InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kurayami no Naka de Hikari ❯ Study Session ( Chapter 7 )

Kurayami no Naka de Hikari

Notes: 6,303/10 pages – Okay this chapter is a LITTLE shorter than the last one, sorry. I just got to a good stopping point so I'll leave off until next time! Okay, this is ANOTHER rather dark chapter at the end. It's pretty light and fluffy in the middle, though. Although, Inuyasha isn't in this chapter much. I'm adding some MORE complication into the mix~.^ I do like Kouga so be nice! I've seen him turned into a complete villain before, but he's a genuine good guy in here, you just have to look past the 'playboy' face I built for him.

WARNING: Mention of sadistic, sexual content. Do not read if you are uncomfortable with such things. Also… blood, there's some blood. It IS rated M so hopefully you know that at the start.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters thereof. Even though that is the case, please don't steal my plot, concept, or story out of respect for my creative endeavor as I would not do this to anyone out there.

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'Thoughts/dreams' will be in single quotes (IE: ' ')

Chapter 7 – Study Session

Kagome rushed back to the locker room, her heart in her throat and beating rapidly. She couldn't deny that she desired Inuyasha but she couldn't keep Naraku's face and words from forming in her mind when she was near the silver-haired man. She cursed her lustful thoughts and inwardly screamed at herself. Kissing Inuyasha had felt so good and RIGHT, but she knew it was simply lust and not love. She hadn't even known him for two weeks!

She sighed as she walked to her locker and pulled out her clothes so she could dress. She couldn't help the smile that crossed her lips at the single, white lily that lay on top of her folded clothes. She picked it up and inhaled its scent deeply, surprised that it hadn't wilted yet. Even though he was rude and arrogant, Inuyasha seemed to have a sweet, thoughtful side that he hid from most people.

She sighed in regret. She didn't want to leave but sooner or later, Naraku would find out she had been seeing Inuyasha and she didn't want to think about what he was capable of. His threat had sounded extremely serious; the dangerous tone of voice never meant anything good. She had seen knock a man's teeth out for a perceived slight and spoke to him in that same tone before he'd let his fist fly.

Kagome shuddered at the memory. There was no mistaking it, then. Naraku's irises had turned blood red on that occasion just as they had earlier in the week when he had punished her. She felt tears sting her eyes at the memory of the rough treatment. She had never thought him capable of harming her in that way. She had pushed them all the times he had struck her, but that encounter had been beyond harsh and unwarranted to say the least. She still didn't know where his accusations of her cheating had come from. He had made them before she'd even met Inuyasha. She couldn't take the chance that Naraku knew about Inuyasha besides that he'd taken her to the hospital. She strengthened her resolve and decided she would have to avoid any more encounters with the golden-eyed man. 'I must be steadfast...' She thought to herself as she slammed the empty locker. She reluctantly laid the lily on the bench and went to change out of her swimsuit. 'Sorry Sango... I can't be friends with you, there's too much of a chance I'll see him...'

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Inuyasha stared at the white lily in the vase with a frown. She had left no note that Sango had seen, but the lily left behind was message enough for him. She was obviously returning to the man who had hurt her, why else would she leave his apology gift. 'I shouldn't have kissed her...'

Inuyasha had been sending text messages to the raven-haired girl for a while now with no response. He knew he'd messed up but hadn't been able to help himself. She had been filling his thoughts for days and appeared in his dreams frequently, causing him to wake up hard as a rock and frustrated to boot! Something about the girl seemed to keep him coming back, which hadn't happened in a very long time. Only one person had ever filled his thoughts like Kagome and she was long gone.

Come to think of it... Kagome had a bit of her look in her face. He shook his head of that thought. No one was as beautiful as his high school sweetheart. She had been graceful, elegant, and even-tempered. She never let her emotions show on her face and rarely showed affection even in private. The mystery that had surrounded her had made him keep coming back for more. Kagome was the polar opposite.

Kagome had unruly curls and a wild, but strangely 'free' look to her. Her eyes burned with fire when she was angry and were so expressive he could tell her every emotion even had he not been able to catch it in her scent. She was extremely stubborn and had no problem trading insults. There was something else, though... There was something about her that was so vulnerable it made his chest ache. He hated when he saw a smile on her lips but her eyes were dark with pain. It seemed a foreign look for those eyes, which otherwise looked as if they would laugh at any moment.

