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Warm lips were on his.

The list of things done today included chasing after a cat demon, cornering the thing and not realizing that it had a family, nearly getting killed via evisceration, retrieving a shard, limping back to camp, getting bandaged and chastised monk, getting groped by the monk who was promptly bashed over the head by the youkai hunter, watching them scramble and squabble off as they went to go get more fire wood, and then having the miko come over to inspect the bandages and kiss him.

Everything before the kiss seemed very unimportant at the moment.

And when she pulled back, she still had that damned flat expression on her face she always had.

He had no idea what to think of it.

“What was that?” he asked.

The silver haired miko stared at him for a moment, eyes boring into him and making him feel like an idiot for asking. “A sealing spell,” she said.

“A what?”

“A sealing spell.”

“Felt more like a kiss to me.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Why would a miko kiss a diayoukai?”

“You tell me, miko.”

She was quiet another moment, tilting her head and the dog youkai was suddenly very aware of how her silver hair shimmered and shifted and fell oh so pretty around her. “Today was a close call,” she said. “I have… realized I may not be able to take on youkai as well as I thought I would.”

He snorted. He’d known that for a while. “How humble of you.”

Her eyes narrowed just the slightest, but other than that, there was no visible change in her expression. “Upon that discovery, I also realize that I must make sure I have the protection I need to see this journey through. There will be greater dangers ahead of us. The sealing spell binds you to me. It ensures that you’ll stay near me. Protect me.”

“That’s ridiculous. No such thing as a miko sealing spell.”

“Who is the miko here?”

“You are.”

“And who would know best about what a miko can and cannot do?”

“You would.”

“Hn.”

His ears twitched just the slightest. “And you’re sure this isn’t just a kiss to say ‘thank you for saving my life’?”

“Of course not.”

Right. Miko sealing spell, his ass. It was absolutely preposterous.

Still, as she leaned in and their lips touched again, he had to admit the spell was working.

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Okay, so not directly Valentines Day, but an excuse to do something I've been wanting to do a while. You know those genderbends I did of Sesshoumaru and Kagome? Well... I STILL haven't gotten the idea out of my head. I even have a script for a comic started. Whether or not it will actually make it to the comic stage, I don't know, but this is one scene I had in my head a while.

Sesshoumaru, legendary miko, cold and calculating would never do something on an impulse.... like kiss the youkai that saved her life. XD

I dunno, I thought it was cute.

And that background was incredibly fun to do xD