InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dream a Little Dream of Me ❯ Disbelief ( Chapter 11 )

A/N: We've hit 50 reviews! Thanks to all you crazy people out there, you've kept me going. Especially with this chapter, oi! So sorry about the delay in it but I was out of town, had family crap, and then my boyfriend's grandpa died. Aside from that I swear I wrote at least 5 different versions of this chapter. I'm still not completely satisfied with this one, but oh well. Move on and be done with it! I actually considered posting a couple different versions on here and just seeing which one ya'll liked the best, but I'll forgo that little experiment. Also took me a while because I'm not too good nor too comfortable with writing lemons, but it actually is necessary for this story. Ah, you don't understand yet, but you will my children….ohhhhh you will…muahahaha.

 

So yes, WARNING: LEMON in this chapter. If you do not like please contact me and I will fix or will create an edited version for you and send it to you.

 

Other than that, please enjoy!

 

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DISCLAIMER: I do not even own a real puppy, let alone a hanyou. Sad day for me.

 

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Chapter 11: Disbelief

 

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Last Time:

 

“No, Kagome, I don't want you.” He cringed when he heard her suck in her breath and bite on her bottom lip. “I don't want you, I…I…”

 

She finally looked back up at him as he gathered his words.

 

“I love you.”

 

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“You…you what?!” Kagome sputtered.

 

“I -“ Inuyasha started.

 

“No. I may be a silly ningen, but that doesn't give you the right to toy with me,” she said with tears in her eyes. “You saved my life, yes. I owe you big for that. But you ignore me, get embarrassed about me, angry because of me, then do all that” she made a sweeping hand motion to indicate what they had just been doing, “and then brush me off and don't want to touch me because you say you `love me'. Uh huh, yeah right.”

 

Inuyasha yelled and hit the wall behind him. This was not the response he expected when he finally opened up to this girl, when he showed her something so vulnerable.

 

“Just because I'm a ningen and you're my master doesn't mean you can treat me like a toy. So just stop lying!”

 

“Lying?!” His ears shot up and he looked at her mouth agape, his surprise evident.

 

Kagome managed a sad half-smile at the stunned hanyou, despite her anger at the moment. “Yes, lying. You're a bad liar Inuyasha. I know you don't love me. I'm your servant, too far beneath you. You've been cold to me, ignoring me ever since I moved in here as if my mere presence is too much for you and I'm a burden to have in your life. Plus you've been hiding something from me - I know it. There's something you've been lying to me about, and though I'm not sure what it is I know it's something big. So how can you talk about love when you don't trust or respect me?”

 

He knew she had a point, but it was his turn to get defensive now. “So is that it then? Do you think I'm just a stupid hanyou incapable of something like love? Pity, sure…compassion, maybe…anger, hell yes…but love? No that's something beyond his feeble mind,” he bit out at her. “Is that all you see when you look at me? Hmph! And I thought you said you were my friend. Maybe you were just pretending since you thought you were about to die and wouldn't have to live up to it!”

 

“Argh! You are a hanyou and you certainly are stupid, but that doesn't make you a stupid hanyou!” She gasped as tears started to streak down her face. “And you are my friend, I wouldn't lie to you. I like you just the way you are you big jerk!” Kagome shook her head as her body started to shake in sobs. She curled her legs up into her chest and buried her head in her knees as she wrapped her arms around herself.

 

Inuyasha looked at her angry at himself. He made her cry yet again. Baka! He sure had a talent for making the worst of a situation. He'd been so self-protective, not knowing what to do when she didn't accept that he loved her that he'd turned on her and even questioned her friendship. He sure was an ass to devalue the gift given to him by this beautiful innocent miko. But what could he say to her now? Anything he tried would probably just push his foot further into his mouth and make it worse for her.

 

“I'm sorry…” her words cut in.

 

“What the fuck!” Inuyasha nearly fell over. “What the hell could you be apologizing for? I'm the one being a jerk.”

 

“No Inuyasha,” she said resolutely, “just let me get this out.” Taking in a deep breath to steady herself she continued, her eyes remaining glued to her feet. “You have been nothing but kind to me and have stuck out your neck for me multiple times. You've saved my life and I'm nothing but a burden to you. I've come in here and forced you to change the way you live, disrupted your habits and your life, and given you someone to take care of all the time. Now I've even made you uncomfortable in your own house and am making you put up with some silly emotional human female.”

