DISCLAIMER: Me no own.
Hey this one's for Dee. Thanks for the review!
And ps, this is a bit... lemonish? A story with a twist of lemon kinda? A lemon lime sensation? Yes yes...
¤¤ Thick Throaty Molasses ¤¤
¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤¤ recap ¤¤.
"What the HELL just happened?"
"Ugh, I have a headache." Bankotsu sighed.
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In the brush with his hunter green truck, in stealth mode. Naraku took another sip of his favorite beer. The farm he was working for luckily made him the errand boy, so he was constantly able to stop by the neighbors for a little 'visit' to stalk his 'love'. He dropped the empty keystone light bottle outside his window and put the truck into gear once all the people in site had gone into the house.
The next competition was in a week. It fell just around the date when they had just started dating. He couldn't wait to wish her happy anniversary.
¤ Chapter Thirteen ¤
Sango had been dragged into the kitchen, rather abruptly but not unwanted, by Miroku. He had soundly kicked Hojou and Kaede out of the kitchen with their remaining dishes ignoring the last bowl of string beans waiting to be taken out - steaming on the counter top by the sink. Once the swinging door was shut Miroku walked back over to Sango who was pretending to be brave and hoisted herself up on the counter to await whatever was heading her way. She bit her lower lip.
Miroku came back around and headed towards her figure on the counter. She seemed slightly flustered, aware of the possibility of the listening ears just behind the swinging doors. He came over and leaned over with one arm propped on the counter to her right. He tilted his head down a bit under her chin.
"Sango you said your heart..." Miroku whispered going to hold her hand with the ring as if it were fragile. He was really really hoping he had heard her correctly at the dinner table. She pined at the genteelness he displayed so suddenly and she smiled and then whispered back.
"It's yours." It was a sweet silence, one Sango would remember forever. And then...
"So does that mean you'll bear my children?"
The hands all just turned their heads to the resounding swears from the kitchen and laughed relieved that things were back to normal.
Kagome figured it was safe to go steal away the string beans left by Kaede on the kitchen counter but Inuyasha paused her with his hand and told her he would face the terrifying fate instead.
"Oh jeez, my knight in shining armor." Kagome sarcastically sneered when Inuyasha pretended to puff out his chest which earned him a giggle from her direction, and a snort from Kouga's.
Inuyasha went through the swinging doors and saw his target, steamy bowl full of vegetables, ding ding! He reached and was just about to grab it when he heard the first sound of a sloppy kiss.
Don't look don't look don't look .
Aw fuck, I looked.
There was Miroku and Sango. Sango was sitting on the counter propped and leaning towards the black haired man who was sweetly and soundly kissing the brunette, head tilted down. There was a faded red mark on the mans cheek which made Inuyasha snigger - and then their heads turned at the break of the silence with his sound.
Inuyasha sweat dropped. He could feel it slip from his brow.
Miroku grinned like a kid in the candy store and Sango turned a pretty pink.
"We forgot these." Inuyasha nabbed the string beans quickly and turned to go back out the door into the dining room and paused before he did, "Get a room!" And then ducked at the hand towel Sango threw in his direction.
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The following three days passed quickly. The hands had been settling the herd into fields, and practicing for the next rodeo at the same time. A few hands went to bed grumpy and sore and the following morning achy. There had been a steady climb in heat since it was nearing the beginning of the end of the summer.
It was 4 days away from the next rodeo. The boys were hanging around the outside fenced corral. It was brutally hott outside. They had hosed down the horses and were now hand walking them out after having to chased about 50 cattle head away from the other 150. There were calves that had yet to be tagged after they had been branded and castrated (ouch). Then there were a few select which they had singled out as the prime to be bulls - these male calves had to be separated and not mixed with the other cattle in the future, because they had not received the fate of castration. Sesshoumaru had picked out two that could possibly make two great bucking bulls for the rodeo circuit and would get a pretty penny for them each.
Inuyasha was hand walking two sweaty bays, Miroku a washed chestnut mare with four white socks, and Kouga a tired black mare when the women...and I mean women, walked out of the house. All three were laughing at something Sango had said and headed towards to where the boys were walking. They had the boys turning there heads when they heard the low growl coming from a white haired Sesshoumaru.
Inuyasha quickly looked up at the sound of his brothers warning growl. Noticing the direction of his gaze he glanced over and dropped his jaw when he saw the way the girls had dressed for the afternoon.
Low-cut bikinis in the hot heat was his version of eye candy. Kagome was bruise free for weeks now and had taken a little persuasion to convince her to get into one of Sango's blue swimming suits. Sango, however, they had to almost drag into the suit, her not being used to the empty area uncovered by suit. And Rin pranced around happily oblivious to the stares given by the other hands.
Kouga started to wolf whistle but it turned into a squeak as Sesshoumaru's hand slowly wrapped around his throat. It ended in a sort of gurgle and a weak surrender of sorry. He released his grip and waited in defiance as his and the other two women decided to join them, his pulse was beating with anger but decided to be a patient and calm...em cowboy.
