InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Heart & The Only One Who Can Save Him ❯ Chapter Eight ( Chapter 8 )

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Eight: One False Move

“Long Time Kagome.” Koga said as he made his way over towards Kagome and tried to grab her hand.

At that moment, InuYasha let out a threateningly low growl and stepped in between the two, making himself somewhat of a shield between Kagome and the young wolf demon.
Koga stared at InuYasha for a few moments, and then just pushed him aside.
“You’re not worth my time mutt-face. Hitting an opponent from the back, are you so weak you would stoop to something so cowardly? ”
“I wouldn’t have to do anything if a certain wolf we all know would just leave Kagome the hell alone.” InuYasha scoffed as he just gave shot daggers at Koga, still protectively standing in font of the said young woman.
“Well at least I don’t double cross her and leave her for a dead girl.” Koga retorted with a disgusted tone.
“Koga that was too low, even for you.” Kagome thought as she saw hurt flash through InuYasha’s eyes for a brief moment only to be replaced with complete and total anger and rage.
“You’ll regret that wolf.” And with that the battle was on. InuYasha firing off the wind scar when ever the opportunity arose and Koga only dogging it with ease. “Oh boy,”

Kagome thought as she hurriedly retreated to the safety of the village a sort time after the brawl began, “I’ll just let them work it out and come back later and if InuYasha still want’s to kill Koga then I’ll teach him to be a little nicer to his comrades. We’re going to need his help, why can’t he see that?” Kagome was steadily approaching the edge of the forest and gave a small sigh of relief for she didn’t have much farther to run.

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“Oh no, I’ve lost Koga.” A young female wolf demon said as she looked around the many trees and unfamiliar sights. Her long red hair pulled into her trademark pigtails and her white fur draped around her shoulders. “Maybe he’s in that village up ahead.” She thought as she now began her way towards the village where the rest of the group was resting.

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Kagome reached the boundaries of the village when she saw a strange figure emerge from the edge of the forest not too far from where she stood. Upon closer inspection she concluded to whom the figure belonged to and called out to it.
“Hello Ayame!” Kagome cheerfully called.
The young demon looked over to where she heard her name and called, “Hello Kagome”
Kagome made her way toward Ayame who was working her way toward the village.
“How are you Ayame?” Kagome questioned. “Koga hasn’t been mean to you has he”
“No he hasn’t” Ayame responded as she met up with Kagome and they now headed for Kaede’s hut. “I’m actually looking for him. He ran off a few hours ago and haven’t been able to find him. Ginta and Hakaku are a ways behind me so I’ll just wait for them here.
“Well Koga is fighting InuYasha right now, I left them so they could work it out for a while, and you know how those two get.” Kagome said with a sigh.
“Yes,” Ayame agreed, and then added, “men”
“Well you are welcome to stay here until they get over it if you want.” Kagome offered as she entered the old hut followed by Ayame.
“Hello Kagome how was your test?” Sango greeted upon noticing Kagome’s arrival.
“It was fine; I think I actually did all right this time.” Kagome responded sitting next to Sango.
“Welcome back Lady Kagome.” Greeted Miroku from across the fire which sizzled and sparkled between them. “And nice to see you again as well Ayame”
“Thank you Miroku.” Responded Ayame as she took a seat right next to the monk.
“Ayame I don’t think that was a wise move,” Sango said as she pointed to the monk that sat next to her and was currently moving ever so slowly toward the young maiden. “He’s been overly perverted lately and I think it wise not to get too close to him”
With that Ayame moved away from Miroku and over to Kagome and Sango so that the safety of the burning fire was between them, all the while earning a disappointed glance from the monk.
Then seemingly from out of thin air, Shippo jumped into Kagome’s arms and hugged her as tight as his little arms would allow.
“Oh Kagome, I missed you so much.” Shippo said from Kaogme’s arms. “InuYasha was so mean to me. Throwing me into a tree, and then hitting me on the head real hard.” (A/N cough snitch cough)
“Well I’ll just have to teach him another lesson then when he’s done with Koga then.” Kagome said comforting the little kitsune in her arms.
“What do you mean by ‘another lesson’ Lady Kagome?” Miroku asked as he tried to inch around the fire to the three girls on the opposite side.
“Well he was being very stubborn and wouldn’t let me explain my self about seeing Sesshomaru about a week ago and I sat him through my floor.” Kagome said proudly.
At the start of her statement the whole room went deathly silent, then the little flea, Myoga questioned, “You went to see Lord Sesshomaru, Lady Kagome. Why, when you know how dangerous it is”
Realizing how none of them knew what had transpired in her time, she began to retell her story. About how Sesshomaru came to see her, the truth about her father, and the out come of the journey they had started oh so long ago and were so close to finishing. Mentioning with importance to not leak anything about InuYasha to the said ½ demon. Then a thought a cured to her, maybe Ayame knew about this Lunar Wolf.
“Hey Ayame,” Kagome said, gaining the young wolf’s attention, “do you know anything about a lunar wolf tribe, or a demon named Artemis”
“I do.” she responded.
Once she asked her seemingly innocent question, she soon regretted it upon seeing the expression that plagued the young demon’s face. She had become saddened and Kagome needed to know why. Just as she was about to ask Ayame if she was all right she began her story.
“It was a long time ago,” Ayame said, beginning her tale, “I had a younger cousin and her and I were competing for the rightful position of heir to lead the northern wolf demon tribe. This was around the time I had to descend from the mountains for my training in search of the flower that share the same name as me. Yet when my training was complete and the time came I was chosen to lead and Artemis was pretty much tossed aside. This made me so furious, we had become so close over the years I treated her as my equal….no my sister.” Ayame said as her voice began to crack from having to retell such painful memories.Sango listened on to the poor her young woman, she knew what it felt like to have someone you knew and had spent so much time together, even grown attached to enough to regard them as s sibling.

