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Hallow Be Thy Name	By : SplendentGoddess Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 4545 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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A/N: We are still in Flashback mode from the previous chapter.

Chapter 3 - Blessings and Curses

Slowly blinking her eyes open, Kagome moaned low in her throat, wishing the room would stop spinning long enough for her to get her bearings on exactly where she was. Gradually, as her vision came into focus, the miko realized that she recognized her surroundings with a sense of foreboding...she was in her old bedroom.
Wha...how did I get here?
Then, as her most recent memories suddenly returned to her, she immediately bolted upright, an action her body instantly protested, causing her to lie right back down again. But virtually ignoring the shooting pain rattling her exhausted body, Kagome's panicking thoughts were centered around one thing, and one thing only.
Inuyasha! Oh gods...oh gods...I've got to get back!
In her desperation, she tried to call his name aloud, but all that escaped her lips was a cracked groan of pain, followed shortly by a spell of wracking coughs. The noise was enough to wake the other occupant of the room, whom she'd been too distraught to notice until then.
"Oh, Kagome! Thank the gods!" the girl's mother said with relief, as she practically leapt out of the chair she'd been napping in and quickly rushed to her daughter's bedside. "Don't try to move around too much, dear, you were broken up pretty badly." Mrs. Higurashi cooed softly as she brushed a stray hair from her precious daughter's face. "Would you like some water?"
"Inu...yasha..." Kagome replied brokenly, not caring about herself until she knew the fate of her husband. Had they been able to defeat the daiyoukai? And how had she come to be in her room? The last thing she remembered was seeing a giant feline paw headed right for her, much too fast to be avoided, and the horrible pain of impact as her whole world went black. Had she died? Was she dreaming?
"He's fine." her mother spoke up then, and though it took Kagome a moment to realize what she was saying, an immense wave of relief washed over her at her mother's words. "He's in the Goshinboku, I imagine. He just couldn't stand to see me crying over you, convinced your injuries were his fault, the foolish boy."
With that, Mrs. Higurashi wiped a stray tear from her cheek, offering her daughter the brightest of smiles all the while, as she quickly stood and made her way over to the window. Sliding it open, she barely called the hanyou's name, and before Mrs. Higurashi could even blink Inuyasha was perched precariously on the window ledge.
"How is she?" he asked, stepping inside the room.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome managed to cry out despite the dryness of her throat.
"Kagome!" he shouted in return, immediately collapsing to his knees beside her bed, as he raised his hand to shakily run his fingers through her sweat-dampened bangs. "Oh, you're all right. Thank the kami, you're all right."
"Wha...what happened?"
Inuyasha was quick to explain how, after she'd fallen from the sky, she'd ended up dropping into what was left of the well. He told his wife how he had finally finished the daiyoukai off, and how when he'd leapt into the time portal after her, he'd found her crumpled body, unconscious but breathing, resting at an awkward angle at the bottom of the well in her time.
"So we can still pass through the well?" Kagome asked him, able to speak more coherently after accepting the cool sip of water her mother offered, as the elder Higurashi woman listened to the story of her daughter's near death for the second time.
"Well, I was able to follow you here, but that's all I know." Inuyasha confessed, having not dared to leave her time for the five days she'd been unconscious.
"Five days?! How badly was I hurt?"
The hanyou went on to explain, reluctantly, how she'd had several broken bones, including ribs, one of her legs, both arms, and a dislocated shoulder. Inuyasha hated to think of the injuries his wife had sustained, but she deserved to know the truth. She'd already been turning all different shades of black and blue by the time he'd reached her in the future, and at first, when he'd crashed into her family's home cradling her broken body, he'd demanded that she be taken to one of their advanced healers. Her mother had readily agreed, of course, and had been preparing to drive Kagome to the hospital until Souta had been the one to point out how his sister's bruises were changing color. And in fact they had been, practically right before their eyes. More spots of dark purple were slowly appearing, while the oldest bruises already looked to be turning slightly greenish. Only the shallower bruises were healing so rapidly, as several of the largest ones appeared unchanged, but it was enough of a sign to indicate that Kagome's youkai-enhanced healing would be noticeable to medical professionals. Upon her family's confusion, Inuyasha had very briefly explained how when Kagome had absorbed the power of the jewel within herself, something they had already known she'd been planning on doing in order to increase her life span to match his own, she had acquired other youkai-like abilities as well, such as more rapid healing. Relieved but also troubled by that revelation, it was Mrs. Higurashi who had suddenly, albeit reluctantly, insisted that Kagome simply be brought to her room, instead. As desperately as she needed to be in a hospital, they couldn't risk taking her to one, for her own safety. Inuyasha had found no small level of irony in that concept, in that she had to avoid the healers of her time for her own good. Her youkai healing was both a blessing and a curse at the same time, in that aspect, and for the first time in his life, Inuyasha had truly understood how panicked Kagome must have always felt whenever she'd treated his own injuries, despite his casual aloofness regarding how quickly he'd recover. Seeing the evidence of his wife's more rapid recovery had brought the hanyou a mild sense of reassurance, but she'd hardly been out of the woods just yet. Setting her bones had been one of the hardest things he'd ever had to do in his entire life. At least she had been unconscious for it.
Kagome was not upset to learn of the severity of her injuries, and just like her mother, she immediately assured Inuyasha that he was not to blame. The daiyoukai responsible for attacking her had merely been seeking the jewel, after all, so Inuyasha had had nothing directly to do with that man's appearance in their village whatsoever. Still, the miko refused to place one hundred percent of the blame on the jewel itself, either. The one at fault, truly, was the daiyoukai who had attacked them, plain and simple. Yes, the jewel's presence and temptation had been what'd drawn the neko-youkai to their village in the first place, but its youki properties had also been what'd ultimately saved her life, so she couldn't rightfully bring herself to hate the jewel for that reason. Had she not acquired the power of the youkai from the jewel, somehow merely receiving slowed aging, as had been her original intention, then there would have been no way she could have survived being struck down midair by the daiyoukai's paw, let alone falling so many feet to the ground. Had the jewel done what she'd originally wished for it to do, she would be dead now, so she definitely felt grateful to the youkai of the jewel for the way in which they'd altered her request.
Of course, Kagome also thanked her husband for having saved her life, as well, because surely she would have died at the bottom of the well had he not finished the daiyoukai off in such a timely manner, immediately following after her into the future. Even if she hadn't truly been in danger of dying, she'd definitely needed his aid more than she'd ever needed it before, and he'd been there for her, without fail. Her family never would have discovered her presence in the well, after all, having no idea that she'd even returned to them until after Inuyasha had crashed into the kitchen while cradling her form to his chest. Despite the fact that she'd appeared to have survived her ordeal to the point where she would recover without much medical interference, she'd definitely needed more than the simple care of a bedside nurse. Her bones had needed to be set, for one thing. They were already in the process of knitting, now, thanks to her youkai healing, but had it not been for Inuyasha putting them back in the proper place, they would've started healing wrong. She'd also had several lacerations that had needed to be cleaned, to make sure that infection didn't set-in while her body concentrated on healing her more serious injuries first. Now, after being unconscious for five days - something Inuyasha suspected might, in part, have to do with the fact that she'd virtually drained herself of all of her miko energy in her last attack on the daiyoukai - all of Kagome's superficial wounds were completely healed. Only the faintest of bruises still remained on her shoulder and hip, where her body had originally made contact with the ground.
