InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Grudging Loss ❯ Life is Highway, Part One ( Chapter 24 )

Ch 24: Life is a Highway, Part One

 

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Citrus alert. Now I really didn't mean to put a lemon in this chapter. Inuyasha and Kagome were alone together and I just couldn't control them…

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Special thanks to my awesome and talented betas:

Hedanicree, Theleb K'aarna and Blackdeathmessenger!

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Warm rays of yellow-white light streamed down on Inuyasha and Kagome as they slept on his small bed. The beams filtered past white curtains shining on their nude forms that were spooned together in the bed. Blankets and sheets were haphazardly tossed about leaving their upper torsos and a few limbs uncovered.

 

As Inuyasha woke up, he found his arms around Kagome. Her warmth was cradled next to his body, and he never felt so content. What they had done last night, what they had shared—it was different from anything that he had ever done before. Sure, he had sex before—many times in fact. But this time it was different.

 

He had never wanted to be deep inside a woman so badly. He ached to be with her. The feeling of completeness, of wholeness, when he had her in his arms was overwhelming and it made him feel lost. It felt like he was in a freefall, his heart lurching inside of him. He wondered if his feet would ever hit the ground and if they ever did—could he ever walk steadily with his own two feet again? As bizarre and strange as the feelings were, he couldn't help but squeeze Kagome's body closer to him and desperately hope that he would never lose her or the feelings that she evoked within him.

 

He looked at her lovely face and then moved a hand to gently stroke her long obsidian tresses. He noted how their hair mixed beautifully on the white pillow, streaming silver and ebony ribbons intermixed to form a shiny grey. He smiled inwardly as he imagined a child of theirs with dark silver hair.

 

Suddenly, his body shot up in shock. He hadn't used a condom and she hadn't asked him to use one. He even had an entire package in the top drawer of his wardrobe. Did he even bother to use one? Shit! What was he thinking? Her scent called to him so intensely that all of his coherence left him and he wasn't thinking straight. He had taken her two times last night and if the hot stiffness between his legs had anything to say, he wanted to take her again.

 

He breathed heavily; his breaths came up short and quick. He had to find out if he had gotten her pregnant, so he sniffed her. He brought the covers off of her legs and she rolled to the side muttering softly in protest. He inhaled deeply at her sex. The heady scent of their coupling wafted into his senses—her musky arousal of desire and his release marking her—mixing with her scent. However, he couldn't tell any other change in her aroma. Nothing that would tell him that a new life had been conceived. However, he knew that these things didn't always happen instantaneously. He had to wait and he had to be careful next time. Damn. He was going to miss going bareback with Kagome. He had never done that before. He had always used condoms and now that he knew what it was truly like to slide warm wet flesh together he had no desire to go back to plastic wrap. He scratched his neck. Maybe he could talk her into going on the pill? He smelled her intimate aroma again and he felt his own body pulse, his loins starting to throb.

 

Kagome started to squirm and he reddened when he realized that his face was between her legs—his warm breath blowing puffs against her curly nest.

 

“Wow. What a way to wake up,” murmured Kagome as one of her hands moved to stroke a furry ear. He almost fell into her touch, almost started to lick at the base of her curls, and almost started the intimate dance with her again… Suddenly, he steeled his features and made his way to the top drawer of his wardrobe and got out a blue box of condoms.

 

Kagome looked up at him confused. “What are you getting?” she asked.

 

“Um,” Inuyasha turned around and put the package down on the bed sheepishly.

 

“Oh,” murmured Kagome as she peered curiously at the box.

 

“I'm sorry Kagome. I should have put them on last night. I don't know what I was thinking. Actually, I know that I wasn't thinking. I was so caught up in your scent that I…,” Inuyasha was starting to ramble and he found that his eyes couldn't met hers. “I've never done that before. I always wore condoms…not that it wasn't nice…it was…it's just…”

 

Kagome's hand reached to pull his chin up so that he was looking her directly in the eyes. “It's all right, Inuyasha.”

 

“No, it's not all right,” muttered Inuyasha. “I wouldn't mind having kids with you Kagome. But not now…,” he said as his voice trailed off.

