Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion
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(& it's not that great in my opinion....) so if you are easily offended or
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style='color:red'>Chapter Thirty:
Friendly Persuasion
Bells.
Hundreds of small, tinkling, bells.
Kouga looked around, but could see nothing because of the
dark green mist that had formed around him about a mile before.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Looking down, he saw the same rocky ground covered
by loose stones that must have fallen from the cliffs he had seen earlier.
Just then, Kouga felt a tugging on the link that he had made
with Kaji. He had the sudden urge to
resist it, for it was against his male wolf instincts to allow a female to
summon him to a place she had arranged.
Having sustained a few cuts from the aforementioned female, Kouga
decided it would be better to find out what exactly she intended to do.
“That woman said that Venita was the exact same as
Kaji-chan had been. Perhaps she has
something to tell me? Something vital I
must know.” Kouga thought as he
turned to the left, which was the same direction the link was leading him.
At a certain point, the green mist suddenly parted for him,
revealing a crimson lake that was the size of a small hot spring.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> However, it was not the stench of blood, red
water, or the crimson waterfall to his right that caught his attention.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Nor was it the fact that there was the leg
bone of some unfortunate animal protruding from beneath the falls.
None of this even made it into his vision, for the one thing
that held his attention was a half-naked, white-haired woman sprawled on top of
a large boulder in the middle of the small lake, the tips of her hair dipping
into the red water.
Kouga had no time to think, for one minute he was on the
shore, and the next he was standing on a rock right before the boulder his love
was lying on. The rock was too far away
from the boulder for any normal person to jump, but even with his abilities, if
Kouga’s jump was off by the slightest bit, he would risk stepping on his woman;
or worse, pushing her off of the boulder and making her fall into the water.
“There must be a way to gether.her.s="ms="mso-spacerun: yes"> If I wake her up, she might be too startled
and fall in anyway. Maybe if I could...”
Kouga’s thoughts were interrupted by a smooth voice speaking
from above him, “You made it. I feared
you hadn’t followed me.”
Looking up, Kouga noticed that Venita hadn’t moved.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> She was just lying there, probably watching
him from the corner of her cobalt eyes.
“I would follow you anywhere.” Kouga found himself saying.
Odd, he didn’t remember telling himself to speak.
Venita sat up, pulling her shirt back over herself as she did
so, “Don’t you have anything to ask me?”
“So what if Lunia already told me?style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I would feel better if I heard her say
it,” Kouga thought, “what did you call me before you left?”
“I called you Otama.”
She answered simply, crossing her legs.
Kouga had to smile, he’d walked right into that one, “All
right, all right, but what does it mean?”
imagining things.
“It means ‘dearest’ or ‘beloved’. We demons from the Inside use that term very sparingly, except
for those we Mate with or are about to Mate with.” Venita said, standing on her boulder, looking down at the man she
addressed.
“And are you so certain that I would mate with you?”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Kouga asked, as coldly as he could muster.
“But you just said you’d follow me anywhere.”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Venita said, quirking an eyebrow at him as
she turned around and took off her shirt.
“I failed to mention if it would be of my own choice.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I’ve gotten so used to Kaji-chan, my mind
decided that it would follow her; but you’re different.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> You’re not the one I fell in love with.”
One minute Kouga was looking at Venita, the next his vision
went black. Reaching up to his face, he
pulled off the shirt she’d thrown at him.
“Smell that and tell me I’m different.”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> The white-haired woman challenged as she
removed the belt to the baggy jeans she wore.
Kouga didn’t want to smell it; he’d taken an accidental sniff
and found her scent to be as intoxicating as it had always been to him.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> It was like poison, going through his nose
and somehow reaching his heart, making him want to do things he’d never thought
about before.
“It’s not just about scent, Woman. The way you act is the complete opposite of the way my Kaji-chan
acted.”
Kouga watched as Venita only shrugged in response, dropping
her jeans and a small black undergarment that Kouga couldn’t name.
It took Kouga a moment to realize what he was seeing, but
when he did, it hit him like the force of Kagura’s wind multiplied by ten.
Venita was naked.
She was standing right in front of him, back turned, but in front
of him nonetheless.
Kouga was in heaven.
So much so, that he could have sworn he saw the outline of angel’s wings
coming from Venita’s back.
She turned then, to face him, her actions so quick that her
long knee-length hair swung around to hide her from his view.
“Dammit,” Kouga thought, surprised when it flashed
across his mind, “Where did that come from?”
