Hey guys! Sorry I didn't post last week, but it was Christmas and I have a life. You were all busy, too, probably, so yea. Sorry anyway. Enjoy!

Hey guys! It's the Bean. (Chibi: You stole my opening 'Hey guys!' jerk) What ever. Anyway, I'm here with our first Bonus Chapter! You'll love this one. It's actually based on a comic I found online.

This takes place before Azurine and Miroku were married. Actually, it's so long ago, that Sarah and Yuto aren't even married and Yukito is still alive! Yep, this is a Through the Well time period. Enjoy!

Discalimer: ChibiBean does not own nor claim rights to InuYasha or any of it's characters nor do we own angels (though we wish we had some). Angels belong to CLAMP's Angelic Layer. Thank you.

BONUS CHAPTER
The Inu Gang vs. the Computer
Subtitled: Strip Poker

"So, what is it?" InuYasha asked Yukito as he prodded the little angel, Kaede. (See Through the Well, Chapter 9)

"It's called a computer," Yukito explained. "It can connect to what's called the internet. It's like a whole bunch of scrolls of information stored inside this little computer. You say something, anything really, and it will pop up."

"Can you show us anything here? Will it work?" Yuto asked.

"Only the things I've saved permanently. Kaede, open and list 'my favorites' please."

"Okiday!" She smiled. "English report file folder: Medieval Bestiary: Dragon, Phoenix, Unicorn, Chimera, Pegasus, etc.; AlbinoBlackSheep: End of the world; Strip Poker; Science Report: the alc-"

"Hang on. What is 'Strip Poker'?" Miroku asked, curiously.

Yukito blinked. "I…uh…I don't know." He sighed. "Yuki must have downloaded it, the pervert."

Miroku smiled proudly. "My grandson, you know."

Yukito sighed. "Thank god. I got the sensible genes."

"Kaede," Miroku requested, "Would you read us the strip poker scroll?"

After Yukito clarified that Miroku meant 'file', not 'scroll', Kaede began to read. "Strip Poker, Miroku-kun, is like regular poker except that the loser of each round removes a piece of his or her clothing."

Miroku got that scary-pervert glint in his eyes.

After Kaede spent almost an hour explaining the rules and objectives of poker, InuYasha, Miroku, Yuto, and Yukito devised a daring plan.

"Oh, girls!"

Azurine, Sarah, and Kagome looked up from the quaint, enjoyable picnic they were having in a clearing in the woods.

"Hey guys," Sarah chimed as she chomped down on a biscuit.

"What's up?" Kagome asked.

"Well," Yukito innocently began, "we were wondering if you wanted to play a little game of poker."

Swallowing, Sarah gasped out, "Sure," before downing some lemonade.

(Chibi: Isn't she cute when she's stuffing her face?
Bean: She's like you. -.-
Chibi: I love metabolism)

"B-But only if you promise to play by our rules," Yuto added.

Azurine looked warily at Sarah and Kagome, but shrugged and agreed.

"Well, my lovely ladies," Miroku grinned as he spoke, "we're playing strip poker."

The girls blushed, but nodded.

The guys had earlier come to the ridiculous conclusion that girls didn't know how to play cards. Now, they stared in awe as Sarah began to shuffle the cards. She was like a Vegas card dealer, cutting cards with one hand and flipping them all over with ease. After she dealt, she looked at the guys. "Oops." She turned to Azurine. "We're not supposed to know how to play are we?" She turned back to the group. "Now, what does it mean when I've got an A, K, Q, J, and 10 all with a black pointy thing in the corner?"

30 Minutes Later

Miroku sighed. This wasn't working. He was shirtless and shoeless. Yukito was in boxer shirts. Yuto had lost his sword, chest plate, shoes and shirt. InuYasha was left with only his prayer beads and a loin cloth.

The girls were fairing pretty well. Kagome was shirtless, but that was it. Sarah was clearly winning. She was barefoot, but that was because she had been so before the game. She had been blushing madly and hiding behind her cards since Yuto lost his shirt during the last round. It was throwing her concentration a bit.

Azurine still had a tank-top and shorts, though this was not in the least due to poker skills. It was actually because she had started out with four shirts, a pair of jeans, shorts, two layers of socks, gloves and a baseball cap. She claimed that she had been chilly, she was even looking a little pale, but her real reason was that she had overheard a word or two of the boys' plan and barely had time to dress. She didn't even get to tell the girls about it before the guys had arrived. Also, if she lost again, she'd lose the tank-top.

Yukito looked at Miroku. "Well, this backfired."

Miroku chuckled. "Yes it did."

Azurine lost the next round. Miroku made a point not to smile. However, the girl whipped her hair out of its band and placed the piece on the pile, sticking her tongue out as she did so.

