InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Rape of Persephone...Sort of ❯ Part 3 ( Chapter 3 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Penthesileia 
"But...you’re Eros...”
"YO!" he interrupted, "That’s Jakotsu the Almighty God of Love and Hot Men, thank you!"
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.15.2008 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.4K | Visits: 874 | Status: Completed
"But...you’re Eros...”
"YO!" he interrupted, "That’s Jakotsu the Almighty God of Love and Hot Men, thank you!"
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.15.2008 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.4K | Visits: 874 | Status: Completed
AN: I know I told a bunch of you I wasn’t going to update till Friday, but genius that I am, I totally forgot I wasn’t going to be home all day Friday so I posted early. Lucky you.
ARY2001- Thank you!
Disclaimer- I do not own Inuyasha and I am making no money off this fic.
Kagome
Kagome slowly turned her head to look behind her, praying that wasn't really Sesshomaru's voice or Sesshomaru's hand on her shoulder or Sesshomaru at all. She had been under a lot of stress lately; surely this was just her mind playing a really mean trick on her right?
She fully turned around and met Sesshomaru's angry golden eyes.
Was it to much to hope she was insane and was just seeing Sesshomaru behind her?
"Kagome." he growled, his hands moving down her body until they grasped her waist and lifted her out of the boat and placed her in front of him on the dock.
She started to struggle only to have Sesshomaru's arms clamp around her in an iron grip, denying her movement.
"Don't you dare fight me right now." he warned softly against her ear, turning his glare to Totosai who still looked terrified.
"My lord." he stuttered. "What a pleasure to see you again."
"You are never allowed to bring Kagome anywhere, if you are to see her alone or close to the river you are to find me or a guard as quickly as possible." Sesshomaru ordered, ignoring Kagome's stiff and angry form.
"You have no right-"
"I have every right in the world." Sesshomaru interrupted her. He held out one of his hands to Totosai, keeping a firm grip on Kagome with the other. "I will take that necklace back now."
Totosai's shaking hands brought the jewelry out of the folds of his clothes. "Yes my lord." he mumbled, placing the chain in Sesshomaru's outstretched palm and avoided looking at Kagome.
He nodded at Totosai, accepting the necklace from him and placing it around Kagome's neck.
She gasped as the cold metal touched her skin and he fused the two ends together with a thought.
Mine he thought as be brushed a finger over the gold. My woman wearing my jewelry.
"Carry on your business." he ordered briskly, turning himself and Kagome away from the boat.
He heard Totosai mumble a prayer under his breath as he pushed away from the dock and sailed down the river.
Sesshomaru firmly shoved Kagome under his arm and started to walk towards the tall gates in the distance, determined to show his claim on her with his men so they would know what woman they had to protect, and what woman they couldn't touch if they liked living.
Kagome started to struggle again, "Let me go, you jerk! You have no right to keep me with you!" she yelled, trying to escape from the heavy arm wrapped around her.
Sesshomaru stopped walking, and spun her around in his arms so he could meet her eyes. "You are mine Kagome. You belong here with me in our home, in our kingdom." he told her firmly. "You have no right to escape."
Kagome jerked again, trying to get out of his arms while he held her tighter. "I belong to myself!" she snapped back. "And if I belong to anyone at all, it's to Inuyasha!"
His brother's name coming from his mate's lips made his teeth snap together. "Never say his name again." he ordered through his clenched teeth.
She glared back at him, "Why shouldn't I? Inuyasha is the man I love." she shot back, almost throwing it in his face.
He snarled, "I will be the one you love now Kagome." he growled, grabbing her chin and pushed his lips onto hers.
She gasped in shock and he quickly swept his tongue into her mouth, needing to make her say a different name then his brother's.
Kagome tried to focus on something else other then Sesshomaru's lips on hers. She couldn't respond back to him, what kind of slut would she be if she enjoyed kissing the man who kidnapped her from his brother?
Holding on to that thought for dear life she managed to jerk her lips away from Sesshomaru's.
"You haven't given me a reason to love you, you moron!" Kagome yelled, trying to ignore how her lips were tingling. "You knocked me out, kidnapped me, took me away from everything I know, and you want me to love you?" Kagome asked in angry shock.
Sesshomaru's lips tightened and he shoved her back under his arm. "Come, it's time for dinner." he said gruffly, half leading, half dragging her towards the gates.
"Well that's one way you’re like your brother." she grumbled. "You interrupt arguments for food, though maybe that's just all men."
Sesshomaru decided to ignore her and led her through the gates as they opened without any help, almost like they were being welcomed inside.
Kagome blinked in surprise. She didn't know what she was expecting but it wasn't this.
Inside the gate was only a hallway with a few guards hanging around. Sesshomaru led her inside, either ignoring or not seeing the guard's curiosity as he walked down the hall with her in tow.
When they reached the very end of the hall Sesshomaru finally glanced down to see Kagome's dazed face.
He smiled slightly. "This is the Hall of Doors." he told her. "When I command it, the gate opens to here and I can choose where I want to go in my kingdom." he informed her. He reached out and lightly touched the wall in front of them.
Kagome's eyes went wide when the wall disappeared and a door took its place. Sesshomaru reached down and opened the knob, revealing the back of their bedroom to Kagome's shocked gaze.
He gently pushed her inside closing the door behind him and felt the whoosh of air when the door turned back into a wall.
She stood still, not wanting to believe she was back in his bedroom after escaping. Damn it, she was suppose to be gone by now.
She lifted her head a bit higher. Well she would just have to try harder next time, wouldn’t she?
She glanced over at Sesshomaru and swallowed at the predatory gleam in his eye as he stared at her.
"Now what?" she asked, hating how her breath caught in her throat.
He slowly wrapped his arm around her back, his hand lightly touching the buttons on her dress.
"Now it’s time for you to change into something more appropriate for dinner." he growled, his fingers undoing the first button. He leaned in close and let his breath tease her ear. "Nothing at all,” he whispered.
Kagome’s eye’s widened as his fingers moved across the exposed skin, raising goose bumps on her back and sending chills down to her toes before he moved to the second button.
