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This is my first fanfic so I'm happy someone actually liked it (:

And I know I said I would update every two days- I'm sorry it's been like a week! My computer got a virus and there was no internet till today. But I tried making this chapter long so enjoy!

Anyways! Chapter Two!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Chapter Two

Kagome's POV:

I was back in the house. Having left the two boys working outside. Mom made me a new plate of pancakes to make up for the ones that got ruined because of Gramps. I had a long time before I had to go pick up Souta- he was going to stay extra hours today to work on his kendo. I walked upstairs, leaving my dirty dishes in the sink. I ran up to my room and started on my summer assignments, working for about an hour. I stopped when I heard my door creak open.

"Kagome?" I turned to see someone peaking into my door.

It was Ayame. Her bright red hair tied into two high ponytails. She was wearing a low cut green shirt and khaki boy shorts. She walked into my room sitting at the foot of my bed.

"Hey, what's up?" I said. Folding my books shut giving her my full attention.

Ayame leaned in her whole body to talk to me. "I dropped off Kohaku and Souta a while ago and now I have time to kill. Also Souta told me the Shrine has two new employees. Two male employees."

I nodded to verify her statement. "So Kagome, are they cute? Do you have dibs on either one of them? Can I meet them?"

"Dibs?" I asked.

"Yeah.. like do you kinda like either one of em?"

I thought back to when I put the band-aid on Inuyasha's arm.

'He looked really genuine when he said that.. he even smiled a little.' I shook my head. 'Ugh. It was one single moment. How can that even be the tiniest bit significant?'

"Kagome!" Ayame broke me out of my trance. "You DO like one! You're totally blushing! Which one is it huh? WHICH ONE!"

I could feel my face getting hot. "I don't like either one! They're both insane. I saw them both when they were fighting. Kouga had throw Inuyasha into a shed! And Inuyasha kicked Kouga straight in his face!"

"Those are hot names. Are they demons?"

"Yeah, they're both demons. Well, Inuyasha is a half."

"A hanyou.. that's perfect for you Kagome!" Ayame was yelling again.

I shushed her. "What are you talking about? Where do you even get these ideas?"

"Well half-demon is perfect for you. All kinds of guys have liked you. But human boys can't really keep up with you girl- like that one guy that follows you around, what's his name. Hoho?"

"Ayame his name is Houjo! He's been in school with us for like 5 years now!" I was quickly getting tired of her insane logic.

'Houjo was nice.. just. Something, I don't know what.' I thought.

Ayame continued. "Yeah, that guy. Well, he's too soft for you Kagome. Maybe you need a guy with an edge. Maybe you need a guy who can kick someone in the face.. and I need a guy who can survive getting kicked in the face." She threw me a wink.

'Edge huh?' I let my thoughts flow. 'Well, Inuyasha definitely has a edge to him. The way he referred to me as a wench was out of line.. but he was nice to me after it blew over. I guess he's not horrible. He still doesn't seem like my type though.'

"Hey Kagome.. KAGOME!", Ayame yelled for my attention.

I jumped, a bit taken aback. "Wh- what?", I stammered.

"Let's go. I want to meet them." Ayame started walking out of my room. I pushed my books off my lap and walked after her.

We walked outside together and heard noises coming from inside the storage shed. Ayame walked ahead of me and inside. There was dust everywhere. I sneezed as I walked in.

"Dammit dog boy! Stop sneezing every fucking two seconds- oh hey Kagome!" Kouga walked towards Ayame and me with a clay pot under one arm.

"What'd ya say flee bag?" Inuyasha appeared from behind a rack of random artifacts. His eyes were watering and his nose was red.

Ayame stepped in front of me into Kouga's view. Inuyasha stood behind him in his red uniform, his sleeves pulled back to work.

"Hi! I'm Ayame!" She shook Kouga's free hand with a small blush on her face. She turned around and mouthed to me; 'Kagome, you didn't tell me he was a wolf demon!' They both started talking as I took a few steps towards Inuyasha.

"Hey." I started. "Are you doing alright in here? Your nose looks really red."

"Feh I'm fine, don't worry about me. The ancient dust in here is just throwing my senses off for some reason. Not sure why."

"Here.. maybe I can help." I walked all around the shed opening some windows and letting some dust out. "That better?" I asked.

"Yeah. Thanks Kagome." He said. Throwing a small smile my way.

'Whoa. He's actually smiling, looks better when he isn't scowling..'

"KAGOME! Look at what I found!" It was Ayame, she was yelling. Again. I walked towards her voice to see her leaning over a chest. She pulled out a few arrows and some long knives. She threw me a look. "Want to?" she asked.

