InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Little Girl ❯ And She Smiled ( Chapter 40 )

 

 

Kagome was asleep by the time that they all reached the Western Lands and as his cloud dissipated beneath him and his feet touched the earth once more he noticed for the first time that the wolves had followed him back. He gave a low woof to them and then turned and walked inside the castle, the youkai canines following behind. He entered his room and laid Kagome down on their bed, the wolves curling up, one inside the room and one outside.

 

Shinta and Kagome's mother had noticed him enter and had watched as he carried his sleeping mate back into his room. They both wanted to greet and hug the girl but it was late and she needed her rest. They would see her in the morning. Kashu turned to Shinta and smiled. She said goodnight to her friend and walked down the hall, opposite of the way Sesshoumaru had gone and went to her chambers.

 

Kashu had just begun to slide her bedroom door open when Tiyeko came running up to her. He seemed happy and anxious all at once and the playfulness that was always there in her grandson was now there in the kitsune that had taken to courting her. The youkai warrior smiled with bright warmth as he came to a stop before her and took her in his arms. His hands encircled her waist as he lifted her off the floor and spun her about.

 

Soon she began giggling her own happiness spurred by his own. “What?” she asked her own smile now as bright as his. “What is it?”

 

“The Lady has returned!”

 

“Yes, I know! I saw them come in. I can't wait to talk to my daughter tomorrow.”

 

“Neither can I.” The laughing joy faded slowly from his eyes as he set his love down on her feet.

 

“What? What is it Ti?” Kashu asked, her hand upon his face, brushing his bangs back to see his eyes more clearly.

 

“Do you - do you think she'll be ok now? Do you think she'll leave again?” he asked, he thought of Kagome as his own sister, and in ways as a daughter. She was family and he hated to see her hurting.

 

“I don't know. Nothing is for certain, only time will tell.” She held his face in her hands and kissed his cheek.

 

Tiyeko smiled and nodded. He turned to leave, bidding her goodnight, but was stopped when she grasped a hold of his arm. He turned back to her, curious green eyes looking to her.

 

“Stay with me Ti? Sleep with me tonight? I'm only asking you to share my bed not to-” her hasty explanation was cut off when his mouth covered hers and he kissed her passionately.

 

Tiyeko held Kashu's face in one hand, the other resting on her hip as he moved into her room still kissing her. Kashu's hand absently batted behind her and closed the shoji door as they moved further into her room. His lips moved over hers and she gasped in pleasure when the hand on her hip moved up to her breast. The kitsune took full advantage of the gasp and slipped his tongue in to play with hers, tracing ticklish and fiery lines all over her mouth as he explored its contours.

 

Tiyeko pulled away from the heated kiss but still held the human woman in his arms, her head resting against his chest, tucked underneath his chin. One hand stroked her short hair as his other arm wrapped around her back, his tail around her waist.

 

“I'm sorry Kashu; I meant not to take advantage of you nor your offer. It's been so long, I just needed to taste you again.”

 

The huskily whispered words only seemed to feed the pleasurable fire that was burning in her stomach and moving into her womb, pleasant warmth and wetness beginning between her thighs. Her own arms were wrapped around her lover's waist as she stood within his arms as they both held onto the other. One of her hands played idly with the bottom inches of his silky red hair that hung just slightly below his trim waist.

 

“I should change,” she said softly and turned in his arms so that his arms, once wrapped around her waist, now folded over her stomach.

 

She leaned back against his chest, reluctant to remove herself completely from his warm embrace. Tiyeko kissed the juncture of her neck and shoulder as his hands slowly worked the knot of her kimono loose. Once the obi was untied, he let the silk length fall to the floor and opened her kimono slowly. He stepped back from her and slid the long deep red silk kimono from her shoulders, leaving her in only her black lace panties from her time, and the black stretchy breast binder from this era.

 

Tiyeko draped the kimono over a chair that sat near the door and walked back to her. He wrapped his arms around her once again and trailed his fingers over her slim stomach and then hugged her from behind. He moved away from her then, and took her hand in his and led her over the wardrobe.

 

“Which sleeping robe do you desire?” he asked softly as she looked upon them.

 

Kashu reached in and stroked the sleeve of a pale blue sleeping yukata and Tiyeko pulled it out and held it open for her. She slipped her arms through the sleeves and then wrapped it about her waist. She turned to face him then and his eyes were full of lust, but a lust that was far out weighed by the love that shown brightly in his green eyes. Her hands came up to stroke his cheeks and hold his face in her hands as she looked deep into his eyes. Tears slipped down her cheeks, equal parts sad and happy.

 

“Kashu? Koi what is it?” he asked as he took her hands in his and held them to his chest.