Something was happening to him, he could feel it.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He could hear his heart beating in his ears,
could feel it pumping against his chest.
His breathing was slightly quicker than it had been when he’d
arrived. He found himself sweating, and
to add to his confusion, he was shaking.
What in the seven hells was happening to him?
Did he even want to know?
Venita moved a piece of hair, exposing a breast to his view.
That made up his mind for him, “No.”
Mentally smilinenitenita glanced at the raven-haired one that
stood on the small stone a few feet beneath her. Right now, she was in the position of dominance, didn’t he
realize that? If she were in the dominant
position when the sun rose at dawn, she would be declared the nonexistent
victor of the Dance. Sure, there was no
victor, but it was the joy of pretending there was one that made one fight to
be ‘on top’.
Did she even
him? Or should she give him a chance to
dominate her?
Her choice made, Venita back flipped off of her boulder into
the crimson lake, intending to stand on the rock behind him when she next
surfaced.
However, Kouga was not about to play her little game.style="mso-spacerun: > <> He dove in after her, his fur and katana
still fastened, hiding him from her view; something she did not like.
Mentally growling, Venita swam away from him, hoping to lose
him in the red water of Dragon’s Lake, for the only thing he could follow her
by was her white hair. Diving even
deeper into the lake, Venita thought she’d lost him. That was until she felt his arms wrapping around her waist.
Twisting and screaming, earning her a mouthful of blood,
Venita tried kicking away from him, but his grip was too well placed on her
body. His hands were on points that
almost made her immobile, hence why she kicked and twisted, not wanting him to
know of any weaknesses she had.
Ignoring her kicks and the new scratch he had on his cheek,
Kouga swam upwards so he could put her on the shore and make real his earlier
thoughts. Breaking through the surface,
Kouga headed towards the shore and lay Venita down whilst he lay beside her,
not even tired from his swim to capture her.
Turning towards her, Kouga noticed she was up on her hands
and knees, hair falling to her right side, still hiding her body.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> She was breathing deeply, trying to regain
the energy she’d had when she’d dived into the water.
“It’s like he sucked my energy right out of me,”
Venita thought, looking at him through the wet curtain her hair had formed, “maybe
that’s what the link does? Maybe it
enables one to access the energy of the other.
Like when he was able to use my fire energy the day Sesshomaru kidnapped
me?”
Sitting on her heels, Venita turned her head to look at
Kouga, whosare are she’d felt all the while she’d been thinking.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Her hair covered her again, and Kouga was
only able to see the curves she’d been endowed with. Her hair covered everything, leaving Kouga’s mind to imagine what
gifts she may be hiding.
His mind having shutdown long ago, Kouga reached out and took
a piece of her hair in his hand, reveling in the way it slid through his
fingers like a slippery fish. This was
one catch that was not about to get away from him.
And to ensure he had her absolute, undivided attention, Kouga
leaned forward and licked her cheek with the tip of his tongue.
Wle>Which earned him a slap with claws slightly extended.
Confused, Kouga had no time to think as he got up and chased
the now-running naked woman he had long ago started calling ‘Mate’ in his head.
“What is wrong with me?! Why did I let him do that?!” Venita thought, newfound adrenaline giving her a burst of speed.
But of course, with his shards of the Sacred Jewel and
the wind spell, Venita was no match for Kouga, who soon appeared in front of
her, his arms open to catch her... which he did because she couldn’t stop
herself quickly enough.
She felt his strong arms embrace her more than she saw them;
her mind wasn’t working for some reason.
She condemned his scent for playing with her senses.
“You can’t run from me.”
Kouga said, his voice low and dark, trying to leave no room for
argument.
“Let me go.” Venita
growled, her eyes tinged with red.
Noticing her change of eye color, Kouga tightened his grip
for a moment, “You are mine, no matter where you run.”
Venita bared her teeth, “You will let me go or I’ll...”
“You’ll what?”
Kouga interrupted, using a line Venita herself had been known to use.
Not bothering to dignify his statement with a reply, Venita
wrapped her legs around Kouga’s waist, leaned forward, and kissed him.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> This caused his grip to loosen, but Venita
made no move to get away; however, she put her arms around his neck to hold
herself right where she was.
It was when she pulled away that she spoke, “The angrier you
make me, the worse my actions shall become.”
Kouga took a moment to breathe, “If that’s what it takes...”
