It's hot out! Too hot to do anything but sit inside and write stories. So I am. So you should all read them. Goats are bad. So are chickens. Chickens scare me. For that matter so do needles, ferris wheels, and the dark. On with the story.
Disclaimer: For what seems like the umpteenth time, I do not own Inuyasha.
Chapter Three: Strange Behaviors
Sesshomaru awoke in the middle of the night to find Miori had somehow managed to drag him into the house in the clearing without waking him up. He was dozing in the bed, his armor removed, and his friend was nowhere to be seen. He considered getting out of the bed to look for her, but decided it was too much effort right now. Instead he returned to bed.
He woke once more to find the sun was just breaking the horizon, and he could smell food cooking nearby. He stumbled out of bed and found Miori outside cooking what he hoped was breakfast. He sat next to his friend on the ground. She nodded at him too occupied watching the sunrise to pay attention to him. He had learned very young to be patient with his friend in this matter. She was always awake for the sunrise, and often returned to bed right after, but she seemed to be planning to stay awake for awhile.
He decided to take the time to study her more closely. She had shed the blue and silver top she had been wearing yesterday, wearing a plain white top similar to it, only without sleeves and slightly shorter that he assumed was worn underneath the other one. Her hair hung straight to her waist and glinted in the sun's first rays. Her eyes looked even darker as she stared at the sunrise. Her legs were stretched out in front of her and crossed at the ankle, and she was propped up on her elbows. The sun's weak rays caused her pale skin to glow as if she were some kind of otherworldly being. Sesshomaru found himself rather short of breath at the sight of her.
"You weigh a ton you know." She started conversationally, "I had to drag you in that cabin all by my lonesome and you slept through it all, and I wasn't exactly nice about it either. I tell you what; if some assassin ever caught you sleeping the Western Lands would be fucked." One eyebrow arched slightly, which he had learned meant she was irritated with something, but was amused with something else at the same time. He assumed she was irritated by the fact she had been forced to drag him to bed, but he had no cause for her amusement.
"What's so funny?" he accompanied his jab with a prod to the ribs.
"The thought of you dead." she broke into hysteric giggles at the horrified look on his face, "I didn't mean it like that! Just, if you died, Inuyasha would be Lord of the Western Lands. Can you even imagine the trouble he would cause?" She fell on him laughing, beating his chest as she did so, "All your servants would be running around trying to find him all the time, the castle would be a mess, if it was still standing, he'd probably declare war on the other lords for the fun of it." Sesshomaru's eyebrow twitched in irritation, although Miori found the situation highly amusing. He could very well picture his brother ruling his lands as Miori predicted, and she would know as she had helped raise him.
Miori recovered from her amusement to pull a medium sized bird off a spit where she had been cooking it. She pulled off a leg for herself, then gave the rest to him which he ate happily. She on the contrary, nibbled slowly and daintily on her small piece of food. She had never been a big eater. They finished soon enough, and Miori stretched yawning.
"I talked to Inuyasha and his traveling companions last night. I told them to meet us here."
"Why?" his voice was slightly scathing. However, it did not faze her in the least and she merely shrugged.
"I want to see Inu again, and I'd like to get to know the people he's traveling with better. I spent most of the night watching the camp until they all woke up. I told them who I was, and they said they'd be here about mid morning."
"It'll take them that long?"
"Well…it takes me slightly under and hour. I'm about twice as fast as you and Inu, and he said it took him about two hours to travel back last night running the whole way. They'll be walking most of it, so despite the fact they left the same time I did, it'll take a good long time for them to get here. Wake me in an hour or so, okay?" she stood up brushing dirt of her body.
"Where are you going?"
"To take a nap. I didn't sleep last night, I just told you."
"What about after you healed my arm?"
"I was only out for about an hour, maybe hour and a half. And that nap was more for recovering from healing you then anything. It took a bit out of me." With this she sauntered back into the house for her nap.
Sesshomaru waited for the appointed hour then walked into the cabin himself. He couldn't help but smile at what he saw. Miori was hugging one pillow under her head, and her legs were slightly bent, tangled in the sheets. Her chest rose and fell slowly, and she looked very peaceful. He shook his friend, and she lazily opened her eyes. His heart skipped a beat as she gazed at him sleepily from half open eyes. He had never noticed how dark her long eyelashes were in contrast to her hair. She grumbled for a moment to herself before moving further from the edge of the bed and indicating he should lay down.
"I thought you wanted me to wake you up."
"I am awake."
"You're still lying in my bed."
"Oh Sesshy, you know you've always wanted me in your bed." She threw an evil grim at him, "Besides" she added yawning and stretching, "going outside would require me to move."
He grumbled something about her being lazy, and about how he almost preferred Fluffy to his childhood nickname, but lay next to her on the bed anyways. She ignored his complaints as she wrapped her arms around his neck entangling her fingers in his hair. She buried her head in his chest, and intertwined her legs with his. He would have complained as he normally did, but for her sigh of contentment once she arranged herself comfortably. He simply wrapped both his arms around her waist and nuzzled her hair slightly, inhaling her scent. Kami, it felt good to have her back.
