Moonlit Encounter:

A Tale of Dogs & Wolves 

By: ChocolateEclar

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any other character from the anime/manga "Inuyasha." So don't try to sue me.  ^___^

Claimer: I own Koinu (Nobara) and Shirakaba. ^_- To Sailor Universe: ^_^ Thanks for all the compliments!

To TetsuoTsubushi: Thanks a bunch!

To Tinuviel: Leprechauns? *laughing* Anyway, thank you for reviewing! BTW, I like your little introduction to this chapter. 'Stay tuned' lol. ^_-

A/N: Once again, the last chapter was totally redone so if you read it before 7/13/03 reread it because most of it is new. Most of the old chapter 1 is now the new 'epilogue' for "A Bond Across Time." Sorry for the confusion.

A/N 2: I decided to start the chapter with a few memorable "Inuyasha" quotes:

Inuyasha: "Get back here, Kagome. Without you to pick on, what's the point of getting up?"

Kagome: *after Miroku gropes her* "On second thought, kill him!"

Kagome: "Give me a break! Who could fall in love with a spoiled, selfish, nasty, violent jerk like him?!"

Kagome: "Um, do you think we can come back before Saturday?"
Inuyasha: "Sure, why not?"
Kagome: "Really?"
Inuyasha: "Not that I know when this 'Saturday' is."

A/N 3: ^_^ Okay, here's the chapter! ^_^

Part 2: Yousukou, the Urufu Youkai

"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked as she walked into the living room where he was snoozing.

"Huh?" Inuyasha awoke with a start. "Oh. Hi."

"You've been sitting there all day?"

"Yea. So?"

Kagome shook her head and asked, "Where's the kids?"

"Um…" Inuyasha muttered. "Oh! Shi went to that arcade place and Koinu left somewhere with her car."

"Hmm. Both of them should be ninjen by now," Kagome noted.

Inuyasha nodded, staring out the window at the full moon.

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"You-You're ninjen," the urufu youkai blurted out.

Koinu cocked one eyebrow in an aggravated manner at him. "Obviously, moron."

The wolf demon huffed and snapped, "I was making a statement."

"And a dumb one at that," snapped Koinu.

"Weren't you leaving?"

"Yea, yea. It's just now I can't smell my car so I'll be a bit difficult," mumbled Koinu, walking away.

"Oh, then I can help you," said the canine teenager. "I can smell it clearly from here."

"Okay, lead the way then."

Koinu followed the urufu youkai for a while before asking, "By the way what's your name? I'm Koinu."

"Koinu? Puppy?"

"Gotta problem with that," yelled Koinu. "Its my nickname. Nobara's my real name."

"Oh. Well then I'm Yousukou, but a lot of people call me 'Yu,' " replied the wolf youkai.

"Yu? As in 'hot water?' " inquired Koinu.

"Yea, its because of my lack of toleration for my kyoudai. I've got loads of them and they drive me crazy."

"Hmm. I've only got one; a ototo named Shirakaba, Shi for short," replied Koinu.

"You're lucky. I've only got one older sibling. Her name's Hime and she's a nightmare," said Yu.

"Ah. How many kyoudai do you have?" asked Koinu.

"Seventeen," Yu replied dully.

"Whoa! That's one big family!"

"I know. Hime's forty-eight years older than me so she tends to act all high and might."

"Forty-eight years! Whoa! I'm only six years older than Shi," Koinu exclaimed.

"Yea, well, that happens sometimes with youkai. Sometimes they don't have more kids for years. My closest sibling is seven years younger than me," explained Yu.

"Hmm. That's strange," muttered Koinu. She studied Yu in the light of the full moon. He seemed to be wearing jeans, leather boots, and a dark blue t-shirt made out of a hard, thick material. His coffee-colored hair was about shoulder length tied back in a ponytail. He also had an ancient sword hung in a sheath from a dark blue belt around his waist.

The sword intrigued Koinu, who liked looking at her oji's Tenseiga and her otousan's Tetsusaiga. "What are you lookin' at?" snapped Yu glancing back at her.

"Oh!" exclaimed Koinu. "Just your sword. My dad and oji have old swords like that one."

"Hmm. This one's been in my family for years. It was my otousan's first sword," Yu replied.

"Cool."

"Here's your car."

Sure enough, Koinu's crimson vehicle came into view, nestled among the shrubbery. "Oh. Thanks," Koinu said taking out her car keys. "Well, it was weird bumping into you and all. Bye."

"Ah huh," said Yousukou, turning to go with this long, brown tail curled around his waist.

Koinu smiled, hopped into her car, and drove away.

Yu just watched her go, his pointed ears listening. Then, he turned and rushed off in a tornado-like blur.

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About an hour later, Koinu reached the peaceful street of her home. When she drove up the driveway and into the garage, she was greeted by Shi, who was getting off his azure bicycle. "Where've you been?" Koinu asked him.

