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Author's Note: Short chapter sorry. Just an intro.

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-Na

Seppan Watashi no Kihaku Akai no Tama desu

Chaputa-jushi

A large white Akita-ken walked along the side walk, when the occasional child stopped to pet him he would snap and growl the whole time cursing in his head the accursed woman who sent him such ill fate.

"Inu-Yasha why do you wish to be a youkai so much? Why are you not happy with the life you lead and the body you have? I think you need to learn to appreciate the body that you have."

That was all the hanyoukai Inu-Yasha could remember before he woke up on all fours, bleeding in a few places in the body of a large fluffy white dog! When he found that witch Kikyou he would have her change him back and the kill her- no he would kill her and then have her change him back!

Continuing to walk down the street going who knows where the Akita-ken was stopped by yet another child. Angry gold looked up into two sets of brown eyes, "Look Okaa-san the inu is hurt."

"Hai, Souta, why don't we take him home and bandage him up," replied the elder of the two, "we can use the rope the Ojii-san requested." With that she dug through the brown paper bag in her arms and pulled out a substantial amount of rope.

The Akita-ken tried to run away but his injured right front paw and his ribs protested from any hurried movement. So as it were Inu-Yasha found himself being dragged on a rope by the young boy. And to his utter horror he found that the people who had captured him, lived in a shrine; which meant in his injured state he would have to climb all those stairs (112 to be exact, Souta found great entertainment in counting them all).

Once the were inside the house, Souta's mother turned to her son and his new found dog and said, "Why don't you give him a bath while I put away the groceries and then we will take him to the vet."

The boy nodded, and eagerly if not a little roughly dragged the white dog to the bathroom and closed the door. Filling the tub half way with warm water the boy wrestled with the dog to get him into the tub. In the end both boy and dog were sitting in the warm water.

Looking around the black haired boy picked up a floral smelling shampoo, it belonged to his sister, who was currently on a fieldtrip with her class to a hot springs resort. If she didn't bring her shampoo with her, then she didn't need it right? Squeezing generous amounts on the Akita-ken's head and along his spine; the boy washed the dog being mindful of his wounds.

It wasn't long until they dropped the young Akita-ken off at the vet. The vet said that the dog would need some stitches and since his ribs had been bruised he would need to stay a few days. When the vet verified that the dog belonged to no one, and said that it would need a name Souta promptly named him, "Chi".

Kagome raced up the stairs to her shrine home she had just gotten back from her class trip at the hot springs resort and all she wanted was a shower. She knew it was silly but there was just something about her own private shower, the non-travel soups that weren't in spill proof bottles and therefore hard to open.

When the dark haired girl got into the house no one was home so she headed straight for the bathroom. Filling the tub with hot water and tying her hair up Kagome lounged in the water. Slowly she washed her body before returning to her soak. Somewhere in the recesses of her mind she registered that she could now hear the voices of her mother, brother and a dog; but that was preposterous why would there be a dog.

Draining the tub Kagome turned on the shower and let down her hair to wash. After the thick black strands were soaked through she reached down opening her floral scented shampoo, holding it over her head she squeezed; a sick wheezing sound seemed to drown out the sound of falling water but no shampoo came out. Kagome saw red.

The bathroom door slid open angrily falling off its track a bit. A dark haired girl dripping wet wrapped in a fluffy pink towel scream, "What happened to my shampoo?"!

The kind face surrounded by short black hair look at the towel clad girl from the kitchen, "I believe it was used to clean the inu, Kagome dear."

"Inu?" asked Kagome anger draining from her system and being replaced with confusion. Just than she noticed her brother trying to sneak off to his room and he was dragging an Akita-ken.

It had been Souta's bedtime and he dragged Chi into his room with him, "Now Chi, you're going to sleep in here with me."

Inu-Yasha looked around the boy's messy room there were toys and clothes everywhere, the room also smelled rancid. There under the western style bed was mold he knew it. Picking a spot farthest from the bed and with the least amount of junk between him and the floor he laid down. And immediately felt his mistake; his sticky mistake.

Watching the boy carefully until he was sure that he was asleep Inu-Yasha got up and left the room. Walking around the quiet house, minus the snoring coming from one room, he noticed that there were only lights on in one of the bedrooms. Pawing at the door he heard someone get up to answer.

The fiery girl from before, answered the door and leveled him with a sort of glare, "What do you want?" Inu-Yasha showed her his sticky right side, "I can't believe Souta!" For there on his side was six pieces of melted pocky and a half eaten lollipop, which made a sock get stuck to the white fur.

Going back into her room, Kagome returned with a pair of scissors and motioned for the dog to follow her into the bathroom. An hour of meticulous work went by; Kagome used soap and water, comb (Souta's comb), and scissor when absolutely necessary, to clean the white fur.

Grey eyes soon found themselves sitting on the pink comforter looking into the gold eyes of the Akita-ken, "Well I can't let you sleep in Souta's trash heap, now can I? I bet it smells a hundred times worse to you then it does to me," The white head nodded and Kagome smiled, "you know I don't think I caught your name. Well too bad you can't tell me, Oyasumi Inu-kun." The dark haired girl got under her covers and turned off the lamp while Inu-Yasha curled up at the foot of the bed on the clean fresh carpet.

Author's Note: What did you guys think? All reviews welcome if you hate it or love it tell me! I hope you like it! Thank You!

Here is the requested Japanese-English dictionary for just this chapter! I use this online dictionary for Japanese: http/ www.freedict. com/ onldict /jap.html (remove spaces) great site!

Chap 14

Chi: Blood

Akita-ken: A breed of Japanese dog (I was googling 'large white Japanese dog' for a breed to turn Inu-Yasha into and Wikipedia came up with Akita Inu (full name: Akita-ken a type of inu) and in the miscellaneous portion of the article it said "The title character in the anime and manga animated series InuYasha, along with his brother and father, are said to be Akita youkai. A youkai is a mythical Japanese creature that is said to take human form. InuYasha himself is technically a hanyou, a mythical half-human, half-youkai." And I was like could this get any more perfect?)

Yep that is done, now we all know some Japanese!

-Na