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"Sesshomaru?" "Yes?" "Can I brush your hair?" "Excuse me?" "Pfffffft Kagome and Sango do that all the time to each other I told you you look like a girl!" Inuyasha exclaimed as he rolled on the ground laughing.

"Inuyasha for the last time I am not a girl and Y/n no." Sesshomaru said smoothly standing up with a small degree of difficulty and reaching out to pinch his little brothers ear. "Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Inuyasha screeched in pain running up a tree and hiding in the top most branches from his elder brother.

"Sesshomaru!" Y/n scolded reaching up to grab ahold of Sesshomaru's own pointed ear, she yanked as hard as Sesshomaru had to Inuyasha and brought his head down to her level. "Y/n you can't do that!" Inuyasha shouted from up in the tree as he jumped down and ran towards Y/n panicked before Sesshomaru let out the most pained scream that anyone had ever heard.

Before Y/n or Inuyasha could react Sesshomaru ran into the forest and disappeared from sight. "What the absolute hell was that?" Y/n asked in shock as she turned to face a Inuyasha who was staring off into the forest that his brother had disappeared into.

"Sesshomaru's ears have always been really sensitive I remember once when we were children and me and my mother were living in his castle his mother yanked on his ear because she was angry at him and he screamed just like he did now but the only thing was she did it every time he messed up during training or calligraphy so he was constantly screaming while we were there."

"Geez he never mentioned that ever happened, not that's I'm surprised I didn't even know that that grumpy puppy had a brother until you actually game flying at him with that giant sword of yours." Y/n said laughing.

"Unsurprising in itself but I think that we should probably go find him now or should since I'm the one that did that." Y/n asked gesturing towards the forest. "You probably should he's either off somewhere punching the crap out of trees or he's hiding up in a tree trying not to cry like he used to." Inuyasha said pointing in the direction that he could smell sesshomaru from.

"Okay thanks Yasha I'll make sure to bring back before nightfall." Y/n said as she ran into the forest to look for her mate. Y/n was a half fox demon that presented as a human and she could hide her the smell of her demon blood easily so no one knew not even her own mate.

She knew thought that Sesshomaru wouldn't leave her if he knew because he accepted her as his mate even as a human so he would certainly accept her as a half demon. She didn't tell anyone that she was a half demon because she was not proud if her blood in any way. Her blood is what made both her parents reject her when she was just 3 years old.

Both her parents were happy when she was born and she didn't seem to have any demon blood because neither wanted a child's that was half anything so they were alright with it even if the child was fully the other race but when she was 3 years old she was attacked by a low level demon and revealed her powers in defense.

Her parents left her in the forest alone not long after that. So she hid her demon blood and walked about as a human always and she didn't care or mind that she was a half demon she just wasn't proud enough to hold her head up high about it. She did feel bad though because Sesshomaru thought that she would age and die and he would have to watch when in reality she had about the same lifespan as he did.

Anyway she arrived in a patch of the forest that she was very familiar with because that was where she spent most of her time from when she was 8-10 years old before she finally left the forest for good and became a wanderer. Sesshomaru's smell was concenrated most in this area along with the smell of weeping trees because one or two of them had been viciously clawed to pieces.

Y/n took a deep breath in before screamed at the top of her lungs "Sesshomaru!!!!!!!!!! I know that you're there come down here!!!!!" She screamed. There was no reply. She snorted walking towards a tree that just magically had a metal armor plate and sword sitting at the foot of it.

She looked into the very topmost branches and sure enough there was Sesshomaru looking down at her. It was hard to tell from on the ground but Y/n was pretty sure three were tear tracks on his face. "Gomenasai Sesshomaru." She said quietly knowing that he could hear her. "I would never have done that if I knew that your ears were that sensitive." She said quietly as Sesshomaru looked down on her unmovingly.

"Look Sesshomaru either you come down or I come up." She said matter of factly. Sesshomaru didn't move not believing that she would climb the tree. "Alright then." She grunted grabbing a branch and pulling herself up.

Sesshomaru looked shocked at how easily she was climbing the tree but he didn't say anything and instead watched her intently making sure that she wouldn't fall. It only took seconds until she was level with him and saw how his eyes were red at the edges even as he avoided her gaze.

"Sess I know it probably doesn't do much for you but I'm really really sorry for doing that to you. I didn't know that it would hurt you so much otherwise I would never have done it." Y/n stated looking right at the demon who just nodded and faced the other direction.

"Sesshomaru are you pouting at me?" She asked trying not to laugh. "No!" He said quickly, too quickly which caused him to turn a slight shade of red realizing his slip up. "Anyways sorry Sess I'll be more careful from now on." Y/n said reaching out to pull her demon into a hug.

"It's not fair when you do that." Sesshomaru muttered quietly enough that a human wouldn't hear him but Y/n wasn't paying attention and answered him anyway. "It's plenty fair if it gets you to stop pouting." She answered into his hair.

Sesshomaru froze and pulled away from her, "You shouldn't have been able to hear that." He said in shock. "Oops?" Y/n said grinning letting her fox ears and tail appear and her nails and teeth lengthen. "Surprise?" She said phrasing it as a question.

"Look don't be mad at me I didn't let them show anyway even before I met you-" She was cut off when Sesshomaru pulled her into one of the tightest hugs of her life. "Don't apologize. I thought that you would leave me soon and I have been agonizing over it since I fell in love with you now I know there's no need to worry. You'll be with me for years to come." He said quietly burying his face in my neck and scenting my mating mark all over again.

"Awwww I love you too Sess." She said nuzzling his hair as he let out a low purr that she had only heard a few times before and that was when he was severely injured and she had treated him and he was about to fall asleep to her breathing. In short he only purred when he was happy as can be or out of it as can be.

Y/n was finally happy, she had found a mate and would stay by his side for eternity.

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"Oi Sesshomaru come get your girlfriend!" Inuyasha barked as he came busting into his elder brothers camp. "What is it now Inuyasha? She can't be that bad." Sesshomaru asked warily well aware of how chaotic his mate was. "It's not her that wolf brat keeps hanging around because of her and flirting with both of her and Kagome it's pissing me off." Inuyasha muttered plopping down next to his brother under a tree.

"What do you mean?" Sesshomaru asked his eyes narrowing and preparing to stand up. "He's been cuddling up to her the entire week that she's been with us." Inuyasha snorted and doubled over laughing when he saw the absolutely thunderous look on his brothers face. "I never thought I would see a face that looked that jealous!" Inuyasha howled.

"Shut up you. Come here." Sesshomaru snarled and Inuyasha obeyed still laughing. "Yes?" He asked leaning in close to Sesshomaru's face while smirking. Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed "Learn some respect runt." He snarled grabbing Inuyasha by the collar and using Inuyasha to haul himself off the ground seeing as the some of the smaller tasks were a bit harder with one arm.

"You can't even get up?" Inuyasha asked looking guilty which was a first for Sesshomaru who sighed pulling Inuyasha into a hug with his one arm. "I can stand up but it's not fun and I kind of have to be able to stand up by myself seeing as everyone I travel with is short." Sesshomaru commented as Inuyasha hugged him tight. "I'm not surprised I got myself injured anyway it was bound to happen soon enough I'm just glad it was you and not some piece of shit like Naraku." Sesshomaru muttered.

"Damn right someone had to put you in your place." Inuyasha laughed letting go of his brother. "I'm sorry anyway but can you come get Y/n before I end up killing her admirer?" Inuyasha asked innocently even while he had a dark look on his face. "That's right lets go." Sesshomaru said as he walked over to Jaken who was asleep next to Ah-Un and nudged him with the toe of his shoe.

"Jaken." He said quietly in the voice that said he meant business. "Yes Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken squawked startling awake at the sound of his lords voice. "I will be going to pick up Y/n now. Watch Rin." He stated matter of factly before turning around and flying into the direction of Inuyasha's camp as Inuyasha cursed.

"Dammit lazy ass you know I can't fly!" He shouted shaking his fist at his older brother. "Come now Otouto that is hardly my fault." Sesshomaru commented flying down until he was just barely hovering over the ground next to his brother. Sesshomaru reached out and snatched Inuyasha into his arms bridal style and started off at a faster speed than Inuyasha had ever seen him fly before.

It didn't take long surprisingly to get to the camp at the speed that they were going, Inuyasha realized that his brother had been holding back his speed when he was traveling with his group and just in general with Jaken and Rin. If Sesshomaru went his normal speed when travelling with Jaken and Rin it would be a waste of energy to travel extra far and then come all the way back to them.

They touched down in their camp with Sesshomaru still holding Inuyasha. Koga was quick to notice this and comment on it. "Did you just get married or something mutt? Your brother looks pissed what did you do? Cheat on him?" He barked with laughter which is when Sesshomaru in turn of making fun of him and his brother the wolf brat also had his arm around Y/n.

The gall that this one had! Sesshomaru's lip curled and he let out the most fearsome snarl that would send any demon running. It was affective because everyone that had been yelling at each other before quieted down and turned to look at what had disturbed the demon lord so. Koga turned pale and took a few steps back his arm leaving its place around Y/n's shoulder while Y/n stayed where she was not even blinking at her lovers ferocious growl.

"Sesshomaru love what is it?" She asked moving to take a step forward but Koga lunged forward to grab her hand and he held her back. "Don't Y/n it's too dangerous." he warned looking at Sesshomaru warily. Sesshomaru snarled even more his eyes tinging red with anger. "Koga..." Kagome warned looking at Sesshomaru with worry.

"It's fine." Y/n said brushing off Koga and walking up to Sesshomaru swiftly. "Hey Sess I know you're pissed but reign it in ok? You're scaring Shippo." She said pointing to the cowering fox cub demon.

Sesshomaru was still pretty pissed but calmed down enough for his eyes to return to their normal color but he still glared thunderously at Koga.

And Koga of course being Koga was not having it. “What are you looking at over there?” He asked tauntingly.

“Koga cool it because personally I don’t want to see you ripped to pieces.” Y/n snarled from Sesshomaru’s side.

“You really think prince fluffy over here could beat me?” Koga asked incredulously while obviously trying to hold back his laughter.

“I don’t think he could beat you I know he could beat you so shut your trap before I let him!”

“This stunned Koga into silence before Sesshomaru opened his mouth of course.

“What makes you think you can put your hands on my mate you lowly demon? Humans are more fragile than your abnormally thick head!” Sesshomaru snarled in the demon language that only he and Koga could understand or maybe InuYasha if he tried.

Koga’s jaw dropped before he started laughing hysterically “Oh my Kami she didn’t tell you?! And you think she’s juman on top of it all!” He roared with laughter as everyone looked at him confused.

“Koga you bitch! How hard is it to keep your mouth shut?!” Y/n yelled smacking the back of his head as wolf ears and a tail manifested poking through the top of her head and the back of her kimono.

Sesshomaru’s eyes widened in shock. “He’s your brother?! You’re a demon?! And you didn’t think to tell me?!” He shouted in demon speech as Koga and now InuYasha continued to laugh their butts off at his face.

“Sorry Sessh it just never really came up?” Y/n asked her tail behind her wagging furiously in amusement.

And that was the first and only time that the group saw Sesshomaru do something from Kagome’s time: Facepalm.

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Y/n POV

I was a full demon Kistune which was becoming rarer because my kind mostly bred with other demons or humans so there were very few full Kitsune demons left. I was also the mate of the Lord of the Western Lands.

Currently our little group was walking towards InuYasha's group since the brothers had made up at me and Kagome's urging.

They were close now and would often spend time together and you could tell that after we left that each missed the others presence or so Kagome told me. I knew because I could see it in Sesshomaru's face that he missed his brother.

"Mama are we getting close can you smell them?!" Rin asked excitedly as she bounced around Jaken, looking forward to being able to see Shippo again as they always got on well.

"Yes Rin I can smell them in the air." I said picking her up to stop her jumping around before it annoyed my mate.

Sesshomaru was currently walking in front of us as usual with his arrogant air which to his credit had lessened since the final battle.

I set Rin down and she immediately went to annoy Jaken and I giggled as I walked a little faster to keep pace with my mate. "This is dangerously close to the heat season Sessho, make sure that you inform InuYasha seeing as this will be his first one with a mate." I said nudging my own.

"Do you take me for a fool?!" He snarled turning to me with a deadly glare. I knew full well that this was just him being moody from the impending heat but decided to act offended anyway. "Of course not but if that's how you think of me." I sniffed turning around to go and continue walking with Rin.

