Taste Of Love
Kagome ran away from her demanding family and found herself right in the arms of Takahashi Inuyasha. Caught up in his world, it's getting hard for her to leave, for she has had her first taste of love.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Rights are reserved fully to Rumiko Takahashi. This plot too isn't as original, so to those who have attempted before I have, they have full rights to this plot too. Anything else that is mentioned that isn't a figment of my imagination, I also disclaim.
Age Brackets: Kagome – 20, Sango – 22, Miroku – 25, Inuyasha – 26
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The Real Thing
"That's it…" Kagome murmured.
Inuyasha remained silent for quite some time and Kagome didn't match his gaze with her own. His stare was piercing into her soul and she could feel it burning into the crown of her head. She clutched the sheets harder as Inuyasha finally took in a sharp whiz of air.
"And you didn't tell me while we stayed in the hotel in Japan for four days?" Inuyasha spoke in a slow voice as Kagome squeezed her eyes tightly shut. So his reaction was stoically calm, not what she was expecting but it was probably the best reaction she got from all of her mental situations.
"I was… preparing myself…" Kagome whispered as Inuyasha stood up and walked towards a large television placed at the wall across the bed. They were in the master bedroom, the room where Inuyasha slept in every night.
"Preparing yourself, hmm?" Inuyasha smoothly retorted as he punched the on button, causing the television screen to blare to life.
Kagome couldn't say anything as Inuyasha sighed, walking back towards Kagome. The television was tuned into some cartoon that was happening and neither of them paid attention to it. Inuyasha sat down beside his wife and instantly cracked a cocky grin.
"I told you one day that only you'll be the mother of my child. That and you have to dress up as a porcupine…"
Kagome's eyes widened as her gaze snapped up and locked with Inuyasha's laughing eyes. Anger started riling up within her as Inuyasha crossed his arms, smirking monstrously. He seemed like he was enjoying the situation.
"Wh-what?!" Kagome was in shock for a moment as Inuyasha sighed.
"Did you forget?" Inuyasha rolled his eyes sarcastically. "You were supposed to dress up as a porcupine for our son because I told you that it's you that I'm gonna get married to."
Kagome twitched slightly, gaining the sudden urge to slap Inuyasha smack across his face. "How the hell can you be so damn calm when you find out that I'm pregnant with your child? Does it not mean anything to you?!"
Inuyasha shrugged. "I kind of… got over the initial shock when Sango told me pretty much last week."
That was a slap to Kagome's face. Her best friend went back on her word and broke the promise she made to Kagome? Kagome's eyes darkened as Inuyasha raised a brow, seeing his wife's emotion change from nervousness to confusion to anger.
"Mademoiselle?" Inuyasha spoke slowly as Kagome scowled.
"How could she?! She promised she wouldn't tell you!"
Now it was Inuyasha's turn to darken his gaze. "So you made her promise to keep me from the fact that I was going to be a father? What if she never told me and you decided never to tell me hmm? What, I would've gone through life not knowing I have an elder child?!"
"That would've been the plan," Kagome spat, "that's what you get for swapping spit with me in your summerhouse."
"I'll show you swapping spit!" Inuyasha snarled as he caught Kagome's chin tightly and pressed his lips directly onto hers. Ironically, the little chibi cartoon characters on T.V were chanting kiss kiss kiss kiss so that the main characters would kiss.
Nobody defied Inuyasha Takahashi. Nobody. He had given Higurashi, scratch that- now Takahashi Kagome a little taste of defiance back at the summerhouse and even still today, he would only allow his wife to defy in him the way nobody else could ever imagine.
But if it concerned the fact of his- their unborn child, Inuyasha had to lay down the rules. And the rules clearly stated that Takahashi Kagome was his wife, fake or not. No matter what the incident was, Kagome was and still is his wife.
Kagome remained rigid as Inuyasha's lips worked softly around Kagome's. Screwing up her face, Kagome placed her hands strongly on Inuyasha's chest and gave him a strong push, causing him to break away from the lock between their lips, his eyes widened in shock and utter amusement.
"Why fight now, Mademoiselle?" Inuyasha inquired, crossed his arms as he licked his lips, wiping away the remnants of Kagome's lip gloss, "Why not back a few months ago when you were openly kissing me back?!"
"It's different now!" Kagome shrilled. "It's… it's…"
"It's different?" Inuyasha questioned his voice hardening. "How is it different now? Back then I had a girlfriend and you were just a guest in my home. Now I am married to you, fake or not, and I have no other woman. This is our home and this is our bedroom. I think this is all the more reason to kiss, wouldn't you say?"
Kagome's eyes widened. "I'm not… not… sleeping in this room with you!"
