InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Soul Affinity ❯ Chapter Five ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter Five

Kagome snuggled into Inuyasha’s chest, leaning into his warmth, her eyes closed, mind reeling from what had happened with Koga.  Thankfully, Inuyasha was quiet as he carried her, leaping with agile grace through the tree tops.  Kagome was extremely aware of the pressure of Inuyasha’s claws pricking the back of her thigh and tried really hard not to let her mind conjure inappropriate mental images.  They only had an hour or so and they would reach the old slayer’s village, and that realization made her wish for more time alone with him…to talk.  

Yeah right…you keep telling yourself that, Kagome…you just wanna talk to him…it has nothing to do with how he’s holding you or those sexy grins he keeps flashing your way…suuuurre, you just wanna TALK.

Kagome rolled her eyes at herself.  Might as well be honest…even if it was only in the privacy of her own mind.  Being in love with him like she was had a tendency to make her cherish these moments…just the two of them.  What kept bouncing through her roiling thoughts concerned Inuyasha’s so-called scent mark.  Her stomach flipped again.  She had just mustered the guts to ask him about it but he spoke up before she got the chance.

“How did you understand the youkai speech, Kagome?” he rumbled softly.  Kagome stifled a sigh.  So this is where their discussion would begin.  

“When I fainted…I saw something…” she replied haltingly.  She inwardly wrestled with her annoyance with Inuyasha for keeping something that directly pertained to her from her.  Koga wishing to take her innocence by force was one of those things that she certainly thought pertained to her.  As she flicked her eyes back to his troubled face, her irritation melted.  She too was guilty of keeping things to herself in order to protect those she cared about.  Perhaps that was the case with Inuyasha.

His stomach clenched uncomfortably.  “What did you see?”

“Umm…I saw the last time we met up with Koga.”  She bit her lip.

He made a face and thought about that for a moment before leaping to a wide, high branch of a massive, ancient tree, settling her securely in his lap.  “That doesn’t explain how in the hell you were able to understand the canine youkai language.”  ‘or how you suddenly know just how to act to drive me insane with wanting you…’ he didn’t dare say aloud that last part.

She fidgeted as she settled against him, trying not to look down to see how high up they were.  “I…it was the time you were really angry…Koga had gotten under your skin…”she blushed and felt shame wash over her.  “I sat you for fighting him.”

He frowned, wondering at the changes in her scent and why she was so sad and ashamed.  “Yeah…it was just any old day out shard hunting…damn wolf was bound to show up like he always did.  Why would you have a vision of that day?  I don’t get it.”

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.  “Inuyasha…I saw it as if…it was as if I were seeing it from your memories.  I saw your thoughts…everything.  So…I also understood the…youkai language.”

He sat there, frozen, not quite sure what to do with that information.  Well, that would certainly explain why she was so angry at Koga…but she had to get into my MIND to know why to be mad at him….  

Then, the implications of what she just said washed over him like ice cold water.  He swallowed hard and tensed, avoiding looking at her.  His face turned red and he had the urge to run away, terrified of what she could possibly think of him after seeing his thoughts…especially while Koga was around…oh, kami I am so fucked….

Kagome felt relieved to get it out in the open like that, but his reaction was not what she expected.  Is he about to…close himself off from me?  Oh please, no…  She whined a bit in the back of her throat, suddenly terrified he would feel like she had trod where she wasn’t welcome.  “Inu…yasha…I’m sorry…I didn’t know it was going to happen.  I-“

He sighed and slipped his hand in her hair, cupping the back of her head.  He leaned in and nuzzled her cheek gently.  She instantly relaxed, reassured.  He felt so much freer to talk to her using a form of communication that didn’t involve human speech.  He had never been good with words, yet for her he pressed on.

“No, Kagome…you have nothing to be sorry for.”  He rumbled softly, still refusing to meet her gaze.  His aura radiated shame and self-loathing.  

She remembered his thoughts from the vision and suddenly she understood.  He’s worried about what I must think of him.  He assumes I will judge him…could he…could he really believe I would think he is not a good protector?  Then she remembered something from that vision that brought back all of those butterflies to her stomach.  He…chooses me…he is afraid of how I must have reacted to learning that he…that I am…his chosen female.  

Her heart went out to him, expanded with warmth and she began to whine softly, nudging his chin and jaw like she had done earlier, only this time her demeanor was one of eager acceptance and love.  She marveled at the newfound boldness she felt to express herself in this way.  If he chose her, then she had no qualms showing him that she definitely chose him.  She always had.  His familiar, masculine scent washed over her and she felt a flood of affection and thankfulness…to have him here, with her…and she gently tilted her head to the side, baring her neck to him in absolute trust and submission.

Inuyasha thought he must be dreaming.  His human emotions were on overload.  This was…this was more than he could have ever dreamed he was worthy of.  If he read her signals correctly, it sure looked like Kagome was…offering herself to him.  She really does love me…she really thinks I’m…enough? He mused in wonder.  She was saying more with her actions than could ever properly be expressed with words and he all at once felt lightness in his heart, that old familiar shame fleeing with her gentle touch.  There was no way to misinterpret these signals.  She’s doing it again…that body language…oh my fucking kami, I don’t want to scare her, but if this keeps up I’ll end up taking things too far…  

He moaned raggedly and leaned down eagerly to drag his tongue over her throat, his eyelids fluttering at the taste of her teasing his senses.  His mouth was suddenly ravenous and closed hungrily over the pale silken flesh that covered that iridescent barrier that flashed so enticingly with her life blood.  He did not stop there.  He allowed his mouth to dance lightly and gingerly along the sultry curve that lead to the valley between her breasts.  Kagome’s hands grasped his head and urged him closer to her, a breathy gasp escaping at his touch.  “Inu…oh, kami, Inuyaaasha!”  she squealed in pleasure, her voice sounding suddenly very surprised.   His manhood tented rather unabashedly the front of his hakama, and he instinctively rocked  himself against her hip.  She mewled softly and ground back in answer, her lust clouded eyes hooded in awareness of her effect on him.  Despite the obvious scent of her own arousal, he still felt a moment of panic and terror that she would be disgusted by his desire for her.  She quickly dispelled that fear by moaning softly, grabbing fistfuls of his hair when his lips closed over the warm skin between her breasts.  Somehow during all of this, she’d managed to undo her red scarf and unbutton the front of her top to allow him access.  She squirmed against his arousal wrenching a starving, predatory growl of raw yearning from deep in his throat.

