Kagome opened her eyes and was blinded by the bright rays of the late morning sun. She groaned and rolled away from the annoying light and stared at her bags of clothing and purse that she had tossed aside lazily last night. After laying in bed for a few more minutes she sat up and stared blankly at the digital clock that read ten twenty five.

She then stood and walked over to the shopping bags and picked them up shoving them onto her bed. She then pulled out the items inside and placed them in her closet and dresser. She then picked up her dress that Masaru had found. She pulled out a clothing box from a shelf inside her closet and folded the dress neatly before placing it delicately inside the box. She then placed it on a shelf with a few other boxes that contained other fancy dresses. She then sighed and walked back to the back of the closet and grabbed a white camisole and black sweatshirt that said Raging Demons in elegant red letters. Raging Demons was the name of their school. And their mascot didn't even have to dress up because he was a full blooded demon and had blood red eyes and always looked pissed so it was easy for him to look like he was on a rage. Not to mention he could transform into a huge tiger that snarled and snapped. She shivered remembering the first time she went to a game with Sango. She was taken by surprise when the demon transformed and Sango had to explain that he was just doing his job.

She then slipped on a pair of jean shorts and put her hair in a ponytail. She just walked out of the closet when she heard a loud pop right outside of her window. She gasped and spun around right as she saw a bird fall through the tree limbs and down to the ground. She rushed over to her window and saw Onigumo holding her father's bb gun smiling at the bird on the ground. She then realized that the bird was fairly large and was brown with some red. Her eyes widened as she saw that it was a hawk and that bastard had just shot it out of the sky.

She felt her chest tighten in anger and hate and watched as he walked back around the corner of the house and heard him walk through the front door. She opened the window after trying several times and slipped her fingers under and pushed it up with all her might. She then thought about something then walked over to her door and locked it. Easing out of the window she stepped gracefully onto the tree branch and looked down and saw that the hawk was flapping violently and the went still, twitching every so often. She sat down grabbed onto the tree branch let herself down to the branch eight feet below her. She then jumped down to a lower branch and then the next then swung her self down to the last branch of the tree and jumped down to the earth that was five feet away.

The hawk was startled by her sudden appearance and tried desperately to escape. Kagome noted that there was already a tiny puddle of blood around the poor creature as its struggling started to become weaker and finally stopped all together.

Kagome watched helplessly as its eyes slowly lost the life and slid closed. She bit her lip and frowned when she heard the front door close and saw Onigumo come around the corner of the house whistling like he owned the world. She shivered in disgust as she recalled what he had done to her yesterday morning. She shook those thoughts away as she felt anger.

Kagome was glaring at Onigumo who smirked when he saw her and then he looked at the hawk and his smirk grew.

Kagome was ticked off to say in the least bit and her glare deepened when she saw him looking at the sky again with the bb gun in hand.

"Why in the heck did you shoot it out of the sky! It didn't do anything to you." Kagome said.

Onigumo just smirked even more and said "Why do I have to have a reason for what I did to it?" Then he added in a voice that was full of sickening enjoyment, "It's so much fun to kill things that are worthless to me and the rest of the world."

Kagome only glared at him with disgust and then walked around him and into the house through the front door only to be greeted with her mother, who was overly intoxicated and had a full on temper.

"Just what the hell did you think you were doing glaring at Onigumo!" her mother slurred slightly while glaring angrily at Kagome.

"Nothing mother I'm sorry alright?" Kagome said in what she hoped was a peace making voice, but she couldn't tell for sure considering she was full of disgust and anger.

Kagome walked past her mom (let's say her mom's name is Megumi) and up the stairs towards her room. She made it to her door and didn't pause before slinging the door open and walking into her room.

One problem though, instead of opening her door didn't budge. However, Kagome did budge and went flying face first into her door with the strength she used to pull it.

Problem being she was angry and had used a lot of strength and her face hurt like hell. 'Damn it why in the hell did I lock my room up. God I'm so stupid.' Kagome muttered to herself. She considered going downstairs and outside to climb up the tree to her window but decided against it when she heard Megumi drop something and start cussing it out. She sighed before going down the hall to the door next to hers and into the room.

She was glad to see that there was the same tree in front of the room they used for storage that was in front of her room and she moved some boxes over and opened the window.

"At least this window opens easily." Kagome said to herself as she slid onto the branch of the tree and shut the window behind her. She then balanced on the branch and walked over to her bedroom window that stood open waiting for her to climb through.

She immediately jumped through her window and glared at her door before using all of her weight to close her stupid window halfway. Sighing she walked over to her bed and saw that her phone had a knew text message.

'Wonder who that is.' Kagome thought while flipping her phone open only to see a number that she didn't recognize. She opened the message and read it quietly to herself.