I heard him make a small noise protesting me leaving his side so close to his heat but I decided to be belligerent so I ignored it and took Ah-Un's reins from Jaken freeing him to be chased by Rin.

I could feel Sesshomaru's eyes on me and I looked up to see his pleading eyes but I looked away in favor of watching Rin and Jaken. I knew this was messing with his head and felt a little guilty but not too much.

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Y/n POV

We had finally reached InuYasha's group and my mate and InuYasha had already wandered off to do whatever they do. "What do you think they do?" Kagome asked kind of worried what a demon lord and a hot headed half demon would do together in a forest.

"Either they sleep together or fight because they always come back looking disheveled." Commented Miroku earning a smack from Sango. "It doesn't seem likely but it could be that they're sleeping together." Sango said amused.

Kagome looked at me in concern and I laughed "That wouldn't be too out of the ordinary in the demon world but I would be able to smell it if they did and they never have, they are loyal to us." I said patting Kagome on the shoulder reassuringly.

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Y/n POV

By the time InuYasha and my mate returned to us I could smell the starting of heat on Sesshomaru and the starting of rut on InuYasha and InuYasha looked both amused and embarrassed as he went to sit next to Kagome.

I figured that Sesshomaru had told him about everything heat and rut related and that's why he was embarrassed and he was amused to find out that his haughty and strong older brother went into a heat instead of a rut.

Sesshomaru sat down on the other side of InuYasha and leaned into him slightly not that anyone could notice but InuYasha gave me a look wondering why he was over there with him.

I used one of my powers which was telepathy to slip into InuYasha's mind.

"I never would have guessed that Sesshomaru went into heat. Is he the bottom?" InuYasha snickered. "What I'm really wondering though is why he's over here with me? What did he do to get you mad at him?" I snorted and thought back. "I'm not really angry he just got pissed off when I reminded him to make sure he talked to you since this would be your first rut while having a mate." I said. "Fine but he's really torn up about it, I can tell. Make sure you don't let it last into the season." Inuyasha warned.

I nodded and cut off the connection. "We need to get going now your mother wanted us back for the feast for the visiting lords right Sesshomaru?" I said looking at him as he flinched microscopically since I never called him by his full name unless I was less than happy with him.

"That is correct we should leave now Rin say your goodbyes." He said looking over at the girl who was still playing with Shippo. "Hai Sesshomaru-Sama." She said happily hugging Shippo goodbye and bounding over to me.

"Well I'll see you guys in a few weeks." I said giving everyone a hug saving InuYasha for last. "At least try to be a little gentler this year." I said pulling him into a long hug long enough for his scent to cover me.

Both me and InuYasha heard Sesshomaru growl over that last bit, and me and InuYasha smirked at each other as our group left the other to their own devices.

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Y/n POV

We were almost to the palace but I could tell that his incoming heat was already setting Sesshomaru off a little bit his face was flushed only slightly though so you had to be looking for it to notice and the tips of his ears were red.

He thought I was still mad at him so he stayed away from me and you could see this was talking a toll on the demon lord. He didn't seem to be able to sleep and kept tossing and turning all night.

If he had been paying attention when it happened he would know I wasn't actually mad but at this point it seemed like he was determined to last the whole heat without coming to me.

I snickered good luck with that. He had tried once before but after 2 days out of the week long heat he showed up at my door horny as hell and begging for my attention.

It was currently the middle of the night and I was pretending to be asleep to avoid being stared at by Sesshomaru while leaning against a tree, while Rin was laying on the other side of the fire with Jaken and Sessho.

I heard Sessho shift and crawl lightly over to my side of the fire and I felt his breath as he leaned in front of my face. I pretended to still be asleep as he collapsed on the ground next to me and cuddled up into my side.

I heard him sigh as he shoved his face into my neck and wrapped his arms around my waist purring a little which I always found amusing considering he was a dog demon.

I let him sit there knowing when I woke up he would once again be at the opposite side of the fire pretending he didn't need my attention even though he had just cheated per se.

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Y/n POV

We had finally arrived at the palace and sure enough every night when he thought I was asleep Sesshomaru came crawling to my side and clung to me like his life depended on it.

Honestly I wasn't surprised seeing as he would have to go into seclusion in his wing of the castle right after this meeting and the best part was he still thought I was mad at him and was determined to make it through his heat alone.

I had finished changing into my formal robes and walked into the dining hall with all the foreign lords and took my seat next to Sesshomaru who looked ready to descend into hell.

He was right about to full on start his heat but only I his mate could smell it and since he thought I was mad he felt the need to suffer by himself. Well that wasn't entirely true some demons with keener noses or maybe just by chance were able to smell other demons heats which was why mates always stayed close to each other during the start of the heat.

Later into the dinner I saw another demon that seemed to have a keener nose look at Sesshomaru noticing how he smelled off no doubt. Sesshomaru who seemed wildly uncomfortable squirmed slightly in his seat but I could only see because I was next to him.

The demon continued to stare at my mate completely aware now that he was in heat or at least getting close to it. Sesshomaru saw the other demons gaze and shifted slightly closer to me by reflex but hesitated and leaned away slightly before I grabbed his hand intertwining our fingers.

His head snapped in my direction as he looked at me questioningly I squeezed his hand and slipped into his mind to say. "I don't tolerate other demons eyeing my mate especially when they are in heat." And after that I left his mind before he could respond and though he visibly relaxed after that I could feel through the mating bond that he was still somehow convinced that I was mad at him.

I sighed and removed my hand from his to continue eating and he let out a low whine but stifled it before the rest of the demons sitting at the table could hear it.

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Y/n POV

It had been 3 days since the meal with the other demons and I could smell Sesshomaru's heat from across the castle and he still thought I was mad at him so he was staying away from me still.

I sighed changed into my pajamas after yet another uneventful day and went to sleep.

>< Time Skip ><

Y/n POV

I was woken by the heat of another body moving against mine and I looked to see a very flushed looking Sesshomaru rutting against my leg with tears falling from his swollen eyes.

"Sesshomaru?" I whispered shocked I had never seen the demon lord cry before. He looked at me and threw his arms around my neck sobbing into my shoulder wetting it within seconds. "What happened Kit?" I said stroking his hair, his heat momentarily forgotten.

"That other demon from the feast Lord Tsukimono he-he knew I was in heat and he finally managed to get into my chambers an hour ago. He tried- he tried..." He trailed off and continued to cry into my shoulder hysterically as I rocked him and murmured into his ear.

"I'll rip him to shreds after your heat is over, that I can promise you." I snarled when he had calmed down a bit and was merely sniffling with glassy eyes.

Sesshomaru nodded and then he was hit with another particularly strong wave of his heat and he squealed and started wildly humping my leg again.

"Such a horny puppy." I murmured looking down at him as I cast a barrier that locked everyone out and blocked all sound coming in and out of the room. "Should I even touch you at all for ignoring me all these days I could simply just lay here and do nothing."

Sesshomaru whimpered and whined pulling at the collar of my kimono to drag my mouth down into a kiss. I nipped at his lower lip until he opened his mouth and I shoved my tongue in exploring and eventually shoving it down his throat making him gag as his eyes watered.

I pulled away to actually take in my mate as he was been clinging to me like his life depended on it since I woke up.

He whined and clung to me tighter as I sat up but I gently pried his arms away from me and looked at him.

I was surprised I hadn't noticed earlier but he had bleeding scratches running down his chest and hand shaped bruises around his wrists, his kimono was ripped open, and his hair was knotted and in disarray.

I looked over his body a couple more times trying to contain my anger but when I felt a soft tug on my sleeve and I turned to look at my mate he gave me the most heartbroken tear filled gaze.

"Are you mad at me?" He whispered "For being so weak." He said looking away, Sesshomaru of course would never say this normally but under the influence of the heat and the fear of Tsukimono that had been enhanced by the heat he was very emotional. "Of course not Pup I love you with all my being I was never mad at you to begin with I just wished you wouldn't have gotten so angry. And you aren't weak because you can't control your own heats no one can." I said as I licked over his scratches.

He whimpered at the stinging pain of them healing and I cringed sympathetically knowing that with his heat all the sensations were multiplied.

After I had finished healing his chest I looked at him fiercely. "Did he kiss you?" I asked. He hesitated before nodding slightly. "I'll just have to kiss you more then." I said doing just that pulling him by the back of his neck to smash our lips together.

I swiped my tongue over the tips of his fangs and he whimpered wanting more. I noticed that he had tears running down his face again and I pulled away to lick them off his cheeks reassuringly as I purred at him. "He's gone now he'll never be near you again I won't allow it." I purred and I noticed that the smell of heat had started to fade away.

"Sessho how do you feel?" I asked concerned. He looked at me confused "I don't feel like I'm in heat anymore." He said. "I've heard about this... if a demon is distressed enough the heat will dissipate but only in the presence of their mate." I mused stroking his hair once again.

I heard a whimper from the demon attached to my side and he started rutting against my leg again. "Looks like the big bad demon lord is still horny though." I said leaning down to suck on a sensitive patch of skin on the side of his neck.

Sesshomaru moaned lowly and nuzzled his cheek into my neck. He let out an embarrassingly high moan when I slipped a hand into his pants and squeezed his ass.

He purred licking up and down my neck and bit down hard when I slipped a finger into his hole. I wriggled around the appendage and easily slipped in another finger seeing as he was still slick from his heat.

I moved my fingers around until I felt a spongy area and pressed down on it hard. Sesshomaru wailed, his grip on me tightening.

I flipped him onto his back as I hovered over him thrusting my fingers in and out steadily but never touching his prostate. He whined "Y/nnnnnn. Please-ahh." He said being cut off by his own moan when I pressed down on his prostrate lightly.

"Please what Pup?" I teased enjoying his flushed face. "Please I want you." He said hiding his face in the nearest pillow. "Where and what do you want?" I giggled as his flushed face left the pillow to glare at me briefly before returning to it's hiding place when the pleasure got to be too much for him.

"I want more of your fingers...please!" He gasped when I slammed my fingers in particularly hard. "I'm putting 3 in now Pup make a sound and you'll be punished." I said working another finger into his hole stretching it out even more.

I thrusted my fingers experimentally and he didn't make a sound not a peep even though I was pretty sure he was biting down on a pillow. I let my middle finger press against his prostate and kept it there and he whined highly, wiggling his hips in an attempt to make me move my finger.

"What did I say Pup?" I asked darkly pulling him up by a lock of his hair as he whined. "N-not to m-make a sound." He stuttered. "And what did you just do?" I asked yanking his hair back forcing him to expose his throat to me.

"I made a noise." He said trembling both with the fear of being in such an vulnerable position and the pleasure of having his hair pulled.

"What's going to happen now?" I asked sinisterly. "I'm going to get punished." He mumbled. "Good Puppy." I said flipping him so that he was over my lap.

"Say 'Spider' if you want me to stop." I said raising my hand and spanking him with a lot of force. Sesshomaru squealed and tried to get away but I held him in place. "First you *smack* ignore me *smack* then you *smack* disobey me *smack* I'm starting to think you like being punished." I snorted.

I suddenly moved Sesshomaru up a little more and smacked his inner thigh where he was really sensitive "Stop!" He wailed struggling to get away from me. "If you really want me to stop you know what to say." I said and that quieted him down because he didn't really want me to stop.

I continued to smack his thighs and ass alternately until his thighs and ass were bright red and he was sniffling. "You wanna cum Sessho?" I asked looking down at him.

He nodded frantically pulling at my kimono. "Alright then." I said positioning him on his back again and leaning down to kiss him while I palmed his dick.

He shuddered and kissed me back in delight. I snorted and reached behind him with my unoccupied hand to grab a handful of his long hair and yanked it back to expose his long neck that had various marks on it and his mating mark, a ring of teeth marks with my name in the center.

He whined as I bit into my mating mark again drawing blood. I suddenly sped up the jerking and he whined and shrunk back when I glared at him.

"You know what Pup if you can't shut up I'll make you." I said as I pushed two of my fingers into his mouth. He gagged trying not to throw up. I giggled knowing that he had always had a hyperactive gag reflex.

I jerked faster and he came with a muffled wail of my name and bit down hard on my fingers that I had in his mouth.

I took my fingers out of his mouth and leaned down to kiss him lightly.

