He was breathing heavy, his warm breath tickling her neck. Kagome almost swooned in his arms and wished that they stayed like that for a little while. But although she was feeling very comfortable, she had to know what was happening to him. He had just turned human for practically no good reason and that definitely wasn't normal. His hold on her had gradually started to loosen as he calmed down and she tried to pull away, but the moment she did so his arms tightened around her.
"Inuyasha..." she started, seeing that he had absolutely no intention of letting her go. "Inuyasha, what's happening to you? Why did you turn human?" she asked and he sighed.
"Miroku's ofuda drained my energy and now my demon powers are unstable." the hanyou explained quietly, his breath making her shiver slightly.
"But except that..." she had to swallow and clear her throat to be able to continue. "You're ok, right?" she asked, moving her hands so that they were on his chest.
"Yes." he answered.
"Me too, so..." she said a little hesitantly. "...you can let me go now."
"Oh..." Inuyasha suddenly pulled away, started and slightly blushing. "Sorry..."
"No, there's nothing to be sorry about." Kagome protested and sighed, rubbing her forehead and moving her bangs off of it. Then she smiled at him and continued. "If I hadn't seen you I wouldn't have done that with my powers."
"By the way, how did you do that?" the hanyou asked slightly confused and looked behind her, at the unconscious Shamashir.
"Honestly, I have no idea." she shrugged and turned toward him. Then something seemed to come to her mind and she bit her bottom lip, turning back to Inuyasha. "Is... Is he alive?" she asked shakily.
"Yeah." the hanyou absently waved one hand. "Why do you care, anyway? He almost killed you."
"Kai has noting to do with all this. Shashir is just using his body." Kagome explained.
"Is he a friend of yours?" Inuyasha asked while walking toward the demon.
"K-Kind of..." she answered nervously, remembering how she had kissed him and praying that the hanyou never learns about that. "What are we going to do now?" she asked, trying to change the subject.
"I don't know..." Inuyasha shrugged, then after looking at Shamashir turned toward her again. "Maybe you killed that Shashir with your powers and Kai is alright now. We'll take him to..." his words trailed off when he saw Kagome's eyes widen and she raised one hand to point behind him. Not waiting for her to say whatever she was going to, he spun around and found himself face to face with Shamashir.
The demon smirked and pointed something in his stomach. Suddenly Inuyasha was hit by a strange feeling of danger and transforming to hanyou, jumped back. He landed in front of Kagome and pushed her further back. He snarled at Shamashir and Kagome gasped, seeing what her kidnapper was holding in his right hand. She tugged at the hanyou's right arm's sleeve and he turned only half way to look at her.
"He's got a gun, Inuyasha, be careful." she warned him and he turned his attention back at Shamashir.
"Thank you so much, Kagome." the demon smirked again. "That energy charge was very refreshing."
"But it's not enough, is it?" Inuyasha smirked too and Shamashir frowned. "This makes it easier to kill you – you are still trapped in this mortal body."
"It's much better that your bodies!" Shamashir yelled, startling the hanyou and the girl and confusing them with such an outburst. "You two are just impossible! He was like immune to sleep and you were like immune to nightmares!" he pointed with the gun first at Inuyasha, then at Kagome and continued to look at her. "But to make you kiss first that pathetic hanyou and then that stupid boy was the easiest thing I've ever done!"
At his last words, Kagome's eyes widened and she snapped her head up to look at Inuyasha. He was like frozen, just standing there with his mouth slightly open in surprise. Shamashir laughed at their shocked expressions and that seemed to bring the hanyou back to his senses. He closed his mouth and swallowed hard but did not turn to look at her. She instinctively made a step back, almost tripping in the process.
"You k-kissed me?" Inuyasha stuttered, his voice a little...squeaky, and she hesitantly nodded.
Shamashir sighed loudly, obviously not interested in their reactions anymore and loaded his gun. "I suggest that you talk about this after we finish." he said with amusement in his voice. "You will have more than enough time for that in the other world."
The sharp sound from the gun and the demon's words made Inuyasha turn his attention back to him. With the knowledge that Kagome had kissed him and he had missed it, actually slept through it, he felt like something had hit him in the head very hard. It was almost enough to make him lose his transformation but he somehow managed to hold it. He tried to draw out Tetsusaiga but it wasn't in its scabbard. Remembering that he had dropped it when he had seen Kagome, he started looking around to find it.
Suddenly he heard her scream his name and turning to look at Shamashir, saw that he had pointed his gun at him. A loud shot was heard and Inuyasha barely managed to avoid it. He spun around, caught Kagome around the waist, threw her over his right shoulder and jumped toward the door. She screamed but didn't struggle against him. Shamashir laughed and remained on his place. He raised his hands in front of his face in praying position and started chanting something.
Inuyasha jumped around the different piles with construction materials, toward the door. Kagome had seen his sword and had yelled to him to stop and take it but he didn't listen. He didn't stop until they were at the door, then he let her go and before she could protest he spoke. "I want you to get away from here. Go to Miroku and take one of those ofudas. Make him teach you how to make the spell." he pushed her toward the door.