"Is that so…" Inuyasha sneered as he stood up. "Fine. Do what you want. You hid the fact that you're pregnant with my child and now you don't even want the father to be a part of the child's life. You're the mother," Inuyasha walked up to the T.V and turned it off, "it's your choice."
Inuyasha headed towards the door and pulled it open, glancing over his shoulder. "I have work to do. You can explore, if you need me, tell Marika."
Before Kagome could even realize what was happening, Inuyasha left the bedroom and quietly clicked the door shut.
Tears slowly surfaced behind Kagome's eyelids as she fell down onto the bed, sniffling lightly, trying to keep her sobs within her. Why was this happening to her? Just yesterday she was out playing with Ai and Hikari and pretending to be a princess for Kyo and Ichiro and bottle feeding Kasumi and now?
She was pregnant with Inuyasha's kid and he's acting like it was all her fault! Last she checked sex happened between two people. Kagome dug her face into the pillow and allows her tears to stream out, not being able to stop the wracks of hiccups that shot out of her chest.
Kagome thought she would be better off at Inuyasha's house and truthfully, she was. But staying at his place and pretending to be his wife meant that she would be reminded of what she and Inuyasha had back at his summerhouse. And Kagome couldn't deny it, she loved it…
She loved being his center of attention and she loved the kisses he had given her repeatedly but the drawback was that he was with Kikyo and she was the unknown Miko. But now? Now he broke up with Kikyo and he knew that she's Miko. It wasn't like Kagome hated being pregnant. All her life she wanted to be a mother and have a loving husband who would care for her and their child.
Nowhere in her future plans was there space for a fake marriage and a not planned pregnancy. Kagome didn't regret it at all. She loved children and one of her own would be amazing. And she didn't have to worry about the father because Inuyasha loved children and his own would mean more. There were also the physical features of the child but that wasn't a problem either.
Inuyasha was voted the best looking man and Kagome was a model. Their genetics would create one hell of a child…
But the events of Kagome's arrange marriage with Naraku, her running away from home, living with Inuyasha for quite sometime and developing some feelings for him… that wasn't planned.
Sure Kagome developed some feelings for Inuyasha. She cared about him yeah but it wasn't like she loved him…
Kagome didn't know when she dozed off but the tears stained her cheeks as her lips were slightly puffy and her eyes were kind of red. Inuyasha stepped into the room and his heart softened seeing his wife sleeping peacefully on the bed. He placed a piece of paper down on the night stand and pulled the covers over Kagome's body, making sure she was comfortable. He slightly shifted her so that she wasn't straining her stomach.
Kissing her forehead, Inuyasha pulled back and trailed his fingers over Kagome's cheek. He noticed how her features softened as she felt his calloused fingers rub over her soft skin. Sighing, Inuyasha silently walked towards the door, slowly closing it behind him. He didn't mean to snap. It just came out… unexpected…
And that lead to his wife's tears… Inuyasha felt like an asshole.
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Kagome woke up two hours later and saw that she was neatly tucked underneath the blankets, her hair pushed to the side. Yawning and rubbing her eyes slightly, Kagome scanned the room for any sign of Inuyasha but apparently, he wasn't there.
Kagome frowned as she pushed the covers off her body. She sat up on the bed and glanced at the digital clock that was on the nightstand. It was nearly 7pm. Another thing that caught her eye, however, was a small piece of paper placed in front of the clock, with her name written on it. Slowly, Kagome reached for the piece of paper and unfolded it, seeing a note written for her…
Hope you had a nice nap Mademoiselle. I apologize for getting mad, I'm still wondering why I did. I'm in my weight room right now so if you want to drop by just follow my directions…
Leave our bedroom and take a left. Walk all the way down and you'll find a spiral set of stairs. Climb all the way down. You'll see a large green vase at the base, take a right at the vase then first left. Walk straight and take a right. Go through the first door on the right and take another left (the first left). Straight and you'll pass a balcony, first door on the right past the balcony. Go through walk down the hallway and pass through the doors. You'll see the weight room then.
Ciao
Casanova
Kagome laughed as she saw his signature. So he was referring to himself as Casanova now. Quite amusing. Figuring that she should at least greet him after the rather dumb argument they had right before she fell asleep, Kagome clutched the piece of paper and left the room, taking a left.
They had a disagreement over their child and they weren't even married yet. How typical. Kagome found the spiral staircase and started walking all the way down, fixing her hair in the process.
Inuyasha saved her from Naraku and showed her one hell of a time in his summerhouse. He loved her and made her his entire world. She hid the fact that she was Miko but that didn't matter to him…
Taking a right at the green vase, Kagome kept on walking straight then took a right. Passing through the first door she took the first left and kept on walking, spotting the balcony that Inuyasha spoke about.
