First meetings Hello! If you're still reading my work, I am happy! Yes, there will be supernatural things going on, including many odd things! Inuyasha: Crazy. Definitely crazy... (Shakes head) Kagome: Stop being mean, Inuyasha!! Miroku: She doesn't own us, right? Inuyasha: Thank the gods for that! Yvee: (Sob) You're mean, Inuyasha. Inuyasha: Ah, Stop crying! Kagome: SIT! (Inuyasha hits the ground)

"What in the hells do you mean that we have a late comer?" Inuyasha snapped. "I thought you said we had everyone." "I apologize, General, Jiang Jun Inuyasha." "Damn!" Inuyasha stepped out of his tent, and saw a flash of black head towards him. "What in the nine hell's—?" was all he managed as he was unceremoniously bowled over. He gave the beast a glare, as the beast stood there innocently, prancing back and forth. Angrily, he stalked towards the beast, intending very well to murder the damn beast, when a slight body interjected itself between the two. "Don't you dare touch Huang!" A feminine voice came. Inuyasha stared at the speaker, expecting a girl, before his angry mind registered a boy with big brown eyes framed with long lashes that looked ridiculous on a boy. His hair hung to his back, and he looked flushed, as if he had been running. He looked too pretty to be a boy, and Inuyasha would have to agree if someone said that the boy looked like a girl and decided to make the boy wear a dress. Actually, that scene wasn't that bad, as compared to the other vision of having any of the other men wear a dress. He shuddered, imagining his men putting on an opera and having to wear a dress. Did facial hair and black eyes fit in with an opera? He thought not. Then again... the makeup would probably solve that problem, but what would they do about their... His mind shook out that detail, finding it extremely disturbing. He looked up, and found the boy still standing before him. Rage kicked in again, and Inuyasha began to stare at the boy angrily. "King? More like a flea bitten mongrel." Inuyasha snarled. "Get out of my way, pretty boy!" "No!" The boy said, ignoring Inuyasha's "pretty boy" comment, glaring at Inuyasha and daring him to do something about it. Inuyasha had no choice but to applaud the boy's spark, but it did nothing to calm his already volatile feelings. Furiously, Inuyasha reached for the boy, and suddenly found himself lying face forward in the dirt. He spat out dirt. "Dammit!" Inuyasha said. He looked up furiously at the boy, who blinked, then looked reproachful as he surveyed Inuyasha lying prostrate on the ground. "I'm so sorry!" The boy said, ignoring the crowd that begun to amass around them. "What did you do?" Inuyasha ground out between clenched teeth. "I have had training since I was little and my training just kicked in, I supposed." The boy finished off lamely. Training, huh? Maybe this boy would be useful to them, but at the moment, he needed to be punished. "I am Jiang Jun Inuyasha. I am taking your horse away until further notice, because that beast is a menace to the everyday walking man." "General?" The boy said, clearly stunned. "Yes General." Inuyasha savored the look of stunned shock on the boy's pretty face. If the boy was a girl, he'd have tried to seduce her already. Too bad Inuyasha didn't swing that way. "My apologizes, sir." The boy said, looking distinctly sorry, as if he really meant he was sorry, much unlike the rest of the men in this camp. Inuyasha began to like this boy. "What's your name?" "Uh... Kahn. Higurashi Kahn. I'm here in place of my father, sir." "So you're the latecomer. Very well. Come by my tent later." Inuyasha reached out his hand towards the horse. The horse—Huang, was it? —Nipped at him. Inuyasha stared the horse down. Huang snorted and did a two-step away from him. Inuyasha got impatient, grabbed the horse, hauled it over his shoulder, and ignoring its fierce neighing, walked away.

