* * * * *
Koga
* * * * *
Full-blooded Wolf-Demons are married off all the time, and aranged marrages are often part of our daily lives. I had never been subjected to it, and I was grateful for that. But, judging from what Susan had told me before, there were hardly any forced marrages in her time and country, besides the cults that sometimes sprang up. Hypothetically, she was close to my age, but in reality, I was centuries older than her. I didn't realize that I'd even said that out loud until I saw Kebi, Ellie, Julian, Pizlop, and Ruby all nodding their heads in agreement.
"That's true." Kebi said. "But she's a special kind of Half-Demon. She can instinctually change her aging rate to match that of the one she loves." she smirked. "And I'm pretty sure that she loves you a whole lot." she added.
I ignored the last comment.
That's right. I thought. I've heard of that kind of thing happening when I Demon mates with somebody who has magic and they have a kid. I guess Susan is one of those legendary babies.
I glared around the clearing and then sighed.
"Well. . ." I said, shaking my head. "I guess we'd better wake her up."
Hakkaku nodded and smacked her face. I groaned.
"I meant with water or putting her head between her knees." I told him as Susan moaned.
"Umm." she was saying. "NO! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO GYM CLASS!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Then she woke up fully, blushing this really pretty scarlet. "Oh. Hiya, everybody. Did I pass out again? I've got to stop doing that, huh?" She was nervous, and I guessed it was because she'd remembered why she fainted in the first place.
"So-o." She said. "Ahm. . . Uh. . .yeah. . . That was freaky." She looked at me. "It didn't happen, right? My dad did not marry me off before I was even born, right?!"
I shook my head.
"Yeah. It did happen." I told her.
"This is insane!" Ellie blurted out. "She's fourteen! She shouldn't be getting married off just like that!"
She stalked out of the clearing with Pizlop in her arms, going toward Sesshomaru's scent. Kebi followed her, and so did Ruby and Julian, who was hauling Hakkaku and Ginta after him. Litterally.
Susan looked down and bit her thumb with her upper teeth.
"So, um. . ." she mumbled, not looking at me.
I sighed softly and said gently:
"Look, I'm okay with this if you are, but I don't think anybody's going to force you to. . . you know. . . marry me."
Susan looked up at me.
"Seriously?" she asked, her eyes pleading with me.
"Yeah. So we're just going to say no, then? I'll go and tell your dad-"
"No!" Susan gasped, grabbing my arm. "Just hear me out, alright?"
I nodded.
"The reason I passed out wasn't because I was. . . you know. . . upset. Actually, I was damn well pleased. I don't mind this thing, either. I just thought you would be pissed off. Actually," she blushed scarlet again. "I really like you. And I, um, well, I-I sorta. . ." she trailed off, looking down again.
"So, you don't. . . I mean. . ." I couldn't keep the joy out of my voice. "You actually want to go through with that stupid promise?"
"Well. . .yeah, I guess." Susan said, hugging herself. "It's just. . . like. . . I mean, it might have. . . have happened anyways, right?"
I nodded. It almost definatly would have happened.
"Yeah." I said. "Kinda' fast, but yeah."
I saw tears starting to form in Susan's eyes.
"Oh, Gods, don't cry again!" I blurted, pulling her close. "I don't think I can handle it!"
"Sorry." she whispered, pushing back the tears and pressing herself into the cold armor on my chest. But she seemed to like it, somehow, and pressed even harder. I was actually enjoying myself.
And then, unable to restrain myself, I looked down at her and pressed my lips against her hair. She let out a small gasp and stiffened just for a millisecond. I cupped her chin in my hand and raised her head, looking deep into her eyes. Then I brought my lips down on hers, feeling the intensity from the both of us as she kissed back.
"But hey," I whispered when we broke apart. "I want to know what happened to you. The whole story."
Susan bit her lip, but looked up at me with determined eyes.
"Alright." she agreed. "I'll tell you everything."
* * * * *
Ellie
* * * * *
I came back into the clearing in time to hear the rest of Susan and Koga's conversation.
