Project Puppy Love

Chapter 10: Fear

"I know."

That was the response she got when she told him she was pregnant. With his child. No shock. No surprise. No excitement. Not even fear or maybe worry. He was going to be a father and he already knew.

And he didn't tell her.

Of all people, shouldn't she have been the first to know?

"What do you mean, 'you know'?" Kagome screeched. "How could you know something like that before me? And if you did, why the hell didn't you tell me?"

InuYasha's ears flattened against his head.

"I had my suspicious awhile ago but I didn't want to say anything until I was sure. And I only became sure about a week ago. Why else do you think I was so upset over the Kouga thing?" InuYasha growled at the memory. "Stupid wolf." he muttered.

"Because you cared about my safety?" Kagome snapped and threw her arms over her head.

"Well of course I did, Stupid!" He glared at her as he too became riled up.

Kagome rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. Maybe it was the hormones starting to get to her or all the information that had been dumped on her today, but she just couldn't handle this right now. It was too much to have to deal with all at once.

"How did you know, InuYasha, and why didn't you tell me?" Kagome demanded. "I would have preferred to find out from you as opposed to Kikyou."

"How does Kikyou know?" InuYasha asked seriously and his brows furrowed in confusion. All his anger was momentarily forgotten as he thought this over. He had kinda hoped to keep this from everyone for a while longer.

Kagome face palmed. For someone who lived here all his life he seemed to be ignorant of just how things worked around here. "That's beside the point, InuYasha. Just answer my question."

Kagome was getting exasperated and tired. Today's emotional roller coaster was taking a severe toll on her.

"I didn't want to say anything until I was sure." He mumbled, his gaze looking anywhere but at her. "I didn't want you to be mad."

Kagome's own anger dissipated as she gave him a funny look. "Why would I be mad? It takes two to tango. I'm a part of this just as much as you are."

"... you say weird things.." InuYasha mumbled under his breath while Kagome rolled her eyes. "I don't know… it wasn't something we really talked about. I didn't want you to be upset with me."

Kagome sighed and then went over to hug him. She buried her face into his chest inhaling his natural scent. She loved the way he smelled—masculine and safe.

"I would never be mad about something like this, InuYasha. Yes, I would have liked for it to have happened under different circumstances but I could never be mad. Which also means, we need to talk. But first, you're going to tell me how you knew I was pregnant before I did." She narrowed her eyes at him.

"You smell funny." InuYasha said simply, as if it were the most obvious answer in the world.

Kagome's mouth dropped open and she glared at him. "I smell funny?" She was getting riled up all over again. "What do you mean I smell funny?" She poked him in the chest pointedly.

"Jeeze, Wench! Don't be so rough!" He rubbed the offending area but Kagome knew he was just being a big baby and rolled her eyes. He could brush off a bite from a monstrous wolf like it was nothing but a poke from her and it was all over. "I just meant your scent changed. It took me a bit to figure out why and then I didn't know how to tell you."

Kagome just stared at him. "You can smell that, Dog-boy?" When he nodded her face brightened exceptionally. "Coooool."

InuYasha rolled his eyes and wrapped his arms tighter around her. "Crazy Wenches. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em."

Kagome tried to be angry with him but found she couldn't. Instead, she shoved him so that he fell backwards onto the bed from the unexpected attack. Now that she had him right where she wanted him, she reacted quickly and straddled the prone man before he realized what was going on.

"We need to talk," She reiterated yet again, "but first..." the young woman placed both her hands on either side of his head before their lips met in a heated frenzy.

Her hair slipped from her shoulders, curtaining them in a midnight waterfall.

"I missed you," She whispered against his lips once they broke for air.

"And I missed you too." He replied and decided to punctuate that point by grinding himself against her heated core.

Kagome bit her lip to hide the moan caught in her throat. "InuYasha... I am serious when I say we need to talk..." She fought the urge to move against him.

"Your body is telling me otherwise..." He leaned up to whisper in her ear, "I can smell how much you want me, Ka-go-me."

He flipped them so he was in the dominant position and began to nibble on her ear while his hands tracked a heated path under her shirt.

"N-need t-to t-ta...lk.." he smirked at her inability to form coherent sentences. "Inu... Please..."

"Later." He promised. "Let me love you..."

Realizing this was a battle she had lost long ago, Kagome fought him no longer.

Scorching lava flowed through her veins as InuYasha licked a path from her breasts to her neck. When had she lost her shirt? She reached for him, begging for that skin on skin contact and realized his shirt was gone too.

