A petal in the wind

Authors Note: Challenge 2 brought to you by MistressKikyou2. She wanted a Kikyou and Kouga fic and well, here it is o. Enjoy!

Kouga groaned as his body was thrown against a nearby rock. He stared up weakly his hand going towards his head as blood trickled between his fingers. "Bitch" He said staring up towards Kagura's smiling face. "What's wrong Kouga?" Kagura said tauntingly, holding her hand up in the air, one of Kouga's shikon shards glistening in the sun. "Are you that weak without the shards in one of your legs?"

Kouga growled lowly. In fact, he was. He hated to admit, and he would never admit it to anyway but Kagura had the head over him here. He couldn't help it, it would be pathetic to try and run like this. One leg would be WAY to fast for the other and he would just trip and fall and he wasn't going to humiliate himself in front of HER. SHE killed his companions, his comrades, his BROTHERS.

Kagura laughed raising her fan back preparing to finish Kouga off, Kouga stared up towards her turning his head to the side. The blood that ran down his arms and legs ran in endless floods. His eyes squinted shut, he would not let her see the fear in his eyes. He paused suddenly, he could smell the swiftness in her stench, the movement of her arm but then a familiar scent caught his nose…except it was dead.

His eyes bolted open, darting to the smell his blue eyes staring towards a pair of brown ones. "Kagome!" He screamed but it wasn't long for him to realize that this woman wasn't Kagome. Though she looked like Kagome and her scent was similar, her scent seemed to be drowned out by graveyard soil.

Kouga watched the miko twitch slightly; obviously it bothered the miko that he had addressed her by such and for a moment, Kagura was completely forgotten and everything went black, everything except him…and the miko. The miko's face was firm once more, and Kouga followed her eyes to Kagura, the demoness's eyes were wide and he heard the name flow off her lips in a silent horror. "Kikyou"

Kouga stared towards the miko once more in somewhat of amazement, 'Kikyou? Why does that name sound so familiar…?' Kouga wondered, he had never seen or smelt this woman before but she was so much like Kagome. No, she was nothing like Kagome, no one could mutter Kagome's name in horror. This priestess had a power that Kagome did not.

"Kagura, did you think I would die so easily?" Kikyou's lips curved into a crooked smile. "What fun do you find in taking a demons shard and leaving only one? No one can fight that way, if you wanted to have an advantage why didn't you take both of these demons shards? Or did you not have the power too?"

Kagura's eyes widened as did Kouga's. She could see the shikon shards too, who was the women? What was she? Kouga stared as he watched her arm come up and grab an arrow from her pack, calmly placing in along her fingers holding her bow firm. She used arrows like Kagome too. Kouga was more confused but he continued to watch her movements carefully as if judgingly. The arrow fired a purification light arising bigger then Kagome's had ever been and cutting straight passed the two. The arrow left a perfect scar across Kagura's right cheek but it had been done on purpose. She was only trying to scare her off and she did. Kagura took off in a flash, the feather growing out as she hopped off, disappearing into the wind.

Kikyou picked up Kouga's shard from in front of him, it being purified at her touch. For a minute the priestess looked utterly beautiful in a sad sort of way. Her head was turned towards the shard in her hand, and her eyes reflected with pain, a few black strands in her face.

She turned to him suddenly, her face no longer sad but firm once more as if she had forgotten she wasn't alone. "I'll be holding on to your shard" She said firmly and then pausing for a second holding out her hand. "Are you hurt?"

Kouga paused looking towards Kikyou's hand slowly taking it firmly as she hoisted him up. "Nothing a few hours won't heal" Kouga said slowly. "So…you're a miko like Kagome hun? You know her don't you! There's no way that you both look so close to the same, use the same weapon, can both see shikon shards, or anything else! What is your relationship with her, I demand to know!"

Kikyou raised a brow, "May I ask, What is YOUR relationship with Kagome?"

"Kagome's my mate!" Kouga barked proudly, "Answer my question!"

