Well de Rouge An Inuyasha X Moulin Rouge Tale

LEMON/ "LEMONADE" CONTENT WARNING!!! This chapter contains sexual situations past the mark that will be indicated by the author. Everything before is safe to read until the author indicates the sexual situation. You may continue at your own risk. Please be responsible and mature. Thank You, and Enjoy!

Chapter 11; ...to be Loved in Return (Part 2)

Inu-yasha and Kagome opened the door to Kagome's hotel room with a light creek of her door. She looked around to make sure none of the playwrights had walked in to talk to her about the play. Kagome's feet squished with water in her shoes and brushed her hair out of her eyes to keep the water from running in her eyes. After surveying her room, she turned and gestured to Inu-yasha that the coast was clear. He came in behind her and sat in her comfortable chair as she turned to lock her door. Kagome leaned her back up against her door and let out a sigh of relief as she tried to catch her breath after running from the spot where she and Inu-yasha had shared their first kiss to the door of her hotel room.

Kagome trusted her hand into her hair and placed the other hand over her stomach. "Are you hungry?"

Inu-yasha propped one leg up on the armrest as always and dipped his head back to brush his hair back so it would drip itself dry faster. He looked up at Kagome for a moment. "Naw! You?"

Kagome smiled and shook her head. "Uh-ah! I just thought I'd ask."

Slowly she headed for her desk and opened a drawer to find her candles. Inu-yasha watched her as she dug out an assortment of tall, short, wide, and thin cylinders of wax, each one a different color or shade darker than the one before. "What are those for?"

Kagome turned around and walked over to her nightstand that was beside him and grabbed her matches. "The thunder storm might knock out the power. I want to light a few candles before I lose my only light bulb, and my only source of light."

Kagome struck a match and lit a few of the candles. She then took two of them and put them in her washroom, one in the toilet closet, and two on her nightstand. Inu-yasha watched her, and just watching the fire burn the wick brought on the sensation of heat - as in temperature wise. He soon discovered that Kagome's room was boiling hot, and he suspected the heat had rushed indoors to hide from the cold rain, which was coming down heavier now, as the storm got closer.

"It's warm in here!" he said feeling the back of his neck for any sign of the cold water. Nope! He could feel his body starting to produce sweat to cool him down. Why was it so warm?

Kagome came over to the balcony's glass doors. "It's the top floor for one thing. It's always an oven up here, and I usually open the balcony to let in the night breeze. But with the storm and all this rain..." her voice trailed off.

She stood by her window and looked out to the Well de Rouge as its lights turned on for the night. Kagome closed her eyes for a moment, and began running her hands through her hair. Her neck was starting to get warm from all the heat her hair was holding against it, and also her clothing be stuck to her body wasn't helping.

Kagome fiddled her hair into a messy clump in the back of her head and exhaled noisily. "Here!" she said as she walked over to her closet filled with samples of some of the clothing she sewed together. Kagome pulled out a dress shirt she kept for measurements. It had short sleeves, but it seemed to be the right size for Inu-yasha. "I'm not sure if it's the right size, but it's dry!"

She pulled out a pair of dance pants she had taken for measurements on one of the male costumes and handed them both to Inu-yasha. Kagome then ran over to her dresser and pulled out a bundle of cloth. "I'll change in the washroom. I'll knock to see if you're ready."

Inu-yasha watched her as she closed the door behind her. He unbuttoned his shirt halfway, and got annoyed with it easily because of his claws. After struggling with the fifth one he unbuttoned the cuffs and pulled the soaked shirt over his head. He shook his head for a moment to loosen up his silver mane again, and then wove his claws through his bangs as he looked out the balcony window. Daylight was almost gone, but the dark storm seemed to prevent that from being seen. He sighed about the whole thing and hoped the bubble in his stomach wouldn't burst too soon before he could tell her.

He threw his soaked clothing at the foot of the chair, and pulled up the dance pants. As he secured them he looked around the room franticly. "Now where did I toss that shirt?"

Inu-yasha looked by the pile of wet clothing and then over and around Kagome's bed. "Damn it!" she said under his breath. He thrust his hand into his hair and made an attempt to think back. Inu-yasha glanced over the room slowly, and gave a cry of victory when he found it by Kagome's tall mounted mirror. He walked over to where the shirt was lying and glanced into the mirror as he pulled the shirt over his shoulders. He looked at the buttons and decided not to bother with them, they were annoying anyway.

