InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Geisha to Pack Priestess ❯ The Hidden Village ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter 4: The Hidden Village

 

 

 

“Inuyasha!” Kagome whined into the hanyou's doggy ears. The furry appendages twitched slightly in irritation. “Please! Let me wash my kimono and take a bath! You said we are almost there what's an hour's break going to do?” pouted Kagome. Inuyasha held her tighter on his back and frowned.

 

“I said no wench!” Inuyasha growled back, his eyes shifted to the setting sun nervously. “We need to get to the village before sundown, it's very important that we do that first and foremost.”

 

Kagome sighed and absently twirled a silver lock of his hair around a slender finger. “But why is it so important? I need to take a bath Inuyasha, I don't want the pack thinking Im dirty or anything.” Inuyasha felt a frown tug at his lips and slowed his pace a little before finally coming to a stop.

 

Kagome slid off the hanyous back and after giving a brief hug of appreciation to him from behind he let the girl run off to where the sound of a river could be heard. Inuyasha stood there for a little while staring at the setting sun. He was suddenly struck with worry about how the pack would treat the young geisha turned priestess. He recalled Miroku complaining before he left for Kaede's that the pack was treating Sango like trash. The pack was highly influenced by the elders and when word got around that the two new humans were geisha the pack was starting to act cruel to Sango. They would try to take advantage of her, gave her dirty looks, gossiped, nothing seriously damaging and it was quick and easy for Miroku to get the pack to stop but now Inuyasha worried this would all happen to Kagome. `Hopefully they will treat her good because she will be with me.' He thought.

 

Kagome had slipped out of all of the parts to her elegant kimono and was washing it in the water of the river as she stood naked from the hips down in the river. She shivered as a cold wind blew through but continued with washing. When she found her work to be sufficient she set the kimono over a tree limb to dry and then went back to the river to wash up.

 

Kagome washed herself thoroughly and when done; decided to soak a little while her kimono dried. She lazily opened an eye towards the horizon and saw that the sun had almost completely set. She got out of the water and put on the kimono, though it wasn't as damp as before it was extremely cold from the wind. She shivered in it as she walked back to the road they were traveling on. The sun had set and as Kagome turned out onto the path of the road she was shocked to find a human Inuyasha sitting under a tree looking agitated.

 

“Inuyasha?” she called tentatively. He looked up at her and blushed at the sight of her, the kimono clung to her like a second skin and the chill air had affected her supple breasts in a most…curious way. Inuyasha groaned and squeezed his eyes shut, attempting to will the image away but failed miserably.

 

“Yeah it's me, you took long enough wench! Now we wont reach the village by midnight.” Inuyasha groused. Kagome blinked owlishly at him for a minute then when he came to stand right in front of her expectantly she grabbed hold of one human ear and yanked on it. “Ow! What the hell?!” Inuyasha growled pathetically, since he no longer was half demon. Kagome gasped and retracted her hand.

 

“Wow…they're real.” She said as if he didn't already know. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

 

“Feh! Of course they are! This happens to be my human night alright?” he snapped impatiently but when Kagome continued to stare blankly he explained. “One night a month a half demon's demon blood recedes and they become human, there is a similar night for their demon blood to take control but it doesn't fully take control just make it difficult to stay in my hanyou form. Understand?” he finished. Kagome nodded and then looked up at the sky to see no moon, a new moon. Kagome smiled up at Inuyasha.

 

“Well! Let's get going then!” she began to walk down the road towards the hidden village. Inuyasha followed lazily and watched the petite woman ahead of him protectively. He noticed that she shivered when a breeze blew through. He was reaching to remove his haori for her but he only let his eyes off her for a second and suddenly they were attacked.

 

Kagome screamed as a man jumped out of the trees and grabbed her. She struggled fiercely but to no avail. He had her pinned to a tree and just as Inuyasha was running forward to help he was attacked from behind. The hilt of a dagger was rammed into the back of his neck and the hanyou turned human toppled over. The man who jumped him began to wail on him violently.

 

Kagome's kimono was being ripped off by the burly man holding her against the tree and she continued to scream. “Inuyasha! Inuyasha!!” Inuyasha's attacker ceased for a minute to watch the show that his friend was about to put on with the priestess. Inuyasha's weak human body trembled on the ground as he tried to get up.

 

“Damnit...” Inuyasha growled in frustration. Kagome was crying now as the man got to her flesh and was touching her chest roughly with large hairy hands. The man laughed drunkenly while his fried cheered him on. Kagome tried to fight back or even summon her miko energy but she was so under trained and so emotionally distraught that she could do nothing as the man took advantage of her.

