Crossover Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Entrap Me ❯ Four: Sometimes Love Just Happens ( Chapter 4 )

Title: Entrap Me--Sometimes, Love Just Happens.
Author: Kage Otome (Shadow Maiden)
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Summary: Kagome who’s patrolling the area around Sesshoumaru’s land after training with her lord stumbles across an injured Yusuke Urameshi.
Rating: M--For profanity, implied violence and some ‘suggestive’ themes.
Crossover: Yu Yu Hakusho and Inuyasha
Pairings: Yusuke/Kagome
Feedback: Preferred
Beta: None
Disclaimer: I don’t own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho and make no profit from this fan fiction.

A/n: Terribly sorry it took so long to get out. I had originally intended to get it out well a week or two or three possibly ago...Then things happened, but here is the long awaited next installment of Entrap me. Thanks to KuraKitsune with her ever insightful help so I could improve this one-shot!

Dedications: This one goes to ShadowStar09.

*Sometimes, Love Just Happens*
By: Kage Otome

Sesshoumaru was a cold-heartless-merciless-slave-driver.

Plain and simple.

She groaned softly to herself rubbing the brand new bruises across her ribs and back. They were already turning a sickly greenish-yellow due to his poison. Luckily his poison only ‘skimmed’ her and didn’t come into direct---hard impact with her tender flesh. Okay well that’s not completely true--it did actually burn and scorch her skin with it’s acidic qualities but those didn’t hurt so bad---at least not if you just left them alone. The bruises however---Sesshoumaru just loved for some sadistic reason to target the area’s where she was still bruised from the last time. Toughening her up he called it. Yes it did toughen her up and make her very cranky.

Cursing softly about anal dogs with no lives she continued patrolling the area surrounding Sesshoumaru’s home in the Makai. Normally they would simply train at his home in Ningenkai. But he said she needed to work on her stamina. She snorted. Her stamina was fine. It was better then fine it was damn freaking great! After all, that traveling around Sengoku Jidai can do wonders for one’s stamina. Stopping perched in a branch Kagome pondered to herself exactly how she got stuck in this situation...Right---it was all Inuyasha’s fault.

He said something about her being weak---yet again.

She got mad and ‘sat’ him.

Then she stormed home...where she was going anyway before Inuyasha had gotten her all riled up.

And guess who awaited her on the other side of the well.

Sesshoumaru--that sadistic dog.

Yet, Kagome smiled fondly she did come to enjoy his boot camp training from hell. And him. He was quite an enjoyable companion once one got past his weird quirks and somewhat dry sense of humor. Of course he was really beginning to rub off on her. He told her at first she was too weak and he’d heard the fight so from the ‘goodness of his heart’ he decided to train her. Yeah. Right. Nope he came to make a ‘deal’ with her. If she agreed to stop interfering with his fights with Inuyasha in the past he would train her. Simply because he(his past self) was only trying to ‘toughen the whelp’ up, not kill him. Because as we all know if Sesshoumaru really wanted Inuyasha dead. He’d be dead.

So Kagome reluctantly agreed and thus began the start of hell Sesshoumaru called ‘training’. And to think it was about three months ago...Time sure slows when your being beat up. Granted she was beginning to improve quite well actually if you don’t count when she’s flying into walls, fists, inanimate or animate objects (come to think of it) half the time. At least she’s able to defend herself and attack fairly well with the sword and in hand-to-hand combat. Emphasis on fairly. She wondered how long they’d stay in Makai it was almost like walking back in time again---so unpolluted by ningen factories and such...Slowly her mind began to wonder, a bad habit that Sesshoumaru was trying to break and landed on her feudal friends. Was Shippo being good? Was Inuyasha ‘abusing’ Shippo? Were Sango and Miroku getting clo--hey what the hell was that?

Backtracking Kagome slowly and cautiously approached what she deemed.

Lumpy.

An unidentifiable lump.

What the heck?

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Appr oaching the ‘lump’ cautiously she couldn’t help but wonder exactly what he was. Or at least she thought it was a he if it was a female, she had very broad shoulders. Sighing deeply she silently cursed her curiosity and need to help people. Inuyasha had once told her, her need to help people would get her killed. Not that it stopped her. Rolling the person over on their back, her eyes traced over the handsome but very familiar features. He felt like a demon, possibly a hanyou, possibly not, but he had the Mazoku markings...So what was his relation to Lord Raizen, he was after all the only demon she knew with those types of markings... Kagome sighed, she wasn’t going to get any answers from him while he was unconscious so she began the tedious task of patching up his wounds.

