Penitent: InuYasha Fanfic Volume 1
Chapter 4
Kagome felt a sudden chill as Sesshomaru moved off the bed. She gathered the covers closer around her naked body and cracked an eye open to see Sesshomaru. "Where are you going?"
"Nowhere," Sesshomaru answered. "But he is coming here. You had best make yourself presentable, as I will also make myself decent."
"Who's coming? How do you know?"
"I know because he has a very distinct scent."
"You never answered the first part." She never thought it could be Inu-Yasha. He was as good as dead to her, as she probably was to him.
Sesshomaru never answered her, but started to put his clothes back on. Kagome, puzzled, didn't move, except to encircle Sesshomaru's waist with her arms when he sat back down on the bed. She rested her cheek firmly against his hard back and closed her eyes, only to snap them open again at a sharp knock. A familiarly biting voice yelled, "Kagome, you in there?" A pause. "It's Inu-Yasha! Come on, we're going home!"
"What?" she whispered. He hated her. What was he doing here? She was the reason he killed the woman he loved. He probably didn't even love her. What in the world was going on...? She fearfully turned to Sesshomaru, who smirked.
"This is going much better than I had originally thought," he said. He stood up and left Kagome, then opened the door for inu-Yasha.
"Sesshomaru, brother dear," Inu-Yasha spat as he stepped into the 1-room house. He looked around slowly as he said, "Where are keeping Kagome... captive?" He stared in surprise at Kagome. She, in the meantime, kept her eyes averted, and gathered the covers around her more tightly, revealing that she was stark naked under the sheets. "Kagome...? Why are you...? What have you...?" The situation dawned on him and he turned angry eyes towards Sesshomaru. "What did you do to her, you fucking bastard?!" He grabbed Sesshomaru's collar and angrily put his face up close to Sesshomaru's. He bared his teeth for effect, but Sesshomaru was still calm.
"We slept together," he said matter-of-factly.
Inu-Yasha, surprised at the bluntness of the statement, let go. "What?!"
"And it was glorious. She was so willing, especially since her precious Inu-Yasha hates her. She was the reason Kikyo died. If only something else had happened..." Sesshomaru sneered, adding gas to the flame.
"Stop! Just stop! Inu-Yasha!" Kagome called, but Inu-Yasha was already out the door. "You said... you said..." Her eyes searched Sesshomaru's and found his plan, or at least part of it. "You were lying all along. You son of a..." She quickly put on her regular clothes (which had been washed earlieer by Sesshomaru) under the covers as Sesshomaru laughed and moved outside. She searched the house, figuring that he never looked around, and retrieved, very fortuitously, a bow and a few arrows. She picked them up just as Sesshomaru came back in.
"Tell my dear younger brother that I can take everything he owns if I wanted to. Tell him I control him. That has been his lesson all along." Sesshomaru stepped out of her way, smirking. Kagome balled her fists, them flattened one of them. Her palm connected with Sesshomaru's cheek and his head snapped back.
She glared at him coldly. "I need a bath. I'm too dirty."
His head calmly turned in her direction and his mouth was in the form of a sneer. "You only realized that now? Inu-Yash has tainted you, and you are dirty." Sesshomaru nudged her off the door frame and slammed the door in her face. Kagome gave the door a final withering look and turned to walk back to Kaede's hut.
...
"Inu-Yasha is taking a bit of a long time," Sango remarked. Ayame rested inside the hut, sleeping beside Kaede, who was worn out from her morning duties as healer and doctor. Miroku opened his eyes. His head was resting on her lap and she had been soothingly stroking his hair.
"It means something has happened." Miroku frowned. "They will be heading here soon, I think. Or not. But I do sense a foreboding aura in the forest, quite unlike the actual aura of the forest itself."
"Mm." Sango was disturbed, but she knew better than to barge into one of Kagome's and Inu-Yasha's fights. She rested her head back against the tree and continued to stroke Miroku's hair. Miroku, content as a kitten, closed his eyes once more.
...
Inu-Yasha stopped at the sacred tree in the forest, a confused look on his face. The memories connected to the tree returned to him, though a bit unwelcome. He grimaced as he remembered how he and Kagome met, because of the large demon that was attacking her. A centipede? A millipede? Even that small fact mad eit hard for him to remember. So he simply sat down in front of it and crossed his legs and arms. His eyes gazed at the exact spot that he had been bound to for 50 years. A lot of things has changed since then, hasn't it? he thought sadly. And now things kept changing. It was inevitable, he supposed. And yet, things don't change. People do. Which is what happened between him and Kagome. Had she only recently turned to him, or was she trying to go to him all along? The thought stung his heart, and he looked down at his lap, as if to hide from the world the hurt look onhis face.
At that moment, Kagome stumbled through a particularly bushy area of the forest. She had been lost, but had found her way to the sacred tree. She could always find her way to Kaede's from there. She stopped stumbling and stood still as she saw Inu-Yasha. All she could do was stare.
