InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Bond ❯ Chapter 9

Sess was near dead on his knees by the time Kagome had finished marking her new youkai, and he felt a faint flicker of jealousy at that thought, until he reminded himself that they had been marked as servants, nothing more. His master had released the hold she had on his hair before she started to mark Kouga's clan and he collapsed against her knees as she re-seated herself on her throne, somehow managing to make it look more like a sensuous sprawl. She was in much better condition, but even so he knew she was pretty drained when she gestured for one of her personal household to bring her meal to her, rather than going to take a place at one of the tables. Sess nuzzled at Kagome's thigh as she ate, trying to remind her that he was hungry too, for when she had finished eating herself, and she slowly began to hand feed him as she ate her own meal, alternating a bite of food for herself with offering a bite of food to Sess. It wasn't conventional, but in its own way it was a show of power. Sayaru could have possibly marked so many youkai at once without collapsing, and perhaps five other Mikos in Tokyo, but they would have needed to draw far more power from their body slaves, probably not from just one body slave either, and no other Miko could then put aside her own hunger to feed her body slave. But Sess knew that for all that a power play was the last thing on Kagome's mind, she was merely showing her customary consideration for him and his needs.

 

Kagome satisfied herself long before Sess was full and he tried to resign himself to feeling hungry throughout the rest of the celebration, only to be surprised as his master pulled him up so his head lay fully in her lap and continued to feed him, teasingly, making him seem like a pampered pet. He knew she was totally unconscious of the sort of power display she was making, having the youkai no other Miko had been able to claim eating out of her hand and making it look like foreplay, but that only made it more effective. Finally when he'd finished eating he turned his head away from the offered food and then licked at his master's hand in apology. He realised what the *other* reason Kagome had indulged him was when she stood and made her way over to swap spell techniques with the other Mikos as he trailed behind her - by feeding him she'd bought herself the time she needed to recover almost totally.

 

“…borrow Sess for the night?” The question caught his attention, especially considering *who* the speaker was - Yaone was known for being sadistic, she was part youkai herself, although not enough to be classed as hanyou. He shivered and stepped just a little closer to his master, knowing that she would sense the fear that question roused in him, and praying she would refuse the other Miko's request. Even the lowest ranking Miko could refuse to share her body slave, and it was considered either a great favour or an act of great tribute to lend a body slave to another Miko - or it was a punishment to lend a body slave to someone other than another Miko.

 

“No, I think not. I have developed a possessive streak when it comes to Sess, and if I did share him with anyone it would be just that, sharing him. And with someone who could fill his belly with babies, to make more creatures as beautiful as he is - children who would inherit beauty from both parents, so even were you male I would refuse you.” It was a calculated insult on Kagome's part, Yaone wasn't beautiful enough to qualify, a response to the insult Yaone offered in making the request.

 

“Males cannot bear children, perhaps you need to study anatomy again Kagome-san.” Yaone sounded faintly contemptuous, and also a little relieved, as if Kagome's insult meant nothing because she believed Sess incapable of bearing children.

 

“If you saw with more than your eyes you would see that my pet has been changed here,” Sess shivered keeping his eyes cast down modestly as his master pulled him forward to stand beside her and ran her hand over the area where his womb was, and tried desperately to hide his arousal, “by the magic of his father's second wife, Inuyasha's mother, the one who made Inuyasha strong enough to fight full youkai without resorting to magic. She gave him a womb, and the other parts to match, there is no reason he could not bear children. Ask Inuyasha if you doubt me, he raised the hanyou daughter Sess gave birth to after American servicemen raped him in the aftermath of the last war.” Then Kagome deliberately turned from the other Miko to look up and down Sess' body, and grip him between the legs.

 

“Come my pet, you can show me again just how well this gift allows you to understand a woman's needs.” Sess followed his master obediently to a private chamber, where she pushed him onto the bed, and rode him until she was satisfied before granting him release. Then they had to return to the party, despite that they both smelled of sex, such things were usually politely ignored, and Sess had noticed that some of the guests had a similar scent when Kagome was talking to them.

 

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Sesshomaru watched as his brother sparred with his consort. He wished that he could join them, but like everyone else in the castle they'd been determined in their refusal to spar with him. It was three weeks since he'd given birth, and he'd actually needed to get Sayaro to check him over, and report to just about everyone in the castle that he was well before his own followers would let him get out of bed for anything beyond the bare necessities. Ruefully he acknowledged that he was being treated just like a female Taiyoukai would be after giving birth, his followers deferring to his consort and healer over him in anything concerning his health - he'd probably have to get used to being treated this way at least until he stopped breastfeeding. Especially since with his current figure it was very hard to wear male clothing rather than female, and he'd given up on dressing as a male as a result. Now he looked female, smelled female, at least in part, and had a child, so he was being treated as female, and females were usually protected and kept from doing anything dangerous, at least among the nobility. Hopefully this over protectiveness would dissipate once he started looking male again, and if not he'd have to find a way around it; the female Taiyoukais must have after all.

