InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayal of the Soul ❯ Changed Relationships ( Chapter 5 )

Changed Relationships

Inu Yasha groggily walked away from the hut, he wanted to go wash and get her smell off of him, and the smell in the hut from what they had done was unbearable. He wasn't exactly sure why he had done it, but already regretted it. He managed to pretend to be sleeping while Kikyo lay there in shock and bolted the second she drifted to sleep. He wasn't sure which was worse, the smell of Kagome and Sesshoumaru lingering in the air or the smell of her on him and the smell in the hut from them. He sighed bitterly as he headed towards the hot spring. Part of him wanted to just keep walking and not have to go back and face Kikyo, or the new mates. He walked right into the water not bothering to undress. He frantically began to rub his skin and clothes, it reminded him of how he felt when he transformed and mutilated those bandits. Kagome had stayed by his side and comforted him. The one kiss they had shared had been Kagome trying to save him from himself. Inu Yasha screamed in anger at his stupidity.

Kagome had been walking towards the spring to take her usual morning bath when she heard someone scream.

"Inu Yasha?" she thought out loud. Overwhelmed with worry she raced towards the sound of his voice. She stopped moving when she picked up his scent and the smell of Kikyo all over him. Extremely confused she continued walking towards him. He knew she was there before she revealed it, how could he have forgotten that Kagome took baths every morning.

"Inu Yasha?" Kagome questioned as she walked to the edge of the spring. Inu Yasha turned away from her, not wanting Kagome to see his tears. She could sense that he was upset.

"Inu Yasha, what's wrong?" she asked sweetly.

"N-Nothing, can't a guy bathe without something being wrong?" Inu Yasha said gruffly.

"You sure?" she asked again.

"Yeah, I'm sure, happy?" he said as rude as he could possibly force.

"Fine" Kagome said in defeat, she had tried.

"I'm guessing you want me to leave so you can clean, you smell bad, like him" Inu Yasha spat at her. Kagome's blood boiled at his insult to her mate and herself.

"You smell like her" Kagome said disgusted.

"Why do you care, your with him?" he said, irritated that she could smell it.

"And you're with her, why do you care if I smell like him?"

"I don't really, its just a bad smell" Inu Yasha growled. Kagome tried her best to restrain her anger, but he was making it so hard. To think she had rushed here in concern for him.

"I heard you scream you know" Kagome said quietly with compassion.

"And?"

"That's the only reason I came, I was worried" Kagome said sincerely as she went to walk away from him.

"Sorry…it's just"

"You can still talk to me, we're still friends" Kagome said as she sat down allowing her legs to dangle into the water. Inu Yasha dunked himself in the water to hide all traces of his crying and then turned around to face her.

"Kikyo told me everything" Inu Yasha said looking down at the water.

"Everything" Kagome said in shock.

"It got so out of control…"

"What happened?" Kagome said fear seeping into her voice.

"She lost it, you saw what she was like when you came and warned me, I get it now, she's not the Kikyo that walked around in the clay body at all, she's the Kikyo from 50 years ago with the memories of the clay one. I tried to be around her and comfort her. Help her like you told me to. But I couldn't get those memories out of my head, so I tried to focus on a good one." He paused not really wanting to tell Kagome the rest.

"Its ok, you can tell me" Kagome said sensing his apprehension.

"I thought about a time I accidentally saw Kikyo bathing, and I became aroused at the thought, like I had when it really happened. I tried to control myself, but without meaning to I wondered if she was completely new…. my youkai blood took over and I transformed. The next thing I new, I was on top of Kikyo and we were both naked. Whatever I did while my youkai blood took over, she became aroused from it. I couldn't help it, all the questions, I could smell her innocence and everything, I just couldn't contain it anymore, and I…. I didn't even mark her, I just took her and pretended to be sleeping till she fell asleep and then ran"

Kagome sat very still, giving the information time to sink in.

"You need to go back to her, she still needs you" Kagome said, not wanting to really talk about Inu Yasha sleeping with Kikyo.

"What if she wants to…."

"You will deal with it when it comes, but you have to go back to her" Kagome said. Secretly noticing the irony of it. She used to be so angry when he went to her, now she was telling him to go back to her.

"I heard you last night" Inu Yasha said. Kagome blushed and stared at him

"Heard?"

"Yeah, with him, before I went back to Kikyo"

"Oh…"

"…He better of been good to you" Inu Yasha said.

"He was, he is" Kagome said reassuringly.

"Good, well I have to go back" Inu Yasha said as he jumped out of the hot springs and ran away. Kagome inhaled and realized that Inu Yasha was right she did smell. But she didn't smell bad because of Sesshoumaru, but because they had sex on the dirt ground and….

Sesshoumaru waited patiently for Kagome to come back from bathing, he knew if he went with her, he would just want to have sex with her again, and while that was fine by him. She wanted to go and get Shippo and bring him with them when they saved Rin and Jaken from each other and if they had sex, they wouldn't be leaving until late in the afternoon and they wouldn't get to his home until late at night, and Rin would asleep already and they would have to wait till morning to return. But damnit why did she have to take so long to bathe…

Kikyo woke up and looked over at the empty space next to her where Inu Yasha was when she fell asleep. She sighed and picked up her clothes from the ground. She cringed as memories flooded her mind of picking up her clothes from when she was with Naraku. Kaede walked into the hut and saw her sister sitting on the futon with her clothes clutched to her chest. Kikyo looked up at Kaede and realizing her current position quickly dressed in shame.

