Oofie: "LO SIENTO!!!!!!!"

Inuyasha: "What the fuck…."

Oofie: "I'm sorry. I guess I've underestimated the might of AP work."

Kagome: "Holy cow you've got AP classes?"

Oofie: "Yeah…. It's not really that big a deal if you have time. But I've got so much other stuff to do that it's insane."

Kagome: "I'm sorry…"

Oofie: "It's cool. I've finally worked out a schedule so it works, and I've managed to get a little free time on days that aren't as heavy on the workload."

Inuyasha: "Oh goodie. So you'll be here then?"

Oofie: "I hope enough to get around to finishing this. I already know how I want it to end. I just don't know how many chapters it will take to get there."

Kagome: "Wow. How does it end?"

Oofie: "Oh you'll see!"

Inuyasha: "She doesn't really know."

Oofie: "Oh I do. I just don't want to spoil it."

Kagome: "Well… at least tell us about this chapter?"

Oofie: "With pleasure! I will definitely say this chapter is not for those of us who are against sex being publicly displayed….Whether it be through written form or anything else. Especially if it's rather pointless. Then I advise you to scroll down to the next place you see bold print. I'll fill you in at the end of the chapter, so as not to spoil it for the people who don't mind."

Inuyasha: "Do I even wanna know…"

Oofie: "Definitely not."

Inuyasha: "Ugh…."

Oofie: "Kagome?"

Kagome: "Oofie doesn't own us, or anything Inuyasha."

Ookami-sama!

Ai sat at her place behind the front desk, pretending to be busy by shuffling through papers. In truth, her job description only covered tending to the HhHigher Ups' errands and greeting anybody who needed to be greeted as they walked through the buildings front entry. However, most of the Higher Ups were out of the country at a conference in Britain, and it was too early for anybody to bother coming in that needed assistance finding anything or needed a formal greeting.

So in short, Ai was extremely bored.

Trying desperately not to sway her tail behind her and attract attention with the bright golden brown fur on it, she replaced the papers upon her desk then picked up a quill to scribble a note to nobody in particular, just trying to appear busy once again.

"Hello miss," a smooth and deep voice said, and when she looked up she came face to face with the most beautiful blue eyes the youkai had ever seen in all her days.

The eyes belonged to a rather tall tanned youkai with a handsome face and strong jaw line. His dark black hair was slicked back from his face and ran long down his back in straight dark cascades. Both of his arms were tucked behind him and he stood tall and proud, a slight polite grin on his face. Once she managed to get the enthralled look off of her own countenance, she noticed that behind him were two other men, though not as attractive. They both stood silently at attention in servants' robes.

"Sorry to have to bother you, but I require a bit of assistance," the ookami spoke politely with a slight inclination of his head.

"Y-Yes sir," Ai stuttered as she stood up from her seat immediately and bowed to the young lord. "What can I do for you?"

"Well, I…" he trailed off as she looked up. He stared at her for a moment, then grinned and stepped closer to the desk. "Excuse me if I am mistaken, but you are… a kenshiko youkai, are you not?"

The youkai behind the desk nodded and began fiddling with the sleeve of her blue-grey kimono. "Hai, I am."

"I see. Kenshiko-san… there are not many of you left. Which is a shame, seeing as your kind are so beautiful," he complimented smoothly with a grin that could melt Ai's heart. "I'm sorry… how inappropriate. I came with some business and began spouting off on random topics. I need to check on some documents for my clan. Can you show me where the Records Room is?"

"O-Of course sir," she replied rather flustered. She stepped out from behind her desk, trying to maintain an heir of grace, and then motioned for him to start down a hallway.

He nodded elegantly, but said "I would much rather the lady proceed before the men, seeing as we haven't the slightest idea where we are going and you seem like an expert. So let us be going."

She nodded at the strange request but obliged him anyway. Seeing as there were not any truly important people in the building at the time, she did not need to worry about rudely escorting the guest from the front. So she walked silently forward, turning down different hallways when necessary and venturing deeper into the Syndicate building. Occasionally she would come across a person working who would eye them strangely, but she ignored them and kept up her heir of professionalism.

.:.

