Chapter: Not My Woman

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Kagome gulped. What was she supposed to do? Why did Kouga have to show up now of all times?

"Kagome, who is that strange looking man in the fur mini skirt?", Jii-chan inquired, trying his best to keep from throwing a seal at it.

Kagome laughed nervously, "Um.. Um.. Kouga-Kun!", she waved at the wolf youkai still a few yards away.

Mrs.Higurashi cocked her head to the side, like a puzzled dog, Kouga-Kun? Wasn't that that boy Kagome had told her about that one time? That time she had had that big fight with Inuyasha? Oh yes, Kouga-Kun!

Mrs.Higurashi bowed, smiling brightly, "I'm so glad to finally meet you!"

Inuyasha growled in a manner far from friendly. "Get outa here ya' damn wolf!"

Kouga blatantly ignored Inuyasha, opting instead to sniff the air, his woman smelt funny. But, because of the storm, it was terribly hard to even catch her scent , especially from so far away.

All he knew was that last time he checked, her hair was black. Not white. And she didn't have ugly ass dog ears.* Or claws.. Or fangs.. And he'd never seen her wearing a kimono before… And who were those people she was with?

"What'd ya do to my woman dog face?!", He began advancing on the group, and was soon right in Inuyasha's face.

"She's not your fucking woman, wimpy wolf.", he held up a fist menacingly. He didn't want to get in a fight with Kagome's family here.. But.. If it was necessary..

Kagome stuck her self between the too, halting any violence before it had a chance to start. "Stop it you guys!"

Jii-chan tapped Mrs.Higurashi on the shoulder. "Who is that guy? And who's is he calling his woman?"

"Oh, that's Kouga-kun, the wolf demon Kagome told me about. He's in love with her, and thinks she's his woman!", Kagome's mom smiled, wishing she had some pop corn.

His woman? His woman? No one had the right to talk that way about his grandaughter, except maybe Inuyasha.

With the anger accustomed to weird old men, Jii-chan shoved Inuyasha out of the way and stood before Kouga.

Now Inuyasha wasn't normally the type of person to be so easily shoved around by people, much less old fragile men, but he really wasn't expecting it. Actually, it took him a minute to figure out what happened. He looked at Kouga, then at where he had been standing, then at Kagome's grandfather, then at himself. He repeated the cycle once more, before, finally…

"..Oh.."

Kouga looked past Kagome to the old man, then did basically the same thing Inuyasha had done. Looked to himself, Inuyasha, and then to where Inuyasha was.

At last, he came to the conclusion that there was an old man in front of him.


He really wasn't sure whether to be confused, angry, or amused. He settled for confused.

Raising an eyebrow, he looked at Kagome, "Who the hell is that?"

Kagome turned around to see her grandfather, soaked in rain. God, she'd kill herself if he got sick because of this. "That is my grandfather." , She grabbed hold of her mother's arm and pulled her beside her. "And this is my mother."

Kagome's mother? Grandfather? She had family? He'd always just assumed she was an orphan.

"and my brother is around here… somewhere.."

Kagome's mother smiled at the retarded wolf demon, "Hi! I've heard so much about you!", so what If she'd really heard next to nothing, she was Mrs.Higurashi! She could say whatever she wanted.

Jii-chan threw a seal at Kouga; Kouga caught it in his hand. Jii-chan looked like this wasn't something completely predictable.

"What!? How could it not work?!"

"Jii-chan! What did I tell you about seal throwing?!"

"Oh my god! He's got a tail! KAWAIIIIII!!!"

"Get the fuck outa' here wimpy wolf!"

"What'd ya do to my woman dog turd?!"

"She aint your woman!"

"Oh look! They're fighting over Kagome! How sweet!"

"How could my seals possibly not work?"

"SHUT UP!"

Everyone stopped talking (and/or yelling) and looked at Kagome, who gave the appearance of some one who was about to snap.

She glared at each one of them. "Inuyasha, be nice to Kouga-kun. Mom, I told you no screaming! Jii-chan, your seals never have, and never will, work. Kouga-Kun, I'm not your woman.", she breathed in to catch her breath.

Everyone stared at her untill Kouga, being the big freaking idiot that he was, talked again.

"I didn't know you had family."

"That's cause ya don't know any fucking thing about her ya damn idiot!", Inuyasha stood beside Kagome, wrapping his arm around her shoulder.

