Whooooo! Emily and I are both uber hyper today!! ^_^
As usual: Yea for updates! I'm too hyper to think straight to right an intro, so on to the reviews!
Sweetthang: Ha! We are far from the end, my fine furry friend! (Yea for alliteration!)
StarrFir, Storymind, and Angele: Writing 'nipple' does make me blush. Emily wrote that word. And I disagree. This didn't have a lot to do with the plot, no, but it did with the character development. We were trying to show that while they are slowly
becoming more responsible (like with Kagome wanting to take over the ship and such) they are still very juvenile. (Hence the 'I hate you more' fight. It also shows that they are not quite ready to admit their feelings yet. They are aware of their feelings (Hence the fight in the first place, because they don't want to leave someone they love and are trying to make themselves hate the other!) but can't express them yet. Also, I have only one other thing to say; plot complications, plot complications, plot complications!
Oh, right, and the point about Sesshy: Well.. Sesshy is a bastard in this story. The demons in the fic are not nice. They kidnap, rape, and eat people. They are demon pirates. Inuyasha is nice because he has compassion for the humans they kill. Miroku is nice because he was human and thus has compassion. Shippo is nice because he was raised to think of humans as beings, since Inuyasha was the one who raised him. So demons are not nice, no matter what they were in the anime. That's why it's AU! ^_^
And Inuyasha can't stay behind. He has to defend his family's honor. Sesshy is his brother, and even though they may not seem eye to eye, Inuyasha is still going to try and make it work out. As for Yura.. She comes in to play later on. But. If you were king, wouldn't you know?
Samantha, RedHerring, and Rosie Gamgee: Backwards day! Exactly! And a fluff lovers!! Woot! And we can't guarantee dry eyes at the end of the story, that's all
I'll say. It's up to you to wait and see if that's because of fluff, or of a sad ending!
Sweet little country girl: I bite. fine, I'll take the perverted monk..
Sierra: Wow, we made you seem pretty speechless! Dark Star: Ah, plot complications, big ass fight, epilogue. maybe we're almost getting there. And the
angst comment.. I think I love you. (I can't write angst, so that means a lot to me!)
Drake: Argumentative foreplay is some of the best kind of foreplay.. I think...
Enjoy the next chapter, folks! All you Sesshy lovers out there.. Ah.. *hides*
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Inuyasha smiled as he awoke, Kagome held in his arms. His ears twitched as he listened for any sign of her being awake. He glanced outside. He'd have to go on shift soon. Sadly, their time together was coming to an end. But that didn't mean it was over yet. He kissed her shoulder, rubbing her arm as he tried to entice her to wake up.
"Mmmm..." Kagome murmured and flipped over to her side, her right arm thrown up and smacking him directly across the cheek as she flipped over and nuzzled his other arm beneath her like it was a teddy bear.
"Ow." He rubbed his cheek, glaring at her. Inuyasha's expression softened. How could he stay mad at her for long? She was clinging to him so tightly he wondered if he might have to chew off his arm to steal away into the galley. Rubbing her head with his nose, he called out her name. "Kagome. Kagome, love? It's night now. You've got to eat something. Well have landed in, oh, four hours max, and I know you're hungry."
"Stay..." Kagome muttered still from la la land. Flipping over again, Kagome grabbed fistfuls of his hair this time as she buried her arm oddly enough in his armpit. The things people do when they are asleep. Nuzzling out of there to lay on his bicep, Kagome rubbed her eye though she was still fast asleep. Apparently trying to wake up. "Eat me instead." Kagome yawned and fell back to sleep. Inuyasha did after all have the stamina of a demon, Kagome on the other hand did not. And what tired him out, completely collapsed her.
Feeling the heat rise to his face, Inuyasha shrugged. What the hay! She had told him to! Peeling her hand out of his hair, he toyed with her fingers, running his tips over her fingers and palms. Her hands were so soft against his that he couldn't grasp the idea that they had ever had enough strength to hurt him.
His hands, on the other hand. . . .
With a gentle shrug, he bit down on her fingertips playfully, just hard enough that he hopefully brought her closer to reality. 'I knew that we shouldn't have had that last go. It tired her out too much.'
