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Disclaimer: I don’t own Inuyasha or his friends.
Many thanks to Becca for helping me to get this monstor done. Review responses at the end.

Only a few days had passed since the incidents in the hot springs, but the changes in the small groups dynamics were profound. Miroku had apparently turned over a new leaf, and sango was beginning to wonder whether or not the monk was under some form of demonic possession, since he was obviously not his normal self. Inuyasha had become more withdrawn and snippy, even going so far as to call Kagome a tease before bounding off into the trees leaving behind a very stunned group. And Taptai, well he was still trying to figure out whether Inuyasha’s behavior was because of him or something else.

Having finally had quite enough of mr snippy britches Kagome had told the rest of the group that she was going to go home for a while, Sango and Shippo leaving with her as they headed for the well. Miroku and Taptai were left to wait for Inuyasha to return from his bout in the woods then meet the others in Kaede’s village.

Miroku was a little less than pleased with his situation, but so far Taptai had not made any more moves on the lecherous monk, much to his relief. At the moment the cat-hanyou was busy pondering current events.

‘Is Inuyasha upset with me, and what has his strange behavior recently meant?’

After their first arduous training Taptai had not been too surprised when he had been awoken before dawn again the next day, but Inuyasha’s actions had been, well odd. They had sparred, but inuyasha had stopped several times and pointed out where Taptai was leaving openings in his technique even helping to show the cat demon the proper form by standing behind him and guiding his body through the moves. Their training session had ended shortly after with a flustered looking Inuyasha running off without another word.

The next morning had started much the same, but Inuyasha had been untalkative again and had been going much harder on Taptai. They had only been sparring for around 30 minutes when Taptai was knocked off his feet and looked up to find Inuyasha straddling him. The two hanyou stayed in this position for a moment, Taptai’s face blank as a red blush made it’s way over Inuyasha’s cheeks. Before Taptai could bring himself to say anything Inuyasha pushed himself up and ran into the woods, leaving a very confused cat wondering just what was going on.

Taptai was pulled from his reverie when Miroku came up beside him, a look of concern on his face as he sat down.

“Uh- you’re not going to try anything with just the two of us alone- while we wait for Inuyasha?”

Giving the hoshi a sidelong glance Taptai bared his fangs, letting a low purr rumble in his chest.

“Why Miroku- I do think you’re trying to seduce me, and here I thought you were such ladies’s man.”

Watching the monks eyes grow wide in shock, Taptai couldn’t resist egging him on a little more. Leaning forward and closing his eyes to slits Taptai purred.

“You know you look absolutely delicious when your nervous.”

“Kami-sama, please tell me I do not have two horny hanyous to deal with. Inuyasha’s been bad enough, but not-”

Miroku’s rant was cut short when Taptai placed a gentle hand on his shoulder, shocking the monk back into his current situation.

“What exactly did you mean by horny?”

“Uh, well. I don’t really know too much of demon mating cycles, but from what Sango has told me it seems like Inuyasha may be going into heat.”

“Do you really think that?”

Miroku paused a moment as he gathered his thoughts, unsure of just what to explain to the cat-demon. He didn’t want to say something and have Taptai take advantage of his friend Inuyasha, but he had the feeling that Taptai had been fooling with him, for the most part. The perv had even grabbed his ass in front of everyone- getting a great round of laughs from his so called friends but he didn’t think he would try anything with Inuyasha in his state. Looking into the grass green eyes of the cat he could only see a great deal of concern for the dog-demon so he continued.

“It would explain some of his recent behaviors, I know you haven’t know him too long but Inuyasha is not usually quite so moody.”

Jumping to his feet, Taptai grabbed Miroku’s hand and dragged him along behind him getting a very surprised yelp from the monk.

“Come on, we have to go get Kagome then.”

“Uh- why exactly would we want to get Kagome?”

“Well, I know she’s not his mate, but they are like together- or something. Whatever they are he’s going to need her near him if he’s in heat.”

Pulling the frantic cat-hanyou to a halt, Miroku spun him around to look him in the eyes, seeing just a small amount of distress in Taptai’s features.

“Taptai- I don’t think that would be a good idea.”

“But- why not. We can’t leave him alone, I mean I know that it’s a pain but as long as you have friends around you a heat’s not that bad.”

“I don’t think Kagome would want to help Inuyasha, at least not like that.”

“WHAT- Well what about Sango? Surely someone will help him, if you leave him alone it’s just going to get worse.”

Taptai was now staring at the monk, unable to believe the human’s reaction. Didn’t they understand that to leave Inuyasha to deal with something like this on his own was just cruel. Pulling the monk’s face up to his, Taptai pleaded hoping to get through somehow.

