Chapter seven: Returning Affection

I am glad that I have so many readers and the fact that they stick around. A special Thanx to Kogasgirl142, miniri02, Animegirl0519, Pointy Objects, and Kaori-of-the-Yokia-Wolf-Tribe, for they have been supporting me since chapter one. Thank you. I wouldn't have gotten this far without my fans. Kansaki tama, Chi Lee, and kougagurllover123, I hope they are still reading. Ok onto chapter 7.

Recap:

"Your wrong!" He stated, denying it. Kouga ran off, away from the truth. Afraid to admit it and afraid that it was the truth, "Kouga, Prince of Wolves! YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM THE TRUTH FOREVER!" Kikyo yelled to the racing wolf.

Kouga ran. The objective that once was his only thought was no on the side of his thoughts. Wait! I gotta find Kagome . . . The lost objective returned to his center. Kagome was to be found.

"Hmmm, you're stronger than I thought . . . " Annoyance was in Naraku's tone. "Torturing hasn't gotten a thing outta ya!" She grinned widely as she watched his form pace the room. Her wrist suspended her body, which iron welled shackles held tightly. "What are you smiling at, Wench!" He snarled in her face.

"Oh, nothing!" She flashed him a smirk. "Tell me now!" He put a radiantly glowing blade right on her windpipe. It stained part of her chin with the fresh blood it had upon it.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you . . . " She stated confidently, nudging the blade with her chin. "Wench!" He cut her cheek with the blade of the blood stained sword. The blood came coursing off her cheek, trickling on the granite fortress's floor.

She grinned even more so as she heard the crimson liquid splat upon the granite floor. "Great!" Naraku questioned the over excitement in her tone. "You Idiot! You just made it that much easier!" She chuckled.

He embedded his demon claws in the tender flesh of her neck in an attempt to remove the distasteful grin from her lips' features. "What do you mean!" He asked, the blood flowing from the places where his claws where embedded.

Just as she was going tell him, her half-naked Prince in blue Jeans came crashing through the fortress' wall. "That's why!" She headbutted Naraku as the arrival of the prince distracted him. He scowled at the bruise, now appearing on his forehead. "SON OF A BITCH!" Naraku cussed as Kouga shoulder tackled him into the wall. Naraku disappeared after Kouga had slammed him upon the wall.

The wolf Prince ran to Kagome. Although she hid it, when Naraku had put that blade up to her windpipe she felt as if she were going to faint but did not. She didn't know if Kouga would really come in time and this was to be her last day on this beautiful Earth, luckily Kouga came just in time.

Kouga released her from her chained prison. She fell into his open arms. The wolf Prince looked to her. Her body was shacking from head to toe. Bra? Her shirt was missing, leaving her bra out in the open. Scars lined her torso and other parts of her upper body. Most of the scratches were between her bra-line and her navelabout two on her collarbone, and six to eight on her biceps and forearms. Her shirtless torso showed the scars that the shackles had caused chafing against her delicate wrist. He took the time to run his nimble fingers over every cut and scratch. She wanted to run but when she wanted to give in to her desire. With her heart's desires and brain's want to run from every guy that was making her feel nervous entwined. She stood still while his hand and fingers touched every injury to her body, new or old. Focusing on newest scars upon her face, the cut cause by Naraku's blade and the other four clawmarks created by his demon claws.

Behind his head she placed her still shackled hands and looked to him, the unwanted tears pouring from her tormented eyes. "Kagome!" She dropped upon her knees, pulling him down with her heavy iron shackles.

"Oh, Kouga!" Her breath was harsh and uneasy. "I... I was never. So. Scared!" The staggering words left her trembling lips. "Shhh, I am here." He wiped the coursing tears from her features, placing his index finger and middle finger over her trembling lips."I'm here my love. . . ."

My love? The words didn't make her stomach churn as the words usual made her stomach do. The words stopped the overbearing tears. Yes my love . . . She closed her stinging eyes.

"My love. . . ."

"Huh?" Her comment surprised him. She opened her toffee eyes, inflamed from the bombardment of tears. They shone like the morning sun. The prince backed away from her approaching form. She had never said that she loved him, she always refused it and suddenly now she accepted it.

"My love," She repeated herself, placing her hand on his shoulders gingerly. She collapsed into his bare chest. His shaky hands embraced her body tight to his. Kagome's lips graced Kouga's. His arms embraced her body tightly. The Miko pushed him onto his back.

This time reminded her of the times before but this time she felt completely in control of her body. No more mistakes . . . The words comforted her. No more mistake.

She nuzzled the crook of his neck, kissing it here and there. He didn't understand it. "No more mistakes!" Her thoughts escaped. Kouga instantly understood. No more mistakes . . . Before when she had stated, she told him it was all a mistake. No more mistakes . . . He allowed her to lead this passionate encounter. She could blame him for nothing. His tongue lapped her lips, tasting her heavenly taste as much as he could before she could push him away. Her scent was enchanting, passionate. In times before her scent was restricted and apprehensive, now it was pure passion. Pure. He didn't want her to push him away but it would happen eventually. Kagome felt his hands grasp her bra strap, trying to set it unlocked.

She instantly pushed herself away. She rubbed her back, making sure that the strap was still holding tight, it was. What bewildered neither of them was what had just taken place. Both were completely in the right state of mind. "Kagome?" Kouga's words broke the silence between them. "Huh?" She replied, hunting for any sight of her lost shirt. "Can you walk by yourself?" He hauled her up by her wrist. "Yes," The silent words entered his ears as she continued to walk out of the fortress without him.

