Wooing Stubborn Mates

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Chapter 6

Big thanks to my beta’s!

With a sigh, Harry followed the pair while a single thought ran through his mind:
'Why do I get the feeling that this new development with a mate isn't going to be normal for me like it is for everyone else?'

Harry allowed his magic that he had managed to keep from when he had gone through his inheritance to go out and see if it came into contact with anything else in the area that wasn’t supposed to be around. When his magic came back to him Harry saw the old woman in a different light.

‘So that’s why no one brought up what she said yesterday’ Harry thought as he moved through the trees as he followed the old woman back to her hut, ‘she used her own magic to change what they remember, crafty old woman.’

“Tell me about my mate,” Sesshomaru demanded on the ground as they neared the old woman’s hut, “Now.”

“Now now don’t be so demanding,” the old woman said in a light scolding manner, “I know Harry well and he wouldn’t like being told what to do and what not to do very much.”

Sesshomaru gave a low growl causing Harry to smirk, “Old woman you will tell this Sesshomaru about his mate.”

The old woman ignored Sesshomaru’s demands and started to make some tea. Harry had to hide his laughter as Sesshomaru was slowly becoming angrier and angrier by the second.

“Now then, as I said your mate is not from around here, well not from Japan anyway,” the old woman started which calmed Sesshomaru down as it seemed he was finally getting some information on his mate, “Why when he first came here this village was a joke. The crops wouldn’t grow and we could hardly do anything together.”

Sesshomaru could have told the old woman that humans and yokai couldn’t get along very well without a lot of effort on both sides but he kept quiet as he was finally getting information on his mate.

The old woman moved around and placed the items for making the tea down near the fire and kettle and sat down, “It was during a big battle, some yokai not from the village felt that the yokai from the village were traitors and had to be punished. Just as we thought we were going to be destroyed a certain emerald eyed kitsune walks in and saved the day.”

Sesshomaru could imagine that, his mate seemed to be protective of the village and his home spoke for itself when to say he was not from Japan but another country was his birth country.

“Harry soon took charge and helped us get the village back up and in working order again, better than before if I might say,” the old woman continued one, “He also managed to make Yokia/Human couples as well and the crops grow better and life seem like paradise here. So forgive us if we seem a little bit over protective of our young Harry.”

Harry allowed a big grin to show on his face from his hiding spot. The old woman was only telling what everyone in the village already knew.

‘This should be fun’ Harry thought as he remembered the last time a ‘fake mate’ had come to the village to woo him only to get attacked and kicked out of the village by yokia and humans alike ‘I’ve had hundreds of these fake mates before, all types of yokia and human, and Lord Sesshomaru won’t be the last.’

Sesshomaru suddenly caught a sent coming from above, lifting his head to try and catch the sent better he failed as the old woman hit him with her walking stick.

“Harry doesn’t like that kind of behaviour either,” the old woman said even though she knew what Sesshomaru was doing and she wouldn’t allow him to do it, “You’ve got a lot to learn and a lot of respect to earn before you can even start to think about being able to breathe the same air as our Harry!”

“You’re Harry?” Sesshomaru asked, his eyes slowly turning amber, “Just what do you mean? He is my younger brother’s pup by adoption so if anyone has these rights then it is my younger brother.”

“Now now Harry’s been with us for longer, we’ve helped him to learn our way and we have learnt his way,” the old woman said with a pointed look as she watched Sesshomaru take a sip of the tea with a grin.

The tea wasn’t just for politeness, it dulled a yokai’s sense for awhile which allowed her to question them without having them sense if anyone was nearby or listening in on them.

“My mate has a protecting people streak in him?” Sesshomaru asked as he sipped the flavoured tea which he found strange but knew better to comment on thanks to his training to become the Lord of the Western lands.

“That is right so you’ll have to look out for that along with the little fact that he doesn’t over work himself when trying to help us around the village and if he gets injured during battles he will not say or do anything about the injury,” the old woman said in a scolding tone as Harry disappeared, “Just keep an eye on him for things like that and dear?”

Sesshomaru blinked at the sudden change, “Yes?”

The old woman, once she was sure that Harry had gone, used her walking stick to pull Sesshomaru close so their nose’s was touching, “You harm one hair on Harry’s head and you’ll have a whole village after you.”

With a shake nod, Sesshomaru stepped backwards and walked out of the old woman’s home only to find hands of the villagers on him and his mate looking smug from a tree.

“What?” Harry asked in mock innocents, “Thought that you could just sit back and do nothing? Nope, it’s time for you Lord Sesshomaru to do some work.”

Sesshomaru paled, his mate wanted him to do the work of a servant or slave?

Harry allowed a big grin to show on his face which got Sesshomaru to worry even more, “And first thing that’s got to go is those clothes of yours, they won’t do at all for the type of work I’ve got in mind for you...”

Sesshomaru was frozen in place as the yokai held him in place while the humans took off his clothes. He was in too much shock, his mate couldn’t mean what he thought was happening...

“I am no toy for bedroom pleasures, I’m only for my mate,” Sesshomaru said with a growl as he managed to pull his clothes back and cover himself up.

“Then I will enjoy this,” Harry said as Sesshomaru watched him jump down from his spot on the tree and with his index finger he gently and lightly stroked the outline of Sesshomaru’s muscles making the demon Lord shudder, “All mine huh?”

Sesshomaru gulped at his mate's touch and not for the first time wondered just who was the dominate in their relationship.

“Well then,” Harry said as he pulled Sesshomaru to a nearby hut using the clothes Sesshomaru was holding onto, “Let’s get this all sorted out shall we?”

Sesshomaru had to move his clothes to hide his mini self that was slowly coming awake, was this it? Was his mate finally going to mate with him?

The door to the hut opened up and Sesshomaru walked in only to find that it wasn’t what he thought was going to happen.

‘I’ve been made a fool off’ Sesshomaru thought as he watched his mate walk into the hut and start to look around for whatever he wanted.

The hut that the two were in wasn’t a mating hut or anything of the sort, Harry had just drug Sesshomaru to this hut to get him some...

To Be Continued...