Chapter?: The Serious Side of Mrs. Higurashi, Unveiled!

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Note: If you are just now realizing my story has been updated, and haven't viewed it in the last 5 days, than there is a chapter before this that I posted 3 days ago.. or 4, I don't rememeber.

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Kagome and Inuyasha sat at the kitchen table with Kagome's family. Thankfully, Kagome had finally gotten her mom to calm down somewhat, and hopefully, within the next thirty minutes, she was going to be able to (1)Get her mother to act normal for once, (2) Get furniture, supplies, and modern conveniences ready to be taken to her cave, (3) Find out what her mom had in mind exactly for her marriage party (4) Have a serious discussion with her mother, without Inuyasha, (5) Talk her mother into staying in the present while she went to the past to get Souta and her friends, and (6), give her mother and Jii-chan a crash course in feudal Japan since she knew it was pretty unlikely that her mother would back down from wanting to go. Not that she could blame her anyway, If it were her daughter, she'd want to know what kind of environment she was living in. Besides, it was bound to happen sooner or later.

So what was that, six things to do, in thirty minutes.


Kami, she was a hanyou, not a magician.

Her head fell to her hands as she wandered just how she was supposed to manage to do this.

"Kagome? You alright?"

It was Inuyasha, yep, leave it to him to force her to say something.

"Yes, I'm alright.. Mom, I came here to talk to you about my house."

"A house! My little girl has her own house?!"

Kagome began to rub the back of her neck, embarrassed.

"well.. sort of.."

"Does it have any seals on it Kagome? Is it protected from evil?" Jii-chan eagerly pulled some seals out of his pockets, volunteering them to his granddaughter.

It wasn't that she was embarrassed about where she lived, it was just that, she was nervous about how saying 'well, it's a cave really', would sound, without the person first seeing it.

But, apparently she wouldn't have to say it.

"I'm enough protection myself!", Inuyasha started defensively, "And it's a cave, which only makes it safer!"

Jii-chan face faulted. "a… cave? My granddaughter's living in a cave!?"

Mrs. Higurashi, somehow, managed to kick Jii-chan's chair out from under him.

Crash

Kagome half expected her grandfather to call her mother a bitch. Instead, he just mumbled something incoherent and pried himself from the floor. Inuyasha sighed in sympathy.

"Well, I think it's simply wonderful Kagome! A cave! Is it pretty? How big is it?"

A look of pride came over Inuyasha. "It's real big, ten rooms at least! And Kagome says it's pretty. It's even got a hot spring."

"It's very pretty mom, there is an entire room composed of pink quartz."

"Well then I absolutely must see it sweety!"

Just as Kagome had expected. She tried to tell herself she was unhappy about this, but she knew full well that she was near ecstatic about her family finally seeing what it was like for her. She'd missed her family so much over the last months, letting them see what she experienced everyday, maybe It could bring them closer to understanding all the things she had been through, and she'd love to let them meet Kaede, sure, the old women was a bit odd at times, but she was still like a grandmother to her.

"That's exactly what I was thinking mom, how about you come with me when I go get Souta?"

"Wonderful!"

"Um.. Kagome, are you sure that's such a good idea, these times are pretty different you know… what if we get attacked or something, they can't protect themselves."

"It'll be fine Inuyasha, besides, for a while, I couldn't protect myself either, so you protected me for me.", she stopped a minute as a faint blush spread across her cheeks, "..but, now I can protect myself, as well as my family."

Inuyasha nodded, a little self conscious about talking about the early days of their relationship in front of people.

Jii-chan finally managed to get sat back down again in his chair. He seemed to be having an inner argument with himself, one between his pride and his curiosity. He sighed, as his curiosity finally won.

"..can I go too Kagome?"

"Sure Jii-chan! But like I was trying to say, I've been wanting to talk to you about my house, er cave.."

"What about it sweety?"

"Well, I was hoping I could bring some comforts from home, how do you feel about us going shopping for some furniture and stuff? I was hoping Sango and Miroku could go too, but Sango's tail is just too noticeable, and, though we could probably cover Miroku's ears with a hat, I don't think he'd want to go without Sango."

Mrs. Higurashi's grin faded a little, "..But honey, we don't really have the money for that.."

Jii-chan nodded.

Kagome's grin didn't falter a bit. "I've already thought about that, and I've thought up a solution already, Inuyasha, go dig up the stuff we buried."

