AN: And we're back with more sexy pirates! Out of curiosity: whose the
sexier pirate? Johnny Depp or Inuyasha? See, this is why studying hurts my
brain. Because to distract myself, I will come up with anything, even
crazy-assed questions like that.
Fishie02: I agree. It would be cute if Kagome were pregnant. I mean. If Kagome gets Inuyasha, I get their first male child that looks just like his father!! *DIBS!*
Sweet little country girl: I wouldn't discuss those plans too loudly, if I were you. We have some Sesshy fans around here. And um. sorry, but you're going to have to fight through a lot of people to get Inuyasha. Like Emmie and I. And just to warn you: I'm uber flexible and a grappler and a biter.
Elsbeth: We have two heads working on it to make it that much cooler. If it were just one of us. *shakes head* Emmie and I make a good team, because we're both nuts. And we'll try to make this chapter longer. (The AN's still are! Woot! Not my bad that I'm a rambler!!)
Selenity Jade: Yeah! That's exactly what Kagome's face looked like! Demon Kitty, and Drake: You have to understand, Miroku is a pirate. Sure, he may act suave around the ladies, but when it's him and the men, he starts to take on some of Inuyasha's more charming personality traits. Which is how you get the stork comment, my favorite line in that chapter. And, Miroku did give him instructions: Insert rod into hole. Did you actually think Miroku would tell Inuyasha all his secrets? And do you think Inuyasha would actually sit around and listen?
Sierra: um. it's as long as it will need to be? (Okay, so we're almost at, ah, page 120.)
Storymind: You are too cute. And. ah, well, you may not like Sesshy after what we do to him! *runs away*
Code-wyze: Homophones? Pht! Those are nothing but typos that Emmie's spell checker missed! *shifty eyes* Yes, that'll work. Anyway, thank you very much. And we do pride ourselves on character development. Logos takes a back seat only to Pathos, I say!
Imouto: You don't know where the heart is? Let's cut him open and see!! But. Inuyasha Jr?
Kagomechan: O.O You're printing it out and taking it to school? I remember when we used to do that. Course, I didn't have the net, and all my friend would print off was lemons, so if we got caught. Just remember to take notes. *Emmie asks about where Fluff's notes are* Ah. I learn through osmosis?
Ah, we hope you all aren't going to kill us for the ending. Once again. there is sex.
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Kagome frowned. "Well, it doesn't matter." Kagome said standing up and trying to move across the room with the tilt of the boat. "We're each going our separate ways later." Kagome said when she finally reached the window. "We all should go over the plan again later... Hey, Sango? Do you think this storm threw us off course?" Kagome asked wondering if maybe this storm bought them a few more hours.
"Would it be alright if I said 'hopefully'?" She'd love to spend a few more hours with Miroku. "Okay, so shoot. The demons board on to the island, then we break out and head. where? Where exactly are the girls? And then after that to the armory so we can load ourselves up, and then we kick off the rest of the pirates. It doesn't sound too hard, now does it?"
Kagome blinked. "I'm so going to need more arrows." Kagome concluded before going over the full plan with Sango. Sometime later, Kagome began hearing voices travel outside the room and realized the storm was still raging but let up. "Could they be coming back?" Kagome whispered to Sango, now worried that she didn't put up a sound barrier.
Sango shrugged. "You're the one with the magical powers, you tell me. But, if you want, I can give you some of my potion. If you're not already pregnant, it will keep you from becoming that way."
Kagome thought about it but shook her head. "If it's by fate to be a certain way, so be it." Kagome explained smiling softly. "Besides, I think you and Miroku need it more. I doubt you have a lot of it anyway." Moving over to the door, Kagome looked at Sango and nodded. "The demons are returning. Better go greet your hubby." Kagome added with a smirk.
Sango laughed as she left, already trying to think about the most seductive position she could greet him in.
Opening the door, looking tired, and soaked to the bone, with Shippo held asleep in one hand, Inuyasha stared at Kagome. She looked fine. He looked like a drowned dog, and Shippo like a squirrel. He nodded a greeting to her and placed Shippo in a clear spot on the desk. Grabbing more towels, he through them on the boy, starting to peel of Shippo's clothes and paying no mind to his own leaking ones. "So, where were we, Kagome? Oh, yeah. And no, I was never going to tell you, Kagome. I shouldn't matter to you. It's only lawful in my world, not in yours. Besides, I didn't want you to think you'd been widowed."
Kagome didn't make a move till then. She liked how he tended to Shippo, his words hurt but the last worried. Walking over to him, Kagome turned him around to face her, now that Shippo was wrapped in fresh dry towels and seemingly asleep. "What do you mean widowed?" Kagome asked suddenly realizing how wet he was. "Oh Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered and began working on peeling his clothes off of him. Grabbing a towel, Kagome began drying his skin. Tossing a towel over his head, Kagome paused and stared at him, he really did look like a wet dog. Leaning forward, Kagome kissed him softly on the lips. "Come on, let's get the rest of you dry." Kagome said taking a hold of another towel. Kagome drying the droplets of water from him looked up him with a wounded expression. "'Your world'? Since when have we been talking of different worlds?" Kagome demanded, drying Inuyasha a bit roughly across his stomach. "Your world. My world... Well, whose world were we in last night?" Kagome demanded.
"Our own," he answered, almost playfully. "But I was referring to social worlds, not physical worlds. For instance, your world looks at rape as a sin. It's bad, and punishable. Mine...." He felt like crap admitting this to her. "In mine, in some circles it's a macho thing to do, as long as the victim wasn't a fellow demon."
"Hem Hem."
Inuyasha pulled back the cowls of the towel wrapped around his head to look at the door. He casually slid in front of Kagome, wondering how much his brother had overheard. "Don't you ever knock, Sesshomaru?"
Kagome wasn't completely sure how to react. If he had heard enough... Kagome in any case cast her eyes down. Maybe she'd be able to play out the victim again.
"Knocking is for people who are not the captain and who cannot move freely about the ship." His eyes lingered on Kagome. "Having your bitch dry you off? I must say that the stories of your abuse have reached my door. I was quite surprised, though your companion Kouga was even more so. Apparently, he thinks you liked this whore too much to hurt her. Perhaps there is some of my father in you, underneath that feminine exterior of yours."
Inuyasha clamped down on his growl. "Do you have a reason for being here besides pissing me off, brother?"
"The storm has blown us slightly off course. It was take us two hours to regain our lost time, because of our ruined sails and the smaller mast that we lost. I just thought I should let you know, as we will be landing on your shift. Kouga has posted the names of those staying behind up top. You can check them out when you start your shift."
