I do not own Inuyasha, enjoy the story my loyal fans!

Oh and just to let you know, this story is taking place during the manga, right before Kikyo dies so Kouga has his Goraishi. I don't really know what the English translation to that is, and I cant seem to find it so I am gonna go ahead and guess.

I'm pretty sure its something like, Lighting Claws, or Iron Claws, something in that range so that's what I'm gonna call it.

This is just to let you guys know that I'm not making up attacks for Kouga.

Oh and Inuyasha's Dragon Scaled Tetsusaiga will also be in this in the next chapter probably, but if not keep an eye out for it later on in the story, thanks!

Kouga walked down the huge crack that substituted as a hallway, his tail twitching and his cheeks slightly dusted with a light pink hue.

He had almost done it.

He had almost kissed her!

Almost. But the cat, Kirara, came and interrupted.

3 seconds more, and they would've had lip contact. But nooooooooo! He couldn't have that happening cause that would mean something good in his life! Everything had to go wrong! Even just the slightest thing went wrong.

Kouga put his face in his hands and leaned up against the wall, letting out a tiny groan.

"Time to stop feeling bad for myself."

His shoulders slumped as he walked out to the cliff to keep watch.

He sat at the edge, and rested his arms on his knees, looking over the forest below.

***Forest Below***

Emerald eyes looked up the cliff side just to spot a dot of brown and black.

'Kouga'

She smirked as his hair whipped in the summer wind.

"He should be with me right now."

She walked forward a couple off yards to try and get a better view, but came face to face with a sweet scent, one of a girl. A girl other than her.

"What? A girl's scent with my Kouga's!!"

A growl ripped trough Ayame's lips, though low enough to where Kouga couldn't hear her.

"Its that Kagome girl! That wh*re stole my Kouga! That can't be! She's hypnotized him or something! I've got to tell Grandpa!"

She turned with her grey wolves and flew off into the deeper part of the forest, making a slight breeze. Shaking the leaves.

***Up on the Cliff***

Something caught Kouga's eye, making him loose his concentration. He had been focusing on the shape of Kagome's lips for the past thirty minutes.

'What's that? Nothing should be out except the deer, and they wont be this near the den.'

Kouga jumped down from rock to rock, reaching the bottom in mere seconds. He moved to where the rustling had come from, and knelt to the ground, feeling the dirt, and then sniffing the air.

"Ayame, and her wolves have been here. It must have been them that was causing the noise."

He glanced up at the full moon, and then back at the den that was barely visible from the forest floor.

'I shouldn't tell Kagome about this. It'll just make things complicated. Ayame was probably just trying to spy on me again.'

Kouga blew out air through his nose, almost like he had to sneeze, shaking his head. It was a way of ridding his nose of Ayame's scent. He knew all to well that breathing in to much of her could make you sick, another reason why he wouldn't take her as a mate.

***The Next Morning***

Kouga had stayed up the whole night to keep watch over the den. That's how it was most nights.

He would stay up every other night, and sleep in the day time while Ginta and Hakakku watched the pack.

But that wouldn't happen now. He couldn't let it happen, not with Kagome there. She would be up and smiling, and he didn't want to miss one minute of that.

So when Kagome walked out of the crevice in the wall, he rose from his spot of sitting against the wall, and walked over to her.

"Good morning, Kouga," she smiled softly at his tired face.

"Morning," he mumbled, though he tried to look happy.

She cocked her head downward a little, and looked up under his bangs to try and see his shiny blue eyes. But when she found that he was looking back at her with much duller eyes

She gasped.

"Kouga, you look absolutely exhausted! You have got to get some sleep!!"

She went behind him and started pushing him towards the crack in the wall she had just emerged out of.

He could've protested. He could've planted his feet so far into the ground that the wolves would've had to dig a hundred years to get him out. But something told him to just let him be pushed. He wasn't being perverted, no. Just tired.

But again, something had to ruin it.

A couple of whistles were heard behind them, and Kouga turned with Kagome to see the single men of the pack winking and whooping, giving Kouga thumbs up.

"Yeah Kouga, let her take you to the bedroom!"

