(AN) The rating went up for a reason. And for those of you going, 'Short chapter! Short chapter!'...This is only half the chapter. :-( You'll see what I mean. Read AN at the end if you are interested in seeing the rest of this story! No, it doesn't end here; there is at least two more parts! ^_^
If you don't like 'lemons' then I seriously suggest you not read any further. It's pretty much safe to read this chapter, but I don't see any point to it. You definitely won't like subsequent parts.
If you're not 'mature' enough for such material, access at your own discretion. I am not your mommy, so I won't tell you what you can and cannot read. You should know if you are mature or not. What's posted here is R, but if you choose to follow the link I give, IT will be NC-17. Keep that in mind.
That said, I relinquish all responsibility for your actions.
Just a precautionary measure, mina-san! ^_^ Sorry if I sounded bitchy or something, but I don't like to play around when it comes to this subject.
All you brave people left, feel free to read on! Let me know what you think! A lot of how this lemon is received will influence my decision to write any more stories within this genre. ;-D
Thanks! ^_^
Enemy of My Enemy:
The Bait
It didn't take Sesshoumaru long to find the boundary of Naraku's staked territory. The wind-witch Kagura had made sure to leave him a ready trail of her peculiarly mixed scent. Of course, the inuyoukai was fully aware of the trap they had set for him. He just didn't care. Naraku was a hanyou after all, and of no danger to the full-blooded demon.
Standing before the invisible barrier, Sesshoumaru let his mind wander to the stupid girl again, his one hand still at his side though he had a sudden desire to slip it inside his kimono. As if fingering that small bit of cloth would remind him why he was there. It would not. It would only serve to arouse more of his anger.
It ends here, he thought with the same finality that he often spoke. Though for a moment he was unsure if he were referring to that meddling hanyou, or the weak human girl that had brought him to such a disgraceful place in his own mind.
Sesshoumaru stepped forward, and the barrier before him shimmered, pushing at him as if it could keep him out. With the same haughty expression that the lines of his face always fell into, he pushed back, felt the magic's weak resistance fall away. Only to close behind him.
A new world began to form for his senses, one of darkness and thick, putrid air. The castle before him was silent, little more than a kingdom to house the dead. He could already smell the decay of bodies left for too long in the open, the flat, faintly metallic taste of old blood, and long-perished terror.
The girl's own unique scent was nearly buried in these things, but it wafted out, a tickle of something cleaner, fresher. It carried a faint trace of his brother. A contact-scent, his mind reasoned, trying to calm the inherent anger that always came with the thought of Inuyasha. Now was not the time.
Sesshoumaru walked slowly through the castle-graveyard, his irritation swinging once again between Naraku and his brother's bitch, but mostly Naraku. For somehow becoming aware of the dreams and primitive desires that had been plaguing him recently. For baiting his trap with the promise of vengeance and sex. And for thinking that he could trap him, the great youkai lord Sesshoumaru, with such things.
This insult would not go unpunished.
The bitch would pay, too. For whatever spell she had cast on him. For disrupting his thoughts and stirring up conflict in his own mind. There were nights he slept and dreamed of nothing but her touch, her rising above him or falling beneath him---pleasure that had nothing to do with his brother's pain...
Naraku. He could smell the girl's scent, getting stronger, but the hanyou's was fading. Not wondering why this was, mainly because he didn't care, Sesshoumaru followed the trail of the miko's scent through the deserted castle. Logic told him to deal with her first, but he did not fully trust his logic where she was concerned. Too often his own mind ceased to be his sanctuary.
It was another reason to find her, to lay her hold on him to rest.
The nearer he got to her, the thinner the poison in the air. It was as if merely her presence was enough to purify the putrid smell that infected the gloomy castle. He understood that she was a miko, that purification was the gift she carried, but other than the odd arrow fired, he had never witnessed her powers at work. Was she even conscious of the effect she was having on her surroundings?
The screen was closed before him, but there was a silhouette cast on it like a distorted shadow. His gold eyes narrowed, there always being instant annoyance within him when something, even inanimate, stood in his way. The screen instantly slid open, accompanied by a hiss of air and a nearly inaudible, feminine gasp.
The girl hung from the ceiling by her bound wrists. Tiny rivulets of blood ran from a ring of wounds undoubtedly caused by her pulling at the cords. The blood was dark in the twighlight of the room, but its smell sparked images in his mind of deep, rich red. Her feet were bare, brushing the floor from time to time as she swayed slightly in her bindings. Her head was down, chin-to-chest, and her ebony hair obscured most of her pale face. But he could see some strip of cloth cut across her eyes to be knotted in the back.
She lifted her head as he moved deeper into the room, and her face turned full on him, though she couldn't possibly see him.
"Who's there?" she called, and he paused at how calm she sounded, how composed her voice was when it should have been hoarse from the screaming her kind seemed to enjoy so much in these situations.
"Who is there," she demanded when the room remained silent before her. She kicked one leg out, away from the wall, though the gesture was weak and showed the fatigue that had been eating away at her muscles. "If that's you, Naraku, why don't you come a little closer---SO I CAN KICK YOU IN THE..."
Sesshoumaru watched her pause, her head tilting to the side as if she were conversing with realms that he could not, himself, hear. Her head swung in his direction again, but the grudging determination was replaced with something very akin to relief.
"Inuyasha? Is that you?" came her voice, smaller and more girlish than before. She stretched against the binds, pulling at them and causing the wounds on her wrists to pull open again. She didn't seem to feel the pain.
The youkai lord wanted to be enraged by her obvious mistake, but couldn't. Something about the relief on her face had made him stop, made him think. Only to make him realize he hadn't been thinking since he entered the room. He had just being steadily moving towards her, drinking in her scent, and the stronger aroma of her blood.
