AN: Sorry that it has taken me a while to post another chapter, afraid some of the lovely things in life we can't plan or help happened and kept my mind distracted. But, once again ForeverDayDreaming, thank you yet again for reviewing! I am also happy to announce I actually have a follower too to this story! *squeal* It makes me happy that I'm doing a good job! And I realized I forgot to mention the singer/name of the song from the last chapter: Beyonce "If I Were A Boy" And to answer your mentioning, FDD, about the mating thing. That will be explained a bit better in this chapter, but you are correct wolves mate for life. And in every pack there is typically an alpha male and female. Here's the chapter, hope I still do a great job and you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not, sadly, own InuYasha© or Yamaha Pianos ©nor am I affiliated with Temple University.

"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

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!'

Now

Sango had managed to calm everyone down and let the two have privacy, although Sango couldn't remove the silly grin on her face at the hopes that Kouga really would court her beloved cousin. Things between Amber and Kouga seemed to have been going great after that night; he would always be the first to offer his services to Amber when she would mention she wanted to explore Tokyo. The girls couldn't help but laugh at his eagerness and the guys just shook their heads seeing their friend fallen so hard so fast.

Amber was nervous, and the others could see it in her posture, as they were yet again at Sango's home watching TV and just enjoying each other's company. Sango was trying not to ask on it, afraid it was something to do about her being away from home for the first time in her life. Kagome and Rin finally had enough and cleared their throats, which caused everyone to quiet and Sango to turn the TV off. Kagome looked at Amber with a softened expression and sat down on the floor beside her, putting her hand gently on her shoulder, "Amber, is something wrong? We can all feel the anxiety rolling off of you."

Amber stiffened under Kagome's friendly touch and looked slowly at everyone, "Um… Well… Tomorrow is Monday," everyone nodded, "And Shippo as well as myself start school tomorrow… I'm not worried for Shippo sense he has Kohaku but me… I'm just nervous if I can adapt because I'm sure the academics here are completely different from the States…" Amber sighed and her shoulders slouched after she finished.

Sango and Rin joined the two on the floor and they all wrapped Amber in a hug, "You'll do fine. Plus, we all actually went there ourselves. It's a friendly school and great people go there. There is nothing to worry about, and if you get nervous just go to the office and give one of us a call." Sango assured her. Amber looked around at all of them who nodded as her gaze landed on them, she couldn't help but let out a grateful laugh and nod, "Alright, I can do this then."

*L*W*

"Shippo! You need to hurry, Kohaku is about to be here-" "SHIPPO!" "-Any minute… Morning Haku" Amber laughed, she shook her head as her younger cousin brushed her off running up the stairs to fetch Shippo. "Hm, seems you found your little brother's shadow or is he the shadow?" Kagura joked and Amber couldn't help but laugh, "I think it is both. They are the perfect example of ying and yang, it just depends on the situation who is which one." They both laughed, the boys ran down the stairs to grab Shippos lunch, and ran out the door. The girls couldn't help but laugh again. "Well, here we go, wish me luck Kagura!" Kagura and the rest of the staff all smiled and wished her luck as she walked down the entrance stairs to her silver Mitsubishi and drove off to Temple U.

It seemed that transfer program from the States had went very smoothly, she was in all of her same classes here plus few classes in Japanese and culture. She smiled to herself, 'I do believe those will be my most favorite classes, even over the actual law classes.' She made her way into her first class of the day; she was already half way through her first year so she was already working on Civil Processing. She greeted the teacher and when he called the class's attention to introduce her, her blood went cold in her veins. '…No, it can't be!' she screamed in her mind. "Master, please breathe, calm down!"

"Miss Liekos are you alright?" the teacher asked, placing her hand gently on her shoulder. Amber flinched, dropping her books and turned on her heel, then ran straight out the door and down the hallway to the office. She was starting to panic; she felt it creeping slowly up her spine, as she was also panting trying to catch her breath. She busted threw the office door and skidded on the floor towards the phone, she frantically tried to remember a number of one of her pack members to call. But her vision started to blur and she kept feeling the flight part of her body screaming to run, "Master, please… Please take slow deep breaths! You're going to pass out!" her beast whined.

