A Broken Heart Can Be Good...

“….” = Speech
*…* = Inner speech/ Beast speech


After the servent left, Sesshomaru turned to Kagome and said coldly “It is dinner time, you coming?”
“Yes” she replied, before walking up the path not sure what she’d done to anger him.
*I kissed her, Where is my self control?* he said silently to himself. He was jolted out of his thoughts by the growls of his beast. *Why are you letting her get away?*
*I kissed her* he stated.
*You are in heat and she is here, we’ve had this conversation before. Stop fighting it!* his beast said sounding exasperated.
“Humph” Sesshomaru replied as he followed Kagome up the path.

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Sesshomaru found dinner very difficult, is beast kept wanting to pounce over the table and take her. All because she was enjoying the sauce on her steak and kept spilling it on her fingers. *We could help her clean that off* his beast stated. *Off her fingers, off her neck. We’d have to be very thorough on her neck* his beast wheedled.
*She has no sauce on her neck* he replied.
*I wanna clean her neck* his beast whined.
*No* Sesshomaru shot back forcefully. “Miko” he spoke aloud “I am going to bed. You continue with your dinner. I will see you in the morning.”
He got up and was leaving when he heard a whispered “What did I do wrong?” from Kagome.
He stopped and replied without turning “Nothing Miko. You did nothing wrong”

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After tossing and turning in bed remembering their kiss from that afternoon, Sesshomaru was frustrated. “Why am I unable to rest?” he asked himself, getting no response from anywhere he decided to have a soak in a hot spring and relax.

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Later that night Kagome awoke suddenly. After looking around her room and seeing no cause she said to herself “I wonder what woke me?”
She then heard a noise coming from the bathing area outside her room. She got out of bed and quietly, putting one foot before the other, she went to the door to that area. She put an ear to the door and heard splashing sounds. “Someone’s using the hot spring. No one else should be in there” she thought angrily. As she started glowing pink with her spiritual power she threw the door open. As it hit the wall with a loud crash, she froze at the scene before her.

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When Sesshomaru heard the crash of the door behind him he jumped up and started growling at the intruder. When they didn’t move he calmed slightly and realised he was growling at Kagome. When she still didn’t move and she started blushing he remembered his state of undress and disappeared through the other door that Kagome had forgotten was there.

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When Sesshomaru jumped up and started growling at her, all Kagome could think was *I am going to die. Why is he in here though?*
Once he calmed down and then disappeared she just stood there shocked.

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After she’d climbed back into bed, Kagome couldn’t sleep and so started replaying the incident again. This time she noticed some things she hadn’t before. “Were his markings darker? I didn’t realise he had so many of them!”
Her mind supplied *Those markings were in interesting places too!* She shook her head to rid it of that comment and then realised she could feel his aura outside her door. His aura was recognisable but she realised that it had altered slightly in the last few days, that’s why she hadn’t realised it was him in the hot spring.
“Come in Sesshomaru” she called to him.

When he heard her voice he had been about to knock, he needed to talk and he had come to do just that. When he entered she flicked a side lamp on and watched him approach before softly saying “Sorry about barging in on you, I should have checked who it was first.”
“You are forgiven” he stated. Just as he is about to speak again he notices her looking curiously at his face and forearms which we visible below the sleeves of his sleeping kimono. “Like what you see Miko?” he asked with an inner smirk. As predicted he sees a blush rush up her face. She then reaches up to touch his facial markings before asking “Were these this colour a few days ago?”
He begins to think about how to answer her question when all thought leaves his head as she begins to trace his markings gently, he begins to growl softly with contentment. His beast also happily accepting the attentions of the one they both want, their mate-to-be, once they ask her to be. “Well?” she suddenly says after a few more minutes, jolting him back to reality.
“What?” he replies, flustered and trying not to show it.
“The colour of your markings, has it changed?” she reminds him.
“Yes” he says tentatively, not sure how she he should tell her.
“Why?” she asks
“I have started my heat” he replies “It is an outer sign that I am ready to procreate.”
“Oh.” She said with a puzzled look on her face. He watched as she seemed to think about what he’d said and then a look of comprehension graced her face, then outrage.
“WHAT! Does that mean you don’t get a choice about when you want babies?”
“Pups, my mate will have pups, and no. I am not given a choice. It starts when my beast and I agree who we want for a mate, then it happens every year after. Dog Youkai are infertile at all other times.”
“Well” she says “that would explain the change in your aura and why your eyes have been kinda red since…” She trails off and begins blushing again. “This afternoon, under the tree, do you regret it? I mean, if you and your beast agree with who you want for a mate, shouldn’t you have been doing that with her?” She finishes and continues looking at the sheet that she doesn’t remember tangling in her fingers.
“If you mean the kiss then yes, I should have been there with her…” he lifts her chin with his fingers and meets her gaze “…and I was.” He finishes before dipping his head to brush her lips with his. She gasps which gives him the opportunity to deepen the kiss. After softly but thoroughly kissing her he whispers “Will you be my mate? Become the Lady of the Western Lands, the mother of my pups and the most treasured thing to my being…Please?” he buries his nose in her neck as he holds her, waiting for her answer and hoping.

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Sorry we haven't updated in a while. i hope everyone is enjoying the story.

Well everyone...what do you think? will Kagome say yes? whats going to happen next?
You'll fin out in the next chapter.