Well, just for the record, I'm not actually sure what rating this is, fruit wise, but It's gonna stay in the bounds of PG 13. No graphic stuff.
Let's just call, it a papaya, two Kiwi, and a pomegranate, to be safe.
Just for the record, I will NEVER write a lemon. Period. Ever. No. Maybe a lime, someday. But no Lemon, don't even bother asking.
Okay, here we go!
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"InuYasha!" The cry rallied up from the villagers. They stood resolutely in front of the shrine. They would die, if necessary, to protect the treasure inside from the dangerous hanyou.
Rising like a demonic avenger, something erupted from the woods, held down by a giant net. The figure raised it's arms, and shredded through the net as if it was tissue paper.
He had long, silver hair, a cocky grin, and baggy red warrior's clothes. It was InuYasha, the rouge hanyou. He kicked through the air like some great unearthly beast, and landed on the Overhanging entrance post to the shrine, shrugging off the spears and javelins of the pathetic villagers.
With a single leap, he propelled himself through the shrine's roof, and landed on the hardwood floor, smiling to himself. There! Sitting peacefully on an ornate pedestal.
The Shikon no Tama!
The Jewel of Four Souls!
InuYasha's eyes widened. But… what was the Shikon no Tama doing here? Kagome had shattered it, hadn't she? Wait! What was he doing here! He had to save Kagome!
The hanyou turned, and fled the building… or at least tried to. His breath hissed in shock as he took a grudging step towards the jewel. What was happening? The hanyou snatched the jewel, grinning slightly, but screaming inside, attempting to flee.
"At last!" He said, the words forcing themselves out of his mouth. "A way for me to become youkai at last!"
With that, he turned, and dashed out of the shrine, becoming a blur for all his speed. The villager's blew by in a haze. InuYasha's eyes widened as he saw the tree. HE knew it well. Large, eternal, and ancient. With a sudden horror, he knew what was going to happen next
His worst fears were confirmed as a firm, authoritative voice called out, piercing his ears shrilly. "InuYasha!" His eyes shifted automatically, his expression aghast. An arrow, plain and simple was rushing at him.
He braced himself from the burning pain that was sure to come. There was a sharp tug, and his back thudded hard into the tree… but there was no pain. Why wasn't there any pain?
His eyes opened again, and widened. The village was gone! It was just him, and the tree. The Arrow held him firmly in place, piercing right above his left shoulder, through his cloak.
A thin mist hung all around. In the distance, he could make out the odd outline of a girl. A girl he knew all too well.
"Kikyo…" He whispered as the girl came near.
The priestess was in her normal clothing. Red, baggy pants, and a white frilled top, with long flowing sleeves. But there was something wrong. Something about the ease with which she moved. It had a fluid, informal grace to it. Her face was different too. Softer, less pale, more emotional. And her hair was odd. It was long still, but was less well kept. There was a big poof at the front, then it settled in the back, and laid down nicely. He knew this girl even better.
His eyes widened as Kagome kneeled down right next to him, smiled at him warmly, and caught his lips with hers in a tender, soft, embrace.
~~
Sango and Miroku watched the dragons carefully. All their eyes were closed, and they seemed to be watching something. Every once in a while, someone would giggle.
"I like the setting…" Tiamet mumbled. "Very romantic…"
Atma nodded for a moment, end giggled again. "Observe." She whispered, and giggled again.
Sango looked at Miroku. The monk shrugged.
Sango looked back. Slowly, her senses told her something was creeping towards her backside. Briefly, she toyed with the idea of inching closer to the monk. Then, she caught the half desperate look in his eye. The youkai exterminator sighed.
SMACK!
Miroku recoiled, feeling the burning sensation as feeling returned to his cheek. Things were back to normal… thank the heavens.
~~
Kagome dragged InuYasha into the deeper recesses of the cave, breathing heavily. Damn! It was cold.
She sighed, and sat down next to the hanyou's still form. She had to admit, the hanyou did have a certain talent for making her heart go pitter-patter. She let out a huge sigh, and leaned back, panting hard. He was heavy! He rubbed the sweat from her forehead, and leaned down over the hanyou to make sure he was alright.
