A/N: Hey People! Wuts new with all of ya'z? I just celebrated New Years, so Happy New Year to all that don't celebrate Chinese New Year. Can you believe that whole thing about the Tsunami? They officially declared '04 something like "Most economically natural disaster" year or something.

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Kagome: Well it could have to do with the fact that in a grand total, we've all had four hurricanes and a tsunami. Millions of lives lost.

Sango: Well what could you expect from that time of year?

Jassy: Well the only thing that the East Coast of Canada really felt was MASSIVE RAINN STORMS from the hurricanes. Oh yeah, we also had uumm…. A really bad snowstorm killing about four people on Christmas eve.

Kouga: -stares at Jassy- Are you serious?

Jassy: Yup! All because Mother Nature gave us all Christmas presents! We got a little over a foot of snow.

Miroku: -tilts head to one side in confusion- Snow? That much? I didn't think that they could get that much!

Sango: In Japan, we barely get any compared to you Canadians.

Jassy: Well that's life. If we took a-

InuYasha: Ahem? Try to stay on topic here!

Jassy: Oh right! Sorry! This chapter's disclaimer is:

You'd better not sleep, you'd better not breathe, you'd better not move I'm telling you dude. Santa Clause is hunting, you down.

Shippo: No! it's the fact that if you owned ANY ANIME then it would probably be brought off the air because you never update. The only anime you own is that "The nightwalker" story.

.o0O0o. Chapter 11

Naraku's Twisted Plot .o0O0o.

A small growl emitted from Kouga's throat. Kagome gave Kouga a fretful look. She was very concerned, which was obvious to anyone with proper eyes.

Kouga stretched out his arm in front of Kagome, signalling for her to stay back. Kagome took a step sideways, and clung to Kouga's now wide-spread arm. Kouga lowered his arm, with Kagome still clinging to it fiercely.

Kouga took hold of Kagome's hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. Kouga's face was serious, and he was baring his fangs. His eyes had never left the spot he was concentrating so aggressively at.

Then a royal purple serpent-like beast appeared out of no where. It's face was like a mask, white as a ghost. The mask had a green cross on it's left cheek. There was also a yellow mark from it's nose to it's chin. It's eyes were blood red, with purple irises. But the pupil and iris were so small they were almost lost in the demons eyes in comparison to the red. The beast had no legs or arms, but Kagome was nearly positive that the gleaming, oversized fangs were lethal enough to kill anything it pleased.

Kagome shuddered, and buried her face in the back of Kouga's neck. Kouga stood his ground, defending his woman no matter what the cost.

"What do you want, serpent?" Kouga boomed. Any demon with half a brain would have known better than to pick a fight with the Lord of the Eastern Lands.

"The girl! You carry with you the sacred jewel shard. Give it to me!" The serpent hissed, it's voice a combination of an angelic little girl and the voice of an evil step-father. Just then the serpent lunged towards Kagome. The creature shook the ground with such force that many trees had uprooted.

Kouga grabbed Kagome by the waist and leapt to another section of the forest, easily dodging the giant serpent's fatal blow.

Kagome screeched, and clung to Kouga for dear life. Had he not been preoccupied with saving his woman's life, he probably would have done something to shut her up. He was planning many things through that male brain of his, a lot of them including him and Kagome. Though he didn't need to concentrate as hard as he was, he wasn't about to take this demon lightly, not knowing anything about it.

Kouga placed Kagome down on a large rock. He made sure she was completely stable and was fine on her own before he charged towards the demon.

"Kagome, do you sense any of the jewel shards?" Kouga demanded. Kagome snapped back to her serious self in Kouga's demand. Kagome gave the demon a quick but thorough search. Kagome was shocked, as there was no glow or tingling sensation of the jewel shard.

"There isn't one! Not even a tainted shard!" Kagome yelled out. There wasn't really a problem with killing the demon, but being this powerful without any help from the jewel shard? Kouga was impressed. But that didn't slow him down any from taking the life out of it.

Kouga lunged towards the demon's throat. With the help of the two Sacred Jewel Shards, Kouga was at the demon's neck in less than a second.

