InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For the Love of a Miko ❯ The Havoc of a Mind Change ( Chapter 6 )

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Kagome nodded her head in assent to Kaede's wisdome and they began their short walk back to the village. Kagome looked towards the night sky. A slight breeze blew through the tall grass and seemed to push them in anticipation. There was a strange aura about tonight. It left a very unsettling fealing in the pit of her stomach. Kaede reached over and placed her hand on the miko's shoulder. Kaede fealt it to

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For the Love of a Miko

Chapter 6: The Havoc of a Mind Change

Kouga gave a heavy sigh. It was not from worry, but the lack of it. This new revelation suprised him. He thought that having Kagome in his grasp would put all of his worries at rest, but it only made him worry more. However getting his predicament off of his chest seemed to have lifted his heavy burden. He never realized how much talking could help ease emotional pain. Then it hit him.

'How much emotional pain will Kikyo's plan cause Kagome?'

He could just picture his mate-to-be doubling over with pain in her heart, raising her head to the uncarring stars with tearstained eyes, her lamentful cry for Inuyasha reaching the heavens themselves. Could he really do this to her. He would do anything for Kagome. When he first met her, she was just a commodity a 'jewel detector' as Inuyasha so colorfully put it. That was, until......until he realized she would help him find the stupid shards in the birds of paradise. Now.....he loved her. He didn't at first, his attraction to the human miko was almost all greed, and his hunger for power, but now he fealt what Inuyasha must have fealt when he blindly put his life on the line time after time for her. He would sincerely give his life in order to save this human girl. Kouga had to admit to himself that she was quite beautiful. Thinking back he had noticed her beauty before, but never her inner beauty which was ten times more enticing than her outer beauty. That kind of beauty was easier to miss.

The Kikyo wench, though looked like his Kagome, did not hold the inner beauty that Kagome held. How could he have neglected to have noticed it earlier. Kouga kicked himself for ever harboring the thought that Kikyo ever looked anything like Kagome. His mind was made up. He was going to return the kitsune and this Sango person. How could he have never thought about what Kagome would think about all of his missdoings? Would she ever be able to forgive him? Oh God how he hoped so.

Kouga knew that Inuyasha was already on his tail with the monk. They would not be so understanding. He made up his mind to set things right for once.

"Kouga, are you ok?" Sango asked, her voice filled with worry, and fear. She was not afraid of the wolf, but rather what he was planning in his sick little head. Yes, SICK, because if he had the nerve to kidnap her and Shippo then she fealt he could do anything. Especially since they were helpless to fight back.

'God I never thought I'd say this, but I wish Miroku was here.'

Kouga looked at his captives for what seemed like the hundreth time. Sango sat on her boulder perch, her feet bound, and her hands tied behind her back. Her hair was a mess due to the wind billowing through it during their journey. Her eyes were stern as she stared unblinking into the wolf youkai's. They seemed to be able to see his very soul. He hoped she could see, see the pain he fealt for tearing them away from their comrades. He would not apologize to her or the kit though. He would save his apologies for the one who would need them most. Shippo had never stirred from his spot beside her. He was fast asleap. Bound and gagged as he was, the kit looked almost serene as he snored softly.

"I am fine," Kouga said after a brief pause. He then wordlessly replaced the gag around Sango's mouth and hefted her up. He scooped up Shippo and began to run back in the direction of the village, but a little off the course he had previoulsy taken. He did not need the hanyou running into him before he could beg for Kagome's forgivness. He would not help Kikyo any longer. His mind was made up. For once he fealt like he was doing something right.

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'What is that damn idiot doing,' Kikyo seathed, 'How dare he go back on his word! He promised that he would help me!' Kikyo allowed a slight growl escape from her throat as she watched Kouga spead off with the exterminator, and the fox pup, back in the direction of the village.

A disturbing smile graced the stale face of Kikyo as her next thought crept into her mind.

'I guess he doesn't care for Kagome's safety then...I was going to let him have her once Inuyasha was seperated from everybody and was in my hands, but since he won't help then I guess I will have to kill her. She cannot win against me once her spirit is broken. Inuyasha will run over to my side immediately and watch as she dies by my arrow.'

Kikyo stood up from her crouching position downwind of Kouga. She was suprised that the wolf had taken this long to consider what Kagome would think. She knew that even if her plan worked there was no way she would leave with the ignorant wolf. If anything she would go home and morn for a few days, but never return.

'Sigh, I guess I can't let him keep my shards either,' she thought to herself. It would be no problem to just remove them, but where would be the fun in that.'

