InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Wolf's Mercenary ❯ I Remember Her Now ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

"Koga!" Valdrianth roared through the cave as she entered. The tribe all fell over and hid. They knew better than getting in the way of he raptor when she was angry. Yes, Valdrianth was angry. She was pissed off. "Koga, you damn wolf where are you?!" She was so made an egg could've been fried on her head. She glared around and sniffed the air. He wasn't here. He must've went somewhere else after they parted. Either that or he came here and left.

"Ginta," she said more calmly.

Ginta came out. "Heh, hey, Val." She stayed a little slumped over.

"Where's Koga-sama?"

"Well, wasn't he with you?" Ginta questioned.

"Thank you Ginta, that's all I need to know." Her eye brow twitched. "Listen carefully now."

"Yea?"

"If that sorry excuse for a wolf comes back here before I get back. Tell him he better stay put or I'll break his legs."

Ginta nodded. "No problem, sis."

"Thank you." Valdrianth turned around and walked under the falls and out of the cavern. She looked upon at the horizan. It was late afternoon. The sun would be setting soon and night would come. Hmmm, I guess I can yell at him later. A nap really sounds like a good thing right now.

*****

Kagome was laying sleeping. It was a way too eventful day. All she wanted was a good rest. The sun only settled about an hour ago. But, it didn't matter she was tired. As she slept she dreamed. She remembered.

Kagome sat against the cold cave walls. She held Shippo close to her. She was relieved that Koga wasn't going to kill her when he kidnapped her, and also that he spared Shippo. Still, she was scared, and she wandered how Inu Yasha was going to find her.

She looked around the cave. It was already starting to get dark. Koga and the rest of the tribe were going to attack the Harpies in the morning. They were going to use her to site out which Harpy had the jewel fragment in it. She wasn't sure what they were going to do with her after that, and she prayed to Kami that Inu Yasha would find her before that happened.

Shippo had already fallen asleep. He was exhausted after the day. Kagome should've been sleeping as well, but she was afraid to fall asleep. She was afraid of Koga. That wolf wanted her to be his mate. What if he forces himself on her while she was in her sleep?

He was out right now though. Keeping watch over the tribe like the good leader he was. He told her to rest in his bedding. At least this way she knew no other wolf demon would try to force themselves onto her. She looked towards the glow of the fire. Her eyes widened when she saw a shadow from it's light. She looked up. No, the shadow was being cast by some other fire just behind the wall. Perhaps it was just the one who was on guard.

Then again, Koga warned his tribe not to get within 100 feet of Kagome. This figure was at least 25 feet away from. She held her breath. What if it was Koga? What if her fears were true? She squinted at the shadow. No, it wasn't him. It was the shadow of a female. She squinted more and realized she wasn't even wolven at all. From the shadow she could see that her tail was long and think, and she stood on her large toes. Something must've caught her attention because her head turned quickly and she moved from her spot.

Kagome's eyes snapped open. "That's where I've seen her before." She got up and ran to another room in the hut. "Inu Yasha!"

"Merf!" He quickly turned around with his hands behind his back. "Don't sit me! I was just looking for ramen!"

Kagome blinked a few times. She wanted to laugh, but this was serious. "Inu Yasha, I think I know Valdrianth. I think I've met her before."

"You have?" he questioned. "Where?"

"In Koga's den," she replied.

Inu Yasha's eyebrow twitched at the mention of the wolf. "Is that so?"

"I was dreaming just now. About when I was kidnapped by Koga...."

"What are you doing dreaming about Koga?" he demanded.

"No, he wasn't in there," she growled. "It was when I was there by myself in the cave, and how I saw the shadow of what looked like a raptor demon in the caves. I could've sworn that raptor and Valdrianth are the same ones."

"Feh, that would be like that mangy ookami to hire an assassin to kill me instead of coming after me for himself," Inu Yasha snorted. "I will find out more about this Valdrianth character."

"How are you going to do that?" she questioned.

"Myoga is coming in the morning," he replied. "He's bound to something about her." Inu Yasha wrinkled his nose. "I don't like her smell. She doesn't smell like a demon, yet she doesn't smell hanyou or human for that either."

