InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Wolf Within ❯ Kouga's Memories ( Chapter 10 )
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By: Kawaii Youkai 
Kouga reflects on a memory of his dead parents.
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Kouga reflects on a memory of his dead parents.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.12.2004 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 130 | Status: Completed
KY: Chapter ten, chapter ten!!!!! *does the happy dance*
Shippou: And your point is?
KY: Thank I have ten chapters! ^^ TEN!!!!!!!!
Shippou: *sigh* Some things never change.......
KY: Nope... Oh! And I thought of a really good plot twist for the story, it really is good. *Sigh*
such a shame it will be a while before we get to it. Oh well.
Shippou: Anyway, onto the story.
KY: YEAH! TEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!
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The Wolf Within
Chapter Ten: Memories
As Kouga and Raven passed the gates into Kite's castle, Raven looked around, taking in his
surroundings carefully. Kouga crossed his arms and walked straight ahead, his eyes never leaving
their straight line.
Tired of standing on his Lord's shoulder, Raven kicked his own taloned feet out from under him
and plopped himself down onto Kouga's shoulder.
Kouga glanced at Raven from the corner of his eye. Sky blue met beady black and between them
passed a silent agreement.
Raven broke eye contact first, looking off to the right, glancing at the paintings lined up along the
side of the corridor. There were many family portraits of all the Lords and Ladies, occasionally
with their children.
Kouga stopped and faced one particular picture. It was not anymore extraordinary than the rest of
the paintings, but it seemed to hold a great value by the way the ookami was looking at it.
There in the portrait was a young couple, looking no older than their early twenties at most. The
woman sat, and the man, undoubtedly her mate, stood next to her with his left hand on her
shoulder.
The woman was stunning, to put it lightly. Her midnight black hair was drawn into a beautiful
bun, held skillfully in place by a pair of ornamental hair chopsticks. Her eyes shone a vivid sea-
green, and they blazed with a radiance that could only come from true happiness. She wore a
twelve layer kimono, her beautiful proof of royalty.
The man that stood beside her looked far more rugged than his mate did. He had dark red locks of
fiery hair that was pulled into a tight braid that disappeared behind his shoulders, undoubtedly
falling to his waist. His eyes were a sharp, piercing blue, the color of the afternoon sky. They
glowed fiercely with a warrior's gleam. He wore pelts similar to that of Kouga's, and the same
tough armor made of demon bone. From behind the woman was seen a red-hilted katana that
hung at his left side.
It was the same katana that hung now at Kouga's side.
Kouga's eyes softened as he remembered clearly his last memory of them.
*~*~*Flashback*~*~*
A young wolf demon crossed his arms impudently and narrowed his sky-blue eyes at his father.
The cub was seventeen years since he was born, but because of demonic aging, he looked no
older than five, and looked almost humourous as he glared at his father whom was over twice as
tall as him. His maturity mirrored his appearance.
"I'm not wearin' it!" Kouga defied, stomping his little foot to add emphasis to his statement.
His father growled and bent down to Kouga's level. Reaching out a clawed hand, he grabbed
Kouga's nose and chin with his finger's, holding them together and wrestling him effortlessly to
the floor, pinning Kouga down on his back.1 Kouga immediately fell limp in his father's hands.2
"You will wear what you are told to wear! You will wear it immediately and politely with no
complaints! Now get up and get dressed!"
Kouga's father let go of him quickly, and strode out of the room stiff-legged, a deep growl
emitting from low in his throat.3
Kouga's mother appeared in the doorway just as his father left. She watched her mate stalk off
growling and turned to face her son, whom was grudgingly pulling off his fur pelts and small
armor. He scowled at the pair of ceremonial haori and hakamas. His mother walked over and sat
down on his mattress bed.
"Kouga son, come here," she asked, patting the bedding beside her.
Kouga finished pulling off his chest armor and huffed, walking over to flop down onto his bedding
beside his mother.
She sighed and looked down at her growing cub. "Kouga, you know your father means well. You
are his son and he's proud of you. He loves you very much you know."
Kouga growled, "Keh, he sure likes to show it. He's just a bully."
His mother frowned and looked down at her son. "Do not talk about your father like that," she
scolded, "Mayhaps we should have sent you to live with your father's tribe to learn some
discipline. You are acting like a spoiled cub!"
