Come together (its a working title

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Walking down along the stream, Inuyasha thought to himself. “How am I going to explain yokai mating to her? Would I scare her off if I told her that Inu-yokai’s mate for life? Would she run away?” Stopping at the point where the stream and the path from the willow tree met, Inuyasha shook that last thought from his head. Inuyasha thought out loud “No she wouldn’t do that she promised…”

“I promised what Inuyasha?” Kagome asked coming down the path towards Inuyasha. “Nothing Kagome, done with what you wanted to tell my mother?” Turning around to look at Kagome.
“Yeah, I am.” Kagome said smiling at the young hanyo.
“So are you going to tell me what you talk to her about?” Inuyasha asked reaching out for Kagome’s hand.
Stopping short of Inuyasha, Kagome looked at him, “No Inuyasha, I am not going to tell you.”
“Tell Me.” Inuyasha said taking a step towards Kagome.
“No, I won’t” Kagome said taking a step back.
“Why not?”
“Because whatever I said to your mother is between her and me.” Kagome said getting madder at Inuyasha because he couldn’t drop it.
“That’s not a reason Kagome. Tell me.”
“No”
“Yes.”
“No!”
“Yes Kagome!”
“No.”
“Damnit Kagome. Tell me.”
“Inuyasha!” Now Kagome was beyond pissed with her hanyo and his stubborn attitude.
Inuyasha knew that tone and was quickly regretting how mad he had just gotten with her. “Kagome, I…I…”
“SIT!” As soon has Kagome yelled the command Inuyasha’s whole body made contact with forest ground below him. Resulting in an Inuyasha size hole.

Kagome sighed knowing that Inuyasha was her only way back to Kaede’s village. So Kagome sat down on the ground a few feet from Inuyasha and waited for spell to release him from its hold. Fully knowing that she was going to get yelled at for ‘sitting’ him, when he really didn’t do anything other the piss her off.

Kagome sat staring at Inuyasha letting her anger wash away from her. She knew that she shouldn’t continue to use the necklace on Inuyasha. She knew that she needed to take the bad with good. This meant taking Inuyasha’s anger in strides.
Feeling the necklace power letting up a little Inuyasha was able to move a little. He brought his head up slowly from the ground hoping that Kagome didn’t want to go for another round of saying sit. Looking round Inuyasha saw Kagome sitting a few feet from him. He wondered why she was still sitting there waiting for him. Normally by now she would have been long gone and he would have to chase her down once he had fully regained the use of movement. Then it occurred to him that it was just the two of them. He had brought Kagome her by herself so of course that was the reason she was still sitting here. She had no way to get home.
Felling the full effects of the necklace release him from the ground Inuyasha sat up and looked at Kagome.
“Happy now bitch? You won the argument.” Inuyasha grumbled crossing his arms, turning his head away from Kagome.

Letting the tears fall from her eyes. Kagome got up and walked over to Inuyasha. Kneeling down in front of him, Kagome softly said, “No.”
Inuyasha could smell the tears mixing with Kagome’s scent. “Why is she crying now she didn’t do anything? It was my fault.” Turing to face Kagome. Inuyasha placed a hand on her cheek wiping away her tears. Closing her eyes as Inuyasha ran his hand along her cheek. Kagome said, “No, Inuyasha I am not happy. I shouldn’t have done that to you. If we are going to be mates I need to learn to deal with your short temper. It’s not fair to you to say that one word and send you crashing into the ground. I am sorry.”

Pulling Kagome to him, “Don’t be stupid Kagome. I fully deserved what you did to me. I should have dropped it at the first no.” Pulling away from Inuyasha, Kagome reached out to remove the beads from around his neck. Inuyasha grabbed her hand. Shaking his head,
“Leave ‘em Kagome. I have grown use to them. I don’t think I would really feel the same if you took them off anyways.” Inuyasha said setting Kagome’s hand in her lap.
“But Inuyasha…”
“Don’t worry about Kagome.”
“But, I don’t want to have another repeat of what just happened.”
“Well how about this. I promise to try my hardest not piss you off to where you have to use them and you promise me that unless I am doing something reckless, stupid, that would get me killed, or if my demon side come out you won’t sit me to hell.”
Laughing a little, Kagome nodded her head, “Agreed Inuyasha. I won’t use the word unless you are doing something extremely stupid. Though you are going have be nicer to Shippo.”

