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The birds were singing their songs to the wind as clouds lazily rolled by above the trees. A lonely bee was pollinating a patch of flowers, flying from pistil to pistil before eventually flying back towards home. Everything was peaceful until an angry sigh sounded from a certain black haired beauty's' lips, her blue eyes closing momentarily to hold her composure. "Honestly, Inuyasha, three days is really not that long." Kagome exasperatedly threw her things into the giant yellow backpack that was bursting at the seams, mindlessly handing Shippo his favorite sweet on a stick then buckling the large sack closed and tossed it over her shoulder with a jerk and a grunt as it landed heavily on her joint, avoiding it landing on her long hair as well.

Inuyasha saw her aggravation and it only irritated him more. "We need to focus on collecting more jewel shards than Naraku if we plan on having a chance to defeat him!" Inuyasha threw his arms in the air and followed Kagome as she turned to pick up her bike from the ground, pulling the dead leaves out of the spokes as Shippo hopped into the small woven basket attached to the front of the bike and popped the sweet out of his mouth by the stick. "Just let her go, Inuyasha. It's not like you weren't planning on seeing Kikyo while Kagome was gone. You never miss the chance to go running to her like a dog with a treat." Inuyasha's eyes grew large then narrowed at the kitsune. "Speaking of dogs with treats."

"I'm a fox!" Shippo declared aloud. Smoke fuming from his little ears. The teenage Miko let out another sigh. "Shippo, if you can't take it then don't dish it out." Kagome reprimanded her adopted cub. "And Inuyasha can do whatever he feels like doing. I'm not his guardian and I'm most certainly not his mother." Inuyasha gave an indignant snort, turning his head and crossing his arms but keeping one ear pointed towards Kagome in case she says something in his favor.

"I'm going home and that's the end of it." Kagome turned with her bike to her side and Shippo in the basket with the sweet once again in his mouth but still pouting. Leaving behind the irritated and stunned Hanyou. "Kagome! Don't walk away we need to look for jewel shards!" Kagome was trying to ignore him as she walked but when she felt the hanyou's clawed fingers on her upper arm, she snapped. "SIT!" Kagome screamed as she turned to watch Inuyasha rush to the ground with a satisfying crunch and a muffled irritated growl. "What the hell, Kagome?! Why are you so mad!"

Kagome's hand that was still hanging on to the bike grew tighter around the bikes handlebar. She was not the best person when she was stressed. Sota had the brunt of her anger when he would barge into her room when she was trying to study with notes from her friends for a test she had the next day. Inuyasha had multiple times felt the same scorching anger from her, this was no different. "I have a major test Thursday and I need to study for it if I actually want to pass this year!" She now turned fully towards him as he got up with hell in his eyes, bike falling to its side with a metallic clank from the kickstand hitting the tire guard. Shippo jumped to Mirokus shoulder as the bike went down. "Oh, and I suppose that's my fault!"

"You don't want me to go! You keep me from everything I want to do! You- you- you dog breath!" Kagome had cracked a little more and called Inuyasha what Koga had been calling him for years now. She would be lying if she said it didn't at least feel a little good. The Lords knew she couldn't let Inuyasha find out, though. It would spell out the end of her days here if he ever knew calling him Koga's nickname for him was satisfying to her.

"What did you just say, Wench?" Hell's fires grew higher in his eyes as Inuyasha picked his jaw up from the ground. Inuyasha never heard her curse or even call him names she deemed too mean. It was a first hearing that ridiculous name coming from her and Inuyasha was a little more than shocked. Anger quickly flooded him as he remembered who she got that name from. "You sound just like Him, what's next? Are you gonna live with him now, too?"

Kagome couldn't keep her eyes from rolling from the obvious jealousy and hurt in his voice, which in turn, ultimately made things worse for her. "Inuyasha, you know that's not gonna- "

"Go ahead, then! Go to your 'Skool' crap and fight those tests you're so worried about!" With that, Inuyasha sprang to the nearest and tallest tree to sulk in silence. It wasn't often they fought like this, but when they did one would always run off to cool down before saying something they would regret, and that's Inuyasha immediately did. He removed himself from the situation so it couldn't escalate to something else and the mission would be compromised. Inuyasha kept telling himself she was here for one reason and one reason only, to help put the jewel she shattered back together so he could finally become a full-fledged demon. He knew he didn't mean it anymore, but it gave him drive to collect more than that blasted baboon skin wearing maniac had. It was only a matter of time before the time would come where they would have to face the half demon head on, and Sango would get Kohaku back while Miroku has his curse lifted from his hand.

Kagome watched Inuyasha jump to a tree, his red hakama still visible so he was still within hearing distance. "Lady Kagome, perhaps you were a little hard on him this time?" Miroku couldn't help but comment on the harsh moment that was bound to spring up anytime when Kagome expressed her wishes to go back home for a little while.

"I'll bring him some extra special ramen noodles when I come back. He'll be okay." Kagome once again righted her bike at her side and turned her body to face her friends. "I'll be gone for a bit more than three days, just an extra day or so. I need to study extra hard for this test. It'll determine what the rest of my life will be like after it." Kagome looked behind her to see if a certain silver haired boy was listening in, his body facing away from her but his ears pointed back towards the conversation at hand, his head tilted just slightly for a better angle.

"Sounds like it's going to be a big challenge. I wish the best of luck for you, Kagome." Sango smiled, drawing Kagomes' attention to them once again.

"Lady Kagome, if you wouldn't mind, when you come back from your time, would you bring that drink back with you?" Miroku asked the Miko. "The one that tastes like berries and gives you energy?" Miroku gave his winning smile and Kagome couldn't help but give a small smile back.

"Sure, Miroku. I know just the one." Kagome took one step forward before Sango had requested her favorite item as well. "Oh, Kagome, and the grain bar! The one with the white creamy stuff at the bottom."

"Of course, Sango. I could never forget about you." Without any more requests for treats and energy drinks, and Shippo now resting comfortably on Mirokus' shoulders. Kagome hopped on her bike and pushed off the ground with one foot, gliding forward easily. One last wave goodbye to her friends and a loud shout of farewell and of promised goods to the pouting Inuyasha, Kagome had peddled off in the direction of the Bone Eaters Well.

After what seemed miles of riding, Kagome finally came across the old wooden well. To someone else's eyes, it would seem like any other decrepit old well that's dried-up years ago, if it wasn't for her falling down the same well 500 years into the future she would have thought the same about its false origins.

With her bike propped up against the side of the well, she turned her back to the dark entrance. Breathing in the clean air and marveling in the cleanliness of it all around her. No noise pollution from passing cars, or people yelling at each other to get out of their way while noisy trains screeched on their rails towards a destination. Just silence, it was beautiful.

Something had caught her eye. Just a flash of bright red was all she needed to know exactly who it was that was watching her, Inuyasha. Even with their heated fights he still wanted to know if she made it back okay. It was all she could ask for, a friend who really cared.

With a quick smile, Kagome turned and grabbed her backpack straps before jumping feet first into the dark well, trusting Inuyasha to take her bike back with him as per their agreement with her mother. After Inuyasha tied her old bike into a knot the first time, Kagome's mother was nice enough to lend her old mountain bike to her daughter. Kagome saw the bottom of the well disappear as she floated among tangent blue light before her feet lightly touched the bottom of her well 500 years into the future.

Authors Note: Alright guys, I'm revising the chapters to where I like them. The first chapters I put up bothered me. I hope these will be better. Please leave a review on your way out and tell me how you like the story so far and what you want to read in the next chapters. Thank you for reading!