#sesskagfest2023

[crescent-dreams]

The SessKag Festival 2024

What better way to celebrate everything SessKag than a festival dedicated to our favourite couple?

Theme - Proximity

Day 1: City

Day 2: Shrine

Day 3: Mountain

Day 4: Beach

Day 5: Forest

Day 6: School

Day 7: Garden

Day 8: Free choice! Catch up on one you missed or come up with something new

Rules:

Runs from October 13-20, 2024

Must feature SessKag as the main ship

All ships, both foreground and background, should only involve characters that are 18+, especially if NSFW themes are involved

Drabbles, one-shots, chapter stories, take your pick! There are no requirements or limitations on word count—anything goes, no matter the length!

Sketches, doodles, fully-coloured artwork, chibis, doujinshi are all accepted!

Prompts can be interpreted any way you like! Fluff, Angst, Smut, do with them what you will

No submission limit, show off SessKag as many times as you want

Be creative and have fun

Posting

Add any fics to the SessKag Festival collection (SessKag_Fest_2024) on Ao3

Use appropriate tags and trigger warnings

Tag #skfest, #sesskagfest, #sesskagfestival, or @crescent-dreams if you post it on Tumblr

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Questions

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We can't wait to see what creative things you come up with! And a special shout out to @julytheartist for creating this amazing banner!

[sereia1313]

Lost & Found

For the final day of @crescent-dreams's SessKag Festival! I haven't written a crack fic in a while, but I was able to tie this idea into a sequel to Hide and Seek and Warmth, so y'all can thank @mrfeenysmustache for the chaos that is about to ensue.

Read it on Ao3, Dokuga, and FFnet.

Summary: Sesshoumaru hasn’t been to the den in over a month, so Kagome heads west. But magic spells and uninvited guests prove effective interruptions when all Kagome wants to do is chase his nightmares away--and maybe something more.

Sneak Peek

Kagome sighed as she looked down at the bonds around her wrists. All she'd wanted to do was check up on Sesshoumaru, as he hadn't been to the den in over a month. She knew he'd had some travelling to do—he'd told her as much before he'd left—but she couldn't stop worrying, especially with how often the nightmares happened, so she'd ventured west, hoping they'd crossed paths.

Kohaku had just returned to the village to visit Sango and his new nephew, so he'd offered up Ah-Un to cut down on the time she'd spend walking. Kagome had planned on making the trip on foot, especially since Jinenji's farm was on the way, but he wasn't expecting her, so she'd accepted the help, more focused on seeing Sesshoumaru than anything else.

She blushed slightly at the thought of suddenly showing up on his doorstep, but it wouldn't be completely out of line considering how often they slept together, right?

However, those thoughts had quickly been dashed after Ah-Un had set her down along the edge of the citadel, and she'd immediately been seized by three soldiers. They'd demanded her name and station, claiming every visitor required special clearance to enter the village.

She'd told them all they'd wanted to know but had still been bound like a common criminal, Ah-Un muzzled and dragged in the opposite direction after both heads had snapped the soldiers' spears in half. She'd tried to calm them down, but the beast had been inconsolable, huffing fire as a slew of guards wrapped ropes around their body and tail.

[matsuharuu]

My contribution to the SessKag fest 2023 <;3 @gilded-sapphire #skfest #sesskagfest and #sesskagfestival

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[julytheartist]

SessKag Festival

Day 8. Free day

Banner day! Artwork I did to promote this incredible festival! I'm very happy for everyone who took part and for all the Fanarts and Fics that honored us!

[julytheartist]

SessKag Festival

Day 6. Satisfy

The uncensored versions are available in the @gilded-sapphire community that is running this wonderful festival

Drabble made by @moon-ion inspired by these arts in AO3 Here!

Once the festival ends, they will be available on my Patreon for the public

[wbficaholic]

Bad Boy, a SessKag Fanfiction

Written for @gilded-sapphire's SessKag Fest 2023! -> Read on Ao3

Summary: He was the type she never knew she had, the type she couldn’t resist.

Excerpt:

It had been there from the beginning, if Kagome thought back on it. From the first time she’d seen Sesshoumaru smirking down at her from that monstrous oni’s shoulder. From the first time he’d disdained her as a ‘creature,’ and then, still looking down his nose at her in disbelieving contempt, had the gall to demand of her, ‘What are you?’—even after she’d done what he couldn’t and pulled Tessaiga from the stone.

It had been there later, when she’d shattered the spiked pauldron of his armor with her sacred arrow. When he’d plucked her next shining shot from midair and slanted his golden eyes toward her in a glare that could have scorched through solid stone. When he’d phased from view with a flicker only to reappear just before her, looming over her in open menace, and she’d met his searing eye dead-on—and if it hadn’t been for Inuyasha coming to her rescue, she didn’t know even now just what might have gone down between them.

She had the sense she wasn’t the only one who still wondered darkly about this.

Because it couldn’t just be in her head—of that, she was becoming increasingly certain. It was too tangible, too electric, this shared current of scintillating animosity that sparked to life between them whenever they were near.

It was something that went beyond the frisson of youki and reiki, something more primal, more raw and visceral than that kind of elementary clash. Something deeply personal.

He knew her name, and he called her ‘miko’ anyway. How could she not take that personally? The more their paths crossed, the more he chafed at her. His arrogance, his demonic condescension. He thought he was so powerful, so high and mighty. With flashing eyes, Kagome traced the smug, aristocratic lines of his inhuman face, and felt his own slit-pupiled stare scoring over her mortal self just as keenly.

No one else noticed these unspoken, heated exchanges. This was a private cold war they were waging, though why and to what end remained unclear. But the focus seemed to sharpen a bit more each time they crossed paths, pointed glance on pointed glance.

