Hello! Welcome to the next chapter of The Travels on the Confused and Mateless!

What happened to Kouga and Kagome? Will things ever be the same? What is Kyou planning for the two and how will the others react?

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Round One First Quarter: Let the games begin

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The night ended none to soundly as Kagome and Kouga were both ridden with thoughts.

Kagome was going insane, what's wrong with me? Why…why do I feel this way, for Kouga? He's a good friend, but why do I feel my face flush and my heart race whenever he looks at me now, why so suddenly? The miko had just woken up and was preparing breakfast for the group, Inuyasha was watching her intently, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou were all still sleeping, and Kouga and Kyou were once more no where to be found. I don't get it, why? I'm supposed to be in love with Inuyasha, aren't I? She blushed at the thought and tried to concentrate on her cooking.

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Kouga had gotten up early in the morning, no one else was awake he found as he looked over the area. His blue eyes scanned over Kagome's form as she slept peacefully, as he looked upon her angelic face he felt himself blushing. He scowled, what the hell? Why do I feel like this?

He jumped slightly as the miko moaned in her sleep and rolled on to her side, no longer facing the wolf prince. Kouga, strangely enough noticed himself harden. "Eh…" he blinked a light blush staining his features once more, Kagome never made him feel like this. No one made him feel like this, his heart was beating, his face was flushing, and his manhood was…well we'll just skip that for now, he was acting as though it was mating season, which it most certainly was not. For the first time, he felt as though he truly wanted Kagome as his mate. What the fuck is going on? His mind screamed at him, searching for an answer.

The ookami youkai took a deep breath to calm down when a thought struck him. It can't be…but what else could it have been, it's the only conceivable answer! He growled and stalked up to the sleeping form of the healer. Grabbed the cross-dresser by the neck of her haori and dragged her into the forest, he would get answers.

Surprisingly, Kyou managed to continue sleeping as Kouga literally dragged her half a mile into the forest. It's a wonder how one can sleep so well while being dragged in such a manner. The healer woke only once Kouga stopped and dropped her, of course with nothing but the forest floor to land upon, yeah, how's that for a wake up call.

Kyou crashed against the ground, "Ah! What the hell was that?" she shot up and looked around, "Oh, hey Kouga-kun, what's going on?"

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!"

"Huh? Oh! You mean about last night when you and dear Kagome got all hot and heavy!" Kyou smiled as though nothing was wrong as she answered the distort wolf, "I didn't do much of anything."

Kouga's mouth was agape, "What do you mean you didn't do anything!" He grabbed the healer up by her haori (again) and stared her in the eye, "If you didn't do anything, then why in all the seven hells am I feeling this way?"

"It was just a simple aphrodisiac. Given I had to give you a little larger dose, being you're a demon." She shrugged him off as though what she said was normal and he was overreacting.

"A…Aphro…You gave me an APHRODISIAC!" Oh yeah, he's pissed.

"Yeah, I guess you could say it doubles as a truth serum. I gave some to Kagome as well."

"So…those spices?"

"yep, yours and Kagome's were the aphrodisiac, as for the spices I put in every one else's, heh you'll never know." Kyou smirked.

Kouga growled and spoke through clenched teeth, what was this stupid girl thinking? "Well, undo it! And I mean now!"

"Sorry, sweetie it doesn't work like that!" the woman healer smiled innocently and patted Kouga on the head as though he were a child.

He glared at her, how dare she disrespect him in such a way! "What do you mean 'it doesn't work that way'? I want off this damned aphrodisiac and I want off now!"

Kyou giggled girlishly and for the first time spoke with a female's voice, "Gomen ne, Kouga-kun! But the only way to get rid of it is to fulfill your desires!"

"I have to what?"

"You heard me. Mate with dear Kagome and you'll be free of the potion. But you don't have much time…" Her voice changed once more into a deeper male's voice, it sounded deeper than the usual voice, more devilish.

Kouga's eye twitched, he was getting tired of this damn game the author was playing! Damn author, how dare she play out her twisted fantasies using me! Wait…what the hell am I thinking? "What do you mean, not much time left? What the hell is this?" Kouga was seething by this point.

