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Bloodborne Duties	By : Wolf.Blossom Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 18628 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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Bloodborne Duties
An ancient curse was placed upon the Inuyoukai family: if the youngest born heir does not produce an heir-apparent before his 205th birthday, the Dogs will surrender to the Panthers. Inuyasha is the youngest heir and it is his duty to avoid the curse.

Kikyo paced in front of a tiny creek. She sent the shinidamachu to beckon Inuyasha—she wanted to have a word or two with him. The last time he visited her, he taught her how to say his stupid mate's name. Like she cared about her useless reincarnation; the girl was nothing without her full soul and as long as Kikyo was around, she'd never get her full soul back.
Ever.
That was why Inuyasha shouldn't be with her. Kagome was half as strong as Kikyo and… and…
"Ugh!" Kikyo growled loudly. Where did she go wrong?! Was it when she cared for Onigumo without letting Inuyasha know? Or was it because she didn't trust him and pinned him to a tree? She clenched her fist but no tendon tightened; no vein popped. She was simply a clay recreation of what she used to be: a woman.
But there was still hope.
She and Inuyasha could gather the shards of the jewel to reassemble the Shikon no Tama and wish for her to be a real woman again. Then, only then, can she and Inuyasha be together. But Kikyo knew she had to do something about the useless reincarnation.
Kikyo's spine stiffened when she felt three auras approach her. Her anger began to escalate. Not only did the half-demon ignore her calls before, but now he was bringing his soon-to-be-eliminated family along with him. Cute, the corners of Kikyo's lips tugged.
"Kikyo." Inuyasha's voice echoed in the clearing. The dead priestess turned around and nodded at the warrior, blatantly ignoring the other two present.
"Inuyasha," Kikyo returned the greeting, "I see you've brought friends."
"Family." Inuyasha corrected. His voice was tight and his irritation began to rise; Kikyo was going to play mind games, he knew it. "I brought my family."
"A priestess without a full soul and an orphaned fox demon?" Kikyo's voice was bitter and Kagome could sense the waves of dark energy surrounding the once pure woman. Her spirit was consumed by evil and Kikyo was, most probably, on the same level as Tsubaki: dark, and sinister. "A very nice family you have there. But, you could do so much better."
"Tell me what you want, Kikyo." Inuyasha growled. He took a step forward, preparing himself to attack if something jumped out at them. "Why did you call me?"
"To speak of things that cannot be spoken in the presence of others." Kikyo murmured. Without waiting to see Inuyasha's reaction, she turned to leave the clearing. She did not have the patience to stare at her reincarnation's face and know that she's been with Inuyasha more ways than Kikyo ever had.
Why?!
Because Kikyo put her goddamned duty before everything. And what did that accomplish?
Betrayal and death.
A thick fog began to gather courtesy of the shinidamachu and, just as suddenly as she came, Kikyo was gone. Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo simply stared in confusion. Always the one to make nonsensical comments, Shippo spoke up first: "That was really pointless."
Kagome nodded silently and Inuyasha scoffed."We just wasted perfectly good shard hunting time to hear her talk about absolutely nothing."
Kagome rolled her eyes and was about to comment but, as predicted; her adopted son beat her to the punch. "You were the one that said 'Oh, family, let's go see what she wants, willy nilly'!"
Inuyasha's eyebrow twitched. "What the fuck is a willy nilly, you brat?!"
"I don't know! I read it in one of Kagome's books. It sounded like an insult to me."
"You can read?!" Inuyasha mock gasped. "Give the brat a prize!"
Kagome rubbed her temples and counted back from one hundred very slowly. Sometimes she wondered how she was going to survive the rest of next eternity with the likes of Inuyasha and Shippo—not to mention the children she'd have with the aforementioned dog demon. If Shippo, who wasn't even biologically their child, acted so much like Inuyasha then Kagome could only fathom how Inuyasha's actual children were going to act like.
"I may be a kid, but I'm not illiterate! I go to school, remember?"