I picked him up bridal style where he settled his head on my shoulder with a yawn. I giggled and looked at him "I thought you were a dog not a cat demon." He glared at me but it lacked the bite.

"Are you happy Pup?" I asked as I set him down in the bath after I stripped him and got in next to him.

"Of course." He said blinking sleepily as I washed his back when I was finished with mine.

"That's good you wanna stay with me for the rest of the week until your heat is supposed to end or you wanna go back to your quarters?" I asked.

As soon as I mentioned his quarters he lunged toward me and climbed into my lap and hid his face in my hair shaking. "I'm so sorry Pup I forgot that happened there you can stay with me the whole time alright?" I said as he nodded into my shoulder. "Forgive me?" I asked as I put a hand on his cheek and turned his face towards me. He nodded immediately "Always." He murmured.

"I love you Sessho forever and always never forget that." I murmured kissing him on the forehead.

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No One's POV

There was a silent winding creek through the forest, wide enough and deep enough to bathe in and not much else. The leaves on a nearby bush rustled as someone walked through them. A figure stepped out into the moonlight the meager light shining off his long silver hair. Sesshomaru walked to the side of the stream and inspected it to make sure that it was clean enough.

He deemed it fit to wash himself with and removed his clothes with some difficulty with his one arm. He struggled to undo the knot of his obi but managed it in the end. He slipped off the rest of his clothes with relative ease and stepped into the creek. He flinched a little when he slipped into the water but he didn't lose the monotone expression on his face.

He sighed a little and tilted his head back sliding deeper into the water before dipping his head under in one movement. He was under the water for quite a while and when he came back up his hair looked a little more knotted than before from the water. Sesshomaru leaned back against the rocks that lined the bank of the creek. The walls were very vertical so it was easy to lean against them.

He let out a breath and his seemingly always tensed muscles relaxed and his eyes slowly slipped shut hiding the golden orbs. Unknown to Sesshomaru a demon was watching him from a nearby tree on the other side of the creek that he had come from. Ordinarily Sesshomaru would have been able to sense this demon the instant it was anywhere near him. But this was a special breed of demon who were thought to be extinct. The Nai.

These demons carried no sort of presence with them and no one could sense them other demons included. For this very reason they were hunted to would be extinction. But one line of the Nai demons had been missed and this Nai demon was the last of that line and he wanted to keep it that way by staying alive. But this new demon was in HIS forest. He did not allow anyone in his forest this was simply not tolerated.

There was a small imp and a human a few miles away but the Nai demon did not care about them. They were just outside his forest. What was outside his forest was not his business even if they were travelling with the demon lord in front of him. The Nai demon was planning to dispatch of this demon quickly and then retreat into his cave for a long time. He did not like other demons or humans. The animals were the only company he kept and he wanted to keep it that way. But there was one hole in his plan.

The camouflage of Nai demons had one little flaw though. They were not completely without presence. Nai demons had a very faint smell to them but this smell was instantly recognizable to anyone who had encountered them before. Now that Sesshomaru was in a half asleep state after surely not having slept for quite sometime and the fact that the Nai demon was up wind of the demon lord there was no way for Sesshomaru to know that this demon was there.

The Nai demon who happened to be named Kagenashi decided that this would be the perfect time to strike having sensed that the demon lord was now fully asleep allowing the faint current to clean his body thoroughly. Kagenashi slipped out of the tree that he was in and dropped down onto the ground in a soundless movement. Now please understand no one actually knows what a Nai demon looks like. The instant that the Nai demon is killed all memory of their appearance is erased from any one who had seen that demons minds.

Kagenashi glided soundlessly to the edge of the creek opposite of Sesshomaru. The demon observed the demon lord for a time and took in his features it having been so long since he had seen another face besides those of animals and his own in the reflection of the creek. Kagenashi wondered how the demon had lost his arm and curiously wondered where the crimson marking along his face and the rest of his body came from. The demon snickered internally wondering why he was thinking about that. This demon was in HIS forest somewhere he had no right to be.

He would have to die. Kagenashi reached into a bag he had slung across his back and out came a small katana. The katanas created by the Nai demons though were of a different sort. They were able to cause an immense amount of damage with a single scratch. A cat scratch became a deep sword wound and a deep sword wound became something fatal.

Kagenashi readied his sword and took a deep breath before jumping high into the air wanting to finish this demon with a single strike. As gravity pulled him back down to the ground right on top of Sesshomaru Kagenashi could have sworn that he saw Sesshomaru's eyelids flicker before he swung his sword. But much to his bewilderment there was nothing there.

Kagenashi landed on the ground soundlessly once again and looked around him for his prey before his eyes settled on the demon lord across the pond standing near the tree he had been previously been hiding in. "A Nai demon?" Sesshomaru said mostly to himself before he doubled over in pain looking down at his abdomen to see a large wound there bleeding profusely. Sesshomaru growled lowly it having been so long since he had faced a Nai demon that he had forgotten the properties of their swords.

Kagenashi stood on the other side of the creek from Sesshomaru their roles seemingly reversed before he disappeared from Sesshomaru's sight again and Sesshomaru heard the demon desperately trying to get away through the forest. Now that his first attempt at killing his prey had ended badly he had lost his nerve. Sesshomaru snarled slightly as he straightened up irritating his wound before throwing on the bottom layer of his clothes and heading into the forest after the Nai demon.

At this same time Y/n who was with Inuyasha's group felt a pang of unease at the back of her mind briefly wondering how Rin and Jaken fared before remembering that Sesshomaru would not let anything happen to them.

The Nai demon was loudly tearing through the forest in a split second recognizing who precisely he had attacked. That was Sesshomaru, Inu no Taisho's son and the person that his parents and his grandparents had told him not to battle. He had killed countless amounts of Nai demons with ease and he knew that the only way to keep himself alive was to get to those two just on the border of his forest.

Sesshomaru knew exactly what the demon was doing and ran faster after the demon who was no longer very stealthy. That was the biggest flaw of Nai demons they were only able to be soundless and stealthy when they focused all of the effort on it if they lost their concentration at all they were no longer stealthy and they were nothing but hunting sport for stronger demons.

Sesshomaru was able to catch up the demon and made him stop in his tracks. They were still a few miles from Rin and Jaken so it was unlikely that they would get involved. Kagenashi slowly turned to face the demon lord who despite the blood soaking his kimono still kept an emotionless face. He didn't have either of his swords with him having killed countless Nai with his poisonous claws.

Kagenashi slowly tried to reason with Sesshomaru in a voice hoarse from not having been used for decades. "I meant nothing by it. You were in my forest. You shouldn't be in my forest." Kagenashi said seemingly talking more to himself than to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow before running forwards and dispatching the last remaining Nai demon. What Sesshomaru didn't expect was that the demon had thrown his sword in the air and he was loosing focus due to blood loss and it cut open what would normally be a small wound on his leg that turned into a deep wound.

Sesshomaru cursed at the Nai demon that he couldn't even remember the appearance of anymore because when Nai demons died they returned to the shadows they were born from. He growled low in his throat not having enough energy to heal his own wounds because he had not slept since his mate left for Inuyasha's group keeping watch over Jaken and Rin all through the night. Whenever he did not have his mate by his side there was a constant feeling of unease and the moment he let himself succumb to exhaustion he was injured.

He knew he had just enough strength to get his armor and return to the camp where he had left Jaken and Rin with directions to stay put. But he was fully aware he would need some time to heal after that and he needed his mate for that... he noticed a strange silvery substance on the ground and realized that that wretched Nai forged sword had cut his hair! He didn't know how much but that wasn't important at the moment. He needed to get back to the camp.

Rin and Jaken were playing some kind of patty cake game that Kagome had showed them once and were awaiting their lord to return. They heard a thump by one of the trees by the fire and looked over to see their Lord Sesshomaru leaning on a tree like usual but something was clearly wrong. His breathing was slightly labored and there was a trail of blood leading to the tree he was leaning on and his hair was was ratty looking and there was obviously a lot missing from a side. There was also blood soaking through the abdomen of his kimono that he only had the bottom layer on of the rest on the ground by his side and there was blood dripping down his bare ankle onto the dirt.

Jaken and Rin exchanged extremely worried looks but knew now that whenever he got injured and Y/n wasn't there they were to go fetch her immediately without question. "Sesshomaru-Sama stay here we're going to go get Mama for you okay!" Rin said worriedly clambering onto Ah-Un's back and pulling Jaken up with her and immediately setting off for Inuyasha's camp.

The group was still chatting among each other when they heard the ghostly call of Ah-Un in the distance. Y/n stiffened "Oh no somethings wrong! Sesshomaru wouldn't take Ah-Un and Rin and Jaken wouldn't leave Sesshomaru!" she exclaimed brow furrowing as everyone turned to look where they thought they had heard the call from. "There they are!" Shippo chirped jumping onto Y/n's shoulder and pointing.

He was right Ah-Un was speeding toward them faster than most of them had ever seen him move before. The moment the dragon demon landed a tearful Rin came running into Y/n's arm as Jaken fell uncerimoniously off of Ah-Un and scrambled to his feet running over to explain knowing that Rin wouldn't be able to get anything clear out through her tears.

"Sesshomaru-Sama left to go bathe and he came back after taking longer than usual with a lot of deep injuries and his hair as been... damaged!" Jaken said in a slightly shrieky voice which betrayed his panic. Y/n's eyes widened slightly before she sighed trying to mask her worry in front of Rin and Shippo who was still on her shoulder, she turned to the group and saw Inuyasha's eyes turning a slight red color similar to Sesshomaru's.

She let out a low warning growl that only Shippo and Kirara could hear well Ah-Un could hear it to but he just didn't care. Inuyasha instantly calmed down and looked at her somewhat guiltily knowing that she was just as worried as he was. She gently pried Rin off of her and held her shoulders firmly. "Rin thank you so much for coming to tell me but I need to go to Sesshomaru now and I would like you to stay here with everyone else along with Jaken." She said sternly to a still sniffling Rin who nodded slightly.

"Thank you Inuyasha for doing this I'll come back as soon as I can!" Y/n called running past Jaken and poking him in the forehead effectively knocking him over again before hopping on Ah-Un's back and disappearing. "Will she be okay? I mean it must be hard to be human and have Sesshomaru as a mate." Kagome asked worriedly as Sango and Miroku nodded along with what she was saying.

"Oh Y/n's not human she's a purebred dragon demon." Inuyasha remarked picking Rin up by the arm and swinging her onto his shoulders as she giggled. "Like Ah-Un?" Kagome asked curiously. "No Ah-Un is a dragon demon mixed with something else. Like there are other dog demons like me but they aren't part pure bred like I am so they don't have a human form." Inuyasha explained patiently reaching up to ruffle Rin's hair.

Meanwhile Y/n was urging Ah-Un to go faster knowing that Sesshomaru would need her close while he was like this. Thankfully this had only happened a handful of times and each time he was alright but this time seemed a lot worse than the other incidents where she hadn't been there. She had been waiting for him after Inuyasha cut his arm off but even then he hadn't reacted in this way. Bad enough for Jaken and Rin to come get her immediately.

She picked up the faint scent of her mate's blood and noted how strong it was and Ah-Un sensing how tense she was went as fast as he possibly could towards the camp. "Thank you Ah-Un." Y/n whispered softly finally seeing the faint glow of the fire in their camp. "Just drop me on the ground a bit away from the camp so I can walk in without startling him then you can go back to Rin and Jaken I'll come get you when he's ready." Y/n said to which Ah-Un nodded diving down the the ground 20 feet away from the camp and letting Y/n off his back before nudging her with his nose and flying away back in the opposite direction.

Y/n ran towards the camp her nose filling with the smell of Sesshomaru's blood and the acrid smell of his distress. She finally made it out of the trees and into the small clearing to see Sesshomaru slumped against a tree near the fire his robes next to him with as he was only wearing the under layer of his kimono which was soaked in blood and his eyes were hooded as he was barely awake.

He instantly became more alert when he sensed someone enter the clearing and opened his eyes more to see who it was. His eyes widened when he saw Y/n and he let out a small whine trying to sit up but wincing and leaning back against the tree. "Oh Sesshomaru." Y/n whispered bounding across the clearing towards him to get a better look at him.

