Hey,

Hope you like this chappie. Lya

Disclaimer-I don't own Inu-yasha

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Kagome carefully placed another grey stone in the pile, near the well. I must've collected 50 by now!! I think I got 'um all. She glanced at Inu-yasha, who was also looking around for the rest of the annoying stones. We can't miss any, grandpa said. I'm pretty sure we got them all. She gave her surroundings one last check and stood up, "I think we got 'um all Inu-yasha."

He grunted and stood up, "Yea, we did." He walked over to the stone pile, "What do we do now?"

She didn't know, "Let's tell grandpa we're done." She headed inside and came out with grandpa leading her to the pile.

"Very good children, next we'll need cement to hold the pieces together. Kagome, why don't you run down to the store and get some. Inu-yasha, fetch me a glass of lemonade" He instructed.

"WHAT! I'm not your servent you stupid, old geezer! Get it yourself!"Inu-yasha shouted

"Ok." She grabbed her bookbag and started off to the store. Inu-yasha tried to follow her, but grandpa motioned him not to move.

"Don't Inu-yasha, you'd attract too much attention." Grandpa unfolded his lawn chair and sat down, "We don't need attention right now."

"No I won't! I'm wearing 'future' clothes right now, and a hat, old man." He wore a black shirt with a bulldog on it that said 'Don't mess..I bite.' and black baggy pants with a black bandana to cover his ears.He turned his back to him "I'm fine old geezer! No one will be able..." He heard a low growl from behind, he spun around to see grandpa snoring in his lawn chair. "Why you!!!" He almost hit him, when he remember that this was Kagome's grandpa, and she'd prolly get mad if Inu-yasha beat him up. He made fists and stormed off in Kagome's direction.

Let's see...the store's right behind this corner. Kagome almost turned the corner when she bumped into Ayumi, Eri, and Yuki.

"Kagome!" They all smiled.

"Hey girls!" She smiled back.

"Why weren't you in school today?" Eri questioned, studying her face for any sign of sickness.

"Family thing." Kagome quickly answered, leading the group towards the store.

"Are you coming too school tomorrow?" Ayumi asked.

"Mabey, prolly not." Tomorrow was thursday, it's almost been a week!

"Oh, is everything ok?" Eri gave her friend a nervous look.

"Yea, I'm good." She assured Eri with a smile.

They stepped inside the tiny store. It was a cross between a hardware store, and a grocery store.

Inu-yasha could sense Kagome was close. He trotted up to the little store that her scent was strongest at.

"So Kagome, I heard that you had a date at the mall yesterday! Who??" Ayumi begged.

"Yea didn't Hojo see you with this 'mystery guy'?" Yuki followed Kagome to the counter.

"Who is it Kagome?!?!" Eri giggled.

A cashier appeared behind the small, tan counter. "May I help you?"

"2 buckets of cement please."Kagome answered. She sighed and turned to her friends, "Look, me and this guy arent going out or anything. I'm not sure if he even likes me, so to answer your question..."Before she could finish, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to see Inu-yasha standing there. The black clothes made him look really hott.

"Hey" He grunted.

Ayumi, Eri, and Yuki's jaws dropped. "Wh-who's this?" Yuki studdered.

Kagome couldn't believe he was here. "What are you doing here?"

"I figured I'd help you." He scanned the store.

"Thanks Inu-yasha, that's nice of you." She smiled.

"Is this him??" Ayumi mouthed at Kagome.

She nodded.

"He's hott Kagome, but isn't he the insanely jealous nutbar?" She mouthed again.

Kagome blushed, "He isn't a nutbar! He's sweet when he's not a jerk." She mouthed back.

"What are you doing?" Inu-yasha asked, after watching Kagome and this girl, who was wearing the same ofit as Kagome normally wears, mouth back and forth.

"Nothing"Kagome said quickly.

"Here's your cement ma'am." The cashier handed Kagome the two heavy buckets of cement. She nearly collasped under the weight, but Inu-yasha took them.

"Uh *pant* Thanks." She handed him the money. "Look girls, I gotta go..."

"Wait, are you coming too my party tomorrow?" Yuki asked quickly.

