A/N: This is a little thank you to the Inuyasha fandom for being so kind and awesome and loving, and also all of my (108) followers, who are just as kind and sweet and wonderful, thank you for my first milestone on tumblr. ;_; I thought this would just a little ficlet, but as far as my thoughts have gone…. It's going to need a lil more than that. *winks*

Eighteen... nineteen... twenty!

"Ready or not here I come!"

Her hair blew in the direction of the wind as the fallen leaves followed its course. Her footsteps were heavy, yet gentle - slowly and quietly dominating all of the forgotten leaves.

"Hmmm, where could he be?" she pondered as she lifted her little finger on top of her chin and beat on it like a drum. She continued her walking; looking through the peepholes in the neighbors' fences and sneaking up quietly behind the neighbors' dogs.

Then suddenly, BNNNNGGG. "Inu?! INU? COME OUT I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ANYMORE!" the child squealed and pleaded. She looked around and surveyed the area, moving the little strips from her bangs out of the way. The sky was clear and the flowers were just blooming. She was able to notice these little things before succeeding at the so-called game, "Hide-and-seek."

Twenty-one... twenty-two... twenty-three...

"GOTCHA!"

The boy screeched as he jumped out out of the neighbor's gate. His long, white, and very well-groomed hair flailed north, east, south, and west; just about the same directions as the girl's voice had gone.

"I-Inu, the rules are not to go into anyone's backyards! You know we'll get in trouble!" the girl squeaked, trying to recollect bits and pieces of her lost voice. "Keh! Yeah right, just chill out Kagome, we're not in tro-" His words were stopped by a man who was dressed in nothing but a dark, earthy brown bathrobe and green slippers, which was not intimidating and much more amusing.

The tension, awkwardness, and confusion caused the time to slow down and air to thicken. "Um, is there a problem, Mr. Jaken?" Kagome whimpered a bit beneath her breath. "I don't know, is there?" Jaken shifted his eyes towards the boy, causing his blood to automatically boil.

"What's it to ya, Mr. Jaken?! Do you have a problem with me and my friend playing hide-and-seek or something?" the boy snared as he folded his arms viciously. "Inu..." "It's okay, Kagome," he interrupted, "I guess big guy over here doesn't want us to have fun or someth-" The man cut Inuyasha's words short by pulling out a bat from behind his door, chasing the child down the street yodeling, "GET! OFF! MY! PROPERTY!"

The boy's white hair was flying in one direction now, and that was south as he attempted to make his escape. He ran with such carelessness, such ease. He ran almost as easy as the wind. His bright red clothes made him a bright red dot that was running around in circles, squares, triangles; a thought at which, made Kagome laugh.

"KA-GO-ME!" Inuyasha huffed while throwing his arms around to grab her attention. "Eh?" she questioned as she fixed one of her pigtails. "Eh? What do you mean eh? Don't just stand there!"

She tapped her feet and beat her chin, "What to do, what to do, what to do?!" Her thoughts jumbled up into scribbles and scrabbles, distorting all the words, shapes, and colors. Inuyasha wasn't tired, he was just a bit bored now. He ran around and jumped on railings, slipping and sliding all over the place because he loved getting underneath Jaken's skin and watch his failed attempts of ever capturing him, or even getting a hit on him.

A light bulb had struck when Kagome finally figured out what to do in order to save her friend from boredom by doing what she does best - talking.

She tightened her two pigtails and ruffled her skirt as she marched over to block off Mr. Jaken. She stomped her feet and came to a firm halt as she lifted her hand as high as she could reach, which was up to Mr. Jaken's stomach, but that worked for her. She had the biggest smirk on her face, distracting Mr. Jaken instantaneously, "Yes, sweetheart?"

"Um..." she fumbled, "Let me tell you about what I learned in school today! I learned how to tell time, the colors of the rainbow, the other colors outside of the rainbow, dogs, cats, chickens, penguins, vegetables are really good for you, two plus two indeed does not equal fish, animals and humans are supposed to live in harmony, pizza isn't always good for yo-"

"That's great, hun, but I have to deal with your frien- What?! Where'd he go?" Jaken shouted out into the distance. "HA! Like you'd ever outsmart the two of us, Mr. Jaken!" Inuyasha blurted as he ran behind his home, "KAGOME! Meet me halfway!"

"Mm, 'kay!" she smiled and turned back around, "Bye, Mr. Jaken this was fun!" Her pigtails bounced as she hopped away. "That wasn't- He's so- Ugh!" Jaken exclaimed.

Kagome continued crinkling the fallen leaves on the ground as she made her way to Inuyasha's house. His house was more vintage, than it was modern; it had old-school designs and a light tan color and brown fences surrounding it. Halfway was the two's code word for "the little oddly-shaped cave looking thing in Inuyasha's backyard." The two came up with it after constantly arguing who meets up where, even though they lived across the street from one another, Inuyasha always wanted Kagome to be the one to simply go to his house, but Kagome thought otherwise, calling it "unfair," which is when the boy came up with, "Let's just meet halfway!" Even though, technically, they weren't meeting halfway this time, they still were in some way.

She was now dominating over the fresh, shiny pieces of grass as she made her way through the cracked gate that Inu had left open. There wasn't much to look at on that path; there was Inuyasha's tan house to the left, and some other boy's light green house to the right with a mid-sized black fence separating them. There were a couple of beautifully colored flowers along the path, however. Inu's mother loved gardening and watching her son enjoy the outdoors.

After a couple minutes of a stroll, Kagome had finally reached "the little oddly-shaped cave looking thing in Inuyasha's backyard," with the boy's ears sticking out of the little formation. "Finally! What took you so long, slowpoke?" he chuckled. "Eh? Oh, sorry, was just strolling," she smirked.

Inuyasha scratched his head and felt something weird, but he ignored the foreign feeling, "You're weird sometimes." The girl's eyes widened, but then shrunk back to normal, "I know what you are but what am I?"

The two laughed as their voices filled the space, but that didn't take away the weird feeling from Inuyasha, nor did it for Kagome. "So, my mom's making dinner tonight! Something with noodles!" Inuyasha's eyes literally buldging out of his sockets. "Just noodles? Did you ask her to make that again?!" she giggled. The boy played with his fingers and then shook his head, "N-no! She wanted to, besides whatever, I love ramen noodles!"

"I know," Kagome laughed, "I know." Once again, the air began to thicken and time began to slow down; the atmosphere had become uncomfortable and not very pleasing. Inuyasha tilted his head slightly to the right, "Kagome, what's wrong? Did Buyo throw up on your toys again? Cause I swear I'll give that cat a piece of my-" "No," she said as she let out a small chuckle, "I wish it was though."

"Then what's wrong?" the boy kept pushing. Her cheeks began to look red and warm. Her head bent down to the floor, her bangs covering her eyes and casting a shadow over her face. She looked at her fingers, moving them back and forth, side to side. She bit her lips and shook her foot, trying to get out the words, "I'm moving."

A/N: Hey guys, hope you enjoyed this little bit! ^-^ I REALLY loved writing it.

So, if it wasn't clear, Inuyasha and Kagome are little kids in this, they're about seven years old right now in this and it's taking place in modern times.

Thank you so much for reading and just being part of my life now, you're all so great! Stay tuned, cause it's not over yet :~)