Author's Note:

Below are two videos that include some recommended music to listen to while reading my Norse werewolf scenes. I accidentally came upon this artist while looking for inspiration when writing my scenes about Lucian, and this guy blew my fucking mind!

After listening, I felt invigorated and inspired enough to try and take over a small country with nothing more than my bare hands! Well, in my dreams, at least! Lol.

"Explore a dark and intense music atmosphere with old scandinavian instruments, dark and mysterious melodies, battle ready viking songs and much more from the artist Danheim."

"Danheim is a Nordic folk/Viking inspired project from the Copenhagen-based Danish producer Mike Olsen, focusing on Nordic Folk and Viking age inspired music. Danheim's music is often composed with ideas and stories based on the darker side of the Viking period, inspired or consisting of Nordic Mythology, old Danish folklore and a vivid imagination."

As you know, FanFiction will not allow me to post links, so if interested, below are the steps to get to the music.

Viking music montage:

1) Go to YouTube

2) Type: "vikings danheim"

3) Choose the video labeled, "VIKINGS" Most Epic Viking Nordic Folk Music Danheim" by the user Hallvard. It is the video that includes a ninja looking Viking warrior with a sword that is on fire as the main picture.

Sampling of some of Danheim's musical work to date (if interested):

1) Go to YouTube

2) Type: " danheim playlist"

3) Choose the playlist labeled, "Viking Music by Danheim" by the user Danheim. It is the playlist that includes a wolf as the main picture.


Chapter 29

Sesshomaru stared at his ceiling worriedly as Trinity frantically whispered to him on the other end of his phone.

His brother had managed to make the most monumental of findings, and he managed to do so in less than twenty four hours.

However, the current situation truly couldn't have been worse.

If what his brother had discovered was, in fact, real. It would then surely result in the deaths of countless gifted humans and full blooded demons alike.

What was even more terrifying, was the knowledge that he could no longer simply raid the Synagogue as he initially would have sans the machine. Any agent; demon or gifted human alike, that he sent into that place, could be killed within an instant if The Order decided to activate their new toy.

They would most likely be happy for a situation to actually present itself in which to do so.

"The woman in charge here is named Amber, and she told Inuyasha that they were going to test the machine in Norway soon." Trinity whispered. "Isn't that were Reconnaissance Alpha Team is?"

Sesshomaru scowled and rubbed his temples.

By no means did the recent demonic attacks on the Norwegian humans fly under The Order's radar. Sesshomaru realized, angrily to himself.

He had just submitted the disclosure of the 'long lost civilization of gifted beings' to the Norwegian government, along with a summary of their terms. If The Order launched an attack on the Norwegian wolf demons right now, they might also manage to kill a slew of gifted Norwegian humans in the process. The attack would be seen as a direct result of Lucian's earlier attacks on the farmers, and the wolf demons would be blamed for the entire debacle, which would absolutely destroy any hopes for peace within the country.

If it came down to this, Norway's government would most likely tear Lucian's terms to shreds and immediately hunt him, and his people, down.

It would be an absolute mess of epic proportions.

"Is there a way with which to provide our organization with a visual of what we are dealing with there?" Sesshomaru questioned.

"How? I can't place a camera on Inuyasha. They will find it. They're really into that dog here and everyone pets him often. Especially, Amber. There's nowhere that I can put a device on him that won't go unnoticed." Trinity said, hurriedly. "And I can't place a camera on myself. Even if I did, there's no way in hell I'd be able to sneak down to the Synagogue's foundation and passed all of the locked doors, without a camera or a guard seeing me."

"Put Inuyasha on the phone." Sesshomaru demanded, as he heard Trinity obediently shuffle to get him in the background.

"What?" Inuyasha whispered flatly, as he came onto the line.

"Describe the device as best you can." Sesshomaru ordered.

Inuyasha sighed.

"It looks like one of those big, round things that hangs down from the wing of an airplane." He whispered. "At the bottom of it, there is a glass that lets people look inside, most likely to monitor the Mirror of Life and all of the things that it's connected to."

"Can you describe the connections?"

"They're shiny and the wires are black."

Sesshomaru slammed his fist into his desk in frustration.

"Try to be detailed, brother. As detailed as possible!"

"I am being detailed! I don't know what all those things are called. All I know is that they connect to the mirror. There are computers in another room that monitor the machine in some way." Inuyasha growled out lowly, becoming frustrated by his own inability to describe all of the 'futuristic' things that he saw.