She crouched in front of him and looked closer at him. His clothes wer absolutely soaked with blood and water as well much to her confusion but Jaken said that he had been bathing. There were two obviously deep gashes one on his stomach and the other on his left thigh both still bleeding profusely. Y/n knew that if they hadn't at least begun to heal by now he must not have slept since she had left. There was also a large chunk of Sesshomaru's hair on his left side that was cut off. That chunk of hair now only went to his chin. His usually bright golden eyes seemed duller than usual and they were filled with pain.

"Sesshomaru I'm so sorry." She whispered softly kissing his forehead before she lifted him up with ease causing him to let out a strangled noise as she inadvertently put pressure on his injuries. "I know Sessh but we need to clean these wounds." she said apologetically to the demon in her arms who let out a small whine nuzzling her collarbone. He was never this affectionate outside his heat unless he was abnormally tired.

Y/n walked smoothly through the forest until she reached the creek that Sesshomaru had been just hours before. "Oh Sessh..." She said trailing off as she smelled the blood here and then nearly choked on the smell thick in the air. "A Nai demon?" she asked looking down at the demon in her arms who nodded weakly at her his eyes about to close.

"Keep your eyes open Sesshomaru." Y/n said sternly knowing that he wouldn't die from these wounds but they could put him in a coma sort of state if he let them. This state could last for an untold amount of time and she knew that neither of them wanted that to happen. Sesshomaru groaned forcing himself into a more aware state focusing on his mate and finally realizing where they were. He whimpered slightly a noise so rarely heard from him that Y/n thought that she had imagined it.

"The Nai demon is dead Sessho I can tell you right now there is no one in this forest but me and you and the animals." Y/n reassured him smoothing out a section of his hair before setting him down on the bank of the stream and undressing until she was simply in her underclothes just like Sesshomaru. "I'm going to wash your wounds now okay Se? I'm going to need to put you in the water it will sting but this is the cleanest water for miles and your body will fight off any infection once you get enough rest." Y/n told Sesshomaru as she stepped into the stream after ridding him of his kimono and setting it to the side so she could wash it.

Sesshomaru nodded in response and clenched his teeth only letting out a strangled yell when Y/n lowered him into the water. Y/n let out a low rumbling purring noise and crouched down and wrapped her arms around Sesshomaru's neck and held him as close as she could without hurting him. Sesshomaru reciprocated with a similar purring noise and nuzzled her throat. "Okay we'll have time for this later lets get you cleaned up first." Y/n muttered grabbing his clothes and pinning them to the bottom of the stream with rocks so that the current could wash the blood away.

"Let me do the one on your stomach first." Y/n requested to which Sesshomaru uncurled his legs and laid them flat in front of him wincing at the pressure on his injured leg. She hissed when she was actually faced with the wound and frowned at her mate's obvious pain. "I can heal it but it's going to hurt about twice as much than when you got it." She told him seeing him nod at her to do it clenching his teeth together to keep his sounds in.

Y/n reached out and pressed both of her hands to the wound and a warm green-blue light emitted from her hands and Sesshomaru tensed and grabbed onto her wet clothing under the water careful not to rip it with his long nails though. It took a while but eventually she removed her hands from his stomach and all that was left was a patch of bright red irritated skin.

Sesshomaru let out a breath that he didn't even realize he had been holding and his shoulders sagged his forehead coming to rest on Y/n's shoulder as he shuddered from the cold water. "You'll warm up in a second but this healing also removes some of the grime from the wound and it's best for that to be washed away immediately." she explained kissing his forehead sweetly. Y/n reached down and tugged his clothes off the bottom of the creek and quickly mended them before setting them under some rocks to dry.

"Just this last one Sesshomaru this wont take more than 10 minutes I promise." she whispered to the sleepy demon who nodded slightly.

Like she said it didn't take very long and by the time she lifted him out of the water the only sign that he had been fighting at all was the absolute mess that was his hair. Y/n used her control over fire and heat to dry off her clothes and hair before she slipped into her usual clothes and helped Sesshomaru do the same warming his clothes before putting them on the exhausted demon.

She picked him up again and carried him back to the camp dressing him in his thick kimono and hakama pants before she sat down next to him finally. Sesshomaru purred and nuzzled into her shoulder wrapping his arms around her stomach tightly. "We can talk later Sessh but for now let me fix your hair then we can sleep." Y/n whispered nuzzling his hair which was even more knotted but clean.

Sesshomaru nodded before he slipped into her lap and allowed her some room to untangle his hair. Y/n rythmically ran her claws through his hair getting all the tangles out before all that was left was the chin length chunk on one side. "I'll cut the other side that length so they're even okay?" She asked the barely awake demon in her lap who sleepily nodded his consent.

Y/n swiftly cut his hair down to size before wrapping her arms around his middle tightly and nuzzling his hair. "Never again Sesshomaru please. I was so worried." she whispered into his hair. Sesshomaru nodded his assent before shifting onto his side in his mate's lap and nuzzling into her neck and falling into the most comfortable sleep he had had since she left.

Two things were learned that day that you should never underestimate the Lord of the Western Lands and that Y/n is the best mate anyone could ask for.

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"Oi they're back!" Shippo shouted from where he was perched on the edge of the well. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru who had been sitting in trees opposite of each other glaring at each other looked down at the fox cub before jumping down from their respective trees. Inuyasha immediately jumped into the well while Sesshomaru stood off to the side. Inuyasha threw Kagome's huge backpack over the side of the well before jumping back up with Kagome herself.

"Don't mind me Inuyasha I'll be fine!" Y/n shouted up sarcastically. "You're a demon! You can jump!" He shouted down the well. "Some idiot slammed into me today and I can't jump as high now!" Y/n yelled back. "Now hurry up!" Inuyasha rolled his eyes but jumped back into the well all the same. When he came back out of the well carrying Sesshomaru's mate he dropped her the moment his feet touched the ground and backed up a couple of feet. "Y/n you stink!" he said bluntly. Y/n rolled her eyes before turning to face her mate but he too was saying that she stunk and in a much more obvious way than Inuyasha. He actually lifted up the sleeve of his kimono to cover his nose! "You stink of human boys." Sesshomaru remarked without lowering his sleeve.

Y/n didn't say anything about his sleeve knowing that if she herself thought that she smelled almost unbearably bad and her nose wasn't that sensitive it must have been terrible for Sesshomaru. She rolled her eyes "Fine I'll go shower real quick. I'll be back in a few minutes." She snorted jumping back into the well ruffling Shippo's hair as she passed him. Inuyasha simply jumped back into the tree that he was in before, Kagome sat down against a large rock, Sesshomaru just sat down and leaned against a tree. Shippo though got tired of sitting on the edge of the well and walked over to Sesshomaru nervously and sat near him. Sesshomaru looked at him out of the corner of his eye, Shippo stiffened but relaxed when Sesshomaru looked away and closed his eyes silently.

For whatever reason the fox cub sat near him whenever they waited for Y/n and Kagome. But he never sat by him when they were just waiting for Y/n. "Why do you sit here? Would you not prefer to sit next to Inuyasha's mate?" He asked opening his eyes a little but not looking at the fox cub who stiffened. "Ummm Inuyasha and Kagome have been... doing things lately. They can't smell it really but I can and it's really gross to me. You and Y/n don't smell like that." Shippo replied choosing his words carefully. Sesshomaru snorted lightly. His brother should know better than to carry that smell in front of a kit.

"I will talk to Inuyasha about that later." Sesshomaru replied finally looking over at the disheveled fox cub who looked like he hadn't had a good nights rest in some time. "How often do they do this?" Sesshomaru asked knowing that the smell of mating could make it hard for a cub to even sleep. His parents had done it themselves before he put a stop to it after about one night of no sleep. "They've been at it almost constantly for a week now." Shippo snorted. Sesshomaru huffed a laugh and wondered what Inuyasha was feeding his mate for her to have that much stamina.

Sesshomaru suddenly reached over and pulled the fox cub into his lap and undid his ponytail. Shippo scrunched up his nose wondering what Sesshomaru was doing but was way too tired to care. Sesshomaru simply ran his claws through the cubs hair gently undoing any knots his nails caught on. Y/n always did this for Sesshomaru when he was tired and it worked to make him sleep. For some reason Sesshomaru seemed to get on more with the fox cub than the rest of Inuyasha's group. It was probably because he was the only full demon among them besides Kirara who we couldn't communicate with. As well as the fact that Shippo was still an impertinent child and was like Inuyasha in many ways and Sesshomaru found this amusing.

By the time that Shippo's hair was knot-less and tied up again the fox cub was out cold in his lap. Sesshomaru snorted when the well lit up and showed that Y/n had returned. He poked the small demon awake and set him on his shoulder as he stood up. Shippo rubbed his eyes and was shocked that Sesshomaru had let him ride of his shoulder but settled in anyway.

Without any prompting this time Inuyasha jumped into the well to get Y/n. But once again the minute they were out he dropped her. "Kami Y/n! I thought you were going to wash! You smell like you rolled around in Sesshomaru's rug or something!" he snapped backing off slightly. "What?" Sesshomaru asked, his eyes narrowing walking closer to his mate who stood there with an amused expression. "First you smell like human boys, now demon men." He growled at his mate who simply smiled at him in a way that showed that she was evidently trying not to laugh.

Kagome stayed quiet during this exchange knowing that it was not her place and Sesshomaru would surely get angry with her if she interrupted. Y/n simply smiled at him "I live with a male demon in the present time you know? So of course I'll smell like him." She reminded her mate as she took a step towards him. If you weren't paying attention like Inuyasha and Kagome were you wouldn't have been able to see that Sesshomaru had leaned back when she did this. But Shippo who was still sitting on his shoulder felt it and scrunched up his nose in distaste hoping that Y/n had some reason for not being loyal.

Y/n could see past Sesshomaru's cold demeanor that seemed like it remained unchanged and saw in the golden pools of his eyes that he was deeply hurt by her betrayal. Y/n's eyes widened at a realization that she had seemingly come to. "Oh I'm so sorry Sesshomaru did I not tell you? He's my brother." She said her eyes full of regret for not telling him. Shippo heard Sesshomaru's intake of breath at this and could tell that he had not known. "I'm sorry Love I thought for sure I had told you. You know what? I'm going to go get him so he can meet you. He's been wanting to meet you anyway." She explained.

But instead of just jumping into the well right away she walked up to Sesshomaru who seemed like he was looking straight at her like usual but both her and Shippo could see that he was looking just at the area near her face, he was still angry. "I'm sorry." She whispered with a smile grabbing his chin gently to pull his face to her own and kiss his forehead gently doing the same for Shippo and giving him a peace sign before back flipping back into the well.

This time she was only gone for a matter of minutes but during that time Inuyasha and Kagome got bored. Sesshomaru sensed their restlessness and sighed before whispering in such a low voice only Shippo could hear him "If you wish to see Rin you may stay with us for a few days so I have time to school Inuyasha on walking around with such a scent covering him." Shippo looked at the demon lord in shock before he nodded at him and jumped on top of his head and called over to Kagome and Inuyasha "I wanna see Rin so I'm going with Y/n and Sesshomaru!" with a waving hand in their direction. Both of them nodded at him before Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and jumped off towards the village.

The minute they were out of sight the well glowed and this time Y/n jumped out on her own and there was someone with her. Y/n's brother had long black hair down his back held back by a strip of black cloth that Sesshomaru believed was called a 'headband'. He had large black eyes that gave him quite and innocent appearance that were hard to see because he was looking at the ground and his face was obscured by his hair. He wore one of Sesshomaru's old kimonos that had ripped on a branch, Y/n had taken it with her to the present time and never returned it. It was hard for both Sesshomaru and Shippo to even see this much though because he stood almost directly behind Y/n and it seemed like he was clutching on Y/n's f/c kimono that Sesshomaru had given her.

"Introduce yourselves." Y/n snickered before she saw Shippo. "Shippo you staying with us?" She asked tilting her head to the side much like a cat. Shippo nodded sitting down with his legs dangling off of Sesshomaru's shoulder. Y/n nodded before she reached behind her and gently pushed her brother in front of her. "That's rude you should look him in the eyes when you introduce yourself." she chided gently before she stepped back and waited for her brother to introduce himself.

He slowly looked up from the ground and made eye contact with Sesshomaru and said in a voice so quiet that Sesshomaru and Shippo had to strain to hear it. "I'm Hotaru, Y/n's little brother. It's nice to meet you." When he finished he continued looking at Sesshomaru obviously waiting for him to say something so he could go back to hiding behind Y/n. "I am Sesshomaru Y/n's mate." He said shortly and when he heard nothing from the fox cub on his shoulder he reached up to poke his forehead with a long nail.