“Kaaag……oommeeee…..”

His claws pricked her hips as he hissed with her enticing movements.  His eyes squeezed shut and he growled brokenly against her neck.  “Ka…gome…you have….no idea what you‘re doing to me.  I-I don’t want…what if…ohhh hohofuck you are s-so…”  He began to tremble violently, words utterly failing him, overcome with what was taking place between them.  This sudden closeness between them…it scared him, he hadn’t been expecting it.  He was overcome with the violence and magnitude of his love for her.  It was almost too much.  This place of trust and strength…she was giving it to him freely…but why?  Why did she?  She was freely giving to him a place of safety where he could let her love him, without worry, without condition.  Doesn’t she realize…doesn’t she understand that no one ever ever wants a hanyou???

He’d been so certain she was far beyond his grasp, his reach.

He’d never allowed himself to hope she could ever be his.  The reasons were so many and varied.

Yet despite all of my arguments and excuses as to why she can never be mine…I still scent marked her as my chosen.  Heh…

It would seem that despite all of those reasons, here she was, quite literally his for the taking, in every way imaginable.  And to Inuyasha, there was no way he would take her unless it was in EVERY way.  He wanted her heart, her soul, her body…her devotion, love, and trust.  He wanted to mark her as his bitch, he wanted to marry her, get her pregnant with his sons and daughters, watch her body ripen with motherhood,  grow old with her or live forever with her… do all of those normal wonderful things that were never meant to be for him…a tainted hanyou.

She took his face in her hands, lifting his head up so she could look into his eyes.  “Shhh…” she soothed gently.  His trembling quieted.  The ferocity he saw reflected in her beautiful gaze startled him.  He stared in wonder, getting lost in the warm and open expressiveness of her honey-flecked brown eyes.  Yes, ferocity…but not the sort that destroys.  It was the purity of abiding and steadfast love…the kind that obliterated barriers of despair, loneliness and rejection.  

It was the kind that told his youkai that he was worthy to take what his mate offered.

He suddenly knew…in a supernatural way…that Kagome had always been his refuge.  She made him so fucking strong…and not only in body.  She completed his soul and brought out strengths he never knew were there.  Kagome made him want to be more.  She smiled a shy smile at his words and bit her lip, instantly drawing his eyes to her mouth.  “If what I am doing to you is anything like what you are doing to me, Inuyasha…then you must be happier than you have ever been.” she murmured shakily.

Kagome felt a moment of sheer terror and doubt seize her heart right after the words had left her mouth, mainly because she’d never EVER allowed herself to be so utterly…truthful about her love for him.  But then she relaxed, when his eyes flared with heat and intensity, she knew he reciprocated her sentiments.  Maybe the vision was part of this ‘gift’…after all, the vision quite likely saved her from being deceived and taken by Koga.  It also opened her eyes to just how much she trusted Inuyasha with every aspect of her life.  Though now Kagome was starting to suspect that the ‘gift’ has been with Inuyasha all along.  Tetsusaiga was a living heirloom from his father and the fact that it had apparently been responding to her…was very intriguing.  Why had she tried so hard to find an explanation for the newfound intensity and depth to their relationship?  Isn’t this what she’d always wanted?  To be loved by Inuyasha the same way she loved him?

All coherent thought fled when she felt Inuyasha’s lips on her ear, his hot breath making her shiver.  He murmured in a tone of voice she’d never heard, “For so long…I have wanted you…all of you.  But…”

She sighed in bliss to feel his lips caress her ear.  His words made her heart soar with happiness.  Then he said ‘but’.  She pulled away and looked at him, her eyes suddenly shimmering with tears.  “But…there is Kikyo…I know, Inuyasha…” she tried to sound understanding, to be supportive…but she just couldn’t help the tears that fell.  He took her face in his hands, his expression passionate and fierce.

“No, Kagome.  It’s not Kikyo.  It never…” he looked away and inwardly cursed himself for letting her think for so long what she was obviously thinking.  “It’s never been about Kikyo…my reasons for distancing myself from you.  What I feel for you is…worlds different from what I had with Kikyo.  You…” he gazed at her adoringly, disbelievingly.  She choked on a sob when she noticed his eyes become suspiciously bright with moisture.

“It hasn’t been about Kikyo?  But I thought…you…I thought you loved her.”

“Kagome…I am sworn…to avenge her.  And I will.  But…the Kikyo I loved so long ago…she’s gone.  I will always cherish the memories of the woman she used to be.”

She swallowed her tears and tried to hide her face.  He wouldn’t let her and took hold of her chin.  Her lip quivered.  “Inuyasha…you don’t have to explain…I know where I stand.”  She smiled a tiny sad smile and touched his cheek.  If he wished to hold her, touch her, find his comfort from her…then she would never deny him.  To be close to him, in any capacity…she would because she loved him.  Even if he could never return her love.   “I will never leave your side.  I promise.”

