4: Hate from the Wolf Demon Tribe
It was a morning like no other morning. I was wide awake and ready to go outside when I heard a rampage throughout the village. I listened carefully and heard the barks of wolves. "Wha? Wolves? I hate wolves..." I said a bit scared with a chill crawling up my back. Kaede was no where in sight. "Hello? Anyone here?"
I got up and went outside of the hut. "Huh? Ah!" I gasped when I saw a man with wolves pelts all over him and a suit of armor on his chest and he had a wolf tail on his butt. I blinked my eyes and then I hid a bit. Yet the person who had the wolf pelts quickly saw me and he jumped towards me. "Hey, who are you?" he asked me with a pleasant voice.
I looked up at him and my legs were shaking. "Huh?" he stepped back when he smelled me and he suddenly growled. "You're a cat demon!" he shouted at me while he pointed. I gasped and then I ran without thinking. The wolf demon growled and then as I ran, he jumped and he stopped me. "Hey, what is a cat demon doing here in Kaede's village?" he asked me.
I fell onto the ground and then I almost started to cry. "Leave me alone!" I told him and then he growled, "You're a cat... I don't like cats so I'll just have to kill you!" he said and then he almost striked me when someone stepped up for me. I opened my eyes and then I looked up.
"What are you doing, you stupid wolf? Why don't you go back to your stinkin' cave where you belong!" Inuyasha shouted at Koga. Koga grunted and then he said, "Stupid mutt-face! Get out of my way, there's a cat demon in front of you! Don't let her get away!" he barked.
Then I stepped a little to my back. Ginta and who ran up to Koga. "Koga! There's a cat demon in this villageuh?" Kinta stopped as he saw me. I looked at him with a frightened face, "Who are these wolf demons?" I said alarmed. InuYasha looked at Koga and then he said, "Get out of here, now or I'm going to have to fight you..." he growled. Koga sneered at InuYasha and said, "Bring it on anytime... stupid mutt..." he snarled.
Hakaku and Ginta were surprised. "What is InuYasha doing trying to protect that cat demon for?" Ginta asked. Koga gasped and then he stopped, "Yeah. That's right, why the hell are you protecting that cat demon?" he asked sternly. InuYasha made a face and then he glanced back at me, "Shut up, wolf... That's none of your business."
Koga blinked at InuYasha and then he said, "Where's Kagome?" he asked just to be sure. InuYasha made another face and said, "How should I know?"
"Cause you're always with her!" Koga aruged.
"Yeah, so what?"
"You like her don't you! You like her, don't you!" Koga said shocked.
"No, I don't. I don't Kagome anymore!" InuYasha frowned.
I frowned too and then I got up. "Excuse me..." I said to the wolf demon guys right next to me. "Eh?" Ginta and Hakaku pointed to themselves. "Us?" they remarked. "Yes. Of course." I said a bit irritated, and then they said, "Well what do you want?"
"Who is that?" I pointed to the man in all the wolf pelts. Hakaku and Ginta gasped, "That's our leader or the leader of the Wolf Demon Tribe, Koga! He and InuYasha are love rivals who are after the same woman, or Kagome. They fight a lot. Who are you?" they asked together.
I blushed and then I said, "I'm InuYasha's mate..." I whispered. "WHAT!" Ginta and Hakaku said with their hairs rising. Koga stopped and then he heard it all, "WHAT!" Koga said with a surprised face. He looked like he was about to die.
"Where the hell is Kagome!" he shouted back at InuYasha. InuYasha barked back, "I told you, I don't know!" "InuYasha, just who the hell is that girl!" he pointed at me. InuYasha frowned and flushed red. Koga put his finger down and he had a disappointed but shocked face, "You mean... You and...gulp her? A cat and a dog?" he said.
"YOU STUPID MUTT!" Koga yelled out of his mind. InuYasha put up a fist, "WHAT! YOU SHUT UP, YOU STUPID WOLF!" "Why the hell would you trade Kagome for her!" Koga shouted as he spread his hand out. Then InuYasha growled, "I didn't trade Kagome for her! Kagome dumped me!" InuYahsa said out loud.
Just as soon as InuYasha said that out loud, Sango, Shippo, Kirara, and Miroku came out into the clearing. Kagome came along too as she came out last. "Uh?" Sango asked. "Koga's here!" Shippo exclaimed. Miroku then also got curious, "What are they doing here?" he asked. Kagome stayed quiet and looked the other way, 'I know what they're doing here... They were coming to visit... me... I bet InuYasha told him already...' she thought sadly.
