Author's Note: Originally written for LJ Comm Inuromp's Ayame + Ginta/Hakkaku prompt with 300 word limit. Took 2nd place.

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Catching her breath after her long run to the cave, Ayame stood at the entrance, gawking. Kouga's two staunchest followers were lying against a rock, stroking and petting each other, murmuring strange words that grew stranger by the second, as naked as the day they were whelped.

Ayame had come in haste to inform her princely love of a newly hatched plan. She had decided to challenge the miko to a duel for the right to be his mate—since the fool seemed unable to either win the raven-haired seductress or forget her. Ayame's skill in battle would catch and keep Kouga's eye, she felt certain. Especially when she knew how much he admired the curvy contours of the female ookami frame in action. Slender and lovely in her mortal way Kagome might be, but she could not match the flame-haired wolf's firm-muscled curves. Instead, she found that Kouga was away, and her sensitive ears and emerald eyes beheld such a sight as to crumble her bright dreams into dust.

"No, not like that," Hakkaku was scolding, his cock pressed into Ginta's thigh. "He calls him 'dogboy,' not 'muttface' when they're gonna fuck. You know that. Don't screw it up!"

Ginta grimaced. "I'm sorry. Can't we just go back to you being Kouga? You do it so much better than me. And you know I like being on the bottom…"

"Quit whining, Ginta! You always get to be Inuyasha. It's my turn. Now hurry up and call me names while you pull my hair and snarl and kiss me hard. Just like Kouga does it…"

Ayame could stand no more. She ground her teeth and cursed under her breath as she fled back to the forest. Damn that wolf. She clearly had a lot more thinking …and planning… to do.