 

Kagome smiled. “I'm sorry. I should have told you. I got distracted as well,” her voice trailed off before she looked back at him with a mischievous grin on her face. “After our little make-out session on the shrine grounds, I figured that things might get more heated between us and I wanted to be safe.”

 

Inuyasha looked up at her, his eyes widening in wonder. “…more heated?” he repeated after her.

 

A pink blush caught on Kagome's cheeks. “I've been thinking about having sex with you for a long time Inuyasha. Honestly, I fantasized about it even before this year.”

 

“Fantasized about it?” he questioned more to himself than anyone else. His sweet, innocent Kagome was thinking about sex, with him?

 

Now it was Kagome's turn to turn away from him, her blush continuing to redden her face. “Yeah, so after you came to the shrine that day…when we made out under the tree…I made an appointment to get a depo shot.”

 

“Depo what?” asked Inuyasha as his ears twitched in apparent confusion.

 

“Depo-provera,” answered Kagome as her eyes found his again. “It's a birth control shot. It lasts for three months. I am due for another shot in two months.”

 

“Oh. So that means you can't get pregnant?” asked Inuyasha as he started to breathe normally again.

 

“No, not right now,” she smirked as she looked back at him. “And we don't need these,” she said while gesturing to the condom package. “I mean, you said that you always wore them before, right?”

 

“Yes,” said Inuyasha in a complete stupor as he moved toward Kagome like she was an oasis in the dessert.

 

“I've never been with anyone before and if you always wore them…then we're safe…,” she concluded with a happy smile that was innocently seductive.

 

“Safe…,” murmured Inuyasha with half-lidded eyes. Her scent was calling to him again. Wrapping all around him was Kagome's mesmerizing aroma. Cherry blossoms and jasmine enveloped his senses. Then he smelled his own lingering musk pouring from her glistening skin. His essence and hers were intermingled upon her flesh and within her body. He couldn't think of a more intoxicating aroma.

 

“Damn, woman,” was all he murmured as he leaned over to kiss the miko he had fallen in love with. “Now where was I?” he said absentmindedly to himself before he gave her a sexy smirk and moved down between her legs again.

 

“Inuyasha?” she asked breathlessly. “I'm not clean, there's…” her voice trailed off as he nestled between her legs and licked her languidly. “Uh,” was all she could say as he continued with his ministrations.

 

“It smells of you, of me, of us…smells good, Kagome,” was all he said between licks before he buried his face in her black curls. Soon she was moaning, too incoherent to care about whether she was clean enough for him. His tongue delved into her while he rubbed her pearl rhythmically. Her screams came hard and fast as he lapped up the juices of her orgasm.

 

She was laying in front of him in a dazed stupor when he pulled her up by her waist and pulled her over so that her backside was facing him.

 

There she was in front of him, just as he had dreamed. He wanted her and he wanted to take her from behind for as long as he could remember. His own cock throbbed and jerked in anticipation to see her round, smooth ass presented to him. He pulled a few fingers to touch her sex and rub her nub before he positioned himself.

 

“God, Kagome, you don't know how much I've been wanting you this way,” he voiced in excitement. The heady aroma of their intermixed scents wafted up to him. Perhaps one of the reasons why dog demons liked this position so much was because he could smell her sweet excitement and their coupling so much better when her sex was right in front of his nose. This position was only used if the female's scent was arousing and her scent went beyond that. He had never been with a woman who smelled so good.

 

His hands slid over each silky round cheek. He kissed her backside slowly and then nipped her before he positioned himself behind her. Kagome whipped her head back, her long obsidian locks falling over her back and cascading down her shoulders. Her molten brown eyes softened as she looked at him.

 

He held his stiff shaft with one hand as he moved himself to the apex of her thighs. His instincts told him to slam into her, just as he had done in his dream. But he knew that he had to take things slowly with her. He entered her tenderly, one inch at a time until he was fully sheathed within her tight velvet heat.

 

While he throbbed inside of her, he leaned over her to kiss her spine and moved another hand to touch her pearl. “Come for me Kagome,” he whispered as he moved inside of her and rubbed her nub at the top of her core.

