Yay a new Chapter.


It was a couple hours later than the three humans decided that to come downstairs. Miroku had told Kagome everything he knew about Inuyasha. He also told her that he can't understand people when they talk, so try to show him things when she wanted something out of him. He also advised her to try to teach him a few things, like maybe some new words, and possibly to try to get him to speak.

Sango had asked Miroku if he could get anymore information on the boy. Like how he had come to be with the dog fights and about his past. He could have family out there for all they knew. Miroku said he would be on the case, and try to dig up as much as he could.

"That's so awful; I mean what he went through. You said he killed a dog that he was friendly with, most likely his friend." Sango said as they were walking down the stairs.

"Well he and the other dog were the only two in the room, and they were acting friendly to each other before I came into the room." Miroku responded.

"Why didn't you just get him out of there when you took him and the other dog out?" Kagome asked.

"I wanted to, but you should have seen the place. It was loaded with guards, and people watching me. When Inuyasha ran off and I couldn't do anything about it, not a minute later someone was already up and chasing after him."Miroku said.

"I wonder what happened to the people he was with?" Sango asked.

"I don't know. He left with two guys. I asked around and some people told me they were his owners."

"I wonder if he and his owners got into a fight or something. I mean he was pretty badly beaten up when we found him. I mean more so then what you said he was Miroku."Kagome said.

"I don't know, but I don't think they fought each other. One guy said that Inuyasha was very submissive around his owners. He never growled at them or attacked them. He said that they hardly ever had to use his collar anymore, and he usually always just follows his owners when they say come." Miroku explained.

"What do you mean 'use his collar'?" Sango asked.

"Well from what I saw it is a type of shock collar, only to me it looked a lot worse. Whenever his collar is activated he is in excruciating pain, and drops to knees and cries out."

"Oh no, then we need to take it off of him."

"I don't think that would be a good idea Kagome. You see when the man who I am guessing was his owner took his collar off, well…Lets just say he turned into a killer. He killed his friend when he was in this state. I think the collar either suppresses the killer in him, or is a tool that signifies when to kill and when not to. When the collar is removed it signifies to attack and kill. Do you see what I mean?"

"But you said that his owner had told him to attack after he closed the door. Inuyasha might have just been following directions." Kagome said.

"I honestly don't know Kagome. You see when he was fighting you should have seen him. His eyes for blood red, his claws looked sharper and longer, his fangs grew to a size so that they wouldn't even fit in his mouth, and he has a purple jagged stripe going across each one of his cheeks."

"But their might still be hope that we could get the collar off and he might be just fine. I mean what if his owners find him; they could activate his collar again."

"I agree with Kagome. You also said that he didn't turn into this killer until a few seconds into the fight. If we were to convince him that we are fiends then we might be able to help him." Sango said.

"I hope so. I don't know how long he had been friends with the dog, but…"

When they finally reached the living room they decided that it was best for Sango and Miroku to go home. They promised that they would call again and maybe schedule a day to go to the movies or something.

Kagome went back into her room to see that the dog boy was still sitting in the same spot he had retired to earlier. Then she looked over to the mess that her room was. She had totally forgotten about what Inuyasha had done to her book bag. She had been so engrossed in learning about him that she had forgotten. She walked past the dog boy and noticed that he didn't even look up at her. Funny because the entire time that Miroku and Sango were here he had kept a cold glare pointed up Miroku. He never took his eyes off of him. When Miroku stood up and they were leaving she could have sworn she heard him start to growl a little bit.

When she leaned down to pick up a piece of paper that was only half shredded she noticed just what he had ripped up.

"Oh no. You ripped up all my homework. I worked so hard on it and I can't possibly make it up. If I don't turn this in then I could fail. What am I going to do?" Kagome was really upset. She wasn't really talking to Inuyasha because she now knew that he couldn't understand her but…

She grabbed a few more papers that littered the floor and tried to smooth them out and piece back other papers that were ripped. She even grabbed a bit of tape off her dresser and tried to tape pieces together. It was all a lost cause though. Most of the pages were in so many pieces that she couldn't figure out which piece went with what paper.

She held in her hand a very small stack that was salvageable, and tried to smooth back the corners and see if she could get them presentable but then she accidently ended up ripping them because the were so crumpled.

