Last time: Kagome flicked open her eyes and looked around. She got a
sinking feeling when she realized she was up in the tree, but it was
quickly calmed by the silently snoozing hanyou at her side. She giggled
and looked toward the sky. The sun was going to come up in about a half an
hour, she estimated. After pushing herself up in Inuyasha's lap so she was
more sitting than laying, she looked at him. His cheeks were still a
little sunken, but they had their color. 'He is kind of cute. I mean, if
he weren't so stubborn all of the time, I could really learn to like him.
And in his human form, he is really sort of hot.' She thought, surprising
herself with the blush she felt heat her face. She glanced up to his ears.
'This is the perfect opportunity! He never lets me touch them, but what
he doesn't know won't hurt him!' She thought with another giggle. Taking
her hands from his shoulders, she reached up and touched them lightly,
loving the silky feel of them. She began to rub them, and Inuyasha's head
fell into her chest and began to purr.
It startled her at first and she almost laughed, but she held her breath. She especially loved it when she paused for a moment, he would rub his head against her. He even snuggled on her breasts, but this only caused her to giggle more. When he rubbed his silver hair against her chest the next time, she felt him stir.
"Good smell." He said, half awake.
"You think so? I thought I smelled bad?" Kagome asked, slightly more serious. He shook his head and got a glance at his eyes.
"You were awake this whole time!?" Kagome whispered in an aggravated tone.
Inuyasha lifted his head up with a sly grin and nodded.
"But don't bother to try and sit me, because I'll take you down too." He said. Kagome's face turned redder than Inuyasha's shirt.
"So I do smell good?" She asked quietly.
"Yea. But don't get used to some flowery complements because I'm not gonna give them." He said, a minor smirk still on his lips.
"At least I know you like your ears being rubbed. They are so kawaii." Kagome told him. It was his turn to blush and look away.
"Fine then, let's get going. Hold on." He told her. Kagome's hands instantly went over his neck and her head against his chest. Inuyasha's blush didn't fade when he picked her up bridal style and began to hop down the branches.
Now:
Inuyasha hit the ground and set Kagome down lightly. Kagome stood up and brushed herself off, looking around.
"You know, this has been suspiciously easy." Kagome spoke, voicing the thought. Inuyasha nodded and began to sniff at the air. Kagome gasped, believing he had caught the scent of youkai. She ran up and held his arm. He turned his head toward her troubled face and made an angry face. Kagome whispered,
"What is it!?"
Inuyasha held the face for a moment and then replied,
"Raspberries." He said, finally cracking up at her troubled face. Of course Kagome wasn't in the mood for this.
"Oswari!" She yelled. Inuyasha slammed into the ground and began yelling every curse word he knew into the dirt. (Poor grass. . .)
"Oi, bitch! It was a freaking joke!" He yelled when he pulled himself up. But little did he see that Kagome had stalked off looking for the berry bushes. He sat up and fallowed.
Kagome successfully found the bushes and began to eat them at the speed of light. Inuyasha joined her and an hour later they were covered in juice stains. Kagome looked to the sky.
"What the hell are we doing, Inuyasha? Our friends are probably being tortured by an evil youkai and were just sitting here eating and flirting." She said, not even aware of her confession. "I can't believe I slept with him." She muttered so low, she couldn't even hear herself. But she hadn't remembered how well Inuyasha's ears worked. Before she knew it, Inuyasha had pulled her up by her shoulders and shook her.
"What the fuck did you just say? Because it better not be what the hell I think you just said." He yelled, unaware of the blood he was drawing with his claws. Kagome stood totally stunned by his reaction. More out of fear than surprise, though.
"I. . .I. . ." She stuttered. Inuyasha shook her again. Tears began to leak from her eyes.
"You mean that you fucking slept with the man that killed my freaking mother!?" He yelled. Kagome's heart stopped beating, and she gasped. They stood still in that moment, absorbing the declaration.
