AN: I'm Back! The rating's been moved to R for graphic content. Cause, well, you'll see...

Damaged Prey

Sesshomaru shook his head. It was raining outside the castle and he had just come in from a hard night of hunting. He sighed, somehow it just wasn't as satisfying as the week before. Lazily he turned his head to the sound of his faithful (if not extremely stupid) servant Jaken running towards him.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" he panted, pausing to catch his breath.

The demon lord replied while drying his tail, "Yes, Jaken. What is it?" He was sure it was some sort of innane problem that could be delt with later, but Jaken always had to come running to him for the littlest things.

"Lord Sesshomauru, Lady Kagome has lost conciousness." Jaken replied with glee. His master ought to be happy at this turn of events. Therefore, he was quite surprised when his master's fist knocked him off his feet and a rough growl demanded,

"Where is she?"

"In- in the chamber you placed her, my lord," stammered Jaken.

"Fool!" roared Sesshomaru as he raced down the trecherous steps of his castle to the dungeon in which Kagome and Shippou were held captive. With swiftness only a demon lord can muster, he unbolted the door and raced inside.

Sango and Mikoru returned to the camp seeing a strange sight. Inuyasha and Kouga...talking? They looked perplexedly at each other, then back at the pair. Miroku smilied mischeviously as he gently fingered Sango's bum. Surprisingly, she simply gave him a bored look and removed his hand before walking into the clearing. It was then that they noticed that Kagome and Shippou were not there. They looked at Inuyasha questioningly, as he bent his head in shame, still smiting from incident. It was Kouga who offered them an explaination.

"So, Inuyasha was tricked into abandoning Kagome...and now he has her."

Sango and Mikoru listened in stony silence. If they had just not wandered off...none of this would have happened.

Sango broke the silence,"And you and Inuyasha?"

"We're going to go rescue Kagome and Shippou. In Sesshomaru's territory our powers will only be half their strength, but together we think we can make it."

"And you were planning on leaving without us?" asked Mikoru incredulously. Honestly, demons could be so short sighted when it came to planning. The never saw the peripheral, only what was directly in front of them.

Inuyasha figited nervously,"We didn't want to...uh...volunteer you...for...er...such a...dangerous...um...quest."

"Shut up, dog-boy." growled Sango. She rose and pracically shouted in the two demons delicate ears, "Kagome and Shippou are my friends and I am NOT going to leave their well-being up to you two morons!"

Mikoru rose with a more lancoinian, "Ditto."

Kagome woke to find a more-or-less stoic Sesshomaru hovering mere inches from her face. Defiant to the last Kagome rasped at him,

"Bastard"

Sesshomaru didn't bat an eye. He simply stood there looking at her expectantly. Kagome glared at him, wondering what he was up to. Then she realized that she was, to put it bluntly, naked. Kagome's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as she jumped up and looked for a place to hide. Scrambling behind a long curtain she hissed at the demon lord.

"Just what in the hell do you think you are doing?"

Sesshomaru replied simply, "Repairing your damage."

"Repairing my...what?"

"You're damaged. Come back here."

"No!"

Sesshomaru sighed, very well. If she wouldn't do this the easy way, she would have to suffer though the hard way. Using his lightining speed, he snatched her from behind the curtain and pinned her to the bed. Growling at the fact it took a lot of effort to restrain such a small human he forced her to remain still by use of well placed claws.

"Don't move."

With that he proceeded to perform the age old demon remedy for wounds: licking. Using skill that he had perfected over his many years of exsistance, he cleaned the wounds on her arms first. His warm tounge caressed each mark, healing them almost instantaniously. Sesshomaru ignored the whimpering coming from the girl beneath him; she needed to be healed before she passed out again. That was the only reason he was doing this, nothing more. He just didn't want his prey to be so damaged his half-brother would not want it back; that was it.

Kagome looked in wonder at the demon who was now licking clean the wounds he himself had created. It was like watching the "Twilight Zone" appear before your very eyes. She whimpered, this was so wrong...so very wrong. Why was he doing this? It wasn't as if he cared for her or anything like that. But, his tounge was so warm...NO, NO, NO! Her brain yelled at her. Do NOT give in to this monster! He's the one who hurt you in the first place!

Sesshomaru felt the girl below him relax then stiffen again. He mentally shrugged it off. He was just preserving his prey, right? However, he found it more and more difficult to convince himself of that as he began to work on the marks on her neck. He ran his tounge across the wounds that had been open too long. She tasted so good...Sesshomaru felt an odd sensation and was horrified to find that he had become aroused. He knew it was wrong...so very wrong...but he still wanted to try. Despite that there were no wounds on her chest, he proceeded to dip his head down and gave her breast an experimental lick with his warm tounge. Kagome gasped,

"Now that's enough!"