Danger in a Kiss

Summary: Kagome is cursed, and she can't help but feel the sudden rush of hatred towards the old witch who placed the damn curse on her. "Should you ever be kissed in true love, your power will destroy the one who placed that kiss upon your lips..."

Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho/InuYasha

Genre: Romance/Drama

Rated: M for Mature Content

Pairing: Kagome/Hiei

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When I said I wanted a normal life, I would have been fine with boring and pathetic, but cursed and unlucky is certainly one way to go. At the oh so amazing age of seventeen, when I had finally realized that I wasn't supposed to be with InuYasha, not because I didn't love him, but because he was a complete and total shit to me...my life gets flipped upside down by an old woman. How? Well let's see, it started with me telling InuYasha off...

~Flashback~

"I ain't gotta watch the brat! It's your job wench!"

"InuYasha, I'm just asking you to watch out for Shippou while I run home real quick! If Sango or Miroku were here, I'd ask them, but they're not." She muttered the last part, but he of course still heard.

"He can take care of himself, damn it!"

Shaking her head, she closed her eyes and furrowed her brows, "InuYasha, you're acting like some little brat who just lost his favorite plaything! What the hell is your problem!?" She opened her eyes and looked up at him, truly curious as to why he was being so stubborn. It wasn't necessarily unusual for the half-breed to be in a less than agreeable mood, but it was definitely pissing her off a bit more than it usually did.

"What the hell do you mean? I'm acting how I always act, Wench!"

Kagome frowned, 'Is he really? Have I really been dealing with this the whole time?! I don't know how I could have missed it, when did I stop caring about how I was treated, when did it become so natural to be called a 'wench' or 'woman' or whatever else he would pull out of his ass.' Kagome looked up and spoke her next words softly, "Inu..."

"Yeah, what?" He glanced down from the tree and frowned.

"When did I stop respecting myself enough to not care about how you treated me?"

His eyes widened as he took note of the tears in her eyes. "Hey now, don't cry!"

"I'm done...I don't want this to be normal. I want to be happy, and I'm not getting that here...I'm not happy, I'm not even close to being happy!" She shook her head violently, eyes snapping shut as tears fell mercilessly from her eyes. "I'm not a wench! My name is Kagome, that's the name my mother gave me when I was born! I've never called you anything but InuYasha! So don't call me anything but the name I was given! I won't stand by any longer, and let you treat me like...like..." her eyes opened and she looked him dead in the eyes, his own eyes wide with shock, "LIKE SHIT!"

With nothing left to say to her half-breed 'friend', she ran off, leaving him stunned in silence, and lost in his own broken thoughts.

She had ran for a good thirty, maybe forty minutes, when her balance was put to the test at the attention her foot showed a raised tree root. Tumbling forward and stumbling downward towards a rocky cavern, she pushed her hands forward and braced herself against the hard ground, a sharp pain in her wrist caused her to pulled her hand back, which resulted in her rolling further across the forest floor before stopping with her back slammed painfully against a large rock she'd had the 'fortune' of rolling into. "...damn...really, I just want a normal life...no demons, fighting, dead lovers or evil bad guys. I could really do without the drama." Kagome sighed as she forced her good hand to push herself up, wincing at the new pain in her back, not to mention the stinging coming from the multitude of small cuts she'd received from just the fall, one included ran right above her right eyebrow and down along the edge of her eye, blood mixing with her sweat, had started to make it difficult to keep her right eye open, and she closed it in her annoyance, the sting not helping.

"Oh dearie, you must have fallen..."

Kagome glanced back, looking with her left eye, she hated how awkward it felt with a permanent wink on her face. "How'd you guess?"

There a stood a woman, her years looked to be roughly the same as an elder tree, if not longer, and still she was hobbling all alone in a forest, down a pile of sharp and jagged rocks. Her eyes were shut, and she had wiry white hair mixed with gray and black strands. "I could feel the aches in your bones."

"Are you sure those weren't yours?" Kagome raised brow and immediately regretted the action, bringing a hand to her brow, she didn't want to touch it, but the damn thing hurt like hell! A light glow forming at the touch, she dealt with the sharp sting before smiling at the release of pain that came with the healing of the injury.

"A handy little trick you've got there."

"Yeah...I picked it up from an old woman back...at my home village." Kagome frowned, she couldn't exactly tell the old woman that it was back at the village where near Inuyasha forest lay, and the bone eaters well that took her back and forth through time resided.

"Something has caused you turmoil, for what reason if any, should a young and beautiful maiden have for wandering these dangerous woods?"

Kagome heard the venom laced in the old woman's voice as she spoke those words, 'young' and 'beautiful'...as if they were horrible things...though Kagome figured it was jealousy. She wondered if all elderly woman felt such a distaste towards the younger generations, reminded of what they once had, and would never get back. "I was angry..."

"...oh?" She walked towards the cavers' entrance and held her boney hand out to Kagome who, though cautiously, took it. "Tell me more."