“You don’t understand,” Venita said, pulling further away,
“for every pleasure you experience, I must give you a pain.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Since you took pleasure from that kimy
my
hand is itching to harm you. I just
can’t bring myself to do it. I don’t
want to...”
Pulling her tighter to him, Kouga took her right hand and
slapped himself, “Better?”
Venita could only stare at him, “I don’t understand...”
“I would endure any pain just to be close to you.”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He whispered, licking up her neck to her
ear, where he nibbled on her earlobe and winning a small moan from the woman he
held so dearly to him.
Her eyes softened, “But why?
Why would you endure such pain just for me?style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I’m a half-breed, my hair is white, my eyes
are too blue, I’ve never...”
Kouga silenced her with a small kiss, but his eyes held fury,
“Who told you those things? Who dared
to fill your head with that nonsense?”
Venita blinked, “Everyone.
Everyone in my village used to say those things.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> My first love said it, too.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He told me, ‘I’ll marry you, Chan-chan, even
though your eyes are like poisoned water, your hair looks sick, and you’re
halfblooded, besides.’ Everyone agreed
with him.”
Kouga let out a growl, his eyes burning with anger, “They
shall pay for every bit of nonsense they put into your head.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> You are the most beautiful, courageous, and
most intelligent woman I have ever met.
Even if you are a little different than before, I suppose it’s a good
kind of different.”
This was new. Was
Venita...... blushing? No, it must have
been a trick of the light. But, it was
possible that even she could blush.
Yes, yes she was! Her eyes were
similar to that of one who had drank too much sake, although he was certain she
wasn’t drunk.
“You’re so kind to me, Kouga-kun,” she whispered, “I don’t
deserve you.”
“Wrong again, Koishii; it is I that don’t deserve you.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> You are a lady, and the Lady of the South,
no less!”
Venita shrugged, “Then you are my lord, and shall thus be
given the title: Lord of the South, if you do so desire.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> You shall be the Lord of the South and be
allowed to keep all of your lands in this world as well.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> You’ll be nothing short of a king.”
“I don’t want your father’s lands. You know how to manage them better than I do.”
“Then I shall keep the Council seat, but no matter what,
you’ll be the Lord of the South.”
Kouga chuckled, she made it sound so easy, “What could I
possibly have to offer you?”
Putting her hands on his shoulders and unwrapping leg legs
from around his waist, Venita took his chin in her hand and licked his throat,
“Everything and anything. You are my
sun, my moon, my night, and everything I could ever need to survive.”
Smiling, Kouga leaned fod tod to give Venita a kiss as he had
earlier to silence her; however, he found that his little nude woman was
skipping away from him... at a faster pace than could be considered teasing.
She was trying to get away from him...... again.
Already having vowed to claim her as his beneath the red full
moon that hung above them like a great bloodied rose, Kouga began to chase her
once more. That blood-soaked moon
looked so beautiful tonight, and Kouga kept expecting to see the blood drip off
of it any moment.
Ah well, never mind that.
He had an elusive nude woman to catch.
Venita kept skipping until she felt him follow her.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> There was no way she could allow him to get
to know her when out of her mind like this.
“Stupid full moon!
If it were just red, I could handle it.
If it were just full, I could handle it; but red and full is just
too much!”
His scent reached her nose before his entire self landed on
the ground in front of her. She skidded
to a stop just in time before he could even think about catching her again.
Kouga watched as Venita stopped in front of him, her teeth
bared in a sign of malice, “What’s the matter, Koishii?style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Even I can’t keep up with these mood
swings.”
“I... I can’t let you see me this way.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Go!
Leave! I won’t give in to
it! I can’t!” She exclaimed, clutching her head in her hands as she fell onto
her knees.
Not being able to see her in any pain, Kouga took a few steps
forward, earning him a warning glare, “I’m not letting you endure this alone,
Koishii. Who knows what you could do?”
“If you stay, you’ll find out; something I couldn’t
stand to live win thn the morning!”
Venita yelled, her right hand over her heart while her left still held
onto her head.
Deciding that Venita’s comfort was more important than his
own safety, Kouga approached the near-sobbing woman. She glared at him as he knelt beside her, and made four neat
scratch marks on his chest from when she swiped at him when he touched her shoulder.
He left his hand where it was, determined not to let her go
through this alone. That was when a new
scent tinged the air. It was like
Venita’s and yet, it was so much more.
