InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Possessed ❯ Chapter 9

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

 

Chapter Nine

 

 

 

 

“Mm, that smells so good,” Inuyasha said as he and Souta sat down at the table followed by Souta and Kagome’s grandfather, who took his place at the head of the table.

 

Before Inuyasha could worry too much that even something as innocent as that statement could inadvertently be a reminder of his canine half, Souta chimed in, enthusiastically agreeing with, “It sure does! I love KFC!”

 

“Me too,” Inuyasha readily agreed.

 

Sure, it was no ramen, but who didn’t love fried chicken?

 

Showing that he had proper table manners, though, like all his previous dinners with Kagome’s family, Inuyasha didn’t touch his food until everyone was seated, and then he joined in with their quick grace of “Itadakimasu!” before starting to eat.

 

“So, Kagome, we saw you and Inuyasha on the news last night,” Mrs. Higurashi said after a moment, breaking the temporary silence.

 

“Yeah,” Kagome replied between bites. “We certainly weren’t expecting that. I’m so glad it wasn’t a more serious threat, though I bet those boys have learned not to mess with baby forest youkai. Baby youkai have mothers!” she finished with a quiet laugh.

 

“It certainly was impressive, the way you were able to get to those boys with a barrier,” her grandfather chimed in then. “I agree with what you said in the interview. That mother badger-youkai didn’t deserve to be killed for just defending her kit. They’re lucky to have you.”

 

“Both of you,” Mrs. Higurashi quickly added, doing her part to normalize Inuyasha’s inclusion in the conversation. She briefly made eye contact with the hanyou, and the small but genuine smile and nod he sent her way let the older miko know that he’d heard. He knew she knew.

 

“Thank you,” Inuyasha spoke up then. “Yesterday definitely caught us by surprise, but we’d known it would only be a matter of time. I’m just glad, like Kagome said, that the attacking youkai wasn’t something much more dangerous. The local houshi, Miroku...”

 

Mrs. Higurashi nodded in recognition when Inuyasha paused briefly with a gesture towards the forest behind the property, acknowledging that yes, she knew the houshi he was referring to.

 

“...He’s really been putting us through some worst case scenarios during our field training, with his various shikigami.”

 

Grinning, so glad Inuyasha had taken the initiative to bring up the training before she’d even had a chance to, Kagome immediately piped up with a happy and conversational, “That’s putting it mildly.” With a laugh she added, “This month he had the whole group of us facing off against a wannabe Godzilla, and then the next day we were outnumbered by a swarm of youkai rats!”

 

“A group of rats is actually called a mischief,” Souta chimed in with his playful know-it-all attitude.

 

Kagome rolled her eyes.

 

“Well whatever, but there was hundreds of them.”

 

Inuyasha almost choked on his bite of food.

 

“A mischief? Seriously?” Souta’s mouth was full right then so he just nodded, and it was Inuyasha’s turn to roll his eyes. “Rats aren’t mischievous. That should be what a pack of kitsune are called. Who comes up with these names?”

 

Swallowing, Souta shrugged, then grinned and said, “And a group of crows is called a murder.”

 

“So then are like only two or three crows called an attempted murder?” Inuyasha joked.

 

Kagome burst out with a laugh before containing herself, but even her mother, and more importantly her grandfather, were also chuckling a little bit at that one.

 

The rest of dinner, and dessert, went in much the same way. Pleasant conversation that gradually shifted from topic to topic, including Kagome getting caught up on Souta’s latest dealings in school. The seventeen-year-old planned on going to college, to further his education, but he had no plans of a career beyond becoming a Shinto priest like their grandfather and eventually one day taking over the shrine duties.

 

Their grandfather spoke back up then, making a lighthearted joke about not being ready to give up his post just yet – since he would be the head priest of their shrine until his death – and then he complimented Kagome once again on her decision to become a warrior miko, because that way she was also really doing her part. She’d always wanted to be able to go help in the past, when there’d been a youkai incident on the news, and so now, she actually could.

