I'm deeply hurt that no one wanted to review this fic. If anyone even read
it, but oh well, I like it and will keep writing it, so too bad.
Chapter 2:
'How dare someone kidnap one of my comrades!!!' Kouga thought to himself as he nearly flew up the mountain side. 'This had be one good slayer if he thinks he can get away with this. Don't worry Ragen, I'm coming.'
Kouga reached the top of the mountain he was scaling and stopped to examine the air. He held his nose high and turned all sorts of directions looking for the scent.
'There!' Kouga thought to himself as soon as he identified Ragen's scent. The thing that nudged in the back of his mind however, was why he couldn't seem to smell anyone else from the direction he smelt Ragen. 'He must be really good if he can mask his scent' he simply thought right before leaping toward the direction of the scent and taking off in a small hurricane as soon as he touched ground.
Kouga ran up and down mountain sides working his way toward the scent, and after traveling for a few minutes and getting over about 3 mountains, Kouga realized that he was close..really close. 'Darn it!!!!' he thought 'I still can't smell that slayer'. Kouga slowed his speed to that of about a human sprint, trying to make sure that he wouldn't be caught off guard. The rush of winds dissipated under his feet as he continued at what felt like a snail's pace.
Kouga smelt his comrade over a single small hill with a few trees and fair amounts of grass. 'Hmm, a fairly open fighting field. This slayer's got guts' was all he could think. Because the hill seemed so open, Kouga didn't slow down anymore, feeling completely confident that in a field like this, his 6th sense would keep him well aware of anything going down with plenty of time to move.
As the wolf youkai reached the peak of the hill, he saw only his comrade laid out over the ground. Instant panic took over him and he leaped over to the side of his friend to check for life signs. As soon as he landed he could hear the faint sounds of the weak breathing from his friend and deduced that he was unconscious, but in need of some kind of aide.
Kouga looked around to find absolutely no one, but still would not let go of the idea that this was a trap. He wanted badly to pick Ragen up and carry him quickly back to the Den, but knew that it would result in only the both of them getting killed. Kouga began to wonder at that point why a youkai slayer, didn't just kill the wolf and wait for his comrades to get here and kill them all off, instead of trying to get only him. He put his wonders aside at the moment and refocused at the present situation.
The wolf youkai quickly scooped up the body and leaped off the hill hoping that whoever was here, would not attack him quite yet. He landed at the base and set the body down carefully, still listening for any sign of an attacker. Breathing a sigh a relief, Kouga turned around once again to face the hill, and in one easy leap made it to the very top and center of it.
Kouga bowed his head and listened around hoping to find any sign of the slayer. He knew that sight and smell had failed him and resorted to the last advanced sense that he had control over. After what felt like an eternity of pure silence aside from the wind in the trees and grass, Kouga heard the faint shink of steel being revealed, followed by a hardly audible gasp in surprise and a short curse.
The wolf youkai turned his attention to a tree to his immediate left, just as his 6th sense went wild. To patches of leaves fell out of the tree just as two, barely visible projectiles made their way towards the youkai with surprising speed. Kouga turned completely to face the tree and jumped backwards allowing himself to fall, but in the process catching two, eight pointed shurikens between the index and middle fingers of both hands. After hitting the ground, he sprung back up onto his feet and looked back into the tree.
'Eh? More?' Kouga thought as more of the dangerous projectiles made their way towards him. Rather than quickly kill his opponent, the youkai decided that it would be much more fun to play first. Kouga quickly darted to the left as his senses went off again, leaving another shuriken where he had just stood. Gauging the speed and precision, quickly of his attacker, Kouga took off just fast enough to leave a trail of shurikens behind him.
Kouga snickered to himself as he snaked his way towards the tree with ease leaving the ever increasing trail behind him. 'I wonder how many of those things he's got' Kouga thought. 'Oh well, Let's make this a little more.. "fair"' he thought.
In a second, the wolf youkai darted straight for the tree from which the metal rain had originated. Within a blink he was there, and stopping for a second to stretch his fingers and ready his claws, the wolf youkai slashed right through the foot thick trunk of the tree, sending splinters and shards of wood in all directions.
