Warnings: AU, Modern, language, humor, Mature sexual content, general r0oness.

Rating: High PG for lang/sexual content

Pairings: SK

Word Count: ~3750

Letting Go is Hard to Do.......................For dani's Impromptu Challenge: Sess’ reaction to his daughter’s first date 062009

This week had been probably the worst of his long 697 year old life. It had started Monday evening. It was dinner time, a time when his pack, big and small, had to sit down and talk about their day, a tradition his miko mate and wife had instilled long ago when it was just two of them. It allowed him to keep tabs on his family, his pups and insured that at least the bare amount of time was spent between pups, mates, dam and sire.

He was the head of his own pack, though that smaller pack fell into his own sire’s pack. He was mated to Kagome Higurashi, now Kagome Taishou, and had been for almost seventy-five years. They had seven pups total, from their eldest to their youngest all still lived at home and, while their body’s grew and in some ways they were mature, they were all still pups in his eyes like he would always be to his own sire. All of them were boys save his one little girl but she was not so little any more.

Miyako was only one of two of his pups that had taken after her mother with her dark hair, and blue eyes. She was Kagome’s pup through and through; from the way she looked to her monstrous temper. He’d been pleased when his mate had first told him long ago she was expecting. As it had turned out it was to be a litter of three, two sons and a daughter. He was, indeed, a proud father, and though by definition they were hanyou as their mother was, in fact, human, to some degree, they had all come out looking, acting, sounding, and smelling like full-blooded inu pups.

He was beyond proud though now his eldest three were seventy years old, their bodies resembling young teenagers just before they hit young adult. He’d nearly had heart attacks raising them, particularly when fashions went from ultra conservative to provocative and it was even more so with his daughter then he ever had for his sons. He’d never thought about how many females he had rutted and never looked back upon until he realized one day that could be his baby girl! And now, now was why his week sucked. Monday she’d come home from her classes at the demonic high school she went to so very excited.

Why? One might ask, only the fact that a freshmen, his pup, and only daughter, had been asked out on a date by a senior. Worse than that was it was an ookami.

His chest rumbled with anger at the idea. His beast struggling to find its pup and keep her from all males, forever! It was not like olden days where he could just lock her away until he found her mate for her. Well, actually, he could in fact by demonic law still resort to old traditions but his mate, wife and lover of so many years would probably kill him or do something horribly worse, like refuse him sex for the time should he try. The damn miko could be a hell spawn when she wished to be.

He snorted at the idea. Monday night’s dinner had been barbaric. He was not one to raise his voice but by the end of the night he and his mate had been in a screaming match over their girl pup. All of the pups had heard it and it was simply not pretty. He was in the dog house, preverbal or not, his mate was angrier then anything he could ever remember her being and his daughter refused to speak to him. It simply was not how life was supposed to be.

Tuesday morning had come and not much had changed. He had forbidden his girl pup to see the ookami. She was being like her mother, stubborn as a mule, and had gone to school without even saying a word to him. Work all day long was rough, angry, and hell for anyone that had the misfortune of being in smiting distance of him. His brother had even learned that inu hanyou’s can’t fly. The whelp was just lucky that they had been in one of the lower offices that day rather then in his own at the top of the tower.

By dinner time his female was still pissy, his girl pup was still not talking to him, and well his sons were taking bets on who would break first. Sesshomaru, being who he was, would not take a second night not sleeping with his mate so when she had finished up everything, gotten the staff away from the kitchen so she could clean, because even after so long there were just some things she could not let other do, he had waited and stalked her to their bedroom. Of course, she thought he was avoiding her, that was wrong. Tuesday night he not only pounced his mate and wife but showed her who was alpha, why, and then some. She slept in Wednesday morning into Wednesday afternoon and his office was no longer on an unofficial ‘code red’ upon sight of him.

The next day he decided that he trusted his girl pup, honestly he did. He and his mate had raised the pup right. Granted it would be another seventy plus years before legally she could mate via demonic laws, unless he said otherwise, he believed her to be all in all a good girl. It was the rest of the world and all its penis’ he didn’t trust. Knowing still that no work would get done until this infernal date was over with, Sesshomaru uncharacteristically shifted all his work to his whelp of a brother, not paying attention to the brash thing as he screamed via email about the work being dumped on him. He had only replied the situation in brief and before he knew it not only was Inuyasha in his office but his sire as well.

His girl pup was pack after all.

Talking to the two males, Inuyasha was reliving horror stories of his own female pups first ‘dates’ as they were now called. Having been mated longer then the daiyoukai, the hanyou had in fact married and mated a miko that looked very similar to Kagome, a female named Kikyo. Almost all of Inuyasha’s pups had been female where as only two had been male. The whelp had been happy yet his pride was a bit ashamed, not to mention he and his sons hid from the women in their lives. That fact gave him a bit of a chuckle. By the end of the day, they had worked up a profile on the offending male that thought to ‘date’ Miyako.