 

“I'd never thought I'd feel like this again. It's just so much.”

 

Tiyeko smiled at the woman and led her to the bed. He stood as she slipped beneath the covers and lay back upon the pillows. He joined her in the bed after extinguishing the light of the oil lamp and lighting a small fire in the fireplace. It was getting colder now. It wouldn't be long until the fall winds turned to winter snow.

 

 

 

“I want to see mama,” Shippou said as he looked up at Souta and Grandfather Higurashi. “Why can't we go back?”

 

“Yes why can't Rin and Shippou go back to mamma and our fathers? Rin's kits need to be fed.”

 

The two children had been very somber since they had been left behind, neither one accustomed to not being near at least their grandmother if they couldn't be with their parents. Souta held Rin on his lap and rubbed behind her tiny black ears, calming the hanyou child into a state of half sleep. Surprisingly enough, Grandfather had put his ofuda away and was now holding Shippou in his arms.

 

“I know you miss your parents young ones, but you cannot be with them now.”

 

“Why not?” Rin asked tears coming to her golden eyes. “I miss mamma and daddy and Uncle Inny.”

 

“I know child. Someone will come for, just know and be comforted in that knowledge. Be patient children.”

 

 

 

A soft knock sounded outside Sesshoumaru and Kagome's room and although the taiyoukai was reluctant to leave his mate's side, he could sense that it was his brother who was doing the knocking. Rising from the bed, Sesshoumaru stood in nothing but a pair of light blue silk sleeping pants and made his way to the door. Sliding open the heavy shoji door, that was made of all wood with no rice paper as were all the other door to the rooms, he found his brother standing outside holding his mate in his arms.

 

Sesshoumaru understood the silent question without his brother ever having to voice it. He stood aside and let Inuyasha enter and then shut the door. Walking back to the bed he slid back in place behind Kagome as Inuyasha laid Maika down next to Kagome and slid in behind her. Both brothers had their arms wrapped around their mates and both curled into their mates in the same manner, their faces buried in the females' necks their legs tucked one behind their mate, and one thrown over the female's legs. Soon both males were once again asleep.

 

It was midmorning when the first person of the sleeping quad woke. Kagome yawned and stretched against her mate, finding her legs somewhat restricted by Sesshoumaru's legs. Her eyes opened and she saw Maika lying in front of her and she lifted a hand and brushed the inuyoukai's black satiny hair behind her pointed ear. The movement woke the female inu and she opened her eyes to be greeted by Kagome's warm smile. Upon seeing Maika when she had woken up, Kagome forgot all of her own troubles and focused instead on her sister and how she could be of help to her.

 

“Hey,” she greeted softly and Maika smiled a little tremulously. Kagome saw the tears that were not yet ready to be dried formed once again in Maika's blue violet eyes and Kagome opened her arms to her. Maika leaned forward as did Kagome and the two females held on to each other. “Shhh, it's ok. You're here now Maika,” Kagome whispered into her ear. “You're safe now.”

 

“I know I am,” sniffled the woman. “I just…I just feel so dirty.”

 

“I know…I understand,” when Maika looked at her sister in confusion Kagome revealed to her what she'd held in for so long. “Back home, a boy - well man I guess, named Hojou tried - well I guess he actually did rape me. He used to be a friend, he used to be so sweet, I don't really know what happened to change him. He attacked me once in my own home and tried to rape me there but was stopped when Shippou attacked his face with his claws. But then when I was back this last time and visiting a female friend…” Kagome's own tears began falling. “It was ummm…I don't understand why…”

 

“Why what?” Maika asked as she brushed Kagome's hair behind her ear and wiped at her tears.

 

“Yuki, my friend…she put something in my drink that made me pass out…and then she pretty much just handed me over to Hojou. When I woke up he was raping me, not by his own flesh but with something else.” Kagome shook her head as a silent sob shook her body. “I keep trying to tell myself that it didn't really happen, that she didn't really betray me like that.” Kagome stopped talking and closed her eyes as she tried desperately to put her own troubles out of her mind, Maika was the one who needed help here, who needed to heal, she'd suffered far worse than she herself had and Kagome refused to be selfish.

 

“Stop that,” Maika commanded softly and Kagome opened her eyes confusion in them. “Stop trying to be brave and stop trying to act like what happened to you wasn't important. You don't have to be everyone's strong wall, you know. You were hurt too.”

 

Kagome shook her head, neither of them had noticed that during their softly spoken conversation their mates had awoken and were simply lying still behind them with their eyes closed and listening in.