"I give up. I can't piece them together. There are too many holes and pieces. Why did you do this?" Kagome then turned to Inuyasha who was looking at her strangely. It looked like he was curious as to what she was doing. She then turned back to the papers around her. "I can't go tell my teacher my dog ate my homework. I guess I should try to get my teachers to give me new copies. I could bring in some of the shredded remains. I hope they buy my excuse."

Kagome was surprised when she heard the moving of clothes. She looked over and saw that Inuyasha was walking over to her. He stopped looked around then walked over to her backpack. When he reached it he grabbed and then started to finish coming over to Kagome.

Kagome watched him as he picked up her backpack then walk over to her. She could see the guilty expression on his face. His ears were down and he looked miserable. She knew that he was sorry for what he had done, just like he was sorry for destroying the house when he was chasing Buyo.

When he reached Kagome he kneeled down so he was on his knees, just like Kagome was, and then he held out the bag to Kagome. Kagome just looked at him for a second. She could almost see what he was thinking. He was trying to say sorry and that he didn't mean it. She then heard him let loose a vey very small whine. With that she took the bag. When she took it from him she noticed him basically drop. His ears got even lowers, his eyes were downcast, and his shoulders were slumped.

Kagome thought that he thought that she didn't accept his apology. She reached her hand out and put it on his head. When he looked up at her all he saw was a smile on her face, telling him that everything was okay and that she wasn't mad at him.

"Look I know you're sorry, I do. And I know you probably have no idea what I am saying, but…We need to figure out a way to keep this from happening. I mean with you getting into so much trouble." Kagome said to him as she pet his ears.

"But you know that sure does explain a lot as to why you were always so confused around me and everyone else." Kagome said. She was really just talking out loud.

Inuyasha was enjoying being pet but then he heard a noise come from outside Kagome's door.

He stopped then pulled his head away from Kagome's hand. He then started to shake his head to get the sleepy feeling to go away. He then twitched his ears. It was Kagome's turn to be confused. She didn't know what he was doing. She hadn't heard the noise. For a second Inuyasha thought that maybe he had imagined the noise because he wasn't hearing it anymore.

Inuyasha relaxed then looked back over to Kagome. Kagome looked like she was about to say something but then she heard a noise. Inuyasha's eyes got wide and he scurried over to his corner. He was standing in a defensive stance and his ears were pinned. He was growling softly. Kagome was surprised he hadn't went under the bed like previous times before.

"Hey Kagome." Sota said as he opened his sister's bedroom door. When he opened it he was surprised to find the dog boy. He had seen him once before, but nobody had really told him anything about the boy except that he was scared of everyone. Inuyasha just stared at the kid as Sota stared back.

Kagome noticed the two staring at each other. What surprised her the most was that Inuyasha had stopped growling and had relaxed, instead of looking scared he actually looked curious. She could hear him sniffing the air and she saw that his ears were twitching like crazy.

"Whoa he looks cool. I thought you said that he was scared of everybody." Sota said as he was still looking in awe at Inuyasha.

"He usually is. I guess he doesn't see you as a threat."Kagome answered. Inuyasha then walked over closer to Sota still sniffing.

"What's he doing?" Sota asked as Inuyasha got closer still sniffing away.

"I think he is checking you out. Making sure you aren't bad and that you aren't going to hurt him." Kagome answered.

"Why would I hurt him? I think he is really cool."

"Don't take it to heart; he thinks everyone is going to hurt him. He was scared of me remember."

"Anyways, I was wondering if you wanted to come outside and play soccer with me?" Sota asked as he held up his soccer ball. Inuyasha, who was close to Sota still sniffing him, looked at the ball when Sota raised it up.

"I don't know Sota. I mean I don't think I should leave Inuyasha up here alone again. He ripped up my homework last time." Kagome announced. She knew Inuyasha was sorry and didn't mean it but she was still kind of mad about it. Not mad at him, but mad about the situation.

"Well, he can play too." Sota simply said.

"I don't think he would want to. He doesn't really want to leave this room." Kagome said. She was sort of doubting herself. She watched as Inuyasha stared at the soccer ball in Sota's hand in interest.

Sota looked like he was about to say something when he ended up dropping the ball. Inuyasha froze then watched the ball as it bounced across Kagome's room. He followed the ball with his head and eyes. Then out of no where he charged for it head and arms first.

