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Hello everybody! I am back! Ok well since no really reads this story anyways I guess I'm just posting for my own benefit. Basically just talking to myself then since I'm the only who bothers reading this story, and that's only cuz I wrote it. Well here you go chapter 11.

Disclaimer:

The police would get me if InuYasha I claimed

I'd get thrown in jail, executed and maimed

And although it would be an exciting chase

I own fricking nothing so get out of my face

Everlasting Wishes

Chapter 11

Life isn't fair Chura

The day dawned bright and early as Yumi's sleep wore off. The sounds of birds and early wolf activities slowly dragged her back to her conscious state of mind. She sat up and looked around. Every night since she had arrived, the little pups had kept her warm, by curling up around her. Yumi carefully uprooted herself from the pile, and side stepping furry bodies, exited the cave.

Outside some of the older wolves were preparing for the day. Ona sat nearby on her rock ladling out some type of brown broth to the sentries that were to be on duty for the day. She looked up as Yumi came over, and smiled at the young girl. Yumi waved and trotted over, sitting herself between the hungry guards. "So what's the plan for today?" Yumi said cheerily accepting a bowl of soup from Ona.

"Well dear, since we haven't had any meat lately, Kouga is going to go hunting with the pack." Ona said in-between her ladling.

"I want to go!" Yumi squealed, and with that she jumped up and ran for the cave to find Kouga, so she could ask him.

Yumi found Kouga sharpening a spear by himself at the waters edge. He seemed to be in deep thought, and didn't even notice as Yumi ran over to him from behind. "Kouga!" She exclaimed when she was next to him. It jerked the wolf demon from his thoughts , and startled him so much he jumped and fell into the water. "Ooops" Yumi murmured as she gave him a hand to pull him up.

"What in all hells are you doing?" he growled shaking the water out of his pony tail.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to ask you something."

"What is it then?" he grudgingly asked.

"Well I was wondering if I can come with you and the pack to go hunting." She said bravely looking him square in the eye. Kouga stood there with his arms crossed and one brow arched.

"Excuse me?"

"I want to come with you hunting!"

"First of all, the women stay home to prepare the meat the men hunt." Kouga said stressing women and men.

"That's not fair." Yumi stamped her foot with an angry( and to Kouga, adorable) expression on her face.

"I trust by now you know that life isn't fair, chura." He swaggered off with his spear, leaving Yumi fuming behind him. To add insult to injury he had said something in a growl, of the wolf language. What was it? Chura? What the heck did that mean? Yumi vowed she would get him back. She stomped off to ask Ona what the strange word meant.

Ona sat in the middle of a circle of pups telling them a story about a mean demon lord who was arranged to be married with a silly demon girl. Ona carved them a story about how the girl was always messing up causing funny mayhem to happen everywhere she went. The demon lord was always angry with her but eventually came to love her and her silliness. Yumi sat with the rest of the pups. Her arms circled her legs which were crouched in front of her. She could have been another of the pups, she was in such a small ball. She gazed at Ona and listened with rapt attentiveness, gasping at the shocking parts and laughing when something went wrong.

The hunters were just leaving. Kouga looked back at the group around Ona, sitting among them was Yumi enjoying the story just as the pups were. He smiled, thinking only moments ago she was seething with fury at not being able to come hunting with him. It was for her protection, not just because he didn't want her around him. The little minx didn't seem to care now, the littlest thing seemed to catch her attention holding her there , making her forgot what she was doing in the first place. What a small attention span, Kouga thought wistfully. The group finished, and Kouga watched as the pups and Yumi sprang up from the floor. He observed the spry female as she began to stretch, from sitting in a ball. She leaned to the side then to the front, and then leaned way over backwards, so that her head was level with her feet but not quite touching the floor. A perfect little bridge, and all the pups gasped over her. She straightened herself out, grinning she said, "Gymnastics since I was six." Kouga chuckled thinking of her slender little body doing twists. It was a thought that made his cheeks blush. Kouga yanked himself from his reverie and marched off with the rest of his pack to hunt down some meat.

As the pups scattered to play, Yumi sat back down next to Ona. "What is it dear?" Yumi had remembered what she wanted to ask Ona about, what Chura meant.

"I wanted to ask you something that I heard someone say in the wolf language."

"Ok, then what was it you heard?"

"Well I don't know if I'm saying right but I think it was Chura." Ona's eyes widened and she leaned closer to Yumi.