"Eh? Why?"

"Just do it baka."

"Feh." he responded, but apparently feh meant yes this time, as he was already making his way outside.

~*~

Inuyasha made his way back with all the shit they'd buried less than an hour ago. Well, technically over 500 years ago. He couldn't help but be curious as to what she had in mind, after all, how could all this, now old and dirty, crap be worth anything.

Speaking of it being old and moldy, he had to admit that when he had first dug it up he had been nothing short of amazed, and perhaps a tad bit unsettled. The effects of time on the items we're clearly displayed, and yet they had only traveled the same time distance as he had, just in another mode of transportation.

He never had stopped to think about the magic of the well, the crossing of time. Never even stopped to realize how strange it was.. but looking at these objects, that belonged to his friends currently in the same time they were buried… it was weird..

His friends… if they hadn't turned hanyou, than they would be just as worn as these items..

His thoughts were cut short as he arrived back in the house. He shoved the objects onto the table. And, judging by the way Kagome's jaw had gone unhinged, her thought process was more than likely pretty similar to what his own had been. He simply took his seat with out a word.

Kagome stared at the items on the table, and, with a shaking hand, picked up Shippo's little top. It was dirty and faded. It caused her to think of the Shippo that she didn't know. The Shippo who had buried his top with his adopted mother 500 years ago. The Shippo that was now a grown kitsune living somewhere, in this time… Where was that Shippo right now? Where was she now? Where was Inuyasha? Sango? Miroku?

She let out a sigh, realizing that she would have to wait 500 years to find that out, because, if she knew herself, that her older self would think it just as bad an idea to communicate with it's younger self as she did. She shook her head, as if to get the thoughts to leave.

Her grandfather stared in awe at the items, Mrs. Higurashi just looked puzzled.

"Honey.. what are we supposed to do with all of this junk?"

Kagome opened her mouth to explain, but was abruptly cut off by her grandfather.

"JUNK? Junk? You call this junk?", he grabbed hold of Miroku's bag of coins, emptying the ancient currency out onto the table, "These are ancient artifacts from over five hundred years ago! Do you have any idea how much this is worth?"

The girl in the red Kimono was quite relieved, she had been afraid that maybe they might not be worth much at all, but judging by her grandfather's actions, that was far from the truth.

"..How much?", Inuyasha asked, genuinely curious.

Jii-chan was beginning to go into a mode that was eerily similar to how Mrs. Higurashi had been acting earlier. "Enough to buy you two anything at all you want for your cave, pay for Souta's tuition and college, with enough left over for us in the future to live quite comfortably for the rest of our lives."

A gasp escaped Kagome's mouth. "that much?"

Inuyasha poked her on the shoulder, "Kagome, what's college?"

"Not now Inuyasha, Jii-chan, how could it be worth that much."

It must have been Jii-chans lucky day, not only had he just been given a buttload of money, but here was his granddaughter, wanting him to tell her about all his useless knowledge!

Mrs. Higurashi leaned over and starting explaining about college to Inuyasha, who was beginning to look miserably confused.

Jii-chan straightened up a little with pride, clearly ignoring the two other people in the room talking about college. "Well, you see Kagome, most of the stuff here, especially these coins, are worth a lot, but what brings in the real value is this katana. If I remember correctly, not many of this kind was made back then, there is a legend, that the only one's who made a type like this were 'demon exterminators', of course, it's but a myth that that is true, and now a days it is only used as and adjective to emphasize it's great rarity. I've only heard about one other of it's kind ever being found, and the person who had it, supposedly as an heirloom, sold it to a museum in America for millions…"

"M.. Millions?", now Kagome had thought that she would be able to get a few thousand, maybe, out of it, but.. millions?

"Yes. Millions." Jii-chan tried his best not to laugh in merriment as all the luxuries he could now afford flashed through his head, think of all the sacred seals he could buy!

"And now I can pay that medical bill! The police really haven't been too nice after they found out we snuck your friends out of the hospital without paying!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Mrs. Higurashi.

"Wh.. what!? Why didn't you tell me?", Jii-chan demanded, obviously none to happy about being left out of some very important information.

"Kagome, what happens when you don't pay your medical bill in this time?"

"Not now Inuyasha!"

Mrs. Higurashi ignored the people looking at her as if she had lost her mind, "I didn't want to worry any of you! And besides, I knew all along that everything would turn out all right in the end!"

