InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Her Protector ❯ Trouble ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Inuyasha, it's the sole property of Goddess Romiko Takahashi, and I cannot take credit for her genius.

 

Kagome is a college student unaware of the mortal peril she is in. He's a bitter silver - haired Adonis with a checkered past and a vow to protect humans. So when the two meet, it's a given that fireworks follow…

 

 

A/N: A big thanks to my wonderful beta, Rowdyjaner. You absolutely astound me. My jaw still smarts from the fall! ::laughs:: Any mistakes are still all mine!

 

 

Chapter 3 - Trouble

 

 

`The redhead with dimples or the blue-eyed blonde?'

 

Choices, choices, so many choices, and now, when there were just two left, it was difficult to choose. Frankly, Saki was nervous and unsure about the whole thing to begin with, but her friends had convinced her that she should just go ahead and choose, and were now hanging over her shoulder waiting expectantly to see her final choice.

 

Saki gave a mental shrug, looked over the packed dance floor at Poison and gave it a once over…again. Satisfied that she had chosen the two best specimens of masculinity on the dance floor, she turned to her group of eager friends.

 

“Well, it's down to two now…It's either the guy with the red hair and the cute dimples in the red and black clothes over there or the guy with the blonde hair and blue eyes with the Goth look.”

 

Eri gave her a leering smile. “Wow! No matter which one you choose, they both are sooooo yummy…um…good looking.”

 

Ayumi and Yuka burst into peals of laughter as Saki gave her friend a nervous smile. “Eri, you're such a hentai! Really guys, I don't think this is a good idea. I mean, randomly picking up a guy at a club for a one-night stand?…It's so not me…I…I don't think I can do this.”

 

Ayumi rolled her eyes at her friend. “Not again! We've had this conversation before, sweetie.”

 

Yuka gave Saki a one-armed hug and smiled reassuringly. “See, this is why it is the perfect birthday present to yourself. You're 18 today and still a virgin. You need to live a little, Saki. I know you want to do it, right?”

 

“It's just that…” Saki bit her lip. “I'd always imagined that my first time would be perfect…with someone special to me, not just some casual guy I met at the bar…” She took a big gulp of air and nodded at her clique “Ok! Lets do this!”

 

“Great! So which one is the lucky guy?”

 

“Yeah! Which one is it going to be?”

“Hmm… who do I want to lose my virginity to…a youkai or a human?” Saki murmured.

 

“Youkai? What do you mean!!”

 

Saki looked up to see shock etched on her friend's face. She blushed as she realized that they must have heard what she had said. “Um…The redhead…he's a fox youkai.” She whispered.

 

“Really? I don't see any fangs, claws or elf-ears.”

 

“Yeah…how would you know?”

 

Saki groaned internally at her friends and their air-headedness. Everyone knew, that despite the Alliance and the grudging acceptance youkai had gained since then, some youkai still preferred using charms to blend in as humans. There were many humans who still harbored deep-rooted prejudices against youkai and some youkai, especially the weaker ones, found it much easier to appear human and avoid unpleasantness.

 

Not that it had ever fooled her. Ever since she was a kid she had been able to identify demons - whether they wore concealment charms or not. At first, the ability had scared her and she had hidden it from everyone, fearing being labeled a freak. It was only recently that she had come to terms with her strange natural talent and could talk about it; though it was another matter that most people did not believe her - like her friends right now.

 

Eri broke into her thoughts. “So if he's a `youkai'…” she chirped making quotation marks in the air at the word youkai, “then I guess that leaves us with Goth boy!”

 

Saki thought for a moment. `Youkai or human?'

 

She wasn't afraid of demons. She had been once a long time ago, but then had discovered that she could `handle' demons who got out of line with her. The first time had been in school, when a senior, a tiger youkai, had tried to relieve her of her virginity. To date, she didn't known what had happened then. One moment he had wrestled her to the ground behind the bleachers, causing her to loose consciousness, and the next moment she was towering over him as he cowered into the mud, sporting a rather nasty bruise on his face. He had never spoken to her since and had taken great pains to avoid her as much as possible.