When the door shut, Kagome was careful not to say a word. Moving around Inuyasha, till she faced him Kagome resumed drying him off. After a while, Kagome decided it was safe enough to at least whisper. "In my world there are always civil wars, people killing other people... I don't see what it has to do with us." Kagome said working on the string of his pants, he was leaving a puddle over the entire floor. 'Sango got her wish.' Kagome thought happily, knowing that they were off course. "Were you ever a participant in the circles you mentioned?" Kagome asked then glanced over at Shippo. "He's fast asleep." She commented absently.
Confused as he was, and as happy as he was as she helped dry him off, he laughed. "Me? Hell no." His words slowly became shy. "You were my first. Which is why it meant a lot to me when you ah... well, all of it meant a lot to me." He tilted her face over to his, away from the half-drowned Shippo. Inuyasha always found it odd how when they were together he felt like he wasn't a demon, or a prince, or a pirate, but just himself. So he found it easy to smile at her. "I mean it."
Kagome felt the breath rush out of her as she stared at him feeling as though for the third time today, and maybe the worst one yet, Kagome felt the ground being pulled from under her. First, there was the marriage that completely threw her off kilter, and then there was the possibility of a pregnancy that just disturbed her. But now this? Come on, how many more surprises could she take today? And now this? Inuyasha? A virgin? Whose leg was he pulling. Kagome let that thought trail off when she took a moment, to really look at him. Her breath being taken away by the sincerity and honesty there. His smile reached her, making her return his smile.
Cupping his cheek, Kagome passed her thumb over his skin and felt shy but warm all over at the same time. "I know you do." Kagome said, instinct yelling at her now more then anything else to reach out and kiss him, let him know how she feels and just how safe and complete she would feel, if he'd just stay with her.
But Kagome had degraded herself enough. Twice she asked him to stay with her, and twice he turned her down. She wasn't going to demean herself for a third time. Dropping her hand away, Kagome nodded and turned on her foot walking over to tend to Shippo. She had to break off with Inuyasha now. Not get any more attached, not dwell anymore on a non-existent demon marriage and a uncreated baby. Cuddling Shippo up in her arms, Kagome worked on drying out his hair and fluffy tail, poor guy really was drenched.
Watching her, Inuyasha felt a stab of jealousy. If the storm had hit last night, the might have been him being held in Kagome's arms. Waving the jealousy away, he fell back on the bed, feeling absolutely swamped. And he worried. What if he really was widowing Kagome? What if Sesshomaru had begun to suspect something? Well, as long as his brother didn't lay so much as a finger on Kagome, Inuyasha didn't care what Sesshomaru did. On his back, staring at the ceiling, he suddenly thought of something else. He had expected her to rant and rage about being tricked and pulled into a marriage she didn't want. So why wasn't Kagome throwing stuff at him and calling him names as she'd done before?
He turned to look at her, his wet hair still plastered to his forehead and his hair still pulled back. Inuyasha looked very much like an aristocratic pirate. "Kagome? Are you mad at me? I mean, are you mad at me for not telling you?"
Turning around with Shippo bundled up in towels in her arms, looking like a little baby. Kagome cocked her head to the side and studied him. "Mad at you?" Kagome asked then thought about it. "Actually," Kagome began battling her true feelings over the issue. On the one hand, she was pissed enough to want to slash his eyes out with her bare hands, on the other hand, it pleased her for some reason, knowing that they shared this type of a bond. But, the bond didn't mean anything. He didn't mean it, and was leaving her anyway, so it didn't matter. Shrugging, Kagome tossed her long black hair over her shoulder. "I don't care. I mean, sure I am pissed at you. You should've told me, when I offered you my blood I didn't know that that was it's meaning, but whatever, right? It's not like you meant it or wanted to be married or anything, right?"
"That's debatable," he responded without thinking. Fatigued as he was, he sat up straight in bed, a yawn half-covered as he tried to explain before she used Shippo as a projectile. "I didn't know. Honestly! I'm just a half-breed, so why would anybody bother teaching me anything? I would have, if I knew." Inuyasha sighed, knowing that he sounded guilty.
"Had I known what it meant when I first bit you, I never would have done it. Jakotsu said that it was a way to show dominance. And I was stupid. even naive enough, to think that I wanted to be the dominant one. Had somebody offered me the chance to stay here and keep you in my room so that I had a warm body beside mine when I woke up, I would have said yes in a heartbeat."
Kagome stared at him as though his words offended her. "You know how to lay it thick." Kagome bit out, holding Shippo close to her like he was a baby. Shippo for his own behalf didn't mind, in fact his hand pulled on Kagome's hair. "I mean, come on.. A warm body besides yours? Good to know that's all this Priestess is to you." Kagome retorted, feeling she had to put up defenses before he got under her skin again. "If you needed a warm body so badly, there is a cell full of girls downstairs." Kagome bit out then stepped back, the rocking of the boat causing her to bang into the side of the table, though she tried hard to hide it. "Keep me in your room like I am some pet to be caged up and yours to be played with. Well, you got what you wanted I guess. You had your pet and now are leaving it. We both got what we wanted then." Kagome wanted to hurt him now, hurt him as much as he had hurt her. He made love to her, made her care for him in ways she shouldn't, and he was leaving her life forever. Why shouldn't he hurt as much as she?
Inuyasha smiled wryly. That was the Kagome he admired. He refused to be honest to his heart, and admit that he admired all of her. He let all his walls fall down so that her words struck him right where they would hurt the most. Maybe if he allowed them to fester he might start to believe them. Inuyasha realized how dirty the sheets were and began to make the bed with a fresh pair. "Yeah, that's right. I had my kicks, and now you're getting kicked out."
What did it matter he was risking his own neck in the process? He had to let his "pet" go free now that he had his fun. So why did he feel like he was the one wearing a collar around his neck that tied himself to her, and that every time she spoke it kept getting tighter? Part of his mind told him to cut himself loose, but a larger part of him liked feeling that he was bound to Kagome. And in a sick way he liked knowing that nothing she could say would change that.
Hissing from between clenched teeth, Kagome placed Shippo down on the over stuffed chair and moved over to the bed, pushing Inuyasha away. "You can't even make a bed decently, just like you can't even make love decently." Kagome bit out at him. Fine. He wanted to hurt her below the belt, well, his "kick" would kick him right back. "It's good one of us at least got a kick out of it." Kagome muttered tucking the sheet under the mattress. "I'll be as free as a bird, and away from you and this room. That's all that matters." Kagome muttered moving the pillows to the side as she continued making the bed, why she didn't know. Probably just to busy her hands from ripping him to bits. "Now that you've had your kicks."
That one hurt. All the memories of their night were shoved to the back of his mind and triple locked with her words, so that he'd never had to dwell on them again. Then he flattened the thought of Kagome as a bird, the thought of her returning to him an impossible hope. He would let her leave, and she would not return to him, because that was how things should be. But in his bitter resentment, he wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. "Don't blame all of this on me, Kagome!" he snapped. "Let's not forget that you had your fair share of kicks too! Or was that your doppelganger who straddled me last night?"