This is one huge house… and it's all mine… well, ours but it'll take years to memorize this house… Kagome thought comically to herself as she went through the first door on the right. Walking through the hallway, she broke past the other doors and twitched seeing a weight room encased by glass walls. She clearly saw Inuyasha running on a treadmill, shirtless and in sweat pants. His hair was tied in a ponytail as his muscles rippled across his body.
Kagome felt a hot blush creep towards her cheek as she quietly opened the door. Music was blasting inside of the glass walls and Kagome was rather curious as to know how she hadn't heard the music outside of the walls. Walking towards her husband, Kagome noticed that he hadn't realized she was there yet…
Bringing her right hand up, she splayed it out on his back and she felt a thin layer of sweat. Inuyasha tensed slightly and looked over his shoulder to find his wife grinning up at him. Smirking, Inuyasha picked up a remote and turned off the music before jumping off the treadmill, picking up a towel that was hanging off of the handle.
"Had a nice nap?"
Weirdest way to greet his wife who was crying less than two hours ago, but Inuyasha was never married before! He needed some slack!
"Yeah, soft bed." Kagome murmured as she tried to tear her eyes away from his body. That was all hers too…
What am I thinking?! Kagome inwardly scolded as Inuyasha guzzled down a large bottle of water before wiping his mouth, winking at his wife. Placing his hand on the small of her back, he glided her towards a few set of sofas surrounding a small television in a corner of the weight room (which was probably bigger than the Higurashi living room).
"Well I kind of wanted you down here to apologize." Inuyasha stated as he motioned for Kagome to sit down. Kagome frowned as she did, indeed, sit down, with Inuyasha right in front of her, his towel hanging around his neck.
"Apologize?"
Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah, for snapping earlier. I already knew you were pregnant because Sango found it fit to tell me, that was how I got to your place in time. But the way you were acting kind of implied that you didn't want me as the father of my own child and something in me snapped."
Kagome sighed. "It's… okay… I guess I'm… sorry too?"
Inuyasha laughed. "Don't apologize if you don't mean it Mademoiselle."
"I do mean it." Kagome persisted. "I should've told you but you were in so much shock when you found out when I was Miko and then my parents came and took me by force and well… everybody was shocked."
Inuyasha nodded.
"And I only could contact Sango for a short period of time so I had to tell her that I was pregnant…"
"And you couldn't have bothered to tell me?" Inuyasha raised a brow as Kagome gulped.
"I didn't want you more involved than you already were… My father hates you already and I don't know what he would do when he finds out that you're fathering his grandchild…" Kagome dug her face into her hands and Inuyasha leaned back on the sofa.
So they were finally getting somewhere.
"Involved?" Inuyasha crossed a leg over the other. "Kagome, you're mothering my child and you don't want me involved more so than I already am? This involves the life and raising of my child and I will be damned if Naraku gets the privilege to raise my first child."
Kagome gulped, nodding in her hand. "I know, I said that to Sango too! It would be a big hit to you to find out that your eldest child is being raised by Naraku. I wasn't going to marry him honestly… it's just I just thought that… I don't know." Kagome sighed, giving in. "I don't know what I was thinking. I just didn't want to tell you okay? After our fight in your summerhouse I just didn't want to tell…"
Inuyasha got up off his seat and got on his knees, right in front of Kagome. He used his hands to push her hands off of her face and looked directly up into her face.
"Look at me."
Kagome shut her eyes, trying to stop the tears.
"Mademoiselle Miko, look at me!"
Kagome's eyes snapped opened as she stared directly into Inuyasha's eyes. He smirked as he tilted her face up and stared directly into her eyes. "It's history." He whispered as he used the pad of his thumb to rub the tears that trailed down her cheek.
"You aren't married to Naraku and I'm not mad that you didn't tell me you were pregnant. I admit, your life isn't so grand right now and it's only, now, looking up. Let's put it all behind us and start fresh as husband wife?" Inuyasha was asking Kagome and she knew it. Gulping, Kagome placed a hand on her stomach and Inuyasha moved back a bit as he allowed Kagome to think.
"Just you me and our baby?" Kagome looked into his eyes. "No Naraku, no Kikyo… not my parents… just us?"
Inuyasha smiled, nodding. "Yeah. Though this fake marriage thing is gonna be a huge scandal in the media… you know what I'm thinking…?"
Kagome frowned. "What?"
"I don't want our baby to think it was unloved and that he was a mistake. I want my child to be born with my last name. After he's born then perhaps you can divorce me and the court will settle the visitation and custody rights and all but you are going to have to live with me and pretend to be my wife for quite some time."
Kagome kept on starting at him as Inuyasha sighed.
