It's time for your favorite part of the story… AUTHOR NOTES

Ok, so I'm revising this story from top to bottom. If the title says REVISED next to the name, you know it's a new chapter. Exciting, I know. If not, it's still the same old chapter. I didn't really think that I'd be revising a story at 21, but all my early stuff is just so… BAD and the grammar sucks and we're not even going to START on the punctuation problems that I seemed to have in high school… so I'm taking my newly acquired college intelligence (and by newly I mean that I graduate in a week and a half) and fixing it. It's like it's a whole new story! Ok, maybe not but still it should be fun!

'...'-thoughts

"…" –speaking

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Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha. Do people even DO disclaimer's anymore? It's been about 5 years since I've read a story on FFN (Believe me, when you get to college, you won't have time to do anything either.)

Now on with the show

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Kagome had had it. She didn't know why she put up with it. That wasn't true. She knew why she put up with it she just didn't like doing it. Who else was going to collect the jewel shards? Certainly not Inu Yasha. All he cared about was becoming a full demon. It ended with her being the responsible one and ruining her life by continually jumping down a well into the feudal era to save the world… or the future. Actually, she was really doing both at once. Either way, it was a frustrating task and it was days like today that made her really hate her duty to mankind sometimes.

Kagome pulled the necklace out of her shirt that held the partial jewel. It glistened at her in the mid-day sunlight. There were only a few shards left to collect until it was completed. She couldn't believe that the completion of the shard was so near. There were times that she thought that they would never complete it. Between all the demons that had tried to steal it over the years, Naraku stealing most of what they had collected and Kikyo just making things complicated, she was surprised that it was this close to being finished. But they had defeated all those trials, her and her friends, and now the end was in sight. But what would happen when they finished it? She knew she would finally return to her normal life, or what was left of her normal life. She was in her last year of high school. As a little girl, she remembered she was determined to go to college but since she had gone to the feudal era so often her grades sank. She was barely graduating and wasn't even sure she was going to apply to college.

Kagome sighed and put the jewel back into her shirt. There was no use thinking about it now. What was done was done and as much as she would have liked to attend college, she believed that what she was doing with Inu Yasha and the gang was much more important. Priorities change in life and, when she was 15, they had changed drastically. She slung her overly large bag onto her shoulder and gazed into the well in front of her. Without thinking twice she jumped over the edge.

Colors swirled around her causing her long black hair and school uniform to billow. She landed gracefully on the dirt floor of the dried up well. Hearing voices at the top, she called up.

"Hey help me out of here!" she shouted to the people she knew were there. A face with long silver-blue hair and dog ears to match peaked over the edge of the well. The ears twitched as he looked for her in the well.

"What took you so long? We've been waiting for you forever!" Inu Yasha screamed down in his usual brazen, impatient way.

"Oh shut up and help me out of here!" Kagome screamed back.

"What if I don't want to?" He folded his arms over his chest and smirked, as if he were doing something very clever. Only annoyance graced Kagome's features.

"Sit boy!" The silver haired demon immediately crashed to the bottom of the well, the magical necklace around his neck the cause of his fall. "Good, now that you're down here Inu Yasha, you can help me back up." Kagome climbed onto the hanyou's back before he could object. That didn't stop him from grumbling a few choice words under his breath before he leapt up and over the side of the well. Kagome hadn't been off Inu Yasha's back two second before she was attacked by a fur ball.

"Hello Shippo. Miss me?" she asked him.

"Kagome, Inu Yasha was being mean to me! The whole time you were gone," Shippo tattled, the words rushing out of his mouth.

"The little fox fur ball was asking for it," Inu Yasha growled.

"Just ignore him Shippo," she said, glaring at Inu Yasha. "Where are Miroku and Sango?"

"Sango left yesterday to fight a demon and Miroku went with her," Shippo volunteered. "They told us to stay behind because you would be here soon and they weren't sure if they'd be back in time."

"Well then let's head back to the village and wait for them." Kagome placed Shippo on the ground and began walking in the direction of the village and Kaede's hut.

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Sango and Miroku were back the next day having successfully vanquished the demon and returned with two shards of the Shikon Jewel. They were happy to see Kagome, though noticed she was not in the best of moods. She seems to be snapping a lot at the group and was easily irritated. Even Inu Yasha was beginning to notice and avoid her. Everyone sat down to discuss the demon that Sango and Miroku had defeated.

"For a demon possessing two jewel shards, it was easier to defeat then expected," Sango said, sitting down on the mat that lay on the floor. "I suppose I shouldn't complain about the easy ones though." Everyone nodded in agreement, remembering the harder demon battles they had all fought.

"As much as I would love to hear the details of the fight Sango, dinner won't cook itself and I have to collect vegetables for it," Kagome said, excusing herself. She stood up and stepped out of the cottage as Sango continued her story telling. She took a deep breath willing herself to calm down. She felt constantly on edge today and had taken her frustrations out on her friends more often than she had intended. She started walking into the yard but before she could even get five feet from the small building, Inu Yasha came up next to her.

"Would you like some meat for dinner?" Inu Yasha asked her. Kagome stopped dead in her tracks and stared at him like he had two heads. "What?" Inu Yasha asked, not enjoying the look of complete shock on her face.

"You're actually offering to help?" Her look of shock turned into one of skepticism. "Ok, who's forcing you? Is it Shippo? Or maybe it was Sango? No, I bet it was a group effort."

"What? I'm not allowed to help out without the others telling me to?" Inu Yasha asked, clearly annoyed.

"No," Kagome responded, ignoring the growl that Inu Yasha produced. "Inu Yasha, you never help unless you get something out of it… ever. We've known each other almost three years now and if someone asked me to describe you, helpful would not be on that list."

"Everyone has such little faith in me. Plus, I am getting something out of it," he informed her.

"What?" she asked, indulging him.

"Dinner," Inu Yasha responded. Kagome laughed at his answer and nodded.

"Alright, Inu Yasha. I'd appreciate the help." Inu Yasha nodded and dashed off into the woods, leaving Kagome to wonder what the heck that was all about.

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First chapter done! Hope you enjoyed it if it's your first time reading and I hope that you enjoyed the revisions. Anyways, next chapter will be coming soon. Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. I don't know. It's finals week and I don't have any soooo… I actually have spare time. Weird.

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