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Evolution
By : Macx
Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male
Views: 2806 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, nor make money from this story.
Chapter List
- 1-Evolution
- 2-part 2
- 3-part 3
- 4-part 4
- 5-part 5
- 6-part 6
- 7-part 7
- 8-part 8
- 9-part 9
- 10-part 10
- 11-part 11
- 12-part 12
- 13-part 13
- 8
- 9
- 10
Kagome sat in one of the many ice cream parlors, wedged into
a comfy booth, looking at the man sitting opposite. Kouga had been her
constant companion over the last four days, much to the delight and jealousy
of her friends. They were swooning over him like teenagers and Kagome had
to confess that despite the fact that, as a youkai, he aged very slowly,
Kouga looked more mature than before. Something about him was very grounded,
very... balanced. She had noticed the same with Inuyasha, but the wolf
youkai showed it even more.
Where there had been open flirting and brash love declarations on his
side, declaring her 'his woman', he was now acting like a friend. There
were no more overtures of making her his, no more posturing, no more alpha
male fights, though Inuyasha and Kouga still squabbled. Even after five
hundred years, she mused, but it was more like brothers or really good
friends.
"Something wrong, Kagome?"
The question drew her out of her thoughts and she blushed, realizing
she had stared at him. Okay, so she had looked at him like this more and
more often. He was drop-dead gorgeous, something she had peripherally noted
in the old time, but more pronounced now today.
"No, just wondering."
"About what?"
She shrugged and sipped at her milkshake. "Everything. It's so strange
to have you guys in my time now."
"Probably. More for you than for us."
She nodded. "I've been thinking about a lot of things, about what happened
in the past and the fact that... well, you guys were here already. I mean,
it's time travel and it confuses me every time I think too much about it;
gives me a headache. Still, to think you were here when I came back...
but I never knew."
"You couldn't. It would have endangered everything."
Another nodded. "That I know."
"It's weird, I grant you that, but it worked out all right."
"Kouga?"
"Hm?"
"Tell me about you?"
The blue eyes widened a little, then a small smile crossed his lips.
"I kept my promise, Kagome-sama," he said softly. "I waited for you."
She stared at him, uncomprehending. Kagome had asked that of him to
keep the wolf youkai from doing something foolish, like rushing into a
fight that might kill him. He had been so lonely, so hurt... But he had
truly taken it to heart, had waited five hundred years...?
"Kouga..."
He shrugged and leaned back into the seat. "Not that I wasn't tempted
to do something, to end it all, but I remembered you... and my promise.
I continued to live."
Kagome's mouth nearly dropped open. "For me...?"
"You asked it of me. I could never deny you anything, Kagome-sama."
She blushed and twirled the glass in her hands.

Kouga paid for the food and drink, then they left, walking down the
crowded streets to where he had parked his bike. It wasn't a flashy or
very cool looking brand, just a simple motorbike. Functional.
So much had changed about him.
Kagome wanted to get to know the new Kouga.
"So," she said, when he walked her up the stairs to the shrine after
giving her a ride home. "You still haven't told me about yourself."
A shrug. "Nothing much to tell."
"It's been five hundred years! Don't tell me you sat on your butt and
did nothing."
He laughed and she decided she liked the open, happy laugh. "True. I
didn't."
They sat down near the God Tree and Kouga looked at the impressive tree.
"After it was clear that the well had truly closed down, I left the
others. I just couldn't take the company. I'm a pack animal, but at that
time it felt constricting. I needed to be myself... completely. I became
the wolf."
He smiled slightly.
"You know that I'm actually an animal in my true youkai form?"
Kagome nodded.
"Well, I abandoned my human guise and searched for packs. All my comrades
were gone, but the wolves still roamed the forests and mountains. I joined
them."
Kouga leaned against the wall and looked into the blue sky.
"I'm not sure how many seasons I ran with them, but I finally returned
to the village. Miroku had built a shrine around the well for protection
and they still visited the village and Kaede now and then. I just hung
around until one day Inuyasha dropped by." A wry smile. "I didn't know
where else to turn to; in a way they were my new pack. Strangely enough
- at least at that time I thought it was strange - they accepted me. It
was more than I could ever hope for."
"Inuyasha's not that bad. Never has been. Neither were you," Kagome
added with a grin.
He chuckled. "True. Well, I stayed with them from then on. When we went
West, following the trail the explorers had taken, we met up with the Native
American youkai and in a way, it was a new life for me then. Until then
I still carried with me the loss of everything I had known. Nothing could
take that away. They could. Well, as for what I do today... I'm in charge
of wildlife preservation programs. Shikon Enterprises acts mainly in the
background, but we've got a network of companies that don't even know we're
their boss. We founded nature reserves and parks, we're active in environmental
matters, and Sesshoumaru thought I'd make the perfect candidate for that.
