InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Bond ❯ Chapter 7

Sess knelt at Kagome's feet as she sipped from a glass of red wine. The Miko stood by the bar with one hand on his neck radiating self-confidence and assurance. He had been given a smaller glass of wine too, although it was just as common for slaves (those who were in a more permanent relationship) to be given a saucer, or a bowl laid on the floor to drink from, and he sipped at it watching from beneath lowered lashes as unattached subs approached her only to be rejected quietly and gently.

 

Eventually Kagome grew tired of the chatter and jerked at Sess' hair, telling him to stand. She focused on one of the dominant employees, a human with red hair, in Japan that colouring was exotic, even if not as much so as Sess' own silver hair. Sess had asked him to top him when he first joined the club in an effort to check the facilities of the club before he used them with a dom he had never met before, and had no control over. The experience had convinced him that the precautions against a rouge dom hurting him badly were sufficient, and gave him the confidence to let one of the other guests pick him up, and he'd also established his normal boundaries for whoever it was monitored the rooms.

 

“What is your name?”

 

“Ryoga my lady, and might I ask yours?”

 

“Kagome. I have reserved room eighteen, show us to it Ryoga, and I have not played with my pet in this way before, so I wish you to watch us and step in if you think I am putting him at risk.”

 

“I will do so willingly Kagome-san. He is most beautiful, as are you, so it will be a treat to watch the two of you together. I must say that you will find him very pleasing, he is most responsive.” Ryoga spoke as he led the two of them through the club.

 

“Oh, and how is it that you know?” The edge to his master's voice made Sess a little nervous, and he could feel her slight anger.

 

“When he first joined the club he had me top him. It's fairly common among new subs, at least the cautious ones, as a way to check the facilities and establish their limits. I only speak of how I found him Kagome-san.” By now they'd reached the room and Kagome unlocked it quickly, pushing Sess inside. That was the last thing he noticed as she used her magic to knock him out.

 

He woke up chained to the bed, hands together above his head, and his legs chained spread open. Kagome'd put a pillow beneath his hips too, lifting them to give her easy access to him.

 

“Kagome-san, are you sure you wish to do this? Have you decided on a safe word for Silver to use? And do you know how far it is safe to go with him?” Ryoga seemed disturbed, and Sess could understand that. Kagome had refused to tell him what she'd planned, and that had made it more exciting, being knocked out that way had made him feel as if he'd been thrown into one of his fantasies, and he could guess which one.

 

“Yes, I want to do this. As for a safe word we'd decided on the name of his brother's first lover, Kikyo.” It obviously hadn't occurred to Kagome that Sess should have a safe word, and there was no reason for him to in his opinion and so he hadn't brought it up, but Kagome seemed to realise that it would seem suspicious not to have one and provided it. “And you are here in case I try to go further than would be safe for him.”

 

Reaching down Kagome picked up a whip, fairly light, but it would still hurt, and trailed the ends across his chest. She twitched it a few times, and then she actually hit him with it, hard enough that he bled from the nipple one of the tails caught. After that she moved her target further down his body, to his stomach, managing to avoid his genitals, fortunately, and arousing him in a way his scanty skirt could not hide.

 

Kagome stopped when she saw that, and bent to take his bleeding nipple into her mouth.

 

“Who do you belong to my pet?”

 

“You Kagome-sama.”

 

“Good.” And then she pierced his nipple, putting a silver ring into it and fastening it with magic. “Satisfy me.” She pulled her clothes off and straddled his head, but made him reach up to lick at her private parts. When he'd brought her she actually sat down on his face, but swiftly recovered, and tearing off his skirt impaled herself on him. He could feel her tear inside, and realised with shock that his master had just given him her virginity, something he had never thought himself worthy to receive. He could only watch helplessly, occasionally thrusting involuntarily as his master moved above him, pleasuring them both, and doing his best to keep himself from climaxing. She was working on her fourth orgasm of the night when she realised he was biting his lip in the effort not to climax. “You can come when I do.”

 

It was only a few seconds later that Kagome came again, and Sess came so hard that he blacked out. When he woke he found that Kagome had started to take him in the ass using a strap on, and she was being gentle about it.

 

“Come as soon as I do pet.” After the second time he came Kagome stood and unchained him, ordering him to lick her skin clean. He obeyed and she dressed, letting him dress as well and leading him out of the club.

 

“Did you enjoy that Sess?” Kagome decided to question him as soon as they were out of the club, and he decided to ask a question of his own if she permitted it.

 

“Oh yes, it was wondrous. But did I please you?”

 

“Yes, I enjoyed it, more than I should have perhaps.”

 

“Master, you are the one who taught me that it is wrong to feel guilty or ashamed about what pleases you sexually, so long as it does not hurt others. And I am more than willing to be yours totally. I have been dreaming of it for almost five hundred years.”

