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Evil rising, Litch Queen of the western continent	By : dragondeedee3 Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 16208 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or anything pertaining to Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi dose. I make no money from writing this story, it is for hobby only.

Chapter List
- 10
- 11
- 12
Chapter 11. Along the way

Russian terminology:

Menshii= lower nobility, like a lower count or something like that

Da= yes

Gospohza= female lord or master

Spaseebo= thank you

The six companions had traveled without stopping until they reached the palace. without delay they boarded the Harlequin and were sailing westward for the mainland.

“Lilly see the ningen to their cabin and the kitchen, they will require sustenance.” Sesshomaru ordered once everyone was aboard.

“Yes my lord.” Lilly led Miroku, Sango and Kirara down below deck.

“Hey I'm starving, I'm gonna go with them.” Inuyasha announced and ran off below deck, followed by Chrono.

Caspiana and her crew milled about busy with the task of sailing the ship, they didn't interact with any of Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru's group. Most of them returned to some lower level of the ship once the task of leaving port was taken care of. The ones that remained above deck kept to themselves.

The kitchen, where Lilly had taken the small group, was big enough for everyone to sit comfortably on the floor and eat together. The cook ignored everyone while mumbling quietly about the food and every so often humming some sailors tune. The food was nothing like what the place had but it was better than roughing it in the woods.

The small group talked about the mainland and what the plan was once they got there, while they ate dry biscuit's and some kind of stew, washing it all down with spiced rum. Once or twice a member or two of the crew would emerge from further below deck to serve themselves a helping of the meal then they would disappear again.

While discussing the plan of action Lilly relayed information that Sango and Miroku had missed about the undead and their queen.

“So the zombie you captured referred to it's maker as queen, and you think she is using a dark magic called forbidden necromancy.” Miroku said.

“Yes and if that's true, then she must be some how connected to the royal dragon family or their mystic sorcerers the Keerine, because they are the only ones who know that type of magic.” Lilly explained.

“Lilly this royal dragon family, do they rule the whole continent?” Sango inquired.

“Not the whole continent. It's broken up between the most powerful demon lords of the different regions, just like our island is. Here I'll show you.”

She held up her hand and whispered some words to a spell. As she did, the tip of her index finger started to glow with a blue aura of magic. Then she started drawing a map in the air, the line she traced stayed visibly glowing.

“The royal dragon family is very powerful and very diverse. The territory they rule is extremely large so it's broken up between different high ranking members of the family, each with their own palace and kingdoms they over see. Their sorcerers, the Keerine are ugly creatures, snake like and treacherous, but dangerously powerful with the magics they use. They work behind the scenes for the different lords manipulating everything that happens with magic. It was from one of their kind I learned to use magic. He bought me for a year from my slave masters and I secretly studied everything I was able to while serving him. I had hoped it would help me become powerful enough to escape, but in the end I wasn't able to. If it weren't for lord Sesshomaru rescuing me, I don't think I would be alive today.”

“Lilly, that's terrible.” Sango said.

“It's ok, if things didn't happen the way they did, I never would have been able to stay with lord Sesshomaru. So I guess in a way, I'm kinda glad.”

Lilly finished drawing and they all looked at the map she had drawn.

“Ok here's where we'll dock once we get there.” Lilly pointed to the eastern coast on the map.

“Up here in the mountains, is Kadesh's territory. And way over here is the Sanhelldren desert, where the dragon's territory is. This here is Kyro's kingdom, he's the western lord of the dragon family. His kingdom is the biggest and most likely the first place that lord Sesshomaru will go after confronting his cousin.” She pointed to an area on the lower western half of the map.

“Um, Lilly isn't that very far away?” Sango asked.

“Yes, very far, almost 9000 miles.” She replied.

“What! How the hell are we gonna get there in time to do anything about the damn zombie queen?” Inuyasha griped, impatiently knocking back yet another glass of rum.

“Oh don't worry, lord Sesshomaru has his own personal way of getting around when he's visiting the continent and needs to travel very far.” Lilly explained.

“He would.” Inuyasha scoffed.

By now, the hanyou's cheeks were slightly dusted with a drunken blush from the amount of rum he drank.

Miroku scooted closer to Chrono and leaned in to whisper.

“So this cousin of lord Sesshomaru's, what kind of woman is she?”

'Could she be as attractive as the demon lord himself?' The monk mused, his slightly drunken mind forgetting to scold him for that line of thinking.

“You don't want to know what she's like, trust me. She hates men, all men. The pack is composed entirely of women. They only keep one or two male inu as breeding slaves locked away in cells and treat them like pet dogs.”

“They what!?”

“Ya she's a little scary sometimes, even though she's nice to girls.” Lilly informed.

“I've told you before Lilly, she scares you because she wants to do the same things to you that guys do.” Chrono said, sounding like he had tried many times to explain this to the neko without success.

“Oh, but you were just kidding, … weren't you?” Lilly naively asked.

“No, I wasn't.” Chrono looked around cautiously then spoke in a low voice to Miroku. “I wouldn't dared say it in front of lord Sesshomaru, but I'm almost positive that woman has a dick ….. A big one.” Chrono warned.

“Can't be bigger than Sesshomaru's.” Inuyasha casually remarked while examining the bottom of yet another empty glass.

The room went eerily silent and Inuyasha slowly looked up.

'Oh shit, did I say that out loud?' He panicked.

“Ha ha ha cuz he's the biggest dick head in the entire world.” The embarrassed hanyou quickly announced.

“Ooooohhh.”

Lilly and Chrono knew Inuyasha was uncomfortable with the idea of his human friends finding out that he was mated to his brother, so they respectfully played ignorant and laughed along with the ningen. They were unaware that Miroku was in fact intimately aware of the two inu's mating and that Inuyasha had probably been right about the demon lord's dick.

“It's funny how you're still so mean to each other even after how close you two have gotten.” Sango laughed.

“Uh, what'd ya mean?” Inuyasha nervously asked.

“You haven't even noticed? When you and lord Sesshomaru fight together now it's like you've been training with each other all your lives. I think that shows how close you've gotten. At least compared to how you used to be, it's really amazing. You must have done some intense training while we were gone.” Sango replied.

Lilly and Chrono couldn't contain it any longer they burst out laughing.

“You could say that.” Chrono snickered.

“Ya and you could, shut the hell up runt.” Inuyasha barked.

“Hey, I'm not a runt!” Chrono protested.

“Really he's not.” Lilly interjected. “He has a larger form just like you and lord Sesshomaru do.”

“You stay out of it neko.”

The three continued to bicker.

Sango leaned over to ask Miroku. “Was it something I said?”

“Uh, of course not Sango dear.” He waved his hand dismissively.

Lilly's, Chrono's, and Inuyasha's bickering escalated into one of the usual fights.

“Ow! Baka, you pulled my hair. Inuyasha sic em!”

“I'm not your dog!”

“But you said you'd protect me, now kill the time shifter.”

“Ha, stupid cat, he's on my side.”

“Get real, this is every man for himself.”

“RRRrrrrrrr that's it I'm going to cast you both into oblivion!” Suddenly a huge bright light burst into a cloud of dust around them.

When the dust cleared and the blinding effect faded, Lilly was sitting alone on the floor where the three of them had just been fighting.

“Lilly! What did you do?” Sango and Miroku demanded.

The healer turned around to face them with two little mice versions of Chrono and Inuyasha hanging by their tails from her mouth.

“Uh oh.” She spit them out. “I um didn't mean to do that.” She sheepishly replied.

“You can change them back, right?” Sango asked.

The rodent duo squeaked in agreement, crossing little mousy arms over their chests.

“Well I could give it a shot, that really wasn't what I was trying to do and it's never happened before so I'm not really sure what the counter spell is.” She fidgeted with her staff nervously.

“What?! You don't know if you can fix it!” Miroku squawked.

“I guess it wasn't such a good idea to cast after drinking.”

“You think?” Mouse Inuyasha squeaked.

“Hey at least your still in this dimension. This is easy to fix, I could have accidentally cast us all into some kind of alternate world” Lilly cheerfully informed.

“What the hell?” Everyone gasped.

“It's ok, just stay calm. I'm sure I can fix this.”

“She's crazy. Someone take that damn stick away from her!” Mouse version of Chrono squeaked in panic.

It was too late, a bright blue flash burst around them again. The smoke cleared and Inuyasha's body had Chrono's clothes on, witch were to small and Chrono's had the fire rat kimono on, witch was to big. When Chrono's body spoke, Inuyasha's voice came out.

“What the hell did you do to me, you sadistic neko?”

Then Chrono's voice came From Inuyasha's body.

“Ahh! Give me back my body, before that baka looses it in the time flow stream.”

“Oops, sorry.”