 

Since then, she had never had a problem with youkai. Few of them would mess with her and the ones who did faced her terrible power of…blanking out. She would blank out in the face of an attack by a youkai and when she came to a few minutes later, the attacker would be injured, and most of the time, incapacitated. No! She had no fear of demons.

 

It was the humans she was worried about. Her special powers did not extend to humans; she knew that and that could be a problem here. Especially since the human in question happened to be into `Gothic culture'. `If I am going to do this, I might as well be with someone who I can handle if things take a turn for a worse… someone who I know would not be able to harm me….and besides he's a kitsune. Even if tonight may not be perfect, at the very least it wouldn't be an ordinary night. And, if all goes well, it might just end up being magical.'

 

“Nope! Redhead it is.” Saki jumped off the couch, blew her friends a kiss and swayed towards the dance floor.

 

Within moments she was surrounded by a sea of people as she made her way to her birthday present. As the beat of Akon's `Smack That' filled the air, Saki caught the eyes of her prize and started dancing with wild abandon. She knew she looked very good today and her moves on the dance floor were flawless. Though she was surrounded by guys trying to catch her eye and dance with her, Saki maintained eye contact with the redhead hunk as she burned up the floor. The fox was no fool, getting the message her body was telegraphing to him. He joined her on the floor and the both of them began a sinfully sexy routine. She ground herself against him as he skimmed every inch of her contours with his fingers. His hands on her waist tightened as he leaned in to kiss her exposed neck. Suddenly, he froze, sniffing her neck uncertainly. She turned around without loosing the beat and pressed herself against him. “You maybe a fox, but I'm the hunter tonight. Don't worry…just let it go and feel...”

 

Catching her meaning, that she knew what he was, he grinned at her and traced her lips with his finger. “Hell yeah, I'm gonna feel… I'm gonna feel you all over. Aren't you worried that this big ole fox is gonna eat you up?”

 

Saki smirked “I'm sure hoping that you will.” And then immediately blushed `I can't believe I just said that.'

 

Smelling her embarrassment at her bold words, he smiled, leaning in to capture her lips when she stepped back and stiffened. He looked on in amazement as suddenly her scent and aura began changing. She looked and smelled as if she was in excruciating pain and it was so overpowering that he pulled back from her.

 

Saki was hurting. Her entire body was on fire, as if every cell in her body was rebelling. The pain was severe and she staggered as she grew increasingly dizzy and hot. The fox leaned in to steady her, but jumped back as his arm sizzled when it came in contact with her wildly fluctuating aura.

 

`I have to get away, what is happening to me? Why did he get burned? Why does it hurt?…Oh Kami!' Leaving the bewildered fox nursing his singed arm, Saki staggered towards her friends. Her breath hitched, her eyes rolling into the back of her head as she desperately gasped for air. She tripped and braced herself for the fall, only to find herself ensconced in someone's strong arms.

 

Miraculously, the pain was receding but Saki still felt disoriented as she cracked open her eyes to see her mysterious saviour. She looked into a pair of beautiful eyes awash with concern for her. He had a magenta diamond tattooed on his forehead and long black hair. Definitely someone that Eri would call `yummy'. `He's GORGEOUS!!! And here I'm behaving like a total klutz!'

 

“Are you ok, miss?”

 

“Hai, thank you!” Saki tried to stand up but her legs decided to reveal her lie by refusing to hold her up. Blushing furiously, Saki found herself once again enveloped in the stranger's arms as he again held her before she could fall.

 

“Uh…I'm Saki. So sorry about troubling you…”

 

The guy gave her a broad grin. “Nice to meet you, Saki. I'm Bankotsu and believe me it's no problem at all.”

 

Saki found the guy terribly endearing and could have stood there in his arms the entire evening but for a small problem - She was having trouble breathing.

 

“I…I'm sorry…I have to…go…air…” she gasped out, her large eyes growing larger as she fought the lightheadedness that was creeping up on her.