As the tree began to fall over, Kouga noticed a petit figure jump out of it and land softly, hardly making a sound on the grass. Cloaked in a black shinobi assassin outfit, that only revealed tied lavender hair tied in a but with chopsticks.
"So I see you want to play up close and personal", a female voice emerged. The slayer turned around to reveal soft raspberry red eyes.
Kouga stood gaping in motionless and speechless for two reasons. First, the fact that she was a woman, and he really tried to avoid harming one unless it was absolutely necessary. The second was that he was taken aback at the color of her eyes against the color of her hair. He lost himself in fantasy, imagining how she would look with her hair down and blowing in the wind. Her skin seemed so soft that Kouga would have done almost anything to touch it. But the thing that teased him the most about this mysterious slayer, was that her scent was still masked, and Kouga could almost sense that she would have a scent that would make him melt where he stood.
Angered by the awkward staring treatment, the slayer broke the silence. "What's wrong? Surprised because I'm a woman?"
Kouga was dragged back into reality by these words, however still felt as though he couldn't speak. He tried to answer her question but all that came out was senseless jargon. Which seemed to only make her even more angry.
"I've had enough with you..get ready to die" She called out just before producing two small daggers from two sheaths on her back. She charged at the still slightly dazed wolf youkai, swiftly and quickly, closing the distance in a matter of seconds.
Kouga's 6th sense gave a light tickle to the back of his mind, and stepped back just enough so that the first slash almost grazed his nose. The slayer stepped forward and slashed with other dagger, and again Kouga stepped right out of the way of it. They continued this pattern, every so often, Kouga would side step in order to keep from going down the incline, and every so often, the slayer would throw in kicks to liven up the combo, but the result remained the same. The whole time, looked into her eyes and felt more and more lost in her, keeping silent and paying half attention to the present "battle".
This continued to infuriate the youkai slayer as she continued her violent assault at her target. 'Darn it!!! He's so fast' she thought to herself 'this isn't working, I'll have to try something else.'
Suddenly she stopped her assault and jumped back a few yards putting some distance in between them. When she landed, she began to breathe deeply from all the energy she had exerted.
Seeing this brought Kouga once again out of his daze and a sudden and very alien feeling of concern for her flooded into his mind. "What's wrong, are you a little tired? Sit down and take a breather" Kouga blurted out without even thinking about it.
The youkai slayer's eyes went wide and erupted anger. Kouga had meant to show concern and honestly meant well for her; however, it sounded more than anything like a taunt that drove her up the wall.
"While it's true that you may be the strongest youkai I've ever fought with." She spat out. Kouga swelled with pride at the "complement". "Nobody mocks me" She continued. She re-sheathed her daggers and traced a pattern in the air with her right hand, and placed her left palm upwards underneath it. After a few seconds, an eight inch symbol appeared where she had traced. Kouga's 6th sense went haywire at this, but his curiosity got the best of him and he just stood there wondering why she thought he had mocked him.
The assassin extended her hands quickly outward. For a split second, there was only warmth, that warmth quickly grew into heat. "Denko Jutsu!!!!" She screamed, just as a lightning bolt exploded from her fingers with a recoil that sent her hands into the air and herself a step back.
Kouga's senses went absolutely crazy at the oncoming danger and it took every degree of reflex and speed he could muster in such short time to move just right enough so that the bolt connected with his shoulder in oppose to his heart. The blast connected cleanly, and the wolf youkai felt the electrical surge flow quickly through his body, and the searing heat of the direct blast on his left shoulder.
The attack sent the wolf youkai flying clean off the hill leaving a very confident youkai slayer behind. She slowed her breathing just a little pulled down the mask covering her mouth to reveal healthy young lips. She smirked to herself as the relished the victory that she had won over the opponent that had mocked her honor. She turned in the wind and whispered the words "he had no chance" just before she prepared to make her leave with her job accomplished.