"Kouga!" a voice urgently whispered behind the determined ookami youkai. He glanced back when he was sure nobody was looking, and saw that it was Ginta who had called to him. He signaled that he had heard him with a quick nod that he was listening, and then quick as a flash he turned his head back around.

Ginta and Hakakku exchanged glances then the former walked forward faster so he was merely a few inches behind his captain.

"How do you plan on getting the stuff we need out of here? There's no way she'll let us!" he whispered so quietly even a youkai would have to strain to hear if they were not standing directly next to him.

Kouga shrugged slightly and turned his head a tad while keeping his eye on the kenshiko. "I'm not sure yet, just keep going along with what I say for now."

Ginta nodded, trusting his captain whole heartedly. He slowed his pace and fell back next to Hakakku where he proceeded to urgently whisper the words he had been told to the other youkai.

.:.

"Here we are, the records room," Ai announced as they approached a room at the end of a very long and empty corridor. She reached to open the sliding door but a strong muscled arm reached around her and opened it, much to her surprise. She looked up at the youkai lord curiously but he simply smiled his winning smile at her.

"No lady as beautiful as your self should have to open doors for herself," he said politely as he gestured for her to step inside. She of course obliged him again and preceded the three ookami youkai into room.

The interior of the room was almost like a library with floor to ceiling bookshelves lining each wall and all different heighted shelves in the middle. Each was filled with books, papers, folders, scrolls, and any other form of printed information you could possibly name. Ai peered around the Records Room in awe as she did every time she stepped inside its vast inner space. So much information was held within these walls, from everything to when and where a youkai was born to historic youkai wars and conquests. Her own birth registration papers were located in this room, along with her employment papers and even her ancestral history. Absolutely everything to do with recorded Japanese youkai history was located in this room.

Suddenly remembering her place, Ai spun back around towards the Syndicate guests and placed her heir of professionalism back on, if only until she caught the young Lord's crystal blue gaze.

He was staring at her openly, and a spike in his scent that she could barely detect told her that he was aroused. This made her blush timidly, unsure if it was quite right for an obvious Lord to show interest in anybody of her stature. It was, in theory, highly unethical after all.

Oh but the way he was watching her intently, as if his eyes were only made to gaze at her, filled her with a sudden lust that she knew he could smell after her smiled at her in a sort of smug satisfaction.

When he took a resolute step forward, she shuffled backwards in confusion beyond the "ethical" dilemma she was currently experiencing. Was he truly going to act on such roguish impulses? The very thought made her shudder, but then again it could have easily just been the way he gazed up and down her body with such passion in his eyes. She found herself breathing rapidly as he backed her up against a bookshelf, acutely aware of his proximity as he stepped ever closer.

"Kenshiko-san," he muttered in such a deep voice she could feel it reverberating inside her. "You smell absolutely wonderful." And with that he dipped his head low, until his nose made contact with the crook in her neck and he breathed deeply.

Just the feeling of his face on her skin made her gasp in excitement, but she held on to whatever dignity she had left.

"Lord…"

"Ookami. Just call me Ookami."

". . . Ookami-sama, really we should be getting to the business you came all the way down to the Syndicate Headquarters for. I-I think it is unwise to… to pursue this further," she spoke in small shudders and gasps as he nuzzled her and pressed himself up against her with abandon.

"Kenshiko-san, come now… I know that is what you think, but is that really what you want?" he whispered lightly in her ear, hunched forward due to the height difference.

Ai began to lose her resolve as he pushed up against her even further and she felt the wooden shelves of the bookcase press into her back. She could get into such trouble if she was found in this position, not to mention the Lord's servants were still there, no doubted staring blatantly at her plight and not so much as even lifting a finger to warn their lord against his actions.

"I…I…What if somebody walks in…"

At that he straightened up like a wooden board, to her relief and dismay. He turned his body at an angle so he could see behind him, and was silent for but a moment before saying. "What about there?"

Ai stepped out from behind the tall Ookami Lord and saw what he was gesturing at.

The door that led to the Restricted Records.

It was off limits to many people and she only had access to it to run errands for the Higher Ups, but she did have the key on her person. It could be so easy…

"That's off limits Lo—"

"Ookami."

"…Ookami-sama," she blushed at such informality.

