Wounds To Mend

Wounds To Mend
    And Hearts To Blend

InuYasha holds Kagome up by placing his forehead against hers and a thumb at her chin to keep her supported, he makes note: not to use his other hand from it being drenched with her blood.
“Kagome... I, I
-Please... please forgive-

Kagome comes crashing down with her head now landing on his chest, she whales with muffles cries from his Hinezumi no koromo. “InuYasha!” She raps around him with her last bit of strength. “You did nothing InuYasha, please...” As she begins to weep into his body. “Kagome, if I did nothing, then.... then why is your blood on my hands?” Gasping trying not to cry.

Kagome begins to settle down and sniffles as she lifts up her head and looks over at a spot on the floor. A puddle of blood smudged by InuYasha’s hand lays. InuYasha looks over his shoulders and gasps at the sight, he turns back to Kagome. ”Where.... where did that blood come from?” Enable to pin point the exact place of the wound due to the amount of blood spread out throughout the room and on Kagome’s body, his sense of smell went shallow. Kagome coughed causing blood to protrude from her mouth. “KAGOME!” InuYasha screams as Kagome faints in his arms. Knowing that his miko is unconscious and not dead, he feels her heavy drenched blood breath, breathing against his chest. “Kagome..” InuYasha didn’t know what to do. His miko was suffering. The tear held in his eye finally fell and landed on the miko’s head. “Kagome...” He whimpers.

They were trapped in a room and with the new moon approaching, InuYasha  was enable to punch his way out. He kisses his miko’s head and inhales her blood. Suddenly instincts take over. InuYasha lapped the dry blood off of the miko’s forehead. “Eh!” He winced. “Kagome!” Crying and calling for his love. He begins to lap the shallow cut on her face until it was healed. InuYasha’s head buzzed as he continued. The unconscious miko went limp in his arms. The hanyou wines and growls as he licks away the iron bitterness from the miko’s supple naked body. He starts with the arms that hold zig zag slices running down her arm. InuYasha says to himself. “Who could do such a thing to a-” As he trailed off losing himself in the licking of her soft skin against his rough tongue.

Gashes in her side continues to bleed out onto the yukata that she was rapped in. InuYasha tried his best to lap the wound and keep it from bleeding, tears run down his cheeks. He whaled and sobbed when he removed the obi and yukata from the young miko’s body, revealing her wounds spread out through her body. He didn’t know what to do. He sobbed immensely as he tried to heal her. “Dammit Kagome! Fuck...” His heart hurt as it thumped harder and harder and his breath drew sharply as his back bobbed up and down. His fear broke him. Kagome’s scent was taken over by the putrid smell of blood, and the hanyou thought he was losing her.
He struggled. Cried. Growled

He felt so useless as he lapped her wounds.

He turned her over to find the worst of them all. “THOSE BASTARDS!” he shakily cried out. A character that read “Whore” was dug into her back. He hammered the ground with his fist, until blood dripped down from the broken space between the fingers.

He laid across her back concealing the mark of a wound. As he wept, he rapped around her and pulled her onto his lap and sobbed into the back of her neck. He didn’t want to touch it for fear he wouldn’t be able to keep it from scarring. “DAMMIT ALL TO HELL!” He screamed as his Youkai took over. He snarled as he caught his teeth on his shoulder as he looked away in pain. He realized it.... the mark on her back was deep enough--”NO!” His eyes dripped blood and his fangs sharpened. His Youkai screamed for it’s love. Blood from his shoulder wound dripped, one drop fell onto the mark on her back. The wound permeated a pinkish glow as the contact was presented.

InuYasha looked down at her beaten body. He snarled as he dug his face into her back and began to lick. His tears along with the Youkai’s and the blood from his shoulder mixed into her wound. He inhaled it all as he lapped the mark.

The intensity of it all surrendered his Youkai and his body to collapse to the floor next to the miko.

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The miko’s body, now in better condition then before, Kagome began to breathe softly. The breath fell upon InuYasha’s face as he turned into his human form. The brief Youkai encounter left his human form unconscious and limp.

Kagome felt her body healed and opened her eyes took look upon her hanyou. She stiffly slid over toward him and pressed against his warm body, away from the cold tile flooring.

The wound on his shoulder bled, she could feel her body blanketed by his saliva and knew what he had done.

Over powered with his love for her she began to kiss the shoulder. She winced at the blood as she licked the wound dry and miraculously healed it. She was surprised at her feat and began to weep in his mane.

