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Friendly Persuasion	By : Ookami13 Category: InuYasha > General Views: 2417 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: all right, before you threaten
to set my house on fire with all of the flame reviews that I�m bound to get if
I don�t announce this� here it is:
---There
is no lemon in this chapter!---
It just didn�t fit ere,ere, no matter
how hard I tried. If I�d put the lemon
in this chapter, then it would have been 15 pages long�.. or probably damn
close. Anyhow, thanks to all that reviewed, and I�m sorry it took so long to
update!
Chapter Twenty-Seven:

Heart of the Fire
�Chan-chan? Anything
that will help me find him!�
�All right. His
skin is like that of the newborn fawn.�
�Whose pelt is as bronze as the Mineral Sands on our
coast.�
�That�s right!
See? You are learning him, and
your geography, just perfectly!�
�Is there anything else I should know of him,
Lunia-san? Likes, dislikes, anything
else you can tell me?�
Lunia looked at Venita with a parental look on her face,
�Now if I did that, where would my fun be when I get to sit back and
watch you meeting him and passing him by several hundred times before you
actually take time to even notice him?�
�Lunia...�
Venita said, trying to sound threatening.
�All right! If you
must know, he will have with him pieces of a most cursed stone which, to
the most able eyes, shall glow a color that which you despise most.�
Blinking, Venita then glared at the Moon Goddess, who had
made sure not to mention to her which side her future Mate resided.
�You make things so difficult.�
Lunia smiled, �Ah well, it would not be any fun for those
of us watching if we told you who he was and what he looked like
word-for-word. He calls to you by
singing to the moon, asking me to send him a woman that differs from the bitches
on his side. If your chest hurts now,
well, it will only hurt more the closer to are to him.�
No longer caring about the pain in her chest, Venita got
up and dressed herself in clothes better suited for crossing a desert, �Then
that makes up my mind for me.�
�What ever do you mean, Dearest?�
�I must find this one who calls to me, and fulfill his
desire. After all, is it not written in
the Laws that if a male should call, a female has no choice but to answer? I go now, Lunia-chan, to answer him. I can only hope that by the time I find him,
he has not found another.�
�Oh he will,� Lunia began, but hurried after Venita sent
her a growl of malice, �but he will soon relinquish his claim on her and follow
you wherever you may go!�
�Good. I would not
wish for him to gather a love he will soon tire of as soon as his bride�s
flowers begin to wilt. That would be
most unpleasant to all three of us.�
Lunia couldn�t help but smile, �Where are you going to
look first?�
�I don�t know.
While I�m running from that man Father had chosen for me, I think I shall
go off to the Mortal World to search.�
�Very well, Chan-chan.
You�re doing the right thing.
You did the best womanly thing you could have done before you sat down
to meet him: you �fainted�. Then, while
you�re �recovering�, you make your escape to the Mortal World. It�s perfect!�
�I am only glad you thought of it when you did,
Lunia-chan. I thank you for assuming
the role of my mother when she left.
Someday, I shall reward your kindness and meddling.� Venita said as she assumed her human shape and
walked towards her mirror.
�Yes, well, find your man and just make sure you get him
to sing to me again. That shall make me
happy. You singing in harmony with your
Mate. Yes, that will truly make me
smile.�
�Then that is what you shall have, Lunia-chan,� the now
human Venita said as she put her foot into her mirror to cross over to the
Mortal World, �and hopefully healthy pups to continue the tradition.�
Smiling, Lunia watched as Venita disappeared into her
mirror.

Her eyes snapping open as though she�d been struck by
lightning, Kaji sat up, heedless of the sunlight that blinded her for several
moments.
�You�re an early riser.�
Came a gruff voice beside her.
Eyes adjusting quickly, Kaji looked over to her left,
�How...?�
Kouga lay on his back, eyes still closed with a grin on his
face, �How long have I been awake?�
�Hai.�
�Just a few minutes.
