Together

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Means that it's the same POV just a shift in time / place.

Chapter 11

= Kagome =

Gold colored eyes looked at me as they called my name.

"Kagome," they held strength and power.

"Kagome," they came closer and I felt my body backing away. They crinkled in concern and said my name again.

"Kagome."

"Kagome."

"Kagome," it sounded closer now. It sounded different. The eyes started to fade as I felt my body being rocked.

"KAGOME!" The voice shouted in my ears.

"AH!" I screamed as I was ruefully woken up. I looked up into lightly honey colored eyes. These weren't the eyes that were there before.

"There, she's awake," Inuyasha said as he walked away to show Sango standing close by.

"I called you to see if she was sick, not to scare her," she said as she made her way over to me.

"What's going on?" I asked as I stood with the helping but unneeded hand of Sango.

"You over slept," Inuyasha said as he sat down.

"I thought something might be wrong. You don't normally sleep so long," Sango told me as she placed her hand on my forehead.

"I'm fine," I told her. "What time is it?" I asked her as I looked around.

"Half the morning is already gone," she told me.

"Half the morning?" I asked in a loud and expectantly surprised tone as I looked at her. "Why didn't you wake me?" I asked as I started to hunt through my bag for my toothbrush, wash cloth, toothpaste and cup.

"I tried. You wouldn't wake up," Sango said to me in a much firmer tone.

"Oh," I kinda whispered to myself. "I'm sorry," I said to her as I stood with my things in my hand. "I'll go get ready now. I'll hurry back so we can leave soon," I shouted back at them as I made it past a short tree going towards the river.

= Inuyasha =

"I'm amazed," Miroku said as I sat down next to him

"At what?" I asked him.

"That you weren't sueru for waking her up like that," he said.

"You're right," I said as I looked in her direction. "Maybe she is sick," I said.

"I told you," Sango said from her side of the camp at me.

"She didn't smell sick," I said in my defense.

"She might just be tired," Miroku added to the conversation. "She's been acting this way for a week since that fight we had with the bog demon that held her captive for a few hours." He paused as he scratched the back of his head. "Maybe the barrier drained her or something."

We all now had a different type of concern etched across each of our faces. Sango's face was covered in concern for her only female friend. Miroku's look was less of concern and more of pondering a problem. Shippo who didn't seem that concerned, and didn't say anything, went back to playing with his top as he tried a new spell on it. I had a bit of guilt with my concern for her. It was my fault that she was in the barrier for so long. I thought that she was safe in there, and didn't try to get her out. Instead I focused on trying to get the shard from the demon that caught her in the first place.

Granted it had taken a while to find her in the first place after she was captured, but maybe if I had gotten her out a few minutes sooner, she would be more like herself. Or maybe something else is wrong with her.

"I'll ask Sesshomaru if he can have his healer give her a look to make sure that nothing it really wrong with her if she keeps acting like this," I said as I laid down on the grass and looked up at a few passing clouds. It could have been a good day if this problem with Kagome hadn't come up.

= Kagome =

"I, I, I..." I screeched as my hands went back into the cold moving stream. I dunked my face cloth in a few times and rung it out before I wiped it down my face. Over my fore head, down the side of my face then back up to my forehead again before going down the other side. One quick dunk before I wiped it down my nose, over my mouth and across my chin. I dunked it again and rung it out. I wiped down my neck and around my breasts. I washed it out a few times before I got on with the rest of my cleaning.

I took my cup and rinsed it out before half filling it. I propped it up on a flat area on the bank then turned to putting some toothpaste on my brush. I looked around as I brushed my teeth. There wasn't anything truly interesting about the area we were passing through. My mind drifted as I worked on one side of my mouth. Part of my dream started to come back to me, but I didn't really see anything. Just the outline of a person with long hair and a feeling of not feeling afraid, if you could understand it. The figure stood there and I wasn't afraid of them or what they might mean.

A crow squawked over head and I was brought back to the present. I reached for the cup and rinsed my mouth out. It wasn't so cold now which was good. I gathered my things up and started to walk back to camp.

Today was going to be a good day. I could feel it. Maybe I can talk Inuyasha into catching something a bit more than a few rabbits for dinner.

"I'm done," I said as I entered camp. "Just give me a few minutes to pack up then we can get going," I said as I put everything I had back into my bag expect the cloth which I looped through the strings on the outside, so it could get a chance to dry. I started to hum nothing in particular as I picked up, dusted off my sleeping bag and rolled it up to put it in my bag.

"She seems ok," Shippo said

"Of course I'm ok," I said as I smiled over at him.

I stuffed it in and clipped it close. I reached round the side to one of its pockets and pulled out a granola bar. I heaved the bag onto my back not that it was heavy, just big. I ripped open the packaging and took a big bite before folding it up and putting it into my pocket.