 

He refrained from bringing up her finding an eventual husband and raising a family again. While he was a traditional man, Jii-chan knew his Kagome was a modern woman. He’d also been able to tell from the last couple of times he’d casually mentioned something along those lines that she’d avoided giving any direct answer before then trying to nonchalantly change the subject.

 

He didn’t want to push her.

 

If her plan for life had remained that of an ordinary woman, though granted a very lucky woman who’d won the lottery, then he would have felt it her duty as a reiki user to at least help raise the next generation of reiki users, but she was a warrior miko, now. Warrior miko had their own important roles in society, and so even though he would still personally prefer it if she could give him a great-grandchild within his lifetime, if her decision for the time being was to remain single and just concentrate on her new career with the Spiritual Forces, instead, he would not disapprove. It was a noble cause.

 

Just as he hadn’t disapproved when she’d first told them about Inuyasha, although he had to admit he felt a lot better about it now that the hanyou was legal. Kagome was going to do whatever she felt was the right thing to do, no matter the cost. His son and daughter-in-law had raised that girl right, and so now she was the sort of warrior miko who’d joined the ranks not only to save human lives; the sort of miko who used blunted purifying arrows and sealing ofuda whenever possible. He’d been so proud of her when he’d seen her on the news dealing with that kuma-youkai in October, and he’d honestly been proud of her when she’d first told them about Inuyasha, too. He’d only worried for her own sake, for the incredible burden she’d decided to take on and the possible legal repercussions if she’d gotten caught, especially after she’d joined the Spiritual Forces.

 

He had worried that it would only be a matter of time before the hanyou was discovered, and he’d been right, but as fate would have it the kami had smiled upon his granddaughter once again, and Inuyasha as well, truth be told.

 

That boy has to be the luckiest hanyou to ever live, he thought.

 

Done with their Christmas cake, and deliberately choosing not to dwell on the stigma of older single women called day old Christmas cake – after all, Kagome was still only twenty three, and even if she never wanted to get married he would never stop loving his granddaughter – Jii-chan and the others all moved back into the family room, their gorgeous Christmas tree in the corner with five wrapped presents sitting underneath it.

 

Inuyasha was surprised at the sight, not having noticed the extra gift earlier when he’d been playing that video game with Souta. There had only been four presents last year, two for Kagome and two for Souta, which Kagome had rolled her eyes at at the time, telling her mother and grandfather that she didn’t need anything for Christmas, to which her grandfather had simply replied with “Nonsense.”

 

As Mrs. Higurashi had explained it, it was their prerogative to continue spoiling the two of them rotten well into adulthood, at which point Souta had chimed in that that was just fine with him, and everyone had laughed.

 

Inuyasha hadn’t felt left out last year because there hadn’t been a present for him. He never in a million years would have expected a present anyway, and their very inclusion of him in their family get-together for the evening had been the exact opposite of being left out. As Mrs. Higurashi began handing out the presents in that moment, though, there really was one for him this year, from her. He was stunned.

 

“You...you didn’t have to,” he said humbly as she handed him the small box with his name on it.

 

“I know I didn’t have to, but I wanted to,” Kagome’s mother replied, purposefully adding, “You’re part of the family, now.”

 

Inuyasha just nodded, swallowing a little. He was trying not to cry.

 

He also realized it was a damn good thing he and Kagome had already agreed to come clean with her family this evening, because as it turned out, her mother wouldn’t have given them a choice in the matter.

 

Kagome hadn’t started opening either of her presents yet, and Inuyasha’s nose told him she was also trying not to cry as she looked at her mother with unbridled gratitude.

 

Souta had started to tear into his first present, which from the partially removed wrapping paper he could already identify as one of the new video games he’d been wanting, but he paused when he could suddenly sense the thickness of emotion in the room. Their grandfather looked a cross between confused and uncomfortable as Inuyasha stared at his mother, his inhuman eyes shining with unshed tears. It took the young priest in training a second to catch up, because he hadn’t been paying attention, but he’d heard what both Inuyasha and his mother had said. Now the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife.