She closed her eyes, took a slow deep breath, "Could you please call my cousin and inform her I'm having an emergency? I'm afraid I can't remember her number nor see very clearly right now to dial the number." The secretary nodded as she pulled her file and started to call Sango. "By the way, could you tell me where the music auditorium is? I would like to try and go there to calm down until my cousin arrives." The secretary momentarily hung up the phone to explain the directions to her clearly; Amber thanked her politely as she left the office and started walking to the auditorium. "Good master, go play some music to calm down." Her beast tried to encourage.

*L*W*

Sango growled as she tapped her nails slowly on the conference table. She was Kouga's legal assistant, Kagome was Miroku's, Rin was InuYasha's, and currently Sesshomaru was without an assistant. They were all pulled into this meeting with a rival office who was representing one of the lowest forms of life, well second lowest in Sango's opinion, Kumo Naraku. She glared at Kouga, 'Why the hell am I here? Better yet, why in the HELL are ANY of us legal assistants here?' Sango growled at him lowly. 'Because we're all going to need to be on this case and if you guys get the information first hand, then it will make it smoother and easier. We can't let any information leek out on this case!' Kouga growled back and the other guys nodded in agreement. It was well known that Naraku loved to play dirty so he always wins, and this time they wasn't going to be another law firm he could mark off of his list that he got the upper hand on.

They was in the middle of an heated argument, well more like InuYasha was with the opposite firm's attorney, Bankotsu, when suddenly one of the legal secretaries comes in and clears her throat. "Excuse me, but Ms. Taijiya; there is an emergency call for you." Sango growled as she rubbed her temples then looked at the secretary, "From whom?" The secretary visibly paled, which caused everyone too slightly tense, "Temple University…"

Sango and Kouga shot up, "What? What happened?" They both yelled, and then looked at each other. Sango raised her eye brow and Kouga blushed, clearing his throat and straightening his tie. Sango smirked and looked back at poor Ayame, "Did they say what happened?" She shook her head, "No ma'am they said it was a private matter and could only speak with you on it. This is why I had to come and interrupt…" She lowered her head and Sango smiled as she walked to her, "Thank you; I'm just worried what could be wrong is all. You're not in trouble and thank you again." Ayame looked up and smiled as she turned and left the conference room, Sango looked back at them and Sesshomaru nodded to her. "Well gentlemen, I think we will need to conclude this another time seeing as we have an emergency to deal with at the firm. Good day." He said coldly as he ushered everyone to leave.

Sango ran to the nearest phone and took the call, she gasped when the secretary at Temple explained Amber's situation and assured her that she was on her way. Sango looked up at the group with a sad look in her eyes, "It's Amber… Apparently something happened and got her very upset that she fled the class and when she reached the office she was shaking and pale… She said that Amber asked her to call me because she couldn't remember my number and if she could she couldn't see clearly to dial it, and then asked her where the music auditorium was."

Rin was slightly confused, "Why would she ask something like that?" Sango looked at her and had a sad smile, "When Amber starts to panic she uses music to calm herself."

*L*W*

Amber found the quiet, dimly lit auditorium and let out a very pleased sigh. She started to walk down the aisle to the stage where she saw a beautiful black Yamaha grand piano. She smiled as she let her fingers ghost along the ivory keys. She pulled the bench out and sat in the middle of the piano with her right thumb resting on middle C. She closed her eyes and allowed herself to remember who it was she saw in her class that caused her to panic, Charles Stratto.

A frown appeared on her face as she remembered the last time she saw him.

She was excited; she had just finished her first month of classes with straight A's! She wanted to show her fiancée, who even though Luna didn't agree with, was who she loved and wanted to be mated to. She had a few more months to try and convince Luna to allow him to mate them. She arrived at their home, seeing his car was there along with one she didn't recognize, she just figured it was a client or a friend, his best friend was always getting new cars after all.

