It's forbidden.

It's formidable, awe-inspiring, terrifying, and forbidden, but everything in her gravitates toward it like a moth to a flame. And when she finds it, it wraps her in the part of him that she should recoil from.

Only she doesn't want to.

Tentatively, her own power begins to coil and rise, reaching out to tangle in his. And when he laughs, she's surprised.

"What is it?"

Sesshoumaru lifts their hands to show their power melding as a single energy. "Untouchable?"

Kagome gasps.

"Miko"—a languid smile spreads over his lips—"you have touched me as no other has."