Wolf in human's clothing

by IceMageNinjaTalia

Kagome wasn't the first to end up in Feudal Japan. Natalia gets dragged through her pool by a Kraken demon and lands in a different era! Saved from going over a waterfall, she meets a wolf tribe who's leader knows she's not human. She learns a seal was put on her and has to be removed before her new abilities tear apart her sanity. Where does Kagome and her friends fit in to this?

9. Chapter 9: Shared Motives & Promises

Hey everyone time for another chapter. Sorry if the last chapter was pretty brutal. But we've learned plenty from the last few chapters. In this chapter it's gonna be all about The wolves and the inuyasha team meeting. This is gonna happen cause both groups went down into the gulge to find out what's going on. Latest surprises though!

So Kouga and Natalia were SUPPOSED to mate when they got older to make the packs stronger. Things will be explained further as the story goes. Yes I know I did the meeting very wrong but screw it I wanted it to be filled with fear and confusion and that's what's happening with Natalia becoming an uncontrollable wolf demon.

So to cut to the chase let's get to the story!

'What has life done to me…'…

"You don't remember me do you?"…

"You were born here…-"…

"'Tav I don't want to be mated to him.'"…

"'Hello, precious.'"..

"'-You're the harpy that lives in the village.''…

"'Sharushi!''…

"'Tali-chan…'"…

"'Promise me, that when we're older, you'll come find me.''…

"'What do you mean I'll never see her again?!'"…

"'Demons want them dead as a price to pay for my mistakes.'"..

"'You have to if you want your memory of this life to remain!'"..

"'Tali…please don't go.'"..

"'-Keep out memories alive.'"…

"'Don't ever forget me. If I come back…in the future…tell me what I've forgotten.'"…

'What am i…?'…

"What's wrong, Tali?!"…

"What should I be…"…

'If it breaks, her demon form will be out of control!'…

"Tali! It's me, Sharushi!"…

"NATALIA!"…

"She's a full demon now! BE CAREFUL!"…

Chapter 9: Shared motives and promises

Hours earlier

Kouga's pov

The Birds were upon us the minute we hit the ledge down inside the gulge. "Watch out!" Annie cries as three birds come down on us. Minko launches himself into the air and slams the bird down to the ground with his momentum and starts to claw the feathers of his target all while it screeches for help. I slam my leg into the wing of the second one as it tries to catch Yukaza off guard.

"Damnit! We need to take cover!" Nero cries out as he dodges a swipe from one of the demon birds. "Kouga, what do we do?" Hokaku exclaims as he and Ginta fight off a 4th one that joins the fray.

I look around the cliff edge that we're standing on, it's just one of five ledge sections that lead down into the gulge. "There!" I call out, pointing out a cave. It was small so the demon birds couldn't possibly fit into it, making it their home.

"C'mon!" Annie yells as she makes a break for the small cave entrance, sliding through the opening as a bird tries to dive bomb her. "Ack!" I could hear her groan as she narrowly escapes the bird.

"Yukaza, hurry!" Nero cries out, pulling the long hair beauty along with him. Ginta, Hokaku, Minko and I distract the birds as Nero and Yukaza slide through the opening, both groaning as their skin scraps the ground on their way inside.

"Ginta, Hokaku! Get moving!" I called out to them as I get slammed into the wall behind me by a gust of wind from one of the birds. My two crondomes glance at me before they take off to the entrance, sliding into the opening, once again avoiding the birds.

Minko avoids getting swiped at as I land a hard kick on one of the birds, knocking it away from the ledge as we both slide on through the entrance. "Ow!" I groan as I rub my head, after banging it against Minko's shoulder. The cave wasn't exactly cozy, but it was big enough for our small group.

I could hear the screeches of the birds just outside the opening. "Looks like we won't be leaving anytime soon…" Annie gasps for air, the fighting taking a lot out of her. Everyone else slides down onto the floor and breath with sighs of relieve, knowing we're not in danger anymore. "Not like it's gonna matter. We knew this was gonna be a challenge from the start." Minko glowers at the ground, for once not acting like his normal self.

"Minko…" Annie sighs. Her eyes are filled to the brim with concern and worriness. I could tell she wants to be strong for everyone. I walk over to her and pat her shoulder. "Don't over stress yourself. It won't do you any good."

Annie looks up at me, her copper locks fall into her face. I muster up a good smile to give. She gives me one in return before returning her gaze to Minko. The blonde wolf was laying on the floor, well half laying half sitting up.

Nero nudges his elbow. "Minko, you lazy perv. Move over." The green eyed yokai groans as he has to roll the lazy wolf yokai over. I roll my eyes as I look over at Yukaza who was looking over Ginta and Hokaku for injuries.

"Let's look around, guys." I walk towards the back of the seemingly small cave. The rocky ground was sturdy enough and wasn't colapsing on us already. Everyone follows up behind me at a slower pace, still warn out from the attack. I look back at them as the floor drops from under me.

"WHOA!" I yelp as my back slides along the rock formation as if it curved down from the cave like a slide. "Chief!" "Kouga-sama!" "Kouga!" I could hear the cries off my packmates as I continue to slide until my ass scraps along the normal rocky ground. "Kouga! Can you hear us?" Ginta cries out from farther up.

