Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha nor the manga, nor the anime

A/N: WARNING! THERE IS A LEMON IN THIS CHAPTER!!! IF YOU DON'T WISH TO READ THE LEMON, STOP READING AT A PARAGRAPH THAT READS 'LEMON' AND SCROLL DOWN UNTIL IT READS 'END OF LEMON'

SunMoon1285: Hello my fellow readers!!! I am so thrilled by the reviews I received! Now... Question and Answer Time (plays theme song)

1) Do I have a grudge for Inuyasha?

(smirks) No I do not

Inuyasha: Yes you do, you liar!!!

SunMoon1285: If I really didn't like you I would have killed you!! (glares at a shivering hannyou)

2)What is up with Naraku? When does the final battle happen?

It will EVENTUALLY happen... but since I am no good describing fighting scenes... and it's my first fic (shudders) please don't flame me...

3) What is YOUR relationship status with Sesshomaru?

Er... That's hard to say... he's a sexy Taiyoukai who has ice water for blood... and I'm well... me (Sesshomaru walks from behind... eavesdropping the conversation) I actually did like the kiss (blushes)

Sesshomaru: Then why don't you let me enjoy it more- (gets knocked out by a startled SunMoon1285)

SunMoon1285: (looks upon an unconscious Taiyoukai) opps.... it was self-defense I swear!!! Well please review you guys!! And thanks for your support!

Chapter 18: Claiming of the Heart

"Yes... I do not smell him on you..." Sesshomaru affirmed.

"I'm so glad, Sesshomaru..." Kagome whispered as she rested her head on Sesshomaru's shoulder, "I thought I had lost everything when Naraku took me that night in the forest and when Inuyasha bit me... But the worst feeling of all was the thought that I would lose you forever... because... I love you, Sesshomaru"

Sesshomaru's amber eyes widened at the remark. It was the first time since his mother died that he heard those soothing words from a person he cared about. He slowly fell back on the bed taking her with him, slowly tangling his fingers through her ebony hair. He gazed at her heavy lidded eyes as she struggled to keep awake. He smelled her calmness and comfort of being in his arms, contrasting heavily to her fear when she entered the room.

"Kagome? Are you awake?" Sesshomaru whispered brushing her bangs away to grab her attention.

"Mm..." Kagome mumbled half-asleep.

Sesshomaru sighed half-heartedly at her antics. 'She really is a weird ningen... But her thoughts, feelings and persona were some of the reasons that have captivated me, yearning me to grow and reach to her'.

"I love you too" Sesshomaru replied as he accommodated himself on the bed careful not to wake the beauty beside him, "Sleep well... my love"

Kagome... very soon... I will show you how deep my love is for you

Kagome slowly opened her sapphire eyes to the early day. Dawn was slowly approaching. She glanced at the window noticing the golden hued sky. She noticed a strong arm encircling her waist rather possessively. She turned around to see the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. Kagome quickly held her breath at the sight before her. Sesshomaru lay in slumber completely at peace. No words could describe the striking vision before her. She studied his fair pale face, his perfectly shaped eyebrows, his crimson marks that adorned his cheeks, his gorgeous silver bangs that framed his masculine handsome face, his soft irresistible heart-shaped lips, and the crescent moon that was situated on his forehead. She subconsciously drew herself up to the slumbering demon lord, held his face in her hands and kissed him on his forehead.

Sesshomaru sighed sleepily from her action as he nudged closer wanting more of her attention. Kagome smiled whole-heartedly at his reaction and she kissed down his nose to his ravenous mouth gracing him with a chaste kiss. Sesshomaru instinctively held her tenderly in his arms, still half-asleep.

Kagome smiled at his feedback. She glanced to her mark on his neck. 'So this is the reason why all this has happened... because of this accident. Sesshomaru and I have changed in many ways because of it: our lives, our personalities, our perspective on things, and situations that we didn't even dream that it could actually happen'.

Kagome looked shyly away, averting her eyes at a racing thought, 'I wish it would have been you who could have made me complete... for the first time, even if our love would only last for the remainder of the quest'. She bent her head to Sesshomaru's mark and kissed it lightly.

