The Power of Seven

Chapter Thirteen


**** Day Eleven****


Sano quirked an eyebrow, the girl was turning beet red for some reason. He turned around to see that Hiei had just taken his long cloak off exposing a very naked chest. It wasn't anything new to see, the small man always took off his cloak. Sometimes he'd have a skimpy shirt on underneath though. He saw nothing too impressive about it, his was just as nice. Maybe he should take his jacket off it was getting kind of warm in here.

She wasn't like the women from his era who would scream at him to stop flashing everyone, so what the hell. He was training to save the world, might as well be comfortable while doing so. The jacket came off drawing Kagome's attention away from Hiei, he chuckled when her jaw dropped in fascination. "Better watch it or you're going to start catching flies."

Kagome pulled herself together, it was only a chest. Two very nice, scrumptious chests but nothing she'd never seen before. Seeing Hiei without his shirt was different now. It made her think of the other day, yesterday had been hard enough. It hadn't happened again because he made the comment about having to patrol at night. Yesterday they'd trained all day long making up for lost time. She'd made several mistakes, it couldn't be helped. Hiei didn't yell at her though, just gave her a cocky grin. He had to know what had her so nervous.

Being around him was so different now, she was completely aware of him. She meant to ask him about a few things but hadn't gotten the chance. Her sleeping with Hiei had also helped to strengthen her connection to Sano somehow. She wasn't sure how that was possible when she hadn't touched the man yet. Yet being the key word, she wasn't sure if she'd ever do that. Sango had explained that in most youkai matings if there was a third partner then everyone shared. She couldn't imagine splitting herself between two men. Wouldn't that make her a slut?

Sango said no, that it was the way of things. Kagome just didn't get it all, she hadn't grown up learning everything about youkai like Sango had. Their traditions and rules were so much different than humans. She was just now getting use to the idea that she'd been with Hiei when they weren't in love. How the hell would she deal with it if Sano made a move on her? She liked the man just as much as she liked Hiei if not a little more but two lovers was something she'd ever considered. Hiei might not mind because he was youkai but Sano was human and appeared to be the jealous type when the need called for it. She might be wrong, she didn't know him that well to be certain. Maybe she was worrying over nothing, he seemed to think of her only as a friend.

It still unnerved her to be mated to two men but some women would call her lucky. Both men were good looking, nice bodies, decent personalities and were strong fighters. Not like they were going to make a Kagome sandwich out of her, so why was she stressing about it? Maybe the definite attraction she felt for Hiei and the slight one forming for Sano had something to do with it. Her mother would give her a good tongue lashing for sure.

Hiei could feel her confusion but couldn't read her thoughts. It sucked being mated to a miko some times, he snorted. He could project his thoughts in her head but was unable to withdraw any of hers. It would make things interesting to say the least. Now Sano was a different story, the man's mind was like an open book. Hiei felt some jealousy at hearing the man's thoughts, the other man was having a debate inside his head. He was attracted to the girl and was scolding himself for it. Things must have really been different back then for humans. What good was it to want a woman if it were improper to bed her?

Humans and their stupid rules and morals. Who would want to wait to bed a woman until after this so called marriage ceremony? Why declare to spend the rest of your life with someone if you had no idea if you'd enjoy rutting with them? It was like buying a pair of boots without trying them on first, foolish. True he'd been forced to mark the girl before he'd gotten the chance to try her out. He'd gotten lucky, he enjoyed rutting with her.

She was now laughing at some comment the other man had said, playing around instead of training. "Stand up you two, we are going to work on something else today." He knew Sano could fight hand to hand but Kagome was completely ignorant of it. She would need better training in order to survive. He'd have to remember to go easy on her but she'd learn to fight before they headed into battle. He wouldn't risk her being seperated from him and dying because she didn't know how to throw a decent punch.

"Sano you already know some about hand to hand combat so I'm going to start with Kagome first. Try to get her caught up some." He let the man take a rest against the wall while Kagome made her way over to him. "Usually, I'd tell you to use your energy but do me a favor and keep it to yourself. I have no desire to be purified while training you. Better yet let's play it safe you can work with Sano."

"Hah! Nice to know you trust me." Kagome stood still while Sano came over to her, to do as Hiei instructed. The next two hours saw Kagome learning how to a simple punch while using Sano as a punching bag. The man just laughed and said it tickled which pissed her off. So what if she wasn't beefy and Hiei had said not to use her energy behind them. She didn't have to be able to knock them through a wall. One direct blow would purify them enough to get them the fuck off her.

