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A/N: YAY! I gotsix reviews for the second chapter! I want to take a minute to thank those wonderful people!

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Menolly Harper: Arigatou! I'm glad to see someone show me what my errors are. It will help me pay more attention to what I'm doing. I'm so glad that a writer of your talent is pleased with my work! I know, naughty Kouga! eh? Lol. Thanks again for you review! I hope that you enjoy this chap.

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Arigatou everyone, for the wonderful reviews! I could just hug you to death! Keep R&R for me! Anyways, on with chapter three!

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Chapter 3: Shocked awakening

Kagome awoke the next morning with a brutal headache. She quickly forgot about the headache when she noticed that she was in a cave.

'Where am I?...and what am I laying in?...' She thought as she squinted, trying to see in the dark cave. She froze when she finally realized that she was nearly naked and someone had their arms wrapped around her waist.

'What tha!...where am I? Oh Kami! Where is Inuyasha!...' Her thoughts died immediatley as she thought of the Hanyou.

All of the memories of what had happened the day before came flooding back into her brain like a sudden down-pour. She let a tear roll down her pale face, remembering the things that had taken place.

'I was crying in the rain...I tried to get up and fell...wait a second...someone caught me before I fell to the ground! Before I fainted!...' Her mind started going crazy with thoughts.

She tried to calm herself and get her thoughts together.'ok...now let's think...if I'm in a cave and I'm laying in what feels like fur then...' then suddenly, the name of her captor popped in her head. 'Kouga' she thought to herself feeling relieved and embarassed all at once.

That brought her back to the situation at hand. She was laying in Kouga's bed, in his arms, and almost naked!

Her thoughts stopped dead in their tracks when she felt the man holding her begin to stir. "Kagome...are you awake?" asked Kouga quietly while taking his arms from around her waist and sitting up.

Then he felt her answer instead of hearing it. :SMACK:

Kagome slapped him right in the face and moved a few feet away from him, pulling a fur from the bed to cover her body.

"How dare you Kouga! You find me when I'm weak so you just decide to take advantage of me! You want a little piece of me too Kouga! Is that it?" She screamed getting teary eyed. "Honestly Kouga, I never thought of you as such a brute but I guess I was wrong as usual!" She said while crying into her hands.

'Oh great! Now she thinks that I tried to take advantage of her!...wait, what does she mean by do I want a piece of her too?...what did Inuyasha do to her?' Kouga thought fearfully.

"Kagome please, it's not what you think!" Kouga said standing up in all of his nude glory. Kagome looked up and gasped. With some light from the morning sun now shining into the cave she could see perfectly clear and what she saw was a handsome, naked wolf prince standing in front of her.

'Oh shit!...' Kouga thought blushing profusely and sitting back down to put a fur over him.

"It's not what I think! Oh that's original!" Kagome screamed with a crimson red blush on her face. "Kouga, we are both naked laying in your bed, with your arms around me! What am I supposed to think!" she screamed again, louder this time.

'I can't believe what I just saw! He's completly naked! Why can't I refuse the urge to want to see it again!...' She thought to herself, blushing another shade of red.

"Kagome..." She looked up to the hurt expression on his face and had to turn away from him.

"How could you think that I would do such a thing without your consent? I have told you countless times that I love you and you always stay with that mutt...Inuyasha. The only reason that you and I are naked is because yesterday when I brought you back we were both soked from the rain...I couldn't let you catch cold so I layed with you to give you warmth. That's it." Kouga said sadly, letting his gaze fall to the floor to hide his saddened expression.

He stared down at the floor with his head resting on his hands for a moment before he heard Kagome crying. It truely saddened him to hear her cry...he hated the sorrowful smell of her tears.

And yet again, without thinking, he crawled over to the other side of the bed of furs where the girl that he cared for sat, pouring her heart out, yet again for that mutt no less.

Kagome was lost again in her tears. She hated this. She didn't want anyone to feel pity for her but, here she was, crying in front of the man whom had claimed many times to love her. She had hurt his feelings and was already feeling the waves of guilt.

All that she wished for was for the pain to go away. She sat there for a moment with her face in her hands while she cried, and was shocked when she felt warm arms wrap around her fragile body.

It was Kouga. Trying to comfort her, yet again. She let herself sink into his embrace and let him pull her head into his chest to cradle her.

She just lay there, her head leaning into his chest, relishing in the warm embrace that she had been longing for, for so long. She just lay there, crying into him.

He was shocked to say the least, when she looked up to him with teary eyes and wrapped her frail arms around him in a loving hug.

He hugged her back, enjoying every second of it. He loved the fact that he was the one here to comfort her when she needed it most. To heal her wounded heart and soul.

"Kagome...do you want to talk about it? I'll listen to anything that you have to say...you know that right?" He asked while he had his chin atop her head.

Kagome smiled for the first time in days. He really did love her didn't he? He had rescued her from the storm and was now comforting her.

She broke the embrace and looked up at him. She smiled at him, revealing the Kagome that once was.

