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Sesshomaru came awake instantly, aroused by a movement at the edge of the clearing. He'd slipped away from camp with sword in hand quietly so as not to wake the others. He knew just who the perpetrators were but remained alert nonetheless. As he drew nearer he saw Shippo sitting around a doused fire with flecks of ash rising from it, and Jaken some distance away sleeping open mouthed with his back resting against a tree.
Without turning around Shippo addressed him.
"I did not wish to disturb your family's rest so I made camp here knowing that you would be alerted by our presence."
He hadn't been fully asleep when both their scents fluttered passed him.
"Why have you changed the plans, we were supposed to meet up tomorrow at the chosen place?" Sesshomaru inquired.
He was right of course, but Shippo thought it best to find him now. Because twenty miles east of where they were right now was a group consisting of demons, humans along with their hanyou children waiting for an opportunity to join up with them. Apparently words of their movement were being spread far and wide.
"Forgive me my lord but we have followers that need rescuing. If I had waited you would have bypassed them by several miles detouring through the mountains," Shippo replied.
Sesshomaru wasn't entirely sure as to what to do, this was an unexpected occurrence; he and his family had spent a little over two years in exile making a life and adding to it.
It was a slow idyllic kind of existence, but now everything happened in a blur, the past and the present on a collision course and he had to find a way to let it happen as peaceable as he could. He could wake Kagome and ask her, but what would be the point, he already knew what she would say.
Without thinking on the solution too much he responded. "Go now and take them to the sanctuary. We will arrive at the scheduled time."
Shippo spoke again. "I am grateful Sesshomaru sama...I didn't think that you would be so accommodating."
The silence held for a brief period although it wasn't extreme, because Jaken snores penetrated the night with its eerie nuances.
"You have your mother to thank…for the accommodations."
Shippo nodded with response to the answer, then got up with every intentions of waking the toad, but suspiciously he jumped up with fright shouting, "Sesshomaru sama," just as his master's back disappeared through the line of trees.
He picked up the disoriented toad up by the collar, dispersed his youki around his feet for flight. Slowly it lifted them higher, and then whoosh, straight ahead with dizzying effects as they flew through the night.
Sesshomaru returned to camp just as silently as he'd left, only Kagome wasn't where he'd left her; he wasn't alarmed by it, he could sense through their connection that she was fine. Purposely he walked to the middle of the glade, and there she was, sitting on her knees, her hair loose billowing behind her by the mild breeze, with her hands clasped in prayer as she prayed.
The woman was as beautiful as she was pure bathed in the soft moonlight. He watched silently until she was finished, turning her head in his direction she called out to him.
"Come and sit with me," she said so softly looking like a vision out of a glorious dream.
By the light of the moon Sesshomaru told Kagome what had transpired with Shippo mere minutes ago. With eyes aglow she listened to all that he had to say, and when he was done a brilliant smile lit her face.
"I trust that you are pleased by my actions."
Giggling she flung her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek. "I am very pleased," she muttered in his flesh.
"Sesshomaru do you know what this means?" She asked frankly after letting him go.
"I suppose we will not only have followers, but families like us that need assistance in escaping persecution," he answered knowing full well that they would bear the brunt of the load.
They didn't speak after that, each quietly accepting the responsibilities of their fates, hoping that it would all turn out alright. However, it was Kagome who broke the silence.
"Sessh, can we stay out here a while longer, it is so peaceful?" She asked softly.
He noticed that she was cold because the night was a bit chilled and she shivered, and so he pulled her closer as he laid down with her slumped across his chest. Her hair had the tantalizing smell of wild flowers as he pressed his nose into its silkiness and stroked it with his claws.
"Mmmph!" she moaned at the wonderful massage, causing her eyes to droop, and not in sleep but in a serene type of contentment.
But when his hand left her hair and skimmed over her breasts, she knew that she wanted so much more than the caress. She had never taken charge of their intimate moments before, tonight that would all change.