"What powers that thing?" Sesshomaru rumbled, as he tried his best to remain calm.

When Inuyasha did not respond, he tried a different approach.

"Was there a single, big and thick cord connecting the machine to something for an energy source, Inuyasha? It would have connected somewhere into the floor or the wall."

"I don't remember." Inuyasha admitted. "I'll have to go back and check."

"If it runs on electricity, and I pray that it does, we will have the opportunity to shut down the incoming power to the Synagogue so that we can simultaneously time a raid."

Inuyasha remained silent on the other end of the line.

He is worried. Sesshomaru realized.

"Inuyasha, are you able to draw some of the things that you saw?" Sesshomaru whispered, as he began to write off a message to Gateway, the head of his Technology department.

"Draw? With what? My paws?" Inuyasha spat.

"Try." Sesshomaru demanded. "Do it quickly and send me the pictures. Have Trinity help you. After you send me the drawings, destroy the originals."

Inuyasha sighed and Trinity once again took over the line. When he did so, Sesshomaru repeated his instructions and quickly ended the call.

About twenty minutes passed before Sesshomaru received Trinity's best attempt to draw Inuyasha's mechanical descriptions.

It looked as though a child drew them and Sesshomaru sucked his teeth in frustration as he electronically passed them over to Gateway.

"Do you have any insight on such engineering?" He typed, quickly.

"I'm looking at these now and pulling in several of my best. We will get back to you with our thoughts." Gateway immediately replied.


Yuu, codename, Inuyasha, stared at the cartoonish drawings from his computer as he sipped a strong brew of coffee in the early hours of his day. His department head, Gateway, had called him late in the evening and he was most excited to be given his first project of utmost importance for the benefit of his secret organization.

"It looks like a kid drew these." He grumbled under his breath, as he tried to make sense of them.

From what he was informed, there was a recent discovery of a new type of weapon hidden within Germany. This weapon had the power to kill gifted humans. However, R.O.O.T had no idea of the mechanics or technology employed to design such a weapon of mass destruction… or how to deactivate one.

That's where I come in. Agent Inuyasha happily thought to himself, excited to put his electrical and mechanical engineering skills to the test.

Although, he wished he had more to go on than these idiotic drawings.

"From first glance, it appears as though this is some form of self sustaining electrical machinery based upon the dynamics of the outer structure." Yuu typed. "However, there is no way to tell for sure, based upon these drawings." He sighed. "The circuits that were drawn appear to be most straightforward, so I assume that regulation is coming from an automated source by means of an embedded system." He continued to type. "The ampacity and reach of the system would be dependent on the bipolar inputs, junction transistors, alternator and interface. I desperately require more information." He finished.

A few moments after he sent the message to his superior, his phone rang.

The General?! His mind hissed, as he scrambled to pick up the phone.

"Agent Inuyasha, Sir." He said into the receiver, excitedly.

"You were quickly able to make a numerous amount of assumptions based upon those absurd drawings. How is that possible?" Sesshomaru rumbled, with the smallest hint of pride in his voice.

"Uh. Yes, Sir. However, it is just as you said, a numerous amount of assumptions. I need to see the machine in order to formulate real conclusions and design a way with which to disarm it." He admitted.

"In your email, you assumed that this machine was somehow self sustaining." Sesshomaru said, quickly. "What does that mean?"

"It means that it can power itself, Sir. Once it is initially charged, the rotation of the components within would allow it to continue to produce energy with which to feed itself." Yuu clarified. "It is an environmentally friendly system."

He became worried when Sesshomaru stayed quiet on the other end of the line. He was about to ask if he was still there when the General suddenly spoke, his abrupt low voice instantly startling him.

"That is most problematic. It seems as though The Order will once again force my hand." Sesshomaru rumbled. "How soon can you pack your things and be on the base's runway?" He hurriedly asked.

"Fifteen minutes." Yuu replied.

"Prepare for a few days stay. I am sending you to Germany along with one of the psychics from the Interrogation department. A mission brief will be waiting for you on the plane." He promised. "I wish you luck on your first mission, agent Inuyasha."

"Yes, Sir." Yuu said quickly, as he felt a wave of adrenaline wash over him the moment Sesshomaru abruptly disconnect the line.

What the hell am I supposed to do with a psychic? He wondered to himself, as he ran around his apartment and began to assemble his things.


Kagome watched on as Koga's arm was tended to by a small flock of wolf demon healers near the mouth of the cave that led back to the dining hall.

