Japan: 1931
4: One and Seven

She didn't plan on going back to sleep, but when the door slammed shut; she threw herself up automatically, in fighting stance in case.

"It is just me." Inuyasha stated as he walked in, his long cape flowing behind him.

Kagome frowned. Inuyasha never had a long black cape before, since when did he put it on?

"You scared me," Kagome sighed. "What happened?"

Inuyasha stared at her. "You do not remember?"

"Remember what?" Kagome asked. "I am tired and I have changed when I last look in the mirror."

"You seriously don't remember?" Inuyasha took a step towards her, and another until he was right in front of her.

"Uh…" Kagome looked anywhere, but at his face. "Um… I do not know… am I supposed to?"

Inuyasha frowned. "Perhaps it is his blood." He turned away, his long cape following like a shadow after him.

"Whose blood?" Kagome followed him.

"No one," he answered.

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha turned to look at her. "Yeah?"

"Since when did you start wearing a cape?"

"That is none of your business, Kagome." Inuyasha told her and then went into his study room.

"May I go out now?"

"No," Inuyasha answered loud enough to be heard through the door. "Stay there."

"Why?" Kagome asked.

"I need to check your blood."

"My blood?" Kagome blinked. "What?"

Inuyasha came out with a knife and a small plate.

"What are you doing?" Kagome moved back a step.

"I need to check your blood." Inuyasha took another step towards her.

"No!" Kagome shook her head. "You know how much I hate being cut."

"This will cause no pain at all compared to what you have had in the past," Inuyasha told her sharply.

"Why are you doing this to me?" Kagome almost shouted at him. "Why do you need to look at my blood."

"If you do not remember, it is your fate to not remember." Inuyasha told her and then backed her up against the door.

Kagome never feared him, and she knew she had noting to fear from him, but this was the first time he was acting real weird. She had no recollection of what happened, only that she had been fighting with him and then she had gone out to get something to eat, but instead had met five other guys and had taken her anger out on them. After that, everything was black, total darkness.

"I do not need your philosophy right now," Kagome growled angrily at Inuyasha. "I need answers. What happened and why are you doing this?"

Inuyasha didn't answer her.

"Fine," Kagome's anger sparked. "If you want to drink my blood so badly, why do you not just do it the old fashion vampire way and suck my blood?" Kagome turned her head and offered him her neck.

Inuyasha froze with the small dagger in his hand to look at her. He took another step, and another, until he was pushing her against the wall. "Maybe I will." He said coldly.

Kagome swallowed, her throat dry. She had only said that out of anger, she hadn't meant it. She wasn't ready to be bitten by him yet, even though she has had fantasy about how it felt like to be in his arm and be—. She took a deep breath as Inuyasha lowered his head. Okay, so maybe she wanted this to happen; after all, didn't she want to be his? Didn't she want to become his lover, his bride of the night?

She closed her eyes as his head went even lower and her breath quickened as she felt the tingly sensation of his breath on her neck. Her pulse quickened even though she tried not to show it, she knew Inuyasha could hear her heart very well. He could hear every beat of it. Was he really going to bite her, and would she feel pain? She remembered pain from somewhere else…but she couldn't remember where…

Inuyasha was tempted, he really was. Her pulse had quickened, and he could see the veins there, the heat she was carrying and the blood. He knew they would taste sweet, sweet and—

"Go on, what are you waiting for?" Kagome taunted.

He only wanted to take a look at her blood to see if she was changed because of Sesshomaru. It was not a big deal if a vampire bit someone since he/she wouldn't get change into a vampire, but the physical and sometimes mental attributes of the person can change. But Kagome was being her usual self, stubborn and refusing to do whatever he said.

He took a sharp intake of breath and controlled his urge. His fangs lengthened, but he closed his eyes, controlled the beast that was raging for her blood and turned away from her. "That mouth of yours can get you into trouble one day."

"When that time comes, I will suffer the consequences." Kagome told him, she was partially glad that he didn't bite her and not partially glad that he didn't.

Inuyasha took a deep breath because he was not feeling okay and went back to the dagger method. "Now give me your wrist or I will bite you."

"I like to see you try," Kagome answered him angrily. "You are always going to that little lover of yours you should try something different for a change at least."

Inuyasha didn't think she knew about Miaya, the girl he went to almost every night for nourishment whenever he felt the craving. "You are really asking for it huh?"

Kagome glared angrily at Inuyasha then held out her wrist. "Hurry up with it."

"I only need a few drops." He told her. "This will not hurt."

Kagome didn't even feel the pain as he drew the dagger across her wrist. Blood immediately poured from the wound and fell into the small plate. Inuyasha waited until he received a couple of drops and then he with his thumb, follow the wound from one side to the other side. The wound disappeared and healed immediately after he removed his thumb.

"Do not go outside." Inuyasha told her as he took the few drops and the dagger and went back into his study.

