InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Even Evil Has Reincarnates ❯ Enjoying the Moment ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

DISCLAIMER-

Unfortunately, this story and the characters herein pertain to Rumiko Takahasi.

Except for a select few... those are MINE! ALL MINE!!!!!!

[Clears throat]

This story is rated M for Maturity.

Hanyou thoughts

Demon thoughts

Human thoughts

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Chapter 1: Enjoying the Moment

A grey-blued eyed, raven haired beauty sat in silence reminiscing of time's past. Kagome sat by the campfire, gazing into the fires blaze going back to the last four years. It was as though her life, if only for those four years were flashing before her eyes. 'It's been four years. Living two lives. FINALLY graduating high school.

Kagome sighed. Four adventurous, emotion filled, life changing years since I first fell through the well. Four years of withholding my true feelings for a certain silver haired, amber eyed hanyou. Four years of seeing two of my best friends, growing closer to each other every day. Four years of witnessing my best friends, my second family, suffering and aching to fill a void and make amends and correct the wrong done to theirs, ours and us. If my nightmares have any say in it... call it a gut feeling... but the end to the four-year agony is at its end... I feel it in my heart of hearts.'

Kagome looked up from the fire and looked around their camp. Miroku and Sango were sitting on the other side, leaning into one another and talking and smiling. Miroku had learned to somewhat control his lecherous ways towards other women... besides Sango… and Sango had finally let the lecher somewhat fall through her defenses...

”HENTAI!!!!” followed by an earth shattering slap resounded through the campsite.

“My lovely Sango! I've told you, I can not help it! It's this cursed hand!”

“No! It's your cursed lecherous ways Houshi! Next time, I will stick my Hiraikotsu—”

Miroku started waving his hands in front of himself, “Ghastly! No, my dear Sango!”

Miroku bowed his head and sighed, “I'll contain myself”

“Hmph! Lecher!”

`Ok, so she lowered her defenses...somewhat.' Kagome's shook her head with a tiny smile.

Shippo was fast asleep cuddled into Kirara. 'He's grown so much during these years...' Kagome thought with a bittersweet smile. After all, like a typical mother, it was hard for her to realize her son was growing right before her eyes and she could not keep him little forever.

She sighed and continued looking around, 'Where's InuYasha?' She looked up and found him staring intently at her from up in his perch. 'Sometimes you would think he was a bird-demon and not a dog-demon', she internally giggled. She smiled up at him and he automatically turned away in 'attempt' to hide a blush creeping unto his cheeks.' The big bad inu-hanyou, always blushing... I wonder why...?'

They had grown a lot closer as well in the past years. She cuddled into herself further.

Sure, they would still bicker and fight. Kagome would still 'SIT' him in a heartbeat and InuYasha was still an overbearing, rude, irritating, bellowing hanyou but, beneath it all, at the end of the day, they shared a special bond and she wouldn't have it any other way. Kagome could also bring out the sensitive, caring and thoughtful side of him, which he would only show her. Indeed. He was her protector. They were best friends.`Yeah, best friends… and that's all we'll ever be…'

'But damn it all...' She thought to herself. 'I want more. I should be grateful for the time we share and how close we are but.... I just can't help but being a little selfish... I want more...'

With a wistful sigh, she stood up, dusted her skirt off, "InuYasha, would you like to go and take a walk with me?"

He dropped down from his branch and was immediately in front of her crossing his arms over his chest and putting his nose in the air, "Keh! Why can't you just sit still? Do you like lurking around for fucking trouble? Are you stupid or just plain crazy wench?!"

Trying to get her twitching eyebrow in control, she turned to face him 'sweetly'…

"InuYasha, if you didn't want to go, a NO! WOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICE!!!! I'LL GO BY MYSELF!!! I'LL TAKE MY BOW AND ARROWS TO DEFEND MYSELF!!!! AND IF YOU SO MUCH AS FOLLOW ME, I SWEAR TO KAMI! UGHHHHHHH! YOU DRIVE ME INSANE!!!!!!!!"

