Kitty: I don't own him!

Chapter 11

Blood Exeptance...

After breakfast Katy wondered off for that bath. Unfortunately, Sango and Kagome had ideas among the same lines.

Kagome wasn't sure, but something was in the air. It was heavy and seemed to pull her down with it. What was going on? It wasn't, yet. No, it was. It had just started. What had just started.

Kagome shoot it off, in a 'no' sort of motion.

"Kagome?" Sango put a her hand on her best friend's shoulder.

"I'm fine... So? Are we going to take that bath, or not?" She said, looking up at Sango. Sh smiled brightly and walked into the woods.

Katy had already started off, somehow knowing where it was already.

Kagome and Sango arrived to find Katy already soaking. They soon joined her.

'Why is Inuyasha acting so weird?'Kagome thought, leaning against a rock.

"What has this era done to your hair?" Her cousins voice drew her out of her thoughts."I have just the thing for that."

"Ah...Hey, Katy-y," she whined as cold shampoo was dripped onto her hair. Katy started massaging the scalp and lathering it up into a soapy white peek."Hey..." she squashed it, sending suds everywhere.

A few hit Sango,"Not nice..."

Splash... Shipou joined them in a wet entrance, soaking Katy and Sango's once dry hair.

Both girls held their arms up in defense. Kagome dived under, rinsing her hair, and came up behind Shipou. She dunked him.

He got away and splashed her, hitting Sango.

She went for him, too.

Katy, on the other hand, slinked back against the rock. That rock? That was the same rock, the one from her dream.

Who was that guy? She remembered his bright golden eyes and how they seemed to sparkle with love, when they bore into her own emerald orbs. Those strong arms that held her, so tenderly. That lopsided, yet perfect fanged smile. The way he seemed to tower over her. She was just the right size to feel protected by his form.

She wished he was real. She wanted to feel protected, like that.

Not in the way of there is nothing to worry about, now I'm bored out of my mind from this safety loosing...grrrrr...sanity loosing safety. The kind that drives you insane from lack of excitement, the kind that makes you want to kill yourself because of the constant routine. Day in and day out, the same, exact, nothing EVER changing, thing... Always doing this, never doing that, because 'It's not 'safe'...' The sort of safe that keeps you unknowing. They say ignorance is bliss... IT ISN'T! THE KIND THAT...THAT...THAT...THAT...THAT...

Boom, and you explode, or wish you had.

No, she wanted that feeling of, 'there's the monster and here is my love, protecting me.' She wants the kind where he holds her and where HE is what keeps her safe. She wants to feel like she did last night, in that dream.

She hugged herself, leaning on the rock. She closed her eyes, trying to remember the dream, to relive it, but the sun was too bright and would not allow her to slink into her own world. The sun was nice, but Mother Moon was more considerate, when it came to the yearnings and needs of her children. She opened her eyes, looking down at the water. A tear slipped passed her eyes and she immediately shut them, trying to hold back her tears.

Kagome stopped splashing long enough to realize something was terribly wrong with her cousin. Was,she crying? Why? Does she feel left out? Probably not. She was always a loner. Kagome knew, full well, what Katy learned long ago. That people like her are alone, destined for great things, but meant to do so alone, always alone. Always having people in your heart and having the occasional help, but always suffering alone. Suffering, but trying to hud eit from others, because she couldn't handle being the weak one. She was the one eveyone went to for help and thought she could handle anything. She could, but that's because she repressed her own feeling and problems, never wanting more, than to love and protect, getting her happieness from the joys she gives others. Suffering so they maynot and thinking it was eniugh. She had her own wants and wishes, but put them aside for those of others and not caring, because they were happy.

It seemed to be one of her, 'hide my pain, maybe they won't notice,' times, but Kagome always noticed.She broke away from they water fest and made her way to Katy. She spoke softly, but distinct,"Katy?" She reached out a hand, slowly, and lovingly whiped away a stray tear."Whst's up? Uh?"

"Nothing, I..."She tried to cover...

"Katy, you can tell me." Kagome reasured her.

"Do you ever," She swallowed, "Feel like you love someone that's just beyoned your reach? Wan't him and feel him, yet when you go to touch him, he fades?" She continnued to look at the water, untill she smelled tears and heard light sniffles that almost seemed to drown out the noise coming from the splashong duo. She looked up finding her cousin was also in tears.

"Why do you always seem to understand how I feel, even when i don't?"

"How, you feel?" She thought of Inuyasha. 'If that hound has done anything to hurt her, I swear I'll...Perfume...Tail...conect the dots...'

They were soon dressed and on their way.

"Inuyeshs, whst'd wrong?"Shipou asked, suprisingly concerned over his older companion.

He sniffed at the air aagain."Hmmnph, Whimpy wolf, What does he want?"

"Chill, Inu-kuro. I'm not here to see you." Said Koga as he arrived and went dtrait for Kagome."I'm here for my woman."

Katy cocked and eyebrow, 'HIS woman? This shold be intersting.'

He took Kagome's hands in his and looked lovingly into her eyes."Kagome. I'm so sorry I've been gone. Soon we'll be together forever..." He kissed her nuckles, which had gone white, by this point.

"For...ever? Heh..." She had that goofy scared, worried, annoyed, trying not to hurt his feelings and he must be delusional, smile. Could that even be clasified as a smile?

Inuyasha was cracking his own nuckles, getting ready for an attack.

"Oh, yeah, very intersting..." She said to herself.

Koga turned to Katy, startling her a bit. He rased an eyebrow of his own.

Katy was gushing for a moment. 'He has pretty blue eyes...' Se shook herself out of it as he turned to Inuyasha. "Hey mut! Who's this?"

He only groweled.

"Oh, yeah, Koga this is my cousin, Katy. Katy, This is Koga. THE WOLF-PRINCE..." She exagerated the last part.

Comprehenchion dawned of the face of our young Irish las'. She recalled Kagome telling her about him. He was the one that always got into fights with inuyasha and rold everyine the were going to be married...mated. Demons mated, right. Katy couldn't understand why she didn't just telll him to bugg off.

Well, aside from the fact that the look on Inuyasha's face was priceless, simply priceless...

That, in itself, wasn't a very good reason. Oh, but it was good. He was simply adorable...

No, wait, it wasn't right, the guy was going to be crushed. She di try to tell him, though, many times, but he was just so determined that she was his. The whole thing was kind of funny, really. All in all, she found the whole situatin quite amusing. More so than others, aparently. She thought, looking at Inuyasha, whose hand was now resting on the hilt of his sword.

"Cousin?" Koga smiled taking Katy's hand and placing a sot kiss just above her nuckles."I hope you will consider me for the blod exeptance." He looked up at her, trying to be suductive, yet failing miserably. He had it when he wasn't trying, but as soon as he put forth the effort, it snapped. He had the yes, someone just needed to teach him how to use them. Something Katy learned early in life, how to use her natual abilities.

'Blood exeptance? What the heck is that?' She concluded it to be something big, from the look on inuyasha's face.

"Um," She looked over to see Sango shaking her head vigarously. ,Uh Sure?"

Inuyasha was having a hard time. "Sit boy..." He just tried to kill him.

He nodded at Katy and smirk aAT iNUYASHA AS HE, ran off.

Camp was set and Katy as tired of everyone glaring at her. "Sango? What's wrong?"