InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changing the Past, Changes the Future ❯ You Really Got Me ( Chapter 10 )
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By: Mikopixi 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.22.2005 | Updated On: 04.21.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 2.3K | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.22.2005 | Updated On: 04.21.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 2.3K | Status: Completed
A/N: Inuyasha has a moment where his human and demon sides are talking in his head. Imagine the scene from the cartoons where the angel is on one shoulder and the devil is on the other. His human side is the angel and his demon side is, uh, the devil. Thanks for reading and reviewing!
I want to clear up a few things…
Kagome is her own reincarnation. She died five hundred and fifty years or so before she was born, so her soul was given to her again. I'm not really sure how this works, just work with me.
Naraku is not dead. Kagome just did what she did to allow her enough time to go through the well. That means she left Naraku alive…And very pissed. He won't find out about the Tomi/Kagome thing until later.
Kagome is still injured. From the start of chapter 7 to the end of chapter 8 was probably only between thirty minutes to an hour of time and once Kagome got back, everyone was so relieved that she didn't think about her wounds. Everyone knew and was concerned, but when Inuyasha and her began to fight, they just watched.
Finally, after Kagome went back into the well, everything happened the way it did in the anime/manga universe. Inuyasha agreed to use the jewel to become human, Naraku struck down Kikyo, she pinned Inuyasha to the tree, Kagome fell down the well when she was fifteen, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, and I don't make any money from the writing of this or any of my stories.
Chapter 10-You Really Got Me
For the second time in under an hour, Kagome felt the weirdness of the time jump. It reminded her of when Yuka had been driving in the country and went down a hill too fast in the car. That's how her stomach always felt. Today was even worse. She was tired, bloody, sore, and her ankle hurt like a bitch. She had left about a month ago, telling her mother she would be back in a few hours, and she had never come back. She knew that Inuyasha believed that she had left him all those years ago. That was why he held onto her so tightly.
He was beautiful, but had the density of a black hole sometimes.
And he really knew how to piss a girl off.
She suddenly felt dizzy. Everything that had happened in the past thirty minutes slammed into the eighteen year old as she stood at the bottom of the dry well. For a second, she thought she was going to go into shock, but her vision began to fade. She made a weak grab for the man next to her, shocking the hell out of him when her free hand tried to grab his other wrist and grabbed him between the legs.
“What the hell?” He snapped, pulling her hand away from him. “Is that all you can think about at a time like this?”
“Inuyasha,” she gasped weakly as her body slid away from him.
Had he not been holding her wrist so tightly, she would have slid to the dirt floor. “Kagome?” He jerked her up enough, so that he could slip an arm around her waist. His hand went through her torn top and touched the hot flesh of her bloody and scratched stomach.
He hadn't even paid attention to her injuries. His ears pinned back at the thought. What kind of a mate was he? His mate was injured and all he could do was yell at her about how selfish she was that she had left him to escape her would be rapist. Inuyasha froze as he heard the door to the well house slide open. His ears stood completely erect to listen for any sound the intruder made. His nose twitched as he inhaled the scent.
“Kagome? Inuyasha?” Ms. Higurashi said, a second before a bright beam of light shined right into Inuyasha's sensitive eyes.
“Ugh…” His free arm came up to shield his eyes as he stumbled back and hit the wall with his back. “What the hell are you trying to do? Blind me or something?!” He bellowed at the woman, shining the light in his eyes.
“Inuyasha?”
“Keh!”
The light suddenly clicked off and Inuyasha heard panicked scrambling down the ladder. In the darkness, all Mrs. H could see was the outline of the tall white haired young man holding a smaller limp body. “Kagome,” she gasped. “Is she…”
Inuyasha blinked, before the unspoken question word flashed through his mind. “Of course she ain't dead! She just fainted.”
“What happened?”
“I'm not really sure. Can we bring her in the house and then I'll tell you everything I know.”
