Inuyasha crossover Iron Man
Chapter 6: Signs

"I'm not your rebound play mate Mr. Stark, don't ruin the friendship between us with something so…reckless," she had told him that on the night of New Year's Eve before Kagome left him at the restaurant alone, leaving to return to her family where she'll be spending her time with for the next week.

She hated the idea of being second best, or even being used as a replacement, it was something of a bad experience and a shock that Inuyasha had left with her. If it were not for the two most important youkai in her life, she would not have found herself or where she stood today. Having come this far with the two of them beside of her, they could have ruled the World, however it would make things less challenging and more boring. From what she had seen in Tony, she understood that he had thought that he found something in her that was similar to Pepper Potts and though they were as different as night and day, she was the one that listened and was able to click well with him, especially relating to him. If Kagome were to look at this under a different light, she would say that he was insecure, as though needing a constant reminder that there was always someone there for him, which was perhaps one of the reasons why he had created JARVIS.

Kagome could sympathize and know how it felt, in fact, she knows how it felt to be in his position. However she was thankful that she has the company of two youkai that are the constant in her life reminding her of many things in her life. Her life it was finally set back on the right course of time, however with the many unforeseen circumstances from her much earlier years of before falling through the well. Tony was however not at all dissuaded from the last few times that she had rejected him base on the various few reasoning that she had given him, in fact, he continuously sent her countless of roses to her office on a daily basis and leaving countless of messages with her secretary. She had originally thought that it was fine if it was just in her office, especially since it was not her home, however Kagome was soon proven wrong when she found her Shrine house to be flooded with roses and countless of messages on it as her family started getting more curious.

Shippo heard of it when Mama Higurashi had called him phone asking him if he knows of her secret admirer that kept sending her those roses and messages. It angered the kitsune, the possessiveness in him gripped at his chest so tightly that the suppressed growl that he had been keeping in was already making itself know. He was about to burst soon, with such ferocity of laying claim upon what he wanted to be his for so long, but never dared to make a move that would scare her. And now this human was boldly making a move on what was his, one that he would soon be facing the consequences badly. Kagome as always, Shippo made careful steps to assure her that she knew nothing of what was going on. He had instead started to be more open with bringing Kagome out on open dates, something that most people of their age would do, saying that they could use the day off from working too much. It was also then that Kagome started catching the odd change in his behavior to link to something that she feels a dread to.

She started to slowly avoid Shippo, unsure of whether or not she was being paranoid, but it was just another measure. Kagome travelled to stay away from the two males, reporting directly to Sesshoumaru that she will be on various business meetings to keep up to date with the partners that they are working with and to head a few of the projects in the other countries that they rarely pay much attention to. It was a bad card to play and no doubt it might just be what they all needed, time away from one another and to not think of one another inappropriately as well. Kagome had always come to think of Shippo as the kit that she raised and watched became into the fine young man that he is today, and a lady-killer at that too. It was perhaps not something to be proud of, but she is. And as for Anthony Edward Stark, he was just in a difficult phase in his life, one that she had once been in, forced at an early age to come face to face with many horrors and delights, fears and aspirations. All these too early, but it groomed her to become who she is today.

There are other reasons as to why she had taken the chance to travel out again, to take on those other business meetings overseas. Sesshoumaru she expects would have most probably already come to a conclusion as to what was going on, even if he did not call to express his concern. No doubt that if under different circumstances, she would have most probably fallen in love easily with Shippo, but life has turned and made her more jaded as to the things that went on around of her. Shippo was someone that she could not change her mindset about apart from him only being just her ward, her adoptive son. And apart from that, Shippo being a kitsune is really a youkai that too strives on touches, intimacies and emotions like everyone else, it was really part of the being and kind that he is. Maybe she was really just being paranoid about Shippo, he was after all still that same playful kit that she had watched grown up into the handsome devil now. She smiled whilst she corrected documents after documents, perhaps she was really in the wrong to think that there was something awkward in the way Shippo was treating her.

However the travelling did give her the chance to be alone and think things through, especially when it is in regards to Shippo and Tony. And since New Year's Eve, Kagome have not heard or seen hide of him, it was like life has gone back to how it was when he had not appear. It was perhaps better this way, for their life to go back to how it was, and perhaps Tony would soon awake to the denial and insecurities in which he had built around of him. Tony however is a good person, and a good man if he were to find the right woman and he were to open up fully to her. The thoughts of Tony finding another woman did not were something that did not occur to her until now. And as she set her work aside for the time being, Kagome turned her thoughts for a moment towards Tony. It was awkward but when she had thoughts of him with other women, there was this odd bubbling that she had not felt for years, centuries, but perhaps it was also just a temporal thing on her part of thinking too much into things. Her mind just needed some time to think through things and to perhaps take a few days, maybe hours off work to just relax herself a little.

