Unbound

-The Next Day-

‘They have to be out of their damn minds.’ Inuyasha dryly thought to himself. He stood on an elevated platform in the middle of a massive indoor obstacle course. Before him were a long set of escalating post that he would have to run at full speed while not falling in order to jump off of the last one with enough force to reach a hanging chain that he would have to climb up and then proceed to a number of other wonderful little challenges while avoiding what other hidden traps might be along the way.

"Once again," an annoyed voice came over the P.A. "the time will start when you begin the course."

‘They want me to jump through hoops?…’

Inside the control booth sat Shippou, Kagome, and two of the regular technicians at the controls.

"He’s still standing there." The first technician said.

"Really?" quipped the second. "I’m so glad you are here to give me the play-by-play, otherwise all these little details might just go by without my ever knowing."

"Yeah, fuck you too Vince."

"Aren’t you guys supposed to be focusing on the new guy?" Shippou interjected.

"Hey, listen runt, we’ve been here for the last hour and all this piece of crap has done is stand on that damn platform."

"Come on guys." Kagome chimed in. "Have you tried actually asking him?"

"Kagome, Vince may be a miserable son of a bitch, but he’s right about this dick. All he wants to do is make everything as difficult as possible."

"Just let me try, okay?" Kagome pushed past the surly duo to the microphone at the console.

"Uh, excuse me…" Kagome’s small voice echoed wildly too loud through the speakers in the metal room. Inuyasha struggled to not flinch at the terrible screeching feedback.

‘….owwww…’

"Oh, uh, sorry about that. Inuyasha, do you remember me? I’m the girl you saw in the medical bay a few days ago. Listen, I know the last thing you want to do is cooperate with all this, but if you do this then things can start to get better. We need to know how capable you are so we can figure out what you can handle in the field."

"Fat chance this mongrel is gonna see the outside ever again." Vince murmured.

"Shhh" Kagome chided holding her hand over the mike.

"Inuyasha, please. I know you probably don’t believe this, but I am trying to help you. If you do this then we can start to give you more and more liberties. We need to know we can trust you so that we can give you the same freedom the other initiates have. You know, some of our demon operatives don’t even have to come into the institute if they don’t want to?"

Inuyasha’s ears visibly perked.

"Please, Inuyaasha. I don’t think you are a bad guy. I can’t imagine what this all must be like for y…"

Kagome was dumb-struck when she saw the middle finger Inuyasha was waving at the control booth while grabbing his crotch."

"HA HA Hahahahaha!" The two technicians and Shippou bellowed.

"Shut up you assholes!" Kagome snapped.

"I guess you got through to that one there demon queen."

The door behind them slid open revealing a stern Miroku.

"What’s goning on here?"

"J-just running the time trial sir." Vince stammered trying to collect himself.

Miroku caught the eye of Kagome before she turned away in defeat. He looked at the half-demon now sitting facing away leaning back on his hands.

"I see…" Miroku grumbled as he pushed past the others.

He put his finger over the talk button while activating the control on his staff. A horrific cry rose from the other room as Inuyasha doubled over howling in pain. His body shook with agony. He fell limply to the floor as the waves of torture vanished as quickly as they came.

"Remember me, halfbreed?"

"Miroku!" Kagome cried. "What are you doing?"

"I hear you’ve been less than compliant with us, vermin."

With that, Miroku his the switch on his staff again, but this time at the next highest setting. Inuyasha threw his head back and let out an unearthly howl.

"The funny thing is… I don’t really care if you disobey or not. If you keep this up, you give me a perfectly good excuse to kill you in the most painful way imaginable, and if you decide to be a good little house pet and play nice, then I get the extreme pleasure of having you on a leash for the rest of y…"

"Time?" Inuyasha’s voice cut him off.

"…Excuse me?"

The sound of silence hung in the air as everyone waited to hear what would happen next.

"Your time?" Inuyasha repeated as he gathered himself to his feet.

"You had to have run this course sometime, right? So… how’d ya do?"

‘Whoa…’ the rest of the room collectively thought.

"Heh…doesn’t matter. Just keep it in mind."

With that Inuyasha sprang of the platform and bolted up the narrow steel columns. Skipping over most of them he leapt to the chain pulling himself up to the top with a single tug expertly avoiding a set of hidden guns at either end of the room trained on the spot where he just was.

"Holy crap!" Vince exclaimed, scrambling back to his post. "Son of a bitch is movin’!"

The four watched in awe as Inuyasha flew threw the course dodging one deadly obstacle after the next with incredible grace and ferocity. One by one he ran over the challenges of the obstacle course like an angry wind.

"Damn he’s fast!"

Miroku flinched as he noticed the amazed faces beside him. Every breath this worm took was a defiance. Every moment he was making a fool of him. His fist closed to a trembling knot. His heart pounded in his chest. He had never felt this enraged by a demon before. What was it about this one? Why did he get under his skin so. There was what happened to Songo, but that shouldn’t justify why he couldn’t distance himself from this.

