An Old Flame
A.N. Bet you didnt see this one coming, lol Rate and Review.
Kagome sighed in defeat. It seemed no matter how much she swept the shrine grounds the leaves just kept falling from the trees, the wind scattering her piles. Finally she gave up, deciding that the whole point of autumn was to see the beautiful leaves. She sat on the porch watching the patrons set up their booths for the night's festival. Her mother rushed around her smile bright. Kagome could tell she missed this. She laughed to herself as she watched her late grandfather's cat Buyo get himself tangled in a string of lights and her mother rush over to detangle him. The breeze ruffled her hair and a small smile tugged at her lips. Maybe this place wasn't so bad after all.
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"Stop it." Sesshoumaru growled.
His beast laughed in response. Sesshoumaru had barely slept for the past few days, for every time he closed his eyes, his beast conjured up an image of that wench. He growled again and buried his head under the pillow.
"She tasted delicious." His beast mused. "And did you see that rack? Oh and that firm little ass."
Sesshoumaru sat up and roared. This was ridiculous. "I should've just let her die." He threw off the covers and pulled on some clothes.
InuYasha burst in and leaned against the doorframe. "Who's got your panties in a bunch, Fluffy?"
Sesshoumaru ignored him as he pulled on a shirt and stuffed his feet in his shoes. Grabbing a jacket and his keys he left the room. He paused at the top of the stairs knowing InuYasha still watched him. Without turning around he spoke. "Did you know she was the Shikon Miko?"
"Yes."
"When?"
InuYasha knew he was referring to when he found out. "The day you kicked her out of the gang house, I went after her."
"Against orders." Sesshoumaru stated.
"Yes," InuYasha's ears twitched in painful memory, "she almost killed me."
"Hn." Was all Sesshoumaru said before he continued down the stairs and left. Moments later InuYasha heard a car roar to life and pull out of the driveway. He shook his head and went to his room to call Kikyo.
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Kagome watched the festival underway. The night was perfectly cool, the sky clear, the moon full. She walked through the stalls smiling at the children and their parents. The crisp scent of fall was thick, mixing with the aroma of food from various stalls.
She wondered what it would be like to be innocent again. To be ignorant of the evils of the world that lurked in the shadows. To really and truly be happy again to not have the blood of hundreds on her hands. To not have hate in her heart. And most of all to not have to deal with assholes like Sesshoumaru. Had she not suffered enough at the hands of Naraku? Why did he feel the need to attack her? And what the hell was his deal with healing her and kissing her after all the shit he put her through? What the hell was his problem? What did he want from her?!
Kagome sighed and raked her hands down her face, a bitter chuckle escaping her throat. She shivered feeling eyes on her and her skin tingled. She felt the familiar presence long before the air began to heat around her. "Konnichiwa Andres."
A low chuckle sounded behind her. "Hola mi amor." A silky bass said, the tone reverberating through her. Gentle heat caressing her exposed skin.
She sighed removing the large hands that settled on her shoulders and turned to face the demon behind her. His 6'10, 270 pound frame towered over her, a living brick wall, his presence impossible to ignore. Deadly strength rippled beneath tanned skin that betrayed his Spanish and Moor youkai origins. Long black hair cascaded down his broad back.
"I've missed you, Kagome." He said, his voice bringing her attention to his face. Ruggedly handsome features with a devilish grin that screamed mischief. The markings on his face could just barely be seen in the dark but she knew they were there. A light golden outline of scales wove around his left eye, spreading down his cheek to his neck and disappearing beneath the collar of his shirt. She knew the delicate pattern continued down his chest and left arm. Finally she looked him in the eye. Emeralds, pure emeralds stared back at her with reptilian pupils; they narrowed as she stared up at him. "You've changed querida." He said.
"Take me flying." She whispered. Kagome closed her eyes and stepped into his embrace her arms barely reaching around him her face buried in his chest. Andres' warmth engulfed her, his sweet smoky scent soothing.
"Who has made you so cold again?" Andres kissed the top of her head and pulled her into the trees. He could sense her distress as they walked in silence. She was slipping; he had not seen her this far gone since after Naraku died. After his demise she had closed in on herself for a while but had bounced back with the formation for the Dark Maidens. He was one of the few who had seen her at her weakest, had seen the horrors she endured and had been partially responsible. He had been enslaved as she had.
