Just Two

Kagome awoke at what she thought was early but was obviously wrong when she saw that all the others were already awake and Sango had started to make breakfast. "Good morning Kagome."

"Morning Sango…." Kagome answered in a somewhat bewildered tone.

"I wouldn't call it a 'good' morning…" Inuyasha mumbled grumpily to himself, but it didn't go un-noticed by the others.

"You're just upset that Shippo found out about the gift giver before you did." Miroku answered in a laughing tone.

"Ya, and you know Inuyasha, Miroku was right, the gift giver is beautiful." Shippo commented with a playful grin.

Inuyasha glared at Shippo, not noticing the heated blush that crossed Kagome's cheeks.

"Feh, whatever…" He grumbled and turned away.

"Well enough of that, you two should open your gifts now." Sango reminded and Kagome nodded.

"Right, ill go first." She answered before putting her gift in her lap. (I know I said last chapter that only Inuyasha had a gift but I changed my mind. He and kagome both have gifts…for now.) Kagome ripped of the wrapping paper and found 8 different necklace chains and a note. It read, 'once the jewel is completed you can use one of these to put it on…' the not left a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach but she brushed it off and in stead looked at Inuyasha, waiting for him to open his gift.

Inuyasha pulled his open and revealed 7 different colored dog collars and a rope to tie onto them, beside it was a note it said, 'here, pick your favorite color and let Kagome take you for a walk.' Inuyasha rolled his eyes and put the gift down a few feet away from him. But he couldn't help the small smile that formed on his lips.

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"So its just us two huh?" Kagome commented idly while Inuyasha and Kagome walked towards the bone eaters well.

"I guess so…" Was all that escaped him, but Kagome could see he was deep in thought about it.

"So you have any ideas on who it could be?" She asked as they came into sight of the well.

"Not really…" He mumbled. They stopped when they reached the rim.

"Well, ill be right back after I get some warmer clothing…"Kagome trailed off as she prepared to jump into the well…

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The group sat around a warm fire that evening, it was dark and the day had gone by quite slowly and uninterestingly. Of course Inuyasha did whine about being so lazy during the day but Kagome knew that even he wasn't so sure that traveling in this weather would have been so smart.

So now Kagome was awake alone, simply thinking on how she would end up pranking Inuyasha, before she set out two presents and want to her sleeping bag for some rest.

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Well I hope you liked this. And just so you know, I WILL be finishing this, though not by Christmas like I hoped I will try to make it before new years.

Please review and thank you for reading!

Your Humble Writer,

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