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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the other products, people, etc. metioned in my story.

Okay, here's where the story starts to get tricky, I'm gonna start to change up the narration..at first it was just like 3rd person, now its kagome, I'm gonna try and make it so that you can know who it is w/o me telling you.

Read And Review like always children! Thanks

Anti-N Sync Fans Beware so don't flame cause this is your warning!!!!

Oh also I have only watched up to the episodes where Koga (Kouga? I'll spell most of the names without the 'u' if that's alright with you) kidnaps Kagome so please don't be anry at me if I don't know the proper names of people or if they seem hideously occ!

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SEPARATED

By: JDLS

Chapter Five:

The Unexpected

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Sango would occasionally sniffle or sob which made me I was seriously worried about her, Sango was strong, stronger than anyone I had ever known in my entire life, the only other time I saw her cry was at her parent's funeral.and it wasn't nearly this bad.

As I started the car, my N Sync CD started to play.I don't know what it was but lately I had been trying to relive my childhood.Song 10, 'That's when I'll stop loving you' began playing. Sango stopped crying for a moment and threw her head onto Miroku's shoulder, I gave him a warning glare through my rear-view mirror, and he simply nodded.

This really made me think, how much I really depended on my friends, they were my lifeline.always keeping me sane and they always had my back.

I knew the route to Sango's house like the back of my hand, and as I drifted into a daydream daze, I realized that we had arrived. As we entered Sango's house I sent Miroku to go home in fear that his lecherous behaviour would further agitate Sango. I walked Sango up to her room and as I turned to leave she called out to me:

".Kag --- Kagome"

"What's wrong Sango, you're starting to worry me.."

Then came the shocker:

"I won't be at school for a while.so can you get my assignments and stuff for me?"

She said in an eerily calm tone, I was shocked, what was I suppose to say, why wasn't she going to be at school.why was she all of a sudden so calm. I just looked at her, then her gaze met mine, her eyes were bloodshot and teary but the she too had a determined look in her eyes and I knew better than to fight with her...

"Okay Sango, you know that Miroku and I are always here for you, no matter what."

She didn't answer, she just turned around and nodded. I knew she needed to be alone, Sango was one of those people who had to work things out herself.but then again how much did I really know about what she was going through?

When I arrived home just in time to answer the phone, I was shocked to hear the voice on the other side - it was Sesshoumaru! Taking a second to calm down, I took a couple of deep breathes, although I'm not sure why.I always loved talking to him and we used to be really close but..

"Hey Sesshoumaru, what's up, miss me already?"

"Of course" he teased but quickly continued with, "but that isn't the reason why I'm calling you.when you ran off out of photography, you left your journal in the class.I have it here if you want to come get it."

"Wow, thanks! I can't believe that I still have that thing.um you didn't read it did you?"

"No, it is still complete private, and not like I tried to open it, but its got a pretty good lock on it.if you want to come get it I'll be here until 7:00 and Inuyasha should be here all night."

"hahaha, I guess you're right, we have Inu to thank for that one.Yeah, um I'll be right over"

"until then"

*click*

I was freaked, could I have been that blonde (a/n I've got nothing against blondes) that I left my journal, the place where I bear my soul at school?! Still frantic I rushed back into my car and hopped over the side.

I loved my car, it was the last and only thing I still had from my father. It was a classic, a

71 mustang mach 1 ram air, cherry pink!! I took great care of my car, it was my baby! Realizing that I was running low on gas, I turned into the nearest Shell station, filled up on premium and ran into the station to pay. And there it was, it was like my whole school was waiting in line! Walking past Hiten and his brother Manten (sp?), I lined up behind Koga.

Then I saw it, I had to have that magazine, it had Adam Brody on the cover (the funny guy from 'The OC')! Trying to lean over the counter and grab it, I some how lost my balance and was saved from sudden embarrassment by Koga, who very swiftly and quickly turned around and caught me.