He looked suddenly panicked.  “No you…really don’t…know where you stand…Kagome…I-I..you don’t understand…dammit!”  he struggled with his human emotions that were desperate to retreat and hide, desperate to not let her see this side of him.  But she deserved to see.  She deserved his honesty.  “She…I…could never, she never would be…fucking hell...”he fumbled hopelessly.

She looked at his face closely, her expression confused, but afraid he would clam up.  “Inuyasha?” she prompted softly.

He squeezed his eyes closed and took a deep shaky breath…and then he looked at her again as if he’d gathered what tatters of his courage remained.  “Kikyo…wanted me human.  She didn’t…wouldn’t let me touch her…as a hanyou.  She would be with me but only if I used the jewel to become human.  The youkai half of me…to Kikyo…was tainted and needed to be done away with.”  The words tumbled out, even though he knew Kagome was aware of this, he was still seized by the pain of rejection that Kikyo’s conditions for accepting him lanced through his heart.  He’d never been good enough for Kikyo…likewise, how could he ever hope to be good enough for Kagome?  His youkai half was a part of him as much as his human half, yet both halves damned him utterly to an existence void of acceptance or belonging.  

For some reason in this context, this setting, he felt bald faced terror and fear that Kagome would recoil at his words and shove him away from her.  When she did nothing of the sort, his courage returned.  If anything, her eyes shined with tenderness and sympathy at the mention of Kikyo not being willing to touch him unless he were fully human.  It gave him the courage to continue explaining.

“I’ve never trusted anyone…until I met you.  You make me strong.  Gods, wench, you make me care about things…that matter…things I would have missed.  I am hanyou and yet you, Ka-go-me...” his thumb caressed her cheek as he crooned her name, gently wiping her freely streaming tears.  “you show me love, acceptance, your trust, your belief.  I never had those things from Kikyo.  She was the first person besides my mother who showed me kindness but… she never let me close to her.  She was kind to me but…my demon blood still bothered her… She didn’t…” his words faltered, “she didn’t t-trust m-me.  Do you see the difference?  Kagome?”  He was desperate, his eyes wild with longing and a thing he’d never dared touch…hope.

“You, Kagome, are a gift from the kami, my best friend, the only one who has seen the nastiest part of my soul and never left my side…Fuck, Kagome, do you realize my mother would pray every day, at the shrine, lighting her incense, offering what sacrifices she could afford, even until her dying day…she prayed that I would find acceptance, a home, a place to rest…”  his eyes glittered and his voice wavered, “a woman that would love me as much as she loved my father…a woman who would protect my heart.”

Kagome was crying openly, not from sadness, but from the awe she felt at what he was freely and without shame sharing with her.  Protect his heart….  “Oh, Inuyasha…” she breathed.  He continued.

“I never thought much of my mother’s faith and devotion to the kami…until I met you.  You coming into my life made me have hope that her prayers were being answered.  Took me a while to finally pay fucking attention, I suppose…”  He let out a self deprecating, humorless chuckle and then dropped his gaze, his trembling resuming and he whispered, “Kagome…you give me, offer to me more than I could possibly ever deserve.”

Then his face fell with despair as he came full circle, in his own words, to the very heartbeat of his anguish…that conundrum that spun endlessly within his heart and mind.  “You offer me everything, you answer my mother’s prayers…but…what could this half breed ever give you?”

There it was.  His heart laid bare.  It belonged to Kagome anyway…might as well let her see the whole damn thing.

Kagome’s breath caught in her throat in awe and dawning understanding.  Inuyasha had used words…words that were so difficult…nigh on impossible for him to articulate.  He meant them…to the marrow of his bones, or he wouldn’t have said them.  Her blood pounded in her ears and her soul cried out in joy.  He loved her…as a woman…not as just a companion, not as just Kikyo’s reincarnation.  He wanted her to be with him...How very precious he was to her!

Half-breed.  She inwardly growled at the name he’d given himself.  She hated that word.  It implied he was not whole, or sufficient.  He was more than sufficient, more than adequate.  He was her beautiful protector.  He was her white knight in red fire rat and everything she’d ever wanted.  He was gallant and brave, rough and wild.  His heritage was part of who he was physically but in no way did it matter in regard to who he was as the man she loved.  He was a half demon, half human and those things came together that made the man she adored and the deepest desire of her heart.

To Kagome, Inuyasha was absolutely, in every way, perfect.

He stared at her, waiting for her verdict, the response that would damn him or save him.  He didn’t even breathe.

She lifted her hand to his ears, lightly traced the silky edges of each one with gentle and loving awe.  She then silently moved her finger tips to his silken silver forelocks, running her fingers through the pale shimmering gossamer that clearly reflected his youkai heritage.  Then, with the barest of touch, Kagome traced around those piercing eyes that had captivated her heart from the moment they first opened, lit with the hardness and bravado of a wounded soul.  Golden eyes that declared his lineage…and now spoke his deepest vibrant emotions.  She then gently lifted one of his hands, cradled within her two smaller ones and while she looked into his gaze, she kissed the tip of each one of those savage and dangerous claws….that humans decried as the claws of a monster.  

“Inuyasha…” she murmured haltingly.“I trust you.  I choose you.  Without you, none of it…nothing else matters.  I love you.  Whether or not you believe you don’t deserve me…if you deprive me of yourself only for the purpose of protecting me, then my soul will die.  That is why…even had you not wanted me…I would still wish to always be by your side.  Don’t you see?  When you told me you couldn’t return my love because of your obligation to Kikyo…I still remained by your side.  Do you think the only reason I did that was because of the Jewel?  I stayed…because I need to be near you, Inuyasha.”  She looked down, her bangs covering her face as she whispered so quietly, had he not had youkai hearing he would have missed it, “You…Inuyasha…you are my chosen.”