Sarah allowed her embarrassment to get to her for one round and lost. She had been unlucky enough not to be wearing any jewelry. All of her hair bands she used to wear on her wrist had snapped a long time ago and she had forgotten to put her watch back on after her wade in the nearby stream earlier that day.

It was a choice of the shirt or the pants. Taking off her shirt would mean everyone saw her chest, but removing her shorts would allow everyone to see her only pair of frilly panties. Why today of all days did I choose to wear those. She also hated her paper white thighs. She slowly pulled her arms through her sleeves and pulled the shirt over her head. It's just like a bathing suit, bathing suit, bathing suit. She repeated that in her head but couldn't contain the violent explosion of color on her face.

She couldn't look at anything but the cards she held. If she had looked up, she would have noticed Miroku staring perversely, Yukito blushing slightly, and InuYasha, well, not caring.

Yuto was almost as red as her and couldn't look away. He found her to be so charming in her shyness. And he adored it.

After that, Sarah refused to lose anymore, and concentrated all her focus on the cards.

Luckily for her, it was Azurine's turn to lose again. This time, Azurine pulled a pouch out of her shirt.

And another.

And another, her chest never deflating.

"Okay," Miroku said. "No more of that. The shirt goes next time."

Azurine blinked and shrugged nervously. "Okay."

So she did because she lost once again. Thankfully, though, she hung in there after that until InuYasha lost his last possible round. He attempted to take off the prayer beads in a futile attempt of keeping himself covered.

"No way, InuYasha. The beads stay."

"Look away, girls. You don't want to see this," Yuto predicted grimly. "This could get pretty ugly."

"How do you know?" Sarah asked from behind her hands. She didn't need anyone to tell her not to look. The minute the dog demon had lost, Sarah threw her hands upon her face and had kept them there since.

"I use the same hot spring as him," Yuto replied, still blushing at the sight of Sarah. "You girls aren't the only ones who bathe, you know."

During Kagome and InuYasha's argument, the others began to babble over one another.

"Miroku, if I catch your eyes below my chin one more time, you will die."

"The only reason I got good at poker was so I could keep my clothes."

"Can I put my pants on now?"

"Miroku!" thwack "Just because your eyes can't go there doesn't mean your hands can!"

What happened next shocked everyone.

"You know what, InuYasha?" Kagome ripped the beads over his head. "Just go!"

"K…Kagome?"

"GO!"

InuYasha stared at her in shock before gathering his clothes and slinking away. Kagome rounded on the other three men and pointed after InuYasha. "Follow."

They paled as they grabbed their things and left in a hurry. Sarah and Azurine scooted away, both trying to stuff their shirts on in the process, but warily watching Kagome.

She sighed and smiled. "It's alright. I'll be good in a moment. It's just that I can't seem to do anything nice for him without him getting all embarrassed and complaining."

"You have to put those beads back on. Who knows what will happen if you don't."

"I'll let him have his five minutes of freedom."

That evening

"Hey…Miroku?"

The monk looked up from his work to see Azurine. "And to what do I owe this visit?"

"I can't just come to talk anymore?"

Miroku smiled. "Sit."

Azurine did so. "What are you doing?"

"Making new scrolls."

"How does that work, anyway?"

"Well," Miroku said, "you write a spell on the paper, and the spell activates through the paper when you attach it to whatever you are working with."

"Can I try?"

"Sure."

Azurine labored with the ink and brush for a few minutes and smiled. She held up her scroll which looked like a child had written on it.

Miroku laughed. "Let me teach you."

He took Azurine's hand and guided it across the strip of paper. Azurine looked at the new one, then her own, frowned, and tried to crumple her original.

Miroku took it from her before she could. "I'll take that."

"Can you even use that?"

"Of course I can. I can use anything!"

Azurine laughed.

Sarah and Yuto

It had taken Yuto some time to find Sarah. She was in a villager's yard, helping to collect some herbs for the woman of the house who was sick and unable to get up. Yuto waited until she had left and came up behind her.

"Hey Sarah! You know…"

Sarah cut him off. "If this is about the poker thing, I don't want to hear it." She was turning her embarrassment into anger because she couldn't stop blushing. It bugged her that she couldn't keep her feelings under control.

Yuto kissed her cheek. "It's not."

Sarah stopped walking and touched her cheek. He faced her and smiled. "Well, it kinda is. I wanted to apologize for making you play, though you were really good at it. I'm sorry you got so embarrassed."

She looked at her hands. "Yea. I didn't think I was going to lose though. I've been practicing for years just for such an occasion."

"What happened?"

"Didn't I say I didn't want to talk about it?" She didn't want to admit that it was Yuto being shirtless that had distracted her.

"Alright. How about we play a different game, then?"

"What game?"

