Disclaimer

"I do not own Inu Yasha, 'cause if I did, I wouldn't be getting sued right now!" Ryoko

says as she stands in front of the court.

"We award the plaintive all the defendant's money," the judge says. Ryoko turns out

her pockets and hands the lawyers two buttons and some lint.

"That's it, boys!" Ryoko says happily.

"In that case, we're taking you're most prized possession, too!" the judge says. The

lawyers start hauling off Ryoko's Inu Yasha tapes.

"Noooooooooooooo!"

Ryoko sits straight up in bed and bangs her head off the top bunk, knocking her

unconscious. The next morning, Ryoko sits up in bed again, more carefully this time because she

doesn't want to hit the giant bruise she has on her forehead that she doesn't know where she

got. Ryoko looks around desperately for her Inu Yasha tapes and finds them missing. She runs

around the house in a flurry of panicky movement until she hears the Inu Yasha theme song

coming from her little sister's room.

"Oh, hi Ryoko! What's up?" the little sister asks.

"How many times...must I tell you....NOT TO TAKE MY INU YASHA

TAPES?!!!!!" Ryoko says, then knocks the sister out cold with a big hammer and reclaims her

tapes.

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Inu and Kagome boarded the small wagon after walking to the road accompanied by

the group of demons.

"We would have no trouble walking to my home much fast than this, but your....princess

might find it a but difficult to keep up," Argual said when they were seated comfortably in the

back of the fancy covered wagon.

"Hey, Argual, I've got an apprentice still in the woods doing an errand for me, a little

fox pup named Shippo..." Inu said suddenly remembering Shippo.

"Say no more, Shouyu, one of my minions will wait for the pup and meet up with us

later," Argual said and chose one of the other demons to wait for Shippo.

The wagon started off and Kagome and Inu were left alone in the back of the wagon.

Kagome couldn't hold her questions in any more.

"Inu, why the heck did you let them think I was you're mistress? And why did you lie

about your name? And why are we going with them to god-knows-where?!" Kagome said,

barely able t keep her voice below a shout.

"You're my mistress 'cause they assumed you were. I lied about my name because a

half demon wouldn't be very welcome among them. And we're going with them because I

wanna sleep indoors tonight," Inu said, lying about just about everything so he didn't worry

Kagome too much.

"You have to at least tell them I'm not you're mistress!"

"That wouldn't go over well."

"Inu Yasha!"

"What's the problem? I thought you'd be happy to be inside after you fell out of that

tree earlier!" Inu said. Kagome instantly got quiet. She ran her hand over the inside of her thigh

to her knee where that big wound had been. It was completely gone, not even a scratch or scar

left behind. She had first discovered it when the two demons had lifted her out of the way in the

battle between Argual and Inu. She had expected her leg to be in a ton of pain, and was

surprised when she had felt nothing. She looked down to find the wound gone. So that's what

he was doing, she had thought.

Inu watched Kagome look at the spot on her leg where the wound had been and

wondered again if she was mad at him. He didn't have long to think about it, though. Shippo

and the other demon had caught up with them. Shippo happily bounced into the back of the

wagon with them.

"Hey, Kago- Ah! What happened to you?" Shippo said in concern looking at all the

scratches and bruises she had accumulated.

"She fell out of the tree," Inu answered for her.

"You big jerk! This is all your fault you know! You should have gone up to get her!"

"Ain't my fault she's got no balance!" Inu shouted, mad at Shippo for making him feel

worse than he already did.

"That's enough, both of you!" Kagome said, both boys looked at each other, then

looked away and sat down. Shippo sat in Kagome's lap.

"You sure you're OK, Kagome?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine Shippo," Kagome said and smiled at the little puppy.

"Ooh, look at that!" Shippo said as he suddenly saw a purple butterfly out the window

and climbed on the roof to play with it. Kagome and Inu were again left alone.

"Umm...Inu Yasha? Uh...thank you," Kagome said.

"What for?" Inu asked in a perturbed voice.

"Well, for the thing with my leg...that was you, wasn't it?" Kagome asked. Inu snorted

in response. Kagome continued.

"It's just that...when you were...I thought that we might be...and then the demons

thought we were...umm..."

"Were what, Kagome?" Shippo, who had been listening from the roof, asked. Kagome

went bright red and began stuttering. Inu looked confused for a moment, then it dawned on him

what she was saying, and he got a really evil look on his face. He moved closer to Kagome and

Shippo, who had come in from the roof.

"Yeah, Kagome, what were you thinking?" he asked.

"I...well...I, umm, you see, Shippo....umm..." she stuttered.

"And you say my mind's always in the gutter!" Inu laughed.

"Hey, you! Si-...!" Kagome began to say in anger. Inu covered her mouth again.

"Uh-uh, if you keep telling me to sit every five minutes there's no way you'll pass off as

my mistress."

"Why does Kagome have to be your mistress?" Shippo asked.

"Because these guys assumed she was and you've gotta pretend you're my

apprentice."

"And I am not his mistress!" Kagome said fervently.

"What's a mistress?" Shippo asked. Both Inu and Kagome looked at each other, turn

red, and looked away again, leaving Shippo with no answer.

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