InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Deep within lies the truth ❯ I'll never lie ( Chapter 4 )

His eyes snapped open. He looked around nervously, noticing that he was at the base of the god tree? His mind was fuzzy with mental pictures all a blur, the only clear thing he could remember correctly was stomping into Kaede's hut and eating the ramen she'd given him.

Rubbing the sleep from his eyes he felt somewhat sore, like he'd been supporting his weight all night long, and also noticed that his legs were having that weird numb feeling when you're foot falls asleep (you know, right before it gets all tingly and annoying?). he blinked as he stretched his arms over his head and immediately noticed that more weight was being added to his legs.

He looked down and paled to a ghostly white. Kagome snuggled up against his chest, his fire rat haori wrapped snuggly around her in a makeshift shirt. He stared openly at her, his jaw dropped. Sniffing her he paled even more. His smell was all over her, and-

Inside her.

He cursed himself as the memories of their lovemaking came back to him slowly and agonizing, as if he were witnessing it from another point of view. He saw himself on top her, and her sweaty intoxicating body beneath him, thrashing from side to side while she screamed and moaned his name.

He blushed at the intimacy the two shared. What the hell had he been thinking? Standing up her glared down at her, nudging Kagome with his foot he snarled, "Get up."

Kagome moaned as she awakened from her dream. The dream had been soft and sweet, a pure fluffy moment between her and Inu-yasha, a gentle nudging was soon acknowledged as her dream slowly slipped away to darkness and the morning's sun peaked through the heavy branches of the god tree.

She yawned, stretched and looked up to see Inu-yasha glaring down at her. She gulped suddenly; she DID NOT like the look he was giving her. He was in a classic Inu-yasha position. His arms crossed on his chest, his legs pressed together making his hakama crinkle slightly, his eyebrows turned downwards in a classic annoyed expression. His eyes were flashing, and his mouth was turned downward in a rough and intimidating scowl. His hair was slightly messy and his face was smeared with something that did not come from the ground. She unconsciously wrapped the haori around her middle, hiding everything from his deep glare.

Kagome stood up slowly, her eyes glazed over in confusion as she looked at Inu-yasha, who was glaring at her with his hard eyes. She continued to look at him, interlocking her fingers together and clasping her palms, placing them firmly in front of her. She couldn't keep looking at him; turning away she looked at the ground they'd both been previously making love on not so long ago. The grass was bent down, leaving an indent of where their two bodies had resided. She felt tears prickling the sides of her eyes, Inu- yasha regretted didn't he?

"What the hell happened Kagome?" Inu-yasha's growl penetrated the awkward silence, but only succeed in making it even more uncomfortable. She fidgeted slightly, adding her weight on one foot and then switching to the next one. She felt a blush rising to her cheeks as she cleared her throat a few times, still not making eye contact with him. "God damn it, Kagome."

Kagome looked up at him then, but his icy glare only made her blood run cold, made her heart feel dead. He snarled slightly and punched the god tree, causing it to shake and make little leaves fall from its large limbs, they fell around her like snow on a winter day, but she didn't have time to ogle at its beauty, she was locked in Inu-yasha's glare.

"Inu-yasha," she finally whispered, her voice cracking with grief, and still slightly hoarse from screaming his name. "Inu-yasha..."

"God damn it bitch," that stung, that hurt her more than she liked to admit. He turned away from her staring at the ground, "Just pretend it never happened."

He walked away then, leaving her alone, clutching his haori and watching him walk away without a second glance, walk away from her love, walk away from what they'd done together.

Did he hate her that much?

Did he use her?

Breaking down at last, Kagome allowed the tears to fall freely as she collapsed to her knees and held her face in her hands, cursing the gods for being so cruel to her. She'd given her first time to a man who didn't want her in that way. If he didn't want her like that, why'd he have to steal her virginity, and her heart?

***

Inu-yasha stormed into the forest. What had he done? WHAT HAD HE DONE? He banged his head against the tree for his own stupidity, why? Why? WHY DAMN IT!?

He growled deep within his throat. He collapsed to the ground and looked at the sky, his dark glare challenging the sun to shine in his eyes. Which it did, what's a hanyou going to do about it?

He heard someone walking in the thicket, he already knew who it was, it wasn't hard to mistake that wonderfully beautiful scent that now had him mixed in with it, his musty pine scent only a small indention to her original scent. He stood up quickly and watched as Kagome emerged from a bush.

She looked depressed, her eyes dead and watery, showing that she'd recently cried. Her cheeks were a deep red and had dried tear trails on them and her bottom lip was quivering. Damn it, he hated it when she looked like this, when she was sad. But this, by far, nearly ripped him apart, just looking upon her face, sadder than she'd ever seen it before, it hurt him.

