InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lady's Man of the West ❯ Regrets? ( Chapter 4 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Hello, all! I'm so sorry! I know it's been FOREVER.

I'm finally able and willing to continue with my fics, and am feeling awful for my long absence (good excuse or no) especially with all those amazing reviews and the tons of support I will never be able to convey my joy over properly.

Thanks to the people who reviewed. You rock! You are the reason I updated as soon as I could. Love you SO much right now!

AND forget about the tampons. They are now health pads (I thought they were the same thing!!! I've never seen a tampon in my life. But I keep reading about people using it. I only got how it really works when they used the word in a subtitled movie and it was translated 'plug'. Gwaaah! What a mess-up!) For those of you who read it 'health pad' now, it's because I fixed it. Phew! (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you haven't read the previous chapter.)

And I know the fic is weird, and maybe a bit freaky. Is this what they call a 'gender bender'? Anyway, I like seeing Sessy squirm. Bwahahaha!

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Ahou: Fool.

Taiyoukai: Demon lord.

Baka: Idiot.

Hanyou: Half demon.

Youkai: demon.

Miko: Priestess.

-Sama: Used to confer great respect, like for those better in status.

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Disclaimer: If I could own any part of Inuyasha it would be Sesshoumaru, the sexiest guy in the land -sigh-

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Recap fromthelast chapter:

His face popped into her vision, his glare there with it. “I could never hate you! And if I did want her back, it would never be at the expense of loosing you!”

“You're just saying that because it's too late,” she told him matter-of-factly. “I understand that you still-”

He pressed his lips to hers, successfully shutting her up and acting out a fantasy of long ago -or what seemed like it. Unlike her reaction the first time he tried to kiss her, she responded…And rather enthusiastically.

And in the eternity-minutes that followed, his hazy mind registered that he had -in his state of vulnerability and passion- marked her as his.

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CHAPTER 4:

No matter how little Sesshoumaru moved, or how hard he tried to keep it in, he felt it -at fairly regular intervals- come out. It was the singularly most uncomfortable sensation he has had to deal with in his entire life. Plus, the health pads he had been given reminded him too much of diapers. They probably were something like that, only for grownup women.

Which was another calamity altogether. Once he found this miko foolish enough to reverse his sex, he would kill her -after she turned him back. Because the thought alone of his being this helpless and open as a female and a human put him in as vile a temper as he was ever in.

And after all that, he still had the time to be concerned about his young ward. The old woman assured him Rin was alive, although they had no inkling of where she might be. 'Probably with the miko,' she admitted later. It's what he thought, too, but he had no intention of chatting about his thoughts with anyone. He never does. But especially not with this lot.

The head of said lot came into the cottage, looking rather perturbed, ignoring the taiyoukai completely as usual. Kaede had yet to come back from her trip to the village, but Sesshoumaru wasn't going to divulge anything to the half-breed moron.

Soon enough, the hanyou figured it out on his own, and sighed in exasperation at the lack of miko. Inuyasha felt his brother's eyes on him and turned to him angrily. Sesshoumaru expected something like 'what're ya lookin' at, asshole!' but Inuyasha just turned away and walked out.

Sesshoumaru would have asked him what he was blushing like a girl about, but he didn't give a damn. He was only concerned (not nervous) about what the old miko was going to poke at him with when she came back.

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Inuyasha, his heart pounding, paced back and forth a safe distance away from Kaede's cottage.

Kagome was madder than ever -and she had a right to be since he had thrown her into her room through her bedroom window, then hissed at her to stay there until he figured out what to do.

She hadn't said anything, but the painful and furious daggers she had thrown at him with her eyes carried her anger through. He didn't dawdle there to explain himself, racing to the shrine and leaping into the well in a hurry.

He didn't want to know how she felt about being marked. Being his mate. And so suddenly! He had to fix this. It wasn't to happen like this. It wasn't supposed to happen at all!

"When the hell is that hag coming back!" he roared at the sky.

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Kagome climbed over the well's edge shakily. "Stay right here! Until I figure out what to do," she mocked furiously, dropping to her feet on the grass. "Wow!" she exclaimed in surprise when her knees buckled.

