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Another note...the pairing in this fic it Inu/Kag AND Kouga/Kag. Needless to say this is not a Sess/Kag fic...¬.¬ Sorry to disappoint...
This chapter is a bit longer than the others. Hope it makes up for how long it took for me to put it up...
Disclaimer- I don't own it.
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Beating around the Bush
First Base
"What's your mother like?" Kagome asked as she and Kouga sped towards the cave. She more along the lines screamed it at him, but that was only so she could be heard over the winds of the surrounding cyclone.
Kouga didn't hear her though, but he did happen to see her lips move in an attempt to communicate. Despite the fact that he needed to get there as fast as possible, due to his knowledge of how impatient his mother could be, he decided to slow down so that it was easy to hold a conversation at a normal running pace.
"Well? What is she like?" Kagome asked squinting up at him. The dust and dirt in her eyes was unbearably irritating. She rubbed them, trying to clear them of the intruding sand/dirt particles.
"Hm?" Kouga asked oblivious to what on earth she was talking about.
"You're mother. What is your mother like?" Kagome repeated irritably. Why was she repeating herself. Weren't wolves suppose to have good hearing just as dogs do. Maybe she was too use to Inuyasha after all...
"Well...she's, uh...pushy."
Translation: She is a power hungry control freak who always gets what she wants and if she doesn't then she continuously pesters and sends you on guilt trips you much rather ovoid.
Well...that's how it translated to Kagome, but just to make sure, "Pushy? As in...she is forcing you to find a mate?"
Kouga just nodded, and looked ahead of them. They were almost there and he still wasn't sure what was going to happen next.
There were many different scenarios running threw his head...and over half of them weren't ending too well.
"That's kind of rude isn't it. And it isn't fair to you." Kagome said throwing in her two cents. It wasn't her place to say anything, but since when did that stop her?
"Just don't bring it up." Kouga said in almost a panic. She could really blow this out of the water if she said anything out of line. "The last thing we want is her to find out this isn't real and that you aren't her daughter-in-law," Kouga paused, "that could only lead to trouble..."
"Right, I know." Kagome said mentally kicking herself. How did she always get herself into things like this.
Usually it had something to do with the shikon jewel shards, or Inuyasha...or even both, and even a few times with Kikyo. And for those she really didn't get to chose if she was going to submit herself to self torture such as this, but SHE chose this.
Why did she do this to herself again?
"We're here." Kouga said as he started jumping up the side of the cliff. He felt Kagome tense up a bit in his arms. He didn't mind holding her.
And he couldn't help but enjoy the thought that she was going to be with him for the next few days.
The two of them reached the top and heard a rather loud growled out call from inside...
**~~...~~**
Inuyasha was down to a slow walk. His mind had trailed off after about a half hour or so of running after Kouga and Kagome. Just thinking of those two names in a single sentence made him shudder slightly.
He couldn't stand that wimpy wolf any more than he could stand Naraku. Maybe that was an understatement...or possibly and overstatement, but it seemed right at the time.
Why the hell would she just ditch him like that? She had done is to bluntly as if she had wanted to go with Kouga more than stay with him.
Or was Kagome right when she had told him it was all in his head...
"There is nothing between me and Kouga! You are so paranoid! It's all in your head, there is nothing between me and him!"
Yep...that screech out was exactly what she had said...why he was remembering now was beyond him. It wasn't really relevant now was it...was it?
Not much all could come from that. Kagome said that she didn't want to be with Kouga. She had never lied before, why start now?
Or maybe she had just said that because she didn't want to hurt his 'feelings'. What if she was going to live with him for good right now.
What if the only reason she had been staying with him was out of pity because of how he and Kikyo ended up?
But then why would she act so flippant and annoyed every time Kikyo and him had talked. Why would she always over react about everything whenever it included something to do with the miko?
Why did he care?
Inuyasha pushed his thoughts out of his mind deciding to not answer his own questions anymore. It could only lead to him thinking things he didn't want to and that might not be a good thing.
He snapped out of his trance and picked up his walking pace a little bit.
Questions still seeming to tickle his curiosity bone fiercely.
**~~...~~**
"...And then he ran right into the wall!" The scout, Kutor, started laughing, "With the deer and all!"
