Author's Note: Short chapter, I know.  Well, I actually started another Inuyasha fic, so that's why.  It's called Hidden in the Shadows if you would care to check it out :D

IN MY EYES

CHAPTER THREE

Jumping on top of the transformed back of Kirara, Sango, Myoga, Miroku and Shippo all sped towards the area where they had heard the scream coming from.  To their amazement, when they arrived at their camp, they saw Kagome curled up underneath a tree watching as Inuyasha tried to make his way towards her.  But Kagome was making things difficult for him; ever ytime he tried to take a step close to her, Kagome would yell "sit" and watch him fall to the ground.  Then Inuyasha would yell "Kagome" and stand up, trying to take another step close.  Once Kagome saw that he was up again, and walking, she would again yell "sit", starting the whole process over again.

"Kagome!" cried Sango as Kirara landed on the ground, separating both Inuyasha and Kagome.  Once Kirara's paws were safely   on the earth, Sango jumped off and ran to Kagome's side.  "Kagome, are you alright?  What happened?  What did that dog try to do to you?"

Kagome looked up gratefully at Sango before scowling at the spot where Miroku was hitting Inuyasha with his staff.  "I don't know, Sango.  We were just sitting here talking when Inuyasha just jumped on me and began to growl.  I crawled out from  under him and just kept yelling 'sit'."

Myoga leapt off of Kirara, shouting "I knew it" as Shippo ran over to Miroku and began to help him in hitting Inuyasha.  "Hey, what are you all doing?  Just give me a minute to explain, sheesh," Inuyasha protested, covering his head as Shippo jumped on his back.

Though Shippo kept flailing Inuyasha with his tiny fists, Miroku put down his staff and looked at Kagome.  "Kagome?  Do you want to hear his explanation?"

Kagome shot Inuyasha a fierce glare as Sango helped her to her feet.  "Not really.  I want to hear his apology."

"Apology!" cried Inuyasha with such vigor that Shippo flew off his back and landed on his butt a few feet away.  "Why would I apologize to a wench like you?" he continued as he stood straight up and took a step forward towards Kagome.

"Sit, boy!"

Crash. 

Clunk.

"Miroku, if you hit me over the head with that stupid staff of yours again, I'm gonna shove it up your nose," Inuyasha mumbled, lying facedown into the earth, temporarily paralyzed from the impact of Kagome's last command.

"Serves you right, you dog," shouted Kagome, crouching down behind Sango as if to escape from the hanyou.

"Serves me right?  What about you?  It's all your fault anyway," snorted Inuyasha as he pulled himself up off the ground and remained in a sitting position.  He knew better, know, than to take another step closer to Kagome when she was this angry with him. 

"How is it my fault?  I didn't do anything at all, except make you breakfast.  Since when has that become a crime?" Kagome forgot for a moment who she was talking to as she stood up and yelled at him.

"It's not that, stupid.  It's your scent," retorted Inuyasha, rolling his eyes as if it were obvious.  "You reek!"

"Sit, boy!"

Inuyasha groaned as he felt himself crash face first back into the dirt.  "Grr, Kagome, can you please stop with the 'sits'?"

Before Kagome could reply, Shippo rushed forward and pounced on top of Inuyasha's head.  "How dare you tell Kagome that she smells bad," he squeaked, hitting Inuyasha repeatedly while he was still face down in the dirt and unable to retaliate.

Kagome smirked at the sight of Shippo taking his anger out on Inuyasha's head before replying to his remark.  "Not this again, dog boy. First you hated my scent, then you said I smelt good.  Now I reek again.  Hmph.  Can't you make up your mind, already?" she said, folding her arms across her chest.

"Maybe I'll make up my mind when you stop smelling like my stupid half-brother."  Inuyasha shoved Shippo away from him and pulled himself up into a sitting position, his face contorted in fury as the words he had been trying to say flew out.

"I -- huh?  Sesshoumaru?  What?"  Kagome's upset expression changed instantly into one of confusion.  "I smell like Sesshoumaru?  How?"

"That's what I'd like to know," he answered, turning his head so he no longer made eye contact with her.

Shippo recovered from being shoved away by the hanyou before pouncing over to Kagome.  Sniff.  Sniff.  He bounced all around her, enveloping her in circles, sniffing as he ran around.  Everyone, excluding Inuyasha, watched in silence as he continued to circle Kagome, without pausing to stop.  Shippo continued to move, leaping with every other step to catch a whiff of Kagome's upper body.  Then, all of a sudden, he fell to the side, his eyes spinning like pinwheels.  "Kagome?" he whimpered.

Kagome knelt down.  "Yes, Shippo," she murmured soothingly, trying to figure out what had just happened, "are you okay?"

"Kagome?  Why do you smell like Sesshoumaru?" he asked, once the dizziness began to fade.  "It's faint, yes, but his scent is all over you."

Kagome scooped up the little kitsune in her arms and hugged him to her chest.  He may be little, but he was still a youkai which meant his sense of smell was much more sophisticated than her plain human nose.  "But, I swear, I don't know how that could have happened.  I haven't seen Sesshoumaru since the last time that he and Inuyasha had fought, and I hadn't gone near him.  How could his scent be on me?"

Inuyasha growled lowly as he flattened his ears to his head, trying to drown out Kagome's words.  Obviously, Inuyasha didn't believe her.

"Wait," interrupted Miroku, looking at Inuyasha.  Though his back remained to the group, they all noticed that his right ear perked up to hear what Miroku was going to say.  "I have a question that maybe you can answer, Shippo.  Both you and Inuyasha agree that Kagome has the hint of the youkai lord on her person.  But, do you sense it anywhere else?  Surely if Sesshoumaru was nearby, his scent would be in other places as well."

Shippo, still being held in Kagome's arms, smiled as he gave her a quick hug.  "Miroku is right, Kagome.  I can smell Sesshoumaru on you, but nowhere else."

Kagome returned the hug, keeping her eyes away from Inuyasha's back.  Is that why he jumped me?  He smelt his brother's scent and freaked?  But why does he care anyway... Kagome pouted slightly when she remembered how many times Inuyasha had made it all too clear that he didn't care about her as more than "a jewel shard detector".  "You know what, Shippo, I think I know why.  I was wearing this uniform the last time that we ran across Sesshoumaru, before I went back to my own time.  Maybe the last time I went home to get more clothes, I grabbed this pair with me."  Well, that could be what happened.

Sango, who had jumped a little way in back of Kagome when Shippo had begun to run around her, catching her scent, stepped forward, approaching Inuyasha.  "I think that makes sense, Inuyasha.  Don't you?"

Inuyasha stood up slowly and finally faced them all again.  Slowly, he approached Kagome, holding his hands out to show her that he meant no harm.  Once he was right in front of her, he began to sniff.  First he would sniff her, then take a step back and sniff, then sniff Kagome once more.  The kit was right - Kagome was, though very faintly, the only one carrying Sesshoumaru 's scent. "Feh," he snorted, taking a step back.  "I think we should leave the forest for now and try to found more of the jewels."  He turned his head away from the crowd and began to walk away, leaving the rest of them to hang back and marvel over another of the hanyou's mood swings.