Kagome thanked the gods that it actually had worked out, if it hadn't.. she would have never been able to forgive herself, and what would have happened to her mother?!

"Jii-chan.. do you know where to go to sell that for money at?"

"Of course I do! There's a place in town that buys antiques from people then sell them to museums."

"Really?", Kagome hadn't known that.

"Kagome, what's a museum?"

"Not now Inuyasha, Jii-chan, why don't you go take them there right now?", she stopped as she took a look at the hanyou beside her, " And why don't you take Inuyasha along too?"

"Kaaa-goo-maaay..", and, for that split second, Kagome could have sworn Shippo was there, as Inuyasha's whine was that childish.

"Inuyasha, I really need to have a talk with my mom…"

"Well then I can stay too."

"Inuyasha, do you want me to give them another demonstration of sitch?"

Inuyasha actually looked like he felt left out, he probably did, she had kind of ignored him all day.

"It's not that I want to get rid of you, I just need to talk to my mom alone, but I promise I'll tell you what it's about later, okay?"

Inuyasha reluctantly nodded his head.

"Alright, now go get your baseball cap, it's in my room on the dresser, and don't stray away from Jii-chan. Jii-chan, don't lose my mate… alright?"

~*~

Kagome waved to Inuyasha as he sped down the road with Jii-chan. She kind of felt sorry for him, and a tad bit guilty, especially after he looked at her with those big pleading.. erm.. puppy dog eyes before Jii-chan took off.

It had taken near forever just to dissuade him from using the Inuyasha express to get to the shop. The poor hanyou was still scared to death of cars, unfortunately, Jii-chan was scared to death of riding on the back of a demon at high speeds, lunging into the air and jumping buildings. And of course, Jii-chan's argument won. Besides, a guy with a hat on and long white hair, wearing out of date clothes with an old man clinging to his back as he jumped through the air, just didn't fit the definition of normal in present day Japan.

She turned to her mother beside her, "Well mom, I kinda need to talk to you.. and.. it's something that well… mom, can you act serious.. please?"

~*~

Kagome and Mrs. Higurashi sat side by side on the lip of the well, it probably wasn't the choice location for important discussions, but it was where Kagome felt the most comfortable, more than likely because of what the place meant to her. If she had never fallen in here, if Buyo hadn't been missing, if Souta was feeling a little more brave that day, where would she be now? Would she be anywhere near the same person?

What would have become of Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango, and Kirara.. had she not fallen in this well..

Such a simple action, just helping her kid brother out with finding the cat, and then.. well, here she was.. just one simple action that had resulted in, to put it simply, her living 500 years in the past.

She'd changed so much since that day, and it hadn't even been over a year.

Yet hear she was, an Inu hanyou with an adopted kitsune son, living in the past with her inu hanyou mate, and here she was about to have a conversation with her mother she had always thought, well, at least she had a year ago, that it would have been a lot longer before she had it.

Mrs. Higurashi beamed with satisfaction as she looked at her daughter. She'd grown up so fast, and had been given so many responsibilities, especially for a little girl, she'd over come so much. Kagome, she was so proud of her, after all, how many mother's could say that their daughters had saved the world?

She'd turned out so well, so perfect, kind hearted yet brave, considerate but able to stand up for what she believed in, and so very, very determined.

"Kagome sweety, what was it you wanted to talk about?", yes, even when most of the time she acted like a complete ditz, when her daughter asked her too, she could be serious.

"Sango, you know the demon exterminator.. the one with the tail, she's pregnant."

Mrs. Higurashi controlled as best she could the urge to scream out wonderful. "That's wonderful!", Well, at least she had said it in a semi-normal voice.

"Yes.. that day I up and left, it was because, well, I just knew something was wrong, I could feel it. And something was. Mom, her baby almost died, some sort of bird youkai attacked her, only for the sake of killing the baby, as best we can gather.. we don't know why.."

"That's terrible.. is it going to be alright?" If the baby hadn't made it.. that poor , poor girl.

"It should be, that's the reason she's got the tail now mom, she went and gave up her humanity just so her baby could live, well, half her humanity anyway… so It should be okay.. but.. I think I'm getting off subject here, I brought up Sango's pregnancy because, well, I wanted to talk about being pregnant, me and Inuyasha are.. um.. considering.."


Once again, Mrs. Higurashi was forced to control herself from squealing, "A child, Oh Kagome! That's so wonderful! I only wish your father was alive to hear this."

