SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 100

This entry is part 100 of 174 in the series The Pact [Ongoing]

Kagome leapt up from the stump like she’d been shocked, glaring at Sesshoumaru. “I knew I shouldn’t have said anything. I should have known better. This is why I can’t talk to you—because you always try to twist things back around on me to suit your own purposes. I’m not in love with you. I’m not even talking about me and you! I’m talking about my life in general.”

In her periphery she saw Shin pause in cleaning his bloodstained muzzle mid-lick. His pointed ears dipped as he cocked his head to one side. Sesshoumaru stared back at Kagome as if he’d expected this sort of reaction from her—nonplussed except for the slightest tension in his jaw. His mouth rose dryly at one corner, but there was no real humor in it. 

“It is I who should have known better.” His golden gaze strayed back to Shin, who’d curled up in the grass as he’d started to drowse. “I envy him.”

Kagome shook her head, still fuming. “That’s a strange thing to say.”

“Is it?” As Shin phased back into his human form, Sesshoumaru’s eye caught hers. “He is an extension of me, body and soul. Yet there may as well be a gulf between us in your mind. You’re so full of doubt about your ‘life,’ but with him there is no question.”

“He’s my son,” Kagome said flatly. “Whatever else I think has nothing to do with how I feel about him.”

“Then maybe,” Sesshoumaru said, turning to face her fully, “you can understand how I feel about you.”

Kagome’s heart lodged in her throat. She tried not to look at him, but she also felt that she couldn’t help but to look at him. It felt painful to look at him. Shameful. Damning. 

Because when she looked at him, she felt blinded, overwhelmed. More lost and confused than ever. 

The autumn sun gilded his hair, lit his face, burned her eyes. His fey features illuminated. The vibrant markings shone, limned with youki and the inborn magic of his blood. His dark pupils shrank to slivers in the molten gold of his eyes. She saw the beast that shadowed him beneath the likeness that was so uncannily close to hers. All that was alien in him, all that was the same. They were both born of this world, different though they were. Fashioned after the same mercurial gods.

He was beautiful. He was terrible. She felt the immensity of these combined truths come to bear as she gazed at him, and he gazed back at her in turn. 

He took her by the waist and drew her to him, like the earth to the sun. The pull of him was inexorable, but she resisted anyway.

“…Don’t,” she said, pushing back from him.

“Don’t do what?” he said, as he caught her by the hand that was shoving him back. He put her first two fingers in his mouth, and she shuddered.

That.” Her fingers hooked in him reflexively, then jerked. “Let me go.”

Sesshoumaru let her go, leisurely. Kagome clutched her damp hand to her chest as she turned from him.

“…I lose my head when I’m around you,” she muttered.

“Why is that?”

“I don’t know.”

“I think you do,” he said, as he pulled her back to him. He swept her hair aside as he kissed her naked throat, curling his claws against her scalp. “I think you know full well.”

Kagome swallowed, feeling the throb of her pulse all over. She turned her face toward him, and realized her mistake—a split-second before his mouth met hers. He pulled her around to him, flush into him as he kissed her hungrily, recklessly. As abandoned to the moment as she was—

Until he tensed and broke from her, glancing toward the forested ridge just beyond them, where Miroku stood looking back.


Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi

Revised 10/31/23

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29 thoughts on “SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 100

  1. DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!😆

    Can’t deal with this 🥵 Not gonna lie, you got me there. For a second I thought it would be Inuyasha. 🥴

    Now let’s hope a hand can scratch another with the secret she’s keeping for Miroku😉

    1. 😉😉

      Thanks for sharing your reactions, Warring Star!! Hope you enjoy the next part…! ❤❤

  2. Well… Miroku of all people would be the one that finds out first of our human talking friends…. Kagome get over yourself seriously

  3. Man, I was hoping she get caught. Kagome wants to have her cake and eat it too and it’s getting on my nerves her playing with both men. However, I enevr expected Miroku to catch them. Oh great! Ugh this cliffhangers!

