KNY: GOMEN NA SAI FOR THE LONG WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O_________O School started. I'll try to keep the chatting to a minimum and get right to the story. I dedicate this chapter to Inu65 for always being there to review!

Disclaimer: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I don't own 'em and neither do you! :P

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Heaven

The Great Demon Lord shook his head ruefully. He'd need some help on this one. His looking-pond tuned into an area with lots of trees.

"You know what to do," he told the dark figure standing there.

It nodded and ran quickly towards a certain well…

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The next morning, a single beam of sunlight moved its way down to Inu-Yasha's face. Of course he just scrunched up his face and rolled over.

*Where am I? Oh yeah, I'm at that hotel on that island. *

With his eyes still closed, he began to sniff around. Whatever detergent these nigens used for the sheets, it smelled wonderful, and vaguely familiar. They smelled slightly of lilies and he had the feeling that he knew this sent very well.

*Wait a minute! * he thought *Last time these sheets smelled like that vile spring fresh smell! *

That's when it hit him. This was Kagome's sent! And he had actually reveled in it! He felt disgusted with himself. He then repeated Kurama's act of the night before of beating his head on the wall. (I'm evil to poor Inu-chan and I know it!! ^__________________^)

The loud booming sound had woken up Kurama who sat up and asked, "What's wrong Inu-Yasha?"

"Oh, nothing," he responded through gritted teeth.

"Then we better get down to breakfast."

When they got there, no one else was there yet.

"Oh, Inu-Yasha, there you are!" Kagome exclaimed from the kitchen with an evil grin. "We could use some help in here."

"W-wha?" Inu-Yasha gulped, his eyes filled with terror.

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"What smells like heaven?" Yusuke asked as he entered the kitchen and had to restrain from dying again, this time with laughter rather than a speeding car.

"Say a word and you're dead again, Urameshi," Inu-Yasha growled.

"What's so funny," Kuwabara asked as he entered with a yawn and had to keep from snickering himself. There stood Inu-Yasha at the stove making eggs, in an apron. Not just any apron. This one was pink and said 'Kiss the cook'. Kuwabara and Yusuke looked at each other and lost it.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"THAT'S IT!" Inu-Yasha snarled and proceeded to beat the two of them to a bloody pulp.

 Rather than attempt to beat up Kurama, who was in the corner snickering, he simply put an apron on him that read, 'Kill the Cook'. Just as the two of them were about to start World War III in the living room, (The fight had shifted.) Kia leaned out of the kitchen in an apron that said, 'Give the Cook a Flamethrower!' and said, "Breakfast's about ready, boys, come back in!" The boys just blinked in confusion for a minute.

"You are evil, Kagome," Inu-Yasha said flatly.

"I know!"

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"What's with you?" Yusuke asked Kia at the breakfast table, "Why are you dressed like that?"

Kia frowned and asked gesturing to her outfit, "Is there something wrong? Kagome lent it to me since the only outfit I have with me was what I wore yesterday."

"It's just that it's a lot more, um, girly than what you wore yesterday."

That morning, she was dressed in a rose-colored top that hugged her top with a knee-length denim skirt.

"Are you saying I can't be feminine?" she asked, voice slightly strained.

"Basically," Yusuke replied completely unaware of his imminent danger. "I mean, you can be sexy as much as Kagome could be polite and girly."

At this point, most boys with half a wit of intelligence concerning the female sex would be on their knees apologizing frantically, but not our little sprit detective! The others were slowly moving away from the black thundercloud that was starting to gather around said 'un-sexy' and un-girly' females' heads. (Uh-oh, I smell trouble! O_____O)

"Oh, really?" Kagome asked, voice dangerously sweet, "Would you be willing to make a bet on that?"

"Sure!" Yusuke replied confidently, "What are the terms?"

"Let's see, if I can be what you boys would consider 'girly' and Kia can be your definition of 'sexy' then you boys have do everything we say for a day."

"And what about if you lose?"

"IF we lose *cough, cough * yeah right *cough, cough *" Kagome looked to Kia for confirmation and she nodded, "We'll give each of you a kiss."

"It's a deal!" Yusuke exclaimed.

"Good," Kagome said with the satisfaction of a cat cornering a particularly juicy mouse, "We'll meet you in the park in the middle of the island in about one hour. They still have to rebuild the ring. Come on Kia." Kia was just dragged blinking by Kagome up the stairs.

Kurama looked at Inu-Yasha and asked shakily, "How did we get involved in this?"

"I have no idea," the young hanyou replied ruefully.

Then Kurama got an image of Kia and Yusuke kissing and shivered. *You'd better not lose this bet! * he thought darkly.

