InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Birth Marks ❯ the lover's triangle ( Chapter 6 )

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Thanks to all those people who have reviewed and read my stories! And thanks
to Inuyasha's Gurrl that gave me the idea of doing this chapter sooner
rather than later. And btw the move was a success. Now on to birth marks.

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Birth marks chapter 6: the lover's triangle

Last time:: No, male mad at other female:: he turned his attention to the
bodies on his lap and replied to the sleeping girl, who relaxed slightly at
this. <How?...of course, she knows this because of her being hanyou! > He
realized. He would need to be more careful with his vocabulary in two
languages now! <But she probably doesn't know what she is saying yet, being
raised by her mother> he concluded.

"Not now, let Kagome rest for now. And then both of us can tell you what
happened," he let them off at that and tried to get to sleep. Him, his Koi,
and his soon-to-be-adopted son. Perfect.

This time: <How come in all this time I've known her, this is when I feel
the safest around her. It's like this feeling of, I don't know, belonging.
It's like when we're like this, nothing else matters and nothing can go
wrong. I know now that, how I know…I don't, we can protect each other. She
can protect me and I can protect her. I now know why I didn't kill her when
we first met, or kill myself for that matter. I just don't know anymore>
Inuyasha thought, trying to nod off to sleep, but he was just thinking too
hard and trying to keep Kagome balanced was hard enough. But sleep
eventually overcame him and he slept peacefully the rest of the night
without falling out of the tree once.

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Kagome looked up and grinned at the sleeping face right above her, <he's so
cute when he's asleep!> she then looked down to pull herself out of her
sleeping bag and looked a little further down than she expected. That woke
her up!

“Umm…Inuyasha… why am I in a tree?” she asked, clinging to the still
sleeping hanyou and not meaning to let go anytime soon. Inuyasha squeezed
his eyes shut to the sun coming through them and turned to yawn, realizing
too late that he had things in his lap.

Kagome fell out of the tree and onto her butt and started muttering a string
of words that even Inuyasha thought was harsh. Of course, she was saying
these things about Inuyasha himself so they stung more than normal. Kagome
stood up and moved from under the tree branch, taking a soundly sleeping
Shippou to the camp fire. <how can he sleep through this… HOW can the OTHERS sleep through THIS?> she thought, gingerly sitting down.

“Well, that was for the other day when you `sat' me out of the tree to wake
me back up!” Inuyasha yelled quietly enough not to wake up the humans. He
had yet to tell Kagome about having her sleep in his Haori the first night
they got back and wasn't about to.

“What do you mean `wake me back up'?” Kagome shouted/whispered back. She was mad and that was not good for a certain hanyou in a tree.

“Well, I… uh… I, the…you were cold the first night back and I… was uh…”
Inuyasha looked around like the next thing he would say would kill him, “and
IwrappedyouupinmyHaorisoyouwouldn'tgetacold” he whispered so quietly that
Kagome had to strain to hear him.

She got one of those misty-eyed looks going and looked up at a sweating
dog-boy. <uh-oh> that was the look right before the
I'm-going-to-sit-you-into-tomorrow look.

“Inuyasha…that was sooo sweet! Why don't you come down here quietly and I'll
give you a little breakfast and then we can talk, okay?” she said just a
little too sweetly. He was in bigger trouble than he thought.

Kagome stood up and started walking to the edge of the campsite to gather
some food for breakfast, leaving Shippou behind to sleep by the still-warm
embers of the previous night's fire. Inuyasha had no choice to follow her.
They were a good distance away from the others before Kagome said anything.

“Sit Inuyasha!” she put her hands on her hips and grinned, making sure that
Inuyasha couldn't see her expression. The sitting definitely made her feel
better as she continued onto the path to gather berries.

It was quiet, too quiet. The spell shouldn't have lasted that long. Maybe
her new powers had become more powerful and that made the spell last longer,
or maybe she had really hurt him that time. The birds had even stopped
singing and that was definitely not a good sign.

