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Worth Waiting For
By : inumom
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Rated for pubescent orneriness and hanyou and human lemons.

13. Surprises

The child had been living in the cave home for two days, and had scraped everyone�s nerves raw. Throughout the entire first day, she had refused to help with any of the chores she had been asked to perform, had thrown her few possessions around her bedchamber in a fit of pique, and had even gone so far as to push Shippou into the hot spring while he had been fetching water.
Since she had refused to help out, she had not been permitted to join the family for dinner. She was miserable, and didn�t care who knew it. She wouldn�t do this, no matter what. She would, she decided, starve to death before she would allow these people to force her to conform to their rules.
Although Kagome had never had the experience of dealing with a child going through puberty as she was the eldest and Souta had not yet reached that stage, she had heard all about the process from Yuka, a friend of hers from school who had a sister only two years younger than she herself was. From what she had heard, this behavior was perfectly normal. When questioned by Miroku and Shippou about the wisdom of allowing the girl to skip meals, she simply replied, �When she gets hungry enough, she�ll eat.�
On the second morning, the group awoke to find that the girl had vanished. Despite a brief surge of panic, Kagome stepped outside the entrance, looking up into the trees across the pool. As arranged with Sesshoumaru, Taka and Seki had remained behind to watch in case the girl decided to run off--almost a certainty in Kagome�s opinion. Taka, a relatively short inuyoukai with charcoal grey hair and a more jovial manner than Sesshoumaru, emerged from the trees to speak with the human woman. �She left shortly before daybreak, Kagome-sama. Seki is watching her. She got a little beyond the stream before finding a place to sleep in an old hollow tree.�
�She didn�t see either of you?�
�No. Sesshoumaru-sama�s orders were very clear in this regard.�
The woman turned back to the cave entrance. �Come on in and have something to eat. Afterwards, you can send Seki in for something while you take his place. I think,� she said, watching as the others simply looked at her in awe, �That we�ll just let her stew in her own juices for a while. It�s better than even money that she�ll come straggling back on her own before long. If not, we know where she is, and can go and get her.�
As predicted, it was only a matter of an hour or so before Rin appeared at the edge of the vegetable garden. She looked at the kitsune sitting in the dust with the faintest beginnings of interest. �What are you doing?�
He pointed out the difference between the young vegetable plants and the weeds he was pulling out. �I�m pulling the weeds out so they won�t kill the other plants. Kagome says that weeds can steal water and other good stuff from the soil so that the good plants don�t get them.� He looked at the bucket half full of weeds. �Once I get them pulled out I can go and dump them in the bin over there by the rock wall. That�s the same place we put the stems and peels and things when we cook. A couple of times a week somebody comes out here and turns the pile over, and in time we�ll be able to use it as fertilizer.�
She looked back at the entrance. �Where�s everybody else?�

�I think that Kagome and Sango are cleaning up from breakfast. Miroku went into the village to get us some nets for fishing, and Inuyasha said he was going hunting. I think Kagome is going to teach Sango sewing or something after that.�
The girl looked down at the dust on her sandals. �Do you think they would let me watch?�
The fox child had been coached well. He shook his head. �Probably not. You�ve been out in the forest, and you�re covered with dirt. Kagome especially is fussy about keeping things clean, and she won�t let you anywhere whatever she�s working on if you�re not clean yourself.� He watched her from underneath the bushy hair that nearly covered his eyes as she edged her way into the entrance to their home.
She emerged moments later with a robe, towels, and some bottles of the cleaning liquids that Kagome brought back from her time. Pushing through the berry bushes that had been planted near the hot spring, the girl peeled off her clothes, slipping into the steaming water. She scrubbed at her body and hair with a new sort of industry, determined to show them all that as a member of the youkai lord�s household she was every bit as good as any of them.
After returning to her room, she attacked the tangled mass of her hair with a beautiful hairbrush made of some exotic wood and inlaid with silver and pearls along the handle. She couldn�t remember when she had stopped caring about keeping her hair free of snarls, but she thought that it might have been at about the time Sesshoumaru-sama had stopped allowing her to climb all over him. She fumed a little when she remembered that he hadn�t even given her a reason--he�d just said that it wasn�t �appropriate,� whatever that was supposed to mean. She changed into a clean yukata, feeling better than she had felt in days. The simple cream-colored garment with the green and red lilies felt especially soft under her hands.
She looked up to see the human woman standing in the doorway. �Do you need help, Rin-chan?�
She looked down at the hairbrush still clutched in her hand and nodded slowly. As Kagome sat down on the futon and pulled the girl into position in front of her, she began to talk. �You know, I could never manage to keep my hair looking neat either. My mother used to spend hours brushing it out like this. I guess that�s why I�m so fussy about it now--it used to hurt when it got all tangled and she had to fix it.� As she spoke, she worked her way through the thick mass slowly, starting at the tips of the hair and working steadily up toward the top of the girl�s head. It took her more than an hour, but she finally got it completely free of knots and tangles. Reaching into the sleeve of her kimono, she extracted a red ribbon almost exactly the same color as the lilies on her yukata and used it to tie the mass into a long tail that extended halfway down the girl�s back. She laughed out loud. �I didn�t think it was this long--the tangles made it look a lot shorter.�
Rising to her feet, she took the girl by the hand. �Come with me. There�s something I want to show you.� Bringing her into her own bedchamber, a place that she had been warned was strictly off limits unless she was specifically asked to go there, she sat the girl down next to a large trunk that served as a table next to the futon. Lifting up a small mirror, she showed the child her own reflection. �Look at her. This is the face of the future mate of some great nobleman.� Setting down the mirror, she spoke to the girl seriously. �I know that you�re still young, and that you haven�t had the opportunity to learn much of what will be expected of you later on. That�s why you�re here. You�re smart, and strong, and brave--you have to be if you�ve survived living with Sesshoumaru all this time. You can use those attributes to help your future mate become a great leader, or you can waste the abilities that the gods have given you and bring both your mate and yourself to ruin.�
She suddenly began to trust the woman who sat next to her. �Kagome-sama, what if I don�t like the mate Sesshoumaru-sama chooses for me?�
Of all the things the child could have asked, why did it have to be that one? Kagome shook her head. �I don�t know, Rin-chan. I know that Sesshoumaru won�t want you to be unhappy, so he�ll choose the best possible mate for you. I think that you should talk to him about it when you return home.� She decided on a slightly different approach. �Exactly what kind of mate do you think you�d like?�
She thought about it for a few moments, then shook her head. �I don�t know for sure. I lived in a human village before Sesshoumaru-sama found me, and the men there weren�t very good. I didn�t have a family, and they would beat me when they caught me stealing food. From what I saw, some of them even hit their mates and their kids. I don�t want anybody like that. I want somebody strong, who can take care of me. I want him to be smarter than I am, so I don�t make him worry. I want somebody who will make me be the very best I can, just because it will please him.�
�I think that we�ll have to have a long talk with Sesshoumaru about this when he comes to take you back home with him. Now,� she said, eager to get this conversation over with, �I want you to go back to your room and pick up all your things. I left an empty wooden crate in the main room that you can use to store your things until we can get some more furniture. Have you ever done any laundry?�
The girl looked up with wide eyes. �No. The servants did that at home.�
�Well,� Kagome laughed, �We don�t have any servants here, so we have to do our own. Bring the clothes you were wearing before and any other dirty things you might have into the main room when you�re finished. I�ll gather some more laundry and I�ll show you how it�s done.�

*

The hanyou grinned in anticipation at the thought of Kagome�s face when he presented her with his surprise. He had returned from the metalworker�s shop a short time before, and was examining the results with undeniable pride. Originally, he had planned to carve a random design around the circumference of the table and have the man make brass inlays to complement the rich color of the cherry wood. As he had worked on the slab of wood, however, he got the idea of carving a variety of characters around the edges and having them executed in exactly the same way. As a result, the slab of wood now had brass characters meaning strength, stamina, justice, hope, joy, wisdom, trust, peace, balance, and love all around the edge.
All that remained was to affix the carved legs made form the same cherry wood and polish the whole thing to a gleaming finish. Best of all, he still had two whole days to get the job done. Grinning like an idiot, he carefully concealed the work in progress and prepared to hunt for this evening�s meal.

