InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Together Forever ❯ Clash of the Wolves ( Chapter 17 )

Kagome stirred next to Inuyasha who was still asleep. Opening her eyes she smiled finding him still sleeping, a rare thing it was for him to really rest, and smoothed the hair around his face. "Morning my love." Inuyasha whispered as he opened his golden eyes. "Good morning. Do you think we should get back soon?" "Yeah, c'mon lets take a bath then go." Inuyasha said as he rose and grabbed his pants. Kagome smiled and looked him over once before dressing. When Kagome looked into the water she nearly fainted. Her gentle blue eyes were changed! Her pupil was rimmed gold, the same gold as Inuyasha's. After a few moments of making sure his miko lover wouldn't sit him to death he explained that she was a youkai's mate and it was natural. Surprisingly she smiled and went about washing while humming merely.

After washing and dressing they headed back to camp. As soon as they arrived a rust colored fuzz ball flung itself at Kagome who caught it by reflex. "Hello Shippo." She said as the little kit looked at her with tear filled green eyes. "Mama, where were you? I got scared and Ares wouldn't let anyone go look for you or papa!" he cried sniffing and snuggling his head into her shirt. "She was with me pup. C'mon, we need to eat then head out for the next shard." Inuyasha said taking Shippo from Kagome and putting him on his shoulder. "Ok. Papa, why does mama smell like you?" Shippo asked with a glance at Kagome. "Ask when you're older." Muttered a beet red Inuyasha. Shippo was confused but just smiled and called to the group, "They're back!" Sango jumped up and ran to Kagome. "Kagome-chan I was so worried!" she said then whispered, "Did he try anything?" Inuyasha heard this and gave a snort. Ares walked over to Kagome and Sango holding three cups of ramen. "Let's go talk and eat under the tree." She suggested and the three sat down while the boys ate around the fire.

"Spill, right now!" Sango whispered excitedly. Kagome gave her a look of, what she hoped was, innocence and blushed. "They're really mates now. His smell is all over her. But also within her." Ares said with a grin then she ate her noodles like she had said nothing while Kagome sputtered a bit and Sango's eyes bugged out. "I knew it!" Sango cried sitting down her noodles. "Oh shut up!" Kagome muttered. Ares ignored the death glare Inuyasha sent her and put in her two cents. "Do tell Kagome, we wanna know what it's like!" she said smiling brightly.

Inuyasha scowled. He could hear them it annoyed him. "Nosey bitches." He muttered under his breath. Miroku glanced at the girls who seemed to be ambushing poor Kagome and then turned his gaze to Inuyasha. "So, you two are mates now, right?" he asked with all the innocence he could muster and a prayer to Kami Inuyasha wouldn't strike him down. "Yes, so she is completely off limits to you houshi." Inuyasha said with sugar coated venom. The houshi gulped and tried to smile at the hanyou sitting across from him but couldn't seem to manage one so instead he focused his attention on the noodles he had yet to finish off. Focus on the noodles, that's right, they won't kill you. Miroku muttered darkly in his mind and grinned slightly thinking that all of Sango's blows had made him start to go insane.

"Kagome, remember what you told me about the pills and little thingies in the packages your mom gave you to help you from getting with child?" Sango inquired. "Yeah, what about it?" she asked while Ares took the empty bowls and went to collect the guys as well. "Well," Sango said began looking a bit hesitant, "did you use them?" Kagome's eyes widened and she looked horrified. "Oh…my…god...INUYASHA!!!!!!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. The man in question winced at the ringing in his sensitive inu ears. "What?!" he called back. Kagome slumped down and put her head in her hands. Sango went to Inuyasha and whispered, "You two didn't use those "things" she brought back and she might be pregnant!" All color seemed to drain from his face. "Kami-sama!" he muttered and ran to Kagome. "Love, it's ok, you aren't with pup." Inuyasha whispered holding her lightly. "Are you sure?" she asked hopefully. "Yes." It was said with an almost hurt tone and his inu ears, which Kagome loved so much, drooped. "Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Kagome asked.

This was the one thing he didn't want to discuss right now but he knew she wouldn't stop until she knew what was wrong with him. Thoughts clashed in his mind and he griped her tightly to him, kissing his mark, with a gentle sigh. "Would you hate it so if you had been with pup?" he asked, hiding his worried and hurt look in her hair. Understanding struck her and her breath hissed between her teeth. "Inuyasha, it's not that I wouldn't want a pup with you, I DO want a pup with you, it's just, with chasing Naraku and all the dangers we face it would be to dangerous. The pup might die before it's even born and I don't want that. I want to have OUR pup when there is no more Naraku and we can live in peace." Kagome said, taking his face in her hands, making him look at her.

Relief rushed through Inuyasha like water through a broken dam. "Mmmm, that's all I needed to know. Come on, let's go." He said, a smile gracing his lips, offering his hand to her. After a few moments the group set off again. By noon the humans of the group were asking to rest and Inuyasha was furious. "We need to keep going! We're never gonna get the shards at this rate!" "SIT!!!" THUD! "What the fuck was that for?!" "HENTAI!" BAM! "Owwwieee." Could be heard throughout the forest. Ares sighed and rubbed her temples in effort to stall the oncoming migraine while Shippo and Kirara napped, unaffected by the screaming and fighting going on.

Finally after twenty minutes of arguing the group settled down and the girls cooked a light snack. Inuyasha took Shippo and Miroku with him to gather wood and hunt; leaving the girls to chat and relax. Sango sighed and lay against a comfy tree with Kagome while Ares perched on a small boulder. Funny, she thought, I get the feeling something is going to happen soon. What could it be? She wondered to herself as the wind shifted suddenly. "Kagome, do you feel that?" Ares asked, sitting up straight and sniffing the wind. "It's jewel shards…oh no! It's Kouga!" Kagome said with a groan. The next thing the girls knew a whirlwind had blown into camp and stopped in front of Kagome to reveal Kouga. "Kagome, where's dog turd? Isn't he taking care of you?" Kouga asked taking her hands in his while flashing her a dazzling smile.

