As a demon lord there are certain things that come with the job that are considered mundane. Such as maintaining a castle, ordering subjects, guards to train and so on. Then there's the better side of things; like power, control, and the ability to freeze a being in their tracks with just a single look or word.
He was never one to speak unless absolutely necessary and when he did speak all cowered before him, for when he spoke usually something died not long after. After so many centuries of life he had learned how to say what needed to be said with three simple words, anything beyond that wasn't worth saying. For example when he would say 'Die' nothing more needed to be said. Since usually that was the end result, being he kills who ever it is he's speaking to.
Then there's his other two words; silence and explain. Depending on how much menace he put into the particular word, it spoke volumes without saying anything further and more often than not he was obeyed; and if not he could go back to his favorite word; die.
Well needless to say he has used those three words on his bitch and not one of them has had the desired effect. It didn't take the girl long to come to terms with their mating, as a matter of fact based on her words it seemed as if this was what she wanted all along. "Well if I'm going to be mated to someone I suppose that being mated to you is better than being alone for the rest of eternity, and besides that you're pretty damn easy on the eyes." Somehow he could feel an insult in her statement but just couldn't find it.
How many times has the girl spoken and he knew for certain she was insulting him but just couldn't find the insult, based on how well she used her words; it was enough to drive him to kill her and he had told her as much. True he couldn't kill her since that would mean his own death. That's another rule he despises in the youkai world. If a mate kills their mate they too will die, but if another kills a mate then the being that is still alive stays alive.
Point and case... his father. His father couldn't kill his first mate so he exiled her mating her off to his brother's son, and then mated the ningen who created his idiot brother. Now because his father was killed by another being, Inuyasha's mother survived. Not so in his cousin's place; his mother hired an assassin to kill her mate, freeing her from her bond and even though she was the cause of his death she didn't actually draw his blood with her own hands. The rules in the youkai mating world are many and most are rather annoying. Such as the control rule.
This brings him back to his bitch and his three words. It didn't take long for her to figure out how the rule of control went and he also discovered that it only works when pertaining to certain areas of their mating. Such as, he could tell her to be silent and she would, but he if he told her to come to him so he could take his pleasures of her body she could deny him, which she rarely did. As the time goes on he is finding that the rules of mating were giving him a rash in all the wrong places, making him wonder if he just should hire someone to kill his bitch and free him from his own stupidity.
He would never admit to anyone his mistake, for he never made mistakes. No; when he did something that another would consider a mistake he considered it a revise in his plans, therefore it was never a mistake. A mistake was in effect a loss of judgment, which was in effect a flaw and he was far from being flawed; he was perfect in every sense of the word. Even when he lost his arm to his baka brother, he wasn't too concerned with it for he knew one day it would grow back, sort of like a lizard and its tail. Making him physically perfect as he is mentally perfect.
For him perfection is a state of being and it is a state he has had centuries to bend and conform to his idea of perfect, meaning he has transcended the word beyond itself and its meaning making it so much more then it really is.
As a perfect being, those around him also had to be perfect or as close to his meaning of the word as possible. Rin was somewhat of an exception since she was merely a child... well more than a child and less than an adult; but she understands what is expected of her in his eyes and works as hard as possible to become what she believes he wants. Then there's Jaken; he doesn't consider the toad to be perfect, as a matter of fact the toad is as far from the word perfect as he himself is from imperfect. You would think that having a creature that is so annoying and irritable around him would go against his idea of perfection, but that's the beauty of the whole thing. Having a creature such a Jaken associated with him means that he is so perfect he can have lowly filth such as the toad with him and not care, making him even more perfect.
Finally there's his bitch; who is barely a step above his retainer in the area of perfection. The only thing aside from her looks that make her a step above his retainer is the fact that she is an educated bitch. He has found that with her comes her ability to speak to him with words that only the most highly of educated beings could possibly know. Not only that but she can analyze and sort out problems as well as any youkai; just short of him of course. However with her intelligence comes her greatest flaw... her mouth. She speaks when she shouldn't; stays silent when she should be answering him, and announces things that are better kept quiet. She goes against everything he believes a perfect bitch should be.
So now he has to train her to be his idea of a perfect mate. This is why he has never taken a mate; he knows that there is no being in existence that can live up to his standards of perfection and this miko is so flawed he seriously doesn't believe that she can become what is expected of her; not to mention she stands against him no matter what he says... well except for when she wants to couple. When the bitch wants to rut she doesn't take no for an answer and practically rapes him on the spot, using her way with words to get what she wants making it so he can't deny her.
It's not like he's complaining, what male would, but it's the mere fact that she is so uncivilized in her desires that he feels more often than not like a pansuke that she has turned into her own personal concubine. However that is only a minor issue and one that can be easily fixed; the issue at hand is her overuse of her mouth... and not in a good way.
