Sesshomaru's lost in pleasure and the scent of Avalon's growing heat when a foreign scent finally hits his nose. His head snaps over his shoulder as he pushes Avalon off his cock, pulling his pants up quickly. He forces her down and covers her body with his own as the ogre slashes into his back, ripping his skin. He flies off the ground, tying his hakama one handed and attacks the red ogre. He flicks it in the face with his whip, seeing no effect. The ogre only blinks and slaps at the whip. He strengthens the whip and tries to slice into the neck, only for the hide to resist the blow. 'What is this?'
He lunges at the head with his claws outstretched. The ogre swings at him with unnatural speed, nearly hitting him. He dodges a blow to his stomach, another to his back and twists around the limbs trying to grab him. He flies up again and slams his hand into the neck, feeling resistance that shouldn't be there.
Avalon looks up at what is happening and gets into a fighting stance, summoning her sword. 'Why is he having such difficulty?' She calls, "Sandasutoraiku!" The purple light swirls around her blade as she forces more reiki into the attack. She swings her sword down. The bolt of purple light extends along the ground before shooting up and wrapping around the ogre, completely avoiding Sesshomaru. The skin sizzles and melts but the ogre roars and charges at Avalon without it's skin. "Kuso!" Avalon barely dodges the charge, rolling to the side.
"Stay back!" Sesshomaru yells, charging the ogre again. He puts more energy into the whip, sending it flying around the ogres waist and tugging fiercely, cutting into the ogres flesh. He flies full force into the back of the ogre, releasing the whip and slamming his hand into the chest cavity reaching for the heart, lacing it with dokkasu. His arm can't make it in further than his wrist before the ogre swirls around, batting him off. He grunts as the hand hits his face, sending him flying backwards, but then he flips and lands on his feet snarling. 'What is this? Ogres don't have this strength.' He charges again, trying to go for the head but the ogre aims at his face, he flies down and then up and sideways. "Stay back, Onaga!"
Avalon's face scrunches up in concentration while keeping herself out of the way. 'This isn't right. Why?' "Let me help!" she says, over the fighting youkai.
Sesshomaru grits his teeth. 'She is strong.' He flies at Avalon, grabbing her around the waist, making them both dodge hits from the ogre, until he gets around the back and drops Avalon on the ogre's shoulder. "Go for the head!"
Avalon tries plunging the sword into the orges neck, forcing Reiki into the blade. The flesh sizzles as the orge's arms try to grab at her. She stays low, putting a purple barrier around herself as she keeps forcing the blade into the orge's flesh. 'This shouldn't be so difficult.' She gets the blade halfway in and yanks it out, leaping across the ogres chest, cutting his throat open and nearly taking its head. The sword sticks in the flesh as Avalon dangles from the blade gritting her teeth. She forces more reiki into the blade. The ogre falls to its knees, grasping at its bleeding throat. The sword finally dislodges and she prepares to land on the ground.
Sesshomaru catches Avalon, landing in front of the ogre, but the hide regenerates and the neck wound closes. The ogre stands up again, roaring at them, and charges. Sesshomaru senses something pulling at his yoki. He dodges a hand that tries to rip Avalon out of his arm and then the other hand that swipes at their backs. "What would give an ogre this strength?" he asks Avalon. "This is not its own power. Ogres are not this strong."
"No, they are not. I've taken out a few myself." Avalon presses her lips together as a realization dawns on her "A jewel shard," she whispers.
"I sense darkness." Sesshomaru twists missing the arms again. He lands on the forest floor, using his body to shield Avalon. "Barrier, now."
Avalon erects a powerful barrier around her and Sesshomaru. "Can you sense where it is?"
"No. Only that it calls to this Sesshomaru. I have no need for it. Can you see it?"
"If I could, I would have said something sooner," she says sarcastically. "But let me try something." Avalon closes her eyes as the orge pounds against the barrier. The burning flesh adds a disgusting scent to the air. Avalon tries blocking out the noise and the vibrations and the smell, concentrating on the auras around her. She can sense Sesshomaru's and her own. She senses the ogre's and notices that the energy isn't even. Her eyes snap open looking at the remnants of the aura. "His right leg is weird. The aura is wrong. I don't know if the jewel shard is there or not, but it would be my guess."
