InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Red ❯ The Red ( One-Shot )

Sorry minna, I had to do this, the song was beating against my friggin skull! I'll repost chapter 18 in a while, after I figure out how to do something. On the meantime, here's an awesome one shot fic I thought of. Dark undertones here so, be warned!! `….' are thoughts, "…" are speech {….} is a mental fight between Inuyasha and his youkai half. Oh, and ~….~ are song lyrics!

Disclaimer: Awwww…..I don't own this awesome freakin song, or Inuyasha, but I'll pay Rumiko money if I can have one of my inu bitches!!! *insane laughter ensues*

Song: "The Red" - Chevelle

~ They say freak,

When you're singled out,

The red, well it filters through.~

"Miroku, dammit, this is the last fucking time I'm going to let you talk me into shit like this, hear me?!"

An angry yell came from a rather disgruntled hanyou as the party of five settled for the night. Miroku had pulled his usual fake scheme to get them into the best home in the village; the Head of the village's house to be more exact. Kagome winced slightly at the resounding thud that came from the next room and opened one eye to see an undisturbed Sango sleeping.

`How does Sango-chan do that? Just sleep and ignore everything that goes on?'

She sighed and turned on to her side, lately there had been something hurting within her chest, mostly every time she had looked over at Inuyasha. It wasn't exactly heartache, considering the fact that the hanyou had been moodier than hell lately after they had discovered the remains of the ashes and old bones of Kikyou.

`He feels so guilty…'

Inuyasha growled angrily as he turned against the wall before kicking the blasted thing and leaving out the window. He did not want to stay at this village, he had tried to make that abundantly clear but would they listen!? Fuck no. He landed on the outer wall and watched as a few of the late night partying nobles chatter among each other. One of them was an old man who still wore that damned ridiculous hat he had when Inuyasha had first set eyes on him.

`Bastard.'

{Why not let me kill him? After all, he was making eyes at our mate.}

`Get bent, it ain't happening. I've been good at keeping you away from Kagome, now fuck off!'

{Allow me to have my fun and perhaps I shall take a backseat to your usually tense situation.}

`What part of NO FUCKING WAY don't you understand?!'

{The part where I listen to what you say.}

A hush fell over the crowd, catching Inuyasha's attention and causing him to curse darkly under his breath. Kagome had come out, probably looking for a place to use the latrine or something of the sort. Why she couldn't hold it was beyond his understanding. He did see why everyone had grown silent. She had softly walked out, barefoot of course, in the nagajuban* that was about three sizes too big for her small frame. All in all, the nobles probably thought she was some sort of heavenly sent being to chase away the evil that had descended upon them.

`Damn her, stupid bitch can't stay in one place can she?!'

He wasn't about to let a bunch of ningen fools lay a single filthy hand on his Kagome, they'd try and taint her with their usual bullshit chatter. In a swirl of crimson and much false shrieking from the women, Inuyasha landed directly beside the young woman he had traveled with for the past three and a half years. His eyes were blocked yet filled with a dark kind of fire as he stared down the old headman.

"Kagome, c'mon, I'll show you where you need to go."

She had nearly screamed herself when something had hit the floor with a thud beside her. Her senses had immediately picked up Inuyasha's aura, that had calmed her down. Kagome noticed the narrowed eyes as Inuyasha spoke to the headman, she wanted to apologize for him but caught sight of something within all of the people present.

`What is going on here? Do they know him or something?'

"Inuyasha?"

His hand fastened over her wrist tightly as he began to pull her away from the watchful eyes of the nobles, much to her confusion. As they had just about turned the corner, the headman turned to another by his side and said quite loudly.

"Such a sad thing, a beautiful young woman caught in the grips and bound to such a despicable bastard. It's a small wonder why the dear looks so lost, the disgrace probably wishes to drag her off and corrupt her soul again."

Another woman laughed at the remark and made one as well.

"Only a whore could ever produce such a freak, I mean, who in their right mind would consent to lay with a youkai?"

Kagome broke Inuyasha's grip, being as he had stiffened up with his back to her and stormed towards the laughing nobles, fury flashed in every part of her soul and showed in the way her eyes suddenly were lit from an inner fire.

