After Naraku's demise, Kagome goes home and the group is finally living their separate lives. Kagome is poisoned, and Kouga saves her. Before going back to her time, she must now repay him the favor and save his pack. Enter the wolf's den. A primitive way of life. Kagome must now adhere to a whole new society. Then, Kouga wants her as his mate.

Disclaimer :I do not own Inuyasha characters, Rumiko Takahashi does

Author's note: Beware readers! This chapter comes with an unexpected twist for the story! So the plot thickens!

Chapter 3: It gets deeper than this

The sun had set, now a crescent waxing moon stood brightly in the sky. A wolf prince ran full speed through the wilderness not slowing or stopping for anything. The mountains soon came into Kouga's view. He arrived at the cave.

The wolves were almost at the end of their feast, as he instructed them to start without him. He wouldn't make the already hungry pack wait even longer, especially in these times of famine and over hunted land.

"Hey Kouga's back!" A wolf yelled.

Heads turned and instead of the usual happy greeting calls everyone made, they began to whisper as he walked past.

"That's the human girl Kouga's in love with!" someone whispered.

"Is she dead, what happened?" said another voice.

"Oh say it isn't so our leader will go mad if something is seriously wrong." Another whisperer shouted.

Everyone started to gather in a crowd around Kouga, the brown wolves piled behind his tail, trying to take a sniff of Kagome.

"Everyone outta my way!" Kouga finally commanded.

The whispering ceased as soon as he spoke.

"She's poisoned, I need the head healer!"

An old she-wolf stepped out of the crowd. She was short and stubby, with long gray hair braided down her back. Many amulets and chains where wrapped around her neck and arms. She held a wooden staff. Two brown wolves stood by her side. She was the wisest and respected old she wolf of the pack.

Kouga thought to himself that Kagome is his woman. She deserved to be treated with some privacy. Instead of placing her in the open patch of straw he'd first ever thrown her on when he kidnapped her, he took her to his personal quarters of the cave. The medicine woman followed closely behind with a lit torch, the cavern became quite dark at night.

Kouga laid Kagome's now cold, limp body on his luxurious furs. Her heart was still beating, her pulse was fine, but she was unconscious. At this point he had done all he could do for her. He was a wolf alpha, not a healer. So he had to accept that her health was now in the hands of his most trusted healer. He stepped back and let the old woman get to work.

Both brown wolves lay on both sides of her body, getting her body temperature back up. She needed to sweat whatever else was in her body out. The medicine woman began to work fast.

"I know this illness, she has been attacked by the most venomous snake demon in these parts. She is lucky to alive this long, as a Miko her body must have did some self-purification." The medicine woman spoke.

"I took the rest of the venom from her system." Kouga added.

"I see." The old woman said. For a split second Kouga saw an unreadable expression in her eye.

She began to continue treating her wound with special herbs, while chanting a special prayer. This was ritualistic for healers while treating their pack. This lasted for about fifteen long minutes. This was one of the most stressful moments in Kouga's life. She continued on as she rewrapped fresh bandages on her, washed her face and burned sacred plants in the air around her. The chanting soon came to an end, and the medicine woman spoke.

"The girl will live."

Kouga fell to his knees from relief.

"Alpha, you must heed, for that was the most dangerous venom almost all die from. You love this woman and licked her wounds, do you not remember what comes next after the alpha of the pack does that to a woman he loves?

Kouga thought for a second, then it dawned on him. He didn't even take this into consideration, seeing as he had just became Alpha only three years ago, heck he didn't even know his body was advanced to the stage where he even had those kind of abilities.

"My work here is done. By the next full moon she must become one of us, learn our ways, learn the way of the wolf. If not, her body will reject the healing that you gave her and she will die." Those were the last words of the old woman. The two brown wolves hopped from beside Kagome to trail the old woman. She bowed her head as low as she could and exited the room.

Though wolves and wolf demons are the same, they have a few different qualities. Wolf demons are the humanoid form of a wolf, also a demon which gives them more abilities and in rare cases special abilities. Wolf Alpha male was able to turn a human into one of their own, under certain circumstances. It was like a blood bond. Cases where this happened included wolf turned orphaned children and human lovers. Not everyone's body took the change though. It was not only a physical change but a spiritual bond as well. They first had to become like a wolf in their human form, become part of the pack. It was to get the body and spirit prepared. For the ones that didn't make it, it was because their souls were not truly into changing, so their spirit would leave the body and they would die. Their blood bond wasn't strong enough. That's why this was rarely done, and only an Alpha member could do this.

Kouga didn't know how to handle this. He didn't know how to tell her when she woke up. Yes he loved her and this was the woman he wanted to forever be with, but how would she take this? He didn't want to be the bad guy for saving her life. Now they had to mate, so their blood bonds would be locked to save her life. While he had no problem with this, he didn't want her hating him.

He decided to not say anything. He'd just have to do this the hard way and make her fall in love with him. He didn't time for her to hate him. Her life was on the line, and telling her this would surely make her not trust him, and prolong the road to love. He'd tell her later, after the change. For now he'd play his cards right and play his role as her savior. Knowing Kagome, she would never leave from here without showing her proper gratitude. In exchange, he'd keep her with the pack for awhile, have her learn their ways until she wouldn't want to leave. How hard could it be to win over sweet innocent Kagome?

Besides dog's are man's best friends.

Kagome began to cough lightly then brown eyes fluttered open.