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Chapter 16

I do not own Inuyasha

"Oh, I'm really sick of you getting into my business, Kouga, and I'm really sick of you flirting with Kagome! You're even engaged to someone else, so now you don't have a choice. You're going to die now." Inuyasha prepared to strike him.

"Sit!"

"Ahhh" Inuyasha fell down into the dirt and his sword transformed back into its normal state.

"Will you stop that, Inuyasha? Just drop the tough guy act already." She crossed her arms.

"Who's this guy" Kouga said, giving Ikuto a good look over. He thought he looked familiar, but couldn't quite put his finger on it. "And what's with the weird clothing" He sniffed him, making sure he wasn't a demon. "And why is this human's skin so strangely colored?"

Ikuto grunted and tried to remain calm, but he couldn't, and he lunged forward to try to strike him, but Kouga jumped back. "He looks just like Koashu! He's going down!"

Kouga looked at Ikuto harder, and gazed at Inuyasha as he got back on his feet again and thought about the time he saw him as a human on the night of the new moon. 'Inuyasha had black hair and dark brown eyes. This kid resembles him on that night.' "Okay, who's this guy, why does he look like the mutt, and why is he with my Kagome?"

"Your Kagome" Ikuto hissed. "I don't think so! She doesn't belong to you" Ikuto was holding on to his sword tightly, ready to fight for Kagome. The demon in front of him looked exactly like his rival at school who he hated for treating him badly because of his heritage.

Inuyasha was back up and pointing the Tetsusaiga at Kouga, but it seemed like he was willing to use it on Ikuto if he had to. "Kagome doesn't belong to either of you!"

"I'm the one who loves her" Kouga said proudly. "She's my woman and she's going to be my wife once I slay Naraku."

"She will not! I'll kill you first! I'll kill you now!"

"This should be interesting" Miroku said, watching the battle about to take place between Inuyasha, Kouga, and maybe even Ikuto. He stepped back and pulled on Sango, indicating that she should do the same. Shippo saw them move back, and he did the same as well. The last time Kouga showed up, Shippo got a serious beating from Inuyasha. "This isn't going to end well."

"Guys stop this" Kagome said. "We're all after Naraku! We don't have to be enemies! Let's just go our separate ways and..."

"This boy..." Kouga said "he looks like the mutt face." He came to Ikuto and grabbed his hair, pulling him right under Kouga's nose and he began to sniff him.

Ikuto yelled in anger and pain from Kouga pulling his hair. "Let go of me" he yelled. He lifted his sword up in an attempt to strike Kouga, and Ikuto succeeded. Kouga was able to sense the danger arriving and jumped back, but he still didn't escape the full attack and was cut on his cheek. "Don't touch me!"

Kouga growled and wiped the blood from his cheek. "How dare you do that to me? I swear I'll kill you for that." He cracked his knuckles. "Say, what's your name?"

He smirked. "Ikuto, and what's it to ya?"

Kouga knew that he had heard that name for some reason and he remembered..."You're that boy! You're that boy that mutt face got dumped for!"

"I did not get dumped" Inuyasha yelled. "He's the one who got dumped!"

"I did not" Ikuto yelled.

"Well, I guess I'm the only one who hasn't got dumped" Kouga said triumphantly.

"Yeah, and you also haven't been with her." Inuyasha said with a smirk.

They all began to growl at each other, and they all sounded like full blooded demons, even though they were one demon, one half demon, and a human. Kouga cracked his knuckles, the Tetsusaiga transformed, and Ikuto prepared himself mentally for how he should approach the obvious battle about to begin.

"Stop" Kagome yelled, getting in the middle of their death triangle. "Stop this right now" She walked over to Ikuto with pleading eyes, just wanting him to stop. "You're not a demon, Ikuto. You'll be ripped apart! Inuyasha can survive a hole in his gut, you can't."

Ikuto threw his sword down into the ground, making it stand straight up with its blade stuck in the dirt. 'Kagome's right. I can't take on two different demons. I can't even take on Inuyasha. There's no way I can win this battle, or even survive it.' He sighed. "Okay Kagome." 'I'll have to use my superior knowledge. They're like...500 year out of date. I can outsmart them.' He smirked and started to chuckle.