"Are you sure about that?" asked the no more than slightly injured youkai. He walked back up to the top of the hill to see the slayer with her back towards him. He rubbed his shoulder to relieve the tinge that the shock had left, but then dropped it after feeling had returned to his left arm. "It's a good thing I moved when I did, otherwise that might have hurt." Jested Kouga, unaware of the anger that slowly filled the slayer's eyes.
She turned just her head to reveal the raspberry eyes and had almost turned ruby with anger. The new expression added to the sway of her hair due to the quick motion of her head and the appearance of her lips, brought Kouga once again a daze, with an expression of pure awe written all over his face.
The slayer quickly retrieved her daggers from their resting place and charged back at the youkai that had driven her to the brink of rage with only the thought of killing him to satisfy her. She lifted her right arm into the air and stabbed downwards as soon as she reached him, only to have it caught in the youkai's hand. She then made an attempt at a quick reverse slash with her free arm only to have that one also brought into captivity.
Using her arms, Kouga dragged the slayer towards him in a desperate attempt to find her aroma. Agitated once again by the fact that it still wasn't present, he let out a soft unintentional growl, the anticipation was driving him up the wall. "Why can't I smell you?" he asked, trying hard to hide his obvious anticipation.
The slayer looked up at him with a smirk "Wouldn't you like to know" she said, her eyes still burning with a degree of anger.
Kouga nearly winced in anticipation and was near the brink of asking her what she smelled like, but figured that a human nose wouldn't be able to identify one's scent, let alone one's own scent. Discouraged (slightly) the wolf settled for looking once again into her eyes. A certain calm overtook him and he lost a sense of reality, and as he sat in his trance, words from his very soul forced their way out. "You know, you look very cute when you're angry" He said softly.
Her eyes went wide at this, and she gave what she could of a growl (being human of course) as she continued to struggle against him, thinking only of slicing out his throat and giving the wolf an unneeded neutering operation, then it hit her.
'A male youkai..is still a male in the end' she thought to herself with a snicker, and in a flash carried out her devious plan. She took full advantage of Kouga's trance and took it upon herself to try and make him sterile. When her foot connected to his "artifact", it brought the unsuspecting out of his trance quickly and sent him sliding to the floor, gently cradling the wound with both hands, and letting out a loud howl.
The slayer took this time to release herself and jump back a few feet. She crouched down and put her twin daggers out in front of her, crossing them like scissors. She squinted her eyes as she braced herself for the coming attack, and Kouga's trusty 6th sense brought his attention to her once again (though for certain reasons, he had a hard time focusing on just her).
"Die fool" she said coldly, just before she pounced at her victim with her daggers aimed right at his throat. She moved so quickly that she left a trail of after images behind her. Again, Kouga had little time to react, but due to the incredible pain in his lower torso, his movement was limited, so he simply chose to duck back down, crouching over his abused sensitive spot, and the slayer passed right over, tripping on his body.
He turned around to see her topple down the hillside, rolling from all the momentum of her previous attack. Unexplained worry struck him as she fell down to the side unconscious and bleeding a bit from the coarse hillside.
Somehow Kouga found the strength to crawl over to the side of the hill and rolled down beside her. He checked her for to make sure she was okay, and took a moment to breathe. Holding his breath, Kouga rose to his feet, ignoring the slowly subsiding pain of his "wound" and carefully placed the slayer onto his back and wrapped her limp arms his neck.
He stood back up taking another moment to breathe and subdue the pain, when the most heavenly scent filled his nose. In itself the aroma gave him the power to ignore the pain, as he stood there in bliss.
"What is this smell" Kouga said out loud to himself. He checked the air around, but couldn't pin point the exact location of where it was coming from, only that is was near. The scent continued to fill Kouga's nose as bliss overtook him and he bowed his head, so that he could relax and just be in the midst of the scent. He felt his nose touch against soft wool, and the scent that he couldn't name was slightly stronger from whatever it was. He opened his eyes eagerly half expecting a butterfly or kind of insect that he would have to look for more often. When he opened his eyes, joy overtook him as he stared directly into the forearm of the slayer that was wrapped around his neck.