"You read my mind."

I grabbed a bow and the arrows before we walked out of the shed, leaving two confused demons behind. Going behind the house we reached a fence where there were three targets lined up. We both took our positions opposite our own targets. Ayame held her knife in the air behind her ready, taking aim. I put my arrow inside my bow and pulled back on it.

Ayame started counting down. "Three.. two.."

"One!" I yelled. We both released our weapons at the same time. Mine hit first. Right in the center! My powers kicked in and started dissolving the target with its aura.

"Oops.." I said.

"WOAH." said voices behind me.

I turned around to see Ayame, Inuyasha, and Kouga staring at me- their mouths slightly hanging open. Ayame, was obviously first to start speaking.

"Kagome. How did you do that? Last time we practice you hit the outer rings!" she was yelling, yet again. "That was amazing!"

Kouga took a step forward. "I thought you said your Miko powers weren't strong."

"They're really not that strong.." I said, my head facing down.

"You're wrong." Inuyasha was in front of me. "The energy that came off of that shot was really strong. If you controlled it a little better your power would increase easily." I could feel my face burning up.

"Hey, mutt-face. How come you're acting like you know so much about this?" Kouga was standing behind Inuyasha.

"My girlfriend was a Miko. I used to help her practice."

My heart skipped a beat. 'Girlfriend?' I looked up at Inuyasha.

Kouga leaned into Inuyasha's face. "Was? Used to huh? I can smell your grief pup. So did she ditch you because you weren't any help?"

Whatever happiness may have been on Inuyasha's face completely disappeared. His expression turned hard. My heartbeat sped up.

"I guess you could say she ditched me. She died."

Inuyasha's POV:

I turned my head up to see wolf-boy was speechless. He put his head down and quietly muttered an apology.

Ayame was the first to speak up. "I'm sorry Inuyasha. That must've been hard to deal with."

"Ha. It was a long time ago. It's fine. Besides, I'm a hanyou, remember? I'm used to life being hard." Right as I said that I could smell saltwater in the air. I turned to see Kagome with tears rolling down her face.

"Wh- why!" I yelled.

"You shouldn't be used to it." she said. Tears kept flowing down her face.

'The hell?'

I looked over at Ayame and Kouga. They didn't seem to know what to do. I walked towards Kagome and put my hand on her shoulder.

"What are you talking about? Stop crying Kagome." I said. My hands trembling. "Please."

Still crying she talked with pauses for taking breaths. "You shouldn't be used- to life being hard.- You don't deserve it.- You deserve- to be happy too- being a hanyou- doesn't change that."

'Don't deserve it..' I thought. 'She's crying for me?'

Without thinking I grabbed her chin and pulled it up so I could see her eyes. "Thank you." I whispered. I smiled. "Will you stop crying now?"

She shook her head up and down and wiped her eyes. Looking back up to me she gave me a small smile. I let go off her face and took a step back from her.

'I feel warm. Am I sick?'

My thoughts were stopped when my phone rang from inside my kimono. I let go of Kagome and struggled to make my way out of my dumb uniform, finally I grabbed my phone from the place I'd stuck it in.

"Hello.. Sesshomaru, what!... Yeah.. okay. I'll be there soon."

I turned to look at Kagome. "Hey, can you tell the old man I had to go take care of something at home?"

She was wiping the remaining tears from her eyes. "Sure." she said. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yeah, you will. No more crying, right?"

She shook her head, a small smile appearing in her lips.

"Good, tomorrow then. Good luck with the shed Wolf-boy!"

I ran from behind the house and sprinted down the Shrine's steps. 'Why the hell are there so many goddamn steps here?'

Finally reaching the bottom I crossed the empty street and walked over to a small parking lot. Digging my keys out of my robe I opened my 2010 Silver Camaro and drove home.

After driving through the gate, I saw that the garage was open so I just pulled inside and parked- closing it behind me. Coming through the door I was bombarded by my Mother. She had long black hair that she never tied up, no matter how hot it was. And thin pale skin. She grabbed my right ear.

"You do know what tonight is, right?", she said.

"Let go of me!", I yelled. She released me from her grasp.

"You know you're supposed to be careful on these days. I should partially blame your stupid Father for signing you up for an interview today of all days. I'll take it up with him later.. how have your senses been?"

I was cracking my back. It was feeling stiff. "I'm fine, woman. My allergies were acting up before because that damn Shrine is ancient. I swear though, there is no reason for me to have a job. I'm Inuyasha TAKAHASHI."

