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Chapter 14

Kouga felt the fist connect to his jaw, and he staggered backward. Pain erupted alongside his jaw, and he knew there would be a bruise there the next morning.

"Kouga!" Kagome screamed in shock. "What the hell Inu-!"

"I told you to stay away from her!" Inuyasha interrupted Kagome. He towered over Kouga, anger radiating from his body.

"I don't take orders from a mutt like you!" Kouga growled in response.

Inuyasha was about to launch another punch when Kouga slammed his body into the crowd. They landed onto the floor with a loud crash. A crowd began to eagerly form around the two fighting teenagers.

"Fight!" Someone yelled from the crowd.

The party seemed to be frozen in response for a second, until all the attendees began to run over to where the crowd was gathered. The ones up front closest to the fight took out their phones and began to record.

Inuyasha was lying on the floor with Kouga on top of him. Kouga was throwing punches anywhere he could while Inuyasha tried to shove Kouga off of him. Inuyasha grabbed Kouga's green shirt and pushed him off with the force from his legs and arms. They both stood and glowered at each other for a second before they launched at each other once again.

"Are you going to stay away from her?" Inuyasha muttered at him, trying to knock him down. They broke apart for a second trying to find a weakness in the other.

"Eat shit." Kouga replied. Inuyasha slammed his head into Kouga's torso.

"Oof!" Kouga had the air knocked out of him. It took all he could to gain the energy to wrap his arms around Inuyasha's body.

Sango finally made it through the crowd to see what the crowd gathered around. "What is going on here?" She pushed to the front and saw the two boys fighting one another. "Oh my God." She quickly pulled out her cell phone and dialed three on her speed dial. "Kohaku get Dad now! Come with him." She slammed the phone shut and cursed the fact her mother made her wear a dress tonight.

"Guys stop it!" Kagome pleaded hysterically.

Kouga managed to get Inuyasha into a head lock, while Inuyasha kept throwing punches into Kouga's ribs. By some miracle, Inuyasha slivered his way out of Kouga's grasp and attempted to punch Kouga in the stomach. Kouga dodged and quickly threw a punch to Inuyasha's nose. He heard a satisfying 'crunch' as his fist made contact with his face. Inuyasha responded at the exact same time, busting Kouga's lip open. The taste of blood filled Kouga's mouth.

Kouga backed up and threw a left jab to Inuyasha's eye, oblivious to the pain and swelling that was now showing on his face. Kouga wasn't going to go down as easy as Inuyasha thought.

In response to the jab to his eye, Inuyasha slammed his head onto one of the poles, opening a wound on his head, that was supporting the tent. He glared at Kouga trying to blink away the blood from his eye that was beginning to swell shut.

'That little bitch is gonna get it.' Inuyasha thought to himself. Inuyasha threw a fake punch with his right, psyching Kouga out, allowing him to punch him with the other above his eye. Kouga felt hot liquid seep out of the cut that opened.

Inuyasha was about to launch himself at Kouga again when he felt someone else tackle him from behind.

"Get off me!" He growled, trying to catch a look at his attacker. He looked into the face of Kohaku who was calmly sitting on top of him. He struggled and tried to displace him, but Kohaku had Inuyasha in some sort of hold that he couldn't escape from.

"You are going to stay here until my Dad says so." He responded icily. Kohaku was pissed.

'These two idiots just ruined my sister's birthday party. They are so dead.' He thought darkly.

Inuyasha began to thrash and finally saw Mr. Satsugai holding onto Kouga and glaring at the two of them.

"What is going on here?" He boomed to Inuyasha and Kouga. The two teenage boys stonily stared into the distance.

"Put those phones away!" Mr. Satsugai snapped at the crowd. "Now are you two gonna talk or not?"

"That punk was all over my girlfriend. I warned him to stay away." Inuyasha defended his actions.

"I was only trying to tell her something. She needs to know!" Kouga began to struggle again. "Kagome!" He called for her, trying to talk to her before she would be too upset to listen to him.

