Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the other awesome characters made by the almighty Rimiko Takihashi.

Foreign Exchange
Chapter 5
Two More Lovers Bloom?
By Lunna Sakura

As Amanda emerged from the forest Sango and Kagome looked very relieved, that is until they saw Koga emerge behind Amanda. "What the hell is that whelp doing back here!" Inuyasha yelled getting in Amanda's face.

Koga stepped forward, "I was formally invited to spend time with you all to get to know Amanda, mutt face." Koga said very calmly. Everyone's jaws dropped, and their eyes widened. Nobody could speak or move for that matter.

It was Inuyasha who spoke first, eyeballing Koga, "You told him he could come with us! Why?"

Amanda cowered under Inuyasha's eyes she had never had to fight, or defend herself. This was new to her and she defiantly didn't like it. "I… I … I…" Amanda bursted into tears and fell to the ground, she felt awful and didn't know how else to handle it. Koga, Sango, and Kagome ran up to the now broken Amanda.

"Inuyasha how can you be so cruel!" Kagome said, glaring at Inuyasha.

"How can you be like that!" Sango said in disbelief

"I should take you down for that, mutt face!" Koga yelled beginning to stand.

Inuyasha just stood there mortified. He hadn't meant to make her cry; he was just shocked and mad. "It's not my fault she is a wimp. That shouldn't make her cry."

Amanda began to rock, "No it's not your fault. It's just that no one ever yells, screams, or fights in my family." Amanda said sniveling as she spoke.

Then Koga came to the rescue of his new "friend", he put his arm around her shoulder and held her in a hug, "Its okay Amanda, just calm down, I'm here and so is Kagome." Kagome walked up nodding and hugged Amanda.

Finally Amanda stopped and looked at Inuyasha, "Its okay Inuyasha I know you didn't mean to make me cry, I forgive you." Everyone's mouths dropped, including Inuyasha's, at this.

"I…I… what, I never…" Inuyasha started but was cut off when Kagome yelled,

"SIT!" Then Inuyasha hit the ground, hard. As he fell he cussed Kagome and asked why she sat him. "Because you can't even admit it when you're mean and you know you have been mean." At this Inuyasha stopped cussing and with a humph, sat up crossing his arms. With a small sigh, Kagome turned and looked at her new companion and said, "Welcome to the group, I guess. You know I never expected to have you on the team, why aren't you staying with your pack?"

"Well, I guess I need a little excitement, and you know the pack can be a little boring, all I really do is hunt and help protect the pack, and our home. They will be fine without me for awhile. Besides it isn't like I have to be there for them to live, I come and go as I please, and I just couldn't resist the offer of such a beautiful, kind, thoughtful, generous, lovable, Kagome like, wolf demon." Koga said as he indicated Amanda. (hey I know it sounds like Koga is like trying to make Kagome jealous but he isn't so don't think that, cause I would never make Kagome cheat on Inuyasha, that is just wrong.) Blushing Amanda mumbled something under her breath, but nobody really understood what she said, not even the demons of the group.

Later that night after a few hours of more rigorous traveling the two pregnant women got tired and really grouchy, so Kagome threatened to sit Inuyasha more than he could ever imagine if they didn't stop, so Inuyasha found a nice spot, with one of them hot springs that seem to be all over the place, nearby. While the boys gathered fire wood the girls laid out three sleeping bags, one for Kagome, one for Sango, and to Amanda's dismay, one for her. Amanda had protested that she didn't need a bag that she could sleep on the ground, but Kagome and Sango fought her till she finally gave in and agreed to use a sleeping bag.

When the boys returned the girls, and Shippou, all went down to the springs to take a bath. Sango, Kagome, and Shippou all took a bath together but Amanda found a spring all to itself and took a bath privately.

"Amanda, are you sure you don't want to take a bath with us." Kagome called as Amanda slipped into her spring.

"I'm positive Kagome; I like to bath alone, in fact I like doing almost everything by myself." Amanda called over her shoulder, as she let her head lay back and relax on the large rack that she was leaning against.

Suddenly there was a plop and a splash, in the water near by, so Amanda curiously poked her head over the rock in the other direction of the girls. When she looked she saw a tired looking Koga relaxing in the spring right next to her. Amanda gasped as she saw him settle and she jerked her head behind the huge rock when he looked up. Slowly Amanda mad her way to the other side of the spring and grabbed her soap and started washing her delicate skin. When she was done she dunked her head under the water, but though she was trying she could not help wanting to look back over the rock.

Then before she knew it, Amanda was looking over the rock again to see Koga looking right at her. She gasped "Oh my god, I am so sorry, I so did not mean to seem perverted, I… I… I think I will just get out and go to bed now." Amanda said as she started to climb out of the water grabbing her towel, then suddenly there was a nude Koga standing in front of her, not even caring if she saw him. "Uh, don't you wanna cover that up?"

Koga looked down at himself, then back at Amanda, "Why, it's not like you haven't ever seen one of these." Koga said indicating himself and Amanda shock her head.

"Actually I haven't."

Koga looked at her with surprise in his eyes, "Don't you have any males in your pack?"

"Umm, well I have my dad, and my annoying brothers, but I have never seen them nude."

"What, your pack doesn't have community bathes, or are you like Kagome and don't take bathes with males."

"It's kinda both, you see…" Amanda start to explain, but she just couldn't take it any more so she help up him a towel and said, "At least cover yourself, please." At her please Koga took the towel and wrapped it around his waist. "…anyway, we all have our own bathrooms, so we don't have to share, and we like to be a little more private about our… selves."

"Oh," Koga said, obviously not understanding and Amanda really didn't fell like explaining anymore she was kinda cold and tired.