But the snake wasn't just going to roll over. Whilst Kouga was taking aim with his claws, the serpent raised his tail high, as if about to strike Kouga. Kouga noticed this of course, and made a slight change in direction course. But the serpent did not attack Kouga. It slammed it's tail into the ground-the impact sending Kagome flying off and landing on the grout quite forcefully.

"Aaah!" Kagome yelled in fear as she was being hurdled into the ground. Kagome let out a slight cry of agony as she skid two metres on the ground. Kagome's necklace snapped, and the bottle containing the Jewel Shards cracked, then shattered.

"Ah! There! The Jewel Shards," the demon lunged towards Kagome, it's mouth open wide and it's fangs ready to kill.

"Oh no you don't!" Kouga slashed the serpent's head. The serpent gave a shrill scream, and let his body disintegrate. Black blood was flying everywhere, as the serpent's body was twisting this way and that before there was nothing left of him corps.

"Cut off a wolf' head and it still has the power to bight!" The serpent screamed as it lunged towards Kouga's torso.

"Kouga look out!" But Kagome's warning came too late, for the serpent had already sunk it's fangs' into Kouga's right leg, letting it's own fangs' venom poison Kouga. "Kouga!" Kagome cried out. She picked up the jewel shards, and ran to Kouga's side.

Kouga was in immense pain. He willingly laid his head down on Kagome's lap and clutched his leg. He was sweating profusely. Where the snake had bitten him, there was a purplish black mark –like an oversized bruise.

"Kouga, hold on a little longer, okay? I'll see if I have an antidote in my bag," Kagome rushed to her yellow bag, and grabbed her first-aid kit. "Kouga, do you think you can sit up?" Kagome asked as she unscrewed the bottle containing the antidote's lid. Kouga was still clutching at his leg in pain and shook his head.

'Oh no. This is bad. He might not make it, and I can't just sit here and watch him die!' Kagome was scared. What she did next shocked Kouga out of his mind.

Kagome took a swig of the slightly bitter tasting antidote and then brought her mouth to Kouga's. Kouga's eyes were now wide open in shock, but gladly opened his mouth. The unusual taste made Kouga want to spit out, but Kagome's mouth was stopping him from doing that.

Once Kagome was sure Kouga took the antidote –and swallowed it, she broke contact. The two stared at each other with a loving gaze. Kagome crashed down into Kouga's arms, and the two stayed like that for a very long time. Kouga looked into Kagome's eyes, and looked as if she was about to cry. Kagome laid her head on Kouga's chest, and listened to the calm, soothing, steady beat of Kouga's heart.

Kouga draped his arm around Kagome's shoulders, and kept her warm. Kagome involuntarily shuddered, then snuggled up to the warmth, burrowing her neck in Kouga's chest. Kouga gave Kagome a chaste kiss on her forehead.

"Hey," Kouga spoke softly. "Thanks for saving me." Kagome turned her head, too embarrassed to look at the man lying next to her. Kouga turned Kagome's head around to face her, but she closed here eyes. She was blushing slightly. Kouga gave a warm smile, and then took Kagome's chin in his middle and index fingers and his thumb. "Hey," Kouga repeated. "Look at me when I'm talking to you," Kagome whispered in her ear.

When Kagome finally opened her eyes, she found she was staring into two lustful blue eyes. Kouga then closed his eyes, and neared his way towards Kagome's mouth. Kagome closed her eyes, and gladly accepted the warm lips that came upon hers. Kouga's kiss was exactly as she had imagined it to be –warm, soft and not at all aggressive. Kagome gladly returned the kiss.

Later, when the two were finally finished with their lustful –yet passionate, kiss, the antidote Kagome had given Kouga started to kick in. Kouga laid on Kagome's lap once more. He then muttered just audible enough for Kagome to hear,

"I love you Kagome." Kagome's heart was beating a mile a minute. This was the man who had devoted his life to make Kagome his woman. This was the man who had saved her from the Birds of Paradise. This was the man who had, on countless occasions, saved her life. Though he had kidnapped her and demanded her to be his woman, Kagome still loved the attention he gave her. Just hearing that Kouga loved her made Kagome want to sing.

Kagome gave Kouga a look and a smile that said I-know-you-do-but-I-still-love-InuYasha. Kouga felt as if his heart would break. He was very tempted to just roll over and fall asleep, when Kagome spoke.

