InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Facets of the Living Jewel ❯ Primitivus ( Chapter 34 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the other characters. Ms. Takahashi does.

 

Warning: lemon later in the chapter!

 

Symbols for thoughts:

[Inudemon]

(Inuhuman)

`Inuyasha or Others'

 

Primitivus

By Licentia poetica

 

Kagome reveled in the feel of Inuyasha's body beneath hers as he leaped through the night air. He was moving fast, so she gripped tightly with her thighs, exquisitely aware of the subtle contractions of his muscles as he adjusted to landing or tensed to bound from a tree branch. His hair surrounded her with a silver and white radiance as the moonlight reflected off the windblown strands.

 

She pressed her face into his shoulder and gripped her knees tightly as a particularly sharp drop gave her a weightless, floating, stomach-in-her-throat sensation. She laughed softly.

 

`I love this!'

 

She closed her eyes, concentrating on the feel of his haori against her cheek, his spicy scent, the pressure of weight as he took off again, followed by the buoyant sensation at the top of his leap. The slight abrasion from his hand holding her thigh, the heat from his palm warming her skin through the synthetic material of her yoga pants, multiplied her awareness of all other sensations.

 

`He smells so good, he feels so good, and I've loved him for years. But…I'm scared…'

 

It had seemed so easy to give her body to him, to surrender to the passion he evoked in her, but the farther they traveled, the more nervous she became.

 

`This will change everything. I have to tell him what I've learned today, about being a Time Lord. He doesn't know that I'll be around for a long time. What if…what if he doesn't want me in his life for long? I think he still wants to become a full demon.'

 

She opened her eyes, and then gave a start. “Ahh!” Inuyasha tensed beneath her in response to her short scream.

 

The blur in front of her eyes came into focus as she drew her head back. “Myouga!” The flea demon was inches from her nose, creeping toward her. “Oh, no, Myouga-sama. No meals tonight.”

 

“Lady Kagome, I'm crushed! I am only here to provide you and Lord Inuyasha with some advice.”

 

Inuyasha stopped abruptly, landing on the ground instead of in the branches. “Damn you, you sneaky little bastard!”

 

`We can't get her alone!' He knelt and released Kagome's thigh reluctantly.

 

Kagome picked the flea demon off of Inuyasha's back and placed him on her palm. Keeping her tone of voice as reasonable as possible, she asked “What advice?”

 

Inuyasha snorted. “Give it quick or shut up and leave. Either way you ain't stayin' with us, jijii.”

 

“I have no intention of staying long, but you need to be aware of Pack Law as it relates to mating.”

 

Kagome shut her eyes and sighed, her shoulders slumping. `Why is it that every one in the whole world feels they can give me advice about sex?' Her eyes opened and she glared at Myouga. “What business is it of yours? Why can't you all just leave us alone?” Her voice rose in pitch and volume. “Why do you all have to make me feel like…like I'm…like what Inuyasha and I…GAAAH!” She picked up the demon and roughly deposited him on Inuyasha's chest, then turned her back on them both, head down and arms crossed around her stomach.

 

Inuyasha dropped the sleeping bag and picked the flea demon from his haori with his claws.

 

“This…better…be…important,” he said through clenched fangs.

 

“Lord Inuyasha! I apologize, but you are the son of the Inu no Taisho! Pack Law is extremely important! You must uphold your family honor!”

 

Kagome twitched, back still turned.

 

Inuyasha snorted. “Like anyone other than me gives a damn about my honor. Get outta here.” Inuyasha's voice was a low, intense growl; he could smell Kagome's mounting distress.

 

“Wait! Lord Inuyasha, Lady Kagome, you must listen. According to Pack Law, the alpha female chooses the strongest male, which of course would mean that Lady Kagome could choose either Lord Inuyasha or Lord Sesshoumaru, according to the agreement just negotiated.” Kagome turned back around and eyed him skeptically. “Of course, Lord Sesshoumaru would object, since technically you're not Inu!”

 

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. “How did you know what was decided? I thought Yourei Taisei made you leave!”

 

“Oh, I managed to hide myself. You do realize that it's my job to keep you informed, don't you? But that's beside the point. Mating. That's the issue here, and you need to know that mating between alpha leaders is a permanent thing. It is a lifetime commitment, and neither of you could violate the Law, even though the attraction that you feel right now might wane. I just thought that you should know this before you did anything ahhh…rash.”

 

“Rash.” Kagome's voice was quiet and tightly controlled.

 

Inuyasha growled “Myouga…”

 

`He's gonna tell her that she's making a mistake by choosing me.'

