InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Possessed ❯ Chapter 1

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Blanket Disclaimer:

Inuyasha, and the characters therein, are the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I am in no way affiliated with Takahashi, or VIZ Productions.

 

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Hello! Unlike with the previous installment Possessing – which was originally written as the following year’s Halloween fic to the first story Possession and thus took place one year later in-universe – this third and (temporarily!) final installment Possessed was written the same year as Possessing, and originally served as that year’s Christmas fic, so it is actually a direct sequel to Possessing and begins right where that story left off.

 

And also too, yes, you will finally get Inu/Kag smexy times in this story! Enjoy!

 

 

Chapter One

 

 

 

 

Inuyasha did not require much sleep, but just like his mortal canine counterpart still lying between his and Kagome’s feet, he too was perfectly content to just lie there in bed, wide awake but perfectly still, and allow the still dozing miko in his arms to rouse on her own.

 

Kagome had rolled over at some point during the night. What amazed the hanyou was that he’d slept right through the maneuver, which went a long way towards proving just how relaxed he truly was in her presence. He’d awoken to find her snuggled up against him, her face in his chest, his arms still wrapped around her, and aside from gently moving one of his hands to the back of her head he hadn’t moved a muscle since. Whether she’d made the move in her sleep, or had actually woken up for a second and had then turned over on purpose, either way it didn’t really matter to Inuyasha because it still showed him just how relaxed she felt in his presence.

 

He didn’t know what time it was when he’d woken up, unable to see his bedside clock without disturbing his charge, but it’d still been pitch black out. He lied there, wide awake but feeling more content than he ever had before in his life, as his room slowly grew lighter with dawn’s approach. Shortly after sunrise, Shiro stirred and jumped down off of the bed, the akita mix casually making his way downstairs. Inuyasha held his breath, waiting to see if the slight movement of the mattress would wake Kagome, but she continued to doze. She was always up fairly early, so he knew he didn’t have much longer to wait, and he was in no hurry since unlike Shiro he could still wait to do his morning business, so he wanted to cherish every precious second he had lying with Kagome like that.

 

All good things had to come to an end eventually, though, and so it was maybe only five minutes later that he noticed his miko was starting to stir.

 

Yes, his miko, because screw it, he was her dog and she was his human. He was man enough to admit he was only half man. But amazingly, she didn’t mind his canine half, and so in addition to being his human she was also his girlfriend, now, and, in time, she would become his mate. For the first time, he did not blush at that thought. Instead, as she roused in his arms, he moved his face down a smidge and affectionately nuzzled the top of her head, deeply inhaling her scent.

 

He’d always loved the way she smelled, had snuck a few sniffs of her bedding from time to time when she wasn’t at home – in a nonsexual way, as her bed never smelled of that and it’d just been the canine side of him finding her natural scent soothing – but never before had he felt comfortable just openly smelling her the way he was doing now, when he knew she knew he was doing it. He’d seen no point in concealing his own state of wakefulness from her, though, and so this way, she wouldn’t wind up thinking she was in a reverse of his own previous predicament, believing she needed to keep still in order not to wake him. If she wanted to remain lying there in his arms a while longer, he was all for it, but he didn’t want her making herself uncomfortable if she had to use the bathroom or something.

 

Of course, as Kagome came to, needing to use the bathroom was the furthest thing from her mind.

 

She awoke to the sensation of being held in a warm, strong embrace, and she did not have a split second moment of panic before remembering the events of the night before. Rather, she couldn’t stop a huge grin from climbing up her lips as she relished in the fact that this was real. They’d discussed their feelings the night before, they both wanted the same thing, they were a couple now, and this was real. Inuyasha was really holding her; she was really lying motionless in his embrace, snuggled up against the hanyou who really had his arms wrapped around her, and she could really feel it as he buried his nose in her hair and deeply inhaled her scent.

 

The sensation made tingles race up and down her spine, and she shivered a little, in a good way. Inuyasha had probably already known she was awake, she supposed, but if he somehow hadn’t been aware then he definitely was now. Kagome figured she should say something, then, but he beat her to it.

 

“Good morning,” he murmured, a huskiness to his voice that both surprised and delighted her.

 

It surprised Inuyasha, too, but when Kagome’s reply was to wriggle free of his embrace just enough to tilt her head up and meet his eyes, before planting a light kiss on his lips and softly whisper “Yes it is,” his surprise at himself was replaced with nothing but thoughts of her.