As she was walking up the stairs she felt Luna freeze her steps, 'Luna, what's wrong?' "Don't go in master… Just turn around and leave, go get Shippo and leave…" Amber drew her brow together, 'Luna, what in the world has gotten into you?' She heard her beast whimper as she was allowed to walk to the door, she opened the door and she smelt something funny in the air, it was the scent of someone she didn't know.

Her head tilted as she walked around their home as she sat her stuff down by the door, she was picking up the smell of weed, alcohol, Charles, and that other scent. She growled softly, she had told him that he was not allowed to smoke weed in their home, she followed the scent towards the back living area. When she walked through the doorway, she froze and felt her heart shatter. There was her fiancée intoxicated with some strange female on top of him. She felt Luna starting to surface, not because of the female but because the male was hurting her master and she wanted to protect her.

Amber's cinnamon eyes was slowly changing to a bright auburn, but the two stupid humans in front of her couldn't tell that because she had kept the concealment on her. Luna growled to herself as she sliced the tiger eye necklace off and there was a sudden flash of light in the dim lit room, causing the two humans to shriek in surprise and look at her. Her stripes were jagged and now her eyes were red, blood red as she stared at the two.

Stratto was the first to jump up, putting the girl behind him as to protect her, which only caused Luna to chuckle. "Stupid male, I knew you were no good but master thought she was in love. You have done a very stupid thing today, if I was the one who had accepted you, your pathetic female would have already been shredded on you." She growled at him, she noticed the female starting to shake violently and turn pale, Stratto though had an evil smile on his face, "I knew you were a freak. Look at you; you're a demon aren't you? You make me sick! You know what, I'm done. I'm glad we never got married, there is no way I would ever love a demon like you. Come on, we're going."

Stratto drug his female past the growling demoness in front of them, he turned and looked at her with a sick smirk, "Careful, you know my family is demon hunters and I'm sure that if I ever see you again, I'll make sure they get their hands on you. And by the way, sense I know your secret; you're forever bound to me. Wouldn't want this kind of thing to get out, now would we?" This made Luna quickly retreat and Amber surface, she felt sick and started to shake, she remembered hearing his hateful laughing and taunting that she would never escape him now. 'Luna… We need to get out of here! What will we do?' 'Cousin is in Tokyo; didn't one of your teachers say you could qualify in a few months and finish classes there?'Amber smiled for the first time after walking through that door, 'That's the plan now Luna. We can't let him get his hands on us nor Shippo now. I'm sorry I didn't listen to you my friend…' Luna snorted, her way of telling her master to drop it.

Amber shook her head as she remembered where she was, 'I can't believe he found us! Why in the world would he come here when he spoke so disgustingly about me being a demon?' "That, master, I believe was a lie. I think his other female wasn't what he wanted and he wants us to fall back on because of our power, status, and money." Amber once again felt sick and placed a hand on her stomach as she gagged, "I'll never let that sick bastard get his hands on me again!" She growled and Luna growled back happily.

*L*W*

Everyone decided to come with Sango, they wanted to know what happened and if they could help in any way, they were going to. Sango seemed distracted, almost in a daze, so it was good they decided to follow. Once they arrived, they all made their way to the office where the Dean, teacher of Civil Process and the secretary was waiting for them. They sat down and started to speak on the matter, Kouga's beast was telling him he was needed elsewhere and he wasn't going to start ignoring his beast now. He started to walk down the old familiar hallway to the auditorium and when he opened the door he couldn't believe what he was seeing, a beautiful female sitting behind the grand piano looking like she was about to put on one of the best performances in her life.

"I remembered black skies, the lightning all around me.
I remembered each flash as time began to blur.
Like a startling sign, that fate had finally found me.
And your voice was all I heard, that I get what I deserve.

So give me reason to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean.
Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes!
Give me reason to fill this hole, connect the space between;
Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies across, this new divide."

He didn't want to let her know he was with her just yet so he sat in the back, in the shadows and decided to watch what she was doing and to make sure she was safe. Suddenly his tears twitched as he heard her play a couple of cords on the piano and take a deep breath, slowly releasing it as she started to play a few bars.