They stopped walking when they came to a suitable clearing and Andres reluctantly stepped away from Kagome. Kagome watched as he was engulfed in swirling flames, squinting against the brightness and heat as it washed over her. When the flames receded she was rewarded with a comforting sight, Andres in youkai form. A three story golden hued dragon stood before her, his head the size of a VW bug level with her. Kagome reached out to touch the smooth warm scales.
'Get on Kagome.' Andres' soothing voice whispered in her mind. Kagome climbed up on his back as she had done so long ago. With a great beat of his wings they rose into the air. Kagome closed her eyes, the rush of cool air stinging her cheeks and tugging the tie from her ponytail letting the locks whip out behind her. Andres flew high above the trees, feeling Kagome's small form relax above him. 'What troubles you?' he asked.
'Nothing and yet everything.' She sighed. Kagome spread out her arms the wind catching the sleeves of her haori. 'I wish I could fly.' And without warning she slipped off his back and plummeted towards the ground. Andres immediately dove for her hearing the pained whisper of her mind, 'You left me.' Andres caught her carefully in his claws and continued their descent, landing gracefully on the ground and returning to his humanoid form.
"What were you thinking?!" he demanded once they were on the ground shaking her.
"You left me." She whispered. Andres paused taken aback by her sudden sadness. "You didn't even say goodbye."
"Corazon you didn't need me anymore. I was just a reminder of what you had endured."
Kagome suddenly turned angry and slapped him, the skin on his face sizzling for a moment before healing and leaving no trace of the blow. "You were a reminder that I had survived, that I could survive! Who said I didn't need you?"
Andres loosened his grip on her shoulders. "You were strong again. You are the Shikon Miko leader of the Dark Maidens. You didn't need me to protect you anymore."
Tears rolled down her cheeks and she angrily brushed them away. It was then that Andres noticed the acid green teardrop on her face. "Who has done this to you Kagome? Who have you allowed to hurt you so?"
Kagome threw her arms around him sobbing hysterically. Andres picked her up and carried her back to the shrine, slipping into the house while Mrs. Higurashi was still preoccupied with the festival. He followed her scent through the house and up to her room, lying down on her bed and letting her curl up beside him. "Sleep, amor."
She looked up at him, blue eyes pleading. "Don't leave."
"I wont." He promised. Kagome sighed laying her head on his chest; his soothing warmth lulling her to sleep.
Andres stroked her hair. Someone had harmed her and he wanted blood. Kami if only she knew how much it had killed him to leave her. He never really had left, just blocked his youki from her and was always near in case she needed him, she never had. But once she moved to the shrine he really had left. He figured she would be safe now, it seems he was wrong.
Again he was guilty of her being hurt. It still ate at him constantly. He had been the one driving the car when Naraku first kidnapped her. He had been the one to drag her kicking and screaming back to the Advocates every time she tried to escape until she finally realized that he would always find her. He had watched her blossom from a pretty young girl to a beautiful and powerful miko and had regrettably stood aside as Naraku took advantage of her. He had been the one to help her learn to defend herself from the other Advocates. He had watched her hope and innocence die, her love of life fade and yet still she had forgiven him of his transgressions against her and could lean on him as a trusted friend and confidant.
If only she knew how much he loved her. She was his star, his light in the darkness. She had changed the way he saw the world, saw life; made him want to be better than he was. Andres knew he would kill for her, would die for her if he had to.
As Andres lay there holding her, listening to her soft breathing and the faint sounds of the festival he vowed never to leave her again. "I will stay by your side through whatever ails you and then I shall make you mine."
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Andres awoke to a sharp pain in his stomach. He opened his eyes to Kagome sitting up beside him on the bed and cradling her fist. "Fuck, that hurt!" she cursed under her breath. Andres chuckled and Kagome glared at him. "I should've fried your ass."
"You wouldn't hurt me."
"Bullshit I've done it before." Kagome said standing up and stretching. Even in wrinkled miko garb with bed head, Andres thought she was still beautiful.
Kagome began to loosen her clothes and made her way to the adjoining bathroom. She left the door partially open and turned on the water. Andres heard her shed her clothes and the metallic clink of her taking off her armband and setting it on the counter.
"So how has school been?" he asked.
She snorted and grumbled something about asshole demons as she stepped into the shower.
"Boyfriend trouble already?" he chuckled.
"I wish that was all it was." She sighed lathering her hair. "Have you heard of the Hell Inu and the Lethal Ladies?"
"Yes." Andres answered. Of course he knew of Sesshoumaru and Kagura, their gangs were some of the strongest on the streets. "Why?"
"They go to my school."
