Sesshoumaru's Ningen Mate (Sesshoumaru x reader)

Hot Spring

The water gurgles and murmurs as if it wants to agree with you that everything is fine, that you found peace in his arms.

You feel how your muscles ache, how your mind is exhausted and drowsy. In the morning, right after you woke up and enjoyed your breakfast, you went to Sesshōmaru's private library. You have to learn many things, many things you have to memorize. Your head feels as if it is about to burst when you think of all the scrolls in Sesshōmaru's private library, scrolls which tell the historical events of the inuclan, which speak of packs and clans that live in the west and are under the protection of the inuclan. You have studied maps to know where and how far the borders of the western lands stretch and to which demon territory they connect to. You find it very interesting, even exciting to learn more about the inuclan, even if reading for hours wears you out. You also want to know more about Sesshōmaru's father, because neither Sesshōmaru nor Inuyasha talk about him. The flea demon Myōga told you stories about him, he told you a lot of things, but when you asked for Sesshōmaru's mother the flea demon didn't seem to know what to answer.

So far her name has only appeared twice in the scrolls. She is described as a demoness of great beauty, a demoness who comes from the house of a powerful and sought-after inuyōkai line. She seemed unconcerned when Sesshōmaru introduced you to her as his mate, she did not even looked surprised. On the other hand, you are surprised that Inuyasha's name is mentioned in a short sentence in one of the scrolls. The scroll describes Inuyasha as an illegitimate prince of the inuclan.

While you were pulling the scrolls from the wooden and bamboo shelves, you came across one that reports an incident with Kōga's wolf pack. You read through it curiously, and you learned that about one hundred years ago Kōga's pack received several valuable furs from the inuclan, after Kōga offered the protection of his lair to two pups of the inuclan. The two pups had left the west without permission to travel to the east where they were bitten by rat demons from the swamps. Kōga's pack found them, cared for their wounds, neutralized the poison and took them in until inuclan demons found the pups and brought them back to the western castle.

Tomorrow you will find out more information about Kōga and his wolf pack, you think, as you look into a wooden bucket to see your own reflection looking back at you. It disappears when you dip your hands into the cold water to wash the mud off from your fingers. You dry your hands on a cloth, then you rub your temple, yawning. Slowly you take off your clothes and you put them on a wooden chest next to the wall in the bath house. In the afternoon you felt that you had spent enough time in Sesshōmaru's library, and you helped to prepare the small gardens in the castle for the coming winter. You swept leaves with a broom made of rice straw and you carried non-perennial plants into an old wooden shed.

Again you feel how tired your body is after all the work, you feel how slowly your mind is working, and you feel that you long for a place of rest, a place where your body can relax and your mind finds peace. Your feet tap across the wooden floor and you cross the bathhouse completely naked. You stop in front of a door, then you push it open, and you step outside onto cold, smooth stone. You tremble slightly as you feel the cold. You glide your gaze over a large pool filled with hot water, and you smell the sulphur. The water of the hot spring is of a milky colour, gentle wafts of mist pass over it, and you see autumn leaves floating on the surface of the water. It is quiet here. You see bamboo growing densely around the hot spring, you see how high it grows, and you realize that it was planted to prevent prying eyes. You don't even see the guards on the castle wall. You have the hot spring all to yourself, and you are shielded from view.

You put the tip of your foot carefully into the hot water and you think that the temperature is perfect for you. You step on the first stone step, and then you glide slowly deeper into the water. You are now up to your navel in the water and you feel the pleasant warmth, you feel your warm feet, legs, buttocks and your warm waist. You move your hands through the hot water and you let it flow through your spread fingers. You hear the water splashing and gurgling as you repeat your movement, then you cross the pool to its deeper part. You can feel the pool becoming deeper and soon the water is reaching your breasts. You notice how the warmth begins to relax your body, how it releases the pain in your muscles, and you sigh profusely: So incredibly warm, you think, so beautiful.