Promise me, before sunset wench.
Inuyasha's text somehow sounded more intense than usual. But Kagome obliged. Inuyasha was never exactly casual in wanting to see her, but he'd been ansy and intense the entire previous day. She felt like he was on the verge of telling her something, but had closed up.

It'd been nearly a month for them now. And the habit of not spending a night apart had not abated. They both seemed to like Kagome's apartment more (and how could they not? It was perfect.) but for some reason, tonight Inuyasha had insisted on staying in his apartment. Miroku and Sango had both gone off on some sort of lovers' weekend to a hot spring. So it was just the two of them.

Kagome walked up to his place, grocery bag in hand, ready to roll some sushi with her Demon Hunk. As she walked up, Inuyasha's door sprung open. He looked at her, eyes wide as if he was prey being hunted.

"Yash?" Kagome paused looking at him, trying to figure out why he looked so spooked, "You okay?"

He pulled her into the house and slammed the door, locking each and every lock, then checking them again. Kagome paused. Were they in some sort of danger? She started to grow worried. Was her family okay? Were Miroku and Sango okay? She hadn't considered that maybe even now, Inuyasha might have people who were hunting him. Were they also going after her, because she was falling for him too? Kagome could feel the panic rising in her chest.

"Hey… hey…" Inuyasha seemed to recognize Kagome's state of mind, placing a gentle hand on her shoulder, "Nothin' to be scared of. Sorry for makin' ya worry like that. I get real jittery on… tonight."

"Was I late, or something? I looked up the sunset app - should be on time, maybe even a little early…" Kagome turned to look at him.

"You were just late enough to make me worry a bit. There's something I need you… to see…." Inuyasha replied, looking as much like a cornered animal as he ever had.

"I'm here," Kagome wanted to pry further, but she knew that whatever he wanted to show her, she needed to trust him to find the right words.

"Well, you see… half-demons ain't like normal demons. We have… a night." Inuyasha's words were becoming softer, "Shit. I think I just need to let you watch. It's started."

Kagome studied him. Was it just her, or were those normally luminous gold eyes dulling? Kagome blinked. The glow of Inuyasha's hair was dulling too. Inuyasha seemed to be changing before her eyes. He looked defiant, as if daring her to say something. But she could also see the undertone of pain on his face, as well as a vulnerability so naked she wanted to wrap herself around him and protect him.

Kagome strode up to him, then hugged him with all her might, pulling herself as close as she could and nuzzling into his neck. Whatever was happening to him, even if he pretended to be okay, was making him miserable and scared. And she would be damned if she was not right there with him protecting him from his pain.

"Wait, please Kagome, just watch," Inuyasha gave her the gentlest of pushes backward. He wanted her to see this transformation - all of it. And so she watched as her powerful half-demon's claws became fingernails. She watched as his hair turned jet black, his fangs became teeth, his golden eyes faded to violet, and his ears became human.

"On the night of the new moon, from sunset to sunrise, I become… this," Inuyasha said the word as if it disgusted him.

"You become a human?" Kagome was pretty sure that was the answer, but she'd just watched her Demon Hunk do something she'd only ever seen happen with the aid of CGI. Now was not the time to leave anything to interpretation.

"Yeah."

Kagome quietly considered him. He was so clearly Inuyasha - the same Demon Hunk who made her mouth water. But the human him was a bit softer. Still very hot. Very very very hot. Kagome let her hentai mind take over. She had a boyfriend, who once a month turned into a human. So she basically got one night a month to fuck the brains out of an equally gorgeous, but different Inuyasha. She got one night in which her superhuman boyfriend could completely lose control without fearing hurting her. One night, were she ever interested in experimenting with tying her Demon Hunk boyfriend to the bed, he could not escape with the flick of his wrist. His fingers were now free of their deadly tips, should she ever want to give him pointers on how one can use their fingers to make a woman lose her voice to screaming (that was one she taught Kikyo after all…) And his teeth would not threaten to leave little puncture wounds on her were he to decide to give in to the temptation of biting her.

"Ka-gome?" Inuyasha's uncertain voice snapped her back to him. He looked nearly as sheepish as he did the first time she saw him naked.

Kagome licked her lips.

"You're telling me that once a month, I get this equally hot you - but now when you really want to lose control, you can?" Kagome wanted to mention all the other images her hentai mind had conjured, but she would start there.

"Fucking hell wench," Inuyasha's gorgeous violet eyes looked at her in wonder, "I thought you were gonna run away when you saw just how much of a freak I wa - uhm… half-demons were..."

"Are you kidding?" Kagome was almost offended he would think that, but then she remembered she was up against hundreds of years of indoctrination and self-hatred, "You're the gift that keeps on giving Yash."

She knew that she'd freed his heart, but it still sometimes gave her goosebumps when she said something she could tell was undoing years of damage. And she knew she'd done something right tonight. Inuyasha finally strode up to her, pulling her in for their first kiss with him as a human. She traced his completely human teeth with her tongue. She then ran her fingers over his human ears, suspecting that touching them did not feel nearly as good as when they were the dog ears she loved so much.

"Put the food in the fridge, and come to your bedroom human hunk. But be careful, I have a big mean half-demon boyfriend who will be back at sunrise," Kagome giggled as she winked and strode out of the kitchen to settle herself on Inuyasha's bed.

"You bet your ass that half-demon boyfriend of yours is gonna make sure to do what I do to you twice as good for twice as long," Inuyasha laughed, "Hope you're ready wench."

Kagome was ready. She was also naked before he'd closed the refrigerator door. Inuyasha loped in after her, a wild beautiful grin on his gorgeous human face. As he climbed atop her, he paused for a single moment.

"Seriously Kagome. Thank you. You don't even know." he whispered it in her ear, then started to kiss her neck. She wondered if he ever got sleep on the night that he turned human, but she was confident even if he usually did, tonight neither of them would be getting a wink.