"Come on Shippo, hop on," I said to him as I walked over to my bike. I waited until he was seated in the basket before looking at the others.

"See?" I said proudly. "Ready in no time."

= Miroku =

Today Kagome woke up with everyone else, but she still didn't seem like she was completely normal again. We have been lucky not to have had to fight anyone for the last two shards we got. One was buried and needed to be dug up. It took us almost a whole day to get it out. After we retrieved it, we all voted to walk until we found a stream before we set up camp for the night.

The next shard was being looked after by a valley king. He was an impressive fifty-five foot long cat fish that hid it under a rock in the river that he lived. At the start of our meeting with the great fish, Inuyasha thought that he was stalling and was about pull his sword on him when Kagome sueru him unto a rock. When he got up, he was bleeding from the right side of his head. They got into an argument and when we all realized that the valley king wasn't an evil demon, because he tried to stop them from arguing Inuyasha left and said that Kagome could talk to the fish herself and that she didn't need him. I saw him bound away, but I knew he didn't go far. He was out of sight, but not out of reach. There is no way he would really leave her.

I offered to go talk to him and bring him back while Sango stayed to keep an eye on things until we came back. I was right he was just a few large trees into the surrounding woods wiping the blood from his face. I walked over and kissed his forehead close to where the cut had been. We talked for a few minutes until he felt better, and when we got back to the others he apologized and so did Kagome.

This seemed to have impressed the catfish and it may have helped him in deciding to give us the jewel shard. He talked to us at length before he let us have it. He said that he knew that the power of the shard came with a price. A price that not everyone expects and what even fewer can pay. I asked him why he didn't use it. He simply said that he had no wish for any more power than he currently possessed, and on some days it was more than he wanted.

When we parted we wished each other guidance and a long a life as Kami would allow. I liked talking to the old fish, but that didn't stop me from eating my share of a very fishy meal that just about everyone had a hand in catching and preparing that night.

Kagome tripped next to me as she was walking by, quickly bringing me back to here and now. I reached a hand out and steadied her. It was the fourth time that morning. She walked on ahead after thanking me, and started talking with Inuyasha who was his usual distance ahead of us on the road.

"That's the fourth time for the day she's tripped," Sango said as she fell into step next to me.

"You have been counting too?" I asked her without looking in her direction.

"It's hard not to," she replied. I shook my head and we walked on with Kirara trotting beside of her. For once Shippo was with Inuyasha. He was holding on to Kagome's bike today and Shippo was walking beside it.

"How long do you think Sesshomaru will let us stay at his home?" Sango asked me.

"I don't know," I told her. "Do you want me to ask Inuyasha for you?" I offered. She seemed to think it over for a moment.

"No, I'll ask him myself," she answered. Then she turned and looked at me.

"What?" I asked, instinctive raising both my hands for her to see.

"That," she said.

"That?" I asked her as I lowered my hands and raised an eyebrow.

"You haven't tried anything in months," she answered.

"Do you wish to see me killed by your mate-to-be?" I asked her with a chuckle.

"No, at least not anymore," she admitted.

"That wounds me my dear Sango," I told her with a look of false hurt in my eyes.

"You also seem to be spending more time with Inuyasha too," she said, continuing to list my new habits.

"Well I can't be with you anymore, and I know that I can't try anything on Kagome. Who else do I have left to talk to in our little group?" I asked her. "Or do you think Kagome wouldn't really mind?"

I looked at the twitching ears on my Inuyasha's head. I will have to explain this little conversation to him later I figured, not that I truly mind. I was looking for a reason to kiss him lately. We may have been spending enough time together that Sango notices, but we haven't gone off or done anything that took time since Sesshomaru's little visit. A few stolen kisses here and there that left me hotter than I was before. Or a few brushes of our hands over some part of each other, while no one was looking as we passed.

Only once since we have been on road, was I able to give Inuyasha any kind of real personal attention. He begged me for a blow job and that got me as turned on as giving the blow job itself. I stoked myself off while I sucked him clean. Then we had to finish with our bath to get back to the girls before one of them or Shippo came looking for us.

"I take that back," Sango said as she walked away from me. "You are still a perverted monk," I grinned at her retreating backside. In truth, I now had three lovely backsides to gaze at along with the rest of nature's beauty. Sango's long silhouette, Kagome's long bare legs thanks to her poor excuse of a skirt, and the red cad behind of the one I just wanted to hold at night these days. A memory of the last time I kissed that behind flashed through my mind. Our conversation later will have to be a bit more than just me explaining what he heard today. As if he knew I was thinking about him, I soon heard his voice.

"What are you doing back there monk?" I heard him ask. He hardly ever called me by my name in front of the others. Which is fine by me, it just made me enjoy hearing him say my name even more enjoyable, when he did call out my name.

