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Deliverance	By : inufan625 Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 14104 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 5
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A/N: Some words you might not recognize.
Omamori: They charms/talismans that would be sold at a Shinto shrine. (yaku-yoke: avoidance of evil and kanai-anzen: safety (well-being) of one's family; peace and prosperity in the household)
Kamidana: "god-shelf" are miniature household altars provided to enshrine a Shinto kami. Where you would enshrine an ofuda.

Kagome looked out the window at the view of the city. There was a shrine not too far away, the red of the torii gate capturing her eye. A sudden sharp ache made her chest feel tight. She didn’t regret cutting off all contact with her family to protect them, but she did miss them, more than she dared let herself think about. Souta would be graduating soon and she hoped that jii-chan was still in good health. Then there was her mother, who would have been both excited and overjoyed to learn her daughter was in love at last and with a man who actually wanted to make a commitment.
“You okay?” InuYasha asked slipping his arms around her waist from behind. “I know it’s not great here but hopefully it won’t be for too long.”
“It’s not that,” she said. “Honestly this place is huge compared to my apartment. I just saw there was a shrine nearby and couldn’t help but think about my family. I knew I had to stay away to protect them and most of the time I can keep from really thinking about it, but I really miss them.”
“I’m gonna get that bastard for you,” he told her. “How else am I gonna ask them to let me marry you.”
She turned in his arms with a smile. “Thank you.”
He leaned down and kissed her softly and was seriously considering picking her up and carrying her to the bedroom when someone knocked on the door. He rested his forehead against hers with a sigh. “That’ll be the bouzo and Sango. We’ll pick this up when they leave.”
“Promise?” she breathed.
He smirked. “Absolutely.”
He left her by the window and went to answer the door. He let their friends inside and then closed and locked the door behind them. Though he longed for as much uninterrupted time with Kagome as he could get their visit was an important one and the sooner he could take care of the bastard that was after her, the sooner they could really start the life together that they both wanted.
“Does anyone want a drink?” Kagome asked as she headed into the kitchen. “We haven’t been shopping yet but someone stocked us up with the basics.”
“I’ll take a water if you have it,” Sango replied.
“Nothing for me, thank you,” Miroku said as he sat down at the table.
Kagome joined them and handed a bottle of water to Sango before taking the open chair beside InuYasha. She wasn’t exactly anxious to drag her friends into this dangerous situation, but knew that they weren’t exactly giving her a choice in the matter. The kami-sama only knew how many times she’d told them that they didn’t have to risk being hurt on her account only to be dismissed completely.
“Okay, Bouzo what have you got for me?” InuYasha asked.
“I know you told me you didn’t want to hear that it can’t be done, but I exhausted every resource and have to conclude that there is no way to key a warding to particular youki,” he said.
“Oh, actually I had an idea,” Kagome offered. “It might be a stupid one though.”
“I doubt that it’s stupid,” InuYasha told her.
She blushed a little. “Um, what about if we didn’t key it to a specific youki but instead had it read intent. I mean that’s how the ward at the shrine I grew up on works. As long as you come with good intentions it doesn’t matter if you are youkai or human it will let you pass.”
Miroku blinked dumbly. “I cannot believe I didn’t remember that, and after I discussed it at length even with your grandfather on my first visit to the shrine.”
“Well that was years ago,” Kagome said. “And it isn’t like you’ve been there recently either.”
“So it’ll work then?” InuYasha asked. “You and her can set something up like that here.”
“Most assuredly,” Miroku replied. “I’m actually a little embarrassed that it didn’t even occur to me.”
“Then you should get to work on that,” InuYasha said. “I want it done as soon as possible. He found her at my place so he’ll eventually find her here too. I’m planning on getting him first but just in case I want her protected.”
“InuYasha,” Kagome said gently. “I’m glad you want to keep me safe, but these are our friends who are choosing to help, so maybe you could be a little less…”
“Shit,” he breathed. “Sorry.”
“There is no need to apologize,” Miroku told them both. “I much prefer this InuYasha to the other and he is much better equipped to be in charge as it were. We too want to keep you safe from this monster and if we are being honest he’s always had a rather… forceful personality in any case.”
