Title: Relief
Summary: After the group camps out after a fight with a demon, Inuyasha ponders on his relief that Kagome was still safe.
Canon
Rating: K
Inu/Kag
The crackling of their camp fire and the chirps of cicadas were the only sounds that filled the night around them. His companions were fast asleep, resting away the exhaustion that came with slaying demons with jewel fragments. It had been a successful day, gathering two shards of the sacred jewel in a manner of hours. Yet, as amber orbs flicked across the flames to a lone sleeping bag opposite of him, he didn't feel as victorious as he should.
In his haste to take the shard, he left Kagome vulnerable to attacks. The hanyou felt grateful that they had their friends to protect her when he wasn't able to, but it still left a sour taste in his mouth. If Sango hadn't intervened, Kagome wouldn't be with him right now. The mere thought of losing her because of his own thoughtlessness made his heart skip a beat. No, he'd never allow her to leave him. Not like that. But he almost had.
Before he realized it, Inuyasha had moved across their camp to sit beside her. His natural predatory instincts made his movements relatively quiet, save for the sound of the rustling fabrics he wore. A quick glance at his comrades told him that he wasn't going to get caught so close to her before his gaze fell upon his dreaming shard detector. Despite almost getting killed, Kagome slept soundly without a hint of a nightmare. He had to give her some credit; for a human with no fighting experience beyond her bow and arrows, she had an incredible amount of luck to still be alive in these times of war.
Hesitantly, he brushed away a lock of her raven tresses from her face. His mind was at peace now from this simple action; she was okay. Without another paranoid glance, he leaned down, delicately placing a kiss along the curve of her brow, just over her closed eyelid shielding a gaze many would kill for. When times of stress and tension were high, Inuyasha could find himself appreciating the warm presence that stayed by his side through thick and thin. The one who had captured his heart so effortlessly, even when he tried to deny it.
Ka-go-me…
The wood cracked in the camp fire, sending embers up a foot in the air. It shocked Inuyasha into focus of his surroundings as he glanced around the area once more. When Kagome shifted to her side with a hum, Inuyasha stood, quickly returning to his spot furthest away from the fire with a heated face. As he rested against the trunk of a tree, a ghost of a smile curved his lips, though he was unaware of it himself as the fire died down, casting everything in shadow.
A/N: This little thing was a drabble in response to a meme on Tumblr on my Inuyasha RP blog. I had to make Inu kiss her eyelid :P I kinda-sorta had to half-ass these because I could only write so much on an answer to a message.