Ohayo Minna! I wasn't sure if any of you guys noticed, but I retyped the first chapter! Yaay:Grin:

Oh, and I'll probably be retyping everything from chapter one (which is presented here, finished!) to chapter five. :)

So please bare with the ugly typos, the missing caps (capitals), and everything else in the oncoming chapters.

And for those who are just starting this story! HEY! Welcome, I guess, and I hope you enjoy!

Kagome sat on the soft ground, leaning against Inuyasha's arm. She sighed softly.

She would be going back home today, not doubt, if not to catch up with her studies, then at least restock on her supplies so that her yellow 'purse' would be bulging yet again.

She loved coming to the Feudal era and being able to gaze at the stars on the sky during the night without the pollution blocking everything out. She sighed again. How long would it be before she finally completed the jewel? Three years. It's been three years since she first got pulled into the bone-eaters well by the centipede demon. Three years since she met Inuyasha. Three years since she first started hunting for the jewel shards (which she shattered, granted) with Inuyasha. So how long would it be before it was finished? When the well would finally close up to her, forbidding her from ever seeing her friends and first love (she blushed softly at the thought)?

She yawned slightly, and snuggled deeper into the inu's arms. She would not think on such thoughts. She would simply let exhaustion overtake her, run into sleep's awaiting arms so she would be nice and fit tomorrow morning, where she would go back to her own time, and that was that.

'It'd be nice,' She thought, 'if it would last a bit longer. If somehow, I'd be able to be with them forever. But if the Kami wouldn't allow that, then I just wished I'd forget, when it had to happen. Forget when it finally hurt too much.'

She finally let her heavy eyelids droop down, bringing sleep along with it. Kagome welcomed the darkness with open arms.

Unbeknownst to her, a single star flew across the sky, shining brightly for the last time.

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"...so, if you want, let's go watch a movie together on Saturday Kagome-chan!"

Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts, she glared, faintly annoyed, at the source of interruption. Ah. Hojo. "Ne? What did you say, Hojo-kun?"

"I was wondering if you'd like to watch a movie with me on Saturday Kagome-chan!"

"Oh yes!"

"She'd simply love to, Hojo-kun!"

"Why, yes, yes, YES! Thanks for the invitation Hojo-kun! Kagome's been needing a break from her studies for far too long!"

Kagome stared, unable to move, completely bewildered, as her friends accept yet another one of those pitiful date invitations from Hojo.

"Alright! I'll meet you at Shinji mall tomorrow at eight then, Kagome-chan! Cya!" Hojo replied, waving happily as he ran off.

"What the hell was that?" Kagome hissed at her friends, each with an all too innocent expression upon their face.

"Why, we'd just thought our beloved friend would like to go on a date with the sweetest, one of the most wanted, and cutest guys in the school!"

Kagome had an amused expression upon her face. "Cut the crap guys, what's your reason, really?" As though it was well rehearsed, a dark glare was passed between her friends, and their eyes narrowed in unison. Kagome backed up a few steps, sweat running down the sides of her face.

"Now guys, there's no need for violence–"

"It's that Inuyasha guy Kagome." They nodded in unison. Another dark glare.

"We, as your closest friends, think that you deserve someone better than the–"

"Violent,"

"idiotic,"

"possessive,"

"two-timing,"

"Inuyasha bastard." They finished, looking pleased with themselves. Kagome sighed inwardly.

"Guys, I'm sorry, okay? It wasn't supposed to sound that way when I first said it, he's really nice when you get to know him! He has these adorable little puppy ears-" She suddenly stopped, realizing what it would seem like if her friends knew that her male companion had puppy ears growing out of the sides of his head.

"What's this Kagome?" One friend asked, an accusing finger jabbed Kagome in the chest.

"Well, I mean, not really 'has' if you know what I–"

"Puppy ears? He wears puppy ears?" Another friend hissed out, voice slightly higher than usual.

"Wait, guys, it really isn't–" Wait a... 'Wears'?

"He's a prostitute too?!"

Woaa. Wait a sec there. Inuyasha? Prostitute?

"That's sick Kagome! What kind of man goes around wearing puppy ears?!" Kagome felt the world swirling around her.

Inuyasha? Puppy ears? Prostitute?

"Wait guys, you're misunderstanding what I said, its for me." Kagome had quickly realized, with the affronted and disgusted stares now directed at her, what she had just said implied.

"For you? Kagome!"

"Wait, really, please! It's not what I–"

"No need to explain Kagome. Temptation can be hard to resist. But maybe after a few days with Hojo, you'll be okay again."

"No! That's really not what I meant to–" Kagome suddenly stopped, twisted on the spot a bit with a dreamy smile on her face, and fell to the ground in a heap, apparently passed out from the humiliation.

---

"Kagome?"

