Kiki's body temperature was rising by the minute. The flames around sensed her discomfort and were quickly slithering along the bottom of the crater to reach her. Her eyes drooped with heat exhaustion, and Inuyasha's body pressed against hers with a newfound weakness. Their lips were centimeters apart, causing ironic shivers to crawl up her spine. His claws enclosed around the beads of her necklace, dangerously close to the nook between her breasts where the jewel resided. She could still see the glaze in his eyes and know that he was underneath the demon's spell, even when their lives were in such danger.
Kiki realized that the pressure on her left shoulder was light enough for her to raise her left hand into Inuyasha's hair. As the flames around them came even closer, Kiki heard Inuyasha whisper her name seductively and then felt the warm sensation of his lips against hers. The first kiss lasted seconds before they parted, taking a quick breath and then pressing into each other again. Each one was deeper, more passionately involved. By the sixth, Inuyasha's tongue was tracing the outline of Kiki's upper lip, requesting entrance into her mouth. She was about to part her lips and allow him his desire when the flames finally reached them, flickering curiously at Kiki's right arm.
She jolted away from it and he allowed her to sit up and hit it out. Sweat rolled into her eyes and she licked her lips tentatively while wiping it off. What was that? Was that a desire of his?
She looked down and noticed that his claws were wrapped around the shikon jewel, which he had pulled from the nook on her chest. The dim realization of her freedom dawned upon her and she swept her legs out from under him. That left only ground beneath his body.
"Sit, boy!" Kiki gasped, and his necklace shrieked and pulled him to the ground, ripping his hands from the jewel. The flames around them reached to the sky hungrily at the sudden action and she fought with her demonic powers to keep them away.
"What did you do that for?" Inuyasha snapped in a familiar, angry tone, lifting his face from the blackened ground. His eyes had lost their glaze.
Kiki felt her eyes water with relief and flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and sobbing into his chest. "Thank the gods! You're back! You're back!" she cried, tightening her grasp around him as she felt the flames grow even hotter. "Get us out of here!"
"How in the hells?" Inuyasha sputtered, grasping her around the waist and leaping from the flames to the outskirts of the crater. He watched as the flames engulfed the place where they had been. Holding Kiki out in front of him, he examined her face with confused eyes. "What happened?"
Kiki felt her face flush with embarrassment. She turned her head to look at the ground instead of his eyes. "Uh… You were being controlled to take the jewel from me…"
Inuyasha pulled her to him suddenly, growling at something behind her. "Who are you? What do you want?"
"Master will be very angry if she is hurt... Is she hurt? She can't be. Your desire was also to protect her. You wouldn't have hurt her. That is why I used you to get the jewel. You have the jewel, yes?" the demon muttered frantically at them, reaching out a hand. Kiki pulled from Inuyasha and turned to the demon, her hair masking her face. She grabbed the demon by the shoulders and slowly lifted her eyes to look at him. The fire in them was even more hungry and angry than the flames behind her.
"Why doesn't he remember anything?" she growled at him, tone irritated. "Why doesn't he remember?"
"He didn't take the jewel but you are not injured. He does not remember because desires overrun mind." The demon answered quickly, squeezing in a sigh of relief. He acted as if Kiki was an old friend and not an enemy. "Master will not hurt me."
Kiki's fingers tightened around the demon's shoulders and her eyes glimmered with hatred. "Die." She said coldly, releasing a large amount of spiritual energy into his body. The demon screamed in pain and fell to the ground, sizzled to a crisp.
"Kiki, he had information! Why kill him?" Inuyasha exclaimed, catching her as she fell backwards. She felt faint, the heat having weakened her and her powers sucking the last of her energy away. "You idiot!"
"Inuyasha, let me have some of your energy." Kiki coughed, clasping her fingers around his hands. He had his arms under her armpits and was holding her up, her head resting on his right shoulder. "I need to stop the fire."
"My energy? Kiki, what the hell are you talking about?" Inuyasha inquired in frantic confusion. She felt him tense against her and sighed weakly.
"Just tell me if I can take some!" she snapped, digging her fingernails into his skin. He winced as she drew blood. "I need to stop the fire!"
"Sure! Just do it!" Inuyasha gasped, staggering forward as flames licked at his back. He had just realized the danger behind them.
Kiki sent her spiritual powers through his skin, gasping as energy ran through her veins. Inuyasha's grasp on her weakened noticeably and she pulled her fingernails out of him before he collapsed behind her, ripping herself from his grasp and turning to face him. He was slumped slightly and breathing heavily. "Thank you." She said softly, and raised her head to the sky.
"Due to fire sucking more power out of me than water, I am requesting the movement of a storm on the edge of my senses." Kiki explained as he raised an eyebrow at her. Red demonic energy wisped out of her and fled for the sky. "I can rain out the flames."
A black formation of clouds was soon above them, a whirlwind eating at the smoky air below it. Kiki fell back into Inuyasha's open arms as large droplets of rain began to fall on them. She panted heavily as he lifted her unconscious body bridal style and slowly trudged away from the dying flames.
She sought out his warmth and snuggled against his body, causing an image to flash across his eyes. It was Kiki, and she was pinned underneath him, eyes closed and left hand entwined in his hair. She was tense and sweaty, soot outlining her face and her hair stringy and sticking against his forehead.
He stopped dead as he recognized the memory of putting his lips against hers, store down at the same face snuggled against his chest. His breath became even harder to draw out and his face flushed in embarrassment. So that was why Kiki killed the demon…
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The first thing she noticed was a soft heartbeat in her ears.
