A Change
Disclaimer: Do not own Inuyasha, I just like to play with the character's lives. :)
DWC: Hey guys, Sorry I took so long, but my muse fled after my tests. But I found something even better! reaches of stage and yanks
Inu: Damn it woman! I'm not a damn doll!
DWC: giggles Isn't he cute! I just wanna scratch his ears! evil grin
Inu: No Way! Only Kagome's is allowed to do that!
DWC: Oh, so you like her?
Inu: No Way! What are you thinking! Humph!
DWC: Well we all know the truth. So I'll just have to bend him to my creative will! :) So on to the story!
*thoughts*
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Chapter 4: A Story
"Now wait just a damn minute! Killing Naraku is going to be MY job, and no one else! I don't care who you are!" Inuyasha stated while staring at an inu-hanyou Kagome. Kagome turned to Inuyasha and looked at him.
"Don't worry it doesn't have to be me that actually strangles him, but I have at least have a major part in killing him. You saw what I did. I can incredibly weaken Naraku, so that you and Sango and Miroku, can kill him. That's all that I really have to do, but as you can see I need to be a part of the action." She stated smugly, as if thwarting so big master plan of Inuyasha's. And she was. Inuyasha had planned on keeping Kagome out of any other fights, but he knew that would be possible now. She was a hanyou, just like him, and she would need to fight, and if he didn't teach her Kagome would learn on her own in a battle, probably. Inu sighed,
"You seem to know a lot about what's going on." He walked around Kagome as if looking for something. "You said you had a conversation with a demon princess? And her name is Astrid? So what else do you know? She could be evil and planning on taking over your body again, or controlling you, and why aren't you a full demon if she was, and do your powers even still work?" The stream of questions flowed from Inuyasha's mouth as he planted himself in between Kagome and the door.
Kagome sighed as she looked at the hanyou in front of her. "Inuyasha, why don't we go out into the main room and I can tell this to all of you at once? It would make it so much easier on me." Kagome grinned at him, and Inuyasha looked really skeptical.
"No." Came Inuyasha's voice from where he stood. "You are going to sit here with me and tell me the whole story before those stupid people out there even learn that you are awake! I've been the one here for the past week, so I think that I deserve at least my own private story!" He grouched as he stared Kagome down. Inuyasha was surprised as Kagome almost immediately melted in front of his eyes. She looked up at him adoringly.
"You stayed with me for this whole week? Oh Inuyasha, I had thought you would care!" Kagome cried as she fell into Inuyasha's arms.
"Ahh…umm…heh, of course I would care. You just saved my life, wounded Naraku, and you are the most important person on this team. I will always be worried about you." Inuyasha whispered as he finally wrapped his arms around Kagome and buried his head in her hair. She might have smelled like a hanyou now, but she was still innately Kagome, and her scent still comforted him. Especially now that he could actually smell that she was going to be okay. Her scent was healthy again, instead of the sickly smell it took on when she was unconscious. Kagome shuddered in his arms and sighed heavily. She looked up at the silver-haired hanyou and sighed again.
"You really want to hear this with out anyone else?" Inuyasha nodded his head, "Okay. Just let's sit down; this is a lot for me to deal with." Inuyasha grinned at Kagome and then sat down on the futon and surprisingly pulled Kagome into his lap. Kagome looked up shocked at his boldness, and Inuyasha just grinned down at her, and started running his hands through her hair stopping every once in a while to rub a sensitive ear. *Well, she's a hanyou now and she's going to need to be trained, like Shippo is, and so I won't be able to avoid her all the time. And if I train her, I won't have to worry as much and then maybe I'll be able to be with her now. She's like me, she's a hanyou! Maybe she'll stay now, here, where she belongs.* Inuyasha looked down at her stunned face and couldn't completely resist the impulse. He leaned down and kissed Kagome's forehead and growled softly at her, "Well? What did you find out from this Astrid?"