Inuyasha released the breath he’d been holding as relief and wholeness covered his spirit.  He enfolded her tightly in his arms, robbed of speech, of a verbal response to her that would even make sense.  So he did the next best thing.  Uttering a very canine sounding growl, Inuyasha covered her mouth with his, delighting in the tiny sound of surprised needy pleasure she uttered.  So soft…her lips were so soft.  Her arms immediately wound around his neck, pulling their bodies flush against each other.  His need throbbed against her through the rough fabric of the fire rat cloth, wanting so badly to take her, but content for now to simply hold and kiss her.  The limber way her body contorted in his lap so that she was able to wrap those amazing legs around his waist did nothing to cool his desire.  He had to remember they were considerably high off of the ground and to not tumble off of the branch.  

Kagome was doing no better, seeking friction against his heat, shamelessly wanting more contact.  He grunted eagerly, his tongue seeking entrance to her mouth.  She mewled softly in response, granting him access, their tongues exploring.  She ran her tongue over the sharp points of his fangs, earning a groan from Inuyasha.  He growled playfully, nipping her bottom lip in reprimand. She giggled.

“I love your fangs…” she breathed seductively against his mouth.  Inuyasha allowed his hands to slide slowly along the outside of her bare thighs and then he squeezed as they disappeared beneath her skirt.  She gasped.  He replied just as dreamily into her kiss, “You have no idea how often I stare at your legs…”  Her eyes widened momentarily at the passion that laced his words, the alluring way his eyes hooded.

“My legs…?” she mumbled.

“Gods, yes…they’re gorgeous…” he moaned as she rocked against his erection again.

They sat there in that way, in no hurry to rush their first kiss, perfectly happy to draw it out as long as possible.  Inuyasha discovered that she would make the most delicious sounds in her throat when he plucked teasingly at her lips with his own but that she would pout petulantly if he became distracted with her neck, abandoning her lips in favor of latching onto her racing pulse.  She discovered that his right leg would twitch if she rubbed the base of his ears, though he did his best to hide that fact when she erupted in giggles.  She also learned that he rather had an oral obsession with her neck.  Inuyasha  then quickly discovered the best way to silence her was to employ the aforementioned oral obsession.

By the time the sun was sinking into the west, Inuyasha and Kagome still remained perched in that tree.  Kagome was stroking one of his forelocks as he held her cradled against his chest.  The sound of his heartbeat made her insanely content.  

“Kagome…he was right…the wolf...about me scent marking you as my chosen.”

Kagome smiled softly.  “Well, you know I choose you…so, I’d say we are in agreement.”

He leaned down and nipped her throat, delighting in the automatic way she responded in such a naturally inu fashion by tilting her head to the side, granting him access along with her complete trust.  “Kagome…you have been so…lately you have acted in a certain way that has just…driven me crazy…”

She sat up a bit and looked at him, perplexed.  She instantly thought about how she’d behaved…’slutty’ earlier in the day…plus there was yesterday and a few other times she’d shamelessly flirted with him.  “I’m sorry…I didn’t...I wasn’t trying to…”

He quickly silenced her with a sweet kiss.  “No…Kagome….kami, it’s not a bad thing, not at all.  It’s been…” he groaned and suckled her neck, “It’s like you know Inu body language, that comes naturally to my kind…but not for a human.  You have no idea…you’ve been driving me wild.  We’ve been able to talk, understand each other better…without words…” he got lost in the taste of her skin as Kagome processed his words, absently tilting her neck more to offer him better access.   Quite suddenly, she was hit with a disturbing yet…amazing thought.

“Inuyasha…I think Tetsusaiga did it…told me all this...gave me knowledge about your thoughts.”

“How?”

She blushed.  “Well, I can’t think of any other way I would know it.” She shrugged slightly.   Perhaps it’s the same with the body language thing.  Maybe…it’s there because…your father wished for your mate to understand you if you had chosen a human.”

Inuyasha stared at her, his mind buzzing with the heaven that her nearness provided along with her theory.  “I’ve only noticed you doing this…inu body language for a couple of weeks…but I’ve known you much longer….”  

She giggled and twirled his forelock around her finger.  “Inuyasha…we didn’t like each other that much when we first met, if you will recall.”

“You pissed me the hell off…your legs, on the other hand…It ain’t right that such a mouthy female have legs like that.”

Kagome blushed fiercely at his bold acknowledgement of his attraction to her.  She felt moisture pool in her center.  He growled in response.  “Maybe Tetsusaiga was waiting for the right time.”  She murmured, snuggling closer to him and purposely squeezing her legs around his waist just to see how he would react.

He immediately rumbled a deep hungry growl, pressing his persistent erection against her panty clad center.  “Woman…if you keep doing that…I…won’t be able to stop…” he tried to warn, his voice extremely pained.  She leaned up and pressed her lips to his urgently, plunging her tongue into his willing mouth greedily.  Her arousal surged full force as she grabbed one of his hands, pressing it into her open shirt against a breast, causing him to whine in the back of his throat as his hand automatically rubbed and kneaded the fleshy orb through her bra.  Inuyasha whimpered when she finally broke the kiss, pressing her forehead against his, both of them breathing hard.

“I am yours, Inuyasha.  I don’t want you to stop.”

“Kagome…are you saying…” he breathed, awestruck.

She smiled faintly and looked into his golden eyes.  “When Koga announced to me that you had scent marked me as your chosen, I was thrilled.  I have always wanted to belong to you…and only you…Inuyasha.”

He cupped her face with both of his calloused hands, his eyes lighting up with a wildness she’d never witnessed on him.  “You’ll be mine forever.  My mate.  We’ll be linked one to another, our souls forever one.  You will have part of my youki… forever.  Are you sure this is what you want, Kagome?  I’ll say the word again….forever.  There’s no getting out of it once it’s done.”  His face became so achingly gentle and etched with love that her tears again flowed unchecked.  He murmured hoarsely,  “I have always wanted you, Kagome…I just never ever dreamed it could ever be.”

