InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Miko and the Taiyoukai ❯ Travel ( Chapter 6 )

 

After Kagome ate the fish that Rin had prepared, she asked the question that she had been dreading. “Sesshoumaru, how will I be traveling, if not on my bike?”

 

Sesshoumaru looked down at the little miko. “Rin and Jakken will be traveling on Aun. You will be traveling with me.”

 

“With you?” Kagome questioned. “What do you mean, with you? Where are we going?”

 

“I will show you our method of travel momentarily. I think you still need rest, so we will be traveling to the stronghold of the west,” Sesshoumaru answered, a definite gleam to his eye this time.

 

Rin and Jakken climbed aboard Aun, although it was clear that the two-headed dragon loathed Jakken. Sesshoumaru took the bag from Kagome's hands and attached it to Aun's saddle. He then gave a strange noise, and the dragon lifted off, leaving Sesshoumaru and Kagome behind.

 

“So, are we walking?” Kagome asked.

 

“No.”

 

Sesshoumaru was at her side in the blink of an eye and picked her up in both of his arms, like a bridegroom would carry his bride. He took a second to smell her hair, to smell her, and then took to the air.

 

Kagome took in a lot of breath, when she first felt Sesshoumaru's arms around her. This is what she had wanted, to be held by him with two arms, and when they took to the air, she cringed against him, happy that he had placed his armor onto Aun. She cuddled up against him as a demonic cloud engulfed the two of them and they traveled to his castle in the west.

 

She finally felt secure enough in the knowledge that he would not let her fall, she peeked her head up from it's place cowering near him, and looked into his face, he was smirking at her. She looked down and they were so high up. She made a girlish EEP! Sound and snuggled against him again. He was so glad that he had taken her this way instead of letting her ride on Aun. It was such a joy to have her against him, her fear tinged her scent even stronger, but it was not uncomfortable to him. Inuyoukai have the strongest olfactory capabilities of all youkai, and he was a very powerful inu. Some scents can overpower or tinge the natural scent of the carrier, extreme fear, anxiety, pain, and rage, but the fear Kagome was showing was not the large fear, it was a fear of heights, not of true death. Somehow she knew that Sesshoumaru would not kill her. He would not let her die.

 

Sesshoumaru led her towards his home on his demonic cloud. He could literally fly. He didn't need wings to do it. The flight to his home was not far, it would take him at least two hours. Holding Kagome like this would tire a human man, but he was a taiyoukai, and he could hold her for days. He would hold her for days, if she let him. When she overcame her fear again, she looked up, and saw her looking at him. He smiled at her, and she smiled back. He bent over, and gave her a light kiss on the lips. She turned ten shades of red and hid her face again.

 

“We will be arriving at the castle of the Western Lands in about two hours, and when we arrive, you will be housed in a room right next to mine. I want to keep you safe. Rin's room is also close. You will be well protected. My staff is nearly all demons, and is completely loyal. You will be treated as the Lady of the Western Lands. I know of no other way to explain another human in my house, besides everyone will sense your miko powers. They will not question my desire to have a miko as a mate, and while we know that this is not true (although in his head, and hers, it was), other demons will see the advantages of such a mating. I will not have to explain it to them, or get their approval, as I would for a normal youkai. This will save us all time.”

 

“Okay,” Kagome said, hiding her face.

 

She fell asleep in his arms. He continued to nuzzle her hair, and even smelled along the juncture between her neck and shoulder, where a mating mark would be if they chose to mate. He loved her and wanted her as his mate. He was very anxious to see what she thought of his home. The castle had been the stronghold of the West for nearly sixteen thousand years. He landed inside the courtyard with his most precious cargo, and was greeted by the head of his household, an aging Inuyoukai bitch named Mayumi, and the head of his security, a wolf youkai named Sachiko. Mayumi and Sachiko bowed to their Lord and looked at the woman in his arms with curiosity. Sesshoumaru told Sachiko that Rin and Jakken would be arriving soon on Aun, and that he was going to take Kagome to her room. The two demons could feel the spiritual energy coming off of the girl in waves. He took her away, and the two demons stood there looking at each other.

 

“Well, that is an interesting choice of mates,” Sachiko said, “A strong, beautiful miko like that would make an excellent demon and would provide strong and powerful pups.”

 

“Maybe he loves the girl”, Mayumi countered. “She is quite beautiful.”

 

“Only time will tell,” Sachiko said.

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