Koga stared in shock at his wound as he watched it slowly begin to heal before his very eyes.

"It has already begun to heal." One of the healers informed Koga, as she finished applying a strange salve over his injury before wrapping the site over with cloth. "You are one with high ranking Celestial power." She whispered to him, as she finished her work.

"She says I'm fine." Koga said casually, purposefully making light of his wound in his overly short translation, as he looked up into his mate's worried face.

Kagome's brows furrowed at the comment, as she studied him.

"I promise I'll be good as new in a few days." Koga swore. "I heal faster now than I ever did before." He admitted, taking pride in the outstanding growth of his demonic power over the past month. "I've earned this power, baby." He growled, as he held out his bandaged arm. "I've fought for it."

"Let's return to our room." Kagome requested, shaking off his prideful words. "You should lie down and rest."

"I don't want to." Koga said quickly, as his eyes shifted to watch the large amount of wolf demons that were enjoying themselves around him. "I feel fine."

"You're kidding?" Kagome said angrily, as she took a hold of his uninjured arm and tried to steer him back into the mountain.

"I'm not kidding." He said, now becoming slightly agitated as he felt the effects of Kagome's earlier spiritual hold on him finally begin to fade. "We're going to stand right here, baby, and you're going to tell me something while we do." He grumbled, as he studied her.

Kagome's head tilted to the side as she watched her mate's quickly changing expression.

"Like what?"

"You're going to tell me all about those dreams now." He said, on a harsh whisper.

"I already did. I told you everything that Lucian and I talked about before he came out here and challenged you. I told you about his premonitions about The Order and my agreement to help him fight against them in my dreams."

Koga narrowed his eyes and he leaned over Kagome, lowering his mouth down to her ear.

"When Lucian challenged me, do you want to know what he said, Kagome?" Koga lowly growled.

Kagome gulped.

"He told me that he was going to breed you in the way that you so often dream about."

Koga did not miss the flush that erupted across Kagome's cheek from his position next to her ear.

Before his mate could once again tap into his soul and forcibly try to calm him down, which he instinctually knew she was about to do, Koga reached forward and grabbed her arm, startling her.

"Don't." He warned. "Don't you dare use that as a way to get around this, Kagome. I am entitled to my anger, and no, I'm not going to go off and kill everyone because of it. You owe me an honest explanation about those 'sexual' dreams without numbing me out to do it." He hissed.

Kagome immediately sighed in defeat.

He's right.

"Can we at least talk about them somewhere else? Somewhere private?"

"No. I want you to tell me right now." He demanded. "Do you fantasize about him?" He growled. "Did you lie to me when you told me that the only man you ever think about is me?" He spat, in a low whisper.

"I promise you, I haven't fantasized about being intimate with him since I found you again." She said, struggling for the right words.

"The night we had dinner at Annika's house was the only opportunity for her to tell you about Lucian and show you his picture." Koga said angrily, as his mind pieced together a string of fragmented memories at a furious pace. "Interestingly enough, if I remember correctly, you appeared to be sexually out of control that night." Koga continued. "Jumping into a freezing cold pool just to 'cool down' and practically assaulting me the moment that we got to our vacation house. You also tempted me with the promise of 'putting a child inside of you', and a bunch of other shit." Koga finished, his eyes beginning to bleed red as he did.

"Koga…"

"You want him." Koga growled, as his eyes flicked over to Lucian's hulking form.

The werewolf king was currently standing on the edge of the mountain's many cliffs and he appeared to be staring upwards at the stars.

"No female would be able to resist such a powerful alpha male." Koga continued, as he noted that the eyes of every female in the crowd would raise every so often just to ogle him, including the eyes of his taken female teammates."

"Does it smell like I want him?" Kagome said, quickly. "You'd very easily be able to tell if he turned me on. In an instant, really. Have you picked up on the scent of my desire when I am near that man?"

Koga frowned at her as he thought upon this.

"You haven't. Not once." Kagome said, knowingly. "Because I do not want him, Koga."

"Then what the hell happens in those dreams of yours? What the hell is he able to see in them? Why is he able to connect to you?"

"He connects to me, because apparently, I have been inviting him to, without ever knowing that I've been doing it."

"What?"

"I dream about him, but he's not with ME sexually, Koga." She stressed, feeling her face heat. "Focusing on him and calling out to him in my dreams is what probably invited him into my subconscious. He is a clairvoyant and I'm certain he has other psychic abilities as well. It's like an Ellie Date situation all over again."

