Chapter Seven: Lust and Chasity (Part Two)
Gripping tightly onto the back of his shirt, I tried to get Inuyasha to pull back. The man before us was a priest, his robes a dead giveaway. And Inuyasha was growling and panting at the man like he was a demon. But Inuyasha was the demon while the man could seriously hurt the hanyou. It was the last thing I wanted, but the wish brought us here for a reason. So when Inuyasha refused to back up, I stepped around him and in between.
"Kagome Higurashi. Nice to meet you…."
"Shichinintai. But you may call me Suikostu."
Ripped backward, Inuyasha had his arms around me protectively, and I gripped his forearms as hard as I could. "Inuyasha, this man is a priest."
"Oh yeah? Well, this mother fucking priest is the same man that cursed me."
"What?"
It didn't make sense; it wasn't possible. But if anyone knew, it was Inuyasha, and I didn't doubt him for a second. "Never caught a name before, but you are the spitting image. So, asshole, how are you still alive?!"
The man laughed and shook his head at the ground. "I know what you're thinking, Inuyasha, but I'm sure if you smell me, you'll understand."
He held me tight, leaning over me to sniff the air. I looked at the upside-down image of Inuyasha's jaw as he scented the air like a dog. When he stepped back, his hold on me lessened a little out of confusion, I think. "You're…you're not him?"
"Since I was a child, I was told you would come for me one day. And that it would be up to me whether to remove your curse."
"Hold on a minute," I shoved on Inuyasha's arms and got them to unlock, "you knew? You knew he was draining his life away on wishes he should never have granted in the first place?!"
"I haven't been alive that much longer than you, Kagome-chan. And I have no gifts that allow me to find jinni or cursed. So they have to come to me."
"What if he died?! What if he used up all his energy before he came to you?! Do you know how many selfish humans he's had to deal with all this time?!"
Inuyasha's arms locked around me again, pulling me back the short distance I had raged closer to the priest. Suikostu smiled softly at my anger as if placating a child, "I had no choice. And at least he has a kind master like you now to bring him here."
"I'm not his master," I spat out. I wanted it to be clear; I wasn't like those others that had Inuyasha before.
Suikostu looked confused. "I don't understand; how do you have Inuyasha now?"
"I don't!"
Inuyasha took to rubbing up and down my arms, trying to calm me, and it was working. "She was a…co-master. Her brother had me first, and now a friend of hers does."
"You refuse to be his master?" Suikostu asked.
"I was supposed to be his master, but I guess the lamp counted me as his master when my brother had him. The lamp wouldn't work for me when I tried…."
"There's no such thing as co-masters. Whoever rubs the lamp is the one to own the wishes."
Inuyasha huffed above me, "then why the hell didn't it work for her?"
Suikostu stepped back, beckoning us to follow without words. "There could be many reasons. Kagome-chan perhaps didn't want to be your master?" That was very likely. I wanted Inuyasha out of the lamp, but I didn't want to 'own him'. "I was taught all about your curse, Inuyasha, so if you wanted Kagome-chan to be your master, it wouldn't have allowed you to serve her. The point of your punishment is to serve those you cannot stand."
Suikostu led us to an inner room of the shrine, dark reds and bright yellows covered dark mahogany. The room was dark, even with the sun shining outside. Suikostu gestured for us to sit, and Inuyasha hesitated, so I did too. But then, the hanyou pulled me down with him, keeping us so close together that our thighs touched. Suikostu slowly sat across from us, a thin square mat on the floor that spanned between us.
Silence stretched out with it, the three of us looking at one another. Until Inuyasha took a deep breath, "I'm sorry, Shichinintai-san, for not protecting your family. But I didn't kill them."
Suikostu nodded, "even if you did, I can't free you from the curse, Inuyasha-san. I'm sorry."
"Why not?!" I screamed, and Inuyasha was holding me back.
I could feel the tears that streamed down my cheeks, but I didn't care. We'd come all this way for nothing. Used more of Inuyasha's life force, and we had nothing else to go on from this. Suikostu looked shocked by my outburst, and so was I, but mostly, I was terrified that I'd had to watch Inuyasha drain away to nothing. The next thing I knew, I was sobbing in Inuyasha's arms. A few heart-wrenching moments later and Suikostu spoke again, softly.
