InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Possessed ❯ Chapter 2

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

 

Chapter Two

 

 

 

 

“Look out, Inuyasha!” Kagome shouted, the hanyou ducking just as the massive oni coming up behind him took a swipe at his head.

 

Dropping into a roll, Inuyasha popped back up onto his feet facing the other direction and slashed at the oni with a shout of Sankon Tessou, glowing streaks of youki flying from his fingertips that sliced the oni to pieces. Torn bits of paper drifting down on the breeze were all that remained of the large shikigami.

 

There was no time to rest or celebrate, though.

 

Kagome had her hands full dealing with her own shikigami, this one in the form of a flying serpent. A very long but also very thin flying serpent. One purifying arrow at full strength would easily take care of it, but even with all the practice hitting moving targets she’d already had back at the training facility, and the fun competition she’d had with Inuyasha yesterday out in the forest – despite his speed she’d actually managed to hit him with a blunt arrow three times within an hour long period, as he ran around her in circles jumping in and out of the trees – nothing could have prepared her for this. She was basically trying to hit a fast flying ribbon, like the kind sometimes incorporated into gymnastic floor routines, except it was going about fifty miles an hour and wasn’t swirling in an even remotely predictable pattern. She’d already tried shooting at where its head was going to be, but it’d just flip a U-turn after she fired.

 

It was really frustrating.

 

That was what had also momentarily distracted Inuyasha, almost letting that large oni sneak up on him as a result. After taking care of another, smaller demon, he’d been watching Kagome face off against the serpent. At first he’d been watching for an opening to take a swipe at it, himself, but then after realizing he didn’t have a clean shot he’d switched to mentally willing one of her arrows to hit their target, as she’d fired one arrow after the other, each one of them missing. Sango was doing her best to help the miko, of course, the female taijiya attempting to corral the thing the best she could up on Kirara, but it would take at least five more taijiya on their own nekomata to truly box it in. With the other three of the original four shikigami already dealt with, the two other fighters who were accompanying them for this training exercise were also trying to help, but they were on the ground with chained scythes and no match for the agility of the flying ribbon-snake.

 

Miroku was also there but offered the warriors no assistance, depending on your perspective, since they were his shikigami. His assistance was in the form of giving them targets to train with, although he wasn’t controlling the things; he’d merely given them life and set them loose. He had the ability to disband his shikigami at will if the fighters ever lost control of the situation and any of his creations started to make a break for it, but in all his years providing this service for Sango’s team, pulling the plug like that had never been necessary.

 

Quite adept at making them, Miroku used his shikigami for his own battle practice, as well, since he could not predict their movements and he too needed to keep his own fighting skills sharp, but seeing as he wasn’t usually a part of his wife’s team Masaru had wanted Kagome (and Inuyasha) to get used to the idea of her being the only reiki user present during an emergency. The only reason the houshi had shown up at the scene when they’d been dealing with that kuma-youkai was because Sango herself had called him in, and she’d only done that in that instance because she had been unsure of the new miko she hadn’t even met yet at the time. If, heaven forbid, there was ever a massive invasion of youkai coming in from the forest, then Miroku’s place would be at the front lines, in the woods, all other houshi from the surrounding area rushing in to his position while Sango and the other taijiya, and Kagome and Inuyasha, dealt with whatever youkai that had made it into town.

 

Miroku agreed that with Kagome’s skills his presence wouldn’t usually be necessary, unless they were dealing with a massive swarm of youkai in town and the forest was somehow clear. Hopefully something that bad would never truly happen in real life, but they always trained for worst case scenarios, hence his surprise shikigami. When Miroku had seen the way Inuyasha had focused in on watching the serpent the others were facing off against, after the other three original shikigami had all been dealt with, the houshi had quickly created and sent in that lumbering oni after the hanyou as a lesson well learned. Never drop your situational awareness during a battle.

 

Inuyasha was a fast learner, though, and a surprisingly good fighter, too. The monk was impressed.

