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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ {dream} "talking" 'thinking' Chapter 4

At school on Monday, Kagome sat by Sango, across from Koga, and diagonal from Miroku. Inuyasha was nowhere in sight.

"Hey Kagome! You there?" Sango was waving her hands in front of Kagome's face.

"What?"

"Didn't you hear me? Would you like to come listen to our band. We have practice today and we all agreed, except Inuyasha, but we overruled him."

"Uh, I don't care. Sure."

"Okay, great! I'm doing a solo dedicated to my woman!" Koga grabbed Kagome's hands and was looking starry-eyed at her.

"I ain't no one's woman!" Kagome pulled her hands back. Then she felt a tap on her shoulder.

"Come here," came the angered voice of a girl.

It was Kikyo. Kagome looked at everyone else and got up. She followed her to a secluded table. "What?"

"You know perfectly well why you're here. Inuyasha belongs to me and only me. No one else can have him."

"Is that what this is about? You can have him! He's not my boyfriend anyway!"

"Say away from him. If I see you anywhere near him, you'll be sorry you met me." Kikyo got up and went to sit with some other people. 'Obviously she's got friends here that know her..otherwise she would never have sat with that crowd.' She sat down and they all laughed and joked around with her.

Kagome sat by herself for a while. But was soon joined by someone.

"Hey." Kagome looked up and saw Inuyasha.

"Hi." She said gloomily. He sat down across from her. Kagome quick looked to see if Kikyo was looking. Sure enough, she looked REALLY angry. "Why don't you sit with Kikyo?"

"What? Me? I would, had it not been for what she did a few years ago."

"What did she do?"

"You wouldn't understand. It made me really hurt from what she could do to me, and so I've tried to stay away from her and ignore her for as long as I could. And now she's found me again."

"So, you aren't going out?"

"No. We never have. She liked to think it..." His voice trailed off. "Why?"

"Oh, no reason."

"Hey, and about last week..."

"It's okay."

"Really? I mean. Okay." *silence* "Uh. Look. Do you.........................................................maybe want to do something this weekend?"

'What?! Is this Inuyasha?! The same Inuyasha that was a total jerk last week..................did he just basically ask me on a date?!' "Are you Inuyasha? Have you been possessed?" Kagome put a hand to his forehead.

"Uh yea. I think I'm okay, moron." He cracked a grin, or a smirk...or both.

'Yep. He's the same.' "Jerk."

"Idiot."

"Dog boy."

"Feh, whatever. So. I'll see you Saturday at, 6 maybe?"

"Sure." 'I don't think I have anything going on..............I hope..'

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\(after school @ Sango's)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

"Alright. So tell us what you think. If we're good, compliment. If we stink, don't say anything. We're going to play some more of Tell Me." Sango explained.

The group started to play.

"Help me,

Tell me if this....

If this is the way to go ----

Alone---

Will we be friends, friends forever,

Will we split apart?

I'm saying this with all my heart....

I never want to leave your side, again.."

In the middle/end of the song, Kagome realized something.

!*!*!*!*! Kagome's POV!*!*!*!*!

This whole time, Inuyasha's only been looking at me...What's he thinking?

"Well, how'd ya like it?" Sango asked. "I know it's short, but we're working on the chorus, and some more verses. We'll have more soon."

"That was great. You guys are definitely ready for the contest." I hopped down. "I'm gunna go, though, my mom doesn't really know I'm here." I walked out the door and started walking down the street towards home.

!*!*!*!*!Normal POV!*!*!*!*!

(dream) {Running........faster.......my feet carry me like an eagle's wings......my hand is, holding something........round..........smooth............glowing......wait, there! A-a person!}

Kagome woke with a start again. 'Oh, that dream! It really gets me.' She sat up in bed. 'Why do I feel like I HAVE been running?' She had sweat running down her face, cold sweat.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/(skipping over days of the week..)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

'Tuesday-bore, Wednesday-fell down in front of half of half the school, Thursday-snooze, Friday-do I have to say it? BOREDOM! PURE BOREDOM! Wonder where I heard that from?' Kagome thought after school on the way to Inuyasha's. (A/N: just to let you know, she had been going there after school every now and then to work on the project).

She knocked, and Sesshomaru answered it again. "Downstairs."

"Uh, thank you." Kagome let her self downstairs and heard boxes moving. "Hello?"

"Hi," came a quick reply.

"Watcha doin?" Kagome looked over the edge of the stairs and saw a whole nother stack upon stack of boxes, aside from the ones from before. "Geeze! Enough?"

"Yea. Okay. I found one that might really help." H walked over the lamp stand and tossed a book at me. "The Shikon no Tama?"

"Found it. Looks interesting. Read about, oh, 2 pages."

Kagome giggled. "Two, huh? Betcha learned a lot?"

"Yea. I know that it's this small round sacred Jewel protected by a priestess, but that's all the farther I got." He grinned.

Kagome arched an eyebrow. "Oh, really? And this would have, what, exactly to do with feudal Japan?"

"Well, it said on the first page that that's where it was held."

"Oh. I see." Kagome flipped through the pages and stopped on a picture of- "Kikyo?" She had long, black hair, just like the Kikyo here.

Inuyasha and Kagome both stood shocked. The same Kikyo that they knew? It was impossible, there was no way it could be. Could it?

Kagome flipped through a few more pages and came to, "ME?!" Under the picture was a name. Kagome Higurashi. No denying it. It was impossible to tell the two apart.

"This is really weird, too weird." Inuyasha took the book and flipped forward a few more pages, and froze. "Look, Sango and Miroku, too." Sure enough. There they were, a monk, and demon exterminator. "Okay. Enough shock for today. New book." He set the book down.

"Yes. I agree. Too freaky for me."

"How about that one there? The Guide to Japan."

"Sounds promising." So they spent a few hours looking around. She went home sometime around eight.

"Thank you for supper, Mrs. Morimoto! It was excellent!"

"Oh, thank you!"

"Good-bye! See you tomorrow!"

"Bye."

'Well. I got to know Inuyasha's family. His half brother, Sesshomaru, and his mom. And that Sesshomaru was adopted when his dad died.' Kagome walked up the stairs to the shrine. 'And his little cousin, Rin. She's sooooo adorable! It's too bad she's only staying a few weeks..'

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: okay, this is short, I know, but the date starts next chapter. Heh heh..... alright. So watcha think? And I do apologize for any spelling or grammatical errors that may be in here. But review and tell me watcha think!!!!!!!

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