Sesshomaru moaned slightly at that brief contact. Just as it burned when Sesshomaru ignored Kagome, the mark brought intense pleasure when the person who bit him made contact with it in any way. Kagome suckled the mark tenderly evoking another moan from the Lord. Sesshomaru quickly opened his amber eyes and trembled frivolously from its sensations. Quickly, he gathered his senses and flipped them, making Kagome lie on the bed on her back with Sesshomaru on top.

"What the hell... do you believe... you are doing? Do you... want me to take you right here and now? Do not coax me otherwise!!!" Sesshomaru snarled at the girl below him. 'I do not know how much I can control myself, and keep my promise to you...'

Kagome thought shamefully of what she had done. 'I am seducing a demon lord, torturing with illusions of having something... that in the end he shouldn't have at all' she thought, 'He is alone in the world, save for Rin and memories of his past and unfortunately will remain that way after I return to my world'.

"I'm... sorry... I don't know what came over me-" Kagome was cut off by long slender fingertips that lingered over her soft lips, preventing her to speak.

"I have held myself in the past... to keep my promise of waiting for you to accept me. But I believe I am not strong enough to keep it at bay. Kagome..." Sesshomaru trailed off losing herself in her depths of her eyes.

She grew scared from his remark, having experienced one bad tryst with Naraku. She yelped at the situation at hand, raising her arms and torso, trying to pry away from Sesshomaru's hold.

"Please... let me go" Kagome whispered as she struggled vainly from their position, mostly because she aroused the demon lord further from her squirming below him. She knew the demon lord was struggling from following her bidding, for he trembled heavily in pain.

When Sesshomaru didn't loosen his grip on her she narrowed her eyes defiantly. 'It is time I woke him from this... this spell' she thought.

"Let's be practical, Sesshomaru. I am a high-school girl from the future who has stumbled upon a well that serves as a wormhole into the feudal-era... I ended being Kikyo's reincarnation and was forced to gather the shards in order to annihilate Naraku... Don't you notice what I am trying to say? I DO NOT BELONG HERE!!! Even if I want to stay with you to the end of my days... this isn't meant to be" Kagome explained.

"Do not deny your feelings for me miko..." Sesshomaru said, "What keeps you from accepting me? I have harbored your mark for seemingly an eternity, I have saved you from the hannyou and from danger..."

There was a deathly silence between them. Eventually, Sesshomaru relinquished his hold on her, the pain being to great for him to bear.

"I do love you... Sesshomaru. But our love is not meant to be" Kagome said.

"You really are a stubborn ningen... you truly underestimate this Sesshomaru. Has it not fleeted through your mind that I have thought of these statements that you have said? I am fully aware that you are a human, something that I absolutely abhorred. I am aware of your situation of returning to your dimension when the quest is complete, and most of all, that our current relationship is not meant to happen," Sesshomaru added coldly, "It WAS in fact an accident that made us what we are at this moment and it is because of this change of fate that made us irrevocably to love one another".

"If you knew of the consequences, then what made you..." Kagome trailed off as Sesshomaru stood from the bed and walked away from her.

"Kaiyan showed me the repercussions of my actions... and I have thought deeply of what I feel. If you leave, it will be over and if you stay, you will die, eventually, and I will grow weak without you and die as well. But I long for you... I'd relinquish anything if it meant only a night's tryst," Sesshomaru explained, "I sacrificed my freedom, my inmortality, my life, and my vow as a demon lord... to have you. Doesn't that count for something, miko!?!?!"

Kagome gasped at the question. She did not know he had done so much for her. He knew about all it and still he loved her and was willing to try it out for the remainder of the time. 'If he is willing to try it... then I will as well'.

"Gomen-nasai" Kagome whispered, "I just thought that I..."

"That you were not to meet my expectations? Hmph... You are my lone desire, my passion, my elixir to end my life of loneliness" Sesshomaru said, "I thought you had noticed that by now."

