-1Chapter 2- Flowers for you

Ask, and you shall receive - another chapter! Man this is a blast to write lol

If you're wondering what I listen to while I write (probably not but here it is anyway :P) I listen to the Inuyasha Wind Symphonic CD

If you like Inuyasha, and orchestra/classical music, you'd LOVE this CD I know I do

Ah- poor Inuyasha. So bad at this stuff XD it's kinda cute

Kind of kept them in character this time… it was hard to know what they would do in these situations.

Kagome sighed and fell back onto her bed again after a long day of school. Oh man, she hoped she never had to do that again! She was convinced that her grandfather had not only told the teachers about her 'sickness' but everyone else he had talked to as well! She groaned in frustration into her pillow and looked up again. It was about time she got back to Feudal Japan, or else the others might start to worry about her. She started packing her bag again, this time putting less in. She hoisted the bag over her shoulder with an 'oof' and sighed. It was still heavy! She plodded down the stairs and waved goodbye to her family again before making her way over to the well and jumping in with a bright flash.

She sat up on the other side, throwing her bag over the side onto the grass beside the broken down well. She climbed out herself and looked around in concern. Usually there was someone here to meet with her. Where was everyone?
"Hi Kagome!" Shippo waved from the edge of the clearing, and pointed behind himself. "Everyone's over here."

Kagome smiled and lifted her bag, dragging it over to where everyone else was. She looked over at Miroku and Sango and smiled softly, glad they were both so happy. Miroku looked at Kagome and grinned, as if he knew something she didn't. She gave him a confused look, which made him only smile more. He whispered something to Sango, who stoop up and went into the forest casually.
"She's going to get Inuyasha. He wandered off somewhere." Miroku explained, and stared at Sango's butt as she walked off with wide eyes and a grin.

Kagome nodded, but rolled her eyes. Such a perv. You'd think she'd be used to it by now. It had been so long since she had first met everyone… though it was only about a year or so. It seemed much longer. She sat down on the grass and got a few things out of her bag, handing Shippo a bag of potato chips, and throwing Miroku a twinkie. They both cheered happily and tore into the packages to eat the contents.

"What's with everyone? What happened while I was gone?" Kagome looked at Miroku and Shippo accusingly.
"Nothing, Kagome- really. Well, Miroku kissed Sango a lot." Shippo looked over to Miroku.
"Aye, I enjoyed it. I'll do it much more. Who knew Sango was such a good kisser?" He grinned, his eyes wide as if he had seen heaven. Kagome giggled, not quite knowing what to say to that. A small twinge of jealousy went through her, and made her turn serious. Why would be so jealous of such a good thing? She looked down at her bag and took out a chocolate bar. She had needed this lately. For some reason she was constantly stressed out. Even more so than when they had been after Naraku.

"A-hem." A familiar voice caught her attention from behind her. Inuyasha stood behind her, with one hand behind his back. Kagome looked at him in confusion, but he didn't say anything, just stood there, a slight blush on his face and looking at the tree on the other side of the clearing. She stood up, wondering why he was acting so weird, and his arm suddenly came out from behind his back.

In his hand was a large bouquet of weeds, sprigs and a few wildflowers.
"These are for you." He muttered, so quietly it was hard to hear him. Sango walked from behind him back over to Miroku and sat down next to him.

Kagome stared at Inuyasha dumfounded for a minute. "Really?"

"Yeah, are you gonna take them?" He said, holding them closer to him. As they moved, she could see pieces of pollen falling off the weeds and flowers. She took them into her hand and smiled, but soon went into a sneezing fit from the pollen. Inuyasha looked at her with a concerned expression.
"What's wrong?" He asked, confused.
"Nothing!" Kagome smiled, but sneezed again. "Thank you." She said, sniffing. Inuyasha nodded, but still looked uneasy.

Well that hadn't turned out like he wanted. Why had she started sneezing so much like they made her sick? Had he made her sick giving her the wrong flowers?

"Are you sure you're alright?" he asked, looking her over for a minute to make sure she looked alright.
"Yeah." She said, lowering the flowers to her waist so that the pollen didn't get in her face anymore.

