Every Dog Has His Day
Chapter 10
A Rock and a Hard Place
Okay…so it has only been a few months (years)…err yeah..Anyway, this was half written…well like 9 months ago, but a lot of crazy things have been happening.
Characters: (Because I just finished mapping out the rest of the story, and discovered that there are going to be quite a few characters involved, and this character guide might help keep everything straight.) The italics indicate the meaning of the characters name.
The Lords
Dai: large, great, Ox demon from the South East, he used to be a trusted ally of Sesshomaru, now sided with Reizo. (for unknown reason)
Kaemon: Joyful. Lion demon from the South. He sides with Reizo.
Reizo: cool, calm. Piranha demon from the East. He has the jewel shard, and is leading the side intent on war.
Rinji: peaceful forest. A tree demon, from the great forest. He sides with Sesshomaru…but has some doubts.
Benjiro: enjoys peace. Eagle demon from the mountains. He sides with Sesshomaru.
Chinatsu: a thousand summers, an elemental (earthy) demon from the North, she sides with Sesshomaru.
Advisors
Kano: masculine power. Panther demon, he is Kaemon's advisor. (He lusts after Kagome)
Servants
Yei: Flourishing Head of Sesshomaru's staff. Older elemental demon.
Aneko: Older sister. Red squirrel demon, wants to help Kagome.
Maiya: beautiful forever…Sanskrit meaning: illusion. Minx demon
Sesshomaru's guards
Haruko: first born. Dog demon, loyal soldier, brother of Toshi.
Toshi: mirror image. Dog demon, loyal soldier, brother of Haruko.
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Kagome swallowed as it seemed all the weight in her body dropped down into her feet and rooted her to the spot. His amber cat eyes glowed from across the room. Suddenly what Aneko had said about predatory demons flew into Kagome's thoughts. Don't panic in front of them, don't look like prey.
Making the decision to not look as afraid as she felt, Kagome raised her eyes and squared her jaw. A smile split the demon's face; clearly her actions were amusing him in some way. But dammit if she was screwed she was not going to act like a coward in front of that smiling bastard.
"Well, well so this is where Master Inuyasha has put his human." The jaguar spoke.
At this point all the occupants of the table stopped in their conversations and turned to look at what had caught the demon's attention.
The golden haired Lord Kaemon looked at his adviser curiously. "Kano do you know this servant?"
The jaguar let his eyes roam her form smugly, before answering.
"Oh yes I encountered this creature bathing with our gracious host's baby brother."
Kagome seethed, as she fought to keep her facial expression passive.
The golden haired lord laughed at his adviser, a rich hearty onslaught of amusement. He also let his gaze travel over the pretty young human.
"I bet you did." He chortled.
As he said this Inuyasha was already standing and Sesshomaru raised a hand, staying him from doing anything too hasty. Kagome wouldn't mind hasty though, the jaguar's eyes were not friendly, but it was the piranha demons inhuman focus on her that had her holding her breath. Those bulging black eyes were intensely creepy.
"Look cat…" Inuyasha began, but Sesshomaru cut through with a crisp and distinctly irritated tone.
"Kano if you are going to allow a human female to distract you from the matters at hand, then I can have her removed from the room."
Kano cast a glance at the Lord of the West from the corner of his eye, catching sight of Inuyasha's furious expression in the process.
"My apologies." He murmured but it was clear that it was merely for show, as he still kept himself half turned towards Kagome. She could still feel the attention in the room on her.
Kaemon snorted, coming to the aid of his adviser like an overprotective parent.
"Of course he was distracted by this human, what is a human doing here anyway?" The golden haired Lord said it lightly, and without any heavy accusation.
"Oh unless you've inherited your father's proclivities." This shot was directed at Inuyasha. The man laughed again, a hearty sound. This was met with stifled laughs from the rest of the table.
"Enough, Sesshomaru send the human out, so certain demons can think with their rational head once again." Chinatsue declared cutting through the prattling of the Lords and advisors. Lord Sesshomaru arched an eyebrow slowly as he took in the commanding woman. Kagome could only guess that authoritative women were somewhere on the infinitely long list of things that annoyed the Lord of the West.
Regardless of whether or not Sesshomaru appreciated her comment he did concede. "Girl." He spoke.
His voice was low, and Kagome started, realizing he was actually addressing her.