All of us r hangin at my place 2nite! 7:00 doin what ever we want c u then? Inuyasha

Kagome smiled slightly at least she could escape her house and hang out with her friends. She quickly added Inuyasha to her contacts and replied.

Sure sounds fun c u then! :D

She then looked at her alarm clock and found to her dismay that the neon letters read twelve thirty. Six and a half more hours of hell on Earth.

'Suppose I could do my homework so it's done and outta the way.' Kagome thought while grabbing her book bag and pulling out her geometry book, notebook and pencil. She then laid down on her bed and started solving problems left and right. She wasn't stupid but she wasn't one who would run around bragging she was a genius.

Sighing as she finished problem fifty she rolled over and shoved the book into her bag and pulled out a worksheet and started on it. (I don't remember if I put Spanish as one of Kagome's classes but lets say I did)

She loved Spanish because it was one of the easiest classes she had and it was quiet easy. She finished it in about five minutes and then slipped it into her folder and glanced at her clock.

She was slightly annoyed at it.

'Why in the hell is an hour or two have to take forever.' Kagome groaned and rolled off of her bed dramatically and landed with a soft thump.

After laying on her floor for a few minutes she sat up and looked at the clock that read two thirty four. She decided that she wasn't going to wait around anymore.

Sesshomaru had been her good friend for a long time even if he could be an ice cube at times and she had been over to his house all the time just to hang out or play videogames so why couldn't she go there now?

She grabbed her purse and slipped her phone into the pocket of her hoodie and walked out her door and into the hall where she saw Megumi just walking into her bedroom followed by Onigumo.

Kagome resisted the urge to gag and ran down the stairs and out the front door.

She then started down the sidewalk towards the Takahashi's residence. She was walking past her neighbor, Haruka Yokimoto, who was picking up sticks, and had a push mower out. Haruka was around eighty years old and a widow. Kagome loved her like her own grandmother and was there for her when her husband had died a couple of days before Kagome had moved into the neighborhood.

Haruka Yokimoto was heartbroken and had nobody there with her to get comfort from and Kagome had heard that her husband died from a heart attack so she walked down and knocked on the door preparing to tell her how sorry she was for the loss.

Kagome was taken aback when the old woman opened the door with puffy tear filled eyes. Kagome didn't like it when other people cried and she felt helpless so she did the only thing she could think of.

"I'm so sorry." Kagome whispered while gently hugging the frail woman in her arms. "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Haruka put her hands firmly on both of Kagome's shoulders and held her an arms length away and gave her a loving smile. "You are a sweet girl. You have done everything I needed at this time I don't know what else you could do for me." Haruka said while giving Kagome's shoulders a gentle squeeze.

"I could help you around the house, yard, or anything you wish." Kagome said politely with a smile gracing her lips.

Ever since then Kagome would get a call from her when she needed help or Kagome would simply ask if she needed anything.

And there was definitely no way in hell Kagome was going to let her do back breaking work when she is eighty years old and its one hundred degrees outside. Which reminded Kagome that she was wearing a hoodie for some stupid reason and it was black.

'Stupid.' Kagome idly thought while taking her phone out of her pocket and into her short pocket before stripping off her black sweatshirt and tying it around her waist.

"Kagome how are you today?" Haruka asked while smiling and waving at Kagome kindly.

"I'm great how about you? Why don't you let me mow the yard for you and pick up the sticks and you can sit in the shade or the air conditioned house.

'Oh yeah that's right… I was wearing a sweatshirt because Mom keeps the house like an ice box and so doesn't the Takahashi's.' Kagome thought while remembering that she wasn't as stupid as she first thought.

"Thank you so much Deary, I'll go get you some lemonade." Haruka said while dropping the sticks she held into a pile by a tree and walking towards the house.

Kagome walked over to another section of her yard and started to pick up sticks and by the time she finished she saw Haruka walk out of her door with two glasses of pink liquid.

Kagome smiled and pulled out one of the chairs from the table under one of the trees for Haruka. "Don't worry bout that I'm not dead yet." Haruka joked while shooing Kagome away from the chair and handing her the glass of pink lemonade.

"Thanks your lemonades the best." Kagome said while taking a sip of the sweet yet sour drink and sighing in contempt. She then stood up an walked over to the lawn mower and heard Haruka stand up.

"I'm going in to do some laundry Dear be careful." Haruka said while walking back towards the house.

"Okay." Kagome replied before pulling the sting that starts the engine. The lawn mower roared to life and she started to mow the yard. She loved Haruka's yard because it was just so beautiful and she was happy to be able to make it that way.

After about an hour and a half Kagome finished the yard and killed the mower and admired her work. At least she didn't miss any spots.

"Here you go Kagome." Haruka said while handing a twenty dollar bill to the slightly sweaty teen.

