InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Falling For the Baby Sitter ❯ Dares, Dances, and Daddies. ( Chapter 39 )

Kagome smiled and put the last few dishes into the sink, and looked over into the kitchen to see the kids all relaxed on the floor. Shippou was passed out on the floor, and Mayu was slowly nodding off.

Her smirk suddenly faded when something twinged at the back of her mind. She wiped her hands off, drying them on the hand towel, and walked down the hall, knocking on Inu Yasha's bedroom door. "Inu?"

Inu Yasha's eyes shot to the door. "What is it?" he asked, barely above a whisper.

Kagome opened the door a bit and stepped inside. "Inu Yasha, are you alright?" she asked, the worry she felt for him leaking into her voice.

He looked at her with wild eyes, his hair still stuck to his face. "I'm fine, I told you earlier," he said quietly.

She walked over to him and brushed his hair from his face carefully, her eyes flicking over his haggard features. She took in every thing that could possibly be used to argue his statement and shook her head. "And you lied to me then, too."

Inu Yasha's face tensed. "I just had a nightmare, that's all." He took a deep breath trying to calm his racing heart.

She jerked back her hand from his face as she saw it darken. Taking in exactly where she was at, and who she was dealing with, she steeled herself. "Inu Yasha, you need a shower."

He snapped out of his daze and looked at her. "I think you're right. I'm sweaty." He ran a hand over his forehead. "Must be from the Bacardi."

Her face darkened with her blush and she turned away, her voice squeaking in certain places. "Must be. I'll go get you a towel and a washrag," she said, her voice trembling as she made her way to the door.

Inu Yasha stood up and pulled off his shirt and threw it on the floor. He walked out of his room and down the hall to the bathroom.

Kagome reached up into the top of the closet and pulled down a towel and washcloth. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. She forced a deep scowl on her face as she walked back to the bathroom.

'Oh, please, Kagome, he was just hanging all over you because you look like Kikyou,' she chastised herself.

'That doesn't mean I can't enjoy it and get flustered!' she snapped back at herself.

That was how she was arguing with herself as she stepped distractedly into the bathroom, opening the door without a thought, with her warring emotions passing over her face.

Inu Yasha turned to face her with his pants unbuttoned and unzipped. "Thanks Kagome." He reached out and took the towels from her and set them down on the counter.

Kagome's face went up in flames as her gaze locked onto his pants, and her entire body froze.

Inu Yasha paid no attention to the girl as he turned to turn the shower on, letting the water get hot.

"The hotter the better," Inu Yasha grumbled.

Kagome blushed and shook her head. "Yea that's what I said when I saw you for the interview." Her eyes flew open and she slapped her hands over her mouth. 'Omg,' she thought, horrified, 'Did I just say that out loud?'

Inu Yasha's eyes moved over to her face as his jaw literally dropped.

Frantically, Kagome thought, trying to come up with a way to save face. 'Maybe if I act like I'm drunk.. No, no, no! Then he'll get pissed for me drinking on the job. Maybe if I concentrate hard enough, I'll just wake up and this will all be a rather ironic nightmare.' Kagome rolled her eyes. "Right, and maybe by some miracle Hojo will stop selling drugs," she snapped at herself out loud.

Inu Yasha scowled. "So, that's why you left the fucker," He bit out. "He sold that shit around Mayu."

Her eyes fell on Inu Yasha. "What?" she asked dumbfounded. 'Can he read my mind? Oh wait... shit, I said that out loud, too, didn't I? Kagome, WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM, ARE YOU FUCKING STONED?!?!?' she screamed at herself mentally.

"Turn around," he said as he motioned for her to follow his request. "I need to get undressed."

She blushed and complied, listening to the rustling of clothes. "Wouldn't it just be better if I left?" she asked, her voice shaking.

Inu Yasha laughed. "If you want, you can, but I'm already undressed and getting into the shower now." He dropped his jeans and boxers and got into the shower, pulling the shower curtain closed behind him.

She turned around and plopped on the toilet. "Nah, maybe I'll sneak a peak while you're not expecting it. And besides, all the kids are basically asleep or preoccupied." She shrugged.

Inu Yasha laughed over the sound of the running water as he lathered up. "It's not like you haven't seen a naked guy before, so if you want you can, I don't care."

She arched a brow and examined her nails, deciding to get some teasing in. "Nah, probably nothing too exciting anyway. Not that I couldn't tell that from when you were drunk earlier, but, eh." She shrugged.

He growled as the water dripped from his soaked hair. "I would scare the hell out of you," he commented back.

She laughed. "Oh, is that a fact?" she grinned evilly. "Then why don't you put your money where your mouth is, big boy? Or is that politically incorrect?"

Inu Yasha turned off the water and pulled back the shower curtain, letting all the trapped steam out. He stepped out onto the tile floor and leaned against the wall right in front of Kagome, wearing nothing but a smirk.