Kagome was stunned speechless at Inuyasha's loving actions and just stared for a few seconds before regaining herself. "Oh yes, well. As it turns out Naraku really wasn't looking for us as he passed that clearing. He had felt a shard miles south of here in the Southern Dog Kingdom. So he went there. Astrid, as I said, was the princesses of that kingdom and was the holder of the shard, as the heir to the kingdom. Astrid's normal coloring is black and tan so that she blended into her environment; the changes in my coloring are due to my power. Anyway, Astrid was out patrolling the countryside of her kingdom when she came across Naraku. Astrid put up a valiant fight and because of that she was absorbed into Naraku instead of just being killed. That had happened only a few minutes before Naraku came upon us. It seems that Astrid was fighting the integration and so was still an almost separate entity from Naraku though she was still inside him. When Naraku faced off against me, he used the most readily available magic, and that was Astrid's. She wouldn't let him access his other magic until he had depleted hers. Naraku didn't know that though and so he couldn't by pass her and when Astrid's magic started running out I was able to wound Naraku. Now in this process though I was using the Shikon no Tama and myself to purify the Miasma beam, but I couldn't take all of that power and convert it so I stored it into a 'place' in my body." Kagome took a moment then to stop a collect her thoughts, and Inuyasha was stunned into silence, by just that much of her story, but he needed to hear more.
"So how did Astrid get into your body?" He questioned. Kagome looked at him calmly, "Because it was mostly Astrid's Power that Naraku was using, the part that I didn't get to purify sort of became another spirit inside me, and that spirit was Astrid. While I was unconscious she at first tried to dominate my body. She wanted to live again, she wanted to take on Naraku, but my miko powers wouldn't let her do that so after she told me her story we came to an agreement. I would retain control of my body, I would be the one in control, but what was left of her spirit and power would integrate into mine so that I could become more powerful, so that I could carry out Astrid's revenge and kill Naraku for her. That is the story that I was told, and I don't think you can lie while you are in someone's soul Inuyasha, I believe her. And so I'm going to try to carry out her last wish." Here Kagome stopped again and looked at the Hanyou. Kagome couldn't believe what he had just said to her. It meant so much! *He cares for me!* Kagome crowed in her head. She looked back up to see Inuyasha looking at her and she jumped back into her explanation. "Now you also asked about my miko power. I'm pretty sure that I can still use it. It'll be increased now because of Astrid's boost, but that's okay! I think it has something to do with the fact that I was using the Shikon and my own power at the same time that allowed me to keep my powers. Since the Shikon can only be used by demons, and be purified by miko's it seems to make sense that a demon miko would be the one person to be able to ultimately use the Shikon to its full power. I think that's what the Shikon help me become."
Kagome smiled at Inuyasha as he sat stunned. His arms tightened around Kagome as he thought and he stared out over her head in contemplation. He never usually thought this much, but it involved his beloved Kagome, and he wanted her safe, with him, even if she didn't realize where she belonged yet. Inuyasha looked down at the top of Kagome's head and sighed softly. He watched her ears twitch at the sound and grinned. Well, he would just have to help her through this.
"All right Kagome, this is what we are gonna do. You need to be trained above all else. You just gained a hanyou body, and though some things will be instinctual you are gonna need to fine tune some things and learn some others. And who else to train you than the only other hanyou we know of!" Inuyasha looked into her eyes and grinned again. "this is gonna be fun! I know that we can't start immediately though. You need to get clean and eat at least, and I'm sure the other's are going to want to have some of there questions answered as well. You are gonna need to be here for a while though, so you may need to go home to tell your family that you will be here for a while. No Buts!" Inuyasha commanded, "You'll need this, and you know it. I wont take no for an answer." Inuyasha watched Kagome until she nodded her head in agreement to his commands. "Now who do you want to see first? I'm sure you're gonna wanna get clean. So how about Kaede-baba?" Inuyasha's head cocked to the side and all he got in response was a nod again. Inuyasha grinned wider, rose from the floor, and stepped out the door to her room. "I'm gonna go get your food and send in Kaede. She will take care of you. I have to go see to something, I'll be right back though!" And with those last words Inuyasha was out the door and down the hall to the main room where he could hear Kaede and the other's talking. As Inuyasha entered the room all the talking ceased.
"Kaede-baba. Kagome's awake now and in her room. She's changed though so don't be shocked though. She hungry and needs a bath along with some new clothes. I have some stuff to take care of, so I'm leaving her in your hands. Make sure she gets what you can give her, and keep the others away from her if she doesn't want to see them." He commanded, and then he turned to the others. "Now to you three. I don't want you bugging Kagome if she doesn't to see you. You can go ask her after she's had her bath, but if she says no you will leave her alone. Is that clear?" He stared at them and they all nodded speechless under his glare. Inuyasha smiled as he walked out of the hut with out saying anything else. The four exchanged glances as the door shut again and Kaede rose slowly from her spot.
