Warning: Mild Lemon
Chapter 11: Inuyasha and Sesshomaru
You know what blows more than having to be mated to your best friend's love? Having to sit there and anticipate the upcoming moment with a cringing tight feeling in your stomach. Almost as if waiting for that time of punishment to appear after such a long time. I had that feeling before when I cut Father's hair once in his sleep and he came searching for me like a dog high on one of God Father's strange medicinal herbs. I hid for nearly two days scared of the beating I knew I would get and thought hiding it out would save my skin. Ha, fat chance. My ass was red enough to light the way home.
Funny how a small memory like that was enough to make me feel better even if it was only for a short while. Mating with Yoko was becoming harder and harder for me to deal with each passing day. Every second that disappeared only brought me that much closer to my unwanted coupling with my god brother. But I will say that Yoko's been making it easier to cope with. He's been sweet if that was the manly term for it. He's come to visit me every day, giving soft touches and minor kisses on my lips and cheeks. So at least if we were mated I knew that he would be gentle with me.
Funny though but I was a little ok with mating with him but I still wanted Sesshomaru more. Hn, too bad I couldn't have both of 'em.
I could have the best of both worlds, I thought chuckling to myself. Imagine the four of us all together in some freaky mated group.
Running a clawed hand through my pale mane, I continue to sit by the river flowing outside of the palace pondering over the upcoming preparations. Everyone was overly active today, trying to please Father's every whim and wish like the idiotic servants they were.
It was all I could do not to blow the entire place to kingdom come, with the constant blabbering about what needed to go where and how this or that wasn't correct. So that left me with two options. The first being I either leave the castle before Father was shorthanded on his staff. Two was to take out my frustrations on the workers and risk being beaten to a bloody pulp by my old man.
…I'm not that brave. So this was why I was currently laying down, looking up at the passing clouds that resembled the fogged haze in my mind. This secluded oasis was my own personal get away from the world of prep and perks. And no one knew of it but me.
"Inuyasha?"
Well I forgot three others knew of it. And the object of my secret heartfelt affections was one of them. "What?" I grunt rudely hoping that he'd leave.
No luck there. The stubborn fool was more head strong then I was.
Sesshomaru took a graceful sit next to me in his usual one leg draw up with the hand lazily drifted over the knee position with his other limb stretched out. "Ok seriously don't you get uncomfortable sitting like that all the time?" It was so annoying seeing him trying to be all dignified even in the middle of nowhere.
"This is how I am accustomed to sitting. Once again I'm forced to explain a fact to you that you're already aware of."
Why does he always have to be such a diplomatic jackass? "Keh, whatever. Catch a damn cramp for all I care." I exaggeratedly stretch out my arms and legs sighing. "To bad you can't be as laid back as I am, being that you're the heir and all. Me? Hn, I can do as I please."
"Your bearings are as high as my own. You just choose to be a lazy mongrel on free will. However," The next move came as a surprise to me when he casually fell back to lay his head next to me. "I will concur that there is no point in being well mannered when others aren't present."
I smiled to myself thinking how it was rare to see this relaxed side of him. I've noticed how since the announcement over the mating he hasn't been as cold to me as before. This was probably brought on by the fact that he was taking pity on me. Whatever the reason, I didn't mind it. As long as we were able to spend quiet moments like this together, I would take whatever purpose it serves with open arms.
After a few minutes of silence I turn to see his profile basking in golden light of the day illuminating his face, striking me at how…how beautiful Sesshomaru really is. The pale glow of his skin from the top of his moon imprinted forehead to the slender tone of his neck caused very erotic thoughts to surface in my mind. Like what would it be like to trace my finger over his markings, how my lips would feel against his smooth soft neck. How would he react to such motions? Would he reject them or welcome them with the same enthusiasm as I would?
Taking a deep breathe my head angled more to get a better look at his chiseled features for a closer inspection. His head was only a few inches from my face. His eyes are sealed shut with his maroon eyelids, and I notice the slight tilt of his lips curving on the side I'm observing. Everything about him was perfect…so beautiful…so luminous…so….
