Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha! How many times am I going to have to say that! It kills me a little more every time! SOBS

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kogasgirl142: Yeah, he is a hentai, but sooooo sexy! LOL. Arigatou for the review!

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Arigatou again everyone, for the amazingly awesome reviews! Keep it up! I love you all! Now on with chapter four!

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Chapter 4: My hearts empty space

As the two walked out of the cave, they were greeted by two, very happy wolves. "Kouga! Sister Kagome! Your finally awake!" Yelled Hakakku and Ginta happily, while running up to Kagome and Kouga.

"Hey, Hakakku and Ginta! How have you guys been?" Asked Kagome walking up to them. "Oh, we have been great sister Kagome! But, we have missed you very much! We were worried about you!" Replied the two while hugging Kagome.

A few other wolves came up to her, nuzzling at her legs, obviously happy to see her too.

"I missed you too!" Giggled Kagome as she hugged the two wolves that called her their sister. Pulling away from her, the two wolves admired her for a moment while she was squatting down petting the other wolves happily before Ginta decided to make a comment on the way she was dressed.

"Wow Kagome, you look very pretty in white fur! I bet Kouga really likes that outfit too, eh? Very revealing, but in a very good way of course." Commented Ginta, while winking at her and grinning.

All that Kagome could do was blush. Kouga noticed this and felt a slight grin grace his lips. 'She finally has some color back into her cheeks...'

"Ok you two, instead of standing here running your mouths all day, you need to go hunt something for Kagome so that she can eat breakfast" Ordered Kouga to the two giggling wolves.

Before they could go anywhere, Kagome stopped them. "Uuuummmmm...Kouga?"

"Yes Kagome? What is it?" Asked Kouga while throwing a big, adorable smile at her. "Do you think that just me and you could go find something to eat and bring it back? I kindove wanted to talk to you..." Answered Kagome, with her eyes to the ground.

"Are you sure Kagome? You are still pretty weak..." Questioned Kouga, while raising a brow. "I'll be fine Kouga, I promise" Replied Kagome smiling sweetly at him.

"Ok, we'll go find something then. Ginta, Hakakku, you two stay here and watch the pack while I'm gone."

"Ok Kouga" Said the two wolves while letting big grins spread widley across their faces. They walked off whispering things to each other quietly about their leader and sister being alone together.

"Ok, are you ready Kagome?" Asked Kouga while staring at her body. 'Dammnit! There I go again! She's going to end up knocking me in the head if I keep staring at her like that! But, how can I keep my eyes off of her? I knew I shouldn't have let her wear that fur!...' Thought Kouga before being ripped out of his thoughts by Kagome, who was now waving her hand in front of his face.

"Hello! Kouga! What are you staring at?" Asked Kagome as she waved her hands in front of the day-dreaming wolf.

"Oh, sorry Kagome. I was just thinking. Let's go." He answered, coming out of his daze.

They slowly walked away from the wolf den and into the thick forest. Kagome looked back, seeing the den slowly disappear from sight.

They walked for a while in silence before Kouga stopped in front of a beautiful waterfall and sat down on a near by rock. Kagome gazed a moment thinking of how beautiful the waterfall was before also taking a seat on a nearby rock.

"So Kagome, what do you want to talk about?" Asked Kouga looking over to her sadly. He knew that it would be about that dog-boy, Inuyasha.

Kagome sat there for a minute before tears began to well up in her eyes once more. She suddenly got up from her rock and ran full blast into Kouga's arms.

Kouga was shocked at first but quickly wrapped his arms around her and held her as she cried into his chest.

"Kagome...what did Inuyasha do to you?" He asked while pulling her closer and nuzzling in her soft, raven hair.

Kagome just sat there in Kouga's arms for a minute while thinking.'I don't want to tell him! Oh, Kami! Why do these things have to happen!...' She finally got the guts to tell him. She knew it was time. She had to tell him. She slowly pulled her face away from his chest and looked up at him.

"Kouga...I feel that I have to tell you, are you sure that you want to hear this? It's a long story." said Kagome as she felt more tears roll down her cheeks.

"Of course I do Kagome. Tell me everything. You know that I will always listen to you." replied Kouga wiping away a few tears from her face.