Shippo squeaked indignantly "I'm Shippo!" He chirped throwing Sesshomaru a dirty look. Y/n grinned not just because her brother seemed a little less shy now that he wasn't surrounded by people as he always was in the present time but because that was the first time she had heard Sesshomaru introduce himself without his title. "Okay lets get back to camp before Rin and Jaken get worried. You only told them one day this time so we shouldn't take any longer." Y/n said with a smile as she started walking into the forest the other three following close behind.

When Sesshomaru and Hotaru matched her pace, Sesshomaru on her left and Hotaru on her right she reached out and grabbed both their hands intertwining their fingers as she walked. Hotaru immediately gripped her hand hard as he walked. He was always a nervous child and always clung to her even though he was only a few years younger than she. Sesshomaru though let her hold his hand but didn't make a move to hold her hand back. A few months ago she had moved suddenly and he had scratched her with his poison nails. She had spent the night vomiting every hour because her kind of demon wasn't immune to poisons. Ever since then he had refrained from touching her out of fear of hurting her.

Y/n didn't mind but she made sure to hug him and whatnot from time to time because even if he didn't want to hurt her she knew it hurt him to not be able to touch her. Dog demons second after cat demons needed the most affection from their mates if they wanted to keep their strength up but of course Sesshomaru denied it.

Soon enough they reached the camp and Rin came running up to tackle Y/n's legs and Y/n gently tugged her hands free of the two demons beside her to hug the child back. When Rin came running towards Y/n Sesshomaru saw Hotaru move his hand in a way that was about to attack but before it was a definite decision on Hotaru's part he put his hand down when he saw that Rin meant no harm.

On the walk to the camp Sesshomaru had observed Hotaru and could tell that he was a unusually strong demon. No where near his strength of course but strong all the same. If it had been any other demon that raised their arm against Rin they would have been dead in an instant but Sesshomaru knew that Hotaru only wanted to protect Y/n. So he left him be, seeing Rin reminded him that there was still a fox cub sleeping on his shoulder. He reached up and grabbed the cub and set him down on the ground next to Rin who was now sitting by the fire Jaken had built. When Rin saw him she squealed and tackled him happily which woke him up. The minute they laid eyes on each other they started chattering to no end.

At this point Hotaru had disappeared into a tree in a very Inuyasha like matter after bidding his sister goodnight and promptly fell asleep in the tree. Sesshomaru sighed and walked over to the tree his mate was leaning against as she sat. The tree was close enough to the camp that they could still see everyone but far enough away that they were just out of the range of the firelight. Y/n looked up and caught sight of him and moved over creating a space next to her that Sesshomaru promptly ignored and basically draped himself across her lap like a cat.

Sesshomaru's head was in her lap while his legs and torso were resting against the ground lightly. Y/n snorted but ran her fingers through his hair while humming all the same. As she ran her fingers through the silver stuff Sesshomaru practically purred with delight having missed his mate for the month that she was in the present time. Once she was done with his hair Sesshomaru shifted so that he was pretty much sitting in her lap with his head tucked underneath her chin with his arms wrapped around her waist tightly. Normally he wasn't this touchy but the full moon was approaching and that was when all matters of full-demon lost a little of their rigid control and were forced to take their natural forms. It could be for a second but for the whole night, it depended on how much self control the demon had. Sesshomaru at least spent an hour in his true form not from lack of control but for the fact that he instinctively took that form on the night of the full moon.

The days leading up to that night always caused Sesshomaru to give into his instincts more and as a result had a slightly looser grip on his emotions and he was slightly more touchy with his mate. Y/n sighed contentedly and wrapped her own arms around Sesshomaru's middle nuzzling his cheek as he made a low rumbling noise akin to a purr. "Sesshomaru I want you to know. No one can ever replace you. Not Hotaru or anyone from this time or the present one. You are the only one for me and I love you so much I cannot express it in words." Y/n whispered pressing a kiss to Sesshomaru's cheek as he nodded at her silently. She could tell he was tired. He never slept well when she was gone.

"Sleep Love. I'll be here when you wake up." Y/n muttered kissing his hair softly. Sesshomaru nodded sleepily already drifting off as he gave a cat like yawn before shifting his position and settling somewhat on his side with his head cushioned on her shoulder. Within minutes his breathing deepened and his heart rate slowed. Y/n pressed on last kiss to his forehead before she fell asleep. He brother and her mate in the same time, with her, all together.

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"Mama! Is that a grey hair?!" Ring shouted tactless as someone her age would be. While Y/n snickered at the question and flipped her hair like a model Sesshomaru whipped around with a strange look in his eyes. Y/n saw this and laughed "What are out laughing about? Your hair is even paler than mine and you were born like that old man!" She barked at the demon lord who sniffed and turned away haughtily.

Some time later the sky was dark and the crickets were chirping and the fire was crackling, the air was filled with all natural sounds except for the occasional loud snore from Jaken. Y/n was asleep curled into Sesshomaru's side snoring softly as Sesshomaru ran his clawed fingers through her hair. Sesshomaru stared at the h/c hair running through his fingers examining it with a strange amount of focus. Sesshomaru suddenly stiffened and ground his teeth together. There is was, a single grey hair.

Y/n who had always been a light/heavy sleeper always woke up whenever it was something that was Sesshomaru was doing. She stirred awake and looked up at him blearily while somehow at the same time giving him a death glare for waking her up when she had just barely gone to sleep. "What's wrong?" She asked sleepily.

Sesshomaru looked down at her and swiftly pulled the grey hair out a to not cause any pain and held it in front of her face. "This." He said shortly, as always never using more words than necessary. Y/n sighed blowing the strand of hair slightly but it didn't fall out of Sesshomaru's grip. "Sessho I took a lock of your hair and braided it with mine the other day remember? That's your hair not mine. Honestly seeing as its your hair to begin with I thought you would have noticed."

Sesshomaru decided this would be the best time to ask at any rate. "Y/n if there was a way for you to stay with forever would you do that?" He asked with no level of uncertainty. Y/n who had been staring into the fire absentmindedly snapped her head up to look at Sesshomaru with a shocked expression. "I-I yes of course but what's this all of a sudden?" She asked immediately giving Sesshomaru the answer that he needed.

Without a word Sesshomaru stood up and yanked Y/n up with him and started walking, Y/n raised an eyebrow at this behavior but followed him all the same. Soon they reached a clearing with long grass that reached up to Y/n's knees. Sesshomaru gestured for her to stop when she was a few feet into the clearing and walked into the very middle of it himself. "For us to be bonded for life and for you to have the same lifespan as me you need to accept me." Sesshomaru said flatly.

Y/n made a confused face "I already have? I said I would stay with you didn't I?" She asked. "All of me." Sesshomaru said quietly and the there was a gust of wind and there's in Sesshomaru's place stood a giant dog. Y/n's jaw dropped for a second befor she started laughing. She laughed so hard that she doubled over, holding her stomach.

"Sesshomaru love, I've seen this form before, you're not really subtle when you take of at the new moon to mess with InuYasha." Y/n snickered as the dog sunk down onto his haunches and leaned down until his eyes were level with her own. Sesshomaru slowly leaned in until the crescent moon that was very prescent even in his dog form was pressed against Y/n's forehead.

There was a blinding flash and Y/n felt like she was being electrocuted before the light faded and Sesshomaru was standing back in front of her with the rarest of smiles on his face. "Forever." He said with a smile pressing a kiss to the crescents moon identical to his that now adorned Y/n's forehead. "Forever." Y/n repeated.

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"Sesshomaru you oversized puppy get your ass down here and get me out!" I shouted at the top of my lungs from the bottom of the well that I had landed in. I had decided to take a more practical approach in comparison to Kagome and packed lightly. It also helped that I was already in high school so I didn't need to study for entrance exams just yet. That and I didn't feel the need to carry about sleeping bags, I didn't really care about sleeping on the ground.

"Why can you not climb up the well like InuYasha's wench?" I heard Sesshomaru's response from the top of the well but when I looked up I couldn't see him. I sighed knowing that I would need to goad him into coming down to get me. Of course I could climb up the side of the well but I would prefer not to because some of the vines on the side of the well had a tendency to break and unlike Kagome I didn't have magical powers to make me lighter than I normally am so I couldn't climb up as easily. "Kagome only climbs up the side of the well because InuYasha is lazy and doesn't care for his mate well. I know you are different so you can come get me~" I practically sang, before I even finished my sentence Sesshomaru appeared in front of me and picked me up before jumping up and depositing me on the side of the well.

I sat on the side of the well with a smug grin before reaching up to wrap my arms around Sesshomaru's neck still grinning. "Thank you!" I giggled as he nuzzled my collarbone. "I missed you too!" I let go of him and we were about to turn around to walk out of the clearing and back to Jaken and Rin before I heard a branch break. We both spun around and there was InuYasha coming into the clearing and the well glowed signifying that someone else was coming through it. As soon as they saw each other InuYasha and Sesshomaru snarled hackles raising.

I sighed dropping my backpack to the ground and going to rifle through it, hoping that they would at least wait until Kagome was out of the well before they started going at each other. I looked up to double check though and sure enough the both of them were about to jump at each other, "Don't you start!" I shouted annoyed not making an attempt to physically stop Sesshomaru because that never ended well. He never hurt me but he always ended up making some strange comment about a human trying to stop a demon.

"Stay out of it Y/n." Sesshomaru said not even turning to look at me when he said that "Shut up and get out of the way!" InuYasha yelled. I sighed knowing that was going to set Sesshomaru off more than ever. "Do not speak to her that way Half-Breed!" Sesshomaru snarled before taking a step towards InuYasha ignoring the fact that the rest of InuYasha's group had entered the clearing all of them besides Miroku who had gotten himself in trouble again. I was actually kind of thankful that Miroku wasn't there because he somehow always managed to offend Sesshomaru in ways that not even InuYasha could manage. The one upside though was that it always left Sesshomaru disgruntled and that gave you the excuse to mess with his hair to get him in a better mood.

I had finally found what I was looking for in my backpack, I pulled out a dog whistle on a slender silver chain. I had talked to my best friend back in the present time and had complained about Sesshomaru and InuYasha and their fighting a little bit. He had always told me that they sounded a bit like dogs with a rivalry, vying for the position of Alpha. I had punched him for that one, Omegaverse stuff had dirtied my mind a little too much and I didn't want to imagine the two brothers like that. Even so on my birthday said friend had given me the dog whistle as a fake gift along with his regular one, "For your squabbling boyfriend and his brother." He snickered upon handing it to me. I had actually kept it though because I had the idea of actually using it if they continued fighting in this way.

I decided though to just wait and see what would happen, and of course InuYasha and Sesshomaru only lasted a WHOLE 2 seconds before they flew at each other. I sighed before drawing in a breath and careful not to do it too hard I blew into the whistle. I couldn't hear much of anything of course because it was pitched too high for me to hear. To my surprise though InuYasha collapsed into a heap going right past Sesshomaru, then Sesshomaru had gotten completely disoriented and flew face first into a tree. I saw Kirara and Shippo both wince and cower to cover their ears. I felt really bad of course but I really needed Sesshomaru and InuYasha to stop fighting. It was completely nonsensical. Thankfully Kagome had senses what was going on and had stayed in the well until this shit was over.

I had only blown the whistle for around two seconds but it had affected them this much. I stopped blowing almost immediately and stowed the whistle back into my bag. InuYasha was closest to me so I went to check up on him first I crouched next to his head and poked his forehead. "You okay there?" I asked trying not to laugh at the annoyed look on his face as he sat up and reached up to cover his poor ear. "Never do that again! Seriously!" He groaned covering his ears "Yeah I'm fine just don't do it again." He muttered. "Go check up on that stuck up bastard though, I'm sure his ears are even more sensitive than mine." He muttered waving me off and going to make sure that Shippo was alright. "Wait a second InuYasha!" I called rifling through my backpack. "Sesshomaru is going to be pissed so we're probably going right away. Take these as an apology, but I'm warning you. If you two do that again, I will blow it!" I hissed pulling a gigantic bag out of my backpack that had taken up most of the room. It was filled with snacks.