About halfway through the process of cleaning a particularly nasty gash on his chest dark chocolate, almost auburn eyes fluttered open before he focused in on her.

“Who the hell are you?”

She twitched.

Once. And twice before muttering more to herself them him, about ungrateful demons with bad attitudes.

Yusuke’s temper was sparked.

“ What’d you call me, wench?”

More twitching ensued before Kagome blew her top.

“ARGH! IT’S KAGOME, NOT WOMAN AND CERTAINLY NOT WENCH. “

It was so silent you could hear a cricket chirping.

“Damn, you didn’t have to yell.” Yusuke said rubbing bringing a hand up to his ringing ears.

Kagome was silent before she began speaking again, this time in softer tones. After all she had been the one to blow up, and all he really did was call her wench, something others had done often. It was just a sore spot. Stupid Inuyasha.

“I’m Kagome, and you are?” She introduced trying to be polite.

“Tch. Yusuke.”

“Ok Yusuke, explain to me what your relationship with Lord Raizen is and why your in the Makai and how you came to be injured.” Kagome asked calmly.

“Your one to talk! What's you, a human doing in the Makai!”

“Training with my lord.”

Yusuke sighed looking at her wearily before answering her question. After all, there weren’t that many who didn’t know of him, and it didn’t seem like she was ‘after’ him. Besides her prodding was becoming annoying. If it would shut her up, it was worth a shot.

“So--your a majin, Raizen your ‘demon father’, once ‘did’ a human woman, her son was born with the passive Mazoku gene, and so on from that until you. You were born with the active Mazoku gene, thus making you youkai?” Kagome asked curiously while getting back to her previously forgotten job of patching up his wounds mentally going over this. So that’s why he had the Mazoku markings.

Yusuke nodded, gritting his teeth in pain as she set his broken arm.

“Done.”

Glancing down at his bandaged body he grudgingly admitted she did a good job. Wincing he attempted to lift himself up off the ground---and failed. Kagome giggled softly at his baleful glare before picking him up carefully. It could’ve been worse, she figured, he could have actually been heavy. But he wasn’t. Lucky her.

“So how did you come to be injured?”

He was silent. Kagome’s eyes narrowed. Well--if he was going to be like that.

“Oi! Where are ya takin’ me?”

“To the western house.”

“Why?”

Kagome gave him what has over time become known as ‘the look’. Yeah, you all know the look, that look that our mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers, etc. have perfected. That what-are-you-a-complete-and-utter-idiot-i’m-so-dissapointed-in-you look. Sometimes it’s combined with other ‘looks’ to make us poor souls feel guilty. Yes, it seems Sesshoumaru was really starting to rub off on her---her people skills were rusty.

“So you and I can get to ‘know’ each other.”

Seeing his startled look Kagome snickered.

“Are you serious?”

“No. You need to heal, and you aren’t doing it out here, besides I need answers and since you aren’t giving them up, I’m taking you to my lord. He’ll know what to do with you.”

“Who’s your lord?”

“Lord Sesshoumaru.”

All was silent as Kagome sped through the lands carefully avoiding the many dangers the wilds of Makai held.

“This is wrong.”

“Eh?” Kagome blinked, barely faltering in her run. “What are you talking about?”

“I’m a guy.” He spoke like that was supposed to explain it all.

“I can see that.”

“Put me down, I don’t need you to carry me.”

Kagome blinked again before realization filled her and she rolled her eyes.

“Get over it.”

He fumed.

‘Typical male...’ Kagome thought shaking her head.

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Convinci ng Sesshoumaru to allow him to stay had been a breeze. Why? Because there was no real convincing to be had. As soon as he got glimpse of the Mazoku markings adorning the injured majin’s body he was immediately taken to the infirmary. Stretching her arms, she massaged the kinks out of her shoulders and back. Sure he wasn’t that heavy but hey, she was only human, and she was in sore need of a long hot bath. She was sore, covered in blood, none of which was hers, and she stunk. But first things first.

“What happened?”

“I found him face down on the ground injured and unconscious.”

“Explain.”

Kagome shrugged before telling him what she knew.

“All he told me was that his father was Raizen, and due to the Mazoku gene activating or being active he is youkai. He told me nothing as to the circumstances of how he was injured. I can only guess.”

“I see.”

Motioning a servant over he gave his orders to the elderly raccoon.

“See to it he is treated with the proper hospitality for one of his station.”

