InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fang of the Father ❯ Captured ( Chapter 24 )

LES: I think that I should take this time to remind everyone that there is still a ton of hanyou-prejudice outside of Inuyasha's forest and Kaede's village. Ever read those fics where everyone else just seems to suddenly accept Inuyasha and Kagome as mates? I have. O.o The acceptance is purely within Kaede's village.

 

Chapter XXIV: Captured

 

Ironically, Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo were placed within the very hut where Inuyasha and Kagome first mated. They sat in the center of the floor, back-to-back; but Shippo was a slight distance away, completely frozen by the sutra's power.

Kagome sighed. “Inuyasha? Can you speak?”

At first, she only got silence as an answer. “Yes.” He said. “But that's about it.”

“I'm sorry, Inuyasha.” Kagome said. “I thought I could handle it myself.”

“Don't be stupid.” Inuyasha said. “I never should have left you, even for a minute. How are you? Are you bound by a sutra too?”

“No. My spiritual powers protected me from the Yokai bind. He cast a spell that is used to bind Dark Mikos.”

Inuyasha sighed. “You are not evil.” He said. “We became mates because we are in love, not so that you could gain my power. We didn't even know that this would happen.”

“I know.” Kagome said, a hint of sorrow in her voice. “Are we going to die, my love?”

Inuyasha growled. “Can you move?”

Kagome struggled against her invisible bonds and found that her bind was not a complete one like the ones on Inuyasha and Shippo. She could still move as if someone had only bound her with a length of rope. She didn't have complete movement, but she could move enough. “A little.”

Inuyasha released a long sigh. “See if you can release Shippo from his bond.”

Kagome nodded, and began to scoot on her butt to where the prone kitsune lay. It took several minutes, but she managed to reach the kitsune and released the sutra on him. Shippo burst into tears. “Ka—Kagome… I'm sorry I couldn't… protect you…” He sniffled.

“It's all right, Shippo. It was a very good transformation, and you did your very best.” Kagome said.

“Shippo? Can you transform into something strong and fast enough to get Kagome out of here?” Inuyasha interrupted.

“Wait!” Kagome gasped. “What about you?” Inuyasha didn't answer. “Shippo, move me over to my mate.” Shippo nodded reluctantly and transformed back into Inuyasha's doppelganger.

“Huh.” Inuyasha said, sounding amused. “How long have you been practicing that transformation, runt, for it to be that good?”

“For a while.” Shippo said. “Yours is a good form when strength or speed is needed.” Shippo picked up Kagome and placed her in front of her mate so that they were face-to-face.

“Inuyasha.” Kagome drew her mate's attention. “What about you?”

“Believe it or not, I've been in worse situations.” Inuyasha said. “This sutra packs a powerful kick, but it's not quite strong enough to seal my power completely. No sutra can seal a Yokai Lord completely. If I summon all my strength, I may be able to overpower the sutra for a minute or so. In that time, I'll kill the monk, and the sutra will lose its power. Or I'll get him to remove the sutra on his own… but that's not likely to happen.”

“No, Inuyasha! I can't leave you behind!” Kagome cried softly, leaning forward to kiss him passionately. “I love you.”

Inuyasha flinched as if someone has punched him in the face. “Live, my beloved. If I die, that is my last request of you as your mate. Live and raise our pup far away from this fear and prejudice… in your era.”

Tears ran freely down her face. “No, Inuyasha… don't…”

“I love you, Kagome.” Inuyasha kissed her. When he pulled away slightly, he said: “Shippo.”

Shippo instantly grabbed the hanyou-miko and tore her from her mate. “No! INUYASHA!” She screamed as Shippo ran away faster than the human captors could react.

Inuyasha closed his eyes to stop the tears. “Mate safe. Pup safe.” He repeated this mantra to himself over and over as the monk came running, drawn by Kagome's scream.

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Shippo took Kagome straight to the Bone Eater's well and leapt into the mouth with her. The Well began to pull Kagome through time, but was rejecting Shippo. Kagome faded from his grip, and she knew that he would simple land on the well bottom in his own time.

