A/N All right! I've had this uploaded for a few days now and I finally got time to actually post it! So here's the nineth chapter! Thanks again to Black-Rouge-Dapura and a heart so pure. ;;gives them both a bag of fat free cookies;; I only own Seras, Melissa (aka Missy ;-) ), Elly and the plot! So no sue! ENJOY!

Points of View

Chapter 9

Of Women And Wolves

Elly leans back against the side of the well, sitting on the side that would not be immediately visible should anyone come from the village to look for her. Besides, she didn't want to be found anytime soon. She wanted her tears to dry and her emotions to be brought back under control first.

She couldn't even remember the last time she had had an emotional outburst like that, or at least one that was directed at her sister. All she could remember was that it had been an extremely long time ago, not like it mattered anymore.

Sighing softly, she lays on her side for a moment before turning to lay on her back, staring up at the clear blue sky above with only an occasional cloud, her arms crossed behind her head. Looking at how clean and fresh everything was, it wasn't too hard for her to believe that she really was five hundred years in the past. Too bad people had to ruin it with all the pollution in her time.

She wasn't sure how long she had been staring at the sky when she ends up hearing Miroku's distinct voice. "Come on, Inu Yasha! I'm sure you could've found her without my help!"

"Yeah, well, I wasn't about to leave you behind. I didn't feel like going and finding Elizabeth only to come back and have to pummel you because you groped one of the girls."

"Oh ye of little faith!"

"Yeah whatever. You just didn't want to come because she all but made you wet your pants!"

Elly places a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing until a loud yelp from the nearby woods causes all three to turn their heads, she was the first to take off in the direction of the sound. To her it sounded like an animal in distress, and she hated seeing or hearing any animal injured for any reason at all.

"There she goes! Elly! Where do you think you're goin'!"

"Where does it look like? Come on!"

Seeing his chance, Miroku decides to make a hasty retreat back to the village, he wasn't about to get anywhere near Elly if he could help it!

Growling, Inu Yasha takes off after her, ignoring Miroku and easily catching up with her. They both skid to a stop at the sight before them, tears forming in Elly's eyes at the sight.

"You poor baby! Oh man people make me so sick sometimes!" She starts to head over to the trapped wolf.

Inu Yasha grabs her shoulder and pulls her back. "What do you think you're doin'? Do you really want to get hurt that badly?"

"Let me go, Mutt-Face! He needs our help!"

"And just how do you plan on doing that anyway!"

"Give me your haori."

"Why?"

"Look, the first thing we want to do is get him to calm down. The easiest way is to drape your haori over his head so that he can't see. Then I'll place my arms around his neck to keep it over his eyes and talk soothingly to him. While I'm doing that, since I know you have the strength to do it, you can pry that trap off his leg. From there, we'll pick him up and take him back to the village so that we can bandage him up before letting him go."

Inu Yasha eyes her warily. "And tell me why I should trust what you're saying...?"

"I used to volunteer my free time at our local wolf reserve. If you don't know what that is, I'll explain it later. Right now, we need to get him out of that trap. God I hate those things..." Elly rubs her arms as a shiver creeps down her spine.

Still leery about all of this, he removes his haori and helps her to place it over the wolf's head. The wolf is of course none too happy about any of it. Several attempts, an hour later, and near the end of Inu Yasha's temper, they finally have to injured wolf calm enough to take the trap off and back to the village.

Elly looks at Inu Yasha shyly as they slowly head back towards the village. "Um, Inu Yasha?"

He glares at her. "What?"

She looks back at the wolf, making sure his head was still wrapped to keep him from seeing what was around him and possibly lashing out. "Thank you..."

Inu Yasha stares at her for a moment before speaking somewhat gruffly. "You're welcome. I just hope Kaede or Kagome don't decide to have my head over this..."

"Don't worry, they won't. I'll take full responsibility since it was my idea to rescue the poor guy anyway."

"Just see that you do..." he grumbles, his eyes ahead of him.

"I just said I would, so quit worrying! And one other thing."

"What?"

"Stop looking at me like that or I'll tell Kagome."

"What are you talking about?!"

Elly laughs at him, the look of pure panic on his face was just too funny and it spoke volumes on how he felt about her. "So have you told her?"

"Told who what?" Inu Yasha was beginning to feel dizzy with her talking in circles.

"Have you told Kagome that you love her yet? You know it's rather obvious that you do. You two are a perfect match if you ask me."

Inu Yasha tries without success to keep a blush from his cheeks. "As far as perfect matches go, what do you think of Koga? Since you love wolves so much, it seems only natural that that bone-head would be perfect for you."

Elly blushes slightly for a moment before she stares sadly down at the ground. "That might be true, but it wouldn't work out. He lives here in Japan's past, I live in the future and across the ocean... besides, he seems too intent on Kagome regardless of what he's been told. Besides," she smirks sadly at him, "you forget I'm not in the best standings with him right now as it is."