Disclaimers: I do not own Inuyasha
Circus Dog
Chapter 11. Suspicions
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Ayame collapsed in front of the building, tears flowing down her face as she gasped for air. The camera had turned towards her and she had looked up into it with her tired emerald eyes, red and swollen from crying. "H-help! Please!" She begged, her white fur blowing behind her in the wind. "Please!" She blinked drowsily before passing out in front of the doors.
'Someone save my Kouga..' Was her last thought.
.:.:.:. With Kagome .:.:.:.
"The fool! She was running around in that! She would have drawn a lot of attention to herself if it weren't the night." Shippou remarked as he crossed his arms.
Kagome nodded solemnly, "She reminds me of Kouga, being a wolf demon and all."
"All the more reason to get her off my damn bed!" Inuyasha shouted hotly. "She stinks like the wolf."
It was still the same night that Kagome had healed Inuyasha's wounds. Miroku was still duck taped to a chair, but was at least fed a bit of pizza to keep from hallucinating even more. Apparently he had been seeing women from bay watch running at him in slow motion. After a few hits to the head, courtesy of Sango, he was acting a little better and gladly ate his food.
Rin had left to find Sesshoumaru and tell him of their discovery. It was very lucky of them to have found her like that. Rin had just gone to get something from her desk and saw Jaken blubbering about some girl passing out in front of the gates. She had returned and told everyone and Sango had gone to fetch her.
"Inuyasha, be nice." Kagome growled, making the hairs on his neck stand on end.
Shippou snickered behind Kagome and gasped, "Look! She's waking up!" He hopped onto the bed, watching as the wolf stirred and opened her eyes.
"Wh-where am I?" She murmured, sitting up. "How am I healed? I could have sworn I had many cuts and bruises from escaping." She glanced up and squeaked, "Inu-Inuyasha! I can't believe it!" She launched herself out of bed and embraced the surprised hanyou, "I knew you would make it! Look at you, you're back to normal!" She squealed, still not noticing Kagome.
"U-uh, hey Ayame.."
"You know her, Inuyasha?" Shippou asked.
"Feh, she's from the circus." He struggled to unglue her from him, "Get off of me wolf!"
She jumped off, smiling brightly, "Sorry, I forgot you hate the smell of wolf." She said sheepishly and gazed at the rest of the audience, "My name is Ayame. You must be Kagome Higurashi." She narrowed her eyes, "My Kouga would not stop talking about you, you know."
Kagome blinked at the wolf who had started to get a very angry look in her eyes, "E-eh?"
"He likes you, you know. But anyways, he'll like me and be my husband.. Whether he likes it or not." She growled, and then smiled brightly again. "Anyways, care to explain why I'm healed?"
"Kagome used her powers to heal you!" Piped Shippou from the bed.
"O-oh! You are so cute!" She squealed. Both Inuyasha and Kagome had sweatdropped.
"I'm Shippou!"
"Hello Shippou I'm—"
"Shut up already!" Inuyasha barked, "And tell us why you came here!"
Ayame's eyes grew sullen, "I…" She huffed sitting down on the edge of the bed, "I had escaped from the circus with the help of Kouga shortly after an attack was sent at the Higurashi shrine."
'Great, more remodeling that has to get done..' Kagome mentally sighed.
"While the main squad was out hunting for Inuyasha, Kouga had managed to sneak me out. He said that I would be safe here with you. I tried to get him to come, but he said that he couldn't leave the packs without a leader." She sniffled, "I b-barely got away. The hunting squad had spotted me as they were returning and had gotten a few rounds in me, but I managed to get away because of my speed."
"That's horrible.." Kagome whispered.
"K-Kouga.. We need to save him! Please! You have to help me get him back!" She cried.
Inuyasha snorted, "I ain't savin' that skinny wolf from anything." Ayame had gasped at that, "But I am going to kill Naraku."
Kagome smiled, 'He just helps in his own way I suppose.' "I'll be there too, and help you Inuyasha. We'll all be there."
Someone had knocked on the bedroom door and had entered. Sango stared at them, "Sesshoumaru is here and—Oh, you're awake. That's good."
"We'll be out in a sec." The hanyou replied gruffly.
"I don't have time to waste on the likes of you, Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru entered the room after Sango, "I do have to sleep you know."
The hanyou rolled his eyes, "God forbid we deprive you from your beauty sleep."
Sesshoumaru said nothing, but had glared at the hanyou. "Ayame, you have an apartment set for you next to this one." He tossed the keys, "It will be a temporary place for you until this entire problem is taken care of."
"Thank you.." She stared at the keys in her hands.