`Why those heartless…'

"Shame on all of you! How dare you assume that he corrupts me?! Inuyasha has more of a heart than any of you could ever know. His mother fell in lov…"

A hand gripping her shoulder and propelling her back towards the hall cut her off in her tirade. Judging by the crimson sleeves flowing as they walked, it was the very man she had been defending.

"Inuyasha, matte yo! I wasn't done yet!"

"It doesn't fucking matter Kagome, just leave the bastards alone, they wouldn't know corruption if it fucking bashed their skulls in."

He snarled darkly to the young woman he pushed back towards her room, a good thing he was behind her, other wise she might have panicked, judging by the crimson that was beginning to leak into his usually amber eyes. The nobles had gone silent, surprised by not only the young woman's burst of temper but, the promise of threat that had been laced under the hanyou's words.

~So lay down, the threat is real,

When his sight goes red again.

Seeing red again,

Seeing red again.~

Kagome dug her heels into the floor as she began to use what remained of her anger to scold her hanyou companion.

`He's going to get an ear full.'

"What are you doing Inuyasha?! You can't just let them say things like that about you and your mother! Why didn't you let me chew them out?!"

Her actions had consequences that could have been deemed rather fatal, had the youkai within Inuyasha not been contained by the ever battling will of the hanyou's. Her soft clothed bottom bumped against his front and grinded slightly as he nearly tripped himself from her sudden attempt to stop. A low growl, one that caught in Inuyasha's throat and remained unheard by Kagome, rumbled in his chest and throat as a sharp wave of arousal coursed through his body.

`Fuck, dammit Kagome!'

"The fuck're you talking about? Just, go back to your room and go to sleep. If you need something, wake up the bouzu or Sango and make them take you."

Kagome forced her body to turn so that she could glare at Inuyasha for a better effect, she was more than a little annoyed with the way her long time love interest had been acting as of late, now he had basically just turned his back without so much as a curse to the people who insulted his mother and him.

`Maybe our personalities switched somehow.'

"Don't dodge the topic Inuyasha! I asked you a question, now answer me!"

To put an emphasis on her words, she grabbed one of the long streamers of hair that hung over his shoulder and pulled down sharply on it so that he'd have to face her directly. As for the hanyou, amber eyes widened a fractional amount as he swallowed hard, for a long time now he had been suppressing the not so pure thoughts that the youkai had been sending to him whenever his guard was down, not to mention the panic he always felt when the problem came up. It had been harder and harder to get away when he needed to take care of something. Not to mention the shame that came from the fact that he was forced to pleasure himself, due to the fact that he still had this stubborn notion that Kagome didn't like him.

`Sh-shit!'

{So she likes it rough does she? I can deal with that very well.}

`S-Shut up!!'

"Dammit wench, let go!"

"Not until you answer my question!"

"It's none of your damn business, that's why!"

"You are being impossible again!"

"Feh! If you don't like it, go back to your room and stay there!"

"Fine! Excuse me for trying to stick up for you because I care about what people say and think of you!"

That silenced the argument as Kagome stormed back to her room, fighting back angry tears as she entered the large space, not noticing that Sango was gone and going over to her futon, pulling back the sheets, and covering herself with them as she took out her frustrations on the pillow.

`Stupid Inuyasha.'

~This change, he won't contain,

Slip away, to clear your mind.

When asked, who made it show,

The truth, he gives in to most.~

Four hours later……

Inuyasha's eyes snapped open as the putrid scent of that ningen reached his nose. A low dangerous growl escaped from his throat as the blood leaked into his eyes, overwhelming the normal white as he shot from the room. He knew immediately where to go if the scent was that close and potent.

`I swear by anything that ningen hold sacred, if he's going to do what I think he is, there will be no escape.'

{We both know who his eye was on and, we know of his plans. I say kill the fucker before it's too late.}

Inuyasha growled again as he peered silently through a crack in the sliding door to Kagome's room. For an instant, he wondered where the hell the taiji-ya was before the scent reached him from Miroku's room.

`Feh, should've fucking known.'

{…that is pathetic if a ningen pair can mate each other in my pack before I get my mate.}

`Shut up.'

