InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Lifetime Loving You Part 2; The Path to Osaka ❯ A Mother’s Decision ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer! No! Not that! No! (Long pause) okay you talked me into it! Inu-yasha is not mine and nor are any of the other characters.

A Lifetime Loving You

Part 2; The Path to Osaka

Chapter 4; A Mother's Decision

(Inu-yasha)

Pain clouded my eyes as my shoulders throbbed. It felt like a rock was crushing me to the point my entire body felt paralyzed with the same agony in both of my pierced shoulder blades.

The throbbing in my head lasted for what felt like hours until the sound of a loud roar awoke me from the unconscious state I was slipping into. My eyes opened wide as sweat ran down my face and flew as I pulled my face upward to the full moon in the sky. The spider demon did the same with a hiss and my gaze was filled with the horrible reality that I thought would never come.

There silhouetted by the moon, was a small figure curled into a ball on the stone hill where the graves and the rest of the village took safety. The wind picked up and circled around it until the black curls of hair swirled almost weightlessly in the air. The growl erupted again and the tiny pink kimono caught my eye.

"Kit…Kitsumi!"

The wind dispersed and the once black curls pulled straight and faded into a storm cloud gray sliver. The kimono turned from pink to black and her hakama turned into dark violet hue. The sleeves of the kimono left her face and claws the length of daggers cracked in the suddenly deathly still air.

`No! Not now!' I thought as the pain in my body rushed to my head to turn into panic. Yet, it was not at the fact I was scared of this sudden transformation. No…I was scared at the fact the girl I had to come to love in such a short amount of time, now seemed lost in the two pools of glowing blood red eyes were two sky blue ones once were.

There was a smirk on her face as her feet pushed from the ground into the night sky and flew straight for the head of the spider. With shrills of fear the two spider legs pulled out of my shoulders. I cried out taking my eyes away from Kitsumi's sudden new form for a mere second.

The spider's shrieks continued for a moment before a voice growled, "Claws of Black Death" and the head of the demon was cut off cleanly in a stream of purple light. The final shrieks ended with that fatal blow and the black spider's head fell with its body to the ground.

I struggled to sit up as Miroku rushed to my side limping on his right leg. "Inu-yasha, what has happened to Kitsumi? Her entire appearance has altered into that of a demon it seems."

I grunted in pain as Miroku and I looked at the spider body that began to fizzle with a purple vapor. "Naraku's…Miasma?"

I gasped as the vapors streamed upward suddenly and surrounded Kitsumi's body as she landed in the disintegrating demon's body. The vapors pulled into the duel pair of black, silver tipped claws until they glowed with the same purple aura that cut the head of the spider demon.

"At last my master has called me forth and the trap has been set," she growled. "Now, Inu-yasha, you shall die under my claws."

With these words the demon jumped into the air high above the ground. "Remember my name, for I am Ura, the true soul of this child born of your woman and half brother. I follow one master, and he is my creator, and thus I heed his word…and his word in your death."

The silver-black claws glowed as she dove down. I shoved Miroku back, "Get away from here!"

I faltered in my own attempt to escape and turned my head to see the blur of purple, silver and black coming toward me at an incredible speed.

So this…this is how it must be.

"NO!" a voice screamed from the cliff side and "Ura" stopped feet above me. My eyes turned and I met the brown eyes that I longed to loose myself in.

…Kagome…

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(Kagome)

…Inu-yasha…

It was then that everything happened. The moment of choice that would affect Kitsumi, Inu-yasha and me.

"Ura" growled for a moment in the air before turning her attention to me and flew toward me.

Then, there was the sound of a heartbeat and Ura halted in the air with worry. She gasped as the second heartbeat erupted from her and she looked at her chest. And there, the star charm Inu-yasha had given Kitsumi at birth, began to glow from within.

Ura gasped and went to grab the charm to rip it from her neck, but the light drew her back and consumed her. "No, I don't want to be put into that prison, again. I am free! She doesn't own this body! She is not…Arg!"

The light became blinding and everyone turned away to hide his or her eyes from the bright light.