Well, here I am now."
Yes, here he was. On the outside unmarked by the losses, his solitary
existence as the last wolf youkai in these parts of the world, but inside
he carried old scars.
Kagome slipped her hand into his and squeezed it. "I'm glad you are,
Kouga. Real glad."
He smiled and nodded.
They remained like this for a long time, two friends enjoying each other's
company.
* * *
It wasn't the first time Miroku came to the shrine and temple that was
Kagome's home, but for the first time he came openly. He had watched Kagome's
family ever since they had come here, from the day her grandfather had
been appointed this temple to the time his daughter had married and Kagome
had been born. Many had watched over the child, always unseen, and always
with the orders never to interfere. It had been hard to watch Kagome's
father die, the family stricken by so much grief just after Souta's birth,
and how her mother had struggled with two children.
Shikon Enterprises had helped discretely then. Very discretely. After
Inuyasha had spent a good week of arguing with his older brother about
whether or not they were changing their own future, as well as their past.
Sesshoumaru had finally relented, had accepted that to ensure that Kagome
would grow into the happy, strong young woman they had met in their time,
she would have to have a good and secure home.
Miroku smiled as he walked up the stairs. Yes, he had been here before.
Nothing had changed much. As he continued toward the Higurashi home, his
eyes strayed to the shed that held the old well. He stopped and gazed at
the closed doors, then looked up the giant tree that had survived the centuries
just like them. This was where it had all started and they had completed
the circle.
"Miroku?"
He turned and smiled at Kagome, who stood in the doorway, slightly surprised.
"Hello, Kagome."
"Uh, you're early."
Today was the day she would have her entry exams for the university
and Miroku had volunteered to accompany her. Kouga had argued the point,
but the other man had been firm. Kagome was about to enter a very elite
place and having a representative from Shikon Enterprises along would be
inspiring for the dean. Kagome had fought him on that, too, but for totally
different reasons. She didn't want to be treated differently because she
had the Shikon scholarship. People would expect too much from her.
"No, they only expect you to study," Miroku had replied. "But there
are people who have to know what kind of backing you have. Don't worry.
I'll just be there, saying nothing. See and be seen, that's all it is."
"I apologize," he now addressed Kagome, "but I wanted to see this place
again. It's been a while."
Kagome frowned as she let him in. "You never came here..." she started,
then broke off. "You... watched my family?"
There was slight outrage in her voice and Miroku smiled disarmingly.
"Yes and no. We just kept an eye on you, that's all. And on the past
Inuyasha when he visited you. It was kind of weird to see him in a way
he hadn't been for quite some time, so I was curious."
She shot him a dark look. "Peeping tom," she scolded, but there was
amusement in her eyes.
Miroku chuckled, looking around the house.
Yes, so much was still the same, but some things were still different.
There had been renovations, modernizations, and additions.
"Souta's at school," Kagome told him. "Mom's upstairs, still fussing
over what I should wear." Kagome grimaced. "I'm eighteen and she thinks
I'm still a little girl!"
"You'll always be my little girl, Kagome."
She whirled around, coloring slightly at her mother's words. Miroku
hid a smile as he greeted the head of the Higurashi household. He still
recalled Kagome's mother as a much younger woman, holding a baby boy in
her arms, trying not to cry as someone from an insurance company she had
never heard of handed over a check of considerable sum.
"Welcome to our home, Mr..."
"Akita," he answered smoothly. "Akita Miroku."
She smiled at him, but the expression in her eyes said she was thinking
about something. It was as if she was remembering him, though he had looked
quite different then.
"Miroku's gonna drive me to the exam," Kagome explained. "I'll just
get dressed. Be right back!"
And with that Kagome flew up the stairs, nearly tripping over the family
cat, which protested loudly at the young woman running past him.
Higurashi Mai looked at the young man standing in her home and Miroku
had the definite impression that she really knew.
"Etsuko Kai," Mai suddenly said.
Miroku's eyes twitched a little. Impossible...
"I knew I'd see you again."
"I beg your pardon, but..."
She smiled more. "Don't deny it, please. We met before, almost fifteen
years ago, after my husband had died. You delivered a check, a large sum
of insurance money. My husband never told me about an insurance and to
this day, I believe he never had one." She inclined her head a little.
"I could never explain the feeling of being watched after that. I couldn't
explain our good luck and saw it as just that - luck. But something told
me it wasn't. There were people around us who took an interest in my family.
When Kagome was pulled into the well and disappeared into the other time,
when she told me all about her adventures and the people she had met, something
changed this family. Still, I couldn't explain it. Not even the feeling
that whenever Kagome was in the past, she was perfectly safe despite the
danger. Inuyasha came through the well sometimes and each time, the feeling
of safety increased."
