Chapter 2: The leader of the western wolf tribe

The scenery of trees and rivers whizzed by them as they headed into the direction that Saarae sensed the jewel shards. Shippo was sitting on top of her shoulders holding on to her neck, and it was not just because she was going fast.

Saarae was very fast but Inuyasha was faster and he had to slow down so that he didn't leave her behind. He didn't really know what her deal was; she wanted to give up her demon powers to become a week human so that she could be with some guy she likes.

Kagome was on his back and the movement of him running was enough to lull her to sleep, she had been traveling with Inuyasha for about a year now and had gotten feelings for him, not just a strong friend ship but a kind of love, and Saarae's story of her wanting to become human to be able to be with the one she loved reminded her of Inuyasha and Kikyo, Inuyasha was going to become human so that he could be with her, but then Naraku tricked them into hating each other now Kikyo wanders the earth searching for Inuyasha so that she can kill him.

And even though this is true Inuyasha still loves Kikyo, and every time Inuyasha hears some news about were Kikyo is he races off to find her, leaving Kagome alone to worry about what might happen to him. She hated to admit it but she was jellies of Kikyo and wished that Inuyasha would forget about her.

All these thoughts swirled around in her head as she laid down onto Inuyasha's back and gripped the back of his red kimono, Inuyasha felt this and looked back at Kagome who had her eyes barley open as she thought. "You ok Kagome?" Kagome looked up to meet Inuyasha's golden eyes, "Um Inuyasha do you enjoy searching for the shards with me?" Inuyasha looked forward again, "That is kind of an odd question to ask Kagome." Kagome closed her eyes completely and started to whisper instead of talking regular, "I know, I just want to know how you feel about me, and be truthful." Inuyasha blushed, "You're my best friend Kagome and that isn't a lye." Kagome smiled as she rapped her arms around his neck, "Thank you Inuyasha, I needed that." When Inuyasha felt the small arms around his neck he blushed but liked the way it felt so he didn't object.

Mean while Shippo still on Saarae's shoulders was loving the feel of her skin, she is so soft so why does she wear these really big cloths they make her look fat. And I'm sure if she wore regular wolf demon cloths she would have all the wolf demons asking her to be there mate. Wait that would be a bad thing she doesn't want to look like a demon or have a wolf demon mate! Who ever this demon was that she is support to marry is he really missed a heck of a girl. Shippo fell forward off of Saarae and almost hit the ground, but Saarae scooped him out of the air and held him. She had stopped and it made Shippo fly off her neck, Inuyasha stopped next to Saarae with a sleeping Kagome on his back and Kirara landed in front of them. They had stopped right in the middle of a valley of some very large mountains. Inuyasha slightly shook Kagome to wake her up, and she slowly opened her eyes, "Kagome wake up we are hear." she got off his back and stretched out her arms then looked around, "Inuyasha does this place seem familiar to you?" Inuyasha looked around, "Ya it does seem like we have been hear before."

A shrill loud howl broke the silence that covered them. Saarae's eyes grew wide and she looked down the valley a little ways, "Did you guys hear that!" Inuyasha grabbed the end of his sword as he stared in the direction of the sound, "Sure did!" The sound was even louder this time and Saarae's tail moved slightly, "I should have known wolves! This entire place smells like them!" Miroku looked to Saarae, "Are they yours?" "No they don't sound like black wolves." Shippo got onto Saarae's head and started to shake, "What are they saying!" Saarae tilted her head up slightly so that she could hear them better, "They are calling some one… there leader!" Inuyasha pulled out his sword and seemed to growl, "I know that fowl smell!" Kagome saw the look in Inuyasha's eyes and gasped, "Is it Koga?" Saarae gasped and held her breath. Inuyasha did nothing but stair into the direction of the growing howls, and then he looked to Saarae with a bit of anger in his eyes, "Saarae you led us to Koga's jewel shards! We already knew about them!" Saarae ran off into the direction of the howls with a very scared Shippo still on her head. Inuyasha stared stupidly at her, "Did she just run away!" Sango got onto Kirara and looked at Inuyasha, "I hope not, she took Shippo with her, I will follow her." Kirara took to the sky and headed after Saarae.

