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Chapter Five: Curse of the Brunch and Kenta's Departure

Kagome woke to the sounds of irritated yelling coming from down the hall. This was how she usually woke up most mornings. She flicked her black hanyou ears to better catch the voices of her boys.

"WAKE UP!" Kentamaru bellowed, his voice coming from Canis's bedroom she could tell. Yawning and stretching she sat up and automatically looked to her side. Inuyasha was gone. Shrugging offhandedly, knowing he was bound to be in the middle of all the trouble going on down the hall, she stepped out of bed and began to dress. She cringed slightly at the loud noise so early in the morning but smiled as another harsh cry penetrated the stonewalls.

"Wake up you pathetic excuse for a hanyou!"

Kagome slid open her door and proceeded down the hallway lit only by the sun shining in through the windows. This was a private hallway, her and Inuyasha's room was located at the end, directly across from a spiral staircase leading to the castles tallest turret. Further down the hall was Canis's room and close by it Kentamaru's. At the beginning of the hallway, on either side of the entrance were Kei and Harusan's personal quarters.

Her ears and her nose led her to Canis's door where some very awkward shadows were being cast on the door.

Smiling as she lid open the door and leaned against the frame, arms folded gently over her chest. Inuyasha and Kentamaru were standing on Canis's bed. Inuyasha wore his red pants and his white undershirt hung open and un-tucked exposing his chest. Kentamaru was fully clothed in his black short sleeved vest haori but truth be told his state of dress was very similar to his fathers state of undress.

Both of them had Canis hanging upside down, each holding onto an ankle dangling the boy in the air.

"Come on you little brat get up," Kenta was urging as he shook his brother.

"Enough is enough now you're really starting to piss me off," Inuyasha agreed as he and Kentamaru hoisted Canis even higher. Canis' mouth hung open and he was drooling ever so slightly as his arms hung down on either side of his head.

"What are you boys doing?" Kagome asked finally deciding to make her presence known, pushing off the doorframe and stepping further into the room.

Inuyasha and Kenta both looked at her and she noticed a little twitch in Canis' ear. Listening to his breathing patterns and heartbeat even she could tell her son was awake. Which mean that Inuyasha and Kentamaru knew that as well.

Kenta and Inuyasha reached down to grab one of Canis' wrists and hoisted him up again by both his ankles and wrists and started swinging him.

"Stubborn ass," Inuyasha muttered under his breath and then nodded toward Kagome. "Oi wench how about giving us a hand?" Kagome frowned a bit but catching the smirks on Inuyasha and Kenta's faces she understood and grinned slyly.

"Sure," she smiled. Inuyasha and Kenta both flipped Canis over so he was suspended in the air looking down at his mattress.

"Last chance kid," Inuyasha offered giving his son one last little shake.

"Wake now or forever hold you peace," Kenta remarked rather cheekily, and Inuyasha glowered at him for the cheesy remark. Canis' retort was a very loud and very fake snore.

"Suit yourself," Kagome said smiling as she stepped right up to the foot of the bed. She leaned in close towards Canis, so close in fact that her breath tickled his ears. Cautiously Canis peeked open one eye and winced when he saw his mother right in his face.

"Canis…" she said gently and he shut his eyes tightly and clenched his teeth preparing himself for the inevitable. "Osuwari!"

Inuyasha and Kenta let go as Canis's necklace activated pulling the five-year-old down onto his mattress. They both folded their arms over their chests satisfied smirks on their faces,

Canis fought to sit up and extricate himself from his sheets. When he finally managed to free himself his little face was red with either embarrassment or anger…or possibly a mixture of both.

"Hey that's not fair!" he pouted lower lip protruding ears drooping and eyes growing large and innocent. Kenta clenched his fist but Inuyasha smirked proud at his youngest offspring for mastering the puppy dog look that never ceased to break Kagome's resolve and will.

It was working flawlessly; her features were softening before their very eyes. Ever so slowly she smiled.

