Last Time

Kagome

"It's nice to meet you too," I replied, "well it's nice to meet you when you're not slapping me," I laughed. Everyone else laughed too, I'm not sure if they laughed because it was funny or because I'm Luna but oh well, the only people not laughing was Evil Chucky and Miroku. Evil Chucky just looked really guilty and murmured 'sorry.'

"I can't believe you slapped your Luna!" Miroku shouted, "I can't wait to tell Inuyasha."

"NO! you can't tell Alpha Red! He will kill me, please don't," Evil Chucky pleaded, looking not so evil.

"It's up to Kags," Miroku said and looked at me, actually everyone in the room was looking at me.

"Don't worry, no one has to tell Inuyasha, you didn't know, you were just trying to protect your pack," I smiled at Evil Chucky and he let out a breath that he was holding.


Chapter 5: Pack Barbecue, Welcome Luna

Kagome

I was sitting in what they call the games room in the pack house with Miroku, Evil Chucky and a couple of other guys. Some of the people in the room were playing on the games or just chatting away with each other but some were sitting around me and listening to me.

"I honestly don't see how you could be Alpha Red's mate, you're so nice and fun, more innocent then him," one of the guys said, I learnt his name is Hiten, I smiled at him taking what he said as a compliment, "Alpha Red is cruel and doesn't have any fun."

"I know! He can be such an ass sometimes, like, I haven't even known him for a day and he has still had enough time to yell at me, such a dickhead," I complained and everyone laughed. A second after everyone started laughing they all suddenly stopped with their eyes widened.

"Kagome," warned an oh so familiar voice from behind me, I mouthed a curse word to the people in front of me and they all smiled or laughed, I turned around and smiled innocently at Inuyasha.

"Hey Inuyasha, did you finish with your work already?" I asked in a sweet voice like nothing happened. The guys that were now behind me since I was facing Inuyasha chuckled and I flipped them off behind me back as a joke.

"We're leaving," Inuyasha stated with a straight face.

"Can't I just stay a little longer? I haven't managed to talk to everyone yet."

"Now," he snapped. I sighed and got off the couch, I waved goodbye to everyone and walked out next to Inuyasha.

"So now you're not only trying to run away from me and hate me but you're also trying to humiliate me in front of my pack," Inuyasha hissed, grabbing my arm and dragging me down the hallway since I wasn't walking fast enough.

I woke up to the sound of birds tweeting outside my window. It was really nice and relaxing, not annoying at all. I looked at the alarm clock that read 8:34 am.

I pulled off the blankets that had kept me warm last night and stepped out of the king size bed. I walked to the closet and pulled out some clothes to wear today. I wanted to make sure they were decent clothes since I was being introduced to the pack today. I didn't want to look desperate, slutty, over done or not put any effort in it so it was actually quite difficult. Since it was just a slightly more than casual barbeque, I decided to wear something simple but elegant. I am so glad Inuyasha had stocked half his closet with women's clothes, he said he put them their just in case he found his mate but I'm not so sure.

Once I picked out my outfit which was a floral maxi skirt and a plain white singlet, I brought my clothes into the bathroom and stripped out of Inuyasha's sweat pants and t-shirt that he leant me last night. After I had my shower, I got dressed, brushed my teeth and hair then I slowly walked downstairs. I saw Inuyasha lying asleep on the couch, he kept insisting he should sleep next to me.

I slowly crept past him and made my way to the door. Inuyasha said I wasn't allowed out today because of all the things that happened yesterday, that's why I had to sneak past him without waking him up.

Once I had successfully opened and closed the front door without him realizing, I made a run for it. I wasn't planning on running away, I was actually running towards the pack house. I had gotten along with everyone so well yesterday, I actually liked the people here. All my old pack members said everyone he was awful, but I think it's just Inuyasha that is mean.

Once the pack house was in sight, I walked instead of running. There were more children playing outside today than there was yesterday, maybe because it's nice and sunny today. As I was walking towards the house, I saw a little girl, around the age of 4, fall over on the stairs. She started crying and it didn't look like anyone was coming over to help her.

I walked over and knelt down beside her.

"Hey sweetie, are you alright?" I asked in the softest voice I could muster.

"N-no," she cried, "I h-hurt my ankle."

"Well do you want me to get you inside and we can put some ice on it. And maybe, I could find you a lollipop that you can have, that might make it feel better huh?" I questioned. She nodded her head and lifted her arms asking to be picked up. I picked her up and sat her on my hip while walking inside.

"What's your name hun?" I asked her, looking down at her,

"Alexis," she replied. She had stopped crying now but her ankle looked a little red and swollen.