He looked into Kagome's mirror and tried to make himself look a bit more decent. Inu-yasha looked in the mirror fixing the shirt's collar when something caught his eye in the mirror. He looked at the reflection in the mirror for a moment or two and then turned around to see the objects he had seen. There, on the opposite wall, were nine pieces of paper pinned to the walls. Each one of them was black and white, drawn with lead. He walked over to look as each one and smiled as he looked at the first one and the next. Drawings of him dancing solo on stage, sitting in a stool, sleeping in a bed, dancing with the coat, and others of his face were all drawn the way she had seen him. Yet, one was different! The one in the middle that caught his eye, she had not seen him in. That dark hair and those dark eyes, was this what she saw when she looked past his mask? The drawing was far more beautiful than the other poses, and the fact she had never seen him this way made his heart skip a beat.

He pulled the drawing from the wall, and admired it a moment longer as he took a seat in the chair. Kagome knocked on the door not soon after, and Inu-yasha turned to look at the door before turning back to the picture. "It's okay!"

Kagome walked out in a soft white cotton sleep gown which had the neckline stretched and as she looked in her mirror to tie her wet hair back, the neckline seem to loose its place all together. It slipped over her right shoulder as though it were mad that she had decided to wear this of all the things while he was here. Kagome wrapped her hair with a ribbon and tied it securely behind her letting the waves of her hair dry in the air. She then went over to her desk to look over a few of the drawings she had made for her own intention. Kagome sat at her desk to look them over. "I hope I can make up my mind soon on Kouga's costume. This is the third time I've looked over these drawings."

Inu-yasha looked at her as she started to play with her hair. He looked out the balcony, at the drawing, and then looked at Kagome. "Make the wolf dance in the nude for all I care."

Kagome gave a silent laugh, "If he did I won't be Kagome anymore...I really would be Kikyo."

Inu-yasha got to his feet. "What do you mean?"

Kagome leaned over her desk and continued to look at each of the drawings. "She told me I was a girl because I have dreams of being with one person and loving one person for the rest of my life. Then she told me that real women know that men only want one thing, and as soon as they're done with-- "

"Soon as they're done with you, you're gone?" Inu-yasha finished.

Kagome leaned back in her chair and rubbed her arm through her gown's elbow long sleeve. She closed her eyes. "Those were the words going through my mind the night you found me drugged in that hotel. It was all my fault. I should have told you."

Inu-yasha came up behind her. "No, it's not! Even if you had told me and still went do you think he wouldn't have tried to drug you? Do you think he wouldn't have drugged you if you were Kikyo?"

Kagome got out of her chair and walked to her door without making eye contact with him. "Yes, I honestly think he wouldn't have drugged the wine if I was Kikyo."

Inu-yasha shook his head, and turned his back to her as he looked at the drawing again. "Where you in the room when he poured the drinks?"

She hugged herself, "No, I wasn't because..."

Inu-yasha turned around and looked at her, and she was still facing her door. "Because what?" his voice said softly.

Kagome pressed her head to the door and put her weight on it as she closed her eyes. "I heard her through the door, Inu-yasha. I heard her say your name, and I felt sick to my stomach. I just don't see it."

Inu-yasha turned back to the drawing, and put it down on her desk. He took two steps in her direction. "What don't you see?"

Kagome turned around and looked at him with sad eyes. She looked like she was ready to cry. "I don't see the difference between sex and making love. You classify everything into two categories. Men and boys! Women and girls! Sex and making love! All these things, and all I see is the same thing."

Inu-yasha looked at her with soft eyes, and leaned up against her bed's post. "So, where does this guy come in to this whole mess?"

Kagome closed her eyes, "I wanted to know if these people even care at all. I wanted to know if the feeling was mutual or different. I guess I thought I could see it for myself without having to go through the 'service' part of the job."

Inu-yasha smiled and shook his head. "I'm sorry, it's not what you think. He told you dinner and a drink at his place?"

Kagome nodded and smirked about the whole thing. Inu-yasha laughed silently, "That's an old girl's line to get gigolo's to give 'em freebies. They think if they don't ask, they can get away without having to pay."

Kagome looked at him, "Do you...?"

Inu-yasha looked at her and shook his head, "High price, remember? If a client tries to get a freebie, I leave. It's difficult for women though. Men can be more threatening. Kikyo knows how to get around those things. You never leave your drink unattended; you pour the drinks and make sure the bottle is a fresh one. Oh yeah! You never have red wine. Also, if he forces you to drink it, knock the glass over as you go to grab it and make it look like an accident. While he cleans it up, you get away. If he does leave you alone, you hit him wear it hurts and leave."

Kagome laughed, "I hit him over the head with a vase."

Inu-yasha started laughing hysterically. "That....that will do it, too!"