"I gather you are from the Cirque de Freak, am I correct?"
"Yes."
"And why is it you are here?"
"It was Kouga's wish to protect me from Naraku."
"I see." He turned, "I will be retiring for the night." He glanced at Inuyasha, "Do not wake me for anything unimportant." With that said, he had left and was accompanied by Rin.
"I'll help you to your room." Sango offered to Ayame who had gladly nodded and walked out of the bedroom with her. "Um.." She stared at Miroku, who was still duck taped to the chair, but was now sleeping with drool seeping out of his mouth, "Who's that? And why is he tide to a chair?"
Sango shook her head, "You don't want to know, just make sure you keep your distance from his hands, and you'll do fine." She said and led her out of the apartment.
Inuyasha had placed his Tetsusaiga next to the bed and tore off his outer haorie, slipping into bed tiredly, "Scram, runt." He ordered the fox and the boy had squeaked running off.
Kagome shook her head and sat down next to her hanyou, "Can't you be a little more considerate?"
"Feh, I want to sleep. He was on my bed. I just solved a problem. Also, you need to come in here too."
She blinked and blushed, "W-what?"
He rolled his eyes, "This bed reeks of wolf, and you smell better, so come in here to get rid of that damn stench."
She huffed, "You are so mean."
Sango had come back and entered the room, "Hey, Ayame is all set up in her apartment. I'm going to drag Miroku and bring Shippou with me to mine, alright?"
"Just make sure you return the chair by morning."
"Will do." Sango smiled before leaving with the two.
Kagome had washed up before going to bed. It wasn't till one o'clock in the morning till they were settled in and ready to sleep. The miko had noticed that the hanyou was staring at the locket she had given him. "What are you doing?" She was on her side, cuddled in her blankets and looking at him.
He was on his back, his left arm behind his head and his right hand holding the locket as he stared at it and the picture within it. "Hn?" He blinked, clicking it shut and dropping it on his chest, "N-nothing!"
Kagome giggled, "You know, since we're in here now, you don't have to wear it if you don't want to. The barrier will keep Naraku from controlling you, so you aren't forced to wear it."
He snorted, "Who said I was doing it against my will?" All he could think of right now was the fact that it was dark enough to hide his blush.
Her eyes had gone wide, "Wh-what did you just--?"
He had cut her off, "Goodnight." And had turned on his side, his back facing her to hide his burning face. 'Just leave it alone.. Go to sleep.. Go to sl—' He froze up feeling her hug him from behind and wrap her arms around his waist. He had heard her whisper a thank you before she had started to doze off into a light slumber. His body had relaxed and he had cooped with their proximity, actually enjoying the closeness and had slept very soundly that night.
.:.:.:. In the morning .:.:.:.
Kagome had woken up, yet again, to a bare bed. Her friend had already left to go train with Housenki. So, she had left as well to go with her own friends to train. She had spotted Sango and Miroku waiting for her inside the gym, talking with someone she had never seen before.
"Hey Kagome, I would like to introduce you to Totosai." Sango said.
Kagome nodded to the old man, "Hello, you're the one Sesshoumaru mentioned the first night we came here. It's nice to meet you, Totosai."
"Same goes for you miss. Now, I was commissioned by Sesshoumaru to make you a sword." His old voice had responded as he held out the sword to her. It was within a black smooth sheath, with a purple hilt and a black wrapped handle.
She blinked, "Uh, wasn't it supposed to be done by tonight? Why so early?" She asked, taking the sword.
"Well, I hadn't counted on the whelp to learn the techniques this quickly. Evidently, I was given more time to work on it." He shrugged, "Any who, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm sure it will give you a name."
Kagome stared blankly at him, "Huh?"
He sighed, "That blade," She had unsheathed it and stared at it, "Is made from the fang of a snow leopard demon. I have minimized the demonic aura as much as I could so that you could wield it without a problem. But, the actual spirit of the demon within the blade itself will most likely appear before you and give you its name." He explained.
"Is that how the Tetsusaiga was named?" Miroku had inquired.
"Oh yes. The Tetsusaiga is rather amazing when the spirit reveals himself. He was made from the fang of Inuyasha's father, and is just as powerful looking as he." Totosai replied.
Kagome smiled, "Okay, so how about we get started then?"
Sango nodded, "We need a good training day without encountering broken Katana's."
With that said, Totosai had left them to do their best, and hoped that the sword he had forged would hold up well. During that entire day, it had held well. In fact, Kagome was able to put a lot of her power into the blade without hearing a single peep out of it. She could even do attacks much like the Windscar, except she would shoot out bolt of her pure abilities at her opponents.
