Hey People, I'm back once again, I didn't give up on this story, I got caught up with a lot stuff, and I sort of got a little writers block out what to do with some parts. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this next chapter, as the others will be out soon. Enjoy!

Chapter 5-The Short Midnight Interlude

            It was midnight, and everyone was having the time of their lives; Eri, Yuka and Ayumi were busy gossiping about boys, more specifically, the two boys that seem to be to focus of almost all their conversations, while Kagome and Mayfa were busy combing Inuyasha's hair, much to his dismay. "Boy, I think your hair nice, but your sure don't take care of it, we are going to have a hard time getting all these split ends out." Mayfa said cheerful as she rolled up her sleeves. "You said it." Kagome looked around the room and noticed that someone in particular was missing. "That's odd, where did Cody go?" "Ohh, I think he went to take a shower." Mayfa said "Darn tangle. "Hey, watch it!" Inuyasha snorted "Well, the way things are going between Ayumi and him, he might as well take a cold shower." Eri said smugly. Ayumi began blushing once again, which she has been doing most of the night; if she kept this up, here face might turn a permanent   shade of pink. "A cold shower? Why would he do something silly like that?" Mayfa said with a puzzled look on her face. "Well, because.. well so he would.." while Kagome and the rest had embarrassed looks on their faces from Mayfa's Naïve question, Inuyasha interrupted.

            "Who knows, probably to wash the blood off his arm." Blood?" Kagome said questioning "Yeah, he was favoring his left arm earlier, and he looked like he was in pain." "Oh dear. Mayfa? Is Cody hurt?" "Well,umm" Kagome as well everyone else noticed that Mayfa became very nervous and had trouble answering the very simple question. "Well, he hurt his arm..training, that's it, training." "Really? Is that all? Because not only did I smell blood, but other things too, like metal and some weird kind of liquid" "Umm" Mayfa was becoming even more nervous now and even a little frighten from the mini-interrogation. "Umm, I'll be right back, I'm going to get a drink of water." Mayfa quickly got up and scurried out of the room. "Inuyasha!" Kagome said now upset as well. "What, was it something I said?" "She's just a little girl, you have to be more sensitive towards her." "I was!" Kagome got frustrated and chased after Mayfa into the kitchen.

            When Kagome got to the kitchen, she could Mayfa pulling a chair up to the counter, as she struggled to reach the sink for a glass of water. "Here, let me" Kagome reached up and poured Mayfa the water out of sink. "Thank you." "Hey, I'm sorry about Inuyasha" "Its ok, he's right, Cody is in a lot of pain." "What happened?" "Ohh, I'm sorry, I promised Cody I wouldn't talk about it in front of other people." Kagome could see that Mayfa was very downcast, as the little girl just stared into the floor. Oh, I don't know, Cody's arm is in really bad shape and he needs help. I'm know I'm  not suppose to tell anyone about it, but.. "You know, you don't have to tell me what's bothering you, but if ever you want to, I promise, I won't tell anyone." Kagome said. "Thank you" Mayfa said this time with some cheeriness returning. "Kagome smiled. Cody was right, she is a lot like sister. Mayfa suddenly gave off a huge yawn, which  Kagome giggled lightly at. "Looks like somebody is tired." "I'm nottt, tirrredd." Mayfa managed to say as she yawned again.

"Come on, you can sleep in Souta's room."

Sometime Later.

Kagome helped prepared Mayfa for by loaning her one of her SHAM sweaters, which looked was very oversized, but warm non the less. Kagome scooped up the sleepy little girl and tucked her into Souta's bed. Slumber immediately took over Mayfa as soon as she took to the sheets and fell asleep. "Good night!" As Kagome began to leave the room and turn out the light, she heard Mayfa already mumbling in her sleep. "Good night..Sister!" "Sister? Wait a minute, I'm not your sister?" "No, but you are a lot like her sister."

            Kagome was slightly startled to see Cody leaning outside against the hallway wall. "You remind her of her sister, the two of you are so much alike, it's almost alarming!" "Really?" "Sure." "What was she like?" "Well, she was nice, sweet, caring beautiful, kinda like you." Kagome's face turned mildly pink from his last few comments. "So what happened to her?" Cody remained silent for a brief moment before responding "You don't want to know," "I see, I must have been hard on Mayfa." "It was and it still is. She puts on the bright smile and a lot of spirit, but from time and time, you can still tell she misses her sister." "You must miss her too." "Yeah." Kagome could tell that this was a depressing and hard thing for Cody to talk about, so she decided to try to cheer him up. "Come on, we can talk about this stuff later, I planning a big day tomorrow for everyone, filled with lots of fun and shopping." "Shopping?" "Well, yeah, we still have to buy Christmas presents, and we are definitely going to have get Inuyasha some new clothes. "I heard that!" Inuyasha shouted from downstairs. As both Cody and Kagome began to walk downstairs, Kagome noticed his taped up left arm, which was now more exposed because Cody was wearing a black top with his jeans after getting out of the shower. "Hmm, Hey Cody?" "Yeah," "Nothing" Kagome said, deciding it was probably best for now to drop the subject."

