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Chapter 4: What's a woo?
At the first sight or morning Kouga headed out in search of the only person who could help him. The village wasn't far, maybe an hour away at his pace. He ran the entire way there.
"Hey Kagome! Long time no see." Kouga in his usual fashion grabbed the miko's hands and looked deep into her beautiful brown eyes. He never thought he really had a chance with Kagome; he just hit on her to annoy Inuyasha. This time was no different.
"Uh-huh hi Kouga, what brings you here?"
He loved how she got all flustered when he would grab her hands like that. "Oi, What's with you and Dog-Shit, another one huh?" he could smell that she was pregnant before he even entered the village. "What's this like 5, you two should slow down; someone is going to put a back out."
Kagome laughed nervously, she nearly had put her back out not too long ago. "No, Kouga, this is number 3." She cupped her hand over her stomach that hadn't even begun to grow yet.
Kouga let out a long exasperated sigh and dropped his chin. "Kagome I'm sorry, I have bad news for you; I have found someone else. I just thought I'd tell you in person rather than you hearing it around town." Kagome's youngest child, a girl names Cho, ran up to Kouga singing his name and climbing up his leg with her claws like he was a tree.
Kagome grabbed the three year old and sat down with her on her lap. Kouga followed suit and sat down on a fence near where Kagome sat.
"Well… so tell me all about her!" Kagome chimed cheerfully.
"Oh Kagome; she's beautiful and wild, like she belongs outdoors. She has the most beautiful hair it's all the way down her back and perfectly straight. Her eyes glitter like … I don't know... like something brown that glitters. And her smile is like the sun. Her laugh is like birds singing." Kouga rested his cheek on his hand, looking dreamily at the sky. He continued after a break and a long sigh. "She's smart too, and feisty." He sighed again.
"So, if she's perfect why do you look so sad?" The little girl on Kagome's lap mocked his sad look and her little ears falling flat against her head.
"Yah yah, that's why I'm here actually. She's human. I told her she was going to be my mate, but she said I have to woo her. Kagome, what's a woo?"
Kagome laughed at the innocence written all over his face. She thought for awhile tapping her nail on her cheek as she figured the best way to explain this to the wolf demon.
"Is it like mating, if it's like mating I can do that. I can do A LOT of that." A proud smile replaces his innocent expression
"No, no, no, Wooing is what you do to get a woman to do the mating." Miroku chimed in.
"Kouga don't listen to him he is a lecher. When you like a girl you make sure she knows it by giving her things and doing things for her; that's wooing in a nutshell." Kagome gently pushed Miroku so he would not perverse the explanation any further.
"Ok I get it, wooing huh. So what kind of stuff do you get them?" Kouga thought to himself he could kill a deer or something for her.
"Candy or flowers or nice ribbons or something like that"
Kouga thought to himself for a moment, candy was something humans sold and he did nt want to bother with them. Rin didn't seem like the type of girl to like ribbons. She smelt like flowers and he saw her playing with them yesterday, "Flowers…. Ok."
"So who is this lovely maiden you are attempting to woo?" Miroku asked.
"Her name is Rin." The dreamy look washed back over Kouga's features.
"RIN!" Kagome gasped. Miroku places a hand over her shoulder before she got carried away; there could be more than one Rin in the world after all.
"Tell me more, how did you two meet?" Miroku prodded.
"I kicked her dragon, pushed her in a stream and broke her ankle." Kouga laughed even though he knew no one else got the joke.
"A two headed dragon?" Shippo added in, he had been quietly listening to the conversation for quite sometime.
"Yah, you know her?"
Shippo was first to spill the beans as usual. "Yah I know her, you do too I think, she's Inuyasha's brother's ….." Shippo trailed off not really sure of what to call her in relation to Sesshomaru.
Kouga placed his hand on his chin and thought for a moment. He had met Inuyasha's brother before; a long time ago. "Sesshoma-something? Yah, I knew I smelt dog on her. She's his what?"
"Sesshomaru, Lord Sesshomaru actually." Miroku attempted to answer Kouga's question the best he could. "Sesshomaru is like her guardian."
"Brother" Kagome remarked in unison with Mirokus 'guardian'.
"Father" Shippo added into the simultaneous mix of terms.
"Ok. Well as long as none of you said mate I don't care. Hey, thanks guys I gotta go; I have some wooing to do." Kouga turned to walk away.
Kagome grabbed his arm and stopped him. "Be careful Kouga, Sesshomaru protects her fiercely."
"Yah yah don't worry about me." Kouga assured her before breaking into a run and quickly disappearing from sight.