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'Argghhh.'
The golden beams of the sun filtered through the rice paper of the shoji screen. Kagome shut her eyes tightly trying in vain to elude the rays of the dawning sun. She touched her re-newed mating mark courtesy of the insatiable Taiyoukai of course. She then yawned and stretched lazily, wallowing in his scent that still clings to the futon sheets.
"Itai!" she yelped. "Damn Sesshoumaru! The horny jerk wasn't kidding when he said 'rabid dog-style' ... mou.. I can't move... and I really need to pee so bad..." She looked around cautiously. 'No harm in trying.' She began rolling towards the nearest wooden chest where she could use it's sturdy bulk to leverage herself up.
"Lady mate, that is a rather undignified position. Might this Sesshoumaru ask what you think you are doing?" inquired the amused Taiyoukai.
"I'm a Hindu brahman doing a holy penance on behalf of the entire populace for their sins so that they will be reincarnated into a better caste." she retorted sarcastically. "I'm in agony here stuuuppiidddd! All thanks to that elephant trunk attached between your freakin legs!" she fumed.
Sesshoumaru smirked. "Those were same words you moaned in my ears last night yet with more passion and need, excluding the 'stupid' remark of course."
"Next time I get my hands on my bows and arrows remind me to do us both a favor by purifying that steel boa of yours!"
The young inu lord grinned. "However desirable you are in that position at present, you have company that are awaiting your appearance in the grand chambers of the eastern citadel. You must make haste to ready yourself. I'll get Yumi to help you." with that he turned back the way he came.
"Hey, aren't you going to help me here? Your lady mate is in a huge amount of pain."
"This Sesshoumaru believes you are strong enough to tolerate it. You are a youkai now not a mere human."
Kagome rolled her eyes. "So? Youkai or human I am in pain, why would I be rolling around on the floor for?"
Sesshoumaru stopped and looked at her direction. "Perhaps you desire a re-enactment of last night's activities."
Kagome's eyes widened. "I don't believe you! YOU ...(she stands up rapidly holding onto a black and red lacquered room divider)... HOW CAN YOU BE SOOOO JOVIAL ABOUT THIS SITUATION?" she screamed.
The western lord covered his ears and winced slightly. "How can you be sooo loud about it?"
"Why you..." she spluttered.
Sesshoumaru moved quicker than the eyes could see, and in a fraction of a second he held her in tight embrace and one very passionate kiss.
"Hn.. that was wonderful Kagome."
"And that was .. uh... very tongue-y." she blushed furiously.
"Tonguey?"
"Hai.. but I loved every moment of it." she smiled.
He could feels his inu purr and a deep rumbling growl issued from his chest. It excited and aroused Kagome so much her momentary pain was forgotten as she wrapped both her legs on his narrow waist. Sesshoumaru supported her by lifting her up by her hips and taking her towards the wardrobe.
She held onto the clothes rail with both hands while still being held by suspended by Sesshoumaru he unclothed her body slowly. Having uncovered her breasts he suckled one, all a while slamming onto her, her back banged soundedly against the wardrobe wall but she didn't care. The warmth pooling at her womanhood wanted to feel his hard length within it's confines again. Both moaned and panted heavily. The only barrier that remained was Sesshoumaru's own clothes. Unable to wait any longer, he divested himself of his clothes with one flick of his claws.
Feeling his fleshy arousal begging entrance between her legs Kagome whimpered at the sheer ecstasy of it all. Still holding herself on the clothing rails she felt herself lifted up higher, as he steadied her for his thrust. She bit her lower lip and closed her eyes wanting to ignore everything and concentrate on the feeling of his length pushing in her tight slick walls. She wanted to savor this moment. Her anticipation tethered on torture as he briefly pulled back to strengthen his initial thrust. He entered her hard fast, setting a pace that bordered on madness.
"Oh kami! How could you feel so much better than the last time." Kagome screamed.
Sesshoumaru growled seductively and smirked mischievously. His eyes glinted red and his breathing became labored as he sped fast in and out of her. Kagome cried and moaned until no more sounds came out of her lips from the overwhelming pleasure coursing through her at that instant. Wanting more she begged and screamed out his name, Sesshoumaru greatly aroused by this could hold back no longer and sped faster soon he could feel the familiar recoiling spring that signals the imminent release he most desires. Kagome felt like she soared the heavens, when she came she held onto him tightly wanting to prolong their oneness. Sesshoumaru came fast and hard. He felt his very essence and the prime of his strength leave his exhausted body as he slowed his pace embedding his seed in her womb. Her walls continued to clench around him as she came a second time.