Several seconds later, the time slip closed and Kagome was deposited softly on the well bottom. She glanced up to confirm that she was inside the well house on her family's property. She couldn't see the sky. She was in her own time. And Inuyasha… Inuyasha is in his own time… waiting to be executed…

Kagome screamed with emotional pain. “INUYASHA!!”

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Back in the Feudal Era, the monk burst into the shed and was surprised to find only the male hanyou inside. The beast seemed to be muttering to himself, but he had no curiosity about what a beast utters when facing death.

The monk kicked the hanyou in the face, knowing that he had no way to fight back. Inuyasha only got a simple nose bleed, and a shallow one at that. “Stupid mutt! Where is the female and the kitsune?!?” The monk demanded.

“Heh. Long gone, asshole.” Inuyasha growled. “Good luck laying a finger on my mate now. She is where none of you can reach her.”

The monk grabbed Inuyasha's hair, and wasn't at all careful around his ears. The monk yanked them painfully, and Inuyasha yelped. Oh yeah. That's why I hate my canine ears. They may be sensitive to pleasure, but they are sensitive to pain too.

“Fool hanyou! All I need to do is kill you and your bitch will rot!”

“Then kill me, if you can.” Inuyasha growled. “Have you ever killed a man before?”

“You do not qualify as a man.” The monk said. “You aren't human. You are a beast.”

“Yes, I'm half-Yokai. But I'm half-human too.” Inuyasha smirked through his bloody nose. “I have a human heart and soul, though my body is that of a Yokai. Kill me. Kill the half-human.”

The monk frowned. “A human soul, if you do have one, is irrelevant. You are an abomination.” The monk leaned in close. “You will die to restore the natural order.”

The monk prepared to call for one of the warriors to kill Inuyasha, but the words never left his lips.

Quickly as lightning, the hanyou was upon him. The monk's shock that the male hanyou was still able to move despite the sutra stopped him from even trying to fight against Inuyasha. The hanyou grabbed the monk's right arm and yanked, dislocating his arm at the shoulder. The monk screamed, but the sharp pain faded away to a dull ache several seconds later. “How?”

“As if a mere mortal could overpower a Yokai Lord.” Inuyasha growled. “Remove this sutra and order those bandits to leave my valley forever, and I'll only play with you a little.”

“I'm not going to die from a dislocated shoulder, fool.” The monk spat through his teeth.

“Yes. I agree. But having a dislocated shoulder will make it easier for me to tear your arm off.” Inuyasha snarled. He applied pressure on the monk's arm until the monk screamed from his muscles and tendons ripping apart.

Inuyasha stopped, and the monk struggled against Inuyasha's grip, but found it hard as iron. “You have a human soul?” The monk snorted with disbelieving laughter. “No human would be so cruel.”

“Really?” Inuyasha growled. “Then perhaps this filthy hanyou can teach you a thing or two about your species. Yokai cruelty cannot compare to human cruelty. Humans are the only creatures who will play with their food before they eat it. I have been hunted by Yokai and humans all my life. Yokai just desire to kill me. But a human like you will capture us, torture us, and only kill us when we beg for mercy. If you want me to stop, beg my human soul.” Inuyasha growled as he ripped the monk's arm off in a swift motion.

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Kagome was able to get out of the well on her own. Since the monk's spell wasn't anchored to a physical object like a sutra, it could not last across the boundary of time.

Her mother came running, having heard Kagome's scream. “Kagome! What's wrong?!?”

Kagome flung herself into her mother's arms, sobbing onto her mother's shoulder.

“Mom!” She cried. “Inuyasha… he's…”

“Inuyasha? Is something wrong?” Kagome's mother asked.

“The village… we were attacked by a group of hanyou hunters.” Kagome cried. “Inuyasha is staying behind so that I could escape. He said… if he died… he wanted me to raise our pup in this time…”

Kagome's mother embraced her daughter. “I'm sure he will be fine.” The old woman said. “He did survive on his own for most of his life, and is probably very good at surviving hanyou-hunters.”

