Chapter Two: Scents
Kagome waddled into the hut, followed by the rest of the group. Sango untied the ribbon that slung her long, dark brown hair into a low ponytail and let it crumple to the floor, along with her kimono top and long green skirt. She was then left in her long, white robes. Miroku had also stripped down into his under robes and had already slipped into a sleeping bag that Kagome had given him as a Christmas present. Sango yawned and folded the remains of her kimono and slipped into her own sleeping bag, yet again, from Kagome for Christmas.
Kagome tied her raven hair up in a high ponytail, letting a few locks of hair wash over her face. She then threw a few dry sticks into the orange fire ablaze in the middle of the room. She peered over at Inuyasha who had seemed to have fallen asleep while he had sat down on the floor of the hut. Yet, when Kagome had glanced over towards him, he had opened one of his golden amber eyes to look back at her.
"What?" He asked her in a bit of a huff. Kagome raised an eyebrow and rested a hand on the swell of her hip.
"If you don't mind, could you not look while I undress?" She asked him sweetly. Inuyasha turned away and "feh'd".
"Like I would look anyway..." He mumbled from his lips. Kagome "humpf'd" and turned around to meet the wooden wall with cold eyes.
'That jerk...' She thought to herself. She unbuttoned the front of her jeans and slid them off of her slim legs and threw them against the wall in frustration. She then lifted her white top over her head and tossed that to the floor. 'Like I would look anyway!' She mimicked him in her head. 'Baka... no good...'
"Ya done yet?" He interrupted her in her thoughts. Kagome turned around to face him, still in her bra and underwear. He immediately turned away in embarrassment.
"Inuyasha!" She shouted and picked up her shirt off of the floor and threw it angrily at the silver haired demon. "You pervert! How could you!?" She anguished. The white tank top flung itself into his face.
He picked it up from where it fell from and studied it. It was warm with her body heat. 'Heat?' he thought. 'Crap... that reminds me... Kagome's in heat again!' He quickly thrusted the clothing article to the floor again and turned away from the annoyed girl in the middle of the room.
"Uhhh!" She grunted. "You ingrain!" She threw on her pajamas and flung herself into her sleeping bag. 'IDIOT!' She thought as she closed her eyes with frustration.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was staring off into space, thinking about Kagome. She had come along way from the once annoying schoolgirl he had first met. Though, once traveling with her for a couple weeks, he realized how sweet, and caring she could be. She was stronger than most girls, not including Sango, who was in fact, a demon slayer. But, for her age, and for being a human, she was defiantly strong. So, she wasn't exactly human. She did have powers. He had seen them before. For instance, the first time they had met, she had warded off that centipede demon with some special purple light from her hands. She also had the ability to see the jewel shards, and purify them. Not only that, but she could defiantly work with those bows and arrows.
'What a fool. I can't believe how stupid I am.' He cursed himself. 'I'm such an idiot around her. Always trying to defend my inner needs and feelings.' He took a glance over at the sleeping form of the girl at the other end of the room. 'I wonder what she's dreaming about...'
"I could ask you the same question." She replied. His eyes grew wide in surprise. Enjoying his reaction, she leaned upward and clasped her mouth over his.
'I can feel the heat burning inside of him.' She thought and licked the tips of his lethal fangs.
'Her mouth is sweet, almost candy-like.' He pondered and trailed his hand up the side of her thigh, under her short skirt, and rested it on the swell of her hip, fumbling with her panties.
He delicately slipped them off of her long, slim legs and tossed them to the floor. He then trailed his hand up her leg again and rested it on the swell of her hip again. He pulled her leg up and around his waist, as he did with the other, letting her straddle him.
She gasped and woke up in a hot sweat. She gazed around the room heavily breathing, the hot drops of perspiration gliding down her face. 'Damn...' She thought. 'Every night I have the same dream... and every night it gets closer to...' Her thoughts trailed off. She let her watery eyes fall on the sleeping hanyou sitting on the dirty floor, his head lightly leaning back to rest against the wall. His silver hair framed his beautiful face and billowed down over his muscular chest and back. 'Damn he's hot... he looks like a freaking Sex God...' She flung a hand up to her head in shock. 'Did I just think that!?' She pondered. 'I've got it bad...'
She realized something as she sat up a bit more. She had cramps. 'Shit!' She cursed. She also realized something else. 'I'm wet... these stupid fantasies are driving me INSANE!!!!!!' She screamed in her head. She got up from her place on the floor and decided to take a long walk to get some fresh air outside.