"What's so funny, mortal" Kouga yelled. "You better pickup your sword, because I'm gonna kill you no matter what."

He calmed down and cleared his throat, preparing himself for the argument of the century. "Well" he said in a serious tone "you guys are idiots."

"We're what?" Inuyasha asked in a rage. "How dare you talk to me like that? If anyone is an idiot here, it's you for thinking you could take me on. Well, Kouga's an idiot too, but certainly not me" Ikuto didn't comment, but he instead wrapped his arms around Kagome's waste, causing her to go into a furious blush and Inuyasha and Kouga to go into a serious jealous rage. "Get your hands off Kagome!"

"What are you doing" Kagome asked nervously. "You're not helping this situation."

Ikuto let her go and pointed his index finger forward to Kouga and then Inuyasha and began yelling at them like a mad man. "You guys are sick! Do you realize how disgusting you people really are? Kagome's 15 and I'm 16. I mean, add your ages now and then put 500 years on top of that! That's the most disgusting thing that I've ever heard in my whole entire life! She could be your relative in the future or something gross like that." He turned his head in disgust.

That didn't change Kouga's reaction that much, but Inuyasha hung his head down in blushed in stupidity, and Kagome did the same. 'There is a huge gap between us as far as the time difference. I mean, its nice teaching him new things and everything about my time but, but he is way older than me...' Kagome blushed a little more.

"Now honestly, don't you guys age slowly? Even if you guys were with Kagome, she would probably die from old age before you guys get a grey hair, and that's if she decided to leave everything she knows and loves for you two losers." He smirked again. "Me on the other hand, I'd grow old with Kagome. I mean, I am only just a year older than her.

'Wow...' Kagome was beginning to feel sad about what Ikuto had just spoken, considering that it was all true. 'That's true. I'd only be a short chapter in Inuyasha's life. I'm...I'm...' She yelled and ran her hands through her hair with her fingers. "Forget it"

The three males looked at Kagome dumbfounded and wondered what she was so upset about. She stomped away and Inuyasha and Kouga looked at Ikuto in anger. "What did I do?" Ikuto asked.

"You upset her, stupid!" Inuyasha yelled.

"I did not! The only one upsetting her is you two losers. Why don't you two just stay here and we'll go back home to her time."

"Her time?" Kouga asked.

"Yes, our time. We'll go back to our world, our families, our present, where we'll prepare for our future, while you two ignoramuses stay here in your past where you belong!" Inuyasha and Kouga were being quiet for the moment while their rage was building up. Ikuto only kept going on, trying to get them riled up. It wasn't even about trying to get Kagome to realize anything. He was just on a mission to crush his enemies, rather then persuade the person he really wanted. "You two belong here, and Kagome and I live far into the future in a time when you two are long since dead. "Why don't you two get your own women, you know some one around your age, or at least century."

"Shut up!" Inuyasha was shaking with rage. Oh, if Ikuto was a demon, he would rip him apart with his bare hands, enjoying every moment, not even using the Tetsusaiga! Just with his bare hands.

"Why are you so pissed, Inuyasha? You've already taken my advice, remember?"

"What do you mean?"

"Kikyou? Isn't that her name? Her name is Kikyou, right?"

"What do you know about Kikyou? Just shut up about her!"

"Kikyou?" Kouga was actually amused and ready to hear of this woman. Was there something that he didn't know about Inuyasha? Something that would change the way the race to Kagome's heart was going?

"I know enough" Ikuto said. "You're madly in love with her, and Kagome feels uncomfortable every time her name is mentioned. It breaks her heart as a matter of fact." Inuyasha ears began to slump. "You claim to want Kagome, and yet you still love her? I believe Kagome's exact words were 'the worst thing about it is the fact that he's still hung up about his last girlfriend. He still loves her,' and" he scratched his head trying to remember "something about you want her and Kikyou both, and she said something about that's never going to happen. 'He can only have one of us, and he chose her over me and yet, he's still a jealous jerk!' and yatta, yatta, yatta."