Another bright flash and cleared smoke revealed both boys in their proper bodies but donning some interesting new features. Chrono had a brand new set of cute inu ears and both boys were sporting tails that matched their ears.

“Stoooopppp!” They both whined.

“Ok, this is good enough for now.” Chrono urged.

“Are you sure? I think I might get it next time.” Lilly got ready to try again.

“YES! We're sure!” Inuyasha and Chrono both yelled.

“Why don't we just wait till you've had time to make a counter spell?” Chrono pleaded.

“Oh ok.” Lilly relented.

Miroku and Sango both looked relieved. Who knows what else would have gone wrong.

Although Miroku wouldn't have complained if Sango had been stuck with a cute tail to compliment her features.

'Round, curvy, luscious features.' The monk's hand drifted over and grabbed one of said features.

“Hentai!”

SMACK

“Oh yeah I almost forgot.” Lilly said, turning her attention to the ningen. “We were supposed to be finding you two a cabin.”

“Wait, a cabin, as in, for both of us, to share, alone?” Sango blushed.

“Oh come on, you'll get along just fine. I'm sure of it.” Lilly pushed both humans down the hall towards the cabins with Sango flailing in protest all the way.

“I better go make sure they actually get where they're going.” Chrono said, before following after them.

Kirara mewed and made her way down the hall also.

Inuyasha sat there alone for a moment. Even the cook had left at some point. He breathed a sigh of frustration to himself.

'Man I'm the biggest baka in the world, how could I just blurt something out like that? Can't be bigger than Sesshomaru's. Rrrrrrr.' He pounded the heel of his palm into his forehead.

“Baka, baka, baka.”

“Something wrong?” Sesshomaru stepped from the shadows in the stairway.

“NO! And why the hell are you lurking in the stairway?”

Sesshomaru had actually been hopping Inuyasha would say something like that. He used his demonic speed to pin the pup face first against the wall. Holding his wrists above his head in one hand while he slipped the free one down the front of Inuyasha's hakama.

“Because I was waiting, you wouldn't want me doing this in front of your friends, would you?” He gripped the hanyou's hardened length, stroking it slowly.

“Uhh, Sesshomaru, s-stop.” Inuyasha struggled weakly.

“Why should I? You are enjoying it so much, your tail is wagging.”

“My what!!!???” Inuyasha craned his neck to look back at the offending appendage and growled. “Traitor.”

Sesshomaru pressed flush to Inuyasha's back and stroked harder.

“Ahhh, kn-nock it off, s-someone's going to walk out here and see us-uhhh.” Inuyasha complained, unconsciously rocking back into the demon lord's body in time to his stroking.

“No.” Sesshomaru just stroked faster. “I want to see you cum.”

“Uhhhh, you've already seen it a hundred times.” Inuyasha struggled more.

Sesshomaru smirked, leaning in close to the hanyou's ear.

“I want to see it again.”

Thrills of electric pleasure rippled through Inuyasha from hearing that word. Sesshomaru squeezed and gripped as he continued stroking.

“Again, and again, and again.” He took the tip of one ear into his mouth, smoothing his tongue over the furry surface and sucking.

“Ahhhh.” Inuyasha cried out, back bowing right down to the tip of his new tail and came to the sound of Sesshomaru's voice echoing through his mind. He fell forward to lean against the wall, panting.

'That damned word, why does he always say it like that?'

Sesshomaru let go of Inuyasha and the hanyou turned around in time to see him put his index finger to his mouth and lick it as if he were sampling some delectable sort of frosting. The sight made his flagged erection spring back to life.

“Your body responds so well to training, pretty soon I will not even need to touch you. The word alone will do the job.” Sesshomaru smirked at the shocked look on Inuyasha's face.

“You're doing it on purpose?”

“Naturally.” Sesshomaru answered.

“Why?” Inuyasha demanded.

“I want to control this body.” Sesshomaru grasped him by the chin and tilted his head appraisingly.

“Why?” Inuyasha glared up at him.

“Because I can and it pleases me to do so.” The demon lord casually replied releasing his chin.

“Why?” Inuyasha still demanded.

Sesshomaru sneered, not at all pleased to be questioned so many times.

“Because I own you, and enjoy controlling you. What is the purpose of this interrogation hanyou?” He growled.

“So you just like it because you like harassing me.” Inuyasha spoke in a shy but still some-what demanding voice.

Sesshomaru was on the verge of becoming irritated when he realized with a smirk that Inuyasha just wanted affection and was too shy to admit it.

“Do you believe that is the only motive behind my attentions, hanyou?”

“It is, isn't it?” He waited for the, of cores it is why else would I be doing this, feeling foolish now for asking in the first place.

Suddenly Inuyasha found himself against the wall again, wrists held on either side of his head and Sesshomaru's lips descending on his own. It was slow and shocking. A hot tongue slipped in past his lips, twining with and teasing his own. One hand moved to slide along his jaw and back into his hair, tugging to angle his head for a deeper assault. Inuyasha moaned and melted into it.

Sesshomaru stepped between Inuyasha's legs so his thigh pressed against the hard line of his arousal and the hanyou moaned into his mouth.

Just then Lilly walked back into the room and froze in the door way.

“Oh, forgive me my lord.” She quickly averted her attention, hiding her eyes.

Sesshomaru, unconcerned with Lilly, lingered a bit longer until he was satisfied he had tasted every inch of the hanyou's mouth. Inuyasha could only stand there and tremble in lust against him. Then following the reverse path along his jawline, Sesshomaru removed his hand from the hanyou's hair, straightened up and shifted his attention to Lilly.

“What is it?”

“I'm sorry my lord, it was not my intention to intrude, it was nothing important. I-I'll go.” Lilly quickly turned to leave.

“We are leaving, so you may stay. See to what ever business brought you.” Sesshomaru turned and walked back to the stairs leading to the top deck.

Inuyasha followed after him blushing and trying not to think about what he had just been caught doing.

'I'm an idiot.' He thought. 'Of course he just does it to harass me. Damn it why did I ask him anyway? It's not like we care about each other, we just fuck. He doesn't even care who we fuck. So much for inu being loyal.'

Above deck the sky was dark, not only because it was evening but because a storm was brewing. Lightning flashed in bright streaks across the black clouds and thunder boomed in the distance.

Inuyasha sniffed the air, the ocean gave everything a salty tang and storms always reminded him of Sesshomaru because their scents were so alike. The two mixing together was different but he kind of liked it.

Sesshomaru stood at the bow of the ship. Everyone was in his or her cabins now except for the two inu.

“Your taijiya, brought something to my attention.”

“Ya what?” Inuyasha asked.

“Since our mating, your training has been neglected. A situation I intend to correct.”

Inuyasha's tail and ears sagged, training was not what he wanted to be doing right at the moment.

“We're on a frickin ship though. You realize it will sink if we put a hole in it, right?” He complained.

“Indeed, I am aware. We will not be sparring, I want you to do some physical training.” Sesshomaru informed.

“Physical training? Hey damn it, I'm not weak!” Inuyasha barked.

“That is good. Then you will be fine if I start you at an advanced level. We shall begin as soon as day breaks.”

“Fine.” Inuyasha huffed, crossing his arms. His tail seemed to move of it's own accord with all his different moods, it perked defiantly without him even having to think about it.

Mean while below deck Lilly returned to the small group with a deck of playing cards.

“Inuyasha didn't want to play?” Miroku asked.

“Um, well he … he's busy.” Lilly replied taking a seat next to Chrono on the floor of the cabin.

“Oh well his loss.” Chrono said and started shuffling the deck so he could deal the cards.

“So how long does it take to get to the mainland?” Sango asked.

“Oh just a few days.” Lilly answered, she looked to Chrono beside her and giggled.

“What?” He growled.

“I was just thinking, it's a good thing you look so cute with those ears and tail because I might not be able to change you back till we reach the continent.”

“Whaaat? Why not?” Chrono griped.

“Well I think I remembered a counter spell for this kind of thing, but I need some supplies from the mainland to prepare it.” Lilly informed.

“Oh man, this is why lord Sesshomaru told you never to cast frivolously. You always make mistakes.” Chrono scolded.

“Hum,that's a good point. I wonder why lord Sesshomaru wasn't mad at me? I'm sure he noticed Inuyasha's tail?” Lilly mused.

“That probably just means you're in real big trouble.” Chrono teased.

“Hey!!! Don't say that. He's really scary when he gets mad.” Lilly whined.

“So are you.” Chrono muttered sarcastically.

“I heard that you little brat.” She growled.

“Could we get back to the game guys?” Miroku asked.

“Whoops, oh ya.” Lilly took her turn, settling for glaring at Chrono instead of starting another fight.

Back above deck the rain had started.