He sat there continuing to lose himself as the remaining soldiers next to him began to take bets on the final time.

"He’s on the part!" Vince cried.

"No fucking way, man! No fucking way!"

"I’ve got eighty on two fourty-five!"

"A hundred on two thirty!" Kagome cheered.

"…Isn’t that faster than Kouga’s time, Kagome?" smirked Shippou his tone full of innuendo.

Kagome stifled a blush as she realized how excited she had gotten.

"Here he comes."

Inuyasha was barreling down the last stretch of the course his time far exceeding any expectations that had been set before him.

Miroku suddenly returned to the present. The present where this new half-demon was about to gain the respect of four of his soldiers, the present where his own track time was being destroyed with every step Inuyasha took, and the preset where his own hatred was too much for any man to bare.

Inuyasha sprang forward with as much speed as he could muster. A few more steps…

but before he could lay down his final stride that would launch him over the finish, a bolt of blinding pain slammed into his body sending him tumbling to the ground mere inches from the finish.

"Miroku!" Shippou yelped before seeing the fierce look in his eyes. His finger riveted to the switch on his staff, Miroku trembled with hate. No one could make a sound. They all just stood there watching the horror unfold before them. The hanyou writhed over the unforgiving steel floor.

"That’s not fair…" Came Kagome’s voice breaking the horrible quiet.

"Stop it…"

No response.

"I said stop it! Your killing him!"

Still nothing.

Miroku just stood there, pouring all his malice into the small red button under his thumb. The soft sobs of Kagome were all that could be heard in the otherwise lifeless room.

"…You bastard… why are you doing th-"

"He’s moving!" Shippou yelled at the top of his lungs.

The group turned to the observation window. There he was…standing. Inuyasha was slowly lurching forward, barely able to keep his balance under the intense pain. The group hung on the fatal steps of the unstoppable hanyou. Miroku’s eyes flashed in disbelief.

"…I…It’s not possi…" someone muttered.

And as they stood there trying to find the words, he marched. Determined and methodical came his steps, one by one and yard by yard. He was going to make it and though it was impossible to believe they all knew it. No matter what Miroku did now, it didn’t matter. He knew that Inuyasha had won. He took his finger begrudgingly off of the control. Inuyasha let out a gasp as he fell to the floor passing the finish line consciousness fading from his grasp.

One minute passes.

"…Whoa…" Vince said, finally breaking the silence. Turning, he saw the still-stunned faces back in the dimly lighted control room. Miroku, eyes cast down, snorted as he sharply turned to leave the room. The other’s just stood there. Kagome plopped down in the seat behind her not even looking.

"I’ll go turn in the test results to the lab." Vince said before collecting the printout on the console. "Serge, … He probably needs a medical team. You want me to call fo-"

"No." Songo curtly answered. "No, he might still be too dangerous for a squad of medics to handle. Kagome and I will get him."

Kagome glanced up from her catatonic state. "Yeah…" looking back down at the knocked out (yet grinning) half-demon. "We’ll get him."

Minutes later the two females found themselves standing on the finish line platform with Inuyasha’s collapsed body before them. They stared at his gently heaving body neither of them wanting to approach first.

The two of them traded glances.

‘Oh for God’s sake Songo!’ she thought to herself. ‘Stop being such a fucking coward.’

She started forward motioning for Kagome to keep her weapon trained on him just in case. She stooped over to get a better look at him beneath his obscuring hair. His body rose and fell with the slow rhythm of his breath while Songo moved to move his silver hair from his face. Gently, she slid a curtain of his bangs from in front of his sleeping eyes.

‘Wow, he’s really out...Peaceful….’

Songo jolted, realizing where her thoughts were taking her.

"He’s out." She spoke aloud. "Come on, help me get him to his cell."

Kagome shouldered her riffle and began to help her commander get the young demon off of the ground.

"I don’t think he’s that injured. Still, hell be out for a while."

"Can you believe Miroku?" Kagome blurted out.

Songo said nothing.

"He almost killed him. If he had turned up the power any more.."

"Enough Kagome."

"It’s a miracle he’s alive at all. I mean he’s tough and all, but he could have murdered him the jerk."

"I said enough!" Songo, suddenly shouting. She watched her subordinate’s reaction as the command landed on her. She had enough problems with Miroku lately, she didn’t need anyone else make it worse. But, as she watched Kagome’s expression she became aware of something terribly wrong. Kagome was locked in a stare-down with the once slumbering hanyou her face frozen in shock. Before even trying to escape, Inuyasha’s hand locked onto her own keeping her from moving at all away from his half-awake stare.

"…S-Songo…" she whispered.

