Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
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Inuyasha awoke to the burning at
his fingertips. This always happened when he couldn't control
himself, when the spell failed, the feelings and abilities would come
back to him gradually before it would consume him completely.
He
stood up quickly and landed with youkai grace atop the couch, he
sniffed the air and discovered that Kagome was still
sleeping.
'Didn't know she slept' he mused to himself
before jumping nimbly to the door and clicking it open, he shot a
look over his shoulder at the snoring Kagome before leaving the room,
padding along down the hall with increasing speed, yet not making a
single sound.
The sun had yet to rise as he burst through the
front doors and bounded off into the only place he knew he wouldn't
be found, into the forest.
Dodging all the trees that sprung
in his way he finally made it to a clearing, collapsing there he
leaned against a tree for support, the pain was almost too much.
He
looked in horror, as his human nails grew longer and pointed,
becoming claws. His human ears grew pointed like an elf's, before
they slid up his face becoming dog ears, twitching madly as they
greeted the now much louder sounds of the forest, his hair seemed to
spring to life as it burst from the pony tail it used to reside as,
flying all around him, making him appear to have snakes for hair as
the silky blackness of night became a soft silver white, rougher too
as it finally stilled and fell upon his back. He couldn't see it but
he could feel his eyes start to burn as the deep purple soon became
an amber golden. He blinked his eyes open and greeted the world as a
new man.
He stared at his nails and flexed his fingers, making
his knuckles crack in the process, he sniffed the air again, and the
smell of the forest filled the air.
And the smell of
roses.
Roses?
Why was there a smell of roses in a
forest, he stiffened and turned around to face the girl, Kagome.
She
gasped and placed a hand on her racing heart, he could hear her heart
beating, even from the distance between him. She looked utterly
confused and frightened, like she didn't recognize him. He didn't
blame her, he looked completely different.
"Inu...Inuyasha!?"
she gasped again and looked at Inuyasha. He blinked in confusion, she
recognized him? That confused him to no end, he wouldn't even
recognize himself if he looked into a mirror in this form.
"What
happened?" she walked towards him, he stiffened. What was she
going to do? "You don't look human anymore."
Inuyasha
sighed and shook his head, "That's because I'm not human,
well, not all human anyway."
"What do you mean?"
she asked, her curiosity shinning through her fearful voice.
"I'm
a hanyou."
"A hanyou?" she blinked and then
broke into a small smile. "Wow...that's amazing"
Inuyasha
blinked in confusion again and then smiled back at her,
"Really?"
"You're part demon, that is so cool!"
she smiled and flung onto him, he gasped again but gripped her.
"What the hell are you doing?" he snapped, Kagome
jumped and released him, blushing madly.
"Sorry! I just,
got caught in the moment, you know?" she laughed nervously and
looked at him seriously, "How come you didn't tell me?"
"Didn't
trust you," he said simply, folding his arms across his chest,
blocking his claws from her view.
His ears twitch. She felt a
pang of disappointment shoot through her but waved it aside,
"Understandable."
Inuyasha nodded and felt his ears
twitch again. Kagome's eyes suddenly got huge and he gulped in
response, "Are those real?"
Inuyasha felt his ears
plaster against his head, "Maybe."
"They're so
kawaii!" she giggled and rushed forward latching herself onto
Inuyasha's ears; she tweaked them and giggled when they made a
noise.
Inuyasha felt himself blushing again as he started to
purr.
Kagome floated above the rose garden,
watching the petals float in the wind, she giggled to herself, "He
purred!"
After the little ear incident, the two had
returned to the house and Inuyasha was currently taking a shower,
making Kagome have to spend her time alone. She hated being alone,
after all these years, she had finally found someone who could see
her, even in this cursed form.
'That damn curse. That
damn Kikyo.
'Damn Kouga, had to fall for it.'
She
sighed again and floated down landing softly in the pink, yellow,
white, and red roses. She'd always loved roses, because Kouga had
given them to her.
Yellow came first, to represent their
friendship. Then pink to represent how they were becoming closer, Red
for when they'd gotten more romantic, and white. He'd given her white
when he'd asked her to marry him. White represented weddings. Kagome
had been thrilled that Kouga wanted to marry her and had of course
accepted.
Then Kikyo had come along.
After that, she
had burned all the dried roses she'd saved from all the times Kouga
had given them to her. She still loved the roses though; they smelled
heavenly, like heaven. A place she'd never be able to live, much less
visit.
Kouga had long since resided in heaven...
Her
life had seemed so perfect before Kikyo came and cursed her, it
sickened her that a woman could become so jealous as to try and kill
another. Though, she'd failed and only ended up cursing Kagome for
eternity.
It was a real shame, wasn't it?
She sighed
and stood again, peering around the garden, she'd do anything to be
human again.
"I could fix that." Kagome peered
behind her and stared at a man, or what she guessed was a man, since
he was underneath a large baboon pelt.
