InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Demon Eyes ❯ Past and Present ( Chapter 4 )

Demon Eyes

By LoupeyLady

Disclaimer: I am a very, very poor college student. I own nothing. I am unoriginal. I am just playing with Rumiko Takahashi's creations. (wistful sigh) I really wouldn't mind a rent-to-own deal with Kouga or Sesshoumaru, though!

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Chapter Four: Past and Present

Later that evening, Inu Yasha stared up at the sky. A small fire was flickering a few feet away, casting dancing shadows around the clearing. A light purr brought his eyes down to the woman snuggled up in his lap. She was wrapped up in his haori, her small nails gently kneading his chest in her sleep.

"If I didn't know better I'd swear she was a neko youkai," he thought with a smirk, and smoothed a raven lock of hair out of her face. Her human ears were gone now, no longer holding back the strands.

After his transformation, Inu Yasha had been surprised to find that his puppy ears hadn't become pointed humanesque ears like his brother's. Kagome also looked more like an inu hanyou than a full youkai. When he had asked her about it, Kagome had just shrugged and told him that whenever his blood had taken over the only things to outwardly change were his eyes, nails, and markings.

Inu Yasha looked back up at the sky, watching the moonless expanse through the shield, no longer encumbered by his human eyes. "She did this," he thought to himself, gazing back down on his mate. "I'll never have another human night again… and neither will she."

Inu Yasha sighed, and lightly fingered the Shikon shards hanging around her neck. Whenever he had gone into her time, Kagome had been terrified that he would be noticed. Now, with facial markings and her own set of ears, Kagome would never be able to fit back in.

A few weeks ago he had finally worked up the courage to talk to Myouga about youkai rituals and mating. The ancient flea demon told him the basics, but Inu Yasha had never thought that it would happen so quickly, or even at all.

Jewel shards had been getting harder to find, and the group had been taking time off to train. Kagome had started working with Kaede on her miko powers, and learning to use a sword with Sango. As the group drew closer to Naraku, their battles had been getting more and more intense. The thought brought Inu Yasha out of his reverie. He was going to have a lot more to protect now.

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Author Notes:

Grrr… does anyone else bother looking up Feudal era clothing references or am I just a nerd? Um anyway, so the whole lemon thing seems to be beyond me. If someone wants to write them I'll stick them in and give the author full credit! Help? Please? On a side note, all suggestions and comments are wonderful things… I don't have much of a plan, so if there's something you want to see, tell me about it!