"Uh...(glanced at Inu-yasha) no, sorry Yuki."Kagome turned, but was stopped again.

"You can bring your friend." Yuki added, hopeful of her saying 'ok'.

"I donno...we'll see." Kagome looked at Inu-yasha, who whipped his eyes from her...had he been staring at her? They walked out and began walking home.

"Who were those people?" Inu-yasha asked.

"My friends from this time, Ayumi, Eri, and Yuki." She noticed how the wieght of the cement bearly affected Inu-yasha.

"Oh, was Yuku talking about that party that sleaze bag asked you too?" Inu-yasha growled.

"Yea, I'm not going though." She looked up at the sky, today was beautiful.

"Why?" He tried to sound like he didn't care, but inside he was doing backflips that she said she wasn't going.

"'Cuz I have too much to do here, besides, I like spending time with you..."She froze. Did I just say that?!?! OUTLOUD!!!

He glanced her astonishedly, "Y-you do??"

No backing out now, "Yea, I do."

He felt so at peace in his heart, and so happy, that he could've spent the rest of his life walking with her down that empty sidewalk. "I like spending time with you too." Wait! What am I saying?? What about Kikyou? I can't forget her...I owe her my life, my love. But I can't deny Kagome anymore! I have real feelings for Kagome, feelings I want too tell her about...but I can't. If I have a relationship with Kagome, then I would be hurting Kikyou again! A voice inside his head rung out, Does she even have real feelings? Or just a hate against me, and a lust to drag me into hell? I feel like deep, deep down she still loves me, but she made her choice to take me too hell if she could. Do I really love her? No, I don't love that corpse that stalks the trails of the Fedral Era. I loved the old Kikyou, the real Kikyou...not that shell, that's not the woman I fell inlove with. The real Kikyou would've wanted me to be happy, too be able to love again, she never would've wanted me to be so alone...

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Sango scrubbed her boomerang with a wet cloth slowly. What's taking them so long? Are they hurt? Did they makeup? Are they alive? Why arent they here?

"Sango, Kagome's been gone way too long!" Shippo cried.

"I know Shippo, I'm nervous too." She glanced up at Miroku, who was frozen, studying the woods around them.

"What's wrong Miroku?" Sango sat up.

He put his fingure to his lips and stared out into the woods, "We're being watched." He whispered.

She slowly stood up and walked over to him, "By who?"

"I dunno.." He watched the woods closer, "Who's out there?!" He shouted.

A evil, familar laugh echoed out of the woods, "Miss me?"

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Inu-yasha wasn't aloud to use the cement, He was given some earlier to smear on a rock and place on the well, but he had tripped and got it stuck on Grandpa. He was still snickering about it. The old man had it coming.

"Stop laughing hanyou! That wasn't funny!" Grandpa had a new shirt on.

Inu-yasha stopped laughing, "Don't call me that."

"What? A hanyou? What's wrong with that?" Grandpa asked, scratching his head.

"Do you want a rock stuck to your head this time old man?" Inu-yasha growled.

"I just don't see why you hate being a hanyou so much, it's a part of who you are, there's nothing wrong with it." Grandpa pressed.

"Shut up! I don't wanna talk about this!"Inu-yasha snapped.

"But I just don't understand wh..."He was cut off.

"So grandpa, how much more do we need to do intill it's fixed?" She smeared cement on a stone and carefully placed it on the well wall, trying to restore it's original form.

"Uh..let's see, when we finished cementing it we should be done." Grandpa grinned. Inu-yasha's leaving!!

"That's it? Then we're done!" Inu-yasha repeated excitedly.

"Yup, that should be it."

6 hours later

Inu-yasha had gotten to do cement again by the first hour, he couldn't stand to sit there and watch Kagome do all the work. The well was finally complete! It looked just like the way it had looked before it broke. Inu-yasha grinned at thier work, "Finally."

Inu-yasha smiled and took Kagome's soft hand, "Ready to go Kagome?"

She blushed, "Yea, let's go."

They leaped in together and....crashed at the bottom!

Kagome was laying on Inu-yasha, who was stunned.

"What happened??"Kagome studdered.

"What the heck!"He flew to the surface of the well, "We're still in your time! The well didn't take us back!!"

New chapter coming soon!