They had towels slung over their shoulders and Sango was dangling the keys in her left hand to the atv's they used for carting hay around the ranch. She was wearing her favorite sunglasses and grinned sharply at the boys.
"We're going off to the springs. It's too hot to deal with the rest of the work today - and we haven't had off in a while so when you're done with the ponies you fellows can have the rest of the day off." They turned back towards the grain shed where a little side attachment held the two ranch atv's. Rin ran back very quickly and grabbed the button up shirt Sesshoumaru was holding in his hand and off his own back. She grinned slyly at him and pecked him on the cheek before running off and wrapping herself in the shirt at the same time.
Miroku was in heaven. He had finally landed the girl and now here he was staring at her, hmm and the other hands were too, and she was off to the springs- in - a- binkiniiiiiiiii. Better yet they had all just received the rest of the day off. The horse he was walking bumped him on the shoulder impatient and bored to move on when the man had stopped. Oh yeah.
Bankotsu sighed and then walked over from the watering tub which he just had finished filing up on the other fence line. He took the reins of the two Inuyasha was holding and yipped at Jakotsu to take the others, "Go on."
Inuyasha smiled letting a single fang show. Miroku and him let out a yelp as Sesshoumaru grabbed their ears and told them to go change before they headed off at a run. The boys grinned and headed towards the house quickly running. Kouga ran off after them throwing the reins to Jakotsu. Sesshoumaru sighed and went to go get the keys to the other vehicles.
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The vehicle was parked nearby the crystal clear waters of the stream by the springs. The seat was probably not as hot if it were to sit in the sun but luckily for it's next passenger it was parked in the shade.
Three girls voices could be heard drifting by the wading water. "Some things need to remain private." Sango blushed at her friends questioning glances and giggles.
"Oh please, as if the whole place and soon probably the whole town doesn't know you two are seriously in for it now." Rin said pointing to the ring on her finger.
"Rin you should have seen the dinner table conversation a few nights ago. Pricelessssssss." She laughed and Sango splashed back at her.
"You lady, on the other hand." Sango said towards Kagome, "I'm glad to see you so happy with a certain white haired cowboy. You fit in right away around here and I think I speak for everyone when I say we want you to stick around after summer."
"Sango, I love this place, and Inuyasha has a special place in my heart." She splashed the girls when they cooed at her words, "But I'm still..."
"Scared?" Rin suggested.
"In a way. I'll never know when I'll turn the corner and Naraku will be there waiting for me, or heaven forbid waiting for Inuyasha. Or... for one of you."
"Kagome..."
"Lets just spend the rest of the summer in good spirits! I can't imagine why that keystone drinking bastard would come all this way for little old me again. Besides, I'm stronger now. I can tough it." The girls rolled their eyes at that obvious to Kagome's directing the topic elsewhere.
"Besides, I want to hear how hott Rin has it in bed!" They all laughed at Rin's expression of shock. They all screamed when suddenly three cannibals splashed all over the stream and a clear calm voice said,
"Too hott for the two of you." Sesshoumaru grabbed Rin and slung her over his shoulder and headed for the deeper part of the springs. Sango and Kagome too embarrassed to say anything in response.
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Later on when they were all toweling off in the arrival of dusk, Kouga was toweling his long black hair. He had tried multiple times to flirt around with Kagome, but Inuyasha had snagged her away. He saw something behind one of the brushes behind the big tree by the rocks. He went over and picked it up toweling his hair at the same time. It was another keystone light bottle.
"Damn punks." He whispered and then chucked it in his bag so he could trash it later. He turned back towards his friends making a ruckus and they all headed back towards the barns and house.
"Four more days til I kick your butt dog breath!" Kouga yelled ahead.
"If I'm a dog then you're a pussy!" Inuyasha yelled back and jogged to jump on the atv behind Kagome.
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Kagome plopped onto the couch in Inuyasha's loft. They had a nice serving of take out pizza for dinner that evening since Kaede took the evening off, and Hojou's cooking wasn't up to par just yet. It was past dusk and rolling around 10 when everyone had seperated there ways. Miroku and Sango left to go see a movie in town a few hours ago. Some hands were playing games in the living room, others were checking out Kagome's website with all her photographs. But Kagome and Inuyasha had headed back towards the barn to hang out with the horses and then decided to head upstairs.
"Yash, do you plan on staying up here forever?" She asked him. He was sprawled on the bed only feet away, his face dunked into the pillow, stuffed from dinner. The tv was off and there was a nice warm summer breeze wafting in through the open windows.
Inuyasha flipped over and placed his arms behind his head, "Well no. I plan to stick around here forever, but not in this loft. Sango does pay us reasonably well, and I've saved most of that in an account."
"What will you do with it?"
"Feh, nosy wench."
"Oi Inuyasha!" She got up from where she was sitting and sat on his back between his butt and his upper back. She smiled at the satisfaction of his grunt.
"Just kidding." She wiggled around for more umph.
"I guess I'll see if I can buy some land from Sango, or maybe some land nearby. I don't necessarily want to run a cattle ranch, but I thought it might be good to raise a family on a farm at least, maybe breed some horses."