“Of course, but let me go make sure that no one will see you.” Ms. H scurried up the ladder and opened the door. She turned preparing to go back to Inuyasha and nearly ran into him.
She gasped in shock as she stared at him. She hadn't even heard him move and he had been right behind her.
“What's wrong with you?”
“Nothing. I just wanted to tell you that everything is clear. We can go into the house. Wait here and I'll open the door for you.”
Ms. H ran across the yard and opened the door. She waved Inuyasha toward the door. Inuyasha looked around and ran into the house.
“What on earth?” Gramps looked up to see Inuyasha run into the house holding Kagome. He jumped to his feet and walked up to Inuyasha, who had been holding Kagome bridal style since he leapt from the well. “What did you do to my granddaughter, demon?”
“I didn't do anything to her, you crazy old man! I just brought her home!” Inuyasha shouted, in self defense.
“Grandpa! Inuyasha! Please! Don't start fighting! This is about Kagome. We need to clean her up and see if any of her wounds are serious.” Ms. H was disturbed by the state of her clothing and the blood on Kagome. “Inuyasha, was she raped?”
Inuyasha's ears flattened. “No,” he said softly. “But she almost was.”
“Bring her up to her room for me, please Inuyasha.”
“Keh.” He walked up to Kagome's room. He couldn't bear to let her go yet, so he sat on the pink bedspread with Kagome cradled in his lap.
A whimper escaped his lips as he nuzzled his mark on her with his nose. He felt both rage and shame as the scent of the earlier Naraku reached his nose.
It was an odd scent that covered his mate. It seemed to be an equal mixture of what human, Onigumo had smelled like and what half demon, Naraku smelled like now. The stench on her nearly gagged him, but it didn't matter, because she was okay and with him now.
He released a silent gasp when her hands clenched his hair. “Inuyasha.” He could feel her tears searing through his fire rat clothing as she began to sob against him. He hadn't even know that she had been coming to, but now she was clenching his hair so tight, he thought she was going to pull it out.
“I was so scared. He was going to rape me.” She shifted in his lap, wrapping her legs around his waist, in a motion to her that was innocent. All she wanted was the man she loved to comfort her.
Inuyasha choked back the low whine that threatened to come out of his throat. He knew what she wanted, but the scent of her blood mixed with the way she was pressed against him, was making him painfully aroused.
`Gods, she was almost raped what the hell is wrong with you?' His human side asked in his head.
`We have waited so long for our bitch. She was attacked because she is foolish and you are so weak that I vanish on the moonless night. She needs to be put in her place. We need to claim her now.' The deeper, darker voice rasped.
`Her place?' His human side scoffed.
`Under our domination.'
`You'll hurt her.'
`Never.'
Inuyasha was silent as he listened to the two voices argue. Then with the vow of the demon to never hurt her, he could feel the indifference of his human side and he had to stop it. If the human side agreed to take her, the two parts of Inuyasha that often laid dormant could try to overpower him, causing him to possibly hurt Kagome.
“No! Shut up!” He shouted.
Kagome tensed in his arms and pulled away from him. She stood up on shaking legs and stared at him in horror. The look on her face broke his heart. “I didn't mean it, Kagome… I wasn't talking to you…”
I want to clear up a few things…
Kagome is her own reincarnation. She died five hundred and fifty years or so before she was born, so her soul was given to her again. I'm not really sure how this works, just work with me.
Naraku is not dead. Kagome just did what she did to allow her enough time to go through the well. That means she left Naraku alive…And very pissed. He won't find out about the Tomi/Kagome thing until later.
Kagome is still injured. From the start of chapter 7 to the end of chapter 8 was probably only between thirty minutes to an hour of time and once Kagome got back, everyone was so relieved that she didn't think about her wounds. Everyone knew and was concerned, but when Inuyasha and her began to fight, they just watched.
Finally, after Kagome went back into the well, everything happened the way it did in the anime/manga universe. Inuyasha agreed to use the jewel to become human, Naraku struck down Kikyo, she pinned Inuyasha to the tree, Kagome fell down the well when she was fifteen, etc.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, and I don't make any money from the writing of this or any of my stories.