Kagome rubbed her eyes wearily, a small frown on her confused face.

"Souta?" She muttered, her vision a bit blurry.

"Yea sis?" He replied, obviously relieved that she had woke up okay.

"What happened?" She asked bluntly. Souta bit back giggles.

"Well... that is.. You passed out." Kagome covered her face in humiliation. She passed out from embarrassment. How ironic. "Your friends carried you back here." Kagome nodded, her hands still covering her face. Souta paused slightly, attempting (and failing), at muffling his giggles. Kagome let her hands fall to her sides, glaring at Souta suspiciously.

"Er... Kagome... When did you start having a sexual relationship with Inuyasha?" Kagome froze, her pupil almost disappearing behind her eye whites (A/N it seems like I'm talking about eggs somehow...). Her face turned a bright red colour. "Oh. My. God."

Souta collapsed in loud laughter. "You're having a." He clutched his stomach, lack of air cutting him off from continuing his sentence. "Sexual relationship with–" This time, however, it was not the lack of air from laughing that cut him off, it was when he found himself thrown headfirst out of Kagome's room. The door slammed in his face.

"Oh, by the way, oniichan, when should I tell mom about your little relationship?" Kagome, if possible, had turned redder from this statement, letting out a high-pitched shriek.

"Souta! If you dare–" Souta's laughter erupted again from the halls.

"Don't worry sis, I won't tell mom. I'll keep your dirty little secret." He roared with laughter again, humming 'Dirty little Secret' as he ran down the halls.

Kagome sat on her bed, fuming with indignation. She took a few deep breaths.

'Remember what the family psychiatrist said about your relationship with Souta. Patience. He's still in a gay-ass, idiotic, annoying brother stage. It's okay. He's not worth it. Breath Kagome. Breath deeply.'

She clutched the bed tightly, and took a few deep breaths. After deeming that she was indeed 'calm' enough, she went over to the answering machine after seeing the red blinking light signalling that there were new messages to be heard.

She pressed the play button with a little more force than necessary, accidentally skipping the newest message in the process.

"Hi. It's Hojo calling to confirm our date— Message Deleted." Kagome pressed down on the delete button hardly. She did not want to deal with him now. I mean, granted, he did deserve a date after being stood up by Kagome by so long, but it'd take a lot more for her to actually enjoy the date.

She finished listening to the rest of the messages (which were all advertising some kind of beauty product), she fell down on her bed again and fell asleep promptly on the bed, thoroughly exhausted from the events that had happened.

---

Kagome was drenched from head to toe in rain water.

After departing from the house, what had promised to be a beautiful, sun-shiny day, had turned to one involving a dreadful and sudden downpour of rain, ruining one of her best outfits. However, despite the circumstances she trudged on, however unwillingly, and after waiting for the bus for half an hour (which assured that she would be late for her date) she proceeded on the bus to find that there were no empty seats.

Seething with fury, she pulled out her cell-phone (hearing a little crack from being held so 'tightly' "Oh sonovabitch! Not my new Motorola Krazer!") she dialled Hojo's number with incredible accuracy.

Ring.

Ring.

Ring.

The costumer you're calling is unavailable at the moment, please try again later.

She swore loudly, attracting a few stares from passerby. After trying three more times, when the bastard, God help him, finally picked up, she had somewhat wished she had not called at all.

"Kagome?" Hojo had called, a bit nervous. Kagome did not like the tone.

"Yea. Look, I'm going to be running a little late okay? So just wait for me a little longer."

"Oh, Kagome! Didn't you get my message?" Kagome felt what little blood she had drain out of her face.

Her voice shook when she spoke. "What message? Wasn't there only one telling reminding me about the date?"

"Um," She could practically see the little fucker blanch. "Er.. Kagome, I called after that cancelling the date because my sister's in the hospital with a high fever!" Hojo stuttered. "Er, Hello? Kagome-chan?"

Kagome faintly remembered that she had accidentally skipped the first message, pressing the play button a tad bit too hard because of her frustrations. Oh no...

"It's okay Hojo-san." She said, stiffly. She could practically see him flinch at the formal suffix. "It's not your fault. Your sister was sick, it's completely understandable."

"I'm really sorry Kagome, do you want to–"

"Sorry," She lied. "I got to go now, another call's coming in. Cya." She promptly hanged up, and threw her new Motorola Krazer out the bus window. (A/N NoooooOOO! Not the Krazer!)

"Next stop is Konohagakure! Konohagakure! All those who wish to get off please exit out the back exit of the bus! Next stop is Konohagakure! Konohagakure!"

Kagome stared out the window glumly, then deciding that she might as well get off at the earliest stop possible, she pressed the buzzer and got off quickly, ignoring the protests from the crowd as she pushed towards the front.