"What the fuck are you talking about, Kagome?!" Koga demanded, beginning to lose his patience.

"I dream about him having sex… with you!" She roared, hating how thick headed Koga could sometimes be. "And it's fucking amazing!" She added, as she stared at Koga defiantly.

Koga's mouth dropped, and for the first time in a very long time, he found himself to be without words.

"WHAT?!" Koga yelled, the moment he could once again speak.

"That's right! I dream of two of you going at it and I get to watch!" She hissed.

As the argument escalated, it began to catch the attention of the festive wolf demons that were in their immediate proximity.

It also seemed to gain Lucian's attention as well, and he abandoned his study of the stars to now look down upon them.

"Is everything okay over here?" Frisk called out to them, as he made his way over to the couple in a huff. "You're creating a scene."

"Fuck off!" Koga instantly shouted back at him.

"Not happening. If you two want to argue privately then go somewhere else. Otherwise, it's an open fucking invitation." He continued, in his calmest voice while he gently pointed up in Lucian's direction. "You're gathering a lot of attention." He warned.

Koga and Kagome followed the direction of Frisk's pointed finger and Koga angrily took off into the crowd of dancing demons, leaving Frisk with Kagome alone.

"Is everything okay?" He whispered, as he watched Koga go.

"It will be, he just needs time to calm down… as usual… for every fucking thing." She grumbled. "I swear, I wish I knew why this relationship in particular has to be so overly complicated all of the time. I've never had problems like these. Ever!" She said, in a frustrated voice. "We are supposed to be together, we both want to be together, but sometimes, it just seems so hard to do simply that!" She continued.

"I would ask you what was wrong, but I'm not sure I want to know."

"It's about Lucian, Frisk." She mumbled. "Because I had a few stupid dreams about Lucian recently, he feels like I've somehow betrayed him… as usual."

"You two really do fight about the stupidest things." Frisk admitted, as he rolled his eyes.

"Sometimes, I really do secretly wish that we were more like you and Inspect or Anatomy and Terrain in the way that we handle our insecurities with one another." She admitted. "He tells me that he wants me to share everything with him, but his possessive nature makes that so fucking difficult! I tell him that he makes it hard for me to talk to him, and he promises me that he'll try to be more accepting, but here we are." She continued. "It's not fair."

"You're the same way as he is and you really do sound pretty immature right now." Frisk said, casually.

Kagome scowled at him.

"Toughen up, Toots."

"What?! That's all you have to offer in terms of advice?!" Kagome said, angrily. "You're supposed to be my friend! Whenever you come to me for advice or help, I'm always there for you!"

"I AM always here for you, Rai. Always." He countered.

"Forget that I said anything to you at all." Kagome mumbled, as she turned to reenter the mountain alone.

She was stopped by Frisk's heavy gloved hand coming down upon her shoulder.

"Stop it. Would you be okay with Fang telling you that he has sexual dreams about Cathwulf and then we just so happened to meet her while we were here?" He asked, referencing one of the female characters from the Aethelwulf series.

"No."

"Alright then. Stop whining."

"But I wasn't having sexual dreams about me and Lucian. I was having sexual dreams about HIM and Lucian." She pushed.

"What?"

"You heard me."

"What the hell happened to the innocent and blushing girl that I once used to date?" He said, as he stared at her in wonder.

"You did!" She screamed. "You and all of your perverted homework and role play and leashes and crazy ideas…"

"Don't you dare accuse me of making you this way!" He shouted in return. "I may have led you to the water, but I didn't push you into the God damn ocean, Rai. You jumped in all by yourself. I never once had to convince you of anything, ever, and truth be told, all of the stuff that we did together was the direct result of one of your looney ideas, not mine!"

"What? Are you insane? That was all you!"

"No, you are insane. Do you have any idea how hard it was trying to keep up with you, Rai? I find myself to be a confident man, but you, you were something else. As soon as you got comfortable with yourself it was like a fucking dam burst. You turned into quite the little vixen! Nothing I ever did was good enough for you!"

He's confusing his memories of me with his memories of someone else. Kagome realized, as she prayed for patience.

"Frisk, focus on me for a second. Think really hard about what you just said and then explain to me what the fuck you are talking about!" Kagome spat, feeling completely confused and horrified at the same time.

"That's what I'd like to know!" Koga hissed from behind Frisk's back. "What the fuck are you talking about?!"

"We're talking about Rai's insatiable…" Frisk started, without any hesitation.

