"Kagome,"
Silence…
"Woman get up! Wench."
"I heard that, Sesshomaru, and I will not get up because you are calling me names like a child."
Sesshomaru instantly pounced on her from his place beside the bed. He held her arms above her head. She simply smiled at him while he looked down at her with an unchanging expression of anger.
"You will never call me a child again. Understand, woman?"
"Well, well, well, aren't you in a good mood this morning, Merry Sunshine. I think you need a good cat nap."
Sesshomaru sounded a low growl in his throat.
"Listen Sesshie-chan I am playing with you. I know you are not a child or a cat. Now if you don't mind, please let go before my arms lose more blood than they already have."
Sesshomaru made another growl before letting go of her arms. Though he didn't move the rest of his body from her. Kagome began to laugh.
"What is so funny woman?"
"First of all, my name is Kagome, and I would like to be called by my name. Second you are so Kawaii!" Now Kagome burst out laughing in a fit that wouldn't stop. Sesshomaru growled again and pressed his body onto hers, smothering her in his grasp. Sesshomaru couldn't help the overwhelming feeling to forgive her everything and be happy with her. He leaned into her throat and began to kiss the nape of her neck, willing himself not to take her now.
Kagome moaned into his neck, pushing him further to the breaking point. He wanted her, and it took a great amount of control not to do what he desperately wanted. He didn't want to scare her. If his plan was going to work he needed her to trust him.
'You know that's bullshit.'
'I would never lower myself to take a human as my mate.'
'Why not? She is better than the youkai bitches that throw themselves at your feet.'
'That may be so, but she is nothing extraordinary. I will keep her as a pet.'
'Your loss.'
"Sesshomaru, look at me."
Sesshomaru backed away from her neck and looked into her eyes. She could see his want, she knew she wasn't ready for him to enter her, but she was sure that she wanted to be with him. She brought a soft hand to his cheek brushing her hand against him softly.
"Sesshomaru, I'm not ready yet." He couldn't bear to look at her any more; he strained himself to keep still. "If you need reassurance, than here." She had once heard from Kaede-baba that a demon would bite the neck to show ownership. She hoped it would be enough until she felt ready.
She tilted her head slightly showing more of the side he was kissing. He stared at her almost delving into her very soul to ask permission. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. He knew that this would be a sign to all that she was his. He could content himself with that fact for now. With that thought he again put his lips to the nape of her neck, breathing in the sweet smell. He felt her shake slightly when she felt his bared fangs against her neck. He suddenly bit into her neck sending waves of pain thought her body. The more she struggled under his fangs, the harder he bit into her silky flesh. Finally he let go, licking at the mark upon her flesh once. Without looking at her, he silently got off of Kagome and exited the room.
Kagome woke with a slight pain in her neck. Sesshomaru had left without a word. She was so confused. It was like he didn't care. 'Maybe he was mad that I didn't…' She trailed off. She prayed that she had made the right decision.
"He didn't mean any of it." She said to herself. She could feel the tears flowing down her face as she silently cried.
"Inuyasha…" She hugged her legs to her chest and put her forehead to her knees.
"Inuyasha…"
Sesshomaru's blood began to boil. 'How dare she? She belongs to me and yet she pleas for the half-bread!' His eyes began to bleed red at the thought.
The door to Kagome's room slammed open startling Kagome out of her thoughts. Her eyes were blood shot and her hair was in disarray. Sesshomaru's gaze bore into her.
'I knew he didn't care. What have I done?' Kagome thought dejectedly.
At her sudden intense sadness at seeing him Sesshomaru's anger began to rised. 'She didn't want me. She only wanted Inuyasha. Why!'
What had began as a low growl became a deep rumbling. Kagome watched as Sesshomaru was slowly being overcome by rage. For the first time Kagome stared at Sesshomaru in fear. She had not been this scared even when she had first met him.
Sesshomaru watched her through rage filled eyes as she slowly became overcome by fear. He knew he needed to leave before he killed her. To kill her would betray the honor of the mark. Sesshomaru flew out the balcony doors and into the forest surrounding the castle.
Kagome sobbed as she heard a great roar come in from beyond the forest.
Inuyasha raced through the forests and valleys leading to Kagome. He silently prayed that she was okay and that he could safely take her away from him, still having the sword in his possession. Nightfall was coming soon. He had to keep going, for Kagome's sake. So help him, he would get Sesshomaru for casting a spell on his Kagome.