Her broken bones were obviously nowhere near fully healed, yet, but they were recovered to the point that she could move her arms and leg properly, even if to do so still caused her pain. Kagome tried once again to sit up in that moment, despite her body's protests, but was immediately ordered to lie back down by both her husband as well as her mother. Neither of them wanted Kagome going anywhere until she was fully recovered. Inuyasha could easily sense how weak she still was, her miko powers still in the process of restoring themselves, while her youkai powers worked 'round the clock to heal her broken body. She would probably be back on her feet in another couple of days, but for that moment in time, the hanyou wanted his wife to stay exactly where she was. He'd come so close to losing her.
Both of them, actually...
As Inuyasha placed a tender hand upon Kagome's stomach, the miko's eyes opened wide in shocked realization. He'd only just told her yesterday, after all, so in that moment it'd simply slipped her mind. But how could she let such an important thing be forgotten, even if only for a moment?
"Oh gods...Inuyasha..." she breathed, terrified to voice her new fears aloud. "The baby...is it...?"
"Baby?!" Mrs. Higurashi spoke quickly, jumping to attention and approaching her daughter's bedside once more, flashing a look between her daughter and son-in-law that was somewhere between elation and panic. "You're pregnant?" Her tone of voice was one of concern, but only because of her daughter's injuries. Kagome was a married woman, after all.
"Yes..." Inuyasha answered, reassuring both women. "Yes, she's pregnant, she's still pregnant." Leaning forward and kissing her forehead, a mild tinting of pink appearing on his cheeks to display such affection in front of her mother, Inuyasha assured his wife, "The baby's just fine, Koi. It's strong, you're strong; we're youkai, don't forget." The faintest hint of teasing entered his voice at his last words, as he offered Kagome a playful wink. After all, he was the one who still consistently fretted over her being a 'weak human', despite the fact that she continually kept on trying to assure him that she was much stronger now, being part youkai. It was good to finally hear him admit it, even if only the once.
Not only did Inuyasha concede to the fact that Kagome was in truth part youkai, but in that moment, he actually cherished the fact, because he too had realized that she would most certainly have died had it not been for the youkai of the jewel merging themselves with her being. He was grateful to any force that prevented Kagome from being taken away from him. He was grateful to the Bone Eater's Well, for letting him travel into the future after her. Because they had both been able to pass through into Kagome's time, Inuyasha was fairly sure that that meant the well was still open to them for back and forth travel, but he had no intention of leaving Kagome's world until she was fully healed and lying cradled in his arms, just in case.
They'd just presumed that the well might close after the purification of the Sacred jewel, but come to think of it, Inuyasha had never needed a jewel shard to pass back and forth in the past, and even though Kagome had needed a shard to pass back and forth by herself, she had been able to pass through the well without a shard whenever Inuyasha had been with her. Maybe something about his own being was simply powerful enough to activate the magic of the well on its own? The powers of the well were definitely its own, and not truly related to the Sacred jewel in any way. After all, the well was made from the wood of the Goshinboku, a tree of ages. It'd merely been the jewel that had enabled Kagome to use the sacred time portal when, ordinarily, she herself wouldn't have been powerful enough to do so. But now that she'd absorbed half of the jewel's power within herself, maybe she could use the well by herself too, now. Not that Inuyasha planned on testing that theory any time in the near future, or...ever. Even if they discovered that they could in fact return to the past, he was adamant that any trips they ever made through the well in the future would be made together, or not at all, no exceptions.
Gazing into Kagome's eyes in that moment, Inuyasha hoped that, for her sake, they could actually still pass back and forth between their two worlds at will. While it would be hard to adjust to life in her time, should it turn out that he was actually trapped there now, he knew he could adjust. Anywhere was home so long as Kagome was with him. But he knew that she'd miss their friends in the past terribly, and Shippou was like a son to her. It would break her heart to be separated from the past probably just as strongly as she'd originally hated leaving her family in the future. She'd found some measure of consolation in that, if everything went according to plan with the jewel, and nothing killed her throughout the centuries to come, she'd eventually see her family again after passing through time the conventional way, but such a reassurance didn't work in reverse. If they couldn't return to the past, that was it; their friends were all dead and buried as far as they were concerned, and the runt, the only one who could possibly still be alive in her time, could literally be anywhere in the world, even if he had survived...and that was an 'if' they had no way of ever knowing the answer to if they never found him. No, it would be very bad if they were trapped in the future forever, but no matter what, he would be by her side, despite how badly he hated her tears.
Just thinking about it made his own eyes want to water up once again, but he had done enough crying five days ago to last him the next fifty years, as far as he was concerned. So shaking his thoughts free in that moment, Inuyasha tenderly asked his wife if she'd like anything to eat. She'd gone without food for five days, after all, barely just swallowing the few mouthfuls of water they'd been able to coax down her throat from time to time. Actually, he'd gone without food for the last five days, too, simply unable to even think about eating with the uncertainty of his wife's condition hanging over him.
The look in Kagome's chocolate orbs spoke volumes in that moment, as if she'd been able to read her husband's every thought and worry as he'd gazed into her eyes with his own pools of golden honey. She remained silent on the subject that she knew dared not be broached, though, instead merely nodding her thanks to his inquiry and saying that, surprisingly enough, a simple cup of ramen felt like it'd hit the spot. Neither of them had had any in over a month, after all. Inuyasha grinned at her request, and after kissing her forehead once more, he surprised both women by being the one to leave to fix the meal, giving Kagome's mother some time alone with her daughter.
~~~End Flashback~~~
Catching her husband's continual gaze, Kagome couldn't help but to smirk after a moment, turning her head and asking "What?" in a playful manner. Was she wobbling like a penguin as she walked or something? She didn't think it was that noticeable.
"Nothing..." Inuyasha assured his wife, adding, "I was just thinking about stuff..."
The tone of his voice, coupled by the bizarre look of relieved amazement in his eyes, had Kagome instantly realizing that her husband's mind wasn't currently on the comical appearance of her gait at all. Taking his hand, an act of public intimacy much more accepted in her time than it was back in his, Kagome offered her husband's hand a tender squeeze of reassurance, as she silently promised him once again that she was real...that 'they' were real. He wasn't stupid, and had no delusions that the last two years could have possibly been a dream of some sort, but they were just so much like a fantasy, so much like a dream he'd never thought would ever come true...not for somebody like him. The idea that she loved him, that she was about to have his baby... Kagome always told him that for as crappy as his life had been before, that he deserved the happiness he had now, but silently, the hanyou would disagree. He didn't deserve Kagome...she was a goddess compared to somebody like him, and he would be indebted to the kami for the rest of his life and the next thousand lives beyond for the blessing that her presence in his life truly was.