"You're staring Inuyasha."
So busted. "No I'm not."
"Yes you were."
"You're paranoid. Why the hell would I want to stare at your girly ass?" I close my eyes briefly to ignore the flutter of butterflies in my chest at being caught.
"Your intensified look of lust confirms that you perhaps..."
"Perhaps what?" I grunted.
My eyes snapped open when I heard the low shift of grass next to me. Suddenly my heart is beating a million miles south to my stomach when his gorgeous face is hovering over mine and his hands are on either side of my head. Taking in a shuddering breath, I lick my lips unconsciously as he lowers his face even closer to my own so that our noses are nearly touching.
"Why were you looking at me in such a way?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" I answer breathlessly.
"Like," His mouth descends to my ear sending roaring shivers to my spine. "You wish to kiss me?" He asked with a husky tone in his deep voice.
Oh Kami his voice was so mind boggling. "I-I don't know." Come on yes you do. You want to slop the living sexiness out of him.
"Are you sure? Your eyes tell me otherwise."
What was the big deal? I've kissed him plenty of time before. So another little peck wouldn't hurt would it? Wrong. I haven't kissed Sesshomaru since my 200th birthday. I thought that since my feelings were intensifying that they would spiral out of control. But I wanted this. If… if it was just a small touch. I wanted it. "Sesshomaru?"
"Yes?"
"Kiss me...please."
For a moment I didn't think he heard me. He just continued to stare at my face as if studying things he'd only began to notice up until now. His long finger shifted down to my chin lifting it so slightly before lending in and pressing his lips to my waiting ones. And just like that, I had what I'd been waiting for for so many years. The truest kiss I've been wanting to share with my beloved brother for so long.
Soaring heat circulated around the two of us in a tornado of desire. By slow tantalizing degrees, the kiss evolved into something more. Something in my chest begging for more but I already knew I was getting so much from just this. Heated desire rose and migrated down my spine to the base of my groin in searing waves.
I felt his index and thumb tug at my bottom lip for entry. I didn't hesitate giving him permission to invade my mouth. His tongue was so thick and warm coiling around my short one. He constricted and stroked my mouth in ways I've never experienced before. It was so wonderful. Everything I've ever imagined it to be and then some. My body has never felt so close to spontaneously combusting on the spot. His hand reached over to angle my head for a better point and I took it all in strides.
Strange soft moans echoed between us and I couldn't tell who was making them. Probably me. Mostly me. No they were all from me. My pleasure increased when he somehow maneuvered himself between my legs spreading them for his body to fit. I gasped slightly at the feel of him grinding his crotch firmly against my pelvis. " Ohhhh S-Sesshomaru."
I assume the moan of his name sent him off the deep end because I heard a low growl against my lips just as he's attacking my neck.
It felt so amazing. All I had dreamed of and wished couldn't compare to what was happening now. My hand reached up to push his face deeper into my neck increasing the sucking motion, tearing at my skin. The slight pain mattered not to me for it was overwhelmed with pleasure. One of my legs circled around his, leaving no space between us. I didn't want anything between us. Not now. Not ever. "Kami, Sesshomaru yes... Yes... Oh yes."
His kiss and touches were driving me mad. "Ah yes… Ah Kami yes…Ah.." Hearing my own moans was turning me on. I could stay this way forever. Just me and him here in this hidden glade with the sun shining down on the sin we were about to commit. This sin was one I would gladly to go to hell for if it meant we could commence it together.
Sesshomaru sat up from my neck, trailing slow burning kisses on my jawline. "Inuyasha we need to stop. This mustn't go to far." Although he kept going on further to my collarbone.
"No oh please no." I wanted this so badly. I swear I'd kill him if he stopped. "Please just a little bit more." I whispered, tilting my neck to the side for more of his heart stopping caresses. "I like what what you're doing to me. Please don't stop."