"You're right," she said ruffling her son's hair. "It was all three of you together that woke me up this morning." She mused tapping her chin thoughtfully. Inuyasha unfolded his arms to stare bewildered at Kagome as the smirk faded quickly from his face. Kagome flashed a crooked smile back at him before straightening herself to her full height.

"Osuwari," Kagome said the word of subjugation that sent all three of her hanyou's crashing down in a tangle of limbs onto the mattress, There was cursing coming from Inuyasha, death threats and the like issuing from Kentamaru and whimpering from what was undeniably Canis. There was a loud crack and the bed frame broke, entangling the trio even more with the sheets and pillows.

"Oh my. We're going to have to get that fixed right away or else Canis will have nowhere to sleep," she paused here as if remembering something. "That's right you boys are leaving today aren't you?" her face fell sadly a bit at this. Then in the span of a second her eyes brightened suddenly and she clapped her hands together. "I've got to do something special before you go…"

Inuyasha immediately tensed up on the remains of the bed; effectively ruining any attempts the boys were making at trying to escape their current predicament.

"I know I'll cook! I'll make a big farewell brunch!" and with that she hurried off excitedly without so much as a backwards glance at her family.

At last the father and two sons managed to sit up. They were all staring at the door.

"Papa," Canis asked in the curious but purely innocent way all five year olds did. "What's brunch?" and he punctuated this one word with more disgust than one would think capable of a five-year old but not however…of Inuyasha's son.

Inuyasha was dumbfounded still staring at the door after Kagome's hasty retreat. "Keh, I got no fucking clue," he caught Canis's wide eyes staring up at him. "But uh whatever it is…it aint good." He promised.

Since the castle had cooks, and servants specified to do just about every conceivable task under the sun, Kagome's unique culinary skills were rarely needed, and even more rarely were they wanted. Though on occasions she deemed 'special' she would work with the cooks to prepare a meal for her family. And while her senses were overwhelmed in the castle kitchen, Inuyasha would take his sons into the forest to feed on wild fire-roasted game.

"Sounds nasty," Canis remarked wrinkling his nose and sticking his tongue out in disgust. "I'd rather eat dirt," he stated disdainfully.

Now they all sat on the remains of Canis's bed cross-legged in a circle facing one another. Canis was practicing his disgusted faces with added sound effects as he pretended to wretch all over Kenta. Kenta reached over and knock him upside the head.

"You're spitting on my pants baka." He stated matter-of-factly, trying to act more mature for once. Canis's reaction was to stick his tongue out and blow a raspberry sending even more spittle flying onto Kenta's hakama.

"Nice Canis, real mature," Kenta remarked folding his arms over his chest and closing his eyes against the annoying faces his brother was making at him. This helped only slightly to ease the pressing urge to throttle the boy he called 'brother'. Suddenly he was almost knocked over onto said brother by a sudden blow from the side.

"What the hell was that for?" he yelled loudly rubbing the side of his head where he was sure a large goose egg was probably forming. Inuyasha still had his hand extended not even bothering to hide the fact that he had just severely whopped his eldest son in the head.

"This is all your fault!" Inuyasha informed him.

"Its my fault mom cant cook worth shit?" Kenta asked his father incredulously. He could barely believe the words coming out of Inuyasha's mouth.

"Yes it is."

"You want to explain that one a little better old man?" Kenta asked rudely clearly pissed off narrowing his eyes at his father. Inuyasha snorted and gave a non-committal shrug of his shoulders.

"It's your fault cause I said it's your fault. How's that for an explanation?" he barked and stood abruptly. He was still in a state of relative undress and didn't look very threatening at all. Meanwhile Canis sat and watched the exchange with high amusement, elbows proper on his knees and resting his chin in his hands, grinning like a madman.