"I guess I should go take care of the child and draw her a bath. Sango would you please collect Kagome a bowl of the stew, a large bowl please?" Sango nodded her head as Kaede left the room and moved to do what was asked of her. The others were too stunned to move or speak, but they were all thinking the same thing. *What the HELL just happened?!*
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Inuyasha ran through his forest toward a small cave that could be seen in the distance. It had been believed that Inuyasha had lived in the woods all though years with out any shelter, or home so to speak. They had been so wrong. When Kikyou had really been alive, Inuyasha had already lived a good number of years, and though he still hadn't hit his second maturity growth yet, he was still old enough to have a place of his own, especially since his father and mother were both dead, and his brother had hated him, he had had to find himself some where to call home. He had not been back here since he had been sealed to the tree, but there was stuff he needed her, and also things that needed to be dealt with before he could completely devote himself to his Kagome. Inuyasha smiled as he approached the entrance and stopped. *Good, the seal held.* he thought as he raised his hand and waved it in front of a very small hole, he saw it waver and then it it's place was a huge hole in the side of the mountain, easily big enough to hold all of Kagome's house and most of her yard. Inuyasha strode inside and looked around for the first time in 52 years. The cavern he stood in was the main one, and where the main part of the activities would take place. There were many alcoves and passage ways around the walls; those would be for more private living spaces, storage, and a few of them even held hot springs. You see Inuyasha had claimed this place as where he was going to start his pack. This is where he had wanted to live with Kikyou, but he knew she would never want that, because Kikyou wanted a normal life, but Kagome. She would share in his dream; she would want him to have his own pack again. He planned on collecting the few hanyou he knew had to be scattered around the country and bring them here. Then they would become his pack, if they wanted to, but the needed a core pack to start with. And he hoped that would be Kagome, and maybe Miroku, Sango, and Shippo; though they would never know of this until Naraku was destroyed. He just hopped they would want to. Inuyasha stood for a few more moments before heading toward one of the smaller passages. He stepped into another cavern, though it was much smaller, and was pleased to see that the storage room had been untouched.
Inside rested everything he would need to out fit Kagome with what she would need. There were pale white fire rat skins, that could be dyed any color, pieces of wood for weapons, cloth for many different purposes, and money for anything that he couldn't get on his own, which wasn't much. Yeas Inuyasha had money stored away here. He had learned long ago that not even he could survive with out other people sometimes, so he would kill animals, and sell the meat and most of the skins to the villagers for the small amount that he could ask of them. Then there were also the jobs where someone would need something precious found, and he was able to get it for them, for a good price of course, but those had been few and far between, but that was what mostly stocked his money room. Inuyasha walked around the room and collected the things he needed. The fire rat skins were the first, and then he collected some bendable wood along with many of the furs. The furs still held some smell of the animal and so would be useful in elusive tracking. Then finally, Inuyasha collected a bag of money. There were things he was going to need to buy for Kagome's training, and he really needed to start with Shippo, as was getting close to his first growth spurt and there were some things he needed to know.
When Inuyasha had everything he needed he left the storage cave and walked out into the main cavern where he stopped and looked around. "Soon, soon this place will be the home of the first hanyou pack." Inuyasha's declaration rang around the cavern as he replaced the ward spell and turned back toward Kaede's hut. "Don't worry Kagome. I'll protect you and teach you to protect yourself so that one day I can bring you back here and we can finally live tougher." As Inuyasha ran back to the village he sported one of the most genuine smiles on his face and there was finally a flame of hope in his heart for the future.
To be continued……….
DCW: Oh My Gosh that was soooooo cute! I'm sorry to make Inuyasha OOC but I like him this way. And now people, how much do you love/hate me? I know Inu loves me, don't you Inu?
Inu: half-hearted grumble Yeah right. Sticking me with that bitch and the runt. We'll see what happens to this fucking stupid story! Humph!
DWC: Inu! You Meany! Sit!!!!!