"Well until Naraku and your father settle down and trust me, if I know Naraku, he's gonna start something and if he finds out that we faked the marriage, both of us will be charged for fraud and you'll have to forcefully marry him. And seeing as your father already hates me, who's to say he won't make you abort?"
Kagome's eyes widened as her hands flew instantly to her stomach. Inuyasha scowled grimly at the thought of somebody killing a life that was still growing. Shaking his head, he turned to Kagome and continued his speech.
"You'll make the best pregnancy here, doctors in and out. The elevators won't limit you and you can do whatever you want whenever you want to. Our friends can stay here and the kids can be around you all the time, helping you with junior." Kagome rolled her eyes as Inuyasha chuckled.
"They say fresh air is good for a mother and an unborn child so I can take you out to my summerhouse any time or we can just move in there for the last few months of your pregnancy. If you tell me right now you want to go there then I'll pack our bags and go… I'm saying that even if we're in a fake thing, you're going to have to pretend to be my wife and live with me until everything in the media calms down and your father and Naraku chill and give up on trying to make you marry into the Onigumo's… so well… instead of it being fake since it's going to be pretty much real to everybody, including us, I was hoping that perhaps you'd… consider really marrying me?"
Kagome's eyes bore straight into Inuyasha's amber ones as he, unblinkingly, kept on staring into her orbs. Her hair framed her face as her hands were clutching in her lap. Inuyasha heard her brain clicking and he knew that his speech was getting her to consider what he just sad.
"Quite a long term planner, aren't you?" Kagome finally stated as Inuyasha shrugged.
"You've got to, when you run the business world."
Kagome stroked her belly as her head ducked, her mind working around everything Inuyasha just said.
He was speaking logic, Kagome would give him that much. She was going to be in a fake relationship with him for God only knew how long and Kagome also had to consider the sake of her baby now. If she didn't really marry Inuyasha, her child would be born pretty much a bastard, his parents not bonded in marriage during the time of his birth. The child would have the Higurashi last name and Kagome, at that moment of time, would rather the child of a Takahashi surname seeing as the Higurashi's were acting like assholes…
All the good points led to marrying Inuyasha. And indeed, she was supposed to be in a fake marriage with him for, probably, almost a year so during the year, in case her father found out (which was highly doubtful), Kagome and Inuyasha would really be married, and it wouldn't like it would matter much either…
Kagome would be concentrated on her baby and Inuyasha on her and their baby…
"Aren't you gonna give me a ring?" Kagome finally asked as Inuyasha's eyes widened, hearing her say that.
He hadn't expected her to say yes. Inuyasha was expecting rejection but this was better…
"Yeah well," Inuyasha smirked, recovering quickly, "I was assuming you were gonna say no so I didn't really get a ring but, since you're seeing things my way now Mademoiselle Miko, I'll order a ring for you."
Kagome nodded, a small smile toying at her lips. "But only for our baby and the time I'm living with you. After that, we get divorced and work on custody and visiting rights. Understood?"
Inuyasha smirked. "One year is a long time, Mademoiselle."
"Sometimes it isn't long enough." Kagome stood up as Inuyasha did too. He stared down at her as Kagome, unblinkingly, looked up at him.
"Are you going to kiss me or not? I have to pee!" Kagome finally exclaimed and that took Inuyasha off guard.
"You want me to kiss you?" He repeated as Kagome groaned.
"Actually no, I don't." Turning around, Kagome moved to leave the weight room but she felt Inuyasha clasp her around her wrist. She was spun into his arms and she felt his breath splashing against the top of her head.
Inuyasha's arms were wrapped tightly around her waist. "Any reason why you want a kiss now?" He whispered huskily into her ear, "When a few hours ago you didn't want to do anything with me?"
Kagome looked, slowly, up into his eyes, her own glimmering in innocence.
"A few hours ago you were my fake husband and I was carrying your child." She whispered. "Now, you're my fiancé and I'm carrying your child. It's quite different…"
"So I can kiss you?"
"I'm inviting you to…"
That was all Inuyasha needed as his lips reached down and pressed softly against Kagome's. Her arms were pressed against his bare chest as Inuyasha's arms were snugly around Kagome's waist. It was a soft kiss, a reach for forgiveness from both parties. Inuyasha's tongue slowly entered her mouth and her head tilted to the side a bit, a moan escaping from the back of her throat.
Outside of the glass walls, an elderly woman with dyed black hair smiled as she held a duster in one hand. Her other hand was on her hip as her thin glasses gleamed in the light.
She was the personal assistant, Marika.
I see that that the Master has found true love…
Marika smiled warmly as she walked away, leaving the two to continue kissing, their bodies molding into each other.
It wasn't just a taste of love anymore…
It was the real thing.
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