 

“Kagome, enough.” He couldn't stand to listen to her demean herself any further. “Can you really be that dense? Can't you see that everything I've been doing has been for you? Because I love you?!”

 

This was too much. She was starting to get dizzy from the emotional roller coaster she was riding. “Oh yeah? Prove it,” she challenged.

 

“Alright wench,” he growled, closing in on her. “Let's start with Miroku. Your friend Sango was in pain so you were in pain and I didn't like that. So that is why I went to find that blasted houshi. Why else would I risk myself to save you time and time again? I almost burned to a crisp one time, and the Musagai - had I been challenged I could have lost my life along with you. That's the same reason I was staying away from you here.”

 

“Why's that?” she asked.

 

“To protect you bitch!” he snapped, hating to have to explain every part of this and reveal so much of himself to her. It was highly uncomfortable to be this vulnerable and he wasn't used to it. Suddenly realizing how close he had moved to her he became self-conscious and backed off.

 

“To protect me from what?” she whispered, almost pleading. He seemed to be retreating back inside himself as he did so often and Kagome was desperate to prevent that from happening again, especially now of all moments. His lack of response was making her wonder if he'd even heard her. He was still standing a few feet in front of her with his eyes tacked to the floor in front of him.

 

“Protect me from what?” she prodded again, getting up to move toward him.

 

He instantly let out a low growl that froze her in place and sent her a look that clearly carried the warning of `stay put,' causing her to clutch even tighter at the red haori covering her. “To protect you from me…” flowed out from his growl, the untamed quality never leaving his voice.

 

“Why would I need protecting from you?” she asked, but immediately she understood as she saw the feral look in his eyes as they turned dark and hazy from desire.

 

Thinking he'd made his point Inuyasha lowered his eyes once again, hoping he hadn't frightened Kagome too much. However when he felt a small hand on his cheek he realized he hadn't frightened her enough.

 

Kagome had to fight back a giggle as Inuyasha almost fell over backward in surprise. If there was one thing the hanyou didn't deal well with it was wounded pride. One thing - ha! Well, one of the things eh didn't handle well. Anyhow Kagome made sure to keep a straight, serious face as he recovered from his surprise only to start backpedaling as quickly as he could, not going much of anywhere since he was up against a wall.

 

“Why are you running away from me - why do you keep hiding?” The hurt in her voice carried through and was painfully obvious to Inuyasha. “You don't have to protect me from that, you know,” she said shyly, unable to meet his eyes.

 

“Kagome…”

 

“I don't want you to protect me from that Inuyasha.” She stared up into his eyes, amazed by her own brazenness but determined to not lose this opportunity. “Did you not notice that I was the one who started all that earlier? You're the one who stopped it.”

 

“Kagome,” he said sadly, “I can't do that to you.”

 

“I know,” she sighed heavily, backing away from him.

 

“You do?” he responded, startled at her sudden change.

 

“Yes,” she replied, a single tear cascading elegantly down her cheek. “You're my master. It's your job to protect me and you've taken me on even though I've messed up your life and caused you embarrassment, and…” she took in a deep breath “…I'm sorry. I'm sorry for all the trouble and for trying to get you to do something so obviously disgusting to you.”

 

“Kagome, if you try to apologize to me one more time I'm going to clamp your mouth shut.” Her eyes shot up to his stunned. “You do the very opposite of disgust me, as I thought you'd figured out by now. The reason I can't do any of this with you right now is because…that would make you my concubine.” There, he'd said it. Now she could grouse at him and they could be on their merry little way.

 

“I knew that already,” she said quizzically, as if what he'd just said was the most obvious thing in the world.

 

“WHAT?! What do you mean you knew that already? How could you know you'd be my concubine? And why would you kiss me if you knew what it would eventually turn you into?!” he yelled flabbergasted.

 

“I knew because what other possibility is there? If I'm your servant and if we had…physical relations - which I'm not saying we definitely would! - then that makes me a concubine. It's not as if I have much other choice here, I'm bound to you either way, so there's not much difference.”

 

“Yes it makes a difference - it makes all the difference in the world! You deserve much better than to be a concubine, especially the concubine of a hanyou.” He paused slightly, wincing from the glare she gave him when he demeaned himself as a hanyou. “Besides, you can't be my concubine. That wouldn't give you enough protection and you would be killed.”

