InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Wolf Within ❯ Northern Lands ( Chapter 5 )
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By: Kawaii Youkai 
Enter Kouga!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 04.26.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.7K | Visits: 138 | Status: Completed
Enter Kouga!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 04.26.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.7K | Visits: 138 | Status: Completed
KY: CHAPTER 5!!!!!!! IT’S A NEW RECORD!!!!!!!!
Shippou: *claps hands over ears and winces* Stop yelling in my ear!!!!
KY: *bends over to put her mouth and inch from his ear* YAAAAH!
Shippou: Gah!!! *runs away*
KY: That’s Shippou talk for: “Kawaii Youkai doesn’t own Inu Yasha or his likeliness or any other characters in the story. He –Inu Yasha– and everyone else (except Tsume) belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei.
Kirara: mew?
KY: And that’s Kirara talk for: “Why don’t you just shut your mouth so that they can read the chapter?!”
Kirara: mew?
KY: And that’s also Kirara talk for: “I didn’t say that. I said fu—“.........
KY: *glares at Kirara*
Kirara: m-m-mew?
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Chapter 5
Northern Lands
Kouga scowled as he surveyed his land from the cliff top.
He had received another council invitation the other day. When would Kite-sama realize that he didn’t want to go around all of those stuck up taiyoukai?
He got along well with Kite-sama himself, the Lord of the Central Lands. And that was about it. He had met neither the Eastern Lady yet, nor the Lord of the Southern Islands, and he had but once met Toya, Lady of the Southern Lands. He had met Sesshomaru once, and that had been plenty enough for him. The two of them couldn’t STAND each other, let alone stay in the same room for over twenty minutes together.
As far as the icy inu taiyoukai’s linage went though, Kouga held respect for Inu Tashio, the deceased father of the Western Lands’ lord. Inu Tashio had been a VERY powerful demon lord, and had not had a distaste for the human species at all.
Kouga himself had only met Inu Tashio once when he was naught but a cub, but that had been awe inspiring in itself. Kouga had learned later that he had taken a human mate, and had one child with her, but Kouga did not know the name of the hanyou.
Giving a sigh of uselessness, he went for a morning run, checking up on all of the troublesome spots in the Northern Lands.
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Tsume squinted as she woke up, the afternoon sun glaring harshly down at her.
Blinking, she looked at her now clean hands. Had it all been a dream? Looking up to find the damaged village still in ruins, it felt like her stomach had just fallen out.
No, it had not been a dream, it had been real.
Real as the demon bodies that lay there on the broken ground.
Real as the smoldering flames of the old fires that had burned half of the village.
Real as she was.
Tsume left to her feet, and walked slowly to the council’s hut, taking in all of the damage that had been done to the village.
As she went, she heard whispers spring up behind her, and when she turned, there was no one there, they were scared.
She heard a shuffling by the side of one of the houses. Curious, she walked that way. And there, in the sooty ground, was a small child.
The same child, in fact, that had cried so desperately for her Okaa-san.
“Shh, it’s okay little one, come here,” Tsume whispered soothingly. The girl’s eyes widened. And when Tsume reached out a clawed hand to calm her down, the child whimpered and closed her eyes, flinching.
Tsume’s heart constricted. The girl was afraid.
She was afraid of her.
Closing her eyes and willing herself not to cry out of desperation, Tsume backed up, walking away back into the street.
Walking on, she reached the council’s hut. Really now though, it was more like a pile of rubble. The wood still smoldered, and the roof had caved in, leaving a giant gap on the top.
Almost immediately, she was met with hate-filled eyes.
“Go away! Damn you, you filthy demon! Be gone! You have given us enough grief to last a life time, be gone with you!”
Tsume’s eyes scrunched as she tried not to cry.
Furious yells and screams tore at her, threatening to consume her soul and heart. Harsh words were thrown at her, and backing up, she tried in vain to keep the tears in her eyes from being shed.
Here eyes widened painfully as she listened to the last yell before she fled.
“Damn you! It’s your fault! It’s your fault they’re dead! Go away! We don’t want you here any longer! You promised your protection, and look where it got us! Half killed and starving! Damn all of you cursed demon! Never come back here, do you hear me? EXILE! Never come back!”
She ran.
She ran as fast as her feet would carry her, not caring where she went to. Not even caring as she passed the concerned faces of the only group of people that still cared about her.
She just ran: completely and blindly.
Stumbling, she fell, and going into an unconscious state of shock and rest, she cried.
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Kouga ran.
Not too fast, and not too slow.
A steady pace that he would be able to run at for days on end if need be.
He had listened for rumors, and had heard from a wind youkai that a hanyou had been running through his lands uninvited. He prided on knowing whom or what went through his lands, and also knowing when and where they were.
He had been given no indications that she would be coming, no request to enter his territory and lands. Zip, nada, none. Well, not that anyone really cared anymore about respect for lands, but it was still nice to receive SOME warning that some one was coming.
From what the wind youkai had told him, the hanyou had been moving very quickly, as though if it stopped, it would die.