Kagome shook her head as the laughter died. Inu-yasha looked at her. "You can't be Kikyo, no matter how hard you try you'll never be like her."

Kagome watched him as he smiled and walked back over to her desk. She narrowed her brow, wondering if she had misunderstood him for either a compliment or criticism. She came up to him from behind and looked over his back, as the lightning flashes got brighter. Kagome looked over his back and saw all of his skin start to grow pink under the white shirt. She pinched a small lock of silver, and began to weave it through her fingers.

"What...what do you mean I'll never be like her?" she said in an unsteady voice. She looked up and into his golden eyes. His eyes were full of confusion, and he seemed lost for words. Kagome let go of the lock of silver hair and palmed both of his cheeks. "What is it? What's wrong?"

Suddenly, she felt something tickle her arm can make a crackling noise. Kagome looked down to her side and saw the drawing in Inu-yasha's hand. Kagome's eyes opened a little wider as she blushed taking the picture from his hand slowly and holding in between her and him.

Inu-yasha touched her arms and let his fingers run down from her wrists to her elbows. "Is...is it a picture of me?"

Kagome closed her eyes and nodded sadly. "It's not what you think."

She walked past him and stood over her desk looking at the drawing of Inu- yasha if he were human. Kagome closed her eyes. "Are you mad?"

She heard his voice from behind her, "No! Why should I?"

Kagome felt a tear for in her eye. "It's what I see when I look into your eyes. It's the side you don't seem to show to anyone else, but me."

Inu-yasha's voice became deeper and softer. "Is it what you want me to be?"

Kagome felt a lump grow in her throat. "Yes...and no! It doesn't matter to me." She swallowed hard to get rid of the lump but failed. Her heart felt like it was breaking, but mostly it was because she loved him. She loved his soul.

"You're beautiful to me either way. If you're a half demon, I'll still see you with the same eyes. My heart will still see this as your heart and soul. You have a human heart, and soul. I wanted to picture it for so long with my own eyes. When I drew the picture, I felt my heart and eyes agree on the feeling."

Kagome let her fingers run over the drawing, and she closed her eyes as the tear began to roll down her face. "If others saw you like this, I'm not sure what they would say."

Inu-yasha lowered his head and looked at his hands for a moment before closing them in to fists. 'It's starting, I can feel it!' He looked back at Kagome.

"If I were human, for even a moment, would you still love me?"

Kagome opened her eyes and smirked a little before feeling a sob coming on. "I'd love you even if you were all demon. Half demon or all human, I'd still love you. If you were human..."

She couldn't hold it back and placed the drawing on her desk softly and looked at it as she let out a small sob. She felt better and took a small breath of air as she closed her eyes once more before hugging her body. "If you were human, for even a moment, I'd still think you were beautiful. I'd still think you were beautiful and I would still love you. You're soul is human. My soul is in love with yours. You're beautiful to me, Inu- yasha. If you were human, you'd be just as beautiful because your soul is human. I love you."

Kagome picked the drawing back up and kept her eyes on it even as a flash of lightning came through the windows and her light bulb went out. The thunder rumbled the floor and Kagome felt her heart beat with the same power. The candlelight now glowed through the paper, making the image even more heavenly and more beautiful.

Kagome closed her eyes as her last tear fell from her eyes. "You're so beautiful!"

It took a moment for the candlelight to flood her room and for Kagome's eyes to adjust, but she could feel his presence in the room. It only took those few moments of silence to make her long to feel his kiss, just so that she'd know he still loved her. The silence made her heart pound and question whether or not he was really still there, but all questions were answered in a single touch.

A hand! A soft palm with five fingers gently touched the exposed skin her gown's neckline refused to cover and was touching the very grove of her upper back. Kagome knew it was Inu-yasha; the touch was the same, the feeling in her heart and body, and now her soul all the same. His fingers traveled upward to her neck and it seemed to spread a fire through her spine. Another joined it and both began to untie the ribbon in her hair. It unraveled with ease, and Kagome's half-wet, half dry hair cascaded over her shoulders. Kagome smirked for a moment, until the hands disappeared for one moment, only to return to her neck and run down her spine slowly. Then one made its way to her shoulder and smoothed across it to its curve.

Kagome soon felt something warm and soft press against her back. Her skin confirmed it has his chest, his bare chest. The shirt was gone, and his body was giving off a warm heat that her body could only absorb. Her heart was pounding, but his was too. They are counting the beats together this time in perfect unison.

