InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Bond ❯ Chapter 3

Kagome was still fuming when they got back to the Bone-Eaters Well. She'd been muttering curses under her breath from the instant they'd been out of Sesshomaru's hearing range. Miroku and Sango had stared at her as a result especially as Inuyasha was totally silent; he almost seemed to be in shock.

 

“Filthy, abusive, stupid… Some people shouldn't be allowed to have children! To hurt your own flesh and blood! Just for politics! Neglect's a form of abuse too!”

 

“Kagome-sama, what are you talking about?” Miroku had barely got the words out of his mouth when the Miko snarled.

 

 

“Those wastes of skin that Inuyasha calls his parents. We just learned that it was his own mother and father who altered him as a kid - they hurt him so badly that he went to Sesshomaru for comfort afterwards!”

 

“You were that desperate?” Sango looked at the hanyou in surprise.

 

“I always thought my father raised me mostly until he died. Sesshomaru acted totally different before then, so when I met him again I didn't connect him to the demon who always had time for me, to comfort me if I was hurt, who taught me how to hunt and fight, at least the basics. But that was Sesshomaru, and I still can't quite believe it.”

 

“How much older than you is Sesshomaru?” Kagome was diverted just a little by that fact, something she hadn't really processed yet.

 

“He was ten years old when I was born.” Inuyasha answered shortly. “I still can't believe that I thought he was my father.”

 

“He explained it. He fed you his blood, and your father didn't, so in effect he adopted you. Perhaps your father didn't realise a hanyou would need blood as well as his mother's milk?” Kagome didn't really believe that, but she wanted to cheer up the dejected hanyou.

 

“When he wanted me to be as youkai as possible? And you heard what Sesshomaru said - he didn't even give his blood to his full youkai son!”

 

“He didn't want Sesshomaru to be his heir, he probably hoped he'd die and he'd be able to claim it was an accident!” Kagome almost snarled her last words. “I don't think too much of Sesshomaru's mother either - why would she let that bastard treat her like that? And not only that - to let him hurt her son?!”

 

“Kagome-chan, most women in this time don't have many choices. Once a woman marries she belongs to her husband, I expect it's the same with youkai?” Sango sounded sympathetic and resigned at the same time, as if she'd come up against that unspoken rule too often to count.

 

“I don't know. My mother never let me learn much about youkai culture, after she died I mostly cared about learning how to fight and defend myself. I can ask Myoga next time he's around.”

 

“Yes, please do it Inuyasha, or there might be someone in my time I can ask.”

 

“Who, Kagome-sama?” Miroku looked mystified by the idea, and tried using the distraction to grope Sango, only to freeze at the young Miko's answer.

 

“Sesshomaru. He's the one who's helping me learn how to use my powers better. Think about how long youkai live - he's changed by my time, I'd rather not discuss why.” Kagome stopped talking then, and began moving more determinedly towards their village. The others got the hint and followed in silence, dropping the subject.

 

“Inuyasha, I'm staying in my time for three weeks, seeing as we got fifteen shards this time.”

 

“What do you mean you're staying there for three fucking weeks?”

 

“I mean I need to spend time there. For every five shards we collect I'll spend a week back home, for less I'll either put them in the `bank' so to speak, for future visits to my time, or spend a day there for each shard. Do you want me to repeat that scrying and find out where the nearest shards are for you, so that you can get them while I'm gone?”

 

“That was only good for getting an area though wasn't Kagome-sama?” Miroku sounded as if he were trying to solve a logic problem.

 

“Yes, but if we can pinpoint an area you can go there and find out about any rumours, then use that to get the shards.”

 

“Do it Kagome.” As soon as Inuyasha had agreed Kagome got the materials out and began contaminating her blood with the Shikon shard. She used first the map with all of Japan on, and then the map for the area with a high proportion of shards closest to the village. Once the others had got the information they needed Kagome packed the maps and other things up and left.