Chapter 10-You Really Got Me
For the second time in under an hour, Kagome felt the weirdness of the time jump. It reminded her of when Yuka had been driving in the country and went down a hill too fast in the car. That's how her stomach always felt. Today was even worse. She was tired, bloody, sore, and her ankle hurt like a bitch. She had left about a month ago, telling her mother she would be back in a few hours, and she had never come back. She knew that Inuyasha believed that she had left him all those years ago. That was why he held onto her so tightly.
He was beautiful, but had the density of a black hole sometimes.
And he really knew how to piss a girl off.
She suddenly felt dizzy. Everything that had happened in the past thirty minutes slammed into the eighteen year old as she stood at the bottom of the dry well. For a second, she thought she was going to go into shock, but her vision began to fade. She made a weak grab for the man next to her, shocking the hell out of him when her free hand tried to grab his other wrist and grabbed him between the legs.
“What the hell?” He snapped, pulling her hand away from him. “Is that all you can think about at a time like this?”
“Inuyasha,” she gasped weakly as her body slid away from him.
Had he not been holding her wrist so tightly, she would have slid to the dirt floor. “Kagome?” He jerked her up enough, so that he could slip an arm around her waist. His hand went through her torn top and touched the hot flesh of her bloody and scratched stomach.
He hadn't even paid attention to her injuries. His ears pinned back at the thought. What kind of a mate was he? His mate was injured and all he could do was yell at her about how selfish she was that she had left him to escape her would be rapist. Inuyasha froze as he heard the door to the well house slide open. His ears stood completely erect to listen for any sound the intruder made. His nose twitched as he inhaled the scent.
“Kagome? Inuyasha?” Ms. Higurashi said, a second before a bright beam of light shined right into Inuyasha's sensitive eyes.
“Ugh…” His free arm came up to shield his eyes as he stumbled back and hit the wall with his back. “What the hell are you trying to do? Blind me or something?!” He bellowed at the woman, shining the light in his eyes.
“Inuyasha?”
“Keh!”
The light suddenly clicked off and Inuyasha heard panicked scrambling down the ladder. In the darkness, all Mrs. H could see was the outline of the tall white haired young man holding a smaller limp body. “Kagome,” she gasped. “Is she…”
Inuyasha blinked, before the unspoken question word flashed through his mind. “Of course she ain't dead! She just fainted.”
“What happened?”
“I'm not really sure. Can we bring her in the house and then I'll tell you everything I know.”
“Of course, but let me go make sure that no one will see you.” Ms. H scurried up the ladder and opened the door. She turned preparing to go back to Inuyasha and nearly ran into him.
She gasped in shock as she stared at him. She hadn't even heard him move and he had been right behind her.
“What's wrong with you?”
“Nothing. I just wanted to tell you that everything is clear. We can go into the house. Wait here and I'll open the door for you.”
Ms. H ran across the yard and opened the door. She waved Inuyasha toward the door. Inuyasha looked around and ran into the house.
“What on earth?” Gramps looked up to see Inuyasha run into the house holding Kagome. He jumped to his feet and walked up to Inuyasha, who had been holding Kagome bridal style since he leapt from the well. “What did you do to my granddaughter, demon?”
“I didn't do anything to her, you crazy old man! I just brought her home!” Inuyasha shouted, in self defense.
“Grandpa! Inuyasha! Please! Don't start fighting! This is about Kagome. We need to clean her up and see if any of her wounds are serious.” Ms. H was disturbed by the state of her clothing and the blood on Kagome. “Inuyasha, was she raped?”
Inuyasha's ears flattened. “No,” he said softly. “But she almost was.”
“Bring her up to her room for me, please Inuyasha.”
“Keh.” He walked up to Kagome's room. He couldn't bear to let her go yet, so he sat on the pink bedspread with Kagome cradled in his lap.