"You know... my love for you is greater than that of Inuyasha's. It was so strong that it dissipated the mark on me. Doesn't that count for something as well?" Kagome countered half-jokingly as she walked up behind him.

"Yes... I noticed" Sesshomaru replied, "I do not want you to belong to anyone else but me. Bearing my distance from you was even more painful and difficult that the burning of your mark".

"I know..." Kagome replied, "I wanted only you to have me... but unfortunately my body is dirty from-"

Sesshomaru turned around and quickly took her in his warm embrace. He lowered his arms to her waist and drew her face close. Kagome closed her eyes as his face lowered to hers.

'I can't breathe', Kagome thought wildly, 'I can't breathe and I do not care'. She loved the feel of his arms around her, the warmth of his mouth over hers.

WARNING: LEMON

Finally, Kagome broke away from the kiss, gasping for air only to be drawn back for another kiss. This time, Sesshomaru's warm tongue slithered softly over her bottom lip, asking permission for entrance. She concurred, opening her mouth to his hungry tongue. She felt the heat of him, his undying love, and desire for her. He kissed her as deeply as he could, showing her his want for her. 'Now... I want her now'.

He continued his kiss as he walked back to the bed, bringing Kagome along in his arms. He gently placed her on the bed, finally relinquishing his kiss. Kagome breathed heavily trying to catch her breath with her eyes still closed. She heard a rustle of clothing coming from Sesshomaru. Before she could open her eyes again, a completely nude Sesshomaru lie on top of her kissing her breathlessly.

She felt the heat of his arousal pushing againt her thigh, even through the soft material of her black nightgown. She felt herself carressing his face, tracing his crimson marks on his cheeks, to his soft neck, past his broad, strong shoulders, squeezing his biceps, marveling at his strength.

She pulled away from the kiss, gasping from her loss of air.

"I can't breathe" she whispered at the loving taiyoukai in front of her.

"Then don't" he plainly answered as he continued his onslaught, quickly taking off her gown in a swift motion. With a quick movement of his arms, Kagome found herself only in her black lace panties, blushing furiously. She yelped at the sudden action and Sesshomaru took advantage of her open mouth and claimed her lips once more, licking, nipping and biting playfully at her plump lips.

"Se... ssho... maru" she said against his lips. Sesshomaru continued his torture by carresing her whole body, as if memorizing her whole curves and form. He trailed his long fingers down her throat, over her slender shoulder and arms, down to her perfectly shaped breasts down to her waist. Instictively, Kagome's body trembled from his actions, but unfortunately, also from memories of her dark experience in the woods.

Sesshomaru knew this and stopped. He looked up at the tearful miko in front of him. It is difficult to mate with a human who has been tainted in the harshest way possible. Every act he would do, she would push away instinctively, even if his were truly from love.

"Kagome... do you love me? Do you trust me?" Sesshomaru asked at the goddess before him.

"Yes... but my body..." Kagome said as she hugged the Demon Lord closer to her.

"I love you, nothing is as beautiful as you, no one can defile you... I am afraid that I'll persist, even become rash just to have you... If you wish me to stop just say the word... but I will not stop merely at your body's reactions" Sesshomaru warned. He knew that her body at first will reject him from past ordeals, but her mind and love were still intact.

When Kagome nodded at his remark, he kissed her again, trying to make her lose herself as he grabbed and kneaded his hands on her breast. She moaned loudly at his actions. He massaged them as he kissed down her throat, then taking one in his mouth. He licked and suckled, making Kagome gasp and breathe heavily from his assault. He trailed his now free hand down her waist to her heat between her shaking legs. She bucked against him, closing her legs from his entrance.

Sesshomaru anticipated her body's reaction and he quickly wedged his hand through and cupped her in his hand. She cried loudly from the pleasure as he moved his hand rhythmically against her. Her eyes shed tears and he licked them away as they trailed down her cheeks. He knew she was fighting for control of her body, but it was too much for her. He used his hand that lingered on her breast to spread her legs further. Kagome gasped slightly and was about close them sub-consciously when Sesshomaru placed his torso between them, preventing her from escape.

