A/N: Nothing to say up hear but just to enjoy so yeah... enjoy : D

Chapter 9: Household Trouble

The morning came and as the sun was reaching a high point in the fresh morning Kiba woke up, eyes still closed. As Kiba began to get more awake he noticed breathing that wasn't his own and as he opened his eyes he saw Hige's form slightly above him.

"What the... Hige what are you doing in here?" Kiba said pushing Hige to the side of the bed.

"Good. Finally you're awake... soooo what happened last night with Kaya and you... huh?" Hige asked sitting up straight and looking at Kiba with a smirk.

"What are you talking about... nothing happened... I just followed her and..." Kiba paused remembering that he had found Cheza last night.

"Kiba?"

"We're going..."

"What! Now."

"Yeah. Now."

"Why... without saying goodbye either?"

"Don't have to... now get ready..."

Kiba got off the bed and grabbed his jacket off a chair from in the room and put it on. Kiba looked at Hige who was pouting slightly. Ignored him Kiba opened the door and then put his hand on the knob of the door next to his room and opened it. Tsume was sitting in a chair staring at nothing in particular when Kiba came in. Kiba opened his mouth but Tsume silenced him with his own words.

"The kid wont wake up..."

"Huh? What's going on?" Hige said looking from Kiba to Tsume.

"What? Your ease dropping skills not work last night or where you really that out of it?" Tsume asked harshly not looking at either Kiba or Hige.

"What... uh..." Hige said not knowing if he should answer that. 'Does he know...about that other night?' Hige asked himself.

"I found Cheza and now where leaving..." Kiba said dully.

"When did..."

"Last night... now we have to go..."

"You wake the kid cuz my attempts didn't work..." Tsume said looking at Toboe then to Kiba.

"Fine... Tob..."

"Uh... its okay," Hige piped up before Kiba could wake Toboe, "I'll stay with the runt for a while and then I'll get him up and we can meat you later, kay?"

"Alright. Don't take too long," Kiba said as he walked out of the room.

"Fine... I'll go with Kiba then..." Tsume said getting off the chair and following Kiba.

Kiba stopped and taking a quick glance at Tsume continued to walk to the entrance of the house. Kiba opened the door to see that Kaya was in the front with Yuka and Shita: they were coming back to the house from the forest carrying some fish. Kiba looked at Kaya but she refused to look him in the eye so she just gave him a smile and continued to talk with Yuka. Tsume pushed past him and walked toward the entrance of the forest and Kiba looked at him with a raised eyebrow. Then hearing Yuka ask Kaya where the two were going, he looked at them. Kaya reply telling Yuka she didn't know. When Tsume was in front of Kiba, only a few feet away he turned and looked at Kiba who was staring at Kaya and the others. Getting annoyed with Kiba's look as he stared at Kaya he thought, 'Grrr... what is with him. I thought Cheza was the most important thing he had and now he's trying to take mine... damn prick.'

"Hey! Kiba, we leaving or not?"

"Yeah... follow me."

Tsume stepped aside as Kiba walked passed him and then they were gone into the forest. Kiba was in the lead while Tsume trailed behind him a little. Kiba could feel Tsumes glaring eyes giving him chills down his spine. Finally after a while Kiba heard Tsumes voice form behind him mutter something that wasn't decipherable.

"What is it Tsume?"

"Nothing much... just wondering how it's possible that Kaya could find anyway to be comforted by a guy like you." Tsume answered putting his thumbs in his pant pockets.

"Oh and I suppose you'd do better at comforting her then I would?"

"Well I have known her longer... she should be more able to confide in me than you."

"Well I guess she doesn't mind confiding in someone other than you cuz she seemed pretty comfy with me." Kiba said his voice mixed with annoyance for the conversation and smugness at Tsumes pause of a response.

"Huhm..." Tsume muttered thinking to himself 'not likely' then continued, "So what was Kaya upset about that you had the urge to hold her?"

"Why should I tell you. Why don't you just ask her yourself."

"Does that mean we're going back to the house?"

"No where not..."

"Oh so Cheza and going to find paradise is more important to you... just as I thought. Your words of I wont let anything get in my way are true then?... or is it you don't know what you feel for her yet."

