InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Poison of Erised! ❯ Chapter Three - Something is Wrong! ( Chapter 3 )

The Poison of Erised!

by Vyncent

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The sun rose on a hazy morning, promising another hot and humid day. The breezes, still prevalent during the night, offered some relief from the prior day's heat, but it was not due to last long.

The sleeping group of adventures never noticed the red clad figure that quietly made his way back into camp. By the time they all stirred from their night's slumber, he was back in his spot from the previous night, high in a tree above the sleeping Kagome. Whatever his night's escapades might have been, were known only to him, and no one the wiser for the lack of knowledge. At least that was the way he believed it to be.

Kirara was the first to stir, followed soon by Sango, and Miroku. Shippou was up shortly thereafter. They all immediately went about the normal preparations of getting their day started, and breakfast for everyone. Inuyasha was soon up and about, like it was any other normal morning.

It took a short time before anyone noticed that Kagome was not stirring, as was her normal want in the morning. Shippou was the first to notice and tried to wake her up. When she failed to respond, he got worried and called the matter to the attention of the rest of the pack.

"Inuyasha! Something is the matter with Kagome," he said, "I can't get her to wake up."

"Feh!" growled Inuyasha, "Lazy bitch. She had enough rest yesterday. She needs to get up now."

With that he stomped over and tried to awaken the little Miko. He got no more response than Shippou had gotten. She was breathing, and didn't appear to be injured. Her skin seemed to be flushed, and warmer than normal, but otherwise, he could not sense anything unusual about her.

He nudged her again, trying to awaken her. "Oi, wench! Get your ass up," he groused, "we got jewel shards to find."

By now, Sango and Miroku were starting to show visible signs of concern for the onna. This was so not like Kagome. She was almost always the first one awake, and by now, she would have had the ramen ready for everyone, and her stuff packed and ready to go.

Inuyasha was starting to really get worried. Had he pushed Kagome too hard the day before? The weather was very hot, and she had succumbed to it yesterday. Could she still be ill from the heat? He had not meant to push her so hard as to make her ill.

Her bag was nearby, and a bottle of water was sitting on the top of the open pack. He grabbed it, and took the red kerchief from the front of her uniform, and wet it. This he used to carefully bathe her face, while Shippou found another cloth and bathed her wrists. Still, the unconscious onna failed to awaken.

"Come on Kagome," he pleaded, the concern finally showing in his tone. "This isn't funny anymore. Onegai, you have to wake up now."

Miroku stepped forward, and knelt beside the still unconscious girl. As she had taught him, he took her wrist and checked for her pulse, and then listened to her breathing. Except for feeling a little feverish, there didn't appear to be anything wrong with her. Her heart beat was steady, and strong. In fact, it seemed to be stronger than ever. Her breathing was quite steady, as well.

"I can't find anything wrong with her," Miroku said, calmly. "Except for the slight fever, she seems to be just sleeping. Perhaps she still suffers from the heat."

"She did collapse yesterday," spoke up Sango, some of her own anxiety leaking into her voice. "Last night, before we all turned in for the evening, she seemed like she was better. Could something have happened during the night? Perhaps she had relapsed from the heat from yesterday!"

"We have all been pushing rather hard of late," spoke up Miroku, "Maybe, Kagome was more strongly affected than the rest of us. Perhaps she just needs more rest."

"Feh! Pathetic, weak ningen," grumbled Inuyasha, once again hiding his concern behind his usual gruff exterior. "Well, we ain't staying around here waiting for her to decide she can move. I will carry her, so she won't slow us down."

"That is a good idea," spoke up Miroku, figuring it would be easier to deal with the obvious concern that the hanyou had for Kagome, if he just agreed with him, rather than point out what they all knew. "We are still over a three weeks away from Kaede's, and this way we will make better time, especially if Sango and I ride Kirara."

"Hai," spoke up Sango, catching onto what Miroku was doing, "Shippou can ride with us, as well."

"Let's get moving then," spoke up Inuyasha, as he gently picked up the sleeping Miko, shifting her to his back to make it easier to carry her quickly as they traveled. "We are wasting daylight people."

In short order, Miroku was carrying Kagome's backpack, and sitting astride Kirara, behind Sango, Shippou sitting on her shoulder, as they all broke camp and continued on their journey.

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At heart, Inuyasha was scared for Kagome. He didn't understand why she was still unconscious. They had been traveling all day, and the sun was going to be setting soon, and still she had not awoken. By himself, he would rather have continued forging ahead, as the less time it took them to get back to the village, the sooner they could get the old baa-ba to look at Kagome and tell them what was wrong with her.

Without putting her down, he stopped in a clearing up ahead, and waited for the others to catch up to him. He didn't have long to wait. It was not a matter of them being behind, so much as it was just a need for Kirara to land.

"Did you want to stop here to rest Inuyasha?" asked Sango.

"I think it best for us to continue on," he spoke, "It will be cooler during the night hours, than the day. Kagome still has not awakened. I think we need to get her to Kaede's as soon as we can."

