Chapter 14: Persuasion
Kagome is still thinking about what Ayame said. How she almost got raped by Tora at the Temple of Dogs, especially during mating season. She's just lucky she was saved though. But who saved her though? It couldn't been Koga. He saved her from the Birds of Paradise. He was taking her back to her tribe, and on the night of the Full Moon, there was a Lunar Rainbow, and he promise he would her as his wife when she was finished. Then who saved her then? 'I can't think such things.' Kagome thought to herself as she goes back to sleep.
Kagome's Dream
Kagome is in her half-demon form, running in the forest. Soon she comes out of the forest and comes into a clearing with something she hasn't seen before. She comes to a stop, looking at it closely to the place. She sees an entrance and goes in. She even shuts it behind her. "I just hope he isn't here." She said quietly while panting. She walks around. "What is this place?" She asks looking at the drawings of dogs around the walls, and calligraphy of them. "I see you have return." A familiar voice said to her. Kagome startles and turns to look around to find where to voice is coming from. "My son has finally found a mate, but the curse won't break alone from being mated." It said to her as the dog demon comes out into the opening so Kagome can see him. "Do you know how to then?" Kagome asks him. Soon the dog demon transforms into a humanoid with silver hair in a high ponytail, arms much like Sesshomaru's and a fur pelt cape from the back. "Kagome you must know about this." Kagome attentively listens but asks, "You know me?" the humanoid smiles, "Yes, I'm Inutaishou, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father, the previous lord of the Western Lands." Kagome gasps and bows down to him. "Please excuse me." Kagome said with respect to the great lord. Inutaishou chuckles, "Oh no, don't worry about it." Kagome stands back up. "So what do I have to do to break the curse?" She asks him with concern. "Inuyasha has a hidden power but it's sealed. In order for the curse to be broken, he must find it within himself in order to do so." Kagome nods. "What hidden power does he have? What he experienced in his life was to become human on the night of the New Moon, and become a full demon when the Tetsusaiga is out of his reach." Kagome states to him. "I know that already, but it's something he must find on his own." Kagome nods for understanding.
End Dream
Kagome wakes up to find herself protectively snuggles from Inuyasha's paws, as if they were still half demons, but they're still dogs for the time being. 'I just wish I knew how to break the curse. But Inutaishou said that only Inuyasha can do and must do it on his own.' She thought to herself. As she moves, a growl stops her. She turns to find Inuyasha is growling in his sleep. Kagome nuzzles him to calm him down. "Inuyasha wake up." She said to him lovingly. Inuyasha opens his eyes to see a smiling Kagome staring back at him. "Hey you. I hoped you slept well." He greets her. Kagome nods back, "Yeah, but I had the weirdest dream though." She said as she gets up. Inuyasha follows her out the cave. As soon as they were out of earshot from Koga and Ayame, Kagome starts off. "It's hard to say but I had a talk with your father." She looks down to the ground and flattens her ears. Inuyasha sighs, "Why is it that you get to my father and not me?" He asks her with concern. Kagome shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe the dream had a meaning, but it's something about breaking the curse." She said so far. Inuyasha feels the uncertainty within her. "Did he said anything about breaking the curse?" Kagome looks up to him. "Your father said that only you have the power to do so, but didn't say anything specific about it though. So you must find within yourself." She states what Inutaishou said to her before. Inuyasha growls a little, "Why would he do this to me? How am I supposed to know what this so-called power that I'm supposed to have in order to break this curse?" Kagome looks ahead of them. "If he said is true then we need to find out how to release that sealed up power of yours." She assures him to keep his spirits up. Inuyasha looks back to her. "I just wish I got to know him more than Myoga and Totosai did for me. Hear stories from his point of view, his voice, but I never even had that chance. But all I heard his stories are from my mother, Myoga and Totosai." He said grievously. Kagome feels his pain. "I just wish he was alive to help you." She tries to comfort him. Inuyasha nuzzles back. "I wish that as well, but I can't change the past. We don't have that power to travel through time, and change our lives." Kagome nods. "Come on. Let's head back." He suggests as they leave the forest and head back to the cave where their two wolf demons are waiting.
On the way back, Inuyasha in lost in his own thoughts. "If what Koga said was true about pre-mating, I have to claim Kagome as mine before it's too late. I just hope she'll understand where this is going." He sees Kagome from the corner of his eye, seemed to be lost in her own thoughts. "Kagome?" He snaps her out of her trance. Kagome looks back to him, "What is it?" She asks him, seeing that he might want to say something her important. "I was thinking about last night. About what Koga and Ayame said about pre-mating." He starts off. Kagome nods. "I mean since we're cursed and all, but I just want sure you're okay with this…" He stops because he isn't good with the ending of his request. Kagome nuzzles him, "You can tell me anything, Inuyasha." She persuades him. Inuyasha smiles down to her. "I know it might sound crazy, but did you ever consider of being my mate?" He asks her calmly, not to go all crazy about. Kagome smiles up to him. "I had considered of being your mate, and no one else's. Inuyasha, you're the only one I want to mate with." She confesses her answer. Hearing it just made Inuyasha the luckiest man or dog for the time being in the world. She looks to him, "How do we mate?" She curiously asks him. He smiles to answer, "We in demon terms, the male must bite the connection of the base of the neck and shoulder. When it's complete the female will have the demon symbol where the bite was." He explains to her. "I just wish that we were half demons. It'd be much easier for you to claim me, with a blush on her face.
