InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Demon Should Act Like A Demon ❯ Enter Kouga / Made Whole ( Chapter 17 )

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and friends were created and lovingly brought to life by Rumiko Takahashi.

A/N: Thank you for understanding, minna-san! I've also done a sketch of Kagome with her outfit as described in chapter 15, it's currently up in MediaMiner.org (the site url for my fan fic is in my profile) and it will soon be on my site when I update this weekend.

A/N 2: The second part of this chapter, "Made Whole," is dedicated to Meamiko. Please read "Voices at Midnight," one of the best Sesshoumaru/Kagome fan fics ever!

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A Demon Should Act Like A Demon

By Ericedwyn

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Chapter Seventeen: Enter Kouga / Made Whole

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~* WesternLandsTerritories*~

Sesshoumaru walked several feet behind Kagome, giving her the space she needed "to think." The two left the Manor very early in the morning with Tsumi, but going into two different directions. Tsumi in her true guise flew home to Sesshoumaru's fortress after shutting down the manor, while Sesshoumaru took Kagome to patrol his territories.

For two hours, they walked in silence. Kagome thought about her near rape experience and the growing strength of her Miko powers. Sesshoumaru, on the other hand, watched the young woman, contemplating whether or not he should talk to her about her mating status. He wanted to protect her… to mate with her… 'But is she ready?'

"KAGOME!" The two companions heard from behind them and turned.

"Kouga-kun!" Kagome smiled brightly, seeing her friend very much recovered from the deadly extraction of the Shikon shards by Naraku's hand.

'Kouga-kun?!?' Sesshoumaru glanced sharply at Kagome before eyeing the wolf youkai that ran to them.

Kouga took her hands in his. "I caught your scent and followed you here. I would have been here sooner had I still possessed the Shikon shards." He smiled brightly. "It's good to see you, Kagome. Um, you've changed." He looked at her thoughtfully.

"I'm so glad you're okay. We were all worried about you." She smiled a little and added, "yeah… I'm a demon now."

"Really? Wow, that's great! Something else to add to why I love you." Kouga's face suddenly took on a serious expression. "I'm sorry about Inuyasha, Kagome. He was a good and brave rival."

Kagome nodded, smiling sadly.

Then a smile appeared back on Kouga's face. "Now that he's gone, there's nothing standing between us now, Kagome. You can finally give me your heart and you can be my mate!" He said excitedly, squeezing her hands.

"Nani?" Sesshoumaru growled beneath his breath, the question laced with steel.

Kagome gave a nervous laugh. "Ano…" She laughed nervously some more.

Kouga glanced at Sesshoumaru, as if realizing the dog demon was still standing there. "Oh, Hello, Sesshoumaru-sama. Sorry about your half-brother. Thank you for protecting my woman until I could pick her up." Kouga smiled sheepishly.

"Kagome, what is this baka talking about?" Sesshoumaru asked as he advanced towards them, hand clenched at his side.

"She's my mate. I'm taking her home." Kouga said matter-of-factly.

"Kouga-kun, you really don't want to do that…" Kagome smiled nervously as she tried to pry her hands from Kouga's. 'If I don't get this situation under control, there'll be bloodshed.'

"Huh? Yes, I do. Come on, let's go!" Kouga tried to drag her away.

"You are not taking her anywhere." Sesshoumaru warned, his eyes glinted, as he latched his hand on Kouga's wrist, his sharp claws making contact with his skin.

"Look, Lord of the Western Lands. I don't care who you are or what you are, Inukkoro. Kagome is MY woman, and she's coming with me!" Kouga snarled as he turned to face the dog-demon.

"Let go of me, Kouga-kun." Kagome insisted as she pulled her hands away from his grip. The Miko placed her hand on Sesshoumaru's wrist, but kept her eyes on the wolf prince. "Kouga-kun, I need to speak to Sesshoumaru, okay?" Kagome didn't wait for Kouga's response as she pried Sesshoumaru's hand off of Kouga's wrist and pulled him several feet away.

"Sesshoumaru, please do not be angry. He's under the delusion that he loves me. It's been going on for a while now." Kagome explained, hoping Sesshoumaru can be coaxed to understand.

"Are you in love with him? Are you really his mate?" The words flew out of Sesshoumaru's mouth before he could stop them.

"No, I'm not, to both your questions. Just stay here and let me talk to him, okay?" Kagome pleaded when his eyes grew slightly red.