Mai met his eyes head on.
"He was here before he even came through the well. He was watching her,
correct? You all were. You watched out family."
Miroku looked at her, stunned. How... how could she have known abut
the guardians, the silent watchers? When had she seen Inuyasha?
Mai looked calm, almost serene. "I was awake one night. I looked out
of the window and he was there. Different from the Inuyasha I had met,
looking older, wearing clothes that fit more into this world, and he was
going through the well. When he came back, he was expected by someone I
had never seen before, but he was like Inuyasha. Don't lie to me, Miroku."
"I never did," he replied, voice as calm as hers.
"You did when you gave me the money."
He briefly bowed his head. "Not really, no. We owe Kagome a lot and
this insurance was what we had decided to give to her, to you all."
"You could have just saved my husband," she said evenly.
He inhaled a little. "No. It would have changed everything."
Higurashi Mai gazed at him for a long time, silent.
"Yes, maybe," she finally admitted. "But it's painful to accept that
you were there and could have done something, but you didn't."
"If we had done something, we might not have been there," Miroku objected.
"We were only there, fifteen years ago, because Kagome had been in the
past and completed the Shikon no Tama. She was in the past because in her
own past, our future, she had grown up without her father in this very
place."
The woman shook her head, a rueful smile on her lips. "The laws of physics,
hm?"
He chuckled. "Yes." Miroku grew serious again. "Can you accept what
has happened, what is happening, Higurashi-san?"
"Mai," she corrected him and he accepted the familiarity with a nod.
"As to whether I can accept it or not, I always have. My daughter traveled
into the past and fought demons and monsters. I accepted that already.
Now those demons are part of her future. I think it's not harder than having
a half-demon in our house, watching TV and trying to cook."
Miroku laughed. "Yes, that's true."
"And if Inuyasha wants to visit, he's very welcome."
"I'll tell him. Thank you, Mai. For your understanding and... your acceptance."
Pounding feet on the stairs announced Kagome's return. She was slightly
breathless, dressed in a smart black and white outfit. Miroku gave her
a nod of approval.
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
They said their good-byes and Miroku accompanied the young woman to
his car.
* * *
Miroku was smiling widely as he walked through the large double doors
of Inuyasha's office. His hanyou partner looked up from his computer where
he was currently going over budget numbers of his department.
"Well?" he asked, eyes straying to the young woman following Miroku.
Kagome's face split into a happy smile. "I made it!"
And then she flew into his arms, hugging him tightly.
"Calls for a party, hm?" Miroku laughed, winking at Inuyasha, who was
embracing the dark-haired girl.
"Congratulations," he murmured, hugging her back.
Kagome's eyes radiated joy and relief, her whole face aglow with the
pride of her achievement.
"She aced it," Miroku added smugly. "I knew she would."
Kagome gave him a thumbs up. "I've got to tell Kouga! Is he in?"
Inuyasha chuckled. "Yes, he's downstairs in the garden."
Kagome smiled again and detached herself, waving. "See you later!"
And with that she out of the office, flying toward the elevators.
Miroku smiled and pushed the door shut, then walked over and wrapped
an arm around his bonded.
"She was really good," he said and pulled the other man close, kissing
him.
Inuyasha's eyes sparkled. "I never had a doubt. Her grades dropped the
moment she began to help us. She was a good student until then. I knew
with the right teachers and enough time, she'd be able to get in."
He playfully nipped at Miroku's lips.
"What do you think about Kouga and her?" the dark-haired man asked as
he caressed the slender back.
"Keh. So far the wolf's behaving. He better keep on doing that or I'll
tear his head off."
"Inuyasha..." Miroku admonished him a little.
"What? You know how infatuated he was with her!"
"It's been five hundred years for him. He had partners, he had relationships...
Kagome's the one who hasn't had that much time pass for herself. You know
she has feelings for him, even if she never realized them."
Inuyasha frowned and looked at the closed door. "I know that. But I
also know that Kouga won't hurt her." His voice was serious now, a lot
more even.
"We both do. He's been nothing but a good friend to her since we met
her again."
Miroku gave him a last kiss and detached himself. "I've got to go, koishii.
See you tonight?"
Inuyasha nodded. "I'll be out early."
Miroku waved and closed the door, leaving a thoughtful Inuyasha behind.
What were Kouga's intentions, if there were any? And if he was serious
about his feelings for Kagome, were they actually returned or was it just
a crush on her side. Inuyasha planned on keeping an eye on them. A very
close one.

tbc...
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Evolution	By : Macx Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2806 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, nor make money from this story.

Evolution