"Frisk! Why don't you come back later?" Kagome forcefully interrupted.

"Gladly!" Frisk retorted, as he angrily stomped off in the direction of the music.

"What the hell were you two talking about?" Koga demanded.

"We were taking about me being a hypocrite and a terrible partner who is apparently impossible to please." She grumbled, as she worked furiously to massage at her throbbing temples.

Koga said nothing, he instead angrily stared at her while waiting for her to elaborate.

"You probably eavesdropped on the entire conversation anyway, so what's the sense in making me repeat it?!" She shouted, as she began to turn away from him and angrily attempted to go back to her room.

She was honestly surprised when Koga didn't immediately come after her.

It actually hurt a little bit that he didn't.

Stupid Frisk! You and Koga should run off marry each other since you both love each other so fucking much. She thought, vehemently to herself. Frisk always has Koga's back over mine. Always. She mentally grumbled. He's supposed to be MY friend.

She wanted to be mad at him and she wanted to be mad at Koga, but she felt utterly tired and defeated with the evening's events as a whole.

They're both probably right. Something's wrong with me. She thought sadly to herself, trying not to let Frisk's angry words echo in her head. Is it really that hard to be with me? She wondered to herself. Do I want too much? She worried. Do I push Koga too hard?

She loudly sucked her teeth.

I never forced him to do anything. I always tried to be clear that we never had to do anything that he didn't want to do. It never would have changed my interest in him. She thought to herself. But, maybe he did things that he really didn't want to do because he was afraid that he wouldn't somehow be able to please me. She concluded, dejectedly.

"I really am an asshole." She grumbled to herself, as she looked around at the unfamiliar path she was on. "An asshole, that has no idea where she is going." She said, on a sigh.

With the admission she heard a loud chuckle echoing over her from the background.

"I find I must agree with that statement."

Great. King asshole is at my service. How wonderful. Could this night get any worse?

"Your quarters should be off in that direction." He rumbled, as he pointed down a twisting path.

"Thanks." She mumbled, dismissively.

"You and your mate are now fighting? I would think you would be most united at this time."

"Why would that be? Because you started a giant brawl outside and didn't kill him… or me… while you were at it?" Kagome spat. "Let's be united, my love! Don't worry about this giant monster slashing your arm, strangling your mate, or telling you that he plans on forcing himself on your mate after you die! Ignore all of that!" She said, sarcastically. "Let's just be 'united' right now!"

Lucian scowled at her and she scowled right back, surprising him.

"Your mate will recover from such meager taunting."

"Would you, if you were in his position? No, you wouldn't. You'd be too busy killing everyone in response." Kagome spat. "No wonder Annika is so head over heels over her new mate. Her mate has the sweetest and most romantic heart. He was probably was the most welcomed and refreshing change…"

Kagome's purification energy immediately exploded around her in protection as Lucian instantly appeared in her face, snarling at her.

"See. It's a little different when it's you, isn't it? But don't you worry Lucian, I am sure you'll recover from such meager taunting, especially if it is coming from a tiny human such as myself."

"Watch your words, woman." Lucian growled lowly in warning.

Kagome paid him no mind, she instead turned on her heel towards the pathway he previously indicated and tried to keep up a purposeful stride.

She grew agitated when she felt Lucian follow her.

"I don't need an escort! But, thanks!" She called out over her shoulder, as she entered into a darkened cavern. She instantly turned up her purification energy for a light source in response and noticed, what seemed to be, dozens of reflective eyes staring at her.

Wolves. Kagome realized, immediately halting in her stride. A hell of a lot of them. She thought, as a nervous tingle shot down her spine.

She tried to ignore the conceited snickering that erupted from behind her.

"I shall leave you then, tiny human. Good luck in your search."

"Wait." Kagome whispered to him, quashing her purification powers and throwing her shield up over herself. "Please don't leave me alone here." She squeaked.

Lucian said nothing for several minutes and Kagome felt her adrenaline begin to spike.

"You are… afraid of wolves?" Lucian asked in wonder, as he suddenly appeared at her side.

His immediate appearance next to her caused her to jump.

"WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP DOING THAT?!" She roared.

"You are mated to a werewolf, yet you fear the very creature that he commands?" Lucian asked curiously, ignoring her angry response to his sudden movements.

"Shut. Up."

Lucian exploded into a loud roar of laughter at the realization.

"I hate you." She whispered, as she slowly began to walk through the cavern, her body instinctually flanking Lucian's for protection. "You really are terrible to me."