He was the son of an old rival of Inuyasha’s, Kouga’s son Kiba. Now it wasn’t that the male was bad, it was more or less that he was sniffing where Sesshomaru, Touga, and Inuyasha didn’t want him to be. They had found while the cub was smart he often got in trouble for being rambunctious, loud, and brash, way too much like the wolf’s sire Kouga for their tastes. He was at least decent looking, though the comment that Touga had thrown out that at least his great grandpups would be handsome had earned him a black eye. And Inuyasha was still scowling about the situation when all had left for their respective homes.

Dinner Wednesday night had been better. Kagome was now speaking to him, lovingly in fact, but his girl pup was still not. That night after their spent time together as a family, he went with his sons off to the dojo they had on the property while Kagome spoke with Miyako. When they had made it back to their rooms, Kagome had explained why their pup was so upset and, though Sesshomaru didn’t ever, EVER like to explain himself, he too advised his mate and wife why he was being so adamant about things. Really, part of it was instinct. Females in the pack were very valued. They gave life, nurtured, they were meant to be cherished and protected. His inu was literally biting at his control to go out and kill the male that even thought to sniff around his little girl.

Kagome sighed but she understood. She knew long ago, having been miko of her village, how deeply youkai instinct ran, yet as the world changed youkai had to change with it to survive and she had met Sesshomaru just before many of these changes were starting. Now things like that weren’t so common any more. But Sesshomaru was not a young demon. He wasn’t old or a pup but he was still very much in his prime and still he remembered the old ways. He was a traditionalist. That night he took his frustrations out as he made love her. He was hard and slow and she hadn’t been allowed to rest until dawn the next day.

By the time Thursday rolled around, he and his partners in crime, i.e. Touga, his sire, and Inuyasha his whelp of a half-brother, had all but forgotten about work, their seconds and assistants having to deal with everything suddenly being thrown at them, in lieu of the bosses actually doing their jobs. No, by Thursday they had already found Kouga and had ‘nicely’ invited him over to have lunch with them at an upscale restaurant that the dogs normally haunted for business that they didn’t want over heard. The owner was another dog demon, one that was in Touga’s pack and kept tight reign on who came in and out of the building as far as workers.

After lunch, one terrified ookami, and three overly proud inu’s later, work at the office went back to some form of normalcy. The only exception was that Sesshomaru was still not pleased at all by the fact that his girl pup would be alone for hours with a hormonally unbalanced male wolf that was sniffing far too close to his pack for his liking. He packed up early that day and headed home to try to find some balance in his life from his mate. For the third time in less then three days, he found comfort between her legs, making it so motor skills were not working for the poor female before he was done. Dinner, though she really passed it up to spend time with her family, was missing one Kagome.

He ordered pizza for his brood, a rare treat that, though he never said it, even he liked. He found out about how his pups days had gone and did the things that he knew his mate would be pleased about before going off to his study. Each pup would, before they went off to bed tonight, eventually make it there to spend time with him. That was just the way of things. For each male, particularly Miyako’s litter mates, he advised why he’d been so filled with tension, why he still was in fact. Yoshiro, his eldest, and Marushi, had of course advised that they would keep an eye out for the wolf. While his younger pups, two different sets of twins, --he smiled a bit, his bitch never seemed to have a single pup, always litters--, said that they too in their own way would keep an eye out.

Jushun and Isshin were the next set. They now looked to be about eleven, while Kei and Harumitsu were his youngest looking about seven, while his oldest set, the triplets looked about fifteen. He sighed when finally his girl pup came in that night. She was his most darling pup. It could not be helped, he had more of a weakness for her then he could stand at times. She didn’t know how much it hurt him to know that he only had at most only about twenty-five or more years before he knew she could move out if she wished. Most pups no longer lived with their parents once they reached early maturity of one hundred. His pups, while they still had many years to go, were still getting there fast.

She would at that time, have about fifty years before she could legally mate if she wanted to. A time in her life where she could do mostly anything if she wished it, and he allowed her to do so, it wasn’t required that she be a virgin to mate. It was helpful certainly but not required. And that very traitors thought was what upset him the most. The ookami were not bad people, he simply didn’t want his girl pup to grow up. He didn’t think any father did. More so it was so much easier for his sons, it was a simple command of ‘don’t be stupid,’ and a good beating in the dojo. He couldn’t very well tell his girl pup not to sleep around. He could, though, keep her locked up until he found her a mate though. She would hate him for it he knew and he did not want that.

Talking with her, he explained as best he could, while trying not to embarrass either of them, what was going on. By the end of their conversation, he was back on speaking terms with his pup, glad for it, because even if she didn’t know it, having her mad at him was almost as bad as having Kagome mad at him. Before he went up to the master bedroom, he spent some time looking at his family’s photo album. Looking at images of all of his pups from birth and before until now. He growled a bit at the idea that he was getting into this stage in his life. He knew that when the male came to get his daughter they would have to talk. Mind made up he went upstairs to claim his mate.

Sniffing the air, he was amazed to realize, that while consciously he was not aware of it in his tension, he had completely missed her heat scent. Acknowledging it, neither slept, calling out for work the next day and full into the evening he only let her go when he knew it was time for her to help his girl pup get ready to go out. Annoyed and tense, he headed for the dojo, smirking at the fact that his beast had already managed to pup his mate before he even realized her state of being. He really did enjoy pupping her, and being a sire.