Kasima was not impressed. Her son had been gone too long and it was wearing on her nerves. If she had to listen to one more story about hunting trips she was going to strangle the whole lot of the pack. "When is Kouga getting back?" The tired mother asked the surrounding group.
"He should be back any second now!" Kutor answered all too quickly with a nerves smile. He was running out of stories and it didn't look like this was going to last much longer. "Don't worry about things."
The wolf mother sighed heavily. "How far away are the fields that she was in? It really couldn't have been all that far."
"Well. You know the humans. They tend to get lost sometimes." Kutor said with a half-hearted shrug.
"Human? Are you implying that Kouga's mate is human?" That was news to Kasima, and Kutor couldn't tell by her expression if it was good or bad that he had said that.
That comment had been a mistake on his part and now he had to deal with it. So he hesitantly stuttered a quiet, "Yes." Though...he wasn't completely sure if it was true or not. Kouga might just go out and find the first demon he comes across.
Everyone knew in the tribe that there was a water nymph who would kill to be with Kouga, and she wasn't the only one.
There were more demons in the area who were looking to be with the leader of the wolf pack ever since they had beaten the birds of paradise down.
This could quite easily blow up in Kutor's face...
"Interesting..." Was all Kasima said. "And what would this young woman's name be?"
Oh great, not the question Kutor needed right now. He looked to Taka who was sitting in front of him, as if pleading from him to answer, but Taka was pleading right back threw the look in his eyes.
"Well?" Kasima asked impatiently. "Speak up you two."
There was a long pause that followed as the two scouts looked at the woman eyeing her facial expression. She was not going to be a very happy hamster in a minute.
Kasima's face fell slightly and she managed to screach out "Answer me now!"
"We...don't know her name..."
"WHAT!?" Kasima yelled shrillfuly at the two guards.
Taka and Kutor edged back, really wanting to turn and run full speed to a safe place to hide, and would have done the former if it hadn't been the pressing little fact that they were glued to their spot on the stone ground in fear. They put the theory into play that maybe she was like a bee and only saw you if you moved...
Boy weren't they wrong....
"How can you not know what her name is!? Have you met her!? You should have at the very least seen her!? Are you saying he hasn't brought the girl to meet the pack yet!? I can't believe that idiot!!" Kasima didn't think she was over reacting at the time...but obviously someone behind her found her to be acting a little more upset than she should be.
"I wanted to wait for the right time to bring her here." Came the male voice behind his mother. Kasima whirled around so fast she nearly got whip- lash to see her son standing there carrying a young human girl in his arms.
She was pretty though. Raven hair, nice eyes, and a good body from the looks of it...though it was a bit hard to judge for the fact that she was wearing rather odd looking cloths. "And why might that be?" Kasima asked as she continued making her observations about the girl.
"Because Kagome wasn't ready to meet the pack yet." Kouga lied threw his teeth, but for some reason, it came naturally. Lying to the woman in front of him seemed to be the easiest thing in the world at that moment.
"I see." The wolf mother stood up and walked over to her son and his mate. "So you're Kagome are you dear? And human?" A small smile pricked her face. Completely forced, and completely fake.
Kagome smiled nervously back at the woman, "Yes I am. Very nice to meet you. Kouga's told me so much about you." She squinted her eyes as she diverted her gaze to Kouga next to her.
"I bet he's told you I'm rude, intruding, over-powering, and 'pushy'" Kasima said glowering at her son.
Kagome raised an eye brow slightly seeing the glint of anger in Kouga's mother's eyes and decided to save him from this one. "Oh no. He has done nothing but speak highly of you."
"Really? Then what has he told you?" Kasima wasn't buying it apparently. Not Kagome's luck...she really sucked at lying.
"That you were stricked with him, but fair, and only looked out for his well being even though he would never admit it."
Kouga eyed her quickly. His mother was none of the spoken, and he was pretty sure that he had told her exactly what his mother had just summarized.
"Oh really? That's news to me." Kasima said putting on a genuine smile. She didn't believe a word of what Kagome had just said, but the girl was showing she was loyal to her son, but just how loyal was she? Kasima was planning to find out, in time. "I can't tell you how happy to know that he finally found someone who suits him."