“Come, there is somewhere I wish to take you.”

Inuyasha looked over from his spot perched on the side rail.

“Oh yeah, where's that?”

“In the crows nest.”

He hopped down to follow Sesshomaru.

“Um, don't you mean to the crows nest?” Inuyasha asked, after all it wasn't like Sesshomaru to screw up vocabulary.

“I meant exactly what I said. I want to take you, in the crows nest.”

“Oh.” Inuyasha was blushing again.

The hanyou soon found himself, once again pinned under Sesshomaru. This time he was naked and leaned over the edge of the barrel-like cubby at the very top of the tallest mast.

“Are your sure this is such a good idea during a storm?” Inuyasha asked watching the near by clouds erupt with huge bolts of lightning.

“Perhaps not, but the storm will be loud enough to ensure that your friends do not hear us and come rushing to your aid.”

“Shut up I'm not that loud.” Inuyasha objected.

“Then shall we go to my cabin?”

Inuyasha growled and went back to watching the lightning explode in the clouds while rain ran in streams down his body.

“The weather's not that bad.”

Sesshomaru smirked, leaning over top of the sulking hanyou, he pressed his fingers to the pup's lips.

“Indeed, now suck.”

Inuyasha wondered for a moment if he should bite the arrogant bastard, but decided against it because he was pretty sure that would result in being taken without preparation. He reluctantly opened his mouth letting the long digit's slip inside. He curled his tongue around them, sucking and laving.

“Good boy.” Sesshomaru's voice purred. He presses himself to the wet line of Inuyasha's back, biting along his neck and down to his shoulder.

“That is enough.”

He took his fingers from Inuyasha's mouth and moved them to slide between the smooth curves of his cheeks and into the tight ring of his entrance. He kept them there only long enough to elicit a few moans and slick the narrow channel. Then moved the hanyou's new tail to the side and entered him in one forceful thrust.

“Aaahhhhhhh!” Inuyasha cried out, quivering against the intrusion.

Sesshomaru growled contently, and started thrusting without waiting for the hanyou to adjust. It seemed the demon lord had an urge to be violent. Sesshomaru dug his claws into Inuyasha's shoulders and raked them down his back.

Inuyasha screamed out, gripping the wooden rail he was bent over. Blood and rain flowed in rivulets down his sides. Sesshomaru bit into one shoulder until his teeth scraped bone and thrust harder. Then a smooth hot tongue ran over the wounds with gentle swipes. Inuyasha moaned in a ragged voice.

'How can he do this to me? How does he make me feel so good, when he's ripping me apart?'

“It is quite ironic.” Sesshomaru's voice interrupted. “At times it seems this resilient little body of yours was made just for me. And I want to do such terrible things to it.”

The demon lord traced a claw down Inuyasha's spine to the tip of his tail causing the hanyou to arc his back and cry out in surprise.

Apparently, the tail was just as sensitive as his ears. Sesshomaru grinned maliciously.

He hadn't been upset with Lilly about the tail because of how well it suited the pup, but now it seemed to have some interesting, and useful possibilities.

He gave a few sharp tugs, digging his claws in under the fur and forced the palm of his other hand between Inuyasha's shoulder blades to hold the pup down, ignoring his yelps of protest. Then slowly and seductively he stroked his hand up and down the sodden downy fur.

Inuyasha was moaning, until once again sharp claws countered the pleasure, tearing into him while fast, hard thrusting continued. The demon lord's teeth left neat circular wounds all over Inuyasha's body. They welled up with crimson that quickly washed into runny red streaks over honeyed cream skin.

“Nothing compares to the pleasure I find in hurting you.” Sesshomaru growled into a soggy furred koinu ear.

“Then why are you holding back.” Inuyasha panted. “Harder.” His voice trembled in a breathy plea.

Sesshomaru's eyes lit with a sadistic thrill that rushed through him and he tore into Inuyasha with a dangerous passion, taking the hanyou hard enough to lift his body up with each thrust.

As the night wore on Inuyasha's voice went ragged and cracked from his cries.

The rain continued to pour down long after the two inu had poured themselves out. Sesshomaru scooped up a shivering and broken hanyou, carefully covered him with the fire rat kimono and carried him below deck.

“If someone sees me like this, … I'm gonna kill you.” Inuyasha weakly threatened.

“Indeed, I'm sure you will try.”

They entered Sesshomaru's cabin without encountering anyone along the way.

Sounds of laughter and chatting could be heard coming from further down the hall, where their companions were still awake playing cards.

The demon lord set Inuyasha gently down on the floor at the foot of the bed, stripped off his own wet garments and retrieved a towel from the wash room. He sat on the end of the bed with the bloody and bruised pup between his legs and started carefully drying him off.

“Your human blood makes you susceptible to illness, when your body is weakened like this, does it not?”

“I'll be fine, you don't have ta do this.”

Sesshomaru lightly swatted Inuyasha's hand away from the towel, where he was trying to take it, to finish drying himself.

“I am aware that I am not required to tend to you.”

Inuyasha dropped his hand away and focused his attention on the floor. He was really too weak from all the wounds to put up much of a fight anyway.

“So why are you then?”

“You wanted affection, did you not?”

Inuyasha blushed at the blunt question.

“No! I didn't.” He barked defensively, coloring brighter from embarrassment.

Sesshomaru continued gently toweling off the pup's long snowy hair before he spoke again.

“It is completely natural for an uke to crave his seme's affection.” Sesshomaru finished drying him and pulled the hanyou up into his arms. Inuyasha flailed and struggled, protesting against the comfort.

“Stop it, I'm not a uke and I do not want to be cuddled damn it!”

Sesshomaru wasn't phased. He held the pup until he went limp from his struggles, finally giving in to fatigue and the simple need to be held. Sesshomaru tucked them both under the covers pulling the smaller naked form closer to his own, sharing the heat of his body to warm the hanyou's chilled skin.

“It is written into your very being, this body will long for my attention and mine alone for the rest of your life. It can not be helped, it is part of being mated. There is no shame in it.”

“Easy for you to say, your not the one who has to be the bitch.”

“Inuyasha, just be quiet and accept this. While it may be natural for you to want my attention, it is not in my nature to give it.”

“Then why bother?” Inuyasha growled, ready to struggle again.

“Because for some unknown reason I am compelled to do so. Now be still.” Sesshomaru's grip on the hanyou tightened.

Inuyasha growled his disapproval but stayed still anyway.

“You know, you confuse the hell out of me.” He griped, irritated.

“How so?” Sesshomaru asked while he absently examined and toyed with a few strands of Inuyasha's hair.

“You say stuff like I'll only crave you, and inu are loyal but what about that stuff we did with Miroku?”

“You believe it to be disloyal?” Sesshomaru's voice was it's usual disinterested tone.

“Well, wasn't it?”

“No, we agreed to include the monk. Having two partners is very common among demon, it is not disloyalty if we agree and besides, did you not enjoy taking him?”

“Even if I did, that only proves my point. I can't see how it's very loyal to include just anyone in our-” Inuyasha hesitated, blushing. “Our sex life.”

“Do not misunderstand me hanyou. I am every bit as covetous, arrogant and possessive as you believe me to be. I have no intention of sharing you with anyone, no other will have you the way I do. The inclusion of a third is a gift of sorts between mates. I gain pleasure from watching you dominate another, while I alone am the only one you will submit to.”

“Keh, you are an arrogant bastard. So what if I don't agree?”

“I will not force you. Though you should know, I will not stand for false denials either.” Sesshomaru traced the edge of the hanyou's ear with his tongue, making him shiver.

“Your such an asshole.” The insult was playful.

“Indeed, now go to sleep.”

The soft light of dawn had just begun to creep into the room when Inuyasha woke with a start to the sting of something hard ricocheting off his head. He quickly sat up and glared around the room, his groggy attention settled on the cocky demon lord leaning against the door frame leading to their room.

“Time for training.” Sesshomaru informed.

Inuyasha growled rubbing between his ears.

“Where the fuck did you get a damn rock from, ya bastard. And don't you start that shit again!” Inuyasha irately protested.

Sesshomaru just walked away, ignoring the hanyou's aggravation.

Inuyasha crawled out of bed grumpy and cussing. His wounds from the night before still ached, some were still raw enough that they were sure to open and start bleeding again if training put much stress on them. Others had faded into nasty blue and purple bruises. But he figured they would all heal up soon enough, so he dress himself and sleepily saunter up the stairs to meet the demon lord on top deck.

“Do we really have to do this at the ass crack of dawn?” Inuyasha groused.

“Being able to preform at your optimum level no mater the state of your mind and body is essential.”

Sesshomaru gestured to an up turned metal bucket on the deck.

