Dancing blades, Silks, and Sakura Blossoms

Levii: Hey everybody! Levii here! Sorry that it took so long to update but I was, err, distracted and the distractees would like to say something… boys?

Miroku, Sess, Inu (standing there, looking somewhat dejected): We’re sorry

Sess: It is partially your fault, you could have stopped.

Levii: You have to be joking! Oh and to mybyrdy… give me the milk!

Disclaimer: I don’t own it

Warning: LEMON!

Dancing Blades, Silks, and Sakura Blossoms
Chapter Nine

Sango and Kagome sat in the hot springs, much like they would have were they still on the road with InuYasha searching for jewel shards. But unlike those happy, almost simple, days, their minds were now laden with worry for both InuYasha and Yumi. Yumi was now in the sinister clutches of Naraku, enduring, kami knows, all kinds of torment. While InuYasha was suffering as well, his emotions were now in extremes. At one moment, he would be unresponsive and so utterly depressed that he would refuse ramen. But, most of the time he was angry and impatient. He wanted to go out and find Yumi. In his opinion, the others were moving way too slow. Kagome sighed, yeah that was InuYasha for you.

Kagome thanked the gods that she had Sesshomaru to help her deal with this. Yumi was her sister by blood and power; she was feeling just as lost as her poor hanyou friend. She then looked over at Sango. Yumi had a way of bonding with people the first moment she met them, even Sango, whom had spent little with her, was feeling a sort of withdrawal from Yumi’s aura. Kagome sighed. Sango had no one to truly comfort her, save Miroku. Kagome then had a brilliant idea. She remembered what Yumi had said that first night she had met them all as they sat around the fire listening to her stories of InuYasha as a child.

[Flashback]

“Sango obviously has feelings for Miroku, who reciprocates but they refuse to believe that the other has these feelings, therefore making Miroku grope Sango more than others and Sango inflict more verbal and physical pain upon his person.”

[End Flashback]

Kagome smiled deviously. ‘Yumi was planning something at that very moment. She wanted to set Sango and Miroku up. Well, since she’s not here, I’ll do it for her! But how?’

Sango eyed Kagome suspiciously. She did not like that look Kagome was wearing. “What are you thinking about, Kagome?”

Kagome then remembered that one of her intended targets was in the room with her. Quickly, she thought of some way to save herself. “Just about the morning after we had trapped InuYasha and Yumi inside the dojo. Miroku was so scared that InuYasha was going to kill him, but then Yumi redirected his irritation from Miroku to her by insulting him.”

Sango laughed. “She is really good at manipulating him. Remember that first night we met her and told those embarrassing stories about InuYasha?”

Kagome giggled. “I know, it totally tore down that tough guy thing he projects.”

“While we were gone, and were searching for shards, I couldn’t get the thought of a chibi InuYasha carrying an injured rabbit out of my mind. Every time I looked at him I couldn’t help but laugh or say kawaii.”

Kagome laughed out loud. “Oh that’s just precious! Poor InuYasha, he must have been mortified.”

Sango nodded. “He stopped making eye contact with me intentionally for weeks!”

Kagome covered her mouth as she laughed. “Oh, how kawaii!”

****

Sesshomaru was ready to rip InuYasha’s throat out, again. he was ranting to hiin ain and the other lords, once again, about how he wanted, nay, needed to save Yumi now.

“InuYasha, calm down!” Jin shouted.

“I’ll fucking calm down when she’s no longer in that bastard’s hands!”

“Do you believe that you are the sole being here that cares for Yumi? That you alone feel helpless now that she is in Naraku’s hands?” Jin asked.

“I might as well be! You’re not doing anything!”

“War takes time, InuYasha. It is not something to be taken lightly,” Sesshomaru stated coolly.

“Until we know where Naraku is, we cannot do anything, young prince,” Lord Shin of the Norn Lan Lands reminded.

“Shin is right, even if you were to go after them on your own, you would not find them,” Lord Tsurai of the Central Lands agreed.

“Even if, by some miracle, you were to find Naraku. You know as well as I do that it would be a trap,” Miroku added. Miroku had been welcomed by the war council, being one of the few to have fought the monster and live, even if he was human.

