Lust is Green?

Chapter 4:Mornings & Maidens


Sesshomaru stared dispassionately down at the human he had been forced to guard. After he had gotten back to the village, Inuyasha had vanished & since he couldn’t leave her there in the hut alone he had to look over her. (They had given Sesshomaru his own hut, so that he had his privacy.) ‘What is it with half-breeds & screwing up my life’ Sesshomaru thought mildly angrily. First Inuyasha just HAD to inherit Tessaiga. Then that bastard Naraku wanted to stomp around anywhere he pleased, even going as far as to kidnap his ward! Though Sesshomaru had brushed him off as a minor threat at first, he had seen with such detachments as Akago (again I forgot his big monster-form’s name) and his latest body that he could potentially become somewhat of a thorn in his side.


Though if not for the Shikon No-Tama he wouldn’t have been in this mess. ‘Father should have gotten rid of the damned thing long ago’ he mused bitterly. Indeed Lord Inutaishou had held the jewel in his possession at one point in time, but before he had the chance to wish upon it and destroy it; it had been carried off when demons had raided the castle. Sighing, a small movement from the girl caught his attention. Focusing on her momentarily she did not continue to move and Sesshomaru delved back into his thoughts. ‘But what of those other two demons?’ he questioned himself. ‘They were definitely not ordinary…and I could feel a huge amount of power stored in that giant sword the demon in the blue armor was carrying. It felt as powerful as Tessaiga, if not more so! As did the blue sword that man was carrying…’ Another movement and a slight groan from the girl caught his attention again, but yet again she stilled, falling back into her slumber. Sesshomaru’s eyes remained on her this time though. His eyes tracing down her purple body suit clad body. She was obviously a demon slayer, he could tell by her choice of armor and by the weapons that she carried.


The Taiyoukai’s eyes skimmed over her form, taking in the obviously well tone thighs & fairly large breasts. Not to large mind you, large enough to be just slightly larger than his palm. He looked at her admittedly beautiful ‘for a human’ face and traveled slightly higher to let his eyes take in her black raven locks. The youkai snorted and went back to his thoughts. ‘But… that creature with the scythe in its hands was far to powerful… I could sense the presence of both the large sword & the blue sword within it; add to it the beast’s own power and it was emanating far to much energy.’ Sesshomaru’s eyes closed to slits. ‘Now I have those two demons and Naraku to worry about…this is going to take far more time than I thought it would.’ On that note coincidentally Taki’s eyes snapped open, (he was startled by it but would never admit it) and after a few seconds locked on to Sesshomaru, her body sitting up; hands already clutching were her twin weapons once were.


Not feeling either of her two weapons attached to her back Taki panicked slightly and backed away from the demon lord, her hands stationed readily to kill him in case he attacked. Sesshomaru snorted. “Relax mortal, if I desired to see you dead I easily could have dispatched of you in your slumber.” His commanding voice spilled forth from his lips, sending a very slight shiver down the demon-slayers spine. “Where am I?” she questioned, her eyes narrowing as she simultaneously searched for her weapons without seeming to move her attention away from the demon.


Sesshomaru regarded her calmly for a minute before replying: “I know not where you came from human, but you are in Kaede’s village.” She looked mildly confused before asking. “I have never heard of this place…what country are we in?” He looked down at her bemusedly; did she not recognize her own country? “Japan” he spoke, his normally cold & emotionless voice carried out, very slightly tinged with his amusement towards the human female. Thinking quickly she came up with another question. “What year is it then?” Sesshomaru was now somewhat lost, how could she not even know the year! “The year is 1507.” Taki’s eyes widened slightly at this ‘the warring states era? But how!’ her mind raced as she tried to remember what had happened.


Thinking back on the previous day her memories slammed into her like a Mac-truck. ‘Now I remember, I had met up with that girl…. Seoung Mi-Na I believer her name was. We had met at Ostrihenburg castle, and both just so happened to be going after Nightmare & Zasalamel. We were fighting that girl named Tira and the balcony gave way… then there was that bright light and…’ Taki gripped her head as a slight pain started to throb in the back of her skull. “That’s the last thing I remember.” She quietly spoke to herself, temporarily forgetting the demon’s presence in the room.


Sesshomaru took his time to look more closely at the young woman before him. Noticing the near onyx color of her eyes he couldn’t help but be drawn into their depths. Her body wreathed sensually as she arched her back slightly, stretching her muscles before he notice her head starting to rise. The youkai immediately drew his gaze outside the window, really not in the mood to be accused of being the pervert that he was. Taki eyed him suspiciously before she remembered her weapons. “Demon, Where are my swords!” (I can’t remember what the hell type of weapon they were… just bear with me.) “Sesshomaru” he replied; his intense gaze once again fixed on her. “Huh?” Taki looked at him confusedly. “If you insist on calling me, say my name. It is Sesshomaru” The youkai arched one delicate eyebrow as she eyed him suspiciously for a moment. “Well Sesshomaru” She breathed lowly, sending a brief shock directly to his loins. He admittedly wanted to hear her say his name again.