"Leave this room."
Kagome could only stare blankly for a moment. A blush crept up her neck a she continued to be the sole focus of the room. Kano smirked as he observed her nervous visage.
Jerking herself into action, Kagome quickly bowed remembering the position she was in.
"Of course Lord Sesshomaru."
She turned and proceeded out of the room. Every step she took she was forced to remind herself not to run. With her back to the table of predators, Kagome could feel every cell in her body move as the weight of the demons' stares were setting her skin on fire.
As she finally reached the door she sucked in a breath, as she heard a movement, like someone got up.
Adrenalin began to flood her system as opened the door. There was more movement behind, then a loud crack.
She didn't dare look back; she just quickly moved into the hallway and shut the door behind her with a resound thwack.
Her heart pounded in her own ears as she strained to hear any more sounds from the room. Was someone going to come bursting through that door?
The tense moment wore on, and Kagome finally had to remind herself to let out the breath she was holding. It seemed like no one else was coming through the door.
Kagome clenched and unclenched her hand. What was she supposed to do now? Most of the other servants were in the dining hall. She couldn't easily recall where the room she had been in with Rin was, what should she do?
Taking a glance down the servants hall, she considered trying to find her way back through the corridors, but was slightly anxious about who she might run into.
Glancing down the opposite hall of the servant's hall she was startled to see a pair of curious eyes looking back at her. Kagome bit her lip, as a man, dressed in a guards uniform looked at her quizzically.
"Hi." She said lamely, not sure how to explain her reason for being here.
"Hello," he responded, seeming to be equally at a loss at finding a human in his master's house. The guard was quickly joined by another who came around the corner very suddenly. The two were startlingly similar in appearance. Their hair was such a light shade of grey that it almost appeared that it had once been white, but the two stood too close to campfire and it became sooty. The faces were youthful yet stacked on bodies that looked far more mature, and muscled.
"What are you doing here?" The newcomer asked. He appeared to be the more dominant of the two, and Kagome was slowly becoming weary of how she was going to deal with them.
"Um, I was sent out of the room." Kagome said.
One guard looked to the other. "Does she smell weird?"
The first guard looked at her closely, his nostrils flaring as he took in her scent.
The guard looked back at his companion, eyebrow raised. "What were you just whelped? She's got the blood scent." The guard laughed "And all this time I thought you were knowledgeable about the ladies." The laughing guard was cut short with a cuff to the back of his head.
"No idiot, I mean that smell, it's sort of like the Lords…but more human..."
Kagome was taken aback as two boyish faces with icy blue eyes were suddenly looming in her face, sniffing away at her.
"Stop that!" She brought her hands up reflexively as they moved in, but they moved no closer.
"Hmm…" The first one said.
"I think we found the Lord's brothers servant." They exchanged a satisfied glance.
"So it would seem, but why is she out here?" The second one asked.
"Why indeed?" The first one intoned, despite the fact that he had already asked that question.
"Hey I told you already!" Kagome huffed, it was if she was spectacle at the zoo and these two were just tapping on the glass.
The first one slanted an eye at her, but only shook his head dismissing her quickly. "Girl now we are trying to figure this out, give us a moment."
A thousand years probably wouldn't get these two any closer to an intelligent thought, were they really having something to do with the security in this place!
The two moved back into conversation, and as they began theorizing about why she was sent out of the room. Did she even have to be here for this? They clearly didn't want her input.
Testing the waters, she took a slow step back, keeping her eyes on the guards, who most definitely were twins she decided.
They didn't even glance her way, so she ventured to draw back another step. They didn't even look in her direction.
She managed to reach the corner with a few backwards steps, and with one final glance at the guards she simply started walking down the other corridor. Where she was going she had no idea, but she supposed that anywhere was better than standing there waiting on bated breath for those two to figure out the problem.
Maybe she could hang out in the kitchen till the dinner was over? Of course she could always explore a bit…maybe. All of the lords were in the dining hall, so couldn't she wander without fear, for at least a little bit?
Crossing into the kitchen area she passed the now empty counters, and the hanging pots and pans above the hearth now cast an eerie glow against the far wall. The long butcher knives left on the carving table gave her a moment of ill feeling.
Pausing for only a moment, she strode right out of the kitchen. Nope that was kind of creepy; she would have to find somewhere else to wait.