Kagome didn't listen. She went outside anyway, and found herself in a new world from the one she remembered before. The grass was greener and the woods were now a little bit brighter than before. She frowned. There was never a rock to her left was there? If there had been, she would have noticed it. The trees were also larger, and she was able to hear a lot more and see farther than before. There was something wrong with her; she was never able to hear anything for miles. She had good hearing, but never this good. And her eyes; they were more sensitive to the sun. It hurt like hell, dammit. It felt like she had never been out in the sun for years now and was finally out and getting use to the sun.

She walked a couple of miles, feeling like she could take on the world. She was going to turn back when she came upon the rock she had spotted. Somehow, she had thought that they were closer, but she had actually walked farther, as far as she could see. Kagome was getting really freaked out now.

Kagome stopped in front of the rock and stared at the name engraved on there.

Terri Jinru.

'Terri Jinru' she read quietly. 'Terri Jinru…' the name sounded familiar, she remembered it from somewhere…somewhere…someone calling out….

"Once you get your hands on me, you will not be killing me..."

"Watch out!"

"You can not defeat him!"

"Kiet, did you hear me back there? That thing is not human!"

"You have forgotten me. Bad girl, did Inuyasha put a spell on you to forget?"

"Leave him alone!"

Kagome turned back from the engraved rock and ran. She ran back into the cave, into the room and into Inuyasha's study room.

"What is it?" Inuyasha looked up, wondering if Sesshomaru came back.

"What happened to everyone?" Kagome asked. "What happened to me?"

"What?"

"I…remember…" she came to stand in front of him. "I remember bits and pieces…tell me…what happened?"

"So you remember a little?" Inuyasha asked. "I think you have changed…a little."

"I know I have changed." Kagome told him. "I…hear things much better, see things much better."

"And your strength?" Inuyasha asked.

"I do not know!" Kagome cried frustrated. "I just want to know what happen after…Sesshomaru attacked."

"You remember his name too?"

"He is your twin brother, is he not?" Kagome asked.

"No," Inuyasha shook his head. "We look a like, and people call us twins, but we are not really twins."

"Then what are you two? Why do you two look so much alike?"

"I am what I am. He is what he is." Inuyasha answered her.

"What is he then?"

"A vampire."

"He is a vampire…. Why then did he call you his twin brother?"

"We are…stepbrothers." Inuyasha turned to look at a painting of a woman. Kagome had never came into his study room before, and she had never demanded answers from him before. Probably because she forgot half of it, but now, now she was demanding answers.

"Stepbrothers…?" Kagome frowned. "How could that be? You are a vampil though…"

"Unlike him, my father was a vampire." Inuyasha answered, still looking at the picture. "My father, he took my mother and made her his bride of the night, but…" He stopped. It had been more than a thousand years now that his family had died, maybe even more, he could not remember. He knew it was a long time ago though; a very, very, long time ago because he was fifty years older before Sesshomaru was born.

"But what?" Kagome went to stand in front of him so he was forced to look at her instead of the painting or anywhere else.

He shrugged. "But she refused to be changed, and when they found out she had slept with him, they were to burn her." He pushed her hair away from her eyes by staring at it. "Eventually, my father died saving her, and she was rescued by my father's best friend, who was a human."

"Who are they?" Kagome didn't move an inch because he was peering at her through those piercing golden eyes, looking past her eyes and into her soul and her mind.

"They were people."

"Just…people?"

"People who were afraid of something unknown to them."

Inuyasha told her, still keeping her gaze. He wasn't trying to hypnotize her, but Kagome felt like she was already under his spell.

"Sesshomaru's father rescued your mother then?" Kagome wanted to know more about him, wanted to find out where he came from and how he was, how he lived.

"Yes," he moved in towards her a little closer. "My mother grew to love him and gave birth to Sesshomaru, who was an ordinary human being."

"Then how did he become…?" Kagome trailed off.

"A vampire?" Inuyasha stepped in a little more so if he leaned his head foreword, it would be touching hers.

"Yes…" Kagome gaze fell down to his lips. They were in great shape and looked very kissable. She was not going to be affected, she told herself, but she had waited forever for him to kiss her and if this was the only chance she will ever get, she was willing to go for it.

"Your heart is beating."

"I am…not dead…" she was also having difficulty breathing.

He almost grinned, but he didn't want to lose the effect. "I mean your heart is beating a lot faster."

"You are not supposed to be listening," she said breathlessly.

"I can not help it, it is a vampil thing." He told her.

"Then pretend it is something else…" she told him. "Sesshomaru…"

"Like what?" He leaned forward, pretending he hadn't heard her say Sesshomaru.

"You are not playing fair," she told him. "I want to know about Sesshomaru and what happened…the fight and everything."

"Poor Kagome, you do not remember most of it do you?" Inuyasha smiled at her, removing another strand of hair away from her eye, this time with his hand.