Andres' mind clicked and he rushed in the bathroom, throwing open the shower door.
"What the hell Andres?" Kagome shrieked. Andres captured her face in his hands, running his thumb over the green teardrop beneath her eye. Now he knew why it was so familiar, it was Sesshoumaru's way of marking those who crossed him.
"What is up with these demons wanting to see me naked?" Kagome grumbled deciding it was futile to try and cover herself.
"He marked you? Why, what hap-wait! He saw you naked?" Andres yelled.
"Yes and yes." Kagome said looking away.
"What has been going on?"
"Well Souta joined the Hell Inu and-"
"Souta joined a gang?" Andres asked in disbelief. Kagome glared at him. "Lo siento."
"And Sesshoumaru, I don't think he liked me from the beginning."
"Why?"
"I don't know. I never really did anything to him."
"Then why did he mark you?"
"Well I did slap him one time, but he deserved it." She sighed. "Things went downhill from there."
Kagome pulled away from him and turned around to give him her back. "They might be a little faint."
"No I see them." Andres whispered. He ran his hand over her wet back gently tracing the crisscrossing pink lines marring her porcelain skin. "Did he do this to you?"
"No it was his brother's punishment."
"What?"
"He thought his brother and I were having an affair."
"Were you?"
Kagome snorted. "No, but that didn't stop him. It was his brother punishment to whip me for fraternizing with the enemy, and mine to receive it for being the enemy."
"When did this happen?"
"About two weeks ago maybe."
"How did you heal so fast?" Andres asked confused, knowing that it should've taken her longer to heal this far since she couldn't heal herself.
"He did it."
"Que?"
"Yea I know. I was getting sick because the wounds became infected. But I sucked it up and went to school anyway."
"You always were so stubborn." Andres mumbled.
"Well I wasn't going to let him win." Kagome retorted. "But I got really sick one day and I think I had a fever and passed out. I only remember bits and pieces, a really cold shower and pain in my back. When I woke up I was laying in bed in just my panties and her was licking my back." She said the last part in a rush.
"Perdon?"
"He's Inu Taiyoukai."
"Healing saliva. It's still gross."
"He kissed me." She whispered.
Andres was quiet.
"I don't know why he did it; if I wasn't so weak I would've killed him."
"What's stopping you now?" Andres asked through clenched teeth.
"I don't want to kill anymore." she whispered. "And I don't want a gang war on my hands."
"Kagome you are too strong for your own good." Andres said.
Kagome looked over her shoulder at him. "Can I finish my shower now?"
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"You don't have to do this you know?"
Andres straightened his collar. "Well I never went to high school, might as well kill two birds with one stone."
"Ugh, you are incorrigible. I don't need a body guard."
"Don't think of me as a body guard then, think of me as a very intimidating shadow."
"I liked you better when you didn't talk as much." Kagome grumbled.
Andres wrapped his arms around her. "Querida you wound me."
"Oh shut up. We're going to be late for school."
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Kagura stopped talking mid-sentence.
"Uh hello? Earth to wind-bitch." Kikyo said waving her hand in front on Kagura's face.
"Watch your mouth." Kagura mumbled, smacking away Kikyo's hand. Kikyo and Sango turned to see what had captured their leader's attention so thoroughly.
Walking with that bitch Kagome Higurashi, his arm draped possessively over her shoulders was one of the sexiest demons she had ever laid eyes on. Molten caramel skin, luscious blue black hair she itched to tangle her fingers in. Oh Kami she would love to run her tongue over the marks on his face, to drown in the emerald pools of his eyes. She was brought out of her stupor when Sango elbowed her in the side.
"Careful, Kagura you're drooling." Sango giggled.
"Where the hell did she get a demon like that?" Kikyo asked in awe.
"I don't know, but I will find out." Kagura said.
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Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed at the demon standing behind Kagome as she placed her books in her locker. His beast growled when the demon took one of her books and held it above her head. He watched as he pulled her to him when she reached for it and then leaned down to whisper in her ear, a blush staining her cheeks in response.
'Looks like we may have some competition.' His beast growled.
'There is no competition, because there is no worthy prize.' Sesshoumaru responded as he passed Kagome and the demon.
A foreign voice bludgeoned his mind unexpectedly leaving him dazed for a moment. 'And that is where you are wrong.'
Sesshoumaru turned knowing somehow that the voice had come from the new demon. The demon smirked at him, his eyes flashing in a challenge before he turned back to Kagome and ignored the angry Inu Taiyoukai behind him.