InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Blood and Soul ❯ All will be lost ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4 -All will be lost- <Inuyasha's time>
Kagome looked down at Inuyasha who laid on her stomach, nuzzling it. She smiled seeing that it wasn't just a dream, she was home. His silver hair fell over her skin, cooling the heat that had finally died down. She laughed suddenly when he started to tickle her, "still ticklish," he whispered.

"Hai," she whispered back, knowing that their pups could hear them if they chose.

He leaned up and kissed her, "morning."

She kissed him back, tired but able to move. He moved the kiss down her neck and over his mark. To him they still had many years to make up for. He kissed her again, wrapping his arms around her. When he pulled back to look at her she smiled, "I missed waking up to this."

He looked at her blue eyes and couldn't help but smile, knowing she was truly his again. He rested his head on her shoulder, nipping absently at her neck as he started to zone out. She looked down at his face, "uh oh, looks like you're thinking."

He nodded looking back at her, "I'm thinking about how close that wolf has been getting to Kaida."

Kagome giggled, "she loved his future self. He was the person she trusted so much," she smiled, "but that's not really what you're thinking about."

"Why'd she go to Naraku?" he finally asked, the question that had been eating at his mind the most.

Kagome sighed, knowing this would come, "I don't know exactly, I wasn't in the best of health when this happened. The last thing I remember is seeing Kouga walk through the door. It wasn't really Kouga, it was Ookami, but in my mind I thought it was Kouga. So I hugged him, saying I had waited awhile for him to come back, then Ookami told me. He sat me down and told me what had transpired. Well most of it, he didn't say anything about Naraku, I don't think, maybe he did all I knew was that you were dead. My sons were dead.

"I don't remember much after that. It's just a blur, I was in a bad place though. I wouldn't eat, wouldn't sleep. I just sat there, that's what I was told. I don't know when Naraku started coming to her dreams, she just said that he was suppose to take all the pain away. Ookami said she started to get better and one day wanted to go for a run. That was the day Naraku mated with her, the day I remember most," she stopped, "he mated with her differently. Without my spell on her no one can touch her. If she has his scent on her she's under his control, I guess. Maybe that's why she hates his scent so much. It's like he has her body. Not her mind, but her body, and if he gets control of that then, her mind and soul just get pushed back."

Inuyasha thought about that for a second, "so if we killed her body, and pulled her soul into a different body, a clay one like Kikyo's then we'd have her, unmarked."

"If only things were that easy. But it's just a theory, it might not work. Could you kill her, not knowing if it would work?"

"Yes but theoretically it should work," Myouga mused on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Flea, what are you doing in here?" Inuyasha asked smacking him.

"Myouga, it's rude to intrude on a mate's bedding ground," Kagome scolded.

"Of course Kagome-sama, I couldn't help but hear you and realize that I have heard of that kind of mating. It's used for those mates that have multiple suitors. Or those that are too wild to be tamed without some kind of power over them, that's the main purpose. Controlling, but I'm sure if Naraku were to mate with her like that then it must have different perks that I am not aware of."

"Who was his first love?" Inuyasha asked while he let the information Myouga gave sink in.

"Kikyo," Kagome whispered as if saying the miko's name any louder would bring her back, "why?"

"Ryu said that in the dream last night Naraku said he couldn't kill her because she reminded him of Kikyo."

"Kaida looks like me, and I'm Kikyo's reincarnation. He can't get me so he went for her," Kagome said, putting Naraku's motives out in the open.

"And she screws us over even in the after life," Inuyasha groaned before thinking of something, "maybe Naraku wants Kikyo back in a more suitable body. The clay ones are too easy to kill, but a hanyou body."

"He wouldn't! He can't be that twisted? Can he?" Kagome asked in a dead whisper, knowing he could.

"Myouga, is there any possible way for Naraku to get through the well without the jewel?"

"No with the jewel here and Naraku there, it's not possible for him to come back," Myouga said pointedly.

"Naraku will always be Naraku, has he ever backed down this fast?" Inuyasha asked.