...who the hell did he think he was??
Gritting her teeth and holding onto that spark of anger for dear life she knocked his hand away and spun away, moving back two steps to give him the full force of her glare.
"How dare you." she began quietly, becoming so angry her fists clenched together and started to tremble. "How dare you kidnap me, force me here against my will, kiss me without consent, and now expect to have sex with me." she hissed, the ground rumbling slightly under her feet, "Listen to me Lord Sesshomaru," she spat out his title like a it was a dirty thing forced in her mouth. "I would rather carve my eyes out with dull glass shards then willingly even let you touch me. You have no right to want anything from me, and I want nothing to do with you!"
Weak, limp looking spouts burst out of the ground next to Sesshomaru’s feet and wrapped themselves loosely around his boots, responding to their mistress’s fury at him.
When they slowly tried to tighten around him in an attempt to send him tumbling to the ground, Sesshomaru only raised a slight eyebrow, and with one small movement of his arm, he tore the weeds into pieces that littered the bedroom’s floor.
Kagome jerked like she had felt the blow herself, but continued to stare furiously at her kidnapper.
Sesshomaru was slightly impressed his mate was so powerful she could create life that would try to harm the King of the Dead in his own realm, but he was also completely shocked and enraged that his own queen wanted nothing to do with him.
For whatever reason, Miroku’s face popped in his mind, telling him ‘no duh genius’, but he brushed the thought aside as he sent a cool look at his livid mate.
"Kagome. Whether you like it or not at the moment, you are now mine. No one will come to contest it, no one will come to save you, and I will never let you go. If you want any happiness, you must learn to accept your fate." he lectured, taking a cautious step forward.
The dead plants instantly sprang up to attack Sesshomaru’s legs, growing thorns that slid through the thick cloth and sinking into flesh.
Sesshomaru cursed and struggled to remove the weeds and destroy them, missing Kagome’s look of rage and how her hair moved slightly, as if caressed by wind.
"I will never accept any fate I have not created for myself!" she snapped back, crooking her finger to pull the vines off of Sesshomaru and around her own wrist, like a bracelet. The plants immediately quieted against her skin, turning a healthy green and replacing the thorns with small white blossoms. "And my fate will not be tied to yours." she finished, her hair becoming still and the flowers growing larger as if her anger had melted away.
A slight knocking sounded at the door, ending Sesshomaru’s protest before he could come up with one. He cursed under his breath, before striding to the door and opening it to find Miroku waiting patiently. He glanced back at Kagome.
"I will come back later to discuss this. Do not try to escape again if you like being free to walk in our room rather then being bound to the bed." He warned before walking out and closing the door shut.
Kagome wanted to curse when she heard Sesshomaru mumble spells outside, probably to make sure she stayed where he felt she belonged, and waited until the echoing sounds of his boots hitting the palace floor faded to flop down on the bed and scream.
Of all the stupid morons to be kidnapped by, it had to be by Lord Sesshomaru, King of the Dead, ruler of Hades, Judge to all Souls who pass, and her lover’s older brother.
It was so insane, it was impossible to make up.
While there was no way she could get out at the moment, there were several things she could do to make Sesshomaru’s life completely miserable.
She grinned wickedly and got started.
Meanwhile in the Elysian Fields...
"Come here ladies! And I promise you’ll have the time of your life! Wait, no, come back!" the man wailed and chased after the two retreating women.
One of them stopped and picked up a rock, throwing it with deadly aim. "Eat rock Hojo!" she yelled, cheering when it hit him in the middle of his forehead.
Hojo groaned, holding his hand to his head as he felt a bump began to form and swayed wildly to stay up on two hoofed feet.
He almost cried when the women started to run again, "No! Stop! Please! What if I paid you?" he begged as he galloped furiously after them.
One of the women snorted, coming to a stop in front of a river, "In your dreams." she sneered, before her form abruptly shifted into water and dropped gracefully into the river.
"Baby, come on, show a little kindness!" he begged the last girl.
She looked down her nose at him, "Over my dead body." she declared, before changing into a tree.
"That could be arranged." Hojo mumbled under his breath, one hand coming up to wipe the sweat from under his horns. He looked longingly at the river, and wondered if the water nymph would let him cool off in the water without trying to rip his tail off like the last time.
It still ached to wiggle his tail, and that was one of his more attractive traits.
He sighed and forced himself to walk away, not willing to risk another injury by even sitting under the shade the tree nymph provided. Even the ‘kind’ souls who occupied Elysian Fields were more likely to laugh at a poor half goat, half man being swung around by his horns by an angry tree rather then help him.
It just sucked to be Hojo.
"Hojo." Sesshomaru coldly stated as he suddenly appeared in the front of him, nearly scaring the hair off his butt. "Miroku tells me you have been bothering the women here again." he said, indicating Miroku at his side who was looking sulky.
Man, flirt a little with some women that monk had been eyeing and the guy got all bent out of shape. There was no need to running crying to Lord Sesshomaru. Though Miroku was probably just jealous he didn’t have a cool stubby tail like Hojo.
Hojo shrugged nervously, scared and awed to be in Sesshomaru’s presence. This guy was the ultimate man. Hot looks, good style, kick-ass job and millions of women-dead and alive- begging to get into his pants. Lord Sesshomaru was a freaking god, more so because he actually was one.
"Welllll," he drawled out, "I wouldn’t say ‘bothering’ exactly, because that wasn’t what it was. It was more like...playful talking." he explained.
Sesshomaru raised a silver eyebrow in a way Hojo would be practicing in a mirror for five hours as soon as he got home. "‘Playful talking?’" Sesshomaru asked in disbelief.
Hojo nodded rapidly, pleased his idol understood. "Exactly! They ran playfully while I talked!" he concluded, feeling brilliant.
Miroku rolled his eyes, "When I talk to a woman they don’t go turning into trees or water to escape Hojo." he said scornfully.
Hojo wanted to roll his eyes as well. Of course they didn’t, they were probably afraid if they didn’t pretend to like him he would complain to Lord Sesshomaru about them. Poor women...