Saarae ran full speed trying to find the wolves so that she could shut them up before Koga could hear them. Shippo was on her head holding on to her long black braid, "Saarae what are you doing! We need to get back to the others!" Saarae just kept running but slowed realizing Shippo was on her head, "We have to find those wolves and shut them up, our presets can't be known!" Sango watched as Saarae drew closer to the small pack of brown wolves. Saarae ran up to the wolves and stopped right in the middle of them, then she stared at them for a moment and showed her teeth growling loudly, she didn't want to hurt the wolves just scare them away. And she did just that, they ran away from her with there tails between there legs. But her acts were useless for a small tornado was heading toured them, when Shippo saw this he yelped, "That's Koga! Run!" But Saarae was already ahead of him she was about seven feet away before Shippo could finish his sentence.

Saarae mentally slapped her self for not realizing were they were earlier, "Dang it! How could I forget this was Koga's territory?" Shippo's eyes grew wide, "Do you know Koga!" Saarae could feel the tornado get closer each passing second, "Hey Shippo you know that guy I was suppose to marry but I refused to for I was in love with another." Shippo tightened his grip on her hair, "Don't tell me Koga is that guy!" Saarae drew a long breath, "I'm afraid so."

Sango heard the entire conversation and flew off to tell the others leaving Shippo and Saarae unprotected. Shippo shook his head back in forth from disbelief, "Does Inuyasha or the others know about this?" "No, at least I don't think so." The others were in sight and Saarae picked up speed as the little tornado followed her. What does he want! I changed almost everything about me so he can't have known it is me! Saarae ran up to Kagome and tried to ketch her breath, "He is coming!" Inuyasha stared at Saarae with annoyance in his eyes, "We know. When were you planning on telling us Saarae?" She looked at him confused, "What do you mean?" Inuyasha looked her strait in the eyes, "You know quite well what I mean! When were you planning on telling us that Koga is the guy you were supposed to marry?" Saarae gulped and looked down at her claws, "I didn't think it was important." "Well you were wrong it is important!" Kagome looked at Inuyasha as mean as she could, "Inuyasha why would that be important?" Inuyasha huffed and thought for a moment, "It is import because um… oh what if Koga came looking for her."

Saarae felt like she was going to cry, though she knew not why, "He would have come if it was a long time ago, that is why I changed my hair and were these baggy cloths so that he wouldn't be able to tell if it was me. Because after I left he had sent his wolves out to look for me and they would come out everyday to search, but they stopped coming for Koga had fallen in love with someone else and I was able to live without worrying any more." Miroku's eyes grew wide, "You mean you didn't used to not look like this!" she looked at her black hair, "No I used to were smaller cloths and my hair was a lot lighter and shorter. I had had to go to a witch so that she could use her powers to make my hair longer and darker." Shippo tugged at her hair, "So why didn't you just ask the witch to turn you into a human?" "I had asked her and she said the only thing that could do that was the Shikon jewel." Saarae stopped talking and ran and hid behind Kirara that was sitting down next to Sango.

Shippo went to her a little surprised, "What are you doing?" Saarae peaked out from behind Kirara, "I'm hiding." "Well you are not doing a very good job of it, hear let me help I will use my fox magic to hide you." Shippo pulled a leaf out of his pocket and threw it at Saarae; a large puff of smoke surrounded her. Shippo stood back quite pleased with his work, "There now he will not be able to see you." Shippo had changed her to look like part of the valley wall. Saarae didn't move; most wolf demons were good at staying still for a long period of time, "Thank you Shippo, I promise I will repay you." Shippo smirked, "Oh don't mention it." Sango looked at the twirling tornado heading toured them, "Shhhh, quiet he is hear."

