[RATING M] - For language and maybe future lemon, if I don't make those two dorks mating before their wedding. LMAO X'DD
Hey there. :)
After reading some fanfics about Koga and Ayame, watching the episodes in which Ayame appears, watching music videos about them, and checking up art related to them on my Deviantart account (Soniclifetime - New account is SweetFantsayDreams), I decided to give it a try and write a fic about them.
I felt like there wasn't enough stories related to Koga and Ayame (I mean, GREAT stories), and they have been my absolute OTP (One True Pairing) - or favorite shipping, if you prefer - when I saw the episodes with Ayame. And they also are like my absolute favorite characters, so I had to give it a try and write something romantic about them.
PS: NO, I AM NOT MISTAKING THE CHARACTERS NAMES.
I am using the orginal Japanese names's forms, but if you are confused, know that:
Koga = Kouga.
I will also use some Japanese words or terms, but I'll try to stick to the English. XD
I do not own any of Inuyasha CCs (Canon Characters, which means: CHARACTERS BELONGING TO THE MANGA AND SHOW).
Prologue
''Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.''
It was spring.
And despite the weather still being cold, it was a beautiful sunny day. The snow was slowly melting away, exposing the sleeping vegetation under its white coat. Life also showed signs of return and activities: birds were coming back, chirping happily, and hibernating animals were slowly coming out of their dens.
The strange miasma (bad air, demon scent) that had have appeared and descended on the Northern Mountains - and that would have increased the fighting between the East and North tribes, and between the West and South tribes by the same time -, had have finally disapeared, a year after it had have appeared and descended on the mountains.
But it also has left all of the Wolf Demons tribes greatly weakened. Each tribe was tense, on its guards, and slightly less agressive...but they all remain agressive in a kind of way. They've all been fighting for what seemed like ages, and the tensions between each tribes were still there, and fights were still happening...
''Even if the miasma is gone...they're all still fighting'', thought Ayame, with a sigh.
She and her grandfather, the Wolf Elder - along with the other survivors of the Northern Yôro Tribe, were heading back to their territories in the Northern Mountains.
They didn't meet or crossed the path of any other Wolf Demons or any other Yôrô Tribes yet - except for Kai and Shinta, who joined them -, but it doesn't meet they wouldn't either. Anything could happen, and with the tensions still existing between all the Yôrô tribes, they had to be careful and on their guards.
The Northern Yôrô Tribe ran and moved the whole day, but once it was twilight, the Wolf Elder told his pack that they were stoping for the night. They all noded, and soon after, they found a cave, and they made up a fire camp in the middle of it, to keep them warm.
The Wolf Elder lies down on the ground, with a heavy sigh, and Kai gived him some water to drink, and some food as well, to eat. The Wolf Elder gladly drank the water, and ate the food, then looked at Kai with thankful eyes.
-''Thank you, Kai...You're really kind'', he tells the teenager Wolf Demon, smiling gently.
-''You're welcome, Elder'', gently smiles back Kai.
-''Where is Shinta...?'', asked the Wolf Elder.
Kai pointed to a ball of fur that is lying on the ground nearby, a good three feet and a half away from the fire. Kai's little brother was clearly and deeply asleep from their long and exhausting running.
-''He is already asleep, Elder'', says Kai. ''Shinta still need to learn the ways of the wolves, but he tries his best to not complain and to keep it up with the pack.''
The Wolf Elder gently nods.
-''I am really sorry, if he finds it hard...but we are almost home...'', gently says the Wolf Elder.
-''How long is there left, before that we arrive home, Elder...?'', asked Kai, blinking in questioning.
-''I can't really tell...'', sadly sighed the Wolf Elder. ''I am old, and thus, my endurance and resistance are less stronger than in my youth...but I'd say that we'll arrive home in 2 or 3 days...'', he then added.
-''Alright, I'll keep an eye on him, then'', gently smiles Kai, nodding.
The Wolf Elder nodded in agreement, then turned his head to the cave's entrance, and notices that Ayame was standing there, looking outside.
