Chapter Seven:

Hiroshi's True Colors

Once InuYasha made it back to the village he met up with Miroku in the center of the village.

"InuYasha." Miroku greeted as the red clad hanyo walked over to stand with him. "Did you find anything?"

InuYasha shook his head as he looked around the deserted village. It was strange to not hear the usual sounds of village life getting read to settle down for the night. "No not even a mouse demon in the woods and not one trace of this virgin stealing demon. What about you? You learn anything from the villagers?"

Miroku nodded as he shifted his Shakujou to his other hand. "No I'm afraid not." The monk crossed his arms, his hand disappearing his black and purple robes. "They seem too terrified to even come to the door let alone talk."

InuYasha looked around and sniffed the air. Though he couldn't see it he was positive something wasn't right.

If the villagers are acting like this the demon must be one evil bastard.

"InuYasha!" the two men turned to see a mussed and bruised Shippo running on all fours toward them fear and desperation in his emerald eyes

"Shippo!" InuYasha called as he jumped the distance and landed close enough for the kit to jump to his chest. "What happened? Where are the girls?" he growled as panic gripped him in a dangerous hold. He could already feel his demon too close to the surface.

"The headman knocked them out and he took Kagome! I tried to stop him but he threw me at the wall and he used a stink bomb to get pass Kirara!"

NO!

InuYasha went to his knees as the fear coupled with his Yokai trying to break free from its confines in his mind.

No this can't be happening! Kagome, my Kagome! No I won't let this stand!

"I'm sorry." InuYasha looked up to see the headman bowing a few feet away from the group.

InuYasha stood and allowed his nose to scent the air. He practically lost his mind when he cold easily smell the scent of both Sango and Kagome's blood on him and that was all it took.

In the blink of an eye the pig-headed, temperamental half demon was now a raging full-blooded demon in a blood rage.

In the split second it took for fear to take hold of the old man InuYasha had him by the throat pinned to the side of a hut. As his prey struggled for his next breath the demon InuYasha had become relished in the feeling of having the one that smelled of the blood of his pack by the throat.

"You mortals are such fools." The demon said as he watched the human man's face turn red with his lack of oxygen.

"My pack and I come here to aid you and how are we repaid? You attack our women and young and take my mate."

"Please!" the man said as he tried to pry the angry red eyed monster's hands from his throat. "You don't understand! We have no choice."

"That means nothing to me! You should have never attacked what's mine!" The whimpered as InuYasha snarled in his face. It was taking all of the demon's control to not lash out and rip the human apart but he need the swine alive if he was going to find his female.

"InuYasha." The yokai's ear twitched to acknowledge the monk behind him.

Miroku took that as a sign to continue so he cautiously stepped forward and carefully put his hand on his demonic friend's shoulder.

"You need to let him go, he may be the only one to tell us where Kagome is."

Slowly InuYasha lowered the sniveling excuse for a man to the ground. He then turned to the monk, his beta. Just looking at his friend made his anger rise. The worry was easy to see on the usually easy going male's face.

"Kit," InuYasha snapped causing Shippo to flinch but look to the dog demon.

"Where is the slayer?" it was bad enough that his female had been kidnapped but if Sango had been killed in the process there would no mercy.

"She's safe with Kirara, the headman knocked her out when he came for Kagome."

InuYasha nodded the turned to the man now in a ball on the ground. His red eyes practically glowed with malice but before he decided to end the man's life a dark chuckle broke the still silence.

The group turned to see a struggling Kagome trying to break free from demon that held her by her waist.

"InuYasha!" Kagome called as she reached for him.

"Well aren't you full of surprises?"

"Hiroshi!" Miroku gasped as he took up a fighting stance.

Hiroshi smiled sadistically as he observed the near feral hanyo and the tense monk.

"That half demon Naraku was right when he said that this miko had a stronger purity then most. Its absolutely delicious especially with her fear."

InuYasha prepared to pounce as he snarled dangerously.

"So Naraku sent you after us did he?" InuYasha sneered. "Then I don't need to keep you alive that bastard will come to me soon enough."

InuYasha then lunged so fast that he disappeared like a phantom in the dark but Hiroshi was faster and hopped onto the roof of the headman's home and out of the reach of the savage mongrel that thirsted for his blood.

"Naraku told me that you cared deeply for this girl but its obvious he underestimated just how right he was. Do you intend to make this woman your paramour hanyo? Are you so pathetic that you would further dilute your blood by procreating with a mortal?"

"What I do with my bitch is none of your concern!" InuYasha bellowed as he inched closer to the one that held his intended.

"Hm," Hiroshi hummed as he looked between his captive and her would be consort. "I have to say mutt you should have laid claim to this female when you had the chance."

Hiroshi then forced the struggling Kagome to look at him. He took a moment to smile callously then he forced frightened woman to meet his lips in a harsh kiss.

At first Kagome tensed at the unwanted contact but within a few seconds her knees began to go weak as her life was slowly being absorbed from her body.

He's taking my power! I can't push him off. Help… Me… Inu… Yasha!

After witnessing the demon kiss the woman he wanted for his own rage began consume him and when he saw Kagome weaken severely it only made the Yokai more murderous.

"How dare you!" He growled as his anger began to boil over. "For touching what's mine I'll KILL YOU!"

Faster then ever before InuYasha practically flew toward his prey. Somehow without harming his mate InuYasha managed to grab Hiroshi and throw him into the farthest barn causing the building to collapse.