"Well, less people to walk in and see," he provided effortlessly with a small grin. He stepped forward and pulled them close, nuzzling her neck once more and actually darting his tongue out to heat up her flesh. "I won't let you refuse me, Kenshiko-san. So come with me."

Ai mindlessly nodded and when he stepped away she walked forward to the door. Slowly she reached for her keys…

.:.

"Kouga what the hell are you doing!?" Hakakku whispered urgently the moment his captain turned his back on the woman fumbling with her keys.

"Relax! I'm just going to keep her busy, while we're in there look around the library for anything you can find on Onigumo, got it?" he spoke urgently in undertones.

When both his crew members nodded he spun back around and placed his well-used seductive grin back on his face and stepped back into the noble pretense he hadn't had a use for since he was living with his clan…

.:.

The moment she had turned the key in the lock, Ai felt two strong arms wrap around her middle and her breath hitched in her throat as she felt two lips pressing against it.

"Ookami-sama!" she gasped in surprise, causing him to let out an attractive chuckle.

"See, I knew you could get used to it."

The arms around her loosened slightly so the hands attached to them could run themselves over the curves of her hips, where they found a good grip and pulled her back into their owner. He grinded his pelvis against her backside and she gasped in surprise, tilting her head back and immediately gripping onto his arms to steady herself.

"Kenshiko-san…." He muttered in her ear, "Do you want me?"

Still lost in the sensations of her back ground so thoroughly into his front, she nodded dumbly, and began to shuffle forward when he nudged her to the door. Once inside he closed it behind him, and she was all but putty in his hands…

.:.

"Aw fuck! Ginta where the hell do we start looking?" Hakakku urgently whispered to his crew mate, who was currently skidding past different aisles of bookshelves.

"I figure he's gotta be where they keep birth records for one, and he's also gotta be in the Syndicate section, where everything about the Youkai Syndicate is. So you take the birth records, look under everything Onigumo! I'll check the Syndicate history!"

Hakakku nodded then bounded off towards the section that was labeled "Birth Records" with a large painted hanging sign…

.:.

"Aaaah! Ookami-sama!" Ai mewled out as she felt the wolf youkai's hands on her now exposed breasts. And when he latched onto one of them with his mouth, she nearly screamed in ecstasy.

It was all moving so fast, one second she was at work, the next she was being caressed by the most beautiful male she had ever come across. It was overwhelming, but it excited her none the less. She could feel wetness seeping through her undergarments and sliding down her thighs and she only wished for his touch to quell the aching need.

The Lord looked up at her from her breasts, and smiled accusingly before letting go and beginning to untie the belt of her kimono. "I can smell you Kenshiko-san… Are you really this aroused just for me?"

She nodded her head with a slight moan as his hand finally brushed her bare stomach while her kimono fell around her. "H-Hai Ookami-sama…"

His smile fell slowly form his lips and was replaced by a lustful stare. When their eyes met it was almost as if sparks were emitted from his gaze. And then there it was, plain as day.

His fingers began sliding themselves back and forth against her dripping sex.

She opened her mouth to scream, but he covered her mouth with his own before she could make the sound that could potentially have them caught…

.:.

"OH MY GOD!"

Ginta flinched at the outburst, even if it wasn't that loud, and dropped the book he was holding to bolt down the aisles towards Hakakku. He found him staring open-mouthed at a sheet or paper he held with both of his hands.

"What! Did you find it?" Ginta asked excitedly as he strode up to him and looked at the paper.

"No, but I found my birth certificate. Did you know I was born in Nampo Forest?"

Immediately the ookami lost his eager smile and glared at this partner. "You idiot! I thought you found it! And who gives a fuck about Nampo!"

"Nobody, that's the point! I mean come on, Nampo? That's a bit of a let down y'know… I could have at least been born somewhere more thrilling."

With that Ginta snatched the birth certificate from Hakakku's hands and tossed it on the floor with the pile he had already made. "Just keep looking before Kouga has to come out here and kick your ass. He'll be pissed if you're not working."

"Yeah, you're right. He's pretty strict about getting stuff done…"

.:.

Leaning against the shelves of a bookcase, the ookami Lord bit his lip and thoroughly began to enjoy the attentions that Ai was giving him. He had done such a good job with her that she did not feel it was right to let him off without returning the favor.