A whimper escaped his lips as he nuzzled his mark on her with his nose. He felt both rage and shame as the scent of the earlier Naraku reached his nose.
It was an odd scent that covered his mate. It seemed to be an equal mixture of what human, Onigumo had smelled like and what half demon, Naraku smelled like now. The stench on her nearly gagged him, but it didn't matter, because she was okay and with him now.
He released a silent gasp when her hands clenched his hair. “Inuyasha.” He could feel her tears searing through his fire rat clothing as she began to sob against him. He hadn't even know that she had been coming to, but now she was clenching his hair so tight, he thought she was going to pull it out.
“I was so scared. He was going to rape me.” She shifted in his lap, wrapping her legs around his waist, in a motion to her that was innocent. All she wanted was the man she loved to comfort her.
Inuyasha choked back the low whine that threatened to come out of his throat. He knew what she wanted, but the scent of her blood mixed with the way she was pressed against him, was making him painfully aroused.
`Gods, she was almost raped what the hell is wrong with you?' His human side asked in his head.
`We have waited so long for our bitch. She was attacked because she is foolish and you are so weak that I vanish on the moonless night. She needs to be put in her place. We need to claim her now.' The deeper, darker voice rasped.
`Her place?' His human side scoffed.
`Under our domination.'
`You'll hurt her.'
`Never.'
Inuyasha was silent as he listened to the two voices argue. Then with the vow of the demon to never hurt her, he could feel the indifference of his human side and he had to stop it. If the human side agreed to take her, the two parts of Inuyasha that often laid dormant could try to overpower him, causing him to possibly hurt Kagome.
“No! Shut up!” He shouted.
Kagome tensed in his arms and pulled away from him. She stood up on shaking legs and stared at him in horror. The look on her face broke his heart. “I didn't mean it, Kagome… I wasn't talking to you…”
“Mom!” Kagome ran into her mother's arms, sobbing the whole time.
Inuyasha pealed himself from the floor and walked over to the two women. His clawed hand rested on Kagome's shoulder. “Kagome…I'm sorry. I didn't mean…”
“Go away, Inuyasha. Just leave me alone.” Her voice was flat.
“Please Kagome?”
She shook her head. “Don't touch me. Leave me alone right now.”
He stared at her as if she had just called him something that Sesshomaru would. His ears pinned back, gold eyes shimmered with tears that he was too stubborn to let fall, and his face looked totally defeated. “Inuyasha?” She reached out to him.
He jerked back and shook his head. She approached him. A soft sob escaped her when he flinched at her touch. He might be an asshole, but his heart and trust were fragile. Telling him not to touch her was about the same as if she would have called him a dirty half demon. Unknown to Kagome, the look in her eyes told him that he disgusted her. It was the same way everyone else looked at him, when she told him not to touch her.
He swallowed hard as he stared at her. “You asked me to leave. So, I'll go.”
“Inuyasha.” He sped past her and Kagome sank to her knees as she heard the door downstairs open, then slam shut.
Ms. H was totally at a loss at what to do. She had absolutely no clue what had happened while Kagome had been missing, but she knew that both were hurting. Kagome had nearly been raped and was in a very delicate emotional state. That much was obvious by the way she spoke to Inuyasha. She had seen the look in her eyes before she turned around and had never seen that look in Kagome's eyes. It was very seldom that her daughter was an emotional basket case, like she was now.
Inuyasha was a different story. Inuyasha was very fragile. Perhaps he was even more fragile than her daughter. Ms. H knew him well enough to know that. He was very guarded, jaded, and suspicious. Kagome was one of the few people he had given his absolute trust to and with the loathing of the look she had given him, Ms. H couldn't help but wondered if it had shattered his trust. She hoped not, but most likely the confused half demon was just sulking in a tree, not too far away.
“Kagome.” She knelt next to her daughter. “What happened?”
Kagome looked at her with eyes red from crying. “You remember Tomi, mama?”
“Oh no. Tomi came back didn't she?” She felt her heart starting to break for her daughter.
