Howling Shadows by PianoPlayer123

Howling Shadows 4

AN:  Thank you WiccanMethuselah who brought to my attention this is a MA rated story. Sorry for any inconviniences

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Blinded by rage and without remorse, Kagome almost ripped the door from its hinges; she stormed over to the side of her bed then threw the duvet across the room effortlessly. Kagome’s breathes came out in angry pants as she looked at the cowering couple on her bed. Tangled in each other’s limbs, the stink of sex eroded at Kagome’s nose she glowered down at them, their eyes were wide in fear as Kagome’s aura burned with overwhelming power. ‘How dare they rut in my bed!’ she thought enraged.

As Kagome continued staring them down she had thought up a payback plan – on a normal day she would have put them in a world of pain, but there were kids down stairs... In a flash Kagome snagged both of their wrists in an iron hold, then without mercy proceeded to drag them down stairs. When they reached the dining hall the raven haired blue eyed she wolf basically launched the man and woman – both still butt naked- into the middle of the room, her vision still clouded with a furious red haze.

People gathered around the pair, all had smelt the sex clouded around them, some glared at them whilst others (mainly the bitchy group from earlier) glared at Kagome. She took a deep breath and began to cool off, she raised her eyes to the group of teenagers and beckoned them over, swiftly she left the room a group of teens tailing her – leaving the pair to explain for themselves.

She quickly led the funky haired teens towards her room, entered through slightly offset doorway, then pointed towards her bed, “You can burn it in the back garden, there is gas in the shed.” They all looked at her strangely before passing her, hailing the mattress with the bed frame upon their shoulders, narrowly making it through the door way, and moving towards the garden, just before they left Kagome darkly warned them, “Burn my house down and I will break every bone in your bodies.”

Returning to her room Kagome exchanged her alcohol saturated jumper for a clean cobalt blue jumper much like the first one, then exited her bed-less bedroom to the dining room. Once she arrived her guests had settled down somewhat, their voicing more hushed, when she was acknowledged all eyes turned on her – that seemed to be happening a lot lately. 

Sesshomaru weaved through the crowd and stood before Kagome then inclined his head slightly.

“I apologise for my packs inexcusable behaviour, I have sent them to our den for a punishment.” he said sternly, looking into her stunningly blue eyes. Sesshomaru had to admit, he was slightly shocked, and impressed, by the she-wolfs display, he had put Kagome down as simple and more on the submissive side – boy was he wrong. For a female to fling two people halfway across a room with ease was something rarely seen, plus the unmistakable buzz of reiki constantly swirling in her aura, extraordinary but unnerving. He and his beast loved it.

No one had been able to challenge him since his father, not even his brother Inuyasha, but now he had found a match in power he felt like a pup again a new toy – but a possessive pup he was and we all know old habits die hard...

Kagome silently gazed into Sesshomaru’s glazed over golden eyes, trying to identify the emotions that flittered in the depths. For the second time that night something jolted her out of her daze in the form of Rin, this time with a subtle poke to the hip.

Rin was smiling broadly up at Kagome, three ore children around the same age group stood beside and behind the little girl. Kagome smiled sweetly and crouched down – leaving Sesshomaru to bring himself out of his own inner thoughts.

“So what are your names?” her voice was soft, motherly almost. Rin stepped forward and pointed to a girl with blonde shoulder length hair tied into to pigtails on each side of her head, large greeny blue eyes gazed up at Kagome.

“This is Kirin-chan,” Rin then pointed to a boy with strawberry blonde hair and hazel eyes, “This is Ino-chan.” Finally she turned to the boy beside her, he had bright green eyes and ginger hair tied into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. “This is Shippou-chan! Rin is Rin-chan.”

Kagome giggled at the small girls use of third person, “My names Kagome, you can call me Kagome-onee-chan or whatever you want.” The four kids smiled. “Now then what do you want to play? Shall we head outside? Follow me.”

Kagome led a small train of children out to her back garden, noticing it was darker than expected she flicked the out light on, it illuminated the neatly trimmed grass and pebbled pathway that led to the small shed the light dimmed where the forest met. Further down the path was a dying fire slowing smouldering emitting a dark stream of smoke where the teen agers had burned her bed – good riddance.

Before she could comprehend what was happening she was all but slapped on the back of her leg, “IT!” A chorus of giggles sprung out from the children’s’ throats as they scattered away from Kagome at lightning speed, proof they were not human.

A large grin worked its way onto Kagome’s face as she coyly chased after each child only to slow and let them escape at the last second, letting her guard completely down, ignorant of the small audience that had accumulated that was until something hauled her up by her waist into the air. A startled yelp sprung from Kagome’s lips, she turned her wide eyes to Inuyasha with a smirk on his face. She scowled playfully and thumped him on the head with her fist, not before shouting “IT!” and sprinting off, grabbing four children as she passed them. They proceeded to crazily chase each other around.  Some more people joined in surprisingly so did Sesshomaru, they all seemed to enjoy teasing Kagome almost testing her, she out witted and out manoeuvred any who faced her.