He covered up his hurt, however, with a deep and painfully pissed off glare at her. "What do you want?" he snapped at her.

She took a step towards him, reaching out to him. Her hand was inches away from his face when she pulled it back, getting second thoughts and grasping her hand like his skin had burned her before she touched him, like you could burn yourself without touching the fire.

She looked at her bare feet, her long skinny legs displayed underneath the haori she still wore, him having ripped her clothes like the baka he is, and still is.

She then looked up at him, fixing a glare at him and her hands were clenched. "Inu-yasha! You have the nerve to do something of that intimacy with me then leave me?"

Inu-yasha said nothing, his glare faltering a little.

"SIT!"

How did he know that was coming? Sighing he slammed the ground, but didn't yell out, he had deserved it after all.

She squatted in front of him, her eyes pained and tears slipping down her cheeks, "Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you feed me those pack of lies? Why did you say you loved me when you obviously didn't mean it!? You used me, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?" she couldn't control the sobs any longer; she was usually a strong woman, allowing barely anything to make her cry. But now, without her virginity, her innocence, her first time, taken away from a man who she thought loved her, she suddenly felt weak and helpless. He was hanyou, a strong powerful hanyou, who could take her again right here if he wanted to.

"NO!" his voice rose above her thoughts and her sobs, she looked up to realize Inu-yasha had stood, a pained look in his eyes, "I would never use you like that Kagome!"

"Then why-"

He silenced her with a kiss, it was gentle and chaste, his lips pressed tenderly to her own soft lips as tears continued to run down her cheeks, she was too sore to push him away, their lovemaking still having an effect on her.

"In-Inu yasha," she whispered breathless when he pulled away.

He looked at the ground, "I'm sorry Kagome, I don't know what happened. When saw you like this." He motioned to her haori-clad body, "I felt so much guilt, I didn't want to mate with you-"

Kagome sniffed and turned away.

"-Yet," he finished. Kagome blinked in surprise and turned to Inu-yasha to elucidate what he'd just said.

Inu-yasha looked away from her, his angry look was concentrated on a tree next to him. The fact that he'd just said that was annoying him to no end.

Kagome looked at him, that small twinge of hope was dead within seconds when he said nothing; she turned away, and said sadly, "I should go back to my time and get some clothes, ne? That way, if you work fast, you can get my smell off your haori."

Inu-yasha felt a pang of guilt run through him as he shot out and grabbed her shoulder, spinning her around he kissed her again, ignoring Kagome's futile attempts to push him away.

He pulled away and looked at her sadly, "I was afraid." He said quietly.

Kagome looked at him with a mystified look. A blush stained her cheeks, which surprised Inu-yasha, considering what they'd been doing last night.

"Look, Kagome," Inu-yasha said softly picking up her chin and looking at her, his claws caressing her delicate skin. He sighed, collecting his thoughts for the right thing to say, he did not want to screw this up.

"I..." he turned away, blushing softly, "I was afraid, afraid you wouldn't except me."

Kagome looked at him sadly.

"Since I'm a hanyou, why would you want me," he laughed bitterly, recalling a distant memory he wasn't about to share with Kagome, not yet, anyway, "and, so, it delayed my mating with you."

He looked away, "if I'd been thinking straight, I wouldn't have mated with you last night."

Kagome looked utterly crestfallen to put it lightly and she quickly willed the tears to not fall.

"Don't get me wrong Kagome," Inu-yasha gripped her shoulders and gave her a small shake, looking her in the eyes and wiping away stray tears, "I didn't regret anything I did."

Kagome gave him a small smile to show that she understood, and was listening to his explanation, silently telling him to go on.

"After all that's happened in my life, because of being a hanyou I thought- "

"-That I wouldn't accept you," Kagome whispered, realization dawning on her as she threw her arms around the hanyou and hugged him tight to her, "Oh Inu-yasha, you should know that I love you, I love every thing about you!"

Inu-yasha tentatively hugged her back, relief overflowing him and it showing in his eyes.

He hugged her tighter to him, crushing her petite body to his firm and toned one as he ran his fingers through her hair, savoring her as if she'd disappear from him at any time.

"It's not that," he whispered his breath caught in his throat, releasing her he looked sadly in her eyes, "Do you know what I've done to you?'

Kagome gave him a dry look, "Yeah, you made me your mate and-"

"Exactly!" Inu-yasha said throwing his hands up in the air, "Don't you know what will happen now?" with Kagome's look of confusion he turned away. "Now all my enemies will have something against me. They'll be able to smell me within you; they'll all know you're my mate! Naraku, Kouga, Sesshoumaru. They'll all come after YOU!" Kagome gasped loudly. "They'll come after you to get to me! They'll use you against me, if you die now, you'd be killing two lives!"

