[A/n: Once again I do not own Inu-Yasha =( ]

Chapter 9: Yummy Dirt!

"Where are you going?" Kagome asked as she watched Inu-Yasha pick up his old battered sword and place it on his waist. "Non, of your business, wench." He said as he walked out of the den. Kagome followed. "I am not a wench! Stop calling me that!" she yelled at him. "Shippo keep an eye on her!" Inu-Yasha barked over his shoulder as he walked out of sight. "Ohhh! He makes me so mad! If he expects me to sit here and wait for him to come back he has another thing coming." She mumbled as she marched into the back of the den and grabbed her quivers and bow. "Kagome, what are you doing? Inu-Yasha said to stay here."

"No, he said for you to keep an eye on me, come one where going to follow him." She said grabbing Shippo on her way out the den. "But Kagome."

"No buts Shippo, besides I have you with me." She said with a smile and Shippo grinned. "Don't worry, I'll protect you." He said as he sat on her shoulders and crossed his arms as he puffed out his small chest. Then he blinked as he played with Kagome's raven hair that blew gently in the wind. "How are going to find out where he went?" he asked. "Well, we'll track him of course and you have that cute little nose of yours, so you can help sniff him out." Kagome grinned and crossing the stream by hopping from rock to rock. "Oh."

"And just for the records, where do you think he's going?"

"Well, most likely to the Ame River to re-claim it from Kouga's clan." Shippo said with a small smile. "Where is the river located, Shippo?" Kagome asked stopping in her tracks. "Umm, well Kouga's clan is to the northeast of the river, so the river is a little to the north from here. So I think we are on the right track, but what if we run into the okami's? They don't like it when other youkai trespass on there land, they really don't!" he said the last sentence with a slight whine. "Kagome can't we turn back, please."

"No, Shippo, he can't boss me around." She fumed as she entered the north woods. "And besides he may need some help."

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Inu-Yasha mumbled as he leaped from treetop to treetop towards the Ame River. He was going to rip that no good okami limb from limb! "That's the last time I send a kuma youkai to watch the borderlines!" he growled as he quickened his pace. "And if that bastard makes another pass at Kagome I'll..hold it...shit there I go again, this time talking about her to myself! Argh, this isn't healthy!" he complained out loud as he jumped down from the highest tree and landed before the Ame River, then jumped over the racing river to the other side that belong to the okami's. "Kouga!" he yelled out and if on que an okami youkai came out from the bushes. "Stop that senseless yelling, inu!" The wolf yelled at Inu-Yasha in a growl that was defiantly feminine. "I have no business with you Kaya, where is your bastard leader." He growled and crossed his arms as the okami changed into a woman in the same attire as Kouga wore, except her hair was dark grown and had green eyes. "If you have business with him, then you have business with me. I am the guardian for this area. What is it you want?"

"My land returned to me." He snapped and in response the on'na laughed. "It belongs to our clan, if you want it back then you will have to battle me for it." she laughed once again making Inu-Yasha lose his temper, which isn't hard to do. "Alright, its your pelt you'll be losing." He said in his arrogant way and uncrossed his arms and with a flick of his wrist, his claws extended to their full length. "Just remember that." He gave her a fanged smile and she returned the gesture by walking up to him and nipped his bottom lip.

He just smirked at her then made a swap at her with his claws. "I would rather not play that game with you." Kaya easily dodged the attack by moving to the side and her wolf like tail swayed side to side. "To bad, your loss, Inu-Yasha. Someone lay claim on you as their mate?" she asked unsheathing her own five inch nails. "Iie." He said in reply and attacked her again and she dodged and brought her claws at an angle to strike his side, which he in turn dodged. "You know this may go on all night." She comment and Yasha gave her a sly smile in agreement; he would not give up so easily.

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Meanwhile Kagome and Shippo continued towards the river but they stopped walking when Shippo's tail stood on ends. "What's wrong, Shippo?" Kagome asked readying her bow. "Kagome, I don't like what I smell." Shippo said hopping off her shoulder. "It smells just like." He pounced up to a tree and sniffed the air once again as he spoke.

"Me?" An amused voice said and a body of a young man with a bushy tail appeared hanging down from a tree branch in front of Shippo, The man gave a fanged smile at the kitsune, who screamed in fear and ran behind Kagome. "Kouga!!" yelled Shippo and Kagome sighed a little but did not lower her bow. Kouga smiled brightly at the huntress. "Hello again, slayer." Kouga beamed as he flipped off the branch and landed gracefully onto the grassy floor. "Kagome." She correct him, Kouga put his hands behind his back as he walked up to her. "Kagome." He said in acknowledgement then he walked around her as if he was looking her over. Kagome never took her eyes off him; he stopped and looked up at her, making eye contact. He then placed a finger upon the arrowhead and then pressed down on it making the bow and arrow lower its dangerous edge tip towards the ground.

"Nice toy." He said and Shippo bared his small fangs at the bigger youkai. "What do you want Kouga?" Shippo asked and Kouga smiled again "Just her." He said then in one swift movement plucked the bow from Kagomes hands and snapped it in half, Kagome shook her head. "Hey!" she yelled at Kouga with anger and withdrew an arrow and used it like a dagger and thrust it into his shoulder only to find no body in front of her which to pierce. "What the?"