'Stupid girl...' Inuyasha thought in agitation. 'I want her out of my head!'

"Oi, Inuyasha." Miroku's voice broke into his thoughts as a hand waved past his eyes. "You still with me?"

"Keh!" Inuyasha responded as he forced the scowl from his face. "You have your own place so why are you always here?" He asked dryly. This issued a dry laugh from the dark-haired man and he rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"Well... you remember that Koharu girl?" Miroku asked as he began to sweat.

"You didn't..." Inuyasha said as his eyes widened in shock and he groaned. "I told you she was obsessed..." Inuyasha shook his head and let it hang down into his hand.

"Yeah well, I'm not one to turn down a pretty girl." Miroku stated calmly.

"She's still a high schooler! You know how clingy that type can be!" Inuyasha growled low in his throat. The silver-haired young man had a few such chasing after him all the time. He didn't give them the time of day so eventually they'd get discouraged and leave him alone.

"Yeah well... She's claiming I got her pregnant..." Miroku said seriously as the sheepish smile wore off. "She found out where I live and work and is constantly banging on my door."

"Are you crazy?!" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped to his feet. "She's just a kid!"

"Relax already!" Miroku said as he motioned for Inuyasha to sit back down, which Inuyasha reluctantly complied with. Of all the stupid things for his monk friend to do, knocking up a high schooler was the lowest.

"If she is pregnant, it's not mine," Miroku explained after Inuyasha's facial expression relaxed a bit. "She followed me to a club and some guy kept buying her drinks. By the time I noticed she was there, she was hammered and this guy was leading her out of the bar. He had every intention of taking advantage of her."

"Na... ni?" Inuyasha growled low in his throat. Men that took advantage of women had a way of getting under his skin; men like Kagome's boyfriend were the worst.

"Anyway, I managed to get her away from him without a fight and took her to my place so she could sleep it off." Miroku said solemnly. "When she woke up, she must have thought we'd done something and has been following me ever since."

"Keh!" Inuyasha said as he crossed his arms over his chest. "That's so stupid, if you weren't running around at the club, this kind of stuff wouldn't keep happening! You better handle this; I kind of want my couch back."

"Hai hai." Miroku said nervously and rubbed the back of his head. He had no desire to approach this girl, he was afraid she would try to kill herself of hurt Sango. Koharu had seen him with Sango before so that's one of the reasons he had been keeping his brown-haired doctor at a little distance these days.

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"Mou... come in, Kagome..." Sango mumbled as the phone continued to ring. She'd been trying to call her dark-haired friend for hours since she'd gone into the locker room and found nothing but the white lily sitting on the bench. Any trace of Kagome was gone.

She knew Inuyasha had messed up again, but wasn't quite sure how. He had seemed to be doing pretty well when he rescued her from that Hobo guy, so how Inuyasha messed up so bad that Kagome would just take off? And why wasn't she picking up her phone? Sango sighed to herself. Her new friend seemed to run away whenever she started to get close to someone. And Sango knew it had everything to do with that boyfriend of hers. Controlling men like that would tend to dissuade their women from talking to anyone besides them and discourage them from making new friends.

She had seen if before in the battery patients that would sometimes come to the hospital. They would insist they fell down the stairs and quite often the only visitor they'd have would be the man that hurt them in the first place! Sango didn't want to see that happen to Kagome. She didn't even know where her friend lived, though! Kagome had been extremely close-mouthed about where she lived. She only said she lived in the suburbs, but not even what side of the city she lived in.

"Come on, Kagome..." Sango said as she dialed the number again. This time it went straight to voicemail and Sango clicked it off in annoyance. That's when an idea hit her. They has Kagome's records at the hospital, maybe she could get a peek at her address. Good thing she knew someone in records that owed her a favor. Sango slipped on a jacket and walked out the door to her car parked on the curb.

