InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Divine ❯ Chapter Eleven ( Chapter 11 )

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Divine

Chapter Eleven

"You may conquer with the sword,

but you are conquered by a kiss."

-Danile Heinsius (1580-1655)

Tuesday marked the beginning of yet another crusade for the Shikon jewel and Naraku. The group set off in the late hours of the morning (because a certain schoolgirl had slept in) and set off down the well traveled roads towards the next rumor. That's the way it was and how it had always been. Nothing very unusual about it.

That had actually been three days ago and a lot of things had gone wrong since then.

On Tuesday, things had begun well… right up until the heavens opened and the group had decided to make a run for cover or else end up looking like a band of drowning rats. They found shelter in an abandoned hut, one of several empty homes lining the stretch of road they were traveling down. But the drowned rat look seemed unavoidable.

"Nice frizz, Inuyasha." Kagome commented as she moved past him to enter the hut behind Sango.

"Not so bad yourself, bitch." Inuyasha was less entranced by Kagome's frizz and more concerned with how nicely her blouse had plastered against her bra clad breasts. Ah… so she was wearing the pink one today?

The hut was, as expected, empty and musty and in need of a good deodorizer. Shippo and Kirara walked around the corners of the one-room house and kicked over the odd upturned cup. "Definitely abandoned in a hurry." The kitsune decided eventually. "Probably raided by a youkai… amphibian by the smell of it."

"Ahh… he's so cute." Kagome prodded her hanyou. "Isn't he Inuyasha? He's like a little Sherlock Holmes!"

"Keh!" Inuyasha folded his arms grumpily. "I could have told you so much before we even arrived."

"It's a bit cold and damp…" Sango stated as she wrung the water from her hair. "But it'll have to do."

"We'll just have to wait here until the rain stops." The resident monk reasoned as he slid down the back wall to sit upon the ground, staff braced over his lap.

Kagome licked her lips and rubbed her hands over her arms to try and chase away the chill. She felt Inuyasha's gaze on her, but when she turned to look at him he jerked his eyes away and became unnaturally interested in his inspection of the floorboards. Kagome, puzzled, glanced down at herself to try and figure out what he'd been looking at.

Her rather pert and visible nipples, by all indications. Heavens! It looked like she'd stuffed peanuts down her bra.

Flushing a deep crimson colour, Kagome clamped her arms over her chest and looked around for a blanket. Upon finding nothing she went to the doorway and peered out into the rain at the other huts. "Guys… I'm just going to check if the other huts have blankets or something." She slipped out past the curtain as she called. "Back in a minute!"

Sango breathed out a frosty cloud of mist. "A blanket would be nice round about now." She shivered.

Miroku's arms opened up. "Then by all means, allow me to help you out with your dilemma, Sango." He grinned at her invitingly.

Sango simply shuffled away an extra inch. "No thank you."

Inuyasha cast a disgruntled look between the crestfallen monk and the open doorway where Kagome had just disappeared. Why was he sitting in here with these sexually frustrated losers when he could get up and follow Kagome and work out a bit of his own sexual tension?

"Uh…" Inuyasha backed toward the door. "I'm just… gonna make sure Kagome doesn't… like… die."

The curtain flapped once and then he was gone.

Miroku caught Sango's eye, nodded his head after the hanyou before making suggestive motions with his pelvis. Sango nodded as she rolled her eyes and went back to stroking Kirara's wet fur.

Scenario #4 : The Blanket Scenario

"Blargh…" Kagome announced as she entered her third hut, now thoroughly soaked to the bone marrow and shivering harder than ever. She paused a moment to rub the rain from her face before peering around the gloomy interior of the latest hut.

It was even leakier and colder in this hut than the others she had visited, and still no blankets…

Perhaps she should have just stayed put?

Two wet, but oh-so warm arms wrapped around her from behind. "Feeling a little chilly?" a low voice purred into her ear, sending instant tremors of warmth down her spine.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome was awfully torn between wanting to melt back against his warmth and the knowledge that their friends were only twenty metres away. "What are you doing?"

"I just needed to touch you again." His nose buried against her neck and his wonderfully warm hands pushed under her blouse to stroke against her stomach. Kagome couldn't help but melt back against him that time. "If I don't have you soon I'm going to explode!"

"That would be embarrassing." The schoolgirl conceded. And I am a little cold… "But what about the others?"

"You'll just have to keep quiet, you kinky little devil." He snickered in her hair and at once began walking her towards the nearest wall. "Now bend over."

