Title: Black
Series: InuYasha
Parings/Characters: Kouga and Kagome.
Disclaimer: InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
Rating/Warnings: T to PG-13, just to be safe.
Dedication: The Kouga and Kagome paring fans out there!
Summary: His silky black tresses constantly haunted her dreams.
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In the beginning, she had been infatuated. His soft ears had done her in, for sure, but the brash attitude and the constant wariness around her being due to the memories of her predecessor had been the challenge that she had needed at that point in her life.
Now, however, if one were to ask her what her heart longed for the most from the Feudal Era whenever she went back home it would be something entirely different.
Or, technically, someone.
Somewhere down the line, Kagome had stopped dreaming of strong arms bound in red and a breeze blown silver mane and instead begun dreaming of piercing ice blue eyes and a swift, wind whipped rough trail of black hair as soft as silk.
Instead of InuYasha, the man, or should she say demon, that haunted her dreams was Kouga.
He was the one she dreamed of every night, the one she wanted to hold. The one with the black hair she constantly kept an eye out for out of the corner of her eyes as she walked along. She didn't know how he did it, not having shampoo or a condition or even a brush, that she had ever seen, but that black hair of his was as soft as could be and something she could not get out of her mind.
He was also the one who had only treated her with admiration and kindness, once the unpleasant introductions had passed - though, if she had to admit it, most of her first meetings in the Feudal Era were unpleasant, so they didn't always count - unlike InuYasha who only saw her as a jewel detector and replacement for his first beloved. The one who's own kind treated her like a sister, instead of murder-victim-to-be.
It was a fruitless love, she knew. No matter how many times he confessed to her she would never be able to say the same words in reply
Being the leader, he had his clan to care and worry for. It wouldn't exactly do him well to marry a human, despite her status, instead of a demon or even half demon. She wouldn't be surprised if a fight would've broken out between the various clans. He did a betrothed, after all.
And she, Kagome Higurashi, reincarnation of many powerful priestesses, guardian of the Shikon no Tama, had a duty to find and protect the pieces of the powerful jewel as well as destroy Naraku, the most evil of beings after it.
He had his own and she had hers, and somehow, though she knew he would in a moment's notice, she could never ask nor accept him willing to throw himself into her much more dangerous world of blood matted fur and flying arrows.
Though, she could dream about his silky, carefree black hair ever damn night, duties be damned.
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This one came to me rather quickly, surprisingly enough. Hope you enjoyed it!
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