Inuyasha
Chapter 4: Timing
He knows of what was going on between them, he always kept a tab on them just as much as how Sesshoumaru was out to search for him, his half-brother, that alone made him snarl silently in the dark. The memories that he has of the Great Dog General Sesshoumaru was enough to make his blood boil as his eyes bleed red, Kagome was another matter who had slept and fraternize with the enemy. His roar of anger rattled the glass panel of the abandoned factory that he had attained through his contacts as he slashed at the wall creating claw streaks on the wall as part of the wall crumbled to the ground.
Tessaiga refused to work for him centuries ago, now the sword laid rusting and collecting dust before of him. The sword had even repelled him, but due to some workings of a demon, he was able to hold it now, but it lay untransformed. There is a slim chance of it being able to work again, but he would need to fulfill certain requirements, but that was not the real goal for his returning to Tokyo, Japan to seek Kagome out, for a far simpler reasoning.
"Sesshoumaru?" Kagome mumbled as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes, turning to her side in the bed as she turns to see Sesshoumaru not there.
The Daiyoukai heard her waking as she called for him, something that pleased him greatly, as he walked back into his room to regard her, taking on his side of the bed. Their arrangement remained unchanged, but since Inuyasha's return, they had not copulated, or do anything more, but mostly shared their skin-ship of sleeping in the same bed as she would often reach out to him for comfort.
"Was this showing weakness? Was she being unfaithful to her own chosen mate?" She had asked herself that a few times, but decided to just let it slide as him needing to understand that she was not at his beck and as punishment to him for thinking that he could walk in and out of her life like he was staying in a hotel, or that she was someone disposable. Another question came to mind, "Am I using him as a form of revenge she wanted against Inuyasha?"
She could feel his presence beside of her in bed as she turned her head to face him, her eyes showing her conflict in them as Kagome chewed on her lower lips as his cold eyes looked at her. Sesshoumaru it seemed had reverted back to being how he used to be before they had started this arrangement, but sometimes, like now, she noticed how his eyes would ever so minutely looked to her lips.
Kagome reached out to him as she placed her forehead on his shoulder, leaning in to his warmth and drawing comfort from his presence. She did not know how to face Inuyasha, and Sesshoumaru himself was treating him indifferently as he always had.
"Are you going to leave me?" Kagome asked as she looked up at him, her eye searches his face for a sign of his reaction and his answer.
When Sesshoumaru did not waver or answered her, she straightened her back a little as she turned her body towards him, leaning in closer to him until their lips is a mere few hairs apart. Their lips barely touched but it felt like a wind or a ghost had kissed them upon their lips as his eyes darkened every so slightly at the action, but his breathing remained even as is his cool face that did not changed or moved an inch.
"You do not want this," Sesshoumaru snarled at her in a low tone as he gently pushed her away.
It was a contradiction really, but he had already broke that sacrilege of her bond with Inuyasha and slept with her. He was no saint for sure, never was, with her, she brought out the carnal animalistic side of him, and not in a bad way. Now that Inuyasha is back he did not want to get any further than this point at the moment, least she lashed out at him and returned to the half-breed side. He hated the idea of it but he would easily let it go, and resumed his life again before their agreed arrangement.
"How would you know," she whispered softly in a hiss to him, eyes wide looking at him with a frown marring her brow. Something he had not intended, but until she could clear her mind and know what it is that she wanted.
"Will you leave me, or leave him," he threw the question back at her to which he saw the conflict in her eyes as she was unable to answer him and bit on her inner cheek at his words, her eyes and nostrils flared a in silent anger.
Kagome licked her lips as she swallowed, unsure even of herself of the answer that she would give him. She did not want to leave either of them, but she realized that Inuyasha did not make her heart beat as fast in thought as it did to Sesshoumaru. She had realized that when she was weighing of the situation. Kagome did not hid her scent or Sesshoumaru's own and was more than sure that Inuyasha had smelt it on her of their intimacy, but how much of an intimacy does he know that she shared with Sesshoumaru, was something that she did not know and could leave it to being a wild guess.
He did not want to listen to her give him a decision as he got up and left the room, leaving Kagome alone on her own again as she heard the sound of him moving further away from her. It was almost crushing, the emotion of it was something that is somewhat foreign, but he had felt somewhat the same as when Rin had died. She felt alone again, something that made her feel cold even if she is wrapped up in his bed under the blanket.
"Kagome," she heard a male voice call out to her as she turn to see Inuyasha walking briskly up to her, his black suit jacket flapping from the wind as his red dress shirt was not fully buttoned up.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome mumbled beneath her breathe, a frown on her face as she gazed at him, taking a step back, her body telling her to walk away from him.