"Uh-uh, you two aren't getting near her."

"No! Inuyasha tell her! Tell her or I will. I know about your little secret." Kouga sputtered out.

"What little secret?" The entire crowd was silent, waiting for a response. A breeze went through the tent, causing a chill to encircle the group. It instantly felt colder.

"I don't know what he's talking about."

"This is something you need to figure on your own time! You ruined my daughter's birthday. You have one minute to get out and leave my property before I call the cops. Kohaku, let him go. I suggest you both go to the hospital and get those wounds checked out."

Kouga looked at Inuyasha and was pleased with the amount of damage he created. There was a distinct black eye forming, not to mention the possibility of a broken nose. Kouga was also pleased to see Inuyasha was limping and a bruise was beginning to form around his neck from when he held him in a headlock.

Kouga tried to start to walk fast to get to Kagome before Mr. Satsugai murdered him, but as soon as he took his first step he knew his torso was damaged.

'There's definitely going to be some massive bruises there.' Kouga winced.

Both boys saw Kagome at the same time and tried to talk to her. Kagome was standing alone outside of the tent, trying to hide from the stares people were now giving her.

'Where's Sango? I can't believe this happened to her. I feel awful.' Kagome's eyes were puffy from crying. 'What the hell were those two thinking!'

"Kagome?" Inuyasha tentatively asked.

She spun around, her eyes were ablaze with anger.

"You. I don't even know what to say to you right now. You ruined Sango's night. Made me a laughing stock at school. Her dad almost murdered you."

"Did you hear anything?" Inuyasha quickly asked.

"I left as soon as they came. Get out. I'll deal with you tomorrow." She fumed.

Inuyasha shrugged and walked off, his parents would kill him if he went to jail. He walked slowly to be able to eavesdrop if Kouga was going to try to tell Kagome something.

"Kagome." Kouga said quietly.

"Get out. Now." She couldn't even look at him. First he kissed a girl in front of her. Now he got into a fight with her boyfriend at her best friend's birthday party. What next?

"Please?" He looked at her.

"I said go." She turned around and started to walk towards the house. The party was over, that much was obvious and Sango was thanking the guests that were leaving.

"There's something you need to know!" He yelled.

"Not now. Kouga I can't take anymore. Leave me alone." Her voice broke on the last word, betraying the fact she was crying.

Kouga turned around, cursing himself as he walked away. He didn't see Inuyasha hiding behind a tree listening to their conversation as he walked towards the car.

'I need to figure out what that mangy wolf knows about me.' He thought to himself.

Ginta and Hakkaku helped Kouga into his living room, trying not to disturb his aunt.

"Kouga is that you? I expected you home later." His aunt stated, walking into the room. "Oh my holy muffins, what the hell happened! Are you all right!?" Kagura caught a look at her nephew and rushed to his side. "Hakkaku, Ginta what happened?" Her voice was very close to hysterical.

"He got in a fight with Inuyasha. He was just about to tell her what happened when Inuyasha showed up and punched him." Ginta explained.

"We're so sorry. We were supposed to keep him busy, but he escaped and he found Kouga. I don't even know what happened." Hakkaku groveled to Kouga.

Kagura rushed to the kitchen to grab ice and place it on the cut above his eye. Kouga winced in response. He could feel the swelling along his jaw line increase.

"We need to go to the hospital. What if you got a concussion or fractured ribs!?" Kagura began to examine the wounds she found.

"I'm fine, Auntie it's just a little sore. Nothing some aspirin and water won't heal. I'd rather just lie down. Later guys." Kouga shrugged off their complaints and walked towards his bedroom.

"I'm gonna have a word with that little punk as soon as I get my hands on him." Kagura muttered under her breath as she watched her nephew limp away.

"Inuyasha are you okay!?" Kikyo saw her boyfriend standing at her doorstep all bloody and bruised.