Tip toeing to the entry on the other side she found herself in the corridor that Maiya had led her down earlier. Perhaps she could just find Rin again? That was certainly her best option right now; it didn't involve her aimlessly wandering around the castle. Exploring…might be fun…but then again those torch holders on the wall looked remarkably like human bones.
Kagome refused to consider how likely it was that, they were human bones.
She was just reaching another corner when she just caught a hint of footfalls behind her. Before the shiver of apprehension could make its way down her spine, she suddenly found her feet dangling inches off the ground and her arms grabbed up in a powerful hold on each side.
Glancing quickly to her left she saw the arms holding her were belonging to one of the guards, and quickly peeking to her right she saw her other arm grasped up in his brothers powerful grip.
"And just where do you think…" The voice to her right started.
"You're going…" The one to her left finished.
Glancing down at her dangling feet, Kagome shrugged as best she could. "I guess nowhere." She ventured.
The guards chuckled. "She's a funny one."One of them said.
Great just what she wanted to be, the amusement to a couple of crazy demon guards. Perfect. They turned her right around and carried her off down the corridor.
After a moment of being suspended over the ground, on this trek to someplace she had no idea, she finally said, "Um, I can walk."
The guards paused, took a moment to look at each other, shrugged and then proceeded without letting her down.
"Hey!" Kagome cried out indignantly.
One guard replied, "Why should we put you down, we will get there faster this way."
That logic was a little too similar to Inuyasha's when he wanted her to get on his back, when she was walking too slow. Maybe these dog demons were all the same.
They brought her through the twisting corridors without pausing once, they seemed to have no problems navigating the castle's maze like halls, and Kagome would have been grateful that she was in the company of people, well demons, that knew their way around this place, if she only had some idea where they were taking her.
"Guys, hey do you think you could just tell me where we are going?"
One guard grunted. "Why does it matter?"
Kagome was thunderstruck. "What! Why wouldn't it matter!? I want to know where you are taking me!"
The other guard let out a snort. "But why would it matter when we are already here?"
They stopped before a door, a door that Kagome was pretty sure she had seen before.
"Are we…?" She began, but she was cut off when the guards suddenly released her arms.
One knocked lightly on the door in front of them.
"Miss Rin."
The little girl in question called out enthusiastically from inside. The guards immediately opened the door, and there was Rin, in her room perfectly content sitting amongst a scattering of papers she was drawing on.
Kagome whipped around on the two smug guards. "You know all you would have had to say is that you were taking me back to Rin's room, what kind of sick joke is it to be hauling around people, and not telling them where you are taking them. " She stamped her foot in her anger. "You could have been dragging me off for any reason."
The guards only seemed amused by her tirade. "For any reason huh?" One stroked his whisker-less chin, and pretended to be thinking. "Oh I don't think any reason" He said with a playful hint to his voice.
The other guard seemed to get in on the game and added. "Oh no, not any reason, I could think of one in particular." And to emphasize his point he looked her up and down.
Kagome seethed with anger. "You guys are real funny!" She exclaimed not believing for a moment that these too had any intention of following through with their words. If they had they certainly wouldn't have brought her before Sesshomaru's ward to do it, not if they liked their heads attached to their necks.
"Alright then miss, in you go!" They made shooing motions with their hands, as if she was an errant child.
"Hey, now." She protested.
They ignored her and began push, one of their hands on each shoulder.
"Well how about telling me a little more about what is going on."
The guards looked at one another. "No," was their answer, in unison of course.
"Well how about you guys explain…"
"No." They said before she could even think of something else to ask.
"Fine then," She cried in frustration. "How about your names?"
This question seemed to take them by surprise; they looked at each other through sidelong glances and seemed to reach an agreement.
"I am Haruko and this is Toshi," said the one who was probably the more dominant of the brothers.
"Alright, in you go," said Haruko with finality laced in his tone.
The two bothers managed to push Kagome past the entrance to the room and without further warning grabbed the door and slid it shut with a resounding thwack.
Toshi called out, "Goodnight Miss Rin!" just as the door was closing. The girl happily responded in kind. Kagome was a little affronted by this, and called out.
"Don't you want to know my name too…its Kagome by the way."
Hardly expecting a response, she was surprised to hear, "Goodnight Miss Kagome." From the other side.
