Darkened Dreams

Sakura Blossom Epic

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Dammit.

AN: No lemon, an itty bit of lime.

Morning had come and passed. The cool weather became warmer as the sunlight heated the Earth.

The couple that lay amongst the grass and flowers curled closer against one another. It wasn't until the warmth became too much that an outstretched arm tried to pull away from the high temperature, body over heating and sweat pouring down their face.

A grunt and a pull ceased their movement, the girl sighed. He was going to kill her with all this embracing.

Shaking his shoulder a bit she called for him to wake. "Inuyasha…Inuyasha….INUYASHA!" The last call was more of a scream that jolted the poor man awake, eyes startled and heart beat slamming into his chest.

"What the hell is wrong with you woman? You nearly gave me a heart attack."

A frown marred her lips, "Well you nearly killed me with are your snuggling. I DO need to breathe ya know."

"Oh, sorry." Inuyasha's eyes flickered with pain. He could have killed her in his sleep. Smothered her with his heavy body, saw her pale form when he woke to see that she was no more than a…

"Inuyasha," a hand touched his shoulder, "chill, I was exaggerating a bit. It was just getting too hot and you wouldn't let go." Kagome said as she waved her hand in order to get some cool air against her skin. The wind was a no show as sweat trickled down her naked form.

Naked?

"Dammit!" Covering her body up with the red haori, Kagome fumbled around trying to find her clothing.

The fire had since gone out with the night's breeze. Her clothes were right across from her on the other side of the fire pit. Way out of her reaches to get them without much skin showing to the hanyou.

A wicked smirk pulled at his lips.

"What's the matter Kagome? A bit shy?" His smartass remark landed him a death glare that wouldn't phase his taunts as he pulled his haori out of her hands and rested it on his shoulders.

Frantically covering herself as best she could with her arms, Kagome sputtered out, "What the hell! You pervert, give that back!"

"Nope," Inuyasha said flatly, "it's mine and I'm cold."

"Cold!"

"Yes."

"Liar."

"You're point?"

"I'm naked!"

"I can see that." Amber eyes rolled over the form of his lover. Lust started to reflect in the burning they showed last night as he licked his dry lips.

She didn't like that look in his eyes. It almost looked as if he were being turned on. The way his eyes kept running over her body, tracing her every curve and making her feel even more naked and exposed than she ever thought possible.

"Inuyasha?"

His lips were moving but his eyes were trained against her body. A shiver ran down her spine.

"Can I please have the haori?"

"I thought you said you were hot."

"Yeah. My body changed its mind." Another shiver ran down her spine and she could feel light headed. Raising a hand to her forehead, Inuyasha frowned.

"You still have a fever after all that." His ears flattened against his head, nearly being engulfed in the lush silver mane.

"I do?" Kagome felt her forehead and then felt his then back to hers. "Hm, strange." Her hand went instinctively to reach for the yellow duffle bag but halted. "Oh yeah, forgot I lost it in the waters." A frown etched her face as she tried to think of something.

"I don't know what else to do." Her voice was low and quiet.

Inuyasha's claws came about her shoulders and ushered her back down to the bedding he had made before and curled against her. Her hand rested against his muscled chest as her face buried into his mane as sleep started to pull her away from consciousness.

Inuyasha in turn pulled her more tightly against him and fell into a slumber of his own. The scent of her fever still drifting through his senses and everything started to fade out.

It was dark and cold. Everything around her felt frozen with just a touch of her fingers. Was that what happened whenever she touched something? It would become frozen dead?

The woman suddenly wanted to cry and hide from everything.

"So everything I touch dies…in the end."

The flowing tears trickled down her pale face. Everything.

Inuyasha.

He could smell them.

The salty crystal orbs glided down her cheeks as she pushed herself away from him. Pulling himself out of his dream about playing with a young, midnight haired girl with russet eyes who danced with a smaller, younger self, he went to the young woman with russet eyes that pushed away from him.

"Kagome, what's wrong?" His voice was crackly from sleep as he watched the girl push away again, her eyes still closed.

She placed her hands against his chest and pulled away into a tight curl, her knees against her chest as she shivered.

"Kagome." Inuyasha tried to move her back to him but the second he was touching her wrist she shrieked and pulled away farther as if he'd burned her.

"Kagome what's the matter with you?" With a grunt he tried again and only succeeded by fighting her from pulling away. Her body unwillingly went back to his.

Two fists pounded into his chest but all he felt was hurt from her reaction to him.

What was the matter with her?