"Hojo. I’ve warned you about ‘playful talking’ with the women here." Sesshomaru said in a way that sounded both smooth and dangerous at the same time. Hojo instantly wanted his voice to sound like that. "If I catch you even looking at a woman under the age of fifty, I am banishing you from the Elysian Fields, and you can chase after mortal women on the surface." Sesshomaru warned.
Hojo scowled. Mortal women weren’t as fun to run after. They would jump off cliffs and die when they saw him coming, ending the chase with no hope of getting another run in.
"Do you understand me Hojo?" Sesshomaru asked powerfully, causing Hojo to stupidly nod his head yes in the face of it.
Sesshomaru nodded once, "Good." he said coolly, before popping out of sight.
Miroku scowled at him, "And stop going after my women." he hissed, before following his master.
Out of their sight, Hojo rolled his eyes at Miroku’s last comment. ‘His women’ Real sensitive of you Miroku, no wonder girls scream your name. They should be screaming for help, Hojo thought disgustedly before turning his thoughts to Lord Sesshomaru while he wandered the forest.
Lord Sesshomaru was awesome, he decided, his life was totally perfect, and manly, and full of girls desperate for him. He bet Lord Sesshomaru didn’t have to chase after girls, he would only have to raise his brow slightly in that superior ‘you-are-dirt-under-my-feet-and-I-demand-you-worship-my greatness’ way and they would come running. No one would ever make fun of Lord Sesshomaru the way they did to Hojo and his horns and goat half, they would praise him, compliment him, and copy his style, even if that fur thing over his shoulder was kinda creepy. And that long white hair a bit much and was probably a bitch to keep clean. But even so, he was totally cool.
Hojo sighed and sat down where he stood, not even caring if it was on top of a grass nymph who was about to give him serious rug burns. He wished he was as half as handsome as Lord Sesshomaru was, or had some of his power and/or sex appeal. Hell, he would even take the guy’s B.O; taking 100 of it on a bad day probably wasn’t nearly as bad as his.
Fur had a bad habit of smelling worse then a dead skunk when wet or sweaty.
He sighed again; He wished he was Lord Sesshomaru, King of the Dead and sugar daddy of all the hot girls in the land.
He blinked when a thought suddenly occurred to him, running through his mind over, and over again.
Well. Why the hell not do something about that?
Sesshomaru
Sesshomaru gratefully stepped up to his bedroom door; sure that Kagome was inside waiting for him. He would have been here sooner, but after dealing with Hojo a whole load of dead sailors had come in, wailing something about an ice berg hitting the helm and drowning them all.
Sesshomaru honestly hadn’t cared how they died, only that he finished up quickly to get back to Kagome. They still had the conversation from before to finish, and this time he had come up with several good arguments.
...he hoped.
Scowling, he shook the notion away that his points weren’t enough and released the spells off the door, eager to come inside. He grasped the door knob and turned it, anticipating the sight of his lovely mate safe inside their beautiful bedroom-
Sesshomaru stopped dead, not sure if he was really seeing what was in front of him, or it stress and a heavy workload making him imagine things.
The first thing his shocked mind processed was the color. Color. Instead of the tasteful red, black, and stone he had left, the room exploded in pinks, golds, oranges, yellows, green, and some other neon bright color that made his eyes ache when he looked at them to closely. The elegant, marble flooring was now overrun with tall grass and wild flowers, so thick he could barely see a glance of the former floor through them. Vines dripped from the walls, purple and white flowers as large as his fist grew from them, so heavy they looked like they would fall any second.
He wanted to groan when he saw their bed. Their bed. He couldn’t even see the posts that held up the curtains anymore, flowers completely covered them and the curtains had been replaced with long strands of grass and more blossoms. The covers was now a woven sheet of daisies, the pillows more green grass and trimmed in some kind of orange petal, with leaves peeking out through the opening. Lily pads and huge lily’s spun lazily on the surface of the hot tub, not bothered at all by the heat while every few moments, new pads would float up to the surface of the water. An apple tree was growing in the corner of the room, while the opposite side boasted a neat row of mini olive trees.
Sesshomaru seriously considered crying for a moment while surveying his room.
A yawn interrupted his thinking on if he even had tear ducts to cry with and his head snapped to the area of the room where the sound had come from, watching Kagome slowly sit up among the grass. He almost winced when he noticed the torn up white dress she was wearing, the sleeves and a good part of the chest had been cut off, and when she stood he noticed she had ripped the skirt into sections up to her thigh. The vine that circled her wrist when he left was now curling around her fingers and up to her elbow, sprouting off such large flowers it looked difficult to hold her arm up.
"Lord Sesshomaru." she said calmly. "I hope you don’t mind my redecorating my room a little bit."
Sesshomaru tried really hard not to whimper, but he was worried he did so anyway.
Inuyasha
The snow fell gently on his shoulders and hair, barely visible against the silver strands. He perched on the edge of the cliff, remembering when he had brought Kagome there. He fed her fruit by hand, stared out over the forest below before making love all night.
He didn’t have Kagome with him today, and every tree was rapidly being covered in ice. The leaves withered and died on their branches, encased in glittering frost. Thicker snow then that falling spread across the ground, spilling into rabbit, fox, and snake holes and suffocating the animals inside them.
And through it all, Inuyasha didn’t even spare the approaching winter a glance, seeing only Kagome’s face in the frozen crystal.
"Kagome." he whispered painfully, so cold and numb inside, his breathe didn’t even turn into mist when it escaped his mouth.
There had to be something he could do to get her back, he couldn’t go the rest of eternity without Kagome, he refused to accept that. There was also no way he could get into Sesshomaru’s realm by himself, he was a nature fertility god, and he could never survive in the land of the dead.
His heart gave a another painful clench at the thought of his precious Kagome, a goddess of the Spring, forced to become Queen of the Dead, and knew only one way to save her. As much as he hated the only option he had, he really had no choice.
He would have to go ask his father for help.
He would be reminded of how he almost lost his love to his older brother if his father hadn’t stepped in, at every family reunion for now on, but what else could he do?
