Me: Hello! Back again with another chapter. Hope you enjoy it!
"Kagome.." a choked whisper slipped from him. Were his eyes deceiving him? She was here. In front of him.
"Hello Kouga...Hello ayame." she bowed her head.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN SHE LEFT!" sango's screeching voice hurt the half demon's ears.
"She left." he repeated numbly, of course he was going to tell her the truth, but he was afraid of the demon slayer.
"That doesn't sound like kagome, she would have a reason." she crossed her arms, her eyes slanting in suspicion
"After she caught me with kikyo..she left." his ears falling flat, kikyo stepping out from behind him, having gone through the open doorway
"You bastard." sango's voice was filled with hate, her arm grabbing the nearest object she could find, swinging it at the half demon, he ducked just in time, shards of the pot spilling on the floor behind him
"sango , love, please calm down," mirokou said, trying to hold his pregnant wife's arms,"it's not good for the baby to" he was immediately shushed when she turned around and glared at him
"You!" her finger pointing at the priestess, "bitch, how dare you come between them, and you!" her voice rising higher as she looked at inuyasha, angry tears threatening to spill, hormones be damned she thought, "kagome gave you everything, she gave you friends, a home, she waited for you, why couldn't you do the same?" she was ready to choke him when kikyo's voice broke through
"He waited for me, we were mated, once that happened he was bound to me forever, even after death he can't move on."
"You were what! So you thought you could just lead kagome on! Until when? ANSWER ME." she screamed, tears running down her face at the thought of her best friend
"I-I didn't know how to tell her." he finally admitted looking down at the ground in shame, feeling bad making his friend cry, if they were even friends anymore
"Get out." she spat out
"Please sango,"
"GET OUT" she screamed hurling another object, this time hitting it's aimed target, the vase hitting the half demons head
The room went quiet, every wolf and demons heads were looking at her, unsure how to react, of course they had missed her but their leader, he went almost mad after she had disappeared. Kouga went mute, looking as if he had seen a ghost.
"kouga?" crap, was it a mistake coming here?, she started walking to him, he got up from his sitting position off the floor almost clumsily, in a heartbeat he was in front of her, eyes wide examining her, as if looking for any faults that would make him know that wasn't her.
"you're here...you're really here..you're back. Where were you?" a million thoughts went through his mind, the last time he had seen her, she was with that mutt, where was he? After they defeated Naraku he couldn't find her, was when he had asked the depressed mutt where she had gone, he had only received a look of defeat and a "she's home." of course kouga had grabbed the half-breed by the neck demanding to know where this "home" was, but inuyasha had remained tight lipped.
"yea...I'm here...can I..can I uh speak to you privately? And with your wife" she asked, nodding towards ayame
Wife? What- oh she means ayame, my mate "yeah that's fine, ayame come with me" his eyes met her stormy green ones asking her a question, "everyone else continue eating!" he announced, leaving the room, being followed by the two women.
"what can I do for you kagome? Why isn't Inuyasha with you?" just saying the name of his frenemy left a bad aftertaste,he never did trust the hanyou. The urge to hug her almost overpowered him, but he didn't want to seem like the old selfish kouga.
"well the thing is.." how was she supposed to word it, how was she going to tell him that her 'man' cheated her, not once but already countless of times , "I was wondering if it's okay with you and ayame, that if I could stay here, just for the day, I have nowhere else to go.." not true you liar, you still have sango and miroku, and well shippo, but you can't tell him that ." I'll work and stuff to make up for it. I promise I won't be a burden." there done. She just prayed he wouldn't pry any further.
Kouga being ever so oservent was aware that she wasn't telling him the full story, but he didn't want to ask her, at least not in front of ayame, boy did he know that as soon as he told her yes, there would be a huge fight.
Kagome looked at koga and ayame, they were both processing her request, she would not beg, she would take whatever answer. She stood waiting for their answer.
"it's okay if I can't. I just wanted to ask." she was ready to leave when a hand stopped her
"of course you can stay kagome," ayame said warmly, "you are always welcome here." a gentle smile gracing her lips
Kagome felt dumbstruck, "wait, don't you hate me?" of all things why did you have to blurt it out, good going kagome, good job.
"no kagome, let the past die (1). We are delighted for you to stay, as long as you want."
"thank you so much. Kouga, is it okay with you too?" she had to make sure
"yes, kagome, you saved my tribe years ago, we are forever indebted to you."
"you don't owe me anything kouga, I'm asking as a friend, not because of some debt."
"you're always welcome here, my tribe likes you. " he reassured her again, of gods was she still just as beautiful as the last time he had seen her, his stomach coiled, feeling upset at himself with his wife right next to him.
"thank you both," she smiled at the, relief washing over her, "
"If you really want to do something, you can be our healer." kouga didn't bother telling her that his tribe people rarely got sick, thanks to their demon blood, but occasionally in battle there would be a few wounds, mainly the cubs got sick in their early stages. It made him feel a little guilty, but he knew she would be glad to fill in a role.
After eating, kagome was shown to her room by a beautiful wolf demon, her name was aki.
"And this leads to your personal hot spring, only you have access to it." aski rambled on walking through a hallway, wolves bathe? Was kagome's first thought, she would never say it out loud in fear of insulting the demon,
"On the left is ayame's room, and on the right is kouga's room." before kagome could ask a question aki had pointed to a chest,"there are a few clothes in there for you." the demoness looked at her, worry etched in kagome's face "it's not wolf armor, it's human clothes," she smiled, " should you need anything please don't be shy in asking lady ayame, kouga, or me." the demoness then promptly exited the room, leaving kagome alone with her thoughts.
Why didn't they share a room? They are mated, at least that's what I heard when I came back.
Kagome decided to bathe, her eyes closed as the hot water soothed her thoughts and worried melting away. She got out after a while, put on some clothes then fell asleep on her bed, piles and piles of furs overlapping,
She was awoken by tapping on her wall hours later, "yea?" She murmured, still tired, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"It's me kagome, can I come in? "
"Oh yea, come in" she got up from her bed, trying to fix her hair as best she could
"Sorry, I was just wondering if you wanted to go eat dinner, everyone's already there..and I wanted to ask you something too." he trailed off
"Yea? About what?" of course kagome knew what he was going to ask, it was about Inuyasha
"Well..why aren't you with inuyasha? Is he-is he dead?"
Her throat tightened, don't cry, don't cry "he's alive..it's just that.. I had to get away from him."
"Why?"
"We were...we were dating I guess,"
"Dating?" what was that
"I guess you would call it courting, but anyways..I was with him for three years technically, but yesterday I..I uh." tears started forming in her eyes, trying not to remember Inuyasha making out with the dead priestess, "I uh..I saw him kissing kikyo." the damn broke, huge drops sliding down her face, her heart feeling it break for the second time
"HE WHAT?" kouga roared, "I will kill him, I am going to murder that son of a b-" he started getting up, only to have his arm grabbed by kagome, her croaky voice was what kept him from leaving to choke the half-breed
"No please don't, it's not worth it, he had never told me he had mated her...it's my fault really, I should have seen he never cared."
Kouga wrapped his arms around her trying to sooth her, the dirty bastard was mated to her, how dare he string along kagome "I'm sorry kagome...I'm sorry.." carefully stroking her hair, the paid unaware of two green eyes staring at them,
(1) It was a reference to a quote from the Last Jedi, if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it! I wouldn't say it was the best but I enjoyed it.
Also there was waaay more added to this story but unfortunately my computer was basically"screw you" and I lost most of my work :( I managed to save the beginning, but the end part was deleted..