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The week had ended perfectly with Kagome being able to move all her stuff from the shrine to her and InuYasha's new home. She had two trash bags full of things that she decided she didn't want anymore. Akira watched her daughter do ballet across her room and she packed all her things, with a sad smile on her face. She knew it'd happen one day but she wasn't expecting it to come so soon. Kagome constantly reminded her she would visit every weekend. Seeing her seat empty at the dining table was going to be depressing to see every day.

InuYasha, InuTaisho, and Sesshomaru came to help move her things into the moving truck. Sesshomaru picked up her bed like it was a balloon and casually strolled out of the room. Gramps squatted on the ground and tried his hardest in hoisting up the ten-pound box filled with Kagome's picture frames.

"I don't remember… us taking so many…family photos." Gramps had grunted at the time.

After InuYasha locked up the back of the truck, he joined Kagome in the front seats who was holding the stuffed white Akita she got from him a long time ago. He asked her why she didn't just stuff it in the back. She just smiled and claimed she didn't want it to get dirty.

When they had arrived at their new home Kagome noticed people were already arranging InuYasha's furniture inside. She glared at InuYasha who just shrugged sheepishly. There were some dogs that were just lazy. He was one of them.

It took hours before InuYasha and Kagome decided how they wanted their living room set up. The movers quickly lost their patience with the two when they had tried a new set-up and Kagome just shook her head. The bedrooms were a hallway apart. InuYasha hadn't been nice enough to give Kagome the slightly bigger room. The walls were plain but he planned on hiring a painter soon. Like he would spend the labor to paint every room in the house. -As if. Besides the paint, Kagome's room was almost identical to her old one.

Sitting on their sofa, they tapped their wine glasses together and drank for the first time in their home that night. Kagome almost made the embarrassing mistake of walking into InuYasha's room with him but made it seem like she was still walking to her room. She hoped she sleepwalked into his room so that when he questioned her in the morning she would have a logical explanation.

She closed the window in her room after staring out of it for quite some time and slipped into her bed. This is how her story would begin. It would start the moment she opened her eyes to the bright sun.

A month had passed since Kagome and InuYasha moved in together. Kagome would get ready early in the morning, wake up to InuYasha screaming at his TV for his favorite anime character not to die, and then take a shower. She usually made herself two pieces of toast for breakfast, spread with butter, with a glass of chocolate milk, before waving to her roommate and walking to work.

InuYasha whined and grumbled at the door every time she would leave. He felt like he was the woman of the house. Staying home to clean while she worked all day! It was uncalled for!