"Lord mate, this Kagome thinks our guests must wait a while longer." she said purposely making her voice low and husky as she trailed kisses from the mark she had given him to his nipples grazing at it tenderly with her little fangs.
Sesshoumaru shuddered in pleasure. "Lady mate, they are youkai and will not age a year older. Let them wait for our return. But we shall take our pleasures in exploring each others body and feast upon our desires til exhaustion deems us unconcious."
"What ..(kiss)..did I say..(suck)..about that..(nip) ..rod up your..." Growling Sesshoumaru pulled her upwards then impaled her again on his hardened member. Kagome threw her head back and screamed her pleasure loudly, as Sesshoumaru again banged her hard and fast against the wardrobe wall.
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"Earthquake! Everyone take cover!" yelled a panicking Miroku diving underneath the table where the everyone sat around. Matsu, Sango, Shippo and Kouga all joined him. " Inuyasha! You idiotic hanyou, do you not know anything? When there is an earthquake you're supposed to run under the table."
"Keh! Where your lecherous hands can f'ckin grope me? No thanks, I'll pass. I'll take my chances here with that mangy mutt's sosofu. At least his cobwebs aren't contagious."
Mushira glared at him coldly. Iesu merely smirked. Though he had only recently met his hanyou cousin, he was beginning to like his forward and crude ways. So different from the cold bastard that had his Kagome.
Screams of ecstasy.
"Dear god! Kagome is dying! We must find her quickly, she could be trapped under a collapsed wall." sobbed Miroku.
"Yea, dying from being f'cked sh'tless!" grumbled the hanyou. "That's not the screams of death dumb ass."
"Inuyasha! How can you be so insensitive!" snapped Sango.
"Keh!"
"Soo ka. You only want it to be you to show Kagome-hime the hidden pleasures of the flesh, is that not so hanyou?" remarked Mushira drily.
"Shut up, who asked your mummified ass anyway."
"It is not wise to illicit enmity between lords and create turmoil and discord amongst the lands." put in Matsu returning to his cushion. "You all must respect the wishes of Lady Kagome and her choice for mate. Further, intrusions upon their union will only instigate unrest and disaster upon mating and union."
Kouga, Miroku and Inuyasha looked at Mushira like he was crazy. Iesu bowed his head and Mushira gave a curt nod. Sango looked relieved.
Clearing his throat, Jaken entered the room. "My Lord and Lady are.. (ahem).. currently indisposed, therefore I have been told to represent My Lord and Lady in their absence."
"Indisposed my hanyou ass! He's probably mating her on the f'ckin ceiling! He's gonna tear down your house of straw, sticks and bricks wolfie."
"He can't do that to my palace! I rule here..."
"All prior to my ascension as Lord of the Eastern Lands." cut in Mushira. "These lands are mine by birthright."
Kouga feeling the strength and power flowing from Mushira, gulped nervously. "Whatever, I'm bored being stuffed into meetings and ceremonies anyway. I'd rather much stay out in the open."
"What! You really are a dumb ass wolf! He just usurped your lordship and you're going to exile your sorry yellow ass to the outdoors and go camping?" bellowed Inuyasha.
"He is my kin, my pack, he will not be exiled. Rather he will be rewarded richly for acknowledging my birthright." affirmed Mushira. "Ask of me what you will and by the oath of lords I will grant it to you."
"You so swear?"
"Hai, upon the presence of these noble and honorable youkai and ningen, I invoke the oath between the lords and the sacred oath of our clan. What is your reward?"
Kouga took a deep breath. "I ask for you to relinquish your lingering claim upon Kagome-sama and leave her happiness with Sesshoumaru-dono."
Gasp.
'Oh that mangy wolf has put his f'ckin big mouth on it now.' thought Inuyasha shaking his head.
"Pup you are either of naïve but courageous constituency or a foolhardy simpleton." remarked Mushira. "However, I do realize that enforcing myself upon her is against my honor and her happiness is most important. I will do as you have requested."