 

When their team had first arrived on the scene, in the closed off section of the city used for such training exercises (it was an old abandoned shopping center the Spiritual Forces had purchased decades ago and had left more or less untouched because it’d made the perfect training grounds in that city), they’d been faced with the unlikely but always possible scenario of someone’s ‘collection’ of dangerous youkai escaping and running amuck. It was a controlled training exercise and so no civilians were in any danger, of course, but the idea was to treat it just like the real thing. Everyone had jumped into the fray without needing to be told what to do, including the miko and hanyou, and Miroku, who was acting as instructor in Masaru’s absence, had been quite impressed indeed. Inuyasha had headed straight for the largest of the four original shikigami while Kagome and Sango had immediately teamed up to deal with the aerial threat, the other two taijiya each with their own smaller beast to deal with.

 

The area they used for training was not protected by a barrier, but Miroku could ‘kill’ the shikigami with a thought – all he had to do was concentrate on the feel of his own reiki powering the beings and draw that energy back within himself – so there was no real danger of his creations getting loose. His shikigami could also not actually hurt anyone, and so were not truly dangerous, but they certainly looked the part and could cause a panic if the wrong person saw them, so even though there was no barrier to keep the shikigami in there was a chain link fence with warning signs to keep unsuspecting people out.

 

Rushing towards the largest of the three bipedal oni as if it were indeed the real deal, Inuyasha had dismembered that first beast pretty quickly, and had then sprinted over to the closer of the two male taijiya, telling the man he’d deal with that oni as well so that he could go help his partner. With the two taijia teaming up against a single oni they’d taken care of it quickly enough, as had Inuyasha with his second kill, and then that was when he’d paused to watch the goings on with Kagome. The two taijiya on the ground had immediately moved in to help the best they could, and Inuyasha had been rooting for one of Kagome’s arrows to hit when her shouted warning had (theoretically) saved his head.

 

Inuyasha knew these shikigami didn’t really pose a serious threat, but he also knew he was supposed to act as if they did. One day it might be the real thing, and if he let something sneak up on him like that – never mind the fact that that oni hadn’t existed a few minutes prior – he could lose his head for real.

 

Or worse. He could wind up getting seriously injured and transform.

 

Shaking his head to free it of such negative thoughts, trusting in Kagome’s multiple reassurances that she’d never let something like that happen, if she could help it, and that if it did, she’d be able to handle him and get him back under control, Inuyasha knew all too well from the lesson that had been that final oni to not let his attention wander. He needed to stay in the here and now.

 

Speaking of, now that the newest threat that had been that latest oni had been dealt with, Inuyasha tentatively shifted his attention back to the others again, but this time, while also still leaving a part of his awareness directed at the entire surrounding area. So far the monk seemed to be going easy on them. A glance in his direction told the hanyou he wasn’t making any new shikigami – for now, at least – and so he turned his attention back to the remaining battle taking place and how he could help, one ear cocked in the houshi’s direction, just in case.

 

Kagome was nearly out of arrows, but thinking about it a moment, as he watched Sango throw her massive boomerang over and over, and how the flying serpent dodged each time, the two male taijiya each launching their chained scythes at the same time in an effort to limit its escape routes, Inuyasha had an idea.

 

While which way it turned was always a surprise, its head zigging and zagging in a truly unpredictable way, the rest of its body always followed suit, like a roller coaster following an elaborate track. Even with as long as it was, though, it was fast, and Kagome had already noticed this about the creature, herself, but even firing her arrow at its head, the tip of its tail passed by that same point before her arrow made it there.

 

But that was because she was firing her arrows from the ground.

 

Running over to Kagome, Inuyasha stopped her from firing her next to last shot. Or rather, she automatically paused at his sudden appearance beside her.

 

“Think you can shoot that thing while riding on my back?”

 

She blinked at him in surprise.

 

“What?”

 

“Like piggy back style,” he explained with a shrug. “Don’t worry, I wouldn’t let you fall. I’d hold on to your legs so you could use your bow, but that also means it’d be all you,” he said. “I won’t be able to slash at it, but I bet I can get you close enough that an arrow will make contact.”

