Human Compensation

Kagome woke up to the sounds of metal clanking loudly outside her window. She grumbled crankily to herself at the offending noise that woke her from her peaceful sleep and reached for Inuyasha. Her hand grabbed a pillow instead. She opened her eyes and saw that her sleeping companion was gone. Wondering what was all the noise about, she got out of bed and walked to the window. What she saw made her gasp out loud and run to find Rin. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were outside fighting with swords! They looked like two avenging angels with their silvery-white hair radiating in the sun causing a strange ethereal glow around their heads. Both had taken their shirts off and only wore a pair of pants, Inuyasha in his usual jeans and Sesshoumaru in his dress pants.

“Rin! Rin! Open the door!” She banged on her friend’s bedroom door until the door flew open.

“Kagome? What’s wrong?” Rin asked, looking concerned.

“Do you see them?” Kagome asked, running past her and onto her balcony. “Look!” She yelled, pointing down at the two men.

Rin stood beside her and looked down. She laughed. “Oh that! They’re just playing around. It’s really quite fun to watch.”

“It’s looks like they’re trying to kill each other,” Kagome shouted at her.

“Nah, every once in a while Sesshoumaru likes to take out his swords and fence with Inuyasha.”

“I’ve seen fencing and that is definitely not fencing!” Kagome said, as she watched Inuyasha charge at Sesshoumaru, his sword held high above his head.

Sesshoumaru regarded Inuyasha with a bored expression as Inuyasha charged toward him intent on doing some bodily harm. “I see you haven’t been practicing,” he said, easily dodging the sword a second before it came down on his head.

“What’s the use? Nobody uses these things anymore! My fist are just as good if not better!” Inuyasha growled, swinging wildly at Sesshoumaru.

“How many times do I have to tell you that is not the proper way to use a sword!” Sesshoumaru shouted in exasperation as he dodged the dangerous blade. He swung his sword up blocking Inuyasha’s attack. “You have to be graceful, your movements relaxed, like this!” Sesshoumaru swung his sword using one hand and attacked Inuyasha.

“They’re moving so fast, I can barely see them. Everything is a blur!” Kagome said.

“Sesshoumaru is advancing on Inuyasha. Inuyasha can only defend himself now.” Rin explained.

“How can you see that?” Kagome looked at her surprised.

Rin smiled. “It’s just one of the results after becoming a youkai’s mate.”

Kagome started to ask her what she meant when she heard Inuyasha’s yell of victory. She turned back to see Sesshoumaru flat on his back on the ground. Inuyasha stood over him with his sword raised.

“You loose!” He said, grinning evilly.

Kagome gasped in horror when he stabbed the sword right through Sesshoumaru’s stomach.

“Wow, Sesshoumaru actually lost this time,” Rin said as if nothing had happened.

“He just killed your husband!” Kagome yelled at her giving her look as if she was crazy.

“Oh, Kagome! I’m sorry. I forgot to explain to you!” Rin started to say when Kagome turned around just in time to see Sesshoumaru stab Inuyasha through his side with his sword.

Inuyasha let out a loud groan of pain before he fell to the ground.

“INUYASHA!!!” Kagome yelled. She ran off the balcony before Rin could stop her. Tearing down the hall in her satin pajamas, she ran all the way to the first floor and out the back door.

Inuyasha was still laying on the ground with the sword stuck in his side. Kagome thought he was dead! She didn’t notice Sesshoumaru standing up and pulling the sword out of his stomach. He looked down at Kagome who was about to have a nervous breakdown over her fallen lover. Then he looked up at the balcony at Rin. She looked so pretty standing there watching them with her long, dark, hair blowing in the wind. He felt his loins tighten. Rin gasped when she saw Sesshoumaru sheath his sword and slowly ascend to the balcony. He reminded her of an arch angel with his long, silver hair billowing around his shoulders, his masculine, lean, sculpted body glistening in the sunlight from the light sheen of sweat he’d worked during his swordplay, and that face of his was too beautiful to belong to a man. But, she knew Sesshoumaru was far from an angel. He could have been Lucifer himself with the horrible darkness raging inside of him that he kept under tight control. She backed away from him as he stood in front of her tall and proud, like a warrior.

“I lost,” he announced in his masculine voice. Only Sesshoumaru could say those two words and make it sound like he came out the winner.

Rin felt a shiver of excitement run through her body. “I saw,” Rin said. She took his hand and pulled him into their bedroom. “Poor baby, why don’t you let me make you feel better?”

“Inuyasha!” Kagome cried, tears flowing down her face. “Inuyasha, wake up! Please be okay!” She stood up and clasped the handle of the sword and pulled. Inuyasha let out a loud groan. She stared at his blood on the sword and threw it away as if it burnt her. She fell back on her knees, lifting Inuyasha’s head onto her lap. He slowly opened his eyes. His golden eyes reflected in the sun light causing them to glow.

“Kagome?” He whispered, weakly.

“Inuyasha! Don’t talk. I’ll go get help!” Kagome said, anxiously.

“No!” Inuyasha almost shouted. “Kagome come closer there’s something I need to tell you.” He whispered.

Kagome bent down, her face close to his.

“You’re crying,” he said with surprise.

“Of course I am, you dummy!”

"I just wanted to tell you..."

“Yes, Inuyasha?”

