I think it's about time for... dun dun dun... the disclaimer! So, eh hem. I do not own Inuyasha. Happy now? Anywho, on with the story!
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He raised an eyebrow. "Wow, I never knew you could speak Inuyoukai. Or that you could cuss."
"Huh?"
He grinned. "You just told me to 'stop fucking moving'."
"I... I did?"
His grin grew broader. "Looks like ya' have been picking some Inuyoukai up from me without realizing it."
"Inuyoukai have their own language?"
"Yeah, though not all of it is... verbal I guess. Like, you have a bunch of moves ya' do, too."
"Can you show me?"
"Huh?" He blinked. "You want to learn Inuyoukai?"
She nodded excitedly. "Please?"
He smiled again, happy to see her taking an interest. It was also nice to know more than she did on a subject. "Okay. What do you want to learn?"
"Show me how to say your name."
"Oh... well, we don't really use names."
"You don't?"
"No. More like positions."
"Positions?"
"Yeah. I guess I could teach you those, if you really want to learn."
She nodded eagerly.
"Okay, well I'm alpha, I guess, so I would be this." He growled low in the back of his throat.
She mimicked him.
"A little deeper."
She tried again, and this time got it spot on."
"Yeah, that's right."
"What am I?" She asked.
"You're beta." He growled again, then added a slight bark on the end.
She did as he did, getting her own title right on the first try.
"Good job. That wasn't too bad, for a human."
"What about everyone else? What are they?"
"I guess Shippo would sorta be like your pup... so he would be this."
Again he showed her what to do, and she copied him. They went through all the 'names' of their 'pack' members, until Kagome could easily say any of them.
"What's this?" Kagome asked, growling in a way she often heard Inuyasha.
"Oh... well that pretty much translates into 'back of ass-hole."
She rolled her eyes. "Of course. What about this?" She did another one he often used around her.
He blushed a little this time.
"What is it?" She asked with a smile, really curios now. She often heard him use a combination of the first growl and then the one she had just used around Koga. She often wondered if he was actually saying anything, or if it was just to intimidate.
"That's..." He mumbled something that rhymed with blees crine.
"What?"
"That is... she's mine."
Kagome blushed a little bit, too, as a small smile played across her face. "Oh."
He just nodded, not really sure what to say from there.
"What about actions? You said it wasn't all verbal?"
"Oh, yeah."
"Show me."
He sat up a little, using the cave wall for support. "Come here."
She got up and walked over to him, sitting on her knees before his form.
"Alright, what do you want me to show you?"
"Hmm... how do you show that you're angry?"
He smirked. "That's a growl." he said, showing her one she heard a lot.
"Oh. Well... how about you don't like what someone is doing?"
"Come here." He patted the ground in between his legs. She moved up to sit there, and didn't protest when he picked her up and turned her around so that her back was to his front. "This is how you show you don't like what someone it doing." He opened his mouth and lightly bit down on her shoulder.
She nodded, blushing a little, and then suddenly asked, "What does it mean if you bite someone's chin?"
"Like this?" He turned her to face him and gently leaned forward to nip at her chin.
Still blushing she nodded a little.
"It depends. It can mean you want them to pay close attention to you, or it can mean you want the other person to know that you're the boss."
She nodded. "Okay." That explains what he was doing when he went full-youkai.
"What about shut up?" She asked suddenly, smirking.
"Easy." He reached out and pinched her skin, right above her right hip bone.
"How do you show concern?"
He leaned forward and, starting at her shoulder, slowly licked a path up to her ear.
She blushed again, shuddering a little. "What about this?" She asked, copying a move she knew all dogs did. She licked his cheek.
He smirked. "It means 'I missed you' or 'I'm sorry' if you whine a little bit."
"How do you say it's okay?"
He leaned forward and nuzzled her cheek.
"What about your ears? Why do they always do things when you talk?"
"Huh?" He blushed. "So you noticed."
She nodded with a smile.
"Well, ears back and head down is submission. Bet you've never seen that one before."
She laughed a little. "Nope!"
"Ears back and head up, a little bit of fang, that's 'I'm gonna kick your ass.'"
She laughed again. "I've seen that one."
"Ears forward and down is usually just for you, wench."