Kagome bent over to pick some berries when she caught a familiar smell
coming from behind her. But it was too late; a red and silver blur tackled
the girl from behind. She did the first thing that she could think of and
flipped the attacker over her back and left four holes in its shoulder.

“Kagomee!!!” the attacker yelled as it rolled through the bush and into the
clearing behind it. She knew that voice! It was “Inuyasha? What did you do
that for?” Kagome asked, stepping through the hole in the bush that the
flying boy had made.

Inuyasha had finally stopped rolling about 10 feet from the bushes and was
trying to sit up and STAY up. “What did I do? What did you do that for? That
hurt!” <And she's a lot stronger than I thought she would be this soon after
her transformation!>

“You attacked me! I reacted,” Kagome stated matter-of-factly in a slightly
defensive pose with her claws raised.

“You're a lot stronger than I thought,” Inuyasha managed to stand up and was
rubbing his shoulder where the puncture marks were.

“Really?” Kagome dropped her guard and immediately regretted it. Inuyasha
tackled her in the mid-section into the back side of what was remaining of
the bush. She dug her claws into Inuyasha's back to gain leverage to flip
over his head. She did so and kicked where her claws were previously to give
him a face full of thorns from the bush.

“Ha ha hehehe!! That was rich! Mutt-face is being beat up by a girl!” A
voice came from the tree across the clearing. A thin form jumped down from
its branch where it was hiding and walked into the morning sunlight.

“Kouga?”

“What are you doing here wolf?” Inuyasha stepped in front of Kagome to
protect her.

“Where's my woman mutt-face? Did you leave her behind for another half-breed
wench? Where is Kagome?” Kouga demanded, puffing up his chest to show his
so-called superior importance.

“She is not your…”

“I am NOT your woman!” Kagome yelled, stepping out from behind Inuyasha.
“And I never was your woman! How hard is it to register in your thick skull
of yours? And quit calling Inuyasha a mutt. As far as we can tell, we can
say the same thing about you. A `mutt', as you say, is a mix of the same
species, just different breeds. So stop calling him -and me- a mutt!” not
only was Kagome's face red from anger, but her eyes were flashing red also.

The boys were speechless. Inuyasha held his hand hovering over her shoulder,
debating the risk of being flipped again to trying to calm the girl hanyou
down. He decided to take a risk, “Kagome?” she flinched hard at Inuyasha's
touch “Kagome calm down. You know that he's stupid in the first place,”

“Kagome? Is that really you?” Kouga took a step closer, “what did mutt-face
do to you!?” he grabbed Kagome's upper arm over the birth mark and pull her
out of Inuyasha's grasp. That was a bad idea with her being mad in the first
place.

“Don't you DARE touch me!” the birth mark started to glow like when she was
pinned by the salamander. Soon, the place started to smoke with the stench
of burning flesh. Kouga pulled away his raw hand and stared at it.

“You attacked me!” he yelled, stepping back.

“I was defending myself!” Kagome yelled back, stepping foreword. <Why is
everyone testing me today?> she thought, touching the mark that was still
smoldering.

“And furthermore, if anyone is to blame for my `condition' it's my parents.
And I do not think that you would stoop so low to insult those that are not
here to defend themselves! Leave, Kouga, before I harm you more than just a
burned palm,” Kagome started glowing at this point to emphasize her words.
Inuyasha was even feeling heat coming off her aura. An energy bow formed in
her hands along with an arrow. The arrow was pointed at his feet.

“Yip!” Kouga yelled like a scared puppy. There was a two foot deep hole
where he was previously standing. It was an energy arrow that was formed
with miko and youkai energy.

Unfortunately, (for Kouga at least) the wolf just didn't get the message of
an arrow nearly blowing his feet off. So Kagome reloaded her bow. “You
missed me! You can't even shoot straight!” the wolf just kept on taunting.