Kouga was a bit disgruntled though, the wind youkai had not been very descriptive at all, just a smirk and telling him that he would be grateful when he came upon the hanyou when he did. No specific descriptions were given to him, such as gender and type of youkai.
Kouga was running blind.
And he hated every minute of it.
The hanyou was in the southern most part of his lands, near the eastern border, so he would need to travel quite a few miles to get there. As Kouga ran, he didn’t want to be ambushed, but, truth be told, he was actually somewhat excited about something stirring up his lands.
About time something exciting happened around here!
Closing in to where the hanyou was rumored to be, he sniffed for the scent. The smell of hanyou assaulted his nose like a ton of bricks. It was very inticing, very cinnamon-y, very wolf, and VERY female.
Kouga stumbled for a moment,, almost falling flat on his face. Catching himself, he quickly ran towards the scent, more eager now than anything to meet the hanyou.
The scent had made him less focused on the area around him, and more concentrated on the cinnamon aroma that surrounded him. He had actually ran for half a mile before he realized the scent was behind him, he had actually ran past it!
Quickly retracing his steps, he went back the way he had come.
Somewhere in a forest, he stumbled upon her.
Quite literally, actually.
After tripping over her, and this time falling successfully on his face this time, he took a long look at her. She wore a dark blue shrine outfit, made of fire rat fur, and had dark brown hair that reached her hips.
She was curled on her side, and as he bent closer to sniff her, the scent of salt water hit his sensitive canine nose.
She had been crying.
Why?
He sniffed her again and sighed, her scent was WAY to inticing to be normal.
He bent down and scooped her up bridal style, shuddering when he felt her tail flick against his body. She sniffed him unconsciously, and her brown ears twitched as he started up back to his den.
Something invisible drew him towards her, but he didn’t quite know what it was.
And that alone scared him enough.
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KY: WHEEEEE!!!!! *claps hand and jumps up and down* Chapter 5's all finished!!!! ^^
Shippou: *sighs* yes, we know, we know.
KY: The next chapter Tsume wakes up, and we can just say Kouga isn’t automatically her *cough cough* favorite person of all time.
Shippou: So you’re going to make their relationship like Inu Yasha and Kagome’s on the show........ highly complicated......
KY: ^^ Yup!
Shippou: *sighs* Okay, now we KNOW this is going to be one heck of a long fanfiction.
KY: ^^ Yup! ........ wait....... *glares at Shippou* was that an insult?
Shippou: How ever you want to take it.......
KY: *Chases after him* come back here you little shrimp!
Shippou: GAAAAAAH! *runs away*
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SHOUT-OUTS
Skitz- Hey! ^^ Thanks for reading, even if I did pretty much say, “READ OR DIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!” Lol, jk. But thanks anyway!!! See ya’ at school!
Shippou: *claps hands over ears and winces* Stop yelling in my ear!!!!
KY: *bends over to put her mouth and inch from his ear* YAAAAH!
Shippou: Gah!!! *runs away*
KY: That’s Shippou talk for: “Kawaii Youkai doesn’t own Inu Yasha or his likeliness or any other characters in the story. He –Inu Yasha– and everyone else (except Tsume) belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei.
Kirara: mew?
KY: And that’s Kirara talk for: “Why don’t you just shut your mouth so that they can read the chapter?!”
Kirara: mew?
KY: And that’s also Kirara talk for: “I didn’t say that. I said fu—“.........
KY: *glares at Kirara*
Kirara: m-m-mew?
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Chapter 5
Northern Lands
Kouga scowled as he surveyed his land from the cliff top.
He had received another council invitation the other day. When would Kite-sama realize that he didn’t want to go around all of those stuck up taiyoukai?
He got along well with Kite-sama himself, the Lord of the Central Lands. And that was about it. He had met neither the Eastern Lady yet, nor the Lord of the Southern Islands, and he had but once met Toya, Lady of the Southern Lands. He had met Sesshomaru once, and that had been plenty enough for him. The two of them couldn’t STAND each other, let alone stay in the same room for over twenty minutes together.
As far as the icy inu taiyoukai’s linage went though, Kouga held respect for Inu Tashio, the deceased father of the Western Lands’ lord. Inu Tashio had been a VERY powerful demon lord, and had not had a distaste for the human species at all.
Kouga himself had only met Inu Tashio once when he was naught but a cub, but that had been awe inspiring in itself. Kouga had learned later that he had taken a human mate, and had one child with her, but Kouga did not know the name of the hanyou.
Giving a sigh of uselessness, he went for a morning run, checking up on all of the troublesome spots in the Northern Lands.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Tsume squinted as she woke up, the afternoon sun glaring harshly down at her.
Blinking, she looked at her now clean hands. Had it all been a dream? Looking up to find the damaged village still in ruins, it felt like her stomach had just fallen out.
No, it had not been a dream, it had been real.
Real as the demon bodies that lay there on the broken ground.
Real as the smoldering flames of the old fires that had burned half of the village.
Real as she was.
Tsume left to her feet, and walked slowly to the council’s hut, taking in all of the damage that had been done to the village.
