Once Again with Love

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and any other anime figures wrote of in this y doy do not belong to me.

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Sesshoumaru was sprawl gracefully on a chair in one of the darkened corners of his apartments and watched the inu youkai bitch as she slept. She was almost buried in the pillows of his bed. She had lain there unconscious since they had reached the Castle of the Western Lands over three days ago. She should be waking soon, he thought as his eyes roamed over the girl.

She really was beautiful.

So very beautiful.

She was also so very delicate… everything about her screamed delicate.

From her delicate markings on her face to the small elegance toes of her feet. Her long black hair with blue streaks running though it covered most of her body and hid it from his view. He had never desired a female like he desired this one. It was a need, a want… no a requirement that he had her.

She had to be his and only his. No… who was this female to call to him this way. Yes she had power… he could fell her youkai caressing across his skin.

From where did he know this bitch?

He knew her…

He did know her…

He had seen or meet her during the last ten years… but where? Sesshoumaru’s allowed his mind to go back over the last few years, and a startled lock came over his normally emotionless face as he realized why the bitch seemed so familiar to him.

Inuyasha’s mate his human wench.

How did the girl go from being a human woman to an inu youkai bitch?

Sesshoumaru shuttered in loathing.

How could he desire his half-breed brother’s human bitch?

Still he did desire her…and with her miko and youkai powers she would provide exceptional offspring, offspring to rule the Western Lands after he was gone. He was reaching an age were a mate was needed… that was one of the reasons that he patrolled his lands himself instead of sending out his soldiers, looking for an inu youkai bitch that would dhat hat and all the Western Land inhabitants must know to fear his wrath.

But back to his first problem, his mate must have power to pass on to the pups, but also be tamable. She would have to learn her place and the teaching would be wonderful. Bitches always would fight for dominance in any mating. The male must be strong to force his dominance on the bitch…not to break the female but to bend her to his will.

But did he want this bitch enough to take a former human as his mate.

Mother to the heir of the Western Lands?

Sesshoumaru looked over at the girl again.

Yes, yes he did.

So he would have this former human girl, this bitch. What was he thinking she was born a human… the lowest vermin…but s she she must be his. Yes, she would give him sons and daughters to rule the Western Lands.

But first things, first. Kagome must learn who was master of this house. Sesshoumaru stood and walked to the pretty dressing table that stood in front of the balcony doors and opened the dragon emblazoned box on top. Within the dragon box was the necklace of the Lady of the Western Land. When he place this necklace around her neck he was making her Lady of the Western Lands and stating his claim for all to see.

Sesshoumaru took the necklace and walking to the bed, looked down at the girl, who was beginning to wake. Quickly he lifted her up and placed the necklace around her fragile neck, locking it in place, then he lowered her back to the bed and retook his seat in the dark corner of the room to wait for her to fully rouse.

Sesshoumaru’s silently continued to watch the girl’s unconscious form as she started to move on the bed in a return to consciousness. With a pained moan she opened her eyes and tried to sit up. Moving quicker than the eye could see, one second he was seated in the gold velvet covered chair the next he was at her side.

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Kagome had never felt this kind of pain before…even when she had been wounded in the travels to find the Shikon no Tama, she had never once her like she did now. Kagome senses were alive with the smells, sounds, and feelings that surrounded her. She breathed in the air from the enclosing area….there was some much information in that one breath that it almost took away her ability to breathe. She smelled the cloth of the bed she was laying on. The oil used to care for a sword. She also smelled pine…there were so many scents that she could not name them all. She did know that she was in a room and not out doors…that was the cloth and oil scent… but she had smelled the scent of pine as well…

Worriedly, Kagome thoughts ran though her mind like a herd of wild horses running from a predator….

Where did the scent of pine came from if she was inside and what was that beating… a heartbeat.

There was someone with her…

He…yes, it was a he…

Kagome’s senses where quickly taking in the surrounding area. It was so strange that so munfornformation could be passed on in one intaken breath.

He smelled so good…like Inuyasha use to… sweat, oil, and the outdoors, a masculine, virile scent. A scent that offered protection. She had smelled that piney outdoor scent once before, when Inuyasha had been fighting for his life. It was a strong scent. A man’s scent, the scent of protection and…wait protection what was she thinking. Kagome’s thought as she opened her eyes and tried to set up.

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Kagome could not believe her eyes, Sesshoumaru. This had to be some kind of mistake. There was no way that she was laying in a bed, a really nice bed but still a bed, in a room with the Lord of the Western Lands standing over her with a personality that could be comparable to hunched over, unresponsive stone gargoyle. Couldn’t the Kami’s be kind to her just this once?