She had been overworking herself with projects and meetings that it would have made any normal working person be breathless or at least lying dead in bed just trying to regain their energy. Though not her, it was also perhaps how she had used work as a way of coping and escaping from her past memories that seem to haunt her so constantly in her dreams. It was self-torture and looking as to how Tony was reliving his fears that he was desperately trying to avoid and not want to think about it, was chased by it instead in his sub consciousness. He was unlike her, perhaps that is one of the few reasons that she found him interesting. Somehow, somewhere between her thoughts, Kagome had fallen asleep, her documents laid on her table as her laptop was put into sleep mood and her pen seem to have rolled off somewhere on the table. Her thoughts they were for once empty of anything and she was sleeping without her nightmares coming to haunt her. There is a lesson to be learnt here she too know, and that is to stop living out her nightmares and fearing them. When they were to come, she will overcome it again, just like how she had overcame her fear of Naraku and the thought of fighting a battle many centuries ago. If anything, those turning points in her life had mad her stronger and more self-reliant than ever. She did not need to keep anticipating it like some masochist, instead it was time that she finally let go, a lesson that was well overdue for enlightenment centuries ago.

She really should thank Tony for opening her eyes to her own issues that were always pushed aside, issues that were long overdue, but at least it was never too late for her to just let it go. And as her mind drifted away in slumber, the world of dreams was for the first time, a peaceful place. Only that her wake up call was somewhat uncalled for as her 'prince charming' was really very skillful in a sensual assault of the sleeping body. Her eyes opened with a hazy look as she tried to remember what should she not be experiencing at the moment, but instead found herself in an overly intimate encounter with none other than the man that she was thinking of thanking for waking her up. Though now it was more literal and it was too jarring an encounter that it shocked her away as she kicked Tony away from her out of reflex whilst she drew some help from her own skill as a miko.

Her eyes settled on Tony almost too slowly as she quickly hide her powers away, a scowl upon her face as she watches Tony trying to get up, clutching his stomach in pain from her kick. It serves him right for waking her up in such a manner, and more importantly barging in on her like that without some form of warning, but then again she might have just give him the slip had she known that he would be coming. He was coughing badly, waving a hand in the air as thought to indicate that he was fine. What he had just done was beyond stupid, though he was one of those humans that always take uncalculated risks from what she had obvious. Standing to go towards him, she nearly fell down to the ground immediately, her legs had gone numb from the odd position in which they were in and the lack of blow flowing there. She growled softly annoyed at this rare occurrence and such bad timing, but instead felt herself being lifted up and coming face to face again with a chuckling Tony Stark. She noticed that he was still feeling the slight pain of her kick, it was a sting she know but as he sat down with her on his lap and secured within his arms, Kagome pushed herself away from him, trying again to stand upon her feet as she put some distance between them.

"I think you owe me one," he chuckled, remembering of her most ungraceful fall, it was perhaps the first that he had seen her in that manner, and knows that it might be the last time he was ever going to see it, but the desire to see more was amazingly strong.

Kagome remained quiet, annoyed at what he had seen, even more annoyed that she was not at all prepared to see him ever again. She did not understand why she was not prepared, but kept quiet about it as she disappeared through her temporal residence in one of the service apartment's executive suites. And just as she was exiting from her room, thoroughly ignoring Tony Stark openly and to his knowledge, and she knows that he knows that too. And as Kagome was going out, she felt herself disoriented with how she was grabbed around the waist and twirled around her and dipped her down. She laughed voluntarily, something that she had not done aside from when Shippo was always up with his antics in making her laugh. Her smile was still upon her face when he had brought her upright again, only to have it disappeared when he kissed her a little too deeply than expected.

"Stark!" She exclaimed, shocked as she took a step away from him. Sure there were times that when she was curious what it was like, but this was most likely not the time in which she was curious about how it felt.

Tony frowned at first, but closed up the gap faster than she could recover from the shock that he had no doubt gave her. He had little experience with women like her, but he was sure as hell that he would be damned if he had let opportunities like this go by. She was firstly not rejecting his advances, just more shock, and secondly, though she was not at all rejecting his advances he could feel the quirk at the side of her mouths. And if it was anything else to confirm his thoughts, the tiny sigh that escaped from her mouth was like a form of surrender to him, and one in which Tony took full advantage of. She was unlike what he had imagined, and though it took a while to get her interested, she was soon responding to his kisses, and touches as soft moans emitted from her lips eliciting a groan from him. It has been a while for him, and also because there were not any female that had drawn his attention since Pepper. The parties that he threw so often became dull to him and they seem to have lost their luster as well. He still held those parties of course, as a front and to keep up with his reputation, but more than often would retire early or drive the party off somewhere else as to divert the attention away from him.