"KAGOME WAKE UP!" Eruption of confusion bubbled over but slowly subsided. The young woman's eyes open slowly as they seem glazed over and looked to the hanyou against her.

"Inuyasha? What's wrong? What happ…" The dream flooded her mind letting the russet eyes warp with fear again.

"Kagome, what's the matter?" A claw caressed her cheek as two lips touched her neck. He could feel against his lips her pulse rapidly increasing. Her hands fluttered to his shoulders as she pulled him closer.

It was just a dream. A damn dream that Kagome didn't wish to ever dream about.

All that mattered now was the hanyou that was now kissing along her neckline as his body melted against hers. That was the most important thing in her life at the moment.

He could smell it. There had been fear laced in her scent. Something struck her so badly he could feel it oozing out of her skin but it slowly started to dissipate as determination replaced its scent. Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck, guiding him closer to her as he reached down and grasped her waist and rested between her legs over top of her.

She needed to feel him, know that he was there for her. The hold around his neck tightened as his lips grazed her collarbone before venturing downward to the valley of her breasts.

Nimble fingers became entangled by silver mane as breathes quickened.

Russet eyes rolled in the back of Kagome's head, while canines started to teeth taut nipples between each other when a vision swirled about her mind.

The ground was frozen and barren. Everything solid stone of death as her eyes traced upon a familiar figure. Eyes widened in fear with hands against ice encasement they were placed in.

Kagome's body started to shut down. She didn't want to know who was in the glass coffin. But her eyes were drawn to that of the dead staring back at her. They were dead amber eyes, once which had raged with flames and put a volcano to shame now deathly blackened with sadness and anguish.

Inuyasha was preparing to enter her, his member now sitting at her entrance when the smell hit him again. It came back in full force as he looked up to see Kagome's eyes hazed over with tears as her mouth contoured in a silent scream.

"Kagome!" His arms instinctively went to a protective position, hands touching her shoulders as he hovered over her. For Kagome, nothing was visible but the death of Inuyasha.

"You'll die." Her words were almost unheard and if he hadn't been just above her lips watching her he'd never would have heard those bitter words passing her lips.

"What?" Her eyes started to turn away from the amber ones. "Kagome, hey, Kagome look at me!" His eyes bore into hers and her mind finally snapped her out as his claws started to dig into her pale skin on her shoulders.

"Inu…Inuyasha!" Again, they fell from her eyes like crystal stars in the moonlight as they trailed down her face and onto the haori beneath her. "You…I saw you. You were…you were dead." Rising herself up as if some unknown force pushed her body upward, Kagome's face slammed against the toned chest of the hanyou as a burst of tears racked her body.

An eerie feeling crept over her body making her freeze as two strong arms circled themselves around her small frame. The image of the frozen death hanyou and the voice telling of the cause ceased her thoughts, stilling her breath.

Pulse quickened, her body frozen stiff.

I can't. I can't touch him.

Trying to push herself out of his grasp she was met with a growl vibrating through the hanyou's throat. He told her 'no'.

Stubborn as always the girl from the future pressed on to get away from the young man, causing a quick reflex, leaving the girl sitting in the man's lap with her back to his chest and his arms tightened around her body so no movement for an escape could be made.

Kagome huffed with frustration. Didn't he understand it was for his own good? Didn't he know it would kill her in the process but she would do it in a heart beat?

"I don't know what's wrong. But something is telling you to stay away from me and I don't want that." Inuyasha spoke softly, his chest vibrating against her back making tingles run up and down her body.

"Just stay with me." The hold tightened. "The only thing that could hurt me, kill me is if you ever left me. You're everything to me."

She couldn't help the tears that fell from those words pouring out from the young man's soul. Her hanyou's beaten and battered soul still managed to cling to something, live for something.

And that something was her.

"Thank you." She whispered between the sobs as she turned around, breaking the hold that had barricaded her in as her arms wrapped around the hanyou with happiness. Embracement of love, that's what it could be seen as.

The dog ears tweaked upward, amber eyes wide with joy, even if the Gods had given him a tail it would have been wagging madly. He never felt so happy, so grateful in his life, for having the raven haired fallen angel in his arms and would remain in his arms for as long as she would have him.

"Never be afraid of me." He whispered softly into her ear. She kissed his cheek before running a finger over his lips.

"Don't be afraid to love."

Hands roamed as a fiery kiss took hold of the two lovers.

Something still though strung at Kagome's heart, but as lips pressed against her neck while hands played about her body, her mind pushed it away, letting it be forgotten for the moment.

It was only her and her hanyou.