It was definitely hers, but with it was a scent of... cinnamon?style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Yes, that was it. She smelled like roses, lilies, cinnamon, and one other
thing. It had been the very scent that
pulled him to her, but now it was covered by the smell of cinnamon.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> What had it been?
“Spring rain.” Came a
small voice.
“Hm?” Kouga asked,
having been so intoxicated by Venita’s scent that he didn’t notice how close
he’d managed to get. Oh, wait, three
more scratches because of that.
“The scent you’re looking for is spring rain.”
“How did you know what I was thinking?”
“You were mumbling.”
She said simply, seemingly withdrawing into herself, her right hand
still positioned to strike.
Kouga knew that somehow, the cinnamon smell had to do with
the full moon. The red moon was causing
her to hurt him, and the full moon was making her act like a young girl who was
too afraid to step out of line with her father, never mind another man her own
age.
That’s when a memory struck him. Before Kagura had killed all of his comrades except for Ginta and
Hakkaku, Kouga remembered one of his pack mates talking about how his mate
smelled like spices when she went in heat.
That was why he had sent her away to another cave before the other males
could have a chance to find the location of the smell.
“Well, cinnamon certainly is a spice.”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Kouga thought, all-too-late realizing that
his hand had strayed to cup Venitaheekheek.
Cobalt eyes tinged with red looked up at him as he felt the
claws of her right hdiggdigging into his arm while she took his hand away.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He could feel his warm blood trickling down
his arm and watched as it flowed down over her fingers.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> She pulled him closer to her as she leaned
forward and licked the cheek she’d injured earlier in the lake.
One minute Kouga was shuddering from the contact of her warm
tongue on his cheek, and the next she was standing before him and tossing his
armor to the side. Once again, her hair
had fallen perfectly over her body, hiding everything from his view.
She smiled seductively, “It’s no fun if only one of us is
running around naked in the moonlight.”
Kouga blinked at her tone, “But you’re still the only one
completely without clothes.”
“For now.” Venita
said simply, turning around and walking off with an added swing to her hips;
not that Kouga could see it, though, for her hair was determined to curtain off
all she could be showing him right now... and everything he could be touching.
Sure, she’d been so kind as to show him a breast, but she
hadn’t let him touch it. Nor had she
allowed him to move the strands of hair away himself. He wanted to lunge at her, tie her hair up and away from her
body, all the while touching and tasting as much of her as he pleased.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> The picture of that one, perfectly rounded
breast was burned in his mind, and he’d do anything and everything he could to
see it and its twin at the same time, perhaps even holding them both in his
hands. Yes, that was what wanted.
Something in Kouga finally snapped. He couldn’t stand the fact that he was covered in scratches and
yet her skin was still unblemished.At
that moment, Kouga wanted nothing more than to feel her blood warming his
hands, and discovering the taste of it on his tongue. He wanted that, too.
And he’d damn well get it.
He was too far gone to be surprised by his thoughts.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Her scent had done that to him.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> That luring, provocative, enticing,
promising, intoxicating, and overall sexy scent that had wreaked havoc upon the
rest of his senses. His mind only
processed one-word sentences at the moment, his instincts taking over all
common sense.
“Bitch.” He stated as
he lunged, watching his target turn around, eyes blazing with... passion?
His hands met with her shoulders, pushing her down onto the
soft sandy beach she’d walked onto for just that reason.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> His legs were now on either side of her
hips, his right hand trailing down her side.
How he loved to watch her shudder beneath his touch.
A smirk tugged on her lips, causing her top canine teeth to
protrude over her bottom lip, “You finally came for me, did you?style=-spa-spacerun: yes"> I’m not so easy to catch.”
His brain not able to f und understand the meaning of her
words, Kouga was slightly confused. His
confusion allowed Venita to scoot down, wrap her legs around his waist, and
pull a reversal on him, pressing all of her weight on certain points that would
keep him momentarily subdued.
With her hands on his shoulders, Venita ran her nails across
his chest, down his torso, and up his sides.
One hand found the tie that confined his hair and tugged on it; however,
her other hand was toying down by his tail, not quite scratching his lower
back, but grazing it ever-so-lightly with those nails of hers.
He couldn’t bring himsel for force her to stop.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Something about her was holding him there,
and it wasn’t heigheight. He could push
her off in the amount of time it took to blink. Why didn’t he? Wasn’t it
obvious? Hadn’t he mentioned it enough
before?
She smelled too damn good.
Kouga could feel her left hand going through his hair while
she made soothing circles with the pad of her right thumb on the side of his
throat.
