Inuyasha came awake slowly. He tried to resist the return to reality by blocking out all sights, sounds and smells around him that would further pull him into consciousness.
He was entirely unwilling to release himself from the world of dreams and go back to trudging through life without Kagome.
He couldn't help feeling around, just in case, and finding himself alone, he tried not to let the disappointment overwhelm him.
'Figures'
Dreaming about her return, and their subsequent reunion, was nothing new, and each time it felt more real than the last.
Knowing that, he wasn't sure how many more let downs he could take.
The gods were truly cruel and they must really hate him, or at least enjoy watching him get his hopes up, because these dreams had been plaguing him nightly since the day the well closed.
That had also been the day of their first real kiss.
He didn't count the one Kagome had used to save him from Kaguya.
While it said everything about the hold she had over him, that it had worked, it had been an act of total desperation on her part.
She had saved him mind body and soul long before that, and she owned him just as completely whether she knew it or not.
Which is why he hadn't hesitated to rip open the portal to the underworld, and leap in to find a way to get to her, when Naraku's wish had trapped her within the jewel.
His terror that she would make a wish to see him, and become trapped in the jewel forever, had turned his blood to ice.
If it had been him trapped in her place, he knew he would have wished to see her, not to be saved, just to be with her.
He never would have been able to make the one correct wish. He was too scared of being alone.
And it was all because of her that he wasn't alone anymore. The friendships she had helped him forge had been strong enough to survive her absence.
He wasn't. For him, losing her had been far too great a price, one he had yet to resign himself to paying.
He wondered if she had given up already, if she ever tried the well at all.
'Maybe the well didn't work because she doesn't want it to'
As soon as he had the thought, he hated himself for thinking that way.
It's not like there was ever any indication that the well worked like that.
In fact, he knew Kagome couldn't pass through the well without the jewel shards.
He had used that to his advantage back when he first realized what it would do to him if she got hurt being with him, and tried to trap her on the other side, where she'd be safe.
It was ironic that she was in fact safe in her own world while he was trapped on this side of the well, unable to reach her now that the greatest danger had passed.
It only made sense that after wishing it away that the well would no longer work for her at all.
There was no way for her to come back, and it was pointless to sit around and wait for her to come to him, now that her means of getting here was gone forever.
He grit his teeth.
That's what was driving him crazy. Why? Why wasn't the well working for him. He had never needed the jewel to pass back and forth between the ages, unless it was the shards existing in both places that kept the well open? Then in that case why couldn't Miroku and the others pass through as they pleased?
God he really didn't have a clue how the damn thing worked!
Shippou had teased him once about going and checking every three days, to see if the well would let him through, and Kaede had praised him for his devotion, but he had just considered himself lucky the kit hadn't realized it was actually a daily ritual. They had no concept of how deep his devotion was. They had no fucking clue.
Their ignorance of how deeply it affected him didn't save him from all the pitying looks his friends would give him whenever they knew he was on his way to check.
No one knew he had spent the first week after Naraku's defeat curled up in a pitiful ball in the massive hole he had ended up digging in his desperation to get through.
'They just didn't think to look inside the well when they were searching for me, cuz that's how pathetic it was that I was trying to dig my way back'
He shook his head refusing to relive all his sorrow and rage in those moments, not to mention, the crippling despair when it dawned on him that, try what he may, he just couldn't get through.
His thoughts turned to memories of what it felt like to kiss her when he found her in the jewel.
When she returned the kiss she had been so sweet and he could taste her relief that he had come for her in her tears.
He had wanted to do so much more, had believed they would have time for it all later, couldn't wait to see if that kiss had been because she was grateful to be rescued from the darkness, or because she felt the same way he did.
He wanted to believe he was reading her right, but even if she cared for him, he wasn't sure that meant she was prepared to take him as her mate.
He couldn't wait to talk to her about it, and he had been hopeful for their future, only to have the chance, and all his dreams ripped away as soon as she was safe in her own time.
He wondered how that conversation would go, and how it would feel to make her his, which only served to remind him what he had been dreaming of last night.
His body flushed with heat remembering the dream and the things he had imagined Kagome doing to him, for him, with him, and it wasn't long before he was hard and throbbing thanks to the images swirling in his mind.
'Great, just fucking perfect,'
God he was such a dirty dog, with absolutely NO fucking self control.