Kagome could feel her cheeks heat up and her heart race, even as she heard it crack. Closing herself off from all emotions, turning stony and cold, Kagome turned empty brown eyes to stare at him. She'd learned a few things from talking to Sango, might as well apply them now seeing as she wasn't under any circumstances going to use the others. Ever. With anyone. Especially not him. "I was faking it. It hurt too much with your fumbling on top of me."
Her voice was as swift and accurate as a snake. He was just pissed off. And hurt, which made it all worse. "Well if I was doing something wrong, then you could have at least had the decency to tell me!" he roared! Inuyasha didn't know what else to say, so he grabbed Shippo, who had somehow managed to stay asleep in the whole thing, and stormed out of his rooms.
Calmed down significantly in the time it took to walk to Shippo's room, he was able to tuck the critter in bed, and then he met Kouga, who was as drenched as any of them. He stared at Inuyasha's bare chest, complete with scratch marks, up to the mixture of sorrow and anger on his face. "You know, judging by how you're acting, one wouldn't think that you just had sex last night."
"Why the fuck does everybody try and barge in on my life?!" he bellowed. Kouga scampered out of the way, and Inuyasha retreated back into his rooms, slamming the door behind him.
Kagome folded her arms over her chest and glared at him. "You're a real bastard, you know that?" Kagome shouted throwing the first thing she grabbed a hold of at him. It just happened to be a belt. "How dare you take him away?" Kagome demanded to know. "He was sleeping perfectly fine!" Kagome added then narrowed her eyes at him, standing her ground tall and proud. "Or did you kick him out because you didn't want him to know how rotten a night with you is?" Kagome shouted, venting out her emotions this way. It was better making him hate her, and have her distance herself from him then breaking down and crying.
He ignored the sting from the belt. Advancing on Kagome slowly, he looked more like the amber-eyed demon from the first they had met than he did the man who had been so gently and open in his administrations last night, caring not a lick for himself and only wanting to make Kagome happy.
She put the chair in between them. Kagome knew that she'd pushed it a bit too far. When Inuyasha just knocked the chair out of the way with a single swipe of his hand, she stayed her ground, refusing to be scared of the demon that she had tamed and who had now grown wild again.
Reaching out to her, his anger vanished from everything but his face. His hands were tight on her arms, but did not hurt. Inuyasha was painfully aware of Kagome: from the heat of her skin to the scent she was giving off that made him want her all the more. And then, in a moment of fierce hysteria, he swore that he would torture her as much as she had tortured him.
Spinning her around so that the bed was behind her, Inuyasha pulled her right off the ground with his strength and kissed her roughly. Yet even in his half-starved state, he could not hide the sensitivity of his kisses that spoke of promises and a helpless need to be loved back.
Gasping, Kagome stared wide-eyed at him and fought against him. No... No no no... This was not how things were suppose to go... Kagome's eyes rolled a bit when she finally shut her lids and allowed herself to be wrapped about in the sheer sense of him. The warmth of his breath, and how the salt smell of the water mingled with his own scent, how wonderful his demanding hands felt on her. Kagome broke the kiss and struggled again, she couldn't - wouldn't let this happen. If she did, Kagome would be even more broken up when the time came to leave. She had to shut him out, had to hate him. "Inuyasha.." Kagome moaned pleadingly.
His hands were already forcing off her shirt. "What?" he mumbled, freeing her mouth as his nibbled on her ear, remembering how she had laughed when he did that last. Her shirt successfully lying on the floor, he hands traveled lower, and began to work at removing her pants, resisting the urge to just tear them off. Inuyasha's skin felt hot and licked at her neck, wanting to make her say his name again. And this time he refused to beg for it.
Inuyasha wanted her to understand just how much he needed her and would miss her. He had seared everything about her into his brain, and he was going to return the favor. When he heard the red fabric fall to the floor, he eased her down on the bed.
When she felt the mattress beneath her, her bare body pressing into it she woke up as if from a dream. Lost in a mixture of pleasurable senses, Kagome moved her mouth away from his, causing him to chase her for a kiss. This wasn't how she wanted it to go. And still, Kagome felt her hand snaking into his pants and returning the favor. "We can't do this." Kagome argued with what rational thinking she had left in her.
Neither caring nor understanding what she was talking about, Inuyasha kissed her again, not wanting to tell he be quiet since that would both create another fight as well as ruin all his fun. Grinning like a playfully mad man, he licked her bottom lip, his grin stretching when their eyes locked. "Can't we?" he retorted, his hands reaching down to find hers. Then he eased them over her head, pinning them to the pillows. This position seemed vaguely familiar, though luckily this time he didn't have an arrow sprouting from his shoulder.
"I've got plenty of surprises up my sleeve, Kagome. I'll make sure that you don't fake it again." The determined glow of his expression disappeared a moment as he winked at her. "You just have to tell me what to do, so that I don't end up hurting you again." And Inuyasha looked positively devious as he licked her chest, wondering how long he could go on before his need to take her became overbearing.
For a moment, Kagome felt trapped but seeing the wink she relaxed, even though their position was not the most encouraging one for this situation. Panting, Kagome bit down on her lower lip, clamping her jaw shut. She had to restrain her emotions and feelings. Feeling a whimper escape her throat, Kagome stared up at him shaking her head. It was a lame attempt, but she tried anyway. 'I can't go through this.' Kagome thought to herself then wondered over what Inuyasha himself had said. 'Can't we'? Why couldn't she? She'd just repress this just like she would ignore last night. Neither meant anything to her. They couldn't. Kagome wouldn't allow them to. But doing this, Kagome knew her heart would want to reach out to him, and she was worried she'd get hurt. She was going to be hurt enough as is later on tonight.
Live in the moment. For all you know, you might get killed tonight, you might as well enjoy this. Opening her mouth, releasing the soft sound she kept inside Kagome glared up at him. Fine, he would be insane and she would be cruel. That way neither would get attached. Wiggling beneath him, Kagome flexed her fingers reaching out for the iron headboard behind them, even though his hands were intertwined with her own. Before she could let herself be as free as much as she would allow, Kagome nipped up at his lip, growling when he pulled back. "You're going to make sure I don't fake it? You didn't even realize I was faking it last night. I'm not going to tell you anything." She spat, "You hurt me already, more pain doesn't matter." She said. Her bare leg running up Inuyasha's, massaging his flesh through the fabric of his pants. Touché, was all that Kagome thought.
His body shuddering at the touch, Inuyasha growled. He should have gagged her. Here he was trying to be a nice guy -since when was it considered nice to want to make somebody scream his name?- and she was still trying to fucking argue with him! She didn't think pain mattered? Fine! He bit down gently, not wanting to hurt her. at least not too much. He refused to stop until she was begging for it.
