When He Was Mine
By: Maggz
Disclaimer: I'm poor and I own nothing. InuYasha © Rumiko Takahasi.
Chapter 43
It was only mid-afternoon when I woke up. I suppose I had gone asleep myself as we laid together. I stretched my hands over my head and groaned. InuYasha mumbled something in his sleep and rolled off me then, curling onto his side. I sat up slowly and looked down at him, sound asleep still. He must've been so tired.
I grabbed a light blanket that had been folded and set upon a huge antique trunk that sat at the side of the bed nearest me. Gently, I covered him with it and got up off the bed, grabbing my discarded clothing and making my way to the bathroom.
As was the rest of the cottage, the bathroom was tiny but serviceable and I ran water for a shower and climbed in. A quick wash and I was out and dressed in my skirt and blouse again. I pulled a comb through my tangled hair and then walked back into the main room. InuYasha was still sleeping soundly, a light snore coming from him, his lips parted. I smiled. This was so nice... to be here with him.
I decided I wanted to walk down to the ocean's edge for a minute and made my way quietly out the door. It wasn't even a 20 yard walk to the water and soon I was standing in the shallow clear green of it as it lapped at my feet. I dug my hands into the side pockets of my skirt and stood there with a smile on my face. The sun was so warm on my skin. I tilted my head backward and let it caress me.
My fingers connected with something in my pocket then and puzzled, I grabbed for it and pulled it out. With a cry of joy I realized I had found InuYasha's gift, the one I had been so upset about, thinking I'd lost it. I opened my palm once more and looked at it closely. It was a platinum ID bracelet, very slim, no adornment on the upside of it but when I turned it over and ran my finger over the back side I could feel the engraving there. I smiled, it was beautiful. I hoped he liked it. I had thought it would look excellent on his wrist. Not too flash, simple but beautiful.
I put it back into my pocket then I strolled a ways down the shore, letting my thoughts wander. I so wanted to be the one for InuYasha, wanted to make him happy, satisfied and confident. He was all those things to me on the surface, but underneath sometimes I sensed sadness, worry, and pain. Was I the right one to comfort him, to support him? Was I strong enough for that?
I heard him call my name then from the cottage and shielding my eyes with my hands, I saw him then. He was running down from the yard front toward me on the beach and I let that image freeze in my brain, in my heart. The sun sparkled off his hair, illuminated his skin. He had showered and changed his clothes, pulling on a soft dark green pair of shorts, his chest bare as well as his feet. He was beautiful, I could've looked at him forever right there and for some reason, I felt the hot prickling of tears behind my eyes. I quickly blinked them back as he jogged up beside of me and grinned.
"I thought I'd find you out here!", he said and pulled me into his arms, turning me to face the ocean, my back to him and his arms wrapped around me. I liked the feeling of his bare chest against my back. His skin was still cool to the touch from his recent shower but I could feel its warmth radiating against me from within.
"It's beautiful, InuYasha.", I said and felt him kiss the back of my head. "Yeah, wouldn't it be heaven just to hole up here and not ever come out?", he sighed wistfully. I turned my head to look at him and he looked down at me. "InuYasha, are you alright? I mean, is everything fine?", I asked him and turned toward him. "Yes, it is now.", he said and pulled me tightly against his chest. I could hear the 'thud-thud' of his heartbeat against my cheek and I closed my eyes and breathed him in.
"You wanna talk about it?", I asked him. "No, not right now...", he answered at once and I understood. He wanted to preserve this moment just as much as I did. I'm glad now that he did, glad he would have something wonderful to pull out and keep with him when the times got tough or just when he missed me or was lonely.
"Hey, look what I found!", I said at once, thinking of the ID bracelet in my pocket and I turned in his arms and faced him. Reaching into my pocket, I withdrew the bracelet, warm against my palm as it had been resting in my pocket for quite sometime. InuYasha looked down as I pushed my hand up closer to his and smiled. "That's for me?", he asked with a grin and I nodded, wondering what he would think. I'd thought of him immediately when I'd seen, known at once what I was going to have engraved upon the back... it just seemed right BUT I wasn't sure if he would think it 'looked' like him! Still, I saw the way his face seemed to change as he took it from my hand and ran his finger over the smoothness of it.
