InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Under Shooting Stars ❯ Under Shooting Stars - Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Under Shooting Stars

 

By: blackwidow10

 

 

Chapter 4

 

Kagome struggled harder as clawed hands gripped her upper arms, trying to hold her still. She fought with all her might against the strength of the demon, wondering silently why it didn't just kill her already.

 

“Damn it, wench!” The creature exclaimed, in a very familiar voice. “Calm down, it's me!”

 

Kagome's struggles slowly stopped, and she looked up into amber eyes. “InuYasha?”

 

“Who else would it be?” the dog hanyou said, staring down at the girl in his arms with barely disguised concern. His grip on her arms loosened, but he didn't let go of her. He seemed to be sniffing her and checking her over.

 

“What are you doing?” Kagome asked quietly, still slightly breathless from the struggle.

 

“Making sure you're alright. I could smell your blood…” He looked at the cut on her hand. “But apparently you were just being clumsy again.” He took her injured hand in his, watching as a drop of her blood slid across the knuckles of her hand.

 

Kagome's heart beat faster as InuYasha traced the line of red back to it's source, the liquid catching on his finger. “I…I was looking for you,” she said, her voice slightly stronger with indignation. She gasped as InuYasha brought his finger to his mouth, and a pink tongue darted out to lick her blood off it. The move was so intimate that Kagome was having trouble catching her breath.

 

InuYasha looked up into her eyes, and Kagome could see the emotions swirling in them again, and there was that underlying bit of hurt that made her heart break with its fierceness. “And you ran off into the forest by yourself? Baka.” Kagome started to say something, but stopped as InuYasha took out a piece of cloth and started wrapping it around her cut hand. “Why were you looking for me anyway?”

 

Kagome watched as InuYasha gently tied off the cloth of the makeshift bandage. “To talk to you…about last night.”

 

InuYasha's eyes flashed and his grip on her hand tightened slightly. And even though her wound was taken care of, he had yet to let go of her hand…

 

“What about it?”

 

“You haven't said a word to me since you said…” Kagome trailed off, afraid that she had misheard, afraid that he didn't mean it…that he had lied to her…

 

InuYasha inhaled deeply. He always had trouble saying things like that, but last night, under the stars with Kagome… it had seemed so easy, so natural…so right. And she hadn't pushed him away, or scoffed at him, or anything equally as hurtful. She had accepted it, enjoyed it even, like she had been waiting for it to happen. And he had loved her for so long…

 

But then there was Kikyo. He was supposed to protect her, avenge her death and then… and then go to hell with her. But he didn't love Kikyo. It was Kagome who held his heart now. Kagome, who had made him dream again, made him hope, made him fight all that much harder, all for her sake.

 

Was Kikyo worth it anymore, now that Kagome was here… now that Kagome loved him?

 

“Since I said… I love you.” InuYasha whispered, surprising himself slightly by repeating her words from the night before.

 

Kagome's eyes widened. It was the second time in 24 hours that he had said those words to her, and she could no longer doubt their meaningfulness. She could only stare into InuYasha's golden eyes, speechless with wonder at how much he had changed since they first met, how close they had become, and how much he meant to her.

 

“InuYasha…” Her voice was little more than a whisper, but the dog demon heard it just fine. He didn't miss that raw emotion in her voice, that quiet swirl of feeling that surrounded her and drew him to her. He closed his eyes and let her scent wash over him, sending his heart speeding as the warmth of her body met his. His arms went around her waist, just as hers came up around his neck, and there, in the middle of the darkening forest, their lips met softly. His mouth pressed more firmly against hers when Kagome tangled her fingers in his hair, the small digits reaching up to play with his ears. This drew a groan from InuYasha, and he came back to his senses enough to reluctantly pull away from the kiss. Kagome let out a small whimper of disappointment which almost broke InuYasha's resolve to bits, but he contented himself (and her) by running his hands lightly up her back.

 

Suddenly he growled.

 

Kagome found her voice (which seemed to have ran off to some deserted tropical locale while Kagome was having one of the best kisses of her young life) long enough to ask, “What is it, InuYasha?”

 

InuYasha looked straight into her eyes in a way that made her shiver with excitement. The look was possessive, passionate, and predatory all at once, and it sent thrills down Kagome's spine.

 

“If that mangy wolf ever touches you again, I'll kill him.” InuYasha's voice was grave and serious, and he still had that look in his eyes as he kissed her again, more forcefully than he had before. Kagome leaned into him, and for a few moments the two knew of nothing besides each other.

 

~O~O~O~

 

The world flew past in a whirlwind of color, as it always did when Kagome viewed it from InuYasha's back as they traveled fast through the forest. Kagome sighed and pressed her face into InuYasha's neck, kissing the skin there ever so softly. She grinned when InuYasha growled in warning, before reaching a hand up to play with his cute, fuzzy dog ears.

 

“Stop that,” he said quietly.

 

Kagome, of course, didn't listen. “Why?” she asked innocently.

 

InuYasha's sigh of contentment betrayed him. “It's…distracting.”

 

“Okay.” Kagome gave the ears a few more strokes before moving her arms back around InuYasha's neck and getting as close as possible to him.

 

For the moment, both of them were smiling.