As she solemnly walked out of the hut she breathed in a whiff of fresh air. She then peered up at the full moon in the middle of the sky. It was totally white, and it shone off an illuminated light that faded out over the tall dark trees and highlighted them with a pale, ghostly feature. 'I wonder what time it is...' She thought as she stepped out over the grassy field. She kept walking and walking, just looking at the dirty ground. She didn't really know where she was going, but she knew that she was going somewhere where she could think. She pretty much just followed her heart.
Her footsteps stopped briefly and she kicked a small rock in the process. The rock surfaced over the ground and hit at the wooden side of the Bone Eater's Well. Kagome glanced up at where she had led herself and rolled her eyes. 'Figures I would have brought myself here...' She thought, and sat down onto the edge of it. A soft breeze aired around her, sending her ebony hair to flail around her features.
'I don't understand. I tell him how I feel and he embraces me, but then the rest of the group joins our conversation, and he acts like it never happened. Not even tonight when everyone else was asleep. I just don't understand.' She thought angrily and clenched her fingers over the edge of the wooden well. "Damn his stupid pride." Her thoughts were immediately interrupted.
"What about my stupid pride?" He questioned her and waded closer to where she was sitting. Kagome blushed and scooted over so he could sit down beside her. "Well?" He asked her after he had sat down.
"Huh? Oh, nothing..." She answered lamely. He moved closer to her as to so they were shoulder to shoulder. He gazed into her eyes deeply and had seemed to pull her in, like a fisherman reeling in an unlucky fish.
"I'm serious. I wanna know." He told her calmly. "What's the matter?" He asked her. Kagome managed look away from the grasp he held on her eyes. She peered out into the dark blue sky and studied the bright stars before answering.
"Inuyasha... do you... do you... have feelings for me... at all?" She took a quick glance up at him but quickly turned away again in embarrassment. He gasped at her question from being surprised, but then regained seriousness once again. He threw an arm limply around her shoulders and pulled her close to him. She peered up at his reassuring face.
"Kagome... how could I not?" He told her. He looked up at the sky, seeming to think something over. "I hate it when you convince yourself that I don't care about you. Don't you think that it's impossible for me to not like you after all we've been through?" He asked her.
"I'm sorry I was doubtful." She apologized. "It's just... between you and Kikyou and Koga... it's hard to keep track of your feelings." She dropped her gaze to the brown ground. Inuyasha smiled.
"Don't be sorry. You've done nothing wrong." He told her. "All that matters is that... that... we're..." He briefly sniffed the air. 'Damn...' He thought. 'I forgot she's in heat... and now I've got myself in a position that I won't be able to...' He quickly lifted his arm off of her shoulders and scooted away from her to the very edge of the well and turned slightly away from her.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered. "What's wrong?" She softly placed her hand on his shoulder. He flinched and her hand drew backward. "Inuyasha... was it something I did?"
He huffed. 'Not purposely...' He thought bitterly. And stood up, averting his gaze back to the hut over the hillside. A light bulb flashed off in Kagome's head as she finally realized it.
"This is about me being in heat, isn't it?" she asked him forwardly. He blushed and turned a bit toward her, feeling ashamed. "It's okay. I understand how you feel. Sorry." She apologized again.
"It's nothing to be sorry about. It's not like you can help it..." He trailed off. Immediately wanting to change the subject, he reverted back to what he was going to say a few moments before. "Anyways... like I was saying. All that matters is that we're here together now, and no one can ever tear us apart. I promise."
Kagome gasped. Had he really said that? "Do you mean that?" She questioned. He nodded in response and peered over toward her. They smiled at each other, blissfully gazing into each other's eyes under the silky moonlight. Ruining the romantic silence, Kagome yawned, lifting her hand up to meet her mouth to catch her intake of air.
"You look tired." Inuyasha commented. "Need a ride back to the hut?" He offered. Kagome nodded.
"That'd be nice, Inuyasha." She told him. Without hesitation, Inuyasha stepped in front of where she sat on the wooden well and kneeled down so she would be able to get on his back. "Thanks." She said and yawned again as she climbed onto his back, wrapping her legs around his waist. 'This seems oddly familiar...' She thought to herself. 'Oh yeah... just like my stupid fantasies...' She remembered. She got a bit antsy, but began calming herself down so she wouldn't drive Inuyasha insane with the scents she was giving off. She twisted her arms around his neck and snuggled her face deep into the nape of his neck and closed her eyes.
Inuyasha sniffed the air softly and peered back behind him to look at the raven-haired girl hanging onto his backside. 'What in the world is she thinking about?' He pondered. 'It must be good considering the scents she's giving off...' He trailed off in his mind and smiled.