Inu-yasha's breath bounced off her exposed shoulder, but the moisture that built seemed to cool his hot kiss. Kagome's opened her eyes just slightly, only to close them again as Inu-yasha's kisses made their way up to the place where her neck met her shoulder. Her lips began to tremble, and heat began to race through her body.

Her vision blurred from the rise in her body heat, but she wasn't scared this time. Slowly, Kagome turned her head toward him and begged for him to kiss her lips. Inu-yasha looked at her and slowly began to turn her body around and ran his fingertips down her arms in little patterns. Kagome's lips felt his breath moisten them and make them warm. Gently he pressed his lips to hers in small soft kisses. Kagome leaned into his warmest kiss, and felt his tongue beg for another taste. Kagome's tongue beat him to the entrance, but he welcomed her with it. Kagome let her hands palm his cheeks as his hands left her arms to feel her back and pull her closer. Kagome's hands smoothed into his hair as he brought her closer and began to push all of his hair back.

All of the sudden, her senses returned when something wasn't right. Something was different about Inu-yasha, but it wasn't the emotional and physical pleasure. Inu-yasha had claws, so how come she felt fingertips? His mouth would have two long fangs, so why were they short? Yet none of these compared to what her hands found in his hair, his ears. 'Human ears!'

Kagome opened her eyes quickly and gasped into her kiss as she pulled her lips from their caress. Her eyes widened as she placed both hands on his jaw and looked at him. Black hair! And as soon as Inu-yasha caught his breath, he slowly opened his eyes, deep, earthy, brown eyes.

Kagome's eyes were filled with disbelief and she felt like she had done something horrible. "In...Inu-yasha?"

He smirked and took a hard gulp as he tried to breath normally for a moment. His eyes looked into hers with the same power she had felt every time she looked into his once golden eyes. Was it really still he, or was it all a dream?

Inu-yasha let out a quick breath of air, and gave a breathless, "Yes?"

Kagome's face blushed as she took his arms to find his hands. No claws, but short fingernails! "What...how...I don't understand! Did I do this?"

Inu-yasha shook his head as he let out a breathy laugh. "Stupid girl! Sure your drawing and the lights going out suddenly turned me into a human," he teased with a smile.

Kagome touched his hair and felt his chest and watched as her hands scanned his body. "Then, how?"

Inu-yasha lifted her chin and looked into her eyes. "It's normal in all half-demons to loose their demon power at some point in time. My demon blood recedes on the night of a new moon. As soon as the sunsets, I'm human until sunrise."

Kagome touched his face, "What happens at sunrise?"

Inu-yasha took hold of her hands and pressed his forehead to hers. "My demon blood replenishes itself, and I turn back into a half-demon."

(I know what you're thinking. Tell you something you don't already know...or uh-duh!)

Kagome looked at his chest and placed both hands over his upper chest. "Do others know about this?"

He closed his eyes and opened them back up again slowly. "Sesshoumaru, and a majority of those that work with me."

Inu-yasha let go of her for a moment and she watched him as he walked around her room. Kagome felt shivers go down her spine as she approached him once more. "Any clients?"

Inu-yasha snickered. "No client wants to have sex with a full human for the price my half-demon body goes for. This body is worthless!"

He hadn't turned to look at her the entire time, and she finally came around to his face. "Not worthless! Priceless, like your soul!"

Inu-yasha touched her lips once more and leaned in to press his forehead to hers. He let his hands drift over her shoulders and down her curves letting his fingers trace a body that was willing to give it's self to this "priceless" one.

Kagome felt his stare and pressed her nose to his and palmed both of his cheeks. He looked at her with half open eyes. "You don't think my human body is ugly? Kikyo couldn't agree with it because it brought her no challenge, at least she thought."

Kagome looked at him with soft sad eyes. "Have you ever used this body for your work, even...Kikyo?"

He smirked and closed his eyes. "It not enough! Instead of the Half-Karat Diamond, I'm not worth anything to them without my demon blood. I'm not a diamond!"

Kagome felt a tear form in her eye as she placed her hands over his chest. Inu-yasha closed his eyes and held her curves in his hands. Kagome gripped his biceps and looked at him. "You're right!"

Inu-yasha looked at her confused. Kagome closed her eyes for a moment letting the tear fall from her eye. "You're the one I love! The one I feel I can be safe in when you hold me. The one my heart longs to keep in time with when we dance. You're the one my heart wants to dance with."

Inu-yasha listened to her every word watching her tears fall down her cheeks as the lightning flashed around them in her room. Kagome let her finger trace his lips and run over his cheeks. "You're Inu-yasha, and you'll always be more precious than all the diamonds in the world to me. I don't love the Diamond; I love the man hidden behind him."