And with that, Inuyasha popped out of sight, picturing the huge palace the king god Inu no Tashio made his home at, already dreading the long lecture that was to come.
Back at the Elysian Fields...
Hojo paced nervously on his hoofs, worried when this guy was going to show up. If he wanted to be Lord Sesshomaru he needed to get tough. He wanted to be the bad guy everyone feared, someone who could pound his way through stone and laugh in danger’s face. He wanted power, and he wanted strength.
A make-over would do wonders too, but he wanted to concentrate on one thing at a time.
So he here he was, waiting still for who knows how many hours, for a teacher he found in the Olive Pages. Looking back, maybe he shouldn’t have just randomly chosen the biggest ad...
But it had been a really convincing big ad! The words were big and simple, and a picture of a little guy beating up a tough guy was right in the middle of it! He was sure he would be fine.
Suddenly, the forest went still, all the birds and animals falling silent as it grew darker. Hojo stopped his pacing; looking around to see what was going on.
"YOU!" A powerful voice burst out of nowhere, causing Hojo to jump out of fright. "ARE YOU THE ONE WHO HAS CALLED FOR ME? THE MIGHTIEST GOD OF ALL THE LAND, THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL AGES, AND THE HOTTEST MAN SINCE THE SUN’S CREATION?"
Hojo gulped. "That’s me" he said shakily.
"WHAT DOES A PUNY SEMI-GOD LIKE YOU HAVE SUCH A NEED WITH ME?" The voice demanded.
"I...I want to become strong! Stronger and more powerful then Lord Sesshomaru!" he said bravely. "I need a teacher!"
The voice paused. "Eh, what the hell, this should kill a hour or two and be funnier then when Inu no Taisho got drunk on his last birthday." the voice decided, the forest suddenly filling with a bright light so blinding Hojo had to hide his eyes.
"Yo, you can look up now." someone said, sounding annoyed.
Slowly, Hojo peeked out from the cracks of his fingers, before dropping them in shock.
The man in front of him was a girl.
Or maybe a girly man?
The man rolled his eyes, "Come on already, get the looking thing over with so we can move on." he ordered.
The man was almost naked, wearing nothing but a little piece of white cloth wrapped around his waist and a thin part of sandals, a bow and arrows thrown over naked shoulder. Some kind of purple bluish paint dripped down from both of his eyes, his lips were painted a bright, bright red and he had drawn in a little heart on his cheekbone, almost like a beauty mark. His black hair was pulled back and tied at the nape of his neck, making Hojo wonder if this person even had a gender.
The man sighed, "Ok, you should be done by now, get on your knees and thank Inu no Taisho I’m here to help you." he ordered, pointing to the ground.
Hojo continued standing, not sure if this was a joke.
"How can the god of love teach me how to fight?" he asked slowly.
The man rolled his eyes, "Don’t knock around love sweetie, I could totally screw up the whole world if I wanted to. You know what would happen if some royal king fell in love with another king, who was in love with a nanny, who was in love with a prince, who was in love with a thief? Not pretty."
"But...you’re Eros...”
"YO!" he interrupted, "That’s Jakotsu the Almighty God of Love and Hot Men, thank you!"
Hojo swallowed again, "Yes Jakotsu the Almighty-"
"I didn’t mean it literally!" Jakotsu snapped, and rubbed his forehead. "Sorry, but I’ve had a rough day. Some would be lover seriously screwed up and I was on my way to yell at him when I got your call."
Hojo tilted his head to the side, "Then why come to me?" he asked, curious.
Jakotsu shrugged, "You sounded amusing." A hard glint entered his eyes, "And it’s not good when the God of Love gets bored." he warned.
Hojo turned pale, "Yes sir." he trembled.
Jakotsu sighed, "We have a lot to do to get you tough." he pointed to the ground. "Get to push ups!" he ordered, and Hojo hurried to comply.
Sesshomaru and Kagome
Sesshomaru was still staring at what had become of his bedroom, completely speechless. On one hand he was very impressed his mate held this kind of power, even in the Underworld. Most gods of any kind of nature couldn’t even grow a blade of grass in his realm, much less transform the god of the dead’s bedroom into a garden.
Or Kagome had gotten really pissed.
For some reason he was slightly scared he had caused her anger.
If she could do this to his room...what else could she do?
A knock sounded on the door, and before Sesshomaru had a chance to respond, Miroku had poked his head in.
"My lord I...I...wow." he finally settled on, taking in the room and Kagome standing calmly in her torn dress among the grass.
He glanced at his lord’s angry and shocked face and went pale. "I can talk to you later." he mumbled, gently closing the door and running down the hall like demons were chasing him.
Hojo...
Hojo gasped for breath, desperately trying to avoid Jakotsu’s arrows.
Jakotsu sighed before he notched another arrow, "Come on wimp! You can do better then that!" he yelled before releasing the arrow.
He sighed again when it landed directly in Hojo’s hairy ass, causing him to fall in love with the first thing in front of him, an innocent squirrel sitting in a tree. Hojo smiled goofily and walked towards it, holding out both his hands to the little animal.
Jakotsu shook his head when the squirrel scurried further up the tree, leaving Hojo wailing at the bottom. The guy was such a moron. He almost wasn’t worth the target practice he was getting out of this.
He glanced up at the fake sun, trying to judge what time it was and ignore Hojo’s cries at the same time. It was just about time to head to the other loser of the day, thank Kami. He didn’t know how much more he could take of Hojo. Why had he thought this would be fun again?
Lazily he snapped his fingers, and the spell was lifted off Hojo, leaving him blinking blankly at the scratches on the tree in front of him and the bark under his fingernails.
"I have to go see another guy right now. This one’s almost as dumb as you if that’s possible." he snorted, adjusting his cloth so it showed off his cute thighs better. "Idiot falls for a girl, and decides instead of courting her, he kidnaps her." he suddenly sighed, "At least it’s no pain to look at hunky Lord Sesshomaru." he said dreamily.
