Hello everybody, I´m back.
I bring you a little fluffy chapter this time, some pure domestic bliss before shit hits the fan. There´s a little smut at the beginning but it´s not a big thing, I don´t think you need a warning.
15- Scents
In the twilight of the bedroom, the two silhouettes were almost fused into just one, him kneeling on the bed with her legs around his waist and his hands grabbing her rounded bottom. The long silver hair draped around both figures giving them an ethereal glow, her darker tresses confounded with the shaded room.
The pale breasts were made visible when the slender woman threw her head back and offered them to the man who traced circles with his tongue around the tip several times before nibbling it with teeth and fangs. The female let out a feeble moan and grabbed fistfuls of the sterling locks demanding more of the delicious torture on her other nipples. The man´s thrusts became deeper and more powerful as he noticed she was close to her climax, which only served to push her closer to it.
When she finally felt the clamping of her inner walls around his hard cock, she put one hand under his chin and moved his mouth away from the hardened peak until her mouth covered his, tongues twirling together.
Gasping for breath, the woman smiled a feline-like grin on her ruby red lips as she delivered a quick peck on the man´s lips and disentangled her body from around his.
"Are you leaving so soon?" The hoarse voice asked in a low tone.
The woman smiled again.
"Sesshomaru dear, you know I would love to stay longer, but I´d prefer to have time to get your scent off my body"
"Is it so disgusting then, to smell me every time you breathe?"
"Not at all, in fact, it is quite arousing. I just want to avoid some other youkai smelling it." The woman started to gather her clothes that were now scattered around the bedroom.
"You are ashamed of this then." He asserted laying back against the pillows.
"I wouldn´t say it like that. It´s just that I don´t want Onigumo to know I have been sleeping with the enemy." She had already put her underwear on
"The enemy?" Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, his cool facade never displaying any kind of emotion. "Does Onigumo think of me as the enemy?"
Kagura paused only for a second, looking away from the intensity in his eyes. She was convinced Sesshomaru would be able to read a lie in her own eyes, so she better answered with the truth, or as much of the truth she could volunteer at the moment.
"You´ve known him longer than anybody else. Onigumo is a paranoid old man, anyone who doesn´t bend to his will he deems an enemy."
Sesshomaru didn´t answer. He knew he fit the category too well. The only time Onigumo had had any leverage over him was caused by Inuyasha´s silly infatuation with Kikyo and Sesshomaru had vowed to never let anything of the sort happen again. This affair with Kagura had started as a part of his plan to keep his brother away from that woman´s influence. He started seeing Kagura at the same time that the doctor had demanded compensation for her daughter´s loss. The project had been to get intel on Onigumo´s plans. He had always thought that her flirting with him was some similar tactic planned by the old doctor.
Until she uttered that statement.
"If you don´t want Onigumo to find out," he moved from the bed in lightning speed to wrap his arms around the female´s waist, dragging her down on the bed once again, "we can use some bathing salts I got from Mount Hakurei. They are very effective in cleansing yourself of any unwanted residues." He kissed her shoulder as if to finish this conversation but then added. " And of scents as well."
"Really? I thought that mountain was only a myth." She wanted to keep the conversation going but the youkai trailing kisses down the column of her neck was too distracting. "In that case, I think I can stay a little longer."
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The ofuro of her apartment was tiny but to Kagome´s petite frame it had always seemed large enough. In fact, it had been the main reason she had taken an apartment in the most dangerous part of the city. Well, the washer/dryer and the ofuro. Now with a broad-shouldered, muscular hanyo sharing it with her, she could never think it was big enough ever again.
"I think we are clean now." The woman murmured against Inuyasha´s collarbone.
It would have taken only a few minutes if they hadn´t get sidetracked by each other´s body. Fingers searching, kneading and caressing the flesh under the warm stream while they kissed languidly. There was no rush this time around. The urgency wasn´t gone, it was just dormant. Plus, the confinement of the small bath only allowed some minute exploration, any further adventure would have to wait until they were out of the water.
Inuyasha let out an exaggerated sigh.
"If you say so."
