InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Path You Follow ❯ A Dream's Passion ( Chapter 6 )

The Path You Follow

By: EvilNekoEatsYourSoul

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Author's note: Here's the next chapter! By the way, ~*~Kagome~*~ means that the text is what Kagome sees in her unconscious state. I did not write that little song in this chapter, it's from episode 77 of the anime, I think. Also, there's a lemon in this chapter so all you fanfiction.net people can either go to mediaminer.org or my homepage to read it. Enjoy!

Last time: With that said, Koridomi turned to walk out of the village and once she was out of sight Inuyasha and Yukiko fell to the ground. The hanyou took off after her immediately although Sango and Miroku called for him to stop. It didn't matter because he could find no trace of her, she was gone and there was no scent trail.

Chapter 6: A Dream's Passion

~Kagome~

Sesshoumaru was holding her, and he placed a kiss on her forehead as they stood together. The gesture surprised Kagome who was not used to him showing her affection in front of her friends. No one else seemed to notice and Inuyasha seemed happy, watching the interaction. Something was definitely not right.

"Anou. . . What happened when she touched us, Yukiko-chan?"

"Nothing, Kagome. I told you, everything is fine," something about the smiling girl was not right. The entire situation seemed odd.

"But-," Sesshoumaru silenced her with a kiss, one of his clawed hands supporting the back of her head. Kagome was beginning to feel light-headed as she turned to look at her friends who just watched on cheerfully.

"Everything is fine," the taiyoukai said, "no one is hurt, you are safe and nothing will ever harm you, Inuyasha and I will make sure of that."

The brothers shared a glance that was void of the loathing they usually held for one another. Kagome let herself relax within Sesshoumaru's arms and by some unsaid agreement they began to walk towards Kaede's village. But Kagome stopped and glanced back towards the bone eater's well. `I wish my family was here,' she thought sadly.

"Niichan!"

Turning back towards Kaede's village, Kagome found she was standing in front of her family.

"Mama, Souta, Jiichan!" she hugged each of them in turn and then brought them over to her group of friends. They all continued their contented smiling as she introduced them. The young miko blushed when she introduced her family to Sesshoumaru. The taiyoukai just grinned and pulled her into another embrace and she hid her flushed face by resting her head against his chest. His platinum hair fell around her in a curtain and she absently played with a few of the strands. She heard her mother talking.

"It's so wonderful to finally meet all of Kagome's friends."

`Jiichan isn't even trying to banish the `evil demons,'' Kagome thought with a smile. This is great. She closed her eyes and listened to the voices around her.

"Sugoi! Inu no niichan. . ." Souta was babbling some flattering nonsense to Inuyasha.

"Aishiteru, Sango. . ." Miroku and Sango were standing together looking happier then ever.

"I love her more then anything. . ." Sesshoumaru was telling her mother.

"I wish Shippou and Rin were here, too," she whispered.

"Kagome!" two voices called out. There were hands tugging on her kimono and she looked down to see Rin and Shippou grinning up at her. Confusion clouded her mind for a second, `How did they get all the way here?'

But in a second the thought was gone and it didn't matter because she was happy. Everyone she loved was here and they were all getting along. `Life is perfect,' she thought, looking up into her lover's golden eyes and smiling, but her smile faltered for a second. `I'm missing something.' She thought. But what could it be? Everything in that moment was perfect, wasn't it?

"What kind of youkai are you exactly?" Jiichan was asking Sesshoumaru.

"An inu-youkai."

`That's right he's an inu-youkai. It was only yesterday that I had been upset about it.' Her hands went up to his cheeks, where his markings should be. `I told him that his markings were a constant reminder of my own mortality.' The voices were fading now. In her head there was a slight throbbing. Turning her head upwards, she looked at Sesshoumaru's face, where her fingers were moving across his cheeks. Nothing was there but smooth, pale skin. He had no markings; he looked almost human without his markings. She pushed him away and he looked hurt.

"You're not Sesshoumaru," Kagome looked around, slowly, her surroundings were vanishing, the people disappearing.

"None of this is real," she whispered. That was all it took and the world around her dissolved.

