The first time Kagome had seen InuYasha, she had thought that he was dead. To be fair, (she told herself) he had been pinned to a tree. Later on, he saved her life, but then turned on her and tried to attack her. What a jerk!

But now that they had been through more together, he was growing on her. Even if he called her "Stupid" every other sentence. Miroku and Sango had long since left their traveling party, and Shippo had fallen for another fox demon, leaving Kagome and Inuyasha to travel alone. Things were getting awkward.

Inuyasha usually tried not to look her in the eye, traveling through the trees and constantly scouting ahead, but today, he was looking at her, no annoyed of frustrated look on his face. Until she noticed. "Hey Stupid! Hurry up! I ain't got all day!" he said, putting the annoyed expression on his face that Kagome had learned to expect. "In case you didn't notice," she replied. "you seem to be back here with me!" That shut InuYasha up.

Kaede's hut isn't too far from here." Kagome said after a very awkward silence. "Don't care." InuYasha pouted. "Oh, what now?" Kagome retorted. She knew that it was because she had shut him up, but she still felt like it was polite to ask, even if she said it in a frustrated way. It was all because of how she felt.

"Hey! Look at that!" InuYasha said, changing the subject. "Oh InuYasha, I know that tri- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" Kagome tried to respond before she was attacked be some sort of demon. As InuYasha fought it off, it revealed itself. "Sesshomaru." InuYasha's voice was a cold, loathsome whisper. "Did you miss me?" Sesshomaru responded. "Brother?"