Author: Sorry about last chapter, I got really lazy about the note. Lol, I
should probably be studying for my finals lol, but...no, this is so much more
amusing...note to self: GET A LAPTOP!
Anyway, how does everyone like Lilian? I'm kinda confused about what to do for now, because there is a small gap in my brain about what happens until Kouga heals up a bit...which is about...I dunno, 2-3 days right? (yay for youkai-ness)
Crap though, I'm running out of chapter titles, it's really a pain to do. Oh well.
Chapter 14:
The sun set smoothly around off the horizon, Inuyasha could see its wonder from the lake near the village. The last of the suns golden rays reflected off the water and onto the soaked cloak which had been this afternoon's project. After several washings in the water using some of the detergent Kagome had brought from her last visit to her parents, the scent of Kouga's blood was finally so faint that he had to strain to find it. It would do, and he was glad.
He turned away from his work to the horizon and watched as the sun continued its descent. He breathed in deep, taking in the scents of the freshly Febreeze'd cloak and lake.
'It's time to switch shifts with Kagome now'
He stood up silently, not disturbing the calm of the atmosphere, and tested the dampness of the cloak with his hand, and finding it still a bit on the damp side, he folded it lightly, grabbed his sword off the trunk of a nearby tree, and headed back to the village.
The walk was short, he stepped lightly, and rather quietly for one untrained. He let himself get caught up in the surroundings, focusing on the scents of the wildlife around the path. It was really soothing, the sounds of only the wind, the scents of only the beasts and plants, and the golden rays painting everything around him with a serene hue.
He would definitely need to come out here more often.
Within moments, the sounds of the trees was replaced by the sounds of young children being ushered into the house to bed ready for bed, and the scents changed to those of dinners from every direction. He walked silently through the streets, passing and smiling to those who acknowledged him, until he came upon the little hut.
With a slight hesitation, he walked into the hut, then after smelling the sweet scent of his one true love, walked into the room where he found Kagome, sitting under the window sill, radiating under the late sun beams. He was speechless, the sun danced on her skin and in her hair, making them both glisten brighter and more preciously than any stone. The radiance glowed, pouring over her miko's kimono, shining brightly over the white top, and sending excess rays over the red bottom. Villagers often said she was the spitting image of Kikyo when she wore this outfit, but Kikyo had never been able to make the breath stop in his lungs, no she was far better than Kikyo in every way.
He stood there motionless, the mark on his palm warmed and faintly glowed, urging him to get closer, and reminding him of her presence. He knew that Kagome could feel it too, if she hadn't heard him, it didn't matter, because she still knew he was there.
"Kagome..." was all he could manage to say.
She looked up at him with pure eyes, the motion caused her hair to shift and glisten sporadically.
"Hi Inuyasha" she stood up slowly, she knew why he was here, and she was happy to see him, regardless of the fact that it was only to be a little while.
He walked over to her and gently placed a hand on her cheek. He brushed it with the back of his hand and slowly pulled her close, giving her the option of either stepping closer in agreement, or stepping back. She stepped forward only a half step, and he captured her lips with his.
It was a silent and soft kiss, it lasted only a moment, but it was alright, for now it just mattered that they were in the same room for now. He pulled her close and buried his face in her hair.
'Twice in one day? I'll have to thank Kouga for this.'
"I love you" he said during a sigh, then buried his face in her hair again.
"I love you too"
Her voice caused the moment to become even more calm, he pulled his face out of her hair again just in time to catch the last whiffs of her breath. It was just heavenly.
In an attempt to keep the confrontation from going to far, Kagome pulled back lightly, breaking free from her mate's grasp and gave him a warm smile. The mask did well to hide her sadness from the eye, but the mark on Inuyasha's hand betrayed her true feelings, and she in turn felt the same sadness from her mark. Both marks vibrated lightly and slowly, longing to be joined once again, but they both knew that there were other things that needed to be done.
"I gave Lilian some herbs to help her sleep, Kouga was already out so I just let him sleep. He might wake up a little but Lilian should be out until tomorrow, so if he does wake up you can talk." She instructed, Inuyasha just nodded patiently, absorbing what he knew to be important.