 

She gasped and moaned as her intimate juices started to pour from her folds. Her wetness enveloped him snugly, and he started to lose control as her scent started to clog his mind. He moved in and out of her without conscious thought, letting his primal instincts take over. Somewhere, in the back of his mind he heard his hips slapping against her firm backside. He could hear her moans becoming screams of ecstasy as her core pulsed against his cock. The pressure that was building up in his gut and balls erupted in a crescendo of total rapture. He couldn't help but to slam his body against her as his body let loose inside of her, marking her, joining with her, releasing his very essence in the quivering throws of sheer pleasure.

 

Slowly he came back to reality as his body came back under his control. “Kagome?” he asked as his body bent forward over hers. Silver hair spilled over her back and curtained her side as he kissed up her body and nipped at her neck. “God, Kagome, that was so…”

 

She turned to try and kiss him as well, but found her neck couldn't twist far enough. Kagome's hands found a fuzzy ear and she stroked the base of it as he started to rumble against her. She smiled to herself as she pulled away from his body to turn around to grasp his head in her hands. “So…?” she asked as she kissed his cheeks, nose and his closed eyes.

 

His golden eyes opened and seemed to penetrate into her very soul. “I don't know, I've never felt anything like this before. I…I love you Kagome. God, you've forgiven me. Let me have you, I…” he didn't continue but just brought her body closer to his as they lay together on the bed together. He kissed the top of her head and cradled her nude form in his arms. Her head was tucked under his and she was stroking a lock of his silver hair absentmindedly. Her gaze moved from his hair to the billboard beside his bed. He smirked when he realized what she was about to finally notice.

 

“Inuyasha…you...you have pictures of me?” she questioned incredulously as she peered at the newspaper clippings, printouts and photos that he had posted above his bed. Her eyes tracked from one side of the billboard to the other. Her eyes first fixed on the many clippings that he had of his own UCLA team and especially the many articles and pictures about himself. But as her gaze tracked to the other side of the corkboard she saw pictures of her. Pictures of her from the USC website in her miko robes. Articles about the games she had played including the one where she had been injured. Finally, her eyes rested on the many candid shots of her that he had printed from her fan website.

 

“Where did you get these?” she questioned as she looked at photos taken of her around campus, during her workouts at Cromwell field and a few photos of her at a beach in her bikini.

 

“Um,” Inuyasha stumbled over his words before he realized that he didn't have to hide anything from her anymore. “I did a Google search for Kagome Higurashi and I found a fan website dedicated to you. I guess some fans of yours created it. There were tons of photos of you on it. I printed out the best ones,” he paused to pick up a photo that had fallen to the floor yesterday. “This one is my favorite,” he said while smiling wistfully at the photo of Kagome towel drying her ebony locks on the beach while she was wearing a skimpy turquoise bikini.

 

Kagome looked in astonishment as she looked at the photo and managed to take it from Inuyasha's hands. “Who took this photo?” she asked while she glanced at the wall and took in all of the other candid photos that adorned his wall. Suddenly a look of consternation drew across her face. “Hojo!” Kagome exclaimed in irritation.

 

“Hojo took these pictures?” asked Inuyasha. “That guy was a little creepy and annoying. But you have to admit that he took some nice shots of you.”

 

“I can't believe Hojo. He must have been taking pictures of me since I joined the team. He was there at every event where the photos were taken. That…that peeping Tom!” cried Kagome in frustration.

 

Inuyasha kissed her lips, which were drawn closed in a pout. “Oi. Don't be too upset, wench. I was able to print out some pretty hot photos of you because of him and his shutterbug habits.”

 

“Yes,” added Kagome as she drew the sheets closer to her body. “And that also means every other guy can also print the photos out…”

 

A look of complete befuddlement crossed Inuyasha's face before it quickly morphed into a look of anger. “No other guy should see these photos!” he bellowed. “When I get my hands on Hojo…I'll…” suddenly Inuyasha's sheets were being twisted in his fists.

 

Kagome put one gentle hand on top of his. Inuyasha looked at her and was quickly brought out of his bout of rage. “I'll talk to him. He'll take down the website,” said Kagome calmly.

 

“Well, I should be there too. He might need a little persuasion to take it down,” he added while he flexed his claws and cracked his knuckles.