Once it died down I removed my arm from my eyes and watched as the light flickered around the childish body and then it receded to the charm. In the wake of the light a child with rose pink hair in the clothing my daughter was wearing before her transformation. The hair curled as the pink color took over the silver color, and the dagger claws shortened.

My eyes widened as the ears that were once almost of human appearance grew upward and changed shape entirely…into those that resembled puppy ears with the tips flopped forward. The light dimmed completely and left the body floating in the air before me a few feet away from the edge.

I took a step forward hesitantly. My heart was pounding as I looked at the now far more familiar face that was still unfamiliar as well.

I reached out my hand slowly as the villagers gasped and looked on. "…Kit…Kitsumi?"

The air was still as I looked at the peacefully sleeping face.

Then the eyes opened wide and glowed red as they looked at me. I gasped and pulled my hand back and fell on my rump as those eyes glowed.

Then they faded suddenly and the set of platinum eyes widened as her head drew back in a gasp. The tresses of pink covered her face as her body arched back and she fell from the air and straight downward.

I scrambled toward the edge of the cliff and cried out, "Kitsumi!"

The cloud of pink was silent as I watched helplessly from my perch. It was then that I saw a blur of red and silver interrupted the path of pink and head upward to the ground as a slower pace. Inu-yasha grunted as his shoulders shook with pain. I slid down the rocks and earth to his side as I looked at the sweating little girl in his arms who was out cold.

Inu-yasha's breathing was heavy, "She's alright…she just fainted."

I looked at him, as Kitsumi seemed to sleep in his lap as blood ran from his shoulders. "Is…is she?"

Inu-yasha looked into my eyes and then back down at Kitsumi as sweat ran down her face. "I think so…I think this is our…" he glanced at me for a moment and looked down again. What he said next sounded forced. "Your…Kitsumi."

There was a moment of silence as I looked at him for a moment and my eyes seemed to want to shed tears. "Is…is this her hanyo form?"

Inu-yasha looked down at Kitsumi and put his nose to her hair. "I can smell the human in her.

"This is her hanyo form."

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AN; Sorry to interrupt, but as I promised many this is the Inu-yasha and Kagome sexual tension I promised.

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(Inu-yasha)

Mornings rays came all too soon it seemed, like the dawn of judgment day come too soon. I stared out the window as the wind played in the trees, slapping the daggers of ice in order to make them fall and stab the snow.

I sat against the wall on the stool Kagome aided me in making with both arms in slings made of brown rags. The smell of steaming herbs filled the hut as Kagome stirred a small pot over a fire. A moment later in the silence she turned to a second pot with rice.

Kagome took the herbs and soaked a bandage in the warmed herbal mixture. She then came to my side with a rag and the pot of herb.

I watched as Kagome kneeled on the wooden floor and set up everything at my feet. Slowly she turned her gaze up to me sort of hesitantly. "Umm…I need you to lie back on the sleeping mat so I can inspect your shoulders."

I looked at her for a moment, sensing that Kagome was unusually nervous about this compared to the moment she put both of my arms in slings. This was different.

I made my way down to the mat and Kagome maneuvered so that she was by my head. As I got ready to rest my back against the floor, I felt something warm touch my neck as my mane was pulled to the side.

"Wait! Your shirt and vest, I can't put the herb on while you still have them on."

I groaned and sucked air through my teeth as painfully pulled my arms out of the slings. Kagome removed the slings from around my neck as I struggled to make it look like the pain was nothing. When Kagome's hands joined to aid in the removal of my nagajugan. I gasped audibly and vocalized my pain in a groan of agony.

"Sorry!" she whimpered, bringing her hands more slowly to my mane again. With a strip of cloth, she quickly began to wrap my hair in a long smooth braid too keep my hair out of my wounds. Kagome then removed the bandages she had applied to stop the bleeding and she did this with more care.

She looked over my back and her fingers felt cool to the touch as they ran over the pierced skin. "You've healed over so that you don't have two holes in your body at least. You still need some herbal treatment though."

Kagome gently placed her fingers on the back of my neck against my spine. "You can lean back now. I need to put the ointment on the front first."