"Do you have any plans for helping them out for now?"
"Not quite, but I figured we could start with his manners and go from there."
"Sounds good to me, but what's he gonna wear?" he pointed at the pile of well past unusable armor.
"I don't know, but it was sure smart of you to cut through it like that" she gave a playful tug on one of his ears, he ducked with the motion to make sure that there was no unnecessary pain inflicted by accident. "I'm pretty sure I'll think of something soon. His wounds are all cuts and bruises so he'll be healed up in no time. We'll be able to get started once he can stand."
"Alright."
"Then I'll be going. See you tomorrow." She walked as if she was gliding across the floor, Inuyasha could only look on, temporarily stunned.
'Get back here quick monk, or I'm gonna have to go kill you'
Once Kagome was completely gone from the hut, Inuyasha went over to sit in the windowsill. He looked out over the emptying streets of the village and sighed calmly to himself and breathed in the cooling air.
He shut his eyes and allowed the wind kiss his face as he sifted through the air, looking for a trace of Kagome's scent. A look of disappointment crossed over his face when he realized that he couldn't find it, his ears drooped slightly and he sighed heavily.
Such was his existence for the past few months. It vexed him in ways none could imagine, he wanted so badly to be close to Kagome at all times. Their time apart felt more painful the deepest of wounds Inuyasha had ever suffered during battle. It hurt so bad to know that it was his own mate who told him that they couldn't be together for now, and it only grew worse when they both realized that he couldn't even watch from inside the village. He couldn't protect her from her side. He couldn't hold her whenever he wanted, and couldn't kiss her whenever he thought of her, he couldn't even revel in the scent of her that could nearly drive him crazy.
So many days he had spent on the plateau outside the village hoping that there would never be an attack from a powerful youkai making an attempt at the shikon-no-tama. Most of the attacks had started to cease shortly before Sango, Miroku, and Shippo had left. He guessed that after killing so many of the more powerful youkai, others just hid in fear, never daring to pass the borders of the village: and they were alive because of it.
Still, if a stronger youkai with too much confidence tried to do what others had failed to in the past, then what could Inuyasha do? As fast as he was, he could only get here so quickly. Kagome had gotten much stronger in the past few years, but she was only so strong.
His greatest fear was not returning to a village in shambles, but returning to a mate that he had failed in saving, failed to protect...and that was not acceptable to him.
'Why? Why did that stupid jewel ever have to come around in the first place? If it had never existed then...no, it had to exist otherwise I wouldn't have ever met her, but why does it have to be such a nuisance?'
He passed a glance at the shrine, his blood heated at the just the thought that the cause of his torment was there. He wanted to take it himself and destroy it in any way possible, but he couldn't. It had nearly driven him insane with lust for power when they were first bringing it back to the village and he wasn't planning around going around it again. His instincts beat almost as much for the power as it did for his mate, and if he hadn't had a mate, then he probably would have swallowed it himself.
That had been the only period in his life where he was thankful for the human blood in his veins.
The sun finished setting without Inuyasha even realizing it, and it wasn't until the moon had shown through the light clouds that he had come out of his trance. The streets were completely empty now and the last scents of those that had recently gone inside were fading on the now dying wind.
He sighed quietly and turned his attention back inside were he looked upon the sleeping injured.
A tinge of guilt colored his emotions for a moment as he got a better look at Kouga's wounds. Cuts and bruises covered his body, and even though the wolf seemed to be sleeping peacefully, he knew that there was still a bit of labor in the breathing. He sighed and turned his gaze back out the window, shutting his eyes and merely listening to whatever offered sound. He cleared his mind of everything he could, a trick he had learned to make the night pass faster.
The monk better come back soon.
Real soon.
Kouga grunted and stirred a bit as he came out of his rest. His head felt as if his brain had been replaced by a ball of cotton, and his body still ached. He could feel the tight bandages constricting his movement, so for lack of anything better to do, he merely stayed put.