 

Adults... the teen thought, shaking his head.

 

“Of course you’re part of the family,” he said to the emotional hanyou.

 

Kagome looked her brother’s way at his words, trying to decide what he knew or suspected.

 

They’d had a few conversations about Inuyasha over the last year, first about how she worried what might become of Inuyasha after she was gone, and more recently about how glad she was now that he would always be protected, because his registration was transferable and should always be able to stay in the family. Her little brother had already assured her that if anything tragic should happen to her he would take Inuyasha in, and that even if her house – which was presently willed to the shrine – should ultimately end up being sold, the hanyou would always have a home at the shrine itself, in the Higurashi family home.

 

Kagome wondered if her brother knew just how much that promise on his part had meant to her, but she suspected he didn’t.

 

The miko had been careful to watch what she revealed of her deeper feelings during their more recent conversations about the Inuyasha, and Souta had never said anything to her that had implied he suspected her feelings for the hanyou went beyond that of a loving caretaker. In fact, his words right now hadn’t implied anything untoward, either, and Inuyasha had just nodded again before opening his gift, which was a set of woodcarving knives and chisels.

 

He’d already bought himself a few different carving knives, but this kit was much more advanced and included all sorts of differently shaped tips.

 

“Oh wow, thank you,” he said sincerely, meeting Mrs. Higurashi’s eyes with genuine gratitude in his own.

 

“You’re welcome, Inuyasha,” she replied in a loving, motherly tone. “Kagome has mentioned how proud she is of you for wanting to earn your own money, of learning how to do woodcarving. I know you already have a few beginners’ tools, but I have no doubt you’ll be ready for the next level before you know it.”

 

“What’s he need to earn his own money for?” Jii-chan asked then, confused. He was apparently out of the loop on the whole woodcarving thing.

 

“Oh, he doesn’t need to, he just wants to,” Kagome said, before meeting Inuyasha’s eyes. They stared at each other a moment before nodding ever so slightly, hanyou and miko both silently agreeing that now was the right time.

 

Souta noticed the silent communication between his sister and Inuyasha and wondered what was going on, as well, his new video game from his mother and lesson book on ofuda from his grandfather both sitting forgotten off to the side.

 

“Kagome’s just done so much for me,” Inuyasha began then. “I know she doesn’t need help financially. With the budget she worked out she was already set for life from just her lottery winnings, even after factoring in the added expenses of having a second person in the house, and now she’s earning a modest salary on top of that for being a reservist with the Spiritual Forces. But I’m not, and even before registering I’d thought of making woodcarvings as something I could do to earn my own spending money on the side. I know I probably can’t make a career out of it, and I know I don’t need to anyway, but I’d like to at least earn my own fun money so that I can afford to buy myself whatever I want without having to rely on an allowance.”

 

Souta nodded then.

 

“That makes sense,” the young priest interjected. “You don’t want to be a mooch.”

 

“Yeah, exactly.” Inuyasha agreed with a nod.

 

“Bah,” Jii-chan waved off.

 

Kagome was worried her grandfather was about to say something along the lines of it not being Inuyasha’s place to make his own money, being her ‘service youkai’ and all, but the old priest surprised her then.

 

“There’s no way Kagome considers you a ‘mooch’ or a burden, financial or otherwise,” he said reassuringly.

 

“Jii-chan...” Kagome murmured in awe, her eyes shimmering a bit with unshed tears while she grinned broadly at her grandfather.

 

“What?” he asked, blinking in confusion again. Then he noticed the unopened presents on her lap. “You haven’t even opened your gifts yet! Come on already.”

 

Laughing a little, she started tearing at the wrapping paper of his present.

 

“It’s not something gross like a dried lizard tail, is it?” she asked with a chuckle as she removed the paper to reveal a plain cardboard box.

 

Souta laughed as well at that. Kagome would never let him live it down.

 

Jii-chan pretended to look stern, but you could see his own amusement in his eyes as he said, “Just open it, granddaughter.”

