chapter 19: Explanations.

As they left the mountain Sesshomaru holding Kagome's hand as he lead her back to where there companions rested.

" Kagome do you fully understand what has happened?"

"No, not really, I know that you have marked me." Kagome's hand grasped the fabric over the spot where her mark laid.

"I have tied you to me, making it easier for you to be with me, here, on land. You will no longer need the lotion or as much water as you had previously needed to survive because now you will live off of me so to speak. Do you understand?"

"Yeah... sort of? Where did you learn of that?"

"My father. It is the same thing he used to tie his wife's life span to his own, if he had lived longer he would have been able to spend the rest of his life with his human mate." Sesshomaru's mind went back to a week before his father's death. He had been young and his father had wished to leave him with a bit of information before his passing.

"Son, I know you think this will be of no use to you, but hear me out. If you are to leave a mark on the left side of the breast another will appear on the right and look as if they are closing in on the heart, protecting it. Making it stronger, so that it can do, along with the body, things it was not meant to do." the great dog demon saw a bit of curiosity flash within his young son's eyes.

"It will indeed make the wearer stronger, but it will also tie that person to the creator of the mark. Not as a mate, no, but as a dependent, or an intended. It will intertwine the wearers scent with that of the marker and vice versa, showing that they are connected."

"Are you quite finished father?"

the bored look was completely replaced and the lord and father held no way of knowing if his young son would remember anything he was told. He sighed.

"Yes, you may go."

and with that said the younger inu turned and walked out on his father.

"Oh, where are we going now?" asked Kagome.

"To my fortress." he avoided saying the last part.

"Must we really go? It is not that important."

he knew she was going for it. "It is. That is the last I will hear about this, I am going and that is final."

Kagome pouted the whole way back to their friends camp.

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KAR