Inuyasha shifted his body so that he could hold her still with one hand. The other brushed her knee, and he remembered that the last time they had been in this position she had kicked him. As much as she was fighting him, she still wasn't pushing him away. The thought gave him a boost of encouragement as his hand traveled up her thigh, his fingers barely touching her skin.
"If you don't want to be a part of this it means I'll just have to do a bit of exploring," he purred into her neck. His lips meeting with her again, he snaked his tongue inside and flicked it over the roof of her mouth softly, pulling back to watch her reaction.
"Who's world are we in now?" Kagome asked, her eyelids falling over her eyes so that she gazed up at him from under long thick lashes. "Mine or yours?" Kagome asked shuddering at the thought. Arching, Kagome watched him bite down on her. Her eyes looked void and sad. Didn't he understand just how much he was hurting her now? Struggling against him again, Kagome realized she couldn't hurt him that way, however she could another. "Don't bite hard enough to draw blood. I don't want to be any more married to you then you want to be married to me." Kagome choked and lifted her leg to a kicking position, but instead she just rubbed it against him. He could explore, she could entice him. Couldn't she?
"Don't worry, we can't get more married," he said as he rolled his eyes. More married? He could play that way too. "Besides, your blood makes me sick. It's too damn sweet. Just like everything else about you. And I'd never wanted to be married to a shrew like you. But at least I'm not the one confined to the bed post." Inuyasha kissed her belly button, his breath as ragged as hers. His hand reached what it wanted. "Come on, Kagome. Stop toying. You know you want this, so just say it."
Kagome hated her body enough right now to want to flee it. Kagome really hated her body right now. In fact, she despised it. That was of course the reason she was arching and moaning loudly. Because she hated her body. Her breath hitching in her throat, Kagome glared up at him. She didn't hate her body, she hated his for being able to play her body this way. She hated this control he had that she didn't. She hated that she responded to him the way she did. "I hate you!" Kagome shouted at him instead of shouting what she really wanted to.
Inuyasha could barely hear her through the sounds he was enticing out of her. And that he was enticing back out of him. He nibbled at her chin, his free hand working harder at earning the right response from her. Yet even now he knew that it was a good thing that she hated him. It would make later tonight easier. "Fine. Hate me." He licked at her exposed throat, her moans louder from there. It's not like he cared that she hated him. His frame pulsed with the rhythm they had used repeatedly the night before. Inuyasha wondered what it was that could make him want to be in control of everything only to feel himself succumb to Kagome's brown eyes as she resisted him.
"I do. I really do hate you. You ruined it all." Kagome shouted at him and then screamed as her body trembled. "All of last night is washed away. You spoiled it!" Kagome yelled at him and thanked him silently in her mind. Kagome then distracted him enough with her mouth and tongue to get one hand free and slap him across the face. "I hate you." Kagome growled and moved her hand down to his, grasping it Kagome pulled it away from her and leaned forward demandingly capturing his mouth. It was time to switch the tables around. Instead of exploring with his tongue, Kagome just sucked on it for a while. "There are other places to do that." Kagome whispered pushing her shoulders away from the mattress and drew a bit of Inuyasha's furry ear between her lips for the same treatment.
In between gasps of breaths, he swore, though he didn't fight her. Inuyasha enjoyed being challenged. He bit at her collarbone, his breath increasing in heaviness. If she kept at it like this, he knew that he wouldn't be able to last much longer. After nuzzling her neck a moment, he hissed when she bit his ear when he tried to sit up enough to loosen his pants. He grinned when he realized that she wasn't going to let him sit up. His heavy heartbeat seemed to reverberate in each part of his body. "I hate you. I hate you, Kagome. Why can't I ever just win with you?"
"Because my blood is too sweet for you to ever dominate me." Kagome warned her legs curling around his, rubbing up and down like a purring cat rubs against its owner. Moaning into his open mouth, Kagome's eyes shot open. "I hate you." Kagome said denying him his name. She wouldn't say his name. Names had a power to them and she didn't want anything to do with the name. Or with the person. Yet she was still feeling him up. His hand couldn't be that warm, but it was. His chest under her own palm couldn't be that hot either, but it was. She felt like she was a burning cinder. "I'm glad you hate my blood, I'm glad you don't want to be my husband." Kagome panted into his mouth, her hand playing around with the hem of his pants before plunging it in, paying him back with his own medicine from before. "How much do you hate me?"
"I hate you more than I hate life. I hate you so much I wouldn't dream of giving you up to someone else for you to torture them. You're just a thorn in my side." He moaned rather loudly as her fingers touched his skin. Inuyasha had to admit that she was a very good thorn.
"Good." Kagome whispered giving a final tug with her hand before pushing him off of her and trying to scramble away.
He grabbed her shoulder and pushed her back down on the bed. His chest moving heavily, it was a wonder he still had enough energy to stay awake. And he wasn't satisfied yet, either. His hand brushed her hair away from her face as he tugged his pants the rest of the way off. For all his desire, he didn't take his eyes away from hers. Inuyasha was more than willing to lose himself there, for once. "I'm not done yet, Kagome." Such a pretty name for a fiery girl! "Why do you hate me?"
Kagome instead, for once, struggling to get away actually moved to a more accessible position under him. She liked the feel of his chest on hers, how she could feel his heart pounding and his breath on her face and neck. "You will be done soon." Kagome said nipping at his lip, her tongue following. "I hate you because you make me want to live." Kagome replied, demanding to know from herself why in the world she even bothered answering him. He didn't deserve an answer! "I hate you because of how you make me feel." Kagome added then stopped all ministrations on her part to just gaze up at him. He really looked more demon then human now. Kagome swallowed the disgust rising in her throat, she was going to. with a demon. "I hate you because of how I look in your eyes, how I can see myself in them." Kagome told him turning her head away from a kiss.
The anger melted from his face and his heart. When she rejected his kiss, the passion all but evaporated from his veins. His fingers continue to play with her dark hair as he sighed, the words he wanted to say, lost. Inuyasha felt like crap, and he wanted to bury his face in her shoulder and forget what he'd been trying so hard to do. She'd been right, of course. That wasn't what it was supposed to happen, how it was supposed to be. He felt a tear run down his cheek and splash on her neck. He gently brushed it away. "Kagome, I. . . ."
Startled, Kagome turned to look at him compassion the main emotion showing on her face, along with worry. "Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered in question, her hands stroking down his back gently. Kissing his cheek, Kagome brushed her thumb against his eye. "You know, I lied before." Kagome confessed. "I don't really plan on torturing anyone else," Kagome paused this time her mouth finding his. "But you."
Inuyasha moaned as the world was set to right again. The words were on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say them. That would ruin everything again. Instead he relaxed, and let Kagome do whatever she wanted to him. His blood was back on fire, his lips throbbing for her kisses, and he loved it. He moaned her name, never wanting to forget it, as she took to heaven and hell and back again.