She had changed a bit, through the year. Her beautiful red hair had grew longer, her two ponytails now reaching the middle of her back when tied up. She had gotten more womanly curves, and became more beautiful, too. She still kept her unique iris flower pinned in her left ponytail - using it as a weapon, with that long and sharp pointy blade on which her iris was added on. Her attire also remain the same: a necklace, a dark pink and turquoise chest armor, a head band, and white wolves furs for her cape, her skirt, insteps and arm guards. Finally, her sword was hanging on her left hip, so she could draw it out...if she ever needed to use it - it was, in fact, just a decoration.
The only thing that was different, is that she was wearing more furs, since they were in the spring, and that it was still cold.
Outside of the cave, it was now dark, left for the moonlight and the stars shining up in the sky. The Wolf Elder kept checking up his granddaughter, until that she looked at him.
-''Are you wishing to go out, Ayame...?'', he asked her.
Ayame slowly nods, and gently smiles.
-''Yes, Gramps...I want to go out, if you don't mind me...'', she softly says.
-''Alright...do you wish to be alone...?'', asked the Wolf Elder.
Ayame's smile faded away, and she bit down on her lip:...yes, she wanted to be alone...she NEEDED to be alone...
-''Yes, Gramps...I request to go out, and to be left alone, please...'', she murmures, looking away.
The Wolf Elder sighed: he didn't wanted her to be alone, but it was only because of her safety...But he understood that, this time, she needed that time, to be left alone. He softly nods, before to say:
-''You have my permission, Ayame...just stay in a safe rank of hearing, so we can be by your side quickly if you call for help...understood...?''
Ayame nods softly, and gently smiled as she looked at him, then gently says:
-''Yes, Gramps...I'll stay in the hearing rank, don't worry...And thank you, I appreciate the permission...''
The two then nodded in respect, then Ayame turned on her heels and happily ran out of the cave.
The Wolf Elder then let out a sigh, and lie down his head on his paws, staring into the fire's flames, and started to think about the year that had just passed...
All of the Yôrô tribes had been fighting to the point that they had nearly exterminated their whole species...Of course, the Wolf Demons were still numerous, but the tensions and the fightings will soon or later lead them to the extinction, if they kept fighting and killing each others...
The Wolf Elder sighed tiredly, and closed his eyes, and quickly fell asleep...
This night was beautiful, yet cold.
The sky was filled with stars, and the moon was full, throwing her silver light on the forest. Ayame was running, searching for a calm and peacefull location. She heard the sound of water running through their course, and followed the sound, until that she ended up in front of a small river.
Ayame smiled gently, and looked behind her, in the cave's direction:...hmm...she was in the ranking of hearing...Good. She looked around, and found a rock nearby. She walked to it and sat on its rough, but dry surface.
Ayame then stared into the water, watching the moon and stars's reflections at its surface. She stared at the water's surface in silence for minutes, then let out a heavy sigh, and looked up at the moon, melancholy.
Be careful, Ayame.
Those were the last words she had have heard from Koga, nearly a year ago, and they were resonating in her head...and she sighed again, bitterly.
The handsome and young Eastern Yôrô Tribe's leader saved her from the Birds of Paradise when she was only a child, and promised her to take her as his wife when she was older, if things would got harsh...But, when she came down of the mountains, and told him about that promise...
...He didn't recognized her, nor seemed to remember the promise he vowed to her under a lunar rainbow...
Ayame rised her hand, and taked off her iris flower from her left ponytail, and handed it in front of her eyes. The flower hadn't changed, since the day that Koga saved her, and Ayame cherished it as the reason that made it possible for her and Koga to meet, that day...
Ayame even used her spiritual abilities to make the iris flower undying...It would never die, unless that Ayame herself would die...The flower also gained spiritual powers, from its exposition to the lunar rainbow's light...Since that day, Ayame was able to purify demonic auras, when using her iris flower to stab it into a demon...
Ayame sighed heavily again, and put back the iris flower in her left ponytail. She then looked up at the moon, filled with melancholy.
''Koga...I know that I was only a little girl back then...But...How...? How could you forget it, Koga...? How could you forget such a important and serious promise...?'', thought Ayame, feeling a sting of pain in her heart.
She sighed heavily again, and looked down, gritting her teeth.
