Snowdrop by PhoenixBlade

True Love

Sorry its late but this is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG chapter (cause the story is ending at chapter 14 so gotta cram it in somewhere!) and a LEMON! Woot! Woot! So read on, good readers!  Read on! ;)

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Snowdrop

By: PhoenixBlade

Prompt: True Love (and continuation of Eros)

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He was warm.  Before, he had been cold as ice, but now, he was warm as he held her in the sanctity of his arms.  She felt safe, content and…loved?

A blush found its way to her cheeks as she stole a glance at the inuyoukai who was overlooking the papers on his desk.  He was busy and though she felt she was intruding on his time over business matters, she didn’t want him to leave her.  Her nightmares had been so frightening; she almost thought they had been real.  They attacked her insecurities and guilt relentlessly.  Waking up in the arms of Sesshoumaru had chased away much of that, though she was still unsettled by it all.  He’d told her to rest and recover in his quarters while he try to get some of his work done, but she insisted he allow her to come with him.  Though hesitant, he gave in and now they were here, in his study.  He kept her nearby to comfort her, though she assumed he just wanted to touch her.

He had questioned her about her illness, but she didn’t have an answer for him. When she had woken up earlier, she was surprised to hear that she had succumbed to some strange illness and have been unconscious for several weeks.  The last thing she remembered was picking up the pieces of the broken ice sculpture, that the Lady of the West broke, when she was suddenly overcome with a sharp pain and blacked out.  Nightmares plagued her after that, feeding to her guilt and regret.  She had left her family and had made no attempts to even try to return home, Lady Inukimi be damned!  She should have tried in the first place!  What was delaying her departure?  What was keeping her here?

She looked up at the inuyoukai prince again.  Perhaps it was Sesshoumaru, maybe he was the reason why she didn’t bother fleeing in terror from these snow-laden lands.  He was strong and powerful, but he was tender with her, albeit perverted sometimes, and for someone like her who had been taking care of others all her life, it felt nice to have someone take care of her.  Yet she had no qualms about taking care of Souta.  She would have gladly given an arm and a leg and devoted the rest of her life to looking after him if it meant that he could spend the rest of his days happy and carefree. 

He suddenly stopped what he was reading to look down at the miko.  Kagome blushed furiously and looked away, embarrassed that she had been caught ogling him.  He chuckled and shifted in his seat to pull her in closer and press a kiss to her forehead.  It felt… nice… and then he pulled away to go back to reading. 

Wait… what was that?  His usual course of action would have been a small bit affection that would gradually become carnal and wanton.  Though she was usually hesitant to let him touch him as he always did, she found that she actually wanted him to do more than snuggle.  She wanted him to touch her like he always did.

Sesshoumaru was also waging an internal battle as he felt the pounding in his chest thump loudly in his ears.  He wanted to touch her skin so much and now that he was warm, at least while he was with her as he found out after his talk with Bokuseno, he could touch her more and hopefully she would respond this time.

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Sesshoumaru’s eyes narrowed dangerously at the aged tree youkai in front of him.

“What do you mean this Sesshoumaru fights the same Eros as his sire?  Do you take this Sesshoumaru for a fool?” he snarled.

“Be silent, pup!  Perhaps I hadn’t been clear enough for your battle-hardened mind to comprehend, but I need you to listen!” the tree youkai berated him.

Sesshoumaru growled lowly at him, but spoke no more, allowing the tree youkai to continue.

“Long have I lived and seen many youkai come and gone.  Not just youkai.  This land had formerly housed ningens as well, like the ningen miko you now covet.”

Sesshoumaru remained still, but held a slight frown on lips.

Bokuseno sighed, “And just as you are now attached to your ningen, so did your sire.”

That caught the inuyoukai lord’s attention.

“In his quest for power, your sire came across a ningen princess who once resided in part of these lands that once belonged to her people’s kingdom.  A chance meeting with her and before he knew it, he had become fascinated with her.  At that time, he was mated to your mother and had believed strongly in becoming more powerful.  The ningen princess stood against everything he wanted.  She was weak, mortal and most of all, not powerful. Had she been an important princess in her family, perhaps her family would hold some sway in your father’s court, but she was frail and sickly.  Her family wanted nothing more to do with her, but to wait for her to die.”