 

~~~***0***~~~

 

Sesshomaru glanced up as he caught his master's scent, but then returned to setting up the desktop computer he'd gotten for her family. Her personal laptop and handheld computer were in her bedroom along with the CDs she'd left with him containing her spells and techniques for using her magic. He'd also got a laptop for her little brother to make sure he wasn't jealous about Kagome's laptop. But one of the CDs he'd left on his master's bed was not her work, instead it was something he'd put together, a selection of monographs and books on sexual submissiveness and the D/s scene - and the first sexual fantasy he'd ever written down, something he'd kept at her orders. He hadn't understood that he was sexually submissive until his master taught him that, but the signs had always been there for anyone who could see them.

 

The last order she had given him before she left was to seduce her younger self. “I won't want to sleep with you, because I thought it would be rape. I didn't understand that you are sexually submissive, and that you'd been in love with me for five hundred years. You'll need to convince me to take you to my bed, and to do that you'll need to educate me in the more exotic sexual tastes. Remember that fantasy I had you write down when I began courting you? I want you to find some way to show it to my younger self; that will make a starting point, perhaps not a good one, but a starting point. I know you don't consider it appropriate for you to talk about your own needs or display them, but it might help if you use them to encourage my younger self to dominate you in various ways. That is if you want her to. If you really can't bear the thought of sleeping with her you can get out of it by telling her about these orders - she'll be only too willing to countermand them.”

 

Now that he'd met Kagome as she was when she first claimed him Sesshomaru understood that, but he had no intention of letting her know about those orders to countermand them. He loved her with everything he had, and he craved a master, someone to control him, in bed and out of it. It had been so long since he'd felt safe, and he'd had to trade his body to others too many times for him to want anything but to be Kagome's exclusive property, someone no other Miko, or hanyou would dare touch, or harm because his master was so powerful and used her power so readily.

 

He remembered how she'd courted him after he'd given birth to his first child, and finished his duty to the father. Her first courting gift had actually been the spell she cast giving him the option to retain his pregnant physiology to a degree after he gave birth, although he didn't think either of them saw it that way at the time. She'd taken it slow, and been incredibly patient with him, and never once had she commanded him into her bed. She'd commanded him to do other things, like writing that fantasy down, but not to share her bed. Remembering that he realised it had been a mistake to mention that one of a body slave's duties was to warm his master's bed, she wouldn't want him in her bed merely from duty, but only if he desired it.

 

“Sesshomaru. You didn't need to get us a new computer; our old one would have been perfectly adequate you know.” He hated it that his master used his full name. At first when his master had used her nickname for him he'd resented it a little, but he quickly came to love the intimacy of it, the sense of closeness he'd never felt before. And asking for her to use his nickname would be perfectly innocuous, something she'd be willing to give freely.

 

“Yes Kagome-sama, but it was old. And you needed a laptop and handheld computer so you could take them to the Sengoku Jidai if you felt it necessary. If it makes you feel better the money for them came from your father's share in our profits. Might I ask a favour of you?”

 

“What do you want to ask?”

 

“You used to call me `Sess', I've missed that, could you please do it again?”

 

“Sess. That's not a problem. I can do that for you. Wait a second, you said my laptop and handheld?”

 

“You do not want to take up all day on this computer while you learn how to use your magic, do you Kagome-sama? There's another CD there. It contains things I thought you needed to know, but some parts are password protected. There's a text file named for each folder with a question that should tell you the password after you've read through the other stuff. It's the blue CD; the others are your spells and such.”

 

“Exactly what did you think I needed to know Sesshomaru?” Sesshomaru flinched, his master's voice was angry, and he could feel her anger.

 

“That's the other reason I asked you to use the nickname you gave me, I associate my full name from your lips with you being angry at me. I thought you'd rather learn about inu youkai instincts and habits from a Miko who'd made a study of such things and has a career as a behavioural psychologist than from me. The same with modern youkai culture - you didn't seem to enjoy hearing about it from me before.” He felt his master's anger die as quickly as it had flared at that explanation.

 

“No I didn't. I don't approve of slavery Sess, and that you seemed eager to return to being a slave is something I can't understand, not at all.” Kagome sounded, and felt sad.

 

“Some of the password protected folders address that issue actually. There are youkai who hate being claimed, but I'm not one of them.”

 

~~~***0***~~~

 

Sesshomaru was giving her information on why he was happy to be her property. And information on inu youkai instincts and modern youkai culture in more detail than he'd given her before. She'd have to get through the stuff he thought she needed to know first, but he might be right about that. And even if he wasn't, indulging him in this was a small price to pay in compensation for having enslaved him.

 

“Sess, there's something I need to know about youkai culture in the Sengoku Jidai.” Kagome knew that the youkai didn't want to talk about modern youkai culture, after how hostile she'd been about it, but hopefully he'd be more willing to talk about the older form of youkai culture.

