Back again! Shoutouts and all my Love for the reviewers: Blitza, bleedingangel95, missmeow1968,, cowgirlkitten2000, Egylnx, and Guest! Happy to get back to this tale.

Reminder: Chapter length will continue to vary. I have no interest in writing yet another 200K+ story right now and I like the snapshot feel to this.

*This will be the last time I address chapter length.*

Hope you continue to enjoy and I look forward to continuing the journey with you all!

Oh! I finally got an AO3 account. I will probably repost works on that site so if you see these stories under Yasha_Sis, it is not a copycat. Promise.

Kisses and strawberry mimosas for the followers and favorite makers. You guys rock my world with your support!

~Yasha's Sis

Circumstance

Book 2: Land of Grass

Chapter 1:

Debt

As expected, the red haired devil was a terror as a traveling companion.

She talked more than Kagome, laughed louder and more often than that brat of a fox, and couldn't keep her hands to herself on par with that perverted monk. Though, to be fair, she didn't grope him or any of the others traveling together.

Instead, she took her unlimited hugs to heart and scooped InuYasha into her paws whenever he least expected it. After the first time, InuYasha snarled threats and struggled for freedom, but ultimately he was a man of his word. Besides, something was off with the dynamics of this Shinobi group.

In between one session of manhandling and the next, the raven haired boy noted that, even being as touchy as she was, Kushina didn't put a finger on any of the other members of their traveling pack and though they didn't ignore her, there was a healthy distance in the air between them.

(InuYasha may not have been the sharpest tack in the box, but could read people and he knew wariness when he saw it. The guarded vibe to their unenthusiastic companions rang uncomfortably similar to how the humans treated him after his forced slumber, before Naraku's defeat.)

So if he complained a little less as the days wore on, and allowed her to cling longer than before, he blamed it on his soft human heart and took it out on the lackeys trailing behind them.

(He also couldn't help but notice the genuine pleasure the red harpy got from both his riling of the help and the physical contact.)

He told himself it was a small concession for her helping him out of the Old Bastard's holdout.

InuYasha was many things, but even Sesshomaru would admit, he paid back his debts.

So here we go. War is on the horizon people. Timeline wise it's between the Second and Third Shinobi wars if you hadn't caught that. Canon will be played with hard and fast because some things are ridiculous and others are boring. We'll see how it comes out!

Until next time,

~Yasha's Sis