Chapter 14
" Sesshomaru!.......Sesshomaru sama!.......where are you..." Jakkan ran through the halls of the castle looking for his master.
" Jakkan sama......what are you doing?" a sleepy eyed Rin rubbed her eyes, following Jakkan down the hall.
Jakkan turned to face Rin and she ran into him. " What are you doing Human"
" Jakkan sama.....you woke Rin up.....why are you screaming this early in the morning" she continued to rub her eyes and yawn.
" Lord Tenishi is here to see Lord Sesshomaru about Tenishi sama's daughter" Jakkan wrung is hands and began running in circles in a
complete panic.
" Jakkan sama.....Jakkan sama...STOP!........Look" Rin yelled at Jakkan to calm down and pointed toward the front of the castle.
" Here comes Sesshomaru sama now"
Jakkan froze for a moment and was about to run in his panic to tell Sesshomaru of the news when what he saw froze him cold.
Kagome and Sesshomaru were walking into the castle side by side, if they were any closer together he mine as well have been carrying her.
The two realized their closeness when Rin and Jakkan caught their attention. They quickly step further apart and awaited the oncoming rants of
Jakkan and Rin.
" Sesshomaru Sama!"....." Sesshomaru Sama!" Jakkan and Rin ran to greet the two at the door.
" Sesshomaru Sama.....Lord Tenishi is here to see you about the um............treaty agreement" Jakkan looked down at the ground and slowly back up at his lord hoping to god his lord wouldn't kill him.
Sesshomaru's face slowly turned steely as he faced Kagome. " You need to leave"
Kagome's face turned almost purple with hurt and anger, " What do you mean leave.......after last night......besides I can't leave you ... you could
drop dead where you stand" She crossed her arms across her chest and huffed.
A dark brow raised into it's yang of white bangs. " This Sesshomaru does not need the support of a meer human..." he glaced up and down her darkened skin framed with black wings " Woman"
He turned his back on her and walked down the hall only to collapse about 100 feet away. " SESSHOMARU SAMA!" every one ran to his side except Kagome, " see I told you" she said planted as she watched him struggle to his feet.
Jakkan ran up to be by his side attempting to help him to his feet without having his lord look weak, " Master?"
He pulled his arm away from Jakkan and stared defiantly at the woman still standing at the entrance. " I do not need you wench" He turned once again away from her and headed for his quarters. He stopped mid way to command Jakkan, " Take Rin to her room, I'll visit her later" He was leaning against the wall for support as he used his one arm to hold himself steady.
" You pig headed jerk........just admit you need me" Kagome yelled from the entrance refusing to move until he admitted for once he needed someone's help.
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Sesshomaru sat alone in his room thinking over his situation and the treaty with the Demon lord. Two hundred years ago his father had made a treaty with the eastern lord. He or his brother was to marry the daughter of the Eastern lands. She was but a pup when this was arranged. He could not mate with such a child not now when his life was currently being held in the jewel embedded in Kagome's chest.
" Jakkan"
Jakkan came hurlding into the room, " Yes Milord.." he continued to wring his hands in nervousness. " Tell, Lord Tenishi that I am unable to address this matter at this time. I will meet him at his castle in two moon cycles."
" Yes...Milord" Jakkan's voice shook slightly.... The lord of the Eastern lands has never been known for his patience and here he was sent to tell him to wait for another two months. - why me......does Milord like to torture me so-
Jakkan drug his feet down the long hall to the other end to confront Lord Tenishi.
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" I see......and is there a reason thy Lord can not speak with me today" the dark haired lord peered across the table over his cup of sake at the fidgeting little toad.
" Milord did not say specifically........this is just a bad time for him" Jakkan continued to look everywhere but at the Demon Lord currently sitting across from him.
" Then I will just have to tell,......fuiko that her betrothed is ill and the wedding will be postponed. " the tall Demon Lord stood to leave his long deep blue hair swaying as he went to leave.
He stopped short of the door and turned on the toad, in one swift motion he scooped Jakkan off the floor by his robes, " you will be sure that one of the Western Dogs makes it to my palace in two full moons will you not"
Jakkan swallowed hard and shook his head, " I won't disappoint you, sire I will make sure one of them is there" Tenishi released Jakkan causing him to land square on his butt with an audiable thud and an Ouch.
Jakkan watch the silver glad demon leave while he rubbed his sore bottom - that puppous jerk-
" I heard that little toad.....or have you forgotten I can read minds." Jakkan sweat dropped - soon, I will know all of the western lands secrets and they will all be mine-
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Kagome paced back and forth in her room thoroughly ready to tear that stuck up ego maniac a new one. " who does he think he is anyway,
why did he tell me to leave, He needs me here.....................and.......why did he kiss me." - it felt.........so warm........so wonderful.......but why
him........why now-
- kukukuku,.................poor Kagome lost in a world that is not her own....tst tst.....you should just come to me and I will take away all your worries-
" Forget it you freak.................I will never work for you,............I AM NOT YOUR PUPPET!"
- oh but you are...........soon enough you will see..........kukukuku-
" GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Kagome grasped her head in pain willing his sinister voice away. -stay away from me.......just stay.....wait-
" did he say a world I didn't belong,........does he know about the well"
" I have to go home, I have to make sure the well is ok"
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-KNOCK,,,KNOCK-
" go away woman" Sesshomaru sat upon his futon festering over what to do about his perdicament, with Kagome, Tenishi's daughter and his current condition.
" Look Sesshomaru........SAMA we have to talk" Kagome was about to just slide the door open when a bare chested Sesshomaru stood before her digging his nails into the souji screen.
