I do not own Inuyasha or its characters- though how desperately I want to.

Lime/ lemon warning.

Birth Rite

Losing Control...ch10

Music hung around them, its tones brought clearly through the guitarist's amplifier. The drummer's beats were steady; the rhythm moved in time with the sway of her hips. She could feel his hands upon her, their hold gentle, yet possessive. Her head rested lightly upon the solid expanse if his chest; the steady beat of his heart beneath her ear. Their bodies molded together-friction electrifying her limbs until it was all she could do not to vocalize her desire in the moan that seemed to scream for release deep within her throat. His silver hair teased her, its silken texture tickling along her skin. She wondered if his touch would be as gentle- if one caress of his claw would break down her defenses. She wanted him. He knew it; she'd never hidden her desire from him, but he had always seemed to withdraw before things could progress beyond a tender kiss. She couldn't help but wonder if he desired her nearly as much as she did him.

His hand grazed her lower back, its soft insistent touch bringing her closer to his lean frame. Her eyes closed again, her head falling back slightly. Opening her eyes she was ensnared by the predatory look he bestowed upon her. The music seemed to fade behind her, and only now did she realize that they were no longer within the masses of people still upon the dance floor; they had backed toward a far corner of the club, the world outside of them-forgotten.

The soft tone of his voice called her attention:

"You know what I am, and this does not bother you?" his eyes rested upon the beauty of her face.

"No, why should it Sesshomaru?" She wondered what she might have said or done to give him that impression. Sure, he wasn't human, but she loved him more because of that. He was everything she had ever wanted in a man, and more.

"You don't understand the consequences of the choice you are making; what it will mean and how it will change the life you know. "

"I understand that I love you." she whispered, a soft blush highlighting her beauty. " I know what you are; who you are. I understand that you might not want..."

"You know nothing of what I want, Rin. It is what I want, what I desire that should have you running as fast as you can in the other direction. It is the changes that will occur should you stay and not heed my warning. You can have no idea of what you are accepting by staying with me. I am different. I am nothing like..."

"Like what Sessh? Like the men around me who do not hold my attention? The men surrounding me who know nothing of the person I am? I do not want those men Sessh. They hold nothing of mine; not my attention, nor my feelings. I would live this life alone before I'd give myself to one I cannot love."

Her eyes were bright beneath his, her body language and scent confirming the truth of her words. But she couldn't know what she was asking for by wanting to stay at his side. She couldn't realize the changes that would occur within her should she choose to become his mate. She would lose her humanity, her ability to age alongside her family. She'd be something completely alien to what she had always known; a beast controlled by the cycles of the moon.

"I know what I ..." her eyes glistened before him so full of trust, of limitless desire.

"You don't!" he growled.

"I know that I love YOU; that I would give up all that I am and know just to stay at your side. You know where I stand in this, but I will not force the issue. I will gladly accept whatever you are willing to give me, even if it isn't your love." She moved from his embrace then, her eyes lowered to hide her pain though her scent wasn't so forgiving. Turning, she stepped away certain that her heart would break before she could get far enough from him to allow it.

His hand upon her wrist startled her, her gaze snapped from the floor to the demon she'd loved for the better part of a year. She knew what he was, had seen his true form one night while working late at the home he'd had built for Kagome. She'd watched, awestruck, through the window; witnessed his body shifting beneath the light of the moon to be replaced by the glorious beast trapped within him. She had watched his silver fur rustle gently beneath the breeze, his muscles tensing before all four paws clawed the earthen floor, his beast surging forward in its excitement to be finally freed of the human body that encased it. He had disappeared within the shelter of the forest leaving her uncertain of what she'd seen.

His reappearance a few hours later had had her really questioning her mind. He had stood before her, tall and impossibly human as he asked her why she was still there, what she had seen. They both knew. He hadn't realized she was there until his return to the mansion; her car had been parked further up the road, it's hood raised, emergency flashers signaling its broken down status.

And within that one night she'd realized that he was trusting her with his secret because he could've just killed her outright to protect it. They'd become uneasy friends at first. Months of decorating had given her the chance to get to know him. Once she'd finished, however, she was pleasantly surprised by his appearance at her doorstep late one night, when he had asked her to dinner. They'd been seeing each other since, but tonight..tonight she wasn't certain if he was pushing her away.

"How can you be so sure of what you want?" he questioned. No one looked their way. Music surged around them, and yet they seemed to have their own private haven within the darkness.

Moving toward him she put her shyness on the back burner. If this was to be his decision, to leave her to her humanity without his love, then she would at least show him what it was that made her so certain of her desires.

Her body slid up the front of his-a caress that had his demon howling frantically within him, its claws tearing him apart from the inside out. Her lips closed over his own. She tasted so sweet, so innocent of the sins that most humans her age practiced freely. He could have pushed her away, should have eased from her embrace and sent her on her way to the normal human existence she would have continued with had she not met him to begin with, but her tongue wetting his lips had effectively banished what control he'd thought to have.

Grasping her petite body closer to his own he turned them around moving into the darker recesses beneath the staircase that led to the upper levels of the club.

Opening to taste more of her he took in her moan of pleasure, its sultry tone igniting something primal within him. Pushing her gently into the far wall he pressed against her, his clawed hand falling to pull her leg up around his hip. He was thankful for the dress she was wearing. Her hand raised to caress his cheek reminding him suddenly that she was an innocent. She was fragile beneath him and he would not allow her first time to be beneath a staircase surrounded by drunken club-goers. Taking his mouth from hers he closed his eyes. He was stunned when it took every ounce of his control to soothe the raging beast within him; he was reminded sternly that she was their mate, that their treatment of her warranted something more private.