Even in a dream he should know better than to mark her like that without even telling her what it meant, what could happen, what she needed to be careful of.
The dream had felt so real he had almost been surprised to wake up and find himself alone, and even though he was fully awake now, he still didn't want to open his eyes and end the fantasy, but the fire had gone out, and despite the warmth of the furs underneath him, he was really cold.
He took a deep breath preparing to sit up, and his eyes flew open in shock.
'Her scent!'
As vivid as all of his previous dreams had been, he had never woken to her scent still hanging in the air!
'It was fucking REAL?! Kagome was HERE?'
"Kagome!?"
He waited but there was no response.
'Where is she?'
He looked around frantically in an absolute panic. He felt sick to his soul. It had been real!
He had marked her, he had fucking marked her without telling her a thing, and she had gone out alone!
"SHIT-Kagome!"
He leapt up, haphazardly threw his clothes on, grabbed Tetsusaiga, and tore out of the cave.
When he jumped from the twenty foot cliff, he was sightless as his dominant sense shifted to smell over sight, and then he truly lost it, because while Kagome wasn't very far away, she also wasn't alone.
His demon rushed to the surface and he didn't even try to fight it down, transforming as he ran.
Kagome had woken up nestled tightly in the arms of her lover, and at first, she couldn't bring herself to move. She contented herself to just stare at him as he slept.
His male beauty was utterly enchanting, but that was nothing new.
To her, he had always been beautiful. Like something out of a dream.
He seemed truly relaxed in peaceful slumber for the first time since she'd seen him in his enchanted sleep, pinned to the sacred tree.
She didn't want to wake him up, but her stomach was growling and she really needed to pee.
She stretched and found that his arms were loose enough that she could slip out.
She slipped away and the more she moved, the more she realized she was sore in strange places, and the more she stretched to relieve the aches, the more she found herself thinking longingly of lazing in a hot spring to rid herself of the soreness, and daydream of last nights activities.
She blushed as she realized just how much she needed to clean up too.
Looking down at herself she saw there was blood and other things on her thighs, and she blanched when she realized even she could smell the sex on her.
Not sure why she was so embarrassed but unable to deny the compulsion to get clean, she grabbed her bra and shirt from one corner of the bedding and her shoes from the other.
She dressed quickly and was careful to be quiet as she left trying not to wake her sleepy hanyou.
Once she was outside she grumbled a bit seeing how high up she was, getting in and out of the cave would not be as easy for her since she couldn't just jump like he had.
She tried to be careful, crouching down and making her way down the sheer slope with tiny scooches, but she ended up having to slide most of the way down on her butt with her knees bent, to keep her legs from getting torn up by the rock shrapnel that had effectively scraped most of the skin off her ass.
She relieved herself behind a convenient bush, wincing when she pulled her panties back up, several cuts and scrapes protesting their mistreatment.
She was not looking forward to how badly her bath was going to sting now, but she was even more determined to have one, and now that she was on flat ground she should be able to get her bearings and locate the hot springs. She looked around.
"Oh! I know where I am!" She crowed.
Even though it had been years since her travels with Inuyasha and the others, everything was achingly familiar.
This place was about three miles outside of Kaede's village and that meant the hot spring was only about a twenty minute walk from here.
She moved east through the forest keeping an eye out for any sansai she could eat along the way.
She hadn't had dinner yet when she and her mother had stood over the well before she came back, and she had fallen asleep right after she and Inuyasha had been together. Which would have worked up quite the appetite all by itself.
God she had been so brazen, and looking back on it now, she had no idea what she would've done if Inuyasha hadn't wanted her like that when she rolled over and presented herself for him.
Yeah she had gotten him all hot and bothered he had clearly been into it and he'd definitely been hard and all, but she had dived into everything like a whore, and when she realized he was as much a virgin as she was, all she wanted was to give herself to him, forget touching and exploring.
By that time she didn't want to wait.
'Not that he seemed to want to wait either'
She blushed again, her steps faltering for a second.
'God The sounds he had made.'
Hell, the sounds he had made her make, it was all just too incredible.
Then there was the power they had raised and the way they had sealed their bond with blood.
'Gah! Did I really do that?'
Not that she really knew what it all meant, except for that some connection had been formed and now she knew she was his, and that's all that really mattered to her.
'He tastes so good! I never thought I'd ever actually enjoy exchanging blood! What is wrong with me?'