 

“No problems, here lean on me. I'll lead you out. Maybe the fresh air will do you some good.”

 

Accepting his help gratefully, Saki let herself be taken towards the exit, growing woozier with every step. Suddenly she felt someone lurch against her. Someone who she felt was a kindred spirit…Someone who could help her out of this predicament…Someone who she knew down to her very bones would take care of her if she would just call out…

 

`Please, help me…I don't know what is happening to me but I know you can help me…PLEASE HELP ME!' To her horror, no words came out, even though, in her mind, she was screaming as hard as she could. This was all wrong, and getting worse by the minute. She had a growing premonition that if she went out with Bankotsu something terrible would happen to her. She NEEDED this person - she could just about make out a vague outline of a girl - this girl to hear her, to help her. But the words she was so desperately trying to get out of her mouth were stuck there. She heard Bankotsu rudely abuse the girl, calling her a cunt, and then the comforting presence was gone.

 

Saki cried in her heart as Bankotsu dropped his gentle treatment of her and roughly dragged her out of the club. Watching her only hope walk away, she had only time to think one last thought before she became unconscious.

 

`Oh Kami! I'm in so much TROUBLE!!!'

 

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Sesshomaru closed the door on a sleeping Rin, breathing a sigh of relief that the girl had calmed down enough to finally fall asleep. When he had first caught sight of her, frightened and crying, he had almost lost his mind with worry at the cause of her distress.

 

No matter how gruff and arrogant he was with others, Rin was his weakness. How this human girl had wormed her way past his defenses still amazed him. Just the sight of her tear-filled eyes had been enough to raise all his protective instincts and to cause his demon to roar for the offending party's blood. The only problem had been that the girl had not told him what had happened to her. He had scented a faint foreign scent around her, but due to the feeling of evil permeating the dance floor, he had been unable to identify it.

 

Only back home had he realized that it had been a male scent - an Inu hanyou male - and that the scent was concentrated around her mouth. Realising what that meant had thrown him into a fit of anger and he had howled in rage, spurring a fresh set of tears from the girl.

 

She had been frightened of his reaction and had rushed into the bathroom to wash out her mouth. Despite his ordering, asking and then finally pleading with her to come out, she had refused, and at the end of his tether, he had broken the door after 15 minutes and carried her to bed. There he had comforted the sobbing girl, murmuring vague reassuring promises to her until she fell asleep.

 

And now Sesshomaru was enraged, and getting angrier by the second. Firstly, he was pissed with the damn hanyou who had dared kiss Rin. Granted, his scent on her had pretty much worn out, due to his long absence while working his last case, but nobody messed with his Rin like this and got away with it. `How dare he put his hands…or lips on the girl who is under the protection of this Sesshomaru! I will not allow it. For his effrontery, he will pay with his life!'

 

The hanyou was a dead dog walking…if only he could be identified. The taiyoukai's inner demon had been so busy raging for blood that he had not memorised the scent, and then Rin had made it impossible by washing away the scent. He wanted to…no…needed to beat someone and it was driving him nuts.

 

He was also angry with himself for having abandoned Rin at Poison. He should have been more careful, especially since he knew how much she hated being near bars. He should have been with her from the moment she stepped into the club, but he had been so busy trying to drown the voices in his head that she had slipped out of his mind. Not that his sanity was more important than her welfare, but at that time he couldn't have done anything different.

 

And, finally, he was angry that, even at a time like this, he was thinking about a very sexy, very beautiful and very, very mysterious human girl. `What exactly happened there with her. How did I make such a colossal mistake?'

 

In the beginning, he had intended only to kiss her, thinking that she was one of Shippo's illusions. But the moment she had responded to his kiss, he had lost his mind. Despite being fully clothed, she had responded to his touch and had trembled under his skillful fingers, mewling and moaning in appreciation of his attention.

