Chapter Two:

Demonic Frustrations

Kagome walked toward the village just as InuYasha caught up with her. The hanyo slowed to match her pace and once again crossed his harms inside his sleeves.

"So how did that test thing go?" he asked as he glanced at her from the corner of his eye. He was once more entranced by the way the sun hit her heart shaped face and seemed to make her glow with an ethereal light.

She's perfect.

Yeah she is.

Realizing that he had subconsciously agreed with his demon side InuYasha shook his head.

What the hell am I doing? I can't let my demon just speak up whenever it wants too!

You can't stop me you foolish hanyo. InuYasha tensed as the Yokai within spoke to him directly. I am a part of you just as your human heart is and by the end of this spring Kagome will be ours.

"InuYasha, did you hear me?"

InuYasha shook himself from his mental argument and looked to Kagome who was giving him a look of concern as if she were worried he were losing his mind, which in a way he was.

"What do you want woman?" he snapped. As his demon's taunts echoed in his mind he became disgruntled that now that his blood was stronger due to the coming of age he would have less control over his demon side and that in turn would put Kagome and the rest of his pack in danger.

Kagome frowned as she stopped and grabbed his sleeve making him stop with her.

"What's going on InuYasha?" She asked as he stopped but refused to look at her.

"I don't know what you mean." He growled out irritably. "Ain't nothing wrong except you shirking your responsibilities here."

Kagome jerked her hand away as if he had been made of fire and had burned her. How could he say something like that to her? She was the one that had given up her teenage years where she should have been going to school and spending time with her friends and family to come to feudal Japan and fight demons while hunting down a mystical jewel that in the wrong hands could enslave the world. She was the one that had her heart broken more times then she could count because the man, or half demon, she loved cared more for another then he did for her and he had the gall to say she was shirking her responsibilities?

"How am I shirking my responsibilities?" Kagome demanded as she glared angrily at her best friend. "I have more responsibilities then just finding the jewel shards InuYasha! I have to go to school or I won't be able to take care of myself and the children I'll have one day. I go to school so I can actually make a decent life for myself."

InuYasha snapped his head around to look at the young miko he had fallen so deeply in love with. What did she mean 'children she'd have one day'? Did he have another rival for mating rights to Kagome?

InuYasha's yokai began to growl as images of the young human woman with another male were forced to the forefront of his mind.

NO! MINE! SHE'S MY FEMALE NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE HER!

InuYasha gave a savage growl as he grabbed Kagome by the shoulders.

"You. Are NOT. Having. Children. Kagome!" he growled as his fangs and claws grew only slightly, to little for an angry priestess to notice.

"Oh and now you think you can tell me that I can't have a family of my own? Who the hell do you think you are!" Kagome shook her head as she pushed past the seething hanyo.

No she can't have pups! Not unless they're mine!

"You know what why don't you just not speak to me until you have gotten over what ever has got you in such a rotten mood!"

InuYasha grabbed her arm to stop her but Kagome was so angry that she didn't even look back at him as she said the one word InuYasha dreaded more then any other.

"SIT!"

He released her arm so as not to drag her down with him right before the beads took affect and forced him down into the ground. The half demon's body hit the earth so hard that he created and InuYasha shaped crater complete with dog-ears and all.

When he was finally able to move he lifted his head to watch as his woman stormed off leaving him splayed on his belly in the middle of the forest.

You're an idiot aren't you? InuYasha growled as he sat up and popped his back and neck.

"I wish you'd shut the hell up." InuYasha growled to himself as he stood up and shook out his sleeves to rid them of the debris that he had created when he crashed to the earth.

Claim our mate and maybe I'll grant your wish.

Ignoring the rough voice in his mind that practically oozed smugness, InuYasha stood and headed for the village after the angry female that he loved with all his heart.

In the village

As she made her way to Kaede's hut Kagome's thoughts were directed to InuYasha and his strange behavior. He had seemed just fine until he asked about her test then he had completely blocked her out and when she had asked if he was all right he had the nerve to tell her she was slacking in her duties here in this time.

Then to make matters worse he had actually forbidden her to get married and have children like he had any say over whether or not she reproduced.

What's his problem anyway? It's not like he loves me or cares about me past my ability to sense the jewel shards. What does he expect me to do? Live and die alone with no one to care for me while he's all cozy with Kikyo in hell? Ha as if!

The schoolgirl was brought from her angry mental ramblings by the sound of a happy child shouting her name.

"Kagome you're back!" Shippo then proceeded to throw his small body into his surrogate mother's arms and nuzzle her neck. It may have been only two days since he had seen the miko but for a young kitsune it felt like a decade.

"Hi Shippo, have you been good since I've been gone?" Shippo nodded and climbed onto Kagome's shoulder.

"Yeah but InuYasha's been weird. He's been really grouchy, more then normal and he smells like my papa did when he and mama would send me to play outside."

Kagome was confused as to why InuYasha would smell like Shippo's father, though the way Shippo spoke made her think that the little demon boy didn't mean that InuYasha smelled like a fox.

"Yeah I noticed InuYasha seemed a little more… annoyed then usual."