“It’s not like I’m saying they have to have sex you know. I mean Inuyasha would enjoy that if he’s in heat but even just having someone around him, having that touch of his friends will help him. Gods please Miroku- I know how bad this can be but as long as you have friends around you can deal with it.”

“You mean that-”

Miroku’s voice dropped off as his eyes grew wide at the implications of Taptai’s words.

“I’ll go see if I can get Kagome and the other’s. Do you think that you could talk to Inuyasha?”

“Yeah, as long as he’s not to far into his heat-”

Leaving Taptai to try and find their friend, Miroku was silently thankful that someone had explained the situation to him. He had always wondered just what a demon heat meant but had never had the courage to discuss it with Inuyasha. Actually he had never had the death wish to discuss it with Inuyasha seeing as the irritable inu-hanyou would probably decide that anyone who wanted to discuss personal matters with him was in need of a severe beating. Miroku ran till he could barely feel his feet touching the ground, hoping he could convince the girls to come with him, and that Inuyasha would accept their help.

Far off in a clearing, a very distressed Inuyasha was trying to plot a safe path between his current conflicting emotions. He was glad that Kagome had left, just the scent of her these past few days had almost sent him into a raging mass of hormones. Even now when he closed his eyes he could still feel the scents effect on him, she smelled so clean, almost like a meadow after the rain with just a touch of fresh earth.

He had always wondered how she smelt so good, even Kikyo had never had this effect on him. Not that Kikyo stunk, no, some of the girls in the village did but they were usually the ones would say yes even to the likes of Miroku. A small evil grin crossed his figures- yeah he could usually tell the girls that would say yes even to Miroku- they smelled like they had already said yes to everything else. No Kikyo, Sango, most of the girls he had met didn’t stink, they just smelled so much more- real. Their scents weren’t much off from animals- which helped him avoid their mood swings easier when they came into heat, but Kagome.

Letting out a sigh he knew he had to get his mind out of the rut he had dug. Glancing around the clearing he smirked in realization that he had at least picked a safe spot- it seemed that there was very little activity around here and he did not want a repeat of his last time.

It hadn’t been very long after he had met Kikyo, and he was still unsure of how she would take the news so he left. No- let’s be honest he ran, he still had very little knowledge of his demon heritage and didn’t want to hurt his new friend by mistake, so he fled. He found himself a nice remote spot, much like the one he was in now, and settled down to wait it out. He had been in the middle of pleasuring himself when the hunters had found him. Even in the midst of his self induced pleasure he could sense them, at first curious, then ready to attack.

He had let them come, he even turned so they could watch him in profile as he grasped himself harshly, sliding his hands as fast as he could as he tried to find some form of release from the burning inside. They stopped when he let out a howl, his essence flowing from him in great white streamers. He turned to face them, his erection already returning from the scent of fear coming off the hunters in waves.

“What do you want?” He growled, coming forward in a way that could have been menacing, except for the hungry gleam in his eye which made his movements more a cross between sexy and hungry.

“We- us well we came for you-”

“You mean you’re here to get rid of me-”

“Uh well, demons aren’t welcome around here.”

That was the last Inuyasha remembered clearly, before a red haze took over his sight and he only felt his movements as if he was wrapped in cotton. When he came back out of his demon-induced haze the scent almost overwhelmed his nose. Bending down as he retched his eyes locked with one of the hunters, the man sat there, eyes silently begging as he moved on his hands and knees to present his rear to the still-gagging boy.

“I’m ready master.”

The words slipped out of the hunters mouth and wormed their way into Inuyasha’s very soul, he had destroyed this man, turned him into his bitch just to satisfy a lust he couldn’t control. Wrenching his eyes from the torn hole presented to him, his claw marks evidence of his control, he caught the eyes of the other two men. Sensing their master’s gaze they both turned and presented themselves as they steeled themselves for another bruising round of their demon-master’s exercise. They need not have worried, at the sight of their bloodied backs, Inuyasha had ran, only pausing long enough to grab his fire-rat clothes.

He had ran until his legs had turned to mush under him, his eyes had long since turned painfully dry after he had ran out of tears. He fell onto his side, his legs still trying as if to run, as he tried to keep his mind from coming back to his actions, to the memory of those three broken faces. He wasn’t sure if he had done the men a favor by not killing them, or if they had wished for death at his hands instead of- that.

A cool breeze brushing his skin brought Inuyasha out of his reverie, as he looked down to note that he had relieved himself of his clothes sometime during his daydreaming. Sniffing the clearing he could smell that he had even cum, several times, dropping to the ground with a sigh he prayed that no one would find him here as he idly slid his hand over his once again hard member. He climaxed quickly, his hand giving him at least a moments respite from the agony that his heat induced in him.

