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Chapter 3

Kagome cursed Inuyasha. He sure knew how to ruin her life. She was worried something big was happening, and Inuyasha had let her go back, so she wouldn't be in the way. She didn't want to think of the other options. She mentally cursed. He had managed to single handedly prevent her from getting any work done. She couldn't even think straight enough to solve simple addition. She thumped her head down in her book. Souta came by to check up on his sister. He was worried for her. She was vexed by something when she came back yesterday, and it wasn't going away. He opened the door, and saw her with her with her head in her books. 'Awe, she is just worried about school.' Souta came up next to his sister. "How are ya doing sis?" Kagome tilted her head to look at Souta. "Not too good." Souta thought that this might not be just schoolwork. "What's wrong?" Kagome sighed. "Inuyasha let me come over here for a week." Souta took a minute to process this, and then looked at her strangely. "You're worried because Inuyasha let you come over here? Is that all?" Kagome nodded an affirmative. Souta laughed. "You're all worked up because Inuyasha let you come back? That seems silly. You are worried over nothing. You should relax." Kagome glanced back up from her book infused position, and smiled. "I guess you are right, Souta. I should relax." Souta smiled, glad that he had helped his sister. 'Hey, I might even get to see Inuyasha again!' Souta thought as he returned to his room. Kagome got up, and put her books away. She had missed the comforts of her time, and was not going to waste time with school. A hot bath sounded good right about then...

Inuyasha seemed pretty dormant. The sun had already risen and fallen three times, and he had not gone insane waiting on Kagome. Sango and Miroku were slightly worried for the friend. He seemed much more thoughtful, and seemed to stay in his tree. Shippo had already run out of things to do, and tried to pester Inuyasha. Inuyasha had only gently shooed him away, though he still called him a brat. This scared poor Shippo, who wasn't used to that side of Inuyasha, nor hearing him without him using his course voice. He thought Inuyasha was sick, which Inuyasha reminded him that demons don't get sick. Shippo didn't know what to do. So he left Inuyasha alone, and went to play with Kirara. What Shippo didn't know was that Inuyasha was carefully forgetting his past, blocking things that had affected him so much as to force him to develop his rude, arrogant personality. For Miroku and Kagome were right, he was a gentle person inside, but his past, and his present prevented him from ever showing it. He knew that he couldn't change the personalities and habits of everyone in Japan, but this might make things more bearable. If it failed, he was in for more pain, but he already knew that pain, and could deal with it. If worst came to worst, he would become what he was before he found his friends: a wanderer.