DL:Hey, guys. Sorry about the long update problem.My computer was also being a major PRICK and cut off the last two paragraphs of the last chapter.Nothing happens, he just heals her and falls asleep. I'm sorry for any confusion.
Sess:If you want to find out something new, look at the biopage. This fic's chapter is going to be a songfic.
Spit:What song?
Sess:Dunno yet, but it'll pop up.
DL: Are you writing it, Sessho?
Sess:Yeah.
DL:Well, hurry up. The readers aren't exactly patient, you know.
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Sesshomaru woke before Katarina did. He brushed the hair out of her eyes. She moaned and turned in her sleep. He smiled down on her, but before he could lay back down, a knock issued at the door.
He opened the door. Katrina stood there, a shocked expression stuck on her face at the sight of the demon lord.
"Oh, kami,"she breathed,"have you-is she-are you two-?"
"No, Katrina,"he said, exhasperated,"We aren't mated yet."
Her shocked expression turned to one of perversion.
"Yet?" she teased. His face went from exhasperation to shock, to a glare in less than a minute.
"What do you want, Striking Falcon?"he said, using her general's name.
"Tell her she needs to be at the training grounds in half an hour, Commander,"she said respectfully, before skipping away (damned psycho).
Sesshomaru turned to the girl and shook her gently, trying to wake her up. It didn't work.He frowned beofre shaking her a little more forcefully and calling her name. She moaned and turned in her sleep.
He got an idea. (DL:There's a shocker, people::smacked::OW! I was kidding!)
He leaned towards her, propping himself up on the bed with his elbows and kissed her gently.
She woke to the familiar feel of soft, velvet lips against her own.Without opening her eyes, she reached into his hair.Feeling the long, soft tresses, she relaxed.
He felt her reach and grasp his hair.He moaned slightly into her silk lips.He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him and deepening the kiss. She felt his tongue poke at the corner of her mouth and she opened up to him, letting him taste her again. Her tongue went up and shyly met his. The touch sent a jolt of static shooting up his spine.
He pulled away, somewhat against his own will. She opened her eyes, looking deeply into his golden eyes. She saw a passionate fire that almost matched her own. She gave him a confused look.
"We need to stop,"he said.
"Why," she said, her voice soft.
"Because, General,"he said, pulling her up off of the bed,"You need to be down at training field twenty-one in twenty minutes."
He kissed her on the forehead and smiled at her before walking out of the room, leaving her to dress. Instead of her usual kimonos and slippers, however, her closet was filled with deep red peasent shirts, black breeches, and silver lace-up sandals. She hurried and put them on.
She washed her face and was in the middle of tying her hair into a high, tight ponytail when she heard a knock issue on the door. When she finished, she opened the door to find Katrina, Sutaasafaia, and a bemused Sesshomaru waiting for her. Katrina handed her a black tunic embroidered with deep red dragons, identical to the General's exept Katrina's was light blue and Sutaasafaia was a rose green. She threw it on, and Sutaasafaia handed her matching hair sticks, identical to theirs. She put them in and bowed her thanks.
Sesshomaru watched as the generals stepped aside, letting him give her his item. It was a piece of circularly cut Garnet, a blood red, and engraved on it were two dragons entwined around each other handing off of a leather strap.
All three of the generals gasped. The two watched him closely as he tied it around Katarina's neck. Katrina and Sutaasafaia had amulets, but theirs were matching colors to their outfits and were engraved with their elements, in which Katrina's was lightning and Sutaasafaia was plant. The entwined dragons was a symbol he told them little about, but knew it was above all others, and was sacred to him.
Sesshomaru watched as the other two generals stood their, gaping as he let the amulet drop around her neck. He told them very little, but he himself knew what it was. The amulet he had given to Katarina was an amulet that would protect her better than he could. The etwined dragons symbolized love.
She looked up at him with a look that shone with intelligence. When Katrina and Sutaasafaia flew ahead to their own training grounds, she sliced her finger with her fang. Then she sliced his and put them together, letting the blood combine.
"I love you too, Sesshomaru,"she whispered, kissing him lightly before dashing off, knowing she was late enough.
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Sesshomaru watched her make her authority with the troops he called the Twenty-First. The Twenty-First was his elite group, his most powerful and his most expirienced. But they were also his most rebelious and his most formidable to new people. So watching her make herself at the top was a priviledge indeed.
He knew she was a tough fighter and skilled with strategy, making her a formidable enemy enough. But watching her command a group like this made her even more formidable.
During training, she was tough on them. She started new routines every day, always tried new tecniques, and, literally, put them through hell until they got it absolutely right. She didn't let up.
But she was fair. She gave them breaks, letting them rest after they got it right. She spoke to them decently. And during breaks, she talked to them as friends and as equals.
