InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Demon Slayer Sango ❯ Chapter 16 ( Chapter 16 )

Chapter 16

 

She walked away from them. Unable to stand the tension between herself and Sesshomaru any longer, Sango simply left the group in front of Inuyasha's hut to go into the forest for a long walk. She left Kirara behind, intending to catch up with her again later when it was time to return to the demon slayer's village. The taijiya needed to think.

 

She continued to resist, even when Kagome begged her to come with them to the palace. Sango could understand the need to protect the baby-- Sesshomaru's fortress was probably the best place to take Takeo in light of oncoming events.

 

'But my place is not there. I need to do my work for the villages, there are so few demon slayers left...And he wants me as his mistress? He can forget it....I wonder what those demons could want so badly that they decided to take on a youkai of Sesshomaru's stature?' Sango shivered as she imagined the many unsavory doings her erstwhile lover might have taken part in over the years-- the killings, the violence, the ruthlessness.

 

'How did I ever become involved with someone like him?'

 

Once again Sango heard the voice of her father, and his words reverberated in her mind.

 

'Youkai are among the most ruthless, violent creatures on earth. They understand nothing but force and control. We as demon slayers play an important role in counteracting the negative impact they have on the world. It is our sworn duty to hunt, fight, and eradicate this menace.' Her father would be appalled to know his daughter now had feelings for one of them, a member of the most ruthless and powerful variety of all no less, the taiyoukai Sesshomaru.

 

'Why do I care for him so much?' she asked herself. 'We are so different, he and I. At least I think we are...'

 

She walked along, letting the leaves from low-lying branches of the trees brush against her face while contemplating her emotional predicament. Before their affair Sango had thought of him as just another youkai, just another possible foe-- Inuyasha's inscrutable older brother. But even then Sesshomaru had struck her as mysterious and complicated, cold and distant yet not altogether forbidding in some way.

 

Why had he suddenly become so personally important to her? 'Ending things with Miroku probably left me feeling vulnerable,' she reasoned. 'I was lonely, I thought I needed someone...But loving Sesshomaru is like getting into bed with a scorpion-- a woman just doesn't do that and come away unscathed. Yet here I am, in the midst of it. And I am definitely not unscathed.' Seeing him again brought back all the feelings she'd managed to lay aside, even if briefly.

 

'What does he see in me I wonder? I am human, supposedly beneath his concern. Why get involved with someone like me in the first place, especially if he knows he needs an heir?...There is the physical attraction, yes. There has always been that between us.' Sango blushed thinking briefly of his toned, beautiful body.

 

"But it is more than that. It is as if somewhere deep down he knows me, and I know him. Like today with Miroku-- I could tell that if I told Sesshomaru not to hurt him that he wouldn't do it, and he seemed to know it too. We understand each other somehow."

 

"I agree. There is some sort of-- bond," said a smooth low voice behind her. She jumped, not realizing she'd spoken aloud. Turning around she saw him standing just a few feet away, his cool golden eyes settling on her own.

 

"You really have to tell me how you appear out of nowhere like that," she asked, slightly annoyed.

 

"Would you believe witchcraft?" he responded, his face utterly expressionless except for one cocked eyebrow.

 

Sango stared for a minute and then smiled, unable to help herself. Waving him off she said, "I thought I told you to leave me alone. I assumed you would be taking Inuyasha and the others to the inuyoukai palace by now."

 

He came to walk at her side, and she did not object.

 

"They will be escorted by a detachment of inu warriors shortly. I have other matters to attend."

 

Sango folded her arms and looked at the ground. "Like your fiance, perhaps?" She couldn't help herself. She had to admit to being just a little jealous. 'Well, maybe more than a little.'

 

"My what?"

 

"Your intended, your betrothed, your future wife," she spat out.

 

"No. I have no business with her for the time being."

 

"Hmph. You should be with her now you know, instead of out here with me strolling in the trees. You should be getting to know the demoness who will mother your children..." her voice trailed off wistfully.

 

His low, mellifluous voice seemed to float in the air. "You know me better than that Sango. I go where I will, and with whom I wish. I am exactly where I want to be right now."

 

She sighed and made a fluorish with her hand. "It must be great to be a youkai lord. You can do what you want, go where you want...appear out of thin air to harass unsuspecting humans, go to war, trick girls into falling in love with you, play with your energy whip--"

 

Sesshomaru halted, ending her recitation.

 

"Trick? No one tricked you. You came to me," he said flatly.

 

"I did. And it should have ended in your room that night. You shouldn't have come to me again if you knew you were getting a mate, Sesshomaru. That was wrong."

 

Shaking his head in a distinctly emotional fashion, his usual cold, detached demeanor dropped away as it tended to whenever he was alone with Sango.

 

"You humans and your juvenile morality. What is wrong with responding to the biological drive? It is quite an ordinary event, in fact. Neither of us was attached at the time. I wanted you and you wanted to be with me, so we continued our liaison. There is nothing inherently evil in that."

 

He cast a sideways glance at her. "You still want me, don't you Sango."

