A/N: I'm tying to update about ocne a week? i'm nearing my school holidays, so if i can i will try to update most of my other fics too! Hope you like this chapter!
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Chapther three: Fear Of Acceptance
Disclaimer: Per usual, Inuyasha and sesshy are bouncing on my bed- no. just my imagination, Rumiko-sama is the ruler of all Inuyasha!
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"Is that nice?"
Inuyasha asked worriedly, as he gently lowered Kagome into the water, as she sighed in bliss. She was floating on her back, eyes closed as only her nose and mouth stuck out of the water. Inuyasha smiled, as he sat on the edge of the water watching the kit float along softly.
Then she ducked under, opening her eyes and started swimming around like a seal. Inuyasha blinked in surprise at the speed she was swimming around at, for a tiny little kitten. (Just think Kirara baby size, a little smaller).
She stopped at the ladder, as she stepped up and took a tiny little breath as Inuyasha chuckled, watching her trying to get out. She couldn't get to the first step, and slipped, as she made a surprised yip, falling back in with a small splash.
Inuyasha came around, lifting her out with one hand. As soon as he sat back down and let her down too, he regretted it. She shook her tiny little body, drenching him in the process. Kagome looked happier then before, and more energetic. Meanwhile Inuyasha was glaring at her as he looked down at his clothes.
"You drenched me pussy cat."
He growled, Kagome giggling as she meowed it. Grumbling, he picked her up and put her on his shoulder, mumbling about going back to his room since both their clothes were there. Kagome meowed on happily, Inuyasha scratching her behind her ears as they got to his room. Kagome leapt from his shoulder, jumping onto his kitchen table, sniffing at some left over spaghetti. He grabbed her before she could stick her nose into it, Kagome complaining at him with a mini growl.
"Your food we'll get on the way back from the restaurant. Are you ever gonna change back to your human form or not?"
Kagome meowed, offended by his comment. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow as he walked into his room, throwing her on the bed. He saw that her cheeks were slightly pink.
"What?"
Kagome pointed to the bathroom connected to his bedroom. Inuyasha eyed her, and then grinned. He remembered Kagome was left in a pile of her clothes when she'd turned into the kitten…
"You'll be naked if you change back won't you?"
Inuyasha laughed as she put her noise in the air, trying to ignore him although she was colouring still. Inuyasha grabbed the pair of jeans and the very short summer dress Rin had got him to give to Kagome, picked up Kagome, and put her on the bathroom floor. Placing the clothes on the sink, Inuyasha turned around and left her to it. Kagome huffed, and untransformed. She was about to grab the jeans, when Inuyasha suddenly opened the door again.
"Hey you forgot your underwear-"
Inuyasha blinked, as Kagome shook with anger. The worst bit was that she was completely naked, and Inuyasha's eyes scanned down her body and back up, as a grin plastered on his face.
"Nice."
Kagome shrieked at him, as she threw a bar of soap at him, Inuyasha closing the door so it hit it instead of his head. Kagome ran to the door, only opening it an inch.
"Gimme them now!"
"On one condition."
"What?!"
"Open the door."
Kagome shrieked at him again, taking a swipe at him as he laughed and ran out of the room, Kagome picking up the underwear and bra he had left at the door. Locking it this time, she huffed and quickly got dressed in front of the mirror.
Grabbing his hair brush, and thanking the gods he had long hair so he didn't have just a comb, pulled it through her hair a few times and left it on the sink, before going outside to meet Inuyasha.
He was just putting a shirt on, and gave her a perfect view of his lean back. Kagome swooned, blushing as he turned around to face her. Pulling the shirt down, he winked at her form.
"Not bad looking, Rin has good taste in style."
Kagome blushed deeper, as she made sure her ears hadn't stuck out. He looked at his watch.
"We better get going or they'll start eating before us."
Kagome nodded, and she jumped when Inuyasha took her hand and led her out of his room. Taking the stairs down, Inuyasha explained to her about Seshoumaru ringing him up while she was dressing.
