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Ellen Tee: Koga's mate is Ayame, a wolf-demon princess that had met Koga when she was a kid and Koga had saved her from eminent death. It only appears in the anime so it might be hard to understand, but when Koga saved Ayame, he promised when she was old enough, Ayame could marry him. And it's even more difficult to hate Inuyasha and love Kagome when they're lovers/married. They're /married because Inuyasha didn't want to go through a future marriage so they're mostly lovers. Koga likes Ayumi just has much as Kagome, because Ayumi looks just like Kagome, except for the eyes. And thanks for the compliments. Thanks to you (and I'm on vacation from school), here's the third chapter. Sorry it's kind of a cliffy though, but I'm working on the next on right now too. Wow, this is long. I'm going to shut up now and let you read.

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"Ayumi!" Kagome yelled for her lost child. "Ayumi! Come on out! I promise I won't take you back without saying goodbye to your father first! Ayumi!"

Inuyasha still couldn't believe Kagome's story how she was just taking her to the well then Ayumi took off. How could Kagome not catch her? According to Kagome, once Ayumi got to the woods she 'sped up faster than Koga' and couldn't be seen. Ayumi couldn't go faster than Koga. Could she? Koga had jewel shards in his legs, it would be impossible for a thirteen year old girl to catch up with jewel shards in the legs of a wolf demon, right? Inuyasha shook his head and called out, "Ayumi!"

Inuyasha couldn't even pick up her scent. It was like she disappeared out of thin air. Inuyasha shook his head again, the only skill that he had seen from her was the fireball one seven days ago. Other than that, Ayumi was human. Inuyasha listened to all the calls of Ayumi. Miroku and Sango were riding on Kirara looking for her on the forest floor. Kagome was holding onto his back as he jumped from place to place.

Inuyasha looked behind him at Kagome, she was asleep on her back. She had spent the whole night and day yesterday looking for Ayumi. Inuyasha smiled at the woman he fell in love with. He heard a scream suddenly and raced to it. He could have sworn it was Ayumi's scream and that he needed her. He moved faster and saw a line of wind and dirt that could only be Koga. The line had started from where Inuyasha had guessed Ayumi screamed at. He landed on the fallen log and sniffed the air. It was Ayumi, and the stench of the wolf-demon, Koga.

He closed his hands into fists and started after them. He could only see that they were moving in a straight line and every time he jumped closer, they became smaller. They disappeared against the horizon. Inuyasha didn't stop, he knew where they were going.

Kagome slowly woke up from her sleep on Inuyasha's back. She looked around, they weren't near Miroku or Sango. Where were they going? She turned to look in front of her and she only saw the night sky. Inuyasha had felt her move. "Koga has Ayumi, they're going to his den."

Kagome nodded and urged Inuyasha on without saying anything. She still felt terrible for how she over-reacted when Inuyasha had taken Ayumi. She wanted to apologize, but something always stopped her. She knew Inuyasha hadn't brought Ayumi into the feudal era, but she knew that he had wanted her to come. It was wrong for her to have kept Ayumi there, because she would have found out sooner or later. And it turned out to be sooner rather than later. Kagome just hoped that Ayumi would be alright with Koga. She should be unless he was still jealous of Inuyasha and her… Oh god, this can't be good.

Inuyasha needed to rest on the second day of just running. He fell asleep in a tree while Kagome, not knowing how he can stay in the tree, told him she would sleep on the ground. She fell asleep soon after that and only woke when she realized Inuyasha was picking her up. She kept her eyes closed as he put her on his back softly and started running again. Kagome fell asleep on his back a little after that.

Ayumi woke to find her face to face with a wolf, sleeping on a hay bed, with several wolves beside her. She didn't scream, though. She actually thought that it was a very nice gesture. She didn't know why they went attacking her, or avoiding her, or scared of her for that matter. They seemed to want to protect her. She sat up when she heard Koga storm through the caves asking where all of his wolves were. Several of the wolves looked toward the only opening in this part of the cave, others looked at Ayumi. Ayumi watched the surprised look as Koga burst in to the room and see every one of his wolves was just waking up in Ayumi's room.

"Well, I'll be," Koga looked into the face of every wolf and saw that each one wanted to stay with the girl.

"What?" Ayumi asked. "Didn't you ask these wolves to guard me or something?"

"Well no, I didn't, and they don't like a lot of newcomers either. Especially if it was that mutt, Inuyasha."

"Why do you call him a 'mutt?'"

"He's a half-demon, not a full demon like yours truly. That must make you one-fourth demon. I've never seen a quarter demon before and I sure haven't seen one run. Definitely not as fast as you were going."

Ayumi smiled at least, at least one trait she had inherited from her dad. She flashed back to when the fire bird had attacked her. Could her father do that too? She didn't want to think that she was some super-powered freak. She just shook her head, of course he did; all traits are inherited. You can't just get them from nowhere.

Koga walked over to her and sat next to her. "I have never seen my wolves take such a liking to anyone before. What did you do to them?"

"I didn't do anything, I just woke up and there they were."

"Well, I guess it just goes to show that my wolves like you. Maybe they want us to mate?" Koga moved closer to Ayumi. "You know, I never realized just how beautiful you looked."

Ayumi suddenly slapped him and walked out, the wolves followed her. She didn't exactly understand where she was going, but as long as it was away from that jerk, she didn't care. The wolves seemed to know where to go anyway so she just followed them. They took her through a series of passages into a dark tunnel. They led her through a very low ceiling tunnel then out into the bright sunlight.