“Start with one handed push ups, alternate arms and keep your feet on the bucket.”

“Feh, too easy.” Inuyasha hoped down into position and quickly started cycling between arms.

“How many?” He asked.

“Until I tell you to stop.”

With that said Sesshomaru turned and walked away, disappearing into the captains cabin. Inuyasha scoffed. 'Like this is gonna wear me out.'

Caspiana sat leaned back in her chair with her boots up on her table, reading over some maps.

“Punishment?” She asked.

“Training.” Sesshomaru answered.

“Witch was it when yar father had you in thee same position?” She slyly inquired.

“That is none of your concern kitsune.”

Sesshomaru recalled the day his own father had ordered him into the same task he now had Inuyasha preforming. It was the last time he had ever been punished. He didn't remember now what had brought it on, he only remembered the humiliation, and seething anger it caused. Caspiana had only been a kit at the time, the fact that she remembered the event was rather disconcerting. It must have left an impression on the young girl.

Of course it had been quite the battle of wills before he had actually conceded to the chastisement. His dominant nature formed very early and it always made punishments extremely difficult to accept. Even from his alpha, father. His yokai would rage in protest against being forced to submit to the will of another.

A rack containing rows and rows of different liquors, wines, rums, and spirit's took up the whole of the far wall, behind Caspiana's chair. The demon lord helped himself to a glass of the fine wine she kept in her collection while he watched Inuyasha through the windows of the cabin. It was amusing that Inuyasha didn't seem to mind bending to the will of his alpha, at least not when given the proper motivation.

“We should be docking tomorrow evening, mi lard. Will ye be having us wait at the docks far yar return?” Caspiana asked.

“That will not be necessary, I am not certain what the duration of this excursion will be. You may do as you please once we arrive.”

“Yes mi lard.”

Sesshomaru took his drink and walked to the bow of the ship, to take up his usual post watching over the waves of the sea and the point of the horizon where the ocean met the sky. Making certain to seem completely uninterested in the continuous ripple of lithe muscles, flexing in Inuyasha's arms, shoulders and back as he smoothly rose and lowered his slim frame, from and to the deck. Or the slight sway of the tail that seemed to so wonderfully accent the pert round curves of his perfect little ass.

It struck Sesshomaru, that he had not give Inuyasha permission to stop and remove his kimono, but he opted to dismiss it, in favor of being able to enjoy the stunning view.

He wondered if Inuyasha realized his pale creamy skin was still littered with the demon lord's marks. Vivid black, blue, purple and red teeth marks, claw marks and bruised impressions. If not, he was sure to find out as soon as his companions emerged from their cabin. The sight was to enjoyable to consider having him cover it just yet though.

It was rather surprising to Sesshomaru that Inuyasha was healing as fast as he was though. The demon lord had released a large dose of poison into the pup, during the heat of the moment the night before.

'He appears to be building a tolerance to my poison.' Sesshomaru mused while examining his claws.

Some hours later, Sesshomaru had gone to figure out where Jaken had gotten off to and order him to do something. That's when Sango and Miroku had decided to join everyone above deck. They ran into Lilly first.

“Well look who finally crawled out of their cabin.” She teased.

Sango rubbed at her eyes, they all had been up very late playing the card game they had started.

“Does anyone know how long we were playing for last night?” Miroku asked mid yawn.

“Pretty late.” Chrono answered.

“It was a lot of fun though, we should do it again before we reach the continent. Maybe we can get Inuyasha and lord Sesshomaru to join us too.” Sango cheerfully suggested.

“Ya that would be great, I highly doubt you'll get lord Sesshomaru to play though.” Lilly explained.

“I bet Inuyasha could get him to.” Miroku mused to himself.

“Oh what makes you think that Miroku?” Sango over heard and asked.

“Oh uh, no reason. Really it was a dumb idea.”

“No I think your right let's go ask him.” Sango ran off in search of the inu hanyou.

“Sango, no wait. Oh crap.” Miroku chased after her.

Inuyasha was finally starting to feel the burn of acid build up on his muscles. He lost count of the repetitions hours ago and now was just droning through it. Left arm, up down. Right arm, up down. Repeat. Crew members had been milling around him all morning so he almost didn't even notice when Sango skidded to a halt next to him.

“Inuyasha, oh my goodness what happened? Who attacked you? Are you ok?”

Inuyasha was oblivious to the wounds at this point, he kept doing his push ups and stared at her in confusion.

“What are you talking about? No one attacked me.”

“But your body is covered in wounds.” She urged.

“Hun?” He looked over his shoulder and down the length of his back. 'Oh shit, they're not healed yet? Why aren't they healed yet? Damn it, what do I say?' Inuyasha panicked.

“Oh, I uh, well it's dumb really. I was so drunk I fell off the ship last night. Musta got banged up by something in the water, you know. I can't remember much more than I fell in.” He gave her a big cheesy, guilty smile. 'Please buy that.'

“Oh, well you really shouldn't drink so much if you get like that.” She scolded.

'Few.' He breathed a sigh of relief, laughing nervously.

“Yeah, guess I shouldn't.”

Miroku stayed silent but inwardly laughed at Inuyasha's ability to cover his ass. He was fairly certain the hanyou didn't fall into anything last night, but the clutches of a certain demon lord. That thought made him shiver, it reminded him of his encounter with the two inu and just how easy it was to fall into those clutches.

He was still awkwardly embarrassed about the whole thing and he hated missing all the chances to rag on Inuyasha about it. But he knew if he opened his mouth he was sure be thrown under the bus too and Sango would find out what he had done with them. It truly did killed him though, not to be able to crack a few good jokes.

“Well I came over here to ask you if you wanted to join our card game tonight?” Sango asked.

“Uh, sure I guess.” Inuyasha answered.

“Great, do you think you could ask lord Sesshomaru to play as well.” She asked

“Sure.” Inuyasha shrugged as best he could while doing push ups.

“Play?” Sesshomaru's cold voice coming from directly behind him, sent a chill down Miroku's spine.

“Speak of the devil.” Inuyasha muttered. “They want us to join their card game tonight.”

“This Sesshomaru does not play games.”

At that, the demon lord strode off to his perch on the bow.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. “I'll ask lord stick-up-his-ass later.”

“Ok, are you coming down for breakfast? It smells great, what ever it is.” Sango asked.

“Na, I'm gonna finish training first.” He replied.

“Ok we'll catch up with you later then.” Her and Miroku headed back towards the stairs leading below deck, He could hear Sango talking to Miroku as they walked away.

“See I told you he's been doing intense training since we left.”

“You certainly did.” Miroku snickered.

Another hour or so passed while Inuyasha continued doing push ups, his arms were burning and his muscles felt like they were going to burst. He was so relieved to see Sesshomaru walking back over, he was certain it was to say he could stop now.

“Are you ready to stop?” The demon lord asked.

“What do you think? Dick.” Inuyasha growled through gritted teeth.

“Very well, do one hundred more and you can stop.”

Inuyasha smiled, a hundred wasn't to many more. If he pushed himself he could probably have them done in no time. Just as he braced his arms to increase his speed Sesshomaru plunked down on his back.

“W-what the h-hell?” His voice shook from the strain of holding the extra weight. “Baka you weigh a tone, get off of me!”

The demon lord reclined with his feet up on Inuyasha's shoulders, supporting himself with one hand on the hanyou's trembling thigh.

“If you do not hurry, someone is bound to see us like this.” He used the tip of Inuyasha's tail to fan himself as he spoke.

“You bastard!”

“Inuyasha, why am I not hearing you counting?”

“Oh for the love of all the rrrrrrr, one. Fucking asshole, two. I'm gonna kick your fucking ass, three. Uhhhh, seriously what the hell do you eat? You don't look like you weigh this much, four. Damn fat ass.”

“If you have enough energy to insult me you should be fine with two hundred.”

“Rrrrr you fucking bastard.”

It was rather amusing that Inuyasha would protest so fervently, yet never once try to fight Sesshomaru about it.

By the time night had fallen Inuyasha was starving, aching, beaten and broken. After the push ups, Sesshomaru made him swim for an hour along side the ship, do sit ups for three, and then leg exercises for another three. While the bastard sat back like a drill Sergeant, using his whip when ever Inuyasha stopped or gave out from fatigue.

The poor hanyou had been pushed to his limit and then shoved a mile past it. His whole body was quivering when he finally got to sit down and eat. He shoveled the food down like he hadn't eaten in weeks.

“Geez Inuyasha are you just now finished with your training?” Miroku asked.

“Ya.” Inuyasha answered rubbing at his shoulder.

“Wow you look pretty tense, why don't you have some of that rum from yesterday. It'll help loosen up your muscles.” Lilly advised.

“You think so?” Inuyasha grabbed the glass jug and started chugging.