"He said Kimura knows you're here, wants you back."
Kagome frowned.
"He wants me back?"
"Yep."
"I don't want to…"
Inuyasha felt relieved.
"Then don't. Stay here. We don't mind you, Sango and Rin are already excited enough with another girl, and you could stay in my room."
Inuyasha said, winking at her as she blushed.
"Yeah… I wouldn't mind…"
Inuyasha smiled, gripping her hand a little tighter as he escorted her to their favourite eating-place.
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"So you're saying, that you want to keep a useless little chick who's mostly a kitten? Bah, don't waste your time."
Kouga, sitting next to Rin slurping away at his noodles, mumbled with half his food sticking out of his mouth. Rin glared at him as Seshoumaru just kept peacefully eating his own food.
"Kagome is gorgeous in her kitty form! And Inuyasha seems to like her anyway."
Kouga raised an eyebrow.
"Is she a slut?"
"Sure doesn't seem like it, not the way she acts so timidly."
Miroku said from the right of Seshoumaru. Sango was typing away on a very thin efficient laptop, as she looked up Kagome's status. Seshoumaru looked interested when Sango hacked into the file system.
"She's clean. Only started a day ago, 18, breed is Black Leopard and Black Cat."
Sango said, Seshoumaru thinking over it.
"She trained in china, apparently, for about three years."
Sango whistled, Miroku leaning over to take a look at the screen.
"She's better at martial arts then Sanami. Must be powerful."
Seshoumaru muttered at the statement.
"She's a weird one if she's strong. Didn't even struggle."
Rin leaned on his shoulder, as he patted her on the head approvingly.
"Maybe she wants to stay. Can't she?"
"Hell no! She'll just be a nuisance! Cats, they'll get in the way."
Kouga was known for his hatred of cats. Rin turned on him and glared right back at him.
"She's staying with us."
"I'll chuck her out!"
"Chuck who out?"
They all turned around to see Inuyasha and Kagome stepping inside the small restaurant hand-in-hand. When their eyes dropped to their linked hands, Kagome took hers away embarrassingly.
Kouga jumped off his chair and looked Kagome up and down, making her take a step back. Inuyasha ordered his usual, and beckoned Kagome over to a seat next to Kouga.
"Cat."
Kouga muttered, Kagome glaring at him half-heartedly.
"Do you have a problem with that?"
Kagome growled back, Kouga putting his hands on his hips and nodding with an angry glare. Rin pulled on Seshoumaru's sleeve.
"Do something!"
She whispered, Seshoumaru rolling his eyes.
"Kouga, leave the kit alone."
Kouga growled with annoyance. Kagome had a fighting stance up already.
"Are you gonna run some tests on her? Then if you can convince me that's she's alright, I'll agree to let her stay."
Kagome jumped and took step back with a warning growl. Inuyasha looked surprised at her threatening growl. Her ears flicked back in a distressed way, meaning she was in her real demon state now. Her claws lengthened and her eyes turned a deep red.
"What tests?"
She snarled, stepping back to keep all of them in eyesight. Inuyasha got off his chair, as she whipped around to growl at him too.
"Stay back!"
Her actions were surprising them all, as Rin looked at her worriedly.
"Kagome, settle down it's okay. Just ignore Kouga, he hates cats, but he'll get over it. The tests are just checking your blood, I can do that as soon as we get home-"
"No!"
Kagome growled back at her, Rin looking taken aback. Seshoumaru watched Kagome watching them all glaringly. He could see she was afraid.
"What are you scared of?
He asked, Kagome gritting her teeth.
"Tests… your tests are probably the same as Kimura's!"
With that, Kagome leapt out of the restaurant, Inuyasha getting off his seat quickly to follow.
"It'd be good if you brought some take-way back for us, Sesh."
Inuyasha said, and he too got out of his seat and ran off to find Kagome. Kouga huffed and sat at his seat, the cook looking worriedly at them.
"Don't worry, if there's a fight it'll be outside."