The same conflict rose in him---the desire, and the disgust that came with it. But he wasn't one to nurture inner-turmoil, and he wasn't one to deny himself what he wanted. He wanted her, it was irrational at best, but he did. Being the powerful lord that he was, he had every right to take what he wanted. So she was human, that just meant she couldn't deny him.
"Inuyasha?"
He took a step forward, and another, his body suddenly thrumming with the tension of anticipation. The girl, being a true miko, caught the change in the air, the subtle scent of a demon on the prowl. Her head swung up, her breath quickening to tiny, sharp pants, though she did not have the training to tell her why. The perfume of alarm suddenly rode the air around her, but it only succeeded in making her more appealing to the beast inside him.
By the time he reached her she had worked herself into a panic, the cord around her wrists sliding in blood and her abrupt movements bringing more to trickle down her arms. The sleeves of her strange kimono were becoming soaked with it.
He paused a foot before her, and he knew she felt him because her struggles ceased, though anxiety made her already fatigued limbs tremble. The dark, empty room was filled with her labored breathing. It was the only sound.
He took in deep, filling breaths, sucking the mixed scent of her blood and fear deep into his body, then holding it there. His nose fell to her heaving breast, and he sniffed along her body, falling lower and lower until his chin brushed against pleated cloth. He pressed his face into her skirt, rubbing it back and forth against the coarse material as she yelped in surprise, her struggles returning though there was nowhere for her to go.
Sesshoumaru went to his knees with the strength of his arousal, feeling the more primitive side of his nature trying to take control. He let its growl spill out from his lips, a sort of statement of his intentions. This was why he had chosen to abstain from mating all-together, even with his own kind. Because there always came a point when the beast took over.
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And I'm going to cut off there because it's as close as we can get to the sex, without pushing the line. Sorry! ^_^
Hmm, there is definitely romance, but I consider it more of a 'subtle' romance. NO rape. Though there are a few moments of aggression. But it's all consensual. You'll see if you read through to the end. ^_^
Is there OOC-ness? I think that's pretty much a given now. I don't usually like it when the characters aren't 'in character', but I don't mind so long as it's intentional, and I'm warned ahead of time. So, Sesshoumaru is OOC, but not completely. Kagome is OOC, and not just a little. But notice how I don't give her point of view, or go over what she's thinking. That's because it would take somewhere around 300 pages to work through her thoughts, reasons, and reactions. This is PWP. 'plot? What plot?' or 'porn without plot'. The small touches of plot have been added because I *need* them. I couldn't write this otherwise. -_-
Yes, I am repeating myself. I just don't want anybody to say I didn't warn them. So...
When I say 'lemon' I mean there is sex and penetration, and all the stuff that goes with it. It is described, in as much detail required to push the story along. Because Sesshoumaru is aggressive and NOT shy---he's not going to, forgive the horrible pun, pussyfoot around. As one would expect Inuyasha to do. He's going to seek his pleasure, and give pleasure...and I pretty much think this is exactly how he would act during sex.
Aggressive, yes, but I see him being a *little* submissive, too. I've worked subtle threads of that into the story. I can't explain it, but I see him content as both a top and bottom (only so long as he's still in control, of course! ^_^)
If I haven't scared you away, and you want to read more, please cut and paste the following link:
http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/main.php?list=53
OR, look for me at www.adultfanfiction.net under the username 'Loki'. I thought about posting at MediaMiner, too, but I really haven't been happy with the site recently. It's slow to load, and nearly impossible when it comes to fanart. Would any of you rather read the rest at mm.org? I'll post there if some of you would prefer?
That said, please review! Especially for the FULL chapter. I really want to know if I have any skill at writing lemons.
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I'm attaching this note to all my fics in their next update. Please read and give me your opinion.
Someone recently asked me if I had a site of my own for fics. My answer was no. But then I got to thinking...maybe I should create a site. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe I've ever really seen an IY site dedicated purely to Alternative romance pairings. That is my question. How would you feel about an Inuyasha fansite hosting ONLY alternative pairings?
I know that's not enough to go on, so allow me to clarify a little! ^_^
What do I consider an alternative pairing? Simple, any pairing that isn't a traditional one. What do I consider a traditional pairing? In a short list:
Inuyasha/Kagome
Miroku/Sango
Shounen ai, yaoi, shoujo ai, and yuri pairings would be accepted. Triangles also, even ones featuring a traditional pairing---only so long as they feature an alternative character and do not end with the traditional pairing. For example, Inuyasha/Kagome/Miroku would be okay only if the triad is kept intact, or if it ends with Mir/Kag OR Inu/Mir. But not if it ends with Inu/Kag. I would consider Inu/Kag/Kik acceptable, but it would have to follow the same rules.
Some examples (off the top of my head) of the types of pairings that would be hosted are:
Miroku/Kagome
Inuyasha/Kikyou
Kagome/Sesshoumaru
Inuyasha/Sango
Kagome/Kouga
Sango/Kagome
Sesshoumaru/Naraku
...Basically any pairing besides Inu/Kag and Mir/San.
All ratings would be acceptable, and the proper measures enforced to warn readers of adult material, should they come across it. Sorry, but I would NOT accept any traditional character/original character couples. I know there are some well-written mary sues, but only characters created by Rumiko Takahashi would be supported.
I know for a fact that the main pairing of the site would be Sesshoumaru/Kagome, because this couple seems to be the most popular 'alternative' within fanfiction. That should appeal to quite a few of you! I know it appeals to me! ^.~
If I get enough interest expressed then I will definitely start work on the site.
So, anyone interested? ^_^