Sango nodded her agreement. “If it means you are protected then he can be as bossy as he likes.”
Kagome glanced to InuYasha who was blushing a little and smiled. “Thank you guys. I won’t ever forget how much you’ve done for me. I don’t know what I would have done without you and I’ll never be able to repay you.”
“Keh, when it’s all over and we get married I’ll just book their travel and lodgings so they can vacation nearby on our honeymoon,” InuYasha said. “Maybe it’ll even get that bouzo to finally man up and make an honest woman out of Sango already.”
Sango blushed but smiled. “In that case I insist you pick someone where amazing Kagome-chan. I want to get the most out of this arrangement.”
Kagome giggled. “Don’t worry Sango-chan, I plan to. Though I don’t expect we’ll get to spend much time together while we’re there. I probably won’t see much outside of our hotel room.”
InuYasha leaned over and nipped at her neck. “Don’t worry. I promise you won’t feel like you missed out on anything, and I’m sure we can manage a dinner with them or something, as long as it doesn’t take too long.”
Her face was hot, but she’d never been happier. His confidence that they would get that honeymoon was like a fire that chased away the chill of her fear and the dark shadows in her heart. As he drew away she leaned her head on his shoulder and slipped her arm through his, entwining their fingers.
Sango sniffed and wiped away a tear. “I’m sorry. I’m just so happy to have both of my friends back and to see the way you two are together, after everything, it’s just so amazing. Okay, I’m done now.”
“Good because if you start blubbering then Kagome would and then we'd never get anything done,” InuYasha said with a grin. “So where are you at on a training regime for her?”
“I was thinking that first I should do an evaluation,” Sango offered. “She lost a lot of strength and weight and while I can see she’s put most of it back on I don’t want to design anything too rigorous from the start.”
“Sounds good,” InuYasha agreed. “Though I will tell you she’s stronger than she looks. I worked with her a little and she dislocated my thumb.”
Kagome slapped his chest. “I said I was sorry. I felt terrible about that, you know.”
He chuckled. “And I told you I was proud of you for not holding back, so quit worrying about it already.”
“So where do you wish to begin?” Miroku asked. “It should be a simple matter for me to show Kagome the proper sutra to create the ofuda we will need to set the wards and she is more than capable of investing them with her power. With her help I will be able to get it done much faster.”
“Then that’s where we should start,” InuYasha replied. “You two work on that and Sango and I can go over what I already taught her and what we both think it is most important that she learn.”
Sango and InuYasha left her and Miroku alone at the table while they went back to the empty bedroom no doubt to figure out how best to make use of the limited space for her physical training. Miroku then set the case he’d brought with him on the table and began to take out strips of paper, ink and brushes before returning the case to the floor. He set a small stack in front of her as well as giving her her own brush and ink.
“Okay, now ordinarily the specific set of sutra are enough. You merely draw them and then invest the paper and the words with your power,” Miroku explained. “However what we are trying to do requires a bit more effort. Each individual brush stroke must be made while you channel power into the brush and you must focus on your intentions, which is even more important since we won’t be writing out an entire sutru obviously but specific words that will guide our power as we desire.”
Kagome had never made her own ofuda before, though she had many times touched them with her power for her grandfather so that the ones sold in their gift shop would be real and those hadn’t been made with sutra but with the names of kami-sama and of the shrine. She’d also made omamori. In fact she’d poured as much power as possible into the yaku-yoke and the kanai-anzen she’d made for her family before completely cutting off contact with them. She was definitely going to see if she could get what she would need to make omamori for Miroku and Sango and InuYasha.
“Will you be able to tell if I’m doing it right?” Kagome asked. “I don’t want to mess this up.”
“I have faith in your abilities,” Miroku told her. “But yes, I should be able to feel if it’s working correctly before we place them. I know you do not doubt your power, only your lack of training, but I have always told you that you have an almost unbelievable instinctive grasp of how to use your reiki.”
“Alright,” she said quietly. “And if I can do this I know it will help because at least I will finally be doing something to protect myself. That’s one of the things I hated the most, feeling like there was nothing I could do, feeling so helpless.”