The cook sighed in relief, and went to make two of Inuyasha's favourite order, and made it for take-away.
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'They're all the same.'
Kagome sat on a bridge, engulfed in the darkness of night. She sat dully, looking as though the world was about to come down and crush her like a bug. Everyone was the same. Test this test that. She could remember Kimura telling her about the test he was going to run on her, the very last one.
"Kagome, your last test will be to mate one of the males in our group, then you will be fully accepted."
It pissed her off to no end. Why should she have to do that with one of them just to be in their group? Sighing wearily, she stood up, looking over the bridge and down to the water.
"You gonna jump off?"
Kagome immediately whipped around in a fighting stance as she found Inuyasha standing on the bridge not far from her. She glared at him threateningly, going through all the ways to drop him to the water and run, or another way to escape.
To her surprise he just plonked himself down and patted the space beside him for her to sit.
"Come on Kagome, just sit down."
He said calmly, Kagome growling and crossing her arms in front of her chest, turning away from him. Before she knew it, he was up and behind her, his arms encircling her from behind. Kagome gasped, her eyes widening, as he pulled her against his chest.
"What was it that scared you off?"
He asked quietly, just holding her there. Kagome's racing heart quietened, as she leaned against him.
"T-the tests…"
She whispered hoarsely. Just thinking about it was frightening. Inuyasha nuzzled her neck, purring. Obviously he was in his demon form too.
"The tests are harmless. Just a single needle. That's all."
He assured, Kagome shaking her head.
"Kimura said that there were several tests. And I don't like… needles."
She whispered embarrassingly, looking away. He cupped her chin and made her look up at him, as she read the truth from them. There was no lying, no danger.
"Their tests are different, then. We just have the needle. And we'll see how well you combat, that's all."
Kagome whimpered in her feline way, turning in his embrace and burying her face in his chest, as her fists held on to his shirt tightly. Inuyasha petted her, comforting her silently.
"We've all had them. And Sango does them anyway; she'll do it gently. Didn't hurt much for us."
He reassured, Kagome nodding weakly.
"A-are they the only tests you have?"
Inuyasha patted her hair comfortingly, kissing it softly.
"We'll watch you combat in a machine, you'll have something over your eyes, and you'll see people about to attack you. To us it's just you fighting the electronic fighters, and they won't really hurt you. That's the second and last test. What tests does Kimura give you?"
He asked, Kagome tensing again.
"U-ummm… there's if we can spy on the other groups without being caught, ummm the training, if we can keep up, and the last one…"
Kagome felt a little uneasy, and just stayed silent. Inuyasha waited patiently, but when she said nothing, he prodded further,
"What is the last one?"
Kagome stuttered, not knowing how to put it straight.
"Well, y-you have to mate… one of the guys-"
"What?!"
Kagome jumped, trying to leap away on instinct, but Inuyasha held on tightly as he looked down at her unbelievingly.
"He makes you mate one of the guys? God! No wonder Sanami and Kouran are bloody whores!"
Kagome tried to pull away again, feeling really out of place but Inuyasha just held her even tighter.
"Kagome, have you?"
Kagome's mouth opened at that, looking rather shocked.
"N-no! Hell no!"
She snarled, looking insulted. Inuyasha sighed in relief.
"Damn, no wonder you were scared of the tests. We don't have such a test. Rin and Seshoumaru are together, they've already mated, and Sango and Miroku are like mates except they haven't mated yet. Kouga, and there's another guy Hakkaku aren't with female and nor am I."
He said, wanting to tell his brother quickly. Kimura would be busted. Kagome looked very uncomfortable. Smelling her nervousness, Inuyasha suddenly picked her up, Kagome shrieking as she held on reflexively.
"Lets go home, we'll wait for the others there. We can talk, huh?"
He winked at her as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop. Kagome blushed, feeling something heavy lift off her shoulders. She felt at ease with Inuyasha, he was gentle. Should she stay? Kagome frowned. Her mind was whirling.