"You have a point, maybe I should go and check on different types of ways to mate."

"That means Naraku will be coming," Kagome sighed getting up.

"Yeah the flea's already planning ways to leave. Guess we should get prepared for whatever may come," Inuyasha agreed.

Myouga was left on the fur in a huff, "well I never. Assuming my way of help is a way to leave in the face of danger."
*~*~*~*~* <Kagome's time>
Naraku sat on the chair in a classy apartment, looking down on the street of Tokyo, "humans are so ignorant, don't you agree Sango?"

"Of course master," the youkai exterminator said from the kitchen.

"With the jewel from this time destroyed and my reluctant mate in the past, I can not get what I wish for at this moment."

"Then what will you do?"

"It will come to me, I still have the connection with her, I can feel the power our bond gives. She's not out of reach yet."

"Why do you want the jewel? Are you not powerful enough, know enough spells to get what you want?"

"You can never have enough power. Besides my mate is reluctant, you can only do so much with one such as her before it becomes rape," he smirked, "where is Rin? She went out to get groceries correct?"

"Yes master," Sango said glaring at the back of his head.

"Do not do that Sango, you are under my control. Now let's see, ah yes, I have a plan."

"Of course you do master," Sango said with a smirk.

"You're very lucky I need you for this plan or else you would be dead. It will take some time, and lots of energy, but with it completed, it will be worth it."

"How long is a long time?"

"A month, enough time so when I get my mate back, not only will I hurt her family, but those wolves as well."

A brown haired inu-youkai walked through the door carrying a bag of groceries. She walked behind Sango and sighed, "the market was busy. Everyone has heard about the dead wolf. Those that matter of course."

"Rin, shut up, I already knew the other youkai and hanyou would hear about Ookami's 'unfortunate' demise," Naraku said, "I'm thinking."

She sat on the counter and shook her head, "you need to get out more, humans can be valuable allies. They have a need for power, if you were to explain the purpose of the jewel, they would follow."

"Humans are ignorant and deserve only what they get. They would believe that we do not exist if someone with more credit were to say it."

"You're not in control this time, the youkai that live want you dead, your mate is reluctant and has probably told her father, who will kill you. You will not succeed without some power," she said lazily.

He turned his head, "do not test me, not today. In a month, when my mate is back on this side of the well, then test my patience. Not until then."
*~*~*~*~*~* <Inuyasha's time>
Ryu stood outside the hot spring, behind a rock while Kaida bathed. He wasn't doing it for danger reasons, but Ookami was a different thing all together. He pushed too many buttons, and crossed too many lines, it didn't help that he was sleeping with Kaida as well. Ookami comforted her more than he could and he didn't like it.

This Ookami was a wolf who wanted a mate and Kaida was ignorant not to see it. He wasn't her brother from the future, he was completely different. Ryu was right, she was wrong, that's all there is too it.

"You do know you don't have to watch me nii-chan," she teased coming out dressed in the kimono she was given, "Ookami is out hunting with Kouga-san."

"You're too trusting," he growled looking just like his father.

"Your face will freeze like that. Trusting isn't bad, being cynical all the time is worse."

"Cynecal?" he asked confused.

She giggled, "no cynical. It means you always question for extra motives besides the ones given to you. Such as you thinking Ookami sleeping with me is for a different reason than the fact that his scent let's me sleep at night."

"But there IS! The only reason he does it is because he wants you as a mate!"

"Ryu, has anyone ever told you, that you think to into people?" she asked entering the cave, "I know what I like and what I don't. Besides, I am mated already. He can't touch me without causing me pain, and if that happens, you'll be the first to know so you can kill him. Ok nii-chan?" she asked hugging him.

He growled in his throat causing her to laugh. He couldn't deny her anything, she was his older sister though, and he had to protect her. Since he couldn't do that once before. She looked into the corridor leading to her parent's room, it was only the third day her mother was back and they still slept late.

A instinctive growl came from her father's throat, saying that they were still sleeping. She covered her mouth and headed back out, running head first into Tama.

