Disclaimer: Don't own anything but the idea for the story.
Author's Note: Just an idea that I thought would be cool to write about. Reviews are always welcome, I'll even take the flames! I won't care and I will probably use them to spite whoever wrote them XD! Anyway, review and enjoy!
Summary: Ryoga wakes up after a night of drunkenness in a weird place, being poked by a strange being, and many surprises in store for him. Will he make it back to Nerima? Will he even want to go back? And who is this strange little creature poking him with a stick? Read to find out!
Chapter 2: Now what?
Ryoga woke up the next morning, thinking it had all been a dream, yet again, then was scared into the nearest tree when Shippo pounced on him. He was clutching the tree as if his life depended on it when he smelt peaches. He looked around, searching for what the cause of the scent could be, but found nothing resembling a peach in the vicinity. He hesitantly climbed down the tree to search the ground when he came across Inuyasha at the bottom of the tree.
"Finally!"
"Do you smell peaches?" Ryoga asked the other half demon.
"Peaches? Can't say that I do, all I smell is that mangy wolf." He grumbled out the rest but Ryoga caught it with his advanced hearing.
"Another wolf? Like me?" Inuyasha shook his head.
"No, a full wolf demon. He smells like wet dog and bad body oder, can't you smell him? Hes pretty close, coming to flirt with Kagome, the wimpy wolf!" Ryoga eyed Inuyasha's fuming form for a moment before shaking his head.
"All I smell is peaches, you guys, and forest." Ryoga answered. Inuyasha looked at him for a second before it hit him.
"Oh, you got to be kidding me! Kagome! We need to get out of here no-" He was cut off by a huge tornado, which stopped right in front of Kagome.
"Kagome, my-" He stopped talking when the wind died down. He sniffed the air with a look of confusion, which slowly melted into a look understanding. He moved away from Kagome sniffing the air around the clearing, stopping at certain places. He spent a long time sniffing Sango before shaking his head and moving on. Sango, Kagome, Miroku, and Shippo all had looks of confusion as Kouga continued to sniff around, before a look of understanding dawned on Sango's face. She shot a glance at Inuyasha, who nodded his head, and then looked at a highly confused Ryoga.
"Kouga, what are you doing?" Kagome asked as the wolf demon continued to sniff around the clearing.
"Peaches." Was Kouga's only reply.
"You smell them too!? I told you!" Ryoga shouted in triumph. Kouga looked up quickly at the proclamation, staring straight at the half wolf demon. His eyes flicked from the fluffy ears on Ryoga's head to the tail swishing behind him and a smirk slowly made its way onto his face.
"Oh, I smell em alright." He walked briskly toward Ryoga, pushing Inuyasha out of the way, smirking the whole time.
"Kouga, he doesn't know hes the one omitting the smell." Sango said stepping in front of Ryoga, who looked thoroughly confused. Ryoga sniffed his arm.
"I don't smell like peaches. He smells like peaches." Ryoga pointed at Kouga from behind Sango. Inuyasha huffed in annoyance.
"Idiot, your the one who is making that smell. Don't you know when your in heat?"
"Heat? What are you talking about?" Kouga's smirk grew wider.
"Allow me to explain it to you." Kouga quickly pushed Sango out of the way and grabbed Ryoga by the arm, beginning to pull him toward the woods.
"Kouga stop!" Kagome called annoyed.
"Sorry, you had your chance, plus you don't smell half as good as he does! We'll be back before dark!" He tried to speed away but was slowed down by Ryoga, who was stumbling after him trying to figure out what was going on.
"Wait! What are you guys talking about? Who is this guy?!" Ryoga asked frantically, not liking the lecherous looks he was getting from the wolf dragging him.
"No waiting! Your in heat, you want a mate. Now come on!" Kouga started tugging harder before giving up and picking Ryoga up.
"Kouga! Put him down! Hes too young!" Inuyasha yelled angrily. Kouga stopped and sniffed the boy in his arms. A look of understanding appeared on his face and he reluctantly set Ryoga down.
"Fine!" Kouga yelled. Before anyone could get another word in, he leaned over Ryoga's neck and bit into the spot where his neck and shoulder met, causing Ryoga to whimper in pain. The bite only lasted a few moments before the pain receded and he felt a licking sensation on the bite mark. It surprisingly felt really good and Ryoga felt his knees start to shake. He felt the overwhelming urge to bite something but restrained himself.
He felt many eyes on him, so he turned around to see a mixture of shock, anger, and annoyance on the others' faces.
"What happened?" He felt a little lightheaded and woozy so he grabbed onto the closest thing, which was Kouga, before he fell over.
"Stupid wimpy wolf, has to go around marking pups, this is ridiculous!" Inuyasha muttered in annoyance before pulling Kouga away by the pony-tail causing Ryoga to wobble and then fall into Sango's waiting arms, where he passed out.
~With Inuyasha and Kouga~
"Hey! Mutt! Let me go! Whats the big idea!?" Kouga struggled against Inuyasha's hold on his hair but only got a growl in response. They finally stopped and Inuyasha pushed Kouga up against a tree, holding him by the shoulders and growling in his face.
