Of Gold and Adamant

Under Cherry Blossoms

The sky is alive with wine
As the flowers bloom above
Floating petals so very fine
Dressed in the color of love
Ambrosia of heaven they fall
Pink petals flow over my skin
A rose colored world like wall
As the wind blows from within
Such splendor to see and feel
A world of smell and touch
It boggles as the mind seems to reel
At the beauty that seems too much

*************************************************************************************

Eventually no matter how sneaky he tried to be, the news got out about Sesshoumaru’s pups. Some little big mouth told someone and now he had Lords mad at him not that they had a right to be. He kept reminding them all that even if he had miscommunicated, which was impossible because he did not make mistakes, that he had no intention of sharing any personal private information because any offspring born after the first littler was bound to family anyway.

Sesshoumaru really was tired of talking to imbeciles who did not wish to believe him although Sesshoumaru did feel guilty about not telling Shippo, but that lasted only a second since the pup was just lucky he got to mate Fuu in the first place.

Walking over to where his wife and second mate were sitting, Thoren was listening to Inuyasha who was writing the biography of his life since it was to be added to the mountains of scrolls that pertained to his ancestry. Apparently Sesshoumaru had written a new scroll on his life every fifty years and since he had such a good memory it did not take him too long to sort out the unneeded day to day activities only writing what mattered most which included all of his battles and victories.

“And so I was mated to my asshole brother for the rest of eternity since I don’t want to deal with any new asshole. I spelled asshole right didn’t I Thoren?”

Thoren looked at the scroll.

“I think so. Although you need to put his name down once in a while or people wouldn’t know who you are talking about.”

Inuyasha nodded and continued to write while Thoren went back to his painting.

Sesshoumaru frowned a bit at Inuyasha’s continual disrespect toward him, but shook it off since if Inuyasha changed his ways it wouldn’t be a good biography of him.

“It is a nice day for a walk through the gardens. Would either of you care to join me?”

Sesshoumaru mentioned to his mates as Inuyasha finally set his scroll aside.

“Come on Thoren, we can finish this stuff later.”

Thoren wasn’t too happy to be pulled away from his artwork since he had finally mixed the perfect amount of colors to paint with and did not want them to dry out.

Sighing, Thoren cleaned his paint brush off and set it aside.

Sesshoumaru allowed his mates to hold his arms as they walked the wide paths through the garden. As they walked, Sesshoumaru noticed that Inuyasha’s claws still had a bit of ink on them and a little of that black ink was now on his pristine white kimono.

“Why did you not wash your hands Inuyasha?”

Sesshoumaru stated looking rather irritated that his clean haori now had black spots on it.

“Your kimono cleans itself ya asshole so quit your whimpering. You wanted to take us for a walk in the garden so quit yer griping.’
“If you didn’t notice Thoren’s fingers are just as dirty as mine so there is a spot of pink on your clothing too. If you would have been patient and not in such a hurry all the time you would have noticed these things.”

Sesshoumaru frowned as he noticed a pink line on the sleeve on his left side.

“I just hope my paint doesn’t dry up while we are gone. Do you have any clue how long it took me to get that particular shade of pink? And you, Inuyasha are just taking advantage of this situation to get out of writing more of your biography. You can’t keep procrastinating or it will never get done.”

Inuyasha pouted.

“Well I hate to write and especially stuff about me. I doubt Sesshoumaru wrote his entire biography by himself.”

Sesshoumaru sighed.

“I wrote most of it myself and if you hate writing so much I told you that we could get you someone you could dictate to so that you don’t have to write it.”

Inuyasha frowned.

“No, I don’t want a damn secretary to write all my stuff. Besides they would want to screw with it and they probably would get it all wrong. The only person I would have allowed to write anything about me was Kagome or Miroku. Well, they ain’t here anymore so I am stuck writing this by myself. I might have let you write it Sesshoumaru, but you are always busy with your stupid Lord duties.”

Sesshoumaru smiled.

“I actually finished pretty much everything I had to do this week so other than sitting in court I now have plenty of time to cater to your whims.”

Inuyasha snorted.

“Ya, well I ain’t in the mood for your whims right now ‘Oh Lord who can’t keep his paws off my ass.’”