Kikyou sighed. "You're as arrogant as Inuyasha." Her eyes twinkled only slightly at the words and suddenly he remembered where he had heard the name from. Inuyasha knew a Kikyou from his past, he didn't know how he knew this women but Inuyasha did indeed know her, and so did Kagome. "Kagome is my reincarnation"

Kouga blinked almost surprised, staring towards her as if confused. It fit but somehow it didn't so this was…Kagome's original firm, was Kagome souly based after this women? It was impossible. He didn't understand it and part of him didn't want to as if he thought too much he might…change his mind.

Kikyou turned then slowly moving off, looking over her shoulder towards the wolf demon once more, and then towards the ground. "Your name" She said finally. "What is it?"

Kouga stared towards her his blue eyes softening, his eyes staring towards the miko and her averted gaze. "Kouga"

She paused once more, her head lifting up and staring towards the blue sky, her face still not meeting his own. "Kouga hun? I'll remember that" And then she started walking off, and she never looked back from what he could tell.

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"Kouga-kun! What happened to you?"

Kouga looked up from the rock from which the miko had left him at. His back still feeding into it where Kagura had pinned him, dried blood still clung to his body in rapid drips and the tips of his bangs was died in it. His eyes connected with the same brown ones as before except they were much softer, they were Kagome's.

"Kagome" Kouga said hoarsely, managing a weak stand Inuyasha looking a bit annoyed staring towards him.

"Naraku was here wasn't he? Where'd he go you stupid wolf!" Inuyasha barked in his usual way he did towards Kouga

"Inuyasha can't you see Kouga-kun's hurt!"

"Wh- Why are you sticking up for him Kagome?"

"Inuyasha how can you be so insensitive! I told you Kouga is HURT."

"So what?"

"Inuyasha!"

"What!"

"S—"

"Um Kagome" Kouga said simply cutting her off before she could sit Inuyasha. He stared towards the hanyou for a few seconds. He had wondered how to approach this and he figured to take this seriously was the best way because of the look on that woman's face.

"Kouga-kun?"

Inuyasha raised a brow staring towards Kouga in a bit of surprise; never had Kouga stopped Kagome when she was going to sit him. Kouga stared up towards him for a few seconds fresh blood running down his face, Inuyasha's eyes widening in surprise.

"Kouga! Your eye what the hell!" Inuyasha exclaimed blood running from Kouga's left eye. Kouga's hand and touched wincing as the blood ran through his blood stung hands.

"It's fine"

"Are you crazy you're never going to see out of that eye again?" Inuyasha exclaimed staring towards him in anger and fear.

"I said its fine!" Kouga's eye meeting Inuyasha's. "Inuyasha…what…is your relationship to Kikyou?"

The question was so unexpected Kagome and Inuyasha both staggered backwards, short gasps sounding out of Sango and Miroku's mouth finally saying something. Kouga stared towards them slightly, his bleeding eye seizing to bleed any further. A rather large scar covering over it in its place of where his blue eye once was. Kouga somehow figured that his encounter with the miko would not only change whatever relationship he and Inuyasha had but perhaps something in himself.

Kouga never knew why his eyes scared over when it did and he wasn't sure how he had gotten cut there to begin with and he didn't think he ever would but that night when Inuyasha and the others built camp, the pain that reflected in Inuyasha and Kagome's eyes was enough, whoever Kikyou was she was….a forbidden subject.

Somewhere in life there was a thin line between love and hate, a place that was so seldom to touch and such a fine line that it can easily be broken and too small to even walk on. But when Kouga left them that night, with his kiss on the hand to Kagome and silent promises he may never be able to fulfill, he decided Kikyou walked on that line…with everyone. Inuyasha, Naraku, and even…Kagome. Kagome loved this woman and hated her too, he had never thought Kagome could hate anyone, but he had been wrong. A line that was so thin to touch, this women walked on it.

Kouga slept restlessly that night, tossing and turning in a nearby cave, his two allies down at the other end. While the two dreamed of fresh meat, clear waters and running free with their dead companions and the people they had left behind to kill there enemy. Kouga dreamed of a priestess who walked on a single red thread named Kikyou.

Authors Note: What do you think? Not to shabby for the start and since there not my number one pairing or anything o Hope you like it MistressKikyou!