His energy returned to him slowly, he could feel all of his senses coming back to him, but that was all. On the air he could smell the chilled night breeze from the window, Inuyasha, and the sleeping maiden. His inhaled deeply taking in her scent, and caused a slight tinge of pain in his cotton ball brain. As result he let out a slight grunt.
"You're awake"
Kouga turned to see Inuyasha sitting motionless in the window sill. His left leg hung down inside while his right rested in the sill itself, bent so that the knee was6 or 7 inches from his chest. He sat relaxed with Tetsusaiga wedged between the side of the sill next to his head and his right heel, his head almost rested against the sheathed blade. His face held almost nothing, no emotion, nothing.
Kouga did a combination of seething and wincing at a not so happy and very recent memory. Inuyasha noticed but did not make much of a reaction.
The tension lightened a little when the wolf finally collected himself and identified the scent of his rival in it's normal form. He looked him over to see that his eyes had returned to their normal white and the odd tattoos on his face were no longer there. His claws and fangs had returned to normal and the sickening smile was no where to be found. Kouga was far from comfortable, but seeing the normal Inuyasha helped unimaginably.
He struggled against the screaming in his body and the bandages that held him tight, and slowly made his way to a sitting position. He shut his eyes and just breathed, it was hard enough doing just that, Inuyasha watched him passively and let him do just that.
"What happened to you up there?" Kouga broke the silence, taking the opportunity that Inuyasha had obviously given him. His eyes still shut, he prepared himself to digest an answer.
"What are you talking about?"
Kouga grunted, lacking the energy to growl. His head was starting to ache, he really did not want to chase around for an answer, he got enough of that from the self-righteous tree. Eyes still shut, he spoke again.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about," he was getting agitated as he spoke, the anger definitely not helping his wounds. "what happened to you when we were fighting, what were you? What are you?"
Inuyasha didn't say a word, he and Kouga weren't exactly what one would call "friends", more like respecting rivals. Rivals, that's all they were, and rivals weren't required to give away their fighting secrets, right? Right.
Kouga began to fume internally, he even scraped together enough energy to turn his head and glare at the dog. He actually growled now.
Inuyasha simply looked back at him, the guilt slowly melting away.
"It was nothing you need to be concerned with."
Kouga's anger had peaked already and was beginning to die simply because he lacked the energy to keep it up.
"You almost killed me up there without hardly breaking a sweat and you say its nothing I need to be concerned with? You were faster than me, faster than me."
Inuyasha let out a cool...
"Feh"
The anger continued to dwindle.
"Anyway, are you going to try again when your better? The deal is still on the table."
Inuyasha hoped Kouga's memory of everything after the final strike was too fuzzy now for him to remember Inuyasha's confession that he couldn't really help him the way he promised. He wanted to see if Kouga had changed, it was one thing for him to not run at first during the fight, but to walk back openly, realizing there was no chance, was completely different. He wanted to know how far he was willing to go for this woman.
Inuyasha looked long into Kouga's eyes, for the first time so far showing the wolf some general interest.
Kouga knew what he was talking about, and he hadn't really thought about it. Most of the fight was a current blur, but he still knew that he had no chance fighting against the hanyou if he transformed again. He also didn't have a significant enough advantage to defeat the dog without giving him ample time to do whatever he needed to do to change again. So, would he do it? Could he do it? Did he want to? Its not easy placing one's own neck in the guillotine, and to Kouga, it felt like the same thing.
What would happen if he did? He would most likely end up right back here, by then Lilian would probably be recovered and well past gone. Ah, that's right...Lilian. His gaze dropped to her sleeping form, the scent of sleeping herbs hung lightly around her. She was beautiful, even now while she slept, especially now that she slept. He wanted to be able to get closer to her, in a sense it seemed as if he almost needed to, but she wanted no part of him and had to be almost begged to even speak to him.
She hated his kind for no other reason than she had to. That didn't bother him too much, he actually almost pitied her for it. The logic made sense, she had to kill so many youkai it seemed, that she might actually go insane if she felt for them. She wasn't a killing machine, that much he figured. But the worst thing was that she was really against youkai-human relationships...what could he do? Did he even have a reason to hope? A reason to try?