“I am more than sure, Inuyasha.  I want you, too.  I ache for you.  I choose you…and only you.  I want every part of you, accept every part of you.”  Her voice had trailed off into a needy whine as she pressed her mouth against his, her body grinding against his demanding and yearning.  She whispered against his mouth, “Forever.”

He swallowed the lump in his throat and breathed shakily through his nose as he eagerly returned her kiss.  “Kagome…my mate.”  His youkai rumbled in predatory agreement, causing his golden eyes to rim in red.  She squeaked in surprise as he gathered her closer, arranging her bridal style, slinging her huge yellow backpack over his shoulder and silently leaping to the forest floor.  He took her to a rocky gorge they’d passed earlier near the outskirts of the forest that had several indentions in the rock face.  He took her to one, set her on her feet and without warning backed her against the rock wall, rattling a lustful growl.  He wasted no time pinning her with his body and attacking her neck with his eager mouth.

Kagome let out a breathy moan with his attentions, hooking one leg over his hip and wrapping her arms around his neck, tangling her fingers within his abundant hair.  “Inuyasha…” she purred as she pressed her eager damp center against the proud tent in his pants.  She let her head loll back wantonly as he devoured her neck.  She smiled lovingly as his ear flicked softly along her jaw.  Finally…he was hers…in her arms.  The half demon she’d been so desperately in love with for so long…was now hers.  She hoped she wasn’t dreaming.  Her belly flipped with excitement and her mate-to-be groaned.  He hoisted her up easily, supporting her weight with one hand cupping her ass and the other hand cradling the back of her head as his mouth crashed down upon hers.  Once again, Kagome’s legs happily wrapped around his waist.

“Oh kami…Kagome…your scent is making me lose my mind…you feel so incredible,” he mumbled softly into her mouth as his hungry erection rocked insistently against her core.  She mewled and gasped, breaking the passionate kiss to catch her breath.  

She took hold of his face reverently and looked into his eyes, biting her lip in amazement at the besotted, lustful heavy lidded expression he wore as he tried to press his kiss swollen lips to hers again.  So different…he’s…so open to me…like he’s been…loosed.   He was so incredibly beautiful like this…he took her breath away.  She gently stopped him, putting slight pressure on his face with her trembling hands.  “Wait…Inuyasha, I...I have…I’ve never done this before…” she said in a tiny voice, a hint of worry present.  He paused then when he noticed her hesitation, his brow furrowing as if he were suddenly nervous as well.

“I know…I-I…can scent you’re…untouched.”  He rumbled hoarsely, with some difficulty.  She noticed that the muscles of his jaw clenched and unclenched and the crimson that rimmed his golden irises was more pronounced.  He breathed raggedly and unevenly, not meeting her gaze, instinctively leaning his face adoringly into one of the hands that cupped his face.  

She flushed immediately, swallowing thickly.  “You…you can smell…that I’m a virgin?”

He gently mouthed one of her fingers as it brushed his mouth and nodded, his hips still grinding against hers, “Don’t worry, Kagome…I…am too…” he managed, this time, his voice had a guttural quality that sent those butterflies going nuts in her stomach again.  She slipped her hands around his neck and he moved in closer to catch her mouth.  She whispered back against his lips, “I’m glad.”

She mewled when Inuyasha crushed her against him, devouring her mouth savagely, renewing his passionate embrace and suddenly it became apparent he was quite finished with chit chat.  When he pulled back from their kiss with an eerie animal sounding snarl, Kagome sucked in a breath when she felt her body and soul become surrounded and awash with a powerful flare of youki that seemed to…coax her, encourage her…seduce her.  She found herself face to face with Inuyasha’s youkai.  Instead of fear, she felt her heart nearly burst with love.

His eyes burned with a feral yet sentient fire.  They were deep crimson, with vibrant blue pupils, watching her intently.  He was not fully transformed into the killing machine she’d seen on those few occasions because his mind was still in control.  She could tell instantly just by looking at him.  The jagged purple stripes of his inu lineage decorated his cheekbones.  She traced one lightly, jumping slightly when he growled in pleasure.  It wasn’t the growl she was used to hearing.  This one was deeper, feral, and vibrated within her very soul.  She squirmed slightly in his hold when her core gushed with wetness.  He must have noticed because he jammed his hips up demandingly against her, baring his teeth in a frightful, possessive snarl.  She’d never taken the time before to really examine his features while he was transformed mainly because she had been too busy trying to get him to change back…but now that he was about to…take her…make her his…she felt justified in taking in as much of him as she could.  After all, who knew when she’d get an opportunity like this to be up close and intimate with his full demon self?  

Unafraid and curious, Kagome traced a finger gingerly over one of his elongated fangs, squealing and giggling when Inuyasha playfully nipped at her, all the while rumbling hungrily.  She continued to pet him and explore him in this way, all the while he became more and more soothed by her gentle presence.  He would let her take as long as she wanted.  Her comfort and feelings of security during this time were of upmost importance.  His heart soared with her reaction to his partial transformation.  He’d sort of had an idea that it may happen if and when he took a mate, but had never honestly given it much thought just because he never expected anyone, human or youkai, would ever have him.

The fact that she wasn’t afraid, or disgusted, or apprehensive when he transformed filled him with awe.  Truly, she was his soulmate.  She really did accept all parts of him.  When she began the process of untying his suikan did he finally and reluctantly allow her to slide down his body, gently setting her on her feet.  She gazed up at him, her scent screaming shy nervous virgin…but no trace of fear.

