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Desert Princess
By: Sohma Star

Prince Sesshomaru and Prince Inuyasha were treated with the utmost respect upon arrival. Soon they found themselves waiting for dinner in the comfort and luxury of the palace guest quarters. The guest quarters were extravagant, each had their own room Sesshomaru's room was slightly larger than Inuyasha's but that was to be expected as Sesshomaru was the crown prince. The rooms were decorated in the finest silks and satins, large comfortable pillows were scattered across the floor. The finest oil paintings adorned the walls their wooden frames showing just how wealthy Inori was.

Inuyasha paced the floor of his quarters, supper was taking forever. How long had he been here now? Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes? Whichever it was, it was too long. He hated being cooped up in this foreign room. He continued pacing for another two minutes, but had enough, opening the door he decided to go exploring.

Inuyasha reached the hall way and took a long deep breath, he grunted satisfied. His nose always knew best and right now something smelt curiously good. He began trailing the scent hoping to find it's source. As the scent became stronger his mind began to fog, his nose was in absolute bliss. Slowly he forgot where he was, and what he was doing. His body took control and moved of its own accord as he continued down the corridor towards the source of the wonderful scent.

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Kagome leaned her head back resting it on the edge of the bathing basin. Warm steam assaulted her nose and relaxed her aching body completely. Her crystal blue eyes began sliding shut, and a short time later the Princess had dozed off, contemplating the visiting demons.

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Inuyasha's inner-youkai was in full control as his search of the hallway ended at a large wooden door. He growled at the offensive object blocking he path, the scent was driving him crazy, his whole body was on fire as he slashed through the door. The other side of the door greeted him with a dense cloud of steam. He took a deep whiff sorting the scent he was trailing from the steam. Inuyasha was now on all fours with his nose to the ground, he was close. His body had started to react to the close proximity of the scent, he growled low as his nose bumped the bottom edge of a basin. As he began to stand his inner-youkai found what it had been searching for.

A girl lay asleep inside the basin, with her head resting on the edge. Her hair all fell to the right leaving her neck exposed to him. He grunted in approval, she was beautiful, and she smelt so wonderful. He was getting lightheaded form being so close, leaning towards her neck he breathed in deeply. She was pure and unclaimed. His fangs grew slightly as he positioned himself over her left shoulder were it met her neck. Then with lighting speed he bit down piecing her flesh, and laying claim to her body.

Kagome woke with a start, he whole body seemed to be on fire. She heard a gentle purring sound and felt a wet tongue caressing the area between her shoulder and her neck. She jumped to the other side of the basin in shock. Finally face to face with her attacker her breath hitched. He was the same demon she saw this morning coming to the palace, but he looked different. His eyes were blood red, and there were purple stripes beneath them. But the most obvious change was the feral grin on his face.

He advanced towards her licking his lips and the scent of fear spiked its way into her already arousing scent making it that much more enticing. Kagome stumbled out of the bathing basin, and scurried towards the ruined door. Inuyasha quickly gave chase, the game of tag arousing him even further. Kagome was slipping all over, her wet body made it difficult to keep traction on the marble floor. She had just about reached the remains of the door when she was slammed to the ground. Inuyasha had pinned her.

He purred softly in her ear, and licked at the wound he had inflicted, trying to get her to calm and submit. Kagome however, had other plans, she lifted her body up off the floor, and attempted to shake Inuyasha off. He growled loudly at her, and bit down on her shoulder. "Submit Female!" He growled roughly into her shoulder, and added a little more pressure with his teeth. Kagome's struggles increased, confusing the demon on top of her. By demon law she should submit, and allow him to mate with her. He had given her the claiming bite, gave chase when she ran, and pinned her proving he was stronger and faster then her, and giving him the right to mate with her. This female however would not submit. Confused, his simple demon mind was trying to sort out what was going on, what had he done wrong that this female would not approve his claim?

Kagome saw an opening as the pressure on her back temporarily eased. She used all her strength and pushed her body up from the ground sending Inuyasha tumbling backwards. He rolled back about five feet, and hit his head hard on the bathing basin. Kagome wasted no time in grabbing a towel, and escaping the room before he realized what happened.

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Sesshomaru was pacing his quarters impatiently. Supper was taking way too long, bored he decided to go next door and pay his brother a visit. His brother having even less patience then himself should be irate by now and fairly easy to irk, a little fight before supper might just ease his boredom. He strode towards his brother's room, opening the door an sniffing the air inside it. His scent was there, but it was faint like he had left some time ago. Moving further into the room Sesshomaru noticed Tetsusaiga sitting unprotected in the corner. Inuyasha had been told numerous times already to never leave the sword, for it was the seal on his demon blood. Growling in annoyance he turned towards the hallway carefully sniffing out the direction Inuyasha had traveled and following.

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Inuyasha sat up rubbing the back of his head tenderly. :Where am I? How did I get here: Climbing to his feet he glanced around the room hoping to recognize something, but having no such luck. A faint scent drifted through the air assaulting his scenes. His inner-youkai began purring at wonderful scent, as Inuyasha started to put what had happened back together. :I was following this scent...: A sharp pain in his chest brought him back out of his musings. His heart and inner-youkai knew what his mind did not... He had chosen a mate... and she rejected him.

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