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"Speaking"

'Thinking'

///POV Change///

|Scene Change|

Shippou woke up first the next day, completely refreshed. He yawned cutely, stretching his little arms above his head. An idea struck him. He could fix
everybody breakfast and they'd be so happy, Kagome-kaa'san would HAVE to
give him candy! He grinned. Oh yeah, he was good.

So he dug into Kagome's bookbag and got out the thing she called 'ramen'. She had taught how to make it before, that way when she was gone, Inuyasha
would have some to eat. So he fixed the ramen, and, keeping the fire low, kept it warm. Then he smelled it. Well, he actually had smelled it earlier
but didn't pay much mind.

It was a kitsune's scent! Just like him, only this one was female, and
older. But who was it? He looked around, trying to pin the scent on
somebody. He finally settled on Cassy, who was still fast asleep. He
frowned in thought, Why was Kouga holding her like that?

Leaning in for a closer look at her, he was surprised when her head shot
up, hitting him.

"Owee!!!" she exclaimed softly, holding her head. She rocked back and
forth.

"What'd I miss?" Rachelle's voice called out sleepily. She looked drowsily
at Shippou and Cassy, who were still holding their heads.

"I smell something burning." she said simply.

"What? You mean fire you retard! That's why I woke up." Cassy stopped
ocking and dropped her hands from her head.

"What do you guys mean, nothing's burn-AHH!" Shippou said, catching sight of the ramen all aflame. (Mizu: salutes burning pot of ramen :sniff: To a
pyro and an otaku like me, there is nothing more beautiful. Except a hot
bishounen! )

Shippou ran over to the pot and started to blow on the fire.

"Like that'll put it out." Rachelle mumbled.

"Help! Someone go get some water or something." Shippou exclaimed, running
around the fire in circles frantically.

"Stop! You might fall in the fire! Everybody calm down!" Cassy stood up.

"Hey, I'm calm." Rachelle said, laying back down.

"Not that calm! I meant for Shippou to stop running around in circles." Cassy explained impatiently."Rachelle, why don't you fly around to try and
get some water?"

"Like I can fly." Cassy looked at her flatly and pointed to a wing, "Oh yeah... I got wings... But I don't know how. Ask Kouga, he's awake, and he
seems to know more about me than I do." Rachelle said, standing up and
folding her arms.

"No he's not." Cassy said, glancing at him. Rachelle walked over and
flicked his nose hard. "Now he is." she said.

"Ow!!! What the hell was that for Cassy?!" he cried, instantly awake.

"It wasn't me, but I'm glad to know that you always blame me for stuff like
that. For your information, it was Rachelle." she said wryly, shooting
Rachelle a death glare.

Rachelle ignored her, "How do I fly, Kouga?" she inquired.

"Hell if I know." he said indifferently.

"Great-" Rachelle began.

"Why do I smell fire?" Kouga asked, looking around.

"Because I was fixing some ramen and the ramen caught fire." Shippou said
quietly.

"We were gonna go get water! But I don't know how the hell to fly."
Rachelle yelled, trying to keep her voice down.

"Who cares?! We need water!" Cassy exclaimed.

"Fine, I'll get it, but you're making it up to me later." Kouga said,
beginning to leave.

"Wait, what are we gonna put the water in?" Cassy asked.

"I dunno." Rachelle said shrugging.

"Of course -you- don't." Cassy said smirking at her. (Yume: I hate those
mood swings!)

Rachelle looked at her, "Cassy! I'm gonna-"

"WOULD YOU TWO STOP FIGHTING! THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT TO WAKE UP TO IN THE
MORNING!" Lora yelled, waking the other girls up.

"What's going on?" Nakita asked, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"NOTHING!" Cassy and Rachelle yelled together.

"Geez, I was just asking!" Nakita muttered.

"Sorry 'Kita, I'm not much of a morning person." Cassy mumbled.

"Wow, Cassy apologized. That's a first. Usually she just mutters it
sarcastically." Nakita said, then paused. "God help us, I just used a big
word in the morning. Hell, I used a big word period. Oh well, I'm going
back to sleep." Nakita said, ending her conversation with herself and
laying back down. The others had just rolled over and went back to sleep.

"Oh yeah, I see everyone's -real- energetic." Rachelle said.

Cassy grinned, an idea coming to her. "Rachelle, why don't you just use
your wings to blow the fire out."