Shooting Sesshoumaru a look Kagome waited until the raccoon left to do as told before firing off question after question at Sesshoumaru.

“It will be explained in time.”

“...I hate it when you say that.”

“I know.”

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& #8220;YUSUKE!!!! GET YOUR SORRY ASS BACK HERE YOU COWARD!!!”

Servants moved to the side as Kagome came storming down the hall, spitting fire, looking like the devil was at her heels, beckoning her, faster, faster...This was becoming a normal occurrence in the house of the moon. Yusuke would somehow anger Kagome, he’d ‘flee’ and she’d chase him. Or the other way around until they were either caught by Sesshoumaru, or one of them was sporting a pretty new bruise.

Sesshoumaru sighed to himself rubbing his temples wondering why he even allowed the majin to stay. Ah yes--he was a good sparring partner for Kagome, besides they’d formed a sort of camaraderie over the three-month time span he’d been there. Besides, someone had to train the stubborn git proper protocol, something Raizen hadn’t had the pleasure of living through. Lucky bastard.

The two of them were good for each other, he grudgingly admitted, she kept him in line when it was needed (which was rare), she made him tolerable to be around and he brought that smile to her face along with helping out with her training. And then there was the fact of their interesting relationship. One would have to be blind not to see the fire that sparked between them. It was obvious they were attracted to each other, added to the fact they had a respect and ‘friendship’ that was unlike the normal. But just when it looked like they were going to ‘get together’ they blew up in each other’s faces. Both were terrified at the prospect of falling in ‘love’ again, perhaps that’s why they always found a reason to ‘fight’. They really would make an interesting couple...It would certainly make those boring gatherings much more entertaining...Not to mention what it would be like if they had pups.

Dear Kami.

Sesshoumaru’s golden eyes widened marginally.

He was turning into his father.

He almost shuddered remembering some of the ‘matches’ he’d come up with.

His father had been the absolute worse matchmaker.

But that hadn’t stopped him...

Oh the horrors...
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His grin was so wide it damn near split his face. Though he had a good reason for his overly-large stupid grin. He got her good and they both knew it. He could just picture the look on her face when she got up, she must of been so horrified. After all her shriek must’ve woken anyone within a 6 mile zone. Of course, if it had been him in her position, he most certainly would’ve shrieked as well.

Poor thing was probably scarred for life.

But wouldn’t you be to if you woke up to find a blow-up-life-size version of Takemaru on top of you?

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Kagome was not a happy camper.

She’d waken up to find her hands tied to the bed post and an ugly thing on top of her....Shivering at the very thought she mentally commanded herself to think ‘pretty thoughts’. Thinking of that thing was most unappealing. She knew something was up when he came to say goodnight yesterday. She should’ve listened to her instincts. He must’ve slipped something into her tea that made her knock out and stay ‘dead to the world’ while he carried out his plans. Oh. He was good, but he’d get what was coming to him, because she was better. After all spending so much time around a prank-pulling-kit in the past and prank-pulling-not-so-small-kit in the future, you pick up a few things.

Yusuke Urameshi was going to regret the day he messed with Kagome Higurashi.

It was going to be sweet.

Now she just had to find him.

Little did she know.
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Dark eyes watched her from his perch on the tree top, his eyes gleaming with amusement. He could see the frustration on her face. It was something he’d learned about her during his time spent with the intriguing miko. Whenever she was especially emotional, all her tracking skills were pretty much shot to hell. She couldn’t concentrate or find the patience in her to properly track anything--which at this time would work to his advantage. Though he had no doubt Sesshoumaru was going to work with her to block her emotions out when the time came. After all sometimes situations called for being completely apathetic. This time though, he would use her inability to find him (due to her emotions) to his advantage.

“Damnit. Where the hell is he...” Kagome muttered coming to a stop underneath a large tree. “Okay, Kagome...Concentrate. Calm down, Focus...”

From above her Yusuke grinned waiting for the perfect moment.

“What the hell?” Kagome said out loud before slowly beginning to look up.

Now.

Yusuke leaped down tackling the startled miko onto the ground with an audible ‘oomph’ sound. However Yusuke made one mistake, he didn’t expect them to go rolling down the small hill like slope. And thus neither of them could’ve predicted what happened next. As they came to a jerky stop, Yusuke landed on top of the disgruntled miko, body to body, face to face---and lips locked. Eyes widened briefly before closing. Yusuke’s soon followed as he applied more pressure to her lips, gently almost hesitantly. Slender arms came around his waist and one snaked up to clench and unclench his hair at the back of his head. All thoughts of ‘vengeance’ flew out of her head as Yusuke kissed her senseless, his tongue and lips wrecking havoc on her senses as he broke off to lightly nip at her ear and neck before returning to her mouth.