'Ah, fresh air.' She thought, ironically. She could be with Inuyasha right now, tracking down the next jewel shard. She mentally flinched at what Inuyasha would say when she got back.

She looked across the street, attempting to find the return bus stop. There were none.

She started to panic. 'Wait a minute... this wasn't on the way to Shinji mall! Hell, I've never heard of a road called 'Konohagakure'! Shit!'

She heard the sounds of voices behind her. She promptly turned around and followed the sounds of the commotions. Suddenly, her whole body froze. In front of her (or rather, above her) was a sign that read:

'Hi there! Welcome to Konohagakure! Pop. 1536! Enjoy your stay!'

Wait a... Konoha's not a town... it's..

A village?!

---

Inuyasha paced back and forth, a disturbed look on his eyes.

"Kagome's still not back." He said, stating the obvious.

Sango sighed. This had to be the 10th time this half-hour. "I'm sure Kagome-chan has a valid reason." Sango replied, though even she herself was quite confused as to why it took Kagome-chan so freaking long to return. She was supposed to be back at this time yesterday.

"Hm. Inuyasha, I'm sure Kagome-san's fine. She's a fine lady, I'm sure she can take care of herself, though if she were to require any male assistance, she would surely know that I, Miroku, would be most pleased to assist in anyway possib–" Miroku was cut off as a fist smashed into the side of his mouth.

"Quiet monk." Sango said, left brow twitching slightly. Drawing her fist back slowly.

"Why, Sango, I was just simply comforting lord Inuyasha about the absence of Kagome-san! I would never lay hands upon another women if only you would–"

Slap.

Miroku's unconscious collapsed in a heap on the ground, still jerking slightly.

Sango eyed him with disgust, before returning to their current dilemma.

"Er.. Inuyasha, I'm sure she's just studying the scrolls or 'textbooks' as they say, of her time."

Inuyasha nodded absent mindedly, and suddenly froze in his pacing, as though reaching a decision.

"I'm going to go." Sango felt a wave of dread wash over her.

"But without Kagome, we can't locate the jewel shards at all! And if you were to hurt yourself, Kagome would be devastated!" Sango reasoned, a pleading note in her voice. Inuyasha waved those worries off.

"I'm not talking about the jewel, I'm going to go get Kagome back." Sango fumbled with the hem of her sleeve lightly.

"Well, I don't know if it would be so wise, Inuyasha, but I suppose..." Sango was torn between keeping Inuyasha here to wait for Kagome-chan's return (lest she returns to find a missing Inuyasha, which could only result in more unneeded drama) and concern for her best friend's well-being. Before Sango could reach a proper decision, Inuyasha had already left, speeding down the road towards the bone-eaters well.

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Kagome made her way through the crowds quickly, mumbling incoherent apologies whenever she bumped into another person on the way, trying to be as unnoticeable as possible. However, her luck was short lived as she bumped into a kid with blazing yellow hair.

"Gomen–"

"Watch where your going!" The kid shouted at her, obviously annoyed. "You could've made me fall to my death, idiot!" What the poor kid didn't notice, was that Kagome was running on a very thin line of patience, and he had just snapped it. He gave a loud cry when she bopped him hard on the head.

"What the hell, bitch!" He whimpered, nursing his bruise.

"What did you call me, brat?!" Kagome shouted back at him, her anger bubbling at it's highest point.

"I called you bitch, bitch! Or can't you hear properly?" Before he could say more regarding her hearing, he found himself lying eagle-spread across the floor after being caught in the girl's right hook.

Kagome looked at the kid now nursing two wounds, muttering under his breath indignantly. "Hey, you okay?"

He glared at her. After waiting a little while, and confirming that her enquiry wasn't sarcastic, he replied. "Yea, I'm fine. I wouldn't get hurt by such weak attacks."

"Whatever. Hey, kid, you know where the nearest pay-phone is?" He gazed at her, incredulous look upon his face.

"You're joking, right?" Kagome suddenly paled. Oh no! What if she went back in time? And instead of a well, she travelled back in time by that bus?! And now, she was stuck here, in this uncivilized land without any form of communication to her family! (A/N psh. You deserve it for throwing out your Krazer!) However, her worries were cut short when the kid (upon noticing that she was in fact serious) pointed towards her right.

She quickly turned her head, and with a loud cry of "Thank you God!" she pounced on the unsuspecting pay-phone, nuzzling the phone, tears dripping down her overjoyed face. However, her joy was short lived when she realized that she did not have the money required. She glanced over at the kid, still nursing his wounds, and a devious little plan formed in her head.

"Oi, kid!" She called out.

"What? And I have a name bitc– woman! It's Naruto! U-zu-ma-ki Na-ru-to!" Kagome rolled her eyes. "What ever kid, I have a name too you know? It's Ka-go-me. Hi-gu-ra-shi Ka-go-me. Well, now that we introduced, I'd like to make a little bet with you. Let's call it, a little challenge."