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Kagome sat on the couch going over her notes again and double-checking in her text book to be sure she had written everything down correctly. Naraku had been out when she'd arrived home, but she didn't mind much. It was easier for her to study without his obnoxiously loud video games that would be up on the television. Instead she had the news on, turned soft enough that she could listen to it without it completely distracting her from the task at hand. Of course she'd had to come in and wash the breakfast dishes when she'd arrived home. She'd expected it because no matter how 'reformed' he was, he was still somewhat lazy and expected the woman to take care of the house. She didn't mind too much, she just wished he would help out once in a while, like when her finals were coming up. It's not like he contributed much to getting the bills paid.

Kagome sighed, knowing it was time for her to go find a summer job to help with the bills once she went back to school in the fall. She used student loans for her transportation, housing, and meals but everything else was a different matter. She had a feeling she would have to work all through the upcoming school year. Not a prospect she looked forward to, it was hard enough to keep up with her classes without a job, with was going to be torture. Especially since she was going to have to do another internship that year in preparation for graduation.

Kagome growled in frustration when she heard a knock on the door. No one knew where she lived so she assumed it must be the loud neighbors that lived upstairs asking for ketchup or something like that. They let their children run around to all hours of the night and she could hear them shouting obscenities at them all the time, though the children were both under the age of two. Worse was when she heard her and one of her boyfriend's screaming at each other. There was even a time when she was convinced that two men had gotten into a fight right above her head and she feared they were going to kill each other. She didn't want to start trouble, though so she'd just put her headphones in, crank the volume, and ignored the slams and vibrations that shivered down the walls.

She pulled open the back door and a look of surprise crossed her face. She was really not expecting the person who stood on the porch.

"Kouga-kun?" Kagome questioned as her eyes widened in surprise. "What are you doing here? How did you know where I live?"

"Hey Kagome-san." Kouga said with a friendly grin, too friendly in Kagome's opinion. "Are you going to invite me in?"

"I... sorry Kouga-kun." Kagome said as she stepped outside and closed the door behind her. "I'm a private person and my boyfriend doesn't particularly like people he doesn't know inside." Kagome said quickly, which was the truth. He seemed a little disappointed but hid it quickly with his trademark smile, his fangs visible.

"I saw you get off a bus earlier and come up here. Just wanted to know if you'd go over today's lecture with me." Kouga explained as his cheeks were slightly tinged pink. "I couldn't get those girls to stop talking during class." Kagome sighed and assented.

"Let me grab my notes and I'll go over them with you at that diner down the street." Kagome said as she slipped back into the apartment and grabbed her book and notes. She sighed to herself as she grabbed her wallet and house key and stuffed then into her pocket. On the way out the door, she grabbed an umbrella propped up against the door frame and headed outside, locking the door behind her.

"Thanks, Kagome-san." Kouga said with a grin as the pair walked down the sidewalk to the main street where there was a little restaurant that they could sip coffee and study in.

"I take it you live nearby?" Kagome asked as she glanced over at the tall wolf demon.

"Yeah, my mother wanted me to stay close until I finish school." Kouga explained as they walked casually down the street under a sky that was quickly darkening with billowing, black clouds. "You know, just in case the cancer comes out of remission." Kagome couldn't help the tender smile that touched her lips. 'Maybe he's not as much of a playboy as I thought.' Kagome thought to herself. 'He and his mom must be close.'

"Is something wrong, Kagome-san?" Kouga asked and she looked up into a pair of concerned, crystal blue eyes. She blushed slightly and nodded her head.

"I'm fine, Kouga-kun." She said as she forced the sad smile from her face. She missed her own mother terribly, even though she had turned her back on her daughter. "Just call me Kagome, okay?" She said with a smile to the tall youkai. A huge grin graced his face.

"All right, Kagome." He said to the raven-headed human walking beside him. He knew that having some alone time with her would be good. Then he could show her the real him and no the girl magnet that she went to class with. All in all, this day was going good even though he hadn't been able to whisk her off to lunch after class. It almost made him not mind the dog stink that clung to her clothes and hair that wasn't quite masked by the scent of chlorine.

