Chapter 16

Kagome and Keya walked all the way to Kagome's house while Inuyasha slept the whole way. Keya walked up the stairs and noticed Kagome wasn't walking also. She look back and saw Kagome's face; her sad impression was painful to see. Keya may have only been a wolf, but had a heart. She too lost control of herself when about to attack Houjo, but Kagome hurt him.

Keya walked toward her side and whimpered a little so Kagome would continue up the stairs. Kagome look at Keya and that perked her ears. It cheered Kagome up a little and so she continued to walk up the stairs with Keya by her. They reached up to the door and

"Thank you about earlier Keya." She said in a low voice.

Keya looked at her with such humbled eyes. It made Kagome feel better and opened the door to let Keya. Then closed the door behind her and went to her room with Keya and Inuyasha in her arms.

When Keya pushed the door open and jumped on the bed; she didn't go on the pillow because she was the size of it. Kagome set Inuyasha on her bed and tucked him in. She looked at him for a while noticing that this would end eventually, in 10 months everything can go back to normal. Or so she would hope at least; she didn't know what to think.

"Keya, want to outside for a while and play a bit?" She asked.

Keya got off the bed softly and rushed to the entrance of Kagome's room; her tail was wagging in such joy that she was moving her butt. Kagome smiled and kissed Inuyasha's head and left the room quietly; not to disturb the sleepy one.

When she cracked her door she walked downstairs seeing a hyper Keya going in circles. Keya almost fell afterwards from spinning so much.

"Mom, me and Keya will be outside, Inuyasha is taking a nap." Kagome said when she peeked in the kitchen and seeing her making dinner.
"Okay dear." Her mom replied.

When Kagome opened the door Keya bolted out the door extremely fast. Kagome laughed seeing how Keya wanted to play badly. Kagome remembered how the cubs at Kouga's den always wanted to play. She grabbed a bone that her mother bought.

"Keya catch!" Kagome shouted and threw it in the air.

Keya saw her throw the bone and got a little bit hyper and jumped 20feet in the air for it and raced herself to Kagome. They did that multiple times till Kagome got tired.

She sat down for a bit and Keya laid down next to her.

"I suppose you want me to throw it again Keya?" She asked.

Keya wagged her tail even though her eyes were closed. She jumped up to her feet and waited for Kagome to throw the bone one last time. Kagome pulled her arm back and chucked the bone far. Keya dashed out and ran toward it with speed.

Suddenly, Kagome felt a tap on her shoulder. She looked behind her and saw legs in blue pants. When she started to look up, she the persons face.

"Ho... Houjo?" She flinched a little in fright and turned away but sat in the same spot.
"Kagome." He said softly; putting a hand on her shoulder.

She shuttered when he touched her. She was afraid of what he would hit/abuse her.

"I'm sorry for what I did earlier; I didn't mean it, I just... I don't know." He whispered near her ear. Kagome looked at him and he kissed her when she faced him. He helped Kagome get up and he then hugged her. "Please forgive my actions today; I don't know what I was doing, honest. It was like someone took over me or something." He said in a sad voice, as if he were about to cry.

Kagome was shocked... It was Houjo, the Houjo that she knew and cared about. She returned his hug. "It's okay Houjo." She said to assure him.

Keya returned from catching the bone, she saw Houjo and Kagome and started to walk defensively towards them with low growls. Kagome heard her and released Houjo and turned and knelt down with her arms wide. Keya noticed that Kagome was not afraid and she was happy. She ran up to Kagome and received a hug.

Houjo bent down to look at Keya.

"So, you're the one who wanted to kill me first aye?" Houjo teased.
"You can't blame her Houjo, I take care of her and she's protective of me sometimes as she growls older." She defended Keya. "Beside, she wouldn't harm anything unless probably told to." She explained.
"What are you a queen or something to wolves?" He teased her.
"Maybe" She teased back.
"Let's find out then, I found some wolf cubs earlier in an old alley; and I tried to bring them here but wouldn't allow me and their eyes glaze red when I go near." He stated.
"Uh..." She looked towards Keya who nodded. "Okay, be right back then."

