InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Infatuation ❯ What Would Happen If We Kissed ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: I have only one thing to say in defense of my absence: college. Seeking a higher education really sucks up your free time…Especially exams and big projects.

Hope you like this chapter. I think Dark Angel references made its way into the story again. ;)

Thanks to my beta, Inukaggrl06!

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Infatuation

Ra ted M for language
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Recap:

The kitsune stared wide-eyed at the miko, hanyou, monk, and warrior lady. The hanyou stepped in front of the miko, unsheathing his sword. The kitsune watched in awe as the blade grew ten-times its original size.

“And who the fuck are you?” InuYasha demanded.

“Ah, Manten. It seems we found the miko and her friends too. Tsubaki shall be pleased when we’ve killed them all and collected the shard from that kitsune brat,” Hiten smiled evilly.

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Chapter 9: What Would Happen If We Kissed

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&# 8220;You won’t touch any of them,” Kagome said firmly as she stepped out from behind InuYasha, leveling her crossbow at Hiten, her body glowing pink with spiritual energy.

“Ah, so pretty,” Hiten commented snidely. “Will this one do for you, brother?”

“Very nicely,” Manten drooled.

Kagome’s eyes rolled in disgust. She shot a charged arrow at Hiten’s neck, intending to make a clean slaying. The rouge dodged, only receiving a tiny nick in the shoulder.

“That hurt, you bitch!” he screamed, charging forward with his electrified weapon.

Metal clashed, InuYasha meeting the Thunder Brother with Tessaiga’s blade. The two began leaping around and striking one another, silver hair and a long, black braid whipping around.

“Sango, Miroku! Get the children to safety!” Kagome ordered, sinking into a low crouch, eyeing Manten with fierce determination.

Sango whistled, and Kirara appeared, scooping up the two boys and the kit onto her back. The Slayer and Monk leapt on behind as the fire neko ascended into the air.

“I think headquarters would be the safest bet for now,” Miroku advised. Sango nodded in agreement, ordering Kirara onward.

Suddenly, the kitsune leapt off the neko’s fur. With a loud pop, he turned himself into a giant pink balloon and floated down beside the miko.

Kagome glanced at him out of her peripheral vision, keeping her eyes on her opponent. “What are you doing, kid? Get back where it’s safe with the others!”

“No! I want to help!” the kitsune cried, positioning himself beside her in a defensive stance.

“Look…”

“Shippo.”
“Shippo,” Kagome began gently. “I appreciate your bravery and sense of honor, but these guys are big and ugly. InuYasha and I are trained to handle this kind of thing. I don’t want you to get hurt.”

The kit smiled. “I won’t! I‘m going to avenge my parents!” he assured her.

Kagome sighed. “Fine, but stay behind me. And that’s an order!”

“Yes ma’am!” Shippo saluted, scrambling to do as he was asked.

Kagome signaled to Sango that the group could continue on without the kit, keeping her opponent in her peripheral vision.

“Ok, ugly. Let’s get this over with,” she said, her spiritual energy crackling.

Manten grinned evilly, lunging at the miko with his weapon. Kagome thwarted his attack by kicking the weapon from the youkai’s grip and sweeping his legs out from under him. The youkai landed on his back with an “Ooof,” his bald head smacking the ground none-too-gently.

“Ha, score one for the miko!” Kagome cheered, pinning the Thunder Brother to the ground with her legs. Shoving her crossbow into his neck, she ran her free hand over his forehead, finding the two Shikon shards and prying them out of his skin.

“Gross,” she muttered, instantly purifying the shards and dropping them into her bra for safe-keeping.

Manten took advantage of Kagome’s momentary distraction to roll them over so he was on top. He smirked, his pointy teeth sticking through, and Kagome felt completely disgusted by the once-over he was giving her. His hands began to trail over her, and she felt anger bubbling beneath the surface.

“Make sure you’ve knocked me unconscious before you go trying to cop-a-feel!” she growled, punching him square in the jaw and shoving him backwards off of her. She sprang to a standing position, stomping her booted foot onto his sternum.

He gasped for breath, using a free hand to run over the sparse hairs on his head. The pitiful thing looked pretty concerned about them still being there. Kagome got a wicked idea.

‘Payback time for the lewd and lascivious behavior.’

“Hey, Shippo…You feeling up to a little fox-fire magic?”

The kit met her grin for grin.

Manten shrieked like a little girl as Shippo blasted the remaining hairs off his head.

“That’s for killing my parents!” Shippo shouted from Kagome’s shoulder once he had completed his mission.

All Manten could do was lay there, blubbering pathetically.

Charging her belt with spiritual energy, Kagome and Shippo tied the Thunder Brother up, intending to take him back to headquarters for questioning later.

“Let’s go help dog-boy,” Kagome announced once they had stepped away from Manten.

“Okay!” Shippo agreed excitedly.

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“I hope they’ll be okay,” Souta mumbled as the group on the neko neared the city.

“They’ll be just fine,” Sango assured. “Kagome can handle anything, and she has InuYasha to help her.”

