InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 25 ( Chapter 26 )

CAUTION: Drool buckets may need to be deployed in order to catch the drool and/or tears of this chapter. Please be forewarned.

 

Koga and Jade enter the cabin, one deep in thought of the day's events, while the other thought about the `Welcome Home' party. Koga hung up his coat on the coat tree near the door as Jade moves toward her refrigerator for something to quench her thirst. "You want a drink?" she asks, as she uses her uninjured arm to open the fridge.

 

As Koga moves toward the relaxing allure of the couch he shrugs, "Sure." Jade nods and tosses him a cold soda. Koga relaxes into the cushions of the couch, when an all too familiar scent reaches his nose. “Inu-kisoku? Why would…is HIS scent… here?” Koga thought as he pondered the scent. He shrugged it off for the moment, thinking that his nose has been playing a cruel trick on him, as Jade eases herself beside him. Leaning back against the soft cushions, wishing that the dull ache in her shoulder would go away, Jade looked toward Koga, an unopened Pepsi in her hand.

 

Jade, noticing Koga's change in mood from deep in thought to tense, cocks an eye brow. "Koga… what's the matter?" she asks, placing her drink on the table near the couch, turning her body, to look deeper into Koga's cerulean eyes, trying to figure out what was bothering him.

 

Koga bites back a scowl as he replies, "Uh… nothing." He turned away from her, hiding the ebbing fury as he continued to inhale the mutt's stench.

 

Jade smiled, as she tries to find another comfortable position on the lumpy couch, "Good." Koga shrugs, still deep in thought about the cur's disgusting odor as it wafts from the cushions.

 

Jade sighs with contentment at having found the perfect spot on the couch as she smiles at Koga sweetly. "Koga, would you mind getting me some ice? My arm and shoulder are starting to ache again," she asks of her beloved, batting her watery blue eyes at him as she pulls her lower lip into the perfect pout, making it a little hard for him to resist.

 

Koga rolls his eyes as a sly smile crossed his lips. He hoped up and gets the ice tray. Once again, that all too familiar scent reaches his nose. “What the hell? Inu-kisoku's scent is everywhere?!” Koga growls, but not loud enough for Jade to hear as he gave the plastic ice tray a slight twist to drop the ice into a bag.

 

As he grabbed the bowl of ice and dumped them on her lap, Jade jumped up off the couch in shock and surprise as the cold wet ice hit her tanned legs. "Ah! Koga…, what the hell… is wrong with you?!" she screamed, tossing all the ice onto the floor, scattering it every where.

 

Koga growled and whips around to face Jade. "You know," he grounds out as he points an accusing finger at her.

 

Jade cocks a brow, crossing her arms as best she can across her chest, "I do?"

 

Koga growls even louder. “Is she really that… dim-witted?” he thought for a moment. Then he saw the genuine look of confusion cross her gorgeous face. “Might as well let it go for now,” he thought, as he just smirks at her. "Oh, nothing except the fact that you haven't kissed me tonight,” Koga replied, with a fake hurt look on his handsome face as the hurt worked its way into his voice.

 

Jade chuckled and leaned in close, wrapping her arms carefully around his neck and back, "Well… we'll have to fix that now, won't we?"

 

Koga's smirk grows wider as Jade lips meet his in a heated kiss. Koga taking extra care to work around her left arm and shoulder as he maneuvers his love back toward the couch. Once Jade was placed on the couch, he slowly straddled her hips easing a little of his weight onto her lap and the rest on his legs. With her lips locked to Koga's, tasting the musky flavor of his lips, Jade eased her arms to his shirt, tugging at it to release it from his belted jeans. Seeing that she was about to succeeded in ripping it off him, Koga broke the lip lock, leaning back a bit to remove his shirt over his head, tossing it casually behind him onto the floor, revealing his incredibly tanned and tone body.