Kouga looked away in shame, realizing the truth in his mother's words.
She sighed and stood up. Walking out of his room, she paused at the door and turned back to
him.
"Hurry up and dress," she said, "we are leaving soon. When we get to the council meeting, you
will be introduced to Kite-sama, Lord of the Central Lands, and you will be presented to the rest
of the council as our heir."
With that said, Kouga's mother turned to leave, walking out of his room to speak with his father
next.
Kouga finally finished pulling off all of his furs and was beginning to put on his ceremonial outfit.
Once his hakamas were completely on, he reached for his haori when there was an earth
shattering BOOM!
An uproar started, and there was another loud BOOM! and the whole castle shook with the
magnitude of this attack. Kouga lost his footing with a startled yelp and he fell down hard on his
backside.
Kouga growled and forced himself up, running out of his room and down the long hallways of the
north wing of his castle, where the most noise was coming from.
His haori lay on his bed, forgotten.
He ran to the weapons chamber and grabbed the closest weapon to him: his father's second
katana. It had a solid black sheath, with carved wolves running down it. The hilt of the sword was
wrapped with an under-layer of white fabric and an over-layer of blue fabric. The metal tip of the
handle had a carved silver wolf's head.
Without a second thought, the young wolf demon cub ran out onto the lawns and over to the
front main gate, where the defenses were holding the wall. Kouga grabbed a soldier that streaked
by.
"Where're Chichi-ue and Haha-ue?!" Kouga demanded.
The ookami soldier looked down at Kouga surprised and fearful at the same time.
"Prince Kouga! You are supposed to be in your hidden chambers! Don't you remember the
hidden drill?"
"Do you honestly think I care about that at the moment!?"Kouga snarled. "Where are my parents,
dammit!?"
The wolf soldier gave in, "They are up in the front line, fighting to protect......."
Kouga didn't even let him finish before he was off.
He had just reached the outside gates when another explosion hit the castle, sending him
sprawling from the defense gates to the forest surrounding the outside of the castle. The
magnitude of the explosion sent him head-first into a large boulder, knocking him unconscious.
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KY: Hrm....... to cut off here or not to cut off here. That is the question......
Shippou: NOT IT'S NOT!!!!!!!
KY: *Snort* fine then, be that way.
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Kouga awoke almost three days later, caked in dried mud.
His hakamas were ruined and he had multiple cuts and bruises all over his body. They were half-
healed already, but they hurt like hell.
He stumbled more than he walked as he made his way back to the castle. His eyes went wide as
he say what lie before him.
His parents' castle lay in ruins. The once beautiful walls were piles of rubble now, scattered over
the lawns like sand in the desert. Kouga quickly grew frantic, he did not see any survivors. He
scrambled over what used to be the outer wall and over the rock-filled lawn.
"Is anybody here!?" Kouga yelled at the top of his lungs. His voice was scratchy and sore, but
desperation was laved into it unmistakably. There was a muffled reply, and Kouga sped over to
where he heard it from.
"I can't hear you! Speak louder!" Kouga cried. His pointed demon ears twitched slightly as he ead
a weak, "Here!"
Scrambling through more rubble, Kouga located the source.
There was no mistake of the hair. Bright red, lighter than his father's, proved to be Akami4, his
uncle and also his father's second in command. Moving the largest rocks off of him, Kouga pulled
Akami out of the space he had been trapped in.
"S-stop!" Akami weakly ordered.
Kouga immediately quit moving, barely breathing, afraid that he'd hurt his uncle.
Akami turned and grabbed a small bundle, and, after giving it a light tender squeeze, he handed it
carefully to Kouga with weak shaking hands.
"M-my s-sons. B-born d-dur-ing at-tack....... whi-te-te f-fur Ha-ka...ku...... g-grey...... Gin-ta....."
Akami coughed violently, and blood seeped from his mouth. His eyes closed, and with a final
smile of knowledge that his sons were safe, he died.
Kouga's arms shook as he carried the small bundle carefully. He stopped, slightly out of breath,
and peeked into the bundle of blankets. When he looked, he saw two true wolf cubs.
Wolf youkai were born, as the two cubs were, in their baby wolf forms.