"I'm fine. Can I see your mom? I need her to check out some of these wounds." Inuyasha weakly stated. He drove right over to Kikyo's house in order to get cleaned up before he came home. Her mother was a pediatrician, and a good one at that. It'd be really helpful to get everything looking better before he went home to face the wrath of his mother.

"Of course come on in. Mom! Inuyasha's been hurt. Come here, please!" Kikyo called up the stairs, praying her mother would hear. She couldn't stand to leave him alone.

"Sweetheart, what happened?" She asked quietly.

"I got into this fight with this stupid guy."

"Are you kidding me!? Who was it? Press charges! That little whore." She muttered darkly.

Inuyasha avoided her gaze. He couldn't very well tell her he got into a fight over another girl. A girl he was supposed to have broken up with by now.

"It doesn't even matter. You should see the other guy." He joked.

He laid his head against the cool couch and closed his eyes.

"I want to apologize to the entire family for what ensued tonight. I had no idea that was going to happen. I am so sorry." Kagome looked at the floor, trying to avoid looking into the eyes of Sango's family.

"Darling we don't blame you. We blame those boys." Mrs. Satsugai said with distaste.

"Did the brown haired one talk to you?" Mr. Satsugai asked Kagome, filling up two bowls with ice cream for his little princess and Kagome.

"He tried but I made him go away." She gratefully accepted the ice cream. She was emotionally drained.

"It sounded like it was important. I'm no expert, but if a guy got into a fight over wanting to tell you something, it's pretty damn important. I'd listen." The husband and wife left the kitchen and walked to their master bedroom down the behind the kitchen to lie down.

Kagome took the two bowls of ice cream up to Sango's room and left them on Sango's desk. She was currently in the shower, getting ready for the bed.

Kagome walked quickly to Kohaku's room and thanked him for breaking up the fight before running back into Sango's room. She walked in to find Sango sitting on the bed, flipping through the channels and eating her ice cream.

She looked up as Kagome entered her room and saw the miserable look on her face.

"Well this was definitely a memorable party." She tried to joke to make her friend feel better.

"Not funny Sango. I feel awful."

"Don't. It wasn't like you placed bets on the winner of the match, and egged them on. What happened anyway?" Sango asked.

"I don't know. Kouga was just going to tell me something, then all of a sudden Inuyasha is there punching him in the face. I have a headache. It's been too much for me. Eat my ice cream will you?" Kagome climbed under the blankets and stared at the ceiling.

"Did you figure out what Kouga wanted to tell you?"

She shook her head in response.

"Well are you going to find out if he's okay?"

"I'm not in the mood to talk to him." She quietly replied.

"So you'd be okay if that red head was the one taking care of him, nurturing him, and making sure he was getting better?" She innocently asked.

"He's not my boyfriend. He doesn't like me. What's it to me?" She rolled onto her side. Tears began to fill her eyes an again.

"No guy fights another girl's boyfriend for no reason. Either he wanted to tell you something major or he fought for you. Maybe even both. But I'd find out if I were you." Sango said, placing the two empty bowls onto her nightstand, turning off the lamp.

"Also," Sango continued, "he got into a fight over you. I'd make sure he was okay."

Kagome stifled a sigh and tried to ignore the guilt that was building up within her.

"What happened to Miroku anyways?" Kagome asked.

"I made him leave as soon as I saw those two were fighting. Call me selfish, but I didn't want my dad to target him and ban him from dating me. I should probably call him and let him know what happened." Sango slowly rose from the bed and walked over to her vanity table in front of her bed to call Miroku. She took a seat onto her overly frilled chair and waited for him to answer.

Kagome drifted off into her own thoughts, she was so angry after what happened tonight.

'I do hope they're alright, but what were they thinking! Getting into a fight at Sango's birthday party. I don't get it...Maybe I should call Kagura and check on him. I hope he's okay,' Kagome sighed and hid her face under the covers.