The trouble that came with the sword hadn't started happening until later that night, after they were done training.
Kagome had tossed her sword onto the bed and had grabbed a towel from behind her door when she had heard it.
It was a faint sound of an, 'ow'.
Turning sharply, she had glanced around suspiciously, "Um, hello? Anyone here? Inuyasha?"
No sound.
"I guess I'm hearing things." She shrugged and walked over to the connecting door to the washroom.
"Do you always talk to yourself?"
She squeaked, "Who the heck said that!" She had turned around and had spotted someone sitting on her bed. "Wh-what the—!"
He was very handsome. He had silver hair that had been wrapped into a pony tail that when down to his legs, silver sparkling eyes, fangs, claws, snow leopard ears and fur clothing, armor, a tail.. Yes he had a snow leopard fluffy tail! He also had a few spots on his face and neck, and his eyes were rimmed in black tattoo. He had a transparent glow to him as he sat innocently on her bed, one of his fangs hanging out of his mouth as he grinned, "See something you like, Miss Kagome?"
She blushed, "B-be quiet and tell me who you are!"
"Can't you tell?" He replied. When she didn't respond he had rolled his eyes, "What was it, Totosai had made your blade with?"
She had wanted to say, 'Duh a snow leopard fang—' Then it had clicked, "Y-you're my sword!"
He nodded, "Do we understand now, Miss Kagome?"
"Shut it.."
His grin had turned into a cocky smirk, much like Inuyasha's. "My apologies, but I thought my tamer would be a lot brighter than this.."
"What! Why I oughta.."
He chuckled at her anger, "You're too easy, you know that Miss Kagome?"
She groaned in frustration, "Be quiet! Why the heck are you bothering me? Huh? What did I ever do to you?"
"Well, as I recall, earlier today you've been using me to withstand that power of yours. It does hurt you know, unless you know how to properly channel it." He thought for a moment, "But then to do that, you'd need to know my name.. You didn't even bother to ask that of me when you first received me. That was pretty rude, if you ask me."
He could see that she was steaming in anger and had spoke through gritting teeth as politely as possible, "What… grind…. Is….. grind…. Your name?"
He hummed, "Maybe I shouldn't tell you.."
She had literally growled and had walked up to him, gripping him by the collar of his shirt in anger. Yes, she was actually able to touch him. "Don't you dare pull this crap on me!"
"Can't stand to be away from me, hm? If you wanted to be close to me, you should have just said so." He spoke rather seductively.
"You are hopeless!" She whined, pushing him away, deciding to go and take her shower instead of hanging around here.
"Teruyuki."
She had stopped, right after entering the bathroom, she had twisted around, "Come again?"
"Teruyuki is my name. Now then, Miss Kagome, I believe you should get cleaned up. Because believe me, you don't smell like roses right now." He had held in a laugh as she started to get angry again. She had slammed the door shut after hearing his comment and took her shower.
.:.:.:. With Inuyasha .:.:.:.
He was having a very uneventful day with Housenki. Tried as he may, he could not break through the demon's hard adamant body. The Windscar would hardly touch him and he couldn't use the backlash wave on him because he had no attacks that were remotely strong enough to shoot back at him.
'What do it do now?' He thought, narrowing his eyes while panting heavily. He had gashes all along his body from the demon shooting adamants at him. 'How do I get through this guy?'
"What's wrong, Inuyasha? Giving up so easily?" Housenki mused.
"Shut it, damnit!" He scowled, 'I've been at it since morning, non stop.. I'm hungry and I know it's well into the night..' He crouched into a battle stance and charged again at the demon, using his Windscar on him yet again.
As usual, the attack had done nothing.
"Whelp, I believe it's time to call it a day. This is not moving anywhere." Housenki said.
"What! I am not giving up!" Inuyasha barked in frustration.
"We will resume this tomorrow morning. Goodnight, Master Inuyasha." Housenki finished, hovering away.
Inuyasha clutched onto his wound on his shoulder, 'Why can't I beat him? What am I missing?' He sheathed his sword and walked out of the gym panting. By the time he had reached his apartment, he was exhausted beyond belief. His dog-ears had twitched, hearing noises coming from within his apartment. Voices, to be correct and one of them he did not recognize.
"You are such a bastard!" "Such language, I must have really riled you up, Miss Kagome." "Quit calling me Miss Kagome! Get out of my room!" "Oh, but we were just starting to get along." "Why you—!"
Inuyasha growled, opening the door very loudly, his eyes had gone red and blue and stripes had formed on his cheeks. His fangs were extended as well as his claws. He had turned into his full demon form without even realizing it. Weather it was from his wounds or the fact that he could hear another male's voice, he did not know.
