This takes place about a week after the last chapter. [And no, I don't own any characters in this chapter either.] Read & review, please!

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Kagome stared out of her bedroom window and watched the trees move gracefully in the wind. She felt relieved after asking Inu-Yasha directly about how she looked like Kikyo. She watched a leaf unwillingly fall off a tree branch and tore her gaze from it, now looking at a blank sheet of paper. It took a few minutes, but all the reasons why she was sitting at her desk came swirling back to her.

"Oh my gosh! I'm supposed to be studying!!" She snatched the nearest pencil and began to write frantically. Five minutes went by before she slowed down and then stopped. Sighing, she put her pencil down. "I can't study right now...I'm just...not in the mood."

She gazed out the window again, wondering why she wasn't in the mood to do any studying. Perhaps it was the way she left Inu-Yasha's time...

**FLASH BACK**

"Kagome, are you leaving?" asked a disappointed Shippo. He didn't need to ask since he already knew the answer, but he had anyway. When Kagome had her bag on (which was five times bigger than her) and marched on forward, it was clear where she was going.

"Yeah, Shippo. I'm sorry, but I have a really important test coming up soon. I need to study," she replied, knowing Shippo wasn't thrilled.

Shippo sighed. "It's ok. Did you tell Inu-Yasha?"

"That's the thing. He doesn't know. Don't tell him, ok? He'll just make a big deal about it."

"I won't tell!"

However, just as Shippo finished saying 'tell', Inu-Yasha jumped out of nowhere and landed on a tree branch.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?" he hollered at Kagome.

Kagome gave Inu-Yasha her coldest stare. "I'll be back later!"

"No you--"

"SIT!!"

And when Kagome looked over before jumping down the well, Inu-Yasha landed head first into a thorn bush.

** END FLASH BACK**

Kagome sighed. She knew Inu-Yasha would be angry with her when she came back to his time. 'Maybe I should just go quickly and apologize...' she thought. She stood up and banged her fists on the desk. "Then my conscience will be clear!" she said loudly.

She heard a noise coming from her door, and saw Sota's eyes peeking from a crack.

"Sota...?"

Sota opened the door a little and looked surprised. "You're conscience will be clear?" he asked her.

"Just....go away!" she said to him and stormed out of the room.

***

"She'll--OW! Be--OW! Care--OW! OW!"

"Inu-Yasha, be still," said and old woman named Kaede. "How did ye get all these thorns in ye?"

Shippo answered for him. "Kagome said the magic word. Inu-Yasha just landed in the wrong place."

"That wench! How DARE---OWW! BE CAREFUL YOU OLD HAG!"

"Mind ye Inu-Yasha, these thorn will be painful to get out. Hold still."

Inu-Yasha had gone to Lady Kaede to help him get the thorns out of hard-to-reach places, since he did not trust Shippo doing that. Once all the thorns were out, Inu-Yasha moped around when Kagome walked in the door. Everyone looked at her for a second before Shippo jumped at her and hugged her.

"You're back!" Shippo said excitedly.

"Oh, what a joyous moment," Inu-Yasha said sarcastically. He glared at her and received a cold glare from her in return.

"Well if you hadn't of tried to stop me from leaving that wouldn't of happened!" Kagome snapped back at him.

"If you didn't know, I've just spent almost the entire day taking thorns out of my skin!" he retorted.

"THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TRIED TO STOP ME!" Kagome hollered back.

There was a deafening silence that followed, but Kaede was busy mixing stew over the fire. She was used to this by now, and so was Shippo. He was busying himself by looking through Kagome's back pack that she always carried. Kaede was the first to break the silence.

"I heard from Shippo that ye left for a few days, Kagome. You are early," she said.

Kagome sighed. "Yeah...I just came to...uhh..." Suddenly the idea of apologizing to Inu-Yasha didn't seem as good as it did before. "..nothing." With that, she circled around and walked out. Shippo would have followed if he had not found a chocolate bar inside Kagome's bag, which he began to study.

'Why does Inu-Yasha have to be so...argh!' she thought angrily. As she walked along, she knew someone was following her. She whirled around and faced Inu-Yasha.

"I know you didn't come back for nothing," he said in a matter-of-fact tone.

She balled her hands into fists. "Want to know why I came back, then?" she asked.

"Yes, I DO."

"I came to...I...came to apologize is all, OK?!" she yelled.

"Then finish what you started!"

"No way! That was a really stupid thing of me to think...you're just a jerk, Inu-Yasha!"

"You're the one who landed me an a thorn bush!"

"Grrr..." she turned around and sat down, crossing her arms across her chest. She took a deep breath and looked up toward the sky. It was night by now, and she watched the twinkling of the stars. She could see way more stars in Inu-Yasha's time than her own...her time was full of lights that came from houses and streetlamps, blocking the view of some stars. Here, there was no electricity to worry about and the night sky was as clear as the day. Her thoughts were interrupted by Inu-Yasha's footsteps. Sighing, she spoke.

"Listen Inu-Yasha, I'm sorry for landing you in a thorn bush, ok?" She sighed again and was prepared for Inu-Yasha to say, 'you had better be, wench', or something along that line. To her surprise, he said nothing.

"Ok," was all he said.

She turned to look at him, and saw that he too was dozing off into the sky. "Hey!" she said to him. "Are you even listening to me?!"

He said nothing and once more there was silence. She liked it though, anything was better than having to listen to Inu-Yasha saying something stupid.

"Nice night," Inu-Yasha commented.

"Yeah," Kagome said slowly. "You can see the stars better here."

"I know. I've seen them in your time. Like I said before, you live in the strangest era I've ever seen."

Kagome would have laughed at this absurd remark, but she was too busying dozing. In Inu-Yasha's era there were treacherous demons and all kinds of magic going on...and her time was bad?

"You can see everything here," she said quietly. "Every star."

"It's nice," he said, sitting down beside her. "And it's clear."

Kagome smiled and leaned over on Inu-Yasha. "Yeah," she told him quietly. "It's perfect."

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There you go, another chapter. And since I've gotten requests on another chapter, I wrote one. Have fun reading it!