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"Lady mate, it is imperative that we make haste, Jaken is not as suited for these meetings."
"Nah really? What did he do, make everyone gag by showing his butt ugly face?"
Sesshoumaru stopped and looked back at her.
"Well he does look like a green heap of vomit with a beak attached! Not to mention his stench. When was the last time the slimy toad took a bath? His skin would probably peel off with his clothing when he undresses."
"Itoshii, your train of thought at times puzzles and disturbs this Sesshoumaru."
"How so Lord mate?" she replied mimicking his tone. The young lord observed her with narrowed eyes.
"What?"
"You mock me." he growled.
"So how this any different from the other times we verbally sparred?"
Sesshoumaru responded by giving her cold glare.
"Tsk, tsk, it seems the lady has deeply offended her lord, how very unfortunate for one so newly mated!"
"Truly! Truly!"
He turned his back on her and walked in the direction of the eastern citadel.
"Now who's got PMS!" she yelled at his disappearing form.
'He left me. The bastard left me in the mercy of these vile vultures!'
Kagome turned around to see a group of the 'I love Sesshoumaru-sama' fan club gathered around her forming a tight semi-circle. She had met them before. She narrowed her eyes at them.
"How shameful to be bonded to one so uncouth and ill mannered as she!"
"Dreadful! She maybe beautiful, but her foolishness by far outweighs her appearance!"
"Such filth should not be allowed much less tolerated in the four cardinal courts! How will the aristocracy stand if any street whore can be placed as the mate and Lady of one of the lands?"
"True you are his mate but he can readily take a concubine and choose his heir from his pups with her. Look at yourself! The way you speak to him, you shame him and his honor with your sharp tongue-speaking as though a fool! How long until he tires of you I wonder? His interest will fade soon enough! Surely any self respecting male would soon dispose of a bothersome female be it mate or not. For what cultured man can stand a female whose barbaric heritage make her stand out like red maple leaf amongst the fallen snow."
Kagome feeling her anger rise balls her fists in an attempt not to obliterate the inu ladies in front of her.
"Listen here you chuhuahua-faced Taco bell mascots! What me and 'my mate' do and say has nothing with to do with your bugged eyed, pugg nosed faces! If we wanted to streak around butt naked .. (gasp from the inu ladies).. covered in butter and oil.. (shock and stunned expressions from the inu ladies).. calling each other f'ckin obscene names (nervous anime vein pop in forehead).. while f'cking in all conceivable positions, it's got nothing to do with you all! Now leave before I pop the zits on your freakin faces!" she snarled. By this time some of the inu ladies had fainted and others had fled covering their ears at her crude remarks. All but two remained.
"True, royal blood flows through your veins, yet that alone does not make one acceptable a mate to an illustrious lord like Sesshoumaru-dono. He could find a far worthier female to carry his heir!" spat the cobalt haired inu demoness, while holding her nose high in the air.
"Tsubame that is not how aristocracy should behave." reprimanded the azure-haired beauty. Turning to Kagome, she smiled warmly and bowed deeply. "Shitsurei shimashita, oku-sama, pardon my cousin, she is but thirty summers old. I am Akemi, of the Nakamoto Inu clan." her respectful bow and calm almost melodic voice melting away any traces of Kagome's anger.
Blushing Kagome shook her head. "It's nothing. It's just that those bitches gives true meaning to word bitch."
Akemi giggled softly behind her long furisode sleeve.
"Well I'd love to chit chat and stuff but I gotto run. It was nice to know not everyone here is a steel clawed back stabber."
"You need not concern yourself with them, you will learn court etiquette soon enough. Be well Lady Kagome!" she called out, as Kagome ran.
As she made her way to the meeting chambers in the eastern citadel her heart thumped wildly about one remark that the 'Die Kagome' fanclub had mentioned.
"True you are his mate but he can readily take a concubine and choose his heir from his pups with her. Look at yourself! The way you speak to him, you shame him and his honor with your sharp tongue-speaking as though a fool! How long until he tires of you I wonder? His interest will fade soon enough! Surely any self respecting male would soon dispose of a bothersome female be it mate or not. For what cultured man can stand a female whose barbaric heritage make her stand out like red maple leaf amongst the fallen snow."