Kagome did, though she wasn't sure why, hell, she didn't even really care to say anything about her history with InuYasha, or Kikyou, but somehow, she ended up giving the old woman a complete and total rundown of her romantic trials, leaving out only mentions of the well and her time traveling experiences.

"I see..." the old woman cackled, "you whine a lot."

Kagome's eyes widened, the hardening blood over and around her eyes pulling at her skin a bit and cracking at the slightest of movements. "Excuse you? You asked for me to tell you what was wrong, I didn't have to say anything!"

"You have a man who loves his late lover as much as he loves you, if not more, but with your beauty, youth and vitality...not to mention virginity...you could have any man you fancy should you play your cards right." She sneered.

Kagome stood and moved away from the old woman, something wasn't right, something dark had started to move in the shadows of the cave. "I should leave."

"So soon? You just got here...sit!" Her body was forced down, back straight up, but her butt was flat on the ground. Suddenly, she felt an urge to apologize to InuYasha the first opportunity she got. "Such a spoilt little girl, I bet you always get anything that you want, rarely having to work hard for anything...a little wretch with a good looking body and a dangerous slip of a tongue. A mother who concedes no matter what the request, a brother who idolizes and adores, perhaps even fancies his older sister, it wouldn't be the first time I've seen such things. A man who, despite being in love with another woman, still holds high affections for a trollop like you, who has many suitors besides just him biting at your heels...what a grandeurs lifestyle...I want to take it away!"

Kagome couldn't move, her eyes narrowed dangerously at the old woman, but her body just refused to budge! "Let me go!"

"I think not..." the woman cackled and practically skipped as she took a small knife made from a sharpened stone, dragging it over Kagome's raised palm, she licked the blood as if it were a fine wine. The cried out loudly in a spine chilling way. "This is wonderful, you have such an amazing taste, let's make you a slave for me, I can drink you and keep you until all of your blood and youth is mine. First though, to give you a less threatening body, and then take away your ability to move until I've given you a proper cage to sleep in."

Kagome watched as the woman started chanting something, her hand glowed a deep red. Kagome cried out pleadingly, "no...Please, let me go, I've done nothing to you!"

The woman paused..."Let you go?" She said those words as if the idea was strange to her, "...should I really? Just because you have done nothing to me now, means nothing for what you could do to me in the future, though doubtful that any harm could be done to me at all. Hm...Fine...I'll let you go." She lowered her hands, then smirked and brought them back up, chanting once again, this time, Kagomes please and cries fell on deft ears.

By the time the old woman had finished, Kagome was staring up at the old woman fearfully, 'when did she get so tall?'

"Now…I'm a woman of my word...crooked it may be." She laughed, her cracking voice like nails to a chalkboard. "You can leave now...but...oh, some parting words..." she grinned and kneeled down before Kagome, taking her by the scruff of her neck. A feeling Kagome could honestly say she didn't like. Her body went limp at the hold and she felt her body fall helplessly to the old woman. "You see, I will let you go freely, but with your freedom comes a curse. No worries though, it's a simple curse, and like the most of them, it can be broken with true loves kiss..." She placed Kagome down and Kagome immediately took the chain holding the Shikon that had fallen to the ground between her teeth and then took off towards the entrance of the cave. "...However..." Kagome stopped as the old woman continued speaking, "...should you ever be kissed in true love, your power will destroy the one who placed that kiss upon your lips...your true love...will die."

Kagome's eyes widened in horror, absolute horror.

~End Flashback~

And so here I stand, at the edge of a pool of water, wondering 'what the hell do I do next!' My reflection staring back at me only seemed to mock me as I took in my black fur that showed to be darker than the night sky, surely able to blend in with the shadows with ease...though her eyes would stand out for sure, her tail was flicking lazily behind her, not scrawny at all, but lush with soft fur unlike the shorter, though equally soft hair that covered the rest of her body. Somehow, she had managed to keep the Shikon Jewel safe, but she knew that wouldn't last much longer. She was a cat...what was she going to do if a demon tried to take it from her? Bite it!? Not likely. 'I'll have to return home...I guess...I won't be able to return unless this curse is broken...but...'

'...should you ever be kissed in true love, your power will destroy the one who placed that kiss upon your lips...your true love...will die.'

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NEXT CHAPTER:

'Help me...! Somebody, anybody! Please help me, someone...help...' Padded feet moved across the forest floor, dried leaves crackling under the light pressure of four little paws. Black fur reflected the rays of the sun that broke through the leaves and branches hanging overhead. Blue eyes darkened in panic as the little black shadow moved quickly and fearfully through the dense of the forest. 'HELP ME!'

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Me: Here is a new fic to add to my many! I hope you all enjoy, this one and a few other IY/YYH fics have been nagging me lately to be written, and this one actually wrote itself, so I was like, whatever, I can't concentrate on shit anyways if I don't type this one up so I'll write it. Anyways, Review, and tell me what you think, nyan!