“Are you going to answer my question?” she finished, eyeing him as she tried to think of the quickest way to escape, even though she doubted now that the demon intended to kill her. “Your weapons are currently being held by the monk. He took your weapon along with that other girls, in case you two woke up swinging.” ‘Makes sense’ she briefly analyzed his explanation. “Well can I have them back then already!” she semi-yelled irritably at the youkai, heedless of the brief spike of anger in his aura. “What promise do I have that you will not turn on me once you receive your weapons?” he countered, his eyes meeting hers though his mind was locked onto the jiggle her breasts continued to give due to her constant moving. “AUGH! FINE I WON’T ATTACK YOU OKAY!” she yelled, her aura briefly flaring.


Sesshomaru mentally smirked as he stood. “Fine then, you will come with me.”
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Chaos. That was the only word that could describe the scene that Sesshomaru & Taki arrived at. When they had finally made it to Kaede’s hut Seoung Mi-Na was chasing around Kouga, screaming at the top of her lungs that she was going to kill him. The girl wearing the green outfit from yesterday was standing next to the monk laughing & simultaneously slapping him occasionally when he started to reach for her backside, and Inuyasha was on the roof desperately trying not to laugh. Glancing over at his brother,) Sesshomaru spoke: “Inuyasha, what is the meaning of this?” Inuyasha barley holding his laughter back explained: “well”
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Kouga groaned irritably as he continued to rap his fingers against the wall he was leaning against. ‘Why the hell do I get stuck in here with this bitch?!” he groaned internally. He glanced at Inuyasha briefly who was stationed against the wall as he watched over Tira and growled lowly in his throat, only to receive a death glare from the already grump half-demon. Snorting briefly and tearing his attention away from the hanyou he returned his focus to the girl.


Glancing over at her quickly, he caught the sight of four green scratch marks going down the side of her neck. His curiosity thoroughly peaked; the wolf couldn’t help but see what it was. After first using his hearing to check that she was indeed asleep he knelt down next to her, taking a brief moment to admire her body before placing one hand on the side of her head and leaning over, the other raised slightly above her body in case he needed to catch himself.


However, being the bitch that Karma often is; Seoung of course chose that exact moment to wake up. Staring at him confusedly at first her anger quickly took over, and before the wolf even had a chance to react she effectively planted her foot right where he was most vulnerable. Kouga tried to curl up into a ball but given his position all that did was slam his lips in to hers as well as make his hand fall when it attempted to go backwards, thoroughly grabbing her left breast. Of course, the screaming and throwing of random objects commenced.
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Sesshomaru kept his calm face on and nodded, (though he to was inwardly laughing at the arrogant bastards misfortune) before continuing over to the monk who was attempting to get a handful of Tira’s currently defensless backside. “I would advise you against that monk” the lords voice came out of nowhere making Miroku jump, and of course do what he was intending to do in the first place. Tira screamed lowly at the invasion and turned around, immediately knocking him out with a fist to the top of his head. Sesshomaru, ignoring the seen looked behind the unconscious monk where the weapons were, and grabbing the two he had identified to be Taki’s; headed back over to the slayer.
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Kagome looked over at Sango as they walked through the now near empty streets of Okora village. Most of its inhabitants were either currently sleeping or off indulging themselves in items bought at the all-night festival. “Hhhhh… it must have been fun…” The young miko sighed dejectedly, kicking a stray cup out of her way. Sango looked at her friend and felt somewhat sorry for her… but then again she felt as if she deserved it. She always had hated the way she abused the sit command over every single little thing he did, and would always parade around with Kouga though she didn’t like him. Besides, Sango had on more than one occasion found herself considering taking the hanyou as her own… that was one ride she would love to get on. Clearing her head of her lustful thoughts she blushed slightly and looked around the town. She herself had been to one of Okora’s festivals before. Not long before her village had been destroyed she had slain a Hawk demon that had been preying on farmers when they went out into their fields.


As a reward for her excellent work, she had earned a free night on the town, and had even gotten a few expensive Kimonos’ that night. All for free! … Of course that was before it had all burned up in the fire… but it had been a night to remember nonetheless.


Kagome shook herself out of her thoughts. Tonight she was going to take HER hanyou back to her era. It was the new moon tonight and she knew he wouldn’t like to be around their new ‘friends’ when he did transform. It was the perfect opportunity. Grinning slightly to herself she called to Sango as the two left the town… Yes indeed, tonight would be a night he would NEVER forget.
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(Around 4:00 in the afternoon)
Inuyasha growled anxiously as he ran a nervous claw through his hair. Tonight was the new moon, and he had no desire for the three new females in their group to see his transformation. Although he for some reason felt slightly safer around Tira than the others, he still wasn’t ready quite yet.