Inuyasha's inner demon is going crazy. "She wants to be mated!" The demon voice within him said with satisfaction. Inuyasha had to think this through. 'How can we mate in the condition we're in now? It doesn't feel right to mate her in this form.' Inuyasha protests mentally to his demon self. "You might be right, but you must mate with her before the night of New Moon. If not then that dick Tora will claim her, and you won't be able to have her as you mate. You know better." The demon states to him. Inuyasha looks back to see Kagome heading back up to the cave. "Kagome wait up!" He calls out to her. As soon as he caught up to her, she turns. "Inuyasha please, how can we possibly mate like this?" She asks with concern. "See told ya." The demon said to him with a smirk. "Maybe Ayame and Koga can help out." Inuyasha suggests it. Kagome decides not to argue, even though she always loses them to Inuyasha. "Alright." She said as they head back to the cave.
Back at the cave Koga and Ayame are awake sitting close to the entrance. "What happened to you two? Did something happen?" Ayame asks quickly. Kagome giggles, "Relax, Inuyasha and I went for a walk, nothing more." Koga sighs, "Ayame, don't be rash to know everything those two are doing while they're gone." Ayame pouts at him, "Well excuse me for being worried." She snapped at him. Inuyasha shakes his head, and yet likes what going between the wolf mates. "Anyway, do you guys think you could help us?" He finally asks them. Koga and Ayame look at them. "Sure what is it?" Koga asks. Kagome sits down along with Inuyasha following suit. "How do your wolves mate?" Kagome asks them. The two look at each other. "Well you see Kagome, it's not really mating if that's what you're assuming." Kagome was drawn back from Ayame's answer. "Then what about you two. You're mates by the marks on you collarbones. "You're on the right track, but it's more than just marking the one you mate with." Koga states along. "Then how do you wolves mate? Get to the point!" Inuyasha growls at him. "Only us humanoid wolf demon mate to make sure no one else can have them. But the wolves have a different method instead." Ayame said to them sternly. "When animals mate they follow the strongest scent from a female, and if the female is in heat, they won't stop until she is claim by one of them." Koga said to them. "Okay…then what happens?" Kagome begs for them to keep going. "Females can have more than one male for a mate." Kagome looks at them with a shock. "So if Inuyasha claims me, the Tora would have the chance to claim me as well?" She asks worryingly towards the wolves. "But it doesn't happen a lot though. It was way before the wolf population was so low that the female had to produce a lot of pups to keep to population alive." Ayame explains to them. "Inuyasha you must be in your full demon form to claim Kagome while she's also in a full demon form to make sure that Tora doesn't claim her. Do you know a way to make that happen?" Koga asks Inuyasha. Inuyasha looks down to Kagome. Even though Kagome has changed from a human to half-demon, she never once turned into a full demon before. "I must have my Tetsusaiga with me to suppress the demon blood within me. Without it, I'll be a full demon in a blood lust, killing anything in my way. If I were to turn back into my half demon form, I must either be sat or have Tetsusaiga in contact to me." Inuyasha answers seriously. Ayame sees Kagome worried. "What about you Kagome, so you know a way to turn into a full demon?" Kagome sighs, "No, I don't even know how to. All I know is that, with Inuyasha's blood running through my veins, I turn into a human on the night of the New Moon. I'm clueless. I have no idea, or maybe have no interest into becoming a full demon." She honestly replies to her. Everyone is shocked to hear that from her. Not to become a full demon in order to mate with Inuyasha in his demon form as well. "Kagome it could be the only way to permanently mark you so Tora can't do it." Inuyasha persuades her, "Are you saying you don't want to be my mate then?" He then growls for a rejection from her. Kagome turns to him, "NO it's not that, the thing is that if you did turn into a full demon, then you'd kill me without even realizing it. That's why I didn't wanted that to happen." She reasons to him with her ear folded back to show how uncertain she is.
Ayame can sense how this is going with her. "Kagome, you might be able to mate in your half-demon form, but I'm concerned about Inuyasha's transformation." Inuyasha tries to comfort her. "I understand that but I had a conversation with my inner demon, and myself to make sure I don't kill you when I'm in that form. But there's one thing I'm baffled about." Kagome looks up to him. "What?" She asks him. "I do have Tetsusaiga on me. And you know what happens if I don't have it with me." Kagome nods with fear in her eyes. "You'll go full demon, and possibly kill all of us here." Inuyasha shows a reassuring look, "It's okay, Sesshomaru made sure that Tetsusaiga is with me. Remember when he turned into his true form?" She nods. "Don't worry about it. We'll work something out." He finishes.