 

Not that the way he was acting helped his case. Sesshomaru looked down at Ranmaru where he held his pup snuggled against his breast. Most females were less protective of their pups than he was, and it certainly wasn't normal behaviour for a *male* to pay any attention at all to his pups other than feeding them his blood, and other duties required until they were old enough to learn things such as hunting, or fighting. But he couldn't bring himself to neglect his pup the way he'd been neglected and his half-brother had, besides which he needed to make sure that Ranmaru would be less xenophobic about humans than he'd acted.

 

“Sesshomaru, I'm sorry, but we have to leave tomorrow.” Inuyasha had defeated Karritarous while he'd been musing, and Sesshomaru looked up in acknowledgement.

 

“Why? You are quite welcome to stay if you wish it.” Sesshomaru was trying to think if any of his people had done anything to make his brother feel unwelcome in any way.

 

“I'd love to stay longer, but Kagome is returning from her time in a bit over a week, and it will take that long for all of us to get to the well.” Inuyasha flashed him a smile, one that made him look surprisingly attractive. Perhaps he could bring Inuyasha back into youkai society, before he had to leave his position and become only Kagome's possession. “If we have a chance I'm sure she'll love to visit.”

 

“Tell her that I consider her as much Ranmaru's father as Karritarous is then, and if she wishes to take advantage of the rights that gives her…” Sesshomaru trailed off, realising just what he was saying and going even paler. “In regard to him that is.” The father of a youkai had some say in how the pup was educated, and had the right to teach him some things personally if he wished, and sometimes he had the right to sleep with the mother until the child reached adulthood, but only if he was more powerful when they were not mated - and Kagome was certainly more powerful than Sesshomaru.

 

“Sure. What do you expect her to teach him though?” Sesshomaru had been teaching Inuyasha a few basics about youkai culture during his visit, giving him some of the socialisation he lost out on.

 

“I'm not sure, but I don't want him to miss the chance to learn from her if she is willing to teach him anything, and learning from a human will help make him less prejudiced against them.”

 

“Well I'll pass the message on when I see her.” Inuyasha left to collect the rest of his companions and Sesshomaru put his son aside to do some solo training to keep in shape a bit better. Maybe it was pointless in a way as Kagome's spell would restore him to his exact condition before he conceived, but he wanted to remain strong until then as well.

 

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For once Inuyasha wasn't waiting at the Bone-Eaters Well when Kagome returned to the Sengoku Jidai, but he was within an hours travel, so she settled down to find the locations of the Shikon shards while she waited. She had just over half the shards already, and Naraku had almost a third, an improvement from when she first used this spell, and they both had approximately equal amounts of shards, with any luck they'd be able to collect the remainder of the shards inside a year, and then confront Naraku over the shards he had. Not that she was entirely looking forward to that. Unfortunately the largest concentration of unclaimed shards was in the opposite direction to Sesshomaru's castle, so she wouldn't be visiting him this trip.

 

Still she could speak with him later on, when he was likely to be alone, or with only those who wouldn't betray their secrets. That was probably limited to his son, or perhaps his cousin, and effective consort. No, not Karritarous on second thought, he thought that Kagome's only link to Sesshomaru was as a healer, a misapprehension they had encouraged. They had no reason to let him know the real, or rather the full, reason Sesshomaru was bearing a child after all.

 

“Kagome where are we looking now?” Inuyasha had arrived while she was musing over his brother.

 

“To the east, I'll just get the detail map to find the exact locations.” Kagome acted as she spoke, keeping half her attention on her hanyou. “How was Sesshomaru doing when you left?”

 

“Sayaro had decided to let him out of bed, but she hasn't cleared him for sparring yet. Everyone's treating him as if he were female, to be protected, never risked. It took our cousin two weeks to offer to feed his blood to my nephew, Sesshomaru was getting his guards to feed him, and feeding him himself because of that, Karritarous didn't go near him for the first two weeks actually. Oh, and Sesshomaru said he considers you as much Ranmaru's father as Karritarous, and you are free to take advantage of the rights that gives you in regard to his son.”

 

“No wonder if that bastard's been neglecting Sess that much. I'd love so much to go there and speak with him about it…but I can't, we need to go for those shards.”

 

“Yeah, we do.”

 

“Kagome-sama, where do we stand in relation to Naraku?” Miroku interjected quietly.

 

“We've got just over half, he's got just under a third. We can't afford to just go visit Sesshomaru if the strongest concentration of shards isn't at least vaguely near him. Not while I'm in this time anyway.” Kagome massaged her temples; she was getting a headache at the thought of her first lover having such problems with the child she'd forced him to bear. “I'll store some of my blood in bottles, as I can give it, and you can take that to him after I go back to my time. At least my blood should help, and if Sesshomaru considers me father to his child it is my duty. You said that it meant I have rights about Ranmaru, what are they?”

