Please Don't Love Me

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Kijo – Demoness ogress she-devil
Youkai- demon
Youki – demonic energy
Hanyou – half demon
Miko – Shinto priestess
Houshi – monk
Taijiya – demon slayer
Shikon no Tama – Jewel of Four souls
Onna – woman
Taiyoukai – great demon
Inu youkai – dog demon
Baka – Stupid
Ningen - Human


Chapter Two
Obsession!

It was dark and cold, a constant dripping noise could be heard echoing throughout the enclosed room the miko was held in. She was curled up in a ball in the corner of the room having just woken up a few moments ago. She did not know who had taken her but what she did know was that the Shikon was taken, and this worried her. She could not hear anything other than the noises within the dungeon she was held in, she silently wondered why she was still alive.

Whoever had attacked her had obviously wanted the Shikon, but this did not explain why they did not kill her. She assumed she should be happy that she was alive, however, the only thing going through her mind at the moment was, 'Sometimes there are things worse then death.' She hoped this was not one of those cases. She was relieved a little to know it was not Naraku who had taken her. Because that would be worse than death, there was no doubt about that.
No matter how relieved she was at the moment it did not matter, because it was short lived.

0ooo0

Above the dungeon in a room to the far left of the palace Katsumi stood by a cauldron, she was adding ingredients to her potion mix all the while humming happily to herself. She was excited that she finally had all she needed to complete the potion.

Her flesh heated with the idea of what that meant for her and her soon-to-be mate. She had finally found a male worthy of her beauty and she would not be letting him go, the effects of the potion would be enough to ensure that. The side effect, however, was not a good one, but she knew she did not have to worry over it. All she had to do was make sure he marked her before the deed, and that was easily done with him under the effect of the potion. The Shikon would ensure that it was strong enough for even the Great Lord Sesshomaru to fall victim to its lure.

The potion had many effects on the one it would be administered to. Firstly it would make the 'victim' fall in love to the point of obsession with the first female he heard calling his name. Once the potion was in effect the victim would crave the new obsession. He would want her more than anything else in the world. Once triggered it could not be undone, only the consummation of the relationship could lift the spell. 'But by then I will have already gotten what I wanted,' she thought smugly.

Once the relationship was consummated the effects would be lifted, but he would still remember everything that happened. However unless told otherwise he would not know it was a potion that made him feel that way in the first place.

She could not wait to give him the potion, but first she would have to figure out a way to draw him here. It was not like she could ask him over for some tea. She knew this was to be the hardest part, but she would do what was needed to get what she wanted.

She sat on a cushion waiting for the brew to boil over; she sat thinking of ways to make him come to her. She was a youkai but she was also a great sorceress who specialized in illusions, it was in this she found her answer.

She would put a barrier around the forest not allowing him to leave the area, but to draw him towards her palace. Next she would have to play with his senses, make him sense several youkai in the direction of her palace. She knew he would come, he would not allow so many dangerous youkai to be so close to his camp. Once he arrived all she had to do was get him inside of the room she prepared for him. Once he was inside the potion would be the easy part.

The room she prepared for him had a special enchantment that would weaken his youkai by sending it into a drugged state. The effects would last five minutes, and in that time he would be no stronger than a human. It would not last any longer than five minutes because he was too strong and would overcome the effects quickly.

Once she knew what she was going to do she had one thing left to deal with, the Miko. She could not have her getting in the way of what she wanted; she would not allow it to happen.

0ooo0

Kagome sat in silence silently within the dungeon. She knew she had to get out, she knew that Inuyasha did not know where she was or that she was taken at all. Kagome knew she could not hold hope that Inuyasha would find her in time before someone made a soup out of her. She knew she had to save herself.

She was lost in thought trying to figure out a way to escape when and she almost didn't hear the sound of someone walking down the steps. She kept as quiet as she could even going so far as to hold her breath. She hoped that maybe she could pretend to still be asleep so whoever it was would leave her be, giving her the chance to come up with an idea to blow this joint. She lay back down in the spot she had woken up, closed her eyes and regulated her breathing to trick the youkai who kidnapped her.


The dungeon door creaked open filling the small space with the sound. A light from the hallway illuminated the cell Kagome was being held captive in, but still she did not move or open her eyes. She heard the youkai approach her and she started to get nervous, 'What if the youkai tries to finish me off while it thought I was sleeping?' As if replying to her thoughts she felt her miko powers stir ready to strike should the creature touch her.


