InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Strike a Pose ❯ Perverts that go bump in the night ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 10: Perverts that go bump in the night

The brothers tore through the small building, both in perfect synchronicity for once as they attempted to get to the Higurashi sisters. When they burst out into the female only hot springs they were stunned to stillness.

A dark haired man was laying face down in the water of a recently vacated hot spring. Kagome stood over him in a dark blue swim suit looking menacing and holding a huge tree branch like a baseball bat. Kikyo stood behind her with an eyebrow raised, peering down at the unconscious looking man.

“What happened?” Inuyasha demanded

“Kagome apprehended a pervert” Kikyo informed him “with a tree branch”

“Hn” Sesshoumaru acknowledged as with gentle hands he wrenched the tree branch from between Kagome's clenched fingers, her knuckles were white. He wanted the branch away from her before she hurt herself with it. “You realise if you leave him like that he's going to drown, correct?”

“So?” Kagome said petulantly, pouting slightly

“So, you cannot get away with murder” he pointed out

She took offense “Neither can you!”

“I wouldn't be so sure Miko” he flashed his gleaming lengthy canines and she fought the irrational (or not) urge to shudder.

“Just get him out!” Inuyasha barked

Sesshoumaru sighed in a put upon way and peeled the unconscious man from the surface of the gently steaming water, dumping him with no care on the side of the spring.

“His smile... it's kind of perverted...even when he's asleep” Kikyo commented warily

Kagome walked over to kneel by the dark haired male's side and prodded him with a small stick she had procured from somewhere or other.

“Maybe he's dead” she suggested over her shoulder looking innocently at Sesshoumaru.

“Hopefully not Miko, you would be prosecuted for manslaughter” Sesshoumaru reminded her smirking slightly “besides he is still breathing”

Kikyo knelt on the other side of the fallen man and examined him. “Yeah, he's definitely breathing”

“Mores the pity” Kagome said wrinkling her nose.

Sesshoumaru watched disinterestedly as the man began to twitch. He was waking up. He was growling a second later however when the man decided it would be a good idea to grab both Kagome's and Kikyo's bottoms and squeeze.

“Ah!” Kagome screeched and jumped up, falling over backwards into Sesshoumaru who captured her by her elbows and held her to his chest, all the time glaring at this male.

Kikyo on the other hand snarled at him in an endearingly human way and was torn away from the groping man by an irate Inuyasha.

“So now I'm thinking manslaughter was a good idea” Kagome commented as the man sat up rubbing his aching head.

“Who are you?” Kikyo demanded glaring at the man

He winced and tried to look innocent “I apologise fair lady, I did not mean to alarm you, I am but a humble employee here at this hot spring”

“You work here?” Sesshoumaru's eye brow went up

“Yes, I am Miroku, Myoga-san had employed me here” he smiled charmingly

“He employed a pervert?” Kagome asked scathingly

He looked innocently wounded, but he wasn't fooling anyone “Of course not my dear, it was a simple misunderstanding”

“Another one of those?” an amused voice questioned and they turned to look at Myoga who had appeared in the doorway that led back inside the building.

“Myoga-san I was just—” Miroku began but Myoga held up a hand to stop him.

“I've heard it all before” he shook his head “how about you get inside and stop causing chaos?”

“Of course” Miroku said sheepishly before turning and winking at the twins who gave him the evil eye.

“Let's go to bed” Kagome sighed “I think the springs are cursed for us today”

“Bed?” Inuyasha's ears perked up

Kikyo raised a brow “And where's your mind right now?”

“She's right, haul yourself out of the gutter now mister” Kagome cautioned

“Why is it always me you two yell at?” Inuyasha demanded as they made their collective way to the room “The ice prince is plenty perverted too!”

Kikyo and Kagome blinked and then looked at Sesshoumaru who smirked crookedly. Kagome shivered slightly and Kikyo giggled.

“But he isn't as dumb about it as you are, it's harder to tease him” Kikyo pointed out

“Yep” Kagome nodded

“Plus you're scared of him” Inuyasha complained

“I'm not afraid” Kikyo grinned “It's Kagome who should be afraid, very afraid”

Kagome gulped and kicked her sister in the shins and Sesshoumaru's smirk turned predatory as he watched the younger Miko. She shuddered and gave him a look that was supposed to say `stop that' but instead merely read like a deer caught in head lights. The smirk grew wider.