"Your Father and I know who you are better than anybody. Just because you don't need the money doesn't mean you don't need the experience. Plus, this will help you get over a few things..", she started walking away right then. "Take a shower Yasha. You have dust in your hair."

'She still can't talk to me about it. It's been a year already. Ugh. Screw this.'

I started walking up the stairs toward my room. Stripping out of my ridiculous robe I grabbed some gray sweats and a black beater I headed to the bathroom across the hall. I turned the shower on and stepped right in. The water felt hotter than usual. After about fifteen minutes I stepped out. My back felt a little better, I wiped the fog from the mirrors I saw my changed appearance. My fangs were gone, there were no ears on top my now jet black hair. And my eye had turned into a dark brown.

'Ugh. I feel so exhausted.' I exited the bathroom not wanting to look at my human form, nor did I want anyone else to look at me either. I started walking into my room right before the doorbell rang.

"INUYASHA! Come open the door!" My Mother yelled. I saw her standing at the foot of the stairs, five steps away from the door herself and looked at her like she was lazy.

"Go open the door! It's your Brother, he was out doing some work in front of the house and you shut the garage when you got in SO OPEN THE DOOR!"

"Fine."

I walked down the steps, taking my time and walked to open the door. I was horrified when instead of Sesshomaru- a pair of light brown eyes were staring back at me.

"Uh. Inuyasha is that you?" she said.

'It's Kagome. Fuck. I'm human and Kagome is standing right in front of me!' I was mentally abusing myself as I stood frozen. Sesshomaru walked in behind her, leaving her to stand outside.

"I found her waiting at the gate. She said she had your clothes. I could smell you all over her, so I decided letting her in could do no harm." Said Sesshomaru, he walked away and I could've sworn he had smirked for a split second.

'No harm? The bastard. I'm human and me being exposed was no harm!'

"I hate you." I whispered low enough that he would hear it but Kagome wouldn't. He walked back outside. I turned over to her again, she was standing there just gaping at me. She noticed I saw her staring and quickly looked down.

I sighed. "Come in.", I said. She stepped into the house and I closed the door behind her.

"Wow. Your house is really nice. You don't really need job do you?" She said.

"Thanks. And yea, tell that to my parents." She nodded at me and then looked down at her arms.

"Oh, here!" She handed me my clothes. "You left these at my house."

"Thanks. Hey Kagome listen, could you-"

"HELLO THERE!" My Mother appeared out of no where grabbing Kagome's hands. "And who are you?"

"Um. He-hello, my name is Kagome Higurashi."

"It's so nice to meet you Kagome! You're the first friend on Inuyasha we've seen in months! Please stay for dinner!"

"Wow, that's really nice of you but I have to go pick up my little brother.."

Sesshomaru appeared next to us and turned towards Kagome, "There was a man outside in a blue Mini Cooper who said he went to go pick up a boy named Souta. He said he would come back for you."

"He was my ride.." Said Kagome. She looked suddenly irritated. My Mother looked overjoyed. I wanted to hide under a rock somewhere. And Sesshomaru looked like everything going on was normal. He walked away towards the kitchen.

"This is great! So you can stay! Would you like to call your ride and let them know you are staying?"

Kagome was hesitant, but quickly regained her composure. "Yes. Thank you, I would love to stay for dinner. I just need to call my cousin to make sure my brother gets home safely." She reached for her pockets and her eyes widened in panic.

"I think I left my phone in Roku's car!"

"Here, use this." I reached into my sweats and gave Kagome my red cell phone.

"Thank you."

My mother started walking towards the kitchen behind Sesshomaru leaving Kagome alone with me. Kagome started dialing.

"Hey Miroku.. you idiot, you were supposed to wait!.. Ugh, fine- just make sure you get Souta home. I'm staying here for dinner... because his Mother insisted I do! Just- shut up! I'll call you when I need to be picked up, okay? Okay. Bye." She hung up the phone and handed it back to me. Then there were a few moments of silence, awkward silence.

"Hey Inuyasha." she said. "Are you human?"

"Yes." I said. She just looked at me with her curious eyes. I hesitated. She really shouldn't know so much about me, I'd only met her a few hours ago. But there's no point in hiding now since she'd already seen me.

"When it starts getting dark outside on the night of the new moon I go into my human form."

"Oh..", she said.

"Hey, Kagome.."

"Yes?"

"Could you not tell anyone about this?"

"Oh! Of course! I wasn't going to. This is why you had to come home, right?"

"Yea, I would've told you, if it was anything else. No one else really knows about today, besides my family." Except for Kikyo, she knew.

I looked to Kagome who was now frowning a bit. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"Um.. nothing! Just that, well. Your ears changed."

"Yes. Your point?"

