1Dudes everybody sorry for the long update. I have a life ya know. Well I really worked hard on this chapter. I used a lot of big words! Being in ib- english helps a lot so I think the writing will be much better. The plot thickens! I'm so excited I'm really into this story. Maybe quicker updates maybe not, I still have to keep up with my 2 other stories. Which I say are going great too. Band has taken up a lot of my time, with 3 practices a week sometimes more, and competitions Saturady that last the whole day. Well Football season is over therefore marching band is over! It was really fun but I'm glad it's finished. Also let me know if you guys want this to be a long story or a medium one. I don't know the ending yet but I do know some possible things that I want to happen. Just tell me if your sick of it no more, or yes please do more. Either way I'm going to do what I feel is right but it's nice to have other people's opinions. Ok well let me thank my reviewers! Thank you for explaining to me all the lingo.
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Everlasting Wishes
Chapter 9
The Cold Hard Truth
Yumi was absolutely frozen in shock. Her eyes wide as dinner plates. Kouga walked toward her, a scowl on his handsome face. "What's wrong with you human?" he snarled at her. Yumi made no attempt to even change her facial expression, as permanent surprise was etched across it. "I'm talking to you filthy human! Say something dammit!" Kouga growled and stalked across the cave. He stood firmly in front of her. Since Yumi was sitting down, she had no choice but to look up at him. "Say something bitch!"and with that he pulled his hand back and viciously slapped her in the face. Yumi's head snapped to one side. Her expression of awe and wonderment vanished, replaced by sadness, disappointment, and fear mixed in too. She stood up in front of him, almost nose to nose, tears leaking out of her big brown eyes, streaming down her face, making tracks in dirt.
"I don't understand." she whispered. "You're supposed to be kind and somewhat arrogant. Not cold hearted." tears continually raced down her cheeks, causing it to become even muddier.
"I am who I am human." he snarled at her. "I only saved your sorry mortal butt because Maru here took a liking to you." he crossed his arms across his chest and sneered at her. "Now leave my territory before I have to shred you to pieces."
Something in Yumi snapped and she took a big breath and began saying, while sobbing at the same time, "I wished I could meet you for the longest time! I don't normally live in this era, and I have no idea how I got here either! But somehow I did! And for what! I wanted to meet my hero, my favorite character in the whole series! The hottest one of the all! Instead I get attacked by bloody demons, regular animals and not to mention some crazy girl with red hair summing up that I'm not a threat! Not worth it! This was supposed to be my dream! What was I thinking? This whole place is a complete nightmare! Not only that but each day food gets more and more scarce! Look at me!" Yumi pulled her tattered shirt off, revealing her only in her bra. Her ribs showed very clearly, all too clearly for the leader of the wolf demons. Her skin looked strained too as if pulled so tightly on the bones that the color was turning gray. "Wanna know the last time I had more three bites! About a month! BEFORE I EVEN GOT HERE!" Yumi's ranting and raving had grown in volume but she kept on going even though her energy was running out.
"ALL MY FRIENDS THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY FOR BELIEVING IN A COMIC BOOK! BUT NO! I THOUGHT SOMEONE AS COOL AS YOU WOULD BE REAL! YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE UP A PERSON LIKE YOU! I KNOW EVERY BATTLE SINCE YOU MET INUYASHA! I KNOW ALL ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT KAGOME, HOW YOU FOUGHT THE BIRDS OF PARADISE, AND WON, EVEN THOUGH YOU LOST ONE OF YOUR JEWEL SHARDS TO INUYASHA! I KNOW EXACTLY WHEN YOU FACED SESSHOMARU! I KNOW IT ALL! THOUGHTS! WHAT YOU SAID! I KNOW YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH KAGOME ! YOU PLAN ON KILLING INUYASHA AND STEALING HER AWAY! BUT IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE YOU COULD NEVER KILL ANYONE YOU'VE BECOME KINDER, OBVIOUSLY NOT THOUGH JERK, AND INUYASHA WILL ALWAYS BEAT YOU WITH HIS TETSUSAIGA AND KAGOME DOESN'T LOVE YOU!" Yumi shouted her last comment, took another breath and then fainted, collapsing to the floor with a thud.
The silence in the cave was so thick you could cut it with a knife and spread it on bread. The motherly wolf demon, standing in the back, had pressed one hand to her ear, and the other clasped to her mouth in shock and surprise. Many stunned and curious heads peeped into the cave. Some peering over others shoulders. The little warrior pups, had their mouths hanging open in disbelief. No one in history had ever spoken to Kouga like that, except for maybe Kagome.
The older wolves slunk away afraid to get caught hearing the whole episode, but the younger ones stayed.
"Kouga why did you hit her? I liked her! Was all she said true? Is she going to be ok?" Maru had come up behind Kouga and was now crouching next to Yumi. He looked up at his wolf leader with great pleading eyes. "Why Kouga?" And with Maru's innocent remark, Kouga growled and stalked out of the cave and in a whirlwind was gone from sight and scent.
