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Brief
Moments
By Mishi
Chapter 8
Brother’s
Keeper
Nishi sat with her back leaning against the hut as
Shippo paced back and forth before her. Inu Yasha had told them to talk
outside. He told Shippo to be honest with Nishi about their future. The sad
thing was,
Shippo had no idea what to say about the future. He liked Nishi, but he didn’t
love her. His thoughts wouldn’t come to an end about the matter.
The silence was too much for Nishi, she
had to speak, “You could just tell me what you are
thinking so hard about.”
Her words were so hollow sounding
that he stopped to look at her. She was not looking at him. She was looking at
the ground. Her fingers were tracing circles in the dirt like earlier that day.
“I’m sorry. I don’t know what I
should say.”
“You could tell me that this
afternoon meant something to you. You could tell me that you like me. I won’t
ask for love. Not yet, anyway.”
He sat down beside her, and stopped
her hand from making the circles. He held her hand as he spoke, “I didn’t know
that you liked me that much. You were always so quiet when you would show up at
the creek. Why didn’t you try to talk to me about your feelings before now?”
She couldn’t look at him; instead,
she stared at his hand on hers. “I was afraid you wouldn’t like me. I guess the
rush to get me married to the chief’s son…made me panic. I wanted to tell you while I still had the chance to change
things,” she admitted. “Would it have made a difference? Would things be
different now, if I had said
something before?”
Shippo couldn’t make himself look at her. He too was focusing on their hands. Her
hand was so warm. His hand was smaller than hers, but it didn’t stop him from
weaving his fingers between hers. He took a deep breath and tried to explain,
“I really don’t know what I would’ve done. I really didn’t plan on any of this happening.”
“You never got your kiss. Would you
like it now? I mean, before you think about it anymore.”
His heart started to pound at the
idea of kissing her. He could still taste the power from earlier, and the
warmth from her hand was already tempting him. It wasn’t a fair question by any
means.
His voice was shaky, but he managed
to speak despite his nerves. “Why would that make any difference to what my
decision would be?”
“Maybe if you know how serious I am. Then you’d think twice about not
picking me?”
“I never said that I wouldn’t want to be
with you. I just don’t know what I would’ve done.”
He looked up to see her looking at him with determined eyes. She was
beautiful. She also knew what she wanted, even if he didn’t. She wanted him, and it was a shock to him. He couldn’t
understand why she wanted him so much.
He tried to say no, but he couldn’t. Her hand was just too warm. The heat that
surrounded her body had somehow become more noticeable to him. There was also
some sweet smell that accompanied that heat. He had to close his eyes to keep
from moving closer to her. In desperation he let go of her hand.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to upset
you.” Nishi said. She hadn’t expected him to move away from her. Most boys
wouldn’t have turned the offer down. She knew that for sure. She had had
plenty of chances to kiss other boys, but she never wanted them. Shippo was what
she was looking for. She had already decided that she would do what she had to do
to make him hers.
He was careful to gather his
thoughts before answering her. He finally decided that if he really wanted to
kiss her, he didn’t want to do it while he looked like a child. After giving a
tiny nod, he stood and said, “You didn’t upset me. I want to try something
first. If I can take human form…then I’ll kiss you. But I don’t want to kiss you looking like this.”
“It doesn’t matter to me. I know you’re not a kid,” she insisted.
“But it does to me.”
He closed his eyes and created an
image in his head of a young man with black hair. His thought didn’t stray far
from his own appearance like they had earlier in the day. This young man would
look like a human him. Not some nameless person he didn’t know. He noticed,
for the first time, that there was a fire within his chest. He told that fire to spread. It did until it was no longer in his chest, but covered his entire body. When it
burned in his fingers and toes, it became cool. It was like the soft wind that
danced against his skin.
He heard Nishi gasp, and his eyes opened. He was looking down at her. She
was setting right were she had been when he started. He set down so fast that
it made her jump. He reached out for her hand so he could check the size
against his own. When he noticed that it was slightly bigger, he let himself
smile.
“I did it? I
really did it,” he laughed. He didn’t have to question it,
he knew that he was the young man that he envisioned. Then it occurred to him to ask, “Nishi, do I have a tail?”
She placed her hands on his knees to brace herself as she look around him.
The sudden closeness gave him the
chance to feel her warmth again. He also discovered that her skin had been the
true source of the sweet smell. He took a deep whiff of it before she moved way.
“You don’t have a tail,” she informed him with a smile. “You even gave
yourself black hair.” She reached up to
touch it. “I think I like your real color better.”
The moment after she said it, Shippo’s hair changed. It made her gasp and
backed up. His hand caught her upper arms before she could move too far away from him. His nose was almost touching hers when he whispered, “I know how to do it now, so
I can change anything I want. Is there anything else you don’t like?”
She couldn’t speak, so she slowly shook her head.
He was suddenly starving. He had strong desire to press his check against
hers, and rub it like he had her hand. Without warning he gave in. The moment
his check touched hers, Nishi’s body began to tremble.
