Chapter 13: Sweet Music
Kagome sat on Sesshomaru’s Futon, waiting for Sesshomaru to come to her. Naked except for a thin silk cover to cover herself, Kagome hated waiting for Sesshomaru to come to her like a sacrifice waiting to die. She wanted to get the breeding session over with, but she also wanted to talk to Sesshomaru about the deal that she had come up with during the torture session that his mother called preparations for their breeding session.
Getting tired of sitting on the futon, she got up and walked to the balcony; to her surprise…a Koto sat awaiting her. Kagome frowned at the musical instrument; she was not Sesshomaru’s damned songbird. She needed to get away from this hell that she was in, she to be free from this place, she hoped that this deal that she planned to make with Sesshomaru worked. But then she didn’t know if he would take the deal, though she didn’t doubt for a moment that he would keep his side of it. Walking to the Koto, she sat down and started to play.
Relief.
Relief filled Kagome as the stress was expelled from her body, healing her in a way that she enjoyed greatly. It was a freedom that she held with her fingertips that plucked the strings of the Koto, this was the defiance that she hungered for. Tears can to Kagome’s ocean blue eyes as she played the violent and painful melody, the music screamed to the world that she was there and that she wasn’t about to give up on her freedom.
This was the voice that would not be silenced, each stroke of the thread, every note of the melody was her pain and her anger turned into the power that was held from her use. This was her freedom, this was the freedom of her soul…and Sesshomaru as well as his mother couldn’t be able to take it from her. Kagome suddenly stopped; mid-pull of her next note when she was filled with the burning desire that came from that damned aphrodisiac and when Sesshomaru was near her. The question was though, when had Nori slipped her the aphrodisiac?
Her body burned for his touch and Kagome couldn’t resist the moan that an escaped her lips when his arms suddenly wrapped around her and pulled her to him. Her body was on fire when he slowly took the silk cover off of her. “Sesshomaru…a word, please?” She said, her core becoming wet from him playing with her breasts. Sesshomaru released Kagome from his arms, though he didn’t want to.
The smell of the sweet honey between her lovely thighs called to him like the sound of her music had. It was odd, because the more time that he got to be around his little concubine, the more it seems like she was becoming a drug to him and the effects were quite…pleasant.
He had bedded many beings before her, and not even his own mate had the same effect as Kagome had on him. Getting up, he moved away from, wanting the space so he could resist the urge to take her right there, though he started to undress as to seduce her. “Sesshomaru, what am I to you?” She asked him in a calm voice that surprised him a little. He looked at her face and into her ocean blue eyes; he knew what she was asking and wondered how much long she would fight her fate. “You are my concubine; you are the mother of my child and the mother of my unborn children.”
Blue fire blazed in her eyes with the lust that was already there from his touch. “Then let me ask my question in a different way…what well, I be to you when I can’t have anymore children? Can I ask you to release then?” Kagome asked, hoping that when she was too old or a pregnancy had been too hard on her, and become barren that he would release her from this hell; if she lasted that long. Sesshomaru looked at her and wondered of what nonsense that she spoke of; she would never become barren to his seed since she was now immortal like him.
“You can’t become barren and even if you did, I would never let you go because of that.” He told her, seeing the fire be washed away with confusion and the lust turned to worry. He wondered what he had said that caused this reaction in her, women who weren’t prostitutes should have feared the thought of being barren, but it seems that Kagome wished to be so. “What are you talking about? One day, I’ll be too old to have any babies.” She whispered, almost as if she was reassuring herself of the fact.
“You’re immortal, Kagome.” He said. Simple, clear, and pure fact with no emotion.
Kagome looked at him, shock had hit her hard and she didn’t know what to say next. What was there to say? What did she have to bargain with? She had wanted to make a deal of how she would stay here in the palace, to raise the children that he was going to fuck into her that night, wouldn’t try to escape or anything so long as he promised that he wouldn’t force her into his bed again. Force her to be his sex toy or his broodmare anymore…but she had nothing now. “Damn you,” she breathed, her voice was quiet that it made Sesshomaru wonder if he imagined it.
Kagome stood up on shaky legs that burned to him between them. She slowly walked to him, fire burning brightly in her eyes, “Why? WHY WOULD YOU CURSE ME WITH THIS?” Kagome screamed at him, tears flooded her ocean blue eyes as she realized that she would likely never be free of him. Sesshomaru was quick to grab her arms and take her to the bed as sobs were ripped through her. She just wanted to be free.