 

He had wanted her very much…DID want her very much. The intensity of his lust frightened him. He had always been in control of his emotions and had never ever lusted after anyone, certainly not a weak ningen. But this human was different. She had made him - a powerful taiyoukai, the Lord of the Western Lands - do the unthinkable. She had made him loose control.

 

The more he thought of her, the more he wanted her. He liked the way she had kissed him, the way she moaned, the way she smelled, the way she felt, even the blazing fury in which she had slapped him…dammit everything about her he liked.

 

How this had happened he was not sure. But he was sure of one thing.

 

`That girl is part magic, part innocence, part vixen and a whole lot of trouble.'

 

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Kagome waved towards Inuyasha's car, which had been following her as she drove home, and walked towards the shrine steps. She had barely taken a few steps when Inuyasha ran up to her. “Hey Kags, you want to talk about it?”

 

“Talk about what.”

 

“Umm…you were in quite a temper back there in Poison. You sure you're okay?”

 

“I don't want to talk about it, Inuyasha.” Kagome turned her back towards the hanyou and started up the stairs again. “See you tomorrow.”

 

“Wait! Kags…Please tell me what happened…your aura…your aura's kind of …uh…it's kind of disappeared.”

 

Kagome whirled around looking at him in shock “What do you mean disappeared?”

 

“It's shrunk. I've never seen anything like it.”

 

“Maybe…uh…I'm not feeling well. Don't worry.” Looking at his crestfallen expression, she walked down and kissed him on the cheek. “Thank you, Inuyasha. I know you want to protect me but…I'm fine.”

 

“Keh! If you're sure.” He nodded at her and, as she started climbing the stairs again, was relieved to notice that her aura seemed to be slightly larger than it was a few minutes ago. At this rate, he was sure that by the time she reached the shrine her aura would be back to normal.

 

He got into the car and drove home, his mind a whirl of thoughts. She wasn't telling him, but something had definitely happened to her at Poison. She had been livid when she met him. If his suspicions were right, then someone must have tried to get physical with her. Due to her reduced aura, he had not been able to smell anything on her, so he could not be sure.

 

Dammit, he should have waited for her outside Poison, but he had been so sleepy and tired. Needing to get away from the noisy and smelly dance floor, he had walked into one of the alcoves…and there he had met a goddess.

 

As Rin's irate face swam into his mind, he grinned. Now she had been one hell of a looker. Too bad she had been spooked by him or right now he could be getting some major action. Shaking his head at his misfortune, he concentrated on reaching home safely.

 

`Sometimes I think trouble loves me…but I've had enough for one evening already.'

 

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Kagome entered her house to find her mother waiting for her. “Kagome. Are you okay? You look a little pale.”

 

“Nah. It's nothing.” She whispered, as a pair of lust-filled golden eyes swam across her mind. She shook her head violently, as if trying to dislodge the mental picture. “I'm just a little tired, Mom.” She looked at her mother with a reassuring smile but was surprised to see her mother staring two inches below her neck with a strange intensity.

 

`Did that bastard youkai mark me in some way…did he bite me?...can she see his claw marks where he touched me? Shit! I hope she doesn't figure out what happened…What IS she staring at?'

 

Realising that her stare was creeping her daughter out, Satori smiled and said, “You should rest, dear. Good night.” As Kagome gave a sigh of relief and eagerly ran to her room, Satori gave a mental sigh. `So it has started. Tonight, the first sign has appeared. It won't be long now...after all this time of hiding, she will finally know what she is…Oh Kami! Look after my child.'

 

She moved to the telephone and dialed a number. “Yes! It's me. (pause) the time has come (pause) Yes, I'm very sure. Trouble is near, I'll meet you soon (pause). I'm telling you, it has happened. The first sign of trouble has appeared - the Angel has cracked.”

 

 

 

TBC….

 

 

A/N - I know this is a little lengthy but I hope you enjoyed yourself. I'm sorry for the delay in updating this story…unlike other authors I'm not going to blame plot bunnies or the like as the plot is more or less pretty worked out…I'm afraid RL is to blame for the delay.

 

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