When she first discovered how their link worked she decided to test how far she could go with it. So many times he was frozen in one spot waiting for her to come up with an idea to see if he would do it; it almost... almost drove him to kill. Then finally when he regained a hold of the situation he tried to be civilized about the whole situation and decided that they should discuss their union and the rules that come with it like two mature beings. At first she was all for the idea and agreed to go along with it, agreeing that neither would issue any sort of command until they reached the Western Palace and it worked until...
Even now when he thinks about it he could easily kill the wench and her overuse of her overly large mouth. When they were merely a half a days walk from his home; and he's still not entirely sure that she didn't do it on purpose, she opened her mouth and said...
"Sesshoumaru as your mate and just out of curiosity's sake, would you in your beast form roll around like a puppy if I asked you to?"
He learned rather quickly that the curse, as he now considers it, doesn't distinguish between hypothetically and literally. So once the words left her lips he was more than inclined to change in to his beast form and... roll around like a puppy. He had never felt so degraded in his entire existence as he did that day and to make matters worse the girl wasn't sorry in the least. She instead giggled at him and played with him, scratching his belly, throwing sticks and yelling fetch... oh the indignity of it all.
It was several hours later before he could change back and was none to happy about the whole situation. She could easily see the rage in his eyes being they were still blood red, and instead of apologizing and swearing to never do it again, she had the audacity to continue to giggle at him and swoon over how kawaii he was. That was when he issued his ultimate command, a command that based on the face she made at him was a command that she did not like in the least and gave him the ultimate hold over her.
"As your master you will be silent, issue no commands, do as I say with no arguments, you will be a proper bitch by my definition of the word proper and once we arrive at the Palace of the Moon we will discuss the best way to coexist as mates."
It was a command that was effective in every sense of the word based on how badly she fought against it... silently. A being can only say so much with hard stares, evil glares and finger gestures that he had no idea as to the meaning of. He was thoroughly grateful that this curse only worked when the command was spoken out loud. The bitch attempted to write out her orders and all he could do was smirk at her when her wishes went unanswered, bringing about a rather interesting silent hissy fit. Watching the girl storm around stomping her feet, pointing, glaring, and throwing twigs and rocks at harmless trees, had thus far been the highlight of their mating.
When they finally made it to his home, they went straight to his study and before he let her speak he informed her of how things were now going to be.
"As my bitch and as the Lady of the West there are certain things that are expected of you. As the Lady you must carry yourself in such a fashion that all who lay eyes upon you know who you are and bow to your position. You will train to become a proper Lady until I am satisfied that you have perfected your position by my definition of the term perfect." He ignored her glowering and continued.
"Now as for the rules of our mating; it seems that we need to put into place certain boundaries. For starters you will never again bring forth my beast for your amusement. Secondly you will hold your tongue when in front of my guards or subjects. Your innocence in the rules of youkai mating could cause me to lose my position or bring about the fall of the Western Lands. Should such a thing occur..." What he was about to say was mostly a lie and as much as he hated to lie, sometimes for the greater good it needed to be done. "I can and will remove your life from your body. Yes in youkai mating should a mate die from the hand of their mate they too will die, however the exception to that rule is the dominate mate can destroy the submissive should their honor be shamed." He narrowed his eyes at her. "You have a tendency to speak before you think and this could be a serious liability to me and my lands and I will not have you with your mouth putting that which is mine at risk."
He sat back and stared hard at her for a moment. "Now do you have any objections to my terms?" He glared at her letting her know that she had better seriously think about what she had to say before she said it. "And mind you girl I will no longer tolerate you testing the boundaries of our union."
Kagome looked at him for a moment; she understood completely what he was saying about his status and his lands, but she also took what he was saying as sit in a dark room, never speak and never be seen. Granted what she did with his beast was an insult to him, but she just couldn't help herself. When she laid her eyes upon him in his beast form she just fell in love with the great white dog and wanted nothing more than to see him play.
"Okay Sesshoumaru, I truly understand what you're saying and how precarious things can be; but you also have to understand that who and what I am I can not change nor will I." She rose and walked around the table, coming to sit in his lap straddling him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and smiled hugely at him. "How about I behave myself while you're doing your lordly duties and beyond that we both agree that we will try really really hard to keep from hindering one another?" She pressed her lips to his and whispered against them "Deal?"
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her. "Do not attempt to seduce me with your womanly charms." He pulled her back and stared hard into her eyes. "I will not try really hard nor will I make deals. You will not insist that I stay where you desire me to be and so long as you do not disobey me I shall not order you about; or I shall be forced to lock you away for the rest of your days."
Kagome sat there just looking at him; he was really taking the fun out of all of this. Okay so again testing Sesshoumaru isn't the best idea she ever had, and truly she knew somewhere deep in the back of her mind she would be punished for testing him, but she just wanted to know how far this thing worked. "Okay deal."