“Inuyasha…would you like me to…do this for you?” she asked softly, tentatively as her slender fingers shakily attempting to undo the ties holding the fire rat robe closed.  

“Yes…Kagome” the deeper register of his voice made her shiver and soon she had both his outer robe and kosode undone, which she wasted no time at all pulling both off of his shoulders.  The look of hungry admiration that lit her chocolate brown eyes made Inuyasha ‘s ego swell with male pride.  

When Kagome shrugged off her uniform blouse, leaving her clad in only her green pleated skirt, socks and shoes, and skimpy lacy bra, Inuyasha’s feral red eyes flared with predacious intent.  Before the miko could blink, she found herself on the ground, lying on Inuyasha’s red fire rat robe, covered with one very aggressive and sexually charged half demon.  She gasped, looking up at him in question.  His expression left no doubt in her mind how deeply and all encompassing his longing for her was…that, and the ridge of his hard cock nestled against her apex.  She moaned softly in acceptance of him, baring her neck in submission.  He growled his approval with a nip to the spot he favored on her throat, harder and more aggressively than he’d ever done in the past.  This time, he would be claiming her for real and for keeps.  She arched beneath him with a pleasured gasp.

“Mine.  You are mine.”  She nodded but still kept her eyes averted.  This pleased him immensely and she could tell because of the way his youki flared dominantly around them both.  Kagome wrapped her legs around his waist.  Inuyasha groaned and began kissing a trail from her neck to her breasts.   

“I love it when you do that…” he breathed.

Her breath hitched when he palmed one breast, pushing the lacy cup of her bra aside and latching his mouth onto her nipple.  She sucked in a breathy gasp as his wet tongue laved her flesh.

“Love it when I do what?”  she panted with some difficulty.  His attentions were robbing her of her ability to form words.

“Wrap your legs around me…best thing in the world.”

Apparently someone has a fetish…she managed to crow inwardly.

She giggled softly as she panted around the amazing sensations of him suckling her nipple so hungrily and instinctively reached up to fondle his ears as they were right in her line of vision.  She didn’t have time to marvel at their softness before she was crying out in pleasure.  He’d grazed her nipple with his fang.  The next sensation she felt was her breasts bouncing free as he sliced through the center of her bra.  Rather than being annoyed, she was amused.  But that didn’t stop her from arching into his touch, offering her flesh for his enjoyment.

“That was my favorite bra.” Kagome pretended to complain.

He glanced up at her, giving her left breast attentive licks, nips, and kisses, wrenching needy whines from her lips.  “It was in the way of my prize…Ka-go-me.”

The way he said her name finished the job of thoroughly soaking her panties and she shivered all over.  “Inuyashaaaaa…that feels so good…” she whined.

Inuyasha’s head was swimming with her scent.  He felt drunk on it.  When he actually felt how wet she was through her undergarments and his hakama as he ground his cock against her, he started to seriously question his ability to take things slowly the way he knew she would require for her first time.  He began to suckle her right breast and slipped his hand between her legs, tentatively exploring her slick folds, whimpering helplessly at how drenched she was in her own arousal.  She was ripe…and so ready for him to take her.  She cried out when the pad of his thumb flicked her clitoris, rubbing her through the slick fabric of her panties.  His fingers were hesitant as he pressed them against her…he feared his claws would injure her.  Suddenly impatient to feel her flesh, he simply tore her panties right off, not even bothering with his claws.  

“’Gome…oh koi…” he groaned.  Her flesh was so silky and hot.  He reached up and began to kiss her lips again, rubbing the little button at the top of her opening.  He learned immediately that focusing on that spot brought her intense pleasure as she started bucking and mewling, pushing her hips demandingly into his hand.  He grunted hungrily as he kissed her, speeding up the movements of his fingers.  He was wanting desperately to slip his finger inside of her, but again his fear of hurting her won out…especially with his claws elongated as they were.  He didn’t have long to contemplate it because within seconds, Kagome was screaming his name, her blunt nails clawing his back, gushing all over his hand as she reached completion.  Even without penetrating her, he could feel the contractions of her channel throughout the throes of her orgasm as he stroked her outer lips with the pads of his fingers.  His cock surged with longing and he licked her honey from his hand, moaning at her taste.  He wanted so badly to bury his face between her legs and feast upon her, but his youthful shyness held him back, fearing such an act would shock her or upset her.

“Inuyasha…that was…it felt so good…” she whispered around catching her breath.  She slipped her arms around his neck.  He looked into her eyes intently, searching for deceit.  He wanted to be positive he’d given her pleasure.  The way her scent was flooded with arousal and satiety assured him that she was more than pleased.  He’d never felt this way ever in his life.  He vaguely remembered hearing from Myoga at one time that when a dog demon took a mate that it was an intense process.  He’d expected to lose control but was very happy that he was able to savor and draw out the experience…not only for himself, but for Kagome.  He was very glad for his human side right now and that it was not suppressed at all by his youkai instincts.  

Kagome was blown away.  She’d pleasured herself before, usually while fantasizing about Inuyasha, but never had her own touch felt anything like this.  She lay there, sated and content, boneless and warm all over.  He then sat back on his heels, and stared down at her sopping wet womanhood.  Her legs were spread as she let her knees fall to the side, unashamed, letting him look all he wanted.  She’d never picked up the habit of trimming down there like her friends from her era did.  She hoped he liked what he saw…her womanhood untrimmed and natural.  But her momentary self-conscious worry seemed silly…that worry was based upon modern ideas of beauty.  As she looked up at him, she knew he was more than liking what he saw.  Seeing him so composed, serious and focused while maintaining the visage of his full youkai was a bit unsettling, but she was not worried.  She instinctively knew…that in this sacred moment, all was as it should be.