Kagome stared at the door for a moment. It hit her suddenly that Inuyasha could be in trouble right now, in a room of powerful demons and she had no idea. She just had to wait here until someone deigned it ok to come and tell her anything. She didn't like this inaction. She was always able to help before. But now it seemed like her role in this was minor. It was up to Inuyasha to help his brother, and interference from her would only further animosity in the castle. Here she was just a human girl, a servant even. No she didn't like this at all.
Kagome closed her eyes, wishing one last time that Inuaysha was safe, and would come to talk to her later. Kagome took a deep breath and turned around. Rin who was looking at her expectantly.
"Did you get in trouble at dinner Kagome?" Rin asked in all innocence. Kagome sighed and looked blankly at the wall for a moment before she responded.
"Maybe a little Rin." Rin looked up at Kagome with all seriousness. "Lord Sesshomaru thought you might."
Kagome was stunned for a moment. "What?" She questioned, making sure she heard right.
"Oh yes, Jaken was all that human will attract too much unwanted attention." Rin said with an endearing attempt at Jaken's grating voice. "And Lord Sesshomarue said Indeed." Again Rin did her best impression, this time trying for a low cool tone.
"Then why…" Kagome's thoughts trailed off. If no one thought she was going to be able to pull this off, then why the heck would they make her try? It was a puzzling thought, one that she wasn't likely to get any answers to soon. Feeling resigned to a night left in question, Kagome smiled warmly at Rin.
"Why don't you show me what you drew while I was gone?"
Rin immediately brought Kagome over to her pictures, elated to have a captive audience, literally and figuratively. Kagome tried to pay attention to Rin's elaborate explanations of her drawings, but her thoughts just kept straying to what was going on down the twisting halls. Her mind ticked away with the passing minutes. What if something went wrong? The seriousness of what they were getting into had not really hit her when the situation had been initially described. Now however, she felt it. The power that each of those lords had was great, maybe as great as Sesshomaru's, especially the one with the shards. To top it off these lords had standing armies at their disposal. Things could go very badly here, and what could she do about it? Was there anything she could do? Helplessness was not an emotion that ever sat well with Kagome, and now she was choking on it.
"And this is Ah-Un…" Rin brought Kagome back to reality, proudly displaying her drawing of what appeared to be a cow with two heads.
"That's very good Rin, I like the smiles on their faces." She said in the same manner her own mother had praised her childhood masterpieces.
Rin continued on with her detailed explanation of the drawing, as well as why she drew it. Something about a game of hide-and-seek with Jaken, where she and Ah-Un hid real well and he couldn't find them for hours.
Kagome nodded along with the tale, but her eyes drifted to the door ever few minutes. Surely Inuyasha would try to see her tonight. He had to know that her mind was racing with all kinds of thoughts. Just as Rin was running out of drawings to show, there came a sharp knock at the door. Kagome had been waiting so long to hear it, that she nearly jumped out of her skin when it finally came. The door slid open before her or Rin could respond. Yei appeared in the door way, looking slightly nervous. Kagome felt her throat tense, and she had so swallow hard once before she could speak.
"Is everything ok?" Yei glanced at her, and then seemed to cover her nervousness with a no-nonsense attitude that Kagome had come to expect from the older woman.
"Everything is fine. Rin it is time to get you ready for bed." The woman stepped into the room, and headed for Rin's sleeping clothes folded neatly to one side.
Kagome watched anxiously as the woman began unfolding the clothes, desperately willing her to give some detail as to what happened after she left the dining hall.
"Girl take these." Yei handed Kagome the sleeping yukata that was placed in the room for her earlier. Kagome reached out and took the garment, but noticed that Yei's eyes had strayed to the open door. Turning around Kagome was surprised to see one of the guards from before taking up the entrance to the door with his large frame.
"Go with him." Was Yei's curt command.
A shiver traveled down Kagome's spine. Why was she being sent out of Rin's room? Feeling the impatience of the guard at the door Kagome, nodded her head, and quickly bid Rin good-night. Stepping out into the hallway Kagome looked up at the guard, whose good humor had seemed to vanish since their last meeting.
"Come on." He said ushering her down the hall. Fallowing his long strides Kagome tried to calm her quickly beating heart.
"Toshi where are we going?" The man glanced down at her for a moment.
"How could you tell?" He questioned, without slowing in his pace.