 

“I see. But you're going to have to teach me that lack of guilt, before I can teach it to you in the past.”

 

“As you desire Kagome-sama.” Sess knew that he'd be sleeping in his master's bed in the future no matter how her mother felt about it.

 

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Sesshomaru barely restrained himself from growling when the nearest courtier insisted on helping him stand from eating. He didn't really mind when Karritarous did something like that, after all he was carrying his cousin's child, and by default probably his heir as well as Sesshomaru's own, but just about every male youkai in his court was acting as if bearing a child made him helpless. It had started when he started showing enough that he began wearing female clothes. And it was even more infuriating because the other Taiyoukai were there to see how his people were coddling him.

 

“No one ever lets you do things by yourself when you're pregnant, I know what that's like, I hated it myself when I was bearing my two children.” Ayiko's sympathy just made Sesshomaru feel worse, he'd seen how she managed her court during her two pregnancies, and it was only her consort who was overly attentive to her then. And no one had ever hit on her as much as he'd been hit on since he'd admitted to being a hermaphrodite.

 

“Yes but…until I started to show just about every unattached youkai was flirting with me, and so were all the dominant mates! And now they all act as if I was helpless!” Sesshomaru fell silent suddenly when he realised he was becoming hysterical, at least by his standards. “It is as if they forget that in the last twenty years I have only been defeated by three people even in spars, Inuyasha, Naraku and my consort Karritarous. The only reason I reduced my training when I learned I was pregnant is that I do not wish to risk miscarrying my son as my mother miscarried so many of her children. And it isn't as if I only had physical means of defending myself if I needed them.”

 

“But you don't really use your magic that much, do you? At least not in any obvious ways, that's one reason we were all so surprised that you kept such a powerful glamour up for so long Perhaps if you actually showed them how much magical power you have in some way?”

 

“I'll need to find a way that wouldn't be too blatant or too explicit a threat. But I still cannot understand why they act like that. If I had actually shown evidence of needing any form of coddling that would be one thing, but this is different.”

 

“You're the only male who *doesn't* act as if pregnancy is some sort of debilitating disease. And as you said your mother did miscarry many times.”

 

“But I'm not her, I heal faster than she did, and there's no one beating me. It wasn't exactly a secret that my father hurt her, even while she was pregnant, and my hips are as wide as hers were now - and by the time I give birth they'll be wider still.” The bones in his hips had been moving since he conceived, but so slowly that Sesshomaru only noticed it when he meditated for six hours or more at a stretch.

 

“How? I noticed that you have gained breasts as well, small, but breasts all the same.”

 

“A hermaphrodite who appears male will, if he conceives, shift to a female appearance over the course of his pregnancy. The bones in my hips have been moving and changing since I conceived, and my milk glands have swollen while fat has deposited to form my breasts. Now, why did you say I do not act as if pregnancy were some form of debilitating disease? I was not aware you had seen me with a pregnant youkai to form such an opinion.”

 

“While your regent's mate was pregnant, when you were eighteen. She accompanied her mate to council when she was one and a half months pregnant, and I visited for other reasons about two months later, and I stayed for two weeks. Then the next council meeting was held here. You only helped her when she needed it, if she didn't need it you let her keep her pride and deal with it herself. That was the first time I ever wanted a male, I wished you were second born, bastard born or disinherited so I could take you as my consort.”

 

“I'd never have agreed to that, not unless I had some sort of guarantee that you wouldn't tire of me.” A consort wasn't always certain to remain with a Taiyoukai, or any other ruling female, she could discard him at will unless they had some sort of legal agreement to prevent that. That was the only reason a youkai pair would choose a marriage such as humans practised, rather than a mating and even then a consort didn't have the sort of security a mate did.

 

“You'd have insisted on a marriage or contract even if you'd been bastard born? Or if your father had succeeded in disinheriting you?”

 

“While my father and his wife planned on how to disinherit me they discussed using me to form an alliance with you if they succeeded. If they had then I would have insisted on some sort of guarantee that you would not discard me. That is what I decided when I overheard them discussing possible fates for me if they had succeeded in convincing the rest of the council that my brother would be an acceptable heir.”

 

“When did your father and his wife discuss this?” Ayiko looked, and sounded shocked and surprised. “And more importantly how did they come to let you overhear it?”

 

“I was good at remaining unnoticed then, I could probably pull it off now too, but I'd have to use more magic now than I did then. I was about thirteen or so, it was shortly after I first came into heat - I think they'd been hoping I'd be raped and get pregnant because I didn't have any knowledge at all of what was happening. They thought I'd be less likely to fight their replacing me with Inuyasha if I had an alternative of some sort.”