He angrily tied a bandana over his ears and would fetch his feather duster and mop. He could have been in study with his half-brother but that seemed more torturous than cleaning.

~~~~~(~~~~~

"See you tomorrow Rosetta." Kagome called out from the office hidden within Victoria's Secret.

"Later Kagome!"

Kagome ran her fingers through her hair as she crossed the street from her work. She was still praying for the day the gods would stick an idea in her head for what she wanted to do in life. She looked at the passing cars and sighed.

Gripping the heavy door handle, Kagome slipped in the hair salon. She took off her jacket and folded it over her arms.

"Welcome." A man bowed at the counter with his purple braided hair falling in front of him. He was truly a beautiful figure.

"I have an appointment with Jakotsu."

The man nodded and picked up the phone from the wall. Dialing the numbers, he gave her a quick smile. "Jakotsu, your client's here."

Kagome was suddenly thrown to the ground by a heavy body that came to hug her. Didn't Jakotsu know that glomping a girl was dangerous?

"Kagome!"

"Hi Jakotsu."

Jakotsu dusted himself off and helped Kagome up. "Hi there. Ready for your hair cut?"

"Definitely."

"Let's go."

"Hey, you got another new employee?" Kagome couldn't help but ask as he led her to his station in the back.

"Mhm. Goodness he is so sexy. That braid…" Jakotsu shuddered at the image, making Kagome giggle. She climbed up into the chair and had Jakotsu adjust the height of it by stomping his foot lightly on the pedal.

"What ever happened to Koumori-Sama?"

"Nothing," He stated, leaning against her chair as he parted her hair with a comb. "He's over there with Yura."

"Oh."

"So…what's up?"

"InuYasha and I got a house and moved in with each other." She blushed.

"Wow, congratulations. How's it been?"

"Fine, really. I got my room painted pink. He laughed at me saying I was going to hate that color when I got older but I think differently. It's not like he is going to stop loving red any time soon."

Jakotsu placed his left hand over Kagome's eyes as a shield and sprayed her hair with water.

"Who's paying the bills?"

"InuYasha's parents said they would take care of our first month, which is almost up. InuYasha's been looking for a job. He's in the same boat I'm in. Nothing really sounds interesting."

"Jobs are hardly fun for people, Kagome. It's just something everyone has to do. The lucky ones have jobs that actually make them smile."

"You must be one of them, then. Don't you like your job?"

"I love it. Especially with all these new cute faces walking around, you know?" He winked, giving a side glance to Koumori-Sama.

He trapped Kagome's long bangs between his two fingers and swiftly snipped at them with the scissors. Once he was satisfied, he slipped them back into his smock.

"When on earth are you planning to drag InuYasha's long ass hair in here to get hacked off?"

"Never! I love his hair!"

"It would still be long, but you're making him appear like a cosplayer trying to pull off an anime character with super long hair."

"What if I cut it?"

Jakotsu frowned. The whole point of this was to be able to see his sexy hanyou.

"Okay, I'll ask him."

"Yay!"

()()()()

"I'm home!" Kagome called out in the house and slammed the front door. She skipped into her room and threw her jacket on her bed topped with jumbled blankets she was too lazy to make. She didn't see the point of making the bed. She was always going to return to it another time. It just seemed like a task not needed. Her mom made her when she was living at the shrine but now was a whole new story. This reminded her of something she's always wanted to do….

"InuYasha? Where are you?" She yelled loud enough for her roommate to hear her.

"My room." He yawned out.

Kagome walked down the hallway to InuYasha's room and knocked. "Can I come in?"

"Umm…" He said thinking about it. "..Nah."

"Meanie." She frowned.

"What do you want?"

"I have a question for you."

"Fine, come in."

InuYasha was sprawled out across his bed with a bag of chips opened next to him. He looked like he hadn't done anything proactive today besides sleeping and eating.

He snatched his bag of chips and crawled to the edge of the king sized bed excitedly.

"Oh my gosh Kagome, look!" He squealed out like a small child, holding up the bag of chips in her face. "Limited edition, chicken flavored ramen chips!"

"…"

He hurriedly stuffed his hand in the bag and pulled out a chip, sliding it in between her lips forcefully.

"Now chew." He smiled big excitedly.

Instead of obeying him, Kagome took the chip out of her mouth and wiped off the flavor from her mouth.

"Only a ramen lover would think that shit tastes good." She sighed, taking a seat on the bed. "They stink too. I'm glad they're only a limited edition."

"Hater. Okay, now ask your question."

"Alright, when you were little, were you ever told you couldn't do something, so you said once you move out you would, because your parents couldn't tell you otherwise anymore?"

"I've always wanted to eat a whole tub of ice cream without having to eat dinner." He shrugged.

"Well!" Kagome smiled big. "Let's go to the store and get some ice cream and Ding-dongs!"

"Why Ding-dongs?"

"Because I've always wanted to kill a whole box. They're so yummy."

"So…Ding-dongs, ice cream, wine and a movie?"

"Sounds like a plan!"

()()()()

