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To Protect the Alpha Female	By : Sylean Category: InuYasha > General Views: 10682 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter 17: To Keep One Oblivious

If Kagome’s group was going in a straight line, not that they were, but metaphorically speaking, then Sesshomaru and his entourage was roughly orbiting their proximity in a wide radius. And Kouga? Well, Kouga was the hurricane he was, zigzagging all over the countryside at record speeds and only stopping when his chaotic orbit happened to collide with Kagome’s. He altered course for her like gravity in space, a planet pulling in meteors from all directions and shifting trajectories. His visits were not frequent, but when they did occur, the crash between him and Inuyasha, Kagome’s protector and Sesshomaru’s beta, was often violent and blinding. Just like the meteors that crash into larger bodies in space, Kouga did not comprehend the intricacies in play during his visits, thinking only of his own line and not paying the multiple, tangled threads of fate any mind. Today, was one such day.

Kouga told his men to go ahead and go hunting, an activity they eagerly agreed to since it meant they could stop running for a bit, and while they went off, he took the time to intercept Kagome and remind her that he was still looking to slay their common enemy, Naraku. Inuyasha, barred his way, but the pup was so slow it was easy to get around him. He still couldn’t understand why Kagome would be hanging around with such a weakling; she needed a real Alpha by her side, not some pup that pretended he was.

She knew this was coming the second his jewel shards came into her sense range; the flirtations and promises to kill Naraku. You’d think he’d find a different line, at least, since it obviously wasn’t working. Ginta and Hakkaku finally caught up and were scolded for coming back empty handed, at least that got his attention somewhat, but in order to divert the awkward affections, she reached in to her bag, “Oh, that reminds me. Here,” she handed him a yellow bag of potato crisps, “why don’t you eat some of these.”

It did not have the desired effect, “Kagome, I know how much you worry about me.”

“Not really,” she tried to subdue the attempts but he just wouldn’t cease.

Finally Inuyasha came to the rescue and thrust himself between them, “You don’t need to give our food to him.”

“She can do what she wants!” and the two were off in another explosive tussle, scrapping in circles around the rest of their comrades and snatching the prized bag back and forth.

While the two were thoroughly occupied, and not paying any attention to the conversations going on around them, Ginta and Hakkaku took the time to ask about the dangerous demon they ran into during their hunt, “Kagome, ever heard of a guy called Sesshomaru?”

“A fair skinned dog demon who wears a fur over his kimono,” the second elaborated.

“Yeah, I know him,” she affirmed. “He’s Inuyasha’s older brother.”

“Inuyasha’s brother?!” the two of them panicked, being smarter than their leader, this did not look good. Inuyasha was strong enough already, but this brother, who it was obvious had a much more powerful aura about him…

“What kind of guy is this Sesshomaru?” they inquired carefully.

“Where to start,” she began. “Well, he doesn’t get along with Inuyasha very well at all, and he has a powerful evil sword named Tokijin. He’s extremely strong and a bit on the cruel side.” The two brawling canines whizzed by in a flurry of kicks and punches. “Inuyasha and Kouga can scrap like that forever, but I feel pretty certain that they’d never kill each another. I don’t think Sesshomaru would hesitate to kill his opponent though.”

“Sounds like one dangerous opponent,” they murmured to one another.

“Who knows though,” she continued in a lighter tone, “he could have changed for the better. He doesn't seem as cold-hearted as before, not since taking in Rin and the incident where he tried to tell me I belong to him.” She missed their flinch at her off-handed comment and her mind drifted off into thought. ‘That's right. I really don't know him that well at all. All of this is just from a few brief encounters,’ she admitted to herself. Another rumble shook the earth as the two self-appointed leaders continued their argument. “Would you two knock that off?” She stalked over to break up the fight.

“You hear that?” the two wolves wheezed out, understanding fully, that just being around Kagome now, if Sesshomaru should catch her scent on them, and on Kouga especially, they might not make it out of such a situation alive. It was clear now, at least to them, that it wasn’t Inuyasha that Kouga had to compete with, but Sesshomaru. They were brothers, and that meant they were pack. According to such dynamics, the beta would protect the alpha bitch, just as they, Kouga’s betas, did for Kagome after Kouga chose her. Inuyasha was only the beta!

“Good thing we didn’t engage him in a fight,” the other acknowledged. And if that wasn’t enough, their wolves then came up and in the canine tongue told them of how they had once attacked that same girl. This did not look good.

“Sit!” she finally had enough of the commotion.

“Thanks a lot, Traitor,” Inuyasha murmured, spitting chunks of earth out of his mouth.

“I’ll accept this food with gratitude and think of it as a token of your deep love for me,” Kouga declared, making Kagome uncomfortable all over again.

