InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Under Shooting Stars ❯ Under Shooting Stars - Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Under Shooting Stars

 

By: blackwidow10

 

Chapter 3

 

 

“Koga?!”

 

“What are you doing here?” Kagome asked in wonder.

 

The wolf demon prince grinned and walked over to Kagome, taking her hands in his and leaning in close to her.

 

“I cam to see you Kagome. It's been so long since we last met. I had to make sure that mutt is taking good care of my woman.”

 

“InuYasha always takes care of me.” Kagome said, blushing. The mention of the hanyou dog had once again brought that kiss to the forefront of her mind. As a result, she didn't quite hear what Koga said next, but the mention of the word “wife” sure jolted her out of her daydream.

 

“I'm sorry, what?” Kagome asked, taking in the stunned faces of Miroku and Sango, who were standing off to the side.

 

Koga, obviously having taken her question as one of disbelief, squeezed her hands tighter and said, “I want you to be my wife. Marry me, Kagome.” Koga's eyes were dark and serious as the bore into Kagome's wide ones.

 

Kagome thought that maybe she had heard wrong, but knew it wasn't possible. Was Koga for real? Kagome was stunned into silence, and the clearing was completely quiet for a few moments.

 

“Uh…” Kagome finally managed. “I don't…”

 

“Not right now, of course. After I kill Naraku, we can be together.” Koga clarified, still staring deep into Kagome's eyes. “I just want to hear you say yes.” He pulled her into his arms, so that her gobsmacked face was pressed into his chest.

 

And it was just at this moment that a very angry half demon appeared from out of the forest. Actually, angry is an understatement.

 

InuYasha was furious.

 

In little under a second, InuYasha had pulled Kagome out of Koga's clutches, stepped in front of her, and shoved the wolf youkai so hard that he was forced back to the tree line.

 

“What the hell do you think you're doing, you mangy wolf?! Keep your hands off Kagome!” InuYasha's voice rang out across the clearing, and sending birds flying from the trees into the air and away from the startling noise.

 

Koga scoffed. “You're in no position to be telling me what to do, puppy. Now get out of my way.” He moved forward again, but InuYasha growled and held his ground, one arm thrust out to protect Kagome, the other gripping the Tetsusaiga.

 

“Not a chance. And remember, wolf, Kagome isn't `your woman.' She doesn't belong to anybody.”

 

Koga, sensing a momentary defeat, turned his back on InuYasha, and started off, but not without a parting shot.

 

“'Anybody' includes you, mutt face. Kagome isn't yours either.” With that, Koga was gone in another of his trademark whirlwinds. InuYasha stared at the spot he had disappeared from, the truth of those words adding hurt to the anger still flooding his veins.

 

“Inu…Yasha?” Kagome said hesitantly.

 

Sango and Miroku watched as InuYasha turned to look at Kagome briefly, an unreadable expression on his face, before he bounded back into the forest, Kagome calling after him.

 

“This isn't good.” Sango murmured worriedly, watching Kagome stare sadly at the trees for a moment before slowly starting to make her way into them, trying to find InuYasha.

 

“No, it's not.” Miroku agreed, as the last shock of Kagome's short green skirt whipped out of sight.

 

~O~O~O~

 

Kagome, deep in the woods by now, looked all around her at the unfamiliar territory. Hardly any light was seeping through the dense canopy of trees, and there were branches and tangles of bushes everywhere that kept reaching out to her, snagging her clothes and scratching her arms and legs. She had one nasty cut across her hand from a particularly vicious thorn bush, she had forgotten her bow and arrows back at the camp in her hurry to find InuYasha, and worse still…

 

She was lost, with absolutely no way of retracing her steps back to the others, frantic as she was.

 

Kagome groaned and finally stopped moving, staring hard through the trees for any sign of life besides the greedy clothes-snagging plants. “InuYasha,” she whispered, looking hopelessly around at her unfriendly surroundings. “I really wish you were here.”

 

She sighed and decided to rest for a moment. Carefully clearing off a spot by a nearby tree, she sat with her back to it, and let herself fall into her thoughts.

 

Where was InuYasha? The look in his eyes when he had left… he had looked almost… lost, lonely even. And hurt. Kagome hadn't missed that pain in his eyes, and she realized that maybe his feelings for her went deeper than she had first thought. Had she been mistaken, all this time, when accusing him of still holding Kikyo in his heart?

 

Kagome knew that InuYasha still felt something for the dead miko, but she was beginning to doubt more and more that it was love, especially after that night under shooting stars.

 

Kagome smiled, then frowned again. The whole reason she had been looking for InuYasha in the first place was to talk about that.

 

Koga sure had amazingly bad timing.

 

Somewhere off to her right, a branch snapped, and the sound echoed through the forest like a gunshot. Kagome was on her feet in seconds, frantically searching for any means of protection from whatever was coming her way. The best she could find was a large branch, which she held up like a baseball bat, knowing that if a youkai were to appear in the trees, it would be nothing more than a useless twig.

 

Another branch snapped, closer this time, and Kagome took a few quick steps backward, nearly tripping on a tree root in her haste, the fear chorusing feverishly through her veins.

 

There was a flash of something red that burst through the trees in front of her at incredible speed before Kagome closed her eyes, branch forgotten, and started fighting whatever it was that had just grabbed her.