Kagome waddled into the hut, followed by the rest of the group. Sango untied the ribbon that slung her long, dark brown hair into a low ponytail and let it crumple to the floor, along with her kimono top and long green skirt. She was then left in her long, white robes. Miroku had also stripped down into his under robes and had already slipped into a sleeping bag that Kagome had given him as a Christmas present. Sango yawned and folded the remains of her kimono and slipped into her own sleeping bag, yet again, from Kagome for Christmas.
Kagome tied her raven hair up in a high ponytail, letting a few locks of hair wash over her face. She then threw a few dry sticks into the orange fire ablaze in the middle of the room. She peered over at Inuyasha who had seemed to have fallen asleep while he had sat down on the floor of the hut. Yet, when Kagome had glanced over towards him, he had opened one of his golden amber eyes to look back at her.
"What?" He asked her in a bit of a huff. Kagome raised an eyebrow and rested a hand on the swell of her hip.
"If you don't mind, could you not look while I undress?" She asked him sweetly. Inuyasha turned away and "feh'd".
"Like I would look anyway..." He mumbled from his lips. Kagome "humpf'd" and turned around to meet the wooden wall with cold eyes.
'That jerk...' She thought to herself. She unbuttoned the front of her jeans and slid them off of her slim legs and threw them against the wall in frustration. She then lifted her white top over her head and tossed that to the floor. 'Like I would look anyway!' She mimicked him in her head. 'Baka... no good...'
"Ya done yet?" He interrupted her in her thoughts. Kagome turned around to face him, still in her bra and underwear. He immediately turned away in embarrassment.
"Inuyasha!" She shouted and picked up her shirt off of the floor and threw it angrily at the silver haired demon. "You pervert! How could you!?" She anguished. The white tank top flung itself into his face.
He picked it up from where it fell from and studied it. It was warm with her body heat. 'Heat?' he thought. 'Crap... that reminds me... Kagome's in heat again!' He quickly thrusted the clothing article to the floor again and turned away from the annoyed girl in the middle of the room.
"Uhhh!" She grunted. "You ingrain!" She threw on her pajamas and flung herself into her sleeping bag. 'IDIOT!' She thought as she closed her eyes with frustration.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was staring off into space, thinking about Kagome. She had come along way from the once annoying schoolgirl he had first met. Though, once traveling with her for a couple weeks, he realized how sweet, and caring she could be. She was stronger than most girls, not including Sango, who was in fact, a demon slayer. But, for her age, and for being a human, she was defiantly strong. So, she wasn't exactly human. She did have powers. He had seen them before. For instance, the first time they had met, she had warded off that centipede demon with some special purple light from her hands. She also had the ability to see the jewel shards, and purify them. Not only that, but she could defiantly work with those bows and arrows.
'What a fool. I can't believe how stupid I am.' He cursed himself. 'I'm such an idiot around her. Always trying to defend my inner needs and feelings.' He took a glance over at the sleeping form of the girl at the other end of the room. 'I wonder what she's dreaming about...'
"I could ask you the same question." She replied. His eyes grew wide in surprise. Enjoying his reaction, she leaned upward and clasped her mouth over his.
'I can feel the heat burning inside of him.' She thought and licked the tips of his lethal fangs.
'Her mouth is sweet, almost candy-like.' He pondered and trailed his hand up the side of her thigh, under her short skirt, and rested it on the swell of her hip, fumbling with her panties.
He delicately slipped them off of her long, slim legs and tossed them to the floor. He then trailed his hand up her leg again and rested it on the swell of her hip again. He pulled her leg up and around his waist, as he did with the other, letting her straddle him.
She gasped and woke up in a hot sweat. She gazed around the room heavily breathing, the hot drops of perspiration gliding down her face. 'Damn...' She thought. 'Every night I have the same dream... and every night it gets closer to...' Her thoughts trailed off. She let her watery eyes fall on the sleeping hanyou sitting on the dirty floor, his head lightly leaning back to rest against the wall. His silver hair framed his beautiful face and billowed down over his muscular chest and back. 'Damn he's hot... he looks like a freaking Sex God...' She flung a hand up to her head in shock. 'Did I just think that!?' She pondered. 'I've got it bad...'
She realized something as she sat up a bit more. She had cramps. 'Shit!' She cursed. She also realized something else. 'I'm wet... these stupid fantasies are driving me INSANE!!!!!!' She screamed in her head. She got up from her place on the floor and decided to take a long walk to get some fresh air outside.
