A/N: Another Lemon near the bottom. Enjoy if you want, skip if you don't want.

"This is blood for blood and by the gallon. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're back! There's no choice left. And I'm ready for war."

Sin City - Marv

InuYasha, Kagome, Riko, and Isamu were all gathered in front of Riko's hut with the other members of the village. InuYasha was gripping the handle of his sword tightly and he could feel his temper rising. Ever since they'd return the villagers had been squabbling amongst themselves and dammit they didn't have time for this shit. Tatsuo and that horde could be here at anytime and they needed to start preparing to defend themselves. Isamu was trying to get everyone to calm down and listen for five seconds, but he wasn't having much luck. The villagers were divided into two camps, those who had followed Sango from the Western lands, and those who'd come later.

The latter were the ones that Tatsuo's back biting and griping had influenced the most, thankfully there were not as many of them as the former. Jun, one of the younger hot heads who'd listened to Tatsuo said.

"How do we know you're telling us the truth? I mean it was just you, the healer, and that damn hanyou in the forest and you just expect us to buy this crap? Well, I don't believe it."

His friend Seiji seconded his opinion.

"I agree with Jun. You have no proof that Tatsuo is possessed, much less that he killed his wife."

Hana and her husband Eiji both stepped up to stand next to Isamu in a unified show of supporting him. Hana said.

"You saw Mia's body! She was torn to pieces and Tatsuo was seen going into the hut. What more proof do you need?"

Seiji scoffed. "Could have been the hanyou in disguise."

Hotaka, another young man who was probably the next best demon slayer next to Sango, replied.

"That's ridiculous Seiji. First off, InuYasha would never do something like that, and second, we know he doesn't have that kind of power. If he had we'd have seen it before now. Besides this is foolish; if what they are telling us is true then we are wasting time arguing amongst ourselves. We need to prepare the village for defense."

Mika, a shy girl in her mid-teens glanced at Hotaka, blushed, and stammered.

"H-Hotaka is r-right. W-We n-need to prepare. I-I was only t-thirteen when the wars started b-but I r-remember what happened t-to my village. I-I d-don't want the s-same thing to happen h-here."

The handsome demon slayer gave the pretty teenager a warm smile and she blushed even more.

Yukiko, Seiji's wife, looked down her nose at the girl in disdain. Hotaka bristled and instinctively went to stand in front of her. Yukiko smirked.

"My husband and Jun are the only sane people left in this rabble. Lord Tatsuo is an honorable man, a man who warned us time and again that the filthy half-breed was dangerous."

InuYasha tensed and Kagome closed her hand on his forearm, staying him. The miko's calming affect helped ease the tension, but it had did not dissipate completely. Yukiko continued on as if nothing were amiss.

"I do not believe Master Tatsuo would murder his wife nor do I believe all this nonsense about him being possessed."

"Then you are a fool," Riko spat, coming unsteadily to her feet. Isamu saw her wobble and immediately went to her side and placed a supporting hand under her elbow. He frowned and she met his intense, concerned gaze briefly before turning back to the idiotic female. A light flush stained her cheeks and it was in direct contrast to the glare she aimed at Yukiko.

"Even if you bakas don't believe InuYasha and Isamu you should believe me. I did not imagine that I was kidnapped by that man, nor did I dream the ugly darkness in his eyes. I saw him call the demons. He will attack us at the full moon, some three days hence. We must prepare…or we will die."

Jun grunted and jeered, "Lies, all pretty lies to make Master Tatsuo look the villain and to save the disgusting half-breed's skin."

This time Kagome was unable to restrain the hanyou. He growled and shot to his feet.

"You're a fucking moron. I wasn't even in the damned village when Mia died. I was with Kagome and we…fuck. I don't give a rat's ass that you don't believe me. Hell, the way I'm feeling right now you can go into the forest and get eaten and I don't think I'd feel a flicker of remorse. But I will be damned if I let you put the rest of these people in danger. Mostly because if I don't do something to stop this shit, Kagome will never forgive me, but also because I fought with some of these people and for weak humans they ain't half bad. Now we've got three days tops to make this place a fortress and to get all the help we can, because believe me. Tatsuo is coming with a shit load of demons and he ain't gonna stop until every last thing is this place is dead. So you either follow me…or you die. Simple choice."