"That's how I know." she murmured breathlessly. "You make me feel things, want things that I have never needed before. YOU do things to my heart..."

"That no one will ever do to you but me." he let her leg fall down the length of his own- willing his body to cool enough so that he could move comfortably again. Damn denim; it gave no room for...things...

"Are you certain that this is what you want?" Sesshomaru growled, her aroused scent becoming more intoxicating making it harder, in more ways than one, to will his randy body back into control.

"Yes, I told you that already." she smiled trying her damnedest to curb the ache that had developed in the more private areas of her body. Moving in what she thought was a discreet fashion she pressed her thighs together hoping for just a moment of relief from the pulsing pressure.

Sesshomaru felt her move, and smiled when her eyes fluttered closed, and her teeth clamped down upon her lower lip. His breath caught at the beauty of her arousal: the way her skin glowed within the darkness, the result of her body's heat coating her skin in a soft sheen of perspiration. He winced slightly when she moved again, her body seeming to seek his in a caress more bold than her innocence should allow, and it robbed him of the resolve to awaken her more fully in private. What kind of demon would he be if he were to allow her passion to cool improperly? He only hoped to have the self control he'd need to walk away without burying himself into her body before he could get her somewhere more appropriate...

Reaching lower, he allowed his claws to trail softly down the length of her thigh before curling around it just above her knee and raising it to rest, as it had before, at his hip. Her eyes fluttered open to hold his gaze. Her scent spiraled higher to coax him forward, her leg locking around his hip pulling him closer, clothing separating their skin but not their actions.

He closed his eyes against the urgency she'd created within him, willing his demon to have some sense of control where his was beginning to fail miserably.

His eyes shot open the instant her leg pulled him more forcefully against her feminine core, his breath hissing past his lips at the fire coiling around the length of his desire. He was a grown demon, had had more than his fair share of women throughout his long life. NEVER had one such as the vixen panting within his embrace had him hard as hell, and as randy as a teenage demon experiencing his first sexual encounter.

He moved against her again pleased beyond measure at her reaction to him, his hands finding the heavy fullness of her breasts, palms brushing across the hardened tips of her nipples.

She threatened his self control, brought him to within an inch of his own sanity, and when he heard her gasp in heated ecstasy at the force of her own completion he took her lips in a fierce kiss that shook the foundations of his very soul. His claws very nearly tore the clothing from her so that he could sheath himself within her body bringing her to completion a second time. It took every thread of willpower that he could muster to calm his boiling blood, to pull away from her, if only slightly, to look upon her.

Her clothing was rumpled, her hair falling messily around her face no longer held within the clasp that had held it earlier in the evening. She looked well loved, deeply satisfied, and completely disheveled.

"Can we do that again?" she murmured blushing brightly at her own desire.

"I think we should find someplace a bit more private before we properly finish what we've started ." he growled, willing his body to obey.

" We can go to my place. It's just a few blocks away."

Reaching to smooth her clothing he growled low in his throat. This woman would be the death of him.

"Are you sure? There's no going back."

"I want you to love me- properly." she whispered surprised by her own admission.

"You wish to be mate to a demon, girl?" he growled pushing against her again, his cooling body heating up once again.

"If you wish to be mate to a human." she panted, her arousal climbing again at the sensual assault of his lower body against her own.

"You will be mine- in every sense of the word." he hissed before claiming her lips in another fierce kiss, her arousal peaking his own before he turned, her hand in his, and led her from the club

OooooOO

Hey all. I want to thank all of you for your kindness and support.. I never thought in a million years that I would find so many people who would wish me well, and support me through what probably is, and will be , the roughest time of my life.

I was given two choices from the doctors: Continue living as I am, hurting with no end in site- or have brain surgery which could possibly give me at least 50 percent relief from the headaches and pain . I have to have another MRI today, this one of my spine to make sure that there isn't anything that way that could be causing the symptoms..after that they will schedule surgery if I decide to proceed with it. I am going to wait for the results of the MRI before making my final decision, but if I do decide to proceed with it then I will most likely put it off until after I sell my house and get moved to the new one. It would make recovery so much easier not having to deal with all that stuff on top of everything else.

I thank each of you from the bottom of my heart for your continuing support and all your kindness. I can not tell you how very much it means to me.

Thanks to Azaleea for editing this for me, and for being my shoulder to cry on when I need to vent my frustrations, and many others- you now who you are—wink, wink, that have been kind enough to wish me well, and encouraging and supporting enough to keep me coming back time and again as without you all I would have failed long ago...

I hope the lime/lemon was tasteful, and that you enjoyed it half as much as I enjoyed writing it. I'm sorry it didn't have InuxKag or MirxSan, but they will be next on my list of pointless smut as I have missed writing it since finishing ' If Only in my Dreams..' This chapter seems to have written itself as it turned out much longer than I thought it would and as I haven't posted in about 2 weeks, I thought to go ahead and post so that you had something to read while I get to work on the InuxKag chapter of the club scene..I didn't want to make you wait for another chapter when this one was ready to post...

Please let me know what you think- I miss hearing from you and it brightens my day knowing that I managed to bring a smile to anyone who liked the chapter. I'd love to hear from you all again...

Sincerely,

Neisha