Kouga was infuriated and punched Inuyasha in his face and knocked him down, and knocked the Tetsusaiga out of his hand, causing it to return to its normal state. "What's wrong with you? You're two timing Kagome? How could you do that to her?"

Inuyasha wiped some blood from the side of his mouth and stood back on his feet. "Get off my back! You're one to talk! You're engaged to Ayame!"

"I am not! I told you guys that I didn't remember promising her that!" He was lying. He knew exactly what Ayame was talking about, and the promise he made, but lying about it made things less complicated. "I love Kagome and only Kagome! You're in love with two different women? You're disgusting!"

"Shut up! You don't know anything about me or my past!" Inuyasha picked up his Tetsusaiga, and this time, he swung it at Kouga in an attempt to cut off his head, but Kouga was too fast. "Today you die!"

'Wow' thought Ikuto. 'I didn't know that this would work this well. I guess I should thank Suno for making me take those psychology classes. I've really got into their minds and I have truly pissed them off.' He smiled brightly. 'Man, I am proud of myself!'

Kouga and Inuyasha began fighting each other, with the pure intention of killing the other. Inuyasha had always wanted Kouga dead, from the first time he picked up the scent of his blood thirsty pack. Kouga's pack that he controlled had killed villagers; women, children, men. 'He's just a no good demon. He may claim to love Kagome, but in the end, he wouldn't hesitate to kill any human if it pleased him. He makes me sick.' Of course that wasn't the only reason why he hated Kouga. Kouga kidnapped Kagome and from then until the present, Kouga had been flirting with her, claiming that he would kill Naraku and then take Kagome away to be his wife. What right did he have?

Kouga wanted Inuyasha dead, simply because he wanted Kagome. He told Kagome that he would kill Inuyasha for that very reason. They were rivals ever since. Kouga would claim to always be ready to fight Inuyasha, but Kouga was no fool. When ever he sensed that Inuyasha was about to use the wind scar, he would run away from the danger of the sword and whatever strange magic it possessed. He was now highly ticked. Inuyasha was two timing her, even though Inuyasha would obviously fight to the death for her. It didn't seem to make sense to Kouga, maybe because wolves mate for life. "You're gonna die today, Inuyasha."

What Kouga didn't know was the fact that Inuyasha also felt that way, wanting to mate for life, but he already made that pact in his heart with another woman, and his love dragged on, even to her reincarnation. Inuyasha's love pact wasn't for life, it was for eternity.

"I can promise you that you'll never see me after today, Kouga. As a matter of fact, you won't be seeing anyone after today!" 'That idiot! He's always making suggestions about me, and jumping to conclusions. He never knows that facts, and doesn't know anything about me or Kikyou. He needs to just stay out of my business!'

Miroku noticed the pleased look on Ikuto's face as Inuyasha and Kouga continued on their battle. 'How interesting?' "Admiring your work?" Miroku left his little safe group with Sango and Shippo and walked to Ikuto's side. "You get them worked up and now they're fighting each other, ready to kill. After they're gone, do you intend to have Kagome all to yourself?"

Ikuto smirked and closed his eyes. "You think you've got me all figured out? Well, I didn't think their fight would be this serious. I figured that they would, though. Kouga is just as hotheaded as Inuyasha. I don't expect them to get killed; at least that's not what I planned." He sighed. 'I guess I've got to stop this. I don't like either one of them, but I know one thing for sure. I hate Koashu, and I wouldn't want Inuyasha's fate to be ended by Kouga's hand.' "Hey Kouga," Ikuto yelled "I heard Kagome slapped you once. Guess she wants a real man instead of a dirty cub like you!"

Kouga was not in the mood and was quick to act. He rushed to Ikuto, faster than what Inuyasha or Ikuto could comprehend and grabbed Ikuto by his collar and held him up in the air. "I've had just about enough of you!" Kogua held out his arm and it seemed like he was going to claw Ikuto's face, but Ikuto remained calm.