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Nori sat in her rooms, enjoying a cup of green tea as her handmaidens played with her crawling granddaughter. It was a wonderful sight to see her granddaughter learning new things, and growing. Mizuki was small for now, but in time, she would be a great demon and make their family proud as well as her mate. Nori sighed at the sorrowing thought of Mizuki taking a mate, but it would a waste to not have her mate a powerful male that would add to her son’s power and to have her little granddaughter birth sons that would fight for their grandfather.
But that was a thought of for another time, Mizuki was young and the future of Nori’s line was would be well since her son was at the moment, working on seeding the sons that he would need.
“Please come in, priestess?” Nori asked when she sensed the old woman was standing outside her door. Lady Kaede’s presence sparked interest within Nori’s mind and wondered if the old woman would be able to help her break Kagome of her spirit and will. Lady Kaede walked in with the grace that age gave to a small few like her, “What do you wish to speak of, priestess?”
Lady Kaede wasn’t surprised that Sesshomaru’s mother knew that she wanted to speak with her…though she didn’t know how well the old demon would take to her demand. “I wish to demand Kagome’s release from your care.” Lady Kaede said when she heard the little squeal of delight and turned her head to see the handmaidens were playing with Mizuki. She had seen little of Kagome’s daughter since the day that Kagome had been made into an immortal; she felt warmth fill her at the sight of the happy baby. Mizuki a perfect mixture of Kagome and Sesshomaru…but that would have likely filled her with dread until she looked into those ocean blue eyes of her mother’s.
They held the sweet innocence of a sweet child, that innocence dissolved her dread and filled her with hope.
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Sesshomaru watched as tears came to Kagome’s eyes, what was he to do? He had no knowledge as to what to do with a full-grown female, if it was Mizuki then he would know, but he wasn’t dealing with his daughter at the moment. He was dealing with her mother. “Why are you crying?” he asked as he moved to prepare her body for his seed. But the look of loss and pain on her face, made him uncomfortable and he didn’t like how she didn’t answer his question.
He could not find pleasure in prepare her body like he had when he had planted Mizuki in Kagome’s womb. Sesshomaru pulled away from her, finding that he didn’t like how Kagome was at the moment. It was not the normal kind of fucking that he had with her in the past, Kagome did not touch him or fight him in anyway at all. She was lying there, waiting for him to thrust into her and be done with it. “Answer me, Kagome or this is going to be how you are, from now? I had not thought to you be a weak person as you are acting now.”
Kagome didn’t answer, she didn’t see reason to until an idea came to her. “Tell me, Sesshomaru…isn’t this how you want me to be? To submit and let you fuck me any way that you want to?”
Sesshomaru looked at Kagome’s face and saw nothing that told him of her emotions…a rare thing for her, since she was all emotion. He thought of her words, he liked her strong nature, he liked how she stood her ground against an enemy and didn’t back down. He didn’t like how she behaved like he was her enemy when he was her Lord and master, he didn’t understand why she hated him when he was gentle with her, gave her pleasure in bed and gave her their daughter. He was willing to plant more of his seed into her waiting womb, but she always seemed to not desire his seed. He had always been told that women desired and craved to have and birth children of their own, and though he knew that Kagome loved their daughter, she seemed to spiteful that she had been made his against her will.
“No, I want that fire that you have inside. I want that fire that you show me when we embrace, if I want a meek fuck, then I would go to my mate.” He told her as clear as day. Kagome looked at him, not understanding what he was saying. His words were in conflict with his actions and earlier words; before he had wanted her to be the same as the noblewomen of this era, but now he was telling her that he wanted the fire that she had in her soul, he wanted what made her herself.
“So you want me to be myself when you fuck me, but you want me to be simply-minded fool when you’re not?” she didn’t know what to say, but that seemed to sum up what he wanted from her and all she would do was stared him in shock.
Sesshomaru looked at her, thinking of her words and found that they were somewhat true, but they weren’t the whole truth. He wanted her to be herself, but he want her to be more refined at the same time like the women of nobility. He didn’t see what he had said as offend to her, he was simply answering her question. He didn’t except the rage or the sudden spike in her powers. He didn’t foresee Kagome’s powers destroying her armguards again, he didn’t let the surprise appear on his face as she tried to push him off her, burning him with her powers.
“Let me go! I don’t want to stay here anymore,” She said, she couldn’t take it anymore. Sesshomaru stared at her, and went he looked into her eyes…he didn’t know what he had seen. He just let her go and went to put his clothes on before leaving her in his rooms alone.
