Unexpected Problems

Chapter Four: Explain Yourself

Bright morning light and wet drizzle woke Kagome from her slumber. In hopes that the images of a silver haired demon taking her virginity where nothing more then a really bizarre dream Kagome sat up and looked around the area. The quick scan was not reassuring showing her shredded clothes and white and red satin lying in discard pools beside a stream.

~Please, oh Please don’t be there~

Ever so slowly and with great hesitancy she turned her head to look behind her ignoring the slight pain just below her neck. Kagome did not like what she found, going a pale white after taking in the vision in front of her eyes. Water jewel dusted toned chest, streaming silver hair, maroon strips and a blue crescent. Grateful for small mercies Kagome slowly backed away from the sleeping demon as quick and as quiet as she could so that she did not wake him. Grabbing his white haori with its red sleeve as she passed Kagome disappeared into the surrounding forest hoping to get as far away as possible before she was found by her friends. Once away from Sesshoumaru she quickly donned his haori before picking up speed and hoping that she was going in the right direction. After running for what seemed like hours Kagome finally ran into a friendly face, even if it was not one of the group it was still welcome.

“Kagome!”

Her name was the first thing she heard before she was engulfed in a whorl wind. Once the dust settled Kagome took in the welcome sight of the black haired demon with his brown furs, black armour and vivid blue eyes. Trying to appear as if this was an every day occurrence she greet her friend with as much forced cheer as she could muster.

“Kouga it is good to see you. Where is Gita and Hakkaku?”

Kouga was quick to grab her hand and pull her close, then even quicker to screw up his nose and lean back.

“Damn Kagome you smell like a wet mutt.”

Not needing the reminder of her night Kagome could feel the beginning of a headache, if he went any futher with that comment he was going to find out exactly why Inuyasha feared her wrath.

Kouga while seemingly repulsed by the scent coating Kagome was intrigued as well because even though he smelled dog it was not Inuyasha’s stench and it was vaguely known to him, as if he had only meet the demon in passing.

“Thank you Kouga, I realise I need a bath but for those visually challenged I don’t have my clothes at the moment”

She could not help but snipe, the last day had been one mess on another and Kouga was not helping. It took a while but she eventually noticed Kouga was looking at her shoulder funny and he kept flaring his nose, almost like he could smell something but he was not sure of it yet.


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Sesshoumaru’s awareness was slowly seeping back to him and for a demon that prided himself on his self control it was both embarrassing and disconcerting. Added to the fact that he was naked by a stream and feeling like he had never rested better with his memories all blurry. To say that he was pissed and wanted answers would have been an understatement. He knew he had been here with a female, he could catch the vague scent of her, not enough to identify due to the drizzling rain that he had been unaware of, but it was enough to tell him it was a woman and from the state of his body and the metallic taste in his mouth he gather he had sex and in the heat of the moment may have mated a stranger. He got dressed only noticing that his haori was missing. It only took two steps to realise he had not gotten dressed that easy in the four years since he lost his arm, even his face registered his shock when he pulled back the sleeve of his under kimino to reveal a perfectly formed arm with the matching dual maroon strips.

Images flashed through his mind. A shadowy woman standing in defiance against him. A chase through the forest. The shadow woman kneeing before him. Her naked against him. In his head he heard his beast purr as a clearer set of images surged to existence in his minds eye. A beautifully curved pale thigh. A luscious pair of breast laid before him to feast on. Midnight hair flowing down a firm pale back.

~With all that she makes a worthy mate, but this was what made me know for sure~
His own voice whispered in his mind deeper and husky than his normal tone.

The image given was of shifting strands of midnight hair moving against porcelain skin revealing a mark on the woman’s left shoulder. A picture of such detail he was amazed. A dark blue crescent moon that cradled a relaxed white dog that had maroon strips on it’s face and a smaller crescent moon on it’s forehead. It’s head rested on it’s paws as red eyes stared forward right at an observer.

~Who is she?~ Sesshoumaru demanded of his inner demon.

It howled it’s anger, tearing at it bounds. It wanted out, it wanted it’s mate, the mate that did not fear them, the mate that had healed them and that defied and challenged them. The mate that it knew they had knowledge of but could not remember who.

~Don’t know, can’t remember, but she is ours she promised us her life, her death it is ours~

“She will be found.” It was stated out loud with such resolution that had it been heard by his target she would have jumped down the well and never returned.

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“When did you get mated? Who is he? I will kill him. You’re my woman”

Kouga had let her go and was pacing in front of her ranting.

“What are you talking about Kouga I have not mated anyone.” Kagome stated while rubbing her temple hoping her headache would go away.

Kouga stormed towards her grabing her haori and exposing her right shoulder. In the reflection of his armour Kagome saw it, the reddened flesh, the dried blood and the puncture marks from Sesshoumaru’s fangs.

“It is just a bit mark Kouga, what has you upset?”

Kagome stood there eyebrows raised as Kouga stopped and just stared at her in utter shock.

“You don’t know? You travel with a monk, a demon exterminator, a kit and a half breed mutt and you still don’t know?”

Kouga was shocked, how could she not know.

“Don’t know what? And before you start ranting just answer the damn question.”

Kagome nerves were beginning to fray and the way he was reacting was not helping the situation any.

“You honest don’t know what is required to mate a demon. You could have been killed. No human has survived a true mating with a demon.”

His wide eyes took in her pale face and her frown and decided it was best that he explain considering mutt face would not bother.

“For a true mating with a demon a few things are required. First an act of defiance on the female’s side. Second a chase to stir the interest of the demon’s inner beast since it is needed to acknowledge whether the female is worth to be his mate. Then there is an act of submission and a promise of the females life belonging to the male.”

Kagome thought over what he said before putting forth a few of her own question hoping that he would continue sharing his knowledge of demon mating with her.

“What if it was unintentional on the females part and the demon was not in control of him self to begin with and instead of a promise of life it was a promise of life and death belonging to the demon and it was kind of coerced in the heat of the moment?”

It took Kouga a while to decipher what she had just said due to the speed she said it at.

“You mean his inner beast was already unleashed before you defied him, and your act of submission was sex and the promise of your life and death belonging to him?”

She could see by the look on his face that this was not a good thing. Boy was she right, when she did not reply he exploded doing a damn good impression of an Inuyasha tantrum.

“Are you completely insane! You don’t defy a demon that is a walking death wish and as for you submission and promise you have successful made the only irreversible mating bonds there is, one that even most demons don’t survive.”

He paced back and forth in front of her continuing his rant going over how he could not kill the demon because it would kill her and how because of her stupidity he now would have no reason not to accept Ayame as his mated and take on the responsibility of the northern tribe once he had taken care of Naraku and his minions. Of course this was all said in the rudest way possible and if she had not spent four years in the company of someone even ruder she would of take grave insult and purified him to dust. Which was becoming more tempting with every word he uttered.

“Okay shut up. The point is received. I am now married and cannot get a divorce. So now what I really need is to find a hot spring and my friends. Preferably in that order.”

Kouga calmed down and agreed to help her though to admit it was not in the order she would have liked.