Kagome fell backwards with a slighter umph as Inuyasha twisted to face her as she landed. He laughed as she struggled to lean upwards. Inuyasha grabbed her by her elbows which made her just plop back down again but this time on top of his chest.
Inuyasha swiftly began thinking trying to separate his urges from his movements. He placed her arms gently around his neck. He knew fear of another deep commitment was there, but he couldn't imagine the ranch without her now. But he didn't want to remind her of that now, he just wanted her to be in his arms away from the world and her worries.
Kagome's fingers started to wander and play within his soft white hair. He purred with pleasure and she grinned as he arched into her touch. The way he reacted made her breathe quicken. She wanted this very badly, she wanted him in her life. She felt so safe in his arms. She decided to surprise him with her audacity and tilted her weight upwards to reach for his lips. She still was a bit short and kept trying to tug his hair and head closer to her lips. He chuckled at her notions and caught her bottom lip between his teeth, gently nipping a sound out of her. His hands reached around rapping and kneading against her spine, coaxing a relaxing feeling out of her as she settled more into the kiss.
He smoothed one hand over her throat and held her close while claiming her mouth. She hesitantly opened her mouth and quickly decided the heat and invasion of Inuyasha's tongue was exactly what she wanted right then and there. All Kagome could do was to surrender herself to his touch. She had never responded to anyone the way she was now. His hand came to rest on her collarbone tracing the line through her shirt. Kagome smiled against his lips and with her hand took his hand and placed it to cup her breast under her shirt. His pulse jumped quickly. They hadn't much moved past this point before now. He was always afraid something would make Kagome remember her recent past relationship.
Never had Inuyasha felt this hunger for anyone he had been seeing before; Kikyo certainly never sparked this in him. He felt a slight loss of control over his self-constraint and had to break himself from the kiss when she moved his hand.
"Kagome...I"
"Want this Inuyasha." She finished for him. He looked into her questioning gaze and let that single fang poke out. Kagome found that adorable and laughed when he flipped her under him. He pinned her arms above her head with good intention. Kagome would have been frightened by her helplessness she sensed the desire and hunger in her man's body. Once he let her wrists go she slipped her hands between the buttons of his shirt and popped a few open, searching for the feeling of man beneath her fingertips. Her fingers spread across his chest and worshiped the expanse of the chest she was able to cover. She kissed him the way he kissed her and held nothing back, open and daring. She wasn't afraid of her past right now and she wanted to prove that to him.
Inuyasha drank in the sound when he stroked Kagome's nipples for the first time. He was straining against the confinements of clothing as he continued to work the sensations on her breast. Even though Kagome was seeking pace and intention quickly, Inuyasha wanted to savor what he could and tortuously dragged her shirt over her head. The fabric dragged over her chest and skin. His lips grazed over her breast plate and down past her center to her belly button once she was released from the cotton.
She felt so good in his mouth, so feminine and so sweet. He savored her slowly. The velvety texture of his tongue stroked her and she cried out his name. God he loved that.
Her thin bra offered no real barrier to his ministrations. He pulled the heat of her breast into his mouth. Lightning shot through her, she wanted more of it, and more of Inuyasha. Her legs opened underneath him and he hissed when he was lowered between them. Her heat was pressed against his core and it made him shudder with need. Her hips moved deliberately against him, unknowingly increasing the burning between her legs. She heard the hitch of his breathe. She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled his shirt completely free of his jeans. Their boots had been discarded long ago at the base of the bed. When she felt the ultimate naked skin to her own he twisted beneath her touch and she sizzled.
"God, so much strength." Kagome whispered against his throat. His teeth snuck around and gave her neck a love nip. She was worth every bit of patience he had. Before his next kiss had ended he had managed to figure out the clasp behind her back and her bra fell open to his wandering fingertips. Husky sounds came pouring from her lips as his hands coursed over her naked breasts.
He couldn't get enough and wanted to be closer, he wanted to be inside of her. Each of their hands swept soundly over their jeans and pants and quickly snapped them off in a fury of clothing. She had to have him closer to her, fit inside her, fulfil this burn.
She felt his hand snake down towards her center and the dancing of his fingertips near her thighs. She closed her eyes and felt her legs open to her own accord. He moved slowly caressing her, stroking her where she burned the most. Currents of pleasure seemed to pulse through her. The slow pressures tormented her but when he replaced his fingers with his tongue she almost lost it entirely.
"I come apart when you touch me Kagome. I've never had anyone turn me on as fast and hard as you do." Inuyasha's word breathed out heavily. But the words ended in a throaty moan when her hand headed south.
He saw her surprising look and smiled within her. His hips moved in rhythm when her hand moved on it's own to feel his growing need. She grasped him within her hand and stroked languishly along his length. He hissed and settled back in between her legs into the soft cradle between her thighs. She opened the invitation to him and he pressed his length along the wet tracks between her heated core. Kagome moaned aloud when she felt the pressure atop her center. It was more than she could be patient for. Inuyasha posed at her entrance and slowly, agonizingly slow pushed his way inside. Her hands splashed across his back in exquisite pleasure. It was as if he felt the completeness of his heart again.