So. I would finally get to find out Susan's whole story.
Our whole group back home had always wondered about our friend's life, and more than once, Derik and Heidi had asked her what had happened to her, but she just played mum with us. Until now. And suddenly, I didn't want to know. From the look on Susan's face, it had been awful. But I had to know or I would go insane.
Koga gently wrapped his arm around Susan and pulled her in close. She put her head on his shoulder for a second and sighed. Then she grimaced and pulled her head up and looked around at all of us.
"Right." She sighed. "So I guess I have an audience now?"
I had to smile. Even when she was so wired she could make jokes. And let me tell you, I havn't seen Susan so wired since she broke up with that jack-ass boyfriend of hers who used her as a mop on his kitchen floor.
"Before I start. . ." Susan said. "You guys should know something." She glanced behind me and smiled. "Me and Kebi are old friends. We met years ago at my house, but she and her parents and siblings left years ago."
"Back to this time." Kebi said. I jumped. I hadn't heard the others come back. "There's a time portal in my own house. My summer house."
Susan frowned.
"Really? You never told me that." She said, sounding a little offended.
"My step-father made me swear never to tell or he's skin me alive and use my pelt as a carpet." Kebi told her, shuddering. "And I wouldn't have put it past him, either."
Susan's mouth dropped open.
"We're hearing your story after mine, got it?"
"So are you going to talk or not?" Koga asked my friend, his arm still wrapped around her.
Susan nodded, her eyes clouding over.
"It all began when I was a kid." She began.
* * * * *
Susan's Story
* * * * *
It all began when I was a kid.
I had a pretty normal childhood, I guess. Well, not really. I was always pretty freaky, but you know, normal for a Half-Demon.
As long as I can remember, the Crazy Cat Lady across the street hated us because of her family and everything. But that never bugged me all too much. It was annoying, but never dangerous. She was so damn desperate to get us out she would call the cops on me if I was walking home from school and she could hear me talking to somebody or singing along to my music. Said I was 'disturbing the peace' or something like that.
So anyway, after my dad left, my mom was pregnant for Jenny. Nobody knew for another couple weeks that she was knocked up, and after she skipped her period, she thought it was stress. After a couple months, though, she realized she was indeed pregnant, and started to start depending on me even more, even thought I was only about five years old at the time.
After Jenny was born and she'd recovered enough, Mom started looking for my dad. Nothing turned up, and I was freaked out. My daddy was gone, my mommy had just given me a baby sister, and I was pretty much looking after myself.
After about a year, though, Mom gave up and started to pay more attention to her daughters. And I was pretty happy. But then, when I was nine, Jenny was four, and we were at that outdoor market with my mom. Like I said, I was holding Jenny's hand, and was looking at some pretty hand-made dolls and thinking I would get the one in the lacy pink dress for my sister and the one with the blond curls for myself when I felt her hand ripped out of mine and heard her screaming. Some guy was running off with her. Me and my mom ran after them but we never could catch them. Even that Amber Alert the police raised didn't do anything for us.
Afterwards, my mom really lost it. She started drinking and smoking a lot and was practically glued to her laptop. She was so depressed she could hardly get up in the morning to go to work. I was in fifth grade but had to walk myself to school and if it wasn't for the fact that I had taught myself to hunt rabbits with my Demonic powers after school I wouldn't have eaten some days.
Over the years, my mom dropped the cigarettes, and the alcohol seriously went down, but she never was the same. She was so clumsy, always dropping plates and anything else, and she seemed to be so disconnected from anything else.
I guess that was why I got involved with that guy. I was thirteen and desperately lonely. My only friends were Ellie, Tyler and Taylor. I hadn't met Derik or Heidi yet, and I didn't want to bother the twins and Ellie was brainless. So I started seeing some guy who gave me a name that turned out to be phony in January. It was fine for a couple of months, and I trusted the guy. But then he started to slap me since I wouldn't let the guy in my pants. I let it go on until October when he slammed me into the kitchen floor and kicked me a few times. He snapped my arm and I ended it with him the next day. My mom asked me at the hospital about it, and I fessed up. She lost it and put a law suit on the guy. He got put in prison for aggravated assault attempted murder, and stalking me.