Kagome clamped her mouth shut, her body turning so red, that it showed through the white shirt. She kept her eyes adamantly above chest level. "What are you doing?" she hissed.

"I'm doing what you told me to do," Inu Yasha said in an arrogant tone. His soaked hair clung to his body as he stood there dripping water in the floor. "Get a good look yet?" he asked with a raised brow.

Kagome, if possible, got redder. "Wh-who s-said I w-wanted t-to look at..." she trailed off in her stammering.

Inu Yasha rolled his eyes as he grabbed the towel and wrapped it around his waist. "Oh, calm down, before you bust a blood vessel," he said as he walked out the door and into his room.

The girl growled in embarrassment, but was determined not to let him get the best of her. "Well, just because you have the equipment doesn't mean you are good at running it!" She grumped as she stormed into her own room.

He just snorted and dug through his dresser, pulling out a pair of red silk boxers and pulled them on, leaving the towel in the floor.

His door flew open as a smirking Kagome came back into the room, a CD in hand.

Inu Yasha looked around at her "What the hell is going on?"

She smirked. "Come on, Mr. Show off," she quipped as she held the CD out to him. "Let's see what you got."

He growled. "I don't strip, I have no need to."

Kagome arched a brow. "Strip? Nani? No. No stripping, I've seen you as naked as I want to see you for one day. You are going to bust a move for me."

Inu Yasha blinked. "I don't dance and I am not going to dance."

The girl stepped slowly toward him. "Oh, why not Inu Yasha? Don't you know that they say every bodies sexual abilities are reflected in the way they dance?" She winked at him and smirked. "Or maybe you do and you're just trying to hide something."

"You're just embarrassed at what I did in the bathroom, and you're pissed off cause you were too chicken to look," he said as he folded his arms across his chest.

Her brow twitched but she refused to back down. She stepped closer to him so that her body was brushing up against at his. "Don't flaunt what you don't got, Yash-babe." She winked up at him. "I only take a look at the goods once I got the details. Don't want to judge a book by its cover, ya know?" she murmured, leaning in a bit more.

Inu Yasha growled and grabbed her hand, placing it inside his boxers "Fine, then feel for yourself, little miss."

Kagome blushed darkly but would not back down from another challenge. She trailed her fingers along the bottom of it, brushing her thumb over the tip and squeezing him gently. Slowly, she moved her hand down his shaft, as if she was trying to memorize every crease of skin by just that one touch.

Inu Yasha growled and closed his eyes as he felt himself harden in her hand. "Ka, Kagome...stop," he panted into her ear.

Her body tingled from the puff of his breath against her ear and neck, but she didn't pull away right away. She tightened her hand around him slightly, tracing a complicated pattern over the top of his shaft with her thumb nail, before moving her tightly clenched hand back up to the tip, slowly. She loosened her grip and traced her fingers back along the bottom vein down to grip his sac gently.

He groaned and grabbed her arm. "Stop..." He pulled her hand away from him. "I was wrong for doing that, I am sorry." Inu Yasha turned to grab some jeans from the bed.

Her entire body trembled as she stared down at her hand. She heard him rustling around, and she bolted from the room into hers, shutting the door more forcibly than she had intended, and moved over to the window, staring out the glass, losing herself to her thoughts.

Inu Yasha sighed as he pulled the faded ripped jeans on. He looked down at the holes in the knees of them as if they could solve his problems. Inu Yasha turned and went to Kagome's door.

"Kagome....open up would ya?" he asked patiently.

She turned her head slightly. "It's open," she called out hoarsely, her body still quivering.

Inu Yasha opened the door slowly and popped his head in. "Are you ok?"

She took a deep breath coaxed herself into perfect employee mode. A big grin slapped across her face, she beamed at him. "Of course, I was just looking at the view. It's really quite beautiful, ya know?" she quipped. "I was thinking maybe I'd take the kids out to the park tomorrow, if that's alright with you. I haven't gotten around to any serious cleaning for a while, so I'll do that too."

His brows knitted together. "Don't kiss ass now, ok, I know that tone. It was the same tone you used on the interview."

Her smile tensed slightly, becoming more forced, and her voice began to shake. "Then maybe I'll take them to Pizza Hut, and pick up some dinner. I need to get in there and clean out the boy's room; it's turning into a disaster area." She laughed tightly, and over gesticulated the exasperated swing of her arm. "Those boys, they are so cute, but so messy!"

Inu Yasha's bare feet padded across the carpeted floor. He reached out and grabbed her chin. "Stop rambling like an idiot," he growled out.

She flinched and snapped her eyes shut; her years of living with Hojo, making her reflexes bring her arms up to block a blow.

Inu Yasha stepped back. "Kagome, did you think I was going to hit you?" he asked as his eyes widened.

Kagome looked up at him, unreadable and mixed emotions flashing across her face as she stared at him, trying to figure out what to do, what to say.

