A Love That Transcends Time: Book I

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~*~Chapter 11—The Love Triangle Comes To An End~*~

“What are you doing here, Kouga? And can you please turounround so that Kagome-chan and I could get dressed?” Sango asked irritably as both she and Kagome hid behind a big rock to cover their nakedness.

“Relax, taijiya. I was just passing by when the smell of my woman caught my attention. It was not my intention to come upon you bathing, but what a lovely surprise, ne?” Kouga said suavely.

“Leave now, Kouga-ku—I mean, Kouga. Before Inuyasha learns that you’re here,” Kagome asked him, not wanting an encounter between the two.

“Oh yes! I almost forgot about dog-turd. Well, isn’t this just my luck; my beautiful woman bathing and the ugly monster nowhere near her,” Kouga exclaimed as he put his hands on his hips.

“I do believe you should dress, Kagome. I wouldn’t want you getting cold from the journey from here to my caves,” he ordered Kagome.

“You’re not taking her anywhere! She doesn’t belong to you, Kouga. Why can’t you accept that?” Sango, who was now fully dressed in her taijiya outfit, held out Kagome’s clothes to her while readying the hiraikotsu if Kouga tries something.

‘I don’t want to fight him, but I can’t just let him take Kagome-chan. Inuyasha would have my head,’

Kouga smirked at Sango, showing his fangs.

“Come on, Sango. You know as well as I do that you can’t stop me. Before you can even throw that thing at me, I’m already dodging it and heading for my woman. So why don’t you just let me take what’s mine so we both won’t get hurt,”

“I may not stop you completely, but at least I’m not going down without a fight! And besides, it would only be a couple more minutes before they notice we’re late getting back—and Inuyasha comes running,” the taijiya told the wolf prince, in an attempt to scare him.

The wolf prince guffawed in his amusement, noticing the demon exterminator is completely determined to keep him from Kagome. Before she could even blink or react, he sped by her, winking at her before scooping Kagome up into his arms and dashing away.

Luckily, Kagome was already dressed…

“Kagome-chan!” Sango shouted in panic as she threw the hiraikotsu to prevent Kouga from leaving. The wolf prince, with the help of the two Shikon shards on his leg, easily avoided the big boomerang and smiled back at Sango.

“I told you you can’t stop me,” he said in a sing-song tone of voice, obviously wanting the demon exterminator to get riled.

But before Sango could launch back a rebuttalthrothrow the hiraikotsu once again, another voice interrupted them.

“She can’t, but I sure as fucking hell can,” The amber eyes of Inuyasha glowed furiously as he took in the scene before him.

~Flashback~

“What!? Are you crazy? You marked Kagome-sama—you made her your wife, for Kami-sama’s sake!—just to leave her behind and go to hell with your ex!?” Miroku exploded, now losing his patience with Inuyasha.

Both the elder miko and the kitsune were astonished to hear the houshi lose his temper. He was a VERY patient man, but it seems Inuyasha pushed him far enough.

“Keh! Yeah, so what’s it to you? It’s none of your Goddamned business, you know,” Inuyasha said sullenly.

The houshi stunned even the hanyou, as he gripped him in front of his shirt and almost managed to lift him off the ground.

“Never tell me it isn’t my Goddamned business—gomen, Kami-sama—as you so eloquently put it, because it is! You’re both my friends, dammit! And I care for you—so does Sango and everyone else in here. Kagome-sama is the sister I never had, so don’t you dare say we don’t have the right to say anything in the matter, you poor excuse for a low-life!” Miroku exclaimed angrily.

Inuyasha bared his fangs and snapped at Miroku, nearly breaking off the houshi’s fingers as he pried himself loose from the houshi’s grasp. He almost sent the monk flying back if it weren’t for Kaede and Shippo acting as referees.

“Houshi-sama! Inuyasha! Stop it right now,” Kaede ordered them in a near shout. Both men came to their senses and stopped the fighting, muttering apologies.

“Nothing will be resolved by arguing. We must be calm about this. Well, Inuyasha? Were you completely sane when you marked Kagome?” Kaede acted as the mediator.

“Of course yes! What do you mean sane?! I’m not crazy you know,” Inuyasha growled.

“Yet!” Shippo mumbled, but lucky for him, Inuyasha heard.

“I heard that, you brat!” The hanyou cried out, and hit the kitsune hard on the head.

“OW!” Shippo yelped as he felt a large lump begin to appear on top of his head.

