InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cursed ❯ Day Three Hundred Thirty ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter Seventeen - Day Three Hundred Thirty

 

“Ahhh!” Takana moaned out loudly. This was becoming quite a habit lately. They had been lovers for several months now and the precedent she'd set had stayed in place as they most often made love in the mornings. That wasn't to say that they didn't engage in the carnal activity at other times of the day as well but mornings were definitely a consistent time.

 

In the beginning, she had always been the one to initiate their love making after a few weeks, Shin began drop not too subtle hints. The first time he'd initiated was right in the middle of one of her training sessions. He'd been trying to teach her a more advanced move that involved brushing off an attackers grip and using their weight and momentum to throw them off balance and to the ground. She struggled with doing it correctly and was still struggling with it after several missed attempts. To this day, she wasn't sure what had set him off after unsuccessfully throwing him away from her, he followed through with his grab, spun her around so that her back was pressed up against his chest and latched his mouth to her neck. Things had gotten completely out of hand after that. Soon she was on her back with her skirt hoisted up around her waist and a very lusty Shin between her thighs doing ungodly pleasurable things to her, causing her to cry out his name repeatedly.

 

Since then, he seemed to have no problems letting her know when he wanted her. Sometimes she would sense the tension behind his desire and he would purposefully draw it out or sometimes he would literally attack her unexpectedly. She always accepted his advances with one exception and one that had actually caused her a great deal of embarrassment.

 

One night when they had both decided to go to bed, Shin slipped in next to her as they had decided after the first few weeks of being intimate with one another that they might as well sleep together as well, and began to lightly kiss the side of her neck. His tell tale sign that he wanted her. She could still see the confusion in his normally stoic features when she had pushed him away. She didn't want to tell him why she didn't want to do that but he'd asked.

 

“Have I done something to displease you?” He'd asked. Though his voice held no worry within his slightly furrowed brow gave him away.

 

“No.” She'd said quickly, trying to immediately calm his worries. “It's just...” She trailed off and looked away feeling the heat rise to her cheeks.

 

“Just?” He prompted turning her to face him.

 

She fidgeted under his scrutiny and finally let out a slightly exasperated sigh. “I'm not clean right now.” She looked at him and saw that the furrow in his brow only deepened. She knew that she would have to elaborate even though she desperately didn't want to. How many months had she been able to go through this without him even knowing about it and now she was going to have to spell it out for him. Suddenly she found herself wishing that they hadn't become intimate but the moment she thought it, she knew it was a hollow wish. “It's my monthly time.”

 

“Time for what?” His brow maintained the same look.

 

Now she was actually annoyed. Was he being dense on purpose to make her feel foolish? “When I bleed.” She huffed out and pulled herself out of his grasp. She didn't feel like being that close to him right now and suddenly wanted some tea. There was some left in the kettle by the fire so she decided to get away from him by busying herself with that.

 

Even after she'd gotten up and moved away from him, he'd still not understood until it dawned on him. Human females and their monthly breeding schedules, he'd completely forgotten about that until now. After all, it hadn't been a fact he'd ever needed to remember. Inuyoukai bitches tended to one go through that a few times a year at most but humans maintained a much more rigid and regular schedule. Then he did something he hadn't done in decades. He laughed.

 

Wrong move.

 

The other thing he remembered hearing about human females and this process was that they tended to have more potential to become a lot less rational during these times. Unfortunately for him, Takana did not take his small demonstration of mirth for the truly rare moment it was and instead took it for something else entirely. Only moments after letting loose the small chuckle, a small, empty wooden cup came very close to connecting with his skull. His eyes snapped up to meet her livid ones.

 

“There's nothing funny about it.” She said in a deadly and embarrassed tone.

 

“I didn't say there was.” He replied evenly.

 

“Then why would you laugh?” She questioned indignantly.

 

He stopped for a moment. He really couldn't tell her what he'd found amusing without tell her some rather sensitive information that he wasn't prepared to tell her yet so thinking quickly, he came up with another plausible excuse. “I still can't remember my name let alone the physical workings of the female body. I was just surprised that I had forgotten.” It wasn't very good but he was not an[Author ID1: at Mon Jun 26 08:16:00 2006 ] adept liar and it was the best he could do on such short notice.

 

Her unstable emotional state became even more apparent when he actually saw the rage flood out of her eyes replace just as quickly as it left by self reproach. She quickly set the kettle down and scurried over to his still sitting form. “I'm sorry. I just...I don't like talking about it and I thought you were making fun of me.” She finished her statement as she sat next to him.

 

He held in his sigh of relief that his words had been sufficient to calm her. “There is nothing for you to apologize for. I should have controlled myself better.” When he saw her smile, he knew all was well again. “If such activities make you uncomfortable now, just let me know when they will no longer.”

 

She had nodded her head in agreement and then decided that she really didn't want any tea.

 

 

Ever since that night, if she ever pushed his advances away, he immediately relented without a word, fully understanding the situation. This morning, she had not pushed his advances away and was in fact the one responsible for it all. His forehead was pressed against hers, his breathe coming in quick pants as he spent himself inside of her. They stayed locked like that for several long moments before she kissed him, signaling the end of their coupling for the morning. He rose, handed her a small cloth with which to clean herself and pulling on pants went to the fire pit to stock the low fire for the morning tea.

 

She watched him as he did this. It was a ritual that had been adopted soon after she came to him. If they coupled in the morning, he prepared the tea, if not, she did. She recalled once again the time she'd turned him away and it made her think. While he busied himself with tea, she threw her robe over her shoulders and walked to the area she used to carve. There, among the many projects she had in progress at the moment, was a stick with many small notches on it. She counted up the marks and frowned. She did it again to double check but her count had been correct the first time. There were too many notches. She should have been able to throw this stick away and she should not have started their amorous fun upon waking. She counted a third time but she already knew. She'd missed her time. Maybe she was late but she was never late.

 

“Tea?” She heard his voice and spun to face him as though he had caught her doing something she ought not to be. She saw the puzzled look on his face but before he could ask if she was alright, she quickly set the stick down and got up.

 

“Of course.” She put on a smile and took the steaming cup from his hands.

 

Sesshoumaru eyed her critically for a moment longer before turning to pour his own cup. He suddenly had the feeling that they were both keeping something from one another. He didn't press her as he was sure she would tell him if need be. After all, who would he be to complain? He of all people knew how important it was to keep some things quiet.

 

AN: Very sorry for no review responses this time but it took so long that I wanted to get it posted instead of making you all wait even longer.