Children… did you really think that I would deceive you with an Inu/Kag label and then make Kagome fall in love with Koga? Calm down and read.
READERS BEWARE. The following passage involves the slightest bit of lemony goodness.
Italicized text signifies the thoughts of the characters, and, in some cases such as this, their dreams…
This time here… this time that had deceptively disguised itself as a few moments… was in actuality the bulk of eternity. The hut, the forest, the world, the universe became black and white bystanders of no significance. The only color in Inuyasha's world splashed over the two beings in front of him, locked together in awkward embrace. How easily a few seconds became enough time for rivers to run dry and mountains to crumble… enough time for Inuyasha to notice every gory detail about the scene.
Koga's lips were too thin for Kagome's. They provided no shelter to those full, rosy petals that Inuyasha knew he could comfort. Inuyasha imagined it always, how perfectly her lips found the part between his own and molded there to become the most resounding symbol of his affections. Koga was too far away from her. Had it been Inuyasha above her, he would have pressed himself close enough to her flesh so that he could feel her heart pulsing with anticipation. He wanted to know when it forgot to beat, so that he could take that chance to kiss her more deeply. Koga was so foolish.
His scent… his scent did not compliment her own. He reeked of sweat and uncertainty. Inuyasha would take Kagome's lips surely and absolutely, even if her heart was fumbling to grasp the affair. Damn his wicked hands. They clutched to her wrists like an idiotic boy who had no sense of what else to do. Inuyasha's hands would have feathered up to her palms and laced between her fingers. He would be sure, and it would be love unrivaled.
But even eternity must pass. With time, Koga lifted his head and opened his eyes, staring meekly at the woman below him. He slowly surrendered her wrists and dismounted her shaking body. She did not move.
"She has been subdued," Kaede whispered. Her voice was unnatural now, perturbing a silence that should have been kept. She would not speak again.
Kagome lips parted once more. Her hand, like an injured bird trying to take flight, crept up to Koga's face, trembling and twitching. She found his jaw line and gently caressed it with her shaking fingers. As her hand moved down his jaw, Koga's body seemed to follow and leaned more closely to the girl. She drew in breath. Inuyasha did not.
"Th-th…"
"She's trying to speak," Shippo whispered. Miroku covered his Shippo's mouth with his hand, eyes never leaving Kagome and Koga.
She drew a longer breath.
"Thank you… Inuyasha."
In Kagome's mind, the kiss that brought her back from the depths of her nightmares belonged to Inuyasha. In Kagome's mind, only one assassin existed, and it was for him that she smiled before she slumped into dreams.
"She fell asleep!" Sango murmured.
Koga slowly stood to his feet. All eyes were on him now, as he sullenly walked to the other side of the hut and vanished through the door. The four hands peeled off of Inuyasha, and for a moment he remained motionless. The range of his emotions was vast and tumultuous. He was incredulous at Koga's actions, saddened by his own inability to be with Kagome and relieved that her precious smile was not for Koga but for him. He crawled toward her, shaking in pain, and laid himself down next to her gingerly. In the ensuing silence, Kaede stood and drew the curtain over the two so as to give them a shade of privacy. She exited the space.
Inuyasha's eyes traveled over Kagome's body with concern. Kagome was on her back, calmly dreaming. Inuyasha remained on his side, but withdrew the towel from her eyes as she slept. Her face was scored with marks from the spines on Naraku's limbs. Inuyasha cringed to imagine her pain, and involuntarily took her hand in his own. He heard voices from the other side of the curtain, and creaking floorboards signaled their departure from the hut. He exhaled.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't there for you," he said. He paused, closed his eyes and shifted closer to her. "I'm sorry that it wasn't me who brought you back."
With that final exhalation, Inuyasha surrendered to sleep.
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Light peeked through the minute gaps in the ceiling and trickled over the two inhabitants of the hut below. Kaede, Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kilala had abandoned the hut for a neighboring shelter in which they could prepare more medication and leave the injured undisturbed.
"Kagome…" Inuyasha growled deeply into her ear. His voice could almost be mistaken for a soft purr, every syllable laced with undulations of desire. Kagome laid below him, her soft hair spilling out from underneath her angelic face like a twisted halo. Eyes half-lidded, she smiled back at him deviously. While Inuyasha's head still lingered next to hers, Kagome allowed her lips to gently caress the flesh of his neck and collarbone, her tongue occasionally swiping past her teeth to allow goosebumps to rise over Inuyasha's body. He mounted her warm body, purposefully hovering so that his skin just brushed the top of hers. He wetted his lips above her teasingly and smirked. Kagome, just as proficient in the art of seduction, lifted her leg up between Inuyasha's, and gently began to rub against the throbbing. Inuyasha's hips lurched uncontrollably to her touch, and he moaned in delight. Kagome's foot curled up around him and drew him closer to her body.
Inuyasha's eyes sprung open. He was covered in sweat, body reeling from his dream. Kagome was now on her side, as well, and had positioned herself so that her leg had snaked in between his own in the night. He could not tell what she was dreaming, but it had her slowly pushing and pulling her leg against his heat. Inuyasha tried to ignore his racing heart and pull away, but he could not help but notice that the prospect of removing himself was very difficult. Her skin was flushed and dewy from the heat of the small space, and her lips were parted enticingly. She moaned, and Inuyasha couldn't help but wonder if they had perhaps been sharing the same dream…
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