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Chapter 06
You say I am sick.
I tell you, “Why yes I am.
And I want no cure.”
-D.O.D
Kagome awoke to the feeling of strong nimble fingers kneading and molding the weary flesh of her body. It was so soothing and relaxing that it would be such a shame to stop such a nice feeling.
It was quiet except for the faint sound of water trickling into a larger body of water along with the rhythmic sounds of the shishi-odoshi
echoing off the walls around the room. It was also warm here. The smell of fragrant candles and various flowers perfumed the air with calming smells. The atmosphere felt so meditative. Almost as if this was a calming paradise of some kind. Like the dark quiet nights in a bountiful garden. She could almost picture such a scene with vivid clarity. Where was she? Her curiosity was steady rising urging her to take a look at her surroundings. She opened her eyes slightly to the dimly lit ceiling. Odd shadows were casted across it under the flickering candlelight. Moving slightly, she noticed that the bed she laid on was a large overly plush silken pillow. The hands massaging her thighs suddenly stopped making her looked down toward the stranger curiously. There she found a male demon. He had long dark hair that fell down around his serene face in deep waves to his waist. Startling blue orbs twinkled like gems in the candlelit as he watched her. One of his eyes had beautiful black demon markings curling around it like vines. It was stretched slightly as smiled gently at her, warming her to him. Now this man wasn’t just any type of gorgeous. He was more like a gentle beauty, beguiling even. And his expression was so pleasant that she found it hard to feel that she have been violated during her sleep. If anything, she felt comforted that it was this demon that tended to her. But then surely she has lost her mind. “Morning sweetness.” Even his voice was gentle and soothing to her ears. She found that she couldn’t help but relax in his presence. Or could it be a spell he was casting over her? It had to be. This demon should not be relaxing her. In fact she should be frantic with fear and a need to get away from here. “Morning.” Kagome sat up still watching the demon beside her. He was still a good height taller than she was sitting up as he sat back on his haunches patiently. “Where am I?”
The man cocked his head at her, the smile never wavering from his heart shaped lips. “Still in the western palace, only…in the pet living quarters.” He said. “You’re in the grooming chamber now and I am to see to your care by Lord Aimaru wishes.”
“Oh.” She looked around the room and noticed that the chamber had a large hot spring that you could swim in surrounded by pillows, empty platters and other luxuries she didn’t think would be provided to a simple pet. Beautiful shoji screens divided various alcoves with large colorful pillows similar to the one she laid on beside each one. As if they were grooming stations or something similar to that.
“I’m Iku by the way. Your groomer and caretaker.” He added cheerfully.
Kagome hung her head sadly. Groomer. Like a stable master tending to their lord precious steeds? Have she really been reduced to such a lowly position? Although, one could say that even noble steeds don’t have as…lavish. She mused as she looked around. “So what now?” she watched him dejectedly. “Am I to wait to be called upon and used like a whore?”
Iku’s deep chuckling disarmed her for a moment as he gestured for her to turn around and bare him her back. Since he didn’t come across as anyone who would do her any harm so she complied.
“I wouldn’t say that exactly.” he started as he gathered her hair gently and began to run his finger through it. Against her will her body melted immediately under his hands as he worked the tresses into a style with various pens and combs. “It is your duty to see to your master’s needs as it’s the master’s duty to take care of you. Believe it or not, there’s actually a protocol to keeping human pets and servants for demon lord’s of high standards to follow.”
“Is there?” Kagome asked listlessly with her eyes closed completely mesmerized by his fingers. She has never known the act of having your hair combed to be so pleasant. “So you mean to say that it benefits the humans here to be a pet?”
“Yes. As long as you are a good pet or servant.” She noticed he didn’t use the word obedient.
“Hm.” She hummed thoughtfully and felt the loss of his fingers in her hair. He stood and moved to the front of her with a wooden box in his hands. It was make up.
He started applying the first strokes of eye makeup when he spoke again. The small wet brush tickling her, making her lashes flutter. “If you allow it sweetness, your stay here could be very pleasant.” She felt the brush move across her second lid in sure strokes. “I have yet to find a pet or a slave who was unhappy with their position here in the western court.”
“So, I’m not the only pet here?” She opened her eyes to look at him as he started to apply her lip rouge.
“Far from the only pet here.” he chuckled. “In fact, the demon lord was overdue for a pet of his own. And you happen to be his first, lucky you. Sit up straight for me sweetness.” She did and let him drape multi-length chains of silver around her neck. It felt cold against her neck and draped between her bosoms making her shiver. It was at that time she noticed the chain wasn’t around her neck.
When she touched her neck curiously, Iku answered her unasked question. “Pets only wear their leashes when they are with their master’s. When they are with their groomers, they are allowed such a reprieve.” He put thick clinking bangles around her wrist and ankles as he looked at her thoughtfully. “In fact, it’s this time, when a pet is with their groomers, when they are allowed to act freely and relax in the company of one another and other pets of the western court. Call it down time if you will.”
