Alluring Scent

A/N: The only one excuse for this chapter's being so crappy is that it's really hot and when I'm hot I can't write good stuff. I guess Forest Spirit's fans waiting for the update will have to wait till weekend to read the next chapter, maybe till this time the weather will become less crazy. But don't worry, I'll try to produce some Barks chapters when it's late at night and cooler.

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Yuka, Eri and Ayumi were standing in a shop with Kagome, picking perfumes. They were in the middle of an alley full of sweet scents.

"I'll take the Peach Heaven," Ayumi said and picked a vial. "It smells so pretty!"

"Yeah, it suits you," Yuka nodded as she smelled a slip of paper she had sprayed with some perfume. She cringed and put that bottle back on its shelve "You must always find a smell that suits you and makes boys attracted to you. Right, Kagome?" she turned to the only girl in their group who had a boyfriend right now.

"Eh..." Kagome frowned a little, thinking about the said boy. "Inuyasha has a great sense of smell and he relies on it all the time. I guess you're right, it may be important..." the young miko trailed off, thinking about Inuyasha and the idea of seducing him with some perfume.

"And which perfume do you use?" Eri asked, tilting her head.

"Um..." Kagome didn't have time to answer because Yuka chuckled and pointed to the end of the alley. Kagome gasped as she saw Inuyasha standing there, swaying a little and obviously irked. "Sorry, guys, I need to go."

She ran to the hanyou who was observing her, his eyes blazing in the shadow cast on his face by the baseball cap. He grabbed her by an elbow and practically dragged away from the alley. They had to pass a few meters before he took a deep breath

"Don't go there again. I couldn't find ya," he said, his voice tense. Kagome just smiled thinking that all the perfume scents had to mask her own scent and it was why he was so was always so serious about protecting her and to do so he had to know wherre she was. 'If he trusts his nose more than anything maybe I could use it to make him...' Kagome thought, following her hanyou to the fast food alley.

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Kagome climbed off the well and sat beside it, smiling to herself. It was the day to put her plan into motion. She had given it a lot of thinking and had done some research before spending money on the perfect smell she could pick.

She was sure that perfumes and pre-made stuff were not good. What if there were traces of scents he could pick while a human couldn't? So she used only fresh, natural stuff and didn't use a lot of it too, not to overwhelm him. Now she had just to wait and see what would happen. Soon enough she felt his youki approach and it made her smile. He was sneaking on her, slowly approaching her from the direction the wind was blowing in. Kagome chuckled and adjusted her incense bag on her shoulder, sewed to the collar of her blouse by a few strands of thread. Then she sat with her legs bent, her head resting on her knees, pretending to be lost in thought. She just had to wait and see if her plan was good.

She heard sniffing just beside her ear and resisted the urge to flinch and look at him. She could feel his warm breath on the skin on the side of her neck. Then...

The hanyou crouching just behind the miko let out a small rumbling noise of approval before opening his mouth and digging his fangs in the bag attached to her shoulder. With a quick movement he tore his prey from her blouse and quickly retreated.

With a surprised gasp Kagome lifted her head and looked back. Inuyasha was crouching a few meters away from her, tearing the bag to shreds with his claws and devouring the fried chicken leg. In matter of seconds he was holding but a few straps of fabric and a bone.

"H-hey!" she glared at him as he licked the bone, one ear swiveled in her direction when he put the bone between his teeth and... Bit it in half.

"Have more?" he asked and his eyes lit up with predatory curiousity. Kagome gulped when she saw the hanyou looking up and down her form, obviously looking for more of her perfume...

A/N 2: I saw this motif quite a few times and I was always so surprised Kagome actually tried to use floral perfumes or other stuff and ended up knocking out Inu's poor sensitive nose or stuff like this. Kagome's a smart girl, I'm pretty sure she'd realize she had to adjust the perfume trick to work on our favourite hanyou. So I decided to give it a shot and that's how this chapter was born.