He’d taken in a little orphan girl. He'd stopped trying to wrest Tessaiga from Inuyasha. By and by, he’d turned his bloodthirst on Naraku instead. Sesshoumaru wasn’t a total monster. But he was still an infuriating prick. He made her teeth grind in indignation when he spoke about her to others as if she wasn’t standing right there. He made her blood boil with his cool glinting looks and scathing half-smiles.

The worst of it was, she couldn’t stop thinking about him.

He made her furious, and it made her even more furious that she was so furious in the first place. She resented that just by being a jerk, he’d hijacked her emotions in this nefarious way. It was maddening. The only silver lining to her internal fuming over him was that it distracted her from the fact that Inuyasha was still hung up on Kikyou.

Kagome didn’t even realize he’d gone off again to meet up with her until she and her friends were sitting around the campfire, and she felt everyone’s eyes resting uncertainly on her. She’d been scowling again without realizing it, re-hashing the last time Sesshoumaru had gone out of his way to subtly antagonize her. She could only imagine the dark stormclouds that were shadowing her features and disconcerting her friends, who could only assume she was ruminating over Inuyasha and Kikyou.

“Oh,” she said suddenly, dispersing her thunderous expression with a smile and a wave, “sorry—I’m okay.”

“Are you sure, Kagome-chan?” Sango asked, frowning.

Kagome nodded, beaming back at her. “I was just lost in thought, that’s all. We’ve had a long day, haven’t we?”

Over the course of dinner, she managed to reassure her wary friends. The last thing she wanted to do was worry them, especially over something she couldn’t begin to put into words anyway. 

This ratcheting whipcord of tension between her and Sesshoumaru—

Kagome felt there was nothing for her to do except to wait for it to break.

⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆  Read the rest on Ao3!

Photo by Ilias Chebbi on Unsplash

[crescent-dreams]

SessKag Festival Master List 2023

Day 1 - Rejuvenate

Transfer and Transform by @mrfeenysmustache/AshMish111

Awash by thetroll

Rejuvenate by @razdazberry/RazzleDazzleBerry

Rejuvenate by @julytheartist/JulytheLily

Surrender [chapter 1] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Commitment [chapter 1] by Mitsje

Step Forward [chapter 1] by thetroll

Steel Rubies [chapter 1] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Day 2 - Capitulate

Capitulate by @mrfeenysmustache

Step Forward [chapter 2] by thetroll

Steel Rubies [art] by @razdazberry/RazzleDazzleBerry

Steel Rubies [fic, chapter 2] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Commitment [chapter 2] by Mitsje

Surrender [chapter 2] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Bad Boy by @wbficaholic/wonderbug

Dictionary-sama by @lucymorningstar257

Day 3 - Indulge

Indulge by @julytheartist/JulyTheLily

Step Forward [chapter 3] by thetroll

Steel Rubies [chapter 3] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Commitment [chapter 3] by Mitsje

Indulge by @mrfeenysmustache

Surrender [chapter 3] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Day 4 - Renew

Step Forward [chapter 4] by thetroll

Steel Rubies [chapter 4] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Commitment [chapter 4] by Mitsje

Renew by @mrfeenysmustache

Surrender by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Day 5 - Relinquish

Commitment [chapter 5] by Mitsje

Steel Rubies [chapter 5] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Step Forward [chapter 5] by thetroll

Relinquish by @mrfeenysmustache

Surrender [chapter 5] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Bone to Pick by thetroll

Day 6 - Satisfy

Satisfy by @julytheartist/JulytheLily

Commitment [chapter 6] by Mitsje

Steel Rubies [chapter 6] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Ruby by @razdazberry (technically done prior, but goes with chapter 6 of Steel Rubies)

Step Forward [chapter 6] by thetroll

Surrender [chapter 6] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Day 7 - Pamper

Commitment [chapter 7] by Mitsje

Steel Rubies [chapter 7] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Step Forward [chapter 7] by thetroll

Pamper by @mrfeenysmustache

Surrender [chapter 7] by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Balance by thetroll

Day 8 - Free Choice

Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by @elevenharbor

Commitment [chapter 8] by Mitsje

Sapphire by @razdazberry

Step Forward [chapter 8] by thetroll

Day 8 by @julytheartist

Me and you, were meant to be in love by @harumatsuu/Matsu_Haru

Lost & Found by @sereia1313/Sereia13

Twirling in the Twilight, Dancing in the Dawn by @mrfeenysmustache/AshMish111

[sereia1313]

Surrender

For @crescent-dreams's SessKag Festival!

Read it on Ao3, Dokuga, and FFnet.

Summary: After being attacked, Kagome is transported onto a secluded island--and right into the arms of Sesshoumaru. But he has his own reason for needing solitude, and it will take every part of him not to divulge the secret he is desperate to keep hidden.

Sneak Peek

"What happened?"

She groaned, attempting to lift an arm but unable to do so. "Snakes ambushed me on the way home from Sango's village. I wasn't paying attention, and they bit me."

Sesshoumaru placed her injured arm across her stomach. "You require care. I rid you of the poison, but it will be a while before you are able to function normally. Why was your pack not with you?" He bit out the final question, unable to keep his voice steady.

"They're all busy with the wedding," she said, and his face went blank. Of course. How could he have forgotten?

Gingerly, he got to his feet, careful not to jostle her as much as possible as he walked to the only hut on the island. The miko looked around as best she could, eyes searching. "You will have to remain here until you are well. I am the only inhabitant, so you will not be disturbed."

She offered him a tired smile, leaning against his chest. "I guess that's why I was sent here. What place is safer than a remote island?"