"I don't want to go to work," Kagome sighed as she pulled her hair into a high ponytail.

"You say that every morning," Mikoto chirped.

Honestly, where did the woman get her energy? She had three kids for crying out loud!

"Yes, well now I have coworkers to avoid," she grumbled, and her mother glanced at her.

"It wasn't that bad," the matriarch worried her lip.

"One groped Sasuke, One asked Itachi on a date, and the other propositioned me like I'm some common wench," Kagome spat as she stood by the front door, waiting for her mother to finish getting ready.

"Kabuto-kun asked you out?" Mikoto grinned delightedly as she skipped out the door.

"He asked me to his bed if that's what you mean," the younger female growled as she followed.

Mikoto ignored that bit of information.

VI

She was quietly contemplating the murder of a certain gray haired male when her worst nightmare walked into the hospital. Or, rather, was dragged into the hospital. By none other than two of his clan mates. One of whom happened to be Hana Inuzuka.

"I would treat him myself, but he was insistent on coming here," the woman huffed, kicking her clansman in the ankle as her brother helped him to a gurney.

"Because you would just as likely kill me!" the black haired male growled.

"Kouga, don't you have better things to do than antagonize your daughter?" Kagome murmured as she set about healing the lacerations on his abdomen.

"It was a dominance battle. Hana is just mad that he won. Like he's supposed to," Kiba rolled his eyes at his sister when she huffed.

"Hana-san, aren't you supposed to be on shift?" Kagome said sharply, and the female straightened quickly.

"Ah, yes!"

Kagome saw the female dart out the door from the corner of her eye, and looked at Kouga seriously.

"Aren't you supposed to keep dominance battles gender-specific?" she demanded, and the male scratched his head nervously.

"Eh, well, erm...So how's my woman today?" he said, grinning while Kiba snorted.

"You have a wife, Kouga," Kagome said as she tapped a ready needle, before giving him a deadly look.

"Don't. Move." she commanded, and quickly did the injection while he listened.

"Oi, whad you gif meh dat fur?" the male slurred before falling onto the gurney.

"Thank you!" Kiba sighed in relief, and Kagome shrugged.

"It should knock him out long enough for another medic to heal him. Hopefully, I'll be off shift by the time he wakes," she commented, only to freeze as a brash voice came from the doorway.

"You really know how to knock 'em dead, wench!"

She glared at Kiba, who ducked his head.

"You could have told me he was following you guys," she hissed.

"Sorry, Kagome-san. You kind of got pulled into a family thing..."the younger male said quietly.

"Yeah, family thing as in Kouga wants me to marry his daughter and she didn't take too kindly to it! Says she already has a suitor," she whipped around to stare at Inuyasha as he walked into the room, and she let out a low growl.

"She has no such thing! She's free to marry you at any time!" she spat, and stomped out of the room.

"What's got her panties in a bunch?"