Koga sped past Inuyasha getting him covered in dust, and he stopped in front of Kagome, "Hey Kagome did you miss me?" He took Kagome's hands in his and fixed his blue eyes on hers. Kagome closed her eyes as she always did when ever Koga did some thing embarrassing like that, "Ya sure." Inuyasha's stair went cold as he shoved Koga away from Kagome and got in front of her blocking her from him with his body, "What do you want Koga other than to flirt with Kagome!" Koga smirked and looked around, "My wolves told me they smelled a wolf demon mixed in with your disgusting sent." Inuyasha shook his fist at Koga, "Who you calling disgusting you flee bitten wolf!" Koga only kept looking around, "Look mutt all I want to know is if there is a wolf demon hear with you." Shippo tried to act casual and walked in front of were Saarae was hidden; Koga saw this and went over to Shippo, "I know there is one hear I can smell it. That nasty smell of wet fur and dirt."

Shippo was furious with this remark, "She doesn't smell nasty she smells like fresh flowers and a spring breeze." Inuyasha hit him self in the head with his hand and Miroku shook his head slightly. Sango looked at Shippo with annoyance, "Nice job Shippo." Koga smirked and picked Shippo up by the neck of his shirt, "Were is she!" Shippo looked away from him, "I will never tell!" Koga rolled his eyes and flung Shippo over his shoulder and he went flying into the air, Saarae saw this (for she could see and hear everything from under the hiding place) and because of her instincts to always ketch Shippo she leapt out of her safe spot to save him.

She jumped out so fast that Koga almost didn't see her, but when she stared running after Shippo he smirked and headed after her. She didn't care that she might have been seen she needed to get Shippo. Koga had thrown Shippo with such force that he actually was heading over the mountain. She picked up her speed and almost tripped over her dress so she stopped for a moment and tore it off to reveal her old wolf demon close that she wore as under wear now. The skirt barely went over her bottom and the shirt dipped low over her chest and the only thing holding it on was a small leather strap. Her human dress got cot in the breeze and was heading back toured Inuyasha and the others, when it reached them it stopped and landed at Kagome's feet. She picked it up and looked it over, "Inuyasha this is Saarae's dress! I think she is in trouble, we have to help her!" Inuyasha nodded and helped Kagome get onto his back, and Miroku and Sango got on to Kirara heading off into the direction of witch the dress came from.

Saarae ran up the mountain with speeds she never thought were possible. Running up the mountain she ran past a ledge that was flat, and at least six wolf demons sat on it talking. When Saarae ran by they saw nothing but dust and a flash of black fur. One of the wolf demons looked to his brother a little startled, "What was that!" the brother only stared as the dust settled, "I think it was a wolf gone bazerk." the younger brother stood up and started after the thing, "Come on lets go see what is going on." Just then Koga came running up the side of the mountain and didn't bother to stop afraid he would lose her, though he didn't quite know who shewas. The other wolf demons saw Koga and all of them started following him, one of them was able to get in to a distance so that Koga could hear his question, "Koga what was that thing, and why are you chasing it!" Koga didn't look at him only yelled back to him, "That thing was a female wolf demon, she was hanging out with that mutt Inuyasha and I'm trying to ketch her so that I can get some answers." Koga speed up and the other wolfs were left in his dust.

Saarae could see Shippo he was not to fare away she ran a little faster but she was not going to ketch him in time, he had gone over the mountain and was heading down to hit the very bottom of the valley, if she didn't ketch him in time the impact of the fall would surly kill him even if he is demon. Her heart pounded in her chest he was falling fast she only had one solution to slide down the mountain and pray she wouldn't die in the prose's of saving Shippo. She leapt into the air and tumbled to the ground sliding down the side of the mountain getting scrapes and bruises when she hit the rocks.

Koga's eyes got wide, he had stopped at the top of the mountain and saw her jump over the side and slide down. He didn't know what to do. Inuyasha saw Koga standing at the top of the mountain and ran faster. When he got to the top he put Kagome down and stared at Koga, "Were is she!" Koga didn't answer only watch Saarae go faster down the mountain heading toured the bottom. Sango saw her and screamed, "Oh my god!" Miroku about fell of Kirara when Sango screamed, "Sango what was that for?" Sango was wide eyed and she pointed down to Saarae, Miroku looked down and he also screamed, "Inuyasha look!" Inuyasha looked down and about fell over from shock.

