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Title: Kouga Baka
Written by: Jazzy (1/19/08©)
Pairing: InuYasha/Kouga (SLASH) YAOI
Rating: Mature
Warning: Angst, Possible Non-Con, M/M Romance, Humor, Drama, H/C, Recovery, Mpreg.
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Obligatory disclaimer: Do not Own InuYasha!
PART FOUR
Kagome had never seen a storm like this one before. The feudal world was already haunted enough but this storm seemed to give a new meaning to unearthly screeches. Powerful bursts of wind took down a tree and bashed it into two homes destroying the structures completely. The families huddled now in the safety of the prayer enforced temple barrier.
InuYasha appeared in the next burst of wind. He was pale and luminous, his hair wild in the angry winds. His eyes were a mixture of red and gold. A new batch of tattoos traced his delicate bone structure and down his neck to his shoulders and his back.
Sango's eyebrows shot up to her hairline. InuYasha had obviously been mated. Kagome stood transfixed by her side. Kagome looked frightened and uncertain. Then Kagome looked to Sango, Kaede, and Miroku for answers.
"What's going on? What's happening? Why does InuYasha look like that? Is he causing this storm? Someone tell me something, please." She looked ready to weep.
Sango shook her head and hugged her friend. "I don't know. He looks mated. He could have become more powerful after mating a powerful demon. InuYoukai are a secretive bunch and harder to slay once they've come into their full powers, which can happen after a mating, or childbirth."
Miroku and Kaede looked at the destruction happening outside the temple walls and shivered.
Kaede frowned. "I do not believe that InuYasha is the direct cause of this storm but I do believe he is feeding it. He is in the throws of his first birthing and where is his mate?"
Kagome looked to Priestess Kaede speechless. "Wh-What do you mean?"
"Look on him child, is he not round? Does he not glow?" asked Kaede, somewhat surprised that Kagome has not yet noticed the half-demon's condition.
"A powerful birth it is." Said Miroku a little in awe and fear.
"His child is bound to be something special." Insisted Sango. "Otherwise such destruction would not come about in a normal demonic birth."
Kouga raced for the village aware of InuYasha on levels he'd never ever known before. When he came to a stop in the middle of the storm struck village suddenly the storm seemed to calm. InuYasha fell to his knees. He looked at Kouga in shock and a slow wavering smile came to his pallid yet glowing face.
"Are you giving birth or just throwing a tantrum, mutt?" he asked, gruff and belligerent belying the aching in his stomach and heart. InuYasha was so beautiful and he looked so tired.
Where the hell were these thoughts coming from?!
InuYasha growled low and menacing. Then he roared. "YOU BASTARD!! Where the hell have you been? Have you no shame?"
"Where the hell do you get off growling at me." Growled Kouga back. His inner demon was whimpering. It was begging him not to upset their mate any more. The pups were coming. Their pups were coming!
InuYasha groaned as he staggered to his feet trying to stand, trying to leap on his wayward mate and pound him into the ground for leaving him.
"I'm going to kill you, Kouga, so help me, if it's the last thing on this Earth I ever do." He said with determination, his temper now a hard thing in his heart burning slow and steadily. He was no dog to be used and left behind and to come back begging for love from a heartless master.
InuYasha looked murderous enough, his killing intent was a harsh sensation that flowed over Kouga and made him hurt in his heart. Then InuYasha groaned again and fell back on the muddy ground, this time clutching his stomach as new waves of pain struck him from this area and even lower.
Kouga bit his lower lip. What was he to do? What did InuYasha need to come through the birth alive and their pups with him?
He didn't know what to do. He felt helpless. He hated feeling helpless. If this was a fight he knew how to use his fists and mighty strength but this was something he had no experience with or tools to help him save his mate and children with.
"I'm so useless, Yasha. Please just don't die." He found to his horror his voice had come out in a weak little wobble he sounded near tears, hell there were tears in his eyes.
InuYasha looked at his face and though there was rain coming down in sheets he knew, he could smell them, those were tears in his mate's eyes. Those tears were of remorse and regret.
InuYasha's determination to kill his mate suddenly wavered. Well, maybe, just this once, maybe I can forgive him…. But only just this once!
