In the wake of a storm, a wolf no longer alone.

Ginta and Hakkaku's mates had shoved him from the make shift room almost immediatly after he had set the woman down. He didnt hide the irritation on his face and he was truely having trouble holding back a deep growl of anger. He just stood outside of the animal skin curtain seathing inside. Every time one of the women rushed out to get somthing and then rushed back in they would avoid his gaze. They were doing their job ofcourse but he still didnt like not being there to see that the woman was alright. He was quite sure that since the rest of his pack didnt really share his respect for humans they wouldnt do half the job that they should and it worried him. The woman had been damaged already, they didnt need to make it worse by not cleaning the wounds properly or binding the bandages to loose so that dirt could get inside, or even to tight stopping the blood flow and post poning the time it took to heal. He began to pace, his focus only broken when Ginta's expectant mate dropped the silk kimono the woman had been wearing outside the door. He caught a glimpse of a creamy white leg before the curtain was pulled tightly shut.



The two women were chating away while they worked on the girl untill that point. It had grown silent a few seconds before the kimono was dropped off. Kouga heard somthing slightly muffled but edged a little closer to the curtain in order to hear the conversation. He couldnt tell which woman was saying what.



"Look at all of these!"



"I know! And these gashes are just going to add to the collection."



"She is just a human! How does a frail human woman sustain this much damage?"



"With such a pretty face you would never imagine this..."



"I never thought I would envy a human's looks but she is naturally gorgeous...to have a body that amazing and have it destroid! The big ones look like they were all at the same time."



"A harsh blow, she must have made someone angry..."



The talking stopped quite abruptly and he heard movement from behind the curtain. Kouga stepped back quickly not wanting to show that he had been childishly snooping about their conversation. Ginta's mate then exited the curtain agian but she pulled it closed almost immediatly so he was not able to see the broken doll within. He was able to see the pile of bloody bandages that the woman brought out and he held his breath at the smell. She muttered somthing about clothes and then rushed off.



Kouga had deduced that the women were talking about scars. He wasnt an idiot. He was curious as to how a woman like her would get them though. By the way she looked and the kimono she had been wearing he supposed she was of a noble family. Women like that didnt get scars. They slept on soft beds on matted floors, eating the best food that the area could offer. They were treated like little princesses. Women like that didnt collect scars. His curiousity was getting the best of him really. He looked around, checking to see if anyone was watching what he was about to do. It was shameful, a wolf prince spying on a human girl. Then he slipped his finger beneath the curtain and pulled it open an inch or so to look inside. His eyes wernt even able to focus on the naked beauty before Ginta's woman smacked his hand and pushed him out of the way. Shooing him. HE was being shooed!! He glared at her back and once she was gone blushed slightly about being caught trying to peep in on the girl. He couldnt help but feel a twinge of disapointment about the fact that the woman had been carrying clothes with her so the woman would no longer be the luxurious creamy temtation of skin that she was right now. She would be covered, for the most part at least. Wolf demon clothing wasnt all that covering. What man didnt want to look at a naked woman? He had seen Kagome and that demon slayer from far away when they were bathing, but to have a woman that you could reach out and touch...



Kouga snapped out of it quickly shaking his head. His lust was getting the better of him, he had never laid with a woman but he should have ages ago and the fact that a naked woman was only feet away from him, but he could not see or touch her, was utterly irritating. Not that he would pounce on a woman and make her his mate. It was just the teenage boy in him saying 'Boobies!.' He rolled his eyes slightly though. He had to get over this. He was a tribe leader not some lecher.



Kouga's feet carried him over to a boulder where Ginta sat. The wolf didnt go twenty feet from his mate anymore. It had started when she was found to be pregnant and now he followed her around every where like a little puppy. He would have to stop acting like a puppy if he was going to have them. His mate wouldnt be able to handle one extra person starved for attention. Hakkaku was even off hunting after his mate had ordered, not asked, ordered him to go get food. The man had rushed off right away, and happy to do so. Just like old times really, but intsead of following after him they just followed after their mates. Kouga cringed slightly but inside he knew he couldnt judge. He didnt have a mate, he knew nothing of what somthing that close could do to ones heart. He had loved Kagome ofcourse, but she had never loved him back. They hadnt had the deep connection that he had wished to have. Now she had it with the mutt-face. He frowned. The all to familiar frown that he had developed.



"Kouga?" asked an obviously concerned Ginta, breaking Kouga's depressing thoughts.



"What?" he couldnt help the irritation that seeped into his voice. He wanted the women in there to work faster. He wanted to check to see if things were alright.



"Boss, do you have a thing for humans?" Ginta replied, trying to make sence as to why Kouga was so concerned about a human girl. Ginta had thought that Kouga like Kagome because of her powers, but this woman didnt have any that he could think of.



Kouga replied without words. In their place he used his hand, smacking him upside the head. Ginta moaned slightly and moved to sit back up on the boulder because the force of the blow had caused him to tumble off of the side of it.



"But this lady doesnt have any powers, and Kagome-"



At Kagome's name Kouga didnt even let Ginta finish the sentance. He hit him so hard the demon went flying ten feet away and continued to roll across the ground from there. Kouga's frown had deepened and his eyes showed anger, but there was hurt behind the anger.



"I THOUGHT I SAID THAT KAGOME'S NAME IS TO NEVER BE SPOKEN AROUND ME! I dont want to hear about her after she mated that mutt-face." Kouga was all out growling at this point and his usual sky blue eyes were darkening. He felt betrayed by her actions, though she was never really his to begin with. Ofcourse he said that she was his, he had been to confident in himself. Now she wasnt with him, she was with Inuyasha.



Kouga looked away from Ginta whow was now shrinking away from him aginst the other wall of the cave. Kouga was hiding his face from view. It would be apropriate for his pack to see the pain that he had felt from her denial of him. He could show anger, but depression and sadness, they were weak emotions.



All thoughts fell from his mind as the two women emerged from the curtain. They were a welcome distraction to him now. Ginta's mate walked over to him and helped him up from the ground before moving away, further twords the entrance of the cave. She was running her hands over his head as they went, checking to see what the damage was. The lumps on his head were fairly visible. And then Hakkaku's mate stepped up to him and Kouga drew his attention to her.



"The woman probably isnt going to wake up anytime soon. She had some deep gashes and some bad brusing aswell. We cleaned them up as best we could without causing more damage to her skin. Some of the bruises are a week old or so though. She has also got alot of nasty scarring all over her upper legs and back. Burn scars from what we can tell, but they appear to be a few years old. I would suppose the burns are from a demonic acid or miasma, they dont appear to be from fire. Their too focused." She looked away, apearing to be contemplating the orgins of the wounds once agian but continued once agian. "Right now she just needs sleep and plenty of food and water." The woman then gathered the blood cloth and kimono before leaving his presence and exiting the cave. She would be cleaning them he supposed. The entire time she had spoken he had just nodded, trying to hide in vain that he truely was curious about the human woman and that he wanted to see her.



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ok so that was my second chapter to this story. Hope you enjoyed it. I will be back with more soon. Very soon.