"I bet you like being bossed around by her, don't cha?!!"

"Why don't you just mate her right here and now, she looks willing enough by the way she's pushin' ya to the bed!!"

Kagome yelped after realizing their assumptions were perverted and backed away with a blush.

"I-its not like th-that you guys," she stuttered out with difficulty.

"Suuurrreee! We saw your face!"

Kagome shook her head with vigor.

Kouga wiped his face with his hands, stretching his skin with a groan of exhaustion.

Why did things always have to be interrupted or stopped. Did the gods not like him or something?!

So instead of letting Kagome drown in self inflicted embarrassment any longer, Kouga stepped in front of her with his hands on his hips.

"Alright you lazy hounds, get back to work!! You aint got no right to be makin fun of her! She is our guest, and it aint none of you concern what she and I do! Got that!!?"

The laughter and cheers quieted into whimpers as the group stuttered and ran into a sloppy un-uniformed line, much like military school students being taught how to show respect for the first time.

"Now get back to work!! I want that fire wood collected, all the hunts' skinned, and the new family moved into their den before high noon! Got THAT!!!?"

Everyone bobbed their heads quickly, frightened looks still planted on their scarred and worn faces.

"GOOD NOW GO!"

And then, everyone scrambled, making the cave seem to come alive with wolf demons of every shape and size.

Kouga sighed and then started to walk back to the wall, where he sat down. He patted the spot beside him and gave her an actual smile.

"Kouga, you really should get some sleep, you were up all night, weren't you?"

He tried to shrug it off, but Kagome wouldn't let him.

"Yeah, I stayed up. But its my job. Plus, I cant have anyone coming up in here and hurting you."

She gave an exhausted sigh. Were all guys so stubborn??

"Anyway. I figured you might be hungry?"

He glanced over at a pile of dead boar, and a spike. He frowned and made a mental note to keep that away from Kagome so she didn't freak out.

"Nope, I'm not hungry at all. I just feel….bored."

"Well then…lets go do something."

He stood up, grinning down on her.

"Oh Kouga, I don't really think that's right. You should stay here with your pack and take care of things here-"

Before Kagome could even finish her sentence though, she was on her feet and being pulled under the water fall, out into the morning sunshine.

"Kouga!!"

"Hmm?"

She pulled on his hand.

"You cant just drag me out here like this!"

"Why not?"

"Because!"

He stared at her dumbly, "That doesn't make since."

She stomped her foot, "You cant just drag me out here! I said no!"

"Yeah but, I figured we could go do something fun."

"And why would I want to do that!?"

"You said you were bored."

She huffed and turned away.

"Look," he said trying to think of something slick to say to get him out of this mess. "I just thought since you had been traveling…and I had been traveling….and I just got to see you, we could go and spend some time together and have some fun."

She still said nothing.

"And I don't get to do stuff with beautiful girls on pretty days very often, or anyone for that matter. So…..?"

He could feel her heart turning to mush right there.

Kagome hadn't been one to fall for stories like that very often, she couldn't be. Living with Shippou would've put her on the street if she didn't stay strong.

But Kouga seemed sincere and heartfelt.

And she felt herself walking backwards to him even before she came out of her thoughts.

Her body was acting on its own.

(POTION ANYBODY!!? LOL :P)

She turned around with a raised eyebrow and a suspicious look.

"What were you planning on doing?"

He smirked, knowing he had already won, and gave her an innocent look.

"I don't know, I figured just a walk on one of the trails would be nice since there's a breeze out today. And then maybe lunch? If you ever get hungry."

"I don't know Kouga, I think we should-"

"Please?"

And then…Kagome cracked.

A smile slowly crept to her face, along with a very badly hidden blush.

"Fine."

She tried to sound angry, or maybe a little tired of dealing with him.

But he knew she wasn't, her scent actually smelled…happy? Yea…happy, that's the word.

"Good. Lets go!"

"But I have to go brush my hair, and my teeth-"

"You talk to much."

Kouga picked her up and leaped out of sight, leaving the pack to their work.

***At the Trail***

Kouga came to an abrupt stop and set Kagome down.