 

“What do you wish to know Kagome-sama?”

 

“Exactly what position did a female youkai have in a marriage? Sango said that a human woman belonged to her husband, but what about a youkai female?”

 

“Marriage was never practised by youkai, not the way it is among humans, and hanyou. But two youkai can become mates. It is a mystical bonding, and cannot be broken. A youkai can also become a Miko's or a hanyou's mate. There is always a submissive mate, and a dominant mate. Which partner will be submissive and which dominant is determined in the first few weeks of the mating, and the newly mated pair are usually left in seclusion while they determine that. The submissive mate is always faithful, but the dominant mate has the option of taking other lovers, my father did while my mother was pregnant. He married Inuyasha's mother, and he did not make her his mate, because of the risk. In pure youkai matings the female is usually submissive, but not always. But that is why female youkai who ruled rarely took mates, and chose one male to sire their children, a consort, not a mate. With a mixed pairing it is usually the youkai who is submissive, which is why my father only married Inuyasha's mother, rather than risk mating her. The mating won't hold with a normal human, they don't have the magic to anchor their end of the bond.”

 

“Is that why your mother let your father kill her from repeated miscarriages? And abuse you into the bargain?” Anger flared along the link, and Kagome knew that she should stop it, control it, but she couldn't sense any fear of her coming from Sess.

 

“She never knew that he was…hurting me.” Sess had paused before the word hurting, as if another word sprung to mind. To Kagome's way of thinking his mother should have known that her mate was hurting her son, even if they both tried to hide it. “I hid it from her, so she wouldn't have anything else to be upset about.” Upset because her son was being hurt, or for some other reason? Kagome could sense a hint of guilt from Sess, and fear, but not of her, of his memories. “And yes. The submissive mate has little to no choice in what her mate does to her, and cannot disobey him, not easily or safely. It could quite easily kill the submissive partner to disobey.” Was that why he'd kept what had been happening to him from his mother? Was he afraid she'd try to protect him and die for it, or afraid she'd choose her own life over protecting her child?

 

“I'm sorry to have to ask you something so hard for you to answer. Is there anything I can do for you, as a reward?”

 

“Might I sit at your feet while you read the CDs, and sleep in your bedroom tonight?”

 

“What!” Kagome was shocked at Sess' choice of reward; it wasn't anything she could understand. “How is that a reward for you? And I'm not sure Mom will let you sleep in my bedroom at all.”

 

“At least let me sit at your feet, or beside you, where I can lean against you until you decide to go to bed. It's a reward for me because I need to be in contact with you to some degree. It makes me feel safer; reassured that no one will hurt me, or even touch me, because I belong to you. I've gone five hundred years without that, please do not deny it to me.” Kagome couldn't deny the desperate need in her youkai's voice, so she just nodded, and led him upstairs. There were seven CDs waiting for her, and she started with the first green one. She quickly realised that the six CDs were a set of instructions for learning how to use her powers from the ground up. The first one would give her the grounding she'd lacked before, when she was flying more or less on instinct and on what few spells she could find that worked the same for her as for normal Mikos. The other five covered the different aspects of using her powers in detail - one was labelled `Combat magic' and she vowed that once she'd gained the proper grounding, laid the foundation for new work she would start with that disk.

 

Two hours later she thought she'd covered as much as she could at a time, she'd even managed to finally ground and centre her powers properly, and it felt like a controllable part of her, not just something that would flare up without any true control at times, or refuse to work at other times. As a reward she decided to move on to the CD Sess had prepared for her. Without her noticing it her hand had dropped to pet Sess, and she realised he'd been purring when she moved her hand and he stopped, whining instead.

 

“Were you enjoying that?”

 

“Yes Kagome-sama. Youkai, especially claimed youkai are a lot more tactile than humans, we just tend to keep it among our pack. At least if we form packs, otherwise among our family. I stopped considering Inuyasha part of my pack after he rejected my help. I know it was late, but I offered him aid, invited him to live in my home as soon as I could find him after I could rule in my own right.”

 

“You did what you could. It isn't your fault that you didn't have the option of keeping him with you after your father died. At least you made sure he wouldn't be killed outright.” She could tell Sess was uncomfortable discussing the matter, so she shut her laptop down and put it to one side, kicking off her shoes. “Come up here.” She lay back on the bed, and when he climbed up beside her pulled the youkai down to lie in her arms. She could tell how surprised he was at that, and just how happy and grateful for the contact.

