InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Boyfriend ❯ Impotent ( Chapter 28 )

Disclaimer: InuYasha, Kagome and anyone else you saw in the manga or anime does not belong to me. Yukio does. If I saw so much as a shiny penny for this story, you think I'd be writing fanfiction still? Okay, I would… Damn other authors and their more interesting universes… Oh, and this chapter barely even belongs to me! Patches at AdInuyasha.com translated dialogue from the manga.

 

Genre: Angst, Romance
Rating: M
Codes: Inu/Kag
Feedback: Keeps my muse talking and the stories coming! Do tell. But if you have a flame, use it for something more productive, like setting your clothes on fire.

 

 

The Boyfriend
Chapter 28

 

Kagome opened her eyes. InuYasha was staring down at her, clearly worried. She tried to smile up at him, but she was just too weak. He lifted her to his chest and stood up. She tried to protest, to say that she could walk, but the very fact that she couldn't only proved her wrong. So she relaxed and enjoyed the sensation of being carried. It felt so good after… whatever had happened to her.

 

“What happened?” Kagome whispered.

 

“As soon as Magatsuhi looked at you, you lost consciousness,” Miroku answered, frowning. “Don't you remember?”

 

`That's right,' Kagome thought. `Back then, my strength was suddenly drained.' Kagome looked around Kaede's hut and saw Kohaku, lying prone on the other side. “Sango-chan… Kohaku-kun…”

 

“Yeah,” Sango said, looking over at Kagome. “He hasn't opened his eyes once.”

 

“Not as long as he's tainted by Magatsuhi,” Kagome said, pushing away from InuYasha as her strength returned. He set her on her feet and she knelt by Kohaku. “I'll purify it right away,” she told Sango, smiling at the grateful look in the taijiya's eyes.

 

“Why was Magatsuhi able to taint Kohaku's shard?” Miroku asked. Kagome only half-listened as Miroku and InuYasha discussed the point of light Kagome had managed to leave in the Shikon no Tama that Naraku bore inside him. A memory of Koga's pained face flashed through her mind, and the defeat settled in him with the loss of his shards. The only remaining shard was in front of her, darkened and tainted once again. Kagome had worked so hard to preserve the initial purification that Kikyo had left in it. It had worked so well that when Naraku came into contact with the shard, it had started to purify the entire jewel.

 

“I was only thinking of Naraku,” Kagome said, trying to focus on purifying, but distracted when Kaede had chimed in. “So I don't think the purity affects anyone but him.”

 

“Keh,” InuYasha scoffed, “Looks like we've got a problematic guy on our hands. He escaped before we could finish him off, but next time, he'll be prey for my sword.” Kagome felt a chill when she heard that Magatsuhi had escaped. Chill… Kagome frowned.

 

“How's it going, Kagome-chan?” Sango asked. Kagome pressed closed to the shard, placing her hands nearly on Kohaku's flesh. Nothing.

 

“I… can't purify it,” she whispered. Sango and InuYasha both said her name and she heard the tone in their voices. “Why? I've been able to up until now!” Kagome couldn't look at her friends. She knew they were counting on her and now she had disappointed them. Above all, she couldn't look at Sango.

 

“What's going to happen to Kohaku?” a young voice asked. Kagome turned to see Rin, sitting over Kohaku, concern etched into her features. Kagome noticed that she was getting older, almost Kohaku's age, whereas Kohaku had not aged a day since Naraku placed the shard in his back. Suddenly, Rin stood and ran from the hut and Kagome watched her go—anything not to have to face the others. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up. Sango was smiling sadly down at her.

 

“It's okay, Kagome, I know you tried,” Sango said. Kagome smiled up at her.

 

“Sango…”

 

“No! Take me with you!” a shout came from outside. Kagome looked up as InuYasha and Miroku exited the hut and realized that she'd already heard someone yell that once. Her strength had returned in full now, but she didn't follow them. She listened as InuYasha and Miroku spoke with Sesshomaru and Totosai outside and wondered what the sword maker was doing there.

 

“Is that Totosai?” Kagome asked. Sango nodded.