Kagome blushed when Inu-yasha made a point to look at her stomach and back at her eyes. "Now if Naraku were to catch you, he could use you now more than he ever could before. That's why I wanted to wait to mate you, wait until Naraku was dead."

Kagome looked at her feet, feeling guilty.

Inu-yasha smiled sadly and cradled her to him, "It's ok, Kagome, now that you're my mate and you're carrying our child, I'll be sure to protect you all the more."

"You better not throw me in the well," Kagome said crossly.

Inu-yasha chuckled, "I promise that I won't."

Kagome smiled gratefully and leaned into his embrace, "I love you."

Inu-yasha smirked his traditional inu-yasha look, he said smugly, "Oh course you do!"

Kagome pulled back and glared at him, leave it up to him to ruin a moment, he'll never fail you.

"What's with the look? It's only obvious that you love me. I'm the first one you saw when you when through the well, the first person you met." His smug smile grew larger, "and we were forced to work together, it's suppose to work that way."

Kagome smiled, "and you love me because I'm the one that brought you back."

Inu-yasha nodded, "and taught me how to love again."

Kagome kissed him softly on the lips, savoring his taste and he nuzzled her neck playfully.

***

Sango and Miroku sat in Kaede's hut dumbly. They were going to go out and search for Kagome and Inu-yasha last night but an inhumane howl last night had spooked Sango terribly and he, being the perfect little gentleman (*cough*) had stayed to comfort her. Resulting in at least ten slaps.

Kaede sighed at their child like behavior and began to leave the hut, "I have some patients I need to see, Shippou is sleeping by the stove, don't let his tail burn."

The two nodded and Kaede strolled out.

Sango and Miroku weren't waiting ten minutes when Inu-yasha and Kagome came in. Inu-yasha looked like he slept on the ground, he had bits of bark in his hair, and some unknown substance on his face, he was also missing his outer haori. Kagome, they soon realized, was wearing his haori, and looked as sleepy as the hanyou. She blushed softly when she saw her friends and smiled at Sango.

"Sango-Chan? Do you have an extra kimono I can borrow?"

"Oh course, Kagome-Chan, lets go to the hot springs, shall we?" Sango asked, picking up two kimonos, one for her and the other for Kagome. Sango smirked; she had some questions she needed to ask her best friend.

Kagome smiled at the hanyou before leaving the hut, "I'll give this back soon, Inu-yasha."

Inu-yasha nodded, looking bored as he slumped against the wall, not making eye contact with the monk.

Miroku grinned evilly and stood up; trying to look casual he strolled over to the hanyou. The hanyou, whose eyes were closed moment's before, cracked one molten gold eye and glared dangerously at him. "Watch it monk."

Miroku feigned innocence as he sat next to the hanyou, and then he chuckled, "How was it Inu-yasha?'

***

Kagome looked up right before she was going to slip into the hot spring, "did you hear something?"

Sango paused as well, "Yeah it sounded like someone was screaming in pain."

The two girls looked at each other with the same look, "Miroku."

Kagome and Sango cracked up as Kagome pulled out some soap, cleaning her face. Sango, noticing Kagome had some dried white substance on her legs before slipping into the water, gained an enlightened look.

Kagome glanced up and saw the look Sango had and she blanched. "Sango- Chan?"

"Kagome-Chan, where were you and Inu-yasha last night?" Sango asked, looking innocent. She grinned when Kagome blushed a dark crimson.

"AH HA! So something did happen!" Sango screeched in victory, grinning from ear to ear.

Kagome nodded and explained the night's events in little detail, not wanting to share with Sango the intensity that they shared, she also left out the argument they had the next morning.

***

Miroku smiled, having finally squeezed the story from Inu-yasha, which was only a measly 'we had sex' strolled along the path to the hot springs ("You even look at Kagome I'll kill you") he smirked ("No wait, get back here I don't trust you!") Miroku ignored the screaming coming from his hanyou friend until he felt himself being picked up and kicked into the hut by a pissed off Inu demi-youkai.

The hanyou snarled and sat down with a 'feh'.

The ladies soon returned and Miroku cursed his bad luck ("serves you right") all three of his companions said at the same time and Sango hit him in the head her weapon.

Kaede, who'd returned without anyone's knowledge glanced at the hanyou 'I suppose the potion wore off' she smirked, 'maybe I should tell him?'

She watched the four.

'Nah.'

She collected the herbs, however and looked back at Sango and Miroku, smirking she thought to her self, 'I need to make more observations for my potion, since inu-yasha disappeared, they'll do nicely.'

She smirked again; this was such a good week for her.

|The End|

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Oh boy, feel the pain for Sango and Miroku.

See I told you this would be a short story, well, so long thanks to everyone who reviewed! And to those who didn't *glare* ^_^ but thanks for reading!