"Don't you dare be dead, Kouga-sama!" Nero cries out, panic lacing his voice. I get to my feet and look around where I landed. It's another cave all together. Something or someone must've made the cave systems so they'd be connected like this.

"I'm fine!" I call up to them and I could hear a big loud sigh of relief from them. "Kouga, where are you at? What's down there?" Minko calls back, his voice echoing off the walls. I cup my hands around my mouth. "It's another cave. That drop leads to another cave. Their connected, so drop on down!" I could hear mutters amoung the wolves.

"I'll go down first then, you chickens!" Nero grumbles to his chickeny friends as I can hear him scream before sliding out of the shoot. "W-W-AIT NO!" Nero's body comes off the shoot with more momentum, making him slam into me. "AAAAH!" Nero catches me in the gut with his strong legs. "Gah! Ack! Nero….I'mma kill you!" I choke and groan, dropping to my ass then onto my back as I roll on the ground in pain.

Nero's already up as Minko slides down the shoot, once again the momentum is too fast. "LOOK OUT!" Nero cries out as Minko delivers the same blow Nero had done me. "Uff, God damn…Minko…did you tie logs to your feet?" Nero's down coiling in pain just like me. I can barely laugh from the pain in my stomach.

"Oh god, man I'm so sorry!" Minko hovers over Nero his hands reaching towards him to assist him, but not before Annie flies out of the shoot, her legs catching Minko in the back. "AAAAAAH!" Minko goes flying into the cave wall with a smack. "Minko!" Annie screams in shock as she runs to the now unconscious blonde wolf.

"Damn, at this rate, we'll all be in pain." Nero tries to laugh but it's cutt off as Hokaku lands on top of him, his body flung from the shoot like a bag of flour. "Gah!...Someone….stop the pain…" Nero groans as Hokaku jumps up immediantly but not before both Ginta and Yukaza slam into the poor wolf's back.

I slowly stand up. The pain dulls a bit as I help Nero to his feet, stumbling as he does so. "Is everyone ok?" I examin the damage. Sadly, Minko and Hokaku are both down. "W-w-we didn't kill him did we?" Yukaza pleas her hands cupping over her mouth in shock as she and Ginta got off of the poor wolf.

"Nah, he's just out cold. Nero, better get Minko before Annie gives him a head injury from all that banging." I had noticed that Annie was slamming his head on the wall, hoping that would wake him up.

We walk further into the cave, me carrying Hokaku who was groaning in his sleep from the pain Ginta and Yukaza gave him. Nero didn't have much trouble with Minko only except Annie would hover around him because of an unconscious blonde yokai. Everyone else didn't have much damage done to them.

"This cave is much larger than the last one." Ginta inputs as we gaze around the cave as we walk. Even though the cave was lower than the other one, we could still hear the birds screeching outside.

They sound almost agitated and angered. "Wonder what's got them riled up?" Annie ponders, Ginta rolls his eyes at her question. "It's cause we're tresspassing, of course they'd be riled up because of us!" I shake my head in exasperation, Ginta never gets agitated so easily.

Nero listens in on the birds. "Sounds like they got company coming." I grit my teeth. 'Damn, we'll be helpless if their a threat. With Hokaku and Minko out of it, we'll be handicapped.' I thought as my voice rings out with irritablility. "It better be the calvary instead of back up for the enemy, we're already hindered enough with these two being unconscious."

"We can only hope." Yukaza's clentched her fist to her chest as we continued to walk.

Xxx…

A little bit earlier

Inuyasha's POV

Damn the ledge is narrow as hell. "Watch your step, guys. The ledge is narrow." One at a time, Sango, Kagome and Miroku slide down onto the ledge. Kirara and Shippo follow after at an easier pace.

"What are those thing?!" Shippo stammers pointing to the farther point of the gulge. Giant baby chickens were flying around screeching and crowing. "Bird demons. And not just any Bird demons." Sango's eyes are all over the place, trying to examin what type of bird demon they are.

"We're in their terratory! We better take cover or risk attack." Miroku insists urgently. Kagome and Sango search the ledge to see for cover. Kagome's eyes widen slightly with hope.

"There's a cave over there!" She points to the eastern wall of the ledge section. I sniff the air and lean back. There's something in there. "Uh, I don't think we should…" nobody hears me as they run towards the cave. I chase after them.

"You idiots! Don't go in there!" Too late as Sango reaches the entrance and a scream breaks through her throat. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" I yank her back as a small flock of the demon birds shoot out of the cave. I shove them to keep running.

"They live in the caves?!" Kagome cries out as the birds chase us along the ridge of the gulge. "Where do you expect them to live, wench?!" I retort as I'm at the rear of the group, Sango the first ahead of our little chase.

"We gotta find a cave opening that's smaller than they are!" Miroku exclaims as he throws sutras at the birds to distract them from our attention. "Oh that will be great. Only one problem, NOTHING ELSE LIVES AROUND HERE!" Sango hollars at the top of her voice, which calls the attention of more birds.

