Night of the Wolf

12. A Wolves Tale

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I couldn't ignore it. It was nudging me on the back of my head. Naraku lied to me. He fucking lies to me just so he can have sex with me. Not only did he fabricate the whole 'I love you' fixation but he was giving Ayame a hand. He's been deceitful all this time and I believed that he really cared about me. But now I know that everything was just a plot all along. A scheme to break what me and Kouga had.

I rushed up the stairs not really caring if they heard me. If they did then good. It'll give them something to worry about.

"She heard everything, didn't she?" I heard Naraku murmur to Sesshoumaru.

"Of course she did, and I'm glad, lying just isn't my thing." Sesshoumaru stated as he rose from the couch and called upon Rin to accompany him to his room.

They gave their goodnights and went separate ways.

I knew Naraku was going to make his way to my room to try and explain everything saying that it isn't his fault, that he had no choice, that that-- God, he thinks I'm so naïve.

He knocked on my door once, twice and a third time. I had nothing better to do but ignore.

"Kagome, I know you heard everything. Open the door and let me explain."

Jerk. I wasn't about to let him lie to me all over again. I'd rather find out myself, even if it's something I wont' expect.

"You should have locked the door if you really didn't want for me to come in," he informed as he stepped in and locked the door behind him knowing very well that me locking a door wasn't possible at the moment.

I bounded off of the bed and was prepared to jump out of the window but as always he caught me before I did. I glared at him and wiggled out of his grip moving myself back in the bed in view of the fact that I wasn't going anywhere and neither was he. He was willing on telling me the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Even the truth about Kouga. He knew my questions already so I sat with my back facing him as he sat opposite of me and released a deep sigh.

"Me and Ayame go way back, I've notified you about this previously. Being that I was the leader of my pack, back then you had to risk everything to keep everyone else safe and never show any sign of weakness or else you would perish. We were all on war, pack opposed to pack since in the early thirteen century our kind was not welcomed anywhere therefore we all took a different paths. My pack contained every single half-breed werewolf that existed, we weren't many but we were outcasts to other wolves and none of us knew who were the ones who had made us into what we are. Later, that's when my followers started vanishing with the lack of food. I was the last one remaining until I met up with Ayame." I turned to see that he was staring into nothing trying to recall those exact days in which he was telling me about. He had stopped for a moment then continued when something suddenly popped into his mind.

His gaze then fell to the floor and his head was supported by his hands. He continued and I didn't interrupt.

"I was lacking food, strength and the lack to morph into my human appearance. So I knew if the famish didn't kill me then the villagers would. Ayame felt pity over me though and she recovered my force with those ancient spells, however, that same spell could have killed me as well. She had the power to do with me as she pleased," he glanced at me over his shoulder and I looked away not wanting to meet his gaze, "but she choose to let me live ,or in other words I was her slave. I had no choice so I obeyed."

I yawned, but not because the story was mind-numbing but because I haven't slept and I was weary ever since my conflict with Kouga. Naraku chuckled and decided it was best that he allowed me to sleep but I declined his request. I wanted to know everything now, not bit by bit. Sure, he had all the time in the world but not me.

He stumbled on his way out seeing as he couldn't hear me objecting. My teeth sank into his jacket and I yanked him away from the door then he got the hint that I wanted him to stay and finish his tale.

"Allright. Where was I?"

We both took a seat in our previous places and the room was silent until he choose to converse.

"Okay. By the years her spell on me began to fade. Why? I'm not sure. I guess that's an unknown mystery given that nowadays all that magical mumbo jumbo is no longer in the twentieth century. Anyways, I did the most ridiculous thing I had ever done in my entire life, I choose Ayame as my mate. I choose, she didn't. Of course she said she was too good for me being that I was half a wolf and no one was worthy of her or so she thought. Stupid girl was worth no more than dirt in my opinion."

He did a poor imitation of Ayame. He walked a full circle around my room shaking his behind, as if he had any, and made exaggerated expressions only Ayame would do. When he sat down he continued.

"That is until the leader of another pack mated with the Alpha female of our pack. We all became one but Ayame was deeply upset about this since the others paid no attention to her. She was young and conceited. I was the only idiot that listened to her since she had 'others' to help her out. She was nothing without Kikyo's powers. That Ayame has always been a bitch. Kikyo was a sorceress which of course was another kind that was banned beside our kind. She was the only 'witch' left so she tagged along as well but was terrified to turn into us since I made it seem like being a wolf was hell itself and consequently she obeyed Ayame."

He let himself fall back onto the bed and he yawned closing his eyes and snoring his way to sleep. I growled and he raised his hands in surrenderness.

"Geeze, couldn't you have spied on me and Sessy earlier. It's late and I'm dead tired."

I gritted my teeth and barked.

"Fine. As I was saying, Ayame used Kikyo's power to manipulate others until she was ruler of all of us. No one did nothing of it until now. For years everyone obeyed her every wish. Now we go into the present, this is where Kouga comes in. He was the first one to fall in love with a human and he had told his comrades that when the time was right you would be his mate. Word spread out and Ayame was all like 'I am not going to allow that Kouga to breed with a human and mix our blood to create a pathetic one' Of course her orders were to execute you as soon as possible."

He turned on his stomach resting his head on his arms and he watched as I tried not let myself cry. Kouga really did love me.

