A/N: Hello people it's been awhile huh? Well I'm going to start with this new Inuyasha fiction and the way that I came up with it was because I got "Inuyasha: The Mystery of the Cursed Mask" for my birthday and the character's interactions and whatnot got me thinking of this new fiction, that and I was watching a lot of AMV of Inuyasha on YouTube lol. So I hope you like it, it's gonna be different from my normal stuff, because it's a kinda Kouga/Kagome thing. (Rated M of Mature) Oh and also the title might change, I was thinking more about the story and less about the title so… Enjoy!Disclaimer: "Inuyasha" belongs to Rumiko Takahashi on Cartoon Network OR Adult Swim
Chapter 1: Prologue
It was a night just like any other night, the moon was full and making a giant spot light in the sky, as far as the eye could see and our group were enjoying their night off from fighting demons, gathering information, and searching for Naraku. As usually, Shippo and Kilala were enjoying candy and sweets that Kagome had brought back from her time, Sango and Miroku were snuggling with each other talking about what they were going to do the next day and Inuyasha and Kagome, well…
"Sit boy!"
BAM
...They were acting normal...
"Sit boy, sit boy, sit boy!"
BAM BAM BAM
"What the hell Kagome, all I said was that your noodles tasted kinda funny!"
"Sit boy!"
BAM
"You idiot! I make them the same way that I always do! What's different about them? Maybe if you weren't so eager to eat them so soon they'd be cooked right!"
"It's not my fault that you're slow at making everything!"
"Sit boy! You're so stupid!" Kagome shouted as she stormed into the hut; they always took a good long rest in Kaede's village after a long time of traveling. So much so that Kaede had a special hut made for them in the back of her village so they could relax in peace, somewhat. It was never boring with Kagome and Inuyasha around, but secretly they had a bond. However, they would always make up somehow and things would be alright sooner or later.
"Inuyasha, Kagome waits on you hand and foot and that's the things she gets?" asked Sango.
Miroku added, "Men in your position would kill to have a woman like Kagome, and all you do is treat her like she's nothing!"
"Don't you think I know that?" Inuyasha shouted as he strained to get up from his hole, "She just has a short, crazy woman temper. What was that she told us once, 'her time of the monthly visit'?" Inuyasha finally got back into his lotus pose and continued to sit quietly with everyone, until he smelt something, familiar...
"Inuyasha, do you sense that?" Miroku asked. A strong aura was in the area that gave him goose bumps.
"Yeah I do, I know that…Kikyou!" he exclaimed standing up and looking to the skies. Her soul collectors were around, with balls of light in their tiny claw like arms, 'What's she doing here?' Inuyasha sprang forward, "Guys I'll be right back!"
"Hold it!" Sango also got up and pointed to the back of Inuyasha's head, "Don't you dare go see her, don't you dare hurt Kagome again!"
Inuyasha turned with awe and shock; he couldn't remember Sango ever talking to him like that, "Sango…"
"Inuyasha, we understand how you feel about Kikyou, for once think about…"
"Inuyasha…?" This time it was Kagome, poking her head out of the hut. "I'm sorry I just wanted to say…what's going on?" Kagome asked as she stepped out, looking at everyone and feeling confused. Everyone, including Inuyasha, were staring at her; Inuyasha then looked away,
"Kagome, please understand…"
"Understand what?" Confused, Kagome looked up towards the sky then she knew, "Go." She said coldly and turned away. Inuyasha ran up to her,
"Kagome what did you say?"
"Go, go and see her. I know you want to..." Kagome turned to go back into the hut, "You don't have to ask. Just go..." before Inuyasha grabbed her arm,
"Kagome…" he said softly
Kagome turned with the quickness and pushed Inuyasha back, "Just get the hell out of here, you stupid dumbass!"
"Dumbass? Who are you calling a dumbass?" now in her face
"You, you're an idiot because you don't see what right in front of you! I love you Inuyasha, I always have and instead of being with me you rather go off with a fucking dead corpse! The Kikyou you knew is gone, she's dead Inuyasha and she not coming back!" and with that Kagome stormed off out of the village.
Everyone was in all shock; Kagome has never spoken like that before, not even to Inuyasha. That was a new form of mad for Kagome, pissed off.