I met Derik and Heidi a few months later, and I turned fourteen in November. I fell through the well a couple weeks ago, at the start of December.
* * * * *
Kebi
* * * * *
Her story was incredible and unbelievable. But it was no stranger than mine. Didn't stop me from saying it, though.
"You're lying." I said, rolling my eyes.
"Am not!" Susan said, her eyes flashing. "So what's your story, Kebi? After you left? What happened to you?"
I felt myself stiffen.
"Mind your own fucking business." I muttered, glaring at Susan.
Susan smirked.
"You see, Kebi, the thing is, you just proved to me that there's something up, or else you wouldn't have just told me that."
I glared at the annoying girl again, and, much to my annoyance, she still gave me that self-satisfied smirk.
"I'm not giving up." she told me stubbornly. "I just told you my story, so fess up and tell me yours!"
I felt my bottom lip quiver. Oh, gods, not now!
"No." I said shortly.
Susan's eyes narrowed, and I knew the subject wasn't over, but she let it slide and looked away.
"So-o-o" Ellie squealed. "You and Koga are getting married?!"
"Oh! Um, yeah, I guess so."
"Eeeee! You are so letting me and Kebi plan the wedding, girl!"
"Wedding? Oh, god! My mother!"
"Ohhh, she'll be so excited!"
"No! I mean I have to find my mom so she can go to this stupid wedding thing!"
That shut Ellie right up.
"Don't worry." Koga, who had started blushing, said gently, putting a hand on Susan's shoulder. "We'll find her, I swear it!"
Susan nodded.
"I hope you're right." she whispered, taking his hand.
* * * * *
Ellie
* * * * *
I guess it wasn't the best time, but I couldn't help but get excited at my best friend getting hitched! I could already see it! Tons of flowers. Roses and daisies and of course lilies, since Susan's name means lily. Irises too, since Susan loved irises.
Sure, I hadn't liked the idea of her getting married at fourteen much before, but now I was all over it! It would be a sweet thing. Oh, but I couldn't use too many flowers. That would be bad for Susan and Koga and all of the other demons.
And the cake! Tons of layers, alternating chocolate and vanilla.
Speaking of weddings. . .
I couldn't help but think of a certain, uber-hot Dog-Demon. Sesshomaru, now there was a thought. Hot. Cool. Hair. Ears. The fluffy thing. . .
I was drawn to the dude. I didn't know why, but I was. Maybe it was some weird attraction thing that Demons held. I mean, Susan's mom, Susan herself, Kebi's dad, and now me. But then again, maybe it was just weird people. I talk to a penguin, Susan's mother was a sorceress, Susan is a little crazy (I mean, just look at the way the girl dresses for one thing!), and Kebi's father. . . well, nobody knew.
"Ellie? Ellie! Hel-lo, reality to Ellie!" Susan was saying waving her hand in front of Ellie's face.
"Huh? Wha?" Ellie said, snapping back.
"You were spacing." Kebi said, shaking her head and rolling her eyes. With Kebi, it looked like a super model with tiger ears was getting annoyed at Ellie.
"Oh. Sorry, guys."
"Forget about it." Susan said. I glanced around the clearing and realized the guys hadn't said anything to us since Susan's story. Now I looked over and saw Koga holding a heated conversation with Julian with Hakkaku and Ginta cowering by each other.
Susan, who noticed my gaze, rolled her eyes exasperatedly.
"They're talking about how to kill Naraku. Honestly, I don't even know why they're bothering. We can't do anything without InuYasha and the others backing us up."
I felt my brow crinkle up.
"Who's InuYasha?" I asked.
"Sesshomaru's half brother." Susan said, puzzled. "He's a half-Demon like me."
