Roses and Thorns

CHAPTER 10

Disclaimer: I don’t own Inuyasha or the characters…you know the drill…But touch my plot and I will come after you!!!





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Inuyasha sat at the edge of the river staring at his face. He was in his human form, black hair and all. He glanced down at his hands which had no claws, and touched his ears gingerly where they were on every human.



‘What the hell? I’m human and it’s not even the night of the new moon. Did we do something that I’m not remembering? Is that why Kagome isn’t here?’



Inuyasha tried to remember what had happened after his brother attacked him, but he was getting nothing but blanks. Absolutely nothing came to mind. All he could remember was the feverish nightmares. Kagome had been captured by his bastard brother and forced to stay with him in order to save their friends. These hellish dreams plagued him every night. He didn’t know exactly how long he had been out of it, but he was going to give Kagome another 24 hours before he went into her time to go and get her. This was ridiculous her being gone this long. He really needed her here so they could gather the last few remaining jewel shards and defeat Naraku for good.







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Shippou was walking over to Inuyasha when he was stopped in his tracks by a semi-translucent soul collector, then another. He then sprinted over to Inuyasha hoping he wouldn’t see the soul collectors headed West above his head.







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Inuyasha was about to get up from his grass pressed position when he caught a familiar reflection in the water and looked up.



“Soul collectors. What are they doing here?” he spoke to no one in particular.



He stood there motionless watching as more and more of the dragon like demons floated past him. After a few moments, he decided to go after them. Not once noticing the little kitsune running to catch up to him calling his name.







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Kouga paced back and forth furiously in his clan’s den stirring up little tufts of dirt every time he turned.



“She WILL be mine” he kept muttering. “She’s MY woman and that damned dog demon won’t keep me from her. He’d better not lay a single dirty disgusting paw on her!” He slammed his fist into a nearby table nearly causing it to break.



“My Lord Kouga” one of his brothers spoke up “how do you plan on getting past the dog demon? He has no shards and can best any other demon around.”



Kouga’s eyes were wild. His breathing hard and fast. His own brothers were questioning him? They dare say he was weak? He had a plan. A very good plan that would get his woman out of that mongrels grasp. Then no one, not his clan, nor any of the other demon lords could say that he was weak. Ever.







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Sango sat with Kaede in her little hut discussing what was going on in the village that needed extra attention that Kaede couldn’t give. Miroku had placed himself in a quiet corner attempting to meditate before he could be interrupted by an angry hanyou.



“Rumors are roaming throughout the villages that Kouga is gathering an army to storm Lord Sesshoumaru’s castle. You know he’s only doing this to get to Kagome. The man has gone nuts!” Sango continued to stir the now steaming stew hanging above the fire pit in the middle of the hut.



“Aye, I believe ye are right about this one. He is a danger to our Kagome. We must find a way to stop him.” Kaede made to reach for the bowls before her side hitched in pain and Sango got up to get them.



“Or at the very least, get a message to the castle.”



“Aye, I wholeheartedly agree my dear Sango. Thank you.”



Just outside the door to Kaede’s hut, and a little ways down the path to the village was a small fox cub and a twin tailed cat running as fast as their little feet could carry them.



“Sango! Miroku! Come quick! Inuyasha’s gone after Kikyo again!” cried Shippou.



“Meow!” answered Kirara.



Sango and Kaede turned to look at Miroku as he slumped his shoulders and all managed a muttered an almost perfectly unison “Oh no. Not again.”







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Kagome felt so drowsy and weak. She was beginning to slowly wake from her strange dream. Only, her body was moving and she wasn’t in control of it.



‘What the hell?’



Then as she fluttered her gorgeous blue orbs open, the sight before her was certainly a deathly scare and such required, she screamed. Lord Sesshoumaru in all his beastly form was saddled above her stripping her of her clothing. She discovered she was already topless, and he was about to move down to tug at her pants.



Sesshoumaru grabbed at his pointy dog ears.



“Damn woman, why is your voice piercingly so?” He searched for something to gag her with so he could explain the situation. There lay a kerchief on the tray with medicines. That would suffice. Sesshoumaru gagged her with the small cloth to keep her quiet.

 

“This Sesshoumaru is trying to find any wound that may be ailing you, you damned wench.”

“Nothing is ailing me, now get off!” At least that’s what she tried to say around her gag.

