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After school, Kagome waited outside the front doors of the school for Inuyasha. But Sango caught sight of her first. "Look Kagome! I'm sorry!"

Kagome acted as if she didn't hear her.

"Okay. You can forgive that stuck up, over-inflated ego, self-reliant jerk? But not me? Some friend you are Kagome. I thought wrong about you." Sango stamped off and actually put an arm around Miroku, when she had found him. He just stood there confused, and no hand slippings.........luckily for her.

'Where's Inuyasha?' Kagome looked around, and saw Inuyasha walking with someone. 'Who's she?' The girl turned around, and looked Kagome straight in the eyes, almost as if she knew Kagome was there. She had long black hair, with eyes that looked all too familiar to her. 'She looks like me. . . sort of. . .' Inuyasha turned a little to the side to bend down and give her a little peck on the cheek. 'How could he? He doesn't even know I'm here. . . What do I care? He's not my boyfriend. . . We just had to work on a school project together, that's all.' She slowly walked the few blocks to her house, head hung in ashamement.

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"Hey, Kagome, you okay?"

"Yes, Sota, I'm fine. . ." She trudged up the stairs and fell onto her bed. 'Sure glad everything's unpacked...'

(not much later...)

"Kagome! Phone!"

"I'm not here!" 'Who ever it is, can wait....even if they want to offer me a FREE, ALL EXPENSE PAID VACATION, worth millions of dollars.

"It's a young man! He says it's important!" 'If it's Inuyasha...'

"I'll be back later!"

"He won't hang up until you come talk! Kagome! Please come down! He sounds pretty hurt!"

'Good. It is Inuyasha. He deserves every right to feel guilty.'

"Fine! If you won't come down to talk to him, I'll ask him to come over to talk to you personally!"

"Alright! Alright! I'm coming!" She trudged down the stairs, again and practically ripped the receiver out of her mom's hands. "Yea? What do you want now?"

"Look, I'm - "

"No! No, how can you be? That's two!" Kagome slammed the receiver down.

"Kagome? Is everything alright at school?"

"Moving here was a HUGE mistake Mom! I want to go back!" A tear ran down either cheek.

"If there's something you want to talk about, I'm always here."

"No, I'm fine." Slowly, Kagome made her way back to her room.

Once inside her room, Kagome walked to the window and slid it open. A slight breeze blew ruffling her hair a little. She sat down on the ledge and looked at the sunset. A beautiful array of colors, light pinks, oranges, blues, purples, all mixed into one beautiful sunset. 'The only thing that would make it perfect is Dad.'

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"Daddy! Come look at the sunset!"

"Yes, Kagome. Isn't it perfect?"

"Uh, huh."

Kagome sat in her dad's lap as they sat and watched the sunset on the porch.

"Daddy, where does the sun go when it goes down?"

"Well, actually, it just disappears for a little bit. You see, the earth is spinning in circles really really fast!"

"REALLY?!"

"Uh, huh. And right now, the sun is just on the other side of the Earth, giving light to the other boys and girls of the world."

"Wow.........."

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*knock, knock*

"Come in." Sango walked in, "Oh. Hi." 'My sunny, rainbow day, suddenly covered by grey storm clouds...'

"I, really am terribly sorry. What kind of friend am I to say that kind of stuff to you? If anyone was a bad friend, it was me. Not you. I'm some friend, huh?"

"Obviously, a very dedicated one if you dare to show your face after something like today." Kagome put a sincere smile on.

"Can you forgive me?"

"Yes. Most definitely."

"I hear there's a sad, lost, confused little puppy a few blocks away who needs a master's care."

'She must know their inside joke to then.' Kagome couldn't resist a small laugh. "Alright, let's see what we can do to coax him out of his dog house."

"Yea." So Sango and Kagome headed over to Inuyasha's house with a little sliver of sunlight left.

"Holy cow! This place is huge!" Kagome thought out loud.

"Yea. His family's pretty rich. Always has been." Sango's cell phone rang. She reached into her pocket and answered it. "Hello?------------What? Are you serious?-------I'll be right there.*click* I gotta go Kagome, sorry. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye! Maybe at the mall?"

"Sure!"

"Bye!" Sango took off running towards her house.

