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The Wolf's Entrance

"BRETHREN!!" Koga howled. He stood before his newly-formed clan, his powerful voice echoing off the towering rock walls of their water cave. "The time has come! Today, we take Kagome and her Shikon Jewel as our own! We must, before that stupid mutt makes a wish on it! Once we do so, our pack will be unstoppable, and we will avenge our fallen kin by slaughtering the demon Naraku!"

The entire area shook with their battle-ready howls. They were almost loud enough to be heard through the winding valleys, but alas, the Inu-Yasha party was left to enjoy their early morning in peace.

Well, for the most part at least...

"WHERE IS SHE!"

"Who?" Sango asked the frantically searching Inu-Yasha, who was sniffing the grass blades which dripped morning dew. Apparently, the water diluted the already weak scent he was looking for.

"ARGGGHH! Kagome, where are you!"

Reiki turned over in her sleeping bag, and with a yawn said, "she went with Hikari." Hikari had returned way early that morning, having gotten herself lost at night, and requested that Kagome escort her to the village.

"WHAT! Where did they go!" He was off with the point of a finger. As he jumped over the woods, Hikari and Kagome walked out.

"Reiki!" Hikari yelled happily, diving into her friend with open arms and sending her flying out of the sleeping bag to go tumbling in the cold wet grass. Hikari, landing on top, continued enthusiastically, "I figured it out!" With that she stood and began to drag her shivering friend off. "Come over here and listen to my diabolical plan! IT'S PERFECT!!"

"They're kinda weird," Shippo commented as they disappeared, Reiki doing a coal dance on the across the ground and rubbing her arms vigorously.

"Hey now, Shippo, don't be ru-… Um, where did you get all that bubble gum?" Kagome inquired, taken aback.

"Reiki gave it to me!" he announced with a very pink and gooey grin. "This stuff lasts forever! WAY better than those sweet brown bricks you bring."

"WHAT!" Kagome demanded, insulted. Here she had been indulging this little fox demon for months, and now after just one day - one day! - he favored Reiki! Then again, he WAS a fox, so maybe he was tricking her into bringing better things? Well, two could play at that game. "Humph! Fine then, I won't bring you anything else!"

"TIME TO EAT !" Reiki called out to everyone.

"Huh?" Kagome gasped as a large red and white blur darted past her from the woods. She was so shocked that her hair suddenly became messy. That was HER line! Following everyone else, she saw that Inu-Yasha had returned immediately and was seated for the meal.

"Hey, have any of those face-less octopus?" Shippo asked eagerly, sitting on the picnic blanket (stolen from Kagome's bike, which also had his gigantic wad of gum stuck to it for later. It kinda matched, in a very overgrowth looking way...)

"Yep! Just because I know you love them! Also, Inu-Yasha, I brought eighteen ramen and two thermos' of already heated water, and sorry to say Sango and Miroku, but I have no idea what you like so I packed a bit of everything and some sake and rice balls!"

"Reiki, let's eat already!" Hikari whined, fork at the ready (oh so American). "I told you I wanted to talk about this over a meal, but you didn't have to invite everyone ELSE!"

"Alright!!" Inu-Yasha yelled, clapping and rubbing his clawed hands, "Lets eat then! Hey Reiki, get that ramen ready, will ya?!"

"… What?" she growled. All there was to do was pour the water…

"Careful there," Hikari warned. "Reiki's mean in her own little ways..."

Ignoring the warning, he continued to explain his instructions. "You know, get me my food! What are ya, deaf? … Hey, why are you packing it up?! Hey, STOP THAT!"

"You can't have any," Reiki huffed, stuffing away the last thing of ramen. Very weird that eighteen ramen could fit in that little backpack... "You can watch us eat instead."

"But…!!" When he realized that he was on the verge of sucking up he crossed his arms, turned away, and scoffed. "Fine then, I don't need that noodle junk!"

Hikari and Reiki chuckled knowingly, and three hours later, they still found it funny...

"Wow, that was great!" Sango sighed as they continued to walk for Naraku's last castle, remembering the food.

"Yes," Miroku agreed, "I believe my appetite will be sedated for hours yet!"

"Come on, Reiki!! Please, just ONE BITE!!" Inu-Yasha howled, scampering after them. Reiki had added water to some of the ramen containers, and, for him, the aroma was murderous.

"I have ramen too, Inu-Yasha!" Kagome smiled, whipping some out like a show hostess.