"Inuyasha, I. . . I didn't know. . . I swear that I. . . Oh my God. . . That bastard. . . I just, I didn't know. I was blinded by the magic, Inuyasha. . . God, I'm so sorry. I'm so freaking sorry, but I can't change it. . . I. . ." Kagome cried. She began to sob and cry against Inuyasha's chest, regretful of what she had done. 'I slept with that monster. He stole my virginity from me. I can't get it back. Oh my God. I feel so disgusting.' She thought. Inuyasha had released her and his arms lay down at his sides. He looked dead, physically and emotionally limp from pain.
Kagome sank down to his feet, mourning her loss, and Inuyasha's. After a few moments, Inuyasha sat down next to her, a blank and expressionless face covering his torment. Kagome hugged him, soaking his shirt. For some reason, she began to think of the shards pressing around her neck. They felt like they were cutting into her skin.
**** **** ****
Inuyasha held onto Kagome's hand as they stood on the weightless cloud. He felt numb inside, unable to move, as they glided through the cloudy sky. Even the sky looked stale and dead to him. The world began to lose its meaning. He felt like his heart had been ripped out and chewed on viscously. He didn't bother to question why.
But while Inuyasha felt numb, Kagome was burning. Mostly her eyes and cheeks were inflamed from her continuous sobs, but she felt gross, like she had taken a bath in rotting corpses. It hurt to hold Inuyasha's hand; she thought she may spread the germs to him. They continued this silence until the sun began to set again, and Kagome felt that they were close to the castle. This hurt her even more, like she was running back to the bones and blood for another dive. She landed them on the ground and Inuyasha stepped off, going to a nearby tree, and sitting at the base of it in an uncommon position. Kagome winced when she saw him crying.
'Inuyasha never cries. I've never seen him do anything like that, ever. Especially in front of me. He's lost his pride.' She said to herself. Kagome came around behind him and in front of the tree, to sit at his back. He hardly noticed her. But she reached up and tentatively began to rub his ears again. He laid his head back in her lap in exhaustion, trying to focus on his ears and nothing else. Kagome heard him snore after a few minutes of content purring.
She stopped rubbing and leaned back on the tree, resting her muscles. Feeling scared of the darkness around her; she decided to try something new. Sesshoumaru (she winced as the thought of the name) had once taught her a very revolutionary technique of hiding herself from people. It was very dangerous indeed, but she knew neither of them were up for battling youkai.
The magic was that she would push them out of that dimension, but remain in the same place. The second plane was totally empty besides what she created, so she could do whatever she wanted, by just thinking.
Closing her eyes, she pulled the power from her core, enjoying the tingling feeling. She shut her eyes and raised her hands to the sky. She focused on transporting herself and Inuyasha to the blank space. When she opened her eyes, she and Inuyasha were floating in and endless sea of black. So she began to create.
'Just like my house. And just like the shrine grounds. That's all I want.' She thought with her eyes closed. When she opened them, she discovered she was sitting in what appeared to be her room, and out her window, what appeared to be a night sky. Inuyasha was under her lavender covers to the side of the bed. Kagome pushed him off and laid down next to him, falling asleep to the thoughts of doubt in her magic.
Kagome opened her eyes to the face of an angry and confused hanyou shaking her furiously.
"Inuyasha, leggo of me." Kagome muttered into the pillow. But he didn't listen. He picked her up and pulled her from the covers, setting her on the floor.
"Why the hell are we in your room Kagome?" He said as calmly as he could. Kagome looked up at him and laughed at the pajamas he was wearing. She looked down at her night gown she had not been wearing before. The sky outside was a black stary one, as she had no thought to change it yet.
"We're not in my room." Kagome said cryptically.
"Oh really? Then where are we? Because if we're not at your house, I'm hallucinating." He said rubbing his puffy read eyes. He had been crying in his sleep.
"Its. . . magic, Inuyasha." We're still in the same place, but this is just an illusion." She told him, not wanting to explain how dangerous their dimension shifting was. He snorted. Kagome looked outside and thought of dawn. The sun began to rise. Inuyasha turned to look.
"What the. . ." He began.
"It's just magic. Nothing more. You can change things here too. It easy, just think of what you want. I think our clothes are downstairs in the wash right now." Kagome told him, standing up slowly.
"So none of it is real?" He asked.
