Disclaimer: The series Inuyasha does not belong to me.
Rated for: Adult situations.
Notes: Response to a challenge issued by Ayrith (whose stories are great, so you ought to go read them and afterward leave her a nice review).
Wolf's-head
©2005 by Kei
Normally she would be too thin for his tastes, her appearance too demure, her smile too sunny, but when she bites her lip too hard and blood trickles down, Kouga is enraptured and wants her more than anything.
He pursues her like a starving bounty hunter with nothing to lose, and for a while she fends off his advances, but behind his lupine grin she senses something warm and eventually discovers herself under him and the sun behind her eyes. She cries out, spine suddenly a curve, and rakes her nails down his back, the blood from which she'll lick off later.
She took him for a player but somehow he still wants her, this no-longer-pure Kagome, and she wonders if he knows how he has brightened her world with his declaration. She hugs him and says she's so glad the razorblade didn't cut deep enough that time, and he realizes that she is not as innocent as he first mistook her to be.
She tells him she loves his eyes like blue ice and his heart warm like the sun. He asks her how she was tainted, her answering crooked smile taints his heart, and he begins to understand.
Some say she has tamed his wild heart, and she prays that that will never happen. She believes he has bled her of her toxic humours like a quack doctor from eras past, he shouts his resentment of being compared to a leech, and she laughs and she cries, she bleeds and she dies, and walks with him into the sun.
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