Sesshoumaru grabbed her to him and crushed his lips against hers in a very deep kiss. He heard Kouga curse a few feet away and they grew louder and more explicit as he came nearer.

"Hey! Get off her. She's mine." Kouga growled loudly.

Sesshoumaru released Kagome, who wobbled a little on her legs. She had a goofy smile on her lips and a dazed look in her eyes. She shook her head to clear it before reaching out to stop Kouga from getting nearer. She hooked her arm through his and walked him away from Sesshoumaru.

"Kouga-kun… you are a wonderful friend, but I…" Kagome sighed sadly. "But I don't love you. I hope you understand when I say I can't go with you."

"But Kagome…" Kouga looked into hers with pleading eyes, but she interrupted him.

"You know, you should go visit Ayame."

"Ayame? What for?" Kouga frowned, confusion written all over his face.

"Because of the promise you made during the "Moon's Rainbow." She's in love with you, Kouga-kun, and you did promise to mate with her when came down the mountain."

"But I don't want her, I want you…" Kouga continued to plead.

"No buts, Kouga-kun. She's the one for you." Kagome gave him a determined look. "I cannot love you the way she can, and you deserve a lot more than what I can offer you. Now go to her and ask her for forgiveness, Kouga-kun!"

"You really don't want to be my mate?" Kouga asked her sadly, his shoulders slumping dejectedly.

"I'm sorry, Kouga-kun." Kagome smiled as she hugged him, although she started to feel a little uncomfortable doing so when she felt the Lord of the Western Land's stare a few feet way.

Kouga hugged her back before letting go of her. He nodded in understanding. "If he doesn't treat you right, Kagome, come to me, okay?" He looked into her dark blue eyes, and she nodded. "Goodbye, Kagome. Be happy," he said sadly before walking away.

"You too, Kouga-kun." Kagome murmured softly, watching him walk away.

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~* WesternLandsTerritories, evening *~

Kagome hummed "Deep Forest" as she added more twigs to the camp fire. She reached out to the fire to warm her hands. 'I thought youkais aren't affected by temperature. I guess Inuyasha was just acting tough during the winter months.' She shrugged before standing and leapt onto a high branch of a nearby tree. The young woman gazed out into the distance, looking for her missing companion. 'I wonder where he is. He's been gone for awhile.'

Hidden by the trees of the forest and downwind, Kagome's missing companion watched the young Miko from where he leaned back on a tree. He smiled in the dark as he watched her build a small fire and warm her hands. He had been watching her for at least half an hour, silently admiring the woman who has touched his heart. He wondered how to broach the subject that has been plaguing his mind.

He watched her graceful leap to a tree branch and sighed as he realized she was looking for him. 'I suppose I should go back.' But as he straightened himself, he felt that he was no longer alone.

"Well, well, if it isn't his Grace, the Lord of the Western Lands." He heard a scratchy voice from somewhere close by. "You're getting soft, Sesshoumaru-sama, you didn't even know we were here."

"You mistake the situation, Insect. I was giving you and your brothers a false sense of security." Sesshoumaru leapt up to a branch as he unleashed his stinging whip from his finger, disabling six members of the group of humanoid ant youkai below him. He leapt again as two of its winged members attacked him in the air, but a third winged ant youkai shoved him off the branch.

Sesshoumaru landed on his feet on the forest ground, but found himself surrounded by a mass of at least 100 insect youkai. Although each of them could not be higher than his waist, together as a group, the ant youkai could be a deadly enemy. He twirled on his foot as he unleashed his whip, but those who fell from his sting were immediately replaced by more others.

The Taiyoukai stopped and faced the remaining fifty as he worked out a plan to destroy them. He wished he still had toujikin, but the sword had been destroyed when Naraku was finally killed. He unsheathed the plain katana from his side and began to slice at his remaining opponents. He didn't even flinch when one of the winged ant kinds made a deep cut from his shoulder to his mid-chest with its mandible, bloodying his tail. Sesshoumaru made sure that the particular ant youkai that was able to touch him died a slow, painful death.

Kagome's ears picked up some scuffling noises and trained her youkai eyes at the forest a little distance away. She saw a shimmer of silver and a lot of movement under the covers of the tree branches and left her camp to investigate. When she espied Sesshoumaru fighting off a group of youkai, Kagome immediately unsheathed tetsusaiga from her side. As soon as it slid out of its sheath, it transformed into its fang form.

She sliced through several youkai as she neared Sesshoumaru. She was glad that the tetsusaiga has allowed her to be its mistress and that she didn't have to prove herself worthy of it as she severed the head of yet another youkai with the strangely weightless sword. "Sesshoumaru!"