"If there's one thing certain that I know Kouga, it's that I…love you." Kouga snapped open his eyes, and recalled what Kagome had said. Yes, he was absolutely sure that she said "I love you." Kouga turned his neck around so he could look at Kagome, to see if she was lying. When he saw no uncertainty, he leaned towards her, and gave her another passionate kiss.

Kagome gasped, but gladly accepted the kiss. In less then ten minutes, Kouga had saved her life, and stolen her first kiss. Her very first kiss. She had gone all fifteen years of her life saving that kiss for someone special. But Kouga made it more than she had imagined. Kagome was overwhelmed by emotions and wasn't sure what to do or say.

"Kouga, I think in order for the antidote to work, you have to let your body rest. Why don't you go to sleep?" Kouga fell asleep right away. Kagome knew it was the medication, but she didn't saw anything. She enjoyed the fact that the mad who loved her was actually able to open up to her this much.

Kagome dipped her head and gave Kouga a kiss on the forehead. She then strained her back leaning over towards her backpack.

"Good thing I refilled the first-aid kit! I don't know what I would have done without it!" Kagome muttered a sigh of relief. Kagome opened the main pocket of her backpack and pulled out a thin blanket. She then took the pillow that she had taken from her sleeping bag and positioned it under Kouga's neck. Kagome shifted her position to make herself comfortable. Kouga unconsciously wrapped his arms around Kagome's waist, so that she couldn't get away all too easily. Kagome smirked, then wrapped her arms around Kouga.

The two lovers fell asleep in the other's embrace. They slept very soundly, too. Then, in the bushes a pair of green eyes snapped open. Immediately adjusting to the darkness, a female demon ran towards Kagome without so much as making a sound.

The demon had hid both her aura and her scent extremely well. She ran towards Kagome and seized her by the waist, taking her off somewhere without Kagome knowing it.

Kagome's Dream

A Girl stepped outside onto a deck. In front of her is a small forest, just a handful of trees or so. The night is warm and there is a very slight wind.

Just then, something catches the girl's eye. She looks slightly to her right, seeing a shadow run across a wooden railing. She looks back in front of her, then speaks aloud,

"Hello Kouga." There is anxiousness in her voice, but it is very faint.

Just then a man with slightly dark skin, dressed in a fur skort and a cloth vest slightly covered in fur, with long, flowing black hair tied back in a ponytail, revealing his pointed ears and demon teeth. He has a tail, but it is not visible. His arms are slowly rising upwards, preparing for a hug, But the girl takes a step towards him, going for a quick hug.

She was only going to lean into the man's embrace, placing her hands on his chest, and breathing deeply, completely trusting the man.

He also gives her a hug, but is more relaxed. Once his hands are around her waist, the girl gladly melts into the hug, wrapping her arms around the man's chest, placing her hands underneath his shoulder blades. The girl melts into the hug, gladly accepting it and deepening it, mesmerized, almost as if she was to fall asleep.

The wolf demon picks up the girl bridal style, and holds her securely and protectively, as if he'd never let her go. The girl is now more than ever willing to melt into him, but stays awake. The wolf demon leaps onto the railing of the wooden deck and then leaps off into the forest. He keeps leaping but quite gracefully and not as fast as though he had been running for his life.

Just then, a sound is heard in the distance. "Kagome? Kagome? Kagome?" the white haired half demon calls out, searching for the girl. The girl can see him perfectly wearing his flaming red fire rat haori and his silver hair flowing in the wind. He is running and leaping quite quickly. It is not until the two make eye contact that the half demon smiles slightly, golden eyes wide open.

"Kagome!" He exclaims, leaping synchronized with the demon embracing the girl.

"InuYasha," the girl states quite happily, as if she had not seen this man for a year.

End of Kagome's Dream

Kagome woke up quite happily; awake in Kouga's arms as he leaped through the forest. But when Kagome looked to where Kouga should have been, she saw a girl's face. Kagome wanted to scream when her capture looked at her.

"Well I see you're finally awake," the woman spoke. Somehow the demon seemed very familiar. She had red hair, tied up in pigtails, as long as Kouga's hair only it looked as if it had been layered. The girl's eyes looked exactly like Kouga's, only hers were green. No pupil, just the iris. She wore white fur over the shoulders and had the same type of armour that Kouga wore.

