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Conversations With Wolves	By : Tassanaburrfoot Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Kouga/Kagome Views: 9456 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Kagome was sitting on the counter swinging her legs as she listened to Shippo speak of how he came to work on Koga’s house. “It wasn’t something I just thought of doing out of the blue,” he told her. “Ever since you left, Koga’s been watching out for me. Well, he and the others. I stayed with Miroku and Sango for a while and travelled with Inuyasha for a while longer. When all this new technology and stuff came about, I learned as much as I could. When you’re a demon, it’s easy to go to college for four years like eight times in a row.”
Kagome frowned. “How do you pay for it, though?” she asked. “School can get expensive.”
He just shrugged. “Another thing we really don’t have to worry much about,” he replied as he tightened a bolt under the sink. “All you really have to do is go a few years without going to school and work your tail off to save money. Then, there’s grants and scholarships you can get if you make good enough grades.”
Kagome nodded, though she still didn’t fully understand. “So, you went to different colleges?” she asked. “How do you attend school without anyone noticing that you stay young?”
Shippo snorted. “That part is easy. Humans don’t notice nothing,” he commented. “Even when it’s staring them right in the face. Had a girlfriend once who thought I just aged gracefully. Don’t think she ever realized how I didn’t age at all.”
“Or maybe she was being nice?” the miko suggested. “For humans, it’s hard to grasp immortality, especially when we are born to die.”
The fox demon sniffed as he sat back and closed the sink’s cabinet. He looked up at the miko and tilted his head to the side. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything so cynical from you, Kagome,” he stated as he stood up.
She looked down and away from him. She sighed. “I think Koga is becoming attached to me,” she whispered sadly.
“Becoming attached?” Shippo inquired, and then he huffed, “More like been attached. He’s had his eyes on you since the two of you first met. You know this, Kagome. That the two of you are together is like a dream come true for him.”
Yes. She knew this already, but it didn’t make her feel any better. She stared at her shoes. “I miss Inuyasha,” she confessed.
Shippo furrowed his eyebrows and wrinkled his nose. “How does missing Inuyasha factor into Koga being attached to you?”
Kagome breathed in and exhaled with frustration. “Because I feel like my thoughts and desires are cheating Koga,” she admitted, gazing up at the kitsune. “I feel like I’m doing to Koga what Inuyasha did to me with Kikyo. It’s not fair that I am thinking of Inuyasha and missing him when I’m with Koga. It’s like… It’s like I’m cheating on him.”
Shippo pursed his lips. “But you’re not,” he argued. “I mean, you aren’t running after Inuyasha every time you catch his scent or…”
“But I would,” she told him. “If Inuyasha came to me today or tomorrow, I fear I’d forget all about Koga and run to Inuyasha with arms wide open. I just… Koga doesn’t deserve that… Not from anyone and especially not from me.”
The two sat in silence while Kagome wracked her brain with what to say next. She wanted to be with Inuyasha, didn’t she? It’s what she had always wanted, but then she started being around Koga more. She had given the wolf demon a chance and now she was lost. “What do I do, Shippo? Where do I go from here?”
They made eye contact and Kagome desperately wished she knew what he was thinking. The range of emotion that crossed his face was enough to make her nervous. Was he judging her? Was he hating her?
He took her hands into his and seemed to inspect their hands for a moment. When he finally spoke, he gazed into her eyes intently and said, “What does your heart tell you, Kagome? Where do you think you should go? That you are even asking these questions and having these thoughts tells me that you feel very deeply for Koga. Whether those feelings are deep enough to overcome what you feel or have felt for Inuyasha, I don’t know. But I do know one thing. Inuyasha was then. Koga is now. What happened in the past is the past…”
“Yes, I understand that,” she interrupted him.
“You can only live in the present,” he finished, “and hope for a good future. Koga can give you a good future.”
“But for how long?” she argued jerking her hands out of his. “I’m a human, Shippo, not a demon. Eventually, I’m going to become old and I will wither. And one day, I will die. What will happen then? Will Koga live the rest of his life lamenting my death? I can’t do that to him. It’s just as unfair.”
“Who said anything about life being fair?” Shippo asked with a sneer. He scoffed. “He loves you, Kagome. Will he lament your death for the rest of his life? Who knows? Maybe. But are you going to let that fear dictate what the two of you have now? Do you think if you blow him off again it’ll help him get over you? You already tried that, remember? How did that one work for you?”