Kenta rolled his eyes and digressed that it was futile to argue. To him it wasn't fair that his parents got to end arguments by saying things like 'because I said so' or 'because I'm the Tai-fucking-youkai!' It shouldn't be allowed, and he vowed that once he was Tai-youkai any parent who tried to pull that shit on their child would have their head neatly sliced off.

"Canis hurry up and get dressed. Kenta go wake up Harusan and Kei and give them the warning that your mother is cooking." Inuyasha told his sons as he tucked in his undershirt. He paused for a second. "On second thought…."

"Only warn Kei. I want Harusan to eat it."

Kentamaru didn't even bother to knock on Kei's door. He already knew he was awake, could sense his youki energy moving about the room. Carefully sliding the door shut behind him he looked over to find the bronze inu youkai strapping on his armor. He didn't expect Kei to even glance at him to acknowledge his presence. As such it would be unlike him. Once he finished strapping on his spiked shoulder strap he grabbed his kwan-dao from the wall and swung it into place on his back.

Kentamaru stood by the door. "My mother is cooking. Brunch, or some shit like that." He said after a little while when the silence had grown unbearable. He thought he might have heard a soft laugh come from his brother's retainer but it must have been imagination. The Kei he knew simply did not laugh.

"What is brunch?" Kei asked quirking an eyebrow at Kenta. There was no humor in his voice or hint of a smile on his face. Kei seemed generally pissed off and Kenta couldn't possibly fathom as to why. Then again…he always seemed pissed off.

"Hell if I know," Kenta answered trying to keep his face and voice as expressionless as Kei's. This seemed to irritate Kei, who scoffed lightly and turned away to study his bedspread as if it were the most fascinating thing on the planet. "I just came here to warn you."

The corner of Kei's mouth twitched and it didn't show on his face, but rather there was an almost imperceptible shift in his youki as he softened ever so slightly. Kei began to straighten his fascinating bedspread. Kenta pondered telling him a servant would gladly do it for him, that in fact there was a maid who was specifically hired to make beds and that was all she did day-in day-out and that her name was Yumi and that her life's goal was to make beds. He soon thought better of it figuring that one; there would be no stopping Kei anyway and two… he really didn't want Kei to kill him...or Yumi.

So Kenta stood in awkward silence as Kei made his bed. . His back was turned and Kenta stared at the glistening silver and bronze blade of Kei's kwan-dao. Weapons always captured the young hanyou's attention, always got him daydreaming for one of his own; like the gleaming enigmatic blade that hung over the mantle in the Great Room…so tantalizing and mysterious with its unknowable powers.

"So what's the occasion?" Kei's deep voice woke Kenta from his daydream. Kei was staring intently at him from across the room. His bronze bangs fell in his face, making his silver eyes seem to shine brighter and slightly more menacing.

"I'm leaving for training with Canis. To pick up a package for my father." Kenta informed him, Kei swung his kwan-dao from his back and was inspecting its edges with his claws.

"Your father mentioned that," Kei said without lifting his gaze from the silver blade of his kwan-dao. "You'll be traveling south," Kei's deep monotone voice made it hard to determine just what he meant by that.

"That's right…" Kenta said slowly raising an eyebrow. He really didn't see what significance to Kei there was in the compass direction he would be going. "So…" he mocked after an uneasy silence. Kei finally looked him in the eye, tearing his gaze away from his weapon and the intensity behind the silver gaze was staggering.

"Are you aware of what is going on in the south right now?" Kei growled lowly his claws scraping against the blade of his kwan-dao in a way that made Kenta cringe and flatten his ears. Kentamaru only recoiled for a moment before he was filled with anger.

"Of course I do!" he growled back and could barely suppress the snarl that rose in his throat. Kei wasn't at all fazed by Kenta's minimal display of anger. He simply stood and strode over to him, stopping only when the spikes on his armor brushed Kenta's haori. Something else shone in Kei's hard silver gaze as he glared down at the young hanyou. Even though he generally seemed pissed off right now Kei was scaring Kentamaru for he had no idea what Kei was thinking nor what the stoic bronze youkai was truly capable of.

