InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets ❯ Run From Consequences ( Chapter 7 )

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I do not own any of the characters from the InuYasha television series. I claim only characters that I have made using my own intellect.

 

 

Chapter 7

 

I wake with a small sniffle early the next morning, Kuno's voice reaching my thoughts.

Mommy? Mommy, where are you, Kuno yells into my mind, my head already pounding.

I'm not quite sure, Kuno. I . . . was a little distraught when I ran here, I think back, trying to force Kouga and my love making out of my mind and failing miserably as it plays like a movie in my mind.

I know the whole story, Mommy. Your mind tells all. I'll be where you are soon and we'll go back to Grandma Kaede's. Kouga left for his pack a couple hours ago, Kuno explains, his little voice making me feel a little better.

I nod in my mind, knowing that Kuno will realize as much as I look around myself. I'm in a small, dark clearing, the sun not able to reach through the thick foliage of the trees surrounding the clearing. I stay curled into a little ball until Kuno arrives into the clearing, nuzzling my face and licking my cheek in his form of a kiss.

I then pick Kuno up, cuddling him in my arms as we walk towards Kaede's village.

Soon we come upon the hot springs on the way to Kaede's and I readily undress and hop into the hot water, loving the feel over my sore body. I wash out my hair and find some herbs for washing that I steadily scrub my skin and hair with, wanting to get rid of any of Kouga's scent.

When I'm done, I lay out in the sun until I'm dry and then I pull my hakama and haori on, feeling much better after a nice hot bath.

I pick Kuno up once again and make off for Kaede's village, thinking I've caught Kouga's scent for a second, but ignoring it for fear of being right.

When I make it to Kaede's, I go straight inside, Inuyasha readily in my face about where I'd been. I sit there and feel like a small child under his scolding, more because my spirit feels broken.

“I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you worried,” I reply softly, Inuyasha starting his rant when he notices the change in my eyes.

“What's wrong,” Inuyasha asks, a worried frown on his face as he looks at me, studying me.

“I don't really want to talk about it,” I reply, turning around and walking back outside where I jump into a nearby tree.

Unfortunately, Inuyasha follows me and jumps up into the tree beside me. He scrutinizes me as if looking for some kind of reason for me to be so depressed.

“What's wrong,” Inuyasha asks again, this time tears filling my eyes when he asks as the memories start to flood my mind.

“I made a mistake and now I physically, emotionally, and mentally have to live with it,” I reply, trying to force my tears down and failing as they fall down my cheeks.

The next thing I know is Inuyasha has me in his lap, cuddling me like you would a small child. I lay my head against his chest and let myself cry, feeling slightly weird that he's about the same age as me, but also knowing he's my father.

“What happened, Higame,” Inuyasha croons, making me smile at this out of turn behavior.

“I did something I shouldn't have, Dad. I didn't even realize it was wrong until it was over,” I sob, pressing my face into Inuyasha's chest.

“What did you do, Higame,” Inuyasha again croons, petting my hair in a comforting way.

“I'm in heat . . . and I kind of did some stuff . . . um . . . with Kouga,” I say, knowing that the moment it came from my mouth I shouldn't have said it.

“What,” Inuyasha says coldly, his body now completely rigid and his voice icy. “Did he take it?”

“Take what,” I ask, trying to ploy of playing dumb instead of facing my father's wrath if I were to tell him.

“I know you're not stupid, Higame. Did he take it,” Inuyasha says icily, making me look him in the eye.

Tears fill my eyes and I begin to sob again, nodding my head as a growl emerges from Inuyasha's mouth, making me shiver in fear for Kouga.

“I'll kill him. I'll kill that dirty wolf,” Inuyasha growls, one of his hands still on the back of my head, frozen in mid pet, while the other is clenched at his side in anger.

“No, Dad, you can't. It wasn't his fault. I pushed myself onto him until he broke. He tried to stop me, but . . . my urge was too great,” I reply softly, looking away from my father with a sad look on my face.

“I don't care! He deflowered you and I don't see . . .,” Inuyasha starts and then stops pulling up the sleeves of my haori to look at my arms. “Holy shit!!!”

I look down to see that the mark that was once just on my wrist is now going all the way up both of my biceps, except that it is not jagged like the connection mark on my wrist. The mark swirls and I recognize the mark with a look of shock. It is a mating mark.

“I . . . no . . . I can't be . . . I just can't,” I stumble along, trying to make sense of something that just can't be explained in any other way.

Inuyasha can no longer go on his rant. All he can do is stare at my arms in shock, apparently not having expected this when he had thought of killing Kouga.

“But if we're mated then wouldn't he have noticed the mating marks on his arms and come back,” I ask, in a complete daze and trying to make excuses as to how we couldn't be mated.

“Mating marks can be virtually anywhere. Apparently his mating mark must be on his chest, stomach, back, or somewhere else hidden by his armor or clothing. Where is it that you bit him and drew blood,” Inuyasha asks, sounding just as dazed as I am.

“Um . . . we didn't bite and drew blood. We both kind of got a little ruff with our claws and I clawed him on his shoulder blades while clawed me on the arms . . . if . . . um . . . that counts,” I reply, really embarrassed to have to talk about this with my father.

“Did you at any point take his blood into your mouth,” Inuyasha asks, realizing how embarrassing this conversation is and blushing.

“Um . . . yes,” I reply, making my answer short and sweet seeing as how it was embarrassing enough without excruciating details.

