumble due to figuring it out, "We always end up in a draw because we know how each other fights by now!"
"Har-Haruka... I love you," the angelic maiden whimpered out softly, making his eyes slightly widen. He knew she was serious due to one fact alone... she had used his full birth-given name. She hadn't spoken or written those endearing words to him ever since that day long ago when he had struck her and yelled at her. They had now been together for a year and a half, and he had been too frightened to tell her how much he loved her, but now he would tell her, "I love you too Kagome..."
Feeling her shifting up, and despite how sweaty he was, she then nuzzled his pulse lovingly while whimpering, "I want to be your mate, your love, your everything. I want to continue cooking your meals, help you with your work, support you in any way that I possibly can, send you off with a smile, welcome you home with love, cherish you, sleep in your bed, and..." she then blushed heavily as she bit her lip, almost as if unwilling to finish, but did so anyway, "Give you a family..."
He had waited so long to hear those words from her, that tears began to slide down his face out of shock. Shaking his head abruptly, he sat up while holding her close, only to make the angelic maiden nervous until he began to shed tears of joy, "You have just made me feel like the luckiest man in the world!" Having enough strength to stand finally, he then picked her up once he stood to carry her, only to begin walking to his room that she had only briefly been inside once before.
Opening his door, entering his room, and closing the door with a smirk, Haruka then tenderly removed her clothing before lying her on his bed to remove the odd pants that Kagome had gifted him that rolled up to his knees for when he trained or sparred against the angel, only to climb on so that he hovered above her to stare into those sparkling orbs that had somehow found a way to steal the sky. With his heart slamming against his chest, Haruka asked, "Kagome, will you be my mate?"
Nodding brightly as tears of joy were quickly released, she smiled, "Of course... my body, mind, heart, and soul are now yours to keep. Haruka, will you be my mate?" Permission on both sides had to be granted due to her angelic nature, along with what she had spoken, so he nodded, "I wouldn't have it any other way... my body, mind, heart, and soul are now yours to keep." Wrapping his arm around the dip of her back, he then gently pulled her up to him with a rather naughty smirk.
Watching her turn bright red, he then chuckled at her softly, "On three... we must make a unified bite and leave our fangs in for a bit, and I must enter you. If successful, a random mark that our souls agree on will overshadow our fangs. Are you prepared?" The moment she took a calming breath, she nodded, and he spoke, "Three... Two... One!" Both then sank their fangs into the base of one another's neck, on their shoulders, as Haruka then breached her walls that had reformed.
The moment he sensed that she was about to try to pull away from him, Haruka hurriedly took the back of her head and held her still as she released muffled sobs over the pain. Feeling the mating contract completed the moment their souls agreed on a mutual mating mark, he then pulled away to see those fang marks morph into a pair of angel wings, one white and one black, to which both sparkled on the skin of them both. He couldn't remember the last time he felt this happy.
Kagome, healed now, then lightly traced his mark on him curiously before smiling softly at the sparkle that her mate now held, only to lean in and press her lips to the mark, making him groan in pleasure, "Mate, do you wish to be pupped?" Thinking about this for a moment, she then lightly shook her head, "Not yet, I want to have the time to have you all to myself with no distractions." With softened eyes, he then nodded with a smile, "Hmm... I believe that you make a good point."
Everyone in the northern domains, demon, half-demon, or mortal felt the strong love the moment those two marked one another, filling them all with warmth over what they could now feel. Azuki's eyes filled with tears that overflowed with joy for the lord that she had raised as if he were her very own pup. She had raised him to want love, but the moment he had lost his eye, it was almost as if all of his emotions had been stolen... along with his sight. So, she was overjoyed for "her" pup.
With Kagome and Haruka, he gave her his naughty smirk before his lips latched onto her own in an overpowering and hungry kiss that had her arching against him as the scent of her desire even slammed into his nostrils, causing for them to flare as he took in that sweet scent before throwing a barrier up so that no one else would be drawn to his mate's glorious scent like a moth to the flame. Grinning and pulling out of her, she then gave a whimper, begging for him to continue.
