Reincarnation.

Chapter Four: Sweet Dreams, Baby.



She stood at the edge of the cliff and looked over it. It was deep and dark, and the darkness, after a moment, seemed to swell and pulse. Suddenly, it reached up with black tendrils, wrapping themselves around her ankles, around her legs. Her eyes widened in terror a little, and she looked up instinctively. There was Yash, standing on the other side, watching her with a blank stare. His golden eyes looked so… empty. She panted heavily in fear and reached her right hand out to him. “Inuyasha!” she called out, using his whole name, which she rarely did. “Inuyasha, please!”



He said nothing in reply. He simply turned, his hands in his jeans pockets… and walked away. After a moment, he had disappeared into the fog and smoke on the other side, and Kimiko knew her lover was gone. She sighed as the tendrils snuck around behind her, and her eyes snapped wide open and she gasped in horrified pain when they stabbed themselves through her torso. Her blood splattered everywhere, and it dripped down the tendrils and her own body.



Everything went black.





“Kim?”



He shook her gently. She opened her big, brown eyes and stared up at him, an expression of shock on her face. She threw her arms around his neck and squeezed his body close to her, closing her eyes and cherishing his smell and embrace.



All of a sudden, Yash leaped back and let out a startled yelp. Blood had begun forming on the front and back of Kimiko’s white t-shirt, and it was pooling underneath her on the sheets. He stood and helped her stand, and the blood just started running wildly down her legs. “Oh my god,” Kimiko murmured in shock, staring down at the floor and her legs and her torso. “I can’t believe this. What the hell is going on?” she asked as she looked up at her mate. Suddenly, her legs gave out underneath her, and she started to collapse, but her mate caught her.



“Minoru!” he yelled manically. “Miroku! Kagome! Sango! Anybody! Please… help!”



The incarnations and Minoru responded to Yash’s panicked calls.



An hour later, Kimiko was stretched out on Minoru’s operating table, and he was stitching together the wounds on the front and back of her torso. She winced a little at the pain, but otherwise showed hardly any emotion besides confusion.



“Somebody tell me,” Kimiko said in a slightly frustrated tone, “what the fuck happened to me last night?”



“So, in your dream, pitch-black tentacles came up out of a pit and stabbed you right through your torso?” Kagome asked. Yash was holding Minako in the corner, and Sango was bouncing the new baby Aiko and making goo-goo faces at her. Miroku laughed at her a little, and, balancing the baby in her left arm, she punched him hard in the gut with her right.



“Sounds like Naraku,” Yash and Inuyasha both said at the same time. The two hanyou men looked at each other oddly. Yash handed Minako to Kagome and started to pace. “I can’t believe that I let this happen,” he murmured under his breath.



“Yash, you couldn’t have prevented it-” Sango started to comfort the hanyou, but Inuyasha cut in, glaring at his older self. “Yes, he could have.”



Yash stared at him, stopping his pacing. “What are you saying, pup?” he asked his younger self. Inuyasha stepped forward, into Yash’s face, and growled menacingly. “I’m saying,” Inuyasha replied in a low voice, “that you could have done way more to protect your damn mate. I would never let anything like that happen to Kagome.”



Yash punched him full in the face. Inuyasha went crashing backward; Kagome, with Minako in her arms, dodged her mate’s flying form, and Sango and Miroku grabbed the hanyou and returned him to his feet. Inuyasha wiped the blood from his busted lip and glared at Yash, who towered over him, his fists and claws flexing, his amber eyes ablaze with fury and disgust. He leaned over and pointed his index claw in Inuyasha’s face. “Don’t forget, mutt,” he whispered, his gaze locked with his younger self’s. “You already let her die.” The older hanyou turned and walked away.



Kimiko turned and looked at Inuyasha’s white face. He was very shaken.



She stood, pushing Minoru away, and he yelped and let go of the stitching needle he’d been using. It trailed after her as she stomped, barefoot, after her mate. “Yash!” she cried out as she grabbed his shoulder and pulled him backward. He turned, and they stood there, looking at each other for a moment. That is, until Kimiko slapped him across the face. Startled, he grabbed the left side of his face, which was already beginning to turn red from both the slap and the humiliation of being slapped.



“What the hell, Kimiko?” he yelled, becoming angry.