InuYasha's motorcycle raced through the quiet streets that night with grocery bags hanging on the sides of the handles. He didn't care how many people he was probably waking up in the houses he zipped by. The chilly wind gave him goose bumps on his arms and the moon seemed to help make his silver hair glow in the night.

His trip to the store didn't go as smooth as he had planned. He had to suffer through a ten minute argument with Kagome about how she should go get the stuff since she recommended it. The only good part of those ten minutes was eating his chips while she talked. Finally killing the bag, he crumbled it up in a ball and chucked it at her head.

He had a reason to go to the store now. To go stock up on his limited edition chips and perhaps go get her stupid treats to make herself sick. Their mothers told them not to stuff their faces for a reason! He planned on teaching her a lesson.

After grabbing his keys, he headed out the door while in the process on getting his helmet strapped on his head. There was a lot of traffic to deal with, the store only took about five minutes to get to and it was taking him fifteen. He couldn't tear his eyes away from the horrible accident making the traffic so slow.

Going anywhere was the same for InuYasha; he would get stared at like he was a super star from all the younger teenagers. He ignored them like he was already taken. It had been over a month since his breakup with Kikyo. He had really missed her and wished he could go back in time and fix whatever thing he did to screw up their relationship.

InuYasha had made his way to the bread aisle and scanned the shelves for Kagome's Ding-dongs. He grumbled at the familiar stench of Hojo nearby. The small little thing that Hojo could do to ruin InuYasha's night was walk up to him! –and he did! What an ass!

The guys took turns sending glares at one another like small children. InuYasha finally gave up and dashed out of the aisle after giving Hojo the finger.

Then, when he went to get his three or five bags of chips, this old lady was lecturing him about letting his hair even get to such a length and how he should really cut his "feminine" nails. Then she had the nerve to call him a fake when she noticed his amber "colored contacts" and said to stop wearing those stupid clip-in ears from Claire's. After explaining to her as calmly as he could that he was a half demon she freaked out and went all religious on him.

The fun doesn't even stop there! He finally dodged the old lady and went to fetch his ice cream. In fact, the store didn't even have what he wanted in stock. What kind of store let's themselves run out of vanilla ice cream? No one wanted to eat that fat-free shit.

He finally called it quits after snatching a random box of red wine with one of the attached dispensers from one of the aisles it was foreign to-someone must have not wanted it anymore. Since it was late, the lines weren't actually all that packed. He wished he had chosen a different line though. There couldn't have been a more seductive woman than his cashier was trying to be.

He gave her an odd look when she unbuttoned a few buttons of her blouse and claimed it was hot. InuYasha had rolled his eyes. Did she not notice everyone wearing jackets around the store? It was freezing!

Walking back to his motorcycle, after he grabbed his bag of groceries, InuYasha checked over his receipt to make sure no mistakes were made. He punctured a hole through it when he saw a phone number written at the bottom with a winking emoticon. When did she find the time to secretly write that? He would have to become really desperate for him to call her.

So now here we are, back in the present time. InuYasha shook off his helmet and clipped it to the back of his motorcycle. It was going to take a lot of getting used to, taking a different route to a new neighborhood. InuYasha always felt the need to exit off the freeway early on his way to the Taisho mansion.

He couldn't help but notice the few cars parked in front of their house and inwardly groaned. Kagome didn't mention inviting any friends over.

He walked through the front door with his hands full and closed the door with his foot. He dropped the bags on the table and followed the sound of laughter coming from the living room.

There Kagome was in her pajamas with Sango, Miroku, Ayumi, Yuka, and Eri watching a horror film with popcorn.

"Oh, hey InuYasha. I invited some friends to come over if you don't mind. We're watching Silent Hill; you know, Halloween's coming up soon. We were going to wait for you but you took too long. Did you get my Ding-dongs?"

InuYasha let out a sigh and grabbed the box of the chocolate shelled cake snacks with cream inside and tossed them towards her.

He put the wine in the fridge and grabbed one of his bags of chips. He swore, if Miroku asked for one chip he was going to growl at him.

"Man…I feel so bad for Alessa." Sango frowned as she watched the screen.

"It's just a movie. She isn't real." Eri shrugged.

"You never told me you planned on inviting friends over." InuYasha whispered to Kagome, taking a seat beside her on the couch and stealing half of her blanket.

"I didn't because at the time I didn't even know. You know how Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi are….and Sango said she wanted to stop by so…I kinda just said we could all watch a movie. I'm sorry."

InuYasha shook his head and shifted his gaze to the screen. "You're forgiven; now eat your box of Ding-dongs." Kagome squealed and opened the box, grabbing a foiled wrapped treat and removed it to eat it.

