Disclaimer- I don't own Inuyasha.

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Summary: What exactly happened in my past? What does Naraku want with Inuyasha? Is there really a way that Kouga could still be alive like Naraku claims he is? No, I saw his dead, lifeless body before the funeral. He's not alive...Is he?

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Everything happened so fast. First I was lying awake in my bed thinking, next I was chasing the only hope I had at solving the unsolved puzzle of my past. Naraku was back, back with a vengence, and back to give me some very heart-fealt news: Kouga was alive. That's what he said when he called me. I had no idea how he got my number, but he did, and he told me that my past love, who he killed, was alive. Once those words left his mouth, my brain went out the window, bringing all hope of commonsense with it. Now here I am, running. Running through a forest to see if what he said was true. It never occured to me to think of the consiquences, just to run to find the truth.

I came to a clearing. It had trees all around it, and looked like a fire spread, clearing the trees to form this perfect circle, clearing. The wind was blowing, making the flowers sway in a breath taking dance, but none of this mattered. The only thing that mattered was what was standing in the clearing. Standing before me was someone I thought I would never see again.

"Kagome." Kouga whispered as soon as he saw me.

"K-Kouga?" I studdered. "I thought that you were d-dead."

"I did too."

"Kouga."

I ran into his open arms, and cried into his chest. I hadn't been able to cry tears of anything other than saddness since his death.

"I missed you so much, Kagome," he whispered in my ear.

"I missed you too," I sobbed. "I never thought I would be able to ever see you again."

"Well I'm here now that's all that matters."

Kouga hugged me closer to him and kissed my forehead.

"Let's go home."

He nodded and scooped me up in his arms, as he started running towards my house. All the while, all that was running through my head was the fact that he was here, and I was in his arms.

"Kagome, why are you living at your grandfather's house now?" Kouga asked curiously.

"I left after I thought you had died. I couldn't stand being there, where it had happened."

He seemed to understand, because he just nodded as he brought me inside. He obviously followed my scent upstairs and to my room, where he sat me down on my bed, him next to me.

"So who is he?"

I was utterly confused. Who was this he, he was talking about. Then all reality came flooding back to me. The he Kouga was referring to was Inuyasha, because of the locket he was now staring at.

"His name is Inuyasha. Do you remember him?" I asked cautiously.

"Inuyasha? I've never heard of him."

"You should, he's your cousin."

"Cousin?" he asked confussed.

"Yeah. Inuyasha Takahashi, your cousin."

I opened the locket and showed him the picture of Inuyasha.

"Oh, him." he said with disgust. "Is that from a dance?" he asked, pointing to the picture on the right of my locket.

"Prom actually." I sighed. "I was prom Queen, thanks to one of my so-called friends."

"I always imagined you would be," he said with a smile

"So what's going to happen now?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, what's going to happen with Inuyasha, you, and I?"

He sighed and pulled me into his lap. "I don't know, but what I do know is I'm going to savior every moment I have with you in case something like that ever happens again."

I smiled, "Sounds like a plan."

I was going to do exactly what he just said, because I didn't know how much longer I had until either Naraku or Inuyasha come into the picture, and we have no control over what happens. I didn't even want to think of choosing between the two cousins, and in a way, that was worse than Naraku.

Unexpectantly Kouga turned me around to face him and captured my lips in a passionate kiss. His lips felt warm on my cold ones. I put my arms around his neck, and after a while, we parted for air.

"Where did that come from?" I asked, not complaining.

"I missed being able to kiss you, and hold you," he admitted as he, once again, pulled me close to him.

"You should have seen me after I thought you d-died. I wouldn't talk, and wouldn't give anyone my name. That is, until Inuyasha came into the picture. He saved me from going completely under."

"I'll have to thank him then," he told me. "Thank him for saving you."

"He saved me in more ways then one."

Kouga nodded before speaking again, "I'm glad I didn't have to see you go through that pain though, because I would have killed myself if I saw you like that. It would have hurt me too much."

"I know, but I'm better now."

Kouga once again captured my lips.

"Deffinetly better now that I'm here."

"Deffinetly better," I agreed.

"Why stop speaking?" he asked referring to earlier.

"I guess I felt that I need to be isolated from the world, and that was the only way to do it."

"I see why you would want that, from all that you've been through, with losing your parents and all."

"They're dead, you're alive...How did that happen?"

"I don't know, but I don't think they survived...sorry."

"It's okay, I've learned to live with it for the most part," I told him.

"I guess you kind of have to, don't you?"

"Unfortuntly."

"Unfortunte is the only thing that ever happens to you," he mummbled almost incoherently.

I knew that what he said wasn't true, because I had him back, and I had Inuyasha. Those two things had to be counted as fortunte because they both brought good things to me.

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Well, there is the first chapter of the sequel. A) Did you like it? B) Do you want me to continue?

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