"Hey... Wha- Ouch!" Kagome murmured and smacked him with a pillow. "Bad Inuyasha. Now lemme sleep." Kagome muttered and covered her head with the pillow she had just smacked him with. But already awake, Kagome decided that returning to sleep land was not the right decision to be making now. Lifting her pillow to look at him, Kagome smiled impishly. "You could kiss me awake." Kagome told him, ignoring that the time for them was running out. Patting her pillow down over her head, Kagome closed her eyes again and sighed. Mmm... Sleep...
Inuyasha laughed, as only Kagome could make him. Leaning over her, he gently wrestled the pillow off her head and stared at her. "You've had more than five hours of it! How much more sleep do you humans need?" But he was all too happy to lean down and kiss her, the type of kisses that he loved giving her, the ones that were shy and soft, even with all their games and fights they had already had, Inuyasha took the most pleasure out of the ones that reminded him of their first kiss.
"Inuyasha," Kagome struggled to sound dignified and wise as she laid beside him without clothes and a blanket wrapped around her to her name. "I need as much sleep as I got hours of activity." She said throwing him a dirty look that quickly softened. "They about equal out I'd say." Kagome said and stretched her arms over her head like a satisfied kitten. "Us humans need tons of sleep," Kagome said still all sleepy and hazy as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him again. Something she wished she could do every morning or night when she woke up beside him. "But ya love me anyway, right?" Kagome teased moving his bangs out of his eyes.
He didn't really answer her question as he smiled at her and got out of bed, tucking her back in. "All right, Kagome. You win. You stay here in bed and I'll go get us some breakfast. Or supper. Whatever!" Pulling on his pants he smiled down at her. "Any requests, Kagome?"
"Not meat. I don't trust food on a demon pirate ship enough just yet." Kagome joked and smiled happily as she sunk back into the bed and pulled the covers up under her chin. "I always win." She yawned.
He felt his cheeks go red again as he was forced to agree? What was the score? Oh yeah. Kagome: 4, Inuyasha: 1. He'd get her back eventually. "Okay. No meat." Leaning down, he kissed her again, wishing he could never leave her. "You stay there and get some more rest. I'll be back as soon as I can."
Slinking from the room like a cat, he shut the door quietly so as not to disturb Kagome's return to her slumber.
Kouga and Sesshomaru appeared just after Inuyasha had left. The wolf demon appeared uncomfortable around the captain, and with good reason. He had no love for Sesshomaru. "I don't see why you need to talk to Kagome," he growled, unlocking the door before he realized what he had said. "I mean, aw, fuck."
Sesshomaru glared down at the wolf demon. He had lost Jaken, but not his mask of seriousness of his aristocratic demeanor. "Don't worry, Kouga. I was already well aware of my bother's first fatal mistake. Inuyasha has a tendency to like to name his women. He can't grasp the idea of having someone be nameless. Everything has to have an identity to him. I suppose that's because my brother doesn't have one himself."
Unlocking the door, Kouga stepped aside and let Sesshomaru enter. He shut the door after the tall captain, keeping an eye out for anyone who might interrupt.
Glaring at her as she slept, he unfurled his weapon and whipped it at her, trying to scare her into being awake. 'Lazy bitch.'
It was the evil aura that spread through the air that tipped her off before anything else. She had fallen into a light sleep after Inuyasha left, but not a good one. Around him she felt safe enough to actually sleep, like this she just stayed to a light slumber. When the door closed and she heard a crackle, Kagome rolled to the side, practically off the bed before she stopped her lunge. Seeing who it was, Kagome swallowed hard and looked down. Kouga was with him, but Inuyasha wasn't anywhere and she was here naked rolled up in a blanket. Kagome knew she shouldn't have gone back to sleep. "Yes my lords?" She asked remembering she had to keep the act up for just a few more hours.
He stared at her before he bent down to pick up the overturned chair. Yet Sesshomaru's stature was so great that he barely seemed to have moved before sat down. "I can see why my brother would like this one. She smells of fire and moves like water. The resemblance to Kikyo is rather uncanny," he said to Kouga before his eyes narrowed. "But she also reeks of my half-mortal brother."