“Why are you shaking, Nishi? You shouldn’t be afraid.”
The sound of his voice was amazing to her.
If she had not known better, she would have sworn that he had purred the words.
The sound of it made her body melt. Her pulse was racing, and she was fighting to breathe. Her eyes
were half closed when she answered, “I don’t know.”
His check traveled down her neck. When his lips touched her collarbone, he
became fascinated with the feel of them on her skin. The fascination
lead him to parting his lips, so he would see what her skin felt like
against his tongue.
To keep her body from falling out of his reach, Nishi grabbed handfuls of his shirt. She pulled at the shirt with each new area
that his mouth explored.
He was tempted to open the top of her kimono, but fought against
it. Instead he pulled at it just enough to move it out of his way. Energy poured from her skin like water from a fount. It had
been much easier to get his fill this time. He managed to pull himself back from her,
but only far enough that his cheek was resting against the side of her chin. He was trying to force himself to pull way from her completely when Nishi stopped him.
“Please, don’t stop. I don’t want you to stop,” her words were full of breath
as she pleaded with him.
He was still drunk on the power, so he let his instincts get the better of
him. Had she not been so willing, he might have been able to resist. However,
she was making it far too easy for him to continue. He wanted to kiss her. He
wanted to touch her now more than anything in the world. He wasn’t sure how to go about it, but he was
more than willing to try. Her lips
were so close, and he could feel her breath against his ear. In a rush, he pressed his lips to hers and mimicked the
kisses that he had planted on her neck.
Suddenly, it was more than a lust for the power. He was very aware of the feel of her body against his.
It was more apparent that her breasts would rise and fall with each breath. He let his
hands travel down her back until they discovered the curve of her behind. He traced it in a half circle on each side of
her body; letting his hands come to a stop just below each cheek. They remained
there, pressed flat against the back of her thighs, for only a moment. He
forcefully pulled her forwards, which allowed his fingertips to enter between
her thighs.
A moan escaped from Nishi as she broke
from the kiss. Her body was shaking badly. She nearly ripped his shirt from
gripping it to hard. She buried her face in his neck to hide her embarrassment.
“Am I hurting you, Nishi?” He asked as he
tried to ease her backwards, so that he could look at her face. He was shocked
by the sound of his own voice. It sounded thick and deeper then normal. He had
never heard anything like it. He felt her turn her head from left to right, and
he heard the mumble, “No.” It had been enough to distract him from his thoughts.
However, it was not enough to make him stop trying to look at her face. “Look
at me if you don’t want me to stop,” he ordered.
She pulled back enough for him to see the
darkness of her checks. There was very little light, but his eyes had no
trouble seeing her modesty.
“Are you afraid of what is happening? I
don’t want to hurt you, Nishi.”
“I’m not acting like this because I’m
afraid,” she informed him. She was still clinging to his shirt. “I don’t want
you to stop. I should, but I don’t want you to.”
His concern for her was enough to force
him to return to reality. He move his hands up to support her back as he said, “You’re
getting weak again. I shouldn’t have done this to you. I should take you home
now.”
“If you do that now, then my father will
be furious again. Can’t I stay with you a little longer?”
“Look what happens when we are alone. I
can’t control myself around you, Nishi. You are not safe with me,” he tried to
reason with her.
“I am safe with you. You’re not hurting
me. I like what you’re doing,” she insisted. Without warning her arms flew
around his neck, and her check was pressed against his neck again. “I want you
to…to be the first,” she whispered. “I don’t want him to touch me. I want you.”
“I can’t do this,” he groaned, shaking his
head as he pulled her arms away from his neck. With one hand around her waist,
he forced her to her feet. Before she could try to protest, he had her off the
ground and in his arms.
“What are you doing?” she demanded.
“I am taking you someplace that I know you’ll
be safe.”
“I can’t go home like this.”
“I’m not taking you home. I’m taking you
to someone who will understand what we are going through,” said as he began
walking around to the front of the hut.
He tried to block out her
pleas. She was determined to finish what had been started, but he was not going
to let that happen. He knew that he could trust Inu Yasha to help him, and that
was all he would allow his mind to comprehend. All other thoughts were considered
too dangerous for him to entertain.
He could hear Kagome and Inu Yasha as he
grew closer to the porch. He was about to interrupt something that sounded very
emotional, but he really had little choice. ‘I
have to do this. I can’t take her home, and I can’t trust myself. She feels too
good. She…’ he shook off the thought for the sake of his own sanity. In
desperation he called out, “Inu Yasha, I need your help. Can I come in?”
There was nothing for a second or two, and
then he heard Inu Yasha’s voice, “Yeah…come in, Shippo.”
Shippo pushed his way through the door
with Nishi in his arms. Inu Yasha and Kagome were standing before him when he
noticed the new wall of blankets.
“What’s this?” He asked as he nodded
towards the blankets. It took a long silence to make him realize that Inu Yasha
and Kagome were staring at him with wide eyes and open mouths.