She sat there on her bottom, and then burst into tears.

Kagome wiped the evidence of her emotional outburst from her cheeks quickly -after ten minutes of it- and stood slowly. She dusted down her skirt and shirt and walked briskly in the direction of Kouga's hideout.

"Hey! Hey, there! Miko! Wait!"

Kagome turned about, wide-eyed, at the sound of Jaken's voice. "Huh?" She rubbed her misty eyes and looked around again, a little annoyed that she couldn't sense his youki. "Jaken? Where are you?" She froze when something curled around her ankle. "Gyaaaah!"

"Wow! Wai-i-it!"

Kagome kicked at the air desperately and jumped up and down. "Getoffgetoffgetoff!"

"It's me-e-e-e-e!" the thing around her ankle wailed.

"I don't care! Get off!" One hard kick later, the slimy thing went flying into a tree.

"Ewewewew!" the girl shivered, staring at the…"What happened to you!" When 'Jaken' didn't reply, Kagome approached him slowly. "J-Jaken?"

The poor thing was out cold.

"Woops."

Kagome thought about taking the large slug-like creature to Kaede, but she knew Inuyasha would be there. And she also knew that if she saw him she would sit him to the core of the earth.

So she took the unconscious slime with her to Kouga's, not once doubting it was him. But Jaken was so slippery and sticky she had to drag him behind her (and wipe her hand every five minutes). She didn't miss the fact that weird things were happening all of a sudden. Things that never in a million years would have happened. Like Inuyasha's…taking her as his mate.

Could it be that only happened through a spell? The thought was so painful Kagome had to stop and force herself to keep breathing. "How else would that baka get interested in me?" she thought with a sudden fury. "Screw him! Doing this and then trying to weasel out of it! Ugh!" She clutched at the mark on the base of her neck and tried pinching it off. "OUCH!" It hurt more than it should have. "Owow!" she flinched and rubbed it soothingly. "I guess…I'm stuck with you," she told the fang marks she couldn't quite see.

And burst into tears.

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"OUCH!" Inuyasha jumped and clutched at his shoulder in shock. "What the!" He frowned and scratched the place lightly. It didn't sting again, so he gave it a distrustful glance and dismissed it. He looked back at Kaede -ignoring an ill-looking Hiishi (That is, He-She).

He watched the woman mash something in a small wooden bowl (a mortar) and dump the gooey contents in a wooden mug, which she then filled with boiling water she'd been heating up over the fire in the cottage.

"That for Sesshoumaru's monthly?" he asked with a snicker. "Ow!" He exclaimed when she pinched his cheek and stretched it painfully.

"Down, boy," she ordered him, using her other hand to hand the mug to the lord.

Sesshoumaru wouldn't take it, and opted to ignore Inuyasha's existence.

"Lord Sesshoumaru, it will help stop it," she said vaguely. But it was enough to get the taiyoukai to take the mug and a sip. Anything that promised to stop anything that had to do with this 'curse of a phenomenon', was clearly well thought of, Kaede thought in amusement.

The miko would have sworn he looked horrified after taking a second sip, but she couldn't be sure, so quickly did it pass. The concoction did have a vile after taste. Almost as vile as the flux was painful.

"Is there anything you wanted to ask me about, Inuyasha?" she asked, sitting at the low table Kagome had gotten her a short while back. "Well?"

Inuyasha glanced at Sesshoumaru reluctantly and pouted in the way only he can. Kaede nodded in understanding. "I'll talk to you outside then."

"It can only be about his master. He has nothing better to worry about, ahou that he is," the lord said dismissively, interrupting their exit.

"You-!' Inuyasha unsheathed his sword angrily and faced the man-now-woman.

"Inuyasha! This is not the time!" the old miko warned, angry herself. "You can't react this way every time she baits you!"

"She?" Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes in offence, icicles of fury shooting from them.

"That moron started it!"

"Just come with me, Inuyahsa," she said with a sigh. "I can tell what you come with is serious business, if your temper is anything to go by." Not that he was usually calm and gracious, thought the woman, mentally rolling her eyes.

Inuyasha followed with a growl thrown over his shoulder.