Later that Evening

            It was now two in the morning and everyone was fast asleep. Deciding the sleeping arrangements was quite challenging, if not a little embarrassing. With Eri taking Jii-chan's room, Yuka taking Kagome's Mother's room, Inuyasha camping out with Kagome in her room like he typical does, Kagome, Eri and Yuka conspired to have Cody and Ayumi share the living room to have "move their relationship along". Cody and Ayumi merely asleep next to each other on the couch while watching everyone TV earlier on, much to the delight of Kagome and her other two friends.

            Inuyasha and Kagome were both asleep in Kagome's room; Kagome warm and comfortable in her bed, while Inuyasha is sleeping against the wall, sleeping, shivering from the slight winter cold. As Inuyasha began to shiver more loudly, Kagome began to stir and awaken. She hazily noticed that was Inuyasha cold and shivering against the wall and gave a usual look of concern for her Hanyou friend. Hmm, I wonder if he is sick, I know it's freezing outside, but it isn't that cold in here. Kagome got out of bed and quietly walked over and kneeled in front in the sleeping Inuyasha. Inuyasha's eyes slowly opened to see Kagome kneeling before him; staring with concern. "What are you doing up? You should be asleep." "You were shivering; I thought you might be coming down with cold?" "Feh! Please! I'm not sick." Kagome merely brushed off Inuyasha's comment and gently pressed her hand against Inuyasha's forehead. "Hmm, you don't seem to have a fever, but you must be cold." "No, I'm not!" "Yes you are, your shivering woke me up, your even shivering right now." Inuyasha didn't say anything, much to Kagome's surprise; she was expecting an argument. Inuyasha cocked an eyebrow at Kagome "What?" "Nothing". "Umm, you know, my bed is pretty big." "Your point." "Well, you know if your feeling cold, you can.you know, share my bed..with me. Kagome quickly turned around to hide her embarrassment. Inuyasha was equally embarrassed from Kagome's sudden invitation.

            "Sha.Sha..Share your bed? Are you serious?" "Well, it was just a thought, forget about it." Kagome thought it was just best to save face and just return to bed and forget the whole conversation took place, but much to her surprise, she would get an answer. "Ok" Inuyasha said. Kagome crawled into her bed and didn't know what to think of the situation that was transpiring. Oh my, what is going on, Inuyasha and I are going to share a bed? What was I thinking? What if we.." Kagome's thoughts were interrupted as Inuyasha took off his outer fire rat kimono and crawled in next to her.  "Better?" "Hmm, much, and I wasn't cold for your information." Inuyasha said trying to save face. Kagome relaxed her head against the pillow and started to drift off to sleep. "Inuyasha, thank you" "For what?" "For spending Christmas with me, it means a lot to me" "Your..your welcome." Kagome merely smiled as slumber took hold of her. Inuyasha rested his head on pillow next to Kagome and stared at the now sleeping girl. This isn't so bad, I kinda like this. She's so beautiful; I think I might be in love with her. I just know how to express my..feelings.Ahh, but what should I do, what should I say to her about this.

            Although Inuyasha was very comfortable lying in the soft bed next to Kagome, his mind was just very conflicted. Ever since he was released from the God's tree from Kagome, he could have never conceived on falling in love again, with another human girl, but he did; he did fall in love with Kagome. As he just laid there and looked at Kagome, he noticed how peaceful and content Kagome was lying there next to him, for she trusted him completely, like he did for her. Inuyasha's thoughts though, began to become disconnected as the soft bed began to pull him into slumber. Before Inuyasha fell asleep he felt an arm draped over him and heard some mumbling. "Inu..yasha." Inuyasha smiled and slowly pulled Kagome closer to him before falling asleep.

(At Dawn)

            It is now Dawn, and the sun began its long journey into the new day. Inside, everyone is still fast asleep. Cody and Ayumi were still asleep next to each other on the couch, until some sort of presence began to disturb Cody and cause him to suddenly awaken. "Someone's outside." Cody got up slowly as to not awake Ayumi and went up the stairs to Souta's room to stare outside. "It couldn't be.what could she be doing her?" Cody said in somewhat of a surprise. Cody quickly rushed downstairs to the hallway closet to grab his red trench coat.

            Upstairs, Mayfa began to stir and awaken from a chilling breeze coming from the window. She awoke to find her window open and a slight cold breeze coming in. "Heyy, who opened the window?" Mayfa said half-asleep. As she walked over and closed the window, she looked outside at the sun coming up over the shrine grounds. "Cool, how pretty." As she stared out at the lovely sight, something caught her eye on top of the huge shrine gate. She wasn't too sure as she as half-asleep, but she could see someone or something standing on top of the shrine gate.

            Mayfa was correct though, as that someone or something was none other than Cody. Cody merely stood and starred out as he was confused about what he sensed just moments ago. "I could have swore she was here, but why show up here of all places, and why now? This doesn't make sense; does she have anything to with this?"

To be continued.

            Yeah, it was kind of a short chapter, but it has been awhile since I put anything out. I did put a nice Inuyasha and Kagome scene in there and don't worry, that's just the tip of the iceberg with what I have planned for those two. As for the mystery person that Cody was referring to at the end, she will be introduced in the next chapter, along with the secret of his arm that he keeps hidden from everyone else, along with some other romantic stuff thrown in there too(a two for one deal, or something like that).

Until next time.

Later.