He grinned brightly at Hojo, glad to be nice to him since he never intended to see him again, "Wish me luck that I can knock sense in those fool’s heads!" he asked cheerfully before popping out of sight.
Left alone in the woods, Hojo studied the spot Jakotsu had stood in, thinking intently.
Lord Sesshomaru went so crazy for a girl he just took her. The guy most either be madly in lust, or desperately in love.
Maybe there was some way this could work to his advantage...
ARY2001- Thank you!
Disclaimer- I do not own Inuyasha and I am making no money off this fic.
Kagome
Kagome slowly turned her head to look behind her, praying that wasn't really Sesshomaru's voice or Sesshomaru's hand on her shoulder or Sesshomaru at all. She had been under a lot of stress lately; surely this was just her mind playing a really mean trick on her right?
She fully turned around and met Sesshomaru's angry golden eyes.
Was it to much to hope she was insane and was just seeing Sesshomaru behind her?
"Kagome." he growled, his hands moving down her body until they grasped her waist and lifted her out of the boat and placed her in front of him on the dock.
She started to struggle only to have Sesshomaru's arms clamp around her in an iron grip, denying her movement.
"Don't you dare fight me right now." he warned softly against her ear, turning his glare to Totosai who still looked terrified.
"My lord." he stuttered. "What a pleasure to see you again."
"You are never allowed to bring Kagome anywhere, if you are to see her alone or close to the river you are to find me or a guard as quickly as possible." Sesshomaru ordered, ignoring Kagome's stiff and angry form.
"You have no right-"
"I have every right in the world." Sesshomaru interrupted her. He held out one of his hands to Totosai, keeping a firm grip on Kagome with the other. "I will take that necklace back now."
Totosai's shaking hands brought the jewelry out of the folds of his clothes. "Yes my lord." he mumbled, placing the chain in Sesshomaru's outstretched palm and avoided looking at Kagome.
He nodded at Totosai, accepting the necklace from him and placing it around Kagome's neck.
She gasped as the cold metal touched her skin and he fused the two ends together with a thought.
Mine he thought as be brushed a finger over the gold. My woman wearing my jewelry.
"Carry on your business." he ordered briskly, turning himself and Kagome away from the boat.
He heard Totosai mumble a prayer under his breath as he pushed away from the dock and sailed down the river.
Sesshomaru firmly shoved Kagome under his arm and started to walk towards the tall gates in the distance, determined to show his claim on her with his men so they would know what woman they had to protect, and what woman they couldn't touch if they liked living.
Kagome started to struggle again, "Let me go, you jerk! You have no right to keep me with you!" she yelled, trying to escape from the heavy arm wrapped around her.
Sesshomaru stopped walking, and spun her around in his arms so he could meet her eyes. "You are mine Kagome. You belong here with me in our home, in our kingdom." he told her firmly. "You have no right to escape."
Kagome jerked again, trying to get out of his arms while he held her tighter. "I belong to myself!" she snapped back. "And if I belong to anyone at all, it's to Inuyasha!"
His brother's name coming from his mate's lips made his teeth snap together. "Never say his name again." he ordered through his clenched teeth.
She glared back at him, "Why shouldn't I? Inuyasha is the man I love." she shot back, almost throwing it in his face.
He snarled, "I will be the one you love now Kagome." he growled, grabbing her chin and pushed his lips onto hers.
She gasped in shock and he quickly swept his tongue into her mouth, needing to make her say a different name then his brother's.
Kagome tried to focus on something else other then Sesshomaru's lips on hers. She couldn't respond back to him, what kind of slut would she be if she enjoyed kissing the man who kidnapped her from his brother?
Holding on to that thought for dear life she managed to jerk her lips away from Sesshomaru's.
"You haven't given me a reason to love you, you moron!" Kagome yelled, trying to ignore how her lips were tingling. "You knocked me out, kidnapped me, took me away from everything I know, and you want me to love you?" Kagome asked in angry shock.
Sesshomaru's lips tightened and he shoved her back under his arm. "Come, it's time for dinner." he said gruffly, half leading, half dragging her towards the gates.
"Well that's one way you’re like your brother." she grumbled. "You interrupt arguments for food, though maybe that's just all men."
Sesshomaru decided to ignore her and led her through the gates as they opened without any help, almost like they were being welcomed inside.
Kagome blinked in surprise. She didn't know what she was expecting but it wasn't this.
Inside the gate was only a hallway with a few guards hanging around. Sesshomaru led her inside, either ignoring or not seeing the guard's curiosity as he walked down the hall with her in tow.
When they reached the very end of the hall Sesshomaru finally glanced down to see Kagome's dazed face.
He smiled slightly. "This is the Hall of Doors." he told her. "When I command it, the gate opens to here and I can choose where I want to go in my kingdom." he informed her. He reached out and lightly touched the wall in front of them.
Kagome's eyes went wide when the wall disappeared and a door took its place. Sesshomaru reached down and opened the knob, revealing the back of their bedroom to Kagome's shocked gaze.
He gently pushed her inside closing the door behind him and felt the whoosh of air when the door turned back into a wall.
She stood still, not wanting to believe she was back in his bedroom after escaping. Damn it, she was suppose to be gone by now.
She lifted her head a bit higher. Well she would just have to try harder next time, wouldn’t she?
She glanced over at Sesshomaru and swallowed at the predatory gleam in his eye as he stared at her.
"Now what?" she asked, hating how her breath caught in her throat.
He slowly wrapped his arm around her back, his hand lightly touching the buttons on her dress.
"Now it’s time for you to change into something more appropriate for dinner." he growled, his fingers undoing the first button. He leaned in close and let his breath tease her ear. "Nothing at all,” he whispered.
Kagome’s eye’s widened as his fingers moved across the exposed skin, raising goose bumps on her back and sending chills down to her toes before he moved to the second button.
...who the hell did he think he was??
Gritting her teeth and holding onto that spark of anger for dear life she knocked his hand away and spun away, moving back two steps to give him the full force of her glare.