Wide blue eyes regarded the groomer in disbelief. He made it sound as if this was a holiday of sorts. To think there was such a system among demons in regards to humans.“Where are the other slaves?”
The man frowned at her and as he reached in the jewelry box for an odd piece of jewelry. It was a chain of small crescent moons hanging from it with odd shape clasps at the ends. On the inside of the clasps, each was lined with fur. What an odd piece of jewelry. She marveled at it as he set the chain down in his lap and moved a slender hand to her breast. “We don’t consider our pets and servants here slaves sweetness.” His thumb reaches out to rub at her soft nipples, coaxing them to stand at attention. Startled, she could only sit rigidly watching as he repeated his attention to her other nipple. “Though you humans fall
under our jurisdiction, you all hold just as significant a status here as others. Only your statuses fall in a completely different category. Not a degrading one I assure you. I could elaborate but I just couldn’t bring myself to put you or myself through that horrid snooze-fest.”
“Indeed…” Kagome answered breathlessly while watching him attach the fur lined clasps to her nipples. She reared back and reached to take them off when a strong hand stopped her.
“Now, sweetness, this chain is to remain where it is at all times. It’s this…” he lifted the dangling chain with a finger. “that will represent your status here to other masters, mistresses and pets. You will learn to wear this with honor.” He let the chain drop causing her gasp.
“This is no different than a farmer branding his livestock.” She quipped while staring down at the offensive chain. It made her all too aware of how tender they are.
“Really?” He smiled. “So would you rather we mar you lovely skin with a hot iron?”
Kagome only glowered at him.
Iku shook his head and move to stand and walked around a screen. She heard rustling as if he was gathering something then he reappeared with a odd contraptions in his hands. When he sat before her again he flashed her one of his most charming smiles. And it was that kind of smile that made her nervous. “Lie back and open your legs sweetness.”
She could hear him chuckling at her. No doubt at the unhealthy shade of red she just had to be glowing.
“As I told you, you are a pet. One who’s sole purpose is to see to the needs and desires of your master. While one of my duties is to groom you, I’m also responsible for your training as well.” He reached up to cup her cheek affectionately. “I don’t do this to harm or torture you sweetness. I do this to enhance you for more of your sake than anything else. How you decide to use these lessons will determine your value to your masters.”
“What if I don’t want to have any value to my master? What if I wish to be discarded?” she challenged.
A sad look entered his eyes as he sighed. “Is there someone who is waiting for you to return to them?” When Kagome didn’t speak he went on, “Lord Aimaru told me how you came to be here sweetness.”
Kagome looked away to the water rippling around the rocks in the natural springs.
It was nice here, but it wasn’t nice to be here. Not as a pet. But then she had no other place to go, no one to return to. Would it really be in her best interests to accept this life and make the best of it? Can she find something here that will make her want to stay? “What could possibly make me want to stay here? I was forced to engage in lewd deeds with my masters and they plan to take away my maidenhood. So why would I chose that over wanting to be freed?”
She watched the demon smile. “Were they cruel to you?”
“Yes.” She said immediately. Fondling her and forcing their large sexes down her throat was not what she would call civil.
The smile on his face grew wider. “Really? So they hurt you? Broke your bones, tore your flesh open, made you cry out in agony?” he cocked his head at her, still smiling.
“…no.” Kagome glowered at him, damning him for making her sound like the unreasonable one.
“Have I made you feel unwelcomed? Worthless?” he then questioned. “Threatened your life or wellbeing in anyway?”
She shook her head still glowering at him.
“If you let me,” he started as he moved toward her slowly, his smiling looking all too seductive as his face neared hers. “I’ll help you learn to make your stay here most pleasurable for you. Will you let me?”
Kagome shivered as he whispered in her ear. His taller frame crowded hers, yet in a protective way that made feel oddly at ease.
“It may be my job to tend and train you, but I
personally will work to make sure you are happy here. Think of me as an inside ally of sorts.”
“What have I got to lose beside my innocence?” she asked smartly making him chuckle loudly.
“Your masters will be very happy with you sweetness I can tell.” He said as he placed a small silver ball and a hammer made of solid gold into his lap. “Very happy indeed. Lie back for me.”
Sighing Kagome laid back and lifted her legs apart slightly.
Iku smirked at her. “Wider sweetness.”
Face burning, she widen her thighs allowing him full access to her heat. “Now I want you to do something for me.” He said as he reached down to pry her nether lips apart gently. “Think of your masters.” She went to close her legs but Iku held them firmly apart and settled comfortably between them. “They are beautiful are they not? With hair long and silky tickling your flesh like feathers.” His hand rubbed the inside of her thigh in strong kneading strokes. Her breath quickened as the image of Lord Aimaru’s hair falling around her like a dark curtain. “Eyes bright with fierceness and passion. Passion for you and this lovely body. You saw their hunger for you in their eyes.” His voice grew huskier as his hands moved higher up her thigh.