What ever else he was going to shoot back at his youkai self was stopped as he noticed the black clad figure slowly making its way towards the sleeping form of Kagome. His eyes registered the smug and triumphant face of the old noble from before as he reached down and slowly began to pull off the covering on the young woman's body. A low whisper caught Inuyasha's attention.

"That disgrace doesn't deserve such a jewel. His mother was a gem herself, though flawed because she birthed a monstrosity and kept it. This time though, she is mine."

~So lay down, the threat is real,

When his sight goes red again.

So lay down, the threat is real,

When his sight goes red again.

So lay down, the threat is real,

When his sight goes red again.~

`That's the last fucking straw. I put up with that wimpy wolf, that fucker from her time, and any other bastard who dares to even look that way at her. But this is going too fucking far.'

{Yes, it's time for him to die. Release me and I will make an example out of this bastard who dared to touch what is mine}

`……kill him slowly and make sure he knows who and what he has made an enemy out of.'

A surge of youkai ripped the haori and top half of the inner kimono off of his body, leaving it hanging in tatters around his face. Sharp pains ripped through his mouth as his fangs grew, overlapping his bottom lip as a dark feral snarl as the blood began to heat, branding his skin like it was a living fire. Two jagged violet stripes suddenly emerged, not without a pain of their own, the stinging they left as they finished appearing only served to enrage him further. Claws flicked out, now at about twice their normal length, not to mention the razor edges and tips that were just itching to dig into the soft flabby flesh of the noble in front of him.

"You dareto attempt to touch what is mineworthless ningen wretch?"

The old man jumped, his fingertips had almost caressed the soft looking skin on the girl's throat when a voice that sounded like the messenger from hell grated out from behind him. His eyes widened as he took in the transformed state of the disgrace in front of him.

`This can't be the same bastard child that Izayoi had given birth to and returned to us with this woman, it can't be, he, he exudes such a murderous aura and, that look in his eyes, it's like he's looking for the best place to stick a blade, or his claws!'

"Y-you, leave now! Parasite!"

(A/N: Ummm, yeah, um, see here pal, let me spell it out for you: YOU ARE ROYALLY FUCKIN SCREWED!!!!)

"Parasite, youcall me a parasite when you are the one who dares to sneak, like a filthy flea bitten rat, into mymate's sleeping quarters and try and rob her of innocence?! Your death is at my hands now, there will be nothingthat anyone, ningen or youkai will be able to do to save your miserable hide. An example is to be made to all who had dared even glance her way in lust or admiration, you should feel honored."

~Seeing red again,

Seeing red again,

Seeing red again,

Seeing red again,

Seeing red again,

Seeing red again,

Seeing red again,

Seeing red....~

With a loud cry, the old man fell back, crashing into Kagome and startling the girl into alertness. She had reached under her pillow and took out the wakizashi* that Sango had left there. A demanding yell had caught in her throat even as the old man grabbed her by the shoulders and held her in front of him like a shield. The blade dropped from her fingers as she stared at the scarlet eyes glowing in the faint candlelight at her.

`Oh no…'

"I-Inuyasha, onegai, snap out of it."

The glint of metal caught everyone's attention as the noble crept down and picked it up, holding Kagome against his body as the blade was suddenly resting, lightly biting into the skin at the girl's throat. A glint of madness appeared in his eyes as he began to back away, knocking over the candle and lighting the thin rice door on fire.

"You had better just kill yourself now, hanyou, she's mine and I'll kill her before you will have her."

"Release my mate."

"Headman, stop it! You're not helping, I can get him out of it."

His eyes gleamed dangerously as the flames began to rise, giving both men a sinister look as the light from the flames reflected in their eyes.

"Such a disgrace is beyond the capability for an untarnished gem like you to tame my dear. They are better off destroyed and their souls damned in the pits of hell."

Inuyasha, or rather, youkai Inuyasha snarled again, his eyes flashing with bloodlust and deadly promises. His claws flexed slightly as his eyes traveled over Kagome's body, or so it seemed, in truth, he was searching for a weak point to exploit. He found it almost immediately after Kagome tried to stomp on the man's foot, much to his amusement and the older man's anger.