"Yeah and he hit me more then normal too!" Kagome laughed at the little pouty face the demon boy was making as he rubbed at his sore head.

She gently patted the boy's head and kissed his cheek.

"I'm sorry Shippo I'll make sure he doesn't hit you anymore."

Shippo smiled and leaped from her shoulder to alert the others that their friend had returned home.

Kagome entered the hut and smiled happily as she greeted her friends.

"Hey guys I brought treats for everyone." Kagome said as she sat on her knees and began to unpack her bag.

"Ah our lovely Lady Kagome comes baring her wonderful gifts from the future." Miroku said as he happily accepted the green tea that he had asked Kagome to bring back for him.

"Watch yourself monk." Sango warned as she eyes the hand nearest her.

"Sango here is that chocolate I told you you'd like."

The taijiya smiled kindly as her friend handed her the dark candy. "Thanks Kagome. How did your test go?"

"I barely passed." She informed solemnly as she handed Kaede the lunch her mother had prepared for. "And I had really thought I knew the material too."

"I'm sure ye did your best child. No need to be so hard on yeself."

Kagome nodded and smiled. "Thanks Kaede."

Just then InuYasha walked into the hut and all eyes fell to him. The half demon stopped and froze as he found himself the center of unwanted attention.

"What?" he demanded as he avoided looking at Kagome.

"Feeling better my friend?" Miroku asked. Earlier that day the Inu hanyo had stormed off to the forest after having sat and fidget all day.

"Feh, don't know what you're talking about monk." He said as he made his way to the back wall ignoring his comrades and more surprising the food that Kagome had brought back for him.

"Hey InuYasha you still smell like mama and papa use to when they told me to go play." Shippo said as he hopped onto InuYasha's raised knee. "Why do you smell like that?"

InuYasha felt his face heat up as the blood rushed to his cheeks and he raised his hand to thump the small child on the head only to be stopped by a stern feminine voice.

"InuYasha." He looked to Kagome and h could clearly see the threat in her brown eyes. "I wouldn't."

InuYasha glared but he lowered his fist as Shippo continued to look at him with child-like curiosity.

"I don't know what you're talking about." He growled hoping the kit would drop the subject. Unfortunately he didn't.

"But you smell like Papa did when he'd hug mama and kiss her. But you don't have a mate to do that with… right?"

By that point InuYasha's face was as red as his kimono and Miroku had a lecherous grin stretching his lips.

"Well it appears that our dear hanyo friend is having male needs."

Kagome and Sango blanched at the monk's perverted words as InuYasha glared and Kaede only shook her head in exasperation while Kirara napped next to the elderly woman.

"What does Miroku mean by male needs InuYasha?"

Miroku leaned over toward the demon child and his grin grew even larger.

"I'm so glad you asked Shippo, you see when a man sees a woman he begins to feel urges that- ACK!"

The monk was dragged away from the red faced youth and the curious child by an irate demon slayer.

"What are you thinking Houshi? Shippo may be a demon but he's still a child!"

"But Sango I was merely trying to answer-" THUMP! "Shut up monk!" InuYasha and the others watched as Sango continued to beat the monk into a bloody pulp for his indecent behavior when suddenly he felt a small itch on his neck. The half demon smacked his neck where he felt the itch and pulled back his hand to see Myoga.

"Gree-etings Ma-Master. Ouch!"

"Well if it ain't Myoga what'd ya want?" he asked his retainer as the flea regained his shape.

"Lord InuYasha do I need a reason to come see you?"

"Yes." InuYasha replied with a raised brow as he waited for the old demon to get to the point.

"Master how could you have such little faith in me?" Myoga asked with tear-filled eyes.

"Well you run off at the first hint of danger! You did that even when I was six!"

Realizing that he had no argument to the hanyo's words he sat in the young demon boy's hand and got down to business.

"Anyway about what I came to see you about."

I knew it.

"My Lord you have recently come into your two hundred and fifty first year and that means that-"

InuYasha closed his fist to stop flea from speaking further and quickly jumped up.

"We'll be back later!" he said as he rushed from the hut leaving his friends in stunned shock at their half demon companion's hurried exit.

Sango broke the silence when her knowledge of demons and InuYasha's age made her realize what Myoga had been about to say.

"Has InuYasha come of age?" she asked out loud.

"What do you mean Sango?" Kagome asked, as she looked at her friend in concern for the hanyo and curiosity general.

Sango looked to Kagome and then the others and figured that if she left it up to InuYasha Kagome would never know about the coming of age and what it entailed.

"Well when a young male demon gets to two hundred and fifty-one years old their instincts are solely concentrated on finding a female and siring young. I haven't ever heard of a half demon reaching their coming of age but very few hanyos actually live to two hundred and fifty one years old, in fact I think InuYasha maybe the only one."

And with that the group looked to the door where their friend had disappeared to as the wondered what was to come in the near future.

A/N: Chapter two is done and now the others know vaguely what is going on with InuYasha. Please review and let me know what you all think of this chapter and thanks for reading.

Disclaimer: Rumiko Takahashi own InuYasha and Co.

Vocabulary:

Taijiya: Demon Slayer

Houshi: Monk

Kitsune: Fox

Miko: Priestess