She started stomping off and when she heard him mumble "wench". She turned to him and did what she knew to do best, dripped in sweetness and a sing song voice, "Oh InuYasha...."

He started running in the opposite direction in hopes of getting out of her vocal range...quickly, "SIT BOY!"

“AHHHHH!!!!! WHAT IN THE FUCKING SEVEN HELLS WAS THAT FOR BITCH!”

She was livid.

"HMPH! You stupid, no good for nothing son-of-a-GAHHHH!” She threw her hands in the air. “And to think I would want you to sit (thump in background) by me so we can watch the stars together amicably but NOOOO, always has to ruin it by opening his infested, flapping trap hole! JERK! BAKA!"

With this she continued her anti-InuYasha tirade and stomped off towards a nearby hill, waving her fists around.

"Ou-ch", strained InuYasha from his crater.

Miroku and Sango sweat dropped. Shippo casually sucked his teeth and stated while shaking his head, "Idiot" and Kirara just meowed in agreement.

Miroku being the most valiant (or stupid) at the moment “assisted” in flipping InuYasha face-up within his crater and looked him directly in the face while shaking his head, “InuYasha go Apologize....NOW!"

Now, InuYasha was a little taken aback...apparently so was Sango. This was after all expected from her and not the 'passive' monk but, of course, InuYasha could not live down his stubborn reputation.

"Keh! Why should I apologize!? I've done nothing wrong! She's been nothing but bitching and moping lately! She's the one that should apologize to....” InuYasha stopped yelling where he lay because now he had his whole "pack" surrounding him and he could swear he saw flames surrounding them... 'Boy, they're pissed.'

Sango immediately got in his face, “YOU ARROGANT JERK! Can't you get your head out of your ass for ONE MOMENT so maybe you can use those DOG EARS FOR SOME ACTUAL LISTENING?! Can't you—”

Miroku put a hand on her shoulder, “My dear Sango, allow me please.”

With an indignant last 'HMPH' and glare at the hanyou she stood back. Miroku came and squat down to become eye-level with his friend. 'Am I the only one with patience in this group?' he thought to himself as he started talking to the cratered hanyou.

“My friend, I think I may know why our Lady Kagome,” InuYasha was growling at the 'our Lady Kagome' and Miroku was not at all fazed and continued, “she and I both have, instincts or gut feelings if you may, due to our spiritual powers. Although mine are no where nearly as powerful as hers, I as of late, have had something none to comfortable picking at the back of my mind...ominous feelings of what is to come… something inauspicious. I believe the final battle with Naraku is near. So near, that we can't let our guard down, one moment or second. I can imagine that due to Lady Kagome's enhanced or increased spiritual powers, she may be experiencing dreams or flashes...”

'So that's probably why the wench tosses and turns all night AND I can smell fear emanating from her a lot lately as soon as she wakes. She's been having nightmares'

Standing after the spell wore off, "KEH! FINE! OK! I'LL GO LOOK FOR THE TEMPERAMENTAL BAKA WENCH! BUT I AIN'T APOLOGIZING TO NO ONE!" and before they could blink he was gone.

Exhaling a breath and hunching his shoulders, Miroku stood, “Why can't I ever finish my theories?”

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On The Hill Side....

Kagome sat there, with her knees gathered to her chest. "I. Will. Not. Cry..... UGH... why is everything so difficult with him?!” She started counting off on her fingers, “I try to be nice. I try to be friendly but, nooooo. Maybe, just maybe, if I act like that clay pot and pull the attempted murder thing on him, he'll be as sweet to me as he is to her..."

She grabbed a fistful of her hair and gave a little screech to try to alleviate the tension building up in her chest.