"I quite agree, as far as Kagome is concerned. The sooner that we can get her to the village," spoke up Miroku, "the better. Maybe, Kaede can find out what is wrong with her."

"Kirara," spoke up Sango, "are you up to continuing through the night? After all, you are the one carrying the heaviest burden with all of us."

"I could use the stretch," spoke up Miroku, before the neko could respond to the question. He arched his back, and stretched his arms to emphasize his point. When one of his wayward hands, manage to find a delectable curve, he was immediately met with a face full of the ground, as a Taijiya's elbow found his exposed side with a considerable amount of force, and unseated him from Kirara's back.

"I suggest you stretch your hands in directions," Sango growled, "other than the one that I am in, hentai."

"But Sango," he looked up at her with 'puppy-dog' eyes, "it was an accident. I have been sitting so long that the muscles in my arm twitched and before I could stop it, my hand..."

"Save it for someone who believes it houshi," Sango heatedly stated. "If you are having that much trouble with your muscles, then I suggest you walk for a while. Kirara will appreciate the relief."

"Even I could have come up with a better move than that one, Miroku," spoke up Shippou, who was now sitting on Kirara's back.

"Enough you guys," growled Inuyasha, bringing them all back to the matter at hand. "If we are all agreed, then let's get moving."

With that, they continued their trek in the direction of the still distant village. None of them aware of the pair of golden orbs, gleaming in the fast approaching dark, watching and listening to everything they did and said.

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'Hmmm! Hmmm! Hmmm! Hmmm! If they only knew the real reason that she sleeps so,' chuckled the Taiyoukai to himself, a smirk gracing his ethereal features. He had been following them all day, careful to keep downwind of his brother's pack, so that none of them would pick up his scent. His aura, he masked to further ensure that they would not detect his presence.

As the group moved out, and continued their journey, the Taiyoukai followed as he had all day. His mind drifted back to the night's events, and with the images that floated easily to his mind, his body reacted with pleasure. It had been a night beyond his wildest imaginings, and one that he intended to repeat again, soon.

He had lost count of how many times he had made his claim upon his prize, or how many times she had reveled and submitted to his claim. Except for her initial hesitation, her obvious fear, the Potion had worked almost as the described in the various scrolls that he had found in the vast library of his ancestry. It was the fear that bothered him though. The Potion should have overwhelmed any feelings that didn't relate to her having a desire for him to take her.

Before he had returned her to her companions, he had taken the time to give her another drop of the elixir from the vial in his haori. Sure that it had taken full effect, he had chanted a simple spell to mask his own scent, now mixed with hers, and cover his mark on her neck so that his brother would not notice the changes in 'his' wench.

All of the scratches and bite marks had healed by the time he got her back to his brother's encampment, thanks in part to the Potion, and to his own healing saliva. He had carried her unconscious form, into the nearby pool. It had only taken moments to wash off the evidence of the night's activities, and a bit more to cool down her almost fevered skin to something like normal.

Finding her odd clothing had not been much of a problem, but it had taken a bit more than normal to get her back into them. He had managed to get her to awaken enough to put them back on with his help, paying particular attention to how they fit, and fastened. Where did such clothing come from? Where was her home? Why would anyone let their daughter wear such indecent clothing? This and more had gone through his mind as he helped her get her garments back on.

Nevertheless, once she was dressed, he had let her drift back into the peace of exhausted slumber, and then carried her back to his brother's camp. He vowed to himself that he would find out more about her. Where she was from? What was her home like? Who were her parents? Oh, so many questions and so many answers to be sought.

As he trailed his brother's pack, he continued to ponder the activities of the night. Oh, what a night it had been. Nothing would stop him from having the chance to experience many more such nights. He would see to that. The way she had responded to his least little touch, her moans, groans, and most especially her growls. Her cerulean blue eyes, and how they had bled red. Hai, bled as red as his own, mirroring the lustful craze that he knew she could see in his.

At one point during the night he had noticed late into their busy night, the small trails of blood on his own body. It had puzzled him when he first noticed them, until he caught a glimpse of her hands and realized that her fingers no longer sported ningen nails, but claws. The most elegant, and yet deadly set of claws that he had ever seen on a female.

Now that he had the time to think of the night's revelations, he realized that he had not truly grasped until now the changes that had taken place in her as they continued to enjoy the pleasure and delight of each other's touch. He realized that these changes had registered somewhere in the back of his mind, but he had just been too caught up in their heated passion to really appreciate them.

Was it part of the Potion? Some side effect that the old witch had not told him of or a bit of information he had overlooked in his initial research? Why had the changes disappeared before he got her back to his brother's encampment? Not that he was complaining about that. At least not completely. He didn't want his brother to notice the difference in 'his' wench until a moment of the Great Lord's choosing.