“There will be no shenanigans tonight” Kikyo ordered as they settled into their futons, she glanced coldly at Sesshoumaru “And I'm talking to you too moon man”

His golden eyes illuminated in the darkness of the room seemed to smirk at her, before they turned to look at Kagome who was studiously pretending to be asleep. Those eyes flashed red for a moment before fading to darkness.

Sesshoumaru patiently waited until the others fell asleep and with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of grace slipped from the room to find the old man Myoga.

***

Kagome woke up blearily and swatted at the light fruitlessly. It refused to relent and leave her alone. She sat up and flipped her bed head from her eyes.

And then she froze when she saw Sesshoumaru. The room was vacant except for the two of them and she was hoping that Kikyo wasn't too far away. But that was besides the point. Her point was that Sesshoumaru was sat there with no shirt on reading something or other.

He wasn't actually reading, rather he was processing the information that Myoga had parted with last night. Not that the information had truly been all that enlightening however. It seemed that his father and Kagome's mother had been childhood friends. But if that was the case then why had he never met the Higurashi family before?

“Where's Kikyo?” Kagome asked, her voice slightly raspy

“Hot spring” he said

“Inuyasha?”

“Hot spring”

“The same one?”

“I do not care”

“Right” she said stretching her arms above her head she raised a brow when he smirked “What?”

“Perhaps you should check your attire” he suggested

She glanced down at herself; she had been wearing her usual pyjamas of shorts and a strappy sleeved shirt. Now, however, the straps on her shirt had slid down on her shoulders revealing her breasts to all who cared to look. Which of course meant Sesshoumaru was ogling her, but in an aloof way of course.

“AH!” she threw a pillow at him “Hentai!”

Chuckling darkly he caught the pillow before it hit his head. “Nice try little Miko”

“Whatever” she grouched as she pulled her shirt into its rightful position with a huff and an indignant toss of her hair.

***

Kagome and Sesshoumaru sat on a boulder as Kikyo and Inuyasha did their shoot without too much fuss. Inuyasha had whined slightly, but then that was usual.

“I wonder where Kana is” Kagome mused

“Kanna?” Sesshoumaru asked

“The other model who was supposed to be working with us today” Kagome glanced at her watch “she's a little late”

“Why are you concerned?” he asked

“She's an old friend of ours, silent like Kikyo but generally a good person. She's an amazing model” she paused thoughtfully “some say she'll become as big as Hime one day”

“Hime?”

“You don't know Hime?” Kagome was incredulous “she's the biggest most in demand model in Japan even though she's in her early thirties she's constantly out doing some of the younger ones”

“Hn”

“I'm sorry” she grinned ruefully “of course you wouldn't know”

“Quite, I was only recently coerced into enduring this torture”

“It's hardly torture” she commented

“Hn” he rolled his eyes “that is an opinion and as such us subjective to the person”

She giggled

“Kagome” Sango appeared beside the couple looking mildly harassed, her hair was sticking up at odd angles and she was worrying her bottom lip in between her teeth.

“What's wrong?” Kagome enquired mildly

“Kanna's still not here” she threw her hands up in exasperation “this is taking being `fashionably late' too far”

“Do not panic” Sesshoumaru instructed

“And why not?” she demanded petulantly

“I am here” came a flat, almost whispered monotone.

Sango spun to see Kanna stood behind her dressed in her usual white. She had tied her shoulder length hair into a loose top knot and her dark eyes were as they always were, eerily empty.

Sango was undeterred by her apparent boredom at the situation.

“You're late, extremely late” Sango scolded “get changed, get to makeup, now!”

Kanna's emotionless eyes slid past Sango, took in Sesshoumaru with a disinterested air and finally landed on Kagome.

“Did you design?” the whispered question was hard to hear over the commotion on the shoot.

“Yeah, I made yours white especially for you, but they have a more `woodland nymph' feel than the other pieces I've designed”

“Very well” she acknowledged before gliding smoothly away

“How do you handle her?” Sango asked in disbelief “she just ignores me”

“I'm used to her” Kagome shrugged “understanding her attitude helps me cope with Moon Man here” she chucked her thumb in the approximate direction of Sesshoumaru and Sesshoumaru growled. She ignored him “besides, I'd rather deal with Kanna than with her sister, Kagura”

“She still doesn't like you?” Sango asked

“She hates Kikyo because Naraku likes Kikyo and Kagura wants Naraku” Kagome wrinkled her nose

“But aren't Kagura and Naraku a couple?” Sango asked

“Yeah, but Naraku has always wanted Kikyo and he's only going out with Kagura because Kikyo jilted him. So Kagura is still jealous” Kagome sighed