"… REIKI!!!" he cried, chasing after her with arms flung wide open.

"Inu-Yasha you're such a bastard!!" Kagome yelled, and she chucked it at his head. Turned out she only had a container of ramen, and Inu-Yasha got clobbered with the rock inside of it.

That night spent with Reiki and Hikari was certainly one of the most interesting they had ever had. One of the most interesting things (after the girls finally fell asleep at 2 am, allowing the rest to do so) was that Inu-Yasha's stomach roared all night long, demanding food. It was especially for Kagome though, because she was planning the unthinkable (for her that is). She was planning the assassination of Reiki… Well, after a long while she was dreaming this, since no one in their right of mind would be up at that ungodly hour of the morning… …

"So, what color is it?" Reiki asked with interest, recalling her friend's visit to the village. The sun wasn't even tinting the sky, so she needed their flashlight to be able to see, having run out of that day's portion of fire-fuel.

Hikari smiled evilly and slowly pulled out the collar she was going to place on Sesshomaru. "Isn't it pretty??" she asked excitedly as she stroked the blood-red beads and fangs of the collar.

"What's the command going to be?" Reiki questioned. Kagome, still asleep, covered her ears whereas Miroku's seemed to grow.

Hikari tapped a finger against her chin as she thought about it. "I'll probably have to do something to the equivalent of 'heel boy.' Do you have any ideas?"

"I thought that you would have done something like 'come' but 'heel' is good too," Reiki replied, turning off the flashlight and thinking. "Yes, 'heel'. Nice and demeaning... Hey, don't you think we're… uh, missing someone?"

"Yeah, if only Sessy-poo would stay put!! …Oh! That's a good command…"

"No," Reiki interrupted, thumping her feet with annoyance from where she lay on her stomach in her sleeping bag next to her friend. "Someone we haven't met yet… I know we have to hunt down Naraku and his minions, but…"

"What? You hate him too?" Inu-Yasha asked with arms crossed. He was the watch owl yet again, but had only just returned from somewhere. Again he leaped for a tree branch. For being half dog, he sure does like trees…

"Oh, hell no! We love him!!" Hikari exclaimed, and Reiki nodded with a grin. Inu-Yasha, stunned, undershot his target and got smacked in the gut by the stiff wood before flipping over the branch falling into the bushes below.

"WHAT!" he yelled, bursting out, sticks and bramble in his hair. "How is that even possible?"

He was suddenly silenced when Miroku flung his monks staff onto the top of his head, flattening it slightly. Inu-Yasha turned to give him a 'sketchy' and ticked off look.

"Silence yourself," Miroku 'requested' groggily, still half-asleep.

"… Why you!"

"Inu-Yasha…" Kagome yawned, rolling over. "Sit boy."

Inu-Yasha growled to himself with his face planted yet again as the two fell back asleep. He eventually tuned in on the two foreigner's conversation.

"…he he, it's all in the mini-skirt…" Hikari purred with a devilish sigh.

"Oh, I love his personality though," Reiki pitched in, "and his body. Forget the mini-skirt and everything else, I want him in his birthday suit!"

"WHAT?!?" This time it was Kagome, bolting upright and sending Shippo flying from her chest where he had been asleep. As everyone else was startled awake, Inu-Yasha just threw her a look. He had no idea what the two horny fan-girls meant, and Kagome promptly delivered an exclaimed explanation. "You actually want to see Koga naked?!?"

"Ah, nudity," Miroku sighed, still barely awake, "what a wonderful day to be alive." At this he reached over and patted Sango's chest.

"N-naked?" Inu-Yasha asked blankly over an echoing smack. "Y… You want to see Koga… naked ?!?"

They nodded, eagerly.

"A ha… A-HAHAHAHAHAHA !" Inu-Yasha bellowed, falling down again, "BUWAHAHAHA-AHAHA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA-AHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!"

"Rolling over onto your back already for me, insolent pup?"

"IT'S KOGA" the girls shrieked with ear-piercing enthusiasm. He just appeared over the horizon, looking glorious in the wind and rising sun with his new clan backing him up.

After the scream, everyone was busy checking their ears for blood, save for Koga who would have if he weren't suddenly tackled and pinned down by the frantic fan-girls.

"Nudie time!!" Hikari yelled.

"HUH-? H-hey! What are you…!" Koga began as they rolled down behind the hill and out of sight. His pack just gawked. Their splendid entrance was ruined.