Inuyasha was literally intoxicated with the taste of her essence as he gazed in wonder at the fragrant flower that lay before him, fully in bloom, open and inviting.  Never in the whole of his life had he ever laid eyes upon anything as lovely as this.  This woman, his woman…bare to his gaze and sated by his hand, her sex calling to him to take the treasure she freely offered…he found himself frozen in place, he was so humbled and thankful.  

Kagome smiled lovingly up at him, holding her arms out to him in invitation.  “Inuyasha…come to me…please…” she murmured.  The sweet sound of her voice seemed to snap him from his trance and his hands moved faster than she had ever seen them move as he rid himself of his hakama, hovering over her, her entire body vibrating with the rumble of his contented yet possessive growl.  She gasped when her skirt met the same fate as her brassiere, and suddenly, there were no barriers between them.  His crimson gaze drank her in ravenously and he dipped his head down to worry the flesh on her neck with his lips and teeth…the spot that would bear his mark.  She arched and let out a breathy squeak at the sensation of his teeth on her skin that seemed to jolt straight to her sex.  With only a pleased growl at her response, Inuyasha flipped her over gently, encouraging her wordlessly what he desired of her.  She knelt on all fours with her slick sex presented to him in a position that would have normally unsettled her…especially for her first time, but all she could muster was quivering anticipation and an ache in her core that longed to be soothed by him filling her.  She realized he must have been staring at her when she felt a gentle hand stroking and squeezing her ass cheek.

“Kagome…you’re…” he choked on the words, trembling.  “You’re mine.” His words were hoarse with straining need…as well as full of a sort of disbelief that she really was indeed his.  Her eyes pricked with tears as she could tell how tightly he was holding on to his control so as to not frighten her or hurt her in his eagerness.  Not that he would ever do those things, but that he was so mindful of her comfort made her heart soar.

“Yes…I am yours, Inuyasha…forever.  Please take me.”  Her tears of happiness dripped onto her hands and she bit her lip, smiling at how wonderful and right it felt to say those words to him.

Kagome then focused on a spot on his red fire rat robe that was spread and rumpled beneath her as she felt him kneel behind her, mentally bracing herself for the expected painful intrusion.  Instead, his larger form covered her and she saw his hands planted on either side of hers on the ground as his pale hair spilled around her.  His hot breath on her ear made her shiver.  

“Relax your body, Koi…I don’t wanna hurt you.”  Her vision went hazy when she felt his manhood probing her entrance, shooting sparks of molten pleasure throughout her body.  She hadn’t gotten an opportunity to really look at his cock fully aroused but she could tell just by what was nudging her that he was…’gifted’.  

“Inuyashaaa!” she whined, instinctively arching her back thereby opening herself fully to him.  He ground out a guttural sounding howl, laced with something like desperation and hunger as he smoothly hilted himself deep within her virgin channel in one swift thrust.  Kagome shrieked and threw her head back onto Inuyasha’s shoulder.

Inuyasha’s eyes snapped open at the indescribable feeling that his entire being had been sucked into.   Such heat…such searing, blazing tightness…he struggled for breath and his muscles strained and trembled against the primal instinct to dominate her utterly, slamming deep within with animal abandon.  He hadn’t meant to go so fast…had wanted to give her a chance to adjust to his size.  Panting and gasping, his arms went around her body as a whine escaped his throat.  “K-kagome?  Are you ok?”

She nodded rapidly, her face still streaked with tears that he frantically licked away in his panic that he’d hurt her…tears he likely thought were caused by pain or distress but were really because she was so happy.  She felt whole.  “I’m fine…it hurt for only a moment which is…” she sucked in a delighted gasp and he hissed when she involuntarily squeezed his cock with her walls, “…normal… but now….oh, merciful gods…”   She squirmed in his arms, mewling wantonly.  “oh…Inuyashaa…I need you…I need you to…do something!  Please oh, it feels….amazing!”  she begged and panted.

His arms tightened around her as he sat back on his heels, moving their joined bodies upright so that she was straddling his thighs.  He was terrified of hurting her and so figured this position would be a good compromise.  Rocking his hips, he began to plunge in and out of her very slowly, his hands sliding down to her hips to encourage her to ride him at her own pace.  They both moaned in bliss at the sensation of their first joining and in no time, Kagome was bouncing ecstatically, impaling herself over and over on his eager sex.   “That’s it…oh my bitch…that’s so gooooooood….” He ground out, mesmerized by the erotic sight of Kagome riding his cock.  He kept thinking this was far too fantastic to even be real.

His hands found her breasts and rolled her nipples between his fingers.  It turned out that Kagome was extremely vocal and loud, which Inuyasha absolutely loved.  It made him want to find new ways to give her pleasure, to wrench such beautiful noises from her.  She twisted her head around to capture his lips and they devoured each other hungrily as she gyrated her hips, meeting his strokes perfectly.  She tore herself away from his lips as her orgasm caught her by surprise, sending wave after wave of molten pleasure over her body.  Her tight little channel pulsed and contracted around his erection with her climax, causing Inuyasha to snarl dominantly.  The time for tenderness was over.

Suddenly she found herself on all fours again as her lover slammed into her.  She moaned and wept in pleasure, his claws digging into her hips as his youkai fully took over their joining.  The speed and force of his strokes inside of her sent her to another plane of pleasure and Kagome very nearly passed out.  He grunted and snarled, driven nearly out of his mind with what she was doing to him.  Leaning over her he grasped one breast roughly, his thrusts becoming erratic and frantic.  “Fuuuucck!!! Kagome….I…this is…oh fuck this is….Arrrrrggghh!”  And with a triumphant howl of conquest he locked his hips with hers, leaning over her shoulder and sucking her flesh at the base of her neck the way he’d done many times before.  She whined pitifully, thoroughly overwhelmed and pleasured; the pulse of his own climax only heightening her sensation.  They remained that way as his seed emptied into her and he went into sort of a trance as he passed a small measure of his youki into her, enough to entwine his scent with hers for as long as they both lived.  Now she was permanently scent marked.

