InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ True Love ❯ I Love You, I Love You Not ( Chapter 20 )

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Chapter 20: I Love You, I Love You Not

Shippo sat on Kagome's shoulder as she walked down the path towards the well. Suddenly, they came to a clearing filled with colorful butterflies. They floated from flower to flower, each more beautiful than the last. Shippo's lips formed a perfect O as he stared in awe at them. A giggle slipped out as one butterfly came over to him and landed on his nose. His eyes crossed to look at it. It's wings fluttered before it took off back to the others.

"Oh, Mama! Look! Look! Aren't they pretty?" Shippo jumped down from Kagome's shoulder for a closer look.

Kagome looked around. Even after being in the Feudal Era for so long, she still couldn't believe how beautiful and peaceful things could be here. She sighed happily as Shippo ran around in circles, trying to catch one.

"Careful Shippo, you wouldn't want to hurt them would you?"

Shippo froze right before his hand closed around a bright blue butterfly. "How could I hurt them, Mama?"

Kagome reached out her arms and Shippo jumped back up to her. "Well, you see, you could really hurt a butterfly by touching their wings."

Shippo looked back at the clearing. "Oh, I'm sorry."

Kagome smiled. "You didn't do anything wrong Shippo."

"Some things are more beautiful to look at than to touch." Sango stated as she slowed down to walk beside her "sister" and "nephew". Miroku and Inuyasha walked up ahead as usual, one ear trained on their mates and the other trained on the forest around them.

It was just as they were walking up to the clearing with the well that Kagome, Sango, and Miroku suddenly gagged.

"Ugg! What is that smell?" Sango asked as she scrunched her nose. Miroku just waved a hand in front of his face.

Kagome covered her nose with her sleeve. "I don't know. Whatever it is it is really gross." Kagome sniffed slightly. "It kinda smells like…" Kagome looked at Inuyasha. "Wet dog."

Inuyasha looked at her offended. "What? You think that's me?"

Kagome shook her head. "No, your smell is very, very pleasant. This, this makes me want to throw up."

Suddenly, a whirlwind came down the path. Sango and Miroku were knocked away from Kagome. They stood and growled at Koga as they brushed themselves off. Koga, meanwhile, was staring at Kagome in shock.

Kagome looked at Koga. "Ewwwwww! It's him! He smells."

"I knew you smelled different but I never expected this! Just imagine, my woman has changed herself from a lowly human into a hanyou. Still lowly but a step in the right direction." Koga gushed not noticing the vein pulsing in everyone's foreheads and ignoring what Kagome had said.

"Lowly human? LOWLY HUMAN!" Kagome screamed. "If that's how you think of it then I WANT to be a human."

Kagome felt the change overcome her. Her ears began to shrink and slide to the sides of her head, her fangs and claws became those of a human, and her eyes returned to their normal blue. Those blue eyes were currently narrowed in anger.

Koga stepped back from the power starting to flow from Kagome. "What's gotten into you, Kagome?"

Kagome sniffed at him through her sleeve and walked over to Inuyasha. Throughout this whole thing Inuyasha had been laughing his ass off. He could feel her anger and disgust through their link. As soon as she reached him she breathed in deeply. Her arms wrapped around Inuyasha's waist as she sighed.

"At least now I can breathe."

Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango burst out laughing at the shock on Koga's face. "Kagome! What are you doing? Get your hands off my…" Koga suddenly stopped. His eyes betrayed his confusion. "What do you mean `at least now I can breathe'?" Koga tried and failed miserably at imitating Kagome's voice.

"You stink, Koga! It quite literally takes my breath away, and not the good way either."

"But you're my mate! You have to like my scent!"

"Ugg! You think I would like the smell of wet dog, dirt, and sweat. Yeah right!"

Koga's face went bright red. "Wet… dog? DOG! I think you are thinking of the dog turd over there." Koga pointed at Inuyasha.

*WHAM*

Sango's boomerang smacked into the back of Koga's skull. Miroku winced, knowing how painful that was.

"Excuuuuuuse me?" Sango asked, peeved. "And what is so wrong with being a dog?" By this time Kagome had turned herself back into her hanyou self. Sango and her stood, twitching their ears in frustration.

"I am a DOG, bonehead!" Kagome screamed. "Besides, dogs are better than wolves."

Koga stepped back. "Wha…" (O.O)

Inuyasha stepped up. "Koga, give it up. You have no chance of winning this battle."

Koga looked at Inuyasha. "What did you do to them? My woman would never act like this, at least not to me!"

"I didn't do anything wrong, wimpy wolf!"

Koga crouched and cracked his knuckles. "Heh! Can't keep your bitch alive so you're trying to take mine huh?"

Kagome's face turned bright red while Inuyasha's face paled. "DON'T… YOU… EVER… TALK… TO… MY…MATE… LIKE… THAT!" Kagome's hair swirled around as if on a breeze and her eyes now had a slight red tinge to them. Everyone backed up from her except Inuyasha, who placed a hand on her arm.

Inuyasha was looking at Kagome, but he spoke to Koga. "Koga, take a look at Kagome, take in her smell; what do they tell you?"

Koga crept closer to Kagome, who growled at him. The wind blew some of the hair of her shoulders, revealing her mating mark. Inuyasha had brushed his hair out of the way and revealed his own mating mark. Koga gasped, causing him to inhale Kagome's scent invade his nose sharply.

Koga looked at Kagome who stood purring in Inuyasha's arms. His head turned over to Miroku and Sango. They were standing together just like their friends. "You… you're all mated!" His head lowered. "I don't get it. She could've had me and she wanted you."

Kagome's mind suddenly cleared. She looked over at Koga who looked really depressed. She sighed. "I'm sorry Koga, I can't help how I feel. I do love you" Inuyasha growled and tightened his grip on her. She patted his arm and sent out a strong wave of love through their link. "but I am not IN love with you. Even before you kidnapped me my heart belonged to Inuyasha."

Koga looked up at Kagome. "I don't understand. If you didn't love me why did you say you were my woman?"

"Koga, I never said that and you know it. YOU were the one who kept saying I was your woman, I would always deny it."

Koga nodded slowly. "Just so you know, I will always love you." He whispered.

"Don't! Koga there is someone who loves you, and I can tell you really do care for her."

"Ayame" Koga breathed.

Kagome nodded. "Go to her. You'll see that she is better for you than I am."

Her words fell onto the wind as Koga ran off. Shippo popped up from behind a rock and jumped up onto Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Jeez, Mama! What got into you? I mean, you've never been so angry before! Auntie too. Sure she's been angry before but not over anything like that."

Sango and Kagome looked at each other and shrugged. "Who knows." They had been walking again and now were sitting on the edge of the well.

"Ummm… I know." Inuyasha said quietly, unsure of how this news would go over.

Miroku looked over at him. "Weeeeellllllll…"

Inuyasha shrugged and right before he jumped into the well he said. "They're both with pup!"