 

“You think that Inuyasha is making a mistake, because I'm human like his mother. That's it, isn't it? You've made enough comments about humans that I know you don't respect us.” Kagome's voice was a mixture of defiance and pain.

 

Inuyasha stared at her in shock.

 

[Kill him. He is interfering with our choice, and upsetting our mate.]

 

“Oh, Lady Kagome, please do not misunderstand me! I have the greatest respect for you, but…you should both be aware that, well, there may be consequences. I am only acting in Lord Inuyasha's best interests. You see, humans age so quickly!” Myouga's voice took on an aggrieved tone. “Your father would have had the same problem, had he lived, but…”

 

[ Slaughterhim!]

 

Inuyasha interrupted Myouga with a fierce growl. “Get out of here, jijii, before I murder you!” He flicked the little irritant as far away as he could and reached for Kagome's small shoulders. “Kagome, I don't care. I'll stay with…” he stopped speaking as he heard her laughter, but his hackles rose at the bitter tone of her voice and the message in her scent: fear.

 

She turned to face him, arms crossed defensively in front of her stomach. “Well. I was going to try to find a way to tell you what I learned today, and I guess this is the best time.” She bit her lower lip, her eyes searching his. “But I don't know if you'll like it. You…” She sighed and stared down at the ground.

 

`I have to give him the right to choose. I can't obligate him, not like Kikyou did.'

 

“Kagome?”

 

She looked up at him. “Do you remember when you said you'd stay a half-demon for a while, just for me? I want you to realize that I won't hold you to that promise, especially with what Myouga just said.” She dropped her gaze, not wanting to see his reaction to her news. His hand, resting on the grip of Tetsusaiga, became her focus.

 

“You see, because I'm a Time Lord, I'm not going to age like other humans. I'll…be around a lot longer. Much longer than your mother, maybe even as long as you will, and that…that doesn't fit with what you want. I know that you're still thinking about becoming a full demon, and…well, I don't want to…Inuyasha?” His hand had left the katana, reaching toward her with his palm forward, as if warning her to stop. She waited for his response, eyes downcast. When he didn't speak immediately, she ventured a glance at his face.

 

He was staring down at her with his mouth half open in a disbelieving smile, his eyes blazing.

 

`What is he thinking? What is that look in his eyes?'

 

He gave a small shake of his head, and the smile grew as his hands reached for her. His touch was hesitant, gentle, as he stroked her cheek with one hand and drew her to him with the other.

 

“I always thought the gods hated me, that I was cursed,” he whispered. He gave a choked sound and lifted her up against his chest, burying his face in her hair. He held her there for a long moment, and as her arms wrapped around him he lifted his face to the heavens and gave a wordless cry of exuberance.

 

He swept her around in a circle and began to laugh; the first clear, honest laugh that she had ever heard from him. No bitterness or sarcasm tainted the sound; no pain marred the expression of joy. She couldn't help but laugh with him.

 

He set her on her feet again and held her face cupped in his hands. Smiling down into her eyes, he placed a feather-light kiss on her lips and touched her forehead with his own.

 

“Kagome,” he said softly, his voice a prayer and a demand; a world of meaning in her name.

 

Wordlessly he knelt and she tucked herself into his back again. He scooped up the sleeping bag and tensed to leap into the air, but paused for a moment.

 

“Myouga jijii?”

 

“Yes, Lord Inuyasha?” came the distant response.

 

“If you follow us, I'll kill you.”

 

He leaped away without waiting for a response. Nearly flying, he moved them through the moonlight like the evanescent flash of a meteor. Miles but only minutes later, he brought them to the area he sought: a wild ravine in the slopes of Mount Fuji where the black lava was softened and mounded by a set of tiered waterfalls. Halfway up the chasm a shelf of lava was buttressed by the ancient roots of a long-dead pine tree. The ledge was wide, softened into soil by the slow persistent growth of the tree, and covered with ferns, moss, and wild grass. Above it clumps of pink alpine queen flowers bloomed from lava fractures in the moonlight. Leaping through the spray from the falls, he knelt and gently set Kagome down in the mossy turf at its edge.

 

The moon was at its zenith, and the white spray shone in contrast against the black lava as if lit from within. Kagome gasped at the beauty surrounding them as Inuyasha stood up, tossing the sleeping bag on a bed ferns behind her.

 

“It's so beautiful,” she whispered in awe.

 

Reaching around her from behind, he stepped close to hold her and placed his chin on the top of her head. They stood quietly; content to drink in the magic of the moonlit scene.

 

Time stopped, the Nexus pulsing like the beat of a heart.