Now, she could really see how very tired he was. HE had passed out in fatigue as much as from the cold! "What an idiot!" She muttered to herself. "He'll kill himself!"
She leaned down to his face, and began to scrape the ice off his cheeks. That breath must have been really cold. He felt like an ice cube!
Nervously, she scooted down next to him, leaning down against his side. This was really embarrassing, but she had to get him warm… and she had to get warm herself! She hadn't realized how cold she was until she got into the cave. Her face burning, and her heart going wild, now not just from the cold, and hard work, she pulled up beside the hanyou's still form, drawing a small portion of the blanket over her.
"Kagome…" InuYasha murmured suddenly.
The young miko gasped, and scrambled away, her face burning. Oh, god, please don't let InuYasha have woken up right then! Oh man! How embarrassing!
Slowly, she crept over to the still form of the hanyou. He didn't look awake…
Suddenly, her blush deepened… what if he was murmuring her name while he was dreaming?
The hanyou turned over in his sleep, smiling slightly, and whispered her name again.
Kagome could only stare at the idiot grin plastered on his face…
~~
InuYasha's eyes widened as Kagome's lips pressed against his own, hers warm and soft against his. What the hell was going on? Suddenly, he fell back, breaking the kiss, landing flat on the ground. The tree had disappeared! What was going on? Where were they.
"Kagome…" He whispered, looking at the young miko. The gentle smile still on her face, she leaned down, and put a single finger on his lips, silencing him. The finger slowly slipped away, and InuYasha opened his mouth to continue, but her soft lips replaced the finger. Slowly, her arms wrapped around him, and the kiss deepened.
What was happening? InuYasha thought, feeling his resolve begin to break down. The gentle, coaxing hands slowly circled around him, gently kneading the tension out of his back. InuYasha sighed into her mouth, his resolve reduced to practically nothing, and slowly began to melt into the kiss.
One of the hands expertly began to rise up his back, creeping up his neck, working it's way through his silver locks of hair, and then finally to one of his small doggy ears. She broke the kiss, and giggled slightly as the ears twitched under her careful touch.
Then, from deep within his chest, a low, almost growling purr formed. Kagome grinned, and resumed the kiss, snuggling deeper into the hanyou.
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Kagome's blush increased even more. Oh, god! Was he purring? The deep bass rumble filled the cave. Great! This was just great! The guy was dreaming about her, murmuring her name, and now he was purring? And she had to actually get under a quilt with this guy?
Kagome sighed, and beat the wall out of frustration… but then again… She suppressed a giggle. She was making him purr… even if it was a dream version of her…
How long had it been, since she realized that what she felt for InuYasha was more than just friendship? It had been a long time… Kagome knew that… but was it even a specific moment? It had happened gradually… yes. And then one day, her friends had been on her about Hojo again.
Kagome sighed. Why didn't they ever leave her alone? Anyway, they had been on her again… and out of annoyance she had told them that she already had a boy friend. It had just been a little white lie! After all, they wouldn't leave her alone!
She sighed again, and shook her head. That had been a mistake! She stared at InuYasha out of the corner of her eye. He was still purring, and his ear was twitching madly. She giggle at the sight, and scooted towards him, the cold biting in to her again. She covered her legs with a corner of the quilt, trying to work up the courage to slide back in beside him again. Slowly, her thought began to drift again, and she absentmindedly began to scratch one of the sleeping hanyou's ears.
Her friends all wanted to know what he was like after that, and what his name was, and weather they could meet him. And slowly, her "Boyfriend" began to take on an actual personality. He was arrogant, and possessive. He always dressed in red, and had a real attitude at times, but he was sweet deep down. He had broken up with his old girlfriend, but still couldn't get over her, and so Kagome was always wondering where she stood with him. Sometimes, he acted like a total jerk, and then at others, he was wonderful, funny, and kind.
Then, they asked the question. What was his name? It was at that point that Kagome realized, with a sinking feeling, that the person she had been describing was InuYasha…
But how? He wasn't her boyfriend! How did she end up describing him without even knowing it? The more she thought about it, the more she was troubled by it. Then, she realized that something about InuYasha was more than friendship to her. She wasn't really sure what it was… but it was definitely more than friendship.