"Oh…I see. You love him."
I tensed so hard; there was no way Inuyasha didn't feel it. He only held me tighter, knowing I would pull away if given a chance. He didn't give me the opportunity to refute it, continuing on the conversation as if I hadn't just been 'outted'. "Kagome and her brother showed me the truth. For over a century, I'd taken this punishment for a crime I thought I'd committed. I didn't care; I wanted my life to end…until…."
"Until you met Kagome-chan?" I managed to get my face free, carefully looking at Inuyasha's face. His cheeks were bright red as he nodded to the priest. "The fact that you didn't commit the crime does change things…."
I pushed away from Inuyasha hard, the hanyou in a daze, so I got free, mostly. "He didn't! I swear! And my brother and his fiancé can attest to it too. I know it may seem like I'm just…."
"Trying to save your lover?"
I coiled back at the word, and Inuyasha's grip on my hips pulled me the rest of the way to his side, "listen, Priest, we ain't lovers, so cut that shit out!"
Suikostu chuckled. "Forgive me, I understand the implication of the term, and I mean no harm. But, you two are in love with each other?"
Inuyasha wouldn't look at me; he kept his glare on Suikostu. "Yeah, but it ain't like that."
"It doesn't seem as if the curse has held you back, Inuyasha. Why would it matter if you broke it now that you have Kagome-chan?"
Inuyasha grew silent and didn't answer, but I had plenty of reasons, "What if something happens to the lamp? What if something happens to me? If the lamp ends up in someone else's hands, what could we do? Inuyasha doesn't have infinite demonic energy, this will kill him, and I can't…I can't lose him!" Inuyasha was grabbing at me to pull me back and silence me, but I wasn't done. "I'm his family, and I refuse to let him suffer this anymore. Especially for a crime, he didn't commit!"
My peace said; I was thrusted back into Inuyasha's arms. A few more silent tears snuck free, and I selfishly rubbed them into Inuyasha's chest. He was running his fingers through my hair and being so affectionate (while I sat in his lap); I wondered if his cheeks were bright red as he comforted me in front of another?
"It was explained to me that…Inuyasha was a wild monster put to a long and painful death for his crimes. They describe you as unlovable. And unforgivable. The crime you were said to commit was the cruelest and most wicked of our family tree. But if you were not responsible, then who was?"
"I haven't the fucking foggiest," Inuyasha's chest rumbled under my cheek as he spoke.
"I must say, you're nothing like I expected." There was a moment of silence, and I dared to look; Suikostu was smiling carefully at me when I did. "Inuyasha has you to thank, Kagome. If he'd come here alone and telling me that he was innocent or changed, I never would have believed him. But you…you've convinced me."
"So you can remove the curse?"
I held my breath, waiting for the answer, when Suikostu nodded, "I can and I will. But I have to prepare. You two should go and rest. I'm sure you had a very long journey to get here. Longer than many."
Quickly, I pushed out of Inuyasha's lap and wrapped my arms around the priest's neck. "Thank you." It came out as a whisper, but I had never felt more appreciative in my whole life. And I needed one more thing from the man. "May I use your phone?"
oOo
"Ug, you've got to be kidding me," I got that Miroku didn't want to spring for two rooms, but this was too much, "he couldn't get us a double?!"
I had entered the hotel room first, the closest place with a vacancy that Miroku could find. He had gotten us a room, but it had a single queen bed in it. I supposed it was better than the tube hotels…barely. If we were in those tubes, then Inuyasha and I would have separate beds. At least, I hoped we would have in that scenario.
Inuyasha took his time entering in behind me. We hadn't said a word since leaving the shrine, and the tension was thick. The single bed we would have to share didn't help in the least. "I'm sorry, looks like my brother is as cheap as ever." I sat on the edge and removed my sneakers, "Suikostu said he would need a day or two. We'll have to make the best of things until then…."
"Kagome," the first thing Inuyasha had said in hours, my head sprang up to face him instantly, "thank you."
I relaxed, my muscles finally releasing the stress they'd held since we left the temple. "You're welcome. There's nothing I wouldn't do for you, Inuyasha."