She threw a punch at Sano's face, the man easily dodged the fist. He continued to laugh as Hiei told him to dodge her attacks now. She tried again, he barely moved his head at the last second. He was toying with her, Hiei's snort filled the room followed by more loud cackles. They were both laughing at her pathetic attempts at fighting.

Several more swings were dodged easily the laughter continued, they were laughing harder now. Now she was pissed, how dare they laugh at her. She wasn't some brute bitch that participated in fist-a-cuffs on a daily basis. She'd show them, there was one thing she was and that was a woman. She didn't fight fair, not by a long shot. She swung at his face again, which he dodged while smiling. As her fist grazed empty air, she brought her foot up to connect between his legs.

"Oh Yeah!" She threw her arms up in truimphant as Sano went to his knees. She started doing a little dance waving her arms around, "Go me, go me." Teach him to laugh at her when she was doing her best to train. Her laughter stopped seeing the stern look on Hiei's face. "What?"

"Foolish woman!" He couldn't believe she'd lower herself to him the man there. He knew how it felt and it was dirty, it didn't matter if the man had been laughing at her. He should scold them both, her for doing something so underhanded and him for leaving himself open to the attack.

"Hey, whatever works I say." Kagome crossed her arms, she cringed hearing Sano's whimper of pain. She hadn't kicked him that hard for crying out loud. What was Hiei so angry about, must be a man thing. A growl was her answer, which she ignored. She'd done what it took to bring her opponent down, so why be bent out of shape.

"We aren't here so you can try to maim your partner. It is suppose to be an excercise on hitting your opponent. There will be a time when such dirty tricks won't work. You may be able to bring someone like him down doing that but try someone faster and with more fighting experience, you will find yourself dead." Hiei yelled at her seeing her flinch under the harsh words. She needed to take this seriously from now on. "You will try again as soon as he is able to stand and stop your feminine whining. Sano get up and I don't want to hear you laugh again."

"Fine but it's hot in here." Kagome huffed at the attack. She had been taking it seriously, the jerk. She couldn't strip down like them but she'd be damned if she kept on the hotass top Yomi had sent her. It didn't matter if it was training gear, it was hot and she was human. She pulled the top off, to toss it on the floor several feet away. The air hit her flushed skin, she sighed in relief. Thankfully she'd had a sports top with her. It came in hand these days, moving around as much as she did a regular bra wasn't much support. It was decent enough, exposing just a little more than what a tanktop would. Her midriff showed some along with the top of her breast but it left her arms fully unclothed which was what she needed. Nothing indecent about it in her opinion. Hiei didn't seem to be bothered by it, he was merely waiting for her to start again.

"Alright, I'm ready. Much better, now I can think." She walked back up to Sano who was struggling to stand up right, he didn't look too happy either. What was their problem? So what if she'd done something dirty, she was proud of herself.

Sano heard Hiei's growl when the girl stopped in front of him. A new ache was forming in his groin that wasn't caused by the girl's foot. What kind of clothing was that? She was showing a lot of skin, not to mention that with her standing in front of him he was getting a good view of her cleavage. She smiled totally unaware the effect she was having. He should be mad about the gruesome kick to his family jewels but his mind was suddenly preoccupied with other things, two things. From what he could see they were really nice.

Hiei could smell the man's arousal, so much for hoping for permanent damage. The girl wasn't showing too much but he was willing to bet it was a lot more than what the man was use to. "Begin," He ordered them. Kagome started while Sano was still oggling her breasts, her fist connected with his jaw. "Pay attention fool!"

"Yeah Yeah, sorry about that." Sano grinned at being caught staring. He nodded to her, time to get serious. Hopefully she wouldn't try to kick him again, he wasn't sure he could take it. Her punches were soft but she had one mean foot.


Sango walked in the door as it slid open allowing her in. Yomi had said this was the room, the medical lab. She was told that Shura had been placed in a regeneration tank, his injury had been severe. Many of his organs had been punctured or cut. They had singled him out for some reason, Yomi said it was because he had been the most dangerous. So they had decided to take him down first.

She walked into the room to find a small youkai messing with the equipment. He turned to look at her as she walked in and smiled. Far in the corner she could see the large tank that contained the man in question. He looked alot better than she remembered, what kind of machine was that?

Yuda turned to the taijiya, "Come, he's sleeping right now but is recovering very well. I was told we had you to thank for it." The girl walked up to him, staring at the machine. He'd heard she was from the past, his guess she'd never seen anything like this before. "It is a simple regeneration tank, it causes the cells to regenerate without leaving any scar tissue. Simple science really, so you are the taijiya I heard so much about."

"I guess," Sango tried not to blush seeing that he was naked while floating in the liquid. She turned to the small man, the view was safer. "So he's going to be okay?" He was an asshole but still a person, so she worried just the same. She'd had trouble getting to sleep last night not knowing what state he was in.