“Kind of.”
That one really puzzled her. “What do you mean?”
A bitter smile crossed Kagome's face. “Tomi wasn't her real name.”
“What was her real name?”
“Kagome. Her real name is Kagome. It's me, mom. I'm Tomi.”
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Ms. H's hands shook as she lifted the teacup to her lips. Kagome's story effected her more than she thought it would. If fate had had its way, Kagome would have died the previous night.
She should have died that night. She had died that night. Ms. H had felt ill when Kagome told her how she died in her past life.
Time travel was a tricky thing and so were souls. Kagome had died and been reincarnated into herself. How? No one could even begin to guess.
Fate obviously had something else in store for her than to have her be murdered after being raped by the monster, Naraku.
“You know that boy would rather cut off his own arm than hurt, Kagome, right?” Grandpa looked at his daughter. As much of a quack as everyone thought Grandpa was, he actually knew much about demon mating.
“I know that, father, but the fact is that he did. He hit Kagome. Whether he meant to be cruel or not, that betrayal will always stand between them. Like the scars on her face, that will never go away.”
“I believe I know what his problem is.”
“What is his problem?”
“All humanoid creatures,” he began, but thought of the man he knew of as Naraku. “Most human like creatures have three sides to them. The reasonable side, the primitive side, and the part somewhere in the middle. I have heard through legends that half demons have problems controlling these sides of their personality. More so than a human or demon.”
“Why?”
“Because when it comes to a human or demon their two polar sides look at the way things work in their worlds. This means that the human's reasonable side will think of things in human terms, and the primitive side will do the same. That applies to demons. But when you get a creature that is both human and demon, problems are caused. The half demons reasonable side, usually the human side, will judge things from a human perspective, but the primitive side, which is usually demon, will look at things from a demon perspective. That's why most half demon's talk to themselves.”
“Inuyasha talks to himself. I've heard him.” Ms. H said.
“Kagome told you that she is Tomi, right?”
“That's right.”
“Inuyasha's reasonable side would tell him that there is no way Kagome could be his mate, because his mate had died fifty years earlier, and Kagome is from five hundred years in the future. His primitive side would instantly recognize her by scent, thus creating an internal struggle in the boy that would slowly drive him insane.”
“Mom,” Kagome stood in the doorway wearing a pink tee shirt and a pair of khaki pants. Her face was pale with dark circles under her eyes. She looked like she needed to sleep for a few days.
Both people at the table looked up at the woman in the doorway. She limped slightly as she pulled out a chair and sat in at the table. “What is it Kagome?”
“I told you before that Inuyasha didn't claim Tomi as his mate.” She began. “But this time.” She pulled her collar from her skin and showed them the mark on her.
Kagome's grandfather jumped to his feet, knocking the chair to the floor with a crash. “That mark! That mark means…”
All three turned to the sliding door when it was thrown open so violently it nearly flew off the track. The wild, panicked looking half demon ran into the kitchen. “What happened?”
“Grandfather knocked over the chair.” Ms. H told him.
His ears drooped slightly as he looked guiltily at the three people in the room with a blush spreading across his cheeks. “I'm sorry…I thought…”
“Inuyasha, sit down,” Ms. Higurashi motioned to the chair next to her and quickly stood up to prepare the exhausted couple something to eat. She sat a can of soda in front of each of them.
“Thanks mom,” Kagome said.
“Thanks.” Inuyasha looked so nervous that he could bolt at any second.
“Why didn't you tell us that you are a spiritual half demon?” Grandpa asked Inuyasha.
Inuyasha didn't look up at his fiddled with the pop tab. Kagome had always opened the soda for him, but he wasn't going to ask her to now. For whatever reason, he couldn't maneuver his claw under the tab enough to open it. Unknown to him, he had begun to growl, causing all the humans to stare at him. “Huh?” He looked up to see them all staring at him. His face turned redder than his fire rat clothing.