She slowly got up off of his lap and sat down on the forest floor. "Kouga, come sit over here with me." Said Kagome as she patted the ground beside her, indicating that she wanted him to sit there.

Kouga got up off of the rock and sat in the exact spot where Kagome had told him to sit. He looked at her for a moment with a sad expression trying hard himself not to cry.

Her eyes looked full of thoughts and yet, so empty at the same time. It was a look that Kouga hadhoped to neversee in Kagome's beautiful blue eyes.

She finally began to talk while staring at the forest floor in front of her. "You see Kouga...fifty years ago Inuyasha was in love with a beautiful preistess named Kikyou, she was the protecter of the Shikon No Tama and he the protecter of her."

"Inuyasha had wanted to become a full blooded demon through the power of the jewel, but had decided that for his love, Kikyou, he would become human through the jewel and spend his remaining life time with the woman he loved."

"With the jewel gone, Kikyou would be able to live the life of a normal village woman and be able to marry and have children of her own. Inuyasha had promised and sworn that he would always be with her and protect her no matter what happened. The day that Inuyasha was to meet Kikyou for his transformation they were decieved by Naraku. Naraku had taken Inuyasha's form, severly injured Kikyou, and had taken the Shikon jewel, leaving Kikyou to believe that her love had tried to slay her for the jewel. Hurting physically and spiritually, Kikyou went after Inuyasha binding him to a tree with a sacred arrow, to sleep forever." She stopped a moment to make sure that Kouga was listening.

She decided to continue with the story when he nodded to her.

"Kikyou died later on after reaching her village. Before dying, she had told her sister, Kaede to burn her body with the sacred jewel, so that the cursed thing would never cause such pain again. Fifty years later, I was pulled intoa well by a centipede demon and found Inuyasha bound to a nearby tree. I ran to the tree, curious as to why such a strange boy would be stuck to a tree like that." She suddenly giggled at her once naive self when she had first arrived here and suddenly thought how much she really had learned about this world.

She continued on with the story. "I being Kikyou's reincarnation, was able to wake him just by touching him. I pulled the arrow out of his heart and he was free from the tree and spell. The jewel shard was then torn out of my side by the centipede, who was only to be killed moments later by Inuyasha.After that, me and Inuyasha fought over the jewel and one day a crow demon took the jewel from me. I tried shooting the bird with my bow and arrows but missed and shot the jewel instead, shattering it into many peices. After the jewel being shattered, me and Inuyasha were forced to look for the peices together. We soon aquired friends who also wanted revenge on Naraku as did Inuyasha. Well, as the days went by Inuyasha and I grew closer and closer. He finally told me that he loved me and swore the hewould always protect me.The same promise that he had made to Kikyou fifty years in the past.I returned his feelings because I really did love him then... I thought that I could trust him!" She cried as she slammed her fist into the ground, making her fist bleed as she let tears fall from her eyes to the forest floor.

"Kagome! Be careful! You don't have to finish if you can't..." Kouga was silenced by Kagome's hand on his mouth.

"Shhhhh...I must finish Kouga..." She said removing her hand from his mouth to finish her story.

"Kikyou came by about a weekafter Inuyasha's promise to meand asked Inuyasha if he would fullfill the promise that he had made to her fifty years ago...and he said...yes. He said yes to her! Inuyasha and I had already..."

Kagome threw her head down in shame at what she knew she had done willingly with Inuyasha. She felt like a peice of trash and had never wanted Kouga to know the truth.

"Kagome...I swear I'll hunt that mutt down and slice his head off!" yelled Kouga as he punched a nearby tree, sending it to the ground.

Kagome stood up and looked at Kouga. "Kouga don't you see that that's not going to help! I can't erase what he's done! I can't erase what I've done! I can't erase time! I can't erase being born! If I could I would have aready done it by now!" She screamed falling to her knees crying.

"Kagome...don't say stuff like that" Said Kouga as he walked over to her. He knelt down beside her where she was now on her knees crying and gently pulled her into his chest.

She fell into him crying. Unaware of the world around her once again. "Kagome...you have to promise me that you will never think or say anything like that about yourself again...do you understand me?"

"I love you Kagome, and I would die if you didn't exist. What purpose in life would I have without you?" Asked Kouga, nuzzling into her raven hair once again.

She looked up to him with tears in her eyes. "Kouga, if I would have never came to this world you wouldn't know me now anyways. You wouldn't die without me because you would have never known me..."

