DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN INUYASHA SO GET THE LAWYERS OFF MY BACK ALREADY! And oh yes forgot to say the names "Aiyana" & "Uchyo" were made up by my friend Saragato. I just gave them to characters of mine cuz I couldn't think of anything at the time.

A/N: Sorry to keep you all waiting, I've just had many problems that I don't want to get into.

Inuyasha: "Basically, she got addicted to a game, her computer got a virus and she lost every thing she's done on chapter nine along with a lot of other shit, had to baby sit, and had writers block, and I didn't understand half of what I just said."

Shippo: "It's ok Inuyasha. We all know your mentally handicapped."

Kagome: *stands between Inuyasha and Shippo* "You two stop it."

Katsue: "Yea we have to get on with the fanfic."

Aradia: "Now my faithful reviewers, this is the long awaited chapter nine and yes, there is a Katsue/Kouga lemon, courtesy to my wonderful, if not perverted and psychotic friend, Saragato. Take a bow crazy one."

Saragato: *throws her blow torch and Kikyo into a trunk* "Hello."

Kouga: "She scares me."

Miroku: "Be grateful Aradia-sama asked her to write you and Katsue a lemon. She could always embarrass you in it. Hell you should be grateful that you even get a lemon. Even dog boy and Kagome got some to have sex. I'M NOT GETTING ANY ACTION AT ALL!"

Saragato: *shoving bamboo shoots under Kikyo's finger and toe nails*

Kouga: "She still scares me."

Katsue: "Same here."

Aradia: "What's your problem Miroku?"

Miroku: "I WANT A FUCKING LEMON WITH SANGO!"

Sango: O.O *backs away from Miroku*

Aradia: *sweat drops* "I'll ask reviewers what they think. If they say yes I'll see if Saragato will write you one. Until then lets get on with chapter nine."

Miroku: *holding up a "GIVE ME A LEMON!" sign*

**Scene closes with Sara tying Kikyo to a stake and looking for her lost blow torch**

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Chapter Nine; There's No Place Like Hell- I Mean Home

The journey actually didn't take as long as they thought it would. Once Katsue pulled Kouga, Inuyasha, and the rest of her friends, save Kirara, into her family's little fighting time flew by. Before they knew it the sun had set and Kuriiro came to a complete halt at the base of a mountain. Kinsha turned to the others behind and said, "We're here. Everybody off unless you want to be thrown off."

But unfortunately the transformed Kuriiro decided it would be funny to stand on his hind legs and let them fall off. Katsue was probably the first to land flat on her ass and the first to have someone land on her. To add insult to injury it was Kouga who landed on her, putting them in a very… interesting position.

"Kouga, if you want to keep your hands, REMOVE THEM NOW!" "And if I don't?" "That's it!" "CRAP I WAS JOKING!" And Kouga was in the fetal position with his hands on his crotch with a now regretful Katsue, four worried friends, and six bent over with laughter part cat demons, hovering over him. Once he regained the ability to sit up straight and the others backed off he glared at Katsue. His glare soon became a cocky grin as he thought, and could have sworn she read his mind from her expression, 'You will pay.' Their staring went on until Kuriiro, now back to his humanoid form said, "Damn for a guy who just got kicked in the balls by his mate you sure seem happy Kouga."

"WE'RE NOT MATES!" both cried and then thought with a pair matching smug grins, 'Yet.' Now everyone was scared by the two lovers so they decided to turn their attention to why they were there. Kagome asked, "So how much farther do we have to go until we get to the palace?" "We're here," said the twins in unison. The confused expressions that came over Inuyasha, Kagome, Kouga, and Shippo's faces made Kinsha explain more. "The palace was built inside the mountain and the door can only be opened on the inside or with blood of someone related to Lord Osuneko. I will demonstrate."

