Hey guys! Sorry that it's been so long, but things have been pretty hectic. Also, i've been working on this story alot: in the form of pictures! That's right, now with every chapter I post I'll put up a new picture on Deviant Art .com! here's the link to my first picture ^_^ hope u all like them! http:// inu-babe34. deviantart. com/art/ Graduation-133501218 Also, I'm going to start working on a new chapter as soon as i get my other 2 stories updated, I promise! School is coming up, so that means that things will probably start going slower....so I apologize in adavance. BTW I don't own Inuyasha or anything affiliated, Rumiko Takahashi does. The only thing i own is my hillbilly TEEHEE =B

Feeling a light shake, Kagome just rolled over to the other side, figuring that Inuyasha was just moving around on the bed. Then she felt it again and again and again. A snarl escaped her lips and her eyes flashed open, startling the person next to her so much that he shot back, making him fall off of his own bed.

"Frick Kagome! Thanks for biting my head off!" He said and picked himself up. She looked over at him and just smiled, honestly she prided herself on being fierce. "And you're not even sorry. Wow, what a good friend you are."

"I know I'm awesome Inuyasha, but there really isn't a need to praise me." She said and lifted herself out of the bed, going towards the closet.

"Well thanks to your awesomeness we're going to be late downstairs to meet Sesshomaru." Inuyasha said and pulled on a sweatshirt. Kagome just rolled her eyes and put on some of Inuyasha's shorts and a large t-shirt.

"He can wait a few extra minutes. Why are we meeting him anyways?" She asked and put her hair up in a ponytail. Inuyasha snorted.

"Do you even remember anything after midnight? Or does it just automatically flush out of your brain?" He asked her with a bit of a laugh.

"Whatever, come on I'm sure your stomach is probably receeding from not eating for the past few hours. Am I right?" Letting a smirk grace her face.

"Actually, now that you say that, you're completly right!" He said with wide eyes, and then sprinted down towards the kitchen with Kagome right on his heels. When they got there, there was Sesshomaru sitting at the table drinking a cup of coffee and reading the newspaper. Typical.

"You're late."

"It's only 9:34!" Inuyasha retorted, getting out the milk and pouring himself a big glass of it.

"It was my fault, sorry Sesshomaru." Kagome said and took a seat at the table.

"Hn. Inuyasha, are you just going to leave our guest with nothing?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.

"If you knew 'our guest' at all, then you would know that she doesn't eat anything for at least an hour after she wakes up." Inuyasha said and took a seat by Kagome, who flicked his ear.

"Don't be such a dillweed. He's always at work by the time we're awake, so of course he wouldn't know I don't eat. Just give him a break, please?" Kagome said, somewhat aggitated that Inuyasha was being so childish. It was just when he was with his brother that he acted like this, and it just plain pissed her off. He just flattened his ears to his head and took a gulp of his milk.

"So about the proposition you brought up last night Inuyasha, do you still stand by it?" Sesshomaru asked, folding and putting his paper off to the side.

"Duh, what about you?"

"After thinking it over some, I've decided to hear you both out." Sesshomaru said and looked at them both. His brother looked confident that it would go his way and Kagome looked rather confused.

"Alright, before you two go on about more stuff, what are you talking about?" Kagome asked.

"Since I can't go to the wedding with you in America, I suggested that Sesshomaru go with you. He has a few weeks off, you won't go alone, and you two can stand each other." Inuyasha explained.

"That does sound good, but I don't want him to be pushed into doing anything." Kagome said, considerably nervous and uncomfortable now.

"How long to you expect to stay there?" Sesshomaru asked out of the blue, he needed some questions answered before agreeing to it. Even if he did want to go with her more than anything.

"Well, including travel, we'll be gone for seven days. Leave on Sunday morning, the wedding is on Friday, and then leave Saturday morning. I've got everything planned out an arranged, I just don't want to go alone. I've got the plane tickets and rental car already covered, so don't worry about that. Also, we'll just be staying with my friend so no hotel rooms are needed."