Grumbling under his breath about the little fox Inuyasha gave in to Kagome’s request.
“Fine I will try to be nicer to the brat. No guarantees though” Standing Inuyasha extended a hand to Kagome to help her up. Taking his hand Kagome said, “I want you to at least try Inuyasha.”
“Fine, Fine. Come on. There is something else I want to show you.” Holding onto Kagome’s hand Inuyasha started to head back the way he had just came moments ago.
“Where are we going Inuyasha? Shouldn’t we be heading back to Kaede’s village?” Kagome asked following behind Inuyasha.
“Nah, it’s too late in the day to start back now. There a cave just up the head that we can stay in. The night weather around here can get kind of cold. I already put your bag down in there.”
“Oh so you had already had planned on us staying here. How do you know I didn’t want to just go home?” Kagome asked linking her arm with Inuyasha’s as they walked.
Looking down Inuyasha smiled at the young miko on his arm. “Just thought you might want to, seeing as it is just the two of us.” Inuyasha stopped at the entrance of to the cave. Inuyasha gathered Kagome up in his arms. Carrying her bridal style into the cave, Inuyasha made his way to the back of the cave. Depositing Kagome down on her sleeping bag Inuyasha kneeled down next to her. Leaning into her, Inuyasha whispered into her ear “Don’t move from his spot.” Growling softly to get his point across in her ear Inuyasha stood up and walked out of the cave.

Watching Inuyasha’s retreating back. Kagome was left wondering. “What has gotten into him? Why is he acting this way?” Kagome looked around the cave from her spot on the floor. Kagome saw that the cave looked like at one point it had been lived in or was still being lived in. Getting up from her sleeping bag, Kagome wonder around the back of cave near where she was. Kagome saw several blankets piled in one corner of the cave. She saw the place where she figured must have been where the pervious occupant must have set their fire. Turning away from that Kagome saw what appeared to be a painted trunk she thought. Moving over to it Kagome traced over carved curves. She couldn’t make out what it was. She reached out to move it to get a better look, but before she could do that she heard a low but loud growl come from a few feet behind her. Followed shortly by the tumbling of what sounded like wood falling to the cave floor. Before Kagome had a chance to turn around a pair of strong arms circled around her, picking her up and dropping her back on her sleeping bag. Looking up Kagome came face to face with Inuyasha.

Inuyasha came back into the cave to see that Kagome was up moving around the cave. Growling at her back over the fact that she couldn’t stay in one place for a few minutes while he went looking for fire wood. Forgetting about the wood in his hands Inuyasha dropped it all on the floor. Reaching where Kagome was he picked her up off the floor and took her back over to her sleeping bag. Dropping her back down. Inuyasha got down so that his face was mere inches from hers.

Kagome watched as Inuyasha growled more at her. Not understanding what was going on she watched Inuyasha’s eye shift between pure gold color to amber color gold with a hint of red in them. Before Kagome could say anything to Inuyasha she felt herself being pushed towards the ground on her back.

Inuyasha growled again as he pushed Kagome on to her back. Laying his body weight in on her Inuyasha got her to lie down. Leaning into Kagome, Inuyasha nuzzled his face against hers. Softly nipping at her neck, working his way up to her ear. Inuyasha growled softly into her ear. “Don’t get up.” Nipping at her ear and neck again Inuyasha got up and walked back over to the forgotten wood picking it up Inuyasha started on the task of building a fire.

After Inuyasha got up Kagome felt as if her whole body was on fire. She laid there for several minutes staring up at the cave roof listening to what Inuyasha was doing. Slowly Kagome sat up looking around for the hanyo. She saw him standing a little ways away from where she was looking her.

Seeing that Kagome had sat up, Inuyasha let a low growl escape from him. Hearing Inuyasha growl at her again, not understanding why he was Kagome thought it safe to do what he wanted putting her hands in the air a little Kagome said, “Alright, alright Inuyasha I give. I’ll stay right her and won’t move until you say so.
Smiling at the fact that he had gotten Kagome to submit to him. Inuyasha walked over to her bag. Rummaging through Kagome’s bag Inuyasha found her small pot that she used to heat the water for the ramen, the water bottle, and one of Kagome’s books that she liked to read when she wasn’t trying to study for a test. Seeing that she hadn’t got very far into it Inuyasha picked it up and walked back over to Kagome. Inuyasha leaned over kissing Kagome on the top of her head, handing her, her book.
“You just sit here. I am going to go out and get a couple of fish for dinner. Just relax Kagome, I am not going to do anything to you don’t worry. I just want you to take it easy.” Looking up at him Kagome said, “But I don’t understand. Why are you telling me to relax?” Smiling Inuyasha said, “Just because Kagome. I just want to. You have been doing so much for me, and I just want to do the same for you.” Turning Inuyasha walked out of the cave.