"I should go raise the call to the hunters. We should be back in a few hours with food for tonight's feast." Kouga said with a smile. He was happy to see that things seemed to be going along one of the better scenarios, and he thanked his lucky stars for that.
"Alright dear." Kasima said as she turned to sit back down, but then turned to face Kouga and Kagome once more, as if expecting something.
Kouga had started to turn to walk away when he heard his mother make a sound in the back of her throat. He turned back and realized what she was waiting to see.
He cursed customs mentally.
Kagome, however was completely oblivious to the practically psychic conversation taking place around her. "What's wrong Kouga?" She was looking at the wolf with concern. He had a rather pale expression on his face that she, really, hadn't seen on anyone's face before.
Kouga grabbed her hands gently in his and before Kagome could react he leaned in and kissed her lightly on the lips. Her lips were soft and warm to the touch. It didn't last long as he kindly dropped her hands and turned completely this time and started walking away, "See you later Kagome."
Kagome was too busy blushing madly to return the farewell. Shocked as ever, hoping all of that had just been a figment of her imagination. Though...she didn't think that to be possible considering the fact that she didn't dream of kissing Kouga. It usually stood more along the lines of a certain dog-half.
Kasima just smiled away as her son seemed to walk away rather quickly. It seemed he hadn't been enforcing the wolf customs along with the mating ceremony. She was going to have to ask how that went with out her there to arrange it in the first place.
Another question for another time. Perhaps over dinner then...
**~~^_^~~**
The pack had nearly caught enough venison to feed them that night. They all had been hunting for the past half hour or so and the sun was setting slowly. Kouga turned and noticed that some of the scouts were a bit deeper in conversational whisper than they really should have been.
"Kouga?" Taka said as he gave a slight shrug of his shoulders, re- positioning the three deer on his back.
"Hm?" Kouga grunted, not sure if he really wanted to be included in the conversation.
"When did you get mated with Kagome? I thought she was with that inu." Taka asked watching Kouga sigh slightly as his shoulders dropped.
"I'M not really mated to her." Kouga said trying to keep calm. It was none of his clans business, or at least he didn't think it to be.
"But then why is she here?" Kutor asked trying to get more out of their leader, hoping for at least half of the story.
"She's staying here until mother 'dearest' leaves. To you and the rest of the pack she is my mate and will be treated as such. You will not touch her or harm her. Be sure to let everyone know that..." Kouga paused and turned to the two scouts, "And leave out the part about this being a plan to get my mother the hell out of here. We can fill them in after this succeeds."
"Or fails." Kutor mused out loud.
Kouga threw a deadly glare at the scout over his shoulder and turned to continue walking forward.
Kutor felt a chill run down his spine. He should have kept his mouth shut...
"There's two more deer off in the clearing...I'll be back" Kouga dashed out into the field hoping that hunting might take his mind off of things for the mean time. But...oddly he couldn't get the kiss out of his head...even if it had just been custom.....he still couldn't believe she didn't smack him.
**~~^_^~~**
Kagome had been escorted to a further back part of the cave. Oddly...there were rooms back there. The wooden walls were craftly cut and designed to fit the surrounding stone snugly to create them. The door was a thick bear pelt that hung gracefully to the ground.
Her shocked state had subsided seconds after Kouga's departure, and it was replaced with a hateful anger. Maybe she should have made sure he had completely understood her when she said she was just 'playing the part'. To her that included not touching and kissing...obviously Kouga had other ideas about that.
She couldn't wait to talk to Kouga alone, she was going to give him a thick piece of her mind whether he could explain or not. It was uncalled for and she felt like something was completely wrong with it.
Kagome was hating the fact that she had agreed to help the wolf in the first place already. And she had barely been here an hour. What luck.
Kagome lay back on pile of soft bear skins that were meant to be a bed. They were quite comfortable. She closed her eyes and the first think that came to her rested mind happened to be how pissy a certain hanyou would be if he were to ever find out......
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Phoxy- ^__^ There's the third chapter. ... Next chapter- 'Troubled Hate'....Scary...ne?
READ,
ENJOY,
REVIEW!!