She stepped forward and struck him again. And again. But the fourth time, he caught her by the wrist, and she gasped when she looked into his eyes. They were glowing a deep, dangerous red.



Kagome jumped back with Minako in her arms. The toddler clapped. “Otou and Okaa are working things out!” she said happily. Inuyasha stepped forward, his hand up in defense. “Whoa… future… me,” he said uneasily. “Don’t hurt her.”



Yash snapped his head to glare at Inuyasha. “Don’t take another step, Inuyasha,” Kimiko warned, staring straight up into her mate’s infuriated eyes. To everyone’s surprise, she seemed very calm in the dangerous situation she was in.



She leaned forward, getting up on her toes, and whispered in Yash’s ear, “Think of her. She gave you a human heart; you have loved for so many years with that human heart she gave you. Find it in yourself to be lenient on your former self, as stupid and risky as his actions may be.” She sat back on her heels and watched the red disappear as her true lover returned to his usual senses. She smiled at him. “He may surprise you one day,” she murmured before kissing him softly on the cheek.



Yash, now once again a hanyou, smiled at his mate. He looked up at Inuyasha. “Her ways are unconventional, I must admit, but it works.” He moved around Kimiko to stand before Inuyasha. “I am sorry for my harsh words, former self,” he told the younger hanyou. “I am only trying to look out for your best interests. That’s why we brought all of you here.”



Inuyasha nodded.



All of a sudden, Kimiko doubled over and grunted in pain, grabbing her gut, which squirted blood all over the floor. Minako screamed and hid her small face in Kagome’s shoulder. Yash, concerned with his mate’s well-being, grabbed her by the shoulders and led her, slowly and carefully, back to the operating table.



He pointed his claw in her face this time. “Now, stay right there, or there will be consequences.”



But she had already slipped off.



“Is she going to be ok?” Kagome asked, worried.



Minoru and Miroku simultaneously waved their hands at her. “Don’t worry,” they both said, “she’ll be fine.”



Sango shook her head. “I didn’t even think about that,” she whispered to Kagome and Inuyasha. “What?” Kagome whispered back. “Two Miroku’s,” her best friend answered. “Double the Miroku, double the hentai.”



Minako had lifted her head and was now looking at Yash with a curious sparkle in her eye. “Otou, what’s a hentai?”



“But I haven’t even done anything yet!” Minoru and Miroku cried out at the same time.



Yash laughed aloud, while Kagome, Inuyasha, and Sango sweat-dropped, Kimiko was still lights out, and Minako just sat in Kagome’s arms and looked cute.





Inuyasha rolled over and poked Kagome’s shoulderblade.



“Kagome,” he whined quietly.



She inhaled sleepily. “What is it, Inuyasha?” she asked her mate.



“I want sex,” he whispered in her ear.



She sat up. “What?” she practically hollered, staring at him incredulously.



He hid under the covers so the only things she could see were his brilliant, golden eyes, his long, silvery hair, and his cute puppy ears. “I said,” he started, his voice muffled by the comforter, “that I want sex.”



“What?” She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “No! We’re in someone else’s house! We are not doing the nasty in someone else’s house!”



He slid his cute face out from under the comforter. “Technically, it’s not a house, it’s an old military bunker, whatever the hell that is. And, also, I’m your man, dammit! If I want sex, then I get sex!” He puffed his chest out to make himself seem more manly.



Kagome giggled a little, making Inuyasha’s ego deflate a little.



She smiled at her own lover. “Tell you what,” she whispered. “Since I really don’t feel comfortable doing that in what I like to think of as Yash and Kimiko’s ‘domain,’ then I will ask Kimiko if she doesn’t mind in the morning.” Inuyasha pouted a little. “I’m sure she’ll say yes, and when she does, then we’ll immediately go jump in the shower and have full-on, hot, naked, wonderful sex.” He grinned. “Sound good?” she asked, grinning back. He nodded.



She giggled a little, rolling back over. “Ok, then,” she mumbled. “Now, go back to sleep.” He kissed her back.





A/N: sorry no lemon or lime or anything, but I’m tired. And I’m a little crapped out on the lemon currently. Haven’t had any sex of my own in almost a week, so I’m a little low on inspiration. I hope my husband’s reading this over my shoulder as I type it; maybe he’ll get the hint. ;)