Strolling down the sidewalk at a slow, steady pace, Kagome and Inuyasha were a vision of otherworldly loveliness to everyone they passed. Even to those who had no spiritual powers, who could not truly sense the strength of Kagome's aura, were able to tell that there was just something special about the girl, something that went well beyond her handmade costume of a thirteenth-century princess. Inuyasha's ears twitched like crazy as they walked, desperate to hone in and identify all of the various sounds around him before deciding whether or not to dismiss them as unimportant, but his attention was never far from the woman at his side. As a certain rhythmic pounding made up of some instruments he was sure he'd never heard before began tickling his sensitive eardrums, the hanyou glanced sideways to observe his wife's reaction, and upon seeing Kagome's increasing smile as her own advanced ears picked up the sounds not long after his did, Inuyasha knew that whatever it was, it was probably a good thing.
"That one of those 'dance club' things you told me about?" he asked her then, to which Kagome's smile only grew larger, as she picked up her pace and said "Come on!" practically dragging him with her for a second before he sped up his own stride to match his wife's.
Chuckling to himself, Inuyasha merely shook his head in amusement at her eagerness. Despite her obvious maturity, there were some times when she still acted like the very poster-child of innocence.
After walking down a few more city blocks, a distance that didn't faze Kagome in the least compared to what she had been used to traveling in the Feudal era, they came upon a busy intersection that featured an all-ages dance club at the corner. All-ages meant no need to show ID at the door, which was good because Inuyasha didn't have any, and although Kagome had hers in the sagemono tied to her obi, it wouldn't do her very much good in a twenty-and-up bar anyway, considering she was only nineteen, one year under the legal drinking age. Like she wanted anything alcoholic to drink - hanyou baby or no hanyou baby, nobody in their right mind consumed liquor while pregnant.
As they entered the building, the music suddenly got ten times louder, and Inuyasha quickly realized that despite as loud as it'd seemed from the outside, the majority of the building's interior was actually padded with sound dampening insulation. Damn, but was the music loud on the inside. His ears immediately pinned themselves to his head as a result, at least for a few moments until he gradually got used to the vibrating sensation of such loud music practically rattling his brain, but fortunately, it was quickly apparent that nobody was staring at his 'costume' with enough attention to detail to noticed how 'real' it actually looked.
Except Kagome, of course...
"I'm sorry!" she practically had to shout over the music to make sure he heard her. "Does it hurt your ears?"
"Not really," he answered back, also raising his voice loud enough to make sure she caught his words. "Not now that I'm used to it."
The fact of the matter was that while the music was loud, it was still music, not just some random explosive crashing noise that would cause his face to cringe and teeth to grind. After allowing his ears a moment to adjust to the incredible level of volume, Inuyasha found that he actually didn't mind the rhythmic melody that seemed to literally envelope them from all sides. It was a little disconcerting that such sensory overload left him unable to probably distinguish between any other noises around him, though, and the same actually went for smell, too, as there were so many scents jammed into that place that he could barely tell what was what and who was who, but at least he still had his youkai strength. Should something happen, he could easily grab Kagome and crash out the nearest wall to escape. That 'peace tie' ribbon thing they'd wrapped around Tetsusaiga's hilt and scabbard to prevent it from being drawn would fall to shreds at a single swipe of his claws if need be, not that he would necessarily even need his sword when most times, his claws were enough to have his enemies fall to shreds themselves.
Trying to relax, then, and let the music wrap itself around him, the hanyou wrapped an arm around the woman at his side in turn, as he joked, "Kid's probably wondering what the hell is going on, though. Ya know his hearing is probably just as sharp as mine is."
"His hearing is going to be as sharp as yours, but right now his ears are still closed." Kagome replied, to which her husband just snorted and commented, "So were mine when we first entered this place, but I could still hear the music just fine."
Smirking, Kagome grabbed her husband's hand and moved to lead him to a back corner of the room, away from the dance floor and most of the speakers. While Kagome would ordinarily love to shake her body to the blaring techno mix, her current ensemble was hardly the proper attire for club dancing, not to mention the fact that she was seven months pregnant. She just wanted to get out there, to show Inuyasha bits and pieces of her world, to take him to a place where he would be welcomed out in public in his natural appearance, as everyone present in the club was dressed to the gills in their Halloween finest. Usually, the ears he hated and thought of as a curse would brand him as a freak even more so in Kagome's time than in his own, but tonight, thanks to the current holiday everyone was celebrating, his ears were instead actually receiving compliments. While the hanyou did not truly favor large crowds, he felt much more comfortable since he was still in his hanyou form - he loathed the curse of the new moon more than anything - and his own desire to share in what Kagome's world thought of as normal was simply enough to override any insecurities he might still have about being out in public. Tokyo was a very crowded place, so there was really no way around it unless they simply never left the shrine grounds. What fun would that be?
Standing in the quietest and least crowded spot in the building, it was Inuyasha's turn to smirk as he gently patted his wife's belly, bending down to address her swollen stomach as he asked it, "There, is that better for ya, little guy?"
Kagome could only laugh.
While they didn't really know the sex of the baby, they'd started referring to it as a 'he' merely because 'it' seemed so rude...especially if you misconstrued the connotation of the term to imply that it had something to do with the child's hanyou status. Inuyasha had had to bite back a growl when one of the villagers had smiled at her swollen stomach and asked when 'it' would be born. Kagome had intervened before her husband could say anything and had told the villager that 'he or she' was due to be born near the beginning of winter. Inuyasha had quickly apologized for his temper, but it was sometimes still just surprising to the hanyou how Kaede's villagers did not despise him.
They had actually almost learned the sex of the baby, once. Inuyasha certainly wouldn't have been opposed to being privy to such information early, and he'd been flabbergasted when Kagome had first told him that such technology even existed.
After she'd recovered from her ordeal with the neko daiyoukai, they'd braved attempting to return to the past, and then the future, and then the past again, to discover with relief that the well still worked just fine as a two-way portal. Her family had actually feasted in the Goshinboku's honor that night, to thank it for such a blessing, the return of their daughter when they'd thought her lost to their time forever. Kagome had never to that day risked venturing through the well by herself, but since Inuyasha was not opposed to letting his wife visit with her family whenever she wanted, it was an easy compromise to make. Her family loved Inuyasha, anyway, so even if he ever did fail to accompany her on one of her visits, then they'd just be on her case as to where he was and why he hadn't come with her.