Thoren nodded.

“Indeed I think both our asses are pretty much broken my Lord. You indeed have an unending supply of sexual energy so I hope you are serious about just wandering the gardens for a while since neither one of us is going to give you any until we get a real break.”

Sesshoumaru pouted.

“I am not that exhausting. I assure you both that you will indeed cater to my whims since I am your Lord husband and I am not taking no for an answer. In fact I have a rather romantic expedition planned for both of you that begins at the end of this path.”

Sesshoumaru had his mates follow him to the end of the gardens and onto a small path that would lead them to the three waterfalls that were just beyond the little bridge less than a half of mile from the castle.

“How far are we going?”

Inuyasha asked frustrated that Sesshoumaru was going to make them have sex with him again today. The bastard had kept him and Thoren up all night and through the morning. Really Inuyasha and Thoren were both tired and all they wanted to do was to go back to bed after they finished the work they had started although Inuyasha had to agree that taking a walk with Sesshoumaru was a hell of a lot better than writing his stupid biography. Maybe if he wasn’t an asshole again Sesshoumaru would allow them to take a quick nap before forcing them to have sex again.

“We are going just a little further Inuyasha.”

Sesshoumaru stated calmly. Sesshoumaru hoped that no one had bothered all he had set up for his mates. He worried that some hungry beasts or perhaps even a hungry traveler might steal the food he set out for their little picnic.

As they walked under two of the waterfalls, Sesshoumaru took his mates up to a small grassy hill with one large tree that shaded the area. A blanket was set out and there was a basket of food filled to the brim along with a set of dishes and a large bottle of the best sake produced in these lands.

Inuyasha didn’t realize how hungry he had become and looked at the loaves of freshly baked bread with an eagerness that would be surprising if it were not the fact that Inuyasha was indeed a glutton when it came to food. Being starved most of his life Sesshoumaru really only had himself to blame for Inuyasha’s suffering so he planned to make up to his beloved wife as often as possible with only the best foods available.

Sesshoumaru sighed in relief that the basket had been left unharmed and the only thing buzzing about was a few bees that hummed around the bread that disappeared once they felt the aura of the demon Lord. Sesshoumaru’s aura made even the tiny ants that were trying to travel up the basket retreat as quickly as they came.

Inuyasha, Thoren, and Sesshoumaru all lounged about the blanket as they fed each other the bread, meats, and fruit that had filled the basket. Now they were drinking the sake in small sips glad of the fact that Sesshoumaru had placed the spell of infertility upon them all so that at least for fifty years his two mates would not have to carry young which was a good thing given Sesshoumaru’s insatiable sexual appetite.

After they all finished drinking the bottle of sake, Inuyasha wrapped himself around Sesshoumaru falling into a deep slumber with Thoren wrapped around Sesshoumaru’s back also falling to sleep.

Sesshoumaru sighed as he ran his fingers over Inuyasha’s long hair leaving sweet kisses all down his face to those succulent lips that naturally pouted so childishly making Inuyasha seem even younger than he truly was.

The demon Lord was indeed smitten and loved his mates dearly although he had to admit that Inuyasha was dearer to his heart than Thoren, although he did make sure Thoren got as much time with him as Inuyasha did so that there would be no hard feelings. The unicorn demon seemed to understand this and accepted his place quite easily.

Sesshoumaru scratched behind Inuyasha’s ears making the little hanyou nuzzle his chest. Sesshoumaru had removed his haori and undershirt carefully folding them both and had them sitting on the corner of the blanket. He was tempted to set Inuyasha’s head upon the folded material, but decided that he would allow his mate to use his mokomoko to pillow his and Thoren’s heads. Eventually he too succumbed to the need to rest as he held Inuyasha in his arms deciding a quick nap was in order.

Closing his eyes, Sesshoumaru allowed his aura to flow so that for miles no one would dare intrude upon him and his mates. With that done Sesshoumaru fell into a deep dreamless slumber.

*****************************************************************************************************

Shippo heard of Choukichi’s choice to choose another mate for himself. Shippo wondered why the sudden change of heart since Choukichi’s bride had been much sought after since her beauty was unparalleled. Apparently Choukichi did not love his mate although she had produced him an heir. Shippo just hoped that Choukichi knew what he was doing since there were very few good mates to be had at his age.

