AN: Exciting news every one my muse is back though it took amove a cross country and 2 weeks off of work to get it there but It's back. I appolgse to every one for the time it had taken to get to this point, there were a bunch of really bad things that happened to me in the past 2 months one of them being a death in the family. May he rest in peace. okay so we are back on track and i hope to get subiquint chapters out quickly. ( yes I know it's spelt wrong) any way I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to hearing from all of you.

Chapter 17

"We were meant to be"

Sesshomaru now knew why Kagome had acted like she did. There were just something's that few people could understand. The scar on her back was not a concern to him he was a youkai, and youkai considered such scar's as marks of power, to have been able to survive such a wound showed that she was strong. Looking down at her naked form bundled in his arms he began to wonder if what was happening to her was related to the attacks on himself, in all likely hood they were, which meant that, that bastard was responsible for the condition that Kagome was now in., and once he found that bastard he would pay with his life.

A small moan of pain and pleasure brought him out of his thoughts, Sesshomaru could feel the spell trying to envelope him again, however this time he was prepared. There was only one way to remove the spell from his mate, but she was not in the right state of mind to allow what the spell wanted him to do, to just allow it to happen. Sesshomaru was not going to finish the marking with Kagome in this condition and then later have her accuse him of taking advantage of her when she was back in her right mind.

Concentrating on the small form in his arms, Sesshomaru pulled her away from him and held her shoulders in his large hands, giving her a little shake he forced her to look up at him.

"Kagome" he said her eyes were foggy as she blinked up at him.

"Maru" she said with a seductive lilt to her voice "Please Maru"

Closing his eyes briefly, her voice was so inviting, it was so tempting to just push her back against the cushions. He didn't want to take her this way he wanted her to come to him but the only way for that to happen was for the spell to be removed.

"Kagome, listen to me" he sent a small amount of youki into her, hoping that the shock would bring her to the surface long enough to get a genuine consent from her. Eyes clearing as he watched he spoke again.

"Kagome, I can get rid of the spell that's on you, but I need your permission"

"Why would you need that, just do it" though her mind was clear for the moment, long enough for her to answer him before the clouds moved in again. Her head lolled back and a moan escaped her. Sending another shock of youki into her this time slightly more hoping the effects would last longer, never noticing that that small amount of power never returned to him.

"Kagome" he watched her eyes clear "I have to mark you and take you as my mate, I need to finish the bond between us"

Kagome's eyes widened as his words registered on her foggy brain. The pain was becoming unbearable she didn't know how much more she could take before something inside her snapped and she succumbed,. Fighting the spell was causing so much pain, she just wanted to let go wanted to let it take her where she didn't feel pain.

"Do what you have to, please" her voice was so low had he not been a Youkai with excellent hearing he would not have heard it. "it hurts so much" she whispered as the clouds came roiling back in.

Sesshomaru shook her again, he wanted her to understand that after this there was no going back, she would truly be his mate. He couldn't stand it if she looked at him with disgust after she had been fully marked, it would break something inside him to know she didn't feel anything for him. And in that moment he knew he had to know what she felt for him, there was something he needed to hear from her before he fully claimed her.

"Kagome" he said again forcing her to come back from beneath the clouds, but looking into the cloudy eyes he realised something, despite how he felt and how he reacted to everything that had happened, he had never told her he even felt anything for her. He had claimed her, yes, but never told her he even cared about her. Though it had snuck up on him in the past week, it was like she had gotten under his skin, it had been insidious but extremely quick. His brain working swiftly he finally realised that she believed that he didn't care about her, that she thought that he felt obligated to be with her, that he didn't feel for her. Her assumptions were completely wrong, seeing her like this made his chest hurt in a way he had never felt. It hit him hard as this epiphany settled on him, he…

"Kagome, I want to finish the bond between us" Her eyes were questioning.

"Why?" she asked voice low in an effort to concentrate.

"Because, I..I love you" he watched as a single tear rolled out of the corner of her eye.

Then his lips were on hers, devouring the tempting pink morsels.

Sesshomaru's lips had crashed down to hers and all Kagome could feel was the rush of pleasure that had ensued with that simple yet power full move. His word had registered on her brain but at the moment she could only feel, everything was clouded by the effects of the spell. Kagome felt when the Inu Lord picked her up and placed her on something soft felt his lips trailing down her neck causing the tension that she felt in her core to tighten.

His hands were every where, the long calloused digits caressed her breasts pinching her nipples as he continued down her body, his tongue dipped into her belly button before going lower to the dark moist curls below. Her moans were becoming louder with every touch, every caress. It was like she couldn't get enough of him and when his lips kissed the moist curls at the apex of her thighs her back bowed at the rush of pleasure that radiated up her body.

Some where deep inside she knew that this was what she had wanted, that this was where she wanted to be she had just never thought that she would allow the Inu lord so close again to her but the circumstances were out of her control now and the choice was out of her hands. This was not the kind of thing that she normally did with or with out the spell it would only be her second time with a man and this one had already claimed her as his mate.

"Sesshomaru" she whispered, gasping as his tongue flicked the sensitive pearl between the slick folds.

She looked down as his eyes looked up to hers, it was the most erotic sight that she had ever seen, and then his fingers entered her the sharp thrust sent her back bowing her hips bucked under the pleasure as her orgasm.

The spell didn't leave as Sesshomaru had hoped, it seemed to tighten around them like a rope bringing them closer and closer together. Suddenly Sesshomaru moved, crawling up Kagome's body, and sinking his shaft to the hilt, drawing a gasp from her throat causing her back to bow again.