 

Hesitantly, though only marginally so, he moved his left hand to her right cheek and brought their lips back together a second time. Then Kagome was the one reaching up to also cup his face as their lips met for a third time, and stayed, two sets of eyes drifting closed as the hanyou followed his miko’s lead. He’d seen plenty of kissing on TV, not even counting the more ‘adult’ programs that showed way more than kissing, but he’d never actually done it before.

 

Progress was slow at first, a lazy exploration as Kagome moved her slightly opened lips against his and he mimicked her movements in an effort to be an equal participant. Then feeling a little bit braver, and knowing at least in theory what he was supposed to do, Inuyasha let his tongue slip past the boundaries of his own mouth, and Kagome immediately reciprocated. Feeling her tongue dancing with his, tasting her in his mouth – and ‘morning breathing’ was not even a blip on his radar – Inuyasha felt a different kind of ‘blip’ as pleasurable tingles sent shivers down his spine. He could feel his body becoming aroused, and he could smell Kagome’s own growing excitement, but that didn’t mean they had to go from zero to sixty right then and there. As much as a part of him – both physically and mentally – was looking forward to their relationship reaching that level, he was also nervous, a part of him still worried about rejection, and in that moment he chickened out, to put it plainly.

 

Pulling back and out of the kiss, Inuyasha was panting for breath harder than Kagome was, which the miko took note of as her higher brain functions slowly kicked back into gear. She’d gone from waking up in Inuyasha’s arms to making out with him in only a matter of seconds, so it took her a moment to get her bearings.

 

“Wow, good morning indeed,” she said after a moment.

 

With the way their pajama-clad legs were slightly woven together, her right leg somehow winding up between his own when they’d tried to close what little gap there was between them, Kagome could not miss the sensation of his erection pressing up against her belly, but looking into his eyes, and seeing a combination of desire and fear there, she just gave him one more quick peck of a kiss and said seriously, “We can take things however slowly, or quickly, you want to.”

 

“W-we...” Clearing his throat, he tried again. “We don’t need to go that fast.”

 

A part of her was tempted to reach down and grasp him through the fabric of his pajama bottoms while asking him if he’d at least like her help with his ‘problem’, but she managed to behave herself, just barely, and instead retracted her leg from between his own. It was then that Shiro apparently got tired of being alone downstairs, as the overgrown pup suddenly ran back up the stairs, into the room and up onto the bed, and Inuyasha had to act fast to avoid getting his erection stomped on as the akita mix glomped the hanyou and miko and took his turn bestowing kisses upon the both of them.

 

“Gah!” Kagome cried out playfully, while covering her mouth in order to avoid getting deep-throated by her dog.

 

A sexy man who happened to be half demonic dog was one thing, but she wasn’t into real dogs!

 

“Jeez, way to ruin the mood ya big baka,” Inuyasha laughed as he rough housed with the akita, his arousal now a thing of the past.

 

“Let this be a lesson to us,” Kagome added, still laughing. “Whenever we’re gonna do anything we need to make sure ‘our son’ is locked out of the room first.”

 

Inuyasha knew she was just joking around, but he still froze at her words, his right arm slung over Shiro’s back as he stared at her with a serious expression, completely ignoring the dog that was presently licking his right hand over and over again.

 

“You said before...you said you wanted to raise a family. Last night you only talked about not wanting a human husband anymore, because you fell in love with me, but...what about children? I can’t give you children, and even if I could it would actually be a very bad idea, if they were part youkai, so I’m glad we don’t have to worry about me accidentally getting you pregnant, but at the same time, would you really be okay with giving up your dream of raising a family, of being a mother, all for me?”

 

He choked up a bit, his golden yellow eyes suspiciously more shiny than usual. “How can I ask that of you? I love you too much to be so selfish.”

 

Her heart both broke and melted at his words.

 

“It’s not just for you,” she emphasized. “I love you and so I want to be with you, and I know damn well what that means. I know hanyou are sterile, even during a human transformation. I honestly hadn’t known if you knew, but I’m glad I didn’t have to be the one to break it to you.”

 

He nodded his understanding.

 

“Over the last year I’ve read a lot of articles about hanyou, just wanting to learn whatever humans had discovered about us.” He paused and narrowed his eyes in thought. “Don’t know how I missed seeing anything about a full youkai transformation, but that’s a conversation for another time.”