Kiba paused for a moment looking around then turned to Tsume who was looking at him oddly, it looked like he had smirk on, but his eyes told him he wanted to kill him. Kiba sighed heavily knowing Tsume was right but mostly for another reason that wasn't good, he couldn't remember which way Kaya had lead him. He had been so in tune with following her that he hadn't paid attention to the surroundings. So in other words they were lost.

"What? Have you really not decided on how you feel about her?"

"No... I don't know, alright."

"Either way I am not letting you have her."

"That's not you decision to make."

"I was with..." Tsume said then got duitracted by Kiba closing his eyes and smelling the air, "What the hell are you doing?"

"I... I cant seemed to find Cheza... I think I need Kaya to show me the way again."

"So the all knowing bastard doesn't know where he left Cheza?"

"I cant find her sent and I... I wasn't paying attention to anything except Kaya when I was following her to Cheza's hiding place."

"Huh... for someone who..."

Tsume stopped talking and both him and Kiba froze as they heard the familiar howl of Toboe calling for them. The two looked at each other then began to run back in the direction they had come. Tsume was in the lead running quite fast darting out of the way of trees as he speed through the forest and Kiba did the same as he followed merely inches behind. Tsume stopped abruptly and Kiba did the same stopping at Tsume's side as four men dressed in black armor came in sight. "Jagura," Tsume whispered angrily under his breath. Kiba looked at Tsume and then to the four men that had not spotted them yet. Tsume moved forward to attack but another howl from the house made him stop.

"Did you get what Toboe said?" Tsume asked looking at Kiba.

"Yeah... their under attack by Jagura's troops..."

"Right."

Without another word Tsume was running towards the four men. Kiba chased after him and soon the men finally spotted them. One man began to say their wolves but he never finished as Tsume kicked the man in the face and then using his knife he cut the man's helmet cover and sunk his teeth into the mans neck. Kiba had attacked another man that was to the left of Tsume and a scream was heard put it was quickly replaced by a crunching noise as Kiba broke the mans neck. The two men left looked at Kiba and Tsume in surprise but quickly got over it and started to attack them. One tried shooting them and the other used a shield that emitted a wave of some sort to knock them out. Kiba jumped out of the way of the man with the shield and Tsume ran at the man with the gun dodging out of the mans aim. When the man with the shield was going to hit Tsume, Kiba took advantage of the distraction and attacked the man from the side as Tsume got the other man and jumped on him successfully ripping the mans throat out. Tsume looked over at Kiba who was looking at him with an emotionless face, the man at his feet laying motionless. Both started for a while until they heard a slightly unfamiliar howl but when it came again they realized who it belonged to and they both gasped out, "Kaya!" and began running to the house again. As they began to get closer they could hear the noises of the fight. When they had finally got there Kaya's entire pack was in the front yard in wolf form fighting along side her, including Shita who was at the moment in a sword battle with one of Jagura's troops. Dai and Sato where fighting side by side making the troops try and hit the moving pair then they would attack when least expected and then there was Tama and Kogaku who were jumping from one area to another area trying to get as many troops as they could, it looked like. Osa was knocking them off one by one with practically no effort while Yuka was bouncing off of the troops making them shoot each other and Oki was with Kaya fighting near to Shita who from the looks off it was holding up pretty good for a mere human. Hige and Toboe where fighting as well and seeing they were closest, Kiba and Tsume ran and attacked two men that were going towards their already fighting friends. The four wolves took quick looks at each other before they were under attack again. Now every wolf was in their original forms fighting to keep themselves alive. The troops where falling fast now and they seemed to have noticed for after a while one of the mean shouted to the others saying, "Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!" and then they ran off into the forest shooting at any wolf that tried to follow. When Tama and Kogaku tried to run after the troops who were now in the safety of the forest Kaya had yelled at them to stop and come back and the two obeyed reluctantly.

"But Kaya... they know we're hear now... we should get them before they get us!" Tama said loudly after turning into his human form.

"No... if we go after them in there most likely we will lose members of our pack and I will not allow that," Kaya stated already in her human form standing next to Shita.