Inu-Yasha sensed a presence behind him, tired, and stinking of sweat. Underneath those stenches was Kagome's familiar sweet scent. Yet now, it was not so sweet. He looked at Kagome, the hurt in his eyes changing to hate. She had betrayed him. He had killed someone for her, left her alone to think about what she was feeling, and here he had found she had bedded his brother! Bile rose from his throat as he stood to face her. He just wanted to... Swiftly he shaped his hands to bare his claws and opened his mouth in a growl, showing his canines. He launched himself quickly at Kagome, ready to tear her apart.
Kagome, snapping back to reality when she saw Inu-Yasha's tensed form, ran out of the way just in the nick of time. But two bloody gashes appeared on her arm, from Inu-Yasha's claws. "Inu-Yasha, stop! What are you doing?! I can undestand that you're mad, but..." Her words stopped at her throat as she watched Inu-Yasha's controlled movement to stand upright. He tensely cracked his fingers.
"You slept with my brother. How could you...?" He never finished his sentence. Cracking his fingers again, he raised his arms to slash Kagome down. Kagome, quickly moving out of the way, realized that he truly meant to hurt her. Was his hate that great? It didn't matter right now. All she needed to do at this point was survive... long enough to calm down Inu-Yasha and talk. She gripped her bow and an arrow tightly and fitted the arrow to the string when she landed none too gracefully on her two feet. Inu-Yasha had stopped a foot from the tree and turned around again, preparing for another attack. He flew through the air with a growl of rage, only to be shot back with Kagome's arrow. The arrow took him to the tree and pinned him there, and an old, familiar feeling rushed through his body. The same feeling he experienced when Kikyo had shot him to the same tree 50 years ago. He looked back at Kagome, who was approaching him steadily.
"Inu-Yasha...?" Kagome said softly. He had the oddest look on his face at the moment, as if remembering something. Then he slowly started to look drowsy, his face becoming somewhat serene and peaceful.
"Kagome... why...? Don't you love... me?" He had to know before this familiar feeling confirmed itself to be true.
"I made you kill her... I'm the reason... and you hate me for it," she whispered. "Inu-Yasha what's happening to you? Why are so sleepy all of a sudden?"
"Kagome... I would never hate you... I don't know what to feel right now. How... could you have slept with Sesshomaru?" A tear rolled down his cheek as he struggled to stay awake.
"Inu-Yasha... I-"
"I love you, Kagome..." His eyes closed as he rested his head against the trunk of the tree.
Chapter 4
Kagome felt a sudden chill as Sesshomaru moved off the bed. She gathered the covers closer around her naked body and cracked an eye open to see Sesshomaru. "Where are you going?"
"Nowhere," Sesshomaru answered. "But he is coming here. You had best make yourself presentable, as I will also make myself decent."
"Who's coming? How do you know?"
"I know because he has a very distinct scent."
"You never answered the first part." She never thought it could be Inu-Yasha. He was as good as dead to her, as she probably was to him.
Sesshomaru never answered her, but started to put his clothes back on. Kagome, puzzled, didn't move, except to encircle Sesshomaru's waist with her arms when he sat back down on the bed. She rested her cheek firmly against his hard back and closed her eyes, only to snap them open again at a sharp knock. A familiarly biting voice yelled, "Kagome, you in there?" A pause. "It's Inu-Yasha! Come on, we're going home!"
"What?" she whispered. He hated her. What was he doing here? She was the reason he killed the woman he loved. He probably didn't even love her. What in the world was going on...? She fearfully turned to Sesshomaru, who smirked.
"This is going much better than I had originally thought," he said. He stood up and left Kagome, then opened the door for inu-Yasha.
"Sesshomaru, brother dear," Inu-Yasha spat as he stepped into the 1-room house. He looked around slowly as he said, "Where are keeping Kagome... captive?" He stared in surprise at Kagome. She, in the meantime, kept her eyes averted, and gathered the covers around her more tightly, revealing that she was stark naked under the sheets. "Kagome...? Why are you...? What have you...?" The situation dawned on him and he turned angry eyes towards Sesshomaru. "What did you do to her, you fucking bastard?!" He grabbed Sesshomaru's collar and angrily put his face up close to Sesshomaru's. He bared his teeth for effect, but Sesshomaru was still calm.
"We slept together," he said matter-of-factly.
Inu-Yasha, surprised at the bluntness of the statement, let go. "What?!"
"And it was glorious. She was so willing, especially since her precious Inu-Yasha hates her. She was the reason Kikyo died. If only something else had happened..." Sesshomaru sneered, adding gas to the flame.
"Stop! Just stop! Inu-Yasha!" Kagome called, but Inu-Yasha was already out the door. "You said... you said..." Her eyes searched Sesshomaru's and found his plan, or at least part of it. "You were lying all along. You son of a..." She quickly put on her regular clothes (which had been washed earlieer by Sesshomaru) under the covers as Sesshomaru laughed and moved outside. She searched the house, figuring that he never looked around, and retrieved, very fortuitously, a bow and a few arrows. She picked them up just as Sesshomaru came back in.