(A/N does that sound a little wrong….my editor/reader (how ever you want to call it) said I was getting it to sound a little like Yuri…but trust me I will never right that nor will I write Yaoi…sorry to those who also like “lemons” but you will not find any here nor in any other of my stories I’ll do in the future. I’m A proud supporter of (made this up after a test one day and told my fried and now my whole anime club at school knows bout it…it’s an inside joke…I yell N.A.V.Y in the halls and you can here the anime club members who like Yaoi SCREAM A.R.M.Y(always read more Yaoi/Yuri-if they‘re a guy-sry just a tid-bit ) N. A .V.Y (Never Again View Yaoi / Yuri (if you’re a guy)……anyway just wanted to clear the air…hehehe… coughcough on with the story . SammySama.)

During the time she had know Kagome, which was a little bit shorter than everyone else, well in the main group, she had grown to think of her as her own sister.
“It pained me to see,” Ayame continued, pulling Sango from her thoughts and she once again gained the attention of the slayer, “We had become so close over the years, but only few months after that day I was declared the one who lead the tribe when the time came, she declared she would leave the tribe with her family and start a new. Yet one night as she was about to leave”
Ayame was in tears, Kagome had never seen her this way, her heart broke listening to her sad story and Kagome gently places a comforting hand on the wolf’s shoulder and handed her a cloth handkerchief from her bag to Ayame. Ayame looked at the strange item then took it in her hand and gently blew her nose, placing it beside her and giving Kagome a thankful glance that clearly said, “thank you for caring”
“Are you all right Ayame, can you continue?” Sango asked, concerned for her friend. She knew from experience how hard it was to retell painful memories. The story she had to retell many times over the course of their adventure; the one that saddened her the most; the one about her dear brother Kohaku and her family and villagers; it never seemed to get easier to tell. She could relate to her and felt pity for this young wolf, for she had the distinct felling that her tale was about to take an even greater turn for the worse.Miroku had been listening to the story and in mid travel toward the girls, he wisely decided to retreat back toward his spot across from the three young women.
Ayame exchanged appreciative glances with the two women, she was thankful she could have good friends like them; and let alone they were human, two mortal women were accepting her as a friend. Most would be afraid of her being a demon, but for their friend ship she was thankful. “Yes I can finish.” Ayame said, finishing up her tale, “When she and her family were ready and were making their way to leave a demon attacked the cave we had called our home for so very long and killed many of our tribe, including her parents. Revenge was the only thing keeping her alive after that, yet I feared for the people she took her anger out on. She had always been known for her strong powers that were passed down from her family’s line; generation to generation, yet after that night, they seemed to rocket to a whole new level. The last I saw of her she was ruling a good-sized section of land in the far north, I imagine she doesn’t have many under her because not many of us can stand those intense cold temperatures, that’s why that area is one we hardly concern ourselves with”
“That’s so sad.” Kagome said, her eyes filling with sympathy.
“Yes, over the years I’ve tried to go and speak with her but have never found her den.” Ayame said.
“Well she was in this area last night and then traveled to Kagome’s time.” Sango said.
“How can that be?” Ayame questioned, “She doesn’t have the power to transcend time”
“I have a theory,” Miroku began, “I believe that she has gained power from an alliance
with Naraku. I think that she may posses a jewel fragment; if so, then Lady Kagome will be able to sense her in her time, should she be near”
“But reason would she have with working with Naraku; I mean, what could she hope to gain?” Ayame asked, becoming concerned. If this monk was correct and her cousin was indeed working with Naraku, then she would be in even greater danger than she realizes.
They continued to discuss the matter until the sun began to recede below the horizon.
“Well Ayame,” Kagome said, “why don’t we go and see if those two are done yet, huh”
“Yes we should, it’s getting dark.” Ayame agreed. The two go up and set off to where they had last seen the boys.

