InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Kiss and Make up ( Chapter 19 )

Chapter 19: Kiss and Make Up?

Sesshoumaru lay out on his bed and stared at the ceiling. It was pissing him off that no matter how many women he bedded he could never get Kagome out of his head. This was all the stupid woman's fault.

“Argh” he said aloud cursing himself, the school, Naraku and Kagome. Not to mention God who was probably laughing at him enjoying the pain he was inflicting on the haughty Sesshoumaru. The universe was exacting its revenge.

He had come to realise over the days without the woman in his life that for unnameable reasons he cared for the annoying female.

“Damn it!” he said sitting up and putting his head in his hands. Of all the enemies Sesshoumaru had ever faced his own wandering affections had never been one of them before.

Even if he could admit that he had been purposely keeping his own mind in the dark about his feelings he would never, not even if the apocalypse rained down on him tomorrow, admit it aloud.

He had never apologised to anyone in his long life and he knew his pride would never let him apologise to Kagome for going behind her back.

The phone beside his bed rang and he snatched it off the receiver having to remind himself that it wasn't the phones fault and restraining his strength. He only just managed to avoid breaking the handset.

“Speak” he barked in his most irritated tone

“Sesshoumaru-sama there is a Naraku-san wishing to seek an audience with you” the doorman was not in the least phased by Sesshoumaru's murderous temper and spoke calmly.

Sesshoumaru smiled but there was no humour in it; merely blood lust. If he couldn't take his anger for his situation out on Kagome then who better to take it out on than the Hanyou.

“Tell him I'll be right down” Sesshoumaru said

“Very well Sesshoumaru-sama” the man hung up

Sesshoumaru walked out onto the walk outside his building and looked at the Hanyou his distaste and anger clearly evident.

“What?” he was terse, it wouldn't take much to convince Sesshoumaru to tear the Hanyou's head off and the aura of crackling rage and pent up aggression was almost tangible around him.

Naraku sniggered “Don't blame me for your own mistakes Sesshoumaru-sama” there was no mistaking the sarcasm dripping from Naraku's tongue as he said this.

“What do you mean?” Sesshoumaru's voice was devoid of all emotion, which made it all the more terrifying as his raging aura swelled to astronomic proportions, swirling and ebbing around him.

“You screwed up your relationship on your own” Naraku's voice was silky “do not blame your shortcomings on me”

Sesshoumaru growled low in his chest at the audacity of the Hanyou and fought to regain control over his own temper. He was Sesshoumaru goddamn it, he didn't get goaded by a mere Hanyou. A certain human woman yes, but not by this disgusting creature. His scent alone was enough to make Sesshoumaru want to kill him for polluting up the air with the stench.

“Temper, temper” he smiled in satisfaction at hearing the Inu Yokai growl in anger. Naraku resented people who were above him, his wealth came from inheritance whereas Sesshoumaru had inherited and then built upon that. Naraku glared at the man his father wished he had become.

“You should not insult this Sesshoumaru to alleviate your own insecurities” Sesshoumaru hit the nail on the head.

Naraku smirked and dropped his ace onto the table “You are quite self assured aren't you. I bet that little slut told you she had rejected me, the reality is she begged me to go out with her”

Sesshoumaru saw red and Naraku grimaced as the Yokai's eyes flashed scarlet. Sesshoumaru grabbed the Hanyou around the neck and lifted him off the ground with ease.

The Hanyou gasped and whimpered trying to get the supply of oxygen into his lungs.

“Hey, Naraku” came a voice

Sesshoumaru dropped his grip on the Hanyou's neck and turned to see Kagome stood a few feet behind him with Ranmaru half hidden behind her slim body.

Naraku coughed and spluttered as he suddenly regained the ability to breathe.

“No one calls me a slut” she said in a tone that carefully concealed her anger, but her hands were balled up into fists and were trembling with anger. “Especially not in front of my son”

He glared at her “And?” he tempted fate

She smirked and threw out her hand as if she were going to throw a tennis ball at him. Instead Miko energy shot from her palm in it's pink or maybe purple beauty and hit the Hanyou square in the chest sending him sailing four foot through the air.

“If you ever come near me, my child or anyone I know ever again I will purify you to high hell” she snarled

Sesshoumaru was confused and astounded. Not that it showed on his face of course. The woman was a Miko?

Which of course would explain the fact that she had no fear of him. And it also explained the fact that her family lived in a shrine. But he should have sensed a Miko of that power. Surely.

“That guy makes me want to throw something” she said as they relocated inside his apartment. They were sat on the sofa together and Rin had dragged Ranmaru into her room to play with her on her new game.

“You did throw something” he reminded her dryly “he went pretty far”

She rolled her eyes and then seemed to remember she was annoyed at him and glared at the floor.