"Hi Alexis, my name is Kagome but you can call me Kags," I said and sat her on the kitchen bench top. There was nobody in the kitchen yet so I had no one to ask for help finding an ice-pack.

They had a massive row of fridges and freezers in this kitchen, there were about 5 of each. I took a guess on which one it would be in and I found it in the second one I looked in. I wrapped the ice-pack in a towel and placed it on Alexis's ankle. I got a lollipop out of a jar that sat on the kitchen bench top and gave it to Alexis.

"All better?" I asked and she nodded, she stayed sitting on the bench just eating her lollipop.

I sighed and then turned to where I heard someone enter the kitchen.

"Oh, hello Kagome," Ms. Kaede said carrying in shopping bags, "sorry if you needed me, I was just shopping for the things we need for today's barbeque."

"No, I was just helping out Alexis," I said and pointed to Alexis's ankle, "would you like some help bringing in the shopping bags?"

"You don't need to do that dear" Ms. Kaede denied.

"I insist," I exclaimed, she smiled at me and sighed through her nose.

"Come on then," she laughed. I followed her out to her car and there were so many shopping bags in the car.

It took us 4 returns to bring all the shopping bags in. We carried the last lot of bags through the house chatting away. I asked if she would like me to help with cooking tonight and once again she denied but after I said I wanted to help she then she agreed to let me help her in the end.

As we walked into the kitchen for the last time, Alexis was nowhere to be seen but Inuyasha and Miroku came running in.

"Kagome! I thought you ran again," Inuyasha said running over to me and hugging me after I put the shopping bags down. He held me in his arms for a while before he pulled away and looked down into my eyes.

"Sorry", I mumbled

"Come on, let's go home and get to know each other before the barbeque," Inuyasha said and began to pull me away.

"Wait," I quickly blurted out, Inuyasha stopped in his tracks and looked at me, "I promised Ms. Kaede I would help her cook for tonight," I said and smiled. Inuyasha looked really disappointed and sad, he looked legitimately heart broken, "But we have a lifetime to get to know each other, we don't have to do it now," I reassured him.

"I feel bad for you," Miroku started, "you have to put up with a lifetime of Inuyasha."

I laughed lightly and Inuyasha just glared at Miroku. Inuyasha really needs to lighten up sometimes.

"Okay, you help out Ms. Kaede, I'm going to set some things up but I will meet you back here at 1500 when the barbeque starts," Inuyasha informed me. And with that both Inuyasha and Miroku walked out of the kitchen, leaving Kaede to put away the groceries.

Me, Kaede and a couple other she-wolves had just finished cooking and serving the hungry pack of wolves. Every single pack member was sitting around an extremely long table in the front garden of the pack house, where the children liked to play. As I sat down on the seat next to Inuyasha that he had reserved for me. As I sat down he rested his hand on my hand that was leaning on the table and he smiled at me, I shot him a smile in return. We all began eating and I must admit I was really hungry since I spent the whole day cooking.

After we finished eating, Inuyasha leaned over to me and whispered into my ear, "are you ready to be officially introduced as my beautiful Luna?"

I nodded in reply, blushing slightly at his compliment as Inuyasha stood up. He motioned for me to stand up next to him, which I did. He cleared his throat loudly which caught everyone's attention, causing the whole back garden to be coated with silence.

"KAGOME!" a little voice called out. I saw Alexis run up to me with open arms and I picked her up and sat her on my hip. Inuyasha looked at Alexis, slightly angry but then turned his head back to the waiting crowd.

"You may all be aware, that we have called this pack meeting here today, to introduce your new Luna," Inuyasha exclaimed loudly, loud enough for the whole pack to hear. Everyone burst out in cheers, it made me feel really welcomed, "SILENCE! Kagome is not only my mate and your Luna, but also a hard- working pack member like yourselves, as you can see by the lovely meal she helped make. You will treat her with much respect and -"

"ALPHA!" someone in the crowd exclaimed interrupting Inuyasha's speech. I could tell Inuyasha was not happy with the little interruption since his eyes went dark and his fists clenched, it is obvious he has some sort of bi-polar disorder, no one but him could get mad that easily, "Midnight Moon pack members have been spotted on the North-West border."

Inuyasha nodded his head towards a couple of men that sat near us, they must be of high rank, pack fighters most likely. They stood up and followed the man who interrupted Inuyasha, Naraku and Evil Chucky also followed after the other fighters.

"I'm so sorry sweetie, I have to go," Inuyasha whispered to me before following the other men.

"Please don't hurt them!" I called out after him, he just shook his head and shifted into his white wolf with orange ears, running into the distance.