Kouga opened his mouth to speak an answer that he himself hadn't figured out. His gaze still on the lavender haired woman that seemed so close yet so distant. Before he could utter a word, a wave of heat surged through his body and his vision dulled a bit. With a slight groan he fell back, ending on his back on the bed that he had been using, thoroughly exhausted.
Inuyasha sighed to himself and turned back towards the town.
'I wonder what he would have said' the last part of the battle replayed in his head a number of times, and he began to wonder if maybe he had been a bit rough.
His thoughts were interrupted by the scent of a small bug youkai getting awfully close to the shikon shrine. Without a second thought he jumped out the window with Tetsusaiga in hand.
Inside the hut Kouga heard Inuyasha's footsteps get a bit further before they stopped. There was a swift cutting sound, then a frail and muffled cry. Within a few moments, Inuyasha returned and sat back in the windowsill, accompanied by a slight scent of blood. Wiping the blood off of his hand onto the sleeve of his cloak, he merely looked back out over the town.
Kouga's eyes began to droop and get heavy from the recent exertion, and slowly fell into a dreamless sleep.
Inuyasha looked over at the wolf, a new respect for him brewing within. The Kouga he used to know would never have even dreamed of coming back to fight him, no amount of pride would be able to convince him. He suppressed a chuckle over the change the wolf had undergone in oppose to how he used to be.
Without a word, he turned back to his watch, gazing into the sky and feeling the chilled breeze.
Author: Alright, now that that's finally done. It took me FOREVER to get the first 2 pages from my friend...then I just got excruciatingly lazy. Got bad writer's block though, but these chapters are just writing themselves now lol. I'm so bad, I have almost no idea what these charaters are gonna say or do for the next few days until I actually start writing. Lol. Anyway, I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I'll be gone all week, that means it will prolly be a few weeks before the next update.
Thinking of changing the name to "Taming the Human Heart" or something. Suggestions welcome, possible other names welcome also. Other than that, I dunno, should I use the next 2 or so chapters for character development or just skip them and go to the next important part of the story?
Last thing, do the characters seem OOC? I'm not sure because its been a while since I've seen an episode of Inuyasha.
Anyway, how does everyone like Lilian? I'm kinda confused about what to do for now, because there is a small gap in my brain about what happens until Kouga heals up a bit...which is about...I dunno, 2-3 days right? (yay for youkai-ness)
Crap though, I'm running out of chapter titles, it's really a pain to do. Oh well.
Chapter 14:
The sun set smoothly around off the horizon, Inuyasha could see its wonder from the lake near the village. The last of the suns golden rays reflected off the water and onto the soaked cloak which had been this afternoon's project. After several washings in the water using some of the detergent Kagome had brought from her last visit to her parents, the scent of Kouga's blood was finally so faint that he had to strain to find it. It would do, and he was glad.
He turned away from his work to the horizon and watched as the sun continued its descent. He breathed in deep, taking in the scents of the freshly Febreeze'd cloak and lake.
'It's time to switch shifts with Kagome now'
He stood up silently, not disturbing the calm of the atmosphere, and tested the dampness of the cloak with his hand, and finding it still a bit on the damp side, he folded it lightly, grabbed his sword off the trunk of a nearby tree, and headed back to the village.
The walk was short, he stepped lightly, and rather quietly for one untrained. He let himself get caught up in the surroundings, focusing on the scents of the wildlife around the path. It was really soothing, the sounds of only the wind, the scents of only the beasts and plants, and the golden rays painting everything around him with a serene hue.
He would definitely need to come out here more often.
Within moments, the sounds of the trees was replaced by the sounds of young children being ushered into the house to bed ready for bed, and the scents changed to those of dinners from every direction. He walked silently through the streets, passing and smiling to those who acknowledged him, until he came upon the little hut.
With a slight hesitation, he walked into the hut, then after smelling the sweet scent of his one true love, walked into the room where he found Kagome, sitting under the window sill, radiating under the late sun beams. He was speechless, the sun danced on her skin and in her hair, making them both glisten brighter and more preciously than any stone. The radiance glowed, pouring over her miko's kimono, shining brightly over the white top, and sending excess rays over the red bottom. Villagers often said she was the spitting image of Kikyo when she wore this outfit, but Kikyo had never been able to make the breath stop in his lungs, no she was far better than Kikyo in every way.