 

“Inuyasha!! INUYASHA!! HELP ME!!” She cried out pleadingly, she felt the dirty hands of the bulky man touching her between her legs and she shuddered with disgust. The man was so entranced with his actions on the girl that he didn't acknowledge the rustling movements or the pained gasp from his friend. Suddenly as he moved his hands to untie his pants a human arm swooped across his torso from behind and a blade was swiftly embedded on the left side of his throat and jerked across it swiftly. The disgusting man gave a surprised and pained gasp as blood spurted from his slit throat. Kagome was lightly sprayed by it and she stared with blank eyes as the man fell over, revealing Inuyasha.

 

Human Inuyasha stood there with the bloody knife he had wrestled from his attacker clutched in his right hand and panting slightly from the physical strain of fighting the other guy. The other guy was on the ground bleeding to death from a stab wound. The man who was molesting Kagome was most certainly dead, lying between Kagome and Inuyasha. Inuyasha's face was bruised from the beating he got from the other guy and he was bleeding a little on his face, from a cut above his brow, and on his knuckles and his knees.

 

Inuyasha's violet eyes were trained on Kagome. She slowly slid down the bark of the tree, staring intently at the dead man at her feet. She was completely bare to Inuyasha. Her kimono torn wide open, blood splattered her face and chest. Her blue-gray eyes stared at the man and tears slowly built again. He watched as she reached a hand out towards the man, as if to see if he would respond, but he wouldn't, he was dead.

 

“Kagome…” Inuyasha whispered. He didn't know why he was whispering, it just seemed appropriate. Kagome seemed to jerk out of her trance and looked up at Inuyasha sharply. Inuyasha tried hard not to stare at her exposed body. “Get up…you need to get cleaned up so we can go.” He whispered again.

 

“Inuyasha…” he looked at her expectantly. “You…killed him.” She whispered. Inuyasha didn't know how to react to this. She looked so confused and shocked.

 

“He was going to rape you.” He said simply. He watched her as she stared at the dead man; the other man was obviously dead now since he had grown silent. He could not determine her emotions but when tears rolled down her face he determined that she was feeling compassion for the sleaze ball that was going to hurt her and the thought that she might hate him for killing one of her kind struck him. He turned around so he wouldn't see any hate she might have for him. He was shocked when her sobbing broke out and she got up from the tree to hug him from behind. “Wha…?”

 

“Thank you! Thank you so much Inuyasha!!” Kagome shouted into his back as she cried. Inuyasha rested his claws over the slender hands the clutched the front of his haori. “Inuyasha…” she whispered. “I will repay you for this I swear!” she proclaimed determinedly. Inuyasha snorted.

 

“Feh! Don't bother, that is what members in a pack do for each other…” He said with a blush. “Now! Go get cleaned up!” Kagome nodded and disappeared into the woods towards the river again. Inuyasha allowed her to get only a little ahead of him and then followed her. He heard her get into the river and casually leaned against a tree, facing away from the river of course. He took off his haori, he inspected the back to find only a little blood from when Kagome hugged him, other than that it was relatively clean. `That bastard ripped up her kimono, she'll have to wear this for now.' He thought. `I'll need to initiate her into the pack as well…probably should do that before we go any further.' Inuyasha heard Kagome's frustrated sigh.

 

“My kimono is unfixable…unless of course you carry around needle and thread?” Kagome added flatly. Inuyasha smirked and held out the haori so she could see it.

 

“Wear this then, it's warmer than that kimono anyway, seeing as it was wet and all.” Kagome got out of the river and took the haori. She blushed lightly.

 

“Thank you again…” he heard the rustling of clothes and when the sound stopped he was surprised when she came around the tree to face him. She was still wet from washing up after their ordeal and was now wearing his haori in an almost makeshift dress style. He saw that with the way she maneuvered the sleeves she now looked like she was wearing a VERY short red short sleeved dress. Kagome twirled for him playfully and Inuyasha made a show of eyeing her, causing Kagome to giggle.

 

“That'll do. Now, before we go on I think it would be a good idea to initiate you into the pack. Are you squeamish when it comes to blood?” asked Inuyasha off the bat. Kagome looked a little hesitant to answer this question, wondering what blood had to do with anything. In response she reached up and wiped away the trail of blood coming from the cut above his brow.

 

“No. Why?” asked Kagome. Inuyasha nodded and sat down against the tree.