After Kouga had departed the young wolf pups ran up and circled Yumi, giving cries of despair. The motherly wolf pushed her way to the front and knelt down near Yumi's head. "Shoo pups, go play somewhere, she will be fine." Most of the little wolfs grudgingly diverged elsewhere.
Yumi felt as if someone had taken a hammer to her head. It all seemed like a dream, going to the fuedal era, living there and fighting demons, continuously getting captured, then yelling at Kouga to his face. It could never really have happened... Yumi took inventory of her surroundings, she was not in her room. The place she was in was dark and smelled slightly musty, yet food smells came from the only source of light- the round entrance- where sunlight streamed in. She felt very warm, like she was wearing a fur coat. Sitting up she saw many small furry bodies curled around her dozing peacefully.
Yumi was in a cave with wolves- no wolf demons. So it had not been a dream after all? She had really screamed in Kouga's face... Oh my god. He surly despised her now. Carefully untangling herself from bodes Yumi rose and made her way to the entrance.
Outside the same motherly wolf demon from before, stooped over a pot, stirring it while keeping the fire underneath it ablaze. Slowly Yumi approached her. "Oh good morning!" She set her stick down that she was poking the fire with, and snatched up a clay bowl, which she commenced ladling stew into. "You sure can sleep let me tell you. It's been a day since you first woke up till now." She chuckled, and Yumi smiled at the joke.
"I um thank you very much for caring for me." Yumi sat down on a nearby rock but continued eating and talking.
"You must have had some effect on Kouga, because he didn't return last night." the older woman said. Yumi glanced down at her feet feeling ashamed.
"I really don't know what came over me. He isn't like that in the book though." The woman gave a puzzled look.
"Book?"
"Oh it's nothing, I had heard about him somewhere else and he had sounded much...nicer."
"I see, well I expect you're going to want to bathe. You're absolutely filthy dear." She handed Yumi a basket. "There is a hot springs behind those trees." she then added, "But don't worry no one will come peeping, we teach them young not to pry at bathing females." Yumi smiled, again.
"I really do appreciate this. You're very kind."
"Oh stop, it's nothing, now go wash." The older woman patted her lightly in the direction of the hot springs. "By the way, what is your name honey?"
"My name is Yumi."
"And you may call me Ona."
Happily Yumi trotted down to the water. Her worries gone at least for now.
Kouga tore up the country side, with his lightning fast speed he raced for miles. What that girl had said was all true. But who was she? She smelled an awful lot like Kagome but not quite, like a different version almost. How did she know all that about him? The only ones who knew of his love for Kagome was a few members of his pack, InuYasha and his friends, and Kagome of course. It was like she had watched him since he had met InuYasha. Wait a minute...this all started when he met InuYasha. He must be behind this! In the blink of an eye, Kouga changed directions heading instead to the West. He would track InuYasha down, find out what kind of demon he had set on him and kill him. Simple as that.
Kagome hummed as she finger combed through InuYasha's hair. He had such lovely locks it was a shame he didn't care for it much. "Ouch, are you yanking back there on purpose?" he growled, irritated.
"No silly, I'm taking out these nasty snarls, which you seem to collect all the time." Kagome replied sweetly. She giggled as he fidgeted uncomfortably. InuYasha froze after a moment and said sternly, "Kagome get back Kouga's in the area..." Not three seconds passed when sure enough a whirlwind sped up to them, then settling down to reveal a very angry wolf youkai.
"InuYasha..." Kouga growled irately. InuYasha stepped up in front of Kagome, hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga.
"What do you want, wolf boy?" he challenged
"What is this spy demon you have set on me?"
"What are you talking about? I haven't set a spy demon on anyone! As if I even knew how! Do I look like a dark priest to you?"
"InuYasha there is a human-demon wench, she knows everything about me, about you, about everything!"
"What are spewing about?"
"The wench! Who is she!"
"I said before I don't know what you're talking about! And what the hell is a human-demon? Does that even make sense!" InuYasha shouted at him.
"It's an oxymoron." Kagome quipped up from behind InuYasha.
"Yeah did you hear that! You're an oxymoron! Now get out of here before I make you really wish you hadn't come." InuYasha yelled.
Kouga quieted. If InuYasha had not sent this creature to him then who did? And what was she talking about when she said she didn't normally live in this era? Kouga puzzled over this for a moment, then with a glare he raced off leaving Kagome, and InuYasha in the dust, very much confused.
Yumi examined herself. Ona had downright refused her semblance of clothes, because they were in tatters, and no matter how hard anyone tried those clothes would reek of blood, dirt, and sweat for the remainder of their short lived lives. She had instead given Yumi a fur wrap for her lower area, and a fur wrap for her upper area. The overall effect was that Yumi looked just like a member of the tribe. The only difference being that she had objected to the heavy armor, so instead she wore a wrap covering her endowed assets, and the traditional kilt-like fur wrap. With the assistance of Ona, her hair was pulled back, and it's curly masses braided in two long ropes. The remnants of her long forgotten mohawk hung framing her face, like obscene bangs. All in all she looked much better than when she had first arrived at the wolf camp.
Ona made a plate and handed it to Yumi, it was her fourth meal that day. The old motherly demon insisted that Yumi make up for all the meals she had missed. Eating a lot at one time wouldn't be wise, so that's why she made meals throughout the whole day for her. It was a start on her recovery process.