The hanyou didn’t wake until the following morning when he changed back into his hanyou form. Kagome was asleep pressed against him when he awoke. He was afraid to touch her, fear of the mark on her back. He hadn’t opened his eyes yet, but when the miko stirred and got up to pick up her yukata so is she can cover herself, he peaked to find the mark still there, but then realized it no longer read the horrible word it read before. It now read in faint white strokes “His”. Tears swelled in his eyes as the miko returned to him to lay down again. He embraced her, holding her close and tight to his body, “Kagome!” He wept. “Your Al’right!” Kagome smiled looking up at him as she brushed his bangs from his face. “InuYasha...”

“Kagome, I couldn’t help you in time, I failed you... I let that bastard touch you! Please! Please, forgive me!” He begged with guilt in his voice.

“InuYasha, you didn’t fail me.... he didn’t--” As she shook her head.

“Your body, it’s.... it’s-” He began.
“Fine now, because of you...” She finished.
“No Kagome, they did this to you because of me.... because I wanted to make you my mate.” As tears waterfall from his eyes. Kagome slid her head under his chin. “It doesn’t matter.” She whispered. “Doesn’t matter? Kagome, I could've lost you!”
As he lowers his head pressing his nose against her forehead.

Kagome couldn’t speak, she didn’t know what to say. She thought that he didn’t care about her, that all she was good for was for shard tracking. She could feel a soft kiss land in between her eyes. The sound of his lips as they pulled away while some wanted to stay behind from the stickiness of his saliva left her stiff, and enable to move.  He then set his lips back on that spot and just sat there, not moving. The warmth of his lips made the hairs on the back of her neck stick up, and as if he sensed the protruding hairs, he placed a hand over the back of her neck. “Kagome...” He muttered.

Minutes past as they lay there in silence. Until InuYasha could smell the bitter scent of tears. He could feel the small miko under his arms shake and breath heavily. He took her chin in-between his thumb and pointing finger and raised it ot his face. Her eyes were a light pink and bathed in tears. One escaped and was running down her face as he lapped it up before it made it off her soft cheek. Her mouth was slightly open to let out uncontrolled moans as she shivered. The hanyou looked deep into her eyes studying the lines that were in her Iris of dark grey-blue. His heart squeezed as her sclera drew in a darker tone of pink. “InuYasha?” She whimpered. “Do you lay with me now... because you do not know..... of-- my mark....?” She whispered to almost not to be heard by InuYasha. InuYasha winced at the image in his mind of the bloody torn flesh on her back. “K--Gome?” He finally answered. “I know of the mark that presides on your back.” He calmly stated as she winced at his words. “I have done all I can for it, but there is a scar.” Kagome began to weep into his chest. “But, it douth not say that cruel word no longer.” He added as though he was quoting something. “It claims thee as mine and thy as yours, so ith thou binded together.” Kagome looked up in astonishment at what the hanyou was speaking. “InuYasha?...”


“My mother would read me poetry from a scroll under her bed.... that particular one has always stayed with me. It speaks of the mark of banishment, for crime done by a human and a Youkai. But the human and Youkai would take that mark and see it as a mark of love for each other.” He stated. Kagome just looked at her hanyou with the deepest of love. “Like... like your parents....” She said. “M-hm.” He added. “My old man wasn’t particularly the poetic type, but my mother said he liked it when she would read it to him..... it was like their song.... their word of love.”

“InuYasha......” Kagome whispered.
“Keh?”
“Could it.... could it be our word?” She said with love in her voice.
InuYasha stared at her in astonishment and blushing.
Kagome no longer able to take the stare of the hanyou, leaned in and kissed him softly on the mouth. “InuYasha.... your shoulder, I... I....” She began. “My shoulder?” As he reached up to touch it and by the touch he winced. “I couldn’t help it much.... InuYasha?”
“Keh?” He answered.
“I felt your Youkai.... earlier. It lapped your shoulder to heal it..... I tried, I hope I healed it properly.”
“Kagome.....” He said with a smile on his face. “There’s nothing more you can do for me, all I need is my miko....” He said softly in her ear. “My Kagome” He whispered as he drifted off to sleep from exhaustion from the night before.
Kagome blushed at his compliment and rapped her arms around his head and brought it toward hers and rested her forehead on his chin. “My hanyou.....
.... my InuYasha.”