"Things aren't as friendly in the south as your father would have you believe." Kei warned darkly, his deep voice resonating in Kentamaru's ears. For a brief moment Kentamaru wavered on his feet. "Tochio wants this alliance to protect himself. He could care less about youkai and human relations. He is a selfish yet wise man,"

Kentamaru scoffed. "What of it, he called a truce. He can't do anything so he is perfectly safe."

"He is not what you need to worry about. Kentamaru…you cannot tell anyone who you are while you are outside the castle compound." Kei said gravely.

"Keh," Kenta shrugged off the warning as if it meant nothing and Kei's eyes flashed in anger. "There's a truce. It's not like I'd be walking into a war zone."

"That's what you think. A truce means nothing. You'd be walking straight into extremely hostile territory." Kei told him bitterly. "You should even be wary of human villages. Tochio is their daimyo and I highly doubt that with the threat of war with the Southern taiyoukai, they'll welcome you, a hanyou, with open arms."

"I'll just tell them who I am. They'll be glad to have me." Kenta told him smartly, a cocky grin plastered on his face.

"You can't do that. The demons in the south that are under your father's rule are out of control and completely without order."

"Aren't they always?" Kenta quipped lightly with a roll of his eyes. Kei bared his teeth and continued.

"Not like this. Right know they do not know whether to help Tochio or help Kaleb. They don't know what to do and are out of control,"

"So what? All I have to do is waltz down there and say my name and they'll back down." Kenta pointed out as he began fiddling with the silver ring on his left index finger.

Kei shook his head, his bronze bangs falling into his face. He sucked in his breath as he tried to regain the composure he rarely ever lost. He seemed completely exasperated with Kenta, which was surprising he was Canis's retainer and always seemed patient with him. And Canis was a hyperactive little demon. 'Either he doesn't like me…or this whole situation is eating him up for some reason.' Kenta mused in his head but held his tongue as Kei started to speak.

"The demons down there…they like this disorder and all this chaos but if there is one thing they like even more…it's war." Silver eyes met gold and the sudden realization of Kei's words hit Kentamaru like a slap in the face.

"They'll kill me…" he gawked suddenly feelings breathless. "Without me the truce is nothing and the humans will go to war with the South. They'll kill me to end the truce and start a war…" 'Am I the only thing holding things together?'

Kei nodded his head. "Now you're catching on," and there was no amusement in his voice or face.

"What about Canis?" Kenta asked his voice cracking.

"You're going to have to make him understand." Kei said and suddenly brushed by Kenta heading for the door. Kenta remained still staring ahead as if transfixed. Kei looked back over his shoulder. "Let's go my lord." Kei called the change back into his stolid formal self. Kei's widened in alarm when he noticed Kentamaru was shaking. "Kentamaru?"

"How am I supposed to do all this?" the boy growled suddenly, clenching his fists and closing his eyes as his head swam with all these duties, all this information everyone just expected him to deal with. Deciding between the two girls, picking his mate, ending his training, which was turning out to a pretty life-threatening journey, keeping Canis alive while keeping his name and heritage a secret. He turned his head slightly his black ears drooping. "What happens if I fail?"

Kei was silent for what seemed like an eternity. Anyone else would have assured him he was being ridiculous. If it was Harusan he would say something along the lines of 'there's no way you could fail just look at your handsome retainer'. But not Kei.

"I don't know" was all he admitted in that unbearably bored tone of his and he left the room. Kenta hung his head trying to clear his head. He smiled bitterly to himself for even turning to Kei for a confidence booster. He looked at the rings on his left hand and reached over to touch them. Somehow they always gave him strength. He resisted the urge to take them off.

He lifted his head to look at the bright blue sky through Kei's window. "Failure's not an option," he warned himself then smirked.

"It's barely even a possibility."