She knew that he loved her, and even though some of his ways were a bit strange, she knew one thing with certainty, and that was, Sesshomaru was totally uninhibited. And besides she had nothing to fear, she was already pregnant.
Sesshomaru pinched her nipples lightly through the thin material of her night dress, sending pleasurable sensations from her nipples straight to her brain.
She stood up quickly after that and startled him. Her mind made up.
"Do not move," she said coyly.
Sesshomaru's eyes widened a fraction of a second, but dilated when she pulled her dress over her head and stood naked before him. She was unearthly beautiful and innocent in her sexuality, it was something that he found quite intriguing. He smiled and pulled her gently to him and took her mouth in a harsh kiss.
She trembled in his arms as he nibbled and sucked on her lips, but when his tongue settled in her mouth moving slowly around as he caressed its depths, she shivered and moaned. Kagome dragged herself away from the mesmerizing kiss and silenced him with an index finger placed tenderly on his lips.
Her hands caressed his body slowly and sensually moving up and down, and when she glided her fingers down his pants and held his erection he was already wet with desire. Removing his manhood from the confines of his pants, she licked the tip, savoring his musk on her tongue.
How she loved the taste of him? He moaned out his passion holding onto her head firmly as he guided her down. She took him deep in her throat sucking and licking just the way he liked.
He groaned, "Aaah!" when she flicked her tongue over the fleshy head of his member.
The sensations had him squirming and calling out her name like a blissful song. He was coming undone as she could feel his cock pulsing in her mouth. She stopped.
His eyes narrowed, muscles along his shoulders tensing with his legs, Kagome had prevented him from climaxing, still he did not move because her eyes shined mischievously as she smiled. His member bobbed with need at the incompletion, his mind whirled, he had a mind to throw her down and take what he wanted as he burned with desire.
But when Kagome stepped over him and he realized what she was about to do, his organ lengthened even more as blood pooled there in spades.
She held the base of his penis with one hand, and the other on his shoulder she lowered herself slowly onto him. It was a tight fit as her walls hugged him closely. He couldn't wait, and with one lift of his hips he slid home. She gasped audibly, her eyes widened, Sesshomaru smirked.
It was a rough ride as he pumped powerful hips up into her channel while she strained and bore down on him. Holding onto his firm shoulders kept her steady as he impaled her time and again with a thirst he did not believe could be quenched, no matter how many times he had her. She screamed into the night with total abandon.
Barely able to hang on, he sat up and took her mouth again in a bruising kiss that had her gasping for air. He let her breathe taking his mouth away from the delectable sweetness while he nibbled on her chin.
Rolling her beneath him without separating he rotated his hips languidly drawing out the pleasure. She felt like she would die from sensory overload as he sank to the hilt within her womanhood.
"Oh Sesshomaru! Oh Kami!" Kagome cried out with pleasure and sweet pain, she shuddered and tingled all over with her orgasm.
Faster, deeper, in and out he pleasured her body, and when his climax was about to hit he held her closer as he spasm and spurted his essences deep inside her body. They were both spent, each had given the other all their love and sleep was the remedy, so that when it came they welcomed it.
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The sound of hoofs awakens him and the sunlight blurred his vision but not totally, as he could see that they were surrounded by bandits. His quick assessment had the number to be about twenty, ten on horseback with spears and the others with long knives/machete and swords.
Kagome slept on. Was it instincts on his part, or was it the fact that Kagome was cold that he'd redressed her hours before dawn? Because if he hadn't, she would have been completely naked in front of these rogues.
Kagome stirred, Sesshomaru's uneasiness was disturbing her slumber through their bond. She awakes to witness the same sight as her mate. The image was frightening but she did not show it. Her mind was on their children, they were not very far away but still it was a cause for concern.
"Demon, why won't your kind leave our women alone?" The swarthy one on the grey horse asked scornfully.
Sesshomaru did not respond, he only glared at him.
"Woman," he turned his attention on Kagome, "why are you with him, don't you know he is a monster in disguise?"
Kagome opened her mouth to say something but changed her mind. She had seen hatred like this before from Sesshomaru's people, and nothing anyone could say would change such biases quickly.
