Chapter 5: Kagome (Gee, inspired chapter titles, huh? Written to "Heart of Sword", the RK closing theme, and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, followed by 58 Eminem songs, a few hours worth. Sound good yet?)
(Golden shiny wings of hope have delivered you! Fear not, gentle cliffy-haters, you're minds will soon be set at ease! Altho my new manga (8) may be distracting me while I write, I'll try and have this puppy up before curiosity consumes your mindsand btw, Fluffy kind of invited himself in, he wasn't in the plot originally, but I decided he could be funthe witch who broke the beads was supposed to be simply a random skilled magic-worker. Enjoy!)
(Oh, and while my collection is slowly expanding, I don't own Inuyasha or Fluffy or Kagome, or even Jaken. Wish I had fluffy though, that demon would make a CUTE chick! *Sessho-Maru rips out my ribcage and makes me eat it*)
Halfway to Inuyasha's chest, Tetsusaiga became a rusted slab, which smacked him right in the sternum, knocking the wind out of him and leaving a nasty looking bruise.
Kagome, still nude, but very angry, drew back the bow for another shot. "What am I, DEAF!? You lied, you asshole!! He loved me more all along!!" Sessho-Maru barely had time to wipe the triumphant expression off his face before her next arrow stuck in it, and two more followed, smashing him to the ground.
Kagome didn't let up during her tantrum. "I HATE LIARS!!" Before Jaken managed sweep his master back to their lair she had emptied the rest of the quiver into him. It would be a while before Sessho-Maru risked another arm and messed with his half-brother again.
Which was a good thing, because the moment Sessho-maru and company disappeared over the horizon Kagome collapsed wailing onto Inuyasha's blood-soaked chest.
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Fehcoward! He flies off again, next time- Next time I'd better hope Kagome is still thereshe's the only reason we won.
Why? After all I did, why would she save me? Were you just not listening when she said she loved you? She smells so nicenot like a youkai, but you should mate with her anyway. WHAT!? Well now you know what really happened with Kikyo, and while you gather the shards you'll be around her a lot anyway, so why not? She's beautiful and strong and she wants you.
UmmI don't knowall the stupid things I didI suppose maybe if she forgives me. Not that I would apologize! But if she forgives me, and if she meant what she said about loving meHell, do it even if she doesn't mean it! Oh shut up.
Inuyasha hesitantly wrapped his arms around her, gently stroking her hair and trying to comfort her. Trying to comfort them both. "KagomeI'm so sorry. So sorry I took my rage out on you, and made you a target for Sessho-Maru."
Kagome could do nothing but slowly purge the day's pent-up emotionsand enjoy the feel of Inuyasha touching her, protecting her. The feeling of Inuyasha loving her.
*
It took a while to explain it all. Kagome couldn't even cry anymore when she heard that both lovers had been betrayed, and could barely even let out a little gasp when she heard about Kaede.
She was to busy looking at Inuyasha. To busy remembering him telling Sessho-Maru that he'd touch her again over his twitching corpse.
When he finished, she tried to speak. "Inuyasha, I-"
He was determined to finish his speech. "Kagome, what I'm trying to say is that I love you, I always have one way or another, and I always-"
He was cut off at this point by a rather long and involved kiss.
She broke for air and pronouncements of affection. "I love you too, Inuyashalike I told you, even after everything. And I'M sorry I haven't even looked at your wounds, since you got them protecting me."
"They should really just be cleaned, you know they'll close soon" "Well before you do anything else I want you to take care of them, Inuyasha, if you're going to risk your life for me I'm not going to let you be stupid about the injuries you get."
If you bathe, she's coming in with you. Damn straight. "I'm not going anywhere without youand that includes bathing. Get used to it."
"What, did you think I'd let you go alone?"
*
At the shore, Kagome turned to Inuyasha again. Here we go! I've waited so long
Her hands undid his bloody clothes, and he cast them aside. She stood back, and admired the way his silver mane dripped down his lanky but strong frame, and teased his visibly closing wounds.
She felt his eyes on her, no longer loathing, no longer distracted by anything else in the world. She was all they saw.
They slowly waded in, hand in hand, and in the center Inuyasha couldn't hold himself anymore. He spun her to him, pressed himself against his love, and kissed her again.
She kissed back, and for a long minute they stood there, tasting each other, welcoming their partner as they themselves were welcomed.
This, of course, wasn't enough for Inuyasha. He broke away, gently biting her lip as he left, and lapped at her neck, her ear and cheek, burying himself in that soft smell of her. Kagome's hands reached up and played with Inuyasha's long hair, fondling his soft ears and combing his tangled and matted locks. She gasped slightly as Inuyasha nipped her earlobe, and the hard warmth she felt at her belly was growing appreciably with every passing second.
But suddenly
The hair she had been stroking began slowly to turn a shade of normal brown, losing it's luster as the dog-like ears disappeared under her very fingers.
He pulled away. "Nolast night was a full moon"
"What's happening?! Inuyasha, why are you changing?" Kagome demanded.
"It's part of being hanyou," He said, slumping in embarrassment. "Every month at the new moon I become human until dawnI always hid it because it was a pathetic weakness." He hung his head in shame, the ends of his long and now brown hair floating on the still waters.
Kagome drew him close again, missing the way his warmth pressed on her breasts, and the strength of his chest beneath her cheek. "Frankly, love," She said, softly kissing his throat and neck, "I couldn't care less."