"Oh no that's fine Haruka, really I don't want any money." Kagome said lifting her hands and smiling. "It would be enough payment if I could go and wash my face if that's alright with you."

"Of course you know where the bathroom is help yourself." she said while opening the door for Kagome.

Kagome walked into the house and down the hall to the bathroom. She splashed some cool water onto her face washing the sweat off her face and dried it with a washcloth.

Turning off the light she walked into the kitchen just as Haruka walked through the door with Kagome's purse and sweatshirt that she had laid on a chair outside. "Here you go would you like something to eat?"

"No thanks. Do you need anything from the store?" Kagome asked while tying her sweatshirt around her waist again and her purse over her shoulder.

"No you keep me well taken care of so I have plenty." she laughed and hugged Kagome. "I suppose you're going somewhere so I'm not going to keep you."

Kagome smiled and hugged her back "I'm going to the Takahashi's to hang out with my friends tonight but I had nothing else to do so I started over early."

"Oh have fun." Haruka waved at Kagome as she walked down the sidewalk.

"I will." Kagome waved back and turned around and pulled her phone out of her pocket and saw that the clock read five o'clock. She pulled her sweatshirt back over her head so she wouldn't get sun burnt.

She continued walking and made it to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's house and walked up to the mansion like house. Knocking on the door she saw that their parents were home and she smiled. She liked Sesshomaru's step mother, Izayoi, and his father, Inutaisho.

The door was opened by none other than Izayoi who smiled happily and pulled Kagome into a hug. "Kagome it's so nice to see you. It's been forever since I've last seen you because I've had to work and all."

Kagome giggled at how much the middle aged woman could act like her life long teenage friend. She liked how she could keep that quality.

"Nice to see you too Izayoi." Kagome said while hugging her and walking towards the kitchen to see Inutaisho sitting at the table looking at bills and throwing junk mail into a paper shredder.

He looked up and smiled at Kagome and said "How have you been Kagome?"

"I've been good, how bout you?" She replied with a cheerful face.

"Go-" He was cut off by the sound of a crash up stairs followed by a loud thud on the ceiling above them. Then some yelling and a door slamming. "I'd be better if I didn't have to live with that twenty-four seven." He said while glaring at the ceiling before yelling "Knock it off up there already!"

Kagome laughed as she heard Sesshomaru say "It's not my fault the idiot is noisy and stupid."

She then heard his door close as he walked into his room.

"Kagome I think Inuyasha's gonna need some help considering I heard no retaliation from him." Both parents said at the same time.

"Okay which room is his?" Kagome said while starting for the stairs. "Last door on the left." Izayoi said while opening the refrigerator.

Kagome continued up the stairs and down the hall to the last door on the left and knocked getting no reply. She knocked again and decided to open the door and slowly peaked into the room and tried her best to stay in control of her laughing that tried to escape her.

Inuyasha's eyes widened as he saw Kagome look into the room. He saw her try to stiffle what he knew was a laugh and he growled through the tape that was over his mouth.

It was pretty funny. Inuyasha had his hands tied above his head onto the bed rail and had his feet tied to a door knob and he had duct tape over his mouth. He had no chance of escape unless her broke a piece of furniture.

"Sesshomaru got you back for the incident the other day?" Kagome said while walking over to him and poking his stomach. She didn't get any reaction that showed her he was ticklish but she did find out that he had rock hard abs. 'Lucky.' Kagome thought while she knew all she had was muscle no abs.

"Mhmmhhmmgdshtfukayel!' Inuyasha said through the tape.

"Wha?" Kagome asked playfully before poking him lightly in the ribs but still getting no reaction. 'Damn he's good.' Kagome thought again.

"Grrr mhmhhhmtpe" Inuyasha mumbled through the tape again.

"Oh go get more duct tape?" Kagome laughed when he glared so she reached over to the tape and gave it a quick rip off his mouth.

"Ouch! God damn it, that hurt you know!" Inuyasha yelled.

'Maybe his feet.' Kagome thought while smiling and walking over towards his feet and kneeling down and smiling devilishly at him.

Satisfaction washed through her as he started to laugh and try to get away from her fingers as she tickled his foot.

"So you do have a ticklish spot!" Kagome shouted as she beamed.

"I do not!" Inuyasha yelled.

"You do to and I am glad to tell you that I know all my friends ticklish spots and you have been added to the list." Kagome bragged while smiling at Inuyasha.

"Really you know them all? So where is Sesshomaru's ticklish spot?" Inuyasha asked curiously.

"Sorry but I have sworn to secrecy in order to keep my life in my own hands." Kagome said.

"Sure, whatever you say just get me untied." Inuyasha said while glaring at the ropes.

"Ok. Do you have scissors or something?" Kagome asked while trying to get the knots undone but failed miserably.

"Yeah I have a pocket knife on my dresser." Inuyasha motioned towards his dresser on the other side of him.