Kagome looked up from the wooden floor of the well house , which, since the start of her conversation, she had seemed to find very interesting. "You.. You do? You don't think I'm too young?!"

Her mother just smiled in a way that only mothers are capable of.

"Kagome honey, you've been too young your whole life. You were too young when your father died. You we're too young to fall into a well and except the responsibility of a cursed jewel. You were too young to spend so much time away from your family, weeks at a time sometimes, times at which I wasn't even sure if you were still alive. You were too young to be off fighting demons, and you were too young to fall in love as truly as you have. You've been too young for everything Kagome, but that has never stopped you."

Mrs. Higurashi's voice stayed surprisingly somber the whole time, as if she had long ago came to terms with all of this.

Kagome truly didn't know what to say, did her mother not approve of anything she had done? Did she feel like she had abandoned them? She suddenly felt guilty for all the times that she had been gone for weeks at a time without checking in, letting her mother know she was alive..

"I'm.. really sorry.."

The smile on Mrs. Higurashi's face remained, and her tone changed from somber to comforting.


"Kagome, I didn't ask you to apologize. You have no reason too. And I never said I didn't support everything you've done."

"But… haven't I made you worry? Didn't you just say I was too young for all of this? "

"Kagome, honey, anyone would be too young for the things you've done, I'm too young for the things you've done. But your different Kagome, you don't let that get in your way.."

Kagome noticed the lack of an answer for her other question, "But.. did I worry you mom? Do you wish.. do you wish that Buyo wouldn't have been missing that day?"

For once, the wisdom of age was present on Mrs. Higurashi's face, as well as the long sought after eyes of acceptance.

"Yes, I've worried, but not anymore than any other normal mother worries, just about different things. Honey, the only thing I've ever asked is that you be happy. That's all I've ever wanted. Just for you to be happy, and that's all I ask of you. Whatever makes you happy, makes me happy too.. so.. no Kagome, I don't wish Buyo wouldn't have been missing, in fact, if he hadn't been, I would have hid him myself. "

"..Mom.."

"Besides, who would I be to argue with destiny?"

A chill coursed through Kagome's body at the word destiny.. that way her mother had said it..

Destiny? Was it destiny that brought her there? Was it destiny that brought them all together? Herself, Shippo, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, and Kirara? Or was it just a series of actions that just so happened to bring them all together, just a coincidence?

No, it couldn't be a coincidence, young school girls don't fall into wells and cross the barrier of space and time for the sake of coincidence. One doesn't go back in time because of coincidence. It's fate.

Destiny.

"Destiny Kagome.. if it had been anyone else who fell in that well.. I don't think they could have handled it, no, only you..", Mrs. Higurashi continued as if she could read Kagome's thoughts.

Not knowing anything else to do, not a more appropriate action, Kagome hugged her mom.

And it was at that moment, that Kagome realized just how well her mother knew her, just how much she understood, despite how her actions usually portrayed her as an ignorant idiot.

After a few more moments of mother daughter bonding, Kagome broke away from her mother, hoping to pursue another conversation on something else that had been bothering her.

"Mom..?"

"Yes.?

"Well, I'm a miko right? The reincarnation of one at least, and it seems like my miko powers have increased along with everything else that has since I became a hanyou, I still can't make attacks out of my magic, well, unless you count that thing I did with Kikyou… but.. well that's not what I'm getting at, what I mean is that well, my intuition has gotten better, and I'm a miko.. so.. I should trust that intuition, right?"

Mrs. Higurashi's answer was delayed a minute, as she tried to make sense of the rambling her daughter had just said. From what she could tell, it had something to do with her daughter's intuition getting stronger, and now she was getting a bad feeling.

"Kagome.. what's your intuition telling you?"

"Remember what I was saying about Sango, and her baby? It was just a random attack, for no real reason… well, not one that we can figure out… But I just know there's a reason for it, and I can just tell it's big. Something important. And for some reason, however bizarre this is going to sound.. I get the feeling this person who is doing this.. that.. they don't want to.. does that make any sense at all?"

The older of the two women stopped to think about this, before responding with yet another serious, rational answer, still not a bit of her previous ditziness present. "Sometimes Kagome, we do things we have to do, even if we don't want to."

Kagome nodded, really no better off on that matter than she was before, but still strangley comforted.

"Thanks mom.."