"Technically, it's all real. But it's not real where we were, unless it's like food we've eaten or supplies we take with us. It's really complicated. I don't even think we should do this; something could go badly wrong. . . I'm not sure how it works." Kagome confessed, looking around outside. She could even see the lights of the city, and the far west forest.
"Stupid wench." Inuyasha commented as he walked around the room, touching things as if they would disappear in a puff of smoke. Kagome smiled at his antics. She knew Inuyasha only called her a stupid wench when he was acting like he was angry, but her really wasn't. 'I shouldn't remind him of anything like that.' Kagome thought.
Inuyasha had turned back to her and was watching the show of emotions crossing her face.
"I feel so disgusting inside, so horrible. I just wish none of it had ever happened. Even though I-" Kagome slapped her hand over her mouth and watched Inuyasha laugh. It took her a few moments to realize she was speaking her thoughts, not thinking them.
"Hey, what did you do!?" Kagome yelled.
"I can wish for stuff too right? Well I wanted to know what you were thinking, so I wished it." Inuyasha said.
"Be careful what you wish for, dog boy." Kagome said threateningly. But Inuyasha just smirked and looked outside. The window now showed a field of flowers and grass, fallowed by an endless expanse of ocean.
"Stop that!" Kagome yelled, but her eyes only held wonder, not anger. Then the room changed, and they were standing in a dinning room with a table filled with hot and great smelling food. The walls were still the same a Kagome's bedroom and even her posters of musical groups adorned the space. Kagome couldn't help but laugh when Inuyasha sat down at the table and picked up a pair of chopsticks. Kagome joined him.
It was an hour later that they had eaten almost all of the food. Kagome leaned back to the ground from her mat. Inuyasha stood up, extremely business like.
"Let's get going." Inuyasha said. Kagome nodded. Inuyasha suddenly had changed back into his red haori and Kagome back into her school uniform, with her ebony hair pinned up tightly. She held a reserved look upon her face, but lost it when she took Inuyasha's hand and raised the other to the sky.
The room faded, and Inuyasha grabbed onto her waist as they stood in the black. Kagome just laughed and began to shift back into the normal dimension. There they lay, alone in the dawn forest, in the exact position they had come there. Kagome almost tried to grab Inuyasha's ears again but he sat up and turned to her, brushing himself off in embarrassment. Kagome stood as well and began to create the cloud. Inuyasha grabbed her hand again and stood on the floating mass.
They took off slowly, ruffling the leaves in the trees. Kagome looked to the west and pointed with a free hand.
"Inuyasha, do you see that small black dot on the horizon?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha nodded solemnly.
"That, is the castle."
It startled her at first and she almost laughed, but she held her breath. She especially loved it when she paused for a moment, he would rub his head against her. He even snuggled on her breasts, but this only caused her to giggle more. When he rubbed his silver hair against her chest the next time, she felt him stir.
"Good smell." He said, half awake.
"You think so? I thought I smelled bad?" Kagome asked, slightly more serious. He shook his head and got a glance at his eyes.
"You were awake this whole time!?" Kagome whispered in an aggravated tone.
Inuyasha lifted his head up with a sly grin and nodded.
"But don't bother to try and sit me, because I'll take you down too." He said. Kagome's face turned redder than Inuyasha's shirt.
"So I do smell good?" She asked quietly.
"Yea. But don't get used to some flowery complements because I'm not gonna give them." He said, a minor smirk still on his lips.
"At least I know you like your ears being rubbed. They are so kawaii." Kagome told him. It was his turn to blush and look away.
"Fine then, let's get going. Hold on." He told her. Kagome's hands instantly went over his neck and her head against his chest. Inuyasha's blush didn't fade when he picked her up bridal style and began to hop down the branches.
Now:
Inuyasha hit the ground and set Kagome down lightly. Kagome stood up and brushed herself off, looking around.
"You know, this has been suspiciously easy." Kagome spoke, voicing the thought. Inuyasha nodded and began to sniff at the air. Kagome gasped, believing he had caught the scent of youkai. She ran up and held his arm. He turned his head toward her troubled face and made an angry face. Kagome whispered,
"What is it!?"
Inuyasha held the face for a moment and then replied,
"Raspberries." He said, finally cracking up at her troubled face. Of course Kagome wasn't in the mood for this.