"A school that teaches you how to prank, brat! Besides, do you think after the Dream Demon episode that I'm actually going to let you go off on your fucking own? Willy-fucking-nilly!"
Shippo paused and stared at Inuyasha and Kagome did the same. Both of them were stuck on the very last thing he said. After ten seconds (which felt much longer to Inuyasha) Kagome and Shippo fell over in laughter which, of course, annoyed Inuyasha even more.
"Stop laughing, idiots!" He growled and glared at his mate and adoptive pup. His request resulted in the two falling into an even deeper fit of laughter. Shoving his arms into the sleeves of his haori, Inuyasha turned around and began stomping off. He disliked being made fun of.
Kagome and Shippo recovered from their uncontrollable laughter and ran after Inuyasha. Upon catching up to him, Kagome slipped her hand into his and shoved his shoulder gently. "Relax, Inuyasha. We were having a bit of fun."
"Keh, at my expense."
"That's what families do." Shippo added, his voice slightly taunting. "We make fun of everybody at their expense. Take Kagome, for instance. I'm sure she left nothing to the imagination with that school uniform of hers."
Inuyasha cracked a smirk and Kagome shot a nasty glare at Shippo. "Really? And what about you never telling Sango and me that you were old enough to understand the female anatomy? I'm sure nothing was left to the imagination when you bathed with us."
Inuyasha's grin grew wider. Excellent, his wife and child were pitted against each other. At least he wasn't the one being made fun of. After a few more rounds of not-serious banter, Inuyasha decided to intervene. He considered it his annual display of husbandly affection towards Kagome.
"Both of you shut your mouths." Inuyasha said loudly. "You're acting like how Shippo and I do." He directed that statement to Kagome. His mate, without hesitation, rolled her eyes and said mockingly: It's what families do.
"We should stop doing what families do," Shippo muttered, "it's too complicated."
"It'll come naturally." Kagome hummed and Inuyasha squeezed her hand gently. "We have eternity."
Shippo sighed loudly. "Which reminds me: we also have an eternity to find the shards. Will it ever end?"
"I ask myself that every day." Inuyasha muttered. "Do we have any leads?"
Kagome shook her head, answering Inuyasha's question. The half demon knew what that meant: aimlessly walk through Japan until Kagome sensed a shard and then make their move. It was how it always was and it was how it always will be.
Though there was a sense of familiarity with the situation, Inuyasha and Kagome couldn't help but wish that it was over—they had much more important things to worry about.
Like the possible extinction of the dog-demon race.
.xx.
"Haven't you slept all night?" Sango was surprised to see that the house-in-a-tree that Inuyasha requested was complete, with furnishing. It was just yesterday that the skeleton of the structure was up! Ai was sleeping peacefully in her mother's arms and snuggled into Sango, informing her that she did not approve of her mother's loud voice.
Miroku had bags under his eyes but couldn't help but smile. "No."
"But you came home last night." Sango looked at her husband accusingly.
"I did, but after you and Ai fell asleep, I left again."
Sango didn't know whether she should be upset that he didn't sleep or feel proud that her husband was so loyal to his best friend that he stayed up all night to finish building his house. Sango opted to stare at the masterpiece in awe; she was positive that Inuyasha and Kagome were going to love it. Spanning across at least twelve trees was a vast two storey mansion that was perfect to live in for at least the next three hundred years (before the industrial-something that Kagome told them about).
"You… are a miracle man." Sango breathed. Miroku approached her and kissed her cheek gently, the love for his wife filling to his very core.
"It was the least I could do for him."
Sango smiled softly. "We owe him our lives."
"But he doesn't need to know that." Miroku rubbed his nose against Sango's check and moved over to Ai's sleeping forehead to place a gentle kiss there. "Shall we send Kirara to retrieve them?"
Sango nodded. She was unable to form coherent words with Miroku so close to her—the sensation of being in love never went away.
.xx.
"Village." Kagome sighed in relief. "I could use a bed. And a bath. And cooked food."