 

He actually would have tried it himself, leaping and slashing at it with his youki, if it weren’t for the others. He’d realized after just a few seconds of watching them all working together that he couldn’t safely use his demonic attack without risking accidentally hurting someone, and he couldn’t just ask the taijiya to get out of the way because even he would need their continuing efforts of repeatedly cutting off the serpent’s various escape routes.

 

Getting Kagome close enough that the beast wouldn’t have time to get itself fully out of the way of her arrow was the best solution.

 

“If you think you know what you’re doing, then okay, let’s try it,” Kagome said then.

 

Sango and Miroku both separately cocked an eyebrow as they saw Inuyasha kneel in front of Kagome and the miko climb up onto his back. The two other taijiya present didn’t think much of it, but then, they’d never spoken more than a few fleeting words to the hanyou, and they’d never seen the way the hanyou and miko were towards each other in the privacy of their own home. Inuyasha might technically be Kagome’s in the same way that Kirara was Sango’s, but neither hanyou nor miko viewed their relationship in that way.

 

Just in what way they did view their relationship, the monk and his wife both knew was none of their business. In that precise moment, all that mattered was victory against their imagined foe.

 

Miroku faintly nodded Inuyasha’s way when the hanyou glanced back at him once again. He wouldn’t be pulling anymore rabbits out of his hat. In a real youkai attack in the city there wouldn’t be an unlimited number of new oni that could keep popping up out of nowhere, after all. He’d wanted to make sure the hanyou knew not to lose his situational awareness, and he could see now that Inuyasha had learned that lesson. He’d let him concentrate, now, on this last remaining threat.

 

Which was precisely what the hanyou did. He might not have had any battle experience to speak of, but he’d learned how to hunt over the decades, and tracking the serpent’s moves and waiting for the right moment to strike was more like hunting than fighting some lumbering giant of an oni. The only difference was that he’d have to rely on his partner to do the proverbial pouncing.

 

Taking a moment to study the situation further while Kagome adjusted herself on his back and got into a comfortable position that would allow her to handle and fire her weapon, Inuyasha successfully kept his thoughts professional, because he knew now was not the time to let his mind wander in inappropriate directions, or to focus on the feeling of Kagome on his back, the backs of her thighs in his hands. He focused on her presence only in the sense of making sure she was secure and wouldn’t slip once he began jumping around.

 

Inuyasha knew his timing had to be perfect, but he’d been studying the serpent’s flight for a few minutes now and he was pretty sure he could do this. “Ready?” he asked his passenger.

 

Second to last arrow once again notched in her bow, her legs squeezing Inuyasha’s sides as she tried to get the willies in her stomach under control – they had nothing to do with her and Inuyasha’s public intimate contact and everything to do with her fear of heights – Kagome exhaled and said, “Ready.”

 

Inuyasha gave her a courtesy count to three, but this was nothing Kagome could have truly prepared herself for. Her upper body started to jerk backwards as Inuyasha took off, launching them straight up into the air, but she quickly adjusted her position and leaned forward into Inuyasha. Immediately shifting her focus onto the serpent, which quickly swam away in a different direction at their ascent, like a spooked eel in a pond, Kagome instantly realized that Inuyasha’s plan was a damn good one. They were much closer to the serpent at the peak of his leap, Sango taking a higher position on Kirara to prevent the shikigami from climbing even higher itself.

 

Inuyasha jumped a couple more times, letting Kagome get fully accustomed to the sensation while the two of them also studied the way the brainless flying paper snake reacted to their leaps, and then he prepared for the money shot. He watched and waited as the three taijiya got the serpent to change its direction yet again, and then made his final leap with a cry to Kagome to get ready to fire. As predicted, the serpent, which had been heading in their general direction, immediately turned away from them again at their approach, and Kagome, with her bow already drawn, released her arrow the second the serpent’s head completed its turn.

 

Kagome watched, even as Inuyasha fell back down to Earth, as the rest of the serpent’s body went through the complete series of twists and turns its head had just completed, and she couldn’t maintain her composure, pumping the fist that held her bow while crying out “Yes!” as her arrow made contact with its tail and the serpent disappeared in a bright flash of light.

