A/n:......Yeah, I know, you don't have to say anything. I swear, this took me less than five minutes to write, and I was actually finishing up the next chapter of So Much For Pretending, but I got distracted by the new idea. It's Beauty and the Beast based, but I thought, come on, a funnier name is definitely needed here. Teehee. And guess what! This one's gonna have little or no angst! Aren't you all jumping for joy! Yaaaaaay! Hehe. Ok, read this and try not to flame me! :)

Disclaimer: Don't own him, get off my back.

Ditsy and a Dog

Chapter One - The Beast

He looked grumpily down at a flexed claw, fighting the urge to kill for the millionth time in the past five minutes. It was getting tiresome, and it was beginning to hurt his palms with the way he kept digging those powerful claws into his calloused skin.

He sighed and growled at the same time; a formidable sound if ever one was heard. The old maid in the corner cowered fearfully, terror running through her at the master's sudden transformation.

For weeks now, he'd holed himself in his room. It was nothing truly unexpected of course. If something this cruel should ever happen to her... Kaede was sure she wouldn't have any self-control in a single bone of her frail old body.

She'd tended to her master for years, ever since his father had died suddenly and his mother had gone into such a depression that she couldn't care for her son. The master's brother had left him, scoffing the child and his mother for being so helpless without their alpha male.

Kaede heard her master sigh again, only this time it was in defeat, the first sort of sound she'd heard from him in ages. The last time he'd made that noise, it had been at his mother's death bed. Surely he wasn't going to kill himself...?

Kaede shook her head with a smile. No matter what happened to Inuyasha, he would remain the stubborn old hanyou with a stick up his butt, even if he was a full demon now. No way was he going to give up on living, even if he had no chance for freedom again.

The old woman hadn't realized that her master's ears had been swivelled towards her for a while now, and that he was cracking his fingers in anticipation. Finally, an old withered ear of Kaede's heard the cracking, and she slammed the door shut, exactly at the moment that Inuyasha leaped upon the place she once stood.

She placed a hand over her wildly beating heart, cursing herself for not being as wary as she should have been. Inside, he might be Inuyasha, but this was not her master she was dealing with anymore. This was the side of him never revealed before. The side he himself never knew existed.

The growl sounded on the other side of the door.

"Old crone, I don't want to see you in here again!" Her former master barked. "Or anyone else!"

Kaede shakily bowed at the closed door, knowing that he could sense her every move anyway.

"Yes my lord, it shall not happen again." And with that, she backed away from the old double doors, and ran as though the hounds of hell were after her.

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So... how'd ya'll like my little prologue type thingy? Good? Oh yeah, I want EVERYONE to tell me something....and I need your sincere opinions on this, and I will be taking a poll or whatever, and if you're sad because of the outcome, it'll be your fault for not reviewing. I need to know: if you had to choose, which story would you want me to continue? Either So Much For Pretending, Sweet Salvation, Ditsy and a Dog, or more songfics? I really want to know, because in case I'm too swamped to work on all of them, I want to know which one to try and pursue the most. Get it? So yeah, review and give me your opinion! PLEASE! I want to know what most of you want and what my best choice is (or which one is my best story : P) So pick and choose! Thanks! -Ariana