AN: Once again, I am much honored to say thank you to ForeverDayDreaming for another kind review. I'm glad you're enjoying it! :D I, sadly yet again, do not own InuYasha©. This is also probably going to be one of my longest chapters, just a heads up. :P

"This will be when they are singing." (For this chapter)

"This will be speaking Japanese."

'Thoughts will be in either one.'

"This will be when they are growl speaking." (For this chapter)

"Beast speaking out loud"

"Beast speaking to its master"

Previously

Sango had a smirk on her face as she looked at the rest of her pack, 'I guess I should explain to everyone who Amber really is when we get home… Man, are they going to have a shock!' She couldn't help but laugh as they were all walking back to their vehicles to drive to her home.

Now:

The rest of the pack was already lounging in the living room, Kohaku and Shippo ran out back to play in the Taijiya obstacle course, Amber and Sango where last to walk in and when they did the pack become silent as they heard the two growling. But the thing that confused the pack, even the humans who was able to speak in the canine tongue, was they weren't speaking the normal canine tongue. They looked to Kouga to see if he had an explanation, but all he did was shrug.

"Sister, I am going to tell them. They need to know the truth, especially Kouga. You know your place and it should be known!" Sango growled.

"No! Don't you dare! They don't need to know! We're in Japan, it doesn't matter! It didn't matter in the States!"

"That's what you think! Aunt and Uncle DID make their status known even in the States. Father told me he was proud of Aunt because of that! They need to know!"

"Please…" Amber whimpered, "Don't do this to me… They'll look and treat me differently." Her tail wrapped around her waist, her human form of tucking it between her legs.

Sango's hears flattened against her head and she let out a long whine, "No they won't. We're pack. Please, I know you never got to understand what a pack is, and it took us a long time to accept too, but they won't be like that. Trust me! They won't treat you differently, they will still treat you like a normal person, only if we had to go to important events would they treat you with the respect you deserve. Please?"

Amber looked up at her beloved cousin and sighed, her tail unwrapped from around her waist, "If I absolutely have to, and if you think it is for the best…" She said uncertain. Sango smiled, put her arm around her cousin and nod, "It is, I promise!"

The two looked and saw a very confused back, Sango laughed where Amber blushed and lowered her head to hide her blush. Sango ushered everyone back into the living room, she sat beside Amber in the floor in front of the pack, holding her hand for support. "Guys, there are some things you need to know about Amber. She's very nervous to tell you guys, but I managed to convince her that you guys should know and wouldn't treat her differently."

Kagome and Rin looked at each other and tilted their head, looked back to Sango and Amber then smiled, "Of course we won't treat you differently! You're pack!" Kagome said cheerfully and Rin smiled. Miroku and Kouga nodded their heads; Sesshomaru and InuYasha sat with their arms crossed and were waiting. Sango raised an eye brow at the two inu brothers then shook her head, 'And they say they don't act alike. Hah!'

Sango looked at Amber and smiled, "Alright guys. I'm sure you're wondering if we're cousins why Amber has that crescent moon and the rest of us don't, right?" They all nodded. "That is because Amber is the alpha of our pack; she is the Lady of the Western wolf tribe, the Guardians of the House of Moon from Greece." Sango smiled brightly obviously proud of half of her family's history. "Yes, my father was Greek. But he wasn't the heir either, my Aunt, Amber's mother, was. He gave his family name up for my mother's family. But oddly enough, my mother's family respected the Liekos' because they for many generations in Greece protected the humans. Only when many wars broke out, the humans became afraid that the Wolves was hired by the foreigners and was trying to control and eventually take their land. They had long forgotten that from the very beginning of recorded Greek history that the wolves, Liekos pack specifically, had always vowed to protect the humans."

Amber and Sango lowered their heads, but it was Amber who spoke, "They started killing our pack off… The treaty was, we would help them in the winter months with food and year round for protection from the warring neighbors as long as they didn't attack our pack when we hunted and we vowed never to take a human life unless it was for protection. We viewed them as pack, but someone erased the ancient records of our treaty and they started killing members when they would arrive in the villages to give food. They accused us of sorcery and trying to poison them, stealing their children in the night and turning them to demons." Amber laughed bitterly, "Because to them, that was the only way you could become monsters such as us, you was stolen away from your family and sacrificed."