Inside her mind, Kagome fought the image of her masters looking down at her with hungry red eyes when she had kneeled before them. They were looking at her with such strong desire. Feral desire. She could still hear them panting and growling deep within their chest. It was then she felt an odd tingle within her nether lips.
“You remember their hands, don’t you sweetness? How they kneaded your flesh ravenously. How they touch you…here…” she felt his long digit glide up the slit of her sex with the faintest of touches. With the image of the demon lord between her thighs so clear in her head, she felt the sensation all the way to the nails on her toes. She knew she arched off the floor wantonly.
Why did this image make her feel so….so…tight and warm? Wasn’t this supposed to sicken her or terrify her? What was odd was that it was not this demon she was felt her body throb for…but for the demon lord. For him and his relentless touches and caresses.
“This…” his fingertip pressed at the bud extending from her sex. “Is but one of the tender places on a woman’s body. It is one that could trigger a release that will leave you trembling and breathless under your lover’s touch. But the other tender place,” he said as his longest finger pushed between her now weeping folds far into her tight sheath. “one far inside you that a strong thick phallus could touch, could trigger a pleasure that will blind you.” She nearly jumped out of her skin when he bent that finger. It brushed expertly against a spot inside her that forced a moan from deep inside her throat. He kept up his strokes until she was a sobbing mess beneath him. Oh, how shameless she was to allow this demon to touch her like this. How horrible for her to enjoy it. She enjoyed it more when she imaged the demon lord kneeled between her thighs with his long fingers in her. She fought to breath.
“Imagine all this,” the evil demon twirled his finger around the tightening walls of her sex, leaving nothing untouched inside her. “stretched and filled with the powerful cock of your lord and master Sesshoumaru. In and out he goes. Hot and so very hard.” He crooned as he moved his finger in and out of her.
She could almost imagine it. But it was hard with nothing but this slender finger tormenting her insides. Winding her tightly like a coil. Inside the coil grew tighter and tighter, scaring her with the intensity of it. Every muscle in her body contracted each time his finger brushed across that spot. She felt so close. So close….almost there. She wanted to get there, needed to get there. Against her will, her hips bucked against his finger seeking that completion. But, before she could dive over that edge into the unknown sea of bliss the demon snatched his finger from her cunt leaving her sheath groping nothing. Never did she think that such a loss could be so painful. She wanted that completion. Why did he stop? The image of the demon lord ravishing her was still fresh in her mind. “Iku…” she was shushed when he placed a finger over her lips.
“It will be your master, Lord Sesshoumaru, who will grant you that release sweet one, not I.” Kagome felt like she wanted to cry in frustration. Damn him for making her desire that evil demon lord. “But, oh how silly of me to forget.” She suddenly heard him mock with a feigned gasp. “You wouldn’t want to experience such a horrible thing and stay in this suffocating palace doomed to live the rest of your days in misery.”
A smile ghosted on Kagome’s lips as she watched the demon perform between her thighs. As vulgar as this position was, she relaxed. She couldn’t help herself. There was something about this demon that put her at ease. An abstract comradeship that was growing the more she time she spent with him.
“Oh the horror of living in luxurious palace being fed and pampered day to day. I dare not speak of the atrocities of the dreaded bathing chambers. You poor things, having to endure such long hot relaxing baths.”
Rolling her eyes, Kagome smiled brightly. “Oh no how horrible.” She chuckled in spite of herself.
“Now back to your training.” Iku said with a dismissive wave as he once again picked up the ball and hammer.
She scowled up at him when he smacked the little ball in his hand hard. The little silver orb hummed within his palm as he placed it near her sex. Still wet with her arousal, she felt him push the vibrating orb into her, not far, but enough so that it doesn’t slip out. Squirming under the odd sensations, the ball shifted around and hummed constantly inside her, driving her insane. Her insides throbbed and convulsed around the little ball.
“That little ball is made from a metal that will vibrate for a long time once struck. It’s your job to keep that little orb tucked tightly inside your body until one of your masters relieves you of it.”
Well that shouldn’t be too hard. She thought. At least until she felt herself grow too slippery to hold the ball forcing her to tighten muscles she didn’t know she had around the little ball. Was she supposed to walk around with this in her all day?
“This exercise will also help you become aware of every muscles and nerve inside you sweetness. Don’t think that everything I do to you is pointless.” He stood and beckoned her after him. “Now come, it’s time for you to mingle with the other pets.”
Kagome sat up carefully, all too aware of the humming orb inside her, then moved to stand when she heard her groomer gasp in outrage. She quickly sat back down still trying to hold the dastardly device within her. What did she do wrong?
Iku clicked his tongue at her in chastisement. “Now you know better than to stand precious. It’s forbidden for pets to place their feet to the floor.” When she reluctantly resumed rising to her hands and knees, he nodded in approval then moved forward with her close behind.
“Oh, I’m so looking forward to my captivity here.” she muttered under her breath and she was rewarded with a light chuckle from her groomer. Another smiled played at the edges of her lips as she followed him.