"Okay…" Inuyasha said, and turned even more nervous in the awkward silence that followed.
"So what took you so long? You said you were going to be back tomorrow- as in first thing tomorrow, right?" he said, crossing his arms.
Kagome sighed and rolled her eyes. "No, I mean tomorrow, as in sometime tomorrow. I can't be here all the time, I have a life back in my world too. Though there's not much of it left now that I've been here all the time." She said sadly.

Inuyasha put his arms down and looked at her for a minute. "What do you mean by that?"
"I mean- my friends think I'm dying because my grandma has to make up excuses that I'm sick all the time, I'm failing in school, and I never see my family anymore." She muttered, still annoyed from the horrific ordeal at school earlier that day.

Inuyasha growled deeply. "Then why don't you go back then?" he yelled, and stormed off into the forest again. Shippo groaned in frustration, and Miroku put a hand to his forehead forlornly.

Kagome growled angrily and sat down by her backpack, taking things out and organizing them with a little more energy than was normal.

"I'm starting to think this is a hopeless cause." Miroku sighed quietly to Sango.
"Don't give up just yet, I still have a few ideas. We'll get this sorted out." Sango replied, and looked to Kagome in concern. She stood up and sat beside Kagome, looking at the weeds sitting beside her and shook her head. Leave it to Inuyasha to get weeds he thought looked nice, but were infested with pollen.

"He really did mean well, Kagome." She said quietly, hoping to calm her down.

"I suppose." Kagome said, looking down at her knees. He had never done anything like that before. It was nice, even though it had made her sneeze. He wouldn't have known that would happen though.

"What happened at your home to make you so upset?" Sango asked, leaning over to try to look at Kagome's face.
"Well, my friends are really worried about me. I failed my last test, and I probably won't be able to graduate with my friends this year. I'll get held back a year and have to do it all over again." She sighed. Sango nodded, only understanding a little of what she said.
"Graduating- like finishing school? What about your grandfather though?"
"He told everyone I had a skin disease that turned my skin green." She said, her tone annoyed.

Sango flinched. "Ouch."

"Yeah, and Hojo gave me a present of a package of live leeches. It's soooo gross." She shivered in disgust.
Sango looked at Miroku in concern. "Who's Hojo?"
"Oh, just a guy at school. He gives me presents to try and make me feel better when my grandfather tells everyone I'm sick when I'm really here."
Shippo made a panicked face and ran into the forest.

"Do you like him?" Sango dared to ask.

Kagome giggled, and shook her head. "No, he's nice, but a little too much of a wimp. He's pretty clumsy."

Sango nodded, slightly relieved.

"Sounds like a good friend." Miroku nodded, his staff jingling between his arms with the movement.

Kagome smiled and took out another digital camera she had taken with her. She wanted to try to convince Inuyasha to smile for her- a real smile, not a fake one. That wasn't going to happen now. She sighed and put it in the outside pocket of the bag, and zipped the pocket up.

"INUYASHA!" Shippo yelled, looking around frantically. He spotted a large red figure in a tree and quickly climbed it, standing on the branch below him.
"Inuyasha! You have to forgive Kagome- you have to talk it over with her!" Shippo said, hoping he was listening.
"Why should I? If she's so concerned about her life back home, why doesn't she just go and live there forever?" He snarled, a twinge of pain on the last part of the sentence.
"But there's a guy back home that likes her! And he gives her lots of presents! You have to try and be nicer, or she'll start liking him more than you." Shippo looked up at Inuyasha as a silence went over them both.
"Who's the guy?"

"I don't know, some guy named Hojo- I don't know who he is."
"HOJO? THAT PANSY?" Inuyasha sat up, his teeth bared.

Shippo eeped and brought a hand up defensively. "I don't know, all I know is what she said!"
"How can she like that wuss of a male?" He seethed, his claws digging into the tree branch.

"I don't know if she does! But she might, which is why you have to work things out with her, or else she'll never love you back."

Inuyasha looked down at him, his face uneasy. "I don't want to be embarrassed again. I made her sick."

"You won't! I promise- this idea is from Sango!"

Ooh, what ideas does Sango have cooked up for Inuyasha:P Please review!