The males, including Miroku, was growling where Rin and Kagome where whimpering. "Our grandfather decided it was time to move the clan away so we could continue to live in peace. We had never, ever, taken a human life. If a clan member was found, didn't matter if they was alpha or beta, they had taken a human life for personal game they was banished and turned over to the human clans. The humans did the same thing, if they found one of their own hunted one of ours for personal game, they banished them and turned them over to us. This had caused peace in the beautiful ocean front of Greece, which is now Turkey, until someone decided they wanted to be greedy and rule those lands but they knew they had to get rid of us first." Amber said, looking at the floor, "When we arrived in the states, I was still a young pup. My family apparently came here to talk to Kouga's clan a lot, about every five years or so, and that's when Uncle met Aunt and he decided to stay here and they was mated." Amber smiled softly, "Mother stayed with Grandfather for obvious reasons, she was the beta. She met another wolf demon in the States of our sister tribe and then, ta da." Amber laughed, "I became. I'm unique because even though I have the family coloring, brown, I am a white wolf. They kept saying I would be the one to be able to bring peace between the humans and our tribe but I haven't set foot in Greece, well to us it is still Greece, sense I was a pup when Grandfather took me to show us our ancient family grounds, which is now part of a historical site."

*L*W*

After the couple of hours of speaking about Amber's family past she noticed they didn't treat her differently. They did look at her differently, but it was something she hadn't seen in a long time, respect. They had respected her for the burden she took on proudly without complaint and that was different. Sango was right, she always had been, which is why she was appointed her beta. Her grandfather had said Sango was the beta and that the pup mother would birth would be the alpha and he was right. Sango and she had always been close even though they had never met. Wrote letters, emails, phone calls, and pictures but never seen each other in person.

Sango and Amber had grabbed the boys up, fed them, and put them to bed. Shippo and Kohaku were like Amber and Sango, each other's shadow that you couldn't separate. Sango and herself couldn't help but laugh at it, they automatically acted like pack and Shippo didn't seem afraid of the rest. That helped ease Amber's nerves a little on that. The rest of the pack said they were going to stay, just so Amber and Shippo could get used to pack and they could bond so they could sense each other.

Amber had thought everyone was asleep or the guys in the study working on cases, as Sango had explained they all worked for the largest and well known Japanese law firm, Shikon. So Amber decided to walk outside in the moonlight, she found a little koi pond, she sat down on one of the large smooth rocks, looking at her reflection with the moon behind her. She saw her mother in her reflection, but saw her father's fire in her eyes. She couldn't help but let the soft laugh escape her lips as a tear fell down her cheek. Shippo looked every bit like their father but with their mother's shy personality.

Amber had closed her eyes and remembered what today was, it was the anniversary of their death. Shippo had been an infant when they passed away, and she didn't want to burden his young spirit with something such as this. So she would mourn in private, she wasn't trying to keep it from him but when he become of age, she would tell him the date and anything else he wanted to know but only then. He was too young and should enjoy being a carefree pup while he can.

She opened her eyes and stared down at her reflection again, this time lost in thought about her life. Where she had been, where she was now, and where she hoped she would be in the future. She thought about how she wouldn't have made it through the death of her parents if it wasn't for Sango and Kagura. She started to hum to herself as she started to suddenly think of her love life.

*L*W*

Everyone else was in the study; the girls doing documents and the guys reviewing cases. Well, all except for one who kept looking out the window at the moon and couldn't help but notice it was the same color of Amber's mark. Miroku smirked as he placed a hand on his friends' shoulder, "You know, you mate Amber then we'll be more of an actual pack. Who knows, maybe one of the inu's children will marry one of our wolf children then we will be a tied pack, ne?"

Kouga's eyes widened and he started to choke on his own spit, Miroku laughed as the others looked up. "Wh-what are you talking about? Who said I was interested in Amber?" Kouga responded. 'Smooth… They are certainly going to believe that, master.' 'Hush.'