"LOWER YOUR VOICE!" I scream at her, but in any case I just made it worse as they locate us and start coming at us from all directions. 'Shit! What the hell are we gonna do?' I only thought as the birds close in on us, making us back into a corner.

"Damnit! We're gonna have to fight our way out of here." I unsheathed Tensaiga, preparing to strike down the birds. "Your right, or we'll be their dinner." Sango reaches for her huge weapon on her back. The birds are sizing us up well, trying to see who's the weakest link.

"Hey Birdbrains! Come get some!" I jump up and slice my sword through the nearest bird. Miroku swipes at one as it gets close to him, using his staff as an actual weapon. Sango swings her boomerang towards one, knocking it back then returns, hitting another from behind.

"Damn, how many are there?!" a motion from behind me, leaves me with my body slammed into the gulge wall. "Inuyasha!" my friends cry out as a bird sinks its talons into me before I'm able to recover from my surprise attack.

I grit my teeth and give the bird a backward slash using my claws. The bird cries in pain as they hit the mark, tearing into it's own legs. The bird lets go and flies away from me.

I gain my momentum and slam into another bird. My sword swipes through another as the bird's numbers decrease. 5 birds still remained, but my strength is slowly leaving me due to my wound. Kagome sees me faluter and comes to my side to aid me.

"We gotta find shelter!" I announce, without even looking to where they are; I call out. "Kirara, Shippo, find a cave! But much smaller than them!" The two run by, wordlessly and avoid the birds the best they can until the birds look interest in pipqueaks that won't feed much.

"Why is there so many of them?" Miroku jumps away as a bird tries to dive bomb him. Kagome shots another bird down when she spots Shippo jumping up and down trying to gather our attention. "Everyone, theres a cave over here! Hurry!" I don't waste time as I latch my hand onto Kagome and shove her towards the cave opening, Miroku and Sango not far behind.

Shippo sees us coming as he ducks back inside the cave opening. "Kagome! Slide or the bird's are gonna get you!" Miroku warns as he spots one of the bird demon's prepared to dive bomb the young girl.

"Aw crap! Ack!" Kagome slides through the opening, a faint curse could be heard from inside as Sango and Miroku follow suit. "Shit Shit Shit!" I grumble as the birds start to swarm me. "Go to hell you buzzards!" I swipe at them with Tentsaiga as I dodge another to slide through the opening, the birds screeching in retort to me escaping them.

"Ah, go eat a snake demon!" I shove tensaiga through the opening as a bird sticks its huge beak through the opening, barely fitting. The bird squaks as the rest of them start flying off and away from the cave opening.

"They did not seem that happy." Shippo sighs. I give him a nuggy on the head. "What do you expect, Shrimp?! They wanted us as their dinner!" I groan as the subjugation beads glow, causing me to slam onto the ground. I was litterally eatting dirt.

"Damn you, Kagome!" I hissed, spitting out chunks of rock and dirt from my mouth. Miroku bonks his staff into my head, "Lets keep our heads, shall we?" I could see a faint tick mark on his head. "Why you-!"

"He's right, you know. We gotta find out what's going on." Sango interrupts as I'm about to strangle Miroku. Shippo gives everyone a pointed look. "And what is going on? Why are we in this gulge? What are we even looking for? And frankly why the heck does this cave smell like wolves?"

"Wolves?!" My friends and I exclaim as I start to sniff around the cave. Yup, they were definatly here and lucky for us not to long ago. I point towards the deepest part of the cave. "They went that way!" I sheath my sword as we follow the scent of wolves through the cave.

"My, for a narrow cave that the bird demon's can't get into, it's sure massive." Miroku states noticing how wide the cave walls were from each other. "Just watch your step, who knows who could've made these caves." I suggest, the cave getting denser.

"Youch, I almost tripped over a rock." Kagome winces, a hint of pain in her voice. I chuckle slightly. "I told you to watch your Ste-Aaaaaaaah!" I dropped through the floor, my back sliding against the wall of a shoot. "EHH? Ah! Inuyasha?!" I could hear everyone scream as I continue to fall, or rather slide until my body flies out of the shoot like tunnel, head first into a boulder.

"Gah! Ooooh, my face! That really stings." I hiss and curse in pain, holding my face which had met the slide of the boulder. "Inuyasha, are you alright?!" Sango's loud voice rings out of the shoot. "I'm fine! My face got a bruising though." I hold my hand to my face, still feeling the sting from the impact.

"I'm coming down!" Kagome calls out as she lets out a scream as she too is flung out of the shoot with too much momentum and ends up landing on my chest. "GAAAAH! Damnit all!" I crowed in pain as my back ends up hitting the boulder this time.

"Oh Crap! Your bleeding!" "You think?!" I yell in her face as I push her off of me so I can get the boulder which dug into my skin, out and stop the bleeding. Too late for my body as the calvary comes and everyone lands on me. "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK! Get off Get off!" I yelp in pain as the other four compainions of mine climb off of me.

I'm finally able to get the boulder out of my back with a lot of screaming involved. "I hate you all so much…" I groan in pain. Unluckily for me, I'm unable to stand up because of the wound in my back so Kirara has to carry me.