She wobbled a bit, but soon found her balance once again intact.

"Kouga you should warn me before you do that again," she said smoothing down her hair.

He stood there staring at her.

She looked back at him and noticed he looked totally spaced out. Kagome snapped her fingers in front of his.

"Yoo-hoo, Kouga. Anyone home?"

He blinked and then looked at her.

"Huh?"

"You were just staring at me there."

He shook his head and then smirked, "Do you have to wonder why? You're my woman after all. I get to stare."

She shook her head disapprovingly and started walking slowly up the trail.

He smirked and figured he was playing hard to get. He jogged up to her and started running backwards so he could talk to her and still try to how off a little of his speed, though he was going pretty low compared to his normal tornado's speed.

"So I thought after this maybe we could get something to eat…"

She just looked at him with a smile on her face, but didn't answer.

"Yeah, and then go back to my-"

"Don't say your room," Kagome ground out with growing anger in her voice, "I will not be in your bed with you anytime soon, or ever, got that?!"

He halted his running and watched her stomp right past him.

"But Kagome, I wasn't going to say my room! I was going to say my favorite spot on the Cliffside, so we could watch the stars. The tribe calendar says that there's gonna be a star shower tonight. And I thought you might wanna go, girls seem to like that kinda stuff."

Kagome stopped her stomping and stood to listen.

"Really?"

He help his hands out from his sides, no hiding.

"Yup."

He began to walk to her. Slowly, with his hands balled into loose fists swaying at his sides with each step he took.

"So, if we could start our walk again, I would be thankful."

He reached her by then, she was still standing in the morning sun as still as a statue.

"Sure…."

He gave her a tiny smile and then started walking by her again.

"So, tell me about your family. I never hear you talk about them."

Kagome looked up at him, "Oh, sorry. I guess I should tell you, huh?"

"You don't have to."

"No, its okay. I have a brother named Sota, he's only ten, and can be a pain in the butt sometimes. And then my mom, who stays home to help with the family shrine that's owned by my grandpa. He's sorta crazy cuz he knows I go to a world with demons and all. But he's getting better."

"Hmm. So you don't have demons where you come from?"

She gasped and then stuttered nervously.

"U-uh, no. I don't have demons where I live. In fact I didn't ever met a demon until I fell down a well in the family shrine."

"Oh. I never knew you worked in a shrine. I guess it makes sense cuz of your powers and all, but that's sorta amazing. So how come you never met a demon? Aren't priestesses suppose to purify them and protect the villages and all?"

'What's with all these questions?!'

"Like I said, there are no demons where I live, so I never had to. Plus, I'm not very good with my powers, the only thing I can do is shoot arrows at stuff, and I'm not even that good an aim."

Kouga looked down as she kept talking, he noticed that she was walking with heavy feet, almost stomping but with less force. And her hands didn't sway like his, the stayed at her sides balled into tight fists.

"Something wrong," he asked stopping to get a better look at her expression.

She seemed sort of surprised when he asked, she didn't think he would notice.

"No," she replied finally, in a quiet tone. She let her hand unclench and her knuckles turn from white to a pale pink.

"You act kinda…mad."

"No, no…just, disappointed I guess."

"Why?"

Kagome seemed hesitant at first, "I guess its self-disappointment. I want to be strong, and be able to control what little power I have. But I cant, I cant purify things with the snap of my fingers, or heal wounds. I cant even protect these jewel shards around my neck long enough to get them pure of Naraku's presence, because every time I almost got it, he come and takes them away. The no good, lousy thief!"

She ended with a pound on the ground and a good shout.

"Woooaahhh there! Seems like you have a lot of anger built up."

Her face had turned red, "Sorry," she apologized with a deep breath, "I guess I needed to get that off my chest."

"Ya know how I let off a little steam when I'm pissed?"

She shook her head, "No."

He smiled and picked up a stone off the path they had been walking.

"Like this!"

He got a good grip on the stone, aiming it for the right spot.

His arm came back like he was throwing in major league baseball. With a 'whoosh' and a loud crack, a tree limb fell to the ground, the stone still flying further into the forest.