Sesshomaru got up from the ground after listening carefully and ascertaining that his family was fine; the bandits did not get to them first.
Kagome could sense impatience within her mate bordering on brutality, the nerves in her belly tightened. Sesshomaru would not spare one of them their lives, but she thought that she might try and get them to leave before this turned out into a blood bath.
"Mister we are not your enemy, we have caused you no harm, so please be on your way and leave us alone."
Sesshomaru glanced her way with scepticism but said nothing.
One of the men on horseback who were some ways to the back directed his steed up front and dismounted. He was wearing white robes similar in likeness to what Miroku used to wear; he was about forty years old with greying hair curling behind his ears. Directing his gaze at Kagome he made the sign of the holy Buddha and spoke thereafter.
"Young woman you are misguided," his voice calm but his eyes were another matter. They were wide and shifty; the darks parts totally overshadowing the whites making him look like the dead or a demon.
He continued reverently. "You are not to be blamed, you were bewitched."
Kagome pulled a face at the insult but remained silent while the Daiyoukai beside her seethed with anger but kept it in check.
"Do not worry my child," his voice changed as his pitch became higher almost girlish.
Kagome wanted to laugh but thought better of it as it wouldn't be appropriate. She did not want the situation to escalate any further.
"I can purge you of his spell, free your mind from the demon of lust. Come with me girl."
And as he held out his hand gesturing to her to come his way Kagome rolled her eyes in disgust. Sesshomaru stepped closer to the gang and spoke for the first time.
"You insult my mate and say things that you have no right to say."
The men looked on in dismay, for in their minds the demon had bewitched this poor young girl and would devour her when he grew tired of her.
"Your kind is an abomination, a scourge on the land," the fake priest responded, "I and my men will save her from your corruption, by bathing her into our seeds when we use her body that you have tainted, and thus she will be purifii…?"
He didn't get a chance to finish his denunciation as a green whip lashed out at him with lightning speed separating his head from his body. Kagome cringed at the disturbing sight. Make it quick she repeated in her head, as panic spread throughout her system like wildfire, death and gore was not something that she liked to witness, and if she had to, the quicker the better.
Three to his left with thrusting swords, seven on the right with spears, most of the men moved between him and Kagome trying to separate them, hoping to gain an advantage, but he would not let that happen, they didn't know just who they were dealing with. He wouldn't even draw swords on these filth.
The men blades sang in the wind as they clanged them together before charging forward. Kagome covered herself under a barrier from the onslaught, while Sesshomaru flew into the air as the men closed in on him.
Letting his whips fly left then right with vicious accuracy he cut down the bandits without difficulty. When he was done he sprayed the corpses with poison dissolving flesh and bones, there wouldn't be anything left for the crows to pick at.
Kagome watched as her mate dispatched those men and saw that he'd enjoyed every moment of it. It was in his nature to kill, but she knew him well enough to know that he'd killed them for his family's safety. She had learnt in her long life that an enemy you let live today, would be an enemy tomorrow. Sighing softly she dispersed the barrier and caught up with him as he headed into the direction of the children.
The nurse and the children were fine because they had sensed the men and had hidden. Their father's instructions were paying off. The camp was disbanded and left behind. Two hours before sundown they reached their destination.
Shippo and a crowd had gathered waiting on their saviours. And as Kagome looked on the faces she saw more demons than humans, she saw entire families, single ones and orphaned children. This was their wake up call. Prejudice and hate came from all sides. The journey had just begun.
Later in the night after the crowd had settled down with their bellies filled. Kagome found Sesshomaru in the fields sitting on a boulder in deep thought.
"My love, how are you faring?" she asked him as she approached and rests her hand on his shoulder.
He held the hand on his shoulder and caressed it lightly.
"I am unprepared, he admitted honestly, "I need solutions. Tomorrow you and I will leave this place for a short while and go seek out Bokuseno."
Kagome stared down to the end of the field willing herself to to feel anything other than despair, then replied absentmindedly.
"Yes."