Hey people! I'm back again! Ready for more? Yay!! I haven't go that many reviews, and am very depressed right now . . . *sniffle* I told myself . . . that . . . I . . . wouldn't cry! *sniffle sniffle* Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

K: Oh, now she's crying!

Inu: Who made her cry?! I'm gonna kill 'em!!!! *flexes claws*

M: InuYasha? I didn't think you cared about Denra . . .

Inu: *nervous look* uuhhh . . . I don't! I just don't want her to flood the room!

K: *smiles* I think InuYasha's made a new friend.

D: *stops crying* do you really think of me a friend?

Inu: If I say yes . . . will you stop crying?

D: *smiles teary eyed* *nods*

Inu: *sigh* Yes, I think of you as a friend.

D: Yay! On with the story!!!

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Chapter 4

Shopping

InuYasha leapt down into an alleyway, because of Kagome's constant yelling.

He let her slide off his back and turned to look at her.

"InuYasha! You do not, and I repeat, do NOT EVER pick me up from school without me knowing like that again. Got it?!"

"Uh . . . okay?"

He looked at her slightly startled; he had expected to be sat twenty times. But Kagome didn't seem to mind getting out of school, so long as she had taken her "test".

Kagome nodded and looked at where he had brought them. They were right across the street from the mall! Smile on her face, Kagome took InuYasha's hand and pulled him gently toward the street.

"K-Kagome? Where are we going?" He demanded, blush on his cheeks.

Without turning around, she answered him.

"I've been wanting to show you around my time for a while now, this is a perfect time, since all of my friends are at school. There will be less people for you to scare and or threaten."

By this time they were all the way across the street and at the entrance. A cool rush of air hit them, causing InuYasha's ears to automatically press against his head, withdrawing. (A/n EARS!!! Yay!!)

Once he recovered from the sudden climate change, he looked up. There were two layers of the "mall" with many different windows, each one with something different in them. Kagome pulled him along through the main HUGE hall. InuYasha didn't know what to look, smell, touch, first! There were so many things, many different colors. So many, in fact, that it almost made him dizzy.

"Kagome, where are we going?" he asked again, feeling a little lightheaded.

The young teen smiled as she turned to look at him.

"First the food court, cause I'm starving!"

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After they had gotten their food, and the close call incident where InuYasha tried to kill the clown making balloon animals (thought he was a demon), they decided to eat out on the balcony.

Kagome, not wanting to give InuYasha any more culture shock then he was already going through, bought him a few bowls of ramen noodles, while she got a Wooper meal and fries from the WacDonalds. (A/N I know I know, weird, but that's what it is in the comic and the anime!)

InuYasha, half done with his ramen, looked at Kagome's food curiously. It smelled odd, with too much . . . he couldn't quite put his finger on it, but it didn't smell normal.

"What's that?" he asked, leaning closer to her, sniffing at the burger.

Kagome smiled, "It's called a hamburger and fries," she said, biting thoughtfully into her food.

The hanyou made a face that made Kagome sigh.

"Here." She said, stuffing a couple fries into his mouth.

He sat back and blinked, then began to chew. The taste was incredible!!! It was unlike anything he had ever eaten before in his life!

"Kahgohme!" he said through a mouth full of fries, "This is good!"

Kagome stifled a laugh as she passed him the rest of the fries, which he devoured quickly.

Shaking her head she got up and threw her trash in the receptacle (Hey I spelt that right the first time! Yay me! Ok, continue) and InuYasha, following her lead, did the same.

"So what do you want to do?" She asked as they walked back into the mall area.

The hanyou shook his head; "I don't know . . . what is there to do?"

Kagome thought as they walked,

"Hmmm . . . well . . . hey!"

She looked around to find that InuYasha was gone.

She sighed, "Great, now where did he go?!"

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Miroku sat in meditation under a tree when he heard soft footsteps coming from his left. He opened his eyes and glanced in that direction and saw a lovely looking Sango. She was wearing her kimono, which Miroku thought looked very pretty on her.

He smiled, "I have not seen InuYasha nor Kagome, Sango." He said, answering her unspoken question. Or at least what he thought her question was.

"Actually," she began, stepping closer, "I was wondering if I could meditate with you . . . I would like to clear my mind of things as well."

Miroku, surprised to say the least, smiled and nodded consent.

Sango sat beside him and copied his position.