 

“You get to tell Sesshomaru that Ranmaru must learn some things that you consider necessary, or teach him things you want to yourself. Usually that means demanding that the pup learn a certain weapons style, or demanding to teach him to hunt or fight yourself, but I don't think it would work that way with you.”

 

“No, it won't, and I've got no idea what youkai need to know in this time period, so I don't know what to teach him.” Shaking her head Kagome reluctantly dismissed that line of thought; she didn't have time to consider that now, instead focusing on the map before her. “Do you know where to find the shards from this?”

 

“Yes, more or less anyway, Kagome.”

 

“Then let's go.” Kagome began marching off to the east without looking to see if her friends would accompany her, knowing that they would anyway.

 

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Sesshomaru looked into the flame of his bedside lamp as he brushed his hair out. He knew that he'd have a night free of Karritarous' demands, because the other youkai was on a mission to deal with a problem in one of the villages under Sesshomaru's protection, and he was hoping that his master would contact him. It was the day she was due back from her time if what his half brother had said was perfectly accurate - it might not have been, but he held on to hope that it was, and that his master would care enough to contact him. It would be even better if she could come to visit him and his son, but he knew that she had more important things to do than play with her slave during her visits to this time.

 

“Sesshomaru, did you make some sort of arrangements to keep your cousin away from your bed tonight?”

 

“Yes, he is my acknowledged consort, so I sent him in my place to deal with a problem in my lands. As he's insisting I'm still an invalid because I've given birth so recently he has no grounds to refuse.”

 

“Is that his duty then? To take your place if you aren't fit to perform one of your duties?”

 

“It depends, but I am perfectly within my rights to send him as my personal emissary somewhere. How is your hunt going Kagome-sama?”

 

“We've got a lead on Naraku, but I won't have a chance to come and visit you this time, perhaps during my next visit I will have that option.”

 

“Thank you Kagome-sama. Did my brother convey my message about Ranmaru?”

 

“Yes, but I'm not entirely sure what I could usefully teach him. I have little idea of what youkai need to know about in these times, and in my own time as far as I can tell they need to know whatever their masters deem useful and nothing else.”

 

“You could teach him about the technology that humans will develop, at least in theory, so he will be less surprised by it than he might be otherwise. Or the higher ranking youkai must be literate, even if humans mostly leave such things to their scribes and their priests nowadays. And numerate too, as much as possible.” Sesshomaru lowered his eyes, and worried at his lip with his teeth, debating within himself the advisability of making his next suggestion, and deciding to just make it, and deal with the consequences later. “Or you could teach him something of your magic if you are willing Kagome-sama.” Her magic was as pure as any other Miko's, but different in all other ways, and seemed less hostile to youkai than a normal Miko's magic or he would never have made that request. “Only if you are willing, I would never presume to make any demands on you.”

 

“I'll think about it. Who would normally teach a cub these things?”

 

“Usually it is the mother who teaches the basics of youkai magic, and whoever is chosen by the father teaches the pup whatever else he considers necessary.” Sesshomaru sighed, dropping his eyes in submission. “I will miss meeting you in person, and as things are now I cannot even come to see you, rather than making you come to me.”

 

“Well, you can always think about me, and remember I do care for you, perhaps even love you.”

 

“Thank you. Even as often as my cousin chooses to use me I still fantasise sometimes, and my fantasies often feature you in a starring role. Do you still believe that it would be rape if you took me to your bed?”

 

“No, I've gotten over that particular belief, mainly because of your insistence in my time to be honest.”

 

“You have?” Sesshomaru couldn't repress the rising hope in his voice, he didn't even try to.

 

“Yes, I gave you my virginity. I still wish that I'd had the sense to realise that ordering you to produce an heir was the same as ordering you to have sex, to give *your* virginity to someone you didn't love.”

 

“It was your right, no youkai would question that. I only wish you had decided to take my virginity yourself, but it is not my place to ask.” Anymore than it was his place to ask her to claim him sexually.

 

“If I tell you to do something truly distasteful to you then let me know that you find it so, I might not be able to spare you whatever task it is, but if I can I will, and if not I'll try to alleviate how much you suffer for it.”

 

“Thank you Kagome-sama. You are incredibly generous.” And as far as Sesshomaru was concerned she *was* incredibly generous to even think about changing her plans for his sake. It was certainly more than he'd learned to expect from those with power over him.

 

“No, your expectations are incredibly low, but I won't get into that with you now. There is one thing I'd like you to do for me before I next visit you.”

 

“What is your will Kagome-sama?” Sesshomaru felt only eagerness to please Kagome in some way, no matter what it was.