“Though Sango and I could not have imagined what it felt like to be in your position we did understand that feeling all too well,” he told her. “I cannot tell you how upset we were with ourselves not to have thought of InuYasha sooner. Perhaps we could have spared you at least some of the pain you had felt if only we had gone to him sooner.”
Kagome shook her head. “You might have felt like you weren’t doing anything but you were. I hate to admit it but I might have given up and just killed myself if I hadn’t had you both to support me, especially after I cut myself off from my family.”
“In that case, you may repay me by picking some place obscenely lavish for my vacation,” Miroku told her with a grin. “InuYasha can well afford it and perhaps it will even be a double honeymoon.”
Her eyes widened. “Really?”
“Don’t tell Sango I told you but we were planning to marry this year. Then all of this started and since we both want to marry at your family shrine with you as our miko we’ve been waiting,” he said. “Please do not feel guilty though because before there was little chance InuYasha would have attended so waiting has been a blessing in that way as well. Now, shall we begin?”
She nodded. “Though I did want to see if you could help me. I’d like to make some omamori for you and Sango and InuYasha and set up a kamidana in here. I don’t know if InuYasha would know what I need. I mean I know he won’t mind, but I know youkai don’t really follow any shinto or buddhist traditions.”
“Of course,” he replied. “Once we’re done here I’ll see about getting you what you need.”
In the other room Sango walked around the space getting a feel for the size. It wasn’t as big of a room as she would have liked but it was big enough for their purpose. “It’ll do. You’re going to want to get her something, a bike or a treadmill for endurance and something that will let her do some strength training especially for her upper body.”
InuYasha’s brow furrowed. “Really? Upper body?”
Sango tilted her head. “Not to bulk up or anything obviously but it does only make sense considering she is a master archer.”
“No shit?” he questioned.
Sango nodded. “She placed first in the nationals two years in a row using a longbow. You didn’t know?”
He shook his head. “She never mentioned it.”
“Well, you know how she is,” Sango offered. “She isn’t one to brag on herself and it’s not really something that comes up in normal conversation.”
“Yeah,” he agreed. “There’s also the fact that we both still have a lot to learn about each other. She never even mentioned her family before today.”
“And yet there is something there between the two of you that was never there with Kikyou,” Sango said carefully. “An intimacy, a certainty that I would envy if I didn’t have Miroku. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you, the real you before now.”
He snorted. “The real me?”
She nodded. “When we were in middle school you had the usual teenage doubts, we all did, and on top that you’d lost your mother. Then you met that cunt and instead of helping ease them she did everything she could to deepen those wounds. Nothing you ever did was good enough, but still you were loyal and honorable and even the job you did came from you desire to protect those who were weaker than you and unable to protect themselves. I hope you will forgive the pun, but whenever she was near you acted like a kicked puppy.”
He arched a brow at her. “What about now, then?”
She smiled broadly. “Now that you’re with Kagome, everything about you seems...more. There is no doubt in you about your ability to protect her or in what you feel for her and her for you. She sees who you really are and because of that you are starting to see it to. You want to be the man she sees in you. You’ve always been dangerous to bad men, but I’d almost feel sorry for the one who is after her if I didn’t know he deserved what is coming to him when you find him.”
He let out a slow breath. She was right about everything of course and he just wished that he’d seen it sooner himself when it came to Kikyou, but the past couldn’t be changed and besides maybe it had to be this way. What if he hadn’t trained and had just gone to university. If he’d met Kagome then and that asshole was still after he like he is now would he have been able to keep her safe? He would have tried, but he wouldn’t have the same skills he had now.
“Keh, I am a little worried about that though,” he admitted. “The only other time I’ve been so personally invested was when I went after the piece of shit that killed my mother, but if I’d fucked up then she was already dead.”
“And Kagome, isn’t,” Sango finished for him. She laid her hand on his shoulder. “Then we’ll just make sure that doesn’t happen. Now, show me what you’ve taught her so far and tell me how she did with it.”

When lunch time finally rolled around Kagome and Miroku had all the ofuda prepared and Sango and InuYasha were satisfied with their goals for Kagome’s self defense training. Now all that was left to do was to place the spells that would protect the apartment and activate them and for Sango to evaluate Kagome, which they could do once they’d gotten something to eat.
