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"NO KAGOME..LISTEN. It's not* what you think..it's just that..."

*Flashback*

"Think of her safety."

*End Flashback*

"What?" Kagome asked looking at Inuyasha oddly. Inuyasha looked at her and sighed.

'I can't tell her.'

"Okay, fine. You don't need to tell me. I know what you were going to say anyway..." She mumbled, turning around.

"Kagome?," Inuyasha said pulling her arm and stopping her, "What was I going to say?"

Kagome sighed heavily and looked at him. "You were going to say....that I mean a lot to you but right now, all you can think about is Kikyo."

"Feh. You've got it half-right."

"Oh, then you were going to say that all you were thinking about now is Kikyo; and nothing about me."

"No! The part you got right was that I was* going to say you mean a lot to me."

"Oh...okay.whatever." Kagome replied looking down the road.

"Kagome, listen, I---things have been pretty tough nowadays and since the last time I went to my time, things have gotten tougher."

Kagome stared at him with her eyes down to the ground. "Tougher..What do you mean? Naraku...Kikyo?"

Inuyasha shrugged uncomfortably, "Both I guess."

"What about them?"

"I can't say...Not that I don't want to tell you...I just can't." He said looking out for her safety.

*Flashback*

"Don't you want to live together like we were supposed to before Naraku interrupted our lives?" The priestess asked, her eyes as cold as coal.

"Kikyo...I..."

"The Shikon No Tama. When it becomes whole, you can wish me, my true self, back."

*End Flashback*

"Either you can't...or you won't. Which one is it?" Kagome asked looking into his eyes for the first time.

"I....heheh..a little both I guess." He responded seeing Kagome's flushed face. Much to his dismay, she began coughing. "You're soaking wet.," he said, putting his haori on her. "The rain is getting harder. Hop on, I'll take you home."

Kagome sighed and quietly complied with his wish and seated herself; at least, it was much warmer now that she had a warm fire rat haori on her. In a matter of seconds, she was on her way home in the blinding rain.

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"Where are they?" Sota said to himself, pacing back and forth in the living room. "It's already ten.."

"Sota?" asked his mother from the kitchen. "What are you doing?"

"Uhm," Sota stuttered thinking of an excuse, so that his mother wouldn't worry about Kagome. "Inuyasha and Kagome went..out somewhere and I was waiting for them."

"Oh I see! They should be back soon." His mother said cheerfully. "That boy is wonderful isn't he?" She said, referring to Inuyasha.

"Yea he's so cool!" Sota said happily. 'Mom approves! All we need now is for Inuyasha to ask Kagome to marry him!' He thought happily.

"Grandpa likes him a lot too!" Miss Higurashi said happily. "I'm sure Kagome does!"

"Mom, you know he's half-demon half-human...right?" He said hoping that wouldn't make a difference.

"Why of course I do, honey!" She said happily. "His ears are very cute! Come to think of think..I think that's the first thing I'll do when they come in..squeak his ears."

Sota laughed, happy that his mother liked Inuyasha, it was a start; even though they still had a long way to go.

Just then, a certain soaking wet hanyou burst through the door. Miss Higurashi ran straight to Inuyasha and squeaked his ears.

"Why hello! Did you and Kagome enjoy your evening together?" She said smiling.

Kagome and Inuyasha looked at her oddly, then looked at Sota who was giving them odd signals. Kagome got the message and smiled.

"Yes! We went everywhere! Heheheh.."

"We did?" Inuyasha mumbled, "Not getting a single clue."

Kagome jabbed him softly in the side. "WE DID! And I had the time of my life! Don't listen to him mom, he's really shy."

"I..Uh.yea! Really..uhm..shy!" He stuttered.

"Well I'm glad you two had so much fun!"

"Thanks!" Kagome replied, while Inuyasha gave a dashing smile. "I better go and get changed...I'm soaking wet. Here's your haori Inuyasha, thanks for lending it to me."

"You're welcome Kagome."

"I'll see you tomorrow! It's pretty late..."

"Hey Kagome we should do that again!" Inuyasha said as she went up the stairs.

