InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 21 ( Chapter 22 )

As the doctor spoke with Ginta and Hakkaku, and Jade dressed with the help of Sango, Koga pulled the new Ford Ranger extended cab pickup into the Taisho driveway, his knuckles white on the wheel. “I can't believe that I'm even here,” he thought angrily. “I'd rather be with Jade when she woke up, but I have to do this. He's not screwing this up like he did the last time.” Koga parked the truck, looking up at the mansion with as much disdain as he could muster. It had been quite a few years since the last time he had been here.

 

Slowly, he got out of the truck, thinking back to the last encounter he'd had with Inuyasha. “It's been almost six years since I had to `explain' things to him. You would have thought that he'd have my scent implanted in his brain after the beating he took the last time.” Koga cracked his knuckles in remembrance of the last encounter all those years ago.

 

Flashback- 6 years, Graduation Day from Shikon Academy

 

Koga, wearing the green cap and gown of the Shikon Academy graduating class advanced toward his white dressed counterpart, Ayame Florosa. Her vibrant red tresses hung in twin pigtails with her ever present pale purple iris adorning the left one. In the white of the cap and gown, she looked almost as perfect as a goddess, to the wolf demon.

 

“God, how ever did I get so lucky for her to say `yes' when I asked her to go out with me?” Koga thought as he fought his way through the crowd toward his girl friend. He failed to notice however, with whom she had been speaking with while awaiting his arrival.

 

As Koga reached out to take her shoulder, another, clad in matching green crossed her shoulders, pulling her into a loving embrace, oblivious to his advancement. Koga stood wide-eyes as he saw the silver tresses of Inuyasha flow down Ayame's shoulder. When his amber eyes locked onto Koga's azure ones a smirk crossed Inuyasha's face, much to the shock and anger of Koga.

 

“Well… well… Look who finally showed up. I thought that you were off with one of the other cheerleaders, jock, under the bleachers perhaps,” he said, pulling Ayame into his chest even further as she quaked against his strong frame obviously distraught over something.

 

Koga growled deeply in his chest as he closed the distance between himself and the arrogant dog demon. “Take your paws off my Girl!” he growled as he put his hand on her shoulder, pulling Ayame forcefully from Inuyasha. She squawked a bit as she was pulled roughly into Koga's rock hard chest.

 

“What, the mangy wolf is mad?” Inuyasha taunted, his eyes blazing with fire as he stared down the blue eyed demon, opening his green clad arms wide in a `bring it on' motion. Koga shot forward, pushing the bewildered Ayame between himself and Inuyasha as he roared at the mutt.

 

Suddenly, a hand, as if made by steel, clamped onto his shoulder from behind, holding him in place, as a cold, emotionless voice sounded, “Let's do this at a different place and time, boys. This is neither the place nor time for you to settle this. It is to be a happy occasion, where others besides yourselves are looking forward to graduating. Settle this after the ceremony.”

 

Inuyasha looked over Koga's shoulder at his elder brother, noticing the red tint in his eyes at having to break up the inevitable fight. Moving his eyes back toward Koga, Inuyasha replied, “He's right, flea bag. We're here to graduate. Let's pick this up later when there are a lot less people to witness the ass beating that you're about to receive.”

 

Shaking off Sesshomaru's hand from his shoulder, Koga glared daggers at Inuyasha as he countered, “Name the place and time, mutt face and I'll be more than happy to oblige your death wish.”

 

Once the place and time was set, the trio of graduates took their place on the podium awaiting their little pieces of parchment known as their diplomas. Once the last diploma was handed out and the final words of encouragement were given the graduating class of Shikon Academy all stood in one huge mass of bodies, human, demon and hanyou alike, throwing their caps into the air, swinging their respective girlfriends, if they had one, in the air before rushing off to the after graduation parties.

 

An hour after the ceremony ended, Koga drove to the Taisho residence in his beat up old rusted blue and white Bronco, looking completely out of place parked on the concrete paved driveway and manicured lawns. Dressed in a black tee shirt and faded blue jeans, Koga eased out of the driver's side of his Bronco and advanced toward the little group that had gathered near the far side of the lawn. He recognized a few of the group, Miroku Jurista, Shippo Zorro, Sesshomaru, Muso Arcilla- Perraton, Seikai Monje and Onigumo Demonioarana. Heads turned toward Koga as he approached, a few had smiles on their faces, while the others just glared at the wolf demon.

 

“About time you showed yourself, mangy wolf,” Inuyasha sneered. “We thought that you wouldn't show, considering the yellow stripe that runs down your back.” The others of the group laughed, while Sesshomaru remained stoic as ever. The only reason he was even present was in case paramedics needed to be called, he would be able to cover up what happened before his parents found out. Self preservation was essential to him, considering his rash, loose cannon of a half brother.

 

Koga glared at the mutt, cracking his knuckles as he commented, “How would you know about my yellow strip, mutt? Have you been ogling my fine physique after gym and had wet dreams about it?”

 

Inuyasha growled then lunged at the wolf as the implications swirled around in his mind, blocking out all sensible thought. Anticipating the move, Koga sidestepped the attack, brining his knee into the mutt's groin, dropping him to the ground in a pile of writhing flesh. As the body of the mutt fell, Koga brought his knee up once more, breaking the sensitive nose of Inuyasha, flooding his senses with his own blood. Inuyasha screamed in pain as his nose was broke, forgetting the throbbing ache of his crotch, he bolted off the ground, tackling Koga to the ground as his teeth sunk into the thick muscle of his shoulder as a pit bull, refusing to let go. Koga grunted as they landed hard onto the ground, being pinned under the weight of Inuyasha who was viciously attacking his shoulder. Using the strength of his muscular legs, Koga knocked Inuyasha loose from his body and shoulder, throwing him a few feet into the dirt. Both males quickly regained their footing and clashed together again, fists flying, blood going in every direction as the slug fest continued, being egged on by the group of spectators.