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(1 hour later)

"Well, here we are. Where are they?" Inu-Yasha asked. (Only Yusuke, Inu-Yasha, Kurama, and Hiei were there, Kuwabara was still sleeping… -______- U)

"Ha, I knew they wouldn't come," Yusuke said smugly.

"Hold your horses boys," said a throaty voice.

The boys turned towards the voice and their jaws literally dropped.

Inu-Yasha knew Kagome well enough that he knew she could pull it off but he was surprised at the extent she went to. She was dressed in a pale pink kimono embroidered with Sakura blossoms. Her raven-black hair was pulled back in a low ponytail with stargazer lilies at the tie. She even had cute, pale pink slippers.

Kia, on the other hand, was a startling contrast to Kagome's almost unbearable sweetness. The young neko was dressed in an emerald green, Chinese-style tube top (The color really brought out her green eyes!) embroidered with golden dragons and a matching skirt that was slit thigh-high. She also wore knee-high, black leather, lace-up boots. Where Kagome was wearing a little, pink, heart-shaped crystal for a necklace, Kia was wearing a leather choker with a long, gleaming fang attached.

 Even their eyes reflected what they were supposed to be; Kagome's big, innocent and sweet, Kia's slanted, hard, and predatorial.

"K-Kia?!" Kurama asked unnecessarily.

Kia just gave him a fanged grin and said huskily, "What's wrong, fox-boy? Have I got your tongue?"

Yusuke was just stood there, jaw floored. *How could they have done such a 360 in such a short amount of time?! *

"Well, let's go," Kagome suggested sweetly. And with that they all went off into town. (Hey, if there's a hotel, why shouldn't there be a town?)

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*Dammit! Where is she?! * A dark figure thought furiously as it jumped from building to building.

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Meanwhile, Kia stopped suddenly, sniffing the air, causing the boys behind her to slam into her and fall down.

"Ow! What was that for?!" Inu-Yasha demanded angrily.

"Takae-chan!" she whispered excitedly and ran off down the road.

"Wha?" Inu-Yasha asked intelligently staring after her.

"Come on!" shouted Kurama as he ran after Hiei who had already taken off.

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*She better be here old man! * the figure mentally shouted. Then it heard a joyful shout of  "Takae-chan!!"

"Wha?" it asked and was promptly shoved into the ground by a gold-haired blur that kept saying "Takae-chan! Takae-chan!" over and over again.

"Ahem."

Kia turned, still glomping the fallen figure to see who had made the noise.

"Mind telling us who this person whom you are currently hugging is, Kia?" Kurama asked tightly.

Kia blinked for a moment. Did she detect some jealousy in his voice? Nah, couldn't be.

The rest had caught up just in time to see Kurama and a strange black-haired boy having a glaring contest.

"Uh, what'd I miss?" Yusuke asked confused.

"Ki-chan?" the black-haired boy asked her, "Who are these people?"

"K-Ki-chan?!" Kurama sputtered.

"The black-haired girl is my friend Kagome. The black-haired boy who looks like he uses super-glue in his hair is Yusuke. The short, spiky-haired boy is Hiei. The silver-haired boy is Inu-Yasha and the red-haired boy is Kurama!"

"So whose he?" Kagome asked slyly, "Your boyfriend?"

Kia just laughed as Kurama's throat tightened. *Her b-boyfriend? *

"No, silly Kagome! This is Takaeda, my big brother!"

Kurama let out the breath he had not been aware he had been holding.

"So why are you here, big brother?"

"Dad sent me to check up on you, silly Ki-chan!"

"I missed you!" 

"I missed you too, little one. Why don't you and your friend Kagome go get us something to drink?"

"Okay, Takae-chan!"

After the girls had left, Kurama turned to Takaeda and asked in a hard voice, "That's not really why you're here, is it?"

Takaeda turned to the kitsune and the other boys and said in a dangerous voice with a thundercloud gathering above his head, "If anyone goes near my little sister, they'll have me to answer to. Go it? I'm here to protect her, and I'll do whatever it takes to do that."

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So that's that! ^________^ Hope you liked it! Next chapter, Inu-Yasha and Kurama are turned into a fox and a dog by one of Kagome's misfired spells. Does this spell disaster for them when Kia and Kagome think they would make good pets? What about when Takaeda finds out? I sound like that voice at the end of Dragonball Z… -______-U

KoorimeHiei: Thank you so much for the kind reviews! (cries happily) As far as couples go, that… is a secret! :P

Kaeru Soyokaze: Feel like you're referring to yourself in third person yet? ^____^ And of course Jin and Touya will make an appearance! I just don't know how… ^____^U Any ideas?

Inu65: Thank you, thank you so much for reviewing everything!!! I'm sorry it took so long to update. BLAME MY EVIL SCHOOL THAT STARTED JULY 31!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have more poems out! ^________^

Everyone else: Thanks for your support!! ^_________________________^

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