"look at me" he growled, his hand slid down from her breast squeezing it lightly before sliding it down heavily to her hip and pressing her tighter to him. Another gasp and cerulean eyes flashed open staring in to the dark honey of his own eyes. Looking down he knew that the spell was gone, it had been dangerous he knew then that this spell was designed to get her away from him. He shuttered to think what would have happened had he not been the one to get her when he did.

"Sesshomaru" she whispered, one hand tangled at the base of his scull, wrapped in the long silver locks. The other hand sprawled above her head grasping on to a piece of bedding. Bringing him back to the present he shifted thrusting lightly into her, she moaned low at the sudden movement.

He moved slowly then, one arm by her head bracing his body above hers, each movement slow and drawn out. Hitching up her leg over one elbow trying to get a deeper angle and succeeding from the sound of her gasp as he reached the end of her wet silken passage. Never changing his pace, he took her as he had dreamed of several times since the first. He had never imagined it to be like this, never had it been like this, as he ghosted his lips over hers, teasing the already swollen flesh.

For hours it seemed he took her slow, using his well honed control to bring her to completion again and again. Sesshomaru held himself back until his beast started to pull at the chains that bound him, it was then he felt his own orgasm begin and he knew he had to finish the bond. Loosening his control over his youki he poured his power in to her, knowing she was too exhausted and too distracted to bring her own powers up to the defence, he marked her, not with fangs though she would bare his mark. He spilled in to her as much of his power as she could hold, and was surprised as the youki kept flowing from him like a bottomless well she took all that he could give. Watching as a small blue crescent moon, no bigger than a quarter, formed on the center of her forehead no more than an inch above her eyebrows. Finally when he was done he allowed his release, and spilled his seed deep with in her with one final thrust.

His breath was heavy as his head hung in exhaustion his one arm still braced by her head, the other hand still tight on her thigh. He couldn't bring him self to move from her body, so perfect she looked with her ebony hair spread out over the white bedding, one hand clenched in it the other still tangled in his hair; her naked body glistening in the lamp light drenched with sweat. Finally lowering his body so that his chest pressed to hers, arms slipping under her body and rolling them both so that Sesshomaru was now on the bottom still intimately connected to her.

"rest my love, Kagome" he grated out from a horse throat, one hand trailing down from her shoulder blade to the small of her back and back up again. She said nothing as she began to drift asleep.

Sksksksksksksk

Consciousness came slowly, as did the awareness of her body and the various aches and pains as did the realisation that she was naked and not alone in the bed. She could feel the soft breath on her shoulder as well as the heavy arm around her waist that anchored her to the equally nude and incredibly muscular, and very male body behind her. Her first reaction was to panic but that didn't seem logical she felt safe and the body behind her felt familiar.

Calming some Kagome decided to recount the events of the night before. She had gotten ready to go out to dinner. Dinner with whom? She knew it had been an old friend, with dark hair, Kouga flashed briefly before her minds eye. That was it she had gone for dinner with Kouga, after dinner they had headed for a club for a bit of dancing. That part had been bleary but there, she remembered the feel of a body pressed to hers, lips and all hot sweaty dancing. Then there was an oddly blank bit then being carried out by Sesshomaru, then flashes of scenes in Sesshomaru's car, being carried again in the dark. She remembered being naked on a pillow, wait why was she naked? After a moment it came to her that her cloths were the problem her skin was too sensitive. That was it there had been something wrong and then Sesshomaru had saved her, it was making her feel things that she normally wouldn't at least not to that intensity. As she lay there more of the evenings details came back to her.

"Quit thinking so hard and go back to sleep we had a long night" Sesshomaru's dark voice said from her shoulder, then she felt something hard still sheathed in her "but if you would prefer to enjoy in other activities then I would be more than happy to oblige" he gave a small thrust bringing a gasp from Kagome's lips. And that was when her mind decided to dump the entirety of the nights events on her; though some parts were a little blurry around the edges but there enough that she knew what was going on, the biggest thing that stood out in her mind was when the blurry edges melted away and it was all suddenly clear. That was when she remembered Sesshomaru asking her permission and then his declaration of love before lips crashed down and then there had been nothing but a sea of pleasure.

And now as he thrust into her she knew there was no where else she would rather be, no where but here with him, his body thrusting into hers bringing cries of pleasure to her lips, making her scream out his name as they both came to an end.

"Kagome" he whispered squeezing her breast softly before hugging her closely to him self still inside her.

She knew where she was and she remembered the events of the night before, this was not how she had wanted to begin a serious relationship with the Inu lord but it seemed inevitable that this should happen that they should be together and she didn't want the feeling to end.

Allowing her mate to pull her back in to the welcoming arms of sleep Kagome drifted back into the darkness, a sense of peace stole over her and she felt complete.

SKSKSKSKSKSKSKSK

Again That bastard had taken her away again, and now to a place where he could not enter. Dante knew from experience that the cave was impenetrable only those of the inu clan could enter. He knew that sooner or later they had to leave, sooner or later Sesshomaru would make a vital mistake and his mate would soon be his. Oh the fun he would have, the torture he would put the Western lord through before he was done, before he put asunder the bond that had been forged and forced the miko to submit to him. A small smile quirked on Dante's lips at the fantasy presented in his mind. Yes he would enjoy the days to come where he would spill his seed time and time again in to her unwilling body, where he would force him self on her time and again while she screamed her hate at him.