They didn’t have any idea what places in the area might deliver so the men offered to go and pick something up. Once they were gone, Kagome made some tea for herself and Sango and then brought it into the living area so they could sit on the sofa and relax a little while they waited for their meal.
“So how are things going?” Sango asked. “InuYasha, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him seem so happy.”
Kagome blushed a little but smiled as she took a sip from her cup and curled her legs up under her. “Really good, or at least I think so. It must seem a little crazy to you with all that’s going on and the fact that we haven’t known each other long at all, but it doesn’t feel that way.”
“I don’t think it’s crazy,” Sango assured her.
“I’ve never felt like this before,” Kagome told her. “I might owe you more for introducing me to him than I do for anything else. Most of the time I’m ridiculously happy to be with him, but sometimes I think about what I’d do if something happened to him because of me.”
“Kagome, whatever might happen, it wouldn’t be because of you,” Sango said. “But nothing is going to happen. After all you’ve both been through you are going to get your happily ever after. I know it.”
“I really hope so,” Kagome said.
Suddenly Sango grinned. “Now, quit holding out on me, girl. How is he? Even if you don’t have anything to compare it to surely you can tell whether he’s any good or not? Is he big? You have to spill. I always answered all of your questions about Miroku. I’m due some payback.”
Kagome shivered just thinking about what it felt like when they were together and her face went hot. “He’s definitely good, really good. I never knew anything could feel so amazing. Even the first time…He makes me feel beautiful and loved and wanted. He’s so sweet, so tender and I can’t even imagine how that, that witch could have done what she did.”
“Me neither,” Sango said. “And I’m glad he has you, since I know you’d never do anything like that to him. She didn’t deserve him but the two of you definitely deserve each other. I’m also glad he’s taking such good care of you in the bedroom.”
“Me too,” Kagome replied.
They both started giggling at that and that’s what they were doing when the door opened to admit InuYasha and Miroku, each with a couple of bags in hand.
“Do I even want to know?” InuYasha asked with a smile.
“I’ll tell you later,” Kagome said with a blush on her cheeks and a promise in her voice.
As they ate lunch together no one mentioned why they were gathered together or what was to come, instead preferring to talk about nothing, to laugh and to tease one another and Kagome cherished every second, knowing that all too soon the meal would be over and the reality of what she was facing would once again take over. Her brief respite was extended once the plates were cleared, no one wanting to be the one to bring up the subject they’d all carefully avoided.
InuYasha looked to her and she sighed. She could tell he was anxious to get the ward set up and she couldn’t blame him, so she spared him the small guild by being the one to say it first. “I guess we should get back to work, but first I just want to say thank you for this. It was nice to have something normal just for a little while.”
“There is no need for thanks,” Miroku said. “We are all looking forward to the day when this can be a regular occurrence.”
It didn’t take long to get the ofuda placed and activated or for Sango to get an idea of where to begin with Kagome’s training and once that was done their friends left with a promise to come back in a couple of days, Miroku with the items she had asked for and Sango to start teaching her to defend herself.
InuYasha closed the door and locked it before taking Kagome in his arms. He buried his face in her hair, breathing deeply. “I was thinking we should go ahead and get your service and training for this month out of the way. You might learn something that could help us and then we could focus on taking this bastard out without interruption.”
“If you think that’s best,” she replied.
He sighed and held her just a little more firmly against him. “I know you’re worried about it or that they might try to make you do something you don’t want to, but if that happens all you have to do is call me. I won’t be far.”
She nodded. “I just, I don’t want to hear how all those with youkai blood are tainted somehow when I know it’s not true. My being with you hasn’t made me less than I was. If I had joined them before now would I have been too prejudiced to see what an amazing person you are?”
“Then just tell them that,” he said. “You are going to learn about using your powers not what they think of youkai. Tell them your hanyou lover will tell you whatever you want to know about youkai.”
She blushed but giggled. “I can’t say that, but I will speak up for myself if they try to influence me that way and I’ll definitely come home to my hanyou lover and let him remind me just how wrong they are.”
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