Even though Kagome's mother had conceded that her daughter had needed to be kept away from the hospital when she'd been injured, as her unnaturally rapid healing would certainly have triggered a red flag of some sort, they were sure, Mrs. Higurashi had insisted that she start having regular check-ups at the family doctor because of her pregnancy. At first Kagome had agreed whole-heartedly, wanting to make sure that both she and her baby were as healthy as could be, and figuring that so long as all of the tests came back 'normal' they had nothing to worry about. It was the day she got her last ultrasound that she stopped going to the clinic, and the girl felt guilty for the phone calls her family had received since then, but what was she supposed to do?
Kagome had been excited to learn what gender their child was going to be. She'd wanted to be able to start picking out names, and clothes, and all the stuff that expectant mothers did when they knew if they were having a boy or a girl. But before the doctor had been able to discern the sex of the fetus, he'd discovered a startling 'abnormality' that had immediately required his utmost attention. For a second, Kagome had actually been worried. What was wrong with her baby? A wave of relief had washed over her when the doctor had started spouting off something about misshapen ears that appeared to be developing way too high upon the baby's head, and how it was such a horrible birth defect and blah blah blah, as he'd immediately started rattling off the various options available to her for emergency reconstructive surgery to be performed on her child immediately upon its birth. Kagome had been zoning out, meanwhile, temporarily in la-la-land over the realization that their child was in fact going to have its father's ears, truthfully not paying much attention to whatever else the doctor had said after that.
In the mean time, the doctor had been desperately trying to remain calm, although it'd been clear that he'd never seen such a deformity before, and it truly worried him. It was such a good thing they had discovered this now, he'd said, so that it wouldn't later take them by surprise, and they could now be ready to perform the surgery immediately, since the longer they waited, the more risk to her child, like an infant being born with a short tail, which happened once every four or five blue moons, and was always rectified immediately after birth.
Kagome had kind of snapped back into reality at her doctor's latest words, as she'd asked, "He has a tail, too?" Hmmm...she'd never even considered such a thing, but hey...however the kami made him...
"No, no, no..." her doctor had proceeded to assure her, as he'd resumed talking about his emergency surgical plans once more, and it'd been then that Kagome had finally realized just how disturbed her doctor truly was by this. In a way he'd been right, though, it had been a good thing that they'd discovered it now. Imagine his reaction upon her child's birth if he hadn't known about its ears in advance? Phew...disaster averted.
Smiling, Kagome had told him not to worry about it, that she was fine with the way her baby was going to be born, and that she most certainly did not require emergency reconstructive surgery. It was a family trait, she'd told him, and nothing to be alarmed about. As he'd persisted in his claims, basically calling her a liar about the 'family trait' bit and unintentionally insulting her baby with his continued insistance of how unheard of this 'deformation' was, her youkai side had begun to grow more possessive.
"My child is fine." she'd stated with finality, the equipment she'd been tied to to monitor her heart rate and things suddenly beeping out of control as her body's levels started rising beyond what was healthy for a normal human. They were threatening her child! They wanted to take it from her upon its birth and dice it up with their knives! She wouldn't let them!
The doctor had proceeded to freak out, then, as Kagome's pulse rate had increased to beyond what normal humans were capable of without falling into cardiac arrest, not to mention the pulse rate of her unborn child that had also started rising to deadly limits, the baby instinctively reacting to its mother's rising panic. He had to get Kagome under control before she hurt herself or the baby! Then all hell had broken lose. It was when he'd tried to inject her with something, presumably to calm her down, that the miko had pulled herself free from all of the medical equipment attached to her and had proceeded to run out of the clinic. If anyone had been able to see her panicked face as she'd run down the hall clutching her swollen stomach for support, they would've seen her eyes flashing back and forth between chocolate brown and demonic red. She'd never lost control like that before, but they were threatening her child. The youkai who had merged themselves with her being all those months ago were as protective of her unborn child as she was. They were a part of her now; she and the youkai were one, and together, they were the mother of her unborn child, so it was no wonder why her youki had flared at the doctor's words.
The doctor, meanwhile, had immediately called security to try and keep her in the clinic, convinced she and her baby were about to fall down dead at any moment, but she'd managed to evade them by using her youkai speed to fake left and then dodge right, as if she'd been playing in an American football game. She honestly hadn't meant to crack the glass of the front door with as forcefully as she'd shoved it open in her haste to escape, but at least it hadn't actually shattered, being that coated safety glass stuff. Inuyasha, who had originally been waiting for Kagome up on the clinic's roof, had already sensed the rising levels of panic in her aura and had nearly stormed the building himself before he'd realized that she was successfully escaping. He'd been there to grab her the moment she'd stepped outside, and together, they'd leapt back up onto the roof, so that when the security guards emerged in their pursuit not five seconds later, she was nowhere in sight.
By the time they'd returned to her family's home, Kagome's face stained with tear-tracks as she kept both arms wrapped protectively around her belly, Mrs. Higurashi had already received a worried phone call from the clinic, telling her their version of all that had transpired. She'd told the clinic to send them a bill for the broken window, but to otherwise leave her daughter alone, and as she'd seen Kagome standing there in that moment, practically falling into Inuyasha's embrace like a scared child as the hanyou stood behind her with his arms around her own, Mrs. Higurashi had merely closed the gap between them, kissing her daughter's forehead before pulling her into her own embrace, assuring both of them that nothing would happen to their baby.
Mrs. Higurashi had been good on her word, too, Inuyasha thought with a smile as he felt his son or daughter kicking against his hand. Even though the clinic had done several 'follow-up' calls practically begging for Kagome to return, for her own safety, Mrs. Higurashi had outright refused to schedule her daughter any more appointments with their facility. Since learning that their child, regardless of gender, was going to be born with his or her father's ears, Kagome had since decided that she would give birth in the Feudal era. Even though she'd be taking a risk, in a sense, not having any modern medical technology at her disposal should anything go wrong, the irony gods were once again rearing their ugly heads with the simple fact that for her child's own safety, he could not be born in a hospital. They would probably whisk him away to perform the gods knew what type of tests and experiments. What if their child not only had Inuyasha's ears, but also his silver hair? His amber eyes? No, Kagome definitely needed to give birth in the past, for everyone's safety. Kaede was an experienced midwife, so as long as there were no complications, Mrs. Higurashi had full confidence that the elder miko would know what she was doing, and besides...because of Kagome's youkai side, the odds of their being a complication of some kind had decreased dramatically, anyway. She was strong, and their child would also be strong. It was another one of those duel curse-blessings that they were getting more used to dealing with lately, in that it was their child's youkai blood that forced him to be born in a more risky environment to begin with, but also at the same time helped to ensure that he would survive such a birth without issue. But since Kagome would've obviously been giving birth in the past had the well truly been sealed after the completion of the jewel, anyway, nothing had actually changed in that aspect, when thought of from that point of view. The miko therefore tried not to think about losing her ability to give birth in a modern hospital, and instead focused on the positive side of things. At least now they knew that their child was going to have his father's ears. Kagome couldn't stop smiling at the thought...those ears were so kawaii...
