Mirror Mirror: Ayame's Tale
Chapter 6 (happy now?)-Wolfisms
By
Archerelf
Authors note: sorry guys! I'm like 2 months over due I know...I had exams and like 4 mental breakdowns…I haven't really updated any of my stories… bad author!
Okies now onto this chapter which btw was sooo hard to write without inspiration.
Wolfisms:
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The night seemed endless. Kouga was perfectly content to stay were he was. He'd tell you that of course, if he wasn't asleep with a tribe leader on top of him. But as sweet as her dreams were, his weren't so pleasant.
He just kept reliving that horrible and pleasant day…but how was it both? Oh yes, the day his kinsmen were slaughtered was one of the first times of many he ever saw Kagome. Ok sure, he did kidnap her but he didn't ever really get to talk to her. And there's his rock solid defense.
He saw Kagura, fan poised in her cold death-like grip, smiling as the small winds gently ruffled her hair. The monster let off a enormous round of her Dance of Blades…and one by one his wolves went down. The red blood splattered everywhere. Tears were impossible to find. The men's pride prevented it. Shudders took hold as blood was spilt. Viscious moans and unrelenting groans painted the ground as the wind sorceress, that demon puppet, smirked down at the carnage. Their leader was no where in sight…her work was done..
Kouga shuddered and woke up with a start. Ayame's locks spilled across his chest and soon he was looking into a dual set of green.
"What's wrong? Did you have a bad dream?" Ayame was regarding him as if he was a child under a mother's watch.
Sitting up and head bent near his knees Kouga simply took a few deep breaths in. Ayame looked at him in loss, finally settling on stroking the very ends of his black hair. She had no idea how to regard him or treat this.
"I'm ok, really…"
Ayame just sat up and walked over to the edge of the cave.
"they'll think we've mated if they smell you on me." she said quietly. "I'm going to bathe."
Kouga was certainly confused.
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How was she supposed to help him if she had no idea what was wrong? The sun was just peeping over the horizon, even the guards would probably be asleep. Stripping back down to her long undershirt she sat on a rock under the waterfall a little ways from the encampment. The pounding of the water felt soothing.
Ayame groaned…
Stupid mixed emotions!
What if he didn't like her at all?
What if he just pitied her?
Would he ever get over Kagome?
Was he going to repeat hurting himself?
Was he ever going to tell her anything about him? Hopes , fears, dreams? Nightmares maybe?
Ayame sat on the rock for a while. She looked over at her reflection and scowling, hit the water. All it did was reform, as if mocking her.
'What am I doing? I just slept with Kouga! Not that I didn't like it but he almost died! Does it even count?' Ayame's thoughts raced through her head like hurricane force winds.
'Did I start it? Did he hug me first? Are we even just friends? It was almost wrong...wasn't it?'
Ayame yet again took her emotions out on the water.
Why? She had a billion questions and yet only one answer would matter. Was he just trying to sugar coat the truth for her when he said he didn't know? Was it lack of blood?
Oh come on, you have to sympathize with her. It was pure torture. Ayame jumped back into the water and swam to the shallow end, with intention to get out and dry off. She heard a bird chirp behind her. Ayame followed the song and closed her eyes. It lasted only a minute or so but when she looked back up, surprise surprise, her dearest best friend sat up in the tallest branches.
" You know, if we keep meeting like this, the Elders will suspect something is going on," she joked. Kouga snickered.
"Yeah, right. They'd be ecstatic. I could just hear the comments now."
Men, contrary to popular belief, actually to have functioning brains. And Kouga's was just as confused as Ayame's.
Before he had left, he had watched her jog away, for the third time in less than two days.
Kouga glanced down at his wrists. Still bandaged but he realized how stupid it was to do that. It wasn't going to bring anything back except death.
What did she mean by love?
Friendship love?
True love?
Did he love her? Or Kagome?
Kouga had massaged his temples and sat back on the bed. The girl wolf's scent lingered. Spicy and sweet…soothing…
What exactly had he really said to her?
Kouga felt like he was going insane. He just wasn't sure anymore, all of her words were rushing through his head over and over.
And what did she think of him? One rejection hurt enough but would Ayame ever reject him? Even with all the stupid crap he put her through?
Take it slow that's the key…
Back to the waterfall:
"yeah, they'd love that." Ayame's tone was happy but inside she felt a twinge. She'd love that, forget the Elders.