As nightfall set in, he neared the castle. He needed to find where Kagome was, then if Sesshomaru was close by. If so he would have to wait to make sure of the fact that Kagome was not to get in the way so she wouldn't get hurt if his brother sensed his presence. Half Brother, Murderer.
Sesshomaru walked down the corridors of the west wing of his castle deep in thought. He would find Kagome and settle once and for all if she loved his half-breed brother. He slowly turned the corner coming to a stop in front of one of three doors. The one on the left of it was his and the one further down the corridor on the right was Rin's.
He had wondered about putting her in the room reserved for his mate, but he would deal with that when the time came. He didn't bother knocking as he entered the room. It was still heavy with smell of tears, but something else disturbed him about the room. It was empty.
Sesshomaru growled in anger He stood just inside the doorway looking into the empty room. 'She ran away!' How could I not have sensed it?' A noise behind him brought him out of his reverie. In the blink of an eye he unsheathed his sword and held it to the neck of a really unlucky servant. The servant dropped the bath soaps she was carrying and stared wide-eyed at the furious demon lord.
"What happened! How long has she been gone without me being informed!" Sesshomaru growled, barely suppressing his rage. The servant threw up her hands as if stung.
"My lady was hungry so I brought her to the dining room. I did not think to tell you, my lord. Please forgive this servant." The girl quivered as she began to shake. She closed her eyes tight hoping against all hope that she would be spared. "I was going to draw a bath for her when she finished eating, my lord."
The red in Sesshomaru's eyes faded instantly. If she meant nothing to him, then why did he feel so relieved? He sheathed his sword. The servant looked ready to pea on the floor. He had no doubt that by the time he got to the dining room everyone would know about this. He had the overwhelming urge to kill her, but Kagome would have his head.
"Leave."
The servant didn't wait a second before she ran down the corridor. Sesshomaru watched her leave before bending down to examine the bath soaps. 'She needs a brush.' He thought suddenly. Sesshomaru exited the room heading down to the dining room. He stopped a servant on the way and told him to find a brush. He obediently ran to get one while Lord Sesshomaru waited. The hawk demon came back in less than a minute with a brush and bowing he gave it to Sesshomaru.
He opened the dining room doors to see Kagome eating dinner while talking to a deer youkai. He seemed very interested in Kagome as she talked about her friend Sango. She seemed to be enjoying his company… too much.
"Get out."
He startled Kagome and the deer youkai. He jumped from his seat next to her and made a hasty bow and left toward the east wing. Sesshomaru approached Kagome gracefully, not betraying his hidden anger. He could smell the nervousness radiating off of her. She glanced at him nervously as he set down the brush next to her plate.
"Thank you." She said in a low voice with her head down, suddenly very interested in the silverware.
Sesshomaru simply walked toward one of the windows in the dining room behind Kagome. She continued playing with her fork.
"What's wrong?"
'Duh, stupid question, Kags.'
"You will return to Inuyasha in the morning."
Kagome stood up suddenly, knocking her chair over. "Why?"
Sesshomaru turned to face her slowly. "It's what you want, isn't it?" Sesshomaru has to repress his sudden anger at the thought.
"No, I don't. I do want to know why you brought me here. Did you just want to trade me for the Tetsusaiga all along?" Silent tears began sliding down Kagome's cheeks.
Sesshomaru was surprised to find her crying, and more surprised to hear her say that she didn't want to go back. He didn't sense any dishonesty in it. 'Did she say I brought her here for the sword? That must be what is bothering her.' Sesshomaru calmed considerably. However, that didn't erase the fact that she was taking such a liking to the deer youkai servant.
"Is this why you asked for my brother this morning?" Sesshomaru emphasized brother.
"Yes! Why did you leave me like that? I have you my trust and my promise to be yours." Kagome's hand went to her shoulder. "Then you left, like I no longer mattered!" Kagome felt like screaming. He chest tightened painfully.
'Should I have said something?' Sesshomaru wondered. 'Humans are so emotional. I supposed it would matter to her.' He couldn't help being relieved to hear that she didn't want to go to his brother. After all, the mark when unfulfilled would leave and she could return to Inuyasha. He doubted that she didn't know it was temporary. She should now that she would belong to him until they mated. He would not mate with the woman-child, but he would keep her, perhaps as a lover. For some unknown reason that thought put a bad taste in his mouth.
He approached her cautiously. When he was arms-length away she ran into his arms and began to cry into his chest. God he hated to see her cry. He put one arm around her back and used the other to tip her face up to look at him. She slowly opened her eyes when he did so.