Kagome's breath caught in her throat and she hesitated for a moment - only in wonder that she, the innocent Kagome Higurashi, was about to be taking against a wall and from behind, no less - and then leaning with her cheek pressed against the damp boards of the wall.

Her mother had once told her to never let a man disrespect her by making love to her in any dank little holes, against walls, behind dumpsters or any other place that wasn't a bed. Kagome had agreed at the time, thinking that making love was a special activity that only happened between certain hours of the night, only ever in bed and always in the conventional positions. But now… did all that really matter? Did it really matter if the place wasn't all that special, so long as the person with her was special? Did it really make any difference that they weren't lying down in the missionary position?

Inuyasha's hands was running down the outsides of her thighs, praising and marveling at the smoothness of her skin. "Open your legs more." He told her.

Maybe it wasn't romantic, and that was what her mother had objected to. But Kagome had discovered that sex wasn't romantic. It was kinda messy and mindless. So that made it ok, didn't it? That justified the reason why she was allowing him to do these things to her in these kinds of places.

It was just sex.

She felt Inuyasha step forward as his hips pressed against her backside snugly. Something hard prodded against her ass and she giggled. "Is that a katana in your pocket or are you just very pleased to see me in this position?"

"Oh, sorry." Inuyasha pushed Tessaiga out of the way and the pressure left Kagome - much to her surprise.

"You mean that was a katana?" Kagome wiggled slightly, disappointed.

"Yeah… but this ain't."

She heard some rearranging of clothing and she suddenly started as something dangerously hot and moist poked against the underside of her bottom. She stiffened instinctively at the contact and pressed herself away, more into the wall than into Inuyasha.

He was in doubt in an instant. "Are you sure you're up for this?" he asked quickly. "If you're too sore I understand-"

"No - it's not that." Kagome pressed her face into the crook of her elbow to hide her shy smile. "I'm just not used to it yet."

"Well, just relax." He told her, holding himself in one hand while the other reached around in front of her to press gently against her panty covered center. Kagome bit back a gasp and automatically arched into his hand, squeezing her thighs against the sensation. "We'll just take it slowly."

"Not too slowly." Kagome said suddenly. "I don't want Shippo or anyone walking in on us again."

"True." He quickly hooked a thumb over her underwear and dragged them down to her knees. This trapped Kagome's legs together more closely than she would have thought comfortable for sex - but Inuyasha didn't seem to find any problem with this. Kagome's nails bit against the damp wood of the wall as she felt his hot tip prod at her entrance. He used his hand to guide himself in and Kagome felt herself hiss in slight pain as her unaccustomed flesh stretch to host him. But it wasn't as bad as the first time and she tilted her hips to find a better angle and Inuyasha slid in deeper with a lot more ease than before. Something about this alarmed Kagome…

"Oh gods… I could get used to this." Inuyasha's voice was deeper than normal as he rocked his hips against hers, working himself deeper.

She was sure she'd forgotten something…

Then it hit her. "No! Wait! Get out of me!" Kagome began squirming for all she was worth.

"What are you doing?" As nice as the wiggling was, Inuyasha didn't like the fact that she was trying to escape… not that she was having much success with her body pinned between him and a hard place with a pair of underwear shackling her knees together. Inuyasha was happy to just let her try and worm her way out from in front of him.

"You're not wearing a condom!" She ground out. "We can't do this!"

"Urgh - so what?" Inuyasha nearly shivered at the memory of that tight fitting sock that went on his manhood - dulling his sense of feeling and preventing him from being truly one with her. "What's the point anyway?"

"It stops me getting pregnant."

But the thought of Kagome's stomach becoming round with his kids only served to get Inuyasha even harder. Strange, considering he didn't particularly want or need children…

"Isn't there something else to do for that?" he reasoned, remembering something he'd picked up from a village he'd passed through once. Apparently there was something a woman could do with a sponge and a little brine that prevented pregnancy…

"Well, I guess I could always take the pill…" Kagome said thoughtfully, practically oblivious to Inuyasha's penetration of her body or the fact that said Hanyou was having difficulty keeping still. "But there were reports from doctors saying that they decreased intelligence and I don't want to risk that considering I have exams to take. Plus the pill doesn't exactly protect against diseases…"

"Diseases?!" Inuyasha barked suddenly. "Are you saying I'm dirty?!"

"No - I'm just saying we can't be too careful!" she snapped back.

"Well if that's your attitude then maybe I won't fuck you after all!" He declared. "All I have to do is think about Kaede and I can be celibate for at least two years-"

Someone coughed at the other end of the hut. Actually, is was more of a smoker's gurgle, but the effect was the same.

