InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Stream of Consciousness: A LiveJournal Collection ❯ While You Were Sleeping ( Chapter 57 )

Title: While You Were Sleeping

Community: Iyhedonism

Theme: Captivate

Place Earned: 2nd

Genre: pre-teen crush-iness

Universe: Canon (pre-Kagome)

Rating: PG-13

Word count: 342

Warnings: none

 

 

While You Were Sleeping

 

A young girl, perhaps thirteen or fourteen, strode purposefully through the forest. She was in training to be a miko, and regularly traveled to her current destination on the excuse of meditating by the sacred tree. But the real reason was to see the hanyou pinned to trunk.

 

Inuyasha had not changed in the slightest since Kikyou's death, suspended as he was in eternal sleep. Even back then she had thought he was handsome, and as she grew older, that appreciation for his boyish yet roguish looks only intensified. She supposed she should be repulsed by his ears, but Kikyou had looked past them, at least in terms of forming a simple companionship, and she could as well. Besides, it wasn't as though they were ugly. Far from it in fact; they were cute. She wondered if they felt as soft as they looked.

 

One day, she decided to find out. She climbed up on the vines wrapping around his body, blushing at how closely she pressed against him, and reached for the top of his head. She let out a giddy squeal of excitement to find that they were the softest things she had ever felt. The fur tickled her fingers as she massaged them, grinning widely.

 

This became something of a ritual for the young priestess-in-training. But her curiosity took her even further one afternoon, as her developing body supplied her mind with less innocent ideas. With shaking fingers she began to undo the ties to his hakama, then chickened out and ran back to the village. She returned the next day with renewed courage and completed the task. Peeking inside for a brief moment, she gasped and nearly fell off the vines in her shock. She had been expecting a fundoshi, but Inuyasha had definitely not been wearing one. For several days afterwards, she blushed crimson whenever a boy so much as looked at her.

 

In time, her girlish crush faded, and she stopped visiting Inuyasha. Kaede never told anyone about her visits, but she always remembered them fondly.

 

 

A/N - this will be my last Iyhedonism entry posted here for a while, since the comm has issued a special challenge for the month of March. We are to write a complete series of 5-6 entries, each 250 to 500 words in length, all due by April 3. So nothing from Iyhedonism in March, but in early April I'll post the entire series as a separate piece here at mm.org. If I think of an idea, that is. :)