"Yes, he should be well enough to be out of here in a few hours. You can speak to him then if you wish." He watched her flush, so it was all true. He wondered why the man would want that tiger bitch when he could of had this woman. She was human but weren't they all different in some way. She'd been willing to save his life, despite what he'd done to her.

"No that's okay, I was just worried that's all." She wasn't sure why she even cared but she did. She almost jumped out of her skin when a hand slammed against the glass. Her eyes lifted to meet purple ones, they were gazing at her in confusion. He was probably wondering what the hell she was doing there. She really had no business being here and she knew it. "Sorry, I shouldn't have come."

Yuda watched her walk away, why had she left? Of course she should have even if she didn't know it yet. He turned to smile at the boy, who was still watching the girl. The boy was probably just surprised to wake and find her there. A few more hours and he'd be fine, maybe he'd pull his head out of his ass and thank the girl properly.

****Lemon Warning****


Shizura stretched out on the bed, loving all the extra room there was. Her family had left hours ago, which meant Yukina would no longer be sharing the bed with her. She loved the little woman but she snored loud enough to wake the dead. Her and Kuzuma made the perfect couple, they could hold nightly competitions.

Kenji was already on the floor sleeping peacefully, his soft breathing was heard. Kurama hadn't showed up all day during training which was unusual. She wanted to ask him why but knew it was none of her concern. What he did was his own affair, she wasn't his mother.

The fox was walking around the room getting ready to come to bed. She didn't know if he would go back to the other room like usual or take up his spot on the bed. There was no way she was going to ask him to join her, she had her pride. Let him sleep where he saw fit. She rolled over to her spot and climbed under the covers.

Several minutes later she felt him climbing into bed, pulling the covers up to join her. She didn't speak to him but focused on going to sleep. There was nothing to talk about anyways, except he'd been acting like an ass towards her. But that wouldn't be a conversation that would be her pounding her fists into his face in order to teach him some manners.

Kurama felt her tense as he moved closer and sighed. He should have expected as much, it was his fault. The last few days he'd been snapping at her due to his pent up sexual frustration. Not to mention he was running out of ideas on the whole Genkai/Yusuke situation. Keiko was now gone so any hope of finding out the truth were now gone along with her. He'd had a long talk with Yusuke to see how things were between the couple. It wasn't looking good for the two.

The only lead he had was what the maid had told him. The first two days that Keiko had arrived she'd been seen taking some sort of pill. The maid had taken her some tea to take with it and after the fight that day she hadn't asked for tea again. That was the only strange or out of place thing that was noticable. Had it been some kind of medication that Genkai had destroyed? That didn't make sense, if something was wrong with Keiko then Yusuke would know.

Genkai wasn't the type to destroy medication that someone needed just to be spiteful. It didn't add up, so they must have been fighting over something else. He'd convinced the maid to look around for him, giving her a lame excuse. Some of his charm had to be used to get the girl to cooperate, seemed it had all been for nothing. The only other information given was that she didn't think that Yusuke and Keiko had slept together during her visit. The girl had laughed calling Keiko a fool, that Yusuke looked to be a very virile lover. That wasn't too weird he supposed, Keiko was up in age or it could have been that time of the month for her.

Deciding to think about it later he moved closer to the woman feigning sleep. This was the first time they'd been alone since that day. They weren't really alone now, Kenji was sleeping on the floor. He had no plans to wake him up but had every intention of finishing what Kuwabara had interupted the other day.

Her eyes jerked open when a soft hand landed on her hip. She didn't speak, wondering what he was doing. The limber fingers were working their way around to find the edge of the tshirt. "What are you doing?" Her voice came out weak, her breath caught when he found her breast. That's what she got for not sleeping with with a bra on.

He brought himself so he was pressed against her back, pressing himself against her backside. They'd have to keep the noise down or risk waking the other man. His mouth found the shell of her ear, "I always keep my word." He flicked his tongue out to taste the lobe, he'd just found a sensitive spot. He tucked the information aside for later use.

Shizuru felt the churning begin in the pit of her stomach. Thoughts of finishing the other days entered her mind. She couldn't deny that she wanted to continue, to pick up where they'd left off. Her body was coming alive, hearing his words of promise. "We can't he's sleeping on the floor in case you haven't noticed."

"Then I suggest you try not to scream that loud." He smiled, feeling her embarrassment, if he had his way she'd be moaning loud enough to wake those down the hall. His hand left the nipple he'd been playing with, she was already aroused. Nothing but a skimpy pair of panties covered her. He fingered the edge, noticing that her legs remained tightly closed.