 

“Okay okay,” she said as she opened the box. It contained a perfectly normal, and absolutely adorable, stuffed teddy bear. “Awww...” she said then as she picked it up out of the box. “I’ll have to make sure Shiro doesn’t get a hold of him. Thank you!”

 

“A teddy bear?” Souta said, rolling his eyes.

 

Their grandfather just shrugged.

 

“What can I get for my granddaughter that the kami have not already given her?”

 

“I love it,” Kagome interjected.

 

“He’ll make a fine addition to the collection,” Inuyasha chimed in with a smile, referring to the modest assortment of childhood stuffed animals that adorned the dresser tops in Kagome’s bedroom. “I had a teddy bear when I was a kid that’d probably be worth quite a bit of money nowadays, if I still had him.”

 

Kagome reached over and put a comforting hand on Inuyasha’s hand, the hanyou and miko having been sitting relatively close to each other as the whole group of them sat on the floor near the Christmas tree. She gave the top of his hand a couple of pats, and then her grandfather cleared his throat.

 

She didn’t yank her hand away, but she did remove it, and met Inuyasha’s eyes again. It hadn’t been intentional, but that was her cue.

 

“Jii-chan, there’s something I need to tell you...” she started hesitantly, “...about me and Inuyasha.”

 

Mrs. Higurashi just smiled encouragingly when Kagome briefly met her mother’s eyes, the older miko saying nothing of her present still sitting unopened on her daughter’s lap. This was far more important than the silly ol’ maneki neko charm bracelet she’d gotten her.

 

“What do you mean?” her grandfather asked. “There’s not a problem with his registration, is there?”

 

“No no, nothing like that...”

 

Eyes widening, it wasn’t hard for Souta to take a stab in the dark.

 

“Oh wait, are you two like...together?” the seventeen-year-old asked, clearly surprised. He didn’t seem to disapprove of the notion, though.

 

Wordlessly, Kagome just nodded, and then Souta said “Cool!” at the same time their grandfather said “What?!”

 

“Now, I think what’s important here-” Mrs. Higurashi started to say in her daughter’s defense, but she was interrupted by her father-in-law’s accusatory, “You knew?”

 

“I suspected,” the older miko clarified. “I didn’t know if I was right until Kagome and I discussed it just earlier this evening.”

 

“What’s the big deal?” Souta asked then. “It’s not even illegal. Inuyasha’s a person, and two consenting adults can do whatever they want.”

 

“That’s not the point,” Jii-chan said.

 

“Then what is the point?” Mrs. Higurashi asked a little sternly.

 

“Getting married and raising a family,” Kagome stated, unafraid now to address the sterile elephant in the room.

 

Souta just shrugged.

 

“It’s your life.”

 

“Yes, it is,” Kagome agreed, then met her grandfather’s eyes again. “And just think about it this way. If I married someone, then traditionally I would be joining his family. If I stay single, in the eyes of the law, then I stay a Higurashi.”

 

Smiling at Inuyasha a moment, the young miko then added, “And just because I fell in love with Inuyasha, I haven’t ruled out the possibility of having children one day. It’s true that I did have dreams of raising a family, but I just can’t envision that future with a human husband in it anymore, is all, because I love Inuyasha and so I don’t want anybody else as my life partner.”

“But you can’t have a family with Inuyasha,” her grandfather said then, not in an ‘I forbid it!’ tone of voice, but merely stating the facts.

 

“Sure I can,” Kagome countered. “But we’re not ready to take that next step, anyway. It just hasn’t been ruled out is all.”

 

“What, adoption?” Souta asked, just curious.

 

Kagome shrugged her shoulders a little.

 

“Maybe. But right now we’re happy just the two of us.”

 

“Society would consider you a single mother,” her grandfather pointed out, and Kagome could tell from his tone and the look in his eyes that he wasn’t just warning her about the difficulties single women faced when trying to adopt, but of the supposed stigma of being a single mother.

 

She was already aware of the former and didn’t honestly care about the latter, and the last thing she wanted to do was get into an argument about it with her grandfather on Christmas Eve. Especially when she and Inuyasha weren’t even ready to take that next step in their relationship yet, anyway.