 

As evenly matched as they were, despite one being only half demon and the other full, the fight continued well over an hour before Koga saw a minuscule opening. Taking it, he feigned left, drawing Inuyasha into the perfect follow up of a right cross, straight into his jaw. Inuyasha dropped like a sack of Idaho russets on the now trampled and blood covered ground. Koga leaned over the hanyou as he said between labored breaths, “Take this… as a lesson… leave what's mine… alone… If I ever see… you sniffing around… my girlfriend again… you'll be lucky… to be alive.” Slowly he staggered back to his Bronco, refusing the assistance of either Shippo or Miroku, whom he had considered to be his friends.

 

End flashback

 

“That was over Ayame, the whore,” Koga thought as he got out of his brother's truck. “Not even two days later, while I was nursing my wounds that he gave me, she came into my room, smelling of sweat and sex from that damned mutt. I threw her out on her ear, and went into the Army right afterwards. I should find her and thank her for that, for if I hadn't been in the Army, I doubt that I ever would have known about Jade.”

 

Koga moved with a purpose toward the huge mahogany doors as he thought about his beloved Jade in the hospital bed, covered in that mutt's stench. His blood boiling, Koga knocked on the door, harder than was necessary to get the attention of some one in the house. Suddenly the door opened and Koga stared into the brown, red rimmed eyes of Kagura. “What the hell do you want, wolf?” she spat out, leaning on the door, glaring at Koga.

 

“Hello to you too, bitch, I'm here to see the dumb ass, Inuyasha. Is he here?” Koga replied, biting out each word at the wench whom was his distant cousin by marriage.

 

Moving away from the door to allow Koga entrance, Kagura replied, coldly, “Hell, if I know. His bro took out of here like a bat out of hell a while back.” Kagura moved toward the stack of suitcases at the foot of the stairs, grabbing a couple as she made her way up the elaborate stair case.

 

“I see that you're out on your ear again,” Koga smirked, seeing the dagger filled glares Kagura through at him as she moved farther into the mansion, leaving him to his own devises.

 

Koga looked around the foyer, noticing the multitude of gilded mirrors, marble statues of the lord of the manor and his off spring. As he admired a rather interesting crack in the tiled floor, Inuyasha appeared from the hallway that led from the kitchen.

 

Spotting the wolf, Inuyasha growled, “What do you want?” drawing Koga's attention to his person.

 

“I came to tell you to stay away from Jade,” Koga growled in response, the hackles at the back of his neck raised.

 

Inuyasha twisted his lips into a sneer as he replied, “She deserves better than you, flea bag. You're beneath her in social status and you know it. How you're family ever managed to get you into Shikon Academy is a miracle.”

 

Koga moved as lightning to stand nose to nose with Inuyasha as he countered, his voice full of rage, “How dare you throw that in my face, mutt. If it hadn't been for your family obliterating what little wealth my parents had, forcing them to sell their shop for a fraction of the actual value, we'd be on even status and you know it.” He stopped a second, as a thought crossed his mind. Moving back, crossing his arms with a smirk of his own on his face, Koga replied, “Well at least I'm a full blooded demon, where as you're just half. You'll never be better than me. I at least made something of myself, where as you're still tapping that money tit of mommy and daddy dearest.”

 

Inuyasha lunged at Koga, who quickly side stepped the attack, allowing the enraged hanyou to slide across the floor, toward the large front doors. “I'm not here to fight, although I'll be happy to give you a repeat of the last fight we had,” Koga commented as he cracked his knuckles. “But I have a date to get to and I'm sure that she'll be glad to see me.”

 

Koga moved past a glowering Inuyasha as he exited the house. Before shutting the door behind him, Koga looked back at Inuyasha as he emitted a low, barely audible growl, “Heed my words mutt. Leave Jade alone or you'll be in that hospital in ICU with only hours to live, if I don't outright kill you on sight. You screwed up my last relation ship because you always wanted what I had. You won't get Jade, ever.” With his words sounding in Inuyasha's ears, Koga turned and slammed the door shut behind him, leaving a completely shocked Inuyasha staring at the door, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

 

“Did he… Did he… just threaten…me?” Inuyasha thought, staring at the mahogany doors as if they would tell him the answer to his question. Footsteps on the creaking stairs drew him from his thoughts as Kagura returned to the foyer with bursting at the seams suitcases with her belongings.

 

“Sounds like you two knew each other,” Kagura commented as she deposited the loaded luggage at the foot of the stairs.

 

Inuyasha turned toward the wind witch, a questioning look in his eyes as he took notice of the suitcases. “Where are you going? I thought that the wedding was in two weeks?” he asked, not really caring about the witch or his annoying brother.

 

“I guess he never found you. The bastard kicked me out over that whole Kagome thing from a few years back. Apparently he didn't find the truth as amusing as I did,” Kagura replied coldly gathering up the now fully loaded suitcases and headed toward the front entrance, and her waiting car. “Would you be so kind and open the door for me?” she asked, knowing that he probably would tell her to jump in the lake.

 

Surprised at the sudden turn of events, Inuyasha opened the huge front doors for Kagura as she left his home. As she carried the luggage down the stairs, a glint on metal from the stoop caught his attention. Carefully, Inuyasha picked up the broken necklace and the engagement ring. Kagura saw the ring and anger filled her as she focused on the girl responsible for her eviction from the luxury that she'd grown to love as her own. Inuyasha placed the necklace and ring into his hand and turned, closing the door behind him, leaving Kagura on her own, with no place to go.