Wait. That meant that
she wasn’t pinning his arms anymore. He
could move. He could touch her.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He could do all the things he’d thought
about earlier.
Instinct clouding his mind once more, Kouga turned her over
onto her back, putting his legs once more on either side of her waist, but also
holding her arms there, too. Wasn’t he
smart? This left his hands to roam
anywhere they pleased.
Venita growled, obviously displeased with posiposition she’d
been given, “Fool. Think you I shall
surrender myself so easily?”
Her whisper was soft and held no threat, which made Kouga
chuckle, “If you know what’s good for you.”
Baring her teeth, Venita growled once more, trying to break
free, “Are you so weak that you would prey on a bitch in heat?”
This statement made Kouga think for a moment, but his mind
clarified something for him. Made him
understand why his thoughts had taken a turn down the ‘cynical and possessive’
road.
“Not at all.”
“But you must be weak,” Venita tried to reason, her voice
taking on a sly tone, “for only weaklings prey on those in heat.”
“Then you as well, are weak, Koishii.”
Kouga’s hand had jurushrushed her side, which delayed her
kingking time even more. Combined with
his hands and her state of mental condition, it took her a full two minutes
before she could reply. One minute to
figure out what it was he said, the other minute to regain her voice.
“No...” Venita
breathed, disbelief coating her words.
“That’s right,” Kouga snickered darkly, “surprise.”
This wasn’t happening.
She was supposed to be in heat; not both of them!
“All right, technically only bitches go in heat and males
go into rut... but I’m not aiming for technical here!”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Venita thought, trying to break free again
and again to no avail.
“You can’t resist me.
It’s mace ace to be on top of you; dominating you as is my right.”
Kouga’s statement caused Venita’s blood to boil, allowing her
enough energy to break free of his grip and lash out at him with the speed of a
snake, “Never! It takes a lot
more than gender for a person to dominate another and I’i>pri>prove it!”
“I’d love to see you try!”
Venita’s mind was now scrambled. No fully comprehensible thought would pass through her head for
quite some time, given the current rate and growing intensity of events.
Kouga watched as Venita wiped the blood from her mouth.style="mso-spaceruns"> s"> He’d finally made her bleed by grazing her
with his nails, but it wasn’t enough.
It seemed the blood lust that had consumed his woman was contagious, for
the need to see and feel her blood grew the more she drew from him.
Lunging at him, Venita pinned him the same way he’d pinned
her seemingly hours ago: her legs holding his arms to his sides.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Of course, this left Kouxtrextremely
upset. She was licking his collarbone
and tracing the engagement mark she’d left days ago, but Kouga’s attention was
locked on the feeling of her breasts pressed against his chest.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Finally they were in his reach; but there
was just one thing wrong with all of this:<
<
He couldn’t touch them.
It seemed his sadistic woman noticed his anger, foy ely else
would she be smiling that way at him?
“Do you want something?”
She asked, her warm breath blowing across his neck as she spoke softly
into his ear.
“Bitch. That’s
what I want.” Kouga growled, his mind
clearing if only for a few moments.
“I’m sorry, what did you want?”
“Bitch!” Kouga hissed
through clenched teeth as her nails ran down his arm.
“Yes I am, now what do you want?” Venita asked, deciding to be extremely cruel as she danced her
nails in simple patterns on his stomach.
Anger rose within him while a completely different something
else rose, brushing against the inside enitenita’s right thigh.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He watched as she smirked at his discomfort.
Her right leg was letting up, meaning that if he moved it
just fast enough, Kouga would be able to get his hands free.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> He moved his hips slightly off the ground,
making sure she fels nes need strongly enough to force her leg to get just a
little bit looser.
Immediately, Kouga’s left hand shot up and around Venita’s
back, crushing her to him in a fierce one-armed hug. Caught off-balance, Venita fell on top of him, freeing his other
hand.
“You need to learn whom you belong to,” Kouga said softly,
taking her right breast in his hand at long last, “and you need to know who
dominates you.”
Catc the the breath that had fled from her, Venita took into
her hand the very weapon Kouga had used to catch her off guard, “I am not so
easily led, Kouga-kun, as you are. This
staff you wield can be turned against you should it fall into an enemy’s hands.”
And oh, such small hands his enemy had!style="mso-spacerun: yes"> This was definitely not the same woman he
had met days ago, had had then gone by Leota, to Kaji, and now to
Usu-Venita. No, this was a woman who
knew many strategies when it came to love and war, which were currently the
same thing.