 

“He came right after Sesshomaru formed his own sword after Magatsuhi almost destroyed him,” Sango explained.

 

“I missed a lot,” Kagome complained, looking down at Kohaku again.

 

“Kagome…” Sango started, but was interrupted by a wail from outside.

 

“Seshomaru-saamaaa!” Jaken's voice carried in as though he were standing inside next to them.

 

“He even left Jaken?” Kagome mused out loud. She didn't have too long to wonder about these things, as everyone filed back into the hut shortly after. Jaken was still whimpering and sniffling, with Rin patting his little shoulder. Miroku and InuYasha explained what had happened in the fight after Kagome had fainted. Jaken had to throw in a few reverential comments throughout about Sesshomaru's performance throughout. After they had told the entire story, Kagome sat in the quiet for a space of moments, then stood and left them all behind.

 

After a few minutes, InuYasha walked up behind her, and then hopped up onto the fence she was leaning against. Kagome sighed quietly. “I'm sorry, InuYasha,” she said softly.

 

“You don't have anything to apologize for, Kagome,” he responded.

 

“I…” Kagome took a deep breath. “It hurts,” she breathed, knowing that he could still hear her, “that I can't do anything.”

 

“Don't worry about it. Besides…” InuYasha looked down at Kagome, but she didn't meet his gaze and he looked away. “The fact that he went to the trouble to seal your power, means that, to Naraku and Magatsuhi, you're a force to be feared.”

 

`I'm that powerful?' Kagome wondered to herself. She heard InuYasha hop off the fence, then felt as he moved up to stand behind her. Still, she refused to look at him, even as he reached out and pulled her back against his chest. “You've been without your powers before,” he reminded her. Kagome closed her eyes, then gasped when his hand moved up from her stomach to brush against her breast as he lifted it to clasp her chin and turn her to face him. She wondered if the contact had been accidental or not, but only for a moment, then his mouth had found hers.

 

Her body reacted immediately, tightening and shivering. She reached her arms around his neck and pulled him down to her, deepening the kiss. Her breath picked up and his hand trailed down her neck, leaving gooseflesh in its wake. Kagome trembled as his hand moved along her collarbone and lower. She tensed, waiting for his hand to drop that last few inches, but instead, he skipped over, letting the back of his hand barely brush her shirt front, removing all doubt that the touch earlier had been deliberate.

 

Kagome broke the kiss and stepped away, trying to regain her composure and catch her breath. It got harder to step away, every time that she did it. “It keeps getting harder,” InuYasha said and she blushed furiously and was about to spin around and tell him to keep that kind of information to himself, when he continued, “to let you go.” Her breath caught for a moment. They had been thinking the same thing. Kagome looked up at the sky and felt tears forming at the corners of her eyes. It wasn't fair! It had never been this hard before Yukio had… “Kagome…”

 

“I can't, InuYasha,” Kagome gasped. “It's just as hard for me, but I can't. Yukio took my powers with what he did. I was probably only able to get them back because I didn't choose him.”

 

“Right now,” InuYasha pointed out, looking away from her, “your powers are gone.”

 

“Sealed, InuYasha, not gone. If we don't stop, they might go and never return and then what would we do? I'm the only one with power over the jewel. Like that priestess said last month, Kikyo sealed my powers, except where the jewel is concerned. Now Magatsuhi has sealed even that. I can't jeopardize getting them back.”

 

“Kagome…” InuYasha began, but Kagome cut him off.

 

“I want you, InuYasha, almost more than I can stand. Please don't make this harder. Just—” Kagome's eyes grew large as he cut her off with a kiss. Then he turned and walked away. She stared at his retreating back and wanted to run to him. Instead, she turned around and fell to her knees, pressing her head into the wooden fence until she didn't feel like one big raging hormone anymore. “Maybe I should just go sit under a freezing waterfall again,” she whispered to no one.

 

 

To be continued…

 

A/N: Thank you to the wonderful scanlators out there who allow those of us without knowledge of kanji to enjoy our manga at the same rate as Japanese readers. I'm sorry to anyone who was annoyed that this was such a merge with the manga, but don't worry, non-Takahashi plot will return in the next chapter!