She went inside the house and told her mother that she was going for a walk with Keya really quickly and not to let Inuyasha leave the house. After that, they took off in search of the cubs.

After an hour they found the alley Houjo talked about, they went down it and heard some whimpering close by.

"Cubs!" Kagome shouted and then started to hear small growls.
"I'll protect you Kagome." He said as he went in front of her as he saw 5 cubs with reds eyes looking at them with drool coming out of their mouths.
"It's alright Houjo, I got it." She said and started to go in front of Houjo slowly.

Kagome took 3 steps near them and they stood in attack mode. Keya stood next to Houjo, waiting to be called upon.

"Devour me if you want wolves, you would betray your own brother Kouga and your sister Kagome!" She said in a serious tone. Keya's ears perked.

'That women, is the one Kouga calls his mate?!' Keya thought. (What? Animal can think too you know!)

The 5 wolf cubs knew the name Kouga from their father wolf; they knew Kouga was the Wolf Tribe Leader. They smelt Kagome from their distant and smelled wolf demon on her.

Keya did a wolf bow and so did the cubs. At the same time, the 5 cubs and Keya howled. When they stopped they heard others howl that were farther away. Kagome sighed when the howling stopped and looked behind her to see Houjo.

"Wh... what... just... happened???" He nervously asked.
"Don't' worry." Kagome said as she knelt down. "They won't attack." The cubs came running to her and licking her a lot.
"What did you do?!" He nervously asked again.
"I told them that I was a sister of theirs, technically I'm not, but I guess a very close friend." She smiled. "It's time for me to go back home now." She stated as she stood up.

Kagome, Houjo, and Keya started to walk and the pups stayed in place. They didn't know what to do; to follow Kagome or to stay.

"Come on cubs, I'll take you to Kouga eventually." Kagome said as she patted her sign as a sign for them to follow.

They followed afterwards, but on the way when they were going to Kagome's place the wolf cubs kept jumping on each other. Kagome decided to hurry it up some so she, Houjo, and Keya picked on the speed a little. The cubs noticed that and then they started to run to keep up.

"That was fun Kagome; we should look for wolves more often... joking." Houjo said.
"I guess I'll see you around sometime when I go back to school." She said as she walked up the stairs with 6 wolves.
"You won't be there tomorrow?" He asked.
"No, I need to have my arms healed up first." She replied

Houjo knew what she meant; she was talking about what he did to her during school. He nodded and waved to her and left her sight.

Kagome made it up the stairs and the cubs raced around everyone outside. Keya was next to Kagome. Kagome looked at Keya, "Are cubs always this hyper?" She asked. Keya perked her ears and looked at the cubs.

Kagome went inside and told her mom she was pack and that she brought 5 wolf cubs home. Mrs. Higurashi sighed and asked if they would be taken to Inuyasha's era. Kagome said yes and her mom allowed her to keep them at the house for the time being. Kagome thanked her and brought the cubs in followed by Keya. Kagome then told them that they have to stay calm inside or else they would be in a lot of trouble. They all nodded and so they all went up to her room quietly seeing Inuyasha still sleeping.

"Inuyasha, wake up, it's been 5 hours since you taken a nap." Kagome gently patted him as she was sitting next to him on her bed.
"Me sleepy, sleep longer." He mumbled and turned away.
"You can go to sleep later; you shouldn't have slept this long in the first place." She said as she rubbed his back for him to get up.
"I smell Houjo!" He opened his eyes wide and smelt the air once more.
"It's okay Inuyasha, calm down. Today was a big misunderstanding I guess." She explained.
"But he hurt you." He pouted.
"He may have hurt me, but I'm alive aren't I?" She asked and he just nodded.

"Come on, we'll go take a bath now." She said.
"Uh... Kagome?" He questioned.
"Yeah?" She replied.
"Why are there 5 cubs here?" He asked

Kagome explained it all to him during bath time. After that they all had dinner and then they all went to sleep on Kagome's bed. The cubs slept near Keya which was at the end of her bed and Inuyasha slept next to Kagome.