Everyone makes mistakes. I'm not perfect. I know I'm a bumpkin sometimes. I do stupid things too sometimes. But he better crawl, yeah! He better beg me to forgive him.
Bastard.
He's really crying.
Kagome and the rest watched the scene unfolding before them. Kaede didn't seem very surprised that the other demon and possibly even InuYasha's mate was Kouga. Sango bit her lip in a nervous manner. Her eyes on Kagome and Kagome's reaction. Miroku looked dumb struck.
"That's Kouga. He and InuYasha...?" asked the pervert priest in a faint voice of horror and uncertainty.
"When a mating comes on, demons are not particular in a way about who it is they mate with. Most often if it is a controlled mating, it will be a demon or human the demon as loved but in most cases a mating only occurs between a demon and a worthy demon, an opponent who is strong or smart, someone who will match him or her strength for strength, will for will, belief for belief." lectured Sango, with an occasional comment from Kaede in agreement with the young demon slayer.
"B-b-but, but Sango, that's InuYasha and Kouga!" said Kagome at last coming partly out of her shock.
"Yes, I know, and they're about to have a litter of pups." replied Sango.
Shippo watched fascinated from his place under one of the futons. The storm was scary. InuYasha was scary. But now InuYasha was calming and so was the storm. InuYasha and Kouga looked good together. Mates against the world. He felt a misty tear come to his eye as he remembered his own papa and mama. For the first time in a while he felt the sting of grief and loneliness. He missed his family. In some ways he even missed the kitsune demon peoples. He felt loved by his friends but sometimes Shippo yearned for kitsune. He yearned for more.
"Kagome, Priestess Kaede, we must let them in. The birthing will be a big strain on InuYasha. he could die." piped up the little kitsune worriedly.
"Yes, that is true." replied Kaede. "However the storm is very powerful if we let down the barrier this place will fall under the weight of the fierce forces of the storm."
"However." said Miroku. "It seems the storm is calming for the moment. If we time it right, the two may enter without harm to themselves or to the temple before the storm breaks over us again."
"Priest Miroku, may be right." murmured Kaede. "All right. We will chance it."
"Dammit Kouga, get me to the den or some where less dirty so I can give birth to these impatient pups of yours." He growled, gruffly, not saying anything about forgiveness out loud but he didn't need to. He was man and he was this wolf baka's mate. If he couldn't feel the forgiveness then he really was more of an idiot than InuYasha had ever given him credit for being.
"Right." Said Kouga, nodding his head affirmative, ready to take action as directed but where to go with InuYasha? This storm was strong and destructive. Was the den even in tact any more? With a storm like this it could have uprooted the tree and buried the den in a cave in of dirt and mud.
"The temple." He said suddenly.
"Don't be stupid!" growled InuYasha as another wave of pain passed through him. "You want to get purified? The temple's being reinforced right now, any demon goes into that and they're toast!"
"You just don't want anyone to see you naked and giving birth to our pups." Laughed Kouga. "We'll survive it, we're not totally evil and our pups aren't evil at all… yet."
"And they never will be!" roared InuYasha. "I don't want my pups becoming evil killing machines. Heartless and evil. I want them to be noble and good and kind and loving. I want them to be strong and stand for good things in a world dark and corrupt with evil. I don't want them to be seen as something evil or disgusting. I want everyone to see my pups and treat them with respect and love."
"They will, Yasha, I promise." Said Kouga in a rare show of tenderness.
InuYasha scowled. "I'm not delicate china, and I am going to survive this so I can kick your cowardly ass, mate of mine."
They shared a feral smile.
"You can try, Yasha-chan. You can try." Kouga smirked infuriatingly. Even as he helped his mate up and they made a dash for the suddenly subsiding power of the temple that lay a few yards from them. Kouga kicked up his speed as much as he could with the weight of his mate and their pups in his arms which slowed him down somewhat. They managed to get to the temple and inside the rising barrier just before the storm came crashing down on them again.
TBC
Yes, I know, too short! But my brain is fried and I have a Naruto chapter I need to work on as well. Waaaah, I'm so tired! I stayed up way too late enjoying my new DVDs, Flame of Recca. Such a cool series! My bad. oO