Tetsusaiga flared with a gentle aura right then that both miko and hanyou noticed, frozen in place as they both watched the fang where it rested, untransformed and sheathed, leaning against the stone wall.  As quickly as it had flared to life, the aura was gone.  Less than a second later, Kagome’s chest was filled with a searing warmth.  Inuyasha stared down at the woman under him, his eyes wide in wonder.

“Kagome…you’re glowing…that light…”

“Huh?”  She looked down at herself and gasped as the warmth receded…along with the glow.  Her mating mark tingled and buzzed slightly for a moment when that too ceased.  They both looked at the now quiet sword, both unsure what to say or think about what just happened.  As it was clearly nothing malevolent or worrisome, they both decided there were more pressing things to attend to at the moment.

Instead of releasing her, Inuyasha’s hold on Kagome only tightened around her as he carefully laid down on his side, still deeply embedded within her sex.  Neither of them could form words at this moment.  He gently kissed a trail along her jaw, his chest rumbling in a happy growl,  She turned her head and smiled at him, meeting his lips halfway for a lingering kiss.  The first kiss as life mates.  

“I love you…” she murmured, after he finally broke the kiss.  She met his once again golden gaze, stunned by what she saw.  It was like a dam had broken in his soul by the way he was looking at her.  She gasped when she felt his cock twitch within her and he blushed, burying his face in her neck.

“I love you…too.  Oh, gods….Kagome…I-” he groaned quietly.  He sounded almost embarrassed.  His hips moved again.  The woman in his arms moaned softly.

“What’s wrong, Inuyasha?”  she hesitantly ventured and tried to turn to more fully to face him, but he would not allow her to separate from him.  Could it be possible that he was still shy even after what they’d just shared?

The male behind her groaned again, the sound muffled as his lips worried the spot on her neck that was now quite reddened from where he’d infused her with his youki and also because he just loved that spot.  She would probably have a permanent hickey there.  He pressed her back closer to his chest, his hips once again thrusting, sliding his still raging hard on deep inside of her.  He was horrified that she would think he was an insatiable pervert for still wanting more only moments after emptying within her.  He was pleased when he heard her moan and her hips ground into him, meeting his thrusts eagerly.

“I…I’m sorry…I need you…so badly, Kagome…we don’t have to if you don’t want to.” He panted, physically unable to stop his movements, unable to cease, she felt unbelievable and he never wanted it to end…

“Do you hear your mate complaining, Inuyasha?” she purred, her breath hitching as they rocked.  

His eyes widened in wonder only to narrow in predatory hunger.  He growled in answer, thrusting into her savagely and wrenching a cry of wanton pleasure from her throat.  Suddenly his hands were everywhere on her as his shy embarrassment morphed into eager and dominant lust.  It wasn’t long before they were both plunging over the edge of ecstasy, this time Inuyasha cried out as he released into her yet again, her own satisfied mewl following not long after his.  They panted, both a bit shocked at their apparent mutual sexual appetite.  

 Inuyasha pulled out of her and rolled her over gently, moving back to where they’d first started with him kneeling  between her thighs.  The look on her face filled him with so many emotions…happiness, wholeness, awe, male pride, arrogance, possessiveness…he wanted to howl in jubilation.

Yes…he would have to get used to this…unconditional love.  Living for so long never knowing such a thing…having the reality of Kagome’s unconditional acceptance and boundless love for him would continue to be a shock to his system.  There would be times where he would revert back to the old familiar disbelief, mistrust, and fear…but now…oh gods, now…

She loves me.

He simply stared.  When she had been seemingly out of his reach, off limits…she had been a far away  beautiful dream.  Now, as his mate, naked and unashamed staring up at him with her skin flushed, onyx hair tousled and mussed, eyes lit with the afterglow of joining with him…She looked this way because of him.

She was blinding…stunning.  Perfect.  He’d never seen anything more beautiful.  Inuyasha breathed a silent prayer of thanks.

Kagome was likewise transfixed by the sight of her mate.  Though, admittedly, the more abstract thoughts of love and happiness she’d already experienced were somewhat overshadowed by the ready sight of Inuyasha’s generous sized erection.  Yes…erection…again.  He’s like the energizer bunny…Her eyes widened at her unbidden thought and she managed to swallow her giggle.  She licked her lips as she continued to openly stare at his manhood.  Daaaamn.  Didn’t know they got that…big…no wonder I was seeing stars…

Inuyasha must have sensed the direction her thoughts had gone because he offered her that crooked grin, showing only one fang.  Then he waggled his eyebrows.  

Oh no he did NOT just do that….

Kagome found she loved his lecherous side and would do all she could to bring it out.  That look on his face was priceless.

“You are a bigger pervert than Miroku, aren’t you?”  she giggled playfully.

Inuyasha licked his own lips as he prowled over her, dragging his tongue along her belly, up to her neck, and finally behind her ear, making her squeal half in desire and half because she was very ticklish.  

“I have a feeling my little Ka-go-me is ok with this…” he purred.

“Mmmmhmmm…I have a feeling she is…” she cooed back, wrapping her arms around his neck, welcoming him between her legs.  They battled for dominance of a kiss for a while and Kagome got a wicked gleam in her eyes when Inuyasha showed no signed of submitting.  She wrapped her long legs tightly around his waist.

He scowled at her.  “No fair…those legs are deadly weapons, woman.”

Kagome snorted.  “A girl’s gotta use what she’s got.”

“Keh.  Use ‘em on me all you want, wench.”