Silence reigned for about two minutes and then the villagers started shouting at each other. Most of them wanted to do as InuYasha had suggested, but the rest of them were still spouting nonsense about Tatsuo. He threw up his hands in disgust. Suddenly a weak cry sounded. InuYasha, due to his sensitive hearing, was the only one to hear it. He turned and cursed loud enough to shock the villagers into silence.

They turned almost as one to see what had captured the hanyou's attention and saw the boy stumbling towards them. It was Tatsuo's son, Shuji.

"Shuji!" Eri cried, and ran to her nephew, pulling him into her arms. He gazed at her as if he didn't recognize her; his arms remaining limp at his sides. She pulled back confused and scared by his lack or reaction.

"Shuji?"

He still said nothing. Eri felt hysteria bubble inside her.

"Riko!" She cried. "Oh Kami Riko, what's wrong with him!?"

The healer ran to the older woman and bent down so she could examine the boy. He was looking at her with dull, disinterested eyes. She'd seen that look before, or course, nearly two years ago during the war. Some of the soldiers and victims of the ogres had this same look. Kagome called it shell shock or sometimes Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The boy had all the symptoms and Riko had a pretty good idea why.

Her suspicions were confirmed when the boy spoke in a dead voice.

"Papa killed mommy."

A collective gasp could be heard behind her and the murmuring started anew. She ignored them and turned to Eri.

"Come, we must get him to the convalescence hut. I need to check him over and make sure he wasn't injured physically."

Mentally she already knew the boy was a wreck.

Eri nodded fearfully, scooped her nephew into her arms, and started towards the hut, but before she followed the healer she turned to the crowd.

"I suggest you all listen to InuYasha and Isamu now."

The silence that fell was deafening as the villagers watched her walk away. Isamu brought their attention back to the matter at hand.

"All right, we have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in. Hotaka I want an inventory done of all usable weapons in the store house. Eiji, go with Aoi, and walk the perimeter of the village. I want to know which parts of the walls you deem the weakest."

Jun and Seiji stepped forward looking ashamed.

"What can we do?" Jun asked quietly. Isamu looked at them hard.

"Pray."

Later that night Kagome found InuYasha in Sango's hut. He was looking at the picture album she'd given the slayer a few months ago. She walked in softly and wasn't surprised when he said.

"You should be asleep." He still hadn't turned around. She smiled softly, shrugged, and made her way towards him, sitting down right next to him on the floor.

"I can't sleep. Too wired I guess."

"Keh," he scoffed, softly. She smiled wider.

"How about you? How come you're not asleep?" He snorted.

"I don't need to sleep as much as you weak humans." She playfully hit him on the shoulder and he frowned.

"I swear InuYasha sometimes you are just so…so infuriating!" He grunted again and turned the page. Kagome bent closer to him so she could look and pointed.

"Hey, I remember that one! That was the day Miroku got caught peeping into the girls' bath in that village near Kaede's. Boy; was Sango pissed."

InuYasha didn't say anything and she looked up about to ask him why and suddenly froze. She was inches from his face and his golden eyes had gone molten.

"InuYasha," she whispered, needy. His breath hitched.

"Kagome," he growled, low and just a bit husky. She sighed and placed her hand against his cheek.

"Why do you keep fighting it?" He didn't have to ask her what it was, he knew.

"Because I…" I'm afraid of loving you, hurting you, loosing you. "I-I just do."

She smiled indulgently and bent forward to brush her lips, feather light, against his. He groaned.

"Kagome…don't"

She responded by moving so she was straddling his hips and she ran her small hands over the fabric of his robes. He shifted, bringing her closer, and growled.

"What do you think you're doing?"

She smiled again. "I'm seducing you. Can't you tell?"

"Kagome," he warned. She placed one finger over his lips.

"I'm not some scared fifteen year old girl anymore, InuYasha, and I know what I want. I want to make love with you. I want it more than anything I've ever wanted in my whole life."

He closed his eyes against her plea, knowing that if he looked at her, he'd never be able to refuse her.

"I can't mate you, Kagome. You have no idea how much I want…I can't." She wiggled her hips involuntarily and he groaned as his body started to harden. He could feel the heat of her core through her jeans.

"You can. I want you. Please." It was the closest she would come to begging him. He snarled and put his hands on her upper arms to push her away, but he found he couldn't. When she reached up and gently rubbed her fingers over one of his ears, he rumbled deep in his chest.

