[AN: This is going to be an InuTaisho/Kagome fic. Don't like, don't read, don't flame.]

Disclaimer: I do not own "Inuyasha" or any of the characters therein. It is not my intention, deliberate or otherwise, to claim otherwise.

Thoughts in italics

To Love a Demon

Chapter 10 – Say Yes

"The old Vixen has passed from this world. We should strike at them now!" The hissing rasp of voice accompanied a shuddering of decaying flesh on the hunched figure before the stone alter high in the Mountain of Nemuri.

"We must wait for our pawn to strike at them." The robbed figure across from the first coughed a moment before turning to the last figure in the darkness. "We mustn't give up the element of surprise that we hold."

The last figure of the three remained silent, walking beyond the alter to the throne made of the same granite. Caressing the stone but not sitting. 'Here in this place we will return.'

"Light the torch on the north face of Ishi Ryuu Suimin. We shall see how strong their allies are. We would not wish to fight a battle we can not win now would we, my dear seers?" An evil smile crept upon the lips of the darkened figure.

Touga stopped near the edge of the border between the Mid Lands and the Western Lands. A small clear stream trickled through the beautiful clearing he had chosen. Kagome had been lost deep in thought since their departure from the Palace of the Dead. Now she seemed content to remain there despite the lovely surroundings.

Touga placed her on her feet, bringing her blinking into reality. "Where are we?"

Touga pulled her to the edge of the stream. "On the border of the Western Lands, I had hoped that traveling through the Mid Lands would bring the High Taiyoukai to us. Yet I find no trace of Lord Hasha. Does he no longer hold the Mid Lands as his own?"

"High Taiyoukai?" Kagome watched Touga scan the surroundings, his eyes dancing along the edges of the clearing, continually seeking.

Touga nodded before indicating that she should drink. "He is the ruler of the Mid Lands and the mediator of the Four Tai that surround him. We call him the High Taiyoukai as he is the most experienced of the Lords and to be differed to should conflict arise."

Kagome nodded her understanding before taking a drink from the stream. "Inuyasha and Sesshomaru never mentioned a Lord Hasha. Though I've met the other Lords, Youko and Kouga are good friends. Though I think that Lord Ikatta would have preferred to have never met me."

"Ikatta rules the Southern Lands now? His father was a poor ruler, I hope that Ikatta has learned from his father's mistakes." Touga's mind was spinning. He did not recognize any of the names Kagome had mentioned with the exception of Youko, the spirit fox gaining his lordship not a year before he himself had died. But he had stopped here for a different reason.

Kagome stood again only to find Touga pressed nearly into her. Her breath left her in a gasp. Touga's hands slipped up her arms to circle her waist.

"We are safe here for the moment, Kagome." He dipped his head to press a gentle kiss to the side of her neck. "Forgive me. I can not deny the warning that Skylin has given us, nor can I deny that I wish to finish the mating."

Another kiss under her ear caused her breathing to come in small puffs. "But I will not take this choice from you." Her hands came up to clench the bone armor that covered his chest, her mind trying to wrap around his words as he kissed his way back down her neck. "You must choose, Kagome." He dipped her slightly back over his arm, nuzzling the edge of her kimono slightly open to bare the top swell of her breasts. "Though if you choose not to finish this, I will do my best to convince you otherwise."

Kagome couldn't stop the moan that escaped her when he began lightly nipping her breasts then easing the sting with his tongue. He wanted her to decide now if she was ready to mate with him. She hadn't even known him for more than three days and he wanted her to commit her life to him. Not that she had much of a choice anymore. They had spent most of their time in the future talking of his past and hers. But…

'She's going to say no.' Touga couldn't allow her to say no. His beast was clawing at him from the inside at having delayed the taking of his mate. He needed to take her. His body ached with a wanting that had risen in her era and refused to relax.

A growl shook her frame before his mouth descended on her, silk and nipple, drawing on her like a starving youkai. Kagome whimpered for him.

All thoughts fled from her mind. The slow burn that had started in her belly at his playful teasing kisses had started to become a deep ache. She shifted her thighs together trying to ease the ache.

"Say yes, Kagome." Touga released one breast to pull her kimono from her flesh to let it dangle from her arms and waist before attacking the second nipple. One arm holding her to him while the other worked at her obi.

Kagome's hands reached up to tug on Touga's hair indecision marring her features. He was holding himself back. She could feel it in his arms, shaking as he restrained his hunger. Her decision made Kagome pullied his face up to look into heavy lidded sapphire eyes.

"Yes."

[AN: Yay! Chapter 10! Finally. Sorry it took so long... And that it's short. I hate writters block. Yes I know I'm evil. Thanks all. ]