 

“Oh, but being your servant is so much higher in status?” she questioned sarcastically.

 

Shit, he'd really dug his foot in this time. There was no way getting around it, he had to tell her.

 

“Uh…Kagome…um…remember when you said you knew I was lying…about something big?” He fidgeted with the front of his inner haori.

 

She nodded.

 

“Well…I…uh…” he glanced quickly up at her before planting his eyes on the ground again, his hand going up to scratch his head, “I kinda made you my mate.” He immediately flattened his ears against his head and winced, preparing for the tirade Kagome would throw at him.

 

When she said nothing, stunned into silence, Inuyasha assumed that she was angry with him and wanted an explanation so he immediately went into defense mode.

 

“I didn't tell you because I would never force you to do anything of course! Since there would be no real difference in your lifestyle I told you that you were just my personal servant so you wouldn't have to live with the shame of being mated to a hanyou.”

 

“Then why did you push me away?” she whispered, looking pleadingly into his eyes.

 

His countenance dropped as he conceded to tell her every bit of information he could; she deserved it at this point. “Because I didn't trust myself around you. I've been living with the temptation of you being my legal mate and having the right to do whatever I want with you,” he blushed bright red, “but I knew I couldn't do anything. I didn't want to ruin how innocent your life was.”

 

Kagome sat silent for a moment, mulling over his words. “My life stopped being innocent a long time ago,” she said distantly, absent-mindedly touching the gash along her hip. “Even more so when I came to live in the youkai village. But you didn't answer my question: Why did you push me away - just now - over there?” She motioned to where the two of them had been almost on top of each other previously.

 

“I already told you. If I took you now you'd be my concubine and nothing more. Then all of this would be for nothing and you'd have no protection.”

 

Kagome looked at him with confusion written all over her face. “But if I'm already your mate then how on earth could I become your concubine?”

 

“The mark,” he said, walking over to her and lightly brushing his fingers against the sensitive spot. Kagome had to fight the temptation to shut her eyes and just revel in the feel of his skin against hers. “This mark is to show that you are mine - that you belong to me and no one else can take you. My mate,” he growled and Kagome felt chills run down her spine. “It must be permanent before we can…uh…consummate. I guess one of those worth waiting for things. If I just wanted you as my concubine I could take you now but the mark would begin to fade and I'd have to remark you every time I took you to repeat the claim, to show I still wanted you. If I decided I didn't want you anymore or we just didn't do…that,” he coughed, “for a few days the mark would fade away completely and neither of us would have any claim over the other.”

 

“Then why was I drinking your blood?” she asked. “Is that part of the mating ritual also?” She still had plenty of questions.

 

“Well, kinda.” He scratched his head again, looking sheepish. “In youkai mating you'd give me a mark of your own and drink in my blood.” She grimaced at the thought and he smirked at her, giving a small chuckle. “Yeah, I figured as much. For this part the marking isn't as important as you drinking my blood. I figured you didn't have sharp enough teeth and that the whole thing would gross you out a little bit, not to mention that it would arouse your suspicion a bit to have the `servant' marking the `master,' so I just gave you blood from my finger. It works.”

 

“So how do we know when the mark is ready?”

 

“Since you're human it should take less time, so after tomorrow it might be done. Tomorrow nite you'll have to drink more of my blood also. If your scar stays after tomorrow then the ritual will be complete.”

 

“Complete?”

 

He turned a brilliant shade of crimson. “As complete as is necessary for your protection. After that you'll just have to keep drinking my blood for my scent to stay on you.”

 

They sat there in silence while both worked this through their minds.

 

“Inuyasha?” Kagome began tentatively. “What if I don't want to be your mate just in name?” He jerked his head up to look at her, startled. “What if I want to be your mate for real?”

 

He stares at her incredulous. “You…..you….”

 

A slow smile spread across her face. “I love you baka. Don't you get that by now?” Looking up at him and seeing his dumb-founded expression she gathered he had no idea. “Dang, and I thought everyone knew.” She smiled sardonically to herself. “You know, that's why I got so upset at first when you said you loved me. I was so scared to believe it.” She looked straight into his eyes and held him there for a moment. “But you really do love me, don't you?”

