Chapter Nine
Jae-heon inhaled a deep calming breath as he began to pace in front of the large lumbering beast that stood before him. His gaze on the other two beings in the hallway that were so busy attacking the snarling titan that they took no notice of him.
It gave him a chance to try and plot out a form of attack.
He felt like David and Goliath, and he knew that if he held fast to his religious beliefs that he would end up victorious.
He said a prayer, before he raced forward, raising his sword to draw it over the abs of the large pale monster. The shock of the sudden assault made it rear back to land on its back, crushing the female monster that was still attached to its broad shoulders. He quickly turned on his heel, his gaze taking in the male that paused in its attacks to gaze at him with dark cold eyes.
They were pitch black, no emotion in the dark depths and it made him feel like he was staring into the void. Fighting down the fear that bloomed in his chest he was hard pressed to not shiver as the boy gave him a dark grin, though it looked like and came off as more of a smirk than a grin.
"Thanks, I'll leave the rest to you." With that the young man rushed past him without so much as a glance backwards. He was hard pressed to not yell after him and instead had his attention pulled back towards the large white monstartitey that was once again on its feet, the female one still lying prone in the crater it had been slammed into.
Were he a lesser man, he would have let a deep string of curses fall from his lips, instead he readied himself to go on the defensive, a prayer falling from his lips as he placed his faith in his God to see him through this trail.
Hyun-Su was quick on his feet, his breathing deep and even as he traced the scent of the only being that mattered to him into the stairwell and up the stairs. In no time he was at the door of the apartment of the crippled man who had given his other half the tools he required to venture outside in a foolish attempt to play hero.
A whole lot of good they had done him, had he not taken charge as his weaker half laid there dying then they both would have been snuffed out and in doing so they would have damned Kagome to the same fate. The thought alone made him snarl as he gripped the metal doorknob and tore the door open.
He gave a soft snort as he easily avoided the metal bat that was swung at his head. Rolling his eyes he caught it as his would-be attacker tried to follow up with another vicious blow. He twisted his wrist, the metal bat being plucked from her hands like candy from a baby. He let it fall from his hands to land on the welcome mat with a low thud as he shouldered his way past his would-be attacker and entered the larger room.
He wasn't here for her, no he was here for Kagome and he was hard pressed to not just lash out at her for getting in his way. He was sick of everyone and everything getting between them, his weaker self included.
Breathing deeply, Hyun-Su's dark obsidian gaze darted around the room, dismissing everyone and everything that wasn't Kagome. He needed to find her, to see her.
To assure himself that she was okay and if she wasn't then there would be hell to pay. He would paint the world red with the blood of those who had failed to protect her and those that tore her from him.
His blood lust was palpable and it made those around him shiver in fear and take a step back , as if their very senses knew that he was a caged animal just looking for a reason to go on the offense.
Finally his gaze landed on her, she was a hot sweaty mess, curled up in a corner of the small cramped shit hole they were in. Her chest heaving as she tried to remember how to breathe. Her eyes closed as she hissed out one breath after another through clenched teeth.
On either side of her was a crying and wailing brat and the loud noises that escaped them made his ear ring as they scampered and whimpered into her side as if to hide from his seething gaze, their tears and snot coating her already dirty clothes.
He leveled them with a hard cold glare, willing them to let go of his Kagome, they were tainting her scent with the scent of their sweat, tears, and piss. What right did they have to cling to her and demand her comfort?
None.
Taking a small step forward a small feral grin spread on his lips as they flinched back from him and pulled away from Kagome to scamper behind the other woman in the room. He dismissed them, they were of no consequence or meaning to him. No, instead he moved and with a few brisk steps he was standing before Kagome, her bright blue eyes snapping open to meet his dark pools of obsidian.
He watched with bated breath, waiting to see if she too would shrink back from him in fear now that her eyes were no longer clouded by her momentary lapse of judgment and sanity. While it would hurt him if she did so it wasn't like he would let it stop him from his goal. His grin grew as she merely gazed up at her, her eyes swimming with concern for him. Reaching out a shaky hand she tried to shift, to get to her knees so she could touch him, comfort him.
In an instant he was kneeling before her, enjoying the small gasp that left her lips as he used one hand to grab her hand and place it on his cheek. He nuzzled into it, turning so his lips could place a kiss to the sweaty palm of her hand. Shivering he gave into the need to let his tongue slip from his lips to give her palm a long languid lick.
Ignoring everyone in the room, for really they didn't mean shit to him, he pressed another kiss to the palm of her hand before yanking her into a semi kneeling position, his face buried in the crook of her neck as he wrapped his arms around her like bands of steel. He inhaled deeply, imprinting the smell of her into his mind, branding it into the very core of his being.
His hot breath tickled her neck and she was hard pressed to not squirm as he crushed her small body into his. This, this, was not her Hyun-Su...yet at the same time it was. It was clear to her that he was on the very cusp of monsterising and while she knew she should be terrified she also knew that the normal soft spoken, timid, male would never do anything to hurt her...or anyone else for that matter.
