It was silent for a while as Scott took the scene in before him.

Kagome was standing in front of a half naked Derek, where said person had an arm wrapped around her waist and seemed to be keeping a tight hold on her, and Stiles was just standing off to the side. Kagome her self was holding a wet and bloody cloth to Derek's wound while she also held his wrist.

She lifted a brow as she watched him.

"How was dinner?" she turned back to her task of cleaning the blood away.

He watched her hands place the cloth on the table and move her hands so she could pry Derek's hold on her hip off as she made her way to a sink and wash her own hands. She grabbed the mess on the table with her and just acted as if nothing had happened.

"That's all you have to ask? How was dinner? What the hell?"

"Yeah, well unlike you, I'm starving. So I'm gonna go home and eat something and then go to bed." drying her hands, all eyes were watching as she moved about the room like an expert, cleaning the tweezers she had used and threw the cloth out.

"That... was awesome! YES!"

All turned to Stiles as silence took them over once again, and he quickly changed the subject when he asked how Derek was feeling.

"Except for the agonizing pain? Fine." he stood up and ran his hand over where the wound once was before he turned his eyes to Kagome.

"Guess the ability to use sarcasm is a good sign of health." Stiles muttered under his breath

"Did it really hurt that much?" Kagome bit her lip as her brows furrowed. She was sure she had let her aura out to help sooth and deal with the pain. Didn't she?

"What you did was, fine. If Scott had shown up earlier, I would have had to use the same poison to counteract the bullets effects. That would have been painful."

"Mmm, good then." she took in a deep breath and fixed her sleeves. "Well then, I'm gonna head home."

"Wait! That's it? Nothing else?" she rolled her eyes towards Stiles.

"What do you want me to do? Tell him to take a couple of Aspirin and then call me in the morning? It's done, I give him a clean bill of health. Now I wanna go home and eat something." she caught their eyes, especially Derek's as he watched her. Intently.

"You have your secrets, I have mine." she waved goodbye at them over her shoulder, before taking a moment to think clearly and grabbed Stiles.

"You're my ride home. I don't need to get into an accident cause I couldn't concentrate properly." she could hear Scott and Derek talking, but doing all that she did in the short span of time after not doing it for a while, left her especially tired. She hadn't used her abilities like that and on such short notice in a long time. Not like there was an abundance of 'more-than-human' beings walking around that needed her help and could keep her in practice with.

"Ya know... Scott is going to be so angry with the fact that you brought me to help Derek. After it sinks in that is." Kagome stated conversationally as she climbed into the jeep.

Stiles paused in what he was doing and let his head fall against the steering wheel letting out a groan when he realized where his actions really just got him with his best friend.

"So, uh, what exactly did you uh, do?"

"It's complicated. But it left me drained."

"I'd still like to know." at least to think on something before my best friend decides to kill me for having you help his mentor slash rival.

"I halted the the process, healed all damage done and helped his body purge the infected blood that I couldn't help heal for him." she yawned and waved a hand about. "Now take me home Stiles."

"What am I? Your personal driver or something? Next time I am leaving where you are so you can make your way home by yourself."

Kagome smiled lightly and playful in his direction. "If you were my driver, you'd be getting paid. You're just doing me a favor."

He drummed his fingers against the wheel as they stopped at a red light.

"So you said you did something like that before. Want to explain a little more than just that?"

"Really?" she turned to look at him. She may be tired, but that didn't mean she could easily have the truth pried from her. "I'm tired, not stupid. But let's just say I've done more than that a few years back." she got more comfortable in her seat, closing her eyes.

"If I fall asleep, please wake me up when we get there."

"How are you not worried about leaving Scott and Derek alone back there? If Derek isn't helping Scott, than he's beating him. And if Scott isn't asking for help, than he's trying to get the guy thrown into jail. Not exactly two people that should be left alone, in a room with sharp tools and drugs. Not that they need them with the whole fangs and claws thing they got going on. I mean, they can rip each others throat out with their bare hands..."

"Stiles! Deep breath and relax. And to answer your question, no I'm not afraid of leaving them alone together. I highly doubt that they'll kill each other. Argue over stupid facts, yes, beat each other to a pulp... maybe, but not kill each other." she smiled as they kept on driving.

"So uh, from your reaction to Derek, I take it that wasn't your first meeting."

