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Written by: Breezbox and Usagipegusus
Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha
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Kagome continually gaped at Inuyasha's retreating back. Had he just said mate? As in life mate?! She had to have heard him wrong.
Smelling Kagome's familiar scent getting further and further away as he walked towards the hut, he pivoted around to find Kagome looking at him askance. "Well?" He fairly growled, "What are you just standing there for!?" He questioned, impatiently waiting for Kagome to continue walking into the hut.
Kagome laughed nervously, her hand unconsciously going to the back of her head. "For a moment I almost thought you said mate!" She finished, her laugh dwindling slowly as she noticed Inuyasha's dead serious demeanor.
Although Inuyasha did not reply to her statement, his raised eyebrow and his telltale smirk spoke volumes. He was serious! How had he come to that conclusion?! What was she going to do!?!?
"How…" Kagome trailed off, unable to complete the sentence.
Inuyasha turned his blank gaze towards the ground, as he seemed to heavily ponder over his answer. Suddenly he turned his gaze towards Kagome's startled face. A roguish smirk started to slowly spread across his face. "So…have we mated yet?"
Kagome sputtered indignantly, her face turning red with mortification at Inuyasha's implied statement, not to mention that fact that he had blatantly disregarded her question regarding the mate business.
When Kagome failed to answer his question, her embarrassment caused him to continue his teasing. "You do know with that means don't you?" He started innocently, all the while watching her face turn a virtually unattainable shade of red. "Have we fu-"
"Osuwari!" Kagome yelled quickly, halting the perverse hanyou's inappropriate question, almost unable to believe this unexpected turn of events was actually happening.
I should have known she would do that, Inuyasha grimaced lightly as he tried to force his significantly weakened limbs into a sitting position.
Kagome's immense embarrassment had caused her to momentarily forget about Inuyasha's sickness. It was quickly recovered when she saw Inuyasha struggle to rise. A streak of guilt glanced across her conscious as she hurriedly went to assist her newly acquired "mate".
"Inuyasha, I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that I'm your mate but I can't be!" She tried to reason with Inuyasha. When Inuyasha answered her reply with a questioning look, she continued her explanation. "I mean I have to take test and go to school…" She continued to ramble on mindlessly, but only telling half-truths.
School and test were for once the least of her worries when it concerned this issue. What would happen once Inuyasha regained his misplaced memories when he was well once again? Would he even remember that he had made this rash decision to make her his mate?
Even though the idea of being his mate sent an unexpected rush of pleasure down her spine, it could never be.
Worse still, what if he remembered that he was in love with Kikyou and rejected her? And as much as she loved him, she didn't think her heart could take that kind of rejection from him.
Inuyasha continued to stare at the human girl with enigmatic eyes as she continued to digress on about some kind of "test" things and such. Even though he had no clue what the hell a "test" was, but he had a feeling that this wasn't why she didn't want to be his mate. Well, whatever the reason was, it didn't matter because she was his, he though possessively.
When she had asked how he had come by that decision, he hadn't really known what to say. He would never reveal his true reasons. Like how she made him feel feelings that he had never felt before or how he seemed to have an extremely strong urge to protect her. When she had jumped in front of him, in a poor attempt to protect him from Sesshomaru, he had felt a strange combination of fear for her safety and a little pride at her brave but foolish attempt to protect him. And he couldn't ignore the feeling of fierce protectiveness that had welled up inside of him. He had decided there and then that she was his. And he would hold to that decision.
"And that is why I cannot be your mate." Kagome stated with finality, certain that she had convinced the willful hanyou of the same.
"What?" Inuyasha muttered. He hadn't heard a damn thing she had said. She had no doubt been incessantly throwing out useless excuses as to why she couldn't be his mate. But it didn't matter; he had already made his decision.
Kagome looked into Inuyasha's eyes and knew that her passionate speech had gotten her nowhere but out of breath. The look in Inuyasha's eyes clearly marking her as "his" shook her to the core.
Suddenly, Inuyasha gently but firmly grasped her chin, bringing them nearly nose-to-nose, his proximity doing terribly delicious things to her insides. Kagome ran her tongue nervously over her now parched lips and watched as Inuyasha's heated gaze followed the movement avidly.
He brought his smoldering amber eyes back to hers. "You belong to me." He said possessively, he heat of his gaze sending involuntary shivers down her spine.
Kagome's racing pulse beat noisily within her ears and Inuyasha drew her closer as if to kiss her. Inuyasha looked down to Kagome's shock parted lips and back to her glazed eyes. He smirked. No doubt about it, she was his mate.
Inuyasha slowly pulled away from Kagome, an arrogant smirk pasted on his face, wholly satisfied that he affected her just as much she affected him.
Kagome blinked rapidly to clear her head from the fog clouding her brain only to focus on Inuyasha's arrogant smile. Mou! Just like him to ruin a moment with his arrogance, Kagome thought exasperatedly, still trying to calm her racing heartbeat.
"The next time you try to leave, I'll sleep on top of you." Inuyasha warned, the look in his eyes showing that he wouldn't mind the prospect at all.
Who does he think I am!? Kagome fumed silently, giving him a withering glare as he settled down beside her. Behind all of his bluster, she could clearly see the fatigue and weariness catching up with him. He seemed to be getting slowly weaker. "Inuyasha, you need to rest." Kagome said truthfully, her voice laced with apparent worry.
For once Inuyasha didn't argue with her. He was feeling drained. To Kagome's surprised, he plopped down and laid his head in her lap, and almost instantly fell into a fitful sleep.
Kagome looked down at the ailing hanyou and sighed. What was she going to do now?
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Kaede opened one eye, blinking slowly. She sat up and slowly surveyed her surroundings. She appeared to be in a small hut. 'I must have passed out.' She mused, not able to remember ever passing out.
She moved to get up and winced, almost having forgotten about the wound she had suffered. She looked down at her arm and noticed someone had bandaged her up. Kaede looked up and started to scan the room in search of a face. Her eyes suddenly stopped on a stooped figure near the fire. It looked like a slender woman in a healer's attire.
"Child, what is your name?"
Kaede's question was greeted with silence.
"Child…" She started again, but stopped when the person rose from the fire.
The woman turned around abruptly throwing off her hood.
Kaede gasped in shock.
"Kikyou-oneesama!"
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