Kagome stepped out first, reaching for some towels and starting to dry her body before wrapping one around it and another one in her hair.
"I´m starving."Now that his body had been partially sated, Inuyasha could pay attention to some other basic functions. "You have any snacks or something ready to eat?"
"Mmm..." Kagome thought for a moment of her almost empty fridge and remembering Inuyasha´s huge appetite. "I have some cereal, milk, melonpan... and I think I have some instant ramen too."
"Great! That will do."
"Can you get it ready while I get the laundry started?"
"Sure thing, just let me know where everything is."
"Here." Kagome handed him some pink fluffy piece of cloth. "You´ll need to cover yourself, you know, to prevent accidents in the kitchen."
Inuyasha put on her bathrobe and looked at himself in the mirror.
"So much for coverage."
The garment only reached mid-thigh and left a large part of his chest exposed. Kagome had to cover her mouth to prevent the giggles.
"You´re laughing at me?" He just caught her in his arms and punished her with tickles around her ribcage and backside until Kagome was laughing hysterically, begging him for mercy between sobs.
The ramen was already boiling when Kagome came out of the bath, still wearing the towel around her body, her wet hair hanging loose, and she was carrying a little box in her hands.
"Inuyasha, I found this in your jacket."
"Oh, I almost forgot about that." He took the box from her hands and opened it to show her the case of a brand-new cell phone. "This is why I came here in the first place."
"Keep telling that to yourself until you believe it, pal." His inner voice interjected again.
"Is it for me?" She extended her hand hesitant for a moment and then withdrew it. "I can´t accept that. It´s too much."
"Don´t be silly. You need to keep in touch with your family." She still looked doubtful. "It´s not the luxury model, it´s the same I got for Shippo and Shiori."
"They have one like this too?"
"Yes, and it belongs to the company too. You´ll have to give it back when your job with us is finished."
The girl looked into his eyes. She didn´t want to think about leaving SNT at the moment.
Reaching out her hands she took the small box, opening to get a good look at the device and studied it for a few seconds and smiled.
"Thank you, Inuyasha, for everything you have done. I really appreciate it."
"Keh, go get your sim card so you can try it, I already charged the thing this afternoon."
Kagome did as she was told and a few moments later the cellphone was ready to use. Inuyasha looked like an excited toddler talking about its new features and how much memory the thing had. After a few seconds demonstrating the most useful apps to download, the hanyo crossed the distance between them and wrapped an arm around her shoulders and stretched the other arm holding the telephone.
Stiffening her body and shoving the white-haired man away, Kagome covered what was visible of the skin of her shoulders with her hands.
"What are you doing?" She spattered at him, her eyes wide open, a shocked look in her pupils.
"I was just trying to take a picture of us, for my contact. I put my number as #1 on speed dial." Inuyasha spoke softly, not willing to spook her any more than she already seemed to be.
"Don´t hide under the bedsheets! I want to be able to your beauties whenever I feel like it!"
The unwanted images came back without her permission and Kagome froze for a moment, wide-eyed and breathing hard.
"But I am not dressed. Neither are you. You can´t take a picture of us like this." She finally managed to say as soon as she snapped out of her trance
"I wasn´t trying to do that!" He hadn´t intended on screaming, Inuyasha noticed he was though. He just didn´t like being falsely accused. "You should get dressed; ramen is ready." His voice sounded almost normal now.
After the girl returned now donning some cozy PJs, they both ate the impromptu dinner in silence.
"I´m sorry Inuyasha, I overreacted." the girl sighed before continuing. "It´s just that...it´s hard to explain" She hesitated for a moment, unsure of how much information she could share with him without breaking down. "I had a bad experience in the past, sex is a scary subject for me. I want to tell you everything, really. I´m trying but is not that easy."
Kagome kept wriggling her hands nervously on her lap waiting for the man seating in front of her to say something. When he didn´t speak, she decided to go on.
"Akitoki... er ... Hojo-kun and I, we never..." She was struggling there.
"I know." Inuyasha chose that moment to interrupt her rambling.
"What? How can you?" Kagome was confused, did he really understood what she meant?