However he wanted more of what he is getting now, it was so much more than he had imagined her to be. And the way that she fitted just right against him, felt right to him, and how soft she was and so much more warmer than he had expected as compared to Pepper. And with each new touches and sounds, and expression that she made he wanted to see more, to find out every little things about her, it was like a dangerous obsession. And as he lead them further into the room with all the sexual energy between them, they could not seem to stop touching one another. Work was thrown out of the window for the time being for Kagome as she indulged in herself a little. It has been years, nearly centuries since she had last had such bodily indulgence. She needed it so bad and though it took a while for her body to feel it, she had to admit that he was rather skilled for a mortal, but then again with her lack of sexual activities for centuries, her experience was lacking. It might perhaps have been a laugh but she was not very much of a sexual deviant or one that have a good healthy dose of it from time to time to relieve her body, instead she just let work take over her life.

Why she had not rejected Tony she did not really have a solid reason, but perhaps it was because she was curious what he was like, and the companionship that her body had been missing out from the lack of activities in bed. It was perhaps her escape, but a part of her mind was screaming at her to stop from going any further than this and give the male the wrong impression or idea of their status as friends to friends with benefits. She grimace at it mentally, and just as her body hit the impact of her bed, she saw Tony just above of her before he dove down to pleasurably assault her neck. Though it scares her of how easily it seemed that Tony had gotten a reaction out of her. Her stomach crawled in anticipation of what was to come, her breathing hitched as his hands explored her body further, touches gentle, but hungry and eager. Clothes were already stripped down to just bearing covering and she was fighting against what her body wants and what her mind was telling her.

"Stark…"she called out in between of moans trying to not drop too far into pleasure and lust.

"Star…ah…ark…we need to…mnh…ahh…" she cried out, her voice coming out all weird, and unable to control the tone or the sounds coming out of her throat.

"Tony," he supplied, his eyes upon her face as he took the plunge into her with his fingers, playing her like a piano as he watched her back arched up in reaction the look of lust and ecstasy upon her face, and most especially within her eyes.

It was unbearable to him, for one who had initially though to take it slow, he was slowly losing his own control of needing to be in her right then. The way her face was flushed in a lovely shade of pink with glazed eyes, the image that it painted to him was more than enough for him for the last of his control slowly slipping. However just as things between them were to be stripped bare, Kagome pushed him away her eyes slowly becoming clear as she told him that they needed to stop. It was beyond frustrating, and as he tried to control his breathing and his own lust, Tony held himself back, trying to put a rein to his own needs. Was he going too fast for her, did he do something wrong to upset her. As Tony turned towards Kagome, he reached out to embrace her, still feeling very much aroused by her, as he tried to calm his own self down.

"We…we need to stop…" she told him her face still flushed, embarrassed of her body as she tried to hide her body from view with the blanket.

Tony saw that and felt an ache in his heart as he reached out for her, positioning himself behind of her as he hugged her securely whispering soft tender words into her ears. It was perhaps unlike him to have done so, but for some weird reason he felt compelled to keep apologizing to her, consoling her that he was at fault and should have asked her first. It was first for him to apologize in such a manner. The words and things that he had whispered into her ears made her blush, but it also sooth her as it lulls her into a sleep. His manhood was still somewhat raging as Tony felt her body slowly relaxing, and saw her eyes drifted close as her breathing slowed and evened out. He breathed out a sigh, unsure of what to do with his current situation, but instead drew the coverlet and bed-sheet down as he tucked the both of them in gently and slowly so as to not wake her up and held her close. It was perhaps the first that he was left hanging in such a manner, but it did not seem to matter that he would have to wait for quite a while.

Tonight was something unexpected, and more of a surprise to him, as he was sure that she would have slapped him or rejected him somewhat violently, but so far the signs were good and he was contented for now.

A/N:

To Spastic Freak
Thanks! Though I do feel that I am still very much lacking in that department, the descriptive and vocabulary parts. They seem to be my weakest point in story writing sadly.

Though for my resolution, is rather hard to keep, since they are usually the cheapest fair with the most solid or filled meals for me these days. =/ Not to mention that I've been either eating air or replacing it with instant noodles which are just as bad as well. I hope that you have better and stronger resolution than me in that stand. . Enjoy this new chapter, and have a great week!

To vampk1tty
No prob on the mention, I do feel obliged to reply to those that have reviewed for my stories whenever I can or remember. =] I hope that you enjoy this new chapter, have a great week!

To serenityselena
Thank you so much, I hope that you like this new chapter as well. Have a great week!

To the Readers
Hello to all, I hope that you enjoy this new chapter, have a great week ahead of you!