A/N: Alright! This is chappie number seven! This is where the deceit begins!
Disclaimer: Sadly, no. I do not own Inuyasha, but since my story is going over well enough I suppose I can deal with that.
(Last Time:) Kagome gets annoyed, apologizes after a while, then goes to bathe when she's attacked! Then, some kind half-breed stranger saves her life and invites her over to his place for a bath and some food. (I dunno about you guys, but that just screams, "I'm gonna rape your brains outta your skull!" -.-)
And now, without further adieu, Chapter Seven!
Warning: There is severe bullshitory in this chapter! If you don't like people who use pity or empty compliments to get laid, then don't read this chapter! But if you decide to, I would appreciate it if you would review. There is also some sexual reference. Only CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM is allowed... if criticism must be used.
Love and Deceit
Chapter Seven: Deceitful-The Gentle Stanger's True Intentions!
By: Kate the InuYoukai01
"So," Kagome said as she sat aside her empty bowl, "What is your name?"
She had just taken her first hot bath in days and had eaten a filling meal of stew with her new friend, so she was feeling pretty good about herself. They ate in silence, though, and Kagome thought that it was high time to get to know her savior. The white-haired hanyou before her gave her a sheepish grin.
"Kibakichi." he rubbed the back of his neck. "What's yours?"
"Higurashi, Kagome."
"Kagome..." he tested her name with a small smile. "I like it! It suits your beauty well." Kagome didn't even have time to blush at his complement before he spoke again, "So, why are you out here all by yourself at night?" He leaned against the cave wall as he spoke, his fingers twined together behind his head. "Surely you knew that this forest is full of youkai, being a miko and all."
She blushed in embarassment when she realized that he was right. Why hadn't she asked Souta to come with her? At least she would have known that he wouldn't have peeped at her.
"Um... I was going to bathe in that stream over there," she said as she tilted her head in the direction of the cave enterance, "and it just slipped my mind to ask my brother to accompany me for protection..."
"Oh, so you're not traveling alone..." he said with a beaming smile, "Are you just traveling with your brother?"
She shrugged, "No... not exactly. There's a two headed dragon named Ah-Un," she blushed, "and another demon."
"Oh." he smiled, "What's he like?"
"He's okay, I guess," she smiled. "He treats my little brother like a son, and he I guess we get along okay."
He smiled, though Kagome didn't see the indignation in his amber eyes, "Well, that's good."
They sat in an awkward silence for a while, until Kagome decided to break it.
"Do you live here by yourself?"
"Sadly, yes," his eyes fell. "I lost my mate in a battle over territories, and since then I have become a recluse. I hated what people did to eachother to gain petty things like wealth and power. It has turned me almost completely against violence."
She bowed her head. She had made him kill to protect her... someone she didn't even know! She just wanted to curl up in a little ball and shrivel in her shame. She couldn't protect herself sufficiently, and now someone else had to go against their own purpose-if only for a moment-to save her. She lifted her head, her eyes filled with shame and pity.
"You must feel terrible for killing all of those demons back there..."
Kibakichi growled, "I won't feel sorry for killing a bunch of assholes who don't know how to keep their hands off of a lady..." his eyes fell again. "I only use aggression to protect the innocent, and mikos are no different from the innocent spirits and youkai that dwell in this forbidding times. They do what they believe is right for the people they are supposed to protect, and I find that honorable."
"You seemed to have found your resolve," she smiled.
He shrugged, "I just know who to protect."
She blushed at that, until she heard him chuckle. She looked up at him, only to find that his face was inches away from hers. Her tiny blush turned into a full blown flush as he lifted his hand...
And removed a bit of stew off of the corner of her mouth. He chuckled again, and put the cooling bit of food in his mouth.
"That's been buggin' me for a while..."
He then looked back at her, his own cool blush staining his cheeks. He leaned down once more, his hand lifting slowly to run his fingers over her cheek.
Kagome gasped, her hand coming up to rest on his as the blush on her face deepened. She looked into his eyes and saw the same thing in his eyes as she had with Jin. She stared at then for the longest time, until he captured her lips in a chaste kiss. Kagome 'eep'ed, accidentally allowing him to deepen the kisss her eyes widened. He fisted one hand in her hair, and the other wrapped around her waist. Kagome felt like she was floating on air as her eyelids became heavy. She closed her eyes and decided that she couldn't help what was happening, and she couldn't help what she did next... She kissed him back. She rested her hands on his chest and leaned into him, her tongue shyly caressing his. He groaned, a slight pur rumbling in his chest.
Kagome felt like she had died and gone to a better place. It just felt so right, being held by this kind-hearted young half demon. Golden eyes flashed in the back of her mind, and the cool and calculating gaze sent a shiver up her spine. She gasped and pulled away, her hands flying to her lips.
Tears welled up in her eyes. What had she been doing!? She should be back at camp by now, helping Sesshomaru catch his evil younger half brother. They were probably worried sick over her by now, and if not, then at least she knew Souta was.
"K-Kagome... I'm sorry..."
Her face took on a look of remorse, as if she had betrayed someone.
"I have to go!"
He watched as she ran back in the direction that she came, his eyes narrowing into a glare. Damn it! It didn't work! He saw the guilty look on her face and the way her eyes began to tear up as she stared into space. She had been thinking about Sesshomaru... That was the only reason she'd stopped him. His face softened...
He shook himself and growled. Get ahold of yourself, Inuyasha! She wouldn't have kissed you back if she wasn't interested. That bastard brother of yours just has her confused. He watched her disappear in the trees, his face softening yet again. She tasted like jasmine...
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Kagome wiped the tears from her eyes as she ran, her still damp hair billowing behind her in an ebony cloud. She didn't exactly know why she was running away. Kibakichi was so kind.
Sesshomaru...