Saarae was almost there, her hair tie was pulled out by a tree branch as she passed. The sliding over hard rocks was really hurting her back. Come on body hold on a little longer for me! She finally was at the end of the mountain she came to a complete stop and held out her arms as a very shocked Shippo fell into them. She gave a very exhausted giggle at the expression on his face, "You didn't think I was going to let you fall did you?"

The other wolf demons had finally gotten to the top of the mountain and stopped by Koga, they all stared in shock, "Is she dead?" Koga only stared too shocked to speak. Inuyasha went to Koga and stared at him with rage in his eyes, "This is all your fault Koga!" Koga looked at Inuyasha quite annoyed, "How is this my fault!" "If you had not thrown Shippo in the first place she would not have gone after him!" "Well if you had just handed her over when I asked I would not have had to throw the little runt!"

Shippo jumped down and Saarae pushed her self up from the ground. Shippo was shocked not just by the fact she was going to give her life for his but by how totally awesome she looked in those regular wolf demon cloths and the way her hair just flowed over her soft shoulders. The cloths fit every curve on her body and made her look beautiful. Shippo blushed when she hugged him, he looked at her back as she held him to her, "Saarae your hurt really badly." she smiled eyes tightly closed, "I don't care I'm just glade you are ok."

Koga saw her get up and stopped yelling at Inuyasha. He ran off down the mountain with the other wolf demons following. Inuyasha stared as Koga ran off, "Hey get back hear you mangy wolf!" Kagome tapped Inuyasha on the shoulder, "Inuyasha she is alive!" Inuyasha looked down, "Oh ya." They all ran off down the mountain to see if she was alright. Saarae was still holding Shippo with her back facing Koga so she didn't see him. Shippo gulped, "Uh Saarae we have company." She put Shippo down and tuned her head. There was Koga standing only a few feet away from her. Shippo got in between them and held out his arms protectively, "You leave her alone Koga!" Koga had not seen the girls face yet for Shippo cot his attention and then when he went to look at her she had already turned her head around.

Inuyasha came down the mountain with Kagome on his back. Inuyasha looked at Saarae very annoyed, "What were you thinking! That was absolutely the most st-…" but Inuyasha was cut off by Koga, "That was the bravest thing I have ever seen anyone do." Kagome leapt of Inuyasha's back and headed to Saarae. She kneeled down onto her knees and looked at Saarae, "Saarae are you alright!" Koga's eyes got wide and some the wolf demons gasped, "Koga did she say Saarae!" Another demon screamed, "It can't be her!" and yet another said, "I thought she was dead!" Saarae only looked at Kagome a little annoyed; thanks Kagome I had wanted that to stay a secret! Kagome only smiled a smile that said, sorry about that.

Koga kneeled down next to Kagome and looked at Saarae who looked away, trying not to have to look onto those two blue eyes of his. But Koga cupped her chin with his hand and made her look at him. His eyes were so intense and she felt her self want to cry. Koga he looked her over remembering how she used to be too skinny and flat, now she was well hot, he noticed her eyes they were fixed on her hands and he looked down at them, she was looking at her claws hating how they looked, them and some other things were the reasons she was not allowed to see her love. Now because of another demon power she was forced to face the man she was suppose to marry.

Koga stood up and held out his hand to Saarae, who confused took it, why is he being so nice to me he doesn't think I'm going to reconsider being his wife does he? Besides he loves Kagome now. Koga still held her hand as she went to Kagome then let go when she gave him a cold stare. Kagome held Saarae's dress out to her, "Hear this is yours." Saarae took the dress and put it over her head pulling it down to cover her body, covering her once again making her look fat just as Shippo had thought, but she didn't care how she looked she just wanted to get out hear.

