A/N: Howz it goin pplz? I'm in such a good mood today, so I just had to finish writing. I just dumped my so-called "boyfriend" (he was a ttl lzr if ya noe wut I mean.) and so I just couldn't help but start writing. THIS is where Kouga and Kagome are going to become a kind of couple ok? (ducks thing being thrown at Jassy) o ya, n with Kikyo not being able to go into the water in the last chapter, lets just pretend that she can ok? And this is a do-over. So if u dun like it, n u preferred the other one, e-mail me. Or Review! Either one!

This is also chapter five!

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Kouga: Alrite! So Kagome n me are gunna get together soon?

Naraku: And do I get a say in this at all?

Jassy: no you don't. And you won't get any say at all unless you just happen to be able to take control of my keyboard.

Kagome: oh come on guyz! Give it a rest! She's trying to do her best.

Inu Yasha. O sure take HER side just because she's a girl. And can me and Kikyo have more scenes like that? (Lecherous smile)

Miroku: (whacks Inu on the head). that's MY lecherous smile. (gropes Sango's butt)

Kagome: SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!

Kikyo: (gets out of the hot springs, with only a head visible.) Ahem! Did you forget that my body is made out of CLAY? I nearly completely disintegrated in there!

Jassy: (muffles a laugh) Sorry about that Kikyo. Wait a minute, I feel like I'm forgetting something. Kagome, Sango? Will you do the honors?

Sango and Kagome: Inu Yasha is Jassy's If he was, he would not air regularly.

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Chapter 4

Is love abloom?

"Tears, enlaced with the scent of Kagome. It's gotta be her." Kouga thought to himself, part depressed, yet extremely happy. "That means that the plan worked." He ran as fast as he could towards his woman.

As far as Kouga was concerned, he could have had any woman that he desired. The women swooned around him, and would throw themselves at his feet. He could have anyone, any demon that there was, and yet he was drawn to the woman who kept on refusing him. That alone up some fun in the hunt.

"Kagome!" Kouga cried out, trying to draw her attention.

Kagome looked up. In one second, she saw a tornado heading directly towards her, the next second, she could only see a perfectly chiselled chest. Being in Kouga's warm embrace made her feel safe, and she let the tears flow more freely, knowing that Kouga wouldn't call her weak if she cried in front of him.

He brought her to the edge of the waterfall, noticing she had cried herself to sleep in his arms. 'Gods she's beautiful when she's sleeping' He commented as he moved a strand of loose hair out of her pale, tear-stained face.

'She's been through a lot.' He took note. 'I'd better sleep with her out here tonight, so she doesn't become to frantic if she was to wake up.' He had switched the position she was lying in, and she stirred. Careful not to wake her, Kouga lied Kagome down onto the softest patch of grass he could find. He laid down beside her, his arms wrapped protectively around her waist, and his leg laying across her thigh.

With Kagome

"Nngh." She moaned, stirring. When she felt warmth wrapped around her, she snuggled into it, then her eyes snapping open. "Oh God! What am I...Why am I...with Kouga? OH GOD! Please tell me we didn't...' Her thought was broken off as Kouga woke up, yawned, and rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand.

"Mornin." He welcomed, with a heart warming smile that make Kagome's heart skip a beat. Kagome blushed fiercely, finding a new hue of red, as she quickly scooted over, realizing the position they had been sleeping in. 'Kouga has an arm hugging my waist in a protective kind of way, and ...OH god! That just looks so wrong.' She took mental notes.

"Umm...Kouga? Did we do anything...you know...last night?" Kagome stuttered, not exactly wanting the answer to be yes.

Kouga, who had been paying extremely close attention towards his woman, suddenly started staring off into space, with a lecherous grin plastered on his face. That made Kagome blush even more fiercely, and slap Kouga across the face.

"HENTEI!" Kagome yelled, but then apologized, giving Kouga an apologetic look, and a quick appology. "Well you deserved it. Now answer the question. Did we or did we not do anything last night?"

Kouga sighed. 'Unfortunately,' "No we didn't do anything last night Kagome" he answered, kind of disappointed. Kagome, feeling extremely relieved, hugged Kouga. Now it was Kouga's turn to go red.

With Inu Yasha

"Inu Yasha, where is Kagome? Didn't she come back already?" Shippo asked, quite worried. He had heard nothing, of after she had left them. Of course she had stayed for about two nights, but then wasn't there in the morning when Shippo woke up.

