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~ The New World ~ Chapter 6 ~ Dreams and Visions ~

Kouga stared up at the stars thinking about Kagome and the Shikon no Tama. True, he
only wanted Kagome to be his woman just to collect all the Shikon shards, but
something about her also captivated him. Her cheerfulness, her spirit, everything about
her made his heart start to pound whenever he saw her.

"Kagome … " Kouga whispered under his breath. Clenching his hands together, he
snarled. "It's all that dog face Inuyasha's fault! If he hadn't been there, or if I could only
kill him, she would have been mine!"

Standing back up, Kouga lifted his pure deep blue eyes to the sky, and smiled. 'Since
when did I begin to wonder and think about a human?' A brown shaggy wolf approached
him and whimpered softly staring at him. Automatically, Kouga put a hand on it's head
and petted it finally looking down.

"You're worried that I'm sick arnt you?" he whispered. The wolf seemed to somehow
nod it's head as it thought spoke into Kouga's head.

"Something's wrong. You've never acted this way before. So far you have chosen to
avoid us for three days know Kouga-sama. We're your pack and this pack need's its
leader back! Besides, you haven't given us leave to hunt some more…" it said staring
up as the wolf's stomach growled.

"Eh? Your hungry? But your still too heavy to pick up! How can you be so greedy?"
Kouga said grinning as he tried to pick up the brown wolf.

"Go on, I'll be back in a second Tashi."

Kouga stood up and looked at the waterfall sheltering his pack's cave. Tashi the wolf
barked happily and ran off inside, leaving Kouga alone.

"I shouldn't be having nonsense thoughts about humans anyways!" he said out loud
clearly as if to silence his mind still focused on Kagome. Finally, Kouga walked slowly
towards the cave where everyone welcomed him back. Laying down on his fur made
bed, Kouga smiled and went to sleep.

"Don't hurt them! Use me instead!" a girl cried out.

She was dressed in what looked like Kagome world's clothes, except she wasn't
human. Her beautiful black hair was dangling from a dark blue ribbon, matching her light
blue marks and eyes, wild and streaming out in the wind. She wore a short length shiny
black skirt and a light blue blouse both ripped and carrying blood. Her eyes were the
darkest blue he had ever seen, crying out and pleading to someone.

Kouga stopped in his tracks, his eyes widening when he realized she was a full yokai,
with a blue crystal ball in her hand pulsing and glowing. What surprised him even more
were the deep bloody gashes all over her, the blood in her running out spilling
everywhere, and Kouga knew that no one would have survived through this, that she
should be dead. Yet she was still walking and fighting with all she got.


'Who is she?' he asked himself. As he cautiously walked towards her, he noticed her
face was still contorted with terror, and she turned around back to him and screamed,
"Stay back! Go now PLEASE!" Her eyes swiveled back and forth from her attacker and
him as she finally yelled, "RUUUUUNNN!"

As he took another step, a loud roar reached his ears and a huge black clawed hand
shot out right through her body, as the girl finally lay limp speared by the huge hand, and
was silenced.

Her eyes still held their look of terror as they glazed over, and her head rolled over from
side to side. The world silenced itself just then as if it had just lost something very
precious and dear, and the glass ball slowly stopped glowing and dropped from her
hand, shattering with a loud piercing noise and exploding everything in it's way.

Kouga's eyes finally opened as he sat up quickly in his sweat drenched bed and hopped
outside, shivering from the cold dawn breeze.

"Who was she?" he asked himself quietly again. Closing his eyes he could still picture
her, screaming, and then in seconds, dead. He felt as if the most beautiful and pure
innocent person he had ever knew just sacrificed her life for something. Snorting with
laughter Kouga opened his eyes again.

'Like I care? How can it be that I've changed so much? From being the greatest and
fearless wolf yokai's leader here, killing everything for no reason, to being worried about
a dream?' Kouga thought.

"Yep, I've changed," Kouga said as Kagome came to his mind again. "KUSO!" he
screamed.

"I'm too restless, I need to go DO something. Sitting here thinking has made me into a
… " unable to find the word Kouga trailed off.

Going back inside the cave he told Tashi that he had to go and that he was to find Ai and
tell him that he was in charge until he got back. With that, Kouga left to find out what
the hell was bothering him.

~Meanwhile…~

Sesshoumaru walked silently while Rin and Jaken were fighting over something trivial,
again. He sighed as he thought, 'Why do I always have this feeling that something's not
completing my life? It's as if, I was meant for something, but I don't know.' His thoughts
were interrupted by Rin's innocent question. "Sesshoumaru sama," she asked, "we've
been walking for days as if searching for something. Did you lose anything?"
Sesshoumaru stopped as he turned around seeing village smoke near by. Staring at it,
he encountered a vision, the exact same one that Kouga had in his dream. The same
view, the same cries, and the same feeling of something precious lost. Shivering and
shaking his head as he was brought back to life by Jaken's and Rin's arguing, he said,
"We'll stop by that village for now." The two stopped and looked at him oddly as he
walked down. "Sesshoumaru-sama! You've never gone into a village before! Why
now?" Jaken called out. Turning around slightly all Sesshoumaru said was, "Come."
Walking towards the village again he thought, 'Something tells me, my search is over.'

Just then, Kiara woke up, the Shikon ball glowing in her hand for the first time, seeing …







AN: well… since school's started I'm not going to be able to update this much… but
please review still! Yes! the power of the dreams and flashbacks! So…who's the
guardian? Is that the future? What will happen? Was that a cliff hanger? *smiles evilly* if
you review, you might find out!