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Me: omg! It's amazing! I'm updating!

Sabbi: Well, you better after me, Abby, and Corey went in the rain to see you play a fieldhockey game.

Me: yeah, thanks

Corey: but it didn't help that you guys lost...badly...

Me: well, look at it this way, losing is the only reason I'm updating!

Sabbi: poor Anzu, you had a game in the rain and slipped in the mud.

Me: ...shutup... anywho, be content with this chapter. This story's going to be longer than 'The Talk' in case you couldn't tell, so hold onto your seats.

Corey: w00t! And today you'll find out if Inuyasha kills Kouga...or not...

Sabbi: what are the chances Kouga lives while listening to Evanescence?

Corey: zero.

Me: hey you two, shut up! Anywho, enjoy!

The Act

Chapter 4: Forgive not Forget

By Anzu2

"Miroku!" cried Sango trying to wake up the fallen monk, "Miroku, are you ok?"

The monk lay unconscious at the news Sango had given him.

Pregnant. She was pregnant. With his child.

Sango searched her brain trying to think of a way to wake him up, when a thought came to her.

"Help! Help!" she screamed in a mock-sadistic voice, "Someone has stolen all my clothes!"

The monk's eyes popped open as he quickly looked around for the woman without her clothes, but all he was greeted with was a smack to the head.

"Baka houshi." She grumbled as he looked up at her.

"Sango, you wouldn't believe this dream I had. After we had made love on this very hill, you came and hinted that you were pregnant!"

Sango sighed. This was not going to be easy. Even for all his lechery, she doubted this will sink in quickly.

"Miroku, I am pregnant. Kagome-chan gave me a test from her world, it tested positive."

Miroku couldn't believe it. He looked bewildered at her as she looked away blushing.

"So...you really are pregnant?"

Sango nodded her head as she heard a -thump- from his direction.

She turned to see an unconscious monk once more lying on the ground.

The delicate petals of the wild flowers rose from the ground; their colors brilliantly lighting up the fields with their oranges, yellows, and whites, as the sun lifted up from its slumber. It was through these flowers that a certain miko ran through with two accomplices. The flowers bowed to the ground with the force of her feet, pushing their gentle petals to the grainy dirt that had once sprung them up. The girl ran as quickly as any mortal girl could run, and as the flowers lifted themselves back up slowly, they caught a glimpse of tears that fed into the ground, seeping through their veins. Then the girl and the two youkai disappeared into the surrounding trees once more, and the flowers continued their smiling at the sun above them.

Kagome rushed through the fields and woods, sweat burning into her eyes. Her pace crunched with the autumn leaves, as the ground and trees where covered in a colorful pallet. She vaguely heard the two wolves behind her, keeping their gate behind her as she ran as hard as she could.

Inuyasha.

Her thoughts were focused as she yearned to be near her hanyou, to stop him from doing something he'd regret. She ignored fatigue, ignored the screaming of her lungs, and ignored the liquid dripping down from her head to her mouth. She had one goal...and she would make it their before it was too late, or die trying.

Inuyasha...my Inuyasha...

She rounded a mark left by Kouga if she ever wished to get to his cave and came upon them...

...or him.

There was no them. There was an only blue and red eyes, burning with a murderous lust. There was no them.

There was a body and a hanyou.

Kagome's eyes watered as she glanced at the crumpled up figure on the ground. Kouga. His pale blue orbs contained none of the life he once had, just cold.

Kouga...

Blood gently trickled from his head and throat; scraps along his back and neck bleeding profusely.

Kouga...no.

Then there was his murderer. Standing proudly over his kill, fangs dipped in the blood of his enemy. He looked at her with such lust, it sickened her. It was as though she were to be proud of his victory.

No.

He strode over to her, a malicious gleam in his eyes. His demonic instincts had taken over; you can tell with every step he took, he was prepared for anything. He slowly walked away from his trophy and towards the woman he had claimed.

No!

Ginta and Hakkaku trembled at the sight of their fallen leader, shrinking away in fear as Inuyasha came up to Kagome. They tried to work up the courage to defend their leader's love, but they were no Kouga. Inuyasha lifted a bloodied claw to the side of the miko's face and went to stroke her cheek.

NO!

"NO!" she screamed as she slapped his hand away from his advances. She gave the hardest glare she could muster, trying to force her anger, sorrow, and pain into one glance. She tried to burn into his soul, to make him think about what he'd done.

But this wasn't her hanyou. It was a youkai. And youkai never think twice about a kill.

Inuyasha's demonic aura rose as she smacked his hand away. His bitch wasn't being submissive...can't have that now can we? A low growl rumbled from his throat, and it stuck her like a needle. She jumped, scared for a moment, but then continued with that horrible look. Her face was flushed from running, and tears were streaming silently down her hot cheeks. But she remained as desirable, if not more, then before. Inuyasha looked down towards his mate, craving her touch and caresses. He leaned towards her...and then she struck him.

She put as much force as she would allow herself into her strike, as her frustration grew with each passing second. She was expecting him to turn back, to ask what happened, to plead with her to forgive him. She was not expecting him to remain as he was; and certainly not expecting a blow back.

The strength of the strike to her face lifted her up and threw her to the ground. The sound seemed to echo through the forest, bouncing off the trees and forest. The sound reached Naraku through his barrier, the sound reached Sesshomaru through his sturdy castle walls, it came to Sango and Miroku; and it even reached Kaede in her hut preparing herbs. It was the sound that would haunt Inuyasha as his eyes snapped back to gold.