Kagome nodded and she sat down next to Inu Yasha.

*****

Valdrianth opened her eyes and looked around. It was dark. She had over slept. She didn't want a long nap. If she did she wouldn't have been able to catch up with Koga. She got to her feet gave a big yawn and stretched. She sniffed the air. She smirked to herself. She didn't have to worry, he was coming her way.

She went to the entrance to her cave and jumped into a tree. She would meet him in the middle. Maybe surprise the wolf to get him back for the lack of information.

Koga smelled her presence and stopped immediately . Know her she would try to catch him off guard and jump him or something. So he simply just stopped and waited for her to show her face. Sure enough she caught on that he caught her scent and just made her way from tree to tree and she jumped in front of him.

"And exactly where have you been and what have you been doing?" Koga asked.

"I was napping," she replied. She gave a yawn. "It was a lazy afternoon."

"I didn't hire you to take naps," he growled.

Valdrianth snorted back at him. "I don't think my contract with you said anything about me facing a houshii now did it?" She folded her arms across her chests. "You know how I feel being around monks and priestesses. It's enough that you failed to inform me that this Kagome is the incarnation of a priestess, and now you failed to inform me that Inu-boy was friends with a monk. Really, Koga-sama you are a bad employer."

"I'm not hiring you to fight anyone."

"Yea, yea I know," she snorted again. "You just want Kagome to fall in love with you and that way you can be mates. You also told me to use any means possible to do it. That's what I'm doing."

"You may have to change your strategy," Koga pointed out.

"No, really?" she replied sarcastically. She then sighed. "Hey, don't worry, I'm gonna get her for ya, alright? You want her, so she's yours. If you believe she'll make you happy then she's yours. I'll get her."

Koga looked up at the sky. "Having her as my mate would make me very happy," he said. "I just don't want her to force her to love me."

"No, only manipulated," Valdrianth rolled her eyes.

He looked back down and grinned at her deviously. "That's why I hired you, Val. Make sure you get the job done, or I might have to beat you up."

Valdrianth gave off a humored laugh. "Yea right, wolf boy! I beat you up when your were a puppy and I can do it now. If I wanted to so don't even try it."

Koga laughed as well. "The tribe is having a feast tonight. A few others and I were on a hunting frenzy and we have plenty of meat. Are you coming?"

"Tonight's a full moon," she reminded him. "I'm going make a visit somewhere, you know that."

"That's right, gomen," he apologized.

"It's alright," Val replied. "I'll see you tomorrow, where we'll discuss matters then. Ja ne."

"Ja ne."

They both ran off in opposite directions.

****

"Raptor demons?" Myoga questioned.

"Yes, have you heard of them, Myoga?" Inu Yasha asked. "Pacifically one called Valdrianth?"

"What I have heard is so little," he replied. "I heard such a race existed but weren't really known. Rumors say they weren't born to be demons but humans. Their demon parents would drop their pups at a village and let a human raise it. The humans would take care of the child until it reached maturity. When that happens the demon features start to merge in a sort of awakening. It is then that the humans realize they were rearing a demon and cast them out from the village. Like I said, it was only a rumor and it came from one small village just outside of Kyoto."

"What about this one called Valdrianth?" Miroku asked.

"I have a feeling that the rumor came from her experience," Myoga replied. "After I had heard of such a matter, I search for similar situations and found nothing of the sort. That village was the only case, and sense this Valdrianth is the actually sighting of a raptor demon I would only put two and two together and say it was her."

"That would seem odd that's she's one of a kind," Miroku pointed out. "And through Inu Yasha's senses we have already concluded that she is not an incarnation of Naruka."

"That and we can assume she knows Koga in one way or another," Sango reminded. "If what Kagome saw was actually her."

"I'm pretty sure that it was," Kagome replied.

"Is that all you know Myoga?" Inu Yasha asked him.

"Yes, M'Lord," he replied. "Other than that this Valdrianth is a mystery to me."

Earlier during the night......

Valdrianth leaped in the tree and sat on a branch. She stayed out of sight as she looked upon the small village. Her eyes saddened. She missed being home.