 

“Have you ever written down the sexual fantasies you've had, about me, or about anyone?”

 

“No, never, it simply did not occur to me.”

 

“I want you to write down one of your favourite sexual fantasies for me then. It doesn't have to be anything complex, just something that you find arousing.”

 

“Yes Kagome-sama.” Sesshomaru couldn't help but think over his fantasies, the ones about Kagome foremost in his mind at those words. The Miko seemed to sense this and ended their communication swiftly but gently, laughing gently at his discomfort and promising to come visit as soon as she could.

 

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Kagome found herself smiling in slightly cruel amusement as she thought about how her friends were likely to react to the club she'd invited them to visit with her. Arumi, Eri and Yuka all tended to act as if they were more experienced in life than she was, and so she'd decided to take them to one of the more `mainstream' youkai clubs. Of course it was only mainstream in the sense that humans were allowed in even if they weren't aware of the existence of youkai and Mikos - BDSM games were often played out in the main rooms of the club, as long as they weren't *too* blatantly sexual. Kagome was wearing leather moulded to her body, a dark shade of red, crimson shading almost to black in places, and she had a bow and quiver slung over her shoulder, both made of black wood. Sess was dressed more pacifically, wearing a pale blue gi and paler blue hakama, the gi falling open to reveal the phoenix on his breast, his collar displaying his submission for anyone who didn't understand that. Her friends had all chosen short Western dresses, in red for Yuka, blue for Eri and green for Arumi, and they looked a little shocked by the way Kagome and Sess were dressed.

 

“You should have told us that we needed to wear costumes!” Yuka sounded almost petulant. “We'd have loved the chance to get dressed up.”

 

“Oh, you don't need to wear costumes, and not wearing costumes means you won't get dragged into any of the games. The costumes usually say things about the wearer that I don't think you'd want to risk, not on your first visit to Shinigami's.” Kagome laughed gently at the thought, then she tossed a bracelet with her insignia on it to each of her friends. “Wear these, they'll keep you safe from most people there.”

 

“We're going to need protection?”

 

“Keep us safe?”

 

“Are the people there that dangerous?” All three of Kagome's friends spoke at once.

 

“Yes, these bracelets have my insignia on them, and the insignias of people high ranked enough that touching what they claim is suicidal are circulated amongst the members, and only members can play in the more private areas - you should be safe enough in the public rooms. It's a BDSM club, and none of you have the presence to be safe in your own right, no sub would ask you to top them, but in the public areas nothing too extreme happens.”

 

“I didn't know you were into that sort of thing. So Sess is your…`sub'?”

 

“No, he's my slave. The difference is being a sub is a temporary thing, one night a week, or something like that, while a slave is permanent, although slaves can cope without having someone tell them what to do, unlike pets, who are lost without having a master. A slave will always wear some mark showing that he is owned - it's usually a collar like this, but for Sess, and a lot of the slaves at that club, it is this.” And Kagome reached out to stroke her claim marking on Sess' chest.

 

“So we don't flirt with any hot guys who've got a tattoo over their hearts?” Yuka was laughing slightly at the thought, but she quickly fell silent when Kagome replied.

 

“No, don't flirt with any hot guys with a tattoo over their hearts. Don't flirt with anyone who's got a tattoo on their body at all. And the waiters and waitresses are all subs, at the very least, so they'll be obedient to whatever you ask as long as you don't go beyond the bounds permitted in the public areas.” Kagome laughed at the thought that occurred to her. “So don't make any requests that are too outrageous. Oh, and did you ask your parents if you were allowed to drink at the club?”

 

“As long as there's a responsible adult with us.”

 

“No more than three glasses of wine.”

 

“Not at all. What about you?” Yuka's parents were the strictest, partly because her father was a cop.

 

“Oh, I'm allowed to drink if I want to, Mother usually treats me as an adult.” After all she'd taken on adult responsibilities in searching for the Shikon no Tama. “And yes Eri, we do have a responsible adult with us, Sess is an adult after all - even if he is submissive he can defend us if need be.” Although somehow Kagome didn't think that was what Eri's parents had meant. “I've arranged transport for us.” Reaching out Kagome checked her link with the wolf who was acting as her chauffeur. “It should be arriving about now.”

 

Leading her friends out of the shrine she smiled secretively at the shock on their faces as they piled into the limousine, not even waiting for her wolf to open the door for them. Kagome followed them more slowly and Sess knelt at her feet in what he considered the appropriate posture - partly because she'd wanted to shock them, and hopefully if she was outrageous enough they'd stop trying to pair her with Hojo, who was a sweet, *conventional* human boy.

 

“And one thing you should be aware of, there might be `scenes' on in the club, but nothing more sexually explicit than this in the main rooms. Bring me my pet.” And Kagome jerked Sess' head to her groin, having loosened the leather ties there.

 

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