And then, all signs of seriousness vanished from her mother and she became, yet again, a ditz. "So sweety! Are you going to have a baby? Have you decided? Is it going to have dog ears? Oh it's going to be sooooooo kawaii!"

"I still have to think about it a little longer mom…"

Kagome sighed at her mother's return to 'everything is so cute' mode, oh well, it had been nice while it lasted, and at least she had done two out of the six things she had planned to do in thirty minutes, and hopefully, after Inuyasha and Jii-chan returned, she could get in her crash course on the feudal era before her time was up. As for getting furniture, well, they'd have to do that after they returned Souta to his correct time period, and who knew, maybe she could figure out a way to hide Sango's cat tail and they could all go shopping.

~*~

Inuyasha's sharp nails bit into the vinyl arm rest on his seat. He had found out on the trip to the wherever he was being taken, that Kagome's grandfather was not a good driver. And here, on the trip back to Kagome's old house, he had came to find out that Kagome's grandfather was an even worse driver when he was high on life. Or more specifically, large quantities of money.

The old man was singing. Singing . And singing loudly to boot. Not to mention in a way to merry manner.

He, like the (kind of) intelligent hanyou that he was, had opted to sit in the car whilst Kagome's grandfather had went and did those weird human things.

"Do you think you could maybe.. slow down?"

Jii-chan ignored him, or rather didn't hear him.

Inuyasha groaned and sunk back into the seat, bracing his feet against the floorboard and holding on for dear life.

'Damn old men'

~*~

Remember those miko intuitions Kagome was talking about earlier? Well, right now, she was getting another one, right here as she watched T.V with her mother, and it was saying Inuyasha is so not happy right now.

And sure enough, at that very moment, Inuyasha came bursting through the door, almost breaking it off it's hinges.

And behind him, she heard.. singing?

"Don't worry about that door Inuyasha, we can buy a new one!"

Kagome resisted the urge to run in fear… that tone of voice.. her grandfather was sounding like her mother.

"Turn off the T.V and come have a look at this!"

The T.V was quickly turned off by Mrs. Higurashi, who then went over to see what Jii-chan had.

The old man plopped to the floor, setting a newly acquired brief case down in front of him. The locks undid with a snap, and then, staring up at Kagome, Inuyasha, and Mrs. Higurashi, was a whole briefcase full of money.

One of the strangest things that Kagome was ever to witness then took place, and that truly was saying a lot. It surpassed the strangeness of a sick sadistic freak who ran around wearing a dead baboon. It went above and beyond how odd the old woman with a strange obsession with herbs was. It was even weirder than Jaken.

Her mother and grandfather began to.. dance.

Yes. Dance.

"Kagome.. what are they doing?"

"I.. I have no idea."

"We're Rich, We're rich, We're rich!" , Jii-chan began to sing in a completely off key old man voice. And, to add to the horror, Mrs. Higurashi also joined in, making up her own verses now and then.

" We're rich, We're rich, we're riiiiiii~ich!"

"And we no longer have to fish in the ditch!", of course, no one ever accused Mrs. Higurashi of being good at improvising.

Jii-chan took a small break to take note of the fact that there we're two inu hanyous staring at him and Mrs. Higurashi as if they had just jumped up and broke out in song and dance. Oh wait, they had just done that.

"Um.. you guys?", Kagome stood up and tapped her mom on her shoulder. Inuyasha followed her lead and tapped Jii-chan on the shoulder. Both just kept dancing.

Remembering her promise to return to the feudal era in thirty minutes, she tossed a glance over her shoulder to look at the clock. Damnit. She didn't have much time left.

"Inuyasha, see that money on the floor, close the briefcase and put it.. I don't know, in my room or something."

"What about those two?", he nodded his head towards the dancing idiots.

"Um.. I'll take care of them."

"Have fun.."

Kagome watched him go, leaving her with them.

Well, there was only one thing to do at a time like this. Only one thing that could break them out of their money induced stupor. She searched the room for something she hoped no one would miss. Perfect, an empty ramen cup, Souta must have been eating it and forgot to throw it away.

She thought back to the day of Kikyou, trying to remember exactly what it was she did. It was actually hard, because it hadn't really been her that did it, it was just instinct, no thought at all was put into it. Since then, she hadn't even tried to do it again, truth be told, it kind of scared her, the idea that she could have done that. But she had been meaning to try it again, and Inuyasha had even been asking her about it, plus, she was pretty sure it ought to bring Jii-chan and her mom back to reality. So.. no harm in trying.