"Tell my dear younger brother that I can take everything he owns if I wanted to. Tell him I control him. That has been his lesson all along." Sesshomaru stepped out of her way, smirking. Kagome balled her fists, them flattened one of them. Her palm connected with Sesshomaru's cheek and his head snapped back.
She glared at him coldly. "I need a bath. I'm too dirty."
His head calmly turned in her direction and his mouth was in the form of a sneer. "You only realized that now? Inu-Yash has tainted you, and you are dirty." Sesshomaru nudged her off the door frame and slammed the door in her face. Kagome gave the door a final withering look and turned to walk back to Kaede's hut.
...
"Inu-Yasha is taking a bit of a long time," Sango remarked. Ayame rested inside the hut, sleeping beside Kaede, who was worn out from her morning duties as healer and doctor. Miroku opened his eyes. His head was resting on her lap and she had been soothingly stroking his hair.
"It means something has happened." Miroku frowned. "They will be heading here soon, I think. Or not. But I do sense a foreboding aura in the forest, quite unlike the actual aura of the forest itself."
"Mm." Sango was disturbed, but she knew better than to barge into one of Kagome's and Inu-Yasha's fights. She rested her head back against the tree and continued to stroke Miroku's hair. Miroku, content as a kitten, closed his eyes once more.
...
Inu-Yasha stopped at the sacred tree in the forest, a confused look on his face. The memories connected to the tree returned to him, though a bit unwelcome. He grimaced as he remembered how he and Kagome met, because of the large demon that was attacking her. A centipede? A millipede? Even that small fact mad eit hard for him to remember. So he simply sat down in front of it and crossed his legs and arms. His eyes gazed at the exact spot that he had been bound to for 50 years. A lot of things has changed since then, hasn't it? he thought sadly. And now things kept changing. It was inevitable, he supposed. And yet, things don't change. People do. Which is what happened between him and Kagome. Had she only recently turned to him, or was she trying to go to him all along? The thought stung his heart, and he looked down at his lap, as if to hide from the world the hurt look onhis face.
At that moment, Kagome stumbled through a particularly bushy area of the forest. She had been lost, but had found her way to the sacred tree. She could always find her way to Kaede's from there. She stopped stumbling and stood still as she saw Inu-Yasha. All she could do was stare.
Inu-Yasha sensed a presence behind him, tired, and stinking of sweat. Underneath those stenches was Kagome's familiar sweet scent. Yet now, it was not so sweet. He looked at Kagome, the hurt in his eyes changing to hate. She had betrayed him. He had killed someone for her, left her alone to think about what she was feeling, and here he had found she had bedded his brother! Bile rose from his throat as he stood to face her. He just wanted to... Swiftly he shaped his hands to bare his claws and opened his mouth in a growl, showing his canines. He launched himself quickly at Kagome, ready to tear her apart.
Kagome, snapping back to reality when she saw Inu-Yasha's tensed form, ran out of the way just in the nick of time. But two bloody gashes appeared on her arm, from Inu-Yasha's claws. "Inu-Yasha, stop! What are you doing?! I can undestand that you're mad, but..." Her words stopped at her throat as she watched Inu-Yasha's controlled movement to stand upright. He tensely cracked his fingers.
"You slept with my brother. How could you...?" He never finished his sentence. Cracking his fingers again, he raised his arms to slash Kagome down. Kagome, quickly moving out of the way, realized that he truly meant to hurt her. Was his hate that great? It didn't matter right now. All she needed to do at this point was survive... long enough to calm down Inu-Yasha and talk. She gripped her bow and an arrow tightly and fitted the arrow to the string when she landed none too gracefully on her two feet. Inu-Yasha had stopped a foot from the tree and turned around again, preparing for another attack. He flew through the air with a growl of rage, only to be shot back with Kagome's arrow. The arrow took him to the tree and pinned him there, and an old, familiar feeling rushed through his body. The same feeling he experienced when Kikyo had shot him to the same tree 50 years ago. He looked back at Kagome, who was approaching him steadily.
"Inu-Yasha...?" Kagome said softly. He had the oddest look on his face at the moment, as if remembering something. Then he slowly started to look drowsy, his face becoming somewhat serene and peaceful.
"Kagome... why...? Don't you love... me?" He had to know before this familiar feeling confirmed itself to be true.
"I made you kill her... I'm the reason... and you hate me for it," she whispered. "Inu-Yasha what's happening to you? Why are so sleepy all of a sudden?"
"Kagome... I would never hate you... I don't know what to feel right now. How... could you have slept with Sesshomaru?" A tear rolled down his cheek as he struggled to stay awake.
"Inu-Yasha... I-"
"I love you, Kagome..." His eyes closed as he rested his head against the trunk of the tree.