Koga gasped as he looked at Kagome. Then Koga rushed off and then InuYasha frowned, "I'm not done talking to YOU!" he shouted angrily. I sat on the floor and then I waited. "Hello Kagome." Koga held Kagome's hands, Kagome was nervous a bit and a little embarrassed.
"Hi Koga..." she chuckled with a second thought.
"Listen Kagome, I know you had a rough time, but what do you say that we get out of here and ditch these losers?" he asked her. Kagome dropped her head on this one.
"Hey! We're not losers, wolf!" Shippo said angry.
InuYasha snorted, "Leave it to her to end up with that dog of a wolf!"
Kagome held up a fist and then she said furiously, "SIT BOY!" she shouted angrily and then InuYasha fell on his face to the ground. "Sit?" I questioned as I was again curious. I blinked at InuYasha whose face was all dirty. InuYasha got up and sat up, "What did I do!" he questioned Kagome.
Kagome growled and then Koga tried to cut in. "Look Kagome, why don't weUh..." Koga looked frightened now. Kagome's hair was floating in the air and Kagome had an angry look on her face, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" she shouted and marched off angrily towards the woods. Sango gasped and then she said, "All that hard convincing.. Wait Kagome!" she and Kirara rushed off. Miroku and Shippo also wanted to go after their beloved friend.
"Wait, we're coming too!" Shippo ran off with Miroku following Sango.
"Hah. You've just also been dumped, you moron..." InuYasha sneered at Koga.
Koga growled and then he said, "Ah... I'll just get her another time..." he said and then he turned back to me. "Listen, you InuTrasha..." he made fun of InuYasha. "Scrawny wolf..." InuYasha backfired. Koga growled and then he said, "It's not that! Just who is that cat demon?" "If you're thinking she's from the Cat Demon Tribe, you're wrong, Koga." InuYasha explained.
I blinked my eyes, "Cat Demon... Tribe?" I said to myself.
Ginta and Hakaku looked down at me. "What's that?" I said and then they both were surprised. "What? You mean you don't even know of your own tribe?" they said with confusion. I looked at them, "My own tribe? What are you talking about?" I asked them as then they sighed and gave up. "Nothing..." they said to me.
InuYasha then shielded me, "See? She doesn't even remember!" he protested for me. Koga was surprised and disappointed, "YOU STUPID MUTT!" he barked out at him again. Then InuYasha growled, "Just go, Koga, you idiotic wolf!" Koga then put his fist up and then I said, "No!" I ran in front of them and then Koga gasped. "Get out of my way, you stupid cat..." he snarled and then InuYasha defended me, "Leave her alone!" InuYasha frowned at Koga.
Koga gasped and then he said, "You really do like her." He snarled and then InuYasha frowned as well. "Shut up, so what?" he asked him and then I said, "You really don't have to do this, InuYasha..." I told him and then he said, "I don't care, I want him to leave us alone, Natsumi." Koga stepped back and said, "Let's go boys, this stupid mutt doesn't care one more bit about Kagome..." Koga turned into a large tornado and quickly dashed away.
Ginta and Hakaku dashed with pant and they said, "See ya later, Natsumi!" they waved at me and I smiled just a bit, "At least they accept me..." I whispered. "Don't listen to that stupid wolf, Koga, Natsumi. He's just angry that I chased Kagome away." InuYasha told me. "Thank you for standing up for me..." I told him nervously.
Not knowing who was following Koga, Ginta and Hakaku were way behind. "Koga should at least a bit of a break, not Ginta, don't you think?" Hakaku panted on his way. The two demons stopped, "We'll catch up with them a little bit later, right now, let's rest." Then Ginta threw his head down and sat down on a rock. Hakaku just stood up, listening. "Hey, Hakaku, aren't you gonna sit down?" Ginta asked him and then Hakaku shhed him. "Listen!" Hakaku whispered.
The woods made a slight sound, the wind rustled the trees. Suddenly there was a blade hook coming out of nowhere. "Watch it!" Hakaku pushed Ginta out of the way and then they turned upward looking at Kohaku. Ginta was bleeding on his arm and he groaned out, "It's that kid!"
Koga stopped and heard birds fly away. "What?" he gasped and saw a figure come in front of him.
"Kagura! You witch, what are you doing here?" "I'm here to ask you some questions, Koga..." she smiled and then she had her fan in her sash which was a good thing. But then she pulled it out when the wolves around her growled at her, "Shut up!" Kagura blew her fan at them all and they all fell to the ground, unconscious. "Stupid mutts..." she whispered with a frown. "What do you want from me?" Koga snarled ready to fight.
"I said, I'm here to ask you some questions, about that cat girl. With InuYasha." Kagura brushed her hair away. "What do you know about her?"