"You sleep in trees, bathe in springs, and have fire-roasted anything for food." Inuyasha muttered dryly. "How does a village enhance any of the things you said?"
Kagome shot a glare at Inuyasha. "You wouldn't understand." She muttered and hastened her pace. Shippo stood beside Inuyasha and watched Kagome bee-line to the village.
"Women."
Inuyasha nodded. "You could say that again."
"Women…"
"I didn't mean that literally!"
Shippo could only grin at his father cheekily before sprinting off after his mother. Inuyasha felt like he should be annoyed, wasn't. Maybe it had something to do with the whole 'it's what families do' thing that Kagome kept on mention.
Inuyasha finally caught up to Kagome and Shippo and saw that they were talking to the village elder. Silently he stood behind the two of them and watched the elder's eyes flicker from Kagome to him and then back again. Inuyasha knew that Kagome was aware of his presence; it was the connection they shared as mates.
"Just for one night," Kagome said softly. "We'll pay for boarding for the both of us and our son."
The elder looked down at Shippo, then at Inuyasha, then to Kagome. "You're a human… your mate is a dog… and your son is a fox?"
Inuyasha snorted. "It's complicated. Do you really want to hear our life story? Because, honestly, it's our story is filled with fighting, travelling, and destroying evil."
The elder stared at Inuyasha for a good while before relaxing his shoulders. "We aren't used to visitors in this village but I do not sense any negativity from any of you. You may stay at our boarding house and, instead of paying us gold, you could repay us with some hard labour?"
His eyes were focused on Inuyasha and the half-demon was about to say no when his mate shoved him. "He'd be more than happy to." She answered for him. The elder beamed.
"Excellent! Our horses have fallen ill, somehow, and we do require some heavy items to be transported to the other side of our potato farm. If that can be done, you can board for as long as you require."
Inuyasha nodded his lips thin. He really wasn't looking forward to any form of labour… but his wife wanted a roof over her head for the night. Who was he to not give her what she wanted?
Wench. He thought, affectionately.
.xx.
Shippo had his own room, which Kagome and Inuyasha were rather happy about. They wanted some personal time together—they hadn't been able to spend any ever since the attack on Shippo. Inuyasha had done all the tasks that the village elder requested and, in utmost happiness, the village prepared a feast for their visitors. Inuyasha wasn't going to admit it, but a cooked meal did taste amazing.
Inuyasha had thrown his haori and inner slip off and sat against the wall as his mate changed into her sleeping attire. Hungrily he watched her; watched her slip off her clothing, untie her hair, pull on her t-shirt, and slip into her shorts. He eyed her legs and his fingers tingled. He couldn't wait to hold her…
"Are you done staring?" Kagome asked, amused. Inuyasha shook his head and pushed himself up off from his seated position. Wordlessly, and with an aura of complete control, he approached Kagome and wrapped his arms around her waist. He pulled her closer to his body and buried his nose in her neck.
"No." He croaked against her mate mark, lazily licking bites that made her his woman. "Never."
Kagome moved her head to allow him more access and more space. She felt the goose bumps rise on her skin and the burning desire ignite in the pit of her stomach. She drew her arms up and wrapped them around his neck and, with a heartbeat, Inuyasha's lips found hers.
A moan escaped from the back of Kagome's throat as their kissed deepened. Inuyasha's hold on Kagome tightened and her fingers began to comb through his hair, stopping to rub his ears every so often. They pulled away to breathe and, before their lips connected again, Kagome managed to whisper: "Told you villages are a good idea."
Chuckling, Inuyasha pulled his mate over to their futon with every intention of ravishing her. Yeah, he thought as he tugged her shirt off, villages are a good idea.
.xx.
A few things: My updating pattern is out of whack but I'm working on it! I have so many projects that my schedule is never stagnant.
This was kind of a filler, but there are a few important chapters coming up.
Mystical-Lia has every right to kill me for updating late :P Sorry!
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