"I am here helping you after you disrespected me. You are most lucky to be alive right now."

"You started it."

"I did not."

"You really did with that whole uproar that you caused outside."

Lucian sucked his teeth.

This woman is not going to let that go. He realized.

"You remind me of Annika." He grumbled, attempting to change the subject, as he led her passed his pack's many wolves. "She hated me once too and she had no hesitation in telling me, and everyone else, often."

"You could have been kinder to her."

"I am not kind."

"That was your problem. Knowing Annika, all you really had to do was pick her flowers or do something romantic for her. Instead you chose violence with which to win her."

"Violence is the only thing I know, tiny human."

"I can see that." Kagome whispered, earning herself another chuckle from the werewolf king. "But even the mighty Lucian could have picked his mate flowers just to see her smile."

"Is that how your mate won you over?" He asked, on a huff. "By collecting insignificant flowers?" He asked, sarcastically.

"It was a start." Kagome whispered, as she carefully walked passed the sleeping forms of numerous wolves that littered the ground, careful not to step on any of them. "He was always kind to me as well. When he wasn't being a complete ass, that is."


Koga slowly tracked Frisk through the sea of dancing wolf demons, watching as Alpha Team's second in command slowly regrouped with the remainder of his team who were all dancing in a small circle off to one side of the festivities.

His instincts were actually begging him to go after Kagome, but first, he wanted to know what the hell she and Frisk had just spoken about.

He had only managed to hear the tail end of the conversation, and what he heard, he certainly didn't like.

At all.

"Frisk!" Koga shouted, as he caught up to the man.

"Oh God. Not you, too. Why can't you guys just leave me the hell alone? I'm not a fucking therapist."

"I'm not looking for your advice, jackass. I want to know what you and Rai were just speaking about back there."

"Ask. Her." He spat, becoming fed up. "Leave me out of your problems."

"What did you say to her? She's going to tell me eventually, so why can't you?"

"Because I'm not your mate. She is. Stop using me as a scapegoat right now. You're angry and you two are fighting. So, go finish your fight with her, and stop trying to start an argument with me!" He grumbled.

"That leash was yours, wasn't it?" Koga hissed, ignoring his demands.

"Go talk to Wraith, Fang. Leave me alone."

"Answer me!"

"Hey Fang, guess what?" Frisk said, with mock cheer. "Did you notice that someone very important is missing from this party?" He said, as he smiled.

Koga scowled at him. "Stop changing the subject and answer me."

"Lucian is missing. I wonder where he went?" Frisk said, on a sigh.

Koga's head tilted to the side for only a moment, before he took off towards the entrance of the mountain.

"That should keep him busy until he calms down." Frisk grumbled to himself.

"Excellent thinking." Terrain said, as she took him by the hand and began to dance with him, while her brother danced along with Mystic.

"It's sad how accustomed we've become to Fang and Wraith's bullshit over the past year." Trace shouted, as he gave Frisk a thumbs up.

"This is them. They'll work it out. They always do." Mystic said, knowingly. "They're both insecure, they just so happen to handle themselves very differently. Fang explodes and Wraith implodes. They'll figure it out and become much stronger in the process."


"Not to be gross. But how much of my, um, private dreams did you get to witness before we began our talks about the war?" Kagome questioned, as Lucian delivered her to her room.

"Private dreams?"

"Yes, my private… fantasies. You know, the sexual ones."

"Sexual?" Lucian repeated, becoming confused.

"What you said to Koga…." Kagome trailed off. "…about taking me the in the way that I dream about." She supplied, when the man didn't say anything.

"Is that what you would dream about when you would call out to me?" Lucian questioned, his eyes widening.

"Huh? You recognized Koga when we first arrived here. You had to have seen him in my dreams, how else would you know who he was? If you didn't see any of my private dreams, why would you have said what you did to him outside?"

"I said that to spur him on and for no other deeper reason." Lucian said, quickly. "In our shared dreams, that alpha would usually sit alongside you as we spoke with one another." Lucian said with haste, trying to understand the sudden turn of their current conversation.

Kagome immediately became horrified as she turned this information over in her mind.

"Forget everything I just said!" She demanded. "I misunderstood something. Please, just forget this entire conversation!" She rambled quickly, as she turned to enter her room. "Thank you so much for bringing me back here! I really do appreciate it!" She sputtered, as she entered the room and gently closed her cracked door in Lucian's face.