'So this is how you smell.' he thought to himself, happy that his suspicions could be put to rest. 'Whatever she did must have worn off when she lost consciousness, why she would want to hide such a blessed aroma, I have no idea'. He allowed himself to fall once again into the trance from the aroma, but was brought out by a barely audible 'yelp' of discomfort.
'We had better get back so I can tend to your wounds.' he thought and gathered himself together for the quick trip ahead.
Just before he took off, he remembered the reason he came. 'Ragen!!!!' he thought.
Kouga ran over to the other side of the hill and set down the slayer, putting his sleeping comrade in her previous position, and swiftly sweeping her up bridal style just before taking off in the direction of the Den.
As the winds blew over Kouga's skin and mixed the slayer's scent with the rest of the air, Kouga had but one thought in mind, and he struggled about how to go around getting it done. He looked down onto the face of this mysterious woman that intrigued him so and a single phrase made it's way to the front of his mind.
'I don't know who you are, but I swear, upon everything that I hold dear, I will somehow make you my woman' He thought just before kicking the speed up a notch and closing the distance to the Den even quicker.
Kouga arrived at the Den and skidded to a halt only to see all of his tribesmen gathered together with weapons in hand. At the front was Gekido, preparing what seemed to be a battle charge.
"Kouga!!!!!" One of the tribe members exclaimed.
Everyone else's attention quickly went to him, and Gekido ran to the over to greet the leader.
"What's going on?" Kouga asked before setting Ragen down in the hands of a few tribes men, quickly telling them to lay him down to rest and recover.
"We heard you howl a few minutes ago, and we figured that we should come help." Gekido reported "What happened?"
Kouga thought for a moment about the reason that he had howled, and tried to come up with an excuse that was less embarrassing. "Battle wound" was all he said.
"Do you need someone to look at it and tend to it?" Gekido asked.
"No" Kouga said quickly "I'll take care of it myself, it's not that bad anymore." Kouga quickly dismissed himself into the Den in an attempt to escape the inquiry.
Gekido was left so confused that he forgot to ask about the mysterious woman clothed in black that Kouga was holding. 'Eh, oh well, I'll find out eventually' the wolf youkai said to himself, then went into the Den to enjoy his free time.
Chapter 2:
'How dare someone kidnap one of my comrades!!!' Kouga thought to himself as he nearly flew up the mountain side. 'This had be one good slayer if he thinks he can get away with this. Don't worry Ragen, I'm coming.'
Kouga reached the top of the mountain he was scaling and stopped to examine the air. He held his nose high and turned all sorts of directions looking for the scent.
'There!' Kouga thought to himself as soon as he identified Ragen's scent. The thing that nudged in the back of his mind however, was why he couldn't seem to smell anyone else from the direction he smelt Ragen. 'He must be really good if he can mask his scent' he simply thought right before leaping toward the direction of the scent and taking off in a small hurricane as soon as he touched ground.
Kouga ran up and down mountain sides working his way toward the scent, and after traveling for a few minutes and getting over about 3 mountains, Kouga realized that he was close..really close. 'Darn it!!!!' he thought 'I still can't smell that slayer'. Kouga slowed his speed to that of about a human sprint, trying to make sure that he wouldn't be caught off guard. The rush of winds dissipated under his feet as he continued at what felt like a snail's pace.
Kouga smelt his comrade over a single small hill with a few trees and fair amounts of grass. 'Hmm, a fairly open fighting field. This slayer's got guts' was all he could think. Because the hill seemed so open, Kouga didn't slow down anymore, feeling completely confident that in a field like this, his 6th sense would keep him well aware of anything going down with plenty of time to move.
As the wolf youkai reached the peak of the hill, he saw only his comrade laid out over the ground. Instant panic took over him and he leaped over to the side of his friend to check for life signs. As soon as he landed he could hear the faint sounds of the weak breathing from his friend and deduced that he was unconscious, but in need of some kind of aide.
Kouga looked around to find absolutely no one, but still would not let go of the idea that this was a trap. He wanted badly to pick Ragen up and carry him quickly back to the Den, but knew that it would result in only the both of them getting killed. Kouga began to wonder at that point why a youkai slayer, didn't just kill the wolf and wait for his comrades to get here and kill them all off, instead of trying to get only him. He put his wonders aside at the moment and refocused at the present situation.
