Author's note: This WAS intended to be a later chapter in Butterfly Wings but it side tracked from the original storyline so…it's been made into a new story. I have most of it written and since I won't have time to write more anytime soon. I guess I'll start dumping my half written stories onto for all you guys.

Wings To Fly

"Kagome, What are you going do about the project?"

"Um" Kagome hadn't thought about her project for science class about flying objects. It seems like all she could think about these days were the group and how much of a family they had become. She was sure they missed her too.

"Kagome? Are you paying attention?"

"Honestly, I haven't thought about it."

"Well, Come join us."

"Huh?" Kagome questioned, as she was already being drug away by her good friends.

Kagome wasn't sure why her friends had dragged her out here. This was just an empty field.

"Kagome!" They yelled motioning for her to join them.

"What are you doing?" Kagome asked with a slight chuckle.

"We're making one of the first flying objects."

"Huh?" Kagome questioned again.

"Wings." Another chimed in.

"We're making wings. Of course, they have to work or we fail."

"I think I've got it this time." The leader defended the project.

"Can I see it?" Kagome asked.

They looked at each other before nodding in agreement.

Kagome briefly skimmed the surfaced before replying. "This is your problem." She stated pointing at brace for the feathers. "It'll never work like this. The whole unit is too heavy. You'll never get off the ground."

"Kagome, I don't know how you became such an expert, but we could use your help."

Kagome helped her friends to strip the flying machine and to make it lighter. Though the whole unit was lighter, it was a lot more fragile now.

"Kagome, are you sure this will work?"

Kagome nodded in response. Her ideas may have come from the futile era but they did work.

"Alright." Kagome's friend stated.

"Your idea…your test."

"What?" Kagome asked.

"You came up with the idea so you get to test it. It's only fair."

"But…"

"NO buts."

While trying to argue about the test her friends had already strapped her into the pack with the flying machine in it. The pack was so compact that it could be easily hidden under clothing, revealing only the wings. Kagome finally gave in to her friends' pleads and agreed to test the contraption.

Kagome took a running start and flew like a bird. She enjoyed the wind ripping through her hair, even though the experience was short-lived. Kagome wished she could share this experience with Shippo and the others. She wondered what Inu-Yasha would say if he thought she could fly. She glided to a halt. Then, her friends raced up to her congratulating her on the successful test, but Kagome didn't hear a word. She was too lost in her own thoughts.

Kagome went to school and came home, several times over. The project came due and they passed. The only problem was the teacher wanted to know if Kagome helped with the project since she'd been ill a lot over the past year and he wouldn't accept the idea that Kagome had contributed so much to the project even though her friends defended her. Kagome's friends gave her the project since 'they had no use for it,' but Kagome knew they gave it to her because of how much school she'd missed. She wondered about returning to the futile era, however passing this school year was much more important at the moment.

She missed them terribly. Inu-Yasha had agreed she would come back when she was ready. Inu-Yasha never visited which made the separation that much more difficult. Kagome's friends pushed her to date Hojou but Kagome wasn't ready. She often dazed in school about the futile era and her friends there. She even missed the fights with Inu-Yasha, Kaede's advise, Miroku's lechering, and Sango's crush. She longed to hold Kirara and cuddle with Shippo. "Kagome!"

Her friends brought her back to reality. They always brought her back. For once she wished she could run away and hide. She knew Inu-Yasha would come for her; she just didn't know when. The school year was almost over. She had managed to pull a miraculous turn-around out of the end of the year. In other words, she was passing; however, her victory was killing her. In the company of her friends, all she thought about was a demon appearing and Inu-Yasha swooping down out of the sky, killing the demon with Tetseiga and stealing her away to her next 'mysterious illness.'

"Kagome!"

"…uh"

"What's wrong with you today?"

"Nothing." Kagome replied.

"You've been like this a lot lately. Are you feeling okay?"

"No." Kagome replied honestly.

Kagome became worse as the school year came to a close. She knew the material she just wasn't motivated to answer the questions. In one class she was given an essay to write. At the end of the essay, she tried to draw a picture of Inu-Yasha, Shippo, Miroku, Sango, and Kirara, but she couldn't. She couldn't remember what they looked like. In her frustration she snapped her pencil in two.

"Kagome!" One of her friends called her back to reality again.

"I'm finished." Kagome responded turning in her test and leaving.

She had a few more days then summer would be here and she could spend all her time in the futile era with no homework or stress.

Outside the school, the sun warmed her face and a small breeze flowed through her hair.

She smiled.

A moment later, the breeze stopped and she was more depressed than ever.

"We've got to do something for her." Her friends conspired.

"How about this summer we get her to date Hojou?"

"How about we spend time with her?"

"How 'bout we just leave her alone?"

"…WHAT?"

"She always seems so distant. Maybe we should just leave her alone."

"No…" Her other friends disagreed together.