Kagome stood up and stepped over Inuyasha to get the knife. When she grabbed it she walked over to Inuyasha and flipped it open with the skill of an expert.

"Careful with that thing!" Inuyasha said staring at the sharp object in her hands.

"Oh I've handled a pocket knife a lot more than I look like I have." Kagome said while slicing through the rope and flipping the blade back down into the handle.

"Thanks." he said while he stood up and rubbed his wrists.

"No problem. So what do you wanna do since no one else is here yet?" Kagome asked while walking over to his dresser and putting the pocket knife back and leaning against it while staring at him.

'She looks so sexy just leaning on my dresser starting at me.' Inuyasha thought before saying "I don't know… wanna swim in the pool or watch t.v.?"

"Well I don't have a swim suit so I guess we can watch t.v." Kagome said while looking let down. 'How the hell could I leave my swim suit at home?' she cursed herself mentally and smiled.

"Well alrighty then." Inuyasha said heading towards his door with Kagome following him down to the living room.

After about an hour of watching t.v Kagome announced that she was bored and wanted to go home and grab her swimming suit so they could swim.

"Alright see you in a few then." said Inuyasha as he sat on the couch and continued watching t.v.

"Hey you're coming with me whether you like it or not." Kagome said with her arms folded over her chest.

"What why do I-" Inuyasha started but was cut off by Kagome grabbing his hand and jerking him off the couch and towards the door.

Inuyasha couldn't help but notice that Kagome hadn't let go of his hand and they were already halfway to her house. He blushed and took note of how small her hand was compared to his and how soft they were.

Kagome noted that there was something different than normal and realized with the IQ of a genius that she was still holding Inuyasha's hand and dragging him along.

She blushed and quickly released his hand and suddenly became very interested in her hoodies strings.

"Sorry bout that." she said while laughing lightly.

"No harm done so why are you sorry?" Inuyasha said while shoving her playfully earning a playful shove back.

They both saw that Megumi and Onigumo were home so Kagome led Inuyasha over to the tree under her window and said "Wait here I'll be down in a few."

"I could just carry you up there you know." Inuyasha said watching her with curiosity shining in his eyes. "How are you gonna get up there on your on without it being and hour?" He added with a smirk hoping he would get to pick her up and jump up to her window that was halfway open allowing her black satin curtains to blow in the warm, summer breeze.

Surprisingly, when his gaze returned to where Kagome once stood in front of him and he noticed she was gone he looked at the tree and watched as she swung herself up onto the first branch and stood on it. She then quickly jumped up the two and a half feet distance from her standing form to the next branch and swing herself up onto it with the grace and ease of any demon.

She smirked before sliding in through her window and then walked over to her closet and turned on the light. She then walked towards a miniature dresser and pulled the top draw out to look for a swimsuit to wear.

She finally found her favorite swimsuit and grinned as she pulled it from the sea of colorful suits. She stripped down and pulled on the red two piece and was happy that it still fit. The bottom was ruffled and looked like it was wrapped around her waist but underneath it was a normal bottom. Meanwhile the top was a normal bikini top only with a simple ruffle running from the bottom left to the upper right of her chest.

She slipped her white tank top back on and a t-shirt along with her shorts before wrapping the hoodie around her waist and grabbing a pair of sandals.

She walked out of her closet and shut it behind her. She turned around and was face to face with Onigumo who was sitting on her bed intently watching her.

Her eyes widened and she was thankful that she had had the closet door shut and that she had on a t-shirt. She shivered and felt the urge to call for Inuyasha but before she had the chance Onigumo was standing in front of her.

When had he gotten there? He moved so fast but he's human.

"Stay away from me." Kagome said trying to keep her voice calm.

Onigumo laughed a sickening laugh and bent down so that his lips grazed her ear as he said "Don't worry I promised I wouldn't do anything drastic to you. At least not yet that is."

Disgusted and kind of scared Kagome glared at him and back towards her door since he was blocking her window. She reached behind her feeling for the door knob all the while keeping her eye on Onigumo's smirk and black eyes.

When she felt the knob she turned it and quickly walked out into the hall and ran down the stairs straight past her mother who was passed out at the table with a beer bottle in her hand.

When she rounded the corner of the house Inuyasha was glaring at the window and then looked at her and asked "Are you alright? You smell sort of scared."

"Yeah I'm fine." Kagome lied and plastered on a fake smile. Inuyasha decided to let it go as she started down the sidewalk towards his house.

"Come on slow poke or I won't get to swim." Kagome said while motioning for him to hurry.

"Keh it's not like my pool's going anywhere." Inuyasha replied before following after her with a final glare at her bedroom window.

"You never know so get your butt in gear!" Kagome laughed while taking off again with a smile on her face.