His blood had tasted like, well, blood yes, but unlike the bitter penny-like taste of her own blood, his had a wild spicy taste as well, it was intoxicating, magical and impossible to describe, making her feel drunk; giddy and energized if a little floaty, but most of all warm, like the time Jii-Chan had given her a tiny cup of warm 'sacred' sake, when her mother wasn't looking about a week ago.
After taking the blood Inuyasha had offered, the power had peaked, making her feel like she would tear apart from all the magic and energy inside her.
Then they'd both come together and she had experienced the most incredible pleasure she'd ever known in her life, followed by a sense of wholeness and completion, that had eased her into the best nights sleep she had ever had.
When she woke up the energy from last night seemed to swirl inside her making her feel safe and warm and powerful.
She wished she could call Sango to meet her at the springs, she would love to giggle over the graphic details, and talk about how great everything had been, laughing and blushing and exchanging stories with her best friend. She couldn't wait.
Thinking of Sango in turn made her think of Sango's children and how she had felt holding baby Zen.
She hadn't missed Inuyasha's reaction to her holding the baby, but she really had no idea what to make of it.
He had been staring for a while, a look she couldn't really read on his face, and then he'd suddenly seemed angry and he'd turned away.
She wasn't in any rush to have children and she understood the implications of having them with Inuyasha, but after all he suffered, maybe he didn't want kids of his own.
'Gah! Why am I getting all up in my head about this, we have plenty of time to think about that later'
She noticed a huge vine of sarunashi and eagerly harvested as much of the sweet fruit as she could, using her shirt to make a pocket to carry them, eating them whole as she walked.
A few minutes later and she was at the hot springs. Setting aside the last four pieces of fruit, she stripped and slipped into the water as fast as she could, not wanting to prolong the stinging of the cuts on her backside.
It wasn't as bad as she thought it would be only a few here and there were deep enough to sting.
After a while none of them hurt at all and she was able to relax her muscles and sink all the way into the water with a throaty sigh.
'Even baths in my own time were never as relaxing as this.'
She cleaned up quickly the best she could without actual soap and then leaned back against a large boulder to relax, her thoughts drifting back to Inuyasha. She grabbed another sarunashi, and munched happily while she daydreamed of the night before.
She hoped that he wouldn't wake up before she got back, but knowing him, if he did, he'd just come find her.
She heard a loud rustling sound in the foliage to her left and realized with dread that she was alone, unarmed and no one knew she was here, and now she was no longer alone, a massive bear demon appeared before her with a savage smile.
"My aren't we far from home, little mate?"
She glared at him but didn't respond. Right now it was probably better to keep him distracted rather than piss him off by screaming. Inuyasha would come looking for her soon, but she could handle this pathetic peeper herself.
"You're pretty brave for someone who doesn't know who's territory he's in." She paused looking him up and down then cocked her head to the side, "Or could it be you're just stupid?"
She stood up in the water, not sure where her confidence was coming from, but deciding to go with it.
He seemed completely taken aback at first, but he recovered quickly.
"My, what a foolish woman indeed, you clearly know nothing of the danger you've put your mate in, not to mention yourself!"
He nodded to her left, and she looked, just in time to see a second demon holding some kind of reed up to his mouth, and a sharp pain in her neck made her realize too late that it was a blow dart that had struck her.
Even as she began to pass out she looked to the first demon as her vision began to fail.
"You won't get away with this." She promised.
But it was nothing more than a weak whisper, and it was drowned out by the bear's full bellied laughter.
'Inuyasha!'
She cried silently, as she fell into the water, and sank into unconsciousness.
Kuma watched his brother Kabu wade into the water to retrieve the unconscious human before she drowned.
He didn't want to kill her right away, it would be more fun to break her first, to take her and use her until she died from his attentions, but first to battle her mate!
Most males abhorred the idea of taking another males mate, the damage it caused the male she was bonded to too terrible a price to consider, but he was addicted to the flood of ecstasy that came with consuming the blood of a mated female and almost as addicted to the fear and pain of the bonded males that came to save them.
He could sense her mate headed this way and he geared himself up for the battle ahead.
He was truly excited, a bonded male always put up a good fight when their mate's life was in danger.
Kabu casually took a seat across from him, gathering the naked female in his lap, he pulled her head back by her hair and placed the jagged edge of his knife directly over the Mark on her throat, calmly waiting for the females mate to arrive.
