Escape- a Kouga/Kagome Story
Chapter 8: An Idea of the Truth
An: Bold= thoughts and ookami language
Kagome walked out of the bathing caverns in a jade under robe and light blue kimono. It was short- only coming to her knees- and the obi was a deep orange with yellow sand dollars on it. There was a hole for her tail, and she easily poked her new tail through. She carried her bathing supplies with her; walking to Kouga's den and placing them back in. Her eyes were a thoughtful turquois color, and Kagome was silent. Kouga walked in, watching her tail wave in a manner and her emotional scent telling him she was wary and lost in thought. He walked up to her and kneeled to face her. She looked at him with the same expression he'd figure she'd have. He liked the turquois in her eyes, and his eyes roamed to discreetly look over her new outfit.
At her blush he knew she'd caught him and looked up to see her light pink eyes and cheeks. "You look like a living gem, Kagome. I'll tell the girls to get you more kimono and yukata like this one." He said. Kagome's eyes darkened back to turquois as she stood with him. "Kouga-kun…why am I a wolf youkai? Not that I don't like the way I am now…I just want to know how this came about so suddenly. Was it the liquid Chokyukai made me drink?" she asked, looking up at him. Sure she was taller, but only to his chin, so she still had to look up to meet his eyes. Kouga shrugged. "I don't know the answer to that Kagome. Gomen Ne. However I do think that the stuff the pig made you drink might've been shape shifter blood. It makes people change into what their inner spirit represents the most and is most likely to be. I guess your inner self wanted to be an ookami youkai, and thus you changed into your new self." Kouga replied.
Kagome blushed a little; she didn't even know her inner self wanted to be a wolf. Mitsuri trotted up to the two and yipped at Kouga. Kagome looked down at the wolf bitch (as in female) in surprise. True she was yipping to normal ears, but what Kagome heard was this: "Master, an enemy scent is nearing the home. The scent is of putrid poison and pure evil!" Kagome then gasped, feeling the aura and evil presence. Kouga looked at her, and Kagome shook her head. "Ok, first I just understood everything Mitsuri just yipped and I feel what she's sensing. What the hell just happened?" Kagome explained. Kouga chuckled lightly. "Ok, since you're an ookami, you have the ability to understand our language, as well as inu and a bit of neko. Also, what's is it? What kind of evil? Kouga clarified.
Kagome nodded, remembering what the girls had told her when Mitsuri spoke to them. "The poison smell- it's miasma, and the pure and highly potent evil that's coming with it- that's Naraku!" she shouted, suddenly recognizing it and her eyes turning into a mix of frightened icy red and vengeful black. Kouga growled, looking out into the impending evil with pure anger and vengeance. He would get that bastard for nearly causing his pack to go extinct- the only thing that saved them was the sudden emergency baby boom, which brought the pack to safe number of 130-140 that was still going up- and he'd be damned if he didn't make good on that vengeance. "Mitsuri, go and alert the pack to stay in the hidden section of the caves. I will not risk a massacre, Kagome and I can handle him." He barked. Kagome blinked, still at a daze at the fact that she understood his barks and growls. Mitsuri barked her acknowledgement and ran off, howling and barking the orders back to the rest of group, who quickly did as was asked, with little panic or questions asked.
Kagome took a side-glance at Kouga, who looked back and they both gave a nod before Kouga swept Kagome into his arms and jumped through the waterfall- actually staying dry somehow- and running into the cloud of evil. Soon the duo came upon Naraku, who was accompanied by Kikyo and Kagura. Kagome growled gutturally. She didn't want to see the clay woman still here, but then a thought came to her. If Kikyo was still walking on this earth, was Inuyasha still alive? No- she heard the loud thud and spilling of blood that night- so was she able to travel in between worlds? That must have been the case- which made Kagome even more angrier, her eyes bleeding away from the icy red and into the frightful and angry black. Kagura's eyebrows rose at the new Kagome. *Well then, the human wench has upgraded a little then, has she? Hmph, it won't be enough.* She thought indifferently. Kikyo's eyes narrowed at the miko ookami. Kikyo too, had been deprived of Inuyasha for too long, and thus suspected the young woman/child to be the cause. She had originally ventured on her own to find the fake miko girl, the fact that Naraku and the wind manipulator had tagged along had not been of her concern or care.
Naraku on the other hand, was quite surprised by Kagome- if the woman glaring at him with black and red eyes actually was the young miko girl- what was she doing with the wolf and out the range of the hanyou? Then he allowed his eyes to travel over her new body, her large hourglass figure and something within him stirred. He wanted her, for more than power. Plus, since she was a full ookami, she'd more fun to play with. His resolve and goals instantly set, Naraku's red eyes began to haze with anticipated lust and the promise of breaking a girl's most precious item. Kagome got a lust-filled vibe from Naraku and shuddered very lightly, looking at him and nearly retching from the scent of arousal coming from his body and the stench of sick wanted in his emotional scent. Mixed together made a very bad combo. "Let's get it over with. What the hell do you pains in everyone's asses want?" Kagome snipped. Her eyes slowly brightening to a mix of the angry icy red and commanding orange. Kikyo flipped her hair. "A fake such as yourself should not talk as though you are important." She replied. Kagome growled. "A fake? Hah, says the bitch that's nothing more than fragile clay who feeds off of others! A better question would be what the hell did you do to and/or with Inuyasha you piece of pottery?" Kagome griped, pointing an angry clawed finger at Kikyo. Kagura chuckled quietly, this would only lead to a fight between the two women, and she already knew what Naraku no wanted, so she pulled her feather, sat upon it and flew away with a flick of her wind fan.