Fishie02: I agree. It would be cute if Kagome were pregnant. I mean. If Kagome gets Inuyasha, I get their first male child that looks just like his father!! *DIBS!*
Sweet little country girl: I wouldn't discuss those plans too loudly, if I were you. We have some Sesshy fans around here. And um. sorry, but you're going to have to fight through a lot of people to get Inuyasha. Like Emmie and I. And just to warn you: I'm uber flexible and a grappler and a biter.
Elsbeth: We have two heads working on it to make it that much cooler. If it were just one of us. *shakes head* Emmie and I make a good team, because we're both nuts. And we'll try to make this chapter longer. (The AN's still are! Woot! Not my bad that I'm a rambler!!)
Selenity Jade: Yeah! That's exactly what Kagome's face looked like! Demon Kitty, and Drake: You have to understand, Miroku is a pirate. Sure, he may act suave around the ladies, but when it's him and the men, he starts to take on some of Inuyasha's more charming personality traits. Which is how you get the stork comment, my favorite line in that chapter. And, Miroku did give him instructions: Insert rod into hole. Did you actually think Miroku would tell Inuyasha all his secrets? And do you think Inuyasha would actually sit around and listen?
Sierra: um. it's as long as it will need to be? (Okay, so we're almost at, ah, page 120.)
Storymind: You are too cute. And. ah, well, you may not like Sesshy after what we do to him! *runs away*
Code-wyze: Homophones? Pht! Those are nothing but typos that Emmie's spell checker missed! *shifty eyes* Yes, that'll work. Anyway, thank you very much. And we do pride ourselves on character development. Logos takes a back seat only to Pathos, I say!
Imouto: You don't know where the heart is? Let's cut him open and see!! But. Inuyasha Jr?
Kagomechan: O.O You're printing it out and taking it to school? I remember when we used to do that. Course, I didn't have the net, and all my friend would print off was lemons, so if we got caught. Just remember to take notes. *Emmie asks about where Fluff's notes are* Ah. I learn through osmosis?
Ah, we hope you all aren't going to kill us for the ending. Once again. there is sex.
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Kagome frowned. "Well, it doesn't matter." Kagome said standing up and trying to move across the room with the tilt of the boat. "We're each going our separate ways later." Kagome said when she finally reached the window. "We all should go over the plan again later... Hey, Sango? Do you think this storm threw us off course?" Kagome asked wondering if maybe this storm bought them a few more hours.
"Would it be alright if I said 'hopefully'?" She'd love to spend a few more hours with Miroku. "Okay, so shoot. The demons board on to the island, then we break out and head. where? Where exactly are the girls? And then after that to the armory so we can load ourselves up, and then we kick off the rest of the pirates. It doesn't sound too hard, now does it?"
Kagome blinked. "I'm so going to need more arrows." Kagome concluded before going over the full plan with Sango. Sometime later, Kagome began hearing voices travel outside the room and realized the storm was still raging but let up. "Could they be coming back?" Kagome whispered to Sango, now worried that she didn't put up a sound barrier.
Sango shrugged. "You're the one with the magical powers, you tell me. But, if you want, I can give you some of my potion. If you're not already pregnant, it will keep you from becoming that way."
Kagome thought about it but shook her head. "If it's by fate to be a certain way, so be it." Kagome explained smiling softly. "Besides, I think you and Miroku need it more. I doubt you have a lot of it anyway." Moving over to the door, Kagome looked at Sango and nodded. "The demons are returning. Better go greet your hubby." Kagome added with a smirk.
Sango laughed as she left, already trying to think about the most seductive position she could greet him in.
Opening the door, looking tired, and soaked to the bone, with Shippo held asleep in one hand, Inuyasha stared at Kagome. She looked fine. He looked like a drowned dog, and Shippo like a squirrel. He nodded a greeting to her and placed Shippo in a clear spot on the desk. Grabbing more towels, he through them on the boy, starting to peel of Shippo's clothes and paying no mind to his own leaking ones. "So, where were we, Kagome? Oh, yeah. And no, I was never going to tell you, Kagome. I shouldn't matter to you. It's only lawful in my world, not in yours. Besides, I didn't want you to think you'd been widowed."
Kagome didn't make a move till then. She liked how he tended to Shippo, his words hurt but the last worried. Walking over to him, Kagome turned him around to face her, now that Shippo was wrapped in fresh dry towels and seemingly asleep. "What do you mean widowed?" Kagome asked suddenly realizing how wet he was. "Oh Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered and began working on peeling his clothes off of him. Grabbing a towel, Kagome began drying his skin. Tossing a towel over his head, Kagome paused and stared at him, he really did look like a wet dog. Leaning forward, Kagome kissed him softly on the lips. "Come on, let's get the rest of you dry." Kagome said taking a hold of another towel. Kagome drying the droplets of water from him looked up him with a wounded expression. "'Your world'? Since when have we been talking of different worlds?" Kagome demanded, drying Inuyasha a bit roughly across his stomach. "Your world. My world... Well, whose world were we in last night?" Kagome demanded.
"Our own," he answered, almost playfully. "But I was referring to social worlds, not physical worlds. For instance, your world looks at rape as a sin. It's bad, and punishable. Mine...." He felt like crap admitting this to her. "In mine, in some circles it's a macho thing to do, as long as the victim wasn't a fellow demon."
"Hem Hem."
Inuyasha pulled back the cowls of the towel wrapped around his head to look at the door. He casually slid in front of Kagome, wondering how much his brother had overheard. "Don't you ever knock, Sesshomaru?"
Kagome wasn't completely sure how to react. If he had heard enough... Kagome in any case cast her eyes down. Maybe she'd be able to play out the victim again.
"Knocking is for people who are not the captain and who cannot move freely about the ship." His eyes lingered on Kagome. "Having your bitch dry you off? I must say that the stories of your abuse have reached my door. I was quite surprised, though your companion Kouga was even more so. Apparently, he thinks you liked this whore too much to hurt her. Perhaps there is some of my father in you, underneath that feminine exterior of yours."
Inuyasha clamped down on his growl. "Do you have a reason for being here besides pissing me off, brother?"
"The storm has blown us slightly off course. It was take us two hours to regain our lost time, because of our ruined sails and the smaller mast that we lost. I just thought I should let you know, as we will be landing on your shift. Kouga has posted the names of those staying behind up top. You can check them out when you start your shift."
When the door shut, Kagome was careful not to say a word. Moving around Inuyasha, till she faced him Kagome resumed drying him off. After a while, Kagome decided it was safe enough to at least whisper. "In my world there are always civil wars, people killing other people... I don't see what it has to do with us." Kagome said working on the string of his pants, he was leaving a puddle over the entire floor. 'Sango got her wish.' Kagome thought happily, knowing that they were off course. "Were you ever a participant in the circles you mentioned?" Kagome asked then glanced over at Shippo. "He's fast asleep." She commented absently.