"I went to the arcade with Zat and Uindo," replied Shi as they both stepped into the house. Shi's eyes and locks were as dark as Koinu, both their senses dulled.

"Ooi, Mom!" they both called as Kagome came into view, heating up ramen in the kitchen.

"Ready to eat?" Kagome questioned, smiling at them.

Soon Inuyasha came into their line of sight as well, situated at the kitchen table. Beside him sat Shippou, leaning his chair on its back legs. Inuyasha sniffed the air slightly and accused, "I smell urufu."

Koinu grinned sheepishly. "I drove up to the mountain area to get some fresh air," she explained. "I kinda bumped into an urufu youkai because I was on his family's land. He was okay, he even helped me find the car after I turned ninjen."

"Ah. They're very territorial," remarked Kagome. She was scooping the ramen into separate bowls.

"Where exactly where you?" Shippou asked turning his green eyes towards Koinu.

"About a mile southwest of Fuji-yama," Koinu replied, helping her okaasan set the bowls on the table.

"Ahhh! The foot of Mount Fuji's where Kouga's pack lives. What did he say his name was?" Shippou inquired ignoring Inuyasha's growl at the mention of his old rival.

"Yousukou."

"I'm pretty sure that's the name of Kouga's second kid. He was only a pup when I bumped into them. Kouga only had two kids then. I suppose he probably has more now," Shippou mumbled.

"Yu said he had seventeen kyoudai."

"Seventeen!"

"Ah huh. That's what I said," Koinu said chuckling.

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"You're late, Yu," whispered a fierce female voice as Yousukou reached a secluded section of the mountain where several caves filled with urufu youkai were. Standing in the largest den's doorway was an adult urufu youkai; her long bushy, white tail trailing on the ground and her cropped white hair bristling slightly. She had a cold glare imprinted on her pretty face, golden hoops hanging from her ears.

"Hello to you too, Hime," snapped Yu as he brushed past her into the deep cave. Inside, several small youkai kodomotachi were rolling around, snarling playfully at each other while others slept. Towards the very back of the candle-lit wolf den were a few adults, all deep in conversation. Soon, one, a female with long white hair and tail and a baby upon her lap, looked up and smiled. "Its you, Yousukou," she said causing the others to look up at the teenage wolf demon.

Yu bowed a bit to her. "So it is, okaasan," he said, grinning.

Another youkai said, "Where've you been, obocchan?"

"Keeping tourists off our land, otousan," Yu said respectfully.

His father, whose long hair and tail were as brown as his obocchan's, smiled. His blue eyes were very like Yu's as well, light and impressive. "Hime, come here!" he yelled.

The white wolf demoness appeared from her spot by the opening and said, "Yes, otousan?"

"Scan the grounds again while I give your ototo some supper. He's been doing the rounds all day after all. Since you didn't want the hot day shift, you can take the all-night one," explained the male youkai, furs placed in various spots on his armor-like clothing.

Hime's lip twisted in anger and she stormed out of the door and flung herself into the night, her tattered purple cape flapping in the wind. "Urgh!" they heard her yell in frustration. "I hate these damn shifts! Why can't Yu take them all?!"

Yu smirked slightly and turned his head back towards the others as his okaasan said, "Kouga, what do you suppose we should do about the-" (A/N: Did anyone not predict Kouga was going to be related to Yu? ^_^)

"Later, Mashiro," replied Kouga getting up and handing Yu a slab of meat that had been hanging from a rope with others.

Yu took it, suspecting his otousan didn't want to talk because he was there and could understand what they were discussing unlike his younger kyoudai.

He left, swinging up the mountain to another cavern where some of the other teenage urufu youkai where hanging out. "Ooi, Yu!" called several of them as he stepped inside. He smiled and looked back outside for a moment, wondering what had become of the strange quarter inu-youkai girl turned ninjen.

Then he began chatting with his furenzu and stopped thinking of the 'puppy girl' for the time being.

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A/N: To finish off this chapter let's recall one last quote:

Inuyasha: "I don't give a rat's ass if you're famous or not, old man!"

A/N 2: Hehe. Yea, that's Inuyasha for ya. Anyway, I've got tons of these; I'll put more in next chapter.

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A/N: So that was chapter 2…

Shi: Obviously.

Choccy: *whacks the smart-aleck with a frying pan*

Shi: Ouch! @_@

A/N 2: ^_^ Here are the translations for this chap:

Kyoudai=siblings Otousan=father

Oji=uncle (older than one's parent)

Ooi=hey!

Urufu=wolf

Okaasan=mother

Kodomotachi=children

Furenzu=friends

Obocchan= son

Here are the name translations:

Yousukou =Yangtze River (in China) (Choccy/Note: I named him after a river in China because Kouga, his father, is named after the Yellow River in China. ^_^)

Yu=hot water

Mashiro=pure white

A/N 3: REVIEW! ^____^ Bye!

Shi: @__@