 

“What…” Kagome glanced up at her mother when she opened the door, looking shocked at how she found the two of them.

 

“Mom. Sess needed comfort. He wants to sleep in my room tonight. We won't do anything, just sleep; I give you my word of honour.” Kagome found herself willing her mother to understand and agree.

 

“Where will he sleep then?”

 

“We can pull a futon in for him for tonight. He gave me information that was painful for him to tell me about, but I needed it. This is what he asked for as a reward, I couldn't refuse him.” Kagome could feel how content her slave was just to be lying in her arms, he didn't even seem to care that she was talking over him as if he were a dog or some other animal, something that couldn't understand.

 

“A reward?”

 

“Apparently there's some sort of instinct that means he needs to be around me or something. He gave me a CD that he thinks will guide me through modern youkai culture. You can look at it while I'm off hunting shards if you want.”

 

“Yes, but it's time for tea.”

 

“Come on then Sess.”

 

Once Kagome'd finished eating she decided to catch up as much as she could with her school work, Sesshomaru knelt by her feet, leaning against her legs as she worked, and curled happily on the futon when she decided to sleep.

 

~~~***0***~~~

 

Sesshomaru repressed a shiver as he looked at his cousin, the one he'd mentioned to Kagome. Oh, he was handsome enough, with silver hair and purple eyes, and a dark red diamond marking on his forehead and pale blue stripes on his cheeks, but something in the way he looked at Sesshomaru had always made the Taiyoukai feel…soiled for lack of a better word. But Karritarous was one of the strongest fighters he'd met, he'd defeated Sesshomaru in spars, the only one beside Inuyasha and Naraku to do that in the last ten years, and he didn't have a mate, he didn't want one, and his lineage was impeccable. He'd sent Jaken to tell him to come to Sesshomaru's castle as soon as Kagome left after ordering him to conceive an heir.

 

“Before we begin I want you to cast a privacy spell on this room.” Sesshomaru knew that Karritarous didn't have that much in the way of magic, but he certainly had enough to cast a simple privacy spell. The other youkai obeyed, but questioned him as he did so.

 

“Why do I need to do this? You are more than capable of casting a privacy spell yourself.” And that was true, even with the glamour he always kept up Sesshomaru was one of the few pure youkai with magic to match even the weakest of true Mikos or priests.

 

“I've already cast one, but I want a layered spell, and that means getting two of us to separately cast a privacy spell. It is much more effective, because there are two different types of power present.” Sesshomaru waited for his cousin to sit down again before he continued.

 

“You find me desirable, do you not?”

 

“Very much. But you have to find a mate, some female to carry your heirs, more's the pity.” His hungry eyes raked up and down Sesshomaru's body as he spoke.

 

“No, I don't actually. I can carry my heir myself. I want you to sire him.”

“And what would I get out of this?”

 

“The same things a female Taiyoukai's consort would - access to my body while I am in heat until I've conceived, the position as the father of my heir, and if he needs a regent you would take that position.”

 

“Not good enough. I want access to your body from now until you go into heat again after you give birth. And I want you to be completely submissive to me in bed, to do whatever I want with no protest.”

 

“Provided that while I am in heat you only lie with me in such a way that I can become pregnant, and while I am pregnant you do not do anything that will endanger my child.”

 

“Agreed.” Karritarous stepped over to Sesshomaru, pulling him up to his feet and kissing him deeply. The Taiyoukai stayed passive beneath the other's lips, letting him probe all he wanted to, but never responding - if Karritarous wanted submissive he would get submissive.

 

Finally the other pulled back. “Let's take this to your bedroom. I want to touch that beautiful body of yours now. When will you be in heat next anyway?”

 

“I was in heat a month ago, when Naraku almost killed me. If I hadn't been hiding that aspect of my scent he would have raped me, and probably forced a mating on me.”

 

“You could probably find a mate in the next five months if you wanted to. Are you afraid you'd be the submissive partner?”

 

“With the amount of magic I've got?” Sesshomaru *was* scared he'd end up being dominated if he was ever permitted to take a mate, but he wasn't about to admit it. “But, if I took a mate she wouldn't be allowed to act as regent for my heir if it was necessary, and I do not think my uncle would let him live to adulthood. You would make sure our son lived to take his place as Taiyoukai if it came to that. But I need to teach you about politics before anything like that happens.”

 

