Sango
As she sat there with her head in her hands she heard a knock on the door.
"Sango?" she heard Kouga call her from behind the door and she had to admit she was scared.
"Please go away." She called back. The look in his eyes when he came in earlier had terrified her. And what had he done to Tedeke?
"Please just give me a chance to explain ok?" He said as she heard a light thump against the door. He must have sat down next to it or leaned against it.
"You looked so angry when you came in. I thought you were going to hurt me." She said on the verge of tears. He must have heard it in her voice because in the blink of an eye he was next to her and had her curled up in his lap as he rocked her back and forth. Comforting her.
"No baby I could never be mad at you. Never. I was angry at Tedeke. I thought he was trying to steal you from me." Kouga said nuzzling her neck and lightly nibbling on it.
She gasped in surprise and lightly pushed herself away from him.
"Kouga.. What did you just call me?" What was going on with him. First he looked ready to kill and now he was treating her like a mate. And the weird thing was she didn't mind at all. It just seemed so familiar that she just couldn't help it.
"Sango I think it's time I told you the truth about Sage." He said getting from off the bed and looking right into her eyes.
"Sage? Her again? What does she have to do with us?" She said with pure jealously in her voice. He was bringing this girl up again and she hated it. She hated her. Why did she have such an effect on him?
"Everything." he said with a sigh, "She's my mate."
Kouga
"What?" She yelled loud enough to make Kouga wince. "You have a mate and you've been leading me on like this?"
"Sango just sit down so I can explain dammit!" He yelled and regretted it when she looked scared again, "Please Sango?"
He watched her reluctantly sit down on the bed and he sighed in relief. He went over to the bed and sat next to her.
He took a deep breath and began. "About twenty five years ago I fell in love with a wolf demoness name Sage. She had long dark brown hair like your's and beautiful dark red eyes. She could have been your twin. But anyway after courting her for almost two years, she was really stubborn woman, we were mated. I was truly happy and everything was going great. The clan was run smoothly for a good three years." He let out a sigh as he turned away from her.
"And then this bastard of a demon showed up to my clan when I wasn't here. He demanded for the commander of the group to appear and Sage stepped forward. She was second in command after all. I do not know any off the details of the fight but it ended up with her weakening him and him throwing her off the cliffs. I came back and killed him but there was blood all in the river below the cliffs. I- I knew she was dead and there was nothing I could do. Two years went by after that and I was still in mourning. I refuse to take another mate. Tedeke became my second in command and that's how it's been for the past twenty years."
"Oh Kouga" He heard her say as a hand rested on his should, "I'm so sorry. I had no idea. "
"It's alright really. And everything was going ok until you walked into my life." He said with a chuckle. "Now all I can think about is her. Then you. Then her. Until I remembered something." He said as he pulled her closer causing her to blush. "Sango, I've fallen in love with you over theses passed couple of days and I'm don't want you to believe that it is because of Sage. So there is something I need to see in order to prove that you too are different." He watched her nod her head. "I need you to take off your shirt so I can see you back."
Sango
"My what?" She said scooting away from him.
"No Sango please to be scared of me. Not again." He said with his on fear in his eyes. She looked at him for a long time. He look truly scared right now. Was he that worried about her hating him? She let out a sigh. She really liked Kouga. So maybe, if she did thi for him. He would see her for once and not this Sage woman.
"Ok.", She said and he saw him relax and a smile appear on his face, "on one condition."
"Name it." He said with a smile.
"If after you see my back, and you explain to me why you need to see my back. You look me in the eyes and tell me if it's me or her you loved about me. Ok?"
"I can do that. You deserve the truth after all."
"o.k" She turned around so that her back was to him and slid off her shirt. After that she unwrapped her bindings, placed them on the bed and waited.
Kouga
As Kouga waited for the bindings to be removed he couldn't help but get turned on by the display and excited. He sat there waiting patiently for the rose to appear. And then. When the bindings were gone, he frowned at the deep scar on her back and was about to question it, until he realized that that was the only thing that marked her back. Other than that. Her back was scar free. No rose. No mating mark. Just bare.