Betrothal of the Warrior Hime

Kagome landed easily on the bank of a large lake near by, her onyx fur shinnying in the dewy light of the once raining early-afternoon. The large inu knew now that she was being followed, it was easy to tell when they didn’t bother to hide their aura from her, though not many inu knew how to do that with that much power coursing through them; beyond that though it didn’t matter she needed to get some energy released, and they, whoever they were was going to have some fun. Sesshomaru didn’t know why he was following her, something about her just craved his attention like no other female had before, he watched as she landed perfectly, the taught muscles in her body rippling under the sheen of onyx fur.



Truly she had to be the most beautiful female in true form he’d ever seen, Kagome’s darker coloring allowed the light to reflex so perfectly showing off just how well her body was made. The sight of her had Sesshomaru’s inner beast in an up-roar, everything made him want to pounce the girl and take her, she was everything any male of their kind would want. She was strong, ludicrously so, she was brave, and fiery, though the thought of making her submit to him did seem an undertaking worth endeavoring. So lost in thought, Sesshomaru didn’t notice that the female in question was now waiting for him, the upright position and the attentiveness of her pointed black ears said that she was utterly alert, something he was not.



Sesshomaru landed and was promptly pounced, he landed with a heavy thud and was quickly brought out of his musings by the female that had him pent down. Shock was evident in his dark golden eyes, while mirth was all he could see in her own sky blue orbs. “My lord, to what do I owe the pleasure of your company?” she all but giggled out in their native tongue.



“Get off.” was his only reply, again in their native tongue.



“I think not. Its not my fault you weren’t paying attention.” she giggled out at him once again. Her response was a growl from the male below her, who quickly switched positions on her, and had her underneath him with a quickness. She giggled at his actions and licked his cheek playfully before returning to a humanoid state, and making a run for it. Sesshomaru’s beast was at a loss, part of him wanted to punish the female for running, the other part new it was a form or play by how light and airy her aura was, how happy it seemed, and more then anything he wanted to indulge in that same play. Staying in his true form, for he had no idea how she was able to shift so easily without tiring she was always yards away from him, but that gap could easily be closed, as it was he was already pouncing her.



Kagome saw the pounce coming and darted quickly out of the way, a roar of laughter coming from her as she said, “So the game is a foot?” darting faster in her smaller form they played like pups, like neither had ever before. Neither noticed the pair of golden brown eyes of Mugen watching them, he too was impressed with his sisters ability to switch from one form to another, as well as how evasive she was, though he didn’t like who was playing with his sister, simply for the fact that it was a male, and not related to her. Mugen though stifled his growls and just kept watch, Kagome’s laughter was like nothing he’d ever heard, she’d be wrong so very early in life, he couldn’t even remember what it sound like before this day, hearing it he vowed if anything he’d keep her musical laughter alive no matter what.



It seemed like hours had passed and judging by the position of the sun that’s exactly what had happened, Kagome sat in humanoid form next to a humanoid Sesshomaru, both covered from head to toe in woodland spender, a smile etched on both of their faces. Kagome’s head was leaning on his chest while he had his arm was over her shoulder. She sighed audibly, the day had been nice, first battle, then play, now relaxing, though she knew her brother was in the area, probably to make sure she was okay, or that she didn’t kill their heir, she didn’t mind. Unfortunately she knew this time would have to come to an end, sighing again she got up and looked just over her shoulder smiling still as she again transformed into her true form.



“Come dear prince, we need a bath before we can show our faces in the presence of your father, our Lord. I‘m pretty sure I‘ll have some explaining to do about Inuyasha, or my sword.” she growled out at him as she walked to the lake swishing her tale from side to side as she went. Seeing as it had not been an order but merely a request, and the fact that her tale made her hips sway even in this form he found completely attractive, he too got up and transferred into his own stunningly snowy silver self, although covered in mud and forest wonder, he followed the hypnotic female in front of him. The lake was freezing at this time in the day, though neither noticed, Kagome pinned her ears flat to her head and swam, diving under the water as Sesshomaru entered as well. The fact that this was part of a courtship ritual was not lost on either inu, they’d spent the day after the battle doing nothing but playing and getting to know one another, which in itself was a courtship ritual, not to mention bathing. Both wondered if the other had noticed, but neither was willing to bring up the fact, breaking whatever enchanting spell they both seemed to be under.



When both seemed to be cleaned up so like always it was Kagome that went back to her humanoid form first, followed shortly by Sesshomaru. “How is it that you can shift forms so freely, without being tired?” he asked as they swam together in the middle of the lake.



“Training.” she answered as she neared him again.



“Really?” he asked as he closed the gap so they were within arms reach.



