Bruh, I completely forgot about this story, if I'm being honest. I'm rereading through it and will probably have another chapter to post soon enough. I actually really like this one. :) So sorry for the wait!

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Chapter Three

"Excuse me? Who is?"

"You are."

"I am? Me? I'm a demon?"

"Yes."

"... certifiably insane," he began to laugh, hard, like he had never before, leaving her standing there as she crossed her arms over her chest. She rolled her eyes.

"Are you done yet? 'Cause I kinda want to get on with this whole mating thing and have you fuck my brains out."

"Wow," he stared at her. "You really have no tact, do you? You're wrong, though, I'm a priest, not a demon."

"I thought you said you were a monk?"

"Well, … priest in training."

"Yeah, okay. How long have you been 'in training'?"

"None of your business."

"Just answer the question, asshole."

"Language," he grimaced, pointing his single finger at her once more. He caught the gulp go down her throat as she stared at it, stepping back a bit. He sighed as he put his hand back down to his side. "I've been at it since I was about four years old."

"Mhm, so tell me, are you able to use your reiki?"

"Uh, … not- not quite yet," he admitted, feeling a blow to his pride.

"Okay, and do you ever wonder why that is?"

"All of the fucking time."

"Language," she teased, his glare wiping the smug smirk off of her face quickly. "Well, uh, it's because you can't; you're a yokai. The kind of reiki that you are trying to summon is used to protect humans from demons and such, so as one, you can't use it. Your reiki is demonic, so you would probably end up just killing yourself." What she was saying made sense, except that he wasn't a demon.

"I think I'd know if I were a demon."

"You'd think, but apparently you don't, … but I can prove it to you. How about it? If I can help you bring out the beast, you have to mate with me. Deal?"

"Pshhh," he chuckled. "Sure, why not?" She reached out a hand, one he thought he just had to shake, but as soon as he allowed her to grab ahold of it, fangs grew from her mouth and she fucking bit him. "OW! Fuck that hurt. What the hell's wrong with you?"

"You have to bite me back." She was still holding his hand firmly, her other hand wrapped over his so that he couldn't pull away. "Otherwise the deal will be broken."

"Fine, fine." He leaned forward, the shyness from earlier crawling up from his chest to paint his neck and cheeks a light pink.

"Make sure to break the skin or it doesn't count."

"What the hell is with all of these rules," he mumbled quizzically before his mouth lapped over her wrist. He rolled his eyes before biting down, feeling her tense and begin to shake, and as he attempted to pull back, he found that his mouth was stuck in place, his canines having elongated into her appendage. His eyes widened as he stood and stared down as her blood dripped into the water below.

"It - ow - it'll take some maneuvering - mmm, that hurts - but you have to take them out before they'll revert back to your human teeth." She was in pain, he was hurting her, but he was in so much shock that he could barely breathe. "Please, try to get them out, they'rehurtingme!" She was beginning to tear up, he could smell the salt from her … he could smell the salt from her fucking tears, holy fuck! HE WAS A FUCKING DEMON!

"Sorry, I just ... I didn't know how to …"

"It's fine," she assured. "It's already healing, anyway. I'm sorry to have forced you into it so quickly."

"Yeah, I mean … I don't know. This is all happening so out of the blue."

"I know, … I'm sorry." Inuyasha looked over and found ears - cat ears - on the top of her head, well, plastered to the top of her head, like she had done something horribly wrong.

"It's okay, I guess it's better that I know," he chuckled, placing his left hand on her back in an attempt to comfort her. "What's your name?" Her ears lifted immediately, her head turning to him; her gaze burning through him with something keen to adoration.

"Kagome. You?" He retracted his hand, as she had begun to lean back into. He brought it up to his mouth in a fist as he cleared his throat before he let it fall back to steady himself on the rock that they were sitting upon.

"Inuyasha... What?" She had an unimpressed expression cast over her face.

"Your name is InuYasha and you had absolutely no clue that you were part demon? Really?"

"I was left in a basket at the shrine with a note saying that that was my name. Sue me." He shrugged as he pushed himself off into the water, allowing his head to dip slightly below the surface before coming back up. Everything was beginning to really fall into place. Him being a demon explained a lot, especially that raccoon incident. It made him shudder just thinking about it.

Inuyasha was pulled from his thoughts as he felt arms sneak around his abdomen and soft flesh pressed against his back. He froze.

"W-what are you doing?"

"We're going to mate now, aren't we? We had a deal."

"What?!" He lifted his left arm and spun in her loose embrace to look down at her. "Now? Like, right now?"

"No, next month," she deadpanned. "Yes, right now." Looking down at her from this angle, her cleavage was on full display, tainting the flesh of his cheeks as they began to burn.