 

Koga let Jade marvel for a little longer, before brining his lips down to hers again, casually working his deft fingers on the buttons of her shirt. Button by excruciating button the shirt revealed more and more of her equally tanned and toned, albeit slightly bruised chest and strapless white bra. Minding her broken arm, and wounded shoulder, Koga eased the shirt from her frame as she moved toward him, helping to get her shirt off. Jade returns his gentle, yet eager kiss with fervor as she runs her hand down his VERY toned chest.

 

Koga smirked, with one fang protruding from his bottom lip, as he bends down carefully and nibbles gently on Jade's earlobe. Jade giggles a bit, before she plants small, usually meaningless, but in this case not, kisses along the side of the wolf-demon's neck.

Koga groans, ready to stop with the supposed foreplay, and get on with the real festivities of the night.

 

With an almost animalistic growl, Koga attacks Jade's lips once again, and Jade practically melts under his touch. Koga moved his hands from Jade's body to the buckle of his belt, and begins to unbuckle his belt, when Jade pulls away from his lips. "Wait.... not here,” she says huskily, as her eyes wander up the stairs to her bedroom above. Koga nods, thinking the same thing.

 

After regaining his footing, Koga reaches down to gather her in his arms, picking her up bridal-style with her good shoulder to his chest. Jade yelps in surprise and delight. Careful as not to further injure his precious cargo, Koga moves with grace and speed up the flight of stairs, toward the lofty bedroom of his love, and his desired continuation of the events from the living room. He moves her toward the bed, oblivious to the mussed up blankets and sheets, or the squawks of the rousted cats as he sets her down on the bed gently, near the middle.

 

Once again, resuming their position, as well as actions from the couch, using his sharp claws, Koga swiped the button off her shorts. While paying heed to the rest of her body with his mouth, Koga used his other hand, to slowly slide her shorts from her waist, down her hips.

 

Jade bites her lips in anticipation. “How many times, in the past three months, since his last visit, had she dreamed of this moment? Ten… Twenty… Thirty…” Hell, right now she didn't care; much less remember the actual number.

 

"Koga....." Jade purred, as Koga started to nuzzle her neck, enjoying being this close to his beloved.

 

Jade basked in this pleasure and attention, when suddenly Koga's eyes snapped open. “What in flying hell? Inu- kisoku 's… scent… HERE too?!” he thought, as his eyes bled red with anger at the audacity of the damned mutt.

 

With a fierce growl, Koga jumped off the bed… off a half naked and thoroughly confused Jade. Rolling onto her right shoulder, with a mixture of emotions crossing her face from shock to disappointment, Jade looked at Koga, seeing a similar play of emotions on his handsome features. "Koga… what's the matter… you've been acting weird all night!" Jade asked, love and concern pouring out of her as she spoke.

 

Koga growled audibly as he pointed a clawed finger at her, accusingly. "You know damn well, what's wrong! Inu-kisoku's scent is ALL over this place! What… the…Hell have you been doing while I was gone?!"

 

Jade sat up with a look of utter horror and shock gracing her features. "Koga, what are you trying to say?" she uttered, barely above a whisper, afraid of the implications that laced Koga's words.

 

"I'm saying that you've been screwing around with that damned mutt behind my back!" Koga snarled.

 

Jade frowned, knowing what was coming next, wishing that she'd never accepted to take the said mutt's abused car into her shop. Moving toward, Koga on hand and knees, Jade tried to explain, "Koga, it's not what you think. Please… let me explain…”

 

"What is there… to explain?! That you… had… a good time? That you… LIED… to me? That you betrayed… every ounce of… trust I had for you?!" he interrupted her, his voice steadily rising with each question until it was nearly a roar of anguish and pain.

 

Jade quickly slid off the bed to stand across from Koga. "Koga… Please, listen to… me!" she pleaded, as she walked towards Koga slowly, taking tentative baby steps, slowly becoming very afraid of her beloved wolf demon.