"How dare you." she began quietly, becoming so angry her fists clenched together and started to tremble. "How dare you kidnap me, force me here against my will, kiss me without consent, and now expect to have sex with me." she hissed, the ground rumbling slightly under her feet, "Listen to me Lord Sesshomaru," she spat out his title like a it was a dirty thing forced in her mouth. "I would rather carve my eyes out with dull glass shards then willingly even let you touch me. You have no right to want anything from me, and I want nothing to do with you!"
Weak, limp looking spouts burst out of the ground next to Sesshomaru’s feet and wrapped themselves loosely around his boots, responding to their mistress’s fury at him.
When they slowly tried to tighten around him in an attempt to send him tumbling to the ground, Sesshomaru only raised a slight eyebrow, and with one small movement of his arm, he tore the weeds into pieces that littered the bedroom’s floor.
Kagome jerked like she had felt the blow herself, but continued to stare furiously at her kidnapper.
Sesshomaru was slightly impressed his mate was so powerful she could create life that would try to harm the King of the Dead in his own realm, but he was also completely shocked and enraged that his own queen wanted nothing to do with him.
For whatever reason, Miroku’s face popped in his mind, telling him ‘no duh genius’, but he brushed the thought aside as he sent a cool look at his livid mate.
"Kagome. Whether you like it or not at the moment, you are now mine. No one will come to contest it, no one will come to save you, and I will never let you go. If you want any happiness, you must learn to accept your fate." he lectured, taking a cautious step forward.
The dead plants instantly sprang up to attack Sesshomaru’s legs, growing thorns that slid through the thick cloth and sinking into flesh.
Sesshomaru cursed and struggled to remove the weeds and destroy them, missing Kagome’s look of rage and how her hair moved slightly, as if caressed by wind.
"I will never accept any fate I have not created for myself!" she snapped back, crooking her finger to pull the vines off of Sesshomaru and around her own wrist, like a bracelet. The plants immediately quieted against her skin, turning a healthy green and replacing the thorns with small white blossoms. "And my fate will not be tied to yours." she finished, her hair becoming still and the flowers growing larger as if her anger had melted away.
A slight knocking sounded at the door, ending Sesshomaru’s protest before he could come up with one. He cursed under his breath, before striding to the door and opening it to find Miroku waiting patiently. He glanced back at Kagome.
"I will come back later to discuss this. Do not try to escape again if you like being free to walk in our room rather then being bound to the bed." He warned before walking out and closing the door shut.
Kagome wanted to curse when she heard Sesshomaru mumble spells outside, probably to make sure she stayed where he felt she belonged, and waited until the echoing sounds of his boots hitting the palace floor faded to flop down on the bed and scream.
Of all the stupid morons to be kidnapped by, it had to be by Lord Sesshomaru, King of the Dead, ruler of Hades, Judge to all Souls who pass, and her lover’s older brother.
It was so insane, it was impossible to make up.
While there was no way she could get out at the moment, there were several things she could do to make Sesshomaru’s life completely miserable.
She grinned wickedly and got started.
Meanwhile in the Elysian Fields...
"Come here ladies! And I promise you’ll have the time of your life! Wait, no, come back!" the man wailed and chased after the two retreating women.
One of them stopped and picked up a rock, throwing it with deadly aim. "Eat rock Hojo!" she yelled, cheering when it hit him in the middle of his forehead.
Hojo groaned, holding his hand to his head as he felt a bump began to form and swayed wildly to stay up on two hoofed feet.
He almost cried when the women started to run again, "No! Stop! Please! What if I paid you?" he begged as he galloped furiously after them.
One of the women snorted, coming to a stop in front of a river, "In your dreams." she sneered, before her form abruptly shifted into water and dropped gracefully into the river.
"Baby, come on, show a little kindness!" he begged the last girl.
She looked down her nose at him, "Over my dead body." she declared, before changing into a tree.
"That could be arranged." Hojo mumbled under his breath, one hand coming up to wipe the sweat from under his horns. He looked longingly at the river, and wondered if the water nymph would let him cool off in the water without trying to rip his tail off like the last time.
It still ached to wiggle his tail, and that was one of his more attractive traits.
He sighed and forced himself to walk away, not willing to risk another injury by even sitting under the shade the tree nymph provided. Even the ‘kind’ souls who occupied Elysian Fields were more likely to laugh at a poor half goat, half man being swung around by his horns by an angry tree rather then help him.
It just sucked to be Hojo.
"Hojo." Sesshomaru coldly stated as he suddenly appeared in the front of him, nearly scaring the hair off his butt. "Miroku tells me you have been bothering the women here again." he said, indicating Miroku at his side who was looking sulky.
Man, flirt a little with some women that monk had been eyeing and the guy got all bent out of shape. There was no need to running crying to Lord Sesshomaru. Though Miroku was probably just jealous he didn’t have a cool stubby tail like Hojo.
Hojo shrugged nervously, scared and awed to be in Sesshomaru’s presence. This guy was the ultimate man. Hot looks, good style, kick-ass job and millions of women-dead and alive- begging to get into his pants. Lord Sesshomaru was a freaking god, more so because he actually was one.
"Welllll," he drawled out, "I wouldn’t say ‘bothering’ exactly, because that wasn’t what it was. It was more like...playful talking." he explained.
Sesshomaru raised a silver eyebrow in a way Hojo would be practicing in a mirror for five hours as soon as he got home. "‘Playful talking?’" Sesshomaru asked in disbelief.
Hojo nodded rapidly, pleased his idol understood. "Exactly! They ran playfully while I talked!" he concluded, feeling brilliant.
Miroku rolled his eyes, "When I talk to a woman they don’t go turning into trees or water to escape Hojo." he said scornfully.
Hojo wanted to roll his eyes as well. Of course they didn’t, they were probably afraid if they didn’t pretend to like him he would complain to Lord Sesshomaru about them. Poor women...
"Hojo. I’ve warned you about ‘playful talking’ with the women here." Sesshomaru said in a way that sounded both smooth and dangerous at the same time. Hojo instantly wanted his voice to sound like that. "If I catch you even looking at a woman under the age of fifty, I am banishing you from the Elysian Fields, and you can chase after mortal women on the surface." Sesshomaru warned.