Katsumi walked in to the cell and noticed the human still unconscious from her sleeping serum. "Pathetic, humans are so weak." She spat once she noticed the miko was still asleep. "Well I guess that takes care of my problem. At least now I know she will not interfere with my plans for Sesshomaru when I give him my potion. Now that I have the Shikon my potion is finally complete." she said before she gave a moment’s pause as if thinking about something. "He will not know what hit him." she said confidently now believing the miko was not going to cause her any problems.

With her plans set and potion brewed she would set her plans into action. 'Soon I will have all I desire,' she mused happily as she walked out of her palace to set up the barrier first, then the other illusions.


Kagome lay still when she heard the youkai's voice, she knew it was a female that kidnapped her. To top it all off the female had kidnapped her to use the Shikon in a potion. A potion she brewed with the intent to use it on Sesshomaru. 'But what is the effect of the potion? What does she hope to accomplish by giving him a potion?' She wondered now feeling guilty that because of her weakness someone else was being dragged into trouble. She knew what she had to do; she had to stop the youkai from using the potion on him.

She could not tell if it was night or day but that did not matter, the only thing that mattered to her now was getting out of there NOW!

0ooo0



The sun was setting and a slight breeze blew through the clearing picking up his long silken silver tresses allowing them to dance in the breeze. He stood face masked with indifference while staring at the setting sun. It was always the small beauty of things he appreciated, like the color of the sky when the sun set, or the twinkle of stars in a clear night sky. No one knew that he enjoyed these few things.

There were not many who could say that they knew the great Lord of the Western Lands Sesshomaru, and there were even less who could call themselves friend of the lord. He was a loner, he felt the need for no one mainly because he did not know what it felt like to love someone and be loved in return. The closest thing to love he had felt was for his young ward, she was like a bright light in his world of darkness. Offering happy smiles and light hearted giggles as she played in the clearing with his retainer and steed.

Sesshomaru was happy with the way things were, his life was simple and uncomplicated and to bring a mate into his life would only complicate things. His youkai was in agreement only because they had yet to find someone who both could agree on. Still somewhere deep down within his heart and soul he yearned to feel what his father felt, so he could understand why his father had given up his life for that of a human and a hanyou child. He wanted to know how his sire could forsake his youkai mate for a human woman. After all his years of contemplating his father's death he came to the conclusion that love was dangerous, it was a weakness that the enemy could exploit. He knew this for a fact because he too had exploited that same emotion a few times when engaging the enemy ‘namely Inuyasha’ he thought with disgust. His disgrace of a brother was always allowing his emotions to lead him blindly one would think you would learn your lesson after getting betrayed by a onna you loved and thought loved you as well. But as always he was a baka.

He was jarred from his thoughts as he felt a shimmer of magic work through the air, then he sensed it dozens of lower level youkai not very far from his camp. 'Maybe this is exactly what I need,' he thought as he took off in a silver, red and white blur in the direction he sensed the youkai. Killing had always seemed to calm his nerves more so than rutting ever had. And on top of that it was much safer.

He followed his senses towards the aura and as he approached he began to sense something that was out of place. 'Inuyasha's wench's aura?' he pondered as he picked it up speed slightly. He knew his hanyou half brother was nowhere around because he could not scent him which only meant one thing. 'The miko must have been kidnapped again!' he could not believe the incompetence of Inuyasha, he had promised to protect the girl yet he was constantly allowing her to be kidnapped. He did not care about what happened to her, she was after all a thorn in his side. She had ruined many of his attempts to retrieve the Tessaiga or to kill Inuyasha but it was still a curious thing… like why was she within the company of lower level youkai and still alive, they were nothing but mindless killers. So curious and looking for a fight he continued on his way towards the different auras.


Katsumi watched him from her concealed area as he approached her palace and pleased, she smiled. The room was prepared and the potion was finished, she was ready to claim her reward for all her hard work. 'He better be worth all this trouble,' she thought cockily while she mused on his sexual performance potential. 'Maybe after we mate I will enslave him as my pet or my own personal sex slave… mmm the options are all wonderful indeed!' she thought with a gleam in her eyes. Katsumi watched as he came into the grounds of her palace as he studying it.