"No, we met each other last week after I finished with a study group." opening her eyes, she furrowed her brows when she remembered that that, wasn't exactly true. "No. Wait. I bumped into him at the party, you should remember. Seeing as you were there."

Kagome laughed when she heard a stomach growl, only, it wasn't her own. At least she wasn't the only one that hadn't had anything to eat yet.

"There's some spaghetti and salad at home. Actually, there's too much, you want a plate?"

"Wait. Are you offering me dinner? Cause if you are, does this count as a date? Cause if it does, just so you know..."

"You have a thing for Lydia. I know. And as for it counting as a date... that's up to you." she shrugged her shoulders and smiled at the boy. "So, think of this as a free meal for the free ride home. In fact, I think I may have over done it this time, so if there's more than enough, you can take the rest home with you." Stiles pulled up to the curb and parked the jeep, sitting there while Kagome just looked at him.

"Well? Did you want that plate or not?"

"Ah, yeah. Sure I guess."

"Well, that means getting out of the car and into the house. You've snuck into Scott's room enough times to have your sexual preferences questioned, walking through the front door shouldn't be too hard for you."

"Right. Wait, what?!" he whipped to face her, eyes wide and slack jawed. "You think I'm gay?! Does that mean Scott thinks I'm gay?! Do you think gay guys would find me attractive?"

"Uh... No, Scott knows your not gay... and I don't know. You'd have to ask a, gay guy. Isn't a teammate of yours gay? Ask him." she got out of the jeep and pulled him with her back into the house, she did promise him a free meal.

Leading him into the kitchen, she pulled everything back out and dished two plates. Asking Stiles if there was something he wanted to drink.

"We've got, water, milk, juice and pop. Take your pick."

"I'll take a coke. Just give me the can." he watched as she moved about the kitchen, opening the fridge and handing him a can of coke.

She moved around like she actually owned the place and had been living there all her life. When the microwave signaled that it was done, she handed him the plate while putting her own in and grabbed a coke to drink while waiting for her own plate.

"Dig in. If there's anything extra you want to add, just say so. I think we have either some shredded or Parmesan cheese."

So he did just that, and ate his free dinner with gusto. Kagome got to learn Stiles better while they ate, and wouldn't be afraid to admit that she would willingly call him a friend. And as she had suspected, there was too much left over so she gave him the rest to take home with him.

"Just make sure you bring the plates back. And in one piece. They aren't mine to begin with." closing and locking the front door after he left, not worried about Scott, seeing as he had a key, she made her way upstairs.

Looking down on herself, she let out a frustrated sigh at the blood stains that her light jacket and jeans now sported. And the worst part of it, she didn't wash it out right away. Wet blood was a lot easier to wash out than dry blood. Years of experience taught her that much. Well, at least she had some bleh clothing now. Something to wear should she need to do something messy.

She made her way up to her room, contemplating if she should go for a shower before bed, or take one in the morning instead. Feeling that she could hardly keep herself awake, she figured that going for one in the morning would be a safer bet. So bypassing the bathroom entirely, she went to her room and closed the door behind her.

Unzipping the jacket, she tossed it at a corner chair to wash later. Already, she could hear Scott making his way through the house and to his own room. Furrowing her brows, she paused in removing her shirt to get a feel on his aura. She really was out of touch with her abilities, if healing Derek exhausted her this much.

His aura was jumping all over the place, making her wonder what exactly happened after Stiles and herself had left him with Derek. Shrugging her shoulders, she continued in removing and tossing her dirty clothes into the corner.

Walking over to her dresser, she removed her bra and opened a drawer and pulled on a pair of sleep pants and grabbed an extra large t-shirt. Slipping her arms in, and grabbed the back of the shirt and was about to lift it over when she suddenly froze.

She felt fingers run down her spine and turned her head slightly to see the Derek was in her room. Letting out a sigh she didn't know she had held, she finished dressing for bed and turned to face him. Internally slapping herself silly for not even noticing that he had been behind her at all. Pausing, she hoped he hadn't been there the entire time while she was getting ready for bed, or why she wasn't screaming her head off. Must have been due to too many times of having to deal with Miroku.

Blushing, she crossed her arms and took his appearance in.

"You know, this could be considered a breaking and entering."

"Where did you get those?"