"The potato chips are for you, and there's some lollipops and cat treats for Kirara." I said handing him the bag and going over to check on Sesshomaru. He had picked himself up rather quickly but I felt rather guilty when I saw that there was a stream of blood coming from his nose. It had stopped bleeding already thanks to his advanced healing but I still felt bad, that and the fact that he was giving me a nasty glare that was mostly reserved for InuYasha which told me that he was really pissed off. When he saw me walking towards him he stood up and started walking past me, without saying anything.

I waved at InuYasha and the rest, InuYasha ignored me while the others waved at me I was especially happy that Shippo was okay because I felt bad about that. I figured though that he was okay because his ears were a little less sensitive than InuYasha and Sesshomaru's. I then turned and realized that Sesshomaru had pretty much speed walked away from me so he was hardly in sight, the only thing I could see was the tips of his flowery kimono. I sighed running after him to catch up.

I didn't say anything though and simply walked next to him wordlessly. This lasted for about an hour until I was done with it and I knew that I had to apologize. "Sesshomaru." No answer "Sesshomaru." Still no answer I looked at him and he was still facing forward and walking as if he hadn't heard anything. So he was ignoring me then. "Sesshomaru!" I shouted poking him in the shoulder. He finally turned to me "Yes?" He said raising an eyebrow, he didn't seem very annoyed though so I figured he wasn't still angry. "Don't 'yes?' Me you were ignoring me! Whatever though I wanted to apologize, just don't pull that shit again." I said reaching up to poke his forehead.

"I could not hear you, my ears are still ringing." He said stopping suddenly to wrap his arms around me, I started wondering why he was hugging me, he never initiated hugs. I also felt really bad about his ears but seeing as he was answering me now I figured that it was very temporary. I got my answer to the former when I heard the small noise of metal being crushed and I smiled slightly. "You could have just asked for the thing. I wouldn't really use it again." I said reaching up to run a hand through his hair. He made a content noise quietly before pulling away and taking my hand and started walking away. I smirked knowing that because of this incident the siblings would get along better now, and hopefully the dog whistle would never need to be used ever again.

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I sighed and winced upon opening my eyes and allowing the unwanted morning light. I moved to sit up and I was halfway up when arms wrapped around me and tugged me back down onto the bed. I made a startled noise and looked to the side and there he was. Sesshomaru was out cold on my shoulder with his arms wrapped tightly around my waist. I tried to stifle my laugh as he started nipping at my neck lightly in his sleep. I looked at him with a small smile wondering what he was dreaming about. He settled down after a few minutes and just nuzzled into the fabric of my clothes more.

I sighed focusing for a little bit and willing a scroll sitting on his desk to come floating over to me, I caught it in my hand deftly and started reading while I waited for Sesshomaru to wake up. I had read most of the scroll until I felt a rather peculiar sensation on my neck. I looked down and Sesshomaru who was only half awake was laving his tounge over the vague marks on my neck where he had nipped me. I started giggling uncontrollable at the weird feeling dropping the scroll on the groun in order to have a free hand to push his head away from my neck still laughing. "Stop that you!" I giggled wrapping an arm around his neck and using it to shove his face into a pillow.

He flailed around for a second attempting to get his face out of the pillow before he simply reached out and poked me in the ribs with his free hand. I laughed even harder and moved so that I was lying across his back. "You're heavy stinking feline." He muttered from underneath me. I gasped in mock offense and sat up putting a hand over my heart. "I stink? Really? Who is it that always shows up after fighting smelling like he rolled in a fire pit? And don't even get me started on after you go hunting!" I snarked. Sesshomaru was silent for a few seconds before he sat up and grabbed me by the shoulders and pulling me back down to the bed once again fitting his face into the gap between my neck and shoulder.

"Sesshomaru." I muttered quietly bringing both my hands up to run them through his hair. "Yes?" He replied quietly already sounding like he was falling back asleep. "We need to get up for breakfast remember? We need to leave early because it's the new moon tomorrow and you promised InuYasha that you'd get there a little bit earlier so you could go hunting with him." I murmured into his hair. Sesshomaru groaned into my neck before he dragged himself into a sitting position. I clapped my hand over my mouth to stifle my laugh at the state of his hair. The reason Sesshomaru partially hated sleeping in a bed was because he got too relaxed and it always resulted in him moving around too much so his hair was always a mess. Like for instance right this second Sesshomaru's hair was fanned out around his head which made him look like a very disgruntled long haired cat. Which was made even more amusing considering that I was the cat demon of the two of us.

"Would you like me to brush your hair?" I asked with a smile that was full of laughter. Sesshomaru surely knew it because when he heard my question he narrowed his eyes warily but nodded even though he was unsure. I smiled without saying anything and simply got up to fetch his hairbrush off of his dresser. I tried not to comment as I usually did when I got his hairbrush because his dresser was such a ridiculous size. Honestly though the thing was at least three times times the size of my own and honestly he only had two types of clothes outside of sleepwear. The usual kimono that he wore outside of the castle and his more fancy kimonos that he wore when he was having meetings with other demon lords.

I turned around and I giggled at the sight of Sesshomaru's bobbing head and the way that his hair was following his heads movements. He always did this in the morning when I brushed his hair. He was falling asleep as he was sitting and his head bobbed as he fell asleep and abruptly woke up again I always found it so amusing. I settled down behind Sesshomaru and the instant that I did he leaned back onto my chest with a sigh. "Sesshomaru, do you want me to brush your hair or not? We need to get going anyway." I snickered pushing him off of me and started running the brush through his hair. Somehow no matter what he did, no matter what position you slept in Sesshomaru's hair never got knotty. The brush always went through his hair smoothly from the beginning, there would be a couple of small tangles at most but otherwise it was perfect, channeling his name.

It didn't really matter to me though because I always found it soothing to brush Sesshomaru's hair because obviously he couldn't always carry around a hairbrush when he was running around through the forest. He obviously did bring a hairbrush but obviously I couldn't brush his hair that often and I always took advantage of it when I had the chance. I brushed his hair for around ten minutes before I realized that if I continued brushing his hair any longer he would fall asleep for sure and I didn't want that to happen. "Alright you, we really need to get up now in order to get to InuYasha's with time for you two to go hunting." I muttered into his hair an unintentional purr lining my words giving his hair a small lick. Sesshomaru muttered some overly complicated expletive under his breath as he sat up a little straighter and dragged himself out of bed and behind the changing screen to get dressed. I rolled my eyes at his silence as per usual and walked over to my smaller dresser that sat right next to his and pulled my usual outfit that I wore when I went out gallivanting in the woods.

(I'm not going to describe the clothes for this one and I probably won't anymore in the future unless it had an actual significance.) I had pulled on my clothes already and was leaning against the wall surrounding the doorway for whatever reason Sesshomaru always took a ridiculous amount of time to get ready which made absolutely no sense because he literally wore a couple layers of kimonos at most unlike some of the princesses who wore like seven different layers. "Are you ready to go Hime-Sama?" I snarked sarcastically ducking out of the way of Sesshomaru's annoyed swipe at my face.

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It had taken far longer than it should have but the two of us had finally eaten our breakfast and were out the door and were minutes away from InuYasha's campsite. Sesshomaru unsurprisingly had fallen asleep ages ago and was just chilling behind me on Ah-Un's back. I suspected that he hadn't gotten enough sleep lately because whenever I woke up Sesshomaru was always awake unless for rare moments that were few and far between. I looked behind me and sure enough Sesshomaru was still in a deep sleep. He had his cheek pressed against my shoulder and was letting out soft breaths which moved the hair hanging in front of his face. He looked so peaceful in a way that he never looked when he was awake. I smiled and brushed a few stray strands out of his face before turning around to urge Ah-Un to go faster.

It only took the predicted few more minutes for us to reach InuYasha's camp but I had Ah-Un hover over the forest less than a half mile away from the camp. I sighed hating that I would have to wake him up because it was always such a long process and I knew that he was always in such a crappy mood whenever he was around InuYasha after he woke up. Obviously at this time though he would reign it in a little bit because he felt a little bad for InuYasha and how vulnerable he felt during the new moon. I turned around with a small smirk on my face and leaned down in front of Sesshomaru's face and pressed a kiss to his eye lid before giving the other one the same treatment. He twitched a little bit, his nose scrunching up in the most adorable way and his eyes opened a little bit before he made a sour looking face and closed his eyes again.

"Come on. I know you're awake." I said leaning forward to press a kiss to the crescent moon on his forehead that I knew was super ticklish and sensitive. He let out one of the cutest noises that I had ever heard him make which sounded like halfway between a yip and a whine. He leaned away from me with an offended look and brought his hands up to cover his marking. "Love you too." I said with a smile wrapping my arms around him tightly, thanking the gods that he had left his ridiculous spiky armor at home. Sesshomaru obviously though wasn't really mad with me and hugged me back and bit the tip of my ear angrily just enough to draw blood. I was about to retaliate when a small pebble cam flying through the air and hit Sesshomaru on the side of the head. Sesshomaru pulled away from me immediately and looked down where InuYasha was now standing. There he was in the small clearing with his arms crossed a deadpan look on his face.

"When you're done railing Sesshomaru with your mouth you know where to find me!" He shouted, cupping his hands around his mouth before jumping off in the direction of the camp. I waited a little bit until Inuyasha was out of earshot until I burst in hysterical laughter and urged Ah-Un to start moving again but at a much slower pace. I turned around again with a massive grin to look at Sesshomaru. His face was as red as I had ever seen it to the point that his markings were almost invisible on his face. He brought his hands up to cover his face out of pure, undiluted, embarrassment. "Come on Sesshomaru, it's not that-" "OSUWARII!" I stopped halfway through my setence and exchanged looks with Sesshomaru. He now had a serious look on his face but I could see that there was anger building in his eyes.

"I thought she only used that thing to get control of him when he looses it." I said concerned as Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes. "That is what I thought as well. That wench should know to be more careful. InuYasha's entire body is more fragile the day before the New Moon." Sesshomaru replied before jumping off of Ah-Un and flying towards the camp. Ah-Un without any urging followed his master and kept pace with him.

I saw the clearing coming closer and jumped down off of Ah-Un's back after patting his head and landing in the clearing at the same time as Sesshomaru. There lying in a body sized ditch was InuYasha and he was in the process of picking himself out of it when we landed. I gasped and rushed tot his side decidedly ignoring the raging modern girl that was standing in the corner with the rest of the group standing off to the side with looks of horror on their faces. I somehow got the feeling though that they weren't horrified by the treatment that InuYasha had gotten but the prospect of what me and Sesshomaru would do to them. I leaned down close to InuYasha and grabbed one of his elbows and helped him out of the hole. "Are you alright Otouto-Chan?" I asked concerned wrapping an arm around his torso to hold him up when one of his legs gave out.

"Yeah I'm fine I should be alright in about an hour." He replied wincing as he brought hit wrist up that was in the wrong direction on used his other arm to straighten it out with a sickening crack. InuYasha let out a small yip of pain and leaned onto my shoulder more heavily. I let out a low purr to get him to calm down and pressed a kiss to his silver locks so much like his brothers. When InuYasha let out that noise though I heard Sesshomaru let out a almost savage growl, and I jumped turning towards him and saw that the whites of his eyes were turning red. I picked InuYasha up momentarily and rushed over to Sesshomaru's side and put one hand on his cheek and pulled his head down to bring our foreheads together. "Calm." I said simply before I let him go and his eyes had returned to their normal color.

Sesshomaru reached out for InuYasha most immediately and he flinched away almost infitesmally. "I have no intention to hurt you Otouto." Sesshomaru said gruffly before he reached out and grabbed that wretched necklace in a tight grip. He gave InuYasha a reassuring look or a look as reassuring as he could manage before he snapped his wrist back and shattered the necklace, the beads scattering everywhere hopefully never to be seen again. InuYasha stood there in shock for a second before he ducked away from my arm and wrapped his arms around Sesshomaru while I smiled before the smile turned a little disturbing and I turned to look at the wench. I could see that she was about to open her mouth in protest but when she saw the look on my face she shut her mouth with an audible noise.

"I hope you do realize the seriousness of what you have done." I snarled taking a step towards her with each step until I was right in her face. "You have insulted the entire royal family of the Inu Yokai." I said my face eerily calm and I could smell her fear. "Aniue it's alright." I heard InuYasha say from behind me where he was still leaning on his brother who had a arm wrapped around his shoulders and was glaring at the wench with a disgusted look on his face. "It is not but I shall come back to discuss this on a later date." I said with a eerie smile in the wench's direction before I turned and walked back to the brother's side. I wrapped an arm around Sesshomaru's waist and led the two of them out of the clearing. I had been wondering the entire time why the rest of the group hadn't spoken up but I realized that I didn't really care now that InuYasha was out of there so it didn't really matter now.

