Kiss From a Rose
By Mystical Star
A Kitty-Chan Production
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. Mostly because if I did, I'd have a whole lot of money and I could speak Japanese! But I only know a few words and I'm broke, therefore I can't own Inuyasha or any related characters. So there!
Author's Note: A small dictionary of the Japanese words that appear will be provided at the end of the chapter for all you folk who don't know them :)
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Chapter Six ~ Moonlight Shadow
That night, Inuyasha stirred in his sleep, dreaming of something that had haunted him since Kagome broke his seal. He let out a gruff noise, awakening his mate next to him.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked quietly, fixing her eyes on her sleeping mate. She took his hand to comfort Inuyasha, though it did not stop his stirring.
Inuyasha's dream ~"Inuyasha," A ghostly voice called through the darkness. The hanyou whirled around, looking for the owner of the call.
"Who's there?" He asked, though he knew the answer.
"Inuyasha, how could you?" The voice asked. Suddenly, from the darkness, none other than the deseacsed shrine maiden, Kikyou, came forward.
"Kikyou?" Inuyasha gasped.
"How could you?" She asked again, anger flaring in her eyes.
"Kikyou, I - "
"Don't try and make excuses for it, hanyou," She hissed. "Those children you're sleeping with now were no accident,"
Inuyasha growled. "I swear, if you do anything to hurt them, I'll - "
"You'll what? Kill me?" Kikyou laughed. "You've done much worse, Inuyasha," She said. Suddenly, blood sprayed from her clay body where the wound Naraku gave her fifty years ago was. The miko fell to the ground, clutching the injury.
"Kikyou!" Inuyasha rushed forward to help her, but the faster he ran, the farther away she got.
"You have chosen, Inuyasha. But are you sure you have chosen correctly?" Her last words reverberated against his skull, jarring him awake.
~ End Dream
Inuyasha sat straight up, panting. Beads of sweat covered his forehead. He looked down on his children. Pleased to see that he hadn't woken them as well, he crossed his legs and pondered.
A low, soft growl came from his throat. "You have chosen, but are you sure you have chosen correctly"? What's that supposed to mean? Is she just jealous, or is she planning something? Inuyasha thought. Suddenly, the hanyou's heart was overcome with fear. If Kikyou does something to Hikari or Hikaru, I won't be able to stop her, He realized.
"Dammit!" He cursed softly.
"Inuyasha, watch your mouth!"
The surprised hanyou looked down on the futon next to him and saw his mate, wide awake and staring up at him.
"Gomen," He apologized, averting his eyes from her gaze. Kagome found this behavior odd.
"Inuyasha, are you alright?" She whispered.
"I'm fine," Her mate huffed. Of course, she knew what that meant.
"You can tell me, koi,"
Inuyasha sighed. It was impossible to keep anything from Kagome, even if he tried.
"Kikyou was in my dreams," He confessed.
"Kikyou?" Kagome asked, slightly confused. She thought that after the whole mating and children thing that he'd have no problem with choosing herself over Kikyou. "Inuyasha- " she began, but was interrupted by her mate.
"If she did anything to the pups I wouldn't be able to stop her, Kagome,"
Now it made sense. Kagome could understand that Kikyou was still very dear to Inuyasha. Unfortunatly, what he said next also made sense.
"You need to take them back, Kagome," He lamented, stroking Hikaru's hair as the little boy slept. "And you need to go with them,"
Kagome's head rushed. It wasn't fair. Her children needed Inuyasha. She needed Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, I won't,"
"Don't argue with me, Kagome. You know it's not safe for them here! It's not just Kikyou either. What about Naraku, or Sesshoumaru? Do you realize how easy it would be for them to kidnap any of you three and use you as puppets for me?"
"We're not going anywhere, Inuyasha. We're a family. Do you know how devastated Hikari and Hikaru will be if I take them back, now that they've just met you? It's not fair to them!"
"It's not fair to them if they get kidnapped either!"
Shippou muttered something in his sleep and rolled over, startling the arguing couple into silence.
"We can protect them," Kagome whispered.
"Kagome, no!" Inuyasha said as quietly as he could.
"Inuyasha, do you really think you can keep us in the future? I didn't use my miko abilities to get us back here, the twins are linked with your time and mine. They can travel in between when they like. Even if I tried to keep them in the future, they wouldn't stay, and having them wandering around by themselves is more dangerous than me being here with them." Kagome pointed out.
Inuyasha frowned. He didn't want to admit it, but his mate was right. There's no way to stop a pair of five-year-olds from getting what they want, especially when it would be so easy for them to sneak. The hanyou sighed.
"Don't they have to go to that school thing?" He asked, trying his last back up plan.
"They can't. Hikari's ears would draw too many questions,"
Inuyasha growled, frustrated to say the least. Having pups was more difficult than he thought it was. Especially pups who had inherited as much stubbornness as his probably had.
"Fine, but you can only stay until we figure something out. It's still too dangerous even for you to be here," Inuyasha caved in.
Kagome smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Arigatou, Inuyasha,"
"Feh," Her mate replied. He knew all to well that her thanks was just a ploy to make him feel better. Which, he had to admit to himself, it did.
"Goodnight, koi," She said, crawling back under the covers. Inuyasha sighed and did the same.
"Goodnight, Kagome,"
Kikyou stood at the crest of the hill, looking down through the window on the tender scene. She frowned in disgust. Even after I send him messages through his dreams he resists me and turns to his beloved copy. She thought.
The undead miko glared at her reincarnation with bitter eyes, oozing with jealousy. Kagome was living her life for her. She had Inuyasha's children. She was wearing a miko's kimono and helping to protect the Shikon no Tama. She was sleeping with him now. Kikyou's temper flared at the thought of Kagome all safe and warm in the arms of her Inuyasha.
"This is not over, Inuyasha," She declared in a gruff and angry voice as she walked away into the trees.
To be continued…
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Author's Note: Dun dun dun! Did you really think that I was just going to go on about how fluffy Inu and Kag's romance is? ;) Naw, there has to be some danger in the plot, this is Inuyasha folks! :D Anyway, I just wanna say:
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