"Hey get back here you'll never out run me so don't try!" Inuyasha yelled while running at full speed and flew past her at an incredible speed causing her hair to whip past her much to her shock.

"Hey! You're a demon so it's no fair." Kagome said while watching his back as he smirked at her over his shoulder. Her heart gave a little leap as she saw that smirk and she knew it wasn't from running. She blushed slightly and smiled at his back.

Panting slightly Kagome followed Inuyasha through his front door and towards the indoor pool that was gigantic and full of sparkling blue water, reflecting the sun that shone through the skylight that was opened by a push of a button.

"Hey I'm gonna go and see if Sesshomaru wants to swim with us Kay?" Kagome said starting for the door only to be stopped by Inuyasha's voice.

"That popsicle won't come swim cuz he might thaw out from the sun and that would be bad." Inuyasha said while glaring and thinking about his brother.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever you say I'm gonna ask him anyway." Kagome said while waving her hand in front of her face and smiling at Inuyasha's name choice. "Besides I've got this effect on people where the tend to thaw and swim with us." she added with an angelic smirk.

"Keh." was the only reply Inuyasha had as he walked to the bathroom to put on his swimming trunks.

Kagome laughed and ran up the stairs two at a time and walked down the hallway to the door across from Inuyasha's and pounded her fist on his door noisily three times and stood there with a grin on her face as Sesshomaru pulled the door open with a slight glare on his face.

"What do you want?" he asked while standing in the middle of his doorway with his arms folded over his chest.

"For you to come down to the pool and go swimming with us." Kagome said while walking past him and into his room and going to his closet where he kept his swimming trunks. She was already ready for him to say no and shove her out of his room before she could find his trunks so she devised an offer that he might not turn down.

"You can drown Inuyasha." she laughed when she saw the corners of his mouth tilt into one of his smirks signaling he was about to agree.

"Fine I guess I have no choice." Sesshomaru said while slightly rolling his eyes.

Kagome started to smile and do a small victory dance. That was until she felt a hand touch her butt and her hand connected with Miroku's face which earned the pervert a red mark in the shape of Kagome's hand. Dusting her hands off Kagome grabbed Miroku's ear and pulled him to Inuyasha's room. "Go find one of Inuyasha's extra trunks we're going to swim. By the way is anyone else hear yet?" Kagome asked as she stared at one of the paintings on the wall of the hall. (poet and I didn't even know it! God I hate that saying but I had to.)

"Yeah Kouga's down antagonizing Inuyasha and Ayame's probably on her way along with Sango. And Rin's at that family reunion thing her family had her go to." Miroku said while going through Inuyasha's closet and finally finding a pair of black trunks.

Kagome closed the door and started down the stairs only to hear that Miroku wasn't lying when he said that Kouga was antagonizing Inuyasha considering the two of them were trying to drown each other in the deep end of the pool. She simply rolled her eyes and walked into the kitchen to get some water.

"Noisy kids." Both Izayoi and Inutaisho said simultaneously while they did everything like it was peaceful and not a teenage battle zone.

Kagome then saw Ayame and Sango pull up and walk towards the door. She ran to the door and opened it before they could knock and she grinned, happy to have feminine persons around finally. "I hope you guys thought to bring a swimsuit." Kagome said with so much hope in her eyes it was unreal. She loved to swim and she couldn't help it.

"Yeah we figured you'd want to swim so we are wearing them and ready to drown Miroku." Sango said while watching Miroku who was clueless to the death sentence. They all sweat dropped when he got a funny look on his face and sneezed. Apparently people do sneeze when someone is talking about them. Or it's all just crazy coincidence that the pervert sneezed right on cue.

Laughing slightly they three girls walked into the pool room to see Miroku getting drowned by both Inuyasha and Kouga. Apparently the stupid had tried to stop Inuyasha from drowning Kouga and Kouga and Inuyasha had both tried to kill him. Finally Miroku got away and mumbled something that sounded like "unappreciative wolf".

Sango then stripped off her shirt and jeans revealing a white twist front halter top bikini that had the halter strap running from the middle of the swimsuit and then around her slender neck. The bikini's bottom was a simple white. Sango went to the deep end of the pool where the two demons were arguing and did a cannonball with a flip somewhere in there and landing with a big splash next to the arguing guys.

She surface and wiped the water from her eyes and laughed at them as they gave her matching death glares.

Ayame was next to take her shirt and shorts of to reveal a moss green bikini that had a string halter top and a golden beaded frog on the left breast and on the left hip of the bottoms. She jumped into the water feet first and landed next to Sango.

"Kagome you're usually the first person to be in the pool what's taking you so long?" Sango joked as Kagome mock glared and took her clothes off to reveal her red swimsuit. She started to walk over to the edge of the pool and noticed Inuyasha staring at her with something in his eyes she couldn't quite understand. He looked dazed slightly and it she hid the blush that she felt coming to her cheeks. She shook it off and smiled slightly to herself also noticing Inuyasha's firm chest and abs that she could just make out through the crystal clear water.