"Gomen, Inuyasha…" my pals all sigh with guilt, I know it's not their fault, but look at me? My chest hurts and my back is a mess from the boulder wound. "I still smell the wolves." Shippo inputs as we continue our walk through the cave. "They must've gone through here." Sango assimulates the obvious factor.

"We can still catch them if we hurry!" Kagome starts running through the cave the rest of us chasing after her. "Kirara slow down! Unless your gonna fly in the cave, put the brakes on it!" I groan, almost lossing my grip on her fur.

Xxx..

Minutes ago

Kouga's pov

"Aw shit! Keep running!" I yell as my pals run from the bird demons. The minute we exit the new cave opening, the birds are already on our asses. "How are we gonna defend ourselves with these two being unconscious?!" Nero says, hoisting Minko higher on his shoulders as he runs.

"We're just gonna have to hope to find a new cave opening! Hopefully before the birds strike us down!" Ginta gasps for air as he keeps pace with me and Nero even with the extra 120 pounds on us.

"Is it just me 'huff' or do the birds 'pant' seem more agiated than the last time?!" Annie cries out as she sees the shadow of a Bird demon upon us. "Just keep running!" Yukaza sqeaks when she feels the updraft from the bird's wings.

"Damn it all!" I hiss trying not to drop Hokaku in the process. 'how the hell did we get into this mess?' my thoughts scream as I could hear the screech of the bird demons overhead.

"Holy crap, we're sitting ducks out here. And we'll soon be bird chow!" Ginta quivers in his voice as my small group continue to run trying to avoid the birds, while also avaiding their attacks.

"Oh no!" Nero says, pointing out the corner ledge and bird demons already there hoping to box us in. "Shit, their gonna corner us!" Annie exclaims, her eyes widening in agitated nerves.

"Looks like it's a fight to the death!" I shout as I stammped towards the birds and slam my legs into them. "Lord Kouga! No, we can't fight them like this!" Yukaza holds me back as I try to attack another bird.

The birds swarm on us as they back us into the corner ledge. "We gotta do something…" Ginta mutters. Annie grabs his arm. "We can't do anything! With Hokaku and Minko down, we're hindered. They're defenseless already." She warns against his actions as the male drops his head to the ground his teeth half gritted with annoyance.

"They're gonna strike!" Yukaza stands in front of me and Nero. "Brace yourselves!" I cry out as the birds start to strike us down.

Xxx…

Inuyasha's POV

"That cave was extremely long to get through. Thank god we made it!" Kagome gasps in relief. Also luckily for me, my back wound was doing better so I was able to actually walk out of the cave, I just can't run or my back will spasum.

"Hey! Look over there!" Sango cries out, pointing towards a corner on the secondary ledge. The demon birds were crowding around something. The smell of wolves enters my nose. "The wolves are in trouble!" Shippo cries from Miroku's shoulder.

"I smell blood, and you can bet it's coming from them." I sniff the air, it was a mixture of birds, wolves and a hint of blood in the mix. "They must've gotten attack before coming through the caves like we did." Miroku recalls his grip on his staff tightens.

"Why are we still standing around here for then?! We're the calvary aren't we?! Charge!" Kagome shoots off like a pop rocket. "Kagome, wait for us!" the rest of us chase after her, drawing out our weapons.

"Hey Bird brains! You guys hungry?!" I cry out as I slash my sword through them. The birds start squaking, some of them remember the assault the got from me earlier and take off for shelter. "Oh you guys still wanna play don't cha?" Miroku swipes his staff at the birds, Sango is eagerly swinging her boomerang around, cutting down the swarm with easy.

"You wolves need to move! Run to the nearest safe cave! We'll be right behind you!" Shippo urges them on, while on Kirara's back. A copper hair female wolf unfreezes. "Thank you! Hurry guys before more show up." She urges several males, two carrying two individual wolves, and one other male and one female to keep moving.

As bird demons drop one by one from the air, the few remain fly off, fearing their lives. "Thank god their all gone." I wipe my forehead and put my sword in its sheath. "Where the wolves get to?" Sango ask as she and Miroku come up to the rest of our small group.

Shippo looks around the ledge and gets a smile on his face. "There's one now." We all look in the direction he's pointing to. There was a narrow cave like before on the left side of the gulge ledge. A female wolf, the one who lead the group away, was waving to us.

Xxxx…

Kouga's Pov

"I don't know why they had to save us." I grumbled as I lay Hokaku down on the ground, who finally groaned. I think the tub of lard was finally gonna wake up. Nero did the same with Minko who also groaned on impact with the ground.

"Just be thankful they killed some of those birds, other wise we would've been dinner." Ginta remarks my statement, I knew he was right but it didn't settle with me that us strong wolf demons had to be saved by a band of mistfits and a mutt.

Annie waits at the entrance for them. "Annie why are you leading them right to us?!" Annie gives me a steely cold glare. "Chief, it's cause they saved our lives! They deserve a proper thank you." Annie looks back outside and waves to our so called "Heros" as the band of mistfits, and yes that's what I'm gonna call them for a while, come inside the cave.