The demoness cut her palm, then placed said palm on the rocky side of the mountain. When she removed her hand the rocks shifted and formed into an open archway leading into a long, torch lit hall decorated with portraits and tapestries. They walked into the hall and the shard hunters almost jumped out of their skin when the archway changed back, resulting in snickers from the others but once that was over they continued forward. Inuyasha and the others, who had never been here before, took brief glimpses at the portraits. Katsue stopped in front of one and starred at it, only two people noticing ¾ cat demon. One was Kouga, who walked up behind her and looked at the portrait and smiled, understanding immediately why she had stopped, wrapping his arms around her shoulders, now able to tell she was shaking. Unfortunately the other person to notice was…

"Katsue whose the pretty lady in the picture? She looks like you!" Shippo's voice was loud enough to bring everybody's attention to the cat girl in the arms of the wolf prince and the portrait they were looking at. Kagome looked at it and had to agree with Shippo, the woman did look a great deal like Katsue, from the long golden hair with cat ears to match and the tail wrapped of her waist. In fact the only differences were their eyes and the woman in the portrait had a maturity Katsue lacked. The miko was about to ask who the person was when a girl's voice she didn't recognize came from behind, answering the question before it was asked.

"She is the late Lady Aiyana, the second mate of Lord Osuneko." They all turned to see a short, black haired girl with cat ears, one red eye and one yellow, and wearing a dark blue kimono with an extremely fluffy looking tail appearing from the back of it. She seemed to be at least as old as Shippo but something about her seemed a little off to the shard hunters. Katsue, Inari, and their cousins seemed to know her because they smiled sadly at her and Inari jumped the girl that was barely an inch taller than her and cried out, "MUZAI, MUZAI, MUZAI! I'VE MISSED YOU!"

The girl hugged Inari and smiled sadly, "I've missed you too. Now could you please loosen your grip. You're about to break something." The kitsune/cat girl did as she was asked. Katsue broke herself free of Kouga's embrace and kneeled down to hug Muzai, though not as tightly as her sister had just done. "Hello Muzai. Your mother treating you any better?" Muzai shook her head "no" quickly. Shippo, the innocent minded child that he is, asked, "Who's her mother and why isn't she treating her well?" This question resulted in hissing from the part cat demons.

Jingaa was to answer the question with a growl, "That psychopathic bitch, no offense Muzai, Shinoko."

The answer caused the others to fall over anime style. Inuyasha recovered first and said quite bluntly, "THAT HOMICIDAL LUNATIC HAS A DAUGHTER?" Ishoku nodded, "You bet. The crazy part of it is that Muzai isn't as old as she looks. I think it's either the torture sessions Shinoko puts her through or whatever type of demon her dad is that has something to do with it." "How old is the kid? Ten, eleven?" asked Kouga. The demons all said together, "Sixteen," which resulted in another anime fall from the shard hunters. Kagome recovered first this time and said, "But she looks like she's no older than Shippo!"

Muzai, who seemed a little on edge about people discussing her lack of growth, said, "I'm sure I'll grow sooner or later." Then getting off the subject, "Kinsha, Ishoku, Kuriiro, Shouga, Jingaa, your parents wish you to prepare for dinner." The cousins nodded then ran off in whatever direction their room was. Then the cat demon turned to the people that were still there. "And Lord Osuneko wishes you all to come to the dinning room now." Before anyone could saw anything the girl who looked too young for her age turned on her heel and walked briskly down the hall, leaving them to walk behind her.

They walked in disturbing silence down the hall for the next five minutes before they came to a large set of doors. Muzai pushed them both open with ease and led them into a beautiful room with a long table in the center with more people, both demon and human, than they could count. The first three Inuyasha and Kagome noticed were Sesshoumaru, Jaken, and Rin, in that order with Rin on Sesshoumaru's left and the tall, male cat demon with black hair and green eyes at the head of the table to the right of him. Inuyasha's surprise at seeing his half brother there was temporary as he whispered to his mate, "I would have been more surprised if he and his fan club weren't here."

