InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Message From Myouga ( Chapter 23 )

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Chapter 23: Message from Myouga

 

“Why not?”

 

“Cause I said no.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Keh.”

 

“You let me rub them the other day.”

 

“That was different.”

 

“How?”

 

“You tricked me.”

 

“And how did I trick you?”

 

“I wasn't thinking right, okay?!” Kagome giggled. “What do you think you're laughing at, wench?”

 

“You.”

 

“Keh.”

 

“Well, you always call me wench, so I should be allowed to rub your ears at least.”

 

“You are a wench.”

 

“How do you figure that?”

 

“Cause I said so.”

 

“So what you say goes?”

 

“Yep.”

 

“Wha…”

 

“You talk too much, wench.”

 

“I do not! You're such a baka.”

 

“Oi! You can't talk to me like that anymore!” He squeezed his arms tighter around her waist. She let out a high pitched squeal. He flattened his ears on the top of his head.

 

“InuYasha!” she looked behind her. “What do you mean I can't call you a baka anymore? That's not fair. If I can't call you baka, then you can't call me wench.”

 

“That's different. You're my wench, now, and I say what goes. I am the male. That makes me boss.” He held his head higher to exaggerate his point.

 

“Your wench, huh? Who said anything about that?”

 

“Keh. I did. You're mine. And that means now you have to do what I say.” He gave her a quick kiss on the lips.

 

“We'll see how long that lasts dog-boy.” She sighed. “What about Miroku and Sango?”

 

“What about them?”

 

“Well, what do we tell them?”

 

“Nothing. It's none of their business what we do. If they can't figure it out on their own that's just too bad.” InuYasha nuzzled Kagome's neck. She tilted her head to give him a better angle, then turned in his lap. Their eyes locked. Kagome smiled. “What are you up to now wench?”

 

“Nothing.” InuYasha stood up, placing Kagome on the floor. “Where are you going?” he chuckled at her pouting face.

 

“I'm hungry. Gonna get something to eat, unless you have some meat stashed in that bag of yours.” She shook her head. “Be right back. Don't leave this hut. Got that?”

 

“Got it.” With one last glare, he was out the door.

 

When she was sure he was a good distance, Kagome grabbed a jacket and one of her few surviving magazines from her pack and walked outside. The cool breeze felt good, especially after being stuffed inside that hut for the last few days. The overprotective hanyou had rarely let her outside, except when she had to `relieve' herself. Even then he wouldn't let her out for very long.

 

She found a nice patch of grass in viewing distance of the hut, not wanting to get too far away, and opened the magazine. She had already read the articles over and over, but it was one of the only reading materials from her time she had left. Getting bored with it already, she decided to risk a walk. She stood up and stretched her arms into the air. When her eyes opened, they laid upon a very aggravated looking hanyou.

 

“Where do you think you're going, wench?” Kagome giggled and took off in a run. InuYasha was dumbfounded. He let her get a head start then took off after her. Kagome let out a yep as she was grabbed by the waist and pulled to the ground. As they rolled InuYasha was careful not to let his weight crush Kagome, coming to a stop with him pinning her down by her wrists.

 

“Oi! What do you think you're doing?” it was more of a playful tone than angry.

 

“InuYasha, let me up!” She wiggled under his hold. In response he added weight and crossed her arms around her stomach with his still holding them and placed his chin on top of those.

 

“Keh. I don't think I will.” He closed his eyes.

 

“You're so gonna get `sat' when I get up!” she tried to no avail to free her arms.

 

“You can't do that anymore, remember? Plus you were supposed to stay in the hut.”

 

“Augh! I've been stuck in there for over a week, InuYasha! If I didn't get out of there soon I was going to go crazy!” InuYasha opened one eye to gaze down at her.

 

“You're already crazy, wench, thinking you could outrun me.” She sighed and let her body relax under his.

 

“Let me up.”

 

“Nope.”

 

“Please?”

 

“Why?”

 

“I can't breathe with you laying on me!”

 

“Keh, if you can't breath how are you talking?” he sat up anyway, letting go of her arms. His hand grazed her midsection as he released her. Kagome giggled and grabbed her stomach.

 

“That tickles!” she immediately regretted her confession with wide eyes as InuYasha cocked an eyebrow, the corner of his lips turning up in a smile.

