After getting to Kaede's village, Sango yelled "Miroku, you pervert" and slapped the monk. Shippo said "nice contact on that one, Sango." Miroku said "shut it, Shippo." Miroku then heard another voice call "Miroku, I heard that InuYasha drowned. What's going on?" Sure enough, a raccoon-badger was heading for them. "Hachi" Miroku said, "everything is all right. InuYasha is fine." Sango remarked "he's also asleep." InuYasha, in his sleep, moved a little and muttered "Sesshomaru, what do you mean you're gay?" Kagome yelled "SESSHOMARU IS GAY?" InuYasha jerked awake and saw Kagome look pale. "Kagome, what's your deal?" he asked. Kagome said "I heard you say that Sesshomaru was gay, but I guess that must've been a dream." Hachi said "InuYasha, it's good to see that you're well. I was so worried when I heard that--." InuYasha said "I'm glad you're asking me how I'm feeling, but let's not get into too much detail about what happened." Hachi said "okay, then." With that, Hachi went off. Kagome said "that reminds me, I need to get back to my time for a few days. I'll leave tomorrow morning."

That evening, Kaede asked "so, InuYasha turned full human in broad daylight?" Kagome replied "yes, that mermaid demon sent out a transformation curse that lifted when she was slaughtered." A flea perked up and asked "Master InuYasha, you could've drowned. What were you thinking?" InuYasha was getting ticked as he said "Myoga, mind your own business." Kagome said "InuYasha, he was concerned for your life, as was Hachi. We're only concerned about you because we care about you. Please understand InuYasha." InuYasha thought for a while and said "thanks, Kagome." After a bit of solemn silence, Hachi came in with a large cauldron and said "soup's on!" After a lovely meal, Kagome said "let's go somewhere secluded. I bet there's something you want to do before I go back." As Kagome twitched her eyebrows suggestively, InuYasha said "oh, yeah" and headed out with Kagome. After a while, everyone got to sleep.


Kagome returned to the modern era the next morning. Sota was very excited. "Hey, sis" he yelled, "you're finally back! We're going to be late for school!" Kagome asked "well, what about breakfast?" Sota said "oh, yeah. Here's a pop tart." Soon after, the two were off to school. Sota said "sis, it's nice that you can drive to school. Especially in as stylish of a ride as this thing has." "That's true, Sota" Kagome replied. She then hit the stereo on and a male vocalist was singing "Take me away, I don't mind. But, you'd better promise me I'll be back in time…" Kagome thought "I wonder how Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi have been lately. I bet they're still obsessed over InuYasha."

Later, Kagome and Sota arrived. The car stereo was pumping out "you've got a feeling. It's electric. Boogie-woogie-woogie-woogie…" Kagome killed the engine, and the radio lapsed into silence. After getting out, Hojo was heard saying "hey, Kagome." Kagome said "oh, hi, Hojo." Hojo asked "so, how was Detroit?" Kagome replied "Detroit was amazing. Their university was very nice." Hojo said "sounds like you had a nice trip." Soon after, Kagome found Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi. "Hi, guys" Kagome said. Eri looked and said "Kagome's back from Detroit. Hi, Kagome!" Yuka asked "so, how is Yashey-Washey, Kagome?" Kagome replied "InuYasha is doing fine, but can you guys stop calling him Yashey-Washey; that's getting old."

During lunch, Kagome and her friends were talking. "So, what's InuYasha been up to, lately?" Eri asked. Kagome said "well, I had to save him from drowning yesterday." The other three girls were aghast. "From drowning?" Yuka asked. Ayumi said "oh, goodness, is he okay?" Kagome replied "well, he is now, but he wasn't responding when I first pulled him out." The three girls gasped. Eri said "dear god. I can't believe he nearly died on you." Ayumi said "well, at least he recovered. That's what counts." Yuka then asked "now that we're over that, why are you touring all those universities in the United States when Japan has plenty of them?" Kagome replied "I wanted to get out and see the world…of Professor Derus." Eri said "holy cow, you're in love with Professor Derus." Kagome said "no, I'm not." Ayumi said "I'd have to agree with Kagome. Besides, I heard rumors that he was dating another professor from the United States who is also coming to Japan sometime next week." Kagome asked "I wonder who she is."