“Um, that's a little much don't you think? I only meant enough to- and your not listening to me.”

Inuyasha flopped backwards with the bottle still in his mouth and let the whole thing drain down his throat.

“Hick-up Wow that's much better.” He sat up with a dizzy wobble and drunken blush.

“Well I guess cards are out of the question for you.” Miroku said pocking the hanyou on the nose to see if he would fall over again.

“Keh I'm fine, you just don't want me ta win.” Inuyasha jumped up to prove his point and that was it. The world spun four or five times then everything went black.

Sesshomaru stood staring down at his unconscious hanyou sprawled out on the floor of the kitchen.

The small group had covered him with a blanket and returned to a cabin so their game wouldn't disturb his much needed rest. Sesshomaru shook his head then bent to lift the pup into his arms and silently carried him down the hall.

Inuyasha stirred slightly from being moved, still half asleep he clung to the demon lord's shoulders and spoke in that dreamy far away voice people get when they talk in their sleep.

“Sessh, … don't hate me agin, ok … think I care about y- …. I'll try harder … not be pathetic-” He was asleep again before he had even finished his drunken ramble.

Sesshomaru stood frozen in the empty hall way. 'I have never hated you, Inuyasha, only the circumstances of your existence.' Finally collecting himself he shook his head again.

“Foolish hanyou.”

When Inuyasha woke the next morning, the sun was shining bright and Sesshomaru was still in bed.

The demon lord lay silently staring up at the ceiling.

“Hey.” Inuyasha quietly greeted.

Sesshomaru turned to look at him.

“How'd I get back here?” Inuyasha sat up rubbing his eyes.

“I brought you.”

“Oh, … thanks. Um aren't we late for training?”

“I let you sleep in.”

Inuyasha gave him a disbelieving look and crawled across the bed to press his hand to Sesshomaru's forehead.

“Are you feeling ok?” The casual contact caught the demon lord off guard and he stilled under the hanyou's warm touch to the sensitive marking on his forehead.

“No fever.”

Inuyasha remarked and started to pull his hand away but Sesshomaru grabbed him by the wrist and tugged him over to straddle his hips. The other hand caught Inuyasha's chin and held him still while the demon lord sealed their lips together.

Inuyasha stared in wide eyed shock for a moment before blushing bright cherry red, flailing and struggling free of Sesshomaru's grip. He scooted further back on the demon lord's legs.

“Baka! Just cause I wanted affection once doesn't mean I want it all the time.” His face turned three more shades of red as he scowled at the demon in front of him.

Sesshomaru grinned seductively at him.

“Your tail seems to disagree.”

Inuyasha looked back at the offending appendage. It was cheerfully wagging back and forth. Inuyasha grabbed the treacherous limb and growled.

“I'm gonna kill that neko.”

“Not until you are done with your training for the day.”

“Great, how many thousands of push ups am I doing today?” Inuyasha griped.

“None, today should be fairly simple. You are only required to do five sit ups.”

Inuyasha stared at him not trusting.

“You should be able to handle that, should you not?” Sesshomaru started stalking Inuyasha as he backed across the bed.

“Yeah? Why do I get the feeling there's a catch to this?”

Sesshomaru pounced, grabbing Inuyasha around the waist and rolled so he lay on his back on the bed with Inuyasha pinned back down to his chest. Sesshomaru locked his legs over top of Inuyasha's and held the hanyou's arms behind his head.

“No catch, just do five sit ups.”

“You bastard!” Inuyasha struggled, wiggled and strained trying to sit up. Every bit of force he put forward, Sesshomaru countered, pulling back.

“Damn it, I'd like to see you do a sit up in this position.”

“I'll just bet you would.” Sesshomaru's voice purred into his ear.

“Fuck you, that's cheating. No distracting me.”

“I will distract you if I like, remember, being able to preform at your optimum level no mater the state of your mind or body is essential.” Sesshomaru traced the edge of the hanyou's ear with his tongue and nipped at the sensitive tip.

Inuyasha continued to squirm, thrash and struggle but nothing worked, he couldn't budge. That wasn't about to stop him though, it only provoked him to try harder. Cussing loudly and throwing as many insults as he could think of, he strained against the demon lord with all his might.

Sesshomaru just grinned to himself, as Inuyasha unconsciously rubbed his cute little butt over the hard line of his arousal fighting with all his strength to over power the demon lord and do a sit up. It was humorous how masochistic the pup could be, his continuous head strong defiance was just the same as begging for further punishment.

An hour or so later Sango and Miroku emerged from their cabin and started walking up the hall to the kitchen but stopped when they over heard a commotion coming from Sesshomaru's cabin.

“Come now hanyou, you have not even done one. Do you truly enjoy my embrace that much?”

“Get the hell off of me and I'll show you how damn much I like your fucking embrace, bastard.”

“It is you, that is on me.”

“Well I can't very well get off unless you let me go, now can I?”

“No you can not, I suppose you are stuck there until you finish the task.”

“Uh, Miroku. Do you think Inuyasha's ok in there?” Sango asked with concern.

Miroku quickly grabbed her and pushed her along down the hall.

“Yes, yes I'm certain he's quite fine. No reason to linger I'm just starving let's go get some breakfast.”

All day bizarre shouting and struggles could be heard coming from inside Sesshomaru's cabin. Neither inu had emerged even once from behind that door and all the shouting had been just as strange as what the two ningen had overheard on their way to breakfast.

“What do you suppose is going on in there?” Sango asked looking over her shoulder to the hall where the yelling echoed from.

She sat awkwardly with everyone else in the kitchen trying to eat dinner and trying not to laugh at the particularly vulgar insults Inuyasha came up with.

“I can only imagine that it's part of his training.” Miroku offered.

Actually Miroku could imagine a number of things that it could be part of, but none of them were appropriate to say in front of Sango, without getting slapped.

“That's four you fucking bastard. I only have to do this one more time before I get to kick your fucking ass.” Inuyasha shouted in panting breaths.

“He sure seems to be working really hard at something.” Chrono jeered.

Lilly jabbed him in the ribs with her elbow and glared at him.

“What? He is.”

“He sure doesn't sound happy about it either.” Sango remarked.

“FIVE!!! Ha eat that, you cock sucking, egotistical, condescending, arrogant ass fucking, bastard! I fucking win.”

Sesshomaru released his hold on Inuyasha's arms and leg and easily slid out from under him.

“Congratulations, I will be waiting to have my ass kicked above deck.”

The demon lord smirked as he casually left the room as if he had not expended any energy what so ever. While Inuyasha collapsed onto the bed in a panting, disheveled heap.

“Asshole.” He grumbled into the mattress.

No one spoke or even moved a muscle when Sesshomaru strode through the kitchen as prim and pristine as he ever was and silently ascended the stairs.

When Inuyasha dragged himself out of the room and down the hall he looked like he had been doing exactly what everyone thought he had been doing all day. His hair was frizzed, kimono hung open in disarray and he was obviously winded from some kind of physical exertion. Everyone stared at him, shocked.

“Are you ok Inuyasha?” Sango gently asked.

“I'm fine damn it, what the hell is everyone staring at me for?”

“Inuyasha, if your brother did something to you against your will-” Sango was cut off by Inuyasha's tirade.

“Did something?! What the hell is that supposed to mean? It was just sit ups. What the hell did you think we were doing in there you bunch of pervs?!!!”

“It took you all day to do five sit ups?” Chrono baited cheekily.

“Ya it did, you gotta problem with that, why don't you go ask Sesshomaru to show you how it's done.” Inuyasha growled threateningly.

This was obviously about to turn into another fight. Just before Miroku was going to step in as mediator, a voice from above deck hollered.

“Land ho!”

And just like that the threatening atmosphere dissipated. The crew all rushed up from the lower levels of the ship followed by Inuyasha and the others.

In the distance the glowing lights of a very large and very busy looking town could be seen dancing off the waves as they crashed into the coast line. Other ships and boats of all shapes and sizes were coming and going from the enormous port. All with their lights shining and horns sounding.

It didn't take long to dock the ship and unload. Caspiana gladly ordered her men to help remove the undead monster from her hull.

“Good riddance to that cursed creature. Bad luck to sail with undead beasties aboard, I'm telling you mi lard. Send that thing back to Davy's locked befar it bring a bad omen upon ye.” Caspiana warned.

“Silence kitsune, I have no need of your superstitious nonsense.” Sesshomaru dismissed her.

“Then it be fair well mi lard. We'll be shovin off from here.”

Sesshomaru gave a slight nod in response then turned and walked down the dock to join his group.

“Batten thee hatches and weigh anchor mi hearties. Put yar backs into it men, the sea be a callin.” Caspiana's voice bellowed from the ship.