Inu-yasha's eyes glowed like water glazed with moonlight. Kagome bowed her head, and let her tears fall freely. Inu-yasha felt a tear of his own roll down his cheek, and his cupped his hands over her face to bring her face back up to his. Kagome's eye opened just slightly, and she closed them to part her lips. Inu-yasha's lips brushed against hers, and slowly he began to add pressure. Kagome pressed back and opened her mouth to let him reunite with her tongue.

It only took a moment before her hands wove into his hair and he clutched her body close to his. Kagome let go of his kiss and attempted to kiss him again, until his lips attacked her neck. His hands began to move up her back and play with her spine to make shivers run up and down her. Kagome gasped just slightly when she felt one hand brush against a soft spot in her lower back.

Inu-yasha pushed her back and both slowly climbed on to Kagome's bed. Kagome crawled further back form him trying to control her breathing. "I’m not sure I can do this!"

Inu-yasha pulled her upper body back up and kissed her as his legs pushed to put one leg between hers. He felt different suddenly, like this wasn't what he thought it was going to be like. His body was responding to situations differently, and the sensations in Kagome's touches were making his body tremble. It was like a river of fire running through his body. She was unlocking part of him that he didn't even know existed. A power she had over him that he liked. Kagome could unlock this passion and pull it out full blast, a power no woman, not even Kikyo could do these things and this was what her job should have done for him. The lightning didn't seem to exist outside the room anymore. It was happening between their bodies, now, and making his heart pulse like it had gone mad. He couldn't get enough of it, and longed for more of it.

Suddenly, Kagome pushed him away and his body felt like it had been ripped from it's other half. Kagome's hands were trembling and she cupped his face and came closer to him. Her eyes were soft and glossy. His heart was pounding with all of the angelic light her body was giving off. "What is it?"

Kagome rose to her knees and loomed over him just slightly. Inu-yasha's heart started pounding, threatening to bust out of place and cling to hers. Her voice was sultry as she whispered to him, "I don't want to have sex!"

His heart felt like it would have hit bottom. Inu-yasha's eyes widened to look at her not understanding why she was still sending signals. Yet, the signals were mixed up and lost. These were different!

Kagome closed her eyes and bent down to steal a small innocent kiss from his lip and give him a taste of a sweet passion he had not tasted before. It was like honey, sweet and warm.

"What...what do you want?" he asked trying to hold back the urge to pin her between his body and her bed.

Kagome's smiled and bent down, and made his lips follow hers. He looked into her smoky gray eyes, and felt his lips steal a second taste. What was this passion, this urge, this...feeling? No woman had the ability to break his senses when it came to sex, so what were they doing now? What was he doing in that situation with Kagome? What was it that she wanted if it wasn't sex, and yet every bit of passion she was pouring into his body was making his body want to engulf himself in that sweet honey passion? If it wasn't sex, then what was it?

"Kagome?" he managed to mumble.

Kagome's eyes looked into his and she cupped her hands over his face to help his senses weaken a little more. He felt drunk, but not in a bad sense, this was light and heavy at the same time. It was more sweet than zippy like alcohol.

His voice was soft and quiet and his eyes looked into hers for an answer. "Tell me, please? I don't want to do something you don't want. I just want to share this with you. I want to be as close to you as I can."

Kagome gave him a second taste as his hands reached for the hem of her sleeping gown and gripped it, insisting on removing it from the body his wanted to be near for so long. She placed her fingers over his lips. "Silly boy!" she whispered, "You don't know what this is?" Kagome gave him one more honey sweet kiss. Inu-yasha wanted to know what she was trying to do to him, and wished to know soon before the urge took over his mind.

"Kagome?"

She whispered into his mouth softly, "When I said I didn't want to have sex, I meant it. I want the other!" she kissed him.

His mind was too foggy to think, what was the other? "What is the other?"

Kagome giggled and stripped him of his senses one last time until his hands were running under her gown wanting to progress. "I don't want to have sex with you...I want to make love with you!"

Inu-yasha's eyes opened wide, and he finally understood his own classification between sex and making love, and so did Kagome obviously.

He laughed, "Make love?" Kagome nodded into their kiss. "I've never made love."

Kagome kissed him to destroy what was left of his minds power. He had lost control of the situation now. "I’m sure we can figure it out."

Inu-yasha moaned into a final kiss, and loomed over her enough to push his last leg between her legs and lower her body down. "Make Love? I can do that! I can make love, but...it will only be with you. I'll make love to you! Only you!" he kissed her red lips, "Just you!" kiss, "I love you!"