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The two reached the well and saw that most of the surrounding trees had been knocked down and blood stained the green grass beneath them a dark shade of crimson. Kagome looked around and saw the two exhausted demons continue to feebly battle it out, apparently her absence had gone unnoticed by the two. Surveying the scene before her,
Kagome concluded that Koga had many wounds to his chest and arms, also sporting a rather large gash down his left side, no doubt an attempt to avoid a hit from the Wind Scar that didn’t quite work, but was a pretty lucky break for it was indeed a deep and serious wound it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. InuYasha had what looked like a broken arm, many wounds to his arms, legs and one on his forehead.

Blood seeped through his haori top and dripped onto the ground below making a small puddle of red liquid, there was no doubt a rather large wound under his protective fire-rat haori that was also in serious condition.

As Kagome watched upon getting closer, she saw that InuYasha was in much worse condition than she had realized, he swayed and looked to have a hard time with the task of standing but he was also looking a bit paled, probably a result from the extensive battle with the addition of his large amount of blood loss.

Kagome continued to approach the two who were now pathetically fighting each other or what appeared to Kagome was a pathetic ‘attempt’ to fight each other. InuYasha couldn’t stand the combination of pain and pressure that was being applied to his wounded legs and began to revert to a kneeling position, his arms and legs becoming numb and almost unusable.

Koga saw this as a perfect opportunity and as a last attempt to injure the hanyou , with most of the little strength that remained in his body, he rushed forward and knocked the Tetsusaiga out of the wounded hanyou ’s grasp.

“This insures one of two things,” Koga thought to himself, “One, that mangy mutt can’t attack me anymore with his sword; and two, it’ll be easier to defeat him now that he has nothing to protect him”
Little did Koga know how wrong he was, the wolf demon has never seen InuYasha when he isn’t holding the Tetsusaiga, he had now raised the risk of InuYasha’s demon blood to take control and the instinct of ‘self-preservation’ to kick in. Kagome knew what could happen, however, and looked on as she watched what would happen to InuYasha next.
Kagome watched as InuYasha rose into more of a crouching position now and stood there frozen, a mixture of concern and terror upon her face. InuYasha looked up as his eyes flushed with bright crimson with deep forest green pupils turned his attention to Koga, two distinct purple stripes appearing on his face, one on each cheek.
Kagome wasted no time in shouting the only thing that would stop his transformation and bring InuYasha back to normal, “Please forgive me InuYasha, I know your wounds are bad and this won’t help.” Kagome thought to her self as she shouted the command, “SIT”
InuYasha went face first into the ground below and Koga then collapsed as well, only from the severity of his wounds.
“Ayame, go back to the hut as fast as you can and ask Sango if we can use Kirara to carry these two back to the hut.” Kagome said, “Then I’ll treat their wounds and we call all rest up all right”
“All right. Are you going to be okay here with these two though?” Ayame asked.
“Yeah, I’ll be fine.” Kagome responded, “Now go, hurry so we can get these two taken care of”
With that, Ayame turned around and speed back toward the village.
“This is turning out to be a very eventful night.” Kagome said to herself.
Kagome walked over to InuYasha and carefully turned him over, noticing he was unconscious, she didn’t want him to suffocate. She looked him over and noticed he had a few wounds that had yet to stop bleeding but she knew there were more under the concealment of his kimono. She then went over and turned her attention towards Koga, who had regained consciousness’ and she looked and surveyed his condition. “Are you okay Koga?” Kagome questioned, seeing his wound on his left side bleeding pretty badly.
“Yeah I’m fine.” Koga said weakly. “Hate to said it though, mutt face has gotten stronger”
Kagome gave a small laugh and said, “That he has”
“I noticed that you left near the beginning of our fight.” Koga stated, “Might I ask why”
“Well I figured that you two were probably going to fight each other and not stop so I just left to go to the village. You two act so childish when you fight.” Kagome said, sort of scolding Koga with the last bit.
Koga was silent after that and not soon after Ayame arrived. After much pleading and promising to help, they were able to get Koga on the back of Kirara and Koga to promise to hold onto the injured InuYasha so he didn’t fall. The two atop Kirara headed off toward the hut, followed by Ayame and Kagome, they would have a rough night taking care of the injured fighters.