"I-I-I-I-I n-ever said when!" He pushed her away once more, frantically splashing away from her. He had indeed made such a promise, but that was when he was confident that he wasn't a demon! He didn't think that he would actually have to … - he gulped - fuck her brains out.

"What? But-!"

"No! Not until I have control of, of this!" He gestured to himself.

"But I'm in heat now. I can't stand it much longer, Inuyasha."

"H-how much longer will you be in heat for?" Maybe he could get out of this? If he could convince her to wait a week or so, he could run away! It could work, especially if he was going to go on the mission; he'd be gone and he highly doubted that she would follow him to another kingdom for the sole purpose of mating with a demon that only just found out that he was one.

"... A month," she huffed. "But, … I've already been in heat for a while and I'm getting kinda …"

"Kinda what?" He shouldn't have asked.

"Horny." He really shouldn't have asked.

"O-oh." His face was beet red as she stared at the side of his face. He didn't grow up around girls, so he wasn't sure how to handle them very well, especially a straight forward something demon that wanted to mate with him. Inuyasha turned to her with a look of curiosity. "Hey, what kind of demon are you, anyway?"

"Wanna see?" she asked, a sly smirk crossing her face. He really should just stop asking any sort of questions, particularly ones having to do with her in any physical manner. He should stick to questions that had to do with how he was going to control himself and how he could activate his demon stuff.

"Uhhh, I'll pass." An adorable pout took over her face, her lips puckered as she glared at him slightly. "Can you tell what kind of demon I am?"

"Sorta, mostly based off of your name, but …" she sniffed at him. "You don't really have a scent or anything. I thought it was extremely odd at first when I couldn't sense you coming to throw me into the water, but it kinda makes sense, seeing as you've been hiding it your whole life. Not to mention you're pretty purified having been living in a shrine for so long ... I bet if you were to mate with me I could tell you," she hummed seductively.

"No."

"You promised! I thought monks were men of their word."

"Look, I apparently don't even know my own body and I'm already in my seventeenth year, or maybe I'm not! Who knows! I obviously don't know anything about myself! So, please, please, allow me the time to get used to this at least a little bit before I have to mate with you, okay?" He let out a huge puff of air in frustration, his head falling back as his body came up to float in the water. She sighed and turned to wade back over to sit on the rocks again, giving up on her conquest for the time being.

"Fine, but I can't wait more than a week; there are already demons that have tried to mate with me on their own accord. Me being in heat puts me at risk until I mate with someone. I chose you out of hundreds of suitors." She spat the word like it was of the devil - she would know - and her face turned sour at the mention.

"You said they keep coming around, I assume that means your home is near here."

"Not near. Here," her head gestured toward what looked like a nest of blankets and clothes up on a dryer area of the rocks that lay beneath the falls. This was her den, then. "Black panthers are hard to mate with, so everybody wants a piece of this."

"You're a black panther?" His head shot up out of the water to look at her. Inuyasha wouldn't say it aloud but he thought that that was so cool! "Can you, like, shapeshift?" The smirk on her face told him that she most definitely could.

"Yeah, but … I can't until I mate with someone …" Her smirk became a grimace and she sent him a firm glare.

"Wow, so much focused on the whole mating thing. Well, what about me? Can I use any of my demon abilities for my priest training?"

"Possibly," she shrugged. "You might even be able to use your demonic reiki in place of the normal. It'd be a hell of a lot more powerful, I'll tell you that much."

"Wait, like how priests form a bond with their bow and arrows and send their reiki in the weapon?"

"Yeah, I've seen it done a few times, but it isn't for the faint of heart. It will drain you, but it'll be hella powerful, ya'd probably explode the target," she mused. "Anyway, how long do you plan on making me wait? You realize that I could jump your bones and have my way with you right here and now, right?" Inuyasha glanced over at her before snorting.

"For some reason, I have a feeling that that's as empty as a threat can possibly be. You said that you wanted to mate with a demon stronger than yourself, didn't you?" There was that glare again. "And seeing as you want to mate with me, I'm guessing that I'm more powerful a demon than you are and that you can sense it. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure you would've jumped me already."

"Fine," she sighed. "Can you at least do me a favour?"

"And what's that?" He didn't like the feeling that went through him as she slid back down into the pool. "Kagome?" She looked at him seriously before pushing all of her hair to one side, leaving her left shoulder and neck bare.

"Leave your mark on me so that others won't bother me as much?"

"Mark? What mark?"

"The mating mark. It happens when you mate, usually, but if circumstances won't allow for the mind-blowing sex that comes with the whole ritual, then the male can leave the signature bite mark on his intended to show … ownership. Think of it kind of like how humans give presents to their fiance."

"Woah, what? Fiance? Is mating like getting married for demons? I thought it was just a sexual thing."

"If it were just a sexual thing, do you think I would have waited an entire month for the right male to come along? The answer is no, I wouldn't have. I would've just fucked the first male of strength that came along and been done with it."