"Hey. You're-" Kagome cut herself off as her brain snapped realizing who it was. The girl flashed a hot smile, as Kagome finally remembered.

Flashback

Out of nowhere, a hair demon attacked the InuYasha group. As usual, Kouga had saved Kagome and ran off with her, while leaving the rest of the InuYasha group on the cliff.

Ayame and Kouga had had a very long conversation about the marriage proposal that Kouga had given Ayame when she was little. Kouga was still insisting that he had made no such proposal and that if he had, he couldn't remember it.

Ayame hung her head with her eyes closed. "Kouga and I already have a marriage promise." Kouga abruptly turns around from the rock behind them. He is clearly mad.

"BUT I DONT REMEBER IT!" He exploded. Ayame turned to Kagome and tries to explain something.

"Me and grandpa thought Kouga had the power to settle down our allies." She said. Kagome's eyes were bulging. 'Oh so it wasn't just a forced marriage,' Kagome was still in shock as she told replayed just what Ayame said in her head.

Kouga was currently shifting uncomfortably on the rock as Ayame brought up the subject. Had anyone else seen him, they would have though he had something like a wedgie. He has both hands on his head and is mumbling something barely audible enough for anyone to hear.

"Grrr," Kouga growled. "All of this because of some evil energy. To get them to settle down, it would be easier to-"

"WELL IT WOULD BE EASIER IF WE COULD TALK IT OUT!" Ayame retorted, cutting Kouga off so that he was unable to complete his sentence. She quickly stood up with her fist by her hips shouting.

"IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE OF A SITUATION! To gather them together they need to trust one person. They need to have faith and reliability." Kouga said in a annoyed voice. He was clearly not in a mood to be fighting with this wolf female. "So then that shouldn't be a job for me. What I must do right now is take Naraku's neck. I don't have time to deal with this other situation." Kouga finally got out. He was very stressed and was taking it out on Ayame.

"And why not?" Ayame demanded. Kouga turned completely around. He glared at Ayame as if he was about to explode.

"SHUT UP AND GO BACK TO THE MOUNTAIN!" Kouga bellowed. Kagome was shocked and appalled. She wasn't liking the way Kouga was disrespecting her friend. Even if she had only known Ayame for a very short while, if she liked Kouga then she couldn't be THAT bad. Could she?

"Kouga!" She shouted. Kagome was getting her two cents worth. Ayame was speechless the whole time as she has never seen anyone stand up to Kouga like that. She begins to get upset again.

"Ayame, wouldn't it be better to stop listening to grandpa and do what you want to do?" Kouga says in a softer voice as the hair demon approaches. Kouga can smell the hair demon and announces, "This conversation is over."

Everyone can sense the demonic power radiating from the hair demon. Kouga is very annoyed, and mutters some things under his breath

"InuYasha must've let the demon go. I can smell it and it is nearby." Kouga says with a slight growl. Kagome is very scared and looks for it in the trees. Seeing nothing, Kagome runs over to Kouga.

"Kouga, you have to go back to InuYasha!" Kagome says not sternly, but more out of concern. Kouga grabbed her hands and gazed into her eyes.

"Don't worry Kagome –I will protect you!" Kouga said passionately.

"Uh huh. Thanks for saying your feelings but........" 'Now's really not the time to be talking about this!' Kagome thinks to herself. Ayame is watching them.

"Kouga said he loves her, perhaps this girl Kagome...." She finally muttered to herself.

Just then, the demon finally arrives. Ayame got out of the way in time and Kouga saves Kagome. Kouga tells the demon that:

"I will be his opponent! Either way I need answers."

End Flashback

Kagome is in slight shock as she recalls what had happened to Kouga, Ayame and herself not that long ago. Thinking of how close Ayame had been to killing Kagome gave Kagome the chills. Okay, so maybe Ayame never tried to kill Kagome. 'But that sure is what it seemed like to me!'

Flashback

"Isn't Kagome the girl you said was your fiancée?" Ayame placed her clenched fists on her hips. She was clearly not all too happy about this Kagome girl running around with her fiancé.


 "Fi…fiancé? ..Whose?" Kagome stuttered. What was this girl talking about? Clearly she didn't mean to who she thought she meant.

