InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dogs in Tokyo ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: Oh, come off it! See Chapt. 1

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He shouldered open the door and glanced around at the small room which held so much of her. It was probably why he often felt so relaxed on her side of the well. She was there even when not physically present. Of course right now she was present and being anything but calming.

He popped her in a seated position on her bed and climbed on himself to sit regarding her in the dimness of her room . She didn't speak but drew her knees up to her chest and buried her face in them. Inuyasha stared at her frowning and finally opened the conversation himself.

"Kagome, what is all this about? Don't tell me you're mad at me again. I really haven't done anything this time."

Kagome gave a faint wail at this. "No, Inuyasha, you're being perfect. It's all my fault."

"I should think so." Inuyasha muttered before he thought.

"That's really harsh." Kagome snapped, her tears drying quickly. "Can't you even let me feel upset for a little while?"

"I just did! For a long while! Now I need to know why. If it's because you've suddenly changed your mind about being mated to me you might as well change it right back because it's too late now." He sprang to his feet and stood arms crossed staring out the window at the looming Tokyo skyline with its ever-burning lights.

He heard her get up behind him and jumped slightly as she wound her arms around his waist and rested her head against his back. "I said it was me Inuyasha, and I meant it." She took a deep breath, "I'm afraid of what my friends will say when the truth comes out. And school, will the school board kick me out? It's almost impossible to get a good job without a really good education. And I'll need to work. We'll need money. Even the wedding-" here her voice cracked. "Mama said we'd need to hire the dresses and I just know she can't afford it. And where will we live?"

"Why are you so worried about these things? Don't you think I can take care of you? And why can't we live at my house if you're so desperate for a roof over your head?" he huffed and turned around within the circle of her arms.

She looked up at him lovingly. "Baka, I don't want to give up on my family and to have a job you need an address and a telephone so people can reach you. I guess I'll have to train for a job I can do freelance so I can pick when to work and we can still go back and forth some."

He squeezed her, running his fingers down her back to rest at her ribs, claws stroking in a feather light massage. "And the wedding?" he asked, searching her face with poorly concealed anxiety.

"Is on. We'll just have to do without hiring our clothes and maybe just keep it to a Shinto ceremony." She smiled and looked up at him clear-eyed. "I know you'll take care of me. I trust you."

Inuyasha felt the tension drain out of him and closed his eyes. A moment later he was pleasantly surprised to feel Kagome's mouth nibbling at the corner of his jaw and it made him shiver. Three weeks isn't long in terms of a relationship and they were still learning their way around each other. As he threw his head back, he felt Kagome leaning against his front, running both hands from his chest to either side of his face and up through his hair. He dropped his head and kissed her open mouth passionately as she gripped his biceps for balance. He could feel some foreign object pressing against one shoulder and he opened his eyes to look.

His beads were dangling from Kagome's hand were it was on his shoulder. "Kagome? My beads?"

"Maybe I don't need to hold you by those anymore" She murmured into his neck.

He raked his hand into her hair, pulling her head back "You really like to live dangerous, Koi." He kept her still with the hand fisted in her hair and reached to take the beads from her. He studied them as they hung from his fingers for a few moments and it suddenly occurred to Kagome that in the two years they had been around his neck he had never properly seen them.

He grunted and gave a slight toss to pool the beads in his palm before clenching them in his fist. He seemed to strain for a moment and there was a slight greenish flare of light. When he opened his hand he revealed nothing but crushed fragments and a dirty cotton string. Tossing the shattered remains towards the trash, Inuyasha shook his fingers. "Shit that stung. Kaede strings a mean rosary."

He inhaled deeply and then looked to the girl held prisoner by his hand clenched so firmly in her hair. "Now," he said softly, "what about the miko who has unbound the daemon she's been beating up for the past two years?" A clawed fingertip was drawn across Kagome's cheek and over her lips, "What do we do about her?" he whispered darkly and followed the path of his finger tip to her mouth with his tongue.