 

“Only a hanyou with a daiyoukai parent has strong enough youki to transform,” Kagome explained briefly. “Human scientists discovered that back...back before they banned all the testing.”

 

He raised his left hand in a soothing gesture when he could tell that that particular subject was making her upset.

 

“I saw articles about that, too, and didn’t read them because I didn’t want to read about that kind of shit. That explains why I missed it then. But that’s all in the past and those experiments are illegal now so you don’t have to worry about it happening again...happening to me.” He flashed her a genuine smile. “Besides, I’m your registered property now, and for that I’ll be eternally grateful. If anyone ever just happens to realize I’m here while you’re not home and calls the taijiya on me, like calling animal control to come take me away, instead they’ll be informed that I’m in the system and that you are my handler, therefore this is my legal residence. That is a fucking huge load off my mind, not having to be so paranoid about being seen. Now...” He took a deep breath. “We were talking about babies...”

 

She nodded, but didn’t say anything, letting him continue.

 

“No, I didn’t know before I read about it that I was sterile, but I remember when I first found out I just snorted at the useless information, because at the time I’d thought, what the fuck difference does it make? I was still in denial of my growing feelings for you at the time, and while my mother had hoped I’d be accepted by my fellow inu-youkai upon her death I’d already found out the hard way that that ain’t happening. But now that I suddenly find myself having a girlfriend...maybe even a...wife?” he phrased questioningly. She nodded much more eagerly that time. “Now, suddenly, it matters.”

 

“It doesn’t matter to me,” she promised him, taking her turn to talk. “Yes, if you could father human children on your human nights, that would have been wonderful, but you can’t and I know that. The government used that fact to support the bullshit argument that hanyou are ‘against nature’ and shouldn’t have human rights. Could you just imagine the paradigm shift required if hanyou could have normal human children? The scientists probably all sighed in relief when it was determined that they couldn’t, and it’s part of what I’ve been wrestling with for a few months now. Not the bullshit about how the world views hanyou, but just that old ‘are my feelings for you real?’ concern, same as you had. And if so, are they strong enough? Do I love you enough for my feelings to change my original dreams of the future? To give up on the original notion of getting married and raising a family? And the answer is yes.”

 

Finally rescuing his right hand from Shiro, ignoring the fact that it was covered in slobber, Kagome held both of his hands tightly in hers as she looked deep into his eyes, making sure he could see the sincerity in her own. She wasn’t wearing those contact lenses anymore, and so the depth of her love for him shown through nice and clear. It was his turn for his heart to melt at her words.

 

“It’s not a sacrifice, because I don’t want that old dream anymore, of finding a human husband and raising a family. I want to be with you, now, and if that means never having children, so be it. But that said, who knows what the future holds? If I decide I really want children some day, there are other ways to go about it, you know. I certainly don’t have to have a human husband in order to be a mother, and if I decide to adopt or something, I bet you’d make a wonderful father, even if society considers me a single mother and you just my guard dog. Fuck what society thinks.”

 

Tightening his own grip on her hands in return, as she’d still been holding both of his hands in hers, Inuyasha yanked Kagome forward and into his lap, as he adjusted his position and sat up straight on the bed, his legs tucked around at the knees. Shiro barked at them playfully as the hanyou slammed his lips back down over the miko’s, Kagome immediately kissing him back as she shifted her hands to tangle up in his hair, his hands now at the back of her head and her middle back, and it wasn’t until Shiro decided to try to join in on the kiss, licking at both of their faces from the side, that the newly established couple pulled back apart again, laughing while playfully gagging in mock disgust over Shiro’s attack.

 

“Okay yeah, you’re right,” Inuyasha said then, still chuckling, even as he had to keep his hands on the dog’s shoulders to keep the still licking Shiro at bay, the large white dog licking air as he attempted to reach the hanyou’s face with his outstretched tongue. “When we’re ready to...continue,” he added, blushing only slightly, “we’ll definitely have to lock him out.”

 

He deliberately emphasized the last word while raising his voice and shifting his focus to glare at Shiro, and taking it as the command that it was, the akita mix immediately jumped down off the bed and ran out the opened bedroom door and across the hall into Kagome’s bedroom.

 

Hanyou and miko continued chucking for a little while, and then before either of them could speak up again, Kagome’s stomach growled.

 

“That settles it, time for breakfast,” Inuyasha said then.