Kagome sniffed. “But…”

“No buts.” Kagome's mother said. “Let's go inside and get some ramen ready for Inuyasha when he comes. I would never be able to suspect he could eat as much as he does. That boy doesn't have a spare ounce of flesh on him.”

Kagome smiled, a little reassured by her mother's optimism. But she could still not stop the dread that she felt at the thought of Inuyasha never coming through the well again.

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High-pitched screamed sounded throughout the village, drawing the hanyou-hunters from the surrounding forest where they had been looking for evidence of more hanyous living in the valley.

“Listen to those filthy mutts scream!” One of the men laughed.

“For all their barking, this job was a really easy one.” Another said.

Just in time, they came across the disused hut to meet a horrifying sight. Their monk was thrown bodily through the entrance; both of his arms had been ripped off at the shoulders. The monk screamed in agony as the missing limbs were tossed out the door after him.

“You forgot these.” Inuyasha said as he followed, cracking his knuckles. He was well-covered in the monk's blood. He wasn't transforming, but his Yokai nature was floating closer to the surface. “Thanks for removing that pesky sutra, monk. Your reward is a quick death.” He swung his claws and sliced though the monk's neck in a single pass.

“You—You monster!” The men yelled, readying their weapons.

Inuyasha glanced at them, as if he were merely bored with them. “Monster? You were the ones seeking to destroy the lives of the hanyous who wished nothing more than to live in peace here. Who is the real monster here?”

Inuyasha snarled loudly and leapt into the midst of the hanyou-hunters, fighting them with his claws alone. But it quickly became clear that they only hunted hanyous with the monk's presence. The monk would immobilize the hanyou, and then the men would kill the hanyou while they were helpless. They didn't stand a chance against Inuyasha's claws.

The powerful hanyou killed them all in a pitifully short amount of time and he howled loudly in Inu to reinsert his dominance as Alpha of the valley.

Drawn by the howl, Kenji rushed into the village. “What is going on, Alpha?”

Inuyasha's inner-Yokai didn't quite recognize Kenji yet, so he scented him. The other male hanyou smelled like pack, but also something familiar that he couldn't place with bloodlust pounding in his ears.

“Pack-brother?” Inuyasha growled.

Kenji seemed even more confused. “Yes. What's going on, Alpha?”

Lesser-male recognized Alpha. Not threat. Pack. “Hanyou-hunters have invaded the valley. I have destroyed their spiritual leader and they are helpless without him. Go into the forest, find, and destroy the rest. I'm going after my mate.” Inuyasha growled. With that, he sprinted towards the well.

He was more Yokai than human at the moment, and he could not smell his mate. It disturbed the Yokai to his core, and he had to reassure himself of his mate's safety. On the way, he passed by Shippo without even acknowledging his presence, even as the kitsune called out to him.

He paused at the well. His mate's scent ended at that point, so he knew that she made it to her time without incident. He leapt into the well.

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Kagome sat on the couch in her living room, wringing her hands on the loose folds of her miko robes.

Kagome's mother sighed when she saw the worry on her daughter's face. The older woman sent up a small prayer that Inuyasha would be safe, both for his sake and her daughter's sake.

She wanted to give her daughter more comfort. But as a woman who has sat and watched her own husband die a slow death, she knew that there were absolutely no words that could comfort a woman sitting and waiting to see if… if against all odds, her love would return to her alive. All she could do was trust that her `son-in-law', for want of a better term, would have the sense enough to remember his pregnant mate and not needlessly endanger his own life.

Suddenly, her daughter seemed to brighten considerably. She stood and began to move towards the door, but she didn't make it in time before Inuyasha stepped through the door.

He was growling softly and covered in what appeared to be human blood, but otherwise, he seemed perfectly fine.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome leapt into his embrace, still conscience of her pregnancy.