"Well, that leaves me. Alright, let's go." Kagome walked up to the front door and knocked on it. After a bit, a tall silver-haired man answered the door. "What"

"Uh, is Inu-"

"Yea. What do you want with him?"

"I'm supposed to come over for a school project."

"Oh, Sesshomaru, let the girl in!"

A young woman, possibly early 40's came into sight.

"Mom........."

"Oh, let her in! She's a guest! Please do come in, Miss!"

The woman, presumably Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's mother, let Kagome in. "Did you say you wanted Inuyasha?"

"Um, yes."

"He's upstairs, second door on the right."

"Thank you." Kagome nodded and walked up the stairs very close to the front door. Loud banging music was coming from his room. Kagome knocked. Suddenly the music went way down. The door opened a little later. Inuyasha saw Kagome and got a look of surprise on his face. "What?"

"Don't we have a history assignment to do?"

"You aren't mad at me?"

"No. It was silly. I just got mad when I saw you had forgotten about our project and were hanging out with that girl."

"You mean Kikyo? You saw?"

"Yes."

His head suddenly hung. "Kikyo was just in town for a few weeks and she decided to come see me after school. I didn't even know she was here."

"It's okay. What do you say we get started?"

"Uh, right, come in." He moved aside so she could get in. 'Exactly how you picture a teenage boys room........a dump......wait, that doesn't even describe it...' Kagome managed to find a path leading to his bed and sat down. Inuyasha attempted to find a spot at his huge desk to sit down. 'Might as well, get started, doesn't look like he's getting anywhere.' "So. What are we suppose to do?"

"I don't know. You got any ideas?"

'Great. The world depended on my judgment. What's this world coming to?

"How about something local? Save us hassle?"

"You know. I actually agree on that. But, how recent do we want to go? Now? Few years ago? Few HUNDRED years ago?"

"Heh heh, feudal Japan, sounds interesting........"

"Works for me! So, we got our topic, time to research!" Kagome stood up, but stepped on his skateboard on the way to the door, only to fly into the arms of, none other than, Inuyasha!

"You okay?" He asked putting her back on her feet.

"Yea. I'm just extremely clumsy."

"Obviously." He walked out the door, and Kagome followed.

"Where are we going?"

"Uh, to research, duh."

"Oh. Heh heh, yea."

"Stupid girl.."

"Dog boy!"

That got his goat! He turned around and pretended to be ashamed. "Not you too!"

"Down boy! Sit! Stay!" Kagome patted him on the head. She turned to leave, but was quickly swept up bridal style and being carried to the basement.

In the basement, there was a pool table, foosball table, big screen TV, a min bar, anything you could name, it would probably be there.

Kagome stood admiring the huge basement while Inuyasha walked to a closet under the stairs. 1 box, 2 boxed, 3 boxes, and they kept coming! And the boxes were small either!

"Holy crap! Enough boxes?"

"Nope. There's more. This isn't even half of them!" Inuyasha pointed to under the stairs. It was packed all the way to the back.

"Let's start with this, see what we can find." Kagome popped open one of the boxes and pulled out a book. Inuyasha had also found one. "You first."

"No, you."

"Alright. Caught Between Two Worlds-" Inuyasha set his book down and took Kagome's.

"The life story of a half-demon."

"Alright, spill."

"Inu-Inuyasha?" He looked at Kagome with his confused look and handed her the book, pointing to a corner of it. Yep.

"That's just pure coincidence."

Inuyasha looked confused, hurt, angry, and disappointed.

"What's wrong."

"You better go."

"Inuyasha?"

"Just go home! I'll see you later!"

"But we-"

"GO! I need to be alone."

Kagome got up and left, not wanting to upset him.

"Leaving so soon?" Inuyasha's mother asked.

"Yes. I'm sorry."

"Alright. Come back again!"

"Bye."

Kagome walked home in the dark, very confused at what happened. 'Why did he get so upset at a book? I mean, wow, sure it was weird it had Inuyasha's name on it, but it's probably just coincidence! I mean, it ... naw.. couldn't be.' She walked upstairs to her room quietly, incase her mom, brother or grandpa was asleep.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: alright! Chappie 3! Whoo hoo! I hope ya'll are enjoyin it! How come Inuyasha got so upset????????? I guess you'll see in a bit, when chappie.....um, 4 or 5 comes.

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