Venerable Cede

Chapter 1-The Beginning

The sky was cloudy over the crescent moon that floated in the sky. The trees blew softly with a warm breeze and created a serene landscape. In the middle of a clearing was an old dusty abandoned hut, there were two girls quietly sitting outside of their abode for the night trying to ignore the snoring from the boys that had woken them. The talk started about three hours ago and was still going strong. They had gone from Inuyasha's temper to Miroku and Sango's growing relationship, or so Kagome thought.

"Well Sango-chan, when do you think Miroku will wise up and actually formally ask you to be his wife?" asked Kagome.

A red tint covered Sango's cheeks, as she looked shocked and disbelieving. "What? Kagome! Do not ask me questions like that. It's never going to happen!"

"Come on Sango! You've already...you know, done it" she waved her hands in an insinuating gesture and smiled.

Sango rolled her eyes and replied, "He's too much of a lecher for his own good and thinks I'm only good for sex."

Now it was Kagome's turn to roll her eyes. Ever since she had brought condoms back through with her for Sango and Miroku, they had become like sex machines. The week before she brought them, she noticed that they had been having some very bad sexual tension. She had explained to Sango how and why they were used and not to any of Kagome's surprise, she practically jumped on him the night she gave them to her.

However, lately Miroku had only been going at Sango. He wasn't even groping Kagome anymore. Maybe he was straightening out his priorities? No one quite knew how Miroku's brain worked.

Creak

The girls looked around at the sound of someone walking across the porch when they were unexpectedly grabbed from behind.

Kagome screamed as she was thrown to the ground and she reflexively clenched her eyes shut to protect them. Slowly she opened her eyes and came face to face with her attacker. His eyes were bright green and like slits, almost reptilian. His yellow skin also felt scaly and rough like calloused hands. He wore a traditional haori and hakama in a deep green color and a yellow obi to tie it together. It appeared that he had tackled her and pinned to the ground, straddling her waist. He trapped her hands easily above her head and leaned down to her ear. He licked the shell of her ear, breathed hot breaths down her neck, and began to whisper.

"Aren't you a delectable little virgin? You will be so delicious once I take your innocence and devour you whole. My ancient race will thrive once we take all the virgins in the world and you'll have the honor of being the first"

Tears began to run down her face as the threatening words scared her to no end.

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Sango fought against the hands that held her. The last think she saw before she was thrown into the hut was a snake youkai grabbing Kagome. With a loud thump, she landed into the hut. The boys jumped awake as the door was slammed and locked from the outside.

"Sango what's going on?!" Miroku exclaimed as she jumped up and began pounding on the door.

A scream pierced the night.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled.

Inuyasha jumped up from his sleeping place and started to punch and kick the door with all his might. In seconds the flimsy door of the hut blew apart because it wasn't strong enough to hold the power of the hanyou's force. Two snake youkais were thrown to the ground as he and the others rushed out of the hut.

Their breaths hitched from them at the sight they had taken in.

There on the ground was a terrified Kagome being held down by a snake youkai they had never seen before. He was bent down holding her wrists with one hand and digging his sharp nails into her hip with the other as he whispered words into her ear.

Inuyasha eyes began to turn from a golden yellow to a crimson red at the sight of someone touching Kagome against her will.

Kagome turned her head to see them standing there. Tears were streaming down her face and held a frightened look as her brown eyes met crimson.

Quicker than any of the group could comprehend, he rushed forward with Tetsusagia and quickly killed Kagome's attacker by detaching the body from its head. The offending creature fell off Kagome and left a huddled miko of the forest floor, whimpering.

Sango rushed forward to her friend, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Kagome..." she whispered next to her. The miko looked up and threw her arms around Sango's neck, crying out her fear.

Moments of crying went by before they diminished into soft sobs. Sango helped Kagome stand and took her back to the hut with the boys behind them.

The boys had decided it was best to give Kagome her space, they had no idea what the youkai had said to Kagome but it obviously spooked her enough to cry. This was obviously a sensitive time for males to be around. They were glad that Shippou understood that this was a sensitive moment for Kagome and he stayed with Miroku.

It took several minutes for Kagome to calm down to a point that she could say anything. Sango decided to approach the topic lightly.

"You're ok Kagome, but what did the youkai say to make you so upset?"

"V-virgins..." she muttered.

