A/N :Thank you guys soo much for responding so quickly! So as promised here's the next chapter. Oh and I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters in the series. Also italics means flashback!
Kouga
The second Kouga got into cave he knew something was wrong. He could just feel it. With a quick sniff of the air told him why. Tedeke, his best friend and closest ally, was alone in his mate's room. Kouga took a couple of deep breaths trying desperately not to barge in and attack him for being in such an intimate place with Sango. HIS mate's room. Tedeke had no right to be in there! He took several more deep breaths before opening the door.
Sango
Sango looked up in surprise when she saw the door open. It was Kouga and with more of those roses.
"He came to apologize?" She thought and began to smile but then frowned when she saw the angry look on his face. Directed towards Tedeke. She blushed in embarrassment when she realizes how this probably looked.
"Wow Sango! I have to admit your ideas are brilliant. If you'd talk theses over with Kouga I'm sure he'd agree." Tedeke said with a smile.
Sango smiled back but slid a little further away from Tedeke. They been talking for about a half an hour now and Sango was slowly beginning to feel uncomfortable. She was starting to feel like Tedeke wanting something from her that she did not want to give him.
"Um thanks Tedeke think I will" She said forcing a smile.
"You're in love with him aren't you?"
"Wh-what?" Sango said practically falling off the bed. How did he know? She had only just figured it out herself?
"It's written all over your face." Tedeke said walking across the room to where her vase of roses was," and he loves you too."
Sango gasped as Tedeke picked up one single rose and walked back over to the bed placing it in her hand. "He just doesn't know how to explain it to you."
"Really?" Sango said surprised she didn't know what else to say. Kouga loved her. HER. She still wasn't sure when this whole relationship with Kouga started but theses dreams she kept having theses dreams about being with him. Being the alpha female of the clan. Being at Kouga's side. Running with the wolves. For some reason it just felt right.
"Oh Sango your hand!"
"What?" Sango glanced down and realized she had been squeezing the rose in her hand. The thorns had stuck her hand pretty hard and now she was bleeding. Just great.
"Here I'll help you" Tedeke said carefully taking out the thorns. "I think that the best way to help Kouga realize that you want him as much as you." He said pulling a cloth from out of a drawer, "And the best way to do that is to be more physical with him. But not just him but the whole clan. Show them that you care for them. That you want to be there Alpha female."
"But how?"
"By trusting them." He said holding her hand close to his lips. "You know dog demons and wolf demons have a lot in common. Did you know that a Wolf demon's tongue has the same healing abilities as a dog demon?" He said pulling her hand closer to his mouth.
"Yes." She answered barely breathing. This was wrong. She knew it in her heart. But if Tedeke was right, and he had known Kouga for a lot longer than she had, maybe she should.
"Alright then." He said with a smile before carefully licking her palm. And just as he had said, after about five licks the blood was disappearing and so was the wound, and just when he was cleaning up the wounds on each of her fingers, sucking each one to make sure he got each wound, Kouga walks in the door. He walks in right when Tedeke is sucking on her middle finger!
Sango watched as the color left Kouga's face and the anger went straight to his eyes. She immediantly snatched her hand away from Tedeke's mouth and pushed the rose off her lap.
"Kouga wait. Just listen to me for a second-"
"Out." Kouga growled. It barely sounded human and Sango had to admit she was scared.
"What?" she asked on the verge of tears
"Not you Sango." He said crushing the stem of the roses in his hands, "Tedeke I want you to meet me in the valley now!" He howled leaving the room and slamming the door behind him.
She started at the door in horror and then at Tedeke. He was Smiling? After seeing the rage on Kouga's face he was smiling?
"Excuse me Sango but it looks like I have a meeting. " Tedeke said. He even laughed as he left the room.
"What the hell is going on?" She said putting her hand in her head.
Kouga
All the rage inside me was ready to explode. I wanted so badly to kill Tadeke. He watched as Tadeke slowly came into view and his blood began to boil.
"I should kill where you stand Tedeke."
"You don't mean the Kouga."
"To hell I do Tedeke. You were in my mate's PRIVATE quarters. Only I am allowed in there I made that perfectly clear when she first got here and dammit you just always have to push me don't?"
"Kouga-"
"I'm sick and tired of you doing this Tedeke. Always trying to see how far you can push-"
"Kouga enough!", Tedeke yelled finally bringing Kouga back, "She's not your mate she's just a woman who looks like her. But she can be. If you could just separate the two of them then maybe-"
"No," Kouga yelled but a little more calm. Tedeke didn't know what he did but now he would. "Tedeke Sango IS Sage. And I have proof. Not only does she look and act just like Sage but the way the clan and the Sage's old wolves accept her so easily isn't normal. And on top that. Sage told me herself she had always wanted to be called Sango. Tell me that's just a coincidence. Tell Me!" He said glaring at him. He knew he was right and no one was gonna tell him otherwise. Sango was his Sage and he knew it.
"You're right."
"You believe me."
"Yes. Do you remember when Sage had wanted to have a system for if were ever go low on food?"
"Oh Yh. She wanted to have wolves scout out and repot back where the area was. Then we'd supply them with baskets the women would make and we'd set out and put the food in the baskets and bring them back even faster. She even had a system to preserve the food. I can't believe I forgot about that."
"Well Sage didn't."
"What?"
"Sage or well Sango as she likes to be called now, just told me what Sage told us about that system twenty years ago word for word. So go talk to your Mate Kouga. Go figure out what happen."
Kouga stared at Tedeke in shock. He couldn't believe this? Hadn't Tedeke just try to steal his mate? "No" his mind told him "He wanted to get your attention. He wanted you to have that rage so that the truth would come out. So you could get that confidence you needed to confront Sage. And now you have it."
Without even looking back at Tedeke he ran back to the caves. He needed to know why his mate pretended to die. Why she pretended to not know who he was. Or was she pretending at all? He didn't know. But he was going to find out.
