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Kat: The first part of the story was how Ayame's doing, so this part is going to be about Kouga and such.

Kagome had left, leaving Kouga alone with no one to chase after, he wasn't acting the same as usual, but was still somewhat the same way as before he had realized he was in love with the wrong girl. Kouga had run into InuYasha and everyone several times, but he didn't fight with the dog anymore; there was no reason to fight these days because Kagome had left. The demon looked as he had before everything seemed to pile in on him, before he realized he loved Ayame, and before Kagome left, he took care of himself, hoping one day either of them would come back, but that was just a silly wish. He knew neither of them would return, why did he keep hoping for it and keep looking outside his den and his tribe's territory in case they came? No matter what he never wanted to know that he might never see them again.

It had been nearly a month since hearing the news that InuYasha was no longer traveling with Kagome, and he sought out to find her, thinking she still remained in the feudal era. He searched high and low, across the entire countryside to find that she wasn't there, and had left, to where he didn't know, but she wasn't coming back.

Sighing deeply, the wolf demon walked through the waterfall entrance to the cave and stopped in the mouth of it, looking around for Ginta and Hakaku, who were sitting some distance away chatting with the other tribe members. 'Ginta, Hakaku,' Kouga began, somewhat bored with his speech already, 'we're going up to the mountains for a while.' At the moment, he didn't feel like explaining, so he just said that, not going into detail as to why, but just saying they were going for a hunt, whatever excuse he came up with, he used.

Ginta and Hakaku stood up, putting a hand to their forehead, saluting their leader as they walked up to the front of the cave, following the raven-haired male out of the cave and onto the path leading from their territory. 'Why are we going up to the mountains?' the ashen-haired companion asked, quirking a brow that would have disappeared into his hairline if it wasn't in a Mohawk. As Kouga began to talk, Hakaku interrupted him, 'We know what you said in there wasn't true.'

Kouga stopped and looked over towards both of his companions, ignoring how the wind pushed his ponytail into his air, tempting him to take a swipe at the air. 'And how do you know that?' he asked, snarling somewhat as he spoke, his voice deep and his eyes narrowing. He laughed a little at their reactions and began walking once again, motioning with his hand for them to follow and ignore how he acted only moments before. 'We're going to find Ayame,' he said, seriously this time, 'I need to tell her something.' This time he wouldn't explain what he needed to tell her, or what he wanted to tell her, just left the two wolf demons standing, er, walking rather confused.

(Flashback)

It was the middle of the night and the moon shined down on the barren path that one person, well, he was a demon, was walking, his ocean blue eyes watching the bits of dirt drift up several inches into the air before falling back down to the ground every time his wrapped feet hit the ground. A small smile played across his lips, though it was soon diminished as he lifted his head and glanced up at the sky, sighing deeply at what he saw. The moon had a rainbow dancing across it, shining in the pale light the moon gave off, reminding the demon of the promise he had made years before.

The raven-haired boy clad in brown fur growled lowly to himself, slashing at the air in front of him, as it angry with something it had done to him as he quickened his pace to almost a jog, hoping to get the memory out of his head. 'Ayame...' he said quietly to himself as he slowed down once more, coming to a stop before his territory, 'I'm sorry...' Looking up quickly, Kouga let his gaze rake through the area, hoping no one was around to listen to him apologize to someone who wasn't anywhere near him.

Kouga lifted his feet and finished his walk to the den of his tribe and walked in, ignoring the water roughly pouring down on him and the pain he felt as it stung his face. Walking to the back, he sat down on the bit of brush that he had gathered and crossed his legs, the brown fur wrapping around his waist falling into his lap, his tail twitching somewhat annoyed. How in the world was he going to get up to the mountains? No matter what he had to do, he would, seeing the rainbow moon just drove him to find a way even more.

(/End Flashback)

Ginta looked at Kouga, who seemed to have drifted off to another world and quirked a brow, shaking his head as they started towards the mountains. The wind blew through Ginta's white and black hair, ruffling it a little, though he gave no notice, as it was always ruffled like this. 'Do you know exactly where her tribe is?' he asked, picking his pace up a little as he caught up with him, now walking on his right side, Hakaku on his left. As Kouga shook his head, Ginta and Hakaku both sighed deeply, rolling their eyes at the ground.

'If I find her scent I'll know or the scent of one of her wolves or demons from her tribe,' he said and sniffed the air, sighing as he caught nothing but his own kind. 'We just need to go up the mountain to where I first met her,' he said simply, shrugging his fur clad shoulders lightly.

'And that would be...?' Hakaku said, looking over at Kouga, who looked at him, smiling nervously as he bit his lower lip. 'Let me guess,' he mumbled, 'you forgot? Come on, Kouga, you only proposed to her after you saved her, how could you forget that?!'

Kouga looked rather taken aback by Hakaku's comment on his proposal, 'How did you find out about that?!' He was baffled, he hadn't told Ginta or Hakaku about it, but maybe they had been near when Ayame mentioned it? Sighing deeply, the young demon tribe leader dismissed the question and kept walking, ignoring the answer he got from Hakaku. If what his companion had said was actually the answer, Kouga didn't know, he had gone back into his thoughts.