Long enough to hear you whimpering in your sleep.�
Had she been in her hanyou form, Kaji�s ears would have
plastered themselves to the side of her head, �I�m sorry about that,
Kouga-kun.�
�It�s all right,� Kouga smirked, his eyes opening lazily to
show amusement, �we did it.�
Confusion made its way onto Kaji�s face, �What?�
�Can�t you feel it?�
Searching herself for anything of the sort he could be
talking about, Kaji felt as though she�d just been smacked in the head by
Kouga�s growing presence in her heart.
�The link...� She
breathed.
�Ah! You remember!�
Kaji hit his shoulder playfully as she giggled, �Now I
do. If you wouldn�t speak in such
riddles to me as soon as I get up, mayhap I would have a chance at remembering
what it is you speak!�
�Pardon me,� Kouga said sitting up and crossing his legs,
�maybe you shoulda told me you weren�t a morning person.�
�Hn,� Kaji said, looking the other way, �do you realthatthat
we�re stuck together like this for the whole day?
Kouga�s eyes held laughter, �You�re just now realizing that?�
Smiling softly, Kaji began thinking over the dream she�d had
before she woke, �Kouga-kun, is it all right if I ask you a question other than
this one?�
Chuckling at the way she cut him off from telling her she
already had, Kouga smirked, �Like what?�
�It�s kinda personal, and I...�
�Just ask it, Koishii.
Anything you ask, I�ll answer it.�
Hoping he knew what he was getting himself into, Kaji asked,
�When I asked you to sing with me to the moon, you said that you hadn�t sung in
a long time. Why did you stop singing?�
It was obvious to Kaji that he felt paiand and startled by
the question, for the small link that had begun forming between them told her
his emotions.
�I stopped �singing�, as you put it, to the moon because....
well, she just...�
�What is it, Kouga-kun?
I mean, you don�t have to tell me if you don�t want to. I was just curious.�
�No, no, I�ll tell you,� Kouga said, turning to face her as
best he could, �I stopped because she didn�t give me what I asked for. Every night I�d pray that she�d give me just
that one thing, and she never did, so I stopped.�
Remembering her dream, which was an actual portion of her
life being played back to her, Kaji�s mouth dropped slightly as her eyes
widened, ��The man you seek has eyes like the calmest spring sky framed by
tresses that are the color of the jewels in Kupaka�s Pit�.�
�What?� Kouga asked,
turning confused eyes to his beloved.
�You match the description Lunia-chan gave me. Your eyes are the color of a calm spring
sky, your hair is dark like the jewels of Kupaka�s pit, and your skin is indeed
the color of the newborn fawn�s coat, which just happens to match the sand on
our southwestern coast. So then the
pieces of the cursed stone you carry are the shards of the Shikon Jewel, which
glow the color that which I despise most: pink.
And then the one you loved before me but then gave up to be with
me was K-chan. Yes, you have to
be the one! You fit the description
perfectly! You�re just like Lunia-chan
said you would be!�
�What on earth are you talking about?�
Sighing with slight annoyance, Kaji began speaking as fast as
she had when Kagome had accepted the fact she was a girl, �Don�t you
understand, Kouga-kun? You found
me! I am the one for whom you
called. You summoned me from the
Southern Realm of the Inside all the way here. Every time you sang for me, my heart would ache something
terrible, telling me just how close I was to you. You sent for me, and now I am here. I am the woman that differs from all the other bitches here. Your song has been answered.�
It took Kouga a moment to piece together all the things Kaji
was saying, �I can�t believe it... after all this time?�
Kaji took a moment to glare at him before smiling, �It took
me a while to find you, you know. The
less you sang, the harder it was to find you.
Plus, you moved too much.�
�Huh?�
Poking him in the chest lightly with every word she spoke,
Kaji smiled, �You. Move. Too.
Much. And too often, if I might
add. When you�re chasing a guy that
runs faster than you can feel, it makes things all the more difficult. Add the fact that you�ve got a snickering
Moon Goddess following you, ugh! Kouga questioned.