The schoolgirl and the Hanyou both broke away from each other with a yelp and a curse (respectively), and Kagome found herself being pushed behind Inuyasha and into safety as her Hanyou put a hand to the hilt of his sword.

His real sword.

"Who's there?!" he barked, more annoyed at the interruption than anything else. Kagome's face however was simply flaming at the possibility that they'd just been caught doing something they shouldn't.

The cough sounded again, but this time it was accompanied by a few shuffling footsteps until someone or something emerged from the shadows. "Please - no violence." a voice rasped from the corner of the room. "I am only the lowly occupant of this here residence."

"Oh my god!" Kagome peeped over Inuyasha's shoulder. "I - I mean we - didn't mean to barge in here and… do that… in front of you… in your home… oh god… I'm so sorry!"

"Relax Kagome, this isn't his home. He's a squatter." Inuyasha said shrewdly, refusing to remove his hand from Tessaiga's hilt. This was, of course, a youkai not dissimilar to Jaken in appearance - and toads just couldn't be trusted. "Enjoying the show?" he asked with a narrowing of the eyes.

"Oh yes. Very much. Yes." The little toad man clapped webbed fingers together. "You hanyou, yes? Ground hanyou penis fetch very high price as aphrodisiac. Wish to trade?"

Now it was Inuyasha's turn to seek sanctuary behind Kagome's back, quickly tying the knot in his hakama with conviction. "Go to hell!" he yelled around the girl.

"Erm… we better get going…" Kagome said, simultaneously straightening her panties and backing herself and Inuyasha towards the open doorway. "Sorry to bother you."

"No problem! Come again!" The Jaken-look-alike waved after them.

The pair stumbled out into the rain with a certain amount of haste. Kagome slipped in the mud and giggled as she collided into Inuyasha, in turn, sending him stumbling to the side. Kagome looked up at him and he looked down at her, and even though they were both still rather cold and getting even more drenched by the second, they burst out laughing and clung to each others shoulder or else go toppling into the mud.

"Did you see your face!" Inuyasha cheered with barely contained mirth. "You looked so shocked! Was it supposed to be a secret that you're really a kinky bitch?"

Kagome's blush still hadn't faded and she had a hand clasped over her mouth, laughing despite herself. "Shut up! Like I didn't see your face when he suggested you trade in your p-penis!"

"Was that a stutter I heard?" Inuyasha suddenly turned coy. "Does kinky Kagome have a problem with saying dirty words."

"Well unlike those of us with a potty mouth - I'm pure and good." Kagome gave him a pointed look. "If I started making a habit of spewing bad words then how would I ever manage to purify the Shikon no Tama again?"

Inuyasha's smile slipped slightly…

"Are you so sure her powers will remain now that you've fucked her?"

Nah… it was probably nothing. Inuyasha shook himself and forced himself to grin again. Kikyo was probably just trying to psyche him out - get him second-guessing his bond with Kagome. After all, why would she reprimand him about fucking Kagome then all but throw her naked body at him?

"Today doesn't look like our day." Kagome said apologetically, water coursing down her face and throat, slicking her hair against her head and neck. And even though Inuyasha watched the water spilling down the valley of her breasts with a certain degree of longing, he knew he wasn't going to get any today.

Ground hanyou penis was almost as chastising as Kaede's nakedly sagging body. He needed at least a whole twenty four hours to recover from that one, so he didn't argue when Kagome grabbed his hand and led him back towards the hut where Sango and Miroku were located.

Twenty four hours later, and Inuyasha was still having no luck. They'd wound up spending the whole night in the decrepit little hut thanks to the intense rainstorm, and Inuyasha had endured a whole night of staring at Kagome's back, wondering whether or not it would be a wise decision to sidle over, pull her panties down and fulfil his frustration with or without their companions there to watch. Probably not, considering how grouchy Kagome could be when she was awoken prematurely.

So they'd set off in the morning, back on the trail of the next Shikon shard rumour with Inuyasha feeling more irritable and wound-up than ever before.

His mood hadn't improved when they'd run into a little youkai problem. Two rather large youkai problems, in fact.

Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara had gone after the small target, calling to their two remaining comrades that they'd meet again in the next village, before disappearing into the trees after the freighter train sized slug. Inuyasha and Kagome had been left to battle the larger of the two slugs… which normally wouldn't have been a big deal. Except, Kagome kept missing with her arrows and Inuyasha found himself slipping back into his earlier role as protector - the one who scooped the girl out of harm's way whenever a slime ball was shot her way.

