Week 18/Pay it forward

Jan 30, 2009 14:03

Title: Pay it forward
Author: landofthekwt
Rating :MA
Universe: AU
Word Count:2202
Genre: Fun with Dog gods
Prompt: Ashes to Ashes by jojokun Inuyasha captions Week 18
Warning: sexual content- graphic violence Character Deaths
Summary: Kagome brings back Inuyasha as an inugami

Once upon a time there was a foolish girl named Kagome fell down a well and landed in the Sengoku Jidai. She released a hanyou from death, broke a jewel and set off on a fool’s errand to make the Jewel whole again.

In her quest she collected companions and shards of the Jewel. She had been so confident of victory. Naraku would be defeated, the Jewel would be destroyed. She would marry Inuyasha They would have many children and live happily ever after.

Unfortunately, life is not a fairy tale. The last battle was a fiasco. Miroku opened his wind tunnel and consumed himself, Sango and Kirara. Inuyasha turned youkai and slaughtered Rin and the rest of the small ones. Sesshoumaru turned on Inuyasha in his grief and killed him.

Sesshoumaru left the field  for the Western Shiro and Kagome never saw him again.
When the smoke cleared Kagome held the body of Inuyasha in her arms. Nothing had gone as planned.

Her mind snapped that day She had no thought of returning home. All memory of the Bone Eaters Well was forgotten. All she could think of her beloved Inuyasha.  She refused to allow Kaede to burn his body. Instead, she insisted that he be buried at the base of Goshinboku where
he had died before In his memory she wore his firerat robe and bore his sword.

In her madness and grief she sought out the kuromiko Tsubaki. Now Tsubaki remembered that
Kagome had bested her by throwing her curse back at her using her bow. She listened to the tale of woe hoping to find something that would be to her advantage from .this tragedy.

It occurred to Tsubaki that the miko was still quite strong. Perhaps she could use the miko to her advantage to reclaim the jewel. With any luck the miko and Naraku would kill each other and the jewel would be hers. And so she agreed to help Kagome.

Kagome had no idea what Tsubaki had in mind she was just grateful that the kuromiko would assist her in restoring her lover to life. The price was to be the Jewel. Kagome was to assist Tsubaki to taking back the Jewel from Naraku.

It was an old ritual. The dogs head had to be planted into the ground. Kagome found it as gross and disgusting as any of the times that she had to pull a jewel shard from the dismembered corpse of a demon. The body had already began to rot.

The hard part for Kagome had been  the head.. He seemed to stare at her accusingly with those great golden eyes. It was like he was blaming her for his death.

The stares only strengthened her resolve. She needed him to come back There would be no peace for her until he returned. Surely, he would want to come back as much she wanted him.

Never mind how Kikyou had hated being dragged back from the dead. This was Inuyasha. The idea of him being at peace seemed incongruent with his nature and so the plan went forward.Tsubaki could tell that Kagome had no clue what was occurring. She had did not know that the ritual would produce an inugami not bring back her lover.  When the inugami entered the body of the hanyou and it was revived she would be the one who would control the hanyou.

She had desired him when he come for at the temple, but he had refused her. Now she would control him and make him hers. Once he was controlled she would have him kill the girl. Her revenge would be complete.

The body was buried up to neck. Food was placed around Inuyasha’s head. Tsubaki then said the words of the ritual.

“If you have a soul, do my will and I will worship you as a god.”

She motioned for Kagome to sever the head. They had only the rusty blade of Tesseiga to cut off Inuyasha’s head. The task seemed to take forever. Every cut caused Kagome pain. The blade sang out in agony. No one should have to disfigure the one they .love.

They both watched with baited breath. What would happen? Would the ritual be a success?
The shadowy form of a monstrous dog began to form above the severed head of the former hanyou.

Tsubaki began to chant Control would have be achieved before beast coalesced into the inugami. She was too late. The beast struck and had her by the throat in an instant. It stood holding the head of kuromiko in one hand

Kagome came to her senses.  Kaede had taught how to invoke the Kotodama. The control was in the words not in the beads.

“Osuwari:” she screamed again and again .until the inugami was subdued.

The inugami drew itself up from the ground. It had not anticipated that any human could control it. Maybe it could gain an advantage from this partnership.

“Mistress, I will need a body to do your bidding. Neither of these bodies are adequate to the task”

Kagome stared at the decapitated kuromiko and the head of the hanyou sticking out of ground.She had to agree with him. The inugami could not assist her with the task of retrieving the jewelwith either of the headless bodies. It could not travel with her in its true  inugami form They would have all of Mushasi on their trail if they did.

Kagome had saved the beads. When the inugami gained possession of a human body, she would put the beads over its head. Until that time she could use the kotodama. But how to control the beast while she was sleeping. There must be a way to get it to obey her will. It had killed Tsubaki before the necessary controls had been put in place.

Her mind swirled. Somewhere in derangement a memory of a manga read long ago by a shy shrine girl. The beast would do her bidding if she offered it her life force. In the manga she had kissed the boy whom the inugami had possessed. The inuagami had only its spectral form She needed to be brazen.