 

“Hai,” he choked out, barely believing what was happening in front of him. She believed him now? More than that, she loved him back?

 

“Well in that case,” she said moving toward him, “I would love nothing more than to take you as my mate…my real mate.” She reached up to kiss him but he blocked her. “What? What's the problem?” she asked confused.

 

He stared down at her with most heated eyes she'd ever seen and she gasped at his intense change from shy to wanton in the blink of an eye. “I don't think I could stop myself this time Kagome.”

 

“Well I'll just have to stop us then, won't I?” she smiled seductively back up at him.

 

“How do you know you'll be able to stop me?” he asked, his face leaning dangerously close to hers.

 

“You said so yourself that you'd never force me. I know that you would never intentionally hurt me Inuyasha, so if I stopped or said no I know that you would stop too.” She looked up at him with such trust and love shining in her eyes, but the underlying depths of lust pushed him over the edge and he couldn't stop himself from meeting her lips as she brought her face up to him again.

 

From the intense heat in Inuyasha's eyes Kagome had expected him to nearly devour her, but instead found their rhythm a bit slower paced although increasingly erotic and intense. It was as if they knew they had all the time in the world and so were in no rush as they explored the cavities of each other's mouths, pressing themselves deeper and deeper into and learning every single crevice of space that existed in each other.

 

Kagome made sure to hang on to the haori this time, although everything inside of her craved to wrap both arms around him and keep her left arm from being an obstacle between their two chests, but she resisted as much for Inuyasha's sanity as her own. If he got a hold of her breast she wasn't sure she'd have enough coherent thought left to tell him to stop.

 

After what seemed like hours and yet mere seconds at the same time they parted, both gasping greedily for air and hanging just as greedily onto each other, not pulling back any further than they had to.

 

They stayed like that just gazing at each other until Kagome had to stifle back a yawn.

 

“So, you still gonna sleep by yourself against the wall tonite?” She raised an eyebrow at him.

 

He smirked and blushed slightly. “Actually I got a bit of a problem to take care of first, so I think I'm gonna go take a quick bath in the pond.”

 

“The pond, but it'll be freezing!” she protested.

 

“That's the point.”

 

She looked at him confused until he glanced down at himself. Kagome followed his gaze and gasped when she saw the large bulge in his hakama and then the wicked grin he leveled at her.

 

He couldn't help but laugh at her beet red face as she tried to sputter something out. “Don't worry about it Kagome, it's not gonna kill me, right? It's worked well enough the last few days so it'll work tonite as well.”

 

“The last few days?!” she exclaimed.

 

“Hai. You think this is the first time you've done this to me?” He smiled as she blushed again. “I'll be back soon.” He got up, kissed the top of her head, then headed toward the door, but her words made him pause.

 

“Well in a couple more days hopefully we'll have another way to take care of that problem, ne?” He groaned as the effect of her words coursed through him. Looked like it would take him longer than usual in the pond tonite.

 

As soon as he leaped out the door Kagome followed to watch him bound off. His grace and strength still amazed her. Just as he was starting to fade from view Kagome caught the first glimpses of the sun rising, the silver flashes of his hair now shining with an orange hue. Wow, they had talked all night. Well, no wonder with all they had had to hash out. She still couldn't believe it. Inuyasha loved her? She was legally his mate? Oh how her life could change in the course of a few hours.

 

With her head still spinning she lay down on her futon in an attempt to still it and slowly fell into a deep peaceful sleep.

 

When Inuyasha got back the sun had risen and though he wasn't exceedingly tired he knew Kagome was exhausted as her form lay strewn out on the futon, completely covered by her yakuta once again thank the kamis. Delicately, so as not to wake her, he picked up the slumbering miko in his arms and carried her over to the wall where he sat down Indian style and then laid her into his lap. He gently settled her head against his chest, her nose almost reaching the crook between his neck and shoulder, and wrapped his arms around her protectively before falling into a shallow sleep himself.

 

When he woke up he found Kagome silently watching him with a small smile playing on her lips. “Morning mate,” she said, giggling slightly at the new title.

 

“Morning?” He queried, glancing at the slanting sun outside.

 

“Okay fine, so it's not really morning. That's just what you say when people get up. Would you prefer good evening or goodnite?” She scrunched her face up, slightly miffed that he had missed her calling him her mate. Maybe he wasn't as excited about it as she thought?