'How could I put him in this position? And what was he trying to tell me? Ugh that stupid Inuyasha. He is so hot headed. If I break up with him tomorrow he'll think it's because of the fight...well who cares? It needs to be done...' Kagome felt her fear increase at the thought of saying those words. 'Would he think it's because of Kouga I broke up with and try to fight him again? Well it is kind of because isn't it? I can't deny the fact that I have feelings for him.'

Kagome remembered her fear and concern for Kouga when Inuyasha punched him. She remembered clearly her feelings of pride every time Kouga landed a hit and her feelings of pain she felt when Inuyasha hit Kouga. A deeper, darker part of her wanted to jump in and rip Inuyasha to shreds for hurting him.

She felt the bed move as Sango climbed into bed.

"I let Miroku know the outcome. He tried to get a hold of Inuyasha, but he's not answering. He'll try again tomorrow. I'm sure his pride is just wounded. Kagome?" Sango peeked under the covers to look at her best friend.

"Are you okay?" She asked, pushing Kagome's bangs out of her eyes.

"Not really. It just seems like this weekend was made to torture me." She weakly laughed. "First I admit I'm going to break up with Inuyasha. Then I see Kouga ramming his tongue down another girl's throat. Who is quite beautiful I might add. It just added to the wound when I started to develop feelings for him. I didn't place first at the competition."

"At least that stupid Shikon High didn't win. I was so happy when they placed fourth." Sango cut in.

"Why?"

"There was this dumb bitch who bumped into me and was all 'We're going to win, your friend better watch out for us' and walked off." Sango imitated the girl's monotone voice. "What was her name? Kikyo! Hah, I'd love to see that girl's face when we beat them."

"Where have I heard that name before?" Kagome wondered to herself. It gave her a bad feeling.

"You must have competed before. It's no big deal."

"Yeah I guess...anyways, I didn't place. Then the two boys I'm dealing with ruin your birthday party. Oh and Kouga looked awful. I could see him wince as he walked towards me. I hope he's okay." Even picturing the way he looked when she saw him after the fight ignited flames of fury at the boy who caused him pain.

"And Inuyasha?"

"I was too mad at him to even notice. I know Kouga punched him in the eye. It was swollen shut. I can't believe he started that...actually I can believe he started it. He can be such a dick sometimes!"

"Kagome! I don't think I ever heard you call him that before!"

"Well he was acting like it. I think tomorrow I'm going to see Kouga and check on him. Just make sure he's okay."

"Yeah well when you do tell him he owes me something for tonight."

Kagome glared at her best friend.

"Don't look at me like that! He did get into a fight at my birthday party. I couldn't enjoy the festivities. Jeez Kagome, you turn into lioness when it comes to Kouga." Sango pointed out how Kagome always came to his defense or made sure to give an evil eye to anyone who talked badly about him.

"Oh I do not." Kagome dismissed her.

"You really do. I never knew one person would make you so passionate." Sango teased.

"Whatever I'm going to bed."

"Night."

Kagome looked at the ceiling. 'I do get really defensive about him.'

Kouga awoke groggily. His body felt like a bag of bricks had been thrown at him. He slowly flexed his muscles and stretched out his body to determine what was damaged or just sore. Slowly, he rose out of bed and hobbled to the bathroom, mentally preparing himself for the damage he was sure to see on his body.

Kouga looked at the mirror and gave himself a cocky grin.

'Wasn't as bad as I thought.'

His bottom lip was busted on the right side, giving it a swollen appearance. The cut on his left eyebrow began to heal, but it gave him the appearance of Scar from The Lion King.

'That's gonna scar.' He gingerly touched the wound.

He slowly turned to his left side, raising his arms and tried to stifle a groan. There was a huge, black bruise present along his rib cage. He tried to move his arms to determine the amount of movement he was allowed, but gasped in pain instead. His tanned body from summer was disfigured for the time being, he just hoped it would heal soon.