Sesshoumaru growled at her.

“Now, will you please explain to This Sesshoumaru as to why you began to glow while around my ward?” Her eyes widened. “Yes, your aura appeared to her. Or maybe you could do better and enlighten me as to why I smell that disgusting hanyou brother of mine on you.”



Both questions, she really had no answer for.  Kagome found that she still did not feel well, and that the more she moved, the more on fire she felt. She felt a small tremor start as she realized that the Lord Sesshoumaru before her was not the same crass demon as before. He slowly removed her temporary gag, making his lower regions twitch. Though her body felt as if it were a living torch, she warmed to this inuyoukai sitting on the side of the bed.



“Well little miko, are you going to answer my question or not?”



There went that warm feeling.



“First of all you jerk, can you honestly in good faith not say my name? In case you have forgotten which is possible since you manners have been misplaced, it is Kagome. Ka-go-me. It’s really not that hard to say. As far as to answering your question, I know about as much as you do. Lord Sesshoumaru.”



Jaken had been in the corner waiting to run off on any errand his master would send him when he heard the repulsive human girl speak. He held his breath for sure that his master would destroy her on the spot for speaking so rudely to his Lord Sesshoumaru.



Seconds passed tensely…



He did not. In fact, he began to laugh. Lord Sesshoumaru laughing? This was getting odd indeed. Kagome just glared at him since it was all she could manage. Kagome felt her eyes getting heavy again. She fought to keep them open.



“Oh my little miko. I am starting to believe that you were a needed change in my castle.” The ever stoic mask soon returned. “You may stay in these bedchambers while you recover from whatever ails you presently. However these are still my bedchambers and I WILL still need the use of my bed.” He loved the way her eyes almost bulged at the thought of them sharing a bed, but without revealing it underneath his ever present mask.



Kagome thought the man was nuts. Utterly and positively nuts. Yet, there wasn’t much else to say or think since she was sinking back down into slumber. Her eyelids dragging themselves, covering her magnificent blue eyes.



Sesshoumaru sat there watching her as she sank back down into her deep sleep assisted by the drug that was in the cloth. When he was sure that she was under the cloak of dreams, he continued to undress her sliding off the dainty shoes that covered her feet. He placed each shoe at the end of the bed then finished pulling at the ties that held her pants safely to her slipping them down her luscious cream colored legs.



He could already feel the ever haunting erection coming. His demonic heart sped up, and his breath hitched a bit. His eyes gazed from her little toes up to her newly stretched legs, on up her curvier hips. Damn all things that be there was a small cloth covering her most precious spot that he would most love to touch. Those honeyed amber eyes sambaed up further to her delicious breasts, moving ever so slightly as she breathed in and out. They were even more beautiful out from the cloth that always covered her. As he lingered there, his hand absently reached out to graze a rosy nipple, and sighed a little when it peaked. He was then brought back to his whereabouts as he felt an oozing of precum slide down his hardened cock.



‘Damn it all to hell, what is this girl doing to me?’



He began to get up from his spot upon the futon.



“Sleep well.”



He walked as best he could with his cock hard as a rock to the doors, and was almost out before he whispered “My Kagome.”



Jaken ran up behind him.



“So Mi’ Lord, what are we going to do with wretched human girl?”



“Jaken?”



He knew THAT tone of voice. “Y-Yes Mi’ Lord?”



“Leave me.”



“Yes master.” With that he disappeared like a comet in the night.



Sesshoumaru stopped walking.



“I guess this needs taking care of before I can go back there again.” Then the mighty Lord Sesshoumaru did something he had once done before. He let out a long sigh.







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Kouga was just leaving another village with a smile on his face. He was spreading rumors about Sesshoumaru and his castle, and they were catching on like wildfire much to his amusement. Soon he would have an army of demons AND humans to take on Lord Sesshoumaru’s castle and guards. Of course the humans would be a mere distraction so he and his men could penetrate the castle walls. Alas, there was something else that was on his mind that he would like to penetrate at that moment.



“Soon, my dear Kagome…soon.”







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The closer Inuyasha got, the more soul collectors he saw, and the deeper into the woods he got. He must be getting closer to Kikyo, he knew it. Maybe she had an answer as to why he lost his memory. It eluded him every day that has passed. He clenched his fists tighter as he continued to walk.