The smothering flames that licked at his iris ignited into a liquid gold. "You are so young and naïve in the ways of pleasure. Of course you will enjoy what I am doing to you. "
Sesshomaru lifted up, pulling back my shoulder sleeve until down to my elbow, exposing half of my chest. My breathing was becoming thick and heated. I wanted this so badly. I needed this. My face felt so hot as if the sun were directly on my skin. I could feel the sweat dripping down the small of my back in anticipation of what was to come next. My vision was becoming blurred, unclear yet I could see something happening to my brother.
His eyes…his eyes were turning red. "Sesshomaru?"
He didn't answer. He just kept his gaze on my revealed flesh as if considering where to devour me. My instincts began to kick in. I was feeling nervous. Like I was prey about to be torn apart by the hunter. "Sesshomaru what's wrong?" I asked reaching up to cup his cheek.
I watched his lips slightly part to lick at the dryness gathering at his mouth. His chest was heaving up and down in repeated spouts. If it were possible I could almost see the misty lust emitting from his mouth.
The elder brother stared, darting his red eyes from the hand on his face to the younger one's showcasted flesh beckoning for a taste. His vision was painted in red. All he saw was lust and the smell of the most tantalizing scent he'd ever smelled. It was so sweet and yet tangy on his taste buds. The odor swirled and tangled in his senses sending him to a new high.
"Sesshomaru?" I repeated quietly, feeling afraid. That look in his eyes, what did it mean?
The other hand positioned by my head shifted over to cup my face, moved down to my kimono sleeve and eased it down to show the other half of my chest. The heated gaze I was becoming hypnotized in, caused butterflies in my stomach. What was wrong with him?
Sesshomaru's hands came to meet dead center on my chest stroking along my skin. My breathing hitched at the clawed strokes. His face descended down to my neck again near my pulse point. His tongue licked extremely slowly on that particular area until it began to feel raw. I squirmed and wiggled at the hot wetness soaking my flesh. My voice reached a new octave when his fangs dragged on my skin. I could feel something building. Something heavy in my body. I was so close. So close to just...just...close to…to…
Thump Suddenly a fisted rock came sailing from out of nowhere slamming into Sesshomaru's temple with enough force to knock his vision back to clear gold. The hit didn't hurt him but stunned him back to reality. His face seemed confused as if not knowing what he'd been doing. He looked down at my undressed attire than at how he was saddled on my hips. "Inuyasha I...I…" He shook his head of the growing headache.
I straightened out my clothes placing coming to support him but he shoved me away. "Hey what's your deal?" I said surprised at the rough treatment.
I didn't receive a reply.
Sesshomaru stood up holding his aching head and headed off into the castle leaving me feeling a bit awkward. You the feeling you get of rejection but hoped that no one saw it because it's too embarrassing? Yea I got that in the pit of my stomach. Not mention if you mixed that in with the submissive instincts that kicked in right after I seen that strange glow in his eyes. It paralyzed me. I couldn't move. Almost as if I was intended to stay put. This was so weird. What had just happened just now?
Oh Sesshomaru. What's wrong with you?
Sesshomaru No reasons were good enough to explain the crime I nearly committed near the lake with my brother. Not only did I risk taking my brother's virtue I actually revaluated in being his first. The smell of his arousal sent the wrong message to my inner dominance wishing to overtake him. No more could such mistakes take place. I knew than that my feelings couldn't be ignored any longer.
The immature jealousy of when he was around others, the overprotection of his well-being, the constant need to be near him, the overwhelming desire to hold him close when he was upset and the dying want of being buried inside of his heated treasured. All of these emotions assured me of something I've been denying for far too long. I wanted to claim the boy. No no no no… more than claim him; I wanted to make him mine fully. Mind, Body, and Soul. I wanted all of him.
But why had it take until the announcement of him being betrothed to Kurama, make me want him now? Is it more of a need to keep the boy to myself or perhaps something deeper?
As I pondered over this more I didn't hear the soft knock from my door until the gentle click signaled that I had a visitor.
"Well Little Brother. I see you're in deep thought." Came the teased voice of Kurama.
"Be gone with you Youko. I haven't the time or the patience to deal with your rubbish."
"Ah so it's rubbish you think I come to speak on? How dreadful of you to think of my speech being nothing more than nonsense."
"It is as it is."