“Ahem.”

Both broke apart and were up faster then you could say their names.

“Uh, Sesshoumaru...” Kagome began with a blush decorating her cheekbones. “There is a perfectly logical explanation for um...what you just saw...”

“Yes..?” He did so love to tease her.

“...I just can’t think of one.” Kagome said her mind wandering over to the kiss almost dreamily. She flushed again, his lips were so warm and, and---she couldn’t think of the right word to describe it. It was---perfect. ‘I can’t love him...I don’t....so why does my heart beat faster whenever he’s around?’

Seeing Kagome go off into ‘la-la land’ as she would so eloquently put it he turned to the majin who was too busy staring at Kagome. Sesshoumaru did the only thing he could, mentally rolling his eyes he muttered under his breath, so softly no one but himself would hear.

“It’s about time.”

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& #8220;Hey Kagome.” Yusuke said bringing Kagome’s attention to him.

“Yeah?”

“You wanted to know about what happened that day you found me right?”

Kagome perked up slightly. “Yeah...But you don’t have to tell me if you don’t--”

“I had recently been in a bad break up you could say and needed to relieve some stress...” He paused for a moment before continuing. “I normally would’ve been able to take care of all of those youkai, but they played dirty and you could say worked with fucking reikai goons to attempt to take me out.” Yusuke mumbled something under his breath. If Kagome had money, she’d bet it on ‘as if they fucking could...’ At least that’s what it sounded like.

“And you beat them up before falling unconscious.” Kagome finished.

He grinned resting his forehead against hers.

“You know me too well.”

“Spending everyday, almost every waking hour with you for the past three months will do that to a girl.” She said brushing a chaste kiss across the corner of his mouth before dancing out of his reach a playful smile on her face. With a playful grin spreading across his own features he leaped for her as she squealed and took off with him at her heals.

I think...I love you...

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Kei ko was worried.

Yusuke had been missing for three months. He’d just up and left to makai and then disappeared. None of the team could get in touch with him. Or find him. Koenma had said that the only way for that to have happened is if Yusuke is purposely hiding himself from reikai, or he’s with someone else who is. After all if he’d died, his soul would’ve most likely turned up at Reikai by now. She had a bad feeling, like it was all her fault. She’d ended their relationship on impulse, she had just been so angry. How could he enjoy fighting more then her? A part of her couldn’t help but feel guilty for his disappearance... But she needed stability, someone not like Yusuke, someone normal, someone human...But then again...

She sighed.

“It’s all right Keiko-chan, I’m sure he’ll turn up soon.” Yukina said giving the distraught girl a comforting smile.

“I hope so.”

Where are you, Yusuke?

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&# 8220;Yusuke...”

“Yeah?”

“Where are we going?” Kagome asked him, cocking her head to the side curiously.

“There’s someone I want you to meet.” Yusuke said grabbing her hand and pulling her along faster. Curiosity peaked she followed eagerly not even protesting as they began to climb up the ridiculously long shrine steps. It made her feel almost nostalgic, just like home. Which reminded her, she’d have to visit them while she was in the ningenkai, after all who knows when she’d get the next opportunity to do so.

“Hey Yusuke...”

“Yeah?”

“Do you think we could visit my family and your mom (if you want) after this?”

“Ok, c’mon, we’re almost there.”

With that he began sprinting up the last flight of steps dragging her along. Bursting through the shrine doors, Kagome was sorely tempted to smack him, you don’t just burst through a door at full speed, dragging someone and then come to a complete stop, sending said person into your back. Kagome rubbed her sore nose before moving the mass of hair and peeking over his broad should at the woman rising from the table. Her eyes carefully and calculatingly took in the other figures standing slightly behind the other woman. They’d probably felt them approaching, Kagome reached out slightly with her aura, testing them, and jerking back just as fast. They were powerful. These must be his fellow team mates, he’d told her about them once. The fox---Kurama, the hybrid--Hiei, and the ‘doofus’ as he called him Kuwabara. The woman, she was human--but powerful Genkai. The other was an ice apparition--Yukina. And the brunette approaching them, she could only be one person---Keiko...

“Yusuke?” Kagome’s eyes narrowed her displeasure making itself known.