Sesshomaru walked through the forest using his senses as his guide he followed the tingling sensation of lower level youkai aura. He knew he was approaching them and should be coming upon them any moment, as the thought crossed his mind he stepped clear of the tree line into a good sized clearing. On the far end was a nicely built palace and he could tell a wealthy being lived there. It was not a human because he could not scent any humans other then the light fading scent of the miko. There was, however, a female youkai's scent he recognized instantly. When he did not see any of the youkai he sensed he knew he was lured there because this was a trap.

He could not believe the nerve of some females, the whole gender didn't know how to get a clue. 'What do they think I am saying when I ignore them so completely?' he thought in disappointment. He really hated to have to kill a female, because there were hardly anymore inu-youkai females left, no matter how weak.

He did not like killing females it but he knew he had no choice because if he did not things like this would happen often. With every intention of killing the female he stalked into her palace. Silently like a phantom as he made his way down the halls towards where he sensed and smelled the creature that lured him there. He was slightly curious as to what she had hoped to gain by luring him there. 'Did she really think that poor parlor tricks were going to impress him?'

Coming to a closed large red wood door he could scent the female on the other side. He reached out his hand to push the door open, and then walked into the room ready to launch his attack. When he entered the room he did not see the female like he expected instead it was dark, there where no lanterns lit and he could not tell if there were any windows. Standing in the center of the room he inhaled slightly as to not overload his senses, he smelt nothing but a strange wet paint smell. Now taking a deep breath he was baffled, he could not scent anything not even himself. His sense of smell was that of a human! This time he took the chance time to actually look around the room, he noticed his eyesight was wrong, he could not see in the dark as he normally could. Now he understood the youkai had hoped to weaken him so she can have her way with him. “how utterly disgusting” he spat into the seemingly empty room.


Katsumi stood in the room in a darkened corner; she knew he would not be able to see her. She watched with amusement as he realized what happened to his senses. When he had turned his back to her she quickly made her way towards him with her potion in hand.

Once she was close enough she quickly dumped the potion down his left shoulder.


The sound of a loud bang was heard, and then the sound of an explosion followed by the crashing sound of rock and debris filled the palace. Both heads snapped towards the door as the female charged towards the door and tore it open. "That fucking human is destroying my palace!" she yelled enraged, temporarily forgetting the youkai lord. After all she did not need to hurry anymore the hardest part was done and the activation of the spell could be done at anytime.


Sesshomaru saw the kijo race out of the room at the sound of the explosion but he did not move. He was in shock he looked down at his left shoulder and watched the potion run down his shoulder, then over his heart as it started to absorb into his skin until the area was pristine and dry once more. He did not know what just happened and had a feeling it was nothing good.

0ooo0

After Katsumi left her in the dungeons Kagome went straight to work, she had to find a way out of there and fast. Looking around her cell she saw large rocks that were once a part of the dungeon walls, she sighed in frustration. ‘I knew there would be little to nothing of use here.’ she thought sadly as she picked up a few of the larger rocks that fell.

Kagome then sat in the center of the room and had the rocks in her lap. She began to meditate to make her powers stronger. It took her twenty minutes before she had the two large rocks charged with so much miko energy that they glowed as bright as a flash light in the dark. With both rocks in hand she threw the first one with all her might followed by the second moments after.

The miko charged rocks hit the dungeon door only separated by mere moments. As soon as the rocks collided with the door Kagome knew what was about to occur. Dodging as far way as she could the door exploded with such force nothing but splinters were left. Once the dust settled the miko ran out of the dungeon to help the one whom she had endangered.

As Kagome ran past a room she felt the pull of the Shikon, not wanting to leave it she ran towards it. The jewel rarely took second place in her priorities list and this situation was no different. Yes she wanted to help Sesshomaru but he was in no way defenseless so the jewel was her number one priority.

Kagome ran towards a door she sensed the jewel behind and pushed it open. The room was dimly lit by a few lanterns and she could see the table filled with herbs and a black cauldron. She approached the table and looked down in to the cauldron, there was still potion within it but she did not care she had to get the jewel. Sticking her hand into the cauldron she wrapped her hand around the jewel taking it from the potion. She cleaned the jewel by rubbing it against her clothing then doing the same with her hands. Once the jewel was secure she placed it in her pocket and headed out to find Sesshomaru.