"Wh-where the hell do you think your going!"
"What do you care? Go love and kiss your corpse you necrophiliac!" and with that Kagome disappeared in the night.
'How dare he go see her, doesn't he know what I deal with all the time? I'm the one who released him, I'm the one who can find the jewel shards, I'm the one that care for his wounds, I'm the one who's been with him all this time and I'm the one…who…who...who loves him more then life itself!' Kagome broke down on her knees and started to cry.
"Why does he keep doing this to me, and why do I let him? I can't help it. I love him that's why, I take his crap and with a smile on when I'm not okay with the thing he does. I know he and Kikyou have a past but why does he cares for me so much?"
'Because I look like her. When he looks at me he sees her, when he's with me he's thinking of her. Hugging her, kissing her, loving her."
Kagome stood up proudly and shouted as loud as she could, "That's it! I'm not going to take it anymore! I will no longer let Inuyasha ruin my life by upsetting me! I Kagome Higurashi promise to never let any man, demon, or otherwise control how I feel!"
She took a step back to take a breath and was now sitting on the grass, she hadn't realized that she was near the well, 'I could go home, but I just came back. Mom would ask questions. "What happened Kagome? Did you and Inuyasha have a fight?" Oh well…' Kagome then got up and started to walk towards the well, as she propped herself to jump in she heard a twig snap behind her. 'I bet it's Inuyasha, coming to yell at me, well not this time!'
"Inuyasha, I'm going home! So if you here to yell at me don't bother!"
"Ha ha ha. I'm not Inuyasha but I would rather you stay here anyway…" it was an ogre demon. He was short, but stout. Green with a lot of warts and bumps all over.
"Get away from me; I'm not the mood right now." Kagome was just about to hop in the well but she wasn't fast enough. The demon thrusted to grasp her by the neck, holding her in the air against a tree.
"I smell angry and rage with you, and sadness… and jewel shards. Do you have jewel shards little priestess?"
"H-how did you know I was a priestess?" Kagome grunted clawing at the beast's hand.
"Beauty and pure of heart, you are no normal human. I sense great power with you, you are very strong..."
'I can't believe this! This monster is giving my more compliments then Inuyasha ever did! How sad is-wait? Did he just call me beautiful?', "Beautiful or not, I told you I'm not in the mood right now. So let me go or I'll purify your ass to kingdom come!" Kagome's power was showing ever so slightly, she was illuminating a bright light; making her hair start to frizz up.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Such awful words should not come out such a pretty month. And for that mood you're not in, well I can get you in a different mood..." The demon then took his left claw and ran it slowly up Kagome's right leg, feeling her goose bump along the way. Kagome got even madder then she was before; her power sprang out fiercely.
"Let me go, or else!" she strained. Never before has she been so mad and so full of rage inside her that she couldn't control; her eyes were straining and her teeth wee starting to hurt from grinding them.
"Or what little miko…" with that he put his claw under her skirt and nailed her panties.
With tears in her eyes and rage in her heart, she summoned up all her courage and let out all of her emotions that she was feeling. She screamed out to release everything she had. The demon was shocked as a bright pink light surrounded his body and he started to burn. Kagome collapsed as the demon let go and shouted himself in pain. Within a matter of seconds he was gone.
Kagome was using that last bit of her strength to crawl back to the well, 'I did it, I got him, but I'm so weak now. Who's that, someone's coming? Oh God please don't let it be another demon. I can't fight right now.'
Kagome laid there motionlessly as two bare feet came toward her, "Kagome…?"
'Inuyasha…?'
-M.I.A: Missing In Action-M.I.A: Missing In Action-
'Kagome what makes you think I'm going to leave you, I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm tiring of saving your life! I was afraid, I thought you were really hurt, and I was worried about you. Kagome, Kikyou came after me and lost her life, it's only right that I repay her with my own life. Kagome if it's not too much trouble may I lie on your lap? S-she just my jewel detector! I'll stay a half-demon just a while longer, for you…'
Kagome slowly opened her in sadness, remembering all the things that Inuyasha had every said to her. 'Inuyasha…' She awoke in a large cave, next to a fire and lying on a warm fur-like blanket. "Where am I?" she asked out loud, "That's right I killed that ogre demon and I passed out. Then someone saved me…"
Kagome heard someone behind her, that person entered the cave and seemed to struggle to set something animal like down. "Inuyasha!" she exclaimed jumping up.