 

“No! InuYasha, don't!” It was too late. InuYasha trailed a line across her stomach with a gentle touch from one of his claws. His ears flattened as Kagome let out a high-pitched squeal. She pulled and slapped at the hand, now laughing hysterically, which only encouraged InuYasha's tickling. He was now using both claws, leaving Kagome nearly in tears. He was happy to see her smile again; just to hear her laugh.

 

The last few weeks had been hard on her. Losing InuYasha, nearly losing her own life and losing her family on the other side of the sealed well. All those things had taken their toil on the young miko, but right now she was happy. InuYasha knew she was going to be okay now, and he would never let her go. Being alone together was just what they both needed. InuYasha had shown her a side that he was afraid to show anyone else, and Kagome had accepted him without a doubt.

 

“InuYasha! I can't... breath… stop!” sensing she was probably telling the truth this time, he did stop, and they both fell backwards into the grass, Kagome holding her throbbing side. “You can be a real pain sometimes, you know that InuYasha?” Kagome asked when she finally regained her ability to speak.

 

“So I've been told.” He maneuvered himself behind her, taking her into his arms with a strong hold around her waist. “But that doesn't matter, now, does it?”

 

“Maybe it does. Maybe I won't be your wench anymore.”

 

“Keh. Like you have a choice. You are mine, and there's nothing you can do about it, so there.” Kagome giggled. “What's wrong now?”

 

“You're cute when you're being possessive like that.”

 

“Oi! I'm not possessi…” he was cut short by a tickle at his neck. He slapped at it and brought back the flea-youkai Myouga. “Myouga, what do you think you're doing?!” The flea jumped to InuYasha's shoulder.

 

“I have come to help my lord in the destruction of the youkai that threaten the keepsake of the Shikon no tama, of course.”

 

“Like always, you're too late. The youkai are dead.” He picked up Myouga between his thumb and forefinger. “And next time, you better get it straight what they are after!”

 

“But, my lord, I haven't the slightest idea of what you speak.”

 

“They weren't after the stupid jewel! They were after Kagome!” the flea gasped.

 

“Lady Kagome! And, how did you fare?”

 

“I'm fine, Myouga. Thank you for asking.” InuYasha shook his head. Nearly killed because of his misinformation and Kagome acted as if she did care. InuYasha, on the other had, was having to hold himself back from squishing the bug so he wouldn't be able to just pop back like he usually did.

 

“Now if that's all you've got you can beat it!”

 

“Ah, but I do have more news for you. It's an invitation from your brother.”

 

“Sesshomaru? What does he want?!”

 

“All he asks is an audience with you and Lady Kagome. I know nothing else, but he will be expecting you to be at his castle within the week.” InuYasha clinched his fists, making his knuckles turn white. Kagome placed her hand on top of them, causing him to calm down a bit.

 

“I ain't goin, and neither is Kagome. If he has something to say he can get up off his rear and come to me.”

 

“But my lord, he has personally invit…”

 

“Drop it, Myouga, before I drop you!”

 

“InuYasha, he's only passing along the message. Don't get your hakama in a wad.”

 

“What?! I didn't get my hakama in a wad and if you don't stop talking to me that way you're going to regret it.”

 

“Oh yea?”

 

“Yep.” Myouga looked back and forth between InuYasha and Kagome, then smiled.

 

“Congratulations my lord! I knew you would become just as your father!”

 

“What?” InuYasha looked puzzled.

 

“You have accepted Lady Kagome as your mate, have you not?” InuYasha and Kagome blushed.

 

“Not yet… I mean… no I haven't! LIKE IT'S ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS!” he sneered at the flea, raising his thump and forefinger, thumping the youkai to the ground. “Now good riddance.” The last thing InuYasha needed now was his stupid half-brother bugging him or a flea-youkai that was snooping way too deep into something that was none of his business. He and Kagome had just started out, and he wasn't about to let Sesshomaru or Myouga talk her out of it, or scare her off with the talk of being mates with him.

 

InuYasha still didn't have any clue to why Kagome or Kikyou ever became interested in him, but now that he and Kagome were together, he wasn't about to let anything get between him and his love again, a repeat of Kikyou and Naraku was never going to happen again. He wouldn't allow it.

 

“InuYasha? Are you listening?” InuYasha pulled himself back to reality.

 

“Hm?”

 

“I was just saying we should be going back to the village. It's been over a week already and I just left the others without saying anything; they are all probably really worried.”

 

“Don't worry about them. You had to get away for awhile, there's no shame in that Kagome.”

 

Kagome kissed his cheek. “Thank you InuYasha.”