His cheek pressed against hers as he whispered against her ear. "You didn't think I'd let you get away with your man handling of me, did ya, Wench?" With her distracted he took the time then to remove her of her pants

Kagome shook her head, not trusting her voice as InuYasha continued to undress her. She barely registered the swift removal of her white bra and panties.

Seconds later he was naked too. Kagome stared at him through half lidded eyes as he took the time to marvel at her sweat coated body.

Frustrated at his lack of action, Kagome look matters into her own hands—literally.

"K-Kagome..." InuYasha almost choked at the unexpected feeling of her warm hand stroking him. He fell forward, his hands resting on either side of her.

"You like that?" She whispered, a seductive look in her eyes.

"Sneaky Wench..." He grumbled without any real heat.

Growling as she continued to pleasure him, he rested over her and trailed scorching hot and wet kisses along her neckline and down to her breasts, all the while whispering her name.

When he could take it no more, InuYasha forced himself to pull her tortuously nimble hand away from his hardened member before he lost it.

He used his inhuman strength to flip her onto all fours in one fluid motion. InuYasha molded himself against her and stroked her heat experimentally, coating himself in her slick juices.

"InuYasha... Don't tease..." Kagome begged, pushing back against him. She wanted so badly to be one with him, to feel him filling her to the brink.

He ignored her and continued to grind against her heat. He then pinched and teased her left breast with one hand and rested the other on her soon to be swollen stomach. His heart swelled with male pride. She was carrying his pup, safely nestled within the comforts of her womb.

InuYasha leaned over her, framing her body with his own and placed wet kisses along her neck.

"Tell me what you want…." He whispered huskily, edging his the tip of his hardness inside of her.

Kagome pushed back, yearning for more, but one clawed hand on her hips stayed her movements.

"Ah-Ah, Ka-go-me. Tell me…."

Frustrated, "You! I want you, damn it!"

And only then did he thrust into her with heated intensity. Kagome screamed at the sudden impact in pure rapture. She pushed back against him, meeting him thrust for thrust as they worked out a smooth and yet erratic rhythm.

InuYasha placed kisses and nips up and down her back and neck, showering her in affection. Kagome cried and screamed and mewled each time he hit the sweet spot deep within her.

She lost herself, succumbing fully to his domination of her body—to all the pleasures he bestowed upon her. Her mind was gone—aware only of his erotic grunts and growls as he took from her the pleasure she was only too wiling to give him in return.

All too soon Kagome could feel the end building as his own excitement brought her to hers. She shuddered at the familiar tightening and coiling of her inner walls as he thrust into her once and then twice more before she exploded and her body collapsed. He followed mere seconds later, filling her already expecting womb with his seed and drawing out the final ripples of her thundering orgasm.

InuYasha held her body protectively against his and then pulled her down with him on the bed.

"Woman, you are too good to me," He growled still basking in the post sex after glow. He pulled her flush against him so their bodies now molded together—his chest to her back and their legs entangled.

InuYasha rumbled with satisfaction, only serving to lull Kagome into a more sleepy state. She turned so she now faced him and snuggled against his chin with a sigh of contentment.

"Still need to talk..." She mumbled against his neck and placed a chaste kiss there.

"Sleep first. We'll talk after." He promised, stroking her hair allowing only the tips of his claws to graze her scalp tenderly.

"Promise to wake me if I sleep too long?" Her voice was now barely above a whisper and he wondered if it were not for is exceptional hearing if he would have heard her at all.

"I promise, Wench. Now sleep."

"M'kay... Love you, Dog-boy."

InuYasha's previously closed eyes snapped open. He stared at her for several moments before a goofy smile graced his lips. "Love you too, Wench," he whispered, though she was already asleep.

Hojo stared at the man who sat in the seat next to him. He was beginning to think getting into this strange man's car had been a bad idea. He had no idea where he was going, but only felt more uncomfortable as he watched the vehicle pull into a gated community.

Whoever this guy was, he sure had money.

"Who are you?" Hojo asked when the car finally came to a stop before the biggest mansion Hojo had ever seen.

The man didn't respond and instead got out of the car. Hojo followed suit—with great difficulty given his injuries, and finally, when the moonlight hit the man's form he was able to see just whom he was with.

Hojo's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.

"We will talk inside." The man finally said leaving no room for argument as he headed towards his home.