“Don’t give it too much thought,” she waved him off.

“See ya,” he smirked and sped away.

‘Finally,’ she let out a breath as they continued on their way.

“Mmmm, these don’t smell at all like meat but they’re gooood,” Kouga mumbled with his mouth full.

Ginta and Hakkaku, however, were not concerned with the food, “If we keep going this direction… We’ll hit that same river.” ‘The same river that Sesshomaru was at.’ And that was exactly where Kouga was intending to go since the chips made him thirsty, and no amount of persuading or begging was going to change his mind. ‘We can’t tell him. I know exactly what’ll happen if we tell Kouga about Sesshomaru and Kagome.’ “You morons, Kagome’s mine and no one else’s. Bring him on; show me where he is. I’ll show him not to mess with my woman,” they imagined Kouga saying. ‘He’ll go out of his way to start a fight, especially if it’s for Kagome.’ They tried again, but to no avail. Half out of fear and half out of hurt feelings for their leaders disregard of their opinion, they took off running the opposite way, leaving him completely confused over what just happened.

“What’s gotten into those two idiots?” he mumbled to himself.

They ran off, but after a short while of moping and sulking, they caught a whiff of something, “I know that scent, it’s Sesshomaru.”

“Oh no, Kouga’s up ahead, remember?”

“They’ll run into each other.”

“And if they run into each other, with Kouga still smelling of Kagome, look out, ahhh!” They envisioned Kouga instigating a fight and Sesshomaru transforming to maul him.

“We have to do something to keep them apart.”

“What’ll we do though?”

There had to be a better plan than this, barring the path of such a lethal opponent, all while still having the slightest smell of the woman he wanted on them simply from the proximity a few hours earlier, it was suicide. But what else could they do? Even more foolish was when they actually tried to threaten said demon while radiating fear. Last second, they changed their plans, “Hakkaku, we have a chance of making it out of here alive if we drag Kouga away, what do you think?”

“You’re right; lets get Kouga out of here,” he agreed, but it was too late, for standing on the cliff behind them, was Kouga. The two rivals were going to meet whether they liked it or not, Ginta and Hakkaku inadvertently ensured that.

“Who are you, what do you want?” Kouga addressed the demon that his comrades were intent on facing. “He reeks like that filthy mutt, Inuyasha.”

“L-lord Sesshomaru,” Rin whimpered with a shuddered breath, immediately recognizing Kouga as being the wolf demon that commanded her village to be attacked.

‘Lord Sesshomaru?’ Kouga heard the child’s whimper. He hadn’t recognized the demon lord by sight, but that name caused recognition; only for the absurdity of the story behind tell of him. ‘So he’s that Lord I heard about that has the ridiculous standards for a mate. He’ll never find a female demon he deems suitable.’ Kouga may have dwelled far out in the eastern mountains, but news traveled, and something of this much intrigue eventually reached even his secluded caves.

How bothersome, the wolf prince that sought to take what would be his, and still holding some of her scent, thought to bar his path. Even so, perhaps this could prove beneficial if the fool gave him reason enough to kill him. It would eliminate the competition in an honorable manner. He would have to have plenty reason to slay one of her allies, though. Having been denied by Kagome, as infuriating as it was, it put him in no position to seek the wolf’s life simply because he also sought Kagome. If she had accepted his suit, however, the wolf would be long dead for his continued attempts.

Ginta and Hakkaku rushed beside, but mostly behind, Kouga and proceeded to warn him about the demon before them, “That’s him, Inuyasha’s older brother. Don’t go picking a fight with him.” Ironic how they had just done so themselves.

“So you’re Inuyasha’s brother,” Kouga repeated. ‘I didn’t know the mongrel came from royal lines, not with how uncouth the pup is.’ “Except that you’re not a half-demon,” Kouga scoffed and received a fierce glare in response. “What’s this? Looks like I struck a nerve.”

“Kouga, no!” both Ginta and Hakkaku chimed.

“Stand back, Rin,” was all Sesshomaru said. This opponent, he was thick with posturing, and having given them ample warning, this insult warranted facing the other’s challenge for dominance head on knowing full well the wolf may end up dead on his claws. He would deal with the setback of Kagome’s displeasure at another time. It was a challenge he fully intended to use to send the wolf running with his tail between his legs, if he survived, or so was the plan, until the blasted shards in his opponent’s legs drew in raging demons after their power. Demons that stumbled too close to his person and thus forced him to slay them, even though it was the wolf they were after. That would have made little difference, but when the wolf turned around and protected Rin from another demon, his honor forced him to stand down once again. He held his ground as the wolf walked by him like he wasn’t even there, both knowing that even the slightest glance in acknowledgement would be a sign of weakness and admission of inferiority. It was an Alpha mannerism that Sesshomaru had perfected, but even his goading comment did not faze the cocky wolf, “Unnecessary interference.”