 

Koga backed up with each step she took towards him. "No! The evidence is here, Jade! You can't cover it up! His scent is on your bed… On YOUR BED!!! What does that tell you?! Huh?!" He roared, shaking the armaments on the walls, causing an eerie rattling sound, as he waved his arm over the even more rumpled bed.

 

Jade felt the back of her eyes sting as she took another timid step towards the raging wolf demon, fear of loosing him surging through every fiber. Reaching out to him, Jade pleaded, "Koga, please...."

 

Koga growled as he retreated, this time down the stairs of the loft, back into the living room. Jade followed him down the stairs, tears threatening to fall from her azure eyes. “Koga, wait… Please… Hear me out!” she cried, the fear of him leaving slowly becoming a reality.

 

"Shut UP!" he bellowed, suddenly throwing everything that was on the coffee table onto the floor, shattering various small figurines and pictures into pieces of broken glass and rubble. Jade watched him in horror as the pain of his actions broke her heart, as the hurt crossed into her eyes. "Koga..." she cried out trying to reach the enraged wolf with her voice.

 

Koga's growls get even louder and soon turn into howls of hurt and betrayal. "I mean… HIS scent is everywhere… on the couch… in the kitchen… on the bed… Hell, he's even on your neck… ON YOUR NECK!! How pray tell do you explain that?" Jade can hardly utter a word before more objects come crashing at her feet.

 

"Damn it Jade! I thought we had something here! Something that wouldn't be tainted by some half-breed mutt! I thought this was love!"

 

Jade lets go of the almost long forgotten tough girl facade as two tears come trailing down her cheeks. "Koga, it is..." she tired to explain, only to be cut off.

 

"No it isn't! You wouldn't have done this, had it been!" he roared, as he grabbed his discarded shirt from the floor, shaking it free of any broken glass.

 

Slowly Jade walked up to Koga as he threw his slightly mangled shirt back on, hoping to somehow stop his rampage, she tentatively reached her hand out toward his shoulder to comfort him… Only to have it smacked away by one of his clawed hands, causing her to bring back her hand and hold it to her chest, rubbing it to ease the pain. "Koga… Please… Just listen to me… for one minute!" she pleaded, torrents of tears trailing down her face.

 

Koga only growled and threw more objects toward her from the book shelf near the door, shattering on the steps, against the wall, and at her feet, causing broken bits of glass and pottery to cut deep into her unprotected legs. Failing to notice the blood seeping down her legs, ignoring the pain that wracked her body, Jade took a tentative step toward Koga, trying in vein to stop the inevitable.

 

"Fuck you!" he said, barely above a whisper, his throat sore from all the yelling, as he threw one more thing at her before storming out of her door… out of her house… and maybe her life… forever.

 

Jade watched as her boyfriend left with glassy eyes, tears running down her face as twin rivers before the pain in her chest, at the loss of her true love, consumed all rational thought. As an incredibly loud sob escapes her suddenly chapped, dried lips as she collapses on the floor, among almost every broke shard of glass and pottery, imbedding them even deeper into her already bleeding legs, oblivious to the physical pain.

 

She released another heart wrenching sob as Jade reached for one thing in particular that the raging wolf demon had thrown. A picture… It was the one of him and her… six months ago… right before her medical discharge. Things were so... much better then. When not on duty, the two were inseparable. He'd made sure that she wanted for nothing, helped her with her physical therapy to get back the use of her ankle, and loved her with all his heart.

 

The tears continuously trail down her cheeks, as she holds the picture close to her chest, causing more glass to cut into her skin, as her shoulders quaked with each sob. Oblivious to the shards of glass cutting into her side as she curls up into the fetal position, holding this picture close to her. She'd never let go to what they had, what they meant to each other. This way, if Koga decided to leave her for good, she'd still have a part of him with her… the part that loved her… the part that didn't think she betrayed him… the part that didn't hate her.