A Smell So Sweet by BelovedStranger

Midnight Tryst

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Canon! Spicy Challenge prompt:

Oregano has a very long history of use in folklore. It has been used for culinary purposes, medicinal reasons, and was believed to hold magical properties as well. The word "oregano" is actually derived from the Greek phrase, "joy of the mountains". Just married couples were crowned with wreaths of it. In their mythology the goddess Aphrodite invented the spice. Giving it to man to make his life happier. They also believed that oregano was a useful poison antidote. It is said to encourage good luck and good health and is used in spells for happiness, tranquility, luck, health, protection and letting go of a loved one.

It is believed that when worn on the head during sleep, it will promote psychic dreams. It has also been used in love potions and rituals.. It is mostly used to spice meats, fish, and even as a flavoring for wine. Later, the English found a use for oregano as an additive to snuff, which was generally a tobacco concoction taken through the nose. It was also used as a perfume in sachets. It has an aromatic, warm and slightly bitter taste, which can vary in intensity. Good quality oregano may be strong enough almost to numb the tongue. Fresh oregano has a pale green color.

ENJOY!

Kagome was crawling inside her sleeping bag that was situated near the campfire in the small clearing Inuyasha had found for them to rest that night after a long day of travel. However, Shippo’s high pitched voice made her pause in her movements to get comfortable on the hard ground. “Hey, Kagome? I got you something to help you sleep.”

Looking up at his small figure that stood only a foot away, she smiled into his green gaze when she noticed the strange wreath in his hands. “That’s so kind of you, Shippo. What is it?”

Shippo clutched his gift to his chest. “They’re oregano leaves. My father said he and mother used to use them before they went to sleep as they help make good dreams. He said even in sleep he would be with her. Since you’ve been over stressed with your studies I thought this would help.”

“That’s very considerate of you, Shippo,” Kagome praised as she lifted her hand to rub his head affectionately.

His smile lit up his face more brightly than the flickering light of the campfire as he nodded his little head and reached up to place the wreath on her crown.

“That’s stupid. You don’t really believe in that junk do you, Shippo? Kagome?” Inuyasha scoffed from his reclined position with his back against a tree trunk.

“Sit boy.”

Everyone watched as Inuyasha did a customary face plant into the ground while his cry echoed around them.

“He’ll never learn,” Sango said nonchalantly.

“I fear you are right,” Miroku nodded his head in agreement before he turned to offer her an innocent grin. “Come, let us adjourn to bed together my lovely Sango.”

Sango sent him a death glare. “You can sleep by yourself, monk!”

At that point, Kagome tuned out her friends’ playful banter and Inuyasha’s curses as she laid down, cocooned in her sleeping back, and let sleep creep up on her.

~~Kagome’s Dream~~

“You failed!” her math teacher yelled causing Kagome to gaze up at him with a horrified expression while her classmates gazed on with smirks and laughter.

“That’s Kagome for you.”

“Yah, why is she even in high school? Obviously it’s too advanced for her small brain.”

Rising to her feet, hands slamming on her desktop, she cried, “It’s not too advanced for me!”

Then her teacher thrust her paper in her face showing her the huge red ‘F’ circled in the dead center. “Apparently we will have to hold you back this year.”

Kagome cringed at the thought before she sank back into her seat to buried her head in her arms on her desk while her classmates laughed and taunted her, feeling mortified and wishing a hole would suck her up from beneath her. 

Before she knew it, everything went silent and her hard desk turned into something soft against her now prone position. Surprised, she yanked her head up to see white sheets and a headboard before a hand at the nape of her neck forced her head back down with gentle force.

Then she heard a masculine voice whisper in her ear. “Don’t move.”

Instead of feeling fear in the situation she now found herself in, she felt oddly aroused by the command in his sexy timber of a voice. She was sure she recognized the sound, but for some reason, she could not place who it was.

Next she felt a calloused hand touch the bend in her right knee before gliding upwards higher and higher on her thigh. “What are you doing?” she whispered with a hitch in her voice.