"Oswari!" She yelled. Inuyasha slammed into the ground and began yelling every curse word he knew into the dirt. (Poor grass. . .)
"Oi, bitch! It was a freaking joke!" He yelled when he pulled himself up. But little did he see that Kagome had stalked off looking for the berry bushes. He sat up and fallowed.
Kagome successfully found the bushes and began to eat them at the speed of light. Inuyasha joined her and an hour later they were covered in juice stains. Kagome looked to the sky.
"What the hell are we doing, Inuyasha? Our friends are probably being tortured by an evil youkai and were just sitting here eating and flirting." She said, not even aware of her confession. "I can't believe I slept with him." She muttered so low, she couldn't even hear herself. But she hadn't remembered how well Inuyasha's ears worked. Before she knew it, Inuyasha had pulled her up by her shoulders and shook her.
"What the fuck did you just say? Because it better not be what the hell I think you just said." He yelled, unaware of the blood he was drawing with his claws. Kagome stood totally stunned by his reaction. More out of fear than surprise, though.
"I. . .I. . ." She stuttered. Inuyasha shook her again. Tears began to leak from her eyes.
"You mean that you fucking slept with the man that killed my freaking mother!?" He yelled. Kagome's heart stopped beating, and she gasped. They stood still in that moment, absorbing the declaration.
"Inuyasha, I. . . I didn't know. . . I swear that I. . . Oh my God. . . That bastard. . . I just, I didn't know. I was blinded by the magic, Inuyasha. . . God, I'm so sorry. I'm so freaking sorry, but I can't change it. . . I. . ." Kagome cried. She began to sob and cry against Inuyasha's chest, regretful of what she had done. 'I slept with that monster. He stole my virginity from me. I can't get it back. Oh my God. I feel so disgusting.' She thought. Inuyasha had released her and his arms lay down at his sides. He looked dead, physically and emotionally limp from pain.
Kagome sank down to his feet, mourning her loss, and Inuyasha's. After a few moments, Inuyasha sat down next to her, a blank and expressionless face covering his torment. Kagome hugged him, soaking his shirt. For some reason, she began to think of the shards pressing around her neck. They felt like they were cutting into her skin.
**** **** ****
Inuyasha held onto Kagome's hand as they stood on the weightless cloud. He felt numb inside, unable to move, as they glided through the cloudy sky. Even the sky looked stale and dead to him. The world began to lose its meaning. He felt like his heart had been ripped out and chewed on viscously. He didn't bother to question why.
But while Inuyasha felt numb, Kagome was burning. Mostly her eyes and cheeks were inflamed from her continuous sobs, but she felt gross, like she had taken a bath in rotting corpses. It hurt to hold Inuyasha's hand; she thought she may spread the germs to him. They continued this silence until the sun began to set again, and Kagome felt that they were close to the castle. This hurt her even more, like she was running back to the bones and blood for another dive. She landed them on the ground and Inuyasha stepped off, going to a nearby tree, and sitting at the base of it in an uncommon position. Kagome winced when she saw him crying.
'Inuyasha never cries. I've never seen him do anything like that, ever. Especially in front of me. He's lost his pride.' She said to herself. Kagome came around behind him and in front of the tree, to sit at his back. He hardly noticed her. But she reached up and tentatively began to rub his ears again. He laid his head back in her lap in exhaustion, trying to focus on his ears and nothing else. Kagome heard him snore after a few minutes of content purring.
She stopped rubbing and leaned back on the tree, resting her muscles. Feeling scared of the darkness around her; she decided to try something new. Sesshoumaru (she winced as the thought of the name) had once taught her a very revolutionary technique of hiding herself from people. It was very dangerous indeed, but she knew neither of them were up for battling youkai.
The magic was that she would push them out of that dimension, but remain in the same place. The second plane was totally empty besides what she created, so she could do whatever she wanted, by just thinking.
Closing her eyes, she pulled the power from her core, enjoying the tingling feeling. She shut her eyes and raised her hands to the sky. She focused on transporting herself and Inuyasha to the blank space. When she opened her eyes, she and Inuyasha were floating in and endless sea of black. So she began to create.