(Material added to “Well De Rouge” as of December 07, 2004)

Kagome moaned as his lips traveled down her neck and his hands found her shoulders and the edge of the neckline to her night gown. He wanted to see more of her, to taste more…if anything he wanted to be closer to her than he ever had been with anyone before.

His mind flooded with thoughts of how her skin tasted sweeter that strawberries, and her scent – though dulled without the aid of his demon nose – was still making his mind a complete fog of wanting to see the look in her eyes when he did this new experiment for the first time.

The emotions were wild and he found himself loosing control of his breathing for the first time as he grabbed hold of the stretched neckline and pulled it down to slowly expose one soft breast to his prying eyes. They were smaller than Kikyo’s like he had always known they were, but now they looked simply beautiful in the warm, soft candlelight glow of the room. He gently put his weight on his other hand and knees and cupped the soft mound in his hands. He watched as she gasped and then felt her hand cover his as he squeezed it just a little. She smiled and giggled, “You’re hand’s a little cold.”

He smiled down at her as he felt her nipple begin to peak under his palm. Her hand followed his as he pulled at the other side to expose its twin and to hear her soft giggle at the still slightly chilled fingertips that touched her.

“Are my hands too cold for you?” He asked.

She looked up at him with a slight smile and sat up as his hand fell to her stomach and she brushed his bangs out of his eyes. She smiled sweetly before softly kissing him. “I don’t care if your hands are cold,” she whispered, “They’re still your hands.”

Her kisses were soft for a moment and then they grew deeper and heated as he pulled the gown farther down. She finally freed her arms and encircled them around his neck as he tipped his head to the side to deepen each kiss. Slowly Kagome let her hands drift over his chest feeling his muscles jump for a mere second at her touch.

She giggled and pulled away from their kiss, “Are my hands cold too?”

His mind was in such a fog he couldn’t form words, so he nodded and kissed her again. How did she do this to him so easily? How come when he had always had control, which he lacked in now, did he find himself trying to hold on to it by a thread?

Yet, he had never felt more comfortable with being with anyone until that moment. She was there, and…it was just her. No one else. Nothing to hide. Nothing to keep secret about. It was just him and Kagome…his Kagome.

He wanted to feel her, but not to pleasure her really; more or less he just wanted to memorize the feeling of her body in his hands, in his arms. Inu-yasha spread his hands over her back and let her spine guide him over the pale skin. He wanted more, and kneeled on her bed to pull her into his lap and press her against him.

Inu-yasha’s chest was warm compared to his hands. The rise and fall of his breast from breathing rubbed against her own, and made her silently moan in his ear as her hands grasped his shoulders to steady herself. Inu-yasha reacted to her moan, showering her neck in soft kisses and letting one hand comb through her hair to expose more skin as he went.

For a master at pleasure, Inu-yasha in Kagome’s mind at least, it felt like all of this, he was doing it for the first time just as much as she was. She could feel the quiver in his shoulders and in his chest.

“Are you nervous?”

Inu-yasha had to swallow before he could speak to her. “No…and yes…I’m… I know what I should do, but at the same time I feel like I haven’t a clue.”

When Kagome hummed a soft laugh and smiled, he looked at her with half open eyes trying to control his breathing. He brushed her hair away from her face and looked into her eyes wondering if the questions in his head would stop coming.

What was he doing there, about to go to bed with Kagome? She had been a dance partner for so long, that somehow all of that dancing made him want to just be closer to her. And now at that moment more than anything he wanted to get closer to her.

“How come a guy like me had to fall for a girl like you? You deserve better than someone like me…You deserve a man…who hasn’t given his body to a woman before.”

Kagome’s fingertips touched his lips and then ran over his eyes. “I don’t care anymore…I have something they’ll never have. It’s not your body I want…its Inu-yasha, that’s what I want. I want you just the way you are.”

Her words made his lips hunger for the taste of her lips again and his kiss was hungry at first and then grew sweeter and tenderer as he pulled at her gown trying to get it passed her hips. Inu-yasha groaned into their kiss as he looked down to try and figure things out. Kagome’s soft laugh made him look back up at her. “Relax…just breathe...” she whispered. He smiled with a slight laugh. Inu-yasha had never laughed while things like this happened. Yet the goofy, awkward, and yet so natural feeling of being with her made him more comfortable to just be himself at that moment.

‘It’s only Kagome…my Kagome.’

She then kissed him for a second on the lips and leaned back into her bed, with her black locks cascading over her pillow. He looked at her as he swallowed again and watched her eyes as her hands joined his and her thumbs hooked under the stubborn clothing and he helped her as she slowly wriggled her hips out of the gown and he finished letting it slide down her legs and off.

