InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cerulean Skies ❯ Admissions ( Chapter 9 )

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Chapter Nine

 

Admissions

 

 

(This is a hentai story which means that not only is there yaoi, but you can expect other types of pairings including F/M/M and M/F. I will warn you at the top of het chapters so you can skip them. And I will post two chappies when I post het so that those not interested will have another chappie to read. KK?)

 

 

“It is not too late, Sesshoumaru!” growled Kouga while snapping his jaws and finally biting down on the white pelt.

 

“Have it your way, my wolf,” sighed Sesshoumaru and allowed Kouga to slip from his fingers and limp away.

 

Kouga approached Kagome from behind, grabbed her blouse between his powerful jaws and tugged. She screamed in pain as his motions stretched the skin where Inuyasha's claws were embedded.

 

“Let go! Let go!” she screamed as her fingers spasmed around Inuyasha's tender ears.

 

Kouga let loose of the blouse and Inuyasha suddenly withdrew his claws, allowing Kagome to fall to the ground in a haze. Kouga grabbed her again and pulled her away from Inuyasha. Inuyasha didn't take that too well and charged Kouga. She lifted herself onto one elbow while both rolled away in a ball of red, white, and black.

 

“No! Don't hurt him, Kouga. He doesn't know what he's doing!” Risking her life yet again, Kagome ran toward them and jumped on Inuyasha's back.

 

“Help us, Sesshoumaru! Help!” cried Kagome as the two demons dug at each other.

 

Inuyasha winced as the scream for help ripped through his eardrums. However, the pain was over-ridden by that voice. He knew that voice.

 

`Mine to protect,' he thought as his mind swam to the surface and clawed at the beast that had overtaken him.

 

Kagome didn't need to ask for Sesshoumaru's help. Kouga's injuries were preventing him from fighting off Inuyasha and soon it would be too late even for Kouga. While Kouga lay profusely bleeding, Inuyasha and Kagome found themselves dangling high above the ground.

 

“Ka…gome?” rasped Inuyasha. It was the only word his clouded mind could conjure.

 

Kagome nearly choked him to death when she squeezed her arms around his neck.

 

Realizing that Inuyasha had regained his mind, Sesshoumaru lowered the couple to the earth.

 

“Move away from the hanyou, miko. He must pay for his transgression.” Anyone who dared to hurt his wolf would pay, and dearly.

 

“No, he didn't know himself or us. You can't punish him,” insisted Kagome as she stepped between Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha.

 

“Then you will die with him,” Sesshoumaru stated, his voice low, soft, and threatening.

 

“If he dies, I don't want to live anyway!” Kagome shouted back.

 

“Then die!” Sesshoumaru extended his arms, letting lose his green energy ribbons.

 

“Help me, Inuyasha,” she whispered, hoping he had come to his senses enough to protect them both. She felt his arm grip her around the waist and winced at the pressure against her wounds when he leapt out of Sesshoumaru's path.

 

“No!” yelled Kouga, dragging himself to his feet. “If you hurt my friends, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth and kill you myself.” There. He said it. Kagome was his friend, nothing else. She had proven that, had proven that she loved Inuyasha more than life itself.

 

Sesshoumaru stood still as a statue, warring with his desire to kill his half-brother and with his overhwhelming need for Kouga.

 

`One day, I will kill Inuyasha,' Sesshoumaru thought while narrowing his eyes at Inuyasha.

 

“You cannot punish him. You did as much to me, Sesshoumaru. If he pays, so do you. You had no right, no right whatsoever, to do that to me. Am I your version of what Kagome is to me? Why do you want me? Answer me? You can't can you.”

 

“We will not discuss this in front of the half-breed and his miko.”

 

“Why not? You forced me to change in front of her. It's my turn don't you think? Fair is fair.”

 

He could see that Kouga was turning against him. This was not going well. `Damn the interference of that half-breed!' Appeasing his wolf may be the best recourse, if it was even possible.

 

“Although it is true that an alliance with you and your pack would strengthen my power base, you know as truth that it is not the reason I desire you, and as such, I had no right to attack you. I will say no more, my wolf,” Sesshoumaru sighed.

 

“Satisfactory. Now leave me alone. My friends will take care of my wounds,” growled Koga.