 

“First, time for bathroom!” Kagome said as she maneuvered herself up and off of the hanyou’s bed.

 

He just laughed again.

 

“Ladies first,” he declared overly dramatically with a sweeping motion of his hand in the general direction of their one and only bathroom.

 

While the miko scurried to do her morning business Inuyasha took advantage of the alone time to get dressed, changing out of his pajama bottoms and t-shirt and into his red fire-rat robes. Sure, he’d just worn them the night before, but they were self-cleaning and no longer smelled of all their activities in the city, and besides that, he found a certain sense of security wearing the robes his father had left him, robes that had saved his life on more than one occasion. While he trusted Kagome with his life...and heart...he was still feeling vulnerable and wearing his father’s robes was like unconsciously wearing a security blanket. He hadn’t put any real thought into it beyond them being what he wanted to wear.

 

When Kagome emerged and spotted him she gave him an approving nod before disappearing into her own bedroom to get dressed...and attacked by Shiro. Inuyasha was still chuckling to himself at the sounds coming from her room as he took his turn in the bathroom.

 

Both of them heading downstairs at around the same time, Kagome dressed in a simple blouse and comfortable jeans, Inuyasha insisted on helping her with breakfast, not that she’d put up much resistance after he made his initial offer. Gladly accepting his help, they worked together to make a hearty breakfast of eggs and sausages with hash browns. Inuyasha handled the potatoes, which were easy to prepare since they had a box of preshredded potatoes on hand specifically for that purpose.

 

The couple didn’t really talk during breakfast preparation, but it was not an uncomfortable or awkward silence. Once their food was ready they also ate in companionable silence, but then Inuyasha thought it would be a good idea to resume their conversation.

 

“So...” he started lamely, rubbing at the back of his head with a sheepish expression. “I guess there’s no...hurry...for anything, we’ll just let nature take its course?” Kagome nodded but stayed silent, letting him continue. “This is weird,” he said, “because I’ve fantasized about being with you for a while now, but now that I actually can be with you, I feel like a nervous teen or something.” He laughed a little, but it sounded forced.

 

“I’ve had fantasies, too,” Kagome admitted, only a slight blush on her cheeks. “I’m ready whenever you are, to take that next step I mean. I’m not trying to put any pressure on you,” she explained, “I just want you to know that I’m willing to move at whatever pace you feel the most comfortable with.”

 

Reaching over and taking his hand, as they were both still sitting at the table, their dirty breakfast dishes in front of them, she added, “We can take things slowly, progressing bit by bit, or we can go back upstairs and make love right now. It’s whatever you want to do.”

 

If he’d been drinking from his glass of water in that moment he would have done a spit take at her words. As it was he still started choking, yanking his hand back from her to cover his mouth as he coughed, Kagome giving him a look that was a combination of amused and sympathetic.

 

“Sorry,” she said while trying to stifle a giggle.

 

“Woman...” Inuyasha said once he got himself back under control. He shot her a mock glare when she just laughed again. “Let’s change the subject,” he said then, laughing as well before quickly getting more serious again. “So what all do you know about this youkai transformation business?”

 

Kagome explained to him what she knew, then, without going into the unpleasant details of how humans had first become aware that daibanyou, like Inuyasha, were capable of such a thing. From their understanding of it, the transformations were unconscious results of a hanyou’s youki flaring beyond what even a hanyou with a daiyoukai parent could do by will. A full blooded daiyoukai could transform at will, or sometimes it just happened as a result of the daiyoukai losing their temper, but even a daibanyou was too weak to mentally trigger a transformation in that way. Kagome assured Inuyasha that he didn’t have to worry he was like The Hulk just waiting to happen if he ever got angry enough.

 

“Like I explained briefly last night, it’d only happen if you were physically near death, and the power boost was necessary to save your life. I guess a hanyou’s youki just automatically knows what to do to save your life, same as going dormant when you’re exposed to reiki.”

 

“Or that’s just literally the reiki purifying the youki,” he countered with a shrug.

 

“Perhaps,” she agreed with a shrug of her own. “But your body just continually produces it, save during the new moon. So that’s why a purification only turns you human for a short while. Your body is constantly making youki, like we produce other chemicals and hormones and such in our bodies, so if it’s needed, your body will produce more youki, like the demonic equivalent to a burst of adrenaline.”

 

“And then it takes over my mind.” He sighed.