"I mean, the aphrodisiac I used on you was for human males thus I had to use more of it. Yet the aphrodisiac I used on Kagome was for demon females. Dear Kagome will soon start going into something similar to a demon heat. The aphrodisiac is a mixed love potion, giving off sexual enhancement, but it doubles as a sort of truth serum. It's used to portray ones innermost desires. These are depicted to the first of the opposite sex seen after taking the aphrodisiac."

"As a result, Kagome is going through a demonic heat. And you're saying that she acted strangely last night because I was the first one she saw…"

"Of course, she would have looked else were, I'm sure of it, so before she could…" Kyou thought over the other night, she hadn't wanted to risk Kagome looking at Inuyasha, it just wouldn't be as fun if she'd done that.

Kouga gasped as the memory came to him, "Ne, Kagome-chan!" That's right, Kyou was sitting beside me when she tried to get Kagome's attention. I thought it was strange, she more often than not would sit by Sango or Kagome… "So, what-what do you mean not much time? And why the hell did you use a demon potion?" wait, what had Kyou said about a truth serum? "And what truth serum?"

Kyou smirked, it's all coming together, heh perfect plan! "One question at a time. What I mean by truth serum is that if Kagome didn't have any feeling or desire for you then she wouldn't have had any reaction to you. Because Kagome had a reaction we know that somewhere in her subconscious she has a want, a desire to be yours and have you as her own as well. It is a marvelous way to find if your love feels the same, or if your love acts a way for power or for true."

She allowed her words to soak in before continuing. "As for the other questions, I gave Kagome a demonic potion, because the human one has less effect. If Kagome's life is not put into danger you will most likely hold to your nobility and refuse to mate with her."

Kouga's eyes widen, "Life? What the hell do you mean? What did you do to Kagome?"

"If you do not mate with Kagome before the next full moon, she will become deathly ill, there is no cure for such illness and she will die. And do not think another could mate with her and she'd be fine, by all means the heated scent will drive many a demon man insane. If you don't mate her Inuyasha or perhaps another will. However, mating alone will not quench Kagome's desires, as long as she longs for you, you are the only one who can save her from the illness."

Kyou smirked, if Kouga did not take Kagome, she would die. The potion clearly showed that both Kouga and Kagome had feelings for one another, subconscious of course, but the subconscious mind holds truer than the mind we are aware of.

How dare she, how dare this woman meddle with his life, how dare she put Kagome's life at risk in order to amuse herself! She, this woman was like Naraku, she toyed with other's emotions and thoughts only to entertain herself. He growled deeply, "How dare you! You dare to put Kagome's life at risk, just to amuse yourself?" Oh this bitch was going to pay.

Kyou looked offended, but still smirked, "How could you say such a thing? I do this for you and Dear Kagome. The fact that I find it engaging is simply a bonus." She shrugged and tilted her head to the side as she continued to smirk unrepentantly, "Just remember, you can hate me and you can even kill me, but that won't change anything as far as the aphrodisiac goes. The potion has amalgamate with both your bodies, thus only one thing can be done to stop it before it kills Kagome-chan and drives you to the point of sheer insanity determined by lust."

Boiling to the point of infuriated madness, Kouga was finding it hard not to rip this woman's head off. Unfortunately, he had to hold back, Kagome wouldn't want him to kill the girl and Kyou might not be letting him in on everything. It was true he needed a mate, and Kagome was first choice, but he didn't want to rely on some damn drug. Not that he had a option in the matter now. There was nothing more that could be done at this point, hence just he glared at the woman who so cockily smirked at the situation, growled and stalked off irately back to camp.

Kyou watched as the wolf demon prince headed back to camp…and back to the miko. She smirked for the thousandth time that morning, the potion has fully set into Kagome's system, and I can only wonder how she'll react at the sight of dear Kouga-kun…

She allowed her smirk to fade as she followed the wolf back to their campsite, it would be near sinful to miss what was sure to happen next, and she was simply too much of a saint to sin so wrongfully at this time.

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Well that's all for this chapter! I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing! n.n

Round one is just getting started in this game of love, lust, and jealousy. What awaits in the second quarter? Will a fight spew at half time?

Find out next time in "Interception"!

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