Seven Deadly Sins of Sesshomaru and Kagome by Kogasangel

Gouyoku (Greed)

A/N:  I've been a very busy angel.  So busy that I've pushed schoolwork aside so that I can finish these goodies up for you to enjoy.  First up is greed and next is lust, all served on the same day.  So, please read and review.

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He just could not stop.  It didn’t matter what he did, the scent of her always found its way to his nose and he was powerless to stop himself from reacting to it.  One may call it a weakness, but he did not care.  In this instance, he was quite content to allow some weakness into his life, especially when it concerned her.

The miko was a rarity in his world.  With her strange language, even more strange attire, her behavior, and her penchant for smiling, she was unlike anything he had ever seen.  In fact, the first time he had seen her was at his father’s tomb and even then he had been curious about her.  The way she stood up to him and then proceeded to give that worthless half-breed was enough to send him into a fury.  Not at her, but rather because he had failed to prove his worth to her.  She should have known his greatness just from the sight of him, but either she did not notice or he had prided himself on something that was not truly there.

Either way, the girl had interested him.  The fact that she had survived his poison attack had impressed him, though he didn’t have time to ponder her escape as his brother was too busy nipping at his heels for him to do anything other than prove to the pup that there was a reason why he was superior.

However, it was because of the girl that he managed to lose his arm because he was too focused on the girl and his idiot retainer to properly fight the brat.  Well, he would make the half-breed pay for that humiliation.

It was over a period of time that he came to understand that the girl was the hanyou’s backbone.  Had it not been for her, the hanyou would not bother with many of the fights that he encountered.  The girl gave him strength while he ripped her self-worth down in favor of the dead miko.

Oh, he was well aware of the undead miko and his brother’s connection to her.  The hanyou felt the need to remind the younger miko that she would never be as good as her incarnation was nor would she ever be able to win his heart from his first love.

The girl was much stronger than the hanyou gave her credit for.  He watched her when the hanyou would leave their camp to go to the dead one.  She would wait until he was gone, slip from her strange bedding, and then stand guard over the group until the hanyou decided to return and pretend that he never left.

The hanyou knew that she would stand guard and never once would he thank her for performing his duty.  The hanyou would never know that because of the lack of sleep, the young miko had succumbed to exhaustion and fallen asleep one night.  Little did the group know that there was a group of bear youkai waiting to take the group by surprise, kill them in their sleep, and take their shards.

That would have happened if he had not been close by.  Once the bear youkai had been dealt with, he stayed close to the group and performed the duty his foolish half-brother wasn’t willing to perform.  It was the next day that his small pack joined the hanyou’s pack and it was also the beginning of his end.

Do you know what greed is?  If not, simply look at him to see the definition.  He was as greedy about her as he was about power.  Her scent, her laughter, her body, and anything else having to do with her sent both he and his beast in such frenzy that he felt he would go mad in any given moment.

The girl was an addiction that he did not need, but that he wanted.  No, that is not quite correct.  He did need her.  He needed the same strength that she gave to the hanyou because he had been a witness to the power her presence could give and he was more than willing to experience it.

But, he knew that he would need to be persistent in his pursuit of the miko.  He knew that while he could gain her favor as a friend, he also knew that he would obtain absolute power if he were her lover.  He wanted to drink from her.  He wanted to plunge himself into her and lose his senses within her tight body.  He wanted to hear her cries of ecstasy and he wanted his name to be the one that poured from her lips.

He wanted her.  All of her and not just for that pathetic relic that she was searching for.  However, because the jewel was hers, he would search all of Japan for those shards and he would present her every single one on a silver platter if it were to endear him to her.  If she were to ask, he would smite down the dead miko and send her back to hell; however, if he were to do that, he knew that she would offer the hanyou her shoulder to cry on and that was something he simply could not allow.

He would never allow anyone to touch what belonged to him and he was going to make certain that she belonged to him in every single way that mattered.  He would be the only male who would know exactly how soft her skin was underneath that indecent attire.  He had also made the decision that his miko would no longer ride the hanyou’s back.  He offered his dragon, Ah-Un, to her and when he heard her squeal of delight and watched as she ran over to the huge dragon to pet its head, he could not help the self-satisfied smirk that crossed his lips.  While the hanyou grumbled about the miko turning traitor, he made sure to offer the miko assistance in climbing onto the back of the dragon and to his delight, she accepted.

Very slowly, he was replacing his half-idiot in the miko’s heart and with every little bit she allowed, he greedily took.  He was more than willing to give her what the hanyou would not and he would not deny her needs.  He would not stop until the hanyou was completely out of her heart and he was the one she looked at with adoring eyes.

After all, when he wanted something, he would not stop until he got it and what he wanted was the miko and everything she was.  And, there was another thing….he wasn’t one for sharing what belonged to him.

To be continued.....