Inu: *Wham!*
DWC: I know that only Kagome should do that, but he needed it! :( So, please tell me what you think! :)
Disclaimer: Do not own Inuyasha, I just like to play with the character's lives. :)
DWC: Hey guys, Sorry I took so long, but my muse fled after my tests. But I found something even better! reaches of stage and yanks
Inu: Damn it woman! I'm not a damn doll!
DWC: giggles Isn't he cute! I just wanna scratch his ears! evil grin
Inu: No Way! Only Kagome's is allowed to do that!
DWC: Oh, so you like her?
Inu: No Way! What are you thinking! Humph!
DWC: Well we all know the truth. So I'll just have to bend him to my creative will! :) So on to the story!
*thoughts*
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Chapter 4: A Story
"Now wait just a damn minute! Killing Naraku is going to be MY job, and no one else! I don't care who you are!" Inuyasha stated while staring at an inu-hanyou Kagome. Kagome turned to Inuyasha and looked at him.
"Don't worry it doesn't have to be me that actually strangles him, but I have at least have a major part in killing him. You saw what I did. I can incredibly weaken Naraku, so that you and Sango and Miroku, can kill him. That's all that I really have to do, but as you can see I need to be a part of the action." She stated smugly, as if thwarting so big master plan of Inuyasha's. And she was. Inuyasha had planned on keeping Kagome out of any other fights, but he knew that would be possible now. She was a hanyou, just like him, and she would need to fight, and if he didn't teach her Kagome would learn on her own in a battle, probably. Inu sighed,
"You seem to know a lot about what's going on." He walked around Kagome as if looking for something. "You said you had a conversation with a demon princess? And her name is Astrid? So what else do you know? She could be evil and planning on taking over your body again, or controlling you, and why aren't you a full demon if she was, and do your powers even still work?" The stream of questions flowed from Inuyasha's mouth as he planted himself in between Kagome and the door.
Kagome sighed as she looked at the hanyou in front of her. "Inuyasha, why don't we go out into the main room and I can tell this to all of you at once? It would make it so much easier on me." Kagome grinned at him, and Inuyasha looked really skeptical.
"No." Came Inuyasha's voice from where he stood. "You are going to sit here with me and tell me the whole story before those stupid people out there even learn that you are awake! I've been the one here for the past week, so I think that I deserve at least my own private story!" He grouched as he stared Kagome down. Inuyasha was surprised as Kagome almost immediately melted in front of his eyes. She looked up at him adoringly.
"You stayed with me for this whole week? Oh Inuyasha, I had thought you would care!" Kagome cried as she fell into Inuyasha's arms.
"Ahh…umm…heh, of course I would care. You just saved my life, wounded Naraku, and you are the most important person on this team. I will always be worried about you." Inuyasha whispered as he finally wrapped his arms around Kagome and buried his head in her hair. She might have smelled like a hanyou now, but she was still innately Kagome, and her scent still comforted him. Especially now that he could actually smell that she was going to be okay. Her scent was healthy again, instead of the sickly smell it took on when she was unconscious. Kagome shuddered in his arms and sighed heavily. She looked up at the silver-haired hanyou and sighed again.
"You really want to hear this with out anyone else?" Inuyasha nodded his head, "Okay. Just let's sit down; this is a lot for me to deal with." Inuyasha grinned at Kagome and then sat down on the futon and surprisingly pulled Kagome into his lap. Kagome looked up shocked at his boldness, and Inuyasha just grinned down at her, and started running his hands through her hair stopping every once in a while to rub a sensitive ear. *Well, she's a hanyou now and she's going to need to be trained, like Shippo is, and so I won't be able to avoid her all the time. And if I train her, I won't have to worry as much and then maybe I'll be able to be with her now. She's like me, she's a hanyou! Maybe she'll stay now, here, where she belongs.* Inuyasha looked down at her stunned face and couldn't completely resist the impulse. He leaned down and kissed Kagome's forehead and growled softly at her, "Well? What did you find out from this Astrid?"