"Keh, I think he's kicking in time with the beat." Inuyasha said in that moment, pulling his wife from her wandering thoughts as she gazed down at her husband resting his hand upon her belly, a smile on his own lips as he felt how active his child was currently being. "Must like this type of music...that's your influence." he smirked, even though he'd be lying if he tried to say he didn't like the music himself.
Moving back and forth a bit while still standing in place, Inuyasha would admit that...though it'd taken him some getting used to...this type of music wasn't really all that bad. Some of the more high-pitched electronic sounds did hurt his ears a little bit, but the deep bass rhythms that vibrated against his very being seemed to encourage his heart to beat in time with their tempo. It brought a whole new and literally sense to the expression 'feel the music'.
Cautious of not displacing her robes, Kagome also began swaying in time with the beat, raising her arms high into the air as her voluminous sleeves fanned out at her sides. She looked like a goddess of merriment in that moment, albeit a pregnant goddess of merriment, as she smiled at her husband with the absolute purest of emotions he'd ever seen her wear. In that moment, that instant in time, Kagome was purely, truly happy. Not a single doubt or worry clouded her mind as she emptied her head of such nonsense, letting herself be swept away in the wordless melodies that surrounded her.
They danced in their private corner of the club for an unknown length of time before Inuyasha abruptly came to a standstill, a low growl starting in the back of his throat that Kagome couldn't hear, but somehow sensed, as she opened her eyes and slowed her own dancing, her attention suddenly focused on her husband as his hackles raised and his ears twitched sporadically.
"What is it?" she asked, though he didn't need to answer her because in that moment, she felt it too.
Youkai.
More than one.
"Come on," he said, as he slowly made his way back toward the main dance floor in the center of the building.
It was awkward to maneuver around so many closely dancing bodies, but with a few loudly spoken "Excuse me"'s on Kagome's part, followed by a few polite replies of "I like your kimono", or "Nice costume", in reference to Inuyasha, the duo made their way through the crowd to the source of youki they could both feel.
What they saw stopped them dead in their tracks.
Well, Kagome stopped in her tracks by suddenly bumping into her husband's back, as Inuyasha was the one to deliberately come to a screeching halt. Trying to ask him what was up proved futile, as he swiftly grabbed her arm and silently dragged her back away from the crowd into a different corner of the room that was close to the bar. The place did serve liquor; you just had to show the bartender valid ID. It was a good place to stand since most people in the club were apparently underage, as there were a few patrons at the bar, but not very many. They were probably buying drinks for all their younger friends, but Kagome didn't care about that. Bottom line was that she and Inuyasha were virtually alone, so it was a fairly safe place to talk.
"Okay, what happened?" Kagome asked, worried over why her husband was keeping his head down, staring at the floor.
It soon became apparent that Inuyasha was merely laughing, though, which caught Kagome completely by surprise when she noticed the shaking of his shoulders and felt the sense of relaxation in his aura.
"What?" she asked again, but with a sense of amusement tingeing her voice that time.
"Look out on the dance floor and tell me what you see." he asked of her after getting his chortles under control.
Doing as she was told, Kagome scanned the crowd dancing and writhing in time with the music. The flashing and spinning lights and continual bursts of fog and bubbles made catching every detail with her eyes a little difficult, not to mention the fact that everyone was in costume, so half of the people present already appeared to be some sort of monster or another to begin with, but relying on her miko senses, Kagome scanned over everyone on the dance floor with her mind's eye, and quickly honed in on the two rather scantily clad women in naughty schoolgirl outfits dancing rather seductively with their noticeably older partners. It was clear the men were completely and utterly smitten by the twins who were surely only using their 'boyfriends' for their money, as those guys were by far the oldest two people in the entirely club, and they weren't very handsome, either. Kagome could definitely feel a demonic auras coming from both of the women, but it appeared faint, and not necessarily threatening, though not necessarily innocent, either. But she didn't think the men were under any sort of mind control. With bodies like those girls had, Kagome was positive the men had been 'ensnared' willingly. In fact, their bodies were almost too perfect, Kagome grumbled, as her left hand rose to unconsciously rub her swollen belly.
Wait...
Their bodies were too perfect, even for youkai.
"The twins?" she asked her husband knowingly, trying not to laugh out loud herself now.
Nodding his head, Inuyasha confirmed, "The one with the red streaks in her pigtails is definitely a kitsune, and I think the one with the overdone eye-shadow is a tanuki." Wrinkling his nose, he added, "Hard to tell for sure with all the damn scents in here, but I ain't pickin' up on their 'feminine wiles' if you know what I mean."
"Oh gods..." Kagome did laugh then. "They're male?!"
Fortunately, the dynamic duo of shape-shifting youkai appeared too into what they were doing, and perhaps the loud music was a contributing factor as well, but either way, it was clear that neither of them had overheard the miko and hanyou's discussion as they both just continued to freak-dance against their unsuspecting victims.
"You were right, Kagome." Inuyasha teased then. "The youkai of your time are friendlier."
Slapping her snickering husband's chest while trying to get her own giggles under control, Kagome wisely suggested that they should probably leave before the 'twins' discovered their own presence. They didn't want any trouble, after all.
Heading towards the exit, they were almost in the clear when yet another demonic aura suddenly brushed up against their senses. Where the hell had all these youkai been hiding before? Oh, but then again, Inuyasha hadn't really left her shrine grounds all that often except just to follow her to school a few times, so maybe that route was fairly youkai-free, and while Kagome'd gone to a lot of other places, like the store, she definitely hadn't been the best miko back in her school days. Admittedly, Kagome's ability to sense things like demonic auras was a lot stronger now thanks to her merger with the jewel, so maybe these youkai really were still so well-hidden that the 'old' her wouldn't have noticed them. Inuyasha's own ability to detect demonic auras was a lot stronger when he was transformed, as had been demonstrated earlier that evening at Eri's house, but while in his hanyou state, it was his sense of smell that usually alerted him to a youkai's presence before it got close enough for him to 'feel' its youki against his own. Taking that into consideration, coupled by the fact that he and Kagome very rarely left the shrine grounds when they were in her time, then it was no wonder why he hadn't really noticed any other youkai in her world until tonight.
Besides, it was Halloween, for crying out loud, so it only made sense that the hidden youkai of the world would come out into the open on tonight of all nights. Just because they were sensing them now, didn't mean that they'd sense them again tomorrow.