 

“Alright. Promise you'll do everything I say okay? This is all for the initiation.” Inuyasha commanded obedience serenely. Kagome nodded hesitantly. His next words almost made her fall over in shock. “Straddle me.” He said bluntly. Kagome's face went cherry red. Inuyasha smirked at her shyness and mockingly patted his thighs, he was sitting Indian style. Kagome gulped and straddled his torso, causing her to sit on his thighs, and to be pressed against his crotch. Inuyasha grunted slightly. He held up a clean knife for Kagome to see. “Stole this from the guy that jumped me, he had several knives on him. Bastard.” He grumbled the last part grumpily. Kagome nodded and waited for him to continue.

 

“Okay.” Inuyasha said steadily and Kagome was shocked when he forced the knife into her hand. “I want you to cut me.” He said calmly. Kagome gasped and immediately shook her head.

 

“N-No! You do it!” Kagome insisted trying to push the knife into his hands.

 

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. “Don't worry it wont hurt me. You have to be the one to do it, the binding requires you drink the blood that I willing allow you to spill. Now cut me!” Inuyasha repeated impatiently. Kagome looked at the knife and then at the arm whose sleeve he had rolled up.

 

“B-But would this spell even work when youre human?” Kagome asked.

 

“Usually only hanyous can even SEE the hidden village, so in order to allow you to see it I need to bind you to me. It doesn't matter that Im human now, I can still see it because the blood flowing through me at all times is hanyou, even if one type of my blood is dominating my features. Usually humans can only be brought into the village if they are mated to a hanyou there, mating would automatically give you the ability to see it but the next best thing is this ritual, it will put a protective mark on you so that I am bound to protect you with my life. The protective mark is the closest thing to being mated without being mated; someone in the pack has no doubt vowed to protect your friend Sango so she can stay in the village, now it is your turn.”

 

Kagome was still hesitant; she didn't want to cut Inuyasha, no matter what he said it would hurt if she has to draw enough blood to drink it. Kagome was about to just refuse to do it when Inuyasha suddenly reached out grabbed the knife by the blade, Kagome was so shocked by this that she jerked her hand away, bringing the blade with it to cause his palm to be sliced. Kagome gasped and dropped the knife to the side to inspect the wound. Inuyasha watched her study the cut with mild fascination, she looked so concerned. `How can she care so much? Why does it not bother her that I'm a hanyou?' Inuyasha shook those thoughts away and brought his bleeding hand up to her face.

 

“Drink as much as you can.” He instructed. Kagome slowly licked at the wound and was amazed that she didn't throw up the coppery substance like she imagined she would have, it actually wasn't as bad as she thought it would be, it was almost sweet. Inuyasha watched her lick at his wound and felt heat surge through him. `Gods…I feel so hot all of a sudden. And her little pink tongue licking at me like that…woah! Focus!' Inuyasha groaned and violently shook his head. Kagome had licked the wound so much now that it was no longer bleeding profusely and she was now also licking at his flesh, causing shivers to run up human Inuyasha's back.

 

“Is that good?” asked Kagome. Inuyasha nodded, he then leaned over her, making sure she would not get away by grabbing her waist. Kagome watched as he sniffed at her neck. He was sniffing around curiously and she wondered what he was doing.

 

Inuyasha nuzzled her neck and then moved up her neck to her ear, he nuzzled his nose behind it, causing Kagome to squirm in his grasp because of the sensitive skin he was touching. Inuyasha then gave a strong lick to her skin behind the ear and unknown to Kagome a crimson crescent moon appeared there. It burned bright for a minute and then settled to look like just a regular mark.

 

“It's done. You will be able to see the village.” Inuyasha whispered in her ear. Kagome shivered at the breath blowing in her ear and nodded slowly. When Inuyasha just held her to him for awhile she wondered if they should get back to traveling.

 

“Should we go now?” asked Kagome. Inuyasha nodded and allowed her to get off of him. They quickly continued their journey, not speaking of anything that happened and simply basking in the comfortable silence. Kagome was surprised when after about an hour's walking Inuyasha reached behind and grabbed her hand. They stopped and Inuyasha turned to face her.

 

“You are going to love this…” he said with a warm smile. Kagome blushed and thought to herself. `Love the hand holding? Yes I do. What's your point?' Kagome watched him take her other hand and then walk backwards through a path in some brush, he led her like this with a cocky grin on his handsome face. Kagome blinked at him confused and then was shocked so terribly she forgot to breath when they broke through the foliage and came upon a magnificent sight.

