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A/N: I have omitted large portions (like 85 percent) of this chapter due to fanfiction dot net's terms of service agreement. If you want to read this chapter in its entirety, it is also posted on mediaminer and Ao3. For those of you who are underage, or just simply don't like reading lemons (supposedly there are such people in existence), you won't miss out on anything relevant to the story if you don't read the unedited chapter.
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P.S. I didn't rewrite the edited chapter, just omitted the dirty stuff, so it's going to be disjointed as hell, but all the relevant stuff is still in there.
Palm of Your Hand
Chapter 11: Such Great Heights
Just as before, the intensity of their kisses grew at an alarming rate. It wasn't long before Kagome found herself rising to her knees in haze; slipping her hands behind InuYasha's waist and giving a sharp tug, wordlessly encouraging him onto his back. As much as InuYasha's instincts were pushing him to fight for the dominant position, he conceded. He had already decided he was going to let her do whatever the hell she wanted to do. For now at least…
Kagome climbed on top of him, straddling his hips. "Sit up." she commanded hoarsely, tugging at the hem of his t-shirt. When he obeyed, she jerked the shirt up over his head in one fluid movement before grabbing his face in her hands and crushing her lips back down on his somewhat aggressively. 'Is she doing this on purpose?' he wondered, but the more she grinded against him the less he really cared. Deciding it was time to level the playing field, he reached up and pulled her shirt inside out over her head and tossed it aside. He was pleasantly surprised to find that she wasn't wearing anything underneath. 'Perfect.' he thought...or said out loud, he wasn't really sure which.
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Every time he felt her press herself against him he was given a jarring reminder of just how long it had been since he had gotten laid. He had long ago made a vow to her in his heart, that after she was born he would be faithful to only her. He had honored that vow. Actually, in truth, it had even been quite a bit longer than that.
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He ran his fingers through her soft locks of hair as she nuzzled her face against the side of his throat, planting little wet kisses there. "Good?" Kagome murmured against his skin, her inflection indicating that it was a question.
InuYasha groaned. "What do you think?"
"I wouldn't know, I've never done that before." she answered honestly.
"What?!" he said almost breathlessly. His possessive youkai side felt a rush of pride at her words. "Are you serious?" he asked her, excitement apparent in his voice.
She giggled at his enthusiastic reaction. "I'm dead serious."
He grabbed her waist, and pulled her up his body so that her face was even with his. "It was very. very. good." he said huskily, punctuating each word with a peck on the lips. "In fact, it was so goddamn good it was starting to make me jealous." he said candidly. He combed his fingers into her hair on either side of her head before kissing her hungrily.
After a few moments, when most of the blood had returned to his brain, InuYasha decided it was his turn to take care of her.
He sat forward and kicked his pants the rest of the way off before standing with Kagome in his arms and carrying her to the bedroom.
When they entered his bedroom, he laid her down gently on the bed; climbing over her and kneeling on his elbows. He cupped a hand behind her head and kissed her thoroughly before slowly making his way down her body, his lips and tongue leading the charge. Driven by the feel of her fingers dancing across the sensitive skin at his sides, and the little gasps and moans of pleasure escaping her lips. He took his precious time exploring her; kissing and nipping and worshipping every last inch of her body. Absorbing the taste and smell and feel of her, committing them to memory.
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InuYasha had never been with someone he actually cared about before. Sure, he'd had sex with other women in the past, but until today he had never made any emotional connection. Sex had always been a means to an end. Quenching a thirst, completely detached and devoid of any feelings other than basic physical satisfaction. It was a desire he had come to think of as a human weakness; a weakness that he had almost grown to resent. There was a time he had almost convinced himself to remain celibate until he could be with Kagome. While his intentions were good, he was a red blooded male, half-youkai or not, and five hundred years was a long time. Especially when he didn't even know if he would live to see that day. After he had begun disguising himself as human, be had discovered that he was apparently highly desirable to human women. More often than not he would rebuff their advances, but he had, on several occasions over the years, given into temptation. It was always the same thing though. Just sex. And it never really seemed like it was worth it after the fact. When he left them all hopeful, feeling like the biggest dirtbag that ever walked the face of the earth. He had been a little concerned that he might not be able to make that emotional connection. That perhaps he was damaged goods, unable to have a meaningful sexual relationship. All of those worries went out the window the second he became one with her. This was wholly different from any other experience he'd had before in his life.
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Kagome had never been with someone she actually cared about before. Until today she had only ever had meaningless encounters to quell her restlessness. Unsuccessful attempts at filling her emptiness. One night stands with guys she never wanted to see again, and usually regretted deeply the morning after. She had been slightly nervous. Nervous about being a disappointment. Nervous about being detached, about being insufficient... All of those worries went out the window the second she became one with him. She was crying, but she wasn't sad. Her tears were not tears of sadness. In all honesty, she had no idea what kind of tears these were. They were born of some undefinable emotion she had never felt before. Some raw, nameless emotion that can only be known to those ones fortunate enough to have felt it. She didn't want it to end. She wanted to seal them within this moment, reliving it over and over until the end of time.
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InuYasha collapsed against her with his weight resting on his elbows, panting heavily as he struggled to regain his composure. They lay there for a moment, feeling the mutual lingering twitches where they were joined. When he raised his face to meet hers he was relieved to see that her tears had stopped. Wrapping his arms around her, he rolled them over so that she was resting against his chest. After a few minutes, when she still hadn't said anything he decided to break the silence.
"Oi. You still alive?" he said gruffly.
He felt her nod against his chest, and he pulled her up against his lips as he pressed them against hers in a chaste kiss.
"Hi." she said, resting her forehead against his.
"Hi, wench."
She pulled her head back to look at him. Staring into his eyes for what would be considered, under any other circumstances, to be an uncomfortably long amount time. They were exactly the same as she remembered them. In them she saw the paradox that was him. Youthful and ancient, dangerous and safe, open and unknown…
She nuzzled back into his neck, burying her face in his hair. "InuYasha…"
"Hmm…?"
"I'm happy." she mumbled against his skin before sighing contentedly.
He chuckled against her temple. "I can die happy now knowing that when my life flashes before my eyes at the end, I'll get to relive this." he half-joked.
She let out a little giggle as she planted several soft kisses along his jaw, on her way back to his lips. She had no doubt that when the time came for her to depart this life, her last thought on Earth would be the perfect memory of this moment.