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Inu Yasha climbed quietly down from his tree branch, looking around to make sure no one was watching. Assured that he was alone, he crept across the glade to the well. He peered down its long shaft- no sign of her. He collapsed against the wall of it, burying his face in his red haori.

'Why did I leave her? Why didn't I ask her to come back with me? Now she'll hate me! She thinks I hate her, anyway. . . the look in her eyes. . . and then her expression when I jumped back down. . . oh why did I leave? Why?' he shuddered into his haori, immersing himself in self-pity. His little ears twitched back and forth, but he was beyond hearing now, thinking only of Kagome. (A/N: aww poor Inu Yasha)

Perhaps because his nose was covered, he did not notice the smell of someone approaching.

'Inu Yasha. . . Well, well. Dreaming about the human again?' A voice dripping in sarcasm and contempt startled Inu Yasha. He knew that voice. . .

Inu Yasha jumped and spun around as fast as he could, tripping and falling on his rump. He looked up into the face of his half brother, the full-dog- demon. Seshomaru leered evilly down at Inu Yasha.

'Too bad the little archer can't save you now. You're coming with me.' With that he grabbed Inu Yasha, pinning his arms before he could grab Tetsusaiga, and lifted the hanyou easily onto his shoulder. As he did this, a piece of Inu Yasha's haori ripped off on the rough stones of the well, lodged between the cracks. Seshomaru carried him away through the forest, chuckling to himself. At last he had caught the runt, and nothing could stop him from destroying him once and for all- but first he had another use for his half brother.

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Kagome couldn't sleep. She tried to keep her eyes open; every time she closed them, she would see Inu Yasha! She just couldn't stop thinking about him- his eyes, his long, silky hair, his muscular build, the way he moved when he fought; everything about him she loved. Especially his ears. . .

She rolled out of bed and quietly got dressed. She couldn't stand it anymore. She HAD to go see him, even if he hated her. She just had to.

Kagome wrote a note for her parents, leaving it on her desk. She picked up her backpack, which she hadn't even emptied from earlier that afternoon, and went down to the kitchen to grab something to eat. She hadn't been hungry at dinnertime, but now she felt starved. After wolfing down a bowl of leftover rice, she looked around, thinking,

'It wouldn't be a bad idea to bring some food with me- just to show Kaede what we eat here in the future. . .'

She grabbed some sealed snacks, and a bag of chocolate M&Ms. Putting these in her backpack, she quietly went out to the well. She peered down it, thinking about when she was last here.

'The look in his eyes. . . it made me feel so good. . . like he wanted me, right then- no. He just lost his breath from the fall. That's all.' Kagome checked that she had the jewel shards, then jumped over the rim of the well.

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When Kagome arrived on the other side, it was only just beginning to grow dark- there were minor differences of time from the Feudal Era and her time. She climbed up from the bottom, and sat on the edge for a moment. Something tickled her bare calf. She looked down- it was a piece of Inu Yasha's red haori! She knew that it rarely tore without reason. She examined the ground, trying to understand the paw-prints in the soft earth. She was no master tracker, but the ground was fairly soft, and had saved clear imprints of two different dog-demons' feet. One she knew instinctively was Inu Yasha's, but the other. . . it was so similar, but she was _sure_ that it was not Inu Yasha. That meant that someone else had come upon Inu Yasha sitting here at the well. . . but then what? Only one set of sunken tracks led away, but clearly Inu Yasha was not here.

'Maybe. . . maybe he didn't leave here? Maybe he came into my time, and I missed him? Maybe he was coming to get me, to apologize, and to carry me away back to his time?' her spirits soared as she thought this, and she had to resist the urge to jump back down the well, and run after him. . .

'Ha. Maybe. And maybe koi will learn to walk on two legs over land. Inu Yasha would _never_ do that.' So she walked away from the well, careful not to step on the tracks, and went quickly as she could to Kaede's home. Her friends there would help her find Inu Yasha.

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Hey I know this is supposed to be romance and humor, but I couldn't resist putting in a little action; this is going to build up, of course, to a daring fight scene- will Inu Yasha defend Kagome? Why does Seshomaru want to capture Inu Yasha?

So to find out what Inu Yasha is going to do, you'll have to keep reading! I've been trying to post these daily, so keep on reading and reviewing!