My eyes widened at the mention of Sesshomaru's name. Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru. It was like a poem. Sesshomaru.
"What's up with you?" Kebi asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Nothing." I said, my face heating up.
"Thinking about Sesshomaru?" Susan asked in her bitchiest voice.
"Ma-ybe." I said, drawing the word out and batting my eye lashes.
The girls laughed.
"What's so funny?" Koga asked, swaggering over and leaning up against a tree. I had to stifle a laugh. Susan was practically drooling!
Kebi, however, wasn't as kind. As soon as she saw Susan's expression, she burst out in laughter. Koga frowned, and Susan glared at her and blushed at the same time.
"Nothing is funny." I said, my eyes daring Kebi to say anything.
"Whatever." Koga said, rolling his eyes. "I'm going hunting. Any of you girls want to come with me?" he asked. Although the question was addressed at all of us, he was looking directly at Susan. I smiled. He was just trying to be polite was all.
"Yeah, I think I will." Susan said appreciatively, pushing herself to her feet and smiling.
"You two lovebirds watch out for boars." Kebi snorted.
"Watch out or we may develop a taste for tigers." Susan shot back, slipping her hand into Koga's and taking off running.
* * * * *
Susan
* * * * *
"Well, you sure have some weird friends." Koga told me as we ran.
"Tell me about it." I groaned, feeling his grip on my hand tighten. "You don't really have to hunt, do you?" I asked sneakily.
Koga laughed.
"No chance. I just had to get away from those loons."
I nodded.
"I get ya'." I said. After a few minutes, I said: "Koga, where are we going?"
He smiled down at me.
"It's a surprise. Close your eyes." he told me, scooping me up bridal-style and whooshing off, just giving me enough time to close my eyes like he told me to.
After what seemed like forever, Koga stopped running, laughed at the scrunched-up look on my face, and gently set me down on my feet.
"You can look now." he said, wrapping his arm around my waist. I stiffened a bit at his touch, but then I remembered that this was Koga. I trusted him. So I forced my body to relax, telling myself that I loved Koga. That he would never touch me if I told him to stop.
And then I opened my eyes.
I gasped.
"Pretty, isn't it?" Koga whispered to me.
I could only nod and stare at the waterfall, rushing down the sheer cliff, spraying a cloud of mist over the landscape. And around the waterfall were field of colorful flowers, releasing their sweet smell in the air, strong enough for me and Koga to smell, but not so much they were overpowering.
"Wow!" I managed to whisper. "It. . . It's amazing!"
Koga nodded and smiled down at me.
"Isn't it? I thought you'd like it." he said triumphantly.
"Yeah." I breathed, leaning up against him. "But like isn't nearly strong enough! It's more like I love it! It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! It's like. . . like. . ." I didn't even have words for it. But I loved it. I absolutely loved it.
Then Koga got a sneaky look on his face. He glanced down at me, grinning like some kid with his first water gun.
"Koga," I said nervously, taking a step back. "What're you thinking?"
"Nothing." he said innocently. But his eyes told a different story.
"Sure you're not." I said sarcastically.
He grinned and picked me up again.
"Koga!" I said sharply, wiggling around. "What're you doing?!"
He laughed and ran toward the pool.
"Koga, don't you dare!" I shrieked, struggling more than ever.
"Just hang on!" he told me, reaching the water's edge and leaping.
Suddenly, the fact that I was getting dunked didn't matter much to me. I screamed as the water rushed up to greet us, and I was holding onto Koga so tightly I nearly throttled the guy.
And then the warm water rushed up around my, making my clothes billow out around my body. My hair came loose and the elastic floated away. It was funny. My hair was still in it's braid, but it was coming undone very quickly.
We came up spluttering, gasping and blinking water out of my eyes.
For a second, I wanted to hit Koga, but then I started laughing. I splashed water at Koga's face, and he responded by dunking me again. I laughed again, running my fingers through my hair and wiping my face down. But then I realized that, soaked from head to toe and in the arms of the boy of my dreams, it was far too late to worry about my appearance.