He flushed, and I felt my cheeks do the same. But he didn't look surprised by my words, and I meant them. "And I would do anything for you. That's why we should get Sango to make her last two wishes so you can be my master. Make your wishes before I can't grant them anymore."
Now I was shocked, slowly getting to my feet in a stupor. "Are you crazy? That would never work; you'd go back to your bottle in LA!"
"Her last wish should be sending us back here together then…."
"Not to mention the drain on your life span…."
"I have more than enough life left to give…."
I paced away from him, more livid than I'd ever been in my life. And that included the time Souta shaved one of my eyebrows off while I slept. "NO! There's nothing I want more than you to have your life! There's nothing I want more than you!"
In a blink, I was surrounded by Inuyasha. His arms were on either side of my head as he pinned me against the wall with his dark-colored eyes. "I wanted to make you happy. That's why the lamp didn't work. I wanted to give you everything you deserved. I wanted to make you happy…."
Inuyasha ducked his head in shame, and it only confused me. Then, grabbing his face in my hands, I forced him to look at me even with my difficulty. "I am happy. When I'm with you."
"Marry me." He said, staring me dead in the eyes with total seriousness.
I ducked under his arm and raced to the other side of the room. "Inuyasha…"
"You love me. And I love you…."
He was still across the room from me, but I didn't know how long that would last. "I do love you, but Inuyasha, you've only had me show you kindness in your whole life. There are so many people in this world that will be just as kind. And that you don't feel obligated to…."
"I feel nothing but want when I'm around you."
"Of course you do," I said, trying to keep my heart from leaping around in my chest with glee, "I was your master…."
"You were never my master," Inuyasha turned to face me, and I struggled to breathe; he was just too beautiful, "I thought the same as you do. I thought the lamp made me want you. That it was the compulsion of the curse. But there was more to it, and you deserved my utter devotion regardless. I stayed in the lamp so long after Miroku, waiting to see if it faded, but it only grew Kagome. You were never my master, so all that I feel is real. I want you, Kagome, but I won't touch you without at least the promise of making this real."
"Real?"
Inuyasha's face was turning purple, but it looked different than if he was embarrassed because his eyes were turning red too. "I won't sully what we have with sex. I want us to get married, and I want to do it right. But all I can promise is to marry you after because I can't wait any longer. Especially if we share a bed."
I swallowed something thick down my throat, and my eyes unconsciously glanced at the bed. "No one…does that anymore. So you don't have to marry me just because we…sleep together."
Inuyasha moved closer, showing me the muscles that strained under his shirt and the fire that raged in his eyes. "Then marry me because you want to. Because I want to."
I had to look at the floor before my body caught on fire from Inuyasha's stare. He didn't let me escape, appearing before me to tilt my chin back up with his claw under it. "What if you…change your mind…after?"
"I won't."
"You don't know that."
Pressed not so gently against the wall, this time, Inuyasha had his entire body on me. The fire was now licking at my spine, starting in my lower belly and inner thighs. He had my hands pinned above my head, probably so I couldn't push him away. But I wasn't going to, not with my body turning to gooey mush from his touch and stare. "I love you, Kagome. No one else. We're going to make love, and then when the priest frees me, he's going to marry us. All you have to do is say 'yes'."
I searched his eyes, his face, looking for anything to help me understand. This felt like a joke or a sick trick. Someone like Inuyasha wasn't supposed to love me. He was supposed to love a movie star or something: a model or stunning beauty. I was a no-one with average looks. To say I was struggling to believe it was an understatement. I had expected to free Inuyasha and him to go off to explore. Learn about love and loss all over again but eventually meet someone at his level to love. And to invite me to his wedding. I didn't mean to fall in love with him, and I never expected him to fall in love with me. But as his unwavering stare penetrated me, it was slowly becoming clear that, somehow, Inuyasha had fallen in love with me as well.
"Yes," I whispered, and Inuyasha's face dropped to mine.
His lips gripped mine as if his life depended on it. He was sucking deeply on my lower lip only to switch and thrust his tongue against my mouth. I opened it for him, allowing our tongues to play. But Inuyasha, it wasn't play for him; it was hunger.
