Normally Youko would be annoyed at the assuming tone in Kuronue's voice…but he had a point.

"I've made a bet." He said.

Kagome looked back to him, her brows furrowed. "You're a kitsune. That's hardly abnormal."

He smiled, said nothing. It wasn't like she was wrong.

"You should be asking him what the bet is little one." Kuronue encouraged.

She toyed with the grass beside her knees, careful not to tear it out of the ground. Her eyes were steady upon his as she glanced back his way. "Okay, I'll bite. What is it?"


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AN: thank you for all the support, me and FFnet are still working through our issues, but adapting is getting easier (I'm the type that learns to coexist with a problem rather than fix it...which is likely problematic; anyone else out there guilty of this?)

(PS. chapter 100 is coming up soon!)

(PPS. for all of you who ask me this - no, that does not mean, despite your most fervent wishes, that I'm going to stop writing in drabbles...I know some of you lot think that's silly, but I rather enjoy writing this way ;) hopefully some of you do too!)