Tsume-n-carnate: Sorry this took longer to update than I would've liked! Writers block you know... ahem, ne way! Here's the next chapter and I hope you enjoy it! THANKS!

Bath... sorta

"C'mon Kura," Ryu pleaded with her friend for the hundreth time. "It's not like it'll kill you!"

"It might!" Kura yelled through the glass of Ryu's balcony door. "I could drown or something!" Ryu rolled her eyes.

She exchanged brief words with Rune, looking like they were negotiating something, before he finally threw his arms up and left the room. Ryu looked back at Kura. They continued arguing for another ten minutes.

"I'M NOT TAKING A BATH AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" Kura yelled at her friend... it was the only true argument she ever remembered having with Ryu. Kiba, Kage and Tsume were supressing fits of laughter in the background.

"Fine! I won't make you take a bath, can you just come back in now!" Ryu yelled back. Kura looked at her suspiciously. She seemed to suddenly relent far too easily.

"You won't try anything?" Kura asked sternly. Ryu placed her hand over her heart and responded,

"I swear I won't try anything!" Kura looked at her one more moment before opening up the doors. As soon as she did, Thatz, who had come in not twenty minutes ago, yelled out into the air.

"OK RUNE!" Kura spun around to find a rope of water coming at her. It bound her arms to her sides and lifted her over the balcony, where a tub of water waited below. Kura gave one death glare at Ryu and Thatz before she was dropped into the water by Rune. She was then tackled by Rath, Rune, and the dragon lord's aide, Ruwalk as she returned to her wolf form. She sturggled as hard as she could without injuring them, hating every moment in the water. Rune would rinse her off every time Rath or Ruwalk aplied soap. At long last, they released her and Kura, now very wet and cranky, leapt eagerly out of the dreadful water and shook off with all her might... trying to rid her fur of the pounds of water now clinging to it.

She could hear Kage, Kiba, and Tsume laughing histerically above her. She looked up and over at Ryu.

"YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T TRY ANYTHING!" Kura bellowed, bareing her teeth. Ryu giggled.

"But I didn't do anything... It was all them," she clarified, motioning to the dragon knights. Kura glared at her, angry at being tricked, then flung her death stare on the laughing group of male wolves. Ryu looked at them sweetly, when Kage noticed her gaze.

"What?" Kage asked, seeing her eyes on them. The other two stopped laughing and looked with almost horror-stricken looks at Ryu, who simply bared her pointed teeth in an almost wicked grin.

"Oh, don't think you guys get it off so easily," she said sweetly. Immediately, the boys dropped their human illusions, jumped form the balcony, and darted off in different directions. Rune sent flying spheres of water at each of them, then one by one, dropped them into the tub.

Kura looked in satisfaction at the soaking wet males before her.

"That's what you get for laughing," she said simply, gaining a glare from Tsume. Kura turned to Rune. "So now that we're clean, how do we get dry?"

"I can help there!" piped up Rath.

"NO!" Ryu, Rune, Thatz, Kura and Ruwalk all yelled at once, knowing the slightly pyro knight might fry the wolves instead of dry them.

"Just hold on a second," Rune told the wolves. He focused first on Kura, lifting all the water from her pelt with suprising ease, leaving her quiet dry. She shook gratefully, happy to be rid of the extra weight, then, turning to her human illusion, leapt up to the balcony.

Rune dried each of the wolves in turn, and they would follow to the balcony in their human illusions. Kura looked for a long, serious moment at Ryu, who smiled shyly, and then laughed. She was joined by Ryu and the two laughed so hard that tears sprang to their eyes.

"If you weren't such a good friend I'd have to get you back for this whole thing," Kura said when she could finally breathe. Ryu smiled.

"Oh, it wasn't as bad as you thought... admit it," she said, knowing Kura wouldn't. She didn't and they talked for a short time, before noticing the others that were still there.

"So..." Kiba said, just starting to get over the fact he had had to take a bath. "What now?"

"Lunch sounds good to me!" Thatz ( who's a major glutton) piped up happily. The others agreed and headed out of the room. Tsume looked extremely pissed off and refused to go near the dragon knights. Kura chuckled slightly to herself... he was so predictable.

Tsume-n-carnate: Sorry guys but I'm cutting off here. I know it sucks but I just wanted to get this chapter up already! I'll be writting longer chapters... but be warned... that also means it'll take me longer to update! Well, please reveiw... they inspire me to write faster ;)! THX!