"Inuyasha, I'm not leaving you!" she tried to push his hands away but he wasn't giving up so easily.
"I said go!" he yelled and holding her for her shoulders gave her a hard shake. "I will hold him down until you come back."
"But..." she started.
"Do you want me to kill him?" Inuyasha asked, but this time his voice was low and dangerously threatening.
"Alright." Kagome nodded and turned to leave. Then they both saw that something like a barrier was forming and was closing the door. Not loosing anymore time, Inuyasha pushed her through and the barrier closed – the door turned into a wall.
"She got away, huh?" Shamashir's voice was heard somewhere from behind him.
"Of course!" Inuyasha snapped and carefully looked around but couldn't see him anywhere. "Why don't you come out? Or maybe I'm just too strong for you?"
"Don't flatter yourself so much." the demon's laughing voice seemed to be coming from every direction and that confused Inuyasha's senses very much. "Although you are really very strong, for a hanyou, your girl's power is what I need."
'Fuck.' Inuyasha cursed in his mind and fisted his hands. 'He's gonna wait for Kagome to come back.' he was right about that – Shamashir's intentions were really to wait for her. 'He saw how powerful she got when she wanted to be with me.'
While Inuyasha was trying to figure out his strategy, Shamashir was looking at the hanyou's sword. He seemed to be very intrigued with it as he crouched next to it and reached to touch it. He took it and expected it to transform like he had saw it do earlier, but it remained the same old and battered sword. Narrowing his eyes, he stood up and swung it but again nothing happened.
'I can clearly feel the youki of this sword. It is really something to behold.' the demon thought and swung Tetsusaiga again. 'I guess I will have to take Inuyasha's energy too...' he smirked and held the sword in front of his face. '...if I want to use this.'
Kagome fell on her butt pretty hard and when she lifted her head to look at the door it was already gone. She stood up and went closet to it to touch the new formed wall. Seeing that there was no point in staying there and practically wasting her time for nothing, she quietly apologized to Inuyasha for leaving him and ran away. She didn't stop running almost the whole way to her home. When she got to the well, she immediately jumped in. Exiting it she found herself face to face with her four friends.
They all greeted her and helped her get out of the well. Once on the ground she hurriedly explained what had happened and Miroku gave her the needed ofuda. He explained her how to make the spell and after thanking him she jumped back in the well, leaving them to stare after her with worried eyes. Shippo and Sango were obviously very depressed and the monk and Kirara did everything to keep their minds off of the problem – the small cat demon took the kitsune to play and Miroku, well he groped the demon exterminator, earning himself a several bumps on the head.
'I lost an hour already?' Kagome asked herself as she looked at her wristwatch. She was at the beginning of the park, taking a small break. Her breathing was heavy and sharp and people were looking at her oddly but she didn't care. 'I have to get to Inuyasha fast...' she thought and started walking, not able to run at the moment.
At the hangar, the hanyou still hadn't found Shamashir. He had gone to take his sword but hadn't found it. Now he knew that the demon would probably try to take his energy too, to be able to make Tetsusaiga transform. He had to be more careful than ever. The hangar was big and there were more than enough places to hide but Inuyasha didn't even think about something like that.
"Come on, Shashir..." he yelled and readied himself for an attack, but nothing happened. "Come out and fight..."
"I told Kagome, I'm telling you too – my name is Shamashir." the demon's voice was heard, again from every direction.
"And what kind of a name is that?" Inuyasha laughed. "My brother's name is better than that! How was it again? Shishir? Shashir?"
"Shamashir!" he hissed – clearly the pathetic hanyou had found something to make him angry with. "Don't make fun with it..."
"Or what?" Inuyasha snapped. "It's not only your name that's stupid. I haven't seen a weaker dream demon than you."
It seemed that Shamashir was trying to avoid conversations about himself, as he tried to change the subject. "To tell you the truth, it was really easy to possess you. The only problem came with that trance you fell into. But the most interesting thing is Kagome's powers. She has so much..."
"That's because she's a Miko, you idiot!" Inuyasha suddenly yelled just behind him, startling him. "And I fell in that trance because I've already been possessed by a dream demon." he continued when the demon turned to look at him in surprise and cracked his fingers. "God, how did you survive until now?"
Shamashir almost dropped Tetsusaiga and made a step back, stumbling and almost falling. How had he found him? Actually the reason wasn't hard to figure out – he had just underestimated the hanyou he was very soon going to fight with. Not wasting time in pointless talking he raised his gun and fired at Inuyasha. Of course, he managed to avoid the bulled, expecting him to do that and jumped aside.
"No, you're not getting away!" Shamashir yelled and threw Tetsusaiga at Inuyasha while he was in midair. Then while the hanyou avoided being stabbed by his own sword, the demon fired again and this time didn't miss. He laughed when Inuyasha yelped in pain and fell on the ground, holding his stomach.
TBC