She could feel herself falling for him but she ignored it as she ran to the edge of the pool and jumped in happily. She surfaced and sighed as she enjoyed the feeling of being in the cool, refreshing water. She then saw Miroku closing in behind Sango and went underwater to hide her laugh as she knew what would happen next. She heard Sango's yell of anger as she saw Miroku touch her butt.

She come up for air just in time to see Miroku floating past on his back with a red mark on his face. She laughed and splashed Inuyasha in the face when she saw him start at it again with Kouga. She gave Kouga his dose of water to the face also and gulped when they both turned to her with a playful glare.

Kouga looked over at Inuyasha who was looking at him with the same evil smirk on their faces as they started to advance on Kagome who was already swimming away with a smile on her face and mock fear. She then saw Sesshomaru coming and quickly splashed him, completely soaking his hair and face.

He froze and she saw his eye twitch slightly and his gaze wonder over to her. She was lucky they were good friends because if it wasn't one of his buddies the person might have died by drowning mysteriously in a pool. However, Kagome didn't get a chance to see the rest of his reaction because she was pulled under the water by her ankle and dunked by another pair of hands.

Gasping she got her breath right before going under only to be face to face with a smirking Inuyasha who was holding her shoulders. She playfully glared at him and then her eyes widened as she felt her feet being tickled. She looked back to see Kouga grinning devilishly before tickling her again. She laughed and tried to get away but that only caused Inuyasha to start tickling her stomach and for her to loose more air.

She got away after they released her after tickling her enough for their payback.

Breathing in the air she laughed and swam back to the edge and then said "Who wants to play a game?"

"Yeah sure how about we play Chicken?" said Miroku while looking at Sango with a small smile. Sango glared while saying "I swear to God if you do anything I will drown your sorry ass."

"Chicken sounds fun!" Kagome said while smiling.

"Hey Kouga wanna be my partner?" Ayame said while treading water next to him.

"Sure seems like Kagome and Inuyasha are gonna be partners." was Kouga's reply as he and Ayame swam to the shallow end so she could get on his shoulders.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha and saw him smirking at Kouga who had said that him and Ayame were gonna win. "Kouga you get ready to eat your words." Inuyasha said kneeling in the water and helping Kagome onto his shoulders before he stood up and started walking towards Miroku who had Sango on his shoulders and Kouga who had Ayame on his shoulders.

"Hey Sess why don't you be the referee since Rin isn't here." Kouga said while holding onto Ayame's legs. Inuyasha and Miroku were doing the same and the girls all smiled at each other, the last friendliness until someone won Chicken.

Kagome felt Inuyasha's hands wrap around her thigh and couldn't help but feel a small jolt of pleasant feelings at his touch. Inuyasha was thinking around the same lines. 'She's so light and small feeling.' Inuyasha thought as he grabbed Kagome's legs and marveled in how soft they were. Not to mention how sexy she was in that swimsuit.

"Go." Sesshomaru said with boredom in his voice as he sat in a chair watching as both Kagome and Sango ganged up on Ayame. After a few minutes of close calls the two managed to knock Ayame and Kouga off balance sending them both into the water, before Sango turned to Kagome and the two locked hands trying to push each other off the boys' shoulders.

Kagome laughed slightly before pulling Sango towards her and Inuyasha quickly and releasing her but wasn't quite quick enough to evade Sango's death grip causing all four of them to go crashing into the water. They all surfaced and the two girls laughed and started for the edge before hoisting there selves out.

"What time is it anyway?" Ayame asked while grabbing a towel and throwing one at Kagome and Sango who caught them and started to dry off.

"It's seven thirty." Sesshomaru said while grabbing a towel and drying his hair and walking out of the pool room and towards the kitchen.

"So who wants to watch some t.v.?" Asked Kouga as he started for the game room that they had upstairs. "Do you have any good horror movies?" he added as he walked up the stairs with Ayame, Miroku, and Sango who all were dried off and had their clothes back on.

"Yeah we got some just take your pick." said Inuyasha as he grabbed his towel and dried off. He watched Kagome as she dried off as well, completely oblivious to his molten stare. She was so god damn gorgeous that it was unreal. He had noticed her the first day he was at school.

He had been with Naraku and Kikyo. She walked through the doors with Sango and went and started talking to Sesshomaru who was glaring at him from the start. All of a sudden she had looked over at Inuyasha and then her gaze traveled to Kikyo and Naraku and her eyes that were happy suddenly seemed full of anger and disgust but not towards him.