Inuyasha had released my wrists and slid his hands down my arms until he cupped my face, holding me still while he got his fill. I tried to keep up, my mind spinning from lack of air and unable to think. Then, when it was clear I wasn't going anywhere, his hands continued down, brushing heavily over my breasts and making me jump. He popped the button on my jeans hard, ripping it apart before thrusting dangerously sharp claws into the back of my pants. He was gripping my ass hard when I grabbed the back of his head hard in return.
With my hold on his hair, I twisted his head one way and mine the other, diving deeper into his mouth with my tongue. He struggled, trying to get my jeans off my hips while keeping his face planted to me. Finally, I let him lower to my neck, his fangs scratching along my shoulder as he worked my jeans to my thighs—my underwear going with them. Once at my knees, he gave up and worked on his jeans instead. I wrenched his face back up and grabbed his mouth again. Inuyasha had started this, and I was on fire. He would be the one to put it out; there was no escaping it now.
Inuyasha jumped and wiggled to get his jeans all the way off. Then he grabbed the back of my thighs as he stepped on the crotch of my jeans at my ankles. Lifting me, he freed me of my restraints, so I wrapped my legs around him. We stumbled for a moment after that, falling to the bed eventually. Inuyasha was under me, so I pulled my shirt off for him while I sat on top. He hastily pushed my bra up, freeing my breasts but leaving it to me to remove it all the way.
I now sat naked on top of Inuyasha.
It was a sobering moment for both of us as I tried to hide, and he tried to see. Finally, Inuyasha sat up, removing his shirt and then trying to work my arms away from my chest. When that didn't work, he slowly kissed me. Long and sweet, the heat from before remained, but the affection had been bumped up. Inuyasha was reassuring me when I needed it the most. It had me curling my arms around his neck instead of my breasts. Inuyasha groaned when our chests pressed together. I loved the sensation of our skin together. That, and his hard chest was utterly opposite to my soft one.
Inuyasha pushed me back just enough to work his hands up and get my breasts. His thumbs brushed my nipples back and forth as if playing around. But not once had Inuyasha played; all he had was a hunger for me.
It was why his hands left my chest, moving around to my back and sliding down to my ass. He grabbed it hard, causing me to arch. His goal was met, sucking my nipple into his mouth. Now, instead of his thumb, his tongue strummed the sensitive skin.
I was hardly in my right mind; it was why I was grabbing and rubbing Inuyasha's ears. He'd never permitted me and hadn't wanted them touched when we first met. It was why I was sure I was now on my back with Inuyasha looming over me. His eyes were blood red, fire dancing in them that lit his purple-colored cheeks. I was taking him all in, his beautiful face and the changes to it when he disappeared. I nearly lost him if he wasn't pressing my thighs apart until my knees pressed to the mattress.
Inuyasha didn't want me to see him like this, so he hid his face between my legs.
"Oh god," I choked out when his tongue lapped at my folds. His tongue dipped inside me, and I squealed. It wasn't long before Inuyasha was using his tongue to thrust into me. I twisted, trying to get away from the intensity that was Inuyasha giving me oral. My only reprieve was when he took short breaks to lick the inside of my thighs. I felt his fangs scratch me from time to time, my thighs, my clit, the crevice between the two, but it didn't take away from the lust being poured into me. But I needed more, tugging on his ears and whining, "Inuyasha…."
He left my crotch and laid on top of me. But he left a hand down there, softly pumping a finger in and out of me. I twisted as much as I could, trying to make him understand, but he didn't stop, pressing his thumb against my clit and pushing it higher.
"Inuyasha…"
"I need to…prepare you."
Inuyasha was rubbing himself on me, his cock digging into my hip through his briefs. I reached as much as I could, tugging on the remaining clothing and getting it off one of his plump cheeks. I grabbed it, pulling on him with it and rolling my hips to lessen the tension he had building around his fingers.
He fell off his perch into my neck and groaned, "Kagome…."
"I..want you," I mumbled through my haze.
Inuyasha removed his fingers to get his briefs off, and my heart pounded with exhilaration. Then, when he fell back on me, he thrusted inside, and my whole body ignited. I still held onto his ass cheeks, gripping them as I thrusted up into him while he plunged into me again and again. It only took a few thrusts (not that I was able to count them) for me to come, feeling my body tense and then convulse with lava flooding my veins. I would be embarrassed later, screaming out "AH" so loud my throat was sore. But for now, I was too happy with the pleasure scorching through me. It put out the flames, and Inuyasha groaned loudly with me. He wanted to get me close before he put it in; he was close to coming by then.