'Just like my house. And just like the shrine grounds. That's all I want.' She thought with her eyes closed. When she opened them, she discovered she was sitting in what appeared to be her room, and out her window, what appeared to be a night sky. Inuyasha was under her lavender covers to the side of the bed. Kagome pushed him off and laid down next to him, falling asleep to the thoughts of doubt in her magic.
Kagome opened her eyes to the face of an angry and confused hanyou shaking her furiously.
"Inuyasha, leggo of me." Kagome muttered into the pillow. But he didn't listen. He picked her up and pulled her from the covers, setting her on the floor.
"Why the hell are we in your room Kagome?" He said as calmly as he could. Kagome looked up at him and laughed at the pajamas he was wearing. She looked down at her night gown she had not been wearing before. The sky outside was a black stary one, as she had no thought to change it yet.
"We're not in my room." Kagome said cryptically.
"Oh really? Then where are we? Because if we're not at your house, I'm hallucinating." He said rubbing his puffy read eyes. He had been crying in his sleep.
"Its. . . magic, Inuyasha." We're still in the same place, but this is just an illusion." She told him, not wanting to explain how dangerous their dimension shifting was. He snorted. Kagome looked outside and thought of dawn. The sun began to rise. Inuyasha turned to look.
"What the. . ." He began.
"It's just magic. Nothing more. You can change things here too. It easy, just think of what you want. I think our clothes are downstairs in the wash right now." Kagome told him, standing up slowly.
"So none of it is real?" He asked.
"Technically, it's all real. But it's not real where we were, unless it's like food we've eaten or supplies we take with us. It's really complicated. I don't even think we should do this; something could go badly wrong. . . I'm not sure how it works." Kagome confessed, looking around outside. She could even see the lights of the city, and the far west forest.
"Stupid wench." Inuyasha commented as he walked around the room, touching things as if they would disappear in a puff of smoke. Kagome smiled at his antics. She knew Inuyasha only called her a stupid wench when he was acting like he was angry, but her really wasn't. 'I shouldn't remind him of anything like that.' Kagome thought.
Inuyasha had turned back to her and was watching the show of emotions crossing her face.
"I feel so disgusting inside, so horrible. I just wish none of it had ever happened. Even though I-" Kagome slapped her hand over her mouth and watched Inuyasha laugh. It took her a few moments to realize she was speaking her thoughts, not thinking them.
"Hey, what did you do!?" Kagome yelled.
"I can wish for stuff too right? Well I wanted to know what you were thinking, so I wished it." Inuyasha said.
"Be careful what you wish for, dog boy." Kagome said threateningly. But Inuyasha just smirked and looked outside. The window now showed a field of flowers and grass, fallowed by an endless expanse of ocean.
"Stop that!" Kagome yelled, but her eyes only held wonder, not anger. Then the room changed, and they were standing in a dinning room with a table filled with hot and great smelling food. The walls were still the same a Kagome's bedroom and even her posters of musical groups adorned the space. Kagome couldn't help but laugh when Inuyasha sat down at the table and picked up a pair of chopsticks. Kagome joined him.
It was an hour later that they had eaten almost all of the food. Kagome leaned back to the ground from her mat. Inuyasha stood up, extremely business like.
"Let's get going." Inuyasha said. Kagome nodded. Inuyasha suddenly had changed back into his red haori and Kagome back into her school uniform, with her ebony hair pinned up tightly. She held a reserved look upon her face, but lost it when she took Inuyasha's hand and raised the other to the sky.
The room faded, and Inuyasha grabbed onto her waist as they stood in the black. Kagome just laughed and began to shift back into the normal dimension. There they lay, alone in the dawn forest, in the exact position they had come there. Kagome almost tried to grab Inuyasha's ears again but he sat up and turned to her, brushing himself off in embarrassment. Kagome stood as well and began to create the cloud. Inuyasha grabbed her hand again and stood on the floating mass.
They took off slowly, ruffling the leaves in the trees. Kagome looked to the west and pointed with a free hand.
"Inuyasha, do you see that small black dot on the horizon?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha nodded solemnly.
"That, is the castle."