 

“What sort of guarantee could be given? It sounds almost as if you would have demanded a mating, but that would be impossible. I only selected my consort for his skill in battle, once he got me pregnant I left him to do his duties as captain of my personal guard.”

 

“Marriage is one way, and so is mating if you use a spell to determine the dominant mate.”

 

“Is that possible?” Ayiko sounded shocked and disbelieving, and Sesshomaru enjoyed that reaction.

 

“Yes, I've been collecting obscure spells for a long time, since I was about eight and my mother died. It is a way of honouring her life. She knew a lot of that sort of spell and she taught me them, one of the ones she taught me was a way for a pair coming together as mates to make sure the partner they'd chosen beforehand would be dominant, but both mates have to cast the spell with the same dominant mate in mind when they become mates.”

 

“Who would use that spell to willingly become the submissive mate?” Ayiko sounded disbelieving again, and Sesshomaru couldn't blame her.

 

“I know I wouldn't. But if the spell was more commonly known it might give ruling females a chance to take a mate, or give their consorts some more security. And I've been trying to adapt it so only one mate needs to cast it, with support from outsiders perhaps, but not successfully. Not that it matters, it was just an exercise in spell making.” Sesshomaru shrugged and smiled at the older Taiyoukai as the other three touched the privacy spell around his council room.

 

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“Hello Sesshomaru.” Kagome smiled gently at the heavily pregnant youkai as he lay on his bed. “Why are you still here so late?” The Miko was puzzled, when she'd asked to see the Taiyoukai his guards had brought her here, not to his audience chamber, or anywhere else, and that didn't make sense to her.

 

“My consort has come to the conclusion that I'm too heavily pregnant to leave my bed - and he inveigled my guards and courtiers into supporting him. He only came up with this yesterday, because I've got between two and four weeks left.”

 

“Actually you have less than a week left. I'll be here to help with the birth, and there's something else I want to do.”

 

“What is it that you wish to do Kagome-sama?” Sesshomaru kept his eyes lowered as he spoke, and through their link Kagome sensed that he was uncertain that he had the right to question her.

 

“I want to modify the trigger for your alterations in form as a result of pregnancy to revert. The way it works at the moment once you've given birth your hips will start to get narrower and your breasts will start to shrink once you stop breastfeeding. I want to change that to make both of them revert to normal by an act of will and make both effects instantaneous.” Kagome paused, she felt that Sesshomaru had had enough of alterations being made to his body without anyone asking his opinion or consent, but she knew that her Sess had been altered in that way. “I won't force this on you, I want you to think about the advantages, and disadvantages, and talk to me about it tomorrow, then make a decision the day after. No matter what you choose I won't be angry.”

 

“T-thank you Kagome-sama. If I might ask what do you view as the advantages?”

 

“Instantaneous reversion, which would allow you to significantly change appearance - people don't connect an apparent male with an apparent female. When youkai start hiding from humans you'll be able to use this to change identities. It will also return you immediately to the condition you were in before giving birth.”

 

“Oh, so I wouldn't suffer ill effects from cutting back on my training?”

 

“Not really, and I've managed to make sure it will reset your, I'm not sure what to call it, sense of self, so you won't react as if you still had breasts, or a lower centre of gravity.”

 

“I see. Are there other advantages?”

 

“Not that I can think of offhand. Perhaps you'll think of some.”

 

“I don't think I need time to consider this. I want you to make the alteration you suggested. If you think it will be useful to me, then that is all I need to know. I trust you and your judgement.” Kagome was shocked by the degree of trust Sesshomaru showed in her, *Sess* showed that sort of trust, letting her top him in that club her first time for instance, but she hadn't expected Sesshomaru to do so yet.

 

“This is going to affect your mind as well as your body Sess, and I've never done this before so it might not work, or it might go wrong.” Kagome felt obliged to warn her youkai about the risks before she did anything, and she felt he deserved it.

 

“My future self has had this spell done on him, or you would not suggest it Kagome-sama. There is no one else you could test this on, so any delay would do no good. Please Kagome-sama, just cast the spell.” He was very logical about it, and Kagome finally nodded, kneeling beside him on his bed and reaching into him with her magic.

 

This was the most complicated use of her power she'd ever tried, she bound her magic to the magic left inside Sesshomaru and to his own inherent magic, altering the conditions, and granting him a degree of control that no natural born hermaphrodite would have. The final thing she did was reach into his mind, accessing his sensory memory and linking a time-based reset of that part of his mind to the same condition as it was in just before Sesshomaru conceived, to accompany the reversion of his body. As she withdrew from his mind Kagome noticed something else, that there was an instinct level reaction like that of a cat to being bitten on the back of the neck, one that was implanted. But it was so old that reluctantly she decided not to do anything about it, feeling that to interfere might do more harm than good.

