A Miko's Pet by SunsetMiko

Reunited

Chapter 11 - Reunited

*Shady Charade* (Stella's Soundtrack Challenge)

"Inuyasha! Where are you taking me?" Kagome complained. "I thought you said this was just a short walk to try out the charms. They're obviously not working. People are crossing the street just to get away from me!"

"No one's been purified yet, 'Gome. I call that progress. Now, there's something I want to show you. You're going to love it. It's only one more block."

"I'd better love it," the miko said, her tone turning darker as she grew angrier. The change in her voice warned him that the mean Kagome was coming, and he better hurry the hell up. He sped up slightly, and she joined him, eager to get this torture over with.

She hadn't wanted to leave the shrine at all. She looked ridiculous, wearing multiple spell bags and charms around her neck. Kaede and her grandfather had been working on them for weeks, trying to find a way to make it safe for her to leave the shrine grounds so that she could resume at least some parts of her life. The spells and charms worked to restrain her power, much like the binding spell had, but her miko energy still pulsed around her, frightening off anyone with any amount of demon blood. They were treating her like she had some kind of terrible communicable disease and even though a part of her understood, it still hurt.

"What is this thing I have to see anyway?" she asked, trying to distract herself when a group of youkai rushed in the opposite direction as she approached.

"It's a surprise," Inuyasha replied, begging the gods to allow him to just get her there. That was all he needed to do, get her to Sesshoumaru. The taiyoukai would somehow do the rest. He wasn't sure he truly understood exactly what would be happening, but he didn't care either. So long as it fixed his best friend, he would do whatever it took to save her.

The hanyou led her up the stairs to the front door of an older looking home, unlocking it and taking her inside.

*Shady Fellow* (Stella's Soundtrack Challenge)

"Whose house is this?" she asked him.

"That's not important," he replied, leading her down a long hallway. He opened another door and motioned for her to enter first.

The miko entered and was drawn to a table covered in rows and rows of strange items. She traced the glinting silver blade of a dagger with one finger, turning to ask Inuyasha why he brought her there. The hanyou was nowhere to be seen, and she quickly realized that the door was closed. She rushed over to it, grabbing the knob. She tried to turn it, but it wouldn't budge.

"Inuyasha!" she yelled, trying to rattle the door. It didn't move, as if it was a solid as the walls around it. "Let me out of here!"

"I can't," he yelled through the door. "It has to be this way. This will fix everything, I promise!"

"Let me out of here, you worthless piece of filth!" she snarled, banging on the door with all her might.

Inuyasha winced. Hearing his best friend call him terrible things she always defended him against in the past was hard. He could only pray that Sesshoumaru's mother was right and that this would fix Kagome. He loved her with all of his heart, and he wanted his friend back.

"Just... Just try not to kill him, all right?" the hanyou hollered through the door.

"Kill who?" she muttered, sighing and leaning her back against the door keeping her in the strange room.

A clink of metal on metal caught her attention, and the miko was quickly searching the area for the source of the sound. She turned a corner and a dark laugh bubbled up her throat. "Oh," she said slowly. "I see. This is quite the surprise. You're the one he doesn't want me to kill. Well, I'm not making any promises," she continued, her tone low and husky.

Kagome studied Sesshoumaru, who was laying flat on his back on the old stone floor, his hands chained above his head, and his feet chained to the floor. He looked absolutely delicious and completely vulnerable. The fact that she still found him attractive after everything he did to her enraged the miko, and she kicked him hard in the ribs, smirking as he gasped, the wind knocked out of him.

*Love and Hate* (Stella's Soundtrack Challenge)

"You!" she started, her voice rising as she went until she was screaming. "You ruined my life, and you didn't even have the decency to call and see if I was still alive!" She kicked him continuously, punctuating every few words.

She was thankful for her heavy, steel-toed boots. Her wardrobe choices had taken a turn for the dark along with her personality, and she had taken to wearing them everywhere. They were purchased back when they were doing some repairs to the shrine but she never really wore them. Now she was glad she had or her toes would be in a great deal of pain.

"I thought you actually cared about me, but apparently not. Then, you turn into a giant man-whore and fuck anything that moves, smearing it all over your wall for everyone to see!" Kagome teasingly kicked at his head as she walked around to the other side of his body. She ran her toe along his ribs until she found where they stopped. "And Kagura!" she yelled while kicking the soft, unprotected side of his abdomen full force. "After everything we went through with that crazy bitch, you go and fuck Kagura?!"

Sesshoumaru had been expecting pain. Hell, he had been eagerly anticipating it, but not like this. He wasn't ready for this kind of violent assault. He had been prepared to fight down the evidence of his arousal, but he wasn't even the slightest bit turned on by this type of abuse. It was too strong, too searing, and too constant. As she continued to kick him, screaming all the while, he dug a fang deep into his lip, tearing it open. He felt the blood pouring from the wound down the side of his face and into his hair.

It took her a few moments to notice he was bleeding, but once she had, her foot froze mid-kick. She dropped to her knees at his side and leaned in, her thighs pressing against his bruised and cracked ribs. It was as if the sight of his blood drew her in and compelled her to taste it, and she began to lick it from his cheek. She moved higher and caught his sliced lip between her own, sucking roughly at the wound. Minutes passed as she coaxed as much blood from the cut as possible, and she whined when it finally began to clot, stopping the flow. She moved back to his cheek, cleaning every bit she missed, moving lower until she reached his hairline.

Kagome pulled back and stared into Sesshoumaru's eyes, and he watched as it appeared that her mind was floating away to somewhere else, just as she had looked when she licked the blood from the scratches on his back on that wonderful and terrible day months before. Suddenly, her eyes rolled back in her head, and she collapsed onto his chest.

Sesshoumaru had to concentrate on his breathing. The weight of her on his chest angered his aching ribs, and he head to breathe slowly and deliberately. He hoped that she would wake soon because he needed her off of him. He also anticipated her awakening for another reason. It would be his first chance to see the real Kagome again since she passed out on him after they had sex. He missed her more than he could ever explain, and he needed to know if she could forgive his transgressions.

*Fugue* (Stella's Soundtrack Challenge)

A groan caught his attention, and Kagome placed a hand on his chest to push herself off of his body. He gasped and winced at the painful pressure, and she noticed the pained expression on his face. The miko quickly pulled away, looking at him in confusion.

"Sesshoumaru? What in the world?!" she exclaimed as she noticed his position, spotting the chains holding him down.

"Kagome," he breathed her name out in a whoosh.

"Why are you chained? Why are you breathing like that?" she asked. "Are you hurt?"

"I am fine," he lied.

"I have to get you out of here!" She scrambled to the chains holding his hands, yanking on them before searching for a keyhole, finding none. "There's no place for a key!"

"They are held in place with magic. Kagome, please, do not worry. They will release when the time is right."

"Sesshoumaru," she whispered, her face falling as she remembered. "Why didn't you call? Why did you...?" she trailed off, tears in her eyes, unable to finish her question.

"I did call," he told her. "And I am sorry for all that I did."

"Don't lie to me," she said, her tone darkening as the miko side of her awoke once more, all too soon. "You're a liar, and you'll be sorry eventually, once I've made you pay for what you've done to me."

The taiyoukai schooled his expressions, putting up the blank mask his mother had recommended. She needed to be angry for this to work. He just hoped she would move on from kicking to something he could enjoy as well.