Koga, however, laughed and carried me over to the waterfall.
"Now be good." he warned, setting me down on some rocks while the water pounded down on my head and sitting down next to me. Still grinning, I tilted my head back and let the water run down my face and onto my chest.
When I pulled my head back into a normal position, I saw Koga watching me. Not saying anything, he was just watching me.
"What?" I asked, still smiling.
"I was just thinking. . ." he said, still looking at me with a curious expression on his face. "You know what happened earlier? When you had just come out of Mt. Hakurai?"
I thought back and remembered the kiss. I blushed and felt a slow smile creep across my face.
"Yeah, I think so. What about it?"
"I was thinking. . ." he repeated. "And I was wondering. . . if you wanted to do it again. . ."
I let out a millisecond long gasp and covered up my mouth with one hand for all of one and a half seconds. Then, looking back at him, I nodded.
"Okay." I said, inching toward him. I looked up at the tall boy sitting next to me, and he glanced down at me. I knew I loved him. I always had loved Koga. But it was a shock admitting it to myself. Realizing that it wasn't just some teenage angst or whatever. Knowing that I was going to marry him someday.
Gently, he rose his hand up to my shoulder and slid it to where the muscles of my shoulder and neck joined. I tried to relax my tense muscles, but it didn't work out too well. So I just leaned in and put my face an inch away from his. I could smell his breath on my face. Some kind of meat somehow mixed with mint. I licked my lips. Delicious.
My body was leaning foreword of it's own accord without any orders from my brain. All of a sudden, Koga's hand slipped up my neck, tangling in my wet hair and pulling me foreword. My lips met his. At first my eyes widened, but then, enjoying the sensation, I closed my eyes and landed my hands on his back and pulled him in closer. Our tongues met and intertwined inside our mouths.
I moaned. This was definitely better than Bankotsu kissing me! Not only because my lips didn't hurt from the bruising force, but because I could return the kiss full force. Amazing.
* * * * *
Koga
* * * * *
I had to be careful. It was too easy to loose myself when I was with Susan and to forget that she wasn't a full demon. Despite what she would have liked to believe, she wasn't as indestructible as she thought, and I could all too easily hurt her. The Jewel Shards in my legs, which not only increased my speed and leg strength but enhanced my overall power as well, weren't helping matters any.
I was controlling myself pretty well until Susan pulled me in and my tongue snaked into her mouth. It felt like I was doing a damn good job, but then I felt a slight gasp and Susan bit down on her own tongue and pulled away a couple millimeters.
Dammit. I thought. I'd pulled her hair.
"Sorry." I murmured, stroking her arm soothingly.
"Forget about it." she answered, coming back onto me. "And quit holding back." she ordered in my mouth.
So I did. I kissed that girl as hard as I could, and she kissed back, her wet body pushing up against mine. Then, of course, we toppled over into the water.
"Oh!" Susan gasped, surfacing and gasping a little. "Oh! Wow!"
"Yeah," I agreed, swimming over to the girl who was treading water that was a couple inches over even my head. "That was amazing! Where did you learn to kiss like that?"
"Like what?" she asked, blinking her eyes.
"Like. . .I don't even know. But like. . . as good as you did?" I said lamely.
Susan giggled while I scooped her up and brought her over to shallower water.
"I read a lot." she said, cuddling up to me. "I was reading really horny stuff last year. You pick up a couple things."
I nodded even thought I didn't really get it.
But then I smelled the air and growled with hatred.
"What's wrong?" Susan asked, looking up at me from her position in my arms.
"Bankotsu." I growled. "He's here."
"What?!" Susan gasped, pushing a little closer to me. "But-how-why-?"
"Don't know. Wait a minute. He's kissed you right?"
"Yeah." Susan said, grimacing at the memory.
"You didn't lead him on at all, did you? Kiss him back or something?"