Saarae picked up Shippo and stood there for awhile concentrating on the flow of energy that the jewel shards make, but all she seemed to do was pick up an extremely mined numbing amount of energy from Koga's jewel shards. Dang I need to get as far away from him as possible so that I will not make the same mistake twice. Saarae with out a word started to walk off with Shippo still in her arms. Koga looked to the other wolf demons who just stared stupidly at her then they started talking, "She sure has changed." "Ya she is a lot prettier then she used to be." Saarae looked at them furious, "I'm not death you know! So at least wait until I'm out of sight before you start talking about me! And for those of you who still don't know I am Saarae!"

The wolf demons some what backed away at her bravery to be able to yell at them. Koga just smirked, "You still have got that well hidden attitude." Saarae looked at Koga the flame of hate she had had earlier slowly dying, "Yes but it comes out a lot less now." Kagome was smiling at the little lover spat and Inuyasha smirked, she had no idea why. Koga approached Saarae slowly and she did the same they were no more then three feet away and Shippo was ready to powns if Koga got one step closer. The sun was high in the sky and made Saarae's long flowing hair shine. Some of the wolf demons sighed, a young wolf demon, about a year younger then Koga, whispered to his brother, "Hey if Koga doesn't want her anymore I'm going to have her." Koga quickly turned around and gave an ice cold stare at him, "She said she does not want you to talk about her like that! Now I don't want to hear another word out of any of you!" Saarae smiled brightly, "Thank you Koga, but they can talk all they want now, for we are leaving." Kagome looked at her and nodded, "Come on Inuyasha." Inuyasha only stared at Koga. Kagome huffed and stamped her foot, "Come on Inuyasha!" Inuyasha looked at Koga one more time before he went after Kagome. Koga had lost her once and he was not going to lose her again at least not with out getting some answers first. He ran after Saarae who was hardly walking but driving her self on for her wounds from falling down the mountain made her feel like she was going to fall down then and there. Koga stopped in front of her so that she could not go any farther. "Koga will you let me pass?" Shippo gave a very evil stare at Koga but he still didn't get out of her way. "Boy does this bring back memories hu Saarae." Saarae felt the flame of hatred begin to rise once again, "What do you want Koga?" she was mad but didn't yell. Koga grabbed her hand and Shippo growled, "I will not let you go until I get some answers."

Saarae was to week from the fall to pull her hand out of Koga's, "Why can't you just let me go and have Kagome fill you in on all the details. I'd bet you would listen better if you were talking to her." Koga smirked and looked at Kagome who gulped, "This has nothing to do with Kagome, this is about you and me." Saarae's strength was fading fast, "I would have thought that my grand father would have told you by now." "He did but I want to hear if what he said was true." Every last bit of energy was gone from her body now, and she was going to fall, "Uh…!" she started tumbling to the ground eyes closed and out cold, Koga cot her and held her tinny body close to his. He was amazed at how light she was.

Shippo had been in her arms but jumped out when she started falling. Now he was sitting on top of Inuyasha's head pulling on his ears, "Inuyasha don't let him take her!" Koga had started running off with Saarae in his arms and Shippo wasn't going to allow him to take her. Inuyasha pulled out tetsigae and held in front of him, "Hey Koga were do you think you are going!" Koga smirked as he ran with the other demons close behind, "I'm taking her to a place were she will be safe." Sango got onto Kirara and then looked at Inuyasha, "I'm going to follow them, find out were they are going then I will come back for you guys later." Sango went off after Koga hiding just above the clouds so that she would not be seen. Kagome went to Inuyasha with a bit of worry in her eyes, "Inuyasha do you think she will be alright?" "Who, Sango, she can take care of herself." Kagome shook her head, "No I mean Saarae. You don't think Koga would try anything do you?" Inuyasha looked off in the direction Koga went, "No, he likes you to much to do anything to her." Kagome didn't know if that was supposed to be a joke or if he was series. Miroku was looking around nervously when Inuyasha looked at him, "Were is the fire Miroku?" Miroku looked up, "Shippo is gone!"