The lack of protection between us was something else to figure out later, Inuyasha twitching his sperm deep inside me while I caught my breath. It was several minutes of silence as we panted and finished, my vagina pulsing long after the pleasure left my limbs. It was a long orgasm, and I enjoyed it more than I ever had before.
When Inuyasha pulled his face out of my neck, his ears were pressed back in submission to me. It had fear punching my lungs, and I struggled to breathe. "What's wrong?" I somehow found the courage to ask.
"You're bleeding."
I was—my thighs, neck, shoulders, and a few spots on my breasts. They didn't hurt during; they'd felt good. But now, they stung a little. And they weren't deep; they wouldn't scar or anything. "It's fine. It's not a big deal."
"It is a big deal. This is just the beginning. You don't know what it's like to be with a demon. We're possessive and crazy. I had to stop myself from hurting you with it."
I had his face in my hands, fearful he would pull away from me with his terror showing on his face. "Inuyasha, it's fine. Mark me all you want."
"You're an actress. I may not know much, but scars on your skin wouldn't be…."
"I don't care."
"You will."
Tears burned in my eyes, and I dropped all hold on the man that had only just finished making love to me. So recently, he was still inside me, but he felt miles away. "Is this you changing your mind?"
Inuyasha stopped pulling away, ducking down to rub his nose against mine. "No. Not about you, never. But about myself?"
"It won't always be like this! It won't always be as…intense."
Inuyasha huffed, then brushed his lips against mine, keeping them close as he spoke to continue rubbing them together. "Yes, it will. Kagome, I will always want you this much. It sure as shit is going to take more than once to calm me down." I thought he would make good on his promise; it seemed like he was planning to make love to me again right now. But instead, he pulled away and sat on the edge of the bed, not looking at me anymore. "But we should wait. Once was…inappropriate already. I haven't even gotten your family's blessing."
I rolled my eyes and to my side, "it's not like every guy I slept with got permission first. It doesn't really work like that anymore."
Yanked onto my back, red eyes and purple cheeks were back, filling my vision. "What the fuck did you just say?!"
Lacking fear of Inuyasha completely, I crossed my arms over my naked chest, wishing we'd at least gotten under the covers before we screwed so I could hide now. "Don't give me that; I'm not your first either. That sex was far too good for you to be a virgin."
A flush formed under his purple streaks, but the anger Inuyasha had didn't disappear. "Yeah, but I'm not flaunting them in from of you while still laying in our soiled sheets, now am I?!"
He had a point there. "Sorry. But you were the one speaking like we ruined something. I don't appreciate being talked to like that while still laying in our soiled sheets."
I mocked him with the last part, but who spoke like that anymore? Inuyasha did, gripping the bedspread under me and ripping it out. I barely moved. He did it so hard and fast, like that trick with the table cloth and glassware?
Electricity sparked between our eyes, the demon and the girl he'd just screwed, staring one another down. "Does this mean we can say what we want now that I'm not laying on the sexed-up sheets?" I glanced from him to the pristine white beneath me. "Now I'm just going to bleed on these too."
Inuyasha growled then ducked down. He was licking my wounds, the inside of my thighs and along the crevice, then my breasts, and last my shoulder up my neck. When he hovered over me, I was panting, but so was he. The fire was back; his mouth parted just enough for me to get a better look at the long fangs inside. Not that it needed to be open, they stuck out of his lips even with them closed. I reached up to run my hand along his skin. I starting at the corner of his lips to brush my palm on the rounded collum of his sharp tooth.
He leaned into my touch, turning his face to make it last longer—but then pulled away, sitting on his knees between my thighs, "this is dangerous. I'll either hurt you or keep us locked up until the priest dies of old age, waitin for us."
I sat up on my hands, "you're not going to do either of those things."
His hands joined mine, leaning over me to press his forehead to mine, "I could do both."
Using his balanced weight against him, I pushed him over with my head and then continued to push with my hands. The result was him under me, a thigh on either side of his hips with his cock tapping my ass. "Here. Now you can't scratch me."