Shippo watched Sven who was busy finishing some embroidery that needed to be made for their son who was going to be presented at the mating ceremony at his castle. Shippo was also kind of pissed off at Sesshoumaru who kept his third litter a secret. The last thing Shippo wanted was to mate his heir to the Ken family.

Lord Ken had been a rather big thorn in his side since the bastard wanted to also talk about possibly sharing the land with the Lord of the South since Shippo’s kingdom was rather large and the Eastern Lord’s lands had been sold off to the west to take care of his many debts since the jerk had squandered much of his wealth to pay mercenaries to come take care of the immediate problems with the people of his lands rather than take the time to get to know his people before he killed them all. There were now more humans in the East than demons and if things did not change soon for the Ken’s their kingdom would be forfeit to the expansion of the Western Lands.

The fact was no one liked the Kens or their rule over the East hoping that they would someday be taken over by Lord Sesshoumaru since the western lands thrived with their protector and King in charge.

Lord Sesshoumaru was feared more than he was revered as a Lord and it seemed to work out well for him as well as for those who lived in his lands. Most of the Western population lived by simple rules, do not cause trouble, do not speak to Lord Sesshoumaru without express permission from the Lord himself, and do not attack him, his home, or his family unless you wish to die. Lord Sesshoumaru killed his problems since facing them in any diplomatic way would give him a headache and so there were very few people who would bother the demon Lord.

The only reason the Kens lived was because Sesshoumaru allowed it and did not want to deal with the throngs of humans. Lord Sesshoumaru did not care to deal with human chaos and politics. In fact the humans in the Western lands didn’t really know that they were under Lord Sesshoumaru’s rule.

The strongest of the humans would build up castles and armies so they could battle one another. Sesshoumaru would once in a while check in on them or watch them slaughter one another. In fact Sesshoumaru sometimes would have running bets with his military generals on which group of humans would die first and he was usually right so he rarely lost any of his massive treasuries to anyone. Usually it was a bet of two gold coins which were at least a month’s wage to some of his officers which was nothing to the extremely wealthy Lord of the West.

It was kind of fun letting humans think they were in charge of anything, but after a time Sesshoumaru would go out personally and deal with the human population testing new abilities on unsuspecting bandits and mercenaries as well as sending out demons to destroy random villages that crossed over his borders without his express permission. Sesshoumaru had enough humans in his lands and was not about to cater to more of them then necessary since humans seemed to breed like rabbits.

Sesshoumaru had a pretty entertaining life as he killed off ninja assassins who dared to try and kill him and his mates to try to take over the lands. Being an assassin himself, Sesshoumaru wasted little time with spies and the like since he only allowed those he trusted to gain entrance to his castle and it was not easy to gain Lord Sesshoumaru’s trust so those who had it felt truly blessed that they were not on their Lord’s bad side.

Shippo knew he was lucky enough to be on Lord Sesshoumaru’s good side and was treated almost like a son to the demon Lord and his mates. Shippo also knew that part of his good fortune with the West was that his Uncle Lin was a personal advisor to Lord Sesshoumaru and Lin was well liked by those that knew the chubby happy Lord.

The only other Lord that really could complain about his lack of lands was Kouga since Kouga who took over most of the mountain range with alliances with all the wolf tribes of the area. Kouga was pronounced King shortly after mating Ayame. Thing was Kouga was like Choukichi in many ways since he was too old to be without a mate since he was an idiot and let Ayame go to another wolf since all they did was fight. Shippo understood that kind of relationship would not work out for anyone so he kind of felt sorry for Kouga. However, Choukichi did not have that excuse. Really there was no real reason that Shippo could understand on why his cousin would choose to not remain mated to such a good woman. Shippo figured when Choukichi came to visit he would have to ask him about that.

Shippo kissed Sven on the lips before leaving to attend more duties since there was a small battle going on between two villages that were usually at peace with one another. Hopefully Shippo could end it peacefully, but when dealing with demons it wasn’t always possible to make them see reason and Shippo hoped he would not have to decimate both villages if talking things out did not dissolve the problem.