"It's beautiful, Kagome...", he said softly and looked quickly up at me. "You really like it, InuYasha?", I asked. "I mean, if you don't you don't have to wear it at all. I just wanted you to see I DO think of you when we're apart, and if you decided to keep it close to you, not even wearing it but just NEAR you, then you'll know I'm thinking of you and it'll make you happy.", I said.
"You think I wouldn't WEAR it?", he asked incredulous and I shrugged my shoulders. "It's ok if you don't. I know it can be seen quite clearly and it IS an ID bracelet and most people know these things are given to you from people that are close to you and you might get questioned about it and...", I kept talking, just wanting him to see I didn't expect to have him wear it all the time. He had turned the bracelet over as I had been chattering away and his finger touched the engraving there. The sun was glinting off the platinum making it hard for him to read what was there and I watched, my heart in my throat as he brought the bracelet closer to his face, then cupped his hands around it so that he could read it.
He ran a finger over it then looked up at me and his face... Oh! I'll never forget that either. That day would hold many special memories for me over the years but this was one of the best. "Kagome...", he said softly and started to fasten the bracelet on his left wrist. "Here InuYasha, let me.", I said and took it from him, my fingers shaking as I pulled it around his wrist and then fastened it there. I felt his eyes on me the entire time I was doing it and I swallowed nervously. Finally I was done and I looked up at him and smiled. "It's perfect. It couldn't BE any more perfect and Kagome, you're more right than you even realize. I AM yours.", he said and pulled me to him.
I had known from the beginning what I wanted to have engraved on that bracelet; it had come to me in a flash of inspiration just as quickly as I had picked out the piece of jewelry itself. Looking at it in the jewelry shop and turning it over I had smiled, then handed over to the clerk. "You'd be wanting an engraving here now, would you?", she smiled. "Yes, I would.", I answered back. She pulled out a pad of paper and wrote up the ticket for the bracelet then looked up at me. "And what would you be wanting on it?", she smiled. "Mine...", I answered and she smiled bigger. "That's just about the most perfect thing I've ever heard of to be put on one of these, that's beautiful.", she said and I smiled. I agreed... he WAS mine!
InuYasha had loved the gift, he lifted his wrist up to the sun and turned it this way and that then smiled at me. "Why didn't you just put it on the front?", he asked me. "InuYasha, it's very personal, just between us... kinda like OUR secret, understand?", I said softly. "Yes, I understand and it's so lovely. I couldn't have done better picking out a bracelet for myself if I'd tried!", he said and pulled me close to him, nearly lifting me from my feet. He hugged my hard to him and held on a long time. "You do love me...", he whispered into my hair and I closed my eyes tightly and hugged him back. "Yes, I do. I don't ever want to be without you, InuYasha, not ever.", I said. "You mean that?", he asked and pulled away from me to grab my hands and look into my eyes. "I mean it. I realized it from the beginning but with you gone I just could never imagine NOT having you in my life. I just have to be a stronger person, InuYasha... be strong for you because I just can't see ever NOT having you." I said softly.
"Kagome, I've worried so much these last weeks. I just don't know what I'd have done if you hadn't agreed to come to me here...", he said. "I've felt like you were slipping from me and I was frustrated I couldn't just pack up and come home to you to convince you to stay with me." he said. "I'm sorry, InuYasha. I didn't mean to frustrate you. I just wanted to make sure you knew what you wanted!", I said. "I've known what I wanted since the day you walked into that restaurant with Kikyo. I've wanted you and now... are you telling me that I've got you?", he asked. "Yes, you've GOT me, InuYasha Hara... hook, line, and sinker!", I laughed.
We decided to take a long walk up the deserted section of beach that our little cottage sat on, so walking hand in hand, we made our way up the direction I had been started on when InuYasha had called for me from the house.
We walked with our feet sloshing through the warm water, and before long we were kicking the water at each other. Laughing, I pulled away from InuYasha and took off at a fast pace down the beach, daring him to catch me if he could. I could hear him laugh as he chased after me, catching up quickly and it made me breathless, running and giggling, the sweet anticipation of him capturing me in his arms!