The wolf youkai quickly scooped up the body and leaped off the hill hoping that whoever was here, would not attack him quite yet. He landed at the base and set the body down carefully, still listening for any sign of an attacker. Breathing a sigh a relief, Kouga turned around once again to face the hill, and in one easy leap made it to the very top and center of it.
Kouga bowed his head and listened around hoping to find any sign of the slayer. He knew that sight and smell had failed him and resorted to the last advanced sense that he had control over. After what felt like an eternity of pure silence aside from the wind in the trees and grass, Kouga heard the faint shink of steel being revealed, followed by a hardly audible gasp in surprise and a short curse.
The wolf youkai turned his attention to a tree to his immediate left, just as his 6th sense went wild. To patches of leaves fell out of the tree just as two, barely visible projectiles made their way towards the youkai with surprising speed. Kouga turned completely to face the tree and jumped backwards allowing himself to fall, but in the process catching two, eight pointed shurikens between the index and middle fingers of both hands. After hitting the ground, he sprung back up onto his feet and looked back into the tree.
'Eh? More?' Kouga thought as more of the dangerous projectiles made their way towards him. Rather than quickly kill his opponent, the youkai decided that it would be much more fun to play first. Kouga quickly darted to the left as his senses went off again, leaving another shuriken where he had just stood. Gauging the speed and precision, quickly of his attacker, Kouga took off just fast enough to leave a trail of shurikens behind him.
Kouga snickered to himself as he snaked his way towards the tree with ease leaving the ever increasing trail behind him. 'I wonder how many of those things he's got' Kouga thought. 'Oh well, Let's make this a little more.. "fair"' he thought.
In a second, the wolf youkai darted straight for the tree from which the metal rain had originated. Within a blink he was there, and stopping for a second to stretch his fingers and ready his claws, the wolf youkai slashed right through the foot thick trunk of the tree, sending splinters and shards of wood in all directions.
As the tree began to fall over, Kouga noticed a petit figure jump out of it and land softly, hardly making a sound on the grass. Cloaked in a black shinobi assassin outfit, that only revealed tied lavender hair tied in a but with chopsticks.
"So I see you want to play up close and personal", a female voice emerged. The slayer turned around to reveal soft raspberry red eyes.
Kouga stood gaping in motionless and speechless for two reasons. First, the fact that she was a woman, and he really tried to avoid harming one unless it was absolutely necessary. The second was that he was taken aback at the color of her eyes against the color of her hair. He lost himself in fantasy, imagining how she would look with her hair down and blowing in the wind. Her skin seemed so soft that Kouga would have done almost anything to touch it. But the thing that teased him the most about this mysterious slayer, was that her scent was still masked, and Kouga could almost sense that she would have a scent that would make him melt where he stood.
Angered by the awkward staring treatment, the slayer broke the silence. "What's wrong? Surprised because I'm a woman?"
Kouga was dragged back into reality by these words, however still felt as though he couldn't speak. He tried to answer her question but all that came out was senseless jargon. Which seemed to only make her even more angry.
"I've had enough with you..get ready to die" She called out just before producing two small daggers from two sheaths on her back. She charged at the still slightly dazed wolf youkai, swiftly and quickly, closing the distance in a matter of seconds.
Kouga's 6th sense gave a light tickle to the back of his mind, and stepped back just enough so that the first slash almost grazed his nose. The slayer stepped forward and slashed with other dagger, and again Kouga stepped right out of the way of it. They continued this pattern, every so often, Kouga would side step in order to keep from going down the incline, and every so often, the slayer would throw in kicks to liven up the combo, but the result remained the same. The whole time, looked into her eyes and felt more and more lost in her, keeping silent and paying half attention to the present "battle".
This continued to infuriate the youkai slayer as she continued her violent assault at her target. 'Darn it!!! He's so fast' she thought to herself 'this isn't working, I'll have to try something else.'
