Prologue

(RamenObsessed007 has signed in)

RamenObsessed007: Hey… Hey, are you there?

ShrineLivingGirl: Yeah, I've been waiting for you to sign on for like 15 minutes. So what's going on over at your place?

RamenObsessed007: Oh, nothing really… just my brother and his crap… You know how it is with family, especially the ones that don't like you.

ShrineLivingGirl: I really don't have that problem that often. My brother can be a pest, but he's really not that bad…

RamenObsessed007: Man, I really hate living here sometimes. But as long as I've got my comp, and I get to talk to you, I'm just fine.

ShrineLivingGirl: Aw, stop it, you're making me blush… I'm really not that special.

RamenObsessed007: No really, you always understand and everyday I do all of my stuff as fast as I can just so I can sign on here and hope that you're already on. You are the highlight of my entire day.

ShrineLivingGirl: Really? :") You always make me feel so special. I love getting on here to talk to you. There isn't anything greater than hearing the sign in ping, just knowing I'm gonna write to you.

RamenObsessed007: LOL. We always say the weirdest things on here… You know what? We should really meet soon.

ShrineLivingGirl: Uh… I can't. I'm sorry, Ob.

RamenObsessed007: Why not? You don't make any sense, why can't we meet? We're in the same school and everything. It would be easy.

ShrineLivingGirl: I'm worried.

RamenObsessed007: About what? I don't understand.

ShrineLivingGirl: I don't want us to meet because what if you see me, and you realize that you're talking to someone that's a polar opposite and this was all a bad idea. I don't want this to turn sour.

RamenObsessed007: It won't, I promise. Please, just give a place and I time.

ShrineLivingGirl: I'm sorry… I gotta go… TTYL, Ob.

RamenObsessed007: Shrine wait.

(ShrineLivingGirl has signed off)

POV Kagome

Kagome sat back from the sign off screen and sighed. 'What am I gonna do? I really like him, but I don't want anything to change… Why does everything have to be so hard with him?' She stood quickly, feeling like absolute sludge for blowing him off like that, grabbed a nightgown, and headed to the bathroom to run her favorite bath.

Rosemary and eucalyptus scents swirled around her as she slipped slowly into the tub. The combination of the scents and the hot water melted the tension and guilt from her shoulders. There was nothing like a steamy bath to wash all of your troubles away.

POV InuYasha

InuYasha stared at his IM screen, and the last thing that she wrote to him. He shook his head. ' Why does she have to be so difficult? It can't really be that bad of an idea to meet up. I really wish she would just allow it. I want to be able to talk to a face, not a screen.' He growled under his breath and slammed his fist down on the desk as he stood to walk to the door.

Everything that was going on lately seemed to be going wrong for him. He lost Kikyo, was failing English, and now he's screwed up with Shrine. He went down stairs and slinked to the kitchen, nothing left t do now but eat comfort food. He flung open the cabinet door and grabbed the first flavor of ramen he saw, threw on a pot of water, and added the noodles. At least he still had ramen, sweet, delicious ramen.