Disclaimer

"I do not own Inu Yasha, 'cause if I did, we'd be doing this!" Ryoko says as she starts

dancing with Kouga and his whole pack to the song "Who Let The Dogs Out" by Baha Men (I

don't own this one either) Inu is sitting on the floor looking annoyed.

"You're a disgrace!" he says looking at Kouga.

"Yeah, but I get to do this!" Kouga says, reaching down and trying to grab Ryoko's

shirt, but Ryoko sees this one coming.

*WHAM*

Kouga get's knocked unconscious by Ryoko's hammer, Ryoko continues dancing by

herself and later with a bunch of the pack members. Inu smiles gleefully.

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The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful, then they reached the house. It was more

like a Japanese style mansion, it had everything, a pond, a garden, and entire house for a

kitchen, a bunch of smaller houses and barns for servants and animals, and the main house for

the master and his guests. The main house itself must have had two hundred rooms.

"If you'll just follow Mirada, she'll show you to your rooms," Argual said motioning to a

scanty dressed female demon who had just come out of the house. "You're welcome to use the

baths, the kitchen, anything, please make yourselves at home. And I do hope you and your

apprentice will join me for dinner?"

Inu only grunted in reply, then followed the girl demon into the house. She showed them

to a large room that connected to a slightly smaller room. In the first room was a normal sized

bed, in the second was a tiny one.

Well, there's one fight coming, Kagome thought, but didn't say anything. After showing

them their rooms, Mirada, swaying her hips in a way a little more than naturally, showed them to

the bath house. Kagome didn't know what to do, since Mirada was completely ignoring her

and she wasn't about to go into the mens bath, so she simply stood at the door.

That was the reason she didn't see Mirada lead Inu and Shippo into the bath room,

then go up and press herself against Inu.

"You probably need a bath after all that fighting, Shouyu. You must be very hot and

sweaty underneath that robe," she said and seductively kissed the side of his mouth. Then she

added, "From the fight, of course."

Inu was at a loss for what to do. He didn't want to hurt Kagome, but his body wouldn't

obey him when he told it to push away the gorgeous demon woman throwing herself at him. As

Mirada moved in and kissed him again, harder this time, Inu began to fall under her spell. He

could feel himself relaxing and forgetting all about Kagome. He even began to return her kiss.

Luckily for Inu, Shippo was getting bored of watching the two try and swallow each

other. He had already gotten undressed and jumped in, eager for his bath. He splash some of

the water as he played around, hitting Inu in the face. Inu instantly came back to his senses and

broke off the kiss. Mirada stepped away from Inu, not at all put off.

"If there's anything you need...or want, just call me," she said in a non-too-innocent

voice and walked off, hips still wagging as far as they would go.

Inu undressed in shock, he still could not believe what he had done. How could he bu

lusting after some strange demon when he was already having enough trouble with Kagome?

Kagome...at least she would never know what had happened. What had happened once and

only once, he promised himself and sank into the empty tub, Shippo had been intrigue by the

fountains at the other end of the room and was now playing over there.

Out in the hall, Kagome was waiting for Inu to come back out, not knowing he had

went ahead and gotten a bath, forgetting that the people in this place would not tend to her.

When the door opened, Kagome brightened and turned, hoping to see Inu or Shippo, and was

sorely disappointed to see Mirada, who was not looking happy. Mirada looked at Kagome for

the first time, then turned and went into a small store room. Mirada returned carrying a pile of

towels, soaps, and brushes. She roughly shoved them into Kagome's hands.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Go!" Mirada said in a tone that implied Kagome

should have known exactly what she was supposed to do. When a very confused Kagome just

looked at her stupidly, Mirada sighed.

"Great, Shouyu simply has to choose a brain-dead princess, just my luck," Mirada said

grabbing Kagome and pulling her over to the door. "Give these to your master," she said and

roughly shoved Kagome into the room.

Kagome stumbled in and barely kept from falling and dropping everything in her arms.

When she regained her balance she found that she had been shoved into the men's baths.

Kagome hurriedly shut her eyes, then carefully opened them a bit, realizing she would have to

open them at least to see which way to run. The first thing Kagome saw was how huge the

room was! There were several baths, small personal ones, larger public one with fountains, and

even one with a slide, and what seemed to be hot tubs and saunas. Shippo was playing in the

pool with the slide, and she knew Inu was in there somewhere, but she only saw Shippo.

Kagome saw Inu's dark red clothes on the floor by one of the tubs and soon saw Inu's head

floating half-way under the water. He was surrounded by bubbles, so as long as he stayed

under the water Kagome knew she was safe. Kagome's first instinct was to run for it, but Inu

said they needed to stay on good terms with these people, though she couldn't tell why, and

Kagome wasn't going to let a little shyness get in the way.

Besides, she thought to herself, it's about time that boy had a proper bath. Kagome

smiled as she walked over to Inu and kneeled behind him without him knowing.

Inu was lying in the tub with his ears partly submerged doing a kind of meditation,

simply trying to empty his mind off all the thoughts that were in it. He didn't know there was

someone behind him until his head was roughly pushed under the water. His first thought was

that someone was trying to drown him, but the hand automatically let go and Inu was able to

reach the surface and gasp for air. He turned around and looked straight into the face of

Kagome. Inu was too stunned to even believe this was real, so he simply continued staring at

Kagome. Kagome, who had anticipated this reaction, stared for only a second, then upended a

bottle of shampoo on Inu's head. The cold gel brought Inu back to his senses.