Shrugging, he tried to ignore the scent. Sesshomaru was putting it lightly, and Kouga wouldn't bet even a copper piece that the captain knew full well what had been going on. Kouga mentally yelled at his friend. He pretended to play stupid. "Nothing that can't be fixed with a warm shower, my Lord. And don't you know better than to curtsy in front of your Captain?" To make his argument all the more realistic, he snorted out of disgust. "Peasants."
'He's not MY Captain.' Kagome thought but bowed anyway. Her breathing rapid, Kagome had to find away to get out of there, or at least her bow and arrows. Searching around her, she just found Inuyasha's pants. Those weren't going to do to any good now. Not that they had earlier- they were discarded after all. "My apologies." Kagome said daring to sneak a peak at Kouga.
She knew he knew... But just how much of a friend was he to Inuyasha? That's what worried her now- Him being here with Sesshomaru. "I apologize if my scent offends you." Kagome whispered wishing them to choke on it.
"It is my brother's scent that offends me," Sesshomaru sighed. "At least this one knows better manners. I had heard that your wrist was broken. Did your master let you fix it?" He leaned forward in the chair. "Come closer, child. I'm not going to bite you. No, Inuyasha's already done that to you."
Kagome's eyes flared, forgetting her place Kagome glared up at him with all the Priestess powers she possessed flowing through her. Swallowing it down quickly, Kagome looked behind her at the clothes on the floor. "He allowed me to heal it enough so that I would stop crying." Kagome explained, looking down at her still bandaged wrist, resisting to believe that it was Inuyasha's blood that helped heal it. Kagome, however stalling for time, did not make any move to get closer to Sesshomaru. A mouse doesn't willingly run into the cat's open mouth after all.
Kouga wanted to be sick. What the hell was Sesshomaru trying to prove, anyway? His gaze slowly turned into a glare. "Don't make me repeat myself. Obviously Inuyasha allowed you to heal yourself far too quickly if you resist even a simple command. And how did you enjoy your time with Miroku?"
"I.." Kagome began then remembered what he meant and played the part. She whimpered and backed up, until she almost fell off of the bed, one leg already dangling over the side. "He... And then.. Then they both.." Kagome choked trying to convince Sesshomaru that she had been brutally raped. Something rather hard to do for a girl who was still glowing from glorious love making with the man she loved.
To the surprise of Kouga, and even Kagome, Sesshomaru chuckled. As the laughter fell heavily to the floor, the expression was gone, and there was a dangerous look in his eyes. "I told you to come here and I expect to be obeyed. I am not as lenient as Inuyasha. Besides, I know that Miroku never so much as touched you, save for the display on the bridge." He gestured to Kouga. "I believe you already met him. I am Sesshomaru, if your tiny brain can remember that. Don't be fooled by my looks. I may share some physical similarities to the half-breed you call a husband, but I have no love of your kind, whereas he pities you."
Fine, he wanted to share all of his cards? Kagome could lay hers out too. "Anything else you care to add to that?" Kagome asked, folding her arms over her covered chest and waiting. She didn't like this, now she really felt like a rat trapped in a dead end maze, cornered by the cat. What was he doing here? Kagome wondered, panic suddenly pounding at her.
He knows!
"I have very many things to add to that, but not in front of you. Those words are for Inuyasha's ears only." Seeing as how Kagome refused to leave the bed, Sesshomaru swiftly left the chair and pulled her up out of it by the roots of her hair. "But seeing as how you had to bite him back, I can only assume that you were more than willing, whether or not you knew what it meant at the time. Now I have to make it clear to you that I cannot have more human blood tainting the family line. Therefore you must be cut from the family tree, quickly and effectively." He threw her at Kouga, who managed to catch her, and he slowly smiled. "Well, perhaps not so quickly."
Grateful for Kouga's catch, if he hadn't caught her, the slam against the wall would've been fatal. Kagome realized that, and at the same time realized just how deathly serious Sesshomaru was. Searching Kouga's face and remembering the look he threw her after the needle incident, Kagome found herself whispering out in her mind to Inuyasha, or anyone, Miroku even for help.