" Did one of the wolf pups say that to you? I'll tan their hide, who said it to you?" Ona asked in a harsh whisper. Yumi was becoming increasingly alarmed, almost wishing she hadn't come to the elderly lady.

"Why what does it mean?" Yumi asked, partly scared of what the response was going to be.

Ayame paced her chambers. Her growing army was adding up quickly but not fast enough to suit her mood. She wanted to take all her warriors now and fight that little human right down to her miserable insignificant death. And if Kouga went down too then so be it.

After her run in with that Yumi girl, where Kouga had protected her, Ayame had been plotting ever since. No one made a fool of her, especially in front of Kouga. Her ultimate revenge against Yumi, and Kouga for not loving her. She planned to first kill Yumi with her own hands, then she was going to go after Kouga and torture him until he begged for mercy. Knowing Kouga and his pride, he probably never was going to beg, but it was a nice comforting thought to Ayame. After all was said and done, what prisoners were left would either swear to her allegiance or die just like their comrades. All would suffer, because of Kouga. All. In one months time she would strike, and Kouga's tribe would not even know what hit them.

Kagome and InuYasha traveled through the country side. Kagome rode her bike while InuYasha walked along next to her. Sango and Miroku, who had come to some kind of temporary truce trailed behind, while Shippo rode along next to Kagome.

"So what do you think Kouga was talking about anyways?" Kagome said breathlessly. Riding and talking seemed to be difficult for her so she got off and walked her bike next to InuYasha.

"Who knows what the mangy wolf was on about, but let me tell you I think we shouldn't bother worrying over it. He's crazy." InuYasha scoffed. Kouga had been his rival in love for while. Although Kagome repeatedly convinced him she had no love interest in Kouga at all from the very beginning.

"But what if something's wrong with him? You can't just let him suffer. Maybe it has something to do with that girl from my time." She pointed out. "I mean we have to know if it's really her."

InuYasha muttered incomprehensibly for a moment under his breath, before answering with, "Feh, it seems like a complete waste of time in my opinion, but hey I guess we could give it a shot."

So it was that with the keen use of InuYasha's nose, they were able to head in the direction of the hidden wolf tribes cave. Although since they had been there before it wasn't that hard. Slowly InuYasha and company made their way towards Kouga's lair.

Meanwhile Kouga was having a hard time finding any meat whatsoever. "Hey Kouga what do you think is wrong? All the animals have left our territory and some of the surrounding ones too." Ginta called to the wolf leader, as he had just heard a report from a scout.

"Damn what the heck is going on?" the large wolf leader murmured to himself. Never before has all the game left the forest. Something must be happening. Kouga could feel it, in the way the wind blew, and the deathly silent forest around him waiting, watching. Frustrated he led his wolves South were there was always plentiful game. The animals down there did not have the taste of fighting as they did up in his territory. For sure he'd be able to find some type of meat there. Because no matter what, Kouga at no time in his life ever came home empty handed. So it was that the wolf demon tribe made their way South to search for meat.

Yumi wandered up towards the cave. Ona had told her what chura meant, now Yumi wished she didn't know, because when Kouga said it to her it confused the hell out of her. Maybe he didn't hate her as much as he let on. A group of wolves in human form were sitting around talking when she approached. One of them bared his fangs at her. "Just because Kouga told us not to eat you, doesn't mean your safe." he snarled at her.

That threw Yumi for a loop. She assumed all the demons were nice, but this isn't a Disney story, demons ate humans on a regular basis. She backed away from them slowly not wanting to be around wolves that wanted to eat her. Another wolf was licking his lips, as if he was staring at a large steak. Yumi gulped, turning on her heel and racing back where she had come.

The first person she came across was Maru. Actually what really happened was that she almost ran him over. "Whoa where are you going?" he asked, a bit dazed from the collision that had just occurred.

"Oh you know, no where in particular." Yumi said scratching her head and looking back toward the wolves who had lost interest in her and were talking with each other once more.

"Ok then wanna race me!" Maru grinned up at her, little fangs poking out.

"Alright..." Yumi was still a little perturbed from her meeting with the other wolves and couldn't really focus on what Maru was saying.

"Then I'll race you to that mountain over there!" He pointed to a hazy purple land form far off in the distance. Yumi winced, was this a race or a cross country marathon? Maru got ready, waiting for Yumi.