He stood there motionless, the mark on his palm warmed and faintly glowed, urging him to get closer, and reminding him of her presence. He knew that Kagome could feel it too, if she hadn't heard him, it didn't matter, because she still knew he was there.
"Kagome..." was all he could manage to say.
She looked up at him with pure eyes, the motion caused her hair to shift and glisten sporadically.
"Hi Inuyasha" she stood up slowly, she knew why he was here, and she was happy to see him, regardless of the fact that it was only to be a little while.
He walked over to her and gently placed a hand on her cheek. He brushed it with the back of his hand and slowly pulled her close, giving her the option of either stepping closer in agreement, or stepping back. She stepped forward only a half step, and he captured her lips with his.
It was a silent and soft kiss, it lasted only a moment, but it was alright, for now it just mattered that they were in the same room for now. He pulled her close and buried his face in her hair.
'Twice in one day? I'll have to thank Kouga for this.'
"I love you" he said during a sigh, then buried his face in her hair again.
"I love you too"
Her voice caused the moment to become even more calm, he pulled his face out of her hair again just in time to catch the last whiffs of her breath. It was just heavenly.
In an attempt to keep the confrontation from going to far, Kagome pulled back lightly, breaking free from her mate's grasp and gave him a warm smile. The mask did well to hide her sadness from the eye, but the mark on Inuyasha's hand betrayed her true feelings, and she in turn felt the same sadness from her mark. Both marks vibrated lightly and slowly, longing to be joined once again, but they both knew that there were other things that needed to be done.
"I gave Lilian some herbs to help her sleep, Kouga was already out so I just let him sleep. He might wake up a little but Lilian should be out until tomorrow, so if he does wake up you can talk." She instructed, Inuyasha just nodded patiently, absorbing what he knew to be important.
"Do you have any plans for helping them out for now?"
"Not quite, but I figured we could start with his manners and go from there."
"Sounds good to me, but what's he gonna wear?" he pointed at the pile of well past unusable armor.
"I don't know, but it was sure smart of you to cut through it like that" she gave a playful tug on one of his ears, he ducked with the motion to make sure that there was no unnecessary pain inflicted by accident. "I'm pretty sure I'll think of something soon. His wounds are all cuts and bruises so he'll be healed up in no time. We'll be able to get started once he can stand."
"Alright."
"Then I'll be going. See you tomorrow." She walked as if she was gliding across the floor, Inuyasha could only look on, temporarily stunned.
'Get back here quick monk, or I'm gonna have to go kill you'
Once Kagome was completely gone from the hut, Inuyasha went over to sit in the windowsill. He looked out over the emptying streets of the village and sighed calmly to himself and breathed in the cooling air.
He shut his eyes and allowed the wind kiss his face as he sifted through the air, looking for a trace of Kagome's scent. A look of disappointment crossed over his face when he realized that he couldn't find it, his ears drooped slightly and he sighed heavily.
Such was his existence for the past few months. It vexed him in ways none could imagine, he wanted so badly to be close to Kagome at all times. Their time apart felt more painful the deepest of wounds Inuyasha had ever suffered during battle. It hurt so bad to know that it was his own mate who told him that they couldn't be together for now, and it only grew worse when they both realized that he couldn't even watch from inside the village. He couldn't protect her from her side. He couldn't hold her whenever he wanted, and couldn't kiss her whenever he thought of her, he couldn't even revel in the scent of her that could nearly drive him crazy.
So many days he had spent on the plateau outside the village hoping that there would never be an attack from a powerful youkai making an attempt at the shikon-no-tama. Most of the attacks had started to cease shortly before Sango, Miroku, and Shippo had left. He guessed that after killing so many of the more powerful youkai, others just hid in fear, never daring to pass the borders of the village: and they were alive because of it.