 

An age, a lifetime, a second later, Kagome felt the rush of the time slip and smiled. There was a constant beyond any power of time: the power of her love for Inuyasha. `There never really was any decision to be made.'

 

The contrast in temperature between the crisp night air and the heat of Inuyasha's firm body behind her began to seduce Kagome's senses, drawing her attention.

 

Remembering the sound of her name on his lips, she gently stroked her head beneath his jaw, turning it slightly to the side to expose her neck to him. He drew in a gasping breath. One hand caressed her arm as the other moved her hair to the side, and the Mate Call resonated in concert with the waterfall's rumble as his fangs grazed her neck, the heat of his slow kisses igniting her blood.

 

His hands slid smoothly under the material of her shirt, the calloused palms stroking her silky skin. Lifting her, he drew her back from the edge of the precipice and set her down near the sleeping bag, stepping away from her for the moment to remove his haori and arrange a place for them in the bed of ferns. As he turned to her, she whispered “Wait.”

 

Kagome took the Beads, still clutched in her hand, and walked a few feet away.

 

“No more interruptions.”

 

`I want us to be left alone.' Concentrating, she set a barrier around the ledge, anchoring it to the Beads.

 

She turned back to him, gasping in sensuality as his Mate Call drew her. He held a hand out to her, pulling her into a kiss that was both a supplication and a demand. Her hands found the opening in his juban, stroking the smooth skin of his chest over the corded steel muscles underneath, eliciting a growl of desire from him. His mouth moved to the pulse point under her chin, tasting the skin there as his hands found their way back under her clothing. She hissed in a breath as his hand cupped her breast, but then stiffened as she felt his claws flex against her, frustrated by the material of her bra.

 

`I may not have clothing in the morning if I don't do something fast.'

 

She gently moved his hand to her waist and reached behind to unclasp her bra, then quickly pulled her arms free of her clothing. As she lifted her shirt over her head, the increase in the resonance of the Mate Call nearly dropped her to her knees. She gasped as he picked her up to nuzzle between her breasts, holding her upright in the air while he breathed hot warmth into her body, drowning himself in her scent. In abandon, she threaded her fingers in his silver hair, surrendering to his control.

 

His emotional and physical need for her eclipsed all other thoughts, all other motivations as she submitted to him. The desire to protect her balanced the primal urge to mate her immediately; his physical dominance was kept in check by his submission to her needs, and he found the path to move forward in the equilibrium between them.

 

He brought them both down onto the pillow of his haori, pressing a warm palm against her back to push her onto her stomach. He began to take slow tastes of her shoulders and back, intoxicated by the mixture of touch, taste, and scent combining in his senses. Saying her name against her skin as he kissed her, he memorized the taste and feel of her body.

 

“Kagome…” he growled, his voice a bass rumble that sent vibrations through her body. “Kagome…” and she smiled at the love resonating in his voice. “Kagome…” the sound of his voice merged with the rumble of the Mate Call until the two blended as one.

 

As he reached the depression of her waist, she impatiently began to remove her yoga pants, untying the drawstring, but he reached around her and held her hands still until she submitted to his touch again. Gently pushing her onto her back, he began to memorize her front, knowing from his human side that she would want to see him this first time. She moaned in pleasure as he softly stroked his claws across one breast while his fangs and warm tongue tasted a slow path to the peak of the other. He tenderly worried the nipple, rasping his tongue across the peaked surface. The spike of arousal in her scent increased as she turned her head sharply to the side, gasping his name.

 

“Kagome, you taste so good,” he breathed as he nibbled at her erect nipple, tugging gently and smiling at her whimper of response. Leaving her breast, he learned the smooth firmness of the skin over her ribs, the soft resilience of her stomach, then began slipping her pants to her hips, exposing the hollows there. He tasted them and felt her stomach flutter in response, her lips parted as his tongue hunted her most sensitive areas. He chased the garment downward with his kisses as he pulled it completely off, and she lay bare to his gaze as she panted, eyes closed, lost in his touch.

 

“Gods, Kagome. You're so beautiful.”

 

[She's so small, and she's a weak human, we'll kill her.]

 

(Kagome's strong.)

 

`We'll just have to work together to maintain control.'

 

He lowered his head to her hip, pulling her leg up and around his shoulder. When she instinctively reached to cover herself, he gently closed his teeth on the side of her thumb and carried it out of the way.

 

“Inuyasha…” she rasped, begging as he tasted her body, his tongue driving her wild. Heat exploded inside her, and she writhed as the tension and pleasure became almost unbearable. But she cried out in disappointment as his tongue slipped away, teasing her. She gazed down at him, and he smirked into her eyes as he lazily tasted the inside of her thigh.