 

“I’m aware of that,” was all she said, before steering the conversation back to the present. “But whatever does or doesn’t happen down the road, children-wise, doesn’t matter right now. Right now, I just wanted my family to know that Inuyasha and I are together, romantically, and hopefully get your blessing because that’s not going to change. I know we can’t get married, but if we could, we would. We’re in it for the long haul.”

 

“Well you are maybe,” her grandfather said then. “But he won’t age like you do, and he’ll still be young when you’re long gone.”

 

“That doesn’t mean I don’t love her,” Inuyasha spoke up then, figuring he’d better step up and be the man he and Kagome wanted her family to see him as. “There’s nothing I can do about my lifespan being different, but I will never stop loving Kagome, even when she’s old and gray. We’re together, till death do us part.”

 

Looking at Inuyasha at his words, Kagome had to fight her desire to lean over and kiss him. The love she felt for him, that they felt for each other, was obvious in their eyes to the rest of her family in that moment, as hanyou and miko looked at each other.

 

“Well I’m fine with it,” Souta said with a huge grin, his words breaking the momentary tension as hanyou and miko looked away from each other and back at the rest of her family instead.

 

“As am I,” Mrs. Higurashi chimed in, smiling affectionately in the hanyou’s direction. “That you two are happy together is undeniable,” she said.

 

Jii-chan grumbled something under his breath that even Inuyasha didn’t fully catch, but it was clear the Higurashi elder was not happy with this latest turn of events. Finally, though, he just sighed, and shook his head, and then met his granddaughter’s eyes.

 

“You’re a grown woman, so you can make your own decisions,” he said. He looked back and forth between the hanyou and miko, and then sighed again. “You do know if this ever gets out it’ll be a horrible scandal.”

 

Kagome sat up a little straighter, and met her grandfather’s eyes.

 

“I don’t care.”

 

He actually smiled a little bit at that.

 

“There’s that Higurashi spirit,” he said. “You always have stood by whatever you thought was right. I guess I can’t expect that to not include your heart.” He chuckled a little. “Fine, fine, if this is the life you want for yourself, so be it. You’re still my granddaughter, and you...and Inuyasha...are still a part of this family. Now open your mother’s present already!”

 

Kagome laughed, and couldn’t help the single tear of relief that escaped before she quickly wiped it away. That her grandfather felt uncomfortable and wanted to change the subject in order to stop thinking about it was obvious, but she respected that. The truth was out and that was all that mattered; there was no reason to keep discussing it any further. She certainly didn’t want to disclose the more intimate details of her relationship with Inuyasha to the rest of her family, so wordlessly, she just nodded then and tore into the package that’d still been sitting unopened on her lap this whole time.

 

Thanking her mother for the adorable charm bracelet before immediately putting it on, the family visited for a short while longer but with the evening winding down it was finally time for Kagome and Inuyasha to get going. Kagome hugged her mother and brother and then hesitated with her grandfather before he rolled his eyes and pulled her into a hug, himself, whispering in her ear that she would always be his precious little girl and nothing she could do would ever make him stop loving her. He then surprised Inuyasha by shaking the hanyou’s hand and saying simply, “Don’t you dare ever break her heart.”

 

Inuyasha’s eyes held nothing but sincerity when he met the old man’s gaze and vowed, “Never.”

 

Jii-chan nodded in satisfaction, then, and ambled outside after the couple so that he could take down the holy barrier in order for Inuyasha to leave the property.

 

“That went well,” Kagome said after the two of them were in her car and headed down the private driveway.

 

“Actually a hell of a lot better than I’d been expecting,” Inuyasha admitted.

 

“Same.”