Kagome remained still and passive. She could sense a profound shift in Inuyasha's aura. It was as if all colors of it had deepened, flaming about him in a cloak of spiritual fire. She had never considered what the consequences would be to the removal of his necklace beyond the obvious inability to 'Sit' him. Or how much of his demonic nature may have been restrained by a simple string of beads.

He was kissing her deeply, making her senses swim. She shivered as he spoke against her ear "You know- the first time I saw you here, sleeping in your bed, you sat me."

"Really?" she murmured distractedly. "What could I have been thinking?"

He sniggered a bit. "I've always wanted to know. It must have been some dream." His mouth and hands were busy causing Kagome to gasp and moan in what he felt was a neat cover for the faint sounds of fabric being sliced.

"Do you dream of me, Kagome?" he whispered hoarsely.

"Hai." she breathed and closed her eyes to feel a feather light brush across her back and the sudden pressure of his arm as he swept her up against him and onto the bed where there was a moment of shifting about on Inuyasha's part apparently pulling back the covers so they could both climb in. A moment later his hair trailed like cool silk across her stomach as his mouth closed warmly over a breast.

Kagome's brows crooked although she kept her eyes closed. How had he done that? She hadn't felt him push aside her clothes. Then a hand was sliding down between her legs to stroke at her nub sending an electric shock of pleasure that caused her to arch and press against him.

The mouth left her breast and a faint rustle sounded before she felt a warm knee insinuating itself between hers. She blinked her eyes open to see Inuyasha already between her legs and leaning over her. A naked living statue in ivory. His hand was still stroking causing small earthquakes of sensation as she tried to figure out what had happened--Where were her clothes?

"Kagome." he purred and leaned to kiss her, teasing at her mouth until she opened for him. She sank her hands into his great mane of hair and moaned as another wave of pleasure warmed her body. Inuyasha broke the kiss with a slight growl and shifted, catching at her hip with one hand as he suddenly entered her, plunging to the hilt.

Kagome gave a breathless cry as her mate took her to a pounding rhythm of raw need. His breath sounded harshly in her ears, almost like cries as they moved together in a flood of sensations. Until Kagome, trembling on a tight wire of intensity saw Inuyasha lean up, a look of near incredulity on his face, his breathing in hesitant, ragged gasps. Color suddenly seemed to rush from his pubis to his face as closing his eyes his body tightened and dove into hers.

He pushed her over the edge and plummeted with her into deep water. They came to themselves sweating and trembling and trying to catch their breaths. After a few moments Inuyasha shifted to the side, drawing her against him. "Kagome," he murmured. "My mate. Gods, it's real and I can hardly believe it. You cannot know how much I adore you."

Kagome turned and stroked her hand over the long line of his ribs feeling the smooth play of muscle as his breathing slowed. "You cannot know how very much I have longed to hear you say that." She sighed and pressed her head into his shoulder. "So that's what would've happened if I hadn't sat you that night. I think it would have overwhelmed me."

Inuyasha gave a lopsided grin, "It would have overwhelmed me too." He reached casually over her and began dropping what seemed to be bits of cloth over the side of the bed.

"What's this?" Kagome asked, stopping his hand. She had to tug to get the cloth free and reached to turn on the bedside lamp. She was holding what had been a portion of her sweater, neatly sliced as if by a razor. She gasped and sat up, spinning to look at him.

He was lying facedown with his arms wrapped protectively over his head. "That's what happened to my clothes! You owe mw a new outfit!"

"Good!" he spoke from under his arms. "That means I get to pick it."

"You really are as bad as that hentai monk!" Inuyasha just laughed.

~*~

Late that night Inuyasha lay indulging in his favorite sport of Kagome watching. He had much to think about. Not least the removal of the beads. He could feel the released energy flowing through him. The freedom of his will to do as he pleased and not be stopped by an embarrassing one word command. He sat up, softly moving away from her side to sit cross legged on the floor in the moonlight. Rapid fire physical changes flowed across him as he explored his new limits. Youkai claws on one hand, human fingers on the other, black hair with dog ears, white hair with human ears. Yes he was fully in control. He looked at his now extravagantly clawed hands and laughed softly, eyes glowing crimson in the dark. This was going to be fun.