“What I meant was that, were you intoxicated or perhaps thought of her as another when you marked her?” Ignoring the two kodomos—well, one of them is. And the other acts like one so she calls them kids—asked Inuyasha again reasonably.

“What the fuck!? Do you mean if I got drunk? Hell no! I haven’t had a taste of sake ever since Kagome set me free from the spell—and what’s that shit about me thinking of Kagome as someone else!? Do you mean to say if I thought she was Kikyou!? Fucking hell no! I may be hard-headed, but I’m not stupid! They’re as different from day is to night. Believe me, I know which woman I was holding in my arms when I made love to Kagome—the real one!” Inuyasha now exploded, somewhat hurt that they could think of him as that callous to use Kagome as a substitute.

“ the then, it would be interesting if I got you drunk. Hmm. Perhaps we could try that sometimes. And the fact about knowing the difference? I beg to differ because you are STUPID! And BLIND! You would choose a clay replica over the live-breathing one who loves you!? Oh come on,” Miroku said derisively.

“Would you shut that big mouth of yours!? I wasn’t asking for your opinion, dumbass,” Inuyasha said without real heat.

Kaede cleared her throat before the two came into blows once again.

“So you know what you were doing when you made her your mate. Then answer me this: why choose a life in hell when you could live a life you know would bring you Paradise?”

The hanyou’s shoulders sagged and his eyes misted over at this.

“I want to, you know. With my whole heart and soul, I wish I could stay here with Kagome forever. But I can’t. And she knows it too. She’s the one who made me picture our future together if I turned my back on Kikand and what I saw wasn’t Paradise. It would be like living in purgatory, and I would only drag her down with me. I can’t live my own life in bliss when I know that I’ve ruined someone else’s—and that I had a chance to redeem myself but I turned away from it. I’m not like that,” Inuyasha said sadly.

They were all silent for a moment. Then the monk spoke.

“And you’re a much bigger fool than I expected you to be, But I understand, and since Kagome-sama accepts it with all her heart, I would not hold it against you—as I’m sure Sango will not too. May Kami-sama bless your union and your children,” he stated as he closed his eyes in prayer.

The hanyou made to stand up when the houshi stopped him.

“One last question, Inuyasha. Do you love Kagome-sama?”

He turned around, and the answer was right there in the torment they saw in his eyes.

The monk nodded. “Have you told her then?” Miroku asked.

“No. I tried to, but she won’t let me,” Inuyasha said, a hint of anguish in his voice.

“That is her choice. She doesn’t want to complicate things further and become a burden to you,” Kaede said, in no doubt of the young miko’s reasoning.

Inuyasha nodded slowly. That’s when Kirara came flying down and growled. Shippo ran outside to see what’s it all about, and ran back to Inuyasha saying:

“Hurry, Inuyasha! Sango and Kagome are in trouble! Kouga’s there!” Shippo yelled in his panic.

Inuyasha felt a cold rush of fear seize him and without saying anything, he flew all the way to the hot springs, leaving Miroku and everyone else to ride Kirara’s back and follow him.

~End Flashback~

Now he was here, seeing his bitch in the arms of the wolf prince. Crimson seemed to bleed into his golden eyes, but he fought it back. He stared at Kagome to calm his self.

‘She’s all right. She’s here; she hasn’t left me. And she’s struggling to get out of the bastard’s embrace,’ he repeated this litany over and over in his head.

Then he called out to Kouga, the Tetsusaiga already unsheated.

“Put her down, wimp. The fight’s between you and me. I don’t want my bitch in the middle of it,”

Kagome struggled more forcefully against Kouga as she saw the controlled anger in Inuyasha, especially since his eyes were nearly turning to red. When that didn’t work, she pleaded with Kouga.

“Kouga-kun, onegai. Let me go. He’ll kill you if you don’t,”

The wolf prince also saw what happened to the hanyou’s eyes, and was nervous enough to heed Kagome’s pleas. He set her down beside him, almost touching her to pull her back when Inuyasha’s voice, vibrating with his fury, washed all over them.

“Touch her again and you’re dead,” Inuyasha said menacingly in a deceptively calm voice, his fury underlying his tone.

Kouga stopped dead on his tracks, and Kagome took pity on him. She sighed before running back to her mate.

“Inuyasha, please let me talk to him. I want to make him understand,” Kagome persuaded her hanyou, while burrowing into his embrace.