    1. Glad you enjoyed the turn of events here, Katherine! I’ll try not to leave you hanging too long 😉

      ❤❤

  4. I knew something fun would happen for the 100th chapter. Congratulations! I like how the negative, tense angst has slowly simmered down since Shin’s birth. Every chapter has felt like it’s lightening marginally, like we’re approaching something new. Miroku witnessing that is the start. I hope he talks some sense into her. Kind of a brilliant choice in character to catch her, actually. He’s wise, unbiased, clearly disliked the way Inuyasha was treating her at Shippō’s party, and has a secret of his own being kept by her. She’s still dodging bullets but I have a feeling he’s going to be the ear she’s needed to talk this through with. And Miroku often gives sound advice. Even if he can’t follow it himself. Perfect chapter. ❤️

    1. Thank you, Uissuteffu!! It’s exciting to have finally reached the 100th part 💕

      So glad you’ve liked how the tone of the story has shifted, and so stoked that you enjoyed Miroku being the one to catch her! “Miroku often gives sound advice. Even if he can’t follow it himself. ” – hahaha so true! 😂

      Thanks again and hope you enjoy where things go from here…! ❤❤

  5. MIROKUUUU!!! Lmao omg of course he would catch them, our little peeping tom 🫣 I can’t wait for what happens next!

    1. Lol he is the type to creep up on them all right 😂

      Thanks so much, mim – hope you enjoy the next chapter!! 🥰🥰

  6. 😱…🫢that’s all I have! The cliffhanger!!! And the dominos have begun to fall….

    🩵🩵🩵

    1. Yeppp *dun dun duuuuun*

      Thanks for sharing, Maya! 😊Hope you enjoy the next part!!❤❤

  7. Finally! Thank god someone else knows. Maybe Miroku can talk some sense into her facing her feelings. Unless he’s gonna go all feudal patriarchy man on her and treat her like a bad person… come to think of it, I wonder how kirara actually felt about this. I can’t remember if we ever found out what she actually knew and how she felt about it, but it seemed negative?

    1. Yep there are certainly many ways this could go down with Miroku…

      “I can’t remember if we ever found out what she actually knew and how she felt about it, but it seemed negative?” – yep those specifics remain unclear, but negative is fair 😊

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the scene, M-Yan, and hope you enjoy the next!! ❤❤

  8. 😮😮😮 Busted! Omg I NEED to know what happens next!!!🥹 Girl that kiss between them 🌶🌶🌶 You got me for a minute. I thought our girl would finally give in 😏

    1. Hahaha thank you, SilverMoon! Glad you enjoyed the kiss!!

      Promise I won’t leave ya hanging for too long 😉

      ❤❤

    1. 😬😬

      Thanks for sharing, Nooch!! Hope you enjoy what happens next…..!!!❤❤

  9. Brooooooooooo

    *queue losing my mind*

    Omg but Sess had to have known Miroku was nearby sniffing around 😳 unless the monk did some magic hullabaloo and made himself scarce and hard to detect. I have a feeling Miroku knew already tho for some reason 🤔 I can’t handle these cliffhangers lmao it only feels like a cliffhanger because I just desperately want to see what ultimately happens with these two crazies 😅 I very much want them to just freaking shit on the pit or get off, like get off literally hahaha in more than one way…. Ah but whatever conclusion happens, I’m sure it’ll be great.

    1. Thank you, Mecca!! So glad you’re enjoying the suspense! Hope you continue to enjoy how things play out for our crazy couple from here!! 😊❤️❤️

  10. Yo, holy shi-! the ending, omg it’s actually happening! How to did Sessh not notice him? Congrats on the 100th chapter 🥳

    1. Just one question. I think I may be reading this quote wrong:

      “He’s my son,” Kagome said flatly. “Whatever else I think has nothing to do with how I feel for him.”

      “Then maybe,” Sesshoumaru said, turning to face her fully, “you can understand how I feel for you.”

      I am kinda struggling to understand this part. This is most likely a me issue though! with Sessh’s reply is it essentially he admitted that he has no doubts about how he feels for her because he loves her? I am so sorry if this is totally wrong, sometimes I struggle to understand certain parts of any fics even though they can be obvious 😅

      1. Thank you, Pixie!! So glad you enjoyed the scene 🥰

        As to your question, I think Sess’s reply is open to interpretation 🙂 (and the full extent of what he means by it may become clearer later on in the story 😉 )

        Love hearing your take on this exchange and the events of the chapter! Thanks again & hope you enjoy the next update!! ❤❤

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