`Left hamstring is open each time he tries to regain a better hold on my mate. Keep struggling Kagome.'

The girl was growing frantic and pissed off, not really a good combination due to the fact that she had been spending a very lengthy amount of time in a hot tempered hanyou's company. Needless to say, Kagome had picked up one or two of Inuyasha's bad habits. Insulting was one of them.

`I am going to kill this guy.'

"Let me go you black hearted coward! Honestly, you can't fight with honor like a normal man?! Inuyasha has more honor than you do in one strand of his hair than you do in your soul!"

The headman made his final mistake when he slapped the girl across the face with one hand, the wakizashi held in the other meaty fist. His dark eyes flashed in rage as the impertinent wench had dared to try and tell him what do, on top of that, she was degrading him with her language to that unholy bastard in front of his eyes.

`Little bitch needs to be taught her place in life, she's as wild as he is.'

"Don't talk back to me you bitch. After he is disposed of, you will be learning how a proper woman should act."

The force of the slap had rocked the girl back on to her heels, her cheek stung as tears of pain sprang unbidden to her eyes and slowly began to fall down her face from anger. In slapping Kagome, the headman had knocked the girl away from himself, leaving him wide open for attack. Inuyasha knew an opportunity when he saw one and immediately took it into his own hands.

`Now.'

Razor like claws unsheathed to maximum length as he lunged forward, time seemed to slow for every person in the room, Kagome's eyes widening in shock and horror as she watched the claws from Inuyasha's right hand sink into the stomach of the headman and rip outwards in one agonizingly slow movement. Blood, bits of viscera and flesh hit the burning walls around them, sending up a sickly sweet smell into the air. The headman let out a piercing scream of agony as Inuyasha's other hand shot through his chest and grabbed hold of his heart, squeezing it slowly as his rapidly fading vision met with the murderous crimson of the youkai in front of him.

`How…how did this happen?'

"Y-you…"

Inuyasha's mouth twisted into a cruel smile as he brought the man, almost tenderly up to his face, giving the old man his last few moments of vision to truly see what had killed him before speaking softly into his ear.

"You never should have touched what was mine. Did you really think I would forgive such an insult to the woman who gave me life and to the second one who brought the light into my soul? Such a pity, I think you and Naraku would have made excellent partners, you both make me want to slaughter you."

With that, the transformed hanyou's hand clenched tightly, the heart within his hands bulging slightly before exploding and laying limply against his hand, a mass of limp tissue and veins against his palm as he extracted his hand, flicking his wrists out to remove the blood.

`Tch, died of a heart attack before he heard that last part.'

"Messy."

He growled angrily as he glowered at the body, he had used his hijinketsou* to remove the bastard's head. Looking around him, Inuyasha noticed three things off the bat; Kagome was laying unconscious against the ground, the flames were growing larger by the second, and the smoke was beginning to irritate his nose, all in that direct order. Walking against the hot floorboards didn't bother his feet one little bit, though he was worried about the way Kagome's clothing was beginning to smolder before he picked her up in his arms. Her head fell back, chin in the air as he burst through the burning window frame and into the night sky. She was flecked with bits of the bastard's blood, that would soon change, he thought smirking to himself. The taiji-ya and houshi were frantically getting their possessions out of the burning rooms, they would know he had Kagome, and if not, he'd have to teach them their places later.

`But for now, there will be some pleasant awakenings from this girl and myself.'

Inuyasha jumped through the trees, the rough bark caressing his calloused feet as he knocked a spray of needles on to the frightened people below, a smirk crossing his face as he leapt higher into the air, scanning for a place to secure for his mate and himself for the night.

`There, that clearing will do, for the moment.'

He gently set her down, inhaling the sweet scent of the woman below him, fresh rain and sakura clouded his senses as he stared down at her. She looked so much like a fragile doll that he almost regretted having such devious thoughts about her; almost.

`She needs to wake up now.'

"Kagome, wake up."

~They say freak...

When you're singled out.

The red, it filters through...~

(A/N: Lemon warning!))

A slight groan escaped her throat as she came to, her throat ached and was dried from the smoke inhalation. Was she blindfolded? She couldn't see anything.

`What's going on?'

