InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Getting Over It ❯ A Moment Like This ( Chapter 1 )

A/N: Greetings All! This is Inuyasha and Kagome's parallel story to the Sesshomaru and Kikyo tale “Learning to Live Again”. This pretty much runs during the same time as the previously mentioned story. I will try to do as much summary from the other story as I can, so no one has to read both if they don't want to. For those of you that have read any of LtLA, this story starts just before chapter 5 of that story. Enjoy!

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, and I don't make any money from the writing of this or any of my stories.

 

Chapter One: A Moment Like This

 

She had had better days. That much she was sure of. She had been captured by the panther demon tribe, gagged, and thrown into a cell alone.

 

She should have kept her big mouth shut then she wouldn't have been separated from her friends.

 

At first, she had been tossed into the same cell as the frightened villagers. Then Sango and Miroku had joined her. It was a relief to know that they were okay and that Inuyasha was on the way.

 

She opened her mouth and worked the villagers to a frenzy, nearly inciting a riot in the cell filled with once terrified people. She had ignored Sango and Miroku's pleas to stop and work on any plans of escape quietly, without gaining the attention of the panthers.

 

Then the green haired panther demon woman had slammed open the cell door, silencing the angry mob and sending them back to being a group of scared humans. She jerked Kagome out by her hair. She was roughly shoved against the bars where her friends were being held, her arms were tied behind her back and a dirty piece of cloth had been shoved in her mouth, before it was tied around her head. Then she was shoved into a new cell alone.

 

She wasn't sure, but Kagome had thought she heard the demon woman call her a stupid fucking bitch.

 

She had been so rash and eager to get out. Not because they were in mortal peril. They were in a constant state of that. Inuyasha would get them out. Her faith in him was absolute.

 

She wanted to be gone by the time Sesshomaru arrived there. It was amazing how just three weeks ago, it would have been very welcome news to find out that Sesshomaru was fighting the panthers too. Not that Kagome had a thing for the demon lord or anything; her eyes were for Inuyasha alone. But Sesshomaru would surely kick some ass and help Inuyasha in the battle, until he decided to wail on his younger brother for a while.

 

Kagome had no desire to even see the demon now. Sango whispered something to Miroku and when Kagome heard Sesshomaru's name, she could feel her cheeks growing hot with embarrassment at the same time disgust swirled in her mind.

 

With nothing to do in here, but wait and think, her mind traveled to things she'd rather not be thinking about. His name brought the images of him and his lover.

 

It was one of those images that had burned into the back of her eyelids. She could still see it when she closed her eyes.

 

Two weeks before, she had stumbled across the demon totally bereft of clothing, making out with a human woman, that Kagome would admit was quite attractive. The woman was as nude as the demon lord and with her body pinned against the tree and her limbs wrapped around him.

 

Now, Kagome really shouldn't have been surprised that Sesshomaru had sex with good looking women. Look at him! She was sure women swooned over him when they weren't cowering in fear. He was mind blowingly sexy, albeit quite feminine in facial features, but gorgeous nonetheless.

 

The fact that his lover was human had been a shocker to Kagome. She wouldn't have thought that he'd be into human women; much less inside a human woman. With all the human scum bullshit he spewed all the time and the invective he heaped on Inuyasha for being half human. The only way she knew that the woman was human, had been the pieces of shredded priestess habit littering the clearing.

 

`My, my, someone had been eager.' She thought, smirking behind the gag, before her thoughts propelled her forward.

 

She remembered feeling self conscious as she studied what she could see of the naked woman's body. She was curvier than most Japanese women with breasts larger than Kagome's, and flawless. The bitch didn't have a scar on her. If she did, Kagome hadn't been able to see it.

 

Kagome wasn't a lesbian, but she could admire and admit that another woman was striking without being one.

 

Then, she had heard the woman speak to the demon and Kagome's embarrassment had turned to disgust and rage so potent, she could taste it.

 

Kagome had had bad dreams of this woman being fucked, but it was always Inuyasha doing the deed, and the woman had never been so damn pretty or needy.

 

Kagome had stumbled upon the high and mighty Sesshomaru fucking the infallible and pure Kikyo.

 

While Inuyasha was running all over the countryside chasing Naraku to avenge Kikyo's death, she was fucking his brother.

 

The image would forever be burned imprinted on Kagome's mind. She should probably go see someone in her time and talk to them about what she saw.

 

It's not like she could tell anyone here what she had seen that day.

 

When Sesshomaru had realized she was there, he had thrown Kikyo to the ground and chased after Kagome. It hadn't actually been a chase, because Kagome had had barely enough time to pivot before he caught her.

 

She was honestly sick of being manhandled by demon in the past few weeks. Sesshomaru had thrown her on the ground next to Kikyo, jerked her back to her feet, and choked her. He had threatened to kill Inuyasha and all her friends if she told anyone.

 

After seeing him in action, she had no reason to doubt his threat.

 

“This Sesshomaru does not make threats, he makes promises.” Kagome mumbled into the gag.

 

He had smacked the hell out of Kikyo after she told him that his face would shatter if he smiled. Then he told them he had better things to do than spend time with Inuyasha's little girl and an undead priestess whore.

 

Kikyo had told Kagome that she hadn't known that Sesshomaru was Inuyasha's brother.

 

Right. Like Kagome believed that for one freaking second. The bitch excelled at lying. She would be a damn good politician if she managed to survive until the twenty first century.