Taking in a few deep breaths, Kagome spun around to face Sesshomaru. Nudity or not. "How can you do this to your own brother?" Kagome shouted feeling Kouga's hands clamp around her upper arms. "You can't treat him this way! He helps you! He's your brother!" Kagome shouted worried about the repercussions of this to Inuyasha. "Why kill me?" Kagome demanded, building up purifying power within her. "Surely you can just end the marriage..." Kagome said then broke free of Kouga's hold and released energy at Sesshomaru. "You will not kill me."
Blocking the attack easily, even in such a confined space, he walked right up to her and took her hands, pointing them at herself, so that she couldn't try that again. There was a certain reason everyone was scared of him, and why he was so pissed Naraku had stolen his throne. It had been stolen right under his nose. Now he was glaring at Kagome down that same nose. "No, you're right. I won't kill you. Why should I soil my hands with your life? I already dirtied myself with his first whore. No, Inuyasha kept you for himself. And then he married you. That's doubly against the rules. Therefore, before someone can kill you, we have to make him not want you. And to do that, you have to be touched by someone else. Like you, Kouga?"
He felt himself pale. "Me? My Lord?"
Kagome felt the blood drain from her, his grip was so tight she could feel the barely healed bones of her wrist begin to fracture again. Shaking her head, Kagome struggled against him. "I rather die." Kagome spat at him, trying to figure out how she could get out of this, or rather how she'd even gotten into this in the first place. "No one is going to touch me." Kagome said defiantly.
"I know," he purred in his slick voice. "Inuyasha always liked the strong ones. But if you feel that way now, imagine what you'll feel like when your loving husband returns home from hunting and finds out that you've been with Kouga. And who would he believe? A woman who was willing to sleep with him after knowing him for less than a week, or his friend for years? Believe me, he doesn't see you as his wife. Has he ever even called you that? No, he just sees you as a toy. And once somebody else has dirtied his plaything, he won't even look at you again."
Shaking his head, Kouga wondered if that sound he could hear was his knees shaking together. "Sesshomaru, my Lord, I don't think I can. She's his. It not only goes against my nature, but as my friendship to him too."
Sesshomaru raised his eyes from Kagome to glare at Kouga. "Listen to me very carefully, wolf! Either you obey me, or else I will thrash you myself, is that understood?"
Shippo shook all over. When he came to Lord Inuyasha's room it was to see if they had candy, but when he heard that... Shippo felt ill. He might still be a kid, but he knew what it meant for another demon to sleep with the others mate. Especially wolf/dog demons. Whimpering, Shippo's feet shook. "I... I should go find Inuyasha!" Shippo said out loud bracing himself.
Kagome stood before Kouga as though she could protect him. Exposing her teeth, Kagome slowly began to realize just how much of a dog demon Sesshomaru was. Maybe if she played according to demon rules, she could by them some more time. "I have a mate already. I won't open my legs for him!" Kagome shouted, her eyes blazing. "You can't make me! Or make him! You can't force people to do things! Is that how you lost your throne?" Kagome yelled immediately knowing she had just signed her death notice. Trembling all over at the room temperature dropped and his frozen gaze fell on her, Kagome could feel her pulse racing at her bite mark almost vibrating. Pressing her index fingers together, Kagome began to chant, slowly pouring her Priestess powers into a shield.
"My dear, I can make people do whatever I want." He reached out and wrapped his hand around her throat, silencing off her chants. "Perhaps once Inuyasha tosses you to the rest of us, I shall show you a bit of what I showed Kikyo. My brother may have made you moan, but I shall make you beg for mercy."
Glancing over at Kouga, Sesshomaru snarled. "You're of no help to me anymore." He struck Kouga's head back, the force with which his head snapped back against the wall enough to make the demon crumple. "It looks like I shall have to do that job myself."
Kagome began coughing, gasping for air. She knew her life was in danger, she could feel it draining from her. Making another attempt, Kagome reached out and grabbed Sesshomaru's arm flowing her energy into it. "I will not... be another Kikyo!" Kagome yelled, her vision beginning to darken. 'Inuyasha...' Kagome thought to herself, feeling her feet raised off of the floor. "Why?" Kagome gasped, feeling her windpipe begin to crush and realizing this was the end.