Inuyasha held her paralyzed against him. His eyes full of predatory intent he watched her react to him. He listened to her breath, her pounding heart which he felt through the soft contact of her breast. Songo jumped back in horror. It was over. He had her. He could do anything he wanted to her at this point and there wasn’t a thing that she could do that would stop him in time.

Kagome gasped in short gulps of air shuddering under her breath. Though he was barley awake his grip was deadly. She knew she couldn’t get away. His lips curled slightly as he leaned in to gently bury his nose in her hair inhaling her scent. Kagome’s eyes wide with fear met with Songo’s across the room hoping for some kind of help only to be met with the same helpless look on her own face.

"So…" came Inuyasha’s voice heavy with exhaustion. "You’re the wolf’s bitch…"

Kagome’s eyes lit up with renewed fear as Songo stared in disbelief. Shocked as she was about what was happening the knowledge that Kagome had been screwing Kouga was may have been even more of a blow on some levels.

"Mmmnnnrrrr…" he growled into her. Kagome chirped as she felt his other hand come to her stomach and under the lip of her shirt.

Kagome gasped again feeling the deadly claws at her exposed skin. He hand slid upward to the cotton fabric of her bra. His fingers dragged over her. Kagome’s eyes screwed shut from the unstoppable reaction her body was giving him.

‘Oh God…he’s…oh God…’

His fingers dipped under the thin cotton barrier at her breast. Squeezing lightly, he ran his thumb over her nipple causing her to squeak with reluctant pleasure.

‘Oh…God…’

"Yeah…" he breathed in her ear. "Your his aren’t you."

Letting her breast go, Inuyasha brought his hand up to the base of the surprisingly aroused female’s throat.

"Let him know I said hi"

With that Kagome’s eyes clinched tight as she felt a piecing pain at the crook of her neck. She tried to pull away, but she couldn’t budge against the now steely grip on her neck.

Songo knew that if she attacked now Inuyasha would kill Kagome out of sheer instinct, but if she did nothing ... She watched in horror as a faint trail of blood sluggishly trailed down her friend’s neck where Inuyasha’s mouth met.

‘What is he doing? Why isn’t she dead? What do I do?’

Kagome felt panic fill her senses. The sensation of fear and lust overwhelmed her. She was at the brink of sanity when something happened. Suddenly, the pain began to fade. The fear and paralysis started to dissolve away so that all that remained was the pleasure. Suddenly, she felt safe. Suddenly, she felt…joy.

Songo watched in utter dismay as her friend began to moan under the touch of her ravaging assailant. Her sound became more and more scandalous each passing moment, growing in volume and enjoyment. Slowly, her long time friend was succumbing to the hanyou. Her hands were now groping over him and pulling him closer when they should be pushing him away.

"Oh god…" Kagome purred aloud.

"Kagome!" Songo screamed. "Kagome wake up damn it!"

But it was as if Songo wasn’t even in the same room anymore. The two clung together now Kagome’s pitch and enthusiasm rising. Her leg twisted around him pressing her hips into his. They tangled together and made noises like wild animals.

"Oh god, Inuyasha!"

Her nails dug into him as she continued to fall into the madness of her lust.

"Oh, Oh God what’s…uhung … what ’s happening?"

With that, her eyes closed again with her mouth still open in a voiceless scream.

Then… came the scream.

"Aaaaaahhhhhnnngg…."

An orgasm unlike anything that she had ever felt ripped through Kagome’s body as Inuyasha threw his head back releasing her from his fangs while uttering a great roar that echoed in the hall for what seemed to be hours. Kagome was thrown over the edge of her own sanity, lost in the unnamable shores of bliss. Her body echoed with pleasure as the last of her strength left her and she and her attacker fell to the floor together.

Songo rushed to her friend’s side.

"Kagome!"

‘So much blood’

"Kagome, wake up." Songo grabbed her radio from her belt.

"I need medics to the training room now! Officer down, repeat, officer down!"

‘Don’t die…’

"Don’t die, Kagome." Songo pushed the tears down. It wouldn’t help anything to cry now.

‘The wound! Keep her from bleeding out. Apply pressure.’

Songo reached for her friend’s neck feeling for the puncture the half-demon had given her. She turned her head and felt where the blood was coming from. She pressed her hand into her neck cursing herself for not saving her sooner.

‘Why? Why didn’t you do anything? It’s your fault you fucking coward.’

Harried voices came as the doors to the training room burst open. A team of medics rushed over to the downed Kagome and quickly brushed Songo aside. She staggered about as the containment team came closely behind them dragging Inuyasha away to his cell.

"Serge, what happened? Where is she hurt?" one of the medics asked her over the heated voices of the others over the fallen Kagome.

"N-neck. He bit her fucking neck."

"Serge, we see the blood but there’s no wound…"

"…what?"

"There’s just a scar."

Songo rushed over to her friend now on the gurney. She pulled away her errant hair to reveal not the viscous neck wound that should have been there, but instead a set of scars completely sealed over and completely impossible.