"Why the HELL did you do that!? He isn't even from this time period!" Inuyasha growled.
"What are you talking about? Time period?"
"Hes from the future you wimpy wolf and he didn't even know he was a half demon! He can't be older than Kagome! You just bound yourself to a 15 year old, who used to be human up until yesterday!" He snarled again banging Kouga up against the tree to prove his point. All the color seemed to fade from Kouga's face as he took in what he just did. He quickly gained his composure back and shoved Inuyasha off of him.
"I didn't know that! He looked and smelled like a half wolf demon in heat! I couldn't help it, he just smelt so....I don't know! I've never smelt something that good before! You probably would have done the same thing if you were me too!" Kouga defended himself. Inuyasha snorted in reply.
"Thank Kami I'm not you! He didn't even smell that good though, nowhere as good as..." He cut himself off while blushing. Kouga smirked.
"As who? Kagome? There was no comparison! Kagome smelt like dirt compared to him!" Inuyasha ignored the slight to Kagome before smirking.
"You just marked a male, I didn't know you were into guys?"
"I'm not! Besides, it doesn't matter! You know as well as I do that stuff like that doesn't matter to demons, we're hermaphrodites! That includes half-demons as well." Kouga smirked again in victory when Inuyasha huffed and began walking back to the group.
"What are you gonna do now? You can't mate with anyone else because you marked him."
"I don't want to mate with anyone else now, wolves mate for life, remember? I'll just wait until he comes to me, that way I won't be forcing myself on someone 'too young.'"
"You have no morals, do you? You were about to mate with what might as well be the equivalent of a puppy and you don't even care." Now that they weren't rivals for Kagome's attention, they didn't seem to want to fight anymore. It almost felt like they were...friends. Nah.
"If he is a puppy, why in hell is he in heat?" Kouga shot back. This caused them both go into deep thought about what could have caused that to happen. They reached the group a few minutes later and gave up thinking about it, storing it in the back of their minds for later.
"Thats weird, the smell of his heat is gone." Inuyasha stated once they reached the others.
"Your nose is clearly dysfunctional, because I can smell it clear as day." To prove his point, Kouga took another big sniff of the air and smiled happily. Inuyasha just rolled his eyes in annoyance.
The group decided to camp in the clearing after a few hours of Ryoga not waking up and the sun was starting to set. By the time night fell, they were all gathered around the camp-fire. Kouga was sitting next to Ryoga's unconscious form, occasionally taking whiffs and then getting a goofy look on his face, which caused Inuyasha to roll his eyes. Sango and Kagome were sitting as far away from the two as possible because whenever either of them came near, Kouga would growl lowly. Inuyasha and Miroku sat next to the girls, while Shippo slept peacefully in Kagome's lap and Kirara in Sango's.
"So...what are we gonna do with Ryoga? We can't leave him with Kouga, hes from the future and will probably want to go back." Kagome asked Inuyasha quietly. Before he could answer, Kouga interrupted.
"Hes not going back, I won't let him!" Kouga said childishly, while glaring at Kagome for even bringing it up.
"Thats his choice, not yours Kouga!" Kagome argued back. She felt a little hurt that Kouga abandoned his affections for her so quickly and a little weirded out that he chose a boy over her. He glared at her even harder and started to growl a little bit. Just as Kouga was about to reply, they heard a groan coming from the now conscious boy.
"Peaches...." He mumbled, and only Inuyasha and Kouga heard making Kouga grin. He helped the half wolf into a sitting position and started to pick the sticks and grass off his mate. "Whassgoinon?" He mumbled when his eyes focused properly.
"We were just discussing you going back to our time." Kagome said in a hard voice, causing Kouga to growl and Ryoga to wince. "I'll be here for a couple weeks, so when I go back, I can bring you too. I'm sure you want to go home."
"W-well.."
"Maybe we should tell him whats going on first? There has got to be a reason he made it through the well on his own, he could have been destined to end up here, like Kagome was." Miroku said. "We can worry about getting him home when the time comes." Kagome grudgingly agreed and the others agreed without a complaint.
"Well, he already knows our names-"
"Actually, I can't really remember them all that well. I apologize, but I haven't exactly been in a right state of mind lately, with all of this going on." Sango just smiled softly and nodded.
"Thats understandable, this must be scary for you. I'm Sango, I'm a demon slayer and this is my companion Kirara. Shes a cat demon." Ryoga waved nervously.
"Hi."
"This is Miroku. Hes a monk, but hes also a big PERVERT!" She proceeded to slap the monk, leaving a red hand print on his cheek. Ryoga waved hesitantly. They sure were violent around here.
"I'm in Inuyasha. I'm half dog demon and this is Kagome. Shes a priestess in training and she can sense the Shikon Jewel shards. We will explain that later. Thats Shippo, a fox demon and shape-shifter." Ryoga took in all their names and information he was given. "And thats the mangy wolf I was telling you about." Inuyasha waved toward the figure next to him.