Coming to a stop at the feel of the new aura, Inuyasha glanced around to see if he could spot the youkai among the crowd of dressed-up humans. He was expecting to see another shape-shifter, another youkai that could completely assume human form. What he spotted instead literally took his breath away. There, standing precariously near the entrance to the club, was a neko-hanyou. Her short hair appeared spiked with styling gel, and featured randomly placed splotches of black and auburn. She had ears similar in style to Inuyasha's except they appeared slightly longer and even pointer, and what appeared to be whiskers were growing from her otherwise perfectly human face. Inuyasha knew he was staring, but at the moment he honestly didn't care how rude he was being. He'd only met two other natural-born hanyou in his entire life, and according to that kitsune at last year's 'haunted house,' hanyou were still rare even in Kagome's time. This girl must also be taking advantage of the cloak of Halloween to venture outdoors without the fear of persecution. He couldn't even imagine what it would be like to look even less human than he already did. Despite his waist-length silver hair, Inuyasha could always throw a hat on his head and be accepted, for the most part, as just some 'weirdo' punk kid. The hanyou before him, however, probably couldn't get by in the world with a simple baseball cap, not with those whiskers.
Kagome was just about to ask her husband, yet again, why he'd decided to come to a screeching halt directly in front of her, but before she even opened her mouth his reasoning became crystal clear. When the feel of a third source of foreign youki had first brushed up against her aura, Kagome had figured that they'd still just continue to exit the club as planned. There was no need to stick around, since it seemed like the kitsune and tanuki were only interested in some relatively harmless fun. Surely then whoever else had just decided to enter the dance club was also merely looking for a good time, one that did not involve bloodshed or tyranny. They probably didn't really have to leave; it was a free country after all, but considering what her husband often told her of how her aura felt against his own, Kagome had figured that it'd just be better to head out before the 'kuromiko' started attracting any unwanted attention. So far so good...
It was in that moment that the neko-hanyou standing a few paces away must have felt the hole Inuyasha's eyes had steadily been boring into her. Shifting her own eyes to gaze in their direction, Kagome's breath caught in her throat at the sight of the most intensely blue eyes she'd ever seen. Vertically slit pupils expanded and contracted to adjust to the continually flashing lights of the club atmosphere around them, while time seemed to otherwise stand still in a universe comprised solely of two natural-born hanyou and one self-made kuromiko. The expression the cat-girl was wearing was one Kagome could only describe as surprise mixed with fascination and wonder. It seemed obvious that she hadn't been expecting to bump into another hanyou, but it was probably the realization that this particular hanyou was with a dark miko, who also just so happened to be carrying his child, that was the biggest surprise of all for the demi-neko.
"Should we introduce ourselves?" Kagome asked her husband uncertainly.
The hanyou girl's feline ears moved forward in that moment, as she obviously saw Kagome's lips moving and was hoping to catch the miko's words, even despite the impossible level of noise interference continually blazing out of the club's sound system. Before Inuyasha could answer, however, it appeared as if the neko had decided to take the matter of introductions into her own hands, hands that, upon closer examination, appeared to possess curved, unretractable claws.
"Hi," she greeted with a smile as she closed the gap between them. "I see we're wearing the same designer." she said to Inuyasha, referring to their hanyou ears in 'Halloween code' should any nearby humans manage to overhear them.
While Inuyasha was a little slow on the uptake, not being from their century and understanding things like 'designers', Kagome caught on quickly and chimed in with, "Indeed you are, and such a rare one at that."
"Agreed." The cat-girl acknowledged, before sticking out her hand to shake Inuyasha's in the Western tradition as well as bowing as she introduced herself. "I'm Aiko, by the way."
Inuyasha was fortunately familiar with the concept of handshakes, as Kagome had briefed him long ago on a few social tidbits of this and that to help make sure he could get by in her time during their visits. They got a lot of Western tourists at the shrine, after all, and if he ever got spotted by one of them, he'd need to be able to bluff his way out of the confrontation. He obviously didn't speak English, but Kagome had taught him how to excuse himself in the language, while letting the tourists know that he didn't speak their tongue fluently. Thanks to Kagome's lesson on Western greetings, he was prepared when Aiko reached for his hand, and he returned the gesture appropriately in addition to bowing as he introduced himself in turn.
"Inuyasha." he replied.
The girl's blue eyes twinkled in amusement as she commented, "Well...that's an appropriate name, isn't it? But then again so is mine, heh."
Indeed, 'love child' was a very appropriate name for a hanyou, as any male youkai would be able to tell when a human female was fertile, while youkai females were aware of their own fertility, so there was truly no way for a hanyou child to be conceived purely by accident. In some cases, especially where a male youkai was just raping a human woman, they simply wouldn't care if the wench conceived as a result, but in the case of an actual relationship between a human and a youkai, any child born between them was obviously wanted. That was something that his own mother had made sure to drill into his head as soon as he'd been old enough to understand the other humans' taunting. Yes, when it really boiled down to it, he was, technically, a 'half-breed', but he had been loved and wanted by both of his parents, and in the end, that was all that mattered.
Finding a quieter area of the club once more, they ended up having a rather pleasant conversation with the neko-hanyou for about an hour, as Kagome managed to skillfully intervene any place where Inuyasha's lack of knowledge regarding her time would have become apparent. Aiko was fascinated regarding how Kagome contained both youki and reiki, but fortunately respected the miko's desire to keep her secrets regarding how she'd accomplished such a spell. It didn't take long for the girl's curiosity to move to their unborn child, and Inuyasha surprised Kagome then by not objecting when Aiko asked if she could feel her stomach. Normally, Inuyasha was so over-protective of his pregnant wife that letting a strange youkai they'd just met touch her stomach seemed like the last thing he'd let take place, but he didn't believe that Aiko would do anything to hurt their child. She was a hanyou...she knew what it was like.
Smiling in pride as the cat-girl's eyes widened in wonder at the feel of his child kicking against Okaa's tummy, Inuyasha didn't hide his own amazement when she told him of how she'd never before heard of a hanyou having a child of their own. Surely such a thing would be rare, but...never? Ever? It wasn't that hanyou couldn't have children, as was obvious considering the one currently growing inside Kagome's womb, but it was the simple fact that nobody would want to be with a hanyou.
"What about two hanyou getting together with each other?" Kagome asked then, but was surprised when it was actually Inuyasha who shook his head.
"Animal-based youkai can breed with humans regardless of species, but most animal-based youkai can't cross-breed with other species of animal-based youkai. You've never heard of a half cat, half dog, have you? Or anything else for that matter. It just wouldn't work. The only way it could work, for two hanyou, would be if they were of a similar animal, like two different types of canines, or two different types of felines, which makes the chances of two like-hanyou meeting that much harder since hanyou are so rare to begin with. I suppose it could also work if one or both youkai parents were elemental, instead of animal, but as far as I know elemental youkai can't breed with humans, so then it still wouldn't work because there's probably no such thing as an elemental hanyou."