Kouga of course, being the completely stupid, ignorant person who's naivety actually made Houjo seem aware, didn't notice how Inuyasha was actually being nice to Kagome, had his arm around her, and there was yet to be any sittings.

"Who are you calling an idiot?"

"You!", Inuyasha smirked, "Or was I talking to fast? "

"Dog turd!"

"Wimpy wolf!"

"At least Kagome's my wo-" Kouga stopped mid word and began to sniff the air incredulously. He followed this, to him very unpleasing, scent all the way (well, the whole foot) to Kagome. He began sniffing at her as if she had had magically turned into a monkey.

"um.. Kouga-Kun?"

"Get the hell away from her!!" Inuyasha shoved (more like punched) Kouga away, Kagome corresponded by kicking him in the shins.

Kouga took no notice of this, or perhaps had already forgotten it had happened.

"Y.. Your.. Not my woman!" …and the whole world gasped in shock.

"Holy seven fucking hells! Your dog turd's woman!" ….and the world gasped again..

Inuyasha smirked triumphantly and pulled Kagome even closer to him, gloating. "That's right ya' shit-for brains idiot!* Mine!"

Kagome gave Inuyasha a look so dry one would be want to poke her face just to make sure it hadn't turned to sand.

Jii-chan joined Inuyasha, "That's right you transvestite! She's His!"

Kouga sniffed at the air, again, still in complete and utter disbelief. "And you're.. A… an inu hanyou!"

Kagome reached up and touched her ears to make sure they were still there. "Your.. Um.. Just now noticing?"

"What the hell has been going on since the last time I saw you!?", Kouga looked a tad bit faint.

Mrs.Higurashi stopped picking her bouquet of (wet) feudal wild flowers to look at Kouga. "They killed the big evil man too!"

The color drained from Kouga's face. "Y..You killed Naraku!?"

For once, Inuyasha actually felt a tad bit of sympathy for the idiotic wolf, so great was his level of stupidity.


Oh wait, that wasn't sympathy, that was still hate, and maybe, just maybe, a little big of surprise. "Well, yeah, didn't you know?"

"But.. But I was supposed to kill him!", Kouga collapsed to his knees, this whole situation was obviously more than his puny brain could handle.

"Um.. Kouga-Kun?"

Mrs.Higurashi abandoned her flowers and sunk to her knees beside Kouga. "Oh, the poor wittle wolfy! Kagome and Inuyasha've been mean to you haven't they? Shame on you two!"

Kouga's face just gained more despair. "F..First you take my shards, saying you fucking need them. Damn you Kagome! Damn you for using your womanly seductions to lure them away from me! And.. And then you take away my woman dog turd! My woman! But, as if that isn't bad enough, you go and take away my fucking vengence! I needed that vengence! And, and now.. Now there's a crazy lady hanging all over me!"

"Um.. Kouga-kun.. You just kind of.. Well.. handed me your shards, saying that you wanted to be strong without the help of some 'damn jewel shard magic'.. remember?"

"Don't try to dress up the facts woman!", he sobbed.. Wait.. sobbed? Was he.. Crying!?

Inuyasha absently kicked at Kouga, just for the hell of it. For some odd reason, so did Jii-chan.

Mrs.Higurashi lost interest in Kouga and began picking up her bouquet. "Look Kagome! Look at the pretty flowers I found here! They don't have em like this in my time! Look Kagome!"

Kagome nodded to her mother with a forced smile and ignored the fact, for her mother's sake, that the florist down the street had an abundance of those same flowers, and that her mother had actually purchased a great many of them from there . "That's.. Nice mom.."

"Kagome, shouldn't we go look for Souta now, the rain is making me cold.", Jii-chan shivered for emphasis.

"Um.. Kouga-kun?"

"Just go Kagome, just go, the pain in my heart… it burns like fire Kagome! You've made my heart burn! I can't bare to see you any more!"

"Umm…"

"Oh! The burning!"

"Well.. Alright.."

Kagome stepped over Kouga's form in the wet grass and began to make her way, with the others, to her cave.


Kouga watched them go, making a mental note to go find Ayame and confess his undying love for her.

~*~

"Oh Kagome! It's so lovely and gray! Beautiful Kagome! Absolutely lovely!"

Kagome gave her mother a sideways glance, "Um.. Mom.. That's a rock.." She pointed in front of them to her cave, "That is my house.

Mrs.Higurashi ran up into it, "Oh it's even more wonderful!" , She waited a minute for the rest of them to catch up to her.