"I was waiting for you," he said calmly stopping before of her as he regarded Kagome with cold kind eyes. Something that she finds a contradiction and he made her feel suspicious.
"Why," she asked
"I wanted to take you out for dinner," he said, "to reconnect again," he added as he allowed her to take it in.
"…I can't see you right now," she hissed at him, her annoyance rising with her anger as Kagome walked away from him, wanting to leave the school ground.
"Hey! Kagome!" her classmates called out to her, as a few of them walked up to her whilst shooting looks in Inuyasha direction.
"Please think about it Kagome," Inuyasha told her as he took his phone to give her phone a miss call, "that's my number, I hope that you'll reconsider," he said as she walked away from her.
He said 'Please,' something that she had not expected coming from Inuyasha. The centuries have really changed him into someone that even she was not sure was really him.
"Who is he? Is he single?" her female classmate asked as she turned her head to look at Inuyasha's retreating form in interest.
"Is something the matter?" Kagome asked, changing the topic as she continued walking with her group of friends now.
Being possessive is part and package of the bond, but it did not make her heart skip a beat or made her feel jealous. "Yea, we're planning a goukon, and we're one person short…"
"And you want me to join you guys?" she asked already knowing their intention when they mentioned the goukon to her.
"Could you please? The guys that are coming are all good looking," the said whilst nudging her to join them.
Kagome contemplated for a moment, but reluctantly agreed in the end. She had wanted to return to Sesshoumaru's apartment, return to him and talk to him, to be in his arms mainly, and for him to comfort her. Kagome messaged Sesshoumaru hoping that he would reply her, especially after what happened this morning, she was feeling anxious of being abandon and left alone again.
Sesshoumaru saw the message, but was hesitant in replying it as he put his private phone aside in favor of more 'pressing' work in which he had his secretary to bring up. There was really no telling if Kagome would be staying over with him or if she had reconcile with his half-breed half-brother that had walked out of her life and now walked back in like nothing bad had ever happened. He growled at the invading thoughts of what they might possibly be doing and snarled out as he slammed his hands on the table, creating cracks in it was now a mere feather weight away from breaking.
He never really did reply, and Kagome kept toying with her phone, checking for a reply or something from him, but nothing. Her friends dragged her along as they chattered excitedly about the goukon and the guys that are coming, something that which she drowned out as she followed them to the agreed location.
Kagome had never really drunk that much as she checked her phone when she is in the washroom.
"Isn't Hiro-kun just the cutest and coolest?" her friends were talking as she entered the washroom, knowing that Kagome was there still.
"Ne Kagome-chan, can I have him?" Kagome was asked as her friend turned hopeful eyes towards her.
"Okay?" she said with a half smile unsure why she was being asked that. None of the men that were there at the goukon had caught her attention and she had been more focus on drinking and eating.
"Thanks so much! Though Miyano-kun seem to be giving you the eye from across the table," she hinted in a singsong voice as Kagome glanced at her with sigh.
"I guess," Kagome said with a light shrug and a light smile before she left the washroom telling her that she will return to the table.
Kagome smiled at the people around the table as she sat down and drank the sake in which she had ordered as compared to drinking the same beer that the rest are drinking down.
"You hold your liquor well, you've drank about more than half a bottle of the sake," a male said as he took a seat next to her after having excuse himself. Tousled messy black brown hair as he poured Kagome another cup of sake, re-filling it for her.
"Thank you," Kagome said as she drank half the glass of newly poured sake.
"I'm Miyano Naomi," he introduced, reaching a hand out to shake her with a smile as Kagome did the same.
"Kagome," she supplied shaking his hand as she turned her eyes away from him to check her phone.
"It is still rather early, but if you want, we could leave this party together and head to somewhere more comfortable instead of joining them for karaoke?" he suggested a little bit too fast as Kagome looked at him with a raised brow.
"I was just checking for my message," Kagome told the other, not at all interested in the underlying suggestion that the other might have in mind.
"Oh? What's your interest?" he asked her trying to change the topic to gain her interest.
"Nothing much," she returned with a shrug, not at all that interested in the other male or his attempt in making conversation with her when her mind is adrift elsewhere.
Silence befall them as Kagome poured for herself more sake to drink from, glancing briefly at the male who seem to be at a conflict with himself, chewing on his lower lips as his browed knitted together in a frown.