"Nice try..." Sesshomaru said playfully at her. He needed to calm her, show her that even if he too was a male... that he would not hurt her like Naraku did.

He lowered his head to her core and assaulted it with his ministrations. He nipped and licked gently, but hard at her most sensitive spots, coaxing her body to submit to him.

Kagome cried in pleasure from his darting tongue. She tried to close her legs again, but his hands pushed them farther apart. When his tongue entered her, she found herself taking his head in her hands pushing him onward, signaling him what she wanted. Sesshomaru's probing tongue, his slender hands, it was all to much for her bear. She felt the world grow faded into a haze. She felt something nearing and she didn't know why but she wanted it badly.

Suddenly, the world turned white. Kagome felt herself shaking as the intense pleasure washed through her like a giant explosion. She felt completely at peace.

Sesshomaru felt her shaking from pleasure as her walls clamped on his tongue and her intoxicating scent released. He lapped up her flowing release as he heard her gasp and breath heavily of her new experience.

Kagome was shaken from her thoughts at a pulsing heat that growed ever harder and longer for every passing moment. She opened her eyes to see a shaking Sesshomaru who kissed her deeply, allowing her to taste herself in her mouth. When he pulled away, brushed her stray hairs from her face to grab her attention.

"I will be as gentle as I can..." Sesshomaru whispered.

"I know..." Kagome replied.

"Do you accept me?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Of course" Kagome answered.

With her consent, he bit her neck, marking her as his to the end of time. She cried at the sharp pain but softened when he licked the wound from the flowing blood. Then, to save the pain, he quickly delved into her, tearing her virginal barrier. Sesshomaru tensed at this and looked at his mate before him.

"You... were still untouched" Sesshomaru said in awe.

Kagome gave a soft smile as she adjusted to him inside her. It was almost unbearable for her, but with Sesshomaru's assurance, his tender carresses and his mark, she felt utter happiness.

She felt Sesshomaru move within her. With each stroke she felt a growing pleasure within her in contrast to the dissipating pain. She moaned and cried his name as he took her to new heights. Sesshomaru nibbled on her neck as he thrusted harder and harder by the minute. Kagome reached her peak and cried in completion, but Sesshomaru was not quite there yet. She looked tiredly at the insatiable demon, sweat pouring from him as he indulged of having himself within her.

He quickly pulled out of her and gently turned her back towards him and entered her again. She gasped at the new sensation as her body grew for another release. Sesshomaru felt her walls contract for yet a third time as he felt her grow tired, her arms flailing of her body's support. When her arms failed she fell on the bed, shouting her release. Sesshomaru took took each of her hands in his and nipped her shoulder as he continued his ascending rhythm. He felt himself nearing to his completion and growled heavily in anticipation for it. Finally, he poured his potent seed within her and fell on her back, panting heavily.

When he collected himself, he pulled out of her and turned her towards him and embraced her. Finally, she was his and he belonged to her.

END OF LEMON

After some time, Sesshomaru rose from his slumber and gazed at the beauty before him. His mate. He trailed his fingers over her features making sure that it was not a dream or an illusion.

"Were you glad?" Kagome asked shaking Sesshomaru from his thoughts, "That I was untouched..."

"I admit that I was quite shocked of that revelation, but I would have taken you as my mate either way, for my love for you was enough to surpass that and everything else... but yes I was glad" Sesshomaru replied.

"Thank you..." Kagome said, before sleep overcame her.

Sesshomaru glanced at her mate before sleep took him over.

SunMoon1285: Yay!!! Another chapter done!!!

Sesshomaru: I finally got it!!! (Despite his black eye... has a smirk on his face)

SunMoon1285: Hentai!!! Youkais... caring only to sow your seed

Sesshomaru: 'Sow my seed'? You really need to give yourself a break and direct your desire towards me!!!!!!!!

SunMoon1285: (hits Sesshomaru with a bat) Just when I think I may like you... you just HAVE to ruin it with your ego... Please review and thank you guys for your support.