"I want to know about Sesshomaru." She told him stubbornly. It was hard already trying to keep her mind from doing what her heart wanted for so long, especially with Inuyasha's eyes on her and not to mention the effect it has on her and her senses.

"Forget about Sesshomaru," Inuyasha told her. "Sesshomaru can wait. This cannot."

"What cannot wai—" Kagome didn't immediately close her eyes as she felt his lips on hers. She stood still and stiff beneath him. She had expected a kiss, but this was her very first kiss and she had no idea what to do. She had always thought that when it came to kissing, as long as it was with Inuyasha, she would know what to do, or how to react, but her mind was not with her. It was somewhere in heaven.

His lips felt soft against hers, soft and a little different, a feeling she had never experienced before, but she didn't care, she relaxed slowly, but didn't close her eyes.

"Close your eyes." Inuyasha whispered against her mouth.

Kagome closed her eyes and almost sigh. She was feeling good, delirious, all because he was kissing her.

"Kagome?"

"Yes?" she sighed.

"Put your arms around me." He told her.

Kagome put her arms around his neck. "Is this right?"

"Perfect." He murmured.

"Inuyasha?" She asked.

"Hmm…?"

"Is the kiss over yet?" Kagome asked because she didn't want the kiss to be over yet.

Inuyasha smiled against her mouth. "You call that a kiss?"

"Well…yes, at least I think it was a kiss."

"That was only a peck." He told her. Then he put his mouth on hers and nibbled softly on her lips. Kagome press closer to him, touching the hair at his nape.

"Was that a kiss?" Kagome sigh once he removed his mouth from her lips.

"Not even close." Inuyasha told her.

"Then give me a kiss!" Kagome demanded.

Inuyasha put his lips on hers once more. Kagome closed her eyes again, expecting something more than nibbling to happen, but nothing did.

"Kagome, open your mouth." Inuyasha finally told her.

"My wha—" Kagome opened her mouth, and was in for the shock of her life.

Finally, Inuyasha thought. He didn't want to scare away innocent Kagome, but he was finally kissing her the way he had dreamed of for years now. He hadn't expected her to sleep so long, but two years was a long time for her and he had been afraid that she was never going to wake up. It had been miracle that she was finally awake. He had begin to lose hope and was already searching for doctors, even Sesshomaru, who had disappeared after he had nearly killed him in battle, to find a way to get her to come back to him.

He trace her lips slowly nibbling along the way, not wanting to scare her, and when she returned the kiss, he knew she was finally getting over her shyness and was getting a little bold in her attacks. He could hear her heart beating, but not her thoughts. She had closed off her thoughts to him. It was just as well because he also had closed his thoughts to her, not wanting her to know that he had distracted her purposely so she could forget about Sesshomaru for the time being. He didn't want to talk about Sesshomaru just yet. What he had found in her blood, he needed to examine a little more and see if it was what he had thought it was.

And he should be getting back to that pretty soon, but he was being distracted. As much as he wanted to linger on the kiss and savor it, he had to get back to work. Sesshomaru was going to be back, and he was going to be back real soon. If he had made it into a full fledge vampire like he had feared, then he was going to recuperate quicker and come back a lot stronger. What Kagome didn't know was that Sesshomaru was going to really come for her when she turned eighteen, and she was now seventeen. He was going to come real soon, he had no idea when and where, but he was going to prepare anyway, first and foremost, teaching her how to block the spells like she had done while she was young and increase her fighting techniques.

He pulled away before they could end up somewhere else and pushed her away. "God forbid." He muttered.

Kagome didn't hear him, she was still in a daze, and she had to lean against the desk or fall to the ground.

"Kagome?"

Kagome turn her gaze on him, her eyes were still groggy and unfocused. "Inuyasha?"

"That is enough for today," Inuyasha told her. "You need to get some rest." Even though she had gotten more rest than she would ever need, he thought. Two years of sleep would have been good enough for him.

"Rest?" Kagome blinked, trying to focus her attention on her surroundings and where she was. "Rest? I just woke up. Why would I need to rest?"

"Because—" he stopped, because what? He didn't want to remind her of Sesshomaru. He wasn't ready to answer her questions yet. He needed all the answers first before he could answer her. He wasn't going to tell her that she needed rest because she had been bitten by a vampire, Sesshomaru to be exact, and that her body was changing…only a little, thanks to Sesshomaru. His mind settled on her neck, where Sesshomaru had bitten her. He knew exactly where the Sesshomaru had bit her even though the teeth marks had disappeared a long time ago while her body was still healing itself from the attacks and the memories of that horrifying night.

No matter, he thought as he turned back to examine her blood once more. He was going to take her nearer to a village so that she could at least get some protection there whenever he was not around and he was not going to let Sesshomaru take her away from him. He was willing to let her go, he was willing to let any other guy take her, but not Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru would destroy her mind, body and spirit. He wouldn't kill her, but he would let her live lifelessly and that, he didn't want her to become, a lifeless thing.

End

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