Kagome aimed. “That was a warning shot! You're lucky I think of you as a
friend rather than an enemy, or you'd be dead!” she formed the arrow to look
like a real wooden arrow and shot it. It landed in his right leg, directly
above the Shikon shard.

Kouga looked down and tried to remove the arrow, but just got burned again.
“You have until the count of ten whether to save your life or to die, and I
think that you would like to live, so RUN! One…” Kouga looked at Kagome and
back to the arrow with a look of pure horror on his face.

“Two…” <she's serious about this!>

“Three…” Kouga had better run if he values his life!

“Four…” the arrow was starting to lose its form

“Five…” Kouga started to turn and limp away.

“Six…” there was a smoke and even little lick of flame around the hole that
the arrow made and the mighty Kouga was even starting to whimper.

“Seven…” “You'd better run wolfie boy!” Inuyasha said in a mix of amusement
and wonder if Kagome would really follow through it.

“ei-eight…” < is Kouga really going to get himself killed, am I going to
really kill him!?> Kagome started to think hysterically.

“Ni-nine…” Kouga collapsed; the energy arrow was wrapping itself around his
leg and burning all the skin that it touched away. Kouga was yelled in pain
as it made its way up his leg.

A single tear slid down Kagome's face. “Jewel shards: come to me” Kouga
gave one last shriek as the shards flew from their previous owner to Kagome.

“Ten!” Kagome's energy bow disintegrated as did the energy burning Kouga's
legs. He was in a heap at the edge of the clearing breathing heavily.

Kagome turned away and walked back through the bush, silently calling
Inuyasha to follow. “consider that a warning: next time all that will be
left is a pile of ashes for your clan members to find” Kagome looked to the
sky, not willing to see what condition Kouga was in on fear of not being
able to look away.

Kagome blinked away the few stubborn tears and started walking. The last
thing she needed was the last few minutes to be brought up again. “You did
fine. You did what you needed to do and if only I was that brave to know
when to stop,” Inuyasha tried his best to consolidate his future mate. His
hand had yet to leave her shoulder and his thumb was now caressing her neck
from behind.

All Kagome did in response was nod slightly and tilt her head into the
caress. There was nothing much that he could do except remember his first
time using his power to try to harm another being.

(Inuyasha's memory)

This was his first time out in the woods by himself. Actually, his father
was somewhere watching him. His father was always watching him.

“Good Inuyasha, now follow the scent” Inutashio's voice was just loud enough
for the eight-year-old boy to hear. He was tracking a deer to eat for his
mother and himself. His mother was in their hidden den, recovering from the
latest beating that the villagers gave her every time that she went for
supplies. Inutashio came and decided that Inuyasha was old enough to learn
to fend for himself. His firstborn had started to learn to hunt when he was
old enough to run. But Inuyasha was a special case and had to wait.

The young hanyou lost the scent and looked up at where he smelled his father
last, “daddy, I lost the trail!” Inutashio grinned down at his son.

“Go back to where you smelled it last and use all your senses, not just your
nose. You have eyes and ears, use them,” the father watched as he found the
scent again.

Sad to say, but the boy would be an orphan soon. This beating was fatal and
soon her struggle would be in vain. But she had tried her best to prepare
him for the harsh realities of living like a hanyou: never accepted in
either society.

And Inutashio had to fight his family's biggest threat and had a premonition
that he wouldn't survive.

(End memory)

“Inuyasha? You're mumbling,” Kagome said, trying to snap the boy out of his
daze.

“Mm?” was all that he could say still remembering the only time that he had
actually talked to his father before he died.

“you were saying father,” Inuyasha looked down at Kagome at the mention of
him spacing out, “and we're close to camp.” Inuyasha promptly removed his
hand and Kagome whimpered slightly at the cold spot on her neck.

“Ah! There you are! Were you having some fun?” Miroku asked, perking up an
eyebrow.

“Hentai,” Sango rolled her eyes and hit him with her boomerang.

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