Naruto's eyes lit up at the prospect of a challenge. Ha! I'll bet she doesn't know I'm a ninja! I'll surpass her so badly she won't even see me moving!

"So you agree, kid?"

"Yea! Uzumaki Naruto never backs down on a challenge!"

"Okay, let's make it simple. If you can touch that piece of grass," She pointed at a random piece of grass near the ground. "Then you win, and you get to embarrass me in what ever way you want. However if you can't, then you have to give me enough money for food, a decent hotel, and to call my parents. Deal?"

Naruto glared at the girl suspiciously. Touch a piece of grass? What the hell was this bitch playing at? Of course he could touch a piece of grass! He sniffled indignantly. Well, she'd just have to face the prospect of going on a date with Ero-sennin then.

He flashed a dazzling smile at her. And bent down, preparing to gloat at her after his stunning, grass-touching victory, and he was centimetres away from finally reaching his destination when suddenly he was stopped. It was like an invisible barrier had been put up around the little green weed. Suddenly, he snatched his hand back, his eyes wide as he examined it. It's burnt?

Kagome always watched with surprise, though she did not show it on her face.

Why did her barrier burn Naruto? It's only supposed to burn demons, not humans! All it was supposed to do was prevent Naruto from touching the piece of grass! Unless Naruto's a... No. he couldn't be. But just in case...

Kagome let a bit of her miko powers reach out to Naruto's aura. She flinched when she felt another stronger aura threatening to overwhelm her powers. Demon-like aura. But the kid didn't even react! If he really was a demon, then he would've felt it when her pure powers reached out to his tainted, evil one. But the other aura.. There was no doubt it was demonic.

She frowned. How could the kid be a demon, and yet... not be one? Perhaps he was a hanyou, like Inuyasha? No. Inuyasha had also been purified (slightly) by her powers before, and though it wouldn't hurt him as much as a full fledged youkai, it still would sting quite a bit. What was this kid? He was like some demon container.

Naruto turned around, and saw Kagome's confused look focussed on him. He shifted uneasily under her penetrating glare. It was almost like she knew...

Naruto let out a dry laugh inside his head. Like she would know. "Hey, women, what are you looking at?"

Kagome quickly snapped out of her musings. "My name's Kagome, not 'women', okay? And anyways, I won the bet, so first I'd like my pay-phone money, please."

"No!" He bit out, stubbornly. "I didn't say I lost! I just... got.. Distracted. It's nothing, okay?"

Kagome ignored him, and stared at him, nonplussed, when he attempted, and failed miserably, again and again at the task, his frown deepening after each try.

Why the hell wasn't it letting him touch it?!

He swore loudly and pointed an accusing finger at Kagome. "You!" He yelled indignantly, his fingers still stinging from the burns he had received. "You're the reason why I can't touch this! You did something to it!"

Kagome sent him a blank stare. "Hey, it was a contest, you didn't ask. I just said 'if you can touch this piece of grass, you win, if you can't, I win' simple as that. You didn't ask about anything else, so I didn't bother telling you."

"Hey!" He whined. "That's cheap! You're not getting anything! Best two out of three!"

Kagome glared at him. Naruto put on a full-force puppy-eyes-look. Kagome knew she was fighting a loosing battle.

"Okay then, best two out of three." She muttered. "But this better be quick, baka."

Naruto flashed a victory pose (Copyrighted by Gai-sensei and his ever-so-loyal student, Rock-lee) "How about this? Since u got to pick the first challenge, I get to pick the second one!" He sent a blinding smile her way.

"Fine kid, but like I said, it better not take too long..." Kagome warned.

"Yea, sure. How 'bout this? We fight. Whoever wins gets their prize. If you win, you get your money, if I win, you go on a date with Ero-sannin." Kagome shivered in fear. She knew not of this 'Ero-sannin' guy, but the name itself was enough to get her in fear of him, if not the way Naruto said his name, and the maniacal laughter that followed.

Naruto smirked deviously. Oh this will definitely be quick Kagome-chan.He laughed maniacally.

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Inuyasha ran down the grass covered road to the small clearing with the bone-eaters well. His blood raced up slightly at the thought of seeing Kagome again.

When he was five feet away, he jumped to the air with inhuman agility, and landed with a neat 'thump' in the bone eaters well. He waited for the blue light to engulf him as usual, taking him through the portal to Kagome's world.

Nothing happened.

Inuyasha waited a bit more, shifting so that he was standing in the middle of the well.

Still nothing.

No lights, no sinking, nothing. No portal. No Kagome.

He was trapped in his own time.

Well, that's it for now, Ja!