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What do you think? Mmm, Ookami Kouga the big bad wolf ne!
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Chapther three: Fear Of Acceptance
Disclaimer: Per usual, Inuyasha and sesshy are bouncing on my bed- no. just my imagination, Rumiko-sama is the ruler of all Inuyasha!
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"Is that nice?"
Inuyasha asked worriedly, as he gently lowered Kagome into the water, as she sighed in bliss. She was floating on her back, eyes closed as only her nose and mouth stuck out of the water. Inuyasha smiled, as he sat on the edge of the water watching the kit float along softly.
Then she ducked under, opening her eyes and started swimming around like a seal. Inuyasha blinked in surprise at the speed she was swimming around at, for a tiny little kitten. (Just think Kirara baby size, a little smaller).
She stopped at the ladder, as she stepped up and took a tiny little breath as Inuyasha chuckled, watching her trying to get out. She couldn't get to the first step, and slipped, as she made a surprised yip, falling back in with a small splash.
Inuyasha came around, lifting her out with one hand. As soon as he sat back down and let her down too, he regretted it. She shook her tiny little body, drenching him in the process. Kagome looked happier then before, and more energetic. Meanwhile Inuyasha was glaring at her as he looked down at his clothes.
"You drenched me pussy cat."
He growled, Kagome giggling as she meowed it. Grumbling, he picked her up and put her on his shoulder, mumbling about going back to his room since both their clothes were there. Kagome meowed on happily, Inuyasha scratching her behind her ears as they got to his room. Kagome leapt from his shoulder, jumping onto his kitchen table, sniffing at some left over spaghetti. He grabbed her before she could stick her nose into it, Kagome complaining at him with a mini growl.
"Your food we'll get on the way back from the restaurant. Are you ever gonna change back to your human form or not?"
Kagome meowed, offended by his comment. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow as he walked into his room, throwing her on the bed. He saw that her cheeks were slightly pink.
"What?"
Kagome pointed to the bathroom connected to his bedroom. Inuyasha eyed her, and then grinned. He remembered Kagome was left in a pile of her clothes when she'd turned into the kitten…
"You'll be naked if you change back won't you?"
Inuyasha laughed as she put her noise in the air, trying to ignore him although she was colouring still. Inuyasha grabbed the pair of jeans and the very short summer dress Rin had got him to give to Kagome, picked up Kagome, and put her on the bathroom floor. Placing the clothes on the sink, Inuyasha turned around and left her to it. Kagome huffed, and untransformed. She was about to grab the jeans, when Inuyasha suddenly opened the door again.
"Hey you forgot your underwear-"
Inuyasha blinked, as Kagome shook with anger. The worst bit was that she was completely naked, and Inuyasha's eyes scanned down her body and back up, as a grin plastered on his face.
"Nice."
Kagome shrieked at him, as she threw a bar of soap at him, Inuyasha closing the door so it hit it instead of his head. Kagome ran to the door, only opening it an inch.
"Gimme them now!"
"On one condition."
"What?!"
"Open the door."
Kagome shrieked at him again, taking a swipe at him as he laughed and ran out of the room, Kagome picking up the underwear and bra he had left at the door. Locking it this time, she huffed and quickly got dressed in front of the mirror.
Grabbing his hair brush, and thanking the gods he had long hair so he didn't have just a comb, pulled it through her hair a few times and left it on the sink, before going outside to meet Inuyasha.
He was just putting a shirt on, and gave her a perfect view of his lean back. Kagome swooned, blushing as he turned around to face her. Pulling the shirt down, he winked at her form.
"Not bad looking, Rin has good taste in style."
Kagome blushed deeper, as she made sure her ears hadn't stuck out. He looked at his watch.
"We better get going or they'll start eating before us."
Kagome nodded, and she jumped when Inuyasha took her hand and led her out of his room. Taking the stairs down, Inuyasha explained to her about Seshoumaru ringing him up while she was dressing.
"He said Kimura knows you're here, wants you back."