“Hm, yes. Its hard to train both forms, but it makes shifting much easier, takes less energy.” she said as Sesshomaru pulled her to him embracing her form tightly to his own. Heat rapidly formed in both their bodies, both their legs moved, pumping water to keep them afloat, while his hands roamed her wet body. Hot kisses trailed down her neck, as his fangs graced over the pulse point at the juncture between her shoulder, while one of his hand pressed her on her stomach to bring her body into hers, his other hand massaged the soft yet firm flesh of her breast. Kagome felt like she was on fire, she couldn’t deny that she wanted him, but her resolve to be won in the mating fights was stronger then her want. She knew though, if he won her, she would give him everything, without thought or question, he would be the first and only male she submitted to, the only one who would dominate her.



Thinking all of this though was not helping her, they needed to break apart, or else she’d allow him to take her as soon as they got to the shore of the lake. As Kagome finally made up her mind that they needed to stop, right before the kisses on her neck, she felt hopelessly lost in want for this male, as his fangs graces over her neck, and stopped at the juncture of her shoulder she couldn’t help but moan out. If he hadn’t wanted her before her moan had done him in, his rough tongue founds its way against her sun kissed skin, as his own want pressed into her backside while a growl rumbled through his chest. Her mind was foggy, her own wanton moans dancing with his pleasured growls, almost drowned out the sound of air swooshing. Kagome knew that sound, try as she might she didn’t want to hear it, didn’t want to acknowledge it, because it couldn’t be what she knew it was.



Opening her hooded eyes, Kagome saw the angled bone coming at them, more so coming at Sesshomaru then herself, looking passed it she saw the distance figure of a female sitting upon a large two tailed light manila and black colored neko. Growling in aggression Kagome jumped from the water, transforming into her large onyx colored inu form again, it was just in time to pluck the bone from mid air before tossing it unceremoniously to the shore. Sesshomaru roared his anger to the darkening day sky, he was beyond rage, his eyes began to bleed crimson, seeing the female he chose being attacked, never once did it cross his mind that the attack had been for him. Mugen who had fallen asleep a while ago, woke to the angry roar of Sesshoamru, he was up sword drawn and already on his way when he saw his sister turn to both males.



Kagome was furious. Furious with her pup for being here, furious with Sesshomaru for threatening her pup, and furious because she couldn’t feel another way at the situation. The female on the neko saw her mother, more specifically the angry face on her mother, that angry face she hadn’t seen in a very long time. Sesshomaru saw Kagome standing between him and the death of the one who attacked, he was furious, “Why are you protecting that cur?” he bellowed in their native tongue at Kagome.



“You will not attack my pup.” Kagome hissed back. The crimson in Sesshomaru’s eyes began to recede as an anger of a different kind began to grew. Mugen who heard it was in disbelief, his baby sister had a pup, he tore his eyes from the floating black inu with scalding white eyes who was near the heir to the floating neko, and his niece. Looking at her, she was a beautiful girl, she looked to be about fifteen, though as a youkai that could mean she’s anywhere between one to two hundred years old, unlike her mother, Kagome, her hair was a deep chocolate color that looked ablaze in the dying light of the sun. He could see that her eyes also unlike Kagome’s were a slightly different shape, her nose, jaw line, and over all appearance looked nothing like his sister either, though her lips, ‘they were pouty like Kagome’s‘, Mugen scowled, ‘something isn’t right‘, he thought. And that’s when he saw it, two pointed chocolate ears that he’d missed when he first glanced up at the girl, ‘they must have been pent down, but now. Kagome your daughter’s a hanyou?’



“Pup?” the word slip from Sesshomaru’s mouth without his knowledge. His anger still there but he was confused, jumping from the lake where he’d been the whole time, just minutes before enjoying the feel of the little black female, he felt revolted. Jumping from the water to the shore he shook himself dry, and changed back to his humanoid form, “Don’t talk to me again bitch.” he hissed over his shoulder. “I’ll meet you in battle, where I will kill you for inflicting such dishonor upon my family, and this Sesshomaru.” his voice was cold, and filled with hate. With every word Kagome lost her anger, some how she felt empty, she watched as he walked away from her, bringing his ki cloud under his feet, he left for his home.



Landing where he had been Kagome transformed again into her humanoid form, and called out to her pup, “Sango.” it wasn’t loud or angry to the untrained ear, but instead alarmingly calm. Kagome waited for the neko to land before she inspected her pup, greatly pleased that she was not injured her motherly instincts kicked in high gear. “What are you doing here? I thought we told you to stay at the Palace of the Sun. Where is Miroku? I’m going to have his head for this.” she seethed. “Mugen!” she bellowed to her brother who was there in a moment. “Please escort Sango back. Find Miyako, do not leave her in anyone else’s presence unless it is our grandmother. You.” she said looking at Sango with a scowl. “…Have got a lot of explaining to do, once you’ve found Miyako you are not to leave her side, and if you cause any trouble so help me it’ll be your ass.”