 

The hidden village was enormous! The night's atmosphere added an ethereal misty glow to the giant almost city like village of hanyous. There was a giant steep cliff, with bluish rock. There were built in paths winding around the cliff and going all the way around so it was impossible to tell if it was one long road built into the mountain of just rings. There was giant tree at the top of the mountain, it was so big it was mind boggling and seemed to be on some sort of island like area at the top because a little ways on each side of it waterfalls poured down. The sparkling mist of the water falls were lit by the lanterns in front of the many many caves built into the mountain. The top of the “mountain” seemed to have a lot of vegetation because beautiful vines grew down the mountain from the top, sporting lovely flowers of all colors. There were strange moving lights everywhere, that had to be fireflies. There was a little movement here and there but appeared that most of the village was asleep. Kagome could also spot little huts lining the base of the “mountain” they appeared to be closed shops, their owners obviously asleep for the night.

 

Just in front of the hanyou and priestess was part of a giant spell engraved in stone set into the ground, it wound around the entire “mountain” and was the concealment spell. When the hanyou and priestess crossed it but the markings and the protection mark glowed. Kagome was in stunned awe. She saw that the water falls fell onto a large area of the road that seemed to be cut out to be artificial lakes but with all of that water flowing in so quickly there was no way the little pond sized water bodies would not over flow onto the market place at the bottom of the “mountain.”

 

Kagome looked up at Inuyasha in amazement. “This place…it's…” Inuyasha chuckled in amusement.

 

“I'm glad you like it. This will be your home now. It's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen isn't it?” Inuyasha took one of her hands and led her toward the caves. “It is basically a giant plateau with caves carved into it. There are many passage ways inside the caves and even more spells engrained into the place. You will love living in the caves that is where all the upper members of the pack live.

Those not part of the warrior groups live in huts on the flat plane on top of the plateau. It is like a forest up there and that tree you see sustains all the spells. The water as you might be wondering comes from a hot spring that is in the center of the village on top of the plateau, the water cools as it moves in the river systems and is used for irrigation on the other side of the plateau as well as plumbing and drinking water, designated in different spots of course would want to drink from the plumbing water! You see! That river on the right is the plumbing water for this entire half of the plateau and the right is for drinking all along this side, as well. You will find even more waterfalls on the other side.” As Inuyasha talked Kagome listened intently and stared around at the beauty of the place.

 

`Wow…this place is so beautiful…but it's not the most beautiful thing I've ever seen…' she thought pensively and glanced at Inuyasha shyly. “Inuyasha…can you give me a tour some other time? I'm a little tired.” To prove her point she yawned widely. Inuyasha looked at her and nodded in approval.

 

“Good idea! Come on! My cave is towards the center of the plateau just ahead! Get on my back and we can jump up.” Kagome climbed onto his back tiredly, not minding the shortness of the haori she wore. They jumped up over the market shops to the first ring of road around the plateau then up another, then another, then ANOTHER. Finally they got to the largest cave opening in the plateau, it was twice as large as the others and right in between the two artificial ponds that were just above the cave which means Inuyasha's cave got the freshest water of all. They paused outside the cave entrance.

 

Kagome saw similar unreadable markings like the ones surrounding the village etched into the stone around the entrance. She cocked her head to the side curiously and Inuyasha smirked at her cute behavior.

 

“Those marks cause the inside of the caves to look pitch black at all times when looked into from the outside, this preserves privacy it also blocks all sound from inside but you can tell if there is sound inside or even if there is any occupant inside when the markings on the outside glow.” Inuyasha took her small hand and brought here through the hazy blackness that seemed to only cover an inch of the cave. When inside it was found to be quite large and roomy with lanterns lighting it up, there were furs covering the floor like carpet, a fire pit for cooking and along the walls there was a track system for water that had symbols on the wooden troths that seemed to prevent the annoying sound of water running when people sleep in the cave. There was also two large basins; one on the left for plumbing that ran water into another room that must have been a makeshift bathroom and the other basin on the right was like a sink type of area and ran water from there to another cave for those occupants to use the drinking water. There were also two other openings in the large lounging area/kitchen.

 

Inuyasha led Kagome through another doorway that had marking for privacy and found it to be just slightly smaller than the lounge and had a huge pile of furs in the center. Kagome watched Inuyasha pull off his under shirt and walk to the furs. He looked over at Kagome expectantly. “A-Am Am I sleeping w-with you?” asked Kagome. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

 

“Of course! Now Come on! You said you were tired.” Kagome blushed even deeper and nodded quickly she scuttled over and lied down on the piles of fur and after pulling a fur over here as a blanket got comfortable. The furs were incredibly soft and provided plenty of warmth. Inuyasha reached over and grabbed Kagome. He pulled the stunned geisha into his arms and quickly went to sleep. Kagome blushed and decided it would do no harm to sleep like this and quickly drifted off as well.

 

 

A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long to put up! Ill try to be more frequent with updates but school keeps getting harder as exams close in! Give me a week or two with school and then my fanfics can be my top priority again! >.< Please review!!