'Damn I hope I gave Inuyasha worse than this. Ugh, all this over a girl. Kagome!' He remembered what he had to tell her. 'I never got the chance. What if she won't talk to me now!? What am I going to do.' He took a deep breath to calm himself. 'I have to find her, and make her listen.' He heard his aunt knock quietly at his bedroom door.

"Kouga, honey, are you awake?" She murmured more to herself than anything. Kagura didn't want to risk waking him up if he was still sleeping.

"I'm in here." He replied, opening the door to the bathroom.

"Well I must say you look much better without all the dried blood collected on your face." Kagura leaned against the doorway. The joke was her way of trying to make herself feel better at the sight of her nephew damaged. "So...you want to talk about what happened last night?" She asked as if she was asking him if he liked Coke or Pepsi better.

"They already told you what happened." Referring to Ginta and Hakkaku. He turned on the warm water, running a wash cloth underneath it. There was still some dried blood on the side of his eyebrow.

"Well I want to hear it from you." She looked at him, curiosity etched on her face.

He stayed silent, being very gentle with the wash cloth that was now becoming discolored with blood that was left on his face.

Kagura hated the silence.

"Did you at least tell her!?" She yelled exasperated.

His silence gave her the answer.

"Well, what's your plan now?" She asked as Kouga started to brush his teeth.

"I'm gonna find her, and tell her." He replied, placing his toothbrush back in a blue cup with fishes on it.

"Not to be a downer, but are you sure she'll see you?"

"I won't give her a choice." He slowly pushed past Kagura and walked to his room to get dressed. Kagura stayed out in the hallway.

"Well you should at least eat some breakfast. I can't imagine you're feeling well right now." She told him as he carefully put on a red shirt. "Come on, how about some pancakes?" She gestured for him to follow her as they headed to the kitchen and attempted to have a normal meal for once.

Kagome was still in bed, trying to shut out the memories from last night. The first punch. Kouga telling Inuyasha to eat shit. It was all too much to handle so early in the morning. She rolled over and looked at Sango getting ready for work. The secretary called in sick, Sango agreed to take her spot for the day.

"Please tell me last night was just one big horrid dream, and the competition is today, and your birthday party is tonight."

"Alright. Last night was just one big horrid dream. Kouga and Inuyasha did not get in a fight over you, and you did not ignore them and tell them to get the fudge out." She replied, putting on her fake pearl earrings. They matched the creamy color of her blouse perfectly.

Kagome threw a pillow at her.

"You're a terrible liar!" She scowled. "You could at least have tried harder."

"I think I try hard enough. I am getting up early on a Sunday to cover for the girl who had the nerve to call in sick the day after my birthday party. Not like it lasted long anyways, but it's the principle!" She slammed her fist onto her vanity table, causing her bracelets to jingle.

Kagome couldn't help but giggle.

"So when you gonna see him?" Sango asked, carefully putting on mascara.

"See who?"

"Don't play dumb. It doesn't suit you."

Kagome sighed. "I figured I'd go when you went to work." She unconsciously started to twirl her ratty, purple, pajama top in her fingers. The leopard print nails stood out against Sango's lavender bedspread.

"Want a ride? It's not like I know the owners or anything so I won't get in trouble." Sango gave her lips a satisfying 'pop!' as she smacked her lips together once she applied her lip gloss.

"That'd be awesome actually. I'm just...nervous. If anything bad happens I'd just run home."

"Yeah sure you will. Better get a move on, I'm leaving in fifteen." Sango lastly put on Miroku's senior ring on a spare chain she had, and placed it around her neck.

'I'm so not ready for this.' She thought as she rolled out of bed and groaned to herself as she realized every day must have a beginning, despite how much you wished for the end.

Twenty minutes later she sat in the passenger seat while gazing out the window with a sad look on her face. The yellow long sleeve shirt she wore didn't match how bleak she felt.