Hojo scowled. Mortal women weren’t as fun to run after. They would jump off cliffs and die when they saw him coming, ending the chase with no hope of getting another run in.
"Do you understand me Hojo?" Sesshomaru asked powerfully, causing Hojo to stupidly nod his head yes in the face of it.
Sesshomaru nodded once, "Good." he said coolly, before popping out of sight.
Miroku scowled at him, "And stop going after my women." he hissed, before following his master.
Out of their sight, Hojo rolled his eyes at Miroku’s last comment. ‘His women’ Real sensitive of you Miroku, no wonder girls scream your name. They should be screaming for help, Hojo thought disgustedly before turning his thoughts to Lord Sesshomaru while he wandered the forest.
Lord Sesshomaru was awesome, he decided, his life was totally perfect, and manly, and full of girls desperate for him. He bet Lord Sesshomaru didn’t have to chase after girls, he would only have to raise his brow slightly in that superior ‘you-are-dirt-under-my-feet-and-I-demand-you-worship-my greatness’ way and they would come running. No one would ever make fun of Lord Sesshomaru the way they did to Hojo and his horns and goat half, they would praise him, compliment him, and copy his style, even if that fur thing over his shoulder was kinda creepy. And that long white hair a bit much and was probably a bitch to keep clean. But even so, he was totally cool.
Hojo sighed and sat down where he stood, not even caring if it was on top of a grass nymph who was about to give him serious rug burns. He wished he was as half as handsome as Lord Sesshomaru was, or had some of his power and/or sex appeal. Hell, he would even take the guy’s B.O; taking 100 of it on a bad day probably wasn’t nearly as bad as his.
Fur had a bad habit of smelling worse then a dead skunk when wet or sweaty.
He sighed again; He wished he was Lord Sesshomaru, King of the Dead and sugar daddy of all the hot girls in the land.
He blinked when a thought suddenly occurred to him, running through his mind over, and over again.
Well. Why the hell not do something about that?
Sesshomaru
Sesshomaru gratefully stepped up to his bedroom door; sure that Kagome was inside waiting for him. He would have been here sooner, but after dealing with Hojo a whole load of dead sailors had come in, wailing something about an ice berg hitting the helm and drowning them all.
Sesshomaru honestly hadn’t cared how they died, only that he finished up quickly to get back to Kagome. They still had the conversation from before to finish, and this time he had come up with several good arguments.
...he hoped.
Scowling, he shook the notion away that his points weren’t enough and released the spells off the door, eager to come inside. He grasped the door knob and turned it, anticipating the sight of his lovely mate safe inside their beautiful bedroom-
Sesshomaru stopped dead, not sure if he was really seeing what was in front of him, or it stress and a heavy workload making him imagine things.
The first thing his shocked mind processed was the color. Color. Instead of the tasteful red, black, and stone he had left, the room exploded in pinks, golds, oranges, yellows, green, and some other neon bright color that made his eyes ache when he looked at them to closely. The elegant, marble flooring was now overrun with tall grass and wild flowers, so thick he could barely see a glance of the former floor through them. Vines dripped from the walls, purple and white flowers as large as his fist grew from them, so heavy they looked like they would fall any second.
He wanted to groan when he saw their bed. Their bed. He couldn’t even see the posts that held up the curtains anymore, flowers completely covered them and the curtains had been replaced with long strands of grass and more blossoms. The covers was now a woven sheet of daisies, the pillows more green grass and trimmed in some kind of orange petal, with leaves peeking out through the opening. Lily pads and huge lily’s spun lazily on the surface of the hot tub, not bothered at all by the heat while every few moments, new pads would float up to the surface of the water. An apple tree was growing in the corner of the room, while the opposite side boasted a neat row of mini olive trees.
Sesshomaru seriously considered crying for a moment while surveying his room.
A yawn interrupted his thinking on if he even had tear ducts to cry with and his head snapped to the area of the room where the sound had come from, watching Kagome slowly sit up among the grass. He almost winced when he noticed the torn up white dress she was wearing, the sleeves and a good part of the chest had been cut off, and when she stood he noticed she had ripped the skirt into sections up to her thigh. The vine that circled her wrist when he left was now curling around her fingers and up to her elbow, sprouting off such large flowers it looked difficult to hold her arm up.
"Lord Sesshomaru." she said calmly. "I hope you don’t mind my redecorating my room a little bit."
Sesshomaru tried really hard not to whimper, but he was worried he did so anyway.
Inuyasha
The snow fell gently on his shoulders and hair, barely visible against the silver strands. He perched on the edge of the cliff, remembering when he had brought Kagome there. He fed her fruit by hand, stared out over the forest below before making love all night.
He didn’t have Kagome with him today, and every tree was rapidly being covered in ice. The leaves withered and died on their branches, encased in glittering frost. Thicker snow then that falling spread across the ground, spilling into rabbit, fox, and snake holes and suffocating the animals inside them.
And through it all, Inuyasha didn’t even spare the approaching winter a glance, seeing only Kagome’s face in the frozen crystal.
"Kagome." he whispered painfully, so cold and numb inside, his breathe didn’t even turn into mist when it escaped his mouth.
There had to be something he could do to get her back, he couldn’t go the rest of eternity without Kagome, he refused to accept that. There was also no way he could get into Sesshomaru’s realm by himself, he was a nature fertility god, and he could never survive in the land of the dead.
His heart gave a another painful clench at the thought of his precious Kagome, a goddess of the Spring, forced to become Queen of the Dead, and knew only one way to save her. As much as he hated the only option he had, he really had no choice.
He would have to go ask his father for help.
He would be reminded of how he almost lost his love to his older brother if his father hadn’t stepped in, at every family reunion for now on, but what else could he do?
And with that, Inuyasha popped out of sight, picturing the huge palace the king god Inu no Tashio made his home at, already dreading the long lecture that was to come.
Back at the Elysian Fields...
Hojo paced nervously on his hoofs, worried when this guy was going to show up. If he wanted to be Lord Sesshomaru he needed to get tough. He wanted to be the bad guy everyone feared, someone who could pound his way through stone and laugh in danger’s face. He wanted power, and he wanted strength.