Letting his body flop back in the grass, Inuyasha tried to ignore his twitching member as it came back to life, pulsing gently against his stomach. Looking down his chest he growled at the sight of his own slit weeping pre-cum, begging for his attention.

“Damn it all- can’t you go to sleep or something.” Inuyasha reached down, intent on releasing his tension and trying to go back to ignoring his bodies demands when a voice brought all of his senses up to full alert.

“Inuyasha, are you here?”

Frantically scenting the wind, Inuyasha sprung to his feet as his body coiled in preparation for anything. If Kagome had found him, he wasn’t sure that he could keep from doing something, anything to her. Inuyasha almost slumped to the ground in relief when he finally found the source of the noise, two gray and white ears swiveled as Taptai turned and saw a very naked, and very aroused Inuyasha laughing at him.

“Inuyasha- um, you ok?”

Wiping a tear from his eye Inuyasha turned to Taptai, still not quite conscious of his nudity as he felt relief still making him slightly giddy. “No, just glad you weren’t Kagome.”

Still uncertain of just what he should do, Taptai just kept a quiet eye on his friend, his eyes growing slightly wide as he took in the other hanyous naked from. He had seen Inuyasha before, but still he hadn’t had a raging hard on before, and Taptai was sure that he hadn’t been that well hung. Taptai’s musing were brought to an abrupt stop as Inuyasha moved to close the space between them, bringing Taptai’s attention up to Inuyashas face as he noticed the hair hanging down and covering his eyes.

“Inuyasha, Miroku and I talked and he-”

Taptais words died on his lips as Inuyasha roughly pushed him to the ground, a low growl rumbling deep in his chest as he began to rub his weeping erection against Taptais hips. Looking up to meet Inuyashas eyes, Taptai felt a gasp escape his lips as he saw two red eyes gazing back down to him with matching stripes on each cheek. Reaching up one hand to gently rub the other hanyous new markings, butterflies made their way into his innards as Taptai tried to make sense of his newest predicament. He knew he should be terrified, Inuyasha was definitely stronger than him and his current actions could mean that Taptai was in for a world of pain, but for some reason, pinned down by a growling red eye demon with a very-too large for anything he wanted to do cock rubbing briskly against his own growing erection, he just felt- safe.

The red-eyed demon noted the easy submission it was offered, and smirked in pleasure, showing his fangs as he bent down to nip one furry ear, drawing blood as he growled out one word.

“Mine.”


Nanaka- Thanks for the first review (yes, my computer did not burst into flames, someone actually likes me, they really like me- running off stage clucthing Shippo plushie held high) Yeah, I kinda agree about oc’s and the worst part is I can’t even remember how I came up with this idea, but now it’s here so I will finish it, just bear with me cause it seems like each time I start writing I have to add something new.

Kogas Hentai Luver- (Drops to ground) I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy. Wow and your word is my command, sorry about the spacing but I hope I fixed that. I loved your story with koga and inu. I feel all warm and fuzzy that you even deemed to read my stuff.

MeLaiya- I’ll try, and it makes me feel good that you think I do good work, thanks.

Xzanayu- Hope you liked the training scene, as to why Taptai wanted to know more about inuyasha, I was trying to present a contrast between the two. I have a plot line but it still seems that I keep leaving stuff out, but anyway, Taptai never had to deal with prejudice that Inuyasha had to deal with growing up. Really compared to Inuyasha Taptai is somewhat spoiled and I wanted to show that but I don’t think it came out too well. Please don’t get upset, I’m trying.

Terry- Thanks, I actually made up this persona for this fic, and I kinda like it so I guess I’ll use it for a while, besides I like cats.

Becca- How can I say thanks enough. I would have given up on this chapter without you. (She’s my beta by the way) If I had pocky I would share it with you.

Kira no neko- haha- I know that, it’s all part of my plan- well no, not really ok so I did goof with the name. I looked for it and kinda figured it wouldn’t actually work, but I still liked it so I stuck with it. I think though you’ve given me a whole nother chapter just so I can explain the name- great this things gonna be a novel by the time I actually get to any of the good stuff. But thanks, btw what do you think of Torga, and could Taptao be chinese perhaps?

Kyashierin- I glad you like, I’m especially glad you like that plot cause I really am trying to give it a good storyline, which is a real pain when you try to keep it in the original plot for the anime, but I think I did ok. I’m gonna try my best to make this a good one for all of you, thanks.