Escape- a Koga-Kagome Story

Chapter 1: The last straw

"SIT!" *WAPAM* Sango sighed and looked at Inuyasha in faux pity. Kagome stood over him, her finger pointing where the hanyou's face was before her command made him kiss the dirt. "Whu te hnll wuz hat fawr?" In face-planted-hanyou: "What the hell was that for?" Kagome narrowed her eyes into slimmer slits. "BECAUSE, Inuyasha. You once again took advantage of my feelings just to go and slap them in my face! I swear, why I even put up with you, you jerk!" She shouted at him, stalking away with a small Shippo on her shoulders. Miroku walked to him and helped to lift him out of his small crater. "Kagome-san does have a point, Inuyasha. This past week she has been very lenient with you, and you still push your boundaries. This act was definitely the last straw." He reasoned looking at him the way a father does his son after he just got in trouble with his mother. Sango nodded and stood up. "I'm going after Kagome-chan. I'm sure she's at the nearest hot spring." Inuyasha simply glared at the two and snapped his head away. "Keh." He scoffed.

Sango took her leave and soon came across the hot spring, which was father than she preferred. What had her worried even more was the fact that Kagome wasn't there, but her clothes were. "Kagome-chan? Are you around here?" Sango called and waited, but she got nothing. "Kagome-chan, it's Sango. Please answer me, Kagome-chan!" She called, a little louder and a scared tone in her voice. Once again all she got was silence. Sango picked up the miko's clothes and searched the spring, and the surrounding trees for any sign of her pissed off friend –and Shippo- she noticed. After looking around a very large rock she found them. Kagome asleep on a rock and Shippo cradled amongst some smaller ones nearby. Sango sighed in relief and stripped, walking slowly into the hot water to get used to the temperature. She waded over to Kagome and gently roused her awake. "Kagome-chan?" Said girl cracked her eyes open a sliver and jumped. "Oh!" "It's okay Kagome-chan, it is just me." Sango soothed, holding her hands up.

Kagome relaxed a few degrees, and then looked sharply to her left, not saying anything. Sango sighed and rested her hand on Kagome's shoulder. "I know Inuyasha can be an ass as well as an insensitive jerk, but you should've known that once everything goes well for a while, something was going to go awry, right?" Sango asked, looking at Kagome expectantly. Kagome sighed, she was expecting Inuyasha to betray her weakened trust and go after Kikyo, but she always hoped that he wouldn't. "Just this once, I really thought that he wasn't going to leave us and go after her any more. I guess I had this coming." She lowered her head in shame. "How could I have been this foolish, Sango-chan? How could I have been so naïve as to see that he truly doesn't love me in that way, or hardly at all? I need to let go of him, and move to someone who won't make me feel so lost and alone."

Sango tilted her head. "You mean…you're going with him?" She asked, hoping that wasn't the case, and hoping it was. Kagome nodded, lathering the soap and rubbing it along her body to cleanse herself of the dirt and sweat and blood. "I'm going with Koga-kun. I'm sure he doesn't deserve the pain of having to wait for me, and now I'm finally going to accept. If you want, you can come with me, Sango-chan." Sango looked at her friend, who was washing Shippo. Would she really leave them, just to get away from one person? A few tears rolled down as she realized Kagome was serious. Well, if Kagome was leaving, than so was she. Kagome was the closest thing to a sister- a friend as she ever had. She wasn't going to lose her because of one person. "I'm going with you, Kagome-chan." Sango said after a pause. Kagome nodded and rinsed off. "I'm going tonight; I don't want to stall any longer than what it'll take to reach his den."

"Alright." The two rinsed off and redressed, walking hand-in-hand back to camp, a dozing Shippo snuggling into Kagome's neck from his seat on her shoulder. When they arrived, Miroku and Inuyasha were stoking the fire, sharing a light conversation. "Bouzo how's the fire?" Inuyasha asked suddenly, not scenting the girls –who were hiding behind a few trees and bushes. Miroku gave a face of annoyance at him before looking back into the fire. "It's at the right peak and heat for dinner to be made. Inuyasha, I may be a bit of a Lech, but please cease in calling me a bouzo. It insults my cause." Inuyasha rolled his eyes, ignoring him. Kagome sighed and pointed at the scene just that just happened. "See what I mean Sango-chan? This is why I can't stay anymore." Kagome whispered. Sango nodded and the two girls stepped into view. Inuyasha immediately burst on Kagome. "Oy wench, what took you two so long? We gotta eat you know!" Kagome sighed and looked at Sango- who nodded. "No Inuyasha, you gotta eat. Sango-chan and I are leaving." She said strongly. Inuyasha sputtered. "What… did you just say?" He sneered darkly. Sango stood up then. "Kagome-chan has put up with up with your brashness and crappy acts towards us too long. She and I are going to take up Kouga's offer." Miroku seemed confused, and then Shippo popped from his sleep. "Me too! You're too mean Inuyasha!" he chirped before falling back to sleep. Inuyasha seemed hurt, broken. Kagome couldn't take the look on his face and leaped into his arms, tears flowing out. "I'm so sorry, Inuyasha. But…I just can't. You have to understand that I'm not leaving because of what you are, but how you act towards us. You don't treat us like people anymore, just pets or pests that you haul around for the sake of having something to bark at. I won't stand for it any longer." She whispered against him, pulling back to look deeply into his golden eyes.

