The Blood I Shed for You
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"I didn't even have to say 'sit'." She chuckled.
At that exact moment, she heard a series of loud thuds and angry shouts from half way down the stairs.
"Oops!" She exclaimed, her eyed wide. "I didn't realize he could still hear me."
She ran to her door and poked her head out. "Sorry, Inuyasha!"
Her only response was murderous, yet muffled, yelling from the bottom of the stairs.
~~~Sengoku Jidai: Inuyasha Forest~~~
Inuyamainu watched Kouga through sympathetic eyes as he relayed what had happened to his pack. Losing a single member of a pack was heartbreaking. She couldn't imagine losing almost all.
"So then I pounded Inuyasha into the ground. I thought he was dead, so did Kagura. She told me the truth, about everything, even that the shikon shard in my arm wasn't real. It was a fake, a poison fake. To both our surprise, Inuyasha got up to fight her. I couldn't, because the poison in my arm paralyzed me. In the end, we won. I thought I would have had to cut my arm off to survive, but Kagome used an arrow to purify the fake shard. At that point I passed out. When I woke up again, they were all gone. I've been searching for Naraku, and my revenge, ever since."
Inuyamainu shook her head. "I've heard nothing but horror stories about this Naraku character. Should I ever meet him, I will not show him mercy. I can never forgive him for the crimes he has committed against so many innocent people." She looked at him sympathetically. "I'm terribly sorry about what happened to your clan. I can't begin to imagine your sorrow."
Kouga looked off, squinting at the sun, which was steadily rising. "It's hard. I miss them a lot. They were my family. All I have left are distant cousins. I'm always trying to think of ways to rebuild our pack. I'm afraid that my clan will die out completely." He said sadly.
Inuyamainu was silent. She couldn't really think of anything comforting to say. What would she feel if her whole family died? She shook her head at the thought.
"Wow. We've been talking all night." Kouga said, cheering up the mood a bit.
"It certainly seems that way." Inuyamainu said warmly.
"So do you want to be my woman, yet?" Kouga grinned.
Inuyamainu smiled, shaking her head as she pushed Kouga out of the tree. She heard a thud and a groan as Kouga hit the ground.
"Is that a yes?" he asked after a moment.
Inuyamainu couldn't help but laugh. "Kouga, you're incorrigible!" She said, smiling down at him.
"Hey! I am not! What does that mean?"
Inuyamainu's smile broadened as she stood to lean against the trunk of the tree. "It means…" she said, her tail beginning to wag, "that you're hopeless."
Kouga jumped back into the tree, his own tail wagging slightly. "I may be hopeless, but I'm fast."
"I'm faster." Inuyamainu said, humor in her voice.
"I'm smarter." Kouga grinned.
"That's very unlikely."
"I'm drop-dead good looking." He said, shining his nails on his shirt.
Inuyamainu chuckled. "That's debatable."
"Debatable!? I'm the hottest thing next to the sun!" He gloated.
"And just as full of hot air." She smirked.
"Hot air, huh?" He said, leaning forward to whisper in her ear. "I bet I can make you sweat." He breathed into her ear, trailing a finger along her jaw.
He leaned back to look at her face, noticing the smirk was gone, but a nice blush had taken its place.
"What's the matter?" He continued huskily. "Nervous?"
Her blush deepened. He knew she was. He could smell it. He could smell that she liked it, too.
"All those years alone in your clan's records with just words on pages." He said, tilting her face up with his finger. "Never knowing a male's touch." He said, snaking his arm around her slim waist, pulling her against him.
Inuyamainu shivered as he trailed his nails down her neck. A faint whimper escaped her lips against her will. Kouga smirked hungrily and leaned forward until their lips were nearly touching.
"Have you ever been kissed?"
Inuyamainu parted her lips to speak, causing her upper lip to brush ghost-like against his. "No." she barely managed to speak, her voice as choppy as her breath.
Kouga smirked as he prepared to change than once and for all.
"Inuyasha? Inuyamainu?" A voice called.
"Inuyasha? Inuyamainu?" Another voice called.
Inuyamainu took this distraction as a blessing as she slipped out of his arms and darted out of the tree towards the voices.
"Dammit!" Kouga cursed as he punched the tree in frustration. He took a breath to calm himself, then smiled. "At least I know she likes me." He grinned.
With that said, he took off running back to his den to catch upon some sleep.
Meanwhile, Inuyamainu was cursing herself.
"What is wrong with me!? I could have overpowered him easily! So why didn't I? So what if I've never been kissed? I don't want to!" She said stubbornly. She shook her head. "I am not even acting like myself. I'm so stupid to have let my hormones stupefy me that way. I've never acted like that before. Of course, I've never been around a male youkai before, at least one that's not related to me. So I'll turn into a drooling idiot every time I'm around some strange youkai?" She grumbled angrily as she spotted the group from the night before. "I refuse to act like some love-struck 91 year old going in heat for the first time! I need to act like myself." She said firmly, regaining herself.
With that, she stopped talking until she met with the small, but strange group from the night before.
"Hello, Lady Inuyamainu." Miroku greeted.
"Good morning, houshi, lady Sango, little Shippo." She greeted in return. "I hope you all rested well."
"As well as can be expected." Sango said, sending Miroku a meaningful glance. "Thank you."
"How was your sleep?" Miroku asked politely.
"My night was quite eventful, so I'm afraid I haven't had the chance to sleep tonight."
"I am sorry to hear that you did not rest well, then." Miroku said.
"Do not be. It turned out to be a night full of learning." Inuyamainu said, her look serious as she pulled her cloak over herself.
Now that the sun was coming up, she needed protection against its strong rays. She had been shaded in the boughs of the God tree, but now she was walking about. She was only now getting used to the heat. Eventually she would be able to wear more… decent clothes. Until she got used to the brightness of Japan's sun, she would need to wear the cloak, so it didn't really matter what she wore. She noticed Miroku looked disappointed and shot him a glare from beneath her hood. How on earth could someone so perverted become a monk?
"So did you manage to find Kouga all right?" Sango asked, shifting the weight of her Hiraikotsu.
"Yes, thank you."
"Did you manage to get a shard from him?" Sango asked, more curious.
"Yes. I used it to go to Kagome's time, as I planned to."
"How did you ever convince Kouga to let you use one of his shards?" Sango asked, surprise in her voice.
"I challenged him to a race." Inuyamainu said coolly.