True to his words, Akami had not lied. One cub was a solid white, and the other was grey. Kouga
gave Ginta and Hakakku a small smile as he sat down.
Extreme fatigue fell upon Kouga soon afterwards, and he lay down to sleep, curling up around
Ginta and Hakakku's bodies to protect them with his. Akami had died to save their lives, and
Kouga was not about to let that go to waste.
Kouga regained consciousness again another week later, curled up in a warm bed. He soon found
out that both of his parents had been murdered that night almost a week and a half ago on the
night of the attack.
The one thing that he knew he'd never forget though, was the scent of the one who killed them.
The smell of sandalwood.
It had been the first time he'd ever remembered really crying in his life.
Wiping his tears away, Kouga left the castle of Kite-sama to go live back in the Northern Lands to
live with his father's old tribe.
He carried Hakakku and Ginta the whole way
*~*~*End Flashback*~*~*
Kouga smiled faintly at the picture, and a single tear rolled down his face. With the back of his
hand, Kouga wiped it away.
Raven looked sympathetically at his Lord, giving a small smile of reassurance from his shoulder.
Turning, Kouga walked away from the painting of his parents, his tail swaying with his pace.
Canis.
Lupa.
Father.
Mother.
A lone figure stood at the end of the corridor, watching quitely.
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KY: There we go! A nice long chapter for all the kiddies at home! SEVEN PAGES!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!
Shippou: You interrupted it halfway through the story!!!!!!
KY: *adjusts halo* I have no earthly idea what you're talking about.
Shippou: Riiiiiiiiiight.........
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1 In real-life, when a wolf cub is punished by a parent or pack-mate, the offender will be grabbed
with the jaws of another wolf by the muzzle and wrestled to the ground and forced to submit.
Another way a cub is punished, is by an older wolf grabbing the cub by the under-scruff of his
throat and pushing it to the ground again, being forced into submission in another way. Female
dogs use this to punish their pups also.
2 A wolf cub will submit by falling limp.
3 When a wolf or dog is annoyed or is challenged, they normally go stiff-legged and growl.
4 Akami almost literally means "Red Wolf" ( I would think, but seeing as I'm a full blooded
American, I combine words all the time anyway, lol). "Aka" being red, combined with "Ookami"
meaning wolf.
Shippou: And your point is?
KY: Thank I have ten chapters! ^^ TEN!!!!!!!!
Shippou: *sigh* Some things never change.......
KY: Nope... Oh! And I thought of a really good plot twist for the story, it really is good. *Sigh*
such a shame it will be a while before we get to it. Oh well.
Shippou: Anyway, onto the story.
KY: YEAH! TEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!
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The Wolf Within
Chapter Ten: Memories
As Kouga and Raven passed the gates into Kite's castle, Raven looked around, taking in his
surroundings carefully. Kouga crossed his arms and walked straight ahead, his eyes never leaving
their straight line.
Tired of standing on his Lord's shoulder, Raven kicked his own taloned feet out from under him
and plopped himself down onto Kouga's shoulder.
Kouga glanced at Raven from the corner of his eye. Sky blue met beady black and between them
passed a silent agreement.
Raven broke eye contact first, looking off to the right, glancing at the paintings lined up along the
side of the corridor. There were many family portraits of all the Lords and Ladies, occasionally
with their children.
Kouga stopped and faced one particular picture. It was not anymore extraordinary than the rest of
the paintings, but it seemed to hold a great value by the way the ookami was looking at it.
There in the portrait was a young couple, looking no older than their early twenties at most. The
woman sat, and the man, undoubtedly her mate, stood next to her with his left hand on her
shoulder.
The woman was stunning, to put it lightly. Her midnight black hair was drawn into a beautiful
bun, held skillfully in place by a pair of ornamental hair chopsticks. Her eyes shone a vivid sea-
green, and they blazed with a radiance that could only come from true happiness. She wore a
twelve layer kimono, her beautiful proof of royalty.
The man that stood beside her looked far more rugged than his mate did. He had dark red locks of
fiery hair that was pulled into a tight braid that disappeared behind his shoulders, undoubtedly
falling to his waist. His eyes were a sharp, piercing blue, the color of the afternoon sky. They
glowed fiercely with a warrior's gleam. He wore pelts similar to that of Kouga's, and the same
tough armor made of demon bone. From behind the woman was seen a red-hilted katana that
hung at his left side.