He held her sleeping gown in his hands for a moment before looking over the body of the woman he had uncovered. It was like looking at a woman for the first time. Her arms pulled to her head as she tried to not cover herself from his eyes. His jaw hung open just slightly as he let one hand touch her legs, his fingertips running over her skin as she smiled up at him.

He looked at her as his eyes traveled upward to her eyes. She looked at him as he swallowed. Her brows furrowed, “Is something wrong?”

Inu-yasha smirked as her question and shook his head slowly as he leaned over her and stared at her belly as it rose and fell, wondering how many knots she was tying in it at that moment, which were plentiful.

“You’re so beautiful…Gods…how can there be a person this beautiful?” he said in a husky voice. She smiled sweetly and bat her eyes for a moment.

He was looking at her like a child that was eyeing a piece of candy. Yet the look was seductive at the same time, just looking at the way his eyes looked her over with each passing of his hand.

Could it really be? Was Inu-yasha really in the room with her, or was she dreaming of all of this?

Chances were, Inu-yasha was asking himself the same questions at that exact moment.

Kagome shivered slightly for a moment, and he looked at her. She was getting cold. He smirked, as she closed her eyes.

Her arms came around her to keep her warm, but this covered her breasts from his sight.

Inu-yasha held his breath as he climbed out on top of her and grabbed the sheets to cover most of her.

He kissed her gently as his hands ran over her breasts and then encircled her as her fingers ran through his hair pulling it away from his face. Her heart was pounding, and his breathing didn’t make it slow down, nor did the feeling of his own heart racing make it any better.

Her legs hugged him, but he was still wearing his pants, even though the front now had a very evident bulge in them which rubbed against her and made her moan into his kiss and shoulder as she rubbed against him trying to sooth an ache that she had never felt until that moment.

Her breathing became more intense and he rolled her on top of him to make her lift off of him for a moment.

His hands left her to reach for the fastenings on his pants and he groaned at the unfairness at the fact that he had to look at what he was doing. Kagome’s smile though made him relax as her hands joined his, and in the knot of fingers and the soft sounds of childish giggles they unfastened his pants. Kagome pushed his face away from looking down and kissed him sweetly before looking into his eyes. He felt her hands slip under his unfastened pants and into his undergarments until he could feel warm fingers touching his straining member. He moaned and gasped as she pulled her hand away and slowly pulled down the last of his clothing. He then kicked them off and pushed them out of the bed until he heard them flop on the floor.

He sighed for a moment as Kagome loomed over him and he laughed for a moment. “I feel nervous still…I’ve never felt so weird about this for so long.”

Kagome smiled down at him as he looked at her. Inu-yasha’s smile disappeared as he looked longingly into her eyes and ran his fingers through her hair. He fisted his hand in her hair and pulled her gently down for a kiss, and let them deepen it slowly before rolling her over again until he was on top.

Each kiss was heated and passionate for a moment, before he looked down at her. “Kagome,” he whispered, “are you sure? Are you sure you really want to do this…with me?”

She smiled and Kagome pulled his face closer to her with her arms. “I wouldn’t want anyone else to have me this way, but you.”

Inu-yasha kissed her deeply for a moment, and then made each kiss deeper.

Then everything was different, even more so than before. Each kiss was deep and passionate, but slow. The change in pace made every moment seem like it was being savored. Each deep, adoring, slow moment of heat and undying need and want.

Kagome did this to him. She made him slow down and just be close to her, feel her, love her. It was different, but it seemed to hold so much more than anything had before.

He didn’t care if she came, nor did she. They wanted to life off of the touch of feeling soft skin rub and touch and tingle at the feel of another’s contact and warm.

Yet, Inu-yasha found himself still wanting more. He wanted to be closer, and he slowed his kisses until she opened her eyes to look at him. They were ready.

“I’ll be gentle, I promise.”

Kagome smiled as she closed her eyes slowly and opened them again. “What should I do?”

“Relax, think of nothing at all, and just relax.”

Kagome closed her eyes and licked her lips for a moment as she let her mind free itself, and Inu-yasha watched as she became almost wonton in his arms. Slowly, he made himself ready and angled her hips so he could enter her slowly.

Kagome gasped as she tried to fight back the need to tighten up. Her eyes shot open and she looked into Inu-yasha’s eyes as he hushed to calm her. She relaxed slowly, but watched his eyes as he went deeper. She closed her eyes as she opened her mouth to breath and her heart raced.

