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Chapter 18: Unexpected Mates
Kouga walked with Tamako home after the battle she'd had with Ayame, carrying her on his back, his hands resting under her thighs to hold her against his back. They were smiling and talking as they walked. Shifting her on his back, he walked up, the hut coming into view. His eyes glanced up, able to see Inuyasha standing outside the hut chopping firewood.
Tamako also saw the image of her father, nodding a bit. "Its okay, koi, we can do this." she whispered for only him to hear, leaning and kissing his cheek gently. He only nodded in response before he walked up to the older hanyou.
Once the smell of blood drifted to Inuyasha's nose, he growled, looking up. Seeing Tamako on Kouga's back, his growl got louder. "Tamako! What in kami's name happened to you!?" he asked. Dropping his axe, quickly walking over to them. But, before he could move to take Tamako from Kouga, the wolf demon growled possessively at Inuyasha. Looking back to Kouga, Inuyasha blinked. "And what is YOUR problem?"
"You're my problem, mutt. If you think I'm just going to let you take her, you're crazy."
"She's MY daughter!" Inuyasha argued.
Tamako only sighed, shifting. "Kouga, Otou, stop it. Please. Kouga, let me down...I can walk a little." she insisted.
Carefully Kouga rested Tamako down on her feet, looking back at her and moving his arm around her waist in order to make sure she stayed steadied. She only giggled a little, resting a hand on Kouga's chest. "I'm fine. I'm a big girl. See? Stupid girl didn't hurt me that bad anyway, just my shoulder."
"Would someone kindly tell me what the fuck is going on! Why your shoulder is torn to hell, and why you've got cuts all over. Now." Inuyasha insisted, looking at his daughter.
"Otou I'm fine. Gosh you two are annoying sometimes." she said, flashing Kouga a small smile. Looking back up at her father slowly. "Some wolf chick Ayame challenged me. I accepted, and kicked her ass." she said proudly. The way she said it only made Kouga grin a bit, looking at her.
"Ayame? Isn't that the chick you promised to marry, Kouga?" Inuyasha asked.
Kouga shrugged. "Not officially. Come on, I told her that when she was younger to make her feel better after she'd been lost. And I didn't promise, I said maybe when she's older I'd think about it. I've thought about it, and decided, no."
Tilting his head to one side, Inuyasha looked back to Tamako. "That does not explain though why she challenged you."
"Because Kouga has promised to make me his mate." she answered very matter-of-factly.
The words made Inuyasha growl, glaring towards Kouga. "He...WHAT?!" he yelled. His right hand instantly found tetsusaiga's hilt, gripping it tightly. He was about to draw it before he felt his daughters hands over his.
"Daddy please. I love him. He loves me. I want to be his mate. Please listen. If I did not want it, I would not have accepted Ayame's challenge. I would have let it go." she said, trying to calm him down.
Gripping tetsusaiga, Inuyasha's eyes glared at the wolf demon in front of him. "I'm going to murder you, low life wolf scumbag. How DARE you say such a thing to my daughter! First you promise that Ayame chick you'll marry her. And then Kagome. And now Tamako!? When the hell do you ever mean it!" he yelled.
The yell didn't deter Kouga, he stood tall and looked at Inuyasha. "Oh I mean it. Else I would have moved on long ago. I promised her she could be my mate once she was old enough if she still felt like it a long time ago, when she was...six I think. Five maybe."
Kouga's words only infuriated the hanyou even more. "When she was FIVE!?" he yelled. His eyes flashed red for a moment as he glared at the wolf standing there.
"Daddy stop it!" she said, gripping her fathers hand on tetsusaiga, moving to stand in-between the two, standing close to her father. "I am old enough to make my own decisions! This is none of your business. If I want Kouga for a mate, that is my choice, not yours! I'm not a little girl anymore daddy." she insisted.
"Tamako, in the house, right this instant." Inuyasha said, his eyes looking down to meet hers. "I mean it."
"No. I'm fourteen now, I can make my own decisions. Girls my age in the village are planning families already. We haven't actually...done anything yet, but I want the right to think about it! I love him. You cannot change that, no matter what you do. And if you raise your sword to him, I'll hate you. Do not make me choose, daddy. I love you both too much."
