I'm SO sorry! This is, like, half the length of last chapter. ;_;. It's 1,207 words, without these author notes. Please don't hurt meeeeee! DX. Anyways, I won't be able to update for awhile because my time on the computer has now been very limited, and I won't be able to do anything at ALL on the weekends. Gomendensai! I got an E in Social Studies right now, but if I can bring that up to at least a C and make sure everything else is at least that high (No problem, getting passing in everything else I believe, I'll check later) mom MIGHT reconsider. I hope she does, I plan on getting AT LEAST a B on the final for SS. My teacher, Mr. Marker, said that whatever grade we get on the finals will be out grade for the quarter - unless our average is higher, in which case we'll still get the average for work instead of the final exam's grade. But I can't possibly do worse on the test than in class, honestly. So, unless I can manage to update before summer break, see you later! Kagome-chan, disclaimer, onegai?

Kagome: Sure. DISCLAIMER: Cassie doesn't own ANYTHING of Inuyasha. And if she did, it would probably be disastrous. She only owns this plot, which I honestly don't know what she has planned for it. She might do eeeeeevvvvviiiillllll things.

In the Present Forever

Chapter Two

Kouga? Kagome thought. It certainly looked like Kouga.

But…

It couldn't be! Demons didn't exist in her time.

Unless… Did the wish she made in the past affect the present?

Well… the only way she'd find out is if it was Kouga. But it probably wasn't, considering he wasn't flirting with her like Kouga always did when he saw her. But then again, Kagome reminded herself. It HAS been five hundred years for him, if it's the actual Kouga. He could have forgotten what I look like, or smell like, or whatever else you want to say.

The Kouga-lookalike helped her to stand up and let go of her waist. Kagome was a bit red as she noted exactly how he'd caught her. Kagome bowed her head and said "Gomendensai! I wasn't looking where I was going."

The boy grinned wolfishly (Semi-conceitedly too). "It's okay, honestly. Everyone does that sometimes." He said.

Kagome looked up, still blushing a little. "Ano… thank for catching me. You must be really quick."

He smirked. DUH he was fast. "No problem. Where were you headed anyways?"

Kagome gasped. "Crap! I gotta get home! Sorry for everything, but I gotta go now, bye!" she said, sprinting away.

He laughed a bit and walked on. "I doubt she really is Kagome, but if she is, she hasn't changed." Kouga mused to himself, heading towards a nice little café he knew of to meet Ginta and Hakkaku, plus a few other old friends. "But then again… the mutt never did tell me what happened to her."

Kagome finally reached her house (Not having run into anyone else, thankfully) and apologized to her mother for being late getting home, saying she had run into an obnoxious boy on the way home and it took awhile for her to get away from him. Not ENTIRELY a lie, Kagome thought. He was a bit obnoxious, and I did run into him, but it was more I FORGOT that I was headed home instead of it being that it took ages to get away.. Walking into her room and dumping her briefcase bag on her bed, about to do her homework, her cell phone (forgotten on her desk that morning) rang.

Hey hey, anoko

Wa ima ichi!

Ne ne atarashii

Ko ga hitsuyou.

Hey hey, atashi

Nante iinjyanai!

Picking it up, she sighed "Hello?"

"KAGOME!" Yuka shouted on the other side. Kagome held the phone a foot or so from her ear, so as not to become deaf. "WHERE ARE YOU?" Putting it back to her ear so she could reply, she snapped at Yuka.

"WELL, little miss hypocrite, I was tired of waiting for you three to show up when YOU guys told me to meet you there, and to be ON TIME. So don't you DARE talk like that to ME about this, because it's YOUR fault for not being there on time!"

Yuka was silent for a few moments before going "Oh. Sorry! We meant to be on time… We had a little trouble."

"With what?"

"Oh, nothing you need to worry about." Yuka sang sweetly.

"Yuuuuu-kaaaaa." Kagome scowled.

"You'll find out, Kagome. We'll come by in a couple of hours for you, 'kay? Bye!" And Yuka hung up before Kagome could argue anymore. Kagome 'tch'd and went to go do her homework. There was no point in getting worked up over Yuka - the girl was simply insufferable sometimes.

Of course, Kagome was never come for by her friends.

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It was Friday. FINALLY. But there was a problem.

Kagome had the interview today.

She wanted to bite her nails, but resisted the urge - it wouldn't look good to appear nervous. She NEEDED this job! She couldn't keep spending her mom's money, and she needed some of her own! Kagome had seen this nice café that said help was wanted, so she applied, and a few days later now she was in the interview for a job as a waitress.

She'd seen the uniforms – they weren't obscenely inappropriate, thankfully; a white button up shirt, a black vest that looked tailored, and either a pair of black slacks or a black skirt, which could be long and smooth, or pleated and about as short as her school uniform.

"You've got the job," the man said.

Kagome jumped. She realized what he said and she practically jumped from happiness. "Ah, thank you!" she said. "Ano… when can I start?"

"Would tomorrow work out? The sooner the better, in my opinion - we are a little short on staff compared to the number of customers we get."

"Mmm, yes, I think my mother will let me. I just can't stay out too late, she'll worry. Otherwise, I'll have to be calling her every half hour or so. Since tomorrow is Saturday, though, I'll be fine. Umm, should I come at around opening time? Or before?"

Kagome talked everything out with her new boss, and ended up taking a booklet home to make sure that she knew what to do, like greeting the customers and all that not-really-important stuff but is needed because if they don't do it people will complain about poor service and give this little-but-somewhat-popular-café a bad reputation.

The next morning, Kagome got up early, feeling hyper. She took a shower quickly – a good impression on the first day of work was always important, washing her hair and all that good stuff.

She dressed in her regular clothes so she didn't get her work clothes dirty on the way – she was supposed to change at work anyways – she put her work clothes in her briefcase, having dumped out her school stuff last night to have room to put her clothes in there – and ran downstairs to eat a quick breakfast and head down to the café, getting there about five minutes before opening time. They let her inside the changing rooms, and she just managed to get out in time to greet the first customers.
Hearing the door's bell ring, she turned around and smiled sweetly.

"Well well well," a voice said. Opening her eyes to see the speaker, her eye twitched.

WHY was it her luck to run into the same guy by total accident TWICE in a row? Why her?

"We just make a habit of running into each other, ne?"

Me: Hi! R&R please? It makes us author peoples happy. =3. BTW, people have apparently voted for BanxKag in my WWII fanfiction, so if you like that pairing too, watch out for it! =D. I'm going to start working on it soon. Though I really shouldn't... I already have this story AND another. -sigh- ANYWAYS, REVIEW! You know you want to! I gotta go now! Must take bath and put school clothes in washer.