Kagome was the second to spot Sango and Miroku, sitting next to each other a few empty seats down from Sesshoumaru and his group. The first to notice Sango and Miroku was Kirara, who was now squirming in Kagome's arms to be set free. She let go of the cat, who immediately ran into the open arms of a smiling Sango. The demon exterminator saw the miko and the others, pointed them out to Miroku, and both waved to their friends, not a bit surprised to see them there.

Katsue seemed to be happier than expected, but that was probably because there was an empty seat next to Nikuta where her crazy as a shit house rat half sister should have been. But her shaky hand still sought out Kouga's hand and squeezed it to the point of almost breaking bones. It had after all been four years since she had last been here and didn't know what to expect.

Muzai told them to stay and went to the head of the table and whispered something to the cat demon next to Sesshoumaru and a female kitsune with red and blonde colored hair, with furry fox tail and feet to match, on the opposite side of the table to the dog demon, then sat down in seat next to the empty seat beside Nikuta's. Everyone else in the room turned quiet as the kitsune turned and looked at the group of shard hunters and looked like she was about to cry when she saw Inari, who seemed to be on the brink of tears as well. The female rose from her seat like lightening and before the shard hunters could even see her coming she had scooped up Inari and was crushing the demon child to her chest and sobbing, "Praise every god I know you're back!"

The little girl had tangled her arms around the woman's neck and was making little hiccupping noises. "I'm sorry we left mommy I'm sorry! We wanted Katsue-chan back! It's our fault she's gone!" It didn't take much for the others to figure out who "we" was as the mother comforted her upset child. "Shush my little joji, it's alright. It's no one's fault but the person who did it." And then the kitsune's attention turned to her step daughter and her friends. The woman, who was at least a foot shorter than Katsue, jumped up and wrapped her free arm around the teen's neck in a very odd looking hug. Then she got down and, still smiling, said very lightly, "You had your father and I worried sick, you know that! Four years and not a word! It took Onikisu sending a vassal almost a week ago, and might I say he told us how he was doing in three months than you in four years, to find out you were even ALIVE! I know I'm not your mother but still worry about you as I worry for any of my children. We weren't even sure that you'd come back when we sent you're cousins-"

"Mesuno, she just got home, do you think she wants you to be telling her all that stuff?" said the black haired cat demon who was sitting next to her, who had gotten up not long after she had. Katsue's eyes went big and she immediately bowed down to him. It took Kouga seconds to recognize the demon for him to do an impression of his koi's expression and bow as well. Kagome, Inuyasha, and Shippo of course, didn't know who he was so they didn't bow. It took the wolf prince's hissing "Bow or else you'll be in deep shit!" to get them to bow too. The male was chuckling before he said, "My little Katsue, you've been away from home for too long. Your friends had the right idea. There is no need for bowing to an old demon like me. Rise, rise."

All five rose but Katsue still kept her head lowered. Inuyasha and the others were staring in disbelief, all but Kouga wondering who was this demon who was able to humble their friend who'd normally curse out most of their enemies while fighting with language that rivaled Inuyasha's. The demon approached her and placed a hand on her chin. He tilted her face up to his and smiled. "You've grown so much since I saw you last. You're the perfect image of your mother." Katsue's eyes widened for a moment but when he let go of her chin she said quietly, "Thank you father." She turned away and pointed to her companions, "These are my friends, Inuya-"

"The hanyou Inuyasha, his mate Kagome, their adopted pup Shippo, and this," said the demon lord, who was now a foot away from Kouga, "Is Ookami's boy all grown up. He looks a lot like his father did too." With that he sighed and said, "I'm sorry I couldn't have been there when he passed. Once Aiyana reassured me for a few hours he wasn't a threat we did become good friends." Kouga nodded and said, "Yea well he went out fighting. No other way he would have wanted go Osuneko." "Too right." Osuneko clapped the wolf demon on the back, almost sending the younger demon stumbling. Inuyasha snickered for a moment before Osuneko turned his attention on the dog hanyou.

"Sesshoumaru told me about you." Inuyasha glared at Sesshoumaru, who he wasn't mistaken had a slight smirk for a millisecond before his face became cold and emotionless again, before grunting out, "And what has he said?"