So here she was, on her knees in the restricted section of the Youkai Syndicate Records Library with his slender and long fingers running themselves through her golden hair while she gave him the pleasures of her willing mouth. To be truthful she was quite surprised that she was any good at this sort of thing, but he seemed to like it. Every once in a while she would look up to catch him staring as he disappeared in between her lips or as her tongue had come out to meet him. It made her blush to be watched, but she had watched him as he had his face near her most private regions so she supposed it was only fair.

She glanced up once more to see his head lulling back against the books with his tongue darting out to lick his lips as he let out a gruff groan. "Kenshiko-san your mouth is pure heaven…" he muttered, as if he knew she was watching him. She immediately closed her eyes tightly in paranoia of being caught staring and concentrated on not choking while getting as much of this manhood as she could into her mouth…

.:.

"I don't see Onigumo anywhere!" Hakakku called as he searched through the last bit of records before he would return them as he found them so as not to be caught.

Ginta appeared soon after with a dejected look. "Neither did I. Damn, if he's not there than he's not anywhere in this library."

As Hakakku pushed the last few files back into place he turned to face his comrade as he leaned against the bookshelf with his arms crossed across his chest. "He has to be here. Everything Japanese Youkai related is in here… Well, except for the Gouten. But other than that it has to be here."

For a while there was silence between the two as they pondered individually on where the needed records and papers could be, before they heard a rather loud groan seemingly coming from no where. They shared a look for a brief moment, and then headed toward the door that separated the main branch to the restricted area…

.:.

"Here it comes…" the Lord warned in a strained voice just moments before warm and thick liquid burst into Ai's throat, having him too far in her mouth to really taste anything nor avoid swallowing. She pulled him from her mouth with a soft sucking sound one might hear after pulling a lollipop or a Popsicle from one's mouth. But she continued to hold him, and with wide entranced eyes she watched as he began to grow stiff in her hand once more.

"Ookami-sama…" she whispered distractedly as she eyed his member with a slight blush on her face.

The Lord looked down at the sound of his name and smiled at the wondrous look in her eyes. He caught her eye and opened his mouth to say something when a brash knocking on the door made Ai nearly jump out of her skin.

With an annoyed look wearing his features the Lord pushed himself off of the bookshelf and pulled his cloths back into place before going to the door…

.:.

"What is it!?" Kouga whispered hoarsely at the two youkai standing impatiently outside the door.

"Onigumo isn't in the library."

"Nande!?"

"He isn't here. We've checked, and haven't found him," Hakakku answered, his arms crossed over his chest with an annoyed look on his face.

"Damn, well where in the hell… Why are the two of you looking at me that way?" Kouga asked when he noticed the demeanor of his crew members.

"You smell like sex." Hakakku commented dryly.

"Head, to be more specific." Ginta said in agreement as he took a more careful sniff at the smell emanating from their captain.

Kouga closed his mouth quickly and a vein jumped in his forehead as he clenched his jaw. His two crew members exchanged looks once more and gave him a look that clearly showed their captain what they thought of him at that moment, but he ignored the blatant stares. "Your point?"

"We could be killed if we're caught looking around in here, and you're just sitting there enjoying yourself while the office slut is sucking you up! I don't see how that's fair…." Ginta started but closed his mouth after he noticed his captain did not seem to be listening. Instead, he brought up a hand to his chin and began to smirk.

"You said he's not in the normal library? Well… I am in the restricted area…. I figured we'd need access to that. Give me ten minutes."

And with that he returned to his place behind the door while Ginta and Hakakku simply sat there in dumbfounded shock that he would simply walk away…

.:.

When the young Lord returned he had a very primal smirk on his face, and it only served to moisten the apex between Ai's thighs as she watched him approach her. She backed herself up from him, feeling the dominant persona he had acquired before he even pushed her back onto one of the few tables present in the room. Yanking her legs apart, he looked over her in satisfaction, lingering particularly at her sex before nodding to himself.

She blushed, and was about to ask him what he was going to do but he suddenly pulled her up from the table and maneuvered her so his hands were hooked under her knees and her back was pressed into his chest. The new position gave her jolt, but not as much as when a sudden presence made itself known in her most private regions as she felt herself become completely filled with the Lord's still hard member.