Inuyasha, Kenta, Canis and Harusan stared down at their plates with nervous half smiles on their faces. Kagome sat at the head of the table, her hands folded primly before her. Even though all of the boys had eaten that morning in the forest, they were all still hesitant to get up and try Kagome's latest cooking concoction.

"What are you boys waiting for?" she asked sweetly and all heads snapped up. In unison they picked up their chopsticks but were still reluctant to begin eating, each not wanting to have to be the first to taste it. Whatever it was anyway. All eyes turned to Inuyasha, their lord and sovereign for help.

Inuyasha sat opposite Kagome and was trying his best to hide the fact he already ate from her. Which was a hard thing to do when your mate was staring you down, smiling at you as if she already knows that you are a dirty lying scumbag.

Inuyasha gulped then quirked an eyebrow at Kagome. "Why aren't you eating?" he asked suspiciously.

Kagome smiled and shrugged offhandedly. "I ate some of while I cooked. I'd rather watch my family eat." She replied sweetly. Inuyasha eyed her trying to scour her face for any hint of dishonesty. There was none and with a grimace he turned his head to the right.

Canis was stabbing angrily into the food, if you could even call it food, with his chopsticks baring his teeth at it and growling softly. Kenta pushed his bowl away. Kagome looked at him suddenly worried.

"Kenta why aren't you eating?" she asked trying to sound stern to cover the worry on her voice. He looked up at her and quickly averted his eyes, instead of meeting her probing gaze he stared into his bowl of…brunch. It bubbled and gurgled unpleasantly and his already full stomach turned at the site of it. He remained quiet unable to think of a plausible excuse. He could feel all eyes on him now and that made him feel worse.

His fathers voice saved him. "Nerves Kagome. Give the kid a break." Kenta turned his head to see his father, head held high nose in the air as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Inuyasha caught his son's gaze through the corner of his eye and smirked quickly.

That only seemed to make Kenta feel worse. Inuyasha gave him an excuse, saved him…. but didn't realize it was true. That his son was nervous, scared, weak. Gloomily he looked around the room.

Harusan was gorging himself on everyone else's meal, swallowing without even tasting it, which was probably a good thing. His stomach would probably regret it later.

Harusan snatched Kei's bowl from his hands. One would think Kei's face would have shone relief but as usual his face was black and void of any emotion.

He looked across the table to see Canis grinning at him, that cheesy little five-year-old grin, as his ears twitched around excitedly. Canis slammed his palms down on the table.

"Are you ready to go Kenta?" he asked staring down his older brother with golden-eyed intensity. Still unable to form words Kenta gave an almost imperceptible nod of hid head. He stood up slowly and Canis followed suit. Everyone else remained seated.

"Kenta go change your shirt." Kagome scolded lightly and sniffled back tears.

"Why?" Kenta asked rolling his eyes at his mother's antics.

"Just do what your mother says," she sniffled again and Harusan reached over and patted her on the back. Inuyasha snarled at Harusan who immediately retracted his hand, but a smile on his face nonetheless.

"Do it," Inuyasha growled suddenly. Kentamaru met his father's eyes and immediately understood. If it would make Kagome happy, Inuyasha would see to it that it was done. And with his mother close to tears, he would see to it that it was…NOW.

He nodded curtly and headed for the window, where he could easily jump to his own balcony. Canis ran alongside him out into the green grounds. Kagomes voice drifted out the window after them.

"I wish you guys would learn to use doors."

"Keh," came Inuyasha's famous growl.

Kentamaru walked the few feet to his balcony and bent his knees to jump when he remembered Canis was with him. He looked down at his younger brother and extended his arm. Canis latched on with both hands and smirked at the routine he knew was coming.

With all his strength Kenta flung Canis up to the balcony where Canis floated down and landed gracefully on the ledge. They'd perfected the art over time, since Canis couldn't jump very high yet Kenta was prone to throwing Canis to get where they needed to be.