Kikyo turned and began to follow Kouga back to Kaede's village. It was about time she visited her 'little' sister again.

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"Damn it, they were just here." Inuyasha began sniffing the area in a very dog-like fashion. "What the hell?" Inuyasha sat up and looked around.

"What have you found Inuyasha?" Miroku asked trying to stiffle a snicker as his friend looked at him with a small patch of dirt staining is tanned face.

"That damn wolf was here, but he turned around. It looks like he took Sango and Shippo back to the village." Inuyasha couldn't help the small little voice in his head that was warning him of danger. It had to be a trap. Not even Kouga was that spontaneous, at least not alone. His eyes narrowed as he came across another scent that lingered in the bushes and then turned and followed Kouga's path. Inuyasha eyed it warrily. Naraku was following Kouga, but why?

Inuyasha turned and tossed Miroku on his back. He began to follow them again, but this time with more speed and urgency.

"Come on Miroku, we have to hurry up and catch up with them." As a form of explanation of his quick actions that caught the resting monk completely off guard.

"If they're heading back to the village then they are safe right?" His friend's look of worry frightened the cursed houshi. "What's wrong he asked?"

"Naraku is following them houshi, but I don't know why he didn't just attack them when they were here. He's planning something and I don't like it.!"

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Kagome pocked at the fire with a stick. Despite her nearness to the flames it offered up no warmth. Her thoughts were elsewhere as Kaede stared at her through her half closed lids. It was late in the night, and Kagome utterly refused to sleep until she knew her friends were safe. Her heart went out to the poor child-like woman that sat before her. She knew that she was worried for her friends thought she knew that Inuyasha should be returning soon with them in tow. Kaede cursed her age as she slowly fealt herself falling asleap. She no longer had the viggor that came so easily to the younger generation.

Kagome was lost in her thoughts. She fealt pitty for the poor fool that would dare steal her friends. Inuyasha would see to it that their death would be a slow and painful one. Her thoughts kept traveling to Kouga's kiss earlier though. He had never tried anything so brash before, and in front of Inuyasha no less. He obviously had no sence of self preservation.

She remembered the fealing of the quick exchange of heat from his mouth to her's. It was almost chaste, but the effect was long lasting. She wished Inuyasha would kiss her like that, but then again, she knew it would never happen. Not in the way she wanted anyway. If he ever kissed her she knew it would be Kikyo he was kissing, not her. She suddenly fealt all alone in the world. She brought her knees up and rested her chin on them. Would she ever be love for who she was, and not her abilities? No answer came to her silent plea. She did not expect one.

Kagome picked up another stick and resumed picking at the fire in the center of the little hut.

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Kouga ran into the clearing that led to Kaede's village. He sniffed the air and found the scent he was searching for. It was focused in a hut located in the center of the village. He calmly walked over to it and entered. He froze in the doorway as he came face to face with the goddess that haunted his every waking moment.

Kagome looked up when she heard the sound of someone approaching. To her amazement it was Kouga who still held Sango drapped over his shoulder, and her kitsune pup in his free arm. How did he get them before Inuyasha?

Kouga set Sango and Shippo down onto the floor gently. He did not need to awaken Kagome's wrath further than he was sure he had already.

Without a word he undid Sango's binds. He then turned his attention to the kit's and resumed the process. His attention then returned to Kagome's. Her look of shock was unwavering as deep brown pools met dark blue depths.

"Kagome, I know I do not deserve your trust after what I've done, but please forgi....," he was cut off by the sound of Kagome's burst of tears and sobs.

He looked and she was no longer at her perch by the fire, but was clutching the kit in her arms like a worried mother, and Sango's head in her lap. They slowly stirred to awareness from their deep slumber.

"Thank you Kouga, thank you, thank you..." she chanted oblivious to the look of emotional shock that was being given her from the wolf, "Thank you for bringing them back to me..." she trailed off.

He found he no longer had the heart to tell her that he was the one who had taken them in the first place. He turned to leave the hut, and leave the miko to her friends. A hand on his arm stopped him though as he looked into Kagome's tear stained face. She threw her arms around him and thanked him again for returning her friends.

Kouga couldn't speak. Her sudden closeness to him stopped his heart. Her scent made him feal dizzy and his stomach tumble around in his body. No female had ever made him feal like this. He leaned against her body and nuzzled her neck. He took in a quick intake of her scent to ease his own problems, more than likely this would be the last time he will get to do this so he savored the moment.

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