InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shades of Gray ❯ Vitality ( Chapter 6 )

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Shades of Gray

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Chapter 6: Vitality

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

[Kagome's World]

She was partially asleep. They had all gone to bed early, all considerably tired from hiking into the woods in search of shards. Kagome had curled up in her sleeping bag, watching a hanyou sit in a tree.

She watched his ears twitch and swerv at the slightest sound and smiled. Ohhhhh....how she loved those ears!

She blushed slightly. She shouldn't be thinking thoughts like that.

'Bad Kagome...bad!', she scolded herself.

She saw him stop moving and become seemingly asleep, so she turned over and closed her eyes. They still had a considerable number of hours before dawn, and she planned to take advantage of it. She smiled a bit as she squirmed further into the depths of her warm sleeping bag.

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She awoke again, to find it still dark out. There were about two hours left until sunrise. She automatically opened one eye to look in the tree. Force of habit. Only to find that he wasn't there. She shrugged it off and rolled over...to come face to face with a confused-looking hanyou.

She stifled a scream and literally jumped in her sleeping bag.

She sat up and put a delicate hand to her heart.

"InuYasha...Gomen, don't do that!", she breathed, trying to catch her breath.

He just looked at her.

She raised an eyebrow at him. "What is it, InuYasha?" He was acting very peculiar...

"Follow me," was all he said as he stood and turned his back to her. Kagome struggled to get out of her sleeping bag, as she slipped on her shoes and jogged after him.

She found him standing in the forest, not far from camp, but far enough not to disturb anybody.

"What is it? Is something wrong?" She asked as she tried to see his face.

But when he turned around, all she saw in his eyes...was lust.

Truth be told, it more or less scared her a bit. "I-InuYasha...tell me, i-..is something wrong?" she stuttered.

The next thing he did really began to scare her. He didn't answer her, he only walked towards her, forcing her to back up until her back was to a tree. She glanced back at the tree, and look back to find his amber eyes piercing her own.

"InuYasha...tell me! What's going on?" she inquired, almost desperately.

He grabbed her arms, and pinned them to the tree, effectively trapping her. She began to panic, and started to squirm. But he had her in an iron grip, and it only hurt her to try to move. She closed her eyes, but opened them at a start as she found him nuzzling her neck.

She closed her eyes, relishing the contact, but at the same time, wanting him to stop. This wasn't the InuYasha she knew. The InuYasha she knew would stop if she asked, wouldn't pressure her. He definately wouldn't do this, if he loved Kikyo.

That last thought slammed her back to reality; hard. She opened her eyes, and InuYasha stopped.

"InuYasha...stop it...gomen..." she avoided his gaze.

"What's wrong Kagome?" He asked, "I thought you loved me." He didn't sound hurt as much as he sounded angry. Kagome realized this and became increasingly scared. He was stronger than her, she was powerless.

"Don't do this...gomen...InuYasha you're scaring me." She felt tears building up behind her eyes, and she tried to stop them from spilling over.

He only continued to nuzzle her neck and collarbone, so she kneed him in the stomach. It hardly affected him, but he stopped to look at her. But what she saw wasn't his eyes, wasn't his face.

The man looking back at her wasn't InuYasha. She began to panic. She opened her mouth to scream, but he put his hand over her mouth, effectively stifling any thing she was going to say.

She started to kick him everywhere hard, stomach, groin, slapping him anywhere she could reach. The tears flooded over and clouded her vision, as she failed to hold them back any longer. The last thing she remembered was the single thought before something solid connected with the back of her head, rendering her unconscious:

'InuYasha...help me!'