To everyone who has reviewed...THANK YOU!! I LOVE YOU ALL BECAUSE YOU LOVE THIS FIC!!
Another note...the pairing in this fic it Inu/Kag AND Kouga/Kag. Needless to say this is not a Sess/Kag fic...¬.¬ Sorry to disappoint...
This chapter is a bit longer than the others. Hope it makes up for how long it took for me to put it up...
Disclaimer- I don't own it.
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Beating around the Bush
First Base
"What's your mother like?" Kagome asked as she and Kouga sped towards the cave. She more along the lines screamed it at him, but that was only so she could be heard over the winds of the surrounding cyclone.
Kouga didn't hear her though, but he did happen to see her lips move in an attempt to communicate. Despite the fact that he needed to get there as fast as possible, due to his knowledge of how impatient his mother could be, he decided to slow down so that it was easy to hold a conversation at a normal running pace.
"Well? What is she like?" Kagome asked squinting up at him. The dust and dirt in her eyes was unbearably irritating. She rubbed them, trying to clear them of the intruding sand/dirt particles.
"Hm?" Kouga asked oblivious to what on earth she was talking about.
"You're mother. What is your mother like?" Kagome repeated irritably. Why was she repeating herself. Weren't wolves suppose to have good hearing just as dogs do. Maybe she was too use to Inuyasha after all...
"Well...she's, uh...pushy."
Translation: She is a power hungry control freak who always gets what she wants and if she doesn't then she continuously pesters and sends you on guilt trips you much rather ovoid.
Well...that's how it translated to Kagome, but just to make sure, "Pushy? As in...she is forcing you to find a mate?"
Kouga just nodded, and looked ahead of them. They were almost there and he still wasn't sure what was going to happen next.
There were many different scenarios running threw his head...and over half of them weren't ending too well.
"That's kind of rude isn't it. And it isn't fair to you." Kagome said throwing in her two cents. It wasn't her place to say anything, but since when did that stop her?
"Just don't bring it up." Kouga said in almost a panic. She could really blow this out of the water if she said anything out of line. "The last thing we want is her to find out this isn't real and that you aren't her daughter-in-law," Kouga paused, "that could only lead to trouble..."
"Right, I know." Kagome said mentally kicking herself. How did she always get herself into things like this.
Usually it had something to do with the shikon jewel shards, or Inuyasha...or even both, and even a few times with Kikyo. And for those she really didn't get to chose if she was going to submit herself to self torture such as this, but SHE chose this.
Why did she do this to herself again?
"We're here." Kouga said as he started jumping up the side of the cliff. He felt Kagome tense up a bit in his arms. He didn't mind holding her.
And he couldn't help but enjoy the thought that she was going to be with him for the next few days.
The two of them reached the top and heard a rather loud growled out call from inside...
**~~...~~**
Inuyasha was down to a slow walk. His mind had trailed off after about a half hour or so of running after Kouga and Kagome. Just thinking of those two names in a single sentence made him shudder slightly.
He couldn't stand that wimpy wolf any more than he could stand Naraku. Maybe that was an understatement...or possibly and overstatement, but it seemed right at the time.
Why the hell would she just ditch him like that? She had done is to bluntly as if she had wanted to go with Kouga more than stay with him.
Or was Kagome right when she had told him it was all in his head...
"There is nothing between me and Kouga! You are so paranoid! It's all in your head, there is nothing between me and him!"
Yep...that screech out was exactly what she had said...why he was remembering now was beyond him. It wasn't really relevant now was it...was it?
Not much all could come from that. Kagome said that she didn't want to be with Kouga. She had never lied before, why start now?
Or maybe she had just said that because she didn't want to hurt his 'feelings'. What if she was going to live with him for good right now.
What if the only reason she had been staying with him was out of pity because of how he and Kikyo ended up?
But then why would she act so flippant and annoyed every time Kikyo and him had talked. Why would she always over react about everything whenever it included something to do with the miko?
Why did he care?
Inuyasha pushed his thoughts out of his mind deciding to not answer his own questions anymore. It could only lead to him thinking things he didn't want to and that might not be a good thing.
He snapped out of his trance and picked up his walking pace a little bit.
Questions still seeming to tickle his curiosity bone fiercely.