" What do you want woman" He stared hard at her for a moment when suddenly his expression softened.
Tears began to form in Kagome's eyes as she held back the sniffles.
" I don't understand you Sesshomaru....but we really do need to talk..........I have to go to the well.......I have to go home"
Sesshomaru continued to stare at her and into her deep lavander eyes. He remained quiet while she told him what Naraku had just said
to her.
-With the situation with Naraku and Tenishi it might not be a bad idea to get away from the castle.- He nodded and turned away from her. She stood dumbfounded as she watched him walk back over to his futon and sit back down. -what is with this guy,....first he is a total jerk now he's all quiet-
" Ano.....Sesshomaru sama....does this mean I can go home.......you do realize that means you will have to come with me?"
He made a noise similar to a snort and looked away from her. " Of course I do woman.........I can barely move my body while you hold
most of my soul" - you just can't admite you need my help, instead you blame me-
"look Sesshomaru I don't like this any more than you do............I mean I don't know how well you can handle my world..and......"
He growled at her and she stopped. " Listen I'm sorry........I know that this is probably all my fault if I had been more careful Naraku would never had been able to embed this jewel in my chest.....but right now I think he knows where I live or atleast how I get home"
Kagome remembered telling Sesshomaru all about it on their way back to the castle, she wasn't sure how he would take such nonsense,
but he wanted to know all about where she came from and why she was so strange.
Kagome fidgeted a bit, swaying from one foot to another before she looked back up at the bare chest of Sesshomaru and his silky silver hair spilling over his shoulders. She blushed and looked away. " Ano...Sesshomaru sama....why did you ask me to leave" - why should I care I could just go home, if he wants to be stubborn and die that is his problem....but after all this........I owe it to him.-
" Your presence is a danger to me woman..........with or without this connection this Sesshomaru can survive"
" Then why did you ....um....Kiss me last night?" she blushed deeper as he turned to look at her intense golden eyes meeting her pools of violet.
" Do not read into it woman......it was probably the effect of your soul in this body.........this Sesshomaru would not sink that low"
Kagome stood ,fist at her side, her eyes shaded by her bangs. " YOU JERK!" she launched herself at him, but he caught her pinning her to the futon.
She laid there for a moment panting, he just held her there staring into her eyes. " This Sesshomaru does not like the control you have over him,
and this Sesshomaru lost control last night.............that was your fault" She continued to breath heavy as she struggle to get up.
" let me up.....if you want me to leave so bad.....I can't believe I started to think you had feelings" she continued to struggle, but Sesshomaru held her fast.
Her body froze when once again his lips crushed hers, but this time it was not soft and warm like it was the night before,
it was heavy and passionate.
When he broke away her face played complete and uder shock. He roughly jerked her upward and into his lap.
"woman you do not understand what you are getting yourself into...........demons have a way of bonding and it is not much different than
the one you and I share..........there is only one other step to the ones we have already taken."
Kagome audibly gulped, " you mean..........?".
A visible smirk pulled at his lips. Kagome's heart began to pound and she had the overwhelming urge to run. He released her and that was exactly what she did. She fled from the room, Sesshomaru right behind her. - I just have to get far enough way to break the bond and he'll crumble- But even with only a small part of his own soul and half of Kagome's he was still too much for her. He caught up to her and pounced.
Her eyes widened as his lips came down on her neck. She felt sharp fangs rake across her flesh then the sharp sweet pain of his full
force crushing into her. Her mouth opened in a silent scream as blooded flooded into Sesshomaru's mouth. -what are you doing to me-
Her mind continued to swim in a fog as she felt his hot tongue cleaning up the blood from around her neck. Her heart continued to pound its
way out of her chest. She couldn't think straight, how was he doing this to her. Her whole body screamed for more of him, but ......didn't
she love another.......wasn't Inuyasha her knight in shining armor? Her body rejected that thought and soon her mind followed.
" Ses..ssho...maru..?" Kagome's eye's cleared to stare up at red demon eyes. Sesshomaru's mouth was covered in her blood and his eyes were solid red void of any emotion, but one........lust.
Now she was nervous, she attempted to push her way across the floor and out from under him. " Sesshomaru sama"
Her eyes never left him as she backed further from him. She wasn't sure if she was disturbed by the look of her blood on his face and the fact
that he stood there licking it off, or if she was turned on, or maybe she was just disturbed by the fact that she was turned on.
" Sesshomaru sama!" Rin's voice seem to brake through to the demon lord, he quickly turned from her and removed the rest of he blood from his face. " Rin....go back to your room.....I will visit you later"
The little girl stopped her approach and lowered her head in disappointment. " Hai.....Sesshomaru sama". She turned to look at Kagome who was currently holding her neck. " Ano....Kagome Sama are you ok"
Kagome's face darkend into a crimson, to think of what the child might have seen. " Hai..Rin I'm fine....if you like you and I can go into the garden later to find something for dinner ......how does that sound?"
Rin's face lit up and she ran up and hugged Kagome, " that would be great Kagome sama" Kagome pulled Rin off to look at her " Ok then Rin.....but you'll have to give me and Sesshomaru sama a moment ok" She looked over at Sesshomaru who still had his back to the two girls.
" Ok..Kagome sama....I'll see you later" with that Rin skipped back to her room to play with the jacks Kagome had given her.
Sesshomaru stood leaving Kagome in a pile on the floor. " We leave tomorrow....I will not be joining you for dinner" He continued to walk back to his room. " hey wait a second" Kagome stood to stop him, but what he said next started her.
" You will sleep in my room tonight..........this is not an option" before she could protest he had entered his room and closed the door.