Kagome reached across the table and slipped the can from his hands and into hers. She flicked the tab open and handed it back to him. “Here.” She smiled at him.
“Thanks.” He didn't smile, but his voice was softer than it had been for a while.
“Why didn't you tell us that you have spiritual powers?” Grandpa asked again.
“Because it wasn't any of your business, old man. Besides, would it have even mattered if I told you my mother was a priestess? I still have the blood of a demon in me.” His voice was bitter as he studied the can.
“Inuyasha, it doesn't matter because you are still you.” Kagome grabbed his hand across the table. She had been thinking about what grandpa had said about why Inuyasha talked to himself. She had felt how aroused he had been when she was sitting on his lap. Maybe he had been talking to himself when shouted at her. Maybe he had been afraid that he would hurt her, or do something she didn't want.
She had seen the hurt on his face earlier and realized in that instant that he was much easier to break than she was. He took everything personal, didn't forgive easily, and seldom gave out his trust and affection. He had to be going through a lot. She knew the spiritual powers had over taken him, memories had slammed into him, and he was trying to fight the feelings of betrayal he had felt about Tomi leaving him, and everything else that had happened had to overwhelm him.
He gave her a shy, curious smile and squeezed her hand.
Ms. Higurashi sighed. Now that Inuyasha had just calmed down, it was time to rile him up again. She didn't really want to, but knew the shift in conversation she was going to invoke would. “So, that mark means that you two are mated. Have you had sex yet?” She asked bluntly. After all that had happened, she saw no reason to sugar coat it.
Kagome and Inuyasha's face turned the same shade of red as they gaped at her. Grandfather hurried from the room faster than anyone had even seen him, but none of them paid any attention. The two couldn't even answer and just shook their heads no.
“Kagome, you need to start taking the birth control again.”
She nodded. She had been taking it since she was sixteen just in case. She had missed the past month's dose and needed to start taking them again.
“What's birth control?” Inuyasha's eyes were suddenly suspicious once again.
“It…uh...ur…” Kagome stuttered.
Ms. H sighed. `At least he's dependable.' “Birth control is something that can keep Kagome from getting pregnant.”
“You don't want her to have my pup? Is that it?”
“Inuyasha, do you think that it would be good for Kagome to get pregnant before you defeat this Naraku guy?” Ms. H reasoned.
“Keh!” He leaned back in the chair and crossed his arms over his chest. “Of course not.”
Ms. H left the two at the table as she began to scoop them each a bowl of ramen. She sat it down in front of them and watched as they began to eat. They both ate in silence, both thinking about what they would do now. Things had forever changed. They both knew that without a doubt.
Kagome yawned as she finished. “Are you tired?” Inuyasha asked.
`Duh,' she thought, but didn't dare tell him that. “Very tired.”
She was shocked when he pulled her from the chair and lifted her into his arms. “What are you doing?”
“Your ankle's hurt. You can't walk on it and you're tired, so I'm taking you to your room.”
“Don't worry, Kagome. I`ll wake the two of you up for dinner.”
“Can we have steak?” Inuyasha whirled around, making Kagome slightly sick to her stomach.
Ms. H laughed. “Of course we can Inuyasha.”
He spun back around and ran to her room. He laid her down on her bed. “Inuyasha, lay with me.”
“No. I can't Kagome. I'm sorry.” He stood next to the bed and looked down at her.
“I can't sleep with you staring at me like that. Come on, we'll both be dressed.”
“Fine. If it'll get you to go to sleep.” He crawled onto the bed and had to lay on his side with his back facing her.
She waited a few moments before she said his name. A soft smile curled her lips when she realized he was already asleep. A few moments later, she followed him into dream world.
Later that day, Ms. H was putting some towel in the closet when she noticed her father peaking into Kagome's room. “What are you doing?”
He waved her toward him and she peaked into the room. The sight she saw made her smile. Shooing grandpa from the door, she softly closed the door. It was time to prepare dinner and leave the two alone to let them sleep.