"Kouga, your arm is like a gun. You took off that branch completely!"

"Gun?"

"Never mind," she picked up another stone and handed it to him, "do it again! That was pretty awesome."

"Sure, anything for you."

Again, a tree limb fell to the ground after, after what sounded like a shotgun went off.

Kagome decided to give it a try, she needed to work off some anger.

"So I hold it like this?"

Her hand was locked awkwardly around the rock like she had never thrown anything in her life before. And her wrist was twisted in a way that was sure to hurt her if she attempted the shot.

"No, no."

Kouga walked up behind her and wrapped his hand around hers. He moved her fingers to match his, though his hand seemed to swallow hers in that moment.

"Now, turn your wrist so you don't hurt it when you go to throw."

He still stood behind her, "Okay, so now I just throw it right?"

"Yeah," he nodded.

Kagome closed her eyes and brought her arm back as far as it would go. Then she slung it forward so hard she could've sworn she popped her shoulder out of place for a split second.

Although the force of the rock was pretty good for a human, and a teenage girl at that, her aim was not.

It missed. Completely.

"Oh well," she looked up at Kouga, who just chuckled and shrugged.

"You feel better though, don't you?"

She hadn't noticed until he said something, but she did feel a little bit better, like she was lighter.

"You're right, I do feel better."

A breeze lightly blew Kagome's hair to her face, making her giggle as it tickled her cheeks.

The noon sunlight found its way through the canopy of trees above them to lightly kiss Kouga's pony-tailed hair, making his eyes seem to shine even brighter than normal.

Kagome smiled, and turned herself around to face him, though her gaze never left his for a split second.

"Kagome…"

She blinked and fluttered her eyelashes incoherently, "Yes?"

"I-"

But before he could even force himself to say anything, he leaned down to capture her lips on his.

He aimed right, his target was right in front of him, but…Kagome turned her head when a crack of a breaking branch caught her attention, pulling her away from the flustered wolf prince. He didn't get his kiss….sh*t.

"What was that," she asked in a whisper.

"I don't know, don't worry about it. I don't smell anything dangerous."

He went to try again. He was being brave, a second try.

Again though, Kagome turned her head and looked around. She was getting paranoid.

"Kouga, I think something's here. I feel like we're being watched."

He sighed and then wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"Listen, I wont let anything happen to you."

"It just feels like-"

And then, out of nowhere, came a transformed Kirara walking onto the path with two cream colored balls of fur in her mouth.

"KIRARA!"

Kagome left the side of Kouga to run for the cat.

She moaned into Kagome's neck as the girl snuggled her shoulder.

"I thought you left! What happened!!?"

Kirara laid on the ground and dropped the fur balls onto the forest floor, gently nudging them with her nose.

Kagome crawled closer to look at what was happening.

The two balls formed two tails that had been tucked under their short legs. Then their heads popped up, black and black striped ears twitched slightly as they looked around with their blue and red eyes.

"Kittens!!!"

Kouga fell over, anime style, legs in the air. (Haha!)

"Kittens?"

'KITTENS! THAT'S WHAT MY KISS WAS INTERRUPTED FOR!!??'

"Look at them Kouga, they're so cute!!"

Kagome picked up one of the newborns, though they seemed far developed.

It had striped ears, solid black tails, black collared neck , blue eyes, and the boots of black just its mother.

The second had solid black ears and striped tails, red eyes, and the boots just like Kirara.

A large black diamond adorned both of their foreheads.

The girl flipped the kitten over and checked its gender.

"Looks like you're a little baby girl aren't you? Such a pretty kitty!"

She sat her down next to Kirara and then picked up the other one.

"And it looks like you're the boy. A big strong boy!!" she squealed as she rubbed her nose on the young boy's belly, like it were an actual baby.

"Kagome, are you sure you should be messin' with them, I think they were just born."

She looked to Kirara who did look slightly exhausted, "Yes, but, they seem a little farther developed than most kittens, and Kirara isn't objecting. Come look at hem Kouga!! They're so cute!"

He sighed and sat down next to the girl with a bored look on his face.