"I don't think. . . Oh, shit." she moaned. "I think I might have. It was my first kiss, and I think I might have moaned a bit. Dammit! I'm an idiot! He made me wrap my legs around his waist, and I got scarred that he would drop me on accident so I squeezed my legs! Damn!"
"Couldn't be helped." I said, even though I was nearly seething that Bankotsu would dare touch Susan at all, much less force her to wrap her legs around him. I'll kill the bastard. I thought furiously. Out loud, I shouted:
"Come out here, you coward!"
Bankotsu emerged from the forest, a look of intense hatred, clearly wishing me a slow, painful death on his face. I set Susan down on the ground and stepped in front of her, growling at Bankotsu from deep within my throat.
"Koga, watch out." Susan whispered. "The other one's here. The Gay dude."
I nodded but otherwise ignored everything but my adversary.
"You'd better stay away from her." Bankotsu hissed, tightening his hold on his halberd.
"I could say the same to you." I answered, cracking my neck.
"She deserves way better than some pathetic Wolf-Demon." he growled, glaring daggers at me.
"Funny." I shot back at him. "But I was under the impression that she should have someone other than some filthy specter like yourself."
Susan whimpered, and I faintly smelled her blood. Glancing over at her, I saw that she'd been biting her lower lip and broken the skin. Her eyes were filled with tears threatening to overflow at any second. Bankotsu also looked over at her, and his gaze softened the slightest bit.
"Susan," he said to her, his voice commanding. "Come over here. Ditch that Wolf-Boy, alright?"
Susan gasped and the tears fell down her cheeks. She covered her mouth, I guess so we couldn't see her trembling lips.
"Suze," I said as gently as I could. "Calm down."
"Susan! Get the hell away from him! I'll kill him anyway! Cut the tears and CHOOSE ALREADY!!"
"I-I-I c-c-can't. . ." she choked out.
Her tears were now mingling with the blood that had been smeared around her mouth by her hand, creating a very interesting smell. I couldn't stand seeing her so upset. It was so. . . so. . . torturous. Of course, I could see what her problem was. She couldn't risk making Bankotsu mad, but she also didn't want to hurt me. Seeming to loose patience, Bankotsu stuck his halberd in the ground.
"Jakotsu!" he called. "Come here."
And then the guy who thought he was a girl stepped out, pulling a blond curly-q girl with eyes identical to Susan's by the arm. This girl was crying like Susan. And the I heard Susan stop breathing. I looked over to her, and her hands had dropped to her sides. She'd licked the blood off her face, but her mouth was open in a prefect "O" shape and her eyes were as wide as dinner plates. She took a shuddering breath and breathed out:
"Jenny."
* * * * *
Susan
* * * * *
"Jenny." I whispered, seeing Jakotsu haul my little sister along behind him. "Jenny. Oh, my God, Jenny."
It was like a dream come true, but also a nightmare. You see, I'd wanted to see my sister for years. But I didn't want her to be dragged into this whole affair. It wasn't her problem. It was (mostly) mine.
Something else was nagging at me, too.
What was Jenny doing in the Feudal Era of Japan? Had her kidnapper from so many years ago dragged her here?
"So she is you sister." Bankotsu said smugly. "I thought as much. So, Susan, it seems you have a choice here. You either go with me and I let your sister go, or you go with Koga, and, well, you get the picture."
I felt my mouth drop open even more. The bastard!
* * * * *
Jakotsu
* * * * *
I hated this. Susan was somebody who I could stand. I liked her. She was funny and she had cool friends. I did like that Tyler kid she said she could hook me up with, and I didn't want to hurt her.
Yet here I was, dragging her little sister and going along with Bankotsu when he said that he'd kill the kid if Susan wouldn't be with him. It was sick beyond all reason. From what I knew, Susan hadn't even seen the little kid in years. She had tears running down her face and it looked like she was going to pass out.
The little girl, Jenny, was crying too.
"Susan!" she was sobbing, trying to pull away from me to get to her sister. "Sis!"