A make-over would do wonders too, but he wanted to concentrate on one thing at a time.
So he here he was, waiting still for who knows how many hours, for a teacher he found in the Olive Pages. Looking back, maybe he shouldn’t have just randomly chosen the biggest ad...
But it had been a really convincing big ad! The words were big and simple, and a picture of a little guy beating up a tough guy was right in the middle of it! He was sure he would be fine.
Suddenly, the forest went still, all the birds and animals falling silent as it grew darker. Hojo stopped his pacing; looking around to see what was going on.
"YOU!" A powerful voice burst out of nowhere, causing Hojo to jump out of fright. "ARE YOU THE ONE WHO HAS CALLED FOR ME? THE MIGHTIEST GOD OF ALL THE LAND, THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL AGES, AND THE HOTTEST MAN SINCE THE SUN’S CREATION?"
Hojo gulped. "That’s me" he said shakily.
"WHAT DOES A PUNY SEMI-GOD LIKE YOU HAVE SUCH A NEED WITH ME?" The voice demanded.
"I...I want to become strong! Stronger and more powerful then Lord Sesshomaru!" he said bravely. "I need a teacher!"
The voice paused. "Eh, what the hell, this should kill a hour or two and be funnier then when Inu no Taisho got drunk on his last birthday." the voice decided, the forest suddenly filling with a bright light so blinding Hojo had to hide his eyes.
"Yo, you can look up now." someone said, sounding annoyed.
Slowly, Hojo peeked out from the cracks of his fingers, before dropping them in shock.
The man in front of him was a girl.
Or maybe a girly man?
The man rolled his eyes, "Come on already, get the looking thing over with so we can move on." he ordered.
The man was almost naked, wearing nothing but a little piece of white cloth wrapped around his waist and a thin part of sandals, a bow and arrows thrown over naked shoulder. Some kind of purple bluish paint dripped down from both of his eyes, his lips were painted a bright, bright red and he had drawn in a little heart on his cheekbone, almost like a beauty mark. His black hair was pulled back and tied at the nape of his neck, making Hojo wonder if this person even had a gender.
The man sighed, "Ok, you should be done by now, get on your knees and thank Inu no Taisho I’m here to help you." he ordered, pointing to the ground.
Hojo continued standing, not sure if this was a joke.
"How can the god of love teach me how to fight?" he asked slowly.
The man rolled his eyes, "Don’t knock around love sweetie, I could totally screw up the whole world if I wanted to. You know what would happen if some royal king fell in love with another king, who was in love with a nanny, who was in love with a prince, who was in love with a thief? Not pretty."
"But...you’re Eros...”
"YO!" he interrupted, "That’s Jakotsu the Almighty God of Love and Hot Men, thank you!"
Hojo swallowed again, "Yes Jakotsu the Almighty-"
"I didn’t mean it literally!" Jakotsu snapped, and rubbed his forehead. "Sorry, but I’ve had a rough day. Some would be lover seriously screwed up and I was on my way to yell at him when I got your call."
Hojo tilted his head to the side, "Then why come to me?" he asked, curious.
Jakotsu shrugged, "You sounded amusing." A hard glint entered his eyes, "And it’s not good when the God of Love gets bored." he warned.
Hojo turned pale, "Yes sir." he trembled.
Jakotsu sighed, "We have a lot to do to get you tough." he pointed to the ground. "Get to push ups!" he ordered, and Hojo hurried to comply.
Sesshomaru and Kagome
Sesshomaru was still staring at what had become of his bedroom, completely speechless. On one hand he was very impressed his mate held this kind of power, even in the Underworld. Most gods of any kind of nature couldn’t even grow a blade of grass in his realm, much less transform the god of the dead’s bedroom into a garden.
Or Kagome had gotten really pissed.
For some reason he was slightly scared he had caused her anger.
If she could do this to his room...what else could she do?
A knock sounded on the door, and before Sesshomaru had a chance to respond, Miroku had poked his head in.
"My lord I...I...wow." he finally settled on, taking in the room and Kagome standing calmly in her torn dress among the grass.
He glanced at his lord’s angry and shocked face and went pale. "I can talk to you later." he mumbled, gently closing the door and running down the hall like demons were chasing him.
Hojo...
Hojo gasped for breath, desperately trying to avoid Jakotsu’s arrows.
Jakotsu sighed before he notched another arrow, "Come on wimp! You can do better then that!" he yelled before releasing the arrow.
He sighed again when it landed directly in Hojo’s hairy ass, causing him to fall in love with the first thing in front of him, an innocent squirrel sitting in a tree. Hojo smiled goofily and walked towards it, holding out both his hands to the little animal.
Jakotsu shook his head when the squirrel scurried further up the tree, leaving Hojo wailing at the bottom. The guy was such a moron. He almost wasn’t worth the target practice he was getting out of this.
He glanced up at the fake sun, trying to judge what time it was and ignore Hojo’s cries at the same time. It was just about time to head to the other loser of the day, thank Kami. He didn’t know how much more he could take of Hojo. Why had he thought this would be fun again?
Lazily he snapped his fingers, and the spell was lifted off Hojo, leaving him blinking blankly at the scratches on the tree in front of him and the bark under his fingernails.
"I have to go see another guy right now. This one’s almost as dumb as you if that’s possible." he snorted, adjusting his cloth so it showed off his cute thighs better. "Idiot falls for a girl, and decides instead of courting her, he kidnaps her." he suddenly sighed, "At least it’s no pain to look at hunky Lord Sesshomaru." he said dreamily.
He grinned brightly at Hojo, glad to be nice to him since he never intended to see him again, "Wish me luck that I can knock sense in those fool’s heads!" he asked cheerfully before popping out of sight.
Left alone in the woods, Hojo studied the spot Jakotsu had stood in, thinking intently.
Lord Sesshomaru went so crazy for a girl he just took her. The guy most either be madly in lust, or desperately in love.
Maybe there was some way this could work to his advantage...