Sesshomaru thought on it for a minute while sipping his coffee. Inuyasha was blabbing on about something, but he was just ignoring him like usual. Well, she already had everything set up so it wasn't like he would have to set up anything. Plus, they had a home to stay in, which was always better than a dull hotel room. All in all, it was a very good situation to be a part of. Plus, he would get to spend more time with her than he ever had; without the half-breed to be there to annoy him.

"Alright, I'll acompany you." He said cutting Inuyasha's sentence off halfway.

Kagome looked a little astonished, with her eyes widened and eyebrows raised. She couldn't believe he had actually agreed to come with her! She was just a lowly human girl, and he was one of the most powerful demons on the planet on his way to the top. None the less, she wasn't about to pass up the opportunity for someone to go with her.

"Great. Well I got to go Inyasha, lots of stuff to do now. Plus I have that job interview this afternoon." Kagome said and gave him a quick peck on the cheek and a one-armed hug. "I'll call you later. Um, Sesshomaru if you need to ask me about anything just get my number or e-mail from Inuyasha."

"Want a ride home?" Inuyasha asked standing up and putting his glass in the sink for once.

"I'm good, the bus should be right on time when I get to the stop. Come upstairs and help me pack up my shtuff thought, okay?" Kagome said and walked out of the kitchen. Inuyasha was quick to follow.

By the time Inuyahsa got up to his room Kagome was zipping up his old backpack, which was now filled with her stuff. Sometimes he didn't know how she was so fast.

"Got everything?" He asked her, standing in the doorway. She looked up and nodded, slinging the bag over her shoulder.

"Sure do, I'll get you your clothes and bag back when I see you next. Call me later tonight, okay? Then you can see if I got my job or not!" Kagome said excitedly, she had been trying to get an interview for months now and something finally came up.

"Will do, when do you think you'll get home? I don't want some nasty ringtone sounding off during the interview." He said and laughed.

"I don't know, sometime around five? Just call the house phone, I don't want to use all my minutes on my new cell phone." She said dreamily with a sparkle to her eye.

"Don't get all lovey dovey with your phone now, don't want you wearing out the vibrate setting." He said and laughed, some at his joke but mostly at the look on her face.

"Jerk!" She said and smacked him on the chest before walking past him and down the stairs. "You're so gross sometimes, you know that right?"

"Yeah, but admit it. On the inside you're dying of laughter." He said standing on his front deck with her, smiling at her raised eyebrow that said 'You seriously believe that?'. "And you're also coming up with some sick scheme to use the idea."

"Alright, I've had enough of you." She said seriously but then laughed a little. "Now don't give Sesshomaru any hassle 'bout this okay? Talk to you later, bye!" She said and blew him a kiss before jogging down the street towards the bus stop that was about a mile down.

"Later you crazy girl!" He yelled after her and just laughed when she flipped him off without even looking back, to the utter horror of his next door neighbor.

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"Are you nervous dear?" Said Satomi as she French braided her daughter's hair back.

"No, I'm not nervous. Nervousness causes mistakes, which I can't make, so I can't be even a little nervous or else I'll mess up." Kagome said quickly yet confidently, but it was hard to seem confident when you were fidgeting around like a little kid with Attention Defisite Disorder who was stuck in a classroom with nothing to do.

"Stop moving around or I'm going to mess up. Now are you taking your car there, or did you want to borrow mine?" Satomi asked, about half way done.

"Well, I don't really trust my car too much...but your's doesn't exactly scream cool." Kagome answered, laughing.

"I think my car is very cool, you would look good in it on your way to your interview."

"Seriously Mom? Who rolls up to an interview in an Oldsmobile?" She asked, but then she groaned. Did she really even have a choice in the matter? It was either drive her car that could break down at any second, or drive the nerdy old person car. The name was even old!

"You can take my car, if you're careful." Said her grandfather as he walked into the kitchen from the living room.

'Jeeze, he sure does have great hearing for being so old.' But then his words sunk in.