I get a better look at them, one of them is a monk with short black hair, purple robes and a staff. One is a female demon slayer wearing a black cat suit and pink harnesses with a giant weapon on her back, her hair tied into a pony tail.

The other female is a young girl whos got the aura of a priestess, while wearing the most unusal outfit I've ever seen and Talia showed up in the world in a swimming outifit, the others are a cat demon, a fox demon wearing a kimono and the mutt himself a silver hair half dog demon.

"So, the calvary showed up." Nero chuckles slightly, earning a wack on the head from me and Annie. "Shut up, doofuss." I get to my feet and stand before the band of mistfits. "Guess I should give thanks for saving our hides." I smirk with my arms crossed over my chest.

"Chief, quit being an ass." Annie growls as she gets to her feet and puts on a kind sincere smile. "Sorry about our Chief. He's a real grouch sometimes." Annie snickers as I give her a low growl. "Show some respect!" in response to my growling threat she kicks me in the shins.

"Wait. 'Chief'? you mean he's your Alpha?" Shippo ponders ouutloud. Annie grins and snaps her fingers. "That's right." The priestess inputs casually. "I don't mean to be rude but who are you?"

Annie gasps and bows slightly. "My mistake. I'm Annie. Our grouchy chief is Kouga. Over there is Yukaza," Annie points to the black hair beauty, who waves shyly. "Beside her is Ginta and Nero." The two give kind grins. "And the two passed out are Hokaku and Minko."

"What happened to them?" the demon slayer asks. "Oh, I'm Sango by the way." Nero replies to her question. "Let's just say when we came out of a shoot in the last cave over there, they got knocked out." I could see the half breed giving two of his compainions dirty looks as well.

"Same happen to you?" Ginta inputs after noticing the mutt's dirty look. "You could say that…" the monk and Sango sweat drop. "Inuyasha, stop it." The prietess interjects the half-breed, who must be inuyasha.

"Who might the rest of you be?" Yukaza asks politely. The monk is over to her in a second, holding her hand in one of his. "Aw what a gorgeous flower you are." Oh god, we got another Minko. I give Annie and pointed look. "Take out the trash." Annie knew what that meant as she grabs the monk by the ear and flings him into the wall behind his friends.

"You lech." Sango grumbles under her breath. "That was Miroku, I'm Kagome, and this is Shippo and Kirara." The priestess introduces. "Take a seat then. We need a breather, or until these two dumbass wake up." I put my foot on Hokaku's side and roll him into Minko.

"How come you wolves are here anyway?" Inuyasha gruffs. My packmates all look at me, wonder how to answer. "We got nothing to hide. what else do you want to know and then we'll get to that question." I intervene, wanting to prologue the question for as long as possible.

"What are those birds out there?" Kagome asks, taking a seat beside the mutt. I rest my elbows on my thighs and look them over. "Those, Birds aren't like any birds. They're called the Birds of Paradise. Those buzzards have been plaguing my pack for years. And the rumors I've heard about their ruler isn't very good either." Sango looks confused and wonders. "Who would lead these birds? Do you know their ruler's name?"

Nero interjects and answers for me. "She's the most unusual ruler I've ever seen. Her name is Sharushi and she's a Harpy demon. Many demons around these lands proclaimed that harpy demons were killed years ago. Somehow this one got mixed up with the birds of paradise."

"What makes you think that the harpies were killed off?" Miroku asks quizzically. Yukaza gazes down at the floor. "Because years ago there was a massive demon causing problems in the northern regions close by our sister pack, they told us that the one demon had slaughtered everyone one of the harpies."

"Then the harpy must've been just a young demon and had fled." Miroku concludes, the rest of us didn't disagree. That's what could've happen for all we know.

Minko and Hokaku stur awake and sit up surprising us all. "Eh?" the two wolves mutter. "You dolts, if you've could've waken up at anytime, why did you chose now?" I bang my fist on thei heads.

"Sorry, Kouga." They wince rubbing their head wounds. "Let's keep going then." I shot up as everyone else soon follows.

Xxxx..

A few hours of avoiding bird demons, sliding down shoots leading to lower levels in the gulge, we finally stop for the evening. Luckily we had some stuff we could burn along with some random sticks from old baby bird nests we took. We sat down around the slowly burning fire, the closest to the fire was me, the mutt, the priestess and Minko while everyone was close by or father off closer to the walls.

"Whats your reason for being here?" Inuyasha asks the same question from before. A sigh errupts from me as I groan. I can't keep it from them any longer. "Ok, a packmate of ours got taken by Sharushi. She's somewhere in this gulge and I'm pretty sure she's in the hut that's in the farthest point of this gulge."

"Packmate?" Kagome asks, curiosity edged in her voice. I roll my eyes. "Her name's Talia." I could see the suddenly look that Kagome and the mutt shared in that second. She leans forward a little her eyes meeting mine. "Talia…as in Natalia?" I blink in surprise but my gaze narrows with supsition.