The simplicity in Kagome's touch seemed to make the pain bearable as her hands cradled my neck and she eased me back until my head felt cradled in something warm and soft. I knew this warmth though, it was some time ago, but at that moment it felt like an eternity. The night when Kagome first discovered my new moon weakness was the same night I became familiar with this part of her. The warmth of her lap hadn't changed…and nor did her scent.

Kagome picked up her rag and leaned forward to dab the herb on my right shoulder. When she rung the rag out of herbal medicine, I had closed my eyes to loose myself for a moment in the warmth and touch of Kagome's body. How long had it been since we were this intimate? When was the last time being this way with her felt so right? It truly had been too long, since the earliest moment I could recall was the night Kitsumi was born.

Dwelling on that memory seemed to make the moment even harder on me to resist any lustful urges. My stomach began to burn it seemed with a stronger pain than the ones in my shoulders. Could her kiss still quench the thirst in my throat? Could it fill the hunger in my soul for her? Could it…heal the last hole in my heart left by the arrow that twisted when I knew I couldn't let her answers these questions?

I opened my eyes finally and turned to find Kagome's breasts hanging in front of my eyes. My breath caught in my throat and I had to slowly bring one leg up to hide my sudden reaction. Jeez, when did those things get bigger?

Sharp pain jolted through my body when her rag hit something tender. My body tensed and I fisted my hands, which made the pain increase. Kagome's hand left the rag over the wound and she touched my arm. "Don't tense up! If you fist your hands you'll only make the pain worse."

I glared at her and snapped, "It hurts, damn it! What do you expect me to do?"

Kagome's fingers slid from the place on my arm back to the rag and the herb left a shiny slight green tint on my skin. Her face showed her annoyance as she returned to her work starting to concentrate on the left shoulder.

The warmth from her anger seemed to run through her body and make her lap warmer to rest in. I snorted and turned my head to the left to just watch, but I closed my eyes again when I found comfort in her lap once more. I relaxed…yeah; this was the way to not dwell on the pain.

Fuck…The scent of Kagome certainly wasn't making this easier for me. I pulled my second leg up to hide the building need I wanted to hide from her. The last thing she needed now was to know what her scent was doing to me. What it some how, unconsciously did to me.

How does one woman do this to a man? How come after all this time these pent up feelings that I had for so many years now, were hitting against this tiny door inside of me needing to get out? How come the hole in my heart burned for healing when I refused all of it? These five years have been too long. Too long have I sat watching from the sidelines dreaming of the safety in Kagome's arms, the pain subsiding when her body was one with mine, and the hunger and thirst being satisfied with the taste of her kiss.

Gods…how much longer do I have to suffer? What did I do to deserve so much pain? Why…was this so fucking unfair? Why couldn't I just go back to the past? Back to the moment when I was an ill human recovering from demon poison with her lap to comfort me, and her scent to engulf me.

"Inu-yasha, I need you to sit up now so I can do the back of the wounds."

I sat up slowly and made quick work of trying to casually adjust my pants. Jeez, it's not easy being a man.

It was then when Kagome moved to apply medicine quickly to my back wounds that the air innocently shifted for a moment in the hut and my nose picked up a strong scent of Kagome. It was heated and moist it seemed with a vapor.

It was familiar and yet, it was strong too. Even as the blush rushed to my face at the fact I had embarrassed her this badly.

…And yet…it seemed comforting to know that the fact my head was in the trash, hers wasn't either.

"Okay let's get those bandages on."

Kagome grabbed the bandage that wasn't too far. "The wounds in the back aren't as serious as the ones in the front it seems. Hopefully the extra medicine will help it heal faster."

Kagome sat down in front of me and began to wrap my right arm. "It's just slow because the new moon is only a few more nights away. The demon blood is in need of shutting down and it's becoming sluggish."

Her eyes looked at me as I looked at her hands as they wrapped around my torso and around my arms. "Will you be healthy enough to make it through the night?"

I took a slow breath, still looking at the care in my right shoulder. "I'll be fine. I'll most likely have scars on both shoulders for the night but I'll be fine."