Hojo followed behind him, trying his best to keep up.

"Who are you?" Hojo asked for the second time, once they were inside the massive estate.

Void of all emotion the man turned his hardened gaze to Hojo before answering. "Sesshoumaru."

His voice was just as cold as his gaze.

Two hours later Kagome awoke a tickling sensation against her neck. She groaned and tried to bat the offender of said tickle away only for it to chuckle and come back again.

"Wake up, sleepy Wench." InuYasha said, burrowing his nose against the exposed flesh of her neck—snuffing and licking, his method of choice to rouse her from sleep.

In her barely coherent state, Kagome frowned and tried to snuggle deeper against him and hide her neck from his advances. "Five more minutes, InuYasha."

"You're the one that wanted me to wake you up, woman. Don't get mad at me later then." He responded casually.

Kagome peaked one blue eye at him, her stubbornness showing. "I hate you."

"That's not what you said a few hours ago…" He teased, brushing her hair out of her face.

Kagome blushed and hid her face against his chest. "I must have been out of my mind." Her voice was muffled against his skin.

Had she really told him she loved him? Though she was embarrassed, she realized it was true. She would never have expected it, but she had come to care very deeply about this gruff man over the past several weeks.

"What was it that you wanted to talk about?"

Her embarrassment forgotten for the moment, Kagome looked into his amber eyes and her heartbeat quickened. She had almost forgotten.

"Though we haven't talked about it much…given the current situation, I think its time we plan and maybe talk about getting ourselves out of here."

InuYasha's amber orbs bore into her with great intensity. He knew she was right, but he also knew this wasn't going to be easy. And he wasn't sure he wanted to risk her safety or her life even for a chance at freedom.

Three hours later found Hojo speechless. Had he not been a witness to it himself he would not have believed what this freakish looking man had told him.

That his parents were involved in some kind of freaking science project and had been for over thirty years. This man—no this creature—standing before him was just one of the products of their creation.

Apparently there had been two more, InuYasha being one of them and yet another still.

Were his resemblance to InuYasha not uncanny, Hojo may not have even believed his story. Though there differences were obvious, it was evident their origins were the same.

Hojo felt like a fool, like his whole life had been a lie.

And now, this Sesshoumaru guy was demanding he betray his own his parents, his kin. Hojo was hesitant, for more reasons than one. He feared the wrath of his parents as well as the unknown. He had no idea if this would work or if he would be taken down with them. After all, he had willingly participated in their schemes, even though eh wasn't aware of it in the beginning.

"This Sesshoumaru tires of your silence. You either agree to the terms or you don't. You are wasting valuable time."

Hojo gulped. This cold man was frightening to say the least. He exuded raw strength and Hojo new better than to go against him.

As an image of Kagome appeared in his mind he knew he had only one option.

"I'll do it."

Hojo received a nod in response. "My servant shall take you too your room for the time being."

"Jaken."

A short toad-like man then entered and without a word, escorted Hojo to where he would be staying.

As Kagome explained the plan she wanted to perform tonight, InuYasha's growl thundered from deep within his chest. He didn't like it, not one bit.

"Come on, InuYasha! This might be our only chance! I don't want to raise a child in here, and I don't think you do either." She pleaded with him.

Damn woman was so good at guilting him. She knew just what to say.

"This might be our only chance. We don't know what's going to happen now. What if they keep us from each other? Or after the baby is born, they take him away? Do you want that?"

InuYasha growled again, though this time for different reasons. She had a point.

"Alright, Wench. You're right." He conceded, though grudgingly. It wasn't that he didn't want to get out of here—he did! He just didn't like things he couldn't control and there was so much potential for things to go wrong. Above all he worried for Kagome and the unborn pup's safety.

She sighed in relief. "We may only have one shot at this, InuYasha. So we have to make it count."

"That's what I'm afraid of," he muttered.

I was going to keep going with this chapter for a bit longer, but then it might be extremely long. And while I'm sure most of you wouldn't mind that, I still have a few things to work out and it might have taken me a bit longer to update. This way I can get my thoughts together and hopefully have another chapter out within the week.

I have had people in the past complain about the shortness of my chapters, but I do this for a reason. I can update more quickly and with chapters of better quality if they are what some of you may call 'short'. This is why I do this.

Also, did anyone else notice the issues that ff. net seemed to be having this/last week? With chapters being posted but not showing up? I noticed that happened with my last update. I know they sometimes take awhile to show up, but this was different.

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