Kuma grinned. He absolutely fucking LOVED this game!
Inuyasha had never been so terrified and livid in his life.
He was tearing through the forest even faster than he had when he first caught Kagome's scent the night before.
She hadn't gone far, he could sense her clearly through the bond, she had gone to the hot springs, where she had then been cornered by at least two demons that he could smell.
'I'll fucking kill them if they touch her!'
He could feel Kagome's surety that he was coming for her ringing through his body like a bell.
She knew she was in trouble, but she wasn't afraid, because she knew with complete certainty that he would save her, and he would!
'There's no way I'm letting anything happen to you Kagome!'
He let his youki flow out around him filling the air with the violence and murderous intent in his heart, and that was before he felt her presence through the bond suddenly vanish.
Crippling fear choked him so badly his heart seized in his chest and he struggled to breath through the pain as he ran, and he realized this is what it felt like when even his demon was terrified.
He was at the hot spring in the next heartbeat, more than ready to tear the limbs off whoever had dared to touch her.
What he saw made his blood run cold, freezing his body as surely as if he had been turned to ice.
Kagome was naked and being held up by her hair, she was unconscious, and there was a wicked looking knife pressed to her throat directly against his Mark.
'NO!'
His demon's scream of rage and fear matched his own, but he didn't dare move, or make a sound out loud.
They had known he was coming, they'd waited for him, and this is how they'd meant for him to find them.
As if their point needed to be proven further, the demon holding Kagome pressed the blade tighter to her throat, breaking the skin, starting the cut that could end her life as well as his own.
He fell to knees with a moan, unable to take his eyes off Kagome and the trickle of blood that fell from the blades edge.
His demon was crazed with fear, he couldn't breath, couldn't move, and he didn't want to.
To his demon, their pain; his and the demon's, was acceptable in any amount required, blood was the price of victory and there was no amount of either they would not endure to win.
But Kagome's blood, Kagome's pain, in any amount was too high a price.
"Please, oh fuck- please don't hurt her, don't--you can't-"He could barely speak his throat was so tight with fear, "I'm begging you don't take her away again! I'll do anything, please!"
He realized he was no longer talking to the one holding Kagome but praying to whatever god got it's fucking kicks by tormenting him like this.
He begged with everything he had in a totally uncharacteristic and useless act of desperation. He knew it was pointless, knew he had nothing to offer god or demon, and begging was just going to make it more enjoyable for them both, but it was all he could do when he saw that knife cutting into her, he couldn't watch Kagome die. He couldn't bare to lose her again, he wouldn't lose her again!
He carefully stayed on his knees, not that he could stand if he wanted to, and ripped Tetsusaiga off his hip, throwing it as far away from himself as he could, catching himself on one hand as he fell forward, reaching out with the other towards Kagome and the demon that held their lives in his hands.
"Please, just let her go"
Laughter erupted next to him but he didn't look away from Kagome and her captor.
"My, that was quite the show boy! You know it's no fun if you don't fight? It's your own fault. If you loved the girl so much you shouldn't have let her go off all alone, you pathetic halfbreed! Perhaps she needs a stronger demon to keep her safe and warm? You don't even have anything to offer her what could you possibly give us?"
After hearing the suggestion that he take his mate and keep her warm, Inuyasha lost whatever mercy might have been left in him, he finally broke contact with the guy holding Kagome to look at the bear next to him, and in a deadly whisper that vibrated with the bass of his demon he said,
"Your lives. If you let her go, I will let you leave my land unharmed, if you hurt her, I will make you suffer more that anyone has ever endured in this world or the next, this is your only chance before I destroy you both. Let. Her. Go."
With that he released his youki once more, letting it fill the clearing and thicken and rise around him like fog, rolling with seething hatred and pulsing with the promise of a slow and agonizing death if they didn't obey.
"Oh, we're making threats now huh? You must not care about her very much, what makes you think a halfbreed like you stands a chance against us boy?" The one holding Kagome sneered, the one with the sword stepped closer to Inuyasha preparing to fight.
"Your funeral" He breathed, and in a flash he lunged up and drove his fist into the bears chest ripping out his still beating heart
He didn't pause at all, just charged at the demon holding Kagome praying the distraction would work.
At the last second, he threw the heart in the opposite direction causing his opponent to instinctually follow the movement, too late he realized his mistake, and he didn't have enough time to correct his attention and react.