Kagome who by this point was practically jogging to keep up with his stride asked, "Tell what?"
He shot her a toothy grin. "Not many people can tell me and my brother apart so quickly."
Kagome tried to smile back, but she couldn't really fake pleasantries here when her mind was whirling a mile minute.
"So where are you taking me?" She asked again. "What happened in the dining hall?" They swung around the corner quickly. Toshi took a quick glance over his shoulder as they entered a new hall. Kagome checked over hers swiftly after, becoming paranoid the further they walked.
"You know most of my life people have been mixing me up with my brother, it's kind of nice meeting someone that can tell the difference." He purposely ignored her questions.
Kagome grit her teeth in frustration. "Is Inuyasha ok?" She tried again.
"And quite frankly I find it a little insulting, because I have always thought I was the better looking one." Apparently Toshi had really selective hearing.
Kagome's hands balled up into fists and just when she was sure she was going to haul off an actual hit this guy he stopped short.
Toshi turned to look at her appraisingly, but Kagome had had enough, she stuck her pointer finger into his armored chest. "You listen here, I want to know just what is going on, why am I here, why can't I stay with Rin…"
She stopped short when he bent down to look her in the eye and put both hands on her shoulders.
"You know I'm beginning to see what all the fuss is about you." Kagome stood stunned for a moment as she stared into the crystalline eyes of the guard. With a sort of sad smile on his face, Toshi opened the door to the room in front of them.
"In you go, you should probably change and get ready for bed." Kagome glanced in at the dark and empty room.
"But what about Inuyasha?" She stood her ground stubbornly, refusing to enter the room until she had some kind of answer, anything to ease her mind.
The guard's mouth twitched as he seemed to be considering what to do with this human who was incredibly bad at doing what she was told to do.
"He is fine; he is speaking with Lord Sesshomaru privately right now." The guard seemed to be considering something. "Well more like being prevented from doing anything rash actually."
Kagome's heart lept widely to know that Inuyasha and even Sesshomaru were fine, and that no battle had broke out over dinner. The idea that Inuyasha had to be stopped from doing anything rash however piqued Kagome's interest. What was he upset about?
Sensing that a whole new string of questions were bubbling up in the human's mind Toshi swiftly pushed her into the room. "Miss I have to get back to my post, you need to stay in this room for your own safety and just try not to be nervous ok, you'll do fine." Before his words could even be processed by Kagome, he shut the door in her face.
Still staring at the door blankly his words replayed in her head. Don't be nervous? You'll do fine? At what, sleeping? Kagome sighed and turned to examine the rest of the room. She stared hard at the floor, which was occupied by two sleeping mats. Why were there two…Kagome glanced around the rest of the room looking for some evidence as to why the room was set up this way. She spied a stack of neatly folded clothes. Stiffly walking over to them she grabbed them up quickly. Men's sleeping clothes that's what they were. Well see now she was very nervous.
Kagome desperately looked around the sparse room, looking for some indication of who's room this was. Terrible thoughts began to swarm in her head.
Toshi's words wrung out in her head. Inuyasha was upset about something, and Sesshomaru was trying to stop him from doing anything rash. Was she going to be some sacrifice to this cause? Did Sesshomaru arrange for her to be left in the jaguar demon's room, as a way to ease the rising tension in the group?
Inuyasha would never let that happen right? What if Sesshomaru had bound him somehow magically so he couldn't interfere? Kagome felt her adrenalin began to kick in as panick began to flood her body. That's it, she wasn't just going to stay here and wait to find out what was going, she was going to go find Inuyasha.
Quickly making her way to the door Kagome was prepared to open it when she heard footsteps from the other side. They drew closer to the door swiftly, and Kagome's heart almost missed a beat. She heard the person stop just on the other side of the door. Before she could react the door was flung open.
Red, for a moment that's all Kagome could make out, quickly blinking her eyes she look up from the red clad chest to the familiar face of Inuyasha. Overjoyed to see him she flung her arms around him. "Inuyasha!" She cried out in relief. His arms came up around her automatically but he did not make a sound.
After a moment Kagome eased her hold him to look up at his face. "So how did it go?" He took a step forward. Kagome stepped back unconsciously. "What happened after I left?" He moved again, and she continued to walk backwards. "Did you guys settle anything?" When they were fully in the room Inuyasha slid the door shut.