~*~

The middle-aged woman looked down at the girl being held by the kneeling youkai. It was indeed a strange thing to see, a powerful humanoid youkai looking so desperate at the plight of some human. `He must love her,' she thought. The way his harsh eyes were tenderly resting upon the unconscious girl's form was indication enough.

"She has been cursed by a kuroi miko, can you help her?"

The voice betrayed nothing and the miko knelt next to the couple. Her hand traced the dark design marring Kagome's cheek. The younger miko's skin was cold to the touch and the woman shivered. She shook her head; this was far beyond her.

"There is nothing I can do for this young woman," his eyes were menacing when put upon her and she fidgeted nervously, "this curse is very powerful and I am but a simple miko. My spiritual powers could do nothing against a curse such as this. But she herself is a powerful miko, correct?"

Sesshoumaru nodded his head grimly as he continued to glare at the woman.

"Perhaps she can break the curse herself. But I have never seen this curse symbol before and so I don't know if it is even possible to break this curse."

Without another word Sesshoumaru was out of sight, running frantically with no real destination. The miko looked towards the direction he had gone.

`It would be nice,' she thought, `if everyone could have someone who loved them as much as he loves her.'

Turning back towards her village, she continued her journey towards home.

~*~

Panic ran rampant through her body as she sat up. Like a startled animal, her head flew back and forth taking in her surroundings with wide eyes. A hand touched her shoulder and she looked down at Sesshoumaru who was lying beside her. Her head began to spin and she closed her eyes.

"Another dream?" he questioned.

Kagome nodded and settled in beside him intent on sleeping. But the taiyoukai wouldn't allow it, whispering delicious things into her ear and nipping it lightly. She smiled as his hands went into her yukata and his fingers played lightly over the skin of her abdomen.

"Don't worry, Kagome. I'll make you forget all about those dreams," he purred into her ear. She shivered delightfully as his lips began to tickle her neck.

She sat up to straddle his waist and kissed him deeply, their tongues eager to explore the terrain of the other's mouth. His claws ran down her shoulders and side, easily tearing the fabric into thin strips that fell away from her.

Pulling away from the kiss, she fingered his cheeks, tracing his youkai markings and smiling. Grabbing her hands with his claws, he put them to the ties of his sleeping yukata. Silently instructing her to undo them. She just grinned and shook her head in playful defiance before leaning in and tracing the shell of his ear with her tongue. He was massaging her hips, his claws gently raking over her lower back; his hands seemed to be everywhere all at once.

Moaning into his ear she let her entire weight rest on him, her breasts pushed firmly into his chest so he could feel the hard tips of her nipples through his yukata. He pushed her back up to a sitting position and once again put her hands to the knot holding his yukata together, she let her hands rest limply there.

Growling low in his throat he applied gentle pressure to her wrists and shook them. Obviously irked at her defiance. She smiled coyly but did nothing except put her lips against the glimpse of bare chest that showed at the top of his yukata. Placing small kisses there and licking at the skin. Her heat was placed over the bulge of his arousal and she rubbed against it, hissing a bit at the friction.

Placing his hands over her breasts, with her nipples pressing into his palms like small pebbles, he once again pushed her up and once she was sitting on her own he put her hands for the third time to the ties of his robe. Looking at him coyly through long eyelashes, she moved her hand to her own heat and began massaging the sensitive pearl of her clitoris. Her other hand went up to tangle in her own hair before it slowly went down traveling past her neck to rest on her left breast. She was making small sounds of delight as she pleasured herself and Sesshoumaru grabbed the wrist of the hand that was buried in her curls.

Within seconds he ripped his robe open, put her on her back and entered her in one deep thrust. A growl escaped him as her walls contracted around his member, his entrance into her warm, moist sheath had been enough to send her over the edge. Gritting his teeth, he fought his urge to start thrusting in and out of her. His erection stay still, deep within her until her breathing became more regular and the throes of her orgasm passed.

When she had fully recovered, he pulled out slowly before pushing his hips forward quickly in a rough thrust. He did it over and over again, making her whimper and writhe beneath him. Her hands yanked gently at his hair that hung over his shoulders and caressed her bare flesh. His pace became frantic as he neared his release, his erection slid in and out of her tight, wet passage with a speed that made her feel as if the world were shifting around them. Warmth filled her as his seed was released and she arched her back as another orgasm hit her. She bit into his shoulder as he collapsed on top of her, his lips moving against her cheek and his hands resting beneath her shoulders.