Inuyasha had Kagome out of dangers hands and laid gently on the ground out of the way in one heartbeat, and his claws around the throat of the bastard who threatened Kagome in the next.
Remembering the sight of another males hands on his naked mate, worse, while he was threatening her life, wiped out all thoughts of anything but a painful death in this males future and the fear was drowned in a bottomless, blinding fury that raged inside him like a blazing inferno of hate and the need to kill, every instinct he had demanded the blood of the bastard who hurt her without fail.
"You, I'll kill slow enough for the both of you." He hissed, digging the nails of the hand on the bastards throat in deeply, making the hold as painful as possible, he flattened his other preparing to strike.
Whatever pleas he was about to make were cut off by a strangled scream as Inuyasha slowly inserted his claws into the soft flesh of his navel.
"You had your chance to run. Now I have no reason to spare you, you came onto my Land-" he inserted his hand further, "You attacked my Mate, dared to touch her, DARED TO SPILL HER BLOOD IN FRONT OF ME!" He roared, and slowly started ripping the hole he made wider while the other male struggled and screamed wordlessly.
He reveled in the agony he caused as much as his demon, tearing the bastard up slowly enjoying every moment of his pain, until the spirit was too broken to hold its connection with its physical form and he was finally dead.
He piled the carcasses on top of each other in the far edge of the clearing away from Kagome before retrieving the Tetsusaiga. He unsheathed the blade and it seemed to transform angrily as if it was as pissed as he was about Kagome getting hurt.
The black meido blade sparkled with an unholy light pulsing with its desire to cast their enemies into the underworld forever.
He was more than fucking happy to oblige.
"MEIDO ZANGETSUHA!"
A moment later the bodies were gone, the portal had closed, and Tetsusaiga reverted back from its transformation.
He sheathed Tetsusaiga with a shaking hand and rushed back to Kagome.
She still hadn't woken up and he had no idea what was wrong with her.
First things first, he needed to get her back to the cave.
He didn't see her clothes, and he didn't waste time looking, he tore off his fire rat, wrapped it around her, and cradled her in his trembling arms.
It didn't take long for them to reach the cave, and he immediately laid her gently on the bed of fur and got to work on a fire.
He felt completely drained, the whirlwind of emotions he'd been through since Kagome's return affecting him as strongly as a natural disaster.
He went back to the pile of furs and sat with his back to the wall pulling Kagome into his arms He buried his face in her neck licking her mark repeatedly, as much to comfort himself as to try and rouse her.
He continued like that for what seemed like forever, pitiful whimpers begging her to wake up alternating with his mating call, neither evoking any kind of response.
The fire was nearly out again by the time she finally started to stir, he laid her back for a moment to toss a few more logs into the flames, and was by her side again before she could open her eyes.
When she did, he felt tears sting his eyes and as he let them fall he realized he had felt this way before, back when they were fighting the band of seven and Shippou and Myoga had saved everyone from the fire and poison that had almost killed them all.
Back then he had tried to hide his tears of utter relief and gratitude for Kagome's safety, but his feelings for her then weren't half as strong as they were now.
Now they were bonded, she was back with him after three years of separation, and she was safe, at least from this most recent terrifying ordeal, she and she alone could witness his tears and know that they were for her.
"Kagome-"he whimpered dragging her against his chest, with his face buried in her hair he choked, "I was so fucking scared!"
She sat up and he let her pull away to look at him, her eyes were soft and reassuring enough as it was, but then she reached up and started rubbing his ears and he melted, literally melted, his body went limp and an inhuman whine of pleasure percolated in his throat.
She giggled and started rubbing the other ear as well.
"Oh fuck Kagome you have no idea how good that feels." He moaned.
"I can make it feel even better. " she purred.
He wasn't sure how that was possible and the doubt must've shown in his face because she smiled at him wickedly.
She ceased her ministrations just long enough to straddle him drop the fire rat and lean in for a searing kiss so hot he thought he'd burst into flames, and that was when she started rubbing his ears again, this time scratching the base with her nails between rubs, it was a different kind of pleasure but she was right it was better. More intense.
His moan was swallowed by Kagome's kiss and he felt her lips tighten briefly as as smiled in satisfaction. She seemed to be enjoying this as much as he was.
She broke away to let him breath for a second and he tried to collect himself everything was fuzzy, pleasure and need twisting in his mind until they were indistinguishable from one another.