“Feeling’s mutual,” Kouga corresponded unconcernedly. Whether it was foolishness, or gross overconfidence that fueled it, the outcome was the same; the wolf had stood his ground. “Come on fellas; we’ve got a long way to go.” He gathered up his dumbfounded comrades and walked off as if nothing had happened.

“Are you content with letting them go, Milord?” Jaken asked, sensing the animosity still flowing from his lord. “Those wolves of Kouga’s are the very ones that attacked young Rin.”

“If he tried the same thing today I would have killed him,” Sesshomaru stated with a bit more venom than necessary. ‘Gladly,’ he added in his mind, seeing as he was just looking for any excuse to obliterate the whelp. Lucky for Kouga, he happened to slip through a loophole, and evade valid reason for his death when he used his jewel shard enhanced speed to save Rin. Changing the subject, Sesshomaru refocused his simmering ire on another opponent, “Naraku is the only one I’m concerned about now; unnecessary conflicts don’t interest me.”

“Eat up, I saved these for you,” Kouga told his two betas once they were plenty far away. “I’m sure Kagome would have wanted me to share these with you.”

“I won’t argue,” Hakkaku reached for the bag.

“Thank you,” Ginta nodded in gratitude.

“So, how about explaining what you were up to earlier,” Kouga posed, his curiosity brimming.

“We knew Sesshomaru was in the area, and we thought you might start fighting with him if you met up,” they voiced slowly, carefully.

“How come?” their alpha asked, taken aback slightly.

“I’ll let you take a shot at that one,” Ginta mumbled to Hakkaku, knowing that they couldn’t tell their reasons.

“One day, I’ll defeat that Inuyasha and win the rights to mate kagome, but as of yet I have no gripe with his older brother,” Kouga explained why he would not have started fighting.

“Oh, I see,” Hakkaku acknowledged, knowing that Kouga was still clueless about the dynamic between Kagome and Sesshomaru.

“You were actually worried over a stupid thing like that?” Kouga chastised.

“Yeah, but whose to say Sesshoamru wouldn’t have started a fight with you, don’t you understand?” Ginta tried a different approach.

“Why would he?” Kouga dismissed the possibility, never having wronged the other, seemingly passive, demon.

‘Because of Kagome, but we can’t say that…’ they thought instantaneously.

“Well, you know, that human girl with him,” Hakkaku supplied, thinking quickly about the other news they had learned today.

“Ah, that kid right,” Kouga recalled the child and let his thoughts wander. “I wonder why he’d let a little kid tag along with him like that. Now if it was a pretty girl like Kagome I’d understand bringing her along,” he insinuated what he wanted to do with Kagome, “but a young kid like that…” Ginta and Hakkaku panicked, fearful that if Sesshomaru happened to be around and hear he might actually kill Kouga; their hands blocked their leader’s mouth and as they looked around frantically.

“Cut it out,” Kouga reprimanded. “You guys don’t think I’m strong enough to defeat Sesshomaru? Fine, then I’ll go prove you wrong, right now!” He stood and began stalking off.

“No, please, don’t go! Stay here!” they clung to his legs and tail, using every ounce of strength to keep him from leaving. If they didn’t stop him, it would surely mean his death, over something as inconsequential as his pride.

Kouga struggled under their weight, before begrudgingly relenting, “Alright.”

“Sure is a nice morning,” Kagome commented as the sun warmed her face.

“I don’t like this smell,” Inuyasha countered just before a whirlwind came into view.

“Hey,” Kouga greeted.

“Morning, Kouga,” Kagome smiled nicely.

“Hey yourself, what do you want, didn’t we just get rid of you?” Inuyasha snapped and positioned himself between the two, blocking Kagome from sight and performing his designated duty.

“I wanted to thank you for the food yesterday,” Kouga spoke gently, looking right passed Inuyasha and held out a simple bouquet.

“Wow, they’re beautiful,” Kagome pushed Inuyasha back in a gesture of ‘down boy.’

“I figured since girls seem to like stuff like this,” he offered an explanation. It was a generic gesture, but thoughtful. First time she’d ever been given flowers in this era; it was nice.

“Oh ya, that’s believable,” Inuyasha countered, trying to belittle the nicety. “Eat a human one day, give one presents the next.”

“Be seeing you,” Kouga winked and again took off in a cloud of dust.

“I’m talking here,” Inuyasha tried one last time to have the last word with the wolf that didn’t even acknowledge his presence. ‘I can’t protect her if she won’t let me,’ he fumed, watching her stare transfixed at the flowers.
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