~*~

If there had been anyone standing with a pair of binoculars on the third level of the parking garage on the street to the west of the Higurashi shrine the next morning they would have seen some remarkable things in a back corner of the Higurashi shrine grounds. First, a young man dressed entirely in flowing scarlet positively leaping from the back door of the house to disappear behind some bushes. Then appearing in the center of the bushes where there was some open ground invisible to all eyes but those of our imaginary watcher on level three of the parking garage.

The young man appeared to be searching himself reaching into the top of his clothes and finally just pulling the top loose and peering into it. Whatever the item was it was found and tossed away from him only to have him step after it and completely disappear into thin air.

Our imaginary watcher may have been excused briefly to get a cup of coffee. Or something stronger from the bank of vending machines on the street before resuming watch to see the young man suddenly reappear carrying a large package and backing through the bushes returning to the house.

Let's leave the corner of the parking garage and follow him.

~*~

Inuyasha entered the house carrying a bundle of white silk in his arms. Higurashi-Jijii looked up from his paper and studied the hanyou with a mixture of curiosity and disfavor.

"What have you got there --- laundry?"

"Keh, old man, can't you see it's a white court dress? An itsutsuginu for Kagome for the wedding. It took me awhile to find it because the kami of my household had put it into storage."

The old man snorted derisively, "What kami? And since when did youkai store anything?"

Inuyasha ignored him to start laying out the bundle in the right order so that Kagome and her mother would see it more effectively.

Higurashi-Jijii dropped his attitude to finger the pristine layers of silk being spread before him. Cream colored hakama and a white kosode with layers of graduated tones in the surrounding robes; buff to cream, cream to sand, sand to ecru, and ecru to a pure white. He studied the outfit for a few minutes. "This is really fine stuff, a five-layered robe of museum quality. The design is medieval but this good silk can't be five hundred years old. Even so, it must be worth a fortune."

"Well of course it didn't age, I told you it's been in storage in my house."

"Your invisible house?"

The hanyou did not appear to catch the sarcasm, "That's the one."

"Where is your house now?"

Inuyasha waved his fingers vaguely, "Somewhere with me." His attention was not fixed on the old coot's questions but on something he had said, "You said this stuff is worth money. How much?"

"Not as much as it would be if it had aged five hundred years. Then museums and collectors would be after it. If you sold a few really old items like that you would be set for money for life." He looked at the puzzled face of the young man opposite him. "You could buy a lot of stuff." His voice trailed off as he found himself staring into a pair of huge, faintly glowing, golden eyes. Inuyasha had leaned straight across the table and was almost nose to nose with him.

"I understand I have to have money to buy Kagome things in this time. I have a lot of stuff but no yen notes."

Higurashi-Jijii blinked, feeling rather overwhelmed. How did Kagome deal with such a strong personality? He was relieved when Inuyasha settled back on his heels and dropped into a brown study.

Inuyasha spoke after a awhile as if only to himself: "Parts of this shrine have been around undisturbed since the time of Sengoku Jidai. If I had taken some nice things and hidden them then I could dig them up now and sell them to those--whatever-you-call-'ems."

"Collectors." Higurashi-Jijii supplied. He was staring at the hanyou with a kind of frozen fascination. "What kind of nice things would you have hidden back then?"

"What do collectors like? I have a lot of stuff."

"I think we can find out what the best antiquities dealers are selling." The old man sniggered, a wicked gleam in his eye. "I still know a few people. I'm sure we could get your old things sold with no questions asked." He sobered suddenly, "What am I saying? This is all silly speculation anyway!"

Inuyasha stroked the fabric in front of him with one clawed hand. Higurashi-Jijii's eyes followed the movement and lingered on the beautiful and obviously antique design of the itsutsuginu.

Higurashi-Jijii stuttered, "It's just speculation, isn't it?"

"Just find out what is selling, Old Man, and let me take care of the rest. I," Inuyasha said proudly, "have a great idea."

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