'My claws aren't working.' "Lower the barrier." Sesshomaru's eyes enlarge and bleed red.
Avalon nods. "Be careful." She lowers the barrier and jumps out of the way of the ogre's fists.
"Erect the barrier when I leave." Sesshomaru's face breaks into a smile as he leaps into the air. His body changes from humanoid to fur and muscles. He lands snarling in front of the ogre, ruff blowing in the wind.
Avalon's barrier goes back up, protecting herself. She bites her bottom lip worrying about him.
'Stay back, Onaga. Let this Sesshomaru end this.' He lunges at the ogre, better able to block blows like this. His own skin is hardened, making it difficult for the ogre to slash him with his claws. The ogre kicks Sesshomaru's side, making his ribs creak. Sesshomaru roars and rips the leg off the body, then shreds it. He slams his paw down on the chest and then breaks the neck off the ogre. Sesshomaru motions Avalon with his head to come forward and find the jewel, while he lets slow amounts of dokkasu drop on the ogre's head to keep it at bay.
Avalon's barrier drops and she dashes forward. She calls, "Sandasutoraiku." The purple reiki flares along her blade into the pile of flesh that was the right leg, disintegrating it, leaving a deep purple splinter behind. Avalon picks up the shard in her hand wondering if she could purify it.
Sesshomaru changes back to his human form, landing next to Avalon. "The power of the Shikon no Tama." His hankimono and hanjuban are open revealing his abs, but blood drops down his back, where he took the first blow to protect Avalon.
Avalon nods her head. The jewel slowly turns pink in her hand. Avalon's brow furrows. 'I wouldn't think I could purify it.' She looks over at Sesshomaru and sees the red blooming along his clothing and her eyes widen. "How badly are you hurt?" she asks with desperation. She holds the shard in one hand, while the other pulls at his clothing to check him.
Sesshomaru brushes her off. "It will heal. I do not feel pain. We go." He walks in Jaken's direction, then stops and turns around. "Cover beurorestos." He pinches her nipple and keeps going.
Avalon rolls her eyes, runs back to where they were and grabs the sports bra she tossed and puts it on, then pulls her kimono on properly. She gathers the soaked clothing and follows after him. "Please, let me check your wound?"
"It will heal. We go." He ignores her concern. 'A little too much to the right.' He replays the battle in his mind. He had dodged right with the first blow to protect Avalon and his stump, but it was an unnecessary move. He would learn quickly to adapt and be a better warrior because of it.
"And where are we going in such a rush that I can't check you, but we have time for me to pleasure you?" she says, putting her hand on her hip.
"To find Naraku, or the child." He keeps his pace, ignoring the slight sting in his back. She was a distraction and his back would heal.
"And you smell Naraku? Or even know where to look for Rin?"
"Neither. Which is why we hunt."
Avalon follows him, shaking her head. She holds the shard in her hand. "With this, Naraku will come looking for us eventually."
"I require a weapon," he says, meeting Jaken. "Go to Totosai and tell him to forge one for this Sesshomaru," he tells the imp. "I cannot wait for Bakusaiga."
"You are right. You need a weapon but Totosai won't forge one for you," she says, following Sesshomaru through the forest looking at the trees and the sky.
'Totosai won't forge one?' He growls under his breath. "More secrets?"
"Hmm? What do you mean? I just told you he won't forge one for you."
"You knew this the entire time and said nothing. It doesn't matter, there is one that can."
"It didn't cross my mind until you told Jaken to go to him. I figured I'd save you the time. In fact, you do get a sword forged by a demon known as….ummm...crap what is his name. He was Totosai's pupil. Do you know the one I'm talking about?"
"It didn't cross your mind?" He turns on her, purposely letting his yoki rise up in threat. "What else has not crossed your mind?"
"I don't know. It hasn't crossed my mind," she says, defiantly.
"If you cannot think far enough ahead to tell this Sesshomaru what doesn't cross your mind, what purpose do you serve by my side? Other than a distraction?"
Avalon shrinks back, hurt by his words. "As an advanced warning! Saving you time and effort! Keeping Jaken from running useless errands!" she screams at him with tears in her eyes.
"Do not expect these tears to sway my heart," he speaks coldly and slowly. "So you can warn me that I will lose my arm and fail? So that you can attack me when I am at my weakest? You have not saved this Sesshomaru time or effort!"
