Chapter One, Kat meets Dog

Kat looked at the strange hanyou sitting in the tree a few yards away.

'He is strange! Doesn't he smell me? I wonder how smart he is,cause he doesn't look to bright.Lets go find out!' Thinking these and other equally mischeivious thoughts Kat jumped from tree to tree, always growing closer to the clueless hanyou.

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Inuyasha sat in the higher branches of a tree, deep in thought. As he moved his head to look at his friends a new and unusual scent meet his nose. The smell was comeing from above him, and as he stood up a small black figure jumped down. Whatever it was it had claws, it (or she) scratched him across the face and knocked him out of the tree.

"Well aren't you just a perfectly balanced hanyou?"

Inuyasha looked up and saw... a girl! She was small and fair, she had on black shorts and a white tank top. Her hair flowed down and around her shoulders and touched the small of her back.

"Baka! Why did you do that?" yelled an unhappy Inuyasha.

'Hmmm. No brains, no vocabulary, I pity him.He's got one thing going for him, hes definetly cute!' Kat gave a small smile and jumped down from the tree.

"My name isn't baka, its Kat! And you are?" Kat felt bad about knocking him out of the tree, she just got excited thats all.

"Go away bitch, my name is not important to you."Inuyasha lashed out at Kat, but after the fall she was to quick for him.

Kat jumped up into the tree, stayed there for about a split second, and then jumped down and pinned Inuyahsa to the ground.

"Now why don't you tell me your name?" Kat was enjoying this. But Inuyasha was refuseing to respond until...

"Inu-yash-a!! Inuyasha!!" sounded in the distance. Inuyahsas ears involuntarily twitched and Kat knew.

"Inuyasha huh? Dog....hmmm..... seems appropiate!" Kat was about to say something else, when the level of the moon in the night sky caught her eye.

"Well Inuyasha gotta run!!" Kat jumped up and ran through the trees.

Inuyasha lay on the ground momentarliy stunned, then curiousity kicked in. Inuyasha jumped up and followed her into the trees.

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Kat heard Inuyasha following her and made a face, what had she got herself into?

The chase continued, and Kat looked for a place to hide for the sun would soon rise.

The sun obviously couldn't wait, before Kat had had a chance to find a hiding spot, the suns rays peirced the sky.Kat didn't know how it was for other hanyous but the change from hanyou to human always made her dizzy and ill. Kat fell to the ground overcome with dizziness.

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Inuyasha ran through the trees dogdeing branches, stumps, and rocks. Unfortunately he didn't see the crumpled form of Kat laying in the path way. His foot caught the small of her back and his momenteum sent him flying headfirst into the nearest tree. Inuyasha got shakily to his feet and saw the now human form of Kat.

" Who the hell?" Inuyasha stood up and walked over to the female in the path way. As he kneeled down to examine her a familair scent meet his nose. Inuyasha sat up startled, images of a small, fair, attitudenal girl flashed in his mind. Inuyasha wasn't sure why but he didn't feel right about leaveing her there. No that wasn't right, he did know why! Kagome had softened his heart, but she had chosen someone else for her heart to belong to. Even though every instinct in his body told him not to, he picked up Kat and started toward camp.