InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Curse of the Wolf ❯ Our Secret ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4: Our Secret

 

Kouga sat on the ground staring up at the white haired hanyou above him in total shock.

 

“What? Look I'm not that way. I don't like guys so don't get any funny ideas,” Inuyasha shot down at him blushing furiously.

 

“Me neither,” returned Kouga as he rose to stand in front of the hanyou.

 

“You just smell so damn good,” growled out Inuyasha taking a step closer to the blue eyed wolf.

 

“So…it's no big deal, right?” asked Kouga, also taking a step closer. He hadn't wanted to admit it but he had enjoyed that kiss as well and right at this moment he wanted nothing more than to feel those luscious lips on his own again.

 

“No big deal at all, it's just a kiss. People do it all the time.” Inuyasha leaned in until they were standing nose to nose. He inhaled Kouga's seasonal scent, closing his eyes so he could just concentrate on the smell.

 

“Nobody needs to know,” Kouga whispered before letting his lips touch the half demons.

 

Inuyasha brought his arms up and placed his hands on Kouga's shoulders feeling extremely self conscious. He returned the ookami's gentle kiss, pressing his lips a bit more firmly against his rivals. They broke apart from their tentative kiss, both blushing and trying not to look at each other.

 

“So I take it you liked kissing me too,” Inuyasha mumbled.

 

“I wouldn't have done it again if I didn't, stupid mutt,” Kouga scoffed but with a gentleness to his tone.

 

“Don't call me stupid you scrawny wolf,” Inuyasha retorted, beginning to feel a twinge of irritation.

 

Kouga sat back down on the ground crossing his legs Indian style. Inuyasha sat as well, stretching his legs out in front of him and leaning back on his hands. They sat in silence for a moment looking up at the stars twinkling above them.

 

“I have to find a mate by the end of mating season or I can't lead my pack any more,” Kouga told the hanyou.

 

So that's what's going on. “I'm not going to let you take Kagome,” Inuyasha returned firmly.

 

“I was thinking maybe that wolf girl, Ayame. It would make the elders happy at least; they weren't too fond of the idea of me having a human mate anyways.” Kouga just didn't have the heart to chase after Kagome any longer. One, he didn't feel like upsetting Inuyasha any longer about it and second, he knew that the girl was not going to leave the hanyou. He really wasn't stupid; he remembered all the longing looks she had given the half demon, ones he had wished she had given to him. He had just not wanted to accept the fact that she probably loved the aggravating mutt. He always had the hope that he could have changed her mind; something that he knew now was not going to happen.

 

“Oh,” Inuyasha said, a bit surprised about Kouga's change of heart. The two sat in silence for a bit longer each lost in their own thoughts.

 

Kouga looked over towards Inuyasha trying to make up his mind if he should ask what he wanted to. Well we did kiss…ah what the hell. “Can I touch…,” He started and then got flustered by what he wanted to ask.

 

Inuyasha sighed. “My ears,” the hanyou finished for him. Why the hell is everybody so fascinated with my ears?

 

“No, your hair,” Kouga was blushing again but he was a bit of a hair nut and even though it didn't look like he did much with his, he did keep very good care of it. He made sure it was always brushed out nicely and trimmed to keep the split ends from ruining it. He never felt completely clean unless his hair had been washed at least twice so it squeaked when he ran his fingers thought it. He had always been curious as to how the hanyou's hair felt and had sometimes been distracted when they battled noticing the way it flowed and sparkled when the light caught it.

 

“I…I guess,” answered Inuyasha, feeling a bit weird at allowing his former rival to touch him like that.

 

Kouga moved to sit behind the half demon and reached out to run his fingers gently through the long white hair pleased at how soft it felt. He frowned slightly when his claws snagged into a knot and he gently began to tease the tangle out.

 

“So…what about this, I mean between us,” Inuyasha asked as he closed his eyes enjoying the gentle tugging on his head. Neither of them understood consciously that what Kouga was doing by grooming the hanyou was typical canine bonding behaviour.

 

“I don't know. I've never done this before. Maybe we should just see how it goes,” Kouga answered keeping his attention on the snarl and shrugging his shoulders.

 

“Ummm,” Inuyasha sighed. The sat there for another half hour until Kouga had picked out every knot and snarl from the mass of white hair.

 

Inuyasha had never felt so relaxed in all his life but as the sun started to rise and wake the world around them, he knew he had to leave. “I've got to get back before the rest of them wake up and come looking for me,” he told Kouga.

 

“Okay. You'll come back tonight?” he asked as the two of them stood up.

 

“You want me to?”

 

“I wouldn't have asked if I didn't. Jeeze, sometimes you're stupid you know that,” the wolf prince teased.

 

Inuyasha growled, his back stiffening. “If you don't stop calling me stupid, I'm going to kick your ass.”

 

“Humph, as if you could,” Kouga returned his eyes snapping with mischief.

 

Watching the wolf Inuyasha finally realized he was being teased and gave his now friend a grin and a punch on the arm. “You know I can,” he stated as he began to walk back to the village, feeling the best he had since Kagome had left.