"The name is Kouga. I don't think I got your name?" He asked sweetly.
"Of course you didn't, you were too busy trying to run away with him!" Kagome shouted angrily. This caused a few eyebrows to rise. Kagome regained her composure after receiving the looks.
"Aaaaaanyway, you are...?"
"Ryoga." He tentatively held out his hand. Kouga looked at it for a minute puzzled before sniffing it. "Your supposed to shake it." Kouga looked at him confused for a second before shrugging and taking him by the wrist and shaking his hand around crazily. "Uh, right." He snatched his hand back as soon as it was released and looked back at the others, about to ask them what that was all about before he felt something wet on his neck. He jumped away and slapped his hand to his neck. "Wh-what the hell?!" He felt two indents where his neck met his shoulder and remembered what happened before he passed out. "YOU BIT ME!" He yelled and pointed his finger accusingly at the grinning wolf demon.
"Yeah, about that..." Miroku started.
"Your my mate now!" Kouga interrupted grinning wickedly and wiggling his eyebrows. Ryoga's face went beet red.
"M-mate?! Wh-what does that mean!"
"It means you'll bare his children. Lucky bastard, gets somebody to have his children for him, so unfair..." Miroku trailed off muttering to himself, occasionally sending pointed looks at Sango, who pointedly ignored them.
"Your joking, right? I'm male, I can't have kids!" Ryoga laughed at the absurdity of the notion.
"You may be male, but your half demon. That makes you able to get pregnant." He paled and let out a weak chuckle.
"B-but I'm not gay."
"Gay-shmay! This isn't about that! Stuff like that is ridiculous when a your a demon and you live for centuries! Besides, wolves mate for life!" Kogua again wiggled his eyebrows.
"Life!? Centuries!? This can't be happening!" Of all the horrible things that happened in Ryoga Hibiki's life, this took the cake. "I-is there anyway to reverse this?" Kouga furrowed his brows.
"Reverse it? You can't reverse the bite, its not a curse." Kogua laughed as if somebody told a joke. Thats when Ryoga remembered his curse.
"I wonder if I still have my curse?" He wondered out loud.
"You're cursed?! By who!?" Kouga asked in outrage. Whoever cursed his mate was gonna get it for sure.
"Well, its not so much a 'who' but a 'where'." At the strange looks he was getting, he decided to elaborate a little bit. "Well, in my time-"
"Our." Kagome interrupted sharply earning a few looks from her friends.
"Uh, y-yes, our time, theres this place called Jusenkyo in a country called China. It has cursed springs of various tragic drownings. Such as drowned girl and panda. I was knocked into the spring of drowned pig, so I turn into a piglet whenever cold water is thrown on me and the curse is reversed with hot water. At least I used to transform, I'm not sure I will now." The group was looking on in fascination.
"You turn into a piglet?" Miroku asked in surprise and fascination.
"Yeah, its really annoying too." After a little bit of awkward silence, Ryoga heard loud sniffing. He looked to his right to see Kouga sniffing him. He went to move away but was stopped by a hand gripping his arm gently.
"I can't smell any traces of pig, maybe coming to our time made the curse go away?"
"Probably not with my horrible luck." Ryoga muttered under his breath, causing Kouga to snicker.
"Well, theres only one way to find out!" Miroku said, throwing some water from his cantine on the half wolf. They waited for a moment to see if anything would happen. After several moments nothing happened.
"I-I didn't change! The curse is broken! Hallelujah!" He was so excited, tears of joy were filling his eyes and he threw his arms around Kouga's neck. Kouga, being overjoyed that his mate was showing him affection, threw his arms around Ryoga's waist in response, all the while ignoring Kagome's annoyed glare. After a few moments of joyous laughter, Ryoga pulled away from Kouga. "This is great! If I don't have that stupid curse, maybe I can finally beat Ranma!"
"Whose Ranma?" Kouga asked with a slight jealous undertone.
"Oh, the stupid idiot that ruined my life. He was supposed to duel me, but I got lost, so when I finally made it to the destination, he was already gone after waiting 3 days. I got there on the 4th day and he was gone, he went to China to train with his father, so I followed him to the springs. He knocked me into the springs. Then I went through hell just to find him again, almost got eaten on multiple occasions, and I haven't seen my mom is months!" By then end, his eyes were glassy with unshed tears. Kouga, sensing his mate's distress, hugged him to his chest. Sango joined the two and started to rub soothing circles on the boy's back. Inuyasha kind of felt for the poor boy, he missed his mother as well. Miroku wasn't showing much emotion but his eyes showed a little compassion. Kagome's eyes were slightly softer, but she still gave the two a hard stare. After silently crying into Kouga's shoulder for a good half hour, Ryoga fell asleep, followed by the rest of the group.
Well, thats all for now! Can you tell that I don't like Kagome very much? I really don't for some reason, maybe its all those 'sit' commands she give poor Inuyasha? Haha, anyway, Reviews are great! Peace!