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Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha. I just write about their versitile personalities.

This is the return of a story I started writing, oh, about three years ago. So if anyone accuses me of copying, its been around forever. You have no argument.

Welcome to the edited version of Just a Dream. This story is my baby, in a sense, so I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it for you.

Dedicated to Beloved Rose, who seems to be the only other person who cares about this story.

Just A Dream

Chapter 1

Happy Birthday (prologue)

"See you tomorrow guys," Kagome called, "I have another test to take!" She climbed into the Bone Eaters Well and dropped down, but not before she heard InuYasha say, 'I don't see what's so special about these 'tests,' but she sure seems to like them a lot.' He never did understand the purpose of High School. Kagome smiled as she fell through time, letting the rippling sensation of time travel engulf her.

She vaguely remembered something seeming off about the whole thing. InuYasha's too submissive response to her leaving, the weird rippling of the time slip, and how long the time change was taking. Usually she appeared in the present seconds after jumping into the well. Now it had been well over a minute, and she wasn't home yet. Her pondering didn't last long as she remembered her test in math. Ugh, she hated-

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAGOME!" The loud yell echoed through the small room, bringing complete surprise to the room's sleeping inhabitant. Kagome jerked up in shock, banging her head on the headboard of her bed in the process.

Swirl-eyed, Kagome simply groaned, "Owww," in response and slid partially back down.

The stars cleared from her vision and she slowly drifted back into reality as somebody near the door said, 'I'm sorry girls, I thought she'd be awake.'

As her vision cleared completely of the little dancing stars, Kagome saw her three best friends and her mother standing in her bedroom. "Wha... How'd I get here?" She asked to the air, "I don't remember coming up here." Her three best friends just stared at her, as if she had grown another head.

"But Kagome, you came up here after you grandpa gave you that mummified thing. You've been here ever since. You must have been asleep," her mom answered gently, "Now come on, you're going to be late." Her mother, while kind, wasted no time in trying to get Kagome's senses back.

"B-b-b-but," Kagome stuttered, "What about Shippo? Miroku? Sango? And InuYasha...?" She trailed off. She didn't give a darn what everybody thought, she was only confused. Why were they looking at her like she had sprouted an extra head?

Her friends gave her identical 'are you insane?' looks as her mom kindly asked, "Who? Those don't sound like normal names, dear."

Kagome was puzzled now. Her mom should have known InuYasha at least. "You don't remember InuYasha, mom? Remember, he's the guy with the dog ears! He interrupted dinner that night, and you just had to pet his ears? The one pinned to the Goshinboku by Kikyo? Always fighting Naraku or his brother Sesshomaru!" She invented motions to accentuate her point, pointing to imaginary dog-ears, pretending to shoot an arrow, and just waving her arms around at the battle idea. She completely ignored the fact the she was trying to keep the battle thing a secret.

"We were chasing after the sacred jewel- wait a minute! Did you just say that it's my birthday? But..." After drawing a small circle in the air in thought, Kagome's face lit up. She sprang out of bed and flew over to the calendar, almost crashing into her mother.

She stood there opening and closing her mouth silently, and blinking stupidly. The calender was wrong. It had to be. There was no way a whole three years could just disappear. She felt around her neck, looking for the small bottle that always hung there, holding the jewel shards. Finding nothing, she turned around with a stricken look on her face.

"Kagome," Eri began, but Kagome's mother finished for her.

"Maybe you should stay home today, honey, you look sick." Their words were kind, but Kagome could pick out the hint of disbelief, and worry.

Kagome didn't hear a word any of her friends, or even her mother, had said. She was lost in her own thoughts of loss and confusion, coming closer to breaking down every second. The question still remained, what had happened?

It seemed so real though! Does that mean that the whole thing was a dream? But it seemed so real though! The well... InuYasha... Everything was so real, there was no way it was only a dream. It couldn't be! The emotion was too raw, too pure to be over a dream, a fake.

Kagome tried to think back to what had happened right before she woke up. The strange thing was, the details from right before she woke up were getting foggy. Exactly like a dream, she was slowly forgetting the immediate details. But only the immediate ones, while the entire well scene was almost gone, everything else was crystal clear.

But the fading... It wouldn't leave her mind, what if everthing else would fade in time too?

What happened, if nothing was real, I slept through all of it? The whole three years of it? It was all... just... a dream?

A tear slid down her cheek.