A little OOC, perhaps, but they are supposed to be older. Read and Review please.
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"How strange, I would have thought for sure Kouga would have fought with Inuyasha at least. He just took off, though?" Sango took a bite of the bread Kagome had handed her.
"I feel really bad, maybe I shouldn't have said anything at all?" Kagome fiddled with the hem of her shirt once more.
"No, he needed to know, he's been gone for so long, it would have been unfair to let him think he still had a chance, especially since Inuyasha is being so open with you lately." She looked up at the half demon, who was perched in a nearby tree, keeping watch.
"I suppose so. I hope he'll be alright, though. The last thing I want is for him to be upset." She grabbed a skewered fish and began nibbling at it.
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His claw ripped through the soft flesh of the beast beneath him. Kouga narrowed his eyes and ripped the animal's throat free. It's deafening cries ceased and he hefted it up onto his shoulder.
Kouga was in a foul mood.
Ginta followed him back to their camp where Hakaku had been building up the fire.
"That's a big buck!" he said hungrily as Kouga threw it at his feet.
Kouga simply grunted and crossed his arms. Ginta sat next to Hakaku as they watched their leader trudge away.
"He's been that way since he came back from seeing Kagome. I wonder what happened."
"Maybe she finally told him no?" Hakaku ripped off a hunk of meat and skewered it, licking the blood off his fingers.
"Don't say that! If he hears you talking that way, he'll beat you for sure, you moron!" Ginta punched him on the arm.
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"That damned mutt!" Kouga put his fist through the tree in front of him and snarled. He continued cursing, kicking boulders and demolishing trees. It was a disaster area all around him and he was heaving; not tired, but angered to no end. He had reached his boiling point and unbidden images of Kagome with Inuyasha assaulted his mind and he gave an angry growl before taking off to the last place he had seen the two.
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Kagome was washing herself in a river with Sango after their meal, when she heard a rustling in the bushes near them. Sango reached over and grabbed her boomerang, while Kagome grabbed the knife Inuyasha had given her.
"Who's there?" Sango asked loudly and threateningly.
"It's just me." Came Inuyasha's meek reply.
Kagome sighed and Sango relaxed, rolling her sleeves down. Inuyasha walked up to them and sat next to Kagome and looked intently at her.
"What is it? Did I miss something?" Kagome patted her face, looking for a smudge of dirt.
"No. You been so preoccupied with wolfy all morning, I just wanted to make sure you didn't wanna go see 'im or anything." He replied bitterly.
"Inuyasha…"she sighed and looked away, "SIT BOY!" she yelled.
"Ugh!" he hit the ground hard on that one and struggled to look up, "What the hell is wrong with you?!"
"You can be such a jerk." She got up and stomped away.
"Whatta brat." He muttered, tapping his fingers on the ground at his face.
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Kagome had sat some ways away from the group, wanting to catch her breath and calm down. It was breezy and the hill had a nice view of the woods in front of her. She pulled her knees up to her chest and sighed, thinking about Inuyasha and Kouga and how they could be jerks most of the time.
"Boy, I can really pick them." She muttered to herself.
A rush of wind blew past her and she held onto her skirt and hair, clenching her eyes tight.
"Kagome…" came the strangled voice behind her.
She turned slowly, "Kouga? What's the matter?" she got to her feet and went to him, stopping mere inches away. He seemed hurt.
He looked up at her and revealed his slightly reddened eyes and elongated fangs. His hands were clenched into fists at his sides and his breathing was heavy. He was positively brimming with a dark energy.
"K-Kouga, what's the matter with you?" she stepped back, knowing full well now what a demon could look like when they went berserk.
"Where…is… Inuyasha?" he snarled out, his fists clenching and unclenching.
"I'm right here, flea bag!" he hollered as her charged out of the tree line behind the pair, his sword raised.
Kouga jumped back and to the side, easily avoiding the attack and landing a kick to the back of Inuyasha's head. The hanyou spun around and charged after Kouga, going in for one more slice, but only nicking the wolf's arm. The pair stopped, circling eachother warily.
Kouga raised his arm to his face licked the blood off his bicep. It made Kagome shiver; she had never seen him do something like that before, with such a hungry, predatory gleam in his red rimmed eyes.
Inuyasha sheathed tetsusaiga and cracked his knuckles, then he rushed the wolf, throwing them both to the ground, where they proceeded to kick, bite and pound each other rolling about in the dirt and their own blood.
"That's enough you two!!" Kagome shouted desperately, knowing better than to step into such a heated fight between the two.
"No! Not til he agrees to leave you alone!" Inuyasha growled, sending a hard punch into Kouga check bone.
"My woman, filthy mutt!" Kouga snarled out as he kneed Inuyasha in the belly.
"I'm not anyone's property! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!" she yelled out, taking the opportunity to smash them both into the ground.
"What the fuck Kagome?!" Inuyasha snarled from his hole atop Kouga.
"What the hell just happened?" Kouga moaned out.
"You! You fucking stupid Wolf!" Inuyasha gave him a punch in the chest for good measure, "You let your baser instincts take hold of you! Who knows what you would have done to Kagome if I hadn't found you." He leapt out the hole and went to Kagome, looking her over as a dog owner would, making sure she had no injuries.
"I'm fine, Inuyasha." She huffed, pulling the hem of her shirt down.
Kouga pulled himself up and out and looked at the pair, "I would never…" he grunted and rubbed his ribs, "I would never hurt you Kagome. But I can't promise anything about Inuyasha. You are my woman, and not once have I seen him claim you were his, how can you just let him run off whenever he wants to?! If he wants you, he needs to be clear about it, and if he doesn't, then I'm taking you!" Kouga grabbed Inuyasha by the front of his haori and pulled him forward.
"Piss off, I don't need to validate anything for your sake wolf boy." Inuyasha scoffed, prying Kouga's fist away from him.
"What about me?" came the meek voice behind the two men.
"What?" Inuyasha was shocked, what would he say?
"Tell me Inuyasha, do you want me or are you still pining after Her? " Kagome was ashamed to admit, but she had grown bitter at her past embodiment.
"Kagome, I… uh, well…" Inuyasha stuttered as he looked into her brown eyes.
"He can't even say! You're just a coward Inuyasha!" Kouga punched him again and they immediately began fighting.
"Ugh! Sit!" Kagome had had it. She stomped off.
"See what you did, you flea ridden animal?" Inuyasha said, huffily.
"Screw off, dog, it's your fault, if you would just say it, I would leave her alone, but she's still fair game and you know it and as along as she is, I'm going to take her." Kouga got to his feet to follow her.
"Stop you bastard! That's my woman!" he yelled as loud as he could at Kouga.
He stopped dead in his tracks.
Kagome froze, and turned back to the hill she had just left.
'Was that…Inuyasha?" she ran back and saw the two facing off again.