"Come back here, you naughty wench!", he shouted and I looked back over my shoulder and giggled harder. He was gaining on me quickly, so I sped up and tried my best to outrun him once more. It wasn't long before the pounding of his feet on the wet sand came closer to me and I tripped and nearly fell, but felt him grab me and pull me toward him. We both fell then right into the water, me landing on him, both of us still laughing so hard we couldn't speak. "Inu... InuYasha!", I giggled as water sloshed around us. But he was laughing too, and soon I felt his hands against my very wet blouse, unbuttoning it, untying the knot once more and lifting me a little so he could get it off me. I shrieked and made to grab the blouse from him but he held it aloft and then threw it toward the sand.
"InuYasha!", I shouted and looked around me everywhere at once. "Nobody's out here, Kagome. Why do you think I brought you here?", he asked and I quit struggling against him then and laughed. "I suppose you're right but still... what if somebody just happens to come by?", I asked him. "Nobody will, it's all ours... trust me.", he said.
"Do you realize how very beautiful you look right now? You look like an exotic mermaid, my very own sea goddess. God, how lovely you are...", he whispered as his fingers touched my face. I kissed the tips of the fingers that touched my lips and closed my eyes. "I love you, Kagome...", he said and put a hand to either side of my face now...so that when I opened my eyes, I was looking straight into his. "You'll let me love you right here, on this stretch of beautiful beach right under the sun, will you?", he asked me and I could only nod my head. "Good." he smiled and brought his lips to mine, covering them sweetly and slowly.
We were both soaking wet, covered in sand but it didn't matter. His hands moved again, this time against my breasts and I heard him sigh as he let his fingers slip against an erect nipple. Lowering his head, he started down to kiss the nipple and I felt him hesitate, then scoop up some of the warm water in his hand and spill it over me - washing away the sand from my skin. This done, he lowered his mouth now and began to suck on the sensitive skin of my breasts. I gripped his head, pulling on him to make him look up at me. "Off... take off my skirt...", I panted and he slid his fingers down and pulled at the knot there, taking it off me quickly. The tide caught my skirt and moved it back and forth in the shallow water as InuYasha continued to kiss and suck me to oblivion. I gripped his bum and then slid his shorts down, using my feet to help pull them off. I didn't want his mouth off me for more than a second. I'd do what I had to in order to keep it there.
"Ohhhh, InuYasha... This is goood! Sooooo goooood!", I whispered against his hair, tasting the saltiness of the ocean. "Yeah, good!", he breathed and lifted me to him, pulled us both up and carried me out deeper into the water. We were waist high, our lips connected now and I pulled my legs around his waist and held him firmly against me. He broke the kiss and slid his hands against the sides of my face, sliding my hair back behind my ears then smiling at me. "Fuck!", he swore and I laughed... My InuYasha and his knack for words!
He cradled my bottom with both his hands and I reached down between us and gripped his hard member, guiding it to me, guiding it home. He sensed when I was close and bucked his hips forward hard, entering me swiftly and before long we were making love out in the open sea, under a brilliant blue sky with nobody else around in the world but us.
When we were finished, I laid my head on his shoulder and let him carry me back up to the beach where he sat down and cuddled me onto his lap. After the coolness of the water, the sun felt sensual on our exposed skin and he laid back with me in his arms and played with my wet hair, twirling a strand around his finger.
"Amazing...", I said softly as I ran my fingers over his tummy. "Yeah, was...", he said. "InuYasha?", I asked softly. "Hmmmm?", he answered and I felt him looking down, waiting for me to speak. "I'm hungry.", I said finally and he chuckled and sat up with me...