 

He buried his nose in her hair and breathed in deeply. “No, morning is fine,” he said, his voice coming out muffled. He pulled out of her hair and grabbed her face in his right hand and turned her head to look at him. As soon as her eyes connected with his he said, “Good morning mate.” She smiled brilliantly up at him and threw her arms around him in a giant bear hug.

 

“You didn't leave me this time, for the day I mean,” she let out excitedly.

 

“Well I figured it's about time I spend some time with my mate.”

 

“So what's on the agenda for today capitan?” she said, mock saluting him.

 

“Today?” He motioned outside again to where the sun was already setting.

 

“We slept all day!? Are you kidding!”

 

“Yeah, but that's fine with me, kept it short.” He smiled down at her, only to see her looking up at him puzzled. “It's time to mark you again.”

 

She looked up at him and blushed at the darker tone she saw swirling in his eyes.

 

“Hai,” she whispered as his breath was already scruffling up against her neck. His left arm pushed on her back, pulling her form closer to his as his right hand pushed back her hair and pulled down the neck line on her yakuta.

 

Without any wait whatsoever he plunged his teeth right in, determined that his mark would stick on her this third time. He pumped his fangs in and out of her already semi-scarred flesh as his mate writhed in his arms. Kagome pulled herself closer to him with her right arm and then pushed her left hand up into his full head of hair, gently tugging at it when he hit a really good spot on her. When she found his ear and started rubbing Inuyasha switched from biting to licking, lapping up all the blood that was in danger of running down and staining her night robe.

 

He noticed one particular trail of blood that was falling down her back quicker and faster than the others, so he half turned her in his arms and pulled down the cloth to reveal more of her creamy back to him. He gasped as the beast inside of him reveled in the contrast of her dark blood against the paler skin of her typically unexposed back. He turned her the rest of the way in his arms so that her back was completely facing him, his hands tightly wrapped around Kagome's stomach, and proceeded to slowly clean her back of any blemishes. Inuyasha actually whimpered when he realized he had just licked up the last one and that the marking was complete for another night. Kagome twisted herself in his lap until she could reach behind his neck with one arm and brought his head down to hers for one quick kiss.

 

“How long will it take to know if I'm fully scarred from this?” she said with heat in her eyes.

 

“We should know by tomorrow nite,” he answered, mesmerized by the strange swirls in her eyes.

 

“That long?” She said putting on her best pouty face. “I'll be bored all by myself tomorrow. Why do I have to stay by myself anyhow? What really is this three week seclusion?”

 

“It's complicated…” How the hell did he explain these things to her? It wasn't the most comfortable thing to talk about. Inuyasha sighed. “First of all it's to protect both of us during the scarring part of the ritual. If I smelled another man on you I would probably go insane and beat the living shit out of him, so it's also to protect anyone else around. You do not want to get between a youkai and his mate during this time.”

 

Kagome giggled but could sense the hesitancy in his eyes. “What else?” She encouraged.

 

“You're supposed to be too sore to go out.”

 

She gasped. “But I thought we couldn't do anything that would make me `sore' until after all this part is finished? And even then that only typically lasts the night.”

 

“It's different me being hanyou and you being human. If you were youkai I couldn't be as gentle marking you. Since youkai heal so quickly I'd pretty much have to sink my teeth in and bite far enough in that I could thrash you around some and rip up your shoulder a bit, enough that you'd be too sore to use your left arm much. After that, when we finally get to the…uh… mating part of it, I've heard that youkai are a bit rougher and that human females are a bit more fragile,” he added blushing.

 

“Oh,” she said turning crimson red. “Well thanx for not ripping up my shoulder, but don't worry about roughing me up a bit.” She suddenly smiled up at him with a devilish hentai look he thought only she could master. “I can take anything you dish out at me, and I'll give it back enough that maybe you'll be the one too sore to go out.”

 

His blood shot straight through him and he groaned, thankful he was already sitting down. “Kagome, don't talk like that yet,” he growled at her through half-lidded eyes. “In fact you should get some sleep now. If this worked,” he said his claws fondling her mark as his warm breath grazed her neck, “you'll be needing plenty of rest for tomorrow nite,” he continued with a wicked grin. He got up to leave.

 

“Where are you going?” she asked, confused at his sudden change.