"Nice one," Kenta congratulated before he leapt up onto the balcony beside him. Canis hopped down. "Go get your bow and all the arrows you can carry with you." Kenta told him, stepping off the ledge of the balcony next to him. He swatted the back of Canis's head playfully. "Hurry it up we aint got all day." And Canis scurried off.

Kentamaru strode into the room shrugging off his haori and flinging into the corner in one swift motion. Idly scratching his bare chest he made his way to the closet. Drawing back the tapestry he reached into the closet and yanked out a random haori. Holding it up for his inspection he found it was a black haori like the kind his father wore.

He threw it behind him where it landed in a heap on his bed. He rummaged through his closet, scattering and discarding black haori's that flew through the air and landed in heaps all around the room.

Finally he found the one he was looking for. Slipping on the full-sleeved vest haori in one fluid movement. Every move he made exuded grace and status. How was he supposed to hide that out in the wild?

Crossing the room, ignoring the mess of scattered haori's around it he stopped when he reached his desk. Grabbing his wooden swords off the desk he stuffed them into his waistband.

He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and remembered the dream he'd had a few days ago, the talking reflection with two different faces. Was it really only a couple nights ago? Only a few days ago he'd been chasing Harusan and Canis through the trees, blissfully unaware and unaffected by the politics in the south. Now he was smack dab in the middle of it all, the only thing holding an uneasy peace together.

"Whoa!" Canis exclaimed skidding to a halt in the middle of the room. His bow was slung over his shoulder and a quiver full of arrows in his hand. By the look on his face as his wide eyes surveyed his brother's room he was talking about the mess Kenta had made. "Mom's going to kill you," he said breathlessly.

Kenta walked over to him, heading for the door. "Keh, its not my problem we'll be gone a while. By the time we get back she'll have forgotten all about it," Kenta shrugged. "Now c'mon lets go." And together they walked down the hall together.

"How long will we be gone?" Canis asked, unable to contain the excitement and curiosity he felt.

"I don't know,"

"Where are we going?"

"…I don't know."

"Will there be evil demons to kill?" Canis growled playfully. Kenta looked down at him cautiously. Canis was wide-eyed and daydreaming as he walked. He didn't think he'd ever seen him so excited before in his entire life.

Hell yes there will be. "I don't know," Kenta told him for the third time. They reached the foyer right in front of the great room and at the top of the staircase.

Inuyasha was leaning against the door, arms folded over his chest, a hard expression on his face as if he was brooding.

'He should be brooding," Kenta thought to himself miserably. 'Knowing what he's sending his sons into'

Or it could have been Kagome leaning heavily on his shoulder sniffling and blowing her nose in a handkerchief that was causing Inuyasha to act so surly. He rolled his eyes at him mate before turning to his sons. He looked Kentamaru up and down without a word pushed off the wall and none too gently ripped Kenta's swords from his waistband and snapped them in half as if they were no more than toothpicks. He threw the shattered remains to the side.

"What the fuc-"

"You wont be needing those anymore," Inuyasha stated brushing his hands off, a rather smug look on his face. Kenta narrowed his eyes at his father.

"So where exactly am I supposed to be going with no weapons?" he asked rudely. Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

"To go see Totosai," he said simply as if the name meant nothing to him. Kenta's jaw virtually hit the floor while Kagome helped Canis strap the quiver of arrows to his back.

"THE Totosai?" Kenta gawked completely awed and amazed, the implications of what his father said had yet to totally sink in.

"Keh that stupid ol codger aint nothing special." Inuyasha snorted disdainfully. "That old fart never sits still for long. It's his fault your training didn't end sooner. Fucking idiot had to finish."

Kentamaru was absolutely speechless as this new information started to sink in, but his brain was putting everything together mighty slowly…

No more swords…broken…pick up package…Totosai…Totosai…THE Totosai…sword maker…no more swords…package…sword…package…Kentamaru…meatballs…brunch…Totosai…

"You're going on a journey, to see Totosai. The master and legendary swordsmith. To pick up a 'package'" The message was suddenly clear now.