“The old adage proves true, then,” Kouga thought, “all
is fair in love and war, for in a situation such as this, they
are only two words for the same meaning.”
Since this wasn’t the same woman he knew, Kouga felt a
stirring within his stomach at the thought of rediscovering her different
facial expressions. Perhaps a few were
different than those Leota or Kaji had shown to him? For Leota and Kaji had been slightly different, too.
Kouga decided that he liked differences.
“See?” Venita taunted as she now traced her nails up and down
his length, making them dance in more complex patterns than those she’d drawn
lazily on his stomach, “I knew you’d see things from my point of view someday.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> All you needed was a little persuasion from
a close friend.”
“You are more than my friend, Venita-chan,” Kouga choked out,
such feelings she awoke in him were certainly to be found nowhere else, “you
are my Otama, my Koishii. You are my
lover, my woman; but best of all, you’re my bitch.”
For the first time, Kouga actually saw the shudder that ran
through Venita’s body at the use of the word.
Her cheeks were flushed and her hand rested on his inner thigh, for that
one little word had seemingly rendered her immobile.
Kouga was too shocked to move.
needed to say was a five-letter word!
To think he’d said it numerous times since he’d been at this place, and
not once had he noticed the effect it had on her.
She looked up at him, eyes bluer than he’d ever seen them,
“Damn you’re good.”
“Excuse me?” I almost hate that word, I’ve called myself
that title for a long time, but I can’t stop the effects it has on me.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> It only works when a male says it, but they
have to be close to me for it to work.
You’re the closest anyone’s ever been to my heart, because you are
my heart. Simple aat.”at.”
Kouga couldn’t help himself, he had to chuckle, “Now
who’s doing the friendly persuasion?”
Venita’s lips curled into a smile as she ran a single nail
along the soft underside of his length, pausing to trace the large vein and
earning a shudder from the man she loved, “Do you really nto ato ask?”
Kouga, too, smiled, “You are...”
Chuckling at the power she could easily have over him, Venita
dragged herself up and touched her lips to his forehead.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> After that, she gave his cheek a small lick
before she rolled over onto her back next to him.
“If this is a way that I can make him happy...”style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Venita thouclosclosing her eyes and hearing
Kouga sit up and look over at her, hair fanned beneath her as the red moon’s
light cast eerie shadows over her skin.
“Something the matter, Koishii?” Kouga asked, feeling her forehead when he saw a light sheen of
sweat on her chest.
Venita didn’t look at him, she merely kept her eyes closed,
“Otama, in a pack when a female exposes her belly to the alpha male, what does
it mean?”
Kouga thought for a moment, a little surprised by her
question, “I’m sorry, what?”
She sighed, looking over at him, “It means that she
surrenders herself to the alpha male and allows him dominance over her.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Do with it what you will.”
It took Kouga several moments to register what she’d said, “She’s
giving me dominaoverover her?
But why? Think, Kouga!style="mso-spacerun: yes"> There must be some reason why!”
But no matter how many times he tried to look at it, Kouga
could find nothing in it for her except.... yes, that had to be it.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> She gave up because she didn’t want to
continue hurting him. That was certain
to be it.
“Koishii?”
Kouga came out of his thoughts, “Hm?”
“I want you to know that I’ll always love you, no matter what
may happen. I told you that you are my
heart, and I meant it. No one means
more to me than you do.”
A single thought flashed across Kouga’s mind right then, and
it came out of his mouth before he could stop it, “Not even Kagome?”
Venita sat up, grabbing Kouga’s forearms and lifting him from
where he lay beside her, “I said no one and I meant no one.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> I give you my word.”
Sighing his relief Kouga licked across Venita’s nose, earning
him a giggle from her, which made his tail swish back and forth, “I never want
to hurt you.”
Smiling wryly and rolling her eyes, Venita spoke in an
as-a-matter-of-fact tone, “Well you’re gonna have to. How else do you think you’re gonna claim me, huh?”
Sharing in her smile, Kouga shrugged, leaning down to kiss
her soft lips. Glad when she didn’t
pull away and try to run from him, Kouga ran his tongue over her bottom lip and
delved slowly into her warm, sweet mouth.
Venita closed her eyes, allowing her love to do as he wished,
keeping her arms pinned to her sides.
If they had been on the Inside, both of them would have needed to bring
a witness, and they should have fought for everything.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Especially Venita, for she had so many more
‘valuable’ things to be fighting for.