She let out a huff, upset that he didn't seem to see any fault with the fact that he was in her room, uninvited she might add. The fact that he saw her half naked, also uninvited, and was questioning about the scars she knew he saw on her back.

"To answer your question, I was helping a friend. Still wanna explain what you're doing here? Uninvited I might add." shifting her weight. She was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to sleep right now.

"Looks like an animal attacked you."

"You are being an ass! You still haven't answered why you're here!" she threw her hands up in the air and let herself fall back onto her bed. Not something one should do with a natural predator in their midst, but she was falling asleep standing up.

Her hands covered her face as her feet hung off the side of her bed. Questions about what she had done buzzing through his mind. Not that he was complaining, had he used the bullet he had sent Scott to retrieve, it would have been painful. There was a slight burning, but it had been quickly replaced by a warm prickling yet numbing sensation. There wasn't any other way he could describe it.

Just what was she?

He had come here to get answers, not expecting to see her in the middle of getting dressed to go to bed. Just when he had been about to announce his presence, that was when he saw them. She had shifted the slightest amount showing the sort of silvery coloring that he recognized in scars. Four of them ran from her right shoulder to her left hip, wide when they reached the center of her back. Very much looking like an animal attack, or more.

Without even knowing it, he had approached her and touched the scars, feeling the difference in the soft of her skin to the slight tightness of the scar tissue. It was only when she stiffened, did he realize what he had done. Quickly he backed away from her as she just as quickly put her top on. He felt something in him shift as she pulled her hair up and free from under the shirt, exposing her pale neck in the process. Biting down on his inner cheek, he ignored it for the matter at hand.

And that was how they ended up as they were now, him backed away from her and leaning against the wall, and her seeming to vent out on her bed.

"I hate my life sometimes." her arms dropped to her sides on the bed and she simply stared up at the ceiling above her. "Please don't tell me, that you hurt Scott into getting some answers on what happened tonight."

"No. I didn't."

"Oh. That's good to hear." looking at him from the corner of her eye, he watched how they narrowed slightly. "But he did say something stupid. Didn't he? And you still want answers as to what happened."

"I think it's only fare. You know my secret, yet I don't know yours." he raised a brow as her face scrunched up slightly and mutter under her breath. When he heard what she said, it only left him with more questions.

"Spend too much time around Miroku, and everything sounds perverted. Damn monk." she took a deep breath before pulling herself to sit on the bed and face him completely. "To answer your question, I'm what you could call a... priestess. I have actual abilities, tonight should be proof enough to that."

She leaned forward and placed her elbow on her knees and dropped her chin into her hands, closing her eyes. He took her posture in, seeing her for the first time, and not just some face that he associated with Scott. She had an ability, if not more hidden up her sleeve.

"What else can you do?"

"I can, set up barriers, to either keep something or some one in or out of a space. Healing is a specialty. I also have the ability to completely and totally obliterate anything evil. And I can track others with their auras like you can with their scents. Though my range is a little, eh, depending on how strong they are. And just for the heads up, Scott had asked me if I could try and, cure, him of all of this. " she took a deep breath and opened her eyes. "Turns out I am also able to hurt werewolves. Don't worry, I'm more than likely to throw myself in harms way before doing something like that." a hand waved about in the air, but he could tell she was telling the truth. Her eyes went to her window, narrowing slightly when a breeze blew in.

"Are you saying you won't defend yourself?"

She closed her eyes again, and when they opened, they were a light sliver blue in color, lit up from within, much like how he knew his own eyes changed colors when he shifted.

"Make no mistake. I have and will, defend me and mine. Always." her tone was firm, it wasn't a threat, but a warning. "But if that's not detailed enough in answers or explanations as to what I am, go ahead and ask Stiles. I'm sure he has enough pages printed out about what I am to bore you to death with reading them. Just don't... scare him too much in trying to get anywhere with him." she raised a hand to cover up a yawn, her eyes no longer able to stay open.

"Quick question. Wasn't my window closed?" when she didn't get a reply, she peeked an eye open, he just stood there seemingly in thought. So she decided to let him have his time to go over everything she just said.

She looked up when he suddenly spoke up about something that had nothing to do with tonight's events.

"That friend of yours." when she raised a brow in question, he explained which one he was talking about. "The one that runs the garage. He's a wolf, isn't he." her lips quirked up at the corners. It wasn't a question, a sort of accusation that she with held that information from him.