Kagome's eyes left my face and she continued to center her attention on my wrappings. I looked at her for a moment and narrowed my brow softly. "Are you worried?"

"Yes…it's been a long time since you've had injuries like this. It's been even longer since I've had to care for you, too," she almost mumbled toward the end.

I smirked a little. "It has been a while, hasn't it? Funny how the past merely becomes a child's bedtime story."

Kagome looked up at me quickly for a moment as she began to secure the bandage. Her brown eyes looked into mine for a long period of time. My heart began to pick up its already abnormal rhythm and my breath caught in my throat. I began to lean forward.

"So, you have been close by," she said, as she picked up the herb to take it away.

I was knock off my rocker for a moment and stared at her trying to figure out what had just happened. I shook it off.

"I only want her to think of it as a story and nothing else."

I turned to Kagome as she put the herb in a wooden jar. "But it's--"

She glanced at me quickly giving me the look I knew all too well. I returned her stare with my own with the furry of it. "How will you explain this to her, Kagome? You can't hide it from her anymore."

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(Kitsumi)

The nightmare in my head of faces I had never seen in my life flashed before my eyes, each of them calling my name.

Then, I sat up in a cold sweat in my night yukata trying to catch my breath and look at the blank wood wall on the other end. I gripped my blanket for a second before letting it go to wipe the sweat from my face. I then groaned as I rubbed my eyes.

Then my finger scratched my nose and I whimpered quietly as I looked at my right hand. My eyes widened as the blur came into focus and before me I saw that my nails had grown double their size and were now white that faded into gold at the tip. I then looked at my left hand and saw black fading into silver.

My breath stopped at the top of my throat as I sat forward and my hair fell over my face; not my black curly hair, but `pink' curly hair. I ran the odd colored hair through my fingers and went to push it all back behind my ears, when I realized my ears weren't in the spot I last remembered them being in. Yet, I could still hear myself breathing. I ran my fingers through my hair until I came to something odd and the sound of my fingers moving in my hair got louder, and found two soft appendages at the top of my head that were floppy and soft with fur.

I then took a hard gulp and forced myself to turn to the mirror facing sideways away from me. My heart was pounding as I took my first step out of bed and slowly walked toward the mirror trying to not get scared incase I was still dreaming.

Slowly I turned the mirror to face me and for the first time saw the unfamiliar face looking back at me.

I screamed and shove the mirror away breaking it into many pieces when I saw the fangs in my open screaming mouth before crawling into bed and wrapping myself in my blankets.

In a second, Mother and Inu-yasha came through the skin flap door. Mother came to my side as Inu-yasha stood in the doorway holding the door flap open. Mother's arms and hands touched me and she tried to comfort me.

"Mom, I can't wake up! I'm having a nightmare! Mommy, I can't wake up!" I wailed.

I heard her hush me and begin to rock me as I tried to hide the fingernails and cover my hair with the blanket.

"It's okay, Kitsumi! It's okay…I'm here!"

My breathing was hyper as I tired to keep myself from believing what I saw in the mirror was real. I was having a nightmare that was all it was just one big nightmare. I kept telling myself that over and over in my head.

Then my eyes fell on Inu-yasha, and it was then that I knew, just by the look in his eyes…it was real.

He looked at my mother as I could hear her beginning to cry above me and hold me. "What now? What will you do now, Kagome?" he said.

I heard my mother catch her breath and I watched him as my mother found her tongue.

"Go to the village and get two horses. I'm going to seek out the only person who can make her understand."

Inu-yasha's eyes widened as he looked at my mother, both golden orbs filled with disbelief. "No…Kagome…you can't! She doesn't understand."

Mother clutch me a little harder. "This is the only way. It's the only way I can help her understand."

I watched Inu-yasha as his eyes seemed to fill with a concern and worry mixed with an uncontrollable fear deep down within him.

My mother's voice cracked as she spoke through her tears, "I have to find Sesshoumaru."

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Woo! Kind of cliffy but at least all you, "Sesshoumaru has a right to know the truth" will have your answers next chapter. I told you I didn't forget about him.

See you soon and sorry for the wait.

SDR