Koga didn't know what to do. He paused and said, "I know nothing about her..." he told Kagura. Kagura knew it was a lie, she went onto plan B. "Then why were you talking to InuYasha very angrily? And why were you pointing to her each minute?" she asked with her fan still in her sash. She was ready to get it out anytime he attacked.
"Argh... If you want to know so much, go meet her!" Koga snarled viciously. "Fine. Be that way, but let me warn you, your two wolf demon buddies are about to be torn apart from my apprentice, Kohaku." Koga gasped slightly. "Was that a gasp of alarm, that I just heard from you now, Koga?" Kagura chuckled evilly and then Koga looked back at her and then back to the woods. "I've got no time to fight you, Kagura!" Koga growled and dashed away.
"Oh no you don't... If you haven't answered my question, I won't leave you alone..." Kagura took out her fan and then she took out her feather from her hair, she jumped on her feather and went high up in the air. She chuckled and smiled. "Damn that witch!" Koga tried running faster until Kagura shouted, "Dance of Blades!" she waved her fan once to her right.
Koga gasped and got out of the way, "No you don't! Dance of the Dragon!" she shouted and then a tornado started brewing up. It consumed Koga and in the woods, Ginta and Hakaku were trapped. "Don't let that little kid hit you with his little toy!" Ginta shouted as his wound still bleeded and then Kohaku's eyes turned to Hakaku, Kohaku aimed for him and threw it. Kohaku slightly missed but pierced into Hakaku's skin just a bit.
Hakaku's arm bleeded, "Ah!" he shouted and fell to the ground. "Hakaku!" Ginta called out to his friend. "No, get away, Hakaku, there's someone else who's here! Get away!" Ginta looked around and saw a little girl. "It's that creepy girl, Kanna!" Kanna glanced down at Ginta and held up her mirror, "Give me your soul..." Kanna said and then Ginta dashed away. Kanna missed him.
Kagura laughed with evil bliss. "Tell me now about that cat demon and her link to InuYasha and I will release you!" Koga was still in the tornado as many blades of wind pierced his skin and blood dripped out of every cut. He was severely in danger. "N-no!" Koga sputtered out with a groan.
Kagura snorted and said, "Then I'll make it even twice as painful!" Kagura held up her fan but then a sacred arrow flew by. It missed by a centimeter. "No you won't! Let go of Koga, Kagura!" Kagome said angrily. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo was with her. "Hmph, it's just you. Where's InuYasha, wench?" Kagura sneered.
"I think I've got the idea now... InuYasha is in love with that cat demon, isn't he!" Kagura's eyes widened a bit. She was a bit surprised and she was a bit disappointed, "I thought he would never do this, but I'm surely wrong!" Kagura chuckled with her hand on her hip. "Shut up, this has nothing to do with you!" Kagome was enraged and she put full power in her next arrow, Kagura sensed the rage and then she panicked.
She released her wind attack on Koga and Koga fell to the ground, badly wounded. "Koga!" Kagome let go of her arrow and then she rushed over to him, "Kago-me..." Koga smiled.
"I will return again, I will find out." Kagura told them. Then she went found Kohaku already outside of the woods with Kanna, Kagura went over to pick them up. Kohaku's blade was covered in blood splatter and soon, the three servants were long gone. Sango gasped and whispered, "What did he do?" Her eyes widened and then she quickly dashed into the woods to see. Miroku went after her and so did Shippo. "Wait, Sango! What's the rush!" Miroku called after her.
"Wait for me!" Shippo ran.
"That's... right. Ginta and Hakaku were still in the woods!" The wolves woke up and smelled the blood. "Go see what happened to Ginta and Hakaku!" Koga ordered and his wolves quickly went into the woods. Kagome helped Koga up, he was bloody, but Kagome didn't care. Kagome helped him up and Koga smiled and blushed, "Thank you, Kagome."
"No problem, the real problem is that you're hurt and who knows what happened to your two friends! Come on, let's go and don't rush." Kagome told him, "That'll only make the bleeding worser..." Koga grunted with pain and Kagome sighed.
In the woods, Ginta and Hakaku were on the ground and they passed out. Ginta's leg was wounded with a gash the length of a hand and that other wound from Kohaku and Hakaku had cuts on his arms and that large cut from Kohaku's blade. Hakaku was the worst. He also had cuts on his chin and his right palm of his hand.
Hakaku groaned when he felt the presence of someone else there with him. "Who?" Hakaku asked as he slowly got up but groaned in pain. "It's okay, we're here." Sango told him, and she thought, 'Kohaku... Why did you do this?' "Kagome's coming, you'll be fine when she heals you with her medicine box kit." Miroku told them. Ginta had just woken up, "What happened? Ah!" he felt the stinge of his wound. "Calm down and don't get up, or the pain will get worse!" Shippo quickly got in as he was beside Ginta.