 

“It is done. If you wish it you can let your hips return to normal first, immediately following the birth of your son, but that means they'll do so over nine months, and so will your breasts when they disappear. To make both disappear at once after you've weaned your son think about keeping your female figure after you've given birth. Now, show me how well you learned the breathing exercises I showed you.” And from there it turned into a medical examination.

 

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Sesshomaru gritted his teeth, refusing to scream. He was a warrior, and he would not be reduced to screaming merely because he was giving birth. If for no other reason than that his followers would *never* respect him afterwards if he did. Karritarous had gone hunting earlier and all the other males had fled at the first sign that he was in labour of course, but Kagome and Sayaro were here to help him through this, and he would not have them think less of him.

 

“If you feel up to it the birth would go quicker if you got up and walked about for a while.” Sayaro stared at Kagome in shock at this pronouncement, but she seemed to accept the Miko's word.

 

Sesshomaru obediently struggled to his feet with Kagome's help, but he couldn't prevent a whimper escaping from between his teeth.

 

“I'm sorry. I didn't realise how much it was hurting you. You hide your pain well, but you really don't have to. Childbirth hurts, and everyone knows nothing someone who's giving birth does or says can be held against them.”

 

“Yes, for females, but I'm supposed to be a warrior.”

 

“Females have a higher pain threshold than men in general.” Kagome guided Sesshomaru in walking about the room, despite the pain. “If you want I can cast a spell to reduce the pain.”

 

“Please, Kagome-san.” Sesshomaru blushed when he realised how eagerly he'd jumped at the idea. He hated feeling so weak, but it was hurting so badly, worse than he'd ever imagined it could. He could not understand how Ayiko had been willing to bear a second child after the first time she'd given birth.

 

“Women in my time almost never give birth without anaesthetics, drugs, or something similar to make the pain all go away.” Kagome reassured to him softly as she did something to him that made him feel as if he was floating away, totally disconnected from his body. He was aware of what was happening to him and around him, but it was as if the edges of the world were blurred, and nothing around him mattered.

 

“I have some herbs that I normally give females in childbirth that have a similar effect, but Sesshomaru-sama was reluctant to take them. He felt that it reduced his honour in some way, or at least that was how I interpreted his refusal Kagome-san.” Sayaro had taken Sesshomaru's other arm and was helping Kagome to guide him around the room when she spoke across him to explain the lack of painkillers. Sesshomaru vowed to be less proud in the future, he knew just how foolish his refusal had been now, but he somehow couldn't muster the will to say anything. At the moment all he was capable of feeling was a vague sense of gratitude to Kagome for deadening his pain.

 

Her company, and assistance, in the birth of a child she had not sired on him made a total contrast to the way Karritarous, the father of his child, had gone out hunting. Mates were almost always together when the female gave birth, and a ruling female usually commanded her consort to stay by her side, so he'd been disbelieving when he learned that Karritarous had chosen to go hunting when the most powerful Miko in the Western Lands had said he was due to give birth soon. It gave him another reason to love Kagome, and a reason *not* to continue letting Karritarous share his bed any longer than he had to.

 

Suddenly he could feel again. Kagome was holding him still and urging him to squat. He obediently did so and Sayaro moved to kneel between his legs and guide his son from the womb.

 

“Do you want to cut the cord Sesshomaru-sama?” Normally it was the male mate, or consort who had fathered a child who cut the umbilical cord, it imbued some protection to the child in a way having someone less closely related, or to a lesser extent the mother did not. But Karritarous was nowhere near here to do his duty.

 

“No, Kagome-san, will you please cut the cord?” She was the one who had ordered him to bear a child, and he had the feeling her claim on him would allow her to act as the father of his son, even if she wasn't genetically.

 

“I'd be honoured.” Sesshomaru watched as Kagome used her magic casually to cut the umbilical cord and cauterise it too. She also used her magic to clean him up and wrapped him in a blanket before handing the pup to him. “Do you have a name picked out for him?”

 

“Yes, Ranmaru.” Sesshomaru cradled his son in the same way he'd cradled his brother when they were both younger. He knew that he still had to expel the afterbirth and he decided that until his son was weaned he'd keep his body more or less as it was. He was still in good health, and he'd managed to keep up his training even if it was at a lesser level than before.

 

“It's a lovely name.” Sayaro stood up with the afterbirth in hand, Sesshomaru knew that she was going to send it to be cooked, and he was expected to eat it later. “You need to get clean, and then you can go to bed.” As she spoke she walked over to the door and handed the afterbirth to a waiting servant, and Kagome cast more spells which cleaned him and his bed. Sesshomaru climbed into bed feeling far more exhausted than he ever expected to and put his son to his breast to soothe the pain in his abdomen.

 

 

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