InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Harem ❯ Chapter 4

DISCLIAMER: Inuyasha, belong to Rumiko Takahashi and not to me. The AU world this story is set in, the plot and any additional characters do belong to me though, and so please don't try to take them without my permission. I make no profit of this story, and am doing it only for my own enjoyment (and hopefully yours too).

 

CHAPTER 4

 

Kagome wasn't sure what she was supposed to do right now. She had just woken up a moment ago from her night with Prince Inuyasha, and was currently lying next to him in bed trying to figure out what was expected from her now, and whether she should stay or go. When she had first woken up a few minutes ago, she couldn't remember where she was, and upon realising that she was in bed with a man she had almost panicked before the events of the previous night came back to her. Not that that was all that reassuring, but at least it was enough to stop her from totally freaking out.

 

Inuyasha was still asleep, and Kagome found she couldn't stop her eyes from travelling over his form to take in everything that she had seen and touched last night, even as she turned bright red at doing so. And to think she had somehow expected to have to bed an ugly old King when she arrived at the palace. She hadn't had any basis for that thought, but it seemed to fit with what she had been feeling during the trip here. Now instead she was in bed with a gorgeous young prince who with one glance made her feel things she had never felt before. Kagome blushed even darker as her eyes landed on his manhood. Even though she'd had that within her already, it was only now that she saw it for the first time. Even though he wasn't excited at the moment… well, she didn't exactly have any point of reference, having never seen on before, but even like this he seemed rather large to her, and she couldn't help but wonder how all of that had fitted inside her. The though summoned memories of last night that had her flushing for completely different reasons before Kagome banished those thoughts. Now was not the time to think about such things, not when she still wasn't sure how she felt about last night. She'd try to figure that out later, when there wasn't a gorgeous naked distraction lying next to her.

 

Sitting up slightly, Kagome tried to distract herself by looking around the room and taking in everything she had been too preoccupied to notice last night. Kagome had been right, the room was done up with a lot of red and gold, in fact aside from the pink of her tossed aside gown, those seemed to be the only colours used in the room. The walls were covered in dark red drapes with gold thread embroidery, intersected with golden oil burners. The floor was covered in thick woollen rugs, also red. Even the bed they were currently lying on was made of a gold frame and covered in red sheets, which they were currently lying on top of. The room also contained a large gilded mirror, a few small side tables set into the corners, and large wardrobe and a number of statues of various sizes. Even the cheapest of items was probably worth more than Kagome's family would make in several months. Kagome also noticed that there were three separate sets of door to the room. One that Kagome recognised as the door through which she had entered the room, one which she thought might lead to the same place as that unknown set of door in the prince's living quarters she had noticed the night before, and a third set which contained large glass windows through which she could see a balcony outside.

 

Kagome barely had time to take all this in when she felt her bed mate start to wake up and stir, causing her to instinctively tense.

 

Inuyasha had always been quick to wake in the morning, his brain going from asleep to completely awake and aware within a few seconds, and this morning was no different. Quickly coming to, Inuyasha looked up to see Kagome half lying on the bed next to him looking tense. Smiling what he hoped would be a reassuring smile, Inuyasha sat up and stretched slightly.

 

“Morning.” He said through a yawn. “Sleep well?” When Kagome nodded slightly but didn't speak nor relax, Inuyasha barely resisted the urge to frown. It was only her first morning after officially being made a concubine, of course she's likely to be a little tense he told himself. He hoped she would loosen up around him as she got to know him better, because he was sure he'd want to enjoy her company again before too long. She was natural in bed, extremely peasant on the eyes, and if the gown she'd been wearing last night was any indication she already had Sango's approval as well. All good reasons why he didn't want to scare her away before he got to know her better.

 

“Well, I'd say we both need a bath.” Inuyasha said calmly as he stood up. “Can you get to the bath on your own, or are you too sore from last night?”

 

Confused about what Inuyasha was referring too with his sore comment, Kagome tried to stand up only to quickly learn the answer as soon as she did so. Unable to stop the low groan of pain that escaped her, Kagome's hand went to her lower stomach as she wondered how she hadn't noticed this pain before now. Before she could say anything however, she let out a startled eep, and found herself being held bridal style by a strong pair of arms.

 

“Never mind, I'll carry you.” Inuyasha said, starting towards the set of door leading to the unknown. “A soak in the bath will probably do you some good anyway. Can you get the doorknob?” Nodding against his chest, Kagome reached over to turn the knob and the two headed through the door.

 

As soon as Inuyasha stepped into the room, the two found themselves surrounded by steam, which was gently coming off the huge sunken bath, almost the size of a small pond, in the middle of the room. Around the edge of the bath their lay various bottles of soap, shampoo and the like along with far more towels than the two could possibly need. Kagome half expected there to be attendants there as well, but as happy to see that there weren't.

 

“Hope you don't mind, I don't use bath attendants.” Inuyasha explained as he stepped into the bath and gently sat Kagome down next to him. “I never was comfortable with the idea of someone else washing my ass for me.”

 

“I don't mind.” Kagome said softly. “I'm not very comfortable with somebody else washing me either.”

 

With a grunt of what Kagome thought might be approval, Inuyasha reached over to the bottles of soaps and started sniffing at each, repeatedly making faces as he rejected one after the other. “I keep telling those idiots to stop giving me all these stinky pieces of shit soaps, but do they listen?” He muttered, as he threw one that seemed particularly offensive across the room. “Help yourself to anything here you want to use.” He added, to Kagome as he finally settled on one.