"I did not think to reassure you. This Sesshomaru is…sorry." Kagome gasped. She instantly forgot that she was mad at him.
"You mean you don't want me to leave?" She asked nervously. He shook his head. She smiled at him warmly.
"You're forgiven." She buried her head into his chest while she clutched onto his robes.
'She forgives me?' Sesshomaru found something warm in him. Unknowingly his hear was beginning to thaw. Another piece of his wall broke.
He finally reached the castle at nightfall, Sesshomaru was close to Kagome; that he was sure of. He sensed him in the room with the balcony. Fearing to alert Sesshomaru he decided to stay down wind and watch him carefully from the vines spreading over the ledge. Easing up, he saw Kagome and Sesshomaru. Kagome was silently brushing her hair while Sesshomaru watched. It was obvious to Inuyasha that he was in deep thought about something. Then he heard Kagome speak as she put down the brush.
"Rin might come later, she had a bad dream last night while we were asleep." She turned to Sesshomaru who sat completely still on the edge of the bed.
"She will have to care for herself sometime, now is when she will learn."
"She is a child, Sesshomaru, she can come when she needs help. She is human, Sesshomaru. She won't help her children if she doesn't learn from us." Was it just him or did it already sound like they were mated? Sesshomaru thought for a moment, obviously debating something.
"We won't be disturbed tonight, I have already seen to that."
"Oh, how?" Kagome folded her arms as she put the brush away and sat at the edge of the bed. Sesshomaru got up slowly crossing to face her. "I have appointed Jaken to watch her. She will not disturb us tonight."
"Why is tonight so special?" Kagome now saw the look in his eyes, whether or not she was ready, he had decided it was to be their night. Inuyasha on the other hand didn't understand; not until he saw Sesshomaru forcing her back to the headboard of the bed.
Inuyasha knew he couldn't make himself known, but perhaps there was a way to make him leave long enough to get her out. He ran to the other side looking for something he could destroy to get his attention. His study would do well. He would hear that. Inuyasha took time trying to remember where it was. He finally found it at the bottom of the west wing.
A noise sounded from his study, but tonight wasn't the night to worry about such things. He had something to do. He stripped of his Kimono and let if fall swiftly with his armor to the floor. Kagome made a shocked gasp sending thrills up his spine. He wanted her to enjoy this as much as he would. He began to shed her of her clothes, which Kagome helped to take off. 'Damn, I should have given her a kimono!'
After removing the last remaining article of clothing, he stopped to look at her. This beautiful creature would soon belong to him. She saw him looking at her and covered herself with her hands from his penetrating gaze.
"No, you are mine to see. Do not hide yourself from me." Sesshomaru held her hands and looked at her again. She was more beautiful every time he looked at her. He wanted her. Now was the time to claim her for himself.
When Inuyasha returned to the balcony ledge Sesshomaru was looking at the naked form of Kagome laying in front of him. She was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. 'She will not be his plaything!'
That was when he heard something he never thought he would hear.
"Kagome, you need not fear. I will protect you now. Inuyasha will never hurt you again, my beloved. You are my love. You are mine, and now I, Sesshomaru, shall be yours." Kagome gasped in shock at what she heard. 'Too bad you have to see this Inuyasha. There is nothing you can do now but watch as I take her. "Will you be mine? Now and Forever?"
Kagome leaned back onto the headboard relaxing while in deep thought. Sesshomaru watched her intently as if willing her to say yes, though he would never admit it part of him was begging her. Inuyasha was at a loss for words, and as confusion and fear plagued him, his mind reeled in horror as the small nod passed though his brain. She had accepted him, Sesshomaru, the devil himself.
Sesshomaru's mind spun in all directions as he realized that she would now be with him forever. She would give her mind, spirit, and soul to him willingly. A creature so beautiful and pure would be his. All his other thoughts passed away as the new thought submerged. Even Inuyasha watching was now nothing of consequence.
Sesshomaru leaned down at began to fervently kiss her stomach slowly trailing a path to her breasts. If this pleasure he was feeling now was anything like what he would experience next he was in a world of pure, unimaginable bliss. As he worked his way up he spread her legs to fit his lower half. The heat between them grew as he neared her center.
Suddenly Sesshomaru groped her right breast with his hand eliciting a moan making him impossibly harder.. Slowly removing his hand and gliding it gently down to her waist as his mouth took over he gasped in shock when she lifted her hand to his head and whispered his name.