She could see her people now, glaring at her and whispering of how she
willingly surrendered herself for the pleasure of one man.
They would call her a whore.
To be honest, she felt like one. There was something missing from all of this, something her mind
could not register, for a certain wolf imp was toying with her senses,
completely blocking them out. Instinct
told her to bite the hand that was caressing the side of her face so tenderly,
told her to slash him across his exposed chest and so many other things that
she could not imagine doing.
Kouga was innocently nibbling her earlobe whilst his hands
were performing devil’s work: slowly gliding along the underside of her
breasts, trailing down her sides, around her bellybutton, and also the insides
of her thighs. He licked the hollow of
her throat as he, too, finally used a weapon she had had in her mass arsenal;
he danced his own nails on the insides of her thighs, moving higher, lower, and
pausing.
He licked up her throat to her ear once again, speaking just
as darkly as she had, “Do you want this, Koishii?”
Opening her glazed eyes halfway, she hadn’t known she’d
closed them, Venita smiled at him, fighting to get speech onto her list of
current abilities, “I want you, Otama.
Only you. All of
you. Just as you have all of me.”
He smiled at her, a piece of his raven hair creeping over his
shoulder yet again. He wasn’t used to
it, he’d always kept it tied up and away from hbut but Venita had untied it, so
he would endure it for however long she wished. For really, Kouga was not as stupid as Inu-Yasha claimed.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> If he had to put up with his hair in his
face to be able to claim this woman as his, he’d grow it down to his ankles and
wear it down all the time. He chuckled
at that thought.
Venita had taken the offending strand into her right hand,
wrapping it around her fingers somewhat seductively as she looked into his
eyes. He leaned forward and placed a
small kiss on her forehead, his right hand tickling her stomach, hoping she
would react as any normal person would.
Gasping in surprise, Venita brought up her knees and gave
Kouga a mixture of a pout and a frown.
He’d tricked her, and now she’d have to repay him for his ‘kindness’.
But not now. Maybe
later.
Kouga was gently licking above her left breast, his earlier
named ‘weapon’ suddenly nudging her entrance.
Relaxing herself as best as she knew how, Venita made sure to put her
left leg around his waist.
Seemingly startled by the randomness of her action, Kouga
stopped his licking to gaze at her. She
looked so peaceful lying beneath him, her eyes closed and her breathing
resembling that of a small, trapped animal.
A rabbit, he decided, that had just been chased by a wolf.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Chased and cornered by him.
“Are you all right?”
He asked, having to keep his voice level.
“Fine. Wonderful,”
Venita gasped, Kouga’s impish hand having passed down her side once more,
“I.... I need you...... Koishii. More
than air..... more than.... water.... every part of me aches to...... to be....
with you.”
“Chan-chan,” he whispered, “is your mind truly that decided?”
“Of what importance is mind, Kouga-kun, when my heart has
been long set upon you? Heart overcomes
mind in the end, Koishii, you know that.”
“But do you....?”
Venita interrupted him, her voice becoming extremely silky as
her eyes cleared, looking like calm ocean waters, “Os Fer shentin Ferna vort os
Bre wer amt es. Jai berin su tao, et
tao su mer. So derla des Reln de ta
Kilde de Lunia.”
Kouga had no idea what Venita just said, but he knew by her
body language, her voice, and her eyes that it was important for him to
know. With that thought in mind and the
sound of bells once again haunting his thoughts, Kouga lost control of
himself. Her scent, the sound of bells,
the tone of her voice when she’d spoken to him, the use of the language itself,
so many things kept pushing him towards the cliff’s edge.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> A rather large cliff labeled ‘control’.
Well, Venita’s actions had just sent a spinning heel kick to
his chest, knocking him fifty feet away from his cliff of control, leaving his
consciousness to fall to the ground while the wolf within soared to the clouds
on wings of lust.
Looking down at her with glazed eyes of his own, Kouga gave
Venita one last lick on her left shoulder before biting down with the same
pressure as he would to break through the jugular of a deer’s neck.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> The taste and feel of her blood in his mouth
made the consciousness that he’d left to fall hit a rock on its way down as the
wolf still climbed to new heights.
Just as he’d broken the skin of Venita’s shoulder, Kouga had
buried himself inside of her, the last thoughtful act thrown in by his
consciousness. Feeling her legs wrap
around his waist, he continued, though his speed was slower than he’d liked for
she was too tight for him to pound into her
For now.