 

Somewhat wearily, Kagome took one of the bottles Inuyasha hadn't rejected and brought it to her face for a cautious sniff. She almost dropped it in shock as the overwhelming scent of spices hit her. No wonder Inuyasha objected to some of these if they were all so strong, even that little sniff was almost enough to knock her out. Quickly placing that back, Kagome tried another before rejecting that one too. Finally after about five bottles, Kagome found a lightly scented cinnamon one that she felt would be acceptable and so decided to use that.

 

The two scrubbed in silence for a few minutes, Kagome noting happily that Inuyasha was right and the hot water was helping to sooth the pain in her lower abdomen, before the silence became to awkward for Kagome and she searched for something to say that wouldn't be taken as somehow offensive.

 

“Where do you get all this water from? This bath's even bigger than the one I had yesterday.” Kagome said suddenly. It was a real question. Back home washing involved a bucket of water and a washcloth every few days, maybe a bath in an old metal tub barely big enough to squat in once a month or so during the wettest part of the year. In a desert kingdom like Inu water was a precious resource not to be wasted, but here at the castle there appeared to be an endless supply somehow if the baths she had received so far were anything to go by. Not that she was complaining, this was wonderful, but how did they manage it?

 

“There's an underground spring running through this part of the kingdom, it provides more than enough water for the castle and the whole city.” Inuyasha explained. “That's why the capital was built here in the first place, as far as we know there's more water here than anywhere in the whole kingdom.” Kagome nodded, that made sense, she had always wondered how they were able to support a city as large as the capital when even a village as little as hers sometimes had trouble providing water to all it's people. No one had ever told her about an underground spring.

 

“How do you like the harem so far?” Inuyasha asked. “Have you seen much of it yet? Meet any of the other concubines?”

 

“It's… it's different than I expected Your Highness.” Kagome said carefully. “I don't feel I've been here long enough to form much of an opinion of it yet. I haven't really seen much, just the baths, the room given to me and Sango's room. And I haven't meet any of the other concubines besides Sango.”

 

Inuyasha nodded, before getting out and heading over to a towel to dry himself off. Kagome quickly looked away, fearing that otherwise she would be caught staring. “You've meet the best of the lot then, Jalal and Muna can be rather tiring company a lot of the time I'm sorry to say. If you have time today I suggest you take a look around the gardens, they're quite well done.”

 

While Inuyasha had been talking he'd finished drying himself off, and had grabbed the clothes left sitting by the towels to put them on. Once he was dressed, he picked up another towel and turned to look at Kagome, who was busy studying the reflection in the water directly in front of her.

 

“Come here, I'll dry you off.” Inuyasha said, trying not to smirk as Kagome blushed bright red at the words. Looking extremely embarrassed, the bright red girl climbed out of the tub and went to stand in front of Inuyasha, avoiding eye contact the whole time. Inuyasha chuckled as he went to work drying her off. He didn't know what had prompted him to offer to do this, it wasn't something he had done with any of his other concubines. It was fun seeing her so embarrassed over it though, he thought with another chuckle. Still, it was also rather hard to do this without letting himself get aroused by it. Kagome would need more time to recover before he could take her again, Inuyasha knew, or he could hurt her again and he didn't want that. Convincing his body of this was a lot harder than his mind though, as his body was too busy trying to respond to the fact that there was an insanely hot naked woman standing in front of him. Fortunately Inuyasha was able to get her dry before his body won the fight, and quickly got her dressed in the gown left for her use, another one of Sango's Inuyasha noted. Either Sango really liked Kagome and wanted to help her fit in, or the maids were upset with her for some reason and were retaliating by steeling her clothes for the new girl. Inuyasha guessed the later, since the maids for some reason seemed to think that Jalal had the style of clothes best suited for a concubine. Not an opinion Inuyasha peculiarly shared, as Jalal's clothes - and Muna's for that matter - left her displayed to the whole world. Inuyasha preferred it if his concubines bodies were bared for his eyes alone. Showing some skin was one thing, it tempted you with what was still covered, but the way Jalal and Muna dressed… Well, anyway, Inuyasha preferred Sango's style. It worked well on Kagome too, though pink wasn't really her colour Inuyasha noted. Maybe a nice green or red? Oh well, that was for Kagome and the dressmaker to decide. Besides, he wasn't about to risk having his manliness questioned by suggesting fashion advice anytime soon.

 

“I've got some stuff I got to do today, and I need to get going for that.” Inuyasha said once Kagome was dressed. “Will you be able to find your way back to your room by yourself, or should I get someone to show you the way?”

 

“I think I'll need to be shown the way.” Kagome said, looking embarrassed by her admission. “I don't exactly have the best sense of direction, and I haven't been here anywhere near long enough to learn my way around yet.”

 

Chuckling slightly, Inuyasha took Kagome to the entrance of the suite and looking around the corridor quickly found a maid who he asked to show Kagome the way back to her room. Just before the two left, Inuyasha grabbed Kagome by the arm to hold her in place and leaned over to speak softly in her ear.

 

“It was a true pleasure spending time with you Kagome.” He said, smirking as he did so. “I'm truly glad you joined my harem, and hope to have the opportunity to spend a lot more time with you soon.” With that he realised her and with one last smirk turned and walked down the corridor in the opposite direction than the maid had been taking Kagome. As Kagome watched him go, she shuddered slightly as she tried to figure out whether it was a bad shudder or a good one.