The female known as Sango nodded while gulping, she knew her mother was going to be upset but she was only trying to help, from what she saw when she got there that big male had her mother trapped. Sighing she got off the neko and retrieved her angled bone, without a word she held her eyes low, knowing she was in some kind of crazy trouble when Miyako saw her, let alone when Kagome came back, she sighed again as they took to the air, following the one known as Mugen. Kagome stayed there, she couldn’t be around her pup right now, she was far too angry, here eyes were fading into a scorching white as she ran to the closest thing she could find. The old cherry tree never saw it coming, and had no way of escaping Kagome’s wrath, all Mugen and Sango heard was a hellish howling growl, followed by a large explosion of wood and energy. Gulping again Sango said under her breath, “Man, I’m dead. She’s pissed.”



Mugen couldn’t help it, the statement was just like Kagome would have said, he laughed with great mirth at the little one riding next to his cloud. “So your Kagome’s pup?” he asked. She looked at him and wondered just who he was.



“Who are you exactly?” she asked not really wanting to share, but still taking a discrete sniff of his person. He smelled like her mother, he was related to her, Sango knew that much. Looking more she could see certain features that were similar to her mother.



“I am Mugen, Kagome’s older brother, though not her oldest brother, that is Jin. You probably won’t meet him for a while.” he said honestly. “Yanno, you don’t look very much like Kagome, I take it you look like the father?” at that Sango gave a small smirk.



“No I look like my real mother. Kagome found me long ago, I am simply her ward, though I asked if I could call her mother when I was still very young, she said yes and she has called me her pup ever since.” she answered. Mugen nodded, it was like his sister, she was all rough on the edges but a true gem when she wanted to be, he knew she‘d make a fantastic mother one day.



“Well I’m going to be honest, its not that there are human haters, or those who hate hanyou’s in our family, it is just generally looked down upon for they are usually weaker. Knowing the family I’m going to apologize for whatever anyone might say or do now. Being so closely aligned with royals leaves some feelings as though they are a bit high and mighty. Please don’t think us horrible for such things, its just what their used to.” Mugen finished being oddly serious even for himself. “So how old are you?” he asked nonchalantly.



Sango heard his warning and took it at face value, she’d gotten a lot of that she she’d first arrived at the palace of the sun long ago with Kagome, though then Kagome was quick to pick up her fights, and soon no one said one thing or another about her being there, she was the resident hime’s great grand pup, who in their right mind would piss them off? No one that who, after a few minutes lost in her own musings Sango answered. “Thank you for warning me. I can assure you with a mother like Kagome, I am far from weak, though she handled most of my problems when I was younger, I have more then enough energy to handle my own now-a-days. And I’m about one hundred and sixty five years old.” She answered gaining a large laugh from Mugen. “What’s so funny?” she asked hotly.



“How is she your mother, when you are older then she is?” he laughed out. Sango took a moment to think about it, she’d never bothered to ask how old her mother was, she’d always looked about twenty, now that she thought about it though the answer was fairly simple.



“Hanyou don’t grow at the same rate as their full demon counter parts. My birth parents were a full inu demon and a hanyou, so I have more demon in me then most hanyou do, but the human blood slows our aging down to a point but not like yours or Kagome’s. She will probably look the same for a very long time, thousands of years maybe. While I will was possible seven summer old in human years when she found my that was about seventy five years ago, or more. I can’t remember. She’s my mother because even though I may be older, she has always taken care of me, protects me from any and all that have attempted to take my life.” Sango finished confidently.



Mugen took time to think about it, he’d never known a hanyou in real life, he’d read about them, heard about them, but never seen one. She was an utterly beautiful female, and those ears were adorable. He felt wrong thinking this way about his sister’s pup, but there was the fact that they were simply not related, and if she was as old as she said she was then she was not marked, and therefore could be mated. Sango wrinkled her nose while looking at the male who was her guild back to this palace of the moon. He was handsome, though knowing both Miyako and Kagome, all males in their family had to be beautiful for they were gorgeous. His hair unlike so many was short, yet wild, though soft looking and snowy white it looked as though it was alive and charged with energy, even his golden brown eyes were slightly hypnotic.



Both male and female seemed to be lost in thought as they neared the palace, the neko’s growl brought them both out of their musings, Mugen looked over at the cat, that would be hard pressed to explain. Offhandedly he wondered why and inu hanyou would have a neko beast of burden, “I haven’t the foggiest idea how we’re going to hide that cat until Kagome returns to smooth this all out. “ he said more to himself then to Sango, causing him to earn a giggle.



“She can become smaller.” nudging the two tailed to the ground in a clearing, Sango leapt from the cats back with practiced grace, her large and cumbersome looking weapon placed easily on her back moved with her. The cat became inflamed and from the light emerged a tiny kitten that hopped into Sango’s waiting shoulder. “See, mother calls it travel sized.” she joked.