"Oh my gosh, his sword!" InuYasha said with want, watching the antagonist's sword he dragged around on the Tv.

()()()()

At the end of the movie, everyone just stayed quiet as they watched the credits roll. They still had so many unanswered questions.

InuYasha had passed out half way through the movie on Kagome's lap. Like she had promised she'd do as a little kid, Kagome successful killed the chocolate snacks. She regretted it one-hundred percent too. Her stomach felt as if it was a grocery bag about to burst if anything else was added to it. She really felt like she was going to vomit but InuYasha looked so cute sleeping in her lap she didn't dare move.

Her friends said farewell to her and locked the door on their way out to their cars. She grabbed her phone on the coffee table and set her alarm for work tomorrow. She lulled her head into a comfortable position and called it a night.

()()()()

With her purse already on her shoulder and shoes strapped tightly to her feet, Kagome bent down the sleeping, now human, hanyou.

"I'm leaving." She whispered. InuYasha made no indication that he had heard her and continued with his light snoring.

Kagome took the time to stick a post-it note on his nose saying, 'I'm stupid,' and walked out the door with a grin on her face.

()()()()

Kagome got a visit from Miroku at work after a few hours she clocked in. Something told her he was there for a reason other than to see her.

She leaned against the counter in amusement, chewing lazily on her stale bubblegum as she watched Miroku pick up yet another lacy thong.

"Ooh! This one's…." He flipped the tag over and raised his eyebrows. "Periwinkle!"

Kagome slammed her hand against her forehead and started laughing. "Miroku, if Rosetta just sees you naming all the colors of our thongs she's going to have security escort you out."

"It's called browsing, love." Miroku said, rolling his eyes and batting his eyelashes. "Get wif' the program."

Kagome watched as a new costumer walked into the store and greeted them cheerfully halfway through before she realized just who exactly it was.

The girl's normally brown orbs appeared a smoky gray. Her tall figure stood with a perfect posture as she clutched her beige handbag close to her. Her hair had grown a lot longer than Kagome had last seen it. It was tied back in a low ponytail, revealing more of her face. Her normally smirking pink lips were now as pale as her skin and flopped into a frown.

"Kikyo…" Kagome whispered.

"What's that?" Miroku asked. "No, I don't know if Kikyo wears fuchsia thongs." Kagome gave her friend a look and decided to just ignore him.

Why was Kikyo here?

"M-Miroku, look; It's Kikyo. I haven't seen her since graduation."

Miroku turned his whole body around, still stretching the thong wide. "You sure? She seems too…"

"It's like she's changed her personality completely." Kagome finished for him. She put her head in her hands and sighed. "Oh my kami. I feel like this is my entire fault."

"How so?"

"You know she only turned this way because of her and InuYasha's breakup!"

Miroku wasn't understanding and just shrugged. "Why can't she just forgive and forget?"

"It's not that simple, you idiot." Kagome and Miroku had a staring contest before she grabbed the thong out of his hand and placed in back on display. "Miroku, get out."

"Fine butt-face. Be that way. It's your loss! That's one less costumer for this store."

"We all knew you weren't going to buy anything anyways!" Kagome argued, shaking her head.

Kagome caught Kikyo's startled gaze upon hearing her voice and made a quick exit out of the store. She must have forgotten that Kagome worked here or just thought it must have been her day off.

Kikyo just wasn't herself anymore. It was kinda a good thing, but on another end it was a bit depressing to see. Kagome couldn't help but feel guilty and sympathetic. Did she create this soulless Kikyo in a way?

()()()()

The baking sun was beating directly on Kagome when she walked back home from her final day of work for the week. Her hair clung to her sweaty face as her body tried it's hardest to keep her cool.

When she got home, the first thing she did was hop in the shower. She lathered the vanilla body wash over herself and let the cool droplets of water rinse them away.

The sudden feeling of vibrations under her feet caused her eyes to widen. She heard InuYasha call for her loudly and barge into her room.

Have you ever been in situations where they come too fast for you to react to them? Kagome almost had reached to turn the shower off when InuYasha came bursting through her bathroom with a bathrobe in his clutch. She screamed and tried to cover herself. He grabbed her from the shower and wrapped her up in a burrito, dragging her out of the room in the process.

"InuYasha what the hell are you doing!" She yelled, struggling to secure the robe after he rushed her outside. She felt more powerful jolts of the earth beneath her feet and gasped. Was it an Earthquake?

"You're not gonna believe this shit." InuYasha breathed out in what sounded to be like a panicked laugh.

What Kagome saw, stole the breath right out of her. She could hear the sound of sirens from a distance and couldn't help her racing heart calm back to a steady pace. What was going on?

Cliffhanger! GAH! Any guesses? I'm not 100% sure, myself! Hoped you liked the chapter. Honestly it's one of those where I do not really like it at first… Don't forget to leave a review!