Hello everybody!! Inuficcrzy here, very sorry for the lack of updates, but man has it been a hectic month. Kids were everywhere; I had no time to write!

Hey, my sis just now got on ff.net! her name's red_angel_wings, and you guys have so got to go read her kick ass story!

Hope this makes up for the delay, the action comes out in the next chap!

Chap : Breakfast, bets, and rears

A brightly blushing Kagome made her way down the stairs to the main floor. Inuyasha, the very cute boy who was supposed to be her-what had Kagura called the werewolves? Oh yeah, pets. The boy who was supposed to be her 'pet' had just seen her naked. It was kind of funny, in a way. He'd been bringing her clothes, a very sweet gesture she thought. She really hadn't wanted to walk down the hallway in that skimpy little robe she'd been given. He'd looked like someone had wanged him with a frying pan when he'd looked at her.

And boy had his face turned red. His nose had actually started bleeding from the force of his blushing. She giggled to herself. He'd looked so cute like that, the little pervert. She'd forgive him for looking; after all, it hadn't been intentional.

The girl followed the delicious smells coming from a room off to the side and found Inuyasha sitting at a small table digging into a huge stack of pancakes oozing with butter and syrup. A young girl, a werewolf by the scent of her, had been cooking breakfast, and a few other werewolves were cleaning up the kitchen with her. The girl turned at the sound of her entering and immediately bowed her head. "My lady! Welcome, I'm Mayu. Would you like something to eat?"

Kagome couldn't help her smile at the sight and scent of such delicious food. "Yeah, that'd be great!"

He looked up and froze at the sight of her, a fierce blush rising on his face. "Ugh! K-guh-mph!" He desperately tried to swallow so he could run faster, but she stayed his plan. Kagome just smiled at him, though she did blush, and sat down beside him at the table.

"Inuyasha? Pass the honey?" He did as she asked as Mayu landed a stack of fluffy cakes in front of her. "Thanks." She doused them in honey and butter and dug in with an appetite. Something told her she would need her energy soon enough.

Mayu smiled at the sight of them. She and the others could tell by their smell that they were bloodmates. It wasn't a glaring neon sign, but a subtle thing, there only if you thought to look for it. His scent and her own were twining at the edges. Sai and Ichiro were responsible for spreading the story of how that happened and it had run like wildfire among the werewolves. It was obvious that the young couple hadn't mated, but those two rascals already had a pool going as for when the new couple would do so. It looked like Inuyasha had found himself a good one, and Mayu was happy for him. He needed a girlfriend. Speaking of which, she would have to go and place her bet as to the couple's union too. Mayu figured on roughly a month and a half.

She shooed the others out and then left the two of them alone. They needed some time together to get used to each other. They would be stuck together for eternity, or until they died, bound by their own magical curses. It would be best if they liked each other.

Inuyasha could barely look at his mistress. Damn it, he hadn't meant to walk in on her like that. (Not that he didn't appreciate the view he'd gotten, but still! His mother had raised him to show respect to a lady.) So he swallowed his pride and did the nasty. "I'm sorry," he said gruffly.

Kagome looked up from her delicious food and smiled. "It's no big. I know you didn't do it on purpose, so don't mention it, okay?"

"Um, sure." He took another bite before speaking again. He did not want to do this, but it had to be said. "You need to know my word."

She paused in her eating. "Your what?"

"My word, the one that's spelled to this," he said, fingering his collar. "When the moon is full, you might have to control me with it."

"Why?" she said with concern. "What happens when-oh." He was a werewolf. Duh. She looked down to her lap. "So that part of the stories is true?"

"Yeah, we all transform and most of us get violent. Like tripping on drugs and going nuts. The vamps use the collars to control our urges, but mostly they just let us go out and kill stuff for them." his voice held an understandable amount of bitterness.

She couldn't help but wince in horror at the thought of being forced to transform into a monster. "Do you know what you're doing? When it happens?"

"Sometimes," he said softly, "but mostly you'll kill anything that moves." He looked her right in the eye. "My word is 'sit.'"

"Huh? Why si-"

"Don't say it!" He shouted in mild panic. "You'll make me go face first into the floor. Hard."

She winced again. "Ouch."

"It only works for you, and if you want to use it specifically. Also works if you're talking about the command, not the action."

"Oh. So if I say-" she paused, but he nodded as she motioned to a chair, "'sit here', nothing happens, but if I want you to stop doing something and say it-"

He nodded grimly. "Bam. I get an in depth interview with the ground."

She grimaced in sympathy. "I say again, ouch."

"Very."

"When's the next full moon?" she asked with a touch of worry.

"Not for another three weeks." He rose from the table and put his dishes in the sink. 'Now comes the fun stuff,' he thought sarcastically. "Come on and get ready, I have to take you out to the shrine."

She followed his lead and put the dishes down. Kagome gave him a mildly confused look. "Shrine? What?"

"Sesshomaru said that the reason Kagura wanted you was so that you could steal the Amokoi halberd. Holy object that can control wind and water. It's in this little temple on the other side of town, and one lousy monk to guard it. Didn't they tell you last night?"

"I was more concerned with getting you patched up," she said absently. His words worried Kagome big time. She'd never broken the law before. "We have to go steal it now? Today? As in broad daylight?"

He raised a sarcastic eyebrow. "Would you rather go at night, when all the other vamps would be out and pissed off that you were running around in their territory?"

"Oh."

"Yeah. So get your cute rear in gear and let's go," he said as he walked out the door to the hall.

"What did you say?" she asked with a frown.

"What? Are you deaf or something, I said lets go!"

"You also said I should, and I quote, 'get my cute rear in gear?'"

Inuyasha's eyes went huge in shock. He'd said-"Wha.......oh, shit. I-I mean- oh, shit!" He flushed, completely flustered, ran down the hall, and jumped the stairs, presumably to get changed from the clothes of last night and get any weapons they might need. The fact that he was also running from a sitting was a definite bonus.

Kagome tried to glare, but failed. He thought her rear was cute? Why did that thought make her happy? She shrugged and made for the stairs. She'd have to find some decent shoes and a pair of sunglasses. While the sunlight didn't hurt her, it was extremely bright to her now sensitive eyes.

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