'Would he truly tire of me and get a concubine? Could he really refuse his children by me and give the title of heir to his child from a concubine?.. Mou.. my head hurts! Stupid chuhuahua patrol! Why must I come across them when I'm in a hurry.'
As she ascended the steps that led to the meeting chambers, she was stopped by a flustered Jaken, who promptly told her that his lord was very much displeased with her and would not be needing her presence in the meeting. When she moved to enter the chambers Jaken grabbed one of her legs. Her anger got the better of her and she kicked the door wide open . Sending the kappa youkai sailing through the air.
"Phew! Thanks Kagome, I didn't know how much of this snore-fest I could take. I knew you'd find a way to break up this dull and useless meeting." yawned a sleepy Kouga, existing the chambers. "By the way, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku said they had to leave early there was an attack on a neighboring village and Kaede requested their help. They said they're sorry they couldn't say goodbye to you but time was critical." Kagome nodded her head.
Looking around she sucked in a breath. All four lords stared at her impassively. Mushira gave a curt nod, Iesu's face softened with a look of amusement. Matsu smiled. And Sesshoumaru... hell, he looked pissed! She could almost hear his words behind the cold scowl of his. 'This is the third meeting that you have broken. What have you got against meetings that you constantly disrupt it?' She bit her lower lip nervously.
"Perhaps the Lady would like to seat herself next to her mate?" Matsu the kindly dragon taiyoukai graciously offers his seat to Kagome. She looked at him gratefully and has already taken a few steps when...
"No she will not." giving Kagome an impassive look, he dismisses her. "Return to our quarters Lady mate. You have no business here."
Her heart sank. "Um, hai.. you are sure? Will you be gone long? I wanted to spend some time together."
The other lords looked at Sesshoumaru. Matsu knew all the lords was slightly taken aback. No female, questions the word of a Taiyoukai, especially if the taiyoukai in question happens to be Sesshoumaru.
Feeling the eyes of his fellow lords upon his person, Sesshoumaru clenches his jaws and retorts, "Perhaps."
Kagome fell silent. She could feel the annoyance and embarrassment from him roll in waves. She swallowed a large lump on her throat. Without so much as a word to her Sesshoumaru resumed the talks with his fellow lords. Kagome felt like she's shrunk to the size of a pea. She slumped her shoulders and turned and left, fully unaware of a pair of golden eyes, watching her silent departure.
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'Where is that infuriating Inu?' Kagome huffed. She had been waiting in her chambers all afternoon. Now it was nightfall and still no Sesshoumaru.
Just then her sensitive ears picked up his graceful footfalls. Her anger and boredom forgotten she pierced one of the rice paper squares on the shoji door. What she saw made her heart skip a beat. There was Sesshoumaru, her lord mate, smiling and conversating on the corridor with the azure-haired beauty from earlier. The female-Akemi, as she had called herself, led him to an open shoji door just opposite her own.
Tears fell down her eyes.
'Gah! Stupid Kagome, how can you say you love him and yet you can't trust him to do what's right. He won't do that to me. He just can't. I'll wait for his return and then we'll talk.' she decided. So there she sat by the shoji door, waiting for her lord's return.
The candle in the latern burned lazily. Pooling the melted wax at the base of the wax stick.
Time passed slowly. Still she waited.
"Ow! Freakin hell!" she had fallen asleep sitting up and fell on her face when her dream-state mind relaxed. Looking around she noticed the extinguished candle, though dark her eyesight was alright as her demon senses took over.
"It must in the early hours of the morning, and still no Sesshoumaru." she sighed. 'What's happening? Why is all this occurring now?' her fatigued-ridden mind instinctively told her to sleep and rest. She closed her eyes slowly, but not before a stream of tears was shed.
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"Kagome-sama, okiru." A voice drifted to her.
"Hmmm.. Sesshou?"
"Iie, Oku-sama."
"Rika?"
"Where is Sesshoumaru?"
"The lord is currently with the other lords on a hunt."
"Why didn't he wake me up the jerk! I was supposed to accompany him." fumed Kagome.
"I believe that the young lord has taken a female companion with him."
Kagome's heart sank, "a female companion? Yumi?"
"Nay, Oku-sama, I believe she is the daughter of one of Iesu-dono's vassals."
"Akemi." she breathed out.
Rika looked at her and stopped brushing her hair. "You know her then? Sesshoumaru-dono seems taken with her, it would be good for you."