As she went, she heard whispers spring up behind her, and when she turned, there was no one there, they were scared.
She heard a shuffling by the side of one of the houses. Curious, she walked that way. And there, in the sooty ground, was a small child.
The same child, in fact, that had cried so desperately for her Okaa-san.
“Shh, it’s okay little one, come here,” Tsume whispered soothingly. The girl’s eyes widened. And when Tsume reached out a clawed hand to calm her down, the child whimpered and closed her eyes, flinching.
Tsume’s heart constricted. The girl was afraid.
She was afraid of her.
Closing her eyes and willing herself not to cry out of desperation, Tsume backed up, walking away back into the street.
Walking on, she reached the council’s hut. Really now though, it was more like a pile of rubble. The wood still smoldered, and the roof had caved in, leaving a giant gap on the top.
Almost immediately, she was met with hate-filled eyes.
“Go away! Damn you, you filthy demon! Be gone! You have given us enough grief to last a life time, be gone with you!”
Tsume’s eyes scrunched as she tried not to cry.
Furious yells and screams tore at her, threatening to consume her soul and heart. Harsh words were thrown at her, and backing up, she tried in vain to keep the tears in her eyes from being shed.
Here eyes widened painfully as she listened to the last yell before she fled.
“Damn you! It’s your fault! It’s your fault they’re dead! Go away! We don’t want you here any longer! You promised your protection, and look where it got us! Half killed and starving! Damn all of you cursed demon! Never come back here, do you hear me? EXILE! Never come back!”
She ran.
She ran as fast as her feet would carry her, not caring where she went to. Not even caring as she passed the concerned faces of the only group of people that still cared about her.
She just ran: completely and blindly.
Stumbling, she fell, and going into an unconscious state of shock and rest, she cried.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Kouga ran.
Not too fast, and not too slow.
A steady pace that he would be able to run at for days on end if need be.
He had listened for rumors, and had heard from a wind youkai that a hanyou had been running through his lands uninvited. He prided on knowing whom or what went through his lands, and also knowing when and where they were.
He had been given no indications that she would be coming, no request to enter his territory and lands. Zip, nada, none. Well, not that anyone really cared anymore about respect for lands, but it was still nice to receive SOME warning that some one was coming.
From what the wind youkai had told him, the hanyou had been moving very quickly, as though if it stopped, it would die.
Kouga was a bit disgruntled though, the wind youkai had not been very descriptive at all, just a smirk and telling him that he would be grateful when he came upon the hanyou when he did. No specific descriptions were given to him, such as gender and type of youkai.
Kouga was running blind.
And he hated every minute of it.
The hanyou was in the southern most part of his lands, near the eastern border, so he would need to travel quite a few miles to get there. As Kouga ran, he didn’t want to be ambushed, but, truth be told, he was actually somewhat excited about something stirring up his lands.
About time something exciting happened around here!
Closing in to where the hanyou was rumored to be, he sniffed for the scent. The smell of hanyou assaulted his nose like a ton of bricks. It was very inticing, very cinnamon-y, very wolf, and VERY female.
Kouga stumbled for a moment,, almost falling flat on his face. Catching himself, he quickly ran towards the scent, more eager now than anything to meet the hanyou.
The scent had made him less focused on the area around him, and more concentrated on the cinnamon aroma that surrounded him. He had actually ran for half a mile before he realized the scent was behind him, he had actually ran past it!
Quickly retracing his steps, he went back the way he had come.
Somewhere in a forest, he stumbled upon her.
Quite literally, actually.
After tripping over her, and this time falling successfully on his face this time, he took a long look at her. She wore a dark blue shrine outfit, made of fire rat fur, and had dark brown hair that reached her hips.
She was curled on her side, and as he bent closer to sniff her, the scent of salt water hit his sensitive canine nose.
She had been crying.
Why?
He sniffed her again and sighed, her scent was WAY to inticing to be normal.
He bent down and scooped her up bridal style, shuddering when he felt her tail flick against his body. She sniffed him unconsciously, and her brown ears twitched as he started up back to his den.
Something invisible drew him towards her, but he didn’t quite know what it was.
And that alone scared him enough.
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KY: WHEEEEE!!!!! *claps hand and jumps up and down* Chapter 5's all finished!!!! ^^
Shippou: *sighs* yes, we know, we know.
KY: The next chapter Tsume wakes up, and we can just say Kouga isn’t automatically her *cough cough* favorite person of all time.
Shippou: So you’re going to make their relationship like Inu Yasha and Kagome’s on the show........ highly complicated......
KY: ^^ Yup!
Shippou: *sighs* Okay, now we KNOW this is going to be one heck of a long fanfiction.
KY: ^^ Yup! ........ wait....... *glares at Shippou* was that an insult?
Shippou: How ever you want to take it.......
KY: *Chases after him* come back here you little shrimp!
Shippou: GAAAAAAH! *runs away*
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SHOUT-OUTS
Skitz- Hey! ^^ Thanks for reading, even if I did pretty much say, “READ OR DIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!” Lol, jk. But thanks anyway!!! See ya’ at school!