And that was before she took his hands and placed them on her breasts.
"Now let's try it like this." She whispered huskily.
Combining all the sensations together had him completely lost to her. She could have demanded anything of him and in that moment he knew he would have done it if it would meant they could stay like this forever.
He'd given up on trying to suppress the sounds she was eliciting from him he just wanted more of what she was doing to him.
He had never been so completely at someone else's mercy.
Then she switched it up again, slipping off what remained of his clothing returning for a quick kiss, and then sliding down his chest. He had no frame of reference for was she was about to do and he didn't even dare to breathe as she hovered over his twitching cock looking up at him with wide eyes and a shy smile.
"Kagome, what the fuck are you-?" He didn't get to finish asking her what she was doing, she had already taken him into her mouth and he was lost again.
She teased him for a while twirling her tongue around his tip lapping up the moisture when it wept from her attentions, before taking him in all the way to base and up again swallowing and him letting him feel her throat convulse around him each time she went down, again and again until he was thrusting up into her mouth. He tried to stop himself tried to pull away before he lost it.
"Kagome-"
He tried to stop her before it was too late, but then she cupped his tight sac massaging him gently into pleasure overload and she swallowed around him again and again as he came. She pulled back letting him go with a satisfied smile.
The cave was thick with the smell of her arousal. His body pulsed and he realized he was just as eager as his demon to answer the sirens call of her scent. Her deliciously sinful little show had made him wonder if she could possibly taste as delicious as she smelled.
He knew he wanted to taste her but he didn't know if she would let him. She was so delicate and unlike her he had fangs. He blushed not entirely sure what to do or how to ask.
"If I- if I were to put my mouth on you, like that or something- I dunno, would it- could I make you feel that good too?"
She blushed and he looked away quickly trying to reassure her but not wanting her to see his disappointment if she refused.
"We don't have to I mean-"
" You really want to do that?" She squeaked.
"Hell yeah, I'm dyin' to know what you taste like but I just don't- I've never done anything like this before, I don't know how to make you feel good and I don't want to hurt you or do anything you don't want me to."
She smiled at him and gave him a sweet kiss, when she pulled back she whispered,
"You can do anything you want to me Inuyasha, anything, I'm you're mate."
Never had he needed to hear something so badly and never known until he heard it, before now.
With a second thought he took her down on the bedding kissing her and letting his hands roam her body paying attention to what made her heart race what made her gasp.
Slowly making his way down her body finally settling between her trembling thighs.
Her followed her scent to its source desperate for a taste. When he licked her, the taste was indescribable, her thighs immediately clamped down on his head but he couldn't stop, he had to get more of her!
He couldn't even think well enough to wonder if what he was doing felt good, he just needed more!
She reached down and began rubbing his ears and he moaned against her core causing a flood of that delicious honey to flow onto his tongue. He moaned again at the taste and tried to figure out how to make it happen again.
"Fuck Kagome you're so good I can't stop." He growled against her.
He was rewarded with another rush of her sweet nectar and he lapped it up greedily.
"Inuyasha!" She screamed thrashing against him and he repeated the motion of dipping his tongue inside her and then flicking it up to tease the tiny little ball of flesh that had begun to peek out at the top of her cleft.
Each time he did that, her body responded with more of her intoxicating juices, and each time he lapped them up and teased her body for more. He would never tire of this. Never.
But she apparently couldn't take anymore, at this point she was literally sobbing from the pleasure overload, her head tossing back and forth.
"Please-Please inuyasha!"
"Kagome I can't stop!" He growled punctuating the words with languid strokes of his tongue, "tell me, what I can do, to make it better for you, I just can't fucking stop-" he was fully transformed, his voice ragged and guttural as much from the sex as it was from the change. He had truly lost control.
"More! at the top! I need more!" She wailed, arching her back and thrusting into what he was doing to her.
Her request gave him a wicked idea and he followed through with it sucking the tiny bud into his mouth, trapping the flesh around it with his lips to keep the little bud in place he flicked his tongue against it as hard and fast as he could while still sucking on her and she came apart screaming his name so loud his ears flattened and then he was suddenly drenched in an even sweeter fluid and by the time he was done cleaning up what hadn't soaked into the furs beneath them he was finally satiated, for now at least, he wondered if she would ever let him do this again.
"Kagome are you alright?"
Her thighs were twitching uncontrollably and she was making tiny pathetic sounds, god what if he'd hurt her?