He had sped to the bedroom with such speed that would even out run Sesshoumaru and had spotted the stranger. He was sitting casually on his bed and was speaking to his Kagome who was wrapped in a white towel. He was snarled at the other youkai, his claws extended and ready to attack at any moment.
Teruyuki turned to him and stood in front of Kagome, "I don't know how a rabid demon such as yourself got into this place, but I am willing to drag you right back out."
Kagome huffed, rolling her eyes and shoved Teruyuki, "Get out of my way."
"No! He'll kill you—"
"No, if anything, he'll kill you." Kagome glared at the snow leopard youkai. "Now please move or go back to your sword or something." She argued hotly.
Teruyuki snorted, "Fine, but I'll be back. Don't think I'm not watching you." With that, he had turned into a silver vapor and had flown back into the sword that he had once come from.
Inuyasha could just stare then had trudged over to Kagome, his eyes staring down into hers. He then lowered his head and started to sniff her.
She squeaked and turned pink in embarrassment then giggled as he had tickled her while checking over her. "Wh-what are you doing?" She laughed at the hanyou.
Once he was done checking over her for any wounds he had calmed down slightly and embraced her tightly whining into her neck lightly and nuzzling her. "What the matter?" He heard her ask then she had gasped. "You're hurt again, Inuyasha." He could feel her pull away to check over him.
"C'mon," She tugged him into the bathroom. "Sit in here and wait for me, okay? I'm going to go change into some pajama's and come back to treat your wounds."
He whined, but complied, sitting on the toilet silently as she closed the door.
Kagome was about to take her towel off when she had spotted the sword, laying innocently on her bed. She raised a brow and frowned when she thought she heard a little giggle, "You are a pervert, Teruyuki." She snatched the sword and opened the closet door, throwing him in. She could hear and 'awwwww' coming from behind the shut doors, but ignored it.
She had changed fairly quickly and was back in the washroom cleaning what was left of the hanyou's wounds. She had noticed that most of them were healing very fast and a lot of them were on his torso and arms. "How did you get these, anyways?"
"Housenki."
"He did this to you? Why am I not surprised." She was just about finished wrapping all his cuts and huffed, wiping her forehead. He still hadn't changed back into his half demon form. "You should be more careful you know." She put the washcloth into the sink and tugged at his hand, leading him out of the washroom and into the kitchen.
She had made them ramen for dinner and he had eaten it with content. Just as she was cleaning up though, he had snatched her around the waist and placed her into his lap. He had stood up and gone into the living room, carrying her bridal style and sat down on the couch with her snuggled into him.
"What's going on? What's the matter?"
His chest rumbled with a soothing growl as he stared down at her with his blue and red eyes. She was very surprised to see him lower his face to hers until their noses were touching, letting one word pass his lips before kissing the blushing girl.
And that word was, "Mine."
It was a soft and loving kiss that hadn't lasted very long. The youkai had turned back into a half demon in the process of kissing his miko. Then he had pulled away, blushing heavily, "Wh-what—I'm s-sorry. I didn't—"
Kagome shook her head, "It's alright. I'm glad your back." She smiled brightly up at him and crawled out of his lap. She hadn't noticed his ears droop when she had left to return to her room.
'What happened..? Why did I do that? I k-kissed her!' He thought, 'But then again, she didn't pull away, I did.' He turned his head towards the closed door leading to the bedroom. 'Is that why she's sad? Does she think that I don't care for her?' His heart pounded in his chest. He rose from his spot and was heading for his room when white vapor seeped beneath the door.
Inuyasha placed a hand on his Tetsusaiga when a figure appeared before him, looking royally pissed.
"So you're Inuyasha. I guess I wasn't expecting our first meeting to be like it was.. A half demon actually transforming into a full blooded demon…" He mused but then frowned, "I'm afraid I can't let you go by right now."
"What the hell are you blabbing about? And who are you.."
"I am Teruyuki, Miss Kagome's sword." He replied coolly, "And you are not allowed to trespass any further."
"Why the hell not?! That's our room!" He barked.
"You hurt Miss Kagome, and you are going to leave her alone."
"No! I want to see her and you aren't stopping me, ya damn sword!"
Teruyuki snorted, "Unless otherwise told from my tamer, I am not going to let you in."
"What makes you think you can keep me apart from her.." His growls deepened and turned into snarls as his aura spiked and his eyes began to bleed red again. "She's mine…"
From within the bedroom, Kagome could hear them argue. She could also feel Inuyasha's aura growing as he spoke with Teruyuki and decided try and avoid all conflict. 'I don't want to get up..' She mentally sighed, standing from her bed and dragging her sore legs to the door, opening it slightly. Both of them had stared at her in shock and she had nodded at her sword.