As usual: Yea for updates! I'm too hyper to think straight to right an intro, so on to the reviews!
Sweetthang: Ha! We are far from the end, my fine furry friend! (Yea for alliteration!)
StarrFir, Storymind, and Angele: Writing 'nipple' does make me blush. Emily wrote that word. And I disagree. This didn't have a lot to do with the plot, no, but it did with the character development. We were trying to show that while they are slowly
becoming more responsible (like with Kagome wanting to take over the ship and such) they are still very juvenile. (Hence the 'I hate you more' fight. It also shows that they are not quite ready to admit their feelings yet. They are aware of their feelings (Hence the fight in the first place, because they don't want to leave someone they love and are trying to make themselves hate the other!) but can't express them yet. Also, I have only one other thing to say; plot complications, plot complications, plot complications!
Oh, right, and the point about Sesshy: Well.. Sesshy is a bastard in this story. The demons in the fic are not nice. They kidnap, rape, and eat people. They are demon pirates. Inuyasha is nice because he has compassion for the humans they kill. Miroku is nice because he was human and thus has compassion. Shippo is nice because he was raised to think of humans as beings, since Inuyasha was the one who raised him. So demons are not nice, no matter what they were in the anime. That's why it's AU! ^_^
And Inuyasha can't stay behind. He has to defend his family's honor. Sesshy is his brother, and even though they may not seem eye to eye, Inuyasha is still going to try and make it work out. As for Yura.. She comes in to play later on. But. If you were king, wouldn't you know?
Samantha, RedHerring, and Rosie Gamgee: Backwards day! Exactly! And a fluff lovers!! Woot! And we can't guarantee dry eyes at the end of the story, that's all
I'll say. It's up to you to wait and see if that's because of fluff, or of a sad ending!
Sweet little country girl: I bite. fine, I'll take the perverted monk..
Sierra: Wow, we made you seem pretty speechless! Dark Star: Ah, plot complications, big ass fight, epilogue. maybe we're almost getting there. And the
angst comment.. I think I love you. (I can't write angst, so that means a lot to me!)
Drake: Argumentative foreplay is some of the best kind of foreplay.. I think...
Enjoy the next chapter, folks! All you Sesshy lovers out there.. Ah.. *hides*
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Inuyasha smiled as he awoke, Kagome held in his arms. His ears twitched as he listened for any sign of her being awake. He glanced outside. He'd have to go on shift soon. Sadly, their time together was coming to an end. But that didn't mean it was over yet. He kissed her shoulder, rubbing her arm as he tried to entice her to wake up.
"Mmmm..." Kagome murmured and flipped over to her side, her right arm thrown up and smacking him directly across the cheek as she flipped over and nuzzled his other arm beneath her like it was a teddy bear.
"Ow." He rubbed his cheek, glaring at her. Inuyasha's expression softened. How could he stay mad at her for long? She was clinging to him so tightly he wondered if he might have to chew off his arm to steal away into the galley. Rubbing her head with his nose, he called out her name. "Kagome. Kagome, love? It's night now. You've got to eat something. Well have landed in, oh, four hours max, and I know you're hungry."
"Stay..." Kagome muttered still from la la land. Flipping over again, Kagome grabbed fistfuls of his hair this time as she buried her arm oddly enough in his armpit. The things people do when they are asleep. Nuzzling out of there to lay on his bicep, Kagome rubbed her eye though she was still fast asleep. Apparently trying to wake up. "Eat me instead." Kagome yawned and fell back to sleep. Inuyasha did after all have the stamina of a demon, Kagome on the other hand did not. And what tired him out, completely collapsed her.
Feeling the heat rise to his face, Inuyasha shrugged. What the hay! She had told him to! Peeling her hand out of his hair, he toyed with her fingers, running his tips over her fingers and palms. Her hands were so soft against his that he couldn't grasp the idea that they had ever had enough strength to hurt him.
His hands, on the other hand. . . .
With a gentle shrug, he bit down on her fingertips playfully, just hard enough that he hopefully brought her closer to reality. 'I knew that we shouldn't have had that last go. It tired her out too much.'