Yoko ignored my belligerent attitude taking a seat on my bed. "How go the plans?"
My attention out of my window is turned to look at the clever fox sitting calmly on my bed. "They're coming along well with Koga. And how are yours with Inuyasha?"
"Proceeding marvelously." Kurama smirked his inventive lips. "By the way, I saw you with Inuyasha near the river."
My heart skipped a beat but I wouldn't react to it. I knew I felt a presence when I first when out there but that caution had been thrown to the wind the moment Inuyasha asked me to kiss him. "If you were there as you claim, why did you fail to make your appearance? Or did you keep hidden hoping for a scene to sate your perverted eyes?"
"You flatter me with you accusations of being depraved enough to resort to being a low class stalker."
"Am I wrong?"
"Immensely so. But am I truly the pervert here when it was you about to take the boy outside without the concern of the consequences to follow for your foolish actions?" I heard the hardened breech in his voice.
"And," I kept my eyes focused on his to see the reaction to my next question. "Will you speak of this to my father or your own?"
My elder brother closed his eyes with the slight shrug of his shoulders. "You wound me little brother. For you to assume that I would stoop to snitching is hurtful." He half lidded his eyes coupled with that witty grin. "What would that say of my character?"
"That you can't be trusted." But I knew we could be. As for others, that was highly doubtful.
Kurama's now golden eyes narrowed as his smile disappeared. "Who am I to judge you Sesshomaru when I am just as guilty as you are?"
"I don't understand."
He waited a moment before answering. "I haven't been able to keep my hands to myself lately involving my sibling. My feelings for Koga have more than tripled as he's matured over the years. Every day I spend in that boy's presence sends me closing to committing the highest crime in all kingdoms."
"Hn, it wouldn't be the first time you've broken the law Yoko."
"But not to this extend Sesshomaru." The fox stood up coming to stand by my side clamping his hands behind his back. "Father has told me some information I think you should know of."
"What information?"
He stayed quiet for a moment before continuing on a heavier tone. "Are you aware of our brothers…special abilities?"
"Special abilities?" I echoed.
He nodded. "Yes. Both were blessed with the gift of childbirth. Father told me three days ago after I left from Koga's room."
"They're…capable of bearing children?"
Yoko nodded again to confirm my question.
But I had another that needed an answer to my next one. "Will this change what we had planned for them?"
He shook his head. "No, so long as we keep the progress in check that shouldn't affect the process. As a matter of fact this only heightens the effects more. We'll have to be more careful in our planning. We can't effort any mistakes Sesshomaru."
"I see." Now the full realization of what I nearly did came in full life. If I had taken Inuyasha by the river, I could've caused him to bear my pup. And if that would've occurred, treason would've been stamped on our kingdom, not to mention the everlasting shame of father seeing his son being impregnated by his other son.
"We'll have to speed things along faster than they are."
"Why?"
"Father and God father have pushed the ceremony mating to the day after tomorrow evening after the sun sets. That will give us only two more days to get this complete." His fist enclosed to the point of his claws pressing into his palm with blood dripping from his fingers. "We'll have to act on our plan the early evening of the ceremony, otherwise it will be ruined."
"So soon? This process takes time Yoko. It's not something that can be rushed. It's as you said. If we make a mistake the punishment could be lethal and not even our fathers will be able to save us from death."
"Yes I am aware of this."
"Then you should know that this can't be hurried along."
"I know of this Sesshomaru but unless you have any other options to consider, we'll have to speed the process along faster than expected."
Reality was slowly coming to a head of what it was me and Yoko were getting ourselves into. At first the idea seemed like an excellent strategy but if we were caught…We could lose Inuyasha and Koga forever, not to mention our very own lives. Then there was the fact of learning that the two have the gift of pregnancy. Yet an even more trouble issue added in the mix. One slip could create an early pregnancy that wasn't needed.
"Tomorrow I will go to Inuyasha to win him over in my favor. You shall go to Koga and do the same. But remember that we cannot take it too far than need be. This is delicate –"
"Don't tell me what I already know Yoko." I interrupted snippily. "I know how the process works. You just make sure to heed your own advice."