He tried to move in closer
to them, but when he did, Kagome’s knees turned to rubber. She ended up with
her butt on the floor next to Inu Yasha’s feet.
“What’s this?” He echoed
Shippo’s words, before he pointed at Shippo and snapped, “What the hell is that?”
“Can I put Nishi down
first?”
Inu Yasha pointed to the
new blankets and said, “Put her in your room.”
“My
room? You made me a room?” Shippo was touched by the thought.
“Now!”
Inu Yasha roared and walked over the corner of the blanket to move it out of the
way.
“That is Shippo?” Kagome
mumbled.
“It’s ok. He’s just…well,
it is ok.” Inu Yasha said as he bent down and tried to pull Kagome back into
reality.
He put his arms around her and helped her
to stand. He just had her steady when Shippo emerged from the blankets. One
look and she was right back on her butt.
“Damn it, Shippo! Outside, I’ll be out
there as soon as Kagome’s ok.”
******
Shippo walked several feet from the hut
before he stopped to look up at the night sky. ‘What’s going on?’ He thought. He lifted his hands to the back of
his neck and let his fingers weave into each other. ‘I wish I could start this over. I’m not ready for this. I want to be
who I was before.’
“Shippo, what did you do?” Inu Yasha’s
voice came from behind him. It was the same calm voice from earlier.
Shippo turned around to
look at him. When he did, he was caught off guard by the fact that he could now
look into Inu Yasha’s eyes without looking up at him.
“Come on, what happened?”
Inu Yasha pushed.
“I kissed her,” Shippo
replied in a low voice that sounded very distant.
Inu Yasha stepped forward
and put his hand on Shippo’s shoulder, then asked in disbelief, “Kissing her
did this?”
“No, the power I gain
earlier allowed me to do this. It had nothing to do with what just happened.”
“Then how did Nishi get so
weak that you had to carry her?” Inu Yasha asked as he gently pulled on Shippo’s
shoulder in order to lead him towards the rice fields. He wanted to put all the
distance he could be between Shippo and Nishi.
“I’m not sure. I took
human from and she was so close. She was so warm. I…” Shippo stopped talking
and moving at the same time. The memory was enough to make his body ache. He
wanted to run back to her. It was almost too much to stand.
Shippo’s eyes were closed
when Inu Yasha took hold of both of his shoulders to give him a good shake. “Shippo,
pull yourself together. Shippo!”
“Get me away from her.
Please, Inu Yasha.”
Inu Yasha threw Shippo
over his shoulder and made for the forest. He didn’t stop until he was under
Goshinbouku. It was under the spot that
he had once been pinned to that Inu Yasha sat Shippo down. With Shippo sitting
quietly for the moment, Inu Yasha took a seat at his side.
“I don’t know why his is
happening. I don’t remember my father doing anything like this,” Shippo said with
a dry mouth. “I never knew that it would be like this.”
“Are you in control enough to tell me what
happened to you?” Inu Yasha asked.
“She said she wanted me to
kiss her. I told her that I would if I could take human form. After the change…I
lost myself. I just remember how warm she was. She tasted so good.”
Inu Yasha looked straight
ahead as he asked, “Tasted? So, the change took enough power to make you hungry
for her energy?”
Shippo was surprised at
how easy the words had come out of Inu Yasha’s mouth. He could tell that Inu
Yasha was actually thinking about this very carefully. It was strange, but he
couldn’t deny it. Inu Yasha had a functional brain.
“You better be thinking
about how you are going to answer. If you make one crack about my intelligence,
I’m going to beat you back into your original height.”
Shippo took a moment to weigh
the outcome of his words before answering. He finally determined that now was
not the time to be making jokes at the expense of his closest friend. “I guess
that could’ve been what happened. I just remember my lips on her neck. I don’t
know how it got started. I tried to stop myself, but she kept pushing. She didn’t
want me to stop. I didn’t need to feed any more, but…I liked touching her. I
liked the sound of her breathing. I liked how she…”
“Stop, I got the picture!”
Inu Yasha yelled as his hands flew over his ears.
“Sorry, I was sort of
remembering what happened,” Shippo confessed.
“Fine, I got it. She gave
you that special feeling. I’ve been there. I don’t need the details. I just
need to know why this is happening to you. I know that kitsune are different
from most youkai. I just don’t know how. We need to get you to someone who
knows. There has to be someone who can answer some questions.”
Shippo
shrugged his shoulders and said, “Nishi is the only one who seems to know all
about kitsune.”
“Let’s get you away from
the village, and I’ll have Kagome get some information from her time. Grandpa
seems to know a lot about this sort of stuff. Maybe he can answer some
questions. If…I can ask him with a
straight face.”
Inu Yasha stood up and
looked down at Shippo before continuing, “Wait awhile before you fallow me. I’ll
take Nishi home so you can avoid her for now. Shido might not like it, but you’ll
have to finish your talk after you get control of yourself. I somehow doubt
that Nishi will leave things as they are, and I don’t see her willingly
marrying anyone that she doesn’t want to marry.”
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