'Heh, then I'll explain this whole thing...' He thought.

"Do what?"

"Go have some fun.and stuff." He said looking at her, eyeing her closely.

"Yes you should!" Miss Higurashi said happily, "Go on Kagome, we've nothing to do tomorrow anyway!"

"YEA GO!!!" Sota exclaimed turning to his Grandpa mumbling for him to say something.

"Huh? What is it Sota?" The old man in the chair asked.

"Don't you think it's a good idea that Kagome and Inuyasha go.. Have some fun sometime.??? Maybe tomorrow?" He said happily.

"Oh yes yes! Go on and have some fun!" He said looking back at the television not caring what was going on.

"Well Kagome? What do you say?" Inuyasha asked.

"Uhm..I'll see with what I have to do tomorrow. Maybe..the day after tomorrow?"

"Ok sure!" He said.

'Then tomorrow, I'll go to my time and try to clear this thing..If it doesn't work out, then I guess a night with Kagome isn't anything bad.' He thought.

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"Why did Inuyasha do that?" Kagome said to herself, once she was in the privacy of her own room.

"I wonder what he's up too...."
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"Where was she?" Sota asked when he and the hanyou were in his room.

"Some place near the park." Inuyasha responded, "I saw her walking back."

"What took you guys so long to get back?"

"Uh..we uh..."

"You what?"

"We...talked."

*Flashback*

"Feh. You've got it half-right."

"Oh, then you were going to say that all you were thinking about now is Kikyo; and nothing about me."

"No! The part you got right was that I was* going to say you mean a lot to me."

"Oh...okay.whatever." Kagome replied looking down the road.

*End Flashback."

"Yea..we just...talked." He said, holding his haori, which was filled with her scent.

'That scent....I can't. It's so similar yet, so different from Kikyo's scent.' He thought.

"Inuyasha, how come Kagome looked so confused when you asked her to go..have fun?"

"What do think, kid? We weren't actually having fun* we were..uhm.. well we weren't having fun...It's hard to explain."

"What..you two..huh?" Sota was very confused and had no idea whatsoever what was going on.

"No nothing* happened. We just talked. There. End of story." He said quickly.

He looked at his haori once more and sighed. 'Darn that scent. Darn this all.' He thought angrily.

"Are you mad at your haori or something?" Sota said chuckling.

Inuyasha turned at him and sighed. "You're not funny."

"Hehehe...well are you?"

"No."

"So why are you glaring at it? Because Kagome wore it?"

'How'd he know? Darn kid; starting to scare me.' He thought.

"N-no..." He stuttered. "Feh! It's nothing! I'm just-just tired! That's all! I don't have to say anything."

"Ok." Sota said, knowing this was as good a time as any to stop the conversation.

"Oh and Inuyasha?"

"Huh...what?"

"You're so cool." With that, he pulled the covers over himself and went sleep, while the hanyou stared blankly from the floor.

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"I'm off to school!" Kagome yelled happily waving to her mom.

"Alright, honey!"

"I better get going before Inuyasha catches me." She mumbled running out the door.

It had been five minutes now, that she was running when she saw her friend.
"Yuka!"

"Kagome! Hi..Anything new with your boyfriend?"

"Hojo isn't* my boyfriend. And I'm not getting into this today..so can we just head to class?"

"What happened? You seem...I don't know... different today."

"Heheheh...a lot of things can happen overnight."

"Uh...yea.Like what?" She asked.

"Stuff."

"What kind of stuff?" She asked, while they headed into their first class.

"Just stuff. What class do we have again?"

"Math."

"Arg....I HATE MATH." She mumbled.

"You used to get top scores in math class, I don't know what's going on now...." She said happily.

"I know...things just....came up."
"Came up?" Yuka asked looking at her.

"Just forget it...." Kagome replied, walking into class.

"Students please get ready!" The teacher said to all the students. Kagome and Yuka ran in and sat in their desks and took out their books and pencils.

"Alright students!!"

'Great......I hate school.' She thought.