Before she could fall from the roof InuYasha caught Kagome up in his arms. He took a second to look at her and convince himself she would be all right.

When she groaned he calmed only slightly. She would live but he would not allow the one that attacked her to live another hour. He dropped down from the roof and quickly took the miko toward their pack.

Miroku was helping Sango sit up as she rubbed her head.

"Kagome!" Shippo wailed as he saw the comatose form of his mother figure.

"InuYasha is she-?" The monk was silenced when the demon that was his friend glared at his way.

"She'll be fine,." He lovingly settled her down next to Sango who began to look her sister over worriedly. "While I kill this bastard you look after the pack." InuYasha ordered while looking at Miroku. "Don't disappoint me beta."

Once InuYasha was certain that the females and the kit would be looked after he casually walked toward the annoyed demon currently picking himself out of the destroyed barn.

"Stupid cur." Hiroshi mumbled as he dusted off his yukata.

"This cur is about to gut your useless hide."

Hiroshi looked up to come face to face with wild red eyes that promised a very painful death.

"You touched my mate." The tone he used was almost casual as InuYasha advanced on his enemy with deadly animal like intent.

"As a demon you should know that that's a big no-no."

The violent dog demon chucked as his excitement for the kill grew a feverish point.

"I am not afraid of you." Hiroshi snapped as he slashed at the demon standing between him and his meal. Unfortunately he never made contact for not many were a match for a full-blooded InuYasha. Instead he felt a searing pain spread through his torso.

The stunned incubus looked down to see the hanyo's hand shoved through his chest up to his wrist. He then looked up to see InuYasha's sadistic smile and sheer joy shining in his eyes.

For the first time since he had met the group Hiroshi was afraid. Naraku had said that when the half demon was in this form he was a mindless monster the killed for the sake of killing, he wasn't supposed to be this coherent and calculating.

"Die."

Suddenly the soul-stealing demon felt an intense amount of pressure in his chest cavity. He began to scream in pure unadulterated pain.

InuYasha closed his eyes as he reveled in the other male's terror and pain. Then he opened his eyes and began to shred the demon that had made the mistake of putting his hands on his female and pack.

Once Hiroshi was dead InuYasha turned around and was confronted with the other villagers. They looked at him with a mixture of gratitude and fear but he didn't care. All that matter to him was Kagome and claiming her before the moronic hanyo took back control and kept the woman at arms length once more.

Kagome felt the hands on her face before she opened her eyes. When she did she saw the concerned eyes of Sango and Shippo.

"Oh kami Kagome are you alright?" Sango asked as she helped Kagome sit up.

"I- Yeah, I'm okay."

"InuYasha you have to calm down."

Kagome and Sango turned toward the nervous sound of their perverted friend's voice to see a red eyed, blood thirsty, full-blooded demon InuYasha. When Sango realized that Miroku was standing in their defense her heart stopped and her blood ran cold.

"Miroku stand down! Now!"

"Listen to your woman monk. I'm your alpha but I won't hesitate to strike you if you keep me from my mate."

"I won't let you hurt them InuYasha you'd never forgive yourself."

With an angry grunt InuYasha grabbed Miroku by the collar of his robes and brought him close.

"You, the kit, the women and the cat are my pack why the hell would I injure what is mine? Now move before you piss me off!"

"InuYasha?"

His ear twitched as the angelic voice reach his ears. He looked to her and felt his heart race at her beauty. He couldn't wait to have her, to see her grow round with his offspring.

"Just calm down okay?" She whispered as she limped toward him. Once she was close enough her legs gave out and the demon swept her up into his arms.

Kagome clung to his neck as she looked up at him. "Are you okay?" She asked which caused InuYasha to scoff and roll his eyes.

"I'm fine wench. You're the one that can't walk straight."

He looked to his pack and then to the drained girl in his arms.

"Kagome and I will return in the morning." He then glared at the headman who had risen and was holding his wife to his chest. "One hair is harmed on any of our companions I'll reduce this village to dust."

He then ran until he found a cave, which was at one time the den of what must have been a ookami if the scent of wolves was any indication.

InuYasha gently sat his precious cargo down near the entrance and inspected the shelter. It seemed that whatever had once occupied the den was long gone. A nest of furs was situated at the back of the cave and they seemed in decent condition.

After he was satisfied with the dwelling he retrieved his soon to be lover.

Kagome smiled as she found herself snuggled up to InuYasha's chest in a nest of pelts that were so warm. She hadn't felt this safe in a long time.

The feeling of a tongue on her neck had her eyes snapping wide open. The priestess hesitantly looked to the hanyo beside her. She could see it in his eyes. The love, the lust and the decision. He loved her and he wanted her, she was everything to him just as he was everything to her.

"This is it isn't?" she asked nervously.

"If you'll have me. You'll be my mate by the end of this night."

Kagome smiled as she gazed up at the hanyo.

"There is nothing I'd ever wanted more. I love you… all of you."

With that the hanyo turned Yokai kissed the teenager from the future and by morning he was once more a hanyo. A happy, sated hanyo that finally knew the love of the woman he had always hoped would be his.

A/N: I worked really hard on this chapter. I am basically rewriting this story and I am very happy with the results here. I figured in this kind of situation InuYasha's demon would be a little more intelligent. He is still the more demonic version of InuYasha, which is why he referred to Kagome as his 'bitch' and the others as his 'pack.'

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter please leave me a review and tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own InuYasha. Rumiko Takahashi Owns him and his adorable doggy ears.

Vocabulary:

Ookami: Wolf Demon.