"Inuyasha? Where are you?"

That wasn't good news, the hanyou noticed immediately how pale her eye color was at the moment, and how she was looking directly past him. The smoke had done some temporary damage, it must have, he thought to himself as he reached out and gently held her face in his rough hands.

"Right here. The smoke must have damaged your eyes for a little while, that's why you can't see."

Panic had begun to rise in Kagome as she listened to the explanation from a still transformed Inuyasha. It made sense but, oddly enough, she wanted to be able to see him, so she could get him back to normal.

`He needs to transform back, otherwise I'll lose the real him forever.'

"Inuyasha…"

Before she could speak again, the transformed man kissed her hard on the mouth, fangs lightly scraping over her lower lip, the sting of the sensation startled the girl into a gasp, leaving him with full access to her mouth. His tongue tasted ever square inch he could, running over the pitiful little teeth that were supposed to be her fangs before enticing her own pink muscle into a small battle for dominance. Her now pale bluish grey eyes widened in her shock as her hands came up against his chest to push away from him.

`What's going on here?!'

Timidly she returned the kiss, feeling a wave of heat sweep through her body and center near her core, throbbing rapidly as she fisted her hands into his haori. He smirked against her mouth and deftly began to slice away the nagajuban from her body, eyes dancing wickedly as they played over her body. Inuyasha knew she was ready by her scent and the shy yet desperate way she moved against his body. He would comply with her request, after all, what better way to soothe the flames that seemed to be blazing invisibly over his flesh than to transfer it to his mate?

`She's mine now, that fucking ookami can't touch her now.'

Kagome had shivered, she knew what was going to happen to her and frankly, she didn't care one little bit. OK that was a small white lie but, hey, what happened with him, happened. Her eyes widened as she felt his hands move experimentally to her chest, weighing each breast with his hands and slowly flicking his fingers against her nipples, slowly hardening them with the ministrations. Her own small hands, well, small compared to his own, moved up and played over the firm muscles on his back, moving down his spine slightly as she explored his body as he was doing to her own. Deciding that she needed to regain some of the air into her lungs, Inuyasha removed his mouth from hers, one hand lowering to the soft skin of her thighs before moving up, his fingers probed her walls, sending the girl arching into his hand, her eyes closing lightly even as his mouth sought her throat.

`Well, what do we have here? All ready and willing are we?'

Kagome whimpered slightly at the loss of his mouth as her body stiffened when his fingers began to slide in and out of her. A low moan escaped from her mouth as she felt her back arch into his grasp. Nothing had ever felt so wrong and right at the same time.

`What am I doing? I'm taking advantage of him but, somehow, I wanted it like this, where he'd want me, as I have him.'

"I-Inuyasha…"

Scarlet eyes narrowed slightly as his fangs nipped at the soft thin skin of her throat, feeling the welts form beneath his mouth as his tongue soothed them. With a growl he shed his own garments, leaning over the girl despite the raging voice inside his mind.

`THIS WASN'T PART OF THE FUCKING DEAL! GIVE MY BODY BACK YOU SORRY FUCK OR I SWEAR, I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!!!'

{Be silent. She desires me more than you have ever thought of. Our Kagome is not the innocent little flower we have thought her to be.}

`She's in fucking shock! Let me OUT!'

{Be silent hanyou, lest you wish me to retain control for the remainder of the time we spend with her.}

`………don't hurt her. I don't want to fucking lose her because you were too fucking rough.'

He smirked in victory as his mouth clamped down on the junction between her neck and shoulder, biting down lightly even as she whimpered from her release by his fingers. His eyes stared into the slowly darkening ones of the woman he was about to make his mate.

"Kagome, turn on to your back. Then we can complete what we have started."

In the end, he had had to help her, positioning her on her knees before his arms wrapped around her waist and shoulders, his voice spoke into her ear, making her shiver as his hot breath blew across her cheeks and neck.

"This will hurt at first, give it time to stop and we'll continue."

With one quick thrust, Inuyasha slammed himself into her tight warmth, meeting a slight resistance before burying himself to the hilt into her. She had cried out slightly, biting her lip to keep the cry of pain inside, tears had gathered at the corner of her eyes and slowly slid down as she felt the heat between her legs throbbing, at first with pain, then with pleasure. When the pain began to subside, Kagome hesitantly began to move, causing the youkai behind her to tighten his grip, growling into her ear as his fangs found her neck again.