Yet as his hot tongue traced over a still bleeding cut, his lips sucking lightly to encourage more blood to flow from the shallow wound, she couldn't help the way her body jerked, nor the tensing of her muscles. He gave a low mix of a growl and a grumble, the sound so indicident it made her face tint red as she felt his reaction to her blood press into her thigh. He practically had her straddling his lap, one arm wrapped around her lower back to keep her steady while the other tangled in her sweaty raven locks, giving them a small tug so she would angle her head back more, exposing more of her flesh to his needy and exploring tongue.
She had no doubt she would have a hickey or two from this...
The low click of what sounded like a gun tore her focus from him and it was with a startled look she realized that the woman who had practically dragged her to safety was now herding the kids and a now clear eyed stroller lady, for she had no name to call her, into the bathroom while the old man in a wheelchair pointed what she could only assume was a home made gun at Hyun-Su's back. Without thinking her arms flew up to cage around his head and upper body, as if trying to block him from whatever harm that homemade potato looking gun could inflict on him.
Her gaze was a deep rolling fury and it made Han Du-Sik pause, while he did not want to hurt the normally shy, if not awkward, young man he knew that this was not the young man he had sent off to save those two children. No this was a caged animal wearing the face of his...friend and from the look of things he was one moment away from devouring the young woman who had been dragged half dead into his apartment only to snap out of whatever trance she had been in when the kids ran into her open embrace with cries of big sister.
His home was at full capacity and it was his job to keep those inside of his meager dwelling safe, even if that meant from each other. Yet as she glared up at him he couldn't help but feel like the villain and it was with a sense of guilt that he lowered his home made gun, maybe just maybe she could bring Hyun-Su back from the brink?
If not he would for all intents and purposes step in but he really hoped to god he wouldn't lose yet another friend.
Watching as understanding and a small flicker of hope entered the wheelchair bound man's eyes she returned her focus to the still tethering Hyun-Su. Her aura while tired and weaker then it had ever been perked up and slowly prodded at him, his aura poked back, the strength of it making her jerk as the steel band around her waist that was his arm pulled her closer, her breasts protesting at how tightly they were sandwiched between the two of them.
She pulled her aura back and began to run her fingers through his hair whispering soft comforting words that only he could hear. Once she felt that he was winding down some she let her aura slowly seep out of her again, letting it playfully reach out to tap at his. His aura, while darker and more feral than normal, returned the playful gesture. Entwining their auras almost as intimately as he had entwined their bodies she continued to let soft comforting words escape her.
"It's okay, I'm here...you don't have to worry. Come back to me Hyun-Su..." He huffed into her ear as if annoyed that she was trying to call forth the weaker part of him. Feeling his annoyance budding she decided to change tactics, this wasn't her first rodeo with those on the cusp of giving into their darker more primal sides.
Her arms still bore five claw marks each from the first time InuYasha had almost given into his demon blood and while just like back then she wished that her first kiss with him hadn't been a last resort she knew that Hyun-Su needed to feel that same reassurance that InuYasha had at the time and at least this time she knew she would never come to regret her actions.
So it was with a small turn of her lips that she pulled back a bit, not at all surprised or scared of the deep snarl that bubbled in his throat, with a quick jerk of her head she crashed her lips into his. He forze for a mere second before his lips were moving against hers, his tongue probing at the seam of her own demanding to be let in.
Without an ounce of hesitation she opened her lips and welcomed the strong pink muscle into her moist cavern as he licked and sucked every inch he could get. Cupping the back of his head, ignoring the drying flakes of blood in the dark brown almost black strands, she gently massaged his scalp pulling a pleased hum from him as her aura curled around his, calming him and calling forth that small spark that she knew to be her Hyun-su.
Slowly that spark grew into a raging fire and their kiss turned from a dominant fast paced tango to that of a slow paced waltz. She sighed into the kiss as his aura shifted, his body relaxing its hold on hers as he seemed to deflate. She slid off his lap to sit on her behind, their kiss breaking as his tired brown eyes cracked open only to drift shut as his body fell forward.
Grunting lightly as he passed out, his monsterization not only paused for the moment but receding completely, she shifted so that his upper body was resting in her lap, the rest of his body sprawled out behind him as he nuzzled his face into her stomach, his arms wrapped loosely around her waist.
Her body protested the position, wanting nothing more than to just flop back and relax yet she ignored it. She could feel the curious gaze of the only other male in the room and instead of meeting it she merley leaned back against the wall, letting it hold her up as she let her own eyes slide shut. She was tired in every sense of the word, her senses and aura raw and pulsing with a mixture of pain and pure exhaustion.
Even so the scared auras of the children were still there, practically screaming at her so it was with a deep rattling sight that she let what was left of her aura flare to life and project a sense of calm into the whole apartment, her body giving in to the urge to just shut down and rest.