I imagine that InuYasha feels his youkai energy grow and fill him with new strength on the full moon. I also imagine that if he let himself be himself during those times, he might go after Kagome in a whole new way. And if I were Kagome, I'd react accordingly.

My Wilderness [full text]

I see your eyes
as they trace my scars -
feel your sweat,
wet to my touch -
even as it calls my
tongue to taste you.
Awake in the dark
I smell your fear.
I hear it in your heart beat –
too fast for sleep.

Your heart - need you fear me more than I fear myself?

I do not feel fear-
only hunger, a deep
primal longing to
fill myself, sating
the emptiness where the
flame would burn.
That which will feed me
cannot lie across my path,
I must seek it, hunt it
until it is mine.

Your hunger – is it you that screams in my blood?

I watch you strain…
listening to me prowl you,
inhaling your fear, salivating
for your skin.
Your instinct calls to mine
and you run - the
sharp scent of adrenaline
spiking the trail behind you.
Legs and arms pump past the
shadowed leavings between us.

You know – is your wilderness that different than my own?

A swipe and a tease
and you are trapped,
retreating before my crawl -
urging me over you,
pulling me down.
Our drums beat in my ears,
pulsing me in you, filling
you with my hunger
until our void cries its release –
and the emptiness is consumed.

Characters property of R. Takahashi.
Image (c) Sunrise Studios