She tried. She really tried willing her tears not to fall but, she could not help it. She was stressed about ...everything.... she had so much on her mind. Couldn't he understand? She knew that the final battle would be soon and they did not know what the outcome could be or would be... couldn't they just enjoy their time together? `All these flashes I've been getting…these awful nightmares with so many, possible endings.'

Sighing, Kagome put her head between her knees and tried inhaling and exhaling her breaths evenly trying to control her tears. She continued chanting her little mantra of “I will not cry”. Again, to no avail when suddenly she felt a clawed finger under her chin.

She gasped, bringing her head up and looking into a pair of beautiful and worried filled amber eyes those belonging to her best friend, her true love, her hanyou. 'Oh damn, did he hear me when I called Kikyo a clay pot? The attempted murder, baka joke?' She turned her gaze beyond his shoulder, while nibbling on her lower lip.

InuYasha looked at her and felt his chest tighten. She looks... defeated.... tired... and Kami help him, gorgeous. He sighed and started speaking, he was really no good at this, "I... I know Kagome.”

She looked at him for a brief second, shock apparent in her eyes and once again turned her gaze away. “You all might think I'm all dense and stupid but, I know. I know that you... shit...” He huffed and continued, “We are all facing a lot of worries about what's coming soon....“ He stopped speaking for a moment, willing her to look at him and not beyond him. When she finally turned those grey-blue orbs back unto his eyes, he could see so many emotions pass through those depths. It made his breath hitch but, he continued, she needed to hear some reassurance. Hell, so did he.

“You know me, I just seem to enjoy putting a foot or two in my mouth before letting anything good leave it sometimes...I'm not exactly a smooth-talker like the lech", he smirked at her but, the smirk didn't really reach his eyes and continued, "I'm - I'm worried about what happens next... I…I don't know if you're gonna leave me…us… Kagome... I need you here with me.”

He looked into her eyes and saw the internal battle playing behind those mesmerizing eyes of hers, "And it's not because you're a jewel shard detector, not because you resemble a part of my past but, because you're Kagome... you're my best friend”

With sincerity in his eyes and another emotion Kagome could not pinpoint, he said, "I'm sorry."

Kagome could not close her mouth. At the moment she resembled a fish. Opening and closing her mouth. No words able to leave. She could not breathe evenly. 'Did he just APOLOGIZE? Did THE INUYASHA just APOLOGIZE? Whoa."

InuYasha let a genuine smirk adorn his face, “Oi wench, close your mouth before you house flies in -” His statement was cut off by the wave of emotions he sensed off the miko and play of emotion crossing her face.

Trying to put coherent words together, tired of talking, tired of hiding her emotions, she did the only thing that made sense to her at that moment. She simply didn't care. She needed to take her chance because... she never might be able to take it. She placed her hand on his chin as if mimicking his earlier movement and inched closer to his shocked face, in a barely audible shaky whisper, "Apology accepted". With a boldness she had never had before hand-in-hand with her love-filled heart for him, she closed in and kissed him softly on the lips.

InuYasha could not move. His eyes were as wide as saucers. He could not think. Definitely could not speak. 'Did she just kiss me?' Kagome pulled back and felt her face flush, she raised her hands to her cheeks in a blatant attempt to cover the embarrassment, and “I-I-I'm sorry. Oh Kami. I-I s-shouldn't have done that” She turned her gaze downward and started worrying on her bottom lip.'Oh Kami, why did I do that? Smart move Kagome, now he's going to think not only you're an idiot but a mistaken, desperate, carbon copy, ugh, good job but... oh hells, I needed that kiss, I needed to show him my heart.'

As he looked at her face for some type of explanation, or for a look of remorse or disgust, she pulled back embarrassed and opened those grey-blue orbs to him; he realized with a startled shock that she actually wanted to kiss him. HISKagome wanted to kiss him.

He wanted to howl.