"It went fine." He said it tight tone. He moved past her, and Kagome eagerly waited for him to tell her anything that had happened. He walked over to the small table, and lit the candle there.
"Nothing big happened after you left. Just a bunch of stuck up aristocrats arguing" Inuyasha said with annoyance. He turned back from the table. The little candle cast an eerie glow across the room. "And nothing got settled, so looks like we have to stay here for a while." The bitterness in his voice was not lost on Kagome.
Kagome clenched and unclenched her hands. "This is really big isn't it?" Inuyasha didn't say anything immediately; he only looked at her steadily from across the room.
"Yea, looks like." He said finally breaking eye contact with her, casting his eyes to the floor. The unsaid part hung in the air; they were in over their heads this time.
A moment of silence passed before Kagome ventured to ask about demon from the lake. "What about the demon who…" Inuyasha suddenly appeared very uncomfortable. "Look why don't you get ready for bed." Kagome glanced down at her sleeping clothes, then back at Inuyasha doubtfully. He ignored her however and removed his sword from his waist and began removing his haori.
Kagome looked doubtfully at her clothes, but as Inuyasha picked up his own sleeping clothes, she shrugged and turned her back to give him some privacy expecting him to do the same. She changed a quickly as possible. Thankfully her period had come to end. She was extremely lucky to have a short one, too bad she always got cramps though. Tying the yukata tightly at her waist
Kagome turned to see Inuyasha dressed in the bed clothes, but staring directly at her.
"What the heck!" She cried out indignantly, surely he must have realized that the polite thing to do would have been to turn around and not watch her undress. Inuyasha offered no response, and that infuriated Kagome. All the stress of the day and now this, anger seethed in her veins. Almost on autopilot Kagome's hands balled up into fists, she stamped her foot in frustration and called out "Sit!"
Of course there was no subduing spell to cause him to come crashing to the ground anymore, so Inuyasha merely lifted an eyebrow at her childish display.
"Oh you are so annoying!" She called out in frustration. She couldn't wait to have the ability to subdue him back.
"Well you're not exactly a ray of sunshine all the time either." He retorted while pushing off from the far wall he been leaning against. He bent and picked up Tetsusaiga and walked over to the two sleeping pallets. Kagome eyed him suspiciously as he knelt on one of the pallets and laid his sword beside it.
"He's going to try and get to you." Brown eyes widened. She didn't have to ask who the he was, it was all too clear that he was talking about the panther demon. Kagome took a few steps forward.
"So what should I do?" His golden stare felt like it was piercing her. Kagome felt anxiety return. "You don't think I should leave do you?" Kagome knelt quickly on the other pallet, looking at him for any clue as to what was going through his mind right now. "Inuyasha I don't want to go. I don't want to leave you in this place; too many things could go wrong."
Inuyasha finally broke eye contact and swallowed hard once before beginning.
"You can't leave Kagome." Kagome had a sinking feeling. " Servants aren't allowed to just wander off." He paused. "And if I allow you to leave that would mean that I care more about you than I'm suppose to." Kagome wasn't insulted by his words. It was true, the whole reason she was pretending to be his servant instead of presenting herself as his friend and traveling companion was because the other demons never would have any respect for Inuyasha if they knew he regarded humans as his equals. This whole plan was dependent on the other Lords believing Inuyasha in his role as second in command to Lord Sesshomaru, making the West seem just as strong as when their father ruled.
"Okay, I will just avoid him, I mean as long as he doesn't corner me when I'm alone it will be fine right?" Kagome asked hopefully, what other option was there?
Inuyasha brought a clawed hand up to Kagome's face and stroked soft cheek gently. Her heart beat thudded heavily in her chest with the intimate gesture.
"I don't think you will be able to avoid him, he's intent on finding you." Inuyasha said this fiercely, the tone in his voice vastly contradicted the gentleness of his hand.
"Well then what.." Kagome was cut off as he brought his other hand up behind her shoulder and drew her into a tight embrace. Kagome was encased in warmth with his strong arms around her back. She breathed in his smell that was just so uniquely Inuyasha. She could feel the heat of his own face buried at her neck. It felt wonderful to be held this way. After all the worries and anxiety, this was just what she needed to make her stiff muscles relax. She felt his hands tighten at her back, and then his lips were pressed along her neck.