Kami, how he wanted her, but if he took her there would be no going back for him. She would own him, body and soul. Strangely, that thought didn't frighten him as much as he thought it would. She continued caressing his ears, moving to the other one, and the last of his resistance snapped. He had to have her…right now.

He roared and she yelped as he stood and carried her over to the futon in the corner, and tumbled them both down to it. He pinned her with his body and her eyes went wide.

"You should be careful what you wish for."

Her momentary panic subsided and she kissed the tip of his nose.

"Does this mean you're going to stop being an idiot?"

He growled and her blood turned to liquid heat in her veins. He bent his head into the crook of her neck and inhaled deeply, gently nipping the skin there. She jumped and gasped and he smoothed his tongue over the small red mark. Kagome's chest was heaving, her breathing getting heavier.

"I-InuYasha?" He nipped up the line of her throat and caught her ear between his teeth, running his tongue along the shell. She arched into him, her vision blurring. He'd smelled the spike in her scent and smirked at the discovery.

"Sensitive there, are we?"

Kami she really was. Who would have thought her ears had a direct line to her groin. He lavished them again and she mewled.

"InuY-Yasha…please."

She didn't know what she was begging for; just that she needed something from him. He was turning her whole body into a molten inferno. Through lust glazed eyes she could see the pale column of his throat stretched out before her and feeling bold she nipped him there, very lightly, with blunt teeth.

He froze and growled, dangerous and feral. She felt a shiver of apprehension.

"InuYasha?"

He pushed himself up enough so he could meet her eyes and she gasped at what she saw. His golden orbs almost glowed.

"Do that again and you better be prepared for what you unleash," he whispered. Kagome's eyes went wide and her nerves started to jump. She vaguely remembered that the act of biting a youkai on the neck could very well get someone killed, but she was having trouble remembering how the same theory applied to mating. With reckless abandon she nipped him again, wondering who the hell this too bold girl was and what she'd done with Kagome. InuYasha rumbled and grabbed both her hands and trapped them above her head at an angle that was a bit painful.

She winced and gasped when he swiftly ran a claw down the front of her t-shirt, ripping it. The look in his eyes was half wild and she squirmed, wondering what she'd gotten herself into. He sniffed the air appreciatively and buried his head against her neck again. His words were muffled when he spoke.

"Do you have any idea what biting does to a demon? You're playing with fire Kagome."

She responded by taking one of his fuzzy ears between her lips, sucking lightly, while she ran her small pink tongue along the sensitive membrane. He jerked his hips against her, rubbing his erection against her thigh. She released him and moaned.

He blindly lifted his head and took her lips, capturing that little tongue between his lips and sucking on it. She groaned and kissed him back. He released her and kissed a path down her neck to her breasts. He glared at the functional white bra shielding her soft globes.

"If you don't want to lose anymore clothing, you had better take this off." She smiled, languidly and tugged her wrists.

"You have to release my hands first."

He pouted and did so grudgingly, allowing her to unclasp the bra and toss it aside. He shrugged out of his hitoe and kosode, also tossing them were her bra landed. Her eyes lit up and she tentatively ran her hands over his chest, lightly scrapping the flat nipples with her nails. He growled again and bent his head to take her rosy areole into his mouth.

She bucked against him and fisted her hands in his silver hair, holding him to her breast. His hair spilled over her stomach, cloaking them and he gently dragged the tip of his fangs over the sensitive nub, soothing the motion with his tongue.

Kagome felt like a flash bang had gone off behind her eyes, all she saw was white. She moaned and whimpered and bucked under him, rubbing her jean encased legs up and down his. He sucked hard on her nipple and sweet Kami she almost came right then and there.

She was panting hard, and wondering how she could get so much pleasure just from him suckling her tits? When he moved his mouth to the other straining bud, all coherent thought deserted her. He moved his hand up her ribcage, claws scrapping gently, and wrapped his hand around her bereft globe, kneading like a kitten. Kagome responded by rubbing her leg against his encased manhood. He gasped.

"Not playing fair."

She was beyond speech so her response was to repeat the motion. He groaned and abruptly released her. She whimpered at the loss, but was soon rewarded. He pushed himself up on his knees and undid the ties of his hakama. She blushed when his erection sprang free and he lay back down next to her, kicking his pants free. She responded by working the button of her jeans free, pulling down the zipper, and pushing the tight denim down her shapely legs.