"Hey... Wha- Ouch!" Kagome murmured and smacked him with a pillow. "Bad Inuyasha. Now lemme sleep." Kagome muttered and covered her head with the pillow she had just smacked him with. But already awake, Kagome decided that returning to sleep land was not the right decision to be making now. Lifting her pillow to look at him, Kagome smiled impishly. "You could kiss me awake." Kagome told him, ignoring that the time for them was running out. Patting her pillow down over her head, Kagome closed her eyes again and sighed. Mmm... Sleep...
Inuyasha laughed, as only Kagome could make him. Leaning over her, he gently wrestled the pillow off her head and stared at her. "You've had more than five hours of it! How much more sleep do you humans need?" But he was all too happy to lean down and kiss her, the type of kisses that he loved giving her, the ones that were shy and soft, even with all their games and fights they had already had, Inuyasha took the most pleasure out of the ones that reminded him of their first kiss.
"Inuyasha," Kagome struggled to sound dignified and wise as she laid beside him without clothes and a blanket wrapped around her to her name. "I need as much sleep as I got hours of activity." She said throwing him a dirty look that quickly softened. "They about equal out I'd say." Kagome said and stretched her arms over her head like a satisfied kitten. "Us humans need tons of sleep," Kagome said still all sleepy and hazy as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him again. Something she wished she could do every morning or night when she woke up beside him. "But ya love me anyway, right?" Kagome teased moving his bangs out of his eyes.
He didn't really answer her question as he smiled at her and got out of bed, tucking her back in. "All right, Kagome. You win. You stay here in bed and I'll go get us some breakfast. Or supper. Whatever!" Pulling on his pants he smiled down at her. "Any requests, Kagome?"
"Not meat. I don't trust food on a demon pirate ship enough just yet." Kagome joked and smiled happily as she sunk back into the bed and pulled the covers up under her chin. "I always win." She yawned.
He felt his cheeks go red again as he was forced to agree? What was the score? Oh yeah. Kagome: 4, Inuyasha: 1. He'd get her back eventually. "Okay. No meat." Leaning down, he kissed her again, wishing he could never leave her. "You stay there and get some more rest. I'll be back as soon as I can."
Slinking from the room like a cat, he shut the door quietly so as not to disturb Kagome's return to her slumber.
Kouga and Sesshomaru appeared just after Inuyasha had left. The wolf demon appeared uncomfortable around the captain, and with good reason. He had no love for Sesshomaru. "I don't see why you need to talk to Kagome," he growled, unlocking the door before he realized what he had said. "I mean, aw, fuck."
Sesshomaru glared down at the wolf demon. He had lost Jaken, but not his mask of seriousness of his aristocratic demeanor. "Don't worry, Kouga. I was already well aware of my bother's first fatal mistake. Inuyasha has a tendency to like to name his women. He can't grasp the idea of having someone be nameless. Everything has to have an identity to him. I suppose that's because my brother doesn't have one himself."
Unlocking the door, Kouga stepped aside and let Sesshomaru enter. He shut the door after the tall captain, keeping an eye out for anyone who might interrupt.
Glaring at her as she slept, he unfurled his weapon and whipped it at her, trying to scare her into being awake. 'Lazy bitch.'
It was the evil aura that spread through the air that tipped her off before anything else. She had fallen into a light sleep after Inuyasha left, but not a good one. Around him she felt safe enough to actually sleep, like this she just stayed to a light slumber. When the door closed and she heard a crackle, Kagome rolled to the side, practically off the bed before she stopped her lunge. Seeing who it was, Kagome swallowed hard and looked down. Kouga was with him, but Inuyasha wasn't anywhere and she was here naked rolled up in a blanket. Kagome knew she shouldn't have gone back to sleep. "Yes my lords?" She asked remembering she had to keep the act up for just a few more hours.
He stared at her before he bent down to pick up the overturned chair. Yet Sesshomaru's stature was so great that he barely seemed to have moved before sat down. "I can see why my brother would like this one. She smells of fire and moves like water. The resemblance to Kikyo is rather uncanny," he said to Kouga before his eyes narrowed. "But she also reeks of my half-mortal brother."