He tapped her shoulder. "Tag, you're it." He took off down the road. Sarah, confused for only a split second, followed him. As she laughed she thought to herself, Crap, I was never good at running. Though she could run pretty quickly, her lungs would always fail her after awhile. However, whether it was the clean Japanese air or it was that Sarah had simply gotten stronger in her short time in the feudal area, Sarah ran and ran, her lungs barely burning.

She soon caught up to him in a little grassy area, but was unable to tag him. She kept missing by mere inches until she finally lunged and grabbed his shoulder. They both tripped over each other and fell next to each other in the grass and laughed.

After she caught her breath, Sarah stood and looked down at him. "Well, I guess you're it." She took off, Yuto close at her heels. It wasn't very long until, while looking back to see where Yuto was, Sarah tripped and skidded on the gravely, dirt road. Yuto quickly bent down beside her. Except for her clenching fists, she didn't seem to move.

Yuto placed a hand on her shoulder. "Sarah? Are you alright?"

After a second or two, she rolled over and propped her self up on her hands. With a forced smile she said, "I'm fine. Just a scratch."

Yuto gasped. Her left arm was grazed, barely red. Her face had a few nicks here and there and a cut running from the corner of her mouth to her chin. The worst, however, was her left knee. It was gouged pretty deeply and bleeding profusely.

"Are you insane, woman? That's no scratch!"

Sarah got to her feet and started walking, the strained smile still plastered on her face. She refused any help from Yuto and limped over to the river. She rinsed out her knee and flinched violently while she did. Afterward, she began to walk back to Kaede's hut.

"Sarah…"

"It's alright, Yuto. Do you see my other knee?" Yuto already knew she meant the large grey scar that covered most of her right knee. He'd always wondered but never asked how she got it. "I did that almost two years ago. I walked home alone and it was farther than this. I don't need help."

Yuto, finally fed up, scooped Sarah up and ran her to the hut. He didn't say a word the whole time, even when Sarah protested and asked him exactly what he thought he was doing.

Kaede grimaced at the bloody mess as Yuto set Sarah down. He went and stood by the wall, glaring at the ground.

Sarah turned to Kaede and quietly asked for her bag. She reached in and pulled out her First Aid kit. She poured Hydrogen Peroxide on her knee and winced at the pain. She bowed her head, pretending to be looking through the box so Yuto wouldn't see her eyes tear up. She put some liquid band aid on her arm and face's cuts, before returning to splash some more of the painful stuff on her knee. She put on a gauze patch and stood.

"See? No problem." Seeing Yuto still sour, Sarah went over to him. "Yuto?" she asked timidly.

Just then, her nerves came out of shock and Sarah turned very pale with a little green. Yuto caught her as she fell over. He placed her on her mat and put a cold cloth to her forehead. "You see?" he said angrily. "You aren't okay!"

She protested. "I'll be fine. Just give me…"

"No! Sarah, stop acting so tough." He put his finger to her cheek. When he took it away, he showed Sarah the tear that was on it.

"It's just…"

"Sarah, I know it hurts. It's okay to hurt and it's okay to show pain. Stop pretending it's nothing," he snapped

She lay there for a while, thinking. "I'm just so used to taking care of myself. Dad never really cared when I got hurt, but he hated weakness. I had to hide my pain."

"I'm not your father, Sarah. I want to help. If you're ever sad or tired, you can lean on me. If you need me, just call and, no matter where I am, I'll come for you. Understand?"

She sat up and put her head on his shoulder. "Thank you."

He hugged her as she wept on him; for her knee, for her childhood, and for her love.

Kagome and InuYasha

"Hey, InuYasha?"

Kagome found InuYasha sitting by the river. She stood behind him, a few yards away.

"What?"

"Are you mad?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Why?"

"Look! I'm trying to apologize!" She was becoming exasperated.

"Oh."

"Oh? Is that all…"

"Just put the stupid beads back on."

Kagome stopped short and blinked. "Huh?"

"Do it."

She walked up behind him and slipped the necklace over his head. He grabbed her hands and pulled lightly.

"Wh…wha…" Kagome was brought to her knees, her chest against his back.

InuYasha held her hands tightly to his lips. Kagome blushed.

"Kagome?"

She peeked over his shoulder, studying his profile. "Yes?"

"Sit with me for awhile."

"Mm," she agreed happily.

Yukito and Shippo

"Uh, I don't go that way."

Neither do I. We're mainly comic relief, Ship."

"Oh."

Chapter End

there ya go! Hope you liked it. Now, as a warning, not all Bonus Chapters are optional. This one, you didn't need to read it to continue with the story. However, some bonuses are required and are just bonuses for other reasons. For instance, one is a bonus because it is devoted solely to my new character. You'll know who it is right away. The character is just like Sarah, almost.

Until next week, Bai-bai!