“I just want to say....."

“Go ahead, I’m here,” Kagome whispered, emotionally.

“Gotcha!” Inuyasha whispered.

It took her a while to realize what he meant. She stared at him in shock. His golden eyes sparkling with silent laughter. He wasn’t dying. He was okay. She looked at the wound in his side and watch it gradually heal. Kagome stood up slowly. Inuyasha sat up and watched her closely.

“Where ya going?” He asked when she began to walk away.

He stood up and ran after her. Standing in front of her and blocking her way, he stared down at her with a huge, idiotic, grin. “It was just a joke, Kagome. Don’t be angry with me. I saw you watching us while we were fighting and I told Sesshoumaru I wanted to play a practical joke on you.”

Kagome slowly looked up at him.

Inuyasha jumped back at the dark look she gave him. Her eyes were brimming with unshed tears and her small hands were balled into tight fist at her side. She was so angry she was shaking with rage.

“You fucking moron!!!” She yelled.

Inuyasha cringed at her cursing. She’d definitely been spending too much time around him.

“I hate you!” She screamed.

Inuyasha stared at her in shock before grabbing her shoulders when she tried to turn away from him. He was even more shocked when she slapped him soundly across his cheek. His face paused in the direction she’d slapped him before turning around to look at her. She kicked him on his leg and began to fight him. He hadn’t expected her to take his joke so badly.

“You’re the most stupid, dumb, insane person I’ve ever met!” Kagome screamed at him, pummeling his chest with her fist. “How could you do that to me?” She sobbed tearfully. “How could you!? I really thought you were dying!”

Inuyasha held her as she hit him, letting her work off her anger, until she became too weak to stand. She leaned against him and cried as he ran his fingers through her silky locks.

“I’m sorry, Kagome, really, I am. I never meant to hurt you,” Inuyasha whispered as he kissed her tears away. He kissed her soft lips tenderly, stared deeply into her eyes, then picked her up and leaped off into the woods.

“Where are you taking me?” Kagome asked against his neck as she clung to him. She would have enjoyed the scenery from the top of trees if she wasn’t in such a bad mood.

“To a place I like to go when I want to be alone,” Inuyasha told her as he leapt through the top of trees. He jumped down to a small clearing deep into the woods and sat her on her feet.

Kagome stood with her back against the trunk of a tall tree. Leaves covered the ground making it soft and the rays of sunlight shining through the trees made the ground warm and dry. She could hear the birds chirping and a small brook running nearby, but she was still too angry to take in the beauty of her surroundings.

Inuyasha stood closely in front of her. He reached out to brush a tear from her cheeks. She slapped his hand away. He stared deep into her eyes. She glared back at him.

“Kagome, do you...do you have feelings for me?” Inuyasha asked somewhat hesitantly.

“Not anymore! I hate you!” She yelled at him. “If I had that sword in my hands, I’d stab you through with it myself!”

Her anger didn’t upset him. As a matter of fact it made his heart pound faster. She’d cried for him. She wouldn’t have gotten so upset if she didn’t care about him or maybe it was deeper than that. Maybe, just maybe...she loved him. There was only one way to find out and he didn’t have to ask her to do it. It was the youkai way as old as time itself.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Kagome asked, backing up closer against the tree to get away from him. She tried to push his arms away when he reached for her, but Inuyasha grabbed her around her wrists and flatten them against the tree.

Kagome gulped. She was trapped between the hard trunk of the tree pressing against her back and Inuyasha’s hard body pressing against her front. She tensed when his lips settled on top of hers, gently kissing her. She put up half a struggle before she let herself sink into his kiss. His lips were firm and warm against hers, soothing away her anger.

Inuyasha growled softly with passion. He’d wanted to kiss her the first day he met her. His hot, wet, tongue gently stroked against her soft lips, tenderly coaxing her to part them for his entrance. Kagome parted her lips slightly. It was enough for him to sweep into her warm mouth. He had her now and there was nothing she could do about it as he took possession of her. He tasted her, taunted her as his tongue stroked intimately against hers with determination and raw passion.

Kagome shivered in his arms. Every stroke of his hot tongue against hers scent powerful sensations coursing through her body. She could feel herself growing wet. It was the most sensuous, arousing, kiss she’d ever experienced. She never knew a kiss could be so...provocative. He gently sucked her tongue into his mouth causing more wetness to spill into her panties. ‘This has got to be a youkai thing,’ Kagome thought. She felt as if she was going to come any second and he wasn’t even touching her.

Inuyasha knew Kagome had no idea what he was doing to her. Their first kiss wasn’t an ordinary kiss. It was the mating kiss, the beginning of the mating ritual. He didn’t have to ask her if she loved him. He knew the answer by the intense smell of her arousal, but the mating ritual required her to say the words. The smell of her arousal was so strong he could have drowned himself in her intoxicating scent. He was going to make her his right here, right now, and there was nothing she could do about it but enjoy the ride. He pulled away from her to stare down at her.

Kagome gulped loudly, feeling a little frightened and very turned on as she watched the determined look on Inuyasha’s handsome face. His eyes flashed red and a strange smirk graced his lips. Something told her Inuyasha wasn’t about to stop with just a kiss. What had she gotten herself into?

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A/N: Yes, the forever waited for lemon is coming up in the next chapter. Hope you like it!