InuYasha glared at the monk angrily. “I don’t see how you have any say in this, bouzo! You are unmated and have no idea what it’s like to have a mate and lose them.”

Miroku was getting just as sick of InuYasha as the others, but he had held back. He quietly gripped his cursed hand and squeezed the cold beads into the gauntlet that covered it. InuYasha and the others had no idea what it was like to be him. to feel an unbearable pain every moment of your waking and sleeping hours, to feel your life slowly be pulled into a void in your own hand. He could feel it eat away at him, body and soul at this very moment. He had maybe a year left to live, if he was lucky. He had pretty much given up on bearing an heir to carry on his quest once he was gone. His heart was with the ravishingly gorgeous demon exterminator that only saw him as a friend. He had hoped she would be the bearer of his heir, but he was losing that hope. Despite Yumi’s display of their innermost feelings to each other, Sango had become no closer to him than she had before that night, if anything; they were farther apart than ever.

InuYasha took note of the despair on his friend’s face and turned back to Jin and the other lords. “We need to at now!”

Jin and Sesshomaru groaned. For a moment there, it seemed that the monk had stopped InuYasha, but they were mistaken. “I will tell you. One. Last. Time. So listen and listen well,” Jin growled. “We cannot act rashly against Naraku. My sister is quite capable of dealing with Naraku, even in her condition, for the time being. Until we can clearly locate the abomination that is Naraku we can, and will, do nothing. Is that understood?”

InuYasha looked angrier, he obviously wasn’t listening. “No, I say we take the fight to him before he does anything to her!”

The room gro. Mi. Miroku had had it. InuYasha wasn’t going to listen to reason. Miroku’s patience snapped and he stood abruptly, a look of anger on his usually calm features. “That’s it! For once, InuYasha, shut your trap and think! You are not the only person with hatred towards Naraku!”

“Oh for Kami’s sake, bouzo, you have-”

“No! I said shut up! I’m sick of hearing it, InuYasha! I know you love her, we all do! I know you’re scared for her, I understand that, but please, do not think you are the only one here that has or is suffering!”

“What do you mean?” InuYasha asked, Miroku’s words had hit him and the look of sadness in his eyes were distracting him from his rant.

Miroku took a deep breath and smiled sadly to his friend. ‘I might as well tell them all. It’s the only way to stop InuYasha.’ “I am dying, InuYasha. I never told you or the others, but I will tell you now, if only to show you that you are not alone. The Kazanna in my hand is growing, I have perhaps, a year to live. But what I never told you is that even as I stand before you, it is killing me. Yes, one day it will suck me into the void and I will be completely gone, but before that, it slowly sucks away your spirit. I can feel my life being sucked away by this curse. But, you know what, InuYasha? I have a feeling that even if I were to die right now, Naraku wouldn’t be far behind.”

The room was dead silent. InuYasha and the other lords had been stunned into silence. InuYasha took a step towards his friend. “Miroku…”

Miroku continued, “I also love someone to the point that I would throw my life away for hers. but, unlike you, I have not and probably will never tell them. I’m sure I would be just as enraged and hurt as you are at this moment if Naraku had her, but you must be patient, my friend. Hold onto those moments you had with Yumi and the love she has for you and please, be patient.”

InuYasha nodded. “Okay, Miroku, I’ll be patient, for now,” he said solemnly as he took his seat between Sesshomaru and Miroku.

Jin and Sesshomaru, along with the other lords, were in shock. “Monk,” Jin stated, “you cannot be human, or at least you should not be. I believe that we are blessed to have you on our side.”

Miroku bowed his head to Jin. “I am humbled by your compliment, Lord Jin.”

InuYasha watched as his friend sat there, knowing that he was slowly dying and still going on. ‘why the hell doesn’t he just tell Sango that he loves her?’

****

Kagome walked aimlessly down the halls, her mind buzzing with ideas. ‘I can always lock them in the hot springs together…’ “But how would I convince them?”

“Convince who to do what?” a cool voice asked from behind her.

Kagome spun around to see Sesshomaru behind her. “Don’t you know it’s rude to sneak up on people?”

Sesshomaru pulled her into his arms and nuzzled her neck. “You are my mate, startling you is no longer considered rude.”

“Oh? And where, oh great Sesshomaru, did this rule come from?”

“It is of this Sesshomaru’s creation.”