"Erm okay,"
"I'm sorry, but perhaps you might like to turn your sight to another in this party," Kagome told him, as she poured for herself a new cup of sake toasting it to him with a mild tilt as she finished up her cup of sake.
"I'm sorry," she apologized, standing in preparation to leave as the male shifted in position to let her move pass him.
She left after letting her friends know, and took a cab back to Sesshoumaru's apartment, not being able to really take the silence between them. She had thought to return to her own apartment but she did not want to because of the possibility that Inuyasha might be there, but mainly because she will be alone.
"Sesshoumaru?" Kagome called out as she entered the mansion apartment that he owns, stumbling over her foot a little as she took off her shoe at the entry way.
It was in the safety of his house that she felt her alcohol finally getting to her as she move and maneuver her body through the rooms where Sesshoumaru might likely be. The scent of him in the house is strong and it already warms her up and left her feeling more secured, except that there was still the coldness in her that she felt.
"Sesshoumaru?" she called out again, her voice wavering as she looked into the darkness of the place.
"What do you want miko," he asked, standing behind of her in the doorway as Kagome ventured into the bedroom that they have been sharing since she stayed over.
It was really a stab when he called out the term that he would address her by in the past, as Kagome turned around on her heel, stumbling a little as she nearly lost balance. Sesshoumaru caught her around the waist as he held her to his chest, as he breathed in her scent and the alcohol on her. Kagome clutched onto him, her eyes closed as she thanked him in a soft voice, but did not move from her position.
"You're drunk," he accused, holding her at arms length as Kagome looked at him confused.
"Not really," she slurred.
"Go wash up and get clean," he ordered her sharply with a fierce reprimanding look on his face.
"Don't leave me," she finally said, grabbing onto Sesshoumaru as she wrapped her arms around his back, not wanting to let go of him.
His heart skipped a beat at the hopefulness that he is feeling from what she is telling him, "You're drunk," Sesshoumaru repeated again smelling the alcohol on her and worrying that it might be what is causing her to say what he hope is not on a whim and wanted confirmation of.
"Tipsy, not drunk," Kagome mumbled, not wanting to let him go, but also because she feel that she could not trust her legs at the moment.
"What of that half-breed then," he hissed out the 'half-breed' part like it is poison.
"What of him," she mumbled looking up into the cold pool of golden eyes.
"You're his mate," Sesshoumaru growled out at her, pushing her away from him as he walked away from her in disgust.
"Then help me," she threw it back at him as the first time that he had made the suggestion to her.
"Wh-" he snarled at her turning to face her, but instead she had closed the distance between them and jumped him.
Instinctively flipping her to lay under of him, her eyes were glazed over in a darker shade of hazel, as it seemed to glow a heated shade of amber in his eyes. Her hand was around of his neck and another behind of his head as Kagome guided his head down so their lips would meet in a hungry passion that she was just as contagious. He had resisted at first but in the end, his possessiveness and want to claim her overruled his rational side.
They did not even make it to the bed, as he practically tore her clothes off in their heated passion, fired and fueled by the touches of one another as he carried her with her legs wrapped around his waist and banged her up against the wall. Their lips were locked in a fight for dominance, nipping and biting the other neither wanted to give away the position until she was distracted by his penetration as her body arched up against his, her head thrown back against the wall that was cushioned by Sesshoumaru's hand to prevent her from hurting herself. And least to say, the rest of the night was just as passionate and well spent as it did the next day when both of them called in to take leave or report sick.
"Will you break your mating bond," Sesshoumaru asked her again in a murmur as Kagome snuggled up against his chest, her head resting on one of his arm the other wrapped around of her waist.
"Need I reply," Kagome mumbled the question in her sleep haze as she reached to pull the coverlet up to cover her body.
"Answer me," he demanded, a growl in his voice his gripped around of her waist tightened a little more.
"Yes," she replied his with a sigh, shifting her body a little, "Is there a way to?" she asked him, opening an eye as she peeked up at him.
"Rest, leave it to me," he told her, nuzzling her neck as he drew the thin coverlet up to cover the both of them whilst tucking her in.
It was not until a few days later that tan arrangement had been made where he would challenge Inuyasha, the rights to mate with her. It was perhaps old school not that he had not tried marking her, but this was to make it more permanent, and also the right way to settle things once and for all. The arrangement for a location however, proves to be a little trickier as compared to the past, and also there was Kagome to take into consideration.
"Perfect," he purred dangerously, his eyes glowing red for a moment at the challenge that was to come in order for either of them to claim Kagome.
It was the perfect timing, and he could not ask for any other better timing than this.
A/N:
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