Face bloody and back against a tree, Kouga snarled raggedly, his claws biting into Sesshoumaru’s stony arm as the inu daiyoukai trapped him close–rendering his super-powered legs effectively useless.
“What the fuck,” Kouga seethed, “is your problem?”
As Sesshoumaru’s claws dug deeper, tingeing venom-green, Ginta, Hakakku and Ayame ran forward, one fierce growl from the dog demon lord freezing them all in place. Kouga yelped in pain as the other wolves shrank helplessly back from Sesshoumaru in clear, canine intimidation. Happily immune to this alpha dog effect, Kagome all but tumbled from Entei as the horse youkai set her down close by.
“Sesshoumaru, stop!” she gasped, both her arms wrapping around his bulging, silk-covered bicep. “You’re going to kill him!”
Golden eyes burned viciously into Kouga’s. “Good.”
Desperately, Kagome tried to figure out what was going through his head–a task that was near-impossible for her even when she wasn’t in a state of absolute panic. “He–you think he took advantage of me while I was his captive, is that it…?”
“…What?!” Kouga rasped, his frantic blue eyes narrowing in outrage. “Hell no!”
Kagome nodded eagerly. “He’s right, Sesshoumaru–he never did anything like that! Kouga’s not a rapist,” she said, her expression flattening as she felt Sesshoumaru’s hold ease slightly. “…He’s just an idiot.”
“Wolf,” the inu daiyoukai demanded icily, “you never forced yourself upon the girl?”
“Fuck no!” Kouga snapped, wheezing as the pressure at his throat finally let up enough for him to speak more than two words at a time. “…I’d never ‘force’ Kagome-chan–or any other woman for that matter!”
Kouga sagged against the tree as Sesshoumaru dropped him in distaste, a shared sigh of relief rising up from the gathered crowd. The daiyoukai’s claws cracked as he continued to glare down at the wolf prince, who choked and spluttered angrily while massaging his bruised throat. Releasing her hold on Sesshoumaru’s arm, Kagome went at once to Kouga’s side, Ayame rushing forward to take up the other.
“Kouga-kun!” the miko cried. “Are you all right?”
“Fine…” the wolf demon breathed, staring balefully at Sesshoumaru. “You’re a hell of a lot stronger than you look…”
Dismissing him with a frosty glance, Sesshoumaru turned to Kagome. “Are you certain he never touched you?”
“Nope, no inappropriate physical contact whatsoever,” the miko affirmed, raising her hands palm-first. “Kouga-kun was a perfect gentleman during the whole kidnapping ordeal.” At the wolf youkai’s carefully averted gaze, she blanched. “…Right?”
At his other side, Ayame stilled as well, both women leveling their full, pointed attention upon the evasive wolf prince.
“Well,” he muttered, looking askance, “those strange clothes you used to wear were rather revealing, Kagome-chan…”
A vein throbbed in Kagome’s temple. “Are you…are you saying that you looked up my skirt?!”
“…I’m not proud of it,” the wolf prince grumbled defensively.
“Pervert!” Kagome and Ayame both yelled, clocking him simultaneously as Sesshoumaru’s aura darkened once again.
“Wolves–so low-bred,” Jakken remarked with a shake of his head, Ginta and Hakkuku clocking him as well.
It was in this state of all-around tension and barely-contained hostility that the nine of them continued on to the wolf youkai camp at the base of the mountain. Slung grouchily across the shoulders of his pack mates, Kouga coughed and glared intermittently over at the inu daiyoukai, who was still radiating violence. About every couple of seconds, Kagome glanced over at him as well, half-scared and half-excited by his dark temper, pushing aside her stark misgivings about her mental state as she anticipated the possibility of him venting those frustrations out on her once again. Ayame, on the other hand, seemed to be dividing her time between glaring daggers at her fiancé and his “other woman” as if she were the source of all problems–which, Kagome supposed, was technically true.
Ugh, I’m so sick of technicalities, she groaned to herself, noting without surprise that Jakken was glowering at everyone except his precious lord–whom he was cleverly avoiding by sitting practically on Ah-Un’s tail, at what Kagome suspected was the outermost radius of the kill zone.
It was nearly sunset by the time their ragtag group trudged into the campsite: a smattering of hide tents and fire pits, with two-legged and four-legged wolves lounging about. Entei gave a low, disgruntled whinny as they approached–clearly, he was not a fan of wolf-kind. Kagome couldn’t say they ranked particularly high on her list at the moment, either.
Slipping down gracelessly from the horse youkai’s simmering back, she quickly found herself revising that opinion as a pure white wolf of the four-legged variety promptly turned her heart to mush. Shaggy-furred and clearly ancient, the old canine was sitting up on his haunches at perfect doggy attention, his expression so adorably grave that Kagome hurried over to him at once.
“Hey, there!” she gushed, dropping down and ruffling his chipped, fuzzy ears. “How sweet are you! Aww…you have such cute little whiskers!”
“Hello,” the wolf said gruffly in reply, his heavy brow drooping further.
“KYAAH!” Kagome exclaimed, pitching back onto her rump as a furious blush stole over her cheeks. “I–I’m so sorry. I didn’t realize you could talk…”
Distantly, she thought she heard Sesshoumaru sigh.
Stepping between her and the aged wolf, Ayame stared down at Kagome with her arms crossed in indignation.
“That’s my gramps you’re petting, human!”
Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
Woohoo, part 50!! (celebrates) 😀
Oh kagome.. you so naughty! Wanting Sesshomaru to release some of that darkness on you… Hmm.. oops my mind wandered a little bit haha. Hopefully in the next chapter,of we can live that darkness bout *wiggles eyebrows** OMG.. . I feel that I have become a female version of Miroku. The ending was too precious with her petting Ayame’s grandpa..
ha ha…yeah. kagome calling KOUGA a pervert comes off as kinda rich after that hehe 🙂
let’s be female versions of Miroku together! <3 so glad you liked the ending with Ayame's gramps..! 😀
Excuse my typos. I am typing on my phone and I surely did not proofread. Plus my phone has a mind of its own with the autocorrect!
lol no worries! autocorrect really does what it wants sometimes! haha
What an embarrassing moment…again. But who can blame her, surely if I were on her feet I’ll do the same thing, I can’t help myself whenever I see an adorable dog😁. And Sesshoumaru sighing in the background was really funny😁, Kagome you’re a pervert geez… anticipating Sesshoumaru’s furious – lustful delicious wrath! Don’t worry, we’re also anticipating that to happen .
Thank you for the update!
lol i KNOW…cute dogs are irresistible! 🙂 and yeah, Kagome’s a perv…it’s a fact at this point hahaha
so glad you enjoyed the update!! thanks for sharing <3