Kouga was astounded by her smile. This is what he wanted to see. She was so beautiful when she smiled. He suddenly started wiping the tears away from her eyes and off of her face.

"Kouga..." started Kagome quietly. "What is it Kagome?" asked Kouga smiling at her.

"Thank you for saving me...and I'm sorry for hitting you." She said, gently touching the red hand print that she had created on his elegant face.

Kouga shivered at her touch. She was so gentle and yet, could be so strong. He thought back to the first time they had met, when he had kidnapped her. She had helped him and his clan even though he had taken her from her friends, and helped him in defeating the bird's of paradise.

"And to answer your question, I don't really think that we should talk about it right now Kouga..." Said Kagome letting yet another tear roll down her cheek as she looked up to him.

"Ok Kagome.Whenever you want to just let me know. I'm always here for you and always have been. Just promise me that your ok." Said Kouga saddened by a lone tear that he saw falling from one of her beautiful blue eyes. He quickly wiped it away with his hand.

He brought her back into another warm embrace, trying to show her thay he was worried and concerned.

She returned the hug and frowned. She suddenly felt the thoughts of her friends and of her once beloved Inuyasha, come to her mind. She tried her best to force the thoughts aside, as not to worry Kouga further.

Kouga slowly pulled away from her. He stared at her for a moment, eyeing her.

"Sooooo...should we get dressed and go eat some breakfast?" He asked grinning, knowing that Kagome would soon blush ten different shades of crimson to one part of his question.

And just as Kouga predicted, Kagome began blushing and pulled a fur up over her body once again. She continued to blush as she noticed that Kouga was sitting beside her, completly nude.

He smirked inwardly and wrapped a fur around his well toned body. He then slowly stood up on his feet, offering Kagome a hand.

She shyly took it while blushing at what she had seen.'He is so adorable...' She thought as she was pulled off of the bed by a strong hand.

She couldn't help but feel guilty for thinking such thoughts about the wolf prince. Inuyasha always found a way to pop into her head.' What am I thinking? I have to get over that jerk and I will. Kouga is so good to me. I shouldn't feel guilty at all about thinking of him like this...' She stated in her mind.

As she stood on her feet she felt the weakness come in a flood. Kouga noticed this and wrapped an arm around her waist.

"Still weak? Don't worry Kagome, I'll help you around until you get all of your strength back. And I'm sure that Ginta and Hakakku will be very happy to see you awake. They talk about you all the time..."Said Kouga smiling at her while helping her weak body stand.

"They do?..." Asked Kagome curiously. "Yeah. Everyone in the pack does. They always ask me if we can take a day to search for you, just so they can see their sister. They really do miss you when your gone Kagome, and so do I..."

Kouga's statement went straight to her heart. Kouga and the whole pack missed her when she was gone? This made her feel very happy. Someone actually missed her? She started to feel the ice around her frozen heart begin to melt as she thought on Kouga's words.

"Ok Kagome, are you ready to get dressed now? I'll have to let you wear a wolf fur outfit until we can go to a stream and wash the mud off of your clothes" said Kouga handing her an outfit made of white wolf fur.

"Wow, this is really beautiful Kouga. Where did you get white fur?" Asked Kagome curiously.

"It was my mother's" Kouga replied with a smile.

"Wow it was your mother's? She must have been really beautiful...are you sure that I should wear this?" She asked looking down at the fur in her hands.

Kouga put a hand under her chin and lifted her face to look at him. "Absolutely"

"Now, can you stand on your own?" Asked Kouga making sure before letting her go. "Yeah, I think I can now that I've been standing for a while..."

Kouga slowly let her go and was pleased when she could stand without her legs shaking. "Ok, I'll go over to the other end of the cave and get dressed while you stay here and dress, ok?" Said Kouga pointing to the other end of the cave.

"Ok" Said Kagome as she nuzzled the soft white fur in her arms. She watched as Kouga picked his clothes up off of the floor and walk to the other end.

She began dressing herself in the beautiful and rare white fur. She was a little uncomftorable at the fact that the top covered only her chest and the bottom was way above her knees, leaving her well toned stomach and lean legs exposed.

"Well, at least all of that running had a plus side to it..." She said looking down at her stomach and legs.

"It did indeed..." Said Kouga, as he walked up to her. "You look beautiful in white Kagome..."

This made Kagome blush. She had never worn anything in public this...revealing. "Are you sure that I should wear this Kouga? It doesn't really cover very much..." Kagome asked as she looked down at herself.

"Are you kidding? With a body like yours why wouldn't you want to wear it" Kouga said smirking. "Kouga!" yelled Kagome while she blushed.

"Ok, I'm sorry. Now let's go get some breakfast and greet the other's. You will need to eat to get your strength back and everyone will be pleased to see you well..."Said Kouga while smiling at her, exposing his pearly white fangs.

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Gggggggggggrrrrrrrrr... I hated that chapter! I don't know why but I just don't think that it came out right. Well, please R&R to let me know what you think. I know that this chapter might have stunk,but I promise that this story will get good.

Love, Miakoda