The cat demon had to think a minute before he recalled everything the dog demon had told him. "That you were a filthy, insufferable, pig headed, half demon scum bastard that should never have been allowed to draw first breath were his words. But it's probably just normal sibling rivalry making him saying that." The last sentence got laughs from the shard hunters, including Sango and Miroku, that confused Osuneko for a moment before he shrugged and turned to Kagome. "You're the miko Sesshoumaru told me reversed the Tetsusaiga with an arrow right? If what Sesshoumaru said as well as the rumors I've heard about Inuyasha are true your patience must be limitless to be his mate and bare his children."

And he just passed Shippo up and went back to his seat, but not without giving a sly smile from the boy to his youngest daughter. Before he sat he turned to them and said, "I want you five to sit and enjoy yourselves as long as you are in my home. Hopefully," on that note he looked at his daughter, Kouga, and Shippo, "you will stay for longer than you expected."

With that the noise started up again and the five sat in some empty seats along with Mesuno, who still held her daughter in her arms. Katsue and Kouga sat in the two empty seats between Mesuno, who now had Inari in between her and Osuneko, and Nikuta, who Kouga was sitting next to because he didn't trust him next to her. Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo took the three empty seats between Rin and Sango. Kagome sat next to Sango, and the rapidly got caught up with each other in about what had happened since the miko and hanyou had gone through the well, Kagome leaving out the activities of the night before of course. Shippo sat beside Rin, then somehow Inari snuck away from her mother's affection, which was starting to smother the poor girl, and disappeared somewhere, Jaken following them because it was his job to watch Rin and keep her out of trouble. That left Inuyasha next to Sesshoumaru, which resulted in a cold area in the space between them that no one wanted get in.

Dinner actually went smoothly and our heroes were enjoying themselves well enough. It was after dinner that Sango handed a note to Kagome and Katsue, whom she knew would show Inuyasha and Kouga, that said 'We need to talk. Miroku's and my room in an hour. Can't discuss it here, definitely too many good ears.' The others had to agree with the last comment, and all four were shocked that Sango was actually sharing a room with the perverted. Shippo told his adopted parents that he would be playing with the other children in the palace, which they both approved of since they knew he'd be safe and whatever Sango wanted to talk about was he was better off not knowing.

Muzai was the guide to Kouga, Inuyasha, and Kagome's rooms, Katsue still remembering the way to her room and the demon hunter and monk were already given a room. Kouga's room, to both his and Katsue's displeasure, was on the exact opposite side of the palace than the cat girl's room. Inuyasha and Kagome, sharing a room of course, were a about ten rooms down from the wolf demon's. And to their surprise, Sango and Miroku's room was somewhere in between those rooms. It was mildly suspicious to Kouga that Katsue was so far from all of them, and didn't intend to keep it that way. Once everyone was settled in their rooms Muzai bid them good night and went away.

When it was time for the meeting they all went to the other two's room, not surprised to see the infamous red hand print on the monk's face and a fuming Sango. What surprised them was that Sesshoumaru was in the room, how showed only mild interest in the goings on between the two humans. Inuyasha was now growling, "What the hell are you doing here Sesshoumaru?"

"We invited him Inuyasha, no need to be on edge," said Sango, then glared at the monk whose hand was inching closer to her rear. He backed off, cleared his throat, and said, "He said he knew something that we didn't about… Rubii." Everyone knew what he meant by 'Rubii' and Katsue let out a loud say, saying, "We all know what you're implying Miroku. Just go ahead and say it, he knows something you don't about Rubii's murder."

Miroku, not taken aback by the cat girl's small outburst, went on to tell the story, "Yesterday Oni and Rubii told us about a shard rumor that they said had to be seen to quickly, right after you two went through the well and Katsue and Kouga went off to god knows where. We decided to go see but were reluctant to have them come with us but they said we wouldn't know what village unless they came so we brought them. Then last night just as we were about to set camp when Kagura attacked." He ignored the growls coming from Kouga's direction and continued. "She wanted the children so we had Kirara get them away while we tried to hold her back. She knocked us out, don't ask why she didn't kill us, we still don't know. In the few hours we were out I guess she killed Rubii and took Oni."