It was the same katana that hung now at Kouga's side.
Kouga's eyes softened as he remembered clearly his last memory of them.
*~*~*Flashback*~*~*
A young wolf demon crossed his arms impudently and narrowed his sky-blue eyes at his father.
The cub was seventeen years since he was born, but because of demonic aging, he looked no
older than five, and looked almost humourous as he glared at his father whom was over twice as
tall as him. His maturity mirrored his appearance.
"I'm not wearin' it!" Kouga defied, stomping his little foot to add emphasis to his statement.
His father growled and bent down to Kouga's level. Reaching out a clawed hand, he grabbed
Kouga's nose and chin with his finger's, holding them together and wrestling him effortlessly to
the floor, pinning Kouga down on his back.1 Kouga immediately fell limp in his father's hands.2
"You will wear what you are told to wear! You will wear it immediately and politely with no
complaints! Now get up and get dressed!"
Kouga's father let go of him quickly, and strode out of the room stiff-legged, a deep growl
emitting from low in his throat.3
Kouga's mother appeared in the doorway just as his father left. She watched her mate stalk off
growling and turned to face her son, whom was grudgingly pulling off his fur pelts and small
armor. He scowled at the pair of ceremonial haori and hakamas. His mother walked over and sat
down on his mattress bed.
"Kouga son, come here," she asked, patting the bedding beside her.
Kouga finished pulling off his chest armor and huffed, walking over to flop down onto his bedding
beside his mother.
She sighed and looked down at her growing cub. "Kouga, you know your father means well. You
are his son and he's proud of you. He loves you very much you know."
Kouga growled, "Keh, he sure likes to show it. He's just a bully."
His mother frowned and looked down at her son. "Do not talk about your father like that," she
scolded, "Mayhaps we should have sent you to live with your father's tribe to learn some
discipline. You are acting like a spoiled cub!"
Kouga looked away in shame, realizing the truth in his mother's words.
She sighed and stood up. Walking out of his room, she paused at the door and turned back to
him.
"Hurry up and dress," she said, "we are leaving soon. When we get to the council meeting, you
will be introduced to Kite-sama, Lord of the Central Lands, and you will be presented to the rest
of the council as our heir."
With that said, Kouga's mother turned to leave, walking out of his room to speak with his father
next.
Kouga finally finished pulling off all of his furs and was beginning to put on his ceremonial outfit.
Once his hakamas were completely on, he reached for his haori when there was an earth
shattering BOOM!
An uproar started, and there was another loud BOOM! and the whole castle shook with the
magnitude of this attack. Kouga lost his footing with a startled yelp and he fell down hard on his
backside.
Kouga growled and forced himself up, running out of his room and down the long hallways of the
north wing of his castle, where the most noise was coming from.
His haori lay on his bed, forgotten.
He ran to the weapons chamber and grabbed the closest weapon to him: his father's second
katana. It had a solid black sheath, with carved wolves running down it. The hilt of the sword was
wrapped with an under-layer of white fabric and an over-layer of blue fabric. The metal tip of the
handle had a carved silver wolf's head.
Without a second thought, the young wolf demon cub ran out onto the lawns and over to the
front main gate, where the defenses were holding the wall. Kouga grabbed a soldier that streaked
by.
"Where're Chichi-ue and Haha-ue?!" Kouga demanded.
The ookami soldier looked down at Kouga surprised and fearful at the same time.
"Prince Kouga! You are supposed to be in your hidden chambers! Don't you remember the
hidden drill?"
"Do you honestly think I care about that at the moment!?"Kouga snarled. "Where are my parents,
dammit!?"
The wolf soldier gave in, "They are up in the front line, fighting to protect......."
Kouga didn't even let him finish before he was off.
He had just reached the outside gates when another explosion hit the castle, sending him
sprawling from the defense gates to the forest surrounding the outside of the castle. The
magnitude of the explosion sent him head-first into a large boulder, knocking him unconscious.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
KY: Hrm....... to cut off here or not to cut off here. That is the question......
Shippou: NOT IT'S NOT!!!!!!!