Kenta blinked out of his thoughts to find his whole family staring at him strangely.

"The pressure is getting to him." Canis observed trying to sound smart. Kagome had to bite back a laugh and Inuyasha snorted awkwardly and grinned.

"Anyway he don't stay put for long so you had better haul ass finding him Kenta." Inuyasha said, his voice strangely choked and hoarse. He motioned with his head to the door. Kagome rushed forward to embrace the boys in an iron tight hug.

"My baby boys," she breathed and hugged them even tighter.

Now it wasn't that he didn't love his mother, or that her touch embarrassed him to no end, it was just that being squashed into a woman's armpit, in an era where deodorant was literally nonexistent wasn't exactly his cup of tea and he sorely needed air to breathe.

Once again Inuyasha came to the rescue. "Knock it off Kagome," he snorted and Kagome eased off them only to turn around and slug Inuyasha in the arm.

"Ass," she murmured. The boys turned to their father. Inuyasha gulped hard and folded his arms in his sleeve.

"They'll be fine." He said to Kagome and then turned an embarrassed and uneasy gaze onto his sons. "You'll be fine." He said directly to them, looking each of them in the eyes. The boys took it for what it was and Kenta was suddenly reminded of what his mother often said about his father when he wasn't around.

"The man has a way with words," she would utter sarcastically. The truth of that simple statement made him smile, and suddenly he was ready to leave and strike out on his own.

"Let's go Canis," he called thickly to his brother. Canis made a noise, halfway between a whimper and a bark but turned to follow Kenta as he made his way for the grand front doors of the castle. They walked in silence along the green grounds, ignoring the eager waves and called farewells of the staff outdoors.

At the edge of the forest they paused, backs tight and equally tense.

"We're on our own now." Kenta stated nervously.

"Yup," Canis said, his voice shaking slightly.

"You trust me?" Kenta asked honestly looking down at Canis. Canis looked up his lower lip protruding in a pout. Before his eyes Canis relaxed as he remembered that his brother would never let anything harm him. The fear left his face and he nodded. Kenta smiled weakly.

"Good," and they stepped over the boundary into the woods, officially on their own.

Im sorry. Im sorry. Im sorry. Im sorry. Im sorry. Did I mention that I was sorry?

I am sorry it took so long to get this chapter to you. Last time I updated was in the middle of summer. I am so ashamed of myself but lets take a look at my school schedule shall we.

Math
Civics
History
Science

Suffice to say that all that added up with sports makes me a very busy lady. I have not and will NEVER abandon this story. Trust me I know what happens in the end and it is FAR TOO GOOD to abandon and leave all my buddies here hanging.

WingsOfAsh: That's not such a hard schedule but then again, I don't know your teachers! Oh wait, I take that back. I just realized you have math and science in the same semester. But great chapter as always. P.S. I though you said the mystery as to why Kentamaru's ear is bent would be answered in this chapter!

BetaraiL: Wings is silly. The question has already been answered. GOSH. But I liked this chapter. It took a long time to get out. So for all of you who have been waiting.Be sure to review and tell her to hurry up with the next chapter. She needs a little MOTIVATION.

I would also like to add that my two betas here have written a one-shot. Together. An amazing little story with each beta taking a different perspective of the story. Inuyasha's point of view(by: BetaraiL) and Kagome's point of view(by: Wings of Ash). You can find each perspective of the story on their own individual accounts. I'd recommend you start with Wings of Ash's point of view since it was her idea in the first place and be sure to review each!

Okay well, once again I am sorry and I will try to write a little quicker for you guys but just so you know I will not ever abandon this. So no fear. Now you may all yell at me for my lateness, comment on the many crazy aspects of this twisted plot(which has only just begun to get tangled) or you can answer my wacky survey question.

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