Was she in love with Sesshomaru? Was that why she wouldn't fall for the concern and care in the half-breed's amber eyes? She shook her head. She had only known Sesshomaru for less than a moon cycle. That couldn't be it... she thought as she continued to run. She remembered the likeness that the two shared, but Sesshomaru spoke of a brother who had killed the love of his life, Kagome's own little sister. Kibakichi's aura was not one of malice... Come to think of it, was there an aura at all? She just couldn't see him doing anything like that... and besides, Sesshomaru's brother's name was Inuyasha... not Kibakichi-
I must be so naive... I barely know Kibakichi! I shouldn't be deterred by a simple kiss... Cold amber eyes flashed in her mind again. Besides, she thought as she lowered her gaze, Sesshomaru wouldn't want me anyway- Her reverie was silenced when she ran into something stiff. She gasped in surprise and fell on a pile of leaves with a crunch. She looked up and saw Sesshomaru standing over her. She gasped, a barely audible sound, and looked away from him in shame. Well, this is just perfect, she thought sarcastically. What am I going to do? What is he going to think of me when he finds out that I kissed a half demon that I was barely aquainted with? She looked back up at him, trying her best to look as innocent as possible.
Sesshomaru took one look at her tear-stained face and knew that something bad had happened. She had bathed, that was certain, but the smell of someone else's blood still lingered around her, as well as something else he only smelled on Rin under certain circumstances. Arousal?...
"What happened?"
She stared up at him, thinking of something to say. She decided to tell him only half of the truth. "I was attacked by a swarm of demons."
"You smell bathed, so I assume that you defeated these demons."
She nodded, "I bathed, but there was still one more demon lingering in the area."
"Where is it?" he looked about and tested the air. Indeed, the smell that lingered on her was in the surrounding area, and he knew then that she wasn't telling lies.
"Dead, now."
He nodded his approval and held a hand out to her, "Come. We still have traveling to do. You need your rest."
"Yes." she said as she averted her gaze and stood on her own, ignoring his kind offer to help her to her feet.
They walked back to camp in silence, Sesshomaru stealing glances at the woman next to him. She smelled of guilt and shame, as if she had done something that she regretted. He decided not to push the matter. One of the demons must have looked like a child or a human and she must have thought that she'd killed them. He doubted it, considering that her powers were developed to where she could tell a person or demon by their aura alone. She didn't even have to see them to know. Or maybe, considering the thick scent of jasmine that permeated the air around her, she was aroused by killing and felt shame for feeling as such? He decided to put it aside for now and bring it up at a later date, most likely after they'd reached the Western Palace. She caught him staring and he looked away.
Something was wrong... and she wasn't telling him...
He didn't like that one bit.
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"Inuyasha-sama, the demons you have slain have depreciated your army by quite a bit," Kikyo, the army's healer and priestess, spoke in a concerned tone. "It may become increasingly difficult to recruit more members, seeing as how we are in your brother's lands."
"What do you mean?" Inuyasha growled as he disrobed, his soiled green clothing falling into a messy heap on the hard wood floor. He shrugged into his original red clothing as she began to speak again.
"The demons in this region are extremely loyal, if not terrified, of your brother's power," she blushed at his brazen behavior. "It would most likely be best if we were to move to a different location before we decided to re-recruit-"
"Nonsense!" he growled deeper as he finished dressing and unceremoniously plopped himself on a goose-feather cushion. "I am not leaving this location until I am sure that I have the young miko he travels with by my side."
Kikyo lowered her gaze, her brow furrowed in anger. She kept her voice in check, though, so as not to anger her master. "Why do you need the assistance of the girl when you already have a powerful miko by your side, milord?"
"It is not that I need her power, wench," he spoke in a harsh tone. "It is that she is needed for a crucial part of my plan."
"And what would that be, milord?"
Inuyasha smirked, his short fangs gleaming in the firelight from the fire that burned in the center of the large room. "I need her so that Sesshomaru will no doubt be forced to come and try to retrieve her. By that time, I would already have mated her. When he finds that she has lost her innocence and has been impregnated by me, his emotional facade will break and I, Inuyasha, can attain what is rightfully mine. I am certain that he will be so distracted with trying to get answers from Kagome, that it will allow me to attack and kill him before he knows it. The Tetsusaiga, as well as the Western Lands, will be mine." He looked over at her from her place in front of the shoji screen that led outside. She looked angry, so angry that it seemed as if she would burst.
Kagome flashed into his mind's eye for the hundredth time that night. Her crystal blue eyes, her wavy ebony tresses, her soft, milky skin. He could see her now, that milky skin slicked with persperation as he took her. Her eyes clenched shut in unimaginable ecstacy. He could feel his arousal pushing at the fabric of his hakama, could almost smell her arousal thick in the air. It smelled just like she tasted... like jasmine...
He opened his eyes, not realizing that he had closed them, and sent his lustful amber gaze to the miko sitting next to the shoji. How she resembled Kagome, he did not know, but she possessed such a similar visage. The only difference that he could see was that her skin was paler, ghostly pale, and her eyes were a deep chocolate instead of the blue that he craved. He stood, slowly making his way to the miko before him.
"Now, miko, I wish for you to help me with this problem I have..."
As he took her, he called out another name. He kept his eyes closed the entire time, wishing that it were someone else beneath him. The scent of this woman's arousal was so different than what he wanted. The moans that escaped those pale lips not what he craved.
Kagome... how you torment me...
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A/N: Can anyone say PSYCHO?! Well, damn! Kagome's confuzled, Inuyasha's a raging pervert and a mad plotter, and Kikyo is finally getting what she's always wanted... except it isn't really her Inuyasha wants! Oh, shit, the plot! How it has thickened! Please review! Chapter Eight will be coming soon to a mediaminer near you!