"MREEOOOW MREEEEOOOOW!" Kirara was yowling her head off and everyone but Katsue seemed to ignore her. She kneeled down in front of the cat and listened patiently, her brow quickly furrowing. She stood back up and said, "Kirara says that Kagura wasn't the only one there that night. That when she was carrying my brother and sister away they ran into a girl with white hair and mirror." Kagome interrupted when she gasped out "Kanna was there? This is getting worse and worse." Katsue just nodded, "Yea Kirara said that was her name. Anyway, Kirara stopped, Oni and Rubii fell off, the girl used the mirror to steal his soul," at this point she sat down on the floor, not really believing she was quoting what happened to her siblings from the small cat demon. "Then she says there was nothing until she woke up, saw Rubii's body, and ran to get Sango and Miroku."

Kouga kneeled down next to her and had wrapped his arms around her shoulders, trying to make her feel even the slightest bit better as Sango went on to tell them what happened after she and the houshi found the child's body. Kagome watched what her friends were doing while listening. 'Poor Katsue. She's lost a lot in just a day. But then again,' she thought as she looked around at each of her friends and her mate, 'Who in this room hasn't lost something because of Naraku. Why the hell did he send those two after Oni and Rubii anyway?'

Then Inuyasha, very irritated by his brother's presence when Sango finished, yelled, "SO WHY THE HELL IS THE BASTARD HERE!"

Sesshoumaru finally made like he was paying attention, "It's actually quite simple. I knew Osuneko from when he and our father were friends before he died. He knew about the Tensaiga's powers and wanted me to bring his daughter back to life, but is too late for her. I'm staying because the Lord of the Southern lands invited me to stay a week, at least until the child's cremation. I agreed so I'm staying until then."

Inuyasha grunted, not really thinking this explained much. "So what the hell do you know known of us do?"

"Actually Inuyasha," the dog demon said, "Anyone with a demon's sense of smell will be able to tell that it was Onikisu who killed her, that is until she's burned." They all went quiet and Sesshoumaru made his way out, stopping by Katsue, still in Kouga's arms, and said, "My condolences to you for your lose. Perhaps you shouldn't get anyone else involved," then he left the room. The others were shocked that Sesshoumaru actually said something almost nice. Almost except for that last comment that no one could quite make sense of. Katsue seemed to be in a daze as everyone in the room stayed for a few minutes.

It was Kagome that finally said, "Perhaps we should all go to bed now." Everyone nodded their heads. They all got up, Kouga helping Katsue since she seemed to still be in shock from finding out her Onikisu killed Rubii. When she was on her feet she asked the demon, "Can I sleep with you tonight Kou-kun?" He nodded and led her out the door, followed by Kagome. Inuyasha trailed behind and said to Miroku, "I'm guessing it wasn't Sango who made your sleeping arrangements."

The monk, a large grin spreading across his face, replied, "I don't know who did but I want to shake their hands for such a beautiful roommate." Then he received a whack upside the head with Hiraikotsu from a red faced demon exterminator. Inuyasha smirked then went to join his mate in their room. He saw Kouga and Katsue had walked past the wolf demon's room and figured they were going to her room. He shook his head, hoping that Kouga would behave himself until Katsue snapped out of it, then continued on to his room.

When he got there, his mate was just finishing up changing into a night shirt and shorts. She felt his presence and turned around, smiling at him sweetly. He smiled back as she got onto the futon, grabbing the blanket and pillows from her bag for them. The half demon lied down beside her and pulled the covers over them before wrapping his arms around her. When his hand touched her stomach he couldn't help but imagine a very large Kagome yelling "sit" at him for telling her she was getting fat or things like that. Then his mind went to more serious matters, such as what would they do about their journey once they she was that close to having his pup?