As soon as we were far enough away from the group that we were sure that no one was coming after us we stopped. "Are you mostly healed now InuYasha?" I asked the hanyou who had been picked up and carried by his brother as soon as we were out of sight. I didn't do it there in the clearing because I knew that if I was around that insipid girl for any long I would have ripped her head off. He looked at me over Sesshomaru's shoulder who was still noticeably tense "Yes I'm all right now! Aniki gave me a little energy so I could heal faster!" He all but chirped in reply. I smiled at him and ruffled the hair that was in between his ears while stealing a look at Sesshomaru who looked even more tired than he was before. "We should just stop here. If they had been following us we would have either scented or heard them by now." I said to the brothers wanting to make sure that both of them got the rest they needed.

They both nodded at me quite sleepily until at least InuYasha's stomach made a disproportionately loud noise for such a slender frame. I giggled madly while lifting a sleeve to cover my face to muffle my laughs. "I think the two of you should go hunting first, I ate a lot this morning and I just don't need to eat as much as the two fo you." I said making a shooing motion towards the two of them as I sat down against a enormous tree that had a large cushioning of some of the softest moss that I had ever felt under the canopy. The brothers nodded at me before taking off into the forest at the same time almost certainly racing. I rolled my eyes but leaned against the tree closing my eyes.

The two of them took a little shorter time than I expected and I opened my eyes to the both of them settling down on either side of me. With InuYasha on my right and Sesshomaru on my left, I turned to look at each of them and both of them had streaks of blood on various parts of their face. It looked particularly rediculous on Sesshomaru who was always so serious but I decided to let it go because Sesshomaru was already falling asleep, and it seemed that InuYasha was also falling asleep. It made sense because even though Sesshomaru had leant him some energy to expedite the healing process his body still used some of its own energy.

I sighed leaning down towards Sesshomaru first and licked over his forehead where there was a particularly nasty streak of blood. Sesshomaru groaned and turned to face me and settled back down. I continued licking over his forehead until every streak of blood was gone. "Oyasumi." I whispered into Sesshomaru's hair and pressing a kiss to his forehead before pulling away. I then turned to InuYasha who was unsurpsingly already asleep. He had much less blood on his face than Sesshomaru and I got the distinct impression that the two of them had been fighting over something stupid and InuYasha had brushed some blood on his brother.

InuYasha didn't even flinch as I cleaned the blood off of his face and I made a quiet contented noise that I had taken care of both of my favorite demons. I turned back to Sesshomaru briefly and wrapped and arm around his waist and leaned my cheek onto his head before I myself fell asleep. As strangly as the day had gone it had been a nice day as well. It had been so satisfying for me to see the brothers really start to get along.

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Sesshomaru was your best friend and had been for almost your entire lives. You had known each other since the both of you had a scant five years of age. You did everything together and he always stuck to your side like glue when he was smaller.

That didn’t change much as you got older until he started to take lessons on how he would take over for his father eventually. You didn’t drift apart then though, instead you got closer because you also had to take lessons to take over for your parent so the both of you learned together at times and talked about what you learned with each other.

When his father died you were the first person that he came to, he was trying to hard not to cry then that it physically pained you to see him in such a state. He was so angry with everything and everyone. Even with you, you knew he didn’t mean it though so you didn’t take it to heart when he said hurtful things to you then. You knew that he was hurting and he knew no other way to deal with those feelings.

Eventually you asked him to spar with you and so he did. You sparred and sparred until he was about to collapse from exhaustion, that was when he broke down. That was one of the only times that you ever saw him cry for real, you only saw him cry twice. Sure you had seen him shed a tear before but you only counted it as crying when he was crying from sadness, not frustration or anger. Which happened during your younger years more than Sesshomaru would ever admit.

He was screaming into the air in the middle of that forest clearing and clutching onto you like you were the only thing keeping him there. In a way you were, his father was gone, his mother cared about nothing more than the fact that Toga had chosen a human over her. But you had been there your entire lives. He cried and cried until he was almost delirious and was merely sniffling into your kimono as you held him tight against you.

He never mentioned that day ever again and you hoped that there would never be a repetition of that. But you were wrong.

Some 170 years after that and here you were hugging him close to you in a forest on your land as he screamed himself hoarse into your robes in a poor attempt to muffle his voice. He didn’t even say what had happened he just threw himself at you and started crying.

You had no idea what had happened you had had less contact with him for some years now because both of you were busy. That didn’t matter to either of you though, you had been as close as anyone could be for so many years, it didn’t matter if you didn’t see the other, they were always with you.

You didn’t ask what had happened you just led him out of the palace before he became too upset and sat down in a clearing far enough away that no one would bother the two of you.

There you waited for him to calm himself and it was taking a lot longer than it did when his father had died. What exactly happened? You normally left him alone and just held him when he was like this but you drew the line when he started pulling at his hair.

“Sesshomaru-Chan what happened hmm?” You asked quietly. Careful not to use the tone that you used with children because that always irritated him. Your honorific for him was what annoyed him the most though.

Sesshomaru moved to draw away from you to answer but you just clutched onto him tighter, not allowing him to move. He took a deep shuddering breath before exhaling in a barely whisper:

“Naraku is dead.”

You furrowed your brows, “You mean the half blood that you and InuYasha chased after...” you trailed off upon seeing something odd on Sesshomaru’s person. First of all he smelled of blood lots of it, you assumed that he had killed someone. Next he smelled of a half demon maybe a spider, then he had a braided lock of hair hanging off of Bakusaiga. Finally there as a ring of teeth marks on his neck.

All at once your eyes widened, “Sesshomaru... was Naraku your mate?” Sesshomaru nodded and a heart wrenching scream left his throat and he clutched you so tight that you could feel your bones creaking.

You didn’t say anything and just held him just as tight. Knowing that the loss of a mate could not be easy at all.

Sesshomaru whined something into your robes that you didn’t completely hear through the fabric muffling him and his wracking sobs. “What?” You asked in response and leaned down so that his mouth was by your ear. You could feel his uneven breaths on your skin for a minute before he responded.

“I killed him.”

Immediately after he buried his face back into your clothing and cried harder. You were speechless but at the same time unsurprised. You already suspected what had happened. “Was it for InuYasha?” You asked quietly as you ran your fingers through his hair.

He nodded against you and nuzzled your neck desperately trying to get any sort of comfort. He propped his chin on your shoulder and inhaled shakily again and again, trying to calm himself down.

Once he had calmed himself down enough that he could speak again, “I promised him that if the miasma was a lie I would kill him. We-we couldn’t risk it happening again.” You didn’t ask for anything else after that. You had figured it out.

Sesshomaru valued his family that you had become a part of over all else. This included Rin and Jaken as well as Ah-Un. He would do anything for them. Especially InuYasha who he had lost years of relationship with because he was stubborn and didn’t know much else besides what his mother told him.

He was not willing to risk that and you understood, you were sure that Naraku must have understood as well. After all Sesshomaru would never had taken someone for a mate that didn’t understand him perfectly and knew how important his family was.

That probably made it hurt all the more you knew, but all you could do was sit there and hold him. Providing all the comfort you could because you knew that even if he would never heal from this wound you and his family would always be there for him. Wether it was from his side, from far across the land, or even from Heaven you would be there. And that was enough for him.

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"I beg of you my lady do not go down there, he is vicious. Several heads of the family have died by his hands." "Generations ago," she replied. "And now I hear he is kept so heavily drugged by that blasted substance that he can hardly move. He is of no danger to me." the servant knew a dismissal when he heard one.

"Of course my lady."

And so they went, deep deep down into the depths of the basement under the family home. That gave her time to think, of her father's sudden death, how she was now head of the family and the demon that lived in her basement.

In this modern world, demons were no more than pets, sometime in the 1700s a drug was developed that could subdue demons, weaken their powers and make them submit. As the drug spread all over the reign of the demons was over, but they were not killed. No, they were not.

They had to pay for what they had done, so they were lowered, farther and farther until they were of equal or lower status than the dogs and cats that shared minuscule fractions of their DNA. They wore collars in public and ate out of bowls, even though they had humanoid forms. They were bred for strength only and nothing else. Except for the underground rings that bred them for sex and sex only.

But this demon that resided under the house could very well be the eldest and most powerful of them all. The last pure-bred dog demon in existence, breeders would pay their entire fortune to get him but no one knew of him so they kept quiet. He had been in the family since the last of the demons had been subdued, naturally, the strongest had been the last to go but the drug overpowered all.

At first, her family had been a crime syndicate and had attempted to use him as a weapon. Keyword attempted, he would listen to no one, no matter how her ancestors disciplined, he was unruly. Each family head thought themselves better than the others and attempted to subdue him, they weaned him off of the weakening drugs just enough to have him coherent and tried to order him. After the third death, they stopped trying.

So he was left alone for generation after generation to rot in the basement, not useful to anyone or anything. He was kept alive solely for the history that he brought the family even if no one knew of him. He was there in case another family head got too cocky and to fuel children's nightmares as if he were some boogeyman. The children knew better of course, what demon was a danger to them? All you had to do was go out on the street and you would see demons bowing at their owner's every word. What about that was scary? Nothing.

But now she, the new head of the family had changed that. She knew that the syndicate had no future in the modern world, even the most loyal of the servants had lost interest. So now it was a company in medicine, medicine that was almost specifically for demons. Everyone complained that there was no medical care for demons so their pets would die of common diseases but nothing was done about it, she decided to change that.

Despite the demon that she had grown up hearing about that was locked in the basement. She thought that demons were quite intelligent, she had first thought so when she had gone to a meeting with her father at age seven, another family head had been there with his demon. A pureblooded wolf demon, almost as rare as the dog demon but not quite.

When his owner had ordered him to sit on the floor like a common mutt, he obeyed but she could see the hatred and contempt in his eyes. The golden collar around his neck and the resignation in his eyes told her then, that he had been there when demons roamed when they did as they pleased, he still remembered. She watched him the entire meeting instead of paying attention like she was supposed to, he sat there, curled up as she had seen homeless dogs on the street do, but she could tell he was listening, by the way, his pointed ears were twitching and how his tail swished.

She had asked his name before she left, and everyone had looked at her in surprise, "They don't have names sweetheart." his owner had said whilst he laughed at her. But before they left the wolf demon had whispered into her five-year-old ear, "Koga." in a hoarse voice that had probably not been used for decades, before he crawled after his master his head and tail hung to show his submission. That was when she knew, they were intelligent, they understood everything, for all the world they were stronger than humans. Now she was going to talk to the one in her basement.

Finally, the stairs ended and she reached a sliding door which she stopped in front of. She held a tray of food in her hands, it contained little more than a bowl of rice and a bowl of soup. She figured that if she was to visit she should at least bring some food. She slowly slid the door open not quite knowing what she would expect to see. What she did see though wasn't what she expected.

In the corner of the room with chains linked to every limb and his neck, there was sprawled the demon of the house. Even though he was facing her he made no move at all. He probably thought that she was a servant that was bringing him food for the week. But that was impossible, he had been fed yesterday. They only fed him once a week because that was what he could live on, they didn't feel the need to waste food on him if he didn't need it.

She took a minute to observe the demon, he had filthy white hair that was splayed all around him on the floor, growing well past his feet she was sure that it would drag on the floor if he stood up. He had dull yellow eyes and dark markings on his face that stood out against his pale skin as he stared blankly ahead. Even if this was an irregular feeding schedule he didn't care, she was about to leave anyway.

But she didn't leave, when she left the ray of food in front of him she didn't go out the door the instant she could remove herself from his presence. He crouched down next to his head and studied him, wondering why everyone was so scared, if they had him so drugged up that he didn't even acknowledge the head of the family what was there to worry about?

To his shock, she propped him up against her arm and started to put spoonfuls of rice in his mouth from the bowl. His brow furrowed at that, wondering why she wasn't leaving, he tried to push her away but she wouldn't budge. Given that the drugs had weakened him to the point that she almost didn't feel anything.

