Kagome awoke the next morning to the ringing of her alarm clock. As she grumbled into her pillow her hand lazily reached out to hit the snooze button on the clock, but only made contact with the air.

"What the…", Kagome said as she sat up and sleepily opened her eyes to find her alarm clock gone. The beeping was still going though and then suddenly she heard someone faintly cursing over the beeps.

"Damn...how does this thing work?" Inuyasha hissed as his head snapped up at the sound of movement. His eyes watched as Kagome gaze met his. He was holding the alarm clock in both hands and had been randomly pressing buttons on it trying to turn it off. He was becoming so desperate to get the noise to stop he was about to rip it to pieces!

"Inuyasha…," Kagome said as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "What are you doing?" Her question was mainly asking what was he doing with her alarm clock, but she was wondering what he was still doing here in her room. Though, it was him so of course he would stay. Inuyasha was going to hold her to her word and then some.

"Trying to make this thing shut up! Why do you even have it Kagome? It's so loud an annoying…" Inuyasha trailed off as he started to press a few other buttons till it finally stopped beeping. He sighed in relief, his ears drooping in the process and walked back to Kagome's side where he handed her the clock.

"Thanks." She said dryly as she took the clock only to set it back on her night stand. Kagome dragged her body out of bed and placed her feet onto the floor, Inuyasha's eyes watching her the entire time. She tried her hardest to ignore his eyes boring into her as she walked over to her closet and opened it to grab a uniform. "Hey Inuyasha? Why don't you go on downstairs and see if mom has breakfast ready, kay?"

Inuyasha's ears perked up at the sound of his name, his mind snapping back to the present. He had been thinking about his dream from last night and was scanning over Kagome's body, making sure that it really hadn't happened. His gaze was intent on making sure she was okay. Why was he so worried though? Inuyasha knew it hadn't really happen, but still. He wanted to make sure. Though, he was starting to find it harder and harder to keep his eyes from wandering happily to certain spots on her body. "Sure. I'll tell her you'll be own soon." Inuyasha said as he turned to open the door and started out. He closed it behind him after taking one last look at Kagome and then headed on down the stairs, the smell of food pulling him into the kitchen.

Kagome sighed after she heard the sound of the door close and looked over at the door, just to make sure he was gone. 'Why was he staring at me like that? It was like he was trying to find something on me, like something was wrong with me.' She thought to herself as she started to slowly strip out of her pajamas and pull on her uniform. It consisted of a green skirt, with white knee high socks, a white shirt and green and red collar thing.

The smell of food began to worm it's way inside her room and she took in a deep breath of the aroma as she started to brush through her hair. Kagome kept down, it hanging around her shoulders and face in the most becoming way, and then quickly grabbed some make up and put it on before reaching for her books. She slid them into her backpack carefully while walking over to her door. "My math book from last night is missing…"she thought out loud, "maybe Inuyasha took it or he saw where I put it."

Kagome opened the door quickly and ran out into the hallway, turning to her left and then making her way down the stairwell. She slowed down at the bottom of the steps and briskly walked into the kitchen to see gramps sitting in a chair drinking his tea, mom at the stove, Souta eating pancakes, and Inuyasha on the floor playing with the cat. Kagome shook her head in disbelief as Inuyasha teased the cat with a toy, and walked over to kiss her mom on the cheek and grab some toast. "Morning everyone!"

The hanyou looked up from his antics with the cat at the sound of Kagome's voice. She was dressed for school and had a piece of toast in her hand as she walked over in his direction. "Inuyasha, have you seen my math book anywhere? Did I put it up somewhere last night?" Kagome asked him as she came to stand in front of him.

"The book you were mad at last night? I don't remember you doing anything with it. Why?" he asked curiously as he looked up at her expression as it started to become one of worry.

"Well that's just great!" Kagome yelled as she sighed and went over to the table. She plopped down into a chair slowly began to nibble on the rest of her toast. Inuyasha watched her the entire time and quickly became confused, just like the rest of her family, as to what had brought that on. Kagome looked around the room and saw everyone's gaze focused on her and rolled her eyes before speaking, "I lost my math book."

Souta and gramps simply shook their heads before getting back to their breakfast and Kagome's mother walked over to put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere dear." Kagome's mom said sweetly before walking back to the stove. Inuyasha watched Kagome simply shrug off her mothers comment and aimlessly eat away at her toast.

He stood up from the floor and quietly made his way to the kitchen entrance. Everyone was too busy doing their own thing to notice his leave. As the time ticked away on the clock hanging on the wall in front of Kagome she decided it would be best to just head on, maybe she could borrow one of her friends book for the day.

"I'm gonna head out I guess…" Kagome said as she forced herself up out of the chair and away from the table. She dragged her feet over to the back door where she slid on her shoes, tapping them onto the ground to get all the way on. Kagome turned to wave bye to everyone before opening the door and stepping outside.

The sun was bright, and shining in the sky as clouds dotted around it. She took in a deep breath of fresh air, closing her eyes, when she suddenly felt something like a shadow over her, blocking the sunlight. Kagome at first figured it was just a cloud covering the sun, but then there was the sound of breathing. It wasn't a cloud…clouds don't breathe.

