Kagome spun around in her comfortable chair, stretched her back, and yawned.

She finger-combed her hair and shook it out, uncaring of the droplets of water spraying onto her desk. Then she cracked her knuckles, wiggled her toes, and allowed her droopy eyes and chapped lips to melt into a smile.

Ahhhh, it feels so good to be home.

It was a Saturday night (the best night), there was no school tomorrow, she could sleep in as much as she wanted, her friends were coming over for dinner riiight now –

"Hey, Kagome." Her window pane opened and a night breeze wafted in. She twitched. "Shippo's been bitchin' about getting potato chips from you, so – "

She wrenched open the curtains, scowling. Her boyfriend continued blabbering on obliviously.

" – get the sweet and sour BBQ, will ya – "

"What – are – you – doing?" she hissed. "You know you can't come in here while my friends are around – "

"Why – "

"Kagome?" came Ayumi's voice from beyond the door. "Are you in there?"

"Um – yeah!" She let out an ostentatious chuckle and gave Inuyasha a blinkered, strained smile. He looked back up at her like a perplexed puppy, which was cute, but she did not have the time to speak to him. "Be there in a few minutes, Ayumi!"

"Kagome...? Are you talking to – "

"It's nothing! NOTHING. Nothing at all. Ha. Ha..." She leaned against the window, pressing her mouth to Inuyasha's ear. "Look, I'll talk to you later, okay? But for now...sit. Please."

The thud was rougher than she thought, punctuated with a yelp.

Kagome winced, her heart twinging. She didn't mean to sit him so hard, or even hurt him at all.

But he couldn't be there at the moment. No one in the modern era, except her family, knew that he was a hanyo, and she preferred to keep it that way, though she was sure Inuyasha wouldn't mind being shown off to her classmates.

She would make it up to him later. For now, dinner with her friends, and hopefully she could pawn off some class notes from them.

"Kagome? I'm coming in." Now Ayumi sounded very worried, and Kagome crossed her fingers that none of her conversation with Inuyasha was overheard.

She knew from the hesitant, faltering expressions that something was up with her friends.

Eri wouldn't look at her face; every time Kagome tried to catch her gaze in a smile, she blinked away as though motes of dust had become lodged in her eyes.

Hmmm. Weird.

"So...what's up, girls?" she said. "Hope I didn't miss anything important while I was stuck in the hospital with...mono orangosis." Was that the one her jii-chan had invented, or was it something else like hypothyroidism?

...It was definitely mono orangosis. Hypothyroidism was last month.

"Yeah, yeah, just the usual," Yuka said in a distant voice. "Kagome...the one you were just talking to right now, that was...um..."

Kagome sighed. They were too damn sharp for her.

"It was my boyfriend. You can't see him right now, though. He's not here."

He was hiding somewhere, definitely nursing a nasty grudge against her for that last sit.

But she would make it up to him. She swore.

"Kagome...uhhh..." Ayumi looked like she was being asked to swallow poison. "I...I know that you've been ill..."

"Really, really ill," Eri interjected. "And that your delinquent boyfriend is two-timing you...and you're frustrated...But...listen, Kagome, taking out your frustrations on that poor thing, it's definitely not healthy."

"Or normal."

Kagome blinked. "Yeah...you know I'm sick, so definitely not healthy."

That was apparently the wrong thing to say. The three blanched, then turned alternate shades of red, green, and yellow in unison, just like traffic lights.

"Kagome, it's against the law," Yuka said. "You...you have to understand, there are boundaries...and...and rules, you know? Some things, some things, people just shouldn't do them."

Kagome frowned. This little spiel sounded a lot like the ones people would spout against Inuyasha in the Sengoku Jidai, about how he was a hanyo, loathsome offspring of human and yokai, not to be fraternized with.

But...how did her friends even know? It wasn't like she told them.

"Kagome, it's illegal. And honestly, it's really gross," Yuka continued.

Kagome ground her teeth.

Were they calling her boyfriend gross? Sure, she had complained about him a few times, but speaking to him wasn't illegal. Or gross.

Actually, he was a charming, ridiculously handsome young man with the cutest smile and the softest ears –

"Yeah, there's a reason it's against the law. As your friends, we need to tell you to stop – "

"Why? He's a good guy," she said, leaping to his defense.

"Kagome, you can't, please, it's wrong, it's not okay, it's basically animal cruelty – "

Kagome crossed her arms and glared at the offending Eri.

"Hey, I may have complained about his table manners before, but he's not an animal!"

"Please stop before we tell – what?" Ayumi finally halted, as though she had been driving a car, flooring the accelerator, and just narrowly missed crashing into a stop sign.

"You heard me! My boyfriend is the most charming guy ever. And he's NOT two-timing me! It was just a – "

"Wait. Wait. Wait. Time-out." Yuka waved her hands in a chopping motion. "Kagome, are you or are you not claiming that you are currently dating a dog?"

"...What? I – he's a boy!"

...With dog ears. And a half-yokai lineage, but whatever!

He was humanoid!

She was not into...that. Ewww, she wasn't that character from Greek mythology...you know, the one who gave birth to a half-man, half-bull.

What did they all think of her? Would they truly believe so badly of her?

Her three friends all let out a breath in complete synchronization. They did, in fact, believe so badly of her, it seemed, at least for a few disturbing moments.

"Then...then why did you say 'osuwari'? For real, I assumed the worst!"

"I was afraid to tell your mama! Imagine what she'd say if her daughter was interested in...in besti – "

"Let's not talk about it anymore, okay, Eri? Kagome-chan is a nice girl and would never do that to a poor innocent animal! Thank goodness!"

Inuyasha, as predicted, was in a brutal sulk after dinner. It was the cutest thing she had seen, him scowling with arms crossed, nesting at the foot of her bed.

Waiting for her all the while. He really was the best guy.

"I'm sorry." She sat down and enfolded him into her arms.

He was still scowling. She stroked his ears, and to her delight, he didn't move away, instead nuzzling his face into her neck.

"'m still mad at you," he muttered into her collarbone.

"I'll get you those potato chips you were talking about."

"I want ramen."

She smiled.

"If I get you ramen, you won't be mad at me anymore?"

She'd buy him ten cups of ramen if he wanted. He was easy to bribe with food.

"No, after ramen, I want ice cream. Then sweet bean paste. Then..."

She silenced him with a deep massage of his ears. His voice faded into deep, contented, sleepy growls.

Saturday nights could be...strange, but she wouldn't pass them up for anything.

A/N: The idea of Kagome yelling "Sit!" and her friends hearing it but having zero context as to what she was talking about, and then jumping to the wrong conclusions, is just so hilarious to me...

And written partially because I saw a post the other day, asking if Inuyasha being an inu hanyo means that Kagome is into bestiality...and no, no she's not. Because Inuyasha is not an animal, he's a guy.

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