"Sesshy, what do we do now?" her voice shook and he knew she was talking about what had occurred the day before. He was not sure how to answer. He had acted on impulse, but he knew, had always known, that something along those lines would occur. Although there had been other people the had been involved with to put it politely, in his case anyway, none of them had ever held the appeal the other held for them. He knew Miori was thinking along these lines as well. They knew each other well enough to know what the other was thinking.
"I don't know. What do you want to do?" he slid one hand under her chin and forced her to look up at him. Her blue eyes were once again deep in thought, her mouth pulled into the slightest of frowns. It disturbed him to see her upset and he leaned his head down and kissed her softly, in an attempt to make her frown go away. She smiled wryly at this, and he grumbled at her how that was not much better then the frown. This caused a genuine smile to break free on her face.
"Ah Sesshy, you entertain me." She slid her body over his so this time she was the one straddling his hips. She traced the line of his jaw with one slender finger watching his bemused expression. He placed his hands on her slender waist, able to completely surround it with his hands. She chuckled low in her throat and leaned forward burning a trail of kisses up his neck, along his jaw, finally catching his lips for a moment before she crossed her hands and his chest, resting her chin on him.
Absentmindedly he traced his hand up and down along her spine. She grinned devilishly at him and began to rotate her hips against his, gaining a shudder of excitement and surprise almost immediately. This was new behavior for her. In all their closeness, she had never acted like this before. Keeping up the motion with her hips she began to remove his clothing, baring his strong muscled chest first. She explored every muscle, running her hands over his body, tracing his hard abs. He groaned slightly from her torture, beginning to move his hips with hers. He was positive she could feel his hardening member beneath his clothes, and strangely had the feeling she had done this before, and it made him insanely jealous and ready to kill whoever had received this kind of treatment from her. She sensed his emotions and sent him a dazzling smile before catching his lips once more, gently nibbling his bottom lip, and slipping her tongue into his mouth, completely controlling the situation at hand. Sesshomaru's body twitched just enough for her to notice, and he sent out a soft groan of delight. She smirked at him, and ground her hips into his harder, causing him to growl in delight.
Sesshomaru decided he had had enough of her torture and decided it was time to return the treatment. He sat up, forcing her to as well and pulled her closer. He ground his hips against hers wit enough force to cause her to gasp into his mouth as he pulled her into a bruising kiss. Delicately, using only his teeth, he began to pull her top from her shoulders and slowly downwards. He heard her breathing become harsher slightly, and knew his did as well. He buried his head between her breasts, keeping his grip on her waist. He gave himself a moment to consider, then began to nibble on her breasts, one then the other. he continued to use his mouth on her breasts, nibbling, kissing and licking with a practiced skill. From Miori's soft moan she was enjoying his treatment immensely.
She squirmed against him, trying to become more comfortable on his lap. She wrapped her long legs around his waist, and ran her fingers through his hair, trying to consider a way to regain her control. Her thoughts were stopped however by a strong tug on one of her nipples from her partner. Her small whimper of delight caused an evil chuckle to escape his mouth, as he freed her breasts to kiss her gently.
He rolled her over and wrestled with her top for a moment before figuring out how to remove it from her body. Her faint flush caused him to chuckle once more. His hands slid to his own waist, one eyebrow cocked at her as though daring her to stop him when someone began pounding on the door.
"FUCK!" Sesshomaru screamed, causing Miori to jump and grab at him. She could see the vein in his forehead pulsing, and he looked about ready to kill the person on the other side of the door. Thinking quickly she grabbed his top and armor and began to dress him. Her actions inspired him and he grabbed her white top replacing that, and helping her with her silver and blue one as well. She tied the sash herself, and was on her way to answer the door when Sesshomaru grabbed her, giving her one last kiss before smoothing her tousled hair, and then his own.
"It's no matter." She breathed into his ear, "We can always finish later." She tossed him a wink and seductive smile that caused him to growl in frustration. He didn't want to finish later, he wanted to finish now!
"This Sesshomaru is not used to waiting for what he wants." He crossed his arms informing her.
"Well, he's gonna have to learn fast. By the way, might want to do something about this." She answered wryly, giving the rather large bulge in his pants a good squeeze. He could tell however from her tone of voice she was just as annoyed at their interruption. She sighed and opened the door to find Inuyasha. Sesshomaru seriously considered killing him and his damned companions that very moment.
Inuyasha must have noticed the look on his half brothers face, and he backed away from the door, looking between the two.
"We…uh…sorry we're early. Did we interrupt something?"
Sesshomaru was about to say yes and tell him to leave and not come back until the next day, but Miori's glance stopped him.
"No Inuyasha. We were just catching up on old times. Nothing we can't finish later." Her smile and voice reassured his idiot hanyou brother. She pushed him outside to his friends, and Sesshomaru stomped after. The sooner they got rid of these people the better!
Well here is the next chapter! I hope you all like this! I know it seems like Sesshomaru and Miori are just jumping into things, but there is the matter that they've known each other their whole lives.