"To my Kouga!" Ayame exclaimed in a shrill voice. Yes, she was not happy at all.

"Kouga! Why did you say such a thing?!" Kagome was shocked.

"Because I'm in love with you. So it's obvious," Kouga replied, sounding mean unintentionally.

"Ka-Go-Me..!!!!" Ayame broke up Kagome's name as if doing some kind of dissection to it.

"Eh...What?" Kagome turned around, looking sheepishly at the girl in front of her.

"I don't like it!" Ayame pouted.

"Eh?"

"It's close to my name!"

"Heh...It's just the last "me". (Kagome and Ayame)" Kagome blinked, forcing a smile of truce. Then Kouga sniffed the air.

"Kagome, I have to leave now, but next time, I'll bring you back Naraku's neck," he said and no sooner had the words lefts his mouth, he was gone in his tornado.

End Flashback

"She sure wasn't too happy about that," Kagome muttered, forgetting who was at the moment kidnapping her. Her kidnapper just gave her a confused glance and then quickly sped up.

Her speed was nearly rivalling Kouga's when he didn't have the jewel shards. Had Ayame ever known Kouga before he had gotten the jewel shards? Surely she must have, since she only came to the Sengoku Jidai last year.

'Ayame must really love him.' Kagome took mental note. 'If it brings her so much pain just to see Kouga and myself together. Just like InuYasha, Kikyo and me.'

Flashback

"Kouga, you're in a one sided love, don't you see that?" Ayame waved her arms as she tried to get information through his thick skull. Sure Kouga was stubborn, but he wasn't stupid.

"I..I..I don't want it..." Kagome stuttered. She didn't want to hurt Kouga's feelings. Heck, she didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But that wasn't the way the cards of fate were being dealt at the moment.

"Don't make that expression, Kagome. You're going to be my bride!"

"Wh…What?!" Was all InuYasha could manage to get out. He had gotten there following Kagome and Kouga. But neither his eyes nor his ears were able to regain control of the newly heartbroken Hanyou.

End Flashback

"Get down," Ayame dropped Kagome and ducked. A rather large type of bird had found them and it just happened to be hungry. Ayame noticed that it appeared to be possessed by something or another, since the demon itself smelled dead.

"I sense a jewel shard! And it's tainted!" Kagome yelled fearfully. Ayame gave Kagome a confused, yet shocked look of bewilderment at the same time. "But there's…more than one?" Kagome was confused. Sure the bird itself had two in it's stomach, but she could sense more than just those two.

"Where is it?" Ayame demanded, clenched her fists. That's when it struck Kagome. 'She's carrying a jewel shard. And it's tainted! Why wasn't I able to sense it sooner?' Kagome felt like punching herself. Had it not been for Ayame's tight grip on Kagome, she might have killed the bird out of pure rage.

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"That's it Ayame. You keep on protecting Kagome until Kouga gets there. Once you kill the girl and get me the jewel shards, you may then have Kouga all to yourself," a dark man in a baboon pelt spoke. He was talking to a mirror which was being held by a little girl, no older then 8 or so. She had cotton white hair, kimono and skin. Her eyes were as black as her master's heart.

"They're moving," the girl spoke in a monotone voice. Naraku turned around so he wouldn't be facing the girl.

"You may go Kanna. And see that Kagura does not try and escape again, as I shall be lowering the barrier for a short time. And with that, the little girl walked off.

But her walk was not normal. In fact it was more like she was floating, but still shuffling her feet.

"Kagura," she spoke quietly and softly in her monotone voice which was void of emotion. Just then in her mirror, a picture of a wind demon was being displayed. The woman was no older then 24. In her hand was a fan. She appeared to be sparring with someone. Who she was fighting with, is a mystery.

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Jassy: And there you have it! If you can't put two and two together, then you're screwed. Either wrack your brain until you can figure it out, or ask an adult for help understanding this story. O and I'm not going to update until get 60 reviews! So tell a friend! Because I'm very strict about this kind of thing.

Sango: Hey wait a minute. This was purely Kagome and Kouga!

Kagome: With a million flashbacks!

Naraku: And what about me? Don't I count at all?

Jassy: -sticks tongue out at Naraku- no you don't! Because you're a bad guy!

Naraku: -thinks of evil ways to kill author-

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