"Watch your mouth," he warned, giving her a look that had those ears of hers laying flat again.

"Sorry … can you … can you just bite me, please?"

"Look … I don't even know you. If this bite is like proposing to you then I don't think that I can do it."

"But you already promised to mate with me! That's what mating is! It's like getting married only …"

"Only what?"

"N-nothing."

"Kagome, what were you about to say?" He grabbed her arm before she could get away from him. "If you want me to mate with you, you can't keep things from me. Spill."

"It's kinda a lot … worse."

"What? Worse than getting married? How?"

"You can't really be separated for too long without it taking a toll on you physically, but that's only before you complete the mating process. It's the engagement that will be difficult when we're apart. That's why I want to just get it over with now, but if you insist on waiting, I at least want the bite."

"Today was supposed to be a stress-free day," he sighed. "Fine, what do I do?"

"Really? You'll do it?"

"Just the bite for now. A promise is a promise."

"Okay," she smiled up at him, excitement swirling in her glorious gaze of azul. "You have to bite on either side of the vein that's in the side of my neck. Right here," she pointed.

"What if … what if my fangs come out as far as they did last time? Will it," he gulped. "Kill you?"

"I don't think they will if we do this right, not that you will …"

"Excuse me?"

"Well," she began, nibbling at her bottom lip. "It would probably be safer if we made out a little, that way your demon is really aware of what's going on. You have to at least have a physical attraction to me for your teeth not to rip through my throat." Physical attraction wasn't going to be an issue.

"Make out?" Was it getting hot in here? "You mean like kissing a-and stuff?"

"Yes," she rolled her eyes. "Like kissing and stuff." She threw him a smirk. "Or you could just bite me and kill me doing it, your choice."

"Inuyasha! Where are you going?! You still need to bite me!" Inuyasha had tucked his sad little tail between his legs and opted out of the whole 'kissing and stuff' thing, his conscience too strong for him to waver over the possibility of indulging in his brief fantasies of combing his fingers through her hair or … gripping her hips as she ground up against him, among other things. He didn't even know where such explicit make-believe had come from! He was a monk; a priest in training. It wasn't until he met her that he suddenly began entertaining such unwholesome thoughts! He had come to the conclusion that she was to blame for his impure notions. So, he had quickly slipped away from her while her back had been turned, put his clothes on in a rush, and made a break for it. Needless to say, she caught on quickly and was right behind him, looking like she was about to rip out his throat.

"I can't. I can't do it."

"You promised!" she screeched, making him halt momentarily before continuing on his way. "You're not a monk or a priest or whatever! You're just a liar! A filthy, good for nothing, idiotic, self-satisfying liar!" And that was the last straw. He snapped, spinning around for her face to crash into his chest. Thankfully, it seemed to swallow up whatever other crude remarks she had had to say about him. It wasn't about what she had said, it was that she was right. He had made a promise and he was running away from it. Why? Because he was scared - scared of ruining everything he had ever worked for. He wanted to be a priest, strived for it, and yet here he was with a demon temptress in the middle of the woods about to mark her because he was a fucking demon, too. He didn't like it, but he couldn't change it. The only thing he could do was hold his head up high and keep his promises like a man; he was a man of his word, dammit, and no matter how horrified he was of enticing escapades of the sexual nature, he would fulfill his promise.

He steeled himself as he pushed her up against a nearby tree with a strength he didn't know he possessed. He could feel his fangs begin to sprout as he got closer to her throat and, testing their length by dragging them against her shoulder, confidentiality bit down just as she had shown him to earlier. The sound that was pulled from her was a mixture of pleasure and pain and he bit down just a bit more for good measure before removing his canines from her jugular. She didn't fall to the ground in a heap, she wouldn't let herself, but her legs looked like they were ready to give out at any given moment. He stood back as he watched her mark beginning to sear. Her chest was heaving as she endured the pain, her knuckles turning white as she clenched them so tight that her palms began to bleed. She finally allowed herself to fall as the bite had stopped burning, her skin covered in a sheen of sweat, but she felt herself being lifted; her blurry vision telling her that Inuyasha was carrying her back to the waterfall. Her head rested against his chest and she found herself dozing off in his hold.

When she woke back up, she was in her den, the moon illuminating the cascade so that she wasn't left in complete darkness. Her eyes darted around, the subject of her search nowhere in sight - the little snake. She went to stand, but twitched at the pain in her neck. Bringing her hand up to lightly trace the branding mark, her eyes widened in astonishment.

"That … that can't be right," she mumbled, scrambling up to go look at the reflection in the water to no avail. It was too dark for her to see it properly, but … Kagome's heart began to race at the thought; if he were who she thought he was … she shook her head. He couldn't be.

T-t-t-that's all for now, folks!

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