"Put him down, Kouga!" Ikuto was surprised that Inuyasha had his sword pointed at Kouga in order to save him. Inuyasha had always wanted to kill Kouga, but he would certainly do it if Kouga killed Ikuto. He might have been an evil human in Inuyasha's book, but he was still a human.

Ikuto still remained calm though. '3…2…1…and…'

"Kouga, stop it!" Kagome ran to the scene, wishing that Inuyasha wasn't the only one she could sit. "Stop this right now, or I'll never forgive you!"

A sweat drop appeared on his head and he dropped Ikuto and he landed on his bottom. "Ka-Kagome!"

"How could you do something so evil? He wasn't doing anything to you!" Kagome had tears in her eyes.

Kouga didn't know how to respond at first, but then crossed his arms. "I told you that you're my woman and anyone else who says different is-" Kouga was stopped by the sudden touch of Kagome's hand across his face. He was shocked at first, then embarrassed, but then angry, especially when he began to hear Inuyasha chuckle, and he could even feel Ikuto's smirk of satisfaction. He would have gone mad with rage, but then Kagome made him feel better.

"Sit!" Inuyasha let out a cry as he was bound to her spell. "Sit! Sit! Sit!" Inuyasha wasn't even twitching. He was in so much pain. Kouga still didn't feel satisfied, until Ikuto stood to his feet, and Kagome wiped the smirk off of his face with a slap, and her slap hurt Ikuto's face much more than whatever pain she could inflict on Kouga's. "What's wrong with you three? Why do you have to fight so much? Why does it have to be this way?" She was trying her best not to cry. "I want this to stop. Killing each other won't solve anything!"

The three males strongly disagreed, but said nothing more. In fear of Kagome's wrath…and there was also the fact that Inuyasha was barely conscious.

"Now let me tell you what we're gonna do! We're gonna…" Kagome stopped her train of thought. "I sense jewel shards."

Kouga looked off into the distance and began to growl. "Naraku! I know that stench from anywhere!" Kouga grabbed Kagome's hands and said softly "Kagome, I promise you that the next time we meet, Naraku will be dead." With nothing more to say, he ran off towards the scent that he picked up.

"Naraku?" Ikuto asked. "Good, because I want to see this Naraku guy that you guys keep talking about."

"No!" Kagome yelled. "Are you insane?" Tears came from her eyes and rolled down her cheeks. "Do you want to die? I don't want you to die! I want you to live, Ikuto!" The anger that she had for him died down and she wrapped her arms around him. "Kouga was going to kill you! Naraku will kill you! Please…" she began sobbing on his chest. "Please just go home!"

Ikuto didn't know what to do. How could he comfort her? "Kagome…" he just held her close and hoped he was helping some kind of way. 'I didn't mean to scare her. I guess I'm playing cards with the devil,' he sighed 'and he always cheats.' "I'll go home Kagome. I'll go home for you."

She pulled away and nodded. "Thank you."

Inuyasha pulled himself up, feeling probably the worst that he ever did from a sit. "What's your…" He saw how scared she was, and he calmed down. "Kagome…what's wrong?"

"He should leave" Sango said "especially if Naraku is near."

"Yes" Miroku said "if Naraku found out about Inuyasha having a reincarnation, then it wouldn't end well. It would only be a new opportunity to inflict pain on the rest of us. There's no sense in Ikuto being dragged into all of this."

"Miroku's right" Inuyasha said grumpily. "You need to leave."

Surprisingly, Ikuto nodded in agreement. "Alright. I'm going home, but I'm doing this because of Kagome, not because you guys are telling me to."

"If Naraku got to you…" Kagome said quietly and painfully.

"What else could he do?" Shippo asked. "What hasn't he thought of?"

Somewhere off in the distance, somewhere far off, Naraku was with Kanna, watching through her mirror, watching something that he didn't think he'd ever see. 'How interesting?'He smirked. 'This should prove to be most entertaining.'

To Be Continued…

A/N: Uh oh. So does Naraku know about Ikuto? Is this the end of the reincarnation? You'll just have to find out later! Make sure you review!