Disclaimer: OK! OK! I DON'T OWN INUYASHA!

Chapter 11: Day of Reckoning

Souta's sudden shout had made my ears flatten themselves against my hair, and that gave me an idea to hide this little problem. One problem, I didn't know how to control them! I looked over to my mate and tried to silently plead with him, mouthing "HELP ME HIDE MY EARS!" While he looked at me like a stupid baka, then he took his fingers up to my ears and forced them down one at a time with his forefinger, and adjusting my hair over them. I gave a sigh of relief, 'at least I don't have to worry about those anymore.'

Kara, my mother, came out of the house, smiling and waving, but giving me a sideways look, 'I think she knows something is up' I thought. Then I watched as she gave a pointed look at the area directly between us. I looked down and saw what she was looking at, our hands clasped together. 'Oops!' I thought abruptly, smacking myself mentally and letting go of his hand quickly, giving my mother a small smile not trying to reveal my fangs. Then, suddenly was a voice behind us, "excuse me, but I think you may want a hand with this, pup." Inuyasha looked like he had just seen a ghost, turning around to see Shippo's grandparents right behind us. How the hell did I not smell him!

My mate looked down and sighed, "Can I ever get away from you two?" He was blushing violently as he said this, making mereach over and pullhim gently tomy side, makingmom raise an eyebrow atus, asmall smile creeping onto her lips.

The fox gave a small chuckle and simply replied, "nope!"

Inu's pov

Thank the gods that Cali has some negotiation skills! If he wasn't there, it could have gone a lot worse than it had! Cali had helped us out incredibly, explaining exactly what a mate was, and always working to placate Kagome's Grandpa and Mother.

With gramps, it didn't go very well, seeing that he was throwing those damn dysfunctional ofudas at us for about an hour, Cali, Naja and I looked like those "pin-ya-ta" things that Kagome had shown a picture of to me a few weeks back. With koi's mother, it went a whole lot better, Cali's words, sometimes interrupted with sticky paper, kept her calm and understanding.

Souta, of course, didn't mind, but was talking about how we were gonna be best friends and brothers, and play "video-games" for the rest of the week. Typical Souta.

All in all, they approved, and had invited us to stay for as long as we liked. The first thought that came to my mind was that I could get all the ramen I could eat, but it seems that Cali had the same thing on his mind, going through 17 bowls of ramen soup! That left me quite amazed, I can tell you! The funniest part of that dinner was that Naja always seemed to try and slow him down, actually trying to take the ramen away from him. That... was a bad move, seeing as afterward, there was ramen all over the place and we were all on the floor laughing at the hilarity of the situation. Now its night, I sit on my mate's bed as I wait for her to finish her shower. I wonder what she's thinking about anyway...