“You know she's the strangest kitsune I've ever met. It's to bad Shippo couldn't have met her.” Miroku mused.

“Ya.” Inuyasha agreed.

Sesshomaru left the group with the small collection of supplies while he and Jaken went to speak with one of the dock-masters about summoning the demon lord's transport. When he returned everyone was sitting around chatting. Inuyasha found food from somewhere because he was chowing down on something. It had been another day of training without food or drink for him and he was starving.

“Jaken, take Lilly, Chrono and the ningen to the bazaar. See that every one is properly clothed for our journey.” Sesshomaru ordered.

“Yes mi lord.”

“We will wait here for my transport so do not dawdle.”

“Yes, of course mi lord.” Jaken bowed and hurried off leading the group away.

The demon lord silently settled himself near the famished hanyou.

“Your buying us cloths?” Inuyasha asked with his mouth full and head cocked to the side.

“It is the preferred task, as apposed to being burdened with your dead frozen bodies.”

“Dick.” Inuyasha growled shoveling in another bite.

“What exactly are you eating?”

Inuyasha paused and looked down at the assorted items in his lap.

“Not really sure, Lilly saved it for me from what they ate earlier. Want one?”

“No.” Sesshomaru sneered turning his head away.

“Fuck you then, more for me.” Inuyasha went back to stuffing his face.

Nearly an hour passed before Jaken and the others returned. They each carried a small pile of supplies over and stacked it on the things that were unloaded from the ship. Among the items were long fur lined coats, boots and hats. The things needed for Lilly's counter spell and some food.

“Took you guys long enough.” Inuyasha remarked.

“Talk to the neko.” Chrono griped.

“It's not my fault, I don't get to go to places like that very often. All the shiny things and good smelling food are distracting.” Lilly complained.

“Good food?” Inuyasha perked up. “What kind of food are we talking about?” He asked.

“Lots of kinds, haven't you ever been to a bazaar before?” Lilly inquired.

“No.”

“Oh it's amazing, row after row after row of vender's selling all kinds of different things and foods. Here try this, it's the best, most wonderful stuff in the entire world.”

She held up a little pouch containing some strange dried herb. Inuyasha sniffed cautiously at it, the scent reminded him of the stuff Kagome gave her cat some times. He shrugged and put a tiny sample on his tongue.

“Um, and why is it the best stuff in the world, again?”

Lilly stuck her nose in the bag and inhaled deep lung fulls of its scent. Her pupils dilated into saucers and she started purring.

“Because, it just is.”

“Ooookkkk.”

Chrono walked over and looked disapprovingly at the loopy neko.

“Lilly, when did you buy cat nip?”

Lilly clutched the bag to her chest.

“None of your business. It's mine and your not taking it.” After sticking out her tongue Lilly ran off to hide in close proximity to Sesshomaru.

Chrono rolled his eyes.

“Great she's going to be completely useless for the next few hours.” He griped.

“Cat nip? Seriously, I thought that stuff only worked on animals.” Inuyasha questioned.

“Me too, I think Lilly's just a special case.” Chrono sarcastically replied.

“Our ride is here.” Sesshomaru informed.

Sango, Miroku, Kirara and Inuyasha looked around the busy docks.

“I don't see anything.” Inuyasha said.

Chrono tapped him on the shoulder then pointed up to the sky.

Coming down out of the dark evening clouds was a colossal feathered dragon beast. It's wing span must have been one hundred feet across, decorated in vibrant orange, brown and cream colored feathers. It had an enormous beak, scale plated chest and underbelly, and a long tail with a fan of feathers at the end.

Powerful legs led down to huge taloned feet that it was using to carry what looked like some kind of small building. The structure was made up of a wooden base and floor, surrounded by a decorative wooden railing with tall intermittently spaced columns to support the ornate roof. Atop the roof was a giant handle the beast gripped to carry the structure.

“That's your transportation?” Inuyasha squawked, gapping at the monstrous animal.

“Chrono, Jaken, see that everything gets loaded.” Sesshomaru ordered before leaping far up to stand upon the creatures head.

“Yes my/mi lord.” Chrono and Jaken answered together.

Sesshomaru lashed his whip out to coil around the monsters beak, then directed his attention to Sango and Miroku.

“It would be most advisable for you ningen to enter while I have the beast detained. It is not a particularly tame creature.”

Sango and Miroku hurried into the wooden structure without question.

“You know if that thing tries to eat them, I'm gonna kill it.”

Sesshomaru ignored the threat and the hanyou it came from.

Inuyasha decided to help load everything because it was slow progress with only Chrono and Jaken.

Lilly was laid out on top of the cage containing the one talking zombie they had captured and brought along to return to Kadesh and her pack. She was in a fit of giggles and talking to the witless creature. It seemed Chrono had been right, she was completely useless like this. What could she possibly like so much about that cat nip stuff, if this is what it did to her?

Having the hanyou's help made quick work of loading up and soon they were air born heading north west towards the icy mountain tundra. The enormous feathered dragon took them up into the sky with easy, quickly breaching the cloud layer and soaring high above it.

“Damn this makes my ears feel funny.” Inuyasha said rubbing at one of the furry flaps.

“It is because the air pressure is different at this elevation.” Sesshomaru informed.

“It feels like there's not enough oxygen too.” Sango remarked.

“Indeed, at this height the oxygen level is depleted.”

“Will you guys be ok like this?” Inuyasha asked.

“We should be, as long as we don't move around a lot and control our breathing.” Miroku answered.

“Well you might as well kick back and relax, cuz we still got a ways to go.” Chrono said leaning against the railing looking over the cloud scape.

“You might want to grab those warmer clothes too. It's gonna get real cold, real fast.”

Everyone bundled up and hunkered down for the flight, eventually almost everyone fell asleep. Jaken huddled by himself. Sango and Miroku were curled together with Kirara under a thick fur blanket, wrapped in their new warmer clothing.

Chrono slept close to Lilly, both donned their warmer garments. The little neko finally passed out, tucked into a cubby in the pile of supplies.

Inuyasha sat with a fur draped over his shoulders, lightly sleeping with his back leaned against one of the columns next to Sesshomaru.

The demon lord stood quietly watching the clouds flow under them like a silent puffy river, with his arms neatly tucked into the sleeves of his kimono. He was too powerful to have any worries of freezing in the near arctic weather so he didn't bother with a coat.

When morning came Inuyasha slowly woke snuggled under the pelt that covered his shoulders with Sesshomaru's moko moko curled around his legs and waist. He reached out and touched the fur to make sure he wasn't dreaming, then looked up at the demon lord still standing next to him.

“Uh, ... thanks.” He stood up and handed the incredibly warm length of downy fluff back to him.

“You were shivering in your sleep.” The demon lord stated.

“It is pretty damn cold.” Inuyasha ran his hands up and down his arms.

Sesshomaru strode over to the supplies and tossed the last set of thermal fur lined garments to him.

“Then wear what I have provided foolish hanyou.”

“You're not wearing it.” Inuyasha accused.

“I have no human blood in my body and there for do not require it.”

Inuyasha dropped the thick material to the floor.

“Then I don't need to either.”

“Inuyasha, put them on.”

Inuyasha crossed his arms and glared defiantly at him.

“Then there is no other choice, I shall have to employ other means of warming this body.”

“Wait Sesshomaru don't, no, sto-”

Sesshomaru stepped to close, pinning Inuyasha between himself and the railing. He wrapped his long arms around the pup's slim shivering body and forced his tongue past the cold set of quivering lips.

Despite Sesshomaru's lips also being cold his tongue was searing hot and melted Inuyasha from the inside out.

The hanyou struggled against him while his mouth was invaded, unaware that his obi what being removed until it was to late and Sesshomaru had both his hands tied together behind his back.

Slowly withdrawing from the kiss the demon lord looked down at him with a smug little grin.

“Hum all warm here, where else are you cold?”

Sesshomaru started working his way down Inuyasha's body with his tongue.

“T-t-taking m-my cloths off i-i-isn't going to warm me uh-uh-up.”

Sesshomaru paused just before the pup's nipple.

“You should have obeyed, now you will suffer the consequences.”

He closed his mouth over the hard little nub, flicking it with his tongue and rolling it between his teeth.

“Uhhh, S-S-Sesshomaru don't d-d-do this here.” He moaned pleadingly. “Everyone w-will see us if they wake up.” He was still shivering and panting foggy puffs of breath as he struggled not to give into the pleasure.

“Then be silent and hope they do not wake.”

Sesshomaru switched over to the other nipple, laving and nipping it as well.

“Can you not be silent, hanyou?”

He licked his way back up Inuyasha's chest and collar bone, to his neck.

“Stop, I- I Uhhhh.”