 

Kagome still wanted to cry at the hopelessness of the situation. She was in love with Inuyasha, he was in love with Kikyo, and she was fucking Sesshomaru.

 

She had wanted to tell him so badly, if nothing else to make him see what Kikyo was really like.

 

But she couldn't. She knew the ramifications of telling him. He would go after Sesshomaru and Sesshomaru would kill him since he knew and he would kill the rest of them.

 

That wasn't the reason she didn't want to tell him. She didn't tell him because it would hurt him. It would hurt him so much and she loved him. She could never hurt him.

 

The only good thing that had happened that entire day two weeks ago, had been the satisfaction of punching Kikyo in her pretty face. Kagome still remembered the way it felt when her knuckles had smashed into the other woman's face. The glee she had felt when she realized she knocked the other off her feet and onto her ass, still lingered.

 

She hated her more now than she did when she thought Inuyasha had been running off to see her. Just the idea that she could do that with his own brother while she had made him promise to go to hell with her, infuriated her.

 

It took a special bitch to be that fucking nasty.

 

“Kagome, are you okay?” Sango asked. “Miroku said he could feel your powers spiking and said the panthers are getting edgy.”

 

Damn, she needed to calm down. She couldn't let herself get in any more trouble, because she was thinking of that bitch. She took a deep breath. “Yeah Sango. I'm fine. Don't worry about me.”

 

Kagome sighed as she sat on the cold floor and leaned her head back against the wall. She really needed to start wearing different clothing in this era. Her skirt was so short that she couldn't modestly get comfortable.

 

Strike that. There was no way she could get comfortable anyway. Her hands were tied behind her back.

 

This sucked. But Inuyasha would come for her. She knew he would save her. He was too damn stubborn not to.

 

She just had to wait.

 

!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!

 

`Okay Inuyasha. Anytime now would be great.' Kagome stood with the others under the barrier the panther demons had closed them in. Sango had removed the gag and the bindings around her wrists as soon as the panthers returned Kagome to them.

 

The giant skeleton-like panther demon leader had just woken up and was moving.

 

She heard one of the panthers greet someone and say something about sacrificial lamb. Kagome's blue eyes locked with Sesshomaru's gold ones. He failed to acknowledge her further.

 

Which was just fine with Kagome, because she felt herself blushing again. Even though he was fully dressed, she kept seeing him naked.

 

“Ka! Go! Me!” Koga shouted as he tried to reach her through the barrier.

 

“Koga!” She shouted, spinning to look from Sesshomaru to the wolf demon.

 

She frowned as she watched him bounce off the barrier. He landed in the direction of Sesshomaru. She noticed the demon lord's eyes widened, in what Kagome could only assume was surprise, an instant before red bolts of what looked like lightening wrapped around the barrier, before it vanished completely.

 

“Kagome! Are you okay?” Inuyasha rushed to her side and checked her for any injuries. His clawed hand reached to brush a strand of hair from her eyes. Kagome's breath caught in her throat and she felt the urge to kick Koga when he swept her away from the half demon.

 

The moment was broken, but that was okay. It was hardly the time for a moment like that anyway. There were people to save and demons to vanquish.

It was just that tender moment with Inuyasha were so far and few between that Kagome hated for one to be taken away from her, even if it was at a horrible time.

 

“Go on Kagome! Get everyone out!” Inuyasha turned to battle the panthers.

 

“Right! Come on!” She hurried away from the battle and her and the others ran into a pack of demons.

 

She had been manhandled enough by demons, was still more than a little irritated over what Koga had done, and pissed off at Sesshomaru for fucking Kikyo, even if he didn't know who she was, so she shouted at them. “What do you think you're doing?! Aren't we supposed to be your life sacrifices?! You know you're not supposed to kill us! Now move!” She shoved through them.

 

“Wow Kagome, that was pretty cool,” Ginta said as he ran next to her.

 

“It was, wasn't it?” She smiled. “The day is starting to look up, Ginta.”

 

She laughed as they led the villagers to safety.

 

!@#$%^&**&^%$#@!

 

You know that saying about how you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch? Well, Kagome wished she had remembered it, before she told herself the day was starting to look up.

 

Inuyasha had arrived to save the day. She had made all those panther demons look stupid when they'd threatened the villagers. Then, she had led them to safety with the help of Sango, Miroku, and the wolf demons.

 

They had watched from outside the compound as Inuyasha and Sesshomaru battled the panther demons and then, the panther king himself.

 

After Koga's comment on how the panther king had dined on fresh dog meat for the necessary sacrifice to bring him back to life, Kagome had edged away from the group and toward the fighting. She needed to be sure that Inuyasha was okay. She wanted to see him with her own eyes and have him speak to her.

 

She was nearly there when she saw the panther king revert back to the state he had been in before his sacrifice. She started to run and just before she reached the bridge, she collided with someone.

 

Hard.

 

With a grunt, she rolled back onto her behind, trying to get back the air that had been slammed from her lungs on impact. Her legs were sprawled beyond her control, giving whomever she had just ran into a nice view of the white panties covering her crotch.

 

At least she hadn't gone commando today. It's not like she ever did, but that had nothing to do with anything.

 

Blood from the person she had run into had transferred to her.

 

“Oh gross.” Her top was stained with it.

 

“At least, you have enough dignity to cover that much of yourself, girl.”

 

Blue eyes jerked up to meet icy gold eyes. Kagome scrambled to her feet, blushing the entire time.

 

It just had to be Sesshomaru.

 

Today was so totally not her day.