Payback

Payback by Hrtofdrkns

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha (though if I did Kagome and the fox brat would treat him better.)

Kagome was afraid. The sight before her was one she had seen once in a nightmare.

Inuyasha had the prayer beads off, twirling then around his clawed finger. A whicked smile played around his face. She tried to run back to the well, but he caught her.

"What's the matter? Don't want to be around the worthless half-breed now that you can't control him?" The vemon with which he spoke made Kagome cringe.

"I...I..." she stamered.

"That's what I thought." he said bitterly.

"No! It's not that," Kagome said desperatly. "It's just that, I need to..."

"To what? Run to the old hag and have her make some more slave beads?" She winced at the term. Apparently Inuyasha thought of the beads very differnetly then she did.

"Inuyasha, you're not a slave, you're my friend."

"Friend?! I didn't see you slamming Sango into the ground over and over every goddamn day! We're not friends. You wouldn't let us be, I guess the idea of being near the repulsive hanyou disgust you. And what in the hell gave you the right to humiliate me over and over again? My pride was the only thing I had, and you took it from me. Well, now I'll take your's."

With that he grabbed her wrist and pulled her over to the well. Sittng on the edge, he pulled her over his lap.

"You're a spoiled brat who's had this coming for a long time. Good thing my mother taught me how to deal with brats."

It was the truth. Inuyasha had often been spanked by his mother, usually for things like fighting and breaking things. But afterwards she would hold him until he stopped crying, telling him how much she loved him. He always felt good afterwards, he had paid for whatever it was he had done and all was forgiven.

Kagome realized with a start what Inuyasha had planned when her panties were pulled down.

"No! Please no! I'm sorry!" she screamed and kicked. Inuyasha easily held her down.

"Kagome, I just want you to know. This isn't punishment. This is justice." The first hard smack made her breath catch in her throat.

SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!
SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!
SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!

Kagome couldn't believe the pain. It felt like her rear was on fire. She
struggled and kicked in Inuyasha's inhumanly strong grip, trying desperatly to move herself out of the line of fire.

"Stop that right now or we'll do this in front of the entier village!" Inuyasha commanded.

SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!SMACK!

Kagome's bottom was very red by now. She cried even harder when she finally realized this was all her fault. She had overused the beads, sitting him for trivial things, and sometimes for no reason at all. She hadn't ever given a thought to how Inuyasha felt, how humiliating it must have been.

A few minutes later, Inuyasha had finally worked out all his anger. He allowed Kagome to stand, giving her bottom a slap towards the sacred tree as a warning not to rub it. She cried against the ancient tree, hands on her head as Inuyasha demanded.

When he called her to him she was forced to sit on the hard wood of the well. Kagome sobbed how sorry she was and Inuyasha held her, rocking her slowly just as his mother had for him. After a while he looked her in the eye and spoke very carefully.

"From now on, we're going to be equalls. You don't control me and I don't control you, alright?"

Kagome nodded, realived that it was over.

"Good. Now put your panties back on and get on my back. And if the old hag does put new beads on me, expect to get it even worse. I'll use your hairbrush."

"I promise, no more beads."

Inuyasha smiled and helped Kagome onto his back. "By the way," she asked. "How did you get the beads off?"

"I'm not telling." He laughed. Inuyasha headed towards the village as fast as he could.

He knew a certain fox brat who needed a good spanking too.