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A few well-aimed purifying arrows and she was standing safely at the entrance of the cave.

She dusted herself down with one hand and took a deep breath. "Kouga-kun! Are you there?"

She yelped and jumped back from the surprise of finding the wolf prince in her face so unexpectedly. He was always so fast. Not even wet from the waterfall curtain covering his den.

"Hello, Kagome," he smiled charmingly in invitation, taking her hand in that familiar gesture of his.

"Um, hi." She saw his nose flare suddenly, and then he stiffened, his eyes full of disbelief and shock. She'd hoped he wouldn't notice so soon.

Crap!

"Well…that's unexpected," he said darkly, stepping away as if he'd caught a whiff of something vile on her.

I'll say. "Listen I don't want to talk about that, I just wanted…to ask you about it. Since you're a demon and all." She fidgeted slightly, giving him a shy smile.

He sighed and crossed his arms. "How did it happen? Did he force you?"

"I said I didn't want to talk about that. And no!" She blushed furiously, hating to think how easily she'd surrendered. Or how quickly Inuyasha regretted it.

"I didn't think so."

"But I didn't expect it exactly, either," she added defensively, uncertainly. "That's what I wanted to ask about." Kagome thought the wolf prince was taking this suspiciously well. Turning into a girl had something to do with it maybe. Whatever it was, she was grateful. "Can it be undone?"

Kouga looked surprised but pleased. He attempted to cross his arms, but after several awkward attempts dropped them down at his sides with an angry, feminine growl. "You don't want to be his?"

"Well, he…doesn't want to at least, and that's reason enough not to…keep it." She glanced breifly at where the mark should be, at the base of her neck. "He's sorry it ever happened," she said bitterly, sounding miserably certain of it. "It was so fast neither of us had time to..." she faltered.

In all honesty, she'd never felt as alive as when he'd done the marking thing. It felt so wonderfully intimate. It didn't even hurt much, Just a slight sting that was overridden by the strange heat and pleasure that had spread through her entire body.

Kouga watched her with a grimace. He could tell her things like that didn't 'happen so fast' if neither of them hadn't had the intention or yearning to begin with, except he didn't want to give her a reason to believe she and the mutt should stay together. He planned to take her as his own later after all...Maybe after I'm a guy again, he thought with distaste, refraining from glancing at his annoying breasts.

"Did he do anything beyond bite, Kagome?"

The schoolgirl flushed hotly. "No! Of course not!"

Kouga raised an eyebrow at the passionate denial. "Ok. Then you can be free again. No problem." If it weren't possible, Kouga would have killed the blasted hanyou and made it so. "Give it a week, and if he doesn't renew it, or finish it, it'll fade away. Lucky for you, dog demons don't necessarily mate for life, and they can change mates pretty readily."

Kagome was still stuck on the 'finish it'. She didn't even want to guess what that meant. And as for the multiple-mates thing, she'd guessed as much. Inuyasha was proof of it after all.

"I want it to go away now. Otherwise Inuyasha will be pretty awkward with me all the time, and he's irritating enough as it is."

Kouga thought about that for a moment. "someone else could mark you instead," he said speculatively.

Kagome gaped. "What! No! That'll make him nuts, not just awkward!" she raved almost manically.

Kouga shrugged nonchalantly. "Then you can only wait. And don't let him do it again."

"Geez, Kouga!" Like he would. Kagome huffed in embarrassment and exasperation, feeling more miserable than she had in ever. A little furious as well, come to think of it. She'd be lucky if he ever came near her again, not that she gave a hoot. Giving her his mark and then acting like it was the worst thing in the world…Pft. Moron!

She poked the mark on her neck angrily and yelped at the burning sting. And somewhere not too far away, a certain hanyou about to have a chat with a miko jumped in pained surprise as well.

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To Be Continued...

I know this is short, but I've been gone so long I just had to update quickly. I'm sorry about the long hiatus! I thank all of you great reviewers! Your comments made me so happy!!! :>

Review and tell me how terrible I am! -sigh- I feel awful. I'm a pretty lazy person, even though I love writing these fics. I'll do my best to update quickly. Ja!!!!