"Teruyuki, you can calm down now. Go back to the sword, okay?"
He fully turned towards her, his silver cat eyes flickering in worry, "Are you sure, Miss Kagome?"
A smile tugged at her lips, "Positive."
He grudgingly transformed back into vapor and left them again to settle things.
Inuyasha's eyes were red and gold, stripes just barely visible and his fangs slightly longer. "K'gome, I need to ta—"
She held up her hand to silence him, "You don't have to say anything. Come in, I wasn't about to let you sleep on the couch. You are hurt and all." She turned and walked back to her bed and laid herself back down on her side.
He had followed suit and done the same, then spoke, "You know, I heard that couples should never go to bed angry."
Kagome turned around towards him and stared at him in surprise, "But we aren't a couple."
He gave her his famous toothy grin, "Feh, aren't we?" He scooted closer to her until he was leering over her. "We share the same bed, we've hugged, hell we've even kissed and we care for each other. Don't we?" He raised a brow at her. 'Before my courage disappears..' "Well, I know I care for you, anyways."
She could only open and close her mouth silently, just gaping at him. "R-really?"
"You were the one who saved me from rotting in the streets. You've been the one to take care of me this entire time. No one, during my entire existence, has ever cared for me like you did." His features by then had returned to normal. "So of course, I care for you."
Kagome's eyes began to fill with tears, "I d-didn't think you cared.. I thought.." She hugged him, "I'm so glad to hear that, Inuyasha."
"Good, I guess we will be going to bed happy then, after all." The hanyou said, which earned him a hit in the shoulder.
.:.:.:. With Ayame .:.:.:.
The wolf girl yawned tiredly, trudging through the halls towards the elevator. She rubbed her eyes and took the elevator up to her floor. She was so tired that she hadn't even noticed Sesshoumaru standing next to her until he spoke.
"How are you faring here, Miss Ayame?"
She squeaked, staring up at him, "L-lord Sesshoumaru! I.. Um.. I'm doing well I guess." She sniffled, "I still miss Kouga, but I'm fine. I've been training to get stronger! Then I can save him!"
"You must truly care for the wolfling."
"Yes." She smiled, "He promised me a long time ago that he would make me his wife. Ever since we were captured, we haven't been able to get married." She cringed, "I really hope he didn't forget."
Sesshoumaru said, "If you are as precious to him as you claim, then it is doubtful he's forgotten."
"Yeah, you're probably right." She gushed. "But if he has forgotten.." Her anger meter started to rise, "I'll make sure he marries me weather he likes it or not! I won't let him flirt with anyone but me! It's enough that I had to endure his Kagome stories! No way is that going to happen anymore!" She laughed victoriously.
The elevator beeped and came to a stop, "I believe this is your floor." Sesshoumaru spoke as coolly as possible. 'I pity the wolfling..'
Ayame nodded walking through the open doors and thanking him before the doors closed once more.
'Still… No matter how hard I try to hide it.. I'm still worry.' "I really hope he didn't forget." Ayame whispered.
.:.:.:. Cirque de Freak .:.:.:.
"The hanyou and miko are gone, and the female wolf is also gone. The scent of Ookami covered the entire shrine before my squad was there. You wouldn't happen to have anything to do with this, would you Kouga?" Naraku inquired.
"No sir, I would never go against your word. The female bitch had been the one who sent them and then ran off before she was discovered." Kouga inwardly winced at his own words, 'I can't be discovered, or I'll never live to tell Ayame.. How I care for her.'
A woman pushed herself off of the wall and walked towards the Ookami, "It's true." Kagura said, "I saw it all happen."
'Kagura? Why is she helping me?' Kouga thought.
"Very well. You may both leave." The Ringmaster said.
They had nodded and left the trailer together.
"I smell a rat." Naraku frowned.
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A/N Ewwwww… Rats are stinky… Anyways, if you guys want pics of Teruyuki, just e-mail me, okay? My address is on my profile page at the very bottom. Yay! R&R
Inu: Poor kouga.. Dealing with such a violent woman..
Kag: For once, I agree..
Inu: Oh well, the smelly wolf deserves it..
Kag: What!
Inu: That right, he had no right flirting with you! Go Ayame!
Aya: Watch out Kouga! Here I come –Runs in wedding dress with bouquet- to marry you!
Kou: Gahhhh! –Runs away-
Moi: Have a great honeymoon!! –Waves- R&R.