"Why... we can take them in the forest. We have a better chance since we know theses woods better than anyone."

"I said NO!" Kaya stated in a more stern tone.

"Why?"

"Cuz she's scared... thats why. Actually getting attacked by them made her unsure of how well she could do against them herself... she had it easy before and now she's scared that she might actually die in this." Kogaku interjected ruthlessly through gritted teeth.

It was silent for a moment but then out of no where Kaya quickly walked closer to Kogaku, her head slightly bent down and back hand slapped him across the face making him waver to the side but he didn't lose his balance. Kogaku looked at Kaya who was glaring angrily at him with clenched fists.

"Don't you EVER accuse me of being afraid!" Kaya harshly shouted at him.

Kaya then turned and left into the house and slammed the door behind her in her anger. Kogaku stared at the front door in shock, holding his cheek where Kaya had slapped him. Then a irritated "Hump" made by Oki snapped him back into his surroundings.

"Damn-it Ko, you let your temper get the better of you again... you really did it this time. I don't think a mere apology will do it. Your ganna have to beg this time." Tama said in a pitifully sad tone as he put a hand on Kogaku's shoulder.

"Huh? Oh shit.. I did it again. Fuck, I'm stupid. Its... I couldn't help it. I don't want them getting the better of us and to hear our leader say that, it made me feel like they had and she made it feel like they won already and we couldn't do anything about it."

"Still. You already know Kaya is only thinking of us and she probably had a good reason. Remember last time... she saved us from your arrogance in that."

"Kogaku. You're a total idiot. The reason we cant chase them is because their regrouping... meaning they could ambush us in our own territory without us knowing it." Oki said irritated.

"Thank you Oki, my thoughts exactly..." Kaya said as she stepped onto the cement step in front of the house, "Right now is no time for my emotions to be a problem so I'll forgive you Kogaku but don't make that mistake again. Now as for Jagura... we will attack her before dawn when they least expect it. I suspect at this moment they are recuperating and reassembling their troops. Hopefully we will have the upper hand. Now I suggest we all get some rest before we go into motion."

The pack all nodded to show they understood and were in agreement while Kiba and the others just looked at them without a word. It became midday, the sun barely setting and everyone was resting and acting as if nothing was bothering them but it was noticeable that something was. All the wolves where sitting in the entrance living rooms chatting about random things. Hige was with Oki in the kitchen. Toboe had been with Tsume in the opposite living room Kiba was in now but after a while he went with Yuka through the front door and Tsume followed them shortly after, Kiba suspected he wanted to make sure they stayed out of trouble. Kiba looked at the ceiling, he needed to get out, then as he thought this an idea struck him. Shita was about to leave and Kiba thought she might know where Kaya was so he asked.

"Um, Shita?"

"Yeah," Shita answered stopping and looking at Kiba.

"Where's Kaya?"

"Oh... um.. I think she went out. Maybe to the lake in the forest. She likes it over there."

"Uh... thanks."

"No problem," Shita smiled and continued to walk to the back of the house..

Kiba got up and walked out the door to go and see Kaya. Joka had been listened for when he head Kaya's name he always had to listen. So when he saw Kiba get up and walk out the door he made the decision to teach Kiba a lesson on who Kaya belonged to because to him Kaya was his and no one else's. Joka got up and followed Kiba into the forest and Kiba didn't notice until Joka was right behind him. Kiba turned and looked at Joka who had that same evil glare and then as Joka took a single step making him and Kiba two feet away Joka said one word in a deep angry tone, "Kiba."

A/N: Well hoped this chapter was satisfactory... I liked "big" fight scene a little better but that's because I didn't make it as detailed, heh heh. Anyhoo, the chapter was semi okay in my opinion and again over dramatic but that's okay... I kinda made Kaya a little to Grrr... but she kinda just ended up like that though when I was writing, ohchawellzies. Oh yeah I didn't really know how Kiba and Tsume would act towards each other for their private chat on their way to find Cheza so if it's a little out of character for either of them I am sorry... so yeah I guess that's it so till the next chapter called, Loves Rivals. PLEASE REVIEW! Mk, bye for now.