A/N: Apologies!!! I was in Hawaii for the past 10 days, and I just started school again. Sophmore year is harder than freshman year (sweatdrop). But anyway, here's the next chapter after a long wait.

I'm too tired to do shout outs, I'm sorry . . .

Chapter Six: Dog, Cat, and Wolf

"Are you sure that it's safe, Sango?" Kagome asked the taiji-ya. (demon slayer)

"Perfectly safe," Sango reassured her. "Trust me. Kohaku's memory has fully returned . . . I think I would know. It's all right to travel with him."

"Then let's get a move on!" Inuyasha said irritably. "I hate being delayed, so can we move it already?!"

Kagome sighed and shook her head. Shippo hopped up into the basket on Kagome's bike.

"What an impatient person," he commented before Kagome rode off.

Sango turned to Kohaku. "Hop up on Kirara," she instructed him as she sat behind him. "Aren't you riding with us, houshi-sama?"

"I shall rely on my own two feet," the monk told her with a smile.


Once they started off, they kept quiet for a long time. They traveled for a few hours, until . . .

"DOG-TURD!"

"Not again!!" everybody groaned, with the exception of Kohaku.

"What? Who is it?" he asked them.

"It's a . . . 'friend' . . . Of ours," Sango told him weakly.

Kagome yelped in surprise as once again, Kouga picked her up from behind. He landed a few feet away.

"Now mutt-face, I shall take this beautiful woman and make her mine!" he shouted to Inuyasha, who looked ready to pounce any second.

"Kouga, stop."

Everyone looked at a surprisingly calm Kagome.

"Put me down, please."

Kouga did as she asked. She brushed dirt off her skirt and stood between Inuyasha and Kouga.

"Now then. I think this feud has gone on long enough, and you two should make amends! Naraku is out there somewhere, and you two fight—over me? I say you should end this right now and make allies, at least."

Everyone blinked and stared at Kagome.

"Inuyasha and this . . . Kouga person fight over her?" Kohaku whispered to Sango. "Are they both in love with her or something?"

"You could say that . . ." Sango replied with a somewhat exasperated expression.

"Allies?! Yeah right!" Inuyasha scoffed.

"I'd never make friends with this puppy!" Kouga agreed.

"WOULD YOU QUIT IT?!"

Everyone, yet again, became silent and turned their eyes to Kagome.

"THAT'S IT! I tried being nice about it, but now it seems that I'm going to have to force you! Kouga!" Kagome pointed a finger at the now startled wolf prince. "I am not your woman! Inuyasha!" She now turned to a fearful looking hanyô. "Stop trying to pick fights with him just because he flirts with me! Now . . . MAKE UP!!!!!"

They both gulped and looked at each other, none looking particularly happy. They muttered something indescribable.

"I can't hear you!" Kagome yelled.

"Sorry . . ." both of them murmured, looking in different directions.

"Great! Now Kouga, we need to have a talk."

"Kagome . . ." Inuyasha began, but once he saw the expression on her face, he quickly changed his mind.


"It's been forever!" Inuyasha yelled as he glared in the direction Kagome and Kouga went to.

"Inuyasha, calm down. It's only been several minutes," Miroku assured him.

"So Inuyasha . . ." Kohaku began shyly. "Do you fight with him over Kagome because you love her?"

Inuyasha went rigid, and then blushed like crazy.

"N-No! It's not like that, I . . . just . . . eh . . ."

He's lying Kohaku thought as he looked at the struggling hanyou.

"Here they come," Sango interrupted.

Indeed, Kagome and Kouga were walking back. Kouga looked disappointed, and even a little sad. Kagome was smiling. Kouga said something to her and then took off.

"What did you guys talk about?" Shippo asked.

"Oh, I was putting him down gently . . . After all, he does have another woman that wants his attention; Ayame."

"That's true," Sango agreed.

"Also, I asked him if he would give us the jewel shards in his legs."

"What?!" everybody shouted, excluding, yet again, Kohaku.

"Yep. I explained to him more of our situation . . . He agreed to help us. Looks like you've made friends with him after all, Inuyasha."

"Feh . . ." Inuyasha's ear twitched. "Did he really give them to you?"

"Yeah." Kagome showed them two shining jewel shards in her hand.

"That's remarkable!" Sango exclaimed.

"Or a miracle," Miroku put in.

Inuyasha, instead of looking happy, looked away.

"What's wrong, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked him. "I thought you would be happy."

"I think he's pouting because-" Shippo began before Inuyasha bonked him on the head.

"Because why? Inuyasha . . . are you not telling me something?"

Inuyasha looked at her, "feh"-ed, and began walking again.


"I think it's my fault," Kohaku told Kagome as Kirara pulled up next to Kagome's bike. They were on the move once more.

"That Inuyasha's acting odd?" she replied, looking forward and seeing Inuyasha in the front. He couldn't hear from there. She hoped.

"Yeah . . . That friend of yours, Kouga, and Inuyasha keep fighting, don't they?"

"Well yeah."

"Over you?"

"It would seem so . . . ever since Kouga first kidnapped me and took me with him to his hideout . . . Inuyasha was pretty angry at him for that, and I apparently out of all the times we interacted with Kouga, he wouldn't stop flirting with me and calling me his 'woman', so that just made Inuyasha angrier."

"I see. Well, I asked him a difficult question about it, I guess, when you were talking with Kouga."

"What did you ask him?"

"I asked if the reason why he was so angry with Kouga for liking you was because Inuyasha loves you."

Kagome felt her heart skip a beat.

"N-No, don't be silly!"

"That's the same response I got from him. He started stuttering like an idiot. But I don't think I'm too young to see it."

With that, Kirara ran ahead of Kagome so that Sango could talk to Miroku.

"I don't think I am either," Shippo added from the basket in front of Kagome. She looked ahead at Inuyasha, who was now looking towards the setting sun.