Special thanks to my co author Shelby
Ch 4
A week had went by and Sesshoumaru and Kagome made it back to the castle. they walked inside and the servants bowed to them. Sesshoumaru growled that damn human female was here again. "Be nice to Izayoi I like her, she's nicer than your mom was to me." Kagome says
"I don't care. I don't see why father mated to a human in the first place," Sesshoumaru said. Kagome rolled her eyes and said, "Sess, it's not like it's a dirty thing. Humans and demons mate all the time. We just saw Keski, and he's with a demon, even though I don't like that, but it just shows how common it is."
"They're not mated, Keski is still a virgin!" Sesshoumaru said as they walked down the hall and stopped at a pair of large white doors. Sesshoumaru pushed them open and walked in. "Father what did you need to talk to me about?" Sesshoumaru ask getting right to the point His father looked up at him Inutashio wore a white kimono similar to Sesshoumaru he had long white hair bit his was in a ponytail his golden eyes looked at his son. "I raised you better than that where are your manners?" he asks him
Kagome smiled, walking up to Inutashio and kissing his cheek. "Forgive him, we just returned from visiting our friend Keski, and we both don't like the demon he is with, so he is slightly frustrated," she said.
Inutashio nodded and said, "I see. Well, while we are here, Sesshoumaru, forget about your friend's matters."
Sesshoumaru growled at his father and looked over at THE Woman' as he liked to call her. "Fine father but make it fast I like to be alone with my mate." Sesshoumaru says to him. "When are you not alone with her?" his father asks him. "Anyway I thought you should be the first to know that in a year there will be a new pup in the castle." Inutashio says to him. "
What?!, you and her, a hanyou have you lost your mind!" Sesshoumaru asked as he glared at Izayoi
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru and said, "I think that's a great idea! You need someone to be a role model to, and this will be your chance. Congratulation, Inutaisho, Izayoi." She walked over and kissed the woman's cheek, smiling at her.
Sesshoumaru was fuming as he paced the room.
"There is nothing great about this, that Bitch has trapped my father by getting pregnant with her filthy pup!" Sesshoumaru growled.
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagome yelled
"What I won't have it get out of this castle now!" Sesshoumaru tells her as he bares his fangs.
Inutashio quickly went over to Sesshoumaru and pushed him back. "Stand down now!" he ordered him
"I will NOT stand down! This is MY castle, not yours, father!" Sesshoumaru yelled, his eyes flashing red. "That is ENOUGH!" Kagome screeched, stopping Inutaisho's retort in his throat. "I am extremely disappointed in you, Sesshoumaru. What if I were human, huh? What if I were to have a hanyou child? Would you still love me?" she said, looking at Sesshoumaru with tears in her eyes.
Sesshoumaru sighed. "Kagome I love you, I would always love you, it's just that you're my only mate this is his second." Sesshoumaru says to her and walks over to Kagome. "Fine I hope you two are happy with the pup." Sesshoumaru says as he glares at his dad and kisses Kagome atop her head.
"I thought you should know and I hope you two plan on giving me a little grand pup soon." his dad says to him
Sesshoumaru held Kagome close and said, "I would like to. It's Kagome's decision, though. I won't push her." Kagome held onto him tightly, her eyes closed as she calmed herself.
Izayoi stood and walked over to her own mate, taking his hand. She looked Sesshoumaru in the eyes and said, "I hope for one day for you to accept me, Sesshoumaru. And your sibling."
Sesshoumaru nodded his head. "Is that all father?" Sesshoumaru asks him.
"No it's not all you and I need to talk about the lands so ladies why don't you go and do what women do." his father says.
"This is my castle!" Sesshoumaru growls at him.
"Sesshoumaru be nice." Kagome says and takes Izayoi's hand and the two walk out the room.
"Would you like to see the garden, Izayoi? I think we've changed it since you two were last here," Kagome said as the two women walked down the hall. "I'd love to," Izayoi replied, their arms linked.
"So, what about the lands did you want to talk about?" Sesshoumaru said as he sat down behind his desk.
Inutashio walked over to the desk. "Sesshoumaru I am getting reports of demons vanishing not a trace of them is left, no blood anything." He tells him as he sits down in the seat in front of desk. "What do you mean no blood, or anything, even if a demon was killed there should be something left." Sesshoumaru says to him.
"I mean nothing, it started after you left a week ago." he tells his son.
Sesshoumaru tapped his claws on the desk, trying to think of who it could be. "Well, Keski's demon appeared about a week ago," he said, still thinking.
Inutashio stood up and walked over to Sesshoumaru and smacked him atop his head. "How could that demon be in our lands and in Keski's, Sesshoumaru think!" he says to him.
Sesshoumaru growled. "What was that for?!,it could be him you don't know that." Sesshoumaru tells him
Inutashio sighed and said, "It's not possible for it to happen within a week, Sesshoumaru. It took you and Kagome just a week to get here, and you're both full blooded demons! Use your common sense, boy!"