 

“I gotta run off what you just did to me, wench,” he answered, giving her a sly look. “Just go on back to sleep.”

 

“Oh, well when are you going to be back?” When he shot her a questioning look she added, “I don't like to sleep without you here.”

 

He walked back over to her and crooked a finger under her chin. “I'll be back before you fall asleep then,” he raised her face and kissed her gently before jumping out door.

 

Not too much later he came back, hair slightly damp. Kagome raised an eyebrow at his interesting appearance.

 

“Well I figured you didn't want to sleep next to a sweaty man, now did you?”

 

She laughed at him. She wanted to make some snide comment about how she'd have to get used to sleeping with a sweaty man but didn't feel like waiting for him to go on another run or pond-dipping expedition, so she decided to just hold her tongue.

 

Seeing that she wasn't inclined to say anything more Inuyasha grabbed her and jumped outside.

 

“I thought we were going to sleep?” she asked him.

 

“We are. I hate being inside that damned building,” he mumbled as he landed on a large branch just slightly further up in the tree.

 

“And all this time you've been sleeping inside?” She smiled brilliantly at him and hugged him hard. He stayed inside that building to protect her, to be near to her, so that she wouldn't be alone. He was so sweet even when he was trying to distance himself as much as he could from her.

 

He sat down and pulled her into his lap, his legs spread with her sitting between them and her back pulled up against his chest, his chin resting on her crown. He coiled his arms around her waist and she laid her hands on top of his, intertwining their fingers. “G'nite.”

 

The next morning Kagome woke up back inside the hut, confused as she heard Inuyasha busily running around with pots and pans for breakfast. “Inuyasha, what are you doing? Why are you in such a hurry?”

 

He looked at her apologetically. “There's no way I'd keep sane in here all day. I'm gonna head out to work to try getting my mind off of tonite.” Finishing, he quickly turned back to fixing their breakfast.

 

Watching him work Kagome hadn't even realized she was in a daze just appreciating the way her mate's body moved even in the most monotonous of motions. “Yeah,” she replied, snapping back for a moment. “Maybe that would be a good thing.” Inuyasha smiled as he turned around and saw the flush staining her pretty face. Sauntering over to her he handed her a bowl and a pair of chopsticks, gave her a fairly knock-your-socks-off kind of kiss, and then abruptly cut it and ran out the door.

 

Kagome sat there trying to figure out the blur that was the last few minutes, fingers resting delicately on her lips, but then decided that her mind was too jumbled and she wouldn't be able to focus on much of anything today and just set to her breakfast. By the end of her meal she had already spilled her bowl twice and knocked over her water. Getting up to clear the mess she had nearly stumbled into the fire, but at least that showed her that the fire was getting low and she needed to stoke it with more wood. Figuring she wasn't good for much anything else she just went out to the porch and sat down to calm herself, take in the view, and hopefully get her mind off a certain hanyou and when he was coming home. Today was going to be a long day.

 

Early that afternoon Inuyasha was already leaving work. He'd been sent home since he wasn't getting anything done and spent most of his time just dazing off into space. He wasn't any good there and there were snickering suspicions among the other youkai as to why. He growled. Not like it was any of their damn business anyway.

 

Frustrated, he knew he still had time to kill, so he went to the one place he could think of that might calm his blood. Walking into the forest of pink he immediately felt a sense of peace surround him. Before, whenever he had come here his mind had always been emptied, it was a kind of escape for him. Now he had visions floating in his mind of Kagome twirling with the blossoms, of the awe-filled smile she had upon first seeing this place. Oddly enough these visions didn't set him off anymore but just set a firmer place down inside him that made him know this was right and gave him the patience to wait this out no matter how long it took. He prayed to kami her mark had taken the night before but he couldn't know so this patience was something he knew he needed.

 

Suddenly he wanted to take a reminder of this place to Kagome. He knew she missed it, yet even if he were the one to bring her it would still be breaking the rules to bring her here during the next two weeks; you never know when a stray male youkai is lurking around. Sighing he decided just taking her some of the blossoms would suffice. Not daring to harm any of the living trees in this sacred area he just hoped he would find enough good ones on the ground to take to his mate. As if the trees knew his heart the three trees closest to him suddenly dropped massive amounts of blossoms, one tree even dropping a sakura-covered twig for him to take. Gathering up all the flowers he glanced up to see that the sun was already beginning to set and he hurriedly grasped the rest of the flowers in his hands and raced off toward his hut.