Kagome sat on her sleeping bag with her book in her hand thinking about the day’s events. “Ok there is defiantly something up with him. He has been acting strange ever since I came from his mother’s grave.” Looking down at the book that Inuyasha had handed her Kagome smiled. Leave it to Inuyasha just to reach in pull the first book that he came to. Kagome was glad that she had changed the covers on both her journal and the book that she had been reading the last time she went home. They were the same size, both wrapped in a beautiful red cover. To anyone else they would just like two ordinary books. But Kagome had fixed her journal so that she could slip a small pencil in between the red cover and the book it self without anyone realizing it. She had started writing in this journal shortly after their last run in with Naraku. She had decided to write in pencil knowing that the graphite would be something that Inuyasha wouldn’t be able to smell out as well as he could ink from a pen. Laying back down Kagome open to a new page and started to write.

~A little bit Later~
Hearing Inuyasha come back into the cave Kagome stopped writing and hid the pencil in the spine of the book. Shutting the book Kagome looked over at Inuyasha. Coming into the cave Inuyasha smiled seeing that Kagome had stayed where he had wanted her to. Inuyasha sat down near the fire and set to work on the fish. After he got the fish set to cook. He turned and smiled at Kagome, standing Inuyasha walked back outside for a moment and then came back into the cave.

Giving him a questioning look Kagome asked, “Why did you back outside for?” Turning the stick that the fish were on a little, Inuyasha replied “Washed my hands. They smelled like the fish.” Lying down next to Kagome, Inuyasha pulled her closer to him. Burring his face into her hair, Inuyasha let out a content sigh. Inuyasha let himself get lost in Kagome’s sweet scent. Turning to face Inuyasha, Kagome blew into his face softly. Slowly opening his eyes Inuyasha sniffed around to make sure that she wasn’t trying to tell him that the fish was burning. Confirming that the fish was not burning Inuyasha turned his attention to his soon to be mate.

Seeing that she had his attention Kagome asked Inuyasha, “All right Inu, what’s wrong?” poking softly on his chest. Looking sort of surprised that she would have guess that something was bothering him that quick. “Nothing Kagome, why do you think something is wrong love?” “Don’t play coy with me mister. Something is up and I want to know what it is.” Propping herself up on her side, Kagome looked into Inuyasha’s eyes. “Koi? Why do you think I am acting like a fish Kagome?” Inuyasha said moving over Kagome to take care of their dinner.

Rolling her eyes, she knew she shouldn’t have used a modern term like that with him. “Not Koi as in K-O-I the fish, Coy as in C-O-Y. It means to avoid telling the truth Inuyasha. Which you are doing right now.”
“I’m not Kagome. Why do you think that I am? There really is nothing wrong with me.” Inuyasha said turning to hand Kagome her fish. Taking the fish from Inuyasha, Kagome said “Hah, You have been acting weird every since we got to the cave. Growling at me when I didn’t do anything. It makes me think that you are mad at me Inu. So tell me what is wrong.”

“Really Kagome there is nothing wrong. I am sorry that growled at you.” Inuyasha looked over at Kagome. Seeing that she didn’t believe him he sighed continuing, “Alright, Alright. So there is something wrong.” Turning to face Kagome, Inuyasha looked into her eyes. “What’s wrong Inu?” Kagome asked seeing the uncertainty reflected in his eyes when he looked at her.
Sighing, “I don’t know how to approach this topic so I am just going to come out and say it. I wanted to talk to you about Yokai mating.” Inuyasha said turning five different shades red while saying it.

Hearing Inuyasha say what he did, Kagome started to blush too asking Inuyasha, “W-what do y-you mean by that Inuyasha?”
Shifting his gaze from her, Inuyasha though for a moment before giving her an answer. “I mean human mating which you call ‘marriage’ is a little different then what yokai’s considered mating. They go by different rules. One of the things that is different at least with Inu yokai’s is that we mate for life. Most Inu yokai’s only take one mate. Though there are exceptions to this. Like my father he took two mates. I am not sure why he did. But I can tell you that no matter how much anyone who knew my fathers says that I am just like him I can promise you that you will be the only woman in my life. Well other then if we had a daughter.” Inuyasha said with a smile blushing a little.