Annie interjects, having noticed it too. "Do you know her?" Kagome looks down at her hands. "Not exactly…." I barked in annoyance, I knew she was hiding something. "Well? Is it a yes or a no?!" The girl sighs, knowing she's bee caught. "Yes and no. You see, I'm from the same place your Talia comes from." My eyes widen greatly. This girl comes from the same future Talia talked about.

"How did you and your pack come across her?" Miroku brings us back to focus. "Ask tweddle dee and tweddle goof over there." I point to Hokaku and Ginta. The twosome look back over to us. They were the furthest away from the fire.

"How we came across her?" Ginta repeats as he and Hokaku put on their thinking expressions. Hokaku claps his hands together. "This was just several moons ago, Ginta and I were a part of a hunting group. We had split up to find different things. Me and Ginta were supposed to look for berries or fruits. We were near the river that wasn't far from the den."

Ginta adds on. "We didn't dare be close to the river because once or twice a week the river water gets rapid and hard to even swim through. All of a sudden our hunt is put on hold when we hear a cry for help coming from the river. We run to the river and not too far up stream is a girl getting pushed by the heavy rapid water. She was struggling to even stay afloat. Hokaku followed her down stream as I headed back to the den to warn Kouga. Only he can jump into the rapid water and still be able to fight the current."

"They came back and as the girl got farther down stream Kouga jumped into the river and grabs onto her. We get a long vine from a nearby tree and toss it to kouga as we pull them both to shore. She was wearing a 'swimming outfit' is what she called it." Hokaku finishes.

"But why did you take her in?" Shippo gets a confused look on his face. "Because she had gotten a fever and passed out on us. Well of course after she freaked out about the fact we were demons." I remember how freaked she was when she got saved by demons she thought were gonna eat her.

"Did she ever say how she ended up here?" Sango states quizzically as she strokes the cat demon in her lap. Annie puts a finger to her chin as she thinks. "She mentioned that she was dragged through her 'swimming pool' by the kraken demon Uzukaza. I think Kouga mentioned before that she had also killed him." She looks towards me and I nod. "When I pulled her out of the water, she had blood on her finger nails and some faint blood spots on her stomach. She never mentioned in full detail what happened."

"That's a scary way to end up here." Kagome murmurs with her head down. "But why are you so curious about her?" Minko asks, tugging some dread locks from his face. "From where Kagome's from, Natalia has a family who's nearly given up on her returning home. But as you say, she was dragged her and there's no possiblility of it having a way back. But we found out some strange things about your little pack mate." Inuyasha glances over at Kagome who nods.

"What kind of stuff?" Nero asks inquisitively. Inuyasha returns his gaze to us. "Natalia is originally from this time period. Her and her older sister, Tavera. Her sister told us that years ago, her family had erased Natalia's memories of her life in this world, sealed their powers and sent them through the well Kagome uses to get to this time."

"The Bone-eater's well?" My packmates state in shock. "You mean that she's from this time line?" I jump up in complete confusion. "That's right. Her sister also told us that you should remember who Brazen is." I nearly dropped from under my legs onto my ass. Brazen… I haven't heard his name in forever. "Brazen…. He's the alpha of the southern pack…but…noway…." My face pales drastically.

I clutch my hands to my face and try not to have a panic attack. I could tell my pack mates were also distressed. "You remember then." Kagome murmurs sadly. I grit my teeth hard and try not to cry.

"You lie! Brazen told me they both died from a crazed demon!" The dam breaks as tears cascade down my face. "It's gotta be a lie! She-she can't be alive!" I drop to my knees and hunch over, crying into the dirt. I could hear the painful choking sobs of my wolves. They all are around my age, and they all remember that day as well.

Flash back

Brazen enters the den as my father and I go to greet him.

"Brazen what's with the sudden surprise?" my father asks, he notices Brazen is alone and has tears falling down his face.

"Uncle Brazen…" I say, I always call him that since I found out I'm gonna mate with his daughter. "Whats wrong?"

"She's dead…..Kouga, your bethrothed is dead…" panic and dread set in my heart as I gaze at Unlce Brazen. "No… it can't be…" Nero, Minko, Annie and the others surround me from behind after hearing the horrible news.

"She can't be dead! No!" I slam my fist into Brazen's chest, tears fall down my face. Brazen holds me to him even while I beat into his chest plate. "She and Tavera were cut down by a crazed mountain demon on a hunting mission."

I continued to sob loudly as I beat into my uncle, even after he left I continued to slam my fist on the ground as my friends try to build me back up.

Annie sits beside me and holds my shoulder, her own tears leaking from her eyes. Inuyasha hides his eyes with his bangs. "Then that old man lied to you. Otherwise, we wouldn't have this." He reaches into his robe and pulls out a wolf fang necklace.

"That's…. Tavera's…" I take it from him. "Talia has this too.." Yukaza exclaims looking at the fang necklace. "What do those necklaces mean?" Sango asks. We all look up at them.

"In the southern wolf tribe, it is known that after 220 years of life, some of the wolf demon's lose their demonic powers and turn into humans. These necklaces are given to those memebers that have lost their powers, as a promise, that even though they aren't demons anymore their still family." I state as I remember it the best I could.