 

It was now time for Kagome to smirk. She looked at him with a silly smile plastered across her face. “You are a little too over protective for your own good, Inuyasha,” she added.

 

“Feh,” was all he said as he turned his face away from her and brought up both of his arms across his chest in a huff.

 

“That doesn't mean that I don't appreciate you or that I love you any less,” she added with a slow smile.

 

A dark eyebrow arched and a single white dog ear twitched in her direction. “Feh,” he paused as he considered her words, “You love me?” he asked.

 

Kagome placed a hand across his crossed arms and pulled them toward her. She brought up his arms so that they were wrapped around her torso. “Yes, I love you, Inuyasha, and don't you ever forget it,” she added while lightly tapping his nose.

 

Inuyasha sighed and brought her in even closer to his own body—hugging her tightly. They sat there for a few minutes, simply content to be in each others company before Kagome started to pull away.

 

Kagome spoke softly, “I better get home; my mother is going to kill me,” she said as she dragged Inuyasha's arms away from her. A low whine instinctively came out of his lips as she moved off of the bed and tried to find her clothes, which were scattered about the floor.

 

As she bent over her firm, rounded backside came into view, and Inuyasha couldn't help but to stare. Luckily he had already been fully satiated otherwise his dog-like instincts wouldn't have been able to resist the display.

 

“You don't have to put on your clothes,” Inuyasha mentioned with a smirk as he got out of bed and hugged her naked form from behind. “We can always stay in bed all day,” he joked while kissing her neck.

 

Kagome turned around in his arms, embracing him as she pouted. “It's time to pay the piper. My mom has got to be wondering what happened to me. I never came home and I know that she saw the game when it was broadcast.”

 

Inuyasha sighed as she put on her rumpled miko robes and then proceeded to dress himself as well. He pulled on a comfortable pair of faded jeans and a blue T-shirt with UCLA emblazoned across the front in gold letters. He even shrugged into his leather jacket and pulled on his boots since he knew he needed to give Kagome a ride home.

 

Once Kagome had her red hakama pants on and her white sports bra she looked around for her top. She finally found her top in his bathroom, stained with blood and green poison she looked at him with a question in her eyes. “I don't suppose you have another top for me to wear?” she asked.

 

He grinned, “You look much better without one on,” he replied.

 

Kagome grinned at him as she walked toward him, caressing his cheek with her fingers. “But I'll get so cold,” she complained.

 

Without hesitation he pulled off his leather jacket and dropped it on her shoulders. “There,” he said with a smug tone to his voice. “That way your scent will be all over my jacket and I'll have it with me when you leave.”

 

“Didn't I leave enough of a scent on your bed?” she asked as she moved her body right up next to his and laughed.

 

“Not enough to satisfy me,” he answered. “I need your essence over everything I own and you need to keep coming back to constantly renew it.” He looked into her eyes. His tone was joking but his eyes were serious.

 

She kissed him slowly on the lips. “Can I bother you for a ride home?” she asked as she pulled away.

 

“Anything, Kagome,” he answered as he brought her hand in his and lead her out of his apartment. Now they were going to face the real world—a society that didn't approve of demons and humans being together. Colleges that rebelled against the idea of anything other than to have them fighting in combat. But they had each other, and for Inuyasha, he knew that was all he wanted. It was enough. Would it be enough for her? The question replayed itself in his mind as they walked out of his front door and into the open blue skies of January.

 

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Author's Notes:

#1: You didn't seriously think that I was going to let my characters have sex and not talk about birth control, did you?

#2: I really meant for more things to happen in this chapter, but Inuyasha and Kagome just couldn't get their hands off of each other. OK. There will be a lot more plot development in the next chapter and oh, it looks like we are going to chapter 26 or 27 now. Oops!

#3: Yes, I am a `Twilight' fan. The movie was OK (not nearly as good as the book was). Run and buy all four of Stephenie Meyer's books. If you have the time check out Stephenie Meyer's website so that you can download `Midnight Sun' a free, unfinished re-telling of `Twilight' from Edward's perspective. (Thank you Hedanicree for the tip.)

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Next Chapter: Life is a Highway, Part Two…Inuyasha and Kagome come face to face with consequences I had meant to put into this chapter...