Sesshomaru left a neat little set of teeth marks in the side of Inuyasha's neck, then pressed flush to the front of him while staring down with an arrogant leer.

“If you desired me to stop, you would free yourself and make me. I can only conclude from your lack of action, that you do not truly want me to.”

As Sesshomaru began to pull away Inuyasha gasped a pained whimpering sound, then in a hurry, ripped free of the obi and grabbed Sesshomaru around the shoulders.

“Don't.”

His voice held the hint of unease.

Sesshomaru raised a questioning eyebrow at him.

“Were you that unaware of your ability to free yourself?”

“I … I'm stuck.”

Sesshomaru looked down to where Inuyasha's bare, wet chest was pressed to the freezing metal of his armor.

“Oh my.”

Sesshomaru's voice purred with malicious intent.

“You wouldn't.”

However the wicked look on Sesshomaru's face said that he would.

Inuyasha could see behind the demon lord, every one was beginning to rose from the hushed commotion. In a last ditch effort to keep from being seen in the state they currently were in, Inuyasha tightened his grip on Sesshomaru and leaped off the railing, up onto the roof and one more jump landed them on the dragons back.

The landing had jarred them and pulled a bit of his frozen skin from the metal, Inuyasha gasped again. A little blood welled up in tiny dots where too many layers of skin had stayed stuck to the armor when the other parts had pulled free.

“Fucking bastard, what the hell did you do that for?” He still held Sesshomaru around the shoulders. Considering his poor little nipples were frozen some where to that stupid bulky breast plate, he didn't want the demon lord moving around.

“How the hell are we supposed to get out of this one genius?”

It was obvious to Sesshomaru what needed to be done, yet teasing the hanyou was just too enjoyable.

“Well I could simply remove it in one pull or I could go slowly and remove it little by little.”

Sesshomaru could feel the pup's arousal twitch where it was pressed against him. Inuyasha may not be admitting it out loud but his body was very clearly excited about the promised pain of this predicament.

“Do it a little at a time.” Inuyasha finally decided.

“Ok on the count of three, I will carefully pull just tell me when to stop.”

“Ok.” Inuyasha hesitantly agreed.

“Alright, One, ...”

RIP!!!!

“AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

Inuyasha howled an erotic cross between a scream and a moan.

“Three.”

“Ow you fucking bastard!” Inuyasha barked gesturing to his chest that was in raw bloody ruin.

“Hm, would you like me to kiss it better?”

“NO!”

Sesshomaru pinned him down and started licking. Inuyasha flailed, kicked and struggled.

“Damn it, stop that, this is what caused the problem in the first place.”

Everyone below had fully woken up to the sound of Inuyasha's erotic scream earlier, now the demons of the group could hear muffled sounds of frustration and pleasure as Inuyasha was molested somewhere above them.

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru emerged some time later, Inuyasha pointedly ignoring everyones knowing stares and blushing so bright even the tips of his ears were pink. He angrily grabbed his obi along with the furred coat and other clothing, bundled himself up and plunked straight down with his arms crossed and his back turned on everyone. His ears and tail aggressively perked in warning of his mood.

“Are you fucking happy now? I'm wearing your stupid fucking coat.” He growled glaring up at the demon lord standing beside him as if nothing unusual had happened at all.

“Indeed.”

Sango looked suspiciously from one inu to the other, yes, she was pretty certain there was more going on between them than training. But, if Inuyasha wanted to keep it to himself she could respect that, after all she hated it when Miroku made a public display of his affection towards her. So she like everyone else, politely ignored the quarreling couple and decided to bring Miroku with her to look over the railing at the beautiful snowy scenery passing below them.

It wasn't much longer before they reached the edge of Kadesh's territory. The forest was completely covered in thick shimmering layers of snow and ice. Sickles hung from every branch and made prisms of rainbow light dance on the surface of the brilliant white snow crust. Everything was strangely muffled by the compressed layers of insulating powder.

Kadesh and her pack were there waiting at the border, every one of them in true inu form. After landing Sesshomaru walked out to stand before the pack, closely followed by Inuyasha. The largest inu stood face to face with Sesshomaru.

'This must be Kadesh.' Inuyasha thought.

She growled ferociously, then without warning lunged forward to attack.

Sesshomaru burst into his own inu from, dodging and grappling the smaller framed inu to the ground.

They tumbled end over end in a struggle for the dominant position, flinging great waves of snow spray into the air as they went.

Inuyasha didn't have time to see who came out on top because he was being stalked by two of the other inu. He followed Sesshomaru's example and quickly took his inu form and leaped into battle. He was only slightly larger than the two attacking him, but he held his own even being out numbered.

It was strange to him that the rest of the pack wasn't attacking, of course he had no clue why they were fighting in the first place but he would have figured the pack would be supporting their alpha. Instead it was just the pair that had charged him that seemed to be helping Kadesh.

A sharp set of teeth in his neck snapped him out of thought and back into the brawl. He whipped his head around, latching onto the offenders shoulder and crushed down with his jaws until his fangs scraped on bone. His neck was released when the other inu yelped out in pain, whimpering from the bite. It's partner came running at Inuyasha obviously rather pissed about it's friend being injured.

Inuyasha ducked the attack and lashed out in time to catch the dogs throat between his fangs. He quickly locked his jaw and began thrashing his head side to side to tear it's skin open. Now both of his attackers were stained in blood, the contrast against immaculately white fur made the wounds look extremely gruesome.

The battle didn't last very long, it ended with Kadesh pinned beneath Sesshomaru. His teeth sunk into her spinal column, threatening to break it. That's when she finally whimpered in defeat, and exposed her belly to him, signaling her submission.

Immediately both inu fighting Inuyasha backed down and rushed to Kadesh's side. Sesshomaru shifted back to his human form and waited for Kadesh to do the same. The two inu at her side whined and lowered themselves, tucking their tails between their legs. Each lapped submissively and apologetically at her wounds until she also shifted forms.

“Lord Sesshomaru, I see you have not changed. What brings cousin to my territory?”

The woman spoke with a strange accent but was unmistakably part of the demon lord's family, tall, thin, pale, with the same features and markings as Sesshomaru's mother. She also had the same long silver hair that was a trade mark of the family.

She wore her's pulled back into a male-style high pony tail, tied with a black silk ribbon, and left a long thin tendril hanging down next to her ear on either side. Her clothes were stylish and tight fitting but looked warm and strangely seemed tailored for men.

“I have come to return something of yours, that I found invading my lands and attacking my people.” Sesshomaru coldly informed.

“Something of mine?” She asked in surprise.

Chrono and Jaken pulled the large metal crate containing the zombie out from the transport, and over to the demon lord. Lilly and the others came out with them.

“I presume you recognize this.” Sesshomaru stated.

Sango and Miroku huddled close to Chrono.

“Uh, what just happened here? Weren't they just attacking each other?” Miroku asked.

“That's just how Kadesh and lord Sesshomaru greet one another.” Chrono answered.

The two inu that had been at Kadesh's side, shifted down to their human forms and ran up to the crate.

The two girls were twins, they had long blond hair and crystal blue eyes. They wore matching skin tight outfit's, made of some thin black material. The clothing seemed to be mostly for show because it certainly didn't look very warm.

“Alpha look, it's Tiki, and he's not dead any more”

“But how did they get him? I thought the monsters took his body.”

“That's enough you two, change back before you freeze and get that thing to the den.” Kadesh ordered.

The twins obeyed and pulled the crate away.

“So filthy creatures have spread to your lands as well. Has great lord Sesshomaru come with more purpose than simply returning a carcass?” Kadesh inquired.

“Do you believe I would have come this far otherwise?” Sesshomaru sneered.

“Just like man, no care to visit beloved family, just how many centuries has it been sense my lovely aunt has seen her son's face?” She questioned.

“I fail to see how that is any concern of yours.” Sesshomaru returned.

“Useless men.” Kadesh groused. She threw her hands up dramatically and walked over to Lilly. She wrapped an arm around the neko's waist and led her in the direction her two inu had gone with the crate.

“Lilly, sweat heart, when are you going to leave that callous cousin of mine and come live with me?” She slid her fingers around the curve of Lilly's hip and pulled her in close. “You know I could take such better care of you.”

Lilly laughed uncomfortably easing the hand off her waist.

“But I like lord Sesshomaru, the way he takes care of me is really just fine.”

Inuyasha butted in between Kadesh and Lilly.

“Hey paws off the neko bitch.”

Kadesh scoffed glaring down at him.

“Well isn't that pot calling kettle black, you must be famous Inuyasha. Sesshomaru's new ma-”

“Kadesh you forget yourself too easily. Should we not keep family matters between family alone? That is what your dearest aunt would say, is it not?” Sesshomaru interrupted.