The figure came closer to the fire light and replied, "Inuyasha? How could you call me that mutt-face asshole Kagome?"
It was Kouga. 'Kouga? Kouga was the one who saved me?'
"Why do you look so surprised?" Kouga knelt down to what now looked like a small warthog; he unsheathed his dagger and gashed the beast in the gut. Kagome then stood up walked a ways toward Kouga,
"I am actually, I didn't expect you to be in the forest by the well; what were you doing-" that's all she got out before she felt herself getting weak again, and started to fall over. Kouga swooped over to catch her just in time, and then picked her up and headed back toward the fire.
"Kagome don't strain yourself, you just used a lot of energy on that demon, and you're not ready to get up yet. Stay here and rest." Kouga laid her back down and covered her legs with another piece of fur. 'Wow if this was Inuyasha; he'd call me names for trying to move.'
"Kouga, why are you here?" she asked as he handed her a bowl of water.
"Hello to you too, Kagome. What I'm doing here is that demon you destroyed had information about where Naraku was last seen; I was following him to get him to tell me."
Kagome looked down, upset. 'Oh great, I ruined Kouga's chance of getting information about Naraku. I wonder if he's gonna get mad...'
"However, ha ha, you got to him first Kagome!" Kouga noticed and knelt down to comfort her. "Don't feel bad Kagome, there will be other chances." He smiled at her and walked back to the carcass he brought with him.
"Where are we Kouga? I've never been here before, and I know this area pretty well."
Kouga had brought what looked like a wild boar over to the fire, "We're not over by that wooden well; I brought you to my side of the forest, in my lands." then started to gut and skin it, this made Kagome little sick.
'I'm really far from Inuyasha and the others; I bet they're really worried. Humph, he probably just thinks that I went back home…He's such a jerk!' "Why do you always have to go back to your time?" And he'd kill me if he knew that I was with Kouga… "What were you doing with that scrawny wolf, Kagome?" I just can't win.'
"So…" Kouga chimed in interrupting her thoughts, sitting across from her and throwing some meat on the fire. "Mind telling me what you were doing way out there? Alone, by yourself?"
Kagome didn't really want to tell Kouga that she and Inuyasha had gotten into a fight over Kikyou, and have him give a lecture about how Inuyasha's a mutt, an ass, and everything in between so...
"I was going home, to get supplies."
"Home? What do you mean 'home'? Don't you and the others stay with mutt-face in a grandma lady's village?"
"Yes we do but, I uh-"
"You don't have to explain, Kagome. I know already." Kouga said picking the meat from the fire and getting up.
"You do? H-how did you know?"
"Heh, I'm not stupid Kagome, I've been around and I know things, you just walked off to get away from Inuyasha." Walking over to hand her some boar meat.
"Yup, that's exactly what happened!" ^_^'. The meat was cook really well; and it smelled great. Kouga sat himself down next to Kagome and watched as she tore into her dinner; she wasn't paying attention of how close he was.
Kouga seemed really proud of himself that he guessed right and looked really happy, although he knew that wasn't the whole story, he'd just wait until Kagome was ready to talk about it. Kagome on the other hand just sat quietly and ate; Kouga was a pretty good cook.
After a few moments of awkward silence, Kagome felt a little better to get up and be on her way, lest face that wrath of Inuyasha. "Thanks for helping Kouga I really appreciate it but I really need to go now." She wiped her hands on the fur and kicked it off her legs, then got up. Kagome steadied herself against the wall and started to walk towards the cave opening,
"Kouga wait you can't leave!" Kouga shouted.
'Oh please Kouga, don't beg me to stay...'
Kagome kept walking, "Look Kouga I know you want to me stay and visit with you, but you know I have to get back to Inuyasha and my friends, so I'll see you later."
"But Kagome-" It was too late, she was outside only to come back after a very loud thunder clap followed by a shower of rain and lighting. "I was just going to say that there's a storm coming and if you try to leave you'll get soaked.