 

“Considering the only recorded instances of such transformations involved hanyou fighting for their lives, I don’t think their appearance to us of becoming mindless monsters is a fair assessment,” she argued. “I bet if you were ever injured severely enough while on assignment your target would remain the oni or whatever it was that had almost killed you. I can’t honestly see you turning against us, unless maybe if someone on our team did something stupid like preemptively considered you a threat and tried to attack you, thus making them a threat in your mind. But with people like Sango and Miroku on our team I doubt we have to worry about that. Worst case scenario, I’m confident I could snap you out of it without hurting you...or you hurting me,” she added when she could tell that was what he’d just opened his mouth comment on.

 

“Still...” he began hesitantly. “Maybe one of those rosaries isn’t such a bad idea, just in case.”

 

She snorted.

 

“Nonsense,” she scoffed. “People who don’t trust their youkai animals use those rosaries, and I neither distrust you nor consider you an animal.”

 

“But-”

 

“You can’t hurt me,” she assured him with a sincere look of faith and love in her eyes. He sighed and closed his mouth, trying to put as much faith in himself as she clearly had in him.

 

“I don’t even think you would try,” she continued, “but if you did, remember, I can make a purifying barrier around myself at will, so you’d never be able to lay a claw on me, and I wouldn’t hold it against you if you attacked me during a transformation, just so you know, but I’m hopeful we’ll never have to find out first hand what may or may not happen because I don’t intend on ever letting you become that injured in the first place. I love you, and I couldn’t bear to see you get hurt like that. I’m thankful you’ve got the fire-rat robes. Those should protect you from most strikes aimed your way.”

 

“This is true...” he admitted slowly, as he looked down at himself and the archaic red robes he was currently wearing. “I’ve taken quite a few hits in these robes already, and they’ve definitely saved my life.”

 

“What we need to do is teach you how to fight,” Kagome said then. “Since you already know how to conjure up your youki based ‘attacks’ at will, that should be easy. It’ll be just like me with my arrows. I was used to stationary target practice and then boy howdy, did they teach me the difference between that and a moving target!” she said with a laugh. “But when it comes to channeling my reiki into my arrows, or other objects, that part, I already knew how to do. My instructor said I saved him a lot of time. Sometimes they get people not from shrine families, who just happened to have been born with reiki and showed great potential and so they wanted to join the Spiritual Forces, but then they need to be trained in how to use their reiki in addition to learning how to fight.”

 

Inuyasha nodded his understanding.

 

“I already know how to dodge,” he said then with a laugh of his own. “My robes saved my ass the first couple of times someone took a swipe at me, but then I got better at it. I can smell when another youkai is charging up their youki, preparing a demonic attack. I think with just some practice, yeah, nobody will be able to land a bad strike on me.”

 

“Well, practice starts the day after tomorrow,” she reminded him then. “I was already set to start training in the field with some of the people from our local group. Getting called in on assignment early because of that kuma-youkai doesn’t mean I don’t have to complete all of my scheduled field training, and now that you’ll be coming with me, you and I will get to learn how to work together with the others from day one.”

 

“I’m looking forward to it,” he said with a nod. “And, if you wanted, I was thinking that you ‘n’ me could also get in some extra practice whenever you wanted, just the two of us, out in the forest,” he added. then “I don’t have any experience dodging miko arrows, thank the gods, but of course that probably means you’ll be able to land a few hits. I’m sure you could always use the target practice, too, and besides testing my dodging skills by firing arrows at me you could also shoot arrows that I need to try to catch, which would sort of be like my version of target practice. It’d test my reflexes and speed, at least.”

 

“That’s a fabulous idea!” Kagome agreed enthusiastically. “I might’ve gotten to the point where I can hit their moving targets more often than not, but I could still use all the target practice I can get,” she admitted. “I’d use my blunted arrows, obviously.”

 

“Even a regular arrow, without reiki, will just bounce off these robes,” Inuyasha reminded her.

 

“Still, I’d feel much more comfortable using my blunt arrows if I’m actually going to be firing shots at you.”

 

“That’s fine,” he said then. “Nothing like some friendly competition, you trying to hit me while I try to dodge. I like a good challenge,” he added with a laugh.

 

Kagome’s eyes lit up in delight, envisioning making special arrows just for the two of them with paint ball tips. “Oh you’re on,” she said then, adopting a playfully evil look. She even rubbed her palms together like a cliché movie villain. Inuyasha just laughed again.