Inuyasha nuzzled the top of her head and then licked her chin. “Mate.” He breathed. “Mate safe.”

Kagome's mother moved closer. “Inuyasha, dear, you're covered in…”

But she didn't get to finish her sentence. Inuyasha rounded on her with a snarl. Kagome's mother took a step back, for the first time seeing the evidence of his violent Yokai. It seemed that Inuyasha could not recognize Kagome's mother with Yokai blood boiling in his veins.

Kagome quickly pulled Inuyasha closer to herself. “Inuyasha, that's my mother.” :Bitch's mother.:

:Pack?: Inuyasha huffed in confusion.

:Pack.: Kagome confirmed.

Inuyasha sniffed at Kagome's mother, and then seemed to accept her. :Mate's mother. Pack.:

“It's okay, Mom.” Kagome reassured her mother. “His Yokai is just a little closer to the surface than usual. He's now accepted you as pack.”

“Mate…” Inuyasha said to get her attention.

“I'm here now, my love.” Kagome stroked his cheek. :Mate here.: She kissed him softly.

When she pulled away, Inuyasha sighed heavily. “I'm glad you're safe, Kagome.”

Kagome knew that Inuyasha was himself again, if only because he called her by name. “Inuyasha… you are covered in human blood. Did you… go into a blood rage?”

Inuyasha cast his eyes to the ground. “I'm sorry.”

Kagome's mother had only heard edited stories of Inuyasha's blood rages. The older woman could clearly see the look of deep shame on her son-in-law's face. He may be a hanyou, but he was not a Yokai. He didn't find pleasure in mindless bloodshed.

“Inuyasha… your kimono is covered in blood. Do you want me to wash it for you?” She asked.

“Feh. The cloth of the Fire rat will clean itself. Give it about an hour or so.” Inuyasha said.

“Then what about your undershirt? It looks like regular cotton.”

Kagome sniffed. “You could use a bath.”

The hanyou remained silent for a moment. “Only if you…” He trailed off when Kagome gave him a `Finish-that-sentence-and-die' look.

But the older woman merely laughed, motioning for Inuyasha to hand over his undershirt. He removed his haori and undershirt rather reluctantly. He was still self-conscience about his body around everyone except his mate. At least he had been allowed to keep his hakama.

Mrs. Higarashi accepted the undershirt and took it away to try and get the blood out of it. “You don't have to be so shy for my sake, Kagome.” She called back at her daughter. “Believe me, it will take a lot more than that to make me blush.” She giggled.

This only caused Kagome to blush and lead her hanyou to the bathroom.

Kagome couldn't help but notice how her mate shied away from her touch. “Inuyasha?” She asked, when they were in the relative privacy of the bathroom.

“It was different this time.” Inuyasha said softly. “I remembered every second of it. It was like… there was more of me in the Yokai…” He started to undo the ties of his hakama as Kagome turned on the water while trying to keep the water no hotter than the natural hot springs of Feudal Japan.

“What do you mean?” Kagome asked.

“I was more… human.” Inuyasha said. His eyes met Kagome's confused face. “Yokai don't believe in… in torturing their victims. If a Yokai wants to kill you, they will just kill you. I've never hesitated in killing anyone when I was in a blood rage before.”

“I'm—I'm sorry, Inuyasha.” Kagome said softly. “You've always known that you were half-human. You have a human heart, but you may have inherited some of human's worse traits.”

“I tortured them! I've never tortured anyone before!” Inuyasha said desperately. “The monk… I—I tore his arms off. Any Yokai would have killed him immediately, but he was alive for several minutes through it all.”

Kagome didn't know what to say to him as he tested the water and pronounced it tolerable. He stepped in without complaint.

So, instead, she began to help him get cleaned off, worshiping his god-like body. The blood seemed to come off his body and out of his hair with ease. But she carefully cleaned his body much more than was necessary, which Inuyasha knew full well.