Kagome and Kouga entered the diner a few minutes later; thankfully the sky hadn't opened up just yet and drenched them. They sat at a table in the back and ordered coffee before they spread their notes out across the table. Kagome was pleasantly surprised at how nice studying with Kouga was. He was extremely attentive and pretty smart. Not only that, he kept the subject on the notes and lectures and didn't pry into her personal life at all. It was very relaxing and she felt she retained a lot more of the information than if she had continued to study alone. So, therefore, she set up a time to study with him again on Monday after their classes at the library.

A few hours later, the two walk out of the restaurant, laughing at something ridiculous their professor had said during the previous lecture. That's when a loud crack of thunder sounded and the whole area was lit up in a bright flash of lightning. Kagome screamed in surprise and dropped her umbrella as the first raindrops began to fall. They were fat droplets that would quickly soak you to the bone. She scrambled to pick up the umbrella and cried out again as a pair of strong arms pulled her back off the street at the last second before a car crunched over her backup umbrella.

"Careful!" Kouga said as he held the shivering girl to his chest. His adrenaline was pumping as he slowly loosened his hold on her. "You okay?" He asked as he began checking her over for injury.

"I... I think so..." Kagome said as she pushed back from his chest and began checking herself for any scratches. "You just saved my life... Thank you Kouga-kun." Kagome said with a hint of a blush on her cheeks. Now that she thought about it, Kouga was pretty good looking. His eyes were his best feature and stood out brilliantly against his shiny onyx hair. "Damn! That was my only other umbrella!" Kagome whined as she saw the remains of her umbrella lying in the road.

"Better it than you." Kouga said seriously as he took her hand and pulled her out of the rain and under the overhang from the front of the restaurant.

"Good point."' Kagome said sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head. "This doesn't look like it's going to let up any time soon." Kagome said as she tried to squeeze some water from her hair.

"Heh, yeah. We'd better run, then!" Kouga said and before Kagome could protest, Kouga had scooped her up bridal-style and took off at top speed running through the rain.

Kagome clung to the wolf demon, a blush staining her cheeks at the close proximity as he sped up the sidewalk as he headed for her apartment. She had no clue that wolves were THAT fast! There was practically a vortex that reminded her of a miniature tornado surrounding them. She noticed him glance down at her, a smirk of triumph on his face at her obvious surprise with his speed and she quickly looked away, her blush deepening. 'Come on Kagome! Stop blushing already!' She snarled at herself. 'He's not your type in the slightest!' Kagome had no idea where all this attention from members of the opposite sex had come from all of a sudden. She knew Kouga was interested but she'd just ignored him and now that she'd spent a little time with him, she'd discovered she was completely wrong about the wolf demon.

It only took a few minutes to reach her back porch, but it was enough time for them both to be soaked to the skin from the heavy downpour. Kouga set her down on the back porch and pushed his sopping wet bangs from his face with a proud look on his face. He could smell her embarrassment and could hear her heart pumping from the close proximity. He would win her heart yet.

"You're soaked, Kouga-kun and it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon." Kagome said as she dug her key out and unlocked the door. She had gotten a text message earlier from Naraku saying he was stuck until ten because of tornado warnings. The wonderful city buses decided that it was too dangerous to drive in such conditions.

"Why don't you come in and dry off until the rain stops. I can give you something to pull on and toss your clothes in the drier in the basement." Kagome didn't want to admit it, but storms, thunder and lightning especially, scared her half to death. She really didn't want to be alone until it let up, and Kouga was just a classmate so if should be all right. They could keep studying to distract her from the flashes and noise. A smile spread across his lips and he took a step closer, taking her bag from her shoulder.

"All right." Kouga said as he followed the human woman into the apartment. "He walked over to the sink and squeezed the water from his ponytail into it. "Thanks Kagome."

"Stay here for a second while I get some towels." Kagome said and stifled a cry of surprise when a loud crack of thunder sounded. Kouga's smile faded at the surprised noise and the fear scent that had suddenly filled the air.

"You all right?" He asked as he reached a hand toward Kagome.

"I'm fine." Kagome's muffled voice came, sounding pitched higher than normal. Kagome returned and handed a towel to the tall demon, who brought it to his face to wipe the water away. He wasn't fooled for a moment.

"You know you can stop putting on a brave face, Kagome." Kouga said seriously as he took her towel and gently wiped the water from her face. He wasn't surprised to see water continue to leak down her face after her wiped the rain water away. He had been able to smell the salt from her tears.