 

When he jumped in the door he was surprised to see Kagome still dressed in her flimsy house yakuta, but seeing as that just made things easier for him he shrugged. Kagome spun around, sensing his presence before he even landed in the hut and shot him a big smile. Kami her smiles were amazing. Remembering the flowers in his hands he grinned shyly as he slowly gave them to her. She accepted them readily, inhaling deeply of their scent, feeling a wave of joy wash over her. “Thank you mate,” she whispered into the flowers, raising her head to catch his eyes with hers. Then suddenly she spun on her heel and began to walk away from him.

 

Inuyasha had to do a double take. What the - ?! Oh, she wants to play games now, does she? He eyes, sparked with glee and mischievous desire, followed her as she walked over to the futon and sat down on in. Leaning back slightly on her arms she pulled her robe down to reveal her shoulder to him. “What's the verdict?” she asked.

 

He knelt down next to her examining the mark. He poked at it, sniffed it, licked it, then started nipping at it and kissing it, moving her yakuta down slightly more to get better access. Inuyasha's kisses continually got deeper and as she moaned he pulled his head up and stared heatedly into her eyes, giving her a terribly wicked grin as he leaned down to claim her lips. He lowered her fully to the futon as he pried open the top of her yakuta and claims one of her breasts in his mouth. Kagome strained against him and grabbing his hair she pulled him against her, one hand fisting into the futon while the other found one of Inuyasha's ears and rubbed it hard. He gave her a soft nip as a hard growl escaped his lips and he leaned up to look at her.

 

“I guess….that means….that…the mark is good then”…she said panting. In response he snaked his hand down her still closed yakuta. She went stiff as she felt his hand brush past her breasts and then come to land firmly on her stomach and still continue down. She bit a lip as she felt his claws play momentarily with the beginning of her curls before plunging into her nether regions and she let out a loud moan that Inuyasha echoed. Kagome never knew that his hands could be so talented or that there could be such an erotic use for such long claws. He smirked at her, beads of sweat already forming on her face and neck. As he continued the ministrations with his hand and once again claimed her bosom in his mouth Kagome clung hard to the futon beneath her, feeling that if she didn't do so she might somehow slip away and fall out of the room. A coiling began somewhere down deep inside her and she decided that something didn't feel quite right. Suddenly back in more of a state of awareness she fought against the voicelessness that had claimed her throat and managed out a choked, “No.”

 

Inuyasha's hearing picked up her hoarse word even among all the intermingled moans and sounds of flesh rubbing flesh, and he cursed his ears for it. He actually had to hold back a sob as he rose slightly and pulled his hand out of her. “I told you I would never force you Kagome,” he said, refusing to look at her at all as he stood up and turned from her. It took her a second to come down off her high and realize what was going on, but when she did she said the last thing Inuyasha expected.

 

“You are such a damn baka!” What? Kagome had used profanity? That was twice that had happened now; he must be a bad influence on her. Somehow that didn't make him as sad as he'd thought it would and almost made him oddly proud. Still he wouldn't look at her until she stood up and physically turned him toward her.

 

“Inuyasha. Inuyasha!” She said again stronger, waiting until he looked her in the eyes. “How, at this point, could you think such a thing? I've been looking forward to this just as much as you and you have no reason to question my love for you.”

 

He still looked at her somewhat demurely, but now it was less hurt and more quizzical.

 

“I deeply and truly love you, and you better not ever question that again. The only reason I said `no' earlier is because as amazing as that was, and I do mean amazing, I want my first time to be with you,” she said grinding her pelvis up against his,” not your hand. Although it is quite talented and I'm sure we'll have plenty uses for it later,” she added seductively.

 

His face slowly grew a lopsided grin as what she was saying sunk in, but he was still somewhat dazed and hesitant, so Kagome took advantage of the moment as she could. Slowly she slid her hands inside his fire rat haori and opened it up enough that she could slide it off his shoulders. Next she tackled his inner haori, laying her hands flat against his chest inside the soft fabric as she divided it revealing a sea of rippling muscle underneath. Slowly she moved her hands down to the hem of his pants to pull the shirt from his hakama, smiling to herself when she heard his breath hitch as her hands lingered along his low waist. Bringing her hands up to his shoulders she lifted herself on her tiptoes and flung her tongue haphazard into his mouth, engaging his tongue in a sensuous wrestling match that neither would ever truly win. She slid the inner haori fully off his shoulders and brought her hand down his arms slightly, pulling herself tightly against him, relishing the feel of the flesh of her chest flush against his since her yakuta was still open on the top, but there was still too much fabric in the way. She had a way to get rid of that easily enough though.