"Cut it out." I said without feeling, giving her a yank back. I couldn't show any emotion, even though I so desperately wanted to just let the kid go. But Bankotsu would have me dead in five seconds if I even hinted that I was going to walk away from this. Me and Renkotsu were his only companions left, other than the Banryu, and as it turned out, Renkotsu was a traitor.
Just then, the kid bit down on my arm and stomped on my foot, making me cry out and release her.
Clever. I thought as she ran at full speed to Susan while I pretended to nurse my injured arm. She'd bitten hard and had actually drawn blood. This is great. Now Bankotsu can't blame me.
"Susan!" she sobbed as Susan hugged her tightly. "Susan! I've missed you so much!"
"I know, Jenny." Susan whispered, looking like she would never let go. "I missed you too. I'm so sorry. It was all my fault. All of this has been because of me. I'm so sorry."
It was sweet really. Bankotsu looked like he was going to kill somebody, but Koga spoke up right then and there.
"If you even try to hurt either of them, I will kill you on the spot."
Furious, Bankotsu stormed away.
We had no way of knowing that in a few hours, I was going to be dead again, along with Bankotsu and Renkotsu. We didn't know that, soon after InuYasha killed Bankotsu, Koga would come very close to dying. All I knew was that Bankotsu was pissed.
* * * * *
One Year Later
* * * * *
Susan
* * * * *
Despite everything, I cried when I learned that Bankotsu and Jakotsu were dead. It was insane, since when it all boiled down to it, I hated Bankotsu with every fiber of my being. But I was sad to say goodbye.
When I arrived at the crumbling base of Mt. Hakurei soon after what I would later learn was just half an hour after Bankotsu died, and found out that Koga was being killed by Naraku, I became so blood-thirsty that Kagome thought I was reverting to my full-demon state, which has only happened once in my entire life.
But Koga survived.
I survived.
Jenny survived.
Even Inu-No-Baka survived, which kinda' put a damper on my happiness after all the rude stuff he'd said to me.
As it turned out, my mother had been at Mt. Hakurei, being forced to work with the living Buddha, St. Hakushin to create the sacred barrier. I cried again when I saw her, being carried out of the capsizing mountain on InuYasha's back (so I guess I can't despise him too much). She cried when she found me, and again when she saw Jenny. When she saw my father it seemed that she was beyond tears. She just reached up and felt his face, years of pain and depression visible in her clear blue eyes. Then she'd collapsed in his arms, with tightly and murmuring that she loved him a thousand times.
And then, what seemed like ages since InuYasha finished off the Band of Seven, we killed Naraku. But, of course, things couldn't stay quiet for long.
Because there was still a marriage to plan, as Ellie, now joined with Jenny, Kagome, and even Kebi, constantly reminded me.
Finally, after many encouragements, eye rolls, fake-coughed "marry Koga"'s, and finally, flat out death threats, I went up to Koga and asked, blushing and stuttering the whole way, if he still wanted to marry me. All he did was kiss me like the world was coming to the end.
The wedding itself, which was so much less hectic in the Feudal Era than in the present (although that might have been because Ellie had flat out told me that if I did anything other than make a guest list she would strangle me) was beautiful. Ellie, after much argument, had traveled back to the present time and told Derik, Tyler, Taylor, and Heidi about everything that had happened since I went missing. Needless to say, they were with her up until "So, first off, she's a Half-Demon who's really supposed to be in the Feudal Era of Japan. Oh, and somehow we can all understand each other." At that, if I'm to understand correctly, Derik started shaking her violently, Heidi demanded to know who she really was, and Tyler and Taylor both just stared.
Then she forced them to follow my actions, jump down the well, and come to my wedding. Once he found out I was engaged, Derik, who was very overprotective of me, started shouting profanities at Koga, shouted in as many ways possible at me that I was very clearly insane, at my parents for arranging the thing in the first place, at Jenny for trying to calm him down, at Ellie and Kebi for allowing it, at the twins for not backing him up, at the well for existing, and at a tree just for being in his way as he stormed off. Needless to say, we had to tie him down and duct-tape his mouth shut until I said "I do."