“Why were you outside the building?” he asked realising it was a bizarre coincidence

“Hn” she said sighing as she imitated the Inu Yokai, it made him smile slightly, though he hid it quickly “it was Ran-chan's ingenious plan. He told me that Rin-chan was sick and that we needed to go and check on her”

“He fooled you” he stated dryly

“Yeah, well” she muttered, she had started defensive and then lost her argument as she realised she had no grounds for arguing. She had been tricked by a seven year old.

“You kept something from this Sesshoumaru” he informed her, he was angry but the fact that she was there again close enough to touch, close enough to get drunk off her scent made the anger dulled somewhat.

“I did?” she played innocent batting her eyelids

“Why didn't you tell this Sesshoumaru you were a Miko?” he asked

“You never asked” she said “and I cloak it because once Yokai know you're a Miko they seem to want to kill you more.”

“Hn” he looked at her disapprovingly “apologise and this Sesshoumaru might forgive you”

“What?” she yelped “no way!”

“Apologise wench”

“NO!”

“Apologise”

“NO!”

“You are being ridiculous” he told her

“Fine!” she threw her hands up into the air in defeat giggling at his teasing, they'd slipped back into their old routine banter “I'm sorry”

It was possibly the most sarcastic apology in the history of apologies, but he smirked as they both knew that he had won that particular battle.

“Now it's your turn” she said falling back into the normal easy banter between the two of them

“To what?” he asked feigning ignorance

“Apologise” she growled teasingly

“Why?” he was cocky “this Sesshoumaru has done nothing wrong”

“You went behind my back and interfered in my life without permission” she said folding her arms

“This Sesshoumaru was helping” he insisted

“Apologise”

“No” he shook his head

“Apologise”

“No”

“Now who's being ridiculous?” she asked rolling her eyes and pushing her hair back off her face.

“You” he said “You are the one being ridiculous if you expect this Sesshoumaru to apologise”

“What?” she shrieked “how unreasonable are you?”

She jabbed him in the chest with a finger “I apologised to now's your turn”

“No” he said grabbing her wrist and pulling her towards him sharply so that her surprised hands met his chest abruptly. He put one clawed finger beneath her chin and titled her lips up to meet his.

Her eyes remained open for a few seconds in indignant shock and then she gradually relaxed into the kiss. This was less rough than that kiss at the car park but it was no less possessive. The part of her brain that was cynical and proper tried to grab her inhibitions as they fluttered from her head and eloped with her sense of equilibrium. She felt his hand go around her back and she leaned more into the kiss. Screw it; that was the only thing literate coming from her mind right now. Her brain appeared to have melted.

Sesshoumaru pulled back from the kiss and smirked as her lips protested the action and sought out his.

She abruptly came back to her senses as he stopped kissing her. She lassoed her equilibrium and her inhibitions and dragged them, kicking and screaming, back to her side as she fought for breath.

“What the hell was that?” she demanded “what kind of person forces a kiss on someone”

He smirked “If you had truly wanted this Sesshoumaru to stop then you could have stopped me” he said

She flushed furiously as she kind of realised he was exactly right. Damn him and his intoxicating presence. She looked into his molten golden eyes and felt her inhibitions trying to wriggle free again. The small voice in the back of her head that warned her when she had, had too much to drink shouted at her `look away from the hypnotic eyes' but to no avail.

“This Sesshoumaru will show you how very sorry he is” he said picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder before proceeding to his bedroom

“Hey, where are you taking me!” she panicked “Stop, put me down, let go!”

“Kagome” he said “Shut up”

She stopped kicking and froze in shock, he had just called her by her name for the first time... and it sounded delicious coming from him. As he kicked open the bedroom door she regained control of her motor functions and squealed.

“ARGH!”

Meanwhile in Rin's room the two children were sat on the rug that was as deep and soft as any blanket playing her new game.

Rin frowned as she heard a strange noise, otherwise known as Kagome's strangled ARGH. But of course the small girl had no idea of that. “Ranmaru-kun, did you just hear something?”

“Like what?” he asked his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth as he concentrated.

“It sounded like a parrot was choking” she told him innocently

“Don't worry about it” he said “Get the treasure chest Rin-chan!”

She turned her attention back to the game.

Kagome opened her eyes and stared at an unfamiliar ceiling before throwing a hand over her eyes to block out the sun's rays. She frowned as she felt a pain in her neck and sat up and gently touched the mating mark Sesshoumaru had placed on her that now took the form of a crescent moon. It looked like she had a pale blue tattoo.

She growled and hit him with a pillow.

“Hn?” he asked blearily

“What's with this?” she demanded

“Shut up” he said and grabbed her around the waist falling back to sleep with her stranded in the barrier of his hard chest and strong arms. She fumed silently for a while and then found herself falling back to sleep as she listened to the steady thrumming of his heart beat.