**~~...~~**
"...And then he ran right into the wall!" The scout, Kutor, started laughing, "With the deer and all!"
Kasima was not impressed. Her son had been gone too long and it was wearing on her nerves. If she had to listen to one more story about hunting trips she was going to strangle the whole lot of the pack. "When is Kouga getting back?" The tired mother asked the surrounding group.
"He should be back any second now!" Kutor answered all too quickly with a nerves smile. He was running out of stories and it didn't look like this was going to last much longer. "Don't worry about things."
The wolf mother sighed heavily. "How far away are the fields that she was in? It really couldn't have been all that far."
"Well. You know the humans. They tend to get lost sometimes." Kutor said with a half-hearted shrug.
"Human? Are you implying that Kouga's mate is human?" That was news to Kasima, and Kutor couldn't tell by her expression if it was good or bad that he had said that.
That comment had been a mistake on his part and now he had to deal with it. So he hesitantly stuttered a quiet, "Yes." Though...he wasn't completely sure if it was true or not. Kouga might just go out and find the first demon he comes across.
Everyone knew in the tribe that there was a water nymph who would kill to be with Kouga, and she wasn't the only one.
There were more demons in the area who were looking to be with the leader of the wolf pack ever since they had beaten the birds of paradise down.
This could quite easily blow up in Kutor's face...
"Interesting..." Was all Kasima said. "And what would this young woman's name be?"
Oh great, not the question Kutor needed right now. He looked to Taka who was sitting in front of him, as if pleading from him to answer, but Taka was pleading right back threw the look in his eyes.
"Well?" Kasima asked impatiently. "Speak up you two."
There was a long pause that followed as the two scouts looked at the woman eyeing her facial expression. She was not going to be a very happy hamster in a minute.
Kasima's face fell slightly and she managed to screach out "Answer me now!"
"We...don't know her name..."
"WHAT!?" Kasima yelled shrillfuly at the two guards.
Taka and Kutor edged back, really wanting to turn and run full speed to a safe place to hide, and would have done the former if it hadn't been the pressing little fact that they were glued to their spot on the stone ground in fear. They put the theory into play that maybe she was like a bee and only saw you if you moved...
Boy weren't they wrong....
"How can you not know what her name is!? Have you met her!? You should have at the very least seen her!? Are you saying he hasn't brought the girl to meet the pack yet!? I can't believe that idiot!!" Kasima didn't think she was over reacting at the time...but obviously someone behind her found her to be acting a little more upset than she should be.
"I wanted to wait for the right time to bring her here." Came the male voice behind his mother. Kasima whirled around so fast she nearly got whip- lash to see her son standing there carrying a young human girl in his arms.
She was pretty though. Raven hair, nice eyes, and a good body from the looks of it...though it was a bit hard to judge for the fact that she was wearing rather odd looking cloths. "And why might that be?" Kasima asked as she continued making her observations about the girl.
"Because Kagome wasn't ready to meet the pack yet." Kouga lied threw his teeth, but for some reason, it came naturally. Lying to the woman in front of him seemed to be the easiest thing in the world at that moment.
"I see." The wolf mother stood up and walked over to her son and his mate. "So you're Kagome are you dear? And human?" A small smile pricked her face. Completely forced, and completely fake.
Kagome smiled nervously back at the woman, "Yes I am. Very nice to meet you. Kouga's told me so much about you." She squinted her eyes as she diverted her gaze to Kouga next to her.
"I bet he's told you I'm rude, intruding, over-powering, and 'pushy'" Kasima said glowering at her son.
Kagome raised an eye brow slightly seeing the glint of anger in Kouga's mother's eyes and decided to save him from this one. "Oh no. He has done nothing but speak highly of you."
"Really? Then what has he told you?" Kasima wasn't buying it apparently. Not Kagome's luck...she really sucked at lying.
"That you were stricked with him, but fair, and only looked out for his well being even though he would never admit it."
Kouga eyed her quickly. His mother was none of the spoken, and he was pretty sure that he had told her exactly what his mother had just summarized.
"Oh really? That's news to me." Kasima said putting on a genuine smile. She didn't believe a word of what Kagome had just said, but the girl was showing she was loyal to her son, but just how loyal was she? Kasima was planning to find out, in time. "I can't tell you how happy to know that he finally found someone who suits him."