She had to turn away and wait several minutes before her eyes adjusted to the light. The wolves waited for her then when she was able to see they moved on. The wolves led her up the mountainside onto the very top of the peak. She sat down on a rock as they laid down to rest.

"Why did you take me here?" Ayumi asked the wolves. She didn't really expect an answer, but she just needed to ask.

"We needed you to see," one of the wolves said. She jumped, she didn't know which of the wolves that had spoken, but all of the wolves were looking towards a symbol engraved on the side of a stone.

"Well, I'm either going mad or are you going to tell me what this means."

"The symbol is in your scent. We do not know the meaning of this symbol or how it came to be, but all of the wolves know of it. We hide it from man and show only those who may need it."

"Why do I need it? Am I going to use it as some magic spell or maybe as a way to contact you or what?"

"We do not know."

"Great, well, this symbol looks like a sun, with petals, and it is on a rock. Umm… maybe the flower will grow from the rock because of the sun?"

"We do not know, we only know that the seer of the symbol understands it." The wolves lifted their noses in the air and then looked at Ayumi. "You will be leaving soon. We must take you back."

"Wait, how do you know?" Then suddenly she smelt it too. Somebody or something was coming. "Where do these things keep coming from?" She asked herself.

"You are one-fourth a demon and will have demon powers. You have slept for years. Somehow, you were able to awaken your inner self."

"More puzzles. Don't you guys ever talk normally." She asked exasperated.

"Sometimes, but we prefer the riddles more."

"Was that a joke? Coming from a wolf? Wow now I really have gone crazy." Ayumi smiled up at the sun. The scent of her parents was welcoming to her nose.

The wolves were silent the rest of the trip back, she didn't really need to ask them anything though. Sure she could ask the stupid questions like, "how can I hear you?" but she really didn't need to. She sort of, not really, understood what was going on. Her mind kept wandering to the flower/sun on the rock. What's that supposed to mean?

"I don't know where the wolves are! That girl took them!" Koga yelled.

"Well, tell the girl to get them back here because a snake-demon is attacking one of our dens!" Ayame yelled back at her husband.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you needed your wolves, they just wanted to show me something." Ayumi said quietly as she walked over to the bickering couple.

"Oh there you are," Koga said as he acted like the whole morning experience didn't happen.

"My friends, come we must fight for our den." Ayame ordered. The wolves ran after her as she ran out of the den to go fight the snake-demon.

"Now that she's gone," Koga moved closer to Ayumi, "We can have some private talk."

Ayumi slapped him again and walked out. She walked out into the sunlight. She looked down on the forest below the mountain. How was she going to get home now? She didn't even know where she was. The only thing she was sure of was that she didn't want to stay around Koga anymore. She didn't want to get involved with a couple who are wolf-demons.

Ayumi heard Koga coming up behind her. She didn't want Koga to try and flirt with her again. She wanted to get away. She remembered that Koga had said that she ran 40 miles in eight minutes. Could she do it again?

"Ayumi wait, I need to –" Koga started as she started running. Ayumi closed her eyes and tried to make herself run faster.

"Ayumi!" Someone yelled.

Ayumi didn't stop. She figured it was just Koga trying to catch up to her. She kept running until she heard it again. This time it was a female voice. She stopped next an oak tree and sat down. She listened for the voice, not sure if she should go to it, or if she should keep running.

"Ayumi!" she heard again. She knew that voice. It was Sango's voice. Ayumi stood up and strained her ears to where it came from.

"And just what do you think you're doing?" a voice asked from behind her.

Ayumi looked behind her to see a man with spiky bones protruding out of his body and his cold eyes were looking right at Ayumi. Ayumi felt the evil radiating out of the man's body. Ayumi started backing away, but she bumped into something. She turned around to see a woman with red eyes in a cloak of red and white designs.

The woman smiled the grabbed Ayumi. Ayumi screamed, but it was cut off by the woman. The woman had covered her hand over Ayumi's mouth. "Naraku, what do you want me to do with this kid?"

Naraku! Ayumi struggled more, but she couldn't get away. The woman was too strong.

"Take her to the castle, I'll be back after I deal with the others," Naraku said and started walking away.

Ayumi struggled more and managed to get her mouth uncovered. "Don't you dare hurt other people you, you sick, savage jerk! Let me go!" Ayumi managed to scream before her mouth was covered by the woman.

"What did you say?" Naraku narrowed his eyes at Ayumi.

Ayumi struggled at the woman's hand over her mouth. Ayumi couldn't get out of the woman's grasp, but she glared at Naraku coldly.

"Kagura, you may let her speak."

"Yes, sir," Kagura nodded and removed her hand.

"You jerk! How can you kill innocent lives like that! My dad told me how you slaughtered thousands of people! What were you thinking? Wait, even I can answer that! You weren't thinking about the families, friends, brothers and sister, mothers and fathers, all of those people whose lives you ruined! You're hurting people right now, but do you care? I don't think so! You're such a savage jerk! My dad will come and kill you when he finds you!" Ayumi shouted as loud as she could, hoping someone would hear her and come to her rescue.

"That's enough! Kagura cover her mouth!" Naraku ordered. "If you think your father could come and destroy me, he would have."

Ayumi struggled against Kagura's iron grip.

"Let your father come! I'll kill him in a second." Naraku waved his arm and walked off.

"Jerk!" Ayumi managed to scream out before Kagura covered her mouth.

"Shut up, Kid!" Kagura kicked Ayumi before getting on a feather and flying off to Naraku's castle.