The second thing Kiki noticed when she woke up was that her legs were cold. What was odd, at least to her, was that her upper body was warm but her feet and legs were freezing. As drowsiness cleared from her mind, she realized a couple things that led her to stiffen completely.
Next, she wasn't wearing any cloths but her soft leather breast band and underwear. At some point between when she collapsed into Inuyasha's arms and now, SOMEONE had removed her outer clothes. Following that tasty bit of information, she realized that she leaning against somebody's body, and that there was a cloth draped around her upper body. That was when she stopped all actions, including breathing.
"Mmph…" she heard someone who sounded much like Inuyasha say. Her eyes went wide as she realized that she was lying on top of him.
Their position was actually quite cute: Inuyasha was napping against a tree, his legs spread and his knees bent, one arm on the ground and another draped over Kiki's upper form. He had apparently put his red kimono shirt over her before he dozed off, but it hadn't helped much. It only covered half of her body: her neck to the top of her thighs. Kiki was curled up on top of him, using his chest as a pillow. Her butt was on the ground and her legs were curled up so that her knees were painfully stiff, and her arms were curled against her chest to keep them warm.
"Erm…" she managed in a pained voice after she regained her breath. Inuyasha opened one eye and she felt him tense under her in realization that he had dozed off.
"Uh... Are you… By any chance… Still asleep?" he asked quietly. Kiki put her hands on his chest and dug her nails into him as a reply. His body twitched sharply as a reaction and he cursed under his breath.
"Explain." Kiki demanded coldly. She didn't move for fear of letting even more cold air into her little cocoon. "Or die."
"Feh… You were wet so I took off your clothes and set them out to dry. Then you started shaking so I tried to get a fire going, but all the wood around here was wet. So I figured I'd use body heat." Inuyasha sighed. "I was going to get you dressed again but I guess my body decided it would be a nice time for a nap. Traitor…" He added the last word quietly, but Kiki heard it none the less.
"Ah-ha. It makes perfect sense. That you would undress me and then curl up against my half-naked body to keep me warm and then doze off with your arm around me." Kiki sarcastically replied. "I mean, there was no other option!"
Anger overrunning common sense, Kiki sat up and raised a hand, her intention to slap Inuyasha. His hanyou-reflexes caught her before she could make contact with skin.
"Honestly, it was a completely innocent act!" Inuyasha argued, catching her other hand as she tried to slap him again. "Woman! Do you think that's all I care about? Sex?"
"Isn't it?" Kiki backfired, baring her teeth at him. "Isn't it all you think about?"
"No, it isn't!" Inuyasha snarled. "I'm capable of emotions!"
"Like lust and desire?" Kiki snarled right back.
Inuyasha's ears went flat against his head on that one, his yellow eyes ablaze. "No! Like love!" he blurted, quickly shutting his mouth afterwards. Kiki stared him down for a minute or two and then drew back from him, clutching his shirt around her body to conceal as much as she could.
"Where are my clothes?" she demanded as she stood up. "I want my clothes."
"It's no use covering yourself; I already saw most of you…" Inuyasha muttered sourly. Kiki gave him a death glared and he shrunk away. "Feh. Over there." He waved at something behind her and she turned to see a tree with her clothes draped on the lower branches. Hastily, she nabbed them and ducked behind the tree, yanking her pants on first.
"You dropped your pack." Inuyasha informed her when she came out. "And now that you've made it rain everything in it is probably spoiled."
Kiki cursed at the eventful night they had gone through. Encountering 2 demons and facing a raging fire had not been fun. Her head ached just thinking about the information she had obtained through it. She wanted nothing less right now than to pick at everything thoroughly.
"My kneeeeeeees hurt…" Kiki moaned, tilting back and forth on her heels to try and stretch out her legs. "My whole body is stiff with cold…"
"Women. Always complaining." Inuyasha mumbled to himself, standing up and stretching.
"Men. Ever bastards." Kiki retaliated in a slightly louder voice, her tone saying 'I heard that!'.
Somehow, some way, they managed to stop fighting and decide on trying to find the pack. Even if most of the food was spoiled or had been eaten by wild animals, the pack and extra clothes inside of it were too valuable to leave behind.
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"This thing is trashed!" Kiki whined, picking through what once was her beloved traveling pack. Animals had been at it all night, picking and scratching at all the pockets. "And my clothes are all ripped! Look at these water sacks – Ruined! Ruined!"
"You never stop." Inuyasha sighed. He was leaning against a tree with his arms and legs crossed. "It's annoying."
"Your comments are always so… point-blank. You're so crude! You never consider the idea that what you say might actually hurt someone's feelings." Kiki snapped bitterly, trying to tie the sack closed. "It's annoying."
Inuyasha scowled at her, a face which she returned. Once she had managed to get the pack into traveling condition, she slung it over her shoulder and turned to face him.
"Where are we going?" Inuyasha inquired in a bored tone. "I don't smell any villages around here."
"That's why you're going to give me a ride! All the way to the next village!" Kiki exclaimed, suddenly her bright, perky, normal self. "Won't that be fun?"
"I'm what?" Inuyasha stuttered in surprise. "I'm WHAT?"
"Unless you want me to say the word! And I will. With good reason, too. I didn't do it when I woke up and found you cuddling with me this morning. The least you could do is carry me a ways. The whole trip would go faster if you would just do it all the time." Kiki argued.
"I wasn't cuddling you!" Inuyasha snapped defensively.
"Sure… But either way you're carrying me."
Grumbling something about abuse, Inuyasha crouched down and turned his back to her. She eagerly climbed on, slipping her legs between his arms. With a growl he started off, arousing a feeling of excitement in Kiki's brain. The thrill of flight.