Oy.
"Ayame?"
"Yeah?" She was surprised, his voice had decreased in amplitude.
"Did she bear it? The mating mark?"
"I'm sorry Kouga…it was clear as day."
"Its ok…I guess it'll just take a while."
"Come down here please." Kouga frowned but beseeched her. He had no idea what she was going to do. As he crouched down beside her, Ayame, still soaking wet near the water's line, pushed his knees forward into a sit position and took hold of his arm. She gently unwrapped the bandage and put in the water. The bandage soaked up the water. She glanced back at the scarring tissue. It was healing nicely for how much damage he had inflicted.
Demonic healing, she reckoned. He could have done so much worse but he took the silent and deadly approach. Ayame continued to retie the damaged part and moved onto the next one.
"I'm sorry." Kouga's voice cut the silence.
"I shouldn't have done this. It was stupid…it only made more work for you to clean up.."
"Kouga close your eyes."
Kouga obliged.
"Open them"
When he had she was fully dressed and standing in front of him. She tapped him on the shoulder and her head went near his ear.
"Tag. You're. It." she whispered and took off in a flash.
With an amazed smile Kouga took off after her.
" YOU CAN'T CATCH ME KOUGA!"
Her childish-ness was kinda cute. Little annoying but..
" Oh, now you're in for it!
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They spent the next few hours as 9 year old best friends might. Playing in fields, running, laughing.
Each of the them almost forgot the foreboding thoughts on their minds.
Almost.
As their games continued, Kouga kept on thinking. And as the sun was setting he finally asked her what was on his mind…
"Ayame, what if I asked you to be my mate?"
She whirled around from her sitting position and just looked at him.
"I'd say you might be doing it for all the wrong reasons."
Kouga was flat out floored. What was she talking about?
"You'd be doing it to make me feel better and hopefully forget about Kagome and make our tribe elders happy. You're not doing it for yourself. It would feel like obligation. You wouldn't be doing it because you want to. And asking because you feel bad is even worse. Kouga, you're taking the most sacred things between two ookami and just passed it off as a simple question!"
Ayame's feeling of hurt and disgust were just piling up again. Kouga's inner voice was having a shouting match with his brain.
Ayame got up to leave.
"I'm sorry Kouga, but you know how I feel about you, so frankly, that hurt."
"Wait!" His hand shot out to grab her wrist as she took her first steps out of the conversation.
She erupted.
"Why do you keep doing this to me? I've done everything possible to make you happy and yet I still end up in a no win situation!" She wrenched her wrist out of his grip and stalked away. The tears in her eyes threatened to spill over.
"Then even if you say no, can we please get to know each other better?" His voice sounded from behind her. It sounded….Sad?
That stopped her dead in her tracks. Why on earth would he seem sad? It made no sense..
Unless…unless what she really wanted could come true? For ages she had had a glimmer of hope in her heart, just praying that he would show some emotion in return.
Kouga stood up. Ayame was one of his only friends and even if he didn't know how he felt about her, he needed to make on thing right. He couldn't lose her, no matter how he felt towards anyone. As she just stood there in shock, Kouga went up behind her and licked her cheek again.
"Come on, we should get back to the encampment.
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Ayame had never been more confused in her life.
He was her best friend, but so confusing!
Was he over Kagome?
Did he like her in the slightest?
It would never end would it..?
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Kouga too, had never been more confused. As he sat back down on his bed and put his hands on his head, he knew what he had to do.
The Next Morning.
Ayame felt a pair of claws shaking her to consciousness.
"Ayame wake up! We have urgent news!"
As the sleepiness was shaken from her, the wolf girl blinked a few times against the blinding sun.
"What is it?" she asked groggily.
"Kouga has asked the Elders for you to be his mate!"
"WHAT?"
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AND THERES MY LITTLE CLIFFHANGER.
Sorry I haven't updated in ages again…
Thanks to Kagomes'Pup to getting me started. I almost forgot about this story.
Oh yeah,
Please
REVIEW!
Ok Ps. I keep rereading to proofread, and i keep making Kouga seem like a total oblivious idiot...
im sorry...unless thats true to his nature?
PPS: i'm probably gonna squeeze about 3 more chapters out of this maybe? IDK, after this i'm going back to Apollo and Glowstick.