Wow. Yep, haven't been here in a while... This will be my "returning" story, but I'm not sure if I'm totally happy with the idea, so I may have to alter it every so often and stuff n.n Just a heads up incase I delete it.

Also, constructive crit. is appreciated and welcomed with open arms. However, if you send me some crap like "this sucks" or "omfg lyk thiz iz so gay!111!0101!eleven!", and yes, I KNOW that some if you type like that, I will laugh at you. And make fun of you. A lot. I won't post it here because TECHNICALLY I'm supposed to "respect" my "fellow writers" on but that doesn't mean I can't laugh hysterically at you and let you know that.

Also, I am keeping Kagome's manga eye color: blue, and her anime/some manga hair color: black.

Enjoy.

Summary:

A new student arrives at Kagome's school and he seems to know all the right moves, like what to say, how to say it, and when to say it; how to act; etc. Despite the whole female student body swooning over him, he's got eyes for only one girl...

Enter Kagome: time-traveling, youkai-slaying, reincarnated guardian junior high school student. After a fierce fight with one of her traveling companions, Inuyasha, she swears that she will never care for him again, idly wondering what she saw in the egotistical hanyou in the first place. Despite her claim, she knows that she will always love him and forgive him... but could this new boy at her school change her thoughts, or will Inuyasha come to win her back again?

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Just A Little Bit

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"Hey, Kagome."

Silence.

"Hey, Kagome."

More silence.

"Kagome."

Just incase you haven't been paying attention, silence.

"HEY!"

"WHAT!" Kagome finally snapped, eyebrow twitching as she glared at Inuyasha.

"What the Hell is wrong with you, woman!" Inuyasha bit back, mad that he had been yelled at. "I've been trying to get your attention for the past 10 minutes!"

"Two minutes," Miroku corrected smoothly.

"Shove it." An icy glare to the houshi affirmed that he would stick to that command. So, the inuhanyou turned his attention back to the still irked miko.

"What is it, Inuyasha?" Kagome sighed, finally giving in and asking him the question he had been waiting for.

"I forgot." Unfortunately for him, he seemed to be suffering from memory loss.

Kagome's grip on the handlebars of her bike tightened. Count to ten, count to ten, count to ten...

"I can't believe you want to go back home AGAIN," Inuyasha complained loudly.

One mississippi... two mississippi...

"I mean, how many of these tess-tus do you have, anyway!" Inuyasha grumbled, fumbling over the weird word.

Three mississippi... four mississippi...

"Incase you haven't forgotten we still have to find Naraku AND the rest of the Shikon jewel!"

Forget counting, Kagome was pissed. "Would you SHUT UP!" she yelled exasperatedly.

"What did you say!"

"I said shut up, Inuyasha!" Her glare was fierce and really scary... the kind of scary that sends small animals running. "You've been complaining since this morning and annoying me to my wit's end!"

"Well ex-cu-se me!" he huffed, nose in the air stubbornly. "Why don't you go travel with KOUGA then!"

Somewhere in the depths of Kagome's mind snapped. It wasn't HER fault that Kouga had appeared yesterday and had tried everything that he could at the moment to win her over and take her with him, which she would have NO part of. She informed Inuyasha of this.

"I'm sick of seeing you and that mangy wolf flirting!" Inuyasha snapped, glaring at her.

"FLIRTING!" Kagome's mouth was doing a fine impression of a fish. "I was NOT flirting with Kouga-kun!"

"'Oh, Kouga-kun,'" Inuyasha mimicked, his voice taking on a shrill pitch, "'That's so sweet! You came to check up on me! Let me osuwari Inuyasha for you, and then after that let's become MATES and LIVE TOGETHER FOREVER!'"

Kagome gaped at him openly. He was SO exaggerating that! All she had said was thank you to the ookami because he had checked on her after he smelled her blood. Earlier that day she had cut herself preparing lunch, and frankly it was kind of sweet that Kouga was that focused on her... in that sweet stalker-ish kind of way.

"I give up, Inuyasha!" Kagome was positively fuming. "I absolutely GIVE UP!"

"What are you going on about now!" he growled.

Miroku immediately saw impending doom. This was the kinds of fights that sent Kagome home in angry tears and Inuyasha sulking for days on end until he finally went and got her or she came back.