 

Indeed her desire was broadcast loud and clear for his sharp youkai senses to detect. She looked away from him, embarrassed at being called on her excitement. 'Bastard. Its not fair, I can't help it. What does that have to do with anything anyway? We aren't talking about the present.'

 

"Just because a person wants something doesn't mean it is in her best interests to seek it out. There are rules about things like this for a reason."

 

"Acting on wants can be very beneficial."

 

"How?"

 

"It can satisfy your desire for me." He took her by the hand and bored his gaze into her own. This brought them to a stop.

 

"Hold on--"

 

He cut her off. "And my need for you as well, Sango. I will tell the truth, if you will do the same. I am not here on a whim, I am here because your presence in my life has meaning. We parted on unsatisfactory terms before and that is not acceptable to me." The light glinted in his golden eyes. To her they resembled pools of fire, and the overwhelming intensity communicated in them shook her foundations.

 

"Sesshomaru...?" She reached out to touch him, questioning. He nodded faintly and pulled her to his chest, hugging her close. Neither said anything for a long time, and Sango could sense for the first time an immense struggle going on inside the demon lord. He finally whispered into her hair, his voice raspy. It wavered for the first time she had ever heard.

 

"I can't eat, I can't rest Sango--I can't be still. When you are away something is missing. No one has power over this Sesshomaru. No one but you."

 

"Gods..."

 

"I must have you."

 

Rubbing slowly with his hands, he searched the curves of her body with a caress that spoke of passionate, unfulfilled need. Sango trembled, highly aroused, all thoughts of resisting him suddenly dashed away in a tide of desire. She gave him a blistering kiss, one full of pent up feelings and apprehension and hope. He returned it, answering her desire twofold.

 

After some time they broke apart for air, and Sango spoke gravely.

 

"It won't change anything, Sesshomaru. Nothing is repaired if we do this. We have to understand each other." He nodded and slid his arms around her waist.

 

Searching, deliberate kisses then trailed over her cheek, across her jaw and down her neck. A deep shudder coursed through her body at the sensations as she fought with herself, and him.

 

"I won't be your toy, Sesshomaru. I won't be hidden away, or be your mistress. Not for you, not for anyone."

 

"I know, shhh now." Standing behind, he nuzzled her ear and whispered in an urgent tone.

 

"At night I dream of you Sango-- in my bed, begging me to take you. Over and over I imagine us together, all night long..." She moaned. The demon lord laid soft, wet kisses across the top of her back.

 

"You make my blood burn, girl." She gasped at the feel of his fangs trailing over her skin, scraping but not puncturing her shoulders. He lapped at the slightly raised trail with his tongue, and kissed and licked a path back to her neck.

 

Face to face now, Sango pulled him in and rested her hands on his shoulders. She opened her mouth to accept his searching, snaking tongue and hungrily he began to devour her, tasting and licking with a great passion. It was a devastating kiss, a heartfelt one, and for Sango it was like coming back to something special and familiar. Her hands entwined in lengths of silver-white hair as she held on for dear life.

 

The urgency of desire loomed bright, but Sesshomaru resolved to take his time.

 

Sango took his hand and followed a short distance away to a secluded clearing where soft grasses and wildflowers laid out like a many-hued carpet before them. She knelt and lay back, smiling shyly for him.

 

Sesshomaru felt-- happy. Perhaps for the first time in his life at this one moment the demon lord was utterly content with this young human woman, expressing his passion for her here in the forest. Laying the slightest, briefest kiss on her lips, he released her long, black hair from its cloth tie and began to stroke through it with elegantly clawed fingers. She returned his gentle affection, kissing and touching him tenderly.

 

"Make love to me, my lord..."

 

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"Ai, Sesshomaru!" Her knees dug into his hips as he rocked against her mercilessly, driving them to yet another orgasm. Her fingers dug into his back and she grimaced in passion while scratching desperately. The demon lord did not notice as he too was lost in the excitement, and savored the raw, fierce beauty that was this human woman.

 

"Come for me, Sango."

 

He held her while searching her depths deliberately, carefully. He wanted to remember everything about this. Continuing to call her name she responded spectacularly, thrusting her hips to meet him, giving completely of herself.

 

Eventually Sango began to feel an incredible exhilaration, as if the skies of paradise were opening to give a glimpse of a higher, more perfect plane of existence. She sighed, and a beatific smile crept over her face. Sesshomaru watched with contentment, and after a short time also climaxed. He released her from his grasp and she fell against him.

 

"That was the most amazing thing I've ever experienced in my life," she murmured after regaining some control. He stroked her face, and she kissed each finger lovingly.

 

"I enjoy pleasing you," he said quietly. She lay on top of him, her head against his chest.

 

"I meant it when I said this doesn't fix us, Sesshomaru. You go back to your life, and I go back to mine."

 

"If that is what you want, exterminator."

 

"It is."

 

"Hmmm. You still belong to me, of course. No one else will ever touch you or they will die. That includes the monk. He still desires you, I can sense it."

 

Sango decided not to argue. 'He has a thing about Miroku I see. Territorial issues much, my lord?'

 

She watched the leaves tremble with the wind in the trees above them. "Are you jealous of him?"