"The job was never done, though. Kouga's pack was much stronger than ours and those spells on us just made us dim-witted. And that InuYasha fellow you were with was also one of us. He was on his own all these years until he met you but then Kikyo took him away from you knowing Ayame would have him executed since he was with you. They aren't together, well at least that's what I think. InuYasha was before Kouga, right?"

I nodded and leaped off of the bed striding from side to side. I was trying to keep myself calm but my whole life has been based on Ayame's stupid jealousy over me. Or more like the fact that I was humane.

"Well then, you guys weren't like deeply in love like you were, or are, with Kouga. So that doesn't matter. We did our best, which wasn't enough, to slaughter you but nothing happened. Kouga as well as his pack defended you with their very lives. Then Ayame took it to herself to inform Kouga that if she ever saw him with you then you would die by her hands. Obviously she was stronger than he was so he was smart. She did, however, grant him one last visit. That's when he marked you as his without you knowing it. A wolf's bond is an influential thing an extremely hard thing to break when ones love is true and both lovers want the exact thing."

That's when my tears began to fall.

"And so, since I was the only semi wolf around she sent me to breed with you, but I had overheard an conversation with her and Kikyo about me dying when I was to bite you and you would become nothing but bait in order to have Kouga do whatever she desired. Everything went haywire since tactics never go as planned and so you are here like this and I am here with you. End. Goodnight."

He lifted himself from the bed and ran out of my room. He said everything so calm like as if he telling a mere child a bedtime story. I, on the other hand, cuddled myself in my bed and pondered how Kouga was doing at the time being. So for sure there's nothing Ayame can do as long I live. She's a moron if she thinks that she can take Kouga away from me.

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The next morning I found myself cuddled in Sesshoumaru's arms. He was awake, watching me. He wasn't nude so I'm pretty sure nothing happened.

He smiled at me warmly, like my mother would do when she cared for me when I was sick.

"Good, you're finally up. I bet your starving so I'll call Rin to make a buffet just for you. I'll call everyone so you change in the meantime."

"Huh? What were you--"

My voice. It's back. Hope I wasn't dreaming. I babbled a bunch of nonsense not daring to believe that I was able to speak. When I slipped out of bed I noticed I was standing on both feet. No fours. I looked at myself over in the mirror and I saw that I was back to my normal self. I was able to shift back.

I was so happy at my progress. It only took me one night.

"I see we're back to normal," Miroku stated as he gawked at my bouncing chest since I was jumping in front of the mirror.

"You pervert!" I yelled trying to cover myself up as best as I could.

"What?! It's perfectly normal. Besides, you saw me."

He was laughing at my discomfort and was shut with a slap from Sango. She pushed him out of the room and grinned as she made her way to me.

"How're you feeling? Better?"

I nodded and hugged her. I was never so happy to look like me.

"Really? Well, that's good. You had us all worried."

"Excuse me? Why's that? I only overslept."

Sango gave me a perplexed look as she passed me my clothes and I slipped them on.

"Sango? Is it because Sesshoumaru was with me?"

She shook her head and I knew she was about to tell me something new I had to worry about.

"Kagome, you've been asleep for two weeks now. Since that night when we came you've were overcome with a high fever. Well, I'm not sure what it was but you were burning up and this mark just below your neck was glowing."

"I was asleep for two weeks straight? You have to be kidding me."

I zipped my pants and reached to slip on some sneakers.

"Yes, and during those days out of nowhere you screamed Kouga's name and you were back to your normal self. Each of us took turns to look over you while you slept hoping you didn't go all crazy on us."

God, does my madness ever end. I was definitely one of a kind and surprises keep coming nonstop into my life.

"Err--should I be worried," I asked nervously.

"Not that I know off. Sessy said it was perfectly normal. He said that maybe the exact thing might be happening to Kouga. The two of you seriously need each other and this gap between you two is tearing you apart."

Once I finished trying my shoes I looked over at Sango as she wasn't very sure what she was telling me. Just then everyone else entered the room and stared at me.

Sesshoumaru walked over to me wrapping an arm around my shoulders tightly. He explained that the glowing mark that Sango was speaking of was the mark Kouga had done. It was a small nip. I tried to look at it as Sesshoumaru moved me to the mirror. It looked like a scratch plus a bite put together.

"The other mark is on your inner thigh."

My face blushed furiously as he said that. The actually took a look there? I turned and covered my face with my hands as everyone tried to hold in their laughter.

"Sango was the one who saw it, none of us did but her."

I sighed in relief and joined everyone in the kitchen.

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"So we told Sessy to convert us into what we are just because out of curiosity. Miroku thought it was just the perfect thing to make out sex life a bit more animalistic."

We all laughed at that and almost choke on our food.

Our whole evening conversation was about how Sango and Miroku became to be wolves. Sesshoumaru was nonexistent to Ayame so there was no trouble there. They mentioned that it was a great timing since they were strong enough to protect me.

I was having fun once again. Everything was back to normal. I'm not what I was before but I was much tougher. No more lies. And Kouga loves me. The only thing left was to execute Ayame. Hopefully it would be tonight, with the help of my new comrades, not too sure about Sesshoumaru though, he seems more like the peaceful kind.

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-Kianna Chan-

A/N: Thanks to all the reviewers who've been reviewing my story. I don't have much to say, I usually have something to say but not this time. Guess I'm too happy for words.

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