It was the best day of my life. My best friends were bride's maids, Taylor, Ellie, Heidi, and Kebi all dressed in some kind of purple frock, with Jenny as my junior bride's maid. We'd gotten Rin to be the flower girl, and Hakkaku and Ginta had gotten into a fight over who got to be Koga's best man. Hakkaku won. Ginta had a broken arm. My best man was Derik, who was tied to the chair. The twins got to design the damn dresses.
But something was still bugging me. Kebi's story. It was when we were dancing and Kebi was a little tipsy from all the champagne that she'd drunk that she'd finally spilled to me and my conveniently placed camcorder.
"It was after I left that the trouble began." she said while I tried to keep her from drinking another glass. "My mom re-married and this time it was a human. He had a son, who I hated. My little sister hated both of them, just like I did. But it was all tolerable until Naraku came. He killed my step-father Aumun, and brother, Brom first, and then he turned on us girls. My mom screamed at us to run. We did, but Alexandria tripped and Naraku killed her. My mother was still yelling for me to beat it, and I managed to get out of Egypt and to the coast of Europe. I rested there for a few days and hitched a boat ride to America. From there it was easy to locate my old house and go through the this time."
I sighed. The I hugged her, told her that it was alright, and went to dance with Koga. About half-way through the song, I looked around at everybody. My parents were dancing together, and so were Heidi and Derik, who we'd let loose after Koga and I were pronounced man and wife, Kagome and InuYasha (Don't ask how he got invited), Miroku and Sango, Rin and Kohaku (Sango's kid brother) and Sesshomaru and Ellie. Then, like I'd wanted him to do for the last year or so, Sesshomaru leaned down and kissed Ellie. I could just see a relationship forming here.
Smiling, I turned back to Koga, who was mine forever now, and leaned up against his chest.
"You look great." he whispered to me.
"Ug. I can't believe that Ellie made me wear white." I sighed. Though I was getting over the goth thing, I still wasn't too fond of pure white.
"You'll get to change soon." Koga said, giving me a perverted smile.
"Get your mind out of the gut. . . Oh, never mind." I said, unable to get my mind off of what was going to happen that night any more than Koga could.
Koga winked at me.
"Ellie showed me something called a magazine." he said. "I think the title was Cosmopolitan?"
"Cosmo?!" I gasped, having read it in secret myself sometimes. "She didn't!"
"She did." he chuckled.
"Alright. I was going to kill her over the dress. Now I've upped it to torture before I kill her." I vowed.
Koga laughed.
"Would it help her chances of surviving any if I said that I was sorry?"
"For what?" I snorted. "Cosmo is tame compared to what I've read before. It's just the fact that she was showing that stuff my my man."
Koga laughed again and kissed me deeply.
And I knew then that my life was perfect.
I was with the man I loved.
I had my family back.
My friends didn't think I was a freak.
And in a couple years, I would have a little baby girl. Derik would go on another rant, but he wouldn't ever dare to touch my little, still developing then Tessa.
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End Chapter
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End Story
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I am so sorry that it took my so long to update! I got busy with the holidays and everything. But anyways, I got everybody satisfied. At least, my friends should be satisfied or I'll set Koga on them.
So, death threats to my complaining friends aside, this was one of my best fanfics I've ever done. I'm sure that by now you're wondering about this Tessa girl, and let me assure you, as soon as I get the time, I'll make a story about Tessa. I have the idea in my head. I just need a few hours a day to make the first chapter.
In case you're wondering, Ellie does end up with Sesshomaru, Rin with Kohaku, InuYasha with Kagome, Miroku with Sango, and Derik with Heidi. I wasn't sure if it was too clear.
Please tell me what you think of this! I'm pretty sure it's good, but just tell me so I know what to do for little Tessa, alright?
(No, I am NOT pregnant, I have never had a baby, sex, or even kissed a guy before. I just read a lot and have an overly-active imagination.)