 

She wasn’t necessarily supposed to maintain an air of professional decorum; Sango and the others all cheered as well, congratulating them on their success, and as Kagome dismounted her canine steed, the female taijiya landing right beside the miko and hanyou, Sango ran up and gave Kagome a hug.

 

She was irked that her husband had given Kagome such a hard task on her first day of field training.

 

“At least anything else you’ll ever have to deal with from here on out, in training or in real life, should be easier than that was,” She said to the younger woman. She then flashed a quick smile Inuyasha’s way. “You two make one hell of a team.”

 

Blushing only slightly, and only because his thoughts briefly took him elsewhere, Inuyasha quickly regained his composure and nodding Sango’s way, said, “Thank you.”

 

With that ordeal having taken long enough in Sango’s opinion, field training was deemed over for the day, and relieved, everyone piled back into their vehicles and headed back to HQ for some menial paperwork before heading home. Inuyasha had to stop himself from grabbing and filling out his own report, but thankfully nobody gave him any weird looks for the slip. He was a member of the team, but really, he wasn’t. He was their service animal, and as such, Kagome filled out the appropriate parts of her form about ‘her youkai’s’ performance.

 

He shook it off and didn’t let it bother him. After all, what was important was that his team knew he was a member of the team. Even the two male taijiya who’d hardly spoken to him had said hi when they’d met, and had acknowledged him well enough as a sentient humanoid member of the team during battle. They just didn’t know him, but he’d gotten the distinct impression they didn’t really react any differently towards him than they would have any other stranger they didn’t yet know.

 

Well...maybe that wasn’t completely true, because with a new human member of the team maybe they’d have made more of an effort to get to know him, but at least they hadn’t rolled their eyes and said anything negative about having to work with a hanyou. They’d been professional and had congratulated him as well as Kagome with regard to their take down, not just talking to Kagome as if he wasn’t there or couldn’t understand them. That was still a win in his book.

 

Going home for the day, Inuyasha was feeling rejuvenated, the workout really getting his adrenaline flowing, but Kagome was sore and walking slowly, the miko thoroughly worn out. After all, prior to her riding on his back at the end there, she’d been running around all over the place while trying to shoot that serpent down, as it’d zigged and zagged over a fairly large area. Firing a bow was also hard work, and her arms were sore, as were her inner thigh muscles from clamping down so tightly as she’d rode on his back.

 

“I think I need to go soak in the tub for a while,” she said as the two of them entered through the front door, an overexcited Shiro greeting them happily.

 

“Hey, boy!” Inuyasha said as he bent down and let the akita mix smother him in kisses. He smiled at the sound of Kagome’s quiet giggles.

 

A quick sniff of the house told him Shiro had been holding it in all day. “Good boy,” he said, along with a woof that meant basically the same thing. Standing back up, he turned and faced Kagome then.

 

“Go enjoy your bath. I still have energy to burn, and so does Shiro after being cooped up in the house for so many hours, so I’m gonna go take him on a run in the forest. We won’t go far.”

 

Inuyasha had taken Shiro for runs before, of course. Being able to communicate with the mortal canine on his level, Shiro comprehended the fact that there were very real dangers in the forest, and so whenever they let him outside to do his business throughout the day they didn’t have to worry about him wandering off. He stayed on the property, despite there being no fence. Shiro did like exploring the trees, but he’d only go if the pack alpha was with him.

 

“Take your phone,” was all Kagome said, as she grabbed her own cell out of her purse from where she always left the shoulder bag by the front door and brought it upstairs with her.

 

Inuyasha’s phone was upstairs as well, in his bedroom, so he grabbed it as well as his keys, turned the phone on – he left it off whenever he and Kagome were together to save the battery – and saying a quick, “I won’t be too long,” through the closed bathroom door, he waited for Kagome’s reply of “Have fun,” to be sure she’d heard him over the running water and then headed back downstairs.

 

“Wanna go for a run, boy?”