Later, Kagome was sitting in her algebra class. The instructor was writing various topics on the board on various bits of material. Later in the lecture, he wrote a very complex problem and said "this problem will be on the test in two weeks; memorize it well." Kagome went pale and said "what test?" She put her head on the desk and thought "I'm screwed." After school was out, Kagome found her three friends and said "listen, I need to borrow your notes for the upcoming test. It'll only be a while." Eri said "we have exams, too. However, we could make a quick photocopy." "Thanks" Kagome said. Ayumi replied "but, in exchange, we go to Palace of Pizzas."


Back at the shrine, InuYasha arrived. He sniffed for Kagome, only to notice a very awful scent from the house that overwhelmed every other scent. InuYasha gagged and thought "where's that damn smell coming from? That's awful!" He went to the house and saw Kagome's grandpa holding a lit cigarette. "Hi, InuYasha" he cheerfully said. InuYasha, pissed by the smell, asked "what are you doing, old man?" Kagome's grandpa took a deep inhale off the cigarette and replied "a few of these things a day helps keep me calm." He exhaled the rest of the cigarette smoke and InuYasha was hacking his head off as he went in. Kagome's mom was heard yelling "dad, are you smoking again?" InuYasha was still coughing as he replied "yes he is." Kagome's mom replied "oh my, InuYasha, are you all right?" InuYasha let out one more cough and said "I'll be okay." Kagome's mom said "dad, put that thing out, now." Grandpa replied "I thought I was outside, though." Kagome's mom said "still, put that out and come back inside." Grandpa did so and said "okay. So, InuYasha, Kagome said that something potentially disheartening happened on that boat recently." InuYasha said "yes, but this isn't the best time."


At Palace of Pizzas, Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi simultaneously said "thanks, Kagome." Kagome was shaking her head and asked "this stuff again? You'd better not ditch me this time, guys. If you do, you'll owe me money." The other three ate some pizza. Ayumi said "agreed, Kagome." After Kagome stuffed another slice of pepperoni in her mouth, Eri said "there you go thinking again. What's on your mind?" Kagome replied through a mouthful of breadsticks "well, it's InuYasha always trying to protect me." Yuka asked "you want to swallow first?" Kagome swallowed and said "sorry. Anyway, it's InuYasha always trying to protect me. Half the time, it almost costs him his life; like yesterday when he almost drowned. I feel like I need to protect him." Eri replied "if you like, we could help out with that." Kagome said "I have a feeling that you're up to something. What it is, I don't know." Eri said "well, if you want to protect him so bad, you shouldn't do it alone." Kagome replied "I think that if I accept this, you're going to be doing something funny with him." After a while, Ayumi said "I think we should get to copying now. Kagome said "now, you're talking."

At a local 24-hour copy center, they saw an ungodly long line for the only copy machine the store had; it extended five feet down the sidewalk. The four girls were astounded. Kagome said "I guess I forgot that the colleges were in exams as well." Yuka said "well, we'll try another place." A second copy center had a free machine, but it had a sign on it and a repairman inside a hatch on it. "Broken?" Kagome asked. The repairman said "yeah, it'll be another couple of days." Eri said "we can try another one." Upon arrival at the third copy place, a sign was on the door. "What do you mean closed?" Kagome asked. Ayumi said "there's one more place I know of." Upon arrival, they saw the building's door with yellow homicide tape in front of it. Kagome said "holy crap, what happened?" They saw the body outlines on the floor inside and blood stains on the copier. Paper was strewn everywhere, with everything else disheveled. A nearby police officer who happened to hear Kagome's remark walked up. "Excuse me ladies" he said. All four of them turned around. The officer replied "last night, this place was hit by armed robbers. A brawl ensued, and the gunmen shot both clerks and all nine customers inside at the time dead. The gunmen are still on the loose, having gotten away with all the money in the cash registers. No one survived." Kagome said "thanks for the information, officer." The policeman replied "you're welcome. I don't really want to see four more victims. So, if you see him, call us and make sure he doesn't know of your presence." The officer moseyed on, and the four girls gave each other horrified looks. Kagome said "what am I going to do for the test now? One copy center has a long line, another has a broken copier, one is closed with the owner on vacation, and the only other one left is a crime scene with eleven deaths." Eri said "sorry, Kagome. Maybe it'll work out somehow." Kagome pleaded "come on guys, don't go." Unfortunately, she saw them leave. "They left" she muttered, "YOU TRAITORS! YOU GUYS OWE ME MONEY!"