-''...It hurts, Koga...'', murmures Ayame, silent tears rolling down on her cheeks. ''...Your promise, your words...they're the only thing that helped me to go through the hard training in the mountains...but the day that I come down from the mountains to meet you again...You had forgot...you had forgot about the promise...but especially...you...''
Ayame chocked, trying to say the words, but they were so painful for her...but she eventually said them out loud, silent tears of pain rolling down on her cheeks:
-''...You had forgot about me...''
Saying the words out loud added to her aching heart...but she then furiously wipped away her tears and jumped on her feet, gritting her teeth.
-''No, I shouldn't be crying...!'', she exclaims, upset at herself. ''I can't do anything, if he have forgot about his promise, even if it hurts...!''
''But I can't help myself, and to truly love you...with all my heart...'', she then silently thought, looking up at the moon again.
Ayame looked at the moon a few more minutes, then decided to go back to the cave and rest before the next morning, aware that her tribe still had a few days of running left, before that they get home...
''A-A-ATCHOO !''
Koga sniffed, and rubbed his nose with one of his arm guards, wondering if someone was thinking about him or something.
He, his friends - and followers - Ginta and Hakkaku, and the rest of his Yôrô tribe, were resting in a cave. A fire camp in the middle of the cave was keeping the place warm, and a dead wild boar was being cooked, filling the place with a delicious scent.
Naraku had finally been defeated, and it's been a whole week, now...but he wasn't responsible for his death. The Mutt - Inuyasha - was the one responsible for it...which, strangely, didn't really bothered him. In a way, Inuyasha helped him to avenge his fallen brothers, and because of that, he was thankful to him...
...Even though that he will never admit it.
-''I'm so hungry !'', exclaims Ginta, drooling at the dead wild boar. ''Please, cook faster !''
-''Oh, god, my stomach ache so much...I'm hungry, too !'', whines Hakkaku.
The wolves whimpered, hungry too. The other Wolf Demons also complained about being hungry, but they knew very well that it wouldn't accelerate the dead wild boar's cooking. But, finally, after a few more minutes, the dead wild boar was completely cooked and ready. Everybody got a big and nice, juicy, piece of the wild boar.
Koga ate his piece of meat in silence, lost in his thoughts, then once he was done eating, he gets up and walked to the cave's entrance. Leaning his right shoulder on the rocky wall of the cave, he looked up at the moon, and stared at it, silent.
You promised me...
Koga closes his eyes, and remain silent.
On the night of the Lunar Rainbow...don't you remember at all...?
Koga grits his teeth, and kept his eyes closed.
I kept those words in my heart...They're the only thing that helped me to go through the hard training in the mountains...!
Koga sighed heavily, and open his eyes, looking up at the moon again.
Ayame's words were resonating in his head, again...The red haired female Wolf Demon sounded so hurt and desperate, when she told them to him...It only showed how much the promise he vowed her, that night, was important to her...
...And yet, he had forgot both of about his promise, and about HER...
But...he then remembered, and he choosed to hide it to Ayame, so that she wouldn't be following him anywhere or get in danger...
Koga sighed heavily again, and Ginta and Hakkaku walks to him, blinking in confusion: something seemed to bother their best friend...
-''What's bothering you, Koga...?'', carefully asked Hakkaku.
Ginta and him were perfectly aware that Koga hated to be asked about his problems, in general, but taking a little risk once in a while wouldn't kill them. Koga kept staring up at the moon, and remain silent for a while.
-''...Ayame...'', he murmured, so only Ginta and Hakkaku would hear him.
Ginta and Hakkaku blinked in surprise: Ayame...?
-''...I keep hearing her words, about the promise I made her...'', sighed Koga, leaning his back against the rocky wall, now, and crosses his arms on his chest armor. ''And I keep seeing the pain that it caused her, when I told that I didn't remember a thing about that promise, and her...''
Ginta and Hakkaku looked at each other, stunned: Koga was actually confessing to them...?! That was a premiere !
They looked back at Koga, blinking.
-''Also, do you remember what she said, when she tried to drag me back to the mountains with her wolves ?'', asked them Koga.