 

“You were hurt far worse plus there's a ball coming up and the children will need tending and-”

 

“Stop that,” Maika commanded once again and although her voice was soft it was more commanding than it had been the first time. “Stop putting yourself last. You need to heal too - and don't say that they'll be time for that later,” she said quickly when Kagome opened her mouth to speak. “Time runs out, and soon what once could have been healed will no longer be able to be. I don't want to see that happen to you. I don't want to see you so lost in taking care of everyone else that you become afraid to be alone. I don't want to see you like that. You're my sister now, and if I can't get you to take care of yourself than I'll take care of you for you.”

 

Kagome gave a watery smile and once again embraced her sister and friend. There was a whispered thank you from Kagome to Maika before both females found themselves rolled underneath their mates. Kagome giggled up at Sesshoumaru and he smiled back at her. Finally, his Kagome had smiled, truly smiled.

 

“I love you my mate,” Sesshoumaru said to her and Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down so that he was lying completely on top of her, his legs between hers.

 

“I love you too…Fluffy,” she threw in with a giggle and she heard Inuyasha burst out in laughter.

 

“Fluffy, oh I've missed that,” the hanyou mused. Inuyasha looked down upon Maika and smiled.

 

“Are you planning to permanently move us in here, or this just a temporary thing?” she asked with a bit of humor.

 

“Hmm,” Inuyasha gave a playfully thoughtful look. “When I decided that I'll let you know.”

 

Maika giggled and looked to her sister and they both gave twin grins and each hooked a leg behind their mates' backs and rolled them over at the same time. Kagome and Maika rose from the bed, two disgruntled males lying upon the mattress.

 

“Hey come back here,” Inuyasha growled playfully.

 

“Mmhmm,” Kagome said as she gathered her bathing robe and handed one to Maika. “Bath time,” she said and gathered her bathing bottles of soaps, shampoos and conditioners and left the room with Maika following behind.

 

 

 

Kashu awoke to the feel of Tiyeko trailing kisses along her jaw and down her neck to her collarbone. Her eyes that had just opened, fluttered closed upon a breathy moan as he opened her sleeping robe and kissed his way to her breast, his hot tongue laving her skin. Once he reached her hardening nipple, he took the semi-hard peak into his mouth and flattened it against his velvety tongue before rolling it between his teeth.

 

Kashu's hands buried in his hair at the back of his head and held his head to her breast as she arched her back against him in pleasure. Tiyeko smiled around her nipple and released it from his mouth with a damp kiss as he moved back up to her face and kissed her lips. She returned his kiss with fervor and opened her mouth to brush his lips with her tongue. The kitsune groaned with ever growing arousal ground his hips against hers as he happily obliged her unspoken request and opened his mouth to her questing tongue.

 

The pair kissed and ravished each other's mouths for a good while before rising to greet the day. Kashu touched her fingers to her swollen and well kissed lips as she looked up at him from her seat in his lap where she was wrapped in his arms.

 

“The more you kiss me like that, the more I want to say to hell with the courtship and just let you take me.” She blushed at her own forwardness and Tiyeko smiled at her.

 

“If - when we mate Kashu, it is forever. You will be my life mate. You'll stop aging as you are doing and take on my lifespan, you may even become half or full youkai because of the mating. There's no turning back. I just want to give you enough time to be completely sure that it is me you want, and that this is not some part time romance.”

 

“This never was a part time romance for me Ti. Like I told you before, there's been no one since Kagome and Souta's father; it's been eleven years since there was anyone. I've never felt for anyone, not even my late husband as I do for you. I want to be with you; maybe I'll even get a pair of my own fuzzy ears out of the deal.” She grinned and laughed gaily when he proceeded to tickle her and laughed with her as they played upon the bed.

 

“Kashu,” Tiyeko said after a moment. She looked up at him from where she lay once again beneath him and gave him her undivided attention. “When we mate…where will we live? I have no knowledge of how to live in your world, and you have a life there that isn't here. Your son-”

 

“My son,” she said with a laugh, “would be more than thrilled to live here or at least visit, and as long as the well stays active, we should have no problem going back when needed.”

 

“And the crazy priest with the many ofuda that don't work?”

 

“You mean my father?” she laughed. “He'll live. I will miss them if I can't return. But I love you; my life is here with you. Perhaps I would see them again one day.”

 

“Youkai live for many years, you'd be alive to see them once again as he is born and grows, see yourself as a child.”

 

“What?” she asked in surprise.

 

“Oh Kashu, I'm not even three hundred yet. Kitsune and most other youkai live to be at the very least a thousand years if not far much more.”

 

Her eyes widened in surprise and wonder as she thought it over. “So I'd get to see myself grow up? Wow, that'd be…neat!”

 

They both laughed and then he left for his room as she gathered her own bathing supplies and made her way to one of the several walled in hot springs and the castle woke to begin its day.