"Yes, Inu Yasha, where is Kagome?" Miroku asked, quite curiously. He had not heard of any wandering mikos, or of a girl in strange clothes, making all of them quite worried.

"Keh, how would I know? She probable went back to her own time to get something, or she probably just left, again. But who needs her? We've got Kikyo don't we? Besides, Kagome was practically useless anyways. I mean, her miko powers weren't anywhere near full, and we couldn't even harness her power."

Shippo wailed, and ran into Sango's arms, seeking out comfort that only Kagome could give him. "That wasn't nice Inu Yasha. Don't you think that she would at least said goodbye?"

"Sango does have a point, Inu Yasha. That is not at all of Kagome's nature, you should know that more then anyone here.

"Just SHUT UP ALREADY! Look, Kagome's gone, there's nothing we can do about it. So who cares? She's gone, she's gone. Now if I were you guys, I would start getting used to Kikyo, since Kikyo IS the original one here, not just a copy. 'Even saying that though, that no one cares that she's gone, why do I have such an emptiness inside of me whenever I think about her? It was just like the way I felt when I thought about Kikyo, because she was gone. Because she was gone. Wait, why do I care? It's not as if I...love her...' but not even saying that he didn't love Kagome was hard to admit. 'Do I? love Kagome that is.' "No it isn't possible!" Inu Yasha had yelled in a whisper.

"Inu Yasha?" Kikyo had asked, "is everything alright?"

"Huh?" the sound of Kikyo's voice had snapped him out of his daze. "Yah I'm fine."

With Kagome

"Mmmmm. This tea is delicious." Kagome commented Kouga on his ability to actually make something without burning himself. 'Not that surprising, since I'm sure that he's probably had like a few decades to try. Or is he my age?' Kagome mused. While Kagome was drinking the green tea that Kouga had made her, Kouga went hunting, and being very successful, killed three deer.

"Kouga? Why did you get so much?" Kagome asked, quite curious as to why he had eaten that much, since there was no one else but them and the waterfall creatures.

Kouga whistled, then turned Kagome around, and then lifted her chin. "Look. Don't they seem a little hungry?" Kouga mused, showing off Kagome to his pack. The pack gave wild cheers and started cat calling, commenting on how Kouga always got the woman he wanted. This made Kagome blush yet again, and looked up at them with admiration.

"Wow. There's so...many. I take it your pack has gotten a lot stronger since I last saw them." Kagome admired.

"Yes. We have gotten quite farther, now that we've been collecting the shards as well." Kouga eyed Kagome's chest, only slightly looking for the shard necklace. (ok guyz, u noe wut he's thinking) not all that surprised when she had found what seemed about a third of the jewel itself.

Kagome, feeling Kouga's eyes on her breasts, surprisingly, didn't slap him. Instead, she figured that boys will be boys, and perverts will be perverts.

As the next few days past, Kagome was feeling herself grow more and more attached to Kouga and his pack. This was no doubt a sign that Kagome was ever so slowly getting over Inu Yasha, as she began to return to her usual carefree self.

'Now that Kagome's returning back to my woman, what's she going to do with herself?' Kouga pondered.

But in Kagome's opinion, some of the younger wolves did get on her nerves. Since she was human, and a miko at that, the cubs kept on asking her questions that never seemed to stop coming. It was almost as if they had waited until they saw Kouga with a woman and then barge her with questions, trying to scare her off. But since Kagome did have a younger brother, this was almost completely natural to her.

One day, whilst Kouga was off hunting, all of the young pups and cubs gathered around her, hunger in their eyes. But this was a hunger of knowledge, not a hunger of fresh human flesh, so Kagome was not frightened. One of the younger cubs came up to her and started the morning ritual.

"Kagome?" Kogari ran up to her and asked.

"Yes Kogari?" Kagome responded, not really wanting to know what the young wolf's question was going to be.

"I was just wondering..." and as if on cue, the rest of the wolves surrounded her and shot out questions almost all at the same time.

"Why is your kimono so short?" "Why do you look different then other humans some of the time?" "Why do you SMELL different from the other humans?" "What do you do whenever you leave us for a few days?" "Why is your hair so soft and tangle-free?" "Why do you keep refusing to be Kouga's woman?

"Whoa! Only one question at a time! I'll answer all of you questions, just slow down." Kagome had barely time to put in before more questions were left in the wind.

"First of all, my SKIRT is so short because it's the style that I'm...asked... to wear. I might look a little different from other humans once in a while because, well where I come from we have an appearance enhancer called 'make-up' but I so rarely use that, because well I don't really have a use for it. Unless I want to look like a hooker" Kagome muttered that last part under her breath.