Rachelle grinned too."Well duh! Why didn't I think of that? I at least
figured out how to move 'em....kinda..." She turned around and slowly
flapped her wings, creating a gust of wind that put out the small flame.
"Yay! I did it! I should get a cookie!" she cheered.

Kouga rolled his eyes. "So you got us all up for nothing?" he paused. "Hey,
what's a cookie?"

"Yup!" Rachelle smiled.

Kouga growled, "I'm going back to sleep." He walked back over to his little
area. Stopped. Then walked back and dragged Cassy to it by her new tail.
"And you're coming with me."

Cassy scowled. "Since when do you need me to go to sleep? What am I, you're
stuffed animal?"

"Since now." He answered shortly. Cassy laughed. "Well okay, but only 'cuz
I like ya!" She winked and laughed again.

Kouga fought the urge to roll his eyes and stifled a grin. He settled
himself into a comfortable position, curled around Cassy. Only now Cassy was awake, wide awake. She kept experimentally moving her tail, flipping it
back and forth. Inside her mouth, she ran her tongue over her newly
accquired fangs. She smiled to herself, she liked this new feeling of
power. Kouga on the other hand, was getting annoyed at how her tail kept
hitting him. He expertly flicked his tail and entwined her with his, effectively trapping it. She half-heartedly glared at him, but stopped the
struggle to get her tail free. Instead she turned to him.

"Why do you need me to sleep?" she inquiered.

Kouga cracked one eye open at her. "It's the only time we get to be alone
and together." he explained quietly.

Cassy smiled and snuggled closer. Kouga grinned to himself, holding her
closer. And promptly dropped off.

Cassy noticed this and grinned, motioning over to Rachelle, who came over
immediately, as she had been watching the whole thing.

"What?" She whispered in Cassy's ear.

"Help me get up without waking -him- up."

Kouga growled. The girls froze and looked at him. Apparently it was just a
sleep thing. Or a reflex. Still, Rachelle wasn't taking any chances. She remembered last night's conversation, and went back to her spot to 'sleep'.

Cassy waited, listening to Kouga's breathing. She didn't even know if he
was asleep yet! So she poked him. No response. So she poked again. No
response. Finally she poked him a third time. Still no response. Cassy slowly sat up, eased his arms off her, and quietly stood up. She glanced to see if Kouga still asleep, and began to quietly tiptoe over to Shippou when
she felt someone grab onto her. "Shit." she muttered, thinking it was
Kouga. She was being lifted off the ground and head towards Shippou. When
she was set down, she turned around. It was Rachelle.

"You learned to fly." Cassy said flatly.

"I -knew- how to fly." Rachelle whispered.

"Then why didn't you go get water earlier?!" Cassy almost yelled.

"I didn't know where to go and we didn't have anything to hold it in."
Rachelle retorted quietly. " Now I do believe you were going to visit
Shippou."

"How did you know?"

"I thought you told me."

"No..."

"Oh well, I'm going back to sleep." Rachelle said, flying over to her bed.

Shippou looked up as Cassy sat beside him. He had been staring forlornly at
the fire.

"Uh, it was nice of you to try to fix us food..." she said.

"You're a kitsune like me, aren't you?" He said. It was more of a statement
than a question.

Cassy looked at him. "Yep! The tail proves it!" she grinned, and wiggled
it.

Shippou smiled. "Yeah."

Cassy's eyes lit up mischieviously. "I've seen this show. You wanna know a
REALLY good way to annoy Inuyasha?"

Shippou grinned. "Yeah!"

So Cassy taught him 3 extremely annoying songs. The names of which are, '100 Bottles of Beer On The Wall', 'This is the Song That Never Ends', and
'I Know a Song That Gets On Everybodys Nerves'.

She also told him about games from her time, tag, hide-and-go-seek and such. The two quickly bonded, maybe due to the shared kitsune heritage, or
maybe it was that the two were alike in certain ways. Like a mischievous
streak, a playful side, and that innocent look that could be oh-so-
deceiving...

"You're kinda like a big sister to me now." Shippou declared, giving her a
hug.

'Oh wow gee, more family!' Cassy thought wryly.

"Is that alright?" Shippou asked.

"Of course it is! Why wouldn't it be?" Her smile grew, then faded as arms
wrapped around her and began to pull her away.

"I'm not ready to go yet, Rachelle." she said.

"Rachelle?" a voice answered.
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