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Kagome smiled at inu. She tightened her grip on her lover's hands. "Inu, for years you've been told that you need to keep your human and animal natures separate, but that has only caused you pain; it has been divisive within you, made you at variance with yourself. I'm not telling you that being with me will sove all your problems, but it wil cause you to overcome the most painful of them. This may sound strange to you, but I am one of those people whose best friends are their dogs--not that I will hang out exclusivey with dogs, and forgetting human companionship. I am saying that with you, my darling, I can have the best of both of both worlds. With you I will have a sentien, human--albiet daemon, but still very compatible to me--best friend. Our rlationship will be ohysica, but also you will be a good listener to all my problems, just as you wiil to mine. We can lie in bed and just talk, as other male and female couples do.
But, InuYasha, I love you, and this may likewise seem strange to you, but I love you as much as a hound as I do as ido as a boy! This is REALLY hard for most people to grasp. I won't have relations with you when you are a puppy, but I can still take you for long, long walks--and don't deny it! I know you love it as much as I do!--And I can umleash you and let you free to run and be wild, as so much a part of you wants. I'm a pretty good runner, but so are you. Sometimes we play games, like fetch and hide and seek. It's like I'm a little kid again, playing with her young hound, and the relationship I have developed, somehow, Inu, is unique among people. I swear, before my God, inu, I love you as much as a fine hound as I do a a human being. I believe that, in me, perhaps only in me, can your human and animal natures come together, as I said before. Are beginning to come together. Are you at least beginning to see what I mean. You know, all you--and maybe I--have to go by in this matter right now is words, and I can see your still a little confused, but that's OK. I can dee your little head tilting to the right, as doggies do when they're confused or don't understand something. The only thing I can say, which hopefully will help you tho get what I mean, is that over the next few months, and then, if you'll have me, as your wife--16 is the age we need to be when we can get married, we no longer will talk about this arrangement. Instead we will live it--so you see, my little hound-doggie, it will of necessity take time before you fully understand my phrase 'come together.' Just trust me , Inu. Your limitations are that you not have sexual relations with another dog, whether it be a male or female, that you never kill other dogs--or cats--for sport, only for self defense--it's OK if you kill for food, but that you never bring game inside the house, and that you take a long drink of water after you've eaten your prey, so that your face, teet, nose, etc. will be clear of blood. I think you can understand this. I will let you out at night to pursue your animal interests, I only insist that you return, either as my hound or as my husband, at sunrise,
Kagome continued her long explicatory remarks to Inu, hoping against hope that he would understand what she was saying, that her words and future relationship wit Inu would overcome the old words of his various teachers and masters, which had done nothing but make him miserable, had in fact made a war within himself between his daemonic dog and daemonic human natures--a war that she feared would last until the day of his death, or would never end until one triumphed over the other. She really had no idea how this would end, but, of course, she hoped his human nature would win, but she was convinced that this would happen only if she were allowed to give him the freedom to be a dog, practically whenever he wanted to, and enjoy the special, wonderful relationships that a man and a woman share, not only congegall but also intimate conversation and social relations the two could have with other people, to go on picnics together, and , soon, begin to raise a family together. Some of the children maybe daemon, but some regular human beings--and having a baby will bring a husband and wife even closer together, and Inu's human side would begin to overcome his powerful daemonic animal instincts. However Kagome was not lying when she said she would love her doggie as much as she would her human espoused, eventually the father of her children. Kagome told InuYasha that he would be generally human once she had her first baby, but she did not say she would prefer him in this shape as a faithful doggie.
But there was a stipulation to Kagome' marriage, and in the meantime more-than-friendship between her and Inu. A doggie must always have a master--a master who expected her hound to come to her on her command and to follow. Her directions. Kagome began to explain to Inu this constraint to his freedom. "Inu, when you are a dog in my company, you are almost always a good boy. You don't misbehave, you don't tear up the furniture, you don't tear on my sleeves in play. Sometimes you bark in the house, which really doesn't annoy me because you double as a watchdog. At night you sleep at the foot of my bed, or as dogs often do, tou move close tom me and snuggle against ny legs, especially on cold nights, which I tolerate, even approve up, because I understand the behavior of dogs on cold nights. But, Inu, when you are in my company as a doggie, even though it's not really necessary to discipline you, I am still your master. I hold the leash when we take walks, I bought the collar that you wear--which you wear only when you are a puppy dog, I tell you 'Let's go for a walk, boy!' or conversely when it's time to go home I say 'OK, boy! It's time to go home!' I have taught you simple commands that you alwasys obey, such as, "Come!' or 'Sit, boy' or 'No' and you always obey those commands! In fact, you obey them when I give them when you have "norphed," or whatever the word is, into a human being. You are an excellent, well-behaved pup, and all my friends at school male or female, envy this fine, heart-felt friendship between you when you are my dog! One thing , though, I insist you understand, is that I am your master, and you are always to obey ME!"