"Now, I smell different because I use..." Kagome paused, fumbling through her bag, not exactly knowing how to explain deodorant. "I use this! This is called deodorant. Now if I put it on, and I sweat, then all of my sweat will smell like whatever flavor of deodorant I have put on. This is...Jasmine and Kiwi (ggr...stupid computer sais Jasmin is Jasmine), so that would mean, had I run for five minutes non-stop, instead of smelling like sweat, I would smell like this deodorant," she explained, passing around the stick of deodorant, never seeing anyone or anything so interested in her before, accept Kouga of course.

Rummaging through her bag once more, she found a bottle of shampoo and another bottle of conditioner. "Now another reason I might smell different from the other humans is because if you wash your hair with this stuff whenever you bathe, it makes you hair soft and silky," she explained, passing around the shampoo. "Now after you put the shampoo in and rinse it out, that thing that you have in your hands Mukiya, one would put in this stuff right here, called conditioner," she explained, holding up the conditioner bottle.

'Oh my god, is this what it's like teaching kindergarten students?' Kagome wondered, in a slight daze. "Now what the conditioner does is makes your hair all soft, and knot-free."

"And now for the last question. I resisted being Kouga's woman because..." Kagome didn't know what do say. Whenever she thought of Kouga, her heart almost skipt a beat. But when she thought of Inu Yasha, her heart didn't hurt nearly as much.

"Well... I don't know what to say." Kagome murmured, feeling a little embaraced.

With that, Kouga jumped down from the tree he had been hiding in, jumped down, and picked up Kagome in his arms, bridal style.

"Kouga," Kagome whispered softly under her breath, and accepted the warm embrace. She leaned her head onto Kouga's perfectly chiseled chest, and took in a deep breath. She felt so safe, as if nothing could ever happen to her while she was with Kouga.

But Kouga, being the kind of demon he was, took advantage of Kagome's faith and trust. He started taking one of his hands a little farther south then he was supposed to, and his other hand a little to far up north than he was supposed to.

"Ahem?" Kagome excused, trying to grab Kouga's attention before he went completely out of it and started doing something that Miroku would most likely do. But with that one little murmur, it was enough for Kouga to realize how far he'd gone, and turned deep crimson. "It's alright" Kagome pardoned him, knowing he would only make up a cheap excuse.

With Inu Yasha

"So Kikyo, what do you think of us now that it's been about a week that you've been traveling with us?"

"You're all very kind for accepting me as the new Kagome," Kikyo responded slyly. "And I know that I'm not Kagome, and she is not me, and even if Inu Yasha can't see that," she said in a teasing tone, "I hope I can be almost as good of a friend as Kagome was to all of you."

"Well she doesn't seem that evil" Shippo piped up.

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Kagome: There we go! Look, the new chapter's up! Aren't you happy now? You can't flame Jassy because she updated as soon as possible and missed many homework bonuses because of it.

Jassy: (sigh) it's all true. But oh well. Enough about me. How did all of you like this story? Oh yeah, don't forget this is a chapter four and five combo!

Sesshy: (glares at Jassy evily) well maybe if you put ME in it,

Jassy: fine then. I might put you in stealing Kagome to get the tetsuseiga, or no wait, that would be Kikyo you'd have to steal.

Sesshy: Nooo! Don't make me steal that walking pile of mud!

Jassy (click) there. Now you have to! (evil laughter)

Kikyo: o great. It's bad enough I have to put up with Inu Yasha, now I have to get stolen by him? HELLO! I have a life you know!

Jassy: Not really though, remember you're dead?

Kikyo: oh yeah.

Jassy: Ne wayz, R&R PPLZ! Demoya arigato!

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Hi: Yes I'm sorry, I really don't like making Inu Yasha a jerk, but it was kind of mandatory for that part of the story. Sorry.

Sango-no-kawaii-taijiya: Thx, I need all the praise I can get. No one seems to be all that liking my stories ne more, but I give then credit for being such honest inu/kik lovers. And I now you and Kagome just have something else is common. Do you think I should use some of my huge Japanese vocab in here? :P

Lost-in-dark: well what can I say? I guess this story is just very addictive. Or maybe its just because of these long chapters, unlike this one of course. . Good for you that you're a Inu/Kag fan, and I might write a inu/kag fanfic, so don't worry about it. As soon as I get an inspiration, I'll be right on it.

Horse-demon: hey, thanks for the praise. Can you believe that no one so far has flamed me? jumps with joy