The horse youkai that had started a rebellion tried to start more, but she quelled them with a few simple words and lit him on fire as punishment. After a week or two, he got the message that she would not take him crap and stopped.
Around three weeks later, she began teaching them defence as well as offence. They watched as she gave a few examples and let them try them on their own. When they came up with new ones, she would point out the faults and reasons not to use them.
After about five weeks of watching her work with the, now controlled, Twenty-First, Sesshomaru knew he had to ask her.
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After a particularly long and frustrating day, she collasped into a paticularly soft and untouched patch of grass. She knew that she would end up missing dinner, but she could make it up to Sesshomaru later. She was just too tired to try to make it. She dozed off.
When Sesshomaru found that she was not at dinner, he went to he training grounds at around dusk to go find her. He found her dozing in the grass. Instead of waking her, he leaped into a nearby tree and waited for her to wake.
She woke up around twilight lying on her stomache, spread eagle. She opened her eyes to find a firefly sitting gently on her nose. She wiggled it and watched as she got up. It flew away, twinkling with the rest of them, into the slowly darkening sky.
She felt strong but tender, gently hands run around her waist. She gasped and turned around. There her nose brushed Sesshomaru's. He smiled gently, watching as the flame in her eyes grew and as her scent spiked slightly.
"You missed dinner,"he said softly, as if her were in a dream.
"So I noticed,"she said just as softly, while she put her hands on his shoulders.
"I was worried."
"Really. Well, I'm sorry to have worried you, my lord."
"Cut it out with titles, Katarina,"he said, amused,"You know that we've been on a first name basis since you got here."
"True,"she said, just as amused.
He leaned in close and kissed her gently. She wrapped her arms around his neck, feeling herself melt into him.
He picked her up and flew her to a nearby balcony, never breaking the kiss. She finally broke it when the need for air arose. He turned and looked, finding that the balcony was her's. He took in a deep breath and found that her scent had spiked dramatically.
"I need to ask you something,"he said, longing evident in his voice.
"Go ahead,"she said quietly, as if she was afraid to speak.
He looked her deep in the eye. Then he whispered the one question that blew her mind away.
"Will you be my mate?"
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DL:Stopping there......
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Katarina gasped and grinned happily.
"Yes,"she cried, before launching herself into his open arms.
He swung her around, laughing, before kissing her passionately. They both felt a jolt of pure electricity shoot through them. Katarina didn't recognize it, but Sesshomaru did, from descripions his father had given him. This was the beginning of the mating ceremony.
He dragged them both to her bed and laid her down on it crawling on top of her. He thrust his tongue into her mouth, which she met with equal passion, if not more. Another jolt of electricity shot through their bodies.
As he moved down her neck, he used his claws and, careful of her skin, slashed the blood red top off of her. He noticed, with satisfaction, that she still wore the amulet he gave her eight weeks ago. As she tore the haori off of him, he tore off the breastband. When their hands met skin, another jolt, this time stronger, rushed through them.
He didn't break eye contact when he trailed butterfly kisses down her chest to her nipple. She moaned and arched her back into him while he suckled on it.He reached his other hand up to pleasure the neglected one.
He trailed kissed back up to her mouth, where she met him and took control, entering his mouth. He ripped her breeches and sandals off of her as she ripped the hakamas off of his body. When they were both naked, another jolt ripped through their bodies.
He slipped a finger inside of her, making her moan loudly. He couldnt get enough of the noises she made. He could tell that she was ready, but he also felt a barrier. He became exstatic. She was a virgin! He would be her first, as well as she his. And they would be each others last.
He positioned himself above her opening. After whispering a soft apology, he thrust into her. He swallowed her scream with a kiss. When she was done, he layed his cheek on hers, whispering sweet nothings into her ear. That's when another jolt ripped through their bodies, replacing her pain with pleasure.
He began to move again, the friction their bodies caused sending pleasure neither knew possible. His moans and growls and her cries combined as their pleasure grew together. When they both reached their climax, they cried out each others names.
At that point, a jolt of electricity shot through them. It was so powerful that it made them both see spots.
When it cleared, he rolled them over so that they faced each other. He kissed her on the forehead as she drifted to sleep. He murmured softly before he joined her.
"You are mine, Katarina......."
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DL:Hey, peoples. I had to take the damned keyboard away from Sesshomaru. He was abusing the priviledge.
Sess:I was not. I just wanted to alter it a little.
Spit:And make the entire thing pornography. Jeez, Sesshomaru, have a little decency.
DL:Seriously, just because we're mates-!!!!!
Sess:I didn't let it slip this time, she did, Hailey.
Spit: ::sweatdrop::So we've noticed....
DL:Shut up! Anywho, please read and review.
PS:Yeah, no songfic. You can't have a songfic with a lemon and Sesshomaru wanted it to be this really nasty song, so no songficcie.