ACHOO! "Yeah thanks for that..." Kouga hurried and returned the blanket to her shoulders; picked her up and took her back to her seat.
'Oh no, I'm stuck in a cave, with Kouga, all night long!' ACHOO! 'And now I'm sick!'
-With The Others—With The Others-With The Others-
"Oh it's really pouring out there! I hope Kagome is alright." Shippo exclaimed.
"Humph, she's fine. She probably just went back home to her own time." Inuyasha chimed in, he was bouncing his knee up and down while he stared blankly out the hut door
"Yeah, well she wouldn't have had to if you didn't want to go see Kikyou." Sango said a tad bit bitchy
"Sango's right Inuyasha, you never take in Kagome's feelings. She's really hurt that you go off like that all the time." Miroku added.
"Shut up, Kikyou didn't even want anything…"
Kagome had just left to "go home" so Inuyasha ran off to go see why Kikyou was in the area. He was running for a while until he got to a large grassy opening; she was right there in the middle, collecting her souls.
'She looks so sad; it's like she hates living this was but she knows its what she has to do...'
As if she had heard his thoughts, Kikyou turned to see Inuyasha staring at her with awe; she sent her minions away. "Inuyasha it's been awhile."
"Kikyou, wh-what are you doing here?"
"That is a strange question to ask me. Where are your friends, surely they know that you've come to see me?"
"They're okay, and I don't need their permission to go where I want." Defending himself, despite what Kagome told him earlier.
"Inuyasha, come here." She ordered; Inuyasha walked over slowly, as if he was hypnotized. When he got close enough to Kikyou, he couldn't help but to embrace her. 'No, what am I?' Kikyou was shocked that he would do something so bold, but she too returned the hug. "Inuyasha I've missed you."
"I've missed you too. What are you doing here, seriously?"
They released each other but still held hands, "This place where we stand was a battle field between humans and demons, many of both died here… Inuyasha, tell me what are you planning to do when you defeat Naraku?"
Inuyasha let go of her hands and walked backwards, "I don't know, so much has happened and I've changed so much. But I do know that I want you to be put to rest." Kikyou turned away,
"You wish for me to return to that girl, to have my soul and life returned to Kagome? Don't you want to be with me anymore Inuyasha?"
"Of course I do! Nothing would make me happier; it's just-your dead and your soul it isn't yours." Inuyasha found himself behind Kikyou, gently stroking her shoulders, "I want you to be where you're supposed to be." He was bending over to kiss her neck when she spoke again.
"You love her don't you?" Inuyasha was dumbfounded, how could she ask such a thing?
"Kikyou…"
She escaped from his grasp and turned back around, "You can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to me. I see it in your eyes …and your heart. You wish for me to die so you can be with that clone of me!"
"That's not true! You're already dead so you can't die again! I want you to rest in peace. Kagome has nothing to do with this!"
With hurt and sadness in her eyes, Kikyou drew an arrow and pointed it at him, "You said that you wanted to be with me, you promised that you would give your life to me, so when Naraku is gone, I will come back for you. You are mine Inuyasha and I will have you! I will have your soul!" With that Kikyou left, as her collectors came back to return to their job, they followed her into the night and disappeared.
'Kikyou is hell bend on taking me with to hell when Naraku is gone, I know that I would go but things are different now. I have friends, I have a home and I have…Kagome...'
Inuyasha stood up and retrieved his sword from the far wall, "Guys, I'm going to go find Kagome."
"What? Are you crazy it's pouring outside!" Shippo shouted jumping on Sango's shoulder.
"He's right; you'll catch your death out there!" Sango exclaimed; she stated blocking his only way out.
"Humph, I'm not like you weak humans, a little rain won't hurt." Inuyasha gently picked up Sango and placed her on the other side of the door, before walking out.
Miroku chased him outside and grabbed a hold of his arm, "Yes, but a lot can kill you! Even if it wasn't raining, do you honestly think Kagome wants to see you right now? I would give it some time."
"Shut up, I'm just going to Kagome's time and dragging her back here. I'll be back by morning." And then he was gone in the rain.
"Idiot…" Miroku, Sango and Shippo said shaking their heads.