 

Some indefinable expression crossed Sesshoumaru's face, but only for the briefest of moments. Kouga noticed and couldn't help feeling sympathy for the great lord. Hadn't he felt a similar defeat concerning Kagome only minutes earlier? Nevertheless, he knew that his love for Kagome was not so much for her as what she could do for him. As Sesshoumaru so accurately pointed out, it was not the same for him. Sesshoumaru truly desired Kouga outside of what Kouga could do for him.

 

“As you wish, my wolf,” stated Sesshoumaru, having regained his cold facade.

 

Even through his anger at Sesshoumaru, some part of him seemed to die when Sesshoumaru strolled away. Or perhaps, Sesshoumaru took that part with him. It wasn't important enough to ponder. His wounds needed tending.

 

Inuyasha and Kagome watched the exchange in utter shock. The great Lord of the Western Lands had nearly abased himself in deference to Kouga's wishes. He had stayed his attack on Inuyasha and Kagome at only Kouga's insistence. What power did Kouga hold over him? Their attention was brought back by a low groan issuing from Kouga. Inuyasha trotted over to him and knelt down to examine the damage.

 

“What happened? Sesshoumaru do this to you?”

 

“You happened, mutt face.”

 

Inuyasha grimaced. The scent of Kouga's blood was so thick in the air that it would have drowned out the scent of Kagome's if it weren't for the fact that his claws were full of it. The scent of sweet human blood hit him like a ton of bricks. Turning his palms up, he could see the red smears and droplets left under his claws. Bile tried rose up the back of his throat as his mind and stomach rebelled.

 

“Kagome,” whispered a distraught Inuyasha as he turned to gaze at her.

 

She was sitting where he had left her, simply watching him and Kouga. She made no complaint and even smiled at him. He flew toward her, fell to his knees, and pulled up her shirt.

 

“Inuyasha!” she gasped, slapping at his hands. “What are you doing, you pervert!?”

 

“I…I did this, didn't I, Kagome?” stammered the only one who loved her more than anyone else in the world.

 

Such pain and remorse darkened his eyes. His chin dropped to his chest and he tried to scoot away from her. She couldn't let him retreat, let him go back to being the way he was so long ago, alone and closed off. Reaching out and grabbing the tassels of white hair that trailed down the sides of his face and onto his shoulders, she pulled him to her, face to face, nose to nose.

 

“You didn't do it, Inuyasha. It was your youkai. And look, I'm okay. It's not so bad.”

 

“I hurt you. I could have killed you. Something…someone else must have stopped me. You're not safe with me, Kagome. I'm going to take you home then seal the well,” he promised through clenched teeth and a mountain of pain.

 

“Don't even think about it, dogboy! I'll s-i-t you into the next century if you even think about trying to make me go back home,” snapped Kagome with eyes narrowed.

 

“Keh. You gotta go home sometime, wench!”

 

“Who says?”

 

“You have exams, and homework, and…stuff like that.”

 

“If I think you are going to seal the well then I'll just stay here,” she huffed.

 

“You can't stay here forever. What about your mom and your little brother?”

 

“That's what you think. Sure, I'll miss them…a lot, but you need me here more than they need me there and…and I…I couldn't live without you,” she trailed off dropping her eyes.

 

“I might kill you one day. Look at what I did,” he protested, raising her blouse.

 

“I don't care! I'll take my chances because…because I love you more than anything else in the world, even if you love Kikyou instead of me. And you can't stop me, Inuyasha, you can't!” she began to sob.

 

Her words knocked the breath out of him, wrenched his heart, and stunned his mind all at the same time.

 

`Loves me…Kikyou…?'

 

His mind couldn't form words. More than anything else in the world, he had hoped that she would love him. But, it was too late. He couldn't hurt her, couldn't allow her to put herself in harms way.

 

And, what about Kikyou? She may still walk the earth, but she was dead and, Naraku had destroyed what they might have had together. There was the sense of loss, the longing for what could have been. However, the honest truth was, he didn't love Kikyou anymore. Inch by inch, she had killed his love for her.

 

“Kagome…I don't love Kikyou. It's you, only you. I…lo…love you and that's why I can't let you stay. I don't want to hurt you. Please, Kagome, let me take you home.”

 

“Damn you, Inuyasha! Damn you to hell! Now you say you love me, but you want me to go home, go home and lose you now that I know you love me, too? Never!” she screamed, jumping up and stomping her right foot, all the while tears streaming down her face.

