She waited, crouched in the limb of a leafy tree, for her prey to come in
sight. The wind was dead calm around her, not one leaf stirring with a
vagrant breeze. Nothing moved as she waited and watched. Soon, he came,
dust surrounding him as he ran, heedless of the world around him. She took
a certain satisfaction in the way the look of serenity and bliss dissolved
from his face as his world flipped one hundred and eighty degrees.
Kouga heard the laughter as he swung, suspended by one foot from a tall tree branch. He cursed, loudly and virulently. Caught like a brainless rabbit, all because he had let his guard down enough to enjoy the act of running. It had been so long since he felt free to run aimlessly, not hunting, not seeking, not returning home - just feeling the wind stinging his face and whipping his hair behind him. The boost of the shikon shards was long gone, but the time he had spent with them had enhanced his already considerable leg muscles to the point where nothing, not youkai or human or animal, could catch up with him. He could even outrun an arrow but not an idiotically simple snare.
Kagura smirked as she dangled her feet from the branch she was sitting on. Keeping the air around her still had been exhausting, but worth it. "Going somewhere, wolf?"
"Anywhere that doesn't have your stink." Kouga tried to pull himself up to where he could loosen the rope from around his foot, but he was too off balance. He stopped when he felt her fan tapping one of his thighs. One of his /bare/ thighs, since gravity had done its work on his kilt.
"So much for the BIG bad wolf, neh, Kouga-kun?" Her voice was sweet as honey, poisonous as arsenic.
Kouga was bright red, partially from the blood rush to the head, partially from the blush to end all blushes. "What can I say, you're enough to shrivel any man."
" I would think you'd manage to be polite to someone who could kill you. Then again, you probably don't know how, you poor thing." She stepped delicately around him, avoiding his flailing limbs, and pulled out her fan. Opening it with a noise like the cracking of the world, she turned on Kouga, and he prepared himself to die, trussed up like any dumb, hunted animal. Instead she laughed.
"Do you know, I think you were right... It's more fun not to kill you. Instead, I'll take something in return for what you took." Three sharp arm movements, and Kouga's wolf tail, ponytail and headband were lying on the ground. A slight wave and a breeze carried the trophies to Kagura's waiting hands. "See you around, wolf."
Kouga watched her go, every inch of her seeming to taunt him, from the way her head was tilted to the way her backside swayed as she walked away. He started working on getting loose again, looping his free foot around the bound one for leverage as he bent and twisted in an effort to reach the knot. This was more than just tit for tat, more than the empty revenge for a clan that had defied him, more than payback for putting him in a humiliating position. This was war... And his mouth curled into a grin as he started planning his next step.
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Author's note: No, updates won't always happen this fast. I'm just posting more of what's already written from the K/K list. Updates will always happen there first, so I can get feedback. ;) At any rate, I hope y'all enjoy, and please leave me a note to say what you thought.
Kouga heard the laughter as he swung, suspended by one foot from a tall tree branch. He cursed, loudly and virulently. Caught like a brainless rabbit, all because he had let his guard down enough to enjoy the act of running. It had been so long since he felt free to run aimlessly, not hunting, not seeking, not returning home - just feeling the wind stinging his face and whipping his hair behind him. The boost of the shikon shards was long gone, but the time he had spent with them had enhanced his already considerable leg muscles to the point where nothing, not youkai or human or animal, could catch up with him. He could even outrun an arrow but not an idiotically simple snare.
Kagura smirked as she dangled her feet from the branch she was sitting on. Keeping the air around her still had been exhausting, but worth it. "Going somewhere, wolf?"
"Anywhere that doesn't have your stink." Kouga tried to pull himself up to where he could loosen the rope from around his foot, but he was too off balance. He stopped when he felt her fan tapping one of his thighs. One of his /bare/ thighs, since gravity had done its work on his kilt.
"So much for the BIG bad wolf, neh, Kouga-kun?" Her voice was sweet as honey, poisonous as arsenic.
Kouga was bright red, partially from the blood rush to the head, partially from the blush to end all blushes. "What can I say, you're enough to shrivel any man."
" I would think you'd manage to be polite to someone who could kill you. Then again, you probably don't know how, you poor thing." She stepped delicately around him, avoiding his flailing limbs, and pulled out her fan. Opening it with a noise like the cracking of the world, she turned on Kouga, and he prepared himself to die, trussed up like any dumb, hunted animal. Instead she laughed.
"Do you know, I think you were right... It's more fun not to kill you. Instead, I'll take something in return for what you took." Three sharp arm movements, and Kouga's wolf tail, ponytail and headband were lying on the ground. A slight wave and a breeze carried the trophies to Kagura's waiting hands. "See you around, wolf."
Kouga watched her go, every inch of her seeming to taunt him, from the way her head was tilted to the way her backside swayed as she walked away. He started working on getting loose again, looping his free foot around the bound one for leverage as he bent and twisted in an effort to reach the knot. This was more than just tit for tat, more than the empty revenge for a clan that had defied him, more than payback for putting him in a humiliating position. This was war... And his mouth curled into a grin as he started planning his next step.
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Author's note: No, updates won't always happen this fast. I'm just posting more of what's already written from the K/K list. Updates will always happen there first, so I can get feedback. ;) At any rate, I hope y'all enjoy, and please leave me a note to say what you thought.