"I wouldn´t be here if I didn´t know." He stretched his hand and took her trembling fingers, lacing them with his. "I could smell it. There´s no trace of him on your scent. All I could smell was you and a little of myself."
At that, the girl flushed a bright shade of red remembering the way he had smelled her fingers a few days ago. Apparently, the sense of smell meant a big deal for youkai.
"Oh, dear Kami!" The girl let go of Inuyasha´s hand and covered her face. " I just realized that if you can smell me then every other youkai in the company will know what we have been doing!"
"Hah." The hanyo just snickered. "Not all youkai have such a fine sense of smell. And even if they do, they would only get a hint of us being in close proximity. They would have to walk in on us doing it or before we clean ourselves to be certain that we were having sex."
That didn´t help her feel less mortified.
"Look, don´t worry about any of these. Just let me pick you up on Monday so we can arrive together at the office, that way both our scents will be intertwined, and no one will be the wiser."
"That sounds like a good plan." Kagome finally could relax again. "Let me check on the dryer."
Clothes already dry and neatly folded Kagome went back to retrieve the futon from the closet, not sure if Inuyasha would want to stay the night with her.
The hanyo helped her extend the mattress while debating with himself. "You have a big comfortable bed waiting for you at home, what the hell are you doing here?"
Shedding the pink robe and putting on his boxers, Inuyasha just slid inside with the woman, hugging her slender form snuggly against him.
"Why would I go home to my empty, cold bed when Kagome´s soft warm body is right here?"
Morning came too soon. Inuyasha was awakened by his grumbling stomach, the ramen they had shared for dinner had only entertained his hunger for a while and now he needed some serious nourishment ASAP.
He tried to sneak away from the sleeping form sprawled over his chest without disturbing her slumber. It proved to be impossible, Kagome had wrapped her legs around his and her arms were tightly secured to his shoulders, she was awake as soon as he tried to wiggle himself free.
"Good morning, somebody is hungry it seems."
"Hi." He answered back, a little embarrassed at the situation.
Still unwilling to leave the warmth of the male body, Kagome stretched herself as much as she could without releasing her hold on Inuyasha´s shoulders.
"I should go to the grocery store and get something for breakfast." She mumbled before yawning.
"Ok. What can I do in the meantime?" He asked as she finally freed him to go to the bathroom.
"You can make some coffee, can´t you?"
"Yeah, I can do that. Can you pick a toothbrush for me please?" He cried through the door as Kagome entered the bathroom. He was wondering if she had heard him but when she answered in the affirmative, he had his answer.
She emerged a few minutes later, already dressed in a black and pink tracksuit, her hair tied in a high ponytail, just as Inuyasha´s bladder was starting to protest.
Pecking his cheek as he was raising from the futon, she left him alone in her home, humming a catchy song on the way to the store.
After relieving himself, Inuyasha sauntered the few steps to the kitchen and got the coffee pot started. In a few seconds, the tiny place was smelling heavenly of the roasted beans.
"This is nice." He told himself smiling. "I could get used to it. With a bigger bath, and a huge bed."
He was checking his phone for new messages when the hard-line started ringing. The hanyo was startled by sound first but when he remembered the incessant calls from that Hobo guy, he started growling at the damn thing until the answering machine took the call.
"Kagome dear, are you around?"
He immediately recognized the female on the other line, he had met Kagome´s mother just the day before.
"Pick up sweetie."
He hesitated a moment. Should he pick up the phone? It was his first instinct, to take the call. Would Kagome appreciate his unintentional confession of their relationship to her mother? Probably not. So, he let the woman speak.
"Oh Kami, I´ve been worried since last night. How did your date go? I know you young people don´t want us elderly people meddling in your lives, I just wanted to know if Hojo-kun had finally set a date. I mean, what else could your nerves mean? You two have been engaged for a while, I think it is the right time..."
The voice kept rambling on and on but Inuyasha didn´t hear anything after that, his mind was stuck on just one word.
Kagome was engaged?
There you have it.
Bet you weren´t expecting Sesshy on the first part, were you?
Anyway, thank you again for reading and for the lovely words of encouragement.
Love,
ALP