"I told you to stay in the camp." Sesshoumaru reprimanded as she reached him. They stood back to back as they faced the last twenty of the group.

"I was worried about you." Kagome said, a little breathless from the fight.

"Let's end this."

"Hai!" Kagome responded as she took a few steps forward to hack away at her enemies. She dared not use the Kaze no Kizu for fear of destroying the forest along with the youkai, so she wielded it the way Sesshoumaru had taught her. When only the two of them remained over the carcass littered ground, they both sheathed their swords.

Kagome walked up to him and gasped as she saw his blood soaked kimono front. "Sesshoumaru… we better go and see to that." She said worriedly as she slipped her arm around his waist to support him.

Although he didn't really need the help, the feel of her arm around his waist was pleasant and comforting, so he "allowed" her to support him. When they neared the camp, Kagome removed his armor and laid it down by the tree she had used as a lookout. She went back to his side to help him to sit on the ground near her camp fire. She untied the sash of her happi and slipped out of it. She folded it to make a pillow for Sesshoumaru as she pushed him down on the ground.

Sesshoumaru watched Kagome silently when she untied her coat and removed it. 'Definitely for my eyes only. Maybe she should wear two coats.' He allowed her to lower him to the ground and smiled inwardly as she made a pillow for him. He suddenly felt guilty being the recipient of such thoughtfulness so he decided to end the farce. "I am fine, Kagome. The wound is not deep." He sat up.

"There's too much blood. Let me check it." She pushed him back to the ground, a little more firmly.

Sesshoumaru sat back up. "I'm fine, Kagome. I will see to it myself. You don't need your hands bloodied."

Kagome gave him a hard look before pushing him down on the ground once more, this time much more firmly. She punctuated it by sitting down on top of him, straddling his waist, to keep him down. She began to untie the sash of his kimono.

"What are you doing?" He asked, a little amused, as she fumbled with the sash. He remembered the time when he did the same thing she is about to do, all those weeks ago.

"What do you think I am doing? I'm seducing you, Baka!" She retorted as she yanked his kimono open, but she could not hide the deep blush that stained her cheeks.

Sesshoumaru grinned when the blush stole on her cheeks. He decided to stay quiet and allow her to work on his wound.

Kagome gently wiped the blood over and around the gash with a dry part of his kimono. She was without her first aid kit, so she needed to make do with creating bandages out of his haori.

She remembered when Sesshoumaru had sealed her wounds when he tested her demon rage, so before having a debate with herself over what she was about to do, she grabbed her hair with one hand to keep it away from his wound and the blood, and just did it. She leaned forward suddenly, surprising the Taiyoukai, and ran her tongue over the base of his wound.

Sesshoumaru arched his eyebrows when she took hold of her hair, and his eyes widened when she leaned forward over him. He gasped audibly when he felt her warm tongue on his chest. He closed his eyes at the intimate touch and found himself unable to control the desire that infiltrated his mind and body. He felt her tongue move up, ever so slowly, to seal his wound. He moaned under his breath as she licked at a deeper part several times.

Kagome was surprised that she didn't feel that disgusted by what she was doing. She was even more surprised when she began to enjoy the sweet and salty taste of his blood. She felt something stir inside when her tongue first made contact with his blood, and that stirring slowly clouded her mind with an intensity to taste more of him, even though the wound was already sealed.

She heard him groan deeply and her head snapped up to look at his face. He gazed at her with half-closed eyes.

Sesshoumaru looked into her stormy eyes with eyes, dark golden with desire. The stain of blood on one corner of her mouth caught his attention and threw him over the edge. He lost all possible control as his instincts took over.

He snaked his hand out to the back of her head and brought her mouth to his waiting lips in a hot, marauding kiss. He tasted his blood mixed in with her saliva and his skin felt like burning from the heat of his desire.

Kagome felt dizzy from the intensity of his kiss. It was rough yet all encompassing, as if her mouth was being thoroughly searched for hidden treasures. She didn't want it to ever stop, yet she looked up when he gasped from pain, breaking the kiss and the spell of want and need that gripped them. She snatched her hand from his wounded shoulder where she had gripped him.

"Gomen ne, Sesshoumaru." Kagome whispered, a little aghast. She scampered off of him and gently wiped at the blood that slowly oozed out of slightly open wound. She bit her lip as she made strips out of the edges of his kimono and began to dress his wound. When she finally looked up, Sesshoumaru was watching her silently, his breathing back to normal.