She repeated the actions as best she could remember, ending it all with an almost frightening cry of 'Okibi Aisu'.

Mrs. Higurashi and Jii-chan both turned around at the shreik of Kagome's voice, followed buy the bolt of ice and flame. Then, both simply just stared at the poor , poor, flaming ramen cup, what had it done to deserve this!

"The ramen cup! Kagome.. how could you?!", but before any reaction of mourning over the loss of the ramen cup could happen with Mrs. Higurashi, the ramen cup was forgotten in light of the fact that she had just realized how very cute her house was.

Jii-chan proceeded to, now out of his stupor, do the rational thing and put out the fire.

Inuyasha arrived in the room just as the fire was finally stamped out.

"eh? Did something attack?"

"Just the ramen."

"…what?"

"Nothing Inuyasha, alright, Mom, Jii-chan, listen up. If your gonna go with me to the feudal era, there are a few things you need to know, alright?"

Both wanting to go see Kagome's era, Jii-chan and Mrs. Higurashi snapped to attention.

"Alright, number one, there are demons, and no indoor plumbing. Stick by me and Inuyasha at all times."

"Alright."

"Number two, do not talk to anyone unless I first give you the okay."

"Okay"

"Number three," she stared straight at her mother, "Do not run off after anything , even if it is incredibly cute."

"bu…but."

"NO."

"..alright"

"Number four, "this time she directed her attention solely on Jii-chan, "there will be no seal throwing whatsoever."

"Even if it's attacking us?"

"NONE!"

She stopped at that, trying to think of anything else they might need to know, "Inuyasha, you got anything else?"

Inuyasha thought for a moment, "hmm.. No grabbing whatever you think is cute, and no squealing, demons have sensitive ears ya' know."

"Okay."

"We'll, I guess that's it, do you remember them?"

"Yes."

"Good, well, Inuyasha, let's go."

Kagome scooped her mother up bridal style and made her way to the past, Jii-chan road on Inuyasha's back, much to his protests.

Right before Kagome made the jump into the past, she had yet another sliver of miko intuition, one that said this day was not going to be fun.. not dangerous, just not fun.

~*~

"Oh Kagome! It's so bright and pretty here! Look Jii-chan, look, no buildings or anything! Look at the sky!", Mrs. Higurashi pointed at the sky.

It was raining, pouring even, the sky was gray and dim, and the four of them we're uncomfortable and wet.

"Kagome, the well looks different here, much newer, oh, to witness such history!", Jii-chan looked around in a daze, apparently not bothered at all by the rain, or the fact that a few very important people we're not where they we're supposed to be.

"Where are they! I told them to be here in thirty minutes!", Kagome really didn't look very happy.

Inuyasha laid a hand on her shoulder meekly, not wanting to be the one to receive that unhappiness. "Um… Kagome, it's not exactly very easy to keep exact time back here.."

Kagome stopped ranting, realization falling over. This was feudal Japan, there we're no clocks. And Souta, the little brat, was probably not even wearing a watch.

"..oh.."

"We need to get these humans out of the rain Kagome, the caves closer so why don't we go there till the storm passes over, then we can find your brother, I'm sure he's fine?"

Kagome nodded and scooped her mother up once again.

~*~

They we're barely halfway there when Kagome stopped abruptly. She smelt.. something.. horrendous. Out of the whole time she had been a hanyou, this had to be the worst smell she had smelt so far.

Inuyasha stopped too, a low growl already emanating from his throat, he knew that smell.

"Inuyasha, what is that awful smell?"

Inuyasha's growling stopped abruptly. Did she just say awful?

His body had to restrain itself from either laughing hysterically or doing the feudal equivalent of a victory dance.

"Yo, InuKuro, what the hell did you do to my woman?"

Oh.. hell..

Kagome knew that voice, knew it well, and, apparently, due to the great powers of inconveniency, it had chosen to show up now of all times.

Alright, Pop Quiz Kagome. What do you do when you are taking your family to the past for the first time, you've lost your little brother, as well as your friends, and it's storming. Oh, and lets not forget, to make matters worse, a wolf demon who has a personal vendetta against your mate, mainly because this wolf demon happens to, for some reason think you're his woman, shows up for no good reason at all.

She never had been good at tests.