Kagome returned home in despair. "Kagome, what's wrong?" her mom asked. Kagome told her mother of what she had been through. Neither of them knew that InuYasha was eavesdropping. When Kagome had finished, she entered the next room to see a small plume of dust in midair that appeared to go out the window. Kagome thought "could it be InuYasha? No, why would he be here?" Sota walked in with two drinks saying "well, InuYasha, I hope you like green tea." He staggered a little and asked "sis, where's InuYasha?" Kagome asked "you mean he was in here?" Sota said "he was right there a moment ago." InuYasha, meanwhile, was heading to a phone booth. He looked in the phone book and got the addresses of Kagome's three friends. Just when he was about to leave, he paused and thought "wait, I've got an opportunity right now." He put in a modern coin and dialed a number. Hojo picked up with "Hojo's Health Foods." InuYasha said "yeah, I'm looking for a friend of mine. Last name Tinkle; first name Ivannah." Hojo said "hang on" and turned to the patrons of his store. He loudly yelled "phone call for Miss Tinkle. Phone call for Miss Tinkle. HEY, EVERYBODY, IVANNAH TINKLE!" The whole store burst out laughing. Hojo then thought "wait a minute, 'I want to tinkle'?" and got back on the phone. He then said "listen, you bastard, when I catch you, I'm going to pull out your eyes and shove them down your pants so you can watch me kick the crap out of you. Then, I'm going to use your tongue to paint my boat!" InuYasha kept laughing as the dial tone afterwards droned on.

InuYasha went to the first address he wrote down. The address was Ayumi's house. He went to the door and knocked. Amazingly, it was Yuka who answered the door. "Hi" he said. Yuka said "Ayumi, you'll never believe who's here!" Ayumi came and said "Hey, it's InuYasha!" Eri was heard asking "are you serious?" Eri came and looked. "Hey, Yashey-Washey" she said. InuYasha replied "yeah. I heard that you had some notes that Kagome needed a copy of." Ayumi said "yes, we do. All the photocopy centers were out of commission." InuYasha replied "so just hand-copy them." Ayumi said "okay, I'll do that. Come on in." InuYasha went in and was escorted up to Ayumi's bedroom. Ayumi said "I'll have them hand-copied in a bit." InuYasha said "thank you." Eri said "but in exchange, you give us a little show." InuYasha, with a confused look, asked "a show?" Yuka said "yes. We pick five songs from these CDs, and you have to dance to them." InuYasha said "no problem." Eri said "here's the catch, though. You need to…" and whispered something in InuYasha's ear. InuYasha got a look of shock. "What do you mean I have to be naked?" he asked. Ayumi said "we'll make it simple for you: no nude, no notes."


Back in the feudal era, Sesshomaru and Totosai were at a river at the bottom of a hill below the sword smith's lair. "So, what's going on between you two?" Totosai asked. Sesshomaru replied "well, Rin is up to her usual antics." Totosai said "Sesshomaru, you've found someone who shows true love to you." Sesshomaru replied "I know that, I just wish for her to wait until she's fifteen years old. She's wanted to go at it. She's been tempting me for a while." Totosai asked "do you share the same feelings of love for her?" Sesshomaru was momentarily stunned and replied "I do share them, but I have a reputation to uphold." They packed up enough water and were heading back up.

