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Time to go back in Time Again

Kagome had been expecting to be enveloped once more by the river, bracing herself for the impending wall of water that would overtake them, but that moment never came. Instead, she felt the hard, bone-rattleing impact of landing on solid ground, hard enough that she thought her teeth were going to rattle out of her skull.

He did not acknowledge the action upon landing though, turning instead to his wolves who were gathered, looking up at the girl on his back in a mixture of what appeared to be suspension and apprehension.

A few approached to smell warily of her legs, before retreating back to the safety of their number; the only remaining by her side a pair of dappled grey-black and white wolves she instantly recognized as Hakkaku and Ginta by the way their muzzles came up to lick at her hands and yip softly, tongues lolling out of the sides of their mouths when she scratched at their broad foreheads.

He bared his teeth in warning at the few that refused, snapping rather than come to great their alpha and his chosen, a snarl reverberating from his chest as he stood at his full height before them; towering over even the tallest of his companions. There were a few scattered in amongst their ranks that nearly rivaled his stature, but most appeared to be the size of mere wolves; something she had never considered before considered to be small. And one by one they all submitted to his will, backing away rather than challenging him over the danger she represented.

But a moment later, the tension in the pack was gone; his will was to be followed without further question, and she was almost sent tumbling from his back again when he began to shake the water out of his coat, saved only by her white-knuckled grip on his fur.

Kouga turned his head to her, an expression as close to a smirk as a muzzle could come plastered across his face as he took in her bedraggled appearance; looking as if a disgruntled cat that had just had a bucket of water thrown over it, woofing softly as if that had been fun rather than terrifying.

And Kagome felt as if she'd gone back in time again; seated atop a creature that time had lost, and the world had forgotten existed as he howled his success to the sky. Waiting until the distant sound of his kindred joined in his song, before turning to lead the pack home. His loping gait carrying her silently through places where mortals had not dared to tread in centuries. Worlds where gods and demons still resided and their silence broken only by the sounds of the pack as they made their way back to their den.

And so what did that make her; a Miko who had traveled through time saved them all, a mortal who'd bested gods and found an ally in one of the most powerful beings that still walked across this plain? Something a little bit less than Human, she suspected. Something a little bit more than real.

Note: -yawns- I'm so tired. But there is writing to do. I'm hoping soon to include for you all a link to a chat room where me and a few of my other writing partners get together to work on our stories and host write nights, so I hope that you join us in the fun once we do, And I'll be sure to post specific times we'll be there if anyone wants to pop in and say hello. So look out for that in the coming days.