 

Sliding her arms down his back her head followed as she left a hot wet trail of kisses down his neck and collarbone to his chest where she paused momentarily to let her tongue run over the tight muscle and take in the taste that was just him. She continued her trail down and smiled against him when she felt him stiffen even further as she reached his abs. Feeling mischievous Kagome decided for a little added torture and spent long moments gripping and massaging the flesh of his back right above his buttocks as her tongue, lips, and teeth all wrecked havoc on the soft flesh of his low stomach that hung right above his pant line. Finally, having played with him enough for the moment, she leaned back slightly and undid the tie holding up his hakama, letting it drop easily to the ground to reveal Inuyasha standing before her completely naked in all his glory. Kagome gasped as she stared directly into Inuyasha's straining erection, seeing Inuyasha turning bright red out of the corner of her eye, but also the obvious smirk on his face based on her reaction.

 

Kagome couldn't help it though. She had never seen one of these before, well at least not one on a grown man and definitely not one in this state. Looking at it she couldn't believe that this thing was supposed to fit inside of her. No wonder she was supposed to be sore! Sango certainly hadn't told her about this. But fair was fair, and she'd already told him that she would make him just as sore as she, so there was no backing down now.

 

As she grabbed hold of his hips she couldn't help but giggle slightly at the commentary in her head, which Inuyasha groused at. “What, is there something wrong wench? Don't like what you see?”

 

“Of course I do, mate,” she whispered to him as she lowered her mouth back to the sensitive flesh right above his erection. “It's beautiful, just like the rest of you.” Kagome slowly raised herself back up on her feet, her hands softly pressing on his skin all the way back up to his shoulders, and immediately pressed herself up against him, mouth to mouth, chest to chest, her nails raking up and down his spine.

 

Inuyasha growled as he came up against the one fabric barrier that still existed between them. Frustrated he fished for the tie that held her flimsy yakuta on and in his trembling state settled for just shredding the thing instead. She was still going to be confined to the hut for another two weeks so he had plenty of time to get her another one. Not like having her go around naked was such a bad idea though…

 

His thoughts cut off as he felt her grinding up against him, whimpering in anticipation and need. Well who was he to keep his bitch waiting? He grabbed her under her buttocks, lifting her up onto him as she wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs behind his back, then he walked them over to the futon they had abandoned earlier, only a couple minor stumbles on the way. After all, he was carrying a horny mate on his stomach so he was prone to be distracted from his feet.

 

He gently laid Kagome down on the futon and swiftly switched their positions until he was straddling her, his erection laying enticingly across her stomach, and he pulled back slightly from the kiss that he had yet to break. “You sure Kagome? No `no' this time?”

 

She smirked. He was toying with her and she knew it; he would never truly question her again. “Not unless you have any reservations about it. Second thoughts, love?” she threw back.

 

“Never,” he growled as he leaned down and bit his lip first and then hers hard enough to draw blood, lapping it up with his rough tongue as hers did the same.

 

“I love you koi,” he encouraged as he drew himself down and let his engorged flesh tease her entrance, loving the feel of her nails digging into his back as he did so.

 

“Oh, kami, Inuyasha…do it now…” she panted at him, in which he was only too eager to reply. They held each other's eyes, trust and love the only thing they saw, as he positioned himself to thrust deep inside of her.

 

With one fluid motion he was in and Kagome's world turned to a bright flash of pink and white. She felt as if she was being ripped in half from the inside out and suddenly she realized that the pink was her miko energy pulsing out of control again. Her last coherent thought before she fell into blackness was the cruelty of fate as she heard from far off both Inuyasha and herself crying out in pain.

 

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A/N: I apologize. I think the next few chapters might be coming out a little bit slower as I am missing a few details here and there. I have the main parts of the story down, but if any of you feel like giving suggestions or comments, please feel free.