Mending

WARNING: Chapter contains a low-graphic depiction of rape. Some violence too.

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“Bastard!” Inuyasha bellowed after Kouga as the ookami led him farther into the woods and away from the shrine where Kagome's was buried. The hanyou was hot on the youkai's heels, losing his temper and reason to his youkai side.

He was enraged. The nerve the bastard had to come and see Kagome's grave. His Kagome! His. Not Kouga's, the bastard. Dared to come and act. Dared to come and see her when it was all his fault. Everything his fault.

Away from the all too hurtful reality of his one-time folly, their forbidden tryst. The living proof of his...

'No!

The hanyou threw back his head and his eyes bled red.


“Sankontessou!” Inuaysha flung the blades of blood at Kouga, who dodged them but wouldn't hit back. Inuyasha's vision was blurring. He knew the youkai blood was taking over but he didn't care. Kouga deserved all he got. Even to die. The bastard was the reason she was dead, he must pay. Pat for his loss, pay for his pain with his own suffering.


The ookami dodged the hanyou's raged attacks the best he could, hitting back but missing due to his defensive stance. He tried to reason with Inuyasha, to get him to calm down, to no avail. His words were of no use, Inuyasha was past listening. It was all a blur of green as trees zipped past, Inuyasha hot in pursuit after him, fire and ice, not listening to reason.

Mad in his fury, lost to all reason. His hate for him clear as his blood blades cut through trees and his agonized yells echoed in the woods.

One moment of distraction was what did Kouga in.


Inuyasha finally managed to hit him and the ookami crashed against a tree with a sickening crack. Rolling over onto the ground, coughing, Kouga tried to get his bearings, spitting up blood, his body flaring with pain. For someone who looked to be on death's door, Inuyasha was still strong. But he was fuelled by grief and his flickering youkai side. He would not last this way for long. But Kouga still feared that it would be too long for him to take either way. He needed to hit the hanyou, even while his attack was in some ways justified.


Inuyasha yanked Kouga up violently by his hair and kneed him in the crotch, taking him by surprise.


“She was... It was your fault!” the hanyou was ripping at Kouga's furs, kicking and pummelling his fists into him despite Kouga's best efforts to keep him at bay. Blocking him as best as he could yet still hesitant to really hit back full strength. But it was to no avail, he was still too winded after having hit the tree and apparently his head. And Inuyasha had got a few good hits to his head too, leaving him with a black eye and a bleeding temple. Disorientation was taking it's toll on his movements. And as much as he'd like to deny it, the hanyou's strength was greater than his own.

Inuyasha's eyes were bleeding between golden and crimson, long stripes half forming on his cheeks as his fangs elongated. Kouga didn't know if the hanyou was more hanyou or demon at any given second. He rained blows on Kouga's body, the ookami blocking them the best he could, finally getting some of his own blows past the hanyou's shoddy defence. Inuyasha was more on the offensive than defensive, going berserk with his attacks. He was shouting and, what seemed to be the most unreal thing to do, crying. Sobbing quietly as he verbally abused his one time bedmate and mother to his child, driving his words home with pain and blood.


Their tragic love triangle was once again nearing a pivotal moment, both their future happiness was being weighed on the scales of fate, the next moments and their actions thereafter sealing their destiny for better or for worse.


The ripping on Kouga's clothing continued and he was flipped onto his stomach, hands held behind his back as Inuyasha ripped the last bits of his loincloth away, holding him down. Kouga was exposed and vulnerable, trashing under his assailant, in vain. Rage and succumbing to his youkai had given Inuyasha's worn body the strength he needed to overpower Kouga.


“You bastard! Scum!” Inuyasha ground out as he violently breached Kouga's body, hurting him in ways that had nothing to do with physical pain. Kouga's body burned up with blinding white pain and he cried out in agony and tried to get away again. Away from the assault on his body, away from Inuyasha's unrelenting punishment. His body split in half by the burning pain of entry.


“You..!” Inuyasha shoved his hips forward, making Kouga's body shift and the ookami's face plant painfully in the dirt.


“It's all your fault! Because you made me do it! You made me cheat! She died! Our baby died! It's all your fault! Bastard!”


The ookami struggled but the hanyou's grip held firm. “Inuyasha, don't!” Kouga cried out in pain as Inuyasha simply pounded into him mercilessly. The crack in the ookami's heart was widening with every violent thrust. Inuyasha was breaking Kouga both body and soul, his heart shattering into tiny pieces as he bled and fought against Inuyasha violating him.


Soon the silver haired ghost of a man was done. Inuyasha slumped over Kouga's battered form, regaining his breath, coming to his senses. Coming back to himself. He drew away in horror as he realized, when his youkai relented it's hold, satisfied to have had it's share of violence. Even his grief didn't justify this. And certainly not his anger. He and Kouga were linked now. Inuyasha cursed to have let his youkai have free reign. To not have stopped it, himself...


“Inuyasha! Kouga!”


The hanyou could hear his monk friend calling for them. He got up and tucked himself in, disgusted with himself and what he'd done. Backing away, he fell to his knees and retched, making what little had gone down during the day come up again and spill to the forest floor. He wiped his mouth, took a one last glance at Kouga's wounded form laying on the ground, bleeding, broken, violated...


What he'd done to him...


Inuyasha fled, ran to the woods and disappeared from sight.


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Kouga was raw and bleeding. Panting out in pained gasps, just laying there, coming to grips with what had happened. His head and body pounding with the pain as the hanyou lay slumped over him, finished and having done his worst.


Inuyasha had raped him.


Kouga heard the sharp intake of breath from Inuyasha and felt him move away from his body, as slight as the sensation was when Kouga's whole body was humming with pain. He heard the retching and the hurried footsteps that got ever fainter. Kouga also heard Miroku calling for them. And then he passed out, his body and mind finally succumbing to the darkness evading him during his dark ordeal.


Fate had dealt the ookami and hanyou a harsh fate, a destiny few would consider to be nothing else but a curse...


But it would be their actions that would decide which it, in the end, would be. Would they be able to overcome this?