Shrugging, he tried to ignore the scent. Sesshomaru was putting it lightly, and Kouga wouldn't bet even a copper piece that the captain knew full well what had been going on. Kouga mentally yelled at his friend. He pretended to play stupid. "Nothing that can't be fixed with a warm shower, my Lord. And don't you know better than to curtsy in front of your Captain?" To make his argument all the more realistic, he snorted out of disgust. "Peasants."
'He's not MY Captain.' Kagome thought but bowed anyway. Her breathing rapid, Kagome had to find away to get out of there, or at least her bow and arrows. Searching around her, she just found Inuyasha's pants. Those weren't going to do to any good now. Not that they had earlier- they were discarded after all. "My apologies." Kagome said daring to sneak a peak at Kouga.
She knew he knew... But just how much of a friend was he to Inuyasha? That's what worried her now- Him being here with Sesshomaru. "I apologize if my scent offends you." Kagome whispered wishing them to choke on it.
"It is my brother's scent that offends me," Sesshomaru sighed. "At least this one knows better manners. I had heard that your wrist was broken. Did your master let you fix it?" He leaned forward in the chair. "Come closer, child. I'm not going to bite you. No, Inuyasha's already done that to you."
Kagome's eyes flared, forgetting her place Kagome glared up at him with all the Priestess powers she possessed flowing through her. Swallowing it down quickly, Kagome looked behind her at the clothes on the floor. "He allowed me to heal it enough so that I would stop crying." Kagome explained, looking down at her still bandaged wrist, resisting to believe that it was Inuyasha's blood that helped heal it. Kagome, however stalling for time, did not make any move to get closer to Sesshomaru. A mouse doesn't willingly run into the cat's open mouth after all.
Kouga wanted to be sick. What the hell was Sesshomaru trying to prove, anyway? His gaze slowly turned into a glare. "Don't make me repeat myself. Obviously Inuyasha allowed you to heal yourself far too quickly if you resist even a simple command. And how did you enjoy your time with Miroku?"
"I.." Kagome began then remembered what he meant and played the part. She whimpered and backed up, until she almost fell off of the bed, one leg already dangling over the side. "He... And then.. Then they both.." Kagome choked trying to convince Sesshomaru that she had been brutally raped. Something rather hard to do for a girl who was still glowing from glorious love making with the man she loved.
To the surprise of Kouga, and even Kagome, Sesshomaru chuckled. As the laughter fell heavily to the floor, the expression was gone, and there was a dangerous look in his eyes. "I told you to come here and I expect to be obeyed. I am not as lenient as Inuyasha. Besides, I know that Miroku never so much as touched you, save for the display on the bridge." He gestured to Kouga. "I believe you already met him. I am Sesshomaru, if your tiny brain can remember that. Don't be fooled by my looks. I may share some physical similarities to the half-breed you call a husband, but I have no love of your kind, whereas he pities you."
Fine, he wanted to share all of his cards? Kagome could lay hers out too. "Anything else you care to add to that?" Kagome asked, folding her arms over her covered chest and waiting. She didn't like this, now she really felt like a rat trapped in a dead end maze, cornered by the cat. What was he doing here? Kagome wondered, panic suddenly pounding at her.
He knows!
"I have very many things to add to that, but not in front of you. Those words are for Inuyasha's ears only." Seeing as how Kagome refused to leave the bed, Sesshomaru swiftly left the chair and pulled her up out of it by the roots of her hair. "But seeing as how you had to bite him back, I can only assume that you were more than willing, whether or not you knew what it meant at the time. Now I have to make it clear to you that I cannot have more human blood tainting the family line. Therefore you must be cut from the family tree, quickly and effectively." He threw her at Kouga, who managed to catch her, and he slowly smiled. "Well, perhaps not so quickly."
Grateful for Kouga's catch, if he hadn't caught her, the slam against the wall would've been fatal. Kagome realized that, and at the same time realized just how deathly serious Sesshomaru was. Searching Kouga's face and remembering the look he threw her after the needle incident, Kagome found herself whispering out in her mind to Inuyasha, or anyone, Miroku even for help.