"Ready set go!" he screamed and took off running in the direction of the mountain. Yumi ran off following him. For someone so small he was certainly fast. It must be the demon blood in him. The were pretty equally matched. Yumi was older and had longer legs, but Maru was also a demon, despite his youth he kept pace with Yumi.

Yumi started to pull ahead of the little boy, she turned her head and was about to inform Maru that she was winning when she crashed into something in front of her.

Yumi went spiraling off, falling in a bush, and the thing she had knocked into fell over with a "oh!"

InuYasha had been walking so deeply in thought, he didn't notice the scent of someone else's presence coming closer to him at a rapid pace. So when the brown blur shot out of the trees barreling into Kagome, it surprised him as much as it did Kagome. He quickly unsheathed Tetsusaiga advancing on the bush. Sango helped Kagome up while Miroku readied his Wind Scar for battle. The bush trembled and out climbed a girl. She was wearing some kind of fur wrap, covering up her top half, and lower half. Her long hair was braided into two long ropes, falling down her back. She had an odd sort of bangs that curled framing her face. InuYasha sniffed the air around her and determined her human, but then why was she wearing an outfit of a demon? The girl rubbed her head and looked up to see what she crashed into. As soon as she saw InuYasha, her jaw dropped, her face turned taking in Kagome who was also rubbing her head, Sango who was helping her up and Miroku who had his Wind Scar arm pointed in her direction. A small orange tail poked out around InuYasha's leg signifying Shippo's presence. With each new person her eyes seemed to pop open wider, until she looked like she would faint from shock.

"You're InuYasha...and Kagome, and Sango, and Miroku, and Shippo..." She said this while her dazed expression was still on her face.

"Yeah you know who we are now tell us who you are!" InuYasha growled at her. The girl didn't seem to recognize the warning in his voice, she came right up to InuYasha and poked him in the arm. "Um what are you doing?" InuYasha asked as she circled him poking him.

"You're real." She announced, wonder thick in her voice.

"Of course I'm real you idiot!" he yelled at her. But it made no difference she reached up and took his ear in her fingers. InuYasha jerked his head out of her reach and stepped back.

"Yup definitely real." she concluded. Everyone sweat dropped at her proclamation. She went over and inspected Kagome, poking her to be sure she was also real. She repeated these actions with all of them ignoring the questions they kept firing at her. When she came to Shippo she picked up and smiled hugging him.

"Yay I finally get to meet you guys!" Shippo had been convinced she wasn't dangerous and hugged her back.

"Now will you please tell us who you are?" Kagome asked the strange girl.

"My name is Yumi." she said happily playing with one of Shippo's small pointy ears. InuYasha sniffed her again, his own eyes widening like Yumi's had a minute ago.

"Hey this is that wench from you're time Kagome!" he exclaimed

"What!" Kagome looked at Yumi searchingly in amazement.

"You guys know about me!" she squealed in delight.

"Well we saw your alarm clock thing." Sango said stepping up. Yumi paused for a moment, thinking hard.

"My alarm clock?...The one I threw at a demon? Wow..." She trailed off looking deep into space trying to figure out how the clock had traveled so far.

Miroku stepped up grasping Yumi's hands in his. "Such a be-" he started to say but Yumi cut him off.

"Listen I'm sorry Miroku but I'm not going to bear your children. And you'd do better to stop asking girls that. And if you move your other hand any closer to my rear end then I'm going to have to hurt you." Yumi said smiling withdrawing her hand skipping backwards a few paces.

It was hard to tell who was more surprised, Miroku, Sango, InuYasha, Kagome or Shippo. Because each had a bewildered look splayed across their face. How had that girl known what he was going to say and apprehend him before he grabbed her ass? What a strange girl...

Yumi suddenly looked like she just remembered something, she turned around and began hunting through the brush. "Maru?" she whispered so the others couldn't hear her. "Maru where are you?"

To answer her, a little cherubic head popped up from behind a tree. "I'm over here Yumi." he whispered back to her. "I don't think we're supposed to be with InuYasha. Kouga doesn't like him very much. You wouldn't want to get him angry."

"Don't be silly. Kouga's not the boss of me I can do whatever I want." Yumi put her hands on her hips. "I bet Kouga doesn't even care."

"I don't even care about what?" A voice from behind her asked. Yumi turned to a smirking wolf demon leader looking down at her.