"But what if someone wears it as a wolf demon?" I think for a second and then realize. My voice was already half broken so the words came out choppy like the ocean. "It seals…their demonic powers…. Oh fucking hell. She's worn that fang this entire time. It's kept her demonic powers sealed and her scent a natural human scent."

"Then if Tavera is able to take hers off it means her powers are already gone." Kagome realizes as well. I get to my feet and slam an angry fist into the wall of the cave, the impact was so violent the cave floor actually shakes. Inuyasha grabs me by my chest plate and swings me around as I'm about to slam my fist into the wall a third time.

"Listen, Wolf breath. We may not understand the situation at the moment. What we do know is that there a girl who's waiting for us to save her! You need to Alpha up and start being a man. This behavior won't help save Natalia, so start acting like a leader and lead us into the fray or we'll save her without you!" Golden eyes gleem back at me with hinted frustration and determination. I scrunch my eyes in anger and stare back at him.

"Your gonna help us? Heh, what good will it do you misfits? You have nothing to gain from helping us! The only think you have been doing is eliminating our greatest enemy from existance." I sneer at him. Annie and Nero jump up and scold me. "Chief/Kouga-sama!" The monk is already up and holds the two wolves back, whispering to them in a hushed voice.

Inuyasha shoves me against the wall using my chest plate against me. "I'm not doing this out of kindness. I'm not doing it to be a good guy or whatever. I'm doing it because I made a promise! Kagome and I Promised Tavera that we would find her, no matter the cost. She begged us to find Talia and help her regain her memories. Something Tavera intrusted in us, two strangers who found out about her problem and the only ones who understand what she saw that day her sister vanished.

"I don't know about you, wolf, but I'm not gonna back out on a promise like that. Nothing is more special than family, even you should know that." I downcast my eyes away from the half-demon. I know he speaks the truth, you can't back out on promises, especially not as important as this.

I bite my lip casually and look back up at him. "You better be good at keeping your promises, dog boy. Cause as a wolf demon myself, we thrive on keeping promises and expect others to do that. So unless you want to turn into a liar and a bloody pile of guts, I say you better stick to it." I pat his shoulder as I pull myself away from the wall and over to Annie and Nero, politely taking the monk's hand off their shoulders.

"Better keep moving, dawn will be fast approaching soon…" I slip past my pack mates, heading in the direction of the deepest part of the cave.

Xxx…

Inuyasha's Pov

The wolf ringleader leads us through 3 more sets of caves as dawn was only 3 hours away. We finally made it down into the gulge, with the Birds of Paradise awaiting for us.

"Looks like that saying is true, early bird gets the worm." Kagome chuckles akwardly as we're greeted with 20 something birds, feathers ruffled and wings flapping in warning.

"Yea… let's just hope they already got the worm." Minko, the wolf demon with blonde dreadlocks, sweats. Annie, the braided copper hair wolf, stands beside him and rests her clawed hand on his shoulder. "We can take them anyway, Minko." Her hazel eyes meet his and he sighs, a small goofy smile on his face as he touches her hand with his.

"Let's get this over with then." Wolf breath grins wildly, I could tell he was eager to get this going. I rest my hand and slowly grip my sword's handle. Kagome settles an arrow into her bow, prepared to let it go. Sango's hand rests on her weapon's ribbon handle while Miroku's grip on his staff tightens. The wolves start cracking their knuckles in eagerness, waiting for the ring leader to say the word.

"Chaaaarge!" Kouga yells out as he breaks for it across the distance seperating us from the bird demons. We all let out a battle cry as we divide from each other, taking on the bird demons as they come at us.

I yank my sword out of it's holder and slash at the nearest bird. "Let's see you try to eat me!" I slash at another as it tries to claw me in the back with it's talons. "Oh no you don't!" I quickly take the two out and hurry to the other's aid.

I could see Annie, who teamed up with Minko, was doing fine. Sango, Miroku and Kagome were doing well on their own. Nero and Kouga were killing them faster than they could surround the others. Even Ginta and Hokaku were holding their own.

Yukaza, the black hair wolf, was with Kirara and Shippo and the three of them were having a hard time with the two birds that are attacking them. I slash at the birds, they were too distracted with the their pest problem to notice me. "Ah, thank you Inu-san!" Yukaza cheers, even during a fight she is a pleasant flower while having blood on her claws.

"Don't thank me yet, wolf girl. We still got company!" Three more came charging towards us. Kirara growls in their direction, while Shippo rides on her back. Yukaza and I sprint towards the birds our weapons poised to strike. One of the birds opens it's beak to shreek as Yukaza rushes into it's mouth just to slice her way out it's back, blood drenching her pelts.

"Hmm, not too bad." I chuckle after slicing my bird problem in half. I look on the battle field, nearly all of the bird demons were killed, their blood making the dry ground look like a river as it exits their wounds.

I slowly gain speed and keep pace with Kouga as he and Nero finish off the last few birds, their bodys covered with splatters of blood; their own claws almost dyed in it's crimson color.

Dawn was fast approaching as everyone catches up with us. "Their all dead. Geez, I thought that would take longer." Annie wipes sweat from her forehead but ends up leaving blood on her forehead in it's place. In the distance I could see a hut, not any special kind, just one that looks slightly bigger than the ones at Kaede's village.

