24- A storm is coming.
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Sorry it´s been taking so long, thank you so much for your patience.
The morning came too soon for Kagome, who had spent the night snuggled up against a hanyou´s side, too overwhelmed by emotions to sleep soundly. Instead, she kept waking up every few minutes to steal glances at his sleeping form just to make sure he hadn´t fled to the forest the first chance he got. And every time she opened her eyes and found him sleeping next to her, her heart seemed to grow a couple of sizes.
It had been difficult to convince him to stay. The girl smiled remembering the heated argument the night before.
"You can´t leave after what we just did!" She had tried to make him feel guilty but when that didn´t work she had resorted to blackmailing him.
"Either you stay here and sleep with me or I´ll go after you and sleep in the forest too!"
That had the desired effect on him, as she had expected. Protecting her was his top priority and she had taken advantage of it.
"Relax, silly, nobody knows you´re here. We were all expecting you tomorrow."
After that, both of them were much more comfortable around the other, enough to have a repeat performance of their previous activities, so they went to bed in a far better mood.
The hanyou had been unusually tired. His exhausting journey added to his own stress, the energy burned during their amorous encounters and the relaxing effect Kagome had on him had been enough to give him a the restful sleep he desperately needed but was too proud to acknowledge.
Kagome sighed coming back to the present, disentangling her limbs from Inuyasha´s slumbering form and stretched languidly. She didn´t really want to leave the bed, or her beloved dogboy to be honest, but she had planned to meet Jinenji today for their first lesson and she couldn´t just leave him hanging. Thus, with one last look at Inuyasha´s peaceful face and a sigh, she got up and started her daily morning routine.
Inuyasha woke up to the sound of a sliding door being shut, his ears perking up and trying to follow the soft sound of footsteps moving away from the house. He shot up to a sitting position in a heartbeat, not fully awake yet, the scent of the young woman clinging to him and lulling his senses. He inhaled deeply filling his lungs with her essence when he noticed the smell of food underneath it and his stomach growled guiding his nose straight to the kitchen where Kagome had left his breakfast ready.
"She´s left. Why didn´t she wake me up?" He wondered.
After satisfying his basic needs, Inuyasha went back to the bedroom. He took one look at the bed and felt his lips curling up in a smile. It had been too easy to let Kagome spoil him, he could get used to this life quickly. With a lazy yawn, he sat down on the bed and pondered on what to do next. Without his permission, thoughts of the previous night sneaked to the front of his mind, making his face feel hot again.
" Keh! That old fart Myoga knows nothing. Kagome´s no threat to me"
He kept thinking about the fleas warning while tracing Kagome's form on the bedding with his fingertips. "I was in full control. Sure, I could feel my demon wanted to break free, but I was able to overpower it easily. No danger to Kagome, either"
The prospect of their married life suddenly felt one he looked forward to. He looked down at the empty bed where they both had laid for the night. Maybe he could go back to bed a while longer, he would wait for Kagome in bed and then they could...
"Stop your dirty thoughts!" He almost shouted to the empty house.
"I swear, sometimes I think I´m turning into Miroku!"
Getting up slowly, he decided to get out and help with the wedding preparations. In just a couple of days, he and Kagome would be husband and wife. The realization of his dreams was just hours away. Before he had time to entertain any more lewd ideas, Inuyasha focused on something more mundane.
"I´d better get out there and make myself useful."
He decided that the first thing to do would be recovering the wedding present he had hidden in the bathroom the night before together with the locket Kagome had given him a couple of years ago. He had travelled with both near his heart, under the layers of his suikan, protected by his armor-like garment, hidden from prying eyes. He had made sure no one could notice he had kept the locket and as it turned out, the inner fold of his suikan was a very good hiding spot. It had taken some convincing to get Totosai to work with gold, he´d better take good care of this present if he wanted it to remain a surprise for Kagome, he would put both objects back after getting dressed.
Once he took care of his first task, he returned to searching around the house trying to find his clothes. The previous night he had managed, with Kagome´s help, to soil two different pairs of hakamas, which his soon to be wife diligently washed and hung by the fireplace so he could have something clean to wear in the morning. He ended up sleeping in a kosode, which had been quite comfortable, he admitted, but not suitable to wear around the village. When he couldn't find his fire rat in any other place, he went back to the bedroom to search the chest where she kept all of her clothes.
Carefully spreading Kagome´s sleeping yukata and some pieces of clothes he found over the bed together with his treasures. Inuyasha finally found his fire rat robe at the bottom of the chest.
Smiling without noticing it, the hanyou got dressed and was about to put Kagome´s clothes back in the chest when something caught his eye. The first thing was something he had already seen in Kagome´s time, a piece of parchment with a very realistic painting. He sat down on the bed and studied it carefully. The girl in the portrait looked very much like Kagome, but her eyes were different, a sad look adorned them. She was dressed up like a princess and some useless guy was standing there, next to her, arm in arm.
"Akitoki? Can´t be, but he looks like his relative from Kagome´s time."
Inuyasha growled at the picture, whoever it was, he didn´t like it one bit, he was touching his fiancée and looking too happy about it. He decided to examine the other object in an attempt to give his youkai blood time to cool off. It was a little black box with some flowers painted on some strange looking kanji. The half-demon brought it closer to his nose and smelled it.
"It´s not food." He decided. It didn´t smell like anything he knew.
He then opened the box and looked inside. Mindful of his talons, he carefully unfolded a long strip, he had no clue what this could be. He put it back in the box and tried to decipher some of the writing.
As a kid, his mother had taught him the basics of reading an writing. He had only a few years of schooling before she passed away, she had done her best to prepare him for his adult life. He knew it wasn´t much, but he wasn´t an ignorant, nor was he an expert either.
"Maybe it´s a present."
The idea of Akitoki´s relative giving presents to Kagome and being around her made his blood boil. he needed to know what this thing was and he needed to know right now.
"The monk is well educated," he thought getting up in a flash, " He can probably tell me what the fuck this is."
He stormed out of the house leaving everything as it was, the only thoughts on his mind were figuring out what Kagome had brought from the future and what it had to do with the boy in the picture.