Neither the wolf Prince nor the futurist Miko said a word, only the sound of their pacing breath and the natural noise of the forest. Kagome covered her almost naked chest, attempting to conceal it. It was no use. Kouga looked to her. "Pure is unpure, unpure is pure, to die is to live, to live is to die." He mumbled the words that the dead Miko had stated in their encounter. "To love is to hate, to hate is to love . . . " He still didn't understand it completely. Lovers one day, enemies the next, the Miko's words circulated his mind, not allowing him to forget of their encounter.

"..." Kagome had heard these words before, yes. The dead Miko had spoken those words. How does Kouga know them? "Kouga can you say that again?" She asked the dazed wolf Prince.

"Pure is unpure, unpure is pure, to die is to live, to live is to die . . . " He pause, still trying to grasp the notion of the sentences. "To love is to hate, to hate is to love. . . ."

Yes, the same words that Kikyo had said before, "Where did you hear those words?" ,She questioned his discovery of the dead Miko's exact words. "..." He paused, afraid that he'd provoke her tears.

"Kikyo said them in our encounter earlier." A surge of anger was tempting to be released, even so of that she kept herself calm. She didn't know that Kouga had tried to find her. It was probably a mistake: yes, just a mistake.

"I'm sorry . . . " He apologized before Kagome could say anything. "Sorry?" She questioned his apology.

"Why should you be sorry? It's not like you meant to do it, right?" He could sense her rising anger levels.

"No, it didn't mean to meet with her. I didn't want to make you feel bad . . . ". He cares? "Kouga it's fine." She didn't want to make him feel sorry for a mistaken encounter. "Since you didn't kiss her or something of that sort . . . " The slightest amount of anger in her tone. She walked toward him. He gulped as a reaction. "Because," The prince looked to her lips, growing ever close to his own. "That's my job now . . . " Kagome caught his lips with hers. She kissed him deeply. She met the limit of kissing intimacy without going any farther, She had now reached with such a kiss. His arms swung around her hips. She cupped his cheek with her free hand, the other swung around his muscular neck.

" Remember, that's my job now!" She told him after they had dispatched. "..." He stood, mouth agape as he watched his lover skip along ahead of him, laughing joyfully. "Hey wait up!" The prince ran after his running lover, playing a game of chase and kiss he had just invented. Kouga tackled her to the ground, roughly but affectionately at the same time. And as the winner of this newly invented game he won the ultimate prize, the affection of his mate. Her tender lips brushed against his. "Catch me if you can!" She ran away from his like a helpless rabbit running from a wolf. "Don't worry I will!"

Kouga chased her right into her companions arms. Kagome saw her friends awkward gazes as Kouga managed to grab her around the waist. "... Kagome..." Inuyasha turned as the futurist miko entered his vision.

Soon the delight of his companion was substituted by the visual of that fleabag of a demon having his arms around her. Just as the word to begin an argument was to be spoken, Inuyasha the usually easily tempered hanyou remained silent. "Hi Kagome..." He said to his beloved in a sheepish tone. Not a sigh of anger in his tone. "Hi yourself..." Kagome slipped out of her lover's arms. They stood face to face, neither spoke, both tongue tied by the encounter. Inuyasha sent a death glare to their intensely watching comrades, telling them that an argument was about to begin. They agreed and left to area to tend to other matters.

"Kagome, come on!" He commanded the at halt Kagome. "Lets get going!" He commanded her once more. "I'm not going!" She protested against Inuyasha's command. "Kagome I know you're mad at me, but please don't do this to get back at me!" He begged his objecting companion. "What do you think this is!" The tone in which she spoke was one of anger. " Do you think this is just some plot to get you jealous?" She asked the now infuriated hanyou.

"Isn't!" Inuyasha stood his ground against her. "If it isn't than I dare you to kiss your so called 'lover' on the lips!" He dared her to a task. Kagome looked to him bewildered, she was about to burst out in laughs. "Oh come on, You can think of something harder..." Inuyasha watched as Kagome passionately kiss her prince upon his tender lips. "..." He was tongue tied by the situation. "But... but..." The words left his shuddering lips. "But... I though you loved me!" He yelled.

"Now you know how I felt when I saw you with Kikyo!" Kagome turned away from the disbelieving hanyou. "Kagome Please! Don't do this to me!" He begged of her, he dropped to his knees in disbelieve. "PLEASE!" He pleaded the miko, the burning tears escaped form his golden, anguish filled eyes. "It's to late..." Kagome turned her back on the forsaken hanyou.

I'm sorry Inuyasha... A feeling a guilt met her conscience. I'm sorry... but it's to late... wait was Inuyasha crying? Kagome peeked over her shoulder, looking over to the forsaken hanyou. The visible tears coursing stinging eyes. I'm sorry... She told herself, attempting to make herself feel better. No use. "I never wanted to hurt you." Kouga noticed her silenced tone. Tonight was the decider... I love... I love...

Ok that's the end... It seems that no one accepted my gift of an extra chapter, I guess that no one wants one, and thought that you guys like my story. Oh well! Okay even so I still have to thank those who reviewed, it seems that I have some new readers. Don't worry about the gift, if you want an extra chapter just give me ur idea and I'll put it in. If urs in the best idea that is.

KaNaGi: I'm glad you like it...

XDareXDevilX: Okay I will keep going.

Kogasgirl142: I hate kikyo too... but I needed a chapter filler. Glad someone see's it my way

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Kagome'sandSango'sbestfriend: I read ur fanfiction, did I inspire u to write that? Anyways I was a bit confuse by it, try a bit more information and crap like that. Also about ur question: did you read chapter 2: That's what is stated in that chapter, I promise you it there. Kc's honor. But you must not forget that humanness can only go so far on a idiot like Inuyasha. Thanx for ur review