They were really doing this!

Inu-yasha watched with a smile on his face as Kagome relaxed. She then felt something hinder him and stop him from going farther.

She opened her eyes and looked at him as he lay on top of her with his weight on his arms. “What’s wrong?”

He swallowed as he tried to think of a way to keep her calm without making her tighten up, which would have been the worst thing to do at that moment.

“You might not like this part. It will only last a second, I swear.”

Kagome looked at him and nodded. “I understand…I trust you.”

Inu-yasha took a breath as he kissed her slowly. “On the count of three, then?”

Kagome nodded as he smiled at her. “It’s just me, Kagome. It’s just me and you.”

Kagome smiled as he readied himself and he receded from her body for a moment, before pushing and stopping again, but she jumped a little at the pressure of him against her barrier. “One” he groaned, as he got ready again.

Kagome grasped his shoulders and whispered, “Inu-yasha…”

He looked at her and smiled as she relaxed in his gaze, “Two” and quickly he used the moment to push fast and break through her. As her back bowed upward, he receded again quickly just a little so keep the pressure off her.

“And three…” he whispered in her ear.

Kagome moaned for a moment as the slight discomfort before relaxing in his arms again. “You lied to me,” she teased as she looked at him.

He smiled, “You lied to me, too, remember? Now we’re even.”

Kagome tried to hide the tears from her pain from him but his kisses took them away.

“The only difference is…I got to have you before he or anyone else will.”

“No other man will ever have me after this night. I swear to you.”

Her kiss sealed her promise to him as he pushed into her as with a gasp he showered her neck in slow soft kisses as he moved within her.

A mixture of heat and soothing motion made each slow moment even more memorable. There was no race to run; there was time…plenty of time. He watched her gasp and moan, she watched him shiver at her touch and groan at the feel of him moving inside of her.

A place to belong, a place to be free of loneliness and longing…these were what he had wanted for so long that he had now attained as he slowly kissed her and made each push deeper and longer into her.

All it took was one girl – no woman- one to make him feel like he had never been with anyone else until that moment. All of it felt new, all of it felt real, and it was. This wasn’t a dream this time, this was really happening to the both of them. The feel of her warmth, the sound of her voice, the look in her eyes, the smell of her skin, the taste of her kiss, every sense turned on suddenly into a feeling of being lost without any control. Yet, through out it all, Kagome was at his side the whole time.

It was all he ever wanted…and Kagome had given it to him without a moment’s hesitation or second thought.

He got to have her first, and would have her last.

Kagome’s mind wandered as the heat built an abyss around her and she clung to him as he pushed deeper with each pass. It was still slow, but he was gripping her close to him now, and so was she. He came in an open mouthed moan, and she found a small release a second later in feeling him shiver at the sudden shock to his body. It was enough.

And when they both caught their breath and kissed, he moved in her again, this time knowing it would take longer for him to find release, and slowly they found their rhythm and danced the dance they were never supposed to take, but danced anyway.

Sweat beaded on his body and her breath made puffs of hot moister on his shoulder. He wanted to feel her one last time until he lost his control one last time, and let her release around him before letting go and letting flashes of light engulf him and Kagome, as reality began to settle back in.

Light rain tapped upon the windows of the small apartment room, and the light rumble of thunder could be heard in the distance. It was innocent this time though. It had been tamed, calmed in the cool and dark night air. The air was still and warm though with in this tiny room of one bed and table. Here, Inu-yasha and Kagome found their forbidden bond. Connected by passions alone in a sea of white cotton and warm heat.

Kagome's breath was sweet and hot. Her lips stained with the color of love and her fingers soothing the water that ran from his eyes and face. Inu- yasha remained her body's living blanket as his fingers mingled in her midnight locks. Both breathing hot moisture into the air, and letting it collect on the others skin as they basked in the sweet bliss of each other's company and bond. They remained one body, one flesh, in the place once considered to be unsuitable for a man of his caliber, now a place of heaven's gift to men and women alike.

Both opened their eyes, and Kagome's eyes began to glow with their own moonlight essence. Inu-yasha let that silvery moonlight warm the earthy brown color of his eyes and kissed her softly before his body's need for sleep took her from his moment of paradise.

Her voice came to his ears again as they gazed at each other in the golden candle light. "How do you feel?"

Inu-yasha's breathing clamed as his body began to plead for rest. He closed his eyes and rested his forehead against hers as she watched him begin to slip into his dreams. Inu-yasha let out a soft sigh and through the air that passed his tongue before he began to sleep on his love's form, he spoke through a mix of breathless whisper and moan, "Alive!"