Her human side had failed to comfort her mate, so now she was going to try to comfort him by grooming him as an Inu.

There were still traces of blood on his face and the fur of his ears, the only places she couldn't wash without triggering Inuyasha's delicate hydrophobia. So she let the Inu in her take over some more, and she began to lick the blood off his face.

Inuyasha flinched slightly at the contact, but almost immediately relaxed. He began to make a soft growl of contentment and encouragement.

She ran her tongue in soft laps all over his face, moving to his lips at last. She paused at his mouth and kissed him before moving up to his ears.

Inuyasha's soft growls turned into a deeper, lust-filled growl when he felt the change in her treatment of this grooming. At first, it had started out as simple comfort-grooming. Now that she was loving his ears and the faint scent of his lust began to permeate the room, her ministrations lingered and she began to suck gently on the flesh.

The next thing he knew, he was slammed full in the face by the unmistakable scent of a horny bitch.

“Kagome…” Inuyasha growled, getting out and grabbing one of her family's towels automatically. She smelled of dog much more strongly than usual, which meant that her inner-Yokai was much closer to the surface. He found that his baser side responded to her enthusiastically. “I want you.” He growled.

“Then have me, my mate.” Kagome breathed, kissing him.

The hanyou didn't need to be told twice. As soon as he had wrapped the towel around his waist and Kagome had gathered his hakama, they both sprinted to her bedroom, unseen by any in the household.

As soon as the door was locked, Kagome stripped off her clothes. The sight of her stomach round with his pup had him drooling with excitement as he removed the towel.

To his surprise, she did not lie down on the bed on her back, but on her hands and knees, presenting herself to him as an Inu bitch would.

The first time they had trying to mate in the traditional Inu style, they had both been too human to really enjoy the loss of face-to-face intimacy, but now…

:Mate.: Kagome growled.

Inuyasha let loose a thundering possessive growl as she climbed onto her bed and mounted her from behind. :Mate.: Inuyasha confirmed with a bark as he pressed himself inside her.

Kagome moaned in pleasure, and braced herself, which turned out to be a good idea.

Inuyasha grabbed onto her hips, growled loudly, and began to pound into her with the furious pace of a Yokai.

Doggie Style was much more satisfying to the two mates when they were more Inu than human. In the back of their minds, they knew that they were both acting like horny dogs: growling, barking, and panting. But, mostly, they didn't care.

Kagome let out a loud whine of Inu pleasure and closed her eyes to better concentrate on the feelings, both emotionally and physically, that her mate invoked in her.

He made her feel loved and protected, emotionally. And physically! She knew that if they lived for all eternity, she would never grow tired of him. She could feel his claws digging into her hips, which seemed to add to her pleasure. She could feel the cascade of his silky silver hair running along her back and sides with every thrust. And last, but certainly not least, their mind-blowing sex! From this position, he had deeper penetration that had her gasping with every thrust.

She felt his movements become more frantic and he reached down between her thighs and began to rub the hidden nub of flesh, almost causing Kagome to scream.

:Bitch come with mate.: Inuyasha growled.

She howled in pleasure. :Mate! Almost… there!: She howled loudly as she came.

Her climax triggered his own and his body locked in place as he poured useless seed into her.

They were both panting and sweating. Inuyasha helped his tired mate get comfortable against his body as she lay next to her. He growled possessively as he wrapped his arms around her and turned her until they were face-to-face.

“Inuyasha…” Kagome whispered as her Inner-Yokai retreated. “I love you.”

“I love you too, bitch.” Inuyasha said as they fell asleep together.

 

LES: You guys are sooo lucky that you actually got a chapter update this weekend! Cause I've just gotten my Birthday present from my daddy! An 80Gb PS3! So… after I post this, I will be spending the rest of the weekend lost in Assassin's Creed and Heavenly Sword. LOL! Dude, it is flippin' amazing! I don't even have a HD TV, and the graphics are still above and beyond anything I've seen on the PS2. And, as for the PS2… it's been retired to the garage.