"Fine!, I will patrol the lands tonight and find out what is going on, now I am going to take a bath and then I will join you and the ladies for dinner." Sesshoumaru tells his father and stands up.
"Alright I'll go check on the ladies." Inutashio tells him and walks out the office to go and check on Izayoi and Kagome.
Naraku and Keski were spending more and more time together much to Karas dislike. Keski had blood on his kimono from killing a snake demon.
Keski made it back to the village where he heard other villagers talking or more like shouting they had a fox kit in a net and the kit was trying to get out, what shocked him was Naraku was part of this group. "What is going on?!" he asks them
"This demon was stealing from our fields, Master Keski!" Koiyo said, pointing at the little fox. "He was fending for himself. If you were alone, wouldn't you do the same thing?" Keski asked, realizing it was the same kit he had saved.
Keski walked over to them and grabbed the net from them and brought it up to his face. "Shippo I am sorry about this, Naraku how could you not help him?"Keski snapped at him and walked away from them and walked up the shrine stairs with Shippo still in the net
Shippo sniffled and said, "Will you please let me out?"
"Yes, of course," Keski said. When he got inside he quickly found a knife and cut the kit loose. Naraku walked up the steps and into the shrine
Shippo looked up at Keski with his big green eyes. "Now if you're hungry I'll fix you some food." Keski tells him and turns his head and sees Naraku.
"Keski I didn't know he was the kit you saved before." Naraku tells him.
"Even so you knew he was a kit you could have stopped him and where is Karas and Kira?" Keski asks
"They are out practicing," Naraku said. Keski sighed and said, "They aren't supposed to go alone!" He quickly made Shippo some food and said, "Come with me, you can eat on the way, okay?" Shippo nodded and followed behind Keski, Naraku not too far behind.
"Keski you're full of blood it won't take long for other demons and animals to come and find you." Naraku points out.
Shippo kept close to Keski as they walked he came across Karas and Kira sitting by the lake. "Karas." Keski said to him ignoring Naraku for the moment.
Karas looked up and smiled. "Hi, Keski," he said.
"Karas, what did I tell you about coming out here alone? You're not strong enough to defend yourself yet," Keski said. Karas sighed and said, "But Naraku was here with us when we came."
"I was not! Don't you try to pin this on me," Naraku growled.
"But you knew they weren't allowed, Naraku! I explained this to you," Keski said, turning towards him.
Karas smirked this was going to be good bye, bye Naraku he thought to himself.
"Keski, I am sorry but I was helping the villagers out, I am sorry I wasn't looking out for him , it would hurt me if something happened to Karas I have grown fond of your brother over the past week."Naraku tells him.
Karas glared at Naraku. "Oh I see but next time please don't let this happen." Keski tells him.
Naraku nodded and said, "I promise." Keski turned back to the two boys and said, "Come on, we need to head back. I have to get cleaned up, anyway." Karas and Kira nodded, standing and getting their things. As they walked past Naraku, Karas glared at him.
Naraku smirked back and walked with Keski, since he had sent Shippo up to walk with the boys
"OO I hate him, it was so perfect why didn't it work?" Karas asked Kira.
"Karas he is a demon and well I am quite sure he and Keski do things when we're not around." Kira tells him.
"What, they're not doing that!" Karas yelled and blushed.
Keski stopped and turned around. "Karas what are you yelling about now?" he asks him. "I ..I.. you and he aren't mated are you?" Karas asks.
"What's mated?" Shippo asks
"Mated means that you are technically married. The one you are mated with has to bite you and you get that demon's mark," Naraku said.
"And no, we are not mated. See?" Keski said, showing Karas, Kira, and Shippo his neck. "We haven't even been...intimate, yet," he added in a low voice, blushing.
Karas sighed a sigh of relief ."Well that is good to hear we don't need another family member except for Shippo and Kira." Karas says looking at Naraku. "Come on Keski you stink." Karas said laughing as he pushed his brother to the hot springs.
"Is he always like this?" Shippo asked Kira.
"Pretty much until Keski threatens to lock him in the basement." Kira tells Shippo
Shippo nodded and said, "The worst punishment my papa ever gave me was a snap at my tail." He wiggled his little ball of fur.
Kira laughed. "Oh where is your father at anyway?" Kira asks Shippo
. "I don't know he went out but he never came back." Shippo tells him in a sad voice. Kira bent down to him and picked him up in his arms. "I am sorry Shippo." he tells him
"It's okay. I don't think he'll ever come back," Shippo said, picking at the roll Keski had given him.
Naraku followed behind the two boys and thought This must be the kit who's father I absorbed.
"Oh well you can stay with us and help me keep Karas out of trouble."Kira tells him, Shippo nodded his head and looked over his shoulder at Naraku. "How come you didn't help a fellow demon?" Shippo asks Naraku.