Kouga crossed his arms across his chest, looking at Inuyasha and Tamako. "Look, mutt. I've been waiting for her to decide if she wants to be with me or not. I did not force her into this commitment, she came into it of her own free will."
His daughters hand on his own was the only thing stopping him from drawing his sword and killing the wolf right there. Growling deeply. "You had to have forced her into this! She is too young! Like hell will I let you have my pup. You are not good enough for her."
"I know." Kouga answered, glancing at Tamako and smiling. "But she loves me anyway. And if she told me she didn't want me, I'd leave and let her be. I want to make her happy, Inuyasha." he said, actually using Inuyasha's name.
Sighing a little, Tamako kept her eyes on her father. "Come on daddy, since when have you ever known me to do something because someone else wants me to do it?"
His golden eyes looked down at his daughter. "I will not let you go to him. No. Let go of me. If he is any kind of a man he'll face me without hiding behind a woman."
It was Tamako's turn to growl as she looked up at him. "He is not hiding behind me! I'm standing here in-between you two because I refuse to watch the two men I love fight! Daddy I love you...so much. But...I love Kouga, in a very, very different way. This is what I want. I'm not running off to join Kouga right now. I'm still here, see? I still have a lot to learn. But...but I want to be with Kouga." she said, a blush creeping up onto her cheeks. "I'm growing up daddy. I'm not a baby anymore. You had to know I'd find a mate one day.."
Inuyasha's ears lowered, shaking his head. "You are a baby, to me. And yes, I sort of knew. I just hoped it wouldn't happen for a few hundred years at least. You're fourteen..."
Slowly Tamako let go of her fathers hand, moving her arms around his waist to hug him. She winced from the pain in her shoulder, but continued to hug him, resting her cheek on his chest and looking up to him. She was a lot taller now, about the same height her mother was. "Almost fifteen." she reminded him. "I want you to accept this, for me. And if you can't...I'll just go with Kouga, back to his den...because you will not keep me from him."
Slowly Inuyasha moved his hand off of tetsusaiga, resting his hands gently on his daughters shoulder, sighing. "Damnit, since when did you grow up? Who allowed this?" he asked, resting his chin against the top of her head, closing his eyes halfway.
"Mm, I think that'd be you, daddy. You're the one that allowed it." she told him, her eyes looking up at his and smiling happily.
Nodding to her, glaring up towards Kouga. "I'll allow this. On one condition."
"And whats that condition, mutt?" Kouga asked.
"The condition that you will not mate with my daughter while she lives under my roof. If I find out you have...I will rip out your throat without hesitation..."
"Daddy!" Tamako said, pouting a little as she leaned back gently. "I'm a big girl! My sex life is none of your business!" she told him, a blush deepening across her cheeks as she said that.
Shaking his head, Inuyasha looked at her. "You don't have a 'sex life.'" he told her.
But it was Kouga's words that surprised both of them. "Deal. I will not mate with her while she lives in your hut." he said.
Tamako looked up at him and pouted slowly. "But thats none of his business Kouga!" she said, blushing deeper.
Kouga shrugged. "I know. But...I wanted to wait until we were in my den anyway. Think of it as a...human courtship, like that one idiot was proposing." he said, smiling to her. Walking up to her even though she still stood in front of Inuyasha. Resting his hands on her shoulders and leaning to kiss the top of her head. "It'll be fine, I promise." he told her.
Sighing, the girl shrugged. Once she did, she whined, her hand moving up to her shoulder. "Oww..." she started to say.
Though he was glaring at Kouga, the hint of his daughters pain made Inuyasha look back at her. "Lets go inside and clean that up. It'll take even your fast healing several hours to heal. Looks like it went straight through. Your mother is going to have a fit." he said, looking at her shoulder. Resting one hand on the small of her back, he glared towards Kouga as he walked Tamako back to the hut to get her cleaned up.
Tamako only glanced back at Kouga, pouting and waving a little bit as she walked with her father.
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The next morning Tamako's shoulder was pretty much back to normal. She could move and flex it, and it felt really good. Her kimono had been ruined though, which made her sad. The cuts in the silk were ones that could not be stitched up and still look good.
That morning she was planning on going to talk to her friend Rin. Her mother walked into the village with her, smiling once they reached Rins house. Rin occupied the house that Kaede had once lived, since Rin had practically grown up there. Waving back to her mother, Tamako smiled. "See you later, Okaa!" she said happily.