He saw the blood on his hands, the smell of death sneaking to his nose, and worst of all, he saw the crumpled form of an older girl looking up at him. Her check was flaming red, her eyes about to erupt tears. Her black hair fell around her and stuck to her face as the perspiration and tears began to fall. She looked defeated as she arose herself from the ground. Inuyasha struggled to remember what he did. She had said she loved him...but what happened after? What happened to make her look betrayed? As she arose from the ground, she wandered past him, towards the stench of death. The hanyou followed her gaze and saw...

Memories came flooding back to him. There was Kagome's vow of love; there was Shippo, eyes wide with fear; there was Kouga fighting to keep her; there was him ripping through the wolf's throat; there was Kagome; and then he had struck her.

'Shit!' he thought with pure disgust at himself. He turned towards the girl, now kneeling next to Kouga, saying a silent prayer. Tears flowed from her eyes as she sobbed. She lifted Kouga's head onto her lap, and brushed away stray strands off his face. And she began to sing to him. Her voice was soft and gentle, as though rocking him to sleep.

"Been a long road to follow

Been there and gone tomorrow

Without saying goodbye to yesterday

Are the memories I hold

Still valid?

Or has the tears deluded them?

Maybe this time tomorrow

The rain will cease to follow

And the mist will fade into a more today

Some things all the way up there keeps going

Am I going home?

Will I hear someone?

Singing solace to this silence

Zero gravity

Would take less

Is somebody there beyond this sadly aching feat?

Still the road keeps telling me to go on

Something is pulling me

I feel the gravity

Of it all"

'The song of the wolves...Kagome...' He thought absently, trying to think of something to ease her tears. Inuyasha looked towards his love, his gaze completely devastated.

"I'm sorry Kagome...I....really am...." He said trying to forgive himself with his own words. But she didn't look up; she only hugged Kouga's lifeless form closer. Inuyasha looked towards the miko one last time, before leaving her to the care of the wolf-demon tribe. They would take care of her, they could grieve together. The hanyou just needed some time alone, as he knew Kagome did. His footsteps crunched through the forest as he left to find an answer that would never come. But he would return, he had to. But not now...just not now.

He left the tribe alone as they surrounded their fallen leader. They kneeled in respect for him, as one by one, they began to howl to the lost night, and the rising sun. Kagome kept her head bowed, as her tears began to glow in the dim sunlight. Her tears began to sparkle a bright blue as they fell onto his face. As each tear fell upon him, his wounds sealed up, blood vanishing. Soon the wound on his throat no longer existed. His healing was oblivious to the crying girl as she kept her eyes closed, trying to not see the truth. She jumped as she felt a hand whipping the tears from her face. She looked down at pale blue eyes, now blinking at her.

"Hey..." he said as looked up at her from her lap. Kagome's tears didn't seize to fall as Kouga straightened himself up. She hugged him as the rest of the pack looked bewildered.

"Oh Kouga! How? What happened? Are you ok? I swore you were dead! Don't scare me like that! Where's your wound?"

Kouga put a finger to her lips to hush her bombardment of questions.

"Miko Tears. That's how you saved me."

"But I've never been able to do that before!"

"Kagome, you have powers you don't even know about yet. Besides, it was a miracle it even worked anyways."

As he got up, she jumped up to his arms.

"I enjoyed your singing."

She looked up at the comment, tears again filling her eyes.

"How did you know the song of the wolves?"

She rested her head against him as she struggled to find a fitting answer.

"I learned it from a white wolf named Kiba."

He accepted this answer as he hugged her and let go.

"I'm guessing this doesn't change things..."

"Kouga-kun, you will always be a close friend of mine. My relationship with Inuyasha doesn't change anything between us."

But the name struck a cord in her heart. Inuyasha. He had almost killed Kouga.

"I'll forgive, but not forget." She thought aloud. Kouga puzzled over her random comment.

"Nani?"

"I have to find Inuyasha...tell him your not dead. I'm sure he didn't mean to try to kill you for real." She left his embrace to go find the hanyou when a tug at her arm brought her back.

"Kagome, he did try to kill me."

TBC
Confused?:

-""How did you know the song of the wolves?"

She rested her head against him as she struggled to find a fitting answer.

"I learned it from a white wolf named Kiba.""

Me: Kagome's referring to the anime 'Wolfs Rain' (one of my favs) the song she sings is the ending theme song, so since she can't explain anime, she improvised. And I thought it would be perfect for the theme song of the wolves if you've ever heard it. If you want, you can go to so you can hear it. But you probally won't cause TaintedInuSheemeko gave me the song 'cause i couldn't hear it well (check out her fics!)

-"Miko Tears"

Me: Miko Tears was a spur of the moment attempt to revive Kouga. Personally, I wanted to kill him, but then I would have been attacked by numerous amounts of people, that, and I think he's hot. So don't blame me for the absurdity of the tears.

-Inuyasha walking away

Me: Ok folks, think about his personality for a second.

Corey: this is probably the longest annoucnements you've ever made.

Sabbi: but anyways, you people liked it ne-?

Me: I gots a fieldhockey game on sat. GO MUSTANGS! KICK THE CRAP OUTTA THE DRAGONS!

Sabbi: Don't mind her, they're our cross town rivals she just gets wound up.

Me: But once again, I wasn't even able to write until we had a day off, this was all written in a few hours so, I tried.

Corey: FUDGEMONKEYS!