InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I Choose You ❯ Burned ( Chapter 5 )

I thought the last chapter was interesting…so is this one.   Chapter Five: Burned  

Inu-Yasha awoke groggily, vision swimming slowly into focus. The shimmering colours around him resolved into Kagome’s room. His head ached dully, at the same time seeming to float, and the bright light from a lamp nearby was not helping. It took Inu-Yasha a few more moments to gain his bearings. He was laying in Kagome’s bed, her blankets twisted about him as if he’d been thrashing in his sleep…Huh? Why was he there anyways? In Kagome’s bed of all places…

He untangled himself from her sheets hurriedly, falling out of the bed in the process. His mind was clearing more and more, though it was still foggy, and he was impatient to find out what was going on. Finally freeing himself of the accursed blankets, he leapt to his feet, stumbling clumsily. Inu-Yasha staggered over to the desk where the damned lamp was and swatted it over the side. He instantly regretted it as the lamp broke and made such a noise that seemed to echo about in his abused brain…And the light didn’t go out. Damn.

Squinting against the unreasonable brightness of the room, Inu-Yasha found his outer clothes lying on the desk, folded, so he knew he hadn’t put them there. He hadn’t even realized he’d not been wearing them until now. If that hammer would stop beating against his head he might have been able to think better. He slipped his clothes on quickly, and turned to leave the room but stopped as his eyes found the window. It was still dark out…still? When the hell had it gotten dark? How the hell had he gotten to Kagome’s time for that matter? And what in the HELL had he been doing sleeping in Kagome’s bed?

Inu-Yasha grunted confusedly and turned to the door. He hadn’t taken two stumbling steps before Kagome appeared suddenly, causing him to jump and nearly fall backwards. “What the hell, Kagome! You nearly…Kagome?”

Kagome wasn’t responding, at least not in any way that Inu-Yasha was used to. She was panting heavily, causing her breasts to rise and fall quite obviously. Inu-Yasha’s mind was fogged enough already…he didn’t really need that sort of help. He locked his eyes on her face to get them away from more dangerous sights, but, to his surprise, it didn’t help at all. Her eyes bored into him, burning with obvious desire, her face screwed up almost frighteningly in some sort of yearning. Inu-Yasha was not sure he really wanted to know what was wrong with her.

He ignored the urge to dodge as she came at him, catching her at arm’s length. Or so he thought. Kagome somehow slipped past him and grabbed him about the waist, propelling him backwards. As her hands locked around him, he heard the faint thump of something hitting the ground, but his mind was on more pertinent things. She drove him back across the room until his legs hit the side of the bed and he fell back onto it, with her on top of him.

Her face was right in front of his, and disturbed as he was by her behaviour, the look in her eyes was causing a very embarrassing reaction in him. A familiar scent reached his nose. He wasn’t quite sure where he had smelled it before, but it was increasing his discomfiture. As fast as Inu-Yasha was, he was never fast enough to dodge her next attack. He felt her mouth come down on his before he knew what was happening, and his mind seemed to fade away. All he could sense was her body against his, her lips against his, his tongue…wait, that was her tongue!

She was kissing him. She was kissing him! And it felt so good…She tasted so good, Inu-Yasha wanted to keep tasting her forever, but something else kept buzzing in the back of his mind. Something about the taste wasn’t right. There were two tastes. One was definitely Kagome, but the other was something else. It tasted familiar…like that smell. It felt almost hot, and it made Inu-Yasha even more impassioned. He wanted her, but he always did. What was so different now?

Regretfully, Inu-Yasha broke away from the kiss. Kagome didn’t seem to really notice. She continued to kiss down his jaw and neck. Ignoring this with difficulty, Inu-Yasha’s eyes found what they were looking for. On the floor, where Kagome had dropped it, lay a small red fruit. Several bites had been taken out of it. Kagome was tugging at the top of his robes now, trying to bare his chest, but Inu-Yasha wasn’t paying attention anymore. Something about that fruit was familiar.

As if he’d suddenly come out of a fog and into a bright sunny day, it came back. The garden, the god, the fruit. He remembered it all, even how it had felt after he had eaten the fruit. That feeling tried to surge back, but he resisted it. He didn’t need the help of any fruit to feel that for Kagome. Kagome quickly brought him out of his reverie. In frustration, she had torn his shirt open. Before she could do anything else, Inu-Yasha seized her arms and held her away from him. She kicked and struggled, trying to get near him again, but he held firm. That was the hardest thing he’d ever done.

Eventually, Kagome began to tire, struggling less and less. Finally, after over an hour, he let her fall down against him. She was too tired to try anything, but, to his surprise, she gave him one last kiss on the cheek before falling asleep. Inu-Yasha touched his cheek where she had kissed him. Somehow, that little action had been more endearing than anything she had done, felt better than even the passionate kiss she had given him before. He liked to think that the effects from the fruit had been mostly gone by then, that that last kiss had been her own feelings. Perhaps it was wishful thinking, but Inu-Yasha wished it with all of his heart.

End of Chapter Five

This chapter is almost too sappy for me…but at the same time I think it’s perfectly romantic…Guys are allowed to be romantics too, you know.

-Chevalier Mal Fet