Also there was the strange resemblance of Kikyo and Kagome that he had to do a double take. At first glance they could have been the same person but then when you saw them again there was so many differences. Kagome wasn't as pale as Kikyo and had piercing blue eyes full of fire and kindness. Also Kagome's wardrobe wasn't slutty like Kikyo's and Kagome didn't wear dark make up caked on like Kikyo sometimes did. Also Kagome was so much sweeter than Kikyo and she had a warm personality and her smell was intoxicating. Kikyo's wasn't too bad but Kagome smelled natural and refreshing, also relaxing.

He was brought out of this track of thinking when he felt someone approaching him and looked to see Kagome smiling at him and saying "Hey do you wanna grab some snacks for the movie with me? The guys nominated me to run into town and grab the stuff they're listing right now."

Inuyasha smiled at her and said "Sure. You sure seem happy to be running errands."

"Only because I get to drive Sango's mom's car! It's my baby." Kagome purred out before running up the stairs to get all the crap peeps wanted along with her purse. She returned and opened the door and bounded out of it to jump into the black BMW convertible that had the top up. She put the key in and turned it while Inuyasha got in and laughed at how happy she looked just because of this car. He shut the door with a soft slam and Kagome pushed the button that lowered the top and put the car in reverse and backed out of the driveway in one smooth motion and then started for the small gas station that was about five minutes away. She stopped at a red light and looked up at the sky that was let up with the city lights of Tokyo and momentarily wished she was back at her old home where she could see the stars.

"The city sucks sometimes." Kagome said while putting the car back in drive when the light changed green.

"Why's that?" Inuyasha asked, not really sure why it sucked so much.

"Because the lights block out the stars and its just so crowded and smells like exhaust and stuff. No freshness, you know what I mean?" Kagome said while motioning everything around her with one hand.

"Oh well I'm used to it all and I haven't really lived anywhere like the country or where there's "freshness." Inuyasha said while putting emphasis on the word freshness laughing slightly at her term.

"Hey you can't make fun of my vocabulary and it happens to be a word." Kagome said while glaring half-heartedly at the silver-haired demon next to her. He just chuckled and turned to look at the passing building.

Kagome just sighed and had a small smile grace her lips as she relished the feeling of the wind blowing through her hair and caressing her with a refreshing feeling.

She pulled into the gas station and into one of the empty parking spaces and jumped out after putting the hood up and grabbing her purse. Inuyasha opened the door for her and they entered. The lady behind the register kept on glancing over at the two teens as if they were loitering teens who were gonna steal or something.

Kagome grabbed the list she had stuffed into her pocket and read off the items and walked up and down the isles grabbing it and throwing it into the basket she had grabbed. After the basket was filled with Junior Mints, Reese's Pieces M&Ms, extra buttery popcorn packages, milk duds, chocolate, cotton candy balls, and sour patch kids Kagome quickly walked over to the drinks and opened the door and pulled out a six pack of Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Coke, and a couple energy drinks.

She walked up to the counter and put the basket full of junk food on it. The clerk gave her a dirty look when she pulled out all of the junk food and Kagome glared back. "What the hell is your problem? I haven't done anything to you I don't even know you so don't glare at me." Kagome said as calmly as possible, but she couldn't help but raise her voice slightly.

"It's not my fault if you get fat from all this junk." The girl said snobbishly.

Kagome laughed at this comment and said "Don't worry about me, I don't get fat as easy as you must and this shit isn't for me so just do your job and shut up." The clerk lady seemed a bit shocked and just finished swiping everything and told Kagome the total which added up to be forty dollars and fifty-nine cents. Kagome handed the clerk a fifty and watched as she took out one of those markers that people use to check if the moneys real or not.

"Keep the change." Kagome said before grabbing the bags of food and walking out to the car where Inuyasha was waiting while drinking his Pepsi and changing songs on the radio. "Thank you." said the cash register lady, quietly. "No problem." Kagome replied before walking out the door. She got into the car and put the food in the bag seat and pulled out of the gas station and drove back to Inuyasha's house with a light conversation about how rude people can be.

Kagome jumped out of the car carrying one bag of food while Inuyasha carried the other and ran up the stairs and said "Here's your food you slave drivers Kagome said while tossing a bag at Miroku who wasn't looking and got nailed in the face by the sodas.

"Oops sorry bout that Miroku." Kagome said between giggles. "No problem Kagome it was nothing compared to Sango's lovely love smacks." Miroku said.

"Love smacks my ass you fucking pervert those aren't full of love." Sango said while glaring menacingly at the poor teen. Miroku laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head.

"So what movie are we watching?" Kagome asked while jumping onto a black beanbag on the floor that was next to the couch.

"Well we've got it down to "Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid or this creepy spider movie that is titled creepy spider movie in what I assume to be Izaiyo's writing." Kouga said while holding up the two movies.