" I'm- fine- just- need- to- catch- my breath!" She wheezed. "That was- incredible, Inuyasha!"
He grinned at her.
"I can't even begin to tell you what your taste does to me."
"Well, I'm glad"
"Can we do that again sometime?" He asked tentatively.
"Oh yes absolutely "
He beamed, positively beamed, and then his face got serious.
"We need to talk first Kagome"
She sat up nervously.
"What do we need to talk about? What's got you so serious all of a sudden?"
He reached out and brushed his fingers over his Mark, making her gasp and bite back a moan.
"About this, about last night and how you feel about me, to start with."
"You don't know how I feel about you?!"
"It's not that! It's just- look it was wrong and I shouldn't have done it but I couldn't stop myself and it was like you knew everything, without me having to say anything, but I need to say it, I need to hear it Kagome, I have to know that you understand even if it's too late."
"You regret being with me?" She managed to choke out.
"No! Not at all! Never Kagome! Even if you hate me I still won't regret anything! Not a fucking thing!"
She seemed comforted by that but also confused.
"Why would I hate you Inuyasha?"
"Because what I did is permanent Kagome, and it changes everything, things you never would have imagined changing, things you didn't think could be changed."
"Like what? what'd you do exactly?"
"I Marked you, you're mine forever now, and I didn't even ask, I didn't explain anything and now you can't say no, it's too late."
She laughed, he'd prepared himself for a lot of thing but laughter wasn't one of them.
"What's so funny about that Kagome?" He growled.
"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to laugh but that's just so- so you"
"What are you talking about?"
"Inuyasha you've always been dense about my feelings but even you can't be that clueless! You have to know I'm in love with you! You could've marked me anytime and I wouldn't have been any less ecstatic than I am now. It's all I ever wanted!"
"Yeah but you'll age the same as I do"
"That's better than me growing old while you stay basically the same"
"You'll need to feed from me regularly especially if you get pregnant "
"You mean like your blood? Please tell me you mean blood" she said excitedly.
"Yeah-I mean blood, wait- you're okay with that?"
"I love the taste of your blood! I'd want to even if I didn't have to- is that weird?"
"No!" He choked "No! I just thought you'd be disgusted! To be honest I was surprised you completed the bond with me without even wondering why or being horrified that I wanted you to do that."
"I wanted to! I would have probably tried to bite your neck like you did to me if I hadn't been facing the wrong way."
He spluttered and she looked at him waiting for him to explain.
"You'd do that? You'd complete a full bond with me?"
"Have we not already?"
"No it's sort of halfway there's no way to form a full bond without both mates consciously trying to do so, we are mated and I'm thoroughly bound to you, but you're not completely bound to me and I never would have expected you to do that."
"What exactly is the difference? I don't understand."
"As it is if you die I will die too but if I die you'll survive because you aren't fully bonded."
"Inuyasha, loosing you would still kill me if that's the only difference then-"
"No it's not. With how strong my fathers blood is, how strong my blood is even as a half breed, sharing it with you with a full bond would change everything about you, you would essentially become a hanyou yourself and anyone who didn't know you were human before would never guess you were ever human"
"Show me how."
He looked at her in complete shock.
"Are you hearing me?"
"I heard everything you said, it's you that isn't listening, show me how, right now!"
"No wait- Kagome I'm serious there would be no going back-"
"'I love you as a half demon Inuyasha I love you just the way you are' Do you remember me telling you that?"
"Yes, but-"
"There is no but here, unless that's where you need me to bite you?"
"No Kagome- I promise I'll tell you if that's what you really want, but you have to help me understand, how can you possibly be willing to become a hanyou like me?"
"To me marriage or mating isn't just about who belongs to who it's a partnership, two equals working together to keep each other safe happy and loved, right now, not only are we not even close to equal, you've always doubted whether I truly accepted you and loved you exactly the way you are, and how can I prove that I do, if I won't fully complete our bond because it means I'd be just like a hanyou, why wouldn't I do that if it meant being just like You?"
Without another word Inuyasha dragged her into his arms pressing her face into the crook of his neck, he held her tighter trying not to fall apart as he spoke,
"If that's really how you feel then all you have to do is find a place that feels right to you, and bite as hard as you can." He brought a hand up behind her head holding her as she nuzzled him trying to find just the right spot.
"Do it Kagome! As hard as you can. Bite!"