His eyes were closed and she began to giggle, well as much as she could, considering the fact that her heavier youkai lover was lying on her.

"What's so funny?"

She used her fingers to brush through his tangled mane.

"Did I tire you out already, Sesshou?"

A smile graced her lips as she felt him harden against her thigh. He lifted himself up, his weight resting on his forearms as he hovered over her.

"You, my little vixen, could never drive the great lord of the Western lands to exhaustion."

Having expected that answer to begin with, she grinned.

~*~

It was dark and little air filtered into the room. There was only one small window far above the heads of the room's two occupants. They sat in a corner, clinging onto each other. One of them sniffled.

"Shippou, where are we?"

The kitsune shrugged, but in the darkness it went unseen. But she could feel it as she huddled close to the small youkai. The fact that someone had kidnapped her was not frightening. That had happened before. Things like that did not bother Rin because in her heart she knew that her Sesshoumaru-sama would come for her and so would Kagome. In fact, both children were absolutely sure that someone would come to their rescue.

They were in the dark, literally, and that was what brought fear. To be without protection in a place with no light was like torture to them. They thrived on light and fresh air; they were children who had spent their lives living out in the open and to lock them up in the darkness was to starve their inner light. More than anything they were aware of the things that could lurk unnoticed in the dark, each of them had seen terrifying things in the days when Naraku had plagued the earth.

Their wrists were still bound by the kitsune magic and Kagome's hair but it brought little comfort. They had nothing to use for light and the air in the room was heavy with silence.

The combination of silence and darkness was too much for them and they both spoke at once.

"When do you think they'll come?" they asked in unison. The mood was lightened a little.

"Probably in a few days," Shippou mused, searching in his pockets for anything to help pass the time. "HE has had us for about a day now, but he also left a scent trail for Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru-sama to follow."

"I'm hungry," Rin complained, seemingly uninterested in the direction Shippou was going.

"Do you think they will bring us food?" she asked.

Before the kitsune could answer she began singing a song that she had made up one day while waiting for Sesshoumaru.

"Yama no naka (In the mountain)
Mori no naka (in the forest)
Kaze no naka (in the wind
Yume no naka (in a dream)

Sesshoumaru-sama doko ni iru? (where are you Sesshoumaru-sama?)
Jaken-sama o shita naiete. . . (with an ally like Jaken-sama. . .)

Watashi wa hitori de matchimashou! (I will wait alone until you come!)
Sesshoumaru-sama, omodoriou!" (Sesshoumaru-sama, please return)

(A/N: This song is from episode 77 of the Inuyasha anime. It's so kawaii I couldn't help but put it in when it popped into my head)

When she finished quiet once again fell upon the two children, but it was not silence born of fear now. It was a peaceful silence and their hearts felt a bit lighter.

"You have a pretty voice," Shippou whispered, as if he were afraid someone might hear him. The darkness hid Rin's smile and blush and they both remained silent for the rest of the night. When the sun rose and a few of its rays made their way through the cell's tiny window, Rin resumed her chattering as if a spell had been lifted.

~*~

Sesshoumaru tightened his grip on Kagome when he felt her stir. His footsteps stopped and he looked down at her. Her cheeks were flushed, but her body was still icy in his arms. He kneeled and rested his forehead against hers, inhaling her scent. Gasping at the smell of her, `That smell. . . Could she, is she really. . . aroused?' he thought to himself.

Kagome moaned, her hands fisted in his hakama and he took it as a good sign that she could move now. `Perhaps she will be okay.' Not knowing what else to do at the moment, he sat, leaning against a tree and watching her. He shook her a little but she did not wake, he spoke to her and her eyes remained shut. She was still in a deep state of unconsciousness.

The scent of her arousal was beginning to affect him and he shifted uncomfortably with her in his lap, which served to do nothing more than further his need. One of his claws traced the curve of her cheek as he felt his heart rate increase. It's beating was so rapid that he wouldn't be surprised if it woke her. He didn't even notice the new scent heading their way, not until the youkai spoke.