Kikyo gasped with anger and shock. "How DARE you talk to me in such an audastic manner? I came here to ask you such a question, so you will answer me. I have done nothing concerning Inuyasha, and since he has ignored my calls, I came to question your intentions and/or actions about him. Spill it." Kikyo replied. Kagome narrowed her eyes in thought and further aggravation, the black in her eyes bleeding into the thoughtful turquois. "I haven't done anything." Kagome stated simply. *So what really happened to Inuyasha? I was sure I heard the blood splatters, and his aura vanished from my reach that night, so maybe…* Kagome thought, and her newest assumption had her gasping and nearly bursting into tears again. *Maybe he was murdered! But how…who could've…?* she thought again, her question instantly answered as she looked at him with untamed anger and sorrow, her eyes losing the calmer colors to turn into a mix of black and purple, the whites of her eyes becoming blood shot and recoiling as her pupils dominated.
Kikyo became wary, stepping a few steps back and loading an arrow loosely. Naraku was puzzled, the miko-turned-ookami has just started to lose control and her aura was darkening dangerously against his own, trying to purify him and take over. Ragged and fiery gold stripes flowed along Kagome's arms and legs, and she began to shake, her claws lengthening, her hair floating around her head and bleeding red. Her tail bled red as well, growing longer. Kouga had long since gotten out of the way, staying close on a tree, he knew what this was. Kagome was going into ultra-rage mode, and soon she would go into her true form as a giant rabid wolf, not ever going to be sated until the cause of her transformation was ended, or she was ended. With a howl Kagome was encased by red light, reappearing as a giant red and brown wolf. Her eyes black and purple and a series of golden swirls on her limbs and face. Kagome snarled, crouching and springing upon Naraku. Kikyo relaxed her bow, relieved she wasn't the object of rage. Naraku was taken off guard and was dealt a terrible blow to the gut. Kagome- though a demon- was still a miko and thus could still maintain her purifying powers- as was shown by the bright pink light burning the skin and insides of Naraku where she bit him.
Kouga was shocked, he wasn't expecting this to happen- perhaps Kagome will avenge his lost clan. Naraku was in agony, screaming and clawing at the giant wolfess that was currently making a treat out of him. His usual miasma back up was being purified as it came, and he had no other way to fight. Before he was completely destroyed Kagome let go, and instantly miasma flew out of Naraku's giant wound-which was so large he was barley attached to his lower half and thus ripped off from himself. Kagome was weakened by the sudden rush of miasma and whined, kneeling and reverting back to a humanoid state. Her eyes returned to a normal blend of red and purple and the whites of her eyes came back, but her hair and tail were still red and the gold stripes remained- though fading.
She glared at Naraku, and with a demonic voice she began to shout at him. "YOU BASTARD! HOW COULD YOU?" Naraku was at a loss, his escape barrier forming to lift his two halves away. "I will return…miko. You will be mine, in more ways than one!" he shouted. Kagome growled and attempted to grab him, but the miasma was still here and thus prevented her from doing so. When Naraku was a few miles away the miasma dissolved away and Kagome found Kikyo motionless on a tree, breathing the clean air with shallow breaths. Her clay body couldn't take the impurities of the miasma pollution and it rendered her immobile and unable to breath. Had Naraku left any later- had the miasma left any later- she'd die of suffocation. Kagome walked to barely alive clay model and placed her palm on her chest, her purifying abilities enabling the clay miko to breath better and cleanse itself of the miasma's polluting nature. Kikyo looked at Kagome's mix of pained, brown and uncaring grey eyes. "That's twice I've saved your ass, you'd think I'd be insane by now, but I have a reason for sparing you again. Neither of us had anything to do with Inuyasha." Kagome said with a whisper.
Kikyo swatted Kagome's palm away and stood up shakily. "What…do you mean?" she asked. Kouga hopped from his perch and clasped Kagome's shoulder, calming the girl down considerably and causing her hair and tail to return to the silvery/blue and the gold markings to fade fully. "It's simple now, Inuyasha was murdered- attacked unprepared by one of Naraku's incarnations. At first I had thought he went to hell with you and you were somehow able to travel back and forth between the two worlds- but now that I think about it, it was plainly Naraku. I would've seen and felt your presence and I would've heard you two entering hell, and I didn't. I heard blood and a thud and I felt Inuyasha's youki slowly fade, like he was slowly leaving my range- which is very far- but it left upwards, into the wind. He died by natural murder." Kagome explained-mostly to herself- but it was loud enough for the other two to hear. Kikyo was silent, fuming that something like this had happened and thoughtful as to how Kagome knew he had died. With a frustrated and sad sigh she turned to depart.
Kagome didn't speak as she turned the opposite way and began to walk sadly back to the waterfall den of the wolves. Kouga could detect the heavy emotional scent of despair, sadness, anger and slight guilt radiating off of Kagome but kept quiet, instead walking side by side with her and holding her hand lightly.
End of this Chapter peeps! Whoo, first real fight scene, and Kagome gets a clue as to what REALLY happened to Inu! Kikyo also comes to light, and Naraku has turned into a likely suspect and a sick hentai who now has the hots for Kags! EEE so much drama! Review please!
~Kagome-chan