Confused as he was, and as happy as he was as she helped dry him off, he laughed. "Me? Hell no." His words slowly became shy. "You were my first. Which is why it meant a lot to me when you ah... well, all of it meant a lot to me." He tilted her face over to his, away from the half-drowned Shippo. Inuyasha always found it odd how when they were together he felt like he wasn't a demon, or a prince, or a pirate, but just himself. So he found it easy to smile at her. "I mean it."
Kagome felt the breath rush out of her as she stared at him feeling as though for the third time today, and maybe the worst one yet, Kagome felt the ground being pulled from under her. First, there was the marriage that completely threw her off kilter, and then there was the possibility of a pregnancy that just disturbed her. But now this? Come on, how many more surprises could she take today? And now this? Inuyasha? A virgin? Whose leg was he pulling. Kagome let that thought trail off when she took a moment, to really look at him. Her breath being taken away by the sincerity and honesty there. His smile reached her, making her return his smile.
Cupping his cheek, Kagome passed her thumb over his skin and felt shy but warm all over at the same time. "I know you do." Kagome said, instinct yelling at her now more then anything else to reach out and kiss him, let him know how she feels and just how safe and complete she would feel, if he'd just stay with her.
But Kagome had degraded herself enough. Twice she asked him to stay with her, and twice he turned her down. She wasn't going to demean herself for a third time. Dropping her hand away, Kagome nodded and turned on her foot walking over to tend to Shippo. She had to break off with Inuyasha now. Not get any more attached, not dwell anymore on a non-existent demon marriage and a uncreated baby. Cuddling Shippo up in her arms, Kagome worked on drying out his hair and fluffy tail, poor guy really was drenched.
Watching her, Inuyasha felt a stab of jealousy. If the storm had hit last night, the might have been him being held in Kagome's arms. Waving the jealousy away, he fell back on the bed, feeling absolutely swamped. And he worried. What if he really was widowing Kagome? What if Sesshomaru had begun to suspect something? Well, as long as his brother didn't lay so much as a finger on Kagome, Inuyasha didn't care what Sesshomaru did. On his back, staring at the ceiling, he suddenly thought of something else. He had expected her to rant and rage about being tricked and pulled into a marriage she didn't want. So why wasn't Kagome throwing stuff at him and calling him names as she'd done before?
He turned to look at her, his wet hair still plastered to his forehead and his hair still pulled back. Inuyasha looked very much like an aristocratic pirate. "Kagome? Are you mad at me? I mean, are you mad at me for not telling you?"
Turning around with Shippo bundled up in towels in her arms, looking like a little baby. Kagome cocked her head to the side and studied him. "Mad at you?" Kagome asked then thought about it. "Actually," Kagome began battling her true feelings over the issue. On the one hand, she was pissed enough to want to slash his eyes out with her bare hands, on the other hand, it pleased her for some reason, knowing that they shared this type of a bond. But, the bond didn't mean anything. He didn't mean it, and was leaving her anyway, so it didn't matter. Shrugging, Kagome tossed her long black hair over her shoulder. "I don't care. I mean, sure I am pissed at you. You should've told me, when I offered you my blood I didn't know that that was it's meaning, but whatever, right? It's not like you meant it or wanted to be married or anything, right?"
"That's debatable," he responded without thinking. Fatigued as he was, he sat up straight in bed, a yawn half-covered as he tried to explain before she used Shippo as a projectile. "I didn't know. Honestly! I'm just a half-breed, so why would anybody bother teaching me anything? I would have, if I knew." Inuyasha sighed, knowing that he sounded guilty.
"Had I known what it meant when I first bit you, I never would have done it. Jakotsu said that it was a way to show dominance. And I was stupid. even naive enough, to think that I wanted to be the dominant one. Had somebody offered me the chance to stay here and keep you in my room so that I had a warm body beside mine when I woke up, I would have said yes in a heartbeat."
Kagome stared at him as though his words offended her. "You know how to lay it thick." Kagome bit out, holding Shippo close to her like he was a baby. Shippo for his own behalf didn't mind, in fact his hand pulled on Kagome's hair. "I mean, come on.. A warm body besides yours? Good to know that's all this Priestess is to you." Kagome retorted, feeling she had to put up defenses before he got under her skin again. "If you needed a warm body so badly, there is a cell full of girls downstairs." Kagome bit out then stepped back, the rocking of the boat causing her to bang into the side of the table, though she tried hard to hide it. "Keep me in your room like I am some pet to be caged up and yours to be played with. Well, you got what you wanted I guess. You had your pet and now are leaving it. We both got what we wanted then." Kagome wanted to hurt him now, hurt him as much as he had hurt her. He made love to her, made her care for him in ways she shouldn't, and he was leaving her life forever. Why shouldn't he hurt as much as she?
Inuyasha smiled wryly. That was the Kagome he admired. He refused to be honest to his heart, and admit that he admired all of her. He let all his walls fall down so that her words struck him right where they would hurt the most. Maybe if he allowed them to fester he might start to believe them. Inuyasha realized how dirty the sheets were and began to make the bed with a fresh pair. "Yeah, that's right. I had my kicks, and now you're getting kicked out."
What did it matter he was risking his own neck in the process? He had to let his "pet" go free now that he had his fun. So why did he feel like he was the one wearing a collar around his neck that tied himself to her, and that every time she spoke it kept getting tighter? Part of his mind told him to cut himself loose, but a larger part of him liked feeling that he was bound to Kagome. And in a sick way he liked knowing that nothing she could say would change that.
Hissing from between clenched teeth, Kagome placed Shippo down on the over stuffed chair and moved over to the bed, pushing Inuyasha away. "You can't even make a bed decently, just like you can't even make love decently." Kagome bit out at him. Fine. He wanted to hurt her below the belt, well, his "kick" would kick him right back. "It's good one of us at least got a kick out of it." Kagome muttered tucking the sheet under the mattress. "I'll be as free as a bird, and away from you and this room. That's all that matters." Kagome muttered moving the pillows to the side as she continued making the bed, why she didn't know. Probably just to busy her hands from ripping him to bits. "Now that you've had your kicks."
That one hurt. All the memories of their night were shoved to the back of his mind and triple locked with her words, so that he'd never had to dwell on them again. Then he flattened the thought of Kagome as a bird, the thought of her returning to him an impossible hope. He would let her leave, and she would not return to him, because that was how things should be. But in his bitter resentment, he wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. "Don't blame all of this on me, Kagome!" he snapped. "Let's not forget that you had your fair share of kicks too! Or was that your doppelganger who straddled me last night?"
