Mirror Mirror Ayame's Tale Chapter 2: Running Wolf, an inuyasha fanfic

Mirror Mirror: Ayame's Tale

Chapter Two: Running Wolf

Archerelf

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Running. That all she could do. Running further. Further from herself, Kagome, Kouga, and a warped and twisted jealous incarnate. The grass grew thicker flattened on the ground as she burned past. Her very soul was burning. Flamed with guilt, hate and a desire to die, she just kept running. She was running away from everything, and it all seemed to nip at her heels, urging her to go faster, and faster. Defy your body and its limits. There's no sense on earth why you can't run away from your problems. Create your own little reality. Hide in it. Make sure they will never find you. And always running. Never resting, no, no rest indeed. There is no rest for the hunter and the hunted. Especially when the two roles are one in the same person. Invisible to the trained eye, invisible to anyone who saw but didn't see what she stood for and what had happened. No pain on earth can match fear. Guilt overwhelms and rises up, swallowing good, decent thoughts. It strikes back at redemption, for there is no redemption to the tainted. They wouldn't feel it. Millions of pricks of needles would well up inside and consume your stomach and slowly your brain. If she didn't keep running, figuratively she would die. The familiar guilt was rising up and tears, but they remained unshed. She would not give the invisible spectators the satisfaction. She narrowly missed trees and rocks. She was past caring about herself. She was dead. If Inuyasha found her, if Kagome found her, if her pack learned…if Kouga found her. There's nothing more exhilaratingly morbid than waiting for doom to come and get you. Its inescapable, and if you fight tooth and nail, you still lose, because that doom doesn't rest when it seeks you out. If physical pain doesn't matter to you, you will certainly be dead of doom's accursed hand. Ayame swallowed back the frog in her throat. It was all over for her.

Ayame slowed and looked at the moon, its unearthly glow surrounding her. If only she could be there. She wouldn't have to worry about demons and humans and half demons. She tentatively reached up, as if trying to touch it. She withdrew her hand bitterly. It was impossible to reach. Kouga. He was the moon. Impossible to reach, yet so desired that the effort didn't seem wasted anymore. But when the sun rose, he would fade away, and she couldn't reach him anymore than she could when he was risen. A lark raced across the sky, disturbing the moonlight. For some reason, Ayame's tears seemed to surface. She soon found the reason. The lark was chasing after two others. But they were always out of reach, totally unattainable. She deserved what Kagome had, a paradise. One with a man or two truly in love with her. A paradise…it too, like the moon, untouchable. She was doomed never to be happy. She needed her own little star to escape on, to forget the past and forgo the future. Ayame slowed to a complete stop. The huge moon wasn't moving. She sank to her knees and sobbed. The tears wouldn't help, nor would they hurt her any.

"What have I done?"

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Kouga just knelt in the sunset, staring at the horizon. He was in a dazed state. Nothing like that had ever happened to him before in his life.

He was betrayed by the woman he loved.

She was in love with his worst enemy

His tribe was counting on him and he failed.

The only person who was willing to stick up for him he had sent away dejected.

He was bruised and battered, thanks to mutt face.

Kagome probably hated him for forcing himself on her. Kouga shuddered on that thought. The kiss was nice, and she tasted deliciously. But there was no love in it. No love, friendship. Only shock, disgust and fear.

She probably thought he was trying to force himself on her.

Kouga groaned. He was digging himself a bigger trench than he thought. He had known Ayame longer than most females in his life. When she came down from the mountains, their tribes had merged to ward off invasion and attack. More warriors meant more food, and more women meant more company for all of the members. The had never been as close as best friends but it didn't stop a bond.

That bond now lay in tattered pieces on the floor.

Kouga quickly inhaled and exhaled. Three distinct scents marked the place. Inuyasha's was dark, deep and sharp, almost daring the nose to challenge it. Kagome's sweet as sugar one surrounded him, but her blood tainted it dark and foreboding. Then he came to Ayame's, the most familiar. It was like an old friend covering him with a blanket in the chilly night air. It was sweet and spicy, full and wide to convey her whole thought on life. But there was a unmistakable pang to it. He never figured out why.

He shouldn't have.

He shouldn't have yelled at her.

He should have been at home for the attack

He was just selfish. All he wanted was Kagome. All he had was Ayame. And he pushed her away, let her tribe be decimated, and he had failed as a leader. Just perfect.

A blade of grass near his hand held a few droplets of blood.

"What have I done..?" he asked himself again. He let out a long howl to the moon and began to walk in the direction of Ayame.

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Gold. Gold and silver. Two such polar opposites. When blended on the face of a beautifully sculpted man, they wren the gods sheer perfection at work. Correction. He wasn't a man. He was a half demon.

Kagome gasped and sat up in ginger pain. She had lost blood. She had passed out. She had been saved.

Inuyasha's cute and fluffy ears perked up as she sat up. He had been lulled to sleep standing up, by Kaede's herbs and Kagome's scent. Her scent was intoxicating to him. It told him a soothing lullaby and could calm the most demonic part of him.

"Kagome are you ok?" he asked tentatively. He walked over to the small bed where she had been laying from his corner of the hut. She looked down. Her entire chest area was covered in bandages.

"the old hag said you should be good as new in a few days…" Inuyasha trailed off nervously. He knelt down in front of her and put his hand on her stomach. It soon moved to her waist as he pulled her into a tight hug.

Kagome was surprised. Her rock, her solid brick wall and iron barrier just suddenly went to pieces. Over 3 stomach slashes. Well, to be fair, they had been deep. Oh God and they hurt. She sighed and returned the tug, leaving a playful tweak at his ears. She loved the fluffy ears.

"I could kill both of those stupid wolves.." he muttered.

"Inuyasha, its really not either of their faults…"

He looked up at her in surprise.

"Well, actually, I could blame it on the small one then. If she hadn't…."

Kagome cut him off there by putting a finger on his lips.

"I can't exactly blame her. She said their village had been attacked by demons and Kouga wasn't there to help."

"So it is Wolf-breaths' fault?" Inuyasha was thoroughly confused.

"No...Inuyasha you're missing the point. Its pretty obvious that Ayame loves Kouga, but he doesn't know or really care. The poor girl…I guess when she saw her idol run away for some reason, she got mad and kinda jealous…The poor girl."

Kagome sighed. She knew how Ayame felt. Kouga was her dear friend but no one deserved this pain.

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Kouga dejected trudged toward the place were Ayame had seen to run. The jewel shards in his legs were going to waste, but it didn't matter. He saw something ahead, laying on the grass. It was the flower he had given her, when they were younger.

'she must have thrown it away..' he thought sadly.

"Oh Kami, what have I done…?"

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