"It's just. I liked them is all.. they're cuter when you're a hanyou, okay?"

She thinks they're cute? I looked at her smiling.

"You're a weird girl, you know that? You don't prefer me in this form?" I asked.

"Oh well no, I mean I don't know! I mean. Does it really matter what form you're in? You're still you."

I looked at her confused. Still me? She doesn't care what I am? Why? Kikyo even preferred my human form.

"Kagome-"

"KAGOME!" My mother yelled, cutting me short yet again. She came up grabbing Kagome's hands. "Come! The table is set up. Inuyasha go put on a real shirt."

I was left there to stand alone, absorbing everything that had just happened. Kay. Kagome knows I'm human. I guess that's not the worst. She didn't look freaked out. I actually feel relieved she wasn't freaked out.

I ran upstairs and removed my beater, replacing it with a white button down shirt.

When I arrived in the dining room downstairs I was taken aback. My Father, my giant Father had encompassed Kagome in his arms. My Mother was laughing, even Sesshomaru was grinning at the sight. I was utterly confused as I walked in on the scene.

"Son!" Beamed my Father. "Kagome was telling me about how you kicked a mutt named Kouga! Did you really? We haven't seen any action from you in over a year!"

"You're not mad that I kicked someone in the face?" I asked. "You're actually encouraging this?" Father just grinned at me.

Kagome chimed in. "You also left him there to finish up cleaning that whole shed. He was really mad but Ayame did help him out a bit."

"Heh." I felt pretty cocky about that one. It's what that wolf deserved after what he said to me.

My Father spoke up. "Kagome where will you be attending school this fall?"

"I'll be going to Shikon High, Sir."

"Please call me Inutaisho! And that's the same school Inuyasha will be attending. Hopefully you two may have some classes together."

Kagome looked down a bit flushed. "That would be nice." She said quietly.

My Father turned to look at me. "I'm glad you kicked that wolf, son. But how could you let Kagome get you like that?"

"What?" I said. Completely oblivious to what he was talking about.

My Mother laughed a little and quickly covered her mouth, as my Father continued. "She told us she stabbed with you a fork. I find that astounding."

I turned to glare at Kagome, who was conveniently looking away from me towards Sesshomaru, who was smiling at her.

Wait a second, WHAT? Sesshomaru is smiling? Hell has officially frozen over.

He read my mind, speaking up. "Little brother. I think Rin would like Kagome."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It had been fifteen- twenty minutes at the most and Kagome was being inducted into my family. My parents had always been nice and carefree- but they were picky about who they let in. And Sesshomaru! He doesn't like anybody, why does he want to share Rin with her?

'Then again..' I thought looking over at Kagome, who was laughing and talking to my family. She did look right sitting in between us.

I shook my head. It's too early to accept her. I hate my human nights, they made me all soft. Maybe, I looked over to her again and saw as she smiled and laughed amongst my family. She fit.

Dinner flew by faster then I wanted it to. Kagome had called Miroku and he was on the way to pick her up now.

"You can just reheat these." said my Mother as she kissed Kagome on the cheek and handed her a box packed with leftovers from dinner. "And don't forget, you're coming out with us this weekend!"

"I won't, thank you Mrs. Takahashi. I had a lot of fun tonight." My Mother smiled, gave her one last hug and walked inside. I was waiting outside with Kagome for Miroku to pick her up.

"Sorry if tonight was weird for you. They're usually not so perky." I said.

"No, I really did have fun. Your family is very nice Yasha." This time my eyes widened. Yasha? A large gust of wind blew past us and both of our hair was blown everywhere. I tucked mine back into the hood of my jacket and grabbed a strand of her hair that was being blown into her face and silently replace it behind her ear.

"Two can play at that game, Kaggie." My human eyes had just adjusted so I could see her face in the dark. She was looking directly into my eyes. Only to be harshly illuminated by the headlights of a car approaching us.

"That's Miroku. I have to go." She said. "I'll see you tomorrow Inuyasha!"

She started walking away before I grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards me into a half hug. "Goodnight, Kagome. See you tomorrow."

"Goodnight." She whispered before running off.

I watched her as she got in the car. She waved goodbye one final time before driving off. Even on the cold summer night I felt warm. Before going to sleep that night I felt an over sizing sense of relief, like I could relax. And for the first time in a while, I was waiting for tomorrow to come fast.

End of Chapter Two

Kay dudes! That's all for this one. Please please review! (:

Also I do want to point out to anyone who thinks I might have made our grumpy Hanyou a bit OCC in this chapter that he is HUMAN for part of it. And human Inuyasha is a softy. So yay fluff!