InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shadows From the Past ❯ Hot Water ( Chapter 6 )

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Hot Water

 

“Well,” Ayame took San by the hand. “Let's go!” she pulled San in the direction of the forest. Hige and Koga headed into them too with a group of young men which were going to a separate spring entirely. The older wolves watched them leave and turned in for the night.

San pulled from the Wolf Princess, “Why are you being so nice to me now? I mean earlier…”

“I'm sorry, San, I thought you were after Koga, I mean you kept staring at him.”

“What?! I don't like Koga like that! I kept staring at the two of you because of how ridiculous you acting!”

The two stared at each other and started laughing out loud. They locked elbows and headed deeper into the woods, acting like they've known each other for all of their lives.

While Koga and Hige were relaxing in the warm water, they couldn't help but overhear some of the `gossip' that the men were babbling on about:

“So how about them girls?” one chuckled.

“Yeah, some of `em are alright, but why can't all of them be willin' to sleep with ya?” another complained, holding his arms behind his head.

“Yeah,” the other laughed.

“Hey, watcha think about that new girl? -eh, San, wasn't it?”

“Damn! That girl's feisty!” an uproar of laughter followed, sounded by almost all that were there, all but Hige and Koga.

“What the hell are you talkin' about?!” Koga questioned, in his usual almost angered tone.

“Koga, don't tall me you haven't seen her!”

“Well of course he's seen her! He brought her in!”

“Yeah, what about her?” Koga stared at them, for he didn't truly care for them to begin with.

“She's got a figure that would choke a horse! She's damn-!”

“She's meaner than hell and she would never even think of lying with someone like you in a million years!” Koga thumbed his nose.

San folded her clothes up and laid them next to Ayame's. The steam alone felt wonderful, but she dreamed of the water, hot and clouded from the minerals, wonderful! There was not as big of a group of girls as there was of men that had led down to the springs, but there was enough to make San feel like a wolf. As many know, the Wolf clan are very close and care dearly for their family and friends.

“How about a game?” the wolf princess smiled, clapping her hands together.

“Like what?” San looked at her and sat her bottom upon a sunken rock, allowing her legs to be completely submerged.

“Hanashi!” the wolf girl stepped into the water and sat on the bottom, for it was not very deep to begin with.

“What?” San stared at her as if dazed.

“It's where we share stories of the past year or so and laugh about them, you can change names if you wish,” the red head tilted her head on its side. “It's fun! You wanna play?”

“Sure, why not,” San stepped off the rock into the deeper water and loved the feel.

“Okay, so how's about you to start us?” Ayame smiled.

“What?” San tried to protest, but there was an uproar of cheers for her to do so, the girl stood, sighing, and retook her spot on the rock, this time standing. “Alright, I met this guy not long ago, and he's a real hard head! If you're lookin for trouble go find him, him knock you off your feet!” the girls laughed, wondering who this man could be.

“With the help of his ego, he stands about six foot two! And in his mind all the girls' call him `treetop lover', and all the men just call him `sir'!” San smiled as once again the cries arose and she felt her story only draw attention to her and the `Mystery man'.

“Yeah, says who?” the wolf stood in rage for Koga had ruined his fun of hoping.

“Well let's just say if you do want to have children someday, you wouldn't try somethin' like that on her!” the younger of the two made a laugh in his throat, but nothing more.

“Koga, listen to yourself! You're taking up for a woman!” the other stared, just making Koga's blood boil.

“So what if she's a damn woman?!” Koga stared at the wolf.

“Well they aren't anything special, I mean what else are they good for other than company?” he laughed.

“You're a dead man!” growled the younger and chased after him in a wild rage. The wolf ran, surprised of Koga's temper. “Come back here, you bastard!”

This made the other run even faster & picked up his speed incredibly. Koga could hear footsteps all around them, obviously the other men were following, but he wasn't sure which ones, for all he could think about was pounding the insulter into the ground.

He hadn't chased him far, though, when the air became thicker with a mist like that of a hot spring, not noticing, and thinking that the man had led him in a circle, he continued to chase him into the clearing ahead. Then, suddenly, he saw the wolf come to a dead stop, and Koga only put on his breaks when he was right behind him.

Koga stared at the shorter of them and that was when it was all too clear of where the other had led him. There was an outburst of whistles and howls from the men which had followed as they gathered around the spring.

Koga's gaze rose, but not without his nose and cheeks becoming a red-pink color within doing so, he saw Ayame and the girls in the water and San, with her back to Koga and the wolf, but not the rest, looking over her shoulder at them in bewilderment.

“Yeah, baby! Look at her!” and other dishonorable notions came from the wolves that could see all of her.

Ayame reached up and grabbed San's wrist and pulled her into the water, she knew it was too late to save her the humiliation and `public broadcasting'; but it was better than her standing there in pure terror and doing nothing.

“Koga, what in all the hells' are you doing?!” the wolf princess growled.

“D-don't look at me! This bastard led me here! You know I don't know my way around here!” Koga was now, by this time, hiding himself behind a tree and the other wolf had left the see the `show' before Ayame had pulled it into the water.

“Koga get the hell out of here!” San barked, snarling her lips and baring her tiny fangs. But she did this only after Hige, unaware that the girls' lay over the hedges, had walked over to Koga and was completely clueless about them in the pool to his right.

“Koga, you okay, man?” he placed a hand on the embarrassed wolf's shoulder, finding it tense, for he clung to the tree, not looking at his friend or the women, but at the dark, empty air in front of him.

“Hige?!” Ayame screeched, surprised that he was in on this `renegade band' as well.

“A-ayame!” Hige turned a deeper red than Koga, and just stood there.

“Get out of here!” Several of the girls, Ayame, and San snarled at roughly the same time. Koga and Hige ran away immediately, while the others lingered, but left slowly, knowing Ayame would report them to her grandfather if they did not obey.

It wasn't long after when both groups came walking up from the springs and dispersed with each other. Ayame glared at Hige harshly before turning in though, that, San could tell by his expression, just hurt him, for he didn't have anything to do with the others, even though he had followed.

But San found herself not showing any pity for him, indeed she had been greatly exposed and did not care to feel so. She also turned, walking behind Ayame.

Koga only saw her leaving, and felt his middle drop from between his legs; he did not mean to have her dignity taken, because it was a well known fact that his was disintegrating every day, but this just made it dissipate more.