Walking into the hut slowly, looking at her friend. "Hi there, Rin-chan." Tamako said, moving to kneel by the fire.
Rin smiled up to her. "Morning Tamako-chan. You are quite chipper this morning." she said, giggling.
Tamako nodded happily. "I am. Because Kouga-kun finally kissed me! And, and we told my Otou that we were seeing each other. I am so happy." she said.
Rin gave her friend a small, sad smile. She was several years older than Tamako, having just turned nineteen years old, and yet she wasn't married, or promised. Mainly because she was so infatuated with Sesshoumaru that no other man would do it for her. "Oh...oh I'm so happy for you Tamako-chan. Soon you'll be Kouga's wife and having babies...er-pups." she said.
Looking at Rin slowly, she nodded. "Yeah, I can't wait." she said. Though, seeing the sadness in Rins eyes, she sighed a little. "Come now, Uncle Sesshy has got to commit to you sometime soon. He obviously loves you. He's just...weird about showing it. He's weird about showing any kind of feeling. But if you pay attention, you can tell his feelings."
Sighing, the older girl nodded. "I know. Lord Sesshoumaru is kind and visits often. He just...does not get it I am afraid." she said, looking at her friend, smiling to her.
"He's coming by tonight, right?" Tamako asked.
Rin nodded slowly to her. "Yes. In a few hours I believe."
Tamako thought for a minute, pouting. "Hmm...well then, we'll just have to make him see how he feels then! He is a great daiyoukai, yes, but my uncle is still a man." she said, giggling a bit. Moving to stand up, she looked at Rin. "Where is your sewing kit?" she asked. Rin pointed towards her kit sitting in the corner.
The younger girl went over to grab the kit, bringing it back. "Good. Now pick a kimono. Pick a nice one and put it on."
"What are you up to, Tamako?" Rin asked, her eyes narrowing a little.
Tamako looked up at him and smiled. "Making my uncle listen to his feelings, of course. Think about it, you're a woman, he's a man. We're going to make him listen if he likes it or not."
While she listened, Rin put on one of her kimonos that Sesshoumaru had once brought her made of fine silk. Stepping up to Tamako, blinking slowly. "W-What do you mean?" she asked.
Giggling, Tamako knelt by the older girl, opening the sewing box and moving to cut through the kimono, just above Rins knee. "You shall see."
Gasping, squirming a bit. "W-W-What're you doing?!"
"Oh sush up, you've got more kimono. It will be fine."
Rin pouted a little, standing up straight and letting Tamako do what it was she was doing. And Tamako worked for quite a while. She'd shorted the kimono and sewed the edges into a good hem. It was shorter now, showing off Rins long shapely legs. And then she'd taken the thick obi Rin had been using to tie it and created one of the scraps from what she'd cut off to form an obi. Making Rin change out of the long white under kimono and into a white thin haori instead, she moved to tie the new obi around her waist.
Once Tamako was done, Rin blushed, looking down at herself. The kimono was shorter, much like Tamako's kimonos. It was also thinner since she did not wear a under kimono but only a thin sleeping haori. The new kimono showed off her curves a lot better now, along with the length of her legs. She'd grown into a beautiful woman with long black hair that she still tied up as a side pony tail. But the side pony tail was much longer than it'd used to be, and the hair fell over her shoulders.
Finally, Tamako smiled. "And now, for your hair. Come come." she said. Taking the side pony tail down, she brushed out Rins hair carefully. Thinking for a minute before she went to take small clips, rolling Rins hair up and pinning them. It was a lot harder without curlers like they'd had in the future, but she made it work. Wetting Rins hair a little bit to set the curls. The girls ate lunch as they waited for the curls to set. Once they'd finished eating, Tamako let down Rins hair. Taking a bit of makeup the older girl had but never used, she finished it off by helping Rin color her lips a soft red color.
"There!" Tamako said happily. Guiding Rin to the mirror, letting her see in, she smiled at the look on her friends face.
Rin almost couldn't believe she was looking at herself. Gently touching her hair as she watched her fingers do the same in the mirror. Looking towards Tamako, smiling and hugging her tightly. "Ohh thank you Tamako!"
Hugging her back, Tamako giggled. "No problem Rin-chan! Uncle Sesshy will love it! He'll get the surprise of a lifetime when he shows up."
