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Winter Snow

Summary- InuYasha comes to pick up kagome from school and guess what? they get in a fight. kagome storms back into the school without anyone noticing her. InuYasha follows just as school is closing for the holidays. they wind up getting trapped inside the school for the whole holiday! will it bring them closer?

It started out as a normal day for kagome Higurashi. Get up out of bed, sit the hanyou so he'll let her stay in this era, fight with InuYasha more, have a shower and some breakfast, look up at the clock and realize that she was late...again. She ran all the way to school hoping that she wouldn't miss her first class. She made it at the last second. She ran down the hall and flew through the door just as the bell rang. She sat down in her seat and prepared to listen to the teacher yatter on and on about...well whatever it is they yatter about. Kagome's eyes began to droop. Just as she started to fall asleep, she felt someone poking her back. "Kagome. It's good to see you here" she was about to reply but the teacher spoke up.

"Miss Higurashi please quite down. At least make it look like your listening. If not I will simply put you into detention." kagome gaped. What the heck! Why did she get into trouble when it was Hojo talking not her? She thought as the teacher went back to his lecture. This was already not a good day. 'This would have been a good day to stay in bed.' she thought tiredly.

End Of School

After being harassed by her friends about how she should dump InuYasha and go out with Hojo all day, Kagome was ready to go home. not her home here but her real home. In the feudal era. That's what she called home now. Not just because she spent 90 of her time there, but because her friends there were also like her family. She thought of Sango almost like a big sister. She gave the best advice and she was the other girl in the group. It was nice to have someone to talk to. And if there was a problem she would let you cry on her shoulder until your tears were gone. No matter how long it took.

She thought of Miroku as almost an older brother. He was knowledgeable and kept the group entertained. He was always funny and knew how to cheer someone up.

Shippo was almost like her adopted son. Ever since her and InuYasha had first met him she thought he was the cutest thing. When he starting traveling with them she had grown attached to him and started thinking of him like that.

She simply loved InuYasha. She had admitted it to herself long ago but she never say it out loud to anyone. She loved everything about him. From the way his hair blew in the wind to his bad attitude. There was no dull moment with him around. 'But he doesn't love me, he loves kikyo' she thought sadly. 'It's always kikyo. Kikyo, kikyo, kikyo! And god forbid he stop comparing me to her. Why can't he just stop? He knows I hate it. I've told him that...I guess he likes making me suffer.' sigh. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts she didn't notice she was about to run into someone.

"Offf" she said as she crashed to the ground.

"Oh Kagome. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to knock you over. I wasn't looking where I was going." he said hurriedly.

"It's okay Hojo. I wasn't ethier so I guess that makes us even." she smiled, causeing him to smile. Just as she was about to leave, hojo asked her,

"Hey kagome, do you wanna go out for a cup of coffee?"

"I umm uh um I uh cant I have a lot of homework and I can't afford to put it off at all." Was her smooth reply.

"But it's winter holiday, Christmas break! Why would you have to get it done now?!"

"Im sorry Hojo but I'm going on vacation and I need to get my homework done or I don't go. Some other time?" he nodded.

"Alright. See you around."

"Bye Hojo." she smiled and walked out of the school. She took about 5 strides before she heard a masculine voice say,

"You know I saw the whole thing. What were you doing with homo. Your not gonna go out on that date thing are you? Cause if you are you'd better cancel it now."

"No InuYasha I'm not going out on a date with Hojo. Why does it matter to you anyway?" she asked annoyed. Things were really not going her way today!

"It doesn't but I need you to find the shards of the sacred jewel shards!" he said harshly. Kagome's head drooped so that you couldn't see her eyes but InuYasha could tell that she was crying. The scent of salt water entered his nose and he immediately knew he had done something wrong.

"Is that all I am to you? A shard detector? Someone you use and then dump later? Tell me!"

"Kagome you have to understand-"

"-Gasp- so it's true! You were just using me to get the shards. I'll bet that after you would have killed me like you tried to when we first met! I should never have trusted you!"

"Kagome I would never-"

"Be quite! Leave! I don't want to see you anymore! Go and be with kikyo 'cause I wont stop ya! Go to hell with her! See if I care! 'Cause I'm not going back to the place I once called 'home!'" with that last thought still hanging in the air, she turned and ran back into the school. And ran into the girl's washroom. It took InuYasha a minute to register what she had just said. She had called his homeland and era her home. It felt good to hear her say that. Then he remembered that she had run back into that strange building that she called a 'school'. He hurried after her and followed her scent into the girl's washroom. Kagome sat on the floor with her with her knees hugged to her chest as she wept. Sometimes he heard "stupid InuYasha." he walked over to her and placed his arms around her gently. She gasped and tried to pull away but InuYasha held firm. He would not let her go.

"Just hear me out kagome. Just listen."

"No I don't want t-ahhh!"

"Quite kagome. You said there are people in here. Do you want us to get caught?" he huffed putting his hand over her mouth to muffle her words. "Just listen." he said with more force. " I'm not just using you to get the shards. You my friends kagome you know that. Everybody knows that so why can't you see that yourself?! You're my BEST friend. And kagome I would never, even under the threat of torture, kill you or harm you in any way intentionally. You know that to. I've told you that more than once. And you also know that I'm not going to go see Kikyo and go to hell with her. Not yet, not while I need to protect you here on earth in the land of the living. I don't even think I'll go to hell with her anymore. And you ARE going back home even if I have to knock you out and drag you back your going back to the feudal era, back home." he took a deep breath after finally getting all that off his chest. "I'm going to take my hand away from your mouth now. Your not going to do anything stupid are you?" she shook her head and he released her. She broke down in his arms. InuYasha didn't know what to do so he just sat there holding her while he cried on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry InuYasha. I should have trusted you. I should have listened."

"Yeah you should have but you were pretty upset. I mean I guess I did...say some nasty things..." he blushed at his own comment. Kagome looked at him funny

"What?" he asked.

"Who are you and what have you done with InuYasha? Your saying sorry!"

"Yeah so?" he was starting to get annoyed but at least she wasn't crying anymore. Now she looked like she was about to laugh.

"That's a first."

"Yeah, yeah just shuttup and let's go home"

"Yeah I like the sounds of that. But InuYasha?

"Now what?"

"Never come into the ladies room again."

"Huh?" she walked to the door and pointed to the sign that said 'ladies' on it. Do not go into any room that has this sign on it or any room that says 'employees only' on it. Just so you know."

"Whatever." he said rolling his eyes.

"You shouldn't do that InuYasha. One might get the crazy idea that your bored." she said as she pulled the door that led to outside to open but there was a problem.. "uh InuYasha, we have a problem."

"What now?" asked looking at her funny.

"The door's locked and the snow is so deep we can't get out." she said making a new observation. They looked at each other in terror.

"Oh no"