Inuyasha was sitting in the tree line with an extremely sour look on his face. The stronger men of the village were repairing the well, but it was taking way too long. Shippo came up to Inuyasha and sat down next to him. They sat in silence for a few minutes, and then Shippo opened his mouth. Just as he did this, Inuyasha swiped out with his fist, but Shippo ducked.
"Why don't you help them? It'd go a lot faster!"
Just then Miroku popped up and held a finger in the air.
"Its because he doesn't want to show anyone else that he cares for Kagome. He doesn't have the excuse of the shards, because they are here."
Shippo snickered, and Inuyasha swiped out again, and caught him on the top of his head. Shippo cried out in pain, and growled at Inuyasha. He turned into the big pink bubble, and started to chew on Inuyasha's head. Miroku laughed so hard that he fell down in a heap.

Hojo was huddled in a corner in Kaede's hut. He was still confused about how the whole thing worked, and because none of the feudal people understood it for what it was, they were no help for them. Kaede tried to comfort him, and offered him some tea, and Hojo accepted and drank appreciatively. He looked up at the old woman, and managed to shake his voice into being ness.
"Kaede?"
"Yes, child?"
"Nothing."
Kaede smiled, and knowingly didn't prod him. He was freaked out enough as it was.

Kagome, meanwhile, was in her room, trying to take advantage of the alone time she had to do her math homework. She sat staring at her worksheet, and realized that she answered number three with 'Inuyasha'. She sighed, and hurriedly erased it, and wrote down a different answer.
After the third question answered with 'Inuyasha', she finally gave up, and put her stuff away. She was about turn off the light, and try going to sleep (yeah right) when she heard a sound. It was a howling sound, almost like someone crying. She stuck her head out of the window, and realized that it was coming from the shrine. Puzzled, she decided to go to it.

Hojo and the Inu-gang and Kaede were sitting in the hut, eating food. Shippo was happily slurping away at his food, and Sango sat very primly, with Kaede seemingly oblivious to the entire goings on. Miroku was of course trying to figure out how to get the next grope in, and Inuyasha was staring at Hojo. He didn't trust him. He glared at him, and Hojo sat there, eating his food, thinking about how to get home. He looked up to see yellow eyes, and fangs, and claws, staring hungrily at him. He gasped and dropped his bowl. The contents spilled out, and all over the floor. Kirara mewed, and jumped up to slurp it up.
"I'm, I'm sorry! Let me get that!"
"No, it's alright, child. Kirara can get it."
"Old Lady! Why are you being so nice to him! We don't even know who he is! For all we know, he hurt Kagome!"
"I'm sure that's not what happened, Inuyasha."
Of course, Inuyasha was not satisfied, and growled deep in his throat. Hojo gulped.

Kagome stepped up the stairs leading into the shrine. She peered around her, and still couldn't see anything. She made her way into the shrine, when she saw a glowing. She gasped, as she recognized it as a jewel shard. She reached out for it, but it moved. She gasped again, and with drew her hand. She heard an angry voice.
"What have you done?? It'll never be right!!"