“Relax,” came his seductive reply.

Her muscles tightened in reflex when his hand continued to climb until he cupped her right buttock causing her to tighten her hold on the sheets. She noticed two things simultaneously in that moment: one, the male behind her obviously had claws when she felt them prick her skin gently; and two, she was completely and utterly naked.

When she tensed further she felt him massage her neck in soothing, yet still restraining circles while his palm on her derrière mimicked the motions. After a few long seconds of forgetting how to breathe, Kagome’s breath left her in a whoosh as pleasure at his actions suffused her being. She even offered up an unconscious moan at his administrations.

Then she felt the bed dip as if someone had climbed up on the bed with her. She blinked in surprise when she felt lips touch her left shoulder in a closed mouthed kiss. She relaxed further when his kisses became open mouthed leaving a path of moist kisses behind, as he trailed his lips down her spine in an erotic fashion which caused goose bumps to sprout on her arms. She noted absent mindedly that he had long hair as she felt it ghosted down her back with his movements. 

She arched her pelvic when he nipped at her left hip, but his hand on her butt kept her flat on the bed. She moaned louder when his tongue came out to play and swirled around the two indents above her bottom. However, she almost jackknifed off the bed if he hadn’t had a hold on her when next he bit the globe of her right ass cheek with sharp fangs ever so gently.

She squirmed in embarrassment even though the action aroused her when she felt his tongue glide up the crease between her cheeks.

“So responsive, Kagome.”

‘That voice again,’ she thought silently, but her mind was having difficulty functioning correctly while he continued to touch her in such erotic ways she had never dreamed about.

She felt him move and he blanketed her back with his broad, muscular chest that was slick with both of their sweat. His position pinned her down, making movement impossible, but she was far from afraid as wetness continued to pool betwixt her thighs.

Although, she whimpered softly when she felt a hot, thick and impossibly long erection where his tongue had previously been, rubbing up and down the crease in slow thrusts.

“Shh,” he whispered in a gravelly voice before his hands went under her and cupped her breasts, massaging the round globes.

Her whimper turned into a needy moan. She felt him straddle her hips before he rose on his knees, taking her with him with his hold on her chest. The move was so purely sexual that her womb clenched on air, seeking to be filled with the hard length pressed into the small of her back.

Her face was flushed and she panted as she watched him pinch and circle her nipples, but her eyes landed on the silver locks that pooled over their shoulders and her breasts, over the long elegant hands that manipulated her flesh.

“Inuyasha?” she gasped at a particularly sharp pinch to her hard peaks.  

 She felt him bend his head to hers and a wicked chuckle very un-Inuyasha-like entered her ear.

“Do you really think that boy could give you the satisfaction you crave?”

She turned her head to meet golden orbs and a face created by the kami’s. “Sesshomaru!”

“Soon you will be screaming my name,” he promised wickedly, a growl entering his voice

In answer, his right clawed hand left her breasts to gently scrape down her stomach before his fingers found her wet and swollen sex causing her to cry out at his touch. It felt so pleasurable, but she tried to deny his touch and clenched her thighs around his hand, trapping his palm.

He merely nipped her ear in reply to her attempts to stop his exploration and leaned into her back, forcing her to her hands and knees beneath him. One by one his knees pushed between hers, spreading her wide. Gently, he continued to stroke her cleft, and his fingers were instantly coated with her fluids. When she gasped in reaction, he lifted his fingers to her mouth offering her his wet fingers from her essence.

“Taste how your body weeps for me.”

She shivered at the sinful thought and parted her lips so he could thrust his fingers into her mouth.

“Suck.”

She did and heard him groan in response.

He kept his fingers in her mouth while his other hand abandoned her breast to take up position at her core and rub his thumb around the bundle of nerves at the tip of her clit. She bucked into his touch, her mouth filled with his fingers, licking them even after they were clean of her juices.