Kagome'd never actually thought of that, and she wondered what made humans the exception, with regard to breeding with animal youkai regardless of the animal. It must just have something to do with the fact that youkai were magical beings, and so they existed on a different level than humans, their bodies following a different set of rules. Kagome wondered then if a certain animal youkai would also be able to successfully breed with its mortal animal counterpart, not that any of them ever would, since all higher animal youkai possessed a 'human' form, like Sesshoumaru, and in truth were as intelligent as any other person. They would never lower themselves to being with an actual animal when most youkai of that status already viewed humans as an animal of sorts, themselves. They were the 'mortal animal' version of the youkai's elfin form, and when looked at from that perspective, Kagome supposed she could understand why so many higher youkai were disgusted with the concept of hanyou. Nevertheless, she loved Inuyasha, and would forever remain eternally grateful to his parents, for the blessing that his existence truly was. The world would've been an awful place without him.
Finally excusing themselves for the night after their lengthy visit with the neko-hanyou, Kagome and Inuyasha headed back to her family shrine in pleasurable silence. While they'd already known by that point that youkai in fact still existed in Kagome's time, to actually see two in one day, plus another hanyou, had certainly been the best 'treat' of the night. Snickering to herself at the pun, Kagome hoped those two older gentlemen that had been dancing with the shape-shifters didn't find out about their 'trick'. Did it really count as being with another man, if the man you were with could turn himself into a woman? Shaking the idea free, Kagome continued to chuckle in mild amusement as they rounded the corner to her family shrine.
"Ugh..." she groaned at the appearance of all those stairs. Youkai enhancements or not, she was still seven months pregnant.
Smirking at his wife's pouty face, Inuyasha took sympathy on her as he held his arms wide in invitation. "Come'ere." he murmured affectionately, scooping the future mother of his child up into his arms as she wrapped her own around his neck. She couldn't safely ride on his back with as large as her stomach currently was, so instead she clung to Inuyasha from the front, as she wrapped her arms and legs around his back to the best of her ability, while he helped hold her in place with one hand against her back and one under her bum. In a single leap, they cleared the entire column of stairs, and he gently sat her back down on her feet.
It was rather late, and all of the lights were off in the house, but instead of merely heading for the well, as they knew Kagome's mother would have a fit if they left without saying goodbye, they tried their best to head indoors as silently as possible, a relatively easy task when one had youkai hearing. So long as they made sure that they were exceptionally quiet to their own ears, then they knew that there was no way the three humans of the household would be able to hear them. Perhaps Buyo was awoken from wherever the overweight calico had decided to slumber for the night, but that was of little concern.
Making their way into Kagome's bedroom, Inuyasha quickly locked the door before immediately assisting his wife with the rather daunting task of her undressing. She was wrapped up in so many layers of silk that one would have thought it a wonder that he was able to properly remove them all without tearing a single thing in his frustration, except of course for the fact that he had been the one to dress her in the first place. Patience was a virtue he possessed on rare, necessary occasions. Standing obediently still, Kagome waited until she felt the very last garment slip free from her person, before she merrily collapsed backwards upon her bed buck-naked. Inuyasha was quick to join her, as his own disrobing didn't take him nearly as long. Shedding his fire-rat robes in as timely a manner as possible was something he'd gotten quite good at in the last couple years. Crawling into bed, Inuyasha snuggled his naked form flush against his wife's, not that he expected they would do anything of a more adventurous nature, but he simply loved the feel of her body pressed up against his own.
Kagome smiled as she felt Inuyasha spoon her from behind, scooting himself as close to her as he could physically get without the two of them merging into a single being. As he rested his large, clawed hand protectively over her rounded belly, Kagome couldn't help but to smile even wider. Her husband had never once given her the opportunity to develop that unnecessary insecurity that most pregnant women got regarding their weight and appearance. She didn't know if perhaps it had something to do with the youki in her system, if it made her human hormones develop and react differently in her system than they ordinarily would have, but while she'd always heard that most women got irrationally emotional during the end of their pregnancies, she'd yet to feel any of those symptoms. Snickering to herself, she'd admit that it seemed very unlikely that Inuyasha had suddenly learned how to say and do all the right things, considering his track record, but perhaps it wasn't so much what he said, as what he did that made the difference. Actions did speak louder than words, after all, and for a man of so few words, like her husband, it was truly his actions that mattered.
How could she ever allow herself to think that she was a fat cow, for example, when her husband was constantly caressing her belly like it was the greatest treasure in all the land, like he was presently doing in that moment? When her mate continually stared at her with wonder in his eyes, truly amazed over the fact that she, that anyone, had wanted to have his child? How could she, even for a moment, develop the irrational fear that he was no longer attracted to her, when he always insisted upon snuggling together in the buff? When she could clearly feel the very real physical evidence of just how attracted to her he truly was poking into her from behind?
Wait...
"Umm, Inuyasha?"
Chuckling nervously, the hanyou somehow managed to resist the urge to grind himself against her, as he answered in as innocent a tone as possible, "Yes?"
"Is that what I think it is?"
"That depends..." he answered teasingly, "What do you think it is?"
He wasn't expecting Kagome to be the one to suddenly writhe against him in that moment, deliberately grinding her backside against his rapidly hardening erection. Releasing a pained groan of longing, Inuyasha just managed to hiss through his teeth, "Stop that. Don't start what we can't finish."
"I do believe he's the one who started it." the miko retorted.
"Well, I can't control what he does." he replied, adding, "But I know when I need to tell him no."
Turning herself over slightly, so that she was mostly still on her side, but also on her back far enough that she could turn her head to meet her husband's gaze, Kagome's youkai night vision allowed her to lock eyes with her husband as she asked, "Who said you had to tell him no?"
Before he could respond, Kagome rolled herself all the way over, onto her right so that she was suddenly facing him. Grabbing a fist full of hair with her left hand, she pulled him towards her as she captured his lips with her own. Inuyasha's initial surprise was short-lived as he quickly melted into the kiss, but his eyes snapped wide open at the feel of his wife's hand leaving his hair for a place located much further south.
"Ka...gome..." he managed to pant between kisses. "We...can't...remember?"
"Just because I can't, doesn't mean you can't." she cooed, while rolling a bead of precum around his sensitive head with the pad of her thumb. He shuddered at the contact before crashing his lips back down upon her own. Before Inuyasha even knew what was happening, Kagome had the blankets kicked off and was sitting up, working him professionally with her more experienced right hand.
Long ago, shortly after they'd first gotten married, he'd confessed one of his most secret fantasies to her. After all, although he'd deliberately kept her in the dark regarding his feelings, Inuyasha had known of her love for him for well over a year before they'd finally gotten together. The hanyou had confessed one night to just how long he'd truly desired her, and how many times he'd secretly relieved his body's tension himself when said desires had gotten too strong. He hadn't just lusted after her, he'd been in-love with her, through and through, but when you really, truly loved someone, desiring them sexually was simply part of the package.
One of the hanyou's favorite, most forbidden fantasies, had always been that while he was in the throws of pleasuring himself, Kagome would somehow stumble upon him in the forest, and that despite her shock and embarrassment, she would become incredibly turned on, and would then proceed to 'help' him relieve himself. It was a fantasy they'd actually acted out on several occasions, especially during the first few months of their marriage, when they'd still been hunting Naraku and hadn't had much in the way of privacy. As a result, Kagome was now very skilled in the art she was currently demonstrating.