When Ranmaru woke up he was worried. He frowned at the fuzzy white carpet he had fallen asleep on and wriggled his nose when the fibre's started to tickle it. He sat up and rubbed a hand through his hair that was flattened to the left side of his face where he'd been laying on it, he gazed around the room and recognised it as Rin's. The game was currently beeping at them from the television screen telling them they had died and Rin was curled into a small ball with her legs tucked into her chest breathing softly.

“Rin-chan wake up” he advised shaking her by her shoulder to wake her.

“Hmm?” she sat up and rubbed her eyes blearily “Is it morning?”

“Yeah” Ranmaru stood up and stretched his arms above his head

“Why are you still here Ranmaru-kun?” she was sleepily confused

“I have no idea” he said opening her bedroom door and walking out into the hall whilst a curious Rin followed.

They came into the kitchen where Kagome was sat at the table with a mug of coffee clasped between her two hands and Sesshoumaru was sat opposite her his mug on the table. They both started guiltily as the children came into the room.

“Sesshoumaru-sama?” Rin was perplexed “Why aren't you wearing a shirt?”

Before he could answer Ranmaru did “Okasan is wearing it” he pointed out

“Oh” The two children stared at the two adult's in confusion. The two adults were caught between wanting to laugh aloud at the bizarre predicament and wanting the ground to open up and swallow them. Luckily for the adults the children were far too young to understand what was going on, or so they thought.

“So that means you kissed and made up right?” Rin clapped her hands together happily

“No” Ranmaru was calm “they mated”

In amazing synchronicity the two adults choked on their coffee and spat it all over the table whilst Rin giggled at the display.

“What's `mated' mean?” Rin asked

“Yeah Ran-chan” Kagome recovered slowly and looked at her child in disbelief she absentmindedly covered the mark on her neck with her hand “what do you mean?”

“I don't really know” he shrugged “but when Sango-Obasan and Miroku-ojisan spend the night in the same room Miroku-ojisan says they only mated. And you two smell like each other now”

“He's a dead man” Kagome promised whilst Sesshoumaru started to laugh

“Yay!” Rin cheered “Sesshoumaru-sama is laughing!”

“So does that mean we are living here now?” Ranmaru asked

“Don't be cheeky!” Kagome was horrified and she stood chasing Rin and Ranmaru into Rin's room. “Play!” she ordered

“Hai, Okasan” Ranmaru and Rin chorused.

Kagome walked back over to the table and groaned in exasperation. “Now Rin's calling me Okasan too?”

“Isn't that good?” Sesshoumaru stood and wrapped his arms around her waist leaning his chin on her head “Doesn't this mean we have a happy ending?”

“If you think for one minute you're getting off the hook that easily then you are sadly mistaken” she prodded a finger into his chest “I saw you in the papers with another woman on your arm every week!”

“And?”

Her eyes narrowed and she bit her lip “what guarantee do you have that you won't do the same thing if we argue now we're together?”

Her insecurity was obvious and he underlying anger was terrifying. He pulled her into his chest again and leant his chin on her head.

“You know about demons?”

“Yeah”

“We're you ever taught the specifics about Inu Yokai?”

“Not really” she looked exasperated “but what's that go to do—”

“Inu Yokai and most other canine Yokai are completely monogamous. They mate for life.” He touched the crescent moon on her throat “until you ask this Sesshoumaru to take this off it will remain.”

“So you'd be faithful, but only because of that?” she was getting steadily angrier.

He sighed “Let this Sesshoumaru finish” he scolded “this Sesshoumaru's instincts will refuse to take another, as will this Sesshoumaru's mind and heart” he groaned “this Sesshoumaru hates talking about things like this”

“I can tell” she remarked dryly “um... why did you sleep with them?”

“This Sesshoumaru was angry, this Sesshoumaru thought that if this Sesshoumaru forgot about you then this Sesshoumaru would stop missing you so much”

Her nose wrinkled “You ever do that to me again and I'll castrate you” her tone implied her seriousness and he fought the urge to flinch.

“Very well” he smiled and kissed her gently

“And they all lived happily ever after” Rin whispered to Ranmaru as they watched their parents kiss each other.

“There's no such thing as a happy ending” Ranmaru shut the door and laughed at her

“Why?” she demanded, she was very much into the phase of knights and princesses and happily ever afters.

“A happy ending means one thing” Ranmaru grinned at the younger girl “The story isn't over”

A/N: he's right ya know the story isn't over just yet so stay tuned for some fluffiness that will make your teeth rot coupled with a little more angst, cause we all know there are loose ends that need tying ne? I don't own Inuyasha! Thank you all so much for your reviews and support!