Finally, the children seemed to droop with exhaustion and the game ended. An old woman by the name of Kaede took the children away to sleep. The night grew chillier and everyone headed back into the dining hall, a comfortably air surrounded the place now, no one seemed tense anymore – did it mean they had accepted her?

A man with silver hair, like Sesshomaru’s walked towards the table with his nose high in the air, if Kagome’s memory served her correctly from the greetings at her doors his name was Inuyasha her new alphas half-brother. Inuyasha’s eyes hardened as he stepped up onto a chair and bellowed, “Does anyone challenge me, Drinking King, to a drink off!?” he put on a mock nobleness that made mirth bubble up in Kagome’s tummy – a little annoyance too, because that was her new chair he just stomped on...

An idea struck her, “I’m in!” she shouted, people looked at her dumb founded. Other weres’ put themselves up to the challenge, everyone gathered around the table. “You don’t have to do this, it gets serious.” A man with a long braid down his back – Bankotsu- sat himself next to her with a sly smile. Kagome burst into fits of laughter as Bankotsu’s eyebrows rose into his bangs “I can handle it.”

The first round of shots were given out, Kagome savoured the burn in the back of her throat but was not satisfied, it was too mundane for her tastes, she put the shot glass down and stood.

“Already given up princess?” one said snidely. Kagome glared lightly at him.

“It would take all night if we drank alcohol the equivalent of wine. I have some better stuff, wait one minute.” She exited the room and went to the kitchen then bent down under the sink and pulled out a medium sized weaved basket, she opened the top and smiled – this would be fun.

Kagome returned to the table, all eyes on her and the basket, she sat down and pulled four bottles, each painted with a different coloured oni face – blue for “mild”, green for “medium” , red for “burn” and finally purple the most extreme “suicidal” the best alcohol the Eastern Lands could produce. She explained to the table that they were specially made for supernatural consumption and were hundreds of times better than weak human alcohol. “This should give you a taste.” She uncorked the blue bottle and poured a table of shots, everyone looked at her doubtfully and arrogantly gulped the whole shot, as did Kagome. ‘three, two, one..’ counted in her head.

Coughs, sputters and chokes rang around the room, they held their necks as it burned a path towards their stomachs making faces go red and tears to brim in eyes. Did Kagome feel sorry? Not one bit.

She patiently waited for all to calm, rose a delicate eye brow and said “Light weights...” she grabbed the bottle and started to poor more shots, only this time people coward away from it like it was poison some ran from the table. To her surprise only Bankostu, Inuyasha and an old man were still seated. Instead of using the blue bottle Kagome swapped it for the green, and handed out the shots. The three looked at the clear liquid in the glass shot glass apprehensively. Without hesitation Kagome swigged the erosive liquid down her gullet, this time it brought a flush into her cheeks, at that the old man ran away mumbling about wanting to live.

“What’s the matter going to let little me beat you?” she provoked, already feeling a slight after affect of the drink. Harshly, Inuyasha and Bankostu simultaneously downed their glasses, tears glistening in their eyes but faces holding firmly in a stoic mask. She dealt more shots out, after moving onto the third “burn” shot Bankostu was constantly laughing at thin air, Kagome had a bright flush on her face and a coy smile whilst Inuyasha had his tongue sticking out of his mouth as he slowly went cross eyed his hands limply led on the table. The next red shot was handed out; as Bankostu lifted it to his lips he started to lean back on his chair, all of a sudden a crack sounded – the chair leg gave out and Bankostu was left sprawled out on the dining room floor. Everyone who had not left – considering the sun was almost rising- burst out in howling laughter – literally some people had abandoned their human forms awhile back.

Finally Kagome grasped the purple bottle, the smell unleashed by uncorking it made even Kagome’s drunken mind start to rethink.. Ever way she had committed now, no turning back.  She poured two glasses and slid one down the table to a swaying wolf-man. Her and Inuyasha hesitated for a few seconds before ramming the foul liquid down there sore throats. Kagome gagged and coughed violently as she dug her nails into the table leaving deep crescent shapes in their wake.

THUMP! Her silver haired, amber eyed contestant fell face first onto the table, the only sign of life was a subtle expanding and constricting of his torso when he breathed.

Kagome threw her arms up and shouted/ slurred “I WIN!” she then groaned feeling the full force of reality crashing down on her and she sunk down onto the table resting her head on her arms. Someone tapped on her shoulder, she yelped in fright and shot up, her chair flung aside as she stood stiff as a board. She wavered on her feet slightly, two large hands steadied her at her shoulders, her vision was blurry and her senses were just as fuzzy, all she could make out was a glint of silver and gold. “Water...” she mumbled the hands at her shoulders disappeared and a figure moved away from her. Suddenly feeling childish Kagome followed the blurry blob. Kagome successfully reached the dining rooms door before her mind went blank, what was she doing again? She groaned again feeling overly tired.

From memory she headed towards the stairs, staggered down a long hallway, sometimes having to grab the wall for support. Reached her bedroom, swung the door open so hard a loud bang sounded though out the entire house also making her lose balance and kiss her much loved beige carpet. Before she could help it her eyes were closing the final effect of bottles and shots of alcohol kicking in. So on the floor, our heroine of the story, Kagome Higarashi, fell sound asleep on her bedroom floor...

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