At Totosai's lair, Rin was on her back gazing absent-mindedly up at the clouds overhead. She let out a passionate sigh as Jaken was waiting. "Rin, what exactly are you thinking about?" Jaken asked. Rin replied "I just can't help it, Master Jaken. I can't stop thinking about Lord Sesshomaru." Jaken said "You have Lord Sesshomaru on your mind a lot lately, Rin." Jaken saw how Rin appeared to be blushing and asked "if you love Lord Sesshomaru so much, why don't you marry him?" Rin, missing Jaken's sarcasm, got a glint in her eye and said "you know, maybe I will. Thanks for the idea, Master Jaken. I'll ask him as soon as he gets back." Jaken replied "Rin, wait, I don't think--. Lord Sesshomaru, you're back!" Rin said "Lord Sesshomaru, there's something I wish to ask of you." Sesshomaru asked "what is it Rin?" Rin knelt down and said "Lord Sesshomaru, I wish for us to be wed." Totosai's eyes bugged out. Sesshomaru went pale and asked "wed?" He promptly passed out. Jaken said "Rin, that was the worst thing you could ever do." Jaken thought and then said "second worst, actually." Rin said "you told me I should ask him!" Jaken said "I wasn't serious, I was joking around. Couldn't you tell?" Sesshomaru's hand pelted Jaken. Jaken looked and said "what the hell was--? Me lord!" Sesshomaru said "she was in love. That's more than enough for her to take such advice seriously." Jaken said "I thought she'd figure it was a joke." Rin said "well, joke or no joke, how about it, my lord?" Totosai said "go on, take a chance." Sesshomaru looked at the old man and slugged him. "Are you insane?" Sesshomaru asked. Totosai replied "I'm not insane. Do you love the girl or not?" Sesshomaru said "I love her, but she's not fifteen years old yet." He then turned to Rin and said "Rin, I wish to wait on this until you're fifteen." Rin said "okay."


Back at Ayumi's house, the girls had picked their five songs. They informed InuYasha of them and InuYasha said "well, at least I've heard these songs before." After getting undressed, he said "I'll ask you guys one thing. Don't tell Kagome about this until after this exam." Eri said "no problem." Yuka started the first song. A male vocalist was singing "Billie Jean is not my lover…" InuYasha was moon-walking and doing other dance moves as the other three gazed on excitedly. After the song ended, Yuka was putting a second CD in when the phone rang. Ayumi answered the phone. "Hello" she said. Kagome said "hi, Ayumi. Have you seen InuYasha at all?" Ayumi replied "ummm, no?" InuYasha sneezed at a bad time and Kagome said "What was that?" Ayumi replied "it was…one of the…other girls…sounding like…a guy sneezing?" Kagome replied "no girl could hit that low a sound." InuYasha thought "this isn't good." Ayumi said "it was an mp3." Kagome, onto her friend, replied "okay…I guess I can easily…SIT!" InuYasha's necklace activated, and he was flung into the floor. Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka exchanged nervous glances. Yuka mouthed "don't squeal, InuYasha." Kagome asked "explain that noise." Ayumi said "we're shooting off fireworks." Kagome, now convinced, replied "okay. I'll see you guys tomorrow." Ayumi said "okay" and the phone call ended. Ayumi said "holy crap, that was so freaking close." InuYasha said "gee, you think?"