Still, if a stronger youkai with too much confidence tried to do what others had failed to in the past, then what could Inuyasha do? As fast as he was, he could only get here so quickly. Kagome had gotten much stronger in the past few years, but she was only so strong.
His greatest fear was not returning to a village in shambles, but returning to a mate that he had failed in saving, failed to protect...and that was not acceptable to him.
'Why? Why did that stupid jewel ever have to come around in the first place? If it had never existed then...no, it had to exist otherwise I wouldn't have ever met her, but why does it have to be such a nuisance?'
He passed a glance at the shrine, his blood heated at the just the thought that the cause of his torment was there. He wanted to take it himself and destroy it in any way possible, but he couldn't. It had nearly driven him insane with lust for power when they were first bringing it back to the village and he wasn't planning around going around it again. His instincts beat almost as much for the power as it did for his mate, and if he hadn't had a mate, then he probably would have swallowed it himself.
That had been the only period in his life where he was thankful for the human blood in his veins.
The sun finished setting without Inuyasha even realizing it, and it wasn't until the moon had shown through the light clouds that he had come out of his trance. The streets were completely empty now and the last scents of those that had recently gone inside were fading on the now dying wind.
He sighed quietly and turned his attention back inside were he looked upon the sleeping injured.
A tinge of guilt colored his emotions for a moment as he got a better look at Kouga's wounds. Cuts and bruises covered his body, and even though the wolf seemed to be sleeping peacefully, he knew that there was still a bit of labor in the breathing. He sighed and turned his gaze back out the window, shutting his eyes and merely listening to whatever offered sound. He cleared his mind of everything he could, a trick he had learned to make the night pass faster.
The monk better come back soon.
Real soon.
Kouga grunted and stirred a bit as he came out of his rest. His head felt as if his brain had been replaced by a ball of cotton, and his body still ached. He could feel the tight bandages constricting his movement, so for lack of anything better to do, he merely stayed put.
His energy returned to him slowly, he could feel all of his senses coming back to him, but that was all. On the air he could smell the chilled night breeze from the window, Inuyasha, and the sleeping maiden. His inhaled deeply taking in her scent, and caused a slight tinge of pain in his cotton ball brain. As result he let out a slight grunt.
"You're awake"
Kouga turned to see Inuyasha sitting motionless in the window sill. His left leg hung down inside while his right rested in the sill itself, bent so that the knee was6 or 7 inches from his chest. He sat relaxed with Tetsusaiga wedged between the side of the sill next to his head and his right heel, his head almost rested against the sheathed blade. His face held almost nothing, no emotion, nothing.
Kouga did a combination of seething and wincing at a not so happy and very recent memory. Inuyasha noticed but did not make much of a reaction.
The tension lightened a little when the wolf finally collected himself and identified the scent of his rival in it's normal form. He looked him over to see that his eyes had returned to their normal white and the odd tattoos on his face were no longer there. His claws and fangs had returned to normal and the sickening smile was no where to be found. Kouga was far from comfortable, but seeing the normal Inuyasha helped unimaginably.
He struggled against the screaming in his body and the bandages that held him tight, and slowly made his way to a sitting position. He shut his eyes and just breathed, it was hard enough doing just that, Inuyasha watched him passively and let him do just that.
"What happened to you up there?" Kouga broke the silence, taking the opportunity that Inuyasha had obviously given him. His eyes still shut, he prepared himself to digest an answer.
"What are you talking about?"
Kouga grunted, lacking the energy to growl. His head was starting to ache, he really did not want to chase around for an answer, he got enough of that from the self-righteous tree. Eyes still shut, he spoke again.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about," he was getting agitated as he spoke, the anger definitely not helping his wounds. "what happened to you when we were fighting, what were you? What are you?"
Inuyasha didn't say a word, he and Kouga weren't exactly what one would call "friends", more like respecting rivals. Rivals, that's all they were, and rivals weren't required to give away their fighting secrets, right? Right.
Kouga began to fume internally, he even scraped together enough energy to turn his head and glare at the dog. He actually growled now.
Inuyasha simply looked back at him, the guilt slowly melting away.
"It was nothing you need to be concerned with."