Kadesh and Inuyasha growled at each other a moment longer before Kadesh sneered.

“We will be discussing this later Menshii.” She sneered.

“Woman you will watch your tongue in my presence or I will remove it from you.” Sesshomaru growled.

“Fine, we will meet you at den.”

Kadesh transformed back and dashed off with the rest of her pack.

“Geez what the hell was that all about?” Inuyasha grumbled.

“She insulted your station, referenced to you as lower than herself.” Sesshomaru answered.

“Like I give a damn about that shit.”

Sesshomaru turned to face him looking rather serious.

“It is an insult to us both and I will not tolerate such insolence.”

“You realize how hypocritical that is don't you?” Inuyasha groaned remembering all the times Sesshomaru himself had berated him about his station.

Sesshomaru stepped close and growled into Inuyasha's ear.

“You belong to me, therefore I may address you however I please. But I will allow no other to have that same privilege.”

Inuyasha blushed as his arousal crept up from those possessive words. He backed away.

“Alright already, we won't tolerate it.”

While Sesshomaru led the group on foot to Kadesh's den Lilly went over to walk beside Inuyasha.

“Thank you for protecting me from Kadesh.”

“Uh well I really didn't do anything.” Inuyasha replied.

“Still you stood up for me, so thank you.” She leaned in and gave him a one armed hug then went back to the rear of the group. Inuyasha blushed looking in confusion to Sesshomaru.

“I thought she hated to be touched.”

“She is warming up to you.”

That didn't help, Inuyasha just blushed brighter. Sesshomaru smirked, how the pup could still be so childishly innocent after everything they had done was beyond him.

After nearly a mile of walking they crested a hill and could see a large palace like structure, it was built of large thick logs stacked on one another, criss crossing at the corners and compiled to form many different rooms, several stories tall.

Inside the immense building they were greeted by one of Kadesh's pack members and shown to a large room with lots of comfortable seating. Everything was covered in furs and made of fine, richly colored, hard woods.

“Jaken this will be a privet meeting. See that everyone is accommodated in my absence.” Sesshomaru ordered.

“Yes mi lord.” Jaken bowed.

Then Sesshomaru led Inuyasha through a huge set of doors into a conformance hall, where Kadesh and some of her pack sat waiting for them. The doors closed behind them and Sango, Miroku, Kirara, Lilly and Chrono were left in Jaken's care.

“Say Chrono, why does Kadesh call this place a den? It looks more like a palace.” Miroku inquired.

“Well this is the part designed for politics and meetings so it looks like a palace. The rest of this place is like a huge inu den. Unlike lord Sesshomaru, Kadesh and her pack spend the majority of their time in true inu form and only take human shape when they have to.” Chrono explained.

“Oh what about those two lovely blonds that took the crate away, who are they?”

Sango glared daggers at Miroku for the lovely blond remark.

“Akita and Akasha, Kadesh's twin mates. If you value your life and your balls don't even look at them.” Chrono warned.

“Mates? Like both of them, like three girls together at the same time?” Miroku went all glossy eyed, obviously fantasizing about something.

Sango whacked him over the head with hirikotsu.

“Oh don't worry; he won't be looking at anything, will he?” Sango threatened.

“Why, what ever could you mean Sango dear? Surely, you're not accusing me of lecherous intentions. I am but a humble-”

“Save it hoshi.”

Inside the hall with Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, they stood before a long wooden table lined with at least twenty chairs.

“What other purpose has brought you here lord Sesshomaru?” Kadesh got straight to the point.

“I want information.” He sat across the tall lengthy table from Kadesh and gesture for Inuyasha to take the seat next to him.

“I want what information you can provide on these undead creatures and the being controlling them.”

“And what will you offer me in return?” She asked.

“Leniency, I won't destroy you for insulting my mate.” Sesshomaru spoke with a quiet threat in his voice.

“Is that so, what generous hospitality. In that case I don't mind telling you that we hardly know anything at all.” She sarcastically replied.

“Then you are useless to me and we will be leaving.” Sesshomaru got ready to stand up and leave.

“No man will call me useless. Family or not.” She slammed her hands down on the table.

Sesshomaru wasn't phased and spoke with his usual indifferent voice.

“Then prove me wrong and provide me with information.”

Kadesh looked thoughtful for a moment then laughed.

“Your mother is truly remarkable woman to have bred such clever man. Very well, I shall give you information. Akasha, fetch me local reports.”

“Da Gospozha.”

The blond rushed off through a smaller door than the one they had entered. When she returned she had a small stack of papers with her, she got down on her knees and held them out to Kadesh with her head bowed.

“Good girl.”

Kadesh absently pet the girls long blond hair and scratched under her chin before taking the papers.

The girls face lit with happiness.

“Spaseebo, Gospozha.” She replied.

Kadesh passed the papers to the other girl. “Akita, bring these to our dear cousin.”

“Da Gospozha.”

She hurried to obey then returned to receive the same praise her twin had.

While Sesshomaru read over the papers Inuyasha watched the three women with intense curiosity. Kadesh intimately kissed the two girls while they stayed kneeling at her feet. He could almost see imaginary tails wagging as they happily accepted the hair petting and scratching behind their ears. They were so submissive it wasn't funny.

'Sesshomaru doesn't want me to act like that does he? I'd kick his ass if he ever tried to make me do that in front of people.' Inuyasha thought, but as he continued to watch he couldn't help but wonder if that kind of attention felt as good as the twin girls were making it look.

He tried to imagine Sesshomaru running long elegant fingers through his hair, stopping to scratch behind his ears and whispering in that dark seductive voice. 'Good boy.' Inuyasha shivered, he decided it was time to stop imagining now.

Sesshomaru caught a tiny hint of arousal in Inuyasha's scent. He discreetly glanced up from the papers to see the pup's tail slightly wagging while he blushed down at the table. A glance further down the at what Kadesh and her mates were doing gave him a hint to what might have caused this reaction. Sesshomaru grinned maliciously, filing that bit of information away for later and then returned his attention to the reports.

After some hours of boring discussion they learned that Kadesh and her pack were attacked by the undead creatures just like everyone else they had spoken with and that the zombies robbed bodies from their grave yard, just like the ones that had attacked kouga and his pack. Also they learned that the zombie disturbances were being reported all over the continent. Some reported the zombies alone, while others claimed there was a woman in a long black cloak among the undead. She preformed some kind of dark ritual magic during the confusion of the attacks. Then disappeared without a trace. It seemed that all the sightings of this woman occurred in different areas along the great wall. Two reports had claims that all the zombies with the woman were chanting.

“All hail the lich queen? What the hell is a lich?” Inuyasha asked.

At some point Lilly was brought in to help examine the reports and see if she had anything to offer on the topic. So she answered him.

“When a necromancer reaches the highest level of power that they can obtain through necromancy, there is a sacrifice ritual they can preform on themselves in witch they become undead and gain massive powers. They gain the ability to control anything that is dead, while still retaining their own will and intelligence.”

“So the more bodies there are, the more things she has to control.” Inuyasha remarked.

“I'm afraid so.” Lilly replied.

“Then we've got to get rid of this bitch and soon.”

“Ok so far we know the lich queen is using forbidden necromancy and other death magics. And now there are reports that she's preforming rituals along the great wall. …..... Oh no, this could be really bad lord Sesshomaru, I don't know what her intentions are but that wall is filled with dead bodies, they were used as mortar when the humans built it.” Lilly explained with concern.

“What the fuck, you mean they used dead bodies to build that wall?” Inuyasha looked offended.

Lilly nodded her head in agreement.

“We are still lacking information on her name and location.” Sesshomaru steered them back on topic.

Kadesh took her attention off her mates and looked to Sesshomaru.

“Well, this is only rumor but I have heard there is someone in jackal clan that has seen this womans face. It may or may not be true but would be place to start.” She offered.

“Perhaps.” Sesshomaru remarked.

“Do you intend to kill this lich queen when you find her?” She asked.

“Indeed I do.” Sesshomaru answered.

“Then in amends of my rudeness earlier and in light of hard journey ahead, allow me to accommodate you and your companions for evening at my tavern.” Kadesh proposed.

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow at her.

“Play Mates?” He asked. “You are aware that there are ningen in my company?”

“Da da, I can make exception for ningen in your company, cousin. They must be quite interesting pair, no?”

There was a devilish sort of twinkle in her eyes when Kadesh asked that question. But Sesshomaru agreed that they would all lodge at the tavern for the night and then be off in the morning.

“So what kind of tavern is this? If she doesn't usually allow ningen.” Inuyasha asked after they met back up with the others.

“Are you familiar with the term brothel?” Sesshomaru replied.
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Evil rising, Litch Queen of the western continent