Kagome stared in awe as the General walked away with Huang, Huang was struggling above the general. The general had just... picked King up, like Huang was a toy or something! "He's something, huh?" A man next to her said, awe was in his voice. Kagome nodded silently, her eyes wide. "That was something! You're the first one to ever knock the general down, apparently, or get a reprieve from the general and to get invited to his tent!" "I er, um..." Kagome said, stunned. "Too bad you're a boy." One of the guys said reflectively. "You'd be perfect as a woman. A, you are extremely pretty. B, you've got spunk—I can't stand those girls who whimper and whine and mope. C, you managed to handle the captain and fling him face first on the ground!" Uh oh...Kagome thought, suddenly wondering how she was going to live in this camp for the next who-knows-how-long. She also began to realize she would have to take baths at odd times, figure a way to hide her monthlies, and stop herself from being attracted to any of the men. Especially the General. Kagome nearly drooled when she had first saw him, then realized he had been heading for Huang, and her temper boiled. She'd have to be on her guard... "Hey, pretty boy! I have a fight to pick with you!" A voice came. Kagome flinched slightly. Pretty boy? If anyone puts two plus two together, I'm officially screwed. I'll probably get beheaded! Pretty boy is an insult... This is probably my cue to get angry...but my best defense is to be calm... Oh, what do I do, what do I do?! "Yes?" Kagome turned, and looked calmly at the speaker. Her eyes widened as a man stood over her, leering. Kagome nearly backed away, then remembered her father's advice—"Stay where you are. Give no sign that you're afraid. Stand up and show them what you're made of." "You wanna fight?" The man said, raising his hands to his face. "Miroku?" A young woman's voice came, and a tall lady stood at the end of the crowd, her hands clutching a bundle, a small dog-like creature followed her. On her back was a giant thing that was shaped in an L. Kagome blinked. "Oh, a woman." The man who challenged Kagome said, and then leered at the other woman, who ignored him, still looking for "Miroku". Kagome looked around to see a man carrying around a monk pole walk towards the young woman. "Sango, dammit, woman! I told you get out of her, so the other men don't rape you or anything!" "Oh. You mean them?" Sango pointed to a pile on the ground. Kagome's eyes grew big, and she stared at the mass pile of beat up bodies. "SANGO!" Miroku said, irritated. Sango suddenly slapped Miroku. "Get your hands off my behind!" She screamed. "But you like me doing it!" "I do not!" Male snickers filled in the quiet silence. "Now what's all the damn fuss?" "Sir!" All the men chorused. Kagome blinked, then found Inuyasha's face in hers. "You're supposed to say, Sir. Get it, pretty boy?" Kagome glared. "You an' what army?" She said, before clamping her hands over her mouth. "That's it!" Inuyasha grabbed Kagome; then grabbed Miroku and Sango under his other arm and carried them to his tent. He dumped them all on the ground and fiercely glared. "What in the hells is happening?" "I have come to join the army." Sango said. "Sango! Women aren't allowed in the army! You'll be beheaded!" "I can fight. That's all that matters." "Dammit, no, its not! You're a girl!" Miroku said, vehemently. "The law dictates..." "I can fight. Try me out, unless you're chicken." Sango said to Inuyasha. The little dog-like creature made a soft 'whr'-ing sound. "Hush, Ki." Kagome stared at Inuyasha, who stood up, then smiled. "Ok, let's see what you can do." He bared his teeth in a wolfish smile, Kagome's heart pounded quicker. Ahh! Get a hold of yourself! Kagome and Miroku followed Inuyasha and Sango out of the tent, where they stood, facing each other. "I don't go easy, even on women." Inuyasha said, still grinning his wolf- smile. Sango smiled. "I would not wish it another way." Inuyasha charged. Kagome closed her eyes. Silence erupted suddenly. Kagome opened her eyes and stared. Inuyasha smiled at Sango, reaching his hand to her and helping Sango up. "What? I missed?" "No." Miroku said, "Look at his hair and his sleeve." Kagome looked at it and the sleeve suddenly fell to the ground along with his hair tie, suddenly revealing two silver dog-like ears beneath his expanse of black hair. "Demon!" Sango's breath came out slowly. "Half-demon." Inuyasha corrected. "Unfortunately, my mother was the princess, so I have this post. My hair is dyed." "We have to warn the others!" Miroku said. "Stop!" Kagome said. Everyone looked at her. "If we were to tell, this entire battalion would have to be destroyed. The gods would destroy us, and so would the emperor. If the emperor knows and we don't tell, then we are safe, as this is his grandchild, after all!" Inuyasha stared. "You do have something underneath that pretty face, after all." Kagome remembered to glare. "Ok. Let's go in and check you in." Inuyasha said, lifting up the flap to his tent. Kagome followed. "Miroku, take Sango to be outfitted for her post as guard." The two left, arguing, as Miroku patted Sango's butt. "So. What do we have here?"