"Take a deep breath," he instructed, "and think of something peaceful and happy, perhaps one of your happiest thoughts."

Sango nodded, closed her eyes and let her mind wander on things.

Little did they know, that their own thoughts dwelled on each other . . .

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Kagome ran around the mall desperately in searched for the loose hanyou.

'This is bad!' She thought as she ran past the toy store, 'He'd better not get himself into anymore trouble!'

She flew past the arcade and skid to a stop, turned around and ran to the door.

After blinking at the sight before her, she tried not to laugh. A group of people had gathered around one game, Mortal Combat II.

The one kid at the controls, was a teen Kagome had seen before. He was always on the arcade games, or buying more PS games from the store next door. He was, in one word, a computer geek (Ok two words! Whatever!). His opponent however, who everyone seemed to be cheering on, had white hair, dog-ears, and a red haori.

The game screen flashed red several times before it announced,

"FINAL ROUND . . . FIGHT!!!"

Kagome came in closer to watch InuYasha jab at the buttons and joystick frantically. The man in the game did a backhand spring and five multi-death kicks, ending in a roundhouse and a sledgehammer.

The other boy slammed his fist down on the console as the computer announced.

"YOU LOSE! WINNER, PLAYER TWO!!!"

InuYasha crossed his arms and looked very mockingly at the boy.

"So?"

HanarĂº, or that's what everyone was calling him, looked up and pushed his glasses back onto his nose.

"Alright, you win, I didn't think you could beat me, no one has! Good job." He extended a hand, which Inuyasha glared at.

Kagome tensed, sensing that InuYasha would do something incredibly stupid.

She couldn't have been more wrong.

InuYasha smirked and shook HanarĂº's hand. The crowd dispersed, congratulating InuYasha in turn.

The hanyou felt pretty good with himself, he had mastered the "Mortal Combat" in less then five minutes.

"InuYasha?" called a sweet voice.

The half demon in question, turned to find a very amused Kagome standing there. He winced slightly and edged away. He was going to get sat a million times for this one.

"Having fun?" She asked innocently.

InuYasha blinked, managing only a nod. Kagome giggled and then gasped in glee as her eye caught something behind InuYasha.

She squealed with joy and, grabbing the startled hanyou's hand, dragged him across the room and stuffed him in a small booth. Kagome joined him immediately and dug in her pocket for some change.

"Kagome?" InuYasha asked, while she put the money in the machine.

Picking out the background she smiled and replied.

"This is a picture making machine, it'll create an almost instant portrait of us."

InuYasha, not fully understanding, was about to ask something else, when Kagome slipped her arms around his neck. Blush sped across his face, accompanied by a very embarrassed look.

"Now look at that circle," Kagome instructed, pointing to it, "And smile!"

The hanyou managed a small, nervous smile as a sudden light flashed, leaving InuYasha's vision decorated with different colored spots.

He stumbled back a little and hit the back wall of the booth.

"Damn! What was that?!" he demanded, vigorously rubbing his eyes.

Kagome laughed as she slipped out of the booth to wait for the picture.

"Sorry, I forgot about the flash!" She said, just as the small sheet of paper popped out of the slide. She picked it up and smiled,

"Good, your freaked expression didn't come out in the picture, look!"

InuYasha came out to stand beside her as she showed him the paper. There were four copies on the sheet, each had Kagome, with her warm brilliant smile, and him, with him shy one.

"I've been wanting to get your picture, but never had to time or the memory to bring a camera to the feudal era!"

InuYasha kept staring at the picture, his heart beat heavily in his chest and his stomach did a little flip.

He wanted one of those pictures.

"Kagome?" he said softly, almost afraid to ask, "Can I have one of those?"

After getting over her initial shock, she smiled and nodded.

"Of course you can! Why wouldn't you?"

She said it so nonchalantly, that it seemed that that was her intention all along. Like it should have been obvious that he would get one.

Once again taking his hand, Kagome walked with InuYasha, showing him around her time.

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I know, really pathetic . . . and lame! But I need to get this story going or I'm gonna lose all of my readers! It'll get better, I promise! But I'm going though a really bad writers block, so be happy that I'm getting this up!

K: Make sure to review on your way out, Denra tends to be emotional when she doesn't get any . . .

Inu: She ends up crying!

M: And we all know you detest crying.

S: Very true. *nods*

Sh: Yup yup!
Inu: SHUT UP!

D: *giggle* see you next time! *waves*

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