Lucian quickly came to the conclusion that Kagome was the strangest woman that he had ever encountered in his very long life. She was powerful, headstrong and defiant, yet she was also small, vulnerable and malleable all at the same time. She truly was quite the enigma and he found her to be utterly fascinating.

She smells wonderful as well. His mind added, as he felt a slow and hungry heat suddenly wash over him.

When he first found himself alone with her outside, at the time that she had first displayed her powers for him, he finally had the chance to take in her scent without the hindrance of any other scent to somehow corrode it.

Now, much like he did then, he found himself relaxing into its enticing and musky depths.

He became puzzled by his body's reaction to her and he found himself dumbly standing out in the hallway as he thought upon his current state.

"Flowers." He muttered, as he turned and walked away. "Flowers were the start…" He whispered to himself, as his disappeared within his mountain's twisting and darkened hallways.


Kagome had just completed building a fire when Koga burst into their shared room and nearly startled her half to death.

"What the hell is the matter with you?!" She shouted, as she scrambled to get to her feet.

Koga ignored her. Instead he began to furiously sniff at the air in the room before turning around and testing it against the scent in the hallway.

When it seemed that he had come to a certain conclusion about something, he reentered their room and slammed the door behind him.

"Have you calmed down yet?" She mumbled, as she studied her mate's red eyes. "Are you ready to talk?"

"Why is his scent outside of this room?" Koga demanded, ignoring her.

"Because he walked me here. I got lost." She admitted.

When Koga began to lowly growl in his throat, Kagome swore she was about to lose her shit.

"Did you come here just to start another fight with me, all over again?" She asked, incredulously. "What in the hell do I have to do in this life to prove my devotion to you, Koga? What is it going to take for you to trust me?" She hissed, as she crossed her arms across her chest. "You act like I cheat on you constantly!"

"You might as well be cheating on me in your fucking dreams!" He countered, angrily.

"How? By picturing YOU sleeping with someone else?" She huffed. "How the hell does that constitute me cheating on you? Shit. Even if I did fantasize about someone else, how is it any of your business anyway? My own personal private thoughts are now up for review in this relationship as well? Nothing I do is ever alright with you!" She roared. "My past bothers you, my friendships bother you, my dreams bother you, everything about me… bothers you! Why the fuck are you even with me?!" She said, angrily. "What the hell kind of relationship is this, where I constantly have to defend myself to the one person who is supposed to believe in me more so than anyone else? I swear, this is fucking exhausting, Koga! Is this what the next few centuries of our lives are going to be like? And you want to have kids? How the hell is that going to work if you have zero faith in me as a partner?"

"Shut up! Do you have any idea what it is like to be in my shoes?! Do you ever try to see things from my perspective, Kagome?!"

Kagome bit her lip and quieted, allowing him to continue.

"I don't want you getting turned on by anyone but me. It shouldn't be anyone BUT me, Kagome."

"The only person turning me on in those dreams is you. I swear this to you."

"It doesn't matter! Lucian was still in them!" Koga grumbled.

"There you go immediately dismissing my explanation. Nothing matters but what you feel. You shut me down, constantly." She said angrily, as she tried to restrain herself from punching the wall.

"I am not dismissing you!"

"Yes, you are. You don't like what I have to say, so you instantly reject it. That's how you deal."

Koga forced himself to take a deep breath.

"I don't like this, Kagome." He grumbled. "I understand your explanation, but I don't like it. It burns me up inside. Do you know what it feels like to constantly worry that you are going to lose the love of your life to someone else?" He said in a low echo, as if the words burned his tongue to say.

"Why? Why the hell do you feel that way? Please explain this to me." She said, as she rushed over to him. "Why do you feel like I would ever leave your side, Koga? Do you truly not feel my love and devotion deep inside your very soul?" She whispered, as she reached out to cup his cheek.

"I do. I do feel it." Koga grumbled, as he closed his eyes against her touch. "I just don't understand how someone like you… could possibly stick with someone like me. What in the world do I have to offer you, Kagome?" He whispered, as he opened his eyes and held hers. "I'm not adept at any of the kinky crap that you're into. Who even fucking knows at this point if I really am able to give you children." He continued. "Hell, if you're picturing Lucian in your dreams, then obviously you're in need of someone much stronger and much more powerful than I am." He continued, as he studied Kagome's beautiful and saddening face. "Obviously I am not able to truly give you all of the things that you deserve, baby. So why are you even with me? You could have anyone you want. Men constantly throw themselves at you. You could do so much better…." He rambled, before a harsh and unexpected smack against his cheek suddenly silenced him.