*

Kagome was just finishing with the laundry when he returned, carrying two large fowl and a basket containing the feathers he had removed from the birds. They had taken to preserving every resource that could have any possible value, and feathers like this would make a good filling for bedding. As Rin took the empty basket that had held the wet laundry back into the storage room, he nuzzled his mate�s neck with particular affection. �I didn�t think you�d ever bring her around. What happened?�
She smiled up at her mate. �I brushed out her hair, and we had a long talk. I think there might be some trouble down the line when Sesshoumaru tries to find her a mate.�
He dropped to the ground, pulling her into his lap. �Why�s that?�
�We got to talking about her future, and how she had a lot to learn before she would make a good mate. She was wondering if she would like the mate Sesshoumaru picked for her, so we got to talking about what kind of mate she would want. The men in the human village she came from weren�t exactly nice guys, and I think it may have put her off human men entirely. The only other man she�s had any real contact with aside from servants is Sesshoumaru.� She shook her head sadly. �I don�t think she�ll be willing to settle for anybody else.�
The hanyou�s reaction wasn�t exactly what she expected. He threw back his head and laughed. When he could finally force coherent words out, they were, �Sesshoumaru�a human�it�s too perfect�.�
At his mate�s glare, he quieted instantly. �You�re serious? She wants Sesshoumaru?�
The woman shrugged. �I can�t be sure, of course, but that�s the way it looks to me. I don�t know what it is about your family, but you seem to have human women just dripping off you. Your father took a human mate, then you got involved with Kikyou, then we got together, and now Sesshoumaru? What kind of power do you guys have, anyway?�
�I don�t know,� he mumbled, chewing lightly on her earlobe, �But I think I like it this way.�

*

Things went more or less smoothly after that. Rin showed an eagerness for learning that delighted everyone who she asked for help. She learned quickly, and seldom forgot a lesson once she had absorbed it. Her hands were quick and sure, and the intensity with which she threw herself into each task, whether cooking, laundry, or any of the other routine tasks of everyday life made her a favorite with everyone in the household.
Although one of the reasons she had come there was to make her a suitable mate for whoever Sesshoumaru chose for her, Kagome suspected that what she would be learning in this household would have a rather different effect. None of them, after all, were exactly picture-perfect models of present-day society. She wondered briefly what Sesshoumaru could have been thinking--if the girl had been defiant and unsuited for what he called �civilized society� before, how could her association with their strange little group help her to fit in any better?
Kagome was surprised at the way in which Rin learned to do everything that was asked of her. By the time she had been there three days, she had decided to fit into the little household, helping with whatever needed to be done, learning small things that helped her to belong here. With only the slightest bit of urging, she close a pale silver silk to begin the construction of the very first kimono she had ever made.
On the fourth morning since the girl had arrived, Kagome awoke alone, something that had only happened once before since they had been together. Glancing at the clock at the opposite side of the bed in confusion, she realized that it was significantly later than she usually got up. She jumped up from the futon, slipped into her robe, and pushed aside the reed curtain, moving along until she found herself in the doorway leading to the main room of her home.
Surprisingly, the room was empty save for a grinning hanyou standing directly in front of her. �Do you know what today is, love?�
�Today�?�
�Ah,� he smirked, �I thought you would forget. We�ve been mated for exactly a month today. I made it a point to send the others to the village for a while to get some supplies.� Stepping aside, he stood next to her, watching her face as she first saw the change in the room.
The crates in the middle of the room had been removed. In their case stood a large table more than six feet in diameter. The dark cherry wood shone in the light of the fireplace, and the brass characters circling the smooth surface glittered in the flickering flames. �Where did this come from?�
He shrugged. �The forest. There�s a huge cherry tree in there that fell over in a storm. It seemed like a good idea. So,� he said, slipping an arm around her waist, �What do you think?�
She turned to him, her eyes wide with surprise. �You did this?!? How?�
�It took me a while. You don�t really think it took me that long to hunt, do you?� He turned her around in his arms, bending down to taste her lips. When he reluctantly released her, he looked at the eyes that had given him his future. �What do you want to do now?�
�I don�t know, but I bet we could think of something.�
Since they would have only a limited amount of time in which to be alone, they decided to begin in the hot spring and just see where that took him. The two sat in the steaming water up to their chests, feeling the gentle warmth soaking away the accumulated tensions and frustrations of recent days. Once he could see that she was thoroughly relaxed, he pulled her easily into his lap, resting her head against his chest.
She sighed against him, thinking of all that had happened in only a month�s time. He decided that it was time for a change, so he lifted her in his arms and laid her carefully on his fire rat clothing that he had dropped at the side of the pool. Positioning her carefully so that he could place her knees over his shoulders while he stood in the pool, he leaned forward, tasting her deeply. She squirmed against him, but his grip was too strong--he wasn�t about to let her get free. He repeated the caress again and again, listening to her labored breathing and the moans of pleasure his attentions brought forth from her. She stiffened against him and cried out in her release, but he refused to stop.
He gripped her thighs even more tightly, continuing his assault on his mate. Although her voice was indistinct and disjointed, he could easily hear that she was begging him to stop, that it was too much. He smiled against her flesh, taking another long, slow, lazy lick at the juices flowing from her before releasing her and emerging from the pool.
He stretched out next to her, clawed hands wandering at will over her skin, watching carefully as she thrashed her head and moved erratically under his touch. She seemed to be nearly unaware of anything but the pleasure he had started in her, but she continued to moan and beg for her final release while he raised her up, bringing her down onto his painfully erect member. As he moved her body over his, he began to move his hips in time with the movements of her body up and down the length of his shaft, burying his arousal even deeper inside her body. She began to tremble, gasping for breath as her release loomed, and he pulled her up off of his member as she moaned in disappointment.
Stretching her out on the discarded clothing, he nipped lightly at her stomach before moving up to her erect nipples, ending up by placing a bruising kiss on her swollen lips. Pulling back from her, he drove his length deep into his mate, watching carefully as she thrashed beneath him, her inner muscles pulling at his member as though trying to force him even deeper into her. Sweat was dripping down his face with the effort of holding back his own release as he plunged his arousal in and out of her. Only a few strokes more, and she screamed through her release, the muscles within her contracting around his length, forcing his seed from him as he howled his own satisfaction before collapsing at her side.
Realizing that the rest of the group could return at any time, he gathered his mate and their belongings into his arms and moved unsteadily back to their bedchamber before collapsing next to her on their futon.
The hanyou awoke some indefinite time later to the smell of food. Wrapping a robe around himself, he went to the curtain separating the room from the rest of the household, looking down in surprise at the tray of food decorated with a single perfect white rose in a simple bamboo tube. Glancing back toward the common room, he caught a brief glimpse of Sango smiling at him as she returned to the others waiting for their own meals.
He would, he decided, have to find a way to thank her.
He carried the tray back into their bedchamber, setting it on top of the trunk at his mate�s side of the futon. Stroking gently down her back, he drew himself up against her, whispering into her ear, �Time to get up, love. Sango brought us some food, and you don�t want it to get cold.�
She didn�t answer. She just burrowed closer to his warmth, wrapping her arms around his waist in that soft, peaceful state halfway between sleep and waking. As pleasant as it was, the scent of the food was more than distracting. His stomach growled from hunger, and he could feel her smile against his skin. He bent down to her, brushing his lips against her forehead in a gesture he found oddly appealing. �I know you�re awake, love. Do you want something to eat? We have baked fish stuffed with mushrooms and stir fried mixed vegetables.�
She looked at him with something like disappointment. �I don�t really want to get up.�
He smiled at her. �Then don�t.� He retrieved the tray from its resting place on the trunk and set it on his lap, pulling her against his chest. He then proceeded to feed her--and himself--in a gesture that was so intimate that he could already feel the familiar tightening in his loins.
Apparently, it was going to be a long night.