Inuyasha was silent for a moment, taking in all that was said. Then he hung his head low in shame. "If you wish it, then you may leave. Just please, don't forget me. I know I won't forget you. I'm sorry as well." He answered. Kagome closed her eyes and hugged him more. "Never Inuyasha. I'll visit when the jewel is complete and Naraku is destroyed." She hugged him again and then walked to a hill, stretching her aura to look for the signs of a certain band of ookami demons. She found the familiar aura a few miles to the east, and sent a blast of her scent to that direction, knowing he caught it when the aura suddenly turned and headed in her direction. After that she silently sat down and began to make the usual ramen soup with fish. Miroku swallowed his mouth full and then decided to tag along with Sango and Kagome. Inuyasha simply nodded, his eyes revealing that he was officially cut off from them. He rose to 'take a walk' that night, but never returned. Kagome knew what he had done, and cried herself to sleep that night, feeling the most guilty for Inuyasha's act and pain. "It-it's for the best Kagome. For the best." She told herself in reassurance. Somehow that didn't seem to help and made her cry more. The morning brought about a new day, and new changes. Kagome awoke to see a pair of pupil less icy blue eyes that she knew. "Kouga-kun?" she asked tiredly. The eyes backed away to reveal the face of Kouga and his two pack mates: Ginta and Hakkaku, along with three actual wolves.

"Ohayou gozaimasu, Kagome. Where's that Inukuso?" Kouga asked, sitting much Inuyasha would and tilting his head to the side. Kagome sighed and hid her head in her knees. "It's my entire fault, Kouga-kun. My entire fault!" She wailed. "He- he committed seppuku last night because we- we- were going to hunt Naraku with you!" Kouga was silent, and two different emotions were battling inside him. One: complete and utter joy. Kagome finally decided that he was better to be with and was going to stay with him, and that Inukuso was finally out of the picture. Two: pain. He didn't like when his beloved Kagome was in pain, emotionally of physically, and right now he was quite sure it was both. He knew that Kagome would mourn, but he wasn't expecting for Inuyasha to do seppuku just because she chose himself instead of him. Ah well, it was time to take care of sad Kagome, not dawdle on Inuyasha. Kouga pulled Kagome to him, stroking her back and hair. "S'ok Kagome. I'm sorry for you. However, I'm glad that you decided to stick with me." Kagome sniffled and pulled away, nodding. "You're welcome. I just…couldn't live with the way he treated us anymore. Miroku-sama, Sango-chan, and Shippo-chan are coming with me. Is that ok?" Kagome asked, her eyes pleading for Kouga to agree, not daring to think of the pain she would feel if she left her friends.

Kouga sensed this, and nodded, giving a genuine smile and winking. "Hai, I couldn't leave you friends without you. I already know how it feels to be without the greatest woman on earth." He flirted. Kagome blushed, and –on instinct- shouted 'osuwari'. The others looked at her funny, and a few tears streaked the miko's face. "Sorry, Inuyasha always interferes here, and the command was instinctual." She whispered, standing up and brushing invisible dirt off of her skirt. Kouga stood up as well and waved it off. "No worries. Come on, let's get going." He ordered. Kagome twiddled with her thumbs. "Wait, Kouga-kun. There's a few things I've been keeping from you."

END OF CHAPTER 1! MUHAHA ANOTHER CLIFFY!

You know, I was at first going to make this a one shot, but then I was like "Neh, Ima make this a full blown multi-chappie. I'm not in the mood to make another one shot, so eh…" And this was born! Heh. Sango-chan, take us out while I go and beat up Inukuso for taking the last ramen cup! ^goes to find Inuyasha^

Sango: Oy, I feel sorry for Inuyasha. Anyways peeps, review review review pretty pleahze! Thnx a bunchies!