Night of the Wolf

5. Beyond Altering

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I wasn't sure at the moment what was racing through my mind. I kept thinking about Kouga as I drove

gradually through the squeezing traffic. Why today? Why had there have to be a huge amount of people today?

The mansion. Why would Kouga be entering a mansion? I was probably racing to conclusion when I thought that that could be his house. Then again it could be his parents' residence except his parents were deceased and he never mentioned anything about inheriting a massive home.

I turned on the radio hoping to race my mind away from whatever it was that was distracting me. I suddenly realized that my life was too much for me to handle. Too many questions kept coming to mind.

"Why Kouga? Why?"

I wondered why he had always failed to tell me about himself. About his past anyway, it wasn't like he was a runaway criminal. I just believe that Kouga's too sweet to be having a tremendous secret to him and the way he's been acting lately kind of gives away clues that he's been hiding something from me, even though I haven't seen him there's this unexplained feeling in my gut that he wants to tell me something but is afraid to.

As I approached the place my heart began throbbing. I pulled over somewhere where my car wasn't visible and comforted myself for a , what I thought would be an, all nighter. I was to sit here until he walked out and walked back in. I just hoped that in any of those walks he'd do he didn't have a female clinging to him.

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I must of fallen asleep for a couple hours being that when I reopened my eyes it was somewhere around nine, hopefully I didn't miss him while I was in my slumber.

Nothing.

No Kouga.

I had nothing to do for a long while but I was relying on my instincts so I wasn't moving from here until I saw him or got hungry. My seat was laid back so I turned on my side, my back facing the door as my hands were tucked under my head. I wasn't all that comfortable but I had to do this, I'm not sure why but something inside me told me so.

A few minutes later my stomach growled, rowdily, and I sat up pulling the seat up with me looking around my car to see if I could find anything eatable. My nose twitched and I smelled food as if it was beckoning me to go search for it. But as I gazed around there was nothing and out my window, I saw way up on the top floor of the building next to me, a couple having a candle lit dinner with lobster as the main course.

My mind was perplexed after this. I never could see far away or even smell food from a distance, however these two senses were ultimately perfect. I could clearly see the woman's face and she was wearing too much make up as for the guy I could easily tell he was a bit too excited since I could actually smell his arousal, which was a bit unasked for.

I slid my window down as I reached my head outwards and let the new aromas fill my nostrils. I was feeling weird yet yearning for something I could only smell. My eyes closed as my nose flew up high sniffing anything that swished by whereas my hands unlocked the door and I hopped out of my car almost hunting for that appetizing scent. I didn't know where I was going but my feet knew exactly where my nose wanted to be, so I followed my nose as my eyes remained shut.

I didn't trip or landed on a pit. My hands clenched into fists as I wasn't that far away from my unknown objective. The stench grew stronger and I released a low growl between my gritted teeth. Blood trickled between my fingers as my prickly, claws engraved themselves in my palms but I didn't care, my target was close and that was all that mattered.

My legs weren't as weak as they used to be but refined themselves with brute force and I bent my knees slightly to leap from the floor to a fire escape near the third floor . I made no sound as I jumped from floor to floor but I could hear everything around me. Every sound. Every cry. Every pin dropping.

My hands unfastened themselves as I finally reached the top floor and I dropped on all fours trying to catch my breath. My breathing became profound and I couldn't close my mouth from all the intense pain that was aching inside. As I allowed a slight scream, even though I couldn't see it, I knew my teeth were strengthening, becoming razor-sharp and I felt it when I attempted to close my mouth other than my fangs wouldn't allow it, so my mouth remained open and my breathing was more like a low howl than a soft purr.

I collapsed on the floor landing on my stomach but I turned on my back. My chest rose and fell rapidly from my heavy breathing while my claws excavated into the concrete floor. All this time I had my eyes closed since the pain was too physically powerful yet they widened when the glow of the moonlight accessed my body.

I laid there for a few moments and my mind was vacant, the only thing in my mind was that scent I had picked up earlier. I pushed myself off the floor and searched around for my target, it was close.

And there it was. A vast house in which the aroma was in other than the smell wasn't by itself now it was blended with a sweet scent that infuriated me that I didn't know why.

I dashed off the building I was in and bounded onto the roof of the gigantic house. The smell was even closer now and it made my blood boil. I stared at my keen fingernail and purely smirked knowing I was to kill tonight, not sure who but it wasn't my business to care.

Walking back and forth I thought of how to approach my goal. I could sniff out freshly cut roses nearby and sought after the smell knowing that that lead to an open window. As I crawled in I remained low just in case if anybody walked in the room I was prepared to attack. I was a predator on the look for its prey. I reached the door and turned the knob slowly trusting my nose to sniff any danger before I decided to walk out. The coast was clear so I ran out but I didn't run far. My prey had found me instead.

"Ka--Kagome?"

I didn't recognize his voice but I knew I wouldn't be fooled by his innocence. He had his guard down and I was ready to strike.

"What's--"

He kept asking me question in which I didn't know the answers to so I thought he was trying to trick me and so my instincts consoled me to kill him and just get it over with as quickly as possible.

"Kagome!?"

He caught my hand just an inch from his chest but he was struggling on keeping it away. I smirked at the pitiful fool, I had two hands so my other free one sank into, what I saw was, his already injured shoulder. He winced in pain and freed my hand and I leaped back to get a good distance before striking him again.

I kicked him with the heel of my foot hearing one or two ribs crack. It confused me a bit of why he didn't fight back but that didn't mean I was going to stop.

I tried to cut him in half since one hand of mine was already soaked in his blood and the scent of his blood was what I was searching for. I licked my lips just thinking about it while he blocked every attack but one thrust did it. He fell backwards down the stairs but it wasn't surprising that he didn't injure himself on the way down. I could sense his strength and it intrigued me even more.

As I made my way down the stairs, taking two or three at a time, he waited for me. Once I reached the bottom I prepared to strike again but I was too slow and he caught my hand as well as the other. He fastened them tightly behind my back as my body was pressed firmly against his and I squirmed for freedom but he merely cooed me to calm down and explained that everything will be allright.

I didn't understand what was happening. Why did he keep calling me Kagome? I had no clue who she was or better yet who I was. But he repeated over and over again 'It'll be allright Kagome, I'm here. I'll take care of you.'

Who was this Kagome he was speaking of? My strength was drained from my body and I fell to my knees and not once did he let his embrace on me go. Everything around me twirled and I acquired a bit of dizziness. I closed me eyes and I whispered the first thing that popped in my mind.

"Kouga?"

He hushed me with a kiss and took me in his arms leading me to his bedroom where he said I would rest until I was myself.

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-Kianna Chan-

A/N: It took me a while to write this chapter since I had so many ideas of where I wanted it to go but I settled with what I wrote. Hey, if you have any ideas or want something in particular to happen I'll try to work with it.

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