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Broken Dreams

 

Chapter 3

 

Return to Where it Started

 

"Kagura has not attacked us recently, so we must assume that Naraku has moved on. This could mean he did not hear of the Jewel shard in the area, but I doubt it. More likely he got the shard and now has no reason to stay behind," Miroku said. Kagome nodded. About two years ago, Kouga led them into a fight at Naraku's castle. The dark hanyou dropped the barrier and had planned to kill Kouga and seize his shards. It didn't work out, and in the resulting battle that ensued, Kagome fired an arrow at Naraku, piercing the near-complete shard of the jewel and scattering the pieces once again. On the one hand, Naraku suffered a heavy blow, and had gone into hiding for over two months without the shards to project his barrier. On the more pessimistic hand, it also meant it would take longer to gather the shards. And the longer it took, the more time Kagome had to spend with Kouga.

 

"So are we going to head back to Kaede then?" Kagome asked. She was starting to miss the old miko. She still lived in the village where Kagome first met her. But once Kouga had taken her as a mate, their unofficial base of sorts became Kouga's cave. The wolves of several other tribes had joined Kouga, but the tribe was still widely under populated. Kouga, ever the considerate gentleman, was nice enough to let Kagome have a week or so of relative peace while she went through what he called her 'heat'. He kindly explained to her that since she was human, and he was youkai, that their kids would be hanyou. So of course, while she was Kouga's mate, she was never going to be the bearer of his children.

 

When Kagome heard that she was never going to be impregnated with Kouga's child, she wasn't sure if she should be relieved or insulted. On the up side, her 'heat' stopped Kouga from going all the way with her. But it didn't stop his touches and caresses. Just because she and Kouga couldn't have sex didn't mean it stopped the various foreplay. And on the downside, her heat smell drove Kouga wild, so rather then take her every other night, the 'sessions' as she had begun to call them, were every night, and usually longer.

 

"I guess. If the old woman would move into the cave, we'd never have to go back there," Kouga growled. He licked his lips and kissed Kagome's neck. The amorous wolf had his mate seated in his lap, with her back held closely against his chest.

 

"Kaede can't just abandon her miko responsibilities to the village, you know that Kouga," Kagome said. Kouga snorted a breath of hot air onto her bare shoulder.

 

"I know, I know. I just hate going back there. You always get depressed, and sadness clouds your pretty scent," Kouga replied. Kagome inwardly cursed, letting the hatred show on her face since Kouga couldn't see. Of course she got sad when she went there. All of Kagome's good memories were there, including the memories of the Bone Eater's Well. Or at least, when it had been there.

 

It was a week after Kouga mated her that she tried to escape. She secretly said her goodbyes to Sango, Miroku and Shippo, jumped on Kilala, and fled for the well. Kouga woke up and caught her, just as she reached the clearing. Kagome's leg was over the side of the well when Kouga grabbed her arm and pulled her into a hug. He took her back to Kaede's hut and demanded that they tell him what was going on with the well. When Kagome finally broke down and told him, he got up and went back. Kagome wrapped her arms around his legs and begged him to leave the well alone. Kouga apologized, not looking the least bit sorry, and smashed the well to pieces, cutting Kagome off from her family forever. He simply said he wanted to make sure Kagome could stay where he could protect her. But Kagome knew better.

 

With her family out of reach forever, Kagome's attire had changed. Her old school uniform wasn't the most durable of clothing. And as an extra disadvantage, the amazingly short skirt let Kouga take matters into his own hands, so to speak, on the road. The uniform lasted for around a year, and suffered its share of tears and rips. Kagome had thrown it away after that, but not before she found a seamstress and had new clothes made, paid for by Kouga's insistence that his mate wasn't going to go around nude in front of humans.

 

Kagome now had a change of clothes with her in the form of four blouses the seamstress modeled after her old school shirt. They were pretty plain, only one color; light blue. They also buttoned up, a lesson Kagome learned from having Kouga rip the fifth blouse in a lustful haze. The buttons at least convinced him to take an extra ten seconds and save her clothes. Kagome preferred the blouses to the one-piece kimonos that a lot of the women wore. Although considering who she was mated to, a one-piece suit that covered all might be a good idea; harder to unravel. She relinquished the skirt in favor of the simple hakama, which seemly put a stop to Kouga doing anything while traveling.

 

“Perhaps Kagome could come with us and you could stay here. That way you don't have to smell her,” Miroku suggested. Kagome shot him a look of thanks that quickly vanished when Kouga nuzzled her neck again.

 

“I'll get used to it,” he mumbled. “In the meantime, I'm going to take a quick look around, try and see if I can sniff out Naraku before we go.” Kouga let go of Kagome, stood up, and dashed into the woods. Kagome watched him go with a scowl, then turned to Miroku.

 

“Did you really think Kouga was going to leave me alone for so long?” she asked bitterly. Shippo bit his lip and jumped onto her lap.

 

“It was worth a try Kagome,” he said, defending the houshi. Kagome nodded. Her friends had tried many things to get rid off Kouga. The obvious choice, early on at least, was kill the wolf. That idea quickly dispelled when Myoga came to inquire about the rumors that Inuyasha had been killed. Hearing the plan, Myoga proceeded to crush Kagome's hopes by explaining that in youkai mating, when one mate dies, so does the other. The meant Kagome was stuck with Kouga. Youkai mating was a powerful bond that was meant to be forever. The only way Myoga knew of to break the mating effects was for Kagome to mate a youkai that had a higher ranking in the youkai hierarchy. Since Kouga was prince of a wolf tribe, it was unlikely that anyone could be found with a higher ranking. And even then, they had to successfully challenge and kill Kouga for the right to mark her, meaning there still was no guarantee.

 

Myoga explained that only youkai lords and generals could legally break Kouga's strangle hold on her. He promised to investigate into finding an eligible taiyoukai for Kagome, but Kagome wasn't holding her breath. Myoga wasn't the trustworthiest youkai she had known. In fact, she hadn't seen him in months. Plus, if all taiyoukai were like Sesshomaru, they probably wouldn't be interested anyway.

 

Kagome hugged Shippo to her and just sat there for a moment while Sango and Miroku gathered the camping supplies up for travel. Kagome loved those precious few moments when Kouga wasn't there. She cuddled Shippo to her and tried to imagine that the past three years were an illusion. That Inuyasha had won that fight and that she wasn't a whore that gave herself up almost five times a week. With her son curled up in her arms, and her friends letting her enjoy her peace, she could almost get lost in her fantasies. However, there was one part of the fantasy that always anchored Kagome to the ground, reminded her it was a mockery. Something she missed even more then her family.

 

The knowledge that she was safe with a pair of golden eyes watching her from afar.