InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets of the Heart ❯ Inuyasha's decision ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 06: Inuyasha's decision

 

Well, it took me a long time but it's finally here. I'm trying my best to write longer chapters…Do you like longer or shorter ones?? I guess I'll stick to middle sized ones for a while…

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Rumiko Takahashi's work… but I do own Inuko's character!!! I'll have to live with only watching Inuyasha for far away...snif snif

 

Kagome wettened the towel once more in the pot with already warming water.

Inuko had fallen into a light slumber after her knock out in the river side, no-one had the slightest idea of what was causing her sickness. According to Inuyasha, youkai's didn't got this sick or had fevers so it wasn't probable that it was a disease like the human ones. Since they didn't know what was causing this they didn't know how to cure it either. Inuyasha was visibly affected by his cousin's state, even if he wouldn't say so aloud, Kagome felt how he tensed each time the girl breathed heavy and sweated.

 

Sango stood by the door watching Kagome held Inuyasha's hand by Inuko's bed. They had changed enormously after their coupling, at first there were slight changes like Inuyasha cleaning Kagome's mouth when she was eating and some sauce dripped from her mouth but they had being growing each second after they had come back through the well. She had no idea of what they had done in that time but his behavior had become more possessive of the young miko, she wondered what would he do if Kouga and his pack showed up. It would be nasty, no doubt.

 

Miroku signaled her to come closer to the fire burning outside the hut. His dark hair almost absorbing the flames in violet reflections while his eyes scanned her body in an undisheveled way. He was thinking of groping her, she knew it!

 

“Sango, we need to talk” her heart skipped a bit at those words.

 

“I think that Inuko-san's disease might be something worse than what Inuyasha thinks”

 

“How can you know?” she asked, taking place by a root of a big pine tree near the fire.

 

“I don't”

 

“Then???”

 

“It might be a curse” he focused on the leaping warmness from the burning wood “It might be something like a curse… you know? Something controlling her youki and making her weak...”

 

“But she knows no-one that might want to harm her. She lived in that small shrine full of humans all of her life”

 

“Yeah. But it might be a curse to stop her form escaping from there”

 

“It was not very effective then.” Miroku smiled at her words.

 

“She should get back there”

 

“She won't get back there no matter what!” Inuyasha's roar made them both flinch. Miroku stood to face him. Someone had to, or the girl might die, and if Inuyasha was hot-headed enough to deny the possibility of her recovering in the moon-place he had a duty to make him come to terms with reality.

 

“She's sick, Inuyasha, very sick and it won't go away with you wishing for it and praying. As you have repeated at least a thousand times, youkai don't get bad fevers or diseases, so what does she have?”

 

“I don't know!”

 

“Can't it be a course placed in her in order not to let her escape from the shrine until she matured?”

 

“She did got away, so your theory is fucked up, bouzu”

 

“Maybe she's too near her maturing for it to completely affect her but is still trying to work on her. If her body is fighting it, then that would explain a fever. Similar reactions happen when you get vaccined in my time” Kagome's explanation made Inuyasha turn to her. After she said so she realized that they probably didn't have a clue of what a vaccine was.

 

“Are you saying she should get back there!? Not in my fucking life-time!”

 

“Calm down, Inuyasha, I don't want her gone but I do want her well.” It seemed that at least Inuyasha hadn't even registered the vaccine thing, it was so like him to focus on the big item and let the tiny details pass unnoticed… She tried to sooth him caressing his biceps and shoulders and leaning against him to softly place her head upon his chest.

 

He planted a quick kiss on the top of her head while stroking her hair. He marveled in how dark it always looked, like a piece of sky in a moon-less night.

 

“We should take her there and see what happens…” Miroku's statement was softly voiced but Inuyasha's reaction was instantaneous. Pulling Kagome to his back in one quick step he was by Miroku's side yanking him upward by the collar of his robe, growling ferociously through clenched fangs and teeth, his lips pulled backward in a feral mock.

 

“Don't you dare! If you try that, I'll get you ripped in pieces in less time that you voice a scream!”

 

“Put him down, Inuyasha, do it now!” Sango anger rouse at the sight, her stomach tightening in fear for Miroku's safety. He was dropped at her feet unceremoniously landing on his ass rather forcefully after Inuyasha once again voiced his frustration in a trail of muffled woof's and growls.

 

Suddenly he straightened and turned real fast towards the hut. His ears had caught her growling and the slight smell of blood came in a whiff of air to his nose. It was hanyou blood.

 

Running inside, the blood drained from his face at the sight of Inuko lying in the floor bleeding, the blankets soaked in the liquid that didn't stop flowing from God only knew where. She was growling, her fangs bared against an enemy that wasn't there and her claws firmly poised over the tatamis leaving deep carved marks.

 

He tried to grab a hold on her but she kicked him out of her way trying to exit the hut in hurried unbalanced steps. Sending her backwards he grabbed her hands over her head and forced her to sit in the bed, her strength was impressive, he was having trouble controlling her in this position and there was no way of cleaning her like this.