"Yeah. He kinda is, isn't he. He didn't give you any problems, did he?"

"He did mention something about what he would do should anything happened to you." she rolled her eyes and shook her head. Same old Kouga.

"He's like a brother to me, meaning, he's a little over protective. But other than that, no problems?" she let out a breath when he shook his head.

"So you're a part of his pack?"

"Kinda. They still all call me sister. So, I guess you could say, yeah. I'm part of their pack." she smiled fondly as memories of all the interactions between her own group and Kouga's played in front of her inner eye.

"Then why are you here and not with them?"

"That's, a long and complicated story. While I was accepted as pack to them, I was also part of my own at the time. In fact... if I remember correctly, they said I had established myself as alpha of our little group." her brows furrowed as she sort trailed off.

She wasn't sure about now, she'd have to ask Kouga. Sesshoumaru took care of her, so that made him alpha. But on her own... ugh. She had spent far too much time around around canines for her liking, and two years later, she was in deep with them once again.

"You were alpha?" she tried to glare up at him from her spot at the foot of her bed, but being as tired as she was, the key word there was try.

"While werewolves are not really something Japan has, as far as I know, there are... other, form of wolf and canine beings that live there. As my pack was made up of such beings, I was alpha. My friend, Kouga, even stated as such. Don't believe me, take the quick drive to his garage and ask him." letting her face relax from the frown that she wore, she rubbed the bridge of her nose as she closed her eyes.

"Well... then. I don't mean to be rude, but I'm sort of falling asleep here. Helping you was a little more tiring than I thought. So, all I ask is, that you don't slam the window on your way out." getting off the bed, she threw the covers so she could climb into her bed and finally get some sleep.

She wasn't worried about him doing anything, that was less than... proper. She had set up her own security system in the room as well as around the house a month after she had moved in with her aunt and cousin. She also set up a perimeter around the yard after she learned what exactly happened to Scott. It never hurt to be cautious and have that little extra protection. Specially when the one that bit Scott was going around killing random people. So, if Derek made his way through, she really didn't have anything to worry about.

"Good night Derek." as soon as her head hit the pillow she was out, pretty much dead to the world. She had drained herself in healing him, and she was so looking forward to that shower in the morning.

He watched her, as she simply fell asleep right there in front of him. Totally at ease and not at all bothered that he, a werewolf, was just a few feet away and could easily kill her. A slight burning sensation over took him when he finished that thought, making him wonder what it was.

Shaking it off, he ran through all that she said. Werewolves were not something Japan had, but there were other wolf like beings? What else was there in the world? He always thought that there had to be more than just werewolves, it would make sense with all the stories, myths and legends that had been told and retold over the centuries. And if what she said was true, then she just proved that theory.

It just left him wondering to what they were. Where they were, were they a threat to himself... the list of questions went on as such. She seemed to bring more questions than answers, and while that did agitate him to no end, he didn't mind for some odd reason. He still thought it odd that she could take on the role of alpha, but then again, his sister was one. Though she was a werewolf. She... Kagome, wasn't.

It also hadn't missed his senses that the wolf friend of hers had been by. At least once within the last week. From what he could tell, he most likely spoke with her. And somewhere deep within him, something shifted, unsettled at the thought. He wasn't prepared with for dealing with the knowledge of why. He knew why, but now wasn't the time.

Standing up, he moved to be just at the foot of her bed. An arm was wrapped around her pillow from underneath, the other tucked just under her chin. How was she not afraid of him? He was a predator. Then again, she said she had gone up against other... beings. Hard to believe, she was that tiny and looked like she was the one that needed protection, but... Scott had proven him wrong in defying the alpha so far, he shouldn't be to surprised that his tiny cousin could pull something like it off.

A breeze circulated through the room, causing some of her hair to shift and fall into her face. Scrunching up her nose slightly, the hand that been tucked under her chin raised and brush it away before she shivered and curl in on herself for more warmth.

It was time for him to leave anyway. He'd gotten the answers he came here for, even though he now had more questions, he could leave and prepare for teaching Scott in helping him track down the alpha. He paused when he remembered what she said about tracking... auras, not that he believed in that hocus-pocus, wondering if she could be able to help.

That would have to wait. She was a wild card in all of this. And as such, the alpha could see her either as a threat or a means to an end. She was putting herself in danger, whether she knew it or not by helping him and Scott.