She lay before him in only a slip of virginal cotton panties; he growled in approval and traced a claw around her belly button. She sucked in a breath. Eyes languid she moved one of her small hands down his chest, over his abdomen, and gently took his throbbing member in her hands, rubbing up and down the length.

He almost howled. She swallowed hard. She had no idea what had come over her but the longer she looked at him the stronger the urge became. Following her instincts she shimmied down the futon, urged him on his back, and took him between her petal soft lips.

This time he did howl.

"Kami…Kagome!"

She couldn't speak with her mouth full so she said nothing. In the back of her mind she couldn't believe she was doing this. Of course she'd read about such things in fiction novels but she'd never thought she'd be doing it, to InuYasha. She was also a little nervous. He was…rather well endowed, not that she had experience with such things, but still.

InuYasha was in heaven. He closed his eyes and thrust involuntarily upwards as her lips skimmed over him. Her hot wet mouth felt like nothing he'd ever experienced, but he knew that he needed to stop her. Tugging lightly on her hair to get her attention she released him with a tiny pop. He took the opportunity to pull her back up next to him.

"InuYasha? D-Did I do something wrong?"

He was panting. "No, I just wouldn't have been able to hold it together if I let you keep doing that to me."

She blushed and ducked under her hair. "O-Oh"

He titled her chin up, forcing her to meet his gaze.

"It felt fantastic, Kagome. I just…when I come I want it to be inside of you."

She blushed darker and murmured. "O-Oh…I um…"

He smirked and kissed her, and she opened to him with a sigh. He pulled away and gazed at her tenderly.

"This is going to hurt for a moment. Are you sure you still want this? Want me?"

The look in his golden eyes made her heart ache and Kagome gingerly ran her fingers over his cheek bones, smoothing away the look.

So much pain, she thought. It's so unfair.

"I want you," she whispered and nipped his lips. He groaned and in one swift thrust he entered her. Kagome cried out and her body stiffened. Whimpering, he nuzzled her neck and ignored the roar in his demonic blood that commanded him to pound unmercifully into her. He fought his instincts and let her adjust to the feel of him inside her. Kagome bit her lip. It had hurt but the pain was fading and she marveled at the feel of him cradled inside her body. It felt…incredible.

"I-InuYasha?" He nipped her throat and she gasped.

"Yes," he replied, his voice raw.

"Y-You c-can move now…I-I mean…it doesn't…"

He felt more then saw her turn bright red. With a growl of longing he bucked his hips, sliding deeper inside her. She gasped and experimentally pushed back. He groaned loud and long.

Pushing himself up on his forearms he met her eyes and she wrapped her legs around his hips, giving him better access. His gaze never wavering he started thrusting deep inside her and all she could do was look deep into his eyes and hang on to his shoulders for dear life.

The intimacy of it all took her breath away. She felt pinned by his eyes and she could see every emotion as it swirled in their depths. She was sure hers were just as open to him and Kami the feel of him! She moaned and gasped and he pumped into her faster, harder.

She was far form idle; undulating her hips to meet his.

""Kagome," he growled. She pushed against him more desperately. She could feel the tight pleasure building low in her abdomen and she knew she would simply die if she didn't reach her destination. Their movements become frantic and out of sync as they moved faster, went higher. Kagome felt as if she was hyperventilating and the whole time he was joined with her, he never looked away from her eyes.

She knew he saw the explosion take place in her face before he felt her inner muscles sliding and contracting around him. With two final thrusts he howled as he spilled deep inside her, the emotions playing lightening fast across his face.

He collapsed against her, his silken hair draped over her breasts and his nose buried in her neck. He rolled her then, keeping himself inside her and tucking her against him while he nibbled at her chin and brushed feather light caresses against her skin.

She shifted when she felt him soften and blushed.

"W-Well that was…"

He grinned against her and nipped the hollow of her throat.

"Yeah."

She squirmed and he groaned, her eyes going suddenly wide when she felt his member start to harden again.

"A-Already?"

He rolled them so that she was straddling him. She moaned as he shifted. He bucked his hips causing her to moan again.

"That's the great thing about being a half-demon. We have a LOT of stamina."

As she rode him to bliss she had the half formed notion that it was a very good thing he did.