“Then chances are his mating mark is on his shoulder blades and upper back,” Inuyasha mumbles, obviously getting a little too uncomfortable for this conversation.

“Um . . . how is that supposed to help me, Dad,” I ask, not really getting the connection between my problem and where his mating mark is.

“You need to tell him about the mating mark,” Inuyasha tells me, looking completely serious about this to my displeasure.

“I see no need. He'll either figure out on his own or the mark should fade,” I reply, knowing I shouldn't have said that when Inuyasha glares at me.

“One, he has a right to know, and two, the mating mark doesn't fade if a child is conceived, because a child fortifies the mark. Or in this case, children,” Inuyasha says with a frown, my face going pale.

“You can't be serious! I'm not . . . I couldn't be . . . you've got to be joking,” I say, my face getting paler by the second.

“I'm not joking as much as I would like to be,” Inuyasha grumbles, sounding nothing like a proud grandparent.

“I'm sorry, Dad. I didn't know this was going to happen,” I say softly, my face still pale with just a little color starting to return.

“It's okay. You didn't do anything wrong. It's just the way of life,” Inuyasha replies, giving me a weak smile of comfort.

I give a weak smile back and wonder what I'm supposed to do, not wanting to tell Kouga that he's mated with me and that I'm about to have his child after he seemed to intent on staying as far away as he could from me the other day.

What am I supposed to do, I wonder, looking down at my stomach as I set my hand upon it.

You should tell, Kouga. If he's gonna be connected to me then he should know why, Kuno suddenly says, once again randomly breaking in on my thoughts.

I sigh, getting sick and tired of having my thoughts interrupted, but I keep quiet, loving the little wolf pup more for being so close with me.

Then I notice that I'm moving. Inuyasha is carrying me bridal style and we're running extremely fast. I can't even see where we're going.

“Um . . . Dad, where are we going exactly,” I ask, trying to focus on some of the moving scenery for a clue as to where I am.

“I'm taking you to Kouga's pack's home in the mountains. Kouga needs to know now. If you're having his child then he's going to be here for you,” Inuyasha growls, obviously set in his mind.

“Um . . . I'll tell him myself,” I reply, ideas coming to mind about what I can do to get out of this.

Inuyasha looks down at me, stopping in the middle of the forest. He studies me seriously for a few minutes.

“Fine, but don't try anything funny,” Inuyasha growls at me with a frown, giving me the fatherly look.

“I won't. Can you put me down now,” I ask, Inuyasha replying with putting me back down on my feet. “Thank you.”

I take off back towards Kuno at a run, coming to him in less than a few minutes. I pick him up and grab my bag of stuff, taking off towards the well at a run.

“Where are you going,” Ookami's voice asks from up in the trees, my body stopping mid-stride as I'm about two feet away from the well.

“Um . . . I'm running back to my house for the school week,” I reply with a smile, hoping that she couldn't tell that I was pregnant seeing as how she's angel and demon so she shouldn't have a strong sense of smell.

“Oh . . . okay. I guess I'll see you when you get back in a couple days then,” Ookami says with a shrug, not even noticing that I'm lying through my teeth.

Then she's gone and I let out a sigh of relief, hoping that, that will be my last run in with trouble. I sigh again and then jump into the well with Kuno, coming out on the other side with a sigh of relief.

Then I walk inside, yelling for Souta, who comes out of the kitchen with a piece of bologna hanging out of his mouth. I get a mental sweat drop as I give a sigh.

“Oh, hello, Higame, I wasn't expecting you home since you took your tests and have been allowed to graduate early. They sent your diploma in the mail and now you have until this next fall to join a college or university of your choice,” Souta says after swallowing his bologna.

“Um . . . I was wondering if you minded letting me take a vacation back to America so that I could visit all my old friends,” I reply, with a smile, hiding Kuno in my pack.

“Sure, how long do you think you'll be gone for,” Souta asks, smiling naively at me, making me feel even worse.

“I'm not sure. I don't know how long it will take to get over having to leave the place I've called home all my life,” I reply, hating to lie about why I'm going back to America.

“Okay, just make sure to be back a week before school starts at the least,” Souta replies, knowing that I'll be back by then, but no sooner just in case Inuyasha comes looking for me.

“Okay, I should be back sometime in August then, Uncle Souta. I leave you to your food now, I need to leave as soon as possible,” I reply and then I'm off, running upstairs to pack, finding that I had never gotten around to fully unpacking anyway so I just grab a couple suitcases that I know will keep me going for as long as I need and then I walk downstairs, wearing a hat and having my tail tucked into my bondage pants, seeing as how that's all I can hide my tail in.

I quietly use the phone and buy a pair of ticket, glad for the money that my mother had saved up for me and then having the shrine kept everyone fairly comfortable in living.

Then I walk out the door and hop into a cab, later getting on a plane and ending up at my small house that I had shared with my mother, not having had the heart to get rid of it after she had died. Not having the heart to get rid of her tan Ford Contour either.

I walk in to find the house the exact same way it had always been, my mother's stuff and the furniture and everything. All the same.

“Home, sweet home, Kuno. We're going to stay here for a couple months,” I say allowed as I set Kuno down, the pup sniffing around at anything and everything.

Then I get us ready to stay, including buying Kuno food and everything else we might need, before getting ready for bed and curling up together in my old bed.