"We'll worry about it when it happens. Just go to sleep," said a sleepy Kagome, scaring the shit out of Inuyasha. 'What the fuck? Did she read my mind or something?' "Kagome? Kagome?" He was answered with soft snoring. 'Great, she's already asleep on me. Oh well, I guess she's right.' The hanyou nuzzled his face against the crook of her neck and went to sleep almost as quickly as she did after breathing in her sweet scent.

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RUN KIDDIES RUN, A LEMONS A COMING!

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As Kagome and Inuyasha were quickly falling to sleep, Katsue and Kouga weren't going to sleep so easily. They were sitting on the futon, her sitting in his lap with his arms around her waist. He was worried about the woman he had fallen in a few short months. 'She usually doesn't act like this. But then again, she doesn't lose siblings everyday. Crap I have no clue what to do about this.' He placed his chin on her shoulder and whispered in her ear. "To think, when we were kids you would come running to me when you were hurt or not feeling well, I had no fucking clue what to do back then either. But somehow I always made it better." At this point the laughed a little "I didn't even remember us together until Uchyo reminded me. Could you do me a favor and explain to me how I did it then so I can do it again?"

This time she turned in his arms. He saw the tears threatening to fall and the look on her face that made her look so much like a lost little girl as she said "You were just there and made me feel safe. That's all I needed then and it's all I need now. Can't you just do that again?"

Kouga nodded his head but wasn't prepared for her to push him over and start to kiss him, innocently at first quickly becoming more heated. Katsue's left hand brushed his cheek, making him shudder. He immediately responded to her kiss by nibbling on her bottom lip. She inwardly grinned and she put her tongue into his mouth, beginning a battle between both of their tongues. Kouga, feeling himself getting a strange sensation in his pants, fiercely pushed Katsue on her back, halfway off the futon. Breaking off the kiss, he began breathing heavily.

"Don't stop here.." He heard her moan in-between her own ragged breaths.

"I don't intend to," He responded, pulling off his shirt and pushing his mouth back up on hers roughly, almost as if he was going to crush her skull.

Kouga slid his hand up her leg, pulling up her kimono as he went to her thigh. She gasped, feeling him pinch the soft skin in-between her legs. Releasing a small moan of pleasure from the attention he was giving her, Katsue dug her hands into his back, demanding he continue.

But, he didn't listen. He removed his hand from under her kimono and began unbuttoning it slowly. He felt her nipples get hard as they were exposed to the cool air of the room. Kouga smiled at this.

Katsue, who didn't want to just lie there, moved her legs so one of her thighs brushed the bulge in his pants. Kouga breathed in sharply, not expecting her actions.

Pushing both of them into a sitting position, Katsue slipped off the kimono from her shoulders to her waist where a pair of frilly pink panties could be seen.

"What the hell is that you're wearing?" Kouga said, noticing the pink undergarment covering her womanhood.

"Kagome gave them to me, you like them?" Katsue replied, licking Kouga's neck. She liked the salty taste he had. Kouga shuddered as her tongue went onto his shoulder, feeling himself harden as she teased his body even more, he let out a soft groan.

His hands cupped her breasts. They fit perfectly in his hands. If it was possible, Katsue's nipples hardened more as Kouga traced them with his finger and flicked them a few times, all the while trailing kisses up and down her neck.

"It's getting hard to control myself, you know," Kouga whispered, slowly laying Katsue back onto the futon so he could wriggle her out of her kimono and panties and so he could, too, remove his own clothing in which held his erecting manhood.

Katsue grinned, her mouth still on his shoulder. "I can feel you," she responded, making one of her hands graze him. A shiver went up his spine as she began slipping off his pants, not even getting them past his knees. Katsue wasn't even bothering with her own under things as she stroked him, hearing him groan and growl with pleasure. "You want this, yes..?" She purred, bringing his hand to her womanhood, making his finger slip under the thin cloth. He felt himself get harder. It was getting harder, too, to not lose control and just rip the panties off and take her. She knew the pleasure was getting painful for him, as was it with her. But she found that she loved teasing him.