A piece of fabric came fluttering in the gusts and, curiously, Kagome caught it.

"What could this b-… !" she blanched when she realized it was Koga's mini-skirt.

"Wow… This could get ugly," Miroku commented, now fully awake and still bearing the pink mark of Sango's hand, and he inched up the hill to watch.

"Kagome, drop that!!" Inu-Yasha demanded. "You have no idea where that could have been!"

Irises shaking with shock, Kagome quickly clutched the fur. "Oh," she sighed, turning towards him, "yes I do…"

"WHAAAAAAAT!?!" Inu-Yasha cried, shivering with disgust. "K-Kagome, what the hell are you…!"

"Inu-Yasha…" she looked up at him with seductively glowing eyes and he gulped audibly. She was before him and placed a hand on his chest, feeling his heart racing. "Inu-Yasha… Will you…" She didn't really know how to continue.

"Wow, she's finally going to pop the question?" Sango whispered to herself, ignoring Koga's slaughter of dignity in the background in howls and hoots. Shippo watched through modestly placed fingers as Miroku clambered down the hill again.

"If Kagome can," Miroku told himself, clutching his priest's staff and looking Sango up and down out of the corner of his eye, "if she can, then I can. … For Sango's sake."

"Inu-Yasha," Kagome began anew, running a hand down his chest. "Will you…"

Miroku took Sango's hand into his own and looked her sincerely and sweetly in the eye. "Sango…" She blushed furiously.

Inu-Yasha couldn't move, paralyzed with shock and a little something more. He suddenly felt a softness placed in his hand.

"Will you bear my…"

"Inu-Yasha, will you put this on?!?"

Everyone turned to stone when they realized that Kagome had put Koga's mini-skirt in Inu-Yasha's hand.

(Two days later)

"Things sure have been quiet around here lately," Shippo commented, watching Kaede prepare some food.

"Aye," Kaede replied. "Too many events had transpired at one happening. Now, as a result, our monk and slayer have lapsed into silence, Kagome's talking to one's self will not cease, and Inu-Yasha has not yet surfaced from his state of shock."

"Nah, Inu-Yasha's getting better," Shippo said, looking in the corner. There stood the stone statue of their half-demon companion, absolute horror blanketing his face. "Ah… See? There, he just twitched… I think."

Kaede shook her head. "By the way, where have our young visitors wandered off to? I hear they were last seen going 'over the hill and through the woods', as Kagome stated while still sane."

(Over a hill and through some woods and one wolf's den later...)

"AGH! Not again! Haven't you women had enough!"

"No, don't run away Koga!" Hikari cried, hurrying after him through the lair in full nude. Reiki on the other hand was quite content with his two 'companions', Ginta (soft voiced and with gray and black hair) and Hakaku (raspy voiced with a spiked Mohawk), up on a ledge. The rest of the newly formed wolf clan, out of sheer humiliation, departed to beg acceptance to other, lowlier clans.

"WHOOOP WHOOOP!" Reiki cheered her friend on. "Yeah, you get him girl!"

"Ah, shouldn't we go and help him?" Ginta asked Hakaku over Reiki's back in his velvety voice as she happily watched the chase (which had been going on for roughly a day and a half).

"Hah! Are you kidding?" Hakaku responded with a nervous laugh. "I'm not going back into that! At least this one just likes to talk!" (Points with his thumb at Reiki)

"I disown you BOTH!" Koga yelled at them, making them flinch, as Hikari finally jumped his back, tackling him to the ground. There were claw furrows left everywhere in the stone cave as scars of his struggles.

(End of chapter!)

Reiki: "Aww…! Hardly any reviews! You see, I told you they didn't like you or your influence in this Hikari!"

Hikari gives Reiki a death stare.

Hikari: "This is OUR story, remember? The only audience you need is ME. ... I'll let that one slide, since you've given me this wonderful chapter as an apology!"

Hikari kisses Reiki on the cheek, and the later runs away screaming and scratching at her face.

Hikari: "Hey! Get back here and finish the story!"

Reiki: "It's the kiss of death, I just know it!"

Hikari: "Grrr… I'm gunna wring your neck if you don't stop that!"

Reiki: "GYEAAAH!!!"

Reiki's mom: "Will you two please quiet it down up there?!"

Reiki is silenced as Hikari chokes her.

Reiki's mom: "That's better…"