I could feel my eyebrow twitching as I watched the two men glare at each other. Miroku was pretending he didn't notice Inuyasha's evil eye while he ate his food slowly and properly. Inuyasha, on the other hand, was devouring his food in between glances at Miroku and sitting like a dog. I had already finished my food and turned to the old woman in the room. She wore an eye patch and was the younger sister of the woman Inuyasha had been pinned to the sacred tree by. She was also the woman he was in love with. Some strange gurgling noise escaped my throat when I thought about it but no one seemed to have noticed.

"Lady Kaede, are you sure it is alright with you if we stay here for a while?" I asked. I had no please else to go and I didn't think Miroku would mind getting free food and a place to sleep. The old lady nodded and slightly smiled.

"Thy worries are kind but not needed, child." She replied. Just then the straw door was pulled aside and a young girl, a little younger than me, walked in wearing the strangest and most revealing clothes I had ever seen on a woman.

"I think you should stay too! It would be nice to have a girl my age rather than just having that thing in the corner." She said, sounding rather annoyed, and pointing at Inuyasha. He turned and his bowl of food went flying out of his hands and into Miroku's lap.

"You trying to say something woman!?" He yelled and jumped to his feet. He was ready to fight someone, I could tell.

"Depends on if you realize you're a jerk or not!" Kagome retorted.

"Your gonna pay for that woman!"

"And my name is not WOMAN!" She shouted.

"Right…ANNOYING WOMAN!!!!" They were face to face having a rather loud game of who can be the most obnoxious. It annoyed me to see him so close to her, but what could I do…we obviously couldn't be as close as we were before I was kidnapped, that was a long time ago after all.

"Inuyasha calm down. You are being rude." I said. They both stopped yelling and turned towards me. Inuyasha looked at me, shocked, but averted his eyes and without saying anything he sat back down. Kagome looked at me kind of confused.

"Uh- thank you, I think?" She said, hesitantly.

"Don't worry about it. But you really shouldn't encourage him like that. He is a very competitive guy but on the inside he is a good one." I stopped. Was he still like that? I had no idea. "At least," I added. "He used to be when we were kids." He glanced up at me with a sad, longing look on his face, but turned away before I could look him in the eyes.

Kagome looked back and forth between the two of us. "Are you guys siblings?" She asked.

"No. But we grew up together for the most part." I replied. Inuyasha still wasn't looking at me or Kagome, or anyone for that matter. He just 'hmphed' when I said "for the most part".

"Then, maybe…are you in love?" Inuyasha began choking on something invisible and rolling around on the floor. I felt my eyes grow wide. I realized I wasn't exactly sure. I definitely loved him when we were kids. But there had been times when I was being kept by the demons when I would have given my life to just see Inuyasha one last time. Would that be love? I corrected my wide eyed expression.

"No" I said plainly.

Inuyasha immediately stopped choking and sat up, looking straight at me. But this time it was me who averted my eyes. I didn't want him to see that I was lying to Kagome. But for him it seemed like just yesterday he had been pinned to a tree by the woman he loved. He had tried to move on from me. I can understand that. He thought I was dead. I guess I would have tried to move on with my life as well. And then there was Kagome. He had only known her for about a day and yet they already seemed to have tension between them. I could already sense, just from being around then, that it wasn't a tension caused by hatred. Kaede had said earlier that Kagome might be the reincarnation of the late priestess whom Inuyasha had loved. This could be why Inuyasha was so testy with her but also couldn't keep his eyes off of her. Almost like he was expecting her to transform into Kikyo at any moment and throw herself into his arms.

I couldn't take this away from him by telling him my feelings. Besides, I hadn't actually seen him in, what seemed to me like five years, but to the world around us it was fifty-five years. No matter how I tried to fool myself, I couldn't help the fact that Inuyasha definitely would have changed in the five years that I was gone. I didn't know by how much, but if he could fall in love with someone…

"Im going for a walk." I said, standing up, averting my eyes from everyone except Kaede. "Thank you for the meal and giving us a place to stay. Miroku and I are very grateful." I headed for the door and moved the straw aside.

"I am going with you." My heart skipped a beat. But then the voice registered with me. It wasn't Inuyasha.

"No." I said gruffly.

Miroku was taken aback. "Brushed off so easily" He looked depressed. Inuyasha didn't turn to laugh at him though. He just stared after me, with that same sad and yearning expression that he had had on earlier.

I walked until I was lost in the woods. I hadn't even noticed how long I had been walking or in what direction I had come from. I turned to look around me. "Damn it. Of course I would get myself lost." I sighed and sat down on the ground. "Why is everything getting so complicated?" I was so lost in thought I never heard the snapping twig coming from behind me.