"Gomen nasai Tama-san," she said holding her head where they bumped.

"It's alright Kaida, how are you doing this morning?" she asked.

"I'm fine, still a bit sad about losing Ookami-niichan, demo he was going to die anyway. I just wish I was there, to say goodbye," she said.

Tama had heard about the lose of her future son, and though it did hurt, it took a worse toll on the young girl before her. She looked out the front entrance to see her son and Kouga coming back in with breakfast, "Kag-chan and Inuyasha are still asleep, give me the food so Kaida and I can start it up."

Kaida started her morning ritual of cleaning the meat, the one she had made the morning she got here. She felt two arms wrap around her and his scent soothe her as he nuzzled her neck, "morning."

She giggled at his ticklish hands, "morning Ookami. Did you sleep well?"

"Like a baby," he purred, earning a glare from Ryu who was watching from around the corner. He smirked when Kaida growled at Ryu but then shrugged off his own arms.

Shippo was watching as well, not really caring about their actions, at least they weren't as arguing like his mother and father. If Kaida and Ookami started to throw stuff at one another then he could start worrying. Kaida saw him as his mother saw Kouga, like Miroku without the groping hands. That's all the wolf would ever be.

Ookami only touched her to annoy his friend, in reality Kaida was just his sister, like she called him. Maybe later, when she was free from Naraku. When she admitted she liked to be around him for him and not his future self, would he risk the change.

Inuyasha came at the smell of food, dragging Kagome with him. Kouga was coming back from a quick run, without the jewels he wasn't as fast, but still he liked to run.

"So wimpy wolf, when do you intend to stop freeloading off of us?" Inuyasha asked taking a break from shoveling his food in his mouth.

Kouga looked up at the mention of his nickname that stayed intact and shrugged, "when your mate kicks me and my family out."

"I'll be the one to kick you out."

"I'd like to see you try without getting flattened by Kagome!" Kouga said smirking.

"No more spell, meaning I can kick your ass any time I want without with out getting sat!" Inuyasha answered showing that he had no more beads on his neck.

Kagome sighed, "can you two quit it for two seconds and let us have a peaceful meal for once?"

Tama nodded, "Don't make us throw both of you out."

The rest of the meal was eaten in silence with the occasional glare from Inuyasha to Kouga and back. Though they were friends, old habits die hard, especially bad ones.
*~*~*~*~*
Two weeks flew by with each day changing more and more in the way things were run. Kouga and Tama returned to their mountains, leaving Ookami with his friends. Myouga left as well, out to gather more information. Inuyasha took that as a sign that Naraku would make his move soon, and he needed to be prepared. Ryu still needed to be trained in the uses of his sword, called dokkasou after Sesshomaru's attack.

The sword had poison in it, much like the owners' claws. The thing was being able to release that poison which was causing the problems. It had only been done once before and Ryu couldn't remember what he used to do that.

"She can hit the mark," Inuyasha called about Kagome's archery skills.

She glared at him as she strung another arrow and fired it, hitting the center again. "Why aren't you fighting the boys? Or do you just live to compare me to the dead?"

"I thought we had outgrown this stage. I don't love Kikyo anymore," he said sighing.

"I thought you had outgrown fighting with Kouga over every little thing."

"I don't fight with him over every little thing. Besides the wolf is too easy to make fun of."

Kagome sighed, "why did I ever miss this?"

He smirked landing beside her, "because you missed me."

"You're too cocky and sure of yourself for your own good," she said, knowing it was merely feeding the fire.

"You know, you contribute to that fully, being my mate," he answered kissing her on the cheek as she fired another arrow.

Kaida sighed looking at her parents before turning back to Ryu and Ookami fighting. Ookami had said something and Ryu had taken it the wrong way or something. All that she knew was they were fighting again.

Shippo sat below the tree, watching the fight as well. This was nothing new, just like Kouga and Inuyasha when they were younger. Except hopefully Ryu didn't want Kaida for his mate as well. Shippo chuckled and motioned for Kaida to sit next to him. This would be a fun eternity to live with.

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