Kagome looked like she wanted to scream in annoyance which Kouga seemed to not notice and if he did, not care. "He's hunting, and yes he IS taking care of me." Kagome muttered. "Wolf, get your filthy hands off her! She is not for you to paw at like some unclaimed bitch!" Ares growled at Kouga. "What the hell's that suppose to mean?" He snapped turning to look at Ares for the first time. His eyes grew wide and a blush stained his tan cheeks. He had thought to find nothing but some normal girl yet instead he found a goddess of a wolf youkai.Goddess? What the hell?! Kagome's your woman, hello! Kouga didn't have time to think about much next because Kagome was suddenly jerked from his grasp and Inuyahsa stood with her wrapped in is arms, glaring and snarling slightly.

"How dare you touch her wolf! She's off limits to all males but me, now." The hanyou grounded out through clenched teeth, his effort to keep himself from doing something he would regret later. "What!?" cried a very pissed Kouga. With a pure animalistic snarl Ares faced Kouga and hissed, "Smell the air you idiot! Smell her scent, look at her neck, her eyes, and feel with your youkai the link they share." Kouga suppressed a growl of anger and sniffed Kagome's scent, looked into her eyes and at her neck which showed through her hair, and felt her ki with his own youkai ki. "How dare you! She's MY WOMAN!" Kouga cried and made to charge at Inuyasha. The other members of the group didn't even have time to move before Kouga was pinned on the ground with a pissed off youkai bitch on him. "She is his. Do not defile your clans name over your stupidity." Ares said smirking at his shocked look.

"Bitch, get off me. She IS MINE!" Kouga growled reaching up to push Ares off him. Only, his hand didn't hit her shoulder like it was meant to but instead grabbed a breast electing a gasp from the young woman. Kouga froze feeling the soft flesh and silken fabric of her dress in his hand. Everyone froze around the two as a feral growl made its way through Ares's lips. "HOW DARE YOU, YOU DAMN HENTAI!" she roared loud enough to leave a ringing in all youkai ears for at least four miles. The next thing Kouga knew Ares was up off of him and drawing her sword. "Bastard, I am a princess of the Black Howling Tribe in the Western land!" She hissed swinging her blade at him. He parried with a dagger he happened to have handy and glared murderously. "I am Kouga, prince of the wolves!" He shouted back.

Still they kept fighting even though it seemed pointless. Ares was furious as was Kouga. In his mind, she had interrupted his time with Kagome and he was furious that Inuyasha had claimed her so he was taking it out on Ares. Ares was mad because he claimed Kagome, her best friend, was his when she was Inuyasha's mate, and he had grabbed her chest! And so they fought; swing, dodge, miss, swing, jump, parry, thrust, drop weapons, charge each other, hit, kick, block, tackle, jump and run, attack, over and over in a graceful pattern of strength and will.

Jumping back from each other and landing a few feet from Inuyasha, Kagome, and the others as they glared daggers but made no move to strike again. "Stay out of it bitch!" he spat. "Like hell I will!" she spat back. "Stubborn." "Idiotic." "Worthless woman." "Bastard." "Bitch." "God damned fool." "Whore." The battle of names went on and on but when Kouga called Ares a whore the woman's eyes glowed blood red and the ground shook slightly. Shippo struggled to remove Kagome's hands, which had clamped themselves over his ears when the battle of names started, from his ears but was failing miserably.

"What's happening!?" cried the distressed Kagome to a wide eyed Inuyasha. "I think she might kill him." Was all he said as flames spurt from the ground and circled Ares, lapping at her skin, dancing with the wind as it mingled with her hair, yet not once burning her. "Listen and listen well, I protect these people at the order of my mistress who is most powerful. Do not bother these two lovers again or I WILL kill you! Now leave or face your punishment." Ares seethed. "No way in hell!" Kouga responded, most stupidly, to her threats. "Very well, take this as a final warning." She whispered as the flames that circled her shot up and roared with a blood red glint of heat. "Fire." With that simple word, the fire gathered before Ares then hurled with great force straight at Kouga who turned and ran, getting a burnt arm and leg in the process. "I'll be back! And I'll make you pay!" he cried turning on his heel and bolting.

Silence washed over the group. Eerily it sent chills up Kagome's spine, making her shiver at the sudden trickle of cold that swept up her spine like icy fingers. "Are you ok, Ares?" Sango asked hesitantly. "I'm…fine." She managed to get out before she fell to the ground in a dead faint. "Ares!" everyone cried in usion, rushing to her side. Swift as lighting Kagome began giving orders like a mother tending her sick pup. "Inuyasha, go get wood, Shippo get my first aid kit form my bag, Miroku and Sango, you two make camp, and Kirara, stand guard." No one argued and they quickly set about doing their tasks. Kirara transformed, her senses alert for any danger, Miroku and Sango made camp in record time, Shippo had the fist aid kit in a flash and Inuyasha gathered enough wood to last a day and a half. After having Sango fetch water Kagome gently dampened a cloth and laid it on Ares's creased brow. She moved restlessly, as if plagued by something troublesome. As night wore on the group ate and watched over Ares, finally, Kagome and the others rested, while Inuyasha and Kirara watched over the camp. The blackness of night wrapped around them, embracing them in its protection and its danger. With ill concealed impatience the hanyou and calm neko youkai kept guard, ever alert while the hoot of the hunting owl, cries of the hunting wolves, and other creatures sounded in the distance. It was going to be a long night.

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