They all bowed; they were all beautiful, rich, noble, born for this very thing.
It was simple: pick one, combine houses, and continue the line.
He wanted someone short with long dark hair, and so those who did not meet that were sent away.
He needed power, and so weaklings were also sent away.
He was left with four.
His mother entered, and dare he say that she looked, bothered?
"Four?" She asked,
"So it would seem,"
They bowed to her as she walked by them "Why have you come here?"
"You sent for us my Lady," One spoke,
"Why did you come?" She asked again,
"To mate,"
She grabbed the woman's chin "What do you hope to gain,"
"A pup and mate,"
"And my son?"
"A great and powerful Lord,"
"Do you all agree?"
They all agreed. They were all the same. All in place, all saying the right things, the things they were taught. She could not fault them she had done the same.
"Breed them all, mate one," She said.
If Kagome had been there, she would have gasped and had to speak her mind, but these women all just bowed to her word. She suddenly found them all boring and decided to go back to their secret pet.
"Mother,"
"She is enduring for you, do not waste her pain,"
Then she vanished.
How could she say something like that and walk away and what did it mean anyway?
He looked at the woman his mother had spoken to and walked up to her. Her looks didnt matter; he reached out and grabbed her ties and pulled her close. She looked up at him as he untied her robe and pushed it back to show her body to his eyes.
The other women bowed their heads, keeping their eyes downcast.
It was quick, a mere duty to be done and he didnt even bother with the others.
He didnt know why, but the first thing he wanted to do was bathe. Believe it or not, he wasn't a machine, and there was a lot going on; his mind was in other places, and all this was just going to get more complicated.
Women were a headache. He could find any good reason to have more than one no matter how in their place they were.
He rinsed his body and his hair and stared off into the empty room for as long as he could, but he had to get back to Kagome.
Her whole body was spasming, his mother wasn't a great help, but she was trying. Sesshomaru entered the room.
"Well?" His mother stood,
He looked at Kagome. She looked weaker than before, smaller than he remembered.
"Were you successful in breeding them?"
Sesshomaru glided his eyes to his mother, this woman.
He said nothing because she would not like what he had to say. The first one might conceive, but he highly doubted it; she didnt seem to be in heat, and he would hardly call his forced release a drain, and he wasn't making the same mistake twice with the tea though now it might have been a good idea.
"Sesshomaru!" She snapped,
"One perhaps, but do not keep your hopes high I am not a machine,"
"Just like your father,"
"He isn't anything like his father," Kagome snapped sliding off the bed, using all her power to stand. She was covered in sweat "His father was good and wise,"
She took a step while they watched her "He protected what was his, died for her!" She yelled looking at him "He won't die for us, his protecting has limits,"
She now stood near him "You could never hope to be like him," She panted but tears streamed down her face, and not for him.
She looked back at the moon mother "He isn't half the man his father was,"
Kagome put her hand on the door,
"You are forgetting something, Miko," His mother stated calmly,
Kagome didnt turn around,
"He loved his Hime,"
The tears that came next were from the pain of knowing there was no love here. She opened the door and then fell. Sesshomaru moved to help her "Dont touch me!" She screamed while slapping his hand away, her power cracking at him.
It burned him, but he gave no sign that it hurt,
"Tula," Kagome whispered as she pulled herself up on the wall.
They watched as Kagome used the wall to keep herself up as she walked away.
Sesshomaru lifted his hand,
"Stupid girl is going to kill it if she does not control her emotions," His mother stated,
"You said she was enduring,"
"Did I lie?"
"That is suffering not enduring,"
She raised an eyebrow. "How sweet, you care. She endured pain so that you could do what you were supposed to do, let us up her pain was not in vain."
His mother walked away.
He sent the other women away, the one would stay till they were sure.