"YOU LEFT ME!" she screams in rage.
"Because you tried to control this Sesshomaru!"
Jaken slinks back from both of them, hiding behind the dragon.
"I...I never wanted to control you. I just wanted your help. I wanted to end Naraku sooner than later and I knew if you could manifest your sword, his death would be that much sooner. I was wrong and now I am trying my best to make up for it. Shit got messed up. And hey, you wanting a sword forged by Totosai wasn't on the top of my mind. Sorry, I will try to read your mind and know exactly what you want me to tell you. Kuso, it didn't work," she says seething.
Sesshomaru's hand comes up and smacks down against her cheek, hard enough to move her face but not nearly as hard as he could have hit her. He raises a daring eyebrow at her, challenging her to say more. 'Disrespectful, dishonorable female.'
Avalon cradles her cheek more shocked he stuck her, than any pain it caused her. She turns her back on him walking a few steps before falling on her knees crying. Her body convulses as she starts hyperventilating, unable to catch her breath. She starts feeling faint until she passes out falling forward on the ground.
Sesshomaru shakes his head, annoyed. He picks her up and throws her stomach down over the dragon and keeps walking. "Jaken!" he yells at the imp who has shrunk behind a rock. "We're leaving."
Avalon wakes a few hours later as tears return to her eyes she cries softly against the dragon's back.
Sesshomaru ignores the tears as he keeps moving through the forest searching for Naraku's scent. It would take time to find him. It didn't matter how long.
His eyes slide back to see Avalon disheveled and looking pathetic. He's only keeping her with him now because of her knowledge of the future. Without it, there was no need for her to follow him. He would move faster alone.
Avalon rubs her eyes, not even looking at Sesshomaru. Her tears eventually dry but her pain doesn't fade. 'How could he?'
They keep searching until night comes and the moonrises. Sesshomaru keeps his distance from Avalon, refusing to speak to her or make eye contact.
Avalon refuses to speak to Sesshomaru even as her stomach growls and snarls in hunger. She would not ask for help, too stubborn and hurt to care.
As the night wears on, Sesshomaru stops them, knowing it's likely Avalon needs to relieve herself and is most likely hungry. He walks past her and says, "Do as you please." Then goes into the forest in search of something to hunt.
Avalon grits her teeth and slides off the dragon. "Jaken-sama, can you find me something to eat?" she asks, sounding like a broken woman. She continues walking in the other direction to relieve herself. She had needed to for some time but she wouldn't ask to stop.
Jaken grumbles but goes in search of something to feed Avalon, collecting berries and nuts in the forest as well as some fruit from a tree.
Avalon comes back to the dragon and sits down waiting for Jaken to return. After he comes back she thanks him and eats the food falling back asleep.
A few days pass of Avalon and Sesshomaru refusing to acknowledge each other. Avalon barely ate and drank, so she didn't need to go very often and she would when the opportunity arose. Soon Avalon starts feeling a yearning to connect to Sesshomaru. She wills her arousal away, pushing it down each time but soon it becomes too much for her to ignore and her eyes keep looking to Sesshomaru hungrily.
He feels his own arousal returning as he walks ahead of her, but forces himself to ignore it. 'I am not an animal,' he tries to convince himself, but he misses the feel of her body against his and his nights and days of searching have come up empty.
Avalon walks closer behind him but keeps herself away, even as her eyes keep flicking to his back. It soon becomes unbearable to walk and she decides perhaps riding the dragon would work better. She hops up and as soon as her crotch makes contact with the saddle she hisses unintentionally.
'Live with your arousal,' Sesshomaru thinks to himself as the sunsets and night comes again. He stops for them to make camp and walks off without a word to find a body of water. Miles away he finds a shallow lake and begins stripping himself of his clothing, to cool his desire in the waters.
Avalon looks about. She flares out reiki and finds no youkai other than the dragon and Jaken around. "Stay. Don't follow me," she warns Jaken. 'If I must I will.'
