"When angels fall from heaven they become devils…"

                                                      -Cowboy Bebop

Kagome awoke again to two strong arms clasped around her waist.  She tiredly tried to struggle out of Sesshomaru's clutches but he simply drew her closer to his intoxicating warmth.  She was almost asleep again when he said,

"The only rule I'm breaking is touching you and I hardly think this is a crime."

Way to ruin the moment, Kag thought, not wanting to extricate herself from the warm covers for it meant actually going to school.  So she pretended that his comment was lost on deaf ears.  But once again, she was interrupted.

"But I guess that we are also breaking the whole 'intimate contact' rule as well." 

She could feel his hand creeping up her thigh and working its way into the hem of her boxer shorts.  She finally realized where exactly she was positioned.  Sesshomaru had her legs straddling his hips again, and her body was pressed familiarly against his own as she lay on top of him.  She didn't want to think about why she always found herself pressed so completely against his enticing body more often than not.  The shame of the first night still fueled her fury within herself.  And also she now held a hint of fear for his strength and obvious power over her.  So she rolled off him and tried again to untangle herself from his mass of sheets.

"Don't like breaking rules, do we princess?" 

His hand was still pawing the hem of her underwear, distracting her endlessly. 

"Like being a rebel without a cause, don't we now?" she muttered, eyes in slits trying to forget his maddening hands that were now climbing over her quaking stomach and up to her breasts.  As he reached her bra he quickly reached under and shoved it up, and leaned down to take her mounds into his mouth through her shirt. 

Kagome gasped, hating her body but knowing he knew her heart was beating out her chest. 

"Oh, Kagome, I think this rebel has just found his cause…" he whispered against her breast, sliding his hands back down her body to remove her shorts and shirt, leaving Kagome only clad in thin underwear.  Sesshomaru then positioned her above him again, legs draped over his thighs. 

Kagome could barely move.  His delicious mouth was caressing her more softly and arousingly than anything before and he still had yet to kiss her lips.

Sesshomaru took advantage of her slight pause to remove all his clothing and as he began tracing a path to her lips with his kisses he rubbed his erect manhood against her hips, the thing layer of cloth his only barrier. 

Kagome moaned loudly as she felt her hips starting to push against his dry thrusts and his lips finally met hers as he groaned loudly in response. 

Sesshomaru hardly had time to comprehend what was happening.  At one moment he was teasing her and the next he was only a simple article of lingerie away from total and complete bliss, heaven, paradise and all thoughts beyond.

Kagome began whimpering, needing to feel Sesshomaru inside her deeper than ever before.

"Please, please, Sess, I…" he ripped through her panties.  With one last look he thrust up into her eager passage and Kagome had to grip his shoulders as she almost choked from the force.  He rocked powerfully insider her again, gathering his knees upwards and clutching her hips.  With his hands he guided her up and down on his shaft until she was able to mimic the movement on her own.  As she began to take control he groaned her name into his bedroom.

Kagome felt like a goddess astride a raging mustang.  He was large, powerful and wild but with each movement she was taming his torrent of desire.  Finally Sesshomaru could take it no longer and he took control again, flipping her over and almost withdrawing, only to slam her into the bed again.

Her moaning only encouraged him further as he picked up his pace and pounded into her divine channel.

"Mine, mine" he changed over and over again as he moved his body skillfully over hers.

But then the crest swelled and the wave broke, screaming each other's name into the morning light.  He collapsed on top of her while the aftershocks were still affecting their bodies.  After he caught his breath he said,

"Kagome, princess, that was amazing.  It was…ineffable."  He didn't want to leave her body so soon, but as he withdrew her inner muscles clamped down on his member. 

"Oh, wow" he moaned, almost ready to begin anew at that simple movement. 

"Kagome, don't do that unless you want to spend the entire day between the sheets." 

As he thought back to what they just shared and noticed the result of this train of thought, Sess was beginning to think a whole day in bed with Kagome wouldn't be that bad.  In fact, he was quite sure, pausing to control the desire to have her immediately spread eagled and moaning underneath him again, he would enjoy it immensely.

After she totally recovered, Kagome got up silently and began to dress herself, doing her best with her shredded underwear.  When she was finished she could barely bring herself to look at Sesshomaru.  She didn't want to think about anything, especially what they just jointly experienced.  She didn't want to face him. 

Sesshomaru was a little upset.  They had just shared one of the most rewarding sexual escapades of his life and she was still walking away. 

"Why?" he could only whisper.

"Please, please let me go.  I can't do this anymore."  Kagome whimpered.  Her back was turned to him with a hand on the doorknob.  He shot out of bed and came to her side, neither minding nor noticing his nakedness.  He tried to touch her face but she turned away from the touch.

"Why?" he asked again, not fully understanding her minimal answer.

"Because…because…" Kagome didn't want to admit it was because she was falling in love with him and she was too much of a coward to expect anything or ask for anything in return.  So she said something that she knew would get her point across.

"Because you're unintelligent.  And this time, I'm serious."  She took his shocked expression as her ticket to freedom and left quietly.  She was too naïve to not fall in love with him.  He was just about her first everything.  But she wasn't naïve enough to believe that he could lover her back.  After all, he told her himself: I am a professional.  And she was nothing to him except an annoyingly boring job and a good tumble in the sheets.

Nothing.

Sesshomaru leaned back against the closed door.  This wasn't supposed to be.  This wasn't how he was supposed to feel.  He was supposed to be the one who walks away. He was supposed to be in control. 

He wasn't supposed to find hope and faith and love. 

And she definitely wasn't supposed to take it away.

An uneasy realization stopped Sesshomaru's hand centimeters away from the doorknob.

"I love Kagome…"

"Or at least I am falling in love with her," he muttered as an afterthought,

And the pain that she didn't want or love him in return was completely unbearable.  It was ripping him apart and he had to slide down to sit with his back still against the door.  Bringing his head between his knees he allowed himself some solace in the fact that he now knew heaven existed.

However, he was cast abruptly from heaven.

Now he was only a fallen angel…