Despite the unexpectedness of the appearance and then disappearance of these changes, Sesshoumaru had to admit that he had found them more than just attractive. They had only made him want her all the more and in fact, he had found them to be as erotic as she herself had turned out to be. The little Miko, his brother's wench. A simple, ordinary ningen. No, not ordinary. She was anything but ordinary. She was a most exceptional and unique individual. Still, he had been quite taken aback at how much she had affected him. The last thing that Sesshoumaru had expected was to be drawn to a ningen, or any female for that matter.

As he had suspected, but not been willing to admit to himself, he not only found her desirable and attractive, but so much more. His own hunger had been fed by hers. Her scent, her blood, her claws, her eyes, her body...*groan*...his body was reacting strongly even now just at the thought of her, and the images his memory of last night conjured before his mind's eye.

Hai, he would definitely be seeing to many more such nights. 'Hmmm! Hmmm! Hmmm! Hmmm!' Perhaps he could see her change again. Yes, those wonderful and delightfully erotic changes. What caused them, he would worry about later.

For now, he would take a few days to continue patrolling his lands. He left at that point to go check up on Jaken and see to Rin's well being. He would be back in just a few days. Yes, return and enjoy her treasures once again, just as he had this night.

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The Inu-pack had continued to travel all night, finding the cooler air of the dark hours much kinder to their efforts than the heat of the day. Still, Kagome slept on, unaware of the world around her.

The only thing that kept everyone from totally freaking out about her condition, was the continued strong and steady beating of her heart, and her easy and steady breathing. Though the still slight fever was a concern, it was not high enough to be a serious one.

It was about an hour after sunrise, the next day that they decided they had to stop. The ningen were obviously tired, and Kirara was in need of a rest from being in her full form for so long, and carrying all but two of their pack, as well. Even Inuyasha was tired, and with another day promising to be just as hot and humid as the previous two, it seemed a wiser idea to find the cool shaded spot to rest and recover from their trek.

Not long after their decision, they came across just such a off shoot of the mountain fed stream of their last encampment that followed along their route back to the village. They stopped took refuge from the already increasing heat, under some old maples near its banks. Shippou immediately pulled out Kagome's sleeping bag, and lay it out for Inuyasha to lie the sleeping onna on. Just as they had done at each rest stop along the way, both him and Shippou bathed Kagome's face, neck, wrists, even her ankles and feet, in cool water to try to bring her persistent fever down. With the heat of the day, it would not be good to have it get any worse.

Sango and Miroku got a small fire going, and Shippou with Kirara's help, caught some fish from the nearby stream, which was added to the ever present Ramen that was kept in stock for a certain hanyou. Kirara took her fill of cool water after eating the fish that was kept aside for her, and curled up beside Kagome, in her smaller form and was soon as unaware of the world around her as was the little Miko. The others finished up eating, Sango and Shippou taking the time to clean up once they were finished, and also made themselves comfortable, prepared to use the time to catch up on some much needed rest of their own. Inuyasha sat, as was his usual want, in a branch of the tree nearest to Kagome, keeping his senses alert of any sign of trouble, as he, also, took some much needed rest.

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As the Youkai Lord left his brother's pack behind, he was surprised that his Youkai seemed to be irritated. It took him a bit before he fully understood why, and for a moment the revelation actually made the Youkai Lord stop in his tracks.

Not only had he desired the wench, and to find a way to get back at his brother, but it appeared that his Youkai more than desired her, as well. One of the things that he had not intended to do right away, was to mark her. It was something that he had hoped to do at another time. A time when he could truly flaunt his claim before his brother.

It was also completely unnatural, at least from his own perspective, for him to have so lost control of himself as he had done in his claiming of her. He could not remember another time, when his Youkai had defied him so strongly, not since he was a pup. He had never thought that he would desire anyone like he wanted this little Miko. The little Miko who traveled with his brother.

On some level, it didn't matter why he wanted her so. All that mattered was that he had, and he had claimed her as his own. So had his inner beast. His Youkai had desired her, lusted for her, wanted her just as much has his more rational self had. Now, he was leaving his mate in the care of another male, and his possessive and protective instincts were screaming at him that this was wrong.

It took almost every ounce of control that he had, but the Taiyoukai forced his feelings back under control, reminding himself that he would return to her again in just a few days. With that as a small, but still valid consolation, he continued on his journey back to Rin, and his duty to finish patrolling his lands.

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Dictionary

Baka - Idiot

Chikushou - Damn

Fujo - Witch

Hanyou - Half Demon

Houshi - Monk

Inu - Dog

Kitsune - Fox Demon

Miko - Shrine Maiden

Mononoke - Animal Spirit - Kirara would be considered an mononoke as she has no human form

Neko - Cat

Okaa-san - Mother

Onee - Older Sister

Onna - Woman

Sama - Lady or Lord - respectively

Shikon no Kakera - Shikon Shards

Shikon no Tama - Jewel of Four Souls

Shishi - Lion

Taijiya - Demon Exterminator

Taiyoukai - Demon Lord

Tenshi - Angel

Tenseiga - Sacred Life Fang

Tetsusaiga - Iron Pulverizing Fang

Youkai - Demon