“Very well. I never needed to know much about that, but I can see how it could become important. Was there any other reason you chose me?”

 

“You fight well, and you have good ancestry. Besides you've been lusting after me for a while. Haven't you?”

 

“Yes, you're gorgeous. I'd have to be insane not to.” They'd reached Sesshomaru's bedroom by now. “Now get undressed.”

 

Sesshomaru obeyed, stripping awkwardly, and lay down on the bed when directed.

 

“I'll need to teach you to do that more gracefully, but that's for later. For now tell me, have you ever had a lover?” Karritarous began running his hands over Sesshomaru's body as he spoke.

 

“No.”

 

“Then we'll start slow.” Karritarous stripped himself, much more gracefully and seductively than Sesshomaru had managed. “I want you to kneel in front of me and take my dick in your mouth. You can experiment however you want - I'll tell you if you're doing something wrong - but I want to come inside your mouth.”

 

“Could you sit down then? I think that would make it easier.” Sesshomaru kept his eyes cast down as he stood to obey. When Karritarous complied with his request he knelt and used the skills he'd developed more than sixty years ago to satisfy him. It was a lot easier this time, he remembered how to breathe around the flesh choking his mouth, and his cousin didn't start thrusting into his mouth, preferring to let Sesshomaru do the work.

 

“And you've never done that before?” Karritarous stroked Sesshomaru's hair gently afterwards.

 

“I never wanted to risk anyone finding out about what I am. I wasn't sure what the reaction would be.” Sesshomaru decided to go with a misleading truth, rather than an outright lie. He really didn't want anyone to realise the reason his mother had started to reach four or five months pregnant before miscarrying, rather than two or three, after he was five years old was because his father had stopped having sex with her while she was pregnant then - he'd made his son give him blow jobs instead, and it hadn't stopped until he married Inuyasha's mother.

 

“Hmm.” Karritarous sounded as if he wasn't sure that he believed Sesshomaru, but he let it slide. “Get up here and lie beside me.”

 

“W-what are you doing?” Sesshomaru hated the way he stammered when he felt his cousin's hand between his legs, gripping his cock, but he was startled at the action, it made no sense to him.

 

“Giving you pleasure. Haven't you ever done this yourself?”

 

“Only to distract myself during my heat and those are not the parts I need to pay attention to.”

 

“You mean when you bring yourself you focus your attention here?” And Karritarous' hand moved back to explore his cunt.

 

“It helps distract me. If I didn't then I might let my glamour slip. I had to kill the youkai who tried to force themselves on me when that happened, but it was a lot harder than it should have been.”

 

“You mean that when you're in heat you've got the female instinct to let a male fight you, and then take you?”

 

“Yeah. It helps to tell myself that if I killed them, if they couldn't best me they weren't good enough to sire my pups.”

 

“Will I have to fight you when you get into heat?”

 

“A token struggle at least. I'm sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to help it.”

 

“Oh I don't mind a token struggle. As long as you let me win.”

 

“That's one reason I chose you, I think you'd be able to win while I'm in heat, you have even when I wasn't before. If you can get close enough to bite the back of my neck I always freeze for a moment.”

 

“What like a neko?” Karritarous was still stroking between Sesshomaru's legs while they spoke, and the Taiyoukai shut his eyes as he came, spurting his seed over the other's hand.

 

“Yes. I do not know why.” And he didn't know, although he suspected it was something his father's wife had added when she gave him a womb, to weaken him.

 

“I'm going to take you now. It will hurt a bit, because this is your first time.” And Karritarous pinned Sesshomaru down before he slid into him. Sesshomaru bit his lip as it happened, resisting the pain as well as he could, but the pain did fade and it was replaced by pleasure. “I'll leave in the morning. I'll return in a week or so, but I'd like to get some things before I move in - I take it you are inviting me to move here?”

 

“Yes, of course.”

 

“Sleep now.” And Karritarous rolled over and went to sleep, leaving Sesshomaru to bathe before joining him. He was surprised at how it had gone, it had been…bearable, and he hadn't expected any concern for his pleasure, but he had the feeling it would get worse.

 

 

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