 

Shiro’s excited, happy barks and circles had the hanyou laughing as the two canines headed out the back kitchen door, Inuyasha locking the door behind him. Inuyasha let Shiro relieve himself, first, and then taking off at what for him was a slow jog, the mortal dog was hot on his heels as the two of them happily raced through the trees, the hanyou being careful not to go too far.

 

Back at the house, upstairs in the bathroom, the exhausted miko sank into the tub in the back right corner of the room with a satisfied sigh, leaning her head back against the rim of the tub, the red shower curtain pulled out and scooted out of the way. It was the original bathtub, a white enamel one though not the more rounded, raised, claw foot design. It was more rectangular and flat on the floor, and tucked within a tiled alcove, as it was a bathtub/shower combination, the fixtures against the tiled wall on the left side of the tub, where her feet were, while she rested her head to the right. The bathroom door was behind her to the left. The layout was perfect for sneaking up on someone in the bath, she thought, before snorting to herself in amusement. She wasn’t in a bad horror movie, and even if she were, she knew how to fight, now. Not that anyone could have actually opened the door without her noticing. The only one who could maybe sneak up on her, if you ignored the fact that she could sense his aura, just took their dog for a run in the forest.

 

If she were distracted and not paying attention, then she might not notice any changes in the constant buzz of his youki that she could always feel against her own aura whenever he was within range, should he ever choose to sneak up on her in a playful manner. It’d be a bit like listening to music playing in the background in a store, and if you were concentrating on what you were shopping for, not noticing at first as the music got louder and louder. But in that moment Kagome was actively trying to listen for a specific song, as it were, keeping her senses open so that she’d know it when Inuyasha and Shiro returned. Now that she’d lived with him for a little more than a year she could much more easily distinguish between his youki and the collective buzzing of auras from all the various random harmless youkai living not too far away in the forest. She’d recognize it immediately as he got back within range and approached the house, like recognizing a family member’s voice in a crowded room with lots of people talking over each other.

 

She’d actually gotten so used to feeling his presence, spiritually, that whenever he took off for a while, like now, she found that she missed him. There was an empty spot in her soul, like he completed her, and she couldn’t help but wonder if he felt the same way. After all, she knew he didn’t ‘sense’ auras as strongly as she did. For him, it was all about smell. She couldn’t ignore, though, the way he’d held her in his arms for the last three nights, and the way he buried his nose in her hair, or the crook of her neck. And even though they’d only shared more chaste goodnight and good morning kisses since that first morning waking up together, she couldn’t miss the depth of love he clearly felt for her that was reflected so purely in his eyes when their gazes locked.

 

She hoped he could see in her eyes that she loved him just as strongly. She would never love another.

 

And even though she missed the feel of him in that moment, the absence of his youki giving her an empty feeling, that didn’t mean she didn’t take advantage of the alone time.

 

Slipping her right hand between her legs, she didn’t waste time, not knowing how long he’d be gone. That didn’t stop her imagination from wandering, though. She imagined that Inuyasha had stayed with her while she’d taken her bath, that he’d offered to massage her aching muscles and had started with an innocent neck rub before getting braver. As her left hand came up to fondle her breasts one at a time, she pretended it was the hanyou exploring her for the first time, almost afraid to touch her because of his claws until she reassured him that it was all right. She trusted him not to hurt her. As her right index and middle fingers began rhythmically rubbing her clit, Kagome pretended Inuyasha had asked her to pleasure herself, that he wanted to watch, and then replacing her right hand with her left, she imagined him taking over, reaching down into the tub to touch her so intimately. Even though she was right handed, it didn’t take long for her to reach completion with that imagery in her mind.

 

Knowing that if Inuyasha was beyond her sensing range she should be beyond his hearing range, she didn’t muffle her moaning, or stifle crying out in pleasure as she climaxed. Sighing as she came down from her high, Kagome figured she’d better finish her bath before she turned into a prune, and by the time Inuyasha got back home with a happily panting Shiro, a wet-haired Kagome was dressed in her fuzzy pajamas and was getting dinner ready in the kitchen.