"Oi, you bastard, what are you doing with my woman?"

Gently, Sesshoumaru placed Kagome to the forest floor. When he stood to face the intruder, his eyes were red.

~Kagome~

She felt light-headed; it was as if she were a mouse trapped within a maze. Not knowing what to do or where to go. A wave of dizziness hit her and she slumped against Sesshoumaru. Her back was against the wall and she was dimly aware of their bodies firmly pressed together, beads of perspiration covering them.

Sesshoumaru's fangs scraped against her shoulder and the haze of her mind cleared. They had been at it for a long time now and no end was in sight yet. `Shouldn't I be tired, or sore or both?' she thought to herself. Instead her need for him seemed to do nothing but increase. Hours must have passed and yet when she looked at the window there was nothing, it was still dark. `That's impossible. We have been here for a while the sun should have risen by now.'

A pleasurable shiver passed through her and Sesshoumaru moaned her name. Placing her onto the bed, he was once again hovering over her. But before he could do anything she put a hand to his shoulder to stop him.

"Anou. . . Sesshoumaru, doesn't it seem like it should be morning already?"

"It is," he whispered, nibbling on her earlobe.

And it was. The sun was shining brightly outside the window she had just looked out of. It was well past sunrise, about midmorning right now. `And no one has come to wake us up?' She knew the impossibility of it, there were countless mornings when there fun had been interrupted by Rin and Shippou barging in or banging on the door asking for entrance. A hundred mornings where Jaken had humbly disrupted there time together, not to mention more then a few mornings that they awoke to Sango's screaming and Miroku's begging for mercy or Inuyasha chasing a squealing Shippou around in order exact vengeance for some prank. It was too good to be true, she knew it; and yet, the way he was holding her right now, pressed fully against him, his firm, well-muscled thigh between the soft flesh of her legs. . . His playfully erotic kisses. . . she was in heaven.

`Nothing to worry about,' she thought, `no kids, no arguing friends, no curs. . .'

Then it hit her. She had been about to think `no curses,' but that's what this was, right? She trembled as Sesshoumaru's lips trailed down her abdomen with small nips and kisses. `Is it a dream? But Kami if it is, I don't want it to end. . .'

Her eyes again met with the bright sunlight. She sighed.

"This isn't real," she whispered.

"Hmm?" The dream Sesshoumaru sent her a questioning look.

"The real Sesshoumaru would never stay in bed all morning. He'd never neglect his responsibilities like that, and definitely no one would let us stay in bed till this late. Someone would have woken us by now."

Just as the first one did, this illusion faded and Kagome was once again thrown into darkness.

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Reviewer responses:

Aira^o^: The story is getting more intense. . . more serious, ne? But it's not as depressing as `bliss' was lol and I don't think I can achieve that kind of angst for this story either. But that doesn't mean it's going to be all sunshine and rainbows either. I was a bit disappointed at first, I did seem to have a lot more readers for `bliss' but this story is a lot different from `bliss' so I guess it doesn't appeal to all the readers I had from then. Thanks for caring about me not getting that many reviews! So kind of you! But I'm happy that I do have my few devoted readers who review and so I'm content with that. You guys are the one's that keep me going!

Sesshyangel: Kagome will die if the spell cannot be reversed or if she does not see through the illusions. At least that's the way I'm making it for now. As for Rin and Shippou's predicament, I won't give away the `why' at the moment. I think it is easier to be brave when someone you care about is in danger. In the anime Shippou is a child and therefore it is understandable that he was a coward, besides the fact that everyone else in the group was strong and brave enough to compensate for his weaknesses. But with Rin it is different because she is a human child and therefore I'd say Shippou is the stronger of the two and so he felt that since their guardians were not there it was his duty to try and save her. Didn't Inuyasha always become most determined and powerful when Kagome was in danger? So seeing this, Shippou just picked up on that from his hanyou friend I guess.

tessa3: lol don't worry about being lost, everything will be understood. . . eventually. Hehe, good luck with trying to figure out the dark miko riddle, there won't be any more hints to her identity, at least I don't plan any. In any case if you don't figure it out then you'll still find out. . . eventually. ^_^