Ai instinctively threw her head back in a silent cry as her arms flew upwards so her hands could grasp the fabric of his robes at the base of his neck. She fit perfectly with her head lulling back onto him, resting where his neck met his shoulder, giving him full view of her exposed breasts.

If she had been conscious of it, surely Ai would have been flattered that he gave her just the right amount of time to adjust to his size before using his muscular arms to pull her upwards, unsheathing him halfway, then bringing her back down. He repeated the action slowly at first, pacing himself by the different tones of her whimpers and moans…

.:.

"I swear to kami if we make it out of this alive, the first thing I'll do is get some action."

Ginta rolled his eyes at his companion as they sat cross-legged facing each other with nothing better to do then listen to the kenshiko woman's moans and the slapping of skin (and in Hakakku's case, get involuntarily stiff in the pants).

"If we get out of this alive I swear to kami the first thing I'll do is get you a leash."

"A leash?"

"Yeah. Protection for women everywhere."

"That was uncalled for…."

.:.

"Oo-Ka-Mi-Sa-Ma!" Ai moaned out, each syllable accented with a bounce as she was lifted off of and slammed down on the youkai's shaft repetitively. She had felt like she could take no more than a few more thrusts when she all of a sudden felt her fingers loose their grip on his robes and her point of view changed drastically as she found herself bent over the table in front of her.

Her breasts smashed up against the smooth wooden surface and strong hands grasping her hips. She felt rather disoriented, but her mind soon left her as Lord Ookami thrust into her at new speeds and such force that the table began to skid across the floor.

Ai called out for the umpteenth time as she could feel the knot tying itself up in her pleasure center, edging closer and closer to an impending orgasm.

As if reading what was left of her only slightly coherent thoughts, Kouga leaned forward into his thrusts and spoke in a grunt of a voice. "Are you close?"

"H-Hai!" she managed to reply.

He groaned his acceptance of this answer and slid his hand around her middle to rest on her stomach. Finally her orgasm hit her and she called out his name once more. And it was a wonderful experience, but it was multiplied by a thousand when she felt two expert fingers press against her clit as she rode the last waves, pushing her back up to a high even more extreme than the last.

Her mouth opened in a scream that could not be heard, for her voice had gone and he eyes rolled back into her head until the very last wave of her climax rolled away and her body was left unconscious on top of the table….

.:.

Kouga finally appeared at the door, pausing to wipe sheen of sweat from his forehead and push back a few bangs that had moved forward during his excursions. "Well… I said ten minutes," he held up his left hand in which he could barely hold a rather thick package. "And I meant ten minutes. Let's get out of here."

Ginta and Hakakku looked at their captain in amazement as he walked past the two of them. They could obviously smell the sex all over him, but had no idea what to think of the package he held.

The two of them caught up to their captain easily just as he reached the library door, opting to not ask any questions in favor of just getting out of the Syndicate building as fast as possible.

.:.

Ai began to stir, registering small things about her surroundings one at a time. Like the still silence of a lonely room, the cool air brushing against her face and neck, and especially the hard smooth surface she lay on.

She began to open he eyes, but decided to keep them closed after she discovered that the light made them uncomfortable. Letting out a small grown, she rolled over onto her back so she could stretch her legs when she suddenly became conscious of a slight ache from between her thighs. She bolted up; eyes shooting open as all of what happened to her came back. The youkai lord, his servants, and of course the events in the restricted area.

She looked around herself, finding she was still there, sitting atop a table. However all of her clothing had been placed back on her, her hair was presentable instead of a mess as she expected, and she couldn't even smell her recent activities on her person. If it weren't for the obvious empty feeling one has after being filled in the way that she was and the slight ache she still had, she would have believed herself to be sleep walking and everything to have been a dream.

Deciding it was probably best for her to get back to her work desk; she stood up on wobbly legs and began to make her way back. She was truly miffed on what had happened to the Lord, and she felt she should have been angry that he would use her body and then simply leave without a word, but she couldn't bring herself to be. Instead she felt that he had brought something fun into her rather dull morning.

She wished she could thank him.

But all there was left to do now was to go back to her desk, and make herself appear busy.

.:.

Kouga Once Said That All Men Are Dogs:

A statement made on his own experiences.