Sango and the others raised their eyebrows before her friend slowly began talking to her.

"What about them Kagome? What about virgins?" she asked

"H-he said they were ancient snake youkai that want virgins to to..." she paused to begin crying again but stopped herself.

Sango hugged her as the girl continued.

"They want to eat them in order to gain power to raise their empire from the underground caverns..." she said quietly.

Making a mental note, they all took in this information, looking at the fallen girl.

"Thank you for telling us Kagome, I think it's best you rest now and I'm sure you'll feel better in the morning."
Kagome nodded her agreement and let out a sigh of exhaustion before falling into a deep sleep.

They stayed quite for a while to make sure Kagome was indeed asleep. Everyone had been thinking of what Kagome said. Miroku looked the most thoughtful as he spoke. "Well now we know why they attacked"

Nodding to his pondering, if they were looking for pure virgin women eat, then Kagome was defiantly a target.

Shippou was very worried for Kagome's safety and well being as he asked an innocent question that turned out to be not so innocent.

"So how do we help fix mama's problem?" he asked seriously.

Sango thought for a moment and blushed, while Miroku flashed a lecherous grin. Inuyasha, who hadn't been paying attention, was blissfully staring out of the window and into the foliage of the forest thinking of what would have happened if he hadn't stopped that youkai in time. It made him get goose bumps all over his body.

Miroku took full advantage of his spacing to say, "I'm sure Inuyasha would be more than happy to help. Isn't that right Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha turned back to the group. "Huh? What'd you say lecher?" he said with wonder.

Shippou smiled and said, "Miroku suggest that you help Kagome with her uh...what she call it...oh yeah...her 'virgin' problem. So what do you say Inuyasha, will you help her?"

Inuyasha spluttered. Shippou was so oblivious that he had no idea what he was asking of him.

They want me to do WHAT!??!

He blushed and looked to the monk with disbelieving eyes and saw the monk's hentai grin.

"NO! ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?!"

The three in the hut were shocked that he would refuse to help out his friend with this problem. Especially one of this type of magnitude, Kagome's life was in danger and they knew how to fix it. Sango's thoughts became bitter.

I bet he just doesn't want to do it because of Kikyou...oh poor Kagome...

However, Miroku's were more lecherous in nature.

What man would turn down an opportunity like this one?

Shippou looked saddened.

Inuyasha's supposed to protect mama why won't he help?!

All thoughts were stopped as they all heard a moan as Kagome stirred in Sango's lap and opened her eyes slowly.

"Inuyasha?" she asked sleepily, "What's wrong?"

The others inwardly smiled. Kagome was always thinking about others before she thought of herself. However Inuyasha felt far from ok, what the team had just suggested was impossible!

"How dare you even suggest I would do that with Kagome?! It's gross! I'll never do that with her! EVER!!"

Kagome looked to her best friend. "What's he talking about Sango?"

Sango blushed, "We were trying to get you out of being eaten..."

Kagome smiled.

Well that's ok...why's he going all mental about it?

"I see, what were your guys's ideas?"

Inuyasha somehow felt it appropriate to enter into the conversation

"Oh nothing just the fact that the team suggest that I FUCK you is all!!" he fumed

Kagome's eyes widened and she blushed to a deep tomato red.

"Why would you guys suggest something like that!?" she asked skeptically.

Sango pulled her sister close into her lap.

"Listen Kagome, you said that the snake youkai were looking for virgins, right?" Kagome nodded as Sango continued, "Well as much as I'm reluctant to say, the only way to protect you from that kind of attack would be for you to lose your virginity. Now I know that in your time it is looked down upon but this is to save your life, and well since we thought Inuyasha had feelings for you that he would make a good mate for you..."

"WHAT?!" Inuyasha interrupted but a swift hard hit to the head by Miroku's staff silenced him.

Kagome blushed but soon after frowned, "And he doesn't want to help..."

Sango shook her head as Kagome settled back into her.

"I guess I'm not surprised, he has his precious Kikyou to think about" Kagome said with sadness and some venom.

Inuyasha's face slacked into a sad stare and opened his mouth to say something

"I'm tired Sango...I think I'm going to go back to sleep" she said quickly lying back against Sango's shoulder and closing her eyes.

Soon she fell asleep and Sango threw Inuyasha a glare so nasty he flinched. They were all silent for the rest of the night before they slept.