I rocked back, getting his shaft under me and pressed to my folds. Inuyasha groaned loudly and unconsciously grabbed my thighs hard. It had his claws digging into my skin. "You think…my fangs are…the worst part?"
With his sharp talons breaking my skin instead of his fangs, he didn't need to clarify. I rocked back again, and Inuyasha growled as I ripped the sheet free of the bed. I had his wrists tied with it, leaning over him to attach the other end to the headboard as best I could. With my chest in his face, Inuyasha helped himself. He licked and nibbled on my dangling breasts while I tried to focus on my work.
When I sat back, ripping my nipple from Inuyasha's lips, I smirked down at the man now tied on the bed. "There."
He shifted, pulling on the binding with a chuckle. "You think this'll hold me?"
I twerked my hips, rubbing against Inuyasha in a manner that had heat spiraling through me roughly. "It will hold long enough."
Without waiting, I reached down and put Inuyasha inside me. Sliding down him slowly, I impaled myself on his length. His head went back, and he threatened to rip the sheet around his wrists to shreds. But he didn't, keeping his eyes closed as I started to bounce. I had my head to the ceiling as well, ignoring the bashfulness that wanted to knock me off Inuyasha's cock to pant and moan from the continued strokes to my walls and jabs to my inner g-spot.
I couldn't take anymore, flopping over to place my hands on Inuyasha's chest. His eyes were on me as I ground my hips into his, rubbing my clit and pussy with his body simultaneously.
"Are you…enjoying yourself?" Inuyasha panted. I managed a nod, and he grinned, "good…I want to be…the best you've ever…had."
I had to twist my head away, unable to look at him while I came. "You are…you are…you are…AH, Inuyasha…HA OH."
The sounds of fabric ripping made it through my loud orgasm, and soon I was sitting back at an odd angle. Inuyasha held my thighs, pulling me onto him with a force that made my head spin. The back of my thighs slapped his abs, my ass like a cushion that bent back and forth. All while Inuyasha's cock pressed hard against my shaking walls.
I fell back after that, Inuyasha's shins under me as I arched to keep him deep. "OH, GOD!"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha growled, shaking under me as he came.
It was all over, two orgasms in less than forty minutes. Not to mention the time difference and being 'jet-lagged', and I shook with my exhaustion. Inuyasha was still shaking when he pulled me up and into his arms. I was limp; languid limbs refused to do as I wanted as Inuyasha cradled me to him.
We fell back to the bed, wiggling around until we faced each other comfortably. Inuyasha brushed me tenderly, running a hand through my hair and down my side to rest on my hip. I leaned into it, then him, putting my hands on his chest, and felt his heart begin to slow.
"I love you," I whispered with my voice horse.
My lazy eyes caught the smile that grew on his thick lips. It faltered for a moment, making me wonder if the next thing he said would ruin this moment like it nearly did our first time. "My other times…." I groaned a tried to turn away before he destroyed it, but he held me still, "they were with my masters."
"What?" I whispered again, this time in terror and anger.
"You're not the first masters to keep me out of the lamp. A few…found me attractive. And they were lonely…."
"Oh god, Inuyasha," I grabbed him, holding him to me so tight; if he were human, he wouldn't be able to breathe.
He rolled into my hold, resting his head on my chest above my heart. I continued to cradle him, wanting to comfort him the only way I knew how. "I had an attachment to them. Of course, I wanted them to be happy, but that's how I felt for all my masters. It wasn't love; they didn't give a shit about me. They just used me."
I didn't want to know. I didn't want to hear how Inuyasha was used and abused. But I had to listen to it; it was for him and not me. So when he was done, I brushed him as he had me moments ago. "I will never make you feel like that, Inuyasha."
"I know you won't. You never have. Because you love me, and I love you. For the first time, I know what love feels like, and I ain't gonna let it go. I ain't gonna let you go, Kagome." Inuyasha placed his chin to rest between my breasts. "So when you wake up, we'll either make love again or go see the priest. Depending on how long it takes you to recover."
My lids felt so heavy; there was no denying my fatigue even though I wanted to stay awake and make love to Inuyasha repeatedly. The most I could do was smile at him, "I'm going to need food somewhere in there."