Katsumi ran down to the dungeon and the sight that met her enraged her further, 'That ningen blew up my dungeon!' she fumed, enraged with just a hint of curiosity, she wanted to know how the miko could have achieved what she did. The door was enchanted and fused with power to stop youki and miko powers from breaking it down. She wanted to know because the only way she would be able to break it down would be if the miko was stronger than her and Katsumi would not believe that a human was stronger then her. No matter whom the human was it was not possible for them to be stronger then a species built to be superior. She pushed those thoughts from her mind and headed to find the miko bitch.


Kagome was racing through the halls heading to where she could sense Sesshomaru's aura. She noticed then that there was something wrong with it; she hoped she was not too late. As she neared his location she was able to tell exactly what was wrong with it. His aura was so weak it was almost lacking youki energy and she knew of no other way 'Other than purification' that would explain the lack of his youki. She knew she was close but she could not pin point him "Sesshomaru" she called hoping to hear something to alert her to where exactly he was.

Nothing was heard in return, she ran faster "Sesshomaru!" she yelled a little bit louder this time hoping that his ears would pick it up. Still she received nothing in response, she was beginning to get nervous 'Am I too late?' she thought worriedly as guilt stepped foot into her heart she needed to find him and soon.

"SESSHOMARU!!" she shouted at the top of her lungs then she heard it, footsteps inside of the room next to where she had stopped to yell for him she could have sighed in relief or shacked in terror the emotions she was feeling at that moment were unclear. So she took a deep breath hoping to gather her courage she reached for the shoji screen and slide it open.

Sesshomaru stood in the dark staring at his haori he did not know what came over him, he could not think straight. It had been ten minutes and his senses had returned he could smell and sense things again. His body and mind did not register his beast telling him to leave the wretched room however.

"Sesshomaru." he heard the faint sound of a females voice, it was the most beautiful voice he ever heard. He could do nothing but stand there and hope to hear it again.

"Sesshomaru!" he heard it again this time louder he knew that the owner of the voice was approaching he did not want to move. He hoped staying where he was would help the beautiful voice find him faster, even though he did not know who the voice belonged to.

As he heard her nearing he began to smell her scent and she smelled so good. Never had he smelt something so wonderful before. "SESSHOMARU!!" the female yelled making him flinch slightly at the volume in which she used. He began to walk towards the door.

Before he could reach it in his leisurely walk it opened the light from the hallway illuminating her form. She looked like an angel, she was beautiful most possibly the most beautiful being he had ever set his eyes upon. He knew in that instant he had to have this woman 'no girl' he thought as he scented her innocence. He was delighted to find out that she was unclaimed and untouched, 'What a rare find!' he could not help but think as he looked at the dark haired woman who was panting slightly from her run.


"Oh god you are ok! I was so afraid I would not find you in time. We had better leave before that weirdo youkai comes back to finish whatever she brought you here to do." her soft melodic voice sounded in his ears and he closed his eyes in appreciation of the sound. ‘I will never grow tired of hearing her voice’ he thought as he imagined all the different ways he could make her speak.


Kagome watched Sesshomaru closely he seemed to be acting strange 'What was that potion to do?' she wondered as she watched him close his eyes and a serene expression came to his face. 'We don't have time for this!' she ranted to her self as she ran forward towards him and grabbed his hand.


Sesshomaru felt her hand clasp around his and he could not help but tense in pleasure as a shiver worked its way down his spine. His fingers curled around hers as she tugged him out of the room. It was time to leave and NOW!


"NO!, You fucking NINGEN BITCH!" Katsumi screamed as she came into the hallway and caught the miko and Sesshomaru hand in hand. She knew it then that the potion was already triggered and now the miko will have the Taiyoukai's affection. She was enraged however she did not attack she was not stupid, she could sense Sesshomaru had full use of his powers again and knew if she were to attack the miko Sesshomaru would kill her without a second thought, because he would be protecting his future mate. "NO! NO! NO! The potion was supposed to make him LOVE ME!" she yelled before she snapped her mouth shut when an idea came to her.

'This can be entertaining, and of course after the effects have been reversed she could always make another batch of potion.' she thought finding it funny that the human hating lord would be obsessing over the very thing he hated most, a human. Katsumi backed up slowly and disappeared around the corner with a taunting smirk on her face.

Kagome sighed in relief when she saw the female leave. She then continued her attempt at finding a way out of this palace and back to her friends.


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