Quite obviously.

.:.

"Sessh-kun?"

Sesshomaru turned his head to look at Rin as she approached him. She looked beautiful with the pink flower tucked into her hair where her side pony-tail started; matching almost perfectly to her current pink kimono styled overall shorts, a design of her own making. She held her slippers in one hand and a sloshing jug of water in the other, a smile gracing her features as she closed the distance between them.

She plunked herself down next to him in the sand, setting down her shoes and pushing her toes into the warm sand. "I thought you may have been thirsty," she spoke, handing him the water jug.

He took it from her more so to be polite than because he was actually thirsty, and to appease her he took a gulp or two of the clear liquid before setting it down. The youkai looked back at her once he was through without bothering to conceal his open stare.

"Well. Are you planning on telling me why you really came down here?"

Rin smiled a toothy grin and looked down at her lap as if defeated. "Sesshomaru! You weren't supposed to guess that!"

"It' wasn't a guess. I knew it; your actions are too obvious. Are you going to share or not?" he persisted, coming as dangerously close to playing with her as he would allow himself.

"I was just curious. You have been sort of distant,"

The youkai captain set a look on her that, even in its vacuity, she knew meant "I'm the definition of distant," and she smiled.

"I meant you're being more distant than usual," she amended simply to keep him assured that the others still perceived him as aloof as always. "So what has happened?"

Sesshomaru watched his companion carefully, observing her every movement from the soft blinking of her eyes to the slight rise and fall of her chest caused by her steady patient breathing. She was the epitome of magnificence, in its simplest most innocent form. He knew of his luck to find such a brilliant light in such a destitute world as his own. It was almost unbelievable, uncanny, in itself. Of course he, Sesshomaru, was magnificent and brilliant in his own right, but through his own eyes Rin was above and beyond him. A thought that made him just as sick to his stomach as it made him feel he had known a secret no other could possess nor enjoy.

He considered telling her this.

He considered telling her this an uncountable number of moments during the time that had lapsed between their departure from Kiribati and the present.

But something held him back.

Had he still been the youkai he was when he first met Rin, he would have told himself his pride was what would not allow him to admit such regard, such attachment, such… love for a being so weak and vulnerable. But he had grown past that point, had improved, had advanced to a greater level of understanding of life in its own right since he had his first encounter with Rin. So the same excuse could obviously not be used, his logic would have torn it down had he thought it before.

Memories of his brother's violently shaking form and the distinct smell of fear emanating off of him in waves returned to his mind. But the possibility of his present conflict was nothing like that of his brother's. The circumstances were different, the people involved were polar opposites, and even the type of love felt was different. Truly the feeling of trepidation his brother felt was not even remotely close to what ever entity was holding himself from conveying what he was experiencing. It was logically unsound to argue such a thing.

Besides, he—the great Sesshomaru, he—the captain of the Ikkitousen, he—the son of the great Inu Taisho, feared nothing.

"Sesshomaru…?"

Rin sat in her place in the sun beside him, her beautiful dark chocolate eyes locked on his, waiting on some sort of response from him.

He opened his mouth to speak but for once in his life was at a loss of words, and it surprised him even now.

"Don't worry," he finally said. "I'm fine, nothing happened."

Sesshomaru feared nothing.

Rin smiled.

Absolutely nothing.

…Right?

.:.

"Inuyasha?"

"Eh?"

Shippo watched his captain sitting in the crow's nest. It had been several days since they had left the island of the Secret Keeper and they were now presently offshore of an uninhabited island people of the Kaizoku use regularly for miscellaneous purposes. In other words, the official place everyone was supposed to meet up at.

Even though they were anchored close to the island, the captain was spending most of his time in Shippo's post, high up above the deck. Not that the young kitsune minded, but the hanyou was acting unlike himself. It was natural for Shippo to be a little worried about him.

"Not that I'm telling you to get out, but what are you doing in the crow's nest again?"

Inuyasha's golden orbs slid from the wooden planks underneath his feet up towards the face of the younger male. The look itself made him uncomfortable, for there was something missing from his eyes that just left them eerily blank as apposed to the expressive quality they used to have. It was made even stranger by heavy silence the hanyou had chosen to employ.