"There was nothing in sight, but memories left abandoned.
There was nowhere to hide, the ashes fell like snow.
And the ground caved in, between where we were standing.
And your voice was all I heard, that I get what I deserve.

So give me reason to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean.
Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes, across this new divide!"

Amber started to pour her feeling in to the song as she seemed to be playing an instrumental break and Kouga couldn't help but wonder if this is part of her explaining what happened to cause her panic. He started to stand and slowly walk towards the stage.

Kouga stopped when he saw another male, about 6'2" with tan skin, blond hair and blue eyes walk in. He sniffed, 'Just a human boy. Why is he here?'

Charles walked into the room and saw her, he smirked to himself, 'So predictable, always runs and sings her heart out when she gets her feelings hurt.'

Amber started to play louder, more aggressive when she noticed the other male. Kouga could have sworn he saw her eyes flash red as she glared at him and almost started screaming at the male.

"In every loss, in every lie, in every truth that you'd deny;
And each regret and each goodbye was a mistake too great to hide!
And your voice was all I heard, that I get what I deserve…

So give me reason to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean.
Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes.
Give me reason to fill this hole, connect the space between.
Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies across this new divide!
Across this new divide, across this new divide!"

Amber hit the last cord hard and loud enough that it kept ringing a good bit after she lifted her hands up. Amber quickly stood up and glared at the blond male, Kouga jumped when he heard Sango scream, "You! You bastard! You're why she had her emergency! You mother fu-". Miroku quickly grabbed Sango, "Now, now love… Remember, take deep breaths…" Kouga didn't even notice that they had come into the auditorium.

Amber looked back to us then quickly back at the male, "Leave, you pathetic excuse of a male. My master is happier here and without you! If you come sniffing around her, she will not be able to hold me back this time human." The group gasped, Sango stilled, they had never heard such anger and hatred in someone before, even if their beast was out. The blond male narrowed his eyes at her and smirked, "Just remember, you're bound to me. You have to do my bidding and nothing you can do will get you out of it. You're master loves me, always will and will never let you hurt me. Careful who you threaten demon, you wouldn't want your little brother to end up hurt because of your careless words, now would you?"

Amber's eyes widened and they saw her body shaking, Kouga took off running as fast as he could, jumping over the male and tackling Amber on the stage. Sango was thrashing about in Miroku's arms, Rin was growling as was Sesshomaru, and the group was shocked silent when they heard, "You bastard! Get your pathetic ass out of here now before I zap you so hard you'll wish you was a demon and died! LEAVE!" Kagome growled, InuYasha was shocked speechless just staring at her with his eyes widened and jaw dropped.

The male chuckled and tossed one last glance at the female on the stage and walked out the side exit. Amber was growling and thrashing about, "Let me go! I will skin that bastard alive! Release me at once!" "NO! Not until you calm down! You can't go off killing anyone who is a moron, trust me we all want to, but we can't!" "He threatened what is mine!" "And he threatened what was mine as well" After that sentence left Kouga's mouth he groaned to himself and wish he could give his own self a swift kick, everyone stilled and got quiet. He looked at Amber whose eyes were back to their cinnamon color and looking up at him with surprise. They heard the faint squeak of the doors opening and shutting, than they were alone.

"Wha-what did you say?" Amber squeaked out quietly while looking anywhere but at him. Kouga smiled softly at her and noticed she was faintly blushing. He quickly jumped off of her and offered her his hand, "He threatened what was mine as well. He will not harm you nor Shippo, I promise." Amber looked at him and saw his honor and sincerity in his eyes. She smiled softly, feeling her face become redder as she took his hand and he pulled her to her feet.

AN: For starters: I do not own "New Divide" that credit goes to Linkin Park. Stratto is Italian for jerk lol That was my longest chapter by far, but I knew I needed to explain a few things. I don't think the next chapter will be as long. I hope you all enjoyed and I give you my word, I won't take two weeks to update next chapter!

~*Selene*~