As she solemnly walked out of the hut she breathed in a whiff of fresh air. She then peered up at the full moon in the middle of the sky. It was totally white, and it shone off an illuminated light that faded out over the tall dark trees and highlighted them with a pale, ghostly feature. 'I wonder what time it is...' She thought as she stepped out over the grassy field. She kept walking and walking, just looking at the dirty ground. She didn't really know where she was going, but she knew that she was going somewhere where she could think. She pretty much just followed her heart.
Her footsteps stopped briefly and she kicked a small rock in the process. The rock surfaced over the ground and hit at the wooden side of the Bone Eater's Well. Kagome glanced up at where she had led herself and rolled her eyes. 'Figures I would have brought myself here...' She thought, and sat down onto the edge of it. A soft breeze aired around her, sending her ebony hair to flail around her features.
'I don't understand. I tell him how I feel and he embraces me, but then the rest of the group joins our conversation, and he acts like it never happened. Not even tonight when everyone else was asleep. I just don't understand.' She thought angrily and clenched her fingers over the edge of the wooden well. "Damn his stupid pride." Her thoughts were immediately interrupted.
"What about my stupid pride?" He questioned her and waded closer to where she was sitting. Kagome blushed and scooted over so he could sit down beside her. "Well?" He asked her after he had sat down.
"Huh? Oh, nothing..." She answered lamely. He moved closer to her as to so they were shoulder to shoulder. He gazed into her eyes deeply and had seemed to pull her in, like a fisherman reeling in an unlucky fish.
"I'm serious. I wanna know." He told her calmly. "What's the matter?" He asked her. Kagome managed look away from the grasp he held on her eyes. She peered out into the dark blue sky and studied the bright stars before answering.
"Inuyasha... do you... do you... have feelings for me... at all?" She took a quick glance up at him but quickly turned away again in embarrassment. He gasped at her question from being surprised, but then regained seriousness once again. He threw an arm limply around her shoulders and pulled her close to him. She peered up at his reassuring face.
"Kagome... how could I not?" He told her. He looked up at the sky, seeming to think something over. "I hate it when you convince yourself that I don't care about you. Don't you think that it's impossible for me to not like you after all we've been through?" He asked her.
"I'm sorry I was doubtful." She apologized. "It's just... between you and Kikyou and Koga... it's hard to keep track of your feelings." She dropped her gaze to the brown ground. Inuyasha smiled.
"Don't be sorry. You've done nothing wrong." He told her. "All that matters is that... that... we're..." He briefly sniffed the air. 'Damn...' He thought. 'I forgot she's in heat... and now I've got myself in a position that I won't be able to...' He quickly lifted his arm off of her shoulders and scooted away from her to the very edge of the well and turned slightly away from her.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered. "What's wrong?" She softly placed her hand on his shoulder. He flinched and her hand drew backward. "Inuyasha... was it something I did?"
He huffed. 'Not purposely...' He thought bitterly. And stood up, averting his gaze back to the hut over the hillside. A light bulb flashed off in Kagome's head as she finally realized it.
"This is about me being in heat, isn't it?" she asked him forwardly. He blushed and turned a bit toward her, feeling ashamed. "It's okay. I understand how you feel. Sorry." She apologized again.
"It's nothing to be sorry about. It's not like you can help it..." He trailed off. Immediately wanting to change the subject, he reverted back to what he was going to say a few moments before. "Anyways... like I was saying. All that matters is that we're here together now, and no one can ever tear us apart. I promise."
Kagome gasped. Had he really said that? "Do you mean that?" She questioned. He nodded in response and peered over toward her. They smiled at each other, blissfully gazing into each other's eyes under the silky moonlight. Ruining the romantic silence, Kagome yawned, lifting her hand up to meet her mouth to catch her intake of air.
"You look tired." Inuyasha commented. "Need a ride back to the hut?" He offered. Kagome nodded.
"That'd be nice, Inuyasha." She told him. Without hesitation, Inuyasha stepped in front of where she sat on the wooden well and kneeled down so she would be able to get on his back. "Thanks." She said and yawned again as she climbed onto his back, wrapping her legs around his waist. 'This seems oddly familiar...' She thought to herself. 'Oh yeah... just like my stupid fantasies...' She remembered. She got a bit antsy, but began calming herself down so she wouldn't drive Inuyasha insane with the scents she was giving off. She twisted her arms around his neck and snuggled her face deep into the nape of his neck and closed her eyes.
Inuyasha sniffed the air softly and peered back behind him to look at the raven-haired girl hanging onto his backside. 'What in the world is she thinking about?' He pondered. 'It must be good considering the scents she's giving off...' He trailed off in his mind and smiled.