Kagome abruptly turned around and scrubbed the tears from her eyes. She hadn't wanted anyone except for Naraku to know she was afraid of storms. She took deep breaths but jumped in the air at the next clap of thunder. She felt a pair of strong arms pull her into a strong embrace. Kouga put his chin on her shoulder and gently wiped a tear from her eye with his thumb.

"You don't have to be afraid, Kagome." He said gently as he held her against his chest reassuringly. "It's just a little lightning; it can't touch you in here." Kagome couldn't help it, she barely knew Kouga, but she had been afraid of storms her whole life. She spun around and buried her face in his chest and cried every time a flash of lightning lit up the kitchen or a crack of thunder made the walls shake.

Kouga smiled faintly at the shaking girl in his arms. She always acted like nothing bothered her. Even when she'd been sick, she hadn't seemed to complain or feel sorry for herself. Part of the reason he was so interested in her was because he sensed an inner strength unlike any other woman he'd come across. He was glad to be the one to comfort her. 'She doesn't need to be so strong...' Kouga thought to himself as he placed his chin on the top of her head and stroked her still-dripping hair. 'I can be strong for her.' After a few more moments, Kouga pushed her back gently while his hands remained on her shoulders.

"You need to get dry so you don't end up in the hospital again, Kagome." He said and placed a light kiss to the middle of her forehead. She nodded her assent with a blazing blush on her cheek and ran back to the bedroom to grab something to wear. She pulled out a shirt and pair of jeans Naraku never wore and went back to the kitchen with them. She showed Kouga to the bathroom and went back to the bedroom to change her wet clothes.

She came back several minutes later wearing a long-sleeve turtleneck and warm sweatpants. She was toweling her hair dry as she walked. Kouga was seated on the couch, both bags of books by his feet and his hair hanging loose with the towel slung around his shoulders. 'What's with me and guys with long hair?' Kagome asked herself as she caught herself admiring his shining locks.

Kagome still jumped every time lightning flashed or thunder rumbled, but they were getting fewer and farther between as Kagome took Kouga's clothes and put them in the dryer. She felt safer in the basement anyway and had to take a deep breath before she went back up the stairs since the storm wasn't muffled in the living room.

"So, you up for a little more studying?" Kouga asked as Kagome sat on the couch beside him. The television was still on the news station and was reading off all the warnings and possible tornado sightings as they cracked the books open.

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Naraku smirked to himself as he left Yura's apartment. That girl was a true freak and he enjoyed their encounters together. She was up for anything, and when you say anything, it's truly ANYTHING! The tender night with Kagome had been decidedly lacking to the hanyou so he had spent most of the day and all of the evening with her letting her please him in all the right ways.

He walked up onto the porch of his and Kagome's apartment and froze in his tracks. There was the aura of a demon coming from the door. The closer he got to the door, the stronger it became. He smirk faded to a scowl as he slipped his key in the lock and pulled the door open. The aura was even stronger inside and was definitely male in origin. An evil grin spread across his lips as he made his way through the darkened apartment. 'So she thinks she can have men over when I'm not home, does she?' Naraku thought to himself as he walked through the office and paused outside the bedroom door.

Naraku knew whoever it was; they hadn't left the living room since the aura diminished once he was through there. But he grew excited at the thought of punishing his innocent, little miko again. Yes he knew she had spiritual powers, he had sensed them when he'd first met her, and the thought of tainting her purity had been too tempting to pass up. He had already taken her innocence and what a night that had been.

With the scent of blood, tears, and sex in the air, he had pounded into her tight hole as she screamed. Her screams and cries were like music to him, he wanted to taint her soul now. He had her mind ensnared with words of love and acts of kindness, but all of it had been an act.

Nothing excited him more than the thought of tainting her pure heart. A woman like Yura wasn't worth trying to taint since she was a whore by nature. Naraku wasn't the only that shared her bed any given day so her heart hadn't been pure to begin with. But Kagome, she was so in love with him that no matter what he did to her, she would always forgive him. She had even forgiven him for raping her on the living floor.

