Promise
Ayame spent her life waiting for one thing, clinging to a single offhand promise, the one thing that keeps her strong through her training and her trials.
Don't worry, Ayame. When you come back from the mountains, I'll make you my wife.
Those words, those simple, offhand words that she hung her future on.
She returns, she searches him out, she finds him with that...that Kagome. At first she hates her, then she hates him, then she sighs and realizes what a waste of time it is.
But she can't give up. There's a part of her, the little girl that he once saved from the Birds of Paradise, that holds Koga in high regard, the highest, and that part loves him. Once she knows him, fights beside him, she, the part of her that's grown, that Ayame that is now, loves him, too.
And she knows that Koga doesn't stand a chance with Kagome, no matter what he thinks. When he finally realizes this, maybe he'll remember that promise he made.
And maybe, when he remembers, he'll let himself love her, too.
End