"Where's Koga?" the two wolf demons asked the gang. "He's with Kagome right now, they're coming when Kagome's able to bring him here. What happened to you two?" Sango asked them both. They both grunted and said, "Naraku's two servants attacked us. That little creepy girl, Kanna, and that boy who's human!" Sango gasped a bit but she urged them on to continue.
Ginta had his head down but you could see still see his eyes in the view. "We were way behind as Koga was speeding away fast once again, and then, that human boy just popped out of nowhere and attacked us both. I managed to get Hakaku out of the way, but I got slashed by that kid's blade. After that, we started running away but the kid was always chasing us. Then after a few moments later, Kanna was in the mess as well!"
"So you're saying that Kohaku and Kanna trapped you?" Miroku asked, "Maybe it was a trap to lure you two in." Koga and Kagome suddenly came in. "That stupid wretch Kagura asked me who that cat demon is, I suppose that Naraku wants to know about her and InuYasha." Kagome was a bit angry at that and then she decided to drop it.
"You're here!" Shippo exclaimed. "What happened, Koga?" Hakaku asked, "What happened to you two?" Koga chuckled, "I was attacked by Kagura. She just came out of nowhere and asked me that question, 'Who was that girl with InuYasha?'" The gang sighedShippo, Miroku, Shippo, Koga blinked his eyes. "Could you guys mind explaining what's up with that dog?"
Kagome dropped Koga and smiled at her friends, "I'm going to go for a walk, ok?" she asked. Then her face turned to sour balls of gum. She went stomping off in the woods. Koga was on the ground moaning, "What did I say?" he asked and Ginta and Hakaku frowned and sighed.
Kagome had left the first aid box with the gang to settle down on the ground to heal the wolf demons' wounds. But Sango and Shippo, neither was Miroku doing a good job. "This is a job for Kagome, not me." Shippo complained and Hakaku was his victim, Hakaku jumped a again. "Ow! What's that?" he asked as he glimpsed down at his wound. Shippo blinked at the bottle of alchohol. "I dunno. This is what Kagome uses sometimes..." "Sometimes? It's stings!" Hakaku cried.
"Oh shut up, you whiny baby..." Shippo muttered and then he wrapped the bandage around his arm.
"So, you're saying that Kagome left InuYasha for another guy?" Koga blinked his eyes and then he had a worried look on his face. 'Who the hell is the other guy!' Koga said alarmed and angry. "Some boy I've never seen before. But Kagome says he's real sweet and cute, unlike InuYasha. Now, hold still." Sango sprayed the stuff that doesn't allow germs to get on blood cuts and other gashes.
Koga stiffled his groan a bit. "...And InuYasha's with that girl because..." Koga continued on. Sango blinked at the ground and thought, 'Because she's a half-breed like InuYasha, she has a lot in common with him, she's been through many tough times in her life like him, and she's a girl who feels left out and doesn't belong in the world. Yep, that covers it,' she thought and stared back up at him. "Many things, I can't explain." Sango smiled nervously.
"Oh..." Koga frowned. "Why would InuYasha also leave Kagome alone? Doesn't he love Kagome?" "Like I said, 'Many things I can't explain.' It's not that simple. Maybe InuYasha just got bored of Kagome..." Sango whispered. "Sango... That's not really nice." "Oh and I suppose you have a better reason, Monk?" Sango narrowed her eyes at Miroku.
"Not one!" Miroku said and got back to Ginta.
"Maybe it's just that InuYasha wants Kagome to be safe, since that boy she likes is in her era! It makes complete sense that InuYasha could have a reason. Or maybe it could have been that InuYasha wasn't meant for Kagome. That cat demon sure does love InuYasha and InuYasha does love her too." Shippo kept putting some more alchohol on Hakaku, who's wounds were burning in pain.
"AH!" Hakaku shouted.
"I didn't anything and what did I tell you about moving!" Shippo frowned.
Sango and Miroku thought, 'Maybe Shippo's right. InuYasha could've found his true love...'
I was jumping away from InuYasha, giggling. We were playing a game, Tag. I laughed with happiness, "You can't catch me!" I shouted back to him but I didn't see him. "Huh?" "Caught ya..." InuYasha grinned, I gasped and smiled. "Yeah... You did." InuYasha looked down at me with a sympathetic look on his face and he leaned in foward and kissed me.
I smiled and pondered wonderfully, 'I never want this to end...'