She still smiled as she thought about the sight she had seen.
Inuyasha had rolled over and his arms were securely wrapped around Kagome's waist. Her arms were crossed over his with her hands holding onto his forearms. Both of them were totally at peace in each others arms.
She should have died that night. She had died that night. Ms. H had felt ill when Kagome told her how she died in her past life.
Time travel was a tricky thing and so were souls. Kagome had died and been reincarnated into herself. How? No one could even begin to guess.
Fate obviously had something else in store for her than to have her be murdered after being raped by the monster, Naraku.
“You know that boy would rather cut off his own arm than hurt, Kagome, right?” Grandpa looked at his daughter. As much of a quack as everyone thought Grandpa was, he actually knew much about demon mating.
“I know that, father, but the fact is that he did. He hit Kagome. Whether he meant to be cruel or not, that betrayal will always stand between them. Like the scars on her face, that will never go away.”
“I believe I know what his problem is.”
“What is his problem?”
“All humanoid creatures,” he began, but thought of the man he knew of as Naraku. “Most human like creatures have three sides to them. The reasonable side, the primitive side, and the part somewhere in the middle. I have heard through legends that half demons have problems controlling these sides of their personality. More so than a human or demon.”
“Why?”
“Because when it comes to a human or demon their two polar sides look at the way things work in their worlds. This means that the human's reasonable side will think of things in human terms, and the primitive side will do the same. That applies to demons. But when you get a creature that is both human and demon, problems are caused. The half demons reasonable side, usually the human side, will judge things from a human perspective, but the primitive side, which is usually demon, will look at things from a demon perspective. That's why most half demon's talk to themselves.”
“Inuyasha talks to himself. I've heard him.” Ms. H said.
“Kagome told you that she is Tomi, right?”
“That's right.”
“Inuyasha's reasonable side would tell him that there is no way Kagome could be his mate, because his mate had died fifty years earlier, and Kagome is from five hundred years in the future. His primitive side would instantly recognize her by scent, thus creating an internal struggle in the boy that would slowly drive him insane.”
“Mom,” Kagome stood in the doorway wearing a pink tee shirt and a pair of khaki pants. Her face was pale with dark circles under her eyes. She looked like she needed to sleep for a few days.
Both people at the table looked up at the woman in the doorway. She limped slightly as she pulled out a chair and sat in at the table. “What is it Kagome?”
“I told you before that Inuyasha didn't claim Tomi as his mate.” She began. “But this time.” She pulled her collar from her skin and showed them the mark on her.
Kagome's grandfather jumped to his feet, knocking the chair to the floor with a crash. “That mark! That mark means…”
All three turned to the sliding door when it was thrown open so violently it nearly flew off the track. The wild, panicked looking half demon ran into the kitchen. “What happened?”
“Grandfather knocked over the chair.” Ms. H told him.
His ears drooped slightly as he looked guiltily at the three people in the room with a blush spreading across his cheeks. “I'm sorry…I thought…”
“Inuyasha, sit down,” Ms. Higurashi motioned to the chair next to her and quickly stood up to prepare the exhausted couple something to eat. She sat a can of soda in front of each of them.
“Thanks mom,” Kagome said.
“Thanks.” Inuyasha looked so nervous that he could bolt at any second.
“Why didn't you tell us that you are a spiritual half demon?” Grandpa asked Inuyasha.
Inuyasha didn't look up at his fiddled with the pop tab. Kagome had always opened the soda for him, but he wasn't going to ask her to now. For whatever reason, he couldn't maneuver his claw under the tab enough to open it. Unknown to him, he had begun to growl, causing all the humans to stare at him. “Huh?” He looked up to see them all staring at him. His face turned redder than his fire rat clothing.
Kagome reached across the table and slipped the can from his hands and into hers. She flicked the tab open and handed it back to him. “Here.” She smiled at him.
“Thanks.” He didn't smile, but his voice was softer than it had been for a while.