"K-Kagome, what are you doing?! Would you get out of here! This is the men's

baths!" Inu just about screamed, but Kagome was not to be deterred.

"I'm well aware of that fact, In- ah...Shouyu, but your helpful little friend Mirada

politely asked if I would help you and Shippo, since neither of you can take care of yourselves,"

Kagome's voice was icy and laced with sarcasm. She seemed so angry that Inu briefly

wondered if she had seen what had passed between himself and Mirada, but dismissed the

idea. If she had seen that, she would already be running for home, with or without him to

protect her.

"K-Kagome, you should..."Inu began but was distracted as Kagome began to work the

cold shampoo into his scalp. His eyes began to slide shut, but Inu caught himself and shook his

head, trying to rid himself of the wonderful sensations Kagome's scalp massage was causing

and Kagome's wonderful hands. But Kagome was dead set on her goal of getting Inu's

beautiful hair clean.

"Kagome, you have to get out of here!"

"Stop worrying! I'm just here to give your hair a good scrub. It's so pretty and I bet

you don't even know what conditioner is! After that, I'll just take Shippo and go back to the

room."

"Kagome, I'm serious, go-"

"Hey, look over there, is that a shard?" Kagome asked interrupting Inu and pointing

across the room.

"Where?!" Inu gasped and spun around, sitting up just enough to see better and looking

in the direction Kagome had pointed. Kagome grabbed his shoulders and pushed him back

down into the water. She got a good hold on one of his shoulders and began massaging his

scalp with the other.

"Hey!" Inu protested realizing there was no shard, but that was all he could say before

Kagome's hands soothed him into silence.

When Kagome was positive Inu was unable to make a coherent thought, let alone

protest, she released his shoulder and worked on his hair with both hands. After a moment,

Kagome reached her hand in the water and pulled out all the hair that she couldn't reach

otherwise, or all the hair below his shoulders. His hair was always such a pure white color, so

Kagome was amazed at how much dirt actually came out of it. She ended up having to rinse

and wash it twice, but Inu was too far under her spell to notice or care. While Kagome

scrubbed Inu's scalp, she began to notice what parts of his head were the most sensitive. Inu

seemed almost asleep while she washed the length and ends of his hair, but when she scrubbed

the back of his head he would lean into her hands and smile. Kagome decided to try washing

Inu's ears, since they were covered in hair.

Kagome reached up and began to rub behind Inu's ears, he reacted just like she

predicted her would. He leaned back into her hand and smiled, then his tongue even began to

loll. Kagome had to stifle a laugh, he looked just like the dog in the park when she rubbed it

behind the ears! The something really weird happened. Something under the water began

moving rapidly(please remember, the water is covered in bubbles and Kagome can see nothing,

but, trust me, she knows it's there). Kagome was so surprised that she stopped rubbing Inu's

ears. Inu made a sad little whine and followed Kagome's hand with his head.

Oh no, is that...? Could that be...? Innocent little Kagome thought. Couldn't be, she

then decided. Kagome started rubbing Inu's ears again, but the same thing happened.

Something under the water started moving very rapidly again. Kagome pulled her hand back.

It just couldn't be, she thought to herself, but she wasn't as sure this time and her face

went a bright red. But Kagome had decided what she was going to do and she was going to do

it! She swallowed hard and began rubbing Inu's ears for the third time. This time, she watched

the bubbles and saw from the way they were moving that something under the water was

moving very quickly back and forth near Inu's left side.

Wait a second, I think I know what that is! It's...it has to be... I mean, Kouga and all of

his pack have one, and Shippo has one, and, well, Sesshoumaru doesn't but he's a little odd

anyway. Kagome thought to herself. Kagome then did something that surprised even her. She

took one hand and, with a conviction solely from her earlier thought, quickly reached into the

water and grabbed the moving object. She was left holding...

....A TAIL!!!!

Kagome only had a second to stare at the furry white dog's tail in her hand. Inu's eyes

snapped open and he twirled around and stood up. Kagome was also enwrapped in the flurry

of movement and found herself standing too. Inu grabbed his tail and hugged it to his body.

"What the hell do you think you were doing?!" He yelled.

"I was curious, I just wanted to know if that was..." Kagome didn't finish. Both she and

Inu realized what exactly was going on. Kagome and Inu both looked at each other in the face,

then their gazes slowly drifted downward. Inu saw himself nude, Kagome saw Inu nude.

Kagome went bright red, covered her eyes and spun around. Inu started to drop back into the

water, but Kagome beat him to it.

"Sit boy!" Kagome yelled, not remembering and/or caring that she wasn't supposed to

any more. Inu pulled himself out of the water, half-drowned, just in time to see Kagome run out

the door. Damn, he thought, if only she hadn't found out about his tail. It was actually one of the

most sensitive parts of his body, so he always kept it hidden. Kagome hadn't hurt him or

anything, but a lifetime of hiding something made you a little secretive about it.

"Hey Shippo, you done yet?" Inu asked Shippo, who had been so busy playing in the

fountains and slides to notice them.

"Yeah," Shippo replied as he got his towel and began to dry off.

"Then could ya go after Kagome for me?"

"Did you two have a fight again?"

"No, we just...disagreed."

"Don't worry, I'll calm her down for you, then you can come in and apologize without

getting hurt."

"I have no reason to apologize!"

"Whatever!" Shippo chirped and ran off.

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