“She's always a bitch whenever I have to do her makeup” Sango sneered “perfectly nice to anyone of importance though”

“Tell me about it” Kagome rolled her eyes

Sango was beckoned and she growled at them before turning back to Kagome “Whatever, you guys are finished here, you don't need to hang around. Go to a hot spring or something”

“Are you kidding?” Kagome asked in mock horror “with a perverted guy working here” she gestured at Miroku who was attempted to charm Kana (she was staring at him blankly) “and Moon Man lurking without Kikyo to watch my back. I'll get taken advantage of”

“People don't take advantage of you, you take advantage of the good will of others” Sango rolled her eyes and her name was hollered again “I don't really care what you do, scat!”

They turned and walked off towards the hot spring together “don't you think she shooed us away as if we were dogs?” Kagome asked folding her arms in a disgruntled manner.

“No dog would listen to her” Sesshoumaru scoffed

“Huh?”

“Her tone was wrong, no dog would respond to her as their alpha”

“Oh” she paused and then squinted at him for a while as if trying to read his thoughts through his fae ear.

“What?” he asked tersely after she succeeded in goading him into conversation via staring.

“You're a dog demon right?”

“Yes”

“So do you see the world like that, in dog terms I mean?”

“It is not dissimilar” he allowed

“So how do you see it?” she interrogated

“The hierarchy of an Inu pack is different to the Yokai equivalent” he told her as they set up residence on a low lying boulder.

“How so?”

“The basics apply; there is an alpha male and an alpha female and betas likewise. But as we are not humans, regardless of what some humans think, a Yokai pack normally has elders”

“Huh?”

“In a wild Inu pack once an alpha male is defeated by another male that alpha male is either killed or ostracised from the pack” he explained “with demons the old alpha retains the position inside the pack in return for their loyalty and knowledge. The elders have the authority to overrule everyone except the alpha male of the pack”

“Oh” she processed the information “sounds reasonable” there was a pause “you don't pee on trees do you?”

The eyebrow went up and she giggled “Yokai are territorial, but we feel no need to scent mark by urination. We simply mark by touch, if we value something then we cover it in as much of our scent as possible and if the thing is a person we can fuse a small amount of our youki into the skin of that person”

“Cool” she said biting her bottom lip in-between her teeth. Sesshoumaru almost groaned at the sight. She had leant backwards against the rock, her head leaning back, making her back arch and her breasts push against the confines of her shirt.

There was a pinging noise inside Sesshoumaru's mind as one of the last restraints on his precious self control pinged away.

“You constantly sit on my lap” he pointed out

“Yeah, and?” she missed the predatory smirk that flitted across his features.

“In Yokai terms it is almost as if you are scent marking me as yours” he smirked at the gobsmacked expression on her face

“B-but I'm not!” she yelped

“Does it matter?” he asked stalking towards her, “you entice my beast”

She gulped as he put his strong arms either side of her seat on the boulder, effectively caging her in.

“It is also considered disobedience” he said as he lowered his head to that their eyes were level, his lips inches away from her own. She became fixed on them, they were so close. She could meet them with her own if only she moved slightly. Not that she was going to do that of course, she was trapped like a deer in headlights.

“Why?” she was annoyed by the breathless quality to her voice

“Sitting above me is being dominant over you alpha” he purred

“Who says you're my alpha?” a statement that was meant to sound strong faltered slightly.

“I do” he whispered into the crook of her neck.

“Um...” she said from her slightly powerless position pinioned in-between his arms. He smirked again into the crook of her neck and fingered the coil of hair that was resting there.

“What's wrong?” he asked dipping his head slightly to rest an ear against the column of her throat. “You're pulse is fast, Kagome”

“Um...” she mumbled as she privately cursed her loss of coherent speech

“And” his lips came up to whisper in her ear as one of his claws traced the contours of her throat. “You seem to have forgotten how to speak” he breathed.

He was so close now that her breasts were pressed against his hard chest. She swallowed hard and her bit down on the inside of her mouth to keep herself from licking her lips.

“Haven't” she managed to mumble, her stubborn and defiant streak making itself know.

He chuckled “Really?” he was so close to her now that when he spoke his lips brushed against hers ever so slightly. She leaned into them subconsciously and he growled in triumph as his lips closed gently over hers.