`Well I mean, she has kissed me once before but, I always felt it was because there was no choice because, I was turning full demon and could not hear her voice... she needed to bring me back somehow, that was her only choice. No... that's not right, she had a choice and she made it on her own, in order to save me...and she said she loved me, just the way I am' When she turned her gaze down covering her cheeks, he could all but hear the wheels turning in her mind.

“Kagome...”

He saw her flinch which in turn made him curse inwardly. Did she think he was going to scream or yell at her?

'Of course she does you stupid baka! You scream at our bitch all the time!'

'Not true!'

'So true baka! Make our bitch happy!'

'I kinda have to agree with him. You usually would scream and yell your lungs out if I remember correctly that one time she kissed you, on your way back to the village, you said that she was the one that jumped all over you and in turn pissed her off!'

'I'm such an idiot. -sigh- AH WAIT?! What?! She is not our bitch! She's my bitch... wait! I mean, AH! Go away!'

*snickers*

His bitch. When in the hells had he started thinking of Kagome as his? 'Oh yeah, four years ago, dammit'

He looked towards her once again; she still was still looking at everything but at him.

“Kagome...”

She looked up, hesitantly. He smelled… embarrassment and shame radiating off of her but, not towards him... but herself. He could also see in her eyes such tenderness and care and not a trace of disgust or pity. He leaned forward and took down the barriers he set himself behind for one moment, just a moment, so she could see his emotions, and all he could only say was, "Do that again..."

She silently gasped in shock but with a smile tugging at the corner of her lips and with some hesitancy, a little shyly, she leaned forward, brushed his bangs out of his face and did just that, only this time, he was prepared and he sure as hell was going to enjoy it. He put a clawed-hand on the nape of her neck and deepened the kiss and grabbed her other hand and instinctively put it over his heart, which currently felt like it would accelerate right out of his chest and pulled her into his lap. He needed the assurance that this was real and needed to subconsciously assure her the same. He needed to let her know he wasn't going anywhere and neither was she so, as to speak with his actions, he pulled her up as much as he could against him. 'Kami, this feels right…' is all they could both think.

When they finally pulled out of the kiss for some air, they rested their foreheads against one another. When InuYasha looked up to look into her eyes, he found that they were once again tear-filled. He felt a pang of pain in his chest... 'maybe she wasdisgusted', maybe she only kissed me out of pity...' but as soon as that thought entered it fled because she smiled a trembling, watery smile at him and said, “You want to go back to camp or si-” He cringed, she giggled, “accompany me out here and enjoy a peaceful night under the stars?"

He felt his heart expand in his chest. He had known for a long time what his choice was.... he was just never sure what hers would be. She was his savior. His angel. His Kagome.

He never told her this, but that's how he felt. She saved his condemned soul. She made him see things within himself he never thought existed, refused to believe they were there. She made him believe he was worth something, that he was not just a lowly half-breed. She was his strength but, it is too dangerous to let the enemy know their weaknesses and damn him, as much as she was his strength she was his weakness.

Once this ordeal with Naraku was over he would tell her everything, until then, he couldn't risk it or her. He still couldn't help to feel that maybe, just maybe, she wouldn't feel the same but, for the time-being, he would enjoy tonight and leave that worry for later.

He had been stupid plenty before but, hell if he was going to be again. So with his trademark smirk, "Oi bitch, shut up and lay back.”

She flinched and her eyebrow was twitching madly. She was about to sit his ass to the other side of the earth for ruining the moment but, when he gave her a chaste kiss to shut her up, she couldn't even compose the word in her mouth or remember what it was.

"Well aren't we the cocky one?" She mumbled.

"Keh." She leaned her head on his shoulder to look at the stars and he put his arm around her.

`Someday,' she thought 'maybe we can both have our happily ever after'. She sighed mentally. `Yeah, I'm forgetting Kikyo… what does this mean? His eyes… they said so much but, in my heart… I'm not sure if it was my wishing to see that or if it was reality…'

She nuzzled in closer to him and decided to enjoy the moment.

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