Sesshoumaru was unnerved by this, he remembered little about his sire and his mother only spoke briefly of him, other than that he had been killed by a ryuu youkai.  Had his father abandoned his family before his untimely death?  Sesshoumaru had only been a child then, and could not remember very much.

“Your father fought his growing feelings for her and tried to deny them, but he could not stay away from her.  After battling his inner beast for many nights, he finally relented and acknowledged his feelings for the ningen princess, giving up his quest for power so that he could protect the new family he was about to have.”

“New family?” Sesshoumaru snarled, “Why has this one not heard of this?”

Bokuseno shook his head, “All answers in due time, pup.  For now, I will let you know who, or rather what Eros was and still is.”

None too happy that the tree would deter his questions concerning his father abandoning his mother and him, he merely growled and shut up, for he wanted to know who Eros was and how to rid of it.

“Many, many years before the Western Lands had been born and I had been but a young sapling, I had heard stories of gods who aided and toyed with the lives of youkai and ningens.  One such god was named Eros,” the tree told Sesshoumaru, “Eros was a great god, the son of the goddess of love.  Due to his lineage, he inherited his mother goddess’ power of love, but his power lay in his arrows, which could make its target either love or loathe the first person they saw.  Such a power was even powerful enough to strike the gods and turn them into love smitten fools.

Although ningens were their primary targets, once in a while, they would toy with others such as us youkai.  Yet as time passed on, ningens began to disbelieve those gods and the gods lost most of their powers.  Not wanting to be forgotten, they spread their powers all over the world, leaving some pieces of themselves behind.  In the case of Eros, he shot his arrows all over the world and it became a part of all the beings everywhere.  The arrows Eros left behind to spread was ‘intimate love’ or true love, the same power your father fought as he gazed upon the ningen princess Izayoi, who was your father’s Eros, his true love.”

Sesshoumaru was seething inside.  His sire had been struck by a dead god’s loose arrow that had appeared to him in a ningen princess?  Preposterous!  Lies!  They had to be!

“I sense your anger, pup,” Bokuseno snapped him from his thoughts, “but such anger is useless to carry for you are in the same situation as your sire.  You have been struck by that arrow and it tells you that this miko is your Eros, your true love.”

Seething inside, but knowing that Bokuseno would not continue with the story of his father, he decided to ask more about Kagome.

“Very well, if you say that Kagome is this Sesshoumaru’s, then why does being with her cause such discomfort in this one’s chest?  Why does it make this one become warm?”

Bokuseno was thoughtful for a moment before replying.

“Truthfully, my lord, I would not know.  Perhaps your love for this miko has melted your frozen heart,” suggested the ancient youkai with humor in his voice.

Sesshoumaru growled in annoyance.  It explained very little, but he would settle with it for now, for he suddenly wanted to get back to Kagome.  There was a sharp pain in his chest and he had a feeling it had something to do with her…

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Rushing back home, he found Kagome unconscious and her spirit weakening.  How he knew to come back right away to save her, he didn’t know… but he had an inkling that it had something to do with what Bokuseno had said.  Very little had been answered for him today and had only brought up more questions, questions concerning his sire and this…Eros.  Since coming home and caring for Kagome these past few weeks, he came to the conclusion that no matter what, he wanted Kagome by his side, always.  She soothed his soul and calmed his beast.  He was becoming more than attached to her, and he was surprised to find that he didn’t mind it at all.  When he was around her, there would be the pounding in his chest and his body would become warm, but when he was away from her, he returned to his normal cold self.  Oddly enough, he felt perturbed by it, feeling slightly jilted every time his body went back to being cold.

A mumble from Kagome made him drop the paper he was trying to distract himself with and was distracted from.  What did she say?

He turned to look at her as she looked up, desire evident in her eyes.  Was she…?  Inhaling her scent deeply, he smelled it, she was aroused.  She wanted…him.

“What… did you say to this Sesshoumaru?” he asked her carefully, still in disbelief at her request.

She had always been reluctant to take part in his desires as he was usually the one who initiated them. 

She blushed even harder as her beautiful hazel eyes stared right into his, as if looking deep into his soul.  A hand rose to touch his cheek, thumb caressing his lips as she parted her own to speak.

“I…I want you to t-touch me, like before…” she told him, more confident this time, but still soft, “I’m not weak a-and I can take whatever you do to me.”