Inu Yasha stepped up to her and knelt down in front of her. "Did he beat you and Mayu?" he asked quietly.

She eyed him quietly then looked away from him. "I have to go check on the kids..." she muttered.

He grabbed her by the arm and forced her to stay. "Answer me," Inu Yasha barked out with his head lowered so his hair cast a shadow over his face.

A whimper escaped her lips as she flinched again. She closed her eyes tightly, trying to block out unbidden memories that flooded through her mind. "Y-Yes," she managed finally.

Inu Yasha went absolutely still and didn't utter a sound. His brown eyes turned dark as every muscle in his back stiffened.

She lifted her eyes to chance a look at Inu Yasha's face, afraid of the disgust that would be held there at hearing her whimpers at weakness. What she was not prepared for, and what made her tense up, ready to instinctively run Mayu out of the house if need be, was the anger etched deep in his face and in the way he crouched in front of her.

"I'm going to rip his spine out," Inu Yasha said under his breath.

Kagome's eyes flew open in shock, then went back to their normal size with realization, then widened again with desperation. "No, Inu Yasha, don't! You're still hurt, and he's in a huge drug ring!"

"I'm going to rip his god damn spine out and choke the mother fucker with it!" he yelled and jumped to his feet.

She flinched at his tone, and then scrambled to her feet. "Please, Inu Yasha, I don't want you to get hurt any worse than you already are!" she begged.

Inu Yasha was seeing nothing but red. "Oh, he will receive the beating of his life." He cracked his knuckles, not listening to Kagome.

The look on his face was terrifying her. She reached out and grabbed his shoulders shaking him, trying to get him to pay attention. Tears ran down her face and sobs burbled up from her throat as she pleaded with him. "Inu Yasha, I'm begging you, don't do something that will get any of you hurt, please!" she repeated over and over, trying to bring him back to earth.

Inu Yasha looked at her, his eyes on fire. "He is one dead son of a bitch, Kagome ...I will kill him." His voice dripped with venom.

Kagome gripped his face and forced her to look her in the eye so he could see how serious she was about the situation. "Inu Yasha, he is a drug dealer. He will have you killed on the spot, and not give a damn about it! Don't do something to jeopardize Shippou's and Souta's future, if you wont think about what'll happen to you!"

His chest rose and fell with angry breaths. "If he comes here, I will kill him; do you understand?" he asked her with deadly look to his eyes.

She nodded, and looked down at the ground. "I understand," she said meekly.

He pulled away from her and walked down the hall to where the kids were and sat down in the recliner to watch TV.

Kagome sank down onto her bed and stared at the floor off in the corner of the room for a bit.

Mayu shook her head, trying not to fall asleep and looked up at Inu Yasha as he came into the room. One look at his face, and the little girl started shaking and staring blankly at the TV.

Inu Yasha looked over at Mayu and his face softened a great amount. "Come here, Mayu, and we will watch cartoons," he said as he held his arms open for her to jump up in his lap.

She shrugged slightly and continued to stare at the TV screen, also remembering the way he had looked while storming off earlier that morning. Both times had been after he had talked to Mommy. That thought put a frown on her face as her young mind tried to work the puzzle out.

Inu Yasha's face frowned. "Mayu, me and your mom ain't fighting, she told me about your daddy. I'm mad at him, not you or her," he explained quietly so he wouldn't wake the boys sleeping in the same room.

Mayu locked her arms around her legs. "Mommy made Daddy angry a lot..." she muttered quietly.

"I never ever in my life will hit you; I might blow up and say stupid things, but I will never hit a girl," Inu Yasha said as he crossed his heart. "I promise."

Mayu lifted her eyes to look at him. "Will you hit Mommy?" she asked still in a low voice.

"No, not out of anger, anyway. There's a difference between playing and fighting," he stated. "You have to ignore me when I get mad; I just say stupid things," Inu Yasha said as he looked at her. "If your daddy comes around, I want you and the boys to run and hide; I won't let him hurt you or your mommy again, I swear."

The little girl kept staring at the carpet. "Mommy left the night he tried to shoot her." Her voice shook as she spoke. "Daddy was making a deal with his buddies about me. Mommy got really angry and tried to kill him." Her eyes studied the tops of her shoes. "He hit her a lot. So did his buddies... they did bad things to her..." she finished off in a whisper.

Inu Yasha's heart dropped at the sight of the girl. "Come here, Mayu," he said as he held his hand out to her.

She crawled over to him and up into his lap and curled up against his chest. "Puppy?" she asked quietly.

He rested his chin her head as he hugged her up. "What is it Mayu?" Inu Yasha asked quietly.

She snuggled into his warmth. "Even if you and Mommy don't like each other like Mommies and Daddies... Can you still be my Daddy?"

That melted him right there on the spot. "Yes, Mayu, I will be your daddy," he said as a tear ran down his cheek.

Mayu smiled slightly, and laid her head against his chest, getting comfortable.