Title: Bumps
Author: Squishy Penguin
Rating: PG-13 just to be safe
Pairing: Bankotsu/Kagome
Disclaimer: It's sad but true: I don't own Inu Yasha. :sigh: If I did, Bankotsu wouldn't die in the series (well, technically, he had to die once to get into the story, but who wants to go technical? ;;) I guess some dreams just don't come true, eh?
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He never meant to love her. Hell, he never meant to even like her. She was the mutt's woman, one who occasionally got in the way of battle with a chance arrow. Sure she had her uses, with seeing the jewel shards and all. But how intelligent could one be when to fall in love with an ignorant half-breed like Inuyasha?
The mutt didn't know it of course. How could he? With his eyes always trained on the—
what did Jak call it? 'Walking Clay Pot?' Whatever it was, it didn't matter to him.
Yet, he couldn't deny not having a bit of sympathy for the modern day miko's plight. After all, he was human once.
No matter, the girl chose to follow Inuyasha and therefore signed her own death warrant. Naraku ordered he and his brothers to kill all who threatened him in return for their revival with shikon shards.
To even spare her a thought was surprising enough.
And be given a second chance at life! Now that was an offer close to none receive. Taking his newly revived life back from Naraku was top on his priority list, no doubt about it.
Wiping out the hanyou and his friends seemed the way to do it, not that he had many choices with Naraku as your boss. Like the mutt, Naraku had this theory: you either go with his way of thinking or keel over and die. What options to choose from, eh?
His brothers were counting on him as well: to lead them through this as he had done in the past.
He couldn't let them down again, not with what had happened last time. Dying with such guilt, it had only intensified when he saw what they had all become. Hell, they were all freakin' zombies now because of his error!
As their leader, he had to make it up somehow. He wouldn't allow himself to mislead them, not again.
Killing your 'family' for a second time was not something one would want following them around for the rest of their undead life.
It all seemed so simple: just kill Inuyasha and his friends.
His Banryuu was used to the sweet, metallic taste of blood.
Killing seemed so natural; so easy. People couldn't seem to understand how they could take so many lives and appear to live without a conscience for their deeds. These people failed to see that one could be hardened, with emotion no longer coming into play. Soon, the killing had almost become as a sport would to he and his brothers.
It was so incredibility easy to spill another's lifeblood, so pathetically easy.
Accepting Naraku's terms seemed to be a guarantied way out of hell.
…However, nothing ever goes according to plan. Wouldn't life be so simple if it did?
For it to be Kagome, Inuyasha's wench, to turn out to be his unexpected bump in life was not only laughable, but outrageous!
He wouldn't have believed it even if told in advance.
Who would?
For he, Bankotsu, leader of the Shichinintai, to have feelings for a girl!
It's not just lust we're talking about here, but real, stick you in the eye feelings for another human being other than himself and his brothers was just too hard for him to even imagine.
Kagome, the girl he who he had tried to dismiss as a weak wench, an easy target, was the one he himself just couldn't let go of.
Don't you just love it when you know that someone up there just had to be laughing at you?
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A/N: How's that for a first attempt at not only a Ban/Kag paring, but also an Inu Yasha fic in general? Oh yeah, who's cool now? ;;
Out of curiosity, what sounds better/correct shipper name for Ban/Kag: Bangome or Kagkotsu? Never quite sure on the matter.
Happy early Thanksgiving to all!