Deal indeed, the wench held to her word for almost a day... actually it was more like a few scant hours. Granted she apologized immensely and swore that she didn't mean it, he knew, oh how he knew. The wench did it intentionally no matter how much she denied it and this time she had gone too far. He thought it was bad when she accidentally pulled forth his beast but this newest insult constituted her death... well maybe not her death, but pretty damn near it.
Perhaps he will just beat her until she is on the verge of death, allow her to heal then beat her again. There are just certain things in life he would never consider and would barely let cross his mind, and this wench just had to pop out something that went against his very being. Granted he was inclined to do it, but his rage at the whole thing suppressed the urge; in effect leading him to discover how to beat the curse... well most of the curse anyway. He still couldn't move if she told him to stay right there, but he was working on how to get around that as well. Hell his father was able to beat the curse, so why couldn't he? Perhaps it was because of his fathers caring loving nature? No, that's just ridiculous; his father wasn't caring or loving as far as he was concerned. If his father was so warm and caring he would have never shunned his first mate exiling her to the land across the ocean, forbidding her to ever return.
Although he knew his mother far to well and knows with out a doubt that one day she will return, and much to his displeasure she will want to return to the Western Lands and reclaim her position as the rightful Lady. However, as far as he's concerned the bitch can stay where she's at, and if she attempts to return and try to take from him what is his, he will kill her; mother or no. It's not that he doesn't care about his mother; he just isn't all that fond of the witch. The woman really never understood what it meant to be a mother and truly was only after his father for his power. He Sesshoumaru was his mother's last hope of maintaining a hold of his father, but it failed.
His father saw his mother for what she was from the first moment he laid eyes on her. He only took her to mate in order to expand the Western Lands. It was all a matter of convenience, mostly for his father anyway. His mother only agreed to the union so that she could gain the Western Lands as he own once she killed her mate. As much as he considers his father weak for his silly emotion of love, he did have to give his father credit for seeing his mother for what she truly was. A power hungry wench, who sought strength and control and didn't care how she obtained it... Okay so he wasn't so different his self but he didn't go around eating humans just because he could.
The first time he ever saw his mother eat a human he was disgusted beyond belief. Humans were dirty foul creatures and the bitch took pleasure in eating them, saying that humans were put on the land for youkai to eat and nothing more. As far as he was concerned the woman was mad in the head, which brought him back to his bitch, who was by far the most unstable being he ever had the misfortune of crossing paths with.
After so many years of traveling with the half-breed she had tasted the power of being dominate, especially with her power of being able to subdue him at will. Well, with her taste of power came the desire to maintain that hold of dominance which couldn't possibly happen, especially with him as her mate. He was the dominate one, always would be the dominate one, and had every intention of staying that way. So when the bitch's mouth opened and again swore it was out of curiosity's sake and said...
"I think you should be submissive to me and I should be the dominate one to you; so that you can see what it's like being in my shoes."
The second the words left her big mouth he could feel the urge building to do as she had said. It was a long hard battle to suppress the urge to become her submissive, but he overcame it and focused his rage upon the girl for once again opening her mouth and putting his status at risk.
She tried to recant her words and apologize for again making a mistake, but this time he wasn't having it. She needed to learn to speak only after she considered her words carefully and to not spit out the first thing that came to her simple mind.
"Bitch you have crossed the line, now you will be punished."
Once those words left his mouth she was on her game, and only succeeded in angering him more.
"He.. he... um Sesshoumaru I uh..." She slowly stepped back from him. "Uh... Um... You..."
Oh how he tried to stop her before she said anymore, but where he has had centuries to practice the art of stealth, speed, and cunning, he was no match for how fast the bitch could speak. Her mouth made his movements look like he was a first year pup just picking up a sword for the first time. Nope he was no where near fast enough to stop her.
"YOU STAY RIGHT THERE UNTIL... I... I... UH... make it home to my own time?" She then shot out the door.
So here he sits stuck where he's at until the bitch makes it home. However, there's a problem she didn't take into consideration... getting past his guards to get outside the castle grounds. He has heard her run past his study several times since she stuck him in his spot at the light of first morning. Now here it is well past mid day and the wench had yet to break past the castle walls. It didn't matter though, for while she is running around like a fool, he has been working on breaking the curse so that it doesn't have such a strong effect on him. His father did it, so why can't he?
Then it hit him like a lighting bolt. A memory of something his father once told him when he was a young pup came to his mind. "Pup when a female speaks; don't only hear what they are saying. You must see the path through their words so that the curse doesn't affect you." At the time he didn't really understand what his father was saying, but now it was crystal clear.
His lips pulled into an evil smirk as he realized the path through her words. 'Until I make it home to my own time.' As his mate, the western palace was now her home, which means she is at home currently and in her own time, and has been at home since they walked past the gates.
Slowly rising to his feet he kept his evil smirk on his lips as she considered the various ways to punish the wench and couldn't wait to see the look on her face when he appeared before her of his own free will. Being the superior being was something he took great pleasure in and would never give it up for any reason.