"What's the matter with you?" he demanded, noticing that the arrows that impacted on the trees or clattering back down to earth were more or less just ordinary arrows. No pretty sparkles or anything.

"I don't know. I feel kind of icky." She apologized. "And my ankles acting up again… and I'm still kinda sore down there…"

"Alright, just stay back here." He ushered her behind a fallen tree. "Are there any shards?"

Kagome peered around the tree. "Um… no… I don't think so."

"Good." Inuyasha hopped back over the log and unleashed a simple kaze no kizu.

The world was now free of one butt-ugly slug. And as the variously slimy body parts rained down on the clearing, a small glinting caught Inuyasha's eye.

Wait… is that a Shikon shard…?

He darted forward and snatched the falling fragment of crystal before it even hit the ground. It was tainted a dark red of impurity, but now that it was clasped between his fingers there was no mistaking it. This was the gentle throb of power he felt from the Shikon whenever he touched it.

"Oh!" Kagome exclaimed as she hopped out of her hiding place. "A Shikon shard… I mustn't have spotted it."

Inuyasha darted an uneasy look between the jewel and the girl. He suddenly held it up for her to see. "Kagome - can you see this shard?" his heart pumped unnecessarily hard as he awaited her answer.

"Of course I can see it." She rolled her eyes. "You're holding it right there!"

She moved over to take it from him and add it to their growing collection. Inuyasha dropped the subject, sensing her obliviousness and letting his own fear keep him from pursuing the matter. What if he had done this to her? What if it was his fault?

He hardly dared to think about it anymore than that.

Then the heavens opened again, soaking the two lovers in an instant.

"Oh - that's just not fair!" Inuyasha protested.

Kagome dragged on his sleeve. "Come on - let's find that village."

They found no village. They did, however, find the remains of the slug they had just slaughtered at least three different times.

"I've definitely seen that eye stalk before…" Inuyasha mused as they walked.

"We're going in circles!" Kagome cried. "We're so lost it's not even funny anymore."

"It never was funny to begin with." Inuyasha pointed out.

"Yeah well, you have no sense of humour so it's no wonder that -ACK-CHOO!!"

Inuyasha jerked away at the sound and force of Kagome's almighty sneeze. "Shit… you're not getting another cold are you?"

"Maybe…" Kagome shivered. "We have been walking around in the rain for a good half hour now."

"Idiot girl…" Inuyasha muttered, but with more compassion than actual anger. He pulled her close and shrugged his fire rat coat off to wrap around her quivering frame. "Let's give up on the village and just find a hole or something…"

"What do you think is taking them so long?" Sango mused as she sat in the nice, snug and warm main room of the inn they'd taken up temporary residence in. Miroku had sensed another ominous cloud above the building - which hadn't been all that wrong what with all the rain that was suddenly pouring down.

They'd successfully taken down the slug, found no shards, and had proceeded to move on to the village where there were supposed to have met up with the other two members of their band. Shippo and Kirara were snoozing beside the fire built in the middle of the room and Miroku was sitting against the wall looking depressed. Probably because Sango had dismissed the girls who'd been attending to him.

"Do you think they got lost?" she asked him. "What else would they be doing hanging around a forest all alone like this?"

A lecherous smile suddenly crept across the monk's face and Sango suddenly shot her hand up to stop him from saying whatever he was about to say next. "I don't even know why I bothered asking you." She said flatly and went back to combing her hair. "I'm sure they're just seeking refuge in a nice cosy cave right about now."

Scenario #9: Inuyasha's Childhood Cave

"So, did you really hide out in this cave when you were a little boy, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, peering at the entrance of the perfectly formed cave in the rock face before them.

"Fuck no." Inuyasha said bluntly. "I've never seen it before in my life!"

"Oh…"

Scenario #9: Ok, just "The Cave" Scenario…::grumble::

"So where did you sleep when you were -ACK-choo!- little?" Kagome sniffled as she snuggled up to the cold stone wall of the cave. It wasn't as cosy as a lot of story books had led her to believe. It was freezing, smelt funny and the water still ran into the cave which sloped downwards the further in it went. Kagome wasn't brave enough to go much deeper than a few metres since she didn't have a flashlight to help guide her.

Inuyasha sat down beside her, using his body to shield her from the odd spattered or rain that entered the cave. "Just shut up and concentrate and staying warm." He put an arm around her and pulled her flush against his side.

It was, admittedly, a good deal warmer by his side than anywhere else and Kagome shivered as she pressed herself closer.