"Oh my gosh, really Grandpa?!" She squeeled and stood up, causing herself immense pain as her mother still had a firm grip on her hair. She sat down, but was still extremely excited.

"Yes, go ahead. Just be a safe driver." He said and gave his seventeen year old granddaughter a smile and the keys to his 1969 Dodge Challenger before walking upstairs to take a nap. "Good luck Kagome."

"Thanks a bunch Gramps!" She said and eyed the keys with a hunger in her eyes.

"How are you liking those keys?" Her mother asked retorically.

"They look delicious!" She answered, which earned her a look that said 'You're so odd'.

Satomi finished her hair off with a yellow ponytail to the end of her braid and pulled her up gently with it. Kagome twirled around with a smile on her face and some pep in her step.

"How do I look? Ready to rock this interview, to become extremely successful, to rule the world?" She asked and laughed at the end.

"You look amazing dear." Satomi said, because she really did. She had a short sleeved yellow button up shirt on with some dark jeans and her favorite silver flats. "Now leave before you're late. Good luck!"

Kagome smiled and then bolted out the door. She was so excited, yet anxious. After sliding down the railing she jogged down the block to her neighbor's house and went into their garage where she found her grandfather's car. It was a beauty. It was an old American muscle car, dark green with black SS stripes and black leather interior. She pressed the button to open the garage door and started the old car, smiling wider as it rumbled to life. She put it in drive and then proceeded to make her way to her interview across town.

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"Inuyasha?" Kagome said downcast.

"Kags, are you alright?" He asked with concern in his voice.

"Not really..."

"You at home?"

"Yeah."

"I'm coming over." He said and hung up the phone before running out to his car and driving as fast as he could to his best friend's house. When he got there he slammed the door shut and then used his demonic speed to race up the stairs and to her house. It was already semi-dark and he could see her shadow in her room so he jumped up onto her windowsil and knocked on the closed glass. She came over with a frown on her face and opened it up, letting him slink inside.

"What happened?" Inuyasha asked with a sigh and pulled her into his arms, giving her a comforting squeeze.

"I...I..." She said, sounding as if she was about to cry.

"What?"

"I got the job!!" She suddenly yelled and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Oh, you're a tricky little bitch. Congratulations! So when do you start, what position did you get?" He asked excitedly after he spun her around a bit.

"It's not really the position I was going for, but they gave me a job on the line to start off. I start a week after I get back from America." She said excited and sat down on her bed, smile tattooed on her face.

"Awesome, so what's your job on the line?" He asked, curious as to what she was going to be doing. Hopefully it wasn't something that was too hard or could hurt her.

"Promise not to laugh?" She asked, it really was sort of embarassing.

"I don't promise, but I'll try my best."

"They're having me screw lids onto bottles." She said and avoided his eyes. After a few seconds of silence she looked up, and it looked like he was about ready to split his sides.

"Oh just laugh already." And then she was met with a booming laugh that seemed to shake the walls, and it went on for several long minutes.

"You were getting all worked up over an interview to put lids on bottles?" He said in between large spurs of laughter.

"Shut up, that's not what I applied for! But they said that I could move my way up the line quickly if I worked hard! Besides, I got put on the most prestigeous kind too."

"And what is the most 'prestigeous' kind of tea there?" He said with another loud laugh.

"Their world famous black tea." She said with her nose in the air. "It's also the part of the factory where they take people on tours."

"Well, I'm still proud of you Kags. You did good and landed yourself a good job. Even if that job is putting lids on bottles." He said, still laughing occasionally.

"Yeah yeah, laugh it up. But you have to go now, my mom made my favorite tonight and she'll be mega pissed if I'm late. I'll call you tomorrow morning at the crack of noon okay?" She asked and then pushed him towards the window.

"Alright, just push me out onto the streets." He said with fake hurt and then gave her a quick hug. "Okay, talk to you tomorrow." Inuyasha said and then jumped out the window and ran for his car. She watched him until the night swallowed him up, then went downstairs to eat dinner.