“I see, well then I must say one thing in response to this new rule,” Kagome sai she she returned the embrace and brought her face inches from his.

“And what, pray tell, is that?”

“It’s really lame,” she whispered as she leaned in and pressed her lips to his.

Sesshomaru lost the thought to ask what lame mein tin that context, and returned the kiss with a passion that he had been holding onto since this morning, when they could not engage in ‘activities’ because of the meeting.

Kagome moaned as one of his hands made it’s way to her chest and began to massage one of her breasts. She then pulled away slightly to look him in the eye. “We’re in the hall.”

Sesshomaru began to trail kisses down her neck. “I care not.”

“What if someone sees us?” she asked.

“Then they will go away.”

“What if it’s Miroku?”

Sesshomaru stopped. “You have a point. Although I respect the monk, I do not approve of the lech’s ways sometimes.”

“You and me both.”

Sesshomaru glanced about the hall; the door to the library was open and had the potential to be locked. He scanned for others inside and smirked. It was empty. He then scooped Kagome up into his arms and dashed inside. He then locked the door and went back to his mate, whom was now lying on a couch. He sealed his lips to hers and grabbed her breasts again, making her moan once again. he absolutely adored the noises she made during sex, it made him hard just thinking about how many he could produce from her.

Kagome felt his, already hard, length press against her thigh. Kagome gasped slightly as he ground it against her. He then took her bottom lip on his teeth and nibbled it slightly before plundering her mouthh hih his own.

Kagome kissed back with equal need and desire. “Sessho…” she said between kisses. “Please… don’t tease me,” she pleaded.

“What do you want, Kagome?” he asked, his voice husky with want.

Kagome wiggled her hips against his. “You know damn well what I want.”

Sesshomaru smirked. She could be a little wild cat when she wanted to be. “And that would be?”

Kagome growled at her mate. He was teasing her again! She then smirked evilly and grabbed his manhood through his hakema. She squeezed it, causing him to close his eyes and groaI waI want you, koi, inside me, now!” she commanded.

Sesshomaru opened his eyes half way and smiled back. “Whatever you want, mate,” he said as he sliced through her kimono, leaving it in tatters on the floor.

Kagome glared at her mate. “I’m going to need that later, you know,”

Sesshomaru then removed his clothes and neatly placed them in a pile behind him within an instant. “I know,” he answered before he pulled her once again into his arms and kissed her fiercely.

Kagome forgot about her clothes and focused back to Sesshomaru. She’d get him back later. She wrapped her arms about his neck and returned his kiss, their tongues battling once again for dominance. Sesshomaru walked them over to a wall and lifted her so she was suspended off the floor between him and the wall. She insta wra wrapped her long legs around his waist, pressing her heat against his length. Sesshomaru groaned at the sensations she was making just by doing this. He then pulled away from the kiss and locked his lust filled gaze with her own.

“You have no idea what you do to me,” he stated.

Kagome smiled. “Of course I do, that’s why I do it.”

Sesshomaru rose and eyebrow. “One day I will know what goes on in that pretty head of yours.”

Kagome shook her heaMaybMaybe, but that’s not today,” she said as she once again kissed him.

Sesshomaru then held her up with one arm and positioned himself at her entrance with the other, rubbing her with his engorged head. Kagome moaned and bucked her hips against his, trying to get him completely inside her, but he was insistent on torturing her.

“I love you, Kagome,” he whispered into her ear.

Kagome pulled back and looked into his eyes with a bit of shock. But before she could respond, he plunged inside her to the hilt. Kagome gasped and mewled as he began thrusting inside her. Soon, both were unable to say anything coherently as they moved in their primal dance.

Kagome let her head fall back against the wall as she was washed over with pleasure and let out a piercing scream. Sesshomaru buried his face in her neck as he let loose a roar and released his seed deep inside her trembling body.

The pair slowly slid down the wall until they reached the floor, gasping for breath. Kagome curled up to her mate and purred with contentment. Sesshomaru had his arms about Kagome as he listened to her breathe. He was truly happy when she was in his arms, more so than he had ever been in his entire life. He figured that InuYasha probably felt the same way about Yumi and was probably as lost as he would be if he lost Kagome.