Kagome frowned.
"He wants me back?"
"Yep."
"I don't want to…"
Inuyasha felt relieved.
"Then don't. Stay here. We don't mind you, Sango and Rin are already excited enough with another girl, and you could stay in my room."
Inuyasha said, winking at her as she blushed.
"Yeah… I wouldn't mind…"
Inuyasha smiled, gripping her hand a little tighter as he escorted her to their favourite eating-place.
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"So you're saying, that you want to keep a useless little chick who's mostly a kitten? Bah, don't waste your time."
Kouga, sitting next to Rin slurping away at his noodles, mumbled with half his food sticking out of his mouth. Rin glared at him as Seshoumaru just kept peacefully eating his own food.
"Kagome is gorgeous in her kitty form! And Inuyasha seems to like her anyway."
Kouga raised an eyebrow.
"Is she a slut?"
"Sure doesn't seem like it, not the way she acts so timidly."
Miroku said from the right of Seshoumaru. Sango was typing away on a very thin efficient laptop, as she looked up Kagome's status. Seshoumaru looked interested when Sango hacked into the file system.
"She's clean. Only started a day ago, 18, breed is Black Leopard and Black Cat."
Sango said, Seshoumaru thinking over it.
"She trained in china, apparently, for about three years."
Sango whistled, Miroku leaning over to take a look at the screen.
"She's better at martial arts then Sanami. Must be powerful."
Seshoumaru muttered at the statement.
"She's a weird one if she's strong. Didn't even struggle."
Rin leaned on his shoulder, as he patted her on the head approvingly.
"Maybe she wants to stay. Can't she?"
"Hell no! She'll just be a nuisance! Cats, they'll get in the way."
Kouga was known for his hatred of cats. Rin turned on him and glared right back at him.
"She's staying with us."
"I'll chuck her out!"
"Chuck who out?"
They all turned around to see Inuyasha and Kagome stepping inside the small restaurant hand-in-hand. When their eyes dropped to their linked hands, Kagome took hers away embarrassingly.
Kouga jumped off his chair and looked Kagome up and down, making her take a step back. Inuyasha ordered his usual, and beckoned Kagome over to a seat next to Kouga.
"Cat."
Kouga muttered, Kagome glaring at him half-heartedly.
"Do you have a problem with that?"
Kagome growled back, Kouga putting his hands on his hips and nodding with an angry glare. Rin pulled on Seshoumaru's sleeve.
"Do something!"
She whispered, Seshoumaru rolling his eyes.
"Kouga, leave the kit alone."
Kouga growled with annoyance. Kagome had a fighting stance up already.
"Are you gonna run some tests on her? Then if you can convince me that's she's alright, I'll agree to let her stay."
Kagome jumped and took step back with a warning growl. Inuyasha looked surprised at her threatening growl. Her ears flicked back in a distressed way, meaning she was in her real demon state now. Her claws lengthened and her eyes turned a deep red.
"What tests?"
She snarled, stepping back to keep all of them in eyesight. Inuyasha got off his chair, as she whipped around to growl at him too.
"Stay back!"
Her actions were surprising them all, as Rin looked at her worriedly.
"Kagome, settle down it's okay. Just ignore Kouga, he hates cats, but he'll get over it. The tests are just checking your blood, I can do that as soon as we get home-"
"No!"
Kagome growled back at her, Rin looking taken aback. Seshoumaru watched Kagome watching them all glaringly. He could see she was afraid.
"What are you scared of?
He asked, Kagome gritting her teeth.
"Tests… your tests are probably the same as Kimura's!"
With that, Kagome leapt out of the restaurant, Inuyasha getting off his seat quickly to follow.
"It'd be good if you brought some take-way back for us, Sesh."
Inuyasha said, and he too got out of his seat and ran off to find Kagome. Kouga huffed and sat at his seat, the cook looking worriedly at them.
"Don't worry, if there's a fight it'll be outside."
The cook sighed in relief, and went to make two of Inuyasha's favourite order, and made it for take-away.