Yuka then put in another CD to start the next song. A Caribbean dance song began playing as a male vocalist was chanting "cent, five cent, ten cent, dollar…" InuYasha was shifting his left hip out to his left on every "cent," his right hip out to his right on every "five cent," his hips back on every "ten cent," and his hips forward on every "dollar." The three girls loved this, especially at the points of the song where the chant went "dollar, dollar, dollar, dollar, dollar, dollar…" InuYasha wasn't too keen about this since the day before, he had every last bit of hair at his waist removed. After that song ended, Eri said "now, this song is a slow-dance song." InuYasha replied "I know." Eri said "so, I'm sweetening the deal. I have this numbered die here. The number rolled will determine which one of us slow-dances with you in this next number." InuYasha's eyes bugged out. "What?" he asked. Eri said "if it's one or two, it'll be Ayumi; three or four, it'll be Yuka; five or six, it'll be me." InuYasha freaked a little. "Oh, man" he said, "do I have to do a slow dance with one of you guys?" Eri said "yes—and still--." InuYasha said "dang it. This sucks." Eri said "remember: no nude, no notes." With that, Yuka rolled the die. Landing on two, Ayumi yelled "YES!" Ayumi got up and got with InuYasha. Yuka started the next song. A female vocalist sang "did you ever know that you're my hero? You're everything I wished I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle. You are the wind beneath my wings." Eri activated a disco ball.

After that song, Ayumi was drifting closer and closer to InuYasha in an effort to kiss him. InuYasha was trying to move back, but it was no use as Ayumi kept drifting closer in a similar manner that Sango had on a different occasion where she was drunk. Yuka and Eri took notice. "AYUMI!" Eri yelled. Both of them pulled her off InuYasha. With no kiss having taken place, InuYasha was relieved that she was off him. Eri said "that wasn't part of the deal, Ayumi!" Ayumi said "sorry, I guess I got a little carried away." Then, the fourth song started. With a '80s dance beat, a female vocalist was singing "ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, heaven is a place on earth…" InuYasha was improvising some dance moves as the girls gawked in excitement. After that, the final song had a male group singing "macho, macho man. I've got to be a macho man…" After that number, InuYasha said "okay, ladies, let me have my clothes back and let me have the copied notes." Eri said "of course, as promised" and handed him his clothes and the notes. InuYasha got back into decent attire and said "now, remember, don't mention--." Yuka interrupted with "…anything to Kagome until after the exam? We'll keep our promise." InuYasha said "thank you" and went on his way to Kagome's place. Just before arriving at the shrine, he stopped at a phone booth and placed a call. Hojo answered "Hojo's Health Foods." InuYasha said "hi, I'm looking for a Miss Bath, first name Anita." Hojo said "one moment" and turned to the patrons, yelling "call for Miss Bath, call for Miss Bath. Hey, everyone, is Anita Bath here?" Everyone bust out laughing. Hojo thought and said "oh, wait a minute." Back on the phone, he said "you snot ball. When I get hold of you, I'm going to use your head for a bucket and paint my house with your brains!" InuYasha kept laughing through the subsequent dial tone.

Kagome, meanwhile, was in her room. "Where could he be?" she wondered as she stared at the ceiling, "What can I do?" Her moping was interrupted by something hitting her window. Kagome jerked up and saw InuYasha up against the glass. Kagome opened the window and InuYasha flopped in. "InuYasha, where have you been?" Kagome asked. InuYasha replied "well, I heard that you've been having a little trouble lately." Kagome said "yeah, my friends ditched me when the promised that they'd copy some notes for an important test. They also owe me money." InuYasha feigned innocence and asked "you mean notes like these?" He pulled out the copy of the notes and Kagome said "InuYasha, how did you get the notes?" InuYasha said, in a falsetto voice, "oh, Yashey-Washey." Kagome shook her head and said "so they did it all for you." InuYasha said "that's right. I've even prepared a special study session that we'll do tomorrow night." Kagome said "okay. Besides, dinner is ready. You can stay the night here." InuYasha said "thanks, Kagome."


Back at Totosai's lair, Totosai had finished the double-bladed sword. "Here you are, Sesshomaru" Totosai said. Sesshomaru said "thanks, Totosai." Rin yawned and asked "what time is it?" Sesshomaru checked his wrist sundial and said "YEE-GODS, IT'S LATE!" They set up camp nearby and went to sleep.