"But that's what you don't understand Kagome...see, I have always had an empty space in my heart that has kept me weak. I always knew that something was missing in my life and that if I didn't find it soon I would perish from my need. I searched everywhere for something to fill this space but couldn't find it. One day I was hunting with my pack and came upon you and your group. The first time that I saw you and heard your voice, I knew that you were what my heart was aching for." Kouga told her, letting a tear of his own stream down his face to what he had admitted to the young girl in his arms.

He held her close for a moment, not wanting to let her go. "Kouga...I...I don't know what to say." Kagome said, baffled by his words at first before thinking upon his statement more.

"Kouga, I want you to know that I have felt the same way for so many years but never knew why. I felt so empty...I admit that I did love Inuyasha and he helped fill the space in my heart, but...I just always felt like there was something...missing. I noticed the change of my heart when I was around you too, but always shrugged it off because I kept telling myself that I loved Inuyasha..." Admitted Kagome while letting more tears roll down her face at her sudden shocking realization.

She had never truley realized this. Why hadn't she? All of those years of feeling lonely, even when she was with Inuyasha. She had loved him of course, but still felt as if there were something missing.

Maybe this was meant to be. If Inuyasha hadn't left with Kikyou, would Kouga and Kagome eventually die from the need to full-fill what was meant to be? If they didn't meet the purpose in their life, what point would they have on earth anyway? Life was so confusing, Kagome realized that now. You should always expect the unexpected, and always listen to what your heart is telling you. If you don't, then what is to become of you? Kagome would keep these words of wisdom in her heart, for she knew that they were the only real way to live without being shocked by things that happened around her.

Kouga suddenly brought his head up out of her hair to look at her. "You really mean it Kagome? You have felt the same emptiness that I have for so long?"

Kagome was shocked by the look in his eyes. He had been crying into her hair and his eyes were now full of tears and joy. "Yes Kouga I mean every word of it..." She was interupted by Kouga's lips crushing down upon hers.

She was shocked for a moment but began returning the kiss with as much passion as he. After a breathtaking, kiss they finally tore apart. Kouga pulled Kagome into his chest and held her for a moment, stroking her hair.

"Kagome...you have to promise that you will never leave me. If you do then I will cease to exist..."

"I promise Kouga, I could never leave you. If I did I would also perish. My heart would never forgive me and despise being within me. But, Kouga...are you sure that you can forgive me for what I have done?"

Kouga instantly knew that she was talking about the mating of her and Inuyasha. It tore him apart that he wasn't the one to take such a precious thing as her virginity away, but didn't really care because he loved her and it didn't really matter what kind of mistake she had made. He would always have to forgive her. Besides, it wasn't really her fault if Inuyasha had promised to be with her always and then had left her. The only thing that mattered to him was that he had the one that his heart had been aching for, for so long.

"Of course I forgive you Kagome...just forget it. It's in the past now. Just put it behind you and never think of it again." Kouga said while holding her.

She pulled away from his chest to look into his eyes. "Arigatou Kouga..."

"For what love?" asked Kouga rasing a brow. "For saving me from myself. If you wouldn't have found me in the forest that day I would be dead right now...I was planning on killing myself if I didn't cry myself to death." Replied Kagome letting more tears fall from her face. "Oh Kagome..." He said while crushing her fragile body back into his chest in a loving hug.

They sat there for a few more moments, just being with each other. They were finally relieved of the empty spaces in their hearts and were enjoying every second of it. The world around them seemed to melt away as they held each other close, not wanting it to end.

"Well, well, isn't this a beautiful sight...two worthless creatures embracing each other wasting all of my clean oxygen...I'll have to do something about that now won't I?..."

The miko and Wolf prince were startled by the voice and found the source when they looked to a nearby tree. They just sat there for a moment staring in disbelief...

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There's all of chapter four! YAY! I know that there was a lot of fluffiness in this chapter but that's what I like to write, so if you intend on reading my stories you will have to like fluffiness. Don't worry though, the action is coming up in the next chapter:) So, who will the person be that snuck up on Kouga and Kagome? Anyone have a clue? You'll just have to wait and see in the next chapter! Well, R&R! Tell me what your thoughts are so far about the story and this chapter. I love you all!

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