 

He peered down at her. "Of the monk? Don't be insane, woman. That is a human emotion. And I could never be jealous of a human male, the thought itself is absurd."

 

"I thought I could see it in your eyes before, when you saw us together. You were worried I'd gone back to him, weren't you?" she goaded him.

 

"You don't know what you are talking about." He looked away, and she knew.

 

'Oh yes, he's jealous.' She smiled. Turning to get into a more comfortable position, she wanted to know something.

 

"What is her name?"

 

"Who?"

 

"Her. Your fiance-- I mean, your future mate."

 

"Kaiya."

 

"Kaiya? That is a pretty name."

 

"So is Sango."

 

"Is she beautiful?"

 

"I don't see the point--"

 

"I said, is she beautiful?" Sango hissed through her teeth, demanding an answer.

 

"Yes. I want my children to be attractive."

 

"Vain youkai!" She pinched him lightly.

 

"You call me vain?"

 

"Yes. You walk around with that furry pelt or whatever it is like it is a fashion statement. Besides that you're as pretty as I am, prettier perhaps--"

 

He snorted. "I have an image to maintain. You criticize my dress woman? Look at the way you walk about in that worn garment you call a kimono," he chided her. "Is that a 'fashion statement' of some kind as well?'

 

She poked him again. He growled faintly. "You know, poking demons is dangerous."

 

"I've had my share of experience with them. I can take care of myself."

 

"Really?" He shifted position quickly as if agitated. "With who? I'll rip their throats out if anyone besides this Sesshomaru has so much as dared to look at you!" He growled and made an overly dramatic slashing motion in the air with his claws, causing the taijiya to laugh.

 

"You really should show this side of yourself more, Sesshomaru. Not just to me, either. It is pleasant."

 

"I have no need to be pleasant with anyone else."

 

"Hmmm. Well, you'd be more popular. You'd make friends. Don't you want friends?"

 

"What are you rambling about, woman? I have no need of friends. I am Lord of the West."

 

'How could I forget?' A long pause. She rolled away and lay on the grass beside him. "Sesshomaru?"

 

"Yes."

 

"Why me?"

 

"What?"

 

"Why are you with me?"

 

"I find you interesting," he said evenly.

 

"But I am human. You hate humans."

 

"I don't hate you. I don't hate Rin."

 

"You dislike humans."

 

"I dislike their barbarity, the way they treat one another. I dislike their weakness."

 

"Do you think that I am weak?"

 

"Weak for me, most certainly."

 

She pinched him again. "I want to know."

 

"You really want to know?" She nodded. He lifted himself and rested his head in the palm of his hand, propping himself up on one elbow.

 

"It is because you are the most tenacious female I have ever met in my life. Youkai or otherwise." He made circles with his fingertips over the smooth flesh around her navel and she watched his mouth as he spoke.

 

"Really?"

 

"Yes. You don't back down, Sango. Not for anyone. And it isn't foolish pride. You have a strong thread of honor that runs through all of who you are. You always act from the strongest places in your conscience, you are a fighter, and yet you have mercy. I find it all-- of interest."

 

"And here I thought it was my breasts!"

 

"Those go without saying, of course." Another pinch. "You are like him."

 

"Who?"

 

"My father." This drew a shocked laugh from Sango.

 

"He was a great youkai commander, I wouldn't laugh."

 

"How could I, a human taijiya, be anything like a full blood inu demon general?"

 

"In spirit, you foolish creature. He had a toughness that was balanced with mercy. The way you don't give up, it reminds me of his strength." Touched by this rare expression of sentiment from her youkai prince, Sango kissed his shoulder in thanks.

 

"You were angry when he died, weren't you?"

 

"He should not have abandoned us for that woman."

 

"A human woman. Inuyasha's mother."

 

"I don't want to talk about it."

 

"Alright."

 

With a sigh, the demon lord sat up. "The time for play is over. I must return to court."

 

She sat up as well and reached for her robe. Sesshomaru dressed himself carefully, meticulously donning each item of clothing until he again resembled the elegant figure familiar to most creatures in the territory. When finished he produced a brush from one of his sleeves which Sango eagerly snatched away to begin grooming his abundant hair.

 

"Yes, you have 'matters to attend.'" She imitated him while stroking his long, thick tresses.

 

"I have accomplished that. You were what, or who I had to attend."

 

"Should I be grateful?"

 

"Are you?" he asked.

 

"Are you?" She kissed him with a sly smile and handed his brush back to him, happy with her work. His hair now fell in a smooth, silvery mass over his back.

 

"Hmmm. Perhaps, huntress..." His attitude shifted slightly. "Come to the palace, Sango, you will be safe there."

 

'Not again. Give it up.' She shook her head firmly and pushed him away.

 

"For the last time, I have a job to do. I can look after myself just fine. Take care of Kagome and the baby, and leave Miroku alone. And I won't even mention Inuyasha."

 

"You are quite intelligent for a human. Of course the pup and its mother will come to no harm under my protection, although I cannot guarantee anything about the monk. Or Inuyasha."

 

Pulling her in for one last embrace, the kiss was slow and tender, and she returned it in kind. "Goodbye Sango."

 

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