InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blood-Red Eyes ❯ Chapter 17? ( Chapter 17 )

Hi there! *hides from angry reviewers* Okay, okay, I know it's been forever!! BUT I have reasons!!

1) Finals and projects and essays all due in college.

2) Trying to finish up one story at a time, and having out 7 bloody stories.. ;_; My own fault.

3) Decorating/cleaning/finding a damned job/working for my grandmother

4) My laptop… my poor, precious laptop… is broken… the video card is damaged, and so I have to send it into the shop next weekend. Right now, everything's very very fuzzy… my poor eyes.

ALSO!! I know this isn't as long as a normal chapter, and I actually wrote this about um… a month ago… I'd've completely finished this chapter, opening the lemon, but I had the feeling that if I waited one more day, someone would track me down and beat the crap out of me, then tie me to a chair so I could type. But, good news is, I should be updating more often!! GOOD THING!!

Also, I own none of them!!

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"Oh. Shit."

That was the only the only thing racing through Kagome's brain as she stared into a pair of glittering, blood red eyes. The blue pupils seemed to burn through her clothes as he looked at her, his clawed hands keeping her back pressed against the rough wooden wall of the hut.

She could hear Sango and Miroku arguing over whether or not to help her, Shippou's voice calling out to the fighting couple that Inuyasha wouldn't really hurt Kagome. That badly, at least.

The miko snorted at the fox-demon's attempt of reassurance, only to have her attention drawn back to the hanyou-turned-youkai when his hands clenched on her shoulders and her teeth clamped down on his mark on her, his fangs tearing through the still-healing flesh to press against the muscle underneath. With no pleasure to help numb her to the feeling, Kagome cried out at the pain, her own hands reaching up to grab Inuyasha's shoulders as she attempted to push him away.

Feeling his bitch fighting against him aroused him even as he became annoyed at her struggling. Ripping his fangs from her shoulder, he placed a hand over the bite, leaned close to her ear, and whispered, "Don't forget. This is MY mark on you. You. Are. MINE."

The smell of her fear and pain reached his nose, and he smirked proudly, feeling the need to congratulate himself on such a fine job of subduing and disciplining his mate.

Then his mate's body began to shudder beneath his hands, and the stinging scent of salt water burned at his nostrils. When a single drop, followed closely by another, fell onto the wrist of the hand covering his bloody mark, he froze and turned unusually blank eyes towards the feeling, watching with absolutely no joy or bloodlust whatsoever as the water of her tears mingled with the blood trailing down his arm.

`Why is she crying?' he growled at a part of his mind that no one knew he possessed.

`You hurt her, a man's soft voice answered.

`She's been hurt before,' the youkai argued.

`Not by you,' the human in him replied.

Kagome was shocked when, as she tried to stop crying in front of a frozen, full-demon Inuyasha, a rough warm tongue moved against her cheek, licking up the tears already pouring from her eyes. She looked at him in shock as he continued to clean the tears from her face, then launched herself against him, crying into his haori for a moment before reaching up to touch the bite wound that had been left by him. He wasn't doing much, other than holding her, but when her hand touched the mark gingerly, and she winced at the feeling, he reached up and batted her hand away before beginning to lap at the bloody mark he had left.

Nearby, Sango and Miroku were having their own small battle, fighting over who would have control over Hiraikotsu. Shippou and Kirara had already given up, and merely sat there with Kohaku, watching as Miroku tried to convince the female Taijiya that Inuyasha was not going to kill her adopted little sister. She had been fine until Inuyasha bit her friend, causing her to yell in pain. Sango had leapt up, immediately reaching for her preferred weapon to destroy whatever it was that was hurting Kagome. Miroku had been forced to grab onto the giant boomerang before it could be thrown, and had yet to let go.

Sesshoumaru, Jaken, Rin, and Ah-Un watched on in curiosity as the mates punished, cried, and silently comforted, and as the humans argued over a giant bone boomerang while the two youkai and the younger human merely sat and watched. Finally, the demon lord turned around and began to walk off, Jaken scurrying after him. When he didn't hear his charge or her mount moving, he stopped and called back to her.

"Rin."

"Lord Sesshoumaru?" He waited, knowing she would take his silence as a signal to continue. "Can we come back and play with Shippou and Kohaku sometime?" He considered it for a second, then nodded slightly.

"Yes. Now come." As he moved away from the human village, his ears picked up the sound of Rin humming happily as she and Ah-Un followed him, Jaken wisely staying silent as he kept up with his master and the human who rode on the back of the two-headed dragon.

After lapping up all the blood that was now etched into his memory as belonging to the powerful, proud human that was his mate, Inuyasha lifted the young woman against him, holding her close as he leapt off towards the place he always felt the safest: his forest.

The youkai smirked as he reflected that sex was the greatest healer, as it drew one's attention away from any pain being felt. If that was the case, then he would make sure his mate wouldn't feel pain for the rest of the night.

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Okay, next chapter will be the lemon!! I know, I'm gonna be murdered for that.. but hey, not gonna wait NEARLY as long!! I promise!!