"You smell great." She told him through chattering teeth. "Like… like fresh moss or something."

"And you smell like an ice cube." He returned. "Just shut up and keep warm."

"I feel warmer when I talk." She buried her cold nose beneath the covers of his haori. She fell quiet for a moment before eventually poking his ribs. "Inuyasha?"

"What?"

"My ass is going numb."

Inuyasha sighed and suddenly Kagome found herself being picked up and dragged across his lap like a child. She curled into his chest automatically as his arms went around her in a secure manner and his knees hitched up to enclose her in warmth more thoroughly. She smiled and clutched her fingers into his shirt. "Thanks."

"No problem."

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Really?" she wiggled her bottom slightly against his lap. "Then what's this? A block of wood in your fundoshi? Another katana?"

Inuyasha clenched his teeth. "Stop that."

For someone who normally kept pressuring her for intimacy, he was being awfully standoffish with her. Kagome's smile faded and she sat up. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing. If you keep wriggling like that then I won't be able to restrain myself and then you'll bitch at me about doncoms."

"Condoms."

"That's what I said." He nodded. "And what about those prophetic repercussion you keep talking about?"

Kagome stiffened in his lap. "I thought you said they were rubbish?"

"I did." He frowned slightly as he tried to rearrange the girl so that his hard-on didn't press against her so prominently. "But what about that thing with Kaede? Your friend said that I would do something within the next few days that I've been longing to do for ages - and that I would regret it. And I did just that. I tried to catch you in the hot spring like I've been imagining since forever - and who do I find? The woman who will haunt my nightmares for the rest of my life."

Kagome chewed her lip. "Yeah… but what if it was a coincidence?"

"What if it isn't? Isn't the fact that you're from the future proof enough that fate exists and that everything we do doesn't really matter because it's already planned out before us anyway?" He knew he was reciting a lot of what Kikyo had told him. But that undead miko had opened his eyes more than he cared for. "What if… what if we did something we shouldn't have done and now you're going to pay the price?"

Kagome sat up. "Why are you trying to scare me?" she scowled at him. "Do you know something I don't?"

He shook his head. "Not at all." He shrugged. "I just…"

He broke off, staring into the back of the cave. Kagome's scowl increased. "You just what?" she prompted.

"Shh." He held a finger to his lips.

Kagome fell silent and trained her hearing on the back of the cave, wondering what he was hearing that she didn't. All she could see was darkness and the steady drip of water.

Wait… was that a distant groan?

"Inuyasha…" she whispered, her voice pitching higher.

"We're leaving." The hanyou stood up abruptly, dragging her with him. "You know, hiding out in a cave is never realistic… there's always some bear that's beaten you to it."

Miroku and Sango looked up as two very bedraggled looking teenagers came plodding through the door of the inn.

"Glad you could make it." The monk welcomed them, but was busy eyeing them up for the tell-tale signs of hanky-panky. Twigs in the hair. Grass stains on the back. Rumpled clothing. But no. They just looked rather wet and cold. "Enjoy yourselves?"

"What do you think." Inuyasha snarled. "We got lost!"

"And then this bear tried to attack us!" Kagome supplied.

"But we killed the slug." Inuyasha added.

"And we got a Shikon shard." Kagome held up the glass bottle that hung around her neck. "So it's not a complete --ACK-CHOO-- loss."

"Says you." Inuyasha pointed to the fire that Shippo and Kirara were currently napping beside. "Go get warm before that cold kills you."

"Give me an order why don't you…" she muttered as she went to go join the smallest members of the troop.

Inuyasha moved to sit down near Miroku and Sango and began wringing out his hair. "Any more rumours."

"Can't cut us a break can you?" Miroku complained.

"No rumours as such," Sango informed him. "But Kaede sent us a message and… why are you twitching?"

Inuyasha contrived innocence. "Who, me? I'm not twitching."

"Yes you are. When I said Kaede you twitched - look - you did it again!"

"Back off!" Inuyasha shouted. "There's nothing going on between me and Kaede, alright! Nothing! I've never even seen her naked let alone felt her up in a hot spring so you can just get your mind out of the gutter!"

Sango and Miroku both blinked at him. "My mind wasn't in the gutter…" Sango said slowly. "…it is now, though."

"Well done Inuyasha." Kagome snickered by the fire. "You artful dodger, you."

Meanwhile, Miroku mused to himself thoughtfully. Ahh… so perhaps it wasn't Kagome that the old dog was keen on. Perhaps it was the old bat after all. That would explain a lot…

TBC