She slinks off farther from camp and finds a spot to lay down. She pulls her soaked underwear off and plunges a finger into herself, pumping and rubbing her clit in circles, moving faster and faster till she feels release and a moment of clarity before the heat and desire returns just as strongly. "FUCK!" she screams in frustration. "REALLY! I CAN'T EVEN FIND RELEASE BY MASTERBATING! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! YOU FUCKING HIT ME AGAIN AND I'LL CUT YOUR FUCKING OTHER ARM OFF!" she screams in English, then gathers her panties, putting them back on and stomping back to camp.
Sesshomaru hears her yelling angrily from the water and chuckles to himself as he lays down on the banks, letting the water lap across his body, staring forlornly at his aroused shaft. This fighting was not helping. But she had no respect, no honor and should know better than to speak to him like that in front of Jaken. He stays by the lake, denying himself, despite how it makes it feel like his skin is crawling.
Avalon falls down against the dragon once she gets back to camp and wraps her arms around her knees, sulking in misery.
As the night continues, Sesshomaru decides to hunt. He slaughters a boar and eats it alone and then a shika and finishes the top half. The bottom half, he carries back to camp and throws at Jaken. "Cook this," he commands him and then sits on the other side of camp, away from Avalon.
Avalon keeps glancing up from between her legs at Sesshomaru. 'I won't ask. I rather die,' she resolves. She tries focusing on the deer being cooked but her eyes keep going back to him. Avalon takes a bo-shirkin and she suddenly stabs it in her thigh, digging the needle in causing pain hoping to distract her aroused mind. She focuses on the pain as blood blooms along her thigh.
Sesshomaru's head snaps up at the scent of her blood and he starts licking his lips but then he sees her with a needle in her leg and rolls his eyes, turning so she can't see him cover his nose with his hand. 'Childish and immature and she wonders why she cannot rule by my side.'
The pain distracts her for only a moment, even as she digs the needle around ripping at her flesh before her mind brings her back to him. She pulls the needle from her leg disgusted that she can't distract herself. She tosses the bloody needle down at the side of Sesshomaru, before stomping away from camp. 'I need a better distraction!' The blood leaves a trail behind. She flares her reiki, looking for a fight.
She soon senses a smaller youkai and follows her senses, walking till she finds a snake like beast with a human head. The creature was yellow and blue similar to Sessshomaru's obi. Avalon smiles viciously as she pulls a bo-shuriken from her sleeve and strikes the creature through the tail. It hisses and turns on her, spitting acid at her from its mouth. Avalon dodges most of it but some gets on her skin and it sizzles. She smirks at the pain. It helped. She summons her sword and rushes forward striking at the body, not to kill but to mame. She didn't want the fight to end so soon. She hacks chunks out of the youkai's body until it stops trying to attack her. Avalon sneers when the creature can no longer move.
"Pitiful." She decapitates it, putting it out of its misery.
Sesshomaru watches her from the trees, seeing the wound, almost allowing himself to break and then walks away back to camp. It would only be a matter of time before neither one of them could resist any longer. 'Just fall asleep,' he begs in his mind.
Avalon comes back to camp with her shoulders slumped. It worked while she was fighting but now that her mind was unoccupied she was back to wanting Sesshomaru so bad and her core was soaked with her nectar.
He can smell it and he wants her. He needs her. He gets up again, going back to the lake to avoid how aroused he feels. 'This is ridiculous,' he tells himself as he sits back down by the lake. 'This is enough. I will bed Avalon, simply to satiate my desire. I said I would not take another for an heir.' The thought occurs to him, he could find another to relieve the pressure he feels.
Avalon digs into her bag pulling the shard from it. She stares at the jewel as she thinks and frowns. 'Why am I stuck with this bond anyway?' Avalon puts her elbow on her knee and rests her chin on her hand. She blows a stray strand of hair out of her face. 'It's just yoki, does that mean I can purify it?' Her lips curl up. 'If I can break this bond, I won't have to deal with being his mate and I could maybe find love.' Avalon watches the shard change color as her mood fluctuates. 'Cool! Real mood ring.' She laughs out loud.
Jaken gets bored watching Avalon pout and goes in search of Sesshomaru, instead of staying at the camp as he was told.
Her ringing laugh catches the attention of several ronin who are half a mile away. One who looked grizzly, smirks. "You hear that boys?" The other six look at him and nod their heads. He stands dressed in tattered armor. "Shall we have ourselves a good time tonight?"
The other men laugh as they all rise and start quietly stalking towards the sound of the female laugh.