"Nothing, just enjoying the view," I said. And what a lovely view it is.

"Pervert," I heard Sango say again.

"Hmp," Inuyasha added before he turned his head back to facing the road. Kagome was quite like she hadn't heard what was going on at all.

"What did you expect him to say Inuyasha?" Shippo piped up from his side of the road. "Now you have embarrassed Sango and Kagome. Kagome is so shocked thinking of what Miroku said that she can't say anything." At this Inuyasha reached over and hit him on the head.

"Watch your mouth," he said as his hand came down.

"AAHHhh..!" Shippo exclaimed as he started to rub his head. At this Kagome seemed to have come back to us.

"Inuyasha! Osuwari!" she said and walked away from his falling body that was somehow still propping up her bike. "He's just a child!" she shouted back at him as she bent to pick Shippo up after they were clear of him. I came to a stop next to him and waited for him to get up.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm just fine," he said before pushing himself up and staring to walk next to me with her bike.

We now had a week left before we were due at Sesshomaru's home and we were on our way back the hut to drop off a few things and get a few other things before we headed in that direction. The girls wanted to take some of their better pieces of clothing with them. Being a monk, I didn't have a wardrobe to pick and choose garments from, but I could pack one or two of my better sets of robes for the upcoming event. I don't think that Inuyasha has anything different or more than his fire rat kimono and undergarments. Maybe he will wash it before we leave the hut.

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"Inuyasha, you have to wash that!" Kagome shouted as she kicks him out of hut and throws a brick of soap after him. I raised an eyebrow as I looked at him scooping up the blue block. He looks over at me and tosses the soap up and down a bit. Is he thinking of throwing it at me? Well we still haven't had that talk yet.

"Inuyasha, I'll be right with you." I said as I started to walk around him cautiously before turning to run up the steps of the hut. I ducked under the curtain and stood as still as I've ever stood in my life. They looked at me, I looked at every part of them that I could without even thinking.

"Ahmm… I came for some soap," I told the two frozen ladies.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!" "PERVERT!" "LEACH!" "GET OUT!" "DON'T LOOK!" "LEACH!" "GET OUT!" "DON'T COME NEAR ME!" "PERVERT!" "GET OUT!"

"I just want my dirty robes and a brick of soap," I said as I tried to reach for the one I saw that was next to Kagome.

"No you don't monk!" I heard Sango said before I felt something as it hit me. I was knocked on my side and was sent flying across the floor.

"Really, I just want to do some washing," I said as I started to get up. Before I was standing upright I felt something hit me again and I was sent flying out of the hut and over the steps. I turned and rolled on my side when I hit to ground to keep any one part of me from getting the full force of the fall. I came to a stop lying on my back and I stayed like that for a bit. I was looking up at the sky as I heard him walking towards me.

"Something went wrong?" he asked me as he bent over my face.

"Yes, I think so," I said as I laid there.

"Do you need help getting up?" he asked me when I didn't move.

"No, I want to wait for a bit," I said as I looked into his eyes. "Can I have half of your soap?" I asked him.

"You have something to wash?" he asked me. He then looked around for something. "I didn't see you come out with anything," he said as he looked back down at me.

"Just what I'm wearing it seems," I told him. I sat up and gauged how my head felt. "Ok, we can go now," I told him as I started to stand.

"What did she hit you with?" he asked as we walked down the path.

"I think she used Hiraikotsu on me," I answered.

When we got to the washing part of the stream, which was a ways down from the rest of the village, Inuyasha used a rock to break the brick into pieces for us to share. He didn't say anything as we stripped off our outer clothes and started to wash them. I had wanted him to ask me first about the talk I had with Sango that morning, but it looks like he wasn't going to bring it up.

"About this morning," I started as I flipped my purple robe over to find the stain I saw when I took it off. "I was just giving Sango an answer that she would understand," I said. I paused and looked over at him. He was banging his hitoe into a large rock he had found half submerged in the stream. "Are you mad at me?" I asked him. He stopped and looked at me. He then turned his attention back to washing his jacket.

"No, I'm not mad at you," he said. "I want to let them know, or at least not have to hide it, but I know it's not time to tell them yet," he said as he continued to beat the jacket against the rock. I had an idea of what else he was thinking, but didn't say. I walked over to him and hugged him from behind. I buried my nose into hair until I touched the back of his neck to place a kiss there.

"To think that I asked you if you would have a problem letting others know about us and you turn out to be the one having the hardest time not telling. An ironic turn of events is it not?" I asked in the end.

"Don't you want to tell anyone now?" he asked me with his head bent.

"Of course I do. I would love to go to sleep with you every night and wake up in your arms every morning. I haven't felt so loved in a very long time, and I feel that love every time I fall asleep in your arms. I also understand that doing that now would hurt Kagome more than we would ever want to," I kissed the back of his neck again. "I wait because I have too," I told him.