"Anacondas, definitely. I hate spiders more than snakes." Kagome said. (Sorry for all of you guys that like snakes and spiders but I can't stand them and I just had a nightmare about snakes the other night.)

So they went through the movie and criticized how stupid and greedy people could be and then looked at Miroku who had just touched Sango's butt for the fourth time. He got the same results that he got every time and ended up laying on the floor with a bump on his head. He just jumped back up automatically and smiled. Must have been from the energy drinks he had pretty much inhaled.

"Who wants to play poker?" Miroku asked a little bit too eagerly.

"Umm why do you wanna play poker all of a sudden Miroku?" Kouga asked while poking him in the head roughly. "Sango's hit you one to many times and you finally lost it?"

"Just for fun. Anyone up for the challenge?" Miroku continued.

"I'm a pro. So I'll play against you Roku." Kagome said while smirking and clearing the coffee table off and running over to a cabinet and grabbing a deck of cards. She returned and saw Miroku feigning an innocent look and got slightly suspicious.

"What's your deal?" Kagome asked while placing the deck on the table.

"I don't have any money with me. So… I guess we'll play with our clothes. Although it's a shame my lovely Sango didn't join the game too." Miroku said with a sad smile on his face.

Kagome blushed slightly and said "Well I hope you wore layers."

"Hey I'm gonna play to." Inuyasha said while grinning and sitting next to Miroku.

(20 minutes later)

"Take it off Miroku. You shouldn't wear such a small amount of clothing if you planned this." Kagome said laughing with the others as Miroku took off his jeans and was in his boxers and one sock, where as, Kagome had taken off her hoodie and rubber band for her hair. Inuyasha on the other hand had quit before he had to take off his swimming trunks.

Kagome was laughing lightly and was shocked when she heard Sesshomaru's voice join into their game. "Miroku you suck, let the professional show you how it's done." Sesshomaru said while sitting next to Miroku and taking his cards. "Say adios to those clothes Kagome." Sesshomaru said while smirking slightly.

Kagome gulped and gave a nervous laugh. Sesshomaru was, after all, a great poker player. And this takes us 20 more minutes down the road of time.

"Damn you." Kagome muttered while taking off her shorts, leaving her in her swimsuit.

"Well what can I say I'm good at what I do." Sesshomaru said.

"Hey at least I got you down to some bare skin." Kagome motioned towards Sesshomaru's bare chest. She had indeed gotten his shirt in the pile of clothing on the floor.

"Pure luck." Sesshomaru said while smirking slightly.

"Yeah whatever you say." Kagome said while crossing her arms over her chest and saying "I'm done this was Miroku's idea and he isn't even playing anymore. Hell I don't even think he's capable of playing considering he's unconscious behind the couch." Kagome said while standing and grabbing her clothes.

She got dressed and then turned to Sango and Ayame. "Hey I should probably get going so I'll see you tomorrow at school." Kagome said while hugging them.

"I'll walk you home." Inuyasha said while standing and walking towards the door.

"Thanks but you don't have to." Kagome said while giving him a smile that left him speechless.

"But I'm still going to walk you home who knows who's out there." Inuyasha said while grabbing his leather jacket. Kagome just smiled and waved good-bye to Sesshomaru, Kouga, Sango, Ayame, and the awakening Miroku.

"See ya guys tomorrow." Kagome shouted while walking out the door after Inuyasha. "Bye Izayoi, Inutaisho." Kagome waved to the parents while walking past the kitchen.

"See you later Kagome be careful." They said.

"I will." she replied while walking out the door.

The two walked in silence for about five minutes until Inuyasha broke the silence. "When's homecoming around here?"

"Oh umm it's this week on Saturday." Kagome said while looking up at Inuyasha curiously.

"Who are you goin with?" He continued without looking at her.

"No one yet." She said. She felt butterflies in her stomach and felt a small slim hope that he was going to ask her. And he did.

"Do you want to go with me?"

She was so happy but she couldn't figure out why exactly she felt so happy. She had after all just met him a week ago. But it felt like she had had a crush on him for forever and he had just confirmed that he liked her back.

"Yeah I'd like that." Kagome said while giving him a small hug. She had just realized that they had made it to her house and she waved at him.

"Let me take you to your room through the window. It will be faster and I have this striking feeling that you're gonna climb that tree anyway." Inuyasha said while picking her up bridal style and jumping up to the branch by her window in one fluid motion.

"Thanks Inuyasha." she said before climbing through the window she had left open. Once inside she got her pajamas on and laid down on her bed falling asleep almost instantly with a smile on her face.

'Something doesn't feel right about her mother's fiancé.' Inuyasha thought while he walked away from Kagome's house with a small smile of his own on his face.

Sorry that I didn't update for so long but I got caught up in school crap and stuff so I tried to make it longer than the other chapters so I hope you enjoyed it!