At first he was hesitant, letting her reject him if she wanted to, but as she responded he smirked and pulled her bottom lip between his teeth, biting gently. His tongue came out and gently traced the curve of her bottom lip, asking for entrance, which she granted without preamble. His tongue coaxing hers into action. One of his hands moved to her hair, knotting in the ebony strands and preventing escape as the other held her hip possessively.

He allowed her the oxygen she obviously needed and pulled away from her lips only to kiss down the column of her throat where his claw had traced earlier. She titled her head back even without encouragement from the hand tangled in her hair and his beast growled its pleasure at the sight of her vulnerable throat presented to them. He placed open mouthed kisses on her pale throat. Gently infusing some of his youki into her skin with the tips of his claws as he dragged one hand over the exposed part of her stomach where her shirt had come away from the waist band of her skirt.

“Well, isn't this cosy” came the bitingly sarcastic tones of some woman. This was enough to wake Kagome from her pleasure induced fog and she blinked a few time before pushing Sesshoumaru back off her. She glanced over his shoulder at the intruder and groaned.

Kagura.

“What do you want?” Kagome asked, more than a little irritated as Sesshoumaru growled softly at the overly hostile Wind Witch opposite them, his hand was still resting possessively on her hip.

“I came to find the bitch” Kagura said her eyes narrowing “she's still after my boyfriend”

“She wouldn't touch him with a ten foot barge pole” Kagome folded her arms stubbornly “she's moved on to better things”

“Yeah right” Kagura was distracted from her argument for a moment when Sesshoumaru growled menacingly at her. She looked over the muscle bound silver haired form of the dog demon and smirked licking her lips. “I don't believe we have had the pleasure of being introduced, I am—”

“Inconsequential” he completed her sentence

She blinked, taken aback by his cold demeanour. She inhaled subtly and realised he obviously hadn't been playing around with the girl, he had infused his youki with her, he must be serious. Mores the pity.

She turned her scarlet eyes back to Kagome “Direct me to your sister”

“She's at the shoot” Kagome growled and then smirked as Kagura turned to go hunt Kikyo down.

“Why do you smirk Miko?” Sesshoumaru enquired

“Because Kanna's down there too” Kagome's smirk grew to Cheshire cat proportions. Without seeming to realise what she was doing she grabbed Sesshoumaru's hand and guided him down to the shoot to watch the pyrotechnics that were surely about to begin.

“Bitch” Kagura's scathing arrogant tones echoed across the shoot making everyone stop dead. Kanna unnoticed by her younger sister merely watched, Sango rolled her eyes and Kikyo squared her shoulders.

“There are no Inu Yokai females here Kagura” Kikyo said softly “or are you as crass as to use such vulgar language as a state of address”

“Kikyo can get nasty, sometimes” Kagome confided in the Yokai next to her who raised an eyebrow

“Don't you pull that `holier than thou' attitude with me bitch, we all know you're just a cheap whore” Kagura snarled

“Any Yokai with a nose can tell that you are lying,” Kikyo's voice was still soft and even, even though she was currently pinning a viciously growling Hanyou behind her lest he rip Kagura's throat out.

“Whatever, just stay away from my boyfriend bitch” Kagura sneered

“I have been rejecting his phone calls but our line of work dictates that we must meet upon occasion” Kikyo had yet to raise her voice.

“Don't you understand me bitch?”Kagura growled “I said back off!”

“Are you really so insecure that you need to order me to stay away?” Kikyo was amused

“I can't believe y—” she started but was cut off.

“Kagura” Kanna's reprimand was eerily quiet and yet seemed to crack like a whip across the set.

“Onee-sama” Kagura was looking slightly panicked, her eyes darting around erratically

“You have made a disgrace of yourself” she intoned “leave now, or risk bringing more shame to our name”

“But Onee-sama—” Kagura began to protest

“I care little for your smarming Kagura, you would do well to remember that if you lose the esteem in which you are held by the public and your labels you will be dropped. I suggest you pray that this debacle doesn't reach the press” it was the most anyone had ever heard her speak. She nodded to Kagome and Kikyo and then glided from the shoot dragging a thoroughly mollified Kagura behind her.

“You've gotta love Kanna” Kagome sniggered “and Onee-chan you rock!”

Kikyo did a curtsey. “Sometimes in an argument remaining impassive and calm is suffice to win”

“Not to mention it riles up your prey even more” Sesshoumaru's eyes flashed crimson and they all swallowed reflexively as he continued “and then they make mistakes, fatal ones”

Kagome slapped him on the back of his head “Because that's not creepy at all!”

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