"Yes..." Kouga said, almost sounding like he was growling, "I want you." He finished, making his lips meet hers. His tongue went into her mouth before she could even protest. Pulling the kimono, along with her panties, down to reveal her womanhood, he placed himself on top of her so he could put himself in her.

"Now.." Katsue moaned, "Do it now..!!"

Coming through with her demands, Kouga pushed himself in slowly, making sure he didn't hurt her and he waited, feeling her accommodate with his size. He pulled himself back out, then roughly pushed himself back in. Continuing this for a few minutes, every time getting faster and rougher. Katsue felt like she was going to break under him, she was climaxing so fast.

"Ahh..." She moaned softly," Ahh...Ahh..Kougaaaaaa...!!" She screamed, finally reaching her climax. Kouga felt himself go mad with the intense pleasure he was getting from her calling his name in such a manner. Bringing his teeth onto her shoulder as he came to his own climax, he bit her. She was his now.

He rolled off her, breathing heavily. He looked at Katsue, who had sweat rolling down her body as her chest heaved. He, now sore from having to move such much, covered himself and Katsue up with the blanket so neither of them would freeze.

Catching her breath finally, Katsue rolled on her side and snuggled into Kouga as his arm snaked around her waist. Soon, they both were asleep.

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Ok children it's safe to come out now.

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Kinsha woke up in her bed, her heart pounding in her chest and ears like thunder. That had been one of the most real nightmares she had ever had. Corpses of people she did and didn't know lying in pools of their own blood. Demons, more terrible than any she had seen if her entire life despite being a demon herself. And in the middle of it all had been a demon in a baboon pelt, laughing like a madman, surrounded by followers, and holding up a beautiful pink jewel.

She had had dreams that felt real before, most of them coming to pass. But this one had been more sinister than the rest. Something in her heart told her that if this one came to be they would all be in deep shit.

Kinsha rose quickly from her bed and draped a robe over her night clothes and left the room. There was only one person who believed that her dreams were ever real and she had a feeling that she'd find her in that wolf, Kouga's, room. The only thing she didn't like about going there was that she had to go down two flights of stairs and across the hall. 'Oh well Kinsha, you know Katsue's the only person who doesn't think your crazy when you tell her about your dreams.'

After three minutes that seemed to be centuries she was on the floor was on. In just a minute or two she'd be telling her cousin about the dream and see what she thought. 'Maybe her friends will know something about the dream too.' she thought hopefully. She finally turned in the direction the hall his room was on and stopped dead in her tracks. 'Something's not right. The sooner I get to Katsue the better.'

She walked down the darkened hall. She was nervous about being here now. She heard a noise behind her and whipped around. There was nothing but shadows.

'Stop being silly girl, you're just going to Kouga's room. Nothing's gonna happen.' she thought, though the fear was still there. She started moving again, now sprinting. Soon she was at Kouga's door and was about to knock when someone grabbed her wrists from behind in one hand and rammed the other hand through her chest. As she felt her life slowly slip away she turned her head and choked out, "Sh-Shinoko?" and closed her eyes for the last time.

Shinoko smiled as she dropped the corpse. "Oops, my mistake. Thought you were someone else," she whispered in a singsong tone and left the girl to be found by someone else in the morning.

"What?" Inuyasha jerked up, swearing he could smell blood. He looked at his mate and found she was still asleep and just fine. Now that he was awake he could definitely smell blood nearby. He got out of bed and quietly snuck out to the room.

He followed noise down the hall, proceeding quietly down the hall. He stopped momentarily in front of Sango and Miroku's room, then seemed to make a decision. He knocked on the door three times. The hanyou was about to knock a fourth time when a tired houshi, with quite a few more bruises, opened the door. Before he could even ask Inuyasha whispered, "I can smell blood coming from outside Kouga's room. He and Katsue are sleeping in her room so I think we should check."