He reached a hand up and held on to one of mine. I held his hand as I moved around him to sit down on his hitoe in front of him. I slide my other hand around his neck and moved my fingers into his hair. I pulled his face forward and kissed him. He needed to be kissed right now, and I wanted to kiss him. He deepened the kiss before I did and was soon pushing me back against the rock. My other hand was left to be pressed against his damp chest. My head and chest were being pushed down, while I was pushing my lower half to him. I slid my hand from his chest to under his arm and around to this back. I soon felt his hands on either side of my face as he eased up on the kiss and started to suck and nibble on my lips.

Soon I felt his lower half as he pushed back against me, placing me between a rock and a hard place. Can we really do this? My mind went through what or who could stop us now. Shippo? At Kaede's. The girls? Still trying out outfits and due to my little interruption they wouldn't come looking for me or us anytime soon. I slide my hand down to his hot ass and pulled him even closer. I felt him nip at my jaw when he felt my hand pulling on him from down there. I felt my fundoshi as it strained against my cock when he wasn't pressing down and rubbing his cock against mine.

That gave me a spark that let me enjoy his weight when it returned. I opened my legs for him and he slid into me. My fundoshi might as well not be there now. The heat from both our bodies, and the rubbing with the pressure of his weight, was almost enough to make me come. But I wanted him to possess me. I wanted to remind him that he had me.

"Inuyasha," I breathed as I pulled out lips apart. "Do it," I told him.

"You want me to have you?" he asked as he panted above me.

"You already have me. I want you to take me," I looked into his eyes, burning a darker gold, as they now tinted with a shade of red. He pulled his fundoshi off before getting rid of mine. He kissed me again as he lifted my knees. He kissed the side of my knee. He licked down the inside of my thigh. He bent his head down and sucked on my balls each in turn, then did it a second time before moving on. My arms went out from my side and gripped the rock that I was laying back on.

= Inuyasha =

I was starting to drown in the smells coming off of Miroku. He gave me the right to have him, and I knew he meant it for more than just this moment.

I licked the warm patch of skin below his balls before I went lower to prepare him for me. He was starting to shake in my hands and I had to hold him tighter as I rimmed him before pushing my tongue inside. I growled as I felt him tighten around my tongue. I pulled my tongue back and kissed him here, letting the growl move into him. My ears twitched and I smirked as I started to lick him again. He was panting as rapidly as his heart was beating. I also felt his blood speeding past my hands in his veins.

I pushed my tongue back into him and moved it around to get him ready. I can feel my pre-cum as it bubbled out of me and slid down my legs. I lifted my head and looked down at him with his eyes screwed shut with the sweat on his skin making him shine. I heard his breathing deepen as I looked at his chest to see its rapid movements lessen. I lowered him to lean against my legs so I could use one hand to rub some cum over my cock. It felt so good.

All of my senses were filled with him. I smelled him all around me, I tasted him in my mouth, I could hear his breathing, and it starting to pick up again. I looked down at him looking back at me. His skin was heating up again. He was thinking of how I was going to make him feel. He was looking at my hand as it moved over my cock getting it ready for him. I was going to try my damnedest to make sure that he would remember this until the next time we were able to lay next to each other. I shifted his weight and pointed my cock at his tight ring that was just puckering in wait for me. I wrapped my arms around his legs and pulled him up to me as I pushed down. I almost felt his voice was my own when he screamed at my entry. I slowly pulled out as let him fall from me. Just before I would have popped out of him I gripped his thighs and pulled him back to me as I pushed down again. He screamed again but it was half lost in a deep moan. Oh this was so good.

Slowly we separated again, and again I pulled us back together. This time I moaned with him. I did it again and knew I couldn't do it again. I hunched down over him and I held him closer to me as I started to move faster. I pumped into him as quickly and as deep as I could. His moaning and the twisting of his body in my arms were keeping me going. His voice quickened my blood. His hot skin that was dancing under my hands sent shivers of desire into my body. I was going to come soon. I saw the light of ecstasy as it started shine in my eyes.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I held on to him and pulled him onto me as I pushed deeper and deeper for each jerk of my climax. That pushed him into his own climax. I felt his ass squeeze and hold on to me as the smell of his cum filled the air along with his own scream of pleasure. I opened my eyes to see his arched body concave then settled down to rest on the rock. I pulled out of him when he had let go of me and looked him in his eyes as I held out my hand to him. He took it and sat up with his legs on either side of my body. I kissed him and wrapped my arms around him.

"I love you Miroku," I told him. I pushed my fingers through the hair at the top of his neck. I felt his arms as they moved around my waist and held me.

"I love you too Inuyasha," he tells me. I can hear the sincerity in his voice and I pull him closer.

= NOTES =

Sueru – (the closet that I could find to sat) to seat (someone)