"I give up on meeting up to your godforsaken expectations!" she roared, hands clenched at her side. "It is not MY fault that Kouga-kun likes me, or that any OTHER guys like me! Frankly, I don't see why you get so protective and jealous when someone shows ANY interest in me when you've got Kikyou to fawn over! Leave me and my personal life alone!"

"Why don't we all take a vacation?" Miroku suggested somewhat loudly, positively beaming as he tried to break up the apparent war that was beginning to start. "I have some business to attend to with Mushin, anyways, and I'm sure that Shippou would like to visit his friends at Kaede's village--"

"No I don--ow!" Shippou rubbed his head as he glared at the houshi. "I mean... yes, I do."

"--Sango had been wanting to visit her village anyways, haven't you, Sango?"

"Err--" She was caught slightly offguard, but recused the monk's attempt at avoiding a dangerous fight, "Yes, of course."

"So let's all take a vacation!" However, Miroku's words fell on deaf ears as Inuyasha continued on the fight.

"Why don't you go back to your time and visit that little boyfriend of yours?" he sneered, "Houjo? Wasn't that his name?"

"Houjo-kun is NOT my boyfriend!" Kagome positively turned scarlet at the thought. However, the red coloring from embarassment soon turned to anger as she shouted at the hanyou. "I'M GOING HOME!"

"FINE!"

"OSUWARI!" And with that she turned on her heel and flashed an appologetic smile at Sango. "Ah... Sango-chan, may I--?"

"Of course," Sango smiled. She understood her friend's frustration with the hanyou--sometimes you just need a break.

"Thank you." Kagome watched as the firecat transformed and then leapt up on it's back. "See ya, then," she said to the group, minus Inuyasha, whose back was to her, even though his ears bent back to catch what she said. With a small wave, Kagome was off, Kirara taking her to the Sacred Well.

Fifteen minutes later the cat youkai touched down gracefully, allowing the future-girl to slide carefully from her back and dismount.

"Thank you so much, Kirara," Kagome spoke quietly, stroking the cat on its forehead. "I promise I'll bring you back some cat treats, okay?"

With a soft growl, Kirara took off, and was soon only a speck in the clear blue sky of Sengoku Jidai.

Turning around, Kagome leapt into the well's depths and disappeared.

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"Ah, Kagome!" Ms. Higurashi positively beamed, embracing her daughter warmly. "Welcome home! Are you going to be staying for long?"

"As long as possible," Kagome smiled grimly at her mother.

"Another Inuyasha fight?" she asked gently.

"Don't you know it." Kagome sighed heavily. "Sometimes I wonder why I even deal with him!"

"Because you are a very forgiving person, Kagome." Her mother kissed her on the forehead. "Why don't you take a bath? Dinner will be ready soon, and since you're home I'll make oden."

Kagome's smile brightened at the thought of oden. "Thank you, mama." Giving her mother a quick hug she darted gingerly up the stairs, thoughts of a warm, comforting bath in her head.

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"You really did it this time, Inuyasha," Shippou scolded, crossing his arms. "I bet she won't come back for a whole week now! The three days she would've been gone were bad enough."

Sango nodded. "I don't understand why you always have to egg her on, Inuyasha."

"It's because he gets tongue-tied around her," Miroku stated wisely, eyes closed as he chewed his dinner. "He wants to say something nice to her, probably--" one eye opened at the growl from his companion "--but instead it comes out wrong and he backpedals into a fight."

"Ah," Sango and Shippou said in unison, nodding. Kirara simply mewed in agreement.

"Shut up, monk!"

"You're only angry because it's true," Miroku grinned slyly at his friend. "You wanted to declare your undying love for her, didn't you? Huh? Huh? Am I right? Eh?" Miroku seemed to have a sudden burst of courage as he scooted over to Inuyasha and nudged him in the ribs, winking.

Inuyasha's face flamed--but the embarassment was soon overcome by the need to punch something... and what do you know, Miroku was juuuuust close enough.

"Stupid monks," Inuyasha grumbled, kicking the slightly unconsious body of Miroku to the side.

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"Ahh," Kagome sighed happily. "Great dinner, nice warm bath, and for once all my homework is done... life is goooood!" Grinning, she burrowed into her bed and underneath the fluffy blankets. Drifting asleep, she had a sudden light feeling flutter in her chest...

She could tell that tomorrow would be a good day.

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