Silver Moon: Chapter 25: Warm Words

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Claimer: Sheba and Sasha are mine!

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AU: Please note that this chapter contains some serious lime, and has been edited to meet with rules. If you wish to read the un-edited version it is available on my accounts at Archive of our own account and my account as well.

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Sheba's mind felt like a train that had run out of control while somewhere an engineer was desperately trying an emergency break.

Warm.

That was the thing she was most aware of. She was warm everywhere. The feeling of his body so perfectly caging her own, his breath on her neck and ear, and the delicious heat of how their hips lined up. Words, he had said some… rut… position. Her mind was grasping at straws. She took a breath and reached out to his beast to connect them. Images crossed her mind as his powerful claws laced with her fingers. The most prominent was an image of her happiness, the sound of her laughter and a glimpse of her smile. However, she gasped as the image all began to fit together. The image of what his beast wanted most. She was dressed in a simple kimono smiling at what she assumed to be him with a very prominent baby bump. He wanted a happy family. The thought was bitter sweet because as long as Naraku was alive it would not be safe to bring a family into the world. Suddenly, a chill ran across her skin as the cool air rushed across it.

He had pulled her obi from her, and now her kimono hung open to the floor. She turned her head to look back at him in question, but he caught her lips in his searing kiss. A growl rolled through her body as she instinctually sighed, and swayed her body upward to him again.

He rolled her to her back, and she felt her kimono shrug away from her shoulders in the motion. Somehow, her modesty escaped her. Perhaps, she was just too hypnotized by her groom's eyes; a swirling mixture of his gold weighed with the red of his beast. They held her as they would any prey who found themselves without escape. Those eyes raked over her exposed flesh, and his fangs followed. She was exposed with her kimono gathered at her elbows there was only another lacy set of undergarments between the fangs that currently traced her mark.

Hot breath permeated the flesh of her neck as his gruff words gained the attention of her brain.

"You must stop your groom… it is dishonorable to break in a bitch when the male cannot be in constant contact, and this Sesshomaru must leave at dawn."

… He wanted her to stop him? Well, that was like asking a bunny to subdue the tiger when it had its fuzzy tail in the tiger's jaws.

She shook her head, "I don't want you to stop." She pulled him to her again. This time she claimed his lips. She was lost in the taste of his lips, and the feel of one of his large hands gathering both of hers over her head while the other made a trail up her body from her thigh.

She felt him pull away again, but she used the only limbs she had now. She wrapped her legs around his hips in a weak attempt to keep him to her. This felt too right to let him end it. She knew what he meant by break in, and knew he would not take her innocence only to leave her alone for an unknown amount of time. Wait… leave! He was leaving?

"What do you mean leave?" she sobered. She was more aware that her wrists were still in his strong grasp on the bed above her head, and that her legs were still locked around his hips.

He lowered his lips to trace patterns across her collar bone as he spoke with strong trace of his beast. "There is a problem in the northern border lands. Keiji and this Sesshomaru are to leave in the morning to see for ourselves who and what are involved."

Fear coursed through her heart, "That sounds dangerous." She curled forward in her odd position to nuzzle his cheek.

He gave her a solemn look, "The life of a Daiyoukai is not always a safe one my bride."

"How long will you be gone?" she sniffed.

"It will not be known until we see for ourselves what has happened." He released her wrists, and kissed her gently when they curled around his neck.

For a moment they simply held one another as the reality that their quiet little peace had ended. He would have to leave her alone for the first time since he had essentially captured her. Her lips made a lazy path to his neck, and then in a breathy whisper against his ear. "I suppose I should give my lord a good reason to hurry back home safe and sound", her words barley processed before she dragged her smooth, hot tongue from the tip of his ear to then nibble the lobe.

Sheba heard him take a ragged breath before the cry made its way from the back of her throat.

XXX On the other side of the Western Fortress

The evening meal was going well considering everything that had happened earlier. The maids and Minda had kept them company while Rin had been entertaining Shippo all day. Thanks to the potions the healers had concocted Miroku and Sango were both doing much better, so much so that they had opted to rely on the potions rather than Sheba's blood. Miroku was even walking for short bouts again.

"So, are we going to see Sheba again?" Inuyasha cut the small talk out of the picture.

"Our Lady appears to have been rather troubled about Lord Sesshomaru being separated from her. However, when the Lord leaves at dawn Lady Sheba will likely be very upset, and shall need support from her household." Minda seemed worried.

"Have they not been separated from each other this entire time?" Sango asked with a bit of sarcasm.

The three demonesses exchanged looks before Mai spoke up, "Has Lady Sheba had time to speak to you about her time here?"

The group all shook their heads, but Kagome added, "All we know is that he kidnapped her a few months ago, but in that time they … well you know…"

"I am afraid it is a little bit of a complicated story, but no. Lord Sesshomaru has not left Sheba's side since marking her." Mai spoke softly.

"She could probably use a break then", Inuyasha scoffed.

"I am more concerned for whatever has drawn his attention away from Sheba", Minda commented.

"If I may ask Lady Minda, why is the Lord leaving at what seems to be such an important part of the courting?" Miroku eyed the maids.

Minda paused, "There is something disrupting the northern border."

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Alright, I know this is short, but the rest of it will be up with the juicy ending on . However, for the M (not MA) version this is the end. I want to apologize for being missing for so long. I always want to write, but my life has been very busy in the best of ways for everything except my writing. SO, just in case anyone was upset here is a list of the important things that have kept me away from these stories: I am planning my wedding to my boyfriend/fiancée of about 6 years. I am in the last year and a half of my double major & double minor degree, and I have risen to the top few percent of my class. I have been nominated and working as the president of my school's honor society. I have been awarded the opportunity to work a few days a week in a local museum that is actually a 200 year old property on thousands of acres with various antebellum houses, and I am currently helping them catalog- all over the property. I am still a full time student, and I still work 20-30 hours a week… so, my abandonment was simply because I literally didn't have the time to sit down. However, I love this, and want to make an effort to finish these current stories.