That said, Kagome continued, believing her words would help to understand the "coming together" of the boy's human and animal forms and behavior, if only when she and he were together in a betrothed and later espoused relationship. "Now, Inu, what I'm going to say to you may--again--seem strange. You can't help but know, even in your own past familial situations, that the man of the house, titularily at least, is the head of the house. In a good marriage this is not actually the case. There is always a sharing of responsiblities between the man and wife--an almost equal partnership. Usuall the woman is in charge of cooking and taking care of the kids, the husband in charge of earning money--not for his sake but for the sake of his own family, and providing food for the wife and children and furnishing which, with an unwritten, even non verbal contract, the wife keeps clean and arranges in a way that suits everyone. She adds a feminine touch to the household, and because she knows, because her husband has had a hard day at work or back-breaking labor in the fields, for her and their children's sake , that he deserves to relax, and it's the woman's unspoken, but willing, contractual agreement, to make her husband comfortable until it is time for dinner, and as a familiy he, the woman and the children sit as a family, eat and converse on all sorts of topics , whether important or not. She is under no obligation to have marital relations with her husband at his command--though he can, of course, woo her into it, as can she; but on the other hand if either one is unsatisfied in this regard, if either the man or the woman refuses to share intimate relations, then one or the other may be divorced for the reason of incopatibility, and they are to divide evenly between themselves the goods of the family--though the woman is usually left with the house and--maybe the children, or some of them, which he can visit at wiil and the man should provide money, not for the woman but for the children, and when they reach 12 they may decide which parent they wish to live with. Both the man and the woman during their marriage provide equal love and nurturing for the children.
"But Inu, between you and me the situation will be different, You are now--and possibly always will be, half animal in your nature. It will be necessary for me, as your wife, to be not a practically equal partner with me. I must be your suprerior, I must see to your proper behavior as a human, as I demonstrated. I will be blunt. Inu, I am madly, desperately in love with you! But the more mature spouse, whether male or female, must be disciplined if he shows a wild side. Whenever you disobey me, whenever you behave badly or wildly, for what ever reason I deem necessary, Inu," and here Kagome began stroking his hair and petting his ears, which he affectionately bent back or parted, and began to lie down on his back, which meant he needed a belly rub, which Kagome gave him, "just like I did last night, I will give you a sound thrashing on your bare botto--and I don't care whose there. I will continue this practice until you are 23 years old--I'll give you one last, bare-bottom belting on you, and then I will choose another method of disciplining you--but that's kind of far into the future. But remember, even if you are 22 years old and run away without telling me, no matter who you take with you, I will strap you when you get home. You're going to be MY boy, Inu! I think now you are beginning to get an idea of how your human and animal sides of you will be united. And Inu, I will NEVER punish you for assuming your other natural state. Just know that I am at all times your master, and must come when I beckon you, or if someone you know and trust, whom I have sent for you, calls you. So you see, Inu, you will be able to unite your human and animal natures, in spite of what your masters, teachers or doctors at the college who have talked to you about this matter, have said about it. I have said a lot, and maybe it is too much for a little pup to digest in one, even two days; I just hope that I have cleared up at least some of the confusion you had before." Here she took Inu by hes head and shoulders and began racking him, stroking his soft, beautiful long hair, petting his ears so that they went down in love and scratching behind them, as dogs love. "Remember, my darling, that a girl or woman strapping her boy, or young, immature husband for naughtiness and general misbehavior, including lack of obedience, is an aspect of deep love and affection for her boy, or even young husband. I can--and will--provide that for you, so that you can in future do me, and yourself proud." She kiseed him full on the mouth, and after a little while said "I LOVE you, InuYasha! Unconditionally! Boy or dog, I will love you the same! I KNOW I am the only one who can provide this unity between human and animal! And, I think, the beltings I give you when you are bad as a human boy will be good for you! They will contribute to your well being and happiness." Again she kissed him, this time tenderly on his forehead, and Kagome continued to rock her little boy-puppy gently.
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