Kagome looked about the room they were in. it was Jin’s study. She suppressed a giggle and then sat upright quickly. “Oh shit!” she gasped.

Sesshomaru looked at his mate in question. “what is it?”

“This is, um, Jin’s study, and he has a key.”

“And?”

“And I can feel his ki headed this way.”

Sesshomaru paused. “I see.” he then grabbed his clothing and began to dress.

Kagome looked over to where her kimono lay in ruin. “What the hell am I supposed to do?”

Sesshomaru tossed her his outer haori. “This should do for now.”

Kagome quickly plaed it on her body and secured it with her obi, which was surprisingly intact. This was good, because at that moment Jin opened the door and entered the room. His blue eyes were wide as he noticed his sister and Sesshomaru’s state. He then chuckled.

“You two had to use my study for one of your escapades?” he asked.


“It was better than the hall at that moment,” Sesshomaru stated.

Kagome was now as red as a tomato. Not only had her brother just walked in on her and her mate, but Sesshomaru had to be such an egotistical… jerk! Jin was now full out laughing. “I’m glad, that would have been even more uncomfortable for Kagome. You tow should probably go get her another kimono. As I can see, you and InuYasha have the same tendency to literally rip the clothing off your mates.”

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes and then turned to Kagome. “Let’s leave him, now.”

Kagome nodded and briskly exited the room, with her mate on her heels. She didn’t stop walking until she was safely behind her chamber doors. She then turned to Sesshomaru and glared at him. “You couldn’t have left my kimono intact?”

“I was in the heat of the moment.”

“Well you certainly weren’t when you undressed yourself.”

“Does it matter? He didn’t care.”

Kagome sighed, exhausted still from her recent, ‘escapade’ as Jin put it. She then crawled onto the bed, still dressed in Sesshomaru’s haori. She felt the mattress dip as Sesshomaru curled up behind her and wrapped an arm about her. “Do you have any idea how mI loI love the look of you in my clothes?” he whispered in her ear.

Kagome turned to him and smiled. “I am so going to get you back for that, you know.”

“I’m sure you will try.”

“Try nothing! I’m so getting you back!”

Sesshomaru shrugged. “It wouldn’t be the first time you did something devious.”

“What? I am not devious!”

“I do recall that it was yho oho orchestrated InuYasha’s and Yumi’s entrapment.”

Kagome rolled her eyes. “You planned it.”

“But I am evil, iexpeexpected of me to do so.”

“You’re not evil!” she declared as she cuddled closer to her mate. “Anyways, that reminds me, I need your help with something.”

“Would it be involving the monk and the exterminator?”

Kagome smiled. “Great minds do think alike! Will you help?”

Sesshomaru thought for a moment and then grinned. “It would be my pleasure. I’m sure InuYasha will want to have a hand in this as well.”

Kagome smiled. “Good! The more the merrier!” she said as she snuggled even closer to Sesshomaru. “Ai shiteru, Sesshomaru,” she whispered as she drifted off to sleep.

Sesshomaru kissed the top of her head and tightened his arms about her. “Ai shiteru, my mate.”

****

Levii: Oh, I’m good!

Sess: I am pleased with your lemon, woman.

Levii (Sarcasm dripping off every word): Well, I live to serve, oh great Sesshomaru.

Inu: Are we going to save Yumi?

Miroku: Am I going to have my moment?

Levii: Will you both shut up! Yes, Yumi will eventually be saved. And I’m sure within the next few chapters there shall be a Miroku/Sango lemon. Don’t worry! Gah! Actors!

Inu: Why are you so… edgy, today?

Levii: I am not being edgy

Miroku: I sense that you are being tense. Here, let me help. (Begins a back massage on Levii)

Levii: Yes, that is nice! ^_^

Miroku: See, I told you it would. (Rubs a little too low, purposely)

Levii: O.O

Inu: (growling) Remove the hand, Miroku

Sess: before we remove it ourselves

Levii: Aww… you guys are fighting over me!

Inu: ‘Course, you made us this way.

Levii: Oh yeah, hmm… what else can I do with you boys… ^_<

Sess: Remember to read and review, and cookies are very welcome… excuse us… (All three boys run off with Levii over Sess’s shoulder.)

Levii: Until next time, Ja Ne! Let’s go boys! ^_^