 

“Listen to me, you mangy dog,” growled Kouga from behind.

 

Both looked over to see Kouga back in his bipedal form. “You saw what you did. You had her. If your youkai really wanted to kill her, she would be dead. But, she isn't. And this wasn't the only time. Remember when that witch stole your human soul? Yeah, I know about that. Even with only your youkai possessing you, you didn't kill her. It won't happen. What you are doing now is worse than anything you've ever done to her. There is more than one way to kill a person. You will break her by breaking her heart. Don't screw this up…Inuyasha.”

 

Not `mangy mutt', or `dog turd', or `mutt face', but `Inuyasha'. It was rare, if ever, that Kouga used Inuyasha's name. Inuyasha just stared at Kouga. Neither he nor Kagome had ever heard Kouga encourage their relationship. He and Kouga were rivals, always. What had changed? Inuyasha gave him a suspicious glare.

 

“What're you up to, Kouga?” scowled Inuyasha.

 

“Kagome made it clear that she loves you and that I am only a friend. Besides, I may have…other interests,” Kouga admitted, a blush rising to his cheeks.

 

Inuyasha frowned at him for a long moment before his eyebrows shot up. “You can't mean that bastard Sesshoumaru?”

 

Kouga nodded looking very serious.

 

“I can't believe it! After everything he did to you…tried to do to Kagome!”

 

“It was my fault that he tried to attack her. I should have shown her my wolf before now. If I hadn't waited so long…It was my fault. None of this would have happened if I had accepted the fact that she was only my friend. I'm to blame for all of this.”

 

Kagome walked up to him and tenderly laid a hand on his forearm. Inuyasha barely held back a growl at her intimacy.

 

“It wasn't all your fault, Kouga,” Kagome tried to reassure him.

 

“Yes, it was. You touch me now, but would you have touched me just a little while ago? Could you? If I truly loved you, I would have shown you before now.”

 

If nothing else, Kagome was honest. It was a trait she couldn't escape. So he might as well be honest with her.

 

“I'm sorry. I don't know, Kouga. I really don't,” she muttered, dropping her head in shame.

 

“Don't be sorry,” said Kouga, patting her hand.

 

“What Sesshoumaru did to you earlier was not your fault. How can you be interested in him? He raped you!” Inuyasha asked in disbelief.

 

“He raped you?” gasped Kagome. She felt as though she'd been hit in the gut. Never would she have believed that Sesshoumaru would do such a thing.

 

“He didn't exactly rape me, Inuyasha. And, somewhere in some part of me, I wanted it. I just couldn't face up to it.” He gave a deep sigh. “Kagome has helped me own up to it. But don't worry. I will definitely make him pay for everything he's done,” he said with a wicked curl to his lips.

 

A rush of air poured from Kagome. She knew that Sesshoumaru was not a bad being. He was simply inhuman. Some allowances had to be made.

 

Too stunned to resist, Inuyasha allowed Kouga to grab him and shove him up against Kagome.

 

“Now, kiss and make up or I'll have to beat you good, dog-breath,” smirked Kouga.

 

Both Kagome and Inuyasha blushed. She gazed into his eyes, hoping Kouga had made a difference in Inuyasha's decision.

 

`I hope you're right, Kouga,' thought Inuyasha as he hesitantly dipped his head down to brush his lips against Kagome's.

 

Her sigh brought a flood of heat to his face and he couldn't help wrapping his arms around her as his heart poured into her lips. Kagome melted into his body and tried not show any sign of the pain his embrace caused her wounds, but she couldn't help the involuntary twitch as his grip tightened. Inuyasha winced and pulled away. Scooping her up into his arms, and headed for her backpack and the first aid kit it held while Kouga followed.

 

“I don't need your help, Kouga,” Inuyasha commented, glancing back.

 

“Yeah, but you two insisted on escorting me home, remember?”

 

Inuyasha groaned.

 

 

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As he stood in a field of swaying grass, Sesshoumaru stared up into the heavens and cursed the sky for its constant reminder of those cerulean blue eyes.

 

 

 

 

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Inuyasha and all associated characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I make no profit from this story, nor do I intend to. My only goal is to occupy my demented mind with delusions of actually owning a life-sized, anatomically correct Sesshoumaru.

 

 

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