Avalon puts the shard back into her bag glumly. 'I shouldn't taint it,' she scolds herself. "Let's see if I can break this bond," Avalon annonces, rubbing her hands together. She places the soles of her feet together and straightens her back. She puts her palms together, closing her eyes and concentrates on flooding her body with reiki, seeking out any yoki within her, purifying it as she goes. As more yoki is purified, her sexual desires lessen. Her lips curl up, relief flooding her mind from the reprieve. Her head snaps to the left when she hears footsteps of several people. She grabs the bag and hides it behind a tree and stands up walking towards the fire. Her shoulders are slack and she seems to be at ease.Sesshomaru follows his nose through the forest searching for a female inu-youkai. He smells one off in the distance. 'Sakura,' he rolls his eyes. She would not give him what he wanted but it would be better than this torment. He starts walking up a hill of grass, towards her scent. He will dine on her tonight and feel relief at least somewhat, but then he stumbles on the hill, falling to his knees, grabbing his chest, growling in pain. 'What is this?' He starts panting as his chest both burns and tightens. He feels like yoki is being sucked from his body, fleeing from him. His fingers tremble, his mind blazes and blurs. 'What is this?'
As the yoki leaves his body, it's as if his sanity follows it. His eyes cover in red as he convulses on the ground, gripping his heart until he draws his own blood. His howls fill the night air as if rabid wolves have surrounded the area.
One of the men pushes through the trees and sees the young woman wearing a fine kimono and long luxurious hair. 'A noble?' The man scans the area and sees no one guarding her. A wicked smile breaks across his face. He pushes out and approaches her with the intent to rape and capture her for a ransome. "Good evening, Milady." He bows respectfully to her. "If you come with us willingly, you won't be harmed." The leader who is dressed in black armor and a top knot comes forward. He's flanked by six other men, who are just as tall and burly.
Avalon turns and covers her mouth as if shocked to see them. "I am afraid I must refuse." She gets into a fighting stance. "And if you continue in your pursuit of me, you will all perish." Avalon charges her limbs with reiki giving herself strength and speed.
"As if we care darling. You're coming with us!" They surround her, reaching for her arms and legs.
Avalon waits until they are closing in on her before she lets herself drop, sweeping her leg out in a blur, knocking all the men down. She flips over the group of men, getting herself out of the center of them. She pulls a bo-shuriken, (throwing needle) and tosses it into the leader's neck, hitting his carotid artery. She pulls another bo-shuriken out and aims for another man's neck but he moves and it hits the ground. She backs up a bit to give herself more room. She grabs her third bo-shuriken and holds it ready to strike the next one, who tries to approach her. "Leave before you die!" she warns in a deadly tone.
One comes in behind her, slamming the back of an axe into her head, sending her onto the ground, while two more come and pin her wrists down against the forest floor. The other two grab her legs, while the head wound bleeds.
Avalon feels groggy but she can feel them pinning her down. She forces more reiki into her arms and twists her wrists, freeing her arms. She slams her head into one of the men holding her legs.
The man stumbles back, releasing her left leg. She rolls and back kicks the man holding her right leg at the base of his neck with reiki coursing through her muscles. She can hear the snap of his neck from the blow as he falls off to the side. The wound heals quickly and her mind becomes clear. She flips up, striking at one of the men in front of her, hitting him in the chest and sending him stumbling back into the ground with a cracking of his ribs. She spins around, eyes wild, ready to kill whoever dares to touch her. The Murasaki no Raikō sword appears in her hand out of thin air. She swings it around her, cutting one of the men in the abdomen.
One rises up, striking her in the back of the head with the pummel of his sword. Avalon stumbles forward as her head gushes blood. The one that struck her grabs her arms and locks them behind her back while the others look on with lust.
"She's got spunk," one says.
"We were only going to ransom you, but you know, I think we will just have our fill of you and leave you to die," another pipes up.
The others laugh in agreement. "I think it's for the best. She'll be too hard to keep alive," one says as he grabs the back of her head and crashes his lips into hers and bites her bottom lip drawing blood. He licks his lips. "So sweet."
Avalon's mind is so fuzzy and she is trying to clear her head when she feels hands on her thighs pushing up her kimono. "NO! HELP!" she screams.
"Scream all you want princess no one can hear you," the man jeers.