"You don't know what you do to me." Kagome laughed. "Sesshomaru I'm not trying to tease you." Kagome stopped his mouth with hers as she brought him up to her lips. "Sesshomaru, I- I want you. Inside me." Inuyasha and Sesshomaru gasped at her statement. Though Inuyasha could not bear the words to come out of her mouth he watched and listened as they stared at one another.
'Holy Shit!' Little did he know that Sesshomaru shared a similar thought.
Jealousy rose in Inuyasha like a plague; a roaring wind devil in all its rage. Kagome had chosen him, and he didn't even get a chance. Once again his half-brother beat him, something no one thought possible when it came to women. 'How could it be that she would look at him like that? What has he done to her? I will not…
I will not lose her to a murderer!'
Inuyasha flew with the speed of the gods into the open room crashing and tumbling in his way until he finally hit Sesshomaru off of Kagome and onto the floor. Getting up a bit Sesshomaru looked death at the one he thought would never go this far. Inuyasha already up began baring pearly fangs and emitting low feral growls.
Sesshomaru got up and towered over the enraged Inuyasha. "What do you think you are doing?" Sesshomaru asked almost as a stranger that Inuyasha just bumped into.
"I am here to save Kagome from losing herself to a murderer who has cast a spell on her."
Silence.
Suddenly Sesshomaru began to laugh. Really laugh. Kagome was still on the bed clutching the blankets around her and looking from Inuyasha to Sesshomaru. Inuyasha stood baffled. Sesshomaru was laughing, completely naked, and seemed to think Inuyasha an old chum. "A spell. Inuyasha honestly, I do not need a spell to have a human. If I wanted a mate I would have chosen a demon Inuyasha, truly. She has confessed her affections."
Inuyasha looked blank as Kagome's silent tears went unnoticed. "Yes, you and she expressed feelings, I would like the chance to express my own feelings." Inuyasha raised to his full height and began to calm himself to Sesshomaru's state of matter knowing that if he could express his feelings and not hurt Kagome while fighting with Sesshomaru, it was worth it to be civil, maybe.
Sesshomaru saw him transform from a wild best with no civility to a calm relaxed and aware, matured state. If he had any respect for his brother it was now. "Speak." His voice was cold indifference. Inuyasha turned and faced Kagome. When she covered herself enough to feel comfortable he sat on the bed next to her. Nervousness seemed lost to the moment knowing it may be his only chance to confess.
Looking away he began, "Kagome, when I met you, I thought that you always got in the way. That's when I saw you for the first time as a respectable partner in our search. Somehow I let you get further and further from me. I never knew that you felt the way that I you did. Maybe I knew that you did, but denied it. I guess what I want to say is." Inuyasha turned to face her and began to move closer. "That I…I love you Kagome."
Sesshomaru who was barely listening, on hearing the confession began to look at his brother like a thief in the night wanting to steal the only thing he ever truly cared about away from him, and right in front of him. Sesshomaru stepped forward to look at the tear-streaked face of Kagome. A thousand emotions swelled within her, a fire of confusion swept through her, burning at her very insides. "No. NO!" Kagome screamed and shook her head. Her hands covered her face as she began to rock back and forth, crying rivers and oceans spilling from her very heart.
"Kagome." Inuyasha and Sesshomaru said in equally worrisome voices. Kagome shifted and grabbed her uniform limply lying on different sides of the room. When she reached her last article by the sliding wooden door she turned; her clothes in her hands, more tears threatening to spill. Once again, Inuyasha had broken her heart in a way she never though possible, by confessing to her. She had gone through so much because he showed every sign of a selfish, unloving demon. Now he says that he loved her, and he treated her like the wicked witch of the west, throwing water at her just for pleasure.
She put her left hand behind her and opened the door an inch. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha stared at her and didn't seem to notice. Sesshomaru took a step back. He understood her in a way that he didn't understand himself. Inuyasha on the other hand took a step forward. Kagome's eyes became wide. In a swift motion Kagome was out the door and running away, her naked form disappearing down the hallway black with night. "Kagome!" Inuyasha's voice hit her ears like a thousand knives, driving her further into the darkness.
Soon, she was gone.
Sesshomaru watched as Inuyasha leaped off the balcony and into the night to find Kagome. He on the other hand would wait. "Kagome I will wait for you." Sesshomaru entered his bedchamber from the balcony, Kagome's sent still fresh on the bed, which would help him for the night.
'Sesshomaru.'