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Later that night, Rin was waiting nervously for Sesshoumaru to show up. She must have checked her mirror a million times, making sure things were just right. She'd cleaned up the entire hut and double checked everything.
When Sesshoumaru arrived at the hut, he didn't bother with the rest of the villagers. Carrying a package in one hand, using his other to push the reed door mat up, entering the hut. "Rin I-" he started, but he stopped once he looked at the human girl.
She stood up when she saw him enter, a smile on her lips. "Lord Sesshoumaru! I am so glad you came, I knew you would! Its been twenty days, just like you'd said." she said, smiling brilliantly.
Sesshoumaru looked down at her, taking in the new look, his eyes remaining silent about what he was thinking. "Rin...your kimono.." he only said.
Nodding to him slowly. "Yes Lord Sesshoumaru. Tamako helped me make it. Don't you like it? I do. It feels so nice." she said, doing a small twirl for him so he could see the entire thing.
He walked up to her, resting one hand on her shoulder to still her spinning, looking down into her eyes. "I do not approve of you wearing such a thing around this village. Human men will think they can be bold." he informed her, not wanting harm to come to the woman. He also didn't like the idea of other males leering at her, either.
She only shook her head as she smiled to him. "Of course not, Lord Sesshoumaru. I...I only wished to wear such a thing for you. I thought...that you may like it. You're not mad are you? Don't you like it?" she asked.
His eyes moved over her form a little and then back to her face, giving a small nod, attempting to control his baser instincts. Taking in a breath, he could smell the girls excitement. She was excited in more ways than one. The older she got, the more he had to deal with these scents of her becoming a woman. She was well past the age of marriage for most normal women in the village. Even though he tried his best to hide his feelings, now especially was proving tricky for the daiyoukai. Her scent filled the hut and was so enticing to the male, his demon blood almost screamed at him. But, he did not outwardly show it.
His nod though made Rin only smile wider. "I'm glad, Lord Sesshoumaru. I just wish to make you happy..." she said, a blush going over her cheeks, looking down at his armor a little.
Quickly he put the package he'd been carrying to one side before his hand found its way to the small of her back. Bringing her up against his chest tighter, leaning his head down to her ear. "Such a thing, Rin, is only for me to see. I will not have other men leering at what is mine." he breathed against her ear.
The words made the girl shudder, goosebumps raising along the back of her neck. Her hands rested against his arms as she blushed, nodding. "Y-Y...yes...of...of course, L-ord Sesshoumaru." she stuttered softly.
When his head leaned up, he looked down at the girl with his piercing golden stare. Letting his eyelids come to a close, he captured the girls lips against his own, his hand on her lower back holding her against his chest.
A small gasp escaped her lips as she felt his against them. But slowly she closed her eyes and melted into his arms, one hand moving up to rest at the top of his armored breastplate.
As the kiss intensified, Rin made a small groan against his lips at the feel of the metal plate pressing against her chest. Unsatisfied, Sesshoumaru reached to unhook the plate, bringing it off in one swift motion and leaving it discarded to one side, all without breaking the contact he had with the girl.
Moving his hands down underneath her butt to pick her up, bringing her up closer to his chest. He broke the kiss for a moment, looking up at her. Once their lips left contact, Rins eyes slowly opened halfway, looking down at him and smiling gently.
He was already pretty excited from the girl in his arms. Stepping over to her futon, in one swift motion he laid Rin down underneath him. His fingers found the tie of her obi and pulled it undone, letting the kimono fall loose around her. Returning to her, he started devouring her neck, kissing and nipping at the skin, causing the girl to moan and writhe underneath him. "You've finally won, Rin. You belong to me, only me." he whispered to her.
Shuddering at his voice, she let out a moan, nodding. "I've alway belonged to only you Lord Sesshoumaru. Please...have me. All of me. I've never wanted anything else." she said softly.
He was more than okay with obliging her wish to make her his. By the end of the night, she would wear his mark.
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A/N: Theres a bit of SesshyxRin! :-). I think it turned out nicely. But, I'm not sure how anyone feels. Lemon or no lemon? I wasn't sure if I should put it on here since this isn't adult fanfiction site. I've never really written and posted it up before. So, let me know if you want to see any lemon or not!