Phoxy- Now...don't get mad...I'm working on an update for TWTH....but it is on my puter at home and I have to sneak on to do that one...soooo...I'm starting this one to do here at school...

Inuyasha- **laughs**

Phoxy- Shut up!!

Inuyasha- But you are so pathetic!

Phoxy- Sit!

Inuyasha- **face plants**

Phoxy- Now who's pathetic lame brain.

Inuyasha- **growls**

Disclaimer- no ownith anything...ith....

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Beat Around the bush

False hopes

Kouga lay back against the side of his cave wall resting his eyes in deep thought. He had just gotten back once more from seeing Kagome, and once again she refused to be his.

It wasn't like he was going to give up, but that was exactly what he had decided to do. Maybe it wasn't meant to be if she wanted a half-breed like Inuyasha, maybe she wasn't worth his time at all.

The leader of the wolf clan sighed heavily. He'd just have to be there for her when Inuyasha couldn't save her, like he always was anyway. Friendship was better than nothing, right? He would just have to find someone better than Kagome to take his mind off it, but alas there was no one that came to mind.

Then again why should there be? He had spent all his time seeking out Kagome when she was already taken. Kouga froze in his thought for a second. It was the first time that had really hit him.

She was already Inuyasha's. Of course she wouldn't be his. That struck home as he gave another distressed sigh.

Could thinks possibly get worse at this point. He'd struck an all out low, hitting bottom, losing out to a mutt. The pack was losing faith in him slowly because of his misjudgment and lack of duties.

They had seen what he just learned from the beginning. Though no one would say so to his face. Fear of being killed no doubt.

One of Kouga's men ran into the cave at top speed out of breath, and looking as if he was about to collapse on the spot. Pulling up what strength he had he rushed to where Kouga leaned on the wall, appearing to be asleep.

"She's...come...ing..." The wolf tribe member gasped. He had run all the way here from his post at the edge of the tribe's territory, which covered the area once belonging to the birds of paradise.

"Who?" Kouga asked with a week show of interest. His men had a way with overreacting. A trail of memories sprang up about a time when they thought the world was coming to an end because of a little snow fall.

"Your...Mother..."

There is no better wake up call than that, at least not for Kouga. At the sound of the 'm' word he sat up so fast the messenger jumped back, or maybe he just jumped at the sudden movement. It was hard to tell as he quickly recovered taking a few steps away from Kouga who immediately started up, "WHAT!? When? Why? She isn't suppose to come for another five months!"

"It's been those five months. You must not have noticed." The messenger said unsure if he should even attempt to calm down his leaders panic.

Kouga got to his feet and in a blur of air rushed out of the cave at top speed, or he would have if there hadn't been a rather too sweet looking woman standing in front of him, blocking his only escape.

She was a rather tall woman. She had black hair tied back in a loose pony tail. She was wearing a grey fur outfit, some type of bear by the look of it. She was older looking than most of the members of the cave, and her brown eyes shown with knowledge. "Hello Kouga. How are you my son?"

The cave had fallen silent. Last time their leaders mother had been there she had demanded to see Kouga's mate...and wasn't too happy to find out that he was lacking of one. That had been nine month's ago. The exact amout of time she said that she was going to give him to find one.

And again he had failed, but how was he going to tell her that?

"Fine." Kouga's voice cracked nearly in a whisper. He had stopped just feet away from her, and really found it hard to move, that and breath.

"Wonderful." She said with a smile as she took her son into her arms with love. "And how's the misses?"

Getting right to the point isn't she. Kouga just kept silent. Maybe if he didn't make a sound she would forget the fact he didn't answer.

"Well?" The woman asked releasing him to look him in the eyes. Obviously his plan wasn't working, time for a new strategy, if there was one.

He could tell her the truth and then suffer long lectures and speeches and be told off about how he was such an imbecile and how it was time to grow up.

That didn't look to be a good choice. He could run out of the cave screaming that he didn't even know the woman and have the pack attack her...though she would probably beat his pack down and then tear after him.

Again, not looking to be a good choice, and that's when the thought hit him. He could tell her that he had a mate. Then his mother could congratulate him and be on her marry way like she always did.

"She's doing great." Kouga lied convincingly.

"Oh. Really? For a minute there I thought you had failed me once again. So where is she?" The cheery woman asked with a slight bounce in her voice.

"She's...out in the fields...picking berries." Kouga said scrounging the back of his mind for ideas. Maybe he should have thought this one out a bit more before attempting it.

"Oh. Well go and fetch her so I may meet her then." His mother said a bit too bounce for Kouga's liking.

Great. Now what was he to do. "O...kay..." Kouga said as he stepped past his mother to exit the cave.

"And hurry back would you dear I can't wait to see the girl of yours." She called after him.

'I can't wait either.' Kouga thought as he trotted down away from the cave as a slow jog. He was in no hurry what so ever. He was in a big dilemma, and didn't know how the hell he was going to get out of it. In fact he didn't know what possessed him to do this in the first place.

Kouga looked up and saw one of his tribe members walking back from the hunting fields with a deer over his shoulder. "Hey." Kouga said as he drew closer to him. "My mother's up there and I want you to get everyone to keep her busy until I get back."

"Your...mother...." The wolf member said remembering the horrible screech that woman could yell in.

Kouga nodded, "Keep her distracted. And if she asks what's taking so long, take her mind away from it. Got it?"

"Yea."

"Good. Carry on then." Kouga said as he went past the hunter and started to run off once again. He didn't know where he was going. How was he going to find a woman in a matter of hours, and then, as if on cue, it hit him, "Kagome..." If he could get her to play along while his mother was here...

That was it. That's all he had to do. Convince her to do this for him, just once. His mother would leave in a few days and then she could leave. That and he would have the opportunity to be with Kagome. This would be great.

With out another thought Kouga started up his twister and took off to find her without a second thought of what might happen. Or what might not happen...

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Phoxy- ^___^ How good is that?

Inuyasha- You are so evil...

Phoxy- Bite me. Anyways. This is not a self-insert fic so don't beg me to put ya in it. I haven't done one of these yet...except for love and hate...which is going to be changed to a Romeo and Juliet type fic. I'm not going to use the script...and I might change the characters around abit...and I might just drop some of them all together. But yea.

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