"And why is that?"
"You would not be wanting his attentions too much lady, can you not feel it?"
"Huh?"
Rika chuckled. "You're with pup. Trust me, I have had ten pups I know what a sudden change in your scent indicates."
"That's impossible! I've only slept with him..huh the day at the forest...( 'kami sama, when Mushira gave me back my virginity, I was already pregnant by then, that's why he couldn't fully remove Sesshoumaru's scent on me' )... does he know?"
"I doubt it, the change is slight, but it's definitely there. But I'm sure within a couple of days he will pick it up. Sesshoumaru-dono's sense of smell is the best one by far."
"How is it then that you know and smelt first before he did?"
"I know from experience, besides, he did not spend last night here did he? I saw him talking Lady Akemi just after dinner and early this morning. Don't fret, even if she is made a concubine you are still his mate. She matters not. Besides you carry his heir and I believe it's the much longed for son he's always wanted."
"Is it true though that he has the right to replace me or that he can deny my future son his birthright as heir and instead pass it to his child by a concubine?"
Rika looked at her thoughtfully, "rest assured the young lord will not do that. He is honorable and he will do what is right."
"Yes, I know about his honor, but I'm asking if there is a possibility of the said matter."
Rika nodded sadly. "I've never seen one happen before but it is not unheard of. Infact, Iesu-dono's father was a clear example. He was the child of a lesser concubine, but he was chosen none the less."
"Did his grandfather not have any children with his mate to put a child by his concubine as the heir?"
"Uh I think that they did, but it was a daughter."
"How do you know my pup will be a boy?"
"Trust me it will be, and very powerful one too."
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"Ah, your enchanting mate, graces us with her presence Sesshoumaru." remarks Matsu brightly. Kagome flinches from his compliment. She looks at the seated persons dining on low platforms filled with every delicacy possible. Her mouth waters. 'Must be the pregnancy... I better tell him soon.'
She looked at her mates direction. A frown creases her face. To his right sat Akemi pouring him sake delicately while entertaining him with light hearted conversations. Their eyes met and Akemi bowed respectfully to her, her forehead reaching the tatami floor. Sesshoumaru though seemed as though he is not paying her any attention at all. Her battered heart sank further.
'She is much more deserving of him than I.' she thought bitterly. Glancing around she sees Yumi in deep conversation with Mushira. Tsubame meanwhile served Matsu.
"Ahem... Lady Kagome, since you are late in coming to breakfast it has come upon to keep you up to date with the discussion at hand. My lord and your lord mate has decided to take the lady Akemi as concubine. She will return to the western lands with us come this afternoon."
She turned around and abruptly left the room feigning an upset stomach, which wasn't a total lie, her stomach did indeed feel slightly queasy.
"Kagome-hime, you are unwell?"
She spun around and came face to face with Iesu. His face fell, she looked pale, he wanted to comfort her. He had heard all that Jaken has to say, but he knew no one would dare touch the Western Lord's mate. Sesshoumaru was her mate and his cousin and fellow lord. And yet still something in him twisted at beholding her apparent sadness. It wasn't the fact that Sesshoumaru had planned on taking a concubine that bothered him but it was because he did it so soon after mating with Kagome. Kagome, he was sure was still ignorant of the ways of the court. Her reactions to Jaken's news attested to that.
"Sesshoumaru did not do anything unexpected for someone in his station. May a nobles take a concubine, some have a harem. It was not meant as a disrespect to you Lady." he explained.
"Do you have one? A concubine I mean? If I had been your mate would you have chosen another?"
"Hai I do have concubines, and yet had you been mine I would not have visited them. I would have stayed by your side."
Kagome smiled a weak sad smile, then walked slowly away.
Iesu looked at her forlornly. 'Your happiness is all that I wish for Kagome-hime, for you deserve it the most.'
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Kagome decided not to return to chambers. Rather she intended to flee. Her tears trailed down her kimono and onto the wooden planks that makeup the walk way towards the southern gardens.
'Perhaps I am not needed by him. Akemi will be good for him she is more accustomed to the ways of the courts than me.' she thought bitterly. Summoning her powers she created a glowing sphere to surround her form and mask her scent. The sphere of light lifted high into the air and sped fast into the sky unnoticed by all.