“Why didn't you tell us that you have spiritual powers?” Grandpa asked again.
“Because it wasn't any of your business, old man. Besides, would it have even mattered if I told you my mother was a priestess? I still have the blood of a demon in me.” His voice was bitter as he studied the can.
“Inuyasha, it doesn't matter because you are still you.” Kagome grabbed his hand across the table. She had been thinking about what grandpa had said about why Inuyasha talked to himself. She had felt how aroused he had been when she was sitting on his lap. Maybe he had been talking to himself when shouted at her. Maybe he had been afraid that he would hurt her, or do something she didn't want.
She had seen the hurt on his face earlier and realized in that instant that he was much easier to break than she was. He took everything personal, didn't forgive easily, and seldom gave out his trust and affection. He had to be going through a lot. She knew the spiritual powers had over taken him, memories had slammed into him, and he was trying to fight the feelings of betrayal he had felt about Tomi leaving him, and everything else that had happened had to overwhelm him.
He gave her a shy, curious smile and squeezed her hand.
Ms. Higurashi sighed. Now that Inuyasha had just calmed down, it was time to rile him up again. She didn't really want to, but knew the shift in conversation she was going to invoke would. “So, that mark means that you two are mated. Have you had sex yet?” She asked bluntly. After all that had happened, she saw no reason to sugar coat it.
Kagome and Inuyasha's face turned the same shade of red as they gaped at her. Grandfather hurried from the room faster than anyone had even seen him, but none of them paid any attention. The two couldn't even answer and just shook their heads no.
“Kagome, you need to start taking the birth control again.”
She nodded. She had been taking it since she was sixteen just in case. She had missed the past month's dose and needed to start taking them again.
“What's birth control?” Inuyasha's eyes were suddenly suspicious once again.
“It…uh...ur…” Kagome stuttered.
Ms. H sighed. `At least he's dependable.' “Birth control is something that can keep Kagome from getting pregnant.”
“You don't want her to have my pup? Is that it?”
“Inuyasha, do you think that it would be good for Kagome to get pregnant before you defeat this Naraku guy?” Ms. H reasoned.
“Keh!” He leaned back in the chair and crossed his arms over his chest. “Of course not.”
Ms. H left the two at the table as she began to scoop them each a bowl of ramen. She sat it down in front of them and watched as they began to eat. They both ate in silence, both thinking about what they would do now. Things had forever changed. They both knew that without a doubt.
Kagome yawned as she finished. “Are you tired?” Inuyasha asked.
`Duh,' she thought, but didn't dare tell him that. “Very tired.”
She was shocked when he pulled her from the chair and lifted her into his arms. “What are you doing?”
“Your ankle's hurt. You can't walk on it and you're tired, so I'm taking you to your room.”
“Don't worry, Kagome. I`ll wake the two of you up for dinner.”
“Can we have steak?” Inuyasha whirled around, making Kagome slightly sick to her stomach.
Ms. H laughed. “Of course we can Inuyasha.”
He spun back around and ran to her room. He laid her down on her bed. “Inuyasha, lay with me.”
“No. I can't Kagome. I'm sorry.” He stood next to the bed and looked down at her.
“I can't sleep with you staring at me like that. Come on, we'll both be dressed.”
“Fine. If it'll get you to go to sleep.” He crawled onto the bed and had to lay on his side with his back facing her.
She waited a few moments before she said his name. A soft smile curled her lips when she realized he was already asleep. A few moments later, she followed him into dream world.
Later that day, Ms. H was putting some towel in the closet when she noticed her father peaking into Kagome's room. “What are you doing?”
He waved her toward him and she peaked into the room. The sight she saw made her smile. Shooing grandpa from the door, she softly closed the door. It was time to prepare dinner and leave the two alone to let them sleep.
She still smiled as she thought about the sight she had seen.
Inuyasha had rolled over and his arms were securely wrapped around Kagome's waist. Her arms were crossed over his with her hands holding onto his forearms. Both of them were totally at peace in each others arms.