Letting it all sink in Kagome smiled at Inuyasha. “Well it is good to know that I would be your only one. But that doesn’t seam like a really problem though. I told you that I could think of no other person that I would rather spend my life with then you Inu. Even if you can be stubborn sometimes.”

Rolling his eyes, Inuyasha said, “Wow thanks Kags, I feel so loved. But anyways, by yokai law once we …you know, we will be mates for life. You will share my lifespan. As for anything else, I am not really sure.”
Throwing her arms around him “Well you should silly, and as for the sharing the same lifespan as you if it meant spending the rest of my life with you then I would. Is there anything else I should know about yokai mating?”

Pulling her closer to him, Inuyasha nuzzled against Kagome’s face getting lost in her scent. Kissing down her neck, Inuyasha said “There are just a few others. One is…” As Inuyasha said this he let his fangs sink into her soft skin. He knew he was going have hell to pay for doing it in a moment but he was enjoying marking Kagome as his intended that he didn’t care what she was going do to him.

Feeling his fangs sink into her skin, Kagome let out a scream and shoved Inuyasha away from her. Screaming at him she said “Why the hell did you do that for.” Kagome touched where he had just bit her. Withdrawing her hand Kagome saw blood on her fingers. Getting up Kagome made her way over to her bag to get her first aid kit, so that she could take care of cleaning the bite.
Seeing Kagome get and walk over to her bag. Inuyasha jumped up and ran over to her. “Wait Kagome don’t, let me help you. Please don’t use that stuff that stings and taste horrible. Please I am sorry. I wasn’t thinking I should have told you before I bit you.” Grabbing Kagome roughly at the arm Inuyasha spun her around to face him. “Why Inuyasha? Why the hell did you bite me? Let me go I need to take care of this.”
Pulling her closer to him Inuyasha leaned over her and started to lick at the wound. After a few moments he pulled back to look at her. “Because there is no need to take care of it. I have taken care of it. See?” Inuyasha said reaching into his robe pulling out a white cloth. Reaching around her shoulder he firmly pressed it against the bite mark. Bringing around to her he said. “See no blood anymore. Sorry about biting you without warning though Kagome. I just wanted to mark you as my intended. Be thankful that I am a half-demon though. If I had been a full-blooded yokai, I would have bit you when you said yes this morning and would have had you as my mate by now without really talk to you about it first.” Inuyasha said looking down at Kagome.

Seeing that he was telling the truth Kagome backed away from him a little. “I don’t get it though.” She said sounding a little sad. Looking at her, “What don’t you get Kagome? The bite or the fact that I told you not to take care of it?” “Both.” Smiling at her timid answer, Inuyasha picked her and brought her back over to her sleeping bag. Setting her down Inuyasha joined her. Pulling her back into his lap Inuyasha rested his head on top of hers. Sighing contently Inuyasha said, “Yokai’s bite their mate to show others not to touch or even thing of doing anything to the female. The bite mark is a small warning sign to other yokai males that they need to move on and find someone else to follow around. Tell you truth Kagome. I have been wanting to as my intended from the first time that we met Koga. Just so that he would leave you alone. But then the more time we spent together the more I realized what kind of place you held in my heart, I knew then that you must be the one for me. My soul mate. That realization came long before Kikyo died the second time. I mean I guess I will always hold a place for her but my love for her died the moment she pinned me to the tree. I was just too blind to see it.” Wrapping his arm tightly around Kagome. “The reason I told you not to mess with the bite mark Kagome is because I wanted it to be a semi-permanent mark. Plus licking over it like I did help to speed the healing up faster. So you did gain a little of my healing ability when I bite you but not enough to be able to heal your self with out my help. I didn’t want you to put that stuff on it because it ment that I would have to either bite over the top of it again or bite you somewhere else again and I didn’t think you wanted that. Plus that stuff his horrible tasting.”

“Oh ok Inuyasha. But what are the other things that you still haven’t told me?” Kagome said shifting a little under Inuyasha. “Just two Kagome, though one you are not going to like too much. They both happen about time we fully mate. One is that our souls should merge with one another’s, once that happens your scent should change to reflect that you have mated with me. This means that if Koga would be to sniff you out he would first smell your scent but then when he got closer he would be able to tell that you belong to me. Plus with the way yokai laws work if he tried anything I could have him brought before an Inu and Wolf yokai court. Where they would pass judgement over what he had done. The other is once we have fully mated I have to bite you again. Only this time I have to sink my fang further into your shoulder.” Looking down he saw the look that was etched on Kagome’s face. It was a look of pain. Thinking quickly Inuyasha added. “But we wouldn’t have to either until you are ready. I wouldn’t want to push you into anything that you were not ready for Kagome.” Laying back Inuyasha brought Kagome down with him. “Alright Kag? I don’t ever want to hurt you or rush you into something that you are not ready for.”