Sighing, Kaji spoke with a hint of annoyance and disgust in
her voice, �Kikyo. Inu-Yasha�s
old girlfriend. If we could just get
him to kill her or something, that would leave a huge gap for K-chan to
walk right into!�
�What about that damn promise he made? Kagome told me that that mutt promised her
he�d go to hell with her.�
�Well then to hell with her!
Byselfself, of course,� Kaji smirked, but then sighed, �I just want
what�s best for the both of them. I may
be from the Other Side, but K-chan is still my best friend,
Kouga-kun. How can I live a life of
happiness if she is not happy? We made
a promise to be happy together, and she took a risk not too long ago. I told her that love was a leap of faith,
that one could either soar above the clouds, or crash to the ground and hurt
one�s wings. I asked her which she
chose.�
�And?�
�She chose to fly and admit that she loved Inu-Yasha. I couldn�t just stand by and watch him shoot
her down. She�s up on the moon with me
in pure bliss, Kouga-kun. I won�t
let him drag her down to hell with him and that walking clay pot!�
Through their link, Kouga felt just how strongly Kaji thought
about all of this, �You say you�re not only above the clouds, but on the moon
as well?�
Blushing slightly, Kaji nodded, �Yes, I did. In pure bliss, mind you.�
�Because you�re in love with me?�
A grin on her face, Kaji nodded once more, �Head over heels
tumbling down a mountainside.�
Feeling nothing but pure elation at Kaji�s statement, Kouga
beamed, �Let�s go back to the den. I
want to pack a few things.�
�Pack? What for?�
�I want to take you somewhere.�
�Like?�
Not plotting. You confuse
plotting with scheming. They are two
completely different things, dearest Kouga-kun.�
It was Kouga�s turn to quirk an eyebrow at his chosen mate,
�Does it really matter what the difference is?
You�re concocting something devious in that mind of yours that�s going
to be used against me.�
Kaji shrugged, �Damn, you have me figured out already. I would have thought my enigmatic self could
have held you over for a little while longer.
I daresay I have run out of secrets to hide from you.�
�Now, now, Kaji-chan, I highly doubt that.� Kouga said as they walked by an outcrop of
rocks.
�But you looked into my eyes, Kouga-kun,� Kaji protested,
�you know everything there is about me.�
�No, Kaji-chan, I don�t.
I only know what you look like as your true self; I don�t know anything
about what you�re like.�
Kaji stopped in her tracks and put her right hand on Kouga�s
left shoulder, slowly running it up his neck and onto his cheek, �I give you my
word of honor, Kouga-kun: as my true self, I am exactly the same as I am
now. In fact, I may be a lot more fun
as myself. I�m a lot less cautious, and
I usually don�t worry about the consequences of my actions.�

Taking her hand with his free one, Kouga kissed her palm and
felt an unintentional shudder envelop her body, �So long as you�re still,
t,
that�s all that matters. I couldn�t
care less about what you looked like, Koishii; so long as you�re the same as
you are now, that�s what matters most to me.�
Stopping herself from wrapping her free arm around his neck,
Kaji smiled up at him, �For all that it�s worth, Koishii, I promise that
whatever I possess is as much yours as it ever was mine. All of my father�s lands, my power, anything
you require, shall be at your disposal.
As it always has been.�
Seeing such sincerity in her eyes, Kouga knew that the words
she spoke were the truth, but it was more than just sincerity that lingered
there: her heart was right there, out in the open for anyone to see, if they
had just looked in her eyes.
Kouga smiled back at her, remembering the countless nights he
had spent just singing his heart out for a woman he could call his, �You are
all I ever wanted, Kaji-chan. All I
ever asked of your Lunia was to give to me someone like you that differed from
the rest of the bitches at the den.
What more can I say, Kaji-chan?
You are my perfect bitch.�
Kaji smiled, one of her
newly-lengthened fangs protruding over her bottom lip, �When you first came to Kaede-sama�s
village, I wanted to protect something from your presence. I couldn�t name what it was, so I assumed it
was K-chan because you were after her at the time. But, later, when you found me in the woods when I collapsed, I
realized that it hadn�t been K-chan I was trying to protect. It was myself.
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