Kagome could feel her cheeks heat up and her heart race, even as she heard it crack. Closing herself off from all emotions, turning stony and cold, Kagome turned empty brown eyes to stare at him. She'd learned a few things from talking to Sango, might as well apply them now seeing as she wasn't under any circumstances going to use the others. Ever. With anyone. Especially not him. "I was faking it. It hurt too much with your fumbling on top of me."
Her voice was as swift and accurate as a snake. He was just pissed off. And hurt, which made it all worse. "Well if I was doing something wrong, then you could have at least had the decency to tell me!" he roared! Inuyasha didn't know what else to say, so he grabbed Shippo, who had somehow managed to stay asleep in the whole thing, and stormed out of his rooms.
Calmed down significantly in the time it took to walk to Shippo's room, he was able to tuck the critter in bed, and then he met Kouga, who was as drenched as any of them. He stared at Inuyasha's bare chest, complete with scratch marks, up to the mixture of sorrow and anger on his face. "You know, judging by how you're acting, one wouldn't think that you just had sex last night."
"Why the fuck does everybody try and barge in on my life?!" he bellowed. Kouga scampered out of the way, and Inuyasha retreated back into his rooms, slamming the door behind him.
Kagome folded her arms over her chest and glared at him. "You're a real bastard, you know that?" Kagome shouted throwing the first thing she grabbed a hold of at him. It just happened to be a belt. "How dare you take him away?" Kagome demanded to know. "He was sleeping perfectly fine!" Kagome added then narrowed her eyes at him, standing her ground tall and proud. "Or did you kick him out because you didn't want him to know how rotten a night with you is?" Kagome shouted, venting out her emotions this way. It was better making him hate her, and have her distance herself from him then breaking down and crying.
He ignored the sting from the belt. Advancing on Kagome slowly, he looked more like the amber-eyed demon from the first they had met than he did the man who had been so gently and open in his administrations last night, caring not a lick for himself and only wanting to make Kagome happy.
She put the chair in between them. Kagome knew that she'd pushed it a bit too far. When Inuyasha just knocked the chair out of the way with a single swipe of his hand, she stayed her ground, refusing to be scared of the demon that she had tamed and who had now grown wild again.
Reaching out to her, his anger vanished from everything but his face. His hands were tight on her arms, but did not hurt. Inuyasha was painfully aware of Kagome: from the heat of her skin to the scent she was giving off that made him want her all the more. And then, in a moment of fierce hysteria, he swore that he would torture her as much as she had tortured him.
Spinning her around so that the bed was behind her, Inuyasha pulled her right off the ground with his strength and kissed her roughly. Yet even in his half-starved state, he could not hide the sensitivity of his kisses that spoke of promises and a helpless need to be loved back.
Gasping, Kagome stared wide-eyed at him and fought against him. No... No no no... This was not how things were suppose to go... Kagome's eyes rolled a bit when she finally shut her lids and allowed herself to be wrapped about in the sheer sense of him. The warmth of his breath, and how the salt smell of the water mingled with his own scent, how wonderful his demanding hands felt on her. Kagome broke the kiss and struggled again, she couldn't - wouldn't let this happen. If she did, Kagome would be even more broken up when the time came to leave. She had to shut him out, had to hate him. "Inuyasha.." Kagome moaned pleadingly.
His hands were already forcing off her shirt. "What?" he mumbled, freeing her mouth as his nibbled on her ear, remembering how she had laughed when he did that last. Her shirt successfully lying on the floor, he hands traveled lower, and began to work at removing her pants, resisting the urge to just tear them off. Inuyasha's skin felt hot and licked at her neck, wanting to make her say his name again. And this time he refused to beg for it.
Inuyasha wanted her to understand just how much he needed her and would miss her. He had seared everything about her into his brain, and he was going to return the favor. When he heard the red fabric fall to the floor, he eased her down on the bed.
When she felt the mattress beneath her, her bare body pressing into it she woke up as if from a dream. Lost in a mixture of pleasurable senses, Kagome moved her mouth away from his, causing him to chase her for a kiss. This wasn't how she wanted it to go. And still, Kagome felt her hand snaking into his pants and returning the favor. "We can't do this." Kagome argued with what rational thinking she had left in her.
Neither caring nor understanding what she was talking about, Inuyasha kissed her again, not wanting to tell he be quiet since that would both create another fight as well as ruin all his fun. Grinning like a playfully mad man, he licked her bottom lip, his grin stretching when their eyes locked. "Can't we?" he retorted, his hands reaching down to find hers. Then he eased them over her head, pinning them to the pillows. This position seemed vaguely familiar, though luckily this time he didn't have an arrow sprouting from his shoulder.
"I've got plenty of surprises up my sleeve, Kagome. I'll make sure that you don't fake it again." The determined glow of his expression disappeared a moment as he winked at her. "You just have to tell me what to do, so that I don't end up hurting you again." And Inuyasha looked positively devious as he licked her chest, wondering how long he could go on before his need to take her became overbearing.
For a moment, Kagome felt trapped but seeing the wink she relaxed, even though their position was not the most encouraging one for this situation. Panting, Kagome bit down on her lower lip, clamping her jaw shut. She had to restrain her emotions and feelings. Feeling a whimper escape her throat, Kagome stared up at him shaking her head. It was a lame attempt, but she tried anyway. 'I can't go through this.' Kagome thought to herself then wondered over what Inuyasha himself had said. 'Can't we'? Why couldn't she? She'd just repress this just like she would ignore last night. Neither meant anything to her. They couldn't. Kagome wouldn't allow them to. But doing this, Kagome knew her heart would want to reach out to him, and she was worried she'd get hurt. She was going to be hurt enough as is later on tonight.
Live in the moment. For all you know, you might get killed tonight, you might as well enjoy this. Opening her mouth, releasing the soft sound she kept inside Kagome glared up at him. Fine, he would be insane and she would be cruel. That way neither would get attached. Wiggling beneath him, Kagome flexed her fingers reaching out for the iron headboard behind them, even though his hands were intertwined with her own. Before she could let herself be as free as much as she would allow, Kagome nipped up at his lip, growling when he pulled back. "You're going to make sure I don't fake it? You didn't even realize I was faking it last night. I'm not going to tell you anything." She spat, "You hurt me already, more pain doesn't matter." She said. Her bare leg running up Inuyasha's, massaging his flesh through the fabric of his pants. Touché, was all that Kagome thought.
His body shuddering at the touch, Inuyasha growled. He should have gagged her. Here he was trying to be a nice guy -since when was it considered nice to want to make somebody scream his name?- and she was still trying to fucking argue with him! She didn't think pain mattered? Fine! He bit down gently, not wanting to hurt her. at least not too much. He refused to stop until she was begging for it.