At the thought of the green haired princess he looked over at her. The girl was currently in the back modeling some of her kimono’s for Seoung & Taki. (She had explained to them about the darkness she had being cleared away by Soul Caliber, and after only a few hours the three girls had fast become friends.) and would occasionally glance up at him, winking when she did. He had to admit, when he had seen her in a few of the outfits he himself had gotten an instant erection and more than once had to conjure up naked images of Naraku to clear away the thoughts. Nothing would de-hornify him faster than naked images of Naraku. Dropping that line of thoughts he once again found himself staring at the girl. She had only been with them for two days and he already had found himself liking her. What had been pure lust at first had turned to friendship… (Of course with a strong undercurrent of lust still there) and he couldn’t be happier.


Yeah… happy… he couldn’t honestly say that there had been that many times in his life when he had been truly happy. Yet being at the festival last night with her, someone he barley knew, had been one of the happiest moments in his life. For some reason he felt that he could trust the girl, which was a feat in itself. If you considered how hard it normally was to do that one could even say it was a miracle that she had. Giving off a genuine smile the hanyou’s thoughts abruptly turned to Kagome.


Inuyasha’s smile immediately fell when he thought about his miko-friend. Ever since he had brought Tira & the others back to the camp she had been mad at him. Although the girl was relatively easily aggravated sometimes, and just as stubborn as he was there was no excuse for this. During there sleep he had Kaede check out the aura of all three of them and had found only the emptiness and darkness in Tira’s heart out of place; which had already been fixed by that blue sword! There was absolutely no reason for her to be acting the way that she did. After all, she had made it quite clear to him long ago that she wanted Kouga….


FLASHBACK

Inuyasha & Co. had been traveling east after they had dispatched a few demons that reeked of Naraku. Following the trail that pointed in this direction they had been completely fine until of course today. It had all started when Inuyasha had accidentally thrown Kagome’s schoolbooks into the lake. He had been playing keep away with Shippo when the bag flew out of his hands. Just barley catching it by its strap, unfortunately all of its contents flew out into the lake, sinking down to a watery doom. After that he had refused to eat her eggs because they smelled funny to him, had unintentionally walked in on Sango & Kagome bathing, had inadvertently groped her when he fell, eaten all of the potato-chips, nagged her about jewel shards all morning and had even accidentally managed to tear her underwear off. (Don’t ask how… you don’t even wanna know) All in all, Inuyasha had spent a long day with his ol’ buddy, the ground.


“I sense two jewel shards coming!” Kagome yelled out, Inuyasha only moments later identifying the stench of Kouga permeating the air. He had made to grab Tessaiga, only to be once again reacquainted with his friend; moments before Kouga practically trampled him to death in order to get to Kagome. “Kagome my dear, how has mutt-face been treating you?” Kouga asked gazing intently into her eyes. Kagome couldn’t help the blush creeping across her face as she looked into his eyes. For far too long she had wanted the wolf. She had wanted him to claim her in the full meaning of the word ‘Mate’. Of course Inuyasha would always be in the way, and her unresolved sexual tension would remain… well unresolved.


Spitting bits and pieces of his ol’ pal out of his mouth Inuyasha got up ready to pound the wolf into oblivion for stepping on him when Kagome’s arousal caught his attention, the look in her eyes speaking volumes of what she felt. It was then and only then that Inuyasha had realized what had been in his face the whole time. He had spent so much damned time fighting with the wolf over someone that didn’t want him. ‘I guess the wolf was right all those time he said she would never want a half breed…’ Inuyasha turned his head as Kagome leaned up and pressed her lips to the wolf, and ignoring the surprised gasps of Sango & Miroku, continued his way into the east lands having no clue whatsoever where he was going.

End Flashback

Surprisingly though the realization of Kagome’s feelings didn’t hurt him at all. He had thought that he would be crushed but the pain never came, it more felt like relief to him. He felt so much better now that he knew where her loyalties lay and could move on to better things. After all, even if she was the wolf’s bitch it didn’t mean he couldn’t be her friend. And he would be damned if the wolf tried to take that away from him too.
Yawning slightly Inuyasha caught the scent of Kagome and waited a few minutes before she came back into view to wave at her. “Hey Kagome!” His voice rang out. Maybe he hadn’t been paying enough attention to her? He didn’t know and he really wanted to fix it before she got sit-happy.

“Inuyasha, wan’t to come back home with me tonight?” she questioned, making sure that she didn’t sound too hopeful. After all, she had thoroughly given him the impression that she was with Kouga…. Clearing those thoughts she waited for his response. She had pretty much figured that he would say yes, seeing as how it was his night and all. “Sure” he called out before finally slipping into a light slumber, no longer able to keep his eyes open

“Perfect” Kagome grinned to herself. Oh yes… tonight HER Inuyasha was going to stop being Dog-Boy and become Dog-Man.
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Like I said.... I'm not gonna take it easy on Kagome.... ANYWAY you know the drill. Next chapter is up when I get 2 more reviews in. Till next time. Dobius