"What happened to you on that island Inu-nii…?" Shippo hear himself asking after he could no longer take the silence or the stare any more. "You aren't the same."

Without turning his head Inuyasha averted his gaze once more to stare back at the boards beneath him. He didn't say anything for a while, but he at least looked like he wanted to speak, to be heard for the first time since the previous night. And at least that was something.

"Shippo, do you ever regret coming with me?"

"Eh? Regret? Why would I do that?"

"It's just…" Inuyasha paused, looking as if he wasn't exactly sure of what he wanted to say next. "If you wanted you could have chosen another path, instead of choosing to come with me on my ship that day. Do ever wonder what it would have been like?"

"Nope."

"Never?"

"Never."

Inuyasha looked at his cabin boy, choosing to finally change his expression to one with one of his dark eyebrows arched and a look in his eyes that conveyed his thoughts of Shippo's statement being ridiculous. Then with a large clawed hand he ruffled the young kitsune's orange hair. "You're just a kid Ship," he said, using an old nickname everybody in the crew had for the boy. "I should have expected as much."

Shippo looked at his captain bewildered and opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by people shouting down below.

"Ships are coming! Ships are coming!"

"That's the Shinsoku!"

"The other's the Kenkoubi!"

Inuyasha's left ear twitched at the names, recognizing both immediately. "Well Shippo," he said as he stood. "I guess we gotta go say hi to the mangy wolf and that lecher."

"Aye, aye captain!" Shippo agreed, happy for something to do. He jumped into the air, pulled out one of his fax magic leaves and transformed into a large pink floating ball with wide white eyes and scrawny limps with smaller pink spheres for hands and feet. Given his cue, the hanyou jumped atop the new form of his cabin boy and sat lazily as they descended down the mass then towards the beach.

Oofie: "Well there it is. Anybody need a fill in?"

Kagome: ". . ."

Inuyasha: "I guess I do. I wasn't really paying attention."

Oofie: "Well basically Kouga had to do the mission Inuyasha had assigned him, infiltrate the Syndicate and all information on Onigumo. He did this by seducing the woman who worked there and had access to the place where the records were kept, then knocked her unconscious with his…. Let's say sexual prowess, and walked out with the records."

Kagome: ". . ."

Inuyasha: "Fuck, maybe I didn't need to know that."

Kagome: ". . . why Oofie? Why?"

Oofie shrugs.

Oofie: "I missed my boyfriend."

Kagome: "YOU DO THAT WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND!?"

Inuyasha: "You have another boyfriend?"

Oofie: "NO! And…. Yes, I do have another boyfriend Inuyasha. Is it that unbelievable?"

Inuyasha: "Now that you mention it…"

Kagome: "I don't get it."

Oofie: "I dunno. My boyfriend's hot and I was thinking about him when I began writing. I was stuck on how Kouga was going to get in and out undetected and since I was already thinking about a hot guy, I figured what the hell, and Ai came into existence. Besides, I remember somebody asking me for a lemon at some point…."

Kagome: "O…. kay…."

Oofie: "You don't have to be so confused, I'm sure your mind starts to…. Wander whenever you look at Inuyasha over there."

Inuyasha turned around with ramen noodles hanging from his mouth, the broth dribbling from his chin as one noodle is stuck to the side of his face.

Inuyasha: "Huh?"

Oofie: "Or on second thought…."

Kagome: "Can we just do some reviews now?"

Oofie: "Yes ma'am."

LoVe23: Of course you can hate Kikyo! Everybody has that right! And as far as the Inu/Sessh moments, I'm rather glad you liked 'em. I figured they might be weird if not to somebody's liking. And as far as Inu doing something stupid… well let's just say a story would be a story without Inu doing something stupid!

ahaad: Thanks for your review, and I'm sorry for making you wait so long for an update! Hope you like this chapter!

Oofie: "I'm sorry this chapter is short everyone, but once again I didn't feel the next part should be with this part. Definitely more next chapter and perhaps some long awaited drama."

Inuyasha: "Oh boy, can't wait…"

Oofie: "Cut the sarcasm mutt."

Inuyasha sticks his tongue out at Oofie.

Kagome: "Oh that's mature.

Oofie: "Yeah….Well folks, that's all there is, and there ain't no more! Buh-bye!"