 

He lowered his ears. “Do you want to go back now?” his hopeful expression made Kagome giggle.

 

“No. We can wait till morning, if you want.” She stood up. “But, of course, being the forever in a hurry hanyou you are, you probably want to leave now, right?”

 

InuYasha gave it some thought. If he were to say no, then Kagome would know he wanted more alone time with her. But if he said yes, they would have to go back to the village with the lecher monk, exterminator, the old miko and the kitsune. He growled. As the snow started falling, there was only one thing he could think of to say.

 

“Keh. You'd freeze if we left now. Better to wait till morning. Can't let you get sick again. Pathetic human wench.” He picked her up and took her back to the hut. She grunted. “What? You wanna stay out here and freeze?”

 

“No, but I don't want to stay in that hut all day either.” She looked up at him. “You had a hole through your stomach and still wouldn't even let me look at it. I get sick once and you won't let me out of the hut for weeks. How fair is that?”

 

“Hum. Don't get sick and then you won't have to worry about staying inside. Until then, you'll do what I say.”

 

“But…”

 

“I said you'll do what I say! Now, I'm going back out to hunt again. If I catch you out of the hut this time, I swear I'll make it where you can't leave it.”

 

“Fine.” She waved her hand in the air, brushing off InuYasha's words.

 

“I mean it, Kagome. You are not to so much as put a foot out of this door unless I say so.”

 

“Alright, alright.” InuYasha gave her a suspicious glance before he headed out the door. Kagome stood up a few minutes later. Who was he to tell her what to do, anyway? A sly smile crossed her lips. Can't set a foot out unless he says so, huh? She waited until she was sure InuYasha was a good distance away, and then she made her way sneakingly to the door. She listened at the entrance for any sound from the hanyou. Nothing. Her grin widened. If he though he could control her, he was wrong.

 

Kagome stuck her head out the entrance, then one foot, then the other. Satisfied that InuYasha wasn't around, she fully emerged from the hut, stretching her arms high above her in the twilight sun.

 

“Oi! Caught you, didn't I!”

 

“Eeep!” Kagome jumped off the steps, nearly tumbling to the ground. A hanyou hand reached down to stop her fall. He had been hiding on the roof the entire time.

 

“And where exactly do you think you're going?!”

 

Kagome smiled up at him. “Out?” her smile turned to a pout.

 

“No, no pouting. I told you…” Kagome made her bottom lip quiver, as if she were about to break out into tears. InuYasha lowered his ears. “Wench, quit that! I… I mean it…” when Kagome started to whimper, InuYasha gave up with a sigh. “What am I gonna do with you?”

 

“Mmm. I don't know.”

 

“You're gonna have to be punished for that, you know.” InuYasha smiled down at her.

 

“Really?” she wrapped her arms around him. “What are you going to do about it, dog-boy?”

 

“This…” he once again press his lips to hers. She melted under the sudden closeness, quivering under his touch. InuYasha's hands fell to her waist, one pushing up her shirt enough to let his fingers caress the small of her back. Kagome felt like pouring out all her love into that one kiss, that one show of affection. InuYasha growled deep in his throat with pleasure as Kagome ran her own hands down the front of his haori, pushing back his white undershirt until she made contact with the skin underneath, feeling along his rippling muscles. She let out a sigh of contentment against his lips, which only encouraged him to intensify the kisses. Then, his stomach let out a loud rumble.

 

“I think maybe you should find something to eat.” Kagome giggled, taking her hands out from under his haori. InuYasha reluctantly took his hands from Kagome's back, feeling an instant loss.

 

“Stay. Here.” He spat out. “Next time, you won't get off so easy.”

 

She smiled. “I promise.”

 

A/N: There was a good bit of fluff in here. Not as much as the last one but enough to hold you for awhile. No, they haven't said any `I love you's yet, you'll just have to wait a little longer. Come on, no one says `I love you' right at the beginning of a relationship!

 

Wow. In the last chapter there were more reviews of confusion with InuYasha growling than I thought there would be so, let me try and explain. Kagome is use to a world where guys and girls are equal, even in relationships. But when they were *ahem* kissing, InuYasha growled at her when she started to take control. We all know how `dominant' InuYasha can get, after all, his is a male inu-hanyou. So he growled, telling her to back off. It wasn't like an angry growl or anything, just letting her know he was in control. The rest were just affectionate little growls, kind of like a cat purring or something of the sort. Hope that cleared things up a bit.

 

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