"I should go raise the call to the hunters. We should be back in a few hours with food for tonight's feast." Kouga said with a smile. He was happy to see that things seemed to be going along one of the better scenarios, and he thanked his lucky stars for that.
"Alright dear." Kasima said as she turned to sit back down, but then turned to face Kouga and Kagome once more, as if expecting something.
Kouga had started to turn to walk away when he heard his mother make a sound in the back of her throat. He turned back and realized what she was waiting to see.
He cursed customs mentally.
Kagome, however was completely oblivious to the practically psychic conversation taking place around her. "What's wrong Kouga?" She was looking at the wolf with concern. He had a rather pale expression on his face that she, really, hadn't seen on anyone's face before.
Kouga grabbed her hands gently in his and before Kagome could react he leaned in and kissed her lightly on the lips. Her lips were soft and warm to the touch. It didn't last long as he kindly dropped her hands and turned completely this time and started walking away, "See you later Kagome."
Kagome was too busy blushing madly to return the farewell. Shocked as ever, hoping all of that had just been a figment of her imagination. Though...she didn't think that to be possible considering the fact that she didn't dream of kissing Kouga. It usually stood more along the lines of a certain dog-half.
Kasima just smiled away as her son seemed to walk away rather quickly. It seemed he hadn't been enforcing the wolf customs along with the mating ceremony. She was going to have to ask how that went with out her there to arrange it in the first place.
Another question for another time. Perhaps over dinner then...
**~~^_^~~**
The pack had nearly caught enough venison to feed them that night. They all had been hunting for the past half hour or so and the sun was setting slowly. Kouga turned and noticed that some of the scouts were a bit deeper in conversational whisper than they really should have been.
"Kouga?" Taka said as he gave a slight shrug of his shoulders, re- positioning the three deer on his back.
"Hm?" Kouga grunted, not sure if he really wanted to be included in the conversation.
"When did you get mated with Kagome? I thought she was with that inu." Taka asked watching Kouga sigh slightly as his shoulders dropped.
"I'M not really mated to her." Kouga said trying to keep calm. It was none of his clans business, or at least he didn't think it to be.
"But then why is she here?" Kutor asked trying to get more out of their leader, hoping for at least half of the story.
"She's staying here until mother 'dearest' leaves. To you and the rest of the pack she is my mate and will be treated as such. You will not touch her or harm her. Be sure to let everyone know that..." Kouga paused and turned to the two scouts, "And leave out the part about this being a plan to get my mother the hell out of here. We can fill them in after this succeeds."
"Or fails." Kutor mused out loud.
Kouga threw a deadly glare at the scout over his shoulder and turned to continue walking forward.
Kutor felt a chill run down his spine. He should have kept his mouth shut...
"There's two more deer off in the clearing...I'll be back" Kouga dashed out into the field hoping that hunting might take his mind off of things for the mean time. But...oddly he couldn't get the kiss out of his head...even if it had just been custom.....he still couldn't believe she didn't smack him.
**~~^_^~~**
Kagome had been escorted to a further back part of the cave. Oddly...there were rooms back there. The wooden walls were craftly cut and designed to fit the surrounding stone snugly to create them. The door was a thick bear pelt that hung gracefully to the ground.
Her shocked state had subsided seconds after Kouga's departure, and it was replaced with a hateful anger. Maybe she should have made sure he had completely understood her when she said she was just 'playing the part'. To her that included not touching and kissing...obviously Kouga had other ideas about that.
She couldn't wait to talk to Kouga alone, she was going to give him a thick piece of her mind whether he could explain or not. It was uncalled for and she felt like something was completely wrong with it.
Kagome was hating the fact that she had agreed to help the wolf in the first place already. And she had barely been here an hour. What luck.
Kagome lay back on pile of soft bear skins that were meant to be a bed. They were quite comfortable. She closed her eyes and the first think that came to her rested mind happened to be how pissy a certain hanyou would be if he were to ever find out......
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Phoxy- ^__^ There's the third chapter. ... Next chapter- 'Troubled Hate'....Scary...ne?
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ENJOY,
REVIEW!!