“Stay out of this, woman. There’s nothing you can to do to make him understand. He deluded his self by thinking you’re his, and that is his mistake,” Inuyasha said firmly while holding her tight against him.

The moment Kouga saw Kagome run into Inuyasha’s arms, the whole tableau unfolded. Only in the wolf prince’s stubborn mind, the union was forced. He could now smell the Inu-kuro’s scent mingled with his sweet Kagome’s and saw the bright mark at the side of her neck.

‘How the hell did I miss that!?’ he asked himself angrily.

He was filled with rage over the thought that what was his was stolen away from him. And being his illogical and rash self, let out a roar of rage before running full force towards Inuyasha, never bothering to think that Kagome was still in Inuyasha’s arms.

Inuyasha saw Kouga’s confusion and the dawning as emotions passed over his face. He was still clutching his mate to his chest when he saw the wolf’s enraged expression and heard the roar he let out.

‘Bo! Io! I can’t fight him like this; Kagome would be hurt,’ Inuyasha gnashed his teeth together as he fought the urge to rise on the wolf’s challenge.

He scooped his mate into his arms and went flying before Kouga could reach them. This only served to enrage the wolf more and he shouted insults at Inuyasha as he continued to attack them.

“Inu-kuro! How dare you touch my woman! You’ll pay for it,” he launched another kick, almost catching Inuyasha’s head. If he didn’t duck at the last minute, his head would be broken and not the tree.

He was having a difficult time evading Kouga’s attacks with Kagome in his arms. Luckily, he saw Kirara land somewhere near Sango to let her ride with Miroku and Shippo. He headed towards them, yelling for Sango and Miroku to get ready.

Kagome knew what he was about to do and held on more tightly to him. He pried her fingers away from his hair as he felt her tugging on him.

“Let go, bitch! I need you safe with Sango and Shippo,” he growled.

“No! Don’t fight him, Inuyasha-kun! Onegai! He’s not thinking straight,” she almost shouted at him in her desperation to convince him.

He was losing his patience for his bitch.

“What would you have me do? Let him kill me because I refuse to fight? Is that what you want?” Inuyasha couldn’t help but snap at Kagome, and ser fer face turn ashen and her eyes fill with hurt and tears.

He hurt her again, but he has no choice. They can talk later. Right now, their survival was what he was concerned of. He ran full speed towards Kirara, managing to confuse Kouga for a moment. He heaved Kagome into the waiting arms of Miroku before turning back and dodging another one of Kouga’s kicks and pulled Tetsusaiga from it’s sheath, the sword turning into the magnificent fang of his father.

Sango ordered Kirara to fly up, so that Kagome couldn’t interfere. She was still struggling in Miroku’s arms while crying.

“Let me go! I have to stop them before they kill each other!” she screamed at them, not noticing Shippo getting distressed by her crying.

“Stop it, Kagome-chan! You’re not helping by acting like a baby! Stop crying for God’s sake! Look at your mate down there. If he doesn’t fight Kouga, the wolf prince WOULD KILL HIM! Would you rather have him dead than have him fight Kouga?” Sango shouted at her in annoyance.

That shut her up. The thought of Inuyasha dying because of her again, made her cry in torrents, but she fought back her sobs. She knew Inuyasha wouldn’t kill Kouga. It was Kouga she should be worried about killing her mate.

The fight continued; with Kouga’s speed matching up with the Tetsusaiga’s Kaze no Kizu. They were evenly matched, even if because of the Shikon shards Kouga had.

“I’ll kill you, Inuyasha! You forced her—marked her!” Kouga said in outrage as he delivered a flurry of kicks towards Inuyasha. One caught Inuyasha in the stomach, and he went flying back. Before Kouga could press his advantage, Inuyasha was up and about determined not to lose in this battle.

“Teme! I didn’t force her, bakero! She gave me herself with her own free will. She was never yours, Kouga. Why…can’t…you…fucking….see…that!?” Inuyasha yelled back, each word enunciated more as he blocked Kouga’s attacks with his sword.

“Usotsuki!” Kouga screamed right before he sent a vicious kick in Inuyasha’s face. Good thing Inuyasha anticipated it and has flipped his self backward, away from Kouga’s flailing legs.

Then he got lucky. He caught Kouga completely unaware as he saw the wound of the app appear. And with a vengeance, before the wolf-prince could react, roared with all of his might:

“KAZE NO KIZU!!!”

Kouga didn’t have time to evade it this time. He could only stand in frozen shock as he saw his death loom before him…


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