That had been the test to see if she was ready. He had been testing her for weeks, pushing her further each time. The accusations of cheating were just an excuse, he knew she wasn't. At least, not until the night he had locked her out. He was afraid he'd blown it when she didn't come home that Sunday night. He knew she'd been with the dog, but he hadn't sensed the mutt's aura inside of her. She came home though, so he'd known the time was ripe to.

He felt blood rush to his dick at the memory of taking her by force on the floor and his smirk grew in the darkness. This would be a night she would never forget. He would make sure she was unable to walk after this huge insult.

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Kagome's eyes snapped open at a sharp pain on her hip. Her mind was groggy with sleep as she moved her arm to rub the spot that stung only... her hand got stuck... The grogginess instantly vanished as her eyes shot open and she tried to pull her hand down only to find that it had been attached to the headboard with a pair of handcuffs. She tugged at her other hand and found the same situation. In a panic, she searched the darkness for anything that would explain what was going on. In the dim light that filtered through the blinds, she caught sight of a pair of glowing, red eyes at the end of the bed.

"Na... Naraku?" Kagome asked uncertainly. "Is that you?" She tugged at the cuffs again and gasped when she saw the light glint off of something metallic and sharp-looking that was close to the pair of eyes.

"You've been very bad, koibito." Naraku said in a deep, reverberating voice as he rose to his feet. Kagome heard a match flare to life as he walked to the dresser and lit one of the scented candles there. "I know there was a man in here today. The residue from his filthy youki is still in the air." Kagome swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat.

"He was just a classmate." She explained truthfully as she gave the cuffs another futile tug. "We were studying for our finals, I swear!" She nearly cried as fear began to grip her entire being. Light glinted off a silver dagger that Naraku clutched in one hand as he blew out the match.

"I'm afraid I have to punish you again, koibito." Naraku's deep voice said as he approached the bed. Kagome shifted nervously on the bed and took in his appearance. She ignored the dull pain in her hip that had awakened her. She had a feeling the dagger he held had something to do with it. "I told you, if you spend time with another man, I'll kill him." Kagome shuddered at the serious tone and tugged at her shackles.

"W... what are you doing?" Kagome asked quietly as he sat down on the bed beside her. He was in nothing but a pair of boxers with his hair hanging loosely down his back in waves. His eyes seemed glow red in the dim light.

"I told you before. If you're going to mess around, you can be my little whore." Naraku said with a dark glint in his eye as a smile touched his lips. Kagome felt another shudder run through her body at the look he was giving her.

Fear rolled off the frightening human woman in waves and Naraku basked in the aura. That's what he wanted, uncontrollable fear, it made him rock-hard in seconds as he sat on the bed next to the pure hearted woman. He trailed the tip of the knife along the soft skin of her stomach, not using enough pressure to break the skin... yet... He enjoyed the fearful shivers he saw go through her body and the goose bumps that rose on the pale skin. He slipped the blade under the bottom of the tank top she wore and sliced upward in a quick slash, which caused a cry of fear to rip from Kagome's throat. He felt his dick pulse at the sound of her cry, and he longed to hear if again and again. The aura of fear surrounding the girl had filled the whole room with its delectable taste. That's it... he had to taste her.

Naraku ripped the rags that were left of her shirt away, revealing two soft mounds of flesh and made his mouth water. He straddled her to force her to stillness, his erect member pressing into her stomach. He could see the tears on her cheeks and suddenly wanted to see something else there.

Kagome cried silently as Naraku ran the dagger along her breasts, circling her nipples. She was more afraid than she had ever been in her life. She saw him reach behind her and grab something off the windowsill.

"Now we don't want any neighbors calling the cops, do we, koibito?" Naraku asked darkly as he jammed a wad of cloth in her mouth and secured it with a bandana around the back of her head. She tried to cry out and fight back, but Naraku held the dagger to her throat pressing down very hard. Tears leaked from Kagome's eyes as she felt something liquid drip down her throat.

"Mmm..." Naraku said as he leaned down and Kagome felt his tongue run along the cut, lapping up the blood that spilled. "Delicious..." Kagome felt him shudder in pleasure and press his erect cock painfully into her stomach as a drop of blood glistened on his lower lip.