Miroku nodded, going back in to grab his staff as a weapon before leaving the room as quietly as possible so not to wake the sleeping Sango. They proceeded to heading down the hall until Inuyasha saw where the smell of blood came from. Katsue's cousin, Kinsha, was lying on the ground with a hole in her chest.

He turned to Miroku and said, "Wake up Sango and go find the nearest guard or someone who actually lives here. I'm gonna get Kouga and Katsue."

The monk nodded and did as he was told. Inuyasha then followed his two friends' scents and wasn't really surprised to smell from there that the two had finally mated. 'I don't care if you two are asleep, awake, or screwing your brains out, you're coming to explain why there is a corpse outside the wolf wimps room.'

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Katsue had woken up and found herself releasing her lover's hair from it's ponytail and removing the band he was always wearing and now fiddling with the stray strands of black. She figured that it was about an hour or two before sunrise but she felt restless all the same. If Kouga was awake she might have been up for another round but unfortunately for her he still slept soundly. Or she thought he was until Kouga grabbed the hand fiddling with his hair.

"Ya know koibito, a demon can pretend to be asleep while his mate fiddles with his hair for so long," he said jokingly as he cracked his beautiful blue eyes open. Katsue playfully pushed him. "And how long have you been pretending to be asleep while I'm awake, restless, and bored?"

"Hmmmm," the wolf prince thought as he propped himself up on his elbow. "I'd have to say since you woke up." "You asshole, we could have done something," she said half angry, half joking. Kouga leaned over and kissed her softly on the lips as his hand trailed down her side, "And I thought I'd worn you out on the first go."

She giggled as he pulled her, if possible, closer to him than she already was and kissed her along her jaw and neck. "I guess you'll have to rectify that mistake." Kouga nodded against her neck and mumbled a "Mhmm." Then there was a knock on the door. Kouga moaned in frustration, "Damn dog turd, what the hell does he want?"

"I don't know, why don't you go see," said the cat girl as she turned away from Kouga, pulled the covers up to her chin, closed her eyes, and pretended to be asleep.

"But Sue-chan it's your room," Kouga protested and shook her gently. When she didn't stir he sighed, found and put on his pants, and went to see what Inuyasha wanted. 'Damn girl. I still have to pay her back for kicking me. Now I have to add making me answer the door for dog boy too.' He opened said door and grumbled, "What do you want at this hour dog turd?"

Inuyasha didn't seem to have any tolerance for upset and slightly horny wolf demons in the morning. "Tell Katsue Miroku and I found one her cousins in front of your door." And all thoughts of playfulness went flying out the window. Katsue shot upright and wrapped the blanket around her so no one saw anything they shouldn't. She pushed past Kouga and quickly asked, "What are you talking about Inuyasha?"

This time Inuyasha's voice wasn't so cutting when he spoke, "Katsue, your cousin Kinsha was killed. The houshi and I found her outside Kouga's room."

The information was barely processed by the woman before she fainted.

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A/N: O.O Well that was an interesting chapter. Thank you Saragato."

Saragato: *still looking for blow torch* "No problem."

Katsue: *stunned* "I can't believe I just did that with Kouga."

Kouga: *goofy grin*

Miroku: *still holding up the "GIVE ME A LEMON" sign* "Aradia-sama, ask them already!"

Aradia: "Oh yea. Readers, if you want a Miroku/Sango lemon in this story tell me & I'll have Saragato write another lemon," *sighs* "And pray it isn't so graphic. Oh yes if this story gets booted from fanfiction.net, it will move to adultfanfiction.net. You'll be able to figure out why so just be on the look out for it." *damns the site for getting rid of the NC-17 rating* "Well you know the drill, five reviewers to for a new chapter."

Miroku: "PLEASE VOTE FOR A LEMON FOR ME AND SANGO!"

Sango: *readies the boomerang to hit Miroku*

Aradia: "Um… Well see ya later reviewers. Aradia MoonRider leaving you with advice; NEVER let a perverted monk go 9 chapters and a preview without getting even a make out scene."

**Scene closes with me helping Saragato look for her blow torch**