“Indeed. Shall we walk or are you both okay to travel by cloud?” he asked.



“I can’t travel by cloud, I don’t have the ki enough to do it.” she said casting her eyes down in shame.



“I could carry you if your okay with it.” Mugen answered causing Sango to look up in surprise, allowing Mugen the first chance to really look at her face. She was beautiful, though it was plane to see that she was not a goddess, she had laugh lines near her eyes, and faint smile lines as well, and though her skin was as kissed as his sisters, tiny freckles kissed her nose and cheeks delicately. Her eyes at first seemed to be goldenness like his own, but looking closer one could see that they were more of a rose-bronzed color with flecks of bright gold in their hue. Her lips were tanned as well though still slightly pink overall. Truly beautiful, her thought.



“You wont drop me will you?” she asked honestly nervous, and giving him an innocent look he couldn’t help but adore, but the overall effect made him laugh again.



“No I won’t drop you, Kagome would kill me… She scary when she’s mad, yanno.” he joked.



“You. Have. No. idea!” answer Sango. Sango stepped next to him, and Mugen placed his arm around her waist as the cloud again formed under their feet, lifting them up, they made their way to the Palace, Sango was in awe, though it looked like an alabaster version of the Palace of the Sun, it was still very beautiful. “Is this where you live?” she asked as the palace came more into view.



“No. We live at a palace on the northern border. This is the main palace of the Western family. One of my sister’s, maybe both will mate the heir or heirs, I’m sure you know about some of this?” he asked and was a bit shocked that she shock her head ‘no.’ “Well I’ll tell you then, long ago, when Kikyo, Kagome’s twin, and she were born, Inu no Taishou, arranged so that the daughters of his second in command were to mate his sons. The heir to the west and his younger brother. Kagome though was not pleased as you can imagine.” Sango nodded knowing her mother’s head strong personality. “She left after a lot of bad things happened, and went to stay with Miyako, I’m sure you know most of that though.” Sango nodded ‘yes’ this time. “Well Kagome’s not one to let her fate be chosen by anyone, so she’s battling for the right to pick her own mate, though it’s a tad bit flawed it does allows the female to find a mate stronger then she, so that she’s not just caught up in a mating for politics to a weak male.” he finished explaining.



“That sounds like mother, she’s not one to give up so easily. I’m sure you heard that explosion when we left. I would hate to be on her bad side tonight.” Sango finished, while Mugen nodded. It seemed like only moments later but they’d finally arrive, the sun had set not long ago, and Mugen was at a balcony door, he was just about to knock when the door opened revealing Miyako, who immediately scowled.



“Pup?” she questioned dangerously, causing Sango’s head to lower in defeat.



“Myiako-sama, Kagome has asked that I bring her here to you, I expect you know who she is, and that you know the family will not take well to the news. Additionally, the Heir has already heard part of the story but has stormed off before finding out all.” he finished. Miyako nodded and allowed Sango to enter.



“Thank you, I can feel Kagome is on her way, Sesshomaru returned about an hour ago in a foul mood, his aura is dangerous.” sighing she bade her grandson goodnight for the moment to meet again at dinner. Mugen nodded and bowed to leave but not before smiling at Sango and saying.



“Until we meet again Lady Sango.” She blushed and was hurried into the room.



“Well pup, what did you do?” asked Miyako.



“I kind of attacked the tall guy with white hair?” she answered sheepishly.



“Oh that’s rich. Why would you do a thing like that?” Miyako asked while folding her arms and waiting for the answer.



“When I got there they were in the lake, from where I sat on Kirara, it looked like he was trying to drown her, so I tried to save her. Mother jumped from the water into her true form and caught Hiraikotsu, and well… she called me pup, and then that man got angry, called her a bitch, and said he’d kill her when they fought for something with his honor, I was a bit far away but I heard some of it.” she finished still rather upset. Miyako had not be one to favor orphans, but Sango was so different from every orphan that she’d ever come across. She reminded her of Kagome and herself, and that had been the reason she was kept. Pulling the girl into a tight hug she purred until she felt her aura calm.



“Shh, its okay, we don’t want Kagome to smell tears when she gets here, she’ll be upset if she does, besides its almost time for dinner, come lets bathe and get you cleaned up. I’m sure your tired. By the way, what happened to Miroku? I thought we left him in charge.” she said jokingly.



“I kind of tied him up when I found out you two left me.” she said with a slightly evil smirk.



“Indeed.” Miyako answered with a smile, while Sango nodded. Tonight’s going to be an interesting night, she thought, ‘I would hate for anyone one to say something about Sango, Kagome’s going to be in a bad mood all night.’















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