Kurama lifted his hand to lick away the self-inflict wound on his palm. "Very well. For now just return to Inuyasha and continue what you were doing. Your play in his affections is most critical."
I looked at him strangely. "Are you mad? You saw what happened when I kissed him." I shook at the mere though what I almost did. "If I should act on it again, it's likely to go too far."
"Which is why you have to gain more willpower. Don't let the scent of his arousal cloud your judgment Sesshomaru. You are a young dog lord. The boy has yet to reach his full maturity. Your will should be far stronger than his own."
For once in my life my confidence was slowly dimming to a barely noticeable twinkle. "You make it sound so easy…You have no idea how the boy affects me. His very soul calls out to my inner youki demanding that he be taken. As the days pass along one by one it becomes increasingly difficult to keep my distance from him. I feel so…odd whenever I see his smile or hear his voice...H-He's becoming a drug in my blood that just won't leave." I covered my eyes in feeling so…dare I say…vulnerable.
Yoko placed a comforting hand on my shoulder giving it a firm squeeze. "He has become to you what Koga has become to me. Whether you like it or not Sesshomaru…this feeling you're having is rare to find in a lifetime."
My fingers spread over my eyes in a heated angry glow.
"You're in love with him."
The sudden crush of my fist slamming into Kurama's jaw echoed throughout my chambers as the force of it nearly made him fall to the ground. His head turned to face the enraged light of my aura as he wiped away the trickle of blood from his lip.
I couldn't bear to hear such nonsense. I was not in love. That was a demon's greatest weakness. We did not mate for love; only for worth, power and strong offspring. Only a fool would mate for something as pathetic as…love. "Do not dare to speak lies before me Yoko. I have no such feelings."
Kurama chuckled. "Deny them if you will, but the truth is as it is." He strolled around to stand directly in my face reading all of the confused emotions I tried so desperately to hide inside. "You're afraid of what this means Sesshomaru. Knowing that you could possibly be in love with your own brother bothers you to no end –"
"Silence!"
"—It kills you to know that Inuyasha makes you feel this way. You can't stand the feeling he places inside of you whenever he's near –"
"Enough!"
"— He is the disease you'll never be able to rid yourself of. So stop being a coward and face the truth!"
"No! Enough!"
"What reason do you think you're so hell bent on making sure he's not mated with me?"
"Because I…I just want what's best for him!"
"Wrong. Because the mere thought of him being taken by another eats you alive!"
"No it doesn't!" I couldn't stand it. He was explaining exactly what I feel down to the last syllable. My emotions my feelings, all of it.
My hands clung to my head in anxious head pains.
I didn't want these feelings. I was Sesshomaru. The next heir to the throne, one of the most powerful demons in all kingdoms. I was not so weak as to succumb to something as simple as this. I didn't want Inuyasha…I just wanted him to be happy.
Releasing the air in his chest, Kurama shook his head having tried his best to get me to understand what he was saying. "Sesshomaru, don't think you are any different from the way you were before. The sooner you come to accept this the easier it will be for the four of us to be happy. Believe me it'll only make you stronger, not weaker." He turned around walking toward my door with the high rise of his shoulders slumping from their normal position.
"Why," I began quietly closing my eyes shut. "Why are you able to take this so much easier than I am?"
The door opened up but he didn't leave. "Because I've come to realize that Koga is the one thing I never thought I'd have in this lifetime."
It was then I knew exactly what he was talking about.
"My one and only weakness." We both admitted silently.
I sighed listening to the door close behind him. So that was it than. As much as I hated to admit this…Inuyasha has become something precious to me. Since the day he was born I've felt that connection with him. He has become my weakness…He was someone I had to protect…Because…I…I was in love with him…
TBC: Yes I know it's short. At least these two have come to terms with how they feel. Yes I know it may seemed rushed but I hoped I built it up to that point ok. If not could you let me know if I didn't? Than I'll work it in between here and the following chapters. Taisho's POV is next up ^_^ Afterwards…We're going to get into Kazo's long dark secrets.