*

The next morning he watched his mate dress with a possessive eye. If possible, she had become even more beautiful than before. This created a problem for him--how could he let her go out in public if he had to kill any male that looked at her? He looked up suddenly, realizing that she had been watching him. �Nani?�
�Nothing,� she said. �I was just wondering what you were thinking about--you looked positively fierce.�
�I was just wondering how many males I�d have to kill for staring at you.�
She laughed out loud. �Come on--I can�t look that bad!� She reached out to him, wrapping her arms around his waist and burying her face in his chest. �What are you going to do today?�
He shrugged. �I thought I�d scout around the forest for any other likely trees. We could use some more furniture, and the whole process turned out to be easier than I expected. I�d like to try making something else.� At her disappointed look, he shook his head. �Don�t worry--I won�t be late. Don�t you remember what tonight is?�
She looked at him blankly, and he pulled her to him, running his clawed hands through her thick hair. �Remember how you said that you couldn�t wait for the new moon? You won�t have to wait any longer.�
She shivered a little at the prospect of being with him that night in his human form. �I remember,� she said, reaching up to run her fingers through his shining snowy hair. �It�s too bad we�re not still in heat.�
He caught her hand in his, trying to end the maddening sensations of her touch. �I don�t think that will be a problem,� he said, his voice low with the desire that was already starting to overtake him.
�We can�t stay here tonight.�
He smirked a little as he realized that she was talking about the amount of noise she expected them to be making later that night. �Sure we can,� he said. �Everything�s all arranged. Miroku and Sango are going to a village a little bit east of here to take care of a snake youkai that�s been killing their livestock, and the two pups are staying with Kaede for the night--Shippou misses the old hag, and Rin wants to talk to her about something medical or other.�
She shook her head. �I don�t like it. You know how vulnerable you are tonight--we could really use them here in case there�s trouble.� As much as she would have loved to spend his first human night together since they had been mated alone with him, she worried about his safety: he had never really understood that it was not his monthly humanity that made him vulnerable at this time--it was, in fact, his sincere belief that he was helpless in his human form that had always made him a target.
�Baka,� he growled softly, �I�ve been protecting myself at the new moon for a long time. Like I said, everything�s arranged. Miroku�s been preparing for a couple of days--not only will the entire clearing be warded to prevent any youkai from coming into the area, but he�s putting additional wards on the cave entrance. We�ll be able to go inside because we�ll both be human, but no youkai will be able to follow us in. Hell, I won�t even be able to leave after daylight unless you go outside first and take off the wards. Yes,� he said, anticipating her next question, �He�s had Kaede working on it with him. It seems that she likes us, and wants us to be happy, so she�s going out of her way to help out.� He pulled her even closer, inhaling the sweet fragrance of her hair. �Nothing will happen, love. Trust me.�
She smiled softly in anticipation. �I always have.�

*

Although he would have liked to have prepared a special meal for this night, they were both much too eager to pay attention to food. In the end, they decided that instant ramen would be more than adequate.
After the quick meal, they decided that a long soak in the hot spring would be a good place to begin. Though it was only late afternoon, the gentle touches and soft kisses they exchanged brought them both to an almost painful level of readiness. Finally, Inuyasha pulled away from his mate. �No, love. I thought that the whole idea was to put my human body through its paces. If we keep this up, we�ll never get that far.�
He helped her from the water, returning her to their home. After she replaced the wards on the entrance, he laid her gently down on the youkai pelt covering the floor of the largest chamber. Telling her to remain in place, he disappeared through the reed curtain, returning a few moments later with a small bottle he had brought from her world on their last visit.
He poured a little of the scented oil into his hand, smoothing it into her skin. The combination of the thick fur pelt, the physical nearness of her mate, and the feel of the oil being worked into her skin by gentle, muscular hands made her shiver in delight. As he worked on kneading the knots from her muscles, he gradually began to feel the strange sensations that always accompanied sunset on the night of the new moon. Looking down, he could see the claws retracting into his fingertips, leaving him with typically human fingernails.
As soon as the oil was absorbed into the skin of her back, he turned her over, smoothing a small amount of the oil over the skin on the front of her body. Although he carefully avoided actually touching the erect nipples it didn�t seem to matter--she was so thoroughly aroused that the slightest touch anywhere on her skin was enough to cause her to tremble, moaning with her eagerness. Taking first one then the other of the hardened nubs between his lips, he nibbled lightly, drawing his now-human teeth across the sensitive areas.
Finally, neither of them could stand it any longer. Returning to claim her lips with his own, he positioned himself between her raised knees, thrusting forward until he was seated deep in the body of his mate. Driven solely by instinct now, he pounded madly in and out of her body, feeling his member harden even further as her moans increased in volume. It was not long before she clutched at his shoulders, crying out in her release as her legs wrapped around him, urging her even deeper into her body as her inner muscles squeezed his seed from him and he screamed along with her through his own climax.
Without his hanyou stamina, he could hardly support himself long enough to move to her side before collapsing to the thick pelt next to her sated body.
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Worth Waiting For