He blinked once, twice and a third time as her words touched him somewhere deep.  All at once, his length sprang to life, standing tall and hard and already dripping as he swiped all the papers off his desk and tossed the miko on there.  He didn’t care about his work (at least for now) not when there was a beautiful miko pulling her kimono apart and was practically begging for his touch.

He slammed his lips down on her luscious ones as his hands sought out all the ties and knots that kept her beautiful skin hidden from him.  Kagome was doing the same, kissing him back passionately as his tongue invaded her mouth.  Her hands found its way under the lapels of his kimono and tugged them out of the way to feel his warm skin.  How odd it was, to feel his warm skin, but it was inviting and calming to know that she wasn’t alone here as the only warm-blood. 

Before she knew it, her kimono had been opened and Sesshoumaru pulled away from her lips to gaze freely at her naked body. 

He softly growled and leaned down to catch one perky nipple in his mouth.  A loud moan escaped Kagome’s throat as her hands wrapped itself into his silver tresses.

“S-Sesshou…maru!” she moaned.

One hand rose to her breast and fondled it as his head traced down a path to her nether lips.  Tears of pleasure pricked at her eyes as his hands rubbed her thighs and pulled them away to ogle her womanhood.  He groaned as he saw her juices leaking down onto his desk.  Had she been waiting for him long?  He would have to do something about that soon.

Before she could say anything, he dove into her folds and began licking and caressing her pearl with his tongue.

“Ah!” Kagome screamed in pleasure.

Spurred by her cries of rapture, his tongue slowly dove inside her, pressing his long tongue in deep. 

Gods! She tasted so sweet!  He wouldn’t have minded staying there all day just drinking in her sweetness and listening to her whimper and moan for more.  Kagome, herself, had never known that this would feel so good.  At first, she had been unsure about what he was going to do, but when she let him do as he wanted, how glad that she did!  Her back arched as she felt him twirl his tongue inside her, earning him a mewl from her. 

“Don’t stop,” she begged him, “please… don’t stop!”

His length twitched and throbbed almost painfully at her begging.  The girl was taking it too far, he would come right there just by the sounds of her pleasure.  Digging deeper in her, he quickened his pace, thrusting his tongue in and out, mimicking what he wanted to do with her with his penis. He moved his fingers over to her pearl, rubbing and flicking it to make her cum faster.

She felt herself about to break.  The things Sesshoumaru was doing to her was making her come undone.  She felt herself building, oh god was she building up!  She was going to-she was going to-!

“Sesshoumaru! I’m-“ she was cut off by her own screaming of pleasure as she came hard in Sesshoumaru’s mouth.

Her walls convulsed on his tongue, jerking as he continued thrusting his tongue in to encourage more fluids out.  He loved her taste and would have gladly continued to do so if she hadn’t sat up.  Pulling away from her womanhood, he licked her juices from his lips before she crashed her mouth on his and kissed him passionately.  They battled with their tongues, seeking out as much pleasure as they could from one another.  One of his hands crept up to her thigh and began rubbing her there as the other began to thrust into her wet heat.  Kagome, herself, had one hand entangled in his hair and the other sliding down to his shaft, where she grabbed it delicately and began stroking it up and down.  They continued on like this until both felt themselves close to the edge.

Pulling his fingers out of her, he pulled away from her lips only to replace his tongue with his fingers, slick with her wetness.  She sucked on them and he groaned, turned on even more by her.  With his other hand, he pushed her gently back down on the desk, making her let go of his penis. 

“Kagome…” he hissed her name at the loss of her stroking hands.

She whimpered as her legs moved up to wrap around his hips.

“Please…” she begged so prettily.

Grabbing hold of her thighs, he pushed them out further as he moved his head forward until he was an inch away from her face.

“Please…what?” he asked her, letting her hear his desire for her.

She tried pushing him forward as his length moved up to press against her stomach, large, hot and pulsing with need.  He was practically dripping all over her belly with precum as he moved to rub the side of his length against her clit.

“What do you want, Kagome?  What would you like this Sesshomaru to do?”

She bit her lips as she couldn’t stand it anymore.  She wanted him to fuck her already!

“Pl-please!  I w-want you!” she cried out, as if in pain.

“And where do you want me?” the head of his length poked and prodded against her, almost pushing itself in.

Why did he have to ask her all these questions?