‘Damned it all, why did Kagome choose of all times to leave now? She doesn’t ever leave when I’m…when I’m not well. She knows better than to leave me so vulnerable in my human form.’



“Damn you Kagome.”



“Is that you Inuyasha?” A soothing voice called to him.



Inuyasha stopped in his tracks and looked up into a great tree ahead of him. Kikyo was propped up by several of the trees branches. Her body may be made of dirt and clay, and her soul a mere portion of Kagome’s, but she still hindered his heart from beating in his chest. Kikyo was a lovely sight dead or alive. Her gorgeous straight black hair hung loosely around her, her always pale face was one of a long forgotten goddess, not to mention she had a body to die for. Inuyasha laughed to himself at that one.



“Kikyo, what’s going on? Do you know what’s wrong with me?”



“Inuyasha, why do you always presume I have all the answers?”



“Kikyo, look at me. Do I look normal to you?!”



Kikyo opened her eyes to slits; let her head fall to the side so she could catch a glimpse of him, and when she didn’t see the luxurious silver hair she always loved alive or dead, she sat up alarmed.



“Inuyasha, what have you done? Why do you look so…so human?”



“Woman, that’s why I’m asking you! I don’t fucking know. If I did, I wouldn’t have followed your soul collectors out here.”



“Of course you would have” she smiled “you always follow them to find me, and you know it.”



“Damn it Kikyo! You’re not helping me any.”



“I never did.”



Inuyasha growled as best he could as a human.



“Fine then. See if I care the next time YOU need MY help.”



“I don’t and you always do.”



“Grrr…why did I ever love you in the first place?! You can be so fucking infuriating!” Inuyasha turned and walked back towards the village, picking his way amongst the brush muttering under his breath.



“Inuyasha wait!” She called, but he was too stubborn. He continued to walk away from her.



‘So, he really does love me. Too bad I don’t really care anymore. We can’t be together now that I’m dead and he’s still, well, not.’ Kikyo lay back on her perch absorbing what little warmth the souls gave her as the souls collectors dropped them near.







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Sesshoumaru was lounging if you can call what he was doing lounging, in his great chair in the library. He was reading a book filled with old faery tales and legends to Rin since Kagome was still in bed recovering.



It had been several days since she first became sick and he was getting quite tired of sharing his bed with a sheet-stealer. Whenever he wished to cover up, Kagome fiercely pulled them completely over her although she was already wrapped up in them. He didn’t realize he had stopped reading until Rin called his name.



“Lord Sesshoumaru?”



“Hai my little one?”



“Lord Sesshoumaru, I-I think I made Lady Kagome sick.”



His heart stopped for a moment. “Oh? And how is that Rin?”



“Well, we were talking and I was brushing her beautiful hair, and then…and then” Rin burst into tears “I asked her to be my mommy and if she would marry you so the two of you could be my parents” she managed to get through the body wracking sobs.



Sesshoumaru couldn’t help but laugh at her. Mated? To Kagome? He laughed even more. But the thought was already planted in his mind. No, he couldn’t do that. Especially as he was now. He was a hideous beast. He really couldn’t understand why Rin and the other human servants weren’t scared of him. Maybe this is how they always saw him.



“Rin, please stop your little tears. You did not make the Lady Kagome sick. There was nothing you could have done to prevent her from her present state.”



“Really? Really and truly Lord Sesshoumaru?”



“Yes. Now dry your tears.” His mind was whirling.



Rin sniffled and slipped off his lap to reach for the drawer of kerchiefs.



“And Rin-chan? You must keep this between us, but when it’s just you and I, you may call me Papa-san. Don’t tell anyone. Not even your beloved Lady Kagome.”



Rin’s face beamed at him through the last glistening tears.



“Yes Lord Sesshoumaru, I mean Papa-san! I promise. Just me and you!” With that she ran off to get settled into bed for it was late into the night.



‘No need to give the child false hope that I would keep that woman around. I only want her hidden secrets, to know why and how she transformed me…and maybe that delectable body of hers. Which I think I just might go explore right now.’







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I’m trying to think of why I haven’t given voice to Sesshy’s hidden beast yet.  I think maybe I was thinking his “inner beast” slightly came out as he transformed.  I don’t know.  I’ll figure it out.  Read and review!





~Much Love~

Faerie Demoness