After last year's new moon experience in the cave, where she'd finally gotten Inuyasha to willingly submit to lying on his back as she towered over him, Kagome had since managed to get her husband to agree to the position even while in his hanyou form. He obviously had no complaints in that moment, as he raised his hips in time with her hand's movements, while forcefully biting his lower lip to keep from moaning his pleasure aloud. It might have been his original intention to go without, hardly thinking it fair that she should have to pleasure him in such a way when he couldn't return the favor, but the sneaky wench had attacked him too quickly for him to protest the idea. There was no turning back now.
"Trick or treat?"
It took the hanyou a moment for his foggy mind to wrap itself around his wife's whispered words.
"Huh...wha...?"
"Trick..." Kagome purred, slowing her movements, which caused a groan of desperation to escape her husband's throat. "...Or treat...?" she purred once more, leaning forward and puckering her lips, blowing a gentle, teasing current of cool air over his heated flesh.
A whimper not unlike a house-dog begging for table scraps escaped the hanyou's throat against his will, but he never needed to fear embarrassment or judgment for his canine half from the woman currently sitting above him. Kagome actually relished in the sound, knowing what a tight lock and key her husband usually kept his animal instincts under. For him to lose that control, even for a second...for him to unconsciously release a sound controlled by the base most instincts of his youkai half, it went a long way to show Kagome just how good she really was, and how deeply she was truly loved and trusted by the man currently lying below her. A man who in truth was only half a man, yet had no fear to show his animal side in front of her, knowing he was accepted for exactly who and what he was.
Responding as though his whimper had been his answer to her question, which in a way it had been, Kagome smirked while replying "I thought so..." as she leaned herself forward once more.
Good gods...
As Inuyasha felt his wife's lips surround him, he was powerless to do anything more than concentrate on not piercing her mattress with his claws. Fisting his hands in her hair seemed like a reasonable alternative. He was sure there would come a moment when his thoughts would've been 'fuck the mattress', but he would never, ever hurt the woman he called his wife. His youkai half was also desperate to recapture at least a marginal sense of control, so with his hands suddenly guiding her head's movement, it was a lot easier to accept the fact that she still had him sprawled out on his back underneath her.
As for Kagome, she didn't mind in the least that he had suddenly taken such a dominating role. Tonight wasn't about domination at all, she merely wanted to pleasure him, because seeing him writhe in pleasurable agony was a guilty pleasure of her own, and one she'd allowed herself to go without for almost as long as her own physical enjoyment. It was just too risky for her to have sex that far along in her pregnancy. Not that the actual act of intercourse would put the baby at risk, but experiencing orgasm could possibly trigger early labor, and she most definitely did not want to risk that. Letting her husband control her movements, then, Kagome concentrated on keeping her jaw open as wide as it would go and keeping her gag reflexes to a minimum, as he controlled the rhythm of her head bobbing up and down while his hips slammed upward in time with his own tempo. It was a little more forceful than she might have appreciated back when she'd been purely human, but now that she had a youkai side lurking in her own psyche, Kagome found that she not only still liked it rough, but she could handle it a lot rougher than what used to be their physical limits. It was a lot better getting fucked up against a tree when it only took a couple hours for the scratches to heal.
Feeling his pending orgasm winding itself tighter in his gut, Inuyasha desperately tried to release Kagome's hair, but found that his body simply wouldn't obey his mind's command as his animal side was far too lost in its activities. The only thing he could do was warn her.
"Ka...gome...oh fuck! I'm...I'm gonna...!"
A severely muffled cry attempted to escape his lips, as he kept them clamped as tightly shut as possible, a trickle of blood leaking from the side of his mouth where he pierced himself on a fang. Holding Kagome's head down as his balls tightened and his hips locked in place, he momentarily had conscious thought to hope that she would forgive him, a mere fraction of a second before he emptied his hot seed down her throat.
Kagome had been prepared, however, and managed to swallow everything he gave her without incident. While she'd pleasured him orally on several past occasions, she'd very rarely done so to the point of completion. Usually, it was just a teaser to get his blood going, and as soon as he'd had enough, he'd demonstrate how she could never truly dominate him, by using his hanyou strength and speed to suddenly flip her over and slam into her from behind, usually before she even had time to realize what was happening. There had been a few times that she'd brought him all the way to completion with her mouth, however, during all of those times she'd always pulled back, at his insistence, finishing him in the last few seconds with her fist, as he'd release his seed on his belly. Tonight had been the first night that, instead of shoving her away, Inuyasha had actually deliberately held her in place. He'd always argued that such a thing was simply too demeaning, that he loved and respected her more than that. Kagome wondered in that moment if he was fearful that she'd be disgusted with his action, as if he'd cheapened her in some way, but the truth was that she understood how he'd obviously been a slave to the pleasure, and to her, there could be no greater compliment.
Releasing her hair was awkward, as he managed to pry his fingers open and move his hands to his sides, but before Inuyasha really had time to worry, while he was still lost in that moment of bliss from the afterglow of rapture, Kagome backed away enough to offer him a lazy smile, as she licked her lips and cooed seductively, "Mmmm, we both got a treat."
Successfully breaking the ice on the subject, Inuyasha merely laughed at her playful comment, as had been her intention, as Kagome made it beyond apparent that she wasn't angry with him.
"Sorry 'bout that, couldn't help myself." he apologized truthfully, a smile in his voice.
"Good." she replied, adding, "If you were that far gone, then that means I did it right."
An afterthought of pleasure shuddered through him in that moment, just thinking about the activity that had just taken place. While discussing things of a sexual nature used to embarrass him, that was before he'd found himself a wife willing to fuck his brains out, among other things. That night marked the second anniversary of the first time they'd ever made love, and in another couple of months, she would be giving birth to their first child. He never used to think that either his body, or his heart, would ever one day experience the levels of pleasure that now washed over both of them on a regular basis. A lot of men claimed to be the luckiest man alive, given their current situation of love, but with a man like Inuyasha, he could make such a claim with authentic sincerity. He was hanyou, nobody was supposed to want him. The simple fact that he had survived a childhood on his own in the woods was testament to his inordinately high levels of luck, but add to that everything else that'd happened in his life - ninety percent of which the woman at his side was directly responsible for, from having friends to acquiring Tetsusaiga - and it was clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Inuyasha was the luckiest man alive.
Realizing in that moment that he'd remained quiet for longer than he probably should have after his wife's comment, Inuyasha smiled down at her in that moment, as he brushed a stray hair from her face and ran the pad of his thumb over her bottom lip.
"You did it right..." he told her, his voice void of sexual teasing as his eyes locked onto hers with a look of sincerity. "You did everything right."
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