Authors Note________________________________________________________________________

Well, hello again. Yes, It took me a little longer, (two days) than I said, and I'm really sorry, but I've been pretty sick with a weird flu type thing, but I guess that really isn't a good excuse. I did make my 5,000 word promise. 5,372 to be exact. I'm not going to make any promises this time for when my next update will be, seeing as how I usually break them. I'll just say this, the more reviews I get, the sooner it will be.

Random TBorTE fact: Mrs.Higurashi's character, in my version of her (which is pretty much nothing like the show, seeing as how she doesn't really have a major part in it anyway, and theres not a lot of character development for her), well, I based her off of.. MY mother. Yep, she's exactly like her, that's where the strange seriousness side of her came from. My mom acts like a complete idiot most of the time, but when it really counts she can be serious.

Makina Kitsune: Sumimasen is just a polite way of saying I'm sorry, and you don't have to be in the contest if you don't want to. ^_^

Sailor Saturn: Don't give up on me yet, I've made a promise to myself to finish this story. And sorry if you didn't like this chapter, by your review I guess you like comedy, and this chapter had a few serious parts.. Thanks for waiting on me though, I'm glad you didn't give up!

Vold: I think you have a like, guaranteed spot on my favorite reviewers page! And about the sitch thing, it's not entirely original, I heard something along the lines of calling when kagome sits inuyasha and he call's her a bitch something or another, but it wasn't sitch. I don't know, it's not so much like it, it just inspired it.It was a long time ago that I came across it, and I think it was in an episode summary on a website.. so I guess I didn't come up with it all on my own.. but.. pretty much, yeah.

Fanficfanatic: I don't know when, but I herebye solemly swear to read your fic whenever I get the time, it may be months, but I will! *glares at massive amount of crap she has to do*

Sorensen: Yes yes, I'm overdue, I know. And no, you didn't miss/forget, this is Kouga's first appearance so far. And yes, I have went through a LOT of name changes, but I'm sticking with this one. Where did it come from? Well, actually, recently I got into fruits basket, and its ending theme song, the first line of it is translated as 'fun dinner/ pleasant evening mean/ fun supper' usually,it's fun dinner. Well, I think that is like the single crappiest lyrics for a song in the world… well.. *glares at the 'Donnas'* Unless you count them who just sing the same word over and over again. Anyway, as I was saying, fun dinner, well, I couldn't just be fun dinner, nooooo, I had to be the DEITY of it, that way I'd get all the fun dinnerific powers. Actually, The Deity of Fun Dinner is also going to be/is a character in the manga I am creating/trying to create. And all of this inspired by a fruits basket song… of course, the CHARACTER the deity, is not me.. We're both the deity of fun dinner, but we're not the same, does that make since? Well, lets just say, in my manga, The deity is supposed to be a parody of every single shoujo character roled into one, in others words, she's ridiculously cute and acts like I've made Mrs.Higurashi act. But that's nothing like who I am, but I'm the deity too! And yes, I am aware what I've said makes totally no sense at all…

Hanyou-girl25: Well, I'm still running into technical difficulties with the pictures, number one would be I am scanner less, and number two would be my brother spilt dr.pepper all over my sketch pad and now I have to redraw them all, but as soon as I get them done, I'll send them, it might be a month, but I will.

Admiral Biatch: *glares at own craptastic month* Yep, I can understand that, I really haven't been having too much fun lately, which makes it hard to find the time to update, *glares at all active storys* ..especially update more than one of them… I finally get a complete update out on this, and now I have to go on to two other's tomorrow, and then ther'es even a NEW one I'm wanting to write. *glares at self* ugh.

The glass of water/ Lyra Dogstar: I'm not sure how far I'm gonna go with Rin,I'm pretty sure I'll tell what she looks like in my epilogue though.

Lord Agamus: Alright, that was 5000 words, so you owe be four dead telletubbies and one dead barney.

Lady Night:Yes, I completely agree, anime characters do have all the fun. Glad you like my new penname, and, rest assured, I have no problem at all with being called Heather-sama or Writer-sama! ^_^

Well, I guess that's about all, again, no promises with a new update, but review and it shall be soon.

Oh, and who noticed that I finally fixed my formatting? I FINALLY got the hang of it!

Also, if any of you would like an email, telling you whenever I update, just leave your email address in your review, and say you want to receive them. Thanks.

The Deity,

Heather