Taking in a few deep breaths, Kagome spun around to face Sesshomaru. Nudity or not. "How can you do this to your own brother?" Kagome shouted feeling Kouga's hands clamp around her upper arms. "You can't treat him this way! He helps you! He's your brother!" Kagome shouted worried about the repercussions of this to Inuyasha. "Why kill me?" Kagome demanded, building up purifying power within her. "Surely you can just end the marriage..." Kagome said then broke free of Kouga's hold and released energy at Sesshomaru. "You will not kill me."
Blocking the attack easily, even in such a confined space, he walked right up to her and took her hands, pointing them at herself, so that she couldn't try that again. There was a certain reason everyone was scared of him, and why he was so pissed Naraku had stolen his throne. It had been stolen right under his nose. Now he was glaring at Kagome down that same nose. "No, you're right. I won't kill you. Why should I soil my hands with your life? I already dirtied myself with his first whore. No, Inuyasha kept you for himself. And then he married you. That's doubly against the rules. Therefore, before someone can kill you, we have to make him not want you. And to do that, you have to be touched by someone else. Like you, Kouga?"
He felt himself pale. "Me? My Lord?"
Kagome felt the blood drain from her, his grip was so tight she could feel the barely healed bones of her wrist begin to fracture again. Shaking her head, Kagome struggled against him. "I rather die." Kagome spat at him, trying to figure out how she could get out of this, or rather how she'd even gotten into this in the first place. "No one is going to touch me." Kagome said defiantly.
"I know," he purred in his slick voice. "Inuyasha always liked the strong ones. But if you feel that way now, imagine what you'll feel like when your loving husband returns home from hunting and finds out that you've been with Kouga. And who would he believe? A woman who was willing to sleep with him after knowing him for less than a week, or his friend for years? Believe me, he doesn't see you as his wife. Has he ever even called you that? No, he just sees you as a toy. And once somebody else has dirtied his plaything, he won't even look at you again."
Shaking his head, Kouga wondered if that sound he could hear was his knees shaking together. "Sesshomaru, my Lord, I don't think I can. She's his. It not only goes against my nature, but as my friendship to him too."
Sesshomaru raised his eyes from Kagome to glare at Kouga. "Listen to me very carefully, wolf! Either you obey me, or else I will thrash you myself, is that understood?"
Shippo shook all over. When he came to Lord Inuyasha's room it was to see if they had candy, but when he heard that... Shippo felt ill. He might still be a kid, but he knew what it meant for another demon to sleep with the others mate. Especially wolf/dog demons. Whimpering, Shippo's feet shook. "I... I should go find Inuyasha!" Shippo said out loud bracing himself.
Kagome stood before Kouga as though she could protect him. Exposing her teeth, Kagome slowly began to realize just how much of a dog demon Sesshomaru was. Maybe if she played according to demon rules, she could by them some more time. "I have a mate already. I won't open my legs for him!" Kagome shouted, her eyes blazing. "You can't make me! Or make him! You can't force people to do things! Is that how you lost your throne?" Kagome yelled immediately knowing she had just signed her death notice. Trembling all over at the room temperature dropped and his frozen gaze fell on her, Kagome could feel her pulse racing at her bite mark almost vibrating. Pressing her index fingers together, Kagome began to chant, slowly pouring her Priestess powers into a shield.
"My dear, I can make people do whatever I want." He reached out and wrapped his hand around her throat, silencing off her chants. "Perhaps once Inuyasha tosses you to the rest of us, I shall show you a bit of what I showed Kikyo. My brother may have made you moan, but I shall make you beg for mercy."
Glancing over at Kouga, Sesshomaru snarled. "You're of no help to me anymore." He struck Kouga's head back, the force with which his head snapped back against the wall enough to make the demon crumple. "It looks like I shall have to do that job myself."
Kagome began coughing, gasping for air. She knew her life was in danger, she could feel it draining from her. Making another attempt, Kagome reached out and grabbed Sesshomaru's arm flowing her energy into it. "I will not... be another Kikyo!" Kagome yelled, her vision beginning to darken. 'Inuyasha...' Kagome thought to herself, feeling her feet raised off of the floor. "Why?" Kagome gasped, feeling her windpipe begin to crush and realizing this was the end.