"Can't we do it later?" She hopefully asked her best friend.

"Nope. Not unless you want someone else to talk to him about it."

"Like who?"

"Oh I don't know, maybe the entire school. Everyone's gonna want to know what happened last night."

Kagome groaned inwardly as she realized Sango was right. Everyone would want to know. It wasn't fair. She didn't even really know what happened!

"Call me as soon as you need a ride or anything. Good luck. Don't be too hard on him either. Inuyasha did throw the first punch." Sango smiled as she pulled into Kouga's driveway. "You sure this is it?"

"Positive. Just get it over with." She did her best to ignore the wave of anger and guilt left over from last night.

She walked up to the front door while making sure her ponytail was still intact.

'Okay just knock. That's all you have to do.' She told herself.

Just as she was about to knock, the door opened and she found herself face to face with Kagura.

"Kagome? What are you doing here?"

"I am so sorry about last night. Is he okay?"

"Why are you sorry? You're not the one who punched him in the face. Come in. He just finished eating actually. He was about to go find you."

"Why would he want to check up on me?" Kagome asked, standing in the doorway.

"From what I hear you were pretty upset. His room is at the end of the hall across from the bathroom. I'll be in there in a bit to check up on him." She stated, walking towards her room to give the two some privacy.

'I don't envy her right now.' Kagura thought to herself, closing her door behind her. 'Now to deal with Inuyasha...'

Kagome walked down the hall as determined as she could, but in truth, she was shaking like the last few leaves left on the trees.

"Kouga?" She called out from behind the door.

"Come in." Kouga replied, thinking it was his aunt.

"Hey." Kagome said quietly watching him put on his shoes.

"Kagome? What are you doing here? I was just about to go talk to you." He said stopping and looking up to look at her.

"Oh my goodness, are you okay?" She saw his face and instantly went to his side on the bed and examined his wounds.

"May I?" She tentatively asked. He nodded in response, unsure of whether or not to move.

She gingerly traced the bruise along the jaw line, and shyly touched the cut that was not a part of his eyebrow. Her eyes went to his lips and saw that his bottom one was swollen. It actually gave his lips a bit more color, and she couldn't help but stare. It gave him such a bad boy appearance.

"Is that all?" She asked, referring to if there were any other injuries.

"No, I got some bruised ribs, not big deal." He shrugged.

"Can I see them?" She asked.

"Yeah I guess. Just don't poke at them, I'm kind of sore." He grudgingly admitted his pain that Inuyasha created for him.

He stood up slowly and lifted his shirt, trying not to wince. He heard Kagome gasped as she fully saw the extent of the injuries. She traced her fingers lightly over the bruises, and he shivered involuntarily.

"I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" She withdrew your hand.

"No you're fine." He replied knowing the shivering was definitely not caused by pain, but by her touch.

"I'm going to kill him." She said with as much anger as she could muster. "He had not right to do that you!"

"You're not mad at me?" He asked.

"You? I mean I was, but he did punch you first. I knew he was jealous, but this is too far. He's never actually physically beaten them...at least not to my knowledge."

"Gee what a guy." He muttered sarcastically.

"I came here to see if you were okay. I'm really sorry about this."

"You didn't punch me in the face, he did."

"Yeah...well right before he did that...you said there was something you wanted to tell me?" She gave him a quizzical look.

"Yeah...want to go for a walk?"

"I don't think you should be walking right now. Besides it's starting to get cold outside. I hate it." She smiled at him.

"Do you trust me?" He asked her.

"That's a weird question. I mean I do. You never gave me any reason not to anyways. Why? What's going on?"

"You know I'd never do anything to hurt you on purpose. I'm telling you this because you need to know."

"Kouga you're really scaring me." Kagome's heart rate began to increase, and her oxygen flow felt like it was being cut off.

Kouga took a deep breath, preparing himself for what was about to come out of his mouth.

"Look Kagome I'm sorry but Inuyasha's cheating on you."

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