"I think you missed." Kouga's voice said from behind her and she quickly turned around to see the okami youkai standing behind her with Shippo in his arms. "Run along Shippo." Kouga said as he sat the kitsune down on his feet only to be kicked by the kitsune. "No! Your going to eat her aren't you! I wont let you!" Shippo said in anger and changed into a rather large fox and Kouga laughed. "So what if I am, half-pint?"

Shippo growled and jumped at Kouga who easily move out of the way because of his super speed factor. "Shippo you know better, then that. You couldn't even hit me with a pea if you tried." It went on just like that for a few minutes until Kouga kept making Shippo run into trees from standing in front of them then moving out of the way, causing the poor kitsune to crash into them. Soon all the trees in the area had the impression of a fox like face in it. After about the twentieth time Shippo fell over dazed, transforming back into his self. "No one ever listens to me." Kouga sighed and blinked when he felt an arrow pierce through his forearm. He raised his arm and looked at the arrow that had gone through his arm in stupidity.

"Now why did you go and do that, for?" he said in more of a statement then a question and snapped the arrow head off and then pulled the arrow out and tossed it to the ground, his arm instantly healing. Kagome looked at him with hateful eyes only to be startled when suddenly he was up in her face. "Miss me?"

"Like a toothache."

"I take that as a yes."

"Baka."

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Inu-Yasha was tossed head over heels onto the ground by the female okami. His mouth had on odd taste in it, he spit out contains within his mouth to find it was dirt. He made a gagging sound and spit out a little more dirt and a few pebbles. "I told you I would make you eat dirt." Kaya smiled as the hanyou inu propped himself upon on all fours then stood up upon his two feet and glared at her. "Okay that's it, no more Mr. Nice-guy."

"When have you EVER been nice, inu?" Kaya asked him with a smirk and a small laugh. Which just made Inu-Yasha extremely mad and he rushed at her with his claws extended, then he himself smirked as he placed a hand upon his wounded side and attacked her with the Hijin Ketsusou, surprising her. She jumped to the side, but as fast as she would of liked and the steel blades sliced into her legs, leaving a deep gash in them. She looked up at the inu only to find herself being thrown into the air. She quickly changed into her wolf form and held her legs underneath her and when she was about to hit a tree, she bounded off it like a deer in high gear and bounded off another tree and then another coming up behind the hanyou and jumping upon his back. Causing him to fall to the ground.

She growled at him as she felt her own blood flow down her legs and down her back where five claw marks show of an injury. She then proceeded to snap her jaws at him only to find herself on the ground and biting at nothing. The hanyou kicked the confused okami in the side sending the large wolf into a tree causing her to change back into her humanoid form. From there Inu-Yasha picked her up by the front of her furry armor. "You've lost and you know it." he growled in a low tone and through her into the ground.

She yipped in pain, "Tell Kouga he has lost 'his' land!" he growled and looked down at his fire-rat kimono and growled again. "And that he owes me a new fire-rat kimono."

"I owe you nothing dog-shit." A voice said as someone jumped upon his head that suddenly pressed Inu-Yasha into the ground, and once again he ate dirt. A low growl could be heard coming from the hanyou. "Kouga!" the growl formed into a name. He pushed himself off the ground and looked up, dirt once again covering his face; it would have been comical if a sudden tension did not fill the air by a single voice. "INU-YASHA!"

"Oh shit!" he mumbled as he recognized the scent and voice. It was Kagome, his Kagome.wait.his.? He smacked himself in the head as he stood up. "Kouga! Bring me back the wench! She's mine!" He yelled out as he ran after the faster youkai, but he knew where he was going. "Iie, you can have the kitsune, Inu-Yasha! Plus you already said you have NO claim on her!" He yelled back as he thrown the kitsune club at Inu-Yasha, the kitsune unfortunately whack the hanyou in the face when he was thrown and both of them collided into the ground.

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Meanwhile within the village Kirara licked her paws and grinned mentally to herself as she heard the sound of little feet jumping up and down outside her door at great speed. She would be free soon, as well as her master and her master's comrade. She was suddenly glad that she had not eaten the little pest she had found sleeping on her back, hidden beneath her fur.

She was suddenly thrown out of her thoughts when she heard her master yelling 'pervert' at the top of her lungs and then the sickening sound of fist to skull. Kirara rolled her eyes and asked herself if that priest would ever learn that groping would not win a woman's heart. No matter though, she said to herself as she closed her eyes for a cat-nap, she would bite him when she got the chance then a new thought came to here mind, she didn't know where that monk has been and what strange disease she may get if she did bite him.

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On'na: Woman

Iie: No

Ame: Rain

Don't really have any new words in this chappie.

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[Author: Thanks for the help, I loved all the ideas you sent me, I just couldn't decided which to use. Lol, oh and I finally figured out where I can put Sessy in this story, he will appear later in the story, but I don't know how later though, but he will show up. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and am sure we all know how "the little pest" was on Kirara's back. =^-^=, But heheh I think I got a little carried away with Inu-Yasha and the dirt thing.

Inu-Yasha: *growls and digs dirt out from between his teeth * I would say so.

Leeta: Hey I could of made you eat more! But I had pity on you. But anyways stay tuned in for Chappie 10: Kouga's Dinner & Junpei's Ill Luck!! OH! And by the way! I got really bored and made an image of Kagome as a Slayer,

http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/gambit/Inu/images/slayerkagome

And if I get enough fanart on my site I will put up a the page for it lol, your welcomed to send me any! Though my Inu Yasha site aint don't yet, its http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/gambit/Inu/index.html ]