Kagome shook her head 'no' and thrashed about in her vulnerable position. She didn't like being strapped down and the dagger frightened her. A cry ripped from her throat was muffled into her gag after he slashed the top of her left breast with the dagger. Kagome knew she was bleeding again even without looking as she pulled harder on her bonds. She felt Naraku's lips on the wound again, lapping up her blood greedily.

"Your blood is so sweet, koibito..." Naraku said as he ground himself against her immobilized body. "I need another taste..." He said huskily and full of unsuppressed desire.

Kagome sobbed around her gag as she felt Naraku's weight shift and then she felt the steel tip trailing down her stomach and continuing downward. She tried to force her legs together but couldn't because he was positioned between her legs in anticipation. One hand trailed the knife while he slipped a finger from his other hand inside of her. Kagome squirmed and fought, trying to force the intruder out.

"I wouldn't, koibito." Naraku said dangerously as red eyes met chocolate brown. Kagome's sobs renewed as she gave up her futile attempt to make him stop.

The knife stopped just above the glistening black curls between Kagome's legs and she peeked one eye open, praying for it to be over. She screamed in agony as he slashed the knife downward, breaking the skin at the same time he cut her panties off. She felt his tongue between her legs lapping up the blood eagerly; a low groan reached her ears. It was a noise she was unfamiliar with but she could tell it didn't mean anything good.

"Now be a good little slut and let me fuck the shit out you." Naraku growled as he pulled his boxers off and positioned himself to thrust into her, planning on using blood as lubricant for his sexual exploits. The thought of it made him groan with desire as he forced her legs open ruthlessly. He could hear her muffled screams from behind the gag as she sobbed and fought her restraints. It was music to his ears as he drove himself into her with as much force as he could muster. She shrieked behind her gag and sobbed harder as he rubbed the wound and forced the blood to drip down toward their joined anatomy.

"This is a night you're never going to forget, koibito." Naraku said darkly as a sadistic grin crossed his features. He pulled all the way out and slammed into her again with enough force to send her head crashing into the headboard. Seeing stars, Kagome was unaware of the brutal pounding as he pulled out and slammed himself in as hard and fast as possible. Her head rolled to the side and she cried again as she felt a sharp pain rip across her stomach. Her eyes cleared enough to see Naraku riding her with his dagger still in hand. The pain was unlike anything she'd ever felt as he violated her violently. She was aware of punches and pinches, bites and scratches inflicted on her body. She fought as much as she was able, but eventually, the pain became too much and she fell into unconsciousness.

Long after Kagome had lost consciousness, Naraku continued his none-to-gentle 'ministrations'. Fucking her when she was passed out wasn't as good as when she fought back, bit he had to teach her that she belonged to him and he could do what he liked to her. He had a feeling the mutt was done for after this. Naraku was one step closer to breaking this spirited bitch who didn't seem to have a speck of darkness in her heart. He would breed it and nurture it while he tainted her physical body. The visible scars would soon become scars to her soul... He couldn't wait to see it...

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Inuyasha's head flew up off the pillow and his breathing came out in ragged gasps. The dream had been so vivid he could still see it with his eyes open. He had seen Kagome chained to a bed while a man with a shadowed face and burning red eyes slashed at her with a dagger that glowed blood red in a flickering light. He hadn't been able to make out his face, but something in his gut told him it was actually happening...

"Kagome... why won't you let me rescue you?" Inuyasha asked no one in particular as he hung his head in his hand and a growl of fury and frustration issues from deep in his throat. If only he knew where she lived! He would break down the door and pull her to safety. He would keep her close and show her how a man was SUPPOSED to treat a woman. After meeting her ex earlier in the day, he had a feeling she'd never really been in a healthy, normal relationship. He wanted to show her that she didn't have to live with someone that constantly hurt her. Sure he knew he'd argue with her, but he would never raise a hand to her and besides, she knew about his mouth and arrogant attitude already.

"Kagome..." He growled as his eyes flashed red...

::FIN::

June 21, 2011

Well that's it for this chapter, I'm surprised who quickly I finished it, especially considering the family crisis I have going on AND I updated my Sailor Moon/Inuyasha crossover I started in like 2002 *sweat* I took about a five or six year break from writing and there were only like three of my old stories that I want to finish.