She felt his fingers trying to pry her legs apart, he wasn't wasting any time. He continued to suck on her ear, stirring the fire already blazing in her groin. He was completely serious about picking up from the other day. Sensations escilated as he rubbed against her, letting her exactly what he was offering.

He forced his hand under the material, there was enough slack for him to find what he sought. It only took one finger rubbing against her bundle of nerves to get her legs apart. He let a small growl escape him feeling her submit to him. His inner fox was wanting to come out and play but he held it at bay. He would take her as he was, Youko could play later.

Shizuru didn't object as he slid the material down her legs, she helped kick it off when it reached her knees. Instead of allowing her to turn to her back he positioned himself back behind her. He raised up on his elbow so he could watch her face, her eyes were closed. The soft trembling of her lips gave her away. Ever sense he had was filled with longing, being caressed by her desire. He didn't want to rush it but he'd waited days to finish it. Watching her train had been hell for him, on several occasions he'd almost demanded that Kenji leave them.

He let the tip rub against her using his free hand to reposition her leg. His precum mixed with the moisture already coating her folds. She moaned at the teasing motion, pushing against him. He had no doubt that she craved him as much as he did her. The last few days had shown him exactly how much he desired her.

He delighted in watching her face change as he began pushing up. The urge to close his own eyes and get lost in the feeling was strong but he didn't want to miss watching her. She whimpered when he was halfway in and stopped, he waited for her to open her eyes for him. The second they opened he slammed forward, burying himself to the hilt. Her shocked expression echoed the small scream that filled the room.

Movement was heard on the floor, the boy had rolled over in his sleep. Kurama wasn't sure if Shizuru was aware of how close they'd come to waking him. He himself didn't care, he had no intention of stopping. If Kenji woke then he could either roll back over and ignore the noise or watch the show.

He pulled her leg up more giving him better access, for deeper penetration. That brought more noise from her, it stoked his blood. He soon heard his own to accompany hers when she began to move bringing herself up on her elbow. She was pushing back, rocking with him. He felt himself getting close, it looked like he would find his release before her.

Shizuru felt her orgasm building as he continued to move within her. She moaned in disappointment when he suddenly slid out of her. He started repositioning her, rolling her over so that she was on her hands and knees. He didn't notice the blush that crossed her face. His hands roamed over her exploring while he settled behind her.

Kurama reached forward as started to press back inside her body. His fingers found her nerve, he played with her while keeping his strokes easy and slow. It gave him time to calm down while building her up. Her moans filled the room as he toyed with her. He leaned forward to run his tongue over her back, licking up the sweat that had begun to form. He nibbled on the tender skin, raking his teeth over it roughly every now and then.

Shizuru tried to stiffle the scream that was begging to be released. Her whole abdomen was on fire, he was killing her. Her muscles clenched around him and she knew the tension was about to break. "Kurama," His name was spoken softly, but he heard the silent plea.

He picked up his speed, feeling her release begin. He rode her hard as she shook from the orgasm. Her voice was loud, urging him to go faster and harder. As she came down from the high, he felt his own. He'd meant to pull out at the last second but her walls clenched around him pulling his seed forth. A soft moan escaped him, not caring about the matter.

Shizuru could feel him throbbing inside as his mouth ran over her back placing light kisses. Her knees finally gave out and she layed down flat on her stomach. It had been confirmed, that had been the best lay of her life. She smiled into the pillow, "As long as you know if anything comes of it, I will demand child support."

"Of course, but there won't be a need. I would never abandon you." He placed a kiss on her neck where his mark was. He'd meant to pull out but did it really matter? If anyone were to bear him a child, Shizuru was his mate and he was sure she'd make an excellent mother. After all, she had basically taken care of Kuwabara. One day he hoped to have children even if no one knew of this desire. The thought made him think of Yusuke, he hadn't been blessed with children. With Shizuru's comment he'd guess that she wasn't on the pi.....

He swore as he got up off the bed, Shizuru jumped at the sound. "Sorry, I just realized something. Before you ask, no I'm not mad at you but I need to speak to someone. I'll return shortly, I don't wish to leave you so soon after but this is important." He leaned forward and placed a kiss on her forehead. "If you are asleep when I return I'll try not to wake you."

Kurama quickly got dressed, trying to keep his emotions in check. Shizuru was looking at him with a concerned expression, she had to feel his confusion, anxiety and foremost his anger. He had to be wrong but it all fit. He didn't want to believe that Keiko was capable of such deception. There was only one person that would know the truth besides the girl and SHE was about to give him his answers.


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Sorry had to cut this one short!