"Now homework for tonight will start on the Chapter Review on page 467. Please take out your pencils for a surprise quiz on the section."

"I hate surprise quizzes..." Kagome mumbled.

Yuka smiled to herself. "This section was easy...."

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"Where's Kagome?"

"Off to school, today's the last day and tomorrow's the start of vacation." Sota responded eating some toast.

"Oh..." Inuyasha nodded.

"Where are you planning to take her on your date?"

"You mean if* she goes?"

"Which she will*."

"Well I need to explain some things to her....and I need to work some things out..and..this is so confusing. I don't think I should do this during this week...I don't know what to tell her." Inuyasha explained.

"Oh, well yea..Do whatever you think is right."

"Uhm, I need to go and talk to a friend of mine in my world. I'll be back before sundown."

"Alright."

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"Miroku? Miroku? MIROKU?!" Inuyasha yelled as he passed the well.

"As I was saying, when you get older Shippo, I will teach you about women." Miroku said to the kitsune.

"Uhm, I'm not very interested. Girls act kinda weird."

"No they do not.."

"Yea they do."

"Miroku!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Inuyasha, my friend, eheheh...what brings you here? I was just explaining the wonders of..bread* to Shippo! Eheheheh...." He stuttered.

"Yea, whatever. Where's Sango?"

"Sango? What do you want with Sango?"

"Calm down monk, I need to talk to you guys."

"She's coming...she should be back right about now....."

As if on queue, Sango walked in out of no where and shook her head.

"What now....Did Kagome kill you or something?" She asked when she saw Inuyasha.

"N-No! I just....I can't fess up and tell Kagome how I feel and I'm still confused about this Kikyo thing....."

"Anything new happen?" Miroku asked, sipping his tea.

"SHUT UP MONK!" He said hitting him on the head. "WILL YOU HELP ME?!"

"Help you what?" Sango asked.

"Well I'm taking her out again, and I don't know what to say."

"Say you...you...you think she's..uh...you think she's nice..."

"THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL I'LL SAY THAT!!."

"How about this?" Miroku said, picking up a poem and clearing his throat, "Ahem! Dear Kagome, your eyes are so very beautiful like a moon shine of rays....Your skin as soft as silk, you voice as beautiful as a melody!!! I-- -"

"AAAHHH SHUT UP!!!" Inuyasha yelled. "ARRRGGG!!!! FORGET YOU!!"

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END OF CHAPTER 22!!!!! Phew.....I hate homework. Well I'll have 23 up soon.and here some questions to your questions!!!!

To: Inuyasha94:

Q: What is Inuyasha's real birthday?

A: Ehehehe...sorry I don't know. They never mentioned anything about his birthday.^_^ heheheh... Well feel free to ask anything else though!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING AND REVIEWING AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO DO SO!

To: roxy-chick

Q: Would you consider writing an Inuyasha fic that's about high school?

A: Well, I was thinking of it..^-^ If I get enough reviews or people asking me for one, I'll do one if you want!! :D THANKS FOR REVIEWING!! Feel free to ask anything else!! AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO READ AND REIVEW!!!

To: A whole bunch of people who asked this...

Q: This is an Inuyasha/Kagome fic right?

A: Heheh of course!! I HATE KIKYO!! No offense Kikyo fans.^-^ eheheh...

To: Litwolf689

Q: Does Kikyo help Naraku at all in anime?

A: Yes she does help Naraku.....Believe or not, she stole Kagome's shards and GAVE it to Naraku. Heheheh....I hate her a lot..But yea, she gave Kagome's shards to him..And that episode was the episode "Kikyo, Captured by Naraku."

Q: Have you seen the episode Shiori, the bat half demon? If her father could make the barrier and he learned that from his father, why did Shiori's grandfather want her back to make the barrier when he could have made it?

A: Shiori was the heir. Only she had the power to do it. Shiori is from the great demons bloodline (Her fathers bloodline) so she is the only one capable of making the Nest Barrier Heheheh...short answer but that's the answer! PLEASE CONTINUE TO READ AND REVIEW THANKS FOR ALL THE ONES SO FAR!!!

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