Miroku nodded his head in confirmation. Souta relaxed a little more into his seat.

“I better call for backup,” Sango muttered, pulling a walkie-talkie out of her jacket. “Pink to base.”

“Sakura here. Pink go,“ the radio cackled with static.

“Backup needed at Angel’s location. Apartment courtyard. Bringing civilians to base.”

“Roger, civilians are cleared. We’re moving out. Sakura over.”

“Pink over.”

“Let’s see if Kirara can get us there a little more quickly, ne?” Sango smiled, coaxing her feline friend faster.

The boys held on tightly as Kirara used her legs to spring into a burst of speed.

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Meanwhile, InuYasha and Hiten had been trading blow after blow, causing serious bodily damage to one another. Hiten was sporting quite a few deep gashes across his arms and chest from the hanyou’s Wind Scar attacks.

InuYasha, however, was by far the worst for wear with a deep hole in his side from a lightening strike he failed to escape. Blood still poured from the wound. Although InuYasha put up a good fight and pretended to ignore the damage, Kagome could recognize a definite sluggishness to his movements that normally was not present.

“Looks like you’re going to lose, you pathetic half-breed,” Hiten cackled. “And when I’m done with you, I’m going to enjoy killing that little miko. Who knows, maybe I’ll have a little fun with her first.”

“Dream on, fucker!” InuYasha shouted back. “WIND SCAR!”

The blast tore off Hiten’s right arm, leaving him screaming in anger and agony. He immediately charged the hanyou on his thunder cloud, but InuYasha dodged by rolling onto his left shoulder.

“Come back here you filth!” Hiten roared in rage.

“Too quick for your stupid ass?” InuYasha taunted, dodging another swipe. “I could do this all day.”

“Smug idiot,” Kagome muttered, shooting off an arrow.

The purified arrow struck Hiten across the forehead, knocking his shard out of place. Without it’s power, he crumbled to the floor in a boneless heap.

“Damnit, wench! You stole my thunder!”

Kagome burst into a fit of giggles as she scooped up the shard for purification, dropping it in with the others.

“Oi, what’s your problem?”

“That you’re a dimwit,” Shippo piped up.

“Hey, who asked you, you little runt!”

Shippo stuck his tongue out from behind the safety of Kagome’s leg. InuYasha made to lunge at the kit, but fell to his knees clutching his side.

“We need to get you back immediately!” Kagome cried, sinking beside him to examine his wound. “This is pretty bad. We need to get you to the car. And I need someone to take care of those two lugheads.”

“Keh, I’ll be fine,” InuYasha protested weakly.

“Save your oxygen, dog-breath,” she teased. “You have a hole through your side.”

“Keh.”

“Kagome, behind you!” the strangled voice Rin, newly arrived, reached her ears.

The miko whipped around, plunging a purifying arrow into her attacker’s heart. Manten quickly turned to ashes, the dagger he had at her throat dropping down her arm to leave a shallow scratch.

Kagome sat there, breathing harshly.

“Kags?” Rin approached her calmly as Ayame and Kouga bound Hiten.

“I’m okay. We need to get InuYasha to the Infirmary immediately. He needs urgent treatment.”

“What about this little guy?” Rin asked, pointing to the kit.

Shippo attached his arms around Kagome’s leg, clinging and shaking.

“Hey, it’s okay little buddy,” Kagome soothed, setting him on her hip. “He’s with me.”

Rin nodded, and with her help Kagome managed to lift InuYasha to his feet. They struggled a few feet towards the apartment complex parking garage when Sesshomaru wordlessly took his brother’s arm and lifted it over his own shoulder.

“What the hell! Grab him!” Ayame screamed.

Kagome spun around to watch the two ookami dive for the remaining Thunder Brother, who vanished then reappeared above Kagome, clutching his bleeding shoulder socket.

“You’ll pay, bitch,” he snarled, then disappeared.

Kagome sighed, glancing sadly up at the window of her apartment.

“You can’t go back there now,” InuYasha’s voice drifted over to her.

“I know. But it still sucks.”

“We’ll find you guys a new home,” Rin assured her, placing a hand on the elder Slayer’s shoulder.

“I’m sorry,” Shippo said quietly.

“For what? It’s not any fault of yours,” she hugged him tightly. “You’ll get to move in the new place with us.”

“Really?” he asked with childish wonder.

“Yep. Can’t leave you all by your lonesome. You’re too cute for that,” Kagome giggled.

Shippo reddened, but grinned happily.

“Let us return to base then,” Sesshomaru announced.

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Upon arriving back at Headquarters, InuYasha was whisked away to the Infirmary. Kagome followed shortly after, once Shippo detached himself from her person and went to join Souta and Kohaku in their recently begun card game.

Rin and Ayame broke the news to Sango about being relocated, as Sesshomaru and Miroku filled Kaede and Myogua in on bits and pieces of recent happenings.

Kaede sighed heavily. “I will dispatch a team to remove and relocate your belongings, Sango-chan.”

Sango nodded. “Where will we be moved to?”

“You guys could bunk with us,” Rin offered.