She smiled excitedly. "What does it mean?"
"It means it's too loud."
For a second she said nothing, but then she said, "How do you say 'that wasn't funny, it was stupid, and I don't like it'?"
He laughed, and then leaned forward and nipped her nose lightly.
She smiled, then leaned forward and nipped his own.
He laughed.
"How do you say goodbye?"
He stopped laughing. "Well, there's two ways. One was means you know you'll see each other again, and that it's okay that you're leaving. The other is more of a 'please come back'."
"Show me both."
First he leaned forward and rubbed his nose against her own, making her blush again. "That's the first one."
"And the second?"
He swallowed, then carefully lifted a clawed hand and put it on her jaw. His tongue darted out and licked from the bottom of her chin to her mouth, and then he leaned back.
She was still blushing, but nodded. "Okay."
For a second all was silent. Then Kagome blushed and asked, "How do you say 'I love you'?"
He blushed, just as she did, but he filled out her request. He leaned forward, putting his hand at the base of her neck, and brought his lips to her own in a chaste kiss.
Her heart was thundering in her chest, but for a second she just allowed herself to feel. It was odd; that was the first time he had kissed her when he wasn't in his demon form.
He pulled back and licked her bottom lip, then let her go and leaned against the wall. Both still blushing heavily, they turned away from one another.
"That," Inuyasha said, still not looking at her. "Is 'I love you.'"
She nodded, and with a sudden burst of courage turned around. "Inuyasha?"
He turned to her, and just as he did, she moved forward and kissed his lips. His eyes widened for a second, before they closed and he moved his hand around to the back of her neck for a moment. She pulled back, and looked up into his eyes, searching for an answer there. With that low, 'she's mine' growl he leaned forward and kissed her again.
When he pulled back, he said; "It's late. We gotta long way to travel tomorrow. Sleep."
She nodded, and made to move away, but her quickly caught her by the waist and pinched her hip.
She looked over her shoulder, a little surprised, but he just moved down so that he was laying. He pulled up one of the biggest fur's from the pile, a bear's pelt, and motioned for her to get under it next to him.
With a small smile she crawled under the pelt and settled against his bare chest, mindful of his wounds. She yawned a little, just as his arm snaked under her head to be used as a pillow. Another arm went to her waist, and she grabbed his hand just like she had on the day that he had marked her.
"How do you say thank you?" She suddenly asked.
There was a bit of movement, and suddenly he kissed the hollow of her throat. He moved back to his original position, kissing the mark on her neck along the way.
She shuddered, smiling with a small blush. She turned around in his grip so that she was facing him, and lightly kissed his own throat. "Thank you." She whispered.
He didn't answer, except to tighten his hold on her. "Go to sleep."
She closed her eyes, obeying his command, and did.
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"It's getting really late, Miroku. Do you think Kagome and Inuyasha are alright?"
"Of course, fairest Sango. I don't see the forest going up in flames, so they can't be in trouble. I bet they wanted to get in some more alone time." His hand darted out with the word, squeezing Sango's behind.
She growled a little- they had all picked up a habit or two from Inuyasha- and slapped him.
"Oh, she made good contact on that one." Shippo said to Kirara, who meowed in agreement.
"Pervert." Sango muttered, looking out in the direction that she knew Inuyasha and Kagome would come from. "I hope they are okay..."
"It's okay, Sango." Shippo assured her. "Inuyasha won't let anything happen to Kagome. They'll be okay. … I hope."
Sango nodded, coming over to the kit where he snuggled into her fire cat's side. Sango curled up next to Kirara as well, giving Shippo a reassuring smile.
"You're right. We shouldn't worry. They'll be okay."
Miroku, recovered from his earlier slap, came over to Sango. He smiled at her, not caring that he only received a glare in return, and sat in front of her.
"If Inuysha protects Kagome, then it is only right that I should protect you, my lovely Sango."
Sango actually blushed a little at that smiling. "Goodnight, Hioshi."
"Goodnight, Sango."
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So... I actually followed through and updated! Hope you all liked it. :) Thank you for your wonderful reviews, I hope to see more. Because, as you all know, I pretty much go crazy for those things. Ah, nothing better than a comment on my writing to top off the morning. Thanks!