Lust-filled eyes looking down at the woman he’d just claimed,
Kouga smirked as he saw that her eyes were screwed shut and her teeth were
bared. He made sure to thrust harder,
getting the reaction he wanted when her mouth opened, allowing him to claim that
for himself as well.
“Oh yes,” Venita thought as she felt one of his fangs
nibbling on her bottom lip, “he will definitely pay for this.”
Thoughts of revenge still swirling in her head, they stopped
as soon as the tip of her tormentor’s tongue flicked one of her nipples,
causing all thought to disappear. While
his tongue toyed with one, he made sure to show eqty tty to the other by
pinching it between the nails of his thumb and forefinger.
Involuntarily thrusting her chest forward to meet his tongue
and fingers, Kouga put his unoccupied hand behind her neck and lifted her head
to be level with the left side of his own shoulder, the engagement mark she’d
made taunting her. Venita glared at
that mere mark of engagement; growling at this new enemy she’d discovered,
Venita put her hands on either side of her attacker’s neck, bringing her face
closer to his left shoulder and biting in the same place she’d been
bitten. Now they both had bite marks in
the exact same place, and Venita no longer had to be taunted by the crescent
moon that had been her first claim to him.
As she released her hold from his shoulder, Venita felt
warmth begin to come over her in flashes.
Her eyes snapping open and her pupils shrinking to mere slits, Venita’s
vision became white. An enormous
tsunami was crashing over her body, threatening to tear her apart.
Feeling as though she were falling down a bottomless pit with
crashing waves on either side of her, Venita tasted something sweet in her
mouth. Pulling herself out of the
churning sea and ripping waves that were her emotions, Venita dared to open her
eyes.
Kouga had released at the same time she had, and when she’d begun
to withdraw into the sea of darkness, he’d crushed his lips to hers, as
battered as they already were.
But what tasted so sweet?
Trying to compare the sweetness to others she had tasted,
Venita recognized a familiar bitter and copper-like taste.
Blood.
Knowing the taste of her own blood, she finally realized what
Kouga had done: he had bitten his lip and was giving her his blood as she had
given him hers. He bled himself for
her, though not quite back to normal.
His eyes still held that feral look as he gazed into her eyes after
pulling back.
“You will not leave me again,” he ordered, his voice
still dark and his breathing quick, “ever.”
Still recovering from her own feelings, Venita watched as he
rolled her on top of him so as not to crush her with his own weight.
Putting both of her hands on his chest and her ear above his
heart, Venita spoke as best she could, “I had... no....... intention of
repeating.... such an unforgiveable mistake.”
“Good.” He whispered,
sleep already taking its hold on him. He
decided to ask her about what she’d said in the Ancient language after he’d
rested.
Just about to fall asleep herself, Venita watched as a few
rays of sunshine began to creep over the horizon. If she stayed above him like this, she would be more in control
of the relationship than he. Although
the thought of him being submissive to her didn’t seem to fit his personality.
Her decision made, Venita rolled onto her side, pulling her
new Mate with her. As the sun peeked
over the distant line of the horizon, the couple lay side by side in equality.
Both sighed contentedly as sleep shutdown their minds,
leaving no room for dreams. Usu-Venita
of the Inside and Kouga of the Wolf Demon Tribe were together, and would be
until the end of their natural lives, but even the cold hands of Death would
not be able to keep them apart, for the magic of wolf demons could very well
arise once more.
So much could be accomplished when one truly wished it to be
done. Especially when feelings of love
were involved, no matter how troublesome they may be at the time.style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Love connects all things, and it throws
together sometimes two people that are the least likely to get along, let alone
decide to spend the rest of their lives together.
All because the wind blew, and the fire danced to receive the
wind. Kouga had raced into the village
of Kaede, and whether she believed it at the time or not, Venita knew that just
as the fire within her danced in her soul, so had she danced to receive
him, no matter that he had been rude not to announce himself first.
The wind had settled at last, but would blow once more when
his dearest ember needed to be revived so she could ravage the land with the
beauty of her flames.
THE
END
A/N: Woohoo! Finally an update, &
it’s the end of the story! ::dances::
All right, all right, before you kill
me, I want you all to know that there will be a story focusing on
Inu-Yasha and Kagome’s relationship, titled: Friendly Intentions.
Thanks so much for your support! By
the way, this chapter is 15 pages long in Microsoft Word!!!! Yahoo!!
See you for the sequel!