"Shippo." Kira says and walks a bit faster to see Keski now in the hot springs and Karas taking away his bloody robes. "Stay here I'll be back with clean ones."Karas tells him. Naraku walked pass Kira and Shippo and over to the hot springs. "Here I'll clean you." Naraku says
Keski smiled up at him and said, "Thank you." He moved so that Naraku could strip and get in behind him, grabbing the cloth and soap and rubbing it in before starting to wash Keski's back.
Kira covered Shippo's eyes as Naraku undressed and got in and took him back up to the shrine where Karas was getting robes. "Karas you might want to stay up here for now." Kira says and puts Shippo down."Oh why is that?"he asks Kira. "Just give your brother a break okay?" he asks him
"Why? I'm not going to let that demon mate him," Karas said.
"Karas. He's happy. You should be happy that he's happy and has found someone. Please, just leave it be," Kira said, placing a hand on his friend's shoulder.
Karas sighed. "Kira why him, I just get a bad vibe about Naraku, I mean I know he was your master and all but the way Keski is acting now, is not right." he says to him.
"I know you're worried and I am too but I don't think Naraku will harm him he seems to care for Keski." Kira says
Karas sighed again and said, "Fine, I'll leave it be. But at the FIRST sign of trouble, I'm making sure he's gone." Kira smiled and said, "Thanks. All I'm asking is that you give it a try."
Keski closed his eyes as Naraku washed his back. "I am so tired that snake demon put up a big fight today ,he wanted the jewel, it's my fault for taking it everywhere but I know it's safe with me, and I don't want to bring any danger to Karas or the villagers."Keski says to him.
"Hmm, I know but what do you say you and I go away for a few days not too far of course and leave Karas and them with the elder of this village?" Naraku asks him
"I would, but Karas is not old enough to take care of the jewel," Keski said, fingering the small stone around his neck. "I'm sure there is another priest in this village, isn't there? The village is quite large," Naraku said.
"Yes but I am the protector of it was entrusted to me" Keski says to him.
"Then we will take it with us I want to be alone with just you Keski, I want to show you how much I love you." Naraku says to him and kisses Keski on his cheek. "I want to mate you."Naraku tells him.
Keski blushed and said, "Naraku, we haven't been together for that long. We haven't even had sex."
"That's what us going away will before silly priest." Naraku tells him and turns Keski around and washes his chest. getting all the blood and dirt off of him.
"Okay we can go tomorrow I'll talk to the elder after this and you come with me so you and Karas don't fight." Keski tells him. "And I haven't forgotten our deal either." Keski adds
"I didn't expect you would," Naraku said, smiling at him. "And I'll go with you. You're almost clean," he added, moving on to Keski's arms.
Keski winced when his arms were washed, Keski leaned over and hugged Naraku around his neck. "I love you."Keski says against his ear.
Naraku smirked when Keski declared his love for him. "I know you do.." Naraku says to him
Keski pulled back slightly before leaning in again, capturing Naraku's lips as he moved in closer, now sitting on his lap. Naraku tossed the rag aside and wrapped his own arms around Keski's waist, pulling him even closer
Naraku ran his hand through Keski's dark hair as he kissed him after a long heated kiss Naraku pulled back so Keski could breathe."We better go, Karas didn't bring me a clean robe I can't go see the elder like this." Keski tells him.
"I think it be funny." Naraku tells him. "No it wouldn't!" Keski tells him.
"Alright calm down, I'll get your clothes." Naraku tells him and gets out the water and puts his own clothes back on and goes up the steps to get Keski's clothes
Naraku didn't see the boys anywhere and assumed they were in Karas's room playing. As he walked past, he was correct, seeing the three laughing. He walked into Keski's room and up to his wardrobe, opening it and pulling out one of his kimonos before heading back towards the hot springs
Naraku shook his head all this to get what he wanted, but it be worth it in the end to make both brothers know what true fear was. "Here you go Keski, the boys are playing." Naraku says to him. Keski smiled and got out the hot springs and took his kimono from Naraku."Thank you." Keski says and puts his kimono on and pulls his hair into a ponytail. "Okay let's go."he says to Naraku and takes his hand and begins walking to talk to the elder..
When they reached the elder's hut, Keski said, "Anso, are you there?"
"Yes, Master Keski," Anso said, walking out of the hut with a cane. He was old, looking to be in his early sixties. "What can I do for you?" he asked. "Would you mind watching my brother and his two friends for a few days? I am traveling with my friend here and won't be back for a while," Keski said, smiling at him kindly.
Anso looked at Naraku. "Of course I don't mind I remember when your mother had Karas you weren't to thrilled about having a baby brother." he says with a smile. "No I wasn't but Karas grew on me and has become jealous lately, I hope this time away will help him grow up some." Keski tells Anso.
"I am sure it will just bring them by before you go he then took Keski's hand. "Never forget who you're, no matter what." Anso says to him.
Naraku would have rolled his eyes if that was in him to do. "Let's go Keski."he says to him
Keski smiled at Anso and said, "I could never forget. Thank you again, Anso." Anso smiled and Keski turned around, taking Naraku's hand again as they headed back towards the shrine.