They both shooked their heads negatively, and Koga sighed, but he repeats what Ayame told him, when they had meet again, nearly a year ago:
-''Ayame told me that it was her grandfather, the Wolf Elder of the Northern Yôrô Tribe, who had sent her down from the mountains to find me. He wanted me to keep my promise and marry Ayame, so both of our tribes, the Eastern and Northern Yôrô Tribes, would be unified into one and new Tribe.''
Ginta and Hakkaku are speechless: how is that a problem...?!
-''How...is that a problem...?'', asked Ginta.
Koga grits his teeth.
-''I doubt that I'm the right choice for the Wolf Elder's idea'', he simply says.
-''WHAT ?!'', both shrieked Ginta and Hakkaku in disbelief.
BANG ! BANG !
Ginta and Hakkaku moaned, their hands on their heads: Koga had just punched their heads.
-''Don't scream !'', he snapped, gritting his teeth. ''You want to alarm the whole pack ?!''
-''Of course not, Koga !'', snapped Hakkaku.
Koga stares at him in shock, stunned that he actually replied back. Ginta is as shocked as Koga about that, and stares at Hakkaku with wide eyes.
Hakkaku grits his teeth.
-''You're not the wrong choice for the Wolf Elder's idea !'', he exclaims, not carring that Koga might punch him on the head again. ''I'll let you know that, while you were leaving us behind because of your speed, we often meet members of the others Tribes ! Your fights reached all of the Tribes, and you have gained their respect, Koga !''
Koga grits his teeth, and looked away.
-''...Well, he'll have to pick someone else...''
BANG !
Koga let out a yelp of pain and surprise: did Ginta just actually punched him on the head...?!
-''Ginta, I will-'', he snarled.
-''No, you're not going to do anything !'', interrups him Ginta.
Koga is beyond himself: both of his devoted friends are actually replying back to him !
Ginta sighed, and crossed his arms.
-''Koga, everybody is counting on you...WE are counting on you...'', he says. ''But most importantly, the Wolf Elder and Ayame, are counting on you...''
-''He's right'', nods Hakkaku. ''Koga, you made a promise, and we, wolves, aren't backing off, once we gived our word, right ?''
Koga grits his teeth: he was perfectly aware of that, but...
He then sighed.
-''...Fine, you win...Tell the rest of the pack that, tomorow, we are heading to the Northern Mountains.''
Ginta and Hakkaku both nodded, and Koga showed them his back, leaning his shoulder against the rocky wall, and staring up at the moon again. They understood his silent request, and they leaved him alone, heading to the other Wolf Demons, to tell them the leader's decision.
Koga sighed heavily, staring up at the moon.
Somehow, the moon reflected Ayame's face at him, and he blinked in confusion: what the...?
Koga starts to rub his temples, groaning: Raaaah ! Everything is so confusing !
First of all, the Wolf Elder of the Northern Yôrô Tribe requests him to keep his promise and marry Ayame so their respectives tribes melds together, and to put him at their head, as their Alpha male, their leader.
Second of all, he didn't knew if he had any feelings at all for Ayame: she was only a little girl back then, when he made that vow to her...! And even if they hadve meet again, now that she's older, he still couldn't say if he shares her feelings back or not...
Koga grits his teeth.
-''Ugh...why me...?'', he mumbles.
Sighing, he looked up at the moon again, silent.
''...I'll go there, but...I can't keep my promise to Ayame...They will have to choose someone else to marry Ayame, and to be their new Leader...'', he thought.
Closing his eyes, he remain silent and motionless.
Koga...you promised me...
-''...Oh, Ayame...'', murmures Koga, keeping his eyes closed. ''...I'm sorry...but I can't keep my promise to you...It's...It's better that way...''
But, was it truly better, that way...?
Please, if you liked the prologue, bare with me.
I'll do my best to write chapters as great as this prologue was. :) I didn't planned on how many chapters there will be, but I will try to make the story interesting and worth to read.
I'll be glad to get reviews, it would help me, if I mistaked something and that it was pointed out. ^^ You can also send me a private message (PM) if you have an idea for the story that you might want me to do ? (Can be anything, but I suck at descibing stuff, most of the time X'D...)
Thanks for reading !