"Here." Kagome heard a familiar gruff voice say as she felt something thrust into her hands. Her eyes snapped open to see Inuyasha standing over her, but looking over his shoulder and advoiding eye contact.

"What…." Kagome began to say before she looked down at her hands, and she couldn't believe her eyes. "But this is.."

"It's that book you thought you lost, yeah. It was under your bed…" Inuyasha said trailing off, like it was nothing. Kagome's gaze traveled back up to Inuyasha's face and she couldn't believe he had done something like this for her. For him to do this for her, it was something you didn't see everyday, and it actually meant a lot to her.

"Thank you so much, Inuyasha." Kagome said sincerely as she gave him a kind smile. He simply shrugged and kept his head facing in the other direction.

"It was nothing. I don't see what the big deal is anyway, it's just a book." He said trying to keep up his tough guy act, but Kagome simply rolled her eyes knowing him too well to fall for it. Inuyasha huffed again as his head turned to the front barely and caught her rolling her eyes. "Tch. Shouldn't you be going to school or something?" he asked impatiently as Kagome kept staring at him as if he was her savior.

She finally snapped out of her stunned daze from Inuyasha's act of kindness and looked down at the book, a blush creeping across her face. 'Why am I blushing? I mean, he's done stuff like this before…right? It's nothing really new.' "Yeah your right," she said coming out of her thoughts, "I should be going, but thanks again for finding my book." Kagome's tone was kind and even as she looked back up and over Inuyasha towards the gates to the shrine.

Inuyasha watched as she walked on by him and out to the gates, her last comment still running through his mind. Why was he so concerned by what she said or thought of him all of the sudden? He never even had a second thought about Kagome's feelings…well, at least not most of the time. "Kagome…" Inuyasha whispered to himself as she became completely out of his view down the street.

The sound of scratching on wood dragged the hanyou out of his thoughts though as he turned to face the shed that held the well. The doors were rattling and the scratching noise became louder and more persistent. "What the…" he said as he carefully stepped towards the wooden doors.

Once there, Inuyasha gently laid a hand on the door handle, and suddenly the scratching stopped. His nose twitched as he smelled the scent of a demon and his claws exteneded, his other hand resting on the Tetsuiga as he prepared to attack. He through the doors open quickly and drew his sword in one fluid motion. The tip of the sword stopped just above a whimpering ball of fur, it's scent strangely becoming more familiar to the hanyou. "Please…Inuyasha…" the demon managed to choke out, "it's me…Shippo…I..I'm sorry but you were taking so long so…so I…took some jewel shards and came to get you." Shippo stammered out his plea to Inuyasha as he slowly looked out from his bushy tail that had been covering his face.

"Shippo? Tch, you should know better than to sneak up on me like that." Inuyasha said indifferently as he sheathed his sword. He looked down at the young fox demon and watched as he unwrapped himself from behind his tail and looked up into Inuyasha's eyes.

"Sorry, but I have a good reason for coming! There's a demon in a village nearby, and we think that it has some jewel shards!" Shippo exclaimed happily. "We need you and Kagome to hurry back to our time before the monster leaves the village and we lose him!"

At the mere mention of the Shikon jewel shards Inuyasha instantly became interested. He listened to the kit's story carefully and slowly began to think of ways to take down this demon and get the jewels. The whole Shikon no Tama was very close to being completed and Inuyasha needed Kagome's help more than ever in finding them all. Though…he had already pushed her so far…and didn't know how much she would appreciate him jumping on her in the middle of a class and humans who had never even seen a demon let alone half-demon before.

"I…I need to talk to Kagome." Inuyasha said a little out of it, his mind was too busy thinking about how he push Kagome to just leaving right away. He ignored the surprised look on Shippo's face as he quickly turned on his heels and sprinted out the shed doors towards the shrine gates. He made his way through the streets and over roof tops till he saw the familiar large white building, Kagome's school. Inuyasha landed onto the roof silently and sat down instantly, ready to wait till the final bell rang and to speak with Kagome. He had some time in between now and then to get together what he would say to her. 'I feel bad for making her leave so quickly…but the jewel shards. She'll understand right?' Kagome seemed to becoming more hostile each time Inuyasha asked her to come back to the feudal era, or search for jewel shards, or even to cook for him. It was starting to actually worry him.

Kagome was sitting in class watching the time on the clock tick away. She was trying her hardest to pay attention, but she couldn't. She had a lot on her mind. Kagome knew that Inuyasha would want her to come back with him as soon as possible, but…she just wasn't ready. Kagome had been losing touch with her closest friends, Hojo was starting to get tired of waiting for her and missing dates, and gramps was running out of illnesses. On top of it all, her school work was seriously falling behind. 'Maybe…maybe I should tell Inuyasha...that I…I don't wanna go back.' The thought was really hard for Kagome to accept, but she knew that it was what she needed. Or at least thought that's what was best for her anyway. But how could she ever break this news to Inuyasha?

Second Chapter!!!! YAY!! Hope you all love it and please review!! I really like to hear about what you all think of the story and I want tips on my writing, tell me anything! Let me know if you love it, think it could be better, needs something, or have any other tips for me. Thanks for all who have read the story and are enjoying it so far. I should be able to update soon, a few days I would guess. Keep your eyes out for Chapter three I'm throwing in some loops here realllllly soon.

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~CinnamonPita