"SESSHOMARU! SESSHOMARUUUUUU!" she screams desperately for his help.
The pain has taken over his mind. He smells blood, female blood, delicate blood and wants it, to taste it, to drink it, to fill his mouth with it and devour it. He hears someone screaming his name, but it doesn't matter, it's as if he's drunk with bloodlust. His body luminesces, flashing to the yelling and screaming. He lands, finding four men holding down a female, one is between her legs. They smell of musk, copper and sweat. He wonders how they will taste. He licks his fangs, until his own tongue bleeds, crimson drips down his chin. His eyes are viciously vermillion as a low growl emits from his throat.
Avalon's mouth drops open, seeing Sesshomaru looking so dangerous, so feral. His stripes are jagged and filling his cheeks. His fangs and teeth are elongated and his hair seems to fly up as if a breeze were under him. 'He looks like he is about to change.' She starts struggling more valiantly against the ones holding her down.
The ronin release her and take on a defensive posture forgetting their quarry in favor of saving their necks. Avalon stays low and spider crawls away slowly. She doesn't want to draw his attention. As she crawls backwards, her hand dips into a pool of blood from one of the men she had killed and she slips falling on her back before scrambling back up and hiding behind a tree. Her body is covered in goosebumps. Her hairs stand on end. She peers out, watching as Sesshomaru stalks forwards to the men who hold their swords at the ready.
His head hangs slightly to the side deciding which one to take first. His whips flashes out of his palm, piercing through legs and arms, sparing vital areas that would make death fast. He leaps onto the first one as he screams, falling to the forest floor. His lips come together in a low snarl as his claws extends into the ronin's chest, cutting away his flesh, making the daiyoukai chuckle with glee.
The man screams in fear and pain. The two men who can still run, take off screaming. The one whose legs were injured, starts crawling on his arms, dragging his body towards Avalon.
"Stay away from me!" Avalon hisses.
"Help me," the man pleads as he crawls closer to Avalon. She backs away from him. His blood is leaving a trail right to her.
"No," she says, when her back hits a wall. "Fuck!"
The man finally reaches her grabbing her leg clinging to her. "Save me."
Sesshomaru finishes skinning the first one, licking the blood off his fingers, then hacks his head off, throwing his body aside. He rises and stalks towards Avalon and the remaining Ronin. His mind is a blur of passion, greed, anger and hunger. The blood was not sweet enough, not the delicate female he had scented before. He yanks the ronin off Avalon by the foot, throwing him on the ground belly up, slicing through his midsection in an agonizingly slow line. When the stomach begins to bubble and spew blood he holds the man up by the ankle, so it pours down his body, smiling sadistically.
Avalon watches in shock as she scoots along the rock face backing away from him. 'Oh god, what is wrong with him?' Once she is a bit further away, she pushes reiki into her legs and runs as fast as she can away from Sesshomaru and the bloody scene.
This blood isn't what he wants. He lets the man drop. He rips the liver from the ronin's body, tasting the flesh and casts it aside. 'Not sweet enough. Where did you go?' He chases after the scent of the fleeing female and lands in front of her, mouth open and tongue flicking across his teeth. He wants her, he will have her.
Avalon stops herself just short of colliding with him as a scream of fear erupts from her throat. She backs away from him while looking at his chest, not wanting to challenge him by looking in his eyes. She says gently, "Sesshomaru?"
The dark chuckle returns. He grabs her by the neck, forcing her against a rock face, sniffing her neck. He drags his top fangs down her shoulder, tearing into her skin, licking the blood.
Avalon holds back the scream of pain. "Please stop. I'm sorry," she sobs out as she pushes against his chest.
He clamps down on her wrist, shaking his head back and forth, tearing her skin down to the bone, then forces his body against hers, emitting low, sensuous growls. There was something familiar about her, something primal. His nose presses against her cheek as his teeth threaten to devour her.
A/N Thank you for your reviews. Thank you dear Elohiniar for your help I could not do this without you. Please stay safe and sane through this pandemic. I know it is driving most of us nuts being cooped up but I hope this story helps in some small way. Please leave a review this is my first fanfic and I love to hear from you. Thanks!
Itzatakahashi - Yup it is a very interesting sex life these two have. There is a reason behind it and you will find out as the story progresses.