"Wait, what's that?!" Miroku cries out pointing at the hut as a red glowing light errupts from inside the hut. Kouga looks us over and nods towards the hut, a scream pierces the sound barrier. "AAAAAAAAAH" Kouga grows pale as he breaks into a dash towards the hut. "NATALIA!" The rest of us chase after him as the red glow has already died.

I'm first to grab him. "Kouga, stop it! Your rushing into danger!" Annie warns as I grip his chest plate, holding in place. I could see someone peering out the window, a female voice rings out. "She's a full demon now! BE CAREFUL!" The voice was filled with terror and dismay.

Kouga's POV

Sharushi vanishes from the window only to be flung through the now busted open door, her body skids across the rocky terrain, possibly scraping her up go. A cry of pain rings out as her body comes to a stop 2 feet in front of me.

My heart drops as a new scent, yet familiar waves through the air. I could feel my pack mates intake a sharp breath as well as the fox demon and dog boy.

"This…pressure…." Kagome's voice cracks, her eyes take on a shaken, frightened deer look. The dust disperses as the same person I've known for months now, is visible for us to see.

Her hair is down out of it's side pony tail. Her eyes, instead of green are now silver; cold and hard. Her cannines are long and just barely protured her lips while their closed. Her ears now have the snarp point as a regular wolf demon, along with the extended claws and a tail hidden inbetween her legs. Red jagged lines are across both cheeks.

The new wolf demon lets out a growl as she steps out of the hut. My mind comes back into focus as I glance down at Sharushi. I dash to her and gather her into my arms. "Sharushi. Sharushi! Wake up!" I shake her shoulders gently. She sturrs before her golden orange eyes blink into focus.

Sharushi's eyes widen as a howl rips through the air. "Oh no…" she breaks from my arms and stands before me, though injured. She turns to look at us. "The collar…"

Yukaza's eyes refocus back to Sharushi. "The what?" Sharushi points towards Talia as the sunlight shines on her, the collar around her neck gleams from the sunlight. "The Noroi Rendaringu collar, known as the Curse-rendering collar. That collar, when worn by a human or demon, any curse placed on them is rendered useless. It's also the case for seals and spells." Sharushi explains.

"The Kanjo no hosenki, or the Jewel of emotions, is used in combination with the Noroi Rendaringu collar to help control possessed humans until an exorsisum is performed. When used on a demon, or rather human with demonic abilities, the collar releases their demon form, while the jewel keeps them in control of their instincts and nature to kill." Sharushi adds on. Annie looks at Sharushi. "What happened to the jewel?!"

Sharushi looks away ashamed. "The jewel shattered thanks to her demonic aura which her emotions brought out due to her anger and confusion." I glared at her, my eyes glow with resentment. "This is all your fault then!"

Sharushi hisses at me, Annie holds me back while Yukaza holds Sharushi back. "Is now the right time to be fighting each other?!" Kagome intervenes between us. She gazes at me. "Kouga, we need to find out what she knows. And more importantly Natalia's in danger of hurting herself."

"I don't mean to interrupt but…. Incoming!" Miroku yells as the front door over shots us and lands not even two feet away. I look back at Sharushi and grit my teeth. "We'll settle this later. Right now I need to keep my pack mate from hurting anyone or herself." I walk pass her and stand a foot away from the group and look over at the now snarling Natalia.

I smile faintly. Memories of the past cross my mind as I look her over. "Looks like the demon broke loose. Time to put you back in your cage." I crack my knuckles as the wolf girl looks me over. "Heh, I'd like to see you try that, Alpha boy." Her wolf demon cracks her own knuckles, a sneer edging on her face.

"Kouga! You need to tear the collar off her neck, it's the only way she'll be human again!" Sharushi cries out from behind me. I don't even look her way as a smirk latches onto my face.

"Gonna be a challenge, but I'm up for it." I look over her demon form as she growls. "You'll be dead soon enough. I've been sealed up long enough and now I'm hungry for blood." Venom drips from her voice.

"Are you gonna talk our are we gonna dance, bitch." I howl as an enraged snarl rings out, Talia making no hesitation to charge at me.

AND DONE! 22 PAGES! The new longest chapter I've ever done! I know it's pretty long, especially because it's dialouge heavy and not as detailed. But what can you do to describe caves and a gulge that I haven't already described before?

So now both sets of hero's have made contact! Can Kouga break the collar and the demon's hold on Natalia's human half? We'll see soon enough.

Just so you know this chapter took me a while to work on the dialogue so I hope it's not too cheap or crappy.

So the truth is known! Brazen actually lied to Kouga about Tavera and Natalia being dead. Why didn't kouga recognized her before? Mostly because of her scent, because it lost the wolf demon aspect, the scent changed along with it. When it's put as a new scent yet familiar, it actually means her wolf demon scent, the one she had as a younger demon which Kouga remembers.

So I hope you all enjoy the new info and chapter and I will see you in the next one and as a thank you for my hard work, how bout a nice review on your way to another story?