Kouga's anger had peaked already and was beginning to die simply because he lacked the energy to keep it up.
"You almost killed me up there without hardly breaking a sweat and you say its nothing I need to be concerned with? You were faster than me, faster than me."
Inuyasha let out a cool...
"Feh"
The anger continued to dwindle.
"Anyway, are you going to try again when your better? The deal is still on the table."
Inuyasha hoped Kouga's memory of everything after the final strike was too fuzzy now for him to remember Inuyasha's confession that he couldn't really help him the way he promised. He wanted to see if Kouga had changed, it was one thing for him to not run at first during the fight, but to walk back openly, realizing there was no chance, was completely different. He wanted to know how far he was willing to go for this woman.
Inuyasha looked long into Kouga's eyes, for the first time so far showing the wolf some general interest.
Kouga knew what he was talking about, and he hadn't really thought about it. Most of the fight was a current blur, but he still knew that he had no chance fighting against the hanyou if he transformed again. He also didn't have a significant enough advantage to defeat the dog without giving him ample time to do whatever he needed to do to change again. So, would he do it? Could he do it? Did he want to? Its not easy placing one's own neck in the guillotine, and to Kouga, it felt like the same thing.
What would happen if he did? He would most likely end up right back here, by then Lilian would probably be recovered and well past gone. Ah, that's right...Lilian. His gaze dropped to her sleeping form, the scent of sleeping herbs hung lightly around her. She was beautiful, even now while she slept, especially now that she slept. He wanted to be able to get closer to her, in a sense it seemed as if he almost needed to, but she wanted no part of him and had to be almost begged to even speak to him.
She hated his kind for no other reason than she had to. That didn't bother him too much, he actually almost pitied her for it. The logic made sense, she had to kill so many youkai it seemed, that she might actually go insane if she felt for them. She wasn't a killing machine, that much he figured. But the worst thing was that she was really against youkai-human relationships...what could he do? Did he even have a reason to hope? A reason to try?
Kouga opened his mouth to speak an answer that he himself hadn't figured out. His gaze still on the lavender haired woman that seemed so close yet so distant. Before he could utter a word, a wave of heat surged through his body and his vision dulled a bit. With a slight groan he fell back, ending on his back on the bed that he had been using, thoroughly exhausted.
Inuyasha sighed to himself and turned back towards the town.
'I wonder what he would have said' the last part of the battle replayed in his head a number of times, and he began to wonder if maybe he had been a bit rough.
His thoughts were interrupted by the scent of a small bug youkai getting awfully close to the shikon shrine. Without a second thought he jumped out the window with Tetsusaiga in hand.
Inside the hut Kouga heard Inuyasha's footsteps get a bit further before they stopped. There was a swift cutting sound, then a frail and muffled cry. Within a few moments, Inuyasha returned and sat back in the windowsill, accompanied by a slight scent of blood. Wiping the blood off of his hand onto the sleeve of his cloak, he merely looked back out over the town.
Kouga's eyes began to droop and get heavy from the recent exertion, and slowly fell into a dreamless sleep.
Inuyasha looked over at the wolf, a new respect for him brewing within. The Kouga he used to know would never have even dreamed of coming back to fight him, no amount of pride would be able to convince him. He suppressed a chuckle over the change the wolf had undergone in oppose to how he used to be.
Without a word, he turned back to his watch, gazing into the sky and feeling the chilled breeze.
Author: Alright, now that that's finally done. It took me FOREVER to get the first 2 pages from my friend...then I just got excruciatingly lazy. Got bad writer's block though, but these chapters are just writing themselves now lol. I'm so bad, I have almost no idea what these charaters are gonna say or do for the next few days until I actually start writing. Lol. Anyway, I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I'll be gone all week, that means it will prolly be a few weeks before the next update.
Thinking of changing the name to "Taming the Human Heart" or something. Suggestions welcome, possible other names welcome also. Other than that, I dunno, should I use the next 2 or so chapters for character development or just skip them and go to the next important part of the story?
Last thing, do the characters seem OOC? I'm not sure because its been a while since I've seen an episode of Inuyasha.