Kagome was stunned speechless at Inuyasha's loving actions and just stared for a few seconds before regaining herself. "Oh yes, well. As it turns out Naraku really wasn't looking for us as he passed that clearing. He had felt a shard miles south of here in the Southern Dog Kingdom. So he went there. Astrid, as I said, was the princesses of that kingdom and was the holder of the shard, as the heir to the kingdom. Astrid's normal coloring is black and tan so that she blended into her environment; the changes in my coloring are due to my power. Anyway, Astrid was out patrolling the countryside of her kingdom when she came across Naraku. Astrid put up a valiant fight and because of that she was absorbed into Naraku instead of just being killed. That had happened only a few minutes before Naraku came upon us. It seems that Astrid was fighting the integration and so was still an almost separate entity from Naraku though she was still inside him. When Naraku faced off against me, he used the most readily available magic, and that was Astrid's. She wouldn't let him access his other magic until he had depleted hers. Naraku didn't know that though and so he couldn't by pass her and when Astrid's magic started running out I was able to wound Naraku. Now in this process though I was using the Shikon no Tama and myself to purify the Miasma beam, but I couldn't take all of that power and convert it so I stored it into a 'place' in my body." Kagome took a moment then to stop a collect her thoughts, and Inuyasha was stunned into silence, by just that much of her story, but he needed to hear more.
"So how did Astrid get into your body?" He questioned. Kagome looked at him calmly, "Because it was mostly Astrid's Power that Naraku was using, the part that I didn't get to purify sort of became another spirit inside me, and that spirit was Astrid. While I was unconscious she at first tried to dominate my body. She wanted to live again, she wanted to take on Naraku, but my miko powers wouldn't let her do that so after she told me her story we came to an agreement. I would retain control of my body, I would be the one in control, but what was left of her spirit and power would integrate into mine so that I could become more powerful, so that I could carry out Astrid's revenge and kill Naraku for her. That is the story that I was told, and I don't think you can lie while you are in someone's soul Inuyasha, I believe her. And so I'm going to try to carry out her last wish." Here Kagome stopped again and looked at the Hanyou. Kagome couldn't believe what he had just said to her. It meant so much! *He cares for me!* Kagome crowed in her head. She looked back up to see Inuyasha looking at her and she jumped back into her explanation. "Now you also asked about my miko power. I'm pretty sure that I can still use it. It'll be increased now because of Astrid's boost, but that's okay! I think it has something to do with the fact that I was using the Shikon and my own power at the same time that allowed me to keep my powers. Since the Shikon can only be used by demons, and be purified by miko's it seems to make sense that a demon miko would be the one person to be able to ultimately use the Shikon to its full power. I think that's what the Shikon help me become."
Kagome smiled at Inuyasha as he sat stunned. His arms tightened around Kagome as he thought and he stared out over her head in contemplation. He never usually thought this much, but it involved his beloved Kagome, and he wanted her safe, with him, even if she didn't realize where she belonged yet. Inuyasha looked down at the top of Kagome's head and sighed softly. He watched her ears twitch at the sound and grinned. Well, he would just have to help her through this.
"All right Kagome, this is what we are gonna do. You need to be trained above all else. You just gained a hanyou body, and though some things will be instinctual you are gonna need to fine tune some things and learn some others. And who else to train you than the only other hanyou we know of!" Inuyasha looked into her eyes and grinned again. "this is gonna be fun! I know that we can't start immediately though. You need to get clean and eat at least, and I'm sure the other's are going to want to have some of there questions answered as well. You are gonna need to be here for a while though, so you may need to go home to tell your family that you will be here for a while. No Buts!" Inuyasha commanded, "You'll need this, and you know it. I wont take no for an answer." Inuyasha watched Kagome until she nodded her head in agreement to his commands. "Now who do you want to see first? I'm sure you're gonna wanna get clean. So how about Kaede-baba?" Inuyasha's head cocked to the side and all he got in response was a nod again. Inuyasha grinned wider, rose from the floor, and stepped out the door to her room. "I'm gonna go get your food and send in Kaede. She will take care of you. I have to go see to something, I'll be right back though!" And with those last words Inuyasha was out the door and down the hall to the main room where he could hear Kaede and the other's talking. As Inuyasha entered the room all the talking ceased.
"Kaede-baba. Kagome's awake now and in her room. She's changed though so don't be shocked though. She hungry and needs a bath along with some new clothes. I have some stuff to take care of, so I'm leaving her in your hands. Make sure she gets what you can give her, and keep the others away from her if she doesn't want to see them." He commanded, and then he turned to the others. "Now to you three. I don't want you bugging Kagome if she doesn't to see you. You can go ask her after she's had her bath, but if she says no you will leave her alone. Is that clear?" He stared at them and they all nodded speechless under his glare. Inuyasha smiled as he walked out of the hut with out saying anything else. The four exchanged glances as the door shut again and Kaede rose slowly from her spot.