"See I think he wants to play too."

"I guess. I mean he hasn't really left my room sense he has been here." Kagome said as she looked over at the dog boy. He was on all fours with the ball directly in front of him. He was sniffing it like there was no tomorrow. Then when his nose nudged the ball he would growl a small growl, almost like a playful growl, and then he would get closer and sniff it again.

What is this thing? I've never seen anything like it. It smells weird, but I have this feeling like, maybe I want to chase it or something. Why was that weird boy holding it. Inuyasha thought. That boy smelled weird too. He didn't smell threatening, or bad, he smelled like sugar and other sweet things. He also smelled like grass and dirt, and so did this strange thing.

Sota walked over to Inuyasha and picked up the ball that Inuyasha had his nosed buried in. Inuyasha just looked up at him from his position on the floor.

'Hey give that back. I wasn't done smelling it' Inuyasha barked to Sota.

"What's wrong, why did he just bark at me?" Sota asked his sister.

Kagome started to giggle a bit. The face Inuyasha was pulling and her brother's confused expression was too much. "I don't think he wanted you to take the ball away from him." Kagome answered.

"Why didn't he just say something?"

"He can't talk. Now are you just going to stand there or what. Inuyasha doesn't look to happy about you taking the ball away." Kagome giggled some more.

"Uhh sure, let's go. But why can't he talk?"

"I'll explain later, but for now let's go play a little bit. He could use it. Maybe it will bring him out of his shell too." Kagome said.

With that both siblings walked out of the room. Inuyasha watched them go for a second then cocked his head to the side.

What's going on? Inuyasha thought.

Kagome looked back and noticed Inuyasha wasn't coming. She remembered that Miroku had found out that Inuyasha did know what a few words meant. He knew what Stay, Come, Stop, and Attack meant. She decided that he would understand if she just told him to come.

"Inuyasha, come on, let's go play." Kagome said.

Kagome smiled when she noticed him get up. He then started to follow the siblings in the hall. When they got to the steps Kagome and Inuyasha both got nervous. Kagome got nervous because of what happened last time he almost went down the stairs. He had run off scared.

Inuyasha was nervous because he still didn't want to go downstairs. The little boy seemed harmless, and the girl was nice to him, but the others he didn't know. They could still be mad at him, or they could have found out that he had ruined Kagome's homework.

When they reached the stairs Kagome and Inuyasha stopped. Kagome didn't want to force him if he wasn't ready. She did want to try to at least get him to try to go down. Sota was already walking ahead oblivious to what was going on.

Kagome walked down one step then said 'come on'. Inuyasha looked at her, and noticed the sweet nice tone in her voice. He still wasn't sure though.

Sota looked back and noticed the two still at the top of the stairs. He noticed the hesitant look in Inuyasha's eyes and then got an idea.

"Hey Inuyasha." Sota yelled. Inuyasha looked up, and then looked at Sota. He had been surprised when Sota said his name but then calmed down. He noticed the boy wave the ball he had been smelling up in the air.

Then as Inuyasha kept his attention on the ball Sota started to move the ball back and forth. Inuyasha's eyes followed everywhere the ball moved with his eyes again. Then Sota threw the ball towards the back door.

Inuyasha took off like a rocket after the ball. He wasn't thinking he was just acting on instincts. He didn't even realize he had went done the stairs, he just wanted the ball.

Kagome's eyes got wide as she watched the boy race off at the ball like a common dog.

When she finally caught up to the boys, Sota had run off after Inuyasha as Inuyasha was running for the ball, she noticed Inuyasha was on all fours again rolling the ball around with his nose. This time she busted out laughing.

Inuyasha took notice of this and he sprang up and looked at Kagome. He noticed she was laughing and not yelling. This helped him relax again and then he looked over towards the ball again. When he looked to the spot he noticed it was gone. He looked around until he noticed Sota had the ball again.

"That was a dirty trick Sota." Kagome finally said.

"Well it got him down here didn't it?" Sota said shrugging his shoulders.

"Come on; let's go outside so you guys don't break anything." Kagome said as she opened the back door so they all could go outside.


The reason Inuyasha wasn't scared of Sota is because he doesn't see him as a threat. He is really curious about him and all the smells that he is smelling from the boy. He likes the ball because it is new and interesting to him. I wanted to give him a little break and to open up a little.