Suddenly she stopped her assault and jumped back a few yards putting some distance in between them. When she landed, she began to breathe deeply from all the energy she had exerted.
Seeing this brought Kouga once again out of his daze and a sudden and very alien feeling of concern for her flooded into his mind. "What's wrong, are you a little tired? Sit down and take a breather" Kouga blurted out without even thinking about it.
The youkai slayer's eyes went wide and erupted anger. Kouga had meant to show concern and honestly meant well for her; however, it sounded more than anything like a taunt that drove her up the wall.
"While it's true that you may be the strongest youkai I've ever fought with." She spat out. Kouga swelled with pride at the "complement". "Nobody mocks me" She continued. She re-sheathed her daggers and traced a pattern in the air with her right hand, and placed her left palm upwards underneath it. After a few seconds, an eight inch symbol appeared where she had traced. Kouga's 6th sense went haywire at this, but his curiosity got the best of him and he just stood there wondering why she thought he had mocked him.
The assassin extended her hands quickly outward. For a split second, there was only warmth, that warmth quickly grew into heat. "Denko Jutsu!!!!" She screamed, just as a lightning bolt exploded from her fingers with a recoil that sent her hands into the air and herself a step back.
Kouga's senses went absolutely crazy at the oncoming danger and it took every degree of reflex and speed he could muster in such short time to move just right enough so that the bolt connected with his shoulder in oppose to his heart. The blast connected cleanly, and the wolf youkai felt the electrical surge flow quickly through his body, and the searing heat of the direct blast on his left shoulder.
The attack sent the wolf youkai flying clean off the hill leaving a very confident youkai slayer behind. She slowed her breathing just a little pulled down the mask covering her mouth to reveal healthy young lips. She smirked to herself as the relished the victory that she had won over the opponent that had mocked her honor. She turned in the wind and whispered the words "he had no chance" just before she prepared to make her leave with her job accomplished.
"Are you sure about that?" asked the no more than slightly injured youkai. He walked back up to the top of the hill to see the slayer with her back towards him. He rubbed his shoulder to relieve the tinge that the shock had left, but then dropped it after feeling had returned to his left arm. "It's a good thing I moved when I did, otherwise that might have hurt." Jested Kouga, unaware of the anger that slowly filled the slayer's eyes.
She turned just her head to reveal the raspberry eyes and had almost turned ruby with anger. The new expression added to the sway of her hair due to the quick motion of her head and the appearance of her lips, brought Kouga once again a daze, with an expression of pure awe written all over his face.
The slayer quickly retrieved her daggers from their resting place and charged back at the youkai that had driven her to the brink of rage with only the thought of killing him to satisfy her. She lifted her right arm into the air and stabbed downwards as soon as she reached him, only to have it caught in the youkai's hand. She then made an attempt at a quick reverse slash with her free arm only to have that one also brought into captivity.
Using her arms, Kouga dragged the slayer towards him in a desperate attempt to find her aroma. Agitated once again by the fact that it still wasn't present, he let out a soft unintentional growl, the anticipation was driving him up the wall. "Why can't I smell you?" he asked, trying hard to hide his obvious anticipation.
The slayer looked up at him with a smirk "Wouldn't you like to know" she said, her eyes still burning with a degree of anger.
Kouga nearly winced in anticipation and was near the brink of asking her what she smelled like, but figured that a human nose wouldn't be able to identify one's scent, let alone one's own scent. Discouraged (slightly) the wolf settled for looking once again into her eyes. A certain calm overtook him and he lost a sense of reality, and as he sat in his trance, words from his very soul forced their way out. "You know, you look very cute when you're angry" He said softly.
Her eyes went wide at this, and she gave what she could of a growl (being human of course) as she continued to struggle against him, thinking only of slicing out his throat and giving the wolf an unneeded neutering operation, then it hit her.
'A male youkai..is still a male in the end' she thought to herself with a snicker, and in a flash carried out her devious plan. She took full advantage of Kouga's trance and took it upon herself to try and make him sterile. When her foot connected to his "artifact", it brought the unsuspecting out of his trance quickly and sent him sliding to the floor, gently cradling the wound with both hands, and letting out a loud howl.