"I'm around hyperactive wolf cubs all day, this isn't anything new to me."

"Stop being a grump! You know you cant help but love that face," Kagome help up the blue eyed kitten in front of his face.

She stared back at him with big wide eyes and then patted his nose slightly with her tiny paw.

Kagome laughed and hugged the kitten to her chest.

"Awwww! How cuutttee!!"

He rolled his eyes and then scratched Kirara behind the ears.

"You did this all by yourself girl? You must be a tough one! Demon births are a pain in the as*!"

"How would you know that, Kouga, you been having kids lately," Kagome asked playfully.

"U-uh noooo!"

He fumbled with his words, "I mean that's what I heard, the tribe-I mean the word around-well its hard to explain. Some other girl wolf demons from the southern tribe were telling me."

"Ahhhhh! Girl wolf demons. Like Ayame?"

He shook his head ferociously.

"No! No, h*ll no. I mean they were girl demons but not Ayame. I would never consider mating her. You're the only girl for me, Kagome."

"Oh."

He took a deep breath and watched Kagome laugh her butt off.

"I'm just gonna go sit in that tree now," he quietly excused himself, having enough of his humiliation.

"I was just playing Kouga," she couldn't help but get another good laugh about it though, "You should've seen your face though, you looked completely frustrated and confused!"

He sucked his teeth, "Whatever."

Kagome went back to playing with the kittens. They pawed at the twigs with leaves on the ends she would hold up for them, and suckled on their mother after they were done playing. The girl even took a liking to Kagome, and curled in her lap when it was time for a nap, while the boy slept in his mothers tails, where he could get some warmth.

Kouga watched from his treetop as Kagome gently rubbed the back and behind the ears of the girl kitten. She smiled as a small purr reverberated from the kitten.

He couldn't help but give a smile himself at how sweet the moment was, even though he wasn't the one to be sentimental. It just made him think that maybe one day , if he played his cards right, that could be his baby lying in her lap, getting its feeding, or some motherly love.

She seemed to be a natural, and he knew Kagome would be a wonderful mother.

He only hoped that the father could be him.

***Back at the Den***

Kagome, Kouga, and Kirara went back to the den, with Kagome carrying the kittens and Kouga letting Kirara rest on his shoulder.

"She still seems a little exhausted, doesn't she?" questioned Kagome in a concerned tone.

"Is it normal for them to be this tired after birth? I've never experienced a demon birth, I wouldn't know," she said quietly.

He looked at the cat, Kirara, the one owned by the demon slayer.

"I'm sure she's just tired from all the work. Demon births are very violent, especially the labor. I bet in a couple of hours she'll be ready to fly back to her owner and everything. Don't worry."

Kagome set down the kittens on Kouga's bed and watched as he laid Kirara next to them as they still slept peacefully.

"Okay, lets let them get some sleep, I don't think the young ones will be to happy if they don't get their nap time."

He nodded and then they walked out back into the main cave, where they bustle and noise of the morning had quieted down into the faint yipping and barking of the wolves and the crackling of the fire as the tribe sat around and talked amongst themselves.

"How about something to eat now? You agreed to lunch."

Kagome shrugged, "I don't know…I'm used to not eating for half-days at a time because Inuyasha doesn't like to take breaks. I'm not hungry, sorry."

He almost fell over while walking, "How can you not be hungry? Not even a snack? We just got done with a walk and you were playing with those kittens for like an hour!"

She giggled and then pointed to the newly caught boar over by the center fire of the cave.

"Why don't you just eat, don't worry about me. You're a growing boy, go eat."

"Pssshhh," he scoffed as they walked over to fallen animal, "how old are you?"

She puffed out her chest and smirked, "I am 17 years old, thank you very much" she said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Hmp," a bite of boar meat in his mouth, "sorry, I beat you by a good 100 years or so, give or take a few."

Her mouth dropped, "You have to be kidding me! You don't look it."

He finished of his whole leg and then threw the bone in the fire, "Yeah well, I am. I'm older than that dog-turd, too. He's only what, 105 years old? Maybe 107."