The girl hesitated, seeing the openly hostile look she was getting from the very pretty girl behind Yusuke. She’d been so relieved at seeing him, she didn’t notice the other girl looking over Yusuke’s shoulder. She was very pretty, and currently shooting her the dirtiest glare. For a moment Keiko wondered why.

“Where have you been, dimwit?” Kagome’s eyes trailed over the pink haired psychic in amusement, she had a feeling she’d like this woman.

“In Makai.”

“You come back after three months and that’s all you have to say! “ Keiko steamed, anger burning in her eyes. “No call, no note, no nothing saying how long you’ll be gone or when you’ll be back!”

At this point Kagome broke in stepping around Yusuke letting her aura flare up around her angrily.

“And tell me, girl, what right do you of all people have to question him of his whereabouts? He’s a grown man, he can do whatever the hell he wants too.” Kagome practically snarled part in anger, part in some foreign emotion she was familiar with but couldn’t recall at the moment.

Yusuke glanced at Kagome in slight shock before his eyes widened in realization. They gleamed in amusement before a large grin broke across his face and he exclaimed,

“Your jealous!” Kagome turned her nose up in the air and faced away from everyone.

“No I’m not.” She sniffed.

“Yes you are.”

“I am not.” Yusuke’s grin just widened and wrapped a hand loosely around her neck and pulled her to him, turning her at the same time and then bringing his head down to meet hers in a passionate kiss. Simply too drive away her feelings of jealousy, he couldn’t have his Kagome thinking he was still in love with another woman. Keiko had stayed silent, his team mates had been silent taking it all in with absorbing eyes. Keiko could take no more, she exploded.

“So what he went to the Makai to see his whore.” Kagome’s eyes flashed dangerously and a deep growl emerged from the male standing beside her. The others standing to the side couldn’t help but wince slightly. That probably wasn’t the most intelligent thing to say.

“What did you call her?”

“A whore. What is she Yusuke? Your little youkai whore?” Keiko sneered angrily and partly jealous. Kurama’s green eyes traced down the figure of the girl Yusuke had brought with him, there was no mistaking the girl was beautiful, and intelligent, he could see it in her eyes. She was powerful and strong, her test of them and the tone of her muscles had left no doubt in his mind. Besides one had to be strong in more ways then one to deal with Yusuke. Glancing at the two, he could see something in both their eyes, acceptance, trust and love...Something that had always been missing when Keiko and Yusuke had been together, mostly on Keiko’s part. There had always been lack of trust and acceptance on Keiko’s part, especially after everything with Sensui...In fact he doubted Keiko ever truly loved Yusuke.

Kurama for one couldn’t have been happier that his friend found someone, who trusted him, loved him---accepted him. Yusuke needed that.

“Hn.” Kurama took that as Hiei’s agreement. Hiei tuning into Kurama’s thoughts couldn’t help but agree on some counts. She had to be powerful, to block his jagan, he’d just bet she was a miko. That was the only way he wouldn’t have been able to find him, an equally strong force, blocking his jagan. Which in this case would probably be her and another youkai, or just one or the other, he wasn’t quite sure. And Hiei didn’t like not being sure of anything. But it seemed this girl, she calmed the detective. He was slightly---different.

Yusuke stopped Kagome before she could do something she would come to regret later. Taking another look at her face he changed his mind, she probably wouldn’t regret it. But that didn’t mean she could just go and do whatever she was going to do to her, because he knew her and it wasn’t going to be good.

“No...” Yusuke said calming himself. “I came back to tell you all I’m alive and well, to catch up and to let you know,” He took a breath, “Kagome and I are to be mated in two months time. “ He finished his arms tightening marginally around the woman he loved.

“M-mated?” Kuwabara stammered before grinning himself.

“Congratulations Urameshi! Never thought you’d be the one to get hitched first!”

A smirk danced across his face.

“Yeah well, I think being tied down to Kagome won’t be that bad.” He said his voice lightly teasing as she scowled up at him, a pout forming on her lips.

He couldn’t stop himself if he wanted to.

“I love you.”

And as their lips met nothing else mattered, but the two of them and the feelings they knew would last forever. And to think at first, both had been afraid to let love come between their friendship, afraid to lose that friendship...But they couldn’t stop it.

Because sometimes, love just happens.

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A/n: I honestly wasn’t really sure how to end it but that’ll have to do for now. I’d like to thank KuraKitsune, for her help with ideas on how to smooth out certain parts of the story, some may still seem a bit bumpy but I’ll come back later and edit them.