Haruka was dominant, so he merely flashed a fanged grin as his tail coiled around her hip and one of her legs to keep her open before raising her sparkling shrine up to his face, making her blush furiously, "Har-Haruka?! What are you doing?!" He spoke nothing as he swiped a bit of those sparkling fluids onto his finger and partook in her flavor greedily. The moment his eyes rolled back into his head, he leaned in and lolled his tongue out to teasingly brush it up her folds, making her gasp.
There was no time for thoughts as he tauntingly slid his claws lightly up the soft skin of her milky thighs, causing for her eyes to widen and arch against his mouth for his tongue to now gain its sparring session versus the angelic maiden. There had been so many nights that he had envisioned doing this to her to the point that it had become unbearable for his hardened and erect manhood to handle. He then watched as her hands sensually ran up her locks while crying out, "Har-Haruka!"
Her chest was now frantically rising and falling the longer he continued partaking in the sweet nectarine that his mate had to offer. He was working her up too fast, making her toss her head back as her wings and tails shuddered, only for her tails to begin brushing against the arctic blue markings against his hips, making him take in a sharp breath that sent pleasurable vibrations up her entire spine. Her tails were now torturing him, causing for him to rip his face away from his treat.
Grasping her hips with his hands, her tails got the notion, considering they wrapped around his waist pretty fast before he plunged inside of her and leaned forward, only to hear her chuckling and wipe his lips off before placing them inside of his mouth, to which he sucked clean. Noticing her scowling at him, he scowled right back, "Mate... do not look at me that way," his dangerous tone rang out, making her huff and roll the two over, "Then let me touch you," her lustful tone slid out.
Leaning forward on him, Kagome began to press kisses to his masterfully sculpted pectorals as her hands unlaced his hair from its bindings. It was honestly a damn sin that someone was this beautiful. Placing a hand over his heart, she then pressed her lips to his elvish ear to whisper, "Infinity..." Feeling the change of his time stopping so that he would no longer physically age, he smirked devilishly and rolled the two back over before beginning to rapidly plunge inside of her.
Swiftly ripped off of the bed after not obeying her mate after a prolonged period of time, she was then pressed to lean forward so that her hands rested on the warm stone that the wall held, he then slammed back inside, making her whimper, "Mate, this is not fair in the slightest! Let me touch you!" Lacing one of his hands beneath her belly and lifting her up to him, she quickly laced her hands behind his head to the best of her abilities as he continued roughly, yet pleasurably.
Hearing her groan out of frustration, he then lifted his eyebrow out of amusement, "What happens to be the issue mate?" Scowling at him, considering the fact that he knew damn well as to why she was so frustrated, Kagome then blurted out, "Mate! You're too damn tall! I can't even hold you behind your neck!" This had him chuckling as he leaned his towering frame down to brush his lips against the back of her ear, "This is a battle that I will not lose mate." He thought so, now did he?
Kagome's arms swiftly latched onto the back of his head to keep his shocked towering frame lowered to her as she cried out in pure ecstasy. Growling against the back of her ear in a dominant tone merely made the angelic maiden roll her eyes at the arctic wolf that she now refused to release as her fingers tangled in his long locks sensually before clenching it tightly to tug at those locks while erotically grinding into him. No, she wouldn't lose. They battled, but as per usual... it was a draw.
The next day, she woke up and yawned heavily before rolling over to press a more than loving kiss to Haruka's evenly rising and falling chest tenderly. Lightly tugging away from his hold, Kagome took a bath, only to smile once she washed over her sparkling mating mark. Getting out of the bath once done, Kagome's wings and tails fluttered or shook free as she toweled off. Letting him sleep in wouldn't hurt in the slightest, so she quietly stretched before turning to her wardrobe.