Despite his protests, she continued to feed him until all of the food was gone. She sighed and gently set him back on the floor and stood, taking the tray with her. It wasn't until she had been gone for a few minutes that he realized, that she hadn't injected him with anything. Every time he was given food he wasn't allowed to eat until he bore his neck for them to inject the drugs. Even though he had been completely docile for years they never lowered the dosage, which was the maximum amount for a demon of his size and breed. None of them wanted to take any chances with him attacking anyone, even if they were just the servants that brought him food once a week.

Much to his confusion, she kept coming back, every day. He had never been fed this much in years. She never said anything when she did this she just fed him and put him back in his lying down position before leaving. She never gave him the drugs again.

The first time she spoke was to ask his name, he didn't even open his mouth but he looked at her in confusion. "You don't have to say anything. Is it Sesshomaru? I asked some of the older servants." he hesitated before nodding at her. He hadn't even noticed, then that he had finished all of the food and his head was resting in her lap.

The next time that she came she unlocked the chains from all his arms and legs, and rubbed a soothing cream on the marks that they had left. He still didn't move, and she didn't say anything about it, she just continued to come and feed him every day. She would have fed him three meals a day but she didn't have the time to come down that many times a day. That and she knew that to start feeding him that much everyday after years of being fed once a week would not be very good for him.

Slowly Sesshomaru started to trust her more and more. She brought him new clothes to replace the rags that had hung so limply off his skeletal frame and shoulders.

Finally she wanted him to move out the basement, it had taken almost two months to get to that point but she was patient. "Sesshomaru can you come over here? I want you to come out of the basement with me if you like?"

Sesshomaru immediately nodded at her and surprisingly instead of walking to her he started crawling towards her on all fours. She gasped and walked towards him quickly and met him in the middle. "Were you told to crawl by the previous family heads?" he nodded at her without meeting her eyes.

"Well you don't have to anymore, I want you to walk upright, like I do." she could tell that he was hesitant but he nodded again. It took her another week to convince him to be able to walk across the cramped basement to the door on shaky legs that hadn't been used in years. The first time that he made it across the room he completely collapsed in her arms.

He still never spoke but she didn't mind, eventually she got him up the stairs and onto the main floor of the house. She had had to carry him up the last couple flights but considering how ridiculously light he was it wasn't much of a big deal. She had dismissed the servants early so that they wouldn't stare at him or see him before she could meet with them and tell them what the plan was for that.

"This is your room, its right next to mine which is over there. So come tell me if you need anything alright?" Sesshomaru who hadn't looked up from the ground the whole time just nodded before looking up to see his room probably expecting a closet. His jaw dropped when he saw the size of the room, that made her sad though because it was one of the smallest rooms in the house, the others ones already occupied by her cousins or the servants.

"Will you be alright alone in here?" he nodded at her before tentatively stepping into the room. "I'm right next door so come to me if you need something." with that she left for her own room to prepare for bed because it was getting pretty late.

She woke up once during the night thinking that she had heard something from the other room but shook it off upon hearing nothing more. She woke up again for little to no reason but she was glad that she did because when she looked down at the floor there was Sesshomaru clurled almost into a ball at the foot of her bed on the cold hard floor. She sighed knowing that of course he wouldn't have even gestured about wishing to sleep in the same room as her when his previous owners hadn't even allowed him to talk.

She gently picked him up and set him on the bed next to her. She prepared to go back to sleep when she felt him pressed against her chest. He was clinging to her in his sleep seeing as she was the only source of warmth that he had felt in decades after spending all his time in that dingy and damp basement. She just wrapped an arm around his shoulder and pulled him closer and draped a thick blanket over him so he could keep warm.

When she woke up he was gone, she was terrified that he had run away in the middle of the night, any demons that were seen without their owners were instantly taken in, there was no way for him to tell the authorities who he belonged to if he couldn't talk and he hadn't been seen for so long there must have been little to no record of his existence.

Much to her relief though she found him in his room, sound asleep as if he had never moved the night before.

This was repeated nightly, she would wake up to find the dog demon curled on her floor, she would move him next to her and allow him to cling to her, then she would wake up the next morning and he would be back in his room.

The servants tried as hard as they could to get her to change her mind about her plans for him but she would not budge. Eventually she told Sesshomaru this as well, "I would like for you to be my bodyguard when I go to work during the day." When he looked at her questioningly she reminded herself that he was centuries old and had close to no idea what a bodyguard was. He probably thought she was asking him to guard her dead corpse.

"You just come to me with work every day and make sure no one tries to kill me!" she exclaimed ina clearly joking tone. Sesshomaru though did clearly not hear it as so, he immediately swept forward and wrapped himself around her with a low rumble in his throat, close to a growl. "I was just joking, nothing is going to happen, because you are going to be there right?" he instantly nodded and it was settled.

It took a while for her to explain to him the concept of a suit but eventually she got him into it and they were out the door. She had attempted to tie his hair back in a ponytail and had succeeded, the only problem was that said ponytail was dragging on the ground as he walked. So she had kept the ponytail but braided the hair which shortened it just enough that it reached the back of his knees instead of sweeping the floor.

The first time that she walked out of her house with him following her she knew that the day was going to be long. When he stepped outside the gates to the main house for the first time he was almost overwhelmed by the loudness of the street cars and just the general hum of the city, having gotten used to the mostly silent environment of the family home.

He immediately pressed himself against her back and wrapped his arms around her stomach, not really the picture of a bodyguard but that wasn't important at the moment. She didn't say anything she just turned and pulled him into her arms. "It's just a little noise, there's nothing threatening here."

Eventually they got to the office but he was not enjoying the concept of a bus at all, too many people in an enclosed space, too many different scents or so she gathered. When she walked into the building with Sesshomaru trailing behind her by around a step and half everyone was wondering when her family had procured a pureblood demon and when she had found herself a bodyguard in that demon.

None of them dared ask though because they feared the response that they would receive. Sesshomaru seemed to have no problem slipping into the bodyguard persona, she thought that this was him falling back into the way that he had acted during the peak of the demon era.

The minute they stepped back through the main gates of her house though he was back to the completely silent demon who never left her side no matter what. Not really a change from during the day at work but Sesshomaru continued to have issues at home such as sitting at the table instead of planting his butt on the floor which is what he had been trained to do. It took a little while to convince him to break some of the harder habits such as looking his owner in the eyes, and doing everything that he could for them.

Even months after he left the basement Sesshomaru continued to come into her room and sleep on her floor after she went to bed. Then he would wake up in lying next to her in bed completely enveloped in her arms. Then she would wake up to an empty bed with him sleeping soundly in the next room.

The first time that she heard him speak it wasn't even in a language that she knew. She had gone to a meeting with another company head who also had a demon servant. It was just her luck that the other demon was a purebred as well, a cat demon which of course meant that he would get along great with her dog demon.

It wouldn't have been an issue if he hadn't been so jumpy, all she wanted to do was shake the other head's hand but he must have perceived it as an attack. He jumped at her and Sesshomaru was not having it. He grabbed the other demons wrist in a crushing grip before he could touch his owner "You shall not touch what is mine!"

She had no idea what he had said but she knew that it was going to escalate very quickly if she did not intervene. "We're leaving, we need to get home for dinner." with that she and Sesshomaru exited the room at a speed.

Sesshomaru followed farther behind her than usual on the way home and he was completely quiet and barely responded to her questions even with a nod or a shake of the head. "Do you think that I am angry with you?" a nod. "But I'm I am very happy with what you did today actually, just do not do that without provocation. Do you understand?" Another nod.

That was the end of that, and after that he finally started talking, albeit it was only limited to "yes" "no" and "as you wish". She didn't care though.

The crowning moment happened about a year after he came out of the house for the first time. Some rival companies had become angered at her success and sent the strongest half demons at their disposal to either kill her or give her a scare. She had leaned after they did some investigating.

Sesshomaru had been far from happy about the attack. All it had took was his eyes turning a bright red with rage for the attacking demons to run off with their tails between their legs. He had not accused his demon powers in so long though that it drained all of his energy just to do that, he collapsed in her arms soon after. "You did so well. Thank you."

One night when Sesshomaru came into her bed during the night she had stayed awake. He had moved on from sleeping on the floor and just climbed onto her bed immediately. As he squirmed into her arms to settle in for the night she whispered something to him as he was falling asleep.

"You are mine."

He stiffened and started to pull away remembering all the times his owners had told him that before they beat him or starved him. But she held him tight to her chest and pressed her cheek against his hair.

"As I am yours."

Sesshomaru may not have had anyone left from centuries ago in his life. Rin of course had died years ago with her pitifully short human lifespan. Jaken had thankfully died before Sesshomaru was captured towards the end of the demon's reign, he had been rather old for an imp when Sesshomaru first met him and he died of old age. Then Inuyasha, Sesshomaru's beloved brother, his human companions had died long before the fall of the demon race.

But his brother, he had gotten captured along with him, they had been together towards the end. Seeking comfort in one another, knowing full well that it might be the last time that they see each other they shared one last embrace and scenting before they were separated forever.

About a century after the fall Sesshomaru's owner walked into the basement with a smug smirk on his face. "Your beloved brother has finally died. I daresay it took longer than expected his owner has changed several times. He died of an overdose of the control drug." that man was the first family head to die via the demon in the basement.

Everyone he had ever known was gone. His only family, dead.

This is what Sesshomaru accepted. He may not ever get his empire and rule over an entire kingdom of demons. His Inuyasha was dead and it was because of humans of all beings. Demons might have been lowered to the status of mere pets but that didn't matter to him anymore because he had his Y/n and she had him.

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Over the years Sesshomaru's domain had gotten smaller and smaller, as the cities grew bigger and bigger. The humans got bolder and bolder pushing the demons back little by little until they were everywhere, and Sesshomaru got more and more restless. Now the humans had no idea about demons, they were the stuff of legends.

Now there was a pandemic and no one could even leave their houses, Sesshomaru did not like it one bit. Demons were immune to human viruses, and InuYasha's immune system was strengthened by his demon blood, so when he did get sick he fought it off within hours. There was no worry about them. But Sesshomaru was stuck inside the very tiny cage of their apartment he didn't know for how long but he was unhappy.

He still had his wife, the fox demon who had stood by his side for the last several centuries unwavering in her devotion, all those years. Who sat on the couch now watching him as he paced back in forth across their living room, InuYasha having long gone to sleep, too tired to keep up with his nocturnal brother. The only thing Sesshomaru liked about staying at home was the nonnecessity of makeup. The Japanese people frowned upon tattoos which his markings looked like so he covered them in public, his ears were easily covered by his hair.

But now he was at home he hadn't had to put on makeup for several months now, in fact, he had hardly left their apartment at all. His wife was fully aware of his hatred of small spaces, but she was still unsure where it stemmed from and it seemed that Sesshomaru himself was unsure as well. She knew he was used to having massive lands at his disposal to fly over whenever he liked, and a large castle to roam ordering people around as he pleased.

He still had his palace of course, one of the few areas untouched by humans, his servants still roamed but he preferred to stay with InuYasha who refused to leave the city. The grounds were much smaller now and still well kept, except for a small mound near the lake where Jaken had been buried decades ago, after succumbing to old age.

Sesshomaru was still pacing Mokomoko lashing behind him, he was chewing on his lip, sharp white teeth making his bottom lip red. Finally, his wife spoke up opening her arms, "Come here." she summoned, with a shake of her head at the stubborn demon who walked over to her and collapsed into her arms. His cold nose pressed against her neck as he wrapped his arms tightly around her stomach to breathe her in. His legs rested lengthwise across the couch. "You're alright, we'll go outside soon enough." she soothed when she felt him thrumming with frustration.

He growled but didn't move, just digging his nails into her robe. She just clutched him tighter, holding him down, grounding him. "Come on let's go to bed," she muttered pulling him up, he whined at the loss of her grip but followed her anyway. They normally shared a bed with InuYasha because that is what they had done for the last few decades, they saw no reason to stop. Sesshomaru normally slept in the middle so he could hug his wife while InuYasha could hug his brother close.

They did this that night, even though InuYasha was asleep he could sense his brother and moved closer to wrap his gangly arms around his stomach. Sesshomaru rested one hand on his brothers and wrapped his other arm around his wife who pulled him close to her chest and held him there. Giving his hair and forehead a quick lick and a kiss before she closed her eyes.

Correction, Sesshomaru only disliked small spaces if it was anywhere else but in his wife and brother's grip where he felt safest.