He finger fucked her while thrusting his hard cock against her lower back and she felt moisture gather there from the precum that leaked from the head of his penis. She nipped his fingers and he growled at the action in obvious arousal. His fingers moved faster inside her, and she clawed at the sheets while her hips tried to keep up when she felt that she was at the brink of release, but he disengaged his fingers from both her clenching sex and mouth.

Before she could plead for him to continue, he had placed his palms on either side of hers and thrust gently and slowly inside her an inch. She cried out, voicing her need for his ears alone, while her hips pushed back in an attempt to take him deeper. She felt a twinge of pain as he slipped in another inch since he was so thick, but he sank in easily from the wetness her body continued to produce for him. She knew that if she hadn’t been so ready, he could have easily hurt her, but the pleasurable pain of his invasion only made her wild for more.

She tried to buck and force him deeper, but his weight on her back all but immobilized her, forcing her to take what he gave her one slow inch at a time until, finally, he seated himself to the root. She panted from the over filled feeling from her stuffed sex, but she needed more, needed the friction of movement to go over the edge into orgasm.

When he retreated, it was at an excruciatingly slow pace as was his next entry that forced her to feel everything, the way he filled her to the max, the thick veins that ran up and down his hard length, and the way the head stroked along sensitive tissue. It was a sweet torture that kept her on the brink of satisfaction.

He continued to fuck her with slow, deep measured strokes for long minutes causing her to thrash beneath him while small cries of need fell from her lips.

“Please, Sesshomaru!”

“Not yet,” he growled in her ear and she shook her head in denial, needing to come so badly it hurt.

Desperate, she reached beneath her. One stroke and she’d come, but he grabbed her hand before she could and pinned her hands to the bed, interlacing their fingers.

When she started to cry tears of frustration after a few more slow trusts, he slammed his cock inside her, surprising her with a climactic release. She came screaming his name.

He continued to pound inside her, prolonging her orgasm while he grunted and growled his pleasure until his seed exploded out of him in a rush.

Kagome awoke with a silent cry on her lips as another orgasm had her thrashing in her confining sleeping bag. When she finally came down from her sexual high, her cheeks were flushed, her body covered in a film of sweat, and her panties utterly drenched along with her arousal thick in the night air.

Gazing around dazed, she noted that thankfully her companions yet slept. Embarrassed at her wet dream she had of Sesshomaru, Kagome gazed sheepishly in Inuyasha’s direction and snuck off to the stream nearby to wash up and remove her panties.

She had decided to hide her panties in her backpack as she was returning to camp when Inuyasha’s shout caused her heart to stutter. “Bastard!”

Worried, she ran into the clearing only to come to a clumsy halt as her wide eyed gaze landed on Sesshomaru as he backhanded Inuyasha who then flew into a tree with a sickening thud. She cringed at the painful landing before her eyes once again sought Sesshomaru only to blush when she saw that his eyes had fallen on her.

They both ignored her friends’ demands and questions, lost in each other’s eyes, until his traveled downwards. Following her gaze she saw her wet panties in her clenched fist and dropped the garment as if it burned.

She couldn’t help but look up at him from lowered lashes, wishing desperately he wouldn’t realize the cause for her scent. When he moved his left hand upwards, she tracked the movement only to see him remove a similar wreath on his regal head as the one on hers. She took hers off too and blushed at the implications, remembering Shippo’s words. ‘—even in sleep he would be with her—‘

They seemed to drop the leaves at the same instance, and he was coming towards her in long, sure strides. Choking on her breath, she rapidly back peddled at his forward advance, but regardless, he caught her wrist in a restraining yet gentle hand, halting her retreat.

“We have unfinished business, Kagome.” Sesshomaru’s words took her breath away as did the heated look in his eyes.

Before she knew what was happening, she found herself in his embrace as he took them to the skies. She could hear Inuyasha’s loud cursing and her friends’ frantic cries, but she forgot all about them when Sesshomaru kissed her.