“He went five hundred years…”
“Five hundred years believing he would never see you again!” Shippo shouted. “And now that you’re back, now that you’ve given him a taste of happiness, you’re just going to blow him off? You wanna talk unfair? That is unfair. That is something he doesn’t deserve.”
“But, Shippo…”
“Do you know the first thing he asked me when we met up again three hundred and fifty years ago? ‘Did she have a good life? Was she happy?’ Every day, Kagome. Every single fucking day he thought about you. He talked about you. He even kept your handkerchief tucked in his armor until it wore away. Even though it no longer carried your scent, he swore it did. This business he has? He did it for you because he knew it would make you proud of him.”
“What happens when I die?” she asked him. “I mean, really die?”
Shippo sighed. He opened his mouth to answer, but was cut off by another voice at the door. “Then I will always remember that I got to hold the woman I love,” Koga answered.
Kagome and Shippo whipped their heads to look at him in surprise. They watched as Koga walked into the kitchen and up to Kagome. He placed a hand on her jaw and tilted her head just a little before bending his head down to kiss her. The kiss was soft and passionate and did not last nearly as long as Kagome would have liked.
Koga wrapped his arms around her and held her close. She could hear the soft thump of his heart in his chest as she wrapped her arms around him in return. “We’ll find a way,” he whispered to her. “I have no intention of losing you again.”

The restaurant was not the best of the best. Then again, there wasn't much to choose from in the small town that was close to Koga's land. It was still a nice restaurant. It was a small hole in the wall that served steak and potatoes. The waiter was nice and friendly.
Koga always brought Kagome to a nice restaurant when they went out to eat, so this wasn't really a surprise. It also wasn't surprising that he had invited Shippo and a few of the wolves with them. Koga sat at the head of the long table and was talking quietly to his right. Kagome sat on his left side and Shippo sat beside her.
"This is a really nice place," Kagome commented as she took a bite of her steak. "And the food is delicious."
Shippo agreed with her as he added, "Yeah, it is the finest restaurant here in town. Tomorrow, when we break for lunch, though, you'll have to get Koga to take you to the Pie Hut. You can get a sandwich, drink, and slice of pie all for a very small price. And they are awesome."
Kagome nodded as she took a sip of her soft drink. "I really like this soda, too," she said as she took another sip. "What was it called again?"
"Pepsi," he told her. "But it's nothing compared to Coca~Cola. Kind of sucks that they don't serve Coke here, but Pepsi's ok, I guess."
Kagome nodded as she cut another slice of her steak. There was a bit of pink in the middle and, inwardly, she cringed. She had promised Koga she would try a medium cooked steak and so far she was enjoying it. He had wanted her to try it rare, but she had refused. "Food should not bleed," she had argued.
Koga stood up and looked around the table. "May I have everyone's attention, please?" he said, causing the entire restaurant to quiet down and look at him, even though he was speaking Japanese and the only ones who could understand him were those at the table.
It was one of the things Kagome loved about him. No matter where they were, Koga always seemed to be in command and control. He could silence a room with just a look. It made her giddy.
The wolf demon looked at Kagome and raised his glass. "I would like to give a toast to the beautiful woman who sits by my side. Though we've only dated for a few months, I've loved her for an eternity."
Kagome gave a soft, humble smile. "I love you, too," she said without thinking.
Her mind froze as her brain caught up to her mouth. Did she just admit that she loved him? Shippo was staring at her in surprise, but Kagome could not think of anything to say. Her breath caught in her throat as Koga got down on one knee in front of her. The entire restaurant watched with abated breath.
Blue eyes met blue eyes as Koga seemed to gaze into Kagome's soul. "I love you," he told her. "I've loved you since the moment we met. And I will love you long after our bodies return to the ground. It would bring me such honor and joy if you were to consent to be my wife."
Kagome's eyes widened as Koga took a small black box out of his pants pocket and opened it to reveal a beautiful princess cut diamond ring. She felt tears fall from her eyes as she looked at the ring and then back at Koga. There, so small one could barely see it, she could see a sliver of fear in his eyes. His fear of her rejection was there, though he hid it in a mask of confidence.
Seeing that fear alone made her smile as she nodded her head in acceptance. A large, goofy smile lit up Koga's face as he jumped up from his kneeling position and grabbed her in a hug. The patrons in the restaurant applauded as he broke the hug just enough to passionately kiss her.

Author's Note: For those keeping count, Shippo has been around Koga for about 350 years, and those who know how Koga was towards Shippo in the anime, know that he treated the fox demon a lot better than Inuyasha had. Even moreso as Shippo got older. And why wouldn't he? He knew how much Shippo meant to Kagome.
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