Kagome's heart stopped beating for a moment as she registered what he was doing. She felt the heat of his mouth against her skin, and his tongue slid out against her sensitive flesh. What was he doing? Strands of his soft silver hair tickled her chin and lips as his mouth found her pulse point and sucked lightly. Tingles traveled across his skin. Her breast too large for her bra felt sensitive under the light material of her Yukata. Kagome was flushed red and goose bumps covered her flesh and her nipples tightened. Her bodies reaction was came on like a storm.
Inuyasha kissed his way along her jaw, and Kagome's eyes slid shut as she felt his lips hover over hers. He kissed her softly at first, and she was hesitant to kiss back, but with the soft coxing of his lips against hers she felt herself respond. Hesitantly at first she moved her lips against his, but slowly she found his rhythm .One of his hands came up to cradle the back her head. Kagome felt dizzy with emotions. Tingles of excitement trickled down her spine. She felt his tongue brush her lips and heat began to pool in her stomach that she had never felt before. The world was moving, Kagome couldn't believe that Inuyasha was doing this. She had dreams like this, but even in her dreams she had been embarrassed to want him like this.
As he laid her back on the pallet Kagome was brought crashing back to reality. She gasped into his mouth and her eyes shot open. "Inuyasha?' She questioned in a raspy voice she wasn't even sure was hers. He pulled back slightly his eyes were molten golden in color. He knelt between her parted thighs and the heat from his body against hers was setting her skin on fire, but what was he doing, what were they doing? Kagome stared at him helplessly, caught between awakening desires and rational thinking.
"If we are lovers the cat can't touch you. It's demon custom." One of his callused hands came to rest on her exposed knee meaningfully. Kagome was still trying to process Inuyasha's intentions as his hand began to skim down her slim and trembling thigh.
"If we don't do this, then to every male in this place you're fair game." He slowed his hands decent as he reached the hem of her robe bunched up around her thighs. He bent foreword with an unreadable heavy expression in his eye, and as his lips met hers in a chaste kiss his hand slipped under clothes to the apex of her thighs. Kagome could feel the slight tremors of his shaking hand as he laced his fingers into the fabric of her panties.
"No." She whispered against his mouth. Instead of stopped he pressed his lips to hers little more fiercely and continued to pull at the fabric. Kagome tried to break contact with his mouth. He had almost worked her panties off her bottom.
"No!" She cried wrenching her mouth free from his, bringing her arms up to try and push him off. He barely budged, but stared down at her desperately. "Dammit Kagome this is the only way for me to protect you." He slammed the hand not between her legs onto the floor beside her head. For a moment real fear coursed through must have been what Toshi was talking about. Sesshomaru probably told him what he had to do in order to protect her, and he obviously wasn't happy about it. He gave a savage yank to her underwear pulling it halfway down her legs.
"Stop it Inuyasha!" She cried pushing at his shoulders. Tears sprung to her eyes against her will. "Stop it, not like this." Tears were now flowing freely down her cheeks. "Please I don't want my first time to be like this." She heard his low growl of frustration as he removed his hand from her thighs and braced it up near her head, so now he was leaning over her on all fours. "I don't want to do this just because of the situation." She was now sobbing, half naked and feeling incredibly vulnerable.
"Dammit Kagome." Inuyasha said almost hopelessly, but he pushed off her and rose to his feet. "Stop crying, jeeze don't cry." He continued in a voice that sounded pleading. He turned and walked to the high window resting his head on bottom of frame.
Kagome sat up slowly, trying to wipe away snot and tear with one hand and yank up her panties with the other. "Inuyasha how could you think this was the right choice?!" She sniffed back her runny nose. "We shouldn't have to… to..do that, just because of this Kano guy."
Inuyasha whirled on her. "Yeah and what am I suppose to do Kagome." Kagome was surprised by how angry he sounded. "What's your big solution? You want to leave? Lets go!"
Kagome was shocked and sputtered, "We can't leave, what about all the people who will be hurt? What about your brother, what about the humans and demons who will die?"
Inuyasha steeled his jaw, he knew they couldn't leave and that was his point, there weren't very many options for them right now. "Okay then, what do you want me to do?" He asked in a way that Kagome felt he really wanted her to come up with some miracle solution… only she had none.
"I don't know." She said in a near whisper.
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