 

“Quiet down brat!” his order was final and the deep growl after it seemed to bring a light of consciousness to her because her body became limp in his arms and she stopped wriggling around falling to her side at his feet.

 

“Oh my God” Kagome's silent whisper woke him from his dead stare.

 

It was a horrible sight indeed, Inuko's blood trialed from her nose and mouth, dampening her clothes and her blankets. Her hair all tangles and tresses was dirty and looked pinkish in the tips as if it had being soaked in the blood too, her bangs covered her eyes making her expression was unreadable.

 

“Inuko, Inuko, wake up… God please, girl, wake up” Inuyasha's prier arouse Kagome's hair in a foreboding of the worst. If this little girl died it would destroy him, she had no doubt, but what could she do to help him? She couldn't heal her or she would have done it in an instant nor could she find a cure since they didn't even know what the youkai had.

 

“Se..sh-ou…ma… rou..-sa…ma » her soft murmur surprised both Inuyasha and her deeply. How come she knew Inuyasha's big bro? After doing herself this question Kagome felt like kicking herself, of course she knew him, Inuyasha had explained how Seshoumaru was Inuko's father favorite apprentice or something like it. Why was she calling him? Was Inuyasha own unresponded question. If he were the one sick he would never ever resort to is brother, and hadn't she come to him after her escape? It was his name that should be on her lips, dammit!

 

Handling her hair Kagome took Inuko's bangs away form her face to clean it. The blood had stopped trailing down her cheeks so the crisis was over for now. Her whimper at the sight revealed after cleaning her cheeks made Inuyasha focus on it. Two deep green stripes had formed on her upper cheeks reminding her dangerously of the ones that created in him when he was pushed in his full form. Inuyasha trailed a finger over them, they felt warm and so soft, like silk or baby's skin.

 

“What is happening to her?”

 

“I don't know, Kagome…”

 

“I'm scared for her life… what if… what if”

 

“Don't say it. I'm not taking her to that place again, if the old hag that knew about her being youkai is dead we'll find no help there but I need someone who knows about youkai blood”

 

“What about Myouga-ji?”

 

Inuyasha considered this a moment “He's never around when I need him, not trustable enough. We'll go to the neko-clan.”

 

Kagome was left speech-less. He was thinking of asking help to the neko youkais, maybe dog and cat youkais didn't hate each other like pets did.

 

“That bastard maybe is still around”

Fuck that theory.

 

Kagome pushed Inuyasha to the side and pulled the wet blankets away in a bundle. Luckily not all the layers of clothes of Inuko's kimono had being ruined by the blood, the two closer to her skin had being spared the damage. Undressing her, Kagome took great care in not moving her too much, the little girl needed her sleep. Inuyasha had already prepared a new bed to put his cousin in, so when Kagome finished he placed her there with extreme care.

 

“Wait, I'll wash her hair…” the soft whisper touched Inuyasha deeply. Kagome's movements were of a supreme tenderness upon the tresses of silver and white, removing every inch of the dirt and blood that attached to them. He felt a warmness in himself at this sight that he hadn't felt since he was a very young pup, his mate was taking care of his cousin, making no differences whether she knew her or not, simply accepting her as part of his family and so, hers.

 

“She'll be okay. You'll find a way” the confidence in Kagome filled him, she relied in him just like Inuko and Shippo, and everyone did, and that was his pride and his glory, to take care of his family and protect them.

 

Inuyasha pulled the few blankets that were not wet to Inuko's chin and left to the corner of the room placing Kagome in his lap, cuddling her between his arms and stroking the great amount of skin revealed by her short green skirt. Frustrated and angered Inuyasha poured his emotions in a deep feral kiss that took her breath away making her gasp and allowing him entrance into her mouth. He took advantage of her surprise and leaked her tongue in slow motions, delighting in how she felt, so warm and sweet, letting his hands roam her back sending shivers down her spine each time his claws skimmed lazy patterns in between her shoulder-blades.

Peering deep into bluish eyes, he licked his lips unconsciously, tasting her in his mouth after pulling away.

 

“Kagome” he whispered an octave lower than before, his voice sounding grave and rough, before clasping her with his arms in a fluid motion that pulled her slim body against his own and threw her head backwards into his hand, previously positioned at the base of her neck. She tilted to one side, allowing him more access into her wet crevice that always welcomed him, moaning softly, she let her own tongue slide against his in retaliation. Before long both their tongues were struggling against one another, each movement a replica of the ones they craved so much and had been restraining after their coming back through the well due to the lack of privacy.

 

“God… You feel so good” Inuyasha groan send her spiraling in desire wanting to run to the forest and keep him busy and laying in the grass for weeks. Blushing at her own pervert thoughts in a moment were everyone was preoccupied she tipped her head to hide it in the hook of his neck.

 

“I love you, Inuyasha”

 

“I know you do, koi”

 

“You pompous bastard!” he silenced her by giving her just what she craved. `She has learned to swear quite well due to my influence' and with that last thought Inuyasha got lost in her heat until there was no coherence in him and they both lay bundled and warm in his haori.