"Shit!", he swore once up and I looked over to where his gaze rested. My skirt and his shorts had washed out to sea, only a tiny glimpse on the break of a wave now. I laughed and got up, reaching my hands down to him. He grabbed mine and pulled up then reached down and picked up my blouse from the sand. With a laugh, he tied it around his waist as best he could and pulled me with him toward the cottage. "How fair is that, InuYasha?", I complained for I was completely naked. "Ohhhh, very fair. I'd much rather YOU be naked than me!", he laughed. "Maybe I'd rather it be YOU!", I said back and once he had stepped onto the porch, I jerked on the blouse and felt it rip in my hands. "Uh-oh!", I said as he turned to look at me. "Uh- oh, is right...", he said levelly and pulled the ripped blouse from my hands. "InuYasha, don't!", I said and started to back away from him, giggling. "Don't WHAT?", he asked me and continued his slow pursuit of me. I felt the seat of the swing as it hit the back of my knees and before I knew it, I had landed there.
He sank down next to me with a sigh and pulled me into his arms. "I love playing with you!", he said and pulled on my hair. "I love you to play WITH me!", I said. "Ahhhh, Kagome. Not like THAT. I mean, yeah... like that but that wasn't what I meant...", he said and started to laugh. "I KNOW what you mean, InuYasha...", I said and he leaned over and kissed me. "Are you hungry, really?", he asked. "Yes, starving... Do we have to go anywhere to get food or have you something here?", I asked. "No, nothing here. We'll have to go out, do you mind?", he asked. "No, of course not but let's hurry. I feel weak.", I said and got up off the swing.
"Too bad I can't get you to walk around all naked like that all the time when I'm home!", InuYasha said from his seat still in the swing. "You couldn't handle it, InuYasha. You can barely handle me now!", I teased as I made my way inside. "Ahhh, I think I've been handling you quite well, wouldn't you say?", I heard him say as he followed me inside. "Whatever you say, InuYasha.", I smiled and reached for my bag, digging through it for a pair of panties. "I'm showering, wanna join?", I asked him as I made my way to the bathroom. "Yeah, be there in a second.", he said and I started the water, climbed in and began to shower. It wasn't long before he climbed in behind me and started to slide his hands against my soap lathered body. "Mmmm, something about rubbing you with all this slick soap on you feels sooooo good!", he said and I felt him push himself against my back. I reached for the soap and lathered it into my hands, turned and pushed him back against the wet tile. "Oh, DOES it feel good? Let me SEE!", I said and started at his shoulders, running my fingers down his chest, across his nipples, down his tummy to his very much aroused member, to his thighs and then kneeling down to his calves and over his feet.
"Yeah, it does feel good but something... something's not right. Hold up..", I said and slid my hands back up, staying on my knees in front of him. I moved so that the spray of water hit him and sluiced the lather from his skin, then I reached for his erect penis and slid my fingers around him, slowly pumping him. "Ahhhhh, Kagome...", he murmured as his head lolled back and rested against the tile. "Want me to suck you?", I asked, my lips already covering the tip of him. "Ahhh, God! Kagome!!", he groaned and I slid my hands up and down slowly, then sucked him full into my mouth. "Shit... Ah, Fuck!", he cried and I felt his hips move forward, then back, then side to side. I gripped his bum and held to it as he moaned softly above me, his hips moving wildly now.
"Coming...", he warned me and I pulled off him, wanting to watch him spray. I let my fingers stay wrapped around him, pumping him, felt the creaminess of him slide down my hands, watched it hit the wet floor of the shower and got up on my feet, pulling my arms around his neck and urging him to raise his head from the tile. "InuYasha, look at me.", I said and he shook his head from side to side, very slow. "Look at me, InuYasha.", I said once more and he opened one lazy eye and grinned. "You're such a good fuck!", he said huskily and slid his arms around my waist. "Am I then?', I asked, pressing my wet body into his. "You are, now do you realize what I go through when I'm alone, on the road away from you?", he asked. "Yeah, I do. Jjust don't go getting into any strange panties, InuYasha.", I warned and put my finger against his lips. He playfully bit my finger and then sucked it against the roof of his mouth.
"I owe you, Kagome. I'd do you right now but fuck if I reckon I'm getting weak now!", he laughed. I turned around to cut off the water and he patted my bum. "That's ok, InuYasha. I'm thinking I got just as much out of this one as you did, watching you like that... oh, it's such... ggggrrrrrrr!", I shivered playfully and he grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the shower with him. We each wrapped in a towel and went to find something to put on. We were both starving to death now!