Jii-chan entered the cave and looked around, the entrance room was large, the wall's were covered in green moss, and the floor was smooth stone… if he were to draw on the smooth ground, and then went into the future and found the cave, then he would have made an ancient cave drawing! He was a part of history!

"It's nice Kagome… so.. So full of history!"

Mrs.Higurashi began to pet the moss, "Oh Kagome! It's so soft! Come feel Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha sweat dropped. "Um.. I've.. Um.. Already felt it! Yeah! That's it! I mean.. Yeah!"

Mrs. Higurashi began pointing at random spots in the room. "Oh look Kagome! We can put you a big pink rug here! And over here we can set a table! And there a book case!"

"Right mom, but first we have to buy the stuff. How about we go look at another room now?" Kagome disappeared around a corner and everyone followed her.

Mrs.Higurashi gazed at the room, which looked exactly like the last one. "Oh sweety! It's beautiful!"

"Um.. Actually mom, this one isn't too special.. How about we just go straight to a good one?"


Kagome lead them to a more unique room, skipping straight through the other's, only interrupted by Mrs.Higurashi's occasional 'enthusiasm'.

This particular one had a higher ceiling's and a much larger room than the others and the walls weren't quite as smooth. The rock dipped in at different intervals all along the walls, creating shelf-type things.

Inuyasha spoke quick before Mrs.Higurashi could make some overly optimistic remark about this room.

"Kagome says this is gonna be Sango and the bouzo's room."

Jii-chan ran his hand over one of the walls. "A monk living in a cave, the things historians don't know..", He shook his head in distaste, but then, brightened up significantly, "Maybe I can be a historian! After all, my granddaughter lives in history!"

"Oh Inuyasha! You've given my daughter such a lovely home! I always new you'd take care of her!", Mrs.Higurashi spontaneously ran up and glomped Inuyasha.

The hanyou gave Kagome a pleading look, as her mother wouldn't let go of him.

"Um.. Come on mom, I'll show you my room!"

~*~

"Wow Kagome! It Sparkles! Sparkly! Pretty! Lovely! Wonderful! A hot spring! Pink!", Mrs.Higurashi began to twirl around the room.

Kagome eyed her apprehensively, "Mom.. Why don't you stop that and come feel how warm the water is?"

"Weeeeeeeeeee! It drips like a waterfall Kagome! Like a waterfall!"

Jii-chan tapped at the quartz, "Pink quartz? I'm never heard of a cave like this before."

Inuyasha draped an arm around Kagome, noticing the way she looked like she could scream.. This was really taking a lot out of her.

Kagome plopped down on the ground and leaned her back up against the wall. "Inuyasha.. Won't the rain ever let up?"

Inuyasha only sat down beside her, trying his best to block out the strange dancing woman and the old man inspecting every square inch of the room…

This was going to be a long day…

A.N

_____________________________________________________________________________________*Kouga's opinion does not necessarily depict my own

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*Inuyasha's opinion does reflect my own.

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Yes, this chap was rather short.. Sorry about that, but It felt like I needed to leave it off there.. Well, sorry for the long wait for an update, and also for the short length…

Oh, and thank you all so incredibly much for giving me so many reviews. 872! Thanks! Keep them coming please! I'd like to have 1,000 before this fic is over.

Vold: Yeah, I wanted to give Mrs.Higurashi a serious moment, because, truth be told, I actually do respect her character. It just seems like to me, all she wants is for her daughter to be happy.. And.. Well, you gotta respect her for that… Oh, and I know, wasn't that Miroku's loves thing total crap? It was.. Horrendous.. Thought I'd send you that link just for amusement.. Oh, and yes, Houjo was already in this story, I think it was in chapter 28.. And Sesshoumaru already congratulated Inuyasha for finding a mate, but I'll admit, that does seem like it happened ages ago.. And I'll bring him back into the story as soon as I think up a new adventure for him. Oh, and about the whole CN showing 1-36, AGAIN. Yeah, I know, that's basically why I gave up on Viz and have started downloading the eps subtitled off of kazaa. *glomps Kazaa* Kazaa, or any other p2p program is a must have for anyone who wants more anime than what they show on CN. Speaking of English dubs, I must warn you, and whoever else is reading this, No one, I repeat, no one, should watch the disgrace that is dubbed fruits basket. THEY KILLED MY BELOVED FRUITS BASKET! FB is my all time favorite anime.. And.. And they killed it! Talk about bad choice of voice actors.. Ugh.. I'm rambling.. Well, thanks for reviewing!

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