Inuyasha shifted his body so that he could hold her still with one hand. The other brushed her knee, and he remembered that the last time they had been in this position she had kicked him. As much as she was fighting him, she still wasn't pushing him away. The thought gave him a boost of encouragement as his hand traveled up her thigh, his fingers barely touching her skin.
"If you don't want to be a part of this it means I'll just have to do a bit of exploring," he purred into her neck. His lips meeting with her again, he snaked his tongue inside and flicked it over the roof of her mouth softly, pulling back to watch her reaction.
"Who's world are we in now?" Kagome asked, her eyelids falling over her eyes so that she gazed up at him from under long thick lashes. "Mine or yours?" Kagome asked shuddering at the thought. Arching, Kagome watched him bite down on her. Her eyes looked void and sad. Didn't he understand just how much he was hurting her now? Struggling against him again, Kagome realized she couldn't hurt him that way, however she could another. "Don't bite hard enough to draw blood. I don't want to be any more married to you then you want to be married to me." Kagome choked and lifted her leg to a kicking position, but instead she just rubbed it against him. He could explore, she could entice him. Couldn't she?
"Don't worry, we can't get more married," he said as he rolled his eyes. More married? He could play that way too. "Besides, your blood makes me sick. It's too damn sweet. Just like everything else about you. And I'd never wanted to be married to a shrew like you. But at least I'm not the one confined to the bed post." Inuyasha kissed her belly button, his breath as ragged as hers. His hand reached what it wanted. "Come on, Kagome. Stop toying. You know you want this, so just say it."
Kagome hated her body enough right now to want to flee it. Kagome really hated her body right now. In fact, she despised it. That was of course the reason she was arching and moaning loudly. Because she hated her body. Her breath hitching in her throat, Kagome glared up at him. She didn't hate her body, she hated his for being able to play her body this way. She hated this control he had that she didn't. She hated that she responded to him the way she did. "I hate you!" Kagome shouted at him instead of shouting what she really wanted to.
Inuyasha could barely hear her through the sounds he was enticing out of her. And that he was enticing back out of him. He nibbled at her chin, his free hand working harder at earning the right response from her. Yet even now he knew that it was a good thing that she hated him. It would make later tonight easier. "Fine. Hate me." He licked at her exposed throat, her moans louder from there. It's not like he cared that she hated him. His frame pulsed with the rhythm they had used repeatedly the night before. Inuyasha wondered what it was that could make him want to be in control of everything only to feel himself succumb to Kagome's brown eyes as she resisted him.
"I do. I really do hate you. You ruined it all." Kagome shouted at him and then screamed as her body trembled. "All of last night is washed away. You spoiled it!" Kagome yelled at him and thanked him silently in her mind. Kagome then distracted him enough with her mouth and tongue to get one hand free and slap him across the face. "I hate you." Kagome growled and moved her hand down to his, grasping it Kagome pulled it away from her and leaned forward demandingly capturing his mouth. It was time to switch the tables around. Instead of exploring with his tongue, Kagome just sucked on it for a while. "There are other places to do that." Kagome whispered pushing her shoulders away from the mattress and drew a bit of Inuyasha's furry ear between her lips for the same treatment.
In between gasps of breaths, he swore, though he didn't fight her. Inuyasha enjoyed being challenged. He bit at her collarbone, his breath increasing in heaviness. If she kept at it like this, he knew that he wouldn't be able to last much longer. After nuzzling her neck a moment, he hissed when she bit his ear when he tried to sit up enough to loosen his pants. He grinned when he realized that she wasn't going to let him sit up. His heavy heartbeat seemed to reverberate in each part of his body. "I hate you. I hate you, Kagome. Why can't I ever just win with you?"
"Because my blood is too sweet for you to ever dominate me." Kagome warned her legs curling around his, rubbing up and down like a purring cat rubs against its owner. Moaning into his open mouth, Kagome's eyes shot open. "I hate you." Kagome said denying him his name. She wouldn't say his name. Names had a power to them and she didn't want anything to do with the name. Or with the person. Yet she was still feeling him up. His hand couldn't be that warm, but it was. His chest under her own palm couldn't be that hot either, but it was. She felt like she was a burning cinder. "I'm glad you hate my blood, I'm glad you don't want to be my husband." Kagome panted into his mouth, her hand playing around with the hem of his pants before plunging it in, paying him back with his own medicine from before. "How much do you hate me?"
"I hate you more than I hate life. I hate you so much I wouldn't dream of giving you up to someone else for you to torture them. You're just a thorn in my side." He moaned rather loudly as her fingers touched his skin. Inuyasha had to admit that she was a very good thorn.
"Good." Kagome whispered giving a final tug with her hand before pushing him off of her and trying to scramble away.
He grabbed her shoulder and pushed her back down on the bed. His chest moving heavily, it was a wonder he still had enough energy to stay awake. And he wasn't satisfied yet, either. His hand brushed her hair away from her face as he tugged his pants the rest of the way off. For all his desire, he didn't take his eyes away from hers. Inuyasha was more than willing to lose himself there, for once. "I'm not done yet, Kagome." Such a pretty name for a fiery girl! "Why do you hate me?"
Kagome instead, for once, struggling to get away actually moved to a more accessible position under him. She liked the feel of his chest on hers, how she could feel his heart pounding and his breath on her face and neck. "You will be done soon." Kagome said nipping at his lip, her tongue following. "I hate you because you make me want to live." Kagome replied, demanding to know from herself why in the world she even bothered answering him. He didn't deserve an answer! "I hate you because of how you make me feel." Kagome added then stopped all ministrations on her part to just gaze up at him. He really looked more demon then human now. Kagome swallowed the disgust rising in her throat, she was going to. with a demon. "I hate you because of how I look in your eyes, how I can see myself in them." Kagome told him turning her head away from a kiss.
The anger melted from his face and his heart. When she rejected his kiss, the passion all but evaporated from his veins. His fingers continue to play with her dark hair as he sighed, the words he wanted to say, lost. Inuyasha felt like crap, and he wanted to bury his face in her shoulder and forget what he'd been trying so hard to do. She'd been right, of course. That wasn't what it was supposed to happen, how it was supposed to be. He felt a tear run down his cheek and splash on her neck. He gently brushed it away. "Kagome, I. . . ."
Startled, Kagome turned to look at him compassion the main emotion showing on her face, along with worry. "Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered in question, her hands stroking down his back gently. Kissing his cheek, Kagome brushed her thumb against his eye. "You know, I lied before." Kagome confessed. "I don't really plan on torturing anyone else," Kagome paused this time her mouth finding his. "But you."
Inuyasha moaned as the world was set to right again. The words were on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say them. That would ruin everything again. Instead he relaxed, and let Kagome do whatever she wanted to him. His blood was back on fire, his lips throbbing for her kisses, and he loved it. He moaned her name, never wanting to forget it, as she took to heaven and hell and back again.