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'They're all the same.'
Kagome sat on a bridge, engulfed in the darkness of night. She sat dully, looking as though the world was about to come down and crush her like a bug. Everyone was the same. Test this test that. She could remember Kimura telling her about the test he was going to run on her, the very last one.
"Kagome, your last test will be to mate one of the males in our group, then you will be fully accepted."
It pissed her off to no end. Why should she have to do that with one of them just to be in their group? Sighing wearily, she stood up, looking over the bridge and down to the water.
"You gonna jump off?"
Kagome immediately whipped around in a fighting stance as she found Inuyasha standing on the bridge not far from her. She glared at him threateningly, going through all the ways to drop him to the water and run, or another way to escape.
To her surprise he just plonked himself down and patted the space beside him for her to sit.
"Come on Kagome, just sit down."
He said calmly, Kagome growling and crossing her arms in front of her chest, turning away from him. Before she knew it, he was up and behind her, his arms encircling her from behind. Kagome gasped, her eyes widening, as he pulled her against his chest.
"What was it that scared you off?"
He asked quietly, just holding her there. Kagome's racing heart quietened, as she leaned against him.
"T-the tests…"
She whispered hoarsely. Just thinking about it was frightening. Inuyasha nuzzled her neck, purring. Obviously he was in his demon form too.
"The tests are harmless. Just a single needle. That's all."
He assured, Kagome shaking her head.
"Kimura said that there were several tests. And I don't like… needles."
She whispered embarrassingly, looking away. He cupped her chin and made her look up at him, as she read the truth from them. There was no lying, no danger.
"Their tests are different, then. We just have the needle. And we'll see how well you combat, that's all."
Kagome whimpered in her feline way, turning in his embrace and burying her face in his chest, as her fists held on to his shirt tightly. Inuyasha petted her, comforting her silently.
"We've all had them. And Sango does them anyway; she'll do it gently. Didn't hurt much for us."
He reassured, Kagome nodding weakly.
"A-are they the only tests you have?"
Inuyasha patted her hair comfortingly, kissing it softly.
"We'll watch you combat in a machine, you'll have something over your eyes, and you'll see people about to attack you. To us it's just you fighting the electronic fighters, and they won't really hurt you. That's the second and last test. What tests does Kimura give you?"
He asked, Kagome tensing again.
"U-ummm… there's if we can spy on the other groups without being caught, ummm the training, if we can keep up, and the last one…"
Kagome felt a little uneasy, and just stayed silent. Inuyasha waited patiently, but when she said nothing, he prodded further,
"What is the last one?"
Kagome stuttered, not knowing how to put it straight.
"Well, y-you have to mate… one of the guys-"
"What?!"
Kagome jumped, trying to leap away on instinct, but Inuyasha held on tightly as he looked down at her unbelievingly.
"He makes you mate one of the guys? God! No wonder Sanami and Kouran are bloody whores!"
Kagome tried to pull away again, feeling really out of place but Inuyasha just held her even tighter.
"Kagome, have you?"
Kagome's mouth opened at that, looking rather shocked.
"N-no! Hell no!"
She snarled, looking insulted. Inuyasha sighed in relief.
"Damn, no wonder you were scared of the tests. We don't have such a test. Rin and Seshoumaru are together, they've already mated, and Sango and Miroku are like mates except they haven't mated yet. Kouga, and there's another guy Hakkaku aren't with female and nor am I."
He said, wanting to tell his brother quickly. Kimura would be busted. Kagome looked very uncomfortable. Smelling her nervousness, Inuyasha suddenly picked her up, Kagome shrieking as she held on reflexively.
"Lets go home, we'll wait for the others there. We can talk, huh?"
He winked at her as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop. Kagome blushed, feeling something heavy lift off her shoulders. She felt at ease with Inuyasha, he was gentle. Should she stay? Kagome frowned. Her mind was whirling.
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What do you think? Mmm, Ookami Kouga the big bad wolf ne!