Pulling out undergarments and a sparkly dark blue fading into arctic blue halter dress that reached down to the middle of her thighs to show off her mating mark, she then also pulled out an ankle long lace skirting that sparkled and shimmered in the same colors as the dress, Kagome then got dressed and also pulled on her two white gold bangles that held patterns of angel wings, to which felt absolutely perfect due to the mating mark that she had received from her mate the night prior.
Quietly exiting the room, Azuki then approached, "Lady of the north, I bid thee a good morning!" Kagome then chuckled softly, "Please allow my mate to sleep in for as long as he might wish. For the time being, I will resume his tasks in his study. However, might you bring my morning meal to the study so that I might get my mate's work done without any interruptions?" Azuki had been pleading Haruka to get some aid or assistance with his work for the longest time, so she nodded.
"Of course my lady! I will be back momentarily," bowing to the lady of the north, Azuki then walked off as the angelic lass began to walk towards her mate's study. Entering the study, she then began to do all of his work for him so that he didn't need to stress. Azuki then entered with a gentle smile towards the lady of the north before placing the food down for the angelic maiden before sighing heavily, catching Kagome's attention rather quickly, "Azuki? What might be troubling you?"
This was not something she wanted to say in the slightest. However, she truly didn't have a choice at this point in time, considering she then sighed softly, "My lady, lord InuTaisho and his heir have just arrived. What shall you have me do?" Kagome then nodded and sighed as well, "Go ahead and send them in. Should they try anything crafty, you have my permission to wake my mate." Nodding at this explanation, Azuki then bowed deeply as she spoke, "As you wish my lady."
After what felt like an eternity of waiting, Azuki then opened the door, "Right in here my lord." InuTaisho and the young appearing Sesshōmaru then entered, making the angel's sky-blue orbs sparkle once she witnessed the young daiyokai male, "Sesshōmaru!" The heir of the west then rushed to the angelic maiden before hugging her tightly as Kagome embraced the heir to the west by burying her face into his long silver locks peacefully as if she were his mother from start to finish.
Shifting her gaze up as she held the pup, Kagome then sighed heavily, "How might the rulers of the north be of service to you, lord InuTaisho?" Sesshōmaru then happily chirped out joyously the moment he witnessed the two different colored angel wings on her skin that sparkled gently, "Oh wow Kagome! Your mating mark is so pretty!" This made Kagome chuckle and stroke the bright pup's hair lovingly, "You really think so? Well, I don't think that it's as pretty as you are mister!"
Silent fury was all Kagome and Sesshōmaru noticed radiating from InuTaisho's face at that moment, making the angel sigh heavily, "Speak now lord InuTaisho... or must I ask your heir instead?" Holding the silver long-haired pup on her hip as she picked up her quill feather to continue completing her mate's work, but he wasn't speaking, so Kagome looked at Sesshōmaru before tickling his tummy playfully, "Since your father is not speaking to me, would you like to tell me instead pup?"
Now Sesshōmaru gained a nervous face before remembering that he could tell Kagome anything, only to lean to her ear and whisper so softly that only she would hear, "Father is wishing to take you back to the western domains for you to become my mother and his mate... Kagome, you need to call for lord Haruka." She couldn't help it. Sesshōmaru was just too damn precious to not give cuddles and snuggles. Squishing the adorable pup to her chest, she then giggled happily at him.
Kissing her finger and holding it to him, he could only blink those big and doughy golden orbs innocently before kissing his finger to press it against her own as she chirped out happily, "Oh is that so?! I get to be a mommy to a pup that is this adorable?! Well, that doesn't sound too awful! However... I will not return to the west, and it is rather insulting that you believe that I will come along without a fight. Sesshōmaru, you will be a prince of the north, not the corrupted west."
Right then, her mating mark pulsed... alerting her mate that she was in danger. Haruka was out of bed, bathed, dressed, and in the room before anything more could be said. Kagome held the pup close to her, making him cry softly, "So you're saying that I... I won't be ignored anymore?!" Due to battling Kagome, in more ways than one, for hours on end... Haruka now far surpassed InuTaisho as he hurled the furious lord out of the castle before grinning, "Well my pup, welcome home!"