After holding me in a sort of Tango dip position, he gave me his own version of the patented cocky smile.

"Hello Kagome, finally decide it's time to be with me!?" Wow, did he have some nerve, even though he had "saved" me, I wasn't in that much debt to him.sometimes he was even worse than HOJO!

"Um sorry Koga, I actually just came in to fill up my tank!" I smiled at him with my natural cheeriness that had happened to be missing lately.

I could see the disappointment on his face, but was quickly replaced with his ever-present look of arrogant/ignorant-determination. It scared me - a lot. But what could I do, he wasn't violent or abusive, just annoying.sort of like Miroku.

Before he had another chance to answer the cashier interrupted us, asking me to pay her for the gas. Koga graciously offered to pay, hey who was I to turn him down .it's not like he's poor or anything.

Koga quickly paid the cashier again and walked off, blowing me a kiss in the process. Unluckily for me the cashier had been Eri.as in one of my really annoying friends Eri.

"AWWWW..omgkagomewhowasthat,thatwassoromanticcatchingyoulikethatandthenpayin g!" I started at her for a moment, she was badly out of breath but looked so happy for me.

"Oh, that's just Koga" I responded, to which she stared at me blankly with a dropped mouth, "common close your mouth, you'll catch flies.plus I don't like him like that, and he'd realize that if he wasn't so thick headed!"

Walking away from the counter, I glanced back only to see Eri still shocked

Holy, I had arrived at Sesshoumaru's new place and I was shocked..Holy I always knew they were well off, but this was crazy!!

I hopped out of my cherry pink convertible and began to walk up the massive walkway.when I FINALLY reached the front I was greeted by 2 massive oak double doors. I was never the shy one so I ran the doorbell a couple of times, and when the door swung open I jumped forward hugging Sesshoumaru.

.or so I thought, turns out it wasn't Sesshoumaru, it was Inuyasha! When I realized that I was hugging that vile creature I pushed him off of me and I braced myself for the onslaught of insults.

But there wasn't any, he just looked at me for a moment and turned to walk away. I was dumbstruck, and that wasn't the last of my frights for the night. While I was standing in the middle of the .the..the atrium, Sesshoumaru had managed to sneak up behind me and he lifted me clear off of the ground.

The shock of being lifted up so suddenly caused me to shriek but my scream quickly turned to laughter as I saw Sesshoumaru with the journal in his hand.

After finally being returned to my upright position, I snatched the journal from him and quickly flipped through the pages, quite meaninglessly, that is until one page caught my eye.it was one of my first entries, well if you want to call it an entry. It was a photograph of Sesshoumaru and me sitting under a tree with Inuyasha sneaking up behind us.it was really worn out, and had a few alterations made by me (horns instead of dog ears and flames surrounding Inuyasha! Mahahah I'm evil!)

But the reminiscing didn't last long as I would have liked, but Sesshoumaru quickly escorted me into the kitchen.

"Do me a favour?" his eyes met mine, and I knew there was no reason to fight with him so I simply nodded.

"I havn't eaten real home cooked food in months, can you?" he said to me in a strangely warm way, and so I began to take out various pots and pans and opened the fridge to see what they had.

While I started to cook, Sesshoumaru sat at the table watching me intently, and thank god Inuyasha was no where to be found.

I made 3 different dishes, severed Sesshoumaru some and put the rest in the fridge.

"Sesshoumaru, why did you ask me to cook for you?" he chuckled at my trivial question,

"One, like I said I havn't eaten real food for months and two, when we were younger you said you were going to be a world class chef, I was just checking to see if you had accomplished you goal yet"

Remembering how I used to run around trying to help the adults cook brought a smile to my face, then it hit me! I was 9 o'clock, and I still needed do my history homework! Quickly apologizing to Sesshoumaru for having to leave, I ran out of the kitchen and out the massive oak, slamming them by accident on my way out.

*a/n this is a short chapter but the next chapter is directly related to this one.its basically the same time frame as this one but through someone else pov*