"I see you and Inu Yasha have reconnected"

"If you wish to see it that way Kaede" Kikyo said as she walked out of the hut away from her sisters questions. Inu Yasha sat against a tree with Shippo harassing him when Kikyo excited the hut. He looked up at her and again forced himself to not think about everything. Every time he looked at her, he would have to remind himself that she was not the person who committed those actions and even that was not enough to make it go away, because she knew. She was not the same person because of those memories. The real Kikyo would not have allowed last night to happen without knowing his intentions and he knew that, now she was so grateful he would still touch her, she didn't stop it. Part of him wanted to know what happened in those moments he had transformed the other part was unable to even bring himself to question her. Kagome kissing him had brought him back from one transformation… what brought him back last night…? He was about to move when he heard Kagome and Sesshoumaru heading towards them.

"I was not gone that long really"

"You take to long to bathe, I expect them to be shorter in the future, or I will come after you"

Sesshoumaru and Kagome stopped talking as soon as they realized that they were being listened to. Inu Yasha stood to greet them when he noticed the mark on Sesshoumaru's neck. Sesshoumaru glared at Inu Yasha as he nonchalantly covered the mark with his hair.

"Good morning Inu Yasha" Kagome said politely as if she had not seen him yet today. Inu Yasha realized that not only had she kept running into him at the spring a secret, she was allowing Sesshoumaru to berate her, when it wasn't her fault.

"We're going to the palace in the western lands to get some things, and I want to bring Shippo, if he wants to come" Kagome said interrupting Inu Yasha's thoughts

"REALLY! I WANNA COME KAAGOMEEH!!!" Shippo screeched happily as he latched onto Kagome's shoulder.

"Kit, you will not-"

"Shippo sweetie, please don't shout so loud like that" Kagome said before Sesshoumaru had the chance to scare Shippo. Sesshoumaru glanced at the woman Kagome had saved the other day. She was standing off to the side; her resemblance to Kagome was undeniable. Kikyo noticed that Sesshoumaru was looking at her and walked away from them. Inu Yasha saw Kikyo leave and looked back at Kagome.

"I should"

"I know, go, we'll be back tonight" Kagome said and he went after Kikyo. Kagome sighed and then looked at Sesshoumaru.

"Lets go then" Kagome said trying to hide how she was feeling at the moment.

Sesshoumaru nodded and they began walking.

`I wish that there was something I could do for Inu Yasha' Kagome thought to herself.

"You seem troubled" Sesshoumaru said once Shippo had fallen asleep.

"I'm worried about Inu Yasha" Kagome said.

"Why?"

"Because he's in pain, and I do care about him as a friend, and I just wish there was something I could do to help him, but as long as Kikyo is the way she is, nothing will change"

"Then help them" Sesshoumaru said blatantly.

"I don't know how"

"You have all of your powers back now, you will find a way" Sesshoumaru said supportively.

"You think so?" Kagome asked.

"This coming from the youkai miko, that accidentally gave me back my arm, gave a soul and living body to a clay corpse and whose body now contains the powers of the shikon no tama and that Midoriko woman, yes I do"

Kagome smiled at Sesshoumaru's tenderness with her. She didn't understand how everything had happened so suddenly between them, but she loved him. Sesshoumaru couldn't comprehend how little faith Kagome had in herself. He would have to show her that she was more useful than she thought she was. It was most likely his brothers' fault that she thought so low of her abilities. Kagome and Sesshoumaru continued to walk in silence to his castle. Kagome didn't want to ruin how kind he had been, by attempting to talk again and Sesshoumaru was busy contemplating ways to prove to Kagome she was not useless in her powers. After walking for what Kagome thought was hours Shippo yawned and woke up.

"Are we almost there?" he asked half asleep.

"We are close" Sesshoumaru answered. As they got closer a very unpleasant damp smell hit Kagome's nose.

"Oh my… what is that smell" Kagome said while holding her nose.

"What smell…oh, that is Jaken" Sesshoumaru said.

"How do you tolerate that stench" Kagome asked in shock.

"I do not notice it anymore, but you react to the smell as if he was human" Sesshoumaru said.

"Hey not all humans smell bad" Shippo said in defense for the humans he knew.

"Most do"

"Did you think Kagome smelt bad as a human" Shippo asked antagonizing the demon lord.

"Shippo!" Kagome yelled.

"She did not smell bad, but she smells better now as a youkai" Sesshoumaru said, emphasizing the youkai part. Shippo rolled his eyes and hopped off of Kagome's shoulder and walked on his own.

"Something smells sweet, like sakura petals, and its human" Kagome said mockingly.

"That, is another exception, Rin, once she cleaned up, her smell was tolerable" Sesshoumaru said, unsure as to why he admitted that to Kagome. As they came into sight of the palace, Shippo ran off after the scent of Rin and Jaken.

"Your mark is affecting me, and I am curious why you did it" Sesshoumaru asked.

"Well, in all honesty, my youki took control for a brief moment and my instincts told me to mark you as mine, so that no other youkai could have you" Kagome said looking up at Sesshoumaru.

"Did you believe that because I was not marked as yours, I would not be faithful-"

"NO! Of course not" Kagome said defensively.

"Good, inu youkai mate for life, I could not physically or emotionally betray you" Sesshoumaru said tenderly. He was loosing his ability to hide his emotions towards her.