"Wow, I can't believe that! I feel like a kid now sitting next to you!"

She scooted away a little bit in mock depression.

He smiled and scooted closed to her. She smirked and pushed herself away even more.

And so it went on. That is, until they ran out of floor and the water fall was the only thing left for Kagome to scoot in to. She was at the end of her rope…or in this case, cave.

"Don't make me go in the water!!" she groaned.

Kouga pressed her a couple inches closer to the rushing wall of ice cold water.

"Well if you don't wanna go face first into that river then you better get over here and sit next to me. Or else…"

She shook her head, "I don't sit by old men!"

He raised an eyebrow, "I'm old now," he questioned while his eye twitched, "that's it!"

Now he crawled towards her, making her take tiny pushes towards the river on the other side of the falls.

"Come on Kouga, no! I'll take you with me! If I go into that water you're coming with me!"

He smiled, "I'm used to it, I walk through that every day, you don't."

She shook her head again as her hair got dusted with the mist of the falling water.

Then her butt found the edge of the floor, where rock met shallow water that began the river.

He took another crawl/step forward she felt her body weight take over. She tipped over and let out a tiny scream.

"Kougaaa!!"

Her hand found the water, but her body and head didn't follow.

She opened her eyes one at the time to stare up into the amused features of Kouga, who sat with his hand catching her waist and a huge grin plastered on his face.

"Gotcha!"

He pulled her up and set her on her feet while she wiped her numb hand on her skirt.

"I cant believe you. I actually thought I was going to get soaked for a minute."

"Its just a little water!"

She turned and then made her way towards the doorway that lead to his room.

"Well, if I am going to be in risk of getting wet all the time, I don't want it to be in my school uniform. Lets go shopping!"

He followed her down the passageway, sometimes making sure she didn't hit the walls in the darkness.

"How do you plan to pay for this? Clothes are expensive."

She walked over to her bulging yellow bag and rummaged through for a second, searching for something.

"Miroku, the monk, wasn't the only one who had the money of the group. I always kept some spare, just in case his womanizing ways got the best of him, and he went out on a girl-spree. I did side jobs when Inuyasha took naps and got my own money."

He leaned against the wall, "Ah, I love independent women," he purred with a far away look in his eyes.

Kagome laughed and held up a ring with coins on it and then a small fold of bills.

"Got it."

He winked at her, "You know what, I just keep liking you more and more."

With an eep Kouga had her playfully pushed up against the wall.

"What do you think you're doing old man? I don't think the tribe takes to kindly to premature girls dating!"

"What are you talking bout? Girls your age would've already been mated and had 3 kids of their own. We gotta get the tribe started again after what that bas**rd Naraku did."

His face moved closer to hers. He needed to get his kiss, or else he was going to go insane. Her lips were so tempting.

"And how do you plan to do that?" she asked simply, though unknowingly moving closer to him.

{The potion is working! Yay for Sango's love connection : P}

"Finding as many mates for people as I can."

Another step towards Kagome.

"Does that list include Ayame?"

Another step towards Kouga.

"H*ll no, I don't even think about her. Whoever wants her, if anyone, then that's their problem. They can have that kid."

"But I'm younger than her."

By now, with all the steps they had taken, even though they were tiny, their faces were inches apart. Only candle light allowing them to look at each other and read emotions clearly.

"Yeah but, your mind isn't, and your attitude. And definitely not you body," he glanced down at her creamy legs.

"Well then, I guess I wont have to worry about Ayame."

"You never did. I never wanted anyone but you."

He closed the space between them, catching her lips in a gentle, but fierce, kiss.

The kiss was short, but in all, it was a kiss, and a first for both of them.

Well that is if you didn't count saving Inuyasha from being consumed by darkness and becoming a full demon then yeah, it was a first for Kagome. But she didn't mention it, it would bring the mood down, and possibly make Kouga's head explode.

Kouga cleared his throat and stepped back from her.

"You wanted to get some new clothes right?"

She took a deep breath, "Yeah, lets go."

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Okay, next chapter, clothes shopping and maybe some evil Ayame action, but that may be a little farther off. 7 reviews please!