“Thanks, but you’re apartment is barely big enough for you and Ayame. It wouldn’t be right,” Sango replied.

“I will have to take a look at some residences with wards already in place,” Kaede said. “I fear you all will need the extra protection.”

“But where, Kaede? We need the place tonight. The boys can’t stay here at Headquarters, and any new apartment would be too dangerous to leave them alone. Kagome and I are going to have to work in shifts from now on.”

“You may move to my family estate,” Sesshomaru interjected.

Sango’s jaw nearly dropped. “Wha--”

“There are plenty of extra rooms, as well as numerous magical barriers and wards and some of my most trusted staff. My loyal retainer Jaken can mind the children.”

“That is a promising idea. Thank you, Sesshomaru,” Kaede replied before Sango could make a retort. “Sango and I shall go to the Infirmary to speak with Kagome about this generous offer.”

Sesshomaru nodded, then left to go back to his desk and records.

“I think it’s a sound choice,” Miroku said. “It’s an ancient youkai estate, so there are ancient magicks that will warn off any threats. Plus, I live there too!”

“What?” Sango growled. “Are you a complete louse?”

“Now, now, my dear Sango. I have my own flat, yes, but I would feel so much better if I were to stay there and help protect you and your family. It would be no problem; I crash there so often after assignments with InuYasha that I have my own room.”

“Just fantastic,” Sango bit out, walking over to the boy’s game to avoid hitting the monk.

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< br> Back in the Infirmary, World War III was commencing (yet again).

“You idiot! You could have killed yourself!” Kagome raged at him, roughly tying up the bandage around his side.

“Keh, I’ve had worse. It’s just a scratch,” he muttered, trying to play off her concern.

“Scratch!” she shrieked, bringing his face to hers. “You have a damn HOLE through your side! As in it blasted through MUSCLE and BONE! Any closer to your stomach and you could have DIED!”

InuYasha cut off the snappy retort held ready on his tongue as he saw the tears leaking from her eyes. She was scared. For him.

‘No one’s been scared like that for me in a long time.’

“You idiot,” she sobbed weakly, dropping her hands from his face to fist them tightly on her jeans.

She felt his hand on her cheek before she heard his voice.

“Kagome, I…”

She met his eyes, and saw pain reflected in them. And sadness.

“InuYasha I’m--”

“Shh,” he put a finger to her lips. “Thank you,” he whispered. “I’ve never had anyone worry so much about me.”

Kagome felt the urge to cry even harder.

InuYasha must have smelt the oncoming of fresh tears. “Please, don’t. Don’t cry for me. I’m not worth your tears.”

“Don’t say things like that,” she whispered angrily, placing her hand over the one cupping her cheek. “You are too. You’re worth it. You’re my…You’re my partner…My friend…I…I care about you.”

InuYasha widened his eyes. ’She cares about me?’

No one, not since his mother had been killed, had been so kind and caring to him. Sure, he had friends, like Miroku, but that hardly counted as the same thing.

‘She has to be an angel…My angel on a motorcycle.’

He smiled, leaning in closer. “I…I care about you too,” he said softly.

Her chocolate eyes increased in size as she saw the truth of his statement blatantly gazing at her.

Before she could blink, he had crushed his lips to hers. All she could feel was warmth and happiness, like she had never known, surrounding and filling her. She kissed back with equal fervor, giving herself over to his warm lips and gentle embrace.

He pulled her closer, wanting to feel every inch of her body next to his. They slowly began to recline, Kagome carefully being aware of his injury. InuYasha ran his tongue over her lips, quickly slipping inside when she gasped for a breath.

His hands played with the edge of her shirt, tracing patterns onto the small of her back. Kagome had threaded her fingers through his silky tresses, then ran them over his muscled shoulders and upper arms. They continued to kiss gently and urgently, reveling in the new exploration and discovery.

After a few moments, they pulled back, gasping for air and silently gazing at one another.

‘What does this mean?’

‘That was pretty damn hot. But maybe it was a little too soon…’

“InuYasha.”

“Kagome.”

Both began to laugh at their talking in unison.

Kagome realized her current position, straddling the hanyou, and blushed. She began to move off, but was thwarted by InuYasha’s hands on her thighs.

“I’m sorry,” they both said.

“Wait, why are you sorry?” again in unison.

“Er, am I interrupting something?” Sango’s voice cut through the room, and their mood.

Kagome flushed, but InuYasha sat there smugly, keeping his tight grip on the blushing miko.

Sango smiled and rolled her eyes as she plopped down in a vacant chair.

“I thought I’d give you fair warning, but Kaede’s coming up to talk about our new living arrangements.”

“What new living arrangements?” Kagome asked suspiciously, pinching the skin on InuYasha’s hands to make him release her. She moved to sit on the side of the bed.

“Sesshomaru graciously offered to let us stay at the Taisho estate.”

“What?” Kagome and InuYasha cried at once.

“That’s what I said,” Sango shrugged.

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Ha, sorry, had to end it. Both for the plot and due to my small amount of free time. Hope you all enjoyed that bit of Inu/Kag fluff. =)

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