So sorry everyone! I've been busy with band camp and all that jazz so I haven't had time to work on the story. Forgive me! I wanna thank everyone who read and give double thanks to those who reviewed. Thankies everyone! Anyways, on to the story! Oh...due to my dislike of those lines, I'm just gonna have x's for now (··;). Ok...now on to the story!
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Disclaimer: Still don't own Inuyasha...(..)
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"..." regular speech
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italics flashback/memory
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Chap.3-Love is Harder than it Looks
Inuyasha had been totally confused by the way Kouga had been acting. Lately he had become clingy and acted as though nothing had ever happened. Like everything was just a bad dream that they'd shared, but Inuyasha knew better than that. For the first couple of days, he had deprived himself of everything trying to convince himself that it was a dream. That somewhere Sango was slapping Miroku for being a pervert and Shippou eating some random sweet from the future, That somewhere out there, Kagome was waiting for him with open arms and wearing the smile that would always make Inuyasha's stomach jump. Unfortunately, what had happened was real. He looked up at the wolf demon sitting on the other side of the campfire across from him eating and glared. The victim of Inuyasha's glare looked up from his food and innocently tilted his head to the other side.
"Eh...What's wrong? You want some of this?" Kouga held up his bowl of rice and gestured for Inuyasha to take it.
"Aarrg...," Inuyasha closed his eyes and growled in aggravation, "You dumb wolf! I don't want your fucking food!" He knocked Kouga's food out of his hands.
Kouga's eyes turned to the wasted grains of rice.
"I was going to finish eating that if you didn't want it," he said, using the makeshift chopsticks to scoop the rice back into the bowl.
"Dammit Kouga! How could you be so fucking oblivious to what has happened! Don't you care at all!" Inuyasha's eyes began to cloud over with the pain he felt from losing his friends.
Kouga finished cleaning up the rice and walked over to the hanyou's shaking body and wrapped his arms around him.
Inuyasha's eyes widened at the demon prince's touch. He felt a burning sensation rise into his cheeks and leaned into the embrace.
'I don't know what that stupid wolf thinks he doing, but...I wouldn't mind if he did it more often.'
'Oy...What am I doing! Just remember Kouga, this is what Kagome would want. She'd want him to be happy.'
"Of course I care about it, but nothing can be accomplished just dwelling on it. It may be hard in the beginning, but moving on is the best thing you can do right now. Do you really think your friends would want you to be like this? A shell of your former self?" He laid his head down on Inuyasha's shoulder and continued, "I know that I'm the last person you'd want to be around right now and I sure as hell would rather be with my tribe than with you, but I know that the last thing you need is to be alone in this state. If you really want me to leave, tell me, but just to let you know, I intend to stay with you until you're back to normal." With that, Kouga released Inuyasha and walked back to his side of the camp and laid down.
All Inuyasha could do was stare at the wolf's back and lifted his hand up to his cheeks. When Kouga laid his head on Inuyasha's shoulder, the burning feeling in his cheeks had intensified and his heart began to beat faster. He sat down and stared into the fire. What Kouga had said was true. He really should move on, but how could he when pretty much all he knew had just been changed dramatically. His mind was racing at 100 miles per hour going over the last week with Kouga, what the wolf demon had said to him, and then what he felt when the prince embraced him. Inuyasha's eyes snapped open wider than he had ever had them as he realized what he felt. The feeling in his cheeks, his heart rate increasing, he even felt a little something in his stomach. In the past, the only people that could make him react like that were Kikyo and Kagome. People that he had feelings for. People that he loved. Inuyasha looked at Kouga's back once more. He furrowed his brows and turned the other way. There was no way in hell that he could love that stupid, flea ridden, sad excuse for a wolf...Or was there?
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Oy, sorry for the OOCness and the shortness. I'd like to have at least three more reviews before I post the next chapter so please review!