"Don't you dare put yourself down." Kagome said, in a forced calm and controlled voice. "Don't go there. I understand what it's like to be in that self-created dark place, I really do, and that's why I'm telling you to pull yourself out of it." Kagome said, in a low whisper. "I love you, Koga. You are the only man that I can honestly say, I have ever truly been in love with." She continued. "I do not desire anyone else. No one, past, present or future, is going to pop up, capture my heart, and manage to somehow steal me away from you. You have nothing to worry about in the bedroom. You more than satisfy my needs. Even if we never were to try anything differently for the remainder of our days together, I would be happy." She swore. "I am going to spend the rest of my life with you." She pressed. "We will have a family one day and we will raise our children together. I will give you the world each and every day of our lives, I promise you this. But, the only one that can stand in the way of all of that… is you." She said, softly.

Koga instantly wrapped his arms around her and lowered his head into the crook of her neck.

"I'm sorry." He whispered, as he leaned against her. "I don't know why I get like this."

"I understand." Kagome said, quickly. "Believe me, I truly understand. Your feelings just now…" She started, as she placed a kiss over his heart. "…are the same exact insecurities that I always used to have about myself, in my relationship with you. I would never talk about them and they used to just eat away at me every fucking day. "

"How did you make it stop?" Koga grumbled, as he took a deep pull of her scent.

"I haven't been able to completely make those thoughts stop. But, honestly, Sesshomaru talked some sense into me one day, and it helped a lot." She admitted. "He gave me some of my confidence back."

"I'm sorry I fucking asked." Koga spat. "Sesshomaru swooped in to save the day. Of course he fucking did."

"Koga? Can you please shut the fuck up for two minutes and let me finish speaking?"

Kagome instantly took a deep sigh of relief when he actually did so.

"One day you are going to accept that Sesshomaru really is a friend to me, Koga. That friend told me that, instinctually, you could not take me as a mate unless I was the most alluring and unparalleled choice. He told me to remind myself of how much power I really had in my relationship with you every time that I felt myself becoming insecure." She repeated. "Which used to be all the time, to be honest."

"You're saying that the same could be said for me? That you couldn't have taken me as a mate unless I was the unrivaled, best choice?"

"Exactly." Kagome agreed. "My soul bound itself with yours within a day of my finding you again. It did not hesitate to do so. It was fate, Koga. We talk about this all the time. You know that this wasn't some fluke thing. As far as I know, no other holy user has ever been able to bind themselves spiritually to anyone before, especially not to a demon. Nor has any wolf demon ever been able to bind themselves to a human. We are a very special pairing, one that should never have been possible to start with. Hell, you can even use holy powers, which in theory, is absolutely wrong on so many levels and should be theoretically impossible."

"I can use holy powers?"

"What do you think my shield is comprised of? What do you think that connective spiritual glow is all about? Those are my holy powers, Koga, and you're the one summoning them. Although, you seem to be completely unaware of how you're doing it and when." She admitted.

Koga took a step back from her and studied her for a moment before he took a deep breath and squeezed his eyes shut.

"What are you doing?"

"Shhhh." He whispered, as she watched him physically relax.

A few minutes passed and Kagome began to grow impatient.

"Is something wrong?"

Koga didn't answer her, instead she watched on as she began to lightly glow within a faint blue light.

As she studied her new state, Koga cracked open an eye and smiled at her.

"You're right. I shouldn't be able to do that." He quipped, as he walked over to her and gently ran his fingers through her hair.

"How are you doing this?" Kagome whispered, curiously.

"I'm relaxing and focusing on feel of your soul. Just like you explained to me once." He replied, before trailing off at the fuzzy memory."

Kagome chuckled.

"I still can't extend my teeth." She whispered, as she also recalled the memory that they once shared in a car alongside Trinity.

"Too bad."

"But I do have these." Kagome said smugly, as she raised her fist and four long and sharp claws sprung forward. "These, I believe, actually belong to you." She admitted, as Koga was immediately engulfed within her blue protective shield and he studied her claws closely for the first time without any fear.

"Yours are much better than mine." He chuckled. "Much sharper too."

"These are reflective of your soul, Koga. The part that lives on within me." Kagome said, seriously. "The part that is giving me your time."

Koga's expression became serious as he once again gave her claws the once over.

"Then they will always protect you." He swore, as he traced the edge of her talons with his shielded fingertip.