Nodding Kagome turned to Inuyasha asking, “Is there a spring nearby. I don’t know about you but I would like to get cleaned up. I still feel like there is blood all over my shoulder.”
“Can’t you be like a normal person and bathe in the stream?” Inuyasha growled not wanting to let go of Kagome. “Can you blame me for wanting to have a warm bath? When have you ever known me to be normal by this era’s standards? Anyways that stream is too cold. So?”
Sitting up Inuyasha replied, “Yeah there is. It not that far from here. It is just out the cave and to the right a little ways.”

Leaning in and kissing Inuyasha on the lips Kagome said, “Thanks Inu. Now was that so hard to say.” Getting up Kagome walked over to her bag and took the things she needed for the spring. Turning around she smiled at Inuyasha and walked out of the cave.
Watching her leave the cave Inuyasha sighed to him self, “You have no idea Kagome. No idea.”

Getting up from the sleeping bag Inuyasha walked over to the stack of blankets that were piled up in a corner. Shifting though them, he withdrew four blankets. The blankets were pretty big and thick. They would defiantly be more comfortable sleeping on/under then Kagome’s sleeping bag would be on the cave floor. Inuyasha had been thinking that since Kagome was a mild sleeper that after she had fallen asleep that he would crawl under the blankets with her, and he knew that her sleeping bag was too small for Inuyasha to attempt to crawl in without her noticing.

After moving Kagome’s sleeping bag and laying the blankets out in its place, Inuyasha walked over to the forgotten chest. Looking down at it, Inuyasha smiled. He knew he wanted to give something special to Kagome, and he knew that it was in this chest. For the chest held a lot of his mother’s robes, and there was one in particular that Inuyasha wanted Kagome to have. He knew his mother would understand why he had given it to her. Kneeling down in front of chest Inuyasha slid it out from the wall. Reaching behind the chest Inuyasha slid a fake panel piece out of the way. After the panel was slid out of the way Inuyasha felt some solid and metal fall into his hand.

He knew that it was the key to the chest. Bringing his hand around to the front of the chest, Inuyasha slid the key into the keyhole giving it a quick turn. Hearing the soft click of the lock sliding into place Inuyasha lifted the chest. His sense of smell was hit with the familiar scent of roses and lavender. He sat for a moment taking in the scent letting his body remember the scent of his mother. To a normal human they wouldn’t have been able to smell it but Inuyasha knew the scent very well. Shifting carefully through the clothes, Inuyasha found what he was after. Pulling it out of the stack, setting it in his lap Inuyasha shut the chest and replaced the key into the compartment. Standing up, Inuyasha gently shook out the robe. It was really a beautiful thing. It was made of the palest blues and reds. The Inu Family Clan Crest –a dog in the shape of the crescent moon- was stitched onto the back. He knew that his father had given it to his mother shortly after he had asked her to be his mate.

Draping it over his arm, Inuyasha turned to Kagome’s bag. Going through it Inuyasha found a spare towel that Kagome brought along with her. He also found the swimming pant that Kagome said he should wear in the water. Frowning at the pants Inuyasha deicide to bring them with him, just incase Kagome made him wear them. Inuyasha thought back to last spring when he had attempted once to get into the hot spring with her. Actually that had been fun, Inuyasha admitted to himself. Sango and Miroku gone to Sango’s village so that she could fix her weapon and pay respects to clan, and Miroku had wanted to go with her. So Kagome had decided to send the brat with them saying ‘to protect Sango.’ That ment that the two of them were left alone. Inuyasha had planned on saying something about being his mate then but Kagome ruined it when she saw him getting into the hot spring with her, and nearly drowned him by saying sit. Inuyasha had blamed it on the fact that he thought he smelled a demon and wanted to make sure that Kagome was ok. Even though the real reason had been because it was spring which ment that Inuyasha was trying to fight back the effects of the Mating season. Smiling at the idea of trying again to get into the hot springs with Kagome again. Inuyasha left the cave and made his way down to the spring and his love.