“Inugami. If you obey me you may feed off my life force.”

It was intrigued. No one had ever offered such a tempting proposition before. How far could he push the master.

“I accept your offer. But I must be able to possess your body in order to feed off your life force.”

Kagome was confused. The inugami’s offer did not match the manga description at all. If she allowed the inugami to possess her. how would she retain control. She was sure that the beast had an ulterior motive, but she could not discern what it was.

“Inugami. I bind you to your promise that you will cease your possession when you have sated yourself with my life force.”

The inugami had to comply. Its mistress had offered its her life force in return for obedience . Slowly, the inugami began to possess the miko. Soon she belonged to the dog god.

The inugami began searching Kagome’s mind. for to feed off her life force. He find various references to feeding inugami through touch and kissing. In addition, he found some intriguing thoughts that miko had on ways to give herself pleasure

Intrigued the inugami began to undress the miko. It followed all of the steps which it found in the miko’s mind from playing with her breasts to the blinding flash that resulted from rubbing her clit.

The flash caused the inugami to be expelled from the body of the miko. It lay unconscious next to the naked miko. Groggy, Kagome awoke from slumber to find herself naked. She tried to remember what had happened, but found a gap from the time the inugami had taken possession of her body.

As she gazed on her naked flesh she knew that the inugami must have taken advantage of her sexually. She guessed at what it had done since she felt like she did when she masturbated. Such behavior was not acceptable. She would not allow the beast to molest her again.

She located the beads and invoked her word of power. Whenever she said the word “Inuyasha.” the beast would required to submit to her. No feeding beyond touching. The beast would just have to stay in its demon form until she found it a body to possess.

When the beast finally awoke the woman was standing over him glaring.

“How dare you violate me like that. I am your mistress. I allowed your spirit to come forth. You will not feed in the fashion ever again. You will submit to me whenever I say the name “Inuyasha”.

The inugami was cowed as the word of power shackled it. It knew that it must submit. The temptation had been too great and it may pay for its wrongs. It submitted by baring its throat to mistress and rolling onto its belly.

Kagome reached down to pet it.

“Good dog. So long you agree to protect me with your life. I will always be by your side. I will allow you to feed off my life force so long as you do not take advantage of me sexually.”

The inugami acquiesced. The words seemed to touch it somewhere deep down in the soul that it had been given. The previous owner of this soul obviously thought protecting this woman was worth more than life itself.

And so they began their travels. They had to stay off of the main roads. Travel was not easy for an inugami-mochi and her inugami. Those villages that did tolerate demons already had their own inugami-mochi who made it clear that rivals were not welcome.

Eventually they found a body for the inugami to possess. Kagome felt somewhat guilty, but they made sure that it was person whom no one would miss.

Gradually, Kagome began to treat the inugami as if it were a real person. She would stay up late
at telling it the story of the quest and of her love for Inuyasha. There were times when she would lean against its shoulder or touch its hand and she could feel a hint of recognition.

The inugami began to become closer to its mistress. Obviously, this woman would not brought forth the inugami if she had not loved the hanyou very much. Something in its soul wanted to touch and be touched. It was no longer about taking her life force to protect her. It wished that she would love it as she had loved Inuyasha.

At last they found Naraku. The power which emanated from him was unspeakable. The Jewel was complete now, but Naraku had yet to make a wish on it.

It was clear that Naraku wanted them to come to him The lure was unmistakable. One did not need to be a jewel detector to find him. He was there as plain as day.

Kagome loosed the inugami. It was free to attack in its inugami form. The human body was left
Kagome prepared her bow and began to fire at the spider like creature that Naraku had become.

Naraku was properly distracted. He never saw nor expected the blows which he received from the inugami.

Now that the dark hanyou was distracted by the miko he could not defend himself from her arrows. They pierced the arrows disintegrating him and purifying the jewel.

As he faded into oblivion he mocked Kagome and told her that she would join him in the Jewel to fight him forever. As she gaped at the rapidly fading Naraku she failed to notice Byakuya standing behind her blade in hand.

He took one step toward her and cut her head off in one stroke. She did not have time to scream.
The inugami reached the incarnation a second later and ended his life forever. The dark hanyou and all of incarnations were gone forever.

It  took the human form that it had discarded.  He held her head in his hand. He had failed in his duty to protect her. For the first time in his life the inugami cried. Something within his soul broke free and made him realize for the first time what this woman meant to him.

If only he had a second chance he would protect her with his life. If only he had a second chance maybe she could love him like she had loved Inuyasha. The soul that he had been given wanted to feel her love again. It missed her so deeply that it was reaching out beyond the grave to her.

The inugami stared at the Jewel in his hand. He had been so distracted retrieving the Jewel that he failed to notice Byakuya standing behind her with his sword. He wished that Kagome was alive again so that she would always be by his side and that she would love him the way that she had loved Inuyasha.

There was a blinding flash as the Jewel exploded into a thousand pieces.

prompt 18, author: landofthekwt

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