Was it love? How did you know what love was? Did she love InuYasha? She looked back down to the smiling face, and the twitching ears. Well, so what if she did!
Slowly, and carefully, she began to slide down beside him, trying not to wake him.
~~
The dragon's watched the dream proceed with much interest (And much giggling). Miroku and Sango watched them like hawks, trying to figure out what was going on. It obviously had something to do with InuYasha and Kagome… but what?
Suddenly, Atma opened her eyes and shrugged, the other dragons followed suit.
Tiamet sighed, and glared at the older dragon. "Well, that was boring!" She complained. "You didn't put in any of the juicy stuff!"
Atma sighed, and shook her head. "Trust me! That was all that was needed." She said dismissively. "I'm not a total pervert! He just needs a little help on the attraction."
"Well, yeah…" Tiamet said sulkily. "But couldn't you have put in just a little…" She left the phrase hanging.
"No!" Atma said firmly.
"Well, in that case, shouldn't we wake him up?"
Atma sighed. "Yes… I suppose."
~~
InuYasha gently stroked his clawed fingers through Kagome's hair, while she scratched his ears. They were still kissing… it just seemed like to important of a bond to break.
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Atma nodded slightly, and lifted her hand. "It's time for our little hanyou…"
~~
Kagome broke the kiss, finally, and stared fondly down at him.
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"…to awaken."
~~
The young miko gently leaned down to nuzzle against his cheek, and her mouth parted to whisper a deep, lovely secret into his ear.
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Her hand raised even higher, and her fingers snapped once.
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InuYasha's eyes shot wide open, and he sat up instantly.
Kagome gasped, and scrambled out of the quilt, blushing madly.
"What the hell?" InuYasha yelled, looking around wildly. His gaze quickly taking in the entire cave, the quilt, and the blushing Kagome.
Suddenly, the contents of his dream rushed back, and his blush increased, his eyes widening in a blatant stare.
Kagome's eyes narrowed. He was dreaming about her.
The hanyou shook his head, to clear it, and then looked down, assessing the situation. Kagome was sitting at one side, blushing madly. Then his eyes picked out her shivering. That idiot! What was she doing out of the quilt.
He looked down, and saw that it was draped over him, instead. With a start, he realized that he was cold. Very… very cold. The warm quilt was all around him, but still, he was freezing!
But that didn't matter! He was a hanyou! He would be able to make it! The girl was idiotic, putting him in the blanket. How else had he gotten here? What had she been thinking?
"You idiot!" He growled.
Kagome blinked. "What?" She asked, confused.
"You're half frozen!" HE growled. "You should be in here! Not me." With that, he pulled himself out of the quilt and expertly threw it across Kagome. "You stay here." He said authoritatively, interrupting Kagome's interjections. "I'll go out and see if the path is clear."
He turned to stalk out of the door, his dream still fresh in his mind. He should probably get out of Kagome's presence for a while, until he cooled down a bit.
But Kagome's voice stopped him, angry and incessant. "Well, what about you?" She called after him, her temper starting to rise. What was InuYasha thinking? Going out into a storm like this? Honestly, she thought he had a bit more since than that! "You're half frozen too! You're in no condition to move around!"
InuYasha glanced back at her, still inching his way out of the cave. "I'm a hanyou!" He said arrogantly. "I can stand a little cold, not like you wimpy humans."
Kagome's temper went up another notch, and she rose to her feet, and began to walk towards him. "It's not a "Little cold" I'm worried about!" She yelled. "InuYasha, you felt like an ice cube just two minutes ago! You're freezing. You've got to get back in here and warm up."
She left the fact that to do that he would have to get under the quilt with her unspoken, but Kagome could tell that he knew that just as well as she did. He turned around to her, and scowled. "Feh!" He sniffed. "I'm fine. I need to go fetch Tetsusaiga."
Kagome's eyes narrowed. "InuYasha!" She yelled, still slightly embarrassed at being caught in the quilt with him. "You aren't going anywhere till you get in here and rest! You haven't slept in almost two days, and you're freezing to death!"