`Itai…what's this feeling?'

"I'm alright…I think…"

"Good."

He moved until he was just barely out of her before slamming back in, the girl's back arching as her mouth opened in a silent `o' of surprise and pleasure. Inuyasha repeated the motions several times, sensing the approaching end to both of their releases and snarled into the air. Kagome had dropped down on to her elbows, forcing the youkai to grow more excited as their coupling had proceeded. She could feel the blood leaving her body and rushing towards the place she and Inuyasha were connected.

`Inuyasha…'

She thought she would die from the sensual pain that she was in before she felt it, a loud scream escaping from her lips as she climaxed, head thrown back even as she felt the fangs from Inuyasha sink into the flesh between her neck and shoulder. Moments later she heard an answering roar as he reached his own release. Exhausted and feeling complete for the first time in a very long time, Kagome felt herself sinking towards the cold unyielding ground below her.

`So tired, and the ground looks so cold…'

"Inuyasha…"

Before she could touch the cold dew and sweat covered grass below her, those ever powerful arms pulled her back up, turning her into his arms and holding her tightly against a very sweaty chest. She looked up and realized that she could see again. Her uneasy thought had been that Inuyasha would never be able to return to himself again, she saw now that that was an irritating lie she had freaked out over. Two sated amber eyes looked at her, a faint smirk was on his face as he leaned back, pushing the remains of his clothing behind him and laying back, holding her securely against his body before grabbing her sliced nagajuban and laying it over them like a makeshift blanket.

`She's mine now. She can't deny it either.'

"Go to sleep Kagome, you've been through a lot tonight."

She gave him a rather sleepy and satisfied smile herself before laying back against him, her arms around his chest as she closed her eyes. Her words were soft as she began to trail off into a well deserved sleep.

`He came back, all on his own…'

"…you're not a freak. You're my…my mate…"

A faint smile came over his face as he listened to her breathing slow down and her heartbeat begin to do the same. She would sleep like a fucking rock, thanks to him. He'd do her again in the morning, he thought with a wicked smile over his face. Yes, in the morning, not to mention any other time and place he could get her alone. She though she was safe from him, well, she'd have to reconsider her idea of safe. As his eyes closed, he found a rather smug youkai waiting in the corner of his mind.

`…I should try and become human when this is all over, this thing with Naraku and the Shikon no Tama. It would serve you right.'

{And yet, you aren't.}

`…no, I'm not. She likes me too much as I am. … … …thanks for giving my body back at the last moment.'

{She wanted your eyes to be the first ones she saw when the damage was finished being healed. You were good, for the most part, while I attended to my business. I will have her though.}

`Maybe after a while. For now though, she's mine."

A chuckle echoed in his mind and into the clearing as both hanyou and youkai both fell into a state of dormancy, both completely satisfied by their actions and by the woman they held in their arms. Nearby, a hineko looked up, her rose hued eyes slightly looking disturbed as she noticed the forms of her companions beside her. The houshi and taiji-ya were also in each others arms, though slightly covered with soot from going into the burning building and retrieving various possessions. Her tails flipped over the slumbering kitsune boy's ears when the twin yells of release had come. The boy was far too young to hear matters like that, and she felt too old to be dealing with mated hanyou and humans. A low grumble came from the chest of Kirara as she curled up and slept, knowing that things would be slightly different, come morning, but otherwise, they would go on as normal.

Well, not too graphic but hell, it gets the job done. I hope you all like it. I'm in the process of picking at the real chapter 18 of Always Watching. The contest has NO entries, what the hell?! Anyhoo, reviews are welcomed!! Ciao minna, -Hanyou

*Wakizashi- Short bladed katana that Sango wears at her waist.

* Nagajuban- An old style night slip that women in Sengoku Jidai wore to sleep, usually too big for the person wearing it.

*Hijinketsou- "Claws of Blood/ Blades of Blood" Attack where he uses blood to form into sharp energy like blades, used first against Yura of the Hair.