Sango laughed, "Right, you eyeing my cousin like she's the water you haven't had in a century means you're just making sure she'll make a good addition to the pack, right?"

Kouga blushed and growled, "Sango, shut it. So what if I look, there is nothing wrong with it… Right?"

Sango smiled as she walked up to her friend and placed a hand on his shoulder, "As long as you don't break her heart, then no." Sango spotted her cousin and smiled softly, "Why don't you go out there and keep her company?" She suggested as she pointed to the bottom left corner of the window, Kouga spotted Amber and bolted out the door. The girls smiled and the guys shook their heads.

Kouga arrived in the garden and was stunned as he stood there and watched her. She looked like a goddess bathing in the moonlight. 'There is no way she would be interested in us. Just because we're Lord of the Eastern wolf tribe doesn't mean anything. She's the lady and guardian of the tribe we was always told about.''You will never know unless you try, master.' 'True, are you ready for this?' 'Master, I am the one who was telling you to do it!' Kouga laughed to himself, it was true. He took a deep breath and started to walk towards her.

*L*W*

Amber opened her eyes and looked at the sky, laying back on the grass now, her golden brown hair framing around her body she took a deep breath and could have sworn she picked up Kouga's sent; evergreen and earth. She shook her head and a song suddenly came to mind and she couldn't help herself, she felt like she needed to sing.

"If I were a boy,

Even just for a day

I'd roll out of bed in the morning,

And throw on what I wanted and go

Drink beer with guys,

And chase after girls

I'd kick it with who I wanted,

And I'd never get confronted for it,

'Cause they stick up for me"

She sat up, and was staring determinedly into the water. Kouga knew that whoever has her singing so passionately is the reason why Sango said "as long as you don't break her heart".

"If I were a boy,

I think I could understand,

How it feels to love a girl,

I swear I'd be a better man

I'd listen to her,

'Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted,

Cause he's taken you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed"

She placed her hand over her heart and lowered her head, slowly standing up she lifted her head and had a soft smile on her face.

"If I were a boy,

I would turn off my phone

Tell everyone it's broken,

So they'd think that I was sleeping alone

I'd put myself first,

And make the rules as I go

'Cause I know she'd be faithful,

Waiting for me to come home, to come home

If I were a boy,

I think I could understand

How it feels to love a girl,

I swear I'd be a better man"

She had her arms to her side, singing her heart out louder. The rest of the pack heard it and was listening as well as watching from the window. Sango placed her hand on her heart and knew if she ever had the displeasure of meeting the bastard, she'd rip him in two.

"I'd listen to her,

'Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted,

Cause he's taking you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed

It's a little too late for you to come back,

Say it's just a mistake

Think I'd forgive you like that,

If you thought I'd be waiting for you,

You though wrong"

She was singing with such passion that the elements was hearing her heart break and the wind was gently caressing her as it suddenly started to lightly mist. Kouga couldn't believe it, she had the power over the elements?

"But you're just a boy,

You don't understand

And you don't understand, oh

How it feels to love a girl

Someday you wish you were a better man

You don't listen to her,

You don't care how it hurts

Until you lose the one you wanted,

Cause you're taking her for granted

And everything you had got destroyed,

But you're just a boy"

She had lowered back to her knees facing the moon, her head bowed. Kouga smelt the tears and his beast instantly came out. His eyes turned red and he changed into his brown wolf form, the same size as Sesshomaru. He started to growl low, a comforting growl, to her. Her ears twitched and she spun her body around where she was now sitting on her bottom in front of the large brown wolf.

Amber stared at him for a moment, the others tensed afraid he was going to attack her because they had never seen Kouga's beast come out other than to protect. Sesshomaru had his hand on the window frame ready to jump out and change if needed, Rin in the same position at his side. Sango narrowed her eyes and looked closely and she gasped, 'His beast has chosen her!'

AN: And there it is! My longest so far, I had to think a lot about the song for this certain situation and figured at the moment, it fits. The reason why will be explained soon. Hope you enjoy, and please be kind and review!

~*Selene*~