Maybe she was only imaging him. Yes, that was it she was still lying in her bed and this was a dream. She quickly closed her eyes again and then opened them slightly…

~ Hmmm… maybe he was a dream. ~ Kagome thought hopefully and quickly pinched herself on the arm. ~ Owie, that had hurt, so this was definitely not a dream. ~

Which left only one conclusion, somehow she was in someone’s bem wim with the cold, lethal Lord of the Western Lands, Sesshoumaru.

Sesshoumaru gracefully seated himself on the bed and watched the girl silly antics. Hmm… was he sure that he wanted this silly girl’s blood in his future pups? Was the only thought that ran though his mind as he watched her.

But still someone had to have her, the type of power she possess blazed from her letting everyone around her know she had raw unimagined power locked away within her, so why shouldn’t it be him. The only other alternative would be to kill the girl to keep her out of the hands of the other Lords of the Lands. No, the girl’s powers would belong to the inu youkai clan of the Western Lands.

The bitch was his, his to tame, his to dominate, and finally his to mark.

But first start as you mean to go, as his father had always said.

"Well girl, it would seems that you have some explaining to do. This Sesshoumaru, wishes to know how you went from a human wench to a youkai bitch."

Sesshoumaru lounged against the bright gold, crimson and black coverlet as he waited for the girl to answer his question.

Kagome couldn’t believe that she was still alive. Sesshoumaru should have killed her the second that he had seen her. Everyone knew that he hate humans…but then she was not a human anymore was she, Kagome thought bitterly before answering. Kagome looked over at him with an expression of pain and anger on her face.

"Ever since the Shikon no Tama returned to my body, I’ve been changing. At first the changes were very small, heighten senses, speed, and reflexes. " She signed and looked away from him, " I believe it because I had too much power running though my body at least for a human body to handle. I think that Midoriko and the Shikon No Tama altered me to keep me alive. The guardian of the jewel has to be strong with the ability to use her powers to defend the jewel, I believe that they changed me to make sure that I survived to guard the Shikon. "

Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru again. He aspect was exite ite as he lay there, the sunlight was streaming through the open balcony doors surrounding him in a halo of light. The light shimmered over his face making his eyes and markings glow. His long silver hair danced on the slight breeze that enter the room via the doors.

He was waiting for something else, Kagome could tell. " That really all I know, Sesshoumaru. "

She looked away from him, seeing the room around her for the first time since she woke, it was an immense room. Flimsies, golden curtains bellowed from the balcony doors in the breeze and the walls were painted a deep crimson with gold flowers painted here and there. The room was really as exquisite as the inu youkai who was lounging on the bed with her.

Oh, why wasn’t he saying anything?

He quietly watched as the girls’ emotions crossed her face, she was looking ever were but at his face. He would not say anything about her fate until she asked him.

"Sesshoumaru-Sama, why am I here?" she asked as she finallyked ked up the courage.

Sesshoumaru simple looked at Kagome with a smirk on his face. " It's simple really, you are here girl because you once belong to my brother. Do you know what the means in Inu youkai terms?" He asked as he tilted her face up to look at him seeing the confusion on her face he when on.

"Inuyasha marked you as his mate. Anything that he owned at his death and that includes mates and pups became mine at his death. Since I have no mate, I have decided that you can and will fulfill that role. You now belong to me, it is also time for me to father an heir and other pups. The Western Lands also need a lady. I have decide that you will provide that Lady and the pups."

Sesshoumaru watched as a stunned look came over the girl’s face and throw the last straw on the proverbial camels’ back.

" Really my dear, you should be happy girl you're going to be mated to a powerful Tai youkai and Lady of the Western Lands. Are you not honored?"

When the girl simplyred red at him with that stunned disbelieving look on her face and did not answer him, he realized that a lesson in obedience was needed. When he asked a question or gave an order she should answered or obey immediately.

The narrowing of his eyes was the only sign that he was not happy with her. She must learn that refusal to obey meant pain and punishment, but he would give a gentle lesson this first time.

Gently, but with a firm hand he slapped her across the face before taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look him in the eye. "When I asked a question girl do not make me ask again. When I give you an order, you are to follow it quickly."

Kagome gasped in shock as his hand hit her check, there was only a gentle sting, she barely felt it at all, but still he had hit her…he had dared to hit her. She couldn’t believe that he had hit her. Anger instantaneously overtook what was left of her good sense, Kagome growled and then drew her hand back in a fist and quickly lunged toward his face with her fist.

Sesshoumaru easily read her emotions that filled her fand knd know how she would react to his actions. When her fist came at his face, he easily captured it.

~ Hmmm, obviously a stronger lesson was needed. ~ Sesshoumaru easily pulled the girl across his lap with a quick jerk of his wrist. He pulled her nightgown up over her buttocks and brought his hand down painfully on her backside several times.

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