Many of the little warriors shamelessly pestered her to tell them about all that she had seen, her strange clothing, odd habits and weird customs. She told everything, except when the questions got to blatantly personal.
"Yumi? Why are there so many metal things in your ears?" Maru asked, puzzled as he examined the gold rings and studs that decorated her ears.
"I um don't know why. I guess because it pisses my mom off and it looks pretty."
"But why would you want to make your mother angry?"
"I don't know, sometimes parents are unfair, so you just have to rebel."
"What does rebel mean?"
"Well I guess it means to break free, and be different, and resist authority."
"I think I know what you mean, but my mama would tan my hide if I tried to rebel."
"Hahahaha, oh Maru, stay young and carefree, while you don't have anything to rebel against yet."
"Ok!"
They both enjoyed talking, to one another. Yumi taught Maru how to scowl, and Maru taught Yumi how to fish. Yumi who had only older siblings, found it refreshing to be with someone so much younger than herself, and still have fun. At nights all the little cubs surrounded her while she told classic tales from the future. Like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mulan, and other stories.
(A.N. Sorry to interrupt but I just wanted to say that Mulan is my favorite classic disney movie!)
After a story for the night everyone fell asleep, around her cuddled into small balls, everyone leaning on someone else. It was quite comfortable actually.
After a week, Yumi began to gain back her lost weight, color filled her ashy cheeks, and her bones no longer visible. Her hair even looked shinier. Everything seemed to be turning up, except for one thing she could not forget. Kouga. Where was he? Why did he not return? Did she repulse him that badly? Why is he staying away for so long? What was he planning?
Sometimes Yumi tossed and turned in her dreams, scared of what might happen if Kouga sent her away. She had come to love the pups, and Ona, and even Ginta and Hakkaku who she had met when they came back from guard duty. Just like she had come to love Kouga she had loved the tribe now. And even though Kouga had roughed her up, by smacking her and snarling at her she still felt something for him. It was small, but there nevertheless.
Kouga prowled restlessly through the forest. He had given up on the thought that InuYasha might have done this, although a teeny part of him wanted to blame the hanyou still. How could this mysterious girl show up out of nowhere? There was only one way to find out... He would have to ask her himself. With a one track mind, Kouga flew with his never-ending energy to his wolf camp. Where he would the girl that haunted his thoughts, and raced through his concept.
At the camp, he found things much unlike how he had left it. There were pups running around everywhere, while onlookers laughed gaily. Some of them hid behind bushes or shrubs and trees, while one of the ran around searching for them. It was a queer sort of game, something he had never seen before. This was not his concern though, he eagle-eyed the area searching for his target. There hiding behind a boulder, peeping out every so often to giggle at the searcher who was still frantically looking for people sat the mystery girl. Who had in the week since he was gone changed from the tearful overemotional girl, to the laughing spirited female who played with the pups as if she were no older than one of them.
Silently he dashed toward the boulder from behind. He was now standing behind her, his shadow fell across her so that she turned to see what was blocking the light. As soon as she was fully turned and had saw who was standing there her eyes popped and she let out a gasp which was muffled as Kouga grabbed her. One hand over her mouth, the other roughly picking her up, he bolted out of there, with the struggling girl in his arms.
Over the river and through the woods, over five miles of terrain later, Kouga tossed Yumi to the ground. She quickly scrabbled up and backed away terrified. Coldly Kouga said to her "Who are you?" Yumi's eye twitched as her face heated with anger.
"You brought me this far away to ask me my name!" she screamed at him. Kouga gently shook his head yes, as if that was obvious... Yumi took a few deep breaths before answering him again. "It's Yumi, now take me back or Ona and Maru especially will worry."
"How do you know about me? He asked. His frostiness still firmly in place, although he was shocked she was more worried about others who would worry about her.
"Look, even if I tried to explain it you would not understand. Let's just say I'm not from this era ok?"
"Try me. Are you from Kagome's era?"
"Well kind of. I'm actually a little bit after Kagome, more into the future."
"I see, and how is it that you seem to be an expert on me?" Now Yumi really blushed, how was she supposed to explain her being in love with him? It was the equivalent of a teenage girl and Brad Pitt, people just knew what they were talking about, no one had to explain anything. This was the same thing-almost.
"I read about you in a scroll. You were umm my favorite character." Kouga stayed silent processing what she had just said.
"So how did you get here? Did you fall down a well?"
"Well no, I don't know how I got here really, but it was definitely not a well. I just kind of wished and the next morning, I woke up here."
"Hmmmm." Kouga's wintry attitude was wearing down a little. He sat down on the ground and gestured for to do the same.
"In this scroll, did it mention an woman who was preistess?"
"That depends, there quite many. Kagome off course the most important, but I already I told you I knew about her well. Then probably Kikyo, then maybe Kaede."
"Thats it!" He snapped his fingers and pulled her up too. "We must see Kaede!" With an insane grin he grabbed her around the waist and jolted back through the woods.
At least this time Yumi knew where they were going... To see Kaede...