The warmth was back, and better than ever.
The lovers reflected, Inuyasha thinking of Kikyo, and Kagome of all her friends and her family in the future, of poor naïve Hojo, and out her tests and schoolwork. They both looked within, and thought briefly.
Then they went back to each other, and all else was forgotten.
*
In a brief lull, Kagome floated peacefully in the water, Inuyasha panting and lying on the water somewhere between her legs.
Who would have known? Inuyasha loved Kikyo, he's loved me, he's LOVING me, and I have deeper feelings for him that I thought was possible. Is it all going to fast? Probably.
You know, back home this would have been wrongI know this guy for a few days, he gets pissed, sticks me to a tree, and threatens to kill me. And thenthis. But I do love him, and no matter how many problems his life had, I think he loves me too. So what's wrong with it?
Nothing. Nothing at all. Said a soothing inner voice
But I hope he doesn't take advantage of thishe wouldn't leave, would he? Is he using me? Will he abuse me? I hope notI trust him. (A/N: *Eminem's 'Kym' comes on headphones. T3h Jack (aka Sano) shivers and tries to finish scene without breaking into full-fledged panic*) I love him. And as long as he'll always love me back, I don't think I'll want for anything else in the world
And soon Inuyasha's rough tongue had her full attention again.
*
Two very tired people lay on the shore line and admired the sunrise. Kagome fondled the brown locks of sleeping Inuyasha, and smiled even as they began to turn silver again. A golden eye opened, and watched her.
Well that was good. All that time I spent, remembering only Kikyo, as she shot me dead and walked awaysomehow it doesn't seem as bad now. She makes it all seem alrightis that love?
No. It's fucking. Shut up.
Kagome glanced up, and Inuyasha's grin matched his eyes, happy and shining. "Your ears are back!" She cheered, grabbing the soft flaps and rubbing happily. Inuyasha leaned back and enjoyed the feeling.
He sighed in pleasure, remembering the previous night's events. Kagome, sliding herself onto me, wrapping her legs around my bare waist. Kagome, on the sandy shore now, feeling and kissing and thrusting herself on me all at the same time until I want to dance with joy about the love I've found.
Kagome, sitting on my lap and rubbing my ears while the sunrise makes her a holy figure, bathed in the light
I don't know if we'll ever find the Shikon jewel or kill Sessho-Maru, or even avenge Kikyo's death. I don't know if Kagome will have to leave me behind for some big test or something in the future, or maybe even go off to this college thing she's always whining about.
But as long as I know that deep down she's always thinking of me, and she never leaves my thoughts, I don't care.
So as long as you get some more, right?
Shut up.
*
It's so weird sometimes, how there's two sides to him. One is so human, so frail, loves his mother, loves me, still cries about Kikyo when he thinks no one's watching (The trick is to sit downwind). I love to comfort it, and I love feeling so valued when he looks at me like I'm the only thing in the world that matters. And the other side, so dark and angryit didn't want tears for Kikyo, it wanted vengeance, bloody and violent. But I love it too, because it really does value me higher than anything else. It protects me, it manages all the fighting, andsome of the loving. And most of all it's his courage, it tells him what he needs to do and gives him the will to do it in some situations where otherwise he might have been in trouble.
It was a nice surprise, having him transform like that on the first nightbut I think I like him better just how he is. When we get the Shikon no Tama together again, I'm sure we can find something better to do with it than take away the drive that makes my love so braveor the softness that keeps him from being a total ass.
Kagome rubbed Inuyasha's ears again, and grinned to herself. And besides, I don't want to lose the ears again! They're soooo (She punctuated this with an extended high speed scratching) oooo CUTE!!! (She finished with a triumphal pet).
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Lovers walked back to civilization hand in hand. Kagome's parents whined only slightly about ordering another school uniform. Kaede suffered merely a nasty back sprain and some assorted bruises about the throat. Sessho-Maru licked his wounds and beat up Jaken for no readily apparent reason.
Birds sang. Flowers bloomed. All seemed right with the world.
And getting right-er all the time.
(Kami-sama, grant my plea, make me wakarimas why I'm not able to write endings, de gorazu iye yo. It's sad. (Kami-sama reply: Because you suck and we hate you. We like Imbrium Iridum and MindMelda and Stealiana more, they roxxor t3h boxxorz of j00) Oh. Well that explains an asslode. Anyway, I'm sorry this took foreveras Mindmelda kindly explained, I needed to replenish my angst before I could spew any more. Why couldn't I see that!? I just needed some nice righteous rage (video games) and some pessimistic depression (Having people write better than me and Eminem) to turn this sucker out. Be glad, this is the second story I have ever finished in my entire life. Well, kind of 3rd, but the Kaoru/Misao one never had it's 'ending' chapter posted because the one I had up was better. So there. Anyway, I have many, many ideas for future projs, if you have any requests DO drop me a lineyou know I do it all fro j00, right? H4x to my loyal and unloyal readers alike, review me to tell me if you think this is a better end chapter than the LAST oneI still have nightmaresanyway, ttyl, thankies for reading! L8r!)
(Oh yes, and Mindmelda (again!) is partly responsible for the idea of Kagome loving both parts of Inuyasha's personalityI had never really picked up on that before. She gets h4x AND props! And if I get it my way she gets reviews too, so go read her RK stuff. L8r!)
Est exitum. Es miser? Non? Nec me.