The slayer took this time to release herself and jump back a few feet. She crouched down and put her twin daggers out in front of her, crossing them like scissors. She squinted her eyes as she braced herself for the coming attack, and Kouga's trusty 6th sense brought his attention to her once again (though for certain reasons, he had a hard time focusing on just her).
"Die fool" she said coldly, just before she pounced at her victim with her daggers aimed right at his throat. She moved so quickly that she left a trail of after images behind her. Again, Kouga had little time to react, but due to the incredible pain in his lower torso, his movement was limited, so he simply chose to duck back down, crouching over his abused sensitive spot, and the slayer passed right over, tripping on his body.
He turned around to see her topple down the hillside, rolling from all the momentum of her previous attack. Unexplained worry struck him as she fell down to the side unconscious and bleeding a bit from the coarse hillside.
Somehow Kouga found the strength to crawl over to the side of the hill and rolled down beside her. He checked her for to make sure she was okay, and took a moment to breathe. Holding his breath, Kouga rose to his feet, ignoring the slowly subsiding pain of his "wound" and carefully placed the slayer onto his back and wrapped her limp arms his neck.
He stood back up taking another moment to breathe and subdue the pain, when the most heavenly scent filled his nose. In itself the aroma gave him the power to ignore the pain, as he stood there in bliss.
"What is this smell" Kouga said out loud to himself. He checked the air around, but couldn't pin point the exact location of where it was coming from, only that is was near. The scent continued to fill Kouga's nose as bliss overtook him and he bowed his head, so that he could relax and just be in the midst of the scent. He felt his nose touch against soft wool, and the scent that he couldn't name was slightly stronger from whatever it was. He opened his eyes eagerly half expecting a butterfly or kind of insect that he would have to look for more often. When he opened his eyes, joy overtook him as he stared directly into the forearm of the slayer that was wrapped around his neck.
'So this is how you smell.' he thought to himself, happy that his suspicions could be put to rest. 'Whatever she did must have worn off when she lost consciousness, why she would want to hide such a blessed aroma, I have no idea'. He allowed himself to fall once again into the trance from the aroma, but was brought out by a barely audible 'yelp' of discomfort.
'We had better get back so I can tend to your wounds.' he thought and gathered himself together for the quick trip ahead.
Just before he took off, he remembered the reason he came. 'Ragen!!!!' he thought.
Kouga ran over to the other side of the hill and set down the slayer, putting his sleeping comrade in her previous position, and swiftly sweeping her up bridal style just before taking off in the direction of the Den.
As the winds blew over Kouga's skin and mixed the slayer's scent with the rest of the air, Kouga had but one thought in mind, and he struggled about how to go around getting it done. He looked down onto the face of this mysterious woman that intrigued him so and a single phrase made it's way to the front of his mind.
'I don't know who you are, but I swear, upon everything that I hold dear, I will somehow make you my woman' He thought just before kicking the speed up a notch and closing the distance to the Den even quicker.
Kouga arrived at the Den and skidded to a halt only to see all of his tribesmen gathered together with weapons in hand. At the front was Gekido, preparing what seemed to be a battle charge.
"Kouga!!!!!" One of the tribe members exclaimed.
Everyone else's attention quickly went to him, and Gekido ran to the over to greet the leader.
"What's going on?" Kouga asked before setting Ragen down in the hands of a few tribes men, quickly telling them to lay him down to rest and recover.
"We heard you howl a few minutes ago, and we figured that we should come help." Gekido reported "What happened?"
Kouga thought for a moment about the reason that he had howled, and tried to come up with an excuse that was less embarrassing. "Battle wound" was all he said.
"Do you need someone to look at it and tend to it?" Gekido asked.
"No" Kouga said quickly "I'll take care of it myself, it's not that bad anymore." Kouga quickly dismissed himself into the Den in an attempt to escape the inquiry.
Gekido was left so confused that he forgot to ask about the mysterious woman clothed in black that Kouga was holding. 'Eh, oh well, I'll find out eventually' the wolf youkai said to himself, then went into the Den to enjoy his free time.