"I guess I should go take care of the child and draw her a bath. Sango would you please collect Kagome a bowl of the stew, a large bowl please?" Sango nodded her head as Kaede left the room and moved to do what was asked of her. The others were too stunned to move or speak, but they were all thinking the same thing. *What the HELL just happened?!*
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Inuyasha ran through his forest toward a small cave that could be seen in the distance. It had been believed that Inuyasha had lived in the woods all though years with out any shelter, or home so to speak. They had been so wrong. When Kikyou had really been alive, Inuyasha had already lived a good number of years, and though he still hadn't hit his second maturity growth yet, he was still old enough to have a place of his own, especially since his father and mother were both dead, and his brother had hated him, he had had to find himself some where to call home. He had not been back here since he had been sealed to the tree, but there was stuff he needed her, and also things that needed to be dealt with before he could completely devote himself to his Kagome. Inuyasha smiled as he approached the entrance and stopped. *Good, the seal held.* he thought as he raised his hand and waved it in front of a very small hole, he saw it waver and then it it's place was a huge hole in the side of the mountain, easily big enough to hold all of Kagome's house and most of her yard. Inuyasha strode inside and looked around for the first time in 52 years. The cavern he stood in was the main one, and where the main part of the activities would take place. There were many alcoves and passage ways around the walls; those would be for more private living spaces, storage, and a few of them even held hot springs. You see Inuyasha had claimed this place as where he was going to start his pack. This is where he had wanted to live with Kikyou, but he knew she would never want that, because Kikyou wanted a normal life, but Kagome. She would share in his dream; she would want him to have his own pack again. He planned on collecting the few hanyou he knew had to be scattered around the country and bring them here. Then they would become his pack, if they wanted to, but the needed a core pack to start with. And he hoped that would be Kagome, and maybe Miroku, Sango, and Shippo; though they would never know of this until Naraku was destroyed. He just hopped they would want to. Inuyasha stood for a few more moments before heading toward one of the smaller passages. He stepped into another cavern, though it was much smaller, and was pleased to see that the storage room had been untouched.
Inside rested everything he would need to out fit Kagome with what she would need. There were pale white fire rat skins, that could be dyed any color, pieces of wood for weapons, cloth for many different purposes, and money for anything that he couldn't get on his own, which wasn't much. Yeas Inuyasha had money stored away here. He had learned long ago that not even he could survive with out other people sometimes, so he would kill animals, and sell the meat and most of the skins to the villagers for the small amount that he could ask of them. Then there were also the jobs where someone would need something precious found, and he was able to get it for them, for a good price of course, but those had been few and far between, but that was what mostly stocked his money room. Inuyasha walked around the room and collected the things he needed. The fire rat skins were the first, and then he collected some bendable wood along with many of the furs. The furs still held some smell of the animal and so would be useful in elusive tracking. Then finally, Inuyasha collected a bag of money. There were things he was going to need to buy for Kagome's training, and he really needed to start with Shippo, as was getting close to his first growth spurt and there were some things he needed to know.
When Inuyasha had everything he needed he left the storage cave and walked out into the main cavern where he stopped and looked around. "Soon, soon this place will be the home of the first hanyou pack." Inuyasha's declaration rang around the cavern as he replaced the ward spell and turned back toward Kaede's hut. "Don't worry Kagome. I'll protect you and teach you to protect yourself so that one day I can bring you back here and we can finally live tougher." As Inuyasha ran back to the village he sported one of the most genuine smiles on his face and there was finally a flame of hope in his heart for the future.
To be continued……….
DCW: Oh My Gosh that was soooooo cute! I'm sorry to make Inuyasha OOC but I like him this way. And now people, how much do you love/hate me? I know Inu loves me, don't you Inu?
Inu: half-hearted grumble Yeah right. Sticking me with that bitch and the runt. We'll see what happens to this fucking stupid story! Humph!
DWC: Inu! You Meany! Sit!!!!!
Inu: *Wham!*
DWC: I know that only Kagome should do that, but he needed it! :( So, please tell me what you think! :)