"You should rest, Sesshoumaru. I'll keep watch over us." She leapt to her feet and walked to her lookout tree. She jumped onto one of the high branches and leaned back against its trunk. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, before opening them to gaze at the dark canvas of night littered with bright, silver dots in the sky.

Sesshoumaru sighed and tilted his head back a little so that he could watch her profile from his position on the ground. He couldn't believe he lost control. Her scent, her taste, his blood… it was all too much for him. If she had not gripped his wounded shoulder, if he had not felt the sharp pain, Sesshoumaru doubted if he could have stopped himself from mating with her. His loss of control was unacceptable, and he would not have wanted to mate with Kagome in this fashion… not on a cold ground in the middle of his territory.

But he wanted her like he never wanted anyone before…

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Her thoughts drifted on her intensifying Miko powers. She wondered what it would have been like had she been born in this era and had a proper Miko training. Yet, she was beginning to understand her gift… after three years of hunting the shards. She smiled at the thought. 'Where were you when I needed you this strong?'

A thought occurred to her and she decided to test her theory. She rolled the sleeve of her jumpsuit until it reached her elbow. She unsheathed her hishu from the sheath attached to her hip, and drew the blade over her arm. She switched the blade to her other hand and placed her hand above her wound. She closed her eyes and concentrated on her Miko powers. She strengthened her focus when she felt a tingling sensation on her arm, and when it ceased, she opened her eyes and looked at her slightly bloodied but flawless arm. 'Wow, it worked!'

She ran the blade over her arm again, this time a little deeper. More blood flowed from her wound, and the Miko was about to heal herself again when she heard her name being called. She ran the flat sides of her dagger clean of her blood before sliding it back into its sheath. She jumped down from her perch and walked toward the Taiyoukai.

"I smell your blood." He looked at her with concern as he sat up. "What happened?" He asked when she kneeled next to him, facing him.

Kagome sat on her heels. "Nothing. I was just experimenting with my Miko powers. Watch," she said as her hand hovered over her new wound and closed her eyes.

Sesshoumaru watched as a bright, blue light surrounded her hand and touched her wound. It closed a few seconds later, leaving her skin bereft of any sign of having been cut. "Your powers are getting stronger, Kagome." He suddenly grew silent as he struggled for control as he watched her lick her arm clean of blood.

Kagome peeled open the right side of Sesshoumaru's kimono, a bit stiff from the dried blood. She placed her hand over his wound and closed her eyes. "Tell me when the tingling stops, Sesshoumaru." She concentrated her powers on her hand, and after a moment, she felt herself grow suddenly dizzy. She reached out and placed her hand on his shoulder to steady herself.

Sesshoumaru felt the tingling on his chest and shoulder. He looked down at the base of his wound and watched as the redness and puckerness disappeared, leaving his skin flawless once more. He was about to tell Kagome that the tingling stopped when she leaned forward and felt her hand on his left shoulder. He began to feel a stronger tingling sensation on the edge of his stump. He closed his eyes as he felt her power filling him, and then pushing out of his regenerating arm.

After a few minutes, the tingling stopped and he took a deep breath before opening his eyes. He moved the fingers of his left hand and raised it to his eye level… to see it to believe. His smiled at what he saw. "Kagome, it's done," he said as he covered the hand on his shoulder with his left hand.

Kagome opened her eyes and took a deep, cleansing breath. She shook her head slightly to clear it, and felt the edges of her bangs dance on her forehead. She opened her eyes as her gaze fell on her hand on his shoulder, covered by his hand. It took a while to register in her head that his left hand was covering it, and when it did, her lips curled into a grin. "Sesshoumaru… your arm!"

Sesshoumaru squeezed her left hand and locked his golden eyes with her dark blue ones. "Arigatou, Kagome, for making me whole again…," he murmured softly before bringing the palm of her hand to his lips, where he placed a warm, lingering kiss. 'In more ways than one.'

He leaned in to kiss her lips slowly and gently, before wrapping his arm on her shoulders. He drew her to him as he lowered himself to the ground. "Rest now, Kagome." He said softly as her head found a pillow on his chest.

"Hai, Sesshou…" She yawned and fell asleep soon after before completing his name.

He smiled slightly as he curled his tail around her, and then wrapped both arms around her as well.

He is content.

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Glossary:

Hishu - dagger

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Next chapter summary teaser: Kagome reunites with Sango, Miroku, and Kaede. The well calls to her… will she answer?

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