“I-inside me, n-now!”

“Then you shall have me, all of me!” he smirked and thrust into her, breaking her maidenhead in one stroke.

She screamed as a sharp pain rippled through her.  Though his instinct and his beast demanded that he move, he knew that she was a virgin, or had been one until just now.  He had to let her adjust to his largeness.  She cried silently at the pain and he bent down to nuzzle her neck, leaving kisses along her shoulder and laving her skin as if to soothe her.  She was no longer pure, had no virtue to save for a loving ningen husband that she had always dreamed of as a child.  Now, as the pain ebbed away, all she could feel was his hard length, large and impressive inside her.  It was hot, so hot and heavy as it filled her.  It hurt a little, but she wanted him to pull out and thrust back in because all he was doing now was lightly grinding against her.

Her sweaty palm rose to touch his face, pulling him away from laving at her collarbone.  He looked down deep into her eyes. 

He had such beautiful golden eyes, like two golden suns.  He was so beautiful, so strong and so kind.  She could learn to love this male, or maybe she already loved him, she didn’t know.  Either way, she knew that she could not leave him, did not want to leave him.  She wanted to stay by his side, even if it meant never seeing her family again, if she even could. 

Her other hand rose to touch his other cheek and she pulled him down to kiss him gently on the lips.  He kissed her back, turning their kiss passionate and rough.  She grinded herself against him, telling him she was ready. 

Pulling away from her lips, he pulled out of her until the head was almost out and slammed back into her in a mad fury.  She screamed in agony and pleasure, loving how it felt.  He set a quick and frenzied pace, wanting to indulge in her as much as he could, for missing out on all those other times that she had been hesitant.  As he fucked her ravenously, Kagome grasped tightly onto his arms, moaning his name and crying out for more.  She squealed in pleasure, at one particular hard thrust, making him go incredibly faster .  Wanting to hear her again, he fucked her hard and she cried out his name with each stroke.

“Se-Sessh….I-I’m…cum-ming…” she managed to get out before she felt her walls clamp down on his length, almost forcing him to cum inside her. 

Once she finished cumming, he continued to work her body, stimulating her clit with his fingers and sucking on her breast with his expert mouth.  Her hands moved up to his head, pulling her impossibly closer to him as he licked her nipple and sucked her breast.

He heard the blood rushing to his ears as Kagome screamed out another orgasm.  He breathed tirelessly, feeling his sweaty body (though such a thing had never happened to him before) rubbed alluringly against hers, and sped up his pace as he felt his balls tighten and his dick get harder. 

Just a few more and he would-

Kagome suddenly screamed out another orgasm.  Her tight and wet walls suddenly making his length feel too constricted and forced him to cum in her.

“K-Kagome!” he gasped as his seed shot into her womb, filling it to the brim as he knotted within her.

She hadn’t expected to feel his dick enlarge within her; making her feel stuck as more of his hot seed poured into her womb.  She didn’t mind, it only made her go into another orgasm as he continued to shoot more and more inside her.

After a moment, he collapsed on top of her, panting, and slick with sweat and still lodged inside her.   Her breaths came out in heavy pants as she felt her heart racing.  She loved the way he felt inside her and almost wished he could just stay like that inside her forever. 

“S-sesshoumaru…” she whispered, placing a hand on his face.

He turned so that he could kiss the palm of her hand and nuzzle against it.

They rested like that for a long while before his penis shrunk back to his normal size, in which he decided to pull out and see their combined juices flow out of her like a waterfall onto the table.  Oh how he was going to enjoy coming to his study from now on!  The scent of their sex was so strong in the room and now on his desk.  He felt his penis twitch as he thought of what had just transpired between the two.

Kagome hissed when he pulled himself out.  She missed it already, the feel of him hot and filling inside her.  She could love this male-no, she knew now, she loved this male.  She loved him with all her heart and soul.

“Sesshoumaru, I need to tell you something,” she breathed.

His golden eyes looked at her, waiting patiently.  His heart began pounding faster.  Why was it pounding so fast in his chest?  Why-

Before she could even begin, his eyes glazed over and he was suddenly unconscious on the ground with a screaming Kagome calling for him.

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The Lady looked down at her son as her hand felt his forehead.  He was hot, something that had never happened since all youkai had become youkai cold-blooded.

“This is your fault, miko,” Inukimi hissed at Kagome, who stood by the door.

Kagome looked to the ground with sorrow and apologies.  She hadn’t known that this would happen.  Noone knew that this would happen.  Granted, it was odd that he had grown to be warm-blooded in her presence, but neither cared much for it as now, he could have her whenever without making her fear the cold.   However that wasn’t the case as he was now feverish with other unknown maladies inflicted on him.  Kagome felt his youki flickering like mad, looking for an enemy that wasn’t there.  Truly it was odd, but not as much as the Lady of the West’s request.

“Sesshoumaru is a child of snow.  He cannot become… warm.  The heat is not for those like us who dwell in the cold,” the Lady told Kagome, “it will only harm him, or even kill him!”

Kagome felt tears stream down her cheek.  He didn’t want him hurt because of her, even if it had just been the sex!

 “This Inukimi cannot allow you to remain here,” she continued, “since this one’s son cares for you dearly, you will be allowed to leave.  Were it up to this one, your life would be forfeit.  Hopefully, no harm will befall you, for this one knows that Sesshoumaru would follow you into death, for he is very attached to you.  It is time, miko, for you to go home.”

Home?  She was going home!  But…

She looked back at the weakened body of her youkai lover.

As elated as she was to hear that, she was worried for Sesshoumaru.  Would he be ok?  Would he never awaken?  She didn't want to leave him because she had made the decision to stay with him always...

Inukimi suddenly threw something at her, and she took it.  It was an amulet with a dark stone in the middle.

“It will lead the way for you…

Yet she knew that she had no choice.  She had to go home.  Sesshoumaru was in danger with her around.  She could not risk his life to stay here for she knew now, she loved him, loved him enough to want him to live.

“I… I understand…”

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Once the miko left, Inukimi waved her hand above her son’s limp body, pulling all the snow-like dust that had been hidden on him.

She pulled back once they all gathered back into her and watched as her son’s eyes open slowly, revealing his golden orbs.  His eyes moved back and forth, for he was confused and still disorientated.  Why was he at the healer’s room?  Last he remembered, he and Kagome had just-

“Kagome!” he shouted for her as he struggled to get himself up.

“You will be silent, pup,” came the cold voice of his mother.

He rose his head, as difficult as it was, to look at her.  Why was his body so weak?  It was so hard to even keep his eyes open.  He reached out for Kagome with his youki, trying to feel for her reiki, but he couldn’t feel her in the shiro at all!

“Where is Kagome?” he demanded, voice croaking.

“Hmm… that pesky ningen is no longer here,” his mother replied, not fazed by the fact that he wanted her.

“Bring her to this Sesshoumaru, right now!” he growled angrily at her.

“Pup! You will respect your mother!” his mother snarled.

“This Sesshoumaru wants what is his!  Where is Kagome!?” he snarled back.

He was getting desperate.  He wanted Kagome-no, he needed her.  Where was she?  He wanted to see her right now!

Inukimi scoffed at him, “You are throwing a temper tantrum like a pup of a hundred years.”

He bared his fangs at her, eyes bleeding red and stripes becoming jagged.  She must have done something.  Kagome had never felt comfortable around his mother; he knew that, and his mother had hated her just for being a ningen.

“She is mine!”

“She is dead!”

Suddenly, his change stopped as he stared incredulously at his mother.

What?

“Not yet…but she will be soon,” his mother sniffed, acting as if Kagome had been of no real importance.

Not yet… but she will be soon, he repeated her words to himself.  That meant that she was still alive, but in grave danger!

He rose to his feet and before he could take another step forward, there were suddenly weapons of all sorts pinning him down to his bed.  So, his mother called the guards to stop him from leaving, did she?

“You will stay here and perform your duties as you were supposed to.  Your pet just ran away.  She is not worth your time,” she ordered him and began walking to the door, ignoring him, “however, if you attempt to retrieve your miko, know that the guards will break your bones and cut off your limbs if they have to, to keep you here.  Do you understand, Sesshoumaru?”

She was answered with an angry howl, alerting her of his oncoming change.  She frowned as she heard the guards begin to scream in pain, the sounds of bones crunching and the smell of their blood spilling.

She sighed in annoyance and turned around as her body also began to change.

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 Once again, I was falling asleep so I apologize beforehand for the many mistakes that're lying in wait for me! *sweatdrop*