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Chapter 5: Wild Thing

"Well, this is it." Inuyasha stated plainly. Ryoga looked around the cave in disinterest. The cave was more like a hole in the side of the mountain. Ryoga was slightly skeptic of it because both Inuyasha and he were hunched over at the waist. The opening was only five feet across and it looked to be five to six feet deep.

"Are you serious?" Ryoga asked looking at Inuyasha like he had lost his mind. "We are gonna spend two weeks in a hole?"

"Do you have any better ideas?" Inuyasha snapped in irritation.

"My cave is plenty big." Kouga boasted from behind them. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and exited the 'cave' closely followed by Ryoga.

"Well, maybe we should switch caves then," Ryoga questioned, clearly peeved at the living arrangement. He wasn't sure why he was being so irritable, when he got lost he usually stayed in a tent half the size of the cave. "since its soooo much bigger than ours."

"It wasn't my idea to have you sleep in that cave, if I had my way we would be down in my cave breaking in the pelts I laid out." Kouga said leering at Ryoga, who glared back fiercely.

"Pervert..." Inuyasha muttered crossing his arms. He chose not to get in between the coming fight, knowing that the heat was causing Ryoga to have a shorter fuse then he seemed to have already. Ever since they reached the base of the mountains and started hiking, Kouga was being more amorous and Ryoga was scowling and glaring more. Inuyasha himself refused to be effected by the heat, or show any signs of being effected, anyway.

"I'm sure you would just love that, wouldn't you? Your nothing but a slimebag!" Ryoga blew up glaring for all he was worth. Kouga had the decency to look innocently confused.

"Whats a slime bag?" He asked slowly. Ryoga's eyebrow twitched in annoyance.

"Oh never mind you brain-dead dimwit!" Ryoga huffed and crossed his arms in annoyance.

"Whats your problem?" Kouga said, which apparently was exactly the wrong thing to say. Inuyasha knew what was coming from his many fights with Kagome. He snickered quietly to himself. 'Kouga is gonna get iiiiiit!' He thought happily. Ryoga twitched again, his eyes going dark and fists clenching painfully hard.

"What. Is. MY. Problem? MY Problem!? YOU are MY problem! One that is about to be solved!" Ryoga's voice grew louder and louder until his voice echoed of the cliff face above them. Kouga didn't get a chance to blink before Ryoga's foot made acquaintance with his jaw, sending him flying into the cliff face right next to where Inuyasha was watching and snickering quietly. The impact would have probably killed anyone else but Kouga just wobbled backwards gripping his face in pain. He stumbled before balancing himself.

"Wha' wash dat for?" He asked, voice muffled by his hand.

"THAT was for asking such a STUPID question, and THIS is for being a PERVERT!" Ryoga finished by kicking Kouga in the abdomen, sending him tumbling down the path they had taken to reach the cave. Kouga's tumbling form disappeared down the path after a few moments. By this time Inuyasha couldn't hold in his snickers-turned-full-out-laughing. Ryoga's head snapped around quickly, pinning Inuyasha with a hard glare, which Inuyasha sadly didn't notice.

"Whats so funny, Inuyasha?" He asked in a deadly even voice, causing Inuyasha to stop mid-laugh. Snapping his mouth shut Inuyasha gulped.

"Uhm.....n-nothing. Nothings funny, just......a joke. Yeah, a joke....that Miroku told me......last week." Inuyasha made up, mentally slapping himself for coming up with such a lame excuse. Ryoga cocked an eyebrow and then shrugged.

"Well?" Ryoga asked after a few awkward moments of silence.

"Well, what?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow questioningly.

"The joke! What was the joke?" Ryoga asked calmly crossing his arms, waiting patiently while Inuyasha started stuttering.

"Oh! Well..um, its....its a-a feudal thing, you wouldn't find it funny." He finally managed to spit out. Ryoga shrugged and turned back to the cave.

"Whatever, I'm tired. Later." Ryoga disappeared into the cave and Inuyasha let out a relieved sigh, thankful that Ryoga bought his excuse.

"Hes as bad as Kagome...." Inuyasha muttered as he set off down the hill in search of Kouga. He found him a little way down the path dusting himself off and pouting childishly.

"Hey mutt." Kouga greeted after a few minutes of silence between the two.

"Your an idiot, you know that right?"

"How was I suppose to know he would react like that?" Kouga asked plopping down in the middle of the path boneless.

"Your powers of deduction are obviously muddled by the heat so I shall spell it out for you: Ryoga is much like Kagome when she has her monthly heat, of course you wouldn't know because your never around, but she gets awfully bitchy during this period of time. Most females do, human or not, including half-demons....you get where I'm going with this?" Kouga scratched his head in thought and then nodded.

"I think so. Your saying that Ryoga is going to be like that for the next couple weeks?" Inuyasha nodded and sat down next to the cliff face. "Well, this is going to be a couple of painful weeks for you." Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at Kouga's quip.

"Oh? You think so?"

"Well, yeah. You said so yourself, hes gonna be bitchy."

"That doesn't mean hes gonna be bitchy to me. Your the one who triggered his anger. As long as I don't mention you or you don't get too close we should get along fine."

"Why do these things always happen to me?" Kouga asked pitifully, cradling his head in his hands.

"Because your an idiot." Kouga glared and got up to leave.

"Well, if he does get too bitchy for you to handle my cave isn't open. Bye mutt."

"Just don't go crawling up here when you get too horny for your own good!" Inuyasha yelled at Kouga's retreating tornado. He snickered and got up to head back to their cave as well.

Once he reached the cave entrance he heard a distinct growling noise and peered into the cave. The growling wasn't very menacing, almost like a puppy trying to be intimidating, but Inuyasha was still curious as to why Ryoga would be growling. He knelt down to get a better view of the inside of the cave but couldn't see anything.

"Ryoga?" He questioned. The growling stopped instantly and a sharp but loud shriek met his ears, causing him to wince in pain and cover his ringing ears. Next thing Inuyasha knew, he was laying on his back staring up at Ryoga...

Hey guys! Sorry it took me soooo long to review but I had some problems...Anyway, I have a few ideas on how the next chapter will play out, but I'm not concrete on anything. If anyone has something they wanna see or an idea about what should happen next, please share! I am open to ideas! Sorry its soo short, but I am just getting back into the groove, ya know? Anyway, Peace!