 

Getting home, Inuyasha absently handed his present to Kagome when Shiro greeted them desperately at the door, immediately heading around through the kitchen and letting the overgrown pup out back to relieve himself. The dog didn’t like using his potty pad and always tried to hold it, which Inuyasha appreciated even though he’d tried time and again to explain it to the akita mix that just because there was no marking allowed in the house that didn’t mean he wasn’t allowed to potty on the pad provided if they weren’t home to let him out. Inuyasha wasn’t complaining, though, because the alternative would be to get into a literal pissing contest with the dog, and he didn’t think Kagome would appreciate it any more if he marked in the house.

 

The miko headed upstairs while Inuyasha took care of Shiro, putting his new box of woodcarving tools with his other stuff in his bottom dresser drawer before putting her teddy bear on top of her own dresser in her room with her other stuffed animals. Putting her bracelet away in her small jewelry box next to the locket Inuyasha had given her for their anniversary, she changed out of her clothes and into her pajamas, and then took care of her own business in the bathroom while Inuyasha came upstairs and got changed after letting Shiro back in.

 

Settling into bed together a few minutes later, their original plan was just to go to sleep, but then Inuyasha started kissing the back of her neck, tightening his hold on her as he held her in their standard spooning embrace, his left hand moving up from her stomach to cup a breast. When his pajama clad erection brushed up against her from behind Kagome’s response was to tug down her pajama bottoms and panties enough for access before reaching back and into his pants to grasp his manhood, which he freed when he also tugged his own pajama bottoms down just enough.

 

“Dog?” he asked, referring to the akita mix lying peacefully at the foot of the bed, on top of the blankets that were covering both of their bodies up to their chests.

 

“If we don’t get too wild maybe he won’t notice,” Kagome said, amusement in her voice, before moving her left leg enough for him to slip into her from behind while they both remained lying on their sides, ‘lazy dog’ style.

 

Inuyasha sucked in air through clinched teeth as he entered her. He would never get tired of the feeling of her wet heat surrounding his most sensitive flesh. He also didn’t plan on being the only one getting any pleasure out of this, as his left hand snaked down from her breast to start rubbing at her clit. It was Kagome’s turn to suck in a backwards hiss, and Shiro lifted his head to glance in their direction but Inuyasha quickly woofed the equivalent of ‘mind your own business’ or ‘leave us alone’ or whatever you wanted to translate it as. The dog obeyed and put his head back down, and Inuyasha demonstrated that he was fast learner when he knew just what to do, and how to hold his hand to avoid his claws being a problem, bringing Kagome to climax in only a few short minutes.

 

He didn’t let her come down from the high, her completion being his cue to speed up the slow, casual strokes he’d been maintaining. Tightening his arm around her stomach to hold her close, he started thrusting as fast as he dared, shallow strokes as he didn’t retract fully before each plunge, humping her like the dog he was. Shiro lifted his head to look at them again but didn’t otherwise move from his spot at the foot of the bed.

 

It didn’t take Inuyasha long to find his release like that, grunting under his breath when he stilled his hips against her. He started to back out of her, then, but Kagome reached back and cupped his ass, stopping his retreat.

 

“Stay,” she murmured. “I don’t need to get up. We’ll clean up tomorrow and wash the sheets. In the meantime, I want you right where you are.”

 

Where he was was still hard, and still buried deep inside her.

 

“Kami, I fucking love you,” he whispered, kissing her neck again.

 

Taking a deep breath, relishing in the new scents perfuming his bedroom, Inuyasha complied with his mate’s wishes and settled back down to go to sleep while remaining as physically close to her as it was possible to be, as he was still inside her. Gradually, after a few minutes, he softened and slipped out, but they still remained tucked intimately together, her naked backside against his nest of silvery white fur. His left hand snaked up under her pajama top but only to rest on her belly, for even more flesh on flesh contact. With Shiro having already put his head back down to go to sleep, it didn’t take long for the hanyou and miko to follow their dog into dreamland, neither of them having felt this at peace since Halloween night, when they’d fallen asleep with her in his arms for the very first time, after confessing their love for one another. Now that the obstacle of telling her family was behind them, and they also had whom they were sure would turn out to be lifelong friends in Sango and Miroku, Kagome and Inuyasha couldn’t ask for anything more. Life was good.