InuYasha sniffed again, and turned towards the mouth of the cave. "Hmph! I can go a lot longer than a wimpy human without sleep!" Beginning to walk, "I don't need any rest. You do!"
Inwardly, Kagome yelled in frustration. She looked up again, at the rapidly retreating hanyou. Surly he knew he couldn't keep going in this condition. Not even InuYasha was that arrogant. There had to be some other reason for him acting like this! Then her eyes widened. No way! It couldn't be! Could he be embarrassed? Was he trying to avoid her. He blush if anything deepened. Still, she wasn't gonna let something like that stop her. The stupid idiot would work himself to death!
She stalked after him, coming to the mouth of the cave. InuYasha was already several steps out of the cave, and stumbling slightly on the ice.
"InuYasha!" She called. "Stop being stupid! You're gonna kill yourself!"
InuYasha whipped around. "Shaddap!" He roared, suddenly irrationally angry. "I'm fine! Get back in the cave, and get some rest."
Kagome took a deep breath, and took a step out into the snow, her dirty school shoes crunching the snow. "InuYasha!" She yelled, starting to get very angry at the stupid hanyou. "You get in here right now! You're too weak, to do anything! You can barely even stand!" She gestured to the hanyou's trembling legs.
This only made InuYasha angrier. "I said Shut up!" He yelled, moving towards her slightly. "Get back in the cave, and stay there!" He said irrationally, getting angry himself. "Just… GO!"
Kagome's eyes narrowed stubbornly, and she took another step out into the snow. "Listen InuYasha." She said, starting to breath heavily from all the yelling. "You need to get back in the cave… NOW!" Her breaths were coming out shorter, and shorter now, and her head was beginning to fuzz slightly. The thin air was probably messing with her condition.
InuYasha's eyes flashed dangerously. "Listen, you stupid girl! You're the one who's injured, you're the one who's hurt, and you're the one who needs rest! I'll be fine out here! You get back in!"
Kagome's nerves suddenly shot. She had a headache, she was out of breath, and she was in a really bad mood now. And the worst part was that the idiot was just doing it to protect her! Didn't he have any sense of self preservation? Honestly! She was about to cry, she could tell, but she honestly didn't care right now. She needed to get InuYasha inside, by any means necessary.
InuYasha saw her silence, and her annoyed expression, and turned his back, begging to stalk off again.
"InuYasha!" Kagome suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs, still trying to figure out what she was going to say. "You are the most stupid, ignorant, selfish, stuck up bastard I have ever met!" She raged, her voice cracking slightly. She could already feel the tears running down her cheeks.
InuYasha stopped suddenly, and turned his gaze on her in shock. "Don't you care what I think?" She demanded. "You don't think I care if you die!" She was getting more worked up the more she spoke. "You're an idiot! Please InuYasha! If you go out there, you'll freeze to death! Do you think I want that? Please InuYasha!" She gushed, trying to find the words to say. "Please just… Please!" Not knowing how to continue.
InuYasha gaped at her, slightly, backing up just a little, almost as if afraid.
Kagome shook her head, and pressed onward. "Do you think I'm stupid?" She asked. "Do you think I don't know why you're avoiding me?"
InuYasha's face suddenly took a horrified look.
"InuYasha, I heard you moaning my name in you're sleep! I'm not an idiot, I know why you want to get away, and it's a stupid reason." Her breath was coming in short, little gasps now, and tears were freezing to her cheeks. She had to get him to listen!
She took a deep breath, trying to clear her head, and prepare for what she had to say. "Listen, InuYasha!" She said. "If you don't come in here, and rest, then you are going to die! Dammit! And I am going to die! Is that what you want?" Her voice raised to a crescendo. "Is it? Please InuYasha… Please, I don't want you to be gone. I don't want to lose you. Please…" Her voice died down to a whisper, but the hanyou's ears picked it up easily. "Please InuYasha… I don't want you to die…" She breathed in, preparing for what she had to say. "And you can do whatever you want with me, InuYasha. You can have me as you're mate, if you want… just please… come in… I… I…" She voice broke, and she started sobbing. "Please…" She finished, frozen tears glistening on her cheeks.
InuYasha stared at the girl in shock… tears freezing on his own cheeks as well.