"Well, I guess I'm going to get dressed and go to bed." Amanda said looking at Koga suspiciously. Then, getting the clue Koga left.

Amanda yawned as she curled up in a little ball under the sleeping bag. It had been at least an hour since the incident at the hot springs, and everyone had returned and ate. Now the only people awake, that Amanda could tell, were Inuyasha, Amanda and Koga, who both seemed to be intent on staying awake longer than the other. Finally Inuyasha fell asleep and Amanda heard Koga moving around. Then suddenly Amanda felt her bag being opened and felt a pair of arms wrap around her. Amanda squeaked but not very loud, because she knew it was Koga, she just never expected him to lay with her. "You don't mind do you, I'm not use to sleeping by myself, and you are a wolf so you smell like the packs caves."

'Oh great, I smell like a pack of wild animals, that makes me feel real good about myself' Amanda though to herself as Koga snuggled closer to her."Sure I don't mind go right ahead. I kinda like the extra warmth."

The next morning Koga woke before everyone, including Inuyasha, and removed himself before anyone saw the two together. When he got up he cause Amanda to wake up, as he went to relieve himself Amanda rolled over to find the sun had yet to rise, so following her American instincts she went back to sleep, bitching about how much he had moved, getting up.

When Koga returned, it was sun up and the two other men were sitting around a small fire chatting. At his entrance both Inuyasha and Miroku stopped talking and looked at him. Sighing Koga took a seat next to a tree and dozed off. Then Amanda woke next, followed by Kagome and Shippou, and finally Sango, who curled up next to Miroku for warmth. (Oh and those of you who are like "they would not be felling the affects of being pregnant for at least a week" I know this, they are just using it against the boys, because they feel the boys need to be punished, I mean it is their horny, perverted, selves faults)

As the sun started to rise higher everyone began to wake up a little more. Then after Kagome ate, Inuyasha herded them up and decided it was time to move on.

It had been days since Koga had joined them and Amanda liked him more and more everyday, and Inuyasha hated him more and more but who cares about that grouch. Each day Koga would just baby Amanda and talk to her and try to learn more about her, and the more he learned about her the more he liked her, and the more he came to realize she was nothing like Kagome. Then one day while Amanda was taking one of her private bathes the ones as far away from Kagome as she could get, when Koga showed up. He looked at her will she sat there in the water exposed, and she looked back at him. Then Koga finally broke the silence, "Amanda, I would like to make you my mate." Amanda's jaw dropped.

"Uhhh, excuse me?"

"I mean I know it is sudden and we just met and all, but you don't have to if you don't want to, I've learned my lesson from Kagome. You know the one about not being able to make someone be your mate." Koga said with a very sad look in his eyes.

"Do you just wanna be with me so you can replace Kagome with me? If that is so then the answer is so no."

"Well, no I… I… I have kind of fallen in love with you."

"Koga… you know you can't just… you know jump into a relationship, and expect it to work."

"I know, that's why I didn't expect you to say yes."

"Koga that is so not what I'm saying. What I am saying is I will give you a try but I am not going to just mate you. We have to court first."

Koga looked at her like she was crazy, "Court…?"

"Yeah, I really like you but we have to court first, then you have to meet my parents, then we have to get married, which is a human thing that we so have to do, and then we can mate."

Koga just nodded and pretended to know what she was blabbering about when she said, "You have no clue what I am talking about do you?" Koga just shook his head, "I understood up to the part about meeting your parents, and that is when I got lost."

So slowly Amanda explained everything to Koga, who slowly began to understand. "So you see Koga, that is what I meant, but I doubt you will ever get to meet my parents."

"Why is that?" Koga asked, not knowing that her family lived hours away, and across the ocean from Kagome's home.

"They just live so far away from Kagome's house. There is no way I can take you to see them." She was afraid to say that she lived in America, because she knew that in this time the Americans were known as barbarians, and she didn't want the guy she liked to think that about her.

"Oh, I see." Koga said with a look of sorrow.

Amanda sighed and so did Koga. So she climbed out of the water grabbing her towel and wrapping it around her. 'Why does this always happen to me! I finally find a guy I really like and I have like, no chance at being with him, I hate this!' Amanda looked at Koga and sighed, "I… I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry, it's ok, it's not like you can help it. I mean you might be from the future but I doubt that you knew something like this was going to happen. Besides I don't expect you to give up your life in the future to stay with me, and if I could I would stay with you but I have to stay and help take care of the pack." Koga said as he looked at the ground.

"Oh Koga, I would so let you come met my parents if I didn't like live all the way across an oce…opps!" Amanda slapped her hands over her mouth.

"A, what…?"

"An ocean, they… well we live in the Americas."

"So… so… so that makes you a barbarian?"

"No, no that's not what we are, we have changed a lot, besides my ancestors originally came from here in Japan, and I bet they are running around here in this part."

"What is the name of the clan? I know every clan in this part of Japan." Koga said with a pleased look.

"Well both my grandparents' moms and dads came from the Coward Clan, and they were really close friends so that is how my grandparents met." Amanda said looking around wondering if it was a good idea to look up her grandparents. The whole time changing thing didn't exactly settle, but then she remembered something that she had once read about in her Japanese history class (It was an extra credit class…), a story that one of her friends once told her about. The story of the wolf king, Koga and his wolf queen, Amanda, Koga from the "Koga Clan", and Amanda who was an outsider…

Laughs hysterically because she just left you hangin' Mwahahahahaha I am so evil I know I know, there is no need to thank me, well outies and I hope you enjoyed it. Oh and one more thing i would like to ask that if any1 would like to help me out and proof read my chapters for me please email me asap. i am thanx

Lunna