Friday evening came faster then he would liked. When Jaken had come to retrieve him from his sparing with his elder son’s at the arrival Sesshomaru bade him have the cub come forth. When Kiba came into the dojo he was already alarmed. His father had come home yesterday and pretty much told him if he did anything not only would he, Kouga, beat the hell out of him but he would have the Yama Inu’s to answer to. Now Kiba’s father was one thing, the Kaze wolf was hell in a fight, looking at Miyako’s father as he and his two sons spared at once, was another thing all together.

Beyond pedigree, beyond anything there, was pure unadulterated strength. It was terrifying. Seeing him and her brother’s wielding real swords with real blades meant to kill one another in a sparring match, he had no doubt in his mind should he fuck up his head would roll. They finished up quickly and his sons left. Looking at the much larger silver headed male, Kiba felt small. He felt the need to expose his throat and belly to this much more powerful male and when he spoke, it took much for him not to buckle like a coward. “If you do anything…” the threat was clear. Kiba only nodded as he heard his name being called. Getting an almost invisible okay from Sesshomaru that he could leave he found his date.

Kagome cascaded down the stairs first, a camera in hand, forcing the pair to take pictures. She was being the most annoying lovable mom ever, in Miyako’s opinion. And by the time her dad had come in from the dojo in just a fighting gi and hamaka’s, well she could see the tension in her father’s stance, knowing it was hard for him. Breaking away from her mother and her date, she went to ease her dad’s fears. “Nothing will happen.”

Silence ate the air between them as he looked at her. She really did look like Kagome; her eyes were large, so very blue. He could see everything he fell in love with in her mother in her. It was just so hard to let her go in any way shape fashion or form. He didn’t say the words, he wasn’t that type of male, but his eyes said it for him.

And even though he was just a bit sweaty, she couldn’t help but hug her dad. Neither of them heard the conversation between Kagome and Kiba though, had they Sesshomaru might have smiled.

The miko smiled sweetly as she watched her daughter go to her husband and mate before turned her then kind eyes to the male that was going to take her baby girl out. Her voice was sickeningly sweet, her eyes though now were like steel as they flashed with a threat no youkai wanted to go up against, the raw fury of not only a mother but a miko. “If you hurt her in any way, with you words, or physically, there will be nothing left for your father or mother to recognize you with. I do not make threats cub, I make promises.” She narrowed her eyes as she looked at him, the much shorter woman far more frightening then her mate could ever be right now. “Sesshomaru is the least of your worries should you upset her. And don’t even think of doing anything with her either. I want her home by ten.” She finished out still sickeningly sweet as her pup and mate come over.

The cub was nodding and Kagome smiled, all traces of devil-mother gone, as she and her mate marched the pair to the door. Kagome was fussing to make sure Miyako had her cell, and cash to get home should something happen. Miyako, of course, never thought anything other then the fact that her mother was a worry-wart. She smiled and waved at her pup as the cub opened the door for her and letting her in. Kagome called out sweetly, her eyes flashing to Kiba as she spoke, “Remember what I said! 10 pm!”

With his head shaking he nodded and got into his side of the car before pulling out.

Kagome never noticed Marushi and Yoshiro discreetly following after them in Yoshiro‘s car nor the fact that her other children were mysteriously absent. Vaguely she remembered her father in law and her brother in law saying they were taking a pair out each. The house seemingly all to themselves, Kagome only smiled as her mate lifted her up going up the stairs. Sometimes it was good to let go, other times it was good to hang on. Children, pups grew up and all things changed. It was the way of life, but should anyone ever threaten her pups, or her mate, the same for his pup or his mate, life would end horribly for that one. Both Sesshomaru and Kagome would make sure of that.

The dai took his mate upstairs once more, claiming her over and over as he made love to her, knowing that she once again would bare his pups. They had nothing else to do and it was rare that they didn’t have to use a spell for the noises. The night went on and when the first set of pups got home, all was well.

Kagome went to bed and Sesshomaru waited up for his girl pup to come in. Not wanting to be an ass completely, he knew his father was already outside should something go wrong. He listened, annoyed, as they made their good byes, even more so when the cub sought out a goodnight kiss. He allowed it only for a moment before he turned the porch light on.

Miyako came in a happy smile on her face. Sesshomaru, having already been called by his father before hand, listened to her give him a run down of the date his girl pup had been on. The cub had been smart not to try anything. She smiled happily to her father then went over and kissed him goodnight before she went up to bed too.

He sighed. Letting her grow up was never going to be easy. At least she wasn’t being mated or married yet. He consoled himself with the thought as he turned off the lights and went to join his mate in bed.

Crawling in bed behind Kagome and pulling her close, his body curling to hers, he was only thankful he had to go through this once and that he had no other girl pups. He didn’t think he’d be able to deal with it. He smiled and thought that at least he wasn’t Inuyasha! Smirking he fell asleep, dreams of more pups causing him to pull his mate close.

The end.

AN: Yama-inu = mountain dog