Chapter One: Curious
The stars were a spectacular sight to be seen in the feudal era. Illuminating the night sky, bright as any city lights Kagome had laid eyes on. She loved to stare up at them while her friends slept in the forest, as they did so many nights. Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, even Shippo scoffed at Kagome's fascination. None of them understood how man-made light polluted the night sky back in the modern era.
She could stay awake for hours, lost in the glow of the stars in her thoughts.
It was a night of the full moon and Kagome lay snug in her sleeping bag, gazing up at the billions of lights above. Dimmed by the light of the moon, the stars still shown magnificently.
The group slept in the forest of Inuyasha, while Kaede repaired her home after yet another demon attack.
Though Kagome didn't quite mind sleeping out in the dirt as much as she led on.
Her surroundings fell silent, save for wind brushing through leaves and critters chirping among trees.
Kagome's thoughts ran slowly and meticulously when she stared up at the night. Her mind melted from dreams of home, to dreams of a future in the modern era. An era where she'd be a top notch student, get into high school, graduate, and start some fantastic job in her own time.
A time that didn't include Inuyasha. A time where they had never met. A time where Inuyasha wouldn't exist...
she lightly shook her head and shut her eyes tight. That wasn't what she wanted. No matter how extravagant her thoughts of home got, she always felt a sick twist in her stomach when she thought about a life without Inuyahsa.
Inuyasha... That blunt badmouth, always talking to me so gruffly. Never having anything good to say, always acting so high and mighty, never taking anyone's advice, and going off on his own to sneak around with a certain priestess any time he sees fit!
Kagome's fingers balled into fists under her covers and she felt her eyes begin to water. She opened hazy eyes to the warped vastness above her and took a moment to feel the night air flush across her cheeks.
She closed her eyelids and sighed.
Inuyasha who's saved me every time I've been in trouble. Who calls to me, the way he does, any time he's worried about me. Who carries me on his broad shoulders and chuckles to himself when he feels extra smug... Who's stayed by my side, even when his heart pulled him to another. Who's strong arms hold me tightly to his chest whenever he's afraid. And golden, smoldering eyes that gaze into mine when I'm afraid. His eyes...
Kagome felt her heartbeat raise as her fingertips slid their way down her stomach, to her upper thigh.
This being another thing she had done often.
She stopped the movement if her twitching fingers to focus her hearing on the steady breathing of her friends.
After months of this routine, she began to be able to pinpoint each of the fluttery breaths that came from her sleeping comrades.
First she found the tiny moans from Shippo. Who, luckily, began to prefer sleeping in Kirara's soft fur to Kagome's warn sleeping bag, which used to be blue. Then Kirara's soft mewls. Sango's rhythmic breath was quiet and hardest to search for, though Kagome made certain to find it. The whispery snores came from Miroku...
But where...?
Kagome lifted her head slowly and silently until her eyes made contact with long silver hair, dulled by the lack of sunlight. He was sitting right where she left him, by the newly dead campfire. Now that she could see him, she could focus in to the sound of air moving between his lips. His breathing, deep and heavy with sleep.
The moonlight reflected off of Inuyasha's long eyelashes and shadowed the rest of his face. His chest heaved in and out, gently and soon his breath was all Kagome could hear. Losing herself wonderfully in Inuyasha's sleeping form.
She was burning between her thighs now and she allowed the tips of her fingers to snake down to where she longed to be touched. Her head rested back down to looked up at the moon with half lidded eyes. Her fingers moved under pajama bottoms and past panties to the tuft of hair at her mound. She slid an index finger lightly over the slick folds, Inuyahsa's breathing still ringing through her ears.
She imagined the way he would touch her. His clawed fingers caressing her porcelain skin. Manipulating his natural weapons used to inflict pain and death to give her pleasure.
Her finger searched for the bud of nerves nestled between wet flesh. She moved past the hood and began tracing lazy circles.
Kagome imagined his muscled arms holding her close to his naked chest. Keeping her captive in a cage she never wanted to escape.
Her circles became more rapid. She added her middle finger to help the first in it's ministrations And held back a mewl.
Inuyasha's hot, wet mouth. Sucking, biting, and marking her body. Licking old battle wounds. Licking up her torso to her nipples, down to her-
Oh
Kagome felt something begin to rise in her. She bit her lip, screwed her eyes closed, and circled faster. Her hips rose slightly as she felt her sweet release near closer.
"What're you doing?" Inuyasha's voice, gruff from being woken, rose above all else in Kagome's mind and snapped her back to reality.
Her eyes jolted open and her hand shot up from pink panties like a bullet. She rested her weight on her elbow and looked over at Inuyasha's woken figure, still sitting in the same position he slept in. It came to her attention that her fingers were still wet and sticky. She chose to ignore them and focus on regaining composer.
"N-nothing... What are you doing up!?" Kagome growled angrily.
Damn.
She immediately regretted snapping at him. She had no reason to be upset. If she began acting strange, he would know something was up.
Inuyasha began sniffing at the air and sat up on his heals.
"You smell different... What's wrong with you, do you have a fever?" He began to move closer to Kagome, causing her to sit up straight and scoot away the best she could. Blood boiling and cheeks blazing.
How could I not have heard him?! Gods, I'm so stupid!
The others began to stir and Kagome started to panic.
"No, I'm fine, go back to sleep!" She snapped and scooted farther.
Well it seems like angry's the only angle I have
"No, really Kagome, something seems off," Inuyasha stood and walked towards her. Kagome's palms began to sweat and she could feel that she was blushing like never before.
Inuyasha stood right in front of the flustered girl and squatted down, close enough that their faces were practically touching. Kagome's eyes widened at the golden orbs currently staring into her. Prodding inside, to her heart.
His eyebrows drew close to his forehead and his eyes narrowed.
"Kagome-"
"SIT!" Kagome commanded, sending the half demon a foot into the dirt. She stood and no longer heard soft flutters of sleep.
At this point, the entire group was wide awake and very interested in what Kagome was so angry about. She knew she had to give a reason, But what? All Inuysha had done was worry and try to help her, what reason could she possibly have to be so enraged?
"I-I am sick and tired of the lack of privacy here!" Kagome stammered, "I can't handle it! Can't a girl sleep in peace?! That's it. I'm going home!" She quickly and sloppily gathered her things, rolled them up in her sleeping bag, grabbed her backpack, and stomped off toward The Well. Leaving a confused Hanyou in her wake.
There is no way that could have gone any worse.
Kagome sulked her way to the path back to the modern era. Her way, illuminated by moonlight. Thinking of what her friends must be left thinking. Of school and all that she had to catch up on anyways. Of home and what home could mean in the feudal era. When she reached The Well, the only thing left in her ever racing mind was how the eyes if her half demon looked, wrought with worry over her well being.
She smiled and bit her lip. Then jumped down The Well, toward home.
Her thoughts filled with Inuyasha.