KY: *Snort* fine then, be that way.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kouga awoke almost three days later, caked in dried mud.
His hakamas were ruined and he had multiple cuts and bruises all over his body. They were half-
healed already, but they hurt like hell.
He stumbled more than he walked as he made his way back to the castle. His eyes went wide as
he say what lie before him.
His parents' castle lay in ruins. The once beautiful walls were piles of rubble now, scattered over
the lawns like sand in the desert. Kouga quickly grew frantic, he did not see any survivors. He
scrambled over what used to be the outer wall and over the rock-filled lawn.
"Is anybody here!?" Kouga yelled at the top of his lungs. His voice was scratchy and sore, but
desperation was laved into it unmistakably. There was a muffled reply, and Kouga sped over to
where he heard it from.
"I can't hear you! Speak louder!" Kouga cried. His pointed demon ears twitched slightly as he ead
a weak, "Here!"
Scrambling through more rubble, Kouga located the source.
There was no mistake of the hair. Bright red, lighter than his father's, proved to be Akami4, his
uncle and also his father's second in command. Moving the largest rocks off of him, Kouga pulled
Akami out of the space he had been trapped in.
"S-stop!" Akami weakly ordered.
Kouga immediately quit moving, barely breathing, afraid that he'd hurt his uncle.
Akami turned and grabbed a small bundle, and, after giving it a light tender squeeze, he handed it
carefully to Kouga with weak shaking hands.
"M-my s-sons. B-born d-dur-ing at-tack....... whi-te-te f-fur Ha-ka...ku...... g-grey...... Gin-ta....."
Akami coughed violently, and blood seeped from his mouth. His eyes closed, and with a final
smile of knowledge that his sons were safe, he died.
Kouga's arms shook as he carried the small bundle carefully. He stopped, slightly out of breath,
and peeked into the bundle of blankets. When he looked, he saw two true wolf cubs.
Wolf youkai were born, as the two cubs were, in their baby wolf forms.
True to his words, Akami had not lied. One cub was a solid white, and the other was grey. Kouga
gave Ginta and Hakakku a small smile as he sat down.
Extreme fatigue fell upon Kouga soon afterwards, and he lay down to sleep, curling up around
Ginta and Hakakku's bodies to protect them with his. Akami had died to save their lives, and
Kouga was not about to let that go to waste.
Kouga regained consciousness again another week later, curled up in a warm bed. He soon found
out that both of his parents had been murdered that night almost a week and a half ago on the
night of the attack.
The one thing that he knew he'd never forget though, was the scent of the one who killed them.
The smell of sandalwood.
It had been the first time he'd ever remembered really crying in his life.
Wiping his tears away, Kouga left the castle of Kite-sama to go live back in the Northern Lands to
live with his father's old tribe.
He carried Hakakku and Ginta the whole way
*~*~*End Flashback*~*~*
Kouga smiled faintly at the picture, and a single tear rolled down his face. With the back of his
hand, Kouga wiped it away.
Raven looked sympathetically at his Lord, giving a small smile of reassurance from his shoulder.
Turning, Kouga walked away from the painting of his parents, his tail swaying with his pace.
Canis.
Lupa.
Father.
Mother.
A lone figure stood at the end of the corridor, watching quitely.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
KY: There we go! A nice long chapter for all the kiddies at home! SEVEN PAGES!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!
Shippou: You interrupted it halfway through the story!!!!!!
KY: *adjusts halo* I have no earthly idea what you're talking about.
Shippou: Riiiiiiiiiight.........
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 In real-life, when a wolf cub is punished by a parent or pack-mate, the offender will be grabbed
with the jaws of another wolf by the muzzle and wrestled to the ground and forced to submit.
Another way a cub is punished, is by an older wolf grabbing the cub by the under-scruff of his
throat and pushing it to the ground again, being forced into submission in another way. Female
dogs use this to punish their pups also.
2 A wolf cub will submit by falling limp.
3 When a wolf or dog is annoyed or is challenged, they normally go stiff-legged and growl.
4 Akami almost literally means "Red Wolf" ( I would think, but seeing as I'm a full blooded
American, I combine words all the time anyway, lol). "Aka" being red, combined with "Ookami"
meaning wolf.