 

`Tease me, will you?' She reached for him with the mind meld, sending her desire and need flooding along the connection. She was rewarded with the widening of his eyes, and a gasp of indrawn breath, but was unprepared for the reverberation of his own desires as the meld solidified. Startled by his intense passion and a sense of an unknown power resonating across the connection, she released her hold on the meld.

 

Their emotions and needs were not in balance, and they remained connected.

 

Both felt the desire of the other; both felt the warmth of touching flesh, the overwhelming scent of arousal, the taste of her thigh, the caress of the cool night air against the moist heat of her womanhood, the tension of muscles straining against the stimulation of pleasure.

 

A longing cry burst from their throats, and all semblance of control vanished. Inuyasha's hakama pants and juban were discarded, lost to the shared caress of her hands on his body. The mind meld drove them as they shared the sensations that they gave each other, passion building to incredible heights as he entered her. The slight pain of the loss of her virginity was counteracted by the sensation of her silken walls wrapping him in pleasure. Each stroke of their rhythm was multiplied; the fire building in one fed the other and returned again, the passion flowing through their bodies and minds in an uncontrollable, plunging ride of ecstasy. Each penetrated, dominated; each enveloped in love, surrendered. They both cried out together as their bodies finally blazed in release, shuddering under the combined sensations echoing through the mind meld. At the moment of their release, a slight fluctuation in their powers solidified and became permanent, but in the reverberations echoing across the meld neither was aware of the change.

 

The thunder of the falls began to replace the roaring of blood in their ears. Inuyasha rolled to the side with Kagome wrapped in the warmth of his arms, her head tucked under his chin.

 

“Mate,” he growled.

 

Kagome smiled against his chest. “Mate,” she agreed.

 

As their bodies relaxed, the mind meld slipped away, but it left them with the firm knowledge that they were beloved.

 

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Translation:

Primitivus: Latin; First of its kind, the first time.

 

R&Rs: It's always good to know that you're enjoying my story. Sometimes I feel like I send my words into a void…

 

Thanks to:

eoverlord for the interesting e-mail. I hope I addressed all your questions in my reply, and was pleased to see that you agree with me that time is a concept, not a demon. No red phone booths in the Sengoku Jidai, though!

 

Inuyasha luver for your e-mail. I doubt I'll go back to AS (too much trouble to repost the whole story) but I hope you've found me either at FF or MM.

 

FF (yeah, I know…not supposed to…but I want to at least acknowledge them, please):

jay_see_en, Nil-sama, Photographing Poetry (yup, Kouga showed his face again), yoyo person (glad you liked the…'rip thingy'), ShadowObscurity (thank you for your kind comments on plotline, action, and romance…I work at it!), Archangel Gabrielle (have fun until January), JediK1, and sutoresu

 

MM:

Inuyashaloverr: Thanks for the 10s, hope your computer has gotten over its issues, and thanks for the multiple reviews!

 

jade_pendant: Thanks for the 10s!

 

Inaqui: Just a fair warning, I may have to ask you to beta (sigh, eats pocky). Let's see if I can answer some of your comments. First R&R: Hopefully a reread has clarified Y.Taisei for you, and I think you're confusing my story with someone else's, as I have hardly addressed Sesshoumaru's tono. I agree his transformation into the Youkai was short, but unless I want to just pad the chapter with words there is no reason to expand it further. As for the “typo” in the chapter, it isn't mine! Something in MMs uploading program runs the words together if they're italicized or bolded. I've tried to address it, but…grumble. Second R&R: Three Inu sounds have been described in various chapters: Pack Cry, Pack Call, Mate Call, all based on true biological interactions in wolves. The sound that is confusing you is the Mate Call, not the Pack Cry. It is mostly subsonic vibrations that are a warning for other males to stay away and also an attractant to the female. The Pack Cry is loud and travels far, and is supposed to be used for challenges or emergencies. The Pack Call is a soft thrum which is a bonding and soothing sound. Does that clarify things? Fight scene kata form terminology: I hate padding stories with unnecessary words; however, if enough readers are confused (let me know) I will revert back. Third R&R: Translations of the Japanese kanji are phonetic so technically I'm not wrong, BUT since I use Chris Rijk's translations for the spelling for both Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga, I should have used an “e” not an “a.” I also dropped the “k” in Hakkaku's name (sigh, eats another box of pocky…you are making me fat). Both are fixed now. Thanks for the tip!

 

May you all have a blessed holiday!