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Nori was surprised when Sesshomaru walked into her rooms and went over to where Mizuki was sleeping. Without a word to his mother, Sesshomaru lied down beside his little Moonlight and took her tiny fist into his own hand. Being near his daughter had calmed him amazingly of the unknown emotions that boiled within his blood, it released him of his desire to go to Kagome and take her.
He knew little about females and everything about Kagome confused him greatly. He had always been taught that nothing could calm a female down like filling her with one’s seed and letting her birth one’s young, but Kagome was different. Her fire blazed too brightly to be calmed by his seed taking root within her body, so what was he to do?
“Why do you tame her, my son?” Sesshomaru had forgotten that his mother was in the room with them and was surprised by her voice. He looked at her in question to what she was talking about. “Your father once told me that if a horse will not be broken of its will, then you need to step back for a time. Let it become calm with your presence always around it, gentle it to you by bonding with it before you take it for a ride again.” Nori said calmly, knowing that her son would understand her words and take the advise…or she would have to admit to her mother about her birthing a hot tempered idiot.
Sesshomaru stared at his mother for a moment longer before looking down at his daughter again as he thought of his actions towards Kagome. Had what he had done to her been wrong? Her will and spirit would not break like another other female would have; she seemed to only grow stronger in her defiance to him and his mastery over her. He thought of the other Lords and their concubines, the other Lords’ females obeyed them without question unlike Kagome.
Sesshomaru lied there, wondering if what he had done in the past was the wrong path until he thought of his mother. His mother would never allow him to go down the wrong direction…but she also wasn’t all knowing as well.
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Takashi smiled at the news that the spy had told him. Sesshomaru was a fool for not taking his mate when he should have, but one demon’s lost was another’s gain. But he needed to leave immediately to be able to take his gain from Sesshomaru’s loss. Giving the orders to the servants to have the chests prepared, Takashi wondered what Kagome would be like in his bed.
He could not wait to abuse her flesh and taste her blood on his tongue, to hear the music of her screams fill the air. Though Takashi was still a little unhappy with her sister and her stupid order, his new little toy had been made immortal with Sesshomaru’s blood mixed. It meant that he would not be able to take Kagome and do the same with to her with his blood instead of Sesshomaru’s…leaving him with two choices at hand. One was to keep Sesshomaru alive and take Kagome’s body in hope that she could carry his child or mate the little human and kill Sesshomaru.
The question was though…which choice does he make?
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Kagome sat there for a long time as she let the events of the night wash over her like warm rain. She didn’t understand anymore, what was she to do? What did she need to do to gain her freedom? Why hadn’t Inuyasha come to save her yet? As her tears started to flow freely down her cheeks, she felt a longing for warm arms to wrap around her as the cold night air caressed her skin. But the question was…was it Inuyasha’s arms or Sesshomaru’s that she longing to have wrapped around her and protect her from the cold. Her mind was spinning in question of what her life was becoming, she wondered if it was even worth living anymore?
Getting up, she walked to the balcony when she felt the Silverlight dance down from the heavens of space to grace her. She looked up and saw the moonlight rain down on her, reminding her of the silver hair of Inuyasha, Sesshomaru…and her baby girl.
Kagome blinked at the moon once, twice and at the third time, she moved to the Koto to play as her mind began to slowly stop its spinning as the answers slowly entered her mind. Mizuki made her life worth living, Inuyasha would come to her and save her from his brother…she would be free of Sesshomaru’s arms. Her music was beautiful and light, filled with her hope that she would not be in her golden cage for forever, that her immortality would one day end.
With every answer that came to her mind, ending the horrid spinning within made the music more lovely than before. With every answer, the story that the music whispered became more clearly until she could see with her ocean blue eyes. A blue and black bird, trapped in a gold and silver cage. Cutting her freedom from her body and giving her pain, a master that forced her to do as he desired over and over again, against her will.
The song of the bird sang and sang until her feathers grew back and her cage door was opened by her master. But she stayed and sang. She stayed and sang…for him. Kagome slowed her playing, thinking of why the bird stayed for him before she tried to change that part of the music. Her fingers though, did not obey the wishes of her mind and the part played over, and over again. Leaving Kagome to would why as her tears dried.
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Inuyasha stared at the silvery moon, hearing sound on the wind. Clear and lovely, he listening as his mind whispered that it was a message to him; but kind of message, one from the dead? One from the gods? Or one from Kagome in some way. Not thinking too deeply into it, Inuyasha listened as his arms ached to hold Kagome within them…like his brother’s.