InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Little Girl ❯ You have been challenged ( Chapter 16 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

 
Sesshoumaru sat at his large wood desk staring at the four formal challenges before him. All he had to do was put his brother's name beside his on the sheets and send them off and he would be done. Part of him wanted to dismiss the formalities and just rip into the four youkai with his claws dripping with his poison. He also wanted to rip apart Jaken for his part in all of this but Maika had made him agree to let her deal with the toad youkai. He wasn't sure why he had let that woman convince him, but he had all the same.
 
A sleepy moan pulled the taiyoukai from his thoughts and it was then that he noticed his daughter's scent in his office, close by as well. She had been in this room many times before but this scent was fresh and she was still here by the sounds of it. Moving his chair back he looked down and found the girl curled up underneath the heavy wood near his feet. Smiling softly and shaking his head, he gently lifted the sleeping pup into his arms and then reclaimed his seat.
 
Tucking the child into his left arm, he cradled her as though she a newborn and smiled down upon her. For her he would do this properly, for her he would prove these youkai guilty before their own lords and houses. For Rin he would fight them as her knight in shining armor. The little child had healed quickly enough thanks to Shinta's remedies but was rarely more than two rooms, or a voice's reach from him. Lately she had become so enchanted with a story Kagome had told her, something called `Sleeping Beauty'. He had watched her eyes light up as Kagome spoke of the handsome prince coming to the princess's rescue, and he knew that in a way, Rin saw him as her prince.
 
Of course the child had no designs on him romantically, and Kagome told him that although she had yet to say it, it was quite common for children to ask their parent of the opposite sex to marry them someday. It didn't mean that the child wanted to mate with the parent simply that the child didn't want to be without them. Bending his head down, he kissed the crown of Rin's head and nuzzled her raven hair. Turning back to the challenges before him, he picked up his brush, dipped it in the ink and signed his brother's name to each one. He would have four faithful eagle youkai carry them to those challenged.
 
Dogs and birds may not always get along, and should definitely never mate, even if as youkai they are compatible, but eagles were as faithful as inu. Once an eagle took a mate, they mated for life, although with eagles, if their mate passed on before they did, be they eagle youkai or that of another breed, the living eagle mate would turn into their animal form and remain so until they died. Inu, would morn the loss for decades, sometimes centuries, they may never love again, and may never take another mate, but they remained as they were and lived and thrived.
 
Rising from his desk still cradling Rin against him, he made his way out of his study and out into the gardens. Jumping into a somewhat high thick branch in a fully blooming sakura tree, he stretched his legs out along the branch and leaned back against the trunk of the tree. Rin had always loved looking into the flowering trees and a few times when they were alone, he would take her in his arms and jump into the trees and let her sit in a cloud of flowers. She would always smile so brightly and laugh with joy. A smile lit his face as he remembered those times. Oh his smile was bright as the sun to anyone who knew him, but to those who weren't used to seeing it, it just looked like a small grin.
 
Sesshoumaru remembered the look on Kagome's face when he had first laughed during on of their talks. She had been telling him about Souta and how they would wrestle and the crazy things that they would do for fun. Like her dressing him a brown robe and giving him sticks to hold and then tucking fallen leaves and twigs into his hair and the folds in his robes and having the boy child go running through the shrine after their grandfather and calling out `I am the youkai of the seasons fear me for my wrath are the storms you suffer'.
 
He had laughed as she had stood up and ran about with her arms spread and had put s few leaves in her own hair to give him the full effect of her brother's antics in a reenactment. She had laughed the whole time, her words coming out chopped through her laughter and by the time she was done she was laughing so much that she had tears streaming down her cheeks and had lost her balance and went rolling through the grass and leaves, finally settling at his side. The taiyoukai in a rare show of emotion had growled and tackled her, rolling them over several times until they landed beneath a sakura tree, resting in the fallen petals. Both had been laughing as they had come to their final stop, she was beneath him, and he was resting between her legs.
 
That was the first time his heart had ever constricted around her, the first time her scent had ever affected him so, the first time he had remembered wanting to plunder her mouth with his. He hadn't acted on the urge though, but he did return the girl's embrace when she had heard him laughing and had hugged him tight. She was so happy to hear him laugh, so happy to see him happy and she had hugged him, her breasts he could feel against his chest only two pieces of flimsy cloth had stood between them. After their second meeting, he had never again felt the need to wear his armor when he was around her again and would always take it off and hang it in whatever tree they settled under to talk. They always talked under the moonlight and he would always walk her back to camp. That had also been the first time that Inuyasha had noticed his scent on her. The taiyoukai had remembered Inuyasha demanding to know why his scent was on her, but Kagome had simply laughed and said that she was in too good a mood and she wasn't about to let him spoil it by being demanding, and she had refused any further comments on the subject.
 
His attention turned back to the child in his arms when he heard her gasp. He looked down to see a sight he'd been waiting nearly a week to see. She wore the brightest smile he'd seen and was reaching for the flowers on the branch the sat on. Plucking a blossom, she brought it up to her nose and sniffed it, her smile lighting her face and eyes as she enjoyed the flower and rubbed its soft petals against her cheek. Lifting the flower, she brought it to Sesshoumaru's striped cheek and brushed the petals against his magenta stripes.
 
“Daddy,” she giggled as she looked up at him, “Were inside flowers. You took Rin inside the cloud of flowers.”
 
He smiled and hugged her close, kissing her cheeks and hair and eyes. She was smiling! And she called him Daddy! His little girl had come back to him. Rin giggled and hugged her father back as embraced her. She hadn't slept in her own room since he had come home, a part of her was afraid that he might send her back to her room now that she was better, but he seemed to read her thoughts and quell her fears.
 
“Rin,” he said as he loosened his hold and sat back against the tree, with her leaning against his chest. “How would you like to have the kits closer than they are?”
 
“What do you mean?” she asked. Since she had returned to the castle her kits had been sleeping either in Shinta's chambers or in her old chamber.
 
“You know of the room that shares a door with mine?” the girl nodded and he continued. “That used to be my mother's private chambers when she was alive. How would you like to move the kits in there and perhaps stay in there yourself?”
 
“Rin would love to, but it was your mommy's room.”
 
“And it could be yours if you so wish it.”
 
A cautious, hopeful smile lit her face and she looked up at him and said quietly, “Hai, onegai.”
 
“It is yours,” he said with a smile.
 
 
 
Rin was settling into her new room with her kits a few hours later when Kagome emerged from the bathing room and was caught up by a running Sesshoumaru. She saw him come flying towards her and had no time to step out of his path before he grasped her robed form around the waist and lifted her in the air spinning her around and laughing joyously. The miko couldn't help but laugh with him as her hands rested on his shoulders.
 
“What?” she asked through her laughter. She hadn't seen him smile so brightly or loose himself so happily since the night she had told him about Souta and `the youkai of seasons' incident.
 
“She smiled,” he chuckled and brought her down to slide against his chest as her feet came to rest between his spread ones. “She smiled and called me daddy!”
 
“Rin,” she breathed out upon a smile. “Oh our little girl is back.”
 
“Our?” he repeated the word and she flushed. “You would be…you would be my mate?”
 
She bit her lip as she smiled and nodded shyly. She was once again hefted into the air and spun about, though this time to balance herself as he brought her down, she wrapped her legs around his waist, the bathing robe falling over her hips and it was then she remembered that she wasn't wearing any panties. They both gasped as their lower bodies touched and without thought or preamble he crushed her mouth with his, kissing her deeply.
 
She gasped into the kiss and he took the opportunity to thrust his tongue into her mouth, exploring her warm sweet cavern. He brushed his tongue against her palate and smelled her scent spike as he tasted the remnants of the plum she'd eaten before bathing. He turned and held her against the wall letting the smooth stone support her back as his hands explored her freshly cleaned body. His hands worried the belt holding the robe closed until it loosened and fell open, the robe falling open as well, only covering her breasts, her feminity against his throbbing manhood hidden beneath his hakama.
 
Kagome had never felt anything so…so…so stimulating and arousing before. It was as though a wild fire were burning through her blood and ever place he touched, every placed his fingers touched her skin left trails of fire and only served to driver her mad with lust. His hands reached her breasts and massaged the mounds as they kissed and without thought she shook the robe from her shoulders, the cloth - her only clothing, falling to the floor. She was now completely nude, sandwiched between her inuyoukai lover and the stone wall.
 
His mouth moved from her to kiss her chin and nibble and lick his way down along her jaw to her neck, to the junction between her neck and shoulder. She could feel herself growing wetter; wet enough to soak through the silk of his hakama. She through her head back, just barely missing hitting it with the wall and gasped in pleasure as Sesshoumaru kissed her breast and took her distended nipple into his mouth, licking and nibbling on the bud as his hand massaged the other.
 
He fumbled behind her against the wall, until his hand found the door that lead to the bathing room containing the hot spring and opened it. Stumbling inside, he kept up his pleasurable ministrations on her body and closing the door, got onto his knees and laid her on the floor next to the hot spring, neither one noticing they had an audience of two.
 
Sango and Miroku stared wide-eyed at the taiyoukai and Kagome as the girl brought Sesshoumaru's mouth back to hers and stripped him of his clothing with his help. Soon, both were naked as the day they were born and kissing passionately.
 
“This may hurt a bit,” he whispered to her and thrust into her and held still allowing her to adjust to his body's invasion. As he held still above her, it was then that he noticed the other scents in the room and turned his head to look at the shocked couple in the hot spring. Kagome turned her head to see what held his attention and a small smile spread over her face along with a blush as she began laughing, hard.
 
The vibrations from her laughter shook their bodies and gave her even more pleasure as it did with Sesshoumaru, although she couldn't seem to stop laughing. The situation was just too fitting too hilarious.
 
The disgruntled taiyoukai looked down at his mate and growled not understanding what she found to be so amusing.
 
“I-I'm sorry,” she laughed. “It's just that…this is so funny…so fitting…when I first met Miroku he asked me to bear him a child, and now as I mate with you, he is here to see me bare yours….I just… I can't-” she broke off laughing again and Sesshoumaru did the only thing he could think of to get her to stop - he began moving inside of her.
 
His thrusts were slow at first but gained speed encouraged by her moans of pleasure. Both forgot their friends who were watching still and Sesshoumaru dipped his head to reclaim her breast and suckled and nibbled as he coupled with her. Kagome's ankles hooked together behind his waist and she thrust along with him until he began moving to fast for her to keep up with.
 
Miroku had moved behind Sango in the tub and had used one hand to fondle her breast and the other dipped into her womanhood, wet with her juices as well as the water they were submerged in. Sango gasped as his single finger entered her hot sheath, and he kissed her neck. As she turned her head to kiss him, he turned his attention back to the mating couple in front of them and told her to watch.
 
The taijiya couldn't help but comply, although twin blushes of embarrassment as well as passion lit her face. As a second finger entered her and her moan joined Kagome's as both women rode waves of pleasure that their mates were producing. Miroku moved in the water and moved Sango forward so that her hands rested on the sides of the spring closest to the mating couple and took her from behind, entering her swiftly.
 
Sango gasped but barely felt the pain from his entry as he tore through her barrier. She was too exciting, too aroused. The monk was playing her body like a finely tuned harp, plucking strings of excited nerves here and there until her voice rose in a song of pleasure. His thrusts were in time with Sesshoumaru's mimicking the inu's movements albeit slower for a lack of youkai speed.
 
Kagome came as did Sango seconds later, both females' voices lifting in twin cries of `Oh kami!' as well as their lovers' names. All four were trembling as their passion abated, the males having released their seeds at the same time inside their respected females.
 
“Oh-wow,” Kagome sighed as they separated and joined Miroku and Sango in the baths. Kagome and Sango looked at each other, the pleasurable afterglow tingling their nerves and began laughing.
 
“Go again ladies?” Miroku asked and stroked Sango's bottom.
 
In a motion that was more reflex than anything else, Sango's hand flew back and slapped him across the cheek with a cry of “Hentai!” The action only served to make Kagome laugh harder, Sesshoumaru joining in in her mirth.
 
 
 
 
The challenges arrived to their respective subjects post haste. Each youkai in turn looked over the challenge in disbelief. The human child they had taken their pleasure in abusing was now the reason they were going to have to fight for their lives. Copies of the challenges had been delivered to the taiyoukai of each of the challenged youkai's lands.
 
In all four lordships each youkai accused was brought to stand before their respective lords and asked the validity of the accusations. Each in turn regretfully nodded, save the bat youkai who had taken the most pleasure in spanking the child. The bat seemed unduly proud of what he had done which only served to anger his lord. The current bat taiyoukai knew that his father had been defeated by InuTaisho and also knew that Sesshoumaru was many times stronger in battle and skill than his father had been. He had no wish to go to war over this.
 
The four accused would be answering the challenge with their lords present. But the lords commanded them to follow tradition and they were restricted from having seconds allowed in their defense. Had the youkai spoken that the accusations were unfounded they may have been granted seconds, but not with the